I think they're much more interested in what you do watch
I know. But it would be neat if we *could* moderate the ads.
They know perfectly well you're going to hit "no" on essentially every ad except the occasional breast-filled beer commercial.
Not really. I'd still bomb them as dumb. I have the Internet and cheap local whores for my fleshy thrills. I'd probably favor the funny ads. I'd also bomb stuff like car ads that try to depict driving their car as a transcendent experience. I also like straight ads that just say "here's our product and this is why it's better" without having some actors play out a dumb skit.
The idea of hitting the thumb up/down buttons during commercials is a good one. I'd watch commercials just to thumb-down-bomb the annoying ones. A moderation system for commercials. I like. With feedback to the advertisers, the "you got a Dell" dude would never have gotten famous enough for me to hear reports about his dumbass drug habits. That idea alone makes this Good For Humanity.
Zune owner: "Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold. Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world. The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere the ceremony of innocence is drowned."
MS Tech Help Line: "Um, could you be more specific about the problem, sir?"
Zune owner: "But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams."
MS Tech Help Line: "Yeah... yeah. Uh, is your Microsoft Zune[TM] device charged?"
Zune owner: "Wow. I actually *heard* you say [TM]! Do they train you to do that?"
But isn't the whole point of chaos that you can't predict the outcome no matter how may supoercomputers you throw at it? Those decimal places have to stop at some point in a computer, and the digits beyond that are the seeds of eventual chaos.
My job has been very busy lately, and Elder Scrolls IV wandered into my life, so I simply cut back my Netflix account to two out at a time down from four. I can just about slip in two movies a week. If I can't do that, I'll cut back to one. There's also the "rip to hard drive" option to backlog films.
Feeling "pressure" to watch a movie? What would these "paradox of abundance" sufferers do if they had to go out and hunt a wooly mammoth for dinner? Cripes, take a Paxil or something.
I had a further point to make, but I think I'll just say wooly some more. Wooly. Wooly. Wooly wooly wooly.
the challenge of stewarding an old-school brand like HotWheels in our tech-driven age, the emerging technologies that will affect the toy industry, and Mattel's Web strategy,' he also talks about the effect that video games have had on toy design, and argues that exciting the imagination is the most important role that a toy can fill."
Damn! If he just says "synergy" I have buzzword bingo.
After my last DoD gig, I've really started filtering what opportunities I'll consider.
I also go looking for the projects that have the potential to kill the most people, but then again I'm an utter misanthrope.:D
Although I have to admit that cybernetic, remote controlled stealth shark thing DARPA announced a while back had my interest. No killing the enemy, but it's fricken stealth sharks, man! You know I'd fight for comm lasers to burst the data back to base.
Don't worry, I'll take those mass surveillance jobs. I'll do them really well, too. Sleep tight.:)
I stroll into the conference, half expecting to be given a barium enema by a cross between Nurse Diesel from Mel Brooks' flick and Nurse Ratched from One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest.
All I do is R&D. Fortunately, I have established myself with just my measly MSEE. Some of the PhDs here even refer to me as the "honorary PhD" and come to me for questions on things.:) They have come to learn they only have to explain something to me once, and I'm the conduit through which their abstract ideas become real hardware.
I think one needs to do the whole graduate level thing as young as possible. I got the MSEE when I was in my late 20's, and it was a drag even though my employer required less than 40 hours a week during that time. Now, at 40, I think I'd rather be captured by terrorists and have my head sawed off rather than go back to school.
Got an MSEE that my employer paid for. Got a raise out of it, but little else. Most of what I use on a day to day basis is from application notes, manuals published by industry component makers like Xilinx and Cypress Semiconductor, IEEE papers and my own library of books.
My employer offered to send me to get a PhD, but the reward to annoyance ratio was prohibitive. I think my exact response was "Ha ha ha ha ha! You're kidding, right?" I dunno... I just have no buring desire to be called "Doctor". I think it's pretentious.
Instead I spent the time designing equipment that won me company awards, and much more respect than some piece of paper.:-)
I still remember some fool critic in the Los Angeles Times years ago criticizing an Iron Maiden album (Somewhere In Time) for having songs about weird topics (Alexander The Great, for example). He went on and on about how such topics were "nothing a teenager can sink their teeth into".
