Exactly. When I was waiting on a plane from Vegas earlier this year, I saw Slither at the movie theater on teh strip right near the MGM Grand. All I knew was that it was playing during the 7 hours I was waiting for my return flight and that it starred Mal from Firefly. That movie was better than Snakes on a Plane, and yet nobody saw it.
SoaP has a certain amount of goof value, and could in theory develop a Rocky Horror audience-participation thing, but in the end it really is just a pretty dumb movie whose makers were at least honest about it.
The performance crown does not really matter because it will probably change hands several times in the next few years, but AMD is still better for the Server Space
Fair 'nuff, though I think the new Xeons are pretty competitive with Opterons, at least at the 1-2 CPU part of the market. It's all a matter of leapfrog, and I have to wonder if the money they saved by being Intel's favored bride was more than the money they'd have earned selling AMD systems to enthusiasts and those who value enthusiast recommendations? I guess we'll never know.
I also wonder how Intel is handing out C2D processors - are they giving Apple or Dell first dibs or do they have enough all around?
And whether Macintel was the precipitating factor behind the acceptance of AMD.
You miss out on all the phat AMD lewtz while they completely dominated Intel for years and years, and you finally decide to piss Intel off and start using AMD..... Just in time for Intel to take back the performance crown!!
The only thing that would be better would be for you to "repent" and go back to exclusively Intel as soon as AMD's next gen launches.
Thank goodness. IMHO it's at least as valuable for folks to post negative reviews of things to know what to avoid as it is to post positive reviews of things to know what to get.
... But having the Brains in the theater would be enough for me: after Joel left the whole prop thing was kinda lame, and after Trace and TV's Frank left the whole everything-else-deep-13-related got pretty useless.
If it were just Joike and the bots, with maybe a few pauses for intermissions, I'd be very happy.
I mean in this day and age, depending on the secrecy of a closed protocol running on top of an open network for a business model seems pretty... dumb... Though obviously they are also trying to do services (like SkypeOut) which make much more sense, what is the value in having a proprietary protocol, when something like SIP (maybe an updated version that supports P2P negotiation) is out there? I mean it's not like the OSS world is playing catch-up this time (like, say, Jabber is compared to AIM's installed and active user base)..
... I interviewed for this outfit for a linux position, and boy did it dishearten me. It seems that all that's left in NYC tech is consulting, banks/investment houses (which are often bastions of dumb corpthink, except for the more technical hedge funds), and shady outfits like this. There's very little in the way of new tech going on in NYC anymore, and the stable work has in many cases moved out to NJ and areas beyond.
IMHO stable back-office jobs in NYC are going the way of the dodo. Even if they don't offshore, they will migrate to states that are friendlier to business and have lower operating costs. I've already left NY, and so far I couldn't be happier. To be honest, I could sit playing WoW in my underwear in NYC and pay a fortune for electricity, cable, insurance, etc.. Or move somewhere else with broadband and do the exact same thing for less?
(and get paid the same, quite honestly, at least in tech the NYC job market has been squeezed so hard that the reputed higher wage level is a bit of an illusion now, so while wages remain stagnant or decline, costs go up up up.. I'm making more as a full timer outside NY than I did as a 'consultant' working in midtown, and that's just net take-home pay, before factoring in insurance and whatnot)
I gave it a try for about a week also. The graphics are BEAUTIFUL, and things feel realistic. However, what I really found most annoying was the realtime-based skill system. There's no XP, there's only buying initial skills and using real time to train them up. Which means you have to set your alarm clock (and/or use EVEmon) to skill things past say lvl 3 (where the times start going into the 8h to 1day to even multiple days).
Why isn't there a miniclient or website that would let you, say, login whilst at work and configure your training? Why not automatic skill queues? If you have a life you can waste a lot of time by being away from your gaming system instead of waiting for skills to complete.
And yeah, you're not going to do any PvP unless you have like 2-3 weeks of skill time invested, and even then don't think about doing anything PvP solo without a battlecruiser or better (which is what, 2 months training time?)
I dunno, in theory I should like the complexity of the game (I mean, I was a HUGE Elite fan, and I'm a Civ/Age of Empires/MoO sort in general), but I think in the end the amount of time sitting and waiting for things to train, waiting for warps, etc. just was not providing a whole lot of fun.
