I would actually consider this a good thing. This guy let on that he didn't know what the hell he was talking about right up front at the interview, on top of demonstrating a lack of professionalism - a great time to walk, assuming you weren't hurting for the money. I wish every company were so forthcoming about their flaws.
The interface is godawful, setup complexity is worse, and there is no centralized administration. This is hacker-friendly software, not suitable for average business users.
Better yet, jump on as a consultant for a couple months for 6 months worth of normal salaried pay. You did remember not to document any of your code, right?
Firefly didn't make Fox enough money to stay on the air. Firefly didn't make enough money in the box office to guarantee a sequel, or even make one likely. If a fucking Star Wars license cannot compel droves of people to play an MMO, Firefly sure as hell isn't.
Dislaimer: this is coming from a person who absolutely loves Firefly
Who does not have a DVD player yet? This is nearly useless, and against Nintendo's purist "this is a game console for playing games" design.
2. Push the online gaming.
This seems obvious, but online gaming is not really a big deal for consoles. PCs lend themselves towards it because you can't properly do anything multiplayer in the same room on a 19" monitor that's sitting up on a desk. There is an entirely different social dynamic going on with the last few Nintendos: playing in the same fucking room. You get lan party fun in a single cheap machine without any complications. Remember when the N64 first came out and had, get this, four controller ports? There is a reason Nintendo has been King of The Dorm for the last few years.
3. Advertise, advertise, advertise.
I don't even think they need to since E3. If the Wii has any decent games at all it's going explode once it hits the market.
Bah. Joke about the sacred cow and get modded into oblivion. Complain about the moderation and get modded offtopic. Prepend a comment with "I'm going to get modded down for saying this" and get a +1, insightful. Such is the tao of Slashdot.
I admit my original comment was flamebait, but, damn it, it was funny flamebait.
You would think the French and RMS would get along better what with both of them having so much in common. The odor, the excessive body hair, the truly MASSIVE egos, the inability to compromise - oh, wait, there's the problem.
Anybody nervous that Google may be letting their eye off the ball (their original business model) by going off on these tangential projects?
No, most people are psyched about it. Long term R&D is something that is hardly encouraged anymore due to quarterly earnings pressure (*cough* HP *cough). Google, on the other hand, actually schedules programmers to work on side projects of their own design. They hire very smart people to think up the Next Big Thing so that they can exploit it. Contrast this with Microsoft expansion policy: throw massive amounts of cash at heavily entrenched markets, then fail to generate any profit. I much prefer Google's method to Microsoft's "send more men over the top" WW1-style attrition.
Reminds me of '99 in America. IT is currently a boom industry in India. This attracts all sorts of "frontrunners", if you will, who are in it purely for the payout. The workers with this mentality usually aren't worth their curry, whatever their country of origin may be.
After reading up and correctly identifying every constellation in both the northern and southern hemispheres, I was kidnapped and transported against my will to the Credence system where I was then press ganged into service for the Unitarians as the so-called "Last Starfighter". It was a harrowing experience; I barely defeated their leader, Xenu, in a last-ditch attack with the Yellow Submarine's emergency weapon system, "Mortal Flower". After a long, boring awards ceremony, I was transported back to Earth. Nobody believed me when I told them my tale, of course, because I had been on acid at the time.
The MS comparison is stretching it. This is just fucking stupid in its own singular fashion. Hmmmm....singular...ity? OH GOD IT'S COLLAPSED IN ON ITSELF GET AWA-
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I would actually consider this a good thing. This guy let on that he didn't know what the hell he was talking about right up front at the interview, on top of demonstrating a lack of professionalism - a great time to walk, assuming you weren't hurting for the money. I wish every company were so forthcoming about their flaws.
If only they put this much time and effort into finding cures for human conditions instead of wasting it all on rodents.
Please. Broken spine? Cured! Mysterious foot pain? Cured! Crippling halitosis? Cured!
The killer for CORBA in the real world was how the f*** do you get 5000 copies of the IDL to 10 platforms at the same time?
Use an interface repository
I was expecting some hardware to actually be shot
one million Hong Kong dollars
I bet the guy who announced that had his pinky firmly planted in the corner of his mouth
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Shouldn't those be "kongbucks"?
