I happen to remember that many, many, many years ago some magazine editor decided to rag on some company that had sent the magazine some doodads. The doodads weren't even promoting a game! Instead they were announcing the creation of a new videogame company. The doodad was actually a knick knack with a bloody brain in it (or something like that) with the name of the company printed visibly on it. For some reason this irked the game magazine editor, and he proceeded to expound, on said magazine's editorial, on how gimmicky the whole affair was, and what a loser of a company this was going to be.
For some reason, Croal's post reminded me of that editorial... And I will tell you this: PR is PR, that's why we have hot babes selling beer and spam emails to make our dicks longer. But in the end, the game will stand alone and speak for itself, gamers will either love it or hate it.
You see, that company the magazine editor ragged on? A couple of years later it went on to release Grand Theft Auto for the PS2, and arguably single-handedly brought open-ended sandbox gaming to the masses...
Mondays are always jinxed, when you live in a building with spotty energy problems (please don't make me laugh by questioning why our systems lacked proper electricity backup!)
OK, to answer seriously... Meet and greet each and every person under my charge (I had a small team of eight people), I usually asked:
what are you going to do today? (i.e.: are you doing what you're supposed to/established at our last meeting?)
are sure how you are going to do it? (i.e.: do you need me to give you additional instructions/refer you to a website/pair you with someone else from the team?)
do you have everything you need to do what tou have to do? (i.e.: if something goes south today, is it our fault? do I have to go into some other manager's office carrying a knife in my mouth while taking names because we lack the tools, the hardware or the training? how will I explain any failures to the CEO?
All this should take 30 minutes, tops, for any similarly sized team. but it'll save you endless grief...
Street Fighter Alpha * or "Street Fighter 3" - I can beat the S#!t out of the computer in the harder lavels and just feel and inmense wave of relaxing endorphins take over me.
Nethack - I can just pretend that my (japanese) Tourist just got reborn as an ass-kicking Samurai.
Grand Theft Auto III: * - Especially GTAIII, where I just grab the first car that comes along shoot the next car that comes along and enjoy the thrill of the chase. Too bad drivers in Vice City and San Andreas seldom put the pedal to the metal.
Tetris - The Gameboy version is where it's at.
*Katamari* - You can't help but feel good to tidy it all up.
Honorable Mention: Shadow Of The Colossus (Can't believe no one's mentioned it yet) would be in the top five if the environment was even more expansive and you could just get lost riding your horse.
Better one or two than 3 dozen cables. This would allow for modular plane design which I guess is the ultimate aim of the project...
Of course this will only open the future for those Decepticon plane robots to become closer to reality... I can't help but keep thinking about transformable robots having modularized component parts connected by an ultra secure wireless network.
Operating systems are unpredictable and unsafe. Processes are dangerous. Many knowledge bases have been written about these dangers, and there's no way we can list them all here. Read the web.
Microsoft Windows XP is covered in a graphical user interface with loose, slippery and unstable commands. The weather can make matters worse. You may loose data, applications or your job. There are hidden DRM holes. You could be sued...
"This is where we keep all significant hardware configurations Apple has released that run our products. We'll use the Plasma display to, watch DVDs and play games, uh er, I mean, do important training presentations."
You should look at this site weatherwars.net; where a former meteorologist argues that the unusual number of hurricanes and storms in the recent years are ocurring due to russian technology that manipulates these phenomena and they are being funded/controlled by the yakuza...
I use at least five computers on three different networks. Using Google for light text editing is relatively hassle free and featureful. But the key here is availability. As long as I am connected, my text is there. I also agree with your coments on the spell checker. I write in english and spanish and the spell cheker recognizes each language automatically. I don't think it has been lost on Google that many are doing what I'm doing.
But still, I think Mr. Brin is telling it straight. There's too much effort to be done in order to provide a network (or AJAX) equivalent to an office suite. Plus I don't think Google is too keen on reinventing that particular wheel. And it wouldn't (now, at least) fit along with Google's revenue making AdSense.
I think what Google will provide is key services that are available in most office suites today (and some that aren't, of course). Something like an Intelligent Formatter; where you just "send" the text you created via GMail to a service. Of course while you wait for the intelligent formatter Google serves you relevant ads on based on the words in the document you made. Or perhaps there will be a service where your text is converted into other formats like OpenDocument or PDF and even DOC...
Since I live in Puerto Rico, Dell's website always kicks me to Dell's Puerto Rico or LatAm site. The prices are considerably higher in this location specific site. Also deals like double memory or bigger and faster drives are deleted in exchange for... wait for it... a cheapo printer. And to top it all off delivery is also higher. I could accept a higher price for delivery, but for a product that is the same in the USA and here, nosiree.
My wife did get a Dell Inspiron which is nice and all, the products aren't at fault. But their business tactics put me off...
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Slashdot needs a "+1 Retweet this comment" option...
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No, seriously. It's off-topic but I really think insightful comments [like the parent comment] should be given more exposure outside of
I happen to remember that many, many, many years ago some magazine editor decided to rag on some company that had sent the magazine some doodads. The doodads weren't even promoting a game! Instead they were announcing the creation of a new videogame company. The doodad was actually a knick knack with a bloody brain in it (or something like that) with the name of the company printed visibly on it. For some reason this irked the game magazine editor, and he proceeded to expound, on said magazine's editorial, on how gimmicky the whole affair was, and what a loser of a company this was going to be.
