Don't know how to multi-thread, can't spell: these fellows practically ooze competence. Perhaps the title should just be "soon-to-be ex-comp-sci majors vent"
When I copy and paste a link like "http://internal/dontgoogle/this.php" into my Mozilla or Firefox text field, I'm often greeted with a crappy little "Google could not find any documents that matched..." screen. I suppose there's a way to turn the auto-search off (I never want it to fire), but I'd be happier if it wasn't there at all.
I also think there's a small security risk with auto-search taking over URL fields; every once in a while developers are known to stick credentials in GET strings during testing...
What's the story - developer with long-standing ties to Microsoft decides to develop for Microsoft's console? Or maybe it's this...
Gabe Newell openly expressed his distaste for working on next-generation game consoles in the past...
This guy sounds like someone who actually learned something from the console wars: if you're sitting on a marketable gaming franchise, there's no reason to be "first mover" on a console unless that console has already achieved some amount of market penetration and the console provider appears ready to satisfy additional demand. It would appear that with XBox360s finally dribbling out to the masses and Microsoft finally figuring out how to ship units, now could the right time for game companies with established brands to ramp up XBox360 production...
"It should then bless the Mozilla.org folks with a cash endowment and take an investment stake in Opera, to influence the future direction of browser technology from the outside in."
Opera? Please, God, no. As a web developer of umpteen years I would rather continue to develop both ActiveX and Java versions of half the stuff I do than look at Opera as a "primary" development target.
$10 says it's Madden-based. Here are the initial classes:
- Quarterback - Needs high wisdom
- Lineman - Needs high strength
- Wide Receiver - Needs high dexterity
- TV Announcer - Similar to a "half-orc"
- Cheerleader - Basically put in for the usual "dark elf" player
I didn't say any were still in business, but in 1994 I had a couple of subscribers to my all-Linux ISP as did five or six other kids who were in or near my class.
Between 1994 and 1996 I worked with at least four slightly larger start-ups (one in the back of a bakery) who also fit the all-Linux mom-and-pop bill.
It's about time that TCP/IP was tested in the conditions it was designed for.
Seriously, other that to act as a recruiting tool for the U.S. Army, what's the news here? All-Linux mom-and-pop size ISPs have been the norm, I think, as far back as 1994 or so.
Yeah, lemme help you out here. Let's say the average player does a year with WoW and plays (just?) 12 hours a week. That's 12x52=624 hours or entertainment for $50+12x$10=$170, or something like $.27/hour of entertainment.
Contrast that with any 2-hour movie ($8/2hr) = $4/hr
...or, 3 hours a day (21 hours a week) of basic cable. ($50/3x30hr) = $.55/hr
So...yeah. After you do the math, video games still look pretty cheap.
[_] Age Limit. There is no age limit to use the software.
Also, this would pretty much seem to make the "deed" useless:
[_] Additional Terms. You agree to additional or modified terms or conditions.
(Sorry for the 2post - meant to post this as a legit user.)
Goofy never died - just look at Warcraft...
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Goofy never died - just look at Warcraft. From the first game nearly every character/class/item/goal has been half joke, and it's turned into the biggest "fantasy" franchise (behind Final Fantasy?) out there these days. As long as you don't take fun too seriously, you'll have an audience.
Here's a win-win solution: Send the old hard drives and other media to our units in Iraq. They can duct-tape them to their Humvees and use them as armor.
The bene's: 1) If the Iraqis steal the media, it'll be useless: the electricity in Iraq is never on long enough to scan a drive. 2) If you leave the media taped to a Humvee long enough you'll be guaranteed to achieve true data destruction.
"But it was the European Parliament's vote in December for a data retention requirement that seems to have attracted broader interest inside the United States. At a hearing last week, Rep. Ed Whitfield, a Kentucky Republican...suggested that data retention laws would be (fucking awesome). "
Wait, was that "old Europe" or "new Europe"? (I thought the Red State Brigade held Europe in contempt. Especially France...er..."Freedom".)
