The values of the individual letters - you don't get to copy these, they are to a certain extent arbitrary and altough you can discern a general rule, you cannot say that it inevitably leads you to chose those particular values for any variation of the game.
I understand your point, but to nitpick...in this case, that is a bad example. The score of the letters is based upon their frequency in the English language, which is why using X is more points than E. Anyone making a game similar to Scrabble would be highly likely, perhaps even certain, to choose such a scheme, and there is probably no way to avoid making an E worth 1 point and an X worth more.
Dude, a dragonian IP policy would be awesome! Lawful Evil red dragons could burn up overly-restrictive contracts while Lawful Good gold dragons would enforce the GPL!
The INS (now BCS) is the most backward, retarded, morass of a bureaucracy you can imagine. My wife's been in the country for five years and still doesn't have her green card...it was "lost in the mail" once and the replacement will take 24-30 months. They're the worst government agency I've ever dealt with.
Also, don't assume that just because you're a citizen and are coming back, your wife can come back. If you married her overseas, she has no more legal right to enter the US than any other alien (IANAL, but that is my understanding).
My advice is to talk to an immigration attorney ASAP.
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Me, too. I saw the headline and I thought Microgames! Woo-hoo!
Still waiting for a computer adaptation of Car Wars and Iranian Hostage Rescue.
They should fear competition, mainly because their service is very easily copied. There is little to differentiate them from competitors.
Seriously: Netflix ships movies for a flat monthly fee. So does Blockbuster and companies X, Y, and Z. What makes it better? Nothing? Well, then we compete on price and margins go out the window.
It's basic business 101: if you have a strong differentiator (my product is better and no one else can sell it), you can charge more and make money. If you can't, you wind up in a commodity market and you make a lot less...or get trampled by a larger competitor, go through a consolidation wave, etc.
A good example is Tivo. First to market. Good product. Not really anything unique or hard to copy. Now facing stiff competition.
Yes, good customer service should matter, but honestly in these kinds of businesses it's really a self-service kind of deal. Sure if they ship you Patch Adams III when you were waiting for Back Door Housewives Vol 14 you will call up and complain but you're not building a real relationship here.
The Cascadian subduction fault is *extremely* periodic...it's about 300-325 years, and the last one was ~1700. Geologists have taken cores kilometers down and find the same pattern...a layer of sea mud every 300-325 years.
Putting lots of people in the Dalles makes sense. Putting lots of computer doesn't. Let's see:
In the Columbia river flood plain
In an earthquake zone
Not far from the Umatilla chemical weapons depot
And the big one: we're overdue for the every-300-year Cascadian subduction zone tsunami event, which will roll right up the Columbia river. And there are dams both West and East of the Dalles...
I'm just saying...not where I'd put a data center. Many of the major data centers in Portland have moved elsewhere in the last 20 years for reasons such as this. (Yes, there are still some around...I work at one).
Most Oracle clients are considering migrating to PostgreSQL during next buisness "year"
Bwaaaahahahaha. Man, that is funny. Where did you hear such nonsense?
now that it runs natively on Windows; to simplify the development and testing, thereby reducing TCO.
What does that have to do with anything? It's run natively on Linux for a long time if cheap platform was the main consideration.
I'm not saying they shouldn't move or they couldn't move (though in many cases, some Oracle features do prevent switching), but really, "most oracle clients"? I think not.
Believe it or not, there are those of us who didn't like TNG...TOS rewarmed without much creative input at the series-design level. Let's see, another 5 year mission, a bridge man who doesn't understand emotion, titles and music ripped off from earlier efforts...sure, some good stories, flashes of greatness (and flashes of dreck), but overall, not Trek's finest.
I warmed up a little with DS9...mostly because the writing and acting was better. But it was Voyager that really got me back into Trek. All the components of that show really worked for me. I liked the premise, I liked the way it unfolded, and I especially liked that many of the earlier themes in Trek - borg, holodecks, the prime directive, etc. - were finally explored in depth and without the simple black & white world view that plagued TNG.
Enterprise doesn't really do much for me...I may give it another chance once the first boxed set hits the shelves.
