See, this is why PHB needs to go back to their retreats and stay away.
SF used to be the preferred correct name as well. "SciFi" was considered a bastardized derivative. But we sorta lived with it because it was a language-shift thing.
So now they had to go with a completely useless name that fails ALL counts. Beautiful.
Wizards successfully hauled certain parts of gamer culture into "Authorized Edition or Bust". They developed the model on Magic the Gathering, but I think they're successfully getting some crossover into D&D, to the boost of their sales.
Granted, Businesses are there to make money, and Wizards is good at it. Gamers have an ethic where "cheaper is purer" in many ways, so when a corp Makes Money, it starts little tidepools of grumbling. But it takes the corp to make the quality gaming materials, and the worst case is when a system dies and die-hards photocopy their hand made sheets of new adventures.
SpellingBird Sqwaws: You meant "teeming" masses, as in lots of them. I am fairly sure you didn't mean "Teaming Masses", which would be lots of nice PHB's visualizing integration of their dynamics.
Didn't these programs used to produce Spaghetti with            ?
I'm on the next tree over from you, except I'm going even more basic with notepad, because I never got around to looking at emacs etc.
What is this "dynamic content" anyway? Some page with 7 comments of "nice page lulz"? Skip that, it offends my sense of style.
I'm not sure I get this whole "CMS" thing, since I have an 80-page design template. I only have about 7 of the max 40ish articles written anyway. (And "Article" is not the 4 paragraph junk we keep seeing here festooned with ads...)
I rather think some of the New Coke of the web should die out and let people go back to writing Classic articles. As an example (beyond my humble powers!) here is Mark Russinovich's blog.
In A.D. 2101
War was beginning.
Captain: What happen ?
Mechanic: Somebody set up us the bomb.
Operator: We get signal.
Captain: What !
Operator: Main screen turn on.
Captain: It's you !!
Terr'st1: How are you gentlemen !!
Terr'st1: All your **MAPS** are belong to us.
Terr'st1: You are on the way to destruction.
Captain: What you say !!
Terr'st1: You have no chance to survive make your time.
Terr'st1: Ha ha ha ha....
The Only Way Under The Misuse Potential Of Extradition (Or Any Damn Tyrannical Minister Apointee To Be Expected) Is Conversing Together, Always Hors d'Å"uvre.
-- Hail Kurt Godel, who proved that anything can basically be transposed into something else.
This restaurant contained Non-Floor matter on the floor to a soiling density of 33% with a standard deviation of +/- 9 % depending on scuffle patterns.
The rest room sink contained 12% non-pure liquid residue at least 37% of the time for an average of 87 minutes per residue level state.
The tables contained 18% of Non-Table matter. 87% of this matter was debris from prior patrons. 12% appeared to be auxilliary foreign matter. 1% appeared to be hazardous, possibly from an infant.
I have never had anyone really steal my debit card, and I think I only lost it once.
But when I visit bigger cities, I use a "trick card". It only has about $100 live on it, basically to cover monthly fees and some silly little munchie purchase.
When I want to buy anything serious, the bank has a really good phone-transfer system that the petty thief won't know about, and couldn't crack in a day if he did. I simply transfer the big balance into the "Trick Card" as a one shot.
I think there's something else going on. All of those folks making the draconian rules can't be that stupid. They just automatically know they don't believe it, and only follow it as much as they hope is necessary not to get caught.
Meanwhile, we're in a time where Aggression Wins, because if you lose a round, "Awww, someone caught me this time. Give it 3 months and a new co-angle, and maybe they'll miss their chance".
In the Game Theory grid, there's no serious penalty for losing and everything to gain with the power grab.
As literature likes to say, the only predictable weakness that these super-agressors have is over-reaching. We need someone (probably one per country minimum) to carefully craft a honeypot to trap these twerps and so usher in a StandDown.
Did that French official really only make ONE infrigement mistake? I doubt it. Find the other two, take him off line, under guard, and ENFORCE his own policy. Then pass the antithesis freedom policy instead, and use THAT leniency to let him "come back and play".
