I can see it now. The "starving artist" that creates a video "masterpiece" sues Google since a return was expected that he never got. Take what I just said as you will, but in some shape or form it will probably happen.
There are a lot of backup solutions out there. But once you move into the realm of Windows Server, they tend to jack up the prices considerably for the same product just so it'll work on Windows Server. I did a lot of researching for an incremental backup system where I work that would give me flexibility with restore, native harddrive backup, and would be ideal for a few hundred gigabytes of dynamic drive space all the employees work off from (like 15 shared folders on it). But I didn't find anything that great (NTBackup's lack of scripted restores and crappy incremental restore over a period of time got on my nerves). I ended up going with a Linux server running Backuppc.... Hated to do it (nothing else is Linux in the building), but it was either that or pay $500+ for something decent.
I'm willing to bet many of the players from that study (assuming it was done on site at U of R) were from Rochester Institute of Technology considering it's the third biggest online game college in the US, and a 15 minute drive away.
Ditto to that. I've toyed around with it, and the insides are painful to work with when I'm used to Linux (not to mention the vague hardware support). I'll still have to see if I can get everything I want on it working. If I can, I will switch. If not, I'll probably wait.
I will be soon converting my Linux server to Solaris just for ZFS. Although ZFS may not terribly useful on a normal desktop, on a server, it's very powerful.... The idea of parity data actually being used actively to ensure data isn't corrupted is brilliant imho. So is the idea of on-the-fly recovery (I remember a video of some guy writing 30 megs of junk to a partition using dd, ZFS detecting it, and repairing it). *ends rant since all this can be read up about online*
Although this must have been said and my computer and/or slashdot is just glitching out, Goldeneye. If it's non-networked, Goldeneye has got to be the game I've spent by far the most time playing with friends/siblings.
Anyone have any idea what editions this involves? I'm not sure if the consumer one is delayed so they have more time to churn out discs for distribution, or if they needed more time to work on some of the features in the consumer editions.
I'm currently on my 4th out of 5 years earning a CS degree at a private university (5 years including a year's worth of on-the-job work scattered throughout the last few years). And all I can say is just get an SE degree. Statistically, very very very few CS majors actually do CS jobs (The listing of jobs with the best outlook backed that up). I recall reading percentages of less then 100,000 CS jobs exist in the nation, and millions of SE jobs. The thing is, CS is at it's core a real mathematical science. The science of algorithms, the creation of compilers and new languages... A very narrow field that you have to excel in to actually get anywhere in.... I know I'll be doing an SE job in the end probably, and so will most others. I have also been fortunate with the cooperative education and have been able to learn that, and can take more SE courses related to development to pad my resume with useful knowledge.
Do investors really need these common-sense announcments? "Sony will loose share due to battery problems", "Apple shares fall after stock investigation", "Company X is expected to have a rise in profits due to release of product Y"......... Why? Maybe I just don't understand the stock market, but I've never seen why these things need to be said.... If you research the company you are investing in, you can usually find out all this stuff your self within a reasonable amount of time. it sounds to me like they are just trying to openly place blame on the regulatory committees instead of their own production problems....
When I worked at the processing center of a bank, there was one big rule: cash slips (internal documents with no personal info on them that only represent money put into or taken out of vaults) can go in trash, everything else in shred box..... Stupid banks.....
Although it wasn't many people, so it probably won't happen, this sounds like a perfect lawsuit. Like a computer version to having pieces of glass in your food...... Sounds like it could be won if damages occurred. Apple is lucky it wasn't worse, or this could have become a legal problem for them.
When I got my Mac, the control panel and features gave me no problem whatsoever. Very neatly organized, common-sense names..... But when I tried Vista last, the control panel was terrible... Different then XP, but by no means more user friendly. Might have changed since when I tried it (Beta 2 or Pre-RC1), but doubtful....
I'm a network admin at the moment, and get an ISA report sent to my inbox every day reporting employee computer usage. I usually glance over it and see if there has been any significant use of bandwidth to a non-business website. If I notice unusual use of bandwidth to a site that isn't for business, I'll tell the employee I know what they have been doing, and that the company president may too (since he gets the reports also). Maybe your team could do similar. Cram all those ISA reports down the manager's throats and see if they actually go through them every day;I'm betting after a while they wouldn't. At least in my case, they are semi-cryptic to the non computer-guy, and require a little bit more research to go as far as identifying the individual. I understand the need for monitoring, but unless they are found to be downloading illegal files or doing a significant amount of non-work browsing, I just assume it's probably just a lunch break or a small 5 minute break to relax the mind for a bit.
