I've met probably 5 graduates of the University of Michigan for every MIT or CalTech grad in Silicon Valley. They must be on to something, or maybe the have a secret cabal. If I had gone to UM, I'd probably be in on it.
Funny you should mention it, because Blizzard acknowledges that NetHack and Moria were the direct inspirations for Diablo. And WoW is basically MMO Diablo. So, in effect, MMO NetHack would be... World of Warcraft.;-)
Also, for what it's worth, Clan Lord did MMO NetHack for April Fool's a few years ago. Here's a screen shot.
Actually, the poster is dramatically under reporting the Palm OS developer base. The official number from PalmSource is 400,000 registered developers. Yes, you read that right, 0.4 million. And 40 million units sold, and 20,000 applications on the market (plus an unspecified number of internally developed apps).
You may scoff and bluster all you like, but PalmSource didn't just make those numbers up. It may be obvious to you that not every member of the Palm OS developer program is active and some are duplicates, but you cannot deny that so many memberships exist. (Well, you could, but you would be wrong.)
Palm is still selling a couple million Palm OS-based devices a year, which is somewhere in the neighborhood of the number of Macs that Apple sells. They have a big enough base of loyal customers to keep the party going as long as they want. You might want to reconsider your pessimism.
PalmSource was made into a subsidiary of Palm in early 2002. PalmSource became its own company in 2003, at the same time that Palm bought Handspring. Access bought PalmSource in 2005.
Whether investors made money in PalmSource depends on when they bought. PalmSource opened at around $30 per share, quickly shot up to $40, and was sold to Access at $18.50. Palm went public in a crazy dot-com market, and after a 20:1 reverse split in 2002 and a 2:1 in 2006 left people holding shares they had bought for as much $800. Palm is currently trading at about $14. People who got their PalmSource shares either as a result of the spinoff from Palm or from buying directly may still be writing off their capital losses.
It's worth $6 to me to play the original Zelda, which I never got to do as a kid. I spent about an hour and a half on it last night, and it cost me less than going out to see a movie. I win!
For what it's worth, I've been with Netflix for about 3 years, had a DVD burner the whole time, and never even been tempted to copy a movie. If I want to watch a movie again, I'll put it in my queue. Some of us just take the service at face value and still find it worthwhile.
Straying for a moment back to the subject of the article, the driving factor that will get me to buy HD is the availability of Playstation 3.:-)
Most copies of Windows were (still are) sold on new PCs where the user had no option to decline it. The PC market was growing so fast, within 18 months about 75% of the installed base of PCs was going to have Windows, whether the users demanded it or not. While Windows made a whole new class of applications possible, the availability of apps was not essential to its success (or at least ubiquity).
I prefer the solution implemented by my favorite MMORPG. In Clan Lord, a marriage can be between 2, 3, or 4 people of any class, race or gender. The justification for this is that 5 people can form a clan. (You can also declare yourself officially celibate, IIRC.)
But then, Clan Lord players are assumed to be mature.
I'm sorry, but if they want you, they pretty much have you. Your only hope is to be so utterly dull that nobody wants you. You pretty much have to have no life whatsoever. Since you're asking for advice on Slashdot, I'd say you're safe.
So, let me get this right: they're going to broaden the appeal of the funnies by combining manga and ferrets. And to give the offering more mainstream appeal, maybe some color commentary by Ralph Nader and Pat Robertson?
Very interesting. When cable came to the city where I grew up, no cable provider would agree to provide service unless the city agreed to pick one and grant them a total monopoly for at least 20 years. I assumed that was the norm.
Until recently, every hard drive that I bought had enough capacity to store the entire content of all my previous hard drives, with room to spare. So for the past umpteen years, more or less everything I have has been rolled over onto the newest drive.
In a pinch, most software is disposable. All of my self-authored documents could probably fit in a few (100) MB. Add in my digital photos, and it's maybe 10 GB. Add the latest version of application software that can read this store of data, and we're still looking at 15 GB. Seems like my rolling copy method of archival has a few years of life left in it.
Very interesting. I never thought about it that way before, but you may be right. Most of my CS-type friends started writing computer programs shortly after their first exposure to computers, whenever that was.
I stand by my claim: "In nearly every conceivable circumstance." Even in the circumstance you describe, my claim is true. You are safer sitting at rest in the entrance lane or on the shoulder waiting for an opening than you are flooring it and merging into traffic.
