Bullshit. Ubi and EA get complained about here on Slashdot but their games seem to be selling just fine.
Sure, some of their schemes backfire, but that's the thing with brinksmanship - you have to push your enemy (customers) as far as you think they can go, and then just a little further. Once you find that point at which they begin to push back, you're at the brink, and you can start assessing your strategy for edging them back a little more.
This, in effect, is what every one of these so-called blunders has been. A mere test to see how much abuse a customer will take before they really squeal.
I'd just like to leave this here. Yeah, I know Linux is great and everyfink, but Solaris is excellent and better in some ways. Oracle really ground my gears when they stopped supporting OpenSolaris and OpenIndiana is going nowhere fast.
Can we have the old./ back once SXSW is done? Will these Slashvertisement interviews be a daily feature or are you going to tone it back to say, once a week or two?
I don't think people would even really object as long as you clearly labeled them as such. As I said the other day (and I know you read it Rob because you responded to me) Reddit has their paid placements highlighted in blue.
So, how about it Rob? Or are we counting on the "undercover" nature of these Slashvertisements for SEO?
Don't be such a Pharisee, Rob. I'm just poking gentle fun at you for diluting the Slashdot that we all knew and loved. I'm sure you don't really have much of a say in the direction Dice has taken this site, and I certainly am not the only one complaining here about it.
Maybe you can take these complaints as they are - genuine.
Anyway thanks for not giving me the Slashdot death penalty here for saying this. Not sure what the status is on that feature, because it's been a long while since there was an updated release of the Slashcode.
Step on up and see the high quality Slashdot marketing team at work folks! Another one of Roblimo' genuine interviews, always featuring very reliable information about products and services, is here for our consumption.
Tell us Rob, how much does Dice Holdings charge for a front page Slashvertisement? And when is Slashdot Radio episode 2 coming out?
Thanks, Roblimo, for another Slashvertisement. At least the Reddit stories that are paid placement ads have a blue background.
Why even have the "interview" shtick, and a better question - why the hell would a person pay money to some jerkass to file a FOIA claim? They are really easy to file yourself.
Keep this up, Slashdot! Pretty soon you'll be just as credible as a Jimmy Saville endorsed nanny service and have just as many patrons as well.
Apple might be sue-happy, and they might use Foxconn, which has questionable labor practices, but Samsung is far more evil, Google helps dictators, Nokia was selling telecoms spying infrastructure to Syria...
Just pick the best phone for you. You will never find a cell phone manufacturer that actually is lily-white. Strangely enough, if you dig