While I am looking forward to checking out this game based on The Bard's work, making it into an MMORPG would make one wonder what would a gamer think after he has wasted his life playing as King Richard III as much as a WOW player with no life.
How else could I have tied a General Mao Zedong and a General Zod reference?
Any way the point is that if we allowed other entities (people, countries, corporations, etc.) to dictate what goes online, then they would start demanding us to say things about them that simply are not true. Sort of like the Stephen Colbert/Elephants/Wikiality issue. Some people just can't comprehend satire. Others get the joke but still act stupid anyway.
Technology allows democracy to be possible and to exist without infringing upon freedom or security. Government only says that it is possible or it can exists provided we sacrife freedom for security.
Vulcan Communication (owned by Microsoft's Bobby Knight impersonator, Paul Allen) sells TechTV, but Microsoft gets to keep their TV network? Channel Nine get off the air!
*Imagine you are looking at me, a masculine gentleman with a suave but geeky apperance when suddenly an effeminate voice that is not his own begins to speak, sort of like those Citi bank commericals*
"Wow! This is just mah-voh-ously fabulous! I found this guy's credit card accound and I was like 'Hello shopping spree!' So me and the boys went down to the gay bar and spent all this guys money. If the fact that I took his identity is stollen doesn't shock him, the places that I spend it will."
Yet another case where the marketing demonds have crosschecked the technology companies trying to make our lives better. And by crosscheck, I mean that in a hockey sense
It's time to throw off the gloves and start throwing back punches at these beauraucratic marketing people who keep kicking us in the shins!
The NCTA sent out a message this evening stating that Net Neutraility is "bad for consumers". They expect us to believe that Google and Yahoo are the bad guys. That Silicon Valley is home to "multimillion dollar internet companies".
How about a REALITY CHECK. Here's all the information from the NCTA that is demonizing Google.
What does "network neutrality" mean?
That answer is difficult because each stakeholder assigns it a different meaning. Cable's viewpoint is that network neutrality means that consumers should be allowed to access any lawful content, application or services available over the public Internet as well as attach devices that do not cause harm to the network.
This coming from an industry that calls computer hacking a crime, but does not mind if the people at Comcast or Adelphia abandon their customers or when Time Warner Cable blocks out TV networks distributed by Disney. If it were up to me, I would let the people in Silicon Valley be in charge of the Internet, because they actually know how the internet works.
The NCTA does not want Net Neutrality, not because they want to abondon their customers, it is because they don't want to maintain or upgrade their equipment. They are in the business of cutting costs at the consumer level while the men in the smoke filled rooms make a profit. The Cable Industry had me on their side when they were opposed to the phone companies monopolizing competition. Now they have become the phone companies. They are now sending messages to their customers telling them that customers will lose service if they do not oppose net neutrality. What are they going to do next? Tell us to vote Republican or we loose HBO?
AT&T is already cutting back services on DSL customers while their security is compromized. Yet, immediately following the news story about how 19,000 IDs were compromized on the AM radio, there is a commerical for AT&T promoting an offer!
The NCTA, the major Telecoms, and Mr. Stevens do not know the the consequences of their actions. They don't listen to Boole, Babbage, or Tesla, they listen to Washing, Lincoln, Hamlton, Jackson, Grant, and Franklin.
It is this ideology that only capitalism should be the deciding factor of any technological or scientific decision that will create significant anarchy if Net Neutrality is disregaurded.
After all these year, the facade that "Cable Cares" or "Cable is a community leader that does good things" has just eroded!
Contact the National Cable & Telecommunications Association at (202) 775-3550 and tell them that threatening us with bad service is no way to run an industry.
Then give Senator Ted Stevens a call (202) 224-3004
I don't know how many times I have stated this but Sony's marketing staff continues to kill Sony. If downgrading the PS3 isn't a sign that Sony's marketing staff likes to cut itself with razor blades, then perhaps manufacturing lithium-ion batteries with such low and dangerous standards is a sign that Sony has lost focus on the quality of their products and only seaks to market at much of their products as they possibly can.
