You are exactly correct! I would have considered one "if" the economy wasn't totally sucking. An unemployment rate of 10+%, with an administration and congress that seems to hate business is more than enough to make me drop all consideration for buying a new 3D TV. This kind of sucks, because we could really use a new TV now, but we will just have to do without. I have two other co-workers in the same boat.
Hey, I have an idea, how about "if" Adobe wanted to go ahead and create FLASH for the Iphone and give it away? Wait they are not allowed to do that. How about if Oracle wanted to develop Java for the iPhone and also give it way? Nope they can't either. There isn't any good technical reason, but just a political one like you mentioned. Apples desire to kill anything that isn't theirs (Sounds like Microsoft to me).
So for those developers of Flash and Java (client side), you have a choice, learn Objective C or move to a different platform. Yes some developers are creating iPhone apps, but others are migrating over to other platforms (Google). Also, yes I know about the cross compilers, but that is an unfortunate workaround.
At the end of the day CUSTOMERS want Flash and Java on their phones but Apple is being a prick about it and not allowing it. Good competition will cause them to change their minds about this.
I hoped that this wouldn't start some type of language war. That was not my intent. If you want to develop a cross platform application that has a GUI and runs on multiple platforms, that can be done with many languages, but not as well as java.
So technically yes C can do cross platform stuff, as I am sure a lot of languages do, but creating a cross platform gui is a quite a bit more of a challenge. Yes I know that you "could" load things like KDE and like on various platforms, but for most people that is a real hassle.
The myth about simple cross-platform development in Java is just that, a myth. Anybody with cross-platform Java experience will attest to this. Java, as a language, has grown stagnant, while C# has continued to evolve.
I and our team of 100+ Java developers will disagree with your statement of Java and cross-platform development. We find it excellent. Is it perfect? Nope, but in my opinion it would be a 9 out of 10 with the next closest competitor being.... Well there isn't really any close competitor but I guess we could give the C language a 2 out of 10. Perhaps Ruby is good but I haven't looked at it. Granted I am talking more about the JVM that Java itself. However, Java like other languages has evolved quite a bit in the last few years.
Does Java have the radical changes that say languages like SCALA have? Nope, but then again it shouldn't have that. Is it stagnant? Not at all.
The core difference you see between any of the Microsoft languages and the JVM languages is that the JVM languages somewhat try to work within the community. They also want to maintain binary (class) backward compatibility. Microsoft is an absolute dictator with their language and even to a large part their tools. This does have it's advantages, in that stuff comes out quicker, but then again, if you are a business and built you lifeblood one VB6 to have it brushed aside by Microsoft, you might be a little angry about that ruthless dictator approach. If you are some contractor type of person who wants constant change in the core framework to make your life easier (at the cost of compatibility), then you would probably like this approach.
So in short things like closures will be in Java 7 (not a small task), and Java the language is not at all stagnant. Cross platform development, testing and support is excellent with Java. We use OSX, Ubuntu, Microsoft Windows XP and 7, and RedHat with no problems.
I agree totally. I also own all the R&C games for the PS3, and LBP. The sad part is how hard you Sony pushed LBP to have it sell like it did. Granted the game has some great legs but it is still sad. Then you compare R&C to Resistance and you see why Insomniac would focus on FPS for the PS3.
I believe what Sony really hopes is that it will help developers create games for the Wii and PS3. The difference between the two will not be that huge other than one has HD. However, the huge problem for Sony is that this controller isn't in the hands of the 32+ MILLION PS3 owners. The other problem is that the vast majority of PS3 owners currently don't really buy the "casual" games and thus the games don't reflect the market base. Now Sony getting the PS3 down to 300 in the U.S.A has helped a ton, but the market here still buys the hard core games for the PS3 a lot more.
I worked for a large corporation. Not huge, but large enough to find shortcuts to covering employees. Instead of having insurance, they acted as the insurer and had Aetna act as a "manager" of the plan. Not only was this cheaper for them, they got out of all the regulations governing insurance. I had a kid, and they denied coverage because he wasn't a member at the time of his receiving care. But, I couldn't make him a member without a birthdate, so I fought with them for months. They I got canned, and lost access to mechanism to continuing fighting.
Long story short: State bureau of insurance couldn't do anything. Hospital hit me with $5,000 in bills, and the corporation probably got a tax write off.
I used to be capitalist until I saw capitalism in action.
