Does anyone know of any industries where trade shows are growing?
Many of the comic trade shows have been increasing in size fairly steadily over the past few years, although the big Comic Con in San Diego has been mostly taken over by Hollywood and pays less attention to comics than it should. Well, I guess it's still growing, it's just not nearly as focused as it has been in the past.
If you were a blogger and spent as much time ass-kissing/finessing/building relationships with Nortel as the traditional press does, and had readership numbers in the demographics Nortel wanted to reach, you'd get that press pass.
Precisely. What's even more fun about this article is that by grousing about it and getting his complaints Slashdotted, he's pretty much given up any chance of EVER getting a press pass. Way to stick it to Nortel!
Posted by: Sascha Segan
February 1, 2007 11:46 AM
The phone that drove me nuts was a Nokia 6133, and I think the point that it's subsidized is bizarre; letting people use Opera Mini would increase, not decrease, T-Mobile's revenues by encouraging people to sign up for data plans. T-Mobile is shooting themselves in the foot by crippling the development of the third party software industry, lowering demand for mobile data.
The author's talking about ONE phone. Hardly indicative of a mass conspiracy to kill 3rd party apps. And the phone in question has no keyboard or stylus. While it might technically be capable of web browsing, I don't really see it working.
It's not even for only T-Mobile branded phones. I'm using the cousin to your Trinity, the T-Mobile MDA aka the HTC Wizard. I've been using 3rd party apps on it since day one. Even after I upgraded the firmware and OS, I still had absolutely no problem with any of my applications. I had Firefox running on my phone until I got tired of the large storage space footprint it had. I run wmirc as my IRC client daily and use Google Maps at least once a week on my phone. I've installed the current version of Flash for mobiles and the Java runtime environment. Of the handful of Java-apps I've tried running on my phone, I haven't had issues with any of them. I can't say I've tried all the 3rd party apps out there, but I've tried a hell of a lot of them and have absolutely no problems with my phone.
I get the feeling that this is astroturfing from a rival phone company or just a blog entry from someone that doesn't know what they're talking about.
Misleading, but still pretty shitty. On one hand, RIAA enjoyed the fame and quality of work of those guys enough to seek them out and employ them. Then they turned around and punched them in the face, as if to say, "We don't care if you make mixes if you're a nobody, but if you ever become famous enough for us to hire you once, you aren't allowed to do any more work in the field unless we're paying you to do it."
I think snu-snu is just sex. The punishment was "death by snu-snu". That implies that snu-snu does not always involve death, sort of like how "death by misadventure" doesn't imply that misadventure always leads to death.
(That's one of my favorite episodes.)
I agree, but for different reasons. Death by lethal injection most certainly implies that the person would be killed even if it wasn't by execution, thus "death by snu-snu" does not imply that snu-snu is not ordinarily fatal.
However, in a later episode (The Sting), an Amazonian remarks that Fry "do good snu-snu". Since it didn't kill him, I would conclude that snu-snu is not necessarily fatal.
Why hello there, Mr. Moderator with off-topic selected. How are you today? That's a nice hat you're wearing.
Because it will be harder for Abu Mohammed to fake.
A better answer is "it will be harder for Jose Identity Theft to fake." Identity theft is far more prevalent than terrorism in the US, although I'm not really all that convinced that a national ID card would stop either.
Because no one else responding to this has mentioned it, the Interceptor Body Armor, with SAPI plates, is engineered to take 3 7.62mm NATO rounds.
Fun fact: the AK-47 fires 7.62X39mm rounds. Significantly shorter and with much poorer balistics than the rounds that the body armor is designed to handle. And most of the "sniper" rifles over there are either firing 7.62mm NATO rounds or 7.62X52R. Either of which will not go through the SAPI plate into the soldier.
Don't believe the hype, kids. Uncle Sam's gear works. It's just a matter of making sure all soldiers have their plates and extra panels. Which to the best of my knowledge has already happened for all active duty soldiers.
