Also, it's horrible when a big, very popular, download comes out and you're sitting there at 5k/sec because the site is getting hammered. It's not JUST benefitting the media companies.
No relevance at all, really. Since there's no way of knowing what's a duplicate download or what's a download destined for multiple machines, the number has no meaning whatsoever.
If you want to get all conspiracy theorist, you could say that they did this on purpose, and it's not a backdoor so much as a honeypot. All of you are now flagged as hackers, enjoy!
The problem nowadays is that games try to be so many things and get so much complexity, when it turns out that the simple games are sometimes the most fun ones.
I'm not going to say that corporate environments stifle innovation, but the motivation to innovate in a corporate environment is necessarily dollar-driven. The motivation to innovate in an OS environment is desire driven. If enough people desire to see it done and turn that desire into action, it gets done.
Isn't dollar based on desire, though? If enough people want said feature in the product, it will get put in since the feature would make the product sell better.
The problem with solar is that it doesn't really lend itself to downtown usage due to all the buildings around. Putting solar panels on the walls of buildings isn't very smart if they're going to be shaded by other buildings all day. IIRC, though, there was a program going on in a certain city (SF?) where they were putting solar panels on the roofs of a lot of available buildings. That combined with this coating would be excellent.
Or we could just open up some new nuclear plants and have a stable energy source while getting rid of the coal/oil ones altogether...
Actually, the gold box had some great deals in it occasionally. A lot of the time it was filled with crap, but if you needed kitchenware, that was one of the best places to look for nice stuff on the cheap.
They occasionally had electronics in there as well at some great prices. There was a point where people were finding a 20GB Archos MP3 player in their gold box for $99 (IIRC), when normally at Amazon it was $119. Nice little player, too.
It seems like we're seeing the same problems with companies like Google that we were seeing a few years ago. Companies had lots of great ideas, but the problem came about when trying to actually make money on those ideas. This is what caused the demise of so many different startups.
Google is a wonderful company, but problems seem like they're going to arise as they get bigger and bigger and create more and more products, but don't charge for anything. As great as free stuff is, it doesn't pay the bills.
I guess the question is how long they can survive on their advertising alone.
Americans win independence! Posted by CowboyNeal on Saturday July 23, @12:53PM from the take-that-British dept. GWashington writes ";Finally, after too many battles to count, we have won our independence." What does this mean for our privacy? Will the new government be too invasive?
This previous article claims that Google Scholar was inferior compared to other services like Highwire. Has it been changed much in the last month, or is it still not as good as it could be?
Yes, I realize that it's still in "beta", but "beta" may as well mean "v1.0" to google.
7-8 years? Console life is about half that nowadays. 4 years between the release of the XBox and XBox 360. Either way, it doesn't seem to be that console game sales slow at all during the end of a console's lifespan. Sure, the sales of the console itself slow down, but the games still get bought, and in far larger quantities than PC games.
I actually see PCs being continuously upgraded as a downside for PC game programming - your target is constantly moving and extremely variable. Consoles are always the same, so you never have to worry about the game doing different things on different machines.
This isn't to say that PC games don't have their place - you can pull off a lot more on a PC due to its versatility, and there's a much smaller barrier-to-entry for programmers to get into the industry. It just isn't by any means as profitable as console games.
Slashdot Mirror
so Microsoft will just go "You should of updated". ... and then the grammar nazis will descend upon them like hawks.
Why stop at stock brokers? We need to ban insurance now, too!
See, where you go wrong is assuming that they even read the sumbissions.
My graphics are so incredible that they've struck me deaf, rendering a sound card unnecessary.
Also, it's horrible when a big, very popular, download comes out and you're sitting there at 5k/sec because the site is getting hammered. It's not JUST benefitting the media companies.
I'm looking forward to the usual Slashdot pick-apart
No, this is Google, we like them. We'll call this innovative.
You mean like the Sony Network Walkman and the Sony Vaio?
