Can you make this an entirely new guild or something?
Make it as a double-joke. My quests are to show as many people the guild ads as possible, knowing I'm a hated extra target, but in return I get healing potions, Dexterity Bonuses, and when you level up you upgrade from waving a little flag that says "You know you want the 'Dew" to a Quantum UltraTurbo Plasma TransDimensional BannerCannon that thunders loud enough to register at the national observatory "FORD WANTS YOU EVEN MORE THAN UNCLE SAM".
(This is the one that included how many downloads you could do at once, right?)
Esp. since bandwidth etc. has improved, so has the audience expectation of using the Web. If I go to a utility site and want to download 6 items and then move on, it was absolutely infuriating to have to stare helplessly at the page waiting for the first two items to complete. I would never try to crush a remote server, but by now webmasters publish materials they intend for users to have.
"Firefox 3 beta 5 is the final beta and it's basically done."
I kept having (& reporting) trouble with Yahoo Mail on all previous FF3 Betas until this new B5. Because of this, I never bothered to really use the Betas yet.
Is there a plan for a RC before the final ship, and do you know when we might expect to look for it?
I got grumpy with all these BBC feed entries appearing in my dropdown. For the moment, I set richresults to 0. But do you know how to get FF3-B5 to simply report real histories only without any of Mozilla's or BBC's entries?
... and Comcast began playing around with filtering... at the behest of content interests, right? Could this remotely be a deep trap to trick ISP's into losing their common status?
Somewhere Out There I bet there is at least one dude who somehow commandeered a full strength mainframe and is using it for completely nauseatingly high-end gaming.
Let's suppose that the OS, the Browser, and the OfficeSuite make up the core of the standard work features. MS played a mighty game of lockin, but their powers are definitely fading.
I installed the alt. browsers first, because web surfing is the least intensive. I was following the OpenOffice through a couple incarnations, and I distinctly recall Version 1.x had a terrible interface. I made a mental note to give it a year. I don't know how they got past lawsuits by making the interface of 2.x so similar, but there it is. I just saw the article that the 3.x revisions are due out in a few months, and I'm really excited about those.
The OS is a much harder switch however. I'm slowly prepping introducing our company's first workstation linux box for my desk, but those weired politics still exist. "So, your freebox just tanked again?..." However, the rumblings are definitely appearing that Vista has some serious flaws. Our internal lead IT guy tried his damndest to be pro-Vista, but still has to do some stuff on an emergency copy of XP.
If the mindshare wave ever cracks and everyone starts playing with linux flavors, it's all over for MS. We joke about "average users", but average users are... USERS now. 20 years ago movies like Revenge of the Nerds were necessary because average *people* were NOT *users*.
Assume there is one. Any number of things work, such as reciprocals from the artist.
The fun thing about visionaries is you can loosen a few of the usual strictures. All the consumer cares about is PartiallyFree As-In-Beer, so between the two of them it's just a discount for volume.
There's a serious opportunity for alternative payments for upsell-value. Special editions, signed copies (ebay-food), etc make far more money than the "starter-CD".
I think Apple is mastering the Boiling Frog theory of sales.
Right now, the conceptual actions of the **AA are hurting artists by reputation even more than the pure $ effect with their fear campign.
Once Apple gets a lock on the Flat Fee model, they can work on weird ways to funnel the money to the artists. "Donate your dollar to the artist, save a dollar on an ipod" or something.
This is why there is starting to be some movement away from the classical Turing - fooling people is *a* brand of intelligence, but not the only one, and certainly not the most useful one.
"Paper and pens have yet to crash, require patching"
Many brands of Fine ballpoint crash when you stand them upright with the caps off in the beaker, because the tolerance is so fine that a little dried ink blocks the ink action.
I use Pentel Impulse pens precisely because they ooze ink about once a week, thus ensuring that my coworkers won't swipe them. (Otherwise, they write great.)
Re: patching, you never used a Fountain pen. I spent some time in europe as a child, and they were quite common in school supply aisles. I once studied how many pages per cartridge they could handle. (I made a small chart - about 4 brands and 3 ink sizes.)
