Hari Kiri.. Only uninformed or deceived Westerners refer to "Hari Kari" and Cubs fans, who come to think of it make a ritual fall onto their foam-fingers every summer or autumn to announce the end of their playoff hopes
(X) Asshats
(X) Extreme stupidity on the part of people who do business with spammers actually this is one of the first methods i've seen that turns asshats and stupid people who do business with spammers into a part of the solution
if your argument is that the list you gave is a representative sample of all games released and therefore the time between those top games can be filled with others, i'd have to disagree.
That is not my argument. My argument is that the top 10 games in a year represent a significant portion of most people's gaming time and for the most part, that situation is not very bad for Mac users. The casual gamer can easily find 1 to 3 games to play in a year and that is all most people buy. If their tastes are average, they're even better off. I don't think the games available are a large deterrent to the average person, even if it is the the relatively small hardcore gamer market. This isn't even taking into account the console gaming market's mitigating effect.
you mentioned the top 10 in a year, but you listed the top 6 of all time which seemed like cherry-picking to me at the time. it looks like the top 10 games in a year aren't a "5 of 6" situation, but they aren't as bad as i figured they'd be:
2006
1. World of Warcraft--Vivendi Games - PC/MAC
2. The Sims 2--Electronic Arts - PC/MAC (8 months later)
3. The Sims 2: Open For Business Expansion Pack--Electronic Arts - PC/MAC (6 months later)
4. Star Wars: Empire At War--LucasArts - PC/Mac (1 year later)
5. The Sims 2: Pets Expansion Pack--Electronic Arts - PC/Mac (1 month later)
6. Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion--Take-Two Interactive - PC
7. Age of Empires III--Microsoft - PC
8. The Sims 2: Family Fun Stuff Expansion Pack--Electronic Arts - PC/MAC
9. Civilization IV--Take-Two Interactive - PC
10. The Sims 2: Nightlife Expansion Pack--Electronic Arts - PC/MAC (6 months later)
2005
1. World Of Warcraft (Vivendi Universal) - PC/MAC
2. The Sims 2: University Expansion Pack (Electronic Arts) - PC/MAC (9 months later)
3. The Sims 2 (Electronic Arts) - PC/MAC (8 months later)
4. Guild Wars (NCSoft) - PC
5. Roller Coaster Tycoon 3 (Atari) - PC/Mac (1 year later)
6. Battlefield 2 (Electronic Arts) - PC
7. The Sims 2: Nightlife Expansion Pack (Electronic Arts) - PC/MAC (6 months later)
8. Age Of Empires III (Microsoft) - PC
9. The Sims Deluxe (Electronic Arts) - PC/Mac (5 months later)
10. Call Of Duty 2 (Activision) - PC/Mac (6 months later)
it looks like Aspyr is doing a good job of translating EA games (and some non-EA), but there's still pretty significant lagtime and i'm not sure how much play-time there is to be had out of a lot of the Sims expansion packs even if they are being bought in great numbers (i've owned both The Sims games, but never played an expansion pack, and never played either longer than a month). i also can't vouch for the quality of the translation, the only games i've played on my Macs have been WoW and Diablo and they use a different development model.
The Sims (16 million shipped) - simultaneous Windows and Mac release
StarCraft (9.5 million) - simultaneous Windows and Mac release
World of Warcraft (9.3 million subscribers) - simultaneous Windows and Mac release
Half-Life (8 million) - Windows release only, no Mac - there are some interesting theories why.
Diablo II (4 million) - simultaneous Windows and Mac release
Myst (6 million) - Mac release before Windows
Do you see how the average, gamer who is not hardcore would not be too perturbed by the lack of choice?
that's a pretty misleading way of examining the games. the 5 games listed there that work on a Mac have release dates that span more than a decade (Myst is 1993?). i've played a game for as long as 2 years before (Diablo, EQ, WoW), but i doubt most non-hardcore people would do it. if your argument is that the list you gave is a representative sample of all games released and therefore the time between those top games can be filled with others, i'd have to disagree. but it's hard to provide evidence beyond suggesting that you take a walk through the Mac games section of your local CompUSA, well maybe "walking through" it is an overstatement since it'll be about 20 boxes (of which a majority will be solitaire compilations).
