Remember when Microsoft supported a 'grassroots' campaign to have people write in to their local newspaper and talk about how they supported Microsoft during the anti-trust trial?
These journalists are working to make sure they don't get played like that. And of course, clever public relations professionals are always trying to make boilerplate look less like boilerplate...
Advertising is drying up, pure and simple. Most modern ads don't even list the advantages of their product in a traditional manner.
P.R. is the new advertising...in the future, it will be very difficult to tell genuine product reviews from laudatory PR copy. Sophisticated PR will lead to the collapse of trust in the media-and I welcome it! People trust the media far too much already...
here's a tip from me to you: if your local news is reporting about 'a miracle diet,' or a 'revolutionary new (fat/aging/heart attack) fighter', they are just lazily barfing up public relations. learn to recognize PR, and educate your friends about it. maybe in the future, you will be able to make money determining which media outlets are legit, and which are paved in Astroturf..
He's a swarthy Eskimo. Will Windows XP be the best product for his whale-oil business? Or will he rely on Linux to make sure that he has enough harpoons in inventory? Tune in today and find out!
The whole thing dies within two years as developers rush to plan for the new platform (with its more expensive games). This short development window has got to impact negatively on both the overall creativity of the games and the full use of a console's potential.
Do you mean "PC" instead of console? Doom 3 might as well come with a new video card.
Game on a PC, and you'll have the fun of
Buggy code that is shipped as soon as it compiles ("Don't worry, we'll patch it later!")
Huge amounts of hard drive real estate wasted.
Two genres! Quake, or Warcraft! Oh yeah, and flight sims.
Rampant cheating in online games.
Plus, over the course of a year or so, you get to watch your "screamin gaming rig" get slooower and slooooower as PC programmers forget about you.
PC games are a ghetto of crappy shareware, super-violent FPS's, and studies in obsessive resource micromanagement (Warcraft). PC gamers have to develop "mods" just to keep the games remotely interesting. You'll never see creative gaming approaches like Crazy Taxi, Rez, or Frequency on a PC...and quite frankly, it's because PC gamers don't demand anything other than an excuse to drop big money on the latest CPUs and video cards.
Sites like Tom's Hardware and Anandtech are group therapy for spendthrifts who attach their masculinity to their Quake framerates. On the other hand, console fans are every day people, who don't want the hassle of constantly upgrading, downloading drivers, and playing the same rehashes over and over.
Wow, those santa clauses who work for Linux keep giving, don't they? Long past December, and here we have the shiny gift of Linux 2.4 kernal VM documentation?
I'll tell ya, I was just about done with SCSI over IP: in theory and praxis and I needed something to read on the crapper. Well, this certainly fits the bill! Thanks to all the hard workers at Linux! Good luck on the Playstation 3!
if the threat of legislation is imminent, then most industries will attempt to form a self-regulating body in order to stave off legislation (see the MPAA or ESRB).
These two (RIAA, BSA) will probably form a similar board which mandates tech/consumer electronics copy "protection" (read: avoidance) standards. They might adopt "fair use" as one of their platforms, in order to keep the DMCA from getting that fair use clause. (It will be 'fair use' on their terms, of course, and they don't like giving it, but it beats pro-consumer legislation in their book).
The bad news: all your computer hardware, consumer electronics, and electronic media will have copy protections.
The good news: it will probably all use the same tech, and be easily broken.
The other bad news: Breaking it may cause your computer, DVD player, etc. not to work as well.
I hate feeling like a criminal every time I want to copy a DVD or watch stolen satellite TV. But the MPAA has really left me no choice!
I was making a milk shake when some uranium I had brought home from the lab fell into the blender. I had used the last of my milk, sugar and icecream on that milkshake, and all the stores were closed. So I drank it anyway. Damn, it was good.
When I awoke the next morning, my body was covered in green scales, even my pee pee. It looked pretty cool, so I jacked off a couple of times. The semen was a flourescent green that even glowed in the dark!
So anyway, as the day progressed, I noticed that I was growing. By sundown I was 20 feet tall, and by dawn I was 50 feet tall. All that growing made me hungry, so I ate the barrel-shaped Lucky Burger restaurant near my house. That was tasty, too.
