p2p needs seeders, even if they never create a new file. I have a friend who downloads battlestar galactica and leaves them all seeding 24/7. UL:DL ratio is over 100:1! Whenever a new one comes out she gets insanely fast downloads because of eMule's default configuration to reward uploaders. I'd say she's helping the p2p community. Probably helped the SciFi channel too, considering how many people she's turned on to the show.
Huh? TV was free for 50 years, and some of it still is. That works just fine. Most of Google's products are free. I'd say that the chances are pretty good someone could come up with a scheme to make money giving away their product, considering it's been done already and continues to be done now.
I think CS will continue to grow and be important, even in the US, for the indefinite future. I just didn't like the car analogy.:)
Although, if Toyota sold software I bet it'd be reliable and hold its resale value.
To be fair, if I count all the people who work on maintaining cars things aren't so bad in the US. I do remember hearing about the problems that newly reliable cars have had on the mechanic industry, though.
I guess as long as cars and programs keep crashing there'll be work for all of us!
Maybe you have to be older. At the time, it was very exciting and new and groundbreaking. You could type plain english into the game and it'd parse it (ok, sometimes) It was a pretty detailed puzzle-story that you could interact with in a somewhat open-ended fashion. I'd say that it led to the whole role-playing and epic story genres of games.
Zork won't seem very groundbreaking or important to anyone who grew up with the playstation or whatever.
I'd say that an original story isn't important if it is similar to another game. Intuitive gameplay would be nearly irrelevant. Artwork? Give me a break. When we talk about important games it almost HAS to be the first/best games utterly unlike anything else already made. Final Fantasy 32768 will never be nominated for Most Important Game if it is simply another RPG, no matter how good the story, graphics, or gameplay.
Good point. I am bothered immensely by people who mispronounce words. I will try to politely correct them, and I hope that people correct me if I don't know how to pronounce a word properly. Seriously uneducated people are painful to listen to, partly because they mispronounce so many words.
If someone said "I loosed the bolt" it would be confusing and irritating. I'd have to ask "Did you lose the bolt?" and honestly wouldn't know whether it was gone or loosened.
The reason we can interpret homonyms is that they sound the same. If you could somehow misspell and have it look the same nobody would care.
I think if someone were to often mispronounce words or pronounce wrong but similar words they would find conversations to be difficult. They would be corrected often and would have difficulty finding people willing to talk with them.
Thank you for an interesting line of thought. The next time someone acts put out to be corrected I can ask if they'd like to be corrected if they said "I loosed the bolt" out loud. I'll bet most people would.
Wish I'd saved a modpoint. You are absolutely right. If the ad-bastards had shown even a glimmer of respect for their product I would not feel so angry and self-righteous about blocking everything except text ads all the time.
The whole mentality is wrong. They'd rather have a million extra angry eyeballs who hate their ad than lose even the chance of a single sale.
I just wish there was a way to adblock in real life. I'm getting scared of the more and more ad-infested world we live in. Ads in airplanes and lightrail are the latest abominations. The sad thing is they aren't even making that much money from them. I'd gladly pay an extra $0.30 for an ad-free airplane ride but I'm not given the choice.
Oh well, once we're all wearing total-immersion VR suits 24/7 adblocking the realworld will be trivial.
The nice thing about time zones is that you have a frame of reference when travelling. If you are at UTC-6 or UTC+4 you know the sun will come up in the AM and people will be up and about by 8. You need to be checked out of your hotel by noonish and you can guess when meals are. If someone says "Let's have drinks at 6" you don't have to wonder AM or PM. Sure a bit of research or questions could help, but I would find it disorienting, especially if changing time zones all the time. I'd have "breakfast" mapped to so many different times I'd be very confused before my coffee!
Lots of inland cities build roads NS/EW. This makes a lot of sense to me. It doesn't align with the sun perfectly, but at least it is easier to navigate. You can tell from the address what direction the house faces, since odd/even indicates which side of the street you're on.
I've noticed that near the coast you'll have things grid aligned with the coast or something. Many newer developments (ugly McMansions mainly) have stupid curving streets, all named the same thing. Meadowbridge Lane, park, court, drive, street, avenue. All meeting multiple times.
I don't know if you thought of this, but the location of sunise and sunset changes over the course of the year. How exactly would it be possible to build a house to align with something that changes?
The first thing everyone does after installing cameras everywhere is install facial recognition and license plate readers, which links everything together. I'd be horrified if my movements were being tracked, monitored and analyzed 24/7.
I invented the Pabstapult, which makes for a nice explosion when the can explodes. It wasn't connected to my fridge and wasn't fully robotic, so kudos!