You didn't mention pencils, but we have three different types of mechanicals in our office because one of us does HeavyHand, I go for midline bics, and a third guy likes maximum precision. Then there's the different brands of pencil sharpeners.
Society takes a rather long time to accomplish it, but consensus does eventually grind through topical issues over a course of a generation or two.
It may surprise people to recall that it was Star Trek of all things which, after the Mobile Phone, made a big point to announce that Replicators (seen first here with media, and coming in 20 years with mainstream custom-form solids) would seriously thrash economic theory.
Trek eventually settled into a kind of Meritocracy-for-Rent, where the right to be a part of some high-skill group (such as the Enterprise) was the payoff for being able to keep up on a par with that group.
Also, the Internet is bringing the Big Brother question to its proper discussion level by actually demonstrating what was previously an abstract conceptual warning.
"Experts"... Many of us here may qualify if that term is generous enough. Any one of us could moderate out the worst of youtube style TurboTroll users - and for forums that don't have this site's free speech theme, that is in fact necessary to protect basic functioning value.
My favorite example of a real "Expert" here is our friendly neighborhood NewYorkCountryLawyer. When he posts, we get really quiet and listen. : )
Slashdot Mirror
Brilliant.
...)
You're insulting Staples Inc's lawyers.
Watch them send you a friendly warning letter.
(Somewhere, on the 17th floor of the Staples Building. Terrance in Counsel says to himself
Can you make this an entirely new guild or something?
Make it as a double-joke. My quests are to show as many people the guild ads as possible, knowing I'm a hated extra target, but in return I get healing potions, Dexterity Bonuses, and when you level up you upgrade from waving a little flag that says "You know you want the 'Dew" to a Quantum UltraTurbo Plasma TransDimensional BannerCannon that thunders loud enough to register at the national observatory "FORD WANTS YOU EVEN MORE THAN UNCLE SAM".
(This is the one that included how many downloads you could do at once, right?)
Esp. since bandwidth etc. has improved, so has the audience expectation of using the Web. If I go to a utility site and want to download 6 items and then move on, it was absolutely infuriating to have to stare helplessly at the page waiting for the first two items to complete. I would never try to crush a remote server, but by now webmasters publish materials they intend for users to have.
Yep.
After all, net content is usually plain text.
** BUT ADS ARE BOLD!!! THEY WANT YOUR ATTENTION!!!**
The web has come a long way in putting up real news.
** BUT DID YOU KNOW THAT THERE ARE FLASH ADS THAT CAPTURE YOUR MOUSEOVER AND START PLAYING FLASH GAMES!!!????**
Sometimes you don't even make it through a sentence
** FORD REALLY IMPROVED THEIR QUALITY AFTER BEING SHOWN UP BY THE JAPANESE IN THE 1980's. **
before an ad rips your focus away from you.
"Firefox 3 beta 5 is the final beta and it's basically done."
I kept having (& reporting) trouble with Yahoo Mail on all previous FF3 Betas until this new B5. Because of this, I never bothered to really use the Betas yet.
Is there a plan for a RC before the final ship, and do you know when we might expect to look for it?
I Cleared Private Data a couple times, but those BBC feed entries that I don't want kept appearing.
Yep.
I just butchered my Bar in an attempt to do this, though when the official FF3 comes out I'll have to look for Back-Out add-ons.
I got grumpy with all these BBC feed entries appearing in my dropdown. For the moment, I set richresults to 0. But do you know how to get FF3-B5 to simply report real histories only without any of Mozilla's or BBC's entries?
... and Comcast began playing around with filtering ... at the behest of content interests, right? Could this remotely be a deep trap to trick ISP's into losing their common status?
Nah.
Somewhere Out There I bet there is at least one dude who somehow commandeered a full strength mainframe and is using it for completely nauseatingly high-end gaming.
Let's suppose that the OS, the Browser, and the OfficeSuite make up the core of the standard work features. MS played a mighty game of lockin, but their powers are definitely fading.
... USERS now. 20 years ago movies like Revenge of the Nerds were necessary because average *people* were NOT *users*.
