All the independent software shops I've seen are quite marked up indeed, it isn't much of a loss, sad as it may be that Uncle Barney or whomever is out a wad.
Things to think about for those geeks who dream of opening a comic book + gaming book + software store... leave the software out;)
I realize modern tech support doesn't need to know much to anything about electronics or computer hardware's innerworkings... but I wonder if quantum computers will change that... and how many years of school will quantum tech support need?
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It doesn't seem likely, but it'd be neat to have the title "Quantum Mechanic" EHEH!
They'll find out... oh yes... and when they do, they'll know.... oh yes... and when they know, they'll write it DOWN...
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Perhaps they'll start doing what they did in East Germany, start collecting hair, urine, and feces and such and storing them in a secret storage area, in case that comes in handy later.
Oh I thought it was some new book or something with the title "The Brothers Grimm"...:">... but how many of us are raised on the unedited ones? I think I heard about them being twisted originally around Jr. High, by then I wasn't young enough to take delight in cutting people's heads off or doing horrible things except in games like Wolfenstien:)
If I'm paranoid its with good cause, I was walking to class this morning and this guy hammering shingles in on the roof of one of the buildings I passed kept saying he was going to kill me.
Why oh WHY did I ever have to learn morse code?!:~~(
I am actually quite surprised this ruling occurred... I was listening to a news story on NPR a couple of days ago about some people taking pictures near bridges/with bridges in the background, or with other things around (like oil refineries, or in one instance, the FBI building was in the background)... but these people had their film confiscated...... and that's just for taking pictures casually... but who knows, maybe Conneticuit courts figure "Eh, we're not New York"...
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Not that I think we should be paranoid, I think this hysteria over terrorism is exactly what both sides want (the government gets to take more control and the terrorists get to disrupt our way of life and our happiness)... I think its ridiculous... but... I am just surprised...
Disney still managed to make it pretty creepy, even if it wasn't as creepy as the book... or at least, it is creepy to me...
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Perhaps this is just part of the natural flow of things? Tales from the dark ages were pretty demented (heck, even the ones that have been altered over time started out being pretty bad, such as the Arthurian legend and Robin Hood)... but... who knows, since no one from those eras is alive to tell us about any actual similarities:)
This giant face needs to collect purple keys that look (oddly enough) like the symbol for "The Artist formerly known as Prince" or whatever the heck he calls himself now (probably 'Assistant manager')... in order to save the KINGDOM OF ZZT!
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He shoots "bullets" that oddly enough look like bubbles, and his enemies are called things like RUFFIANS! Oh man, those ruffians... always... being so ruffianesque......
*cough*
On second thought maybe it wouldn't be as good as I thought.
I won't deny a certain allure in modernizing/making adult (not like that, pervs!) tales from my childhood, and I am guilty of having drawn comics that depict things such as Q-bert doing a line of coke, or the bulemic Hungry Hungry Hippo...... but these things won't be seen by kids... (and I suppose Wicked isn't likely to, either)... I suppose I just worry that kids have enough media influence screwing with their heads, and previews being what they are (being played on TV, nothing more sinister than that;) ), we don't need them having another reason for future therapy...
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Some people say I worry too much, but the voices, they tell me I'm fine...
Excepting that most (or all) video game translations of games wind up being pretty awful... the System Shock storyline is GREAT, it'd even have appeal beyond geekdom (as would the Alice film, which is why I think it could work, financially at the least)
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On a semi-related note, I wonder what would happen if they made a ZZT movie? I'd love to see that.
... seems to be a trend in film and theater these days. Alice in an institution, the Wicked Witch being portrayed as the victim of Dorothy in "Wicked" (on broadway)... http://www.wickedthemusical.com/... if you are the curious sort...
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I think it's all well and good to try and come up with new ideas, but in a way, I am starting to dislike the trend of taking childhood films and turning them into something not intended for children.
Next they'll have "The New Adventures of the Smurfs"... it'll be triple X, and you know where this is going, so I'll shut the smurf up.
Sorry if that seemed harsh... my initial comment was rather innocent, so I was somewhat irked when someone correcting a comment that made no factual claim as to the establishment of precedence, it was just my first thought when I was reading about the amenities...
