I speak from the heart for every former nerd and geek who was promised a bright and sparkling future where technology would solve the world's problems, and instead got a big, fat turd and pocket sized computers posing as innovations.
Just when I thought that the tech world couldn't get any more boring.
Where's the immersive VR? Where's the sex robots? Where are they already? Where's the ability to replace my crappy, suckass life on a giant rock infested with morons and religion and boy bands with one that's custom tailored to my every whim?
What I get is underpowered little plastic boxes running another goddamned f****** dysfunctional Microsoft product. I get MSN watches that lull me into a coma with such cutting edge data as stock quotes, sports scores and the temperature. I get the 55,147th first person shooter or the 24,106th driving sim or Madden NFL 40K. I get friggin' Mel Gibson's friggin' fairy tale movie working it's friggin' controversy into every place I turn. There is no escape!
It's those goddamned Victorian era assholes! This is all their fault! Sex used to be PART of religious ceremonies before they came along. Prostitutes used to work in TEMPLES, for Cliff's sake!
All I know is this supersymmetrical string theory better deliver on something, because that will be the last straw, kupo.
I've folowed through on their number before. Too many of them dead end in the situations I described. The only legitimate ones are the easy, no-brainer stuff where even someone like Bush wouldn't argue. And their guiding, core ideology is definitely not mainstream. I used to look up to these guys when I was a kid, but when I learned the ropes of real scietific method, I began to see through their flim-flam.
I keeping with the scientific principles everyone here claims to adore, I challenge someone to cite a reference for a claim, and that gets modded flamebait? Nice.
What I read of the report so far is the typical "pass this law and save X million lives" and so on. Yet every time in cases like this, when someone traces the numbers back to their sources, they find weak correleations put forth as cause & effect, dubious computer models, poorly conducted experiements and, in some cases (like the power lines = cancer scare a few years back), complete fabrication, or a negative result massaged to sound positive (or vice versa).
This is junk science Bush-style versus junk science Union OF Concerned Scientists-style, folks. Nothing important to be seen here. Move along.
Watch the Penn & Teller Bullshit! episode about second hand smoke for a good example of all this.
Bush got into Harvard and Yale through connections.
OK, in keeping with the science theme, care to cite a reference proving this claim? And a 9-point font manifesto on www.ihatebushmorethanlifeitself.org isn't proof.
While scientists could have their own political agenda, the fact that this report was signed off by 20 Nobel Laureates gives it real legitimacy.
Laureates in what, though? Is a Nobel prize winner for work in cosmology really worth listening on climatology? Does a prize for quantum physics give one the right to judge dangerous lead levels?
Nobel Laureates don't come a dime a dozen and they can't be bought
Bullshit. They can suffer from ideologies just as much as anyone. Some of the most ideologically blinkered people I have met in my life have had PhDs and were leaders in their professional fields. They get so many accolades in their field they think they can do no wrong elsewhere.
It sounds like you are handling it fine. Just rehearse your response so that it doesn't sound rehearsed, or something.
I avoided the whole dotcom thing and stuck with my current uber-employer. As a result, they worship the ground upon which I walk, pay me accordingly and my resume glows in the dark like a diamond.
In related news, Yahoo! Slurp will be integrated with a new, special section of Yahoo! Personals. Readers are invited to let their dirty little imaginations go wild.
And, by the way, falling??? That baby is on the orbit!
C'mere you!
*smack* "Falling apart" is just a saying. *smack* Now say it! *smack* Say it! *SLAP* That's right. *biff* Now who's yer daddy? *pow* Yeah, I thought so. *wham* Now, get back to work. *bonk*
Probably redundant, but the last time I walked throguh an arcade (with people probably thinking I was a child molester on the prowl) the place was full of obvious gang members (clothing and gang signs and lingo were prevalent) and the damned games were 50 cents each. I've had similar reports from friends who have popped into an arcade for old time's sake.
