the old campy Batman and Robin series is still superior to the animation that is going on now.
Really? Really?
The DC animated universe of
Batman: The Animated Series
Superman: The Animated Series
The Batman/Superman Hour
Batman Beyond
Justice League
Justice League Unlimited
Hmm, maybe you mean *Now* I liked the recent Death of Superman movie, the Spectacular Spiderman, the animated Dr. Strange...
Could we please get some explanatory links in here? This reads like a mix between a corporate nightmare ("harmful to our velocity"? SERIOUSLY?) and the rantings of an MMORPG nerd ("I was a level 72 ScrumMaster specced for Agility
It reminded me of EST-speak. Psychotic ramblings...
prior to the Internet, most people never wrote anything substantial outside of school.
Rather than reposting my response to someone else, I'll just post the link: http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1350875&cid=29233575
The summary: almost everyone _did_ write before the internet. To add to my linked examples: notes in meetings would have been on paper; no laptops. Sweet nothings / steamy letters written to significant others. Pens and pencils: were they a niche market, only for businesses and schools? I mean, she says "never, ever" did most people even "construct a paragraph again" after leaving school. It's a blanket untruth!
no one wants to work past 40 hours a week because you watch them like a hawk.
You know what? If I get the job done in less than 40 hours, maybe I'm working smarter or using newer, better tools than the guys from the 1980s. Maybe I don't appreciate being twice as productive as my predecessors and getting comparatively half the pay. And then you think it's okay to try and get me to work 60 hours instead of 40 to try an eek out triple the 1980s production level? Screw you, you micromanaging pissant.
Before the Internet came along, most Americans never wrote anything, ever, that wasn't a school assignment.
Is she 18? That is totally f'ing wrong. I lived quite a few years before the (popular adoption of the) internet. I remember adults and children writing things all the time outside of school. They were called diaries, notebooks, stories, or letters, and at the very least, you'd get one letter a year from everyone you knew (a Christmas letter). Nowadays, Christmas letters are just postcard pictures, and everyone posts their diaries online. The internet hasn't helped literacy; it's helped *typing*, but that's about it.
What is alarming is the rate at which the raw materials are being pulled from the Earth then discarded, usually right after the two year contract expires.
Materials discarded, but a whole lot easier to acquire than via mining, smelting, etc.
Wrong. Children learn to work on the platform that's mostly used in Businesses today, giving them the necessary skills to obtain a job.
http://xkcd.com/627/
Platform specific education turns people into the "Parents, Grandparents, co-workers, and other 'not computer people'" mentioned in this xkcd. Formal education uses multiple sources and generalizations to assure that students can learn new things after leaving school. If I had gotten a degree in "IT" I would have been stuck in my first job, not doing much beyond MS Windows cloning. Thank God for Computer Science where the only battle is which portable language should be used to teach initial programming concepts.
All in all, it's a bunch of stupid FUD by hippies that eat their gunk from their toes.
Only the king of the hippies eats weird stuff, and it's leftovers from his beard. If you're going to use ad hominem attacks, then you should at least use truthful ones.
You can't handle multiple "action planning" tasks simultaneously.
I know thousands of musicians who will disagree with you. Ever play a guitar/banjo and sing? Switch to a new key for both? March in convoluted patterns and play a song while keeping your focus on a drum major? Play a spontaneous drum set solo (hint: that's four limbs you're action planning, three if you're Rick Allen)? Tune two timpani at the same time by ear because there's not enough time to do both in succession before you have to play again? Pickle a hog's head while knitting a sweater? Just seeing if you read all the way to the end...
Yes. And anyone who has ever played with a gamer who fancies him or herself a multitasker knows this. They never seem to understand that you're pissed off for a reason. Subtle outbursts like, "OMG, turn the damn movie off, stop IMing your friends, and pay attention to the screen. There's a reason the rest of us don't want to group with you and that you suck at doing quests!" seem to confuse them, because they are GOOD at multitasking!
I was with you until you said screen (although you could have meant the DM screen). "Multitasking" role-players suck extra hard. Lest we forget:
Nightblade: OGRES!?! Man, I got an ogre slaying knife! It's got a +9 against ogres!
If he hadn't been getting cheetos and mtn dew, then he'd be with his party and they'd stand a chance. We all know a Nightblade.
produced two excellent shows (Buffy, Angel), a decent show (Firefly), and a mediocre show (Dollhouse)
Your order of subjective preference with these shows makes me more closely examine the rest of your argument. Firefly is not "decent". And no mention of Dr. Horrible's Sing-a-long Blog? Sure, it's not a TV show, but it's great modern media.
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the old campy Batman and Robin series is still superior to the animation that is going on now.
Really? Really?
The DC animated universe of
Batman: The Animated Series
Superman: The Animated Series
The Batman/Superman Hour
Batman Beyond
Justice League
Justice League Unlimited
Hmm, maybe you mean *Now* I liked the recent Death of Superman movie, the Spectacular Spiderman, the animated Dr. Strange...
Amazing, Incredible, Fantastic, Uncanny, Spectacular, EXCELSIOR!!!
It's not a hole..It works exactly like it was designed to work..making it easier for people to spread their word.
The new Democratic platform: Deposed Nigerian monarch money and bigger penises for everyone!
I may vote next election.
