Personally, I can't get clients unless they know how to get in touch with me.
And don't moan about spam. My E-mail address is widely published and maybe one or two messages a week gets through the filters.
Trolls built Valhalla, you insensitive clod!
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Slashdot's Disagree Mail
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Wotan promised he'd give Freya to the trolls Fafner and Fasolt if they'd build him a big temple where the souls of dead warriors could fight all day and feast all night. They did it just like he asked, and then he reneged. The trolls took Freya anyway, so the gods all became weak because they didn't have her golden apples any more, and Wotan and Loki figured they'd better do something quick, so they tried to buy the trolls off by giving them a magic ring made of Rhinegold that enabled the wearer to rule the world. This worked and the gods got Freya back, but then Fafner killed Fasolt for control of the ring, and... oh, just go see the opera.
Actually, I used to write the play-by-play and color commentary for the Madden NFL series at EA, so I know the John Madden voice pretty well. No shit, check it out.
"Now, ya see what he did here? 1nc1nerator thought M0nstrMan was gonna come through this gap, but M0nstrMan just gave him a little twitch-fake, and BOOM, suddenly he's eatin' raw plasma."
It's about time we had a sporting event in which drug enhancements are welcome so we can see the effects of the different drugs. "M0nstrMan took a double dose of crystal meth two hours before the contest, and we can see that he's 27 frags up on his nearest opponent. WeeTimmyLeary decided to go for tabs of acid today, and he's spent the whole match crouched in a corner screaming about purple caterpillars -- he doesn't have many frags, but nobody wants to go near him, either. 1nc1inerator's joytick hand is just a bloody stump at this point, but the heroin is really helping with the pain; he hasn't slowed down."
In all the non-drug sports it come down to genetics and chance, and that's hardly fair.
Nobody -- NOBODY -- does paranoia better.
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Ray Bradbury Turns 88
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"The Fruit at the Bottom of the Bowl." He makes it sound so reasonable.
Categorize it as fantasy without the damned elves.
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Ray Bradbury Turns 88
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Something Wicked This Way Comes is nothing short of brilliant. I must have read it half a dozen times. I never saw the movie; I didn't want it to ruin it for me.
"This letter that I am carving into the bullet is not a letter. It is my smile."
Of course the political parties want to accredit bloggers. Most bloggers have an agenda. A blogger who wants to go to a party convention almost certainly supports that party, so they're a good person to let in.
Trouble is, bloggers aren't journalists, and real journalists do themselves a disservice by having anything to do with them. When was the last time you heard of a blogger getting independent corroboration of a story before running it? How many would go to jail to protect a source? How many know the difference between "background" and "deep background"? How many even know the principles of journalistic ethics at all? Most bloggers are anonymous -- there's reportorial integrity for you.
Blogs are water-cooler conversation or street-corner-nut ranting. They aren't journalism.
Just so nobody gets the idea that this woman could be a scientist with an important breakthrough, let's refer to her as a "chick" from now on. Or maybe a "babe." In fact, why not emulate Don Imus and call her a "goggle-eyed ho"?
C'mon, Taco. Join the fucking twenty-first century.
In criminal matters, it's the government versus the accused, and liberty demands that such trials take place in public. But in a purely civil matter, the government is just an adjudicator -- the conflict is between two private people or institutions. Why SHOULD the public have access to divorce proceedings? The government has only a neutral role.
They add nothing. They are the Internet equivalent of belligerent drunks shouting in a bar. What they do is not news, it's just endless editorializing.
If they can use music to teach little kids the alphabet, why not use it to teach science? This kind of thing might actually make a difference in high school.
If you can't immediately [fnord] see it happening under your nose, it must be a [fnord] conspiracy.
Flat earth, evolution, black holes, nanotechnology... all conspiracies.
Oil IS yesterday, and energy savings are good if we can obtain them in a painless way such as insulating our attics or improving the efficiency of our cars. But it's not just the corporations that see no profit in a low-impact life; ordinary people see no pleasure in it either.
I'm tired of installing overpriced compact fluorescents that give dim, ugly light. I'm not going to bring a week's worth of groceries for a family of four home on my bike or on the bus. I'm going to keep my house at the temperature I like rather than feel hot and sweaty all summer and cold all winter. The world demand for energy is not going to go down through self-sacrifice -- we can put that notion out of our heads right now. It might make you feel superior; it would only make me feel like I've moved to a Third World country, at a time when the Third World is working its butt off to become First World, and that means consuming more energy.
