You mentioned all the MMOs except the ones that cryptic makes. They make City of Heroes, which is just bland. Not to mention all the instances seem to have four templates:
Office building Futuristic Lab Sewer Random Cavers
If ST MMO is like this then it'll be just like CoH. Fun for a month or two then quickly uninstalled.
Yeah but DVD cant be recorded typically on home systems. So the VHS crowd gave up a significant feature just to be able to not rewind? No. They really were pushed into it by the industry. I remember when DVD players were scarce and expensive.
So now instead of having a single VHS that plays all my stuff and is pre-programmed to record my shows and my VHS tape library not to mention all those home cameras with VHS you have:
1. A dvd player 2. A tivo 3. A PC with digital editing software. 4. A camcorder with firewire out.
The switch to digital still has people scratching their heads over how all this stuff works, thus the bazillion tech support calls a day.
So I doubt Joe Average saw all this stuff and said 'sign me up!' He kept seeing less and less VHS titles and hearing how his friends have this new 'dvd thing' and gave in one xmas. I dont know the future of BD, but it may follow the same path.
That's weird. Im super cheap. I have a 37" 1080i HDTV and added a Lite-On bluray drive to my Frankenstein htpc on Saturday. Holy moley, is the picture sharp. Its really nice. Im not a videophile, but the quality jump is obvious to anyone without cataracts. I'm going to rent some more bluray discs this weekend.
I fully understand the economics of bluray are still in the hobbyist territory but the resolution and picture quality is definitely there, even downsampled at 1080i.
Of course the squeeky wheel gets the grease, so we hear all the horror stories first. Even if bluray is a market failure like Laserdisc, that doesnt mean that the product didnt deliver. It means Joe average didnt want to buy it. Joe Average also thinks NASCAR is sport and Fox News is news.
Incredible your rich pals are going back to 480p. Maybe this is more of an issue of the snake-oil that is high-end audio and videophile equipment. Perhaps they should look at my 300 dollar htpc for some hints on how to make it work right. Im sure the Denon shareholders are laughing at them all the way to the bank.
>Just tell the user to kindly disable it else they'll be denied their dopey smiley emoticon pack or the privilege of having the Taco Bell dog read them their email or some shit.
"Oh no, I can't. Its grayed out."
I imagine that with a lot of corporate hacking, not allowing users to have admin rights tends to beat the very simple social engineering hacks. Also, SE doesnt really work against hosted services like web forums like in the article. I doubt you'll convince most webmaster to run a random script for you. Granted, there are stupid people everywhere, but its a little simplistic to toss our real hacking for SE just because of them.
Its incredible that this is considered a viable idea. For 4 or 5x the price you can get a OLPC. I think a computer lab with 10 of these is a lot better for students than 50 students having these 8-bit beaters in their homes.
How about I do what he did but do it for gay personals, then publish a list of 'known gay people' on the internet. Any closest individuals will not appreciate it.
Same difference. Just because one practice is morally wrong doesnt mean you suddenly have a right to publish the crap out of it. In fact, many people in the US consider gay relations to be morally wrong and would have no problem with this scenario the same way you have no problem with the cheating scenario.
I also dislike this device. I would salivate if they:
1. Got rid of EVDO and just gave me wifi
2. Lowered the price to $100 or so.
3. Let me easily copy PDFs, cbr, etc.
I understand the appeal of an EVDO device that automagically downloads books, but thats a small niche at this price. I should not have to pay 400 dollars just to get started. Also, I'm not an image conscious person, but christ, that this is ugly. It looks like a daily planner from Sharper Imager circa 1986.
Yeah its "hilarious." Its a severe breach of privacy. If you like that joke, then I'm going to start a fake suicide hotline and replay the tapes on the web. I'll even insert my own amusing commentary. I'm not a troll, I'm "helping." Hey, if those people didnt want to be made fun of then they should not have been suicidal to begin with!
I hope this guy gets taken to the cleaners for what he did.
