Google has been doing the news.google.com for quite some time now and adding it as an extra tab has now allowed me less pain of having to click another link and retype my search.
Now I only hope they put it into thier google toolbar.
On another subject. Before news.google.com I used exclusively ThePaperboy. I still do although not as much.
But unlike paperboy google is more a portal to news, which in itself allows the url's to appear to be more subjective. Certainly something Psyops would like to play with.
Don't get me wrong its a great site but nearly all news sites are biased (truth is subjective), the secret is to read both sides and form an opinion between the two. When you control the portal though it allows you to slant your other side of the argument.
Did anyone ever read Zenith?
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Marvel Goes MMPORG
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· Score: 3, Insightful
2000AD comics.
It's about a superhero who couldn't give a toss about saving the world.
One point in the story line was that there were multiple universes. In one of these universes it was all populated with superheros and only one normal person, who was being pestered the heck out of.
In a world where everyone wants to be a hero, who plays the normal people?
One of the things, well really the only thing that makes MMORPG's is the human element. I think this alone is what may stunt the growth of such games. If all the normal characters are NPC's then there are no worries about secret identitys and a lot of players will treat the NPC's as fog of war.
By the way, anyone who can't wait until 2005 I recommend you check out City of Heroes which plans to Beta test in early 2003 and has some nice movies of the gameplay.
They also have a very indepth FAQ (Geek level:)
It wastes my time, it wastes my ISP's time. It wastes bandwidth.
All sending an unsolicted email to me does is ensure that I will never ever buy your products or deal with your company.
My main email address now these days gets more spam them personal mail. So much so I can't use it anymore, and I use it as a spam trap.
It's getting to the point where I'm going to start ringing up the freephone numbers in these emails and start trying to sell them stuff (while taking as long as possible).
Seriously though, I think if they work out a cheap way to send people and get them back and start working on colonisation of Mars, that way we won't have to worry about screwing up this planet anymore as we will have another to escape to.:)
Although with MS you never really know. Maybe SP6 had a list of current competitors it wanted wiped out.:)
Honestly though, where I work we were told not to install SP6 because it caused serious network connection problems with NT machines that don't have SP6 installed.
I think at this stage with the trial and all MS can do nothing which will not be taken as them throwing thier weight around.
To be honest, I didn't even know who the heck this John chap was, and after reading his comments I don't really want to know him.
At least one of the questions did seem childish, but he did offer at first to answer them, and now his reply just seems to feed the negitive press of him.
unlike the "Real World" hacker (who I thought was an idiot at first:), least he was able to denounce the negitive press with constructive answers to questions posed to him.
I think everyone should just ignore John, he's really not that important.
Word was ruled as not to be used to create legal documents as the word counter does not work correctly and there was some law that if your over a certain amount of words your in trouble.
I'm sure someone who knows will explain better (or tell me I'm wrong:)
To have an emulator (eg. Playstation) and leverage off that?
If you work towards an existing standard you already have a large number of games out there and little Johnny at christmas will be happier then he would be if he was looking at a command line (unless Johnnys a geek).
Most of other competing companys problems stem from the fact that an API would be tweaked which would break something they were working on. This way you can see clearly what it's up to.
Anyway If I write a better API then what is currently there, as long as the output is to the set standard then what does it matter what the content of the API is?
The objective is not to hurt for the sake of it, but to set a standard where by no one can control the desktop.
Will breaking them up help? If so in what way? What's to stop them working a system where by thier office suite gets all the low down before everyone else on the how the OS is going?
Personally I think they should at least make the source code for Windows OS freely availble to whoever wants it, along with all undocumented functions. I can't see this happening though.
I tried it on three different DVD players and it ranged from not working at all to freezing at certain points in the movie to crashing if I access the PC options.
And why the heck would someone put windows options on it only? >:(
What's really annoying if you check some of the boards WB are keeping quiet about it, and other people have claimed it's peoples DVD players are not up to date (but mine is only 2 months old!!).
Other things I didn't like was the quality of the movie was grainy and Ms Moss freaked my head out in the commentary I got the impression she was speaking from across the room in a whisper.:)
Actually I recall a really old news story written around the time Englands Currency changed (1969/1970) about how Metric would work out worse for people.
