So is August 24th going to be the new April 1st of Google? All the on again off again rumors make it feel like an April Fool's Day joke and how Google typically handles that day.
Disappearing platforms. You have to jump quick or it'll disappear or drop. Wait a few seconds and it reappears.
Somewhere in SuperMario Heaven SuperMario God is chuckling.
While there will be some CGI, the Doom monsters like the Baron, the Imp and the Pinky Demon will mostly be real monsters
Hopefully none of those real monsters will be harmed in the making of this movie or they'll have PETA breathing down their neck. That might be more dangerous than the monsters.
Interestingly, Sony Online has recently announced that it will be creating a DC Comics-based MMO, targeting a fourth-quarter 2007 release for the PC and unnamed next generation consoles, which would likely not include a Microsoft platform release. Thus, although far away, the stage seems to be set for a Marvel versus DC massively multiplayer game showdown on rival next-gen consoles.
I thought that many have been trying different things in an attempt to attract the "untapped" girl gamers. This has been going on since the success of the King's Quest series. It has probably expanded at a similar rate to expansion of female gamers.
This doesn't sound too outrageous a goal to me. Last time they were a new system. The next will be a second generation system. If they really do have a whole year being the newest big thing I can see a lot of people being sucked in. How many of those who have an xbox now will NOT get the newer version? How many who didn't get the original xbox will consider the next one?
Does anyone know how many xbox systems were sold in the first year alone?
But it isn't 2 or 3 days a week, it's one. To me that seems to be the perfect balance.
And I can totally respect that opinion. Others might feel that the last 4 hours of every Friday would be the perfect balance. Some might think the perfect balance is one day every other week.
My point isn't that Google is doing something wrong. My point is that because of potential risks, people shouldn't assume the current plan is perfect. It's quite possible that in the future Google should cut back on the hours devoted to personal projects...or add hours...I don't know. It's also possible that they should limit which people get to work on personal projects. I really don't know. Given what little I know about their projects and the caliber of employees they hire, I'd probably agree that, at least at first glance, they've worked out a pretty good balance. Perfect? Who knows?
I think you make some very valid points. For the most part I agree with you. I wasn't trying to suggest that Google was in the wrong or that the risk they were taking is too high.
I'm just saying that some people hear about the personal projects day and immediately assume this will lead to profits.
My guess is that it probably will. I certainly agree with the premise of using some time off from the big projects to look to the future and other possible projects as a good thing. Whether 20% of every employees work hours is the magic number to maximize profits remains to be seen. I definitely don't think it's a bad idea. I just don't think it's something to assume is perfect without the need of re-evaluation at some point.
Why not two days a week? three? Sooner or later it becomes unprofitable. I'm not saying one day a week is for sure a bad idea. I'm just saying there's no guarantee that it's the most profitable way of going about things.
Also, I'm not sure it's a guarantee that a day a week to work on your own project==happy employees.
What happens after working there for 3 years and your ideas and the things you've spent tons of time on aren't approved to go larger. What happens if you have tons of time but aren't given the assets to see your ideas really get anywhere? You can still feel jacked and underappreciated and all the other things that help create unhappy employees.
While there are great possibilities concerning those personal projects of google employees, it's still a risk. For many employees it could just turn into a wasted day. For others, it could turn into something that Google puts a lot of money into and ends up being a flop. Hopefully enough good (profitable) ideas come out of it but there's no guarantee.
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So is August 24th going to be the new April 1st of Google? All the on again off again rumors make it feel like an April Fool's Day joke and how Google typically handles that day.
Here it is:
http://desktop.google.com/plugins/c/all.html
None of them stood out as very useful to me, but I can imagine they could be great for some people.
Xbox 360 Small Business Edition and XBox 360 Student and Teacher Edition
Disappearing platforms. You have to jump quick or it'll disappear or drop. Wait a few seconds and it reappears. Somewhere in SuperMario Heaven SuperMario God is chuckling.
Except that he mentioned it came with an extra controller.
Well, the article suggests that it can be worth even more on ebay.
Don't worry. By the time PS3 comes out you'll have beaten even the longest of your PS2 games.
http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?st ory=5724
http://einsteinsbreakfast.com/officegames.html/
metaphorically? figuratively? literally?
I thought that many have been trying different things in an attempt to attract the "untapped" girl gamers. This has been going on since the success of the King's Quest series. It has probably expanded at a similar rate to expansion of female gamers.
If you add others to Opera, be prepared to have troubles when you update it. I can't seem to get my new ones back now.
Now that I think about it, they'd be smart to make it a drop down menu so you can have it search ebay or dictionary.com or ... etc.
How long until someone figures a way to make it point to Google's search engine?
Available in late 2007.
Naw, it'll probably only take 3 years until people figure out how to get PS3's on xbox live.
Does anyone know how many xbox systems were sold in the first year alone?
My point isn't that Google is doing something wrong. My point is that because of potential risks, people shouldn't assume the current plan is perfect. It's quite possible that in the future Google should cut back on the hours devoted to personal projects...or add hours...I don't know. It's also possible that they should limit which people get to work on personal projects. I really don't know. Given what little I know about their projects and the caliber of employees they hire, I'd probably agree that, at least at first glance, they've worked out a pretty good balance. Perfect? Who knows?
I'm just saying that some people hear about the personal projects day and immediately assume this will lead to profits.
My guess is that it probably will. I certainly agree with the premise of using some time off from the big projects to look to the future and other possible projects as a good thing. Whether 20% of every employees work hours is the magic number to maximize profits remains to be seen. I definitely don't think it's a bad idea. I just don't think it's something to assume is perfect without the need of re-evaluation at some point.
Also, I'm not sure it's a guarantee that a day a week to work on your own project==happy employees.
What happens after working there for 3 years and your ideas and the things you've spent tons of time on aren't approved to go larger. What happens if you have tons of time but aren't given the assets to see your ideas really get anywhere? You can still feel jacked and underappreciated and all the other things that help create unhappy employees.
While there are great possibilities concerning those personal projects of google employees, it's still a risk. For many employees it could just turn into a wasted day. For others, it could turn into something that Google puts a lot of money into and ends up being a flop. Hopefully enough good (profitable) ideas come out of it but there's no guarantee.