I can't count the number of times Amazon Fresh has freed up my wife and I to spend time together. I recognize there is no way for small grocery stores to compete, but it's hard to sympathize with difficulties the big grocery chains have with competing. Failure to recognize the need consumers have for this service is on Kroger's head, not Amazon's and not the US government's.
Good old Burroughs. My dad worked for Burroughs. I was 8 years old or so, 1977.
My first was a B-20 series. I think it was a B-22. There were mainframes in the room with me, and punch cards, but I was never allowed to "play" with them.
I had a BASIC book too.
Don't be tempted by their toys. If you're used to working with actual computers, you will find these devices disappointing. I've had to do quite a bit of testing and read a lot of feedback. No one who uses real computers for production work (you know, the kind of work involving typing) can stand these things. If you MUST dip your toe in the water, get an ultrabook. Also, these users are fickle. Without Jobs at the top of a solid imitative marketing structure always spinning up the next cool thing before the previous shiny ones cool off, this whole market of overblown Nintendo DS's is going to erode away. The functionality that's so tempting now will be the equivalent to a free solar-powered LCD calculator built in to the end of a ruler.
Is there really anything different about this, other than who manages the projects? Given this list of studios, it seems unlikely anything will change as far as the kinds of Star Wars game projects that get approved.
100 to 200 percent more data for "modern" 3D technologies.
Stereoscopy adds exactly 100 percent more data, as it has since the late 1800s.
There is no new 3D. There wasn't for Avatar, there wasn't for Captain EO, and there wasn't for any of the other marketing-oriented attempts to act like the red and blue glasses were the "old" 3D while the polarized lenses are the "new".
Didn't you kids have ViewMaster? Sheesh.
You're not implying that the term "market price" is historically related to fish taverns...are you? Or are you saying that the modern restaurants continuing to use terminology that implies special bargaining has been done is deceptive?
I didn't say "different" consoles. You did. Don't cheat, i.e. don't make up arbitrary rules for some sort of game where I wind up having to sit here and type in an inventory of my collection.
As undulato already said, his or her kids play Skylanders and such. Nothing new on the market provides a significant value add here. Wii U is nice, but the early adopter tax is high. Retro consoles are cool (I have 35 or so), but they are serious space consumers, and can't use the spare HDMI monitor. Plus, most of us can smell the Steambox cooking, so economically this seems like a perfect time to wait.
Who was waiting for this? Are people still excited about music getting downgraded to compressed formats? You people really don't listen to albums and CDs? You really listen to MP3s and compressed AAC using devices with DACs as poor as those found on RealTek chips and built into iPods? Really? This story and almost all of the comments have me baffled. I thought Slashdot was for nerds.
But still, without your second comment to add humor and insight, it was previously rude. I totally agree with you about response to criticism. I've been called "grammar Nazi" many times. As my professional life has involved more and more ESL speakers over time, I've had to learn to push the desire to correct grammar aside, or risk derailing productive dialogue.
It's natural for homo sapiens with average intelligence to fear the gifted. After all, if you admit they exist, then you may have to accept that their insights into things you don't understand may be true, and the fallacies you believe for the sake of convenience may be false.
Einsten owns you, loufoque. Even dead. Cults of personality are often dangerous, yes. This is not such a case.
Ihunath, your comment is rude. English is clearly not Max's first language. If your textual criticism skills are so poor you can't spot this obvious fact, you have no business posting about grammar.
This was interesting and well written in many ways. However, the author makes assumptions about the classic series which are unlikely to be shared by a broad audience, as the comments here so far demonstrate. The "classic" version ran for 26 seasons, and was under constant revision. Originally, there were supposed to be no B.E.M.s. Then, Daleks came. Newman wanted 50 percent historical stories. That lasted maybe a season. The concept of Time Lords wasn't even jelled until season 5 or so, during "The War Games". I could go on for pages, but I won't. The series is similar to a long running superhero comic book, in that the content changes to reflect what the producers feel the audience of the day desires. The author of this article really has a problem with the modern audience (meaning most of you), but he's turned it into a faux critical comparison so he doesn't have to be a hater. That said...you know what? I'm not afraid. I'll be a hater. Holmes and Hinchcliffe rule the Who universe, and those who disagree will one day be exterminated!
Wow, that's quite a spike in user content take down requests in the six months leading up to a major election! I wonder if this will repeat in 2016?
My bet is that they will start auto-generating background noise requests in order to render Google's reports useless to the public. Some of those randomly selected users are going to be seriously baffled!
The glacial pace of the effect of Sony's silo-ed management style marches on. This company has been on the decline for years.
Does anyone else recall Wired magazine's prediction that if Playstation 3 failed to achieve market dominance, Sony was done for? It was an article published around 2007 or so.
Personally, I think Wired was correct. However, when the effects are happening so slowly, many people don't seem to see it.
I disagree strongly about this being a good day for Sony.
Excellent observation.
If you want to raise your child into an adult who is both strong and free, you'd better be ready to take on some risk in the process.
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I can't count the number of times Amazon Fresh has freed up my wife and I to spend time together. I recognize there is no way for small grocery stores to compete, but it's hard to sympathize with difficulties the big grocery chains have with competing. Failure to recognize the need consumers have for this service is on Kroger's head, not Amazon's and not the US government's.