Just because McDonnalds is the largest fast food restaurant chain does not mean that the food at McDonnalds is good enough for consumption based on the number of quarter-pounders that were sold.
The more they delay their products and the more the downgrade them or remove features that consumers had hoped for, the more likely no one will be interested in their products. Microsoft is going down the same road to self-destruction. Rather than releasing Vista three years ago, they kept delaying it. Now look at what is happening to them.
If Sony is ever going to be successful, they need to stop thinking about their wallets and start thinking about innovative ideas. And if the patent lawyers don't like that, then they can just suck it!
#!/usr/bin/bob_sagot
# Because rm is not sufficent enought to remove the items we want to remove,
# this script will use BobSagetron, the Bob Saget robot to do our dirty work.
On one hand, he should be able to tell you about all that high tech stuff: "The future is now! Soon every American home will integrate their television, phone and computer. You'll be able to visit the Louvre on one channel, or watch female wrestling on another. You can do your shopping at home, or play Mortal Kombat with a friend from Vietnam. There's no end to the possibilities!"
On the other hand, he might show you the evils of all his years of TV watching and have an emotional breakdown: "You were never there for me were you mother? You expected Mike and Carol Brady to raise me! I'm the bastard son of Claire Huxtable! I am a Lost Cunningham! I learned the facts of life from watching The Facts of Life! Oh God!"
TeX is used in Mediawiki for displaying math formulas. A program called texvc converts the TeX code into a PNG image that shows the math just as it would in a text book. Alternatively, WikiTeX is capable of doing much more.
Reguardless of what model of software life-cycle you use, software does die eventually. Only instead of calling it "death", software engineers call it "retirement". The retirement phase of the software life-cycle occurs when the product (in this case Microsoft Windows) is removed from service. This happens when the functionality provided by the product no longer is of any use to the client.
As much as some of us have loathed Microsoft and Bill Gates and Windows, it is quite untimely for all of this to happen. Talk about a private sale of the company, the retirement of Bill Gates, and the recent series of product failures is tragic.
Even if we never liked Microsoft, it is sad to watch this mightly sparing partner collapse under the weight of mutual self-destruction. Even bitter enemies mourn the loss of their rivals.
The wonton self-mutilation of Microsoft would be that in its hubris, they kept delaying Vista or Longhorn or whatever it was called in the beginning. Add to that, a list of software patents that while it protected themself from competition, prevented growth and development within the company. Greed settled in because the people in charge were happy making a ton of money with the status quo. Then they started to maximize their wealth by cutting out things that made the company what it was. Outsourcing workers. Removing subsitities and extras (i.e. Vulcan Enterprises which ran TechTV). Shortening the leash of how much code was released.
As the company became more miserly, the man who was the corporate face of this software empire wanted out.
We now see it not just as the death of a software product but the death of a corporation.
Cloned beef would certainly taste the same every time that you ate it. If your family is a Meat and Potatos family, you're definitely not going to like it when scientist clone the potato.
On the positive side, it is good to know that I can contact the police in case of an emergency. On the other hand, what if this service is NOT available in my area? What if I get a 404 message when a creepy axe murder/peophile breaks into my house?
Yes. Only it would be called EFFAid (pronounced "F Aid" like "Chief Aid" from South Park). It would be sponsored by the EFF, RIAA Radar, and Downhill Battle. It would probably be held in Austin Texas and MC'd by the members of Cult of the Dead Cow or Wierd Al.
RIAA of course whould down play it as insignificant and tell the media to not promote it until the last minite then run it into the ground with bad puns and poorly designed pop-culture references (similar to how the press made Snakes on a Plane look bad).
Whoa! Don't try to point this back at me. I only download the headers, not the messages and definitely NOT the attachments!
