Ooo, and don't forget the Audial nerves, and the part of your brain that processes the electrical impulses into the neural signals that let you know you are hearing music. Obviously you stole every song in your head, and they want a piece of it each time you get the urge to start humming Guns and Roses to yourself.
I saw a project once where two men took tablet-pc's, GPS dongles, GIS software and some mountain bikes and made real world Tron lightcycles. They didn't look as cool, but it kept track of where you and your ooponent had been and left a trail on the screens of the tablets (fastened onto the handles). That seems like it would really get kids into the outside and exercise. I know I would have never put up my bike if I had light cycles on it.
I see so many mentions of Mario, but so little of Samus. I know its my own personal love of the Metroid games creeping in, but to me she's always been a more effective Mascot than the other Nintendo characters.
No matter what upgrades happen to the graphics and no matter what doodads get added to the suit, her armor is always recognizable and brings up the memories of the hours spent crawling through maze like worlds hunting alien badies.
till I get that mono-sword my ShadowRun character used to sport all the time? I'm really jonesing for some snacks and its dangerous out there on the streets what with all the Riggers, Runners, and Street Samurai.
If we compressed that to simply 'way', which way would you way the way? (In which manner would you determine the effect of gravity upon watery milk byproducts?) See the problem?
I simply see a language that relies less on homonyms and instead relies on creative sentence structuring, thus transfering information more accurately and in a more poetic manner. Forcing oneself to write words differently so that you would not encounter 3 words that would be spelled the same but have different meanings would translate better into speaking, where the context given by the spelling is lost anyway. Personlly I just like the sound of determining the effect of gravity upon watery milk byproducts.
I worked in Circuit City's IQ Crew (their answer to Geek Squad) for a while. On our crew, I was the only one there with a tech-support background, having supported machines for the local university for a few years. The others I worked with were the most "tech savy" in the store, i.e. the members of the floor sales staff that could toss the most jargon and confound the customers with the biggest words. My coworkers had all worked selling DVD players and Car stereos and had little to know knowledge of the inner workings of a computer. What's worse is that my supervisor sounded like his only link to information technology was having read PC Installation for Dummies.
Right across the street, and I am quite literal about that, was a Best Buy. Despite the rivalry between the stores, some of my friends worked at the Best Buy so we'd often chat about the day's goings on and swap moronic customer stories. I also got to hear about their Geek Squad. Turns out it was no different there. As we were talking one day, my friend informed me he'd been offered to move up to the Geek Squad from his current job as product specialist in the DVD department. That's right, work there long enough, and they might promote you from floor sales to computer expert!
My advice, never trust either of these places, it drains a mans soul to have to charge $60 to say what's wrong with your computer $10 per gig if you want anything backed up, and then $15-$45 per thing that needs fixing. Working in these teams, promotion has nothing to do with knowledgability and customer satisfaction, it has to do with how much money you can charge a single person to do 20 minutes of work.
I still feel the hole in my essence left from my time there.
Indeed it does seem I have allowed my mind to wander while writing a post. Anyone want to try out my new book, "Not Hitting Preview First: Making an Ass of Yourself in a Public Forum"?
Ask a question, get an answer that scares the hell out of you. Thanks for a fact backed response on this, despite the fact that I'm now in fear and waiting for OCP to emerge.
How badly would AT&T be hurt if a massive fraction of their home users suddenly left. No more monthly revenue and no more revenue from new subscribers could put a hurt on smaller companies, but with the size of AT&T would it make any dents? I know they also make money from their backbone and corporate contracts, but one has to wonder what fraction of their Gross annual revenue is from that.
So I guess the full question is, How many people would have to be convinced to leave AT&T before it hurt their stock and thus the people that make the company's decisions on policy?
Very true that the internet is not US Centric. I have no doubt that other countries will preserve such things. The problem comes when a US citizen attempts to access this information. If the pipes become regulated and access to whole countries worth of information is revoked (access to any information controlled by the highest bidder for that matter, Net Neutrality more important every day), how is any US Citizen going to get to it short of leaving the country and accessing it while outside. I'll admit my concern on this is a bit tunnel-visioned given that I live here in the US. It makes me sad to see so many of the great things that I was taught we stood for being dragged though the mud for the benifits of some lobbyists.
I guess its time to start making renegade libraries for the preservation of my own history before I'm not allowed to see it anymore.
