1. Open "Warcraft II" Project 2. Replace "Dragon" with "BattleCruiser", etc. 3. Fix the "runs as a DOS program" business 4. Save as "Starcraft" Project 5. Many years later, release IP-friendly patch
You must be new here. Slashdot is about 55% corporate astroturf, 20% press releases from various game companies and various game magazines, 15% stories about morons drilling holes in their mom's swimming pool to cool their XBox, and 10% science-related topics.
I keep coming back mainly to witness the laughable cluelessness of the average IT drone; there are people out there who actually rely on this site for "news" (shudder).
The article was written by an SEO. Who says he doesn't rank them by how easy they are for him to manipulate?
If he's like any other SEO I've ever dealt with, he really only cares about manipulating page rank on Google, Yahoo and maybe MSN or Ask. Remember, those four engines are the 99%; The rest are toys to him. They are on his radar but not enough so he needs to care about them yet. (Again, remember why the SEO put out this PR piece; the point is to get you, the buyer of SEO services, to think that his competitive advantage over commodity SEOs that he keeps an eye out for emerging trends.)
Blogs suck. Especially this one. "Engineer Poet"? What, because you're both smart and creative? (Sound of ralphing on shoes.)
As for the content, I noticed one of the responders asked "what about nuclear" and EP said "see the 'Other Issues' section". Of course, there's no "Other Issues" section in his blog. It looks like this PR mouthpiece forgot how blogs work...you can't just refer to phantom documents unless you're doing a live shot for local TV; on the web people will try to look your sources.
EV certificates don't improve users' ability to detect attacks
No shit. Really?
These "EV certificates" are a joke. If you've been in the industry 5 years or more, you know that the pitch surrounding these certs is 100% identical to the pitch used to sell regular, commercial-CA-signed certs 5 years ago.
Users are right to be confused. When connecting to "consumer" applications from home they might see the IE green bar, but then they go to work and get used to seeing the IE red bar to connect to all their partners' "B2B" websites all day. (Lots, if not most companies seem to use self-signed certs or give out IP addresses to connect to rather than hostnames that match with a valid CA-signed cert for business-to-business web applications.)
Autohotkey is not for mere mortals (end users). I just tried out the latest version. You click the "open" action on the tray icon and you'll get a grey scripting window. End users would probably want to see a mapped key summary on the default page instead.
CIO is an overly-important title anyway. Fifty years ago it would be "head of the secretarial pool".
His (or her) job is frequently to buy and babysit the computer systems and not lose the data. The rest of the company does the (to borrow a Glengarry phrase) "man's work" of designing, financing, building, marketing and selling the products/services. If I was going to put someone in charge of my company, I'd want someone with background in those areas. A career-IT "CIO" wouldn't be anywhere near my list.
...the Bolshevik state would prevent you from agitating in the first place by limiting the set of stimuli that comprise your world...
And this is unique to "Bolshevism" how? Controlling the media to present a picture of fair and rational government has been the aim of almost every government/state/ruler in history and it continues to the present day. You need to hit the books if you think fascists (or democrats - small "d") don't practice this too...
Why should every company in the world have to build up their own expertise and have to maintain servers and provide security?
Oh goodie. Google wants to enter the business EDS, IBM and hundreds if not thousands of others have beaten to a bloody wasteland: outsourced commodity data centers. But Google's entering it without the deep government and business contacts that really make these things into profit centers. We've seen this pitch for forty years; there's really nothing innovative about it now.
'Cause 10 years from now there's going to be one system because there's so much more third party software than first party software from any hardware manufacturer.
Of course. It already happened on desktops, and they've been around for twenty-five years. In fact, I'm reading this on my Winux OS PCac right now.
Epiphany, huh? Actually, if you read even popular press, you'll see that countries such as India and China are commonly referred to as "developing" countries. This means that some day soon they are widely expected to be on par with other "developed" countries such as Japan, South Korea, etc. If this sort of thing interests you, pick up the Economist or a similar magazine and you'll get some estimates about when this might occur.
On another tangent, if you go back in time a little further, you'll learn that Japanese manufacturing was considered world-class after their battleships knocked out most of the Russian west fleet around the turn of the century and was continued to be considered so until the Americans came knocking thirty-some years later.
I think you're right about Americans being arrogant, however. There are a lot of other people smarter and harder working than the average American out there, and global trade doesn't care if you think you're superior if someone else can do the same job better for less money.
