I got the sense there were people who called 25+ times a month for multiple months.
I had a $4000 pile of 30+ false charges show up on a credit card once- someone fucker somewhere got the number.
It took two calls to resolve it.
San Jose Merc's Nooch asking why you'd want to buy an Xbox in the first place.
Uh, because of piles of great games, both present and upcoming? Is this so difficult to understand? Are journalists rerally as dense as they seem to be? It's the games, games, games. Just started Overlord, and haven't laughed so much at a game since Psychonauts.
Some of us look at game consoles as entertainment and not as a religion where holy wars must be waged against the other consoles. If the Wii and PS3 get enough exclusive games I want, I'll get them as well.
I've had the exact opposite problem: an interviewer asking me about things I've designed, and they start arguing with me when I am clearly correct. Hey, the design is built in IN THE FIELD WORKING PERFECTLY, and still they argue. What does one do when the interviewer is willfully ignorant?
It's either that or bugfuck questions like moving chickens and foxes across a river. If any of you are asking stuff like that, please, in the name of all that is still good in the world, have yourself reassigned away from interviewing.
Starting pay is $0.03 per hour with benefits that include twice daily water breaks and your own hole in the wall.
My question is who buys all these wonderful products when 99% of the global workforce is making starvation wages? I'm far, far, far from being some lefty loon, but some business leaders seem to be rushing headlong to a completely untenable situation. Do they really think they can surround their mansion with enough guards when the proles, whether they're right or wrong, decides enough is enough? There's a point of pressure where all your little market theories and invisible hands and Cliff Note's version of Adam Smith don't mean fuck all anymore.
John Henry versus the steam engine, except John Henry becomes a migrant farm worker and the steam engine becomes this weeding robot contraption. Actually, I think someone is working on a robot that can pick crrops that traditionally needed the human touch, so maybe that would be better.
I think you mean Wag the Dog? Dogs Of War had Christopher Walken overthrowing the government of some third world country using some really wicked guns.
Why? The idea of hyperadvanced aliens among us going to great lengths to remain hidden would bother me a lot if I believed it. People talk about whether they'd be benevolent or malevolent, but I'd expect their philosophy to be, well, alien. It would be something we couldn't hope to understand.
it just doesn't make sense that a civilization advanced enough to cross interstellar space would crash in New Mexico.
OK. Where *would* an advanced spacecraft crash.:)
But seriously, why? Do you think technology can eventually reach the point of perfection where it never fails? That bothers me a lot about some science fiction novels where the spacecraft never seem to have problems outside of battles or cash landings. I always thought that was the most accurate thing about ST-TOS: the gippy warp drive and the defelctors being just a little bit better than a giant unbrella.
And the chances of aliens being humanoid in appearance are close to zero.
Maybe. We don't have any other example evolution trees with which to compare ours.
Maybe they can reengineer their own bodies, and the "Gray Alien" archetype is as close as they can get and stay alive. As for why they'd do that, well, see previous comment about Alien Philosophies.
"Guilty until proven innocent" is sometimes call the Napoleonic code due to the seeming de facto presumption of guilt under that system in Napoleon's France, and later elsewhere in Europe. It *can* actually be made to work very well if the defendant is given the appropriate resources, but I don't think I'd like it personally. I think Old English Common Law was like this as well, but I'm too lazy to look it up.:)
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And the message should pop up at the beginning of every story about some new invention.
I got the sense there were people who called 25+ times a month for multiple months. I had a $4000 pile of 30+ false charges show up on a credit card once- someone fucker somewhere got the number. It took two calls to resolve it.
Doug Dangger? Is that you?
San Jose Merc's Nooch asking why you'd want to buy an Xbox in the first place.
Uh, because of piles of great games, both present and upcoming? Is this so difficult to understand? Are journalists rerally as dense as they seem to be? It's the games, games, games. Just started Overlord, and haven't laughed so much at a game since Psychonauts.
Some of us look at game consoles as entertainment and not as a religion where holy wars must be waged against the other consoles. If the Wii and PS3 get enough exclusive games I want, I'll get them as well.
They missed predictions by only 3%? In some quarters that gets you a book deal and a show on MSNBC.
I've had the exact opposite problem: an interviewer asking me about things I've designed, and they start arguing with me when I am clearly correct. Hey, the design is built in IN THE FIELD WORKING PERFECTLY, and still they argue. What does one do when the interviewer is willfully ignorant?
It's either that or bugfuck questions like moving chickens and foxes across a river. If any of you are asking stuff like that, please, in the name of all that is still good in the world, have yourself reassigned away from interviewing.
