Even if the customer gets mad an never buys from that company again, it doesn't matter, pissed off customers of the competitor will come running back to THEM.
Heh. And not only that, but companies are gobbling each other up at such a rapid pace, it's hard to know who you're really buying a product from anymore. Just TRY to avoid giving money to Sony.
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I swear, Slashdot's taggers are a harsh crowd. The minute something hits that isn't hard news, they're all over it with that depressing "slownewsday" tag-in-the-face.
You could have a day that goes like this:
Microsoft opens complete Windows source code Steve Ballmer Resigns from Microsoft, Will Become Carpenter Nintendo Asks: What Makes a Good Game Bill Gates and Larry Ellison Announce "Domestic Partnership." Steve Wozniak bests Steve Jobs in UFC
And that Nintendo story will get a slownewsday tag before the electrons dry...
Well, I guess that's a good short-term answer, if you're not at all interested in bolstering the skills of the local fauna. Short-term answers are great for politicians, too.
Simply visiting a country on vacation does not give you the proper insight.
How true.
It's really the same with everything -- a house, a city, a relationship. You never know what it's going to be like until you're in it day-to-day. Most people seem to experience that early euphoria that comes with most new situations and believe it will hang around for ever. "This is the best job I've ever had" "What a wonderful woman. There's NOTHING wrong with her."
But usually it really doesn't hang around. The happy feelings subside and fade away into the mundane. That's how it's SUPPOSED to be, though. People who continue to charge after that euphoria again and again usually wind up with addictive personalities and destroy their lives.
Guys, it's a TV show. Why do we assume that LCARS is efficient at all? I don't quite understand why, in many an-episode, they have to press so many buttons anyway. It seems sometimes the whole thing isn't very context efficient. If Worf is at tactical and he's gotten check out something on scanners, why is he pressing _anything?_ Shouldn't that all just be there?
In the real world, you simply cannot make up your own casino game, rent floor space at a casino, and see how it does. It's prohibitively difficult for most people to make clothing and sell it in a shop. However, in Second Life, it's almost trivially easy.
And this is, I think, the first PC virus to attach into Meat Space, as it were.
The way this works is that a compromised Powerpoint presentation is played to a room-full a victims. The speaker is first affected, speaking in a very monotone voice, rapidly clicking through the compromised slides of bullet-points and pie-charts. Within 10 minutes, all the victims are asleep.
I swear. I've seen this happen!! NO URBAN LEGEND! Check SNOPES!!!!!!
Instead of shopping at big box stores, you shop at your local retailer that actually has to worry about their reputation. I have a great local store (that is a Gamestop franchise) where I know that the salespeople will always give me a straight answer. I keep going back because of that.
Good point, but I think you just got lucky. I mean, it's a smaller store, yes, but it's still a national franchise and it all comes down to the quality of workers. I'm sure if you try easy enough you can find thousands of complaints about idiots in GameStops. You got lucky.
Tron Deadly Discs is an _excellent_ game, but it doesn't play right without those funky Intellivision controllers.
I've never gotten into any sort of adventure games like Wizardry, so I can't say I miss that one. I had a few friends who were heavy into Infocom games, but I could never really take to it.
Interestingly, my friends and I really like Utopia on the INTV. We loved it and you'd think I'd take to a Sim* game, but I never played another game like it again.
For me, a Comfort Game is one where I don't want to think. For instance, I like playing the original Quake on God Mode. You just go and blast. Another one was the first Unreal Tournament. (I don't know if there was a God mode, but it was mindless fun.) In both instances, there is no need to worry about goals or puzzles. You just... play. Yeah, there are those that would argue that you don't get any of the euphoria around your successes, but you don't get any melancholy either. I work in IT support and I have enough of both in a single day.
It's pretty clear that this particular article isn't really an attempt to disparage Microsoft's new security surrounding IE7. (Or, if it is, then it does a pretty lousy job, what with all the "Yes, I really want to install this you damn, stupid browser" stuff.)
So, it gets posted to/. with a wink-and-a-smile. But is there really anything here? Anything? No?
Honestly, when are we to see the first article about how Steve Ballmer refused Linus Torvald's rest-room offer of a handshake only to have the readers find out that Ballmer hadn't washed his hands yet? Are we really so desperate to disparage MS that we'll ignore manufactured evidence?
I swear: This article smells just like Fox News "accidentally" labeling Foley a Democrat.
Today, we do not trust the cloud and the services on it to be always available. Few of us can remember any incidences in recent time when, say google.com or amazon.com or live.com was offline but we still do not trust them to be always there and available. I predict that this day will pass. The day will come when outages of big commercial services on the cloud are as unusual as outages in the phone system or the electricity supply system.
No no no no no no. It's not about them losing electricity. You're right! That doesn't happen much.