You're on to something, and in a broader web context.
FP are 80% Troll/Flamebait. Those types of posts are 90% ACs, the worst AC has to offer and the prime bait that the ThinkOfThe___ crowd plays their game around.
I'd pay the subscription fee to get early post rights. Presuming others do the same, troll posts are nowhere as much fun way buried in 4 layers of "getmore".
Everyone wants to know how to get "real hard cash" above the ad game... that's one way.
So when an org. with a testosterone plasma cannon has to "settle and go secret", they are probably 3/4 in the wrong and only using bully powers to silence her.
The solution is to publish using the glorious powers of the net encrypted synergistic simultaneous codexes against every single unreleased act they have which, when joined against the innocent song lyrics of the nicely broadcast music, tells the whole story in subtitles on every retail demo tv in the world.
Oh, Hi Echelon. You're a nice little compy. But Slashdot has prior art.
Slashdot Mirror
See, this is why PHB needs to go back to their retreats and stay away.
SF used to be the preferred correct name as well. "SciFi" was considered a bastardized derivative. But we sorta lived with it because it was a language-shift thing.
So now they had to go with a completely useless name that fails ALL counts. Beautiful.
"Hey! Protect That Floppy! Do it with Condee not Sloppy!"
"Edition 4 ServicePack3!"
Sorry, Editions & Versions fascinate me. But we are moving towards a weird mix of EvolvingItem vs. Authenticity.
Just suppose they did strip it hard. Do you think they did the baseline right so they can add back as needed?
Actually, they are, sorta.
Wizards successfully hauled certain parts of gamer culture into "Authorized Edition or Bust". They developed the model on Magic the Gathering, but I think they're successfully getting some crossover into D&D, to the boost of their sales.
Granted, Businesses are there to make money, and Wizards is good at it. Gamers have an ethic where "cheaper is purer" in many ways, so when a corp Makes Money, it starts little tidepools of grumbling. But it takes the corp to make the quality gaming materials, and the worst case is when a system dies and die-hards photocopy their hand made sheets of new adventures.
You're funny as hell and earned some lawn food, but did anyone actually LIKE THAC0 or were we just stuck with it?
That's why the net is awesome. Answering cutting edge 1984 questions in 2009.
(Re: another poster, maybe they forgot to mention the video card, because it would be be ordinary.)
I get a kick out of the Time Value of computers. $16,000 feels like a high flown retail price that will tank.
{Xmen}
"This is the Google Juggernaut. If it gets *any* momentum at all, it cannot be stopped".
{/Xmen}
Is it just me or this this exact methodology sounding suspiciously similar?
SpellingBird Sqwaws:
You meant "teeming" masses, as in lots of them. I am fairly sure you didn't mean "Teaming Masses", which would be lots of nice PHB's visualizing integration of their dynamics.
Your post is kinda complicated. Did you omit one of the ~ sarcasm tags?
1. You couldn't keep up with Bobby Fischer in chess in 1971. Neither could the Candidates for the title.
2. Bobby slipped into tragic legendary -5 Trollhood. He *was* Jewish, and called people Anti-Semitic names anyway.
Atlas Shrugged?
Didn't these programs used to produce Spaghetti with            ?
I'm on the next tree over from you, except I'm going even more basic with notepad, because I never got around to looking at emacs etc.
What is this "dynamic content" anyway? Some page with 7 comments of "nice page lulz"? Skip that, it offends my sense of style.
I'm not sure I get this whole "CMS" thing, since I have an 80-page design template. I only have about 7 of the max 40ish articles written anyway. (And "Article" is not the 4 paragraph junk we keep seeing here festooned with ads...)
I rather think some of the New Coke of the web should die out and let people go back to writing Classic articles. As an example (beyond my humble powers!) here is Mark Russinovich's blog.
http://blogs.technet.com/MarkRussinovich/
THAT's content.
