but rather, aware of my surroundings and how they might affect me. I'm the first person to jump in if someone needs help, but I keep my eyes open, too.
That's a great point: Once you start to figure in 5 mph bumpers, side-impact protection, rollover safeguards, airbags and seatbelts, it becomes harder to reach that 100mpg milestone. Making tinfoil and baling twine get 100mpg isn't going to help production cars one bit. And then there's the issues with emissions and beyond that, construction costs and total cost of ownership. A 100mpg car that's built from expensive, hard-to-produce materials would be counter-productive to the idea of this prize.
And that man should be genetically engineered to live on Mars all by himself! And have a backpack computer that talks to another computer in Mars orbit!
Yahoo, at least, now has a small glimmer of hope in changing itself from what Jeff Jarvis calls "the last old media company" into something relevant.
Microsoft can't see beyond the desktop. Everything they do is tied to selling OS's and Office. They had absolutely nothing to offer Yahoo! beyond an aging and stale brand name.
Kudos to Yahoo!'s board for showing some cajones and nailing yet another nail into Redmond's coffin.
Think about it. The purpose of SimCity is to get a populace to like your administration, and to make the town as productive as possible.
The purpose of a counter-insurgency, from the Brits in Malaysia to the Marines in Anbar, is to deny the enemy the use of the populace as cover by getting the people to want to turn them in. Sometimes it's shooting the bad guys (and making darn sure you shoot JUST the bad guys), sometimes it's building a school or making sure they get power.
Sounds like that could be easily modded. Heck, when I think about it, 9/10ths of SimCity is already good COINOPS strategy. All that's missing is off-board artillery!:)
There's yet to be a game/simulation that accurately simulates of the complexities of modern counter-insurgency warfare, and something like a modded SimCity could do it well.
We've got good games that reflect the military aspects of modern warfare: America's Army, Call of Duty 4 and Combat Missions: Shock Force (fun as that last title may be) all spring to mind, but they limit themselves to the "blowing stuff up" aspect of modern warfare. Shooting people is the easy stuff in COINOPS, what we've yet to see is something that accurately reflects what General Krulak called "The Three-Block War", or what Thomas P.M. Barnett calls "The Department of Everything Else", where a military unit, through civic improvements and statesmanship denies the enemy the use of the population as cover.
A game like Sim City, properly modded, could fill this gap, and give all of us armchair Lt. Colonels a glimpse into the what it takes to fight on today's battlefields.
That's right. *A* picture is worth one thousand words. Video? Not so much, as Borat used to say.
Consider the iconic Eddie Adams photograph of a VC guerilla getting blown away (a photo which he admitted to regretting have taken, btw, as it doesn't tell the whole story.): There was a video crew rolling as well when it happened, but which do we remember?
A good photog knows that capturing one decisive moment is worth thousands of miles of useless B-roll.
Trying to do a downloadable media store without taking the iPod into account is like trying to market an office productivity suite that doesn't read/write MS Office docs: You're doomed to failure from the start.
If (and this is a BIG if) the movie studios wake up to the benefits of DRM-free downloads like some record labels have, the big winner here could be Amazon.com. They're uniquely positioned to equal, if not better the success that Apple has had. They're platform agnostic (for music, at least), , are known and trusted brand, have a working system for movies in place already (I've found that downloading those free Bugs Bunny cartoons to my TiVo was VERY easy), and have as much juice with the studios as Wal-Mart does.
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Maybe I'm in the minority, but the run-and-gun genre is just so damn... boring. Maybe I'm just too damn old.
See bad guy, shoot, run, see another bad guy, shoot, run...
That's why I switched to USPSA. Same thing, real guns. Puts the "shooting" back into first-person shooter.
5% of .coms, or 19% of .hk's? On a percentage basis, the .hk, .info, etc. But as a whole, my money's on .com's?.
Bad math = bad reporting.
welcome our new Protector overlords.
No, they won't.
And I ain't gonna charge you $400 for it.
$5 will do.
Thank you.
Why not? After all their current, obtrusive, all-seeing camera system works so good at stopping major crimes, errr, I mean, illegal dog poop.
When I was 25, I was also a manager.
Ok, so it was the night manager at the local Taco Bell, but that's the same thing, right?
He also was associated with the civil rights movement long before it became the fashionable thing to do in Hollywood.
:)
Heston saw no difference between campaign for personal freedom and the means to defend those freedoms.
I can just imagine him going up to Moses and saying "Well, what did you think? Did I do you justice?"
This is nothing less than Jeff Cooper's Color Code in action.
Oh, and good job, Slashdotters. The page is down already!