Then I realized that with my new-found great powers come great responsibilities. So one by one, I tracked down and blasted the rogue LINUX programmers with my fire-breath. Then I ate them. They were okay, they needed a little pepper.
In retrospect, I'm glad this happened to me because now the world is free from those open-source, communist terrorists. Now decent, law-abiding Americans like the good people at Newsmax.com can continue the only way of life, the American way. God bless America! Remember 9-11!
what the hell else will keep out there in trenches? ask any ww2 vet, and he'll tell ya. spam was a major part of the lend/lease program, so you brits should know about that too.
The CES is in town. Prepare to work double shifts! Young men will venture forth from basements across the country, paying big bucks in order to be deflowered by you. Dress like a 'booth babe' and score big!
Older nerds will scrape your gullet with their rough beards, then tearfully confess that they're married, and this is the first time they've cheated on their homely wives. Laugh in their face, then go get some more geeks!
Sell, sell, sell, ladies! This is your time! And don't fall for that "I can get you out of here, and set you up with your own adult website line." The first bitch that gives me that shit will hear it from the side of my cane.
This actually could have some practical use as well...imagine being stuck inside a building during a collapse. With a camera phone, the rescue worker could take pictures of herself masturbating, and upload them to the Internet. You'd be saved!
this could be useful! imagine if you were stuck in a building collapse, and a rescue worker posted pictures of himself masturbating with a camera phone! You'd be saved!
The PS2's video hardware "much" superior to the Dreamcast? What video hardware? The PS2 has no dedicated VRAM, which means:
1)Limited amounts of color can be loaded at one time...every notice how bland the color is in most PS2 games? Many look like Quake 1, studded in brown, green, and grey.
2)Not too many textures can be loaded at once. Most PS2 games have chunky, flat textures.
Also, the PS2 can't do antialiasing without a huge performance hit, so lots of games "cheat" by blurring. And boy, does that ever get annoying when playing redeyed into the wee hours...
The PS2 in general is more powerful than the Dreamcast, I won't debate that. It seems to have be designed to act as a node for a huge parallel computer (why this was done for a game console is anyone's guess).
But in terms of texture quality, color depth, etc, the Dreamcast wins out. Take a look at Phantasy Star Online; the graphics there beat any PS2 game out there. PS2 graphics are chunky, dull, and blurry, with few exceptions.
I gotta say, I don't like this. Charging for the applications makes the whole concept of digital hub fall flat on its face. If they want to keep it simple for Janie Porsche and friends, they'll allow people to keep updating the iApps automatically through Software Update, at least until a major revision of the OS comes out. Otherwise, this scenario comes to light: --
Nontech user: "I just got the new 200GB iPod today, let me just plug it to my two-year-old iMac!"
iMac: BLEEP! You don't have iTunes 4! This new iPod won't work without it! That'll be $15, please! Click here to go to Apple's website and download drivers!
Nontech user: Christmas is ruined! -- A device that uses multiple iApps (like the iPod with iSync, iTunes, iPod software, and [in the future, possibly Airport or Bluetooth]) could be quite pricey to maintain.
My philosophy in buying a Mac was, "pay a lot now, don't worry about it later." But if iApps start to cost extra (on top of the premium Mac hardware price), Apple's convenience advantage vs. Wintel is greatly diminished.
My question is, if Linux overtakes MacOS on the desktop, can Microsoft continue to justify to it's shareholders the reasons behind not making Office for Linux?
First of all...how could you possibly measure the amount of people using Linux on the desktop? I bet most people using it are "privacy" freaks who would not provide this information, especially to Microsoft.
Secondly, how many people really use only Linux? Even the most hardcore Linux geeks I know have Win2k or WinXP dual-boots. No need to make Office there. They can't say there isn't a market if they make Office for a *less* popular OS.
A less popular OS that is not hardware compatible with Windows. A less popular OS where Excel and Word started. A less popular OS which provides huge amounts of profits for Microsoft. A less popular OS where people are accustomed to paying for consistent software from mature, accountable developers.
Unfortunately, this is what sells these days. they wouldn't be doin it if it wasn't making money.
Actually, in the last 5 years, the US radio industry has been in a deep recession. Jobs are disappearing, ratings are down across the board, advertising rates have dropped substantially.
