I have to say that the match making service in mario kart is terrible. Too many times I end up getting destroyed by someone much, much better than me (With three stars next to their name). The players who look like that would be alright to play against drop out too often and it is only possible to play against 3 other people. There is still a long way to go before it can be called a 'great' service, but it is at least a start.
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It is pretty stupid for Warhammer Online to even be considered. Warhammer 40000 is about twice as popular as Warhammer, and will not be a direct, very similar competitor to the most successful MMORPG in the history of Earth. It is rumoured that Blizzard even tried to do a deal with Games Workshop to get Warhammer IP for Warcraft, but were declined as GW thought they could do it themselves. Blizzard now make more money from WoW in a month than GW make per year (in turnover, by profits it is an even more ridiculous diffence). GW are known for fairly terrible management and until it is changed or updated they deserve what they get. The best example is the fact that they conduct almost NO market research at all, claiming it is alright not to worry since they are a niche market (and they even state this on their investor relations pages!)
How do you determine a 'capable employee' and shouldn't those be the only kind you hire anyway?
Well since Einstein worked at the swiss patent office, perhaps they should ask about the potential employee's theory of relativity (or even their unified field theory). That will sort the wheat from the chaff!
BitTorrent as a basic client will never be truely anonymous by virtue of the technology involved. Only by using private VPNs (like The pirate party one or by using additional software higher up the network stack like
Tor can basic anonymity be enabled.
A moderation system? Using the 'file' magic to determine and block file types? Virus detection software? Dedicated team of administrators?
I dont think there is a silver bullet answer, but a combination of the above would be fairly effective.
This makes me wonder about the benefits of something like this compared to a reprogrammable FPGA board. Surely that would be more beneficial as it can reconfigure itself on demand with simple software updates, and yet still offers the benefits of hardware calculation for common, logical problems like SSL encryption (as well as reduced latency).
What's such a dumb article so wrong about what an OS is doing in _OS Weekly_?
OSs are boring, yet they thought it would be a good idea to have a 'weekly?' magazine for them, and they need to attract people by branching out of OSes with poorly planned articles? Perhaps they just ran out of stuff to say.
"So honey, this is where I work, and here is the automated assistant bot"
"*beep* Here is some monkey-on-chimp pornography which you appear to read alone every tuesday at 10.00. I hope I was able to assist"
"er..."
They are coming sooner rather than later. Should be interesting to build up large maps using timestamps and GPS locations to map out holidays. There have been a few times when I have gone on day long tours and been driven all over the place only to forget a few placenames and have to spend quite a lot of time figuring out where I went on maps. GPS photos would certainly make that a lot easier. I imagine that camera phones will be some of the first to integrate it since GPS is in demand on them and the camera functionality is getting better all the time.
I'll remind you that there was almost 3 years between Woody and Sarge.
Back when Woody was new, there were masses of Debian users everywhere, but in the 3 years between releases I saw that number dwindle down as Ubuntu and Gentoo rose to power. Does anyone have some actual statistics (or know where to find them) showing the change? Distrowatch shows that Debian has fallen from #7 to #9 but only shows the last 12 months. Does anyone think that Debian can return to it's former glory or has it been crushed by the distributions with a more friendly reputation like Ubuntu and SUSE?
Not to mention the multiple bastard cards that have the EXACT same manufacturer part number, but do not have consistent internals, often featuring different chipsets. This is especially true on USB 802.11 adaptors (I'm looking at you Netgear WG111).
At least Tesla is fairly well known now. Although the average man in the street could not name him but could name Edison. Perhaps if the Tesla movie is popular things will change. Eventually, with time, the most significant people will always become known in my opinion, as people digging for background information on subjects will eventually go through original papers and learn more. Only for very old works, where eveidence has been hidden or destroyed will this obviously not be possible, but there is always the chance that some evidence escapes.
This is spot on correct. There have been far too many occasions where companies get so rushed to deliver they bring in outside help but do not bother getting full documentation sorted out as they did not have enough manpower to begin with, and they then move the outside help on to other projects without getting the sufficient docmentation written, potentially leaving the system in a state which is unknown to the actual employees and will require more input from the outside help if modification is required in the future.
Certainly there are many good ways to outsource immediate projects but as an earlier poster pointed out, the companies that will benefit most are the companies which are set up the best (sufficient management resources, not taking on too much at a time, etc.) in which there is a single out-of-the-ordinary demand which requires additional support. We had one such project one time for which we brought in 2 outside consultants and had great results, getting the project delivered on time and on budget. The consultants were not kept on past the project and were never needed again.
At least nowadays we have gamefaqs to save money on overpriced gaming guides. Although most games are more fun without gaming guides, every now and then there is one puzzle in a game where something has been missed along the way and a little help is needed. I find gaming guides most useful if I play a game for a little while, then dont play it for a few months and cannot remember some of the smaller details needed to get past puzzles once I pick the game up again.
No, it's because the ARE forward-thinking. Why would they do anything on purpose to cut into their revenue stream? All that can happen is that they lose money, short-term and long-term...
This is half true. There is a lot to be gained for them in city areas where there is a lot of GPRS/GSM congestion as instead of needing to put up more towers in expensive areas with expensive fees, they can give vastly increased bandwidth through wifi points in key locations. This opens up a more stable connection for all, and allows more data services through, allowing more features and functionality on the phone with which they can then rip you off in some new, exciting way.
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I doubt it, a few people actually bought E.T.!
