Beyond the.com,.org,.net and.edu TLDs, and possibly the CC-TLDs, I have probably used the new TLDs about less than 0.5% of the time. All the other, while being cute and all don't seem to have the same popularity and people still clamour for one of the orginal three. No sane company uses.biz, the.info is usually the last place I look for an information site. For example I know that Montreal's (QC, Canada) transport service uses a.info domain, but I would have more expected to be under the.qc.ca domain.
My general conclusion is that all too often these new domains are created by commities without a real sense of the psychology of the people who may or may not use these domains.
I want to know the price, but wild speculation and tight lips is just getting annoying, especially since we're probably only five months or so from launch.
It is annoying, but the rampant speculation is just one of the many things that is keeping people talking about the Wii. Sony on the other hand probably revealed too much, but in doing so reassured the world why it is not gaining many friends.
Don't think for a moment, that it's something completely different with Sony. The attitude they present toward their customers is just ripe for detronisation. And it's a good thing...
Difference is that Sony sounds like it is being run by their media devision, which for the moment royally screws customers, but people still want to buy music, so they let themselves be screwed even more. Maybe they think this would work with their hardware devision, since we already have their non-mp3 mp3 players that look they were from Radio Shack and their overpriced PS3.
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OSS devs don't to their job for money, so in my opinion they can fix bugs whenever they want, and at whatever speed they want.
This probably true, but money helps change priorities. Imagine that you are working as a contractor and you need have to work your 40 hour week and then get back home tired, and have enough energy to tweak something. Now imagine being paid x amount of dollars, that just happens to be equal to 3 hours of your contract rate. If you like you open source project, then you would rather earn those extra dollars to allow you to work on your project. So as the parent poster said, if you aren't willing to pay for that time then be willing to be patient or help out.
On the other hand, no matter who you are (developer, end user or someone else), being communicative and courteous is always good.
Funnily enough, the specifications for the laptop say that it can get very hot and to avoid burns and irritation the MacBook and MacBook Pro should be used on a desk or another surface
Should be noted that it is an ideal space heater for Siberian or Canadian winters:D
Everybody who does anything is vulnerable to this kind of attack, and the only way they can realistically defend themselves is to have a large patent library of thier own to countersue. Patents are supposed to help small inventors make it big, but all they're doing is letting large companies fight while squashing smaller competitors.
Ill conceived and badly verified patents suck. Don't put them all in the same basket.
This case also shows how important having a patent portfolio is. Only the desperate will try using patents to sue another company, many use it as a shield: "You try to sue us and will will sue back".
I am curious. If Nintendo offers a reasonably priced console, standard priced games and free online playing, then who is going to be paying for the online services? I mean after all, there is bandwidth and infrastructure to be paid for at the content provider end. They don't need to be making a profit on the network play, but not making a loss is also important.
It's like some sick competition between the US administration and the UK one.
Just wait, with Harper now in charge of Canada we might just have one other government joining the fray. At least the fact he is in charge of a minority government helps reduce his power somewhat.
If we have to have DRM, then I for one would feel much more comfortable if it was an indepdent company, where DRM was their only line of business. This way you could feel safe that you don't have companies like Microsoft and Apple with what would appear to be a conflict of interest.
For the Wii to sell tons of units, there will probably need to be a good amount of third-party games. If no third-party games come out until many units are sold, then that would be a catch-22.
Nintendo has already stated in the past that people often buy a console because of one title. If there are two good games for the Wii, then that will be enough for me. If the price point of the console is around $200, then it will be enough for a lot of people to put money down, simply because it won't hurt too much, even if they do get it wrong. On the other hand PS3's price point is enough to make anyone hesitate, so Sony depends much more on killer titles.
So what if he didn't get to play with a PS3 at E3. Get over it! There were plenty of other demos by various companies there and to cry over the lack of a playable PS3 is just childish.
From what I hear he should of had plenty of a chance, since most people seemed to be checking out the Wii.
Doesn't someone say this every time game graphics are mentioned?
Maybe they do, but sometimes you have to wonder whether the games companies remember this? Hollywood films and games development seem to same this same issue.
High quality graphics are great, unless in the process the quality of the game ( story, environment, gameplay, etc) is forgotten. I would rather average graphics and great game-play, over average game-play and great graphics.
Yup, exactly the issue. Live shows and stuff designed to start at specific hours are well suited to multicast. As soon as everyone wants everything now things become complicated at all levels:
- extra CPU usage on the server as multiple streams are handled
- extra data bandwidth because you have duplicates of each part of the show being sent to different people at different times
- extra capable routers trying to handle more data going through than expected.
