Half of the word in the name are ignored. They just picked a few letters that could make a sound.
It's a crapronym! (c) 2009 Apeiron
Crapronym - a kludge of an acronym that ignores the rules of abbreviation
Look, if you can't give a project a name like, Percy or "The Gravity Observation Thing", at least go with an honest unpronounceable abbreviation. You can leave out the articles and prepositions if helps. But this is just laziness.
i'd like a more logical interface that does what should happen when i do X instead of what they think it should do. When i click a phone number DON'T DIAL IT! i'll tell *you* when to dial you fucker! Also, don't make synchronizing delete my apps. Let me use iTunes at work and at home without destroying my apps and downloads. Let me load music into the damn thing. There's a button that says iPod for some reason it refuses to let me load music. Make it a drag and drop folder interface, you know, like every other fracking mp3 player.
That combines showing sci-fi and fantasy shows and movies that also talks about Geek Culture. Show Blade Runner, Max Headroom, Star Trek and the like. Give me the best of Sci-Fi and TechTV in one channel. i loved TechTV, i learn a great deal by watching The Screen Savers. Give me something hard core techie. Create a haven for making shows about stuff that only basement dwellers enjoy. Some of us have significant incomes.
Channels are obsolete anyway. Just make shows and movies and let me subscribe to them or download them.
It's odd that Sci-Fi wants to move away from its audience, but then again, Wired used to be a tech magazine. Now it's a lifestyle magazine.
An invocation of the Nirvana Fallacy gets +5 Insightful?
Scarcity exists, true. But doesn't mean that the haves aren't fucking the have-nots with great frequency and vigor. Nor does it mean that resources are actually scarce. For instance, the US can easily produce enough food to feed itself an Africa (i'm not suggesting we do that). There is plenty of clean water and plenty of medicine and energy and so on. More than enough for everyone. The problem lies in greed, short sightedness and lack of empathy. We can, but we don't. We don't have to charge as much as we do, but we do because we can. Profit margins don't have to be as high as they are. In the view of super wealthy can = should. "I can charge you this much and you'll pay it because my friends are doing it too." "I'll pay you peanuts and you'll thank me for the opportunity to pay for my daughter's third botox."
We don't need Galt's machine to build a better world. We just need better people making better decisions.
It could start by teaching kids that can doesn't mean should, that problems afar can become problems at home, that a small problem today can become a big problem tomorrow, that a finite supply does not equate to scarce supply.
TANSTAAFL - Just because that's true doesn't mean we have to use it as an excuse to ruin lives, ruin the planet for our children and otherwise be dicks. Lunch shouldn't be free, but that doesn't mean it should cost an arm an a leg.
Shallow or No Power Curve. Instead of being slaves to the corpse of Gary Gygax, we could make games without power curves that create n00bstomping. In PlanetSide for instance, a day old character and a five year character have the same health, armor and weapons. The veteran character will have more versatility, but it won't be able to instgib with impunity.
This is true of all games with power curves ala D&D. N00bstomping is one of the many reasons i left WoW.
PlanetSide is an MFPS with a shallow power curve. A day old character gets the same tank as a five year character. Noobs can be competitive right away. High ranking characters gain versatility instead of god like powers.
Few Idol contestants do well after the show, win or lose. Kelly, Daughtry and the country girl are the only 3 with noteworthy careers. Maybe 3 others beyond that have mediocre careers. The rest struggle to claim any attention they can.
Why does Google have a browser at all? What does it gain if picks up more marketshare, other than bragging rights/rubbing Bill's face in it?
i ask because Google was making it's money on ads, not giving away software... and plenty of money for those ads. Why is Google competing against MS and Mozilla anyway? It makes as much sense as Tropicana going after Ford.
The core location is Starfleet HQ. The UPF and council has some issue appear, they dispatch a ship to investigate. It could be a different ship every time (different crews/casts). This makes huge story arcs possible. Throw in the occasional Section 31 mission to make things fun.
You'd need: A flagship for diplomacy A research vessel for weird shit happening in space A dreadnought for kicking ass A cloaked ship for getting black ops teams behind enemy lines
You'd have Starfleet characters and UFP ambassadors. You could have follow the dramas of some academy students.