While not quite on the level of taking over language and slowly redfining it so that it becomes imposible to put into words bad thoughts about the current system, the idea that companies and governments could control the net crosses into that. We've already seen the government deciding to re-classify materials resulting in libraries suddenly missing books. What will happen when they can do this with the internet too? Who in the future will be able to debate the mistakes of our day when there is no record of them open to the public?
You mean like we had to do when I worked at Circuit City? Every game that came across that counter that was rated M required me seeing some ID. What would have happened if I didn't get that ID and let the game slide back across to a 12 year old? Well it wouldn't be jail time, but I'd have been out of a job on a serious offense. This is an issue for the commercial sector, and it always has been. The game companies rate the games, they've covered their butts. The stores need the responsibility to regulate selling the games to minors. This just takes adding warnings into the product databases of retail chains, it doesn't take a government agency eating up tax dolloars.
This was changed when the content distribution companies like the record companies devised Licensing contracts in which the creator of the content signs over a partial ownership of the content to the distribution service. If you look at the back of most of your CDs the Copyright is usually not to the artist but to the company that markets the CDs. For example, my CD by Ozomatli is not copyrighted to the band but is instead copyrighted by Almo Sounds and Universal Music & Video Distrobution. By this logic the **AA companies are well within rights to slam down the lock and key on the piracy with no words at all from the bands.
The only way this is ever going to be different is to have the content creators stop signing contracts that give ownership of their original creations to the production companies.
"If any part of this Agreement is unenforceable, it will be considered modified to the extent necessary to make it enforceable"
In this new world of lawsuits for everything and everyone maybe that should read, "If Microsoft is unable to lawfully prosecute you by the terms of this agreement then the agreement is to be considered legally modified to the point that they can." I sure hope the people posting negative comments didn't actually click that button.
Classified information is definitely not defined as something that anybody can talk about. If it were true then the government would not be able to have any classified information.
I'll agree with you on that. This isn't an issue of free speech and those that claim it is are ignorant to rulings made many many administrations prior. Unfortunately, that's exactly what Gonzales is hoping for. If he can convince the constituent "Moral Majoritiy" that free speech is the issue and that it will let "the terrorists win" then he can carte blanche remove any mention of it in our lives.
Classified information is classified. Go after the leaker, go after those that broke the law to let it out, but don't shoot the messenger. Hands of the press and deal with the problems that are in your own agencies.
"Its a simple plan really. I'm going to use fear and scare tactics to convince them to let me have my way."
"Dude, isn't that like terrorism?"
"It's not LIKE terrorism, it IS terrorism!"
Ah the the wonders of the modern english language. Its all conotation and no denotation. Terrorism has been given new definitions, but what people don't see is that the very tactics the current administration uses fit the definitions of terrorism. Terror is the key. We're supposed to be terrified of the rest of the world and terrified of what might happen if we drop our guard, and that's why we're supposed to hand over every liberty and freedom so that we don't have to be scared anymore.
So why am I more scared today than I was on 9/11 or even yesterday?
My dear god, I've heard the phrase learn something new every day... but this is on a new level. What's scarier is someone actually figured out all of this before in order to construct that joke.
Unfortunately, Duke Nukem Forever and the Phantom are slated to be released shortly after the formation of earth's incarnation in the next Bang-created universe.
It is a very sad state of affairs. I'm certain that someone, somewhere identifies with these little whinny boy characters, but I just don't see the appeal. Its like the plot revolves on a Deus ex Wussina, a plot hinged on the idea that given the easiest of oppurtunities to make things right, the main character will whine and bemoan his fate while said fate comes and slaps him around. This of course leads to more drama and depth of character (read:more whining). Shinji never grew once as a person in that whole series. If he had ever gained one ounce of self-respect, ever once just picked himself up, I might have liked him.
Of course my opinion is probably null and void on said Deep anime plots, I grew up watching Mazinger and Getter Robo. Those robots ran off of burning fighting spirit and justice.
Gizmondo is still alive in some way? I saw that thing at E3 two years ago and never heard word one about development for it since. Amazing the things that will be on the floor with a multi thousand-dollar booth, production models, demos, etc that will never be seen again.
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Ooo, and don't forget the Audial nerves, and the part of your brain that processes the electrical impulses into the neural signals that let you know you are hearing music. Obviously you stole every song in your head, and they want a piece of it each time you get the urge to start humming Guns and Roses to yourself.
