Once the lavalamp works, you should be able to upgrade to shock collars for all the developers pretty easily. Talk about incentive to not screw up. After this upgrade plastic covers for everyone's chair might not be a bad idea either.
How long will it be before you can basically live your entire life "inside" a game? And yeah before you guys start saying "I already do" I mean how long before you don't even leave the game at all, even to work? Picture being a wizard in middle earth, where you take several hours a day to go "cast some spells" (i.e. program so you can keep th electricity going so you can play). Or maybe you put on your "middle earth" glasses, and your every-day life looks like middle earth (instead of everyday boring people you see elves/dwarves/etc, instead of buses you see large lumbering Oliphants, etc).
Actually by then they will have "malfunctioned" and there won't be any people left anyway. This goes right up there with teaching chimps and apes to talk (sign language anyway). Have we learned nothing from end-of-the-world movies???
Heck if they sell their current dolls to a mere 166,694,449 happy individuals they would have a trillion dollars (not counting the cost to make/ship etc). Heck one doll per household would just about do it here in the U.S. So which candidate is gonna make that promise in the next election?
Erm, don't pick on Japan, at the rate things are going all of our fusion reactors will be made there. As a country they seem to be taking fusion power pretty seriously.
Just imagine the radiation coming off these old TVs too. The ancient TV I had my TI-994a plugged into had a huge pile of vacuum tubes in it (and it looked like at one point it got so hot it melted part of the case!) I can only imagine the cancerous growths I will have on my face from spending so much time in front of that beast.
If the zombies were requesting a specific URL, you could always move the offending script to some other URL (changing any links in other places on your site) and just put up a static page, or even an empty page.
Or maybe get a wireless controller and dance around in front of the screen in tune to what your character is doing so your ears don't get confused. It will make you look like a dork, but then again you are talking about playing a FPS so who cares?:-)
Does anyone verify that the slashdot article actually represents the real article?
Yes, if by represent you mean "vaguely resembles" and by real you mean "lunatic interperatation inside some readers head". But the slashdot headline grabs your attention better than the more accurate "'Game virus' bites mobile phones" title that the BBC used I suppose.
Well I know it shouldn't annoy me, but when I have an hour and a half drive to visit my mom ahead of me and am I sitting behind someone driving their winnabago 45mph on the freeway in the left lane while a line of semi trucks chug along in the right lane (who are smart enough to get out of the left lane) it does annoy me. Note that I never said anything about speeding above the posted speed limit, I am talking about dimbulbs who aren't passing people (or who are being passed on the right) just sitting in the left lane for 20 miles. It doesn't bother me so much in town, since it is so congested it doesn't matter, I am talking about open highway here (NM, where you can drive literally hours between towns on open freeway). 10-20mph in town doesn't make a bit of difference, but when travelling for hours it can. I also don't flip people off (why bother, they probably won't see it anyway since I have tinted windows). And don't get me started on tailgaters and people who pull into the middle median of a street and block lanes of traffic so they can turn left across a busy street.
That is why I like the idea of the camera, just not the idea of broadcasting it to the world. The tapes should be available with a court order (in the cases of abuse or whatever), but I don't think any yahoo(tm) should be able to see the folks in jail.
Man I want to move where you live, where is that??? Sadly people here seem to have to clue about the passing lane. Watching some fool drive 10mph below the posted speed limit in the left lane drives me nuts:-(
Is brokenangelsbook.com taken? (Sorry my whois is broken, too lazy to look). Personally I find it weird that every book/movie/etc has a website, it seems like a central author's website would be more appropriate IMHO.
Back then (late 1980s) we were sure that by 2004 we'd all be living with robots like the ones in the new I,Robot movie. I guess it didn't really happen.
I know this happened, plus we have to have moon bases and stuff by 2004, therefore I must be asleep. I keep pinching myself hoping to wake up into what the world should be but alas so far no dice. But I know if I keep pinching myself long enough I will wake up and have a flying car in my garage. (*pinch pinch pinch*)
It seems like a logical thing to tell your employees. I guess they leave out the specifics of exactly where they would be classified as the underdog.
Well if you look at browser usage on a galactic scale, they probably have only a tiny portion of the potential browser market. Seriously, how can anyone working at Microsoft feel like an underdog? Do they have daily beatings or something? Whoa look out now, 2% of the people out there have started using some other browser.....
Are versions of windows(95/98/NT/ME) aside from 2000/XP affected? If not, it would seem to me that Microsoft introduced a bug into the OS from 2000 on?
I say just add this to the ever-growing list of why we need a permanant mars base. The only problem is figuring out how to put this job on your resume later (official mars rover solar panel cleaner from July 2008-June2009).
The rumor now is that we should also pay for blackberries, cell phones and pagers.
The next thing you know, you will have to pay for your own shackles used to keep you near your desk during working hours. In fact, pretty soon you may need to bring in your own desk and chair too. On the bright side, if they make you pay for your own pager you can just not buy one and tell them the only service you can afford doesn't work near your house.
Called Rainbows End (and for the grammar nazis, that's right, there's no apostrophe at the end of 'Rainbows.')
I assume this would be correct if the "end" in question pertained to the termination of multiple rainbows (i.e. they went away) and in fact seems to imply that all rainbows are ending. More likely it is a play on the phrase "end of the rainbow", a mythical place where a pot of gold can be located. Using the plural of rainbow would imply that this single place is in fact common to all rainbows everywhere, in which case there must be one huge pot of gold there. How seemingly disconnected rainbows all terminate at a single place is left as an excercise for the reader. Perhaps they have more than 3 dimensions?
