Play the cards right, wha? M$ could not have entered the market at a more difficult time. Bill Gates was interviewed numerous times in the early and mid 90s. He could have entered the scene of dying Sega genesis and Snes, pre-Playstation and dominated the market wide open.
Xbox joined the market as a 2nd/3rd seed system competing with PS2, Gamecube. At the same time competing with MMORPGs subscriptions and Greatest hits games at $19.99. You have to be a major Xbox fanatic to think they are not playing catchup now.
Let's be realistic here, some product that is opensourced doesn't immediate translate to someone having the time to read all your code. They'd be lucky to read and understand 50% of it.
When Doom 2 disappeared, Quake filled the space marine void for the gaming industry. If someone made the game less dark, literally Quake 1, 2, 3 could have been Doom 3, 4, 5.
This will be the first time Doom III and Quake IV reach a prime more or less together. Some hardcore gamers might dispute, but besides the monsters and the weapons... the backdrop is way similar.
I was actually crazy enough to call up my local library to see if they had this book in stock. The librarian laughed her ass off, and she hung up on me.
I then bought the book later. Sat on the toilet for literally half a day, and read a record 300 pages. Damn glad I didn't take the librarian seriously.
Netflix can't possibly be the future. This whole snail mail business thing with 3 day turnaround time is not practical. So many websites dedicate to Netflix complaints. There are people who could watch 50 movies a week, yet Netflix purposely slow down the delivery to assure they get maximum profit out of you. iTunes like Movie service has to be the next big thing. Hells, why don't we go one step further with a Rhapsody movie service. Download the movies, no return etc.
If it's not free, it needs to offer something unique and spectacular to the community. There is nothing special about Novell Linux at the moment. It needs to find a niche. Maybe be the ultimate mailserver distro or something.
That is very possible. Though I can't help to think it also has something to do with overlapping PSP sales. Which realistically won't take place until major price drops in mid to late 2006 sometime.
Very well said! Every PhD person I ever worked with just deal with things in such a round-about unconventional way, it's no coincidence. Great for research labs, lousy for the every day office environment.
Come on now, you can get all of that on a PC labtop. If you like the MiniMac design, that's great. But don't make it seem like a Sager labtop or a souped up Alienware can't be a digital Hub either.
Somehow we have this ELITE view of what the FBI, CIA, and NSA can do with our servers. I think no one really knows for sure how good or bad their IT skills are.
It's a complicated situation. Every school do things differently. I can't imagine coordinating a single DB for a 1000 schools, foreign & domestic.
Student A was an undergrad for 2 years got a degree. Student B was an undergrad for 1 year, went to work, came back for 6 years. Got a degree. Took an extra course for a minor. Changed major 3 times etc etc.
What level of detail are we talking about, just a student with a degree? Schools generally have an alumni list or database internally. Dunno if it matters to merge them. The US government doesn't do a very good job financing non-political projects to begin with.
After going public, do people really expect google to be the same? To continue looking good on wallstreet, they'll have to sell anything. Even becoming more evil, and playing dirty.
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Why don't they just make a program to print out a bachelors degree. Save me time, money and effort.
Play the cards right, wha? M$ could not have entered the market at a more difficult time. Bill Gates was interviewed numerous times in the early and mid 90s. He could have entered the scene of dying Sega genesis and Snes, pre-Playstation and dominated the market wide open.
Xbox joined the market as a 2nd/3rd seed system competing with PS2, Gamecube. At the same time competing with MMORPGs subscriptions and Greatest hits games at $19.99. You have to be a major Xbox fanatic to think they are not playing catchup now.
Real world economics in online game is a serious problem. There is no Alan Greenspan to offset the economy with whatever adjustments.
The 1st person to own a sword played 10hrs to earn money to buy it. Then sell it at higher price.
The 2nd person to own a sword played 20hrs to earn money to buy it. Then sell it at higher price.
The 3rd person to own a sword played 30hrs to earn money to buy it. Then sell it at higher price.
Repeat, repeat. Afterwards every other sword with the same performance will go on sale at that high price.
Dude stop labeling everyone a terrorist. I don't care how much mp3s you download, there is no limit that would put you in that category.