That depends, to what extent are the employees being taken advantage of?
What sorts of rights to the workers have, how much are they paid?... aside from a garden (which may exist only for PR, who knows)... what other amenities exist that don't cost the workers a think?
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These sorts of things would determine if the situation smelled as sweet as feudalism, or sweeter, or more sour...
Personally, if anyone holds this view, I apologize for making light of it. However, you must ask yourself, what is in a name? A motherboard by any other name would still run as sweet.
Yes, southern reconstruction, gold digging, all that jolly good stuff...
I understand its not "new"... perhaps you don't understand the Gibson reference?
1.) ECS is a technology company (not saying there aren't tech sweat shops, our chips and lovely things aren't made by rich men)
2.) These sweat shops PROBABLY don't provide relaxing gardens, next to the factory housing, and various amenities...
3.) It being a Gibson reference is still a bit off, too, there is no "company birth" and "company funeral"... but you will note I didn't say "THIS IS GIBSON'S ORIGINAL IDEA" or "THIS IS AN EXACT COPY OF THE EXCLUSIVE IDEA MADE BY WILLIAM GIBSON!"... so cut me some slack here, chummer.
Side note: Unless your a vampire or some other form of immortal being, I doubt "showing your age" by knowing about these things is really possible...
[unless you mean by 'showing your age', you mean you're a teenager who just took these things in history class, that is possible too, perhaps I am taking your statement incorrectly? Sorry if I misread you, old bean]
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Yeah but those types of jobs are more the exception than the rule, just by quantity of Level 1 positions vs. Level 2 or 3...
... because people continue to pay outrageous amounts of money to get the best card...
Supply and demand, the demand is still high, so they can sock it to us...
Hmm, $600?
...
I think I have a spare kidney.
Bastards.
All the independent software shops I've seen are quite marked up indeed, it isn't much of a loss, sad as it may be that Uncle Barney or whomever is out a wad.
;)
Things to think about for those geeks who dream of opening a comic book + gaming book + software store... leave the software out
Yow...
I realize modern tech support doesn't need to know much to anything about electronics or computer hardware's innerworkings... but I wonder if quantum computers will change that... and how many years of school will quantum tech support need?
===
It doesn't seem likely, but it'd be neat to have the title "Quantum Mechanic" EHEH!
They'll find out... oh yes... and when they do, they'll know.... oh yes... and when they know, they'll write it DOWN...
===
Perhaps they'll start doing what they did in East Germany, start collecting hair, urine, and feces and such and storing them in a secret storage area, in case that comes in handy later.
Yee haw!
Oh I thought it was some new book or something with the title "The Brothers Grimm" ... :"> ... but how many of us are raised on the unedited ones? I think I heard about them being twisted originally around Jr. High, by then I wasn't young enough to take delight in cutting people's heads off or doing horrible things except in games like Wolfenstien :)
Actually, no... should I?
If I'm paranoid its with good cause, I was walking to class this morning and this guy hammering shingles in on the roof of one of the buildings I passed kept saying he was going to kill me.
:~~(
Why oh WHY did I ever have to learn morse code?!
You know what they say, bald is beautiful...
[actually not a lot of people say that]
[the ones who do are usually bald]
[we do it to feel better]
[I'VE SAID TO MUCH! RUN!!!]
Our country has gone mad, sorry about that... most of us aren't too keen on the whole thing, either :/
Hey, cool :) -- thanks, I didn't get to finish that story because I was getting into class...
^_^
I am actually quite surprised this ruling occurred... I was listening to a news story on NPR a couple of days ago about some people taking pictures near bridges/with bridges in the background, or with other things around (like oil refineries, or in one instance, the FBI building was in the background) ... but these people had their film confiscated... ... and that's just for taking pictures casually... but who knows, maybe Conneticuit courts figure "Eh, we're not New York" ...
... I think its ridiculous... but... I am just surprised...
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Not that I think we should be paranoid, I think this hysteria over terrorism is exactly what both sides want (the government gets to take more control and the terrorists get to disrupt our way of life and our happiness)
... but HISTORY ITSELF!
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Of course we ALL know *that* would never happen, and shame on us for ever suggesting, even innuendously (is that a word, ahh heck, it is now)...
