Thought the same thing. Not only is this a harsh blow to SOE, but its a harsh blow to the casual gamer who will be associated with someone who'd make such a moronic statement like that.
Its not an article about the state of the union... its straight out poking fun of it. Granted, I know that slashdot is biased (far from), but don't be surprised to see pudge (editor and slashdot code guy) come in and start fighting back.
Me? I won't claim a side, just put on my asbestos suit and enjoy my charred marshmallow.
Are many security flaws are due to features in windows that were under a time crunch and needed to be released? Perhaps due to bad testing or some other quality issue.
As an aside, great job Roblimo! What a catch for an interviewee! Not going through a PR person, either. Can't wait to see his replies.
My biggest complaint is when the submitter blatantly trolls in the headlines. Not just an opinion, but an opinion that draws the ire of others. I'm not saying the opinion had by the editor, but the original submitter. I really wish you guys could consider rewriting or simply removing that stuff.
Oh, and bravo on all this communication stuff, Taco. You really kill conspiracy theorists when you are open with us. That way we get to see the people behind the curtain, instead of just the black box.
Its actually the opposite. Normally, they'd put two of those packs together, call it an addon and charge $30. This is a smaller and easier to deal with plan. I think if this is successful, we won't be seeing many major expansions and, instead, get small expanses really cheap. And they have to make something 'special' in each one, cause you can get quality maps and mods for free.
Grammar and capitalization errors...
Bah! I'm an engineer, not a novelist!;)
Didn't take it personally... figured there was a good answer. Thanks for responding.
Do me a fav... go to the question story, change to 'highest score first' and you'll find my thread at the top, score:5. I had, what I thought, was a good question. Why was it not asked? It was the first top rated question, yet not included. I really wanted to hear his insight on it.
I can understand how a company competes against microsoft in the browser world, but how has things changed now that Mozilla and Firefox came into the picture. How do you plan on making money when a free, open source product is directly competing with you? Not only is it a complete product, but because it is open source, it has addons for just about anything available. Seems like an impossible battle to fight...
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Sorry, but every advantage you give you LAMP I could say the same thing about Java.
Most companies are stopping payments on their expensive application servers and going the JBoss/Tomcat way (free, open source solutions). All APIs used to build Java applications are free (and many are in the Jakarta Apache project).
I don't think these executives are dumb, but want to maintain a similar language for all their web applications and take advantage of all the free tools they can build off of.
The best part about this is that Java and AJAX are mutually exclusive. I am playing with a new java (open source) API called WebWorks that has built-in AJAX. Comparing these two technologies makes absolutely no sense.
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I also work for about the same type of company in the midwest. We can't hire enough java programmers while we have several.NET'ers on the bench. Been that way all year...
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Java applications are almost always built on top of mature, free, open source APIs.
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Do a job search right now. Count the number of Java developer positions needed.
Now search for PHP
Then Perl
Then Python.
Now take out about 70% of the Perl and 40% of the Python jobs, as it is most likely to be used as part of admin scripting, not web applications.
Last time I checked,.NET never really lived up to the hype and is slowly dying away.
What I have noticed about the Java world, though, is that most companies are shying away from Websphere, Weblogic and other expensive application servers and switching to Tomcat and JBoss. Most APIs in use are the freely available ones (Struts, JSF, Facelets, Spring, Hibernate, etc...). So companies are finding its easier to go a cheap route with Java than to try and move to the LAMP way of doing things.
I'm not suggesting that you can't print a gmail page, but I'm suggeting that if you want to print an email, you'd want to remove extra data that doesn't need to be on the page.
In other words, I want the email header along with the subject and body. No need to have my folder information and how many new messages on the printout.
Well... umm... I rehashed an old pro-frame spoof argument from the....
Sorry, I would normally try to talk my way outta this, but no way am I gonna say I support frames. ICK!
Yeah, I missed the spoof until after I posted. My bad.
The article is about using AJAX on a webpage, but the biggest use of AJAX is on a web application.
Sure, putting ajax on the companies webpage may not be the best idea, but how often are you using bookmarks on gmail (a web application)? And if you want to print from gmail, it shouldn't be a print of the screen, but a specially built printable html page.
I think the article writer was focusing mostly on webpages where AJAX is clearly geared towards the web application developer.
It appears that giving it a song is a much better fit than giving it a
group. Because a group is so diverse in the songs it plays (and the
AI is based around the songs), it is really hit or miss... but if you
pick a song you like from the group, you'll find a much better match.
