Just as an aside, email being sent in the clear, anyone that has a rounter out on the internet can probably read billions of emails a year with all sorts of information...
He'll pick one that let him have 50,000 (and growing) in his address book. The max from AOL is 200. The fact that he's already at 200 means that for every new friend he has, he has to bump another one off.
Think about how Gmail buckled the web-mail landscape with 2 gigs of storage (now at 2.4 gigs and growing). My yahoo went from 6 megs to 1000 megs.
I can imagine google is going to make their offering so compelling that they are going to redesign the landscape. I expect no less than that.
Another really cool feature they could add is expanded networks of friends, with integration with google map. That would be bitchin.
Object to it on moral grounds, use the same grounds to object to illegal copying, use the same grounds not to buy content that relies on DRM, use the same grounds to not use patent uncumbered and non-open software.
It's all or nothing. If you object on DRM on moral grounds, you should also object to copying of material you don't legally have permission to copy. If you do copy illegally, then you have no moral ground to stand on in regards to DRM.
There is an advantage to your competition using your code, especially if a lot of the competition is using your code. You will be seen as the de-facto standard settig body for the software, and that will attract good-will in the industry, allowing you to potentially hire their finest and brightest.
Also, bear in mind that this will give you an insight of how they run their business.
Finally, you could then turn around and sell them "SuperSoftware Enterprise Edition", since they alreay know and use and love SuperSoftware Standard.
Ultimately, though, your boss does not care unless the business makes moeny off it before year's end.
Remeber Google: If you want to build an $80B company in 6 years: Use linux and develop your own software.
How to get approved for opeartion by the [[neocon]] administration:
* Put the word Virgin in your company name. * Have a space vehicle for people (Nasa's shuttle going nowhere helps) * Don't ask for money from Congress. * Be one of the good guys (brits)
You don't givve up your copyright. You grant a limited use, in accortdance to the license. Failure to follow the license rescinds this limited use. The license, in fact, protect you, the contributor, from people using your code without following the license.
Some games are solo, some games are 2 , some 10, some more, depending on how many peopl you've got on hand. The idea is that if there are 20 people in the room looking bored and itching to do something, you should not offer a tennis match with 18 viewers and 2 players, rather, you should all go outside and play soccer, 10 against 10.
And, honetly, the rules be damned. It's all about having fun, and everybody participating and having fun.
Now, that would be a funner mmorpg game than baseball.
A better mmorpg would be "The Mall" where you can buy items, take them to the car, go home, get dressed in those items (mod your appearance) and go back to the mall.
Of course, with the interesting (what, you're out of size 5?) and the obligatory foodstuff shops that make you gain weight so you have to buy more.
Also, demand or lack thereof on particular items would either make them hard to find, or go to the 70% off rack (in which case you don't want to be caught dead in them).
Finally, the people could trade items.
Now, the really fun thing is that you can have "stores" in the mall that have real online presences. For example, I'm in this virtual mall, and I'm in the computer section, and I'm browsing the bookshelves, and I look at a book, and I want to actually buy it (as IRL), so I click on the (purchase in real life) and it's automatically added to my border.com account.
Also, as I walk around the virtual mall, slurpee in hand, trying to scope out the best-dressed avatars, I see the in-game advertising provided by Vitoria's Secret and Macy's for their Fall Collection.
Finally, this mall would be open 24x7, and you could just, like, hang out with your friends and chat all day...
come on, take the idea and run with it, somebody. I want no credit for the idea, take it, go, go!!!
The flirting with the girl before, hum, getting wit'it, is like that of the game company saying: Woah, this game is gonna be the greatest! It's got a billion triangles all at once and with great gameplay... You do love great gameplay boy... Mmmm, ah, hehe, but not yet, noooo, not yet, gotta wait a little bit longer... How long? Until the game hits the shelves... When is that you ask? Ooooh naughty gamer, you can't wait can you... Maybe next month!!! Aha! But, hey, when you finally get your sweaty palms on it, you'll love it, yes, you'll love it, so save your money now, 'cuz, this biatching game won't be free, oooooh no suh-ree, this game is gonna cost ya! But hey, you'll love it! You'll see, it will definitely be worth the wait!!! Hey, come on boy, save your money for the game... Until then, you can fantasize about it, fanboi, and we'll keep you interested with sneak-peeks screenshots from GameSpy... Oh you naughty gamer, you can't wait to get your fingers on my awd keys...
Then, when the game is released, it's sort of like getting the girl, who's been all hot-to-trot up to that point into your seedy apartment and then suddenly it's all hard work: Come on, install, come on, I got to upgrade my DirectX before you'll play? Oh, come on, just a quickie game right now... What, my videocard isn't good enough for you? ow ow ow! Dont' say that! Oh, and my memory isn't fast enough? Oh please wait here while I go get it...
