Or maybe it's just bored employees goofing off on their office computers instead of working (which comes as a complete shock to many of you, I'm sure).
If they were going to be hiding coded messages in a public internet forum, wouldn't it be easier to hide them on a site where they can't be edited by anyone who visits it? It's not like there's a shortage of sites that they can make cryptic posts on.
The excitement of seeing the action as it's unfolding shouldn't be underestimated. The Superbowl can also be edited and released at a later date, but you'd be crazy if you think people wouldn't prefer to watch the live broadcast.
They don't need to be cheaper than $3 an hour; they need to be cheaper than however many workers a single machine can replace multiplied by $3 an hour. So if it can do the work of ten men, it will only have to be below $30 an hour.
Of course, this does nothing to mitigate the fact that fruit picking robot factories will soon need a lot of cheap labor...
Not that I've heard of. Plus we have this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fdic so bank failures aren't a big worry. I guess he could be worried about banks allowing fraud or hidden fees that they use to squeeze extra pennies out of people, but that can be minimized by only putting small amounts into the bank and using the account only when necessary.
Remember that Microsoft sells 360s at a loss, making up that loss with game sales and live accounts. If someone buys a new 360 and only plays pirated games on it, Microsoft would only make money from the live subscription. Thus it's still bad for Microsoft.
Not being one myself, I consider a religion Christian if it's based on Jesus. If that particular religion adds a bunch of crazy nonsense to the Jesus worshiping, it doesn't make its followers non-Christians, it just makes them Christians who also believe a bunch of crazy nonsense.
Apparently the Mythbusters out-takes episode, the source for my last post, was a fantasy. Generally speaking, not everything that they try makes it into the final cut; time restraints and entertainment value are the editor's goals in putting an episode together.
Also, I'm well aware that the show is not peer-reviewed scientific journal quality material, and not once did I say that it is. Some of their tests are quite good, others are less than impressive. The worst I've see was their test of breaking a bridge through harmonics; first they put an army of pneumatic marching shoes on a model bridge, resulting in absolutely nothing, next they had Adam jump up and down on a piece of plywood suspended between two sawhorses.
And yes, you can't conclude anything from a single Mythbusters segment, but it still shows you what happened one time when someone tried out a myth. Even in real science you can't conclude anything from a single test, many different experiments with many trials are required. Induction is a harsh mistress.
If you want to see a truely crappy TV show of this sort of thing, watch an episode of Braniac. You'll see just how much worse Mythbusters could be in their testing.
They do a lot more trials and variations than what you see in the final cut. With the way the show is edited, it often looks like they only tried something once or twice.
The Clam Plate Orgy guy was a nut; he'd interpret every single dot and line as some sort of pornographic picture. All he was doing was the print equivalent of finding shapes in the clouds.
So the government convincingly faked every single call made by the passengers to their friends and families? Not a single one of them realized it wasn't really who they thought it was?
Yes, it was the Doctor. The alien both guided life and civilization to become advanced enough to rebuild his crashed ship, and commissioned Leonardo to paint several extra Mona Lisas so his future self could sell them. I consider this to be a theory entirely consistant with Intelligent Design.
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Or maybe it's just bored employees goofing off on their office computers instead of working (which comes as a complete shock to many of you, I'm sure). If they were going to be hiding coded messages in a public internet forum, wouldn't it be easier to hide them on a site where they can't be edited by anyone who visits it? It's not like there's a shortage of sites that they can make cryptic posts on.
The excitement of seeing the action as it's unfolding shouldn't be underestimated. The Superbowl can also be edited and released at a later date, but you'd be crazy if you think people wouldn't prefer to watch the live broadcast.
It's abandonware now: http://www.the-underdogs.info/game.php?id=4973
Maybe they should save that one for a 7 laughingstocks of the world list.
You mean to say that we'd get to see what good versions of them would be like? When does the weather report say the next ion storm is?
They don't need to be cheaper than $3 an hour; they need to be cheaper than however many workers a single machine can replace multiplied by $3 an hour. So if it can do the work of ten men, it will only have to be below $30 an hour. Of course, this does nothing to mitigate the fact that fruit picking robot factories will soon need a lot of cheap labor...
Not that I've heard of. Plus we have this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fdic so bank failures aren't a big worry. I guess he could be worried about banks allowing fraud or hidden fees that they use to squeeze extra pennies out of people, but that can be minimized by only putting small amounts into the bank and using the account only when necessary.
Remember that Microsoft sells 360s at a loss, making up that loss with game sales and live accounts. If someone buys a new 360 and only plays pirated games on it, Microsoft would only make money from the live subscription. Thus it's still bad for Microsoft.
How are they supposed to be proactive? Keyword banning? A video watching copyright identifying robot?
Hell, that's describing half of all software released these days.
Everquest has them.
Not being one myself, I consider a religion Christian if it's based on Jesus. If that particular religion adds a bunch of crazy nonsense to the Jesus worshiping, it doesn't make its followers non-Christians, it just makes them Christians who also believe a bunch of crazy nonsense.
You're forgetting two other things that happened. People also decided to help players (giving them a human controlled pet)or attack other monsters.
I agree. Even before being tasered this guy was throwing a temper tantrum.
Captain Kangaroo is a Linux user?
I'm happy as long as I have real time weapon switching!
A paid beta tester? (or whatever they call the guys who play unreleased console games to search for bugs).
Does this mean we'll find out the identity of the guy who asked the AOL search engine "do (racial slurs) have x-ray vision?"
Apparently the Mythbusters out-takes episode, the source for my last post, was a fantasy. Generally speaking, not everything that they try makes it into the final cut; time restraints and entertainment value are the editor's goals in putting an episode together. Also, I'm well aware that the show is not peer-reviewed scientific journal quality material, and not once did I say that it is. Some of their tests are quite good, others are less than impressive. The worst I've see was their test of breaking a bridge through harmonics; first they put an army of pneumatic marching shoes on a model bridge, resulting in absolutely nothing, next they had Adam jump up and down on a piece of plywood suspended between two sawhorses. And yes, you can't conclude anything from a single Mythbusters segment, but it still shows you what happened one time when someone tried out a myth. Even in real science you can't conclude anything from a single test, many different experiments with many trials are required. Induction is a harsh mistress. If you want to see a truely crappy TV show of this sort of thing, watch an episode of Braniac. You'll see just how much worse Mythbusters could be in their testing.
They do a lot more trials and variations than what you see in the final cut. With the way the show is edited, it often looks like they only tried something once or twice.
Yes, damn them for making the most successful console fps ever!
The Clam Plate Orgy guy was a nut; he'd interpret every single dot and line as some sort of pornographic picture. All he was doing was the print equivalent of finding shapes in the clouds.
That's from this article about the death of adventure games at the long neglected oldmanmurray site: http://www.oldmanmurray.com/features/77.html
So the government convincingly faked every single call made by the passengers to their friends and families? Not a single one of them realized it wasn't really who they thought it was?
Yes, it was the Doctor. The alien both guided life and civilization to become advanced enough to rebuild his crashed ship, and commissioned Leonardo to paint several extra Mona Lisas so his future self could sell them. I consider this to be a theory entirely consistant with Intelligent Design.