I am all for this kind of stuff. Let the system suffocate enough that corporations finally realise that the patent system only helps lawyers as is. Then we will see reform. When you see legal fees outstrip R&D revenues, then things will change and not until then.
Plus every patent war like this is another call to use open-source.
That would be stupid purchase. Palm is a loser company with barely anything to save. PDA sales are relatively flat and if Apple wants to enter the market they could license Symbian or develop their own smartphone OS.
I agree that phones will eventually own the music player market, and probably even the P&S camera market also. Apple would be foolish not to evaluate its choices, but I would choose a platform that is more focused than Palm on smartphones over PDAs.
The phone market is super-intense and super-competitive, especially for global competition. Once 3G rolls out, the market should probably consolidate some as one network standard will prevent as much fragmentation, so it is a bit early to enter the market.
Yeah, but my basic point is that it is not like it doesn't turn off some players. It is somewhat unfortunate that horny little teenagers buoy sales for games they probably don't play for very long. I would suggest that we don't call those products such as DOA: EBV games, but instead T&A digital animations, as that is the basis of their sales...
Men don't mind playing a realistic girl, they would just rather play a sex object.
I don't know how true that is though. One example I could think of easily is Taki from Soul Blade who apparently underwent some kind of massive breast enhancement before Soul Calibur. It was obscene, out of character for a "ninja" type character and frankly turned me off from the entire game. I am male, straight, but frankly I liked that she was lean and mean.
Also, who doesn't think that the bouncing breasts of DOA really ended up distracting people from the relatively sophisticated counter system and other innovations? Every review spent about an equal amount of time on each.
Now if they are advocating that people in games should reflect the American populace, that just isn't going to happen. After living in Japan, you realize how fat Americans really are, and that frankly, as much as people might want to blame something else, it really is their own faults. Japanese game designers put thin women in the games because that is what Japan is full of.
Well, in all honesty you get what you put in, and in the collective educational experience of college nowadays, that means the lowest common denominator.
In law school we mostly use IM to talk to one another. Sadly enough we are usually (50%) discussing the course material at what I think is a higher level than the general class discussion. The other 50% of the time is, of course, unrelenting mockery...
Of course it is distracting, but frankly class can be pretty brutal without distraction and the interesting and tough classes leave no time for goofing around.
Judging people by their clothes is part of socialization. You may not like it but it is not like skin or hair color at all. You do have a choice on how you present yourself. I really couldn't care whether you were a transexual as long as you were neatly turned out in either sexes' clothing.
While we may all laugh at conformity, conformity does show a willingness to compromise to some sort of mean of appearance (albeit a lowest common denominator style). Typically it also reflects how self-centered versus socialized they are. A person who insists on dressing flamboyantly or too stylishly is typically perceived as a narcissist, just as the sloven person is seen as being lazy or inept or not a good social worker.
My point is that this is not a game you can win nor is it a game you can choose not to participate in without consequences. Just don't complain that nobody told you....
There is a lot of debate that says productivity is better when people are dressed appropriately. Also some of the dress is to create a distinction between the home environment where you can sit around and eat snacks all day and the work environment where you are being paid for your time.
And frankly, don't bitch about your pay when you don't look the part. If you don't want to play the social games, then you get what you deserve from those who bother to. It is just like being popular in school, it takes huge resources and investment and those who don't play don't get a free pay off...
So instead of a time shift you are going to have remember what working hours are in other locations instead. This saves you exactly what? What someone needs to do is create an interactive calendar where you put something on a schedule and everyone sees as it being tentative and is free to suggest alternate times. Of wait a minute, Outlook does that...
Yeah, and if you bought a company without knowing the industry inside and out, including who the talent is... well, i guess you will get what you deserve.
> Just compare Montana and New Jersey, or Upstate NY and NYC. Lights = crime.
Well, that is one well-thought out argument. I am sure you were very successful in fighting for less light also.
Basically he went to some grade-inflated little nursery school his whole life and then discovered that he had no skills to survive in a real school. Big shock there.
The real problem is that his high-school was not tough enough. He should have properly found out that he wasn't the genius he thought he was in junior high and high school and been steered away.
I guaranty those courses aren't as tough as he thought they were, it is not as if foreign engineers have it easier. They have it tougher from the beginning so they self-select.
It is sad that they have to support a government that is increasingly authoritarian, that supports our enemies (or soon to be enemies) and violates nuclear non-proliferation. We couldn't buy a Japanese launch vehicle instead? We couldn't insist that they cease aiding Iran as a condition of buying billions of dollars of space equipment?
That's okay, we all need clerks at the grocery line too...
But seriously, education is not about what is practical. That is called trade school and is for people with no ambition or desire for real eduction. We may as well start teaching people to their assigned roles early then.
School is about finding out what you like. That means that art and english and math and science are all important. That also means trig is also important. However, if there is a way to bring trig to fit in with the rest of math instead of being confined to the last quarter or Algebra II or wherever they teach it nowadays, then that is good.
