1) Don't use newer fangled technology. MORE GLUE!!! MORE FISHING LINES!!!
2) Have Kelloggs Cereal Company threaten William Shatner into taking up the role again, with the immortal line "DO IT, or no more commercials for you again, EVER. YOGHURTY!"
3) Don't hire a cameraman or any post production editors. Just show Shatner where the on off button is on the camera, and let it film everything from him muttering "Are you sure this is on?" to him taking in a deep breath to hide his middle age spread.
4) To cut down on costs, don't use background actors, get some of the regulars from conventions to do all the background character roles, and HAVE THEM PAY THE CAST.
5) Get Patrick Steward to arm wrestle William Shatner in the final episode of the series so this Kirk Vs Pickard nonsense will be settled once and for all.
6) Have Shatner sing the title music. Yes, there were lyrics. Yes, they were dropped for a reason.
7) YOGHURTY!!!
Please feel free to add to this. Live long and remake.
>The botnet would have access to wikipedia, and all millions of websites around the world.
Yeah, well it would also have access to Uncyclopedia. So at worst it becomes sentient, then a troll, then a resident annoyance on slashdot, then a B-List Celebrity on reality TV before going on a bender of ASCII porn and P2P networks, getting depressed and forwarding itself to some casemodders flying-toaster-cum-mini-mac and committing a murder-suicide pact with him by attacking him whilst he's in the bath.
>>But at the end of the day, it is the average persons desire >>for cheap stuff that drives the cycle.
If by the cycle you mean Western capitalism, global warming, growth in obesity and heart disease, war in the Middle East, the re-election of a Republican US president then you may hit the nail on the head.
Perhaps the real problem isn't that commercially successful companies Apple / GAP / Mom's Friendly Robot Company are using ethically bankrupt manufacturing policies, perhaps the real problem is that in spite of a rising tide of investigations into these companies, The Average Person's desire for cheaper iPods / clothes / kleptomanic bending units is greater than their need to abolish the industrial revolution exploitant.
I used to think I was a cynic. Now I think the average consumer really is just a tool.
So using the watermark, files traded on P2P networks can get traced back to their source?
OK, say the source is a CD I bought in a certain branch of Tower Records, and they know this was sent to that branch and sold on a certain day and time. Am I mistaken in thinking that by paying in cash there is no paper trail? (No credit card details, etc?)
Because it seems to me at least that I'm then free to batten down some hatches and if I've time to spare start bucking those bloody swashs I never seem to get around to...
This is great... One of these balloons gets popped by a rare super-high-altitude pheasant and crashes to earth, and crashlands in Squeallikeapigboy, Mississipi.
Long story short: balloon gets mistaken for UFO, pheasant gets mistaken for intelligent alien life.
(I bet those Roswell aliens are rolling in their graves right now)
Hmmm...
replace "Episodic Game" with "Virtual Reality" and re-read the article
"... and Ritual's about to really turn up the heat by proving that VIRTUAL REALITY really works. We'll get better games, more frequently, and with new, innovative gameplay. I spent some quality time with RISE OF THE ROBOTS and it looks like everyone wins - developer, publisher and you." From the article: "Everyone wants VIRTUAL REALITY. Developers want it because they get to make better games (by listening to their fans suggestions every 6 months and incorporating it directly into the next chapter) and do it more cheaply (6 months of game development vs years. Do the math). Gamers want it because their favorite games will be more frequent, higher quality, and more innovative since developers can now take some risks with different & new gameplay. But figuring out if it's a money-maker is a big risk. Someone's gotta put their hard-earned dough on the line and try it out."
So let me see if I've got this straight. I'm a bit stupid, so please, bear with me...
The next big leap in games development will be releasing games that have spent 18 less months in development. This will make them better games?
Wow. I really don't believe it. I must be SOOOOOOOO fucking stupid.
I would rather the laws stop discrimination against phyiscal attributes only, rather than beliefs or other vague things that are hard to define.
Perhaps that piece of law was more vital when it was written than it is now, but removing it from the books would cause more problems than it solved.
I mean, just substitute "being allowed to discriminate based on religous belief" for "flag burning" in that Bill Hick's routine...