WHAT i DO NOT WANT:
Drama. i don't want BattleStar Galactica characters on a Starfleet vessel. Federation officers are supposed to be elite, well adjusted, smart people who make good decisions. Dramas require people making bad decisions. This is what i fear about this new movie. It will be an action flick with immature, neurotic characters making bad but entertaining choices.
It's not America that sucks, it's willful ignorance that sucks.
It's about where the money comes from. In Japan they have gigatons of old people and no young people to take care of them. So for them, that's an area where they need tech. If the Japanese had to rely on themselves for defense, they would have different priorities. As it is, they rely on US. We are their military. China knows that one boot on Japan would mean B-52s over Beijing. We in a very real way are the military of all of Western Europe and many other nations. Most nations guard their land and a few miles outside of their coast. We have a much larger AoR. Consequently, these nations can have awesome social programs. If the US retreated and left Germany to fend for itself against an angry/frightened/desperate Russia, you'd see a shift in their budgeting.
Also, few soldiers are fat asses.
Don't worry, i'll tell the girl at the campus bookstore how multi-culti and sensitive you are.
Make ONE distro - Part of what make Windows so useful is that i know how to use every windows machine i see. They're all pretty damn similar. Instead of making a bunch of distros that can't compete, make ONE that can. All the flavors are confusing. Windows has 3 basic flavors, home, domain and server. Aim for that.
Make it run Halo, Planetside, MS Office and the games that don't work on consoles. FPS and RTS games just aren't the same with console controls. What this really means is: driver support for video cards. And NO, i don't want OO.o. i use it when i can, but it just isn't a competitor for MSO. So either get OO.o ready for prime time, or work with MS.
i'd love to not pay 100$ to 200$ for the OS, but i'd rather have a system that can DO THINGS. That can run my games and interact with the rest of the world.
Trial is a noun, you can't catting or trailing. They are testing or experimenting. Why invent a non-word when simple words of the CORRECT part of speech exist?
They invented a reason That's why it stings They don't think you matter Because you don't have pretty rings I keep telling you I don't care I keep saying there's one thing they can't change
I'm your moon You're my moon We go round and round From out here, it's the rest of the world that looks so small Promise me You will always remember who you are
Let them shuffle the numbers Watch them come and go We're the ones who are out here Out past the edge of what they know We can only be who we are It doesn't matter if they don't understand
I'm your moon You're my moon We go round and round From out here, it's the rest of the world that looks so small Promise me You will always remember who you are
Who you were Long before They said you weren't Anymore
Sad excuse for a sunrise It's so cold out here Ice and silence and dark skies As we go round another year Let them think what they like, we're fine I will always be right here next to you
I'm your moon You're my moon We go round and round From out here, it's the rest of the world that looks so small Promise me You will always remember who you are
These words are different parts of speech, right? "This is a graph (noun)." "This is a graphic (adjective) representation"
i'm not sure graphical is a word at all. It doesn't parse to anything meaningful unless you go to graphically. "We are representing this information graphically (adverb, in a graphic way).
There's no such thing as a graphical, so there couldn't be a graphical designer. Why would it be a graphical interface, and not a graphic interface?
i suggest separating the smart kids from the not so smart. The jocks can bully each other, the vapid cheerleaders can be catty and leave the kids with potential to learn w/o fear. i might have earned better grades if i hadn't been avoiding being called a nerd. Germany does this and it works pretty well. i'd be in favor of such a system esp. if it understood the difference between smart and gets-good-grades/likes-doing-homework.
America IS ardently anti-intellectual, and we're anti-anyone-doing-better-or-trying-harder-than-us in general. Among non-whites this hatred of success and accomplishment is particularly virulent.
Jonathan Coulton (a god in my little world) makes his living touring, selling merch and selling CDs/downloads for what amounts to be tips. At his shows, someone from the fan club will pass out beanie babies with safety pins, audience members pin a bill or two to the beanie. At some orchestrated point in the show, everyone throws the beanies at him. It's funny, and it's a tip jar. All of his material is free to download (under CC license), but you can buy the CDs as well. He'll never be rich, but he's making about as much as i am at my IT gig... i bet he enjoys his job more than i do.