Dude that is only one small part of Capitalism, the other part is having competition among employers willing to pay good people what they are worth. The great thing about it vs the government trying to take care of you is that you have some (little) control of the situation. In your case you quit that place and probably went to a better job. Someone smart is probably thinking of a way to provide healthcare (this would be my company), at a cheaper and better way. Without competition there will be 0 innovation. You may be too young to remember, but the phone company use to have a monopoly in the U.S.A. and a LOT of people used similar arguments back to try and stay that way. Thank God that didn't happen.
Lastly, I was never a Socialist, but have seen it in action. It sucks bad. On paper it may look good but in practice it sucks.
The reason the PS3 currently uses a disc is that the entire netflix program is written in Java. Specifically a BDJ. So the PS3 treats this disc as a Blue-Ray movie and runs their Java program as any Blue-Ray player is required to do. It really doesn't use any specific PS3 only code. They are working on a version that won't require the disc and will hopefully have it out soon (this year). I would "guess" it might be possible to take the PS3 disc and put it in to some modern BlueRay player and get it to work.
In my opinion this is pretty impressive what they have done with BDJ, and it shows what it is capable of. It also shows exactly why Microsoft didn't want this as a standard.
What most people believe is that someone (IBM, Microsoft) is paying the EU to "slow" down the deal. NOBODY in their right mind believes that the deal won't go through. So Oracle and Sun are using all the means they can to help get this deal done. Obviously someone on the other side is paying some very large amounts of cash to the EU to slow this down and Oracle and or Sun doesn't have the connections there that IBM/Microsoft have. It could also be HP. Actually now that I think about it, it could also be SAP. They are based out of Europe and they will be hurt if this deal goes through quickly.
This has NOTHING to do with the EU doing "due diligence" or trying to protect competitors or consumers. It has EVERYTHING to do with $$$$. Again, does anyone think this won't go through? This is a "nice" way for the politicians over in the U.S.A. to openly ask for this to get done and "hint" that they can also drag their feet on stuff. Things like say FDA import bans on medical equipment...
Socialized Medicine. Increased troops in Afghanistan or not or so or not or so.... Well we'll get back to you in a few more months... Bailouts of the union auto workers. Continued bailouts of the banks. Seizing more control of private sector jobs. Using tax money to fund abortions. Ever increasing unemployment with no end in sight. Higher taxes on people that make less than 250k a year. Trying to provide health care for illegal immigrants. Trying to bar one media outlet from a "pool" of outlets, from a press meeting. Printing more money that isn't valued to anything any more. Trying to increase the debt faster than anyone in the history has ever done it. Rising gas prices. Ridiculous cash for clunkers that managed to help out Toyota, Honda and everyone BUT the American Auto industry.
Total control of the government and still blaming Republicans for not passing more socialist and fascist agenda... priceless.
Dude, just make a FUN game and don't worry about this. If your game needs it then put it in, if you think it would be less fun with it in then leave it out. Now obviously weigh that against the time and effort it would take to put in this automatic correction mode, if you want it in. It may cost too much to put it in anyway.
My personal thought is that I kind of hate it in a game, and that almost every game that has done it I don't like. Oblivion is a prime example. I NEVER have the fear some games put in me because I know the game auto balances things out fairly well. Yes I die some but to compare that to the traditional JRPG were you have fear of certain areas/monsters and also feel like a complete bad ass when you get to a certain point. Again though, it depends on the game. Mario Kart is great to play with kids and family and it works well. It was a great design choice for that game. Madden would suck. It makes sense they left it out.
Buy her a Zune. Nobody uses them now and nobody will 16 years from now either.
This seems like a way for the parents to "get" some cool modern tech that they can use for the next few years and then "store" it for her 16th birthday.
Ok, I am in the heath care industry and am in I.T.
My first thought was that this is yet another attempt by an Obama supporter to help try and gain support for his socialist program. I think I still may be right on that one.
However, the core reason is that the health care industry is slow to move is that the cost of validating systems is huge. If a mistake is made it can put a company out of business. I am not saying this is a bad thing but a lot of businesses do the math and say it is cheaper to do it in a manual way. Now it looks like we want to force these companies to spend the money weather they like it or not. This is good for me, but I realize a lot of companies will be going out of business because of the cost. Sometimes a Rolodex works better than spending 5 million on an Oracle solution.
I have NO IDEA what type of people you get but I have been interviewing people out of college and some in college (BS degree), and I generally put a requirement like "must be able to speak English" and "excellent communication skills a must". This "generally" gets me fewer Indians who can't speak English, and I have found that almost all of them can do your above questions.
What colleges are you getting your people from? More specifically how are you going about getting them? Also how much are you paying them? I have found that "some" Indians want to work for a green card and thus will "offer" to take a job for basically slave labor (under $10/hour), but in the long run those have NEVER worked out for us or them. They leave when they have their green card and thus I can never put them on anything serious to develop their career.