Improve efficiency, fine. Improve production, fine. Cut back expenditure through self-denial? Screw that. Life is too short for it to be unpleasant as well.
How much energy does it take to maintain an oil platform in the North Sea? How much energy did it take to build Hoover Dam? We're not going to get a magic machine that gives us energy and costs none to build. Even if the answer is "years and years," the point is that we're trading dirty energy for clean energy, so it's worth doing.
The historical record is perfectly clear. He was born in Asia Minor and moved north in Victorian times. The nation of which he was a citizen has long since passed away, so he is now a stateless person. As he lives in international waters he is not subject to any nation's jurisdiction. He has found gainful employment and is regarded as one of the world's best-known brands, with a Q score even higher than that of Paris Hilton.
'Twas the Night Before Christmas established, as eyewitness testtimony, that St. Nicholas is "dressed all in red from his head to his foot." Coke just depicted what Clement Clark Moore wrote.
I'm a game developer with 19 years in the business. I second what everyone else has said about the fact that the industry doesn't buy ideas. Let me also add that you can't protect an idea.
You can copyright a specific expression of the idea, such as a design document, but only that particular text is protected, not the idea itself.
You could try to patent the idea, if it meets the standards for being a patent, but that would make you an evil scumbag. Game ideas should not be patentable.
The one thing you CAN do is treat the idea like a trade secret. Then you can sue your employees if they reveal the idea, and you can sue your competitors if you can prove that they spied on you to get hold of it. But for this to count, you have to actually act as if it IS a secret, i.e., don't tell anyone about it, and keep anything written down in a safe!
Bottom line: if you don't want to be "ripped off," keep your mouth shut. But that won't prevent independent invention. Chances are very good that someone else has had a similar idea, and there's not a thing in the world you can do to prevent them exploiting it... nor should there be.
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Personally, I can't get clients unless they know how to get in touch with me.
And don't moan about spam. My E-mail address is widely published and maybe one or two messages a week gets through the filters.
Wotan promised he'd give Freya to the trolls Fafner and Fasolt if they'd build him a big temple where the souls of dead warriors could fight all day and feast all night. They did it just like he asked, and then he reneged. The trolls took Freya anyway, so the gods all became weak because they didn't have her golden apples any more, and Wotan and Loki figured they'd better do something quick, so they tried to buy the trolls off by giving them a magic ring made of Rhinegold that enabled the wearer to rule the world. This worked and the gods got Freya back, but then Fafner killed Fasolt for control of the ring, and... oh, just go see the opera.
Actually, I used to write the play-by-play and color commentary for the Madden NFL series at EA, so I know the John Madden voice pretty well. No shit, check it out.
"Now, ya see what he did here? 1nc1nerator thought M0nstrMan was gonna come through this gap, but M0nstrMan just gave him a little twitch-fake, and BOOM, suddenly he's eatin' raw plasma."
It's about time we had a sporting event in which drug enhancements are welcome so we can see the effects of the different drugs. "M0nstrMan took a double dose of crystal meth two hours before the contest, and we can see that he's 27 frags up on his nearest opponent. WeeTimmyLeary decided to go for tabs of acid today, and he's spent the whole match crouched in a corner screaming about purple caterpillars -- he doesn't have many frags, but nobody wants to go near him, either. 1nc1inerator's joytick hand is just a bloody stump at this point, but the heroin is really helping with the pain; he hasn't slowed down."
In all the non-drug sports it come down to genetics and chance, and that's hardly fair.
"The Fruit at the Bottom of the Bowl." He makes it sound so reasonable.
Something Wicked This Way Comes is nothing short of brilliant. I must have read it half a dozen times. I never saw the movie; I didn't want it to ruin it for me.
"This letter that I am carving into the bullet is not a letter. It is my smile."
Of course the political parties want to accredit bloggers. Most bloggers have an agenda. A blogger who wants to go to a party convention almost certainly supports that party, so they're a good person to let in.
Trouble is, bloggers aren't journalists, and real journalists do themselves a disservice by having anything to do with them. When was the last time you heard of a blogger getting independent corroboration of a story before running it? How many would go to jail to protect a source? How many know the difference between "background" and "deep background"? How many even know the principles of journalistic ethics at all? Most bloggers are anonymous -- there's reportorial integrity for you.
