Would be for google.org to provide standardized wind turbines and solar cell arrays to poor areas to be able to actually use computers with, and drop the production and delivery costs BELOW standard pricing.
This would kickstart supplies of component materials and give economies of scale so the whole world could generate power without harming the environment as much, and drop costs for more developed areas due to the economies of scale, while preventing people from escaping to the cities to get power, internet, and other things, because they'd have it where they are.
I have a confession to make; I once tried the AOL free trial. The free trial wasn't woth the cost!
I find that it's hard to get the 1024 hours of free online time. After about the third day of mainlining caffeine, you start seeing things, and it's not your monitor reacting to the magnetic calendars you keep putting on it...
from Secret and Confidential downwards, I've found in my time that most overclassifications and reclassifications were mostly the result of people trying to CYA and hide things that should have been unclassified or less restricted.
Par for the course. You're doing a great job, Bushie.
intelligent people who can't understand consequences of loony ideas but are very good at pushing out enough frak that noone understands they're really loony people---eg, Americans.
No, Red State Red Commie Bushies. Most of us never voted for King George and his Red China Comrades.
I already imagine chairs flying around in Microsoft's dark office...:P
Only in the rooms with sufficient processing power.
In the other rooms, you have to settle for flying chairs using the Classic Vista scheme, and no fade-in or fade-out effects.
Now if I could just get my sound card supported I'd be able to hear the crash from the flying chairs - instead I just get lockup and "Incompatible sound card" errors.
We have a vast stockpile of nuclear-tipped ICBMs. Q.E.D.:-)
So does Red China and the UK. Heck, even France has enough to fry the world six times over.
And, for that matter, Iran has nukes. They just don't have enough to waste a few on test explosions yet.
Reminds me of breaking into song and singing "The Hills Are Alive With The Sound of Spam!" back when I was a small child. Yes, you silly k-niggit, it's time for the world to say: "I'm not dead yet. I'm feeling better."
Yes, well, I never wanted to be a Slashdot troll. I always wanted to be...a lumberjack! Leaping from tree to tree as they float down the mighty rivers of British Columbia!
I think I'll break out into song now!
I'm a Lumberjack and I'm ok! I work all night and I sleep all day!....
I wear high heels, a doily, a dress and go paw paw! And then go out for mai-tais or daiquiris for sure!
[knock knock, stage left]
[music winds down]
Lumber Jacques: Oui?
Silly men in official language police suits with Fluer de Lis lapel buttons: Ah, monsieur, nous sommes les policiers officiels de la langue Francaise Quebecoise et nous objecterions a cette chanson, parce que c'est en Anglais avant que c'est en Francais.
Lumber Jacques: Well, that tears it! I'll have to go back to Manitoba and check myself into a loony bin now!
I am both sickened and disgusted that these are being aired first by an American station. Die fuckers die.
I know, it's just offensive how noone takes religion seriously anymore. When the Flying Spaghetti Monster takes us to Heaven, I'll be sure to tell him about it.
See, now, you had to take a good, funny joke line and inject your thuddingly unfunny political screed. It's people like you what cause unrest.
Strange.
I thought I started with the Spanish Inquisition, did a Canadian Inquisition, and then an American Inquisition.
You're perfectly free to - instead of gripe about it - show us how humorous you can be and post something about the Italian Inquisition or French Inquisition - personally, I found the French Inquisition to be more bloody than the Spanish, in actual practice, especially if one were a Cathar, and hence might make for some great jokes.
But, instead, you choose to complain instead of show off your wit.
If it's true that a sighted man is king in the land of the blind, then is a one-armed woman queen in the land of the armless?
Actually, I don't know of any American who actually dislikes things that are made in France. Their cheese is great, the wine is great, and... uhmm.. Peugeots... ok, we hate Peugeots.
no, I'm sorry, some of the French cheese is stinky, some is runny, and some is both.
That said, I spend way more time on vacation in France than anywere else, so I personally like French stuff, but some here don't.
You're assuming that they receive less with a lower suggested retail price.
