Though many have noted that the article was aimed at developers, I should note that the 4% marketshare is nearly meaningless. Consider that a huge percentage of the other 96% consist of things like server farms and office computers. No one plays games on server farms. Only fools play games at the office.
Apple gets a much larger chunk of the home market and the educational market, which is the reason there is still any game development going on for the Mac at all.
Incidentally, I still get upwards of 20% of visits to my websites from Mac users.
The last episode of last season shoulda been the end. After all, it had been obvious for a couple years that it was all leading up to the big kiss. We got that, and then one more season full of retreads minus Duchovney.
It's like reading a fairy tale with 15 pages after where it says "and they lived happily ever after."
In my experience (as a longtime magazine production person), magazines with some sort of bias are more effective than those that have none. In fact, I can't think of a magazine without some bias or other...
Point being, just because you don't agree with their POV doesn't mean they won't find readers.
That more expensive newspaper, you can give it to a friend when you are done reading it. Not sure what Salon would do if you tried the same with them...
The one thing that disturbs me about Salon's model is that it is absolutely not available to those who can't afford it, i.e. poor folks. Something like, say, Time you can go to your local public library and read.
Maybe libraries are subscribing to Salon. I dunno. If not, it seems like their solution might be exacerbating the so-called technological divide.
I learned Assembly on the Z-80 when I was about 17. I remember this attrocious manual I got from my high-school computer class teacher (a bizarre old fossil who probably did time with punch-card readers). It looked like it was written in Algeria and translated into English by drunken Thai sweatshop workers.
But, a few days later I could make the monitors on all the TRS-80's in the room flash black and white. A monumental step forward for me, but all my classmates (who spent their time learning how to format actuarial tables in BASIC) weren't impressed...
This is an interesting question. I had a similar problem on a humor website that I run, Knowumsayin'.
We had a feature called the Name Game, in which we would post pictures of weird looking people and users could give them nicknames. We expected some rude comments -- no problems there, but after a while the section was starting to make the whole site look really bad. People were simply posting names like "nigger" on this one black guy. There was nothing clever about it, and most of the names on all the pictures were nothing more than offensive and juvenile.
I know, "offensive" can be subjective. But, here's the catch: we also had a voting system in place so that people could moderate names. And each night names with votes below 5 (on a scale from 1-10) would be automatically deleted.
Well, it didn't help. Very few people were interested in voting on names (except the people that put them up in the first place), so the nasty stuff just stayed at the top. The feature was pretty popular, but only with dumbbells.
So we took it down. That was almost a month ago, and I still haven't found a solution.
Uh, what Confederate troops made it to New Jersey? Was this some little cavalry raid or something? Frankly, I'd have to say that any Confederates in New Jersey were probably lost. After all, I can't imagine there was much they could have done there beyond destroying some easily replaced supplies...
You mean real world strategies are used over months or weeks. Tactics tend to be on a scale of minutes, hours, or possibly days.
I've noticed across this topic that many people can't seem to distinguish between tactics and strategy, which makes me wonder what the discussion is really about.
If I had to write a letter every time I wanted to protect my privacy, I wouldn't have time to earn a living. Privacy should be the default, not the special route.
This is run-of-the-mill stuff. I'm like this with regard to the Boston Red Sox every year, from about March until the inevitable collapse... It always seems if I know enough, everything will work out fine.
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Though many have noted that the article was aimed at developers, I should note that the 4% marketshare is nearly meaningless. Consider that a huge percentage of the other 96% consist of things like server farms and office computers. No one plays games on server farms. Only fools play games at the office.
Apple gets a much larger chunk of the home market and the educational market, which is the reason there is still any game development going on for the Mac at all.
Incidentally, I still get upwards of 20% of visits to my websites from Mac users.
The last episode of last season shoulda been the end. After all, it had been obvious for a couple years that it was all leading up to the big kiss. We got that, and then one more season full of retreads minus Duchovney.
It's like reading a fairy tale with 15 pages after where it says "and they lived happily ever after."
In my experience (as a longtime magazine production person), magazines with some sort of bias are more effective than those that have none. In fact, I can't think of a magazine without some bias or other...
Point being, just because you don't agree with their POV doesn't mean they won't find readers.
That more expensive newspaper, you can give it to a friend when you are done reading it. Not sure what Salon would do if you tried the same with them...
The one thing that disturbs me about Salon's model is that it is absolutely not available to those who can't afford it, i.e. poor folks. Something like, say, Time you can go to your local public library and read.