Yes, Clear Channel makes money. But the radio industry as a whole is smaller. Competition in most markets is nearly nonexistant. Individual program directors have very little input in these "cookie cutter" stations. Instead, playlists are chosen at the corporate HQ, ensuring conformity across the stations.
As a result, stations lose their uniqueness. People aren't forming bonds with DJs anymore, and as a result, they are listening to the radio less.
my big questions is this: when do we see the shift from clearchannel following the market to clearchannel shaping the market to their ideas?
Like all schlockmeisters, Clear Channel will tell you that they are merely giving the public what they want. But the decline in the radio industry as a whole does not bear that out.
So...are they following the market or shaping the market? The answer is, when you think of musical tastes are merely a 'market', there's only so far you can go. The only way to build a truly loyal radio following is through charismatic DJs and program managers who play music they love.
IT costs businesses big money. IT people in general do not care about generating the best solution for a problem. They care about doing what's easiest for them, and keeping their jobs.
This bureaucratic attitude is bad in business, but it's plain horrible for education. I have seen countless school computer labs in disarray, because the "IT" people hired to put the lab together can barely snap together a computer, let alone approach infrastructure problems.
This can negatively impact education in a big way. My sisters' (private) school decided that they all needed Compaq laptops. But they didn't fully convert their curriculum over, so my 100lb. sister has to carry a 10Lb. laptop, plus tons of heavy books. The laptops are not durable enough for the school environment, the wireless network is laughably insecure, and the IT budget just keeps going up and up.
Most teachers aren't tech-savvy enough to counter these "expert" arguments, and their input (usually requesting Macs) is often ignored.
If computers are to be treated as "educational tools," then educators should be making the decision, not IT. IT should be for service and repair, not "computer dictators." They have seriously overstepped their boundaries and are harming education.
Hey, spam is a minor annoyance, but come on...$7 million? Why does everyone hate spam THAT much? I mean, while you're griping about it, or writing those clever "spam filters" that never work, you could be volunteering in your community.
There's a lot of people out of a job this Christmas-maybe it's time to change your priorities and lose (not loose) the smug demeanor at least for a few weeks.
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Remember when Microsoft supported a 'grassroots' campaign to have people write in to their local newspaper and talk about how they supported Microsoft during the anti-trust trial?
These journalists are working to make sure they don't get played like that. And of course, clever public relations professionals are always trying to make boilerplate look less like boilerplate...
Advertising is drying up, pure and simple. Most modern ads don't even list the advantages of their product in a traditional manner.
P.R. is the new advertising...in the future, it will be very difficult to tell genuine product reviews from laudatory PR copy. Sophisticated PR will lead to the collapse of trust in the media-and I welcome it! People trust the media far too much already...
here's a tip from me to you: if your local news is reporting about 'a miracle diet,' or a 'revolutionary new (fat/aging/heart attack) fighter', they are just lazily barfing up public relations. learn to recognize PR, and educate your friends about it. maybe in the future, you will be able to make money determining which media outlets are legit, and which are paved in Astroturf..
He's a swarthy Eskimo. Will Windows XP be the best product for his whale-oil business? Or will he rely on Linux to make sure that he has enough harpoons in inventory? Tune in today and find out!
DNS sucks. It's amazing that it works as well as it does. Hopefully one day we will all move to IP v6, and DNS will vanish in a puff of smoke.
The whole thing dies within two years as developers rush to plan for the new platform (with its more expensive games). This short development window has got to impact negatively on both the overall creativity of the games and the full use of a console's potential.
Do you mean "PC" instead of console? Doom 3 might as well come with a new video card.
Game on a PC, and you'll have the fun of
Plus, over the course of a year or so, you get to watch your "screamin gaming rig" get slooower and slooooower as PC programmers forget about you.
PC games are a ghetto of crappy shareware, super-violent FPS's, and studies in obsessive resource micromanagement (Warcraft). PC gamers have to develop "mods" just to keep the games remotely interesting. You'll never see creative gaming approaches like Crazy Taxi, Rez, or Frequency on a PC...and quite frankly, it's because PC gamers don't demand anything other than an excuse to drop big money on the latest CPUs and video cards.
