Furthermore, are we really willing to put them all in the same category? mobile gaming platforms against consoles? In that case, Nin is competing against itself which makes no sense to me. I'd have been more inclined to be on this chart's bandwagon if they separated the two matters, and, yes, provided stats for the years they overlap.
...who thinks one can simultaneously quietly smirk and feel sorry for the guy? i believe the feelings are mutually exclusive. (I've seen enough people watching Jackass-type stunts who wince, laugh and are appalled by the idiocy, in the same breath.) Recognizing and acknowledging coincidence doesn't make you de-facto evil- it's in how it's expressed.
but above all, my strongest reaction is.. who the hell tests a vehicle near a cliff?! wait..who let's the _head_ of a company test a vehicle..near a cliff?! doesn't some common sense, protective mechanism, insurance policy, sense of self-preservation kick in, at some point?
Their software requires Windows XP/Vista (probably x86). I put my father on 7 x64, at home, but he wasn't stupid enough to get infected for me to find out if 7 is vulnerable:P
I would have been more skeptical had I not already been made aware, this morning, of an ongoing attack against my Pop's workplace, via a zero-day PDF vulnerability. Forgive me if i don't name-drop the company, but I'd definitely confirm any public statement they make at some later date...
I was not one of those people who followed the beta testing and wheel out of iGoogle. I discovered it one afternoon when I tried to reload iGoogle from that morning, it changed. When I expressed surprise, my coworker who uses Google.cn was like, umm, my iGoogle always looked like that.. I wonder if she is aesthetically blind or this was just a migration.
But do you imagine that everyone would like changes? Thousands of annoyed users might sound significant except when we consider the millions? of iGoogle users. Google isn't going to base it's decisions on.0001% of its population. I will admit, though, it might have been nice to offer a) the option/ability to revert, b) left-hand navigation minimization
To be honest, I am one of the happy users with this interface. I do not think the navi takes up such a significant part of the screen and on my laptop real estate is an issue. I do not understand why ppl dislike how the GMail gadget operates because the last one was about intolerable. Privacy is an issue? I would have top open a tab to read an email, in order to keep iGoogle open, and it would occupy larger, more obvious/readable screen area than its behavior does now. How huge is your monitor and font that someone could innocently glance part of the 1st line of your email body? Do all of your friends open emails with "f#(k1n $h1t!!!"? What am i missing?:P
As for updates- Adobe, Firefox and iGoogle routinely clash anyway. Stuff breaks, they fix it. Ppl complain that things don't work as though we should believe that this would be a permanent situation. Give them a minute, get some air. It will work, and probably, in short order.
Agreed- that would be the equiv of slapping a "Mine!" sticker on something and claiming ownership, but in this case, ownership is easy to prove. If photos of the door of my private residence were snapped from my property - a stated, private road - as boundaries can be proven, then I should have the right to sue you.
Recall the "plain sight" legal clause. Would a police officer have the right to roll up on my property because s/he felt so? I'd say no. If, say, he saw an axe peeking out of my door while driving by on a public road, oh there would be cause. (There'd be cause if someone called in complaint under suspicion of criminal activity..but they can't _just_ roll into a private residence.) By abstraction, if you can visualize/take a visual of the door to my private from a public road, then the outside of my door really _is not private_.
Remember also that as it stands my private belongings cease to be so the minute i place leave them on public property. It is that fact that allows paparazzi/law enforcement to pick up that which I have effectively discarded. Does this precedent not similarly extend to within public view?
As a general rule, paparazzi are great examples of what you can and cannot get away with in this arena. Aren't there a ton of celebrity lawsuits filed in a year? Which ones do the celebs win? What are the adjudications of expectation of privacy?
No suntanning naked on your deck, folks! Unless you're that secure...
While I have been in school, my jobs have officially been in areas of IT Support, i.e., unofficially, I end up mucking about with Network Administration, R&D, Programming, Web Admin.. with no reflection in the pay. But whats new about that?
I was fortunate to work in an environment in which most of the IT staff were female, although they did not hold the most glorious of the positions... but at least I did not have to deal with sexist attitudes from co-workers. This was helped by the fact the women they were at the very least competent, but, more typically, talented and knowledgeable. Attitude from customers? Well that's a different deal. I particularly love the pregnant pauses on the hotline: "...may I speak to a _Technician_?" "You are." "...Well can I speak to someone who knows about X?" "You are." That sort of thing.
(My sister and ) I program for the fun of it - I have no huge interest in doing it professionally - but I am a stickler for programming proficiency. Believe me when I say that she and I try to drill "proper programming etiquette and technique" into any of our friends taking classes in Programming. I just don't hold to the perspective that Programming is the see-all end-all of CS....
You and I share a similar appreciation for smart people of any gender. But while I can live, quite easily, with being the only woman in the room, I'd rather it not be so. Funny you should mention hackers right then, because that MSc I mentioned is in InfoSec. Given the area in which I live, I wouldn't be entirely surprised to find a larger number of female students, but all-in-all, I don't expect to see that many. What I might expect is representative portions. i.e., I wouldn't expect to see a higher % of woman hackers than there is a % of women in CS. And we admit that this is a rather optimistic expectation.
I think that perception has rather alot to do with it. I know it certainly was a factor for me in secondary (high) school. They still had sexist attitudes about what was and was not for women, in sports and study- something I campaigned hard against. After I complained for a year, they introduced "AP level" CS at my school, of course, when I was ineligible for the class, but what more can you do. And the sexism is alive and well in CS at college level today. At some universities you could see the gleam in their eyes when i appeared to ask questions, that simply said "Oooh, a woman!" Then the inevitable, "so you're here for Programming, right?"
I'm chipping away at the perception where I can. I admit, I derive a little joy when some guy walks up to me with a problem that inevitable ends in "but I don't remember the password" and I say "so?"..and wait for the look of shock tinged with horror when they realized theyve read me all wrong. Ok, so maybe the look on my face is a l'il sinister too...
I agree with you, blah, about "edu-advertising", but I feel that the article tried to advance the idea that from an early stage CS is presented as a thing "geek guys do". If is is simply a general-neutral exposure to the subject that currently exists, such measures aren't necessary. But if they are correct in this assessment, then I feel something needs to be corrected.
I don't find it offending, but I will have to disagree. The idea i not to remove programming, but not to let it be the sole feature.... You started off so well there that I rather was not expecting the finish. Your statements about the confusion between CS and Soft. Eng certainly ring true, though. Coupled with Dr. Faustus, it addresses the matter quite neatly.