That will not be a problem, as I am known in some circles as the "Argus-eyed Cyclops".
The interface is godawful, setup complexity is worse, and there is no centralized administration. This is hacker-friendly software, not suitable for average business users.
Better yet, jump on as a consultant for a couple months for 6 months worth of normal salaried pay. You did remember not to document any of your code, right?
You managed to infer the punchline without getting the joke. Congratulations!
Firefly didn't make Fox enough money to stay on the air. Firefly didn't make enough money in the box office to guarantee a sequel, or even make one likely. If a fucking Star Wars license cannot compel droves of people to play an MMO, Firefly sure as hell isn't.
Dislaimer: this is coming from a person who absolutely loves Firefly
The hardest part was grinding a lens into the shape of pi
I don't know about you, but I'd rather be cruising BlizzCon on my flying mount.
I bet you have just the prettiest neon glow-in-the-dark glitter puff unicorn posters hanging in your bedroom
1. DVD player
Who does not have a DVD player yet? This is nearly useless, and against Nintendo's purist "this is a game console for playing games" design.
2. Push the online gaming.
This seems obvious, but online gaming is not really a big deal for consoles. PCs lend themselves towards it because you can't properly do anything multiplayer in the same room on a 19" monitor that's sitting up on a desk. There is an entirely different social dynamic going on with the last few Nintendos: playing in the same fucking room . You get lan party fun in a single cheap machine without any complications. Remember when the N64 first came out and had, get this, four controller ports? There is a reason Nintendo has been King of The Dorm for the last few years.
3. Advertise, advertise, advertise.
I don't even think they need to since E3. If the Wii has any decent games at all it's going explode once it hits the market.
Bah. Joke about the sacred cow and get modded into oblivion. Complain about the moderation and get modded offtopic. Prepend a comment with "I'm going to get modded down for saying this" and get a +1, insightful. Such is the tao of Slashdot.
I admit my original comment was flamebait, but, damn it, it was funny flamebait.
Flamebait my ass. If making fun of the French is wrong, I don't want to be right.
You would think the French and RMS would get along better what with both of them having so much in common. The odor, the excessive body hair, the truly MASSIVE egos, the inability to compromise - oh, wait, there's the problem.
...would use a superfluid to keep themselves cool. They would also draw upon inspiration to explain the birth of the universe from it.
There, fixed your links
Anybody nervous that Google may be letting their eye off the ball (their original business model) by going off on these tangential projects?
No, most people are psyched about it. Long term R&D is something that is hardly encouraged anymore due to quarterly earnings pressure (*cough* HP *cough). Google, on the other hand, actually schedules programmers to work on side projects of their own design. They hire very smart people to think up the Next Big Thing so that they can exploit it. Contrast this with Microsoft expansion policy: throw massive amounts of cash at heavily entrenched markets, then fail to generate any profit. I much prefer Google's method to Microsoft's "send more men over the top" WW1-style attrition.
Reminds me of '99 in America. IT is currently a boom industry in India. This attracts all sorts of "frontrunners", if you will, who are in it purely for the payout. The workers with this mentality usually aren't worth their curry, whatever their country of origin may be.
After reading up and correctly identifying every constellation in both the northern and southern hemispheres, I was kidnapped and transported against my will to the Credence system where I was then press ganged into service for the Unitarians as the so-called "Last Starfighter". It was a harrowing experience; I barely defeated their leader, Xenu, in a last-ditch attack with the Yellow Submarine's emergency weapon system, "Mortal Flower". After a long, boring awards ceremony, I was transported back to Earth. Nobody believed me when I told them my tale, of course, because I had been on acid at the time.
I do not recommend this product.
Psh. Obviously you've never heard of scienceponential notatification.
Take it at face value folks
So, retarded then?
I tagged this one "pseudozonk"
The MS comparison is stretching it. This is just fucking stupid in its own singular fashion. Hmmmm....singular...ity? OH GOD IT'S COLLAPSED IN ON ITSELF GET AWA-
Now, this may come as a shock to you, but the iPod Nano is not actually NOT 1e10^-9 times the size of a regular iPod...and nobody gives a damn.