The remark about "not being an April Fools joke" was great. I wonder how many hair-brained (Afro?) schemes got their PR moment in the sun just in time to be laughed off the email inbox / fax machine?
I worked for a major maker of desktop publishing software for the Mac and PC. In 1997, the co-founder (and resident wacko) decided "apple was dead" and "no more macs would be purchased within the company". Two problems with this logic - one - 78% of their revenue was from Apple users - and 2 - new USB-only macs were coming down the pipeline which nullified all the hardware dongles being used. Not to mention things like new dev-hires who needed new macs to test and develop on, testing on all hardware for compliance - and yes this was a hoot.
We were sneaking in macs in the shipping dock in off hours and making little side deals with security to erase video and door logs to cover tracks to contravene the order until the idiotic ban was lifted. Of course - other reasons for this could have included cofounder wacko coming to personal loggerheads with Apple's still reigning co-founder wacko and you had entertainment that reality show producers would otherwise kill for.
But yes - some of Apple's dearest "supporters" also wrote Apple off long ago.
That's fine in countries where thought and expression is regarded as weapons against the general public and the state - but this country was founded without that concept. Unless I physically bash you on the head and cause real trauma - any info - of any media - of any kind - can be regarded as offensive to someone, some group or even the majority. The right to make whatever graven image, game, or text is protected. If you lose that - then shit-can the rest and give me good honest fascism which doesn't go around "pretending" it's agenda while providing services.
Unless you're ready for some Singapore-style slings and hangmen and some snappy uniforms helping you to see what you need to see, say what is state approved, and keep the public's best interest at hand in exchange for better education & jobs - I don't fucking want to hear abou it - and that goes double for your kids.
"In cold blood" isn't a video game - someone might tell the Senate.
Although you get the gammut of noobs and whatnot with online shooters, I've noted - particularly with the euro and australian set, the overwhelming amount of polite chatter, "sorrys" and the like during fragfests. Although people in the real world are generally polite around where I live - it pales in comparrison to the almost creepy-polite people splattering my corpse into a million gibblets every other night in RTCW.
What am I supposed to infer from this compared to the "media" (who have been losing oodles of revenue to slobs like me who are tired of watching their violent programing and are going elsewhere) who perpetually throw data counter to first-hand data everyday? The start of a slander and libel class-action suit might be just what the DA ordered.
No why's required - although there'd be a lot less fat kids in goth makeup if normal wasn't considered a dirty word. That and "packaged abnormal" is it's own kind of normal anyway.
If you want abnormal - look to your local homeless man for tips. Sure there's lots of em, but not all got there the same way. True individualism in action, and you can have mine in small doses when I need to make rent. Thank goodness I don't have kids - then I'd really have to give in.
re:"For the most part, Nintendo has always strives to make game affordable."
Such lovely shit! Oh this is the new 2006 model bullshit? How nice! Does it come in Mauve?
- er-um-ina -
That of course makes perfect sense why Nintendo imposed carts on the N64 audience (and me) creating a supply of games that cost 50 dollars, to and including 80 (1998) dollars (Quake - note no rumble or memory pack-in).
So insert-your-adjective-fucking affordable - that "one" game - cost more than 2/3rd the cost of the whole console - a close throwback to when all home-consoles were single titles only - like "tank" or "pong". Of course - now with Nintendo GameCube titles selling up to half the cost of the unit, we've made real progress since 1976.
Whatever word you're searching for, "strive" isn't it.
Being outcast at school or any other early social situation is first fuelled by being different. The kid who couldn't watch tv, the kid who couldn't celebrate xmas etc.
Oh, so you "can't listen to an iPod".
Think his kids are going to be regarded as normal? Think they won't get any bitch-slapping?
Welcome to the playground - here's a fast-moving rubber ball for your ass!
His wiki ref is brief and didn't mention his UI demos specifically, but other links did in fact confirm that he's "That Guy" (his picture should have done it but is it just me or does tenure make profs look "alike?"). Unless he's co-oped soon the desktop metaphor will be utterly useless for dealing with as much desktop-based information as we're about to be inundated with (or already are).
30 plus years for an information-management method is a good run. We need something else. Even the notion of emulating FILING CABINETS - and FOLDERS - for all manner of data is a joke in of itself.
File management on a terabyte plus drive will be a breeze to boot (to coin a phrase).
I imagine the "find" option in Windows will have no problem nor will Spotlight. And those wonderful desktop search tools will just FLY indexing a terabyte. No sweat.
