. . . not to mention lower their prices! I can't believe how much more money I have to pay for an Intel chip than a comparable performing AMD. In discussions I had with a buddy in the industry last year, we both agreed that Apple producing fast systems was going to be the impetus for Intel to start convincingly reclaiming their previous throne.
Two hunters are out in the woods when one of them collapses. He doesn't seem to be breathing and his eyes are glazed. The other guy whips out his phone and calls the emergency services. He gasps: "My friend is dead! What can I do?" The operator says: "Calm down, I can help. First, let's make sure he's dead." There is a silence, then a shot is heard. Back on the phone, the guy says: "OK, now what?"
I don't understand . . . there can be three movies in one year about killer asteroids hitting the earth or three movies in one year about volcano eruptions but Fox can't grab a game "idea" and reframe it with slightly different graphics or play mechanics? Granted - 'Road Rage' is a DIRECT ripoff of 'Crazy Taxi' but can this really be something that causes Sega harm? I thought expressions of ideas couldn't be patented or copyrighted???
From the patent description in question . .. "Another object of the present invention is to provide a moving direction indication method which can make direction indications which are easy to be understood by operators freely moved in the virtual space, such as a city or others, and a game apparatus.
Further another object of the present invention is to provide a game display method and a game apparatus which can make displays which are easily understandable for an operator who gets, in a virtual space, such as a city or others, a specific object and carries the object to a destination.
Further another object of the present invention is to provide a drive simulation method which can provide real driving feeling. "
Oh dear lord, am I glad I'm not a patent attorney!
. . . from home-grown solutions all the way up to $100k packages that run on top of pick-your-favorite-SQL DB.
We use Blue Ocean's Track-IT and have for a few years now. It has pretty much every major bell and/or whistle you could want available for it. Blue Ocean was recently purchased by Intuit and they haven't managed to mess up the package yet.
It also depends on what support model your company uses. We had a HUGE culture shift from stopping-IT-person-in-hall to call/web/e-mail-the-help-desk but it has been very successful. Of course, the bean counters in my management area outsourced the people answering the phones to Singapore and they don't speak very good English - but that's another story.
Mod me down if you must but this article is crap. Sure Google is going to give you several pages of links to Apple Computer when you search for 'apple' - that's the way the system is supposed to work. However, if you do a multi-word search for something specific - like 'kixtart audit software', you're going to start seeing success. A search for 'apple trees' finds the top four links pointing to great sites that each link to more sites on apples. Same thing for 'tulips' - 'planting tulips' brings up several relevant links within the top 10. Moral of the story is the same as it is everywhere - GIGO.
Ahh . . . we've come so far since that time a buddy of mine brought his P-133 to a LAN party where we were playing Descent and we all bowed before the might of his power.
You have two enemies - well, three or more if someone in the crew is married - when holding an event such as this.
1. The lack of experience of some people who come and hope to immediately set up their computers and start fragging
2. The lack of proper facilities for the enjoyment of all
For issue 1, your best method of correction is to publish a 'So You Want to LAN Party with the Big Dogs' type web page or brochure. Get this to the folks who you are expecting to attend and make certain that they understand the necessary things:
- All NICs set to DHCP; if they don't know what this is provide a link to one of the bajillion sites on the web that document this
- All parts that should be brought with attendees (such as snacks, money for the conference room, pillows to crash when necessary, power strips/surge protectors,proper games, tables or chairs, etiquette expected, etc.)
- A rough schedule of events i.e. Diablo 2 from 9pm-3am followed by Counterstrike from 3am-3pm or whatever; nothing spoils a party quicker than someone coming who was expecting to play one game but then couldn't play.
For issue 2, make certain if you are using hotel facilities to have a conference room with multiple circuits!!! I may be using the wrong terminology but I once set up 18 rooms in a conference room near the Astrodome where the hotel electrician SWORE that there were multiple circuits but the first time the instructor asked everyone to open a certain document, the combined juice request from 18 hard drives overloaded the circuit and bamm-o, instant darkness. Good when you're with a chick but not so good when you want to slay some demons. Explain that you will be having X number of PCs and that continuous power is an important thing!