The problem comes with the "omg, ponies" attitude, bigtomrodney and naturation displayed so nicely. We're not talking about teaching women programmers to code more realistic looking flowers in video game environments here, and we're not "moving math away from doing math problems". That isn't analogous to what the article addressed at all.
Let me say right here that, as a woman, either of those things would offend me. I don't believe that things should be inherently woman (or anyone) -friendly, but I like "level" playing fields. I am not for necessarily making things more butch, anymore than I am for making thing more perty - pink DS lites, Razrs, guitars.. flowery, touchy-friendly games... annoy the fuck out of me, but there should be that option. However, it is quite probable that things will have a more "masculine slant", or to be misrepresented, and for CS, this can result in the low enrollment of women.
The article is talking about the misrepresentation of what CS is; that if it were to move the emphasis - i.e the projected image of what CS constitutes - away from _simply_ programming, it could only benefit the levels of female interest. Indeed, the only language I bothered to certify in is Java, so I've understandable bias. But if all the AP exam is, is Java... then it needs to be redone. Is the GRE CS exam all programming? Heck no. It's wide-ranging, as CS is a broad thing.
Let me add that, what I find even worse than misguiding those who are about to enroll, is guiding the enrolled student down the programming path, giving them a sense of "this is what the industry wants". I see it in my own university and its effects in future courses of study. e.g. I discovered in the first week of a class, this Sunday, that another female CS student and I applied to the same MSc. program at the same university. I got accepted the week they processed the apps, she is still waiting. The difference? She was advised to do VB, C++, Java, Software Analysis...; I did what I wanted. What I wanted happened to be Networking, Programming, Databases, Security. This makes the article's point about diversity in CS quite nicely. It is the diversity in CS, the ubiquity, that needs to be emphasized.
And for the record.. my bass and electric r black and electric blue; the only flower i want to see is if the Hitman is disguised as a flowery delivery man; and, most of the geeks I know stare at me over a pair of Windys and try to kick my ass, chicas included.
Pocket protectors and stereotypes be damned. Thank you very much.
It's time to give it up... agreed! So why was it brought it up?
This extension of Mizaru, Mikazaru & Mazaru has the same problem..evil is subjective. Google will always be doing something evil according to somebody. One person is glad for the kind of search optimizations and experience that Google offers, using said same data collection, and another cries "Big Brother". By _my_ concept of evil, had Google kowtowed to requests to turn over its info, I would have dubbed it so. By yours, it seems, that Google, a search engine, is so because it *gasps* collects search data. Or is it evil because it is good, no, the best at it?
But since we are defining... anyone ever bothered to remember Google's own use of "evil"? It was used solely w. respect to how they use\display ads, not this wide ascription to everything it does. Large corporations, like itself, will do a great many things. (And when we say large we're really saying multi-national multi-tasking.) Someone cited Google China under another parent, as an example. Well, multi-national players are subject to multi-national regulations. What? Did no one notice China censors (everything) heavily before Google came to town? Because Google is so large it gets to ignore them in the name of "the Greater Good"? Nay. It has to play by them or seek to change them.. legally. Because when they do ignore them *coughsoftwarecopyrightinfringementcough* there is someone in the wings waiting to cry "Evil!" once again.
So no, Google can't please every person, but at the same time, persons should cease throwing "evil around". It is not excused by Google introducing the word in the first place.
The rule of thumb for writing to impress is to open and close strongly. That said, I had a good idea what to expect from your opening sentence - "Muslims and blacks are fighting and killing each other"...these are opposing ethnic groups? Is none of these Muslims Black? Far from that fact, the Janjaweed, to which i believe you were referring, are (largely) Black Muslims, as indeed many Muslims are Black.
"The White European" is quite selective. "The Westerner" is more like it- it includes all the shades of people who don't care, or don't care enough to act. (I deliberately do not specify what that action may be.) Indeed the target of speeches I have heard\seen from the "Inside the Al Qaeda"-type reporting is "The West", or "America & The West" (to be redundant). Interesting how The West seems less stirred up by some forces as the forces are about them....
I will not even bother to point-form address the "shoot what you don't like" policy espoused here, but i will say that it has worked so well for us recently... I will add though, that while I tend toward non-violence, I will not blanketly say that smacking a bully on the chin isn't a worthwhile method. Governments need to walk the line between doing nothing and going buckwild crazy in dealing with such matters, because either end doesn't pay. We need only look to recent, global, political scenarios to establish that.
"These problems" was used generally. As a matter of fact, to attest, I have been seeing windows updates break svchost for over a month now. This update was no exception. Then, like now, MS delivered a fix. They just delivered the fix faster this time, and it actually works ('cause I have not proven their last "fix" did.
To be honest, I didn't even realize it was breaking other things because I was too busy fixing that problem to notice.
P.S. - most of the fixes for the Generic Host errors that i read online were convoluted....I swear some people never heard of F8... Just glad I won't have to go through that again with the 200-odd systems in front of me.
..until I go home and install it tonight, anyway.. but not because I am unaware of it. I am well aware. I recommend it to ppl and I do know the environment, but up until now it was inconvenient for my purposes. (Then I got more ambitious and so Ubuntu must be installed!)
The unfortunate truth is that for a general purpose, and a commercial purpose is such, Windows-based is the way to go. What I think that Dell - and,so too, Sony - has been slow to realize, and has now reached there, is that variety can sell (as long as the variety is not confusing to the avg consumer *coughMScough*).
Variety does not simply sell because there is a larger customer base, but it also presents an image of willingness to work with the consumer. Was it not long ago that there wasn't an AMD product to be found? So I'm stuck with Nvidia, eh? They addressed these. Now I could have my choice of OS? Great!
The detraction from buying Dell systems for the slightly-more-than-avg to waaay-over is that much is forced upon us. We get pre-packaged crapware "included in the price" and standard installations that do not include choices like IE and FF. And so the lot of us end up building our own pcs. (Though I do it cause I think it's fun.)
But wouldn't it be nice to think that we could pick up a quality ready-to-go system? Dell doesn't have good things packaged in for the common, or any, user. Those are the guys who need the warranties and the home help, because they are intimidated by swapping parts out or reading forums for answers. Perhaps Joe Schmoe might like the feeling of security that their Lo-jack system for laptops brings.
