Multiverse is making a platform for mmos, not a specific "firefly universe". they have merely obtained the rights to make one if they should so choose, but it is certainly not Multiverse's primary concern here.
The Firefly aspect is just a promotional stunt, It is bound to be terrible
I actually built ALOT of bongs, from hundreds of plastic coke bootle ones with garden hose (there really is an art to getting an air-tight seal around the hose wihtout using blu-tac, the three second rule helps but doesn't cover the wrist movement) through to behemoths that required two people to lift.
there was the "dark angel" bong (made out of spare car parts, programmable bike lights, laser pointers, a coke bottle, clay and paint) it looked like a black angel with a clear belly, through which you could see the smoke rising, with lights and lasers pulsing.
the hackysack bong (i attached two lengths of hose to a balloon, and then coated the balloon in inummerable layers of silicon, upon popping the balloon i was left with an extremely long, bendy and bouncy bong. perfect for playing hackysack with, while in use. the water often got sucked back up the hose. but other than that it was flawless.
the revolver just a silicon coated water pistol with a six shooter cone piece attached. made it very fun to play russian roulette.
there were many of us, and we competed to see who could make the best bong, at one party we united our skills to make an air tight 20 coke bottle bong wihout glue or blu-tac in just under 15 minutes. It took the best part of a minute to suck all of the air out of the set up, making it nearly impossible to actually pull a cone through it, but many tried and some succeeded.
p.s. i am now clean of all drugs, and have been for years. but i think of those days fondly... or at least the parts i can remember.
a cable stretching 100,000 kilometres from Earth's surface into space.
FTW (from the wiki)
A circular geosynchronous orbit in the plane of the Earth's equator has a radius of approximately 42,164 km (from the centre of the Earth) or approximately 35,786 km (22,236 statute miles) above mean sea level.
this article is poorly researched and inaccurate, the Van Allen belts have been taken into consideration before this, using payloads or various light elements as shielding, bremsstrahlung (this type of radiation) can be avoided.
i agree, your staffing issues are your primary concern, without additional staff you are not going to be able to expand at all. Finding staff is hard, but as discussed in a recent slashdot article, the key is paying well. If there is competition for skilled people, the company who is paying the most will win.
If you can use telecommuters, do, it will broaden your labour market immensly.
One last point, Train your customers as you go. It may seem counter intuitive, but teaching your customers to solve or avoid basic problems themselves will leave you free to handle more complex problems and will increase your value and reputation. one hour spent teaching will save days of repeat visits.
I am a recording artist, and 99% of my music collection is digital.
I would like to give away my music for free, i really would, but how will i survive?
I can see that free distribution leads to a larger fan base and more exposure, but if EVERYONE gets their music exclusively for free, where does my income come from?
something i really like is the barter idea, when i use p2p i can see my ratio, and as i trade my own music for someone elses songs, thats seems like a really fair trade, but how do i trade my music for electricity and a new computer?
DRM is EVIL, and i will never knowing allow it placed on my songs, but like it or not (and i dont) music is an industry, it became an industry because we ran out of kings and patrons to pay us. Who will pay us when the industry dies?
1- download ISO. 2- Reboot from CD, and click on install 3- Run Automatix.
For a moment, i shall pretend i am my grandmother and you have just uttered this sentance to me.
i think she would have understood 4 words. and they are: from, on and run.
but she wants to check her email, look at gootube, play music and movies and use amsn.
do you really think we should discriminate against her because she doesn't speak our language?
I thought by now we'd see a little icon at he corner of the screen whenever someone is talking on the news to display probability of deceipt. There are auditory and visual cues to detecting a lie, I'd think by now we'd have computers doing this real-time.
So that the audience is given even less incentive to judge truth for themselves?
as for googletruth. It seems that google already defines our reality. If you want the truth about something, where do you look?
what we need is "wikitruth"
Personally, if I could Paypal bands/artists/creators directly for their works I enjoy, I would.
In the current enviroment of media titans, how would you have heard of these artists without the producer?
Artists dont like this situation anymore than you do, but their hands are tied.
I know at least 100 fledgling creators, but the only way you will ever hear of them is if some publisher deigns to pluck them out of obscurity and into fox syndication. Sure the creator will loose 90% of the revenue from each sale, but 10% of a million is heaps better than 100% of nothing.
I am not american, and I wish to make no claim on the validity of the facts. I seek only to say this:
Any Opposition party sho sincerely believed that this kind of election tampering was occuring is left with only one option. Boycott the election and call in UN observers. If, at the end of monitored elections there was still dispute as to wether the election was fair, then they could again boycott the elections.
If one was still unhappy with the result, and if one actually believed that some grave injustice took place, there are courses of action to be taken. The party that perpertrated the act, and its supporters are so unlikely to be swayed by claims of fraudulent behaviour that it becomes futile trying to convince them.
Rigged elections take place frequently around the world, i suggest that Americans take note of the means of resolution.