To my mind, it's the same as what happened to S&Ls. People felt their money was safe there until the scandles broke and a bunch of people lost their money. Trust went away! The similarity here is that a tech company makes a big break on the scene, they chug along promising "forever" services, they experience problems, then they change their business model or shut down leaving users that depended on their services in a lurch. I'm not scared of power outages! I'm scared of companies simply changing their minds.
So, go ahead and use an online backup service, but I'll never believe that they'll be around "forever."
NEWS ALERT! BETA SOFTWARE MAKES MINOR INTERFACE CHANGE! FILM AT 11!
You must be new here. Please, allow me to help you.
The story isn't about a company making a minor interface change in their beta software. No. The story is that an evil entity, one Micro$oft, has again attempted to ram something down unwitting users' throats. Of course, the populace was too smart for that. They threatened to flex their muscles in the marketplace. The evil entity, Micro$oft (in case you forgot), then became a coward and decided to make the minor interface change. Indeed, the users are too smart for that, too and complained that the evil empire made the change the users requested. So, Micro$oft is a coward _and_ evil.
Remember, no matter which way you slice it, Micro$oft NEVER wins. They're ultimately evil, but also cowardly, stupid, dumb, etc.
I hope this helps you. It sure did me when I first came here!;-)
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Even if the customer gets mad an never buys from that company again, it doesn't matter, pissed off customers of the competitor will come running back to THEM.
Heh. And not only that, but companies are gobbling each other up at such a rapid pace, it's hard to know who you're really buying a product from anymore. Just TRY to avoid giving money to Sony.
Just so you know, this is the new Wiimote, coming next year.
Wiimote 2.0
I swear, Slashdot's taggers are a harsh crowd. The minute something hits that isn't hard news, they're all over it with that depressing "slownewsday" tag-in-the-face.
You could have a day that goes like this:
Microsoft opens complete Windows source code
Steve Ballmer Resigns from Microsoft, Will Become Carpenter
Nintendo Asks: What Makes a Good Game
Bill Gates and Larry Ellison Announce "Domestic Partnership."
Steve Wozniak bests Steve Jobs in UFC
And that Nintendo story will get a slownewsday tag before the electrons dry...
Marge: Does the world really need that much porno?
Homer: {{drool}} One Million Times faster
ICANN Under Pressure Over Non-Latin Characters
You mean white people?
Well, I guess that's a good short-term answer, if you're not at all interested in bolstering the skills of the local fauna. Short-term answers are great for politicians, too.
*sigh*
This guy used to be a Maverick.
Now he's just an ass.
Why can't Sony just sell the first 200,000 straight from the factory doors. They'll be plenty of demand and it'll save on overheads.
Neat idea. And they could hand out golden tickets in some of the other products (CDs, for instance). Kaz Hirai comes out the factor, bearing a cane...
Rumor has it that videogames are not, in fact, movies.
What? You don't recall that three-hour Yar's Revenge? It won't, like, seven Oscars, dude.
Seriously, are there problems? I've not run into any in a long, long time.
Oh, no. I shouldn't have said that.
Simply visiting a country on vacation does not give you the proper insight.
How true.
It's really the same with everything -- a house, a city, a relationship. You never know what it's going to be like until you're in it day-to-day. Most people seem to experience that early euphoria that comes with most new situations and believe it will hang around for ever. "This is the best job I've ever had" "What a wonderful woman. There's NOTHING wrong with her."
But usually it really doesn't hang around. The happy feelings subside and fade away into the mundane. That's how it's SUPPOSED to be, though. People who continue to charge after that euphoria again and again usually wind up with addictive personalities and destroy their lives.
Guys, it's a TV show. Why do we assume that LCARS is efficient at all? I don't quite understand why, in many an-episode, they have to press so many buttons anyway. It seems sometimes the whole thing isn't very context efficient. If Worf is at tactical and he's gotten check out something on scanners, why is he pressing _anything?_ Shouldn't that all just be there?
In the real world, you simply cannot make up your own casino game, rent floor space at a casino, and see how it does. It's prohibitively difficult for most people to make clothing and sell it in a shop. However, in Second Life, it's almost trivially easy.
I get your point, but didn't Nolan Bushnell do exactly what you say can't be done?
Okay, okay! So, it wasn't a casino... and it was a "casino game..." but I've told you a million times to never exaggerate!
And this is, I think, the first PC virus to attach into Meat Space, as it were.
The way this works is that a compromised Powerpoint presentation is played to a room-full a victims. The speaker is first affected, speaking in a very monotone voice, rapidly clicking through the compromised slides of bullet-points and pie-charts. Within 10 minutes, all the victims are asleep.
I swear. I've seen this happen!! NO URBAN LEGEND! Check SNOPES!!!!!!
Oh, I meant the earlier Sim titles like SimCity. I don't think Utopia really compares to The Sims. They're like apples and ibms, methinks.