They're also defending a model that gives very little to many artists. If you're on the up and coming side of things you could be in the red after a tour. It's also a system that benefits stock holders and executives more than the artists.
- It it can be digitized, the supply is virtually infinite. - There is a finite demand for any product, esp. something with subjective appeal such as art - A finite demand divided by an infinite supply gives us a value as close to zero as makes no odds
Sell me something i can't download: - A concert ticket (ideally at a small venue) - A handshake and autograph after the show - A limited edition CD/DVD - A t-shirt so i can advertise you and express my fandom - Include a raffle ticket with each CD (single or album), then have a drawing for prizes like backstage passes and other silly stuff)
It's slashdot.org. Not slashdot.co.uk (or whoever).
i'll tell the girl at the campus bookstore that you were being culturally sensitive. But otherwise, it's a given that a site based in America referring to a president is referring to PotUS. The only time we should specify is if it WASN'T our president. If i say to my friend "add me on Facebook" and my friend is also American, i don't have to specify despite their being other national TLDs. i don't have "i'm going to our mailbox in front of our house", i say "i'm going to check the mail".
If WoW had an endgame, wouldn't people just unsub until the next expansion(which would have to have another endgame)?
Maybe someone needs to make a MRPG (one of the Ms and the O are redundant) that is all hero good guys doing quests and allows player generated content. Like NWN, but stitching together all the player created stuff.
You might have liked Guild Wars. PvP takes place somewhere else with different characters. It's all PvE otherwise.
Slashdot Mirror
Half of the word in the name are ignored. They just picked a few letters that could make a sound.
It's a crapronym! (c) 2009 Apeiron
Crapronym - a kludge of an acronym that ignores the rules of abbreviation
Look, if you can't give a project a name like, Percy or "The Gravity Observation Thing", at least go with an honest unpronounceable abbreviation. You can leave out the articles and prepositions if helps. But this is just laziness.
i'd like a more logical interface that does what should happen when i do X instead of what they think it should do. When i click a phone number DON'T DIAL IT! i'll tell *you* when to dial you fucker! Also, don't make synchronizing delete my apps. Let me use iTunes at work and at home without destroying my apps and downloads. Let me load music into the damn thing. There's a button that says iPod for some reason it refuses to let me load music. Make it a drag and drop folder interface, you know, like every other fracking mp3 player.
That combines showing sci-fi and fantasy shows and movies that also talks about Geek Culture. Show Blade Runner, Max Headroom, Star Trek and the like. Give me the best of Sci-Fi and TechTV in one channel. i loved TechTV, i learn a great deal by watching The Screen Savers. Give me something hard core techie. Create a haven for making shows about stuff that only basement dwellers enjoy. Some of us have significant incomes.
Channels are obsolete anyway. Just make shows and movies and let me subscribe to them or download them.
It's odd that Sci-Fi wants to move away from its audience, but then again, Wired used to be a tech magazine. Now it's a lifestyle magazine.
An invocation of the Nirvana Fallacy gets +5 Insightful?
Scarcity exists, true. But doesn't mean that the haves aren't fucking the have-nots with great frequency and vigor. Nor does it mean that resources are actually scarce. For instance, the US can easily produce enough food to feed itself an Africa (i'm not suggesting we do that). There is plenty of clean water and plenty of medicine and energy and so on. More than enough for everyone. The problem lies in greed, short sightedness and lack of empathy. We can, but we don't. We don't have to charge as much as we do, but we do because we can. Profit margins don't have to be as high as they are. In the view of super wealthy can = should. "I can charge you this much and you'll pay it because my friends are doing it too." "I'll pay you peanuts and you'll thank me for the opportunity to pay for my daughter's third botox."
We don't need Galt's machine to build a better world. We just need better people making better decisions.
It could start by teaching kids that can doesn't mean should, that problems afar can become problems at home, that a small problem today can become a big problem tomorrow, that a finite supply does not equate to scarce supply.
TANSTAAFL - Just because that's true doesn't mean we have to use it as an excuse to ruin lives, ruin the planet for our children and otherwise be dicks. Lunch shouldn't be free, but that doesn't mean it should cost an arm an a leg.
and therefore can't be past tense.
