I personally wonder what the next fad/"statement" will be after this brushed-chrome, pseudo-indy, myspace loitering, ipod-totting, grad-student worshiping, super-liberal phase...
It reminds me so much of the 60s for some reason...could some sort pseudo-electro dance-ready high-energy disco resurgence be coming around the corner? Recent hits like "here we go", etc...have such a similiar energy to them...
But fad speculation is usually impossible. Some weird bizarre movie hit no one was expecting or some garage band from any random country will probably come out of the woodworks...or we will enter a "multi-genre generation", which is entirely possible thanks to the internet. Although it makes marketing rather difficult...
((I actually have to use a non-LCD monitor quite often as a second monitor for my laptop at a lab at the campus, and at most school-computers, which I frequent between classes instead of trying the schools firewalled and buggy wi-fi.))
But something obviously makes me anxious...probably the amount of clicking and moving I do on a computer normally...or just ADD...heh
As the iridologists told me one day, watching an electronic screen makes your eyes "nervous" to some extent due to the refresh rate of the screen. Even if you don't see the screen refresh, your eyes sense SOME movement, which gives you a limited degree of anxiousness...you want to do something...click on something...type something.
But when I read an e-book (err PDF...for school usually), I find myself madly clicking around the book or wishing I could walk while reading because the screen just makes me anxious, you know?
I usually type in "product manufacturer's name".com and read the opposing arguments. Whichever spouts the most useless, redundant statistics about their product ("This printer has USB AND plug and play support! PLUS it can print 8.5x11 and is composed of protons, neutrons AND electrons!") or the most bullshit ("MADE FOR GAMERS!") obviously is trying to overcompensate for a lack of serious ware.
First the pirate party crap and now this? Sorry to sound like a troll, but sealand is *not* a legal country. A bunch of guys took over a defunct military installation...then a wealthier man strongarmed them out of the installation and delcared it was his since it was more than 3 miles off the coast.
Well newsflash bates...that only applies to LAND. Sealand is *not* land. It is more of a permanently anchored boat than it is land. A boat belonging to the United Kingdom. The country isn't even recognized by anyone, and if piratebay.com took it over and started running servers, they'd just be targetted by British authorities that much faster! (Bates was semi-untouchable on a "we don't give a shit" kind of basis.)
With the amount of money Pirate Bay is making per-month and now with these stupid donations, they could just go out and buy whatever movies and CDs they want to torrent.
Sorry to sound harsh...piratebay just killed my d20 e-book dream is all. 1,000,000 downloads and not enough sales to pay back the artists. -_-' I'm not in it for the money, but I don't want to spend money doing it. -_-''
1.) Download it. 2.) Continue downloading it. 3.) Oh shit, your seeds just left. 4.)...1 kb/s...1 kb/s! I paid for the broadband now give me my movies! 5.) Its been 2 weeks...dear lord...2...weeks...the horror...the horror 6.) Watch 7.) Delete
((Repeat without fragmenting till your harddrive begins to play wav files of itself screaming))
But of course pirates will put HD-DVDs on there. They'll put anything and everything they can up...because its a business! Pirate sites makes serious revenue with ads, and the revenue is fueled by having content!
Never mind, I was wrong:
World of Warcraft's Subscriber Definition
World of Warcraft subscribers include individuals who have paid a subscription fee or have an active prepaid card to play World of Warcraft, as well as those who have purchased the game and are within their free month of access. Internet Game Room players who have accessed the game over the last thirty days are also counted as subscribers. The above definition excludes all players under free promotional subscriptions, expired or cancelled subscriptions, and expired prepaid cards. Subscribers in licensees' territories are defined along the same rules.
It's not.1 percent of the planet. That 8 million number is for publicity: even Blizzard knows that, given the high density of players who have quit, quit and returned with a new account, got banned, were gold-farmers (they get like a new account a day and realm-spam now...) or just people with more than 1 account (not commonplace, but not too rare).
How many active players do you have currently after that? Probably around 3 million...but that's just a guess.
