But what you're really doing in a situation like this is dodging bullets, rather than proving that we overbuild environmental in our server rooms. We KNOW that excess heat, water, humidity, etc can kill servers. These are facts that cannot be ignored.
I understand the idea here but still, do you really want to tell your bosses that the server room got to 115 F in July and killed the SAN because you skimped on the air units?
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Yeah, you'd think we'd be able to avoid the headline hysteria here at least.
Last time I was up in the Plaza are in Kansas City there was still one open there, but yeah you're right, a lot of desktop toys and weird, cheaply made iPod players/alarm clocks.
When the entire network is at stake, NO ONE is THAT irreplaceable.
Good point. Can you imagine what the Discovery suits did when AmEx, Visa, Discover, etc said to them "Well if you think our cards are so insecure, perhaps we should just pull our credit card processing from your web and retail stores". Probably it never came to this exactly but I'm sure the message was clear: You don't bite the hand that feeds you.
Most restaurants(fast food or otherwise, at least in my area) no longer accept personal checks, I would not be shocked if hotels and rental car places were following this trend as well. Grocery stores still seem to allow checks, but difficult to believe this won't change in another 10 years or so as well. For better or worse, we are becoming a credit card/debit card society.
I imagine someone saying something very similar right before the release of SimCity and TheSims. "It's just creating a city, how many times through do you really need to play it?"
- We're pretty good at making games, but don't really know dick about running a company - Turns out there were some other people there at Blizzard that knew what they were doing, and we didn't know how good they were until we didn't have them - WoW and it's 11 million subscribers means you have to really bring something special to the table if you expect to get any of the scraps left over, and we didn't do that
Go back to Blizzard, Bill. I'm sure they could use someone to help get Warcraft 4 off the ground.
What exactly do you expect them to do? Scrabble may be 60 years old but Hasbro is still selling it; walk into any Wal Mart or Target and you'll probably find multiple versions of the game. Scrabble tournaments/groups are alive and well and occasionally make national news. You can probably find any number of official Scrabble computer games, for PC and different game consoles. This is far from the "buggy whip" analogy that everyone is throwing around: Scrabble is a viable, profit making product for Hasbro and they have to protect their interests in it.
Also consider, as older equipment, it is probably going to be more prone to hardware failure from repeated power on's/power off's. I'm guessing this app isn't mission critical or anything, since they're looking to just throw it on an old P2 or whatever, but still, the power consumed by this one machine is probably going to be far outweighed in costs by the research/effort to get a reliably power on/on demand system, frequently replacing hardware, etc.
How far eBay has strayed from it's original purpose of being the "garage sale of the Internet" to now just essentially being an outlet mall. Perhaps it's just an inevitable result of gaining too much popularity; regardless something tells me there's money to be made in picking up the slack.
There's your entrepreneurial idea for the day kids. I'm sure garagesale.com is already taken (and isn't a Web 2.0 name anyway), but just go read a Klingon dictionary and I'm sure you'll find a good alternative. Your tagline is "What eBay used to be", at least until you pop up on their lawyers radar. Market it as specializing in collectibles, unique trinkets and such, and in your literature equate eBay with Wal-Mart.
Let's not forget that Blizzard launched WoW in November of '04 in the US, right before the Christmas holiday. Let's also not forget that as (relatively) smooth as the WoW launch went, there were a lot of features that were missing from the launch version that Blizzard had clearly intended to be ready by launch, including some dungeons such as Maura, the honor system, etc. Let's also also not forget that in the fall/winter of '04, Blizzard was over a year removed from Warcraft 3, three years removed from Diablo 2, and five years removed from Starcraft.
Financial pressures affect every company, even Blizzard.
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But what you're really doing in a situation like this is dodging bullets, rather than proving that we overbuild environmental in our server rooms. We KNOW that excess heat, water, humidity, etc can kill servers. These are facts that cannot be ignored.
I understand the idea here but still, do you really want to tell your bosses that the server room got to 115 F in July and killed the SAN because you skimped on the air units?
Yeah, you'd think we'd be able to avoid the headline hysteria here at least.
I got 68 molecules but a glycan ain't one of 'em.
Last time I was up in the Plaza are in Kansas City there was still one open there, but yeah you're right, a lot of desktop toys and weird, cheaply made iPod players/alarm clocks.
When the entire network is at stake, NO ONE is THAT irreplaceable.
Good point. Can you imagine what the Discovery suits did when AmEx, Visa, Discover, etc said to them "Well if you think our cards are so insecure, perhaps we should just pull our credit card processing from your web and retail stores". Probably it never came to this exactly but I'm sure the message was clear: You don't bite the hand that feeds you.
