AT&T, Comcoast, Time Warner and Verizon have all discontinued their newsgroup services. What is a surprise is that there are (were) ISP's that still had them.
I don't know, but I'm using my lego robotics to cheat at Pokemon. This is physical, because it's creating artificial motion to pump up my Pokemon-pedometer ("Pokewalker"), thereby circumventing a device designed to get lazy people to move their lazy asses. Who needs exercise when you have SCIENCE!
If they had a database of hundreds or thousands of Ivy League Energy Company-running Billion-Dollar embezzlers to get statistically relevant information from, then yes. It may be slower to build that predictive database than to build the Street Kid From Miami database, not because of racial considerations, but because of number of incidents recorded.
For the Ivy League guy, we need a more classical predictive model: "Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely." The algorithms will come eventually.
I like how the title implies that having "rogue" brown dwarf "lurking" close by is some sort of security threat. WATCH OUT, IT MAY HAVE WMD'S!!!!!111one
I think we should greet it with open arms and set up McDonald's and Starbuck's franchises as soon as we can to show it that we welcome it as a neighbor!
Thanks for the synopsis, I had always wondered about the book vs. the movie. That first half sounds pretty stereotypical Sci-Fi, but your description of the second half just sounded like it's a missing chapter from Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Or maybe that's just how my warped minded pictured it, but come on: Earth declared bankrupt and repo'ed? And this is *not* a comedy?
Or, in business terms, "we could sell poop in a box and people would buy it because of their trust in Apple, also know as brand equity, which we will burn in exchange for cash with this product."
While I agree with your point on "suit monkeys" ruining games by adding in-game marketing to skim off the top, you seem to have entirely missed the point of the post. "Marketing" in it's basic form is simply building awareness for a product so that, if people like it, they can go buy it. Believe it or not, people who are unaware of products may not buy them, and while a few people may follow the likes of/. or IGN and already know everything, that small handful of people isn't going to support a game release. For this reason, marketing activity is very important to let people know that mass-appeal games are out.
One example where this worked well is the new Batman game. Batman has huge appeal, cost a fortune to make. If you just put it on shelves, only a few people will walk by and pick it up. Millions more non-hardcore-gamer people would love to play a Batman game, but don't always walk by game shelves. With $x million in marketing to drive awareness, they can make $2x-10x million selling that game.
Game developing is cheap compared to what it costs to buy enough TV airtime to make everyone aware of your product.
Isn't this a case where the US Government should be sued since they own the USPTO?
Brilliant, I agree! In theory, at any rate.
Except for the fact that if a company can successfully sue the USPTO after it revokes a patent, then the USPTO will never again revoke a patent simply out of liability avoidance. Then we've made a half-broken system all-broken.
The process needs to be fixed at the front end, and the patent office needs to be REWARDED for overturning patents, not sued, in order to encourage it to continue this behavior.
Not every work of classic literature has to have *all* the major plot twists known. Hell, I bet the core gamer target for Pride and Prejudice and Zombies hasn't even read Pride and Prejudice!
Well... some items in his list he uses 1982 analogies (Toys R Us, Phone Monopoly, etc), and some he lists things available for C64 now (Twitter client). He could list either the equivalent price today ($1,318.59 2009 dollars), or the ebay price today (~$20 shipped).
While it may be depressing about the RIAA getting away with it's imaginary world crap, it is good to see that, for everyone else, ridiculous claims are generally seen as such in the court of law. It's good to get some of that perspective back on/.; now all we need to do is figure out a way to snap the RIAA and it's litigation machine back into the real world.
Anyone familiar with Japanese history would understand Japanese poking constant fun of the Russians, their neighbors. Russia is a bit of a sore spot to Japan since they are still disputing sovereignty of mineral rich islands that Russia claimed as a results of Japan losing WWII. It doesn't help that Japanese culture has been known as being a bit on the racist and xenophobic side.
I had a half-year "Intro to Engineering" class at Purdue my freshmen year (1999) - Frosh Engineers weren't allowed to pick an engineering discipline until sophomore year, so we got all sorts of intro classes. In it, we first learned FORTRAN, and then we learned C.