Not only is Radiohead established, they've been incredible popular since the early nineties. They achieved this with big label support the old fashioned way. With that level of fame and wealth they could pick any distribution system they liked. Im curious if any band has achieved this level of fame without a previous big-label fan-base. All high-profile oddball distribution systems are done by established bands like Radiohead and NIN.
Why not buy insurance for backhoe incidents? Hell, you can add it to your home owners insurance.
Personally, I dont think this is at all feasible. The labor of laying down that one line could be better spent laying down 20 lines at the same time and getting everyone on your block. I could see block co-ops working hand-in-hand with local telcos, but I wouldnt hold my breath. At this point you might as well go whole hog and do municipal fiber broadband.
Err, because its incredible unhealthy to be abusing steroids.
From nih:
Anabolic steroids can lead to early heart attacks, strokes, liver tumors, kidney failure, and serious psychiatric problems. In addition, because steroids are often injected, users who share needles or use nonsterile techniques when they inject steroids are at risk for contracting dangerous infections, such as HIV/AIDS and hepatitis B and C.
Or union strikes, shortage of materials, global warming, mass murder, plagues, being elected or losing office, recession, bribes, etc. The Sim City games are just too nice. Its a little city fantasy without any of the negative, but realistic, aspects except a natural disaster.
>Prorated termination costs seem reasonable, especially given the subsidies on the hardware.
Not everyone gets discounted hardware. I bought my current PDA used off ebay and got no break from Sprint on my monthly charges. I'm paying for your whole because of this broken system. I should have the right to break my contract if I didnt get a free phone.
Not to mention, Sprint adds 2 more years for most changes. Discounted text plan? 2 year renewal. 2nd line? 2 year renewal. Move to family plan. 2 year renewal. Broken phone? 2 year renewal.
This whole system is out of control and has led to a copyright-like constant extenstion that is anti-consumer and just plain gouges people.
We should be able to cancel anytime and pick an unsubsidized plan for those of us who buy our own phones. The Europeans do this. why cant the Americans?
I think this is a step in the wrong direction. Id rather have them throttle my torrent or whatever then just kick me off the network. Or give me 5GB per month like Verizon does.
This is for the those little laptop cards they sell, and torrent is legitimate traffic for some users.
I also dont like the idea that they can designate any traffic as P2P. Who decides what is P2P? Seems like a lot of power for them to wield.
Fine but the government on the municipal level and on the state level gave Comcast a monopoly in my town. There's no free market in this circumstance. There's no one else to turn to with my dollars. What a naive worldview you have.
People want some kind of federal regulation to offset the corruption on the state level. Basic stuff like when you advertise unlimited internet at 4mbps then I actually get unlimited internet at 4mbps. Not comcast's legalese version of that along with tons of RST packets.
That fine, but a lot of puzzle elements in games are just incredibly badly done. Having grown up on King's quest and before that text-based games, I have to say there's no excuse for:
1. Get key from wizard's corpse 2. Have level 12 enchantress bless it with swamp water from a Super Troll 3. Carry it in magical satchel for 4 hours, constantly typing "USE KEY" at every opportunity. 4. Give it to talking vulture who swallows it and poops out the real magic key, thus going back to the beginning of the game.
Its just arbitrary absurdist trial and error. People rebelled against this and moved to shooters for a reason. Typing in "USE KEY" 100x doesnt really compare to Doom. Now the shooters have become stale and we're going back to puzzles.
Of course in D&D its a different but scripted computer puzzles have serious limitations. Its not the genre's fault. Its the people and technology's fault.
Sounds like steampunk Star Wars except that Han blasts Pennywise and Sex Pistols in the cockpit and occasionally makes out with Chewbacca. Not for the kiddies.
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You mentioned all the MMOs except the ones that cryptic makes. They make City of Heroes, which is just bland. Not to mention all the instances seem to have four templates:
Office building
Futuristic Lab
Sewer
Random Cavers
If ST MMO is like this then it'll be just like CoH. Fun for a month or two then quickly uninstalled.
I prefer the batshitinsanse tag. It had a good run over at metafilter.
Yes, the idea sounds pretty half-baked to me.