In many way this sounds like the issues the telcos were having when everyone was staying connected, via modem, longer than the phone exchanges were designed for.
There is going to be a bottle neck, unless content providers can somehow work out how to cache the data with the various service providers, and this will likely require the ISPs agreeing to participate.
The GP thought that the guy who wrote the story had a bit of contempt for his customers?
You can have contempt for customers, but it doesn't necessarily mean that you have to share it with them. Heck, I am sure your average/.er has contempt about customer support instead.
Yea because getting Active Directory and a Mac is so easy to do...:(
This is my only complaint about macs in a PC dominated world. It's a struggle to get AD working properly. Once this is a simple point and click wizard I'll be thrilled!
Well, as other have pointed out AD is a properiety technology. On the other hand if the network admins knows what they are doing, then Macs can easily be supported. Truth is LDAP is actually supported by the AD Server, but a number of admins never bother to activate it. Similarly Exchange supports SMTP and POP, but it needs to be activated. The issue here is not so much the Macs, but the system admins making it possible.
NASA's been partnering with Russia, Japan, and the EU for years. Why only when they start partnering with India do people suddenly scream "outsourcing!"?
Since most people won't bother to read TFA to get the answer to the tease:
Griffin said NASA was not looking to outsource some of its work to ISRO. NASA was looking to combine the resources both agencies to undertake ventures of mutual interest.
That sounds like the mantra just before they officially announce 'well yeah, they are so cheap we will start outsourcing our engineers'. Now just how long before congress and the president is outsourced to india?;)
well, the gov't does tell oil companies where they can and can't drill, which influences the price of oil, so....
Also, exploration for oil is also very costly. I am not so sure that you drill a bore hole and see 1s and 0s gushing out and screem 'we have internet':) Might be an interesting sight though!
The big problem is DRM and the fact the records companies require it. Apple or other online retailers can't simply give it up, without losing their license to distribute. Apple has taken advantage of something that the record companies have imposed. The people capable of cleaning up this mess are the ones who created it in the first place.
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Beyond the .com, .org, .net and .edu TLDs, and possibly the CC-TLDs, I have probably used the new TLDs about less than 0.5% of the time. All the other, while being cute and all don't seem to have the same popularity and people still clamour for one of the orginal three. No sane company uses .biz, the .info is usually the last place I look for an information site. For example I know that Montreal's (QC, Canada) transport service uses a .info domain, but I would have more expected to be under the .qc.ca domain.
My general conclusion is that all too often these new domains are created by commities without a real sense of the psychology of the people who may or may not use these domains.
Gosh, You think this will hurt his chances of getting re-elected? //end sarcasm
look on the bright side: he only gets two terms.
I want to know the price, but wild speculation and tight lips is just getting annoying, especially since we're probably only five months or so from launch.
It is annoying, but the rampant speculation is just one of the many things that is keeping people talking about the Wii. Sony on the other hand probably revealed too much, but in doing so reassured the world why it is not gaining many friends.
Don't think for a moment, that it's something completely different with Sony. The attitude they present toward their customers is just ripe for detronisation. And it's a good thing...
Difference is that Sony sounds like it is being run by their media devision, which for the moment royally screws customers, but people still want to buy music, so they let themselves be screwed even more. Maybe they think this would work with their hardware devision, since we already have their non-mp3 mp3 players that look they were from Radio Shack and their overpriced PS3.
OSS devs don't to their job for money, so in my opinion they can fix bugs whenever they want, and at whatever speed they want.
This probably true, but money helps change priorities. Imagine that you are working as a contractor and you need have to work your 40 hour week and then get back home tired, and have enough energy to tweak something. Now imagine being paid x amount of dollars, that just happens to be equal to 3 hours of your contract rate. If you like you open source project, then you would rather earn those extra dollars to allow you to work on your project. So as the parent poster said, if you aren't willing to pay for that time then be willing to be patient or help out.
On the other hand, no matter who you are (developer, end user or someone else), being communicative and courteous is always good.
Funnily enough, the specifications for the laptop say that it can get very hot and to avoid burns and irritation the MacBook and MacBook Pro should be used on a desk or another surface
:D
Should be noted that it is an ideal space heater for Siberian or Canadian winters
Everybody who does anything is vulnerable to this kind of attack, and the only way they can realistically defend themselves is to have a large patent library of thier own to countersue. Patents are supposed to help small inventors make it big, but all they're doing is letting large companies fight while squashing smaller competitors.
Ill conceived and badly verified patents suck. Don't put them all in the same basket.
