Can we all stop worrying about how we should use our genetalia now?
Ya know, for a bunch of geeks who claim not to "get any", this certainly raised quite the ruckus. If homosexual geeks are just as unlucky as the rest of us, I'd argue "the gamers" deserve this word fair and square around these parts.
P.S. Not a gamer, not a homosexual, just sick of the debate.
Am I allowed to hate Christians and Gays for making so much god damned noise that this country is falling into the shitter faster than the scumbags at the top can flush?
Just kidding! April Fools! You were saying something about 2000 year old fairy tales and their relationship to the civil rights granted under Jefferson's list o' rules...
It's too early to look at these trolls ranting against my beloved Nintendo. Remember:
Are you a bad enough dude to save the President?
It's a secret to everybody
One word: Faxanadu (music *still* stuck in my head)
NES/SNES graphics may look like a PS/2 286 these days, but IMO they were the MOST FUN of any games ever made (except maybe the old Sierra stuff in the 80's).
I will never spend more than a few hundred dollars for an HDTV. Why? Because unless I am wearing my glasses (which I almost never do) I can't see any difference anyway. So, yeah, I guess I could wear uncomfortable glasses or contacts, and spend more on a TV than I did on my first car...but it seems like an awful lot of work just to be able to count the moles on some actresses chin.
Don't forget...Mario became "Mario" because they lacked the space to define a mouth and used a mustache. Sometimes an apparent limitation becomes a company's strongest asset.
Having pissed away a pretty penny on my own Treo a few months ago (Verizon), I can say that this device is silly for anyone who has a laptop and doesn't travel 90% of the time.
Yes, the Treo can do lots of neat thing, but I'm tired of looking like a clumsy retard everytime I need to answer a call.
I spend roughly 80 hours per week in front of my laptop. I very much value an opportunity to lay back in a bathtub and read a book, cover-to-cover, at least once a week. This tradition has kept me from "going postal" more times than I could count.
Unfortunatley, after destroying my GameBoy "back in the day", I realized that bath + hand-held electronics = bad. As a result, I've preferred to stick to "old fashioned" books.
However, I hate waiting form my books to come in the mail. They are already costly, so I'm usually too cheap to front more for faster delivery. However, if I had a waterproof "bath-friendly" device, I'd be sold: cheaper + no waiting.
Perhaps the "bath demo" is too small to count, but what about beach readers? What about kids? IMO: a simple, cheap, durable (think Tonka-tuff) e-book reader could be a boon to the entire industry.
Forgive my ignorance: I haven't played WarCraft since back in the Win '95 days.
Back then, the premise of this (most excellent) game was to raise an army of ugly trolls in order to lay siege to an opponent's defenses.
Please explain this to me: after spending 9 hours pretending to be trolls burning down human villages, players were offended by people who enjoy company with similar genitals?
Yikes. I'd move to Canada, but they are just as crazy...
As anyone who reads the news knows, this company is a total fraud.
However, I still think the idea of an electronic voting machine has potential. Why not simply design some sort of open-source based system (easy to audit) that was made to work accross a plethora of manufacturer equipment (thy name is Linux). This would open the market to more competition, more scrutiny.
Furthermore, I think generating a paper copy or "receipt" for both VOTER and ELECTORATE just makes sense. With all the money spent redesigning currenly in the past few years, I have to think that this technology exists. No, not perfect. But what is?
Call me crazy, but I think a properly implemented electronic voting machine could serve to *decrease* voter fraud.
What I can't understand is how it is legal for Google and Overature to continue downplaying the effects of click fraud.
Here is one such effect: I recently spent $150 on an advertising campaign, without finding a single sale (I usually get 5-10 for $150). Later I found out why: an ex-employee who had since become a competitor already knew all of my "favorite" keywords, and was working diligently to click every ad he could find. But what happens when someone applies a DDoS-technique to click fraud? At what point would Google and Overature have no choice but face this issue head-on?