Good old Burroughs. My dad worked for Burroughs. I was 8 years old or so, 1977. My first was a B-20 series. I think it was a B-22. There were mainframes in the room with me, and punch cards, but I was never allowed to "play" with them. I had a BASIC book too.
Agreed. I don't believe this IE10 statement at all.
Don't be tempted by their toys. If you're used to working with actual computers, you will find these devices disappointing. I've had to do quite a bit of testing and read a lot of feedback. No one who uses real computers for production work (you know, the kind of work involving typing) can stand these things. If you MUST dip your toe in the water, get an ultrabook. Also, these users are fickle. Without Jobs at the top of a solid imitative marketing structure always spinning up the next cool thing before the previous shiny ones cool off, this whole market of overblown Nintendo DS's is going to erode away. The functionality that's so tempting now will be the equivalent to a free solar-powered LCD calculator built in to the end of a ruler.
Is there really anything different about this, other than who manages the projects? Given this list of studios, it seems unlikely anything will change as far as the kinds of Star Wars game projects that get approved.
I thought maybe it was a delayed feed from a hoax.
Me resent notion that college teach English language. Me have doctorate.
100 to 200 percent more data for "modern" 3D technologies. Stereoscopy adds exactly 100 percent more data, as it has since the late 1800s. There is no new 3D. There wasn't for Avatar, there wasn't for Captain EO, and there wasn't for any of the other marketing-oriented attempts to act like the red and blue glasses were the "old" 3D while the polarized lenses are the "new". Didn't you kids have ViewMaster? Sheesh.
You're not implying that the term "market price" is historically related to fish taverns...are you? Or are you saying that the modern restaurants continuing to use terminology that implies special bargaining has been done is deceptive?
Thank you, Megane!
I have 6 apples. What have I implied?
I didn't say "different" consoles. You did. Don't cheat, i.e. don't make up arbitrary rules for some sort of game where I wind up having to sit here and type in an inventory of my collection.
"If surveys are anything to go by..." They aren't.
As undulato already said, his or her kids play Skylanders and such. Nothing new on the market provides a significant value add here. Wii U is nice, but the early adopter tax is high. Retro consoles are cool (I have 35 or so), but they are serious space consumers, and can't use the spare HDMI monitor. Plus, most of us can smell the Steambox cooking, so economically this seems like a perfect time to wait.
What's Wal-Mart?
Who was waiting for this? Are people still excited about music getting downgraded to compressed formats? You people really don't listen to albums and CDs? You really listen to MP3s and compressed AAC using devices with DACs as poor as those found on RealTek chips and built into iPods? Really? This story and almost all of the comments have me baffled. I thought Slashdot was for nerds.
http://craphound.com/?p=4146
But still, without your second comment to add humor and insight, it was previously rude. I totally agree with you about response to criticism. I've been called "grammar Nazi" many times. As my professional life has involved more and more ESL speakers over time, I've had to learn to push the desire to correct grammar aside, or risk derailing productive dialogue.
It's natural for homo sapiens with average intelligence to fear the gifted. After all, if you admit they exist, then you may have to accept that their insights into things you don't understand may be true, and the fallacies you believe for the sake of convenience may be false. Einsten owns you, loufoque. Even dead. Cults of personality are often dangerous, yes. This is not such a case.
Ihunath, your comment is rude. English is clearly not Max's first language. If your textual criticism skills are so poor you can't spot this obvious fact, you have no business posting about grammar.
This was interesting and well written in many ways. However, the author makes assumptions about the classic series which are unlikely to be shared by a broad audience, as the comments here so far demonstrate. The "classic" version ran for 26 seasons, and was under constant revision. Originally, there were supposed to be no B.E.M.s. Then, Daleks came. Newman wanted 50 percent historical stories. That lasted maybe a season. The concept of Time Lords wasn't even jelled until season 5 or so, during "The War Games". I could go on for pages, but I won't. The series is similar to a long running superhero comic book, in that the content changes to reflect what the producers feel the audience of the day desires. The author of this article really has a problem with the modern audience (meaning most of you), but he's turned it into a faux critical comparison so he doesn't have to be a hater. That said...you know what? I'm not afraid. I'll be a hater. Holmes and Hinchcliffe rule the Who universe, and those who disagree will one day be exterminated!
Am I the only one who thinks this is funny?
Wow, that's quite a spike in user content take down requests in the six months leading up to a major election! I wonder if this will repeat in 2016? My bet is that they will start auto-generating background noise requests in order to render Google's reports useless to the public. Some of those randomly selected users are going to be seriously baffled!
The glacial pace of the effect of Sony's silo-ed management style marches on. This company has been on the decline for years. Does anyone else recall Wired magazine's prediction that if Playstation 3 failed to achieve market dominance, Sony was done for? It was an article published around 2007 or so. Personally, I think Wired was correct. However, when the effects are happening so slowly, many people don't seem to see it. I disagree strongly about this being a good day for Sony.
Excellent observation. If you want to raise your child into an adult who is both strong and free, you'd better be ready to take on some risk in the process.