That sucks. You've had very bad luck. According to NHTSA statistics, on average bicycles are 10 times safer per mile traveled than cars. The problem with statistics is that while averages are dependable, the individual data points include extreme outliers. At 3 collisions in one year, you're probably out around 3 or 4 sigma.:-(
Walk or ride your bike to work. Not only will you save energy, you will gain energy as you get in better shape. And it's fun. And bicyclists are more fun to watch than drivers.
Do not make your car drastically more unsafe by removing its ability to accelerate quickly when the need arises. When an out-of-control semi is bearing down on me, I'd rather lose an ounce of gas to my foot on the floorboard than a gallon of blood to my face on his grill.
I call bullshit. I accept that your safety is dependent on your ability to control your position relative to other vehicles. In order to change your relative position, you need relative velocity. In order to change relative velocity, you need acceleration. Okay. Take your car up to 50 miles per hour. Accelerate at your maximum possible rate for 5 seconds. Repeat the test, but decelerate at your maximum possible rate for five seconds. Which affected your velocity more? The one that affected your velocity more is the one that gives you more control, and thus more safety. In nearly every conceivable circumstance, you will find that adjusting your velocity by means of the steering wheel and the brake will take you out of danger much faster than the accelerator.
It's believed that the number of Asperger people in Silicon Valley is roughly 1/3 of the working population.
Not by me it isn't. I've lived and worked in Silicon Valley as a high-tech professional in recent years, in the course of which I've met, I dunno, maybe 500 other high-tech professionals. Not a single one of them ever appeared to me to be "wired differently" other than being smart and creative. I'm a techie, not a doctor, so take that for what it's worth.
are very handy. I have about 45 passwords stored in mine.
My password app includes a utility to generate random but pronounceable passwords (which I don't generally use). My coworker told me one of these a year ago. I haven't used it in 9 months, and I still remember it. Oh $%^*, the system probably expired it.;-)
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I've met probably 5 graduates of the University of Michigan for every MIT or CalTech grad in Silicon Valley. They must be on to something, or maybe the have a secret cabal. If I had gone to UM, I'd probably be in on it.
Funny you should mention it, because Blizzard acknowledges that NetHack and Moria were the direct inspirations for Diablo. And WoW is basically MMO Diablo. So, in effect, MMO NetHack would be... World of Warcraft. ;-)
Also, for what it's worth, Clan Lord did MMO NetHack for April Fool's a few years ago. Here's a screen shot.
Actually, the poster is dramatically under reporting the Palm OS developer base. The official number from PalmSource is 400,000 registered developers. Yes, you read that right, 0.4 million. And 40 million units sold, and 20,000 applications on the market (plus an unspecified number of internally developed apps).
You may scoff and bluster all you like, but PalmSource didn't just make those numbers up. It may be obvious to you that not every member of the Palm OS developer program is active and some are duplicates, but you cannot deny that so many memberships exist. (Well, you could, but you would be wrong.)
Palm is still selling a couple million Palm OS-based devices a year, which is somewhere in the neighborhood of the number of Macs that Apple sells. They have a big enough base of loyal customers to keep the party going as long as they want. You might want to reconsider your pessimism.
PalmSource was made into a subsidiary of Palm in early 2002. PalmSource became its own company in 2003, at the same time that Palm bought Handspring. Access bought PalmSource in 2005.
Whether investors made money in PalmSource depends on when they bought. PalmSource opened at around $30 per share, quickly shot up to $40, and was sold to Access at $18.50. Palm went public in a crazy dot-com market, and after a 20:1 reverse split in 2002 and a 2:1 in 2006 left people holding shares they had bought for as much $800. Palm is currently trading at about $14. People who got their PalmSource shares either as a result of the spinoff from Palm or from buying directly may still be writing off their capital losses.
It's worth $6 to me to play the original Zelda, which I never got to do as a kid. I spent about an hour and a half on it last night, and it cost me less than going out to see a movie. I win!
Slot machines are tamper-proof.
I read about this in a magazine article sometime in the early '90s.
For what it's worth, I've been with Netflix for about 3 years, had a DVD burner the whole time, and never even been tempted to copy a movie. If I want to watch a movie again, I'll put it in my queue. Some of us just take the service at face value and still find it worthwhile.
:-)
Straying for a moment back to the subject of the article, the driving factor that will get me to buy HD is the availability of Playstation 3.