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Once the lavalamp works, you should be able to upgrade to shock collars for all the developers pretty easily. Talk about incentive to not screw up. After this upgrade plastic covers for everyone's chair might not be a bad idea either.
I just figured that all that data made the TB disk look bigger.
It isn't a dupe, just a deja-vu glitch in the matrix. You must realize, there is no slashdot!
How long will it be before you can basically live your entire life "inside" a game? And yeah before you guys start saying "I already do" I mean how long before you don't even leave the game at all, even to work? Picture being a wizard in middle earth, where you take several hours a day to go "cast some spells" (i.e. program so you can keep th electricity going so you can play). Or maybe you put on your "middle earth" glasses, and your every-day life looks like middle earth (instead of everyday boring people you see elves/dwarves/etc, instead of buses you see large lumbering Oliphants, etc).
I just assumed they named it after a Microsoft product because it was full of holes.
Actually by then they will have "malfunctioned" and there won't be any people left anyway. This goes right up there with teaching chimps and apes to talk (sign language anyway). Have we learned nothing from end-of-the-world movies???
I have to admit, I was wondering the same thing too, time to go check those timestamps.
Heck if they sell their current dolls to a mere 166,694,449 happy individuals they would have a trillion dollars (not counting the cost to make/ship etc). Heck one doll per household would just about do it here in the U.S. So which candidate is gonna make that promise in the next election?
Erm, don't pick on Japan, at the rate things are going all of our fusion reactors will be made there. As a country they seem to be taking fusion power pretty seriously.
Just imagine the radiation coming off these old TVs too. The ancient TV I had my TI-994a plugged into had a huge pile of vacuum tubes in it (and it looked like at one point it got so hot it melted part of the case!) I can only imagine the cancerous growths I will have on my face from spending so much time in front of that beast.
If the zombies were requesting a specific URL, you could always move the offending script to some other URL (changing any links in other places on your site) and just put up a static page, or even an empty page.
Or maybe get a wireless controller and dance around in front of the screen in tune to what your character is doing so your ears don't get confused. It will make you look like a dork, but then again you are talking about playing a FPS so who cares? :-)
Yes, if by represent you mean "vaguely resembles" and by real you mean "lunatic interperatation inside some readers head". But the slashdot headline grabs your attention better than the more accurate "'Game virus' bites mobile phones" title that the BBC used I suppose.
Well I know it shouldn't annoy me, but when I have an hour and a half drive to visit my mom ahead of me and am I sitting behind someone driving their winnabago 45mph on the freeway in the left lane while a line of semi trucks chug along in the right lane (who are smart enough to get out of the left lane) it does annoy me. Note that I never said anything about speeding above the posted speed limit, I am talking about dimbulbs who aren't passing people (or who are being passed on the right) just sitting in the left lane for 20 miles. It doesn't bother me so much in town, since it is so congested it doesn't matter, I am talking about open highway here (NM, where you can drive literally hours between towns on open freeway). 10-20mph in town doesn't make a bit of difference, but when travelling for hours it can. I also don't flip people off (why bother, they probably won't see it anyway since I have tinted windows). And don't get me started on tailgaters and people who pull into the middle median of a street and block lanes of traffic so they can turn left across a busy street.
That is why I like the idea of the camera, just not the idea of broadcasting it to the world. The tapes should be available with a court order (in the cases of abuse or whatever), but I don't think any yahoo(tm) should be able to see the folks in jail.
Man I want to move where you live, where is that??? Sadly people here seem to have to clue about the passing lane. Watching some fool drive 10mph below the posted speed limit in the left lane drives me nuts :-(
So this is why he has been looking a little heavy lately, too many cinnamon rolls I would wager!
Is brokenangelsbook.com taken? (Sorry my whois is broken, too lazy to look). Personally I find it weird that every book/movie/etc has a website, it seems like a central author's website would be more appropriate IMHO.
Luckily I have a paper hat coated with tinfoil that I can sell to you for $19.99 to block out all these kinds of advertisements.
I know this happened, plus we have to have moon bases and stuff by 2004, therefore I must be asleep. I keep pinching myself hoping to wake up into what the world should be but alas so far no dice. But I know if I keep pinching myself long enough I will wake up and have a flying car in my garage. (*pinch pinch pinch*)
Well if you look at browser usage on a galactic scale, they probably have only a tiny portion of the potential browser market. Seriously, how can anyone working at Microsoft feel like an underdog? Do they have daily beatings or something? Whoa look out now, 2% of the people out there have started using some other browser.....
Are versions of windows(95/98/NT/ME) aside from 2000/XP affected? If not, it would seem to me that Microsoft introduced a bug into the OS from 2000 on?
I say just add this to the ever-growing list of why we need a permanant mars base. The only problem is figuring out how to put this job on your resume later (official mars rover solar panel cleaner from July 2008-June2009).
The next thing you know, you will have to pay for your own shackles used to keep you near your desk during working hours. In fact, pretty soon you may need to bring in your own desk and chair too. On the bright side, if they make you pay for your own pager you can just not buy one and tell them the only service you can afford doesn't work near your house.
I assume this would be correct if the "end" in question pertained to the termination of multiple rainbows (i.e. they went away) and in fact seems to imply that all rainbows are ending. More likely it is a play on the phrase "end of the rainbow", a mythical place where a pot of gold can be located. Using the plural of rainbow would imply that this single place is in fact common to all rainbows everywhere, in which case there must be one huge pot of gold there. How seemingly disconnected rainbows all terminate at a single place is left as an excercise for the reader. Perhaps they have more than 3 dimensions?