Now, I am not currently in PC gamer mode so I cannot say with any confidence what kind of performance hit you'd taking Wine'ing games? seeing that developers are largely Windows-blindered.... (If someone would be kind and provide some info, it'd be nice.) But for those truly into games, playing every (intensive) game under the sun, is that truly realistic? Course I'd like some real word opinions on those games under Vista, as well, for a decent comparison. But I must agree that what problems exist for Vista, they will (attempt to) address with SP1- this is a reasonable expectation given the GFW initiative.
What I do have my eye on is how long before every mention of XP is gone from Dell's site. As of right now, it is not completely disappeared but it is quite deliberately severely understated. If they really have become this choice-loving organization, they'd keep that OS option there
It is more in the realm of attractive and attractive possibility. Attractive in the sense that I can think, offhand, of several women involved with brutes of men. These men aren't pretty. However, they make attractive mates for some reason- the brutishness translates into something that may be viewed in the larger context of propagation, or of the more immediate gratification of some individual desire. Indeed, pretty may become involved but it's not the deciding factor.
Examining a more recent time -
S\he looks good - "Make pretty babies"\score card - College scene\Anywhere really
S\he is someone I wouldn't normally (soberly) go for - Diversification - Bar scene
Why isn't that a nice suit - Provide for the family\*Kaching!* - Corporate scene
Weedlekin,
Agreed. But why did you narrow to primitive, tribal cultures? I would submit that this happens still in many cultures.
"I'm bored, you're here... let's have sex." - A cave\modern restaurant\living-room couch
But in agreeing with you I envision almost the antithesis of Tartarize - Art. I don't get it. Let's just go back to my place. - Art Museum
Humans often seek excuses and justifications for the things they wish\intend to do anyway.
For those who have responded before me, since i doubt that you will be ashamed for yourselves, let me be ashamed for you... those of us who thought the sentence through would know what he means by silent prayer. But let me more explicative, if a preacher prays aloud, beginning "let us pray", and the congregation simply bows their heads...are they not praying? They're not speaking aloud, but they are praying. You undo any point you could have made in your post by answering in the manner that you did.
Now, aztracker, i find it largely irrelevant that you are a spiritual agnostic, except the spiritual part might explain why you perceive persecution on religion where it need not be present. As it was pointed out, given that most politicians/legislators wear their religions on their sleeve, and most are Jewish/Xian, who precisely is attacking what? More to the matter is that "as a whole" part that you mention... there is no whole! There persists a lean/bend towards judeo-christianity, and as we live in a nation of freedom of religion, it should not be present at a state/federal level. IANAL, but if your wife, as a state employee arguably - i assume she is a teacher - led (even a silent) prayer of a group, then the act is sanctionable under law, because it is viewed as state-led. This does not prevent prayer on school grounds, silent or otherwise! If a student organization - led by and run by students - that clearly stated a religious affiliation carried out prayer, then that shouldnt be sanctionable. I dont even see why teachers could not attend such a meeting, as faculty advisors, floor members, or even interested parties.
I have not been involved in the American education system at a secondary level, personally, but at the college level, this is what ive personally observed of the structure of organizations and how prayer would be conducted on a group level. I have also borne the weight of a system that, while it does not mandate, insists upon prayer, even when it is expressly written that there is no particular religious affiliation.
And this is where I put down my somewhat irrelevant history and (non)religious affiliation - i'm an atheist, from an Anglican society, that required of me to attend prayers. I state for the record that I am in no way anti-religious, hell, I just came from a Baptist church service, in support of a friend. I attended the service of my own volition, but did not participate in the prayers... oh these options that I did not have in secondary school. I was required to attend, and when i said i would no longer, they tried to punish me. I was involved in many (student-run) organizations that mandated their be no particular lean, yet they opened with prayers and when i did not pray, try tried to punish me. As a slight aside to this is the matter of religious speech, one such same organization had in its credo the word 'God'...strange for an org, the charter of which stated no religious affiliation. I tried to simply leave the word out when i recited, and u can imagine how well that went over.
I never objected to anyone else praying, and I am always respectful of anyone else's religion, but such respect is not mutual.
_That_ is why laws like this should exist. Place everyone on a level playing field, and if you want to pray, please do, but if you do not, simply do not. You can follow the law and keep your faith; there is no obstacle to that. People who believe that there is largely buy into right-ist propoganda, or simply do not understand how to interpret and apply law. The fault is not at the legislature.
For some weeks now I have ceased ranting (not raving) about the shortcomings of the PS3, if only because i was beginning to sound dangerously like the 'Slay Sony' bandwagon- i am not Anti-Sony, i did not vote/vow to "never touch a PS3 console". Indeed, I would like that, despite everything, Sony would prosper, should they correct some of what ive found to be serious errors in judgement.
Instead, these weeks, I have spent parsing the release lists for the game controls, as it is well known that Sony makes up for its losses on consoles, through its cut off software sales. I needed to know who has the more interesting lineup, more promising release dates, and would those factors overcome the deficiencies i see in the products.
I determined, for myself, that Sony held more titles, exclusively, that I was interested in, over, say, the Wii, but by a rather narrow margin! Furthermore, Ive been monitoring the desertion and cross-platforming of titles.... Yes, Sony is in danger, imo.
In fuzzy game math: If 8 games that "I" want are cross-platformed, and exclusively, Wii has 10 i want, and Sony 13, then, when i look at the price tags on the units.. which will i choose? And that I represents the average buyer, and the average buyer is not the gaming enthusiast. Polls have indicated that ppl are not willing to spend more money this Xmas than last (if they could only ship enough by Xmas...they prolly can't), and the economy is not and will not be one in which - to interpret figures for this purpose only - the average consumer will be shelling out $300+ more for a console. This last fact indicates price cut, so that Sony would require more than the current 30 game computation to break even.
And yet they talk about a PS4.... Bold move. And not in a Ford sort of way. (oh, wait, theyre floundering also.. perhaps, yes, then.) Frankly, they've not paid enough attention to PS3 yet to talk about such a future. If this turns out to be just a lesson in what they should not have done, it is indeed a rather expensive lesson, and one which some analysts have said that they cannot write off. Sony must address their hardware problems/inefficiencies/perceived inficiencies; the marketing nightmare that is, and not the dream release that they try to spin; the shipping fiasco that continues; the unhappy software vendors; the increasingly distressed public/potential patrons.
