Is it legal in the States to say "Red Bull Gives You Wings?" I have seen the ad in New Zealand and in Canada, but haven't watched enough TV in the States to know for sure.
Indeed not. In fact, as far as cartoonish plots go, it's something of a cliche. Problem is that wherever you look, it's only crazy-eyed supervillains that act on such ambitions.
1) Invade oil-rich nations, kill innocent people, make a big mess and take orders from Thick Dubya. Thereby serving your country.
2) Sit around and suck beer like a traitor. Like a big fat Generation-X traitor corrupted by the Communist, homosexual, unionist, welfare-loving morals of Seaseme Street. You make me sick.
3) There is no 3. You're killin' or you're traitorin'. What'll it be?
Yes, I've spent some time in Canada recently. While you're there, make sure you stock up on CDs, DVDs and books, cause we get ripped off for them here too.
Here in New Zealand we have to modulate our own data transfer by beating drums down the phone line, and Telecom New Zealand still charges us a hefty surcharge for the privilege.
Seriously, acceptable quality dial-up Internet for $US10 sounds luxurious to me, while $US25 for 256K with a limit above 3GB sounds like science fiction.
Telecom New Zealand sucks arse.
If you're reading this, and you work for Telecom New Zealand, SHAME ON YOU.
Because the journalist had to be paid for something, that's why. Because some waste-of-space on the BBC payroll got up at 2:30 in the afternoon; thought, "Crap, I have to submit an article today or Mr Johnston will have my arse," and found something vaguely amusing on a Cardiff University website. It beats those items you see on the TV news where a journalist has videotaped a newspaper article, but not by much.
Too many media, not enough content. British tax pounds at work.
Do you not think that the ADD generation are having an effect on what is available online also? Here's a trick - go to a commercial website. Any one will do. Pick Slashdot if you like (though Slashdot isn't as bad as most). Now see if the thing isn't covered with attention-grabbing animated graphics, advertisments and minimal bite-sized chunks of content aimed at making you click around like a junkie looking for a new fix every ten seconds.
Many websites are put together by the same types of hyperactive addicts that design TV show front-ends and commercials. They go to the same marketing classes that tell them the same shit about demanding your viewers' attention and repeatedly pounding them with simple messages.
It's almost as if we're starting to forget how to communicate without selling something.
Sure we are. And when we DL TV shows we can watch them without ads, at whatever time we want to, and we know there's always something good on. Again, the broadband service beats TV.
Me, I'm watching all those Blackadder shows I missed in the 80s cause I was too busy playing with my Commodore 64 back then.
No, it's a bribe. It's 16 pieces of silver. If a pirated copy of Win XP was good enough for you when you bought it, Why is it no longer good enough for you now? Especially as these pirated versions are of such "high quality," as TFA says.
The security of a piece of software depends on more than just the robustness of its code. As has been pointed out numerous times before, no non-trivial programs will be bulletproof.
Software security depends also on the motivation that people have to attack it. This MSIE provides in spades. IE is ubiquitous, hence if you were going to write a worm to swipe people's passwords you'd go for IE and skip the little guys. Also, people simply hate Microsoft, especially people with the ability to write malware. Attacking MS software is a great game for many people, and because MS have pissed so many people off, from competitors to customers, it's easy to see why.
Sounds to me like that guy does stay in the right hand lane. As he says, one of his objectives is to get the wanker behind to pass him and go bother someone else.
P.S. I get really incensed by the ads that are running right now -- I forget whose -- where the company claims to have 're-invented the wheel', 'rethought the car from the ground up', and 'come up with something completely revolutionary'. Then they show you a picture and it's... a sedan. Same as every other car on the road. Whoop-de-fucking-do.
...And it has an internal combustion engine of traditional Victorian design, and it runs on petrol. I couldn't agree more. If they really were to 'reth[ink] the car from the ground up,' maybe they'd be able to fix a few of the major MAJOR problems with the current design.
Nah, pay the engineers to put eyebrows on the fucking thing instead.
This is the difference between a real free-market economy and a MMORPG -
What the article doesn't really touch on is that the wealth generation here doesn't rely on consumption of fundamental resources. You cannot compare skinning bunnies, which automatically respawn and will never be in any shortage, with (for example) burning fossil or nuclear fuel, which are strictly limited. Or with producing real goods, which must ultimately be disposed of, rather than simply "deleted" when their usefulness is spent.
MMORPGs provide a very idealised and non-realistic model of a free market economy.
For example, most of the higher-ranking games don't let you mess things up (e.g. by "shattering the crystal key" or whatever) and they let you UNDO actions if you find that you don't like how things are going.
Late post, sorry, but I spotted this while meta-modding.
I would have thought that any encouragement we could give to our employers to allow us to work at home would be a Good Thing.
Work from home, if disciplined, can be much more productive due to the lack of interruption - and it has the advantages of being eco-friendly (not driving to work in rush hour) and soothing on the stress levels. If to secure these advantages I need to enable my home system to run Windows, then so be it. Needn't cost me anything besides a little hard drive space.
The info on the Slashdot page should read more like an abstract or executive summary of the article. What we have here reads much more like an advertisement for an article.
Yeah, I could and should RTFA, but I object to posts on the front page of Slashdot being "teasers" for other people's news sites. The info, please.
Slashdot Mirror
Is it legal in the States to say "Red Bull Gives You Wings?" I have seen the ad in New Zealand and in Canada, but haven't watched enough TV in the States to know for sure.
