Also WRT to the nuclear explosion being called "starfish" this has lead to endless jokes about Taco Bell, McDonalds, resulting in food poisoning, resulting in nuclear level pain in my starfish, etc.
My best friend's 2 year old daughter, on her own, figured out how to turn on his iPhone and get to the funny photo of her and pets and whatnot she likes. I'd say the problem lies more with your boss's wife.
What it actually did was blow out hundreds of streetlights in Hawaii 900 miles away, damage a half dozen satellites, and create artificial aurorae and intense radiation zones above the Earth.
Sounds like a successful test to me.:-) Assuming they were testing for AWESOMENESS!
Who even cares at this point? There's eight hundred trillion of these lawsuits filed every day. Sitting there caring or rooting for or hating on one side or the other is exactly the distraction the sociopaths in charge want.
Actually, that was hubris hitting some very intelligent people. They built these bright, shiny economic investment models, and even hired real scientists to help. FPGA based super computers might have been involved at some point. Bleeding edge, heady stuff with mathematics to pique the interest of a string theorist. They created what they thought was infallible realizations of financial perfection, and released their digital prodigy into the real world... which proceeded to chew them up like wolves discovering a herd of baby bunnies. Why do I call them intelligent still? Who paid the price, us or them?
I used to watch a show called Pinnacle on CNN in the early days where they'd profile some successful person each show. One common factor was that there was some person in their lives that could be seen as a keystone to the whole arch: a talented mentor when they were a kid, a person with the right connections after college, someone with some critical resource or knowledge at the right time.
The real answer is personality type. If you are the type of personality that loves to meet people and be hypersocial, you're simply going to have more opportunities pass within your life's field of view, especially while pursuing activities involved with obtaining an advanced degree.
If that passes for a supervillain in your universe, where's the portal to get there?
In my universe the run of the mill villains slaughter people without remorse or conscience; win public office based on lies and then force their demented wills on the people with the full force of government agencies (staffed by personality types that love to get all up in your shit with force) at their backs; wage wars with vague purpose and no end game, or just because someone's great great grandparent did some uncertain bad thing to someone else's great great grandparent; head up thuggish dictatorships that commit genocide and slavery; run hideous anti-science, misogynist religions; leave dozens of decapitated bodies hanging from bridges merely as a warning to others; hire physicists to build economic models that eventually crash the economy; write laws that lead to the hiring of physicists to build models that eventually crash the economy; refuse to see the society destroying fallacies of their own ideologies despite endless empirical evidence, and, oh, so many other things.
Geez, your universe considered some jackass offering a free and voluntary service with dubious fine print a supervillain? Let me pack my bags!
Yeah, those hurricane force winds would get those windmills pumping out the power! Zoom!
Actually, I'd like to see that, preferably via video from a safe location.
Bob: Power's still out, man! Bill: Good thing I had that solar power on my roof! Bob: But your roof is somewhere in the next county. Bill: Details, details...
Sustainable development is easy. My computer models show as much. For example, once you're done punching a tree to pieces, replant a few of the saplings that drop as the floating foliage evaporates. Potable water? A 2x2 well provides infinite buckets of it. Crops can be expanded indefinitely if you collect the seeds from your wheat harvests for replanting.
Most of the menus I see are served as basic HTML. Why the flying feathery fook would a menu need Flash? That's should be basic text info given personality by CSS, and a lot easier to update that way, especially for places that might change the menu daily.
The fancier ones, like pizza delivery where you build your pizza online, all seem to work (HTML+JS, presumably), and the major chains all just have apps now.
To be honest, if you like casual games, the iPad might have been the better choice. Not sure why anyone cares about IE4 at this point, and video works just fine on my iPad.
As for HTML5 games, seriously? You think there's only one?
I've been dabbling in Objective C. It's... interesting. I regret nothing... well, unless I have those dreams with the brackets. So many brackets! And the garbage! Piling up everywhere! Was it five references or six? Do I feel lucky? What? Where was I? Oh. Yeah, it's OK.
Slashdot Mirror
Wait, isn't that a central tenant of Scientology?
And volcanoes are the output ports, so, plan fail, I guess.
Also WRT to the nuclear explosion being called "starfish" this has lead to endless jokes about Taco Bell, McDonalds, resulting in food poisoning, resulting in nuclear level pain in my starfish, etc.
I'm sorry, what?
You know atmosphere + sunlight makes more ozone, right? Wait... Martains? WTF?
My best friend's 2 year old daughter, on her own, figured out how to turn on his iPhone and get to the funny photo of her and pets and whatnot she likes. I'd say the problem lies more with your boss's wife.