Yes, i agree, this is an uphill battle... and it may indeed be a bloody one. This is turning out to be Sony's version of Hamburger Hill, and i increasingly wonder if they will ever come out on top. Until any advancement is made, I will sit happily with my ol' PS2, for which I am sure there will be a plethora of titles for some time to come.
No joke, i'm glad that switching from IE to FF nets such an increase in performance for you, under such scant operating conditions (for XP) as 256/384 meg. Because, from my experience, FF likes to topmount the RAM, pummel it and try to make it submit; and frankly only stops if you step in as referee. (Yeah, i think i captured the imagery, bloodily enough....)
Personally, I an a FF user, but thats for superior functionality, not because im thrilled at its performance. If it tries to choke out my RAM under superior conditions, ill jus have take ur word abt its superiorty in your builds, and not try the experiment myself.
thatguy, please correct me if i get you wrong on your take...
From what was said id think that the "fairly decent phone" that you'd get with a plan, would be equitable to, say, a PS2- the thing that you'd all but give away. Truth is, there is a whole market out there that is not interested in fairly decent. In point of fact, gadgets catch their eye; the new and (even somewhat minorly) improved whets their appetite; the latest fad pulls their pocket.
It is not inconceivable for someone to shell out $500 for a new phone. Indeed, most phones penetrate the market at that price. At how much do Moto and Nokia initally price their phones? Have you checked their market performance? This tactic seems to be quite successful.... Or to strike closer to home, the avg user might use a Live card, and a GeForce/ATI 128mb, but how many of us on Slash are the avg user? How many gaming enthusiasts on here salivate for 1900XT over 128 radeon, audigy 2/x-fi over Live!, or what have you?
Many of us are willing to pay "high prices" for a lot of hardware, but "we" are whining about the PS3's price. I refuse to whine about it. Ill say simply that the price is currently outside of my willingness-range for what theyve to offer, and that is that. If u believe that Sony is not thinking of you, the gaming enthusiast, then youve the option to simply not by the console! The "if-you-don't-like-it-change-the-channel" approach does work. Or maybe they just know, that despite all the whining, theyll still worm the dollars out of your bank account.
consumers/gamers come in all shapes and sizes, and they (the companies) know it, and count on it. that weirdity you speak of is all relative. you and i may not be in the long and curling lines at 12am, but if one thing is certain, someone will be. a great many will be....
Absolutely! LCARS should be backronymed "Links Change At Random Segments".
Now, if they could combine it with a tap-to-midi, we can play "you tiny little lifeforms" in strange and public places. The dramatic concentration will freak out the passersby- bonus!
I confess, almost-shamefully admit, that I didnt test any betas of Ff2.0. I run about my workplace - University building - recommending it to any and everyone. I do use it at work and home, and install it anywhere that I think ill be with frequency. Id yell Ff from the mountain tops, if only i had mountains....There's a certain with a certain religiosity to my Ff use, but then, religion and i never fared very well, so I had to draw the line somewhere. That line rests firmly on performance.
It seems that Ff and my CPU and RAM are in love. Indeed, they seem completely wrapped up in each other. Awww, cute. The kind of cute that annoys. It's not that I dont appreciate why that is *shines the Sun logo 1 tab over*, but knowing this, do you reaaally want to make it even slower? eat more up? Nuh uh. This is why in my constant leafin-thru of reviews, I search ferociously for some sort of performance review and come up mostly empty. Close icons on tabs are nice and all, but how about a browser that actually kills when it's closed, instead of seeing the process still running 15 mins later, quite happily, at 100Mb? Instead of rendering everything under the sun, how about rendering efficiently? Can someone tell me if FF2 does that?
The good thing is that Im holding off of on my migration, as I'd liek to take my addons with me and they arent all yet compatible. This means that I have time to read the whining and griping on the forums, since most things have to go (absurdly) wrong before they start to talk about them. It just would have been nice to have heard more before then....
Your response is exactly why i didnt consider this some insightful question as to which is the greater purveyour of knowledge- most search engines return Wiki in its main results, you are absolutely correct. Knowing this, why would we really head directly to Wiki?
The argument is made that people dont want to wade through the ads that search engines inevitably return. Well, if you google youre going to get the business links first, anyway, so the ads they talk about, i assume, are the rightframe drivel that tries to eat up my bandwith or loops some obnoxious ani. I too find that annoying. No, found, since a couple mozilla addons have long-since dispensed with those. I just dont see ads/anis anymore. If this was really your problem, youd do away with them too, so im just not buying that excuse. (Unless you didnt know you could do that, and, well, now you do. Youre welcome.)
But, for me, knowing that Wiki will be returned, inevitably, on the first page of Google's search results; therefore, googling gives me 9 more options, from which i just might espy something more interesting than Wiki-based information. I doubt it...but it might happen, particularly - as posters mentioned - in areas which Wiki just doesnt cover. For example, "movies 20005" googled will return me the movies playing in DC, while, when Wiki'ed, returns me 0% relevance to my search, but instead assumes that i meant "the movies of 2005". I did not.
So, to my mind, google is always the first stop. I am not limit my potential knowledgebase...seems a bit myopic of me to hit Wiki up immediately, unless i have in mind something rather specific. (For one thing, Id rather check music bands on Wiki, than say, a hit for MTV.com. There are just some places in which I dont want my ip to appear....)
The analogy was close, but lacked a cigar... More to the point, its like gas in a bigger container. Oh, sure, the volume has changed (larger disk), but its less dense (different encoding), but the mass...? What we arrived at is the same old hot air, larger packaging - the proverbial waste of space.
There are the lucky ones who will afford to PS3 as it drops, and what little games they have; and it wouldnt be a stretch of my imagination that someone might really want to play Resistance, or, if like me, feel like RR and Warhawk for nostalgia's sake. But, let me sit halfway in this argument- PS3 is looking better all the time. Ive no idea why but 'Go Sudoku' excited me. (perhaps its some innate geek quality ive yet to understand:P) But that doesnt mean that theyre lookin better than Wii or 360- lets not get those matters confused.
And twisted is right, games drying up on other consoles is absolute rubbish. PS3 is busy playing catchup for titles already on market, and developing few new ones.
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Furthermore, are we really willing to put them all in the same category? mobile gaming platforms against consoles? In that case, Nin is competing against itself which makes no sense to me. I'd have been more inclined to be on this chart's bandwagon if they separated the two matters, and, yes, provided stats for the years they overlap.