Good point, I've had tags eaten myself. I checked the source before posting, and there was a carriage return there. That's what happens when you don't know to use tags and just press return. Preview shows how it'll end up, too. If you mangle the tag somehow it'll be there, mangled, in the source. I've fatfingered tags and not noticed in preview, so I actually checked before insulting him and giving him a suggestion to try using tags.
Maybe we could save some of that money spent on establishing military control of nations on the other side of the globe and use it to fund our educational system. Nah, it costs more to teach kids Arabic and qurans cost money too.
Learn how to quote. Your pathetic attempt to put a carriage return makes your reply mix in with what you're replying to. Makes you look like a retard. (try wrapping your quoted text with <blockquote> tags or at least put in line breaks)
Are you seriously implying that if we didn't destabilize Iraq we'd be an Islamic country? How so? Saddam Hussein was a secularist.
I've installed XP and Office 2003 on a PII-233 w/512MB of RAM. It ran well, but I agree that it isn't always as easy to just install and go as a modern machine.
Also, in this case, there are Compatability Packs that allow reading and writing of Office 2003/2007 files with earlier versions. There are other options for compatability, such as OpenOffice.
Working computers are clogging are landfills. It's a real problem. I have 5 PII-350 PCs that anyone who wants can have for free. They'll probably be gone in a few months. They work perfectly for browsing the internet, email, word processing, etc.
I set up a down-and-out friend with "pirated" wireless and a garbage PC and she suddendly had a much easier time job hunting. There are many jobs that are only posted online, there are many employers that require online applications. She's making good money now, and wasn't before. I'd say that's important.
That's just an artifact of biological optical circuitry. Try getting in a dark place and hit your head really hard. You'll see a flash of light that isn't "really" there, unless you're a robot. Then you'll spark.
Antibacterial everything and "flushable" cloth wipes/sanitary products will ensure the need for regular septic pumping. I agree OP doesn't understand septic systems.
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p2p needs seeders, even if they never create a new file. I have a friend who downloads battlestar galactica and leaves them all seeding 24/7. UL:DL ratio is over 100:1! Whenever a new one comes out she gets insanely fast downloads because of eMule's default configuration to reward uploaders. I'd say she's helping the p2p community. Probably helped the SciFi channel too, considering how many people she's turned on to the show.
Huh? TV was free for 50 years, and some of it still is. That works just fine. Most of Google's products are free. I'd say that the chances are pretty good someone could come up with a scheme to make money giving away their product, considering it's been done already and continues to be done now.
I think CS will continue to grow and be important, even in the US, for the indefinite future. I just didn't like the car analogy. :)
Although, if Toyota sold software I bet it'd be reliable and hold its resale value.
To be fair, if I count all the people who work on maintaining cars things aren't so bad in the US. I do remember hearing about the problems that newly reliable cars have had on the mechanic industry, though.
I guess as long as cars and programs keep crashing there'll be work for all of us!
Hm, a car analogy.
US autoworkers have been getting laid off for decades and the whole industry is in crisis.
Maybe you have to be older. At the time, it was very exciting and new and groundbreaking. You could type plain english into the game and it'd parse it (ok, sometimes) It was a pretty detailed puzzle-story that you could interact with in a somewhat open-ended fashion. I'd say that it led to the whole role-playing and epic story genres of games.
Zork won't seem very groundbreaking or important to anyone who grew up with the playstation or whatever.
I'd say that an original story isn't important if it is similar to another game. Intuitive gameplay would be nearly irrelevant. Artwork? Give me a break. When we talk about important games it almost HAS to be the first/best games utterly unlike anything else already made. Final Fantasy 32768 will never be nominated for Most Important Game if it is simply another RPG, no matter how good the story, graphics, or gameplay.
Priceless. The topic is whether spelling and grammar matter. You fucked up your bolding and made your joke about "dork" incomprehensible.
I'd say that's proof that it definitely can matter!
Oh, btw, the whale dick etymology thing is speculative. A common misconception.
If I ever have kids I'm moving to New Zealand.
My compiler bitches whenever I misspell a few words or miss a punctuation mark.
Good point. I am bothered immensely by people who mispronounce words. I will try to politely correct them, and I hope that people correct me if I don't know how to pronounce a word properly. Seriously uneducated people are painful to listen to, partly because they mispronounce so many words.
If someone said "I loosed the bolt" it would be confusing and irritating. I'd have to ask "Did you lose the bolt?" and honestly wouldn't know whether it was gone or loosened.
