Microsoft does marketing better than everything else they do? I don't buy it. Embrace Extend Extinguish comes to mind for starters. I'd say their ability to control the markets they are in is also more effective than their marketing. I'm sure there's more if i cared to keep going. There's a reason we've seen so many anti-trust lawsuits against them, and it isn't because they are great at marketing. I'd even venture that if what they were "best" at was marketing, they wouldn't be the target of so much hatred and scandalous news we hear of every other day at slashdot.
I'd be more interested to find out what ideas bubble forth from the sewage if marijuana is legalized. If the squeaky wheel gets the grease, what other ideas are squeaking just not as loudly?
Not only that but if your personal mail server goes down, there's just you fixing it. When google's does, how many hundreds if not thousands of people are scrambling on red alert to fix it?
Not sure how much you can trust that database. I helped my cousin buy a refurbished Dell desktop several years ago to save money. It was purchased from Dell's website directly. About a year later she called support for some reason and they claimed it was a stolen machine. I don't remember how she resolved it, but that is some pretty shoddy book-keeping if you ask me.
Obviously sci-fi (syfy?;) but the newest Terminator: Sarah Chronicles is a perfect example of what I'm referring to. You have all these rules setup that the AI must follow, and then along comes a little 5 year old who tells it "wouldn't be okay to break the rules?" and all you've worked for in securing the AI is destroyed.
My opinion on what separates a regular program from "true" AI is not simply doing what the programmers want, this includes following any rules you've outlawed for security reasons.
I always thought the point of AI was self-learning (and or self-aware). Meaning you can program it to only emulate the motives you want, but what's to stop it from discovering the ones we avoided on it's own?
I completely agree that it is not without cost. My post was simply to clarify that the money wouldn't have stayed in the private sector as the OP believed.
I appreciate your angst, but wanted to clarify a few things:
How many jobs have been destroyed by government (think of how many people could have been employed had that two trillion stayed in the private sector, rather than being sucked up by government)
That money was created out of thin air by the government. So if the government hadn't done this and gone into two trillion of debt, it wouldn't have "stayed" in the private sector, since it didn't exist before that. Some of that money probably went to the private sector through contracts etc, so if anything jobs would've been created or sustained, not destroyed.
Especially since both Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have been giving out bonuses just like this, and they were bailed out even more? Could there be any more hypocrisy on this?
The way I understood this problem was the original bailouts were granted, and then the execs gave themselves outrageous bonuses from it. The public was outraged (rightly IMO) and because of this, Obama stipulated that anyone receiving a bailout would be restricted to $500k bonus cap. While still a huge bonus in most people's eyes, it would make an exec raking in millions if not tens of millions in bonuses year after year cringe. So the way I see it there was no hypocrisy, only that no one anticipated how greedy some of these board members truly were, and future bailouts were changed in response.
Obama... will add more to the national debt in his first term than all other presidents COMBINDED... is that sustainable?
I suggest reading up on the money creation process, on the "federal" reserve bank, and how our current monetary system is doomed to hyperinflation the way it's currently designed. $100 loaf of bread anyone? $100,000 bills? Not something I'm looking forward to.
I don't think they are testing it on their corporate users. My domain is signed up for google apps which includes email, but not the pay for premium version. When I read on slashdot that gmail was finally adding an option for 'always use https connection', I looked in the options where people said it would be, and found nothing. Logging into the "official" gmail I was able to find it right away. It took some time before it showed up in my domain's gmail client.
My conclusion is they test all the code on the official gmail users to make sure it's stable enough before updating the corporate clients etc.
I clicked the story expecting to see users waste more hours on twitter than other social networks. That would've been more interesting. The story above is... just plain boring.
There are a lot of things people can do to stop light pollution without increasing risks.
The easiest example I remember is streetlights that use cones to direct the light at the ground instead of letting it escape every direction including up into the sky. The amount of light we have on the ground remains the same and light pollution is noticeably reduced by this simple example.
Thanks for making me waste a mod point by replying to your knee-jerk response.
- I'm also confused by their campaign choice, let's stop light pollution cause it's so.. beautiful!
I was not interested in the game when it was released, nor a few months into live. It wasn't until about 3 months ago I was ready to try it, and could not anywhere find a free trial. Looks like I lucked out, since the game is folding anyway.
WTF kind of logic circuits are you using? They seem to be faulty.
As an "avid" MMOer I can be cheap as I want to be, doesn't make me any less of one. The entire design of an MMO is perfect for free trials. The game is (in theory) never-ending, so allowing gamers to sample it for a week doesn't prevent sales, it promotes them. Unless of course like I proposed in my original post, the game is junk, and you want to hide it.
