I recently completed a 10-day Vipassana course meditation course. ~10 hours of seated meditation per day, quite a struggle at first. Midway through the course, you are tasked with sitting for an hour straight without moving, 3 times per day. At first I thought this task impossible, as after 10 minutes my knees and ankles would start hurting terribly from sitting in the lotus position.
However, with practice over just a few sessions, I learned to observe the pain with equanimity, and my obsession with the pain dissipated. The pain was very much still there, but it didn't both me. It was an incredible experience.
This won't work for many of the most popular types of games, including FPS. WASD + mouse input will always outperform dual joysticks.
Also, I'll be damned, as a PC player, that I want to hear chatter from 12 year old kids rattling on about my mother's vagina. Because of the price point of PC systems, there seems to just be far fewer twits like that.
It's not just the touch bar, they FUBAR'd the entire keyboard. I'm nearly a year into using a MBP 2016 model daily and still make repeated typos due to low keyboard stroke depth. It's like typing on a piece of flat plastic.
Misleading summary and conclusion from a website that with a subtitle of, "Did we ban men yet."
Direct quote from the study:
The average dollar investment in businesses with a woman on the management team was slightly higher for all three years during 2011â"2013, $12 million for those with women, $8 million for those with no women.
If IT hasn't convinced management that they need to keep up with security updates, via paying for software upgrades if required, it has failed one of its core functions.
Uber does a poor job with how they present their pricing. They need to reboot how they present it. You cannot just increase prices, no matter how justifiable it is, without feeling backlash from consumers, because this create a "loss" scenario for them, for which there is no "win" to contrast it.
Uber should increase their baseline pricing 400% and offer a 75% discount during non-surge/off-peak times. They should make sure the consumer is well aware of this whenever they ride. eg: "Fair cost: $80. Off-peak discount: $60. Amount due: $20" This is a win, and will be something Uber users feel good about for 95% of their trips.
During surge pricing, you remove the discount. Now this isn't a loss from a consumer's perspective - it's just "normal" pricing.
While Slashdot has certainly been influenced by the Reddit-esque meme generation, it certainly remains one of the better places for well-thought commentary on tech. It's weathered pretty well in my opinion.
Hacker News has defended itself pretty well against this so far. I wonder how much more difficult that will become as it grows in popularity.
You clearly have no clue what OpenTable is and what it solves.
It's a seating and reservation management platform - an essential need for the vast majority of non-casual restaurants. It's implemented as a hardware/software solution that they install on premise, so it works without a network connection.
In urban markets, they are pretty much a de facto standard, despite being expensive and archaic. Their website and mobile apps drive so many reservations that restaurant managers are more than willing to pay the hefty fees. Those consist of an installation fee (hundreds $), monthly maintenance fee (hundreds $), and per-reservation fee ($1 - $10 per PERSON).
As a technologist working in the restaurant industry, I really dislike them because both their consumer and front of house software sucks so much. That said, they're a real business, with real revenue, solving real problems, for real customers. So yeah, go make a "website for hipsters" and wait for your $2.6bn payout, since it's so easy.
What happened in the 90's would imply that the potential market for currently non-Apple users who want to run MacOS on non-Apple hardware is smaller than the pool of current Apple users who would switch to other hardware if provided an easy route. That means loss of market share in their own market.
I'd wager to say that it's probably not much different now.
Apple learned it's lesson in the 90's when it licensed MacOS. While the hope was that the licensees would expand MacOS market share, it instead only whittled away at Apple's own market share. I was an example myself - I have a PowerComputing system lying around somewhere - and it was a sale that would have gone to Apple were they not in existence.
Additionally, as long as Jobs is at the helm, this will never happen. He's made it very clear that Apple doesn't sell hardware or software, but rather the full experience provided by very good integration between the two.
I'll like, have to ask [IE general manager] Dean [Hachamovitch], like, what the hell is going on, I mean, we're not, there's not like some deep secret about, like, what we're doing with IE.
I realize the game is catered to a market where anyone over 18 is considered old, but still, I wish they'd stop making such feminine lead characters.
What Westerners perceive as feminine the Japanese perceive as attractive. Most women prefer tall and slim men here in Japan. Weight rooms are far and few here. It`s pretty much a free-for-all too, with regards to men`s fasion. Pink frilly shirt? Tight pants? Winnie the Pooh hanging off your bag? It`s all good, no one will challenge your masculinity.