The headline should read: Jaiku's creators release it as open source.
That version also fixes the passive voice.
"What would change if the dad stayed home while the mom went to work?"
That dad would cease to be a man.
Here's another option:
Shallow or No Power Curve. Instead of being slaves to the corpse of Gary Gygax, we could make games without power curves that create n00bstomping. In PlanetSide for instance, a day old character and a five year character have the same health, armor and weapons. The veteran character will have more versatility, but it won't be able to instgib with impunity.
This is true of all games with power curves ala D&D. N00bstomping is one of the many reasons i left WoW.
PlanetSide is an MFPS with a shallow power curve. A day old character gets the same tank as a five year character. Noobs can be competitive right away. High ranking characters gain versatility instead of god like powers.
Few Idol contestants do well after the show, win or lose. Kelly, Daughtry and the country girl are the only 3 with noteworthy careers. Maybe 3 others beyond that have mediocre careers. The rest struggle to claim any attention they can.
Non-sarcastic questions:
Why does Google have a browser at all? What does it gain if picks up more marketshare, other than bragging rights/rubbing Bill's face in it?
i ask because Google was making it's money on ads, not giving away software... and plenty of money for those ads. Why is Google competing against MS and Mozilla anyway? It makes as much sense as Tropicana going after Ford.
Is it a matter of 'because we can'?
The core location is Starfleet HQ. The UPF and council has some issue appear, they dispatch a ship to investigate. It could be a different ship every time (different crews/casts). This makes huge story arcs possible. Throw in the occasional Section 31 mission to make things fun.
You'd need:
A flagship for diplomacy
A research vessel for weird shit happening in space
A dreadnought for kicking ass
A cloaked ship for getting black ops teams behind enemy lines
You'd have Starfleet characters and UFP ambassadors. You could have follow the dramas of some academy students.
WHAT i DO NOT WANT:
Drama. i don't want BattleStar Galactica characters on a Starfleet vessel. Federation officers are supposed to be elite, well adjusted, smart people who make good decisions. Dramas require people making bad decisions. This is what i fear about this new movie. It will be an action flick with immature, neurotic characters making bad but entertaining choices.
*groan*
It's not America that sucks, it's willful ignorance that sucks.
It's about where the money comes from. In Japan they have gigatons of old people and no young people to take care of them. So for them, that's an area where they need tech. If the Japanese had to rely on themselves for defense, they would have different priorities. As it is, they rely on US. We are their military. China knows that one boot on Japan would mean B-52s over Beijing. We in a very real way are the military of all of Western Europe and many other nations. Most nations guard their land and a few miles outside of their coast. We have a much larger AoR. Consequently, these nations can have awesome social programs. If the US retreated and left Germany to fend for itself against an angry/frightened/desperate Russia, you'd see a shift in their budgeting.
Also, few soldiers are fat asses.
Don't worry, i'll tell the girl at the campus bookstore how multi-culti and sensitive you are.
If you want to win over windows users:
Make ONE distro - Part of what make Windows so useful is that i know how to use every windows machine i see. They're all pretty damn similar. Instead of making a bunch of distros that can't compete, make ONE that can. All the flavors are confusing. Windows has 3 basic flavors, home, domain and server. Aim for that.
Make it run Halo, Planetside, MS Office and the games that don't work on consoles. FPS and RTS games just aren't the same with console controls. What this really means is: driver support for video cards. And NO, i don't want OO.o. i use it when i can, but it just isn't a competitor for MSO. So either get OO.o ready for prime time, or work with MS.
i'd love to not pay 100$ to 200$ for the OS, but i'd rather have a system that can DO THINGS. That can run my games and interact with the rest of the world.
Trial is a noun, you can't catting or trailing. They are testing or experimenting. Why invent a non-word when simple words of the CORRECT part of speech exist?