Also, I know more folks in WoW (including family) and I know NOBODY in Eve. I had no problem with the length or thoroughness of the tutorial, and I ended up with a Tristan for NPC fighting and a Navitas for mining. I just got bored and frustrated with all the time spent waiting for shit to happen.
First they surrender to the terrorists, now to the ??AA?
Most definitely not mas macho...
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Will it be the same, or will it be like, "well, Bender saying, 'bite my shiny metal asee' doesn't totally suck, but it's just, you know, different now."
As long as the writers don't use the show as a platform for constant haranguing about Matt Groening's political views, I don't think Futurama will fall into the lameness trap that some other previously-canceled-Fox-animated-comedy-shows-with -iconoclastic-creators-that-are-inspired-by-the-si mpsons have fallen into...
... Besides the whole quiet and compact thing, 2.5" (or smaller) drives should be a relative godsend to folks who like to drive lots of smallish random IO to a collection of disks. A dense array of these (preferably with 7200/10k) would make a DBA's day I'd think.
Think of them as being "only the inner cylinders".
Companies can exist, thrive and even excel without taking advantage of every opportunity to maximize profit. This sort of company tends to be discomfiting to the type of company which would gladly throw some ads at you for extra revenue.
It's more a commoditizing of the market to my mind. That is, if you take all the profit out of a market, who would bother to compete with you? Classifieds on Craigslist become analogous to pork bellies on the Chicago Merc.
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Exactly. When I was waiting on a plane from Vegas earlier this year, I saw Slither at the movie theater on teh strip right near the MGM Grand. All I knew was that it was playing during the 7 hours I was waiting for my return flight and that it starred Mal from Firefly. That movie was better than Snakes on a Plane, and yet nobody saw it.
SoaP has a certain amount of goof value, and could in theory develop a Rocky Horror audience-participation thing, but in the end it really is just a pretty dumb movie whose makers were at least honest about it.
The performance crown does not really matter because it will probably change hands several times in the next few years, but AMD is still better for the Server Space
Fair 'nuff, though I think the new Xeons are pretty competitive with Opterons, at least at the 1-2 CPU part of the market. It's all a matter of leapfrog, and I have to wonder if the money they saved by being Intel's favored bride was more than the money they'd have earned selling AMD systems to enthusiasts and those who value enthusiast recommendations? I guess we'll never know.
I also wonder how Intel is handing out C2D processors - are they giving Apple or Dell first dibs or do they have enough all around?
And whether Macintel was the precipitating factor behind the acceptance of AMD.
You miss out on all the phat AMD lewtz while they completely dominated Intel for years and years, and you finally decide to piss Intel off and start using AMD..... Just in time for Intel to take back the performance crown!!
The only thing that would be better would be for you to "repent" and go back to exclusively Intel as soon as AMD's next gen launches.
But you're not that stupid. Are you?
... I want my Python clips!
Hungary should swallow up Turkey.
Delicious!
Thank goodness. IMHO it's at least as valuable for folks to post negative reviews of things to know what to avoid as it is to post positive reviews of things to know what to get.
And, of course, World of Warcraft.
One game to rule them all, and in the darkness camp them.
(and the universal patch 1.9 came out what, like 3 weeks after the first MBPs?)
Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiidge Racerrrrrrrrrrrr!!
(ps, lameness filter can eatabago.com...)
Probably oil created from processing oil sands and shale.
(Though maybe there will finally be a biodiesel seller in my area by then??)
What, like this?
... But having the Brains in the theater would be enough for me: after Joel left the whole prop thing was kinda lame, and after Trace and TV's Frank left the whole everything-else-deep-13-related got pretty useless.
If it were just Joike and the bots, with maybe a few pauses for intermissions, I'd be very happy.
Crime because of iPods? Try lack of police and lax treatment of criminals. Looks like they need to buy some plungers and hire Giuliani..
If you're not getting lots of civilian complaints, you're not trying hard enough.
... Anytime a company changes its logo or buys naming rights to a stadium, you know they're fucked.
Long live the hypercube!
They didn't invent creativity, and judging by the current state of the majority of the web, they're not the final word in it either.
OH SNAP.