In short, unless there's a significant cultural change, don't expect any 'meaty' heros to appear out of Japan.
I live and Kobe and frequent the big game stores here in in Osaka. 360 non-interactive demo units were put out maybe a month ago. Showing some racing game that, quite frankly, doesn't look much better than stuff available for the last generation. I don't recall anyone ever standing in front of it for more than a few seconds. This is in contrast to the loads of people generally standing around and watching demo units of new games for the other systems.
Recently, they put up demo units that you can actually play. I've noticed people playing the 360 all of one time. And this is in contrast to the other systems which almost always have someone playing.
Yeah, for whatever the reason, Japanese are passing on it.
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How can you be on Slashdot and not get the joke? My how things have gone downhill over the years.
Trader Joe's, who can't sell you a fucking head of lettuce without sealing it in shrink-wrap? I was going to call you a dirty hippie, but I've only seen latte-sucking yuppies too busy blabbering on their cell-phones to even utter a hello to the cashier.
I move around a lot, carrying my DVD collection in a big binder case. Unfortunately they do scratch, so I started backing them up when burners first came out. One of the benefits: removing prohibited user actions from the copy as some programs, like DVD-decryptor, allow. It's my own little way of giving the studios the middle finger I guess.
I disagree with your calculation. The availability of used games has increased greatly over the last several years, particularly because of online sales (eBay, Amazon) and retail stores offering trade-ins. Add in the various "greatest hits" lines available for each console, usually priced around $20, and cost-conciencous gamers are getting a lot more bang for their buck.
Personally, I rarely spend more than $15 for a console game because I don't mind waiting a year from release for the price to drop. (ie: I just finished GTA:Vice City) Every few months, when EB is having a sale of some sort, I go in and buy 6 to 10 games; I've never spent more than $100. Looking at my collection, last year I bought 34 games for about $400 I think.
To answer your question more directly, Hollywood studios still finance a large proportion of movies, but talent runs the business and is respected. Money is cheap and can be found outside the game industry. Talent is expensive, and only game developers have it.
I read this and was reminded how sad the reality of this is. Of those of us who are gamers, who can name the lead designers on our 5 favorite games? I can't name any of them myself. I can name all of the publishers though. It's really sad that the most important people responsible for the game are hardly acknowledged.
Until this changes, we can expect the game industry to further spiral into sequal and cross-licenced stagnation, since those are the "safe bets" that publishers are generally only willing to finance.
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My personal experience syncs with this.
I recently completed a 10-day Vipassana course meditation course. ~10 hours of seated meditation per day, quite a struggle at first. Midway through the course, you are tasked with sitting for an hour straight without moving, 3 times per day. At first I thought this task impossible, as after 10 minutes my knees and ankles would start hurting terribly from sitting in the lotus position.
However, with practice over just a few sessions, I learned to observe the pain with equanimity, and my obsession with the pain dissipated. The pain was very much still there, but it didn't both me. It was an incredible experience.
This won't work for many of the most popular types of games, including FPS. WASD + mouse input will always outperform dual joysticks.
Also, I'll be damned, as a PC player, that I want to hear chatter from 12 year old kids rattling on about my mother's vagina. Because of the price point of PC systems, there seems to just be far fewer twits like that.
It's not just the touch bar, they FUBAR'd the entire keyboard. I'm nearly a year into using a MBP 2016 model daily and still make repeated typos due to low keyboard stroke depth. It's like typing on a piece of flat plastic.
Misleading summary and conclusion from a website that with a subtitle of, "Did we ban men yet."
Direct quote from the study:
The average dollar investment in businesses with a woman on the management team was slightly higher for all three years during 2011â"2013, $12 million for those with women, $8 million for those with no women.
If IT hasn't convinced management that they need to keep up with security updates, via paying for software upgrades if required, it has failed one of its core functions.
Uber does a poor job with how they present their pricing. They need to reboot how they present it. You cannot just increase prices, no matter how justifiable it is, without feeling backlash from consumers, because this create a "loss" scenario for them, for which there is no "win" to contrast it.
Uber should increase their baseline pricing 400% and offer a 75% discount during non-surge/off-peak times. They should make sure the consumer is well aware of this whenever they ride. eg: "Fair cost: $80. Off-peak discount: $60. Amount due: $20" This is a win, and will be something Uber users feel good about for 95% of their trips.
