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Bah. Anyone who's read a comic knows that radiation causes superpowered mutations and endows the radiated with abilities beyond the norm. We should be less concerned about the potential to iradiate the planet and kill life, as opposed to the potential of creating killer race of hostile Hulk Ameobas that will end up conquering earth...
Radio Shack isn't exactly diversity central. A girl who has lived with us for the past two years has worked there for the past five years or so. She was even a manager for a while. She has dozens of stories of sexist discrimination on the part of management, underlings and coworkers. She and some other women who have worked for the company are currently investigating legal venues to sue for discrimination...
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Help! Help! I'm being oppressed!
Daddy's Money? Heck, my dad tried to teach me to get a job and work hard... I refused to listen, got in some sweet Pell Grants... but I understand they're next to impossible to get nowadays...
Ive seen this one...
Japan gets it. They gain ulimited energy, use it to fuel their great cities, only to have their robotic servants rise up and enslave them, all the while unleashing a great evil upon the world, that only a perky, well-drawn, female scientist and a guy with pointy hair can stop... meanwhile the villain is secretly planning to use the mega energy device as a weapon to destroy the world... Then Godzilla comes from the Island of Monsters and smushes everything... and we turn them away thanks to the loveable japanese children who sing to Gamera and those two twins that dance for Mothra... and umm... um... and just when Ultron's energy is about to give up, Skippy says, "Ultron I believe in you!" Then half the characters die in a horrible holocaust, while one or two tokens who might've drawn close together to each other in the conflict end up going away to pursue profitable careers in archeaology...
Bah. Cell shading... That's been used since... since... King's Quest and Leisure Suit Larry... Sure they only had 16 colors... but that's really not much more than Poke'mon uses now...;)
I guess one must ask if this will give all those out of work 2D artists a job... Gotta think the skills are useful for something...
I don't use unix (or program it) because I want my program to sell well. I use it because it makes my computer work for me.
I have a task that is very computationally difficult. Gotta have a computer. I don't want it to crash. I don't want a clown juggling coconuts in the corner. I want it to crunch numbers and run fast, so that I can know if 10000 regression tests worked out my ASIC design.
Windows comes nowhere near my need. It crashes. It needs constant security updates. And it's really not flexible. And with Linux it ain't cheap, either... linux is... so all in all. Windows in my work isn't gonna get the job done.
There's a company in the US that already does this... They have developed receiver (an asic) and encoders to broadcast technology over regular TV broadcast channels without impairing the video picture. It's used in Disney's Moviebeam box, that's currently available in select consumer markets around the US... (Just unrolled). Dunno the bitrates... or such.
Carly's just an Enron-ian dinosaur. She comes from the school of "who needs a product" (or honesty) in order to sell stuff.
Reading this brought back painful memories when I would sit at HP and listen to her talk about how great everything was... and afterwards we'd ask the question, "So what exactly is E-speak?" Nobody knew.
Carly (and the management she's henpecked) have a core-honesty issue. Be vague, but speak confidently, and you can always back out of whatever direction you want to take things.
I used to think I just didn't get it. Then again I never understood how Enron could claim to make money, or how Sun could just give away hardware (to be the dot in the dotcom) and make money. Turns out none of them were...
Further, HP has a terrible reputation for picking bad standards that go nowhere fast. So if you do go with AE you'll probably be cursing yourself a year or two after you write them the check, because you're stuck with obsolete and unsupported hardware/software solutions.
Go with AE if you like, but consider that if this is how they talk about it, how will they talk to you when it comes to delivering a product that you actually need in "real-time". (as opposed to all that copious fake-time)
It's a law of science fiction entertainment. Small robots don't speak normally. Think about it. Tweaky couldn't talk normal. And Daggit didn't talk normal either. Maybe it's because there's a monkey in them... instead of a person...
I think this show would make a great Broadway Hit. It's easily as clever as anything Sondheim's done lately. It's got the epic feel of Les Mis, who is not moved by King Author's crossing to the Castle Eaugh! The show Lampoons the french... which will immediately appeal to Americans, and their quest for the holy grail ("I told them we already have one!"). It has sex, or near sex... (Sir Galahad and his near brush with a fate worse than death), it has violence and action, "You twit, I soiled my armor, I was so scared." It has singing... "No-no! NO singing! Not while I'm here!" My goodness! And it's imported from England... just like Andrew Lloyd Webber!
It's sure to be a hit!
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Bah. Anyone who's read a comic knows that radiation causes superpowered mutations and endows the radiated with abilities beyond the norm. We should be less concerned about the potential to iradiate the planet and kill life, as opposed to the potential of creating killer race of hostile Hulk Ameobas that will end up conquering earth...