Indeed not. In fact, as far as cartoonish plots go, it's something of a cliche. Problem is that wherever you look, it's only crazy-eyed supervillains that act on such ambitions.
Your options, according to cjsnell:
1) Invade oil-rich nations, kill innocent people, make a big mess and take orders from Thick Dubya. Thereby serving your country.
2) Sit around and suck beer like a traitor. Like a big fat Generation-X traitor corrupted by the Communist, homosexual, unionist, welfare-loving morals of Seaseme Street. You make me sick.
3) There is no 3. You're killin' or you're traitorin'. What'll it be?
Of course it isn't pointless. It's a site advocating excessive use of Post-It notes. Note that other notes won't do; they HAVE to be Post-Its.
What a good idea! Now everyone will make Post-It murals, and they'll only buy genuine Post-It notes.
If there isn't some 3M money in this somewhere, I'll be extrememly surprised.
Yes, I've spent some time in Canada recently. While you're there, make sure you stock up on CDs, DVDs and books, cause we get ripped off for them here too.
1GB/month?? Maahahahaa, I could download the UNIVERSE! MWAAAHAAHAA!
Here in New Zealand we have to modulate our own data transfer by beating drums down the phone line, and Telecom New Zealand still charges us a hefty surcharge for the privilege.
Seriously, acceptable quality dial-up Internet for $US10 sounds luxurious to me, while $US25 for 256K with a limit above 3GB sounds like science fiction.
Telecom New Zealand sucks arse.
If you're reading this, and you work for Telecom New Zealand, SHAME ON YOU.
Too many media, not enough content. British tax pounds at work.
If they plan to recoup $33M somehow, I expect that'd be the way to do it.
All the cool bad guys had red laser guns. Only inept daleks and wimpy good guys had green ones.
I suppose it's to try and prevent us from using them for evil.
Do you not think that the ADD generation are having an effect on what is available online also? Here's a trick - go to a commercial website. Any one will do. Pick Slashdot if you like (though Slashdot isn't as bad as most). Now see if the thing isn't covered with attention-grabbing animated graphics, advertisments and minimal bite-sized chunks of content aimed at making you click around like a junkie looking for a new fix every ten seconds.
Many websites are put together by the same types of hyperactive addicts that design TV show front-ends and commercials. They go to the same marketing classes that tell them the same shit about demanding your viewers' attention and repeatedly pounding them with simple messages.
It's almost as if we're starting to forget how to communicate without selling something.
Sure we are. And when we DL TV shows we can watch them without ads, at whatever time we want to, and we know there's always something good on. Again, the broadband service beats TV.
Me, I'm watching all those Blackadder shows I missed in the 80s cause I was too busy playing with my Commodore 64 back then.
No, it's a bribe. It's 16 pieces of silver. If a pirated copy of Win XP was good enough for you when you bought it, Why is it no longer good enough for you now? Especially as these pirated versions are of such "high quality," as TFA says.
The security of a piece of software depends on more than just the robustness of its code. As has been pointed out numerous times before, no non-trivial programs will be bulletproof.
Software security depends also on the motivation that people have to attack it. This MSIE provides in spades. IE is ubiquitous, hence if you were going to write a worm to swipe people's passwords you'd go for IE and skip the little guys. Also, people simply hate Microsoft, especially people with the ability to write malware. Attacking MS software is a great game for many people, and because MS have pissed so many people off, from competitors to customers, it's easy to see why.
Why on earth would you use IE?
Sounds to me like that guy does stay in the right hand lane. As he says, one of his objectives is to get the wanker behind to pass him and go bother someone else.
Nah, pay the engineers to put eyebrows on the fucking thing instead.
OK, I'll bite. What in hell are you talking about?
All your dead horse are belong to us!
Heh heh heh.
Should I post anonymously?
Nah. I'll take the Karma hit.
This is the difference between a real free-market economy and a MMORPG - What the article doesn't really touch on is that the wealth generation here doesn't rely on consumption of fundamental resources. You cannot compare skinning bunnies, which automatically respawn and will never be in any shortage, with (for example) burning fossil or nuclear fuel, which are strictly limited. Or with producing real goods, which must ultimately be disposed of, rather than simply "deleted" when their usefulness is spent. MMORPGs provide a very idealised and non-realistic model of a free market economy.
So jokes can't be funny if they're about Microsoft? Ooh, shit, sorry - is it too soon?
For example, most of the higher-ranking games don't let you mess things up (e.g. by "shattering the crystal key" or whatever) and they let you UNDO actions if you find that you don't like how things are going.
We found nuclear weapons in Iraq.
We found nuclear weapons in Iraq.
We found nuclear weapons in Iraq.
Late post, sorry, but I spotted this while meta-modding.
I would have thought that any encouragement we could give to our employers to allow us to work at home would be a Good Thing.
Work from home, if disciplined, can be much more productive due to the lack of interruption - and it has the advantages of being eco-friendly (not driving to work in rush hour) and soothing on the stress levels. If to secure these advantages I need to enable my home system to run Windows, then so be it. Needn't cost me anything besides a little hard drive space.
The info on the Slashdot page should read more like an abstract or executive summary of the article. What we have here reads much more like an advertisement for an article.
Yeah, I could and should RTFA, but I object to posts on the front page of Slashdot being "teasers" for other people's news sites. The info, please.
Hey, that's not fair! That was a funny post! Rum-de-dum, rum-de-dum, rum-de-dum, ooo-WEEEE-OO!