I was thinking about this, and I was wondering, which is more wasteful, a disposable DVD, or driving X miles round trip to and from the video store to return them. If you are going back to the store anyways it is no big deal but to just drop them off, it depends.
He is way ahead of his countrymen if he actually knows that New York City is separate from New York state. People would actually think "New York, New York" is just a lyric from a song instead of a valid address.
When I read this I just could not help but picture one, "Plugging" its male adapter into the other ones female adapter, doggy style. I wonder if this what they ment by cluster fuck!
How about the TCP/IP stack? MS basically copied the BSD release into their operating system. If had been up to them we would all be using NetBEUI to communicate because it was Easier to configure.
Uh-oh, likes like the MPAA has gotten to this one. Dillusional conspiracy theory, packed with anonymous bad guys acting as front for the "Buyer." He is not completely gone as he not referred to hoping that Tia Carrere, will rescue the book, ala "Relic Hunter."
They don't even bother pretending it is orginial anymore. I was playing Rock Manager, and I could have sworn one of the songs from the game was being played by the top 40 radio station.
Must be slow, while I have never used a Mac, I have plenty of andecotial evidence that it appears slow from Slashdot, I just decided I don't like Steve Jobs today to so, OS X must be slow.
I however on the otherhand, use Windows, I know that is slow, in fact the more I use it the slower it gets. Until it gets reinstall in which returns to being painfully slow instead of preview-of-hell slow. Anyone that try's to convince me that they have a P4-2GHz is just lying. Windows got fatter and it gets slower so there is no way that they are shipping faster computers with me getting worse performance. They are just adding a zero to that Pentium-200 chip that they had in the warehouse for the last couple of years.
I don't use Linux, but I like it. If OS X is slow, and Windows is slow, Linux has got to be fast because anything is better than what I got right now. I have just run out of possible choices, at least until GNU/Hurd comes out. Then maybe I can hate RMS, and GNU/Hurd will be to slow for me too.
Time Warner Cable told analog cable subscribers in New York City that they would no longer receive various channels, including HBO 2 and HBO Family, unless they upgraded to digital service -- at the cost of an additional $9.95 a month.
It says that in order to get HBO, YOU HAVE TO GET DIGITAL. Not that you need digital, or want digital, just you have to pay for it.
Another qoute from the article,
Showtime parent Viacom (VIA ) owns MTV, VH1, and Nickelodeon -- which are must-buys for those who want to see movies on Showtime.
It is not a matter of charging less for a particular product, they are saying, it cost $10/month to get HBO, but before you can buy it, you also have to purchase MTV($4/month), VH1($3/month), and Nickelodeon($3/month). So you would end up paying $20/month for a $10/month channel. So what part of taken for a ride did you not understand?
I would account more to the fact that Intel and AMD already have a established business relationships with both their customers, and their suppliers as a darn good reason for Transmeta having a hard time breaking into the market.
The simple fact is that they have not been able to get into the door of OEM's in general would have little to do with how good or bad their processor is, considering they will not even look it.
I also consider it kinda ironic that the US tots itself as cutting edge but lately it is Japan that has been coming out with alot of the innovative consumer technologies and services that US companies(in particular telecoms) have been drooling about.
(You can have any OS you want as long as you pay Microsoft.)
Reminds me of a joke, that I cannot remember where it is from though, maybe someone can tell me. It goes like this,
A guy walks into a bar and asks a waitress, "Say, what type of music do have around here?" She replies, "Both kinds, Country AND Western!" Ba-Dump Ting!
I can just see the John Carmack and his stock broker meeting,
Stock Broker: John, you stocks have been tanking lately, and the whole IT has been hit hard. Your portfolio is starting to get a little weak.
John Carmack: (jumps in a telephone booth, ripes off his shirt to reveal his costume, with an "IT" on his chest) The computer industry is hurting, must get it to rebound. I will create a new game, Doom 3 to save the Industry! They will all have to buy new computers to play it! That will improve my portfolio right?
Stock Broker: Yes!
John Carmack I am on it(leaps out the window flying to his Cubicle of Productivity)!
Americans don't like mass transit because they never had good mass transit. All mass transit talks here in Seattle are about freeing freeways during peak hours.
