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For the console audience's core demographic, the 18-34 male, the Maxim reader, the "American Pie" DVD owner, Grand Theft Auto III must seem like digital cocaine.
State of Emergency is a gamepad-driven satire on the anti-globalization movement, sure to be a gadfly for people across the political spectrum. ("[T]he oppressive American Trade Organization . . . are clamping down on organized resistance," Rockstar's description reads. "It is up to you to smash up everything and everyone in order to destabilize the ATO. Use any item available to begin fighting, including pipes, bricks and benches -- even dismembered body parts.")
"From an early stage my life has been dedicated to writing, and this has separated me from most of the people I know."
Until now the books have had to make their own way in the world. The Nobel further certifies his high literary position and, with its $943,000, his financial independence. Comments he has made, many of them intended as jokes, appear and reappear in print. Then they "go into the file," he said, adding, "People doing work about someone look up the file." In 1979, in an interview in The New York Times Book Review, Elizabeth Hardwick asked him why Indian women wear a red mark on their forehead. Remembering the moment, he said he considered offering a serious answer, but then "the little imp rose up, and in a flash I said it means `my head is empty.' "
When Salman Rushdie was faced with a fatwa, Mr. Naipaul was interviewed in India: "Again this little imp rose up and said, `It's an extreme form of literary criticism.' "
"I didn't mean it in a cruel way," he said. "I meant it as a joke."
"As always the old films stood out," he said. "They're great films: their social concerns, their intelligence, the directorial authority, the lack of showing off. That's the fundamental difference between those films and new films."
One of my assertions is that code is not an asset. A lot of companies say their job is to maximize the revenue from our code base. That reflects a kind of an Old World, industrial-age thinking. What's interesting is the open-source movement is kind of our first proof that code in fact is not an asset. What is your company's asset is the experience and knowledge that the people who have built your code have gathered during the construction of that code. But the code itself doesn't have a lot of value.
The only people who like to program are programmers. They will continue to evolve their tools and will continue to program and will do so more creatively and more powerfully and more interestingly. But the people who don't program aren't going to start programming.
Wall Street doesn't reward people for risk-taking behavior; it rewards people for consistently making their numbers every quarter.
It's mass broadcasting, mass marketing, and mass employee communications at it's lousiest, where conformity is the norm and the message is so broad there's no chance for exceptions to tunnel their way through. This is the problem with any macro-message in a world that is turning increasingly micro, thanks to the Internet. And the failure of mass-messages to resonate is taking it's toll inside of companies just as it is in the marketplace.
"One percent may not seem a big difference," says Kevin McFarland, assistant professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Rochester and team leader of the project, "but the measurement is so precise that the probability that the predictions are right, given our result, is only about one in 400."
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