Yeah, I'm with you minus the code part. I'm in the, "Rather be using my computer than trying to make it work" criteria. Too bad MS doesn't have a plan for us.
People bought and loved this game, even though it has the most aggressive in game ads ever. I mean, The King becomes your trainer at one point. As long as it fits the theme, shouldn't be a problem.
I've been using emusic for months now and though I'm not super big into the indie scene, they always surprise me with some interesting stuff. They also have a pretty aggressive writing team that gives no end to recommendations on what you should check out.
They have free 50 download trials all over the place. Worth checking out and all DRM free mp3s. It's a great service and one we should be supporting.
The problem with that is you have no idea what pure research is useful and which isn't. Here's a quote I found that is a good sum up:
Pure science has been held up as a beacon of hope, as a way to allow scientists to pursue their own intuitions, and thus to find totally new solutions to old problems. This is seen in contrast to applied science, where short-term goals do not allow sufficient room for finding really new approaches. Indeed, the irony here is that the best applications of sciences are ultimately based on pure, rather than applied research.
One of the major things that prevents us from going Gmail is the lack of imap support. I can't force my users to give up whatever email app they currently like. Gmail is a great product, but without some flexibility there, it can't catch on where IT does not have an iron grip, especially at the executive level.
The patent office has some obvious problems, but in all these comments it sounds like the litigation not always the patents is the problem. Would much of the problem be solved if court fees were regularly charged to the loser of a case? Would this take care of big business bullying the small companies and other issues that come from a lack of money?
So, I really don't want to buy a PS3, and I'm not impressed with the system really at all. I'm really happy whenever something bad happens to Sony because, They Are Dicks. This is fact.
But, I have no delusions that the PS3 will not be amazingly successful. Because the PS3 has two franchises that the 360, currently, does not (So, I'll put in my disclaimer that if exclusivity is broken, my post is moot): Gran Turismo and Final Fantasy. It doesn't matter if we hate Sony. It doesn't matter if its over priced. It doesn't matter that they are dicks, which they are by the way. And it doesn't matter if we all want them to fail. When those franchises come out with their latest version, and people see that those latest versions are amazing and awesome and stupendous and the greatest of the series blah blah blah, they will buy. I wish they wouldn't, but they will. If the 360 has 20 million and the Wii has 20 million in households, people will still buy.
The parent may have meant this as a joke, but I think it's partially true. WoW pulls millions of gamers out of the purchasing pool. I've seen many a post of people saying that they used to buy games, but why spend 50-100 bucks a month on games, when they can just play Wow.
So, this seems like a good idea with potential terrible consequences. Let's say I've got a bot net of a million machines. We run the bot-net on the database pages, trying random numbers, gathering a database of names, numbers and pictures. Then I take these names, id numbers and pictures and start making IDs maybe? Or using photo recognition to classify people into different groups for spam/marketing purposes, or maybe by ethnicity by last name, or match it up to a directory service and getting addresses and all...
Of course, this could probably be defeated with enough, "Mother's maiden name?" sorta questions and all, but just seems like a ripe source of information that you may not want getting out. By itself, it's not so damaging, but paired with other resources, perhaps it's the last piece in a perfect identity fraud scheme.
So, Kasumi's Clone at the end... man... every review I read of that game talks about how the computer basically cheats. There's no reason that the end boss had to be that hard, and even less reason to force you to beat her to unlock most of the content. Ugh!
The race level actually wasn't impossible. I found that if you jump at the top of the screen, it's a lot easier to land. Then its just memorizing the level. Of course, this won't help you finish the game in any sort of way, but it does help you get past that level.
If you need a mobile phone, do you perhaps only need an SMS client? I couldn't find any documentation on how to send to AIM or ICQ without just replying, but in theory, could you enter something into the google reg page so it messages your AIM account rather than a phone?
Well, in America that is true. In Japan, you want a machine that does all that, mainly because you don't have space for anything else. That and the Japanese tend to not having a problem paying for premium quality, unlike here. The PS3 should have been a slam dunk in Japan... but then they underestimated the power of Fascist Fungus Killers and their Verdant Prehistoric Slave.
We got a business copy to play with, and I decided we aren't going to deploy it until 2008. Untested, not significantly better than XP and as such, not worth the time and money to retrain techs and users.
On an aside, I think the only way to reliably filter at school is to have a white list of addresses approved at the firewall/router. There's just too much to blacklist reliably, and the list of whitelistable sites is probably pretty small. And with some method where kids can ask to have sites added for whatever reason, you should be able to grow the whitelist easily without worry about some bright kid circumventing or accidentally running across teh pR0n. Primary school kids don't need access to the whole internet, just the few kid safe spaces they need to do whatever they need to do.
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Awwww.... sounds like you've got a little wii problem!
Do you get it? Wii! Like a penis! It's like I'm saying you have a small penis! Ah... it never gets old.
Aptana has a firefox plugin for debugging and all, but it's for web development. Don't know on the code specific side.
Yeah, I'm with you minus the code part. I'm in the, "Rather be using my computer than trying to make it work" criteria. Too bad MS doesn't have a plan for us.
It's really true for just about all his books. Sphere? JP? Congo? Everything ends so badly.
