[ ] It requires immediate cooperation from the entire world all at once. [ ] People will cheat. [ ] It requires the population to act contrary to self-interest.
It fails to account for:
[ ] Extensive existing infrastructure. [ ] Problems storing power. [ ] Inefficient power transport systems. [ ] Variable weather. [ ] Rich and powerful industries and lobby groups who stand to lose money. [ ] Politicians who know nothing about science.
In summary:
[ ] Nice try, but it won't actually work. [ ] You're a scammer trying to blind investers with psuedoscience. [ ] You're completely nuts.
Whether it's dependency on a non-renewable resource (oil), or the ability of the atmosphere to absorb pollution, or the number of fish in the sea, or fresh water supplies for agriculture, or good topsoil... we're running out of everything.
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Reminds me of something I read once on this topic, from someone in the industry (I can't remember details, sorry).
Basically, he said: we want people to be able to sit down at these games and just start playing. If you have to read a 20 page manual before you can do anything, you'll lose a lot of customers. So, button mashing has to be a viable strategy. It doesn't have to be the best way to play, but you should be able to win fights against easy opponents by mashing.
So, you're saying that I go to a web page, click on some link, and the CSS or javascript rewrites it so that I'm actually redirected to some other link? That doesn't match the description in TFA -- the way it talks, all I have to do is visit a malicious website, and suddenly my browser is sending through clicks for anything they want me to click, and I don't have to do anything.
"When was the last time you had contact with the Sheboygan Police Department?..."
"What was the nature of the contact (check all that apply)?"
None of the options listed say anything like "I was arrested for committing a crime." I guess they don't expect criminals to fill out the customer satisfaction survey...
Civilization will be 20 years old in a few years (released 1991). I wouldn't be surprised if I'm playing Civ5 by that stage -- either that, or I'll occasionally pull out Civ4 to relive the experience.
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You made a game called "Game!"?
I guess you're not going for the google traffic...
Did you pay a premium on your /. subscription to hide the * next to your name?
The world: America, you've got a corrupt lunatic for a president. You suck!
America: Actually, half the stupid stuff we do is because our senators and congressmen are corrupt lunatics too.
The world: Uhh...
[ ] It requires immediate cooperation from the entire world all at once.
[ ] People will cheat.
[ ] It requires the population to act contrary to self-interest.
It fails to account for:
[ ] Extensive existing infrastructure.
[ ] Problems storing power.
[ ] Inefficient power transport systems.
[ ] Variable weather.
[ ] Rich and powerful industries and lobby groups who stand to lose money.
[ ] Politicians who know nothing about science.
In summary:
[ ] Nice try, but it won't actually work.
[ ] You're a scammer trying to blind investers with psuedoscience.
[ ] You're completely nuts.
Could be a boost for them!
[Manager] Microsoft just brought out a new language. It sounds great; this tech rag raves about it! Hire some M developers!
[HR] M dev, 3-5 years exp pref, $70k
[MUMPS developer] Yo, 6 years with M, worked at CompanyX on ProjectFoo, CompanyY on ProjectBar
[HR] Hired!
[Manager] This is our product. You're the new M team. Start coding!
You forget -- as we all know here, every game is built ultimately using only simple on-off switches.
(Now, was it concentrate-concentrate-relax-concentrate-relax to turn left...?)
But it clearly was more important than most private email accounts -- she was using it to conduct important state business!
Don't worry, $10k will be worth $6,300 soon.
Woosh!
Personally, I'd multiply by the Omega number. Calculate that!
Yeah, but Winston Churchill is one of the great attractors of witty repartee. I wouldn't put too much faith in that attribution :-/
Human civilization doesn't scale..
Whether it's dependency on a non-renewable resource (oil), or the ability of the atmosphere to absorb pollution, or the number of fish in the sea, or fresh water supplies for agriculture, or good topsoil... we're running out of everything.
Before LOLCATS...
When no one yet knew NOM NOM NOM...
It was the first golden age of internet memes.
Nah, you just have to sneak 1=2 into one of the axioms... Everything else will follow :-)
Reminds me of something I read once on this topic, from someone in the industry (I can't remember details, sorry).
Basically, he said: we want people to be able to sit down at these games and just start playing. If you have to read a 20 page manual before you can do anything, you'll lose a lot of customers. So, button mashing has to be a viable strategy. It doesn't have to be the best way to play, but you should be able to win fights against easy opponents by mashing.
1. Read The Daily WTF. 2. Don't do that.
You mean this picture?
So, you're saying that I go to a web page, click on some link, and the CSS or javascript rewrites it so that I'm actually redirected to some other link? That doesn't match the description in TFA -- the way it talks, all I have to do is visit a malicious website, and suddenly my browser is sending through clicks for anything they want me to click, and I don't have to do anything.
Apparently "some" and "any" can function as articles in some cases.
Wikipedia also informs me that you can get zero articles, which are the absense of an article. (I just used one there, did you notice it?)
That's what she said!
...and what I tell you three times is true!
Heh, that's interesting.
"When was the last time you had contact with the Sheboygan Police Department? ..."
"What was the nature of the contact (check all that apply)?"
None of the options listed say anything like "I was arrested for committing a crime." I guess they don't expect criminals to fill out the customer satisfaction survey...
Yeah, but that's pretty tame. It would be more interesting to google-bomb them. Something like "Sheboygan police are autocratic censors". Or we could just call them a bunch of baby-smoking iguanodons with home-spun cheese ethics.
It says "SMS-like text entry". Maybe they're enforcing text-speak :-)
Civilization will be 20 years old in a few years (released 1991). I wouldn't be surprised if I'm playing Civ5 by that stage -- either that, or I'll occasionally pull out Civ4 to relive the experience.
Reminds me of the joke about the political candidate who changes his name to "Theabove Zz'noneof"..