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Yeah, sure. Not wearing a suit == being grumpy, noncommunicative and antisocial. I've never understood people that need to force others into uniforms. Your kind of smugness is also completely alien to me: "Ha! Thought you could get away with wearing something else? Well, get in line, and damn well enjoy it like the rest of us!". We have a great culture going here, many techs are allowed to dress the way they like. Why do you want to take that away from us and conform us to some stupid corporate tradition? Nobody will work harder because they wear a tie.
Really, it's not about grade-school math (parts + labor = cost). The AC was correct - if you really want to "stick it to The Man", don't buy the box! Most of the calculated cost for an XBox is a fixed initial expense. Setting up a plant, manufacturing, and retailing process is incredibly costly and this cost is projected over the range of consoles you intend to sell. The more consoles you sell, the lesser the cost, since setting up production was a one-time expense - plus the parts get cheaper over time, especially if you buy in large quantities. I would not be surprised if MS are already starting to show a small profit from the sale of the base console itself.
It's actually very hard to find a negative post on any of the recent OSX stories - it seems Apple did a cool thing (use BSD for their OS) and now, suddenly, they can do nothing wrong. Most of the posts here seem to say "This is a good thing since hacks can cause instability, so more power to Apple for preventing these tweaks!". Why any geek in their right mind would want a closed architecture with a heavily controlled OS on top of it is beyond me. If some wants to hack the interface - and thereby toss stability out the window - then that's their problem and I don't see why anyone should stop them.
(although this does seem like Apple are only changing their internal APIs, not actively thwarting hackers. i just wanted to comment on those strange "we love Apple, they can't go wrong!" postings)
The setups for FS3 are there because at the time, Volition thought there would be a Freespace 3. Then THQ bought them, effectively burying FS3. I know this because the Volition crew posted info to their fans (I used to frequent the forums over at volition-inc) and they explicitly stated that they still want to make FS3. Unless Interplay hands them the license on a silver platter, that's not going to happen. And a damn shame it is, because fs2 IS the best space sim ever.
Freespace2 was an excellent game. Certainly the best space sim ever, and a personal top 5 favorite. The only thing that sucked was that after completing it, there were tons of loose ends hanging about. Setups for Freespace 3, of course -- but the problem is, Volition themselves have said that there never be will be a Freespace 3. Even though they'd love to make it, Interplay owns the rights (Volition got bought by THQ) and FS2 didn't sell too well. Interplay will just let the franchise gather dust, and THQ won't buy it from them. Argh!
But this is great news. Perhaps we can finally see a Freespace 3, released as a free mod for the original game! If someone will pester Volition enough, they might share some of the script for FS3. If not, the least they can do is tell us what happened to Admiral Aken Bosch...
John Forbes Nash Jr., a mathematical genius whose doctoral thesis earned him a Nobel Prize -- and a schizophrenia patient whose illness kept him out of the academic community for decades.
Poor guy. I didn't know that sort of thing was included in the Nobel prize package.
Nobody says you gotta use your phone to type e-mail. Most probably the biggest use we will have for UMTS internet is with laptops (via bluetooth of course;)) but being able to send video or photos via your phone might also catch on and become every bit as popular as SMS.
I'm sure that the late-night SMS messages i get from friends every goddamn saturday will some day be replaced with pictures of my drunk friends mooning me:)
This reminds me of the "personalised menus" concept in recent versions of Windows. It's a great idea: Now that we've got users to finally understand the concept of a dropdown, we make sure it looks different every time! Ingenious!
Real eye openers, these:
"There's no point in flash intros".
"Website hits don't mean instant cash."
"If you hire experts, listen to them."
"Get the right people into the right places."
Seriously, I don't think any of this is a problem anymore. Perhaps this book would have made sense two years ago, but working in the business today is a totally different experience. VC funding for the stupid dried up a while ago, and this just seems like a dumb attempt to cash in on hindsight.
I don't own a desktop system anymore. Don't think I'll ever get one again, either. But I've had just about enough of "[1337] k001b0y" plastering me with the AWP just because my software renderer decided "this would be a great time to drop the fps to 2".
