Video Professor sounds like a perfectly viable product without resorting to tactics like these. Loads of people are scared of computers. Why make a bad name for yourself with scammy practices when you actually have something to sell?
Re:WINE is not a VM
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Being a game developer doesn't necessarily mean they know anything about Linux, Wine, or the free software world in general. In fact, I'd say most game developers don't know or don't care about their game running in *nix. And for the few that do care, I forgive them little mistakes like the above.
Re:"Spore's novel game mechanics"? Hah.
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The novelty of Spore's game mechanics is not the fairly simplistic action and strategy levels, but rather the creation of your own species and civilization and the automatic downloading of user-created content from all across the internet (massively singleplayer). The game is about being creative, sharing those creations, and having just enough fun to keep at it. I'm afraid you missed the point.
$50 or £50 is still quite high for an impulse buy.
The only reason it could possibly be considered anything related to an impulse buy is that with a price so unexpectedly low, people who previously dismissed it are now considering it. But I suggest the article author and perhaps Microsoft look up the definition of "impulse."
Google Voice speech recognition isn't exactly the best. "Hey, Zack, this is Terrence at [company name here]. Please give me a call as soon as you get the chance to. We need to, uh, we wanted to know if you were going to make it in to day. Thank you." somehow becomes "Hey there, This is Sarah positions. Please give me a call as as soon as you get a chance to. We need to we. What's up for you not be able to make it today. Thank you."
If nothing else, corporations will always be using it for uselessly flashy websites. That alone ensures we'll be dealing with flash for a while to come.
Do lawyers just not have enough to do or something?
"Hey, what's the legal department up to?" "Not really all that much right now." "Well what are we paying them for?! Have them sue someone or something."
The first thing that popped into my head as an alternative to the standard window paradigm was a tiling window manager, like XMonad. Seems an awful lot more efficient than a linear window manager. And why not multiple desktops too, while we're at it?
I don't see why we can't have something like this very soon, and the pad below keyboard arrangement doesn't bother me at all. After all, that's how modern laptops are setup, albeit with a much smaller touch pad.
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I find it odd that he specifically mentions "laptop computer" as if other kinds of computers can't do that too.
"Scientists go out on limb and declare robot hand a success"
C'mon, that's terrible even by my standards!
I wonder if the response would have been as negative if he was running something less "fringe" like Folding@home.
..but he's got a point. It really is better if a lot of these brilliant people go to work for other companies or, better yet, form their own.
Think of it this way: Would you want EA/Microsoft/Nintendo/whatever to have all of the best gaming talent?
This seems like a fairly harmless "just for fun" type thing. This is like ripping on someone for reading a fortune cookie.
That reads like a badly translated NES game manual. I expected to see "and then ninjas kidnapped the president."
If we follow the convention set by CMYK (Cyan Magenta Yellow blacK), it should really be KSOD.
Politicians call it "strategically avoiding success."
Video Professor sounds like a perfectly viable product without resorting to tactics like these. Loads of people are scared of computers. Why make a bad name for yourself with scammy practices when you actually have something to sell?
You read a lot of Neal Stephenson, don't you?
Being a game developer doesn't necessarily mean they know anything about Linux, Wine, or the free software world in general. In fact, I'd say most game developers don't know or don't care about their game running in *nix. And for the few that do care, I forgive them little mistakes like the above.
The novelty of Spore's game mechanics is not the fairly simplistic action and strategy levels, but rather the creation of your own species and civilization and the automatic downloading of user-created content from all across the internet (massively singleplayer). The game is about being creative, sharing those creations, and having just enough fun to keep at it. I'm afraid you missed the point.
And I can't tell you how hard I'm hoping Bioware is the exception to this trend.
Besides, the TFA (second link) clearly points the finger at Pandemic's internal management, rather than EA.
"Here! Here! It's $1.25 billion! Just keep quiet about the antitrust thing, ok?"
$50 or £50 is still quite high for an impulse buy.
The only reason it could possibly be considered anything related to an impulse buy is that with a price so unexpectedly low, people who previously dismissed it are now considering it. But I suggest the article author and perhaps Microsoft look up the definition of "impulse."
Some of us prefer to use emacs to edit our encrypted files...
You've read Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash, haven't you?
Google Voice speech recognition isn't exactly the best. "Hey, Zack, this is Terrence at [company name here]. Please give me a call as soon as you get the chance to. We need to, uh, we wanted to know if you were going to make it in to day. Thank you." somehow becomes "Hey there, This is Sarah positions. Please give me a call as as soon as you get a chance to. We need to we. What's up for you not be able to make it today. Thank you."
And he speaks pretty clearly too.
If nothing else, corporations will always be using it for uselessly flashy websites. That alone ensures we'll be dealing with flash for a while to come.
I can't wait until a deaf person sues Apple over iTunes.
It's clearly meant for people who love buzzwords. Besides, it's not a netbook, it's a webbook.
Anyone else reminded of the chumby?
Someone should probably let broadcasters know about this.
Do lawyers just not have enough to do or something?
"Hey, what's the legal department up to?"
"Not really all that much right now."
"Well what are we paying them for?! Have them sue someone or something."
The first thing that popped into my head as an alternative to the standard window paradigm was a tiling window manager, like XMonad. Seems an awful lot more efficient than a linear window manager. And why not multiple desktops too, while we're at it?
I don't see why we can't have something like this very soon, and the pad below keyboard arrangement doesn't bother me at all. After all, that's how modern laptops are setup, albeit with a much smaller touch pad.