@Matt Bryant
You lack of sensitivity is astonishing.
For anyone willing to find out more about "Saint Rachel" - I'll omit your horrid prefix. Check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachel_Corrie
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Free to do as you are bloody well told, now move along.
We all saw what happened in the US when people were allowed to exhibit civil disobedience. THINGS CHANGED.
This is unacceptable. How will we get the trucks filled with money to the Bankers' houses with all these tax-payers in the road?
This article says nothing about being anti-global warming.
They said "This makes sense, because we don't really expect global warming to make the ocean [temperature] increase that fast,"
Implying they never thought it WAS part of global warming, so the fact they HAVE found the cause and confirmed it changes nothing from a climate change perspective.
What's worse than people rallying against something becuase of prejudice? People rallying against something becuase of an expected rallying against something due to prejudice knee-jerk reaction.
The subtitle does perhaps swing that way though..
Fucking great!
I agree that there's too mcuh text in MMOs, considering we all know everyone else reads it it makes it far less personal, less worth reading. Plus, why read when you could grind?
MMOs are boiled down to leveling and hoarding. You can't give people more than that and complain that tehy ignore it, you need to draw them into the game itself. I have plenty of ideas, but I'm not giving it to those pricks without money :)
Now look what's happened.. my ears and eyes have been coated in bullshit. *Sigh* It'll take more than a TV psychologist to get that off.
Perhaps they could stop violence against ALL PEOPLE by actually making punitive sentences mean something. Build prisons, lock the fuckers up, make them do hard labour for free. It's just like the outside world *only no women to beat up* (er.. for them I mean, not like we all have women to beat.. shit now I'm in a hole spouting my own bullshit nad drowning in it!)
Everything evolved from the primordial gloop, some gained legs, posteriors, mandibles, brains and then sentience. Then the internet, then YouTube, then the sentient creatures cast their gaze upon the comments laid forth on the Tube of You.. and decided we are all better off evolving back i puddles of slime that have no fingers.
Dilution of the brand should be secondary to dilution of purpose. I'm more likely to spend an extra £50 on a phone if it has a very good camera/screen etc.. Making a version with a shoddy camera just infuriates people as if they wanted something with good EVERYTHING, they cannot get it in one device.
HTC need to learn this lesson with their cameras.
iPhone Nano is where they'll go, everyone loves things that do the same as X but in half the size.
If they really want to to be fancy they could stick a mini projector in it for when you want to watch films or run size-dependant iPhone apps but the screen is too small.
Still wouldn't buy one myself, but undoubtedly the iPhone hugely publicising touchscreen tech and making it available is a factor in it's success, you think it would have been as popular with a normal keypad and screen? Add to that an existing fanbase for Macs and you've got yourself a free, frenzied word-of-mouth ad campaign.
I liked this article as it answers the question I raised the other day to a friend, why did they stop the fold-out keyboard (n-gage-esque) designs? My friend had one and it was flimsy but showed potential.
try, try, try again.
If by Attempt 7 you are still failing miserably GIVE THE FUCK UP.
They don't make money from IE and they engender hatred, even if IE 8 is perfect with standards, i don't care, I'll still get people to use Firefox/Chrome/Opera becuase they shouldn't be allowed to think "oh, Microsoft, they make good software"
They fucked the developer community with a lack of lustre before.. that shouldn't be forgiven.
"Not fully formed standards for 5, 5.5, 6" yeah right.. the years between 6 and 7 they were all working away furiously, right? Right.
All this fanfare for "we've caught up with the competition!"
"there is nothing normal about one human stabbing another."
History might disagree with you.. spears, swords, bayonets, etc. Human nature and ambition poitical figureheads being what they respectively are.
Being put in prison becuase you "assault" someone trying to stab you, now that's not natural.
</psuedo-sociology>
Make a process hard to do and people will be liess inclined to do it. Microsoft doesn't kno whow to give up market share, even when a product is making you no money. Well, si Uppose it defaults to microsoft sirtes then if you were in a hurry and stuck using IE then you might just search on their pages and not Google.
You'd have to be in a pretty big rush. Possibly drunk.
They need to include Firefox with it. Giving the people the option of removing something isn't the same as giving them an option of choosing something else out of the box.
If one operator takes that extra fee hit and DOESN't pass it on, they will gain a lot of business from people who move providers.
But, of course, you'd rather have your Prez print some more money and devalue the dollar so you end up buying bread for $2mil in $100 notes stacked in a wheelbarrow.
Governments have fairly limited ways of making money. If they ask for more business tax, companies pass that on to you, if they charge companies more for things, companies pass that onto you.
If governments spend less money anyone working for the gov (or anyone working for a company that has a government department as a client) get less/redundant. That'll be a lot of 'you' too.