Could we please get some explanatory links in here? This reads like a mix between a corporate nightmare ("harmful to our velocity"? SERIOUSLY?) and the rantings of an MMORPG nerd ("I was a level 72 ScrumMaster specced for Agility
It reminded me of EST-speak. Psychotic ramblings...
Italy was invited.
I'll believe it when it's finished downloading - I may be some time.
I'm afraid you'll be disappointed. You wanted Universe-src.tar.bz2. You're currently downloading a compiled binary.
prior to the Internet, most people never wrote anything substantial outside of school.
Rather than reposting my response to someone else, I'll just post the link:
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1350875&cid=29233575
The summary: almost everyone _did_ write before the internet. To add to my linked examples: notes in meetings would have been on paper; no laptops. Sweet nothings / steamy letters written to significant others. Pens and pencils: were they a niche market, only for businesses and schools? I mean, she says "never, ever" did most people even "construct a paragraph again" after leaving school. It's a blanket untruth!
no one wants to work past 40 hours a week because you watch them like a hawk.
You know what? If I get the job done in less than 40 hours, maybe I'm working smarter or using newer, better tools than the guys from the 1980s. Maybe I don't appreciate being twice as productive as my predecessors and getting comparatively half the pay. And then you think it's okay to try and get me to work 60 hours instead of 40 to try an eek out triple the 1980s production level? Screw you, you micromanaging pissant.
Before the Internet came along, most Americans never wrote anything, ever, that wasn't a school assignment.
Is she 18? That is totally f'ing wrong. I lived quite a few years before the (popular adoption of the) internet. I remember adults and children writing things all the time outside of school. They were called diaries, notebooks, stories, or letters, and at the very least, you'd get one letter a year from everyone you knew (a Christmas letter). Nowadays, Christmas letters are just postcard pictures, and everyone posts their diaries online. The internet hasn't helped literacy; it's helped *typing*, but that's about it.
They don't sound too pleasant. Hopefully they're made with metal or plastic instead of wood. Bonuses: no breaking.
What is alarming is the rate at which the raw materials are being pulled from the Earth then discarded, usually right after the two year contract expires.
Materials discarded, but a whole lot easier to acquire than via mining, smelting, etc.
Hostile takeover by Sony?
Poisoning education
Wrong. Children learn to work on the platform that's mostly used in Businesses today, giving them the necessary skills to obtain a job.
http://xkcd.com/627/ Platform specific education turns people into the "Parents, Grandparents, co-workers, and other 'not computer people'" mentioned in this xkcd. Formal education uses multiple sources and generalizations to assure that students can learn new things after leaving school. If I had gotten a degree in "IT" I would have been stuck in my first job, not doing much beyond MS Windows cloning. Thank God for Computer Science where the only battle is which portable language should be used to teach initial programming concepts.
All in all, it's a bunch of stupid FUD by hippies that eat their gunk from their toes.
Only the king of the hippies eats weird stuff, and it's leftovers from his beard. If you're going to use ad hominem attacks, then you should at least use truthful ones.
You can't handle multiple "action planning" tasks simultaneously.
I know thousands of musicians who will disagree with you. Ever play a guitar/banjo and sing? Switch to a new key for both? March in convoluted patterns and play a song while keeping your focus on a drum major? Play a spontaneous drum set solo (hint: that's four limbs you're action planning, three if you're Rick Allen)? Tune two timpani at the same time by ear because there's not enough time to do both in succession before you have to play again? Pickle a hog's head while knitting a sweater? Just seeing if you read all the way to the end...
Yes. And anyone who has ever played with a gamer who fancies him or herself a multitasker knows this. They never seem to understand that you're pissed off for a reason. Subtle outbursts like, "OMG, turn the damn movie off, stop IMing your friends, and pay attention to the screen. There's a reason the rest of us don't want to group with you and that you suck at doing quests!" seem to confuse them, because they are GOOD at multitasking!
I was with you until you said screen (although you could have meant the DM screen). "Multitasking" role-players suck extra hard. Lest we forget:
Nightblade: OGRES!?! Man, I got an ogre slaying knife! It's got a +9 against ogres!
If he hadn't been getting cheetos and mtn dew, then he'd be with his party and they'd stand a chance. We all know a Nightblade.
If you can remember your passwords, you're doing something wrong.
Or you've got a mind like a steel ... umm ... something.
Correction: Firefly is not merely "decent."
produced two excellent shows (Buffy, Angel), a decent show (Firefly), and a mediocre show (Dollhouse)
Your order of subjective preference with these shows makes me more closely examine the rest of your argument. Firefly is not "decent". And no mention of Dr. Horrible's Sing-a-long Blog? Sure, it's not a TV show, but it's great modern media.
Is a female human one with breasts and/or a vagina?
Definitely not "or". Man-boobs exist.
the only really intuitive interface, as some wit once remarked, is the nipple.
And yet I've never seen one person try to suckle a laptop pointer-nub.
How do they test their activex exploits without using IE?
Having somebody offer *the* reason to get an iPhone for *free* is really, really scary to them.
Google can give me a sense of superiority and belonging to the "in" crowd for *free*?
Sorry, but Clone Troopers had an accelerated aging cycle. They're all dead by Episode IV. Boba Fett is the last remaining clone of Jango.
No, you misread. This is an MMO to RTS transition. I wish they'd do something like this for WoW, maybe they'd call it Space Hulk.
On a serious note, I would like a Warcraft/Starcraft FPS. C&C Renegade was fun.
What is it that they could of had?
could of halved. Sheesh.