I second that! My friends (the ones that like to think) and I spend hours and hours playing this game. Of course, I like it because I have lost twice (over the course of about 50-70 games). Here's what BoardGameGeek has to say:
This Sid Sackson classic has taken many different forms over the years depending on the publisher. Each player strategically invests in businesses, trying to retain a majority of stock. When the various grow with tile placements, they also start merging, giving the majority stockholders collect sizeable bonuses, which can then be used to reinvest into other chains. Plus all of the investors can then cash in their stocks for current value or trade them 2-for-1 for shares of the newer, larger business. The game is a race to acquire the greatest wealth.
I would highly recommend this game to anyone who has an interest in business and even those that don't. (full disclosure: The computer game that has had the most staying power with me is Railroad Tycoon II. I keep coming back to it over and over. My job description includes manager.)
But it's not too small. They have 19-inch monitors! I use 1600x1200! It's not too small for the agents whom I convinced to do it; they just don't like change. "It looks different."
"fine for a nerd" Well you're talking to as big a collection (*groan* Beowulf cluster?) of nerds as you are likely to find, so your arguments have not so much validity.
"...problem is that you can get an equivalent PC for less. Of course thats without the design. But then again thats what the grandparent said..."
Parent:
"You can't.
Not one running MacOS X [Duh! He said a PC (Personal Computer. Strictly speaking, this refers to the IBM PC, which is any IBM-manufactured personal computer made prior to the PS/2 Series. Usually PC refers to any personal computer compatible with IBMs. It is also used to refer to any personal computer.)] and in the same formfactor.
And don't forget the apps. [He said computer, not apps]
iMovie, iDVD, garageband, etc.."
You're right. One nitpick, you said: "It's not bare bones, it's fairly full featured" He's not talking about features here, he's talking about mouse, keyboard, monitor. He means barebones as in just the box. What he said:
"Apple holds up a box and says 'It doesn't come with a mouse or a keyboard or a monitor, and that makes it cheap!' and everyone freaks out about how cool that is... Why, is this the only computer brand in the world where "this box doesn't come with any basic hardware" is a good thing?"
"I doubt much of anyone is using a 600x800 resolution."
No they're not using 600x800, they're using 800x600 and there's a lot of them. I work as the IT manager for a small travel agency (5 offices, 25 employees). I have tried to convince the agents to move to 1024x768. They refuse. "It makes it too small." I have convinced maybe 2-3 people to move to 1024x768. (OT*: I am also working on them to move to Firefox/Thunderbird; another difficult process)
I seriously fail to see the relevance: "Tablet PCs tend to be higher resolution and I doubt you could even get a driver for the ISA VGA card [WTF? you don't need an ISA or VGA for 800x600] that ran the old 15" radius pivot monitors [ditto]." Guess I'm just dumb... =)
*Oops, guess not OT to main topic, just OT to this post...
After long-standing complaints, the Moscow City Police Computer Crimes division
completed an investigation earlier this month and recommended that prosecutors charge the site's operators with criminal copyright infringement.
'Well according to Napster, this is not a crime. Quotting from the article: "The DRM (digital rights management) is intact. Basically, people are just recording off a sound card. This is nothing new and people could do this with any legitimate service if they want to use a sound card"'.
They're not saying that it's legal, they're just saying to the RIAA, "We didn't screw up our DRM and lose your precious recordings! It's something that someone can do with iTunes too!" They are not saying it's all right, they're just saying it's possible and it's not news (something/. editors should take into consideration?).
"When was the last time you read about a Unix/Linux worm or virus on a nontechnical site like CNN? Or heard about it on the evening news?"
That is irrelevant to the severity of the threat. The reason that CNN doesn't carry anything about it is not because Linux_worm isn't dangerous, it's because 99% of CNN viewers don't know what Linux is; they have Windows. A good percentage of those that have Windows don't even know what Windows is. Your overall point may be correct; Linux may be more secure than Windows (matter of fact I think it is), but that point doesn't have a whole lotta relevance.
that russian mp3 website (can't remember the name) where you pay about 5 cents per song
AllofMP3.com. And it's incredibly good! After getting a cease and desist letter from the *AA (and an accompanying threat from Adelphia to suspend for 14 days at next incident), it's a great alternative to Kazaa! Side benefit: It's legal. It costs $0.01 a MB. Very simple. You can choose the encoding type (OGG, MP3, WMA, MPEG-4, MPC) and the bitrate (128, 192, 320 kbps), so you pay for the quality you choose. No DRMs either.
I would definitely patronize such a service for movies; that has got to have the idiots at the MPAA sweating. They could really turn that into a revenue stream... idiots...
In fact, the mean value of a normally distributed series of random numbers should trend toward a constant value. In the case of runs of 0s and 1s, it should trend toward 0.5 and approximate it more closely as the experiment runs.