Did you watch the flag burning thing? Wasn't that great man? Boy everybody showed their true colours then didn't they?....Scary... People just flipped, they reacted like The Supreme Court approved of flag burning, know what I mean?
" Does that mean we have to burn our flags?.. They said that we ha-"... NO NO NO NO NO NO,...
"They said we should bur-".... They didn't say that, they didn't say that, they didn't say that (snip)
"Does that mean I have to go and -"....NO NO NO NO NO NO NO... Listen, read , think, calm down, relax, SHUT THE FUCK UP
"Well I don't get it..I don't wanna burn my flag"....THEN DOOOOOOOOOOON'T
If you roll a ball off a stair or the grand canyon, it will travel in the same parabolic arc until reaching the ground.
If windsheer is enough to affect a plane landing on a runway, I feel it's safe to assume its a gamble to launch an expensive piece of kit under windy conditions.
Either that of NASA should try making really big space kites.
"Why do I read? Well... hmmm... I dunno... I guess I read for a lot of reasons, and the main one is so I don't end up being a fucking waffle waitress."
Thought you died in 1994. Glad to see Wikipedia was wrong.
Nice one man. It's always a pleasure to see the facts.
[Even if I have to scroll down to the bottom of the page to get to them.]
Hmm... this reminds me of some of Henry Dreyfuss's early findings in his study of ergonomics, I think the problems he encountered have noticable parallels:
For example, whereas some of the users in your study will be experienced, others will be completly inexperienced (anyone who says otherwise is fooling no one, for one thing there are always 4 year olds who start poking around on their parent's windows XP machine for the first time. There are always absolute beginners).
In ergonomics, the best way to make a product (say a paint scraper) usable in anyone's hand; be it a 4 year old girl who wants to help her parents with the DIY for a little or a 7" 2' tall man; is to avoid making any specialisations favouring the "average sized" or "median sized" hand.
If I were to try and apply this to OS usage, to me it would mean making sure you aren't talking about usability AND desirability. In otherwords, if people already have a favourite OS, anything else will always feel second best, even if it has many newer and better features.
What I'm saying is to try and get your participants to judge how good the systems they're using on their own merits, not compared to what they've grown to like. And good luck with the research!
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1) Don't use newer fangled technology. MORE GLUE!!! MORE FISHING LINES!!!
2) Have Kelloggs Cereal Company threaten William Shatner into taking up the role again, with the immortal line "DO IT, or no more commercials for you again, EVER. YOGHURTY!"
3) Don't hire a cameraman or any post production editors. Just show Shatner where the on off button is on the camera, and let it film everything from him muttering "Are you sure this is on?" to him taking in a deep breath to hide his middle age spread.
4) To cut down on costs, don't use background actors, get some of the regulars from conventions to do all the background character roles, and HAVE THEM PAY THE CAST.
5) Get Patrick Steward to arm wrestle William Shatner in the final episode of the series so this Kirk Vs Pickard nonsense will be settled once and for all.
6) Have Shatner sing the title music. Yes, there were lyrics. Yes, they were dropped for a reason.
7) YOGHURTY!!!
Please feel free to add to this. Live long and remake.
>The botnet would have access to wikipedia, and all millions of websites around the world.
Yeah, well it would also have access to Uncyclopedia. So at worst it becomes sentient, then a troll, then a resident annoyance on slashdot, then a B-List Celebrity on reality TV before going on a bender of ASCII porn and P2P networks, getting depressed and forwarding itself to some casemodders flying-toaster-cum-mini-mac and committing a murder-suicide pact with him by attacking him whilst he's in the bath.
>>But at the end of the day, it is the average persons desire
>>for cheap stuff that drives the cycle.
If by the cycle you mean Western capitalism, global warming, growth in obesity and heart disease, war in the Middle East, the re-election of a Republican US president then you may hit the nail on the head.
Perhaps the real problem isn't that commercially successful companies Apple / GAP / Mom's Friendly Robot Company are using ethically bankrupt manufacturing policies, perhaps the real problem is that in spite of a rising tide of investigations into these companies, The Average Person's desire for cheaper iPods / clothes / kleptomanic bending units is greater than their need to abolish the industrial revolution exploitant.