Other than the obvious answer of the boom in home gaming tech, I think many arcade owners did just what you suggest: they bought the games and sat back waiting for a profit. No one ever thought to innovate or turn an arcade into anythong more than a hangout, and hangouts will invariably go doenhill until it attracts only the lowest common denominator.
Another problem might be the complexity of the games. You could walk up to Pac Man or Asteroids and pretty much have it figured out in a game or two. The downturn for me came with games like Mortal Combat where you had to read a book on the side just to learn all the moves. I got a hint that others were hitting their patience limit early on when I'd walk up to a Defender game and notice the previous player lost without expending a single smart bomb.;-)
I've wondered what would happen if someone opened an arcade full of emulated old time games (cabinets with PCs running MAME, assuming you could work out licensing for such a thing).
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There's probably a really good pr0n comment to put here.
My rule is that if you need to ask this, you aren't worth answering.
do you know any hungry, out of work, homeless people? sick friends with on health coverage?
No. I've managed my life to the point where I don't have to mix with the riff-raff.
how about your parents in old age, or you in your old age?
My parents managed their lives, too, and hence do not need my help other than stopping by once a week to say howdy. As for my old age, I'm currently on track to retire comfortably at 50, and this is having been born into near poverty and only being able to afford a state college.
fix our nation first, and then explore the rest of earth. we have no need to go to space.
The human condition is unfixable because most people are too stupid to follow even a basic rational life plan. If we wait for the nation to be "fixed", we'll fester in this stinking mudball until we're eyeball deep in our own shit.
negative population growth first, and then zero growth. it will help us all.
Oh, so that's what you meant by "fixed." Will PETA be in charge of that operation?
Anyway, if *you* volunteer not to breed, I fully support this product and/or service.
vote democrate in 2004,
Absolutely LOL! Yeah, the Democrats are real saints. LOL! Fricken' ideologues... such a national treasure...
bush is a corporate whore!
Probably, but I fail to see how trading a corporate whore for a government whore is all that enlightened.
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A little girl in a commercial sang a small part of a song written by some overrated guy who does that rap stuff.
The singer is suing for some stupid amount.
He should lose because he's a dickhead.
He won't lose, however, because we have a legal system constructed by, for and of the dickheads.
I hope this helps. :-)
C'mon virus writers! Write a virus that exploits the new anti-virus code. I know you can do it!
Feh...
Where's the immersive VR? Where's the sex robots? Where are they already? Where's the ability to replace my crappy, suckass life on a giant rock infested with morons and religion and boy bands with one that's custom tailored to my every whim?
What I get is underpowered little plastic boxes running another goddamned f****** dysfunctional Microsoft product. I get MSN watches that lull me into a coma with such cutting edge data as stock quotes, sports scores and the temperature. I get the 55,147th first person shooter or the 24,106th driving sim or Madden NFL 40K. I get friggin' Mel Gibson's friggin' fairy tale movie working it's friggin' controversy into every place I turn. There is no escape!
It's those goddamned Victorian era assholes! This is all their fault! Sex used to be PART of religious ceremonies before they came along. Prostitutes used to work in TEMPLES, for Cliff's sake!
All I know is this supersymmetrical string theory better deliver on something, because that will be the last straw, kupo.
No.
They citizens get killed, but they do come back as mindless zombies who thirst for the lifeblood of others.
Although I hear players can't tell the difference.
Well, duh! Of course holding someone at gunpoint doesn't stop them from hating you.
It's when you pull the trigger and splatter their brains all over the place. *That's* when they stop hating you.
Sheesh! Wadda they teachin' youse kids in skool dese days?
*gurgle*
Anyway, the truly cool would be making Harsh Realm comments.
I've been lusting for these since I read Niven & Pournelle's "Footfall."
Where, I say, where do I send my glowing resume?
It's a great time to be a misanthrope. :-)
So what you are predicting is Martian rats with salty urine. :-)
Now there will be salt mines for the riff-raff when I take over Mars.
