For those of you nodding your head in agreement - remember the bullshit that was Tribes2 development... endless patches and glitches, then finally after months of hell - a pretty darn fun game.
So many games out there aren't developed enough or are rushed to market so fast to feed the hyped up masses... that the end result is the first few months of actual 1.0 is the *real* beta testing.
Back in the day when the Steves ran Apple there was a very strong understanding the Apple won't sell anything to the military for any reason, especially for warfare. Of course the military wasn't ever directly sold Apple products, but they aquired them through third party purchasers and ended up being in the missile silos anyway.
I would imagine this business decree was tossed out with Jobs to help bolster sales any way they could.
That, my friends, is where my fanboy history ends - I bought a PC and ran linux. The rest I read in the flame wars here.
Sad thing is, our users have grown accoustom to the hard work we do to prevent spam that when they get a single spam message in their inbox, they pick up the phone and call the help desk, who then create a ticket and forward it to me so that I can "check the spam filter to make sure its working".
Seriously? Fuck you... press the delete button and get on with your life. How about I just create a catchall and forward it to your inbox - then you can see all the crap we're blocking first hand.
VMWARE server SUX, the new web interface is horrible, I thought VMWARE was the best (may still be for enterprise) but I use VirtualBox in Ubuntu and love it. Think it is better for on the desktop use.
No matter how careful and no scripts you can still get infected quite easily. How long does it take an uprotected windows PC to get infected once it's plugged in?
Using VMWare Server for hosting desktops isn't that difficult. The web interface isn't as pretty as the Workstation App, but you're getting it for free - and it runs VMWare virtual machines out of the box.
As far as infected machines go - any moron can spin up an XP workstation unpatched and un-natted - but it's not that difficult to run XP behind a nat connection until you get fully patched.
The web interface gives you the functionality you need to get a SERVER working. If you want all the bells and whistles - get workstation.
Pops of the 70's phonograph Hiss of the 80's magnetic tape Sizzle of the 00's MP3s.
Sounds like we had a perfect format in the optical disc - now we just need audio engineers that don't fuck up the mastering with everything cranked to 11.
If you know a little linux, some open source software, and are a tad handy with gimp - you could make yourself some serious bank by selling new websites to customers like this.
$33K + $3.5K/month is a good return. And you'll only need to plug in one server.
Okay, so it would be a waste of coffee had this device required fresh grounds... but now that you've brewed your java - what else are you going to use them for?
if the profit margin on those 6.3 million items was razor thin (or there were more "loss leaders" than usual) then this report is crap.
Yeah, but they still shipped a lot of crap so that's cool, right?
Accountants, never trust them, they'll always bend the numbers to look good.
Sometimes I use their tricks to get my stuff through budget meetings... but, yeah - don't ever trust an accountant with a spreadsheet... especially when they don't show you all the numbers.
Just because they sold more items doesn't mean they made as much of a profit as they would have during a non-holiday season.
People are buying more tangible items at cut rate prices instead of handing out gift cards - this helps retailers anywhere move more items.
The kick-to-the-balls is when the profit enters the equation - if the profit margin on those 6.3 million items was razor thin (or there were more "loss leaders" than usual) then this report is crap.
Such is the case with Spore as well. Now I don't know, maybe the game gets awesome in later stages but to me, it seemed very shallow the little I tooled around with it on a friend's copy. The first two stages were really boring. I also had a look at his game on the Civilization stage. Well guess what? I've already seen that done better in a game called... Civilization. I likes me a good Civ simulator, in fact I own Civ 4 and it's two expansions. So if you aren't doing it better than that, and it isn't, well then I am not that interested.
Had I bought it, I would have felt rather ripped off. However I know you have to be careful on those extremely hyped games. You can't go by reviews either. Reviewers have already talked them selves in to how good the game will be, reviews are far too positively biased for Big Hits(tm).
I did buy it based on the hype and the many long civ games that I absolutely loved to play... I was one of the first of my friends to own this game - and got to be the one to tell them to hold off because there's a steaming turd in the box that EA is selling us.