That or I'll lose 6 out of 8 hours either organizing or just searching for 2k in 2,000 gigs / 2,000,000 mbs / 2,000,000,000 kbs.
Can't wait. Or we can all wait for that wonderful file system that's yet to come.
- on that note a serious question -
WTF happened to "that guy" who was working on a desktop-calendar hybrid model for a UI? It resolved entire workdays into desktop snapshots that were presented like a scrapbook which one could flip through like a titanic personal organizer. This has been why I've been handling project data within chronological folders lately because - unless I've had serious head-trauma - I can recall WHEN I worked on something. Names? Either the one's I put in on a whim or some crypo-garbage that the app assigns? The latter really make searches fun. "That Guy" was a blurb on some TechTV show ages ago. All I can recall is he was in the Bay Area, was Jewish, and was loaded with PHDs. Which religious prefs aside makes him about as common as the water in the Bay itself as a google ref.
Still, I think this is where we have to go in future UIs - now I just need to find out where "that guy" - went.
That's nothing compared to the Billions AT&T poured into Excite@Home, 2.9 on the top for Comcast shares, and another 300 million for upgrades in the first 3 months. The billions that flowed from Excite@Home for their "wall of aquisitions" makes accounting from Enron look like grade school math afterwards.
If you look at the billions spent on advertising by any large business (even a modest account like Apple puts 250 million a quarter into it) an aqusition like this can be meaningful - if they can translate it into something they can use.
Unlike say - Flickr - which is still giving Yahoo fits.
What's Web 2.0? 3 years of back-capital being dumped at the same time from Sandhill Road.
BTW / Disclaimer - how do I turn off slashdot's automatic link-creation of an obvious joke? IOW: Don't click on it - it could be gay porn from Pakistan for all I know.
I always laugh when I hear that. As if the idea of "Adults" playing games is somehow "new".
I've got a still minty-condition special-edition of PLAYBOY ELECTRONICS magazine (which was also half devoted to cars - including the Delorean - oooo.) from 1981 that featured arcades and home games as well as high-end video and audiophile info put out by the masters of everything bunny-related.
Now - was Playboy magazine ever marketed to kids specifically - or did perhaps Nintendo skew the age-image of video games in the late 80s? I also recall a lot of tall "kids" with briefcases hanging around the arcades during lunch-hours in 1980-1983.
I'm still annoyed at congresspeople who feign shock over a pastime that also included "Custers Revenge" and other low-rez adult fare. Strip Poker for the Atari 800 anyone?
My father was in aerospace and we moved all over the place as jobs migrated from private, miliarty, govt, space, etc. Silicon Valley has one massive caveat that all other startup zones would kill for and that's the VC concentration. For VCs to invest a member of the group generally sits on the board of directors. That means if you're not nearby - you're SOL.
That's also why "Silicon Alley" only comes in as a distant second in any quarters worth of investment (12% vs 40% in the last quater I took note of the numbers in 2005). It's all well and good to say the internet economy can function anywhere - but you still need to be near the cash.
I maintained California clients while living in Phoenix after the first meltdown. If I'd lived any further east, I would have been boned. Once I was getting no's to 2 out of 3 new client leads, I moved back and now I'm busier than hell. Cost of living be damned - sometimes you gotta spend money to earn it.
Professor Frink - "Brace yourselves gentlemen. According to the gas hromatograph, the secret ingredient is... Love!? Who's been screwing with this thing?""
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The remark about "not being an April Fools joke" was great. I wonder how many hair-brained (Afro?) schemes got their PR moment in the sun just in time to be laughed off the email inbox / fax machine?
Oh man - I"m still chuckling over it.
PR: A BOB ROSS VIDEO GAME
Editor: yea right April Fool yourself.\
PR: No REALLY!
Editor: Yea Yea Yea...
PR hellday. I love it.
Marketing spam - trolling with a for-profit sig.
How origonal. I'll be watching to see how long your account is active.
Knocken' the ITunes store dead!
No wait - poor design, confusing DRM non-DRM, different pricing - it's so simple!
Google-bomb.
re:"what are the three best single uses to apply that much processing power against?"
Hosting the world's prOn needs.
Thank you and good nite.
wrong - go fuck off back to Digg with the other fuckwits
That's what I've been calling Southwest Airlines. Greyhound busses of the sky baby!
Amazing that bacteria can book a reservation on SouthWest with such tiny appendages.
And how do you distribute frequent flier miles through a colony of millions?
