That means that the hefty Gamecube library (of games most Wii owners haven't played) is holding up the value of the console.
I think you're misunderestimating how long it takes to get through the Wii's Zelda, or how much fun can be had from that rabbits game, or the bundled sports title. Sure, I'd like an MMO, but it's not like I'm spending all my Wii time playing GC games, or that I've downloaded even a single virtual console title.
The annoying thing with all this is the amount of time wasted on, in business, retraining and, in education, preparing new course materials due to an "upgrade" nobody needs -- but everyone thinks they need because everyone else will be getting it.
I was watching the Firehose, and I voted it down, but it's better than another version of the headline I saw: "Wii claims first life" (or similar). I wouldn't at all be surprised if the submission of this "story" was encouraged on a Sony forum somewhere.
Data is data and most major database apps have tools for importing data or you write scripts to import it.
Do you have any idea how time consuming it is to replicate the functionality of one database in another? I can easily make some tables and add any structured data to any database, but if you want people to still be able to interact with it in the same way they used to (or a better way), it's typically a project that takes roughly as long as it took to get the original database to the state it's already at.
Two or three years ago I was doing innovative, new database development, now I'm stuck re-writing existing reports to cope with every new structural change, or fussing with the UI because someone who's never programmed anything in their life (nor ever built a decent procedure on or off a PC) thinks that tool X isn't intuitive enough.
Please do not define an entire industry by its arseholes. Many of us in the IT industry are actually interested in and care for the people we work with and the company we work for (to varying degrees based on the individuals and the company). I know I don't draw a box around me and proclaim that everyone else is an idiot, just the actual idiots -- and, no, computer literacy is not the way I work that out. I'm sorry if you get confused by our "jargon". I do my best to avoid using it, but sometimes that just what stuff is called. By the same token, you shouldn't feel embarrassed if you don't understand our job. I'm sure there are parts of your job I don't understand. Heck, there's heaps of stuff in other parts of the IT industry that I don't understand.
Now, can we please stop focussing on our differences and start looking for our similarities?
I just got two pairs of these. I'd love to effusively rave about them, but I've only just charged them up and used them for about one hour of Wiiplay. So far they're great. I certainly didn't have problems finding four USB ports that are powered without a PC needing to be on.
I love my Series 60 phones specifically because of the 3rd-party stuff you can install. From an app that shows my friends' birthdays in order of who's next to a C64 emulator, the range of software means that if I suddenly feel like doing something new with my phone, someone's probably already written an app for it. Remember when that morse coder beat the fastest SMS dude? A couple of days later someone had a prototype morse code input program for the Series 60s. Sure, some programs (like the drivers for my bluetooth laser keyboard) are a train wreck and cause system errors, but blocking everyone just cause some people can't code is, for want of a better cliche, cutting off your nose to spite your face.
To produce such a powerful platform, then lock the world's innovators out of it is, frankly, a show-stopper for a lot of people who are actually interested in a phone that does more than just make and take calls.
The first thing you need to do, more or less straight away, is find a way to separate your email address from the place your email comes to rest. I have a domain AND an account with Spamgourmet. One is for fighting spam, but both are so I can hand out addresses that are independant from whatever service I choose to use to actually receive my mail. This allows you to easily leave crappy places that force ads on you or otherwise stuff up your mail. Start advertising your new address now, so that in a year or so when Yahoo pulls some new crap that pisses you off, you have the option of leaving them without any of your friends noticing. I also recommend setting up a bunch of IM accounts, then using an ad-free all-in-one IM client like Miranda IM and move away from email in general.
So, by having short copyright I can take Harry Potter, chop it up a bit, put a couple of different names in it and make a new book out of it? How does that work?
See Fanfic. (Actually, that page is a pretty good discussion of the stuff we're talking about now.)
But if I've created something that is desirable to people for decades after I first made it, and there continues to be people who want to buy it... why shouldn't I be making money from it, rather than someone else?
Because you live in a society that makes it possible for you to create that thing. As in incentive to make society better, you're given a monopoly over said thing for a brief period. Then the thing should be made available to everyone in society so new, better things can be built without having to start from scratch. To argue for infinte copyrights is to argue that you should be able to use stuff that came before you, but no one after you should have the same opportunity.
Unfortunately, now that they've gotten this extra publicity due to not being part of a big label, the results are largely meaningless. Much as I'd like to say that this signals the end of the big labels, this almost proves that you do still need them for the halo of hype that surrounds the industry. When a song or album is hugely successful for no reason other than the quality of music, then we will finally have moved on from the artificial reality created by the big music labels.
My brain knows that Sony installed a rootkit on its customer's computers. My brain knows that when the PS3 is released in Australia, it will cost around A$1,000. My knows that Sony puts software on their laptops that's purely designed to lock you into first-party batteries. Frankly, Slashdot is easy on Sony.
