AID has mastered bad press. If it were really true that "no press is bad press" then they have gotten a bargain. No way they could buy this coverage for a few $100 Million. All I have heard this week is AIG this and AIG that.
Sad thing is I think this is one time when bad press is REALLY bad.
Perhaps I should patent Talking. A means of transferring information between people. If you submit audible sounds to a individual and get audible sounds back, then you are infringing.:-) For a follow up I'll patent political speeches.
I only know about this game from reading the Penny-arcade.com collection books. Looks like they loved it back in the day. Looking forward to seeing what the deal is.:-)
Seriously. I would much prefer paper voting. Be it punch card or optical scan (used where I am). Of those two it seems optical scan is easier for people to deal with at least I have heard no major problems.
I wouldn't mind a DC between 75 and 80 degree F. I'm tired of shivering when I walk into the DC. Of course I'm not constantly racking larger servers. Those guys might like it sub 70.
Yea this is an annoying trend. I used Linux for a year or two before it hit the 1.0 kernel. The 0.99 releases were very useful at the time, and in many ways better than the SCO release that cost BIG money for a PC unix.
"In college I drove an Austin-Healey 3000 that somehow felt faster at 45 mph than my Mazda RX-8 (or even my Toyota Highlander Hybrid) feels at 75 mph. That was a good thing."
Not only was it a good thing, but it probably made the Austin-Healey MORE FUN TO DRIVE. That is a very GOOD thing in my book.
Don't believe me, consider this; a new stock Honda Accord V6 (boring right?) can out accelerate most stock muscle cars from the muscle car era. This is due to a decrease in car weight, better transmissions, and more advanced engines. You have to wonder why a "boring, practical" car needs to be able to out accelerate some of the fastest cars made.
Hopefully this will not come to be in Australia or not be up held upon legal review. Two things I find are disturbing:
1) You will be held accounting for violating the law, but you can't see the law to know how to avoid violating it.
2) All of western democracies have shown a sharp turn towards the police state in the last decade. Something they all used to stand up against and accuse non-democracies of being evil for the same polocies.
This is probably just high stakes gambling. AMD has little to lose. (I say that as an AMD share holder looking at my $2.49 stock price.) Intel has more to lose if they have to redo the 64Bit code. According to the reading, if Intel wins, they get rid of AMD, and become a defacto monopoly having to face US and EU anti-trust regulators. If AMD wins, they get to go along as before and Intel can't sell 64-bit CPUs that people want.
Basically I bet AMD's lawyers are saying "Go ahead make my day." Given the above even if Intel wins in court, they lose.
Talk about a solution in search of a problem. So let me understand this. We are going to go into 3rd world countries and install autonomous flying drones that zap bugs with on board lasers? Isn't there perhaps a cheaper solution?
When did they get good enough to hit the warheads? Did the press stop covering the testing when they started showing some success? I just haven't heard of a big "star wars" defense system test that succeeded.
Yea the baby boomers had it easy. Never went to bed at night worrying if their city might go up in a mushroom cloud at night. How soon people forget...
I refused to learn latex when I was in academia. I am shocked it is still around. But the apps I saw that might have replaced it are probably either too pricey or long dead these days. I remember writing my thesis is Word and I had to reboot the PC after every major format change to free up memory. (Days when 8MB as a lot of memory.)
Seems like someone could write a good gui to support latex and subversion or git.
I don't mean that shareware occurred 12 years ago. But that the revolution in games 12 years ago came from shareware companies, not the mainstream companies of the time.
Indie developers pursue this because its hard to get people to spend $50 or even $25 for a game they haven't read a review of, from someone or some company they never heard of before. Low prices (or free with another revenue stream) allow the game to go viral.
To me the last gaming revolution occurred 12 years ago in the form of shareware games. You see the evolution of that today on the iPhone app store with $5 (expensive games) that have free or $0.99 "Lite" counter parts. I expect various similar approaches my take off across all gaming platforms.