Its my opinion that X-Box live is one reason why Microsoft was able to go neck and neck with Sony on their FIRST GENERATION console! They are riding what has been successful for them. Sony is riding what it was successful with when they were solely competing with nintendo.
With PC's comes an assumption of technical knowledge. Not only that, but the games, themselves, come with central servers to organize and report on the current games. This also means that the computers, themselves, can host reliable games.
PS simply can't do this right now. The structure is horrid and finding games can be impossible unless you know people who host them.
Using online capabilities between the PS and X-Box are very different, and X-Box has a CLEAR edge. They are concentrating on using it, while Sony appears to be ignoring the importance of it.
For the record, I'm a not a fan boy. Don't own, nor never owned an X-Box or PS (played'm both, though)... I do own a Cube, but I play my PC more than my console (needed the console for zelda, metroid, and sports games).
X-Box isn't about cracking the best graphics or anything like that... its all about X-Box live and the multiplay capability.
Sony is still working strong on delivering the prettiest stuff. Nintendo is going for revolutionary technology (just look at the controller!).
The odd man out in this situation is Sony. Nintendo is taking a big chance which will (IMHO) cash them into tons of entertainment centers this upcoming year. X-Box has replayability simply due to the fact that you can play the same game over and over online and get a new experience everytime. Sony is just standing still. They either need to make some reliable online play a la Microsoft, go for something revolutionary a la nintendo, or they may be sitting in third place this time next year...
Beat me to the punch.
Its the same as when people complain that surveys done that show Windows is better than Linux is funded by Microsoft. This should be taken with a large grain (hell, a pinch) of salt.
By far, it is the #1 game on my list. FPS with RPG elements, and it added emotion with a great voice cast and a fantastic story. I still play it from time to time at night with the speakers up high. Freaky as hell.
And sacrifice is a great game. If you ever wanna multiplay, email me!
Either this is a decent troll, or you are more close minded than you claim I am.
I'm all for IP to be free, however, at this day and age, it is a crime. Encouraging your large audience to commit a crime isn't the answer. Encouraging your audience to write to your state lawmakers to change the laws is.
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Thought the same thing. Not only is this a harsh blow to SOE, but its a harsh blow to the casual gamer who will be associated with someone who'd make such a moronic statement like that.
Its not an article about the state of the union... its straight out poking fun of it. Granted, I know that slashdot is biased (far from), but don't be surprised to see pudge (editor and slashdot code guy) come in and start fighting back.
Me? I won't claim a side, just put on my asbestos suit and enjoy my charred marshmallow.
Are many security flaws are due to features in windows that were under a time crunch and needed to be released? Perhaps due to bad testing or some other quality issue.
As an aside, great job Roblimo! What a catch for an interviewee! Not going through a PR person, either. Can't wait to see his replies.
My biggest complaint is when the submitter blatantly trolls in the headlines. Not just an opinion, but an opinion that draws the ire of others. I'm not saying the opinion had by the editor, but the original submitter. I really wish you guys could consider rewriting or simply removing that stuff.
Oh, and bravo on all this communication stuff, Taco. You really kill conspiracy theorists when you are open with us. That way we get to see the people behind the curtain, instead of just the black box.
Its actually the opposite. Normally, they'd put two of those packs together, call it an addon and charge $30. This is a smaller and easier to deal with plan. I think if this is successful, we won't be seeing many major expansions and, instead, get small expanses really cheap. And they have to make something 'special' in each one, cause you can get quality maps and mods for free.
Grammar and capitalization errors... ;)
Bah! I'm an engineer, not a novelist!
Didn't take it personally... figured there was a good answer. Thanks for responding.
Do me a fav... go to the question story, change to 'highest score first' and you'll find my thread at the top, score:5. I had, what I thought, was a good question. Why was it not asked? It was the first top rated question, yet not included. I really wanted to hear his insight on it.
I can understand how a company competes against microsoft in the browser world, but how has things changed now that Mozilla and Firefox came into the picture. How do you plan on making money when a free, open source product is directly competing with you? Not only is it a complete product, but because it is open source, it has addons for just about anything available. Seems like an impossible battle to fight...
Sorry, but every advantage you give you LAMP I could say the same thing about Java.
Most companies are stopping payments on their expensive application servers and going the JBoss/Tomcat way (free, open source solutions). All APIs used to build Java applications are free (and many are in the Jakarta Apache project).