Ever see someone in this country unable to buy a gun?
Yes I have. I would like to buy a NEW 10mm handgun that hold more than 13 bullets. Can I do that? I use to be able to do that before Clinton was in office.
I would like to have a full blown machine gun. Can I do that? More specifically can I do it for a true fair price that the gun should really cost or is there some HUGE tax on it?
But somehow your fictional rights violation
Ok, so I live in an area that NOBODY has a problem with a boyscout group starting off their meeting with a prayer, but because someone was "offended" in another state, that scout group now can't use the local school for it's meetings. This would go for school prayer as well.
The fact of the matter is that the ACLU is nothing more than an organization for the extreme left in the U.S.A.
Way to have your priorities straight.
Without the second amendment you won't have any others for long.
The day you have someone break in to your house (big assumption on my part, because I bet you still live in your mothers basement), and they know you are home and don't care is the day you will realize that the police are not capable of protecting everyone 24/7. Then in the extreme event that our government does something horrible, it will be very possible to overthrow them. Do I expect that we will see some huge overthrow of the Obama administration? No. But then again Iran says "Hello".
The parent poster is correct in that a VAST VAST VAST majority of people that do the custom firmware do it to pirate games. So in your case you must be in the.01%.
Now to understand why they don't just release the old ROMS; they could do that but 99 cents isn't going to be the price. It would be more like $5 to $10 for the popular games and that would only be the ones they have the rights to. So lets take Sony... "if" they released a ROM emulator and made it available for all their old classic games... wait a second they don't have any older handhelds.... They do already have the emulator to do PS1 games... So what they would have to do is somehow convince SEGA, ATARI and or Nintendo that they should allow their old games to run on the PSP. This could happen but the amount of effort needed to get something like this done would be enormous, far more than say bringing GT5 or GOW3 over to the PSP, and those games will help new PSP sales far more than running old Sonic stuff on the PSP. Running Nintendo stuff will NEVER happen.
So we are back to piracy. Care to know what the console sales were for Doom 3? The game that a lot of people complained about, yet a lot liked... The sales sucked. How about Crysis for the PC? Sucked as well. It isn't out of the question that sales for Crysis for the PS3 and 360 will outsell the PC in less than 2 months. Why? It isn't because of all these guys like yourself that buy the game and then just want to run it on their local storage (HD, SD whatever).
This isn't new, piracy was one of (not the only) factor that killed the Commodore Amiga. Developers are not dumb and they will not support a console/device that can't sell software. The PSP has around 50 million units sold and sells like it has around 5. Sony has to do something very soon (and they did), or the PSP will be dead and there will not be a PSP 2.0.
Having said all this I see more and more games going to a World of Warcraft style. I am not a fan of this but the dollars generated for Blizzard can't be overlooked, and the piracy of WOW is very low.
Oh yeah, one last point. The SIMS3 says hello. (Already pirated--- STOLEN over 300,000 times before the game was released). Please don't use the excuse "Well I was never going to buy the game so it wasn't stealing". It is. I could say "Honestly judge I wasn't ever going to buy that Porsche..."
I say, it's about time, really. 42 mpg sounds rather high - but only because we haven't even TRIED
Wrong. It is ridiculous to think that "WE" havent' tried. If Ford could come out with a standard 4 door family sedan that got 42mpg AND people would buy it they would in a second.
Remember the oil embargo of the '70's? Congress mandated some radical new goals for fuel mileage way back then, to help break our dependence on foreign oil
Yes I do. I remember the government getting involved and saying things like we are 20 years away from running out of oil. I remember the Carter administration (who is much like the Obama administration) getting more and more control (taxes).
Joe Sixpack and Detroit, in their infinite wisdom (selfishness) decided to create new "cars" built on truck frames, which would be exempt from fuel mileage requirements.
Ok, I guess a Joe Sixpack will need to try and explain some basic economics to you. The SUV's and larger vehicles have a better profit margin, and it is what the American car companies do their best. So now the government; specifically Obama wants to do is force them to stop making those cars and focus on their least successful line of small cars. This would have been like someone comming to Apple around 10 years ago and saying "You guys suck because you don't make a cheap computer". I mandate that you make a computer that sell the same cost as Gateway and Dell.". I have an idea, how about we let the FREE MARKET decide what they want. Why does the government need to be setting any fuel standards to begin with? If "Joe Sixpack" wants a car that gets 10mpg then who are you to say no? Isn't it his money? How would you like it if Joe Sixpack said that you don't "NEED" anything but a dial up connection and a 12" monitor?