...who thinks one can simultaneously quietly smirk and feel sorry for the guy? i believe the feelings are mutually exclusive. (I've seen enough people watching Jackass-type stunts who wince, laugh and are appalled by the idiocy, in the same breath.) Recognizing and acknowledging coincidence doesn't make you de-facto evil- it's in how it's expressed. but above all, my strongest reaction is.. who the hell tests a vehicle near a cliff?! wait..who let's the _head_ of a company test a vehicle..near a cliff?! doesn't some common sense, protective mechanism, insurance policy, sense of self-preservation kick in, at some point?
Their software requires Windows XP/Vista (probably x86). I put my father on 7 x64, at home, but he wasn't stupid enough to get infected for me to find out if 7 is vulnerable :P
I would have been more skeptical had I not already been made aware, this morning, of an ongoing attack against my Pop's workplace, via a zero-day PDF vulnerability. Forgive me if i don't name-drop the company, but I'd definitely confirm any public statement they make at some later date...
I was not one of those people who followed the beta testing and wheel out of iGoogle. I discovered it one afternoon when I tried to reload iGoogle from that morning, it changed. When I expressed surprise, my coworker who uses Google.cn was like, umm, my iGoogle always looked like that.. I wonder if she is aesthetically blind or this was just a migration.
.0001% of its population. I will admit, though, it might have been nice to offer a) the option/ability to revert, b) left-hand navigation minimization
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But do you imagine that everyone would like changes? Thousands of annoyed users might sound significant except when we consider the millions? of iGoogle users. Google isn't going to base it's decisions on
To be honest, I am one of the happy users with this interface. I do not think the navi takes up such a significant part of the screen and on my laptop real estate is an issue. I do not understand why ppl dislike how the GMail gadget operates because the last one was about intolerable. Privacy is an issue? I would have top open a tab to read an email, in order to keep iGoogle open, and it would occupy larger, more obvious/readable screen area than its behavior does now. How huge is your monitor and font that someone could innocently glance part of the 1st line of your email body? Do all of your friends open emails with "f#(k1n $h1t!!!"? What am i missing?
As for updates- Adobe, Firefox and iGoogle routinely clash anyway. Stuff breaks, they fix it. Ppl complain that things don't work as though we should believe that this would be a permanent situation. Give them a minute, get some air. It will work, and probably, in short order.
Agreed- that would be the equiv of slapping a "Mine!" sticker on something and claiming ownership, but in this case, ownership is easy to prove. If photos of the door of my private residence were snapped from my property - a stated, private road - as boundaries can be proven, then I should have the right to sue you.
Recall the "plain sight" legal clause. Would a police officer have the right to roll up on my property because s/he felt so? I'd say no. If, say, he saw an axe peeking out of my door while driving by on a public road, oh there would be cause. (There'd be cause if someone called in complaint under suspicion of criminal activity..but they can't _just_ roll into a private residence.) By abstraction, if you can visualize/take a visual of the door to my private from a public road, then the outside of my door really _is not private_.
Remember also that as it stands my private belongings cease to be so the minute i place leave them on public property. It is that fact that allows paparazzi/law enforcement to pick up that which I have effectively discarded. Does this precedent not similarly extend to within public view?
As a general rule, paparazzi are great examples of what you can and cannot get away with in this arena. Aren't there a ton of celebrity lawsuits filed in a year? Which ones do the celebs win? What are the adjudications of expectation of privacy?
No suntanning naked on your deck, folks! Unless you're that secure...
clsours,
..and wait for the look of shock tinged with horror when they realized theyve read me all wrong. Ok, so maybe the look on my face is a l'il sinister too...
While I have been in school, my jobs have officially been in areas of IT Support, i.e., unofficially, I end up mucking about with Network Administration, R&D, Programming, Web Admin.. with no reflection in the pay. But whats new about that?
I was fortunate to work in an environment in which most of the IT staff were female, although they did not hold the most glorious of the positions... but at least I did not have to deal with sexist attitudes from co-workers. This was helped by the fact the women they were at the very least competent, but, more typically, talented and knowledgeable. Attitude from customers? Well that's a different deal. I particularly love the pregnant pauses on the hotline: "...may I speak to a _Technician_?" "You are." "...Well can I speak to someone who knows about X?" "You are." That sort of thing.
(My sister and ) I program for the fun of it - I have no huge interest in doing it professionally - but I am a stickler for programming proficiency. Believe me when I say that she and I try to drill "proper programming etiquette and technique" into any of our friends taking classes in Programming. I just don't hold to the perspective that Programming is the see-all end-all of CS....
You and I share a similar appreciation for smart people of any gender. But while I can live, quite easily, with being the only woman in the room, I'd rather it not be so. Funny you should mention hackers right then, because that MSc I mentioned is in InfoSec. Given the area in which I live, I wouldn't be entirely surprised to find a larger number of female students, but all-in-all, I don't expect to see that many. What I might expect is representative portions. i.e., I wouldn't expect to see a higher % of woman hackers than there is a % of women in CS. And we admit that this is a rather optimistic expectation.
I think that perception has rather alot to do with it. I know it certainly was a factor for me in secondary (high) school. They still had sexist attitudes about what was and was not for women, in sports and study- something I campaigned hard against. After I complained for a year, they introduced "AP level" CS at my school, of course, when I was ineligible for the class, but what more can you do. And the sexism is alive and well in CS at college level today. At some universities you could see the gleam in their eyes when i appeared to ask questions, that simply said "Oooh, a woman!" Then the inevitable, "so you're here for Programming, right?"
I'm chipping away at the perception where I can. I admit, I derive a little joy when some guy walks up to me with a problem that inevitable ends in "but I don't remember the password" and I say "so?"
I agree with you, blah, about "edu-advertising", but I feel that the article tried to advance the idea that from an early stage CS is presented as a thing "geek guys do". If is is simply a general-neutral exposure to the subject that currently exists, such measures aren't necessary. But if they are correct in this assessment, then I feel something needs to be corrected.
I don't find it offending, but I will have to disagree. The idea i not to remove programming, but not to let it be the sole feature.... You started off so well there that I rather was not expecting the finish. Your statements about the confusion between CS and Soft. Eng certainly ring true, though. Coupled with Dr. Faustus, it addresses the matter quite neatly.
