While I want to say EA is responsible. It isn't entirely. The U.S court system need to stretch monopolistic practices to cover these cases. And it hasn't. EA can potentially own 90% of the video game industry. If that's not monopoly, I don't know what is.
But you can wow your managers with the fact that you know wireless hotspots cost $12 billion. So now you look smarter and see an increase in your salary +$20.
Well the original parent had a point. American lazy-ness might be the thing that saves Microsoft. People don't want to waste time install linux if they don't have to. They'd rather plan their next trip to Disney world.
We Americans are innovative yes. But we do a half ass job following thru. We lost the opportunity to be the automobile powerhouse. Asian countries build far better Stereos, DVDs now. It's a matter of time before another country build a superior computer, OS, internet etc.
The biggest problem is overseas countries like Russia, China, HK. The pirating problem in the U.S is on the smallest scale in comparison. People down there get the NTSC copies before their PAL version comes out.
The whole region lock and anti-piracy FBI screen is bullshit. MPAA and RIAA spend all their time and money pumping out garbage albums with 2 songs, too many sequels and plotless special Fx films. This industry need a serious fix.
I don't think Tsunami victims need slashdot before food. People always want to volunteer, but always under estimate the time it really takes to bring back an IT environment.
Sun has an aweful track record of maintaining anything on the web. That includes their external website. A small example, you can't even find sun's Burlington Mass address on the site. Trust me, the list is a mile long. I expect this.org site to be well maintained for about a year at most.
As long as the comic is not 3D, it'll be fine. They mind as well call it "symphony of the night" comic, if they want a real success.
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The console experience is hardly about graphics. Sega master system had superior hardware compared to NES, it still got eaten alive. Atari Jaguar at 64bit went no where.
You can tell the difference between hardcore console gamers and hardcore PC gamers. Hardcore PC gamers think that the better game will be the one with higher FPS and resolution.
What EA is doing is something new. Imagine IBM bought out every profitable software company before it reached its prime. There would be no oracle, redhat, microsoft, peoplesoft, HP, compaq etc.
EA is virtually attempting to buy everything! There has never been anything like this in the history of any industry. No one knows the outcome.
People have to get it straight, EA doesn't make games anymore. They only publish with their name on it. They are all management folks who don't give a fuck about whether you burn out or not.
For an OS to be a hit, it needs to be marketable. Windows has games, gui, buggy or not... it squeeze in noticible new features. Linux wasn't marketable until KDE and new features came in. Security is just a boring selling point.
Mac minis are the most overrated piece of garbage. I can understand iPod getting the attention, it's a good product overall.
The PC shuttle, being ultra tiny, came out years ago. It got zero attention compared to the Mac mini. People are just being biased, clapping over anything coming out of Apple.
The shuttle was equally as small and even more customizable. I don't think slashdot even had 1 article on that. Size doesn't really matter, the Apple logo matters.
I am a little confused on this. I thought the SUSE LINUX Maintenance Program expires after 12 months. Then they end up paying. Well I am happy either way since M$ lost a deal.
Pffff.... it's pointless to keep people's contacts nowadays. Everybody moves, changes address, changes jobs every 3 years nowadays. That's the industry standard, especially for IT.
Dude... it's not unlimited entertainment. If it's unlimited, then you pay once $50 game and play it unlimited number of times. This is a subscription service based game at $14 a month.
Blizzard needs to put more money into more servers. Management is simply being cheap. Remember, this is the same company that fired the Diablo II team after the success it had.
Whatever Sun did well the past 3 years, IBM did better. The only reason why Sun received so much praise was the non-corporate young Stanford University Network culture. That is gone now! Sun is like any other political corporate culture today.
1.) AIX has a far better patching system in Maintainance level patch counts than Solaris nasty clusterpatch process.
2.) AIX has smit which allow people to not ever need command lines.
3.) AIX had better linux compatibility all along. Solaris 10 is literally Sun's starting point with linux compatibility.
4.) AIX jfs and jfs2 from all the way back in AIX 5.1 has been superior compared to Sun's ufs.
5.) AIX LVM was ready back in the days of AIX 5.1. Last year's solaris 9 was the first version bundled with a good-enough volume manager (solstice disksuite).
Well, this is a good first step for TakeTwo to counter EA. While I like baseball games, I'd have to admit they are not nearly as $$$ as football games.
The best case scenario would be a settlement to trade between the companies. So TakeTwo can use NFL player licenses and EA can use MLB licenses. It wouldn't surprise me if TakeTwo try to grab the NBA license too. This year's ESPN NBA2k5, especially online, was superior to the EA counterpart.
If you post on slashdot without the use of internet, you should be elected president asap. Hells, we mind as well worship you and stop eating meat every sunday.
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While I want to say EA is responsible. It isn't entirely. The U.S court system need to stretch monopolistic practices to cover these cases. And it hasn't. EA can potentially own 90% of the video game industry. If that's not monopoly, I don't know what is.
But you can wow your managers with the fact that you know wireless hotspots cost $12 billion. So now you look smarter and see an increase in your salary +$20.