Ingenuity, huh? Well, that ingenuity has finally come back to bite Joe and Detroit in the ass. Today, we finally start seriously saving fuel, or else.
I like it.
This could be a very long post, but in short the problems that the American automakers are having has little to do with building a better Prius. I mentioned above that super fuel efficient cars is not their market, and the major reasons they are having problems is their pension plans, unions and higher than normal executive salaries. Notice I didn't say anything about the quality of their product? The product is fine, it just has an unnessary tax (mentioned above) that gets put on every car/truck.
My thought is that they use to be sitting on over 40 Billion and now it is at around 25 Billion. The gaming division is bleeding money with no end in sight and while it is true they have gained significant market share with the 360 in North America, it has come at an huge cost (many Billions). If Microsoft wouldn't have bled so much money with the failed Zune,.NET, and gaming disasters then Vista wouldn't have been what it was and Microsoft would be far better off today. Vista would have been written correctly, and Microsoft would probably have well over 40 Billion in the bank. Instead they have a failed mp3 player, a gaming console that had a failure rate over 30% (unthinkable by Nintendo or Sony), and a development platform that is struggling at best. For the life of me I can't figure out how you go from 40 Billion to 25 Billion while having the cash cows of Microsoft Office and Windows WITHOUT having anything serious to show for it. Oh, and they also managed to lay off ~10,000 employees.
Now they want to buy SAP... I feel for you guys working for SAP if you have to go in to that environment. Granted I NEVER thought I would feel sorry for any SAP guys.
I love Gandhi, but BS, the US is one of the richest countries in the world, but at the same time for sure the biggest polluter, thanks to ACs, SUVs, etc. and the lack of sidewalks, staircases (you must have been in an office building where people take the elevator from the 8th to the 9th floor), to name a few.
Have you seen Mexico? How about China? China may be a bit far for you (if you live in the U.S.), but take a trip down to Mexico city if you dare and then come back and make that same statement. If you can go over to China and see their mfg plants and their towns that have been all but killed by taking the computer junk, you may also change your tune.
Why did a lot of the mfg go over to China? Low cost labor is one point, but little to no regulation is the other. So the "greens" sort of got what they wanted in the U.S.A., but at the cost of jobs. Go out to your local Target, Sears, Best Buy etc and try to find something produced in the U.S.A. If you have a child, go try to find a toy that isn't made in China.
Now the real question is "if" you believe China, Mexico and even Russia to a degree, is getting accurate reports of their pollution levels.
Now back on topic. The ice is growing? Does this mean global cooling that everyone believed in the 60's?
To these people, users of Hulu and Netflix aren't seen as so different from pirates. They believe that none of them are paying enough. And their outrage at having to actually reevaluate their business models is going to show itself in an orgy of price-gouging until they are prosecuted as monopolies and broken into a thousand little pieces.
Ok, I agree with some of your post, but in all seriousness they DID reevaluate their business model. Seriously, they looked at Netflix and Hulu and said decided to make money with their cable (wire to house) business.
The fact is that "if" everyone hates this as much as posted here on Slashdot (and I am not fond of it), then there is a great opportunity for someone to come along and develop a good alternative. The bar has been set at $150/month and now we can see what or if anyone can come in cheaper.
Yeah I can understand your point. I mean forcing someone to sit in a room and watch a cartoon is perhaps one of the worst possible forms of punishment ever seen and is reason enough to warrant your anger.
I mean compare that too taking a hostage and cutting their head off to display that to the world, or blowing up a train just before elections in a country to kill and influence an election. Perhaps beating a teenage girl in the streets just because she had the audacity to talk to a boy, or possibly out and out saying that you want to kill anyone who is not "hard core" in to your religion, and following through on those words... Specifically using "weapons of mass destruction" (mustard gas), against civilians is far better than watching a cartoon over and over.
The good news though is that the "Messiah" has shown that he will a strong leader by literally bowing down to them and we all know, given the above examples of their actions; that they will suddenly become great model citizens.
Spring isn't really J2EE. It will be with the new J2EE because (I believe), they will make the spec more modular, in that you won't have to have a EJB container. Spring does a bunch of crap, but what most people mean is that it is a light weight container that doesn't require a EJB container to run in. On a personal note why is it that the Spring fanboys are such jerks. I really want to love Ruby and Spring but man their fanboys really wear on me.
None the less, this is fantastic news! Thank you Google.
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You are exactly correct! I would have considered one "if" the economy wasn't totally sucking. An unemployment rate of 10+%, with an administration and congress that seems to hate business is more than enough to make me drop all consideration for buying a new 3D TV. This kind of sucks, because we could really use a new TV now, but we will just have to do without. I have two other co-workers in the same boat.
