Still I don't think IMagic (went out of busniess in '84) is really going to care if I set up a pay-per-play box with demon attack on it. I'm not even sure the guys who founded the company are still alive...
Anyway, I doubt Nolan Bushnell will sue me if I pirate pong.
Yep, I know a lot now. I know that UFO's not only crashed at Roswell but are now living among us thanks to a giant governemnt conspiracy. I know now that the world is cube shaped thanks to the flat earth socieity. I believe in bat boy and that E=MC^Hammer. I also learned that whenever I hear cheap eighties music, it means ppl are having sex. I also learned never to eat at any table ever again cause of the things that go on on them while I am not around. Finally, I know that all your base are belong to us.
"Members of the olgarchy sensed that things were changing and tried to hold the line, but the could not comprehend why their world was collapsing nor formulate policies which would have been to ther long term advantage because their own material prosperity blinded them to the very real, widespread failings and inequities in the system." (Page 79)
"The rich were quite content to live off a demoralized population and right up to the very end thought they could go on buying a defense against the barbarians they had not yet bought off. Not only did they fail to realize they could not buy loyality, but they had alienated the classes whose support was necessary for their continued existance."(Page 85)
Both from "The story of stupidity" by James Welles Ph.d.. I think that basically, material prosperity blinds a person to the problems with the system and as such as long as they have continued properity they have no impetus to solve the problems. As long as the status quo is good, they have no desire to change the status quo. By the time they comprehend there is a problem they are not only no longer able to even truly comprehend exactly what the problem is and are often far beyond the point where the problem has become terminal. Just as the rich of Athens and the rich of Rome lost touch with the realities of the society that was supporting them so to are the businesses of our society losing touch with the reality of the world in which they exist. Having discovered the rewards of burning one end of the bridge they are quickly setting about lighting an even larger fire on the other end unable to comprehend why the second fire won't be even more sucessful than the first.
How about virtual punishments for virtual crimes. In other words, hire a sheriff and string up the offenders ONLINE. No use appealing to another plain of existance just when you don't get your way. Does God strike you down with a lightning bolt cause you broke a law in the real world?
As for those who lost stuff online: life's a bitch, deal with it.
As a tree grows, the weaker branches need to be trimmed. The weak perish so that the strong may survive. Not ethical when it comes to people, but when it comes to business its both ethical and true.
"It's just more assimilation."
ROM: "If you have any use he assorbs your functions and if you don't he sends you down here to gets the bits blasted out of you."
"The only ray of hope here, is that it will provide a great impetus to embeded linux."
Nope, the only hope here is if one of us users can get into the system and liberate TRON before he gets the bits blasted out of him on the game grid.
Your forgetting that platinum and all other rare metals are valuable becuase they are rare. Think of the price of silver after the comstock(sic?) load was discovered. Silver prior to it was nearly worth as much as gold, afterwards it dropped near to its current value of 8 dollars an ounce while gold remains 300 dollars an ounce. The same with gold for that matter. After the gold strikes in california in 1848, a ship landed in new york full of gold. It destroyed the market for the metal completely. Fortunately, it recovered. As far as value, as I stated: the asteroids taht far out are worth getting except for the fact they are so far out. Assuming we did develope the technology to mine asteroids that far away, it would take several centuries of mining to simply recoup on the investment. In the meantime, the country that sponsored the reasearch would go broke. There is nothing of great value nearby and waht isn't nearby costs too much to reach.
1) A good oven mit insulator.
2) A retarded frisby.
3) Think brass knuckles...
4) Think brick...
5) A shovel.
6) A cause of eye problems.
7) A mirror.
8) The brunt of slashdot jokes ("In soviet russia. GBA's convert you", "Imagine what a beowolf cluster of them...", "What about gamegirls, you insentive clod!")
I was thinking more of Jupiters moons and most notably the rings of jupiter. Jupiter itself is too hazard an environment for any pratical use at the moment (except maybe disposal of toxic waste.)
"What about being able to deal with incoming asteroid or comet?"
Haven't been hit with a big one in the last 70,000 years. I am willing to roll the dice for another millenia.
A few ppl not dying isn't worth a few lost dollars. Pardon the mistake. That philosphy makes me sick but you better believe I ain't going to that hospital.
You think that's bad, you should talk to one my relatives. She had a job where they had a staff of about eight total. They first fired 5 of them and gave their work to the 3 ppl remaining. That was budget cut #1. Budget cut #2 a year later fired two of those three people jsut leaving her. That's right, the had one person doing the work of eight people. Then Budget cut #3 - you now make less money as well. They eventually fired her and took a couple seperate depts and made them one and lumped all those jobs into a job for one person who promptly quit. Why? Cause it wasn't worth the money being payed. That's why no one wanted to work there. They eventually filled the job - with someone who was incompetant and who was willing to make that much cause they couldn't get a better job elsewhere. And don't think this story doesn't affect you becuase guess what: the job was at a hospital. Who cares if the the ppl working there are incomptent, underpayed, and understaffed. The ppl who run it and the adminstration make more money. A few people dying isn't worth a few lost dollars...