(on the way to local geek computer store) Dang, I was so looking forward to this...
(back at the crib, after $300 in expenses all installed in the machine) Oh, finally I get to play!!! Whoo Hooo baby come on!!!
(waching boring video intro) Dang, hey, I know, take your time, take your time, I'm waiting right here!!!
(Starting to play) Oh fuck this game sucks. I can't get any of the fancy moves I was hoping for, instead, I can barely move around and then I get knocked back down and gotta start over...
(trying to return game to store) I'm sorry Sir but there's no refund on opened games... But, but, it didn't perform! I got cheated! It's a ripoff! I, I...
Store manager: Now son, you go and let these kind of games for the big boys.. Here, let me show you Playstation games...
Ohhh! Shiny packaging...
---- Note: don't get all excited. It's only a game. On an aside, this is probably why there aren't too many girl gamers. Different dynamics.
>Where I'm from(North Dakota, USA) admins only get paid about 50k, so finding one who can handle everything is fairly rare.
Then obviously the businesses don't care enough. If the salaries were running $130,00/year, plenty of competent admins could be found. (they'd move from other states/countries in droves).
Maybe the reason why North Dakota is short of Unbergeeks is that other states pay better so it's suffering from a slow but telling brain-drain.
What's more fun is that he repeats it, down further in the document, and not quoting from the above text.
Long-haired smellies, and he says it means computer geeks! Ah, we need to do something geekish I tell you, like reprogram their sprinklers or something...
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Just as an aside, email being sent in the clear, anyone that has a rounter out on the internet can probably read billions of emails a year with all sorts of information...
He'll pick one that let him have 50,000 (and growing) in his address book. The max from AOL is 200. The fact that he's already at 200 means that for every new friend he has, he has to bump another one off.
Think about how Gmail buckled the web-mail landscape with 2 gigs of storage (now at 2.4 gigs and growing). My yahoo went from 6 megs to 1000 megs.
I can imagine google is going to make their offering so compelling that they are going to redesign the landscape. I expect no less than that.
Another really cool feature they could add is expanded networks of friends, with integration with google map. That would be bitchin.
What do you mean, dirty?
Oh, I see, maybe you mean shameful.
I would say:
The service may be treated as one if you have very open and adventurous friends.
Isn't that better?
(I'll cut you some slack if you're a Christina Aguilera fan... but not much slack)
No you won't, cuz you won't be watching TV anymore, remember? Now go to Amazon and buy a book :)
Object to it on moral grounds, use the same grounds to object to illegal copying, use the same grounds not to buy content that relies on DRM, use the same grounds to not use patent uncumbered and non-open software.
It's all or nothing. If you object on DRM on moral grounds, you should also object to copying of material you don't legally have permission to copy. If you do copy illegally, then you have no moral ground to stand on in regards to DRM.
[something witty] 3D Television... In Japan!!!
Oh, the irony!
You don't compile python code!
Dude, if I was able to write a wit module and a sarcasm method in it... I'd write a bot to post to slashdot for me.
Well, in that case:
VB: Because 3,000,000 newbies can't be wrong in 1998.
Oh wait.
That's because with higher resolution, people would be out looking for the flag. What they would find is the japanese robot station...
Oh, sorry, I'm not supposed to talk about that.
There is an advantage to your competition using your code, especially if a lot of the competition is using your code. You will be seen as the de-facto standard settig body for the software, and that will attract good-will in the industry, allowing you to potentially hire their finest and brightest.
Also, bear in mind that this will give you an insight of how they run their business.
Finally, you could then turn around and sell them "SuperSoftware Enterprise Edition", since they alreay know and use and love SuperSoftware Standard.
Ultimately, though, your boss does not care unless the business makes moeny off it before year's end.
Remeber Google: If you want to build an $80B company in 6 years: Use linux and develop your own software.
How to get approved for opeartion by the [[neocon]] administration:
* Put the word Virgin in your company name.
* Have a space vehicle for people (Nasa's shuttle going nowhere helps)
* Don't ask for money from Congress.
* Be one of the good guys (brits)
What? Wikicode doesn't work on slashdot?
With a couple of people, I'v just put the knoppix cd and said "use that for a while"
:)
The others, I tell then it's $1,000. So far, no taker... And guess what, people don't call me much anymore...
You don't givve up your copyright. You grant a limited use, in accortdance to the license. Failure to follow the license rescinds this limited use. The license, in fact, protect you, the contributor, from people using your code without following the license.
Didn't.
The point of any game is to get people to play.
Some games are solo, some games are 2 , some 10, some more, depending on how many peopl you've got on hand. The idea is that if there are 20 people in the room looking bored and itching to do something, you should not offer a tennis match with 18 viewers and 2 players, rather, you should all go outside and play soccer, 10 against 10.