So i applaud nVidia for this initiative. Here's to hoping that ATI can counter with an even better card:)
Strange how there are so few linux trackers. However, there's a light at the end of the tunnel: reduz has recently released his Cheese tracker, an open-source Impulse clone sporting all IT's shortcuts and effects
Definitely worth a look.
I don't see broadband dying. I do see a lot of providers going under, but in most cases, it is quite well-deserved. There is demand enough to go around. The Internet has become an integral part of both businesses and homes. Any self-respecting (desk jobs, at least) business will have an always-on connection today. Even my non-nerd friends get cable or DSL at home simply because they spend time on the Internet, and they want fast and convenient access to it.
However, a lot of providers got caught up in the hype. They raked in millions of investor money, set stupidly optimistic goals for themselves and got proverbial suits waaay too large for their proverbial bodies. Take Exodus for example, with their we-will-withstand-a-nuclear-war-bunkers.
So basically, any firm who has asked itself "do the clients really need this, and can we afford to run it in the long term" will do just fine. This is perhaps the Old Economy way of doing it, but hey -- the time of crazy new business models with investors on speed is past. Perhaps rates will go up, perhaps one provider will establish itself as the Sole Monopolistic Ruler, perhaps we'll all get screwed in the end. But it's just capitalism. Nothing new.
If the act is still valid after it has expired, one can simply renew it. There is no logical explanation as to why this clause should not be included. Yet they stopped it.
So my simple deduction is this -- they do not want to relinquish these powers once the threat is gone.
The way i see it, the natural state of any government is to oppress its people, and that is why the constitution was written in the first place. The government will always want more influence and control, and is swift to move in times like these, when citizens are dazed and enraged and crying for vengeance.
"Take away the right to say 'fuck' and you take away the right to say 'fuck the government.'"
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Yeah, sure. Not wearing a suit == being grumpy, noncommunicative and antisocial. I've never understood people that need to force others into uniforms. Your kind of smugness is also completely alien to me: "Ha! Thought you could get away with wearing something else? Well, get in line, and damn well enjoy it like the rest of us!".
We have a great culture going here, many techs are allowed to dress the way they like. Why do you want to take that away from us and conform us to some stupid corporate tradition? Nobody will work harder because they wear a tie.
Our valiant defender LoseNotLooseGuy has apparently abandoned us in our time of need.
Break out the pitchforks, we'll have to do this ourselves!
*sigh*
Really, it's not about grade-school math (parts + labor = cost). The AC was correct - if you really want to "stick it to The Man", don't buy the box! Most of the calculated cost for an XBox is a fixed initial expense. Setting up a plant, manufacturing, and retailing process is incredibly costly and this cost is projected over the range of consoles you intend to sell. The more consoles you sell, the lesser the cost, since setting up production was a one-time expense - plus the parts get cheaper over time, especially if you buy in large quantities. I would not be surprised if MS are already starting to show a small profit from the sale of the base console itself.
Good job, now they look like $1.3m soda machines. He might impress me if he modded them to actually dispense soft drinks on demand!
I don't get it, either.
It's actually very hard to find a negative post on any of the recent OSX stories - it seems Apple did a cool thing (use BSD for their OS) and now, suddenly, they can do nothing wrong. Most of the posts here seem to say "This is a good thing since hacks can cause instability, so more power to Apple for preventing these tweaks!". Why any geek in their right mind would want a closed architecture with a heavily controlled OS on top of it is beyond me. If some wants to hack the interface - and thereby toss stability out the window - then that's their problem and I don't see why anyone should stop them.
(although this does seem like Apple are only changing their internal APIs, not actively thwarting hackers. i just wanted to comment on those strange "we love Apple, they can't go wrong!" postings)
Hey, why not put an update for Outlook as payload and spread it around?
My, aren't we hostile?
The setups for FS3 are there because at the time, Volition thought there would be a Freespace 3. Then THQ bought them, effectively burying FS3. I know this because the Volition crew posted info to their fans (I used to frequent the forums over at volition-inc) and they explicitly stated that they still want to make FS3. Unless Interplay hands them the license on a silver platter, that's not going to happen. And a damn shame it is, because fs2 IS the best space sim ever.