The first titles from the deal should be made available in "early 2007." Sony Online Entertainment also hinted that this would be only the beginning of the company's downloadable PS3 offerings.
I read that as "no release date, in fact no downloadable games yet for the PS3 at all". I don't have a PS3 and since it isn't out locally nor do any of my friends, so I guess, yes, you could say I was uninformed, but that's why I ended with a question mark.
Anyway, that's still the Wii's release vs the PS3's announcement with no firm release date.
I came to SL after a year and a bit of World of Warcraft. While SL wasn't as polished, what I saw was different objects everywhere. In the games with the graphics everyone seems to like, many textures and models are used over and over and over. Oh, it's this model of cave. It's one of those towers. In SL, as you move around, it's all different. I was happy to take a hit on the polygon count in order to move around a world that didn't look like the designers wrote a third of it then copied it twice to finish.
The Wii titles are out, while the PS3's downloadable titles are announced with no firm release date, given that it appears the downloading feature hasn't even been used yet -- does anyone know if it's ready at all?
Sod all that junk in the US, why don't you all come visit Perth, Australia the weekend before Easter and attend G03. The Nullarbor demo party is now part of it too.
I thought ARM CPUs were the most used in the word and that Texus Instruments were also in the top five, possibly before AMD. Intel/AMD CPUs are mostly only used in desktops/servers. Once you step beyond a standard "PC", many different CPUs are used. You've effectively asked "Why do people who use Intel CPUs use Intel CPUs?" -- in which case the answer is "because they do", rather than anything helpful.
I was just about to post a "So games start with Nintendo and end with Sony or Microsoft, do they?" post myself. I've noticed the same thing in all the popular social websites; The category says "games", 90% of the forums are about video games, 5% are about RPGs, 4% are things like poker, sudoku and chess and maybe 1% might cover things like Roborally, Fluxx, Treehouse/Icehouse, Settlers of Catan or other independant non-electronic games (I hope my new Order of the Stick game is as good as it looks). I've started a heap of "Looney Labs Fans" forums on popular sites, but if I'd realised how few groups there were to discuss anything more general, I think I would have gone for "Independant Games Fans (not video games)" or similar instead.
In '95 I walked into a company that had started purchasing Acer PCs to replace their aging IBM PS/2 fleet. Not surprisingly the Acers, when compaired to the PS/2s, faired particularly badly in everything that counted -- most noticably reliability and stability. Fast forward to 2002 and I land in another company with student labs full of Acers, which are starting to fail at disturbing rates. Ultimately, one entire room of 38 Acers all had to have their motherboards replaced due to failing capacitors before all the Acers were replaced. Unfortunately they were replaced by Dells which, less than two years later, managed to one-up the Acers with one lab of 41 Dells needing new CPU fans, then new motherboards, then new CPU fans again.
No, for me an Acer laptop is not a bribe. At best it's eBay fodder. At worst it's a dire insult.
The experiences with this laptop should not at any time be considered representative of anything other than the quality of Twinhead's laptops. No conclusions should be drawn as to the quality or nature of the ruggedised laptop class in general. If the brochure of this laptop is full of lies about its durability, that should not be used as an excuse to rubbish, say, the Panasonic Toughbook range.
(As far as my experiences with Twinhead are concerned, I'd be surprised if it worked when it arrived.)
I determined a couple of years ago that in order for the small IT department of one (me), to be able to keep up with potential Outlook security problems, I had to filter HTML down to Plain Text. When you've got a program that can be used to infect a computer just be previewing a message, you have to do _something_. Now that we've install Exchange (bleh), internal messages are no longer filtered, but thankfully the old filters for stuff going in (and out) of the company remain in use.
Slashdot Mirror
Oh, for crying out loud, just install FlashBlock.
Mod Parent Up.
The annoying thing with all this is the amount of time wasted on, in business, retraining and, in education, preparing new course materials due to an "upgrade" nobody needs -- but everyone thinks they need because everyone else will be getting it.
I was watching the Firehose, and I voted it down, but it's better than another version of the headline I saw: "Wii claims first life" (or similar). I wouldn't at all be surprised if the submission of this "story" was encouraged on a Sony forum somewhere.
Two or three years ago I was doing innovative, new database development, now I'm stuck re-writing existing reports to cope with every new structural change, or fussing with the UI because someone who's never programmed anything in their life (nor ever built a decent procedure on or off a PC) thinks that tool X isn't intuitive enough.
Please do not define an entire industry by its arseholes. Many of us in the IT industry are actually interested in and care for the people we work with and the company we work for (to varying degrees based on the individuals and the company). I know I don't draw a box around me and proclaim that everyone else is an idiot, just the actual idiots -- and, no, computer literacy is not the way I work that out. I'm sorry if you get confused by our "jargon". I do my best to avoid using it, but sometimes that just what stuff is called. By the same token, you shouldn't feel embarrassed if you don't understand our job. I'm sure there are parts of your job I don't understand. Heck, there's heaps of stuff in other parts of the IT industry that I don't understand.