Naah, they're just re-creating the experience of websurfing on a 14.4 modem.
You can patent human DNA sequences.
Chances are, I have a bit of one of a patented DNA string within my own DNA.
I wonder how long it'll be until Monsanto or someone else sues me because of my very existence...
"Je pense, donc, je suis poursuivi en justice"? (Google translation: I speak Spanish, not French. :) ).
That's a great point: Once you start to figure in 5 mph bumpers, side-impact protection, rollover safeguards, airbags and seatbelts, it becomes harder to reach that 100mpg milestone. Making tinfoil and baling twine get 100mpg isn't going to help production cars one bit. And then there's the issues with emissions and beyond that, construction costs and total cost of ownership. A 100mpg car that's built from expensive, hard-to-produce materials would be counter-productive to the idea of this prize.
Fudge, chocolate, custard.
What's not to love? It's the Holy Trinity of yummy goodness, all in one delicious snack.
And, of course, my Mom's are the best.
So there.
I mean, it's cool and all, but let me know when we build and launch something like a Veritech fighter.
of what Jean-Francois Revel is rumored to have said:
"Dark night of fascism is forever descending upon America, but it touches ground only in Europe."
And that man should be genetically engineered to live on Mars all by himself! And have a backpack computer that talks to another computer in Mars orbit!
Hmmmn, where have I heard that before...
I've got this feeling it might be the bunnies.
Now I can ignore the new shows, rather than just ignoring the reruns.
Yahoo, at least, now has a small glimmer of hope in changing itself from what Jeff Jarvis calls "the last old media company" into something relevant.
Microsoft can't see beyond the desktop. Everything they do is tied to selling OS's and Office. They had absolutely nothing to offer Yahoo! beyond an aging and stale brand name.
Kudos to Yahoo!'s board for showing some cajones and nailing yet another nail into Redmond's coffin.
Wait, wrong argument. Sorry.
Think about it. The purpose of SimCity is to get a populace to like your administration, and to make the town as productive as possible.
:)
The purpose of a counter-insurgency, from the Brits in Malaysia to the Marines in Anbar, is to deny the enemy the use of the populace as cover by getting the people to want to turn them in. Sometimes it's shooting the bad guys (and making darn sure you shoot JUST the bad guys), sometimes it's building a school or making sure they get power.
Sounds like that could be easily modded. Heck, when I think about it, 9/10ths of SimCity is already good COINOPS strategy. All that's missing is off-board artillery!
There's yet to be a game/simulation that accurately simulates of the complexities of modern counter-insurgency warfare, and something like a modded SimCity could do it well.
We've got good games that reflect the military aspects of modern warfare: America's Army, Call of Duty 4 and Combat Missions: Shock Force (fun as that last title may be) all spring to mind, but they limit themselves to the "blowing stuff up" aspect of modern warfare. Shooting people is the easy stuff in COINOPS, what we've yet to see is something that accurately reflects what General Krulak called "The Three-Block War", or what Thomas P.M. Barnett calls "The Department of Everything Else", where a military unit, through civic improvements and statesmanship denies the enemy the use of the population as cover.
A game like Sim City, properly modded, could fill this gap, and give all of us armchair Lt. Colonels a glimpse into the what it takes to fight on today's battlefields.
I'll kick in a few bucks to the pot myself if it results in some actual time-saving.
Maybe if we get it up to $500,007 dollars, they'll get it here sooner.
we find out that Microsoft is footing the legal fees for this?
I mean, it's not like they have a history of doing stuff like that (coughcoughSCOcough).
Here's hoping this case is just as successful as SCO's.
Yes, but a picture is worth a thousand words....
That's right. *A* picture is worth one thousand words. Video? Not so much, as Borat used to say.Consider the iconic Eddie Adams photograph of a VC guerilla getting blown away (a photo which he admitted to regretting have taken, btw, as it doesn't tell the whole story.): There was a video crew rolling as well when it happened, but which do we remember?
A good photog knows that capturing one decisive moment is worth thousands of miles of useless B-roll.
It's just a dumb business plan.
Trying to do a downloadable media store without taking the iPod into account is like trying to market an office productivity suite that doesn't read/write MS Office docs: You're doomed to failure from the start.
If (and this is a BIG if) the movie studios wake up to the benefits of DRM-free downloads like some record labels have, the big winner here could be Amazon.com. They're uniquely positioned to equal, if not better the success that Apple has had. They're platform agnostic (for music, at least), , are known and trusted brand, have a working system for movies in place already (I've found that downloading those free Bugs Bunny cartoons to my TiVo was VERY easy), and have as much juice with the studios as Wal-Mart does.