Xbox has become a major force in video-game innovation, and we couldn't be more captivated by the Xbox 360 canvas," commented Yoichi Wada, president of Square Enix
Can someone enlighten me on which "innovations" the Xbox is responsible for? Its hardware was standard. Its games were largely ports, and its online service is a 'pay' version of what PC users take for granted.
That was then. Now, its an interesting idea which even had it been well executed (its not. check out any digital film & animation festival for boatloads of real talent) it wouldn't qualify as/. news 3 seasons out.
I find it incredible that a sloppily executed concept with a microscopic viewership, which is only important because it represents a "workaround" and because it was executed with intellectual property belonging to Microsoft can continue to represent "news"
Face it: The Religious Right is *the* ultimate market. I mean this both politically and comercially -- there is no easier market to sell to.
First off, the communications channels in organized religion are second to none. No other community of this size has such smoothly functioning internal communications regarding brand, product favorites and traction.
Secondly, they are *by definition* non-critical of all things "faith related". (The entire definition of "Faith" is belief without criticism). The Church discourages criticism and independent thought -- as it always has. Products which appeal to core beliefs benefit from swift, non-critical product acceptance.
Thirdly, religious institutions are increasingly commercial -- which means both distribution and marketing channels are increasingly bundled with traditional teaching, messaging and outreach programs.
Religious video games are a sure thing. Religious anything is a sure thing.
It's the "Hand Picked" part of the description that's the problem.
Who needs a library which is censored by the librarians. Isn't it better to have a library consisting of *all* available applets/applications and have the user community rate them for quality and ease of use?.... and doesn't that already exist?
The article doesn't suggest that criticising leaders is wrong in any way. What it does suggest is that perhaps Europeans were somewhat hypocritical in their objections to Wolfowitz.
Once again we're forced to recognise that 'there are no good guys' in government -- either American or European.
Yes it is wrong for the Europeans to be *more* critical of Wolfowitz than any other European candidate (as European selection processes and motivations are no more or less egalitarian than America's). But what we should (and by 'we' I mean Europeans and Americans) all be doing is being more critical of leadership in general.
What's unfortunate is that GIMPshop won't last long, and doesn't have a very promising life ahead of it. Why? Because its an open invitation for lawsuits on the basis of both its name ("-shop") and its level of imitation (or "duplication" I should say).
The sad thing is that GIMP is/was in DESPERATE need of an interface overhaul. Its got a hideous interface (with icons in the pulldown menus -- blechh) and illogical tools. IMHO if you're going to dedicate your time to something like this, better to dedicate it towards a legitimate opensourced redesign rather than a dead-end hack which is only going to invite legal annihilation.
MSFT's assumption is apparently that data stored on personal computers is more secure than on servers.
I'm not sure that this is necessarily true.
When you consider that the vast majority of computer users have no idea what a "firewall" is, and that MSFT's track record for security is poor to say the least -- its not obvious that storing sensitive data in designated locations on PC's is the safer route at all.
Some might say this is MSFT's way of passing the buck of responsibility to the end user rather than fixing the problem. Now if data is compromised fault could arguably lie with mom and pop rather than a Microsoft server.
Many people don't realize that Yahoo! has a scaled down (Google like) search interface which is actually pretty sweet: http://search.yahoo.com
Lately my Google results have been so Google bombed that I've been going back and forth between the two. I can't say for sure yet, but I may be in the middle of a bit of a personal transition.
Depending on what you're searching for, Google is often so front-loaded with dead-end advertiser links that its results aren't really worth much. Although it has to be said, it depends what type of a search user you are, and what types of things you're looking for.
Google is still the king of advanced search.
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> Macs users are 5% of computer users, and therefore no one should use Macs?
Slashdot Mirror
From the article:
Xbox has become a major force in video-game innovation, and we couldn't be more captivated by the Xbox 360 canvas," commented Yoichi Wada, president of Square Enix
Can someone enlighten me on which "innovations" the Xbox is responsible for? Its hardware was standard. Its games were largely ports, and its online service is a 'pay' version of what PC users take for granted.
Ok.. criticise this:
Creation.
RED vs BLUE was an interesting idea.
That was then. Now, its an interesting idea which even had it been well executed (its not. check out any digital film & animation festival for boatloads of real talent) it wouldn't qualify as
I find it incredible that a sloppily executed concept with a microscopic viewership, which is only important because it represents a "workaround" and because it was executed with intellectual property belonging to Microsoft can continue to represent "news"
Let Red Vs. Blue die. Its over. Move along.
