If "Teh" Web 2.0 is anything like what that guy was saying, it must be all design and process documents; pages upon pages of content free words. I swear to gord I read that 3 times and I have no idea what he said. Aside from Feng Shui. And then how he said he doesn't believe in mystical BS. Which is Ironic, because all he's talking is mystical BS.
Boy, is your mind gonna get blown when you find out about derivatives!
Big ups to John Hurlimans comment. I urge you to read a few books on the market. And especially pay attention to things like bonds and futures, where there is actually something there. I agree that valuation is more art than science, but your broad generalization really misses the services and control that goes on.
I've got a Toshiba Portege 233 that still has win98 on it; and its perfect for Outlook, Exceed (for X windows), Excel, and VPN software (and the occaisional web browsing).
I've also got a Pentium 166 (198 MB ram) with the same set up.
They're being phased out infavor of my Mac, but clean installs in windows with only a few applications on them can give you a long and happy life.
A link like this is a far greater use than a simple "Hey, I put an mp3 player in an unlikely spot! Here are some pictures and absolutely no explanation!!" This is like having the Phantom console make the slashdot front page! Oh, wait. Nevermind.
/Now if he had put Linux on a toaster, then we'd be all ears...
I'm running the latest Opera download on a mac running tiger. It renders the Css a bit toofar to the right, then rerenders it right. However It leaves artifacts of the first rendering, so I try to click on a link but it doesn't work because now the link is actually an inch or so to the left.
I hate when I try to resume firefox from sleep (i.e. it's been paged out) and it just hangs (both on Win2k, WInXP). I suspect Java is involved (or some other plugin) but its a nightmare.
I've also had the same problem with Safari; however it just NEVER came back from paging and after 10 minutes I yanked the plug from the wall (I was that pissed off!).
This is why you need a Chief Designer who pretty much runs the show. Since they are at every inspection the become a human cross reference. The good inspectors/good-inspectors-to-be will learn by example.
Process falls apart in the people; if you've got one person imposing their standards at every inspection you get consistency.
You can argue that this is micromanaging; thats fine, argue all you want. But our 30 person team is kicking the ass of my old 8 person team in terms of consistency and quality. And its all because of this one guy.
The whole 'Nintendo is for kids' is such an ignorant statement, you can easily tell who the uninformed gamers are.
thats fine. Deny that the Gamecube is marketed towards kids. Go ahead! Deny it! Now lets look at the amount of games that have a mature rating on the gamecube vs. ps2 and xbox.
I think you underestimate the young demographic's thirst for good visuals: just look at the number of tennage oiks on forums ranting on about how much more powerful Next Gen Console X is than all the others.
Teenagers will rant about how X is better than Y regardless of the domain. Its just what they do!
I think Nintendo is aiming even lower than that. Get the really young kids hooked and the hand that rocks the cradle is the one that owns the pre-teens into their teenage years.
Kids want fun games, not necessarily photo-realistic graphics. And even Penny-Arcade was talking about "Blue Sparks" despite having Xboxes, so there is something to be said for great gameplay.
The Original NES was for kids. So this isn't really a deviation from their game plan. I believe it was only the N64 that started to rear its head up to the older generation...
This is a wise move. Let the already well positioned PS3 and Xbox360 battle it out for the Young Adults; Nintendo will clean up in the youth market and get respect from the YA market if they have the quality games.
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sounds nice! A co-worker set me down infront of his xemacs window and I couldn't DO anything.
Besides, Emacs would be a far better OS if it shipped with a halfway-decent text editor.
Like vi?
Here's a real world example of electronic store employees speaking in code.
The setup up paints it as racism, but its good ol' NY paranoia. Who do we trust? NOBODY.
/and for the record, his prices were insane
Just a little bit racist, no?
No, really. South asian's got cheap electronics LOCKED DOWN in NY. Perhaps refurbs, perhaps liquidations, but still madd cheap.
As long as you know what you are doing, you can get some awesome deals from the "south asian underground."
/I assume you're in the NY tri-state area? perhaps near Westchester?
//just checked your JE, you ARE in NY
If "Teh" Web 2.0 is anything like what that guy was saying, it must be all design and process documents; pages upon pages of content free words. I swear to gord I read that 3 times and I have no idea what he said. Aside from Feng Shui. And then how he said he doesn't believe in mystical BS. Which is Ironic, because all he's talking is mystical BS.
Boy, is your mind gonna get blown when you find out about derivatives!