Disney still managed to make it pretty creepy, even if it wasn't as creepy as the book... or at least, it is creepy to me...
... but... who knows, since no one from those eras is alive to tell us about any actual similarities :)
===
Perhaps this is just part of the natural flow of things? Tales from the dark ages were pretty demented (heck, even the ones that have been altered over time started out being pretty bad, such as the Arthurian legend and Robin Hood)
This giant face needs to collect purple keys that look (oddly enough) like the symbol for "The Artist formerly known as Prince" or whatever the heck he calls himself now (probably 'Assistant manager') ... in order to save the KINGDOM OF ZZT!
... being so ruffianesque... ...
===
He shoots "bullets" that oddly enough look like bubbles, and his enemies are called things like RUFFIANS! Oh man, those ruffians... always
*cough*
On second thought maybe it wouldn't be as good as I thought.
I won't deny a certain allure in modernizing/making adult (not like that, pervs!) tales from my childhood, and I am guilty of having drawn comics that depict things such as Q-bert doing a line of coke, or the bulemic Hungry Hungry Hippo... ... but these things won't be seen by kids... (and I suppose Wicked isn't likely to, either) ... I suppose I just worry that kids have enough media influence screwing with their heads, and previews being what they are (being played on TV, nothing more sinister than that ;) ), we don't need them having another reason for future therapy...
===
Some people say I worry too much, but the voices, they tell me I'm fine...
Excepting that most (or all) video game translations of games wind up being pretty awful... the System Shock storyline is GREAT, it'd even have appeal beyond geekdom (as would the Alice film, which is why I think it could work, financially at the least)
===
On a semi-related note, I wonder what would happen if they made a ZZT movie? I'd love to see that.
... seems to be a trend in film and theater these days. Alice in an institution, the Wicked Witch being portrayed as the victim of Dorothy in "Wicked" (on broadway) ... http://www.wickedthemusical.com/ ... if you are the curious sort...
... it'll be triple X, and you know where this is going, so I'll shut the smurf up.
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I think it's all well and good to try and come up with new ideas, but in a way, I am starting to dislike the trend of taking childhood films and turning them into something not intended for children.
Next they'll have "The New Adventures of the Smurfs"
I have a nasty habit of answering rhetorical questions :">
Sry old bean
Sorry if that seemed harsh... my initial comment was rather innocent, so I was somewhat irked when someone correcting a comment that made no factual claim as to the establishment of precedence, it was just my first thought when I was reading about the amenities...
So, sorry if I was mean...
That depends, to what extent are the employees being taken advantage of?
... aside from a garden (which may exist only for PR, who knows)... what other amenities exist that don't cost the workers a think?
What sorts of rights to the workers have, how much are they paid?
===
These sorts of things would determine if the situation smelled as sweet as feudalism, or sweeter, or more sour...
Motherboard is SEXIST!!!1!!one
[passes out from shock and/or revulsion]
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Personally, if anyone holds this view, I apologize for making light of it. However, you must ask yourself, what is in a name? A motherboard by any other name would still run as sweet.
*cough*
Yes, southern reconstruction, gold digging, all that jolly good stuff...
... so cut me some slack here, chummer.
I understand its not "new"... perhaps you don't understand the Gibson reference?
1.) ECS is a technology company (not saying there aren't tech sweat shops, our chips and lovely things aren't made by rich men)
2.) These sweat shops PROBABLY don't provide relaxing gardens, next to the factory housing, and various amenities...
3.) It being a Gibson reference is still a bit off, too, there is no "company birth" and "company funeral"... but you will note I didn't say "THIS IS GIBSON'S ORIGINAL IDEA" or "THIS IS AN EXACT COPY OF THE EXCLUSIVE IDEA MADE BY WILLIAM GIBSON!"
Side note:
Unless your a vampire or some other form of immortal being, I doubt "showing your age" by knowing about these things is really possible...
[unless you mean by 'showing your age', you mean you're a teenager who just took these things in history class, that is possible too, perhaps I am taking your statement incorrectly? Sorry if I misread you, old bean]
It's a very cyberpunk sort of thing, I think... the big zaibatsu providing everything you need from birth to death... very William Gibson.
Kind of funny/scary/unusual, if you ask me...