Momentary lapse of life

13 July, 2005

Enjoy your English while you can….

Filed under: Humor — Cope57 @ 11:23

by Kurupt ” El Smart Ass”

“The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was the other possibility. As part of the negotiations, Her Majesty’s Government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5-year phase-in plan that would become known as Euro-English.

In the first year, s will replace the soft c. Sertainly, this will make the sivil servants jump with joy. The hard c will be dropped in favour of k. This should klear up konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.

There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the troublesome ph will be replaced with f. This will make words like fotograf 20% shorter.

In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible. Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always ben a deterent to akurate speling.
Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent e in the languag is disgrasful and it should go away.

By the 4th yer peopl wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing th with z and w with v.

During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary o kan be dropd from vords kontaining ou and after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl. Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru. If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl.”

11 July, 2005

Army has next-gen in its battle plans

Filed under: Games — Cope57 @ 3:11

Army has next-gen in its battle plans: “Army has next-gen in its battle plans

By Paul Hyman
Quick! Name the online video game that has over 5-1/2 million registered users but has never earned a dime.

And, while you’re pondering, know that the wildly popular massive multiplayer online game (MMOG) ‘World Of Warcraft’ has just half that audience — 2-plus million subscribers — and it is considered a mega-hit.

The answer is ‘America’s Army,’ the game launched on Independence Day, 2002 as both a promotion for the Army and a recruitment tool and which has become successful beyond the wildest dreams of its creators. Because the game is free for the downloading at www.americasarmy.com its success can best be measured not by its non-existent revenues, but by the fact that the game has almost 3-1/2 million active users, attracts nearly 130,000 new users each month and has generated over 18 million downloads to date. It may be free but, as one developer observed, if it were a lousy game, would anybody play?

Perhaps the most significant indication that ‘America’s Army’ has been an effective PR device for the Army is the fact that both the Navy and the Air Force have created their own video games in hopes of attracting their fair share of the young gaming audience.”

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