Yeah but DVD cant be recorded typically on home systems. So the VHS crowd gave up a significant feature just to be able to not rewind? No. They really were pushed into it by the industry. I remember when DVD players were scarce and expensive.
So now instead of having a single VHS that plays all my stuff and is pre-programmed to record my shows and my VHS tape library not to mention all those home cameras with VHS you have:
1. A dvd player
2. A tivo
3. A PC with digital editing software.
4. A camcorder with firewire out.
The switch to digital still has people scratching their heads over how all this stuff works, thus the bazillion tech support calls a day.
So I doubt Joe Average saw all this stuff and said 'sign me up!' He kept seeing less and less VHS titles and hearing how his friends have this new 'dvd thing' and gave in one xmas. I dont know the future of BD, but it may follow the same path.
That's weird. Im super cheap. I have a 37" 1080i HDTV and added a Lite-On bluray drive to my Frankenstein htpc on Saturday. Holy moley, is the picture sharp. Its really nice. Im not a videophile, but the quality jump is obvious to anyone without cataracts. I'm going to rent some more bluray discs this weekend.
I fully understand the economics of bluray are still in the hobbyist territory but the resolution and picture quality is definitely there, even downsampled at 1080i.
Of course the squeeky wheel gets the grease, so we hear all the horror stories first. Even if bluray is a market failure like Laserdisc, that doesnt mean that the product didnt deliver. It means Joe average didnt want to buy it. Joe Average also thinks NASCAR is sport and Fox News is news.
Incredible your rich pals are going back to 480p. Maybe this is more of an issue of the snake-oil that is high-end audio and videophile equipment. Perhaps they should look at my 300 dollar htpc for some hints on how to make it work right. Im sure the Denon shareholders are laughing at them all the way to the bank.
>Just tell the user to kindly disable it else they'll be denied their dopey smiley emoticon pack or the privilege of having the Taco Bell dog read them their email or some shit.
"Oh no, I can't. Its grayed out."
I imagine that with a lot of corporate hacking, not allowing users to have admin rights tends to beat the very simple social engineering hacks. Also, SE doesnt really work against hosted services like web forums like in the article. I doubt you'll convince most webmaster to run a random script for you. Granted, there are stupid people everywhere, but its a little simplistic to toss our real hacking for SE just because of them.
Who knows. Perhaps press? Some attention?
Its incredible that this is considered a viable idea. For 4 or 5x the price you can get a OLPC. I think a computer lab with 10 of these is a lot better for students than 50 students having these 8-bit beaters in their homes.
How about I do what he did but do it for gay personals, then publish a list of 'known gay people' on the internet. Any closest individuals will not appreciate it.
Same difference. Just because one practice is morally wrong doesnt mean you suddenly have a right to publish the crap out of it. In fact, many people in the US consider gay relations to be morally wrong and would have no problem with this scenario the same way you have no problem with the cheating scenario.
I also dislike this device. I would salivate if they:
1. Got rid of EVDO and just gave me wifi
2. Lowered the price to $100 or so.
3. Let me easily copy PDFs, cbr, etc.
I understand the appeal of an EVDO device that automagically downloads books, but thats a small niche at this price. I should not have to pay 400 dollars just to get started. Also, I'm not an image conscious person, but christ, that this is ugly. It looks like a daily planner from Sharper Imager circa 1986.
Yeah its "hilarious." Its a severe breach of privacy. If you like that joke, then I'm going to start a fake suicide hotline and replay the tapes on the web. I'll even insert my own amusing commentary. I'm not a troll, I'm "helping." Hey, if those people didnt want to be made fun of then they should not have been suicidal to begin with!
I hope this guy gets taken to the cleaners for what he did.
Not only is Radiohead established, they've been incredible popular since the early nineties. They achieved this with big label support the old fashioned way. With that level of fame and wealth they could pick any distribution system they liked. Im curious if any band has achieved this level of fame without a previous big-label fan-base. All high-profile oddball distribution systems are done by established bands like Radiohead and NIN.
