What a bunch of pretentious crap. Game movies have been bad because there is currently little to no incentive for the studios to do anything worthwhile with the license. Why go to all the trouble to make sure the script is solid and the directors vision is good, when you have this huge built-in audience who is going to see the movie regardless of any bad buzz or reviews?
I can remember it being news when the Stones were getting $75-100 ($200+ for the best seats) for a concert when I was in high school, back in 90-91. Yes I'm sure overall the price of concert tickets have risen, but what hasn't? If they are outpacing inflation it's only because concert promoters have figured out that people are stupid enough to drop this kind of money for a concert.
Hell, let's get Sun into this deal somehow too! Then we could have the trifecta of old school struggling tech companies bound by a hatred of Microsoft.
....makes me realize that we will probably never see this as a MMO game. Can you imagine what a nightmare it would be to balance, while still keeping true to the "uniqueness" of the Starcraft races like the article tries to do?
Bill: How could you do this to me Len? If there was any justice in the world, it would be my picture on a bunch of crappy investor guides!
Sandy: Len, is what this man saying true?
Len: Who can say, baby? Ideas were getting thrown around, he may have come up with the source code, but I'm the one who came up with the idea to charge $15k a pop for it!
The IT department at my company (approximately some 500 people) is showing signs of incompetence, and has been ignoring knowledgeable user input for about a year.
I setup a Linksys wireless router at home, which in my mind equates to 5 years networking experience, but those bastards on the Help Desk didn't take me seriously when I told them they should enable WEP on the network.
Additionally, they haven't been able to sell needed changes to senior management.
Why the hell are we still running Windows 2000 around here? We should be standardized on XP, and power users such as myself should be allowed to install the latest Vista builds to help work out the bugs!
Unacceptable server down time, maxed network storage, and no backups systems have hit the bottom line...
They told me I had 18 gig of email and needed to delete some, then later on when I realized that I hadn't saved that chimp smelling his finger and passing out video they wouldn't recover it for me.
..and those on top are starting to notice.
My boss liked that video too.
We users are staging a revolt to make IT more responsive to users by creating a group from the company divisions and IT to discuss needs and solutions.
We can avoid work for 3 hours every other week by doing nothing more than scheduling a meeting, getting together and bitching about whatever IT did to piss us off that week, and throwing it all together into a Word document along with several indiscriminate, pointless policy change suggestions. Not since the demise of the Wellness Committee have we had a time wasting opportunity this good!
I would think they'd have to honor the current lifetime subscriptions, for the reason you mentioned. Somewhere in Florida there's a class-action litigation lawyer having wet dreams about this.
That said though, since it is "lifetime of the Tivo", you really have to wonder about future updates they might push down....
If subscription = lifetime
then diskexerciser = 150%
I know it's going to be a long time before GW goes anywhere, and perhaps "abandon" is a harsh word, but everything we've seen coming out of Orem for the past 3 years or so has been "blah blah blah eDirectory blah blah Identify Management blah blah Suse Desktop....and oh yeah we still have that Groupwise thing". Maybe it's just because GW is such a horse, but considering what a kick-ass Groupware platform it is, they just never seem to give it the spotlight. Especially since the Suse purchase.
Really it just kind of baffles me how Novell isn't out there beating the GW drum as loudly as possible at every opportunity. Maybe it's just my work environment, but our users LIVE in Groupwise. It runs this place, and that's not hyperbole in any way. I really think an open source GW would move more copies of Suse for Novell than anything else.
I have a co-worker who recently went to a Novell/Suse training class, and from what he tells me they were very good at drinking the Kool-Aid. Lots of talk in terms of not "if" but "when you switch your entire company to Suse Desktop", you should have all your servers upgraded within the year, that kind of stuff. Look, I know Novell has to be behind their stuff, but I doubt there are very many companies out there who can just have all their servers upgraded in that kind of time frame, let alone totally drop Windows on the desktop.
Besides, Novell's immediate problem is not getting Suse out there to it's customers. It's coming, we know it, and even if we don't like it we're going to move there eventually. Novell's big problem is losing current Netware/GW customers, and attracting new ones.
Open source Groupwise. It seems so obvious to me I can't believe Novell isn't doing this, they're pretty much in the process of abandoning GW anyway. Linux is desperate for a full-featured, one-stop Groupware product. How many Suse servers would you sell if open source GW was out there? How many current Netware customers would you save from switching over to Exchange?
The difference, of course, being that the copyrighted material that appears on Slashdot is put up willingly for viewing/downloading by the people who control the copyright. Usually this not the case when I am downloading copyrighted music/movies/software/whatever from warez sites and/or via Bittorrent.