Sites like Tom's Hardware and Anandtech are group therapy for spendthrifts who attach their masculinity to their Quake framerates. On the other hand, console fans are every day people, who don't want the hassle of constantly upgrading, downloading drivers, and playing the same rehashes over and over.
This is very true, and it's actually at a higher level of discourse than Philip Kaplan's book is.
Certainly this opinion deserves to be part of the discussion...or is everyone on this site a brainless Pud fanboy?
I left a burrito in the Microwave!
Hey, hi! Ah, Mr. Jones...once again we see that there is nothing you cannot possess that I cannot take away.
Of course, the Hovedos could have warned you, if only you spoke Hovedos...
Wow, those santa clauses who work for Linux keep giving, don't they? Long past December, and here we have the shiny gift of Linux 2.4 kernal VM documentation?
I'll tell ya, I was just about done with SCSI over IP: in theory and praxis and I needed something to read on the crapper. Well, this certainly fits the bill! Thanks to all the hard workers at Linux! Good luck on the Playstation 3!
if the threat of legislation is imminent, then most industries will attempt to form a self-regulating body in order to stave off legislation (see the MPAA or ESRB).
These two (RIAA, BSA) will probably form a similar board which mandates tech/consumer electronics copy "protection" (read: avoidance) standards. They might adopt "fair use" as one of their platforms, in order to keep the DMCA from getting that fair use clause. (It will be 'fair use' on their terms, of course, and they don't like giving it, but it beats pro-consumer legislation in their book).
The bad news: all your computer hardware, consumer electronics, and electronic media will have copy protections.
The good news: it will probably all use the same tech, and be easily broken.
The other bad news: Breaking it may cause your computer, DVD player, etc. not to work as well.
I hate feeling like a criminal every time I want to copy a DVD or watch stolen satellite TV. But the MPAA has really left me no choice!
I was making a milk shake when some uranium I had brought home from the lab fell into the blender. I had used the last of my milk, sugar and icecream on that milkshake, and all the stores were closed. So I drank it anyway. Damn, it was good.
When I awoke the next morning, my body was covered in green scales, even my pee pee. It looked pretty cool, so I jacked off a couple of times. The semen was a flourescent green that even glowed in the dark!
So anyway, as the day progressed, I noticed that I was growing. By sundown I was 20 feet tall, and by dawn I was 50 feet tall. All that growing made me hungry, so I ate the barrel-shaped Lucky Burger restaurant near my house. That was tasty, too.
Then I realized that with my new-found great powers come great responsibilities. So one by one, I tracked down and blasted the rogue LINUX programmers with my fire-breath. Then I ate them. They were okay, they needed a little pepper.
In retrospect, I'm glad this happened to me because now the world is free from those open-source, communist terrorists. Now decent, law-abiding Americans like the good people at Newsmax.com can continue the only way of life, the American way. God bless America! Remember 9-11!
what the hell else will keep out there in trenches? ask any ww2 vet, and he'll tell ya. spam was a major part of the lend/lease program, so you brits should know about that too.
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that is so unfunny, I almost mutilated my own genitals after reading it! Try again!
whoever posted this bears the weight of ALL TRUTH ON SLASHDOT. He could use more tact, but you can't deny the veracity of his message!
The CES is in town. Prepare to work double shifts! Young men will venture forth from basements across the country, paying big bucks in order to be deflowered by you. Dress like a 'booth babe' and score big!
Older nerds will scrape your gullet with their rough beards, then tearfully confess that they're married, and this is the first time they've cheated on their homely wives. Laugh in their face, then go get some more geeks!
Sell, sell, sell, ladies! This is your time! And don't fall for that "I can get you out of here, and set you up with your own adult website line." The first bitch that gives me that shit will hear it from the side of my cane.
This actually could have some practical use as well...imagine being stuck inside a building during a collapse. With a camera phone, the rescue worker could take pictures of herself masturbating, and upload them to the Internet. You'd be saved!
this could be useful! imagine if you were stuck in a building collapse, and a rescue worker posted pictures of himself masturbating with a camera phone! You'd be saved!
1)Limited amounts of color can be loaded at one time...every notice how bland the color is in most PS2 games? Many look like Quake 1, studded in brown, green, and grey.