Blogs are water-cooler conversation or street-corner-nut ranting. They aren't journalism.
Seriously...the notion that there are bad words to use is mindboggling.
Is that so, asshole?
It also means spic, wop, kike, dago, polack, beaner, honky and raghead. It's pejorative, and anybody who thinks otherwise has his head up his ass.
The only people who may use it safely are those who choose to use it of themselves.
No, you can't. Not if you want anyone to take what you have to say seriously.
Just so nobody gets the idea that this woman could be a scientist with an important breakthrough, let's refer to her as a "chick" from now on. Or maybe a "babe." In fact, why not emulate Don Imus and call her a "goggle-eyed ho"?
C'mon, Taco. Join the fucking twenty-first century.
In criminal matters, it's the government versus the accused, and liberty demands that such trials take place in public. But in a purely civil matter, the government is just an adjudicator -- the conflict is between two private people or institutions. Why SHOULD the public have access to divorce proceedings? The government has only a neutral role.
They add nothing. They are the Internet equivalent of belligerent drunks shouting in a bar. What they do is not news, it's just endless editorializing.
I was hoping I'd be seeing some cool old Babbage gear up and running. Programs doing logic? VERY old news.
If they can use music to teach little kids the alphabet, why not use it to teach science? This kind of thing might actually make a difference in high school.
If you can't immediately [fnord] see it happening under your nose, it must be a [fnord] conspiracy. Flat earth, evolution, black holes, nanotechnology... all conspiracies.
Oil IS yesterday, and energy savings are good if we can obtain them in a painless way such as insulating our attics or improving the efficiency of our cars. But it's not just the corporations that see no profit in a low-impact life; ordinary people see no pleasure in it either.
I'm tired of installing overpriced compact fluorescents that give dim, ugly light. I'm not going to bring a week's worth of groceries for a family of four home on my bike or on the bus. I'm going to keep my house at the temperature I like rather than feel hot and sweaty all summer and cold all winter. The world demand for energy is not going to go down through self-sacrifice -- we can put that notion out of our heads right now. It might make you feel superior; it would only make me feel like I've moved to a Third World country, at a time when the Third World is working its butt off to become First World, and that means consuming more energy.
Improve efficiency, fine. Improve production, fine. Cut back expenditure through self-denial? Screw that. Life is too short for it to be unpleasant as well.
How much energy does it take to maintain an oil platform in the North Sea? How much energy did it take to build Hoover Dam? We're not going to get a magic machine that gives us energy and costs none to build. Even if the answer is "years and years," the point is that we're trading dirty energy for clean energy, so it's worth doing.
I'm sure about 1890 people were saying, "Yet another petroleum story." If you want to keep your head in the sand, what are you doing on Slashdot?
The historical record is perfectly clear. He was born in Asia Minor and moved north in Victorian times. The nation of which he was a citizen has long since passed away, so he is now a stateless person. As he lives in international waters he is not subject to any nation's jurisdiction. He has found gainful employment and is regarded as one of the world's best-known brands, with a Q score even higher than that of Paris Hilton.
'Twas the Night Before Christmas established, as eyewitness testtimony, that St. Nicholas is "dressed all in red from his head to his foot." Coke just depicted what Clement Clark Moore wrote.
"Ultra-transparent silk films"? It's a natural. I don't see what all this nerdy science stuff has to do with see-through panties, though.
I'm a game developer with 19 years in the business. I second what everyone else has said about the fact that the industry doesn't buy ideas. Let me also add that you can't protect an idea.
You can copyright a specific expression of the idea, such as a design document, but only that particular text is protected, not the idea itself.
You could try to patent the idea, if it meets the standards for being a patent, but that would make you an evil scumbag. Game ideas should not be patentable.
The one thing you CAN do is treat the idea like a trade secret. Then you can sue your employees if they reveal the idea, and you can sue your competitors if you can prove that they spied on you to get hold of it. But for this to count, you have to actually act as if it IS a secret, i.e., don't tell anyone about it, and keep anything written down in a safe!
Bottom line: if you don't want to be "ripped off," keep your mouth shut. But that won't prevent independent invention. Chances are very good that someone else has had a similar idea, and there's not a thing in the world you can do to prevent them exploiting it... nor should there be.
They're round-ended, but they're metal. Only in business class, I think. Maybe they figure terrorists only fly in coach.