At the end of 2004, roughly 94 million people in China had Internet access, where an Internet user was anyone who averaged over an hour a week on the Internet. So, we're actually talking just shy of 10% of all Chinese Internet users.
Sounds to me like you need to get Jon Travolta on the case. His setup was teh 733t.
I wanna be like Hugh Jackman running around swilling my glass of red wine going "Yes! Yes" every time I add something to my 3-D rendered virus software.
That would r0x0r. And I'd get to see Halle Berry's boobies.
They pulled the same hyperbolic BS when they released Halo 2, remember?
"On November 9th, when Halo 2 is released, the biggest sick day in history may occur."
Come on. For a mediocre FPS that you can't use a keyboard/mouse combo in? Yeah right.
Gotta hate those marketers. Liars.
They included "Drunken Master II".
Personally, I would've liked to have seen "Shogun Assassin" and "Five Deadly Venoms" on the list too, but you can't have everything.
LazloToth asks: "Short and sweet: with so many religions to choose from, and so many of them good to excellent, which religion delivers the best balance of popularity, moral support options, afer-life benefits, reincarnation, and ease of conversion? If an agnostic wants to standardize on one religion and have the best of all worlds on everything from simonism to death-bed repentance, what, in the experience of the Slashdot pros, is that Holy Grail of religions - - the one that does it all while also making parents feel warm and fuzzy?"
Some companies here in NZ use a particularly smart test to find good programmers.
After they've established the technologies you are fluent in, they will ask you to code something specific using a language that you've never used.
You are given Internet access and a time limit.
Since good programming is language-independent, and it is the use of good underlying concepts and technique that is more important, I think this test much better demonstrates a potential candidate's ability to adapt and solve problems without requiring them to demonstrate rote learning of tons of APIs.
If you get a skill test along these lines, count your blessings and do your best to get a job with the company that set it. They understand what programming's about.
You DO realise all these guys have done is taken the three extended edition DVDs, had a big cardboard box made up at the printers, and slapped an extra $20 bucks on the RRP of the total price of the extended edition DVDs? It's not the official box set. That won't be out for at least another year.
I read this as "Russian mocks Mars mission" and pictured Alexander Putin dancing around a table making fun a NASA scientist.
"Oh yes, we land on Mars, yes, aren't we clever? I'm so clever with my MIT degree, I'm a clever little scientist. Those Americans think they're so smart with their advanced rocketry. It makes me so mad. Get me a vodka, Yuri."
When this technology gets far enough along that it can interpret more than just directional and selectional thoughts, things are going to get damn interesting. When technology can extract words from thoughts, rather than just up, down, yes and no, it could use search technology to retrieve information. It could also put information out into a network.
Have everybody hooked up to something like this and suddenly there's no such thing is individual knowledge. You've got a massive P2P network of thought. De Chardin's noosphere, if you're optimistic. Or the Borg, if you're not.
Quite scary. Telepathy's coming, and we're not going to have to wait for evolution to deliver it to us. Technology's going to short-circuit that process.
GL: Thanks for seeing me, Harvey. I've got this great idea for a TV show, and I wanted you to be the first to hear it.
HW: Okay, George, shoot.
GL: Great, okay. Picture this: the camera pans in to the gates of Dathomir Imperial prison, at night, where a crowd has gathered, holding picket lines. They are holding a candlelight vigil, and it is raining: the faces in the crowds are lit up like Japanese lanterns.
HW: Japanese lanterns, nice. Okay, I'm listening.
GL: The gates of the prison open, revealing a hair covered humanoid in a bandolier. It's a wookie.
HW: A wha?
GL: A wookie: but not just any wookie. It's Chewbacca. The crowd has been waiting for him. He begins to speak.
HW: What does he say?
GL: He says: RowRWAROOR.
HW: Uh-huh. Why's he in prison again?
GL: He was imprisoned for a crime he didn't commit. And now he's out to right the wrong: one wookie against the world who wronged him. On his planet, Kashyyyk, there's a special breed of justice. Eighteen thrusters of justice.
HW: Keep going.
GL: Cut to the forests of Endor. Our hero, Chewbacca touches down on the Endor moon, and enters a tree-top Ewok village. He
is crowned king of the Ewoks! The Ewoks party hard, getting drunk on tree-root ale and rubbing up against tree-bark until the static electricity sends them flying across the clearing. He speaks to the crowd of drunk of drunk Ewoks.