Well the original parent had a point. American lazy-ness might be the thing that saves Microsoft. People don't want to waste time install linux if they don't have to. They'd rather plan their next trip to Disney world.
We Americans are innovative yes. But we do a half ass job following thru. We lost the opportunity to be the automobile powerhouse. Asian countries build far better Stereos, DVDs now. It's a matter of time before another country build a superior computer, OS, internet etc.
The biggest problem is overseas countries like Russia, China, HK. The pirating problem in the U.S is on the smallest scale in comparison. People down there get the NTSC copies before their PAL version comes out.
The whole region lock and anti-piracy FBI screen is bullshit. MPAA and RIAA spend all their time and money pumping out garbage albums with 2 songs, too many sequels and plotless special Fx films. This industry need a serious fix.
For example, an online game that can't gather enough audience will become garbage. You just can't play by yourself.
An indie film that was seen by only 100 people can still be a success. If you use the indie film comparison, then the video game industry is screwed.
If it wasn't for all this garbage marketing mail coming to my mailbox. My desk would be paperless all year round.
Well Portland is not the central hub for open source. It's any techie's basement, which is in any state.
That's why it is such a threat. M$ can't just buy the entire state.
I don't think Tsunami victims need slashdot before food. People always want to volunteer, but always under estimate the time it really takes to bring back an IT environment.
Yeah I thought all the stars are now working at Rockstar, that's why they come up with the #1 game year after year.
Reward high quality work? You must be from a different time era. In today's world, they only reward you for kissing alot of ass.
Sun has an aweful track record of maintaining anything on the web. That includes their external website. A small example, you can't even find sun's Burlington Mass address on the site. Trust me, the list is a mile long. I expect this .org site to be well maintained for about a year at most.
As long as the comic is not 3D, it'll be fine. They mind as well call it "symphony of the night" comic, if they want a real success.
The console experience is hardly about graphics. Sega master system had superior hardware compared to NES, it still got eaten alive. Atari Jaguar at 64bit went no where.
You can tell the difference between hardcore console gamers and hardcore PC gamers. Hardcore PC gamers think that the better game will be the one with higher FPS and resolution.
What EA is doing is something new. Imagine IBM bought out every profitable software company before it reached its prime. There would be no oracle, redhat, microsoft, peoplesoft, HP, compaq etc.
EA is virtually attempting to buy everything! There has never been anything like this in the history of any industry. No one knows the outcome.
People have to get it straight, EA doesn't make games anymore. They only publish with their name on it. They are all management folks who don't give a fuck about whether you burn out or not.
For an OS to be a hit, it needs to be marketable. Windows has games, gui, buggy or not... it squeeze in noticible new features. Linux wasn't marketable until KDE and new features came in. Security is just a boring selling point.
Mac minis are the most overrated piece of garbage. I can understand iPod getting the attention, it's a good product overall.
The PC shuttle, being ultra tiny, came out years ago. It got zero attention compared to the Mac mini. People are just being biased, clapping over anything coming out of Apple.
The shuttle was equally as small and even more customizable. I don't think slashdot even had 1 article on that. Size doesn't really matter, the Apple logo matters.
I can never live with robots after watching Robocop.
I am a little confused on this. I thought the SUSE LINUX Maintenance Program expires after 12 months. Then they end up paying. Well I am happy either way since M$ lost a deal.
Please, this is Apple. Wait for the Mini version.
Pffff.... it's pointless to keep people's contacts nowadays. Everybody moves, changes address, changes jobs every 3 years nowadays. That's the industry standard, especially for IT.
Dude... it's not unlimited entertainment. If it's unlimited, then you pay once $50 game and play it unlimited number of times. This is a subscription service based game at $14 a month.
Blizzard needs to put more money into more servers. Management is simply being cheap. Remember, this is the same company that fired the Diablo II team after the success it had.
Whatever Sun did well the past 3 years, IBM did better. The only reason why Sun received so much praise was the non-corporate young Stanford University Network culture. That is gone now! Sun is like any other political corporate culture today.
1.) AIX has a far better patching system in Maintainance level patch counts than Solaris nasty clusterpatch process.
2.) AIX has smit which allow people to not ever need command lines.
3.) AIX had better linux compatibility all along. Solaris 10 is literally Sun's starting point with linux compatibility.
4.) AIX jfs and jfs2 from all the way back in AIX 5.1 has been superior compared to Sun's ufs.
5.) AIX LVM was ready back in the days of AIX 5.1. Last year's solaris 9 was the first version bundled with a good-enough volume manager (solstice disksuite).
I can go on forever...
Well, this is a good first step for TakeTwo to counter EA. While I like baseball games, I'd have to admit they are not nearly as $$$ as football games.
The best case scenario would be a settlement to trade between the companies. So TakeTwo can use NFL player licenses and EA can use MLB licenses. It wouldn't surprise me if TakeTwo try to grab the NBA license too. This year's ESPN NBA2k5, especially online, was superior to the EA counterpart.
If you post on slashdot without the use of internet, you should be elected president asap. Hells, we mind as well worship you and stop eating meat every sunday.