Yes, the net. In the future, I'll remember to be as literalist as possible with all terminology.
While I'm at it, I'll make sure all future communication is ASCII. We won't need Garage Band, Final Cut Pro or that Photoshop upgrade. I guess I could maintain web sites with cat, pipes and grep.
Um, no Flash player on Mac? They have the development application, but no player? That's interesting. How do Mac Flash developers test their work? Where did they get the OS X screen illustrations for the 900-page Flash MX book I read?
Get the rest of the MX toolkit running and it just might be enough to start using Linux as a desktop again. Imagine if some custom Apache-Dreamweaver integration were included. That would be buy-it-today cool.
Yeah, yeah. I developed about four dozen sites with nothing but a text editor and Mozilla too. Dreamweaver has some good points, like being able to tab a whole paragraph without reconfiguring the upper half of the directory tree.
I mean as far as most of us are concerned, it's the scourge of the internet, responsible for a slew of poorly designed sites, bad flash movies, and anoying advertisements.
Yes, because the web would be a much better place if the most advanced feature of any site was a two-column table.
After years and years of "oh, how wonderful it would be if the net were truly a multimedia platform," the only toolset, and I mean ONLY toolset that offers solid animation and compatible sound capabilities on Linux, Mac and Windows, which is also, by the way, completely cross-platform, is Macromedia Flash.
There is also an installed base of some 500 million players. That's why it needs to be ported to Linux.
These big-shit "executives" are such hot shit when they are laying off the division, or stuffing their pockets with a bonus, or making the "big presentation" in a phone commercial, with their wire rimmed glasses glinting in the flourescence.
But when it comes time to take a real risk, they fold like a pair of threes.
Business, as usual, is totally ass-backwards. The tiny companies, with little capital and even less time, are the ones who are REQUIRED to take risks, because the bloated, fat-assed pussy-staffed corporations won't. Business would NEVER move forward if it weren't for small business and entrepreneurs.
The big companies should be financing the risks, because they can AFFORD TO. That's what CAPITAL IS FOR. But no. Better to hoard the capital and starve the market for better ideas.
Guys who put up their shingle and bet it all on one product are the guys with the huevos to get the job done. Not some buffed-shoes, blow-dryed, acronym-dropping fuck who can't make a fucking decision unless there is someone to blame if it goes wrong.
So, instead of just putting the cards down and CALLING THE FUCKING BET, some bullshit committee has to turn this near sure thing into some half-assed editorial about graphic adventures on the PC.
Well guess what, uppity-fuck. Graphic adventures could buy and sell most other genres four times before Corn Flakes. The second-best selling PC game of all time is a graphic adventure, with over SIX MILLION UNIT SALES. This horseshit attitude is what tried to cancel the Sims and what delayed Everquest for three years while management built a little gazebo of "not my fault" around their ever-widening pock-marked asses. Of course, they were first in line to stuff their pockets when the tall dollars arrived.
They said the Sims wouldn't work. They said Everquest wouldn't work. They said Star Wars would fail. Again and again and again some "executive" says "it'll never work."
Can't replace a musician with a computer. Sorry. Computers can't interpret music, they can only generate certain tones using certain patterns at a certain tempo. An orchestra ain't a chess game.
The video game industry is broken. Inventing all new technology for every.1 release of a game makes it nearly impossible to make money unless a publisher has $$$$$$$$ to throw four dozen programmers at a project, which is itself nearly unmanageable.
The industry would make more money if it stopped inventing and started producing.
From Hollywood? There is no new stuff. Studios cannot green-light something original. It simply will not happen, ever, no matter how "cool" it might be.
Same story for game companies, publishers, whatever. Original, new material is too "risky." (People who run companies like this who bitch about risk should have invested in bonds).
Unless it is already $100 million franchise (purchased for $100,000) with worldwide merchandising rights available in at least five major cross-industry categories, it gets shitcanned. It's that simple.
Anime is about the only category where there is cool new stuff. The entertainment industry of today is exactly like the auto industry of the 1970s, and the Japanese are about to buy the whole thing for about 4c on the dollar. Anime is a diamond mine of originality and creativity. There are anime series that are masterpieces of contemporary thought and literature, as well as fantastically capable demonstrations of state-of-the-art animation. Nothing else can even begin to compete.
If the anime and manga shelves at Suncoast continue to expand at their current rate, there will be no Hollywood DVDs for sale there in five years.
Microsoft is funding what will be a VERY high profile game. It will most likely announce by the end of the month.
Ok, ok, ok... they spent about $500 million dollars and it's got like, Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Independence Day and X-Men all on the same, like, team and it's an MMORPGEFPSSIMPAR so it's got these really cool controllers on wheels and stuff, and then there's like 50 different screen resolutions and it runs on Macs and stuff too. It's going to be sooooo cool.
