You know what's really annoying? Even if your program only pops up a confirmation box when justified, so many other programs do it unnecessarily that people still mindlessly dismiss your box without reading it too.
Look, if someone can produce a reliable way of my car automatically not speeding on any given road unless I really jam my foot down, I'm all for it -- so long as there's no loss of privacy and no safety risk. When you're having to juggle a squiggly road, lots of idiots trying to change lanes to get one car ahead, poor visibility and a downward slope it's easy to miss that the speed limit just dropped by 10 Km/h according to the sign behind that bush back there -- particularly when everyone else is speeding.
I don't ever want to speed, but having to monitor your speedo all the time is a crappy solution. It only takes you looking up from the speedo to see a kid chasing a ball across the street infront of you once or twice before you'd really like a better solution.
Slashdotters were all cheering and happy when IBM sent guys around at night, painting those "Peace, Love and Linux" icons all over sidewalks
Like hell we were. It was vandalism that unfairly placed a financial burden on the community then and it's the same thing now. That Sony are stupid enough to be doing this when there are a hojillion little spotlights pointed at them is hard to believe. Frankly, Sony are becoming the new SCO.
Maybe those of us boycotting the entire company because of last month's debacle should adjust things a bit?
Sony could create a perpetual-motion machine and I still wouldn't go near them. Fact is, whatever products Sony come out with, someone else will soon produce a product that does more and/or actively promotes a homebrew community. Buying anything from Sony is just mortgaging your future.
Not knowing the names in the industry (and not having read the article) I thought you were describing WoW prior to the statement I quoted above. You mean there are MMOGs that focus more on 24/7 gameplay and raid grinding for equipment?
The David Jones store in Perth City has an annoying high-pitched sound near their main doors. Most people don't seem to notice. I thought it might be an insect repellent, but this idea sounds very likely. Certainly drives me away from the store, pity for them I'm 30-something.
This is exactly the sort of thing you handle with a slider in the options; "How would you like Firefox to handle images" with High CPU/low RAM on one end and Low CPU/High RAM on the other. The slider would determine how aggressively Firefox caches uncompressed images.
At work we have half a dozen PCs (of ~22) with the maximum amount of RAM installed that they support. The list includes my laptop. I am therefore for anything that reduces RAM use and against any lazy programming that requires more RAM.
If you notice things that are wrong with a TV show, fiction or non-fiction, or book or movie, in your area of expertise, you can be damn sure that they're getting heaps of stuff wrong in areas that you know nothing about. You can keep watching in ignorance, or you can write it off as junk. More often than not I do the latter.
The PSP is technically a great product, but Sony are killing it themselves. Instead of encouraging a big homebrew scene, each BIOS "upgrade" deliberately reduces the number of things you can do with the device. The PSP is just the latest example of Sony's IP divisions ruining Sony's technical divisions. The old Sony, pre SonyBMG and Sony Movies, would have made the PSP as easy to use by everyone as possible. If Sony were like this back in the day they would have found a way to stop you playing tapes of your LPs in your Walkman -- they would have been forcing you to buy the licensed Sony-brand tape version of every album you already own.
I work in a company of under 300 people, and most every department is almost wholly ignorant of the goings-on of the others. I'm sure Sony is the same way.
Tell me which company that is so I can short the shares.
Seriously though, if one department is doing the wrong thing you can't buy a product and say "Don't give any of this money to department X". And if you find out that your company is doing something wrong, very wrong, you can't just wash your hands of it and say, "That's not my department".
Much as these re-releases are a great way to squeeze money out of ancient IP, isn't it about time that we could just buy a nice MAME disc or cart for our preferred platform and then buy ROMs from the IP owners?
(As a bonus for the companies, they wouldn't end up releasing a product for a single platform in the middle of a growing boycott.)
I'll check my mother's VIAO the next time she brings it home and report back on my Slashdot Journal.
A 1.5 to 2 year old Sony VIAO laptop does not appear to have the rootkit pre-installed. It might have other Sony junk on it, but I think it's relatively clear of their insane IP-protection black-hat junk.
Anyone developing a new media format that doesn't have anything to do with Sony? DVDs are nice and all, but I no longer like the fact that a small part of every DVD and DVD player sale goes to Sony.
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You know what's really annoying? Even if your program only pops up a confirmation box when justified, so many other programs do it unnecessarily that people still mindlessly dismiss your box without reading it too.
If you have a point, feel free to come to it.
I don't ever want to speed, but having to monitor your speedo all the time is a crappy solution. It only takes you looking up from the speedo to see a kid chasing a ball across the street infront of you once or twice before you'd really like a better solution.
...by all the graffiti advertising it on a wall near you.
Anything by Kim Wilkins, Freda Warrington, Storm Constantine or even Starhawk should be fairly interesting to anyone who's interested in depth to their characters. The genre is (mostly) "Dark Fantasy".
The David Jones store in Perth City has an annoying high-pitched sound near their main doors. Most people don't seem to notice. I thought it might be an insect repellent, but this idea sounds very likely. Certainly drives me away from the store, pity for them I'm 30-something.
See? Works great. Try another; You should not erase the Maine Coon if someone claims it's racist.
(And when it comes to general attitudes to paying customers, watch what Sony do then do the opposite of that.)
This is exactly the sort of thing you handle with a slider in the options; "How would you like Firefox to handle images" with High CPU/low RAM on one end and Low CPU/High RAM on the other. The slider would determine how aggressively Firefox caches uncompressed images.
At work we have half a dozen PCs (of ~22) with the maximum amount of RAM installed that they support. The list includes my laptop. I am therefore for anything that reduces RAM use and against any lazy programming that requires more RAM.
Sometimes symmetrical isn't comfortable.
Is there any way to remove an editor's posts from not only the front page but the "Older Stuff" page too?
If you notice things that are wrong with a TV show, fiction or non-fiction, or book or movie, in your area of expertise, you can be damn sure that they're getting heaps of stuff wrong in areas that you know nothing about. You can keep watching in ignorance, or you can write it off as junk. More often than not I do the latter.
If that were true, Microsoft would only have two divisions, given that everything other than Windows and Office make a loss.
The PSP is technically a great product, but Sony are killing it themselves. Instead of encouraging a big homebrew scene, each BIOS "upgrade" deliberately reduces the number of things you can do with the device. The PSP is just the latest example of Sony's IP divisions ruining Sony's technical divisions. The old Sony, pre SonyBMG and Sony Movies, would have made the PSP as easy to use by everyone as possible. If Sony were like this back in the day they would have found a way to stop you playing tapes of your LPs in your Walkman -- they would have been forcing you to buy the licensed Sony-brand tape version of every album you already own.
Seriously though, if one department is doing the wrong thing you can't buy a product and say "Don't give any of this money to department X". And if you find out that your company is doing something wrong, very wrong, you can't just wash your hands of it and say, "That's not my department".
(As a bonus for the companies, they wouldn't end up releasing a product for a single platform in the middle of a growing boycott.)
http://slashdot.org/~Kris_J/journal/122581
Anyone developing a new media format that doesn't have anything to do with Sony? DVDs are nice and all, but I no longer like the fact that a small part of every DVD and DVD player sale goes to Sony.
I'll check my mother's VIAO the next time she brings it home and report back on my Slashdot Journal.