This won't work because submitted algorithms are run against data that wasn't made public. the data that wasn't made public might be further ratings from people who had data in the public test set. imagine that both the public and private data sets are mirrored in the public rankings on IMDB, anyone that was able to match your public data set against IMDB can "predict" all your other IMDB rankings 100% and if any of those are in the private data set than they'll get those ones exactly right.
i'm curious how the prediction is being tested against the private data though, it may not be possible to use this method if the test is being completed internally by netflix themselves by running the program (versus providing the contestants with a list of movies to predict using their program and then returning the predictions).
One blogger writes "I'm not a vengeful person when it comes to my own life, so it always surprises me that my first instinct when I hear of these things happening to others is to plot murder." it shouldn't be surprising, it's pretty common to have different attitudes and behaviors toward someone that you know you'll never meet in real life (or someone that you will probably never meet again in real life). on a routine basis people post messages to each other all over the internet that they wouldn't dream of saying in face to face even to a stranger. you can see this reflected offline too, when it comes to telemarketers treating people like garbage and even road rage incidents that you couldn't see happening in the checkout line at the local grocery store (where the person with the next cart may be someone you meet again frequently). this is also the reason that a lot of people prefer small, less-anonymous towns to big cities, anonymous interactions can bring out the worst in people.
They need to hire Apple iPod team immediately. Why include keyboard? e-ink is a fairly new technology. it's quite possible that they haven't been able to get it to work along with touch-sensitivity, so they may have had no choice
Now given the way that Sun sued Microsoft over changing parts of Java in the past, it's almost guaranteed that they'll do it again over Google not using their virtual machine or library. but did they just take away things from the library and not add new features to the core? it's one thing to release a new platform that doesn't support all of the java libraries, that just means that existing programs aren't completely portable to your new device and is really your own loss. it's another to do what MS did and that is to add language features (method pointers for callbacks), release a developer suite for your bastardized version of the language, and encourage people to develop programs using it that won't work on other VMs. Sun probably doesn't love either choice, but they're not equivalent problems.
You should read some of the books Frank Lloyd Wright wrote. Can't find a link for you on Amazon but he wrote a couple of books in which he really breaks down a lot of his design decisions and, at least for a lot of his houses, he did take a lot of engineering questions into account that were genuinely ahead of his time. In particular, there's a house here in Chicago that he devoted a few pages to describing exactly how best to accomplish a carport such that groundwater wouldn't seep into the floor (remember: carport not garage, so the floor was a pretty intricate layering of gravel and sand).
but he also was famous for letting style concerns override useability in houses resulting in features that could be tough to live with (such as low doors), and i remember hearing one owner of a FLW house saying something like "it was our fault for leaving a work of art out in the rain" to explain a leak in the roof design. the Taliesin Visitor's Guide FAQ even devotes a section to answering the question of why his roofs leak:
Why do his roofs leak?
Frank Lloyd Wright's buildings are known for their beauty, artistry, sensitivity to their surroundings, and sometimes their leaky roofs. Some of the roofs he designed leak, in part, because of the techniques and materials he used. To increase the sense of shelter, Wright extended the lines of the eaves farther away from the building, thereby lowering the pitch of the roof. Longer, lower roofs do not shed water and snow as easily as higher pitched roofs. In addition, he felt a compulsion to experiment, and felt that the work he was doing could eventually be improved as technology evolved.
A good example of this philosophy can be seen in the Johnson Wax Administration Building in Racine, Wisconsin (1936-39). Wright employed cylindrical tubing for the windows in order to diffuse light and block the view to the outside. At the time, no adequate sealant for the glass tubes was available. S.C. Johnson Wax experimented with a variety of solutions before advances in sealant materials produced one that worked.
besides it's hard to stay mad at those CentOS kids when they flash a big grin and hold up the roll of candy. it's not called The Freshmaker for nothing, what a clean-cut wholesome bunch
nice work. you spend three paragraphs explaining how he is making a mistake generalizing all jazz music to the stuff he's heard from Kenny G, and then at the end you generalize all people that don't like jazz as Korn fans. good show
So here are our options:
1) Incompetence, or
2) Malice.