I used to think I was a cynic. Now I think the average consumer really is just a tool.
So using the watermark, files traded on P2P networks can get traced back to their source?
OK, say the source is a CD I bought in a certain branch of Tower Records, and they know this was sent to that branch and sold on a certain day and time. Am I mistaken in thinking that by paying in cash there is no paper trail? (No credit card details, etc?)
Because it seems to me at least that I'm then free to batten down some hatches and if I've time to spare start bucking those bloody swashs I never seem to get around to...
This is great... One of these balloons gets popped by a rare super-high-altitude pheasant and crashes to earth, and crashlands in Squeallikeapigboy, Mississipi.
Long story short: balloon gets mistaken for UFO, pheasant gets mistaken for intelligent alien life.
(I bet those Roswell aliens are rolling in their graves right now)
Hmmm... replace "Episodic Game" with "Virtual Reality" and re-read the article
"... and Ritual's about to really turn up the heat by proving that VIRTUAL REALITY really works. We'll get better games, more frequently, and with new, innovative gameplay. I spent some quality time with RISE OF THE ROBOTS and it looks like everyone wins - developer, publisher and you." From the article: "Everyone wants VIRTUAL REALITY. Developers want it because they get to make better games (by listening to their fans suggestions every 6 months and incorporating it directly into the next chapter) and do it more cheaply (6 months of game development vs years. Do the math). Gamers want it because their favorite games will be more frequent, higher quality, and more innovative since developers can now take some risks with different & new gameplay. But figuring out if it's a money-maker is a big risk. Someone's gotta put their hard-earned dough on the line and try it out."
So let me see if I've got this straight. I'm a bit stupid, so please, bear with me...
The next big leap in games development will be releasing games that have spent 18 less months in development. This will make them better games?
Wow. I really don't believe it. I must be SOOOOOOOO fucking stupid.
Stupid, stupid me...
Enclose some psilocybin mushrooms with all distros. Then those penguins will fly.
Perhaps that piece of law was more vital when it was written than it is now, but removing it from the books would cause more problems than it solved.
I mean, just substitute "being allowed to discriminate based on religous belief" for "flag burning" in that Bill Hick's routine...
Did you watch the flag burning thing? Wasn't that great man? Boy everybody showed their true colours then didn't they?....Scary... People just flipped, they reacted like The Supreme Court approved of flag burning, know what I mean?
" Does that mean we have to burn our flags?.. They said that we ha-"... NO NO NO NO NO NO,...
"They said we should bur-".... They didn't say that, they didn't say that, they didn't say that (snip)
"Does that mean I have to go and -"....NO NO NO NO NO NO NO... Listen, read , think, calm down, relax, SHUT THE FUCK UP
"Well I don't get it..I don't wanna burn my flag"....THEN DOOOOOOOOOOON'T
If windsheer is enough to affect a plane landing on a runway, I feel it's safe to assume its a gamble to launch an expensive piece of kit under windy conditions.
Either that of NASA should try making really big space kites.
Thought you died in 1994. Glad to see Wikipedia was wrong.
Nice one man. It's always a pleasure to see the facts. [Even if I have to scroll down to the bottom of the page to get to them.]
Hmm... this reminds me of some of Henry Dreyfuss's early findings in his study of ergonomics, I think the problems he encountered have noticable parallels:
For example, whereas some of the users in your study will be experienced, others will be completly inexperienced (anyone who says otherwise is fooling no one, for one thing there are always 4 year olds who start poking around on their parent's windows XP machine for the first time. There are always absolute beginners).
In ergonomics, the best way to make a product (say a paint scraper) usable in anyone's hand; be it a 4 year old girl who wants to help her parents with the DIY for a little or a 7" 2' tall man; is to avoid making any specialisations favouring the "average sized" or "median sized" hand.
If I were to try and apply this to OS usage, to me it would mean making sure you aren't talking about usability AND desirability. In otherwords, if people already have a favourite OS, anything else will always feel second best, even if it has many newer and better features.
What I'm saying is to try and get your participants to judge how good the systems they're using on their own merits, not compared to what they've grown to like. And good luck with the research!