Instead of shopping at big box stores, you shop at your local retailer that actually has to worry about their reputation. I have a great local store (that is a Gamestop franchise) where I know that the salespeople will always give me a straight answer. I keep going back because of that.
Good point, but I think you just got lucky. I mean, it's a smaller store, yes, but it's still a national franchise and it all comes down to the quality of workers. I'm sure if you try easy enough you can find thousands of complaints about idiots in GameStops. You got lucky.
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OOh, I had forgotten about Lode Runner. :-)
Tron Deadly Discs is an _excellent_ game, but it doesn't play right without those funky Intellivision controllers.
I've never gotten into any sort of adventure games like Wizardry, so I can't say I miss that one. I had a few friends who were heavy into Infocom games, but I could never really take to it.
Interestingly, my friends and I really like Utopia on the INTV. We loved it and you'd think I'd take to a Sim* game, but I never played another game like it again.
For me, a Comfort Game is one where I don't want to think. For instance, I like playing the original Quake on God Mode. You just go and blast. Another one was the first Unreal Tournament. (I don't know if there was a God mode, but it was mindless fun.) In both instances, there is no need to worry about goals or puzzles. You just ... play. Yeah, there are those that would argue that you don't get any of the euphoria around your successes, but you don't get any melancholy either. I work in IT support and I have enough of both in a single day.
Here are my five:
1. Quake I (God Mode)
2. Unreal Tournament
3. Bubble Bobble (C=64)
4. Orignal GameBoy Tetris
5. H.E.R.O. (2600)
It's pretty clear that this particular article isn't really an attempt to disparage Microsoft's new security surrounding IE7. (Or, if it is, then it does a pretty lousy job, what with all the "Yes, I really want to install this you damn, stupid browser" stuff.)
/. with a wink-and-a-smile. But is there really anything here? Anything? No?
So, it gets posted to
Honestly, when are we to see the first article about how Steve Ballmer refused Linus Torvald's rest-room offer of a handshake only to have the readers find out that Ballmer hadn't washed his hands yet? Are we really so desperate to disparage MS that we'll ignore manufactured evidence?
I swear: This article smells just like Fox News "accidentally" labeling Foley a Democrat.
The auto industry does this from time-to-time. Why, here's a pull quote:
"Hi, I'm the electric car.
I can't go very fast or drive very far.
And if you drive me, people will think you're gay.
Gay men: 'One of us! One of us!'"
Now let's bring in games from the following:
... thing ... again.
Atari 2600
Bally Astrocade
Vectrex (simulated, of course)
Intellivision
Atari St
Amiga
MSX
Odyessy
Neo Geo
Sega Master System
And while you're at it, why not throw a PS-1 and PS2 in there. Go ahead, they won't mind.
But, please, please! No CD-i. I don't care how possible it is. It's just not right. No one should ever seen that
Today, we do not trust the cloud and the services on it to be always available. Few of us can remember any incidences in recent time when, say google.com or amazon.com or live.com was offline but we still do not trust them to be always there and available. I predict that this day will pass. The day will come when outages of big commercial services on the cloud are as unusual as outages in the phone system or the electricity supply system.
No no no no no no. It's not about them losing electricity. You're right! That doesn't happen much.
To my mind, it's the same as what happened to S&Ls. People felt their money was safe there until the scandles broke and a bunch of people lost their money. Trust went away! The similarity here is that a tech company makes a big break on the scene, they chug along promising "forever" services, they experience problems, then they change their business model or shut down leaving users that depended on their services in a lurch. I'm not scared of power outages! I'm scared of companies simply changing their minds.
So, go ahead and use an online backup service, but I'll never believe that they'll be around "forever."
Ugh. Too many words. It's much easier for me to buy another brand until this calms down.
This is why you wait for it to be a standard.. and not a draft.... anyone buying 802.11n stuff should realize that they are paying to be beta testers
Everything's a beta test! Even the Pet Rock was a beta test.
NEWS ALERT! BETA SOFTWARE MAKES MINOR INTERFACE CHANGE! FILM AT 11!
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You must be new here. Please, allow me to help you.
The story isn't about a company making a minor interface change in their beta software. No. The story is that an evil entity, one Micro$oft, has again attempted to ram something down unwitting users' throats. Of course, the populace was too smart for that. They threatened to flex their muscles in the marketplace. The evil entity, Micro$oft (in case you forgot), then became a coward and decided to make the minor interface change. Indeed, the users are too smart for that, too and complained that the evil empire made the change the users requested. So, Micro$oft is a coward _and_ evil.
Remember, no matter which way you slice it, Micro$oft NEVER wins. They're ultimately evil, but also cowardly, stupid, dumb, etc.
I hope this helps you. It sure did me when I first came here!