We don't know the wholesale costs, nor do we know what in-game-revenue deals for product placement, or pricing of game supplement materials (books, add-ons, t-shirts, sports cars paint jobs, etc) are.
It's possible that they could drop the pricing from $59.99 SRP to $39.99 SRP per unit, sell five times as many units but only drop production/marketing/delivery costs by a fraction - more volume discounts on shipping, easier channel costs, better ad buys, easier to spin marketing with higher demand, and also make up for it in the add-on and in-game-advertising (Coke/Pepsi/GM/etc) to where they really don't "lose" much at all, and gain a lot more.
The same people who have an xbox now will probably get a 360 once something new comes out that they really want, like SC:Ghost, since they can play a lot of their old titles on it. This includes the Halo fans who will buy it simply to have Halo3 when it comes out. Lots of americans will buy it. Will sell really bad in asian countries. Girlfriends will play the arcade games on their boyfriends Live accounts.
Except, I have an xBox and I'm not buying an xBox360. And a lot of people I know, here in MSFT center Seattle, aren't either. Most of us are underwhelmed.
The PS3 comes out. Japan will lap it up. It will be an anime/RPG wet-dream, FinalFantasy ad-nauseum.
I predict that, Blu-Ray disc aside, that they may do well in the US/Canada and Euro zone as well. Even tho their DRM attempts to install spyware are a royal pain.
The Revolution comes out at some point with its entourage of Zelda/Mario/Yoshi/Wario/Samus etc. Plus funky new controller & probably something cute like Nintendogs or something to pull in (female) non-gamer audience. Xbox & PS3 owners will dismiss it as being too kiddy & not a serious games machine. Nintendo will ignore this & continue to sell them by the truckload.
Yes, Nintendo will make a profit on it. They may even release a lot of new forms of games, that may not get a lot of media attention at first, but I have a gut feel they may do better than expected.
In summary: faster hardware, newer increments of existing games/genres, existing demographics will not change.
I don't know, unless they redo the xBox360 and do something different, I think we're looking at the revival of Nintendo in 2nd or 1st place, and the continuing dominance of PS3 by Sony.
I work with a Brit and she hates Monty Python. She thinks they are the most unfunny "comedy" troupe around. Of course, she also says I have an accent.
Well, you do. She speaks English. You speak some kind of mangled dialect of it and even spell some of the words funny, but it's definitely not English, more like a disused dialect that's been flushed down the john and had all the air let out of it, similar to calling petrol by some funny version called gas, when the whole world calls it petrol anyway.
yes, I watched the special where they had his ashes in an urn.
Personally, I liked the visual of them digging up his corpse, complete with school tie, withered and moldy, and using animatronics to animate it, possibly including really obvious wires and devices that occassionally would issue smoke when they stopped working.
But now you've gone and done it. Now I'm depressed. I can't go on any longer. I'll have to commit sepaku and blame it on watching too much anime.
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Would be for google.org to provide standardized wind turbines and solar cell arrays to poor areas to be able to actually use computers with, and drop the production and delivery costs BELOW standard pricing.
This would kickstart supplies of component materials and give economies of scale so the whole world could generate power without harming the environment as much, and drop costs for more developed areas due to the economies of scale, while preventing people from escaping to the cities to get power, internet, and other things, because they'd have it where they are.
But that would take guts.
People still use dial-up!?
They're not people, they're caffeine-ingesting squirrels who get bored sitting in our attics, and decided to hack the Net - literally.
Out of curiousity, did any of those ISP's back in the mid 90's that offered lifetime internet access for one large initial fee survive the dotcom era?
Yeah, Eskimo North is still around and doing well, and I think Drizzle is also doing well too.
I have a confession to make; I once tried the AOL free trial. The free trial wasn't woth the cost!
...
I find that it's hard to get the 1024 hours of free online time. After about the third day of mainlining caffeine, you start seeing things, and it's not your monitor reacting to the magnetic calendars you keep putting on it
Everyone I know has gigapop Internet. Some of the local peons only have cable modem or DSL, but they're in the minority.