If the dumbass did even 2 seconds of research on Iron Maiden, he would have learned that lots of their songs are like that, and that's, in fact, why a lot of people like them. So he criticized from ignorance, and also put down a whole class of people (teenagers) in the process.
I have to agree to some extent. I'm growing a little tired of stories along the lines of "My prospective employer didn't like my web site with 900 images of furry porn that I drew using bodily fluids, or my UberShrine to Gadget Mouse, or my collection first-person POV stories about a serial killer who skins women alive! How dare they look at something I exposed to a global network!"
People vote in meddling jackasses with delusions of intelligence and borderline megalomania. These are the pretty boy arseholes with rich parents who ran the major cliques back in school. Now the idiot voters have granted these lunatics the power to dictate how we have fun, who we can fuck, what happens to the money we earn, and so on and so forth.
Replace the physical trash with ideological pollution.
And voting out the white boys doesn't help. Here in So Cal, we have many Hispanic Democratic politicians with heavy Catholic backgrounds. Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
My, I'm just full of doom and gloom and pop culture quotes today.:)
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I think they're much more interested in what you do watch
I know. But it would be neat if we *could* moderate the ads.
They know perfectly well you're going to hit "no" on essentially every ad except the occasional breast-filled beer commercial.
Not really. I'd still bomb them as dumb. I have the Internet and cheap local whores for my fleshy thrills. I'd probably favor the funny ads. I'd also bomb stuff like car ads that try to depict driving their car as a transcendent experience. I also like straight ads that just say "here's our product and this is why it's better" without having some actors play out a dumb skit.
The idea of hitting the thumb up/down buttons during commercials is a good one. I'd watch commercials just to thumb-down-bomb the annoying ones. A moderation system for commercials. I like. With feedback to the advertisers, the "you got a Dell" dude would never have gotten famous enough for me to hear reports about his dumbass drug habits. That idea alone makes this Good For Humanity.
Isn't *every* day a sad day for the furry porn folks?
It's from a Henry David Thoreau quote, actually, but thanks for playing our game. :)
I hope *I* made the list. :) Yay!
I'd much rather be in competition with a species that had the potential of being symbiotic due to having a different ecological nich.
My attitude is that I have no problem competing with a species I can unplug.
Zune owner: "Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold. Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world. The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere the ceremony of innocence is drowned."
MS Tech Help Line: "Um, could you be more specific about the problem, sir?"
Zune owner: "But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams."
MS Tech Help Line: "Yeah... yeah. Uh, is your Microsoft Zune[TM] device charged?"
Zune owner: "Wow. I actually *heard* you say [TM]! Do they train you to do that?"
MS Tech Help Line: "Yes, sir or madam."
No, can't see it. The Mac Guy is a bit annoying, but Dude! Guy made me want to go out and stab people.
Do "The Passion Of The Christ" and I'll actually pony up the dough.
...is that I forget to rewind the DVDs before I return them.
But isn't the whole point of chaos that you can't predict the outcome no matter how may supoercomputers you throw at it? Those decimal places have to stop at some point in a computer, and the digits beyond that are the seeds of eventual chaos.
My job has been very busy lately, and Elder Scrolls IV wandered into my life, so I simply cut back my Netflix account to two out at a time down from four. I can just about slip in two movies a week. If I can't do that, I'll cut back to one. There's also the "rip to hard drive" option to backlog films.
Feeling "pressure" to watch a movie? What would these "paradox of abundance" sufferers do if they had to go out and hunt a wooly mammoth for dinner? Cripes, take a Paxil or something.
I had a further point to make, but I think I'll just say wooly some more. Wooly. Wooly. Wooly wooly wooly.
When my 3 year old threw a tantrum...
I have a toy for him. Ritalin pops. :) But then again I'm an advocate of keeping children as drugged and as QUIET as possible until the age of 18.