I remember reading an article about traffic in Denver, CO. Everyone wanted to go skiing on the weekends, but the suburbs had spread so far out and the roads were not designed for the increased traffic it takes a couple of hours to travel the 20 miles to the resort.
The thing was, everyone thought that some sort of mass transit, like a monorail or a train was great idea. They figured that if enough other people took it, then they would not have a traffic jam when they drove up to the resort. No they did not want to use, they were hoping the "other guy" would use it.
it's far, far too true that open-source developers frequently write poor documentation
I am not trying to rag on open-source developers, especially when I work in a company where the idea of even basic documentation is treated like the 7th sign of the apocalypes. The thing is programmers often don't want to do documentation. So the often the only people that can get into a developing a mod(for example) are the most die-hard or determined individuals. If programmers spent more time trying to make their game, and its engine more accessible, you would have more non-techie people developing games. By shear brute force you would be able to find some decent games, or game designers from that.
I would like to able make a game without having to learn all the little qierks and wierd intefaces that these developers seem to build in their editors. It just absolutely kills me, to even try and get started, and I just wish they were more accessible.
The reason most games fail is becuase of the people developing them and who they develop them for. The thing is that I know a ton of talented programmers, and they all love games. Some would love to program game, others love the engine but ultimately they love the technical side of it but don't have a handle on the not non-technical aspects of creating a game.
You could probalbly break games that fail into one of four categories,
Bad or unbalanced game play
Bad story line development
Lack of marketing
Program instability
I think the most common item of failure would be Lack of marketing, there are some people that can make a good game but lack the backing of a distributor. This hurts alot of small game developers and caters to large developers. A good example is GameSpot, any game that they follow and cover is Always given a good score. They are also the games that have the most marketing power. A good example is the Age of Mythology, they had been covering and hyping that game for almost a year, you think that the score for that game was even going to approach less than really good? Other games that they review are more objective, so they have good and bad ones in there but a good scoring game is far from proving it will get good sales. An example was a game I loved which was Kohan. Great game, no marketing so did not do so well overall in sales.
The second biggest killer is game instability. I cannot count the number of games that have just been crappy, not ready to be sold but pushed out the door anyways, just to make a few bucks. I can only assume that these games are pushed out too early and that they programmers for these games are not just bad, but considering the number of people who are interested in making a computer game, this also a realistic possibility.
While some people don't care if a game has a story line, if the game play is shallow you are going to need a story line to draw a person into the game. Like a mentioned before, alot of programmers would love to make a computer game, the problem is that they want to program a game, not a story. They don't have writing skills to develop a good story.
Unbalanced game play. This also another big one, alot people know how to play games, it is another thing to fine tune a game. Most people are not able or not willing to make the time to balance out their games to make them interesting which always result in games that become dull once you find the "Secret".
Another thing that I want to include but that is not on the list is that programmers will often program something for themselves, and totally disregard everyone else. This can result in a poor overall gameplay, or documentation for mods. This is often a complaint about some open-source projects but I think it really comes down to human nature. When making computer games becomes more accessible to those people who are not as technical, game quality will improve. When you limit the number of people, you are ultimately limiting the talent pool of potentially good game makers.
Today, the UN agreed that Iraq will continue to have inspections that it is compliant with its directives. The committee will be comprised of Iraqi appoint officials, including, Anthrax Andy Mohammed, Radiation Rad Ali, and a man simply known as Nuclear Winter. Saddam Hussein promised that these men take their jobs very seriously and will do whatever it takes...
I think that some people would just drive better if you just blackened out all their windows and installed a computer screen in the front window. Hook it up a digital camera and then they convince themselves that they are in a racing game and I believe that their driving skills would improve.
The only bad thing would be if the driver thought it was like GTA3 and started running over pedestrans because "They are not real."
What do you expect? I mean they showed Farscape to help keep up the numbers of its No 2 Show Lexx. It is mainly dispointing stuff that comes from Sci-Fi, endless reruns of crap with a decent movie thrown into the mix every once in a while.
Slashdot Mirror
I was thinking about this, and I was wondering, which is more wasteful, a disposable DVD, or driving X miles round trip to and from the video store to return them. If you are going back to the store anyways it is no big deal but to just drop them off, it depends.
