Ah yes, the old myth about Fox News being conservative. The same Fox News that has as its main figurehead the angry moderate Bill O'Reilly, who bashes Cheney for secrecy and bashes the Bush administration for bungling things.
Ah yes, 2 out of 24 hours does not a 'fair and balanced' channel make. (one hour first airing, one hour repeat-- and probably only 10 minutes of those are non-conservative oriented opinion)
Seriously though, how can you defend Fox News as being non-conservative (politically oriented) when they do such things as:
The omnipresent Stars-n-Stripes waving in the corner
repeated references to U.S. Military Personell as 'our troops'
Instead of news reporting, the schedule is loaded with news talk-shows (yelling matches) editorializing from a conservative slant (i.e. pimping the 'Hannitization of America', Ann Coulter et. al.)
Moreover, who's not conservative on Fox News? I'll give you Alan Combs-- the mostly harmless liberal? They cut his nuts off long ago...
See, Fox 'news' figured out the secret. People don't want the news-- people want to be told stuff that they already agree with and fits in their pre-conceived worldview. News is news: the story is the same-- but now ratings are driven by how you spin the news story to get an audience.
And audiences are going to tune into news channels that make the feel 'good' or 'comfortable' and reaffirm what they already hold to be true.
It's thus that news stops being news and becomes propaganda.
IL didn't and doesn't have a Phantom console, they were selling this concept.
I wouldn't be the least surprised if Sony acquires IL for 'intellectual capital' that they've already compiled from 'researching' this market strategy.
My guess is that it was IL's plan all along, don't sell a product-- just an idea.
I work for the 3rd largest software-only developer in the world. I get plenty of opportunity to go to large, Fortune 500 companies and see their environments.
I can only remember seeing Novell products in less than a handful of places-- and it was in the process of being removed in those places.
SO-- Does anybody know where is Novell getting the capital to keep gobbling up companies? It seems like every time I turn around there's a story about Novell buying X...
If Novell's doing so well, maybe there's an investment opportunity hiding somewhere in there...
I'm sick of everyone busting Infinum's nuts!
If you'd just watch the video on the site you'd see that they already have a list of the fine titles that will be available at launch time:
- Sonic Speedsters
- Abducted
- Minigolf - Megaworld
- Bikini Karate Babes (which was only 30% downloaded at the time of the video...)
And if it did, the only reason you know is because you're probably behind bars right now for breaking the law.
C'mon, really. The gov. is not interested in how much pr0n you download or how many.mp3's you traded, or your nasty letter to your IRC honey. The only people affected are people doing shit they shouldn't be doing.
Besides, haven't we seen that the government agencies are so inept, there's nothing worry about?
I used to be one of the paranoid types. Aliens, the illuminati, all that shit. I got over it. If you step back and put it into perspective, you realize there's nothing to worry about. You are not that important. j00 are n07 1n t3h M47r1x! They are not after you m4d 1337 h4xx0ring ski11z!
Go get a date for the next./ meetup or kiss a girl or something. There are more things to worry about than this...
A good example of building software for future hardware is the 'stunning success' of MicroProse's Falcon 4. So successful that the dev. team was canned...
When it came out (1997 I believe) flying a mission @ 640x480 was like watching a slide show with framerates 10 fps. It's only been in the last year or so that the technology has caught up with the F4 to make it playable. Suffice to say, most folks didn't want to dole out cash for something they couldn't play for 4 years.
Moral of the story: If you're a developer and you don't need to worry about putting food on the table, then coding for future hardware is a good idea.
My company (Computer Associates-- I know, I know...) uses Tomcat as the core for a number of products that we resell to clients. CleverPath Portal and CP ECM to name a couple.
We find that it does pretty well-- reliability is excellent, and since we can 'pseudo-cluster' our products it's extremely scalable.
We've companies running it for 50k+ users on the tomcat base, but for heavy traffic (1000+ concurrent, heavy use connections) we usually reccomment one of the more robust engines like WebSphere or Weblogic.
Check out the webpage and give me some work...;)
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Ah yes, 2 out of 24 hours does not a 'fair and balanced' channel make. (one hour first airing, one hour repeat-- and probably only 10 minutes of those are non-conservative oriented opinion)
Seriously though, how can you defend Fox News as being non-conservative (politically oriented) when they do such things as:
Moreover, who's not conservative on Fox News?