When Tabla was in preorder and open beta stage I couldn't care less about it, at the time I was busy with another MMO perfectly content. It wasn't until I tired of that one that I shopped around for a new one. I like playing ONE MMO at a time, not 10 or whatever you think I need to be doing.
Just because I don't play my video games _exactly_ like you do doesn't make me any less of an "avid" gamer. Grow up. (I know, I know, don't feed the trolls)
As an avid "MMOer" I knew of and wanted to try this game. But with no free trial, I chose not to spend $50 to find out if I actually liked it or not, and I'm their target audience... The only reason I can think of that you _wouldn't_ want one on your game is you're trying to hide how horrid the game actually is. Makes sense I guess.
What they should do is allow players to download their character files, as well as sell the software to make 'private' servers. Now that would generate good will.
When I lived out in rural farmland, our house had a spider living behind the toilet. He had a small web there and he didn't seem to bother us so we left him there. We named him Boris. We'd find other spiders in the house fairly often, and we would catch them alive and drop them on Boris' web. It was very interesting to watch the battles, since the foreign spider would instinctively(?) know that they were in danger being on someone else's web, and would freeze for long periods of time not moving a muscle. Eventually when they would try to leave, out would fly Boris from his crack in the wall and attack. After killing the other spiders he'd usually pull his prize into his hole in the wall. Fairly positive he ate them as well, but I can't say that for certain.
Not sure where you got your information but they will definitely attack each other.
Around ages 7-12 one of my cherished possessions was a small magnet with a super kick. It was a magnet from a junk-yard / recycling center presumably designed to test for metals. It was about the size of a AA battery, give or take, but the magnet in it was one of the strongest I've seen for it's size. What made it fun was things like making paper clips move around on top of my desk using the magnet underneath, the other kids in school would figure it out pretty quick but still found it cool. I can't say how many years I had it, but I never tired of it, until it was lost. I've since tried to find a replacement but haven't seen anything similar online.
So that'd be my suggestion, an insanely strong magnet that fits in your pocket.
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The extended edition would keep them off the streets for 12 hours! instead of 9.
Microsoft does marketing better than everything else they do? I don't buy it. Embrace Extend Extinguish comes to mind for starters. I'd say their ability to control the markets they are in is also more effective than their marketing. I'm sure there's more if i cared to keep going. There's a reason we've seen so many anti-trust lawsuits against them, and it isn't because they are great at marketing. I'd even venture that if what they were "best" at was marketing, they wouldn't be the target of so much hatred and scandalous news we hear of every other day at slashdot.
And Seinfeld falls into this statement where exactly?
I'd be more interested to find out what ideas bubble forth from the sewage if marijuana is legalized. If the squeaky wheel gets the grease, what other ideas are squeaking just not as loudly?
It's a shame they never made any matrix sequels...
With a headline like :
"The Hard Drive Is Inside the Computer"
I can see why you were fooled...
Not only that but if your personal mail server goes down, there's just you fixing it. When google's does, how many hundreds if not thousands of people are scrambling on red alert to fix it?
Would you like to buy a dozen roses?
(Roses are my name for cow dung)
Not sure how much you can trust that database. I helped my cousin buy a refurbished Dell desktop several years ago to save money. It was purchased from Dell's website directly. About a year later she called support for some reason and they claimed it was a stolen machine. I don't remember how she resolved it, but that is some pretty shoddy book-keeping if you ask me.
Obviously sci-fi (syfy? ;) but the newest Terminator: Sarah Chronicles is a perfect example of what I'm referring to. You have all these rules setup that the AI must follow, and then along comes a little 5 year old who tells it "wouldn't be okay to break the rules?" and all you've worked for in securing the AI is destroyed.
My opinion on what separates a regular program from "true" AI is not simply doing what the programmers want, this includes following any rules you've outlawed for security reasons.
I always thought the point of AI was self-learning (and or self-aware). Meaning you can program it to only emulate the motives you want, but what's to stop it from discovering the ones we avoided on it's own?
I completely agree that it is not without cost. My post was simply to clarify that the money wouldn't have stayed in the private sector as the OP believed.
Nintendo wants a piece of the sweet sweet pie that Valve cooked with Steam.
It was cake. And it was a lie.
I appreciate your angst, but wanted to clarify a few things:
How many jobs have been destroyed by government (think of how many people could have been employed had that two trillion stayed in the private sector, rather than being sucked up by government)
That money was created out of thin air by the government. So if the government hadn't done this and gone into two trillion of debt, it wouldn't have "stayed" in the private sector, since it didn't exist before that. Some of that money probably went to the private sector through contracts etc, so if anything jobs would've been created or sustained, not destroyed.
Especially since both Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have been giving out bonuses just like this, and they were bailed out even more? Could there be any more hypocrisy on this?
