A 6-year-old "pre-reader" with a personal game system? Great - she'll need those gaming skills to keep herself happy when she plows through a series of dead-end jobs in her twenties.
Before it's too late, let the thing run low on batteries and then have her pitch in with her own cash to buy more. (Your 6-year-old IS familiar with money by now, right?) That will get old fast, and she'll be back to playing with other kids, running around the block, setting fire to cats and all the other things 6-year-olds should be doing if you ever want them to move out of your basement someday.
23 million euros? That's like what, $100M? Research in third-world countries is hot these days - send it off to the old U.S. of A. and get more bang for your buck, er, euro.
Is there really much Slashdot/Facebook overlap? Everyone I know on this forum just hosts their own personal site(s). Facebook seems like more of a newbie technology than would normally be attractive to the average Slashdotter: kind of one step up from "what's your favorite desktop background image?"
...the suit had to show that Apple shareholders lost money in order to recover damages...
This is a pretty crappy ruling for investors.
It's kind of like saying, "yeah, I know the perp broke into your house and stole your TV, but you were still able to buy a new DVD that year, so we really can't make him give the TV back."
Another week, another "Manhunt is, like, so XTREEM" article, eh? Someone in their PR department is due for a promotion.
Would Target be as quick to pull the game if it were a runaway success?
No. (Kind of a silly question, isn't it.)
Players think the game sucks: they aren't falling for the enormous "carnage to the limit is cool" marketing campaign that's been going on here on Slashdot and elsewhere for six months. If anyone wanted it, the game would earn its shelf space. But...they don't, so buh-bye.
Here's my theory on Google's hiring plan up until today.
1) Hire anyone who seems to have any technical talent, lives only for work and/or could be useful to any competitor.
2) If an employee is not part of the core search project, give them some random B.S. to do. Also provide benefits out the ying-yang so competing offers look silly. Just make sure the B.S. provides our minions with no useful experience, exposure to real-world requirements or any tools outside the Google universe. This way, if they do decide to leave us, they will be unable to set up viable companies on their own or provide any value to our competition.
3) If anyone from the core search project (our only source of profits) tries to leave, kill them.
...the APMs' activities, which included passing out candy, notebooks and pencils to poor Raagihalli children, a 'Rubber Ducky' group sing-along at 2 a.m., and competitions to find the weirdest-gadget-under-$100 in Tokyo.
did you know the movie monsters we've all to come to know and love (in a platonic way, of course) have colorful histories stretching back to the earliest civilizations? What, you didn't think some Hollywood hack actually had enough imagination to invent vampires, werewolves, and zombies, did you?
Do the editors think we are morons? Or was this article just posted so anyone with an IQ > 60 could rip this loser a new one?
I think the fact that I'm about comment #13 on a seven-hour topic says it all...
What rock have editors/bloggers been living under? This may have been news say...4 years ago. Blockbuster launched a service like Netflix in 2004-ish (that's 3 years ago) and since then, well since then who cares, because pretty much everyone I know switched over to, um, digital downloads.
The success of the Ubuntu project is due in no small part to the people who spend their time participating with other Ubuntu users. Reading the book not only gives a sense of what Ubuntu is about, but also shows how open and inviting these users are.
Finally - this book provides an antisocial way to approach Ubuntu.
It took me 10 months to get a traffic ticket dismissed last year. Exxon's managed to dodge justice after it's Alaskan f-up for 18 years with legal maneuvers.
You assume my DVD player actually conforms to all the guidelines the MPAA assigned it.
Do you have a recommendation for one that doesn't? Seriously. (I've got a program on my computers that lets me skip all the menu/preview/advert/warning BS on DVDs, but I'd really like a piece of hardware that does the same because I don't feel like hooking my computers up to the TV/stereo.)
That being said, if you can't handle opening the DVD case or using the menu on your cable box, then changing the settings on your DVD player might be too much for you.
I'm just a guy who doesn't like to wait. Most of the social regressions on this site have free time coming out the ying-yang, but when you've got a busy job, young kids, busy wife and friends constantly complaining that "we never hang out anymore", you learn to watch movies 5-10 minutes at a time or not at all.