Most copies of Windows were (still are) sold on new PCs where the user had no option to decline it. The PC market was growing so fast, within 18 months about 75% of the installed base of PCs was going to have Windows, whether the users demanded it or not. While Windows made a whole new class of applications possible, the availability of apps was not essential to its success (or at least ubiquity).
Patents helping companies, yes, plenty. AT&T was founded on a patent.
Yes, although possibly it shouldn't have been.
I prefer the solution implemented by my favorite MMORPG. In Clan Lord, a marriage can be between 2, 3, or 4 people of any class, race or gender. The justification for this is that 5 people can form a clan. (You can also declare yourself officially celibate, IIRC.)
But then, Clan Lord players are assumed to be mature.
I'm sorry, but if they want you, they pretty much have you. Your only hope is to be so utterly dull that nobody wants you. You pretty much have to have no life whatsoever. Since you're asking for advice on Slashdot, I'd say you're safe.
So, let me get this right: they're going to broaden the appeal of the funnies by combining manga and ferrets. And to give the offering more mainstream appeal, maybe some color commentary by Ralph Nader and Pat Robertson?
Reading Slashdot led me to learn how to architect a web application server about six months before my employer discovered it needed to deploy one. :-)
Twelve months later the whole office was laid off, but that's another story. Er, I hope.
Very interesting. When cable came to the city where I grew up, no cable provider would agree to provide service unless the city agreed to pick one and grant them a total monopoly for at least 20 years. I assumed that was the norm.
Maybe Apple will start using Intel XScale processors inside the iPod.
Until recently, every hard drive that I bought had enough capacity to store the entire content of all my previous hard drives, with room to spare. So for the past umpteen years, more or less everything I have has been rolled over onto the newest drive.
In a pinch, most software is disposable. All of my self-authored documents could probably fit in a few (100) MB. Add in my digital photos, and it's maybe 10 GB. Add the latest version of application software that can read this store of data, and we're still looking at 15 GB. Seems like my rolling copy method of archival has a few years of life left in it.
Very interesting. I never thought about it that way before, but you may be right. Most of my CS-type friends started writing computer programs shortly after their first exposure to computers, whenever that was.
I stand by my claim: "In nearly every conceivable circumstance." Even in the circumstance you describe, my claim is true. You are safer sitting at rest in the entrance lane or on the shoulder waiting for an opening than you are flooring it and merging into traffic.
That sucks. You've had very bad luck. According to NHTSA statistics, on average bicycles are 10 times safer per mile traveled than cars. The problem with statistics is that while averages are dependable, the individual data points include extreme outliers. At 3 collisions in one year, you're probably out around 3 or 4 sigma. :-(
Walk or ride your bike to work. Not only will you save energy, you will gain energy as you get in better shape. And it's fun. And bicyclists are more fun to watch than drivers.
Do not make your car drastically more unsafe by removing its ability to accelerate quickly when the need arises. When an out-of-control semi is bearing down on me, I'd rather lose an ounce of gas to my foot on the floorboard than a gallon of blood to my face on his grill.
I call bullshit. I accept that your safety is dependent on your ability to control your position relative to other vehicles. In order to change your relative position, you need relative velocity. In order to change relative velocity, you need acceleration. Okay. Take your car up to 50 miles per hour. Accelerate at your maximum possible rate for 5 seconds. Repeat the test, but decelerate at your maximum possible rate for five seconds. Which affected your velocity more? The one that affected your velocity more is the one that gives you more control, and thus more safety. In nearly every conceivable circumstance, you will find that adjusting your velocity by means of the steering wheel and the brake will take you out of danger much faster than the accelerator.
It's believed that the number of Asperger people in Silicon Valley is roughly 1/3 of the working population.
Not by me it isn't. I've lived and worked in Silicon Valley as a high-tech professional in recent years, in the course of which I've met, I dunno, maybe 500 other high-tech professionals. Not a single one of them ever appeared to me to be "wired differently" other than being smart and creative. I'm a techie, not a doctor, so take that for what it's worth.
are very handy. I have about 45 passwords stored in mine.
;-)
My password app includes a utility to generate random but pronounceable passwords (which I don't generally use). My coworker told me one of these a year ago. I haven't used it in 9 months, and I still remember it. Oh $%^*, the system probably expired it.
http://www.softick.com/cardexport2/
Disclaimer: I have no connection to Softick. I don't even use this product. But I thought you might want to know about it.