Problem: The aviation industry replaced an older industry, namely that of trains and boats, in the 1920's - 1940's. The 1900's to 1920's really aren't important when it comes to the comercial uses of planes. It wasn't unitl I think 1910 that the wrights managed to find a buyer and even then it was the army. They were the major buyer of airplanes up until the end of ww1. It was in the 20's and 30's that the comercial aviation industry took off. People at first didn't even want to fly. It took convincing and a lot of pr. The wrights after they built there flying machine were seen as lazy for spending mroe time on it. Most thought that they shoudl concentrate on their bicycle shop and stop playing around and wasting time with their silly flying machine (and this was after the wrights were flying - in the late 1900's like 1905 and 1908 when people could see them everyday fying). Once flying was accomplished people didn't want to fly. They though it was ludicous and a waste of time for those developing it. When comercialized flying did come, it simply replaced an already existing industry - that of the boat industry. Rather than take months to sail across the atlantic, you coudl take a day or so and fly. Even then it took a lot of convincing to get people to fly. People simply DIDN'T WANT to fly. Now there is the space program. What industry does it replace? None. Nor does it provide the obvious uses of avaiation. People didn't fly cause they wanted to do science while in flight. They flew to get to places faster than they used to. You weren't flying to the middle of nowhere and then back, you were flying from new york to london or berlin to paris. As such, the comercial aviation industry can't really be compared to the space program. The shuttles don't go anywhere, they go up in the sky, do some stuff, and come back to basically the same place. They don't replace anything and don't seem to have any pratical uses. Now, granted the first planes didn't either except from the hindsight the last 80 years has granted, but even back in the reniassance people saw at least some pratical benefits to flying. Right now no pratical benefits really exist. We need NASA to develope them instead of wasting time on the shuttles. It isn't getting there that NASA shoudl focus on but the actual 'there'.
Slashdot Mirror
Still I don't think IMagic (went out of busniess in '84) is really going to care if I set up a pay-per-play box with demon attack on it. I'm not even sure the guys who founded the company are still alive...
Anyway, I doubt Nolan Bushnell will sue me if I pirate pong.
Yep, I know a lot now. I know that UFO's not only crashed at Roswell but are now living among us thanks to a giant governemnt conspiracy. I know now that the world is cube shaped thanks to the flat earth socieity. I believe in bat boy and that E=MC^Hammer. I also learned that whenever I hear cheap eighties music, it means ppl are having sex. I also learned never to eat at any table ever again cause of the things that go on on them while I am not around. Finally, I know that all your base are belong to us.
Joe SCO is insano...
"Members of the olgarchy sensed that things were changing and tried to hold the line, but the could not comprehend why their world was collapsing nor formulate policies which would have been to ther long term advantage because their own material prosperity blinded them to the very real, widespread failings and inequities in the system." (Page 79)
"The rich were quite content to live off a demoralized population and right up to the very end thought they could go on buying a defense against the barbarians they had not yet bought off. Not only did they fail to realize they could not buy loyality, but they had alienated the classes whose support was necessary for their continued existance."(Page 85)
Both from "The story of stupidity" by James Welles Ph.d.. I think that basically, material prosperity blinds a person to the problems with the system and as such as long as they have continued properity they have no impetus to solve the problems. As long as the status quo is good, they have no desire to change the status quo. By the time they comprehend there is a problem they are not only no longer able to even truly comprehend exactly what the problem is and are often far beyond the point where the problem has become terminal. Just as the rich of Athens and the rich of Rome lost touch with the realities of the society that was supporting them so to are the businesses of our society losing touch with the reality of the world in which they exist. Having discovered the rewards of burning one end of the bridge they are quickly setting about lighting an even larger fire on the other end unable to comprehend why the second fire won't be even more sucessful than the first.
How about virtual punishments for virtual crimes. In other words, hire a sheriff and string up the offenders ONLINE. No use appealing to another plain of existance just when you don't get your way. Does God strike you down with a lightning bolt cause you broke a law in the real world?
As for those who lost stuff online: life's a bitch, deal with it.
Best arcade game ever. Hands down.
It also sharpens my memory... I remember why I broke up with them!
Everytime I talk to them on my cellphone I get headaches too.
As a tree grows, the weaker branches need to be trimmed. The weak perish so that the strong may survive. Not ethical when it comes to people, but when it comes to business its both ethical and true.
"TRON's goal of an open world-wide computing system"
You'd have programs lined up just to use this place...
MCP:"Put him in the games, let him hope for awhile, and then blow him away."
1980's: There are no problems, only solutions.
2000's: There are no competitors, only Microsoft.
Get a clu.
It should be, "Welcome the high and mighty Master Control."
