This is the most overhyped launch of video game consoles ever. It is almost sickening how much frosting is being tossed around by marketing with no games at all. People are just debating over hardware potential. Talk about arguing over vaporware.
I need to see at least 5 great games on a console before even considering an investment. Keyword is "great".
The cheaters, screamers, and the annoying cable pullers who can't take a loss... this is the group that even money has no answer for. This has nothing to do with subscription. It's the quality of the gaming experience that is a problem.
No online gaming service can afford to hire a 24x7 judge/executioner for every game to deal with this bunch. There are just too many online games to be monitored. You can file complaints all you want and pay subscription thru the roof. Nobody is really listening.
While that is true. The web version of outlook feels severly poor in performance compared to the app version. There is no way Word, Excel and the likes will be taken seriously if they are to be as clunky as outlook web.
I really don't lose internet connections anymore. I remember being the 1st on my street to have MediaOne, the cable guy was happy to see someone interested in broadband in my area. Back in those days I would file a downed-network complain every fucking week, the support people knew me by name. TV connections is always very reliable.
This is actually quite on topic as multiplayer feature finally makes GTA on PSP. I finally might have a reason to consider a PSP if capture the flag really makes it in. That's like playing tag in the entire city while running away from 40,000 cops.... something I used to do when I was 10.
The only time gas and oil prices will drop significantly is during the next election. As Republicans are going to need all the ammo they can get to have people forget about Bush.
You are going to have to wait a long ass time. As practical cooling is just a $5 fan from ATI. Yes I am the victim of countless fried stockspeed ATI cards, I speak from experience.
When I used to do VB.net, I avoided as much use of M$ libraries as possible. The only ones that I cared for were db.query type functions. It was helpful to run straight queries into a database. But lowerBound is a great example of a library being too excessive.
I have read that the best cure for arthritis is actually drinking vegetable water/high alkaline liquid. So many health forums talk about this alternative. My grandparents had serious arthritis problems at one time. I gave them this advice and they drink this tasteless boiled vegetable water frequently now. The idea is to have nothing but purity in your system, so that moving your joint doesn't hurt. This sounds very nonmedical, and I hope I word it right. But it works for my grandparents.
Man I am glad someone mentioned Blaster Master. When I first borrowed the game, I thought it had the lamest name and cover. Then the car started shooting missiles and became a hovercraft and boat. And you get out of your vehicle too. It turned out to be the best game I have ever seen on the NES. Yes it was the best. My number 2 to 5.
2. Castlevania II: Simons Quest 3. Adventures of Link 4. MegaMan 2 5. Track & Field II
When nintendo launch their next gen console at a cheaper price, it is saying they have an inferor product. Or they have lost faith in the nintendo brand in the console markets.
I talk to a lot of companies deploying big servers & storage of all size all year round. Here is the current picture.
EMC sym - They are only popular because they dominated the market in the 90s with many places already invested in them. Old school technology. Bloated as hell software, too many pieces.
HDS - Tagma and lightning is the best technology in the market by a long shot period! However they are unfortunate in selling the best product in a shitty market.
IBM - Shark has the ugliest hardware & software userbility there is. If you don't mind it, go for it.
HP - If they didn't oem from HDS, they would have been toast.
Sun - Storedge line started out confusing. Their marketing makes it even worse.
Personally if EA reopened up their pwnership of the NFL license, I would talk less shit about them. Of course that's not going to happen.
Too fucking bad. Now they'll just go down in history as a slave driver shop that can't compete with a quality product. That must rely on lawyers and monopoly bully tactics to survive.
If this is for real. It still won't get deployed since it'll affect the war-derived oil profit of George W Bus... I mean the livelihood of all the auto industry workers.
There is a good amount of opportunities out there. However the opportunities are very difficult, very demanding and some just borderline impossible. There is also this cultural problem in the US where everyone wants to be a manager. It almost pays to stay in the trenches and be wanted.
OTOH, I know different people in different sectors of IT. Quite a number of big companies are on the verge of collapsing from what I hear. They just can't holdup with their current staff. And they know it. Expect more hirings in mid 2006.
Companies also realized that outsourcing is a dead end. Besides saving costs, you can't do a whole lot more with an IT force in another country. The grade-A Indian workers IMHO are already in the U.S. No, I am not Indian, but this is from my years of observations.
I think that is more of a KDE thing. However, all linux distros could really use an upgrade path. If I had a datacenter box using SUSE 9, I should be able to put the SUSE 10 CD in, and get an "upgrade" entire version button. Apt-get do work to some degree, but the CD networkless method seem more natural in a giant datacenter. Or maybe someone has a better way out there?
Very well said. Though to consistently out-innovate US, you need a stable political climate.... something the rest of the world don't have the luxury of.
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This is the most overhyped launch of video game consoles ever. It is almost sickening how much frosting is being tossed around by marketing with no games at all. People are just debating over hardware potential. Talk about arguing over vaporware.
I need to see at least 5 great games on a console before even considering an investment. Keyword is "great".
The cheaters, screamers, and the annoying cable pullers who can't take a loss... this is the group that even money has no answer for. This has nothing to do with subscription. It's the quality of the gaming experience that is a problem.
