I love the Sierra strategy games. It always seems that their games come out and within two months the price has dropped to $10-$20. GameSpy claims in this article "...but now their days as a game developer are pretty much over." Is it really that bad? Am I the only one left that loves their new titles? Empire Earth anyone?
I would think that the marketing folks need to be technically competent so that they have the ability to understand how the customer is using the equipment and what features they need to have the engineers design in to the next line of products. I don't work in the telecom industry but the marketing dept where I work is very up to speed on our technology for that very reason.
The sales guys need to be technically competent so that they can convince the customer why they need to buy from Cisco and what features the customer could use and benefit from.
Well, my phone company requires that I pay in order for my number to be unlisted. It's definitely no stretch of the imagination to say that the cell providers will do the same.
Every nation has a right and duty to protect itself and more importantly its citizens. Iraq has been massing weapons of mass destruction. Sadam has become known for supporting families of suicide bombers in Israel and most likely supports other forms of terrorism, especially against the US and allies. If you want to fight terrorism you can't wait until they try to step on a plane and hijack it. You can't wait until they drive up your street with a van full of anthrax. I am all for going in there and destroying all of this chemical/bilogical weapons and also his ability to produce any more. That's the reason we need to go in there with force.
This guy talks about TI cramming these three into "a single chipset" but then we hear that TI has crammed the functionality into one chip. Wouldn't the word chipset imply that there was more than one chip? Technically you can have a set with one element but what's the use of calling it a chipset if there is only one chip?
I agree. Actually during Dessert Storm I was attending highschool overseas on a military base. I remember one teacher mentioning that she had heard that the real reason we went to war then was that we had information about weapons that Iraq was developing. The invasion of Kuwait simply gave us a good excuse to go in there. Unfortunately we didn't finish the job we should have started.
What does it mean for Madrake to announce "their" OS is compatible with a processor already known to be compatible with the current crop of 32-bit operating systems from x86? Did they just recompile the apps in their distro using a version of GCC capable of compiling code for the new AMD processor? Or did they just install their OS on a system with new the processor and decide to tell the world the good news? This doesn't sound terribly exciting.
Hey, to all those who may either have kids or maybe you're a big kid yourself. I saw a cool science kit over at Frys that has a small refillable fuel cell used to run a little car included in the kit so you can have some fun learning about these guys. The fuel cell housing/wall itself is see-thru. It was $30 at the one here in Dallas. Not too bad. Might make a nice gift for the geek in your life.
Market the game "ourselves?" I am no expert but the deal seems reasonable. You put time up-front and the company agress to front the money to market the game. In return you get a share of the pie. I don't know how much money it takes to market a game, but I am guessing it is not insignificant.
You know, every now and then I look down at my floppy drive and start to wonder if there will ever be another standard like it for removable storage. Does anyone know if the PC industry is working on that?
What prompted me to say that is here is another great little storage device that looks like it could be made to be portable and fairly rugged. Is technology changing too fast for the industry to want to standardize on a real floppy replacement?
For some reason I am not all that interested in carrying around a CD-R with me. They are nice, but 3.5" floppies seem more rugged and definitely smaller. Oh well.
You know, charging for support is one thing. I can understand the need to generate revenue by having people pay for service.
This however is a whole other issue. What they have in their license agreement is "You shall not to share the information contained herein with any other party."
Sounds to me that if they help you resolve a technical issue in the forums then you can not share that resolution with any other person. Not on IRC, not with a person in the cube next to you, not in USENET...nowhere!
or does the original Zaurus have a much prettier UI than this thing? I've taken a look at the current Zaurus on sale here in the US and it looks slick whereas this new one has flat-looking widgets and a very unpolished look.
Hey, I bought one of these guys and they are very cool. They sell them at Frys and my friend's 4 year old loves it. For the cheap price they are a great deal. They're also great for annoying the family pet.
For those who don't remember this funny post, I believe the parent was referring to:
http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/04/22/ 1457225&mode=thread&tid=133
You can do research all you want, but in the end if you have no return guarantee then you are always gambling. I don't like to gamble.
Buying a pair of jeans and buying software is totally different. With the jeans, you can see exactly what you are getting up front. With software, you may be getting crap or something that worked just well enough in a demo to convince you to buy it.
Consumers deserve the right to return products if they are not satisfied. It's as simple as that.
Sorry, but I just don't buy it. If you buy a product and are not happy with it then stores should allow you to return it for a refund. It's that way with any other item, it should also be that way with software and music.