There! Right there. Did you all feel it? The word "evil" was finally devalued to absolute zero.
Never thought I'd see Slashdot seriously link to an Onion article and- what? Really?
I know!
What it actually did was blow out hundreds of streetlights in Hawaii 900 miles away, damage a half dozen satellites, and create artificial aurorae and intense radiation zones above the Earth.
Sounds like a successful test to me. :-) Assuming they were testing for AWESOMENESS!
No, I just think the word "evil" has been devalued to nothingness by bugfuck uses like this one, little AC.
Who even cares at this point? There's eight hundred trillion of these lawsuits filed every day. Sitting there caring or rooting for or hating on one side or the other is exactly the distraction the sociopaths in charge want.
Protip: making vague concerns boldface does not make them real or more clear.
Actually, that was hubris hitting some very intelligent people. They built these bright, shiny economic investment models, and even hired real scientists to help. FPGA based super computers might have been involved at some point. Bleeding edge, heady stuff with mathematics to pique the interest of a string theorist. They created what they thought was infallible realizations of financial perfection, and released their digital prodigy into the real world... which proceeded to chew them up like wolves discovering a herd of baby bunnies. Why do I call them intelligent still? Who paid the price, us or them?
I used to watch a show called Pinnacle on CNN in the early days where they'd profile some successful person each show. One common factor was that there was some person in their lives that could be seen as a keystone to the whole arch: a talented mentor when they were a kid, a person with the right connections after college, someone with some critical resource or knowledge at the right time.
The real answer is personality type. If you are the type of personality that loves to meet people and be hypersocial, you're simply going to have more opportunities pass within your life's field of view, especially while pursuing activities involved with obtaining an advanced degree.
If that passes for a supervillain in your universe, where's the portal to get there?
In my universe the run of the mill villains slaughter people without remorse or conscience; win public office based on lies and then force their demented wills on the people with the full force of government agencies (staffed by personality types that love to get all up in your shit with force) at their backs; wage wars with vague purpose and no end game, or just because someone's great great grandparent did some uncertain bad thing to someone else's great great grandparent; head up thuggish dictatorships that commit genocide and slavery; run hideous anti-science, misogynist religions; leave dozens of decapitated bodies hanging from bridges merely as a warning to others; hire physicists to build economic models that eventually crash the economy; write laws that lead to the hiring of physicists to build models that eventually crash the economy; refuse to see the society destroying fallacies of their own ideologies despite endless empirical evidence, and, oh, so many other things.
Geez, your universe considered some jackass offering a free and voluntary service with dubious fine print a supervillain? Let me pack my bags!
Yeah, those hurricane force winds would get those windmills pumping out the power! Zoom!
Actually, I'd like to see that, preferably via video from a safe location.
Bob: Power's still out, man!
Bill: Good thing I had that solar power on my roof!
Bob: But your roof is somewhere in the next county.
Bill: Details, details...
Sustainable development is easy. My computer models show as much. For example, once you're done punching a tree to pieces, replant a few of the saplings that drop as the floating foliage evaporates. Potable water? A 2x2 well provides infinite buckets of it. Crops can be expanded indefinitely if you collect the seeds from your wheat harvests for replanting.
Ah, ideology is always just a tall, cool drink of water, isn't it? Refreshing! New ideas!
Most of the menus I see are served as basic HTML. Why the flying feathery fook would a menu need Flash? That's should be basic text info given personality by CSS, and a lot easier to update that way, especially for places that might change the menu daily.
The fancier ones, like pizza delivery where you build your pizza online, all seem to work (HTML+JS, presumably), and the major chains all just have apps now.
To be honest, if you like casual games, the iPad might have been the better choice. Not sure why anyone cares about IE4 at this point, and video works just fine on my iPad.
As for HTML5 games, seriously? You think there's only one?
http://www.google.com/webhp?q=html5+games
This seemed strange to me.
Well, you see, adults can have complicated and nuanced points of view that don't just see everything in pure black and white.
I've been dabbling in Objective C. It's... interesting. I regret nothing... well, unless I have those dreams with the brackets. So many brackets! And the garbage! Piling up everywhere! Was it five references or six? Do I feel lucky? What? Where was I? Oh. Yeah, it's OK.
...okay...
(QD backs away slowly from the rest of humanity)
Who knew they still made software for buggies?
You're desthpicable.
So it's kind of an unknown. A mystery between two sides.
A dicryptoneoportmanteaulogismchotomy, if you will.
Or a neoportmanteaulogism.