11. This machine is a piece of GAGH! I need dual
processors if I am to do battle with this code!
10. You cannot really appreciate Dilbert unless you've read
it in the original Klingon.
9. Indentation?! -- I will show you how to indent
when I indent your skull!
8. What is this talk of 'release'? Klingons do not make
software 'releases'. Our software 'escapes' leaving a bloody
trail of designers and quality assurance people in its wake.
7. Klingon function calls do not have 'parameters' -- they
have 'arguments' -- and they ALWAYS WIN THEM.
6. Debugging? Klingons do not debug. Our software
does not coddle the weak.
5. I have challenged the entire quality assurance
team to a Bat-Leth contest. They will not concern us again.
4. A TRUE Klingon Warrior does not comment his code!
3. By filing this SPR you have challenged the honor
of my family. Prepare to die!
2. You question the worthiness of my code? I should
kill you where you stand!
1. Our users will know fear and cower before our software.
Ship it! Ship it, and let them flee like the dogs they are!
It's been a long time since I've read it, but I believe in Odyssey Three after Jupiter becomes a second sun, it's methane core is compressed to crystallized carbon (a giant diamond) and is expelled and lands on Europa and sinks into the icey sea. I remember a scene where an astronauton Europa picks up a shard of diamond and it slices through his space suit, killing him.
Unit 3000-21 is warming
Makes a humming sound
When its circuits duplicate emotions
And a sense of coldness detaches
As it tries to comfort your sadness
One more robot learns to be
Something more than a machine
When it tries the way it does
Makes it seem like it can love
Cause it's hard to say what's real
When you know the way you feel
Is it wrong to think it's love
When it tries the way it does
Feeling a synthetic kind of love
Dreaming a sympathetic wish
As the lights blink faster and brighter
One more robot learns to be
Something more than a machine
When it tries the way it does
Makes it seem like it can love
Cause it's hard to say what's real
When you know the way you feel
Is it wrong to think it's love
When it tries the way it does
-The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots
I actually wish all commercial speech was required to be tagged as such, so it could be easily filtered out by those who aren't interested.
And then you would see web content disappear.
(except for maybe all the boring-ass blogs)
The information I'm generally interested in is not commercial or commercially related.
Example?
SPAM is the worst case of this
No argument there. I'm talking about produced content in
association with advertisements. That is, adspace that is sold in order to pay for the research and production of web content.
Face it, paying people to make web pages with no revenue
source is an extremely bad business model.
I'll only volunteer my valuable attention for ads that are actually useful to me.
I only said that web ads pay for content, I didn't say I sit there and read
all of them! I do occasionally visit sites via banner ads, if I find
them interesting ('interACTIVE' I would say) I can't say I've ever
got in my car and drove to some business after seeing a TV ad.
So, you go right ahead and accept to passively accept your oldschool, broadcast-style mental engineering (and remember to go right out and BUY the crappy product advertised to complete the cycle)
The smugness in your assumption that anything advertised must
be 'crappy' is laughable. Your rightous superiority to everyone
must be so gratifying.
What could possibly be more insulting than trying to watch a television show, and not being able to hear it or see the content because you're having an ad for another show (that will be graffitied the same way most likely) splattered all over it?
They already do that. Stations frequently have scrolling ads for
other shows across the bottom of the screen.
Most sites with a reader base (as opposed to a strictly consumer base) have more difficulty figuring out what the audience wants.
Please take a moment to scroll to the top of this webpage.
Bottom line, the current way of advertising to your readers has been anything from subtle and unobtrusive to downright offensive and obnoxious.
The same has always been true for television ads, but hey, it pays
for the next episode of Star Trek!
Perhaps companies that think they can force us to listen to their messages -- their banners, their interruptive graphic crawls over the pages we're trying to read -- will realize that our ability to flit from site to site is built into the Web's architecture. They might as well just put up banners that say "Hi! We don't understand the Internet. Oh, and, by the way, we hate you."
I'm no fan of popups or banner-ads, but if that pays for content
that I otherwise would not be seeing, then so be it. I think
commercials have made for a rather successful business model
for television, which is as pervasive as ever, even after more
than 50 years.
I also think the slew of dot-bombs from the past few years
proves that you can't give away something for free forever.
I would much rather put up with ads than have to open an
account with every website that provides quality content.
(subjective, I know)
I use the internet very very frequently to find information that
I need. Outside of my monthly charge for internet access, this
information is all free. It's free to me for one reason alone:
Internet Advertising.
The only thing people seem to be giving away for free on the
internet is their opinions, which I'm up to my neck in!
Slashdot Mirror
...is most likely Ozone.
talk about redundant? "friendster"? Maybe you should call it "looster"
DAMMIT! This was supposed to be a reply to darkhelmet's stupid response.
Oh, this is so important.
You should make a career of it.
I can't wait to get more mod points, so I can mod down anything you write.
11. This machine is a piece of GAGH! I need dual
processors if I am to do battle with this code!
10. You cannot really appreciate Dilbert unless you've read
it in the original Klingon.
9. Indentation?! -- I will show you how to indent
when I indent your skull!
