Posts by Kosmo

Quote from mawibse

How do you know Finland kick ass in IT?

They got any IT olympic medals?

Nope, but I don't think that it is anykind of problem, becuse, u know ... there is no such thing as IT Olympics, it's just a figment of your imagination.

Quote from Mazy

Usually when I was studying for exams I'd just turn off the computer completely, take out the power plug and put it away somewhere thats really difficult to get to.

And I bet you cried like a baby after realizing that you threw your powercord on the roof of your house.

Fuck man, you look just way too happy!

Yeah, I guess it is mostly Finland then, we suck at many sports but kick ass in information technology.

Ok, well maybe todays journalists and news casts are bit biased towards big corporate happenings. But I read Finnish mainstream newspapers and watch TV news and little bit of Euronews and BBC World, so I'm not a total media outcast.

And while I think that the amount of news has not drastically increased since the start of the 20th century till this day, the amount of news outlets has, and it just seems that the amount of news has increased ten folds. But still I think that technology news dominate todays news, and it has been increasing since the start of 90s.

I can't comment on your friends but I don't think I have any friend that doesn't know who Bill Gates is, most of them even know Steve Jobs and Linus Torwalds even the girls.

Well, if you can't actually do something in the subject, I'd read and write down the most important things, that way it is recorded to my memory through motoric action.

Quote from Skjalg

Like you said yourself, you're not a media man^^ It might be waaay different somewhere else, but alot of the guys i call friends are football geeks and watch every game on tv and celebrate alot when their team wins.. Same goes with our nations success' in the OL...You ask why we're not celebrating that some guy breakes a world record in running 100 meter every day? Its because it doesnt happen every day...

When it does, its always mentioned in the news.. especially if it has something to do with our nation, then its probably the biggest news of the week..

For example, take tour de france, norway had/have a good candidate for first place whateer, i didnt really pay attention, but i noticed that everyone else did.. Alot of people even started riding bicycles because it was becoming "hip"...

What you call news, the whole thing about the corporate assholes is something that has been going on since the dawn of time... Nothing has changed, and if it has it certainly dont have anything to do with computers and technology...

So you are saying that compared to 20s 30s 40s 50s and the 60s there is absolutely no difference how we treat our pro athletes compared to medical researchers and industry tycoons? You know, back in the day when Paavo Nurmi ran 5 Olympic golds at 1928 Olympics and almost 100 parents named their next child Paavo, or when someone got world record in long jump and it was more important than curing cancer.

If you just look around the last two years or so, yeah, I'd agree, nothing has changed, but those days when we considered athletes national heroes is long gone, and now Bill Gates, Jorma Ollila and the rest of the brady bunch are the ones who are considered national heroes and get the most news time, they don't have 15minutes, they have a lifetime.

At the moment NBA, MLB, NHL and NFL are at same average salaries, and the salaries top around 15-17mil, the trades go for around 100million (depending for how many years) like Kevin Brown signed a 7 year contract with Dodgers and got nice compensation of 105mil.

But Super Bowl is the best pay day to date, playing that one day the top NFL players can get nice 20mil for one game.

You have to figure out your learning pattern, mine is cognitive so I usually just do what I'm studying, like back at school we had to learn how to use photoshop so I just fiddled around with it and learned way faster than I would have if I just were reading some book about it.

I can see your points, but here is another view on the matter, I used to play Basketball in a team when I was younger and had the time, so I know that they don't just stroll around and get poured money at, it was extermely hard work and it was only little league. I couldn't imagine doing it around the year, keeping in shape and taking in cosideration that I would have to be one of those freaks of nature that have the motoristic skills and height to be good at it.

But I have alot of respect to people who have helped us in technological advancement in the past 20 years, the development has been very fast and it seems to be getting faster, it literally changes peoples lives. I owe alot to Steve Jobs and his Apple family and Bill Gates and his Microsoft family, not to mention plethora of other pioneers who have done alot of work on computer technology and communications technology.

But even when I have huge amount of respect to these pioneers, I still enjoy a good game of Basketball or Football over the new blockbuster movie that is mind numbing and unproductive to everyone, not to mention that they just pissed around 100 million dollars to show people what will happen when a real witch is cast to a part of a witch in a tv show and what snappy comebacks they can invent about the setting.

And when I agree with the huge salaries of professional athletes it is actually tied to the income they make to the parent company, take Formula 1 for example, the F1 drivers salaries are highest in sports maybe even in all of entertainment, but F1 is one of the most televised and advertised shows around the world, and they make insane amounts of money, thusly the salaries of the people who are the sole reasons for the massive income are high. If Apple could be ran by a team size of anverage football team and wouldn't use millions of dollars for R&D, I think their salaries would be huge aswell, even more so than the F1 drivers or movie actors.

Quote from Section_Ei8ht

I'm going as the G-man

Will you be as elusive as he is?

F.A.R.T never got my attenttion. Maybe I'll go with Quake 4, I just wish that Stalker would come out soon, I just want to sneak around SO BADLY!

While downloading the latest patch for World of Warcraft, I stroll around the news sites and gather around the happenings wround the world and here in Finland jsut to form a while image on what has happened lately, I'm not a media person, I block good 90% of the madia babble and usually narrow the hose that feeds me with news to a fine pointed needle that can barely sqeeze through the much appreciated gaming and technology related news.

But during my stroll I nod approvingly to news that tell about someones achievements on some sort of socially accepted thing, and at the same time I realize that most of these people are some sort of millionaires, company execs or just plain jerks in high positions of goverment. Gone are the times when we looked up to the athletes to bring us hope of the better tomorrow, they are almost regular joes these days, just few hoorays for some hero who can drive a car faster than anyone else, or celebration to a team that accomplishes impossible goals in a winter related sport mainly called Ice Hockey.

Our society is growing out of testosteroine filled athletes that risk more than just their earthly posessions in some stock market fluke, but we don't give you the kudos on achievement, we give kudos to the results of that achievement, it isn't enough anymore to be the fastest runner in the world, when you win, it has to be something so big that the world has changed, or atleast some way for others to do money from your accomplishment.

Is this a good thing? Or is it a bad thing? Do you celebrate the victory of your favourite basketball team? Or do you chuckle when some mega communications company invets a new free software for you to use?

Computers and communications technology has changed the world forever and there is nothing any of us can do about it.

32/40 it would have been 33/40 but it didn't accept the bomberman, isn't it bomberman?

We don't celebrate Halloween that much, some stores might have some Halloween decorations and shit, but I don't think that anyone actually does anything. But I'm still going to dress as Super Mario and go in to some big damn pipes.

But then again, I'd make love to kleiney and you murderous tomato, and I'm one of those guys who will kick your ass if you can't keep the lid on your own urges, no matter what they are.

If you can't keep check on your own shit, then maybe me and my Katana can make a better job on you I'll visit you tonight bub!

Your raggady rant about "what are you listening" like you care.

Hehe, stupid.

Oh well I'm glad that they announced them early, wouldn't want them to come as a suprise :roll:

Quote from mawibse

Hehe, time must pass for space to move, and space not moving would be the same thing as if time stopped and the distance to another universe is not counted in lightyears, if it where it wouldnt be another universe.

Nah, you just didn't understand it, the theory is actually quite genious, it was in a Finnish science publication, I don't remember who were the original scientists who cooked up the whole theory. You shouldn't judge it by my description of it, after all, they are scientists and what I recall of you, you are not

And as I wouldn't count ID as something very scientific, there is no harm teaching it, or rather telling about it in high school or college, since many have been unaware of it.