I worked for a major maker of desktop publishing software for the Mac and PC. In 1997, the co-founder (and resident wacko) decided "apple was dead" and "no more macs would be purchased within the company". Two problems with this logic - one - 78% of their revenue was from Apple users - and 2 - new USB-only macs were coming down the pipeline which nullified all the hardware dongles being used. Not to mention things like new dev-hires who needed new macs to test and develop on, testing on all hardware for compliance - and yes this was a hoot.
We were sneaking in macs in the shipping dock in off hours and making little side deals with security to erase video and door logs to cover tracks to contravene the order until the idiotic ban was lifted. Of course - other reasons for this could have included cofounder wacko coming to personal loggerheads with Apple's still reigning co-founder wacko and you had entertainment that reality show producers would otherwise kill for.
But yes - some of Apple's dearest "supporters" also wrote Apple off long ago.
That's fine in countries where thought and expression is regarded as weapons against the general public and the state - but this country was founded without that concept. Unless I physically bash you on the head and cause real trauma - any info - of any media - of any kind - can be regarded as offensive to someone, some group or even the majority. The right to make whatever graven image, game, or text is protected. If you lose that - then shit-can the rest and give me good honest fascism which doesn't go around "pretending" it's agenda while providing services.
Unless you're ready for some Singapore-style slings and hangmen and some snappy uniforms helping you to see what you need to see, say what is state approved, and keep the public's best interest at hand in exchange for better education & jobs - I don't fucking want to hear abou it - and that goes double for your kids.
"In cold blood" isn't a video game - someone might tell the Senate.
Although you get the gammut of noobs and whatnot with online shooters, I've noted - particularly with the euro and australian set, the overwhelming amount of polite chatter, "sorrys" and the like during fragfests. Although people in the real world are generally polite around where I live - it pales in comparrison to the almost creepy-polite people splattering my corpse into a million gibblets every other night in RTCW.
What am I supposed to infer from this compared to the "media" (who have been losing oodles of revenue to slobs like me who are tired of watching their violent programing and are going elsewhere) who perpetually throw data counter to first-hand data everyday? The start of a slander and libel class-action suit might be just what the DA ordered.
Thanks for reading.
re:"why be normal"
No why's required - although there'd be a lot less fat kids in goth makeup if normal wasn't considered a dirty word. That and "packaged abnormal" is it's own kind of normal anyway.
If you want abnormal - look to your local homeless man for tips. Sure there's lots of em, but not all got there the same way. True individualism in action, and you can have mine in small doses when I need to make rent. Thank goodness I don't have kids - then I'd really have to give in.
Now all my rants about black helecopters will be modified insightful. It's another notch on the old belt - yessir!
Oh it's a hap-hap-happy dayyyyy......
Now if only my tinfoil hat dreams could come true.
re:"For the most part, Nintendo has always strives to make game affordable."
Such lovely shit! Oh this is the new 2006 model bullshit? How nice! Does it come in Mauve?
- er-um-ina -
That of course makes perfect sense why Nintendo imposed carts on the N64 audience (and me) creating a supply of games that cost 50 dollars, to and including 80 (1998) dollars (Quake - note no rumble or memory pack-in).
So insert-your-adjective-fucking affordable - that "one" game - cost more than 2/3rd the cost of the whole console - a close throwback to when all home-consoles were single titles only - like "tank" or "pong". Of course - now with Nintendo GameCube titles selling up to half the cost of the unit, we've made real progress since 1976.
Whatever word you're searching for, "strive" isn't it.
proxy abuse.
Being outcast at school or any other early social situation is first fuelled by being different. The kid who couldn't watch tv, the kid who couldn't celebrate xmas etc.
Oh, so you "can't listen to an iPod".
Think his kids are going to be regarded as normal? Think they won't get any bitch-slapping?
Welcome to the playground - here's a fast-moving rubber ball for your ass!
pwdned!
His wiki ref is brief and didn't mention his UI demos specifically, but other links did in fact confirm that he's "That Guy" (his picture should have done it but is it just me or does tenure make profs look "alike?"). Unless he's co-oped soon the desktop metaphor will be utterly useless for dealing with as much desktop-based information as we're about to be inundated with (or already are).
30 plus years for an information-management method is a good run. We need something else. Even the notion of emulating FILING CABINETS - and FOLDERS - for all manner of data is a joke in of itself.
File management on a terabyte plus drive will be a breeze to boot (to coin a phrase).
I imagine the "find" option in Windows will have no problem nor will Spotlight. And those wonderful desktop search tools will just FLY indexing a terabyte. No sweat.