Not to mention, its what, 9600 baud? Better off with dial-up.
Why not buy insurance for backhoe incidents? Hell, you can add it to your home owners insurance.
Personally, I dont think this is at all feasible. The labor of laying down that one line could be better spent laying down 20 lines at the same time and getting everyone on your block. I could see block co-ops working hand-in-hand with local telcos, but I wouldnt hold my breath. At this point you might as well go whole hog and do municipal fiber broadband.
Err, because its incredible unhealthy to be abusing steroids.
From nih:
Anabolic steroids can lead to early heart attacks, strokes, liver tumors, kidney failure, and serious psychiatric problems. In addition, because steroids are often injected, users who share needles or use nonsterile techniques when they inject steroids are at risk for contracting dangerous infections, such as HIV/AIDS and hepatitis B and C.
Or union strikes, shortage of materials, global warming, mass murder, plagues, being elected or losing office, recession, bribes, etc. The Sim City games are just too nice. Its a little city fantasy without any of the negative, but realistic, aspects except a natural disaster.
>Prorated termination costs seem reasonable, especially given the subsidies on the hardware.
Not everyone gets discounted hardware. I bought my current PDA used off ebay and got no break from Sprint on my monthly charges. I'm paying for your whole because of this broken system. I should have the right to break my contract if I didnt get a free phone.
Not to mention, Sprint adds 2 more years for most changes. Discounted text plan? 2 year renewal. 2nd line? 2 year renewal. Move to family plan. 2 year renewal. Broken phone? 2 year renewal.
This whole system is out of control and has led to a copyright-like constant extenstion that is anti-consumer and just plain gouges people.
We should be able to cancel anytime and pick an unsubsidized plan for those of us who buy our own phones. The Europeans do this. why cant the Americans?
I think this is a step in the wrong direction. Id rather have them throttle my torrent or whatever then just kick me off the network. Or give me 5GB per month like Verizon does.
This is for the those little laptop cards they sell, and torrent is legitimate traffic for some users.
I also dont like the idea that they can designate any traffic as P2P. Who decides what is P2P? Seems like a lot of power for them to wield.
TLA is itself in conflict
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TLA
Perhaps some kind of fight to the death will resolve this.
Fine but the government on the municipal level and on the state level gave Comcast a monopoly in my town. There's no free market in this circumstance. There's no one else to turn to with my dollars. What a naive worldview you have.
People want some kind of federal regulation to offset the corruption on the state level. Basic stuff like when you advertise unlimited internet at 4mbps then I actually get unlimited internet at 4mbps. Not comcast's legalese version of that along with tons of RST packets.
That fine, but a lot of puzzle elements in games are just incredibly badly done. Having grown up on King's quest and before that text-based games, I have to say there's no excuse for:
1. Get key from wizard's corpse
2. Have level 12 enchantress bless it with swamp water from a Super Troll
3. Carry it in magical satchel for 4 hours, constantly typing "USE KEY" at every opportunity.
4. Give it to talking vulture who swallows it and poops out the real magic key, thus going back to the beginning of the game.
Its just arbitrary absurdist trial and error. People rebelled against this and moved to shooters for a reason. Typing in "USE KEY" 100x doesnt really compare to Doom. Now the shooters have become stale and we're going back to puzzles.
Of course in D&D its a different but scripted computer puzzles have serious limitations. Its not the genre's fault. Its the people and technology's fault.
Youre at least 6 or 7 years too young to appreciate this. Sadly, your generation's nostalgia will be rap videos and Captain Planet. *shudders*
I think its David Warner.
He also runs a new age religion call the neotic institute:
http://www.noetic.org/about/founder.cfm
Sounds like steampunk Star Wars except that Han blasts Pennywise and Sex Pistols in the cockpit and occasionally makes out with Chewbacca. Not for the kiddies.
There are ads for these positions because:
1.They have a lot of turnover.
2. Newspaper ads attract certain industries. For you, you should be looking at dice, careerbuilder, etc.
Employers dont really expect IT people to be looking at dead tree medium for jobs.