The guy doing Lucas on the voice over sounds like a total 15 year old geek, it's not even vaguely adult. But his cadence and comments are pretty funny, although it attempts realism a little too much. The whole "my daughter learned this was an oedipal conflict at Columbia" thing was funny, as was the line "We'd like to remaster Indiana Jones swordfight scene, because we didn't want to show Harrison hiding behind a gun." was pretty funny.
Nothing really classic, like the guys who did a spoof on Cops with Stormtrooper outfits. Anybody know if those videos can be found?
The UK has decided to Tax performances of Shakespeare in the park. "Giving away performances of Hamlet lowers the box office revenues of England's finest theaters", Tony Blair was heard to say. "It's got to stop, this giving things away. It's anti-Ameri... uh, it's not becoming of the nation."
Elsewhere, the Queen Mum was heard to exclaim, "Taxation, taxation, taxation! My forefathers believed in it, and look what happened to them!"
In the late 1800s, many of the Chinese who came over to work on the railroads in the U.S. were not captured, or slaves. History still regards their work as slave labor.
Let me just put it this way, if the mass importation of H1B workers wasn't a problem, why would their be legislation to stop it? See this link.
I go to San Jose, more often than I care to. I talk to people who work there, and the horror stories they tell. Many of the H1B types I meet are "hot-bunking", 7-9 people living in a 2 bedroom apartment. Sending as much cash as they can back home. Certain valley companies engage in a kind of white collar slave labor, IMO.
For other Americans, who actually want to make a living wage, and go home to a family, you need to think out of the box. If you have a clean record, and are US born, look at the Aerospace industry. Look at Florida. I met an entire group of high level EE/CS types who were relocating to Alaska to work on a missle defense program and one other had a job with the State of Alaska.
Is it just me, or does all of America want to kick that smug ass from CSI:Miami in the balls? Hard. He never looks another cast member in the eye, he always stares off into the distance. Somebody should tell that guy he isn't on a soap opera, and he ain't cool.
Here's a little confession. I love games like Everquest and Planetside. But not because I play them. Because they suck massive amounts of time from people who would otherwise compete against me in the "real" marketplace. Every hour some smart guy waits for his +5 Axe of Mauling to spawn is an hour he isn't spending getting his RHCE degree or working on his M.S. in C.S.
As TV is replaced by "interactivity" which is more and more engaging and life consuming, more and more people drop out of competition for highly skilled jobs. THe market skews towards you, instead of away from you. Every time I see the introduction of a massively entertaining ORPG, I smile. I consider it a kind of counter-balance to the effect of all those Indians studying the extra hours and getting Ph.Ds.
Try to get someone to distinguish, in real terms, the difference between selling a sword on Everquest and selling the game itself? Purchasing the game and subscription to SOE allows you to "participate" in the virtual world. The kick ass sword allows you to alter the method of your particpation. You may get to run with a clan you otherwise couldn't, etc etc.
If you still see a difference, then what about the add-on worlds? Added contennt, otherwise restricted areas you can only go if you spend money. What exactly is the difference?
Chris Cooper deserves an Oscar. The guy is brilliant. This is the same guy who played the repressed Marine in American Beauty. He's had some shitty roles, like the CIA captain in Bourne Identity, but his character in Adaptation was terrific.
Yeah, but she doesn't shave her armpits and wears the birkenstocks for two weeks straight. And eventually all that Ben & Jerry's ice cream will catch up with her.
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The phenomenon you see is typical. Is it me, or are many of slick salesman types have this college fratboy gone pro vibe to them? They take the middle managers to lunch, they give them tickets to sporting events or golf outings. this ol boy system has been in place for a long long time, and the open source movement tosses all of it out, and puts power squarely in the hands of the people who know how to make it work and can fix it.
Most middle managers are not willing to concede the power in the organisatoin to the techs and architects that work "below" them.
I was at a hockey game the other night, and overheard two stunningly gorgeous early 20s girls who had just been hired as phone reps (a waste really) for a tech company say to each other, "I guess what they said to us about being nice to geeks, because you'll end up working for one, was true."
I wanted to tell them they had LOTS of other career choices, some of which paid very well, but they may not like the job hazards. I didn't, of course. it would have been a sexist and demeaning thing to say, although probably appropriate.
