What will kill WoW, in the MMORPG market, is a game where much the content is generated three ways: carefully designed by the developers, randomly generated by the game, and created by the players themselves.
Imagine a game where you can design you own swords and armor, or build your own houses. Players can build their own cities, running markets and shops (perhaps the shopkeep can be one of their 'alts', or their player when they are not online) -- even set up their own questgivers (perhaps you need some number of rare items to build your own magic device). Toss in the random spawning of troll villages in the boonies, or brigands on well travelled roads, and combine that with an epic main storyline created by the game designers with the usual castles and quests.
Until we get a game with more dynamic content -- mainly, random and user generated -- I can't really see anything displacing WoW. That game just does to many things right, and not one of its competitors appears to be building on that.
They already had a lot of that in Starwars Galaxies. It was awesome for a lot of reasons, but mostly because the players could interact with the way the game worked. I never played the Bounty Hunter role, but if I recall correctly (which I often don't), some of the missions for top level bounty hunters was to fly around and hunt OTHER bounty hunters. How awesome is that?
Top posting is when people intentially respond to a post that is close to the top in order to achieve higher visibility.
Here, maybe. Go back a few years and you'll find that "top-posting" was (and is) used to describe someone who, in a newsgroup post, puts his or her own answer above the quote it responds to, making the discussion hard to follow by the quotes in one single post.
At my work, the entire staff got together and planned a bowling trip. The firm paid for it, and everyone got to bowl for today. We're a small place (16 people), but its still very nice.
You don't think it is possible to understand technology and technology direction without first being a tier 1 technical support person? I worked for a guy who was a FORTRAN programmer for the Navy about 30 years ago. He might not be able to tell you where in the Tools menu that a certain check box is, but he can be presented information from other IT Managers and be able to make an intelligent decision. It's the same with the CFO, they shouldn't be doing data entry for check requests. They should be taking data provided to them and making business decisions that help the company out.
Perhaps in a small company of 100 or so your CTO/CIO needs to have those skills, but in a business of 5,000 people, the CTO better not be wasting his time installing Windows or hooking up PDAs.
Exchange and Outlook are really, really bad at dealing with large amounts of mail (compare with Mail.app, which manages several gigs worth of mail seamlessly). It's pretty poor quality mail server and client combination really. The calendaring support is good, but that's it's only redeeming feature.
I'm going to have to disagree. I'm an IT Manager at a law firm and we've got mailboxes with 4GB and 5 GB of mail each. They function fine. Of course, we have to keep an eye on how big the store gets (that damn 16GB limit), but other than that, I have yet to hear complaints from users about it. Perhaps you were talking about substantially larger mailboxes? I should also note we run Server 2003 and Exchange 2003 (both Enterprise) with Office 2003.
Now, before I get flamed for "allowing" mailboxes that big, the corporate environment is different than the legal environment. Trying to change behavior of a regular user is hard enough, changing it for a partner at a law firm is one step below impossible. They want every piece of mail ever right at their finger tips. They do not want to go to a different folder. It can be mind boggling.
This is all part of a ploy by the global warming alarmists to show how "crazy" hurricanes are behaving and how meteorologists can no longer predict their path with the accuracy they could in the past. To ensure another Katrina doesn't happy, the Imperial Federal Government will establish behavior guidelines to make sure the citizens are acting in a way that is friendly to our environment.
Shortly after that, Freedom and Liberty are brought out back and shot.
No kidding. For some reason, whenever we hear about this in the news, they consistently fail to bring up that we haven't had a new refinery built in three decades. And not to sound like the bad guy, but Alaska is a great spot for drilling. It's half the size of the continental US. Nobody would be upset if there was a two square mile used in the middle of Oklahoma for a project, but somehow Alaska has been painted as a pristine place that shouldn't be touched. I bet people would be willing to alter that image if gas was $.90 a gallon again.
Also, I do not have any proof or evidence that gas would be $.90.
Ummm.... Chrysler is the profitable division at Mercedes right now, they want to sell because it hurts their national pride that the American "brand" is making money and is more reliable than the last few years of Mercedes Benz vehicles.
Not only that, but their quality has drastically decreased in the past five years or so. I don't know if it's because Cisco purchased them or what, but the amount of stories I hear about people having to unplug/replug their routers once a week so it regains connection is absurd. Back in 2000 or so I never had a problem with them.
Just like the Parents Music Resource Center did in regards to music. It was Tipper Gore (wife of Al) who started the whole mess, even though one would assume it would be a religious nutjob who is "thinking of the children".
Since this is the Politics section (and I hope I don't get tarred and feathered here), it's interesting to note that the Sutherlands (both Keifer and Donald) are strong democrats who have been in both 24 and Commander in Chief. Woody Harrelson, who starred in Natural Born Killers, is also against violence in movies.