The reason we can interpret homonyms is that they sound the same. If you could somehow misspell and have it look the same nobody would care.
I think if someone were to often mispronounce words or pronounce wrong but similar words they would find conversations to be difficult. They would be corrected often and would have difficulty finding people willing to talk with them.
Thank you for an interesting line of thought. The next time someone acts put out to be corrected I can ask if they'd like to be corrected if they said "I loosed the bolt" out loud. I'll bet most people would.
Wish I'd saved a modpoint. You are absolutely right. If the ad-bastards had shown even a glimmer of respect for their product I would not feel so angry and self-righteous about blocking everything except text ads all the time.
The whole mentality is wrong. They'd rather have a million extra angry eyeballs who hate their ad than lose even the chance of a single sale.
I just wish there was a way to adblock in real life. I'm getting scared of the more and more ad-infested world we live in. Ads in airplanes and lightrail are the latest abominations. The sad thing is they aren't even making that much money from them. I'd gladly pay an extra $0.30 for an ad-free airplane ride but I'm not given the choice.
Oh well, once we're all wearing total-immersion VR suits 24/7 adblocking the realworld will be trivial.
I hate to be the one to tell you this, but Indiana started observing DST in 2005. There's still Arizona and Hawaii, for now.
The nice thing about time zones is that you have a frame of reference when travelling. If you are at UTC-6 or UTC+4 you know the sun will come up in the AM and people will be up and about by 8. You need to be checked out of your hotel by noonish and you can guess when meals are. If someone says "Let's have drinks at 6" you don't have to wonder AM or PM. Sure a bit of research or questions could help, but I would find it disorienting, especially if changing time zones all the time. I'd have "breakfast" mapped to so many different times I'd be very confused before my coffee!
Lots of inland cities build roads NS/EW. This makes a lot of sense to me. It doesn't align with the sun perfectly, but at least it is easier to navigate. You can tell from the address what direction the house faces, since odd/even indicates which side of the street you're on.
I've noticed that near the coast you'll have things grid aligned with the coast or something. Many newer developments (ugly McMansions mainly) have stupid curving streets, all named the same thing. Meadowbridge Lane, park, court, drive, street, avenue. All meeting multiple times.
I don't know if you thought of this, but the location of sunise and sunset changes over the course of the year. How exactly would it be possible to build a house to align with something that changes?
Why not just ground the fence or wear rubber gloves? Although, a mudapult would be cool...
The first thing everyone does after installing cameras everywhere is install facial recognition and license plate readers, which links everything together. I'd be horrified if my movements were being tracked, monitored and analyzed 24/7.
I invented the Pabstapult, which makes for a nice explosion when the can explodes. It wasn't connected to my fridge and wasn't fully robotic, so kudos!
Good point, I've had tags eaten myself. I checked the source before posting, and there was a carriage return there. That's what happens when you don't know to use tags and just press return. Preview shows how it'll end up, too. If you mangle the tag somehow it'll be there, mangled, in the source. I've fatfingered tags and not noticed in preview, so I actually checked before insulting him and giving him a suggestion to try using tags.
Are you seriously implying that if we didn't destabilize Iraq we'd be an Islamic country? How so? Saddam Hussein was a secularist.
Hmm, perhaps you are retarded.
I've installed XP and Office 2003 on a PII-233 w/512MB of RAM. It ran well, but I agree that it isn't always as easy to just install and go as a modern machine.
Also, in this case, there are Compatability Packs that allow reading and writing of Office 2003/2007 files with earlier versions. There are other options for compatability, such as OpenOffice.
Working computers are clogging are landfills. It's a real problem. I have 5 PII-350 PCs that anyone who wants can have for free. They'll probably be gone in a few months. They work perfectly for browsing the internet, email, word processing, etc.
I set up a down-and-out friend with "pirated" wireless and a garbage PC and she suddendly had a much easier time job hunting. There are many jobs that are only posted online, there are many employers that require online applications. She's making good money now, and wasn't before. I'd say that's important.
Seriously?! They're going to use a Red Dwarf plot device to save the planet?! Cool!
That's just an artifact of biological optical circuitry. Try getting in a dark place and hit your head really hard. You'll see a flash of light that isn't "really" there, unless you're a robot. Then you'll spark.
Japan has a higher life expectancy than the US. Japanese eat LOTS of MSG and soy.
MSG and soy can't be that bad for you. It's pretty simple!
Makes sense to me. Why should the free market have to deal with competition?
Antibacterial everything and "flushable" cloth wipes/sanitary products will ensure the need for regular septic pumping. I agree OP doesn't understand septic systems.