There is a lot of hype that gets thrown our way to purchase particular music and software titles. The marketing drones try everything to convince us that something is great and that we must buy it. I say then that they should stand behind their product and offer a refund if it truly doesn't live up to your expectation. Would this get abused by some? Sure. Do I care? Not really. If they want my money then they can earn it.
The article claims that this is not really a video arcade but I don't buy it. Other than the fact that they are using game consoles and have "executive leather chairs" how does this differ than an arcade? Sounds like a video arcade of the 21st century, but still an arcade.
I was reading the FAQ about the port they are doing for Mac OSX. They are going to have the Mac users using a different server than the PC users because they don't believe that having all the new players in the game with verteran PC users is fair. I have never played EQ but I was thinking of giving it a try. Is it going to be insanely difficult to start a new character with all the long-time players on the server? Or is there still opportunity for new players to get started. Doesn't sound like it based on the reasoning behind putting OSX user on a different server.
Anyone know why they couldn't get by with one of the Single Board Computers out there? Surely there is enough horse power in one of those to make this thing work. You could use your home PC to download new programs into the SBC, so maybe the lack of a screen wouldn't be that big of a deal. I know one thing, they are a lot cheaper than a laptop.
How confident are you going to be when said aunt spills a cup of coffe on the case, keyboard, or in the monitor. There is a lot more damage than can be done in addition to tampering with software.
A friend of mine who used to work at a Radio Shack was mentioning this some time ago. According to him, the real money is in selling computers, radios, whatever. The sales people can't really make much on commission when it comes to selling discrete electronic components. Because of that, none of the sales people take any time to try to sell that stuff. There is no money in it, that simple.
As an EE, it would be nice to have a place in short driving distance where you can get a decent selection of parts but these days mail order (ie digi-key) is really your best bet.
The only reason we humans haven't destroyed the world is that we have the brains to restrain ourselves (usually). We are already taxing our planet to the limits. We would eventually destroy the earth for the purposes of supporting most animal life if we continued down the path we started in the industrial revolution. Would nanotech creations be able to restrain themselves in the same manner?
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I love the Sierra strategy games. It always seems that their games come out and within two months the price has dropped to $10-$20. GameSpy claims in this article "...but now their days as a game developer are pretty much over." Is it really that bad? Am I the only one left that loves their new titles? Empire Earth anyone?
I would think that the marketing folks need to be technically competent so that they have the ability to understand how the customer is using the equipment and what features they need to have the engineers design in to the next line of products. I don't work in the telecom industry but the marketing dept where I work is very up to speed on our technology for that very reason.
The sales guys need to be technically competent so that they can convince the customer why they need to buy from Cisco and what features the customer could use and benefit from.
Well, my phone company requires that I pay in order for my number to be unlisted. It's definitely no stretch of the imagination to say that the cell providers will do the same.
Every nation has a right and duty to protect itself and more importantly its citizens. Iraq has been massing weapons of mass destruction. Sadam has become known for supporting families of suicide bombers in Israel and most likely supports other forms of terrorism, especially against the US and allies. If you want to fight terrorism you can't wait until they try to step on a plane and hijack it. You can't wait until they drive up your street with a van full of anthrax. I am all for going in there and destroying all of this chemical/bilogical weapons and also his ability to produce any more. That's the reason we need to go in there with force.
This guy talks about TI cramming these three into "a single chipset" but then we hear that TI has crammed the functionality into one chip. Wouldn't the word chipset imply that there was more than one chip? Technically you can have a set with one element but what's the use of calling it a chipset if there is only one chip?
I agree. Actually during Dessert Storm I was attending highschool overseas on a military base. I remember one teacher mentioning that she had heard that the real reason we went to war then was that we had information about weapons that Iraq was developing. The invasion of Kuwait simply gave us a good excuse to go in there. Unfortunately we didn't finish the job we should have started.
Does Pocket PC have accessibility settings like desktop Windows so that you can choose a display setting with a lot of contrast? That may help.
What does it mean for Madrake to announce "their" OS is compatible with a processor already known to be compatible with the current crop of 32-bit operating systems from x86? Did they just recompile the apps in their distro using a version of GCC capable of compiling code for the new AMD processor? Or did they just install their OS on a system with new the processor and decide to tell the world the good news? This doesn't sound terribly exciting.
