I really wish I could find this article again, but I remember reading a paper from a couple physicists that offered the possibility that the LHC wont let itself activate because of the risks to spacetime or some other quantum effects. They mentioned previous experiments that posed the same risks have never actually been successful. Damn, anyone know the report I'm talking about? I swear I'm not making it up;)
It never will. Publishers have too much invested and make too much money (along with retailers) selling games off the shelf. It will never go away or let digital distribution take over. Steam has been around how long? It hasn't made much of a dent especially when the console market is so huge.
What's wrong with Java? Sure I can't slap together a web 2.0 site in 1 day like I could with.net 3.0 or Ruby, but they can't enable a high availability transactional based middle ware system. Java has so many great uses beyond simple web apps, it will always have a place in the enterprise and mobile devices.
I was a die hard Kubuntu guy until I installed Hardy (Ubuntu) on a friend's laptop and wow, Gnome really impressed me with it's polish. KDE in Kubuntu seems so thrown together compared to Gnome. Makes sense too, Canonical only pays one Kubuntu developer, all their resources go to making polishing Gnome.
We're a relatively small software group in a massive global telecom, but in a remote office (luckily). Our corporate laptops are pretty much owned by IT, they load it, track it, audit it, etc. We also have development desktop boxes we can do whatever we want with, most put Linux on it and are completely self administered. The only real risk of this is that someone would abuse and compromise the network. Luckily we're all "nice" users, but I would imagine all it would take is one rogue user to blow our privileges and we'd be back to working on the corporate controlled hardware and software. The larger the group gets, the higher the probability gets that someone will abuse it.
Nice to know that these kind of advancements in robot technology aren't just happening in the universities, rather advancing pretty quickly in the private sector. Looks like there is definitely a market and that's good news for the rest of us who want access to this kind of technology.
Hmm, you got me there. However the basis of my point is still valid, China's trade and economic policies are still anti-American (and apparently anti-Canadian and probably anti-every other country).
We export countless manufacturing jobs and import enough to make Chine one of the top five largest and richest economies, and this is how they treat the United States? I'm not even mentioning the devaluing of their currency and impact that has on our economy (actually I guess I just did). I think our administration (US) needs to take a hard look at China's obvious anti-competitive, and one sided global trade policies.
"A nationwide survey conducted by Nielsen Entertainment/NRG in August of 2005 indicated that 81% of moviegoers who saw at least one movie in 2005 believed the experience was a good investment of their time and money, versus 15% who preferred to watch the movie on DVD and 4% who said they should have not seen the movie at all. "
I would have never expected 81% of people are happy with their movie going experience, and only 15% preferred DVD...
Hmm, I think it's the title of the post that throws people off and think you're on a personal rant... I understand your intention, but I can see why others might not. Consider changing it to something more like a "newsworthy" title?
Domain name collisions.
No one seems to be touching on the fact that creating an EU dropping out of the current system, will allow duplicate domains (though I doubt they would be that dumb as to allow it, but ya never know) in the US and EU... dividing the internet in two since using both US and EU root servers wouldn't work. Ugh, I can just imagine the copyright battles that would arise if the EU started their root servers clean of all existing ICANN controlled domains.
Looks like Lineage II and City of Heros will be launching on the same day. I cant imagine how anyone could launch two MMOGs in one day. Especially when Lineage II choked with the start of open beta.
I recently read an interview with the lead designer of the Lineage MMORPG series sees the future of online games headed. He mentions that the subscription based model needs to go away and be replaced by in-game advertising revenue (among other sources). Article can be found here. Warning: the article just briefly mentions this; it's mainly about the game itself.
I can't wait until I get my Nike chain mail boots.
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Found it! Interesting read: http://fqxi.org/community/forum/topic/230
I really wish I could find this article again, but I remember reading a paper from a couple physicists that offered the possibility that the LHC wont let itself activate because of the risks to spacetime or some other quantum effects. They mentioned previous experiments that posed the same risks have never actually been successful. Damn, anyone know the report I'm talking about? I swear I'm not making it up ;)
It never will. Publishers have too much invested and make too much money (along with retailers) selling games off the shelf. It will never go away or let digital distribution take over. Steam has been around how long? It hasn't made much of a dent especially when the console market is so huge.
I believe that would be called counter-intelligence. That's one of my favorite stories BTW.
but who would quit Google to work for Twitter???
What's wrong with Java? Sure I can't slap together a web 2.0 site in 1 day like I could with .net 3.0 or Ruby, but they can't enable a high availability transactional based middle ware system. Java has so many great uses beyond simple web apps, it will always have a place in the enterprise and mobile devices.
PayPal only became evil when eBay bought it... or maybe a little before. When it was founded it was actually really useful...
So all us guys who stayed with newsgroups as their source of copyrighted material are laughing now huh?
I was a die hard Kubuntu guy until I installed Hardy (Ubuntu) on a friend's laptop and wow, Gnome really impressed me with it's polish. KDE in Kubuntu seems so thrown together compared to Gnome. Makes sense too, Canonical only pays one Kubuntu developer, all their resources go to making polishing Gnome.
We're a relatively small software group in a massive global telecom, but in a remote office (luckily). Our corporate laptops are pretty much owned by IT, they load it, track it, audit it, etc. We also have development desktop boxes we can do whatever we want with, most put Linux on it and are completely self administered. The only real risk of this is that someone would abuse and compromise the network. Luckily we're all "nice" users, but I would imagine all it would take is one rogue user to blow our privileges and we'd be back to working on the corporate controlled hardware and software. The larger the group gets, the higher the probability gets that someone will abuse it.
Definitely my favorite slashdot april fools... that was two years ago right??
Nice to know that these kind of advancements in robot technology aren't just happening in the universities, rather advancing pretty quickly in the private sector. Looks like there is definitely a market and that's good news for the rest of us who want access to this kind of technology.
Talk about yer bad week... what else can go wrong for India this week? Ugh, and it's only Tuesday.
Hmm, you got me there. However the basis of my point is still valid, China's trade and economic policies are still anti-American (and apparently anti-Canadian and probably anti-every other country).
We export countless manufacturing jobs and import enough to make Chine one of the top five largest and richest economies, and this is how they treat the United States? I'm not even mentioning the devaluing of their currency and impact that has on our economy (actually I guess I just did). I think our administration (US) needs to take a hard look at China's obvious anti-competitive, and one sided global trade policies.
I love this quote:
"A nationwide survey conducted by Nielsen Entertainment/NRG in August of 2005 indicated that 81% of moviegoers who saw at least one movie in 2005 believed the experience was a good investment of their time and money, versus 15% who preferred to watch the movie on DVD and 4% who said they should have not seen the movie at all. "
I would have never expected 81% of people are happy with their movie going experience, and only 15% preferred DVD...
Hmm, I think it's the title of the post that throws people off and think you're on a personal rant... I understand your intention, but I can see why others might not. Consider changing it to something more like a "newsworthy" title?
Domain name collisions. No one seems to be touching on the fact that creating an EU dropping out of the current system, will allow duplicate domains (though I doubt they would be that dumb as to allow it, but ya never know) in the US and EU... dividing the internet in two since using both US and EU root servers wouldn't work. Ugh, I can just imagine the copyright battles that would arise if the EU started their root servers clean of all existing ICANN controlled domains.
I know it's probably just an un-filtered RSS feed in their Boing Boing portlet, but I thought it was rather funny that they haven't caught it yet.
Looks like Lineage II and City of Heros will be launching on the same day. I cant imagine how anyone could launch two MMOGs in one day. Especially when Lineage II choked with the start of open beta.
I can't wait until I get my Nike chain mail boots.