This case also shows how important having a patent portfolio is. Only the desperate will try using patents to sue another company, many use it as a shield: "You try to sue us and will will sue back".
I am curious. If Nintendo offers a reasonably priced console, standard priced games and free online playing, then who is going to be paying for the online services? I mean after all, there is bandwidth and infrastructure to be paid for at the content provider end. They don't need to be making a profit on the network play, but not making a loss is also important.
It's like some sick competition between the US administration and the UK one.
Just wait, with Harper now in charge of Canada we might just have one other government joining the fray. At least the fact he is in charge of a minority government helps reduce his power somewhat.
They also forgot to mention that 87% of statistics are made up.
;)
Or was that 52%?
If we have to have DRM, then I for one would feel much more comfortable if it was an indepdent company, where DRM was their only line of business. This way you could feel safe that you don't have companies like Microsoft and Apple with what would appear to be a conflict of interest.
For the Wii to sell tons of units, there will probably need to be a good amount of third-party games. If no third-party games come out until many units are sold, then that would be a catch-22.
Nintendo has already stated in the past that people often buy a console because of one title. If there are two good games for the Wii, then that will be enough for me. If the price point of the console is around $200, then it will be enough for a lot of people to put money down, simply because it won't hurt too much, even if they do get it wrong. On the other hand PS3's price point is enough to make anyone hesitate, so Sony depends much more on killer titles.
So what if he didn't get to play with a PS3 at E3. Get over it! There were plenty of other demos by various companies there and to cry over the lack of a playable PS3 is just childish.
From what I hear he should of had plenty of a chance, since most people seemed to be checking out the Wii.
Doesn't someone say this every time game graphics are mentioned?
Maybe they do, but sometimes you have to wonder whether the games companies remember this? Hollywood films and games development seem to same this same issue.
High quality graphics are great, unless in the process the quality of the game ( story, environment, gameplay, etc) is forgotten. I would rather average graphics and great game-play, over average game-play and great graphics.
what they want, when they want it.
Yup, exactly the issue. Live shows and stuff designed to start at specific hours are well suited to multicast. As soon as everyone wants everything now things become complicated at all levels:
- extra CPU usage on the server as multiple streams are handled
- extra data bandwidth because you have duplicates of each part of the show being sent to different people at different times
- extra capable routers trying to handle more data going through than expected.
In many way this sounds like the issues the telcos were having when everyone was staying connected, via modem, longer than the phone exchanges were designed for.
There is going to be a bottle neck, unless content providers can somehow work out how to cache the data with the various service providers, and this will likely require the ISPs agreeing to participate.
Talking about smart shirts, whatever happened to those t-shirts that changed colour depending on temperature. Do they still exist?
The GP thought that the guy who wrote the story had a bit of contempt for his customers?
/.er has contempt about customer support instead.
You can have contempt for customers, but it doesn't necessarily mean that you have to share it with them. Heck, I am sure your average
Yea because getting Active Directory and a Mac is so easy to do...
This is my only complaint about macs in a PC dominated world. It's a struggle to get AD working properly. Once this is a simple point and click wizard I'll be thrilled!
Well, as other have pointed out AD is a properiety technology. On the other hand if the network admins knows what they are doing, then Macs can easily be supported. Truth is LDAP is actually supported by the AD Server, but a number of admins never bother to activate it. Similarly Exchange supports SMTP and POP, but it needs to be activated. The issue here is not so much the Macs, but the system admins making it possible.
Well, 'String[] args' has always worked for me in Java.
Just create yourself an account, sign in and then follow the links. Believe me I have downloaded the code before, so it is possible.
NASA's been partnering with Russia, Japan, and the EU for years. Why only when they start partnering with India do people suddenly scream "outsourcing!"?
;)
Stereotyping is so easy
Since most people won't bother to read TFA to get the answer to the tease:
;)
Griffin said NASA was not looking to outsource some of its work to ISRO. NASA was looking to combine the resources both agencies to undertake ventures of mutual interest.
That sounds like the mantra just before they officially announce 'well yeah, they are so cheap we will start outsourcing our engineers'. Now just how long before congress and the president is outsourced to india?
well, the gov't does tell oil companies where they can and can't drill, which influences the price of oil, so....
:) Might be an interesting sight though!
Also, exploration for oil is also very costly. I am not so sure that you drill a bore hole and see 1s and 0s gushing out and screem 'we have internet'
The big problem is DRM and the fact the records companies require it. Apple or other online retailers can't simply give it up, without losing their license to distribute. Apple has taken advantage of something that the record companies have imposed. The people capable of cleaning up this mess are the ones who created it in the first place.