He is way ahead of his countrymen if he actually knows that New York City is separate from New York state. People would actually think "New York, New York" is just a lyric from a song instead of a valid address.
imagining a beowulf cluster of these things
When I read this I just could not help but picture one, "Plugging" its male adapter into the other ones female adapter, doggy style. I wonder if this what they ment by cluster fuck!
How about the TCP/IP stack? MS basically copied the BSD release into their operating system. If had been up to them we would all be using NetBEUI to communicate because it was Easier to configure.
You have been reading Scott Adams (Dilbert) books, haven't you?
No, that would be "Teach yourself Windows Adminstration in 4 Hours"
Uh-oh, likes like the MPAA has gotten to this one. Dillusional conspiracy theory, packed with anonymous bad guys acting as front for the "Buyer." He is not completely gone as he not referred to hoping that Tia Carrere, will rescue the book, ala "Relic Hunter."
CmdrTaco, prepare the Brain Degauser...
Well, AOL certainly contributed more than it's fair share!
Mfg'ed bands suck as much as always
They don't even bother pretending it is orginial anymore. I was playing Rock Manager, and I could have sworn one of the songs from the game was being played by the top 40 radio station.
Must be slow, while I have never used a Mac, I have plenty of andecotial evidence that it appears slow from Slashdot, I just decided I don't like Steve Jobs today to so, OS X must be slow.
I however on the otherhand, use Windows, I know that is slow, in fact the more I use it the slower it gets. Until it gets reinstall in which returns to being painfully slow instead of preview-of-hell slow. Anyone that try's to convince me that they have a P4-2GHz is just lying. Windows got fatter and it gets slower so there is no way that they are shipping faster computers with me getting worse performance. They are just adding a zero to that Pentium-200 chip that they had in the warehouse for the last couple of years.
I don't use Linux, but I like it. If OS X is slow, and Windows is slow, Linux has got to be fast because anything is better than what I got right now. I have just run out of possible choices, at least until GNU/Hurd comes out. Then maybe I can hate RMS, and GNU/Hurd will be to slow for me too.
I think I can speak for most people when my reply to this is "NUTZ!"
Qoute from the article,
Time Warner Cable told analog cable subscribers in New York City that they would no longer receive various channels, including HBO 2 and HBO Family, unless they upgraded to digital service -- at the cost of an additional $9.95 a month.
It says that in order to get HBO, YOU HAVE TO GET DIGITAL. Not that you need digital, or want digital, just you have to pay for it.
Another qoute from the article,
Showtime parent Viacom (VIA ) owns MTV, VH1, and Nickelodeon -- which are must-buys for those who want to see movies on Showtime.
It is not a matter of charging less for a particular product, they are saying, it cost $10/month to get HBO, but before you can buy it, you also have to purchase MTV($4/month), VH1($3/month), and Nickelodeon($3/month). So you would end up paying $20/month for a $10/month channel. So what part of taken for a ride did you not understand?
Just what we need, another Jar-Jar Binks fan!
Doom Ported to Nokia phone
I thought they were going to switch me back to the WorldCom network!
Sales of Light Pens and magnifying glasses shot up drastically today...
I would account more to the fact that Intel and AMD already have a established business relationships with both their customers, and their suppliers as a darn good reason for Transmeta having a hard time breaking into the market.
The simple fact is that they have not been able to get into the door of OEM's in general would have little to do with how good or bad their processor is, considering they will not even look it.
I also consider it kinda ironic that the US tots itself as cutting edge but lately it is Japan that has been coming out with alot of the innovative consumer technologies and services that US companies(in particular telecoms) have been drooling about.
(You can have any OS you want as long as you pay Microsoft.)
Reminds me of a joke, that I cannot remember where it is from though, maybe someone can tell me. It goes like this,
A guy walks into a bar and asks a waitress, "Say, what type of music do have around here?" She replies, "Both kinds, Country AND Western!" Ba-Dump Ting!
I can just see the John Carmack and his stock broker meeting,
Stock Broker: John, you stocks have been tanking lately, and the whole IT has been hit hard. Your portfolio is starting to get a little weak.
John Carmack: (jumps in a telephone booth, ripes off his shirt to reveal his costume, with an "IT" on his chest) The computer industry is hurting, must get it to rebound. I will create a new game, Doom 3 to save the Industry! They will all have to buy new computers to play it! That will improve my portfolio right?