Downloading headers from the USENET is no different from downloading the headers in your email showing the subject, who it was from, and what time the message was sent. You can't entrap someone by sending spam in their email.
Meanwhile, RIAA has now gone and done another dirty trick by reporting music videos on YouTube as copyright infringement. What's next, are they going to load child pornography on YouTube to get people to stop using YouTube? If I worked for YouTube, I'd be concerned about who I was doing business with.
In between the lawsuits against dead war veterans, flooding the USENET alt.binaries groups with Russian child porn (DIAF, you sick commie bastards!), and making Paris Hilton and Kevin Federline CDs--which will make great clay pidegons when it reaches to dollar store next month--RIAA's taste in music is about as bad as the food in an unplugged fridge in Phoenix.
This song was not long enough.
On the other hand, Al points out the fallacies that have been used to discourage downloading such as a slippery slope, threats of damnation, and treatment worse than violent criminals. Al would win a Grammy for this song if the people at RIAA weren't evil.
According to the Good Book (and by "Good Book" I mean The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams):
It's an important and popular fact that things are not always what they seem. For instance, on the planet Earth, Man had always assumed that he was the most intelligent species occupying the planet, instead of the *third* most intelligent. The second most intelligent were of course dolphins. Dolphins had long known of the impending destruction of earth and had on many occasions tried to alert mankind but their warnings were mistakenly interpreted as amusing attempts to punch footballs or whistle for titbits.
Just to make the machine seem more appealing, why not make it say things like "Ooooo baby, I love the way that feels.", "Oh yes! Right there, God that feels good!", "No, not there, just a little lower. A little lower."
Contrarly, and with much humor, the opposite should also be stated: "What? You are just going to leave me like that?", "You're in love with the other machine in 12-items or less! You bastard!", "Sure you'll commit to buying that 12-pack of beer. It's just too bad you'll never commit to our relationship!" "That's right! Go back home to your blow up girlfriend! It's not like I matter to you. I'm just the checkout machine! What are you looking at? I'm not in the mood to check out groceries right now. Go ask that human clerk in lane 5 to bag your groceries."
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- On one hand, my kids get to do all sorts of stuff.
- Son with healing powers would resolve any instances of scraped knees. (Just don't let him sign up for the Canadian military.)
- Sexy blue shape shifter running around town naked = Daddy like. (I am such a perv.)
- Forget Iceman, how about Ice-cold-beer-man.
- Hot women with mutant powers + black latex jumpsuits + fighting = A war that everyone wouldn't mind watching on Television.
Cons:How else could I have tied a General Mao Zedong and a General Zod reference?
Any way the point is that if we allowed other entities (people, countries, corporations, etc.) to dictate what goes online, then they would start demanding us to say things about them that simply are not true. Sort of like the Stephen Colbert/Elephants/Wikiality issue. Some people just can't comprehend satire. Others get the joke but still act stupid anyway.
Technology allows democracy to be possible and to exist without infringing upon freedom or security. Government only says that it is possible or it can exists provided we sacrife freedom for security.
Vulcan Communication (owned by Microsoft's Bobby Knight impersonator, Paul Allen) sells TechTV, but Microsoft gets to keep their TV network? Channel Nine get off the air!
*Imagine you are looking at me, a masculine gentleman with a suave but geeky apperance when suddenly an effeminate voice that is not his own begins to speak, sort of like those Citi bank commericals* "Wow! This is just mah-voh-ously fabulous! I found this guy's credit card accound and I was like 'Hello shopping spree!' So me and the boys went down to the gay bar and spent all this guys money. If the fact that I took his identity is stollen doesn't shock him, the places that I spend it will."
--Bushido Hacks, victium of identity theft.
Yet another case where the marketing demonds have crosschecked the technology companies trying to make our lives better. And by crosscheck, I mean that in a hockey sense
It's time to throw off the gloves and start throwing back punches at these beauraucratic marketing people who keep kicking us in the shins!
I propose that someone create a hackable handheld gaming console.