Considering I have a couple of HP DL380 G5s with 2.5" 72GB 15K SAS drives, each set me back about $600 (after education discount)... the cost of this drive $738.84 with a truckload of performance to boot is a heck of a deal.
It's a good idea. sure Symantec, McAfee, and the rest are going to lose some business - I doubt it'll be a big enough dent to notice. Folks that will rely on the microsoft offering will be the same people that rely on Defender for malware prevention. Those slightly more technology minded will identify the need for something more robust.
Chalk my vote up in the "its better than shipping it with a trialware sales pitch for some other crap" column.
I was just about to order a TiVo for the wife who is always missing the few TV shows she actually enjoys. I figured it was worth the subscription to make her life a bit brighter... I wrote MythTV off as a hacker's Tivo but I'll take a longer look and see if I can give it a go.
Just for the sake of sanity and not having to support it - I may go with the Tivo anyway.
Side note and totally off-topic - WHAT THE FUCK SLASHDOT? Your site has been making my pop-up blocker and Firefox go fucking NUTS today!
Ditto... popups are probably the least effective on sites that attract technology minded folks - no, they don't see the ads - it just pisses them off everytime the blocker has to prevent them.
We had this same problem at the college I work at until the IT department changed up the way we handled this. Now if they "break" a phone we charge the department for phone replacements. You'd be surprised at how few managers of departments are willing to slice $200 off their budget to get a new shiny phone. Or if they do - I don't care, because it doesn't set any of my projects behind any longer.
Also, we initiated a two year rotation on phones - everyone gets a new one (the same model as the deans and executives) every two years. That cut down on the envy-breakage considerably.
If I were a Cogent customer and unable to connect to the other half of the internet... I would bail and connect with another company that pays their bills. Contract or not - Cogent wouldn't get a dime from me after this B.S.
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For those of you nodding your head in agreement - remember the bullshit that was Tribes2 development... endless patches and glitches, then finally after months of hell - a pretty darn fun game.
So many games out there aren't developed enough or are rushed to market so fast to feed the hyped up masses... that the end result is the first few months of actual 1.0 is the *real* beta testing.
Back in the day when the Steves ran Apple there was a very strong understanding the Apple won't sell anything to the military for any reason, especially for warfare. Of course the military wasn't ever directly sold Apple products, but they aquired them through third party purchasers and ended up being in the missile silos anyway.
I would imagine this business decree was tossed out with Jobs to help bolster sales any way they could.
That, my friends, is where my fanboy history ends - I bought a PC and ran linux. The rest I read in the flame wars here.
We already do this... but typical end users can not be bothered to do any research first.
When we spend the time to educate one, there are dozens waiting in the wings to take their place.
IIRC Iron Port uses multiple vendors for their spam and virus identification/scoring process.
It's an interesting appliance that I really wanted to get - but the cost was killer.
Arms race is right - who goes broke first, loses.
Sad thing is, our users have grown accoustom to the hard work we do to prevent spam that when they get a single spam message in their inbox, they pick up the phone and call the help desk, who then create a ticket and forward it to me so that I can "check the spam filter to make sure its working".
Seriously? Fuck you... press the delete button and get on with your life. How about I just create a catchall and forward it to your inbox - then you can see all the crap we're blocking first hand.
The Axim was dumped because of sales and stiff competition from other manufacturers like HP wiping the floor with their PDA features.
Axims were the same as Dell's desktops - mediocre consumer grade hardware but nothing to get excited about.
VMWARE server SUX, the new web interface is horrible, I thought VMWARE was the best (may still be for enterprise) but I use VirtualBox in Ubuntu and love it. Think it is better for on the desktop use.
No matter how careful and no scripts you can still get infected quite easily. How long does it take an uprotected windows PC to get infected once it's plugged in?
Using VMWare Server for hosting desktops isn't that difficult. The web interface isn't as pretty as the Workstation App, but you're getting it for free - and it runs VMWare virtual machines out of the box.
As far as infected machines go - any moron can spin up an XP workstation unpatched and un-natted - but it's not that difficult to run XP behind a nat connection until you get fully patched.
The web interface gives you the functionality you need to get a SERVER working. If you want all the bells and whistles - get workstation.
