Achievement Unlocked: "Its All Downhill From Here"

Most (almost all) FB games are not actually games. They are a series of clicks with no challenge, no particular set of strategy, no real difference between levels. There exist no actual gameplay elements. I say this as someone who has played everything from MMOGs to NetHack clones to Text-Based Adventures (Zork and the like) to Flash style games (N - Way of the Ninja) to artsy games (Braid) to Triple-A shooters (Halo 3) and more (a tribute to a life well spent).

If Facebook games offered some gameplay (which some do, ie Bejewelled, Desktop Defender) and not just a blatant and sickening attempt to grab eyeballs and personal information, it would be harder for me to hate them and their creators.

Oh yeah? I was wondering of it was 1956 all over again - via the ... ummm... brown paper electric-type wireless radio internet.

I never got cable/di$h setup when I moved into my current apartment. No motivation to do it really. I wouldn't have a land line if it wasn't part of my DSL package and I will take a strong look at fiber when/if it becomes available.
I started on a clunker laptop, got a tower, then a bigger monitor, then a nicer tower. (If there was a good place for it I would get a projector).
I spend a lot of time gaming with old timey radio on in the background. Its amazing how much broadcasting doesn't change (dl some Johnny Dollar, its pretty decent; also The Goon Show-see my sig).
From time to time I dl an anime series (dubs need not apply).
I'm not into sports, so that's not a deal breaker, I don't talk to anyone at work about TV shows (heaven preserve us from LOST fans [I do watch Lost, but I'm not a Believer (I was about to explain an episode to a coworker, but I cut it short and said a fat mexican blew up and old ship, and that was cool] ), so I can wait until the series is canceled and cooled off to enjoy it (Homicide, The Wire, etc).
Oh, and my family didn't own a TV until I was ~8, so not its probably not as ingrained.

I asked the author of the piece for the quote, he sent me this:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/12/07/schmidt_on_privacy/

Of course the above mentions that the interview was on CNBC, but not the date or a link to a CNBC (that I can find).

Does anyone have the actual citation? Cause that would be kinda nice. http://xkcd.com/285/

And finding the proprietary ramchip upgrades is a pig...

Like I said, 'packaging'. (Marketing packaging, legal packaging, intellectual property packaging, etc).

Apparently the bulk of the 'problem' came not because of actual contract violations, but the in the course of creating and implementing software product requirements, which is notoriously sticky and difficult; much of which was done on an informal basis. This is a watershed moment akin to Sarbanes-Oxley for outsourcing companies. Look for a whole new series of 'best practices' videos.

Not printer ink, this is about outsourcing. Printer ink costs a lot because of the pretty packaging.

behave so badly. When I die, I will come back as slime, beating you all to the punch by about 500 billion years!

In the frozen land of Nador, they were forced to eat Robin's minstrels [poster's note: EWWww]... and there was much rejoicing. A year passed. Winter changed into spring; Spring changed into summer; Summer changed back into winter; And winter gave spring and summer a miss and went straight on into autumn. Until one day.

Maybe they forgot the number for 911?

a tip i read once was to use word / thought association to create unique, but repeatable passwords, ie for root at work you could but use carrot@streetname or turnip@town or whatever, root at home would be carrot@homebox, etc just something you can remember. or if you use b'day or somesuch, put b'day$sitename.