The variance should tend to increase as less probable values fill the wings of the bell curve. The longer the series of random values the more nearly normal that trend should be and the greater the potential variance may be, since with a longer experiment you can actually acquire less probable runs that simply could not occur earlier. For instance you need to toss a coin a minimum of 20 times to have even the possibility of achieving 1:1,000,000 odds (1:1048576, actually 2^20).
Oh definitely! I would totally agree! Right on target there. Just what I was about to say.
"US courts are probably not going to help the French courts if Bush has anything to say about it"
Erm, it's called seperation of powers. Of course Bush doesn't have anything to say about it. But I too can't see the US courts helping French courts overstep their jurisdiction.
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Integrated Bit Torrent? Never heard of such a thing. Usually you just download it.
I would highly recommend this game to anyone who has an interest in business and even those that don't. (full disclosure: The computer game that has had the most staying power with me is Railroad Tycoon II. I keep coming back to it over and over. My job description includes manager.)
Eww sick! I would never do that!
Sorry... it's hard to remember to figure out gender on a forum without avatars... and "that person" gets very cumbersome very quickly... =)
But it's not too small. They have 19-inch monitors! I use 1600x1200! It's not too small for the agents whom I convinced to do it; they just don't like change. "It looks different."
*grins and groans at same time*
"He said, she said..." *sigh*
"fine for a nerd" Well you're talking to as big a collection (*groan* Beowulf cluster?) of nerds as you are likely to find, so your arguments have not so much validity.
Color me stupid, but I thot that that was the whole concept behind computers: sorting numbers... 100111001010001010001111
Your sig was on-topic!
Yeah, I got it shortly after I hit submit. My point remains, but my sarcasm should be directed at grandparent... Sorry. =)
"...problem is that you can get an equivalent PC for less. Of course thats without the design. But then again thats what the grandparent said..."
Parent:
"You can't.
Not one running MacOS X [Duh! He said a PC (Personal Computer. Strictly speaking, this refers to the IBM PC, which is any IBM-manufactured personal computer made prior to the PS/2 Series. Usually PC refers to any personal computer compatible with IBMs. It is also used to refer to any personal computer.)] and in the same formfactor.
And don't forget the apps. [He said computer, not apps]
iMovie, iDVD, garageband, etc.."
This is slashdot, you need to inform the serious geeks that it was a joke. He was being facetious.
No they're not using 600x800, they're using 800x600 and there's a lot of them. I work as the IT manager for a small travel agency (5 offices, 25 employees). I have tried to convince the agents to move to 1024x768. They refuse. "It makes it too small." I have convinced maybe 2-3 people to move to 1024x768. (OT*: I am also working on them to move to Firefox/Thunderbird; another difficult process)
I seriously fail to see the relevance: "Tablet PCs tend to be higher resolution and I doubt you could even get a driver for the ISA VGA card [WTF? you don't need an ISA or VGA for 800x600] that ran the old 15" radius pivot monitors [ditto]." Guess I'm just dumb... =)
*Oops, guess not OT to main topic, just OT to this post...
Wrong. RTFA:
Read more thoughts...Jimmy Carter reads Drudge Report?
Ooops... I'm wrong... I thought when they notified me that the price was going up, they said that it would only be for OEEX...
How do you run multiple WinAmp instances? I tried and it just jumps to the current instance.
They're not saying that it's legal, they're just saying to the RIAA, "We didn't screw up our DRM and lose your precious recordings! It's something that someone can do with iTunes too!" They are not saying it's all right, they're just saying it's possible and it's not news (something /. editors should take into consideration?).
Nope. It's just the OEEX (Online Encoding EXclusive) class files that are $0.02/MB
That is irrelevant to the severity of the threat. The reason that CNN doesn't carry anything about it is not because Linux_worm isn't dangerous, it's because 99% of CNN viewers don't know what Linux is; they have Windows. A good percentage of those that have Windows don't even know what Windows is. Your overall point may be correct; Linux may be more secure than Windows (matter of fact I think it is), but that point doesn't have a whole lotta relevance.
AllofMP3.com. And it's incredibly good! After getting a cease and desist letter from the *AA (and an accompanying threat from Adelphia to suspend for 14 days at next incident), it's a great alternative to Kazaa! Side benefit: It's legal. It costs $0.01 a MB. Very simple. You can choose the encoding type (OGG, MP3, WMA, MPEG-4, MPC) and the bitrate (128, 192, 320 kbps), so you pay for the quality you choose. No DRMs either.
I would definitely patronize such a service for movies; that has got to have the idiots at the MPAA sweating. They could really turn that into a revenue stream... idiots...
Oh definitely! I would totally agree! Right on target there. Just what I was about to say.
Erm, it's called seperation of powers. Of course Bush doesn't have anything to say about it. But I too can't see the US courts helping French courts overstep their jurisdiction.