Wait...at first man had a pen. He took classes in calligraphy (etc..etc...) in order to learn how to write well.
Then man invented the printing press. Now man need only place certain tablets in certain order and he can print uniform letters every time hundreds of times without writers cramp!
Then man invented the printer, an easier to use, cartridge based device that did not need tablets.
And now man has invented...wait a minute...what the hell is the difference between this and a man with a pen and a piece of thin plastic with easels for various letters, other than the fact this required more time to make, costs more and looks sloppier.
Keep in mind I'm ignoring ballpoint pens. A good ol' inkwell can write on beer quite efficiently though.
I'm sorry. You are correct. I did not fully research the statistics. But I didn't need too. I checked with all the gamers I knew. I check documents from people who sell PDFs online and compared them with torrent files, and I checked how often resources that reproduce these books in HTML formats are linked on other sites (and therefore, theoretically, visited).
FYI, the book was about acupuncture conversion to D20 and dim-mak.
In the end these guys still tick me off. They act as if they have a plephora of information held back by the almighty dollar and the greedy supercorperations (yeah, as if anyone really torrents non-gaming, non-pornography books) and that we, the public have a right to get anything we want for free as long as no one is willing to pay...ugh.
Sorry, I just had a dream of mine cut short by doing some research and finding out for every D20 book you sell, around 10,000 illegal copies are shared (mostly among people who won't even use your ideas). I personally love the idea of people sharing my books and in a perfect world I'd say go for it. Too bad the publishers and artists still want payments/commissions... -___-'
The only way this study is accurate is if it took place in a world where massive country-absorption through economic, political or military gains were still possible. Unfortunately, with very few exceptions, doing so as a western-world power is nearly impossible.
Never thought of India as being the 51st state. Would that make people there American Indians?
...I'm sick and I haven't slept in 25 hours due to work. Sorry about that.
I was aware of the language of Brazil. But that issue that every reply continues to drive is trivial in this context (yes, knowledge is good. And yes, pointing out other people's ignorance is good. But there's no need to kick a man who made a simple mistake while he's down. I don't have enough time to do research on every word in every one of my posts. If you think all slashdotters should research the proper names for characters in cruel jokes, then by all means. Personally I don't know any *real* names that would work in the joke.). The point was a "made for children...by children" sweat-shop kind of thing. Odds are children don't make electronics, but are used primarily for textiles (I honestly don't know about this either) in sweatshops (if used at all).
And yes, I understand the purpose of this charity. I've read articles about it...I was trying to make a point mixed with some humor.
...when you asked me what irony was?
Ironically they might have to resort to third-world cheap labor as the final solution to pumping the cost down to $100. Good thing little Paco* is learning how to use a laptop, since the only decent job in his country is putting them together!
*Random spanish name chosen because Brazil was one of the first countries on the list
I'm not saying I believe my own theories, but these are just gray matter excersizes. I'm torn between "we didn't know!" and "climate changes are natural" and at this point will just assume (a) since we can all affoard to use less energy in our everyday lives.
What if the human civilization looped? I mean what if humans pre-pre-big-Ice Age actually had working systems that were destroyed by the ice age and that caused said global catastrophie? Those mysterious "springs" found in uninhabited Russia. The steps found deep in the Jamacian seas where no land was thought to ever exist. The fact countless tons of crushing ice and rushing waves from the big meltdown would have destroyed a civilization if it was placed in just the ~wrong~ area. A lot of coincidenses. I know in the end scientific evidence proves this theory entirely false, but its just a brain excersize to get us thinking and nothing more. A fable or parable.
On another note: bad architecture and buildings (i.e. poor energy unefficient designs and material types) account for MOST of the problems, or so I've heard recently. Too many studies with too many results. *sigh*
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I personally wonder what the next fad/"statement" will be after this brushed-chrome, pseudo-indy, myspace loitering, ipod-totting, grad-student worshiping, super-liberal phase... It reminds me so much of the 60s for some reason...could some sort pseudo-electro dance-ready high-energy disco resurgence be coming around the corner? Recent hits like "here we go", etc...have such a similiar energy to them... But fad speculation is usually impossible. Some weird bizarre movie hit no one was expecting or some garage band from any random country will probably come out of the woodworks...or we will enter a "multi-genre generation", which is entirely possible thanks to the internet. Although it makes marketing rather difficult...