Now, can we please stop focussing on our differences and start looking for our similarities?
I just got two pairs of these. I'd love to effusively rave about them, but I've only just charged them up and used them for about one hour of Wiiplay. So far they're great. I certainly didn't have problems finding four USB ports that are powered without a PC needing to be on.
I love my Series 60 phones specifically because of the 3rd-party stuff you can install. From an app that shows my friends' birthdays in order of who's next to a C64 emulator, the range of software means that if I suddenly feel like doing something new with my phone, someone's probably already written an app for it. Remember when that morse coder beat the fastest SMS dude? A couple of days later someone had a prototype morse code input program for the Series 60s. Sure, some programs (like the drivers for my bluetooth laser keyboard) are a train wreck and cause system errors, but blocking everyone just cause some people can't code is, for want of a better cliche, cutting off your nose to spite your face.
To produce such a powerful platform, then lock the world's innovators out of it is, frankly, a show-stopper for a lot of people who are actually interested in a phone that does more than just make and take calls.
The first thing you need to do, more or less straight away, is find a way to separate your email address from the place your email comes to rest. I have a domain AND an account with Spamgourmet. One is for fighting spam, but both are so I can hand out addresses that are independant from whatever service I choose to use to actually receive my mail. This allows you to easily leave crappy places that force ads on you or otherwise stuff up your mail. Start advertising your new address now, so that in a year or so when Yahoo pulls some new crap that pisses you off, you have the option of leaving them without any of your friends noticing. I also recommend setting up a bunch of IM accounts, then using an ad-free all-in-one IM client like Miranda IM and move away from email in general.
Unfortunately, now that they've gotten this extra publicity due to not being part of a big label, the results are largely meaningless. Much as I'd like to say that this signals the end of the big labels, this almost proves that you do still need them for the halo of hype that surrounds the industry. When a song or album is hugely successful for no reason other than the quality of music, then we will finally have moved on from the artificial reality created by the big music labels.
Start here. Also, subscribe to their magazine, Renew.
My brain knows that Sony installed a rootkit on its customer's computers. My brain knows that when the PS3 is released in Australia, it will cost around A$1,000. My knows that Sony puts software on their laptops that's purely designed to lock you into first-party batteries. Frankly, Slashdot is easy on Sony.
Anyway, that's still the Wii's release vs the PS3's announcement with no firm release date.
I came to SL after a year and a bit of World of Warcraft. While SL wasn't as polished, what I saw was different objects everywhere. In the games with the graphics everyone seems to like, many textures and models are used over and over and over. Oh, it's this model of cave. It's one of those towers. In SL, as you move around, it's all different. I was happy to take a hit on the polygon count in order to move around a world that didn't look like the designers wrote a third of it then copied it twice to finish.
The Wii titles are out, while the PS3's downloadable titles are announced with no firm release date, given that it appears the downloading feature hasn't even been used yet -- does anyone know if it's ready at all?
Sod all that junk in the US, why don't you all come visit Perth, Australia the weekend before Easter and attend G03. The Nullarbor demo party is now part of it too.
I thought ARM CPUs were the most used in the word and that Texus Instruments were also in the top five, possibly before AMD. Intel/AMD CPUs are mostly only used in desktops/servers. Once you step beyond a standard "PC", many different CPUs are used. You've effectively asked "Why do people who use Intel CPUs use Intel CPUs?" -- in which case the answer is "because they do", rather than anything helpful.
I was just about to post a "So games start with Nintendo and end with Sony or Microsoft, do they?" post myself. I've noticed the same thing in all the popular social websites; The category says "games", 90% of the forums are about video games, 5% are about RPGs, 4% are things like poker, sudoku and chess and maybe 1% might cover things like Roborally, Fluxx, Treehouse/Icehouse, Settlers of Catan or other independant non-electronic games (I hope my new Order of the Stick game is as good as it looks). I've started a heap of "Looney Labs Fans" forums on popular sites, but if I'd realised how few groups there were to discuss anything more general, I think I would have gone for "Independant Games Fans (not video games)" or similar instead.
No, for me an Acer laptop is not a bribe. At best it's eBay fodder. At worst it's a dire insult.
(As far as my experiences with Twinhead are concerned, I'd be surprised if it worked when it arrived.)
I determined a couple of years ago that in order for the small IT department of one (me), to be able to keep up with potential Outlook security problems, I had to filter HTML down to Plain Text. When you've got a program that can be used to infect a computer just be previewing a message, you have to do _something_. Now that we've install Exchange (bleh), internal messages are no longer filtered, but thankfully the old filters for stuff going in (and out) of the company remain in use.
Yes, but then I copy 'n pasted a bunch of other titles too -- and I wasn't sure how many I'd be referencing when I started writing the comment.