If someone creates a Borg creature that takes over the game, whatever fun it had will be gone. I'd guess some advertisers will buy the rights to such characters, so that Pepsi will eat all your spores, but not long after, Coke will eat all those, etc.
It turns out that while Tut's sarcophagus initially appeared to be ordinary gold, it is in fact solid fucking gold. "Yeah, I couldn't believe it", Dr. Packenwood said, "but when we finished running all the scientific experiments on the coffin, it turned out to be 200 lbs of solid fucking gold!"
No one seems to figure out that the next generation search engine will have to get specific first(patent pending), otherwise how does "bush" know where to go in the search results? It ought to show me a page in between results that says, which "bush" are you searching for? and then has 1 sample result from each "bush" related result group(patent pending). Oh, one other thing -- patent pending.
Pirates announce a hack you can download from some website that turns off whatever that flag is, the studios go berserk as millions of copies of movies circulate from ipods onto some movie-napster-like site, and we start the whole music-anti-piracy rigamarole again but with ipod movies. Will no one ever learn?
The criteria for a high-level language are: 1) you aren't allowed to do direct memory register manipulations (i.e. cant run of the end of an array into other areas), and 2) you are interpreted. Either of these can qualify a language as high-level. C has direct memory register manipulation and it is not interpreted, therefore it cannot be a high-level language.
I guess there'll be Microsoft guys with chairs waiting to "totally kill" Google as their servers come into a corp search environment. Or maybe MSN Corporate, Chair Throwing Edition will clobber the server itself virtually by blocking anything from *.google.gom, silently of course./joke
Because we know how many people will read through that to find your name... one... you! Anyhow, I think I'll refer tons of people just to get a really large font mention in the source, maybe I can get every other line even. Of course, I'd prefer to have all the variables named after me, carmen electra, and awesome. Awesome = me * carmen electra. That would be sweet!
If it's a game, there's an implied sense of humor about the content. You can have hitler chopping up baby bunnies and if its supposed to be a game, it becomes funny no matter how ridiculously bad taste it is.
Now that we can use these to apparently make a super-hi-fi electron microscope, maybe we can use them in the electron guns of TV's and create super Xtreme HD! I for one welcome our potentially ever-changing HD format overlords.
Don't forget that for M$ to stall costs them money in legal fees, etc. as well. It is a very slow bleed, but enough drains like this and they will be in trouble. A 200+ million dollar antitrust type fine definitely is difficult to explain away to shareholders!
This announcement followed shortly by a conference in which Asian hackers give Microsoft a look at the new hacked Vista. Good job everyone! Why not just hand them a DVD master of Pirates of the Carribean 2, and a stack of blanks, and say, "this DVD is copy-proof." Sure it is.
So by saying that 3rd parties are spending 20x9 billion, Mr. Gates tells us all that reimplementing for Vista will cost us 180 billion dollars... Ouch!
My password is a rot-13 of the Gettysburg address, it takes me 3 days straight just to login! ba da boom. In reality, it's more of a sign of how long ago I created my/. account -- at the time, I wanted a name that I could type fast with 2 fingers.
Thanks, and don't forget to Vote for me for President of the Internet.
Considering how bad things can be, even when it's something you're supposed to download, I will definitely be NOT downloading these builds. I don't want to reboot and find out that firefox super-special beta ate my hard drive or some crap. Of course, I'd prefer a beta screenshot demo or something that we really can look at more than use, so it doesn't screw up my machine but I can still see what progress is being made.
What's worst is to polish a crap game with a marketing assault. Mario could have been announced with a 3x5 card mailed to my sister's pet dog and it still would be a sweet game. A huge animation for a crappy game in times square just makes that company look desperate and deceitful. How many super-rendered game commercials have you seen that literally show no gameplay whatsoever? Just show the damned game, if you're ashamed of it maybe you shouldn't release it!
The "article" doesn't say hardly anything about what the news is. Does anyone have a link with some details, like what kinda stock-granting issues are alleged? I initially felt bad for doodling on my Take-Two stock certificates, but they're probably worth more as artwork now...
Here's a shocker: Van Gogh saw leaves blowing in the wind, the wind patterns on the surface of the water, and a myriad of other things that are visual cues to what turbulence looks like. Combine all those together with his incredible painting talent, and surprise! He manages to paint something like what the air was actually doing. Oh, and he may have actually seen some colors in the air through sensory blending (drugs plus being a bit crazy).
1. Stop agreeing to customer deadlines before asking the engineers how long it's going to take/if it's possible.
I've had many, many instances where someone asked me how long something would take, and I told them that there's really no good way to do what they're talking about so at least a month or two. It was only after this that I was told that they had already agreed to 2-3 weeks, so I'd better "figure out a way". But what if there is no way? It's not like 9 women can have a baby in 1 month, you know.
Could you take something like this, or perhaps the Super Bowl(tm), and virtualize the game, and then rebroadcast it, because your work is transformative enough that it's not considered copyright infringement?
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If someone creates a Borg creature that takes over the game, whatever fun it had will be gone. I'd guess some advertisers will buy the rights to such characters, so that Pepsi will eat all your spores, but not long after, Coke will eat all those, etc.
Search for "bush" on clusty. The vast majority of the top 15-20 clusters are bush the president. Those should all be one, that's what i'm saying.