Freespace2 was an excellent game. Certainly the best space sim ever, and a personal top 5 favorite. The only thing that sucked was that after completing it, there were tons of loose ends hanging about. Setups for Freespace 3, of course -- but the problem is, Volition themselves have said that there never be will be a Freespace 3. Even though they'd love to make it, Interplay owns the rights (Volition got bought by THQ) and FS2 didn't sell too well. Interplay will just let the franchise gather dust, and THQ won't buy it from them. Argh!
But this is great news. Perhaps we can finally see a Freespace 3, released as a free mod for the original game! If someone will pester Volition enough, they might share some of the script for FS3. If not, the least they can do is tell us what happened to Admiral Aken Bosch...
Cool phone, but I wonder how long it'll take for that little screen to be covered in ear wax. I want it to plug seamlessly into the brain instead!
John Forbes Nash Jr., a mathematical genius whose doctoral thesis earned him a Nobel Prize -- and a schizophrenia patient whose illness kept him out of the academic community for decades.
Poor guy. I didn't know that sort of thing was included in the Nobel prize package.
...alone with no supervision for the first time in your life, oftentimes separated from your HS friends...
Hey! This isn't just a gay issue! Straight people can have these problems, too!
Nobody says you gotta use your phone to type e-mail. Most probably the biggest use we will have for UMTS internet is with laptops (via bluetooth of course ;)) but being able to send video or photos via your phone might also catch on and become every bit as popular as SMS.
:)
I'm sure that the late-night SMS messages i get from friends every goddamn saturday will some day be replaced with pictures of my drunk friends mooning me
or they'll probably slap me with the DMCA when doing the wild thing with my gf :(
This reminds me of the "personalised menus" concept in recent versions of Windows. It's a great idea: Now that we've got users to finally understand the concept of a dropdown, we make sure it looks different every time!
Ingenious!
Erm, I wouldn't try gesture language on a blind person if I were you.
If you're a PC gamer and you already have a PC, why would you want an XBox..?
Real eye openers, these:
"There's no point in flash intros".
"Website hits don't mean instant cash."
"If you hire experts, listen to them."
"Get the right people into the right places."
Seriously, I don't think any of this is a problem anymore. Perhaps this book would have made sense two years ago, but working in the business today is a totally different experience. VC funding for the stupid dried up a while ago, and this just seems like a dumb attempt to cash in on hindsight.
I don't own a desktop system anymore. Don't think I'll ever get one again, either. But I've had just about enough of "[1337] k001b0y" plastering me with the AWP just because my software renderer decided "this would be a great time to drop the fps to 2".
:)
So i applaud nVidia for this initiative. Here's to hoping that ATI can counter with an even better card
Strange how there are so few linux trackers. However, there's a light at the end of the tunnel: reduz has recently released his Cheese tracker, an open-source Impulse clone sporting all IT's shortcuts and effects
Definitely worth a look.
I don't see broadband dying. I do see a lot of providers going under, but in most cases, it is quite well-deserved. There is demand enough to go around. The Internet has become an integral part of both businesses and homes. Any self-respecting (desk jobs, at least) business will have an always-on connection today. Even my non-nerd friends get cable or DSL at home simply because they spend time on the Internet, and they want fast and convenient access to it.
However, a lot of providers got caught up in the hype. They raked in millions of investor money, set stupidly optimistic goals for themselves and got proverbial suits waaay too large for their proverbial bodies. Take Exodus for example, with their we-will-withstand-a-nuclear-war-bunkers.
So basically, any firm who has asked itself "do the clients really need this, and can we afford to run it in the long term" will do just fine. This is perhaps the Old Economy way of doing it, but hey -- the time of crazy new business models with investors on speed is past. Perhaps rates will go up, perhaps one provider will establish itself as the Sole Monopolistic Ruler, perhaps we'll all get screwed in the end. But it's just capitalism. Nothing new.
Why would the senate oppose the sunset clause?
If the act is still valid after it has expired, one can simply renew it. There is no logical explanation as to why this clause should not be included. Yet they stopped it.
So my simple deduction is this -- they do not want to relinquish these powers once the threat is gone.
The way i see it, the natural state of any government is to oppress its people, and that is why the constitution was written in the first place. The government will always want more influence and control, and is swift to move in times like these, when citizens are dazed and enraged and crying for vengeance.
"Take away the right to say 'fuck' and you take away the right to say 'fuck the government.'"