This story reminded me of that, and what i am seeing generally. "geek cool", generation Y with thinkgeek.com shirts on. It's really prevalent when I visit the San Jose / SF area, but it's spreading out. I saw a VJ on one of those also-ran MTV wannabe stations wearing a perl shirt. I saw Carson from "Queer Eye" wearing a Einstein shirt.
It's just not fathomable even 10 years ago, that there would have been a 'Tech TV', all computers, all day station, and a good looking woman would be doing a story on the latest fedora distro. When I saw that, I had this 'the future has arrived' zeigeist moments. Now I feel old.
Btw, I know I'm going to get flamed out of the ballpark for this, so let me just adjust my firesuit...
No, you are right on track. So far, nobody in this thread has talked about whistleblower protection laws, or previous court cases regarding the act of keyboard logging. I am going to look into it, because I think you are right.
What is a modchip? Is it something Microsoft sells as an add-on to the Xbox? Here... quick Google search reveals it is not. It is an unsactioned hack.
I fail to be persuaded by the argument that this technology will prevent people from hacking hardware to run pirated games. that's the stated intention. How is that a bad thing?
"So, this week's box office reciepts show that 'Dawn of the Dead' has unseated 'Passion of the Christ' as the #1 movie in America. Lesson? One person rising from the dead...good. Lots of people rising from the dead...better."
How do cryptographic checksums and hashes on chips cause 3rd party developers to be locked out of making things like peripherals? How would checking the codes on games against a database stop innovation? I'm confused.
It does? THe Xbox supports component video, but I don't think the output is 1080i or 480p. And even so, the game resolution of the gfx is the equivalent of 1280x1024?
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I wonder why your uncle didn't capitalize your name when he said it. Kind of disrespectful.
He needs to lose some weight. Lucas is Jabba sized. There's no way he's gonna make it to another trilogy.
The guy doing Lucas on the voice over sounds like a total 15 year old geek, it's not even vaguely adult. But his cadence and comments are pretty funny, although it attempts realism a little too much. The whole "my daughter learned this was an oedipal conflict at Columbia" thing was funny, as was the line "We'd like to remaster Indiana Jones swordfight scene, because we didn't want to show Harrison hiding behind a gun." was pretty funny.
Nothing really classic, like the guys who did a spoof on Cops with Stormtrooper outfits. Anybody know if those videos can be found?
The UK has decided to Tax performances of Shakespeare in the park. "Giving away performances of Hamlet lowers the box office revenues of England's finest theaters", Tony Blair was heard to say. "It's got to stop, this giving things away. It's anti-Ameri... uh, it's not becoming of the nation."
Elsewhere, the Queen Mum was heard to exclaim, "Taxation, taxation, taxation! My forefathers believed in it, and look what happened to them!"
I heard Sun was going to shut down its offices in Colorado. What is the State doing to grow jobs?
In the late 1800s, many of the Chinese who came over to work on the railroads in the U.S. were not captured, or slaves. History still regards their work as slave labor.
Let me just put it this way, if the mass importation of H1B workers wasn't a problem, why would their be legislation to stop it? See this link.
Re: #2. How hot? Really really really hot, or midwest hot, which is anyone whose chest is larger than their behind.
I always think all Dallas girls look and act like Morgan Fairchild. She was the prototype Texas BWA.
I go to San Jose, more often than I care to. I talk to people who work there, and the horror stories they tell. Many of the H1B types I meet are "hot-bunking", 7-9 people living in a 2 bedroom apartment. Sending as much cash as they can back home. Certain valley companies engage in a kind of white collar slave labor, IMO.
For other Americans, who actually want to make a living wage, and go home to a family, you need to think out of the box. If you have a clean record, and are US born, look at the Aerospace industry. Look at Florida. I met an entire group of high level EE/CS types who were relocating to Alaska to work on a missle defense program and one other had a job with the State of Alaska.
Is it just me, or does all of America want to kick that smug ass from CSI:Miami in the balls? Hard. He never looks another cast member in the eye, he always stares off into the distance. Somebody should tell that guy he isn't on a soap opera, and he ain't cool.
Here's a little confession. I love games like Everquest and Planetside. But not because I play them. Because they suck massive amounts of time from people who would otherwise compete against me in the "real" marketplace. Every hour some smart guy waits for his +5 Axe of Mauling to spawn is an hour he isn't spending getting his RHCE degree or working on his M.S. in C.S.