I am going to purposefully make my dell laptop explode, injuring me in a non vital but "income altering" way. then i am going to claim i knew nothing of the product recall and sue them. I will make millions in compo, other people will start doing the same. and pretty soon, no more dell. then it will be replaced by another stupid and/or evil corperation and the cycle can begin again.. Ah the circle of life.
and all because the second hand dell desktop i bought doesn't have room for another HDD.
hold a grudge much? mwuhahaha
I was listening to JJJ yesterday afternoon, they were asking for information about stingrays, the played the press release by his producer, who was there when steve died and who sounded very shaken. a few other people rang in with more information as well.
a guy rang up who used to work on trawlers around the region where steve died. The Fisherman said that there were only two types of rays around there, and one of them quite routineely attacked people, infact one of his coworkers had been killed a couple of years ago in a very similar way to steve(stabbed in the heart). this seems to disprove the report(uk based?) that this is the first stingray death in years.
I was startled by the fishermans description. in his friends case, the barb has penetrated the sternum before entering the heart. Dozen's of backward facing barbs made it impossible to remove the spike. The spike is also covered in a goo which is incredibly painfull.
of course i cant recite his words verbatim, but it went something like.
I used to touch the small one's when i was sorting the fish, the goo was bloody painfull, like your skin was burning, and there was no way to wash it off or stop it. Those rays are vicious little buggers, and sometimes they can have wing spans of 4 feet or more, they are bloody strong"
he also said
my old skipper told me about the rays on one of my first days, we had hauled one up and he poked it between the eyes with a broom handle, the thing shot forward with its tail, stabbing the broom handle dead center.
so it would seem to me that Steve Irwin died like this:
He was swimming along above the ray, possibly gesticulating wildly as was his style. This startled the ray who attacked with deadly accuracy and incredible strength, penetrating steve's rib cage and puncturing his heart. Vicious spines tore at the wound as steve and the ray both writhed. The goo on the spines coated the wound, burning horribly. Steve would have been in utter agony as he died.. very very sad.
in a stroke of irony, the show he was filming at the time was "sea's deadliest creatures"
stingrays are not less dangerous than crocs. I believe the stingrays nearest relative is the shark
I recently signed up for premium broadband with the largest telco in Australia, Telstra (bad idea). After waiting two weeks for my starter pack to arrive by mail (i'm a patient person) i eventually rang to see what the delay was, After navigating their system to the appropriate queue and waiting for 30 minutes for any kind of indication for how much longer i had to wait, eventually i was told all of their lines were full and asked wether i could call back tommorrow. I went through this process for three days before eventually reaching an actual human (albeit with an incomprehensible acent) at which point i was informed that they had no record of my account.
Clearly they did not want my business, I have never had such a terrible experience with any other company and would warn anyone off any dealings with this company. I am not alone, everyone i have since spoken with about Telstra has spoken of similar experiences. They have market dominance and just do not care about customer service. When i was signing up even their salesperson had to hold the line for a considerable period before confirmation. This should have tipped me off strait away.
In my home town, capital of the nation, a new voice recognition system was introduced to the taxi system. i have spoken with a few taxi drivers about it and they have reported estimates of a 20-50% drop off in fares since the new system was implemented. It has failed miserably, and i am yet to find a single person who has had an adequate experience with it.
Perhaps the problem is our poor diction (I like many others find myself putting on a fake english accent to communicate with automated systems) , or a poor understanding of the provided options, but surely a company should try to cater to its customers, taking into acount our tiny intellects and pathetic vocal skills before instituting such a stringent system.
But as MyLongNickName has stated, it is abundantly clear that the problem is widespread and certainly rooted in a culture of quick sell and poor support. My television has a poor life span and terrible support, why should i expect anything different from any other part of my life?
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Multiverse is making a platform for mmos, not a specific "firefly universe". they have merely obtained the rights to make one if they should so choose, but it is certainly not Multiverse's primary concern here.
The Firefly aspect is just a promotional stunt, It is bound to be terrible
I actually built ALOT of bongs, from hundreds of plastic coke bootle ones with garden hose (there really is an art to getting an air-tight seal around the hose wihtout using blu-tac, the three second rule helps but doesn't cover the wrist movement) through to behemoths that required two people to lift.
there was the "dark angel" bong (made out of spare car parts, programmable bike lights, laser pointers, a coke bottle, clay and paint) it looked like a black angel with a clear belly, through which you could see the smoke rising, with lights and lasers pulsing.
the hackysack bong (i attached two lengths of hose to a balloon, and then coated the balloon in inummerable layers of silicon, upon popping the balloon i was left with an extremely long, bendy and bouncy bong. perfect for playing hackysack with, while in use. the water often got sucked back up the hose. but other than that it was flawless.
the revolver just a silicon coated water pistol with a six shooter cone piece attached. made it very fun to play russian roulette.
there were many of us, and we competed to see who could make the best bong, at one party we united our skills to make an air tight 20 coke bottle bong wihout glue or blu-tac in just under 15 minutes. It took the best part of a minute to suck all of the air out of the set up, making it nearly impossible to actually pull a cone through it, but many tried and some succeeded.
p.s. i am now clean of all drugs, and have been for years. but i think of those days fondly... or at least the parts i can remember.