So...as someone who remembers watching James T. Kirk on TV as a child...I can say that that it wasn't Voyager that lost touch...in fact, it brought me back. I'm not the only person I've met who feels this way.
It just shows that IBM is running scared from Solaris 10.
Bwwwwwwaaaaahahahaahahaha! Man, that is funny. The reason things aren't ported yet is that Solaris 10 IS NOT SHIPPING YET. Duh.
Solaris 10 is set to take a lot of customers away from IBM. IBM is very afraid.
Unlikely. Solaris 10 has some nifty features, but a lot of it is catch-up to AIX...I mean, you don't see a lot of Veritas Volume Manager and such sold for AIX because it comes with its own (good, unlike SDS) volume manager and filesystem. ZFS might finally get Solaris to par with AIX.
Solaris 10 has LPARs...excuse me, containers. Except they're not as nice as AIX's. Especially when you get to I/O.
DTrace is about all Solaris 10 has on AIX. It's neat. But it's not enough to make up the big gap: processor speed. SPARC chips, even SPARC IVs, are *S*L*O*W*. It amazes me still, but I've got Intel boxes than run faster than Suns and that is truly sad. Sure, I can get Opteron from Sun for the low-end stuff, but when I want to look at an 8-way box or a 16-way box, POWER5 really trumps Sun. And when you're paying per-CPU licensing fees, you figure you can live without DTrace.
And then there's the stackable p570 stuff that Sun doesn't even approach.
Sorry, IBM has no reason to run scared. Sun is the one running themselves into the ground.
It isn't? An employee that makes US federal minimum wage and works 40 hour weeks for 50 years from high school graduation until Social Security retirement age will earn a sum total of about $515,000 in their entire lifetime (not adjusted for inflation).
Which is completely irrelevant.
The math you want is $500,000 at, oh let's say 6% ultra-safe retirement investment rate = $30,000 a year before taxes. Take out 25% for the Feds and 9% for the state if you live in Kalifornia and you're looking at less than $20,000. And you still haven't paid for health insurance...or many other things.
The goal in retirement planning is to have a large enough nest egg that you can live off the interest, and hopefully not all of it so you can hedge inflation. Hard to do on $500K.
An alternative is some kind of PDA-based system with a desktop companion. I'm not going to shill for them - PalmGear lists several. That way your Palm and your PC would both have to die.
After all, it's not like it means what it says. "Congress shall make no law..." has been reinterpreted and watered-down so much that it takes years of graduate study to understand.
The first amendment, after all, doesn't say that "Congress shall make no law except for laws barring child pornography, the exposure of military secrets, and naughty words on the radio."
Not that I don't favor barring child porn, but you know, if you want to do that, you need to change the amendment...
Yeah, yeah, I know all about our English Common Law system and all that. I'm just saying, you can't blame people for not understanding the law...and frankly, the law is always a mushy, malleable pile of goo if the Supreme Court can change the meaning of pretty plain words.
Why is Sun taking this position? My view is that its a desperate act to attempt to thwart Linux in the low end market from gradually eating up their higher Solaris offerings.
Or replacing them. Time was when you might need something as big as a Sun E10K to run your Oracle databases. Now even Oracle doesn't run its own databases on Sun. Computing power has grown tremendously...the average company's transactional volume has not grown as fast. Lots of companies are happy with a smaller clusters of boxes and don't need $un's high-end kit. And right now, Intel outperforms Sun's slow Sparc chips.
So...smaller commodity boxes can be linked together to provide enough horsepower that large big boxes don't look attractive. That's where Sun's at now...which is why it's pushing Opteron. Too bad everyone else is and there isn't much margin in it...
Yes. Johnathon's "open letter" is one of the silliest, snarkiest, stupidest things I've seen in some time.
Oh, Johnathon, you're so clever with your "open letter" on your blog. Gimme a break. Your company is not doing well and hasn't been since the easy pickings of the dot-com years when everyone did well. You've been one of the sick men of the IT world for years. You finally managed to eke out a tiny profit, but your revenue continues to slide. Analysts are not impressed and while you were busy getting in your competitors' faces and thumping your chest, your stock dropped some more...I mean, I'm reading his blog and looking at SUNW's chart and thinking "are we reading the same Q4 release?" Maybe if you spent some time running it instead of talking shit to your competitors you'd have some ground to stand on.