2) You are an asshole and have no valid contribution to science other than yammering about sentence structure and grammar; things scientists don't give a fuck about because any reasonable human being can pull an idea out of a hat and see the idea for what it is, gram crackers and spelking aside and felch fests that assholes like you tend to dwell on spppellleing and irreleyvant shit, it's the idea, and not the delivery.
Uh, no. Spelling matters in science. If you don't believe me, go ahead and freely interchange nitrates and nitrites and see how well that turns out.
In any case, Blu-ray allows game developers to put more content on the PS3 version of their games. This initially might just be bonus features (such as the-making-of videos) but eventually will translate into more gameplay content (extra levels perhaps?)
Bonus features like that already exist on modern DVD-based games, but most games out there still aren't filling up a single-layer DVD, let alone a dual-layer or a Blu-ray disk. Extra disk space is a total non-event.
There's a reason why most records include being able to return to where you started from for it to count. We would likely celebrate Sir Edmund Hillary, the first guy to the top of Everest, far less if he got dropped off by plane and simply climbed down or Rould Amundsen if he got dropped off at the South pole and simply collected food caches along the way back.
He was able gain altitude and keep pace with his launching aircraft. He could have returned to the airplane if he was willing risk striking the plane, dying horribly, shortening his flight and just generally not having nearly as much fun. No, I'd have to give the man some credit. While, I'd say that this gentleman, his BirdMan suit and his rocket boots were the first that I know of to try this sort of thing, Mr. Rossy has done something really impressive and cool.
No, screw marketing gimmicks. The way is to bring compelling games that focus on a product or brand. Like the old 7up spot games. Hell, Burger King just did it. Selling for 4 bucks a pop, their Xbox games are actually pretty decent and are selling like hotcakes.
Actually, considering how crappy Burger King breakfast is, they're probably outselling hotcakes by a wide margin.
The bill, SB1666, was written by state Sen. Debra Bowen, and would have barred investigators from making "false, fictitious or fraudulent" statements or representations to obtain private information about an individual, including telephone calling records, Social Security numbers and financial information. Victims would have had the right to sue for damages.
They're admitting to using social engineering to gain access to private and sensitive information?
If private individuals were found doing this, they'd have gotten locked up. Why the hell are were not jailing corps for this shit?
I agree. Steam used to be a piece of crap, but has come a LONG way. I recently reinstalled CS:S and DoD:S. I think I averaged around 800KB/s (note the big B) downloading both of them. IIRC, it took about an hour to install both of them. Not quite as fast as installing with a CD, but certainly faster than hopping in the car, driving to and from the nearest game shop and installing it. Plus, it enables me to avoid that scary fireball in the sky.
I'm not sure why it's assumed the woman eating the brownie isn't the thief. Chicks can be criminals, too. All the evidence that he has right now points to two suspects. A chihuahua and a chocoholic girl. Personally, I think the chihuahua did it, but I wouldn't rule out the girl.
Cyber-punk can work well in a FPS setting. When I had first heard of it, I had assumed that the game was going to be much like Deus-Ex and System Shock 2. Those games did a fantastic job of mixing cyberware, hacking, puzzles, magic (called psionics in SS2), and gun play. Not to mention that they did a great job of building atmosphere, mood and a plot that you had a percieved impact on.
Hell, with the success that Fable and the GTA series had, I would be loved to see a third person shooter/action game based on Shadowrun.
There were many routes that the developers could have taken to make a game that resonated strongly with those of us that know who Dunklezahn is, but was still a solidly built game that could be played and enjoyed by just some guy that had never heard of Shadowrun. The Genesis version was a fantastic game in that regard. You didn't have to know what Shadowrun was to enjoy it, but if you did, you had a much deeper appreciation for it.
Sadly, they just took the easy way out and made a new deathmatch/capture the flag game.
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Does anyone know of any industries where trade shows are growing?
