You're also the minority.:) Lego has to make profit, not cater to some people at some dork website. People assume Slashdotters represent the majority or something.
Walgreens pharmacy did a similar thing. It seemed like suddenly every single corner had a Walgreens on it- everywhere you looked, another frickin Walgreens. Now, craploads of them have gone out of business, and the corner is left with a VERY cheap building. They didn't do themselves, or anyone else any good by over-expanding. (My old neighborhood had an awesome coffee shop that leased a corner building. Eventually, the landlord sold the corner lot, the coffee shop went out of business, and nice shiny new Walgreens was built. 2 years later, it is an empty building, where once my favorite coffee shop, with a fireplace even, stood.)
As others have already pointed out, Walgreens sales are up, and they're building like crazy. A new one is going up in my town even though there's already another one not a mile or two away. They're doing quite well.
This is a story about Doom. It's important to us geeks because we will all be trading in our mothers to get the hardware needed to play this game. It will drive the PC gaming market and force everyone to upgrade meaning.
You're missing the point. There is no story here. Retailers constantly post estimated release dates. They are not officially and are merely guesses. Check any other store besides Best Buy and you'll find a different date from each.
In other words, not only is Doom 3 inexplicably being labelled as "vaporware" by this article, but a release date is given that is completely made-up by a retailer in order to give pre-order people something to look at in the catalogues. The release date is pulled completely from thin air.
I'm glad Slashdot reported it. Even if it is an early Aprils Fools joke, it's related very much to my lifestyle, my friends, nerds.
The impact of Doom was never in dispute. But it's not related to anything if it's not actually reporting anything.
Hey, this is off-topic, but I just wanted to say it's great that you replied, admitted the mistake and apologized. Seems like a little thing, but most of the time it feels like the editors don't listen to us, and direct interaction with us even in a little post like this is nice.
They're not trying to toy with anything, because this isn't an official release date. Slashdot got it wrong. This is just Best Buy's estimated release date for pre-orderers. This happens all the time, and I can't believe Slashdot posted it.
Wow, Slashdot is posting retailer release dates now? After all these years, this supposed "geek site" doesn't know that every retailer has different dates that are never true? This is ridiculous. Why would Taco post this? According to EBGames last year, I should have gotten Half-Life 2 in November...since we're believing random retailers now. Right, I'm sure Best Buy is really in the know about id's release schedule.
Not only that, but we get a bizarre headline calling Doom 3 "vaporware" for no apparent reason. Nobody thought it was vaporware. It has had a steady stream of screenshots, an alpha leak, and a multiplayer demo, as well as no release date to delay in the first place.
He's not working on Doom 3 so that he can work on the next NIN album. I'd rather he do that. The Fragile has to be the most underrated double-album I own.
Slashdot hasn't been taken seriously as a geek news site for several years now. If it's not dupe postings, it's misleading and outright false postings that aren't updated to reflect the fact.
Everyone and their mothers knows about release dates and how retailers list random dates. Yet leave it to Slashdot to embarrass itself yet again by posting a headline called "Doom 3 Vaporware no More" (it never was "vaporware") and listing a release date that everybody knows is just another retailer's estimated release date for the pre-orderers. I can't believe some people pay for this site.
Doom3 is just going to be another run-and-jump-shoot-that-rocket game.
Clearly, you haven't even read anything about Doom 3 or followed what it's about. They're focusing completely on the single-player experience. There won't be any "run-and-jump-shoot-that-rocket" because the engine won't even allow for it. Next time, instead of jumping to conclusions that make you look ignorant of what you're talking about, try actually learning about it first.
Personally, I could care less about whether a game is innovative. I just want a game that's well-made and fun. id has always delievered at least that much in the past.
Man, companies like EA Games must love you.
Sorry, but I tend to appreciate games that are, oh I don't know, DIFFERENT from the others on the shelf.
id's last few games have been Quake 2 and 3. How were those revolutionary in any way? Quake 3 did give us a neat little engine, but Quake 1 has always been everybody's favorite.
id is suffering from a bad case of sequel-itis. They should just ship engines. If they did, we'd already have the engine by now, and games that used it. Instead, now we have to wait for them to build more of their typically dark and brown enclosed rooms with some baddies hiding in the shadowy areas. Give me Half-Life's level design any day.