8. What is this talk of 'release'? Klingons do not make
software 'releases'. Our software 'escapes' leaving a bloody
trail of designers and quality assurance people in its wake.
7. Klingon function calls do not have 'parameters' -- they
have 'arguments' -- and they ALWAYS WIN THEM.
6. Debugging? Klingons do not debug. Our software
does not coddle the weak.
5. I have challenged the entire quality assurance
team to a Bat-Leth contest. They will not concern us again.
4. A TRUE Klingon Warrior does not comment his code!
3. By filing this SPR you have challenged the honor
of my family. Prepare to die!
2. You question the worthiness of my code? I should
kill you where you stand!
1. Our users will know fear and cower before our software.
Ship it! Ship it, and let them flee like the dogs they are!
is so Bohr-ing.
hyuk-hyuk
I'm sure I'll be modded Troll or Offtopic by some soi-disant editor.
So if a tree falls in the woods with no one around, does it have to pay a royalty fee to John Cage?
2061: Odyssey Three is the title. Sorry Arthur.
It's been a long time since I've read it, but I believe in Odyssey Three after Jupiter becomes a second sun, it's methane core is compressed to crystallized carbon (a giant diamond) and is expelled and lands on Europa and sinks into the icey sea. I remember a scene where an astronauton Europa picks up a shard of diamond and it slices through his space suit, killing him.
Does anyone remember more about this book?
Unit 3000-21 is warming
Makes a humming sound
When its circuits duplicate emotions
And a sense of coldness detaches
As it tries to comfort your sadness
One more robot learns to be
Something more than a machine
When it tries the way it does
Makes it seem like it can love
Cause it's hard to say what's real
When you know the way you feel
Is it wrong to think it's love
When it tries the way it does
Feeling a synthetic kind of love
Dreaming a sympathetic wish
As the lights blink faster and brighter
One more robot learns to be
Something more than a machine
When it tries the way it does
Makes it seem like it can love
Cause it's hard to say what's real
When you know the way you feel
Is it wrong to think it's love
When it tries the way it does
-The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots
Correct! As opposed to closed-source where a company (ahem) sits on a security hole without fixing it or telling anyone about for months and months.
this proofs [sic] MyDoom was initialy spread by organised crime
Either that, or a bunch of smart, bored kids in the Netherlands...
I guess you can polish a turd!
I actually wish all commercial speech was required to be tagged as such, so it could be easily filtered out by those who aren't interested.
And then you would see web content disappear.
(except for maybe all the boring-ass blogs)
The information I'm generally interested in is not commercial or commercially related.
Example?
SPAM is the worst case of this
No argument there. I'm talking about produced content in
association with advertisements. That is, adspace that is sold in
order to pay for the research and production of web content.
Face it, paying people to make web pages with no revenue
source is an extremely bad business model.
I'll only volunteer my valuable attention for ads that are actually useful to me.
I only said that web ads pay for content, I didn't say I sit there and read
all of them! I do occasionally visit sites via banner ads, if I find
them interesting ('interACTIVE' I would say) I can't say I've ever
got in my car and drove to some business after seeing a TV ad.
So, you go right ahead and accept to passively accept your oldschool, broadcast-style mental engineering (and remember to go right out and BUY the crappy product advertised to complete the cycle)
The smugness in your assumption that anything advertised must
be 'crappy' is laughable. Your rightous superiority to everyone
must be so gratifying.
What could possibly be more insulting than trying to watch a television show, and not being able to hear it or see the content because you're having an ad for another show (that will be graffitied the same way most likely) splattered all over it?
They already do that. Stations frequently have scrolling ads for
other shows across the bottom of the screen.
Most sites with a reader base (as opposed to a strictly consumer base) have more difficulty figuring out what the audience wants.
Please take a moment to scroll to the top of this webpage.
Bottom line, the current way of advertising to your readers has been anything from subtle and unobtrusive to downright offensive and obnoxious.
The same has always been true for television ads, but hey, it pays
for the next episode of Star Trek!
Perhaps companies that think they can force us to listen to their messages -- their banners, their interruptive graphic crawls over the pages we're trying to read -- will realize that our ability to flit from site to site is built into the Web's architecture. They might as well just put up banners that say "Hi! We don't understand the Internet. Oh, and, by the way, we hate you."
I'm no fan of popups or banner-ads, but if that pays for content
that I otherwise would not be seeing, then so be it. I think
commercials have made for a rather successful business model
for television, which is as pervasive as ever, even after more
than 50 years.
I also think the slew of dot-bombs from the past few years
proves that you can't give away something for free forever.
I would much rather put up with ads than have to open an
account with every website that provides quality content.
(subjective, I know)
I use the internet very very frequently to find information that
I need. Outside of my monthly charge for internet access, this
information is all free. It's free to me for one reason alone:
Internet Advertising.
The only thing people seem to be giving away for free on the
internet is their opinions, which I'm up to my neck in!
It's not news, it's Stuff That Matters.
*sigh* You didn't read the article. How sad.
...and INFLUENZA!
I forgot Technodorks and Technodweebs
or maybe eDweebs
In NEVADA!
More like Technoidiots, or maybe Technomorons.
Too late to add to the poll?
don't need ELECTRICITY!