I installed the alt. browsers first, because web surfing is the least intensive. I was following the OpenOffice through a couple incarnations, and I distinctly recall Version 1.x had a terrible interface. I made a mental note to give it a year. I don't know how they got past lawsuits by making the interface of 2.x so similar, but there it is. I just saw the article that the 3.x revisions are due out in a few months, and I'm really excited about those.
The OS is a much harder switch however. I'm slowly prepping introducing our company's first workstation linux box for my desk, but those weired politics still exist. "So, your freebox just tanked again?..." However, the rumblings are definitely appearing that Vista has some serious flaws. Our internal lead IT guy tried his damndest to be pro-Vista, but still has to do some stuff on an emergency copy of XP.
If the mindshare wave ever cracks and everyone starts playing with linux flavors, it's all over for MS. We joke about "average users", but average users are
How about that Commodore OS that's vying with that 'Nukem game for terminal Limbo?
If they ever get it released, it would be really funny to think about a malware operator encounter it.
Assume there is one. Any number of things work, such as reciprocals from the artist.
The fun thing about visionaries is you can loosen a few of the usual strictures. All the consumer cares about is PartiallyFree As-In-Beer, so between the two of them it's just a discount for volume.
There's a serious opportunity for alternative payments for upsell-value.
Special editions, signed copies (ebay-food), etc make far more money than the "starter-CD".
There are other chances for innovation here.
I think Apple is mastering the Boiling Frog theory of sales.
Right now, the conceptual actions of the **AA are hurting artists by reputation even more than the pure $ effect with their fear campign.
Once Apple gets a lock on the Flat Fee model, they can work on weird ways to funnel the money to the artists. "Donate your dollar to the artist, save a dollar on an ipod" or something.
You don't need to *open* the laptop to let the creativity of Apple shine forth. After all, you bought the logo, the computer is there for the ride.
I too, drink not the brown fuel (except as a stunt).
That's because coffee is a subset of CaffeineSources.
Bingo.
This is why there is starting to be some movement away from the classical Turing - fooling people is *a* brand of intelligence, but not the only one, and certainly not the most useful one.
Do we get eaten by a grue?
With a license from Douglas Adams,
the ZapPod BeebleBox?
"Paper and pens have yet to crash, require patching"
Many brands of Fine ballpoint crash when you stand them upright with the caps off in the beaker, because the tolerance is so fine that a little dried ink blocks the ink action.
I use Pentel Impulse pens precisely because they ooze ink about once a week, thus ensuring that my coworkers won't swipe them. (Otherwise, they write great.)
Re: patching, you never used a Fountain pen. I spent some time in europe as a child, and they were quite common in school supply aisles. I once studied how many pages per cartridge they could handle. (I made a small chart - about 4 brands and 3 ink sizes.)
You didn't mention pencils, but we have three different types of mechanicals in our office because one of us does HeavyHand, I go for midline bics, and a third guy likes maximum precision. Then there's the different brands of pencil sharpeners.
One DVD to rule them all and in the darkness bind them?
Maybe they were Blog people.
Writings in the sand are almost as durable as websites that people don't fund.
OMGawd, that's devastating.
"The following 5000 families who did not currently have a pet were given a cat. How many of them had heart attacks compared to the control sample?"
Then you can make a Reality Show out of it.
Society takes a rather long time to accomplish it, but consensus does eventually grind through topical issues over a course of a generation or two.
It may surprise people to recall that it was Star Trek of all things which, after the Mobile Phone, made a big point to announce that Replicators (seen first here with media, and coming in 20 years with mainstream custom-form solids) would seriously thrash economic theory.
Trek eventually settled into a kind of Meritocracy-for-Rent, where the right to be a part of some high-skill group (such as the Enterprise) was the payoff for being able to keep up on a par with that group.
Also, the Internet is bringing the Big Brother question to its proper discussion level by actually demonstrating what was previously an abstract conceptual warning.
"Experts"... Many of us here may qualify if that term is generous enough. Any one of us could moderate out the worst of youtube style TurboTroll users - and for forums that don't have this site's free speech theme, that is in fact necessary to protect basic functioning value.
My favorite example of a real "Expert" here is our friendly neighborhood NewYorkCountryLawyer. When he posts, we get really quiet and listen. : )