What makes your comment more ridiculous is that trig is one of the few things in school that has very tangible and usable results.
OCR could be cool if someone did it right. Embed coding right into the font so that the scanner can tell exactly what all the formatting is. For example, the beginning of a paragraph that might start: "Four score and seven...", The "F" character might have subtle coding to indicate paragraph indent and new line. This would lead to more seamless scanning and digital document production and transfers.
Yet nobody does this, should be possible with a scriptable font language like OpenType.
While I do think their search algorithm is slowly getting hacked and more link farms are popping up, it seems obvious the plays they are making:
personal location based services.
Repeat after me...
personal location based services.
Google Maps, the other purchases, google weather and tracking. All this stuff feeds into some sort of local play for the cell-phone/gps space. Maybe car nav systems as well. Ubiquity.
There is still a lot of things that can be done with information for management if they want to. They could create a directory system similar to Yahoo. They could let you further customize the news and other stuff you receive.
Frankly if they are going into music distribution they are going to have to beat Sonos which has a great product that is near perfect as well. SliMP3 open-source snobs may scoff at the closed nature and its limitations, but frankly it is a superior device at this point in time.
I think there are plenty of choices out there already in both markets and frankly you have to be damn innovative and aggressive to come out with something truly powerful and compelling.
Of course they could just increase pay. That might help. Plus teaching kids about intelligent design "science" is going to hurt our national defense posture....
I think research could be done in a collaborative/open-source model of posting articles with commentary following. The hard parts are making sure the posts are real and not made up and ensuring adequate review prior to publication, but the sites could be set up to have wiki's editable by peer review faculty and comments open to the general scientific community.
With the relatively high fixed costs of chip fabs and the low start-ups for software India will lose out as Chinese appropriate software know-how and the Indians will not have quite the same capability to take hardware knowledge. If this deal actually happens, 15 years from now India will get the shaft as Chinese programmers replace them and India will lack the hardware infrastructure to compete.
Only a real alternative if you are in the Bay area. Frankly, the turnaround time is far too long on the East Coast. This speaking as someone who stuck with Greencine for as long as I could stand it.
I fully agree, removing links from comments from search engines is a distortion. If there is a topic of interest and people follow it with links to their own blogs or other sites, certainly those sites are being referenced and should be included in ranking.
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I am all for this kind of stuff. Let the system suffocate enough that corporations finally realise that the patent system only helps lawyers as is. Then we will see reform. When you see legal fees outstrip R&D revenues, then things will change and not until then. Plus every patent war like this is another call to use open-source.
That would be stupid purchase. Palm is a loser company with barely anything to save. PDA sales are relatively flat and if Apple wants to enter the market they could license Symbian or develop their own smartphone OS.
I agree that phones will eventually own the music player market, and probably even the P&S camera market also. Apple would be foolish not to evaluate its choices, but I would choose a platform that is more focused than Palm on smartphones over PDAs.
The phone market is super-intense and super-competitive, especially for global competition. Once 3G rolls out, the market should probably consolidate some as one network standard will prevent as much fragmentation, so it is a bit early to enter the market.
Yeah, but my basic point is that it is not like it doesn't turn off some players. It is somewhat unfortunate that horny little teenagers buoy sales for games they probably don't play for very long. I would suggest that we don't call those products such as DOA: EBV games, but instead T&A digital animations, as that is the basis of their sales...
Men don't mind playing a realistic girl, they would just rather play a sex object. I don't know how true that is though. One example I could think of easily is Taki from Soul Blade who apparently underwent some kind of massive breast enhancement before Soul Calibur. It was obscene, out of character for a "ninja" type character and frankly turned me off from the entire game. I am male, straight, but frankly I liked that she was lean and mean. Also, who doesn't think that the bouncing breasts of DOA really ended up distracting people from the relatively sophisticated counter system and other innovations? Every review spent about an equal amount of time on each. Now if they are advocating that people in games should reflect the American populace, that just isn't going to happen. After living in Japan, you realize how fat Americans really are, and that frankly, as much as people might want to blame something else, it really is their own faults. Japanese game designers put thin women in the games because that is what Japan is full of.
Well, in all honesty you get what you put in, and in the collective educational experience of college nowadays, that means the lowest common denominator. In law school we mostly use IM to talk to one another. Sadly enough we are usually (50%) discussing the course material at what I think is a higher level than the general class discussion. The other 50% of the time is, of course, unrelenting mockery... Of course it is distracting, but frankly class can be pretty brutal without distraction and the interesting and tough classes leave no time for goofing around.
Judging people by their clothes is part of socialization. You may not like it but it is not like skin or hair color at all. You do have a choice on how you present yourself. I really couldn't care whether you were a transexual as long as you were neatly turned out in either sexes' clothing. While we may all laugh at conformity, conformity does show a willingness to compromise to some sort of mean of appearance (albeit a lowest common denominator style). Typically it also reflects how self-centered versus socialized they are. A person who insists on dressing flamboyantly or too stylishly is typically perceived as a narcissist, just as the sloven person is seen as being lazy or inept or not a good social worker. My point is that this is not a game you can win nor is it a game you can choose not to participate in without consequences. Just don't complain that nobody told you....