Big ups to John Hurlimans comment. I urge you to read a few books on the market. And especially pay attention to things like bonds and futures, where there is actually something there. I agree that valuation is more art than science, but your broad generalization really misses the services and control that goes on.
$6 30 years ago is like $14 today. 6 times (1.03 to the thirtieth power). Assuming 3% inflation.
While I agree with your point (that since CDs are pennies to produces its all profit) I'm just sayin' is all...
This is "collateral" for people with BAD credit; either you play their game or you don't get a car.
Think about why you have credit so bad that the only way you can get a car is with one of these boxes.
I've got a Toshiba Portege 233 that still has win98 on it; and its perfect for Outlook, Exceed (for X windows), Excel, and VPN software (and the occaisional web browsing).
I've also got a Pentium 166 (198 MB ram) with the same set up.
They're being phased out infavor of my Mac, but clean installs in windows with only a few applications on them can give you a long and happy life.
A link like this is a far greater use than a simple "Hey, I put an mp3 player in an unlikely spot! Here are some pictures and absolutely no explanation!!"
This is like having the Phantom console make the slashdot front page! Oh, wait. Nevermind.
/Now if he had put Linux on a toaster, then we'd be all ears...
I'm running the latest Opera download on a mac running tiger. It renders the Css a bit toofar to the right, then rerenders it right. However It leaves artifacts of the first rendering, so I try to click on a link but it doesn't work because now the link is actually an inch or so to the left.
I hate when I try to resume firefox from sleep (i.e. it's been paged out) and it just hangs (both on Win2k, WInXP). I suspect Java is involved (or some other plugin) but its a nightmare.
/.
I've also had the same problem with Safari; however it just NEVER came back from paging and after 10 minutes I yanked the plug from the wall (I was that pissed off!).
And I hate that Opera has issues displaying
/unhappy with pretty much every browser
Are the moderaters THAT bad?
You must be new here! Welcome to Slashdot!
Oh, and the original Atari 2600 generation is older than 35.
:)
No I'm not!
But I agree with everything else you say!
turning it upside down?
/worked on the old PS
I saw Israelis and Palestinians settling their differences and playing a nice game of Perfect Dark Zero together.
This is truly a groundbreaking new system!
/Got Gamertag?
Welcome to the 21st century!
We switched cell carriers because of it!
This is why you need a Chief Designer who pretty much runs the show. Since they are at every inspection the become a human cross reference. The good inspectors/good-inspectors-to-be will learn by example.
Process falls apart in the people; if you've got one person imposing their standards at every inspection you get consistency.
You can argue that this is micromanaging; thats fine, argue all you want. But our 30 person team is kicking the ass of my old 8 person team in terms of consistency and quality. And its all because of this one guy.
At every inspection; and of course example code for everyone to mimic the coding style.
And good unit test drivers.
Awesome commentary (both at the top of a package outlining the entire low-level design and at the algorithm level) goes without saying.
Oh yeah, and run spell on your code. I mean, really!
Good point. Perhaps I need to aim my "kids" comment to an even younger data set?
Or maybe its the much older kids (30+ year olds) who have tolerance for less high definition in exchange for gameplay?
Perhaps I need to revise my "thesis"...
The whole 'Nintendo is for kids' is such an ignorant statement, you can easily tell who the uninformed gamers are.
thats fine. Deny that the Gamecube is marketed towards kids. Go ahead! Deny it!
Now lets look at the amount of games that have a mature rating on the gamecube vs. ps2 and xbox.
Come back when you're done.
I think you underestimate the young demographic's thirst for good visuals: just look at the number of tennage oiks on forums ranting on about how much more powerful Next Gen Console X is than all the others.
Teenagers will rant about how X is better than Y regardless of the domain. Its just what they do!
I think Nintendo is aiming even lower than that. Get the really young kids hooked and the hand that rocks the cradle is the one that owns the pre-teens into their teenage years.
Kids want fun games, not necessarily photo-realistic graphics. And even Penny-Arcade was talking about "Blue Sparks" despite having Xboxes, so there is something to be said for great gameplay.
The Original NES was for kids. So this isn't really a deviation from their game plan. I believe it was only the N64 that started to rear its head up to the older generation...
This is a wise move. Let the already well positioned PS3 and Xbox360 battle it out for the Young Adults; Nintendo will clean up in the youth market and get respect from the YA market if they have the quality games.
Interesting post all around. You had me right up until you said "irregardless."
I'm thinkin' the product of a third-tier law school. Or even more likely, a "pre-law" undergrad.