HW: What does he say?
GL: He says: RowRWAROOR.
HW: I like it.
GL: Shmi, after giving her son Anakin away to Jedi training, starts going a bit wild and gets a name for herself on Tatooine. She started hanging out with wookies, and ended up going steady with Chewbacca's grandfather. Cut to a Christmas dinner scene, where Shmi and Chewbacca Snr. are meeting Shmi's parents for the first time.
HW: Sort of Guess Who's Coming To Dinner meets My Stepmother Is An Alien?
GL: Exactly. So, can I have some money?
HW: Sure, take these two big bags of money and make your show.
Regarding point (c), I find that if you're a roleplayer, it's fairly easy to enjoy an MMO without the need to be levelling up and improving all the time.
I used to play Ultima Online, and I found that I could logon to for half-an-hour, interact with others for a while and logout again, and still feel as though I had a rewarding game experience.
The problem was that other roleplayers are initially quite difficult to find, and it wasn't an activity that was rewarded or encouraged by Origin etc. I can't speak for other MMOs. I eventually stopped playing because the roleplayers were being edged out by growing numbers of powergamers and griefers.
I can't understand why someone would play an MMO with the express purpose of levelling up. Where's the fun in that? You're little more than a pigeon tapping on coloured lights. Unless you bring your own imagination to the MMO, and use the world as a tool (with its own strengths and limitations) to create your own characters, games, and relationships, MMOs are always going to be unsatisfying and unfulfilling.
Of course, you can't MAKE people roleplay, or even be nice to one another, you can only put systems in place to encourage it.
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The horror, the horror.
Ironic perhaps, but I think you'll find that that particular album was released by the RIAA. link
That'll be five bucks please.
- The RIAA.
Mork calling Orson ... come in, Orson ...
At the end of 2004, roughly 94 million people in China had Internet access, where an Internet user was anyone who averaged over an hour a week on the Internet. So, we're actually talking just shy of 10% of all Chinese Internet users.
Sounds to me like you need to get Jon Travolta on the case. His setup was teh 733t.
I wanna be like Hugh Jackman running around swilling my glass of red wine going "Yes! Yes" every time I add something to my 3-D rendered virus software.
That would r0x0r. And I'd get to see Halle Berry's boobies.
They pulled the same hyperbolic BS when they released Halo 2, remember? "On November 9th, when Halo 2 is released, the biggest sick day in history may occur." Come on. For a mediocre FPS that you can't use a keyboard/mouse combo in? Yeah right. Gotta hate those marketers. Liars.
Kevin Costner.
Harrison better make sure it has all the essentials. It's not good to mess with the formula that geeks have come to know and love:
That second to last one could prove to be quite difficult.
They included "Drunken Master II". Personally, I would've liked to have seen "Shogun Assassin" and "Five Deadly Venoms" on the list too, but you can't have everything.
They should be thanking us for taking their garbage out. How many quality TV shows are there? How many really? One in every hundred?
Most TV Shows these days are advertisements anyway. They don't want us to distribute ads?
LazloToth asks: "Short and sweet: with so many religions to choose from, and so many of them good to excellent, which religion delivers the best balance of popularity, moral support options, afer-life benefits, reincarnation, and ease of conversion? If an agnostic wants to standardize on one religion and have the best of all worlds on everything from simonism to death-bed repentance, what, in the experience of the Slashdot pros, is that Holy Grail of religions - - the one that does it all while also making parents feel warm and fuzzy?"
I sure hope so. I'd hate to have an emergency skin graft and get some elbow skin on my forehead...
Personally, I'd hate to have an emergency skin graft and get some foreskin on my elbow.
Some companies here in NZ use a particularly smart test to find good programmers. After they've established the technologies you are fluent in, they will ask you to code something specific using a language that you've never used. You are given Internet access and a time limit. Since good programming is language-independent, and it is the use of good underlying concepts and technique that is more important, I think this test much better demonstrates a potential candidate's ability to adapt and solve problems without requiring them to demonstrate rote learning of tons of APIs. If you get a skill test along these lines, count your blessings and do your best to get a job with the company that set it. They understand what programming's about.