I saw a project once where two men took tablet-pc's, GPS dongles, GIS software and some mountain bikes and made real world Tron lightcycles. They didn't look as cool, but it kept track of where you and your ooponent had been and left a trail on the screens of the tablets (fastened onto the handles). That seems like it would really get kids into the outside and exercise. I know I would have never put up my bike if I had light cycles on it.
I see so many mentions of Mario, but so little of Samus. I know its my own personal love of the Metroid games creeping in, but to me she's always been a more effective Mascot than the other Nintendo characters.
No matter what upgrades happen to the graphics and no matter what doodads get added to the suit, her armor is always recognizable and brings up the memories of the hours spent crawling through maze like worlds hunting alien badies.
till I get that mono-sword my ShadowRun character used to sport all the time? I'm really jonesing for some snacks and its dangerous out there on the streets what with all the Riggers, Runners, and Street Samurai.
If we compressed that to simply 'way', which way would you way the way? (In which manner would you determine the effect of gravity upon watery milk byproducts?) See the problem?
I simply see a language that relies less on homonyms and instead relies on creative sentence structuring, thus transfering information more accurately and in a more poetic manner. Forcing oneself to write words differently so that you would not encounter 3 words that would be spelled the same but have different meanings would translate better into speaking, where the context given by the spelling is lost anyway. Personlly I just like the sound of determining the effect of gravity upon watery milk byproducts.
I worked in Circuit City's IQ Crew (their answer to Geek Squad) for a while. On our crew, I was the only one there with a tech-support background, having supported machines for the local university for a few years. The others I worked with were the most "tech savy" in the store, i.e. the members of the floor sales staff that could toss the most jargon and confound the customers with the biggest words. My coworkers had all worked selling DVD players and Car stereos and had little to know knowledge of the inner workings of a computer. What's worse is that my supervisor sounded like his only link to information technology was having read PC Installation for Dummies.
Right across the street, and I am quite literal about that, was a Best Buy. Despite the rivalry between the stores, some of my friends worked at the Best Buy so we'd often chat about the day's goings on and swap moronic customer stories. I also got to hear about their Geek Squad. Turns out it was no different there. As we were talking one day, my friend informed me he'd been offered to move up to the Geek Squad from his current job as product specialist in the DVD department. That's right, work there long enough, and they might promote you from floor sales to computer expert!
My advice, never trust either of these places, it drains a mans soul to have to charge $60 to say what's wrong with your computer $10 per gig if you want anything backed up, and then $15-$45 per thing that needs fixing. Working in these teams, promotion has nothing to do with knowledgability and customer satisfaction, it has to do with how much money you can charge a single person to do 20 minutes of work.
I still feel the hole in my essence left from my time there.
Oh thank you! No one shall ever know of my secret shame then. Thank god they wouldn't just be able to copy it and paste it into notepad or something.
Indeed it does seem I have allowed my mind to wander while writing a post. Anyone want to try out my new book, "Not Hitting Preview First: Making an Ass of Yourself in a Public Forum"?
I do believe that the common vernacular of today's youths is that these fellows at the NSA have indeed been "ZOMG pwned liek teh n00bz!!!1"
Ask a question, get an answer that scares the hell out of you. Thanks for a fact backed response on this, despite the fact that I'm now in fear and waiting for OCP to emerge.
How badly would AT&T be hurt if a massive fraction of their home users suddenly left. No more monthly revenue and no more revenue from new subscribers could put a hurt on smaller companies, but with the size of AT&T would it make any dents? I know they also make money from their backbone and corporate contracts, but one has to wonder what fraction of their Gross annual revenue is from that.
So I guess the full question is, How many people would have to be convinced to leave AT&T before it hurt their stock and thus the people that make the company's decisions on policy?
Very true that the internet is not US Centric. I have no doubt that other countries will preserve such things. The problem comes when a US citizen attempts to access this information. If the pipes become regulated and access to whole countries worth of information is revoked (access to any information controlled by the highest bidder for that matter, Net Neutrality more important every day), how is any US Citizen going to get to it short of leaving the country and accessing it while outside. I'll admit my concern on this is a bit tunnel-visioned given that I live here in the US. It makes me sad to see so many of the great things that I was taught we stood for being dragged though the mud for the benifits of some lobbyists.
I guess its time to start making renegade libraries for the preservation of my own history before I'm not allowed to see it anymore.