The problem comes with the "omg, ponies" attitude, bigtomrodney and naturation displayed so nicely. We're not talking about teaching women programmers to code more realistic looking flowers in video game environments here, and we're not "moving math away from doing math problems". That isn't analogous to what the article addressed at all.
Let me say right here that, as a woman, either of those things would offend me. I don't believe that things should be inherently woman (or anyone) -friendly, but I like "level" playing fields. I am not for necessarily making things more butch, anymore than I am for making thing more perty - pink DS lites, Razrs, guitars.. flowery, touchy-friendly games... annoy the fuck out of me, but there should be that option. However, it is quite probable that things will have a more "masculine slant", or to be misrepresented, and for CS, this can result in the low enrollment of women.
The article is talking about the misrepresentation of what CS is; that if it were to move the emphasis - i.e the projected image of what CS constitutes - away from _simply_ programming, it could only benefit the levels of female interest. Indeed, the only language I bothered to certify in is Java, so I've understandable bias. But if all the AP exam is, is Java... then it needs to be redone. Is the GRE CS exam all programming? Heck no. It's wide-ranging, as CS is a broad thing.
Let me add that, what I find even worse than misguiding those who are about to enroll, is guiding the enrolled student down the programming path, giving them a sense of "this is what the industry wants". I see it in my own university and its effects in future courses of study. e.g. I discovered in the first week of a class, this Sunday, that another female CS student and I applied to the same MSc. program at the same university. I got accepted the week they processed the apps, she is still waiting. The difference? She was advised to do VB, C++, Java, Software Analysis...; I did what I wanted. What I wanted happened to be Networking, Programming, Databases, Security. This makes the article's point about diversity in CS quite nicely. It is the diversity in CS, the ubiquity, that needs to be emphasized.
And for the record.. my bass and electric r black and electric blue; the only flower i want to see is if the Hitman is disguised as a flowery delivery man; and, most of the geeks I know stare at me over a pair of Windys and try to kick my ass, chicas included.
Pocket protectors and stereotypes be damned. Thank you very much.
It's time to give it up... agreed! So why was it brought it up?
This extension of Mizaru, Mikazaru & Mazaru has the same problem..evil is subjective. Google will always be doing something evil according to somebody. One person is glad for the kind of search optimizations and experience that Google offers, using said same data collection, and another cries "Big Brother". By _my_ concept of evil, had Google kowtowed to requests to turn over its info, I would have dubbed it so. By yours, it seems, that Google, a search engine, is so because it *gasps* collects search data. Or is it evil because it is good, no, the best at it?
But since we are defining... anyone ever bothered to remember Google's own use of "evil"? It was used solely w. respect to how they use\display ads, not this wide ascription to everything it does. Large corporations, like itself, will do a great many things. (And when we say large we're really saying multi-national multi-tasking.) Someone cited Google China under another parent, as an example. Well, multi-national players are subject to multi-national regulations. What? Did no one notice China censors (everything) heavily before Google came to town? Because Google is so large it gets to ignore them in the name of "the Greater Good"? Nay. It has to play by them or seek to change them.. legally. Because when they do ignore them *coughsoftwarecopyrightinfringementcough* there is someone in the wings waiting to cry "Evil!" once again.
So no, Google can't please every person, but at the same time, persons should cease throwing "evil around". It is not excused by Google introducing the word in the first place.
The rule of thumb for writing to impress is to open and close strongly. That said, I had a good idea what to expect from your opening sentence - "Muslims and blacks are fighting and killing each other" ...these are opposing ethnic groups? Is none of these Muslims Black? Far from that fact, the Janjaweed, to which i believe you were referring, are (largely) Black Muslims, as indeed many Muslims are Black.
"The White European" is quite selective. "The Westerner" is more like it- it includes all the shades of people who don't care, or don't care enough to act. (I deliberately do not specify what that action may be.) Indeed the target of speeches I have heard\seen from the "Inside the Al Qaeda"-type reporting is "The West", or "America & The West" (to be redundant). Interesting how The West seems less stirred up by some forces as the forces are about them....
I will not even bother to point-form address the "shoot what you don't like" policy espoused here, but i will say that it has worked so well for us recently... I will add though, that while I tend toward non-violence, I will not blanketly say that smacking a bully on the chin isn't a worthwhile method. Governments need to walk the line between doing nothing and going buckwild crazy in dealing with such matters, because either end doesn't pay. We need only look to recent, global, political scenarios to establish that.
"These problems" was used generally. As a matter of fact, to attest, I have been seeing windows updates break svchost for over a month now. This update was no exception. Then, like now, MS delivered a fix. They just delivered the fix faster this time, and it actually works ('cause I have not proven their last "fix" did.
...I swear some people never heard of F8... Just glad I won't have to go through that again with the 200-odd systems in front of me.
To be honest, I didn't even realize it was breaking other things because I was too busy fixing that problem to notice.
P.S. - most of the fixes for the Generic Host errors that i read online were convoluted.
So I don't use Linux..
..until I go home and install it tonight, anyway.. but not because I am unaware of it. I am well aware. I recommend it to ppl and I do know the environment, but up until now it was inconvenient for my purposes. (Then I got more ambitious and so Ubuntu must be installed!)
The unfortunate truth is that for a general purpose, and a commercial purpose is such, Windows-based is the way to go. What I think that Dell - and,so too, Sony - has been slow to realize, and has now reached there, is that variety can sell (as long as the variety is not confusing to the avg consumer *coughMScough*).
Variety does not simply sell because there is a larger customer base, but it also presents an image of willingness to work with the consumer. Was it not long ago that there wasn't an AMD product to be found? So I'm stuck with Nvidia, eh? They addressed these. Now I could have my choice of OS? Great!
The detraction from buying Dell systems for the slightly-more-than-avg to waaay-over is that much is forced upon us. We get pre-packaged crapware "included in the price" and standard installations that do not include choices like IE and FF. And so the lot of us end up building our own pcs. (Though I do it cause I think it's fun.)
But wouldn't it be nice to think that we could pick up a quality ready-to-go system? Dell doesn't have good things packaged in for the common, or any, user. Those are the guys who need the warranties and the home help, because they are intimidated by swapping parts out or reading forums for answers. Perhaps Joe Schmoe might like the feeling of security that their Lo-jack system for laptops brings.