This is something I've never really got either. Everytime people try and talk about how downloading copyrighted material is OK it seems that they always start talking about new media or some buzzword like that, or how you can't damn all of file sharing because of some illegal activity, or how evil the MPAA/RIAA is, or pull out some weak and non-relevant analogy.
Let's keep it simple. Spiderman 3 is released in theatres. Instead of paying the asking price of $10 at my local movie theatre I download it from some website, who does not have the copyright holders permission to distribute it to me for free. How is this not illegal? How is this not wrong? Convince me.
Damn you. I had this awesome two page rant about how this law was going to cut the potential market for my Cyrix 166 chip/mobo by almost 4%. Now it would only get a +5 Funny instead of Insightful.
Haverblad also claims a lack of viruses and spyware and, referencing a report on OS/2 Warp Server by Secunia, fewer security vulnerabilities.
You know my microwave has a shockingly low number of virus infections and security vulnerabilities too, but I don't try to run a database application off of it.
There are also probably just as many places that have a lot of people with Blackberries, who would like to offer more support for them but are unwilling to drop the money for Blackberries server software. If indeed MS comes along with a device that has out-of-box support for push from Exchange, I'm guessing that will tip the scales to MS's favor in a lot of situations.
This isn't a commentary on your personal knowledge/understanding of the subject, but I just find it amusing that this is the second Slashdot story today (along with Verizon Hog) where people are shocked...SHOCKED...that these big Ultra-Mega-Form-Devastator corporations that have been forming over the past decade might actually be bad for the consumer.
What the hell do you expect to happen when you let these companies conglomerate all this power without so much as a "Remember Ma Bell"? Of course they're going to screw us over, they're corporations. If it was legal and made them money they would feed kitten entrails to school-children.
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What a bunch of pretentious crap. Game movies have been bad because there is currently little to no incentive for the studios to do anything worthwhile with the license. Why go to all the trouble to make sure the script is solid and the directors vision is good, when you have this huge built-in audience who is going to see the movie regardless of any bad buzz or reviews?
I can remember it being news when the Stones were getting $75-100 ($200+ for the best seats) for a concert when I was in high school, back in 90-91. Yes I'm sure overall the price of concert tickets have risen, but what hasn't? If they are outpacing inflation it's only because concert promoters have figured out that people are stupid enough to drop this kind of money for a concert.
Yeah, but what about the melee class, OMG they're overpowered, NERF!!!1!
Hell, let's get Sun into this deal somehow too! Then we could have the trifecta of old school struggling tech companies bound by a hatred of Microsoft.
Powers. He has them.
Thank you Jokey McNoget.
....makes me realize that we will probably never see this as a MMO game. Can you imagine what a nightmare it would be to balance, while still keeping true to the "uniqueness" of the Starcraft races like the article tries to do?
More Simpsons:
Bill: How could you do this to me Len? If there was any justice in the world, it would be my picture on a bunch of crappy investor guides!
Sandy: Len, is what this man saying true?
Len: Who can say, baby? Ideas were getting thrown around, he may have come up with the source code, but I'm the one who came up with the idea to charge $15k a pop for it!
Uh huh. And then it was 1990.
Why you gotta go and ruin a great Wal-Mart bashing article with silly little things like facts and broad perspectives?
Another item I loved:
Use one for a season, and if you can't start it the next spring (Wal-Mart won't help you out with that), put it at the curb and buy another one.
Wal-Mart is a retailer, not the manufacturer, why should they be expected to help you out with the crappy mower you bought?
I mean, "42" really being the answer could be considered infinitely improbable.
The IT department at my company (approximately some 500 people) is showing signs of incompetence, and has been ignoring knowledgeable user input for about a year.
..and those on top are starting to notice.
I setup a Linksys wireless router at home, which in my mind equates to 5 years networking experience, but those bastards on the Help Desk didn't take me seriously when I told them they should enable WEP on the network.
Additionally, they haven't been able to sell needed changes to senior management.
Why the hell are we still running Windows 2000 around here? We should be standardized on XP, and power users such as myself should be allowed to install the latest Vista builds to help work out the bugs!
Unacceptable server down time, maxed network storage, and no backups systems have hit the bottom line...
They told me I had 18 gig of email and needed to delete some, then later on when I realized that I hadn't saved that chimp smelling his finger and passing out video they wouldn't recover it for me.
My boss liked that video too.
We users are staging a revolt to make IT more responsive to users by creating a group from the company divisions and IT to discuss needs and solutions.