I remember when the word meant, "happy."
Radio Shack isn't exactly diversity central. A girl who has lived with us for the past two years has worked there for the past five years or so. She was even a manager for a while. She has dozens of stories of sexist discrimination on the part of management, underlings and coworkers. She and some other women who have worked for the company are currently investigating legal venues to sue for discrimination... -- Help! Help! I'm being oppressed!
Now that I've read about How Google sucks, I want to buy Phentramine(sp?) from this guy... because I feel sorry for him... ;-)
Daddy's Money? Heck, my dad tried to teach me to get a job and work hard... I refused to listen, got in some sweet Pell Grants... but I understand they're next to impossible to get nowadays...
Goofy (of Mickey Mouse fame) has a better scream...
Ive seen this one... Japan gets it. They gain ulimited energy, use it to fuel their great cities, only to have their robotic servants rise up and enslave them, all the while unleashing a great evil upon the world, that only a perky, well-drawn, female scientist and a guy with pointy hair can stop... meanwhile the villain is secretly planning to use the mega energy device as a weapon to destroy the world... Then Godzilla comes from the Island of Monsters and smushes everything... and we turn them away thanks to the loveable japanese children who sing to Gamera and those two twins that dance for Mothra... and umm... um... and just when Ultron's energy is about to give up, Skippy says, "Ultron I believe in you!" Then half the characters die in a horrible holocaust, while one or two tokens who might've drawn close together to each other in the conflict end up going away to pursue profitable careers in archeaology...
Have you seen the diet of Programmers?! By the year 2015, 25% of them will die off from natural (or unholy and very unnatural) causes...
Bah. Cell shading... That's been used since... since... King's Quest and Leisure Suit Larry... Sure they only had 16 colors... but that's really not much more than Poke'mon uses now... ;)
I guess one must ask if this will give all those out of work 2D artists a job... Gotta think the skills are useful for something...
I don't use unix (or program it) because I want my program to sell well. I use it because it makes my computer work for me. I have a task that is very computationally difficult. Gotta have a computer. I don't want it to crash. I don't want a clown juggling coconuts in the corner. I want it to crunch numbers and run fast, so that I can know if 10000 regression tests worked out my ASIC design. Windows comes nowhere near my need. It crashes. It needs constant security updates. And it's really not flexible. And with Linux it ain't cheap, either... linux is... so all in all. Windows in my work isn't gonna get the job done.
There's a company in the US that already does this... They have developed receiver (an asic) and encoders to broadcast technology over regular TV broadcast channels without impairing the video picture. It's used in Disney's Moviebeam box, that's currently available in select consumer markets around the US... (Just unrolled). Dunno the bitrates... or such.
Carly's just an Enron-ian dinosaur. She comes from the school of "who needs a product" (or honesty) in order to sell stuff. Reading this brought back painful memories when I would sit at HP and listen to her talk about how great everything was... and afterwards we'd ask the question, "So what exactly is E-speak?" Nobody knew. Carly (and the management she's henpecked) have a core-honesty issue. Be vague, but speak confidently, and you can always back out of whatever direction you want to take things. I used to think I just didn't get it. Then again I never understood how Enron could claim to make money, or how Sun could just give away hardware (to be the dot in the dotcom) and make money. Turns out none of them were... Further, HP has a terrible reputation for picking bad standards that go nowhere fast. So if you do go with AE you'll probably be cursing yourself a year or two after you write them the check, because you're stuck with obsolete and unsupported hardware/software solutions. Go with AE if you like, but consider that if this is how they talk about it, how will they talk to you when it comes to delivering a product that you actually need in "real-time". (as opposed to all that copious fake-time)
It's a law of science fiction entertainment. Small robots don't speak normally. Think about it. Tweaky couldn't talk normal. And Daggit didn't talk normal either. Maybe it's because there's a monkey in them... instead of a person...
So you see Timmy, without Zinc Oxide, the world would be devoid of spintronics!
I think this show would make a great Broadway Hit. It's easily as clever as anything Sondheim's done lately. It's got the epic feel of Les Mis, who is not moved by King Author's crossing to the Castle Eaugh! The show Lampoons the french... which will immediately appeal to Americans, and their quest for the holy grail ("I told them we already have one!"). It has sex, or near sex... (Sir Galahad and his near brush with a fate worse than death), it has violence and action, "You twit, I soiled my armor, I was so scared." It has singing... "No-no! NO singing! Not while I'm here!" My goodness! And it's imported from England... just like Andrew Lloyd Webber! It's sure to be a hit!