If they are going through this much trouble, couldn't they eventually be able to "grow beef" in a lab? Who needs the whole cow. My meat doesn't need a soul. Would get my vegetarian g/f off my back about eating "cute animals".....
Sure, it will eventually be gotten around, but it will probably require shady imported DVD players, a firmware update, or additional hardware for when you make the disc. Although they are a bit late. With Blu-Ray and HD-DVD already out the door, it would be _BAD_ to implement it and piss off customers who already have a device. Maybe next gen though.
People don't wait till the next system to play games right now. They buy the next system to play the next games. EA's slump: A product of a stale market of games. I've never heard of anyone saying "This game sounds fun, but I'd rather not play any games for a year and wait till the PS3 comes out to play games".
Much likes screwing around with nuclear weapons, it only takes one mistake to completely blow yourself up. I have my doubts this is 100% harmless (as nothing ever is), and after a couple dozen ebryos that don't develop or children that are severely handycapped, this will probably get shot down.....
The main thing they cause is a need to spend a considerable amount of money on multiple consoles. SNES and Genesis were roughly the same in games they offered (roughly, SNES had better hardware and better RPGs, but they were very similar). But to say n64 and PSOne offered the same kinds of games is blasphemy. Even with Gamecube/XBox/PS2, we are seeing major differences for the different kinds of games (Let's see... PS2 for my RPGs... XBox for my online FPS.... Gamecube for my..... family-friendly fun). And console prices are not going down. By the time it's reasonable for your typical gamer to own all three consoles of a generation price-wise, the interest has been lost due to upcoming new console launches. And I'd rather spend $75 for three extra controllers for a single console then $300 for extra controllers for all three. It adds up.
I faced/am facing a similar problem. It sounds like you want a fancy doo-dad that can do everything from the palm of your hand. I recommend a decent laptop and a feature-rich cell phone. I got a laptop a year ago, and have found my need for a PDA to decline (I have an older Palm, but now never use it). I was thinking about getting a new Palm, but have decided against it, because there are a number of decent cell-phones out there with near-PDA functionality (minus the touchscreen) in a smaller package (I'm not talking those large PDA/Cell-phone hybrids, I'm talking about something like a sidekick). Although you may have little use for a cellphone if you're a socially inept slashdotter, which is part of why I haven't completed my plan yet (that, and money). And Palm's usage of Windows Mobile on future Treo phones makes me doubt Palm OS will be supported anywhere near as much as it used to be.
I think there comes a point when a company's product gets big enough so that trademarks over names should be dropped, or at least loosened. Bandaid, kleenix, "pod", PC (IBM coined it I believe, I'm surprised they never got a copyright on it), Google, walkman....... These are all brands that have exploded to be the defacto-standard for naming what you are talking about other then a technical definition of what it is.... I understand in some cases (if a brain-dead consumer wants an iPod and sees an AwesomePod ripoff, he'll probably get the AwesomePod), but many of these are just plain stupid....
Can you imagine using that remove on any TV smaller then 32 in sitting right in front of it? I mean, Wii's remote is a _great_ idea, but I'm not so sure the world is ready for it. With few living rooms having a 50+ inch TV (and I wouldn't be surprised if as HDTV rolls in, that will still be somewhat uncommon), I don't think it'll make for a great playing experience. And sitting 10 feet from a 50" would make it kind of small for a pointing device if a game needs precision..... Although I've never used it..... Maybe it'll work out well.... But I don't think it'll be all that great for my 23".
I would love to have another bubble form in the technology sector in some ways, but I'd also rather one not since it's just that, a bubble. These investigations might prevent over-saturation of employees in a given field by preventing companies from hiring left and right because they _think_ they can afford it, giving a more realistic outlook to people planning on going into a certain career (I for one would hate to have been one of the people who payed $30k/yr to go to a private tech school, end up with a lot of debt, and all of a sudden be unable to find a job graduating right after the bubble hit).
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I can see it now. The "starving artist" that creates a video "masterpiece" sues Google since a return was expected that he never got. Take what I just said as you will, but in some shape or form it will probably happen.