Using only IP logs and a date stamp, any "PHP-for-dummies" graduate could eliminate 90% of click fraud overnight. With the amount of data Google has, I simply *have* to think they already know the average time "between clicks" for any given keyword/ad placement anyway, and how often the same IP will "normally" click on the same ad. Anything outside those "norms" should go unbilled. It's not as if Google is facing any variable costs per click (nominal at best).
I don't want to believe that Google and Overature are "evil". However, I'm not really sure what alternative makes sense. Consider: Google and Overature currently have the power to (1) bill clients whatever they want (2) settle lawsuits with more ad credits and (3) use "leading technology" to justify absurd market-caps, only to turn-around and plead helpless to stop "click fraud".
Be 100% honest for a second: if *you* were in *their* shoes, would you run to the press and say "something must be done!" or would you walk directly into an attorney's office and ask flat-out: "How much should I take before I retire?".
In 1952, Turing was convicted of acts of gross indecency after admitting to a sexual relationship with a man in Manchester. He was placed on probation and required to undergo hormone therapy. When Alan Turing died in 1954, an inquest found that he had committed suicide by eating an apple laced with cyanide.
Then the article mentions an urban legend:
In the book, Zeroes and Ones, author Sadie Plant speculates that the rainbow Apple logo with a bite taken out of it was an homage to Turing. This seems to be an urban legend as the Apple logo was designed in 1976, two years before Gilbert Baker's rainbow pride flag.
If I may be deadly serious for a moment: my pals and I have sent each other "spoof" emails as practical jokes for years now.
Am I the only one who finds it extremely dangerous that email is accepted as "evidence" in 2006 by people who can't begin to understand "this tech stuff"?
My hero, Batman, asks: "what happened to those days?"
And those were indeed great days, friend. If only a secret cabal of senile Republicans...wait a sec!! Happy days are here again!
PHP (yes, yes, groan away) is a GREAT language, with FANTASTIC support, and has turned many an HTML-"pimpin'" MySpacer into a RAC PHP-part-timer.
This is a POWERFUL language, friends, and being that there is no "payroll", at worst, I'm a fanatic for saying so. I think time will prove me right. YES- the majority of "Web 2.0" (like EVERYTHING) is total bullshit; but there ARE "diamonds in the rough".
And at the end of the day, isn't that what the Internet is all about?
TripMaster Monkey is 100% right: anyone who follows the "newz" knows that this is/was a long-time coming.
Personally, I will always support political decentralization. I expect that 90% of the USA's problems stems from trying to get ~300 million shaved-apes (me too) to get along. Heck- the fiance and me still fight over pizza toppings...
Ironically, I believe that technical de-centralization, i.e. tech corps and governments attempting to create "new" and "better" standards, are usually diametrically opposed to point #2.
China: ask the Native Americans, the East Europeans, the Germans, the Japanese and anyone else in history: the name of this game is money. Many of the "powers that be" have pursued a very clear, direct plan for complete Globalization since long before the American Revolution (1776).
You can't stop this war with guns. In fact, ANY attempt at control is self-defeating. A free-market influenced by the consumer spending of "the people" is about as close to a "free society" as ANY of us will ever get.
Wait a sec...it's a Tuesday. I never could get the hang of Tuesdays. Please disregard the above rant.
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Can we all stop worrying about how we should use our genetalia now?
Ya know, for a bunch of geeks who claim not to "get any", this certainly raised quite the ruckus. If homosexual geeks are just as unlucky as the rest of us, I'd argue "the gamers" deserve this word fair and square around these parts.
P.S. Not a gamer, not a homosexual, just sick of the debate.
Just for the sake of clarity:
Come on over to my house, have a drink, put your feet up. I will refer to you however you please. And this offer goes to anybody.
I just doubt a species too stupid to stop eating itself to death is going to learn etiquette anytime soon. Now excuse me as I go find some chips...