We're screwed. I really wish I could mod this (+1, Amusing At First But Gradually Becoming Horribly Depressing As You Realize The Implications). Part 3 of Slashdot History will talk about how they were going to add that category, but they figured the selectbox would be wider than the 640x480 resolution screen that some people still used back when Slashdot started. it was either drop that category or use 6pt font, and the font won. other dropped categories include:
+1, I Have Points To Burn And Nothing Else On This Thread Is Worth a Damn
+1, It's At Score 4 Now, I Might As Well Top It Off
-1, It's The First Thing Posted, It Can't Possibly Be Interesting or Insightful or Funny
Anyhow, Bittorrent is working great here while people still on Comcast are complaining. a similar article on Ars Technica today pointed out that people who aren't on Comcast are getting these packets sent by Comcast on behalf of the Comcast users they're connected to via bittorrent, so leaving Comcast doesn't even always solve the problem:
Further, the AP says that when it performed traffic analysis on another computer torrenting files over Time Warner Cable, over half of the reset packets came from the addresses of Comcast subscribers. This is curious, since Comcast's 12.4 million subscribers only make up about 20 percent of US broadband subscribers.
nice, thank you. the wikipedia page refers to it as "cell memory" rather than "genetic memory" which appears to be used to refer to something else by the pseudoscience crowd
google links on "genetic memory" appear to all be references to genetic memory in fiction or the "this site is run by bat-shit crazy people" sort of links. do you have any links that are better?
besides this new, laxer definition of "super" has some benefits. for instance tomorrow when they post this article again we can tag it "super-duper", would we rather it took 200 to 300 repostings to achieve that? that'd be at least a year from now
Why??? because they're still on the phone trying to cancel their service, but that guy won't let them until they answer a few more questions. hopefully they were equally tenacious when their boss came to let them go
this is the last time. now they start merging it with other movies to release as a set. expect "Sling Blade Runner, Special Robot People Edition" and "The Blade Kite Runner, Oppressive Android Regime Edition" in the spring
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Warcraft themed hot-pockets are long overdue, i could use a Kodo Surprise Hot Pocket right about now
(X) Asshats
(X) Extreme stupidity on the part of people who do business with spammers
actually this is one of the first methods i've seen that turns asshats and stupid people who do business with spammers into a part of the solution
That is not my argument. My argument is that the top 10 games in a year represent a significant portion of most people's gaming time and for the most part, that situation is not very bad for Mac users. The casual gamer can easily find 1 to 3 games to play in a year and that is all most people buy. If their tastes are average, they're even better off. I don't think the games available are a large deterrent to the average person, even if it is the the relatively small hardcore gamer market. This isn't even taking into account the console gaming market's mitigating effect.
you mentioned the top 10 in a year, but you listed the top 6 of all time which seemed like cherry-picking to me at the time. it looks like the top 10 games in a year aren't a "5 of 6" situation, but they aren't as bad as i figured they'd be:2006
1. World of Warcraft--Vivendi Games - PC/MAC
2. The Sims 2--Electronic Arts - PC/MAC (8 months later)
3. The Sims 2: Open For Business Expansion Pack--Electronic Arts - PC/MAC (6 months later)
4. Star Wars: Empire At War--LucasArts - PC/Mac (1 year later)
5. The Sims 2: Pets Expansion Pack--Electronic Arts - PC/Mac (1 month later)
6. Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion--Take-Two Interactive - PC
7. Age of Empires III--Microsoft - PC
8. The Sims 2: Family Fun Stuff Expansion Pack--Electronic Arts - PC/MAC
9. Civilization IV--Take-Two Interactive - PC
10. The Sims 2: Nightlife Expansion Pack--Electronic Arts - PC/MAC (6 months later)
2005
1. World Of Warcraft (Vivendi Universal) - PC/MAC
2. The Sims 2: University Expansion Pack (Electronic Arts) - PC/MAC (9 months later)
3. The Sims 2 (Electronic Arts) - PC/MAC (8 months later)
4. Guild Wars (NCSoft) - PC
5. Roller Coaster Tycoon 3 (Atari) - PC/Mac (1 year later)
6. Battlefield 2 (Electronic Arts) - PC
7. The Sims 2: Nightlife Expansion Pack (Electronic Arts) - PC/MAC (6 months later)
8. Age Of Empires III (Microsoft) - PC
9. The Sims Deluxe (Electronic Arts) - PC/Mac (5 months later)
10. Call Of Duty 2 (Activision) - PC/Mac (6 months later)
(i used this site for release date lookup)
it looks like Aspyr is doing a good job of translating EA games (and some non-EA), but there's still pretty significant lagtime and i'm not sure how much play-time there is to be had out of a lot of the Sims expansion packs even if they are being bought in great numbers (i've owned both The Sims games, but never played an expansion pack, and never played either longer than a month). i also can't vouch for the quality of the translation, the only games i've played on my Macs have been WoW and Diablo and they use a different development model.
if you place the Digg button a little lower you could make Pillsbury Doughboy noises to give feedback. if you place it a little lower still, well...
