Just ran across
this updated article on CNN Money. Nice to see the larger media outlets finally showing some responsible journalism vs. just regurgitating Darl's press releases.
Now if only the SEC is truly, finally looking into this whole scam...!
"Dr Trombetti is adamant that a cup of milky coffee could make the ideal start for the next generation of coffee lovers - Italy's drowsy school kids - stimulating their brains ahead of a day that often lasts from 0830 until 1600."
So in other words:
"All your kids are belong to us" - Sincerely, The Coffee Industry
Cripes! Pretty damn scary. Does this sound as eerily hollow as the cigarette "research" in the US decades ago funded and promoted by the industry-run Tobacco Institute?!?
OK, I actually read the article and this doesn't sound like "stealing" at all to me. Granted we'd need to see the underlying blogs and topics in question, but let's face it - social awareness of various topics ebb and flow.
Those of you who follow U.S. media may recall "The Summer of the Shark". There was no peak in shark attacks that year. In fact I think it was a below-average year. It just became the socially-focused topic.
Then there's the "everything's now in place" effect. Competing teams coming up with similar vaccines at the same time. Or manned flight.
Just part of the Great Filtered Aquifer of the human experience.
Of course it may well be that humans are just a bunch of damn thieving cheaters.;-)
"To be fair, you should include MSN"s search results for actual pages, not entire sites. MSN returns to you entire sites first, and then individual pages,"
Jumping all the way down to the 27th MSN link to start comparing?!? You're joking, right? Sorry, that just doesn't make sense, any more than saying "Don't compare the front pages of the newspapers, you really have to look back in section D page 23 and compare that to the other paper's font page".
People read the headlines, people focus on the first links they are presented with on a search engine.
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Goatse
Rarely do I archive shit I find on the internet. However I had heard too many people talk about goatse.cx that have never even seen the full photo gallery of the goatse guy.
www.hektik.org/various/goatse
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Gaters.net - Goatse planet
This is a discussion forum powered by vBulletin. To find out about vBulletin, go to http://www.vbulletin.com/ .... He ( goatse guy) should be in the guinness book of records!...
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"I don't think its really fair to include the news links."
I included them because it's exactly what showed up first in my generic Google search window as a Random Guy Doing A Search. So it's exactly what others would see. (Unless Google now has a "#ifdef MooseByte" directive.;-) )
And while XFree86 gets blocked on MSN, let's see how a search for "SCO" fares on the two engines. (Top 11, "Because it's one more, you see".)
Hmmmm. Yep, no surprise there.
MSN Search Results "SCO" (Top 11):
1. SCO www.sco.com 2. California State Controller Kids Site www.kids.sco.ca.gov 3. Newsgroup: biz.sco news:biz.sco 4. Reuters - MyDoom Worm Aimed at SCO Web Site 5. DealTime - Sco Product www.dealtime.com/xGS-sco~NS-5320 6. InfoWorld - SCO: IBM Cannot Enforce GPL 7. Computer Business Consultants, SCO Unix Sales, Service & Support 8. Calibex.com - Simple Tech SCO-QUBE3/256 256MB for Sun 9. Bagpipe Marches & Music of Sco CD - Amazon.com 10. Northern New Jersey Council - Camp No-Be-Bo-Sco www.nobebosco.org 11. Northern New Jersey Council - Camp No-Be-Bo-Sco www.nnjbsa.org/camps/nobebosco
Google Search Results "SCO" (Top 11):
(Note: Includes the Google News "teaser" links just added.)
News: 1. SCO posts $2.3 million loss - InfoWorld - 2 hours ago 2. Perth firm files complaint against SCO - The Age - 9 hours ago 3. User group hits out at SCO - VNUNet - 11 hours ago 4. www.caldera.com 5. SCO | SCOsource www.caldera.com/scosource/ 6. OSI Position Paper on the SCO-vs.-IBM Complaint 7. The SCO Group | SCO Grows Your Business sco.com/ 8. the SCO v IBM info website 9. Analysis of SCO's Las Vegas Slide Show 10. California State Controller's Office www.sco.ca.gov/ 11. GROKLAW www.groklaw.net/
"Still, there is no justice, 'cause it probably won't drop to the $0.90/share it was before threatening IBM any time in the near future."
True. But at least we can take pleasure in watching the waves crash over the deck in the meantime, even if it may be awhile longer before the bow slips beneath the surface once and for all.
And then the SEC moves in and we all bring popcorn for the show.:-)
The upshot of all of this is that SCOX is getting slammed at the moment (9am MST) in heavy trading, 50% over the normal daily volume already, and down 12%.
It climbed the previous two days, no doubt in anticipation of the lawsuit. Perhaps after seeing what SCO are actually suing over, investors are realizing they're the last rats on the ship. And the fire is nearing the ammo hold....
Nice article, but I think it misses a key point. Game creation is only more complex these days if you're trying to build/copy a complex title.