Now, I am not currently in PC gamer mode so I cannot say with any confidence what kind of performance hit you'd taking Wine'ing games? seeing that developers are largely Windows-blindered.... (If someone would be kind and provide some info, it'd be nice.) But for those truly into games, playing every (intensive) game under the sun, is that truly realistic? Course I'd like some real word opinions on those games under Vista, as well, for a decent comparison. But I must agree that what problems exist for Vista, they will (attempt to) address with SP1- this is a reasonable expectation given the GFW initiative.
What I do have my eye on is how long before every mention of XP is gone from Dell's site. As of right now, it is not completely disappeared but it is quite deliberately severely understated. If they really have become this choice-loving organization, they'd keep that OS option there
"Pretty" is not the word I'd have chosen.
..it goes on. Is it really pretty that they see?
It is more in the realm of attractive and attractive possibility. Attractive in the sense that I can think, offhand, of several women involved with brutes of men. These men aren't pretty. However, they make attractive mates for some reason- the brutishness translates into something that may be viewed in the larger context of propagation, or of the more immediate gratification of some individual desire. Indeed, pretty may become involved but it's not the deciding factor.
Examining a more recent time -
S\he looks good - "Make pretty babies"\score card - College scene\Anywhere really S\he is someone I wouldn't normally (soberly) go for - Diversification - Bar scene Why isn't that a nice suit - Provide for the family\*Kaching!* - Corporate scene
Weedlekin, Agreed. But why did you narrow to primitive, tribal cultures? I would submit that this happens still in many cultures. "I'm bored, you're here... let's have sex." - A cave\modern restaurant\living-room couch But in agreeing with you I envision almost the antithesis of Tartarize - Art. I don't get it. Let's just go back to my place. - Art Museum Humans often seek excuses and justifications for the things they wish\intend to do anyway.
For those who have responded before me, since i doubt that you will be ashamed for yourselves, let me be ashamed for you... those of us who thought the sentence through would know what he means by silent prayer. But let me more explicative, if a preacher prays aloud, beginning "let us pray", and the congregation simply bows their heads...are they not praying? They're not speaking aloud, but they are praying. You undo any point you could have made in your post by answering in the manner that you did.
Now, aztracker, i find it largely irrelevant that you are a spiritual agnostic, except the spiritual part might explain why you perceive persecution on religion where it need not be present. As it was pointed out, given that most politicians/legislators wear their religions on their sleeve, and most are Jewish/Xian, who precisely is attacking what? More to the matter is that "as a whole" part that you mention... there is no whole! There persists a lean/bend towards judeo-christianity, and as we live in a nation of freedom of religion, it should not be present at a state/federal level. IANAL, but if your wife, as a state employee arguably - i assume she is a teacher - led (even a silent) prayer of a group, then the act is sanctionable under law, because it is viewed as state-led. This does not prevent prayer on school grounds, silent or otherwise! If a student organization - led by and run by students - that clearly stated a religious affiliation carried out prayer, then that shouldnt be sanctionable. I dont even see why teachers could not attend such a meeting, as faculty advisors, floor members, or even interested parties.
I have not been involved in the American education system at a secondary level, personally, but at the college level, this is what ive personally observed of the structure of organizations and how prayer would be conducted on a group level. I have also borne the weight of a system that, while it does not mandate, insists upon prayer, even when it is expressly written that there is no particular religious affiliation.
And this is where I put down my somewhat irrelevant history and (non)religious affiliation - i'm an atheist, from an Anglican society, that required of me to attend prayers. I state for the record that I am in no way anti-religious, hell, I just came from a Baptist church service, in support of a friend. I attended the service of my own volition, but did not participate in the prayers... oh these options that I did not have in secondary school. I was required to attend, and when i said i would no longer, they tried to punish me. I was involved in many (student-run) organizations that mandated their be no particular lean, yet they opened with prayers and when i did not pray, try tried to punish me. As a slight aside to this is the matter of religious speech, one such same organization had in its credo the word 'God'...strange for an org, the charter of which stated no religious affiliation. I tried to simply leave the word out when i recited, and u can imagine how well that went over.
I never objected to anyone else praying, and I am always respectful of anyone else's religion, but such respect is not mutual.
_That_ is why laws like this should exist. Place everyone on a level playing field, and if you want to pray, please do, but if you do not, simply do not. You can follow the law and keep your faith; there is no obstacle to that. People who believe that there is largely buy into right-ist propoganda, or simply do not understand how to interpret and apply law. The fault is not at the legislature.
Well analyzed, shoptroll.
For some weeks now I have ceased ranting (not raving) about the shortcomings of the PS3, if only because i was beginning to sound dangerously like the 'Slay Sony' bandwagon- i am not Anti-Sony, i did not vote/vow to "never touch a PS3 console". Indeed, I would like that, despite everything, Sony would prosper, should they correct some of what ive found to be serious errors in judgement.
Instead, these weeks, I have spent parsing the release lists for the game controls, as it is well known that Sony makes up for its losses on consoles, through its cut off software sales. I needed to know who has the more interesting lineup, more promising release dates, and would those factors overcome the deficiencies i see in the products.
I determined, for myself, that Sony held more titles, exclusively, that I was interested in, over, say, the Wii, but by a rather narrow margin! Furthermore, Ive been monitoring the desertion and cross-platforming of titles.... Yes, Sony is in danger, imo.
In fuzzy game math: If 8 games that "I" want are cross-platformed, and exclusively, Wii has 10 i want, and Sony 13, then, when i look at the price tags on the units.. which will i choose? And that I represents the average buyer, and the average buyer is not the gaming enthusiast. Polls have indicated that ppl are not willing to spend more money this Xmas than last (if they could only ship enough by Xmas...they prolly can't), and the economy is not and will not be one in which - to interpret figures for this purpose only - the average consumer will be shelling out $300+ more for a console. This last fact indicates price cut, so that Sony would require more than the current 30 game computation to break even.
And yet they talk about a PS4.... Bold move. And not in a Ford sort of way. (oh, wait, theyre floundering also.. perhaps, yes, then.) Frankly, they've not paid enough attention to PS3 yet to talk about such a future. If this turns out to be just a lesson in what they should not have done, it is indeed a rather expensive lesson, and one which some analysts have said that they cannot write off. Sony must address their hardware problems/inefficiencies/perceived inficiencies; the marketing nightmare that is, and not the dream release that they try to spin; the shipping fiasco that continues; the unhappy software vendors; the increasingly distressed public/potential patrons.
