Solution: Hire food tasters, engineers should only be fed a set number of days after if the tasters aren't dead. Also resolves the issue of engineers complaining about being fed dog food.
Good point, I guess my only remaining objection would be bandwidth issues with getting the info from the eye to you 'image processing' unit. Given these contacts aren't going to be running AA's in them, and given that this is going to be a two way communication, it might be more advisable to do the 'image collection' someplace else.
Chief, we are talking about contacts with embedded circuitry in them. And your worry is that non-directed radio waves (being the exact nature of RF) are going to fry your eyeballs? Despite the fact that your cellphone has to pump out far more radio waves in the vicinity of your head (and thus eyeballs) to maintain a connection with the tower?
Really? What is it about these 'magic' invisible waves that cause some people to automaticly disengage their rational thought process.
If you are going to go luddite on us, at least correctly prioritize your objections.
You are going to have a better chance of losing your sight when the 'biocompatible' materials used to make or isolate the circuitry cause unintentioned reactions in your own lense. TFA even specificly mentions that the current crop of LED's are made with toxic chemicals and they haven't figured out a way to solve that problem yet.
With respect, I doubt that'll be in the 'near' future for these. The problem with recording video is that you actually have to capture the photons to do that. Capture the photons on the recording media, and they are no longer available for the eye to 'see'. The non-contact versions of 'eye mounted' HUDs that I've seen get around this by using a complex setup to split the image into two, but from what I understand of that, it'd be practically impossible to use the same method for a contact.
I suppose another solution might be 'capture and relay', but that invariably would cause your vision to lag reality. Not something I see even the most ardent transhumanists voting for.
He checked with both, only the NSA considered it something that they cared about. Probably under the "OMG, a 700 lb cannon might be a terrorist plot to blow up Arlington Cemetery!" heading.
Go fuck yourself you freak, because in case you didn't notice, your first letter of your first sentence isn't even capitalized, quote or not, and that makes you the screwup in English right there, as well as your lack of captilizing a person's initials in their name, like E.E. Cummings, dumbass.
Similarly, if the odds of discovering a planet such as Wasp18b are 1 in 1000, that doesn't mean that, "we've found less than 1000 planets, so we couldn't possibly have found such a planet yet." It just means that if I observe 1000 planets, most likely only one of them will be like Wasp18b. It could be the first one I observe, the 99th, the 1000th or any one in between.
Or all the planets 1 through 1000.
The point is that the odds of the next being the "one in a thousand" aren't affected by the results of the previous one.
This is Goldman Sachs we are talking about; even in those days they had networks that could put the sneakernet to the test.
And even if that weren't true for the GP, unless the sneakernet involved having an anal cavity search every time you invoked it, the company no longer relied on it and should have removed the physical ability to access it as part and parcel to implementing the whole "burn a cd and the SWAT team kicks in your door in 15 min" process.
Again, this is Goldman Sachs and ostensibly a procedure being put into place to protect a multi-BILLION dollar product we are talking about, the idea that they couldn't pay for such an 'equipment upgrade' when it was decided to worry about such things is outside the realm of plausibility.
Yeah, the whole "we turned it into an FPS, and a top down space shooter" bit sorta reminded me of Half-Life 1.
Not saying having another kid on the block would be bad, hell for a long time I was one of those folk with AIM, MSN, ICQ, and Yahoo Messenger installed (up till when people started making integrated clients) just to keep track of all the folk I talked to. Just not really interested in rooting for a team that's already proven itself antagonistic towards some of the ideas I'm behind (like not using DMCA as a catchall to go after people who were emulating your server software).
The first part would still stand, obviously any burning was unauthorized, and they still sell "read only" CD drives today.
The second part, with your jusification, would imply that they knew what was being copied and thus should have been able to simply determine that this wasn't something they cared about.
Unless they half-assed it.
Which given they appearently went to all the effort of coming up with a system to detect file copies without going the full nine yards of removing the actual ability to copy files off the system, isn't that hard to believe. But it still gives them the stupid label.
No offense, but they were idiots then. Why did they have CD burning capabilities in these PCs and why did they trust that the CD you handed them was the one you just burnt and you hadn't palmed one under your desk with the actual stolen code.
You assume the purpose of my comment was to refute the parent, as opposed to supplementing it.
Parent was responding to the relative levels of suckitude between Heavens Gate and Ishtar, et. al. mentioned in GP, who went into hyperbole about Ishtar being prohibited by the Geneva Convention.