Ever hear the N word while hanging with a few "black" friends?
I have, all the time.
Words, like everything else, EVOLVE. Gays, like everyone else, are TOO SENSITIVE these day.
If you are unhappy, and yet expect someone *else* to change in order to remedy this, you have a poor strategy for sucess.
Am I allowed to hate Christians and Gays for making so much god damned noise that this country is falling into the shitter faster than the scumbags at the top can flush?
Just kidding! April Fools! You were saying something about 2000 year old fairy tales and their relationship to the civil rights granted under Jefferson's list o' rules...
May I Axe you a question?
Do you suppose, had we all held hands and sung a song in tune, we might have stopped Katrina from washing New Orleans into the sea?
So stop being "gay" and let the chimps act like chimps.
Your pal,
Josh the half-kike, half Irish-nigger cracker who done gots self esteem.
Does anyone else agree these "April Fools" posts are worth it, if only to laugh at those who haven't gotten the joke yet?
Oh...right...sarcasm.
It's too early to look at these trolls ranting against my beloved Nintendo. Remember:
NES/SNES graphics may look like a PS/2 286 these days, but IMO they were the MOST FUN of any games ever made (except maybe the old Sierra stuff in the 80's).
I will never spend more than a few hundred dollars for an HDTV. Why? Because unless I am wearing my glasses (which I almost never do) I can't see any difference anyway. So, yeah, I guess I could wear uncomfortable glasses or contacts, and spend more on a TV than I did on my first car...but it seems like an awful lot of work just to be able to count the moles on some actresses chin.
Don't forget...Mario became "Mario" because they lacked the space to define a mouth and used a mustache. Sometimes an apparent limitation becomes a company's strongest asset.
Unless "brawling" became so popular that healthcare costs rose higher than current prison costs.
I'm not sure this is the kind of behavior that we, the frail malnourished geeks of the interweb, should be encouraging.
I may be overstepping my bounds here, but...
Best. Analogy. Ever.
I am 25 right now. The "space race" is long dead. The Cubs have still not won a World Series in my lifetime.
Call me jaded, but I saw this coming back in 1986. Why do you think I learned to code?
Seriously...
"One small step for man..."
v.
"Would it be hard to add something like eBay to my blog? I'll pay you $50!"
Having pissed away a pretty penny on my own Treo a few months ago (Verizon), I can say that this device is silly for anyone who has a laptop and doesn't travel 90% of the time.
Yes, the Treo can do lots of neat thing, but I'm tired of looking like a clumsy retard everytime I need to answer a call.
Where do we sign up?
...of course...we all want to see the plan.
I've read the TOS.
I've also disputed my bill.
I stand by my post.
I spend roughly 80 hours per week in front of my laptop. I very much value an opportunity to lay back in a bathtub and read a book, cover-to-cover, at least once a week. This tradition has kept me from "going postal" more times than I could count.
Unfortunatley, after destroying my GameBoy "back in the day", I realized that bath + hand-held electronics = bad. As a result, I've preferred to stick to "old fashioned" books.
However, I hate waiting form my books to come in the mail. They are already costly, so I'm usually too cheap to front more for faster delivery. However, if I had a waterproof "bath-friendly" device, I'd be sold: cheaper + no waiting.
Perhaps the "bath demo" is too small to count, but what about beach readers? What about kids? IMO: a simple, cheap, durable (think Tonka-tuff) e-book reader could be a boon to the entire industry.
Forgive my ignorance: I haven't played WarCraft since back in the Win '95 days.
Back then, the premise of this (most excellent) game was to raise an army of ugly trolls in order to lay siege to an opponent's defenses.
Please explain this to me: after spending 9 hours pretending to be trolls burning down human villages, players were offended by people who enjoy company with similar genitals?
Yikes. I'd move to Canada, but they are just as crazy...
As anyone who reads the news knows, this company is a total fraud.