There are a lot of backup solutions out there. But once you move into the realm of Windows Server, they tend to jack up the prices considerably for the same product just so it'll work on Windows Server. I did a lot of researching for an incremental backup system where I work that would give me flexibility with restore, native harddrive backup, and would be ideal for a few hundred gigabytes of dynamic drive space all the employees work off from (like 15 shared folders on it). But I didn't find anything that great (NTBackup's lack of scripted restores and crappy incremental restore over a period of time got on my nerves). I ended up going with a Linux server running Backuppc.... Hated to do it (nothing else is Linux in the building), but it was either that or pay $500+ for something decent.
I'm willing to bet many of the players from that study (assuming it was done on site at U of R) were from Rochester Institute of Technology considering it's the third biggest online game college in the US, and a 15 minute drive away.
Ditto to that. I've toyed around with it, and the insides are painful to work with when I'm used to Linux (not to mention the vague hardware support). I'll still have to see if I can get everything I want on it working. If I can, I will switch. If not, I'll probably wait.
I will be soon converting my Linux server to Solaris just for ZFS. Although ZFS may not terribly useful on a normal desktop, on a server, it's very powerful.... The idea of parity data actually being used actively to ensure data isn't corrupted is brilliant imho. So is the idea of on-the-fly recovery (I remember a video of some guy writing 30 megs of junk to a partition using dd, ZFS detecting it, and repairing it). *ends rant since all this can be read up about online*
Current gen games are 3D. Last gen games were 2D. It's obvious where the future is heading.
Although this must have been said and my computer and/or slashdot is just glitching out, Goldeneye. If it's non-networked, Goldeneye has got to be the game I've spent by far the most time playing with friends/siblings.
Anyone have any idea what editions this involves? I'm not sure if the consumer one is delayed so they have more time to churn out discs for distribution, or if they needed more time to work on some of the features in the consumer editions.
I'm currently on my 4th out of 5 years earning a CS degree at a private university (5 years including a year's worth of on-the-job work scattered throughout the last few years). And all I can say is just get an SE degree. Statistically, very very very few CS majors actually do CS jobs (The listing of jobs with the best outlook backed that up). I recall reading percentages of less then 100,000 CS jobs exist in the nation, and millions of SE jobs. The thing is, CS is at it's core a real mathematical science. The science of algorithms, the creation of compilers and new languages... A very narrow field that you have to excel in to actually get anywhere in.... I know I'll be doing an SE job in the end probably, and so will most others. I have also been fortunate with the cooperative education and have been able to learn that, and can take more SE courses related to development to pad my resume with useful knowledge.
Do investors really need these common-sense announcments? "Sony will loose share due to battery problems", "Apple shares fall after stock investigation", "Company X is expected to have a rise in profits due to release of product Y"......... Why? Maybe I just don't understand the stock market, but I've never seen why these things need to be said.... If you research the company you are investing in, you can usually find out all this stuff your self within a reasonable amount of time. it sounds to me like they are just trying to openly place blame on the regulatory committees instead of their own production problems....
When I worked at the processing center of a bank, there was one big rule: cash slips (internal documents with no personal info on them that only represent money put into or taken out of vaults) can go in trash, everything else in shred box..... Stupid banks.....
Although it wasn't many people, so it probably won't happen, this sounds like a perfect lawsuit. Like a computer version to having pieces of glass in your food...... Sounds like it could be won if damages occurred. Apple is lucky it wasn't worse, or this could have become a legal problem for them.
When I got my Mac, the control panel and features gave me no problem whatsoever. Very neatly organized, common-sense names..... But when I tried Vista last, the control panel was terrible... Different then XP, but by no means more user friendly. Might have changed since when I tried it (Beta 2 or Pre-RC1), but doubtful....
I'm a network admin at the moment, and get an ISA report sent to my inbox every day reporting employee computer usage. I usually glance over it and see if there has been any significant use of bandwidth to a non-business website. If I notice unusual use of bandwidth to a site that isn't for business, I'll tell the employee I know what they have been doing, and that the company president may too (since he gets the reports also). Maybe your team could do similar. Cram all those ISA reports down the manager's throats and see if they actually go through them every day;I'm betting after a while they wouldn't. At least in my case, they are semi-cryptic to the non computer-guy, and require a little bit more research to go as far as identifying the individual. I understand the need for monitoring, but unless they are found to be downloading illegal files or doing a significant amount of non-work browsing, I just assume it's probably just a lunch break or a small 5 minute break to relax the mind for a bit.