Many of the comic trade shows have been increasing in size fairly steadily over the past few years, although the big Comic Con in San Diego has been mostly taken over by Hollywood and pays less attention to comics than it should. Well, I guess it's still growing, it's just not nearly as focused as it has been in the past.
There's no missing link ...
Of course not; it's missing.
If you were a blogger and spent as much time ass-kissing/finessing/building relationships with Nortel as the traditional press does, and had readership numbers in the demographics Nortel wanted to reach, you'd get that press pass.
Precisely. What's even more fun about this article is that by grousing about it and getting his complaints Slashdotted, he's pretty much given up any chance of EVER getting a press pass. Way to stick it to Nortel!
I'm holding out hope for something like this ;).
Why? Go buy Marvel Ultimate Alliance. The special moves system is exactly like that.
Posted by: Sascha Segan February 1, 2007 11:46 AM The phone that drove me nuts was a Nokia 6133, and I think the point that it's subsidized is bizarre; letting people use Opera Mini would increase, not decrease, T-Mobile's revenues by encouraging people to sign up for data plans. T-Mobile is shooting themselves in the foot by crippling the development of the third party software industry, lowering demand for mobile data.
The author's talking about ONE phone. Hardly indicative of a mass conspiracy to kill 3rd party apps. And the phone in question has no keyboard or stylus. While it might technically be capable of web browsing, I don't really see it working.
It's not even for only T-Mobile branded phones. I'm using the cousin to your Trinity, the T-Mobile MDA aka the HTC Wizard. I've been using 3rd party apps on it since day one. Even after I upgraded the firmware and OS, I still had absolutely no problem with any of my applications. I had Firefox running on my phone until I got tired of the large storage space footprint it had. I run wmirc as my IRC client daily and use Google Maps at least once a week on my phone. I've installed the current version of Flash for mobiles and the Java runtime environment. Of the handful of Java-apps I've tried running on my phone, I haven't had issues with any of them. I can't say I've tried all the 3rd party apps out there, but I've tried a hell of a lot of them and have absolutely no problems with my phone.
I get the feeling that this is astroturfing from a rival phone company or just a blog entry from someone that doesn't know what they're talking about.
Misleading, but still pretty shitty. On one hand, RIAA enjoyed the fame and quality of work of those guys enough to seek them out and employ them. Then they turned around and punched them in the face, as if to say, "We don't care if you make mixes if you're a nobody, but if you ever become famous enough for us to hire you once, you aren't allowed to do any more work in the field unless we're paying you to do it."
I think snu-snu is just sex. The punishment was "death by snu-snu". That implies that snu-snu does not always involve death, sort of like how "death by misadventure" doesn't imply that misadventure always leads to death.
(That's one of my favorite episodes.)
I agree, but for different reasons. Death by lethal injection most certainly implies that the person would be killed even if it wasn't by execution, thus "death by snu-snu" does not imply that snu-snu is not ordinarily fatal.
However, in a later episode (The Sting), an Amazonian remarks that Fry "do good snu-snu". Since it didn't kill him, I would conclude that snu-snu is not necessarily fatal.
Why hello there, Mr. Moderator with off-topic selected. How are you today? That's a nice hat you're wearing.
Because it will be harder for Abu Mohammed to fake.
A better answer is "it will be harder for Jose Identity Theft to fake." Identity theft is far more prevalent than terrorism in the US, although I'm not really all that convinced that a national ID card would stop either.
Because no one else responding to this has mentioned it, the Interceptor Body Armor, with SAPI plates, is engineered to take 3 7.62mm NATO rounds.
Fun fact: the AK-47 fires 7.62X39mm rounds. Significantly shorter and with much poorer balistics than the rounds that the body armor is designed to handle. And most of the "sniper" rifles over there are either firing 7.62mm NATO rounds or 7.62X52R. Either of which will not go through the SAPI plate into the soldier.
