Hollywood actors, screenwriters and directors all have strong unions. And when they strike (as the writers did in 2007), they are not easily replaced. If Joss Whedon walks off the set you can't just grab some random schmuck off the street to replace him.
Game developers are creative people too. They have just as much leverage as the showbiz creatives in New York and LA do. All they need to do to stop being treated like crap is to exercise it.
I am filled with a black, unutterable contempt for the troglodytic users of my application. Can you suggest ways to translate this contempt into software?
That means it doesn't need either Verizon or ATT, as long as you have a phone that can deliver data via a bluetooth tether, just get the two close together and you have a mobile internet device.
Unless your carrier has disabled tethering on your phone, which many (most?) do. There are tons of phones out there that are technically capable of tethering but have that feature disabled at the carrier's request.
Or maybe it's because telcos and health insurance companies spend huge amounts of money on lobbyists whose entire job is to prevent such competition and the game industry doesn't.
Just make the early levels an actual game and then switch them over to controlling a murderbot (without telling them, natch) once they reach a high enough score/rank/level to have weeded out the experimenters/griefers/etc. Problem solved.
Anyone know how this compares to a GTS 250-based card? As those are also DX10-compliant and can be easily found for around $120, I'm not sure what the value of this new model is... beyond the psychological impact of hitting the magic $99 price point, of course.
We need to start from scratch with a new HTTP and a new HTML that is designed for the web of the 21st century.
You get on that then and give us a call when they're ready, OK? I'm sure designing something better than a system that has successfully grown from a few documents to a critical piece of global infrastructure will be a piece of cake.
One of my guys told me "I'm taking a 1 week vacation. I'm going in the woods with the clothes on my back, a pup tent, canteen and hunting knife." Either he was going to come out of the woods hungry, or he may not come out at all.
Why is font licensing any different from image licensing?
Because the browser implementers bothered to ask the font foundries before they rolled out downloadable font support, and because the world of 2009 is very different than the world of 1991.
Tim Berners-Lee didn't ask permission from anybody before adding image support to WorldWideWeb, and even if he had, I doubt any of the stock or news photo houses, say, would have understood what he was trying to do well enough to care. Whereas today (thanks to Napster) everyone working in a creative industry understands very well what it means to have your work made available for instant downloading.
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Get a union.
Seriously!
Hollywood actors, screenwriters and directors all have strong unions. And when they strike (as the writers did in 2007), they are not easily replaced. If Joss Whedon walks off the set you can't just grab some random schmuck off the street to replace him.
Game developers are creative people too. They have just as much leverage as the showbiz creatives in New York and LA do. All they need to do to stop being treated like crap is to exercise it.
Go? That's the language that Toyota uses to write their firmware, right?
Dear Slashdot,
I am filled with a black, unutterable contempt for the troglodytic users of my application. Can you suggest ways to translate this contempt into software?
How much do you like not being dead?
Assuming it survives to season two. One season is plenty of time for Lucas to drive it into the side of a mountain.
The vast majority of Windows users never use the installer. It comes preinstalled on a system they buy from an OEM.
What do you mean it's not interoperable? It works with ALL versions of Windows!
Kind of like how they have both kinds of music at Bob's Country Bunker... Country and Western!
Unless your carrier has disabled tethering on your phone, which many (most?) do. There are tons of phones out there that are technically capable of tethering but have that feature disabled at the carrier's request.
If you had to use Drupal you'd want to talk about something else too :-P
To Web development, not VB.Net.
Or maybe it's because telcos and health insurance companies spend huge amounts of money on lobbyists whose entire job is to prevent such competition and the game industry doesn't.
Just make the early levels an actual game and then switch them over to controlling a murderbot (without telling them, natch) once they reach a high enough score/rank/level to have weeded out the experimenters/griefers/etc. Problem solved.
Don't.
Anyone know how this compares to a GTS 250-based card? As those are also DX10-compliant and can be easily found for around $120, I'm not sure what the value of this new model is... beyond the psychological impact of hitting the magic $99 price point, of course.
Like this?
That's what SHE said!
(sorry, couldn't resist)
Can't speak for the poster, but the embedded DRM would be one reason for me.
The $18 million contract was for recovery.gov, not usaspending.gov. Source.
Not enough to stop practicing it.
Here you go.
You get on that then and give us a call when they're ready, OK? I'm sure designing something better than a system that has successfully grown from a few documents to a critical piece of global infrastructure will be a piece of cake.
Are you kidding? Chicks dig LDAP. Bring it up at the next party you attend and you'll have to tunnel out from all the underwear they'll throw at you.
You talk about "smart" and "crazy" as if they are mutually exclusive.
Rambo V: Systems Administrator.
This time... it's technical.
Because the browser implementers bothered to ask the font foundries before they rolled out downloadable font support, and because the world of 2009 is very different than the world of 1991.
Tim Berners-Lee didn't ask permission from anybody before adding image support to WorldWideWeb, and even if he had, I doubt any of the stock or news photo houses, say, would have understood what he was trying to do well enough to care. Whereas today (thanks to Napster) everyone working in a creative industry understands very well what it means to have your work made available for instant downloading.