Why does this cost $600?? I read the first two pages of the review - excellent point about how deep CrossOver puts some items by defautl - but didn't see an explanation of the cost.
Written by the same chap (Richard Curtis) who wrote British TV's Blackadder series, 'Notting Hill' & 'Bridget Jones Diary'. I love this movie but understand that it is not for everyone.
Along with most of my geek friends, I really depend on excellent the "excellent" 3dMark scores of the latest and greatest hardware to drive down the price of the previous generation of video cards. After all, software that truly supports all of the whiz-bang features of the top-tier cards doesn't arrive until about 6-9 months after the cards appear on Best Buy's shelves.
If 3DMark isn't producing high enough scores for the new nVidia cards, where will my price breaks be?
Sounds like I know what Michael Crichton reads...
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Now I know where Michael Crichton got the idea for 'Prey'. In that book, Crichton writes about a scientist that applied swarm intelligence in his work. Unfortunately, the bad guys applied his theories to nanites that like to feast on human flesh.
Having written the above, I still can't believe I read the whole book.
I hate to say it but Outlook is the only reason that we're sticking with Office in my company. We've done evaluations of StarOffice & OpenOffice and other packages like these. However, none of them interact with our Exchange system the way that our customers demand. They want seamless calendaring and the other features that Outlook & Exchange provides.
. . . the fact that it immediately makes "last years" models much more affordable. Resellers like MacMall, Smalldog.com, & the others have great prices on these older models.
Of course, Apple may still have a problem selling these newer faster machines because they've managed to produce an OS that works fantastic on even older models like the dual 533 I'm writing this on!
Bullcorn. It IS hard and it IS a miracle if you can pull this off these days. Anyone who says otherwise is stuffed full of more lunacy than someone who still believes our President has always played fair in the boardroom.
I don't think that the casinos can take your money, however. I believe that all they'll do is ask you to "take your action somewhere else". Counting is NOT cheating - using your brain to play the game you are presented with can't possibly be cheating.
Seems this company thinks the recent paradigm shift in informational technology flow has resulted in a groupthink that points to a wireless device with a pricepoint below $1k.
Why is it that the heavier the use of buzzwords by a site directly correlates to a heavier use of Flash? I bet I could get grant money to study that!
Even Sun was (is?) selling an ATX board with their chips and so forth on them.
I understand Apple not wanting to lose too much control by porting the OS to run on AMD chips.
It seems to me, however, that they could sell an ATX board with onboard PPC that would work with any standard "beige" case. It could be a naked PowerMac and they could even charge a premium - say $400 for the board? - and open their market even more.
What? Game companies market to gamers by trying to sway reviewers?
BY ALL THAT IS HOLY, I'M GONNA . . .
Alright, enough theatrics.:)
Seriously though, I think that this goes along with what others have mentioned. Some sites (that maybe perhaps have the letters I, G, & N in their URL?) seem to blatantly worship at the altar of big publishing while others (Gamespot comes to mind) seem to have well thought out reviews and the opportunity for users to rate games alongside the "pros". This balanced approach seems to paint a truer picture of the game than other sites.
A good coding project would be to come up with the rottentomatoes.com of the gaming world - perhaps sorethumbs.com?
Here's the link. Looks fairly interesting for comparison to ClosedBSD1.0 I imagine that ClosedBSD1.0 is going to have nicer "interface" as it is specialized. For those of you who are antsy about floppies, you might have to pay for that predilection in more config time.
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. . . to make a crack about the Post Office blocking the shipment of trillions of AOL CDs. I prefer to work for my karma. :)
. . . not to mention lower their prices! I can't believe how much more money I have to pay for an Intel chip than a comparable performing AMD. In discussions I had with a buddy in the industry last year, we both agreed that Apple producing fast systems was going to be the impetus for Intel to start convincingly reclaiming their previous throne.