Maybe libraries are subscribing to Salon. I dunno. If not, it seems like their solution might be exacerbating the so-called technological divide.
Note: I say all this as a subscriber.
Ever heard of pay-per-view?
Hear hear.
Thank you for that burst of intelligence.
Am I correct in my assumption that the idea of "pay to speak" is inherently inimical to democracy?
Oh, I forgot -- democracy went out with flapper dresses...
Ads are the main driving force of all the media.
What about books? The telephone? Public/college radio? Usenet? Email? Last I checked, those are all media...
One should be very circumspect in the use of words like "all."
I learned Assembly on the Z-80 when I was about 17. I remember this attrocious manual I got from my high-school computer class teacher (a bizarre old fossil who probably did time with punch-card readers). It looked like it was written in Algeria and translated into English by drunken Thai sweatshop workers.
But, a few days later I could make the monitors on all the TRS-80's in the room flash black and white. A monumental step forward for me, but all my classmates (who spent their time learning how to format actuarial tables in BASIC) weren't impressed...
Goodbye Zilog, and thanks for the memories.
Thank you for that burst of common sense.
Agreed. Ice on Charon would help us clear a major hurdle on the road to building our first Howard Johnson's on Pluto.
This is an interesting question. I had a similar problem on a humor website that I run, Knowumsayin'.
We had a feature called the Name Game, in which we would post pictures of weird looking people and users could give them nicknames. We expected some rude comments -- no problems there, but after a while the section was starting to make the whole site look really bad. People were simply posting names like "nigger" on this one black guy. There was nothing clever about it, and most of the names on all the pictures were nothing more than offensive and juvenile.
I know, "offensive" can be subjective. But, here's the catch: we also had a voting system in place so that people could moderate names. And each night names with votes below 5 (on a scale from 1-10) would be automatically deleted.
Well, it didn't help. Very few people were interested in voting on names (except the people that put them up in the first place), so the nasty stuff just stayed at the top. The feature was pretty popular, but only with dumbbells.
So we took it down. That was almost a month ago, and I still haven't found a solution.
Just quietly delete all of you spam, and when spammers stop making money then they will eventually stop.
No they won't. I haven't replied to a spammer in years, and I get more spam now than I ever have. I would guess I get 40-60 pieces of spam a day.
Uh, what Confederate troops made it to New Jersey? Was this some little cavalry raid or something? Frankly, I'd have to say that any Confederates in New Jersey were probably lost. After all, I can't imagine there was much they could have done there beyond destroying some easily replaced supplies...
You mean real world strategies are used over months or weeks. Tactics tend to be on a scale of minutes, hours, or possibly days.
I've noticed across this topic that many people can't seem to distinguish between tactics and strategy, which makes me wonder what the discussion is really about.
Now I understand the LINUX image problem in the "corperate" world :(
Yeah, especially compared to those vast legions of sophistcated, mature Windows users.
Slashdot's data does matter, it's a site that gets millions of visitors a day and should average at least 1000 posts a day.
Depends on your definition of matter. Your post, for example, does not matter.
I have a friend who trademarked the phrase "freedom of expression."
He then invented a fake lawsuit over the phrase, which he got a newspaper in Massachusetts (I forget which) to cover.
When the paper found out that the lawsuit was a hoax, they were, understandably, pissed.
Same friend wrote them a letter asking if he could use the article on the lawsuit in his doctoral thesis.
They wrote him back, invoked copyright ('cause they were pissed), and said no way can you use that article.
So he used the letter they wrote him. It now serves as the introduction to his thesis.
True story. He now teaches communications at the University of Iowa.
I've been looking up IPs listed in my logs -- just curious to know who's infected -- and guess what I found:
64.121.170.4
Look it up for a good time...
If I had to write a letter every time I wanted to protect my privacy, I wouldn't have time to earn a living. Privacy should be the default, not the special route.
This is run-of-the-mill stuff. I'm like this with regard to the Boston Red Sox every year, from about March until the inevitable collapse... It always seems if I know enough, everything will work out fine.
Never does.
Nice enough for them to give you an opportunity to opt out. However...
You have to supply your username, which I don't have (I bought something from egghead about five years ago).
There is no mechanism for retrieving said username, as far as I can tell.
There is no one at Egghead responsible for replying to the annoyed emails sent by me and people like me.
So that's not really much of an opt-out, is it?
And while we're on the subject, how many licks does it take to get to the center of the Milky Way?
This article is a prime example of why God gave us web designers. White text on light blue background? Yeah, right.
I routinely download shareware that expires after a certain period of time. What's the diff?