Rods and reels that fleece the unwitting? It's not a mixed metaphor, it's a mash-up!
Frankly, I need a car analogy to explain anything having to do with computers or I'm totally lost. (As lost as a babe in the woods thrown out with the bath water.)
That is such a mediocre movie and a total waste of Al Pacino's talent. While I wouldn't say it's one of the worst movies of all time, it's an incredibly stupid waste of time (and I don't mean that in the good way). Completely forgettable, or it would have been if you had never brought it up. I hate you.
No, the non-compliance wasn't about Windows Media Player so much as it was interoperability with other networking software.
MS's attempts at compliance were deemed inadequate even though they protested that it was "too hard" to comply to the degree that the EU wanted. We'll see if it was $1,000,000,000+ too hard.
This fine is more like a contempt of court charge, and doesn't let MS off the hook. They're still expected to comply.
Actually, they're being fined for not complying with actions they were directed to take to correct for their misconduct. You can argue that the non-compliance is itself misconduct, but it's not the original misconduct that had to do with their monopolistic behavior.
I've never understood the logic that says when people become happy consumers that FREEDOM and DEMOCRACY are right around the corner. If anything, our experience in the U.S. points to the opposite.
While democracy might give rise to capitalism, it doesn't follow that capitalism will give rise to democracy. The two are not equivalent.
I think he's the guy responsible for the code that runs like a pig on their IIS servers. I haven't been on there in almost a year, but I hope they've done something about their scalability problems with all that Murdoch money.
Wasn't RBC one of the big PIPE investors or a front for an investor that bankrolled the SCO v. IBM case? There are already threads from that leading back to MS*. Is this another?
I played Max Payne on a console, and I liked it as well. The cut scenes were in a comic book format, and you could quickly skip with them the press of a button IIRC.
Anyway, it took a few years for editing techniques and a semiotics of film to emerge after film became a popular entertainment. Many aspects film language that we don't even think twice about were developed thru trial and error. What had worked in the past on the stage floor didn't work as well in the new medium. There were growing pains. I suspect that the language of games will continue to grow, thru trial and error.
Over reliance on cut scenes and expositive narrative techniques are a sign of weak story telling in the game genre. A good game that tells a good story needn't depend on these. In fact (I think you'd agree from what you're telling me) they get in the way.
Perhaps what Game companies need to do is hire a dramaturge.
However, it's commonplace in the VC business to invest in a number of different businesses, hoping one of them will be the monster hit, and make all the money lost on the other companies worth the risk. So I'll stick to the metaphor, and even mangle it a bit. VCs throw bunch of ideas at the wall in hopes that one of them will hit a home run.
Whatever, dude. I just want some Manglish Porn. I can hardly wait to see some thick mantacle penetrating some young school girl's mangina after skillfully removing her manssiere.
Are you talking about a kind of Super-SCSI? How much takes place on the card and how much on the RAID (or on the drives on the RAID)? How much would you gain by moving this onto the motherboard as a support chipset? You seem to be talking about a Storage Processor Unit. An SPU.
I think they're just throwing stuff at the wall and seeing what sticks, much like VCs do. But their doing it all in-house, hoping to come up with the next big thing. And the thing after that.
Slashdot Mirror
Is that a banana in your pocket, or are you just glad to rob me?
Rods and reels that fleece the unwitting? It's not a mixed metaphor, it's a mash-up!
Frankly, I need a car analogy to explain anything having to do with computers or I'm totally lost. (As lost as a babe in the woods thrown out with the bath water.)
That is such a mediocre movie and a total waste of Al Pacino's talent. While I wouldn't say it's one of the worst movies of all time, it's an incredibly stupid waste of time (and I don't mean that in the good way). Completely forgettable, or it would have been if you had never brought it up. I hate you.
A billion here, a billion there . . . pretty soon it adds up to some big money!
No, the non-compliance wasn't about Windows Media Player so much as it was interoperability with other networking software.
MS's attempts at compliance were deemed inadequate even though they protested that it was "too hard" to comply to the degree that the EU wanted. We'll see if it was $1,000,000,000+ too hard.
This fine is more like a contempt of court charge, and doesn't let MS off the hook. They're still expected to comply.
Actually, they're being fined for not complying with actions they were directed to take to correct for their misconduct. You can argue that the non-compliance is itself misconduct, but it's not the original misconduct that had to do with their monopolistic behavior.
I've never understood the logic that says when people become happy consumers that FREEDOM and DEMOCRACY are right around the corner. If anything, our experience in the U.S. points to the opposite.
While democracy might give rise to capitalism, it doesn't follow that capitalism will give rise to democracy. The two are not equivalent.
Actually, you mean El Laboristo de Fiesta or ELF. And Blair, in my mind, has always looked like an elf.
(Yes, I know, makes no sense in Español.)
I think he's the guy responsible for the code that runs like a pig on their IIS servers. I haven't been on there in almost a year, but I hope they've done something about their scalability problems with all that Murdoch money.
So he's tail gunner of the avant-garde?
Wasn't RBC one of the big PIPE investors or a front for an investor that bankrolled the SCO v. IBM case? There are already threads from that leading back to MS*. Is this another?
*MS execs "advised" RBC to invest in SCO.
I played Max Payne on a console, and I liked it as well. The cut scenes were in a comic book format, and you could quickly skip with them the press of a button IIRC.
Anyway, it took a few years for editing techniques and a semiotics of film to emerge after film became a popular entertainment. Many aspects film language that we don't even think twice about were developed thru trial and error. What had worked in the past on the stage floor didn't work as well in the new medium. There were growing pains. I suspect that the language of games will continue to grow, thru trial and error.
er, thanks. better late than never. My house is now flooded from running the tap over night and my data still isn't backed up.
=)
You don't think this is a big deal after he made a long term commitment to the Mac platform by getting an Apple tattoo? =)
Yeah, I saw this exact website about 4 years ago, and I could have sworn I read about it here. Can we be sure this isn't a delayed reaction dupe mine?
iHOP landmines?
Does the Rooty Tooty Fresh and Fruity landmine explode with deliciousness when you step on it?
Over reliance on cut scenes and expositive narrative techniques are a sign of weak story telling in the game genre. A good game that tells a good story needn't depend on these. In fact (I think you'd agree from what you're telling me) they get in the way.
Perhaps what Game companies need to do is hire a dramaturge.
Thank you for the information. Given what you've told me, it's not unreasonable to expect an explanation.
However, it's commonplace in the VC business to invest in a number of different businesses, hoping one of them will be the monster hit, and make all the money lost on the other companies worth the risk. So I'll stick to the metaphor, and even mangle it a bit. VCs throw bunch of ideas at the wall in hopes that one of them will hit a home run.
Whatever, dude. I just want some Manglish Porn. I can hardly wait to see some thick mantacle penetrating some young school girl's mangina after skillfully removing her manssiere.
Are you talking about a kind of Super-SCSI? How much takes place on the card and how much on the RAID (or on the drives on the RAID)? How much would you gain by moving this onto the motherboard as a support chipset? You seem to be talking about a Storage Processor Unit. An SPU.
(mad cow waves back at Lehk228) Moo.
Maybe part of Google's business plan is to try and disrupt the business plan. =)
I think they're just throwing stuff at the wall and seeing what sticks, much like VCs do. But their doing it all in-house, hoping to come up with the next big thing. And the thing after that.
Maybe I should have bolded the part you ignored:
without consideration for others
If this were not true, then murder would be perfectly acceptable method to accumulate wealth.