Why should the big companies with the machinery have the ability to create the hardware?
If we can make software, we should also make the hardware.
If I pay for a $200 item, I DEMAND to do whatever the hell I want with it!
The NCTA does not want Net Neutrality, not because they want to abondon their customers, it is because they don't want to maintain or upgrade their equipment. They are in the business of cutting costs at the consumer level while the men in the smoke filled rooms make a profit. The Cable Industry had me on their side when they were opposed to the phone companies monopolizing competition. Now they have become the phone companies. They are now sending messages to their customers telling them that customers will lose service if they do not oppose net neutrality. What are they going to do next? Tell us to vote Republican or we loose HBO?
AT&T is already cutting back services on DSL customers while their security is compromized. Yet, immediately following the news story about how 19,000 IDs were compromized on the AM radio, there is a commerical for AT&T promoting an offer!
The NCTA, the major Telecoms, and Mr. Stevens do not know the the consequences of their actions. They don't listen to Boole, Babbage, or Tesla, they listen to Washing, Lincoln, Hamlton, Jackson, Grant, and Franklin.
It is this ideology that only capitalism should be the deciding factor of any technological or scientific decision that will create significant anarchy if Net Neutrality is disregaurded.
After all these year, the facade that "Cable Cares" or "Cable is a community leader that does good things" has just eroded!
Contact the National Cable & Telecommunications Association at (202) 775-3550 and tell them that threatening us with bad service is no way to run an industry.
Then give Senator Ted Stevens a call (202) 224-3004
I don't know how many times I have stated this but Sony's marketing staff continues to kill Sony. If downgrading the PS3 isn't a sign that Sony's marketing staff likes to cut itself with razor blades, then perhaps manufacturing lithium-ion batteries with such low and dangerous standards is a sign that Sony has lost focus on the quality of their products and only seaks to market at much of their products as they possibly can.
Just because McDonnalds is the largest fast food restaurant chain does not mean that the food at McDonnalds is good enough for consumption based on the number of quarter-pounders that were sold.
The more they delay their products and the more the downgrade them or remove features that consumers had hoped for, the more likely no one will be interested in their products. Microsoft is going down the same road to self-destruction. Rather than releasing Vista three years ago, they kept delaying it. Now look at what is happening to them.
If Sony is ever going to be successful, they need to stop thinking about their wallets and start thinking about innovative ideas. And if the patent lawyers don't like that, then they can just suck it!
I'm tired of these motherf***ing njoka on this motherf***ing plane!
With that out of my system, what part of "mmm-click-clicky-click-mmm-click" do you not understand?
#!/usr/bin/bob_sagot
# Because rm is not sufficent enought to remove the items we want to remove,
# this script will use BobSagetron, the Bob Saget robot to do our dirty work.
destroy "Mary-Kate Olsen" --mame --no-mercy
destroy "Ashley Olsen" --mame --no-mercy
Making friends with the cable guy...
On one hand, he should be able to tell you about all that high tech stuff: "The future is now! Soon every American home will integrate their television, phone and computer. You'll be able to visit the Louvre on one channel, or watch female wrestling on another. You can do your shopping at home, or play Mortal Kombat with a friend from Vietnam. There's no end to the possibilities!"
On the other hand, he might show you the evils of all his years of TV watching and have an emotional breakdown: "You were never there for me were you mother? You expected Mike and Carol Brady to raise me! I'm the bastard son of Claire Huxtable! I am a Lost Cunningham! I learned the facts of life from watching The Facts of Life! Oh God!"
TeX is used in Mediawiki for displaying math formulas. A program called texvc converts the TeX code into a PNG image that shows the math just as it would in a text book. Alternatively, WikiTeX is capable of doing much more.
Just for your ignorance, you tree hugging animal porkers, I'm going to VIRUTALLY Club a seal!