((I actually have to use a non-LCD monitor quite often as a second monitor for my laptop at a lab at the campus, and at most school-computers, which I frequent between classes instead of trying the schools firewalled and buggy wi-fi.)) But something obviously makes me anxious...probably the amount of clicking and moving I do on a computer normally...or just ADD...heh
As the iridologists told me one day, watching an electronic screen makes your eyes "nervous" to some extent due to the refresh rate of the screen. Even if you don't see the screen refresh, your eyes sense SOME movement, which gives you a limited degree of anxiousness...you want to do something...click on something...type something.
But when I read an e-book (err PDF...for school usually), I find myself madly clicking around the book or wishing I could walk while reading because the screen just makes me anxious, you know?
"Wireless charging is nothing new, HP..." ...or Tesla...
If your a sorceror of light, why did you cast magic missile?
I usually type in "product manufacturer's name" .com and read the opposing arguments. Whichever spouts the most useless, redundant statistics about their product ("This printer has USB AND plug and play support! PLUS it can print 8.5x11 and is composed of protons, neutrons AND electrons!") or the most bullshit ("MADE FOR GAMERS!") obviously is trying to overcompensate for a lack of serious ware.
I for one welcome our new peace prize winning immortal overlords.
I for one welcome our 250 billion year old space exploring overlords.
First the pirate party crap and now this? Sorry to sound like a troll, but sealand is *not* a legal country. A bunch of guys took over a defunct military installation...then a wealthier man strongarmed them out of the installation and delcared it was his since it was more than 3 miles off the coast. Well newsflash bates...that only applies to LAND. Sealand is *not* land. It is more of a permanently anchored boat than it is land. A boat belonging to the United Kingdom. The country isn't even recognized by anyone, and if piratebay.com took it over and started running servers, they'd just be targetted by British authorities that much faster! (Bates was semi-untouchable on a "we don't give a shit" kind of basis.) With the amount of money Pirate Bay is making per-month and now with these stupid donations, they could just go out and buy whatever movies and CDs they want to torrent. Sorry to sound harsh...piratebay just killed my d20 e-book dream is all. 1,000,000 downloads and not enough sales to pay back the artists. -_-' I'm not in it for the money, but I don't want to spend money doing it. -_-''
Burn the land and boil the sea
You can't take the sky from me
There's no place I can be
Since I found Serenity
But you can't take the sky from me...
We need more Jiggawatts!
Anyone else just say to themselves "there certainly are a lot of Amish in those areas..."
And for anime/full series viewers...
...1 kb/s...1 kb/s! I paid for the broadband now give me my movies!
1.) Download it.
2.) Continue downloading it.
3.) Oh shit, your seeds just left.
4.)
5.) Its been 2 weeks...dear lord...2...weeks...the horror...the horror
6.) Watch
7.) Delete
((Repeat without fragmenting till your harddrive begins to play wav files of itself screaming))
But of course pirates will put HD-DVDs on there. They'll put anything and everything they can up...because its a business! Pirate sites makes serious revenue with ads, and the revenue is fueled by having content!
Never mind, I was wrong: World of Warcraft's Subscriber Definition World of Warcraft subscribers include individuals who have paid a subscription fee or have an active prepaid card to play World of Warcraft, as well as those who have purchased the game and are within their free month of access. Internet Game Room players who have accessed the game over the last thirty days are also counted as subscribers. The above definition excludes all players under free promotional subscriptions, expired or cancelled subscriptions, and expired prepaid cards. Subscribers in licensees' territories are defined along the same rules.
It's not .1 percent of the planet. That 8 million number is for publicity: even Blizzard knows that, given the high density of players who have quit, quit and returned with a new account, got banned, were gold-farmers (they get like a new account a day and realm-spam now...) or just people with more than 1 account (not commonplace, but not too rare).