Why hasn't IBM ported its products to Solaris 10? Perhaps because it isn't released yet. Perhaps because there's no demand. We run IBM tools (Tivoli, MQ, etc.) on Sun boxes and there is every reason to believe that they'll port their tools once they perceive a market. Hey, Johnathon, does N1 support anything other than Sun's blades yet? You lock-in dogs!
Johnathon Schwartz is acting like an overpaid NBA player whose game isn't all that good. If Wilt Chamberlain talks trash, it's one thing, but if it's some second-rate bencher who has no game, it just looks sad. Tell you what, Johnathon - how about not dissing IBM or HP until Sun's back on top?
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I understand your point, but to nitpick...in this case, that is a bad example. The score of the letters is based upon their frequency in the English language, which is why using X is more points than E. Anyone making a game similar to Scrabble would be highly likely, perhaps even certain, to choose such a scheme, and there is probably no way to avoid making an E worth 1 point and an X worth more.
Much better than a draconian IP policy.
Ever? That's a pretty long time span. I wouldn't want to gamble that there will be no extrasteller travel over the next one billion years.
Also, don't assume that just because you're a citizen and are coming back, your wife can come back. If you married her overseas, she has no more legal right to enter the US than any other alien (IANAL, but that is my understanding).
My advice is to talk to an immigration attorney ASAP.
Still waiting for a computer adaptation of Car Wars and Iranian Hostage Rescue.
Given their management's emphasis on employee culture, deciding to merge with an organization as large as Nintendo would be a real surprise.
Seriously: Netflix ships movies for a flat monthly fee. So does Blockbuster and companies X, Y, and Z. What makes it better? Nothing? Well, then we compete on price and margins go out the window.
It's basic business 101: if you have a strong differentiator (my product is better and no one else can sell it), you can charge more and make money. If you can't, you wind up in a commodity market and you make a lot less...or get trampled by a larger competitor, go through a consolidation wave, etc.
A good example is Tivo. First to market. Good product. Not really anything unique or hard to copy. Now facing stiff competition.
Yes, good customer service should matter, but honestly in these kinds of businesses it's really a self-service kind of deal. Sure if they ship you Patch Adams III when you were waiting for Back Door Housewives Vol 14 you will call up and complain but you're not building a real relationship here.
I hope Google bought flood insurance ;)
I'm just saying...not where I'd put a data center. Many of the major data centers in Portland have moved elsewhere in the last 20 years for reasons such as this. (Yes, there are still some around...I work at one).
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And Java geeks are waiting for ant magazine.
Bwaaaahahahaha. Man, that is funny. Where did you hear such nonsense?
now that it runs natively on Windows; to simplify the development and testing, thereby reducing TCO.
What does that have to do with anything? It's run natively on Linux for a long time if cheap platform was the main consideration.
I'm not saying they shouldn't move or they couldn't move (though in many cases, some Oracle features do prevent switching), but really, "most oracle clients"? I think not.
I warmed up a little with DS9...mostly because the writing and acting was better. But it was Voyager that really got me back into Trek. All the components of that show really worked for me. I liked the premise, I liked the way it unfolded, and I especially liked that many of the earlier themes in Trek - borg, holodecks, the prime directive, etc. - were finally explored in depth and without the simple black & white world view that plagued TNG.
Enterprise doesn't really do much for me...I may give it another chance once the first boxed set hits the shelves.
So...as someone who remembers watching James T. Kirk on TV as a child...I can say that that it wasn't Voyager that lost touch...in fact, it brought me back. I'm not the only person I've met who feels this way.
I'll install TOS in first place for credits, just for sheer cultural icon-ism, but Voyager is otherwise tops.
TNG's were the worst, in my opinion...highly derivative of the original, not much originality, and silly music.
But you would go with Apple's DRM'd player. Brilliant.
Bwwwwwwaaaaahahahaahahaha! Man, that is funny. The reason things aren't ported yet is that Solaris 10 IS NOT SHIPPING YET. Duh.