Yes, i agree, this is an uphill battle... and it may indeed be a bloody one. This is turning out to be Sony's version of Hamburger Hill, and i increasingly wonder if they will ever come out on top. Until any advancement is made, I will sit happily with my ol' PS2, for which I am sure there will be a plethora of titles for some time to come.
No joke, i'm glad that switching from IE to FF nets such an increase in performance for you, under such scant operating conditions (for XP) as 256/384 meg. Because, from my experience, FF likes to topmount the RAM, pummel it and try to make it submit; and frankly only stops if you step in as referee. (Yeah, i think i captured the imagery, bloodily enough....)
Personally, I an a FF user, but thats for superior functionality, not because im thrilled at its performance. If it tries to choke out my RAM under superior conditions, ill jus have take ur word abt its superiorty in your builds, and not try the experiment myself.
thatguy, please correct me if i get you wrong on your take...
From what was said id think that the "fairly decent phone" that you'd get with a plan, would be equitable to, say, a PS2- the thing that you'd all but give away. Truth is, there is a whole market out there that is not interested in fairly decent. In point of fact, gadgets catch their eye; the new and (even somewhat minorly) improved whets their appetite; the latest fad pulls their pocket.
It is not inconceivable for someone to shell out $500 for a new phone. Indeed, most phones penetrate the market at that price. At how much do Moto and Nokia initally price their phones? Have you checked their market performance? This tactic seems to be quite successful.... Or to strike closer to home, the avg user might use a Live card, and a GeForce/ATI 128mb, but how many of us on Slash are the avg user? How many gaming enthusiasts on here salivate for 1900XT over 128 radeon, audigy 2/x-fi over Live!, or what have you?
Many of us are willing to pay "high prices" for a lot of hardware, but "we" are whining about the PS3's price. I refuse to whine about it. Ill say simply that the price is currently outside of my willingness-range for what theyve to offer, and that is that. If u believe that Sony is not thinking of you, the gaming enthusiast, then youve the option to simply not by the console! The "if-you-don't-like-it-change-the-channel" approach does work. Or maybe they just know, that despite all the whining, theyll still worm the dollars out of your bank account.
consumers/gamers come in all shapes and sizes, and they (the companies) know it, and count on it. that weirdity you speak of is all relative. you and i may not be in the long and curling lines at 12am, but if one thing is certain, someone will be. a great many will be....
Absolutely! LCARS should be backronymed "Links Change At Random Segments". Now, if they could combine it with a tap-to-midi, we can play "you tiny little lifeforms" in strange and public places. The dramatic concentration will freak out the passersby- bonus!
Oh, mighty, all-platform, light gun... how bittersweet thine existence. That thy knowest of thou, yet ne'er knowest thou. Thy patter, in the distance. Retreated from mine ear, hast thou. Return, sweet Lik-sang. Return!
I confess, almost-shamefully admit, that I didnt test any betas of Ff2.0. I run about my workplace - University building - recommending it to any and everyone. I do use it at work and home, and install it anywhere that I think ill be with frequency. Id yell Ff from the mountain tops, if only i had mountains. ...There's a certain with a certain religiosity to my Ff use, but then, religion and i never fared very well, so I had to draw the line somewhere. That line rests firmly on performance.
It seems that Ff and my CPU and RAM are in love. Indeed, they seem completely wrapped up in each other. Awww, cute. The kind of cute that annoys. It's not that I dont appreciate why that is *shines the Sun logo 1 tab over*, but knowing this, do you reaaally want to make it even slower? eat more up? Nuh uh. This is why in my constant leafin-thru of reviews, I search ferociously for some sort of performance review and come up mostly empty. Close icons on tabs are nice and all, but how about a browser that actually kills when it's closed, instead of seeing the process still running 15 mins later, quite happily, at 100Mb? Instead of rendering everything under the sun, how about rendering efficiently? Can someone tell me if FF2 does that?
The good thing is that Im holding off of on my migration, as I'd liek to take my addons with me and they arent all yet compatible. This means that I have time to read the whining and griping on the forums, since most things have to go (absurdly) wrong before they start to talk about them. It just would have been nice to have heard more before then....
Your response is exactly why i didnt consider this some insightful question as to which is the greater purveyour of knowledge- most search engines return Wiki in its main results, you are absolutely correct. Knowing this, why would we really head directly to Wiki?
...seems a bit myopic of me to hit Wiki up immediately, unless i have in mind something rather specific. (For one thing, Id rather check music bands on Wiki, than say, a hit for MTV.com. There are just some places in which I dont want my ip to appear....)
The argument is made that people dont want to wade through the ads that search engines inevitably return. Well, if you google youre going to get the business links first, anyway, so the ads they talk about, i assume, are the rightframe drivel that tries to eat up my bandwith or loops some obnoxious ani. I too find that annoying. No, found, since a couple mozilla addons have long-since dispensed with those. I just dont see ads/anis anymore. If this was really your problem, youd do away with them too, so im just not buying that excuse. (Unless you didnt know you could do that, and, well, now you do. Youre welcome.)
But, for me, knowing that Wiki will be returned, inevitably, on the first page of Google's search results; therefore, googling gives me 9 more options, from which i just might espy something more interesting than Wiki-based information. I doubt it...but it might happen, particularly - as posters mentioned - in areas which Wiki just doesnt cover. For example, "movies 20005" googled will return me the movies playing in DC, while, when Wiki'ed, returns me 0% relevance to my search, but instead assumes that i meant "the movies of 2005". I did not.
So, to my mind, google is always the first stop. I am not limit my potential knowledgebase
The analogy was close, but lacked a cigar... More to the point, its like gas in a bigger container. Oh, sure, the volume has changed (larger disk), but its less dense (different encoding), but the mass...? What we arrived at is the same old hot air, larger packaging - the proverbial waste of space.
Its kinda like UPS shipping in that way....
There are the lucky ones who will afford to PS3 as it drops, and what little games they have; and it wouldnt be a stretch of my imagination that someone might really want to play Resistance, or, if like me, feel like RR and Warhawk for nostalgia's sake. But, let me sit halfway in this argument- PS3 is looking better all the time. Ive no idea why but 'Go Sudoku' excited me. (perhaps its some innate geek quality ive yet to understand :P) But that doesnt mean that theyre lookin better than Wii or 360- lets not get those matters confused.
And twisted is right, games drying up on other consoles is absolute rubbish. PS3 is busy playing catchup for titles already on market, and developing few new ones.