If they are going through this much trouble, couldn't they eventually be able to "grow beef" in a lab? Who needs the whole cow. My meat doesn't need a soul. Would get my vegetarian g/f off my back about eating "cute animals".....
He wouldn't have gotten so bored if he had choosen a game that wasn't the nth incarnation of the 3rd person genre.
Sure, it will eventually be gotten around, but it will probably require shady imported DVD players, a firmware update, or additional hardware for when you make the disc. Although they are a bit late. With Blu-Ray and HD-DVD already out the door, it would be _BAD_ to implement it and piss off customers who already have a device. Maybe next gen though.
People don't wait till the next system to play games right now. They buy the next system to play the next games. EA's slump: A product of a stale market of games. I've never heard of anyone saying "This game sounds fun, but I'd rather not play any games for a year and wait till the PS3 comes out to play games".
Much likes screwing around with nuclear weapons, it only takes one mistake to completely blow yourself up. I have my doubts this is 100% harmless (as nothing ever is), and after a couple dozen ebryos that don't develop or children that are severely handycapped, this will probably get shot down.....
The main thing they cause is a need to spend a considerable amount of money on multiple consoles. SNES and Genesis were roughly the same in games they offered (roughly, SNES had better hardware and better RPGs, but they were very similar). But to say n64 and PSOne offered the same kinds of games is blasphemy. Even with Gamecube/XBox/PS2, we are seeing major differences for the different kinds of games (Let's see... PS2 for my RPGs... XBox for my online FPS.... Gamecube for my..... family-friendly fun). And console prices are not going down. By the time it's reasonable for your typical gamer to own all three consoles of a generation price-wise, the interest has been lost due to upcoming new console launches. And I'd rather spend $75 for three extra controllers for a single console then $300 for extra controllers for all three. It adds up.
I faced/am facing a similar problem. It sounds like you want a fancy doo-dad that can do everything from the palm of your hand. I recommend a decent laptop and a feature-rich cell phone. I got a laptop a year ago, and have found my need for a PDA to decline (I have an older Palm, but now never use it). I was thinking about getting a new Palm, but have decided against it, because there are a number of decent cell-phones out there with near-PDA functionality (minus the touchscreen) in a smaller package (I'm not talking those large PDA/Cell-phone hybrids, I'm talking about something like a sidekick). Although you may have little use for a cellphone if you're a socially inept slashdotter, which is part of why I haven't completed my plan yet (that, and money). And Palm's usage of Windows Mobile on future Treo phones makes me doubt Palm OS will be supported anywhere near as much as it used to be.
And it is also thought (or was in the past) that the Royal family of Japan are descendents of Amaterasu
I think there comes a point when a company's product gets big enough so that trademarks over names should be dropped, or at least loosened. Bandaid, kleenix, "pod", PC (IBM coined it I believe, I'm surprised they never got a copyright on it), Google, walkman....... These are all brands that have exploded to be the defacto-standard for naming what you are talking about other then a technical definition of what it is.... I understand in some cases (if a brain-dead consumer wants an iPod and sees an AwesomePod ripoff, he'll probably get the AwesomePod), but many of these are just plain stupid....
Can you imagine using that remove on any TV smaller then 32 in sitting right in front of it? I mean, Wii's remote is a _great_ idea, but I'm not so sure the world is ready for it. With few living rooms having a 50+ inch TV (and I wouldn't be surprised if as HDTV rolls in, that will still be somewhat uncommon), I don't think it'll make for a great playing experience. And sitting 10 feet from a 50" would make it kind of small for a pointing device if a game needs precision..... Although I've never used it..... Maybe it'll work out well.... But I don't think it'll be all that great for my 23".
I would love to have another bubble form in the technology sector in some ways, but I'd also rather one not since it's just that, a bubble. These investigations might prevent over-saturation of employees in a given field by preventing companies from hiring left and right because they _think_ they can afford it, giving a more realistic outlook to people planning on going into a certain career (I for one would hate to have been one of the people who payed $30k/yr to go to a private tech school, end up with a lot of debt, and all of a sudden be unable to find a job graduating right after the bubble hit).