EOM
I've folowed through on their number before. Too many of them dead end in the situations I described. The only legitimate ones are the easy, no-brainer stuff where even someone like Bush wouldn't argue. And their guiding, core ideology is definitely not mainstream. I used to look up to these guys when I was a kid, but when I learned the ropes of real scietific method, I began to see through their flim-flam.
I keeping with the scientific principles everyone here claims to adore, I challenge someone to cite a reference for a claim, and that gets modded flamebait? Nice.
This is junk science Bush-style versus junk science Union OF Concerned Scientists-style, folks. Nothing important to be seen here. Move along.
Watch the Penn & Teller Bullshit! episode about second hand smoke for a good example of all this.
OK, in keeping with the science theme, care to cite a reference proving this claim? And a 9-point font manifesto on www.ihatebushmorethanlifeitself.org isn't proof.
Laureates in what, though? Is a Nobel prize winner for work in cosmology really worth listening on climatology? Does a prize for quantum physics give one the right to judge dangerous lead levels?
Nobel Laureates don't come a dime a dozen and they can't be bought
Bullshit. They can suffer from ideologies just as much as anyone. Some of the most ideologically blinkered people I have met in my life have had PhDs and were leaders in their professional fields. They get so many accolades in their field they think they can do no wrong elsewhere.
Who wants to join me in building a car dealrship in Arizona right on the New Mexico border?
I avoided the whole dotcom thing and stuck with my current uber-employer. As a result, they worship the ground upon which I walk, pay me accordingly and my resume glows in the dark like a diamond.
What do you mean diamonds don't glow in the dark?
OK, OK. Radioactive diamonds, or something.
In related news, Yahoo! Slurp will be integrated with a new, special section of Yahoo! Personals. Readers are invited to let their dirty little imaginations go wild.
C'mere you!
*smack* "Falling apart" is just a saying. *smack* Now say it! *smack* Say it! *SLAP* That's right. *biff* Now who's yer daddy? *pow* Yeah, I thought so. *wham* Now, get back to work. *bonk*
Other than the obvious answer of the boom in home gaming tech, I think many arcade owners did just what you suggest: they bought the games and sat back waiting for a profit. No one ever thought to innovate or turn an arcade into anythong more than a hangout, and hangouts will invariably go doenhill until it attracts only the lowest common denominator.
Another problem might be the complexity of the games. You could walk up to Pac Man or Asteroids and pretty much have it figured out in a game or two. The downturn for me came with games like Mortal Combat where you had to read a book on the side just to learn all the moves. I got a hint that others were hitting their patience limit early on when I'd walk up to a Defender game and notice the previous player lost without expending a single smart bomb. ;-)
I've wondered what would happen if someone opened an arcade full of emulated old time games (cabinets with PCs running MAME, assuming you could work out licensing for such a thing).
I wish I knew what it was.
My rule is that if you need to ask this, you aren't worth answering.
do you know any hungry, out of work, homeless people? sick friends with on health coverage?
No. I've managed my life to the point where I don't have to mix with the riff-raff.
how about your parents in old age, or you in your old age?
My parents managed their lives, too, and hence do not need my help other than stopping by once a week to say howdy. As for my old age, I'm currently on track to retire comfortably at 50, and this is having been born into near poverty and only being able to afford a state college.
fix our nation first, and then explore the rest of earth. we have no need to go to space.
The human condition is unfixable because most people are too stupid to follow even a basic rational life plan. If we wait for the nation to be "fixed", we'll fester in this stinking mudball until we're eyeball deep in our own shit.
negative population growth first, and then zero growth. it will help us all.
Oh, so that's what you meant by "fixed." Will PETA be in charge of that operation?
Anyway, if *you* volunteer not to breed, I fully support this product and/or service.
vote democrate in 2004,
Absolutely LOL! Yeah, the Democrats are real saints. LOL! Fricken' ideologues... such a national treasure...
bush is a corporate whore!
Probably, but I fail to see how trading a corporate whore for a government whore is all that enlightened.
I'm that little disconnected node way over in the dark corner. :-(
Then I won't have to force quite every fifth or sixth Explorer window.