I am shocked that Google doesn't have a special type of adsense ad for in game use for casual games on the web or mobile platforms (read iPhone or Android).
The problem with lie detection, as quite a number of people have said endlessly over the years, is that the assumption is made that a lie is something that somehow the body has a physiological problem with. Clearly this is swan songs of morality, as amorphous and dynamic as they are, being applied directly to the human nervous system, and somehow people are surprised to discover that there hasn't been a lie detector in the world that's been proven unquestionably to work at all.
That is a very insightful comment. Apparently these people don't read the research papers that imply that learning to lie, and detect lies in others is part of the driver for human intelligence. But of course that requires you to believe in evolution....
You don't value something until you lose it. Applies to dating, business, and top secret government projects.
Does "TV" mean delivery method or display device?
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If by delivery method, I think you might be right. Cable is probably on the way out and perhaps satellite to the consumer is as well. Not sure that holds true for digital broadcast.
However if by "TV" you mean the display device I have in the living room, then I think you are way off course. I do not want to watch something longer than 10 minutes on a computer. In the living room I have a nice comfy couch to sit on. I can share it with friends. You can have a date over to watch a movie (oh, wait I'm commenting on Slashdot, some members of the audiance might not understand that reference).
I'm not sure that Blu-ray has won against, well nothing at this point. HD-DVD has been dead for a year and Blu-ray is still not taking off as a format.
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We are only shooting zombies right?
Speaking of that, if we ban violent games, it stands to reason we should ban violent films, so what happens to Hollywood?
Exactly what I was thinking. Wonder how many of them survive a week without being eaten by larger fish.
AID has mastered bad press. If it were really true that "no press is bad press" then they have gotten a bargain. No way they could buy this coverage for a few $100 Million. All I have heard this week is AIG this and AIG that.
Sad thing is I think this is one time when bad press is REALLY bad.
Perhaps I should patent Talking. A means of transferring information between people. If you submit audible sounds to a individual and get audible sounds back, then you are infringing. :-) For a follow up I'll patent political speeches.
When will the madness end?
I only know about this game from reading the Penny-arcade.com collection books. Looks like they loved it back in the day. Looking forward to seeing what the deal is. :-)
Were any of these guys named Chad?
Seriously. I would much prefer paper voting. Be it punch card or optical scan (used where I am). Of those two it seems optical scan is easier for people to deal with at least I have heard no major problems.
I wouldn't mind a DC between 75 and 80 degree F. I'm tired of shivering when I walk into the DC. Of course I'm not constantly racking larger servers. Those guys might like it sub 70.
I personally would not argue with Linus on how to run a successful open source project. You, of course, can do what you want.
Yea this is an annoying trend. I used Linux for a year or two before it hit the 1.0 kernel. The 0.99 releases were very useful at the time, and in many ways better than the SCO release that cost BIG money for a PC unix.
I have long thought that Sun would eventually sell to either IBM or Oracle mostly to get control of Java. Wonder if Oracle is even interested?
"In college I drove an Austin-Healey 3000 that somehow felt faster at 45 mph than my Mazda RX-8 (or even my Toyota Highlander Hybrid) feels at 75 mph. That was a good thing."
Not only was it a good thing, but it probably made the Austin-Healey MORE FUN TO DRIVE. That is a very GOOD thing in my book.
I love to point out this blog post to car crazy friends: http://poorbenjamin.blogspot.com/2005/08/i-intended-my-first-posting-to-be-on.html
Don't believe me, consider this; a new stock Honda Accord V6 (boring right?) can out accelerate most stock muscle cars from the muscle car era. This is due to a decrease in car weight, better transmissions, and more advanced engines. You have to wonder why a "boring, practical" car needs to be able to out accelerate some of the fastest cars made.