My point was that none of the movies we are talking about which have the label 'Epic Failure' in the minds of the movie industry were really that sucky. Period. Heavens Gate wasn't sucky, Ishtar wasn't sucky, and none of them were "I can't stand to sit through this entire movie, my eyes and ears are bleeding" level bad.
Thus, the level of 'suck' in this equation does not relate to watchability, it relates to profibility. Will Avatar actually break even, if it does, how much will it make over and above? That will determine if it's another Heaven's Gate, Ishtar, or Cleopatra.
In that respect, it will be hard to ever compete with the old 'classic' failures, it's like asking Babe Ruth to compete against today's up and coming ball players, only in reverse. They burnt the studios bad enough back then that it would be hard to imagine any studio allowing a production to go that far into the absurd before simply cutting bait and canning the project.
Check out how many stars Heavens Gate has on IMDB and get back with us.
Back?
Ok, here's the thing, these none of these movies "Suck" in the capital S and Robert Ebert walks out in the middle of it (unless we are talking about Caligula) sense. They suck in the "John Romero's About To Make You His Bitch....Suck it down" sense. AKA - Things that cost way too much and were given way too much hype, to justify their middling quality and the length of time to create. And perhaps more importantly, things with the above qualities that once they got out of the starting gate made it perfectly clear that they were never, ever, going to break even.
Had he ever made it to the finish line, you could have had a "See Also: Duke Nukem Forever" to go with this.
Yes, Avatar is going to have to work hard to match the level of Suckitude that the old school failures did, if only because the old school failures were made back when the studios thought handling blank checks to directors without any oversight attached was a good idea and these days there are damage control protocols in place to prevent such things in the first place.
So... Blizzard is making the new Steam?
on
Blizzcon 2009 Wrap-Up
·
· Score: 2, Interesting
I wonder if they should change it's name then, instead of Bnet maybe they can call it "Condensation". (And before anyone claims otherwise, remember Steam was orginially exactly what the summary described Bnet as becoming.)
Well, while I don't see myself getting any of the games discussed (at least not till they've been out for a good bit) it'll be interesting to see if Blizzard has the chops to go toe to toe with Valve with a Steam-a-like.
It's just too bad that Blizzard's misteps with DMCA trials have left a bad enough taste in my mouth that I'm not interested in cheering them on this time.
Monty Hall (note the lack of a "U") was the host on the game show Lets Make A Deal, which was cancelled before some of you were born. The show could give away massive amounts of prizes to the lucky (or cunning or destined-to-win or however they pick winners on game shows).
A Monty Haul campaign (with a "U") was the generic label for a Game Master (and his/her campaign) who would run adventures that were like game show giveaways, except the questions weren't as hard. Players would end up staggering under the loads of gold and gems (except the encumbrance rules often were ignored as well) and cherry-picking which magic items they wanted to keep because they had so many to choose from. Think of Conan The Barbarian with a Star Wars Star Destroyer.
Also, in the first and second editions of Dungeons And Dragons, you got experience based on how much money you looted, one to one. So the Monty Haul characters would also end up with stratospheric levels, which led to situations like characters assassinating ''gods'' like Thor to gain their nifty weapons.
I left WoW before any of the packs hit. But I was an obsessive quest completer, I wouldn't leave a zone till I had taken care of every quest I possibly could, which meant before long I was well out leveling the content I was up against (until I finished a zone and then moved to the next, where I'd be just 'midlevel' again).
The reason I left WoW had more to do with my first few raid experiences which were in Stratholme. Here I was, in a town sized dungeon, with lore and nooks and crannies to explore, and the group I was with just wanted to rush to point A to beat Named Boss A, then point B to beat Named Boss B, and etc.
After the third go through, I realized that the way WoW had been set up, high level content was simply contrary to the idea of exploration and 'enjoying the scenery'.
I never had a problem doing 'grey' quests, or popping out of a zone now and then to do an 'appropriately leveled' quest. But raids required people. People who weren't necessarily there to do anything more than grind away till they got their next food pellet in the form of another 'epic' piece of gear.
Maybe that's changed somewhat, I've heard that some of the old 'high level' content can now be sort of soloed by a good maxed out character, and perhaps the new raid stuff isn't so focused on finding the most efficient path through without stopping to look at stuff. But given all I've heard, I doubt it.
And honestly, that's sad. One of the things that Blizzard has always done well is tell a story. Even if some can claim that the stories are lifted from other sources, it's the quality of the story teller that matters just as much as the source of the tale.