People bought and loved this game, even though it has the most aggressive in game ads ever. I mean, The King becomes your trainer at one point. As long as it fits the theme, shouldn't be a problem.
I've been using emusic for months now and though I'm not super big into the indie scene, they always surprise me with some interesting stuff. They also have a pretty aggressive writing team that gives no end to recommendations on what you should check out.
They have free 50 download trials all over the place. Worth checking out and all DRM free mp3s. It's a great service and one we should be supporting.
The problem with that is you have no idea what pure research is useful and which isn't. Here's a quote I found that is a good sum up:
Pure science has been held up as a beacon of hope, as a way to allow scientists to pursue their own intuitions, and thus to find totally new solutions to old problems. This is seen in contrast to applied science, where short-term goals do not allow sufficient room for finding really new approaches. Indeed, the irony here is that the best applications of sciences are ultimately based on pure, rather than applied research.
n/t
One of the major things that prevents us from going Gmail is the lack of imap support. I can't force my users to give up whatever email app they currently like. Gmail is a great product, but without some flexibility there, it can't catch on where IT does not have an iron grip, especially at the executive level.
:)
PS Pop is -not- Imap.
The patent office has some obvious problems, but in all these comments it sounds like the litigation not always the patents is the problem. Would much of the problem be solved if court fees were regularly charged to the loser of a case? Would this take care of big business bullying the small companies and other issues that come from a lack of money?
So, I really don't want to buy a PS3, and I'm not impressed with the system really at all. I'm really happy whenever something bad happens to Sony because, They Are Dicks. This is fact.
But, I have no delusions that the PS3 will not be amazingly successful. Because the PS3 has two franchises that the 360, currently, does not (So, I'll put in my disclaimer that if exclusivity is broken, my post is moot): Gran Turismo and Final Fantasy. It doesn't matter if we hate Sony. It doesn't matter if its over priced. It doesn't matter that they are dicks, which they are by the way. And it doesn't matter if we all want them to fail. When those franchises come out with their latest version, and people see that those latest versions are amazing and awesome and stupendous and the greatest of the series blah blah blah, they will buy. I wish they wouldn't, but they will. If the 360 has 20 million and the Wii has 20 million in households, people will still buy.
And you know what the -worst- part of it all is?
So will you. So will I.
The parent may have meant this as a joke, but I think it's partially true. WoW pulls millions of gamers out of the purchasing pool. I've seen many a post of people saying that they used to buy games, but why spend 50-100 bucks a month on games, when they can just play Wow.
Nintendo did it. Konomi did it. Just make a really great platformer. Make it for the DS. Make it for 360 Live. The wii, whatever. Just make it fun.
So, this seems like a good idea with potential terrible consequences. Let's say I've got a bot net of a million machines. We run the bot-net on the database pages, trying random numbers, gathering a database of names, numbers and pictures. Then I take these names, id numbers and pictures and start making IDs maybe? Or using photo recognition to classify people into different groups for spam/marketing purposes, or maybe by ethnicity by last name, or match it up to a directory service and getting addresses and all...
Of course, this could probably be defeated with enough, "Mother's maiden name?" sorta questions and all, but just seems like a ripe source of information that you may not want getting out. By itself, it's not so damaging, but paired with other resources, perhaps it's the last piece in a perfect identity fraud scheme.
So, Kasumi's Clone at the end... man... every review I read of that game talks about how the computer basically cheats. There's no reason that the end boss had to be that hard, and even less reason to force you to beat her to unlock most of the content. Ugh!
The race level actually wasn't impossible. I found that if you jump at the top of the screen, it's a lot easier to land. Then its just memorizing the level. Of course, this won't help you finish the game in any sort of way, but it does help you get past that level.
If you need a mobile phone, do you perhaps only need an SMS client? I couldn't find any documentation on how to send to AIM or ICQ without just replying, but in theory, could you enter something into the google reg page so it messages your AIM account rather than a phone?
The difference of course being that Apple makes a good product... these days at least... and after the first revision...
I think you're pretty lucky. From what I've heard, that tends to happen -after- guys get married. Usually after three or so years...
Well, in America that is true. In Japan, you want a machine that does all that, mainly because you don't have space for anything else. That and the Japanese tend to not having a problem paying for premium quality, unlike here. The PS3 should have been a slam dunk in Japan... but then they underestimated the power of Fascist Fungus Killers and their Verdant Prehistoric Slave.
Well, it's been available to businesses. It just launched in stores.
We got a business copy to play with, and I decided we aren't going to deploy it until 2008. Untested, not significantly better than XP and as such, not worth the time and money to retrain techs and users.
On an aside, I think the only way to reliably filter at school is to have a white list of addresses approved at the firewall/router. There's just too much to blacklist reliably, and the list of whitelistable sites is probably pretty small. And with some method where kids can ask to have sites added for whatever reason, you should be able to grow the whitelist easily without worry about some bright kid circumventing or accidentally running across teh pR0n. Primary school kids don't need access to the whole internet, just the few kid safe spaces they need to do whatever they need to do.
So... are they using the Bear, Girly or WiFi w/ Crappy D-Pad controller?
Eh, they may (probably won't) Casino Royal it. No one asks for more Bond films, but hey, a good one is something the public apparently doesn't mind.