So I wonder what level of Hell he is on? My guess is 1 :-)
Hey, I have an idea, how about "if" Adobe wanted to go ahead and create FLASH for the Iphone and give it away? Wait they are not allowed to do that. How about if Oracle wanted to develop Java for the iPhone and also give it way? Nope they can't either. There isn't any good technical reason, but just a political one like you mentioned. Apples desire to kill anything that isn't theirs (Sounds like Microsoft to me).
So for those developers of Flash and Java (client side), you have a choice, learn Objective C or move to a different platform. Yes some developers are creating iPhone apps, but others are migrating over to other platforms (Google). Also, yes I know about the cross compilers, but that is an unfortunate workaround.
At the end of the day CUSTOMERS want Flash and Java on their phones but Apple is being a prick about it and not allowing it. Good competition will cause them to change their minds about this.
I hoped that this wouldn't start some type of language war. That was not my intent. If you want to develop a cross platform application that has a GUI and runs on multiple platforms, that can be done with many languages, but not as well as java.
So technically yes C can do cross platform stuff, as I am sure a lot of languages do, but creating a cross platform gui is a quite a bit more of a challenge. Yes I know that you "could" load things like KDE and like on various platforms, but for most people that is a real hassle.
The myth about simple cross-platform development in Java is just that, a myth. Anybody with cross-platform Java experience will attest to this. Java, as a language, has grown stagnant, while C# has continued to evolve.
I and our team of 100+ Java developers will disagree with your statement of Java and cross-platform development. We find it excellent. Is it perfect? Nope, but in my opinion it would be a 9 out of 10 with the next closest competitor being.... Well there isn't really any close competitor but I guess we could give the C language a 2 out of 10. Perhaps Ruby is good but I haven't looked at it. Granted I am talking more about the JVM that Java itself. However, Java like other languages has evolved quite a bit in the last few years.
Does Java have the radical changes that say languages like SCALA have? Nope, but then again it shouldn't have that. Is it stagnant? Not at all.
The core difference you see between any of the Microsoft languages and the JVM languages is that the JVM languages somewhat try to work within the community. They also want to maintain binary (class) backward compatibility. Microsoft is an absolute dictator with their language and even to a large part their tools. This does have it's advantages, in that stuff comes out quicker, but then again, if you are a business and built you lifeblood one VB6 to have it brushed aside by Microsoft, you might be a little angry about that ruthless dictator approach. If you are some contractor type of person who wants constant change in the core framework to make your life easier (at the cost of compatibility), then you would probably like this approach.
So in short things like closures will be in Java 7 (not a small task), and Java the language is not at all stagnant. Cross platform development, testing and support is excellent with Java. We use OSX, Ubuntu, Microsoft Windows XP and 7, and RedHat with no problems.
I agree totally. I also own all the R&C games for the PS3, and LBP. The sad part is how hard you Sony pushed LBP to have it sell like it did. Granted the game has some great legs but it is still sad. Then you compare R&C to Resistance and you see why Insomniac would focus on FPS for the PS3.
I believe what Sony really hopes is that it will help developers create games for the Wii and PS3. The difference between the two will not be that huge other than one has HD. However, the huge problem for Sony is that this controller isn't in the hands of the 32+ MILLION PS3 owners. The other problem is that the vast majority of PS3 owners currently don't really buy the "casual" games and thus the games don't reflect the market base. Now Sony getting the PS3 down to 300 in the U.S.A has helped a ton, but the market here still buys the hard core games for the PS3 a lot more.
Nahh, your screwed either way.
I worked for a large corporation. Not huge, but large enough to find shortcuts to covering employees. Instead of having insurance, they acted as the insurer and had Aetna act as a "manager" of the plan. Not only was this cheaper for them, they got out of all the regulations governing insurance. I had a kid, and they denied coverage because he wasn't a member at the time of his receiving care. But, I couldn't make him a member without a birthdate, so I fought with them for months. They I got canned, and lost access to mechanism to continuing fighting.
Long story short: State bureau of insurance couldn't do anything. Hospital hit me with $5,000 in bills, and the corporation probably got a tax write off.
I used to be capitalist until I saw capitalism in action.
Dude that is only one small part of Capitalism, the other part is having competition among employers willing to pay good people what they are worth. The great thing about it vs the government trying to take care of you is that you have some (little) control of the situation. In your case you quit that place and probably went to a better job. Someone smart is probably thinking of a way to provide healthcare (this would be my company), at a cheaper and better way. Without competition there will be 0 innovation. You may be too young to remember, but the phone company use to have a monopoly in the U.S.A. and a LOT of people used similar arguments back to try and stay that way. Thank God that didn't happen.