Is this some kind of red state thing like having landline phones like in the Dark Ages?
from Secret and Confidential downwards, I've found in my time that most overclassifications and reclassifications were mostly the result of people trying to CYA and hide things that should have been unclassified or less restricted.
Par for the course. You're doing a great job, Bushie.
Where's the sarcasm key on my keyboard?
intelligent people who can't understand consequences of loony ideas but are very good at pushing out enough frak that noone understands they're really loony people---eg, Americans.
No, Red State Red Commie Bushies. Most of us never voted for King George and his Red China Comrades.
well, both my son and I have shared Diablo II accounts online, so it's all good.
Makes it a lot quicker keeping your characters up to date.
nope sorry, just doesn't work as well.
I already imagine chairs flying around in Microsoft's dark office...:P
Only in the rooms with sufficient processing power.
In the other rooms, you have to settle for flying chairs using the Classic Vista scheme, and no fade-in or fade-out effects.
Now if I could just get my sound card supported I'd be able to hear the crash from the flying chairs - instead I just get lockup and "Incompatible sound card" errors.
We have a vast stockpile of nuclear-tipped ICBMs. Q.E.D. :-)
So does Red China and the UK. Heck, even France has enough to fry the world six times over.
And, for that matter, Iran has nukes. They just don't have enough to waste a few on test explosions yet.
Reminds me of breaking into song and singing "The Hills Are Alive With The Sound of Spam!" back when I was a small child. Yes, you silly k-niggit, it's time for the world to say: "I'm not dead yet. I'm feeling better."
Yes, well, I never wanted to be a Slashdot troll. I always wanted to be...a lumberjack! Leaping from tree to tree as they float down the mighty rivers of British Columbia!
....
I think I'll break out into song now!
I'm a Lumberjack and I'm ok!
I work all night and I sleep all day!
I wear high heels, a doily, a dress and go paw paw!
And then go out for mai-tais or daiquiris for sure!
[knock knock, stage left]
[music winds down]
Lumber Jacques: Oui?
Silly men in official language police suits with Fluer de Lis lapel buttons:
Ah, monsieur, nous sommes les policiers officiels de la langue Francaise Quebecoise et nous objecterions a cette chanson, parce que c'est en Anglais avant que c'est en Francais.
Lumber Jacques: Well, that tears it! I'll have to go back to Manitoba and check myself into a loony bin now!
I am both sickened and disgusted that these are being aired first by an American station. Die fuckers die.
I know, it's just offensive how noone takes religion seriously anymore. When the Flying Spaghetti Monster takes us to Heaven, I'll be sure to tell him about it.
See, now, you had to take a good, funny joke line and inject your thuddingly unfunny political screed. It's people like you what cause unrest.
Strange.
I thought I started with the Spanish Inquisition, did a Canadian Inquisition, and then an American Inquisition.
You're perfectly free to - instead of gripe about it - show us how humorous you can be and post something about the Italian Inquisition or French Inquisition - personally, I found the French Inquisition to be more bloody than the Spanish, in actual practice, especially if one were a Cathar, and hence might make for some great jokes.
But, instead, you choose to complain instead of show off your wit.
If it's true that a sighted man is king in the land of the blind, then is a one-armed woman queen in the land of the armless?
Actually, I don't know of any American who actually dislikes things that are made in France. Their cheese is great, the wine is great, and... uhmm.. Peugeots... ok, we hate Peugeots.
...
no, I'm sorry, some of the French cheese is stinky, some is runny, and some is both.
That said, I spend way more time on vacation in France than anywere else, so I personally like French stuff, but some here don't.
Even Monty Python made fun of the French
the indie games in the accompanying article weren't that great.
...
I'm sorry, there's nothing wrong with making your own game, but I've seen better FlashMedia done by teens on Spring Break
NewGrounds.com has lots of them.
You're assuming that they receive less with a lower suggested retail price.