Basically with the old money system (base 12) you could divide a bill for a meal between multiple numbers of people easily. with Metric Base 10 your are all left fighting over who ordered the extra rolls.:)
Think the system was based on your fingers, but you can count in base 12 (or base 13) on your fingers if you use the three parts of each finger as one unit. If we had an extra finger we could do base 16:)
Granted Speech while a lot better then it once was still has a way to go. It's takes some training but after that it flies along.
My Uncle uses Via Voice because he can't type fast enough, and I've watched him use it and it's pretty impressive. When I sit down to it I get "Purple monkey dishwasher" statements in my sentances.:)
Command Recog on the other hand is a heck of a lot better. Check out Game Commander. This has to be one of the best I've seen so far. I use this with Tribes which has 50-60 key combinations all preprogrammed into it, so for example I just say "Eject!" and game screams "Hit the Deck!" and ejects me out of the ship I'm flying or I say "Preload one" when I'm in an Inv Station and it loads up set one favorites then kicks me out of the inv station.
The level of training this required was 0%
But... voice while is all fine and dandy is no good if you get background noise.
As a new input device I would like to see something different then the norm.
How about a squeezy ball that can be used to feedback mouse/keyboard input? Would keep the RSA away (least in the hand:)
That with a NC none of your stuff is local. So your paying someone to keep your private information. Bad enough it is no longer private what's worse if what happens if you miss a payment?
Slashdot Mirror
How apt. :)
It's doubtful based on the reports that the US will allow such a thing to pass unless they can intercept and read it.
That's how I explain all my porn links in work. ;)
Now I only hope they put it into thier google toolbar.
On another subject. Before news.google.com I used exclusively ThePaperboy. I still do although not as much. But unlike paperboy google is more a portal to news, which in itself allows the url's to appear to be more subjective. Certainly something Psyops would like to play with.
Don't get me wrong its a great site but nearly all news sites are biased (truth is subjective), the secret is to read both sides and form an opinion between the two. When you control the portal though it allows you to slant your other side of the argument.
It's about a superhero who couldn't give a toss about saving the world.
One point in the story line was that there were multiple universes. In one of these universes it was all populated with superheros and only one normal person, who was being pestered the heck out of.
In a world where everyone wants to be a hero, who plays the normal people?
One of the things, well really the only thing that makes MMORPG's is the human element. I think this alone is what may stunt the growth of such games. If all the normal characters are NPC's then there are no worries about secret identitys and a lot of players will treat the NPC's as fog of war.
By the way, anyone who can't wait until 2005 I recommend you check out City of Heroes which plans to Beta test in early 2003 and has some nice movies of the gameplay. They also have a very indepth FAQ (Geek level :)
and wipe it out.
It wastes my time, it wastes my ISP's time. It wastes bandwidth.
All sending an unsolicted email to me does is ensure that I will never ever buy your products or deal with your company.
My main email address now these days gets more spam them personal mail. So much so I can't use it anymore, and I use it as a spam trap.
It's getting to the point where I'm going to start ringing up the freephone numbers in these emails and start trying to sell them stuff (while taking as long as possible).
Seriously though, I think if they work out a cheap way to send people and get them back and start working on colonisation of Mars, that way we won't have to worry about screwing up this planet anymore as we will have another to escape to. :)
Although with MS you never really know. Maybe SP6 had a list of current competitors it wanted wiped out. :)
Honestly though, where I work we were told not to install SP6 because it caused serious network connection problems with NT machines that don't have SP6 installed.
I think at this stage with the trial and all MS can do nothing which will not be taken as them throwing thier weight around.
To be honest, I didn't even know who the heck this John chap was, and after reading his comments I don't really want to know him.
At least one of the questions did seem childish, but he did offer at first to answer them, and now his reply just seems to feed the negitive press of him.
unlike the "Real World" hacker (who I thought was an idiot at first:), least he was able to denounce the negitive press with constructive answers to questions posed to him.
I think everyone should just ignore John, he's really not that important.
*Yawns*
"I kiss you!"