I'm Your Moon
- Jonathan Coulton
They invented a reason
That's why it stings
They don't think you matter
Because you don't have pretty rings
I keep telling you I don't care
I keep saying there's one thing they can't change
I'm your moon
You're my moon
We go round and round
From out here, it's the rest of the world that looks so small
Promise me
You will always remember who you are
Let them shuffle the numbers
Watch them come and go
We're the ones who are out here
Out past the edge of what they know
We can only be who we are
It doesn't matter if they don't understand
I'm your moon
You're my moon
We go round and round
From out here, it's the rest of the world that looks so small
Promise me
You will always remember who you are
Who you were
Long before
They said you weren't
Anymore
Sad excuse for a sunrise
It's so cold out here
Ice and silence and dark skies
As we go round another year
Let them think what they like, we're fine
I will always be right here next to you
I'm your moon
You're my moon
We go round and round
From out here, it's the rest of the world that looks so small
Promise me
You will always remember who you are
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These words are different parts of speech, right?
"This is a graph (noun)."
"This is a graphic (adjective) representation"
i'm not sure graphical is a word at all. It doesn't parse to anything meaningful unless you go to graphically. "We are representing this information graphically (adverb, in a graphic way).
There's no such thing as a graphical, so there couldn't be a graphical designer. Why would it be a graphical interface, and not a graphic interface?
Dell and ASUS make laptops. Mead and Moleskine make notebooks.
i suggest separating the smart kids from the not so smart. The jocks can bully each other, the vapid cheerleaders can be catty and leave the kids with potential to learn w/o fear. i might have earned better grades if i hadn't been avoiding being called a nerd. Germany does this and it works pretty well. i'd be in favor of such a system esp. if it understood the difference between smart and gets-good-grades/likes-doing-homework.
America IS ardently anti-intellectual, and we're anti-anyone-doing-better-or-trying-harder-than-us in general. Among non-whites this hatred of success and accomplishment is particularly virulent.
BioShock had some good scares for me. The meandering splicers talking to each other gave me the jibblies.
Meh. Call them small laptops.
Mead makes notebooks, as does Moleskine. ASUS and Dell make laptops, some of which are small.
Indeed.
Jonathan Coulton (a god in my little world) makes his living touring, selling merch and selling CDs/downloads for what amounts to be tips. At his shows, someone from the fan club will pass out beanie babies with safety pins, audience members pin a bill or two to the beanie. At some orchestrated point in the show, everyone throws the beanies at him. It's funny, and it's a tip jar. All of his material is free to download (under CC license), but you can buy the CDs as well. He'll never be rich, but he's making about as much as i am at my IT gig... i bet he enjoys his job more than i do.
They're also defending a model that gives very little to many artists. If you're on the up and coming side of things you could be in the red after a tour. It's also a system that benefits stock holders and executives more than the artists.
- It it can be digitized, the supply is virtually infinite.
- There is a finite demand for any product, esp. something with subjective appeal such as art
- A finite demand divided by an infinite supply gives us a value as close to zero as makes no odds
Sell me something i can't download:
- A concert ticket (ideally at a small venue)
- A handshake and autograph after the show
- A limited edition CD/DVD
- A t-shirt so i can advertise you and express my fandom
- Include a raffle ticket with each CD (single or album), then have a drawing for prizes like backstage passes and other silly stuff)
It's slashdot.org. Not slashdot.co.uk (or whoever).
i'll tell the girl at the campus bookstore that you were being culturally sensitive. But otherwise, it's a given that a site based in America referring to a president is referring to PotUS. The only time we should specify is if it WASN'T our president. If i say to my friend "add me on Facebook" and my friend is also American, i don't have to specify despite their being other national TLDs. i don't have "i'm going to our mailbox in front of our house", i say "i'm going to check the mail".
Don't take yourself so seriously.
Ah. i was thinking you meant endgame in the sense that the game has ended. Like killing Baal in Diablo... credits roll.
Such a game as you describe would be pretty awesome.
i emailed the site and told them about matron vs. patron, and they changed it.
(and it wouldn't be ironic, so much as ignorant or a mistake)
If WoW had an endgame, wouldn't people just unsub until the next expansion(which would have to have another endgame)?
Maybe someone needs to make a MRPG (one of the Ms and the O are redundant) that is all hero good guys doing quests and allows player generated content. Like NWN, but stitching together all the player created stuff.
You might have liked Guild Wars. PvP takes place somewhere else with different characters. It's all PvE otherwise.