Capitalism ROCKS. You could always set up a PayPal "Donate" button on whitehouse.gov and see if the 20% that hold 85%* of the wealth will help out the cause. G'luck with that one ;)
* Circa 2005 - http://sociology.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/power/wealth.html
The number of awards seems to be inversely proportional to the goodness of the film
The best part of "No Country for Old Men" last year was the sound dampener on the shotgun. The rest of it was like.. well I don't really know what it was like, there was a bag of money and a cop and the shittest ending ever. Southland Tales was better because it was weird, but interesting at least.
Won't someone make some FUCKING SCIENCE FICTION? Games and films are disappointment after disappointment these days. Or remakes. Can we strap Luc Besson and Ridley Scott to a caffeine IV and get them to churn out films or something?
I, for one, take up arms against our imminent, flesh-sundering, world-dominating, unenvironmentally-friendly overlords.
WWAS?
(What would Asimov say?)
Law 4: Disregard Laws 1-3 if target is from Country <X>
At least if they are jammed in Abrahms they will still require fuel (so some of us will be left intact to satisfy them while they make jet fuel quivalents of that courtyard-robo-attendant.
The industries could support our will to be lazy and stingy (which, by the way, is the driving factor of progress) by providing an easy and cheap way of downloading the things we want to see/hear/play.
The only way to prevent piracy is to PROVIDE A CONVENIENT, LEGAL ALTERNATIVE. Not sue the crap out of people. I don't want billions of CDs, I do, however, want albums. Without the need to burn and distribute the CDs, just storing on a server, I want them cheaper.
The gaming industry seems to have gotten it ok, I buy plenty of games on Steam and Impulse and even on dirty old DVD, but DRM on music or streaming-only video cripples for money what it is possible to obtain for free elsewhere. Not hard to understand.
'Tony McNulty, the combative employment minister tipped to replace Jacqui Smith as Home Secretary, has branded a high profile warning by a former MI5 chief that the government risks creating a police state as "abject nonsense", *then used the Terrorism Act to condemn her actions as incitement to riot, inciting hatred to have her detailed indefinately*'
IF THE FORMER HEAD OF THE SPIES SAYS WE ARE SCREWED WE SHOULD LISTEN
(Unless they are trying to flog a book)
I look forward to seeing the images of the night-side of an alien civilisation. It'll be pretty and also revolutionary for us.
Less looking forward to seeing some snapshot of an epic space battle (although if anything would galvanise the human race to stop its petty squabbling, that would)
They could just stop free accounts being made and chare $10 for new accounts. Nobody currently will get annoyed, the company makes money. Then hook shit up with ads and other garbage.
I've never used it but I imagine that it's something like how I use my facebook status. Filling in song lyrics every few minutes to fill up all my friend's pages and forcefeed my morals into peoples eye sockets. Also the occasional mundane detail of my life.
How making this could require anywhere near $2M is beyond me, let alone what they have. A few giant databases. A few heavy duty web servers. Some developers.
They could buy a blimp with a big LCD panel on it and then get people to pay $5 dollars for a message to appear there, or bid for it. Or something. I don't care really..
And lo, humanity was prevented from reaching the stars before it had even begun. Due to the cloud of high speed shrapnel circling it's planet.
Inflatable space hotel, right? :P
Would it be so hard to put a few square (hundred) metres of Kevlar up there, little booster on it. Just move it around to soak up the shrapnel. By letting the shrapnel hit it I mean..
Open Source OS, handset that has some form of detecting-multiple-touches.
Some programming.
Oh look, Apple can go fornicate itself with a rusty spade. If basics like the mouse had been patented and protected then where would we be today? Fucked, that's where. They made something cool and made money out of it, now they want to keep it, well, that makes you look greedy.
http://www.theonion.com/content/video/apple_introduces_revolutionary
You chose money over kudos, you'll run out of ideas with which to charge excessive amounts and then you will wither, Apple. How long before you think smaller/thinner and more Gb will sell?
"Maybe we could save some money by just sacking these *politicians* rather than paying them to offer advice which the *population should be allowed to decide for themselves*"
There, I fixed it for you.
Why not, I don't know, put specialists in charge of things, rather than politicians? That way, stuff might be done correctly. Like runing the world and such. Who am I kidding? Everyone loves millions of pages of confusing legislature and an ever constricting definition of what I *can* do.
Caught with drugs -> prison.
Burglarise a house, mug people, stab people -> slap on the wrist.
Better to give the police a job than be a dissenting/deviant voice.
FYI: I don't do drugs. Well, booze. But that's fine, right?
And there's never an "apathy for all meaningless options proffered" on a voting ballot, how am I supposed to make my voice heard regarding the state of mod-ieval politricks.
Mine's the one with the beret, raised fist and pockets full of Fawke's Favourite.
(Yeah, ECHELON have flagged this thread now, if they want to waste their resources on me then go for it.)