Our government pays tremendous amounts of people tremendous amounts of money to sit and do nothing. As a former government contractor I witnessed this on a daily basis for years. People paid to do nothing but require contractors to fill out paperwork. Other people to examine that paperwork. Someone else to file it. The answer given when the question "Why is this all necessary?" is asked: "Not sure, really. We don't do anything with this stuff."
Ever see the presidential motorcade go by? To drive the president to the Capitol building from the White House must cost in the 10s of thousands for gas alone (hyperbole. But all those vehicles, all custom made, filled with high paid agents toting expensive weapons... do some math.)
Let's hit an issue closer to Slashdot. An unnamed agency (for which I have contracted in the past) has web presence consisting of 1500 known servers, 13000 known registered domains, plus an unknown quanitity of each. These are spread all across the united states being managed by people of all competencies and job descriptions. Nothing like the efficiency of a contracts manager running a web server under his desk for saving money.
We don't even have to get rid of anything to shrink the government, just stop running it like a damn entitlement program. Maybe some decent management.
And no, this isn't a shot at Bush. It was this way under Clinton, and I'm sure Bushpapa, Reagan, Carter, so on and on.
[blah blah blah]...character and story...[blah blah blah]
The seventeen people in the world who look for this in a video game really need to get their taste revamped. If you want character and story, read a frigging book.
Ok, flame off. I have a serious point to make here. There have been some interesting games that incorporated traditional storytelling mechanisms into the play, but by and large gaming is a visceral experience. This is a mass market now, not the hobby of the unwashed few. The best story you can hope for is the cheesy watered down soap opera theatrics of a Final Fantasy.
In reality, I find myself craving games that don't rely on cinematic effects and vicarious illegalities to make them fun. Good luck on that one, I guess.
Terrorism is a tactic used heavily by powerful governments; Nero burnt Rome, Hitler burnt the Reichstag, etc. It is actually very seldom employed by guerilla organizations.
We should dedicate a few organizations to maintaining the non-life-supporting environments of the planets of or system. Lets call it Deadwatch. I wanna play the spokesmodel.
...one could argue that there currently is no justice system. This started with the election of the president by the supreme court...
Jeezuz Fuggin Christ. I wouldn't vote for George Bush if he promised me his daughters would spend the rest of their attractive lives manipulating my private areas in extremely pleasurable ways, but you have to give this shit a rest sometime. Three long years have passed. Focus on the future, and maybe you'll be able to do something that makes you happier. Keep rehashing the past, and you'll just be bitter and shitheaded.
This is a big giant company led by an insane man with aspirations to make the brain look like pinky. Why would he worry about Darling Darl and the SCOrchestra?
Many of us know what a bitch it is to develop a code and feature intensive site that works correctly for all browsers.
Many of us also understand that developing to the standards mostly takes care of this issue, and a little judicious abstraction handles the rest. It isn't too hard to develop a library that can handle the scripting bits, and if you can't write cross-browser HTML, get the hell out of the business.
Of course, you could always just be lazy and only ever test you site in IE. That makes a wonderful justification for your bullshit.
The only hope I have for techniques like this one is a further lowering of the barrier to making movies. As the hobbiest tools get more powerful, we can possibly take a step back from the relentless "hit" machine and let some truly creative ideas into the mix.
Of course, it's really just likely we'll have a whole new breed of porn.
As far as game movies and movies games? 98% garbage.
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In what way is our government too large?
Our government pays tremendous amounts of people tremendous amounts of money to sit and do nothing. As a former government contractor I witnessed this on a daily basis for years. People paid to do nothing but require contractors to fill out paperwork. Other people to examine that paperwork. Someone else to file it. The answer given when the question "Why is this all necessary?" is asked: "Not sure, really. We don't do anything with this stuff."
Ever see the presidential motorcade go by? To drive the president to the Capitol building from the White House must cost in the 10s of thousands for gas alone (hyperbole. But all those vehicles, all custom made, filled with high paid agents toting expensive weapons... do some math.)