"...president feels that 'employees come first and customers second."
I'd enter this industry just to compete with this knucklehead. Imagine getting to come in with your sales team after the first team just told the prospect that their needs are not your companies' top priority. Buh-bye.
You want other players in other industries where employees come first and customers come second? Try GM in the auto industry, or United in the airline industry. Do they make/do anything you would willing buy? Didn't think so.
"PS3 games, at least initially, are not going to use all five or six available SPEs (remember, of the eight SPEs, one is disabled for yield purposes, a second is reserved for the system, and a third allegedly can be taken over by the system if it's needed)."
It's been a while since I've see a front page Slashdot article get so few comments; looks like Red Hat and/or JBoss may already be irrelevant to the Slashdot crowd.
(Do you run Run Hat on any of your Linux boxes? Didn't think so.)
I fully expect that games, like movies on DVD, will soon come in two versions: - PG-13 (the Wal-Mart version) - unrated (the online version)
Not even close to "all things to all geeks"
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Google doesn't...
- Compile my code
- Index and store my code
- Back up my sensitive information
- Provide my game content or hardware
- Serve as my rendering engine or have any other graphics role
- Have anything to do with my cell phone
- Handle my email
- Provide my browser
- Search my local content
It's a pretty good search engine...but that's pretty much it. Even though Google COULD provide serve some of those needs listed above, the average geek has better tools for each function anyway.
Time to short Google...
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"Businessweek confronts Google naysayers with an analysis of the company's business structure, arguing that its unique structure lends it the flexibility to adapt to any and all markets..."
If that's true, then pick one or two and excel in those markets the way you excel in adwords.
I hate to say it, but Google reminds me more and more of Netscape in 1996. Both companies were leaders with strong brand names and one great product (web browser, search engine, etc.). However, Netscape utterly failed to build on their success, squandered their brand name and was eventually equalled and bettered by Microsoft. I see the same thing going on now with Google as they lurch from one non-profitable project to another and other competitors start eyeing the search engine market again...
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Don't know how to multi-thread, can't spell: these fellows practically ooze competence. Perhaps the title should just be "soon-to-be ex-comp-sci majors vent"
The three terms on the pyramid story are:
fake, bullshit, hoax
Nice job.
Call us a Luddite, but we hates the "auto-search"
When I copy and paste a link like "http://internal/dontgoogle/this.php" into my Mozilla or Firefox text field, I'm often greeted with a crappy little "Google could not find any documents that matched..." screen. I suppose there's a way to turn the auto-search off (I never want it to fire), but I'd be happier if it wasn't there at all.
I also think there's a small security risk with auto-search taking over URL fields; every once in a while developers are known to stick credentials in GET strings during testing...
I wish I had mod points today - would bump you up a bit. See also:
0 6
2
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eBay Looking for Allies Against Google
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/04/21/18512
Amazon to Take on Google?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/26/19922
and especially:
Google Base Retail Rumours Confirmed
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/03/16/15342
Nah...heavy breathing has been outsourced to India.
Gabe Newell openly expressed his distaste for working on next-generation game consoles in the past...
This guy sounds like someone who actually learned something from the console wars: if you're sitting on a marketable gaming franchise, there's no reason to be "first mover" on a console unless that console has already achieved some amount of market penetration and the console provider appears ready to satisfy additional demand. It would appear that with XBox360s finally dribbling out to the masses and Microsoft finally figuring out how to ship units, now could the right time for game companies with established brands to ramp up XBox360 production...
Opera? Please, God, no. As a web developer of umpteen years I would rather continue to develop both ActiveX and Java versions of half the stuff I do than look at Opera as a "primary" development target.
$10 says it's Madden-based. Here are the initial classes:
- Quarterback - Needs high wisdom
- Lineman - Needs high strength
- Wide Receiver - Needs high dexterity
- TV Announcer - Similar to a "half-orc"
- Cheerleader - Basically put in for the usual "dark elf" player
I didn't say any were still in business, but in 1994 I had a couple of subscribers to my all-Linux ISP as did five or six other kids who were in or near my class.