There is a lot of debate that says productivity is better when people are dressed appropriately. Also some of the dress is to create a distinction between the home environment where you can sit around and eat snacks all day and the work environment where you are being paid for your time. And frankly, don't bitch about your pay when you don't look the part. If you don't want to play the social games, then you get what you deserve from those who bother to. It is just like being popular in school, it takes huge resources and investment and those who don't play don't get a free pay off...
So instead of a time shift you are going to have remember what working hours are in other locations instead. This saves you exactly what? What someone needs to do is create an interactive calendar where you put something on a schedule and everyone sees as it being tentative and is free to suggest alternate times. Of wait a minute, Outlook does that...
Yeah, and if you bought a company without knowing the industry inside and out, including who the talent is... well, i guess you will get what you deserve.
> Just compare Montana and New Jersey, or Upstate NY and NYC. Lights = crime. Well, that is one well-thought out argument. I am sure you were very successful in fighting for less light also.
The Last Starfighter musical of course.
Frankly that shows your screening was insufficient. GIGO
Basically he went to some grade-inflated little nursery school his whole life and then discovered that he had no skills to survive in a real school. Big shock there. The real problem is that his high-school was not tough enough. He should have properly found out that he wasn't the genius he thought he was in junior high and high school and been steered away. I guaranty those courses aren't as tough as he thought they were, it is not as if foreign engineers have it easier. They have it tougher from the beginning so they self-select.
"years of credibility"??? WTF? If you don't know that you are wasting time when you are on slashdot, I truly fear for the world...
It is sad that they have to support a government that is increasingly authoritarian, that supports our enemies (or soon to be enemies) and violates nuclear non-proliferation. We couldn't buy a Japanese launch vehicle instead? We couldn't insist that they cease aiding Iran as a condition of buying billions of dollars of space equipment?
That's okay, we all need clerks at the grocery line too... But seriously, education is not about what is practical. That is called trade school and is for people with no ambition or desire for real eduction. We may as well start teaching people to their assigned roles early then. School is about finding out what you like. That means that art and english and math and science are all important. That also means trig is also important. However, if there is a way to bring trig to fit in with the rest of math instead of being confined to the last quarter or Algebra II or wherever they teach it nowadays, then that is good. What makes your comment more ridiculous is that trig is one of the few things in school that has very tangible and usable results.
I always preferred Nintendo systems to others, but frankly unless they get games like GTA and Lord of War, I am not going to buy one.
That being said, Mario Tennis rocks.
OCR could be cool if someone did it right. Embed coding right into the font so that the scanner can tell exactly what all the formatting is. For example, the beginning of a paragraph that might start: "Four score and seven...", The "F" character might have subtle coding to indicate paragraph indent and new line. This would lead to more seamless scanning and digital document production and transfers. Yet nobody does this, should be possible with a scriptable font language like OpenType.
While I do think their search algorithm is slowly getting hacked and more link farms are popping up, it seems obvious the plays they are making:
personal location based services.
Repeat after me...
personal location based services.
Google Maps, the other purchases, google weather and tracking. All this stuff feeds into some sort of local play for the cell-phone/gps space. Maybe car nav systems as well. Ubiquity.
There is still a lot of things that can be done with information for management if they want to. They could create a directory system similar to Yahoo. They could let you further customize the news and other stuff you receive.
Frankly if they are going into music distribution they are going to have to beat Sonos which has a great product that is near perfect as well. SliMP3 open-source snobs may scoff at the closed nature and its limitations, but frankly it is a superior device at this point in time. I think there are plenty of choices out there already in both markets and frankly you have to be damn innovative and aggressive to come out with something truly powerful and compelling.
Of course they could just increase pay. That might help. Plus teaching kids about intelligent design "science" is going to hurt our national defense posture....
I think research could be done in a collaborative/open-source model of posting articles with commentary following. The hard parts are making sure the posts are real and not made up and ensuring adequate review prior to publication, but the sites could be set up to have wiki's editable by peer review faculty and comments open to the general scientific community.
With the relatively high fixed costs of chip fabs and the low start-ups for software India will lose out as Chinese appropriate software know-how and the Indians will not have quite the same capability to take hardware knowledge. If this deal actually happens, 15 years from now India will get the shaft as Chinese programmers replace them and India will lack the hardware infrastructure to compete.
Only a real alternative if you are in the Bay area. Frankly, the turnaround time is far too long on the East Coast. This speaking as someone who stuck with Greencine for as long as I could stand it.
I fully agree, removing links from comments from search engines is a distortion. If there is a topic of interest and people follow it with links to their own blogs or other sites, certainly those sites are being referenced and should be included in ranking.