This reminds me of the funniest joke on earth.
Two hunters are out in the woods when one of them collapses. He doesn't seem to be breathing and his eyes are glazed. The other guy whips out his phone and calls the emergency services. He gasps: "My friend is dead! What can I do?" The operator says: "Calm down, I can help. First, let's make sure he's dead." There is a silence, then a shot is heard. Back on the phone, the guy says: "OK, now what?"
I don't understand . . . there can be three movies in one year about killer asteroids hitting the earth or three movies in one year about volcano eruptions but Fox can't grab a game "idea" and reframe it with slightly different graphics or play mechanics? Granted - 'Road Rage' is a DIRECT ripoff of 'Crazy Taxi' but can this really be something that causes Sega harm? I thought expressions of ideas couldn't be patented or copyrighted???
From the patent description in question . . .
"Another object of the present invention is to provide a moving direction indication method which can make direction indications which are easy to be understood by operators freely moved in the virtual space, such as a city or others, and a game apparatus.
Further another object of the present invention is to provide a game display method and a game apparatus which can make displays which are easily understandable for an operator who gets, in a virtual space, such as a city or others, a specific object and carries the object to a destination.
Further another object of the present invention is to provide a drive simulation method which can provide real driving feeling. "
Oh dear lord, am I glad I'm not a patent attorney!
. . . from home-grown solutions all the way up to $100k packages that run on top of pick-your-favorite-SQL DB.
We use Blue Ocean's Track-IT and have for a few years now. It has pretty much every major bell and/or whistle you could want available for it. Blue Ocean was recently purchased by Intuit and they haven't managed to mess up the package yet.
It also depends on what support model your company uses. We had a HUGE culture shift from stopping-IT-person-in-hall to call/web/e-mail-the-help-desk but it has been very successful. Of course, the bean counters in my management area outsourced the people answering the phones to Singapore and they don't speak very good English - but that's another story.
Check out Track-IT. We love it.
Mod me down if you must but this article is crap. Sure Google is going to give you several pages of links to Apple Computer when you search for 'apple' - that's the way the system is supposed to work. However, if you do a multi-word search for something specific - like 'kixtart audit software', you're going to start seeing success. A search for 'apple trees' finds the top four links pointing to great sites that each link to more sites on apples. Same thing for 'tulips' - 'planting tulips' brings up several relevant links within the top 10. Moral of the story is the same as it is everywhere - GIGO.
Y'all do realize that this means that the prices on the older generation of dual 1.25s & so forth is going to go down, right?
We'll have at least a year before 64-bit apps are the only game in town.
Ahh . . . we've come so far since that time a buddy of mine brought his P-133 to a LAN party where we were playing Descent and we all bowed before the might of his power.
You have two enemies - well, three or more if someone in the crew is married - when holding an event such as this.
1. The lack of experience of some people who come and hope to immediately set up their computers and start fragging
2. The lack of proper facilities for the enjoyment of all
For issue 1, your best method of correction is to publish a 'So You Want to LAN Party with the Big Dogs' type web page or brochure. Get this to the folks who you are expecting to attend and make certain that they understand the necessary things:
- All NICs set to DHCP; if they don't know what this is provide a link to one of the bajillion sites on the web that document this
- All parts that should be brought with attendees (such as snacks, money for the conference room, pillows to crash when necessary, power strips/surge protectors,proper games, tables or chairs, etiquette expected, etc.)
- A rough schedule of events i.e. Diablo 2 from 9pm-3am followed by Counterstrike from 3am-3pm or whatever; nothing spoils a party quicker than someone coming who was expecting to play one game but then couldn't play.
For issue 2, make certain if you are using hotel facilities to have a conference room with multiple circuits!!! I may be using the wrong terminology but I once set up 18 rooms in a conference room near the Astrodome where the hotel electrician SWORE that there were multiple circuits but the first time the instructor asked everyone to open a certain document, the combined juice request from 18 hard drives overloaded the circuit and bamm-o, instant darkness. Good when you're with a chick but not so good when you want to slay some demons. Explain that you will be having X number of PCs and that continuous power is an important thing!