I have to say that the match making service in mario kart is terrible. Too many times I end up getting destroyed by someone much, much better than me (With three stars next to their name). The players who look like that would be alright to play against drop out too often and it is only possible to play against 3 other people. There is still a long way to go before it can be called a 'great' service, but it is at least a start.
Ah crap, my Trek-fu is weak. I am more into NG anyway :P
In real money:
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That's a lot of gold arrrrrr.
It is pretty stupid for Warhammer Online to even be considered. Warhammer 40000 is about twice as popular as Warhammer, and will not be a direct, very similar competitor to the most successful MMORPG in the history of Earth. It is rumoured that Blizzard even tried to do a deal with Games Workshop to get Warhammer IP for Warcraft, but were declined as GW thought they could do it themselves. Blizzard now make more money from WoW in a month than GW make per year (in turnover, by profits it is an even more ridiculous diffence). GW are known for fairly terrible management and until it is changed or updated they deserve what they get. The best example is the fact that they conduct almost NO market research at all, claiming it is alright not to worry since they are a niche market (and they even state this on their investor relations pages!)
oops you are of course correct. Seems I was actually standing on my head when I wrote the grandparent post.
Cool, now I can hear KHAAAAAAANNNNN!!!! in glorious 5.1 surround sound.
Well since Einstein worked at the swiss patent office, perhaps they should ask about the potential employee's theory of relativity (or even their unified field theory). That will sort the wheat from the chaff!
Or lower down the network stack if you are not standing on your head
BitTorrent as a basic client will never be truely anonymous by virtue of the technology involved. Only by using private VPNs (like The pirate party one or by using additional software higher up the network stack like Tor can basic anonymity be enabled.
A moderation system? Using the 'file' magic to determine and block file types? Virus detection software? Dedicated team of administrators?
I dont think there is a silver bullet answer, but a combination of the above would be fairly effective.
This makes me wonder about the benefits of something like this compared to a reprogrammable FPGA board. Surely that would be more beneficial as it can reconfigure itself on demand with simple software updates, and yet still offers the benefits of hardware calculation for common, logical problems like SSL encryption (as well as reduced latency).
OSs are boring, yet they thought it would be a good idea to have a 'weekly?' magazine for them, and they need to attract people by branching out of OSes with poorly planned articles? Perhaps they just ran out of stuff to say.
"So honey, this is where I work, and here is the automated assistant bot"
"*beep* Here is some monkey-on-chimp pornography which you appear to read alone every tuesday at 10.00. I hope I was able to assist"
"er..."
They are coming sooner rather than later. Should be interesting to build up large maps using timestamps and GPS locations to map out holidays. There have been a few times when I have gone on day long tours and been driven all over the place only to forget a few placenames and have to spend quite a lot of time figuring out where I went on maps. GPS photos would certainly make that a lot easier. I imagine that camera phones will be some of the first to integrate it since GPS is in demand on them and the camera functionality is getting better all the time.
Back when Woody was new, there were masses of Debian users everywhere, but in the 3 years between releases I saw that number dwindle down as Ubuntu and Gentoo rose to power. Does anyone have some actual statistics (or know where to find them) showing the change? Distrowatch shows that Debian has fallen from #7 to #9 but only shows the last 12 months. Does anyone think that Debian can return to it's former glory or has it been crushed by the distributions with a more friendly reputation like Ubuntu and SUSE?
Not to mention the multiple bastard cards that have the EXACT same manufacturer part number, but do not have consistent internals, often featuring different chipsets. This is especially true on USB 802.11 adaptors (I'm looking at you Netgear WG111).
Yeah, but asteroids will look AMAZING!
At least Tesla is fairly well known now. Although the average man in the street could not name him but could name Edison. Perhaps if the Tesla movie is popular things will change. Eventually, with time, the most significant people will always become known in my opinion, as people digging for background information on subjects will eventually go through original papers and learn more. Only for very old works, where eveidence has been hidden or destroyed will this obviously not be possible, but there is always the chance that some evidence escapes.
This is spot on correct. There have been far too many occasions where companies get so rushed to deliver they bring in outside help but do not bother getting full documentation sorted out as they did not have enough manpower to begin with, and they then move the outside help on to other projects without getting the sufficient docmentation written, potentially leaving the system in a state which is unknown to the actual employees and will require more input from the outside help if modification is required in the future.
Certainly there are many good ways to outsource immediate projects but as an earlier poster pointed out, the companies that will benefit most are the companies which are set up the best (sufficient management resources, not taking on too much at a time, etc.) in which there is a single out-of-the-ordinary demand which requires additional support. We had one such project one time for which we brought in 2 outside consultants and had great results, getting the project delivered on time and on budget. The consultants were not kept on past the project and were never needed again.
At least nowadays we have gamefaqs to save money on overpriced gaming guides. Although most games are more fun without gaming guides, every now and then there is one puzzle in a game where something has been missed along the way and a little help is needed. I find gaming guides most useful if I play a game for a little while, then dont play it for a few months and cannot remember some of the smaller details needed to get past puzzles once I pick the game up again.
This is half true. There is a lot to be gained for them in city areas where there is a lot of GPRS/GSM congestion as instead of needing to put up more towers in expensive areas with expensive fees, they can give vastly increased bandwidth through wifi points in key locations. This opens up a more stable connection for all, and allows more data services through, allowing more features and functionality on the phone with which they can then rip you off in some new, exciting way.
A paypal button on their website of course!
So what are some of the better mashups out there? The sex offenders one and the gas prices one are both quite cool. What other decent ones are there?