Another fine shining example for a society with a 50% divorce rate.
Should also make a great cultural addition to "The Apprentice" (keep your own job by abandoning your neighbor), "Survivor" (let's all get together and decide who to ostracize) and "American Idol" (let's make sport of human cruelty).
Any key with seven flats or sharps will have some most interesting notes, including B#, E#, Fb, Cb, etc. Then begins the double sharps (which even has its own symbol) and double flats, in keys with eight or more accidentals.
I knew a music student who did a university term assignment in the key of Cbb for string ensemble. It actually sounded rather good after the musicians stopped looking at the music funny and wondering if those extra flats were typos.
Yeah. I've never seen anything more tragic and discouraging on television. The most amazing thing about that show is that it almost perfectly mirrors the modern workplace.
For that matter, so does Survivor: a group of people get together and decide who to ostracize. A fine example for society.
But no, animals do not have culture. When a dog writes "Marraige of Figaro" then it might be possible. Most dogs would rather just drink out of the toilet.
Especially engrossing is the episode during the depression when IBM was in danger of bankruptcy and shutting its doors. Watson, contrary to what most intelligent people would do, gave a rousing talk to his top executives, telling them that instead of cutting back on manufacturing and personnel, they should increase both.
Interesting. Even more interesting is this quote:
"No matter what the provocation, I never fire a man who is honestly trying to deliver a job. Few workers who become established at the Disney Studio ever leave voluntarily or otherwise, and many have been on the payroll all their working lives."
Guess who? Walt Disney.
These men built two of the most enduring companies in history, and neither of them endorsed mass layoffs. Coincidence? Guess not.
Will current middle management learn from this? Probably not. They're too "sophisticated" for that.
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Yes, the net. In the future, I'll remember to be as literalist as possible with all terminology.
While I'm at it, I'll make sure all future communication is ASCII. We won't need Garage Band, Final Cut Pro or that Photoshop upgrade. I guess I could maintain web sites with cat, pipes and grep.
Um, no Flash player on Mac? They have the development application, but no player? That's interesting. How do Mac Flash developers test their work? Where did they get the OS X screen illustrations for the 900-page Flash MX book I read?
Get the rest of the MX toolkit running and it just might be enough to start using Linux as a desktop again. Imagine if some custom Apache-Dreamweaver integration were included. That would be buy-it-today cool.
Yeah, yeah. I developed about four dozen sites with nothing but a text editor and Mozilla too. Dreamweaver has some good points, like being able to tab a whole paragraph without reconfiguring the upper half of the directory tree.
I mean as far as most of us are concerned, it's the scourge of the internet, responsible for a slew of poorly designed sites, bad flash movies, and anoying advertisements.
Yes, because the web would be a much better place if the most advanced feature of any site was a two-column table.
After years and years of "oh, how wonderful it would be if the net were truly a multimedia platform," the only toolset, and I mean ONLY toolset that offers solid animation and compatible sound capabilities on Linux, Mac and Windows, which is also, by the way, completely cross-platform, is Macromedia Flash.
There is also an installed base of some 500 million players. That's why it needs to be ported to Linux.
is PUSSY
That's right. PUSSY.
These big-shit "executives" are such hot shit when they are laying off the division, or stuffing their pockets with a bonus, or making the "big presentation" in a phone commercial, with their wire rimmed glasses glinting in the flourescence.
But when it comes time to take a real risk, they fold like a pair of threes.
Business, as usual, is totally ass-backwards. The tiny companies, with little capital and even less time, are the ones who are REQUIRED to take risks, because the bloated, fat-assed pussy-staffed corporations won't. Business would NEVER move forward if it weren't for small business and entrepreneurs.
The big companies should be financing the risks, because they can AFFORD TO. That's what CAPITAL IS FOR. But no. Better to hoard the capital and starve the market for better ideas.
Guys who put up their shingle and bet it all on one product are the guys with the huevos to get the job done. Not some buffed-shoes, blow-dryed, acronym-dropping fuck who can't make a fucking decision unless there is someone to blame if it goes wrong.
So, instead of just putting the cards down and CALLING THE FUCKING BET, some bullshit committee has to turn this near sure thing into some half-assed editorial about graphic adventures on the PC.
Well guess what, uppity-fuck. Graphic adventures could buy and sell most other genres four times before Corn Flakes. The second-best selling PC game of all time is a graphic adventure, with over SIX MILLION UNIT SALES. This horseshit attitude is what tried to cancel the Sims and what delayed Everquest for three years while management built a little gazebo of "not my fault" around their ever-widening pock-marked asses. Of course, they were first in line to stuff their pockets when the tall dollars arrived.
They said the Sims wouldn't work. They said Everquest wouldn't work. They said Star Wars would fail. Again and again and again some "executive" says "it'll never work."
Well they were WRONG.
This kind of thing makes me shoe-puking sick.