The reason we learned FORTRAN:
* We had to compile code from one language and reference it from code in the other, to prove it was all worked the same once compiled. * We had to have it beaten into us that, if we ever wanted to bitch about how confusion C was, all they ever needed to say is "at least it's not FORTRAN." * They had read an article out there saying that FORTRAN coders were the highest paid coders out there, since lots of companied had legacy code and systems to maintain, and very few people cared to learn legacy languages anymore.
So yeah, it didn't kill us being part of an intro class where it wasn't the only thing we learned. Quit bitching about, it and GET OFF MY LAWN!
Which is why the DSi is starting really small with they digital distributions - they need to get people used to the idea of paying for downloads in a low-cost way. Eventually they will release larger / full games, I'm sure, but when people are ready for it.
Sony expects people to go straight there with no transition, no mention of cheaper (or even Greatest Hits back catalogue) to entice a switch. They haven't given the consumer a single reason to want a PSP Go over a normal PSP, they're doing it strictly because of the higher-profit cut-out-the-middle-man business model. Good luck with that.
Well, in the "Obama Birth Certificate" defense, the sum of the votes for that general idea outweigh the sum of the votes to legalize pot.
I'm not making a judgment for or against any ideas (at least not here, too much flame potential), but I think a system like this needs to be a little bit more rubust:
Same ideas aggregated
"Wiki"-style format for adding details to ideas so that an individuals don't post similar but slightly different ideas
Limited # of votes so that "show your birth certificate B. Hussein" doesn't end up as #'s 5,6,7 and 8; all likely voted up by the same people
It's not that this isn't working per se, it's that people are very passionate about their ideals, and this structure encourages abuse of a technological system that needs to be more robust.
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AT&T, Comcoast, Time Warner and Verizon have all discontinued their newsgroup services. What is a surprise is that there are (were) ISP's that still had them.
I don't know, but I'm using my lego robotics to cheat at Pokemon. This is physical, because it's creating artificial motion to pump up my Pokemon-pedometer ("Pokewalker"), thereby circumventing a device designed to get lazy people to move their lazy asses. Who needs exercise when you have SCIENCE!
If they had a database of hundreds or thousands of Ivy League Energy Company-running Billion-Dollar embezzlers to get statistically relevant information from, then yes. It may be slower to build that predictive database than to build the Street Kid From Miami database, not because of racial considerations, but because of number of incidents recorded.
For the Ivy League guy, we need a more classical predictive model: "Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely." The algorithms will come eventually.
I like how the title implies that having "rogue" brown dwarf "lurking" close by is some sort of security threat. WATCH OUT, IT MAY HAVE WMD'S!!!!!111one
I think we should greet it with open arms and set up McDonald's and Starbuck's franchises as soon as we can to show it that we welcome it as a neighbor!
Thanks for the synopsis, I had always wondered about the book vs. the movie. That first half sounds pretty stereotypical Sci-Fi, but your description of the second half just sounded like it's a missing chapter from Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Or maybe that's just how my warped minded pictured it, but come on: Earth declared bankrupt and repo'ed? And this is *not* a comedy?
Not paranoia, it's called "business model innovation." And if enough people wouldn't be willing to pay for it, EA wouldn't be doing it.
Also, note that you'll need a different solution for the female workforce.
Or, in business terms, "we could sell poop in a box and people would buy it because of their trust in Apple, also know as brand equity, which we will burn in exchange for cash with this product."
Or said another way, one man's trash is another man's treasure. Works for news, too.
Stop it! I'm allergic to logic, and YOU'RE MAKING ME ITCH!
Does this mean that insurance companies don't cover lung cancer treatment for smokers?
Iknow we're comparing Apples to Apples, but are we really comparing apples to apples? I mean... you know what I mean...
No no, this is the birth of the Insecticons! Ahh, sweet childhood...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insecticons
In David Weber's Honor Harrington series, they use gravity waves for transport too.
While I agree with your point on "suit monkeys" ruining games by adding in-game marketing to skim off the top, you seem to have entirely missed the point of the post. "Marketing" in it's basic form is simply building awareness for a product so that, if people like it, they can go buy it. Believe it or not, people who are unaware of products may not buy them, and while a few people may follow the likes of /. or IGN and already know everything, that small handful of people isn't going to support a game release. For this reason, marketing activity is very important to let people know that mass-appeal games are out.
