"And unprecedented case. Seemingly abandoned spaceship on the streets of Moscow - it is something from the realm of fantasy. But alas, this is the true reality. Correspondent "MK" discovered orbiting Soviet "Buran" play like garbage on the outskirts of the capital. Nobody cares what was once a symbol of cosmic power of our country.
Natalia Muschinkina"
How does it work?
"The brown dog jumped over the lazy fo no wait that's wrong no dammit erase it no don't write erase no no you no erase e ra se back go back backspace erase it oh era no you fucking piece of shit just erase the fucking thing oh gosh how do you start again new control n new document create new fuck work thats it Im taking off this fuck--"
"[...] The latest iteration of NewsScope 'scans and automatically extracts critical pieces of information' from US corporate press releases [...]"
The interesting thing on it is that it could actually raise (again) the text quality on articles (regarding grammatical correctness), since the press releases are usually carefully reviewed, and the automated part would be just a copy-and-paste process. I don't know how it goes in the US, but here in Brazil we used to have the best writing guides published by our newspapers editors - something like "The NY Times Manual of Style and Usage". They're still published, actually, but apparently not used.
Probably due to the advent of web-based latest news, the article authors are not necessarily journalists or professional writes in any way - which means the grammar is usually bad (often really bad), with errors *way* beyond the common typos. It means the articles are not even spell-checked (typos wouldn't survive here - come on, you have spell checking on Slashdot commenting!), and there's no way to get them revised or something. I've already tried to click on those please-let-us-know-what-you-thought-about-it links, and found out that they have a binary filter: you're either appraising the author or being rude/disrespectful/offensive, therefore the comment will be ignored. As an example, the last comment I made was: "Please, review you article. It's full of typos and grammar errors". Obviously, evil-flagged.
"[...] the device was capable of doing the work of six to ten people [...]"
Interesting to see how it changes over time. Today, considering the majority of jobs, you either cut off social networking access or you'll need six to ten people to do the work of two or three.
Suppose - for a moment - that you're right, and they can come with an above-the-average film. "That was awesome, imagine the game" - now, that's the real problem.
For Blizzard, profit; for players, hell. The game is already crowded with chinese gold spammers and 12-years-old interested only in killing "the mobs" and getting TEH big badass weapon or so (level 80, of course). Not that liking Counter-Strike genre games is a bad thing; but IMHO when you force your ways into other people, be it in a game or not, it's bad, yes.
Today, RP gamers have to flee to less populated RP servers if they want the RP experience they're looking for, since the main ones are already full of people complaining why Blizzard would keep RP servers if everybody knows the only and main purpose in the game is getting to level 80 with epic items, everybody knows that - I've seen some discussions like that already. Well, it's a business, it sells well, nothing wrong with that - but a good movie would only catalyze this very effect, and no more RP gaming.
Choosing to stay on a specific MMORPG realm (with its specific problems) is each one's choice, depending on how well one can handle these problems; when you massify something, no matter what your main objective is (usually money), you're probably destroying a particular variation or representation of this something. That goes for games, music, comics, books, history itself.
As for me, my bias is obviously towards RP gaming; even if it was not the case, I'd still stick with this line - I even feel sorry for all the hardcore Resident Evil players out there, having to deal with the newborne "specialists" after seeing all the movies about it. Even worse for X-Men people.
IE 7 (and presumably IE 8) breaks a lot of those sites.
On that line we have the infamous "XML Islands" - widely used on BI reports (see "Financial"), giving plain interface operators a harsh time when generating customer reports. Seen a lot of companies going to IE7 and gaining bonus work hours for that.
Now, the really interesting thing is the software vendors' default answer to that... basically they just don't care, since the upgrade ratio among their customers is not that great.
Lots of these vendors on the next new-millenium-tech-congress. Fancy powerpoint presentations and all. Flamethrowers not allowed, though.
Have you tried to show them successful stories like this one? High schoolers are more prone to do something that a) has good chances to success and b) has very good chances to make them look good. Show them enough successful projects like "hey, how cool is that, uh?", and you probably will be able to gather even the not-that-geeks.
Slashdot Mirror
No man pages.
"And unprecedented case. Seemingly abandoned spaceship on the streets of Moscow - it is something from the realm of fantasy. But alas, this is the true reality. Correspondent "MK" discovered orbiting Soviet "Buran" play like garbage on the outskirts of the capital. Nobody cares what was once a symbol of cosmic power of our country.
Natalia Muschinkina"
Does it mean we won't see the D.2 version of the robot flying around?