Yes, I have cold, black heart. No need to say it.
the challenge of stewarding an old-school brand like HotWheels in our tech-driven age, the emerging technologies that will affect the toy industry, and Mattel's Web strategy,' he also talks about the effect that video games have had on toy design, and argues that exciting the imagination is the most important role that a toy can fill."
Damn! If he just says "synergy" I have buzzword bingo.
Yummy Egg MacMuffins every morning! :-)
After my last DoD gig, I've really started filtering what opportunities I'll consider.
I also go looking for the projects that have the potential to kill the most people, but then again I'm an utter misanthrope. :D
Although I have to admit that cybernetic, remote controlled stealth shark thing DARPA announced a while back had my interest. No killing the enemy, but it's fricken stealth sharks, man! You know I'd fight for comm lasers to burst the data back to base.
Don't worry, I'll take those mass surveillance jobs. I'll do them really well, too. Sleep tight. :)
I stroll into the conference, half expecting to be given a barium enema by a cross between Nurse Diesel from Mel Brooks' flick and Nurse Ratched from One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest.
Wishful thinking?
Is this part of the coming Singularity?
Ban ipods, radios, phones, noisy kids, and all other distractions from automobiles.
You can have my Shaker 1000 6-CD in-dash changer when you pry it from my cold, dead hands.
Agreed on the kids, though. Can we ban from all public spaces?
There, we can all drive safer now.
Well, you'd have to ban all the drivers as well to achieve that.
Rule #1 of iPod safety: People reaching for their iPods don't cause car accidents. Idiots reaching for their iPods do.
Is that like "Bullets don't kill people, bullets travelling 1200 m/s kill people?"
All I do is R&D. Fortunately, I have established myself with just my measly MSEE. Some of the PhDs here even refer to me as the "honorary PhD" and come to me for questions on things. :) They have come to learn they only have to explain something to me once, and I'm the conduit through which their abstract ideas become real hardware.
I think one needs to do the whole graduate level thing as young as possible. I got the MSEE when I was in my late 20's, and it was a drag even though my employer required less than 40 hours a week during that time. Now, at 40, I think I'd rather be captured by terrorists and have my head sawed off rather than go back to school.
Got an MSEE that my employer paid for. Got a raise out of it, but little else. Most of what I use on a day to day basis is from application notes, manuals published by industry component makers like Xilinx and Cypress Semiconductor, IEEE papers and my own library of books.
My employer offered to send me to get a PhD, but the reward to annoyance ratio was prohibitive. I think my exact response was "Ha ha ha ha ha! You're kidding, right?" I dunno... I just have no buring desire to be called "Doctor". I think it's pretentious.
Instead I spent the time designing equipment that won me company awards, and much more respect than some piece of paper. :-)
I still remember some fool critic in the Los Angeles Times years ago criticizing an Iron Maiden album (Somewhere In Time) for having songs about weird topics (Alexander The Great, for example). He went on and on about how such topics were "nothing a teenager can sink their teeth into".
If the dumbass did even 2 seconds of research on Iron Maiden, he would have learned that lots of their songs are like that, and that's, in fact, why a lot of people like them. So he criticized from ignorance, and also put down a whole class of people (teenagers) in the process.
I have to agree to some extent. I'm growing a little tired of stories along the lines of "My prospective employer didn't like my web site with 900 images of furry porn that I drew using bodily fluids, or my UberShrine to Gadget Mouse, or my collection first-person POV stories about a serial killer who skins women alive! How dare they look at something I exposed to a global network!"
People vote in meddling jackasses with delusions of intelligence and borderline megalomania. These are the pretty boy arseholes with rich parents who ran the major cliques back in school. Now the idiot voters have granted these lunatics the power to dictate how we have fun, who we can fuck, what happens to the money we earn, and so on and so forth.
Walt Kelley said it best:
Pogo
Replace the physical trash with ideological pollution.
And voting out the white boys doesn't help. Here in So Cal, we have many Hispanic Democratic politicians with heavy Catholic backgrounds. Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
My, I'm just full of doom and gloom and pop culture quotes today. :)
...cuts out the stupid scenes. Of course many movies would be completely eliminated.
...that inserts nude scenes that weren't previously in the movie?