For some reason, Croal's post reminded me of that editorial... And I will tell you this: PR is PR, that's why we have hot babes selling beer and spam emails to make our dicks longer. But in the end, the game will stand alone and speak for itself, gamers will either love it or hate it.
You see, that company the magazine editor ragged on? A couple of years later it went on to release Grand Theft Auto for the PS2, and arguably single-handedly brought open-ended sandbox gaming to the masses...
I usually arrived late...
Mondays are always jinxed, when you live in a building with spotty energy problems (please don't make me laugh by questioning why our systems lacked proper electricity backup!)
OK, to answer seriously... Meet and greet each and every person under my charge (I had a small team of eight people), I usually asked:
All this should take 30 minutes, tops, for any similarly sized team. but it'll save you endless grief...
At the bus station the bus stops; at the train station the train stops...
Guess what happens at the Vista work station.
In order of preference:
Honorable Mention: Shadow Of The Colossus (Can't believe no one's mentioned it yet) would be in the top five if the environment was even more expansive and you could just get lost riding your horse.
Because this will be dead-locked-DRM-riddled?
This is so sad.
And just when they got their towels back too!
I also recommend the free version of AVG. Due to user-friendlyness, sheduling, set-it and forget updating, etc.
AVG also runs on Linux
my life is now complete?
Better one or two than 3 dozen cables. This would allow for modular plane design which I guess is the ultimate aim of the project...
Of course this will only open the future for those Decepticon plane robots to become closer to reality... I can't help but keep thinking about transformable robots having modularized component parts connected by an ultra secure wireless network.
I was reading the slashdot feed on my cell and the title only showed:
microsoft to automate malware
and I went like: wtf! haven't they done enough already?
mind you, not an hour ago I was removing over a hundred pieces of malware that a client had. all of them on just two machines...
Operating systems are unpredictable and unsafe. Processes are dangerous. Many knowledge bases have been written about these dangers, and there's no way we can list them all here. Read the web.
Microsoft Windows XP is covered in a graphical user interface with loose, slippery and unstable commands. The weather can make matters worse. You may loose data, applications or your job. There are hidden DRM holes. You could be sued...
That's nothing. In Soviet Russia, the fines... ambiguous you!
sorry. couldn't resist.
... why Vista is late!
"This is where we keep all significant hardware configurations Apple has released that run our products. We'll use the Plasma display to, watch DVDs and play games, uh er, I mean, do important training presentations."
You've just described the very process why Office and Vista are delayed...
It tickled my funny bone... but on my Google personalized home page this Slashdot post is right next to a Quote of the Day that read like so:
I Haven't Even Read The Frickin' Post...
Still...
Slow news day at Slashdot...
Taco is lazy...
Nothing to see here, move along...
Yada, Yada, Yada...
I expect we will have three dupes of this one before january...
You should look at this site weatherwars.net; where a former meteorologist argues that the unusual number of hurricanes and storms in the recent years are ocurring due to russian technology that manipulates these phenomena and they are being funded/controlled by the yakuza...
Cyborg Cells Sense Stupidity
And inmediately wanted a pietri dish filled with 'em... then read it again. Still, I think sensing stupidity would be more useful...
Is it me, or did Sid's answers where the dryest (read boring) to date in a Slashdot interview?
OTOH, I've been asking myself for forever: What bussiness model can sustain open-source game developers?
It doesn't seem to me like the traditional pay-for-support model works well with games. Subscription models will alienate some users...
Ideas anyone?
I knew my day would come... everone seems to be slashdotting the video feeds.
Please don't focus on the videos where poeple make nice comments. Focus, instead, on the ones where people bitch and moan that "this ain't Windows"...
So we can send goons to kill 'em afterwards!
Seriously though, take any complaints to heart; but only to make OSS interfaces better...
I use at least five computers on three different networks. Using Google for light text editing is relatively hassle free and featureful. But the key here is availability. As long as I am connected, my text is there. I also agree with your coments on the spell checker. I write in english and spanish and the spell cheker recognizes each language automatically. I don't think it has been lost on Google that many are doing what I'm doing.
But still, I think Mr. Brin is telling it straight. There's too much effort to be done in order to provide a network (or AJAX) equivalent to an office suite. Plus I don't think Google is too keen on reinventing that particular wheel. And it wouldn't (now, at least) fit along with Google's revenue making AdSense.
I think what Google will provide is key services that are available in most office suites today (and some that aren't, of course). Something like an Intelligent Formatter; where you just "send" the text you created via GMail to a service. Of course while you wait for the intelligent formatter Google serves you relevant ads on based on the words in the document you made. Or perhaps there will be a service where your text is converted into other formats like OpenDocument or PDF and even DOC...
Since I live in Puerto Rico, Dell's website always kicks me to Dell's Puerto Rico or LatAm site. The prices are considerably higher in this location specific site. Also deals like double memory or bigger and faster drives are deleted in exchange for... wait for it... a cheapo printer. And to top it all off delivery is also higher. I could accept a higher price for delivery, but for a product that is the same in the USA and here, nosiree.
My wife did get a Dell Inspiron which is nice and all, the products aren't at fault. But their business tactics put me off...
Oh... wait... it's a slogan... from Microsoft.
1. Monopoly2. Slogan
3. Profit???