Face it: The Religious Right is *the* ultimate market. I mean this both politically and comercially -- there is no easier market to sell to.
First off, the communications channels in organized religion are second to none. No other community of this size has such smoothly functioning internal communications regarding brand, product favorites and traction.
Secondly, they are *by definition* non-critical of all things "faith related". (The entire definition of "Faith" is belief without criticism). The Church discourages criticism and independent thought -- as it always has. Products which appeal to core beliefs benefit from swift, non-critical product acceptance.
Thirdly, religious institutions are increasingly commercial -- which means both distribution and marketing channels are increasingly bundled with traditional teaching, messaging and outreach programs.
Religious video games are a sure thing. Religious anything is a sure thing.
This experiment was conducted in a petri dish.
Killing cancer cells in a petri dish is one thing, locating them, isolating them and killing them in the human body is another.
It's the "Hand Picked" part of the description that's the problem.
Who needs a library which is censored by the librarians. Isn't it better to have a library consisting of *all* available applets/applications and have the user community rate them for quality and ease of use?
It should also be noted that free wifi has an immediate upshot of mass conversion to VOIP.
Adding to that: Wifi handhelds are around the corner -- which means that cellphone (and landline) carriers have a lot to worry about.
Amateur Execution.
Slashdot just "jumped the shark"
You'll miss the next story which will be here in
(Of course subscribers can see it in
The article doesn't suggest that criticising leaders is wrong in any way. What it does suggest is that perhaps Europeans were somewhat hypocritical in their objections to Wolfowitz.
Once again we're forced to recognise that 'there are no good guys' in government -- either American or European.
Yes it is wrong for the Europeans to be *more* critical of Wolfowitz than any other European candidate (as European selection processes and motivations are no more or less egalitarian than America's). But what we should (and by 'we' I mean Europeans and Americans) all be doing is being more critical of leadership in general.
Today at work I was in a spectacularly smooth (and remarkably energy efficient) idle-loop.
Fortunately the loop was terminated automatically at 5pm.
It's only a good April Fool's post if you manage to fool someone.
(That applies to all today's 'pranksters')
and everyone's a comedian
Now that Sony has a proprietary format, its time to "make available" all that media!
No thanks. I'll stick to DIVX.
No I'm working on several other Opensource projects
What's with the hostility?
My point is that if you're going to go through all the work of a skin/redesign, why make a look-alike with a high legal risk-factor?
No one was bitching.
Settle down. Have a mint.
What's unfortunate is that GIMPshop won't last long, and doesn't have a very promising life ahead of it. Why? Because its an open invitation for lawsuits on the basis of both its name ("-shop") and its level of imitation (or "duplication" I should say).
The sad thing is that GIMP is/was in DESPERATE need of an interface overhaul. Its got a hideous interface (with icons in the pulldown menus -- blechh) and illogical tools. IMHO if you're going to dedicate your time to something like this, better to dedicate it towards a legitimate opensourced redesign rather than a dead-end hack which is only going to invite legal annihilation.
MSFT's assumption is apparently that data stored on personal computers is more secure than on servers.
I'm not sure that this is necessarily true.
When you consider that the vast majority of computer users have no idea what a "firewall" is, and that MSFT's track record for security is poor to say the least -- its not obvious that storing sensitive data in designated locations on PC's is the safer route at all.
Some might say this is MSFT's way of passing the buck of responsibility to the end user rather than fixing the problem. Now if data is compromised fault could arguably lie with mom and pop rather than a Microsoft server.
Many people don't realize that Yahoo! has a scaled down (Google like) search interface which is actually pretty sweet: http://search.yahoo.com
Lately my Google results have been so Google bombed that I've been going back and forth between the two. I can't say for sure yet, but I may be in the middle of a bit of a personal transition.
Depending on what you're searching for, Google is often so front-loaded with dead-end advertiser links that its results aren't really worth much. Although it has to be said, it depends what type of a search user you are, and what types of things you're looking for.
Google is still the king of advanced search.
> Macs users are 5% of computer users, and therefore no one should use Macs?
Sigh.
Yes.
Does it have an Ethernet port?
I mean, like I'm going to lug this thing around with me all day???
Call me when they make a linux box that fits in a staple.
You'd think with all this "Mac-love" being thrown
around on
But we're not.
Look at the stats.
Its the dirty little secret of
So a better question than "Why doesn't Corporate America use Macs" might be "Why don't we?"
The answers are the same.
(But I won't go into them here. The mac police would only mod me Troll)
Ouch. Again with the razor wit.
Uh... Nice one dude.