It reminds me a lot of Ebay back in 1999/2000. They went from something like 2 million users in 1999 to 10 million users in 2000. Well thats all well and good, its near impossible to sustain that type of high growth. Since then they've purchased PayPal (which has a lot of growth opportunities) and moved into auto/boat/house sales. Even if they make a move to be more international, there are a lot of companies that copied them and started before they had a chance to move.
Compare that to Google. They make their money off advertising, Google Earth, and Google Apps premium. Their entry into radio advertising has not been anywhere near the success they were anticipating. In the past two years their growth has surged but it is not sustainable at the current rate. Now if they could double up their efforts on Google Apps and make it a realistic replacement for Exchange/Office, they'd have a new fantastic avenue for growth.
Isn't this what the first mobile phones were? My grandfather used to have a big black box in his lincoln that had a phone attached to it and he'd plug into the cigarette lighter. It looked like one of these. Hard to say if he was doing a lot of global Special Focrces work though, that Lincoln never made it over 35mph.
Or just pay for the OS? I assume most people who spend their time trying to crack windows and not pay for it are the computer types and not the mother-in-law types. For $300, over the course of 5 years, thats incredibly cheap to have something that will (for the most part) work out of the box, provide easy access to updates, and generally install most programs correctly. I've used cracked versions of 2000 and XP, and both of them can be a pain without having the latest service packs, or waiting for the service packs to be cracked for install.
On the other hand, Ubuntu is great and thats what Dell should go with!
We use Interwoven's iManage which integrates tightly with Microsoft Office. Version Control, Authors, Matters, full index searching, its pretty damn good.
I think RSS & Atom has been pigeon-holed to a certain extent.
I 100% agree.
I tried using it a couple years ago to aggregate all the news possible about Eminent Domain (I work in a ED law firm). None of the programs worked that well and it didn't actually download messages. You also had to manually go out and check new feeds. Maybe there is something better today that will capture and store online news, but I haven't found one (haven't looked that hard either).
RSS is going to be a stepping stone for the Next Big Thing. Like digital paper that automatically changes stories as the day goes on.
What is wrong with being selfish? Most of the people I know that were active outside of school did so because school wasn't enough to keep them entertained while young. They were able to get into better schools than most, and more than likely got their masters and now are doing quite well for themselves. Those that didn't do the extra work and strived for mediocrity got just that.
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To be fair, do you have that same graph with who ran congress at the time? That would be the interesting graph.
Amen!
Having lived in all those places, you should be the first one to understand that not everyone can bike to work and walk to the grocery store.
What will kill WoW, in the MMORPG market, is a game where much the content is generated three ways: carefully designed by the developers, randomly generated by the game, and created by the players themselves.
Imagine a game where you can design you own swords and armor, or build your own houses. Players can build their own cities, running markets and shops (perhaps the shopkeep can be one of their 'alts', or their player when they are not online) -- even set up their own questgivers (perhaps you need some number of rare items to build your own magic device). Toss in the random spawning of troll villages in the boonies, or brigands on well travelled roads, and combine that with an epic main storyline created by the game designers with the usual castles and quests.
Until we get a game with more dynamic content -- mainly, random and user generated -- I can't really see anything displacing WoW. That game just does to many things right, and not one of its competitors appears to be building on that.
They already had a lot of that in Starwars Galaxies. It was awesome for a lot of reasons, but mostly because the players could interact with the way the game worked. I never played the Bounty Hunter role, but if I recall correctly (which I often don't), some of the missions for top level bounty hunters was to fly around and hunt OTHER bounty hunters. How awesome is that?At my work, the entire staff got together and planned a bowling trip. The firm paid for it, and everyone got to bowl for today. We're a small place (16 people), but its still very nice.
This is extremely true.
You don't think it is possible to understand technology and technology direction without first being a tier 1 technical support person? I worked for a guy who was a FORTRAN programmer for the Navy about 30 years ago. He might not be able to tell you where in the Tools menu that a certain check box is, but he can be presented information from other IT Managers and be able to make an intelligent decision. It's the same with the CFO, they shouldn't be doing data entry for check requests. They should be taking data provided to them and making business decisions that help the company out.
Perhaps in a small company of 100 or so your CTO/CIO needs to have those skills, but in a business of 5,000 people, the CTO better not be wasting his time installing Windows or hooking up PDAs.
Exchange and Outlook are really, really bad at dealing with large amounts of mail (compare with Mail.app, which manages several gigs worth of mail seamlessly). It's pretty poor quality mail server and client combination really. The calendaring support is good, but that's it's only redeeming feature.
I'm going to have to disagree. I'm an IT Manager at a law firm and we've got mailboxes with 4GB and 5 GB of mail each. They function fine. Of course, we have to keep an eye on how big the store gets (that damn 16GB limit), but other than that, I have yet to hear complaints from users about it. Perhaps you were talking about substantially larger mailboxes? I should also note we run Server 2003 and Exchange 2003 (both Enterprise) with Office 2003.