As Apache grows in use, so do the amount of security breaches. For instance, GNOME, Debian, Gentoo, and the two breaches of GNU/FSF. Remember that article Slashdot reported that linked to a study showing Linux as the most breached OS on the net? Linux security breaches are strangely underreported, in order to make space for the next user-run executable attachment Outlook worm.
Proprietary companies may try to run other company's formats, but probably wouldn't be willing to say "oh here's how we do it, let's make it easier for people and merge the two for greater compatibility." Open Source companies can't (and I'd like to think wouldn't if they could) restrict compatibility for their own benefit.
All it does is make things confusing by spreading man hours across a myriad of projects instead of improving what's already there. Proprietary companies have the reasons and resources to fix up their one product and make it the best it can be that can do all. Open Source companies do one thing, then shrug it off and "let someone else take care of it," so that we get the mess of conflicting window libraries, extensions, and code forks that we have now.
It makes perfect sense. And decades of research by Apple and Microsoft labs proves it.
"But the truth is, people don't want to choose, they want you to choose for them."
Well, just because there IS choice doesn't mean you HAVE to choose. If those people don't want to choose then why don't they just let their distributor/geek friend/vendor/whatever choose for them?
I thought that's what he was arguing.
And you forgot why there is choice in the first place: one size does not fit all! The only way to satisfy as many people as possible is to provide choice. The people who don't like that their distributor/vendor/whatever chose for them will choose, and the people who don't want to choose will let their distributor/vendor/whatever chooce for them. What's wrong with that?
But his reasoning works--provide something that people can get used to, and then they can tweak that. Contrary to what you believe, providing a bunch of choices doesn't please everybody, it just confuses and spreads energy across various, conflicting projects. There's a reason we've been hearing since 1998 that Linux will "overtake Windows on the desktop," but it's never happened and never will with its current mindset.
It's already been widely reported that Lego has fired their chief operating officer, the guy responsible for all the marketing ploys, and are returning to basics. They specifically mention that they are reverting to basic building blocks like they used to. I'm looking forward to a revival of the era in the 80s, which was a pleasant mix of both basic building blocks and themed sets that were still composed of generic enough parts to use them for anything else you wanted to build (i.e., simple spaceships, racetracks, and pirate ships).
Neither is Linux an OS. It is a POSIX-like kernel used by a number of OSs, and does not include any other software.
No, Linux IS an operating system. It's the system operating my computer and allowing me to run software on it. I run a command shell, X, and other utilities. The thing actually running on my computer and allowing me to use it is the Linux kernel I compiled, along with its drivers and utilities.
That's not exactly fair. Although installing a kernel independently of a distro isn't easy, program installation in general is far, far easier than it is in MS Windows. In debian, you just type "apt-get programname". In Mandrake, you type "urpmi programname".
You mean to tell me that you honestly believe that for the majority of users, it is easier to live in a command prompt and type things like "urpmi programname" instead of getting a nice, professional Autostart program that lets you browse CD contents, run the program, install (with the ability to CHOOSE program locations and options!), stick itself on the Start menu for access, and uninstall itself correctly?
All Lego has to do is lower the price of their sets. Seriously, that's it. I go to my local Wal-mart and shake my head at the prices of these tiny plastic blocks in a standard, small set. If those things were much cheaper ($50 for a damned pirate ship? Who is the moron at their company who is pricing this shit? Don't they listen?), parents would shell out for those things all the time for their kids. Let the kids build their own toys, and it can be whatever they want!
It's just like Apple--if they'd lower their prices, people would love to be buying it. But nobody can justify all these prices!
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Why do people ignore IBM's past? They're so easy to forgive IBM , and yet so quick to jump down Microsoft's throat for any little thing.
Imagine if Microsoft was doing team-ups like this. Slashdotters would be all over them for the "unfairness" of it all.
I'm 38 and still monkey with Lego.
:) Lego has to make profit, not cater to some people at some dork website. People assume Slashdotters represent the majority or something.
You're also the minority.