Pops of the 70's phonograph
Hiss of the 80's magnetic tape
Sizzle of the 00's MP3s.
Sounds like we had a perfect format in the optical disc - now we just need audio engineers that don't fuck up the mastering with everything cranked to 11.
If you know a little linux, some open source software, and are a tad handy with gimp - you could make yourself some serious bank by selling new websites to customers like this.
$33K + $3.5K/month is a good return. And you'll only need to plug in one server.
Okay, so it would be a waste of coffee had this device required fresh grounds... but now that you've brewed your java - what else are you going to use them for?
Who ever tagged the story with whoopdefuckingdo - thank you for the LOL moment.
Carry on.
if the profit margin on those 6.3 million items was razor thin (or there were more "loss leaders" than usual) then this report is crap.
Yeah, but they still shipped a lot of crap so that's cool, right?
Accountants, never trust them, they'll always bend the numbers to look good.
Sometimes I use their tricks to get my stuff through budget meetings... but, yeah - don't ever trust an accountant with a spreadsheet... especially when they don't show you all the numbers.
Just because they sold more items doesn't mean they made as much of a profit as they would have during a non-holiday season.
People are buying more tangible items at cut rate prices instead of handing out gift cards - this helps retailers anywhere move more items.
The kick-to-the-balls is when the profit enters the equation - if the profit margin on those 6.3 million items was razor thin (or there were more "loss leaders" than usual) then this report is crap.
I find it very interesting, and somewhat ironic, that the most powerful home gaming console in history has people programing in mechanical gates.
Very cool indeed.
DRM in and of itself isn't evil, in fact Steam brings a lot of features that make it actually appealing to me.
No media, no serial numbers, just a single username and password for all my games.
I'll introduce you to the average user... they'll open anything that gets through spam/virus scans in their email.
Even if you tell them not to open anything they didn't expect, they always do.
Attachments are so exciting to them, it's like a raccoon going after a shiny trinket.
Seriously, its a big deal for me... SP3 has been politically held off the +1000 workstations I manage.
Oh wait... maybe if a few hundred get pwned, then the political minds that decided this crap will finally get their just rewards.
I can only hope...
I did buy it based on the hype and the many long civ games that I absolutely loved to play... I was one of the first of my friends to own this game - and got to be the one to tell them to hold off because there's a steaming turd in the box that EA is selling us.
Yes, I feel very ripped off. EA wins again.
Considering I have a couple of HP DL380 G5s with 2.5" 72GB 15K SAS drives, each set me back about $600 (after education discount) ... the cost of this drive $738.84 with a truckload of performance to boot is a heck of a deal.
It's a good idea. sure Symantec, McAfee, and the rest are going to lose some business - I doubt it'll be a big enough dent to notice. Folks that will rely on the microsoft offering will be the same people that rely on Defender for malware prevention. Those slightly more technology minded will identify the need for something more robust.
Chalk my vote up in the "its better than shipping it with a trialware sales pitch for some other crap" column.
I was just about to order a TiVo for the wife who is always missing the few TV shows she actually enjoys. I figured it was worth the subscription to make her life a bit brighter... I wrote MythTV off as a hacker's Tivo but I'll take a longer look and see if I can give it a go.
Just for the sake of sanity and not having to support it - I may go with the Tivo anyway.
Ditto... popups are probably the least effective on sites that attract technology minded folks - no, they don't see the ads - it just pisses them off everytime the blocker has to prevent them.
Screen ads much, Taco?
We had this same problem at the college I work at until the IT department changed up the way we handled this. Now if they "break" a phone we charge the department for phone replacements. You'd be surprised at how few managers of departments are willing to slice $200 off their budget to get a new shiny phone. Or if they do - I don't care, because it doesn't set any of my projects behind any longer.
Also, we initiated a two year rotation on phones - everyone gets a new one (the same model as the deans and executives) every two years. That cut down on the envy-breakage considerably.
Your tax payer dollars hard at work...
There, fix it for you.
If I were a Cogent customer and unable to connect to the other half of the internet... I would bail and connect with another company that pays their bills. Contract or not - Cogent wouldn't get a dime from me after this B.S.
Where are the angered masses?