Now, before I get flamed for "allowing" mailboxes that big, the corporate environment is different than the legal environment. Trying to change behavior of a regular user is hard enough, changing it for a partner at a law firm is one step below impossible. They want every piece of mail ever right at their finger tips. They do not want to go to a different folder. It can be mind boggling.
This is all part of a ploy by the global warming alarmists to show how "crazy" hurricanes are behaving and how meteorologists can no longer predict their path with the accuracy they could in the past. To ensure another Katrina doesn't happy, the Imperial Federal Government will establish behavior guidelines to make sure the citizens are acting in a way that is friendly to our environment.
Shortly after that, Freedom and Liberty are brought out back and shot.
</tin foil hat off>
Boy it's a lovely day outside.
No kidding. For some reason, whenever we hear about this in the news, they consistently fail to bring up that we haven't had a new refinery built in three decades. And not to sound like the bad guy, but Alaska is a great spot for drilling. It's half the size of the continental US. Nobody would be upset if there was a two square mile used in the middle of Oklahoma for a project, but somehow Alaska has been painted as a pristine place that shouldn't be touched. I bet people would be willing to alter that image if gas was $.90 a gallon again.
Also, I do not have any proof or evidence that gas would be $.90.
You are not alone!
You must work in a law firm...
Ummm.... Chrysler is the profitable division at Mercedes right now, they want to sell because it hurts their national pride that the American "brand" is making money and is more reliable than the last few years of Mercedes Benz vehicles.
Not only that, but their quality has drastically decreased in the past five years or so. I don't know if it's because Cisco purchased them or what, but the amount of stories I hear about people having to unplug/replug their routers once a week so it regains connection is absurd. Back in 2000 or so I never had a problem with them.
Just like the Parents Music Resource Center did in regards to music. It was Tipper Gore (wife of Al) who started the whole mess, even though one would assume it would be a religious nutjob who is "thinking of the children".
Since this is the Politics section (and I hope I don't get tarred and feathered here), it's interesting to note that the Sutherlands (both Keifer and Donald) are strong democrats who have been in both 24 and Commander in Chief. Woody Harrelson, who starred in Natural Born Killers, is also against violence in movies.
It reminds me a lot of Ebay back in 1999/2000. They went from something like 2 million users in 1999 to 10 million users in 2000. Well thats all well and good, its near impossible to sustain that type of high growth. Since then they've purchased PayPal (which has a lot of growth opportunities) and moved into auto/boat/house sales. Even if they make a move to be more international, there are a lot of companies that copied them and started before they had a chance to move.
Compare that to Google. They make their money off advertising, Google Earth, and Google Apps premium. Their entry into radio advertising has not been anywhere near the success they were anticipating. In the past two years their growth has surged but it is not sustainable at the current rate. Now if they could double up their efforts on Google Apps and make it a realistic replacement for Exchange/Office, they'd have a new fantastic avenue for growth.
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Isn't this what the first mobile phones were? My grandfather used to have a big black box in his lincoln that had a phone attached to it and he'd plug into the cigarette lighter. It looked like one of these. Hard to say if he was doing a lot of global Special Focrces work though, that Lincoln never made it over 35mph.
Or just pay for the OS? I assume most people who spend their time trying to crack windows and not pay for it are the computer types and not the mother-in-law types. For $300, over the course of 5 years, thats incredibly cheap to have something that will (for the most part) work out of the box, provide easy access to updates, and generally install most programs correctly. I've used cracked versions of 2000 and XP, and both of them can be a pain without having the latest service packs, or waiting for the service packs to be cracked for install.
On the other hand, Ubuntu is great and thats what Dell should go with!
We use Interwoven's iManage which integrates tightly with Microsoft Office. Version Control, Authors, Matters, full index searching, its pretty damn good.
Is is space day on Slashdot?
Firefox Losing Marketshare, Internet Explorer Gaining.
There the Dutch company said that Safari only accounts for 1.6% of the market, compared to what this article says.
I'm looking forward to Firefox 3.0. I hear it washes your dishes and matches your socks.
I think RSS & Atom has been pigeon-holed to a certain extent.
I 100% agree.
I tried using it a couple years ago to aggregate all the news possible about Eminent Domain (I work in a ED law firm). None of the programs worked that well and it didn't actually download messages. You also had to manually go out and check new feeds. Maybe there is something better today that will capture and store online news, but I haven't found one (haven't looked that hard either).
RSS is going to be a stepping stone for the Next Big Thing. Like digital paper that automatically changes stories as the day goes on.
Someone is bitter...
What is wrong with being selfish? Most of the people I know that were active outside of school did so because school wasn't enough to keep them entertained while young. They were able to get into better schools than most, and more than likely got their masters and now are doing quite well for themselves. Those that didn't do the extra work and strived for mediocrity got just that.
Not Everyone Gets To Be An Astronaut When They Grow Up