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Basically the original page was set up as a practical joke by one of his friends. The details are metioned on Salon some time back.
Another friend sent him a joke email saying she thought he was a stud and he replied back in a serious manner which would suggest it wasn't a joke.
Personally I think you should check out the Brandon and Rick never get laid it's much more funnier. Or if you want to make a bit of cash, check out the 10K for a wife page.
MS have till January to contest what the judge has written, until then you can take it as Fact.
And if this is the case MS have been very very naughty. I don't know how you got a score of 3 as you seem to be a borderline Troll post.
Word was ruled as not to be used to create legal documents as the word counter does not work correctly and there was some law that if your over a certain amount of words your in trouble.
:)
I'm sure someone who knows will explain better (or tell me I'm wrong
To have an emulator (eg. Playstation) and leverage off that?
If you work towards an existing standard you already have a large number of games out there and little Johnny at christmas will be happier then he would be if he was looking at a command line (unless Johnnys a geek).
By the way, all you would have to do is have a hacked client and it would make the whole thing useless.
Most of other competing companys problems stem from the fact that an API would be tweaked which would break something they were working on. This way you can see clearly what it's up to.
Anyway If I write a better API then what is currently there, as long as the output is to the set standard then what does it matter what the content of the API is?
The objective is not to hurt for the sake of it, but to set a standard where by no one can control the desktop.
Will breaking them up help? If so in what way? What's to stop them working a system where by thier office suite gets all the low down before everyone else on the how the OS is going?
Personally I think they should at least make the source code for Windows OS freely availble to whoever wants it, along with all undocumented functions. I can't see this happening though.
I seem to see parallels with this and MP3 and SDMI. Basically they want you to upgrade your machine so you can watch thier movie.
This sort of Stunt M$ have been pulling for years.
You have to hold down CTRL-Apple-I
:(
:)
but I had already returned it at that stage
I tried it on three different DVD players and it ranged from not working at all to freezing at certain points in the movie to crashing if I access the PC options.
And why the heck would someone put windows options on it only? >:(
What's really annoying if you check some of the boards WB are keeping quiet about it, and other people have claimed it's peoples DVD players are not up to date (but mine is only 2 months old!!).
Other things I didn't like was the quality of the movie was grainy and Ms Moss freaked my head out in the commentary I got the impression she was speaking from across the room in a whisper.
For an excellent movie they really messed it up.
Just because it's old doesn't mean it's bad. :)
:)
:)
Actually I recall a really old news story written around the time Englands Currency changed (1969/1970) about how Metric would work out worse for people.
Basically with the old money system (base 12) you could divide a bill for a meal between multiple numbers of people easily. with Metric Base 10 your are all left fighting over who ordered the extra rolls.
Think the system was based on your fingers, but you can count in base 12 (or base 13) on your fingers if you use the three parts of each finger as one unit. If we had an extra finger we could do base 16
Personally I prefer Hex.
Someone said the exact same thing about the earthquake in Taiwan when the deathtoll was about four (at the very start).
I would like to know how many KRads we looking at?
IMHO.. met the chap, most boring hour of my life. Neal Stevenson is much better.
Granted Speech while a lot better then it once was still has a way to go. It's takes some training but after that it flies along.
My Uncle uses Via Voice because he can't type fast enough, and I've watched him use it and it's pretty impressive. When I sit down to it I get "Purple monkey dishwasher" statements in my sentances. :)
Command Recog on the other hand is a heck of a lot better. Check out Game Commander. This has to be one of the best I've seen so far. I use this with Tribes which has 50-60 key combinations all preprogrammed into it, so for example I just say "Eject!" and game screams "Hit the Deck!" and ejects me out of the ship I'm flying or I say "Preload one" when I'm in an Inv Station and it loads up set one favorites then kicks me out of the inv station.
The level of training this required was 0%
But... voice while is all fine and dandy is no good if you get background noise.
As a new input device I would like to see something different then the norm.
How about a squeezy ball that can be used to feedback mouse/keyboard input? Would keep the RSA away (least in the hand :)
That with a NC none of your stuff is local. So your paying someone to keep your private information. Bad enough it is no longer private what's worse if what happens if you miss a payment?