Stock Broker: Yes!
John Carmack I am on it(leaps out the window flying to his Cubicle of Productivity)!
Americans don't like mass transit because they never had good mass transit. All mass transit talks here in Seattle are about freeing freeways during peak hours.
I remember reading an article about traffic in Denver, CO. Everyone wanted to go skiing on the weekends, but the suburbs had spread so far out and the roads were not designed for the increased traffic it takes a couple of hours to travel the 20 miles to the resort.
The thing was, everyone thought that some sort of mass transit, like a monorail or a train was great idea. They figured that if enough other people took it, then they would not have a traffic jam when they drove up to the resort. No they did not want to use, they were hoping the "other guy" would use it.
Am I supposed to like this or am I supposed to hate it? SLASHDOT PLEASE TELL ME!
it's far, far too true that open-source developers frequently write poor documentation
I am not trying to rag on open-source developers, especially when I work in a company where the idea of even basic documentation is treated like the 7th sign of the apocalypes. The thing is programmers often don't want to do documentation. So the often the only people that can get into a developing a mod(for example) are the most die-hard or determined individuals. If programmers spent more time trying to make their game, and its engine more accessible, you would have more non-techie people developing games. By shear brute force you would be able to find some decent games, or game designers from that.
I would like to able make a game without having to learn all the little qierks and wierd intefaces that these developers seem to build in their editors. It just absolutely kills me, to even try and get started, and I just wish they were more accessible.
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The reason most games fail is becuase of the people developing them and who they develop them for. The thing is that I know a ton of talented programmers, and they all love games. Some would love to program game, others love the engine but ultimately they love the technical side of it but don't have a handle on the not non-technical aspects of creating a game.
You could probalbly break games that fail into one of four categories,
I think the most common item of failure would be Lack of marketing, there are some people that can make a good game but lack the backing of a distributor. This hurts alot of small game developers and caters to large developers. A good example is GameSpot, any game that they follow and cover is Always given a good score. They are also the games that have the most marketing power. A good example is the Age of Mythology, they had been covering and hyping that game for almost a year, you think that the score for that game was even going to approach less than really good? Other games that they review are more objective, so they have good and bad ones in there but a good scoring game is far from proving it will get good sales. An example was a game I loved which was Kohan. Great game, no marketing so did not do so well overall in sales.
The second biggest killer is game instability. I cannot count the number of games that have just been crappy, not ready to be sold but pushed out the door anyways, just to make a few bucks. I can only assume that these games are pushed out too early and that they programmers for these games are not just bad, but considering the number of people who are interested in making a computer game, this also a realistic possibility.
While some people don't care if a game has a story line, if the game play is shallow you are going to need a story line to draw a person into the game. Like a mentioned before, alot of programmers would love to make a computer game, the problem is that they want to program a game, not a story. They don't have writing skills to develop a good story.
Unbalanced game play. This also another big one, alot people know how to play games, it is another thing to fine tune a game. Most people are not able or not willing to make the time to balance out their games to make them interesting which always result in games that become dull once you find the "Secret".
Another thing that I want to include but that is not on the list is that programmers will often program something for themselves, and totally disregard everyone else. This can result in a poor overall gameplay, or documentation for mods. This is often a complaint about some open-source projects but I think it really comes down to human nature. When making computer games becomes more accessible to those people who are not as technical, game quality will improve. When you limit the number of people, you are ultimately limiting the talent pool of potentially good game makers.
Today, the UN agreed that Iraq will continue to have inspections that it is compliant with its directives. The committee will be comprised of Iraqi appoint officials, including, Anthrax Andy Mohammed, Radiation Rad Ali, and a man simply known as Nuclear Winter. Saddam Hussein promised that these men take their jobs very seriously and will do whatever it takes...
I think that some people would just drive better if you just blackened out all their windows and installed a computer screen in the front window. Hook it up a digital camera and then they convince themselves that they are in a racing game and I believe that their driving skills would improve.
The only bad thing would be if the driver thought it was like GTA3 and started running over pedestrans because "They are not real."
What do you expect? I mean they showed Farscape to help keep up the numbers of its No 2 Show Lexx. It is mainly dispointing stuff that comes from Sci-Fi, endless reruns of crap with a decent movie thrown into the mix every once in a while.