FTW (from the wiki)
this article is poorly researched and inaccurate, the Van Allen belts have been taken into consideration before this, using payloads or various light elements as shielding, bremsstrahlung (this type of radiation) can be avoided.
Non-Issue
i agree, your staffing issues are your primary concern, without additional staff you are not going to be able to expand at all. Finding staff is hard, but as discussed in a recent slashdot article, the key is paying well. If there is competition for skilled people, the company who is paying the most will win.
If you can use telecommuters, do, it will broaden your labour market immensly.
One last point, Train your customers as you go. It may seem counter intuitive, but teaching your customers to solve or avoid basic problems themselves will leave you free to handle more complex problems and will increase your value and reputation. one hour spent teaching will save days of repeat visits.
I am a recording artist, and 99% of my music collection is digital.
I would like to give away my music for free, i really would, but how will i survive?
I can see that free distribution leads to a larger fan base and more exposure, but if EVERYONE gets their music exclusively for free, where does my income come from?
something i really like is the barter idea, when i use p2p i can see my ratio, and as i trade my own music for someone elses songs, thats seems like a really fair trade, but how do i trade my music for electricity and a new computer?
DRM is EVIL, and i will never knowing allow it placed on my songs, but like it or not (and i dont) music is an industry, it became an industry because we ran out of kings and patrons to pay us. Who will pay us when the industry dies?
For a moment, i shall pretend i am my grandmother and you have just uttered this sentance to me.
i think she would have understood 4 words. and they are: from, on and run.
but she wants to check her email, look at gootube, play music and movies and use amsn.
do you really think we should discriminate against her because she doesn't speak our language?
So that the audience is given even less incentive to judge truth for themselves?
as for googletruth. It seems that google already defines our reality. If you want the truth about something, where do you look?
what we need is "wikitruth"
I am not american, and I wish to make no claim on the validity of the facts. I seek only to say this: Any Opposition party sho sincerely believed that this kind of election tampering was occuring is left with only one option. Boycott the election and call in UN observers. If, at the end of monitored elections there was still dispute as to wether the election was fair, then they could again boycott the elections. If one was still unhappy with the result, and if one actually believed that some grave injustice took place, there are courses of action to be taken. The party that perpertrated the act, and its supporters are so unlikely to be swayed by claims of fraudulent behaviour that it becomes futile trying to convince them. Rigged elections take place frequently around the world, i suggest that Americans take note of the means of resolution.
awesome, now i can play ps3 at work !!
"uh, yeh boss, im just testing the performance capabilities of the new blade enclosures"
I am going to purposefully make my dell laptop explode, injuring me in a non vital but "income altering" way. then i am going to claim i knew nothing of the product recall and sue them. I will make millions in compo, other people will start doing the same. and pretty soon, no more dell. then it will be replaced by another stupid and/or evil corperation and the cycle can begin again.. Ah the circle of life. and all because the second hand dell desktop i bought doesn't have room for another HDD. hold a grudge much? mwuhahaha
I recently signed up for premium broadband with the largest telco in Australia, Telstra (bad idea). After waiting two weeks for my starter pack to arrive by mail (i'm a patient person) i eventually rang to see what the delay was, After navigating their system to the appropriate queue and waiting for 30 minutes for any kind of indication for how much longer i had to wait, eventually i was told all of their lines were full and asked wether i could call back tommorrow. I went through this process for three days before eventually reaching an actual human (albeit with an incomprehensible acent) at which point i was informed that they had no record of my account. Clearly they did not want my business, I have never had such a terrible experience with any other company and would warn anyone off any dealings with this company. I am not alone, everyone i have since spoken with about Telstra has spoken of similar experiences. They have market dominance and just do not care about customer service. When i was signing up even their salesperson had to hold the line for a considerable period before confirmation. This should have tipped me off strait away. In my home town, capital of the nation, a new voice recognition system was introduced to the taxi system. i have spoken with a few taxi drivers about it and they have reported estimates of a 20-50% drop off in fares since the new system was implemented. It has failed miserably, and i am yet to find a single person who has had an adequate experience with it. Perhaps the problem is our poor diction (I like many others find myself putting on a fake english accent to communicate with automated systems) , or a poor understanding of the provided options, but surely a company should try to cater to its customers, taking into acount our tiny intellects and pathetic vocal skills before instituting such a stringent system. But as MyLongNickName has stated, it is abundantly clear that the problem is widespread and certainly rooted in a culture of quick sell and poor support. My television has a poor life span and terrible support, why should i expect anything different from any other part of my life?