a recent e-mail i got asking me to change our router passwords all to admin/admin. It may have been a mistake for me to do that now that I think about it:(
At E3 this year I attended a discussion about MMOG's and all of them agreed that the newer ones are going to cost about $10 million to develop. One of them was the lead designer for Puzzle Pirates and he said he pulled that one out for $1 millions. Everyone would stop playing puzzle priates instantly if they were charged $50 a month.
I'm not sure many would play the new, hot MMOG for $50 a month. But assuming you did get 1500 people to play your game at $50 a month, it would take more than 11 years to offset the the cost of development. Good luck finding Venture Capitalists for that:)
Most MMOG developers concede that the best way to be successful in the MMO market is to publish a good game that will be affordable to the majority of the public, NOT THE HARDCORE GAMER. That means trying to get 100,000 at $15-$20 a month. That figure is more what venture capitalists are looking for.
The idea is good, but doesn't fit the economics of game development
Nagios (www.nagios.org). It's a great way to manage a network and keep track of your systems. My favorite part is it's notification system. It will e-mail me, page me, etc. until i fix the problems:)
I was just wondering what would happen this year if it really was the year of Linux.
Will we start to see major security flaws in application we once thought secure? 20% of the small business owners switch to Linux, that would be enough in my mind, as a hacker, to look for exploits to Linux and its Open Source programs.
Am I to assume now that my favorite gentoo mirrors are going to be filled with new users? I love getting packages at 450 Kbps:) Who is going to fill the role of distribution with this increase in use? Many of these people are switching over, after all, because they think it's going to lower their TCO. Why start up a mirror to eat up your small businesses T1 bandwidth?
I'm totally for Linux's growth, but I'm worried that we might tarnish it's appeal by growing so fast. I'd prefer that 10 years from now, everyone just be, "huh, now that I think about it, Linux has 60% of the OS market...How did that happen?"
You have a point though? So now I can't use my quicksort algorithm i wrote in high school because someone copyrighted their source code and it had a quicksort?!?!
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a recent e-mail i got asking me to change our router passwords all to admin/admin. It may have been a mistake for me to do that now that I think about it :(
At E3 this year I attended a discussion about MMOG's and all of them agreed that the newer ones are going to cost about $10 million to develop. One of them was the lead designer for Puzzle Pirates and he said he pulled that one out for $1 millions. Everyone would stop playing puzzle priates instantly if they were charged $50 a month. I'm not sure many would play the new, hot MMOG for $50 a month. But assuming you did get 1500 people to play your game at $50 a month, it would take more than 11 years to offset the the cost of development. Good luck finding Venture Capitalists for that :)
Most MMOG developers concede that the best way to be successful in the MMO market is to publish a good game that will be affordable to the majority of the public, NOT THE HARDCORE GAMER. That means trying to get 100,000 at $15-$20 a month. That figure is more what venture capitalists are looking for.
The idea is good, but doesn't fit the economics of game development
by the mere fact that you are a member of "News for Nerds", doesn't that also make you one?
Thank God no one has patented the selection sort algorithm that we all wrote in Intro. to Computer Science, we'd all be sued!
So, we will only have 72 stickers on the back of our PDAs. At least they haven't started advertising on it....
Nagios (www.nagios.org). It's a great way to manage a network and keep track of your systems. My favorite part is it's notification system. It will e-mail me, page me, etc. until i fix the problems :)
I kid. I kid!!
did you mean I Keed! I Keed! or is that copyrighted now?
Will it still fit into my modem jack?
I was just wondering what would happen this year if it really was the year of Linux.
:) Who is going to fill the role of distribution with this increase in use? Many of these people are switching over, after all, because they think it's going to lower their TCO. Why start up a mirror to eat up your small businesses T1 bandwidth?
Will we start to see major security flaws in application we once thought secure? 20% of the small business owners switch to Linux, that would be enough in my mind, as a hacker, to look for exploits to Linux and its Open Source programs.
Am I to assume now that my favorite gentoo mirrors are going to be filled with new users? I love getting packages at 450 Kbps
I'm totally for Linux's growth, but I'm worried that we might tarnish it's appeal by growing so fast. I'd prefer that 10 years from now, everyone just be, "huh, now that I think about it, Linux has 60% of the OS market...How did that happen?"
You have a point though? So now I can't use my quicksort algorithm i wrote in high school because someone copyrighted their source code and it had a quicksort?!?!