The way I understood this problem was the original bailouts were granted, and then the execs gave themselves outrageous bonuses from it. The public was outraged (rightly IMO) and because of this, Obama stipulated that anyone receiving a bailout would be restricted to $500k bonus cap. While still a huge bonus in most people's eyes, it would make an exec raking in millions if not tens of millions in bonuses year after year cringe. So the way I see it there was no hypocrisy, only that no one anticipated how greedy some of these board members truly were, and future bailouts were changed in response.
Obama... will add more to the national debt in his first term than all other presidents COMBINDED... is that sustainable?
I suggest reading up on the money creation process, on the "federal" reserve bank, and how our current monetary system is doomed to hyperinflation the way it's currently designed. $100 loaf of bread anyone? $100,000 bills? Not something I'm looking forward to.
We can't stop here! This is bat country!
I don't think they are testing it on their corporate users. My domain is signed up for google apps which includes email, but not the pay for premium version. When I read on slashdot that gmail was finally adding an option for 'always use https connection', I looked in the options where people said it would be, and found nothing. Logging into the "official" gmail I was able to find it right away. It took some time before it showed up in my domain's gmail client.
My conclusion is they test all the code on the official gmail users to make sure it's stable enough before updating the corporate clients etc.
I clicked the story expecting to see users waste more hours on twitter than other social networks. That would've been more interesting. The story above is... just plain boring.
There are a lot of things people can do to stop light pollution without increasing risks.
The easiest example I remember is streetlights that use cones to direct the light at the ground instead of letting it escape every direction including up into the sky. The amount of light we have on the ground remains the same and light pollution is noticeably reduced by this simple example.
Thanks for making me waste a mod point by replying to your knee-jerk response.
- I'm also confused by their campaign choice, let's stop light pollution cause it's so.. beautiful!
Okay, got this great new service all setup, laptop is ready, cellphone is ready, just need to test it out. Here we g
Which either wasn't there at the time, or wasn't available (discontinued etc).
Really? Is this so hard to comprehend?
Please see this clarified post - http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1038495&cid=25856677
I was not interested in the game when it was released, nor a few months into live. It wasn't until about 3 months ago I was ready to try it, and could not anywhere find a free trial. Looks like I lucked out, since the game is folding anyway.
Bullshit to your bullshit.
WTF kind of logic circuits are you using? They seem to be faulty.
As an "avid" MMOer I can be cheap as I want to be, doesn't make me any less of one. The entire design of an MMO is perfect for free trials. The game is (in theory) never-ending, so allowing gamers to sample it for a week doesn't prevent sales, it promotes them. Unless of course like I proposed in my original post, the game is junk, and you want to hide it.
When Tabla was in preorder and open beta stage I couldn't care less about it, at the time I was busy with another MMO perfectly content. It wasn't until I tired of that one that I shopped around for a new one. I like playing ONE MMO at a time, not 10 or whatever you think I need to be doing.
Just because I don't play my video games _exactly_ like you do doesn't make me any less of an "avid" gamer. Grow up. (I know, I know, don't feed the trolls)
As an avid "MMOer" I knew of and wanted to try this game. But with no free trial, I chose not to spend $50 to find out if I actually liked it or not, and I'm their target audience... The only reason I can think of that you _wouldn't_ want one on your game is you're trying to hide how horrid the game actually is. Makes sense I guess.
What they should do is allow players to download their character files, as well as sell the software to make 'private' servers. Now that would generate good will.
Anecdote :
When I lived out in rural farmland, our house had a spider living behind the toilet. He had a small web there and he didn't seem to bother us so we left him there. We named him Boris. We'd find other spiders in the house fairly often, and we would catch them alive and drop them on Boris' web. It was very interesting to watch the battles, since the foreign spider would instinctively(?) know that they were in danger being on someone else's web, and would freeze for long periods of time not moving a muscle. Eventually when they would try to leave, out would fly Boris from his crack in the wall and attack. After killing the other spiders he'd usually pull his prize into his hole in the wall. Fairly positive he ate them as well, but I can't say that for certain.
Not sure where you got your information but they will definitely attack each other.
Around ages 7-12 one of my cherished possessions was a small magnet with a super kick. It was a magnet from a junk-yard / recycling center presumably designed to test for metals. It was about the size of a AA battery, give or take, but the magnet in it was one of the strongest I've seen for it's size. What made it fun was things like making paper clips move around on top of my desk using the magnet underneath, the other kids in school would figure it out pretty quick but still found it cool. I can't say how many years I had it, but I never tired of it, until it was lost. I've since tried to find a replacement but haven't seen anything similar online.
So that'd be my suggestion, an insanely strong magnet that fits in your pocket.