During surge pricing, you remove the discount. Now this isn't a loss from a consumer's perspective - it's just "normal" pricing.
While Slashdot has certainly been influenced by the Reddit-esque meme generation, it certainly remains one of the better places for well-thought commentary on tech. It's weathered pretty well in my opinion.
Hacker News has defended itself pretty well against this so far. I wonder how much more difficult that will become as it grows in popularity.
You clearly have no clue what OpenTable is and what it solves.
It's a seating and reservation management platform - an essential need for the vast majority of non-casual restaurants. It's implemented as a hardware/software solution that they install on premise, so it works without a network connection.
In urban markets, they are pretty much a de facto standard, despite being expensive and archaic. Their website and mobile apps drive so many reservations that restaurant managers are more than willing to pay the hefty fees. Those consist of an installation fee (hundreds $), monthly maintenance fee (hundreds $), and per-reservation fee ($1 - $10 per PERSON).
As a technologist working in the restaurant industry, I really dislike them because both their consumer and front of house software sucks so much. That said, they're a real business, with real revenue, solving real problems, for real customers. So yeah, go make a "website for hipsters" and wait for your $2.6bn payout, since it's so easy.
What happened in the 90's would imply that the potential market for currently non-Apple users who want to run MacOS on non-Apple hardware is smaller than the pool of current Apple users who would switch to other hardware if provided an easy route. That means loss of market share in their own market.
I'd wager to say that it's probably not much different now.
Apple learned it's lesson in the 90's when it licensed MacOS. While the hope was that the licensees would expand MacOS market share, it instead only whittled away at Apple's own market share. I was an example myself - I have a PowerComputing system lying around somewhere - and it was a sale that would have gone to Apple were they not in existence.
Additionally, as long as Jobs is at the helm, this will never happen. He's made it very clear that Apple doesn't sell hardware or software, but rather the full experience provided by very good integration between the two.
This is a sincere question - wondering if anyone can answer it here. How much influence does Gates have left at MS now that he has left?
That would be more true to form...
Who needs all this newfangled stuff when you can have AWESOME cold-war era Russian playgrounds!
What Westerners perceive as feminine the Japanese perceive as attractive. Most women prefer tall and slim men here in Japan. Weight rooms are far and few here. It`s pretty much a free-for-all too, with regards to men`s fasion. Pink frilly shirt? Tight pants? Winnie the Pooh hanging off your bag? It`s all good, no one will challenge your masculinity.
In short, unless there's a significant cultural change, don't expect any 'meaty' heros to appear out of Japan.
Recently, they put up demo units that you can actually play. I've noticed people playing the 360 all of one time. And this is in contrast to the other systems which almost always have someone playing.
Yeah, for whatever the reason, Japanese are passing on it.
How can you be on Slashdot and not get the joke? My how things have gone downhill over the years.
Trader Joe's, who can't sell you a fucking head of lettuce without sealing it in shrink-wrap? I was going to call you a dirty hippie, but I've only seen latte-sucking yuppies too busy blabbering on their cell-phones to even utter a hello to the cashier.
Yeah that's all fine and good but you should know that Vinnie takes your dough and deposits in the bank down the street.
Ummm the mp3 market used to be a niche market. Who has about an 80% market share now?
I move around a lot, carrying my DVD collection in a big binder case. Unfortunately they do scratch, so I started backing them up when burners first came out. One of the benefits: removing prohibited user actions from the copy as some programs, like DVD-decryptor, allow. It's my own little way of giving the studios the middle finger I guess.
Personally, I rarely spend more than $15 for a console game because I don't mind waiting a year from release for the price to drop. (ie: I just finished GTA:Vice City) Every few months, when EB is having a sale of some sort, I go in and buy 6 to 10 games; I've never spent more than $100. Looking at my collection, last year I bought 34 games for about $400 I think.
It was a book by Michael Crichton before Spielberg decided to ruin it on the big screen.
Bush will declare that whoever you beat was a terrorist and it was an effective tool for dealing with them.
I admit it - flamebait and I still clicked on it >_
I read this and was reminded how sad the reality of this is. Of those of us who are gamers, who can name the lead designers on our 5 favorite games? I can't name any of them myself. I can name all of the publishers though. It's really sad that the most important people responsible for the game are hardly acknowledged.
Until this changes, we can expect the game industry to further spiral into sequal and cross-licenced stagnation, since those are the "safe bets" that publishers are generally only willing to finance.