One example where this worked well is the new Batman game. Batman has huge appeal, cost a fortune to make. If you just put it on shelves, only a few people will walk by and pick it up. Millions more non-hardcore-gamer people would love to play a Batman game, but don't always walk by game shelves. With $x million in marketing to drive awareness, they can make $2x-10x million selling that game.
Game developing is cheap compared to what it costs to buy enough TV airtime to make everyone aware of your product.
Isn't this a case where the US Government should be sued since they own the USPTO?
Brilliant, I agree! In theory, at any rate.
Except for the fact that if a company can successfully sue the USPTO after it revokes a patent, then the USPTO will never again revoke a patent simply out of liability avoidance. Then we've made a half-broken system all-broken.
The process needs to be fixed at the front end, and the patent office needs to be REWARDED for overturning patents, not sued, in order to encourage it to continue this behavior.
Not every work of classic literature has to have *all* the major plot twists known. Hell, I bet the core gamer target for Pride and Prejudice and Zombies hasn't even read Pride and Prejudice!
Well... some items in his list he uses 1982 analogies (Toys R Us, Phone Monopoly, etc), and some he lists things available for C64 now (Twitter client). He could list either the equivalent price today ($1,318.59 2009 dollars), or the ebay price today (~$20 shipped).
While it may be depressing about the RIAA getting away with it's imaginary world crap, it is good to see that, for everyone else, ridiculous claims are generally seen as such in the court of law. It's good to get some of that perspective back on /.; now all we need to do is figure out a way to snap the RIAA and it's litigation machine back into the real world.
http://geography.about.com/library/weekly/aa021400a.htm
Anyone familiar with Japanese history would understand Japanese poking constant fun of the Russians, their neighbors. Russia is a bit of a sore spot to Japan since they are still disputing sovereignty of mineral rich islands that Russia claimed as a results of Japan losing WWII. It doesn't help that Japanese culture has been known as being a bit on the racist and xenophobic side.
Wait, so if sun kills rock, sun burns paper, and sun melts scissors... SUN IS INVINCIBLE!
I had a half-year "Intro to Engineering" class at Purdue my freshmen year (1999) - Frosh Engineers weren't allowed to pick an engineering discipline until sophomore year, so we got all sorts of intro classes. In it, we first learned FORTRAN, and then we learned C.
The reason we learned FORTRAN:
* We had to compile code from one language and reference it from code in the other, to prove it was all worked the same once compiled.
* We had to have it beaten into us that, if we ever wanted to bitch about how confusion C was, all they ever needed to say is "at least it's not FORTRAN."
* They had read an article out there saying that FORTRAN coders were the highest paid coders out there, since lots of companied had legacy code and systems to maintain, and very few people cared to learn legacy languages anymore.
So yeah, it didn't kill us being part of an intro class where it wasn't the only thing we learned. Quit bitching about, it and GET OFF MY LAWN!
Which is why the DSi is starting really small with they digital distributions - they need to get people used to the idea of paying for downloads in a low-cost way. Eventually they will release larger / full games, I'm sure, but when people are ready for it.
Sony expects people to go straight there with no transition, no mention of cheaper (or even Greatest Hits back catalogue) to entice a switch. They haven't given the consumer a single reason to want a PSP Go over a normal PSP, they're doing it strictly because of the higher-profit cut-out-the-middle-man business model. Good luck with that.
Well, in the "Obama Birth Certificate" defense, the sum of the votes for that general idea outweigh the sum of the votes to legalize pot.
I'm not making a judgment for or against any ideas (at least not here, too much flame potential), but I think a system like this needs to be a little bit more rubust:
It's not that this isn't working per se, it's that people are very passionate about their ideals, and this structure encourages abuse of a technological system that needs to be more robust.
Doesn't it draw more attention to it when these sites are blocked.
You're right! Since when is Bing.com a high-profile website that someone will notice if it's blocked? Microsoft PR strikes again! ;P