I'll always remember WoW for those pre-expansion Worgen related quests (no clue if they've been added to in the expansions), how you could find the origin of their presence in the world through the eleven zones, discover how the 'dark powers' got involved in the human zones, and then have to switch to the Horde side to find the end of the story.
It's a shame, because I know that Blizzard has to put in as much story effort into the high level content.
Slashdot Mirror
Solution: Hire food tasters, engineers should only be fed a set number of days after if the tasters aren't dead. Also resolves the issue of engineers complaining about being fed dog food.
Good point, I guess my only remaining objection would be bandwidth issues with getting the info from the eye to you 'image processing' unit. Given these contacts aren't going to be running AA's in them, and given that this is going to be a two way communication, it might be more advisable to do the 'image collection' someplace else.
Chief, we are talking about contacts with embedded circuitry in them. And your worry is that non-directed radio waves (being the exact nature of RF) are going to fry your eyeballs? Despite the fact that your cellphone has to pump out far more radio waves in the vicinity of your head (and thus eyeballs) to maintain a connection with the tower?
Really? What is it about these 'magic' invisible waves that cause some people to automaticly disengage their rational thought process.
If you are going to go luddite on us, at least correctly prioritize your objections.
You are going to have a better chance of losing your sight when the 'biocompatible' materials used to make or isolate the circuitry cause unintentioned reactions in your own lense. TFA even specificly mentions that the current crop of LED's are made with toxic chemicals and they haven't figured out a way to solve that problem yet.
TFA did mention that they are powering the current version via RF. (RF being the same as the RF in RFID)
With respect, I doubt that'll be in the 'near' future for these. The problem with recording video is that you actually have to capture the photons to do that. Capture the photons on the recording media, and they are no longer available for the eye to 'see'. The non-contact versions of 'eye mounted' HUDs that I've seen get around this by using a complex setup to split the image into two, but from what I understand of that, it'd be practically impossible to use the same method for a contact.
I suppose another solution might be 'capture and relay', but that invariably would cause your vision to lag reality. Not something I see even the most ardent transhumanists voting for.
He checked with both, only the NSA considered it something that they cared about. Probably under the "OMG, a 700 lb cannon might be a terrorist plot to blow up Arlington Cemetery!" heading.
In other words, CYA territory.
Heritic! Scrooge McDuck was a good guy. It'll probably be Flintheart Glomgold.
You aren't a poetry fan, are you?
And Ice Cream!
By your powers combined, I'm... oh wait..
Blake's 7?
The ship was a cardboard cut out for frack's sake.
MJ's dead, friend. And I'd rather Coke than Red Bull.
Or all the planets 1 through 1000.
The point is that the odds of the next being the "one in a thousand" aren't affected by the results of the previous one.
Outside of buying it from them, how are they going to know you own the book? rip off the cover and mail it to them for authentication?
And if they limit the reviews to just people who bought it from Amazon, how many reviews do you think there really will be?
Of course not, everyone knows you need the concentrated meme power of a Three Keyboard Cat Moon shirt if you want to pull in the hotties.
This is Goldman Sachs we are talking about; even in those days they had networks that could put the sneakernet to the test.
And even if that weren't true for the GP, unless the sneakernet involved having an anal cavity search every time you invoked it, the company no longer relied on it and should have removed the physical ability to access it as part and parcel to implementing the whole "burn a cd and the SWAT team kicks in your door in 15 min" process.
Again, this is Goldman Sachs and ostensibly a procedure being put into place to protect a multi-BILLION dollar product we are talking about, the idea that they couldn't pay for such an 'equipment upgrade' when it was decided to worry about such things is outside the realm of plausibility.
Yeah, the whole "we turned it into an FPS, and a top down space shooter" bit sorta reminded me of Half-Life 1.
Not saying having another kid on the block would be bad, hell for a long time I was one of those folk with AIM, MSN, ICQ, and Yahoo Messenger installed (up till when people started making integrated clients) just to keep track of all the folk I talked to. Just not really interested in rooting for a team that's already proven itself antagonistic towards some of the ideas I'm behind (like not using DMCA as a catchall to go after people who were emulating your server software).
The first part would still stand, obviously any burning was unauthorized, and they still sell "read only" CD drives today.
The second part, with your jusification, would imply that they knew what was being copied and thus should have been able to simply determine that this wasn't something they cared about.
Unless they half-assed it.
Which given they appearently went to all the effort of coming up with a system to detect file copies without going the full nine yards of removing the actual ability to copy files off the system, isn't that hard to believe. But it still gives them the stupid label.
