Hey, the Professor from Gilligan's Island could make a laptop out of coconuts. DO NOT MOCK SCIENCE!
It would be cute, actually. Little iPhones made from soda cans "sold" in Apple Store mockups built from old Coke bottles. Children converting their little wagons into miniature Geek Squad cars. LOLSpeak replacing traditional dialects. UN aid folks being directed to someone who breaks into a Rick Astley song, or they're routed to the Goatse hut of which no one speaks. Locals wanting to make controversial comments at the weekly tribal meetings could wear the traditional Mask Of The AC.
Shit, I think I just pitched the next Jack Black film.
Eh... there's more than enough web sites to find good apps. I wouldn't say no to a better search engine in the App Store, but the Web has been fine for tracking down particular apps or finding good reviews.
Absolute nonsense. When I was starting out, I asked lots of questions of the more experienced engineers. That's how you learn the ocean of practical knowledge they don't put into the books. Now that I've been at it for over 20 years, I'm the one getting asked the questions, and I'm happy to answer them. In your world everyone sits on little islands reinventing the wheel and never sharing sometimes completely unique experiences.
It almost makes me glad I'm closer to early retirement than not- I knew the tech industry had wet dreams about being like Hollywood, but I didn't realize that extended even to recruiting. Sorry, it still sounds bad, like your valley is some sort of El Dorado or Holy Land.
Anyway, I design hardware. [podunk voice="applejack"]That seems to baffle most "tech" types from that there valley of yours, sugarcube. Why, shucks, them rascals seem to reckon hardware appears fully formed on store shelves courtesy of the gadget elves.[/podunk] Gee, stereotypes are fun, aren't they?
Oh, wait, should I have translated this into l33t speak?
I had all optimism for intelligent thought from politicians slowly drained away since 2000.
You realize they are not actually stupid, right? They just don't give a shit about you or yours. They are more successful than you. They are more powerful than you. They can fuck with your life anytime they want. They get money and whores and favors left and right. Hell, they probably *love* the idea you just consider them stupid.
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Hey, the Professor from Gilligan's Island could make a laptop out of coconuts. DO NOT MOCK SCIENCE!
It would be cute, actually. Little iPhones made from soda cans "sold" in Apple Store mockups built from old Coke bottles. Children converting their little wagons into miniature Geek Squad cars. LOLSpeak replacing traditional dialects. UN aid folks being directed to someone who breaks into a Rick Astley song, or they're routed to the Goatse hut of which no one speaks. Locals wanting to make controversial comments at the weekly tribal meetings could wear the traditional Mask Of The AC.
Shit, I think I just pitched the next Jack Black film.
Eh... there's more than enough web sites to find good apps. I wouldn't say no to a better search engine in the App Store, but the Web has been fine for tracking down particular apps or finding good reviews.
So it's like every other market in the known history of civilization.
OCCUPY THE APP STORE! :-P
And how do you make a loss? If I diet do I gain negative weight?
Aw, c'mon. "Hat size" was funny.
Yeah, it was a lot better when someone could just decree things be done because of their birth or hat size.
That's the guy who invented the tilted windmill, right?
I always thought reairing a season of Cops with Three Stooges sound effects and Looney Tunes music would be ratings gold.
I am sort of weird, though.
i vote everytime. no one i vote for wins.
I do suggest watching the movie Crack in the World [imdb.com], a 1965 movie about tapping magma for an unlimited source of power for the world.
Why? The science in that film was laughable. To be fair, plate tectonics were announced shortly after the film was made.
Ah. So the waste and stupidity is intentional. I feel better now.
But discs are dead! I see it proclaimed on every geek site!
What? Only 3% of my queue is available on streaming? Oh. Guess I'll stick with discs for a while.
Sadly, the subversive papers of the Royal Anti-Society are still being suppressed.
What problem is this solving?
Absolute nonsense. When I was starting out, I asked lots of questions of the more experienced engineers. That's how you learn the ocean of practical knowledge they don't put into the books. Now that I've been at it for over 20 years, I'm the one getting asked the questions, and I'm happy to answer them. In your world everyone sits on little islands reinventing the wheel and never sharing sometimes completely unique experiences.
Does that count winged ponies? :-)
I loved the one asking the USA to help overthrow the tyrannical rule of Princess Celestia. Got taken down, sadly.
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-V6NUom7FyQU/Tn56zgOhiyI/AAAAAAAAAr4/-7dAR6bjsvY/s1600/ohuguize.png
It's time for an Equestrian Spring. Winter Wrap Up is coming...
Did you even read the... oh, what am asking! Derp!
Smithers! Have this AC hunted down and then release the hounds!
It's a spectrum of narcissistic sociopathy. The methods vary, but the end game is the same, the end game being "Mine, mine, all mine!"
It almost makes me glad I'm closer to early retirement than not- I knew the tech industry had wet dreams about being like Hollywood, but I didn't realize that extended even to recruiting. Sorry, it still sounds bad, like your valley is some sort of El Dorado or Holy Land.
Also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paragraph
Anyway, I design hardware. [podunk voice="applejack"]That seems to baffle most "tech" types from that there valley of yours, sugarcube. Why, shucks, them rascals seem to reckon hardware appears fully formed on store shelves courtesy of the gadget elves.[/podunk] Gee, stereotypes are fun, aren't they?
Oh, wait, should I have translated this into l33t speak?
I had all optimism for intelligent thought from politicians slowly drained away since 2000.
You realize they are not actually stupid, right? They just don't give a shit about you or yours. They are more successful than you. They are more powerful than you. They can fuck with your life anytime they want. They get money and whores and favors left and right. Hell, they probably *love* the idea you just consider them stupid.
'We developed this theory that occasionally there were these brilliant people out there who hadn't found their way to Silicon Valley/
Douche comment of the week right there. And I want to work with someone who has *that* limited of a horizon why, exactly?
It doesn't just require a tin-foil hat, it requires hundreds of vacuum tubes, both inside & outside the brain.
I... that... huh?
Someone got their iPhone 4S and asked "Siri, where is Gaddafi, and how do we end him?"
So that's a no?
I do pretty well for myself, thanks for caring, but no way I'm in any 1% bracket.
Not that reality matters to anyone anymore.