Of course a Lone Wolf isn't going to be able to knock out myHaloTribes2! But s/he sure as heck can still tackle a simpler game, with even less effort than "days of yore" in my opinion. OpenGL, a slew of commercial games engines, cross-platform solutions, even SDKs for mobile phones.
The opportunities abound, even if the market is drowning in noise these days. The bottom line is don't try to compete with a big studio if you're not a big studio! Skip the $150K intro/cut-scene movies, etc. Don't aim for a MMORPG. Just build something fun, dammit!
Think of it as the development equivalent of asymetrical warfare.
"Jesus sweet fucking christ I sure as hell don't want to see that! What the hell are you thinking?"
On the other hand, I'd give up my Mel Torme' collection to see a "Sex/Arousal" face button installed on Ashcroft, Falwell or any other self-appointed "guardian of morality". Would be fun to see the results.
I'm thinking Ashcroft and the goatse guy may have more in common that we realize....
It's official - software development is now a relic of the Old Economy where companies actually create products. So passe'. The New Economy is all about data mining for litigation.
And then while we're too busy in the courtrooms to notice, and our production skills so atrophied from lack of use, the aliens will land and take over.
"Escape Velocity was *heavily* inspired by Star Control and Star Control II. EV is still a great game."
Definitely! Historical note (my memory fails me) - was there something prior to Sundog in the whole "trading/battling on the high seas of outerspace" genre? I'm only familar with Apple ][ games of the era. C64/TRS80/Atari400.800?
Trivia of course, but it's kind of like wanting to find the source of the Nile.:-)
Slashdot Mirror
They really just needed it to beta test Longhorn.
Just ran across this updated article on CNN Money. Nice to see the larger media outlets finally showing some responsible journalism vs. just regurgitating Darl's press releases.
Now if only the SEC is truly, finally looking into this whole scam...!
"Dr Trombetti is adamant that a cup of milky coffee could make the ideal start for the next generation of coffee lovers - Italy's drowsy school kids - stimulating their brains ahead of a day that often lasts from 0830 until 1600."
So in other words:
"All your kids are belong to us" - Sincerely, The Coffee Industry
Cripes! Pretty damn scary. Does this sound as eerily hollow as the cigarette "research" in the US decades ago funded and promoted by the industry-run Tobacco Institute?!?
"It is in human nature to believe in one's own importance;"
And it is your company's mission to crush this erroneous belief.
OK, I actually read the article and this doesn't sound like "stealing" at all to me. Granted we'd need to see the underlying blogs and topics in question, but let's face it - social awareness of various topics ebb and flow.
Those of you who follow U.S. media may recall "The Summer of the Shark". There was no peak in shark attacks that year. In fact I think it was a below-average year. It just became the socially-focused topic.
Then there's the "everything's now in place" effect. Competing teams coming up with similar vaccines at the same time. Or manned flight.
Just part of the Great Filtered Aquifer of the human experience.
Of course it may well be that humans are just a bunch of damn thieving cheaters.
When I first read the headline I thought Dell had finally outsourced their CEO position.
(No doubt to be closer to the core of the company.)
Support top-down outsourcing!
"To be fair, you should include MSN"s search results for actual pages, not entire sites. MSN returns to you entire sites first, and then individual pages,"
Jumping all the way down to the 27th MSN link to start comparing?!? You're joking, right? Sorry, that just doesn't make sense, any more than saying "Don't compare the front pages of the newspapers, you really have to look back in section D page 23 and compare that to the other paper's font page".
People read the headlines, people focus on the first links they are presented with on a search engine.
"No idea what the hell that is, but I think I'm going to send my kids there next summer."
I'd mod you up if I could. :-)
MSN search for "goatse guy", raw results:
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Stern but Groovy Master Joined: 25 Apr 2003 Location: Williamsburg, VA Posted: Fri Jan 16, 2004 7:34 am It's a sad, sad day in Internet history. www.goatse.cx has been shut down by the people who
Goatse
Rarely do I archive shit I find on the internet. However I had heard too many people talk about goatse.cx that have never even seen the full photo gallery of the goatse guy. www.hektik.org/various/goatse
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Poll
Live Journal Review: The Tao of Goatse
... sure to be trolled, especially on Livejournal, but think of the goatse guy. Was he afraid to post his anus to the ...
www.livejournal.us/archives/000426.php
Gaters.net - Goatse planet ... He ( goatse guy) should be in the guinness book of records! ...
gaters.net/showthread.php?s=&threadid=3732&highlig ht=goatse
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"I don't think its really fair to include the news links."
I included them because it's exactly what showed up first in my generic Google search window as a Random Guy Doing A Search. So it's exactly what others would see. (Unless Google now has a "#ifdef MooseByte" directive. ;-) )
And while XFree86 gets blocked on MSN, let's see how a search for "SCO" fares on the two engines. (Top 11, "Because it's one more, you see".)
Hmmmm. Yep, no surprise there.