Hopefully this will not come to be in Australia or not be up held upon legal review. Two things I find are disturbing:
1) You will be held accounting for violating the law, but you can't see the law to know how to avoid violating it.
2) All of western democracies have shown a sharp turn towards the police state in the last decade. Something they all used to stand up against and accuse non-democracies of being evil for the same polocies.
This is probably just high stakes gambling. AMD has little to lose. (I say that as an AMD share holder looking at my $2.49 stock price.) Intel has more to lose if they have to redo the 64Bit code. According to the reading, if Intel wins, they get rid of AMD, and become a defacto monopoly having to face US and EU anti-trust regulators. If AMD wins, they get to go along as before and Intel can't sell 64-bit CPUs that people want.
Basically I bet AMD's lawyers are saying "Go ahead make my day." Given the above even if Intel wins in court, they lose.
Talk about a solution in search of a problem. So let me understand this. We are going to go into 3rd world countries and install autonomous flying drones that zap bugs with on board lasers? Isn't there perhaps a cheaper solution?
When did they get good enough to hit the warheads? Did the press stop covering the testing when they started showing some success? I just haven't heard of a big "star wars" defense system test that succeeded.
Yea the baby boomers had it easy. Never went to bed at night worrying if their city might go up in a mushroom cloud at night. How soon people forget...
I refused to learn latex when I was in academia. I am shocked it is still around. But the apps I saw that might have replaced it are probably either too pricey or long dead these days. I remember writing my thesis is Word and I had to reboot the PC after every major format change to free up memory. (Days when 8MB as a lot of memory.)
Seems like someone could write a good gui to support latex and subversion or git.
I don't mean that shareware occurred 12 years ago. But that the revolution in games 12 years ago came from shareware companies, not the mainstream companies of the time.
Thats all my note books contained. Doodling out numbers actual notes 2 to 1. And I am horrible at art, so these are really drab boring doodles.... :-)
Indie developers pursue this because its hard to get people to spend $50 or even $25 for a game they haven't read a review of, from someone or some company they never heard of before. Low prices (or free with another revenue stream) allow the game to go viral.
To me the last gaming revolution occurred 12 years ago in the form of shareware games. You see the evolution of that today on the iPhone app store with $5 (expensive games) that have free or $0.99 "Lite" counter parts. I expect various similar approaches my take off across all gaming platforms.
I am shocked that Google doesn't have a special type of adsense ad for in game use for casual games on the web or mobile platforms (read iPhone or Android).
The problem with lie detection, as quite a number of people have said endlessly over the years, is that the assumption is made that a lie is something that somehow the body has a physiological problem with. Clearly this is swan songs of morality, as amorphous and dynamic as they are, being applied directly to the human nervous system, and somehow people are surprised to discover that there hasn't been a lie detector in the world that's been proven unquestionably to work at all.
That is a very insightful comment. Apparently these people don't read the research papers that imply that learning to lie, and detect lies in others is part of the driver for human intelligence. But of course that requires you to believe in evolution....
Why is the Apple icon on slashdot a G5? Times have changed....
You don't value something until you lose it. Applies to dating, business, and top secret government projects.
If by delivery method, I think you might be right. Cable is probably on the way out and perhaps satellite to the consumer is as well. Not sure that holds true for digital broadcast.
However if by "TV" you mean the display device I have in the living room, then I think you are way off course. I do not want to watch something longer than 10 minutes on a computer. In the living room I have a nice comfy couch to sit on. I can share it with friends. You can have a date over to watch a movie (oh, wait I'm commenting on Slashdot, some members of the audiance might not understand that reference).
In the living room I enjoy watching movies from Netflix, Simpsons from Fox, and video podcasts from the internet. For example: http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/features/hd/hdfeed.xml
If every iteration of this cat and mouse game gets on Slashdot, then almost every other story will be about it....
I'm not sure that Blu-ray has won against, well nothing at this point. HD-DVD has been dead for a year and Blu-ray is still not taking off as a format.