I'm hoping that they won't discontinue Mindstorms. I haven't bought my first set yet, but I was looking online for a place to buy a set and everywhere is sold out! It can't be losing them too much money if they can't keep up with demand.
I think they'd be well advised to ditch their own efforts at producing movies and even movie tie-in products.
My 2yr old daughter has a good time with the Duplo set she's had for a while. I planning on getting her and her little sister some more soon.
BTW, I'm 33 and I have two Bionicle models sitting on my desk in my office, so being grown up doesn't mean you don't get to play.
Somebody mod this guy up. This is exactly the thought going through my mind when I saw this. My beautiful system has been slowly reduced to 3 speakers, positioned wrongly for listening, but in a way that makes the room look decent and keeps the little ones from playing with cables. I might even be able to convince my wife that it's worth it for the price.
Of course I just joined again a week ago. I had joined a couple years ago, then didn't renew after a year, but after hearing that they upgraded to 192kps I thought I'd see what they had and decided to join again.
My first reaction was to immediately cancel, but the truth is, the price is still better than buying the cd's assuming that they continue to have albums I want.
The sad thing is that with unlimited downloads, E-music was a great way to experiment with bands I had never listened to before, now I'll have to be more selective in what I download.
If they expand their catalog, I'll keep my subscription, if not I'll cancel it. The new plan doesn't require a monthly commitment, so maybe I'll just cancel after I've downloaded what I want, then wait until they get new stuff I want before joining again.
If they get rid of being able to see everything they have before joining, I won't be going back.
I agree completely. This just indicates that Intel isn't going to be the leading chip maker in the next decade. Someone else is bound to pick up the ball, try something new, and validate Moore's law once again.
Clients definitely use Oracle for their support, and not their applications. In all the companies I've worked for, including this one, a Fortune 100 company, Oracle is used primarily for the support. A good DBA is great, but a good DBA wouldn't necessarily help if there was a bug in the database software.
Sure open-source software might enable the developers to go in and fix the problem, but who has time to fix something like that? Everybody is usually busy enough just trying to get their project done.
Not really much of an article, but does this mean that the supposed development of online games for the PS2 is going to come to a halt as developers jump on the PS3 bandwagon?
I was really hoping for an online verison of GTA in the near future, now it seems I'll have to buy a PS3 to get it.
Of hits and misses, I'd say the punch cards is pretty big. While he was right about computing power increasing (though understimated), I would have thought an easier interface would seem only logical. Check out http://www.metv.com - it's what you want to watch!
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I'm hoping that they won't discontinue Mindstorms. I haven't bought my first set yet, but I was looking online for a place to buy a set and everywhere is sold out! It can't be losing them too much money if they can't keep up with demand.
I think they'd be well advised to ditch their own efforts at producing movies and even movie tie-in products.
My 2yr old daughter has a good time with the Duplo set she's had for a while. I planning on getting her and her little sister some more soon.
BTW, I'm 33 and I have two Bionicle models sitting on my desk in my office, so being grown up doesn't mean you don't get to play.
Somebody mod this guy up. This is exactly the thought going through my mind when I saw this. My beautiful system has been slowly reduced to 3 speakers, positioned wrongly for listening, but in a way that makes the room look decent and keeps the little ones from playing with cables. I might even be able to convince my wife that it's worth it for the price.
Of course I just joined again a week ago. I had joined a couple years ago, then didn't renew after a year, but after hearing that they upgraded to 192kps I thought I'd see what they had and decided to join again.
My first reaction was to immediately cancel, but the truth is, the price is still better than buying the cd's assuming that they continue to have albums I want.
The sad thing is that with unlimited downloads, E-music was a great way to experiment with bands I had never listened to before, now I'll have to be more selective in what I download.
If they expand their catalog, I'll keep my subscription, if not I'll cancel it. The new plan doesn't require a monthly commitment, so maybe I'll just cancel after I've downloaded what I want, then wait until they get new stuff I want before joining again.
If they get rid of being able to see everything they have before joining, I won't be going back.
I agree completely. This just indicates that Intel isn't going to be the leading chip maker in the next decade. Someone else is bound to pick up the ball, try something new, and validate Moore's law once again.
Allowing you to opt-in would seriously skew their random samples.
Clients definitely use Oracle for their support, and not their applications. In all the companies I've worked for, including this one, a Fortune 100 company, Oracle is used primarily for the support. A good DBA is great, but a good DBA wouldn't necessarily help if there was a bug in the database software.
Sure open-source software might enable the developers to go in and fix the problem, but who has time to fix something like that? Everybody is usually busy enough just trying to get their project done.
Not really much of an article, but does this mean that the supposed development of online games for the PS2 is going to come to a halt as developers jump on the PS3 bandwagon?
I was really hoping for an online verison of GTA in the near future, now it seems I'll have to buy a PS3 to get it.
Of hits and misses, I'd say the punch cards is pretty big. While he was right about computing power increasing (though understimated), I would have thought an easier interface would seem only logical.
Check out http://www.metv.com - it's what you want to watch!