We don't know the wholesale costs, nor do we know what in-game-revenue deals for product placement, or pricing of game supplement materials (books, add-ons, t-shirts, sports cars paint jobs, etc) are.
It's possible that they could drop the pricing from $59.99 SRP to $39.99 SRP per unit, sell five times as many units but only drop production/marketing/delivery costs by a fraction - more volume discounts on shipping, easier channel costs, better ad buys, easier to spin marketing with higher demand, and also make up for it in the add-on and in-game-advertising (Coke/Pepsi/GM/etc) to where they really don't "lose" much at all, and gain a lot more.
Here is how it's going to go down:
The same people who have an xbox now will probably get a 360 once something new comes out that they really want, like SC:Ghost, since they can play a lot of their old titles on it. This includes the Halo fans who will buy it simply to have Halo3 when it comes out. Lots of americans will buy it. Will sell really bad in asian countries. Girlfriends will play the arcade games on their boyfriends Live accounts.
Except, I have an xBox and I'm not buying an xBox360. And a lot of people I know, here in MSFT center Seattle, aren't either. Most of us are underwhelmed.
The PS3 comes out. Japan will lap it up. It will be an anime/RPG wet-dream, FinalFantasy ad-nauseum.
I predict that, Blu-Ray disc aside, that they may do well in the US/Canada and Euro zone as well. Even tho their DRM attempts to install spyware are a royal pain.
The Revolution comes out at some point with its entourage of Zelda/Mario/Yoshi/Wario/Samus etc. Plus funky new controller & probably something cute like Nintendogs or something to pull in (female) non-gamer audience. Xbox & PS3 owners will dismiss it as being too kiddy & not a serious games machine. Nintendo will ignore this & continue to sell them by the truckload.
Yes, Nintendo will make a profit on it. They may even release a lot of new forms of games, that may not get a lot of media attention at first, but I have a gut feel they may do better than expected.
In summary: faster hardware, newer increments of existing games/genres, existing demographics will not change.
I don't know, unless they redo the xBox360 and do something different, I think we're looking at the revival of Nintendo in 2nd or 1st place, and the continuing dominance of PS3 by Sony.
I work with a Brit and she hates Monty Python. She thinks they are the most unfunny "comedy" troupe around. Of course, she also says I have an accent.
Well, you do. She speaks English. You speak some kind of mangled dialect of it and even spell some of the words funny, but it's definitely not English, more like a disused dialect that's been flushed down the john and had all the air let out of it, similar to calling petrol by some funny version called gas, when the whole world calls it petrol anyway.
frequently.
oh, sorry, I thought you meant err.
My apologies. Won't happen again.
[shoots self in head]
[lifeless corpse thuds to ground]
[offstage yell] Medic!
yes, I watched the special where they had his ashes in an urn.
Personally, I liked the visual of them digging up his corpse, complete with school tie, withered and moldy, and using animatronics to animate it, possibly including really obvious wires and devices that occassionally would issue smoke when they stopped working.
But now you've gone and done it. Now I'm depressed. I can't go on any longer. I'll have to commit sepaku and blame it on watching too much anime.
in the past they had an urn on a chair which they claimed were his ashes. I don't recall if they had an animatronic lid or not.
Nowadays we use CGI.
Still, would be funnier with wires moving the jaw and all that.
"Plus an almost fanatical devition to health care-four, our four chief weapons are ..."
No, let's do that one over again.
[Exeunt]
[Stage Manager shot in loud explosion, followed by thud of body]
Noone expects the American Inquisition!
Our Chief Weapons are Fear, Torture, and an insane hatred of all things French!
-- Knights who say Ni
Funny
ROFL
Ni
Do While (Funny)
If (Ni)
Then
Say "Ikki Panga Poota!"
Else
Say "Ni!"
End If
If ! StillLaughing
Then
Funny = 0 -- false
ROFL = 0 -- false
End If
End Do
no, no, no - you've got it all wrong.
It's "Noone expects the Canadian Inquisition. Our chief weapons are Attractive Women, Excessive Politeness, and a smashing good Sense of Humor."