You DO realise all these guys have done is taken the three extended edition DVDs, had a big cardboard box made up at the printers, and slapped an extra $20 bucks on the RRP of the total price of the extended edition DVDs? It's not the official box set. That won't be out for at least another year.
No, no, Alexander Putin the president's cousin, author of The Putins Kin. Did you think I meant the president?
No, I definitely meant Alexander. Definitely.
I read this as "Russian mocks Mars mission" and pictured Alexander Putin dancing around a table making fun a NASA scientist.
"Oh yes, we land on Mars, yes, aren't we clever? I'm so clever with my MIT degree, I'm a clever little scientist. Those Americans think they're so smart with their advanced rocketry. It makes me so mad. Get me a vodka, Yuri."
When this technology gets far enough along that it can interpret more than just directional and selectional thoughts, things are going to get damn interesting. When technology can extract words from thoughts, rather than just up, down, yes and no, it could use search technology to retrieve information. It could also put information out into a network.
Have everybody hooked up to something like this and suddenly there's no such thing is individual knowledge. You've got a massive P2P network of thought. De Chardin's noosphere, if you're optimistic. Or the Borg, if you're not.
Quite scary. Telepathy's coming, and we're not going to have to wait for evolution to deliver it to us. Technology's going to short-circuit that process.
GL: Thanks for seeing me, Harvey. I've got this great idea for a TV show, and I wanted you to be the first to hear it.
HW: Okay, George, shoot.
GL: Great, okay. Picture this: the camera pans in to the gates of Dathomir Imperial prison, at night, where a crowd has gathered, holding picket lines. They are holding a candlelight vigil, and it is raining: the faces in the crowds are lit up like Japanese lanterns.
HW: Japanese lanterns, nice. Okay, I'm listening.
GL: The gates of the prison open, revealing a hair covered humanoid in a bandolier. It's a wookie.
HW: A wha?
GL: A wookie: but not just any wookie. It's Chewbacca. The crowd has been waiting for him. He begins to speak.
HW: What does he say?
GL: He says: RowRWAROOR.
HW: Uh-huh. Why's he in prison again?
GL: He was imprisoned for a crime he didn't commit. And now he's out to right the wrong: one wookie against the world who wronged him. On his planet, Kashyyyk, there's a special breed of justice. Eighteen thrusters of justice.
HW: Keep going.
GL: Cut to the forests of Endor. Our hero, Chewbacca touches down on the Endor moon, and enters a tree-top Ewok village. He is crowned king of the Ewoks! The Ewoks party hard, getting drunk on tree-root ale and rubbing up against tree-bark until the static electricity sends them flying across the clearing. He speaks to the crowd of drunk of drunk Ewoks.
HW: What does he say?
GL: He says: RowRWAROOR.
HW: I like it.
GL: Shmi, after giving her son Anakin away to Jedi training, starts going a bit wild and gets a name for herself on Tatooine. She started hanging out with wookies, and ended up going steady with Chewbacca's grandfather. Cut to a Christmas dinner scene, where Shmi and Chewbacca Snr. are meeting Shmi's parents for the first time.
HW: Sort of Guess Who's Coming To Dinner meets My Stepmother Is An Alien?
GL: Exactly. So, can I have some money?
HW: Sure, take these two big bags of money and make your show.
GL: Woohoo!
Regarding point (c), I find that if you're a roleplayer, it's fairly easy to enjoy an MMO without the need to be levelling up and improving all the time.
I used to play Ultima Online, and I found that I could logon to for half-an-hour, interact with others for a while and logout again, and still feel as though I had a rewarding game experience.
The problem was that other roleplayers are initially quite difficult to find, and it wasn't an activity that was rewarded or encouraged by Origin etc. I can't speak for other MMOs. I eventually stopped playing because the roleplayers were being edged out by growing numbers of powergamers and griefers.
I can't understand why someone would play an MMO with the express purpose of levelling up. Where's the fun in that? You're little more than a pigeon tapping on coloured lights. Unless you bring your own imagination to the MMO, and use the world as a tool (with its own strengths and limitations) to create your own characters, games, and relationships, MMOs are always going to be unsatisfying and unfulfilling.
Of course, you can't MAKE people roleplay, or even be nice to one another, you can only put systems in place to encourage it.