Come now children, we must all bow down to Emporer Gates.
"It's just more assimilation."
ROM: "If you have any use he assorbs your functions and if you don't he sends you down here to gets the bits blasted out of you."
"The only ray of hope here, is that it will provide a great impetus to embeded linux."
Nope, the only hope here is if one of us users can get into the system and liberate TRON before he gets the bits blasted out of him on the game grid.
Where's Flynn when ya need him?
Sark: "You're just an ordinary program!"
Flynn:"So are you. One that should have been erased."
Flynn:"Come on, how can you expect to rule the world if you can't solve a few unsolvable problems."
Your forgetting that platinum and all other rare metals are valuable becuase they are rare. Think of the price of silver after the comstock(sic?) load was discovered. Silver prior to it was nearly worth as much as gold, afterwards it dropped near to its current value of 8 dollars an ounce while gold remains 300 dollars an ounce. The same with gold for that matter. After the gold strikes in california in 1848, a ship landed in new york full of gold. It destroyed the market for the metal completely. Fortunately, it recovered. As far as value, as I stated: the asteroids taht far out are worth getting except for the fact they are so far out. Assuming we did develope the technology to mine asteroids that far away, it would take several centuries of mining to simply recoup on the investment. In the meantime, the country that sponsored the reasearch would go broke. There is nothing of great value nearby and waht isn't nearby costs too much to reach.
1) A good oven mit insulator.
2) A retarded frisby.
3) Think brass knuckles...
4) Think brick...
5) A shovel.
6) A cause of eye problems.
7) A mirror.
8) The brunt of slashdot jokes ("In soviet russia. GBA's convert you", "Imagine what a beowolf cluster of them...", "What about gamegirls, you insentive clod!")
I was thinking more of Jupiters moons and most notably the rings of jupiter. Jupiter itself is too hazard an environment for any pratical use at the moment (except maybe disposal of toxic waste.)
"What about being able to deal with incoming asteroid or comet?"
Haven't been hit with a big one in the last 70,000 years. I am willing to roll the dice for another millenia.
A few ppl not dying isn't worth a few lost dollars. Pardon the mistake. That philosphy makes me sick but you better believe I ain't going to that hospital.
You think that's bad, you should talk to one my relatives. She had a job where they had a staff of about eight total. They first fired 5 of them and gave their work to the 3 ppl remaining. That was budget cut #1. Budget cut #2 a year later fired two of those three people jsut leaving her. That's right, the had one person doing the work of eight people. Then Budget cut #3 - you now make less money as well. They eventually fired her and took a couple seperate depts and made them one and lumped all those jobs into a job for one person who promptly quit. Why? Cause it wasn't worth the money being payed. That's why no one wanted to work there. They eventually filled the job - with someone who was incompetant and who was willing to make that much cause they couldn't get a better job elsewhere. And don't think this story doesn't affect you becuase guess what: the job was at a hospital. Who cares if the the ppl working there are incomptent, underpayed, and understaffed. The ppl who run it and the adminstration make more money. A few people dying isn't worth a few lost dollars...
Problem: The aviation industry replaced an older industry, namely that of trains and boats, in the 1920's - 1940's. The 1900's to 1920's really aren't important when it comes to the comercial uses of planes. It wasn't unitl I think 1910 that the wrights managed to find a buyer and even then it was the army. They were the major buyer of airplanes up until the end of ww1. It was in the 20's and 30's that the comercial aviation industry took off. People at first didn't even want to fly. It took convincing and a lot of pr. The wrights after they built there flying machine were seen as lazy for spending mroe time on it. Most thought that they shoudl concentrate on their bicycle shop and stop playing around and wasting time with their silly flying machine (and this was after the wrights were flying - in the late 1900's like 1905 and 1908 when people could see them everyday fying). Once flying was accomplished people didn't want to fly. They though it was ludicous and a waste of time for those developing it. When comercialized flying did come, it simply replaced an already existing industry - that of the boat industry. Rather than take months to sail across the atlantic, you coudl take a day or so and fly. Even then it took a lot of convincing to get people to fly. People simply DIDN'T WANT to fly. Now there is the space program. What industry does it replace? None. Nor does it provide the obvious uses of avaiation. People didn't fly cause they wanted to do science while in flight. They flew to get to places faster than they used to. You weren't flying to the middle of nowhere and then back, you were flying from new york to london or berlin to paris. As such, the comercial aviation industry can't really be compared to the space program. The shuttles don't go anywhere, they go up in the sky, do some stuff, and come back to basically the same place. They don't replace anything and don't seem to have any pratical uses. Now, granted the first planes didn't either except from the hindsight the last 80 years has granted, but even back in the reniassance people saw at least some pratical benefits to flying. Right now no pratical benefits really exist. We need NASA to develope them instead of wasting time on the shuttles. It isn't getting there that NASA shoudl focus on but the actual 'there'.
and if it gets built it will suck as much as the shuttle.