I saw the major issue with the previous FF MMOPRG as being the absolutely insane level of timesinks built into the game.
There seemed to be a lot of cultural disconnects in the game as I played it. For one thing, you had a huge population of Asian players who were on totally different time schedules, spoke little or no English "no abc la~~", and who seemed on the average to be much, much, much more hardcore than the average American gamer.
I think these cultural differences played into the way the game was built. These players didn't mind obscene levels of timesink built into the game, but for US players, it was a very steep hill to climb in the game and not in line with what we expect. (quests, interesting events, other types of advancement beyond endless grinding)
Motorola is extremely underrated on the list of evil companies. Look how locked down and not-at-all open their Android phones are, festooned with bloatware, and in many cases left to languish on antiquated versions of the OS.
What people failed to see was that a tablet should not be a old tech feature like a laptop with a rotating screen. A tablet is an entirely different device, a totally new market. Not a bolt-on feature set for an OS.
ok... I know the books are always better than the films, a film can't conceivably cover what you can cover in several hundred printed pages, but I thought the LOTR films were pretty well done.
I think blogs had their day, but things are moving toward facebook and twitter, the microbloggng where you can reach users where they live, instead of requiring that they come to visit you.
Response to a threat should be prioritized according to the dangerousness of that threat.
How many McVeighs have there been? What's their death toll in the past 20 years or so, compared to international threats?
Everyone loves to point at McVeigh as the counterexample, but the fact is there's only one of him that ever actually got to the point of doing something.
Truth is, the administration lets their ideology dictate their response to this. Because of their worldview they consider the most dangerous people in the world to be those with right wing political views, people who carry a vague sentiment they call "anti-government", returning military veterans, people who put 3rd party bumper stickers on their cars. Read the report that DHS put out on "right wing extemeism".
Congrats, there's one example of a right wing domestic terrorist. (actually, his views were more nuanced than this, but that is never something people are interested in). Guess we should ignore the threats actually making the bodies.
The point you're missing is that the Obama administraiton is more worried about potential "domestic terrorists", i.e., people whose political ideology varies most widely with their own, than they are about international terrorists.
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You've never met my mother in law.
So how much did this study cost?
What about the rumors of Oracle and MSFT aligning?
I saw the major issue with the previous FF MMOPRG as being the absolutely insane level of timesinks built into the game.
There seemed to be a lot of cultural disconnects in the game as I played it. For one thing, you had a huge population of Asian players who were on totally different time schedules, spoke little or no English "no abc la~~", and who seemed on the average to be much, much, much more hardcore than the average American gamer.
I think these cultural differences played into the way the game was built. These players didn't mind obscene levels of timesink built into the game, but for US players, it was a very steep hill to climb in the game and not in line with what we expect. (quests, interesting events, other types of advancement beyond endless grinding)
I saw Shogi's show in Branson, that guy plays a mean fiddle.
Motorola is extremely underrated on the list of evil companies. Look how locked down and not-at-all open their Android phones are, festooned with bloatware, and in many cases left to languish on antiquated versions of the OS.
Kin was never as great of an abomination as Windows Phone was.
Even if MSFT has a basically credible mobile phone OS, what do they have to draw people away from Apple, Android, or Blackberry?
Well, the joke's on them, because 2010 is the year of Linux on the laptop.
Will those of us slumming on AT&T be able to switch to Verizon with the iPhone we currently have?
Agree.
iOS is not a phone OS. It's an OS that works well on phones as well as on other lightweight devices.
Microsoft is behind the 8-ball, having next to no market share in the phone space and being several years behind in OS dev.
I agree. Sounds like a good policy.
Not being able to get online is probably the surest (maybe only) way to get a novice (or under) computer user to take their bot machine offline.
What people failed to see was that a tablet should not be a old tech feature like a laptop with a rotating screen. A tablet is an entirely different device, a totally new market. Not a bolt-on feature set for an OS.
These devices look sooooo sweet, I am going to get one on lunch day.
ok... I know the books are always better than the films, a film can't conceivably cover what you can cover in several hundred printed pages, but I thought the LOTR films were pretty well done.
Why the hate?
Solution - no more backups!
It sure is.
Maybe the new editions of episodes 1-3 won't suck?
pwnt
How many people use RSS? Only a subset of people who even read blogs.
How many people use Facebook and Twitter?
MSFT would be even more irrelevant than they are already becoming if it weren't for vendor lock-in.
Seriously, where would they be?
You mean lives?
Poor Windows Live Spaces... tossed away from MSFT like an old... chair.
I think blogs had their day, but things are moving toward facebook and twitter, the microbloggng where you can reach users where they live, instead of requiring that they come to visit you.
To Serve Forty Men with fava beans, and a nice Chianti.
Response to a threat should be prioritized according to the dangerousness of that threat.
How many McVeighs have there been? What's their death toll in the past 20 years or so, compared to international threats?
Everyone loves to point at McVeigh as the counterexample, but the fact is there's only one of him that ever actually got to the point of doing something.
Truth is, the administration lets their ideology dictate their response to this. Because of their worldview they consider the most dangerous people in the world to be those with right wing political views, people who carry a vague sentiment they call "anti-government", returning military veterans, people who put 3rd party bumper stickers on their cars. Read the report that DHS put out on "right wing extemeism".
Congrats, there's one example of a right wing domestic terrorist. (actually, his views were more nuanced than this, but that is never something people are interested in). Guess we should ignore the threats actually making the bodies.
The point you're missing is that the Obama administraiton is more worried about potential "domestic terrorists", i.e., people whose political ideology varies most widely with their own, than they are about international terrorists.