Do you see how the average, gamer who is not hardcore would not be too perturbed by the lack of choice?
that's a pretty misleading way of examining the games. the 5 games listed there that work on a Mac have release dates that span more than a decade (Myst is 1993?). i've played a game for as long as 2 years before (Diablo, EQ, WoW), but i doubt most non-hardcore people would do it. if your argument is that the list you gave is a representative sample of all games released and therefore the time between those top games can be filled with others, i'd have to disagree. but it's hard to provide evidence beyond suggesting that you take a walk through the Mac games section of your local CompUSA, well maybe "walking through" it is an overstatement since it'll be about 20 boxes (of which a majority will be solitaire compilations).anything that cuts down on the amount of typing that's required on a cellphone keyboard to accomplish a task is a good thing
i'm curious how the prediction is being tested against the private data though, it may not be possible to use this method if the test is being completed internally by netflix themselves by running the program (versus providing the contestants with a list of movies to predict using their program and then returning the predictions).
and that smoke rising from the webservers of our overlords is just an attempt to calm down the swarm
You should read some of the books Frank Lloyd Wright wrote. Can't find a link for you on Amazon but he wrote a couple of books in which he really breaks down a lot of his design decisions and, at least for a lot of his houses, he did take a lot of engineering questions into account that were genuinely ahead of his time. In particular, there's a house here in Chicago that he devoted a few pages to describing exactly how best to accomplish a carport such that groundwater wouldn't seep into the floor (remember: carport not garage, so the floor was a pretty intricate layering of gravel and sand).
but he also was famous for letting style concerns override useability in houses resulting in features that could be tough to live with (such as low doors), and i remember hearing one owner of a FLW house saying something like "it was our fault for leaving a work of art out in the rain" to explain a leak in the roof design. the Taliesin Visitor's Guide FAQ even devotes a section to answering the question of why his roofs leak:besides it's hard to stay mad at those CentOS kids when they flash a big grin and hold up the roll of candy. it's not called The Freshmaker for nothing, what a clean-cut wholesome bunch
nice work. you spend three paragraphs explaining how he is making a mistake generalizing all jazz music to the stuff he's heard from Kenny G, and then at the end you generalize all people that don't like jazz as Korn fans. good show
1) Incompetence, or
2) Malice.
We're screwed. I really wish I could mod this (+1, Amusing At First But Gradually Becoming Horribly Depressing As You Realize The Implications).
Part 3 of Slashdot History will talk about how they were going to add that category, but they figured the selectbox would be wider than the 640x480 resolution screen that some people still used back when Slashdot started. it was either drop that category or use 6pt font, and the font won. other dropped categories include:
+1, I Have Points To Burn And Nothing Else On This Thread Is Worth a Damn
+1, It's At Score 4 Now, I Might As Well Top It Off
-1, It's The First Thing Posted, It Can't Possibly Be Interesting or Insightful or Funny
if fits because it's pretty much understood that in the U.S. if you are not a lawyer it's only a matter of time before you're bent over by one
a similar article on Ars Technica today pointed out that people who aren't on Comcast are getting these packets sent by Comcast on behalf of the Comcast users they're connected to via bittorrent, so leaving Comcast doesn't even always solve the problem:
nice, thank you. the wikipedia page refers to it as "cell memory" rather than "genetic memory" which appears to be used to refer to something else by the pseudoscience crowd
google links on "genetic memory" appear to all be references to genetic memory in fiction or the "this site is run by bat-shit crazy people" sort of links. do you have any links that are better?
besides this new, laxer definition of "super" has some benefits. for instance tomorrow when they post this article again we can tag it "super-duper", would we rather it took 200 to 300 repostings to achieve that? that'd be at least a year from now
Excuse me, can you remind me what we're supposed to be scared of again?
cmputAs dat spk txtthis is the last time. now they start merging it with other movies to release as a set. expect "Sling Blade Runner, Special Robot People Edition" and "The Blade Kite Runner, Oppressive Android Regime Edition" in the spring
if your assumption is correct, wouldn't RedHat win simply because Acacia knows about an infringer and is not pursuing them?