While not quite on the level of taking over language and slowly redfining it so that it becomes imposible to put into words bad thoughts about the current system, the idea that companies and governments could control the net crosses into that. We've already seen the government deciding to re-classify materials resulting in libraries suddenly missing books. What will happen when they can do this with the internet too? Who in the future will be able to debate the mistakes of our day when there is no record of them open to the public?
You mean like we had to do when I worked at Circuit City? Every game that came across that counter that was rated M required me seeing some ID. What would have happened if I didn't get that ID and let the game slide back across to a 12 year old? Well it wouldn't be jail time, but I'd have been out of a job on a serious offense. This is an issue for the commercial sector, and it always has been. The game companies rate the games, they've covered their butts. The stores need the responsibility to regulate selling the games to minors. This just takes adding warnings into the product databases of retail chains, it doesn't take a government agency eating up tax dolloars.
It downloads an image file with adult content from the Internet and opens that file in a new document, according to Kaspersky's posting.
So I guess this is just further proof that the internet is indeed for porn.
This was changed when the content distribution companies like the record companies devised Licensing contracts in which the creator of the content signs over a partial ownership of the content to the distribution service. If you look at the back of most of your CDs the Copyright is usually not to the artist but to the company that markets the CDs. For example, my CD by Ozomatli is not copyrighted to the band but is instead copyrighted by Almo Sounds and Universal Music & Video Distrobution. By this logic the **AA companies are well within rights to slam down the lock and key on the piracy with no words at all from the bands.
The only way this is ever going to be different is to have the content creators stop signing contracts that give ownership of their original creations to the production companies.
All they need now is a power supply for these robots that runs on pure Fighting Spirit and all my childhood giant robot dreams will come true.
As long as it runs on Linux it should interface with said orbiting brain lasers as well as your Beowulf Cluster of Atomic Supermen.
"If any part of this Agreement is unenforceable, it will be considered modified to the extent necessary to make it enforceable"
In this new world of lawsuits for everything and everyone maybe that should read, "If Microsoft is unable to lawfully prosecute you by the terms of this agreement then the agreement is to be considered legally modified to the point that they can." I sure hope the people posting negative comments didn't actually click that button.
I'll agree with you on that. This isn't an issue of free speech and those that claim it is are ignorant to rulings made many many administrations prior. Unfortunately, that's exactly what Gonzales is hoping for. If he can convince the constituent "Moral Majoritiy" that free speech is the issue and that it will let "the terrorists win" then he can carte blanche remove any mention of it in our lives.
Classified information is classified. Go after the leaker, go after those that broke the law to let it out, but don't shoot the messenger. Hands of the press and deal with the problems that are in your own agencies.
"Its a simple plan really. I'm going to use fear and scare tactics to convince them to let me have my way."
"Dude, isn't that like terrorism?"
"It's not LIKE terrorism, it IS terrorism!"
Ah the the wonders of the modern english language. Its all conotation and no denotation. Terrorism has been given new definitions, but what people don't see is that the very tactics the current administration uses fit the definitions of terrorism. Terror is the key. We're supposed to be terrified of the rest of the world and terrified of what might happen if we drop our guard, and that's why we're supposed to hand over every liberty and freedom so that we don't have to be scared anymore.
So why am I more scared today than I was on 9/11 or even yesterday?
My dear god, I've heard the phrase learn something new every day... but this is on a new level. What's scarier is someone actually figured out all of this before in order to construct that joke.
Unfortunately, Duke Nukem Forever and the Phantom are slated to be released shortly after the formation of earth's incarnation in the next Bang-created universe.
It is a very sad state of affairs. I'm certain that someone, somewhere identifies with these little whinny boy characters, but I just don't see the appeal. Its like the plot revolves on a Deus ex Wussina, a plot hinged on the idea that given the easiest of oppurtunities to make things right, the main character will whine and bemoan his fate while said fate comes and slaps him around. This of course leads to more drama and depth of character (read:more whining). Shinji never grew once as a person in that whole series. If he had ever gained one ounce of self-respect, ever once just picked himself up, I might have liked him.
Of course my opinion is probably null and void on said Deep anime plots, I grew up watching Mazinger and Getter Robo. Those robots ran off of burning fighting spirit and justice.
Gizmondo is still alive in some way? I saw that thing at E3 two years ago and never heard word one about development for it since. Amazing the things that will be on the floor with a multi thousand-dollar booth, production models, demos, etc that will never be seen again.