It was probably the coolest thing I ever built...even though the wooden treads started splintering halfway up the stairs and then it completely destroyed the stairs on its way down."
And who do you work for now?
I'm guessing NASA or the Army Corps of Engineers...
Sorry, can't read "Stephen Hawking" anymore without hearing "...and all my shootings be drive-by's..." in my head. (You down with entropy? Yeah you know me.)
My mom got her first Apple computer 24 years ago. When her current Compaq PC finally dies I know she will replace it with a Mac; she only switched over to the dark side because it looks like Macs were going the way of the dinosaur.
Also remember: Macs are ancient. If you started using one the year they came out and you were 30 that year, you would be 53 now.
I guess I expected to see a story about how Lego's sales have dropped off recently because kids aren't as interested in Legos or (as in my sons' case) inherited so many damn Legos there's really no point in buying any more. Or maybe something about how the company has refocused on name brand licensing in the past 10 years, with tie-ins to Harry Potter, Star Wars and anyone else with a children's movie.
But a "how are ordinary plastic bricks" made in Businessweek? Strange...
This will probably work as well as Netscape's paid browser. Remember, part of what makes YouTube attractive is that it's "free" and people don't seem to mind the many ads served on each page. (Ditto with Google.) Mess with the model and the next best video serving site will step up; the world doesn't need YouTube.
IBM? You ARE fucked. I extend you my full sympathy.
We often have to work with these clowns at other companies and it seems they rotate personnel every three months just to spin up training costs. (And no, they never hand off any information to the next team, so you get to explain/train it all over again.)
Re:1996 called. It wants its article back.
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Honestly, I never thought my post would get mod'ed up on Slashdot without a reference to "sharks with lasers" or some fawning reference to Google.
Don't worry, this phrase will be cutting edge again in five years with our current pop-culture memory; the other day I posted a Caddyshack quote and it took about ten replies before someone figured it out.
1996 called. It wants its article back.
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1996 called. It wants its article back. When's the last time you saw a beige computer on display at Circuit Shitty or some other big box?
Apple Computer is widely credited with long ago shattering conventions
Dunno about that; my Apple ][ was beige...and so were Macs for a while.
I think you have to give the nod to Dell for the "black" revolution here; I know many server admins who bought Dell's crappy hardware in the early 2000's just because they thought it looked sexier in the fucking server room. (Yeah, like any eligible female would ever make a trip down there.)
Why do you want the power off? If you're concerned about power usage, let the power management software worry about that.
4 reasons: - Services that might decide to wake up (this can mess up power management) - "Sleeping" still draws more power than no power; grab a "Kill-o-Watt" or similar device to try it yourself. - Heat. If you have any sort of ventilation problem (i.e., you're a home user), the excess heat can be noticable in the summer. - It's a laptop. Enough said?
Ah yes, ANOTHER distro...
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They say it may be a web based desktop (aka WebOS), a full featured Linux distribution, or a lightweight Linux distro and/or BIOS.
Yes, of course, the bulk of end users are just waiting for yet another Linux distro before they drop Windows.
They predict that once Microsoft's Vista rolls out, it will present a direct threat to Google's Web properties and so therefore Google will start a more punchy strategy -- pushing Firefox and some form of Google OS in order to nullify Vista's potential impact."
Good luck with that. Say, which major hardware manufacturers have said said they will support this still-to-be-spec'ed Google OS?
Whew - almost an hour passed without a random Wii article! Thank god we have another... (Somewhere, a Nintendo PR exec is smiling.)
So console gamers are knuckle-draggers, huh?
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The much-hyped and highly anticipated Xbox 360 shooter from Epic suffers from some truly terrible AI... and deserves the attention of anyone who enjoys holding a controller.
So, you're saying console gamers are too stupid or too slow to notice when a crappy AI is charge, right?
Help me out: using 75% of a 10Gb/s link "rocks"? If I read that right, usage was 7.5Gb of 10Gb total. What exactly was the Feat? (No, it's not in the Player's Manual.)
Not true - works great at least through Office 2003...I exchange files (especially Powerpoint and Word docs) with people from other companies running that all the time.
Of course "day 1" is a sellout...this is one of the oldest marketing tricks in the book.
If they made 1M units available on day 1 and only 50% sold, the headline would be: "Plenty of Product X left after first day (expect discounts soon)"
However, when they make 100K units available on day 1 and all sell in a few hours, the headline is "Product X sells out first day (don't expect a discount soon)"
The whole point is to create a buyers frenzy and match it with artificial supply constraints to ensure everyone pays full price or more, all while getting free press from Slashdot and other media whores with lazy editors...