That or I'll lose 6 out of 8 hours either organizing or just searching for 2k in 2,000 gigs / 2,000,000 mbs / 2,000,000,000 kbs.
Can't wait. Or we can all wait for that wonderful file system that's yet to come.
- on that note a serious question -
WTF happened to "that guy" who was working on a desktop-calendar hybrid model for a UI? It resolved entire workdays into desktop snapshots that were presented like a scrapbook which one could flip through like a titanic personal organizer. This has been why I've been handling project data within chronological folders lately because - unless I've had serious head-trauma - I can recall WHEN I worked on something. Names? Either the one's I put in on a whim or some crypo-garbage that the app assigns? The latter really make searches fun. "That Guy" was a blurb on some TechTV show ages ago. All I can recall is he was in the Bay Area, was Jewish, and was loaded with PHDs. Which religious prefs aside makes him about as common as the water in the Bay itself as a google ref.
Still, I think this is where we have to go in future UIs - now I just need to find out where "that guy" - went.
That's nothing compared to the Billions AT&T poured into Excite@Home, 2.9 on the top for Comcast shares, and another 300 million for upgrades in the first 3 months. The billions that flowed from Excite@Home for their "wall of aquisitions" makes accounting from Enron look like grade school math afterwards.
If you look at the billions spent on advertising by any large business (even a modest account like Apple puts 250 million a quarter into it) an aqusition like this can be meaningful - if they can translate it into something they can use.
Unlike say - Flickr - which is still giving Yahoo fits.
What's Web 2.0? 3 years of back-capital being dumped at the same time from Sandhill Road.
At least the IPO frenzy hasn't started yet - that's when the real hurt starts. Joe Blow sinking the trust fund into http://blahoo.com/what_the_fuck_are_we_doing.htm
BTW / Disclaimer - how do I turn off slashdot's automatic link-creation of an obvious joke?
IOW: Don't click on it - it could be gay porn from Pakistan for all I know.
The picture's so good you can see the DRM watermark!
Now THAT'S progress people! Huzzah!
I never recalled Indiana Jones being chased by a boulder with a giant DRM logo emblazoned on it - but the metaphor is so right ya know?
Very much so - I blow up life forms every day on RTCW.
An admirable and overused quote - from a guy who should have worn "protection".
OFF WITH HIS HEAD!
"Will Wright Talks Research, Astrobiology"
This is news?
I'm sure when Will's hungry we'll be subjected to:
"Will Wright Talks bagels, cumquats"
Or when at a stripper club:
"Will Wright Talks Boobs! Buttocks!"
Or when drunk:
"Will Wright Talks Blarforg Splabbappo!"
I can't wait Slashdot - don't let me down.
I always laugh when I hear that. As if the idea of "Adults" playing games is somehow "new".
I've got a still minty-condition special-edition of PLAYBOY ELECTRONICS magazine (which was also half devoted to cars - including the Delorean - oooo.) from 1981 that featured arcades and home games as well as high-end video and audiophile info put out by the masters of everything bunny-related.
Now - was Playboy magazine ever marketed to kids specifically - or did perhaps Nintendo skew the age-image of video games in the late 80s? I also recall a lot of tall "kids" with briefcases hanging around the arcades during lunch-hours in 1980-1983.
I'm still annoyed at congresspeople who feign shock over a pastime that also included "Custers Revenge" and other low-rez adult fare. Strip Poker for the Atari 800 anyone?
Mercury news, but if the Merc had those figures - they would have been vastly more entertaining.
Gotta go to where the money is.
My father was in aerospace and we moved all over the place as jobs migrated from private, miliarty, govt, space, etc. Silicon Valley has one massive caveat that all other startup zones would kill for and that's the VC concentration. For VCs to invest a member of the group generally sits on the board of directors. That means if you're not nearby - you're SOL.
That's also why "Silicon Alley" only comes in as a distant second in any quarters worth of investment (12% vs 40% in the last quater I took note of the numbers in 2005). It's all well and good to say the internet economy can function anywhere - but you still need to be near the cash.
I maintained California clients while living in Phoenix after the first meltdown. If I'd lived any further east, I would have been boned. Once I was getting no's to 2 out of 3 new client leads, I moved back and now I'm busier than hell. Cost of living be damned - sometimes you gotta spend money to earn it.
Minditory Simpsons ref:
Professor Frink - "Brace yourselves gentlemen. According to the gas hromatograph, the secret ingredient is... Love!? Who's been screwing with this thing?""