We can avoid work for 3 hours every other week by doing nothing more than scheduling a meeting, getting together and bitching about whatever IT did to piss us off that week, and throwing it all together into a Word document along with several indiscriminate, pointless policy change suggestions. Not since the demise of the Wellness Committee have we had a time wasting opportunity this good!
What would you put in our charter?
You geeks are good with buzzwords, right?
I would think they'd have to honor the current lifetime subscriptions, for the reason you mentioned. Somewhere in Florida there's a class-action litigation lawyer having wet dreams about this.
That said though, since it is "lifetime of the Tivo", you really have to wonder about future updates they might push down....
If subscription = lifetime
then diskexerciser = 150%
I know it's going to be a long time before GW goes anywhere, and perhaps "abandon" is a harsh word, but everything we've seen coming out of Orem for the past 3 years or so has been "blah blah blah eDirectory blah blah Identify Management blah blah Suse Desktop....and oh yeah we still have that Groupwise thing". Maybe it's just because GW is such a horse, but considering what a kick-ass Groupware platform it is, they just never seem to give it the spotlight. Especially since the Suse purchase.
Really it just kind of baffles me how Novell isn't out there beating the GW drum as loudly as possible at every opportunity. Maybe it's just my work environment, but our users LIVE in Groupwise. It runs this place, and that's not hyperbole in any way. I really think an open source GW would move more copies of Suse for Novell than anything else.
I have a co-worker who recently went to a Novell/Suse training class, and from what he tells me they were very good at drinking the Kool-Aid. Lots of talk in terms of not "if" but "when you switch your entire company to Suse Desktop", you should have all your servers upgraded within the year, that kind of stuff. Look, I know Novell has to be behind their stuff, but I doubt there are very many companies out there who can just have all their servers upgraded in that kind of time frame, let alone totally drop Windows on the desktop.
Besides, Novell's immediate problem is not getting Suse out there to it's customers. It's coming, we know it, and even if we don't like it we're going to move there eventually. Novell's big problem is losing current Netware/GW customers, and attracting new ones.
Open source Groupwise. It seems so obvious to me I can't believe Novell isn't doing this, they're pretty much in the process of abandoning GW anyway. Linux is desperate for a full-featured, one-stop Groupware product. How many Suse servers would you sell if open source GW was out there? How many current Netware customers would you save from switching over to Exchange?
The difference, of course, being that the copyrighted material that appears on Slashdot is put up willingly for viewing/downloading by the people who control the copyright. Usually this not the case when I am downloading copyrighted music/movies/software/whatever from warez sites and/or via Bittorrent.
This is something I've never really got either. Everytime people try and talk about how downloading copyrighted material is OK it seems that they always start talking about new media or some buzzword like that, or how you can't damn all of file sharing because of some illegal activity, or how evil the MPAA/RIAA is, or pull out some weak and non-relevant analogy.
Let's keep it simple. Spiderman 3 is released in theatres. Instead of paying the asking price of $10 at my local movie theatre I download it from some website, who does not have the copyright holders permission to distribute it to me for free. How is this not illegal? How is this not wrong? Convince me.
...while talking on his portable phone and listening to the radio.
Damn you. I had this awesome two page rant about how this law was going to cut the potential market for my Cyrix 166 chip/mobo by almost 4%. Now it would only get a +5 Funny instead of Insightful.
Games often offer players worlds where rules, standards, and rewards are very different from the real world.
But I missed the part in the article where this can all be blamed on Microsoft, can someone please help me out?
Haverblad also claims a lack of viruses and spyware and, referencing a report on OS/2 Warp Server by Secunia, fewer security vulnerabilities.
You know my microwave has a shockingly low number of virus infections and security vulnerabilities too, but I don't try to run a database application off of it.
There are also probably just as many places that have a lot of people with Blackberries, who would like to offer more support for them but are unwilling to drop the money for Blackberries server software. If indeed MS comes along with a device that has out-of-box support for push from Exchange, I'm guessing that will tip the scales to MS's favor in a lot of situations.
Someone forgot to give Stallman his medication this week. Who's turn is it?
Don't tell me the TimeCube guy is right after all?
This isn't a commentary on your personal knowledge/understanding of the subject, but I just find it amusing that this is the second Slashdot story today (along with Verizon Hog) where people are shocked...SHOCKED...that these big Ultra-Mega-Form-Devastator corporations that have been forming over the past decade might actually be bad for the consumer.
What the hell do you expect to happen when you let these companies conglomerate all this power without so much as a "Remember Ma Bell"? Of course they're going to screw us over, they're corporations. If it was legal and made them money they would feed kitten entrails to school-children.