Don't believe the hype, kids. Uncle Sam's gear works. It's just a matter of making sure all soldiers have their plates and extra panels. Which to the best of my knowledge has already happened for all active duty soldiers.
They did. http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=216868 &cid=17607304
Lower your threshold. Sometimes ACs say funny stuff.
Uh, no. Spelling matters in science. If you don't believe me, go ahead and freely interchange nitrates and nitrites and see how well that turns out.
Role-play and sex, however . . .
I tried that before. Took me forever to figure out where my d20s ended up.
In any case, Blu-ray allows game developers to put more content on the PS3 version of their games. This initially might just be bonus features (such as the-making-of videos) but eventually will translate into more gameplay content (extra levels perhaps?)
Bonus features like that already exist on modern DVD-based games, but most games out there still aren't filling up a single-layer DVD, let alone a dual-layer or a Blu-ray disk. Extra disk space is a total non-event.
There's a reason why most records include being able to return to where you started from for it to count. We would likely celebrate Sir Edmund Hillary, the first guy to the top of Everest, far less if he got dropped off by plane and simply climbed down or Rould Amundsen if he got dropped off at the South pole and simply collected food caches along the way back.
He was able gain altitude and keep pace with his launching aircraft. He could have returned to the airplane if he was willing risk striking the plane, dying horribly, shortening his flight and just generally not having nearly as much fun. No, I'd have to give the man some credit. While, I'd say that this gentleman, his BirdMan suit and his rocket boots were the first that I know of to try this sort of thing, Mr. Rossy has done something really impressive and cool.
No, screw marketing gimmicks. The way is to bring compelling games that focus on a product or brand. Like the old 7up spot games. Hell, Burger King just did it. Selling for 4 bucks a pop, their Xbox games are actually pretty decent and are selling like hotcakes.
Actually, considering how crappy Burger King breakfast is, they're probably outselling hotcakes by a wide margin.
The bill, SB1666, was written by state Sen. Debra Bowen, and would have barred investigators from making "false, fictitious or fraudulent" statements or representations to obtain private information about an individual, including telephone calling records, Social Security numbers and financial information. Victims would have had the right to sue for damages.
They're admitting to using social engineering to gain access to private and sensitive information?
If private individuals were found doing this, they'd have gotten locked up. Why the hell are were not jailing corps for this shit?
Actually, if the vote went like this, ballot stuffing occured, for 45+40+5+10 = 110%.
What base math are you using?
However it would be clearly visible to anyone looking over your shoulder. Even more so that the tradition keyboard password entry.
Illinois State court ruling != US Federal law.
It's an Illinois STATE court. A state court can't impose their ruling on anyone that's not actually inside their state.
I agree. Steam used to be a piece of crap, but has come a LONG way. I recently reinstalled CS:S and DoD:S. I think I averaged around 800KB/s (note the big B) downloading both of them. IIRC, it took about an hour to install both of them. Not quite as fast as installing with a CD, but certainly faster than hopping in the car, driving to and from the nearest game shop and installing it. Plus, it enables me to avoid that scary fireball in the sky.
I'm not sure why it's assumed the woman eating the brownie isn't the thief. Chicks can be criminals, too. All the evidence that he has right now points to two suspects. A chihuahua and a chocoholic girl. Personally, I think the chihuahua did it, but I wouldn't rule out the girl.
Hell, with the success that Fable and the GTA series had, I would be loved to see a third person shooter/action game based on Shadowrun.
There were many routes that the developers could have taken to make a game that resonated strongly with those of us that know who Dunklezahn is, but was still a solidly built game that could be played and enjoyed by just some guy that had never heard of Shadowrun. The Genesis version was a fantastic game in that regard. You didn't have to know what Shadowrun was to enjoy it, but if you did, you had a much deeper appreciation for it.
Sadly, they just took the easy way out and made a new deathmatch/capture the flag game.
They didn't modify it slightly. They took the name, a few abstract concepts and dropped them into Counter-Strike.