I didn't read the article(s), but that is because there were 7 frickin' links!
Don't you love it when people can get along though!
Not only was it a celebration of the popular webcomic, which enjoys its rep of mercilessly skewering the gaming industry, but it also marked a convergence of interests: table-top gamers standing shoulder-to-shoulder with Nintendo fans hoping against hope that the Wii would be playable in some dark corner of the exhibition hall.
I saw the TV commercial ads for Dead Rising on cable the other day. I bet you just on those commercials alone, that this will become a slightly popular game. The ads were very impelling. It made you look like you were about to buy and play the next Resident Evil - like zombie killing game.
I am a developer at a bank. I have my masters degree. Earlier this year, a co-worker from another part of the bank took me aside to ask what it would take to become a game programmer. This was ~20 year old kid, that never went to college, and now sits around processing loans at a bank. He's tinkered a bit with Excel macros, but isn't even a wiz at that. Yet, he's job shadowing my position and asking all these questions about becoming a game programmer. I had to break it to him that, although the game programming profession is something every programmer dreams of at one point in time, the odds of landing in that career aren't plausible. We live out in hick town Wisconsin too, so I told him that you'd need to move half way across the country even if you were lucky enough to find a job.
directly from the article... You teh sux0r 2 sae teh PS3 is not going to teh r0x0r! Yew lie, yew 360 luvr. U teh sux! U maek thing up, go die!!!1111one!1!!!1 heheheheh
Here is a list of the universal artists that were from the wiki article, some of them seem to be half way decent, so i'm not sure what the parent is talking about:-)
2slabz (RebelRock/Universal)
3 Doors Down (Republic/Universal)
10 Years
98 Degrees*
Aaliyah (Blackground/Universal)
Acroma
Afroman
Akon
Ali & Gipp
Ashley Parker Angel (Blackground/Universal)
The Bangkok 5 (Execution Style/Universal)
David Banner
Baby AKA Birdman (Cash Money/Universal)
Baby Bash
Bee Gees
Big Tuck
Big Tymers (Cash Money/Universal)
Yummy Bingham (Cash Money/Universal)*
Blak Jak
Bloodhound Gang (Republic/Universal)
Blue October
Bodyrockers
Toni Braxton (Blackground/Universal)
Canibus
Nick Cannon
Chamillionaire
Mr. Cheeks
Cherry Monroe
Tami Chynn
Corey Clark (Bungalow/Universal)
Jamie Cullum
Crucial Conflict
Currency
Fleming and John
Donavon Frankenreiter
Mannie Fresh (Cash Money/Universal)
Warren G*
Godsmack (Republic/Universal)
Gotan Project
Pat Green (Republic/Universal)
Hedley
Marques Houston
HIM
Infinite Mass
Elton John
Jack Johnson (Brushfire/Universal)
JoJo (Blackground/Universal)
Juvenile*
Brie Larson
Murphy Lee
Tracey Lee
Lil' Romeo
Lil Wayne (Cash Money/Universal)
Lindsay Lohan (Motown/Universal)
Lost Boyz
Lumidee
Teena Marie
Damian Marley
Stephen Marley
Remy Martin
Miri Ben-Ari
Monifah (Uptown/Universal)
Cherry Monroe
Mystic (6)
Natalie
Nelly
Nina Sky (Next Plateau/Universal)
Nitty
Qualo
Prince
Raekwon
Rakim
Paulina Rubio
Rasaq
Raphael Saadiq
Shiny Toy Guns
Scissor Sisters
Sheek Louch
Sister Hazel*
Soul For Real (Uptown/Universal)
Spax
St. Lunatics
Sticky Fingaz
Tank
Terror Squad
Timbaland & Magoo
Ms. Toi
Tum Tum
KeKe Wyatt (Cash Money/Universal)
Mr Kent, the former head of the Universal McCann advertising agency, added that his research suggested that in return for free music, young people would be willing to endure adverts - as long as the brands and products were relevant to them.
I am one of the young people he speaks of, because I would more than willingly parse thru adverts in order to get free music, as opposed to having to pay for it.
Have you not experienced your classmates coming in and blabbering on and on about the puzzle they solved, or they boss they beat, only to ruin that part of the game for you?
In the future, the technology "could also be used an IP phone if the user is in a Wi-Fi hotspot outdoors, such as an airport, cafe, or conference centre for example. But we chose to concentrate first on usage at home," TeliaSonera spokesman Rune Fick Hansen told AFP.
I would like that hotspot capability more than at home.
The main problem is that AOL simply doesn't properly inform users of what its software will do to their PCs, said John Palfrey, StopBadware.org's co-director.
Not many programs out there do tell you what it's going to do to your pc. It's more like "Click-and-Pray".
The music industry needs to accept that there is always going to be a certain amount of piracy, and then just get on with the business of selling digital.
This is a very interesting open letter, and has many truths in it. I just wish Microsoft would take the letter's advice and stand up to the music industry.
Instead of reading the entire article, here's the summary...
Verdict
Both of these are impressive machines for anyone who wants to get hold of the power of Merom straight away. The lower clocked AJP does seem slightly lack-lustre compared to the top end Rock, especially as the 1,920 x 1,200 screen wasn't the best we've seen. If battery life is the primary concern you might do better with a Core Duo, due to its lower TDP, unless you can wait for ultra-low voltage Core 2 Duo laptops to appear.
If you can spend the money the T7600 based Rock is outrageously fast for a notebook and it's well specced too. However, we think the mid-rage 2GHz, T7200 will end up being the Merom CPU of choice.
so what you're saying is that you shouldn't have sex unless you're prepared to be locked up for rape if the girl goes whacky and accusses you of something you didn't do
Yeah, I think I'm gonna go hang out with j-turkey.
Doesn't hurt my feelings. Just note though, that according to my previous post though, then I will have no sympathy for you when you're wrongly convicted and sentenced to life in prison for a crime you didn't commit.
Nope, I would prefer a restructuring of the prison system, so that prisoners aren't sleeping on Sleep Number beds, aren't sipping on champagne for lunch, aren't surfing the internet during their free time, and aren't getting more amentities than the average mininum wage working american. That's where you free up the money to house more nut jobs. Make it uninviting, instead of making it the motel 6 for the inner city jobless.
Imagine getting into a bar fight and by way of a freak accident, you kill a man with a single punch. Do you think that you deserve to get locked up for life? What about for a consentual sex act and your partner changes their mind about it after the fact and presses charges?
What if, what if, what if. Don't put yourself in those positions and you wouldn't have to worry about it. People need to learn to accept the consequences of their actions, and if they're worried about the consequences, stay out of the situations.
Of course, if you go with the vendor in the link, it's an insanely expensive solution, but if you think about it, you can buy those sleeves for cheap, and build your own hooks. And per another posters comment, I think it's a good idea to build it with access to both ends of the hook, therefore you can do a FIFO policy... slip the cd's on one side, pull them off the other. We're talking about backups here, not a library. Odds are you are only going to need the oldest or most recent, not the one in the middle. And you'd always be disposing the oldest, so you have easy access too. Just my thoughts though, I could be wrong like usual:-)
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I didn't read the article(s), but that is because there were 7 frickin' links!
Don't you love it when people can get along though!
Not only was it a celebration of the popular webcomic, which enjoys its rep of mercilessly skewering the gaming industry, but it also marked a convergence of interests: table-top gamers standing shoulder-to-shoulder with Nintendo fans hoping against hope that the Wii would be playable in some dark corner of the exhibition hall.
I saw the TV commercial ads for Dead Rising on cable the other day. I bet you just on those commercials alone, that this will become a slightly popular game. The ads were very impelling. It made you look like you were about to buy and play the next Resident Evil - like zombie killing game.
I am a developer at a bank. I have my masters degree. Earlier this year, a co-worker from another part of the bank took me aside to ask what it would take to become a game programmer. This was ~20 year old kid, that never went to college, and now sits around processing loans at a bank. He's tinkered a bit with Excel macros, but isn't even a wiz at that. Yet, he's job shadowing my position and asking all these questions about becoming a game programmer. I had to break it to him that, although the game programming profession is something every programmer dreams of at one point in time, the odds of landing in that career aren't plausible. We live out in hick town Wisconsin too, so I told him that you'd need to move half way across the country even if you were lucky enough to find a job.
directly from the article...
You teh sux0r 2 sae teh PS3 is not going to teh r0x0r! Yew lie, yew 360 luvr. U teh sux! U maek thing up, go die!!!1111one!1!!!1 heheheheh
Here is a list of the universal artists that were from the wiki article, some of them seem to be half way decent, so i'm not sure what the parent is talking about :-)
2slabz (RebelRock/Universal) 3 Doors Down (Republic/Universal) 10 Years 98 Degrees* Aaliyah (Blackground/Universal) Acroma Afroman Akon Ali & Gipp Ashley Parker Angel (Blackground/Universal) The Bangkok 5 (Execution Style/Universal) David Banner Baby AKA Birdman (Cash Money/Universal) Baby Bash Bee Gees Big Tuck Big Tymers (Cash Money/Universal) Yummy Bingham (Cash Money/Universal)* Blak Jak Bloodhound Gang (Republic/Universal) Blue October Bodyrockers Toni Braxton (Blackground/Universal) Canibus Nick Cannon Chamillionaire Mr. Cheeks Cherry Monroe Tami Chynn Corey Clark (Bungalow/Universal) Jamie Cullum Crucial Conflict Currency Fleming and John Donavon Frankenreiter Mannie Fresh (Cash Money/Universal) Warren G* Godsmack (Republic/Universal) Gotan Project Pat Green (Republic/Universal) Hedley Marques Houston HIM Infinite Mass Elton John Jack Johnson (Brushfire/Universal) JoJo (Blackground/Universal) Juvenile* Brie Larson Murphy Lee Tracey Lee Lil' Romeo Lil Wayne (Cash Money/Universal) Lindsay Lohan (Motown/Universal) Lost Boyz Lumidee Teena Marie Damian Marley Stephen Marley Remy Martin Miri Ben-Ari Monifah (Uptown/Universal) Cherry Monroe Mystic (6) Natalie Nelly Nina Sky (Next Plateau/Universal) Nitty Qualo Prince Raekwon Rakim Paulina Rubio Rasaq Raphael Saadiq Shiny Toy Guns Scissor Sisters Sheek Louch Sister Hazel* Soul For Real (Uptown/Universal) Spax St. Lunatics Sticky Fingaz Tank Terror Squad Timbaland & Magoo Ms. Toi Tum Tum KeKe Wyatt (Cash Money/Universal)
Mr Kent, the former head of the Universal McCann advertising agency, added that his research suggested that in return for free music, young people would be willing to endure adverts - as long as the brands and products were relevant to them.
I am one of the young people he speaks of, because I would more than willingly parse thru adverts in order to get free music, as opposed to having to pay for it.
Have you not experienced your classmates coming in and blabbering on and on about the puzzle they solved, or they boss they beat, only to ruin that part of the game for you?
Some strategy guides are ok to use, but those that contain full walk-throughs, with pictures, are cheating and just plain tick me off.
10. Zmanda - backup utility and software
In the future, the technology "could also be used an IP phone if the user is in a Wi-Fi hotspot outdoors, such as an airport, cafe, or conference centre for example. But we chose to concentrate first on usage at home," TeliaSonera spokesman Rune Fick Hansen told AFP.
I would like that hotspot capability more than at home.
6. rPath - platform to create preconfigured, pretested application appliances that can be downloaded and deployed by enterprise users
1. Cleversafe - dispersed storage grid
2. Digium - open source PBX
3. Hyperic - manage heterogenous it environments
4. Optaros - consulting
5. Qlusters - open source systems management platform
7. Sahana - secure web portal
8. ws02 - open source application server
9. zenoss - network and systems-monitoring software
The main problem is that AOL simply doesn't properly inform users of what its software will do to their PCs, said John Palfrey, StopBadware.org's co-director.
Not many programs out there do tell you what it's going to do to your pc. It's more like "Click-and-Pray".
The music industry needs to accept that there is always going to be a certain amount of piracy, and then just get on with the business of selling digital.
This is a very interesting open letter, and has many truths in it. I just wish Microsoft would take the letter's advice and stand up to the music industry.
Instead of reading the entire article, here's the summary ...
Verdict
Both of these are impressive machines for anyone who wants to get hold of the power of Merom straight away. The lower clocked AJP does seem slightly lack-lustre compared to the top end Rock, especially as the 1,920 x 1,200 screen wasn't the best we've seen. If battery life is the primary concern you might do better with a Core Duo, due to its lower TDP, unless you can wait for ultra-low voltage Core 2 Duo laptops to appear.
If you can spend the money the T7600 based Rock is outrageously fast for a notebook and it's well specced too. However, we think the mid-rage 2GHz, T7200 will end up being the Merom CPU of choice.
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so what you're saying is that you shouldn't have sex unless you're prepared to be locked up for rape if the girl goes whacky and accusses you of something you didn't do
Or pick better partners? Just a thought.
Yeah, I think I'm gonna go hang out with j-turkey.
Doesn't hurt my feelings. Just note though, that according to my previous post though, then I will have no sympathy for you when you're wrongly convicted and sentenced to life in prison for a crime you didn't commit.
I already answered this one.
I do long for the day though that science has progressed far enough to make these kind of experiments unnecessary.
Me too. Good thought.
Nope, I would prefer a restructuring of the prison system, so that prisoners aren't sleeping on Sleep Number beds, aren't sipping on champagne for lunch, aren't surfing the internet during their free time, and aren't getting more amentities than the average mininum wage working american. That's where you free up the money to house more nut jobs. Make it uninviting, instead of making it the motel 6 for the inner city jobless.
Imagine getting into a bar fight and by way of a freak accident, you kill a man with a single punch. Do you think that you deserve to get locked up for life? What about for a consentual sex act and your partner changes their mind about it after the fact and presses charges?
What if, what if, what if. Don't put yourself in those positions and you wouldn't have to worry about it. People need to learn to accept the consequences of their actions, and if they're worried about the consequences, stay out of the situations.
WTF does polar bears have to do with news for nerds?
/. users (myself excluded).
If you read the article he linked to, then I think you would see a logical correlation between polar bears and most
Are you implying that the /. moderators have something against Fox News? I thought everybody on /. was fair and impartial?
Of course, if you go with the vendor in the link, it's an insanely expensive solution, but if you think about it, you can buy those sleeves for cheap, and build your own hooks. And per another posters comment, I think it's a good idea to build it with access to both ends of the hook, therefore you can do a FIFO policy ... slip the cd's on one side, pull them off the other. We're talking about backups here, not a library. Odds are you are only going to need the oldest or most recent, not the one in the middle. And you'd always be disposing the oldest, so you have easy access too. Just my thoughts though, I could be wrong like usual :-)