However, I still think the idea of an electronic voting machine has potential. Why not simply design some sort of open-source based system (easy to audit) that was made to work accross a plethora of manufacturer equipment (thy name is Linux). This would open the market to more competition, more scrutiny.
Furthermore, I think generating a paper copy or "receipt" for both VOTER and ELECTORATE just makes sense. With all the money spent redesigning currenly in the past few years, I have to think that this technology exists. No, not perfect. But what is?
Call me crazy, but I think a properly implemented electronic voting machine could serve to *decrease* voter fraud.
What I can't understand is how it is legal for Google and Overature to continue downplaying the effects of click fraud.
Here is one such effect: I recently spent $150 on an advertising campaign, without finding a single sale (I usually get 5-10 for $150). Later I found out why: an ex-employee who had since become a competitor already knew all of my "favorite" keywords, and was working diligently to click every ad he could find. But what happens when someone applies a DDoS-technique to click fraud? At what point would Google and Overature have no choice but face this issue head-on?
Using only IP logs and a date stamp, any "PHP-for-dummies" graduate could eliminate 90% of click fraud overnight. With the amount of data Google has, I simply *have* to think they already know the average time "between clicks" for any given keyword/ad placement anyway, and how often the same IP will "normally" click on the same ad. Anything outside those "norms" should go unbilled. It's not as if Google is facing any variable costs per click (nominal at best).
I don't want to believe that Google and Overature are "evil". However, I'm not really sure what alternative makes sense. Consider: Google and Overature currently have the power to (1) bill clients whatever they want (2) settle lawsuits with more ad credits and (3) use "leading technology" to justify absurd market-caps, only to turn-around and plead helpless to stop "click fraud".
Be 100% honest for a second: if *you* were in *their* shoes, would you run to the press and say "something must be done!" or would you walk directly into an attorney's office and ask flat-out: "How much should I take before I retire?".
Weed is America's biggest cash crop at $25 million. I'm not sure what it has to do with terrorism.
And I'm not sure why those potential tax dollars aren't funding better schools and more afordable healthcare to my fellow US citizens right now.
For those like me & Dilbert: http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=fungible
...it's about time.
I just read the WikiPedia article on Alan Turing:
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In 1952, Turing was convicted of acts of gross indecency after admitting to a sexual relationship with a man in Manchester. He was placed on probation and required to undergo hormone therapy. When Alan Turing died in 1954, an inquest found that he had committed suicide by eating an apple laced with cyanide.
Then the article mentions an urban legend:
In the book, Zeroes and Ones, author Sadie Plant speculates that the rainbow Apple logo with a bite taken out of it was an homage to Turing. This seems to be an urban legend as the Apple logo was designed in 1976, two years before Gilbert Baker's rainbow pride flag.
Urban Legend? Anyone have any more info on this?
In case you haven't seen it in a while, here is the classic Apple logo:
http://www.jeb.be/images/Apple/apple_logo_(640x48
In the immortal words of Darth Vader....
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
If I may be deadly serious for a moment: my pals and I have sent each other "spoof" emails as practical jokes for years now.
Am I the only one who finds it extremely dangerous that email is accepted as "evidence" in 2006 by people who can't begin to understand "this tech stuff"?
Yikes.
My hero, Batman, asks: "what happened to those days?"
And those were indeed great days, friend. If only a secret cabal of senile Republicans...wait a sec!! Happy days are here again!
PHP (yes, yes, groan away) is a GREAT language, with FANTASTIC support, and has turned many an HTML-"pimpin'" MySpacer into a RAC PHP-part-timer.
This is a POWERFUL language, friends, and being that there is no "payroll", at worst, I'm a fanatic for saying so. I think time will prove me right. YES- the majority of "Web 2.0" (like EVERYTHING) is total bullshit; but there ARE "diamonds in the rough".
And at the end of the day, isn't that what the Internet is all about?