Hey, to all those who may either have kids or maybe you're a big kid yourself. I saw a cool science kit over at Frys that has a small refillable fuel cell used to run a little car included in the kit so you can have some fun learning about these guys. The fuel cell housing/wall itself is see-thru. It was $30 at the one here in Dallas. Not too bad. Might make a nice gift for the geek in your life.
Market the game "ourselves?" I am no expert but the deal seems reasonable. You put time up-front and the company agress to front the money to market the game. In return you get a share of the pie. I don't know how much money it takes to market a game, but I am guessing it is not insignificant.
You know, every now and then I look down at my floppy drive and start to wonder if there will ever be another standard like it for removable storage. Does anyone know if the PC industry is working on that?
What prompted me to say that is here is another great little storage device that looks like it could be made to be portable and fairly rugged. Is technology changing too fast for the industry to want to standardize on a real floppy replacement?
For some reason I am not all that interested in carrying around a CD-R with me. They are nice, but 3.5" floppies seem more rugged and definitely smaller. Oh well.
You know, charging for support is one thing. I can understand the need to generate revenue by having people pay for service.
This however is a whole other issue. What they have in their license agreement is "You shall not to share the information contained herein with any other party."
Sounds to me that if they help you resolve a technical issue in the forums then you can not share that resolution with any other person. Not on IRC, not with a person in the cube next to you, not in USENET...nowhere!
Does anyone know if this will help the DCSS case with Jon Johansen?
or does the original Zaurus have a much prettier UI than this thing? I've taken a look at the current Zaurus on sale here in the US and it looks slick whereas this new one has flat-looking widgets and a very unpolished look.
Hey, I bought one of these guys and they are very cool. They sell them at Frys and my friend's 4 year old loves it. For the cheap price they are a great deal. They're also great for annoying the family pet.
For those who don't remember this funny post, I believe the parent was referring to: http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/04/22/ 1457225&mode=thread&tid=133
You can do research all you want, but in the end if you have no return guarantee then you are always gambling. I don't like to gamble.
Buying a pair of jeans and buying software is totally different. With the jeans, you can see exactly what you are getting up front. With software, you may be getting crap or something that worked just well enough in a demo to convince you to buy it.
Consumers deserve the right to return products if they are not satisfied. It's as simple as that.
Sorry, but I just don't buy it. If you buy a product and are not happy with it then stores should allow you to return it for a refund. It's that way with any other item, it should also be that way with software and music.
There is a lot of hype that gets thrown our way to purchase particular music and software titles. The marketing drones try everything to convince us that something is great and that we must buy it. I say then that they should stand behind their product and offer a refund if it truly doesn't live up to your expectation. Would this get abused by some? Sure. Do I care? Not really. If they want my money then they can earn it.
The article claims that this is not really a video arcade but I don't buy it. Other than the fact that they are using game consoles and have "executive leather chairs" how does this differ than an arcade? Sounds like a video arcade of the 21st century, but still an arcade.
I was reading the FAQ about the port they are doing for Mac OSX. They are going to have the Mac users using a different server than the PC users because they don't believe that having all the new players in the game with verteran PC users is fair. I have never played EQ but I was thinking of giving it a try. Is it going to be insanely difficult to start a new character with all the long-time players on the server? Or is there still opportunity for new players to get started. Doesn't sound like it based on the reasoning behind putting OSX user on a different server.
Anyone know why they couldn't get by with one of the Single Board Computers out there? Surely there is enough horse power in one of those to make this thing work. You could use your home PC to download new programs into the SBC, so maybe the lack of a screen wouldn't be that big of a deal. I know one thing, they are a lot cheaper than a laptop.
How confident are you going to be when said aunt spills a cup of coffe on the case, keyboard, or in the monitor. There is a lot more damage than can be done in addition to tampering with software.
A friend of mine who used to work at a Radio Shack was mentioning this some time ago. According to him, the real money is in selling computers, radios, whatever. The sales people can't really make much on commission when it comes to selling discrete electronic components. Because of that, none of the sales people take any time to try to sell that stuff. There is no money in it, that simple.
As an EE, it would be nice to have a place in short driving distance where you can get a decent selection of parts but these days mail order (ie digi-key) is really your best bet.
He got a +5 because of the information between the parentheses. Try reading the parent again.
The only reason we humans haven't destroyed the world is that we have the brains to restrain ourselves (usually). We are already taxing our planet to the limits. We would eventually destroy the earth for the purposes of supporting most animal life if we continued down the path we started in the industrial revolution. Would nanotech creations be able to restrain themselves in the same manner?