Let's be realistic here, some product that is opensourced doesn't immediate translate to someone having the time to read all your code. They'd be lucky to read and understand 50% of it.
When Doom 2 disappeared, Quake filled the space marine void for the gaming industry. If someone made the game less dark, literally Quake 1, 2, 3 could have been Doom 3, 4, 5.
This will be the first time Doom III and Quake IV reach a prime more or less together. Some hardcore gamers might dispute, but besides the monsters and the weapons... the backdrop is way similar.
Come on people, this is April fools joke.
I was actually crazy enough to call up my local library to see if they had this book in stock. The librarian laughed her ass off, and she hung up on me.
I then bought the book later. Sat on the toilet for literally half a day, and read a record 300 pages. Damn glad I didn't take the librarian seriously.
Netflix can't possibly be the future. This whole snail mail business thing with 3 day turnaround time is not practical. So many websites dedicate to Netflix complaints. There are people who could watch 50 movies a week, yet Netflix purposely slow down the delivery to assure they get maximum profit out of you. iTunes like Movie service has to be the next big thing. Hells, why don't we go one step further with a Rhapsody movie service. Download the movies, no return etc.
If it's not free, it needs to offer something unique and spectacular to the community. There is nothing special about Novell Linux at the moment. It needs to find a niche. Maybe be the ultimate mailserver distro or something.
That is very possible. Though I can't help to think it also has something to do with overlapping PSP sales. Which realistically won't take place until major price drops in mid to late 2006 sometime.
No problem I'll fill you in.
- Firefox released 1.0PR, people got confused with what PR means. Potato and Raisin, Pizza Ready
- Firefox released 1.0, a cazillion people switched over from IE. All this time people thought the spyware was part of every websites.
- Firefox now owns 7% of the browser market. The number of people downloading IE.... 0%.
If you want quality searches, you need www.clusty.com. The results are separated in clusters. Google just bundles everything and anything together.
How about "Openix" for the sake of OpenSource. I am in huge favor of changing the name while he's alive and kicking.
If it wasn't for porn, they'd have an answer in 1 year.
Very well said! Every PhD person I ever worked with just deal with things in such a round-about unconventional way, it's no coincidence. Great for research labs, lousy for the every day office environment.
Come on now, you can get all of that on a PC labtop. If you like the MiniMac design, that's great. But don't make it seem like a Sager labtop or a souped up Alienware can't be a digital Hub either.
That probably won't be far off after...
Google firefox
Netscape firefox
AOL firefox?
Somehow we have this ELITE view of what the FBI, CIA, and NSA can do with our servers. I think no one really knows for sure how good or bad their IT skills are.
Seriously I like technology, but that price range is way out there. How about releasing them in different colors too.
Nah that's not going to happen. Before your DRM last a year, some corporation would have changed it 3x and make them all incompatible.
Olympic Athlete: Doctor I am running for my country next month.
Doctor: And?
Olympic Athlete: I need you to give me bionic legs.
Doctor: But your legs are fine.
Olympic Athlete: Here, use this chainsaw. While you are at it, hook me up with some implants.
Doctor: This is crazy.
Olympic Athlete: We'll do arms next week. After the olympics, I am playing for the NFL, NBA, MLB, NHL, PGA.
It's a complicated situation. Every school do things differently. I can't imagine coordinating a single DB for a 1000 schools, foreign & domestic.
Student A was an undergrad for 2 years got a degree. Student B was an undergrad for 1 year, went to work, came back for 6 years. Got a degree. Took an extra course for a minor. Changed major 3 times etc etc.
What level of detail are we talking about, just a student with a degree? Schools generally have an alumni list or database internally. Dunno if it matters to merge them. The US government doesn't do a very good job financing non-political projects to begin with.
After going public, do people really expect google to be the same? To continue looking good on wallstreet, they'll have to sell anything. Even becoming more evil, and playing dirty.
A true gamer is someone who plays just about ANYTHING. I know people who play only sports games or only RPGs. These are your regular gamers.
In my entire life time, I might have met about 3 people who I consider true gamers. They'll play fps, sportsgames, RPGs, RT strategy, MMO etc.