On the one hand, all major currency is virtual nowadays unless you are bartering with gold or jewels or something. The paper and base metals in your pockets are not worth what's printed on them, in and of themselves.
On the other hand, at least in the US, only the government can create legal tender currency out of nothing. (Or so I bvelieve, and IANAL.) Casinos have to fill in the right forms / get friendly with the right lawmakers or mobsters / jump through a zillion hoops in order to be able to maintain their trade. Arcades and other places that sell "chips" or "tokens" of any kind have to go out of their way to label everything as "for entertainment purposes only" and "no cash value." Giving away a cheap prize in exchange for Skee-Ball points is okay, paying cash is not.
There's nothing wrong with multithreading I like pie gold is shiny I have a friend named Brad I'm a little bit thirsty Gene Hackman is a damn fine actor paper is useful green apples are yummy I love my cats.
Cut to a sign saying 'How to do it'. Music. Pull out to reveal a 'Blue Peter' type set. Sitting casually on the edge of a dais are three presenters in sweaters - Noel, Jackie and Alan - plus a large bloodhound.
Alan: Hello.
Noel: Hello.
Alan: Well, last week we showed you how to become a gynaecologist. And this week on 'How to do it' we're going to show you how to play the flute, how to split an atom, how to construct a box girder bridge, how to irrigate the Sahara Desert and make vast new areas of land cultivatable, but first, here's Jackie to tell you all how to rid the world of all known diseases.
Jackie: Hello, Alan.
Alan: Hello, Jackie.
Jackie: Well, first of all become a doctor and discover a marvellous cure for something, and then, when the medical profession really starts to take notice of you, you can jolly well tell them what to do and make sure they get everything right so there'll never be any diseases ever again.
Alan: Thanks, Jackie. Great idea. How to play the flute. (picking up a flute) Well here we are. You blow there and you move your fingers up and down here.
Noel: Great, great, Alan. Well, next week we'll be showing you how black and white people can live together in peace and harmony, and Alan will be over in Moscow showing us how to reconcile the Russians and the Chinese. So, until next week, cheerio.
Alan: Bye.
Jackie: Bye.
Just to clarify, the video is just this guy describing and showing the camera itself. There doesn't seem to be actual video from the thing viewable. Shame.
I like that summary, especially the order things are put in. "It's expensive, dammit! And omg, it exposes us to attacks!! And.. er... oh yeah, there's that freedom-of-speech thing, too." Very telling.
Definitely an overlooked classic, even during the 1980s height of "(computer/robot/car/other gadget)-with-heart-befriends-human" movies. All that aside, the PC store scene alone is totally worth it to anyone who was in the field during that time.
TFA seems slashdotted already, but given the name of the site I can only take this with an extremely large grain of salt.
Beyond that, it's an interesting concept, but one that could seriously botch up torrenting as it is. Bittorrent works so well (with both legal and shady source material) because every user gets the combined benefit of getting what they want, and helping thers who want the same thing to get it. At the very most, a big ratio gets you get bragging rights on some tracker site. My inner folk-song-singing hippie cringes at what result throwing monetary things like iTunes credit into the mix would have.
My family and I always love it when someone will zoom in ion some distant face in a scratchy webcam sht, get basically a twelve-pixel image, and magically "enhance" it to get a crystal-clear picture of some important bad guy or something, often when he was even facing the wrong way.
Allthough that's a common complaint about that scene, the GUI she recognizes as UNIX was actually a real Silicon Graphics 3D File System Navigator for UNIX.
Filmmakers use specially made CRT monitors that basically refreshed at the same rate as the camera, eliminating flicker. That's not as much of an issue nowadays with LCD panels that don't refresh in the same manner.
The Sims, the only path is capatalist. There is no social security system in the game. So you can't be a stay at home single parent living of social security. Neither can you sponge of your parents.
That's why we have infinite-money cheats. Now, if I can just find the money cheat for non-simulated life, I'll be set...
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On the other hand, at least in the US, only the government can create legal tender currency out of nothing. (Or so I bvelieve, and IANAL.) Casinos have to fill in the right forms / get friendly with the right lawmakers or mobsters / jump through a zillion hoops in order to be able to maintain their trade. Arcades and other places that sell "chips" or "tokens" of any kind have to go out of their way to label everything as "for entertainment purposes only" and "no cash value." Giving away a cheap prize in exchange for Skee-Ball points is okay, paying cash is not.