Solaris 10 is set to take a lot of customers away from IBM. IBM is very afraid.
Unlikely. Solaris 10 has some nifty features, but a lot of it is catch-up to AIX...I mean, you don't see a lot of Veritas Volume Manager and such sold for AIX because it comes with its own (good, unlike SDS) volume manager and filesystem. ZFS might finally get Solaris to par with AIX.
Solaris 10 has LPARs...excuse me, containers. Except they're not as nice as AIX's. Especially when you get to I/O.
DTrace is about all Solaris 10 has on AIX. It's neat. But it's not enough to make up the big gap: processor speed. SPARC chips, even SPARC IVs, are *S*L*O*W*. It amazes me still, but I've got Intel boxes than run faster than Suns and that is truly sad. Sure, I can get Opteron from Sun for the low-end stuff, but when I want to look at an 8-way box or a 16-way box, POWER5 really trumps Sun. And when you're paying per-CPU licensing fees, you figure you can live without DTrace.
And then there's the stackable p570 stuff that Sun doesn't even approach.
Sorry, IBM has no reason to run scared. Sun is the one running themselves into the ground.
Which is completely irrelevant.
The math you want is $500,000 at, oh let's say 6% ultra-safe retirement investment rate = $30,000 a year before taxes. Take out 25% for the Feds and 9% for the state if you live in Kalifornia and you're looking at less than $20,000. And you still haven't paid for health insurance...or many other things.
The goal in retirement planning is to have a large enough nest egg that you can live off the interest, and hopefully not all of it so you can hedge inflation. Hard to do on $500K.
An alternative is some kind of PDA-based system with a desktop companion. I'm not going to shill for them - PalmGear lists several. That way your Palm and your PC would both have to die.
The first amendment, after all, doesn't say that "Congress shall make no law except for laws barring child pornography, the exposure of military secrets, and naughty words on the radio."
Not that I don't favor barring child porn, but you know, if you want to do that, you need to change the amendment...
Yeah, yeah, I know all about our English Common Law system and all that. I'm just saying, you can't blame people for not understanding the law...and frankly, the law is always a mushy, malleable pile of goo if the Supreme Court can change the meaning of pretty plain words.
And that is the magic word that makes people seek to overcome stupid DRM limits.
Or replacing them. Time was when you might need something as big as a Sun E10K to run your Oracle databases. Now even Oracle doesn't run its own databases on Sun. Computing power has grown tremendously...the average company's transactional volume has not grown as fast. Lots of companies are happy with a smaller clusters of boxes and don't need $un's high-end kit. And right now, Intel outperforms Sun's slow Sparc chips.
So...smaller commodity boxes can be linked together to provide enough horsepower that large big boxes don't look attractive. That's where Sun's at now...which is why it's pushing Opteron. Too bad everyone else is and there isn't much margin in it...
Yes. Johnathon's "open letter" is one of the silliest, snarkiest, stupidest things I've seen in some time.
Oh, Johnathon, you're so clever with your "open letter" on your blog. Gimme a break. Your company is not doing well and hasn't been since the easy pickings of the dot-com years when everyone did well. You've been one of the sick men of the IT world for years. You finally managed to eke out a tiny profit, but your revenue continues to slide. Analysts are not impressed and while you were busy getting in your competitors' faces and thumping your chest, your stock dropped some more...I mean, I'm reading his blog and looking at SUNW's chart and thinking "are we reading the same Q4 release?" Maybe if you spent some time running it instead of talking shit to your competitors you'd have some ground to stand on.
Why hasn't IBM ported its products to Solaris 10? Perhaps because it isn't released yet. Perhaps because there's no demand. We run IBM tools (Tivoli, MQ, etc.) on Sun boxes and there is every reason to believe that they'll port their tools once they perceive a market. Hey, Johnathon, does N1 support anything other than Sun's blades yet? You lock-in dogs!
Johnathon Schwartz is acting like an overpaid NBA player whose game isn't all that good. If Wilt Chamberlain talks trash, it's one thing, but if it's some second-rate bencher who has no game, it just looks sad. Tell you what, Johnathon - how about not dissing IBM or HP until Sun's back on top?
No, I believe it's pronounced "hyenas".