No offense, but they were idiots then. Why did they have CD burning capabilities in these PCs and why did they trust that the CD you handed them was the one you just burnt and you hadn't palmed one under your desk with the actual stolen code.
You assume the purpose of my comment was to refute the parent, as opposed to supplementing it.
Parent was responding to the relative levels of suckitude between Heavens Gate and Ishtar, et. al. mentioned in GP, who went into hyperbole about Ishtar being prohibited by the Geneva Convention.
My point was that none of the movies we are talking about which have the label 'Epic Failure' in the minds of the movie industry were really that sucky. Period. Heavens Gate wasn't sucky, Ishtar wasn't sucky, and none of them were "I can't stand to sit through this entire movie, my eyes and ears are bleeding" level bad.
Thus, the level of 'suck' in this equation does not relate to watchability, it relates to profibility. Will Avatar actually break even, if it does, how much will it make over and above? That will determine if it's another Heaven's Gate, Ishtar, or Cleopatra.
In that respect, it will be hard to ever compete with the old 'classic' failures, it's like asking Babe Ruth to compete against today's up and coming ball players, only in reverse. They burnt the studios bad enough back then that it would be hard to imagine any studio allowing a production to go that far into the absurd before simply cutting bait and canning the project.
Check out how many stars Heavens Gate has on IMDB and get back with us.
Back?
Ok, here's the thing, these none of these movies "Suck" in the capital S and Robert Ebert walks out in the middle of it (unless we are talking about Caligula) sense. They suck in the "John Romero's About To Make You His Bitch....Suck it down" sense. AKA - Things that cost way too much and were given way too much hype, to justify their middling quality and the length of time to create. And perhaps more importantly, things with the above qualities that once they got out of the starting gate made it perfectly clear that they were never, ever, going to break even.
Had he ever made it to the finish line, you could have had a "See Also: Duke Nukem Forever" to go with this.
Yes, Avatar is going to have to work hard to match the level of Suckitude that the old school failures did, if only because the old school failures were made back when the studios thought handling blank checks to directors without any oversight attached was a good idea and these days there are damage control protocols in place to prevent such things in the first place.
I wonder if they should change it's name then, instead of Bnet maybe they can call it "Condensation". (And before anyone claims otherwise, remember Steam was orginially exactly what the summary described Bnet as becoming.)
Well, while I don't see myself getting any of the games discussed (at least not till they've been out for a good bit) it'll be interesting to see if Blizzard has the chops to go toe to toe with Valve with a Steam-a-like.
It's just too bad that Blizzard's misteps with DMCA trials have left a bad enough taste in my mouth that I'm not interested in cheering them on this time.
TVTropes to the rescue!
I left WoW before any of the packs hit. But I was an obsessive quest completer, I wouldn't leave a zone till I had taken care of every quest I possibly could, which meant before long I was well out leveling the content I was up against (until I finished a zone and then moved to the next, where I'd be just 'midlevel' again).
The reason I left WoW had more to do with my first few raid experiences which were in Stratholme. Here I was, in a town sized dungeon, with lore and nooks and crannies to explore, and the group I was with just wanted to rush to point A to beat Named Boss A, then point B to beat Named Boss B, and etc.
After the third go through, I realized that the way WoW had been set up, high level content was simply contrary to the idea of exploration and 'enjoying the scenery'.
I never had a problem doing 'grey' quests, or popping out of a zone now and then to do an 'appropriately leveled' quest. But raids required people. People who weren't necessarily there to do anything more than grind away till they got their next food pellet in the form of another 'epic' piece of gear.
Maybe that's changed somewhat, I've heard that some of the old 'high level' content can now be sort of soloed by a good maxed out character, and perhaps the new raid stuff isn't so focused on finding the most efficient path through without stopping to look at stuff. But given all I've heard, I doubt it.
And honestly, that's sad. One of the things that Blizzard has always done well is tell a story. Even if some can claim that the stories are lifted from other sources, it's the quality of the story teller that matters just as much as the source of the tale.
I'll always remember WoW for those pre-expansion Worgen related quests (no clue if they've been added to in the expansions), how you could find the origin of their presence in the world through the eleven zones, discover how the 'dark powers' got involved in the human zones, and then have to switch to the Horde side to find the end of the story.
It's a shame, because I know that Blizzard has to put in as much story effort into the high level content.
I hate to break it to you, but it if takes 25 men for you to get a 'girlfriend' she's probably either not a girl or not your friend.
You make it a joke but...