It turns out that while Tut's sarcophagus initially appeared to be ordinary gold, it is in fact solid fucking gold. "Yeah, I couldn't believe it", Dr. Packenwood said, "but when we finished running all the scientific experiments on the coffin, it turned out to be 200 lbs of solid fucking gold!"
Well, they did kinda reverse engineer certain IBM PC chips from scratch, spawning the entire PC clone industry.
No one seems to figure out that the next generation search engine will have to get specific first(patent pending), otherwise how does "bush" know where to go in the search results? It ought to show me a page in between results that says, which "bush" are you searching for? and then has 1 sample result from each "bush" related result group(patent pending). Oh, one other thing -- patent pending.
http://www.winternals.com/products/repairandrecove ry/locksmith.asp
what a surprise... Microsoft takes down the locksmith. Anyone have it for me?
Thanks
Pirates announce a hack you can download from some website that turns off whatever that flag is, the studios go berserk as millions of copies of movies circulate from ipods onto some movie-napster-like site, and we start the whole music-anti-piracy rigamarole again but with ipod movies. Will no one ever learn?
The criteria for a high-level language are: 1) you aren't allowed to do direct memory register manipulations (i.e. cant run of the end of an array into other areas), and 2) you are interpreted. Either of these can qualify a language as high-level. C has direct memory register manipulation and it is not interpreted, therefore it cannot be a high-level language.
I guess there'll be Microsoft guys with chairs waiting to "totally kill" Google as their servers come into a corp search environment. Or maybe MSN Corporate, Chair Throwing Edition will clobber the server itself virtually by blocking anything from *.google.gom, silently of course. /joke
Because we know how many people will read through that to find your name... one... you! Anyhow, I think I'll refer tons of people just to get a really large font mention in the source, maybe I can get every other line even. Of course, I'd prefer to have all the variables named after me, carmen electra, and awesome. Awesome = me * carmen electra. That would be sweet!
If it's a game, there's an implied sense of humor about the content. You can have hitler chopping up baby bunnies and if its supposed to be a game, it becomes funny no matter how ridiculously bad taste it is.
My first impression of that headline is a huge map of the US with smiley faces everywhere but here!
Now that we can use these to apparently make a super-hi-fi electron microscope, maybe we can use them in the electron guns of TV's and create super Xtreme HD! I for one welcome our potentially ever-changing HD format overlords.
Don't forget that for M$ to stall costs them money in legal fees, etc. as well. It is a very slow bleed, but enough drains like this and they will be in trouble. A 200+ million dollar antitrust type fine definitely is difficult to explain away to shareholders!
This announcement followed shortly by a conference in which Asian hackers give Microsoft a look at the new hacked Vista. Good job everyone! Why not just hand them a DVD master of Pirates of the Carribean 2, and a stack of blanks, and say, "this DVD is copy-proof." Sure it is.
Awesome, they all dress in Diesel? Oh wait, never mind.
So by saying that 3rd parties are spending 20x9 billion, Mr. Gates tells us all that reimplementing for Vista will cost us 180 billion dollars... Ouch!
My password is a rot-13 of the Gettysburg address, it takes me 3 days straight just to login! ba da boom. In reality, it's more of a sign of how long ago I created my /. account -- at the time, I wanted a name that I could type fast with 2 fingers.
Thanks, and don't forget to Vote for me for President of the Internet.
Considering how bad things can be, even when it's something you're supposed to download, I will definitely be NOT downloading these builds. I don't want to reboot and find out that firefox super-special beta ate my hard drive or some crap. Of course, I'd prefer a beta screenshot demo or something that we really can look at more than use, so it doesn't screw up my machine but I can still see what progress is being made.
What's worst is to polish a crap game with a marketing assault. Mario could have been announced with a 3x5 card mailed to my sister's pet dog and it still would be a sweet game. A huge animation for a crappy game in times square just makes that company look desperate and deceitful. How many super-rendered game commercials have you seen that literally show no gameplay whatsoever? Just show the damned game, if you're ashamed of it maybe you shouldn't release it!
The "article" doesn't say hardly anything about what the news is. Does anyone have a link with some details, like what kinda stock-granting issues are alleged? I initially felt bad for doodling on my Take-Two stock certificates, but they're probably worth more as artwork now...
Here's a shocker: Van Gogh saw leaves blowing in the wind, the wind patterns on the surface of the water, and a myriad of other things that are visual cues to what turbulence looks like. Combine all those together with his incredible painting talent, and surprise! He manages to paint something like what the air was actually doing. Oh, and he may have actually seen some colors in the air through sensory blending (drugs plus being a bit crazy).
1. Stop agreeing to customer deadlines before asking the engineers how long it's going to take/if it's possible.
I've had many, many instances where someone asked me how long something would take, and I told them that there's really no good way to do what they're talking about so at least a month or two. It was only after this that I was told that they had already agreed to 2-3 weeks, so I'd better "figure out a way". But what if there is no way? It's not like 9 women can have a baby in 1 month, you know.
Could you take something like this, or perhaps the Super Bowl(tm), and virtualize the game, and then rebroadcast it, because your work is transformative enough that it's not considered copyright infringement?
Interestingly, one was from Kuwait and spoke almost no english, the other was Kuwait/English bilingual. This was before the Gulf War.