I mean in this day and age, depending on the secrecy of a closed protocol running on top of an open network for a business model seems pretty... dumb... Though obviously they are also trying to do services (like SkypeOut) which make much more sense, what is the value in having a proprietary protocol, when something like SIP (maybe an updated version that supports P2P negotiation) is out there? I mean it's not like the OSS world is playing catch-up this time (like, say, Jabber is compared to AIM's installed and active user base)..
Just curious...
... I interviewed for this outfit for a linux position, and boy did it dishearten me. It seems that all that's left in NYC tech is consulting, banks/investment houses (which are often bastions of dumb corpthink, except for the more technical hedge funds), and shady outfits like this. There's very little in the way of new tech going on in NYC anymore, and the stable work has in many cases moved out to NJ and areas beyond.
IMHO stable back-office jobs in NYC are going the way of the dodo. Even if they don't offshore, they will migrate to states that are friendlier to business and have lower operating costs. I've already left NY, and so far I couldn't be happier. To be honest, I could sit playing WoW in my underwear in NYC and pay a fortune for electricity, cable, insurance, etc.. Or move somewhere else with broadband and do the exact same thing for less?
(and get paid the same, quite honestly, at least in tech the NYC job market has been squeezed so hard that the reputed higher wage level is a bit of an illusion now, so while wages remain stagnant or decline, costs go up up up.. I'm making more as a full timer outside NY than I did as a 'consultant' working in midtown, and that's just net take-home pay, before factoring in insurance and whatnot)
I gave it a try for about a week also. The graphics are BEAUTIFUL, and things feel realistic. However, what I really found most annoying was the realtime-based skill system. There's no XP, there's only buying initial skills and using real time to train them up. Which means you have to set your alarm clock (and/or use EVEmon) to skill things past say lvl 3 (where the times start going into the 8h to 1day to even multiple days).
Why isn't there a miniclient or website that would let you, say, login whilst at work and configure your training? Why not automatic skill queues? If you have a life you can waste a lot of time by being away from your gaming system instead of waiting for skills to complete.
And yeah, you're not going to do any PvP unless you have like 2-3 weeks of skill time invested, and even then don't think about doing anything PvP solo without a battlecruiser or better (which is what, 2 months training time?)
I dunno, in theory I should like the complexity of the game (I mean, I was a HUGE Elite fan, and I'm a Civ/Age of Empires/MoO sort in general), but I think in the end the amount of time sitting and waiting for things to train, waiting for warps, etc. just was not providing a whole lot of fun.
Also, I know more folks in WoW (including family) and I know NOBODY in Eve. I had no problem with the length or thoroughness of the tutorial, and I ended up with a Tristan for NPC fighting and a Navitas for mining. I just got bored and frustrated with all the time spent waiting for shit to happen.
Actually, the Internet is like New Coke, it'll be around forever!
Hehh hehh hehh!
(Y'See, the kids, they listen to the rap, which gives them the brain damage!)
First they surrender to the terrorists, now to the ??AA?
Most definitely not mas macho...
Will it be the same, or will it be like, "well, Bender saying, 'bite my shiny metal asee' doesn't totally suck, but it's just, you know, different now."
h -iconoclastic-creators-that-are-inspired-by-the-si mpsons have fallen into...
As long as the writers don't use the show as a platform for constant haranguing about Matt Groening's political views, I don't think Futurama will fall into the lameness trap that some other previously-canceled-Fox-animated-comedy-shows-wit
... Besides the whole quiet and compact thing, 2.5" (or smaller) drives should be a relative godsend to folks who like to drive lots of smallish random IO to a collection of disks. A dense array of these (preferably with 7200/10k) would make a DBA's day I'd think.
Think of them as being "only the inner cylinders".
probably trying to keep up with all the Lazy Town, Hermione and Pedobear YTMNDs...
Companies can exist, thrive and even excel without taking advantage of every opportunity to maximize profit. This sort of company tends to be discomfiting to the type of company which would gladly throw some ads at you for extra revenue.
It's more a commoditizing of the market to my mind. That is, if you take all the profit out of a market, who would bother to compete with you? Classifieds on Craigslist become analogous to pork bellies on the Chicago Merc.
Bacon, butter, whole coffee, paper products, gotta love it.
And milk at my local supermarket is $3.99/gal, whilst Kirkland brand is $2.49! Holy fucking shit Batman!
Call me Robert DeNiro then, cuz them DSes is teh secksey...