Why does this cost $600?? I read the first two pages of the review - excellent point about how deep CrossOver puts some items by defautl - but didn't see an explanation of the cost.
Written by the same chap (Richard Curtis) who wrote British TV's Blackadder series, 'Notting Hill' & 'Bridget Jones Diary'. I love this movie but understand that it is not for everyone.
. . . I hear Debian's next distro is going to be on 42 DVDs.
At least everyone I work with smells the same as me. That way I don't stick out.
. . . I think hell just froze over.
Looks like Apple may have a shot at getting a Power Mac that lives up to their moniker!
Along with most of my geek friends, I really depend on excellent the "excellent" 3dMark scores of the latest and greatest hardware to drive down the price of the previous generation of video cards. After all, software that truly supports all of the whiz-bang features of the top-tier cards doesn't arrive until about 6-9 months after the cards appear on Best Buy's shelves.
If 3DMark isn't producing high enough scores for the new nVidia cards, where will my price breaks be?
Now I know where Michael Crichton got the idea for 'Prey'. In that book, Crichton writes about a scientist that applied swarm intelligence in his work. Unfortunately, the bad guys applied his theories to nanites that like to feast on human flesh.
Having written the above, I still can't believe I read the whole book.
I hate to say it but Outlook is the only reason that we're sticking with Office in my company. We've done evaluations of StarOffice & OpenOffice and other packages like these. However, none of them interact with our Exchange system the way that our customers demand. They want seamless calendaring and the other features that Outlook & Exchange provides.
. . . the fact that it immediately makes "last years" models much more affordable. Resellers like MacMall, Smalldog.com, & the others have great prices on these older models.
Of course, Apple may still have a problem selling these newer faster machines because they've managed to produce an OS that works fantastic on even older models like the dual 533 I'm writing this on!
Bullcorn. It IS hard and it IS a miracle if you can pull this off these days. Anyone who says otherwise is stuffed full of more lunacy than someone who still believes our President has always played fair in the boardroom.
I don't think that the casinos can take your money, however. I believe that all they'll do is ask you to "take your action somewhere else". Counting is NOT cheating - using your brain to play the game you are presented with can't possibly be cheating.
Seems this company thinks the recent paradigm shift in informational technology flow has resulted in a groupthink that points to a
wireless device with a pricepoint below $1k.
Why is it that the heavier the use of buzzwords by a site directly correlates to a heavier use of Flash? I bet I could get grant money to study that!
Even Sun was (is?) selling an ATX board with their chips and so forth on them.
I understand Apple not wanting to lose too much control by porting the OS to run on AMD chips.
It seems to me, however, that they could sell an ATX board with onboard PPC that would work with any standard "beige" case. It could be a naked PowerMac and they could even charge a premium - say $400 for the board? - and open their market even more.
Just a thought.
What? Game companies market to gamers by trying to sway reviewers?
:)
BY ALL THAT IS HOLY, I'M GONNA . . .
Alright, enough theatrics.
Seriously though, I think that this goes along with what others have mentioned. Some sites (that maybe perhaps have the letters I, G, & N in their URL?) seem to blatantly worship at the altar of big publishing while others (Gamespot comes to mind) seem to have well thought out reviews and the opportunity for users to rate games alongside the "pros". This balanced approach seems to paint a truer picture of the game than other sites.
A good coding project would be to come up with the rottentomatoes.com of the gaming world - perhaps sorethumbs.com?
Here's the link. Looks fairly interesting for comparison to ClosedBSD1.0 I imagine that ClosedBSD1.0 is going to have nicer "interface" as it is specialized. For those of you who are antsy about floppies, you might have to pay for that predilection in more config time.
http://bsdtoday.com/2002/March/Features646.html