DVDs and digital cable just aren't built for the modern family.
Step 1: Put DVD in player. Step 2: Press Play. Step 3: Do things while movie plays.
You haven't seen a DVD in a while, have you?
It's more like this: 1. Put DVD in player 2. Wait for stupid menu to come up 3. Play the DVD 4. Wait for stupid previews to go away 5. See DVD distributor's logo again 6. See silly FBI warning 7. After 5 minutes of farting around with pressing buttons and fast forwarding, you finally have what you're looking for
(And, you forgot steps 0,.25 and.5: Buy the DVD, figure out how to break through the seals without cutting off your own fingers and then try not to lose/break/scratch it.)
If I want to watch something on TV, it's many times faster (no, I don't even use digital cable - way too slow when you're just trying to flip channels).
DVD's just suck if you're an "instant gratification" guy like I am. I've got my kids hooked on old Transformers cartoons, er, "delivered digitally" without DVDs and I don't think I'm ever going back.
They've already got the rights to 12 movies, and will be releasing one a month starting in December for DVD purchase or download.
Selling DVDs? Wrong vehicle, boys.
I used to watch MST3K, but it was only because it was ON FOR HOURS and you felt safe dropping in and out of the viewing session. (It was a basically a crappy movie, so you weren't missing anything.)
I didn't go see the MST3K movie (there was one, right?) for the same reason. The show's fun for free at my leisure, but not at $6 and the feeling that I'd be compelled to watch it for 2 hours.
So...if you can get MST3K back on TV where it can serve as the background for whatever I'm doing with my kids or my computer, I'll tune in. Otherwise...buy it? Way too much commitment.
this new platform is ONE(open)API that can be used across all platforms
OK, now I get it: it's like Esperanto. This will be HUGE. I remember all the confusion people had thirty years ago when we had to worry about things like "English" and "French". The addition of that last little language solved EVERYTHING!
Even if you take Facebook out of the equation, the task of writing and adapting widgets for the every increasing number of social platforms was going to be turn into a colossal mess.
So...you're introducing yet another platform to worry about?
Anyone else getting annoyed with all the no-profit, go-nowhere project announcements coming out of Google every other week?
I took a look at the screenshots and thought, "how many geeks and that's the best they can do?"
The interface looks like something my friends and I might have cobbled together ten years ago. Square edges, Arial fonts, unimaginative icons. Zzzzzzzzz....
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Without this press release, I would not have realized that Time Magazine was still publishing. Who knew?
A 6-year-old "pre-reader" with a personal game system? Great - she'll need those gaming skills to keep herself happy when she plows through a series of dead-end jobs in her twenties.
Before it's too late, let the thing run low on batteries and then have her pitch in with her own cash to buy more. (Your 6-year-old IS familiar with money by now, right?) That will get old fast, and she'll be back to playing with other kids, running around the block, setting fire to cats and all the other things 6-year-olds should be doing if you ever want them to move out of your basement someday.
You're welcome. Now get off my lawn.
23 million euros? That's like what, $100M? Research in third-world countries is hot these days - send it off to the old U.S. of A. and get more bang for your buck, er, euro.
Today Slashdot jumped the shark.
Seriously. I'm starting to lose brain cells when I read the "articles" these days.
Is there really much Slashdot/Facebook overlap? Everyone I know on this forum just hosts their own personal site(s). Facebook seems like more of a newbie technology than would normally be attractive to the average Slashdotter: kind of one step up from "what's your favorite desktop background image?"
This is a pretty crappy ruling for investors.
It's kind of like saying, "yeah, I know the perp broke into your house and stole your TV, but you were still able to buy a new DVD that year, so we really can't make him give the TV back."
No. (Kind of a silly question, isn't it.)
Players think the game sucks: they aren't falling for the enormous "carnage to the limit is cool" marketing campaign that's been going on here on Slashdot and elsewhere for six months. If anyone wanted it, the game would earn its shelf space. But...they don't, so buh-bye.
1) Hire anyone who seems to have any technical talent, lives only for work and/or could be useful to any competitor.