As TV is replaced by "interactivity" which is more and more engaging and life consuming, more and more people drop out of competition for highly skilled jobs. THe market skews towards you, instead of away from you. Every time I see the introduction of a massively entertaining ORPG, I smile. I consider it a kind of counter-balance to the effect of all those Indians studying the extra hours and getting Ph.Ds.
Try to get someone to distinguish, in real terms, the difference between selling a sword on Everquest and selling the game itself? Purchasing the game and subscription to SOE allows you to "participate" in the virtual world. The kick ass sword allows you to alter the method of your particpation. You may get to run with a clan you otherwise couldn't, etc etc.
If you still see a difference, then what about the add-on worlds? Added contennt, otherwise restricted areas you can only go if you spend money. What exactly is the difference?
Chris Cooper deserves an Oscar. The guy is brilliant. This is the same guy who played the repressed Marine in American Beauty. He's had some shitty roles, like the CIA captain in Bourne Identity, but his character in Adaptation was terrific.
Yeah, but she doesn't shave her armpits and wears the birkenstocks for two weeks straight. And eventually all that Ben & Jerry's ice cream will catch up with her.
Select evildoers, democrats, COUNT(*) FROM eurotrash O, illegales C WHERE O.eurotrash = C.illegales AND implied_intent = 'mal' GROUP BY evildoers, democrats
The phenomenon you see is typical. Is it me, or are many of slick salesman types have this college fratboy gone pro vibe to them? They take the middle managers to lunch, they give them tickets to sporting events or golf outings. this ol boy system has been in place for a long long time, and the open source movement tosses all of it out, and puts power squarely in the hands of the people who know how to make it work and can fix it.
Most middle managers are not willing to concede the power in the organisatoin to the techs and architects that work "below" them.
No, rather we should look to our sports heroes, like...say...Pete Rose. Embodies the American spirit of hard word and hustle. Oh.....wait....
I was at a hockey game the other night, and overheard two stunningly gorgeous early 20s girls who had just been hired as phone reps (a waste really) for a tech company say to each other, "I guess what they said to us about being nice to geeks, because you'll end up working for one, was true."
I wanted to tell them they had LOTS of other career choices, some of which paid very well, but they may not like the job hazards. I didn't, of course. it would have been a sexist and demeaning thing to say, although probably appropriate.
This story reminded me of that, and what i am seeing generally. "geek cool", generation Y with thinkgeek.com shirts on. It's really prevalent when I visit the San Jose / SF area, but it's spreading out. I saw a VJ on one of those also-ran MTV wannabe stations wearing a perl shirt. I saw Carson from "Queer Eye" wearing a Einstein shirt.
It's just not fathomable even 10 years ago, that there would have been a 'Tech TV', all computers, all day station, and a good looking woman would be doing a story on the latest fedora distro. When I saw that, I had this 'the future has arrived' zeigeist moments. Now I feel old.
Btw, I know I'm going to get flamed out of the ballpark for this, so let me just adjust my firesuit...
No, you are right on track. So far, nobody in this thread has talked about whistleblower protection laws, or previous court cases regarding the act of keyboard logging. I am going to look into it, because I think you are right.
What is a modchip? Is it something Microsoft sells as an add-on to the Xbox? Here... quick Google search reveals it is not. It is an unsactioned hack.
I fail to be persuaded by the argument that this technology will prevent people from hacking hardware to run pirated games. that's the stated intention. How is that a bad thing?
The path is:
/partner/salesmarketing/opensource/discguides
Disc stands for "disinformation campaign"
Jon Stewart's joke from the Daily Show...
"So, this week's box office reciepts show that 'Dawn of the Dead' has unseated 'Passion of the Christ' as the #1 movie in America. Lesson? One person rising from the dead...good. Lots of people rising from the dead...better."
How do cryptographic checksums and hashes on chips cause 3rd party developers to be locked out of making things like peripherals? How would checking the codes on games against a database stop innovation? I'm confused.
It does? THe Xbox supports component video, but I don't think the output is 1080i or 480p. And even so, the game resolution of the gfx is the equivalent of 1280x1024?
I never understood your .sig. Didn't Fonzie jump the shark on his motorcycle?