Let's hit an issue closer to Slashdot. An unnamed agency (for which I have contracted in the past) has web presence consisting of 1500 known servers, 13000 known registered domains, plus an unknown quanitity of each. These are spread all across the united states being managed by people of all competencies and job descriptions. Nothing like the efficiency of a contracts manager running a web server under his desk for saving money.
We don't even have to get rid of anything to shrink the government, just stop running it like a damn entitlement program. Maybe some decent management.
And no, this isn't a shot at Bush. It was this way under Clinton, and I'm sure Bushpapa, Reagan, Carter, so on and on.
The seventeen people in the world who look for this in a video game really need to get their taste revamped. If you want character and story, read a frigging book.
Ok, flame off. I have a serious point to make here. There have been some interesting games that incorporated traditional storytelling mechanisms into the play, but by and large gaming is a visceral experience. This is a mass market now, not the hobby of the unwashed few. The best story you can hope for is the cheesy watered down soap opera theatrics of a Final Fantasy.
In reality, I find myself craving games that don't rely on cinematic effects and vicarious illegalities to make them fun. Good luck on that one, I guess.
Terrorism is a tactic used heavily by powerful governments; Nero burnt Rome, Hitler burnt the Reichstag, etc. It is actually very seldom employed by guerilla organizations.
Art thou high?
As a programmer, I despise Pepsi. Then one day I realized that I never had to drink it.
Good story...
On the other hand, RMS should be happy.
Not sure the exact quote, but when people pointed out the fallacious examples, SCO said, "We think we know our own code."
Darl will be giving out lots of fellatious examples in his new second home.
Norm McDonald section: Because his new second home will be prison.
It's just not funny when it has to be explained. Oh well.
7. A warm and responsive lover for your cellmate.
If the sensors ran Windows, would the trees fall over when it crashed?
We should dedicate a few organizations to maintaining the non-life-supporting environments of the planets of or system. Lets call it Deadwatch. I wanna play the spokesmodel.
At least we'll always have Ghosts of Mars to salvage the genre.
Everyone knows that Babylon 5 erotic fiction is far superior to Star Wars. What kind of losers are these people, anyway?
...one could argue that there currently is no justice system. This started with the election of the president by the supreme court...
Jeezuz Fuggin Christ. I wouldn't vote for George Bush if he promised me his daughters would spend the rest of their attractive lives manipulating my private areas in extremely pleasurable ways, but you have to give this shit a rest sometime. Three long years have passed. Focus on the future, and maybe you'll be able to do something that makes you happier. Keep rehashing the past, and you'll just be bitter and shitheaded.
This is a big giant company led by an insane man with aspirations to make the brain look like pinky. Why would he worry about Darling Darl and the SCOrchestra?
Nothing would be more fitting than to force SCO employees to run DOS. That's a fairly cruel attack method, but they're worth it.
Finding out that a programming language named "Brainfuck" exists gave me a hard-on. How did I never hear of this before?
Time to learn another language...
Probably depends on where you live. Northern Virginia for me, where StarPower is attempting to encroach, so Comcast has some incentive to move here.
I have Comcast DVR, and they won't let me record the music channels or the on demand channels.
Everything else, including the movie channels and regular pay per view, is fair game.
I don't know what the FUCK you just said, Little Kid, but you're special man, you reached out, and you touched a brother's heart.
Many of us know what a bitch it is to develop a code and feature intensive site that works correctly for all browsers.
Many of us also understand that developing to the standards mostly takes care of this issue, and a little judicious abstraction handles the rest. It isn't too hard to develop a library that can handle the scripting bits, and if you can't write cross-browser HTML, get the hell out of the business.
Of course, you could always just be lazy and only ever test you site in IE. That makes a wonderful justification for your bullshit.
The only hope I have for techniques like this one is a further lowering of the barrier to making movies. As the hobbiest tools get more powerful, we can possibly take a step back from the relentless "hit" machine and let some truly creative ideas into the mix.
Of course, it's really just likely we'll have a whole new breed of porn.
As far as game movies and movies games? 98% garbage.