MSN Search Results "SCO" (Top 11):
1. SCO www.sco.com
2. California State Controller Kids Site www.kids.sco.ca.gov
3. Newsgroup: biz.sco news:biz.sco
4. Reuters - MyDoom Worm Aimed at SCO Web Site
5. DealTime - Sco Product www.dealtime.com/xGS-sco~NS-5320
6. InfoWorld - SCO: IBM Cannot Enforce GPL
7. Computer Business Consultants, SCO Unix Sales, Service & Support
8. Calibex.com - Simple Tech SCO-QUBE3/256 256MB for Sun
9. Bagpipe Marches & Music of Sco CD - Amazon.com
10. Northern New Jersey Council - Camp No-Be-Bo-Sco www.nobebosco.org
11. Northern New Jersey Council - Camp No-Be-Bo-Sco www.nnjbsa.org/camps/nobebosco
Google Search Results "SCO" (Top 11):
(Note: Includes the Google News "teaser" links just added.)
News:
1. SCO posts $2.3 million loss - InfoWorld - 2 hours ago
2. Perth firm files complaint against SCO - The Age - 9 hours ago
3. User group hits out at SCO - VNUNet - 11 hours ago
4. www.caldera.com
5. SCO | SCOsource www.caldera.com/scosource/
6. OSI Position Paper on the SCO-vs.-IBM Complaint
7. The SCO Group | SCO Grows Your Business sco.com/
8. the SCO v IBM info website
9. Analysis of SCO's Las Vegas Slide Show
10. California State Controller's Office www.sco.ca.gov/
11. GROKLAW www.groklaw.net/
"how many people using MSN as a search engine would know a thing about XFree86?"
Apparently none, given the MSN results.
"What would you do if you had a million dollars?"
I'd sit around reading Slashdot all day. HEY! Look at me Ma, I'm a millionaire already!
"Still, there is no justice, 'cause it probably won't drop to the $0.90/share it was before threatening IBM any time in the near future."
True. But at least we can take pleasure in watching the waves crash over the deck in the meantime, even if it may be awhile longer before the bow slips beneath the surface once and for all.
And then the SEC moves in and we all bring popcorn for the show. :-)
"As opposed to what, Data Structures that don't work? Yeah, we need more books on those..."
Fear not, MFC is extensively documented.
(Complains I, recently bit by yet another lame long-acknowledged-yet-unfixed bug in M$'s class libraries.)
The upshot of all of this is that SCOX is getting slammed at the moment (9am MST) in heavy trading, 50% over the normal daily volume already, and down 12%.
It climbed the previous two days, no doubt in anticipation of the lawsuit. Perhaps after seeing what SCO are actually suing over, investors are realizing they're the last rats on the ship. And the fire is nearing the ammo hold....
A sign of long-overdue investor sanity?
"all of Maryland's machines had two identical locks, which could be opened by any one of 32,000 keys or be easily picked."
Diebold's implementation of open source voting machines, no doubt.
"Do you honestly expect every single thing God created to be written down?"
I sure remember thinking so the time I finally sat down and read the Old Testament's Book of Numbers all the way through. Yeesh!
Nice article, but I think it misses a key point. Game creation is only more complex these days if you're trying to build/copy a complex title.
Of course a Lone Wolf isn't going to be able to knock out myHaloTribes2! But s/he sure as heck can still tackle a simpler game, with even less effort than "days of yore" in my opinion. OpenGL, a slew of commercial games engines, cross-platform solutions, even SDKs for mobile phones.
The opportunities abound, even if the market is drowning in noise these days. The bottom line is don't try to compete with a big studio if you're not a big studio! Skip the $150K intro/cut-scene movies, etc. Don't aim for a MMORPG. Just build something fun, dammit!
Think of it as the development equivalent of asymetrical warfare.
Relax people, it's a Ford!
It's not as if any of these vehicles will actually be running long enough to collect any data against their owners.
"Jesus sweet fucking christ I sure as hell don't want to see that! What the hell are you thinking?"
On the other hand, I'd give up my Mel Torme' collection to see a "Sex/Arousal" face button installed on Ashcroft, Falwell or any other self-appointed "guardian of morality". Would be fun to see the results.
I'm thinking Ashcroft and the goatse guy may have more in common that we realize....
"Mice who cause their water tube to dispense some refreshing H2O just by wishing it?"
Uncanny! Just this morning I caused by "water tube" to dispense liquid just by wishing it too!
Oh no no, it's just a little dusty, that's all. Look! (blows) "To serve man with a lawsuit"
Heartless humans! DarlKang worked his tentacles raw cooking up lawsuits for you!
It's official - software development is now a relic of the Old Economy where companies actually create products. So passe'. The New Economy is all about data mining for litigation.
And then while we're too busy in the courtrooms to notice, and our production skills so atrophied from lack of use, the aliens will land and take over.
"It's a cookbook!!!"
Definitely! Historical note (my memory fails me) - was there something prior to Sundog in the whole "trading/battling on the high seas of outerspace" genre? I'm only familar with Apple ][ games of the era. C64/TRS80/Atari400.800?
Trivia of course, but it's kind of like wanting to find the source of the Nile. :-)