At the time of its release, Castlevania looked and felt a lot like Ghosts and Goblins. (Jump, slash, occasionally throw, hit things and items pop out.)
Final Fantasy was similar to games like Hylide and several games with "Dragon" in their name. (Wander around a big map, go into dungeon/town maps, fight turn based battles, etc.) I remember playing Final Fantasy on a Nintendo 8 for the first time after playing RPGs on my Apple II. At the time I thought gamers would never let RPG survive on consoles: I felt the trees of FF/otherRPG menus were way too time-consuming for someone used to keyboard shortcuts to click their way through.
More than anything, I think the lesson here is, "after you've established a brand with an above average game, flog the hell out of the brand name and try to learn to make a decent game along the way." (If you've played the original Warcraft I, you could argue that Blizzard followed a similar arc here too.)
My boss wants independent comparative reviews of proxy and web servers to use to make/justify his decision.
Your boss is giving you a "make work" project; any (non-government, non-union) IT employee ought to be find such reviews (biased, of course to his/her particular leaning) in about 15 minutes. Is it possible you've done something to cause your boss to no longer trust your judgement?
Poll workers often adjust the results
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Who won?
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· Score: 2, Insightful
Anyone who lives in or near Chicago know that poll workers and authorities have ways to adjust the totals. Nationally, I wouldn't be surprised if local polling place authorities tip it one way or another by 1-3% every two years. (Remember the Kennedy election supposedly tipped by an unlikely surge of Chicago Democrats?) However, I'd just rack it up to real democracy in action.
In 2004 I'm perfectly willing to believe (and accept) that the average pollworker (usually someone who likes stable government, whatever theit political leaning) was more willing to give W the benefit of the doubt and helped him win a squeaker. In 2006 it was hard to find people (even fans of stable government) who wouldn't have liked the current president to hit the road, so I'm not surprised the mystery surge of 2004 disappeared in 2006; even W's former fans were sick of his s*** by then.
...what will happen to the consumers stuck with a smaller telco like those moving to FairPoint
Not sure, but do you know any "larger telcos" that do anything but s*** on their residential customers? My best experiences with phone and data services have been with "regional" providers; the only reason I gave up my last one was that I moved to an area where the only two choices were AT&T and Charter (lose lose).
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1. Open "Warcraft II" Project
2. Replace "Dragon" with "BattleCruiser", etc.
3. Fix the "runs as a DOS program" business
4. Save as "Starcraft" Project
5. Many years later, release IP-friendly patch
You must be new here. Slashdot is about 55% corporate astroturf, 20% press releases from various game companies and various game magazines, 15% stories about morons drilling holes in their mom's swimming pool to cool their XBox, and 10% science-related topics.
I keep coming back mainly to witness the laughable cluelessness of the average IT drone; there are people out there who actually rely on this site for "news" (shudder).
How about some old copies of Office 97 instead? That still runs snappy on my mid-1990's Toshiba laptop...
http://www.bluej.org/mrt/?p=21
Blogs suck. Especially this one. "Engineer Poet"? What, because you're both smart and creative? (Sound of ralphing on shoes.)
As for the content, I noticed one of the responders asked "what about nuclear" and EP said "see the 'Other Issues' section". Of course, there's no "Other Issues" section in his blog. It looks like this PR mouthpiece forgot how blogs work...you can't just refer to phantom documents unless you're doing a live shot for local TV; on the web people will try to look your sources.
Just gotta ask: what happened to Excite and Altavista? Both of these guys still look up...
These "EV certificates" are a joke. If you've been in the industry 5 years or more, you know that the pitch surrounding these certs is 100% identical to the pitch used to sell regular, commercial-CA-signed certs 5 years ago.
Users are right to be confused. When connecting to "consumer" applications from home they might see the IE green bar, but then they go to work and get used to seeing the IE red bar to connect to all their partners' "B2B" websites all day. (Lots, if not most companies seem to use self-signed certs or give out IP addresses to connect to rather than hostnames that match with a valid CA-signed cert for business-to-business web applications.)
Autohotkey is not for mere mortals (end users). I just tried out the latest version. You click the "open" action on the tray icon and you'll get a grey scripting window. End users would probably want to see a mapped key summary on the default page instead.
CIO is an overly-important title anyway. Fifty years ago it would be "head of the secretarial pool".