"I really, really like my job."
Most restaurants(fast food or otherwise, at least in my area) no longer accept personal checks, I would not be shocked if hotels and rental car places were following this trend as well. Grocery stores still seem to allow checks, but difficult to believe this won't change in another 10 years or so as well. For better or worse, we are becoming a credit card/debit card society.
I imagine someone saying something very similar right before the release of SimCity and TheSims. "It's just creating a city, how many times through do you really need to play it?"
Yup, my bad. The only one I recognized on sight was Maple Story which I though was from Japan but you're correct, Korean.
From Symantec's site:
It then attempts to steal sensitive information for the following online games:
* ZhengTu
* Wanmi Shijie or Perfect World
* Dekaron Siwan Mojie
* HuangYi Online
* Rexue Jianghu
* ROHAN
* Seal Online
* Maple Story
* R2 (Reign of Revolution)
* Talesweaver
Oh noes, now how will the astronauts be able to play their Japanese MMO's?
- We're pretty good at making games, but don't really know dick about running a company
- Turns out there were some other people there at Blizzard that knew what they were doing, and we didn't know how good they were until we didn't have them
- WoW and it's 11 million subscribers means you have to really bring something special to the table if you expect to get any of the scraps left over, and we didn't do that
Go back to Blizzard, Bill. I'm sure they could use someone to help get Warcraft 4 off the ground.
It's new to the Diablo franchise, perhaps this is what the author meant. Potions, after all, have been a staple of the past two games.
And I'm busting my ass encrypting laptops for HIPAA compliance so stupid med students don't lose an anonymous list of patient encounter notes.
What exactly do you expect them to do? Scrabble may be 60 years old but Hasbro is still selling it; walk into any Wal Mart or Target and you'll probably find multiple versions of the game. Scrabble tournaments/groups are alive and well and occasionally make national news. You can probably find any number of official Scrabble computer games, for PC and different game consoles. This is far from the "buggy whip" analogy that everyone is throwing around: Scrabble is a viable, profit making product for Hasbro and they have to protect their interests in it.
Now he's going to go looking for the one-armed man.
WTF?
You know, when his endings can be a river of molten gold saving the day, I think I'm OK with him just skipping that part.
Plus you can take into account all the other advantages life on Earth has had to make it possible:
- In a solar system with a large gas giant, which helps keep catastrophic impacts with asteroids and comets from happening too often
- Has a large satellite, which may help stabilize climate
- Is in a quiet part of the galaxy, and is not too near other stars, avoiding interactions with other stars/gamma ray bursts/etc.
Also consider, as older equipment, it is probably going to be more prone to hardware failure from repeated power on's/power off's. I'm guessing this app isn't mission critical or anything, since they're looking to just throw it on an old P2 or whatever, but still, the power consumed by this one machine is probably going to be far outweighed in costs by the research/effort to get a reliably power on/on demand system, frequently replacing hardware, etc.
To expand on this idea as well, perhaps if the application is important enough, this "company directive" will be not quite so direct...iveness.
Actually it's a buck and a quarter quarterstaff, but I'm not telling him that.
How far eBay has strayed from it's original purpose of being the "garage sale of the Internet" to now just essentially being an outlet mall. Perhaps it's just an inevitable result of gaining too much popularity; regardless something tells me there's money to be made in picking up the slack.
There's your entrepreneurial idea for the day kids. I'm sure garagesale.com is already taken (and isn't a Web 2.0 name anyway), but just go read a Klingon dictionary and I'm sure you'll find a good alternative. Your tagline is "What eBay used to be", at least until you pop up on their lawyers radar. Market it as specializing in collectibles, unique trinkets and such, and in your literature equate eBay with Wal-Mart.
Let's not forget that Blizzard launched WoW in November of '04 in the US, right before the Christmas holiday. Let's also not forget that as (relatively) smooth as the WoW launch went, there were a lot of features that were missing from the launch version that Blizzard had clearly intended to be ready by launch, including some dungeons such as Maura, the honor system, etc. Let's also also not forget that in the fall/winter of '04, Blizzard was over a year removed from Warcraft 3, three years removed from Diablo 2, and five years removed from Starcraft.
Financial pressures affect every company, even Blizzard.
Now how am I supposed to finish debugging the expansion packs I've been developing for Civilization and Duke Nukem 3D?
In my day they only had ads on TV and radio. And in magazines and movies and ball games and on buses and milk cartons and written in the sky. But not in dreams, no-siree!
All easy jokes I could make here aside, that's pretty amazing that AOL still has that many (presumably paying) subscribers.