Walgreens pharmacy did a similar thing. It seemed like suddenly every single corner had a Walgreens on it- everywhere you looked, another frickin Walgreens. Now, craploads of them have gone out of business, and the corner is left with a VERY cheap building. They didn't do themselves, or anyone else any good by over-expanding. (My old neighborhood had an awesome coffee shop that leased a corner building. Eventually, the landlord sold the corner lot, the coffee shop went out of business, and nice shiny new Walgreens was built. 2 years later, it is an empty building, where once my favorite coffee shop, with a fireplace even, stood.)
As others have already pointed out, Walgreens sales are up, and they're building like crazy. A new one is going up in my town even though there's already another one not a mile or two away. They're doing quite well.
I mentioned Lego's future plans in the last article in this comment and got modded down as "Off-topic." How nice.
This is a story about Doom. It's important to us geeks because we will all be trading in our mothers to get the hardware needed to play this game. It will drive the PC gaming market and force everyone to upgrade meaning.
You're missing the point. There is no story here. Retailers constantly post estimated release dates. They are not officially and are merely guesses. Check any other store besides Best Buy and you'll find a different date from each.
In other words, not only is Doom 3 inexplicably being labelled as "vaporware" by this article, but a release date is given that is completely made-up by a retailer in order to give pre-order people something to look at in the catalogues. The release date is pulled completely from thin air.
I'm glad Slashdot reported it. Even if it is an early Aprils Fools joke, it's related very much to my lifestyle, my friends, nerds.
The impact of Doom was never in dispute. But it's not related to anything if it's not actually reporting anything.
Hey, this is off-topic, but I just wanted to say it's great that you replied, admitted the mistake and apologized. Seems like a little thing, but most of the time it feels like the editors don't listen to us, and direct interaction with us even in a little post like this is nice.
They're not trying to toy with anything, because this isn't an official release date. Slashdot got it wrong. This is just Best Buy's estimated release date for pre-orderers. This happens all the time, and I can't believe Slashdot posted it.
Wow, Slashdot is posting retailer release dates now? After all these years, this supposed "geek site" doesn't know that every retailer has different dates that are never true? This is ridiculous. Why would Taco post this? According to EBGames last year, I should have gotten Half-Life 2 in November...since we're believing random retailers now. Right, I'm sure Best Buy is really in the know about id's release schedule.
Not only that, but we get a bizarre headline calling Doom 3 "vaporware" for no apparent reason. Nobody thought it was vaporware. It has had a steady stream of screenshots, an alpha leak, and a multiplayer demo, as well as no release date to delay in the first place.
Get with it, Slashdot.
He's not working on Doom 3 so that he can work on the next NIN album. I'd rather he do that. The Fragile has to be the most underrated double-album I own.
Slashdot hasn't been taken seriously as a geek news site for several years now. If it's not dupe postings, it's misleading and outright false postings that aren't updated to reflect the fact.
Everyone and their mothers knows about release dates and how retailers list random dates. Yet leave it to Slashdot to embarrass itself yet again by posting a headline called "Doom 3 Vaporware no More" (it never was "vaporware") and listing a release date that everybody knows is just another retailer's estimated release date for the pre-orderers. I can't believe some people pay for this site.
Organisation conducting experiments into reaching other worlds; experiment goes wrong; creatures and entities from other world start appearing.
Yeah, it's called the plot for Doom 1 way back in 1994.
Doom 3 is supposed to be a "re-imagining" of Doom 1. Haven't you been following?
Doom3 is just going to be another run-and-jump-shoot-that-rocket game.
Clearly, you haven't even read anything about Doom 3 or followed what it's about. They're focusing completely on the single-player experience. There won't be any "run-and-jump-shoot-that-rocket" because the engine won't even allow for it. Next time, instead of jumping to conclusions that make you look ignorant of what you're talking about, try actually learning about it first.
Personally, I could care less about whether a game is innovative.
Why do people still say that? It's "couldn't" care less. If you "could" care less, that means you do care, and there's no point to the statement.
Personally, I could care less about whether a game is innovative. I just want a game that's well-made and fun. id has always delievered at least that much in the past.
Man, companies like EA Games must love you.
Sorry, but I tend to appreciate games that are, oh I don't know, DIFFERENT from the others on the shelf.
id's last few games have been Quake 2 and 3. How were those revolutionary in any way? Quake 3 did give us a neat little engine, but Quake 1 has always been everybody's favorite.
id is suffering from a bad case of sequel-itis. They should just ship engines. If they did, we'd already have the engine by now, and games that used it. Instead, now we have to wait for them to build more of their typically dark and brown enclosed rooms with some baddies hiding in the shadowy areas. Give me Half-Life's level design any day.