Lastly, I was never a Socialist, but have seen it in action. It sucks bad. On paper it may look good but in practice it sucks.
The reason the PS3 currently uses a disc is that the entire netflix program is written in Java. Specifically a BDJ. So the PS3 treats this disc as a Blue-Ray movie and runs their Java program as any Blue-Ray player is required to do. It really doesn't use any specific PS3 only code. They are working on a version that won't require the disc and will hopefully have it out soon (this year). I would "guess" it might be possible to take the PS3 disc and put it in to some modern BlueRay player and get it to work.
In my opinion this is pretty impressive what they have done with BDJ, and it shows what it is capable of. It also shows exactly why Microsoft didn't want this as a standard.
What most people believe is that someone (IBM, Microsoft) is paying the EU to "slow" down the deal. NOBODY in their right mind believes that the deal won't go through. So Oracle and Sun are using all the means they can to help get this deal done. Obviously someone on the other side is paying some very large amounts of cash to the EU to slow this down and Oracle and or Sun doesn't have the connections there that IBM/Microsoft have. It could also be HP. Actually now that I think about it, it could also be SAP. They are based out of Europe and they will be hurt if this deal goes through quickly.
This has NOTHING to do with the EU doing "due diligence" or trying to protect competitors or consumers. It has EVERYTHING to do with $$$$. Again, does anyone think this won't go through? This is a "nice" way for the politicians over in the U.S.A. to openly ask for this to get done and "hint" that they can also drag their feet on stuff. Things like say FDA import bans on medical equipment...
Socialized Medicine.
Increased troops in Afghanistan or not or so or not or so.... Well we'll get back to you in a few more months...
Bailouts of the union auto workers.
Continued bailouts of the banks.
Seizing more control of private sector jobs.
Using tax money to fund abortions.
Ever increasing unemployment with no end in sight.
Higher taxes on people that make less than 250k a year.
Trying to provide health care for illegal immigrants.
Trying to bar one media outlet from a "pool" of outlets, from a press meeting.
Printing more money that isn't valued to anything any more.
Trying to increase the debt faster than anyone in the history has ever done it.
Rising gas prices.
Ridiculous cash for clunkers that managed to help out Toyota, Honda and everyone BUT the American Auto industry.
Total control of the government and still blaming Republicans for not passing more socialist and fascist agenda... priceless.
2010 can't come soon enough.
Dude, just make a FUN game and don't worry about this. If your game needs it then put it in, if you think it would be less fun with it in then leave it out. Now obviously weigh that against the time and effort it would take to put in this automatic correction mode, if you want it in. It may cost too much to put it in anyway.
My personal thought is that I kind of hate it in a game, and that almost every game that has done it I don't like. Oblivion is a prime example. I NEVER have the fear some games put in me because I know the game auto balances things out fairly well. Yes I die some but to compare that to the traditional JRPG were you have fear of certain areas/monsters and also feel like a complete bad ass when you get to a certain point. Again though, it depends on the game. Mario Kart is great to play with kids and family and it works well. It was a great design choice for that game. Madden would suck. It makes sense they left it out.
Buy her a Zune. Nobody uses them now and nobody will 16 years from now either.
This seems like a way for the parents to "get" some cool modern tech that they can use for the next few years and then "store" it for her 16th birthday.
If an article could be modded a 10 this would be it.
Ok, I am in the heath care industry and am in I.T.
My first thought was that this is yet another attempt by an Obama supporter to help try and gain support for his socialist program. I think I still may be right on that one.
However, the core reason is that the health care industry is slow to move is that the cost of validating systems is huge. If a mistake is made it can put a company out of business. I am not saying this is a bad thing but a lot of businesses do the math and say it is cheaper to do it in a manual way. Now it looks like we want to force these companies to spend the money weather they like it or not. This is good for me, but I realize a lot of companies will be going out of business because of the cost. Sometimes a Rolodex works better than spending 5 million on an Oracle solution.
I have NO IDEA what type of people you get but I have been interviewing people out of college and some in college (BS degree), and I generally put a requirement like "must be able to speak English" and "excellent communication skills a must". This "generally" gets me fewer Indians who can't speak English, and I have found that almost all of them can do your above questions.
What colleges are you getting your people from? More specifically how are you going about getting them? Also how much are you paying them? I have found that "some" Indians want to work for a green card and thus will "offer" to take a job for basically slave labor (under $10/hour), but in the long run those have NEVER worked out for us or them. They leave when they have their green card and thus I can never put them on anything serious to develop their career.