How does it work? "The brown dog jumped over the lazy fo no wait that's wrong no dammit erase it no don't write erase no no you no erase e ra se back go back backspace erase it oh era no you fucking piece of shit just erase the fucking thing oh gosh how do you start again new control n new document create new fuck work thats it Im taking off this fuck--"
"[...] The latest iteration of NewsScope 'scans and automatically extracts critical pieces of information' from US corporate press releases [...]" The interesting thing on it is that it could actually raise (again) the text quality on articles (regarding grammatical correctness), since the press releases are usually carefully reviewed, and the automated part would be just a copy-and-paste process. I don't know how it goes in the US, but here in Brazil we used to have the best writing guides published by our newspapers editors - something like "The NY Times Manual of Style and Usage". They're still published, actually, but apparently not used.
Probably due to the advent of web-based latest news, the article authors are not necessarily journalists or professional writes in any way - which means the grammar is usually bad (often really bad), with errors *way* beyond the common typos. It means the articles are not even spell-checked (typos wouldn't survive here - come on, you have spell checking on Slashdot commenting!), and there's no way to get them revised or something. I've already tried to click on those please-let-us-know-what-you-thought-about-it links, and found out that they have a binary filter: you're either appraising the author or being rude/disrespectful/offensive, therefore the comment will be ignored. As an example, the last comment I made was: "Please, review you article. It's full of typos and grammar errors". Obviously, evil-flagged.
That's evolutionary checksum for you. :D
"[...] the device was capable of doing the work of six to ten people [...]"
Interesting to see how it changes over time. Today, considering the majority of jobs, you either cut off social networking access or you'll need six to ten people to do the work of two or three.
As already said: endless possibilities.
They can now buy Blizzard and launch World of Ducktales.
As for the movies...
MINNIE MONTANA
HERBIE VS. THE DECEPTICONS
MULAN THE PUNISHER
MUTANTS, INC.
AVENGERS OF THE CARIBBEAN
DARECHICKENLITTLE
HULKATOUILLE
THE 101 JONAS DALMATIANS
THE CHRONICLES OF ASGARD
FANTASIA (FEATURING THE GHOST RIDER)
HOWARD THE DUCK GOES TO TERABITHIA
THE INCREDIBLE GREEN POCAHONTAS
THE FANTASTIC SEVEN DWARVES
THE AMAZING BAMBI-MAN
DR. PETER VON PAN
Suppose - for a moment - that you're right, and they can come with an above-the-average film. "That was awesome, imagine the game" - now, that's the real problem. For Blizzard, profit; for players, hell. The game is already crowded with chinese gold spammers and 12-years-old interested only in killing "the mobs" and getting TEH big badass weapon or so (level 80, of course). Not that liking Counter-Strike genre games is a bad thing; but IMHO when you force your ways into other people, be it in a game or not, it's bad, yes. Today, RP gamers have to flee to less populated RP servers if they want the RP experience they're looking for, since the main ones are already full of people complaining why Blizzard would keep RP servers if everybody knows the only and main purpose in the game is getting to level 80 with epic items, everybody knows that - I've seen some discussions like that already. Well, it's a business, it sells well, nothing wrong with that - but a good movie would only catalyze this very effect, and no more RP gaming. Choosing to stay on a specific MMORPG realm (with its specific problems) is each one's choice, depending on how well one can handle these problems; when you massify something, no matter what your main objective is (usually money), you're probably destroying a particular variation or representation of this something. That goes for games, music, comics, books, history itself. As for me, my bias is obviously towards RP gaming; even if it was not the case, I'd still stick with this line - I even feel sorry for all the hardcore Resident Evil players out there, having to deal with the newborne "specialists" after seeing all the movies about it. Even worse for X-Men people.
... in theory, at least.
IE 7 (and presumably IE 8) breaks a lot of those sites.
On that line we have the infamous "XML Islands" - widely used on BI reports (see "Financial"), giving plain interface operators a harsh time when generating customer reports. Seen a lot of companies going to IE7 and gaining bonus work hours for that. Now, the really interesting thing is the software vendors' default answer to that... basically they just don't care, since the upgrade ratio among their customers is not that great. Lots of these vendors on the next new-millenium-tech-congress. Fancy powerpoint presentations and all. Flamethrowers not allowed, though.
According to this, the correct acronym should be PLAID...
Have you tried to show them successful stories like this one? High schoolers are more prone to do something that a) has good chances to success and b) has very good chances to make them look good. Show them enough successful projects like "hey, how cool is that, uh?", and you probably will be able to gather even the not-that-geeks.
a, bob-e
Looks like a black monolith to me.
Check the other page os the newspaper, at the left: go for the movie ads. *That* is interesting. :)
== laboral gymnastics?
Yes, I know... but the laptops use standard images, burned by a standard method.. and so it goes.