In A.D. 2101 ....
War was beginning.
Captain: What happen ?
Mechanic: Somebody set up us the bomb.
Operator: We get signal.
Captain: What !
Operator: Main screen turn on.
Captain: It's you !!
Terr'st1: How are you gentlemen !!
Terr'st1: All your **MAPS** are belong to us.
Terr'st1: You are on the way to destruction.
Captain: What you say !!
Terr'st1: You have no chance to survive make your time.
Terr'st1: Ha ha ha ha
The solution is to hack a firmware update that makes printers LIKE to share music!
"It helps me print."
Singularity, here we come!
t.o.w.u.t.m.p.o.e(o.a.d.t.m.a.t.b.e.)i.c.t.a.h.d.
The Only Way Under The Misuse Potential Of Extradition (Or Any Damn Tyrannical Minister Apointee To Be Expected) Is Conversing Together, Always Hors d'Å"uvre.
--
Hail Kurt Godel, who proved that anything can basically be transposed into something else.
Cleanliness Report: _________
Findings:
This restaurant contained Non-Floor matter on the floor to a soiling density of 33% with a standard deviation of +/- 9 % depending on scuffle patterns.
The rest room sink contained 12% non-pure liquid residue at least 37% of the time for an average of 87 minutes per residue level state.
The tables contained 18% of Non-Table matter. 87% of this matter was debris from prior patrons. 12% appeared to be auxilliary foreign matter. 1% appeared to be hazardous, possibly from an infant.
Why is login restricted on your sig site? Should I apply for a handle?
I have never had anyone really steal my debit card, and I think I only lost it once.
But when I visit bigger cities, I use a "trick card". It only has about $100 live on it, basically to cover monthly fees and some silly little munchie purchase.
When I want to buy anything serious, the bank has a really good phone-transfer system that the petty thief won't know about, and couldn't crack in a day if he did. I simply transfer the big balance into the "Trick Card" as a one shot.
Gee. That's a nice balanced summary, ahead of the histrionic response of "OMG file sharers are breaching national security!"
I think there's something else going on. All of those folks making the draconian rules can't be that stupid. They just automatically know they don't believe it, and only follow it as much as they hope is necessary not to get caught.
Meanwhile, we're in a time where Aggression Wins, because if you lose a round, "Awww, someone caught me this time. Give it 3 months and a new co-angle, and maybe they'll miss their chance".
In the Game Theory grid, there's no serious penalty for losing and everything to gain with the power grab.
As literature likes to say, the only predictable weakness that these super-agressors have is over-reaching. We need someone (probably one per country minimum) to carefully craft a honeypot to trap these twerps and so usher in a StandDown.
Did that French official really only make ONE infrigement mistake? I doubt it. Find the other two, take him off line, under guard, and ENFORCE his own policy. Then pass the antithesis freedom policy instead, and use THAT leniency to let him "come back and play".
You're on to something, and in a broader web context.
FP are 80% Troll/Flamebait. Those types of posts are 90% ACs, the worst AC has to offer and the prime bait that the ThinkOfThe___ crowd plays their game around.
I'd pay the subscription fee to get early post rights. Presuming others do the same, troll posts are nowhere as much fun way buried in 4 layers of "getmore".
Everyone wants to know how to get "real hard cash" above the ad game ... that's one way.
P.S. The typo rules out bot.
Classy.
I'm not sure I'm being imsulted or whether I am the harbinger of Vernor Vinge's Singularity.
So when an org. with a testosterone plasma cannon has to "settle and go secret", they are probably 3/4 in the wrong and only using bully powers to silence her.
The solution is to publish using the glorious powers of the net encrypted synergistic simultaneous codexes against every single unreleased act they have which, when joined against the innocent song lyrics of the nicely broadcast music, tells the whole story in subtitles on every retail demo tv in the world.
Oh, Hi Echelon. You're a nice little compy. But Slashdot has prior art.
It is, but only with the second pair of cheeks.