Ever see someone in this country unable to buy a gun?
Yes I have. I would like to buy a NEW 10mm handgun that hold more than 13 bullets. Can I do that? I use to be able to do that before Clinton was in office.
I would like to have a full blown machine gun. Can I do that? More specifically can I do it for a true fair price that the gun should really cost or is there some HUGE tax on it?
But somehow your fictional rights violation
Ok, so I live in an area that NOBODY has a problem with a boyscout group starting off their meeting with a prayer, but because someone was "offended" in another state, that scout group now can't use the local school for it's meetings. This would go for school prayer as well.
The fact of the matter is that the ACLU is nothing more than an organization for the extreme left in the U.S.A.
Way to have your priorities straight.
Without the second amendment you won't have any others for long.
The day you have someone break in to your house (big assumption on my part, because I bet you still live in your mothers basement), and they know you are home and don't care is the day you will realize that the police are not capable of protecting everyone 24/7. Then in the extreme event that our government does something horrible, it will be very possible to overthrow them. Do I expect that we will see some huge overthrow of the Obama administration? No. But then again Iran says "Hello".
Is the opposite true? If you hit your kids for bad grades does that help? :-)
In the end would that be cheaper?
The parent poster is correct in that a VAST VAST VAST majority of people that do the custom firmware do it to pirate games. So in your case you must be in the .01%.
Now to understand why they don't just release the old ROMS; they could do that but 99 cents isn't going to be the price. It would be more like $5 to $10 for the popular games and that would only be the ones they have the rights to. So lets take Sony... "if" they released a ROM emulator and made it available for all their old classic games... wait a second they don't have any older handhelds.... They do already have the emulator to do PS1 games... So what they would have to do is somehow convince SEGA, ATARI and or Nintendo that they should allow their old games to run on the PSP. This could happen but the amount of effort needed to get something like this done would be enormous, far more than say bringing GT5 or GOW3 over to the PSP, and those games will help new PSP sales far more than running old Sonic stuff on the PSP. Running Nintendo stuff will NEVER happen.
So we are back to piracy. Care to know what the console sales were for Doom 3? The game that a lot of people complained about, yet a lot liked... The sales sucked. How about Crysis for the PC? Sucked as well. It isn't out of the question that sales for Crysis for the PS3 and 360 will outsell the PC in less than 2 months. Why? It isn't because of all these guys like yourself that buy the game and then just want to run it on their local storage (HD, SD whatever).
This isn't new, piracy was one of (not the only) factor that killed the Commodore Amiga. Developers are not dumb and they will not support a console/device that can't sell software. The PSP has around 50 million units sold and sells like it has around 5. Sony has to do something very soon (and they did), or the PSP will be dead and there will not be a PSP 2.0.
Having said all this I see more and more games going to a World of Warcraft style. I am not a fan of this but the dollars generated for Blizzard can't be overlooked, and the piracy of WOW is very low.
Oh yeah, one last point. The SIMS3 says hello. (Already pirated--- STOLEN over 300,000 times before the game was released). Please don't use the excuse "Well I was never going to buy the game so it wasn't stealing". It is. I could say "Honestly judge I wasn't ever going to buy that Porsche..."
I say, it's about time, really. 42 mpg sounds rather high - but only because we haven't even TRIED
Wrong. It is ridiculous to think that "WE" havent' tried. If Ford could come out with a standard 4 door family sedan that got 42mpg AND people would buy it they would in a second.
Remember the oil embargo of the '70's? Congress mandated some radical new goals for fuel mileage way back then, to help break our dependence on foreign oil
Yes I do. I remember the government getting involved and saying things like we are 20 years away from running out of oil. I remember the Carter administration (who is much like the Obama administration) getting more and more control (taxes).
Joe Sixpack and Detroit, in their infinite wisdom (selfishness) decided to create new "cars" built on truck frames, which would be exempt from fuel mileage requirements.
Ok, I guess a Joe Sixpack will need to try and explain some basic economics to you. The SUV's and larger vehicles have a better profit margin, and it is what the American car companies do their best. So now the government; specifically Obama wants to do is force them to stop making those cars and focus on their least successful line of small cars. This would have been like someone comming to Apple around 10 years ago and saying "You guys suck because you don't make a cheap computer". I mandate that you make a computer that sell the same cost as Gateway and Dell.". I have an idea, how about we let the FREE MARKET decide what they want. Why does the government need to be setting any fuel standards to begin with? If "Joe Sixpack" wants a car that gets 10mpg then who are you to say no? Isn't it his money? How would you like it if Joe Sixpack said that you don't "NEED" anything but a dial up connection and a 12" monitor?