And, honetly, the rules be damned. It's all about having fun, and everybody participating and having fun.
But you have to spend money to get TSO.
You should be able to get "The Mall" for free like AOL CDs, since your'e basically going to charge advertizers.
Now, that would be a funner mmorpg game than baseball.
A better mmorpg would be "The Mall" where you can buy items, take them to the car, go home, get dressed in those items (mod your appearance) and go back to the mall.
Of course, with the interesting (what, you're out of size 5?) and the obligatory foodstuff shops that make you gain weight so you have to buy more.
Also, demand or lack thereof on particular items would either make them hard to find, or go to the 70% off rack (in which case you don't want to be caught dead in them).
Finally, the people could trade items.
Now, the really fun thing is that you can have "stores" in the mall that have real online presences. For example, I'm in this virtual mall, and I'm in the computer section, and I'm browsing the bookshelves, and I look at a book, and I want to actually buy it (as IRL), so I click on the (purchase in real life) and it's automatically added to my border.com account.
Also, as I walk around the virtual mall, slurpee in hand, trying to scope out the best-dressed avatars, I see the in-game advertising provided by Vitoria's Secret and Macy's for their Fall Collection.
Finally, this mall would be open 24x7, and you could just, like, hang out with your friends and chat all day...
come on, take the idea and run with it, somebody. I want no credit for the idea, take it, go, go!!!
I'm talking about all games in general, not just computer games.
You know, like soccer, basketball, tennis, hockey, golf, ping-pong, monopoly, poker, etc.
Frome, obviously.
'twas a typo.
What do you mean unlimited?
you rent it on a monthly basis until you cancel the contract or your credit card gives out.
Sort of like cable boxes.
Some books bought would probably stand to be read mor ethan once. Most books will self-destruct (from old age) before they are read three times.
Of course, this does not apply to LOTR, of course, or the original dune series.
Zonk, the POINT of games is that people participate.
No wait, I'm serious!!!
The flirting with the girl before, hum, getting wit'it, is like that of the game company saying: Woah, this game is gonna be the greatest! It's got a billion triangles all at once and with great gameplay... You do love great gameplay boy... Mmmm, ah, hehe, but not yet, noooo, not yet, gotta wait a little bit longer... How long? Until the game hits the shelves... When is that you ask? Ooooh naughty gamer, you can't wait can you... Maybe next month!!! Aha! But, hey, when you finally get your sweaty palms on it, you'll love it, yes, you'll love it, so save your money now, 'cuz, this biatching game won't be free, oooooh no suh-ree, this game is gonna cost ya! But hey, you'll love it! You'll see, it will definitely be worth the wait!!! Hey, come on boy, save your money for the game... Until then, you can fantasize about it, fanboi, and we'll keep you interested with sneak-peeks screenshots from GameSpy... Oh you naughty gamer, you can't wait to get your fingers on my awd keys...
Then, when the game is released, it's sort of like getting the girl, who's been all hot-to-trot up to that point into your seedy apartment and then suddenly it's all hard work: Come on, install, come on, I got to upgrade my DirectX before you'll play? Oh, come on, just a quickie game right now... What, my videocard isn't good enough for you? ow ow ow! Dont' say that! Oh, and my memory isn't fast enough? Oh please wait here while I go get it...
(on the way to local geek computer store) Dang, I was so looking forward to this...
(back at the crib, after $300 in expenses all installed in the machine) Oh, finally I get to play!!! Whoo Hooo baby come on!!!
(waching boring video intro) Dang, hey, I know, take your time, take your time, I'm waiting right here!!!
(Starting to play) Oh fuck this game sucks. I can't get any of the fancy moves I was hoping for, instead, I can barely move around and then I get knocked back down and gotta start over...
(trying to return game to store) I'm sorry Sir but there's no refund on opened games...
But, but, it didn't perform! I got cheated! It's a ripoff! I, I...
Store manager: Now son, you go and let these kind of games for the big boys.. Here, let me show you Playstation games...
Ohhh! Shiny packaging...
----
Note: don't get all excited. It's only a game.
On an aside, this is probably why there aren't too many girl gamers. Different dynamics.
>Where I'm from(North Dakota, USA) admins only get paid about 50k, so finding one who can handle everything is fairly rare.
Then obviously the businesses don't care enough. If the salaries were running $130,00/year, plenty of competent admins could be found. (they'd move from other states/countries in droves).
Maybe the reason why North Dakota is short of Unbergeeks is that other states pay better so it's suffering from a slow but telling brain-drain.
What's more fun is that he repeats it, down further in the document, and not quoting from the above text.
Long-haired smellies, and he says it means computer geeks! Ah, we need to do something geekish I tell you, like reprogram their sprinklers or something...
new acronym du jour:
LHS: Long Haired Smellies