Between 1994 and 1996 I worked with at least four slightly larger start-ups (one in the back of a bakery) who also fit the all-Linux mom-and-pop bill.
It's about time that TCP/IP was tested in the conditions it was designed for.
Seriously, other that to act as a recruiting tool for the U.S. Army, what's the news here? All-Linux mom-and-pop size ISPs have been the norm, I think, as far back as 1994 or so.
Yeah, lemme help you out here. Let's say the average player does a year with WoW and plays (just?) 12 hours a week. That's 12x52=624 hours or entertainment for $50+12x$10=$170, or something like $.27/hour of entertainment.
Contrast that with any 2-hour movie ($8/2hr) = $4/hr
...or, 3 hours a day (21 hours a week) of basic cable. ($50/3x30hr) = $.55/hr
So...yeah. After you do the math, video games still look pretty cheap.
I guess I didn't realize anyone out there still played with consoles...
Not really. When all the producers are fighting over the same customers, we consumers enjoy better product and lower prices.
Today's Slashdot articles have been at least 60% "Games". Am I the only one left with a daytime job?
Thank the gods of Kobol!
Either Blizzard is lying or the Clearware "deed" is...t ent&task=view&id=7&Itemid=11 )
(See http://www.clearware.org/index.php?option=com_con
[_] Age Limit. There is no age limit to use the software.
Also, this would pretty much seem to make the "deed" useless:
[_] Additional Terms. You agree to additional or modified terms or conditions.
(Sorry for the 2post - meant to post this as a legit user.)
Goofy never died - just look at Warcraft. From the first game nearly every character/class/item/goal has been half joke, and it's turned into the biggest "fantasy" franchise (behind Final Fantasy?) out there these days. As long as you don't take fun too seriously, you'll have an audience.
Here's a win-win solution: Send the old hard drives and other media to our units in Iraq. They can duct-tape them to their Humvees and use them as armor.
The bene's:
1) If the Iraqis steal the media, it'll be useless: the electricity in Iraq is never on long enough to scan a drive.
2) If you leave the media taped to a Humvee long enough you'll be guaranteed to achieve true data destruction.
Wait, was that "old Europe" or "new Europe"? (I thought the Red State Brigade held Europe in contempt. Especially France...er..."Freedom".)
I'd enter this industry just to compete with this knucklehead. Imagine getting to come in with your sales team after the first team just told the prospect that their needs are not your companies' top priority. Buh-bye.
You want other players in other industries where employees come first and customers come second? Try GM in the auto industry, or United in the airline industry. Do they make/do anything you would willing buy? Didn't think so.
So, you can crank it up to "eleven"?
It's been a while since I've see a front page Slashdot article get so few comments; looks like Red Hat and/or JBoss may already be irrelevant to the Slashdot crowd.
(Do you run Run Hat on any of your Linux boxes? Didn't think so.)
I fully expect that games, like movies on DVD, will soon come in two versions:
- PG-13 (the Wal-Mart version)
- unrated (the online version)
Google doesn't...
- Compile my code
- Index and store my code
- Back up my sensitive information
- Provide my game content or hardware
- Serve as my rendering engine or have any other graphics role
- Have anything to do with my cell phone
- Handle my email
- Provide my browser
- Search my local content
It's a pretty good search engine...but that's pretty much it. Even though Google COULD provide serve some of those needs listed above, the average geek has better tools for each function anyway.
If that's true, then pick one or two and excel in those markets the way you excel in adwords.
I hate to say it, but Google reminds me more and more of Netscape in 1996. Both companies were leaders with strong brand names and one great product (web browser, search engine, etc.). However, Netscape utterly failed to build on their success, squandered their brand name and was eventually equalled and bettered by Microsoft. I see the same thing going on now with Google as they lurch from one non-profitable project to another and other competitors start eyeing the search engine market again...