Who thought Doom 3 was "vaporware?" There was no reason to. I don't think anybody did. Wtf?
Slashdot is corporate-owned and full of purposed bias, though it seems a lot of readers don't (or refuse to) see it.
As Apache grows in use, so do the amount of security breaches. For instance, GNOME, Debian, Gentoo, and the two breaches of GNU/FSF. Remember that article Slashdot reported that linked to a study showing Linux as the most breached OS on the net? Linux security breaches are strangely underreported, in order to make space for the next user-run executable attachment Outlook worm.
Proprietary companies may try to run other company's formats, but probably wouldn't be willing to say "oh here's how we do it, let's make it easier for people and merge the two for greater compatibility." Open Source companies can't (and I'd like to think wouldn't if they could) restrict compatibility for their own benefit.
All it does is make things confusing by spreading man hours across a myriad of projects instead of improving what's already there. Proprietary companies have the reasons and resources to fix up their one product and make it the best it can be that can do all. Open Source companies do one thing, then shrug it off and "let someone else take care of it," so that we get the mess of conflicting window libraries, extensions, and code forks that we have now.
That reasoning makes no sense.
It makes perfect sense. And decades of research by Apple and Microsoft labs proves it.
"But the truth is, people don't want to choose, they want you to choose for them."
Well, just because there IS choice doesn't mean you HAVE to choose. If those people don't want to choose then why don't they just let their distributor/geek friend/vendor/whatever choose for them?
I thought that's what he was arguing.
And you forgot why there is choice in the first place: one size does not fit all! The only way to satisfy as many people as possible is to provide choice. The people who don't like that their distributor/vendor/whatever chose for them will choose, and the people who don't want to choose will let their distributor/vendor/whatever chooce for them. What's wrong with that?
But his reasoning works--provide something that people can get used to, and then they can tweak that. Contrary to what you believe, providing a bunch of choices doesn't please everybody, it just confuses and spreads energy across various, conflicting projects. There's a reason we've been hearing since 1998 that Linux will "overtake Windows on the desktop," but it's never happened and never will with its current mindset.
It's already been widely reported that Lego has fired their chief operating officer, the guy responsible for all the marketing ploys, and are returning to basics. They specifically mention that they are reverting to basic building blocks like they used to. I'm looking forward to a revival of the era in the 80s, which was a pleasant mix of both basic building blocks and themed sets that were still composed of generic enough parts to use them for anything else you wanted to build (i.e., simple spaceships, racetracks, and pirate ships).
Goddamn.
When I was 8, I was peeking at the neighbor's daughter as she played in the pool in her bathing suit. You're fucking building cities.
Ah, a GNU/Linux weenie.
Neither is Linux an OS. It is a POSIX-like kernel used by a number of OSs, and does not include any other software.
No, Linux IS an operating system. It's the system operating my computer and allowing me to run software on it. I run a command shell, X, and other utilities. The thing actually running on my computer and allowing me to use it is the Linux kernel I compiled, along with its drivers and utilities.
That's not exactly fair. Although installing a kernel independently of a distro isn't easy, program installation in general is far, far easier than it is in MS Windows. In debian, you just type "apt-get programname". In Mandrake, you type "urpmi programname".
You mean to tell me that you honestly believe that for the majority of users, it is easier to live in a command prompt and type things like "urpmi programname" instead of getting a nice, professional Autostart program that lets you browse CD contents, run the program, install (with the ability to CHOOSE program locations and options!), stick itself on the Start menu for access, and uninstall itself correctly?
Funny how little-known and reported an outright Linux kernel exploit is compared to, say, an Outlook user-run executable attachment worm.
All Lego has to do is lower the price of their sets. Seriously, that's it. I go to my local Wal-mart and shake my head at the prices of these tiny plastic blocks in a standard, small set. If those things were much cheaper ($50 for a damned pirate ship? Who is the moron at their company who is pricing this shit? Don't they listen?), parents would shell out for those things all the time for their kids. Let the kids build their own toys, and it can be whatever they want!
It's just like Apple--if they'd lower their prices, people would love to be buying it. But nobody can justify all these prices!