2) If an employee is not part of the core search project, give them some random B.S. to do. Also provide benefits out the ying-yang so competing offers look silly. Just make sure the B.S. provides our minions with no useful experience, exposure to real-world requirements or any tools outside the Google universe. This way, if they do decide to leave us, they will be unable to set up viable companies on their own or provide any value to our competition.
3) If anyone from the core search project (our only source of profits) tries to leave, kill them.
Yeah...I still like my theory.
Do the editors think we are morons? Or was this article just posted so anyone with an IQ > 60 could rip this loser a new one?
I think the fact that I'm about comment #13 on a seven-hour topic says it all...
Now if only they had smell-o-vision for web sites, so those of us who can't attend could smell the unwashed bodies and Doritos...
What rock have editors/bloggers been living under? This may have been news say...4 years ago. Blockbuster launched a service like Netflix in 2004-ish (that's 3 years ago) and since then, well since then who cares, because pretty much everyone I know switched over to, um, digital downloads.
Seriously, a Netflix PR blog-vert in 2007?
Finally - this book provides an antisocial way to approach Ubuntu.
I don't care how many Manhunt stories get published on SlashDot's PR repeater; I still don't care one way or the other about this game. Zzzzzzz...
1.5 years for a court case isn't that bad.
It took me 10 months to get a traffic ticket dismissed last year. Exxon's managed to dodge justice after it's Alaskan f-up for 18 years with legal maneuvers.
Ya hey dere, Minnesota. I see youse gots somma dat dere facepainting? So much for edgy, eh?
Do you have a recommendation for one that doesn't? Seriously. (I've got a program on my computers that lets me skip all the menu/preview/advert/warning BS on DVDs, but I'd really like a piece of hardware that does the same because I don't feel like hooking my computers up to the TV/stereo.)
I'm just a guy who doesn't like to wait. Most of the social regressions on this site have free time coming out the ying-yang, but when you've got a busy job, young kids, busy wife and friends constantly complaining that "we never hang out anymore", you learn to watch movies 5-10 minutes at a time or not at all.
DVDs and digital cable just aren't built for the modern family.
You haven't seen a DVD in a while, have you?
It's more like this:
1. Put DVD in player
2. Wait for stupid menu to come up
3. Play the DVD
4. Wait for stupid previews to go away
5. See DVD distributor's logo again
6. See silly FBI warning
7. After 5 minutes of farting around with pressing buttons and fast forwarding, you finally have what you're looking for
(And, you forgot steps 0,
If I want to watch something on TV, it's many times faster (no, I don't even use digital cable - way too slow when you're just trying to flip channels).
DVD's just suck if you're an "instant gratification" guy like I am. I've got my kids hooked on old Transformers cartoons, er, "delivered digitally" without DVDs and I don't think I'm ever going back.
Selling DVDs? Wrong vehicle, boys.
I used to watch MST3K, but it was only because it was ON FOR HOURS and you felt safe dropping in and out of the viewing session. (It was a basically a crappy movie, so you weren't missing anything.)
I didn't go see the MST3K movie (there was one, right?) for the same reason. The show's fun for free at my leisure, but not at $6 and the feeling that I'd be compelled to watch it for 2 hours.
So...if you can get MST3K back on TV where it can serve as the background for whatever I'm doing with my kids or my computer, I'll tune in. Otherwise...buy it? Way too much commitment.
OK, now I get it: it's like Esperanto. This will be HUGE. I remember all the confusion people had thirty years ago when we had to worry about things like "English" and "French". The addition of that last little language solved EVERYTHING!
So...you're introducing yet another platform to worry about?
Anyone else getting annoyed with all the no-profit, go-nowhere project announcements coming out of Google every other week?
I took a look at the screenshots and thought, "how many geeks and that's the best they can do?"
The interface looks like something my friends and I might have cobbled together ten years ago. Square edges, Arial fonts, unimaginative icons. Zzzzzzzzz....
Doubt it. Maybe great fry cooks, but leaders?
It takes a lot more than button mashing and cheat codes to do much in the real world.
Wasn't there another Orange Box Slashvertisement on SlashWhore last week? Something about a crappy music track that got cut from the mainline release?
I hate reruns - not sure who else would want to watch old Daily Show clips.