There's nothing wrong with multithreading I like pie gold is shiny I have a friend named Brad I'm a little bit thirsty Gene Hackman is a damn fine actor paper is useful green apples are yummy I love my cats.
2) He skips a few major technical details about the IP system itself.
d) He's mulling over a random loopy theory in a personal blog post, which isn't quite news. If it were, I'd be William Randolph Hearst by now.
If ever they need to reverse the polarity of the neutron flow...
That's it in a nutshell. This alone inspires me to create some throwaway addresses, post around the net from them, and set up us the Bluefrog.
Could you explain your post further? All I got was "the."
Cut to a sign saying 'How to do it'. Music. Pull out to reveal a 'Blue Peter' type set. Sitting casually on the edge of a dais are three presenters in sweaters - Noel, Jackie and Alan - plus a large bloodhound.
Alan: Hello.
Noel: Hello.
Alan: Well, last week we showed you how to become a gynaecologist. And this week on 'How to do it' we're going to show you how to play the flute, how to split an atom, how to construct a box girder bridge, how to irrigate the Sahara Desert and make vast new areas of land cultivatable, but first, here's Jackie to tell you all how to rid the world of all known diseases.
Jackie: Hello, Alan.
Alan: Hello, Jackie.
Jackie: Well, first of all become a doctor and discover a marvellous cure for something, and then, when the medical profession really starts to take notice of you, you can jolly well tell them what to do and make sure they get everything right so there'll never be any diseases ever again.
Alan: Thanks, Jackie. Great idea. How to play the flute. (picking up a flute) Well here we are. You blow there and you move your fingers up and down here.
Noel: Great, great, Alan. Well, next week we'll be showing you how black and white people can live together in peace and harmony, and Alan will be over in Moscow showing us how to reconcile the Russians and the Chinese. So, until next week, cheerio.
Alan: Bye.
Jackie: Bye.
Just to clarify, the video is just this guy describing and showing the camera itself. There doesn't seem to be actual video from the thing viewable. Shame.
Obviously, that lingerie store had some high-tech, holographic VR camera setup, which makes me really wonder about the store owner.
Good points. Perhaps I should cut down on the folk songs before breakfast.
I like that summary, especially the order things are put in. "It's expensive, dammit! And omg, it exposes us to attacks!! And.. er... oh yeah, there's that freedom-of-speech thing, too." Very telling.
Here's a fansite. Good stuff there.
Seriously though, I wonder if they'll even bother releasing this one in the UK.
You slay some MMO monster, and it drops a small pile of gold, jewels, and several IRS forms for you to fill in.
You mean, like the Internet?
Beyond that, it's an interesting concept, but one that could seriously botch up torrenting as it is. Bittorrent works so well (with both legal and shady source material) because every user gets the combined benefit of getting what they want, and helping thers who want the same thing to get it. At the very most, a big ratio gets you get bragging rights on some tracker site. My inner folk-song-singing hippie cringes at what result throwing monetary things like iTunes credit into the mix would have.
Did they really? Color me corrected, thanks! I had seen someone using it once, and just assumed it was the same one as filmed.
My family and I always love it when someone will zoom in ion some distant face in a scratchy webcam sht, get basically a twelve-pixel image, and magically "enhance" it to get a crystal-clear picture of some important bad guy or something, often when he was even facing the wrong way.
Allthough that's a common complaint about that scene, the GUI she recognizes as UNIX was actually a real Silicon Graphics 3D File System Navigator for UNIX.
Filmmakers use specially made CRT monitors that basically refreshed at the same rate as the camera, eliminating flicker. That's not as much of an issue nowadays with LCD panels that don't refresh in the same manner.
Maybe you can't...
That's why we have infinite-money cheats. Now, if I can just find the money cheat for non-simulated life, I'll be set...
It's not clear from TFA.. did EA actually lose a case (as in being ruled against in court of law,) or is this an out-of-court settlement?
Fight the neo-cornflake empire!
Double negatives are a no-no.