I don't think these executives are dumb, but want to maintain a similar language for all their web applications and take advantage of all the free tools they can build off of.
The best part about this is that Java and AJAX are mutually exclusive. I am playing with a new java (open source) API called WebWorks that has built-in AJAX. Comparing these two technologies makes absolutely no sense.
I also work for about the same type of company in the midwest. We can't hire enough java programmers while we have several .NET'ers on the bench. Been that way all year...
egads, you can't be serious.
Tomcat, JBoss, Struts, Spring, Hibernate, countless free, open source tiny java databases
Java applications are almost always built on top of mature, free, open source APIs.
Do a job search right now. Count the number of Java developer positions needed.
.NET never really lived up to the hype and is slowly dying away.
Now search for PHP
Then Perl
Then Python.
Now take out about 70% of the Perl and 40% of the Python jobs, as it is most likely to be used as part of admin scripting, not web applications.
Last time I checked,
What I have noticed about the Java world, though, is that most companies are shying away from Websphere, Weblogic and other expensive application servers and switching to Tomcat and JBoss. Most APIs in use are the freely available ones (Struts, JSF, Facelets, Spring, Hibernate, etc...). So companies are finding its easier to go a cheap route with Java than to try and move to the LAMP way of doing things.
I'm not suggesting that you can't print a gmail page, but I'm suggeting that if you want to print an email, you'd want to remove extra data that doesn't need to be on the page.
In other words, I want the email header along with the subject and body. No need to have my folder information and how many new messages on the printout.
Well... umm... I rehashed an old pro-frame spoof argument from the....
Sorry, I would normally try to talk my way outta this, but no way am I gonna say I support frames. ICK!
Yeah, I missed the spoof until after I posted. My bad.
The article is about using AJAX on a webpage, but the biggest use of AJAX is on a web application.
Sure, putting ajax on the companies webpage may not be the best idea, but how often are you using bookmarks on gmail (a web application)? And if you want to print from gmail, it shouldn't be a print of the screen, but a specially built printable html page.
I think the article writer was focusing mostly on webpages where AJAX is clearly geared towards the web application developer.
It appears that giving it a song is a much better fit than giving it a group. Because a group is so diverse in the songs it plays (and the AI is based around the songs), it is really hit or miss... but if you pick a song you like from the group, you'll find a much better match.
Go ahead and try it.
Its my opinion that X-Box live is one reason why Microsoft was able to go neck and neck with Sony on their FIRST GENERATION console! They are riding what has been successful for them. Sony is riding what it was successful with when they were solely competing with nintendo.
With PC's comes an assumption of technical knowledge. Not only that, but the games, themselves, come with central servers to organize and report on the current games. This also means that the computers, themselves, can host reliable games.
PS simply can't do this right now. The structure is horrid and finding games can be impossible unless you know people who host them.
Using online capabilities between the PS and X-Box are very different, and X-Box has a CLEAR edge. They are concentrating on using it, while Sony appears to be ignoring the importance of it.
For the record, I'm a not a fan boy. Don't own, nor never owned an X-Box or PS (played'm both, though)... I do own a Cube, but I play my PC more than my console (needed the console for zelda, metroid, and sports games).
X-Box isn't about cracking the best graphics or anything like that... its all about X-Box live and the multiplay capability.
Sony is still working strong on delivering the prettiest stuff. Nintendo is going for revolutionary technology (just look at the controller!).
The odd man out in this situation is Sony. Nintendo is taking a big chance which will (IMHO) cash them into tons of entertainment centers this upcoming year. X-Box has replayability simply due to the fact that you can play the same game over and over online and get a new experience everytime. Sony is just standing still. They either need to make some reliable online play a la Microsoft, go for something revolutionary a la nintendo, or they may be sitting in third place this time next year...
Beat me to the punch.
Its the same as when people complain that surveys done that show Windows is better than Linux is funded by Microsoft. This should be taken with a large grain (hell, a pinch) of salt.
By far, it is the #1 game on my list. FPS with RPG elements, and it added emotion with a great voice cast and a fantastic story. I still play it from time to time at night with the speakers up high. Freaky as hell.
And sacrifice is a great game. If you ever wanna multiplay, email me!
touche...
Either this is a decent troll, or you are more close minded than you claim I am.
I'm all for IP to be free, however, at this day and age, it is a crime. Encouraging your large audience to commit a crime isn't the answer. Encouraging your audience to write to your state lawmakers to change the laws is.