No relevance at all, really. Since there's no way of knowing what's a duplicate download or what's a download destined for multiple machines, the number has no meaning whatsoever.
If you want to get all conspiracy theorist, you could say that they did this on purpose, and it's not a backdoor so much as a honeypot. All of you are now flagged as hackers, enjoy!
The problem nowadays is that games try to be so many things and get so much complexity, when it turns out that the simple games are sometimes the most fun ones.
Rarely is it possible to describe a game anymore as simply "fun", and to some extent that's a credit to the growth of the industry.
Credit to the GROWTH of the industry? I, and a lot of people, would argue that it's indicative of the downfall of the industry.
Also, add Katamari Damacy to the list of games that can just be described as "fun".
I'm not going to say that corporate environments stifle innovation, but the motivation to innovate in a corporate environment is necessarily dollar-driven. The motivation to innovate in an OS environment is desire driven. If enough people desire to see it done and turn that desire into action, it gets done.
Isn't dollar based on desire, though? If enough people want said feature in the product, it will get put in since the feature would make the product sell better.
When you're only uploading a gig, though, it's not a big deal. I had a 10GB USB1 player - THAT was a pain.
They also had Google Scholar out for a year, but that didn't stop slashdot from posting about it as if it were new.
So, how much Google money are you getting, guys?
The problem with solar is that it doesn't really lend itself to downtown usage due to all the buildings around. Putting solar panels on the walls of buildings isn't very smart if they're going to be shaded by other buildings all day. IIRC, though, there was a program going on in a certain city (SF?) where they were putting solar panels on the roofs of a lot of available buildings. That combined with this coating would be excellent.
Or we could just open up some new nuclear plants and have a stable energy source while getting rid of the coal/oil ones altogether...
Actually, the gold box had some great deals in it occasionally. A lot of the time it was filled with crap, but if you needed kitchenware, that was one of the best places to look for nice stuff on the cheap.
They occasionally had electronics in there as well at some great prices. There was a point where people were finding a 20GB Archos MP3 player in their gold box for $99 (IIRC), when normally at Amazon it was $119. Nice little player, too.
You just can't synergize with the remixing paradigm.
It seems like we're seeing the same problems with companies like Google that we were seeing a few years ago. Companies had lots of great ideas, but the problem came about when trying to actually make money on those ideas. This is what caused the demise of so many different startups.
Google is a wonderful company, but problems seem like they're going to arise as they get bigger and bigger and create more and more products, but don't charge for anything. As great as free stuff is, it doesn't pay the bills.
I guess the question is how long they can survive on their advertising alone.
Americans win independence!
Posted by CowboyNeal on Saturday July 23, @12:53PM
from the take-that-British dept.
GWashington writes ";Finally, after too many battles to count, we have won our independence." What does this mean for our privacy? Will the new government be too invasive?
This previous article claims that Google Scholar was inferior compared to other services like Highwire. Has it been changed much in the last month, or is it still not as good as it could be?
Yes, I realize that it's still in "beta", but "beta" may as well mean "v1.0" to google.
7-8 years? Console life is about half that nowadays. 4 years between the release of the XBox and XBox 360. Either way, it doesn't seem to be that console game sales slow at all during the end of a console's lifespan. Sure, the sales of the console itself slow down, but the games still get bought, and in far larger quantities than PC games.
I actually see PCs being continuously upgraded as a downside for PC game programming - your target is constantly moving and extremely variable. Consoles are always the same, so you never have to worry about the game doing different things on different machines.
This isn't to say that PC games don't have their place - you can pull off a lot more on a PC due to its versatility, and there's a much smaller barrier-to-entry for programmers to get into the industry. It just isn't by any means as profitable as console games.
Seriously! Some of us were lucky to be able to have clay.
I only maintain my land line now for my HD Tivo to dial out from.
Normal TiVos can be configured to get data over the internet rather than over the phone line. Can this not be done on HD TiVos?
M-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-monster dupe!
Hrm? They track you through the cookies, yet comparisons to "spyware" are unjustified?