...that keeps open source OSes from hitting mainstream desktops. You know there's something seriously flawed with the software development process when someone resorts to "you're doing something wrong" as an explanation for why a piece of software isn't easy or enjoyable to use.
The software should accommodate the user, not the other way around.
So many patents are defensive in nature (ie., patenting something that a company may wish to capitalize on at some point in the future), and as such it's really hard to measure the costs or benefits of the work that goes into creating these patents. It's highly speculative work.
Certainly legal teams cost lots of money. But companies wouldn't do it if they didn't have some reason to believe it paid off in the long run. Whether that reasoning is correct or not is a whole other subject...
Right, because what first world power could possibly survive without CS students? You talk as if there couldn't possibly be a more advanced state of society than one in which everyone is a computer scientist.
Doom 3 was a great game, imo, however people's complaints about the whole flashlight mechanism were justified, and I can see how it would detract from the entertainment value. Id's goal was to make a scary game, and if you played the game with the swapped-in flashlight as they intended, it was indeed scary. The lighting was better than in any game I'd played at that point and created an unparalleled atmosphere of creepiness.
That being said, the idea that in "the mysterious future" you wouldn't be able to hold both a flashlight and a gun hurt the game's credibility. And going for the cheap scare so many times did tend to get old.
They were also determined to make D3 a single-player game in a field now dominated by multiplayer and massively-multiplayer games. I would have thought that they'd have realized this better than anyone, given that they practically created the market for multiplayer FPS gaming, but they chose to make Doom 3 a single player game, and between that and the whole flashlight deal, many people decided the game was a dud, and thus its fate was sealed.
For $10K too bad the Libraries can't settle for pdfs.
I'm sure libraries would gladly settle for PDFs if all it cost were $10,000. The academic publishing industry has a stranglehold on libraries like that.
They just launched a new service today called hybridsolarlighting.google.com which provides on-demand hybrid solar lighting to any terminal with internet access. The hybrid solar lighting competition is effectively dead, as any fool with a hybrid solar light can see.
Clearly one (or both) of these posts are somewhat mis-informative, since you took the trouble to correct your first post.
Tsk tsk, slashdot mods.
So what's the big deal?
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It's not like organized religion spends serious time contemplating whether the rail gun or plasma gun is more effective in eliminating aliens.
Religion and video games are equally make-believe and there's really no reason we should expect either of them to address the other.
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No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame.
This is funny AND it's at Roland Picklepail's expense.
Or a great way to test new alcoholic beverages.
The submitter appears to be 15, maybe 16 years old.
Here's to hoping Slashdot forms a content partner alliance with LiveJournal soon.
Book it. Imagine all the glory and price of the 20th Anniversary Mac... times ten!
Good luck cleaning your mind off the wall.
...that keeps open source OSes from hitting mainstream desktops. You know there's something seriously flawed with the software development process when someone resorts to "you're doing something wrong" as an explanation for why a piece of software isn't easy or enjoyable to use.
The software should accommodate the user, not the other way around.
So many patents are defensive in nature (ie., patenting something that a company may wish to capitalize on at some point in the future), and as such it's really hard to measure the costs or benefits of the work that goes into creating these patents. It's highly speculative work.
Certainly legal teams cost lots of money. But companies wouldn't do it if they didn't have some reason to believe it paid off in the long run. Whether that reasoning is correct or not is a whole other subject...
Expect to see an sharp increase in the number of lockerroom and bathroom pics.
Not to mention the quality. You've never looked better in a towel than you do on a phone w/a Carl Zeiss lens.
This merger will only affect those browsing on the intarnet.
In Republican America, YOU put on WATCHLIST!!!
I use Gentoo; how does this affect me?
It won't--you still won't be able to get your wireless card working.
Right, because what first world power could possibly survive without CS students? You talk as if there couldn't possibly be a more advanced state of society than one in which everyone is a computer scientist.
Softare engineering is the new train engineering.
Doom 3 was a great game, imo, however people's complaints about the whole flashlight mechanism were justified, and I can see how it would detract from the entertainment value. Id's goal was to make a scary game, and if you played the game with the swapped-in flashlight as they intended, it was indeed scary. The lighting was better than in any game I'd played at that point and created an unparalleled atmosphere of creepiness.
That being said, the idea that in "the mysterious future" you wouldn't be able to hold both a flashlight and a gun hurt the game's credibility. And going for the cheap scare so many times did tend to get old.
They were also determined to make D3 a single-player game in a field now dominated by multiplayer and massively-multiplayer games. I would have thought that they'd have realized this better than anyone, given that they practically created the market for multiplayer FPS gaming, but they chose to make Doom 3 a single player game, and between that and the whole flashlight deal, many people decided the game was a dud, and thus its fate was sealed.
I still thought it was a great game though!
You'd be twice as productive at inventing crazy shit if /. didn't print so many duplicate stories.
For $10K too bad the Libraries can't settle for pdfs. I'm sure libraries would gladly settle for PDFs if all it cost were $10,000. The academic publishing industry has a stranglehold on libraries like that.
Who needs stickers, just mod it down. The Bible, -1 Overrated since time immemorial.
They just launched a new service today called hybridsolarlighting.google.com which provides on-demand hybrid solar lighting to any terminal with internet access. The hybrid solar lighting competition is effectively dead, as any fool with a hybrid solar light can see.
Because surely no one has ever had to engage high school students before.
http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&lr=&safe=o ff&q=getting+high+school+students+interested+in+sc ience+and+technology&btnG=Search
Man, no sound quality is ever poor enough for /. audiophiles.
I can't believe this sort of thing is happening on the internets.
Zing!
Clearly one (or both) of these posts are somewhat mis-informative, since you took the trouble to correct your first post.
Tsk tsk, slashdot mods.
It's not like organized religion spends serious time contemplating whether the rail gun or plasma gun is more effective in eliminating aliens. Religion and video games are equally make-believe and there's really no reason we should expect either of them to address the other.