Platform makers want the games NOW to help future platform sales. Game makers want higher platform sales NOW to help future game sales.
On the other hand, letting a product slip past the Christmas buying season should be worth worth two or three heads at any game company worth its salt.
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And who do you work for now?
I'm guessing NASA or the Army Corps of Engineers...
Sorry, can't read "Stephen Hawking" anymore without hearing "...and all my shootings be drive-by's..." in my head. (You down with entropy? Yeah you know me.)
Dunno why this is surprising...
My mom got her first Apple computer 24 years ago. When her current Compaq PC finally dies I know she will replace it with a Mac; she only switched over to the dark side because it looks like Macs were going the way of the dinosaur.
Also remember: Macs are ancient. If you started using one the year they came out and you were 30 that year, you would be 53 now.
Help me out please; I've only been in the software industry 14 years. Who is John Dvorak and why should anyone care what he says?
Why a Lego article in Businessweek?
I guess I expected to see a story about how Lego's sales have dropped off recently because kids aren't as interested in Legos or (as in my sons' case) inherited so many damn Legos there's really no point in buying any more. Or maybe something about how the company has refocused on name brand licensing in the past 10 years, with tie-ins to Harry Potter, Star Wars and anyone else with a children's movie.
But a "how are ordinary plastic bricks" made in Businessweek? Strange...
This will probably work as well as Netscape's paid browser. Remember, part of what makes YouTube attractive is that it's "free" and people don't seem to mind the many ads served on each page. (Ditto with Google.) Mess with the model and the next best video serving site will step up; the world doesn't need YouTube.
I don't think the telescope was "launched"; the pic in the article suggests it's a big radio disk attached firmly to the ground.
IBM? You ARE fucked. I extend you my full sympathy. We often have to work with these clowns at other companies and it seems they rotate personnel every three months just to spin up training costs. (And no, they never hand off any information to the next team, so you get to explain/train it all over again.)
Honestly, I never thought my post would get mod'ed up on Slashdot without a reference to "sharks with lasers" or some fawning reference to Google.
Don't worry, this phrase will be cutting edge again in five years with our current pop-culture memory; the other day I posted a Caddyshack quote and it took about ten replies before someone figured it out.
Dunno about that; my Apple ][ was beige...and so were Macs for a while.
I think you have to give the nod to Dell for the "black" revolution here; I know many server admins who bought Dell's crappy hardware in the early 2000's just because they thought it looked sexier in the fucking server room. (Yeah, like any eligible female would ever make a trip down there.)
4 reasons:
- Services that might decide to wake up (this can mess up power management)
- "Sleeping" still draws more power than no power; grab a "Kill-o-Watt" or similar device to try it yourself.
- Heat. If you have any sort of ventilation problem (i.e., you're a home user), the excess heat can be noticable in the summer.
- It's a laptop. Enough said?
The world needs ditch diggers too...
Whew - almost an hour passed without a random Wii article! Thank god we have another... (Somewhere, a Nintendo PR exec is smiling.)
Help me out: using 75% of a 10Gb/s link "rocks"? If I read that right, usage was 7.5Gb of 10Gb total. What exactly was the Feat? (No, it's not in the Player's Manual.)
Office 97 - The last M$ Office you needed to buy. I've been running my copy for 10 years and it still does everything I need.
I thought the "snare" was the first motion-activated weapon. Or was it the "covered pit"?
Of course "day 1" is a sellout...this is one of the oldest marketing tricks in the book.
If they made 1M units available on day 1 and only 50% sold, the headline would be: "Plenty of Product X left after first day (expect discounts soon)"
However, when they make 100K units available on day 1 and all sell in a few hours, the headline is "Product X sells out first day (don't expect a discount soon)"
The whole point is to create a buyers frenzy and match it with artificial supply constraints to ensure everyone pays full price or more, all while getting free press from Slashdot and other media whores with lazy editors...
News next week? OK, tell us next week. Until then, quick wasting our time.
Besides, Slashdot only publishes positive Wii news (unless there's a Google-Halo tie-in)...
Platform makers want the games NOW to help future platform sales. Game makers want higher platform sales NOW to help future game sales.
On the other hand, letting a product slip past the Christmas buying season should be worth worth two or three heads at any game company worth its salt.