2)Not too many textures can be loaded at once. Most PS2 games have chunky, flat textures.
Also, the PS2 can't do antialiasing without a huge performance hit, so lots of games "cheat" by blurring. And boy, does that ever get annoying when playing redeyed into the wee hours...
The PS2 in general is more powerful than the Dreamcast, I won't debate that. It seems to have be designed to act as a node for a huge parallel computer (why this was done for a game console is anyone's guess).
But in terms of texture quality, color depth, etc, the Dreamcast wins out. Take a look at Phantasy Star Online; the graphics there beat any PS2 game out there. PS2 graphics are chunky, dull, and blurry, with few exceptions.
Well, actually, I didn't have much to say. Except...YOU ARE A FUCKNUCKLE!
--
Nontech user: "I just got the new 200GB iPod today, let me just plug it to my two-year-old iMac!"
iMac: BLEEP! You don't have iTunes 4! This new iPod won't work without it! That'll be $15, please! Click here to go to Apple's website and download drivers!
Nontech user: Christmas is ruined!
--
A device that uses multiple iApps (like the iPod with iSync, iTunes, iPod software, and [in the future, possibly Airport or Bluetooth]) could be quite pricey to maintain.
My philosophy in buying a Mac was, "pay a lot now, don't worry about it later." But if iApps start to cost extra (on top of the premium Mac hardware price), Apple's convenience advantage vs. Wintel is greatly diminished.
First of all...how could you possibly measure the amount of people using Linux on the desktop? I bet most people using it are "privacy" freaks who would not provide this information, especially to Microsoft.
Secondly, how many people really use only Linux? Even the most hardcore Linux geeks I know have Win2k or WinXP dual-boots. No need to make Office there.
They can't say there isn't a market if they make Office for a *less* popular OS.
A less popular OS that is not hardware compatible with Windows. A less popular OS where Excel and Word started. A less popular OS which provides huge amounts of profits for Microsoft. A less popular OS where people are accustomed to paying for consistent software from mature, accountable developers.
Actually, in the last 5 years, the US radio industry has been in a deep recession. Jobs are disappearing, ratings are down across the board, advertising rates have dropped substantially.
Yes, Clear Channel makes money. But the radio industry as a whole is smaller. Competition in most markets is nearly nonexistant. Individual program directors have very little input in these "cookie cutter" stations. Instead, playlists are chosen at the corporate HQ, ensuring conformity across the stations.
As a result, stations lose their uniqueness. People aren't forming bonds with DJs anymore, and as a result, they are listening to the radio less.
my big questions is this: when do we see the shift from clearchannel following the market to clearchannel shaping the market to their ideas?
Like all schlockmeisters, Clear Channel will tell you that they are merely giving the public what they want. But the decline in the radio industry as a whole does not bear that out.
So...are they following the market or shaping the market? The answer is, when you think of musical tastes are merely a 'market', there's only so far you can go. The only way to build a truly loyal radio following is through charismatic DJs and program managers who play music they love.
Does anyone besides ATi make graphics anymore?
This bureaucratic attitude is bad in business, but it's plain horrible for education. I have seen countless school computer labs in disarray, because the "IT" people hired to put the lab together can barely snap together a computer, let alone approach infrastructure problems.
This can negatively impact education in a big way. My sisters' (private) school decided that they all needed Compaq laptops. But they didn't fully convert their curriculum over, so my 100lb. sister has to carry a 10Lb. laptop, plus tons of heavy books. The laptops are not durable enough for the school environment, the wireless network is laughably insecure, and the IT budget just keeps going up and up.
Most teachers aren't tech-savvy enough to counter these "expert" arguments, and their input (usually requesting Macs) is often ignored.
If computers are to be treated as "educational tools," then educators should be making the decision, not IT. IT should be for service and repair, not "computer dictators." They have seriously overstepped their boundaries and are harming education.
1)Use drugs.
2)POST!
3)Devise ways to live in a wooden grocery store.
4)Beards
5)Redundant popsicle hat.
There's a lot of people out of a job this Christmas-maybe it's time to change your priorities and lose (not loose) the smug demeanor at least for a few weeks.