I'll give you Alan Combs-- the mostly harmless liberal? They cut his nuts off long ago...
See, Fox 'news' figured out the secret. People don't want the news-- people want to be told stuff that they already agree with and fits in their pre-conceived worldview. News is news: the story is the same-- but now ratings are driven by how you spin the news story to get an audience.
And audiences are going to tune into news channels that make the feel 'good' or 'comfortable' and reaffirm what they already hold to be true.
It's thus that news stops being news and becomes propaganda.
Same goes for CNN, NPR, ABC, NBC, etc.
Badgers...
Badgers???
We don't *need* no stinking badgers!!!
But they are sure making up for it with the glut of Windows vs. Linux TCO Banner-Ads here on Slashdot!
Cowboy Neal is linining his pockets with Microsoft scratch.
Hopping on the Infinium Labs bandwagon?
IL didn't and doesn't have a Phantom console, they were selling this concept.
I wouldn't be the least surprised if Sony acquires IL for 'intellectual capital' that they've already compiled from 'researching' this market strategy.
My guess is that it was IL's plan all along, don't sell a product-- just an idea.
Asking the VP of Nokia Cameras if A.A. would have gone digital is like asking Bill Gates if Charles Babbage would have used Windows...
I work for the 3rd largest software-only developer in the world. I get plenty of opportunity to go to large, Fortune 500 companies and see their environments.
I can only remember seeing Novell products in less than a handful of places-- and it was in the process of being removed in those places.
SO-- Does anybody know where is Novell getting the capital to keep gobbling up companies? It seems like every time I turn around there's a story about Novell buying X...
If Novell's doing so well, maybe there's an investment opportunity hiding somewhere in there...
I'm sick of everyone busting Infinum's nuts!
If you'd just watch the video on the site you'd see that they already have a list of the fine titles that will be available at launch time:
- Sonic Speedsters
- Abducted
- Minigolf - Megaworld
- Bikini Karate Babes (which was only 30% downloaded at the time of the video...)
All this makes me wonder what's going to happen to the 4000 PS2's Saddam bought back in '00...
Should we send our boys 4000 copies of GTA:VC?
Original Ananova story
Besides the Natural Resources for Farming and Mining there is nothing here that needs to stay here...
We've got ONE thing they can never take away: Hollywood.
Bali-wood pales by comparison.
Whodda thunk?
Caffine-Free Diet Dew.
If all you're looking for is a way to get cancer, you might as well go to your basement and huff radon.
And if it did, the only reason you know is because you're probably behind bars right now for breaking the law.
.mp3's you traded, or your nasty letter to your IRC honey. The only people affected are people doing shit they shouldn't be doing.
./ meetup or kiss a girl or something. There are more things to worry about than this...
C'mon, really. The gov. is not interested in how much pr0n you download or how many
Besides, haven't we seen that the government agencies are so inept, there's nothing worry about?
I used to be one of the paranoid types. Aliens, the illuminati, all that shit. I got over it. If you step back and put it into perspective, you realize there's nothing to worry about. You are not that important. j00 are n07 1n t3h M47r1x! They are not after you m4d 1337 h4xx0ring ski11z!
Go get a date for the next
(Man, that felt good. Bad karma here i come...)
What's the alternative?
A good example of building software for future hardware is the 'stunning success' of MicroProse's Falcon 4. So successful that the dev. team was canned...
When it came out (1997 I believe) flying a mission @ 640x480 was like watching a slide show with framerates 10 fps. It's only been in the last year or so that the technology has caught up with the F4 to make it playable. Suffice to say, most folks didn't want to dole out cash for something they couldn't play for 4 years.
Moral of the story: If you're a developer and you don't need to worry about putting food on the table, then coding for future hardware is a good idea.
My company (Computer Associates-- I know, I know...) uses Tomcat as the core for a number of products that we resell to clients. CleverPath Portal and CP ECM to name a couple. We find that it does pretty well-- reliability is excellent, and since we can 'pseudo-cluster' our products it's extremely scalable. We've companies running it for 50k+ users on the tomcat base, but for heavy traffic (1000+ concurrent, heavy use connections) we usually reccomment one of the more robust engines like WebSphere or Weblogic. Check out the webpage and give me some work... ;)