His (or her) job is frequently to buy and babysit the computer systems and not lose the data. The rest of the company does the (to borrow a Glengarry phrase) "man's work" of designing, financing, building, marketing and selling the products/services. If I was going to put someone in charge of my company, I'd want someone with background in those areas. A career-IT "CIO" wouldn't be anywhere near my list.
And this is unique to "Bolshevism" how? Controlling the media to present a picture of fair and rational government has been the aim of almost every government/state/ruler in history and it continues to the present day. You need to hit the books if you think fascists (or democrats - small "d") don't practice this too...
Oh goodie. Google wants to enter the business EDS, IBM and hundreds if not thousands of others have beaten to a bloody wasteland: outsourced commodity data centers. But Google's entering it without the deep government and business contacts that really make these things into profit centers. We've seen this pitch for forty years; there's really nothing innovative about it now.
This is a Dup!/ 164211
http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/12/19
Sorry, Slashdot. I didn't care about this last month and I still don't care this month.
Here's a better link with more details... http://www.publicintegrity.org/telecom/report.aspx ?aid=837
The "Minions of Mirth" RPG (http://www.prairiegames.com/) did this too - I remember playing as a skeleton for a while.
(Not sure why you'd call an RPG "Servants of Laughter", but WTF do I know?)
Of course. It already happened on desktops, and they've been around for twenty-five years. In fact, I'm reading this on my Winux OS PCac right now.
Mod parent up, please. That's what I was looking for. (I have mod points today; but I can't use them here because I already wrote in.)
Epiphany, huh? Actually, if you read even popular press, you'll see that countries such as India and China are commonly referred to as "developing" countries. This means that some day soon they are widely expected to be on par with other "developed" countries such as Japan, South Korea, etc. If this sort of thing interests you, pick up the Economist or a similar magazine and you'll get some estimates about when this might occur.
On another tangent, if you go back in time a little further, you'll learn that Japanese manufacturing was considered world-class after their battleships knocked out most of the Russian west fleet around the turn of the century and was continued to be considered so until the Americans came knocking thirty-some years later.
I think you're right about Americans being arrogant, however. There are a lot of other people smarter and harder working than the average American out there, and global trade doesn't care if you think you're superior if someone else can do the same job better for less money.
At the time of its release, Castlevania looked and felt a lot like Ghosts and Goblins. (Jump, slash, occasionally throw, hit things and items pop out.)
Final Fantasy was similar to games like Hylide and several games with "Dragon" in their name. (Wander around a big map, go into dungeon/town maps, fight turn based battles, etc.) I remember playing Final Fantasy on a Nintendo 8 for the first time after playing RPGs on my Apple II. At the time I thought gamers would never let RPG survive on consoles: I felt the trees of FF/otherRPG menus were way too time-consuming for someone used to keyboard shortcuts to click their way through.
More than anything, I think the lesson here is, "after you've established a brand with an above average game, flog the hell out of the brand name and try to learn to make a decent game along the way." (If you've played the original Warcraft I, you could argue that Blizzard followed a similar arc here too.)
WTF is this stuff doing on SlashDot?
Yogurt contains live cultures? No shit. Thanks for the fourth-grade science lesson.
Let's get a couple stories for the IQ > 60 set out here today, please.
Your boss is giving you a "make work" project; any (non-government, non-union) IT employee ought to be find such reviews (biased, of course to his/her particular leaning) in about 15 minutes. Is it possible you've done something to cause your boss to no longer trust your judgement?
Anyone who lives in or near Chicago know that poll workers and authorities have ways to adjust the totals. Nationally, I wouldn't be surprised if local polling place authorities tip it one way or another by 1-3% every two years. (Remember the Kennedy election supposedly tipped by an unlikely surge of Chicago Democrats?) However, I'd just rack it up to real democracy in action.
In 2004 I'm perfectly willing to believe (and accept) that the average pollworker (usually someone who likes stable government, whatever theit political leaning) was more willing to give W the benefit of the doubt and helped him win a squeaker. In 2006 it was hard to find people (even fans of stable government) who wouldn't have liked the current president to hit the road, so I'm not surprised the mystery surge of 2004 disappeared in 2006; even W's former fans were sick of his s*** by then.
Not sure, but do you know any "larger telcos" that do anything but s*** on their residential customers? My best experiences with phone and data services have been with "regional" providers; the only reason I gave up my last one was that I moved to an area where the only two choices were AT&T and Charter (lose lose).