Ingenuity, huh? Well, that ingenuity has finally come back to bite Joe and Detroit in the ass. Today, we finally start seriously saving fuel, or else.
I like it.
This could be a very long post, but in short the problems that the American automakers are having has little to do with building a better Prius. I mentioned above that super fuel efficient cars is not their market, and the major reasons they are having problems is their pension plans, unions and higher than normal executive salaries. Notice I didn't say anything about the quality of their product? The product is fine, it just has an unnessary tax (mentioned above) that gets put on every car/truck.
New Chairs.
Then probably an effort to buy
SAP.
My thought is that they use to be sitting on over 40 Billion and now it is at around 25 Billion. The gaming division is bleeding money with no end in sight and while it is true they have gained significant market share with the 360 in North America, it has come at an huge cost (many Billions). If Microsoft wouldn't have bled so much money with the failed Zune, .NET, and gaming disasters then Vista wouldn't have been what it was and Microsoft would be far better off today. Vista would have been written correctly, and Microsoft would probably have well over 40 Billion in the bank. Instead they have a failed mp3 player, a gaming console that had a failure rate over 30% (unthinkable by Nintendo or Sony), and a development platform that is struggling at best. For the life of me I can't figure out how you go from 40 Billion to 25 Billion while having the cash cows of Microsoft Office and Windows WITHOUT having anything serious to show for it. Oh, and they also managed to lay off ~10,000 employees.
Now they want to buy SAP... I feel for you guys working for SAP if you have to go in to that environment. Granted I NEVER thought I would feel sorry for any SAP guys.
I love Gandhi, but BS, the US is one of the richest countries in the world, but at the same time for sure the biggest polluter, thanks to ACs, SUVs, etc. and the lack of sidewalks, staircases (you must have been in an office building where people take the elevator from the 8th to the 9th floor), to name a few.
Have you seen Mexico? How about China? China may be a bit far for you (if you live in the U.S.), but take a trip down to Mexico city if you dare and then come back and make that same statement. If you can go over to China and see their mfg plants and their towns that have been all but killed by taking the computer junk, you may also change your tune.
Why did a lot of the mfg go over to China? Low cost labor is one point, but little to no regulation is the other. So the "greens" sort of got what they wanted in the U.S.A., but at the cost of jobs. Go out to your local Target, Sears, Best Buy etc and try to find something produced in the U.S.A. If you have a child, go try to find a toy that isn't made in China.
Now the real question is "if" you believe China, Mexico and even Russia to a degree, is getting accurate reports of their pollution levels.
Now back on topic.
The ice is growing? Does this mean global cooling that everyone believed in the 60's?
To these people, users of Hulu and Netflix aren't seen as so different from pirates. They believe that none of them are paying enough. And their outrage at having to actually reevaluate their business models is going to show itself in an orgy of price-gouging until they are prosecuted as monopolies and broken into a thousand little pieces.
Ok, I agree with some of your post, but in all seriousness they DID reevaluate their business model. Seriously, they looked at Netflix and Hulu and said decided to make money with their cable (wire to house) business.
The fact is that "if" everyone hates this as much as posted here on Slashdot (and I am not fond of it), then there is a great opportunity for someone to come along and develop a good alternative. The bar has been set at $150/month and now we can see what or if anyone can come in cheaper.
Yeah I can understand your point. I mean forcing someone to sit in a room and watch a cartoon is perhaps one of the worst possible forms of punishment ever seen and is reason enough to warrant your anger.
I mean compare that too taking a hostage and cutting their head off to display that to the world, or blowing up a train just before elections in a country to kill and influence an election. Perhaps beating a teenage girl in the streets just because she had the audacity to talk to a boy, or possibly out and out saying that you want to kill anyone who is not "hard core" in to your religion, and following through on those words... Specifically using "weapons of mass destruction" (mustard gas), against civilians is far better than watching a cartoon over and over.
The good news though is that the "Messiah" has shown that he will a strong leader by literally bowing down to them and we all know, given the above examples of their actions; that they will suddenly become great model citizens.
Spring isn't really J2EE. It will be with the new J2EE because (I believe), they will make the spec more modular, in that you won't have to have a EJB container. Spring does a bunch of crap, but what most people mean is that it is a light weight container that doesn't require a EJB container to run in. On a personal note why is it that the Spring fanboys are such jerks. I really want to love Ruby and Spring but man their fanboys really wear on me.
None the less, this is fantastic news! Thank you Google.