Reguardless of what model of software life-cycle you use, software does die eventually. Only instead of calling it "death", software engineers call it "retirement". The retirement phase of the software life-cycle occurs when the product (in this case Microsoft Windows) is removed from service. This happens when the functionality provided by the product no longer is of any use to the client.
As much as some of us have loathed Microsoft and Bill Gates and Windows, it is quite untimely for all of this to happen. Talk about a private sale of the company, the retirement of Bill Gates, and the recent series of product failures is tragic.
Even if we never liked Microsoft, it is sad to watch this mightly sparing partner collapse under the weight of mutual self-destruction. Even bitter enemies mourn the loss of their rivals.
The wonton self-mutilation of Microsoft would be that in its hubris, they kept delaying Vista or Longhorn or whatever it was called in the beginning. Add to that, a list of software patents that while it protected themself from competition, prevented growth and development within the company. Greed settled in because the people in charge were happy making a ton of money with the status quo. Then they started to maximize their wealth by cutting out things that made the company what it was. Outsourcing workers. Removing subsitities and extras (i.e. Vulcan Enterprises which ran TechTV). Shortening the leash of how much code was released.
As the company became more miserly, the man who was the corporate face of this software empire wanted out.
We now see it not just as the death of a software product but the death of a corporation.
You can't have a Penny Arcade game without wang.
Cloned beef would certainly taste the same every time that you ate it. If your family is a Meat and Potatos family, you're definitely not going to like it when scientist clone the potato.
On the positive side, it is good to know that I can contact the police in case of an emergency. On the other hand, what if this service is NOT available in my area? What if I get a 404 message when a creepy axe murder/peophile breaks into my house?
What do I do?
Yes. Only it would be called EFFAid (pronounced "F Aid" like "Chief Aid" from South Park). It would be sponsored by the EFF, RIAA Radar, and Downhill Battle. It would probably be held in Austin Texas and MC'd by the members of Cult of the Dead Cow or Wierd Al.
RIAA of course whould down play it as insignificant and tell the media to not promote it until the last minite then run it into the ground with bad puns and poorly designed pop-culture references (similar to how the press made Snakes on a Plane look bad).
Whoa! Don't try to point this back at me. I only download the headers, not the messages and definitely NOT the attachments!
Downloading headers from the USENET is no different from downloading the headers in your email showing the subject, who it was from, and what time the message was sent. You can't entrap someone by sending spam in their email.
Meanwhile, RIAA has now gone and done another dirty trick by reporting music videos on YouTube as copyright infringement. What's next, are they going to load child pornography on YouTube to get people to stop using YouTube? If I worked for YouTube, I'd be concerned about who I was doing business with.
In between the lawsuits against dead war veterans, flooding the USENET alt.binaries groups with Russian child porn (DIAF, you sick commie bastards!), and making Paris Hilton and Kevin Federline CDs--which will make great clay pidegons when it reaches to dollar store next month--RIAA's taste in music is about as bad as the food in an unplugged fridge in Phoenix.
This song was not long enough.
On the other hand, Al points out the fallacies that have been used to discourage downloading such as a slippery slope, threats of damnation, and treatment worse than violent criminals. Al would win a Grammy for this song if the people at RIAA weren't evil.
She weighs as much as a duck! BURN HER!
/kickban Maureen_Govern
/block !*Maureen_Govern*ATaolDOTcom
Just to make the machine seem more appealing, why not make it say things like "Ooooo baby, I love the way that feels.", "Oh yes! Right there, God that feels good!", "No, not there, just a little lower. A little lower."
Contrarly, and with much humor, the opposite should also be stated: "What? You are just going to leave me like that?", "You're in love with the other machine in 12-items or less! You bastard!", "Sure you'll commit to buying that 12-pack of beer. It's just too bad you'll never commit to our relationship!" "That's right! Go back home to your blow up girlfriend! It's not like I matter to you. I'm just the checkout machine! What are you looking at? I'm not in the mood to check out groceries right now. Go ask that human clerk in lane 5 to bag your groceries."