Can't replace a musician with a computer. Sorry. Computers can't interpret music, they can only generate certain tones using certain patterns at a certain tempo. An orchestra ain't a chess game.
Authors promoting their own books? The horror!
</sarcasm>
saying that over 100,000 man-hours were spent on the game...
It would take less time to build a small shopping center.
The video game industry is broken. Inventing all new technology for every .1 release of a game makes it nearly impossible to make money unless a publisher has $$$$$$$$ to throw four dozen programmers at a project, which is itself nearly unmanageable.
The industry would make more money if it stopped inventing and started producing.
No.
Where's the new, cool stuff.
From Hollywood? There is no new stuff. Studios cannot green-light something original. It simply will not happen, ever, no matter how "cool" it might be.
Same story for game companies, publishers, whatever. Original, new material is too "risky." (People who run companies like this who bitch about risk should have invested in bonds).
Unless it is already $100 million franchise (purchased for $100,000) with worldwide merchandising rights available in at least five major cross-industry categories, it gets shitcanned. It's that simple.
Anime is about the only category where there is cool new stuff. The entertainment industry of today is exactly like the auto industry of the 1970s, and the Japanese are about to buy the whole thing for about 4c on the dollar. Anime is a diamond mine of originality and creativity. There are anime series that are masterpieces of contemporary thought and literature, as well as fantastically capable demonstrations of state-of-the-art animation. Nothing else can even begin to compete.
If the anime and manga shelves at Suncoast continue to expand at their current rate, there will be no Hollywood DVDs for sale there in five years.
Microsoft is funding what will be a VERY high profile game. It will most likely announce by the end of the month.
Ok, ok, ok... they spent about $500 million dollars and it's got like, Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Independence Day and X-Men all on the same, like, team and it's an MMORPGEFPSSIMPAR so it's got these really cool controllers on wheels and stuff, and then there's like 50 different screen resolutions and it runs on Macs and stuff too. It's going to be sooooo cool.
Barbie breaks up with Ken
Another fine shining example for a society with a 50% divorce rate.
Should also make a great cultural addition to "The Apprentice" (keep your own job by abandoning your neighbor), "Survivor" (let's all get together and decide who to ostracize) and "American Idol" (let's make sport of human cruelty).
What a joyful day indeed.
Haven't been to California much, eh?
Here you need about 80,000 pages of committee reviewed studies to mow the lawn.
Any key with seven flats or sharps will have some most interesting notes, including B#, E#, Fb, Cb, etc. Then begins the double sharps (which even has its own symbol) and double flats, in keys with eight or more accidentals.
I knew a music student who did a university term assignment in the key of Cbb for string ensemble. It actually sounded rather good after the musicians stopped looking at the music funny and wondering if those extra flats were typos.
there's still plenty of cavemen who think only a man can do such-and-such.
"Dearest? Would you please go out and load those 27 bags of concrete into the truck please?"
Oops, guess not.
Anyone watch that "The Apprentice" show.
Yeah. I've never seen anything more tragic and discouraging on television. The most amazing thing about that show is that it almost perfectly mirrors the modern workplace.
For that matter, so does Survivor: a group of people get together and decide who to ostracize. A fine example for society.
Someone disagrees, fine. But how is this "off-topic?"
By the way, I have about 5300 karma.
But no, animals do not have culture. When a dog writes "Marraige of Figaro" then it might be possible. Most dogs would rather just drink out of the toilet.
No they sold the Angels...
...after they won the World Series.
Three cheers for middle management!!
No, a hostile takeover is where you buy a controlling percentage of the company's stock, to overthrow their board.
What do you think they offered $54 billion for?
Comcastland? ROFL
Three cheers for middle management! Hip hip! Hooray! Hip hip! Hooray! Hip hip! Hooray!
Another sparkling result of mass layoffs, short-term thinking and brand over product. Way to go. I'm really impressed.
Lion King 1 1/2 must have pushed the deal right over the top.
Here's another off-topic but entertaining quote from Walt Disney:
You see, we never do the same thing twice around here. We're always opening up new doors.
I wonder what he would think of Lion King 1 1/2?
Especially engrossing is the episode during the depression when IBM was in danger of bankruptcy and shutting its doors. Watson, contrary to what most intelligent people would do, gave a rousing talk to his top executives, telling them that instead of cutting back on manufacturing and personnel, they should increase both.
Interesting. Even more interesting is this quote:
"No matter what the provocation, I never fire a man who is honestly trying to deliver a job. Few workers who become established at the Disney Studio ever leave voluntarily or otherwise, and many have been on the payroll all their working lives."
Guess who? Walt Disney.
These men built two of the most enduring companies in history, and neither of them endorsed mass layoffs. Coincidence? Guess not.
Will current middle management learn from this? Probably not. They're too "sophisticated" for that.