How many active players do you have currently after that? Probably around 3 million...but that's just a guess.
Live Action Halo anyone? With real bullets too.
Wait...at first man had a pen. He took classes in calligraphy (etc..etc...) in order to learn how to write well.
Then man invented the printing press. Now man need only place certain tablets in certain order and he can print uniform letters every time hundreds of times without writers cramp!
Then man invented the printer, an easier to use, cartridge based device that did not need tablets.
And now man has invented...wait a minute...what the hell is the difference between this and a man with a pen and a piece of thin plastic with easels for various letters, other than the fact this required more time to make, costs more and looks sloppier.
Keep in mind I'm ignoring ballpoint pens. A good ol' inkwell can write on beer quite efficiently though.
I'm sorry. You are correct. I did not fully research the statistics. But I didn't need too. I checked with all the gamers I knew. I check documents from people who sell PDFs online and compared them with torrent files, and I checked how often resources that reproduce these books in HTML formats are linked on other sites (and therefore, theoretically, visited). FYI, the book was about acupuncture conversion to D20 and dim-mak.
In the end these guys still tick me off. They act as if they have a plephora of information held back by the almighty dollar and the greedy supercorperations (yeah, as if anyone really torrents non-gaming, non-pornography books) and that we, the public have a right to get anything we want for free as long as no one is willing to pay...ugh. Sorry, I just had a dream of mine cut short by doing some research and finding out for every D20 book you sell, around 10,000 illegal copies are shared (mostly among people who won't even use your ideas). I personally love the idea of people sharing my books and in a perfect world I'd say go for it. Too bad the publishers and artists still want payments/commissions... -___-'
Obvious Ford saw that... Its a trap!
The only way this study is accurate is if it took place in a world where massive country-absorption through economic, political or military gains were still possible. Unfortunately, with very few exceptions, doing so as a western-world power is nearly impossible.
Never thought of India as being the 51st state. Would that make people there American Indians?
"My secretary sent me light-speed and I didn't get it for 3 days. That's because the vacuum is clogged."
...I'm sick and I haven't slept in 25 hours due to work. Sorry about that. I was aware of the language of Brazil. But that issue that every reply continues to drive is trivial in this context (yes, knowledge is good. And yes, pointing out other people's ignorance is good. But there's no need to kick a man who made a simple mistake while he's down. I don't have enough time to do research on every word in every one of my posts. If you think all slashdotters should research the proper names for characters in cruel jokes, then by all means. Personally I don't know any *real* names that would work in the joke.). The point was a "made for children...by children" sweat-shop kind of thing. Odds are children don't make electronics, but are used primarily for textiles (I honestly don't know about this either) in sweatshops (if used at all). And yes, I understand the purpose of this charity. I've read articles about it...I was trying to make a point mixed with some humor.
...when you asked me what irony was? Ironically they might have to resort to third-world cheap labor as the final solution to pumping the cost down to $100. Good thing little Paco* is learning how to use a laptop, since the only decent job in his country is putting them together! *Random spanish name chosen because Brazil was one of the first countries on the list
I'm not saying I believe my own theories, but these are just gray matter excersizes. I'm torn between "we didn't know!" and "climate changes are natural" and at this point will just assume (a) since we can all affoard to use less energy in our everyday lives. What if the human civilization looped? I mean what if humans pre-pre-big-Ice Age actually had working systems that were destroyed by the ice age and that caused said global catastrophie? Those mysterious "springs" found in uninhabited Russia. The steps found deep in the Jamacian seas where no land was thought to ever exist. The fact countless tons of crushing ice and rushing waves from the big meltdown would have destroyed a civilization if it was placed in just the ~wrong~ area. A lot of coincidenses. I know in the end scientific evidence proves this theory entirely false, but its just a brain excersize to get us thinking and nothing more. A fable or parable. On another note: bad architecture and buildings (i.e. poor energy unefficient designs and material types) account for MOST of the problems, or so I've heard recently. Too many studies with too many results. *sigh*