Oh, I'm fine. I'm 42 and set to retire at age 50.
Some of us in this world are still able to discusss things from a non-selfish position.
And I didn't say anything about Indians.
but does anyone know where I can send my resume?
bgates@microsoft.com or sbalmer@monkeydance.xxx
Starting pay is $0.03 per hour with benefits that include twice daily water breaks and your own hole in the wall.
My question is who buys all these wonderful products when 99% of the global workforce is making starvation wages? I'm far, far, far from being some lefty loon, but some business leaders seem to be rushing headlong to a completely untenable situation. Do they really think they can surround their mansion with enough guards when the proles, whether they're right or wrong, decides enough is enough? There's a point of pressure where all your little market theories and invisible hands and Cliff Note's version of Adam Smith don't mean fuck all anymore.
Wait... Microsoft is forcing Apple to move to Canada? How does that work?
Maybe we can have a new tall tale for our times.
John Henry versus the steam engine, except John Henry becomes a migrant farm worker and the steam engine becomes this weeding robot contraption. Actually, I think someone is working on a robot that can pick crrops that traditionally needed the human touch, so maybe that would be better.
I'm up too late. Not making sense.
Wil he be revising any entry involving Hitler?
? Welcome to Web 2.0 work culture, the future of yesterday.
Welcome to attempts at word play that make me want to go out and randomly stab people.
What is this? Maxim magazine?
Oh, I dunno... Dogs Of War was sort of a cool little movie.
FWIW, I also think Rep Jefferson (D-LA) should be put under the jail.
That seems a tad extreme. I think *IN* the jail would be sufficient. :)
I'd like to see Universal sign with ... hopefully a ... DRM-free deal.
Uh, that would be Apple, sport. Jobs is the one publically urging the labels to drop DRM.
But some music executives have been chafing at the flat rate
Well, Universal, here's *my* new flat rate for any of your artists.
$0.00
I call it the Interwebs Discount.
Happy now?
And there isn't a damn thing you can do about it.
Wag the Dog was done before the Clinton scandals and subsequent military actions.
The movie was based on a book that was *explicitly* about the first President Bush and the Gulf War.
I think you mean Wag the Dog? Dogs Of War had Christopher Walken overthrowing the government of some third world country using some really wicked guns.
As much as I want to believe aliens are among us,
Why? The idea of hyperadvanced aliens among us going to great lengths to remain hidden would bother me a lot if I believed it. People talk about whether they'd be benevolent or malevolent, but I'd expect their philosophy to be, well, alien. It would be something we couldn't hope to understand.
it just doesn't make sense that a civilization advanced enough to cross interstellar space would crash in New Mexico.
OK. Where *would* an advanced spacecraft crash. :)
But seriously, why? Do you think technology can eventually reach the point of perfection where it never fails? That bothers me a lot about some science fiction novels where the spacecraft never seem to have problems outside of battles or cash landings. I always thought that was the most accurate thing about ST-TOS: the gippy warp drive and the defelctors being just a little bit better than a giant unbrella.
And the chances of aliens being humanoid in appearance are close to zero.
Maybe. We don't have any other example evolution trees with which to compare ours.
Maybe they can reengineer their own bodies, and the "Gray Alien" archetype is as close as they can get and stay alive. As for why they'd do that, well, see previous comment about Alien Philosophies.
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No. US law is based upon UK law (hint: the US was one of our colonies).
Yeeeeeah, I know. I sort of live here (USA). I was just saying that- ah forget it.
I love people who say "but sometimes he has to alter the truth to make a point".
Uh, excuse me, but if you have to alter truth to fit your points, YOUR POINTS ARE INVALID!
Seriously, when did geek culture become such a morass of ideological zerothink?
Yeah, because there can POSSIBLY be two sides to this issue. And a Moore can't POSSIBLY be lying in this new film like he has in all of his others.
So trying to make sure both sides of an issue get told is now "evil".
What the flying fuck has happened to Slashdot? It's like it's fallen off the Discworld into the inner circle of ideological hell.
"Guilty until proven innocent" is sometimes call the Napoleonic code due to the seeming de facto presumption of guilt under that system in Napoleon's France, and later elsewhere in Europe. It *can* actually be made to work very well if the defendant is given the appropriate resources, but I don't think I'd like it personally. I think Old English Common Law was like this as well, but I'm too lazy to look it up. :)
"So, don't you wish real life had an undo button?"
It does, sort of. Unfortunately, it involves being very wealthy.