No online gaming service can afford to hire a 24x7 judge/executioner for every game to deal with this bunch. There are just too many online games to be monitored. You can file complaints all you want and pay subscription thru the roof. Nobody is really listening.
While that is true. The web version of outlook feels severly poor in performance compared to the app version. There is no way Word, Excel and the likes will be taken seriously if they are to be as clunky as outlook web.
EA manager: We are making a fighting game.
EA marketing: Let's use Peter Jackson's name and the LOTR name.
EA dev: We have this D quality fighting game for 2 years, we just need to slap on a label.
EA marketing: Mr Jackson please sign here for $$$ and direct credit to the game.
Peter Jackson: Great. Now I think the environment should....
EA manager: STFU. Let's put this game on the shelf asap.
I really don't lose internet connections anymore. I remember being the 1st on my street to have MediaOne, the cable guy was happy to see someone interested in broadband in my area. Back in those days I would file a downed-network complain every fucking week, the support people knew me by name. TV connections is always very reliable.
Well I don't mind the blue screens of death, just the blue in the logo.
This is actually quite on topic as multiplayer feature finally makes GTA on PSP. I finally might have a reason to consider a PSP if capture the flag really makes it in. That's like playing tag in the entire city while running away from 40,000 cops.... something I used to do when I was 10.
Well M$ wouldn't be so stable if it only sold windows. They have to survive on overpriced office, exchange, and xbox.
The only time gas and oil prices will drop significantly is during the next election. As Republicans are going to need all the ammo they can get to have people forget about Bush.
You are going to have to wait a long ass time. As practical cooling is just a $5 fan from ATI. Yes I am the victim of countless fried stockspeed ATI cards, I speak from experience.
When I used to do VB.net, I avoided as much use of M$ libraries as possible. The only ones that I cared for were db.query type functions. It was helpful to run straight queries into a database. But lowerBound is a great example of a library being too excessive.
I have read that the best cure for arthritis is actually drinking vegetable water/high alkaline liquid. So many health forums talk about this alternative. My grandparents had serious arthritis problems at one time. I gave them this advice and they drink this tasteless boiled vegetable water frequently now. The idea is to have nothing but purity in your system, so that moving your joint doesn't hurt. This sounds very nonmedical, and I hope I word it right. But it works for my grandparents.
Man I am glad someone mentioned Blaster Master. When I first borrowed the game, I thought it had the lamest name and cover. Then the car started shooting missiles and became a hovercraft and boat. And you get out of your vehicle too. It turned out to be the best game I have ever seen on the NES. Yes it was the best. My number 2 to 5.
2. Castlevania II: Simons Quest
3. Adventures of Link
4. MegaMan 2
5. Track & Field II
Do hotfixes count?
When nintendo launch their next gen console at a cheaper price, it is saying they have an inferor product. Or they have lost faith in the nintendo brand in the console markets.
I talk to a lot of companies deploying big servers & storage of all size all year round. Here is the current picture.
EMC sym - They are only popular because they dominated the market in the 90s with many places already invested in them. Old school technology. Bloated as hell software, too many pieces.
HDS - Tagma and lightning is the best technology in the market by a long shot period! However they are unfortunate in selling the best product in a shitty market.
IBM - Shark has the ugliest hardware & software userbility there is. If you don't mind it, go for it.
HP - If they didn't oem from HDS, they would have been toast.
Sun - Storedge line started out confusing. Their marketing makes it even worse.
Personally if EA reopened up their pwnership of the NFL license, I would talk less shit about them. Of course that's not going to happen.
Too fucking bad. Now they'll just go down in history as a slave driver shop that can't compete with a quality product. That must rely on lawyers and monopoly bully tactics to survive.
If this is for real. It still won't get deployed since it'll affect the war-derived oil profit of George W Bus... I mean the livelihood of all the auto industry workers.
There is a good amount of opportunities out there. However the opportunities are very difficult, very demanding and some just borderline impossible. There is also this cultural problem in the US where everyone wants to be a manager. It almost pays to stay in the trenches and be wanted.
OTOH, I know different people in different sectors of IT. Quite a number of big companies are on the verge of collapsing from what I hear. They just can't holdup with their current staff. And they know it. Expect more hirings in mid 2006.
Companies also realized that outsourcing is a dead end. Besides saving costs, you can't do a whole lot more with an IT force in another country. The grade-A Indian workers IMHO are already in the U.S. No, I am not Indian, but this is from my years of observations.
I think that is more of a KDE thing. However, all linux distros could really use an upgrade path. If I had a datacenter box using SUSE 9, I should be able to put the SUSE 10 CD in, and get an "upgrade" entire version button. Apt-get do work to some degree, but the CD networkless method seem more natural in a giant datacenter. Or maybe someone has a better way out there?
The guy is obviously kidding. He's got no TV, but a TV card in the computer.
Doesn't the RIAA/record labels take in .95 cents for every .05 cents that the artists get? Best way to support the artists is to go to their concerts.
How the industry works.
1. Study disease
2. Find cure
3. Hide cure
4. Sell treatment
5. Profit!
6. Sell treatment again
7. Profit!
8. Repeat step 4 to 7 forever
Very well said. Though to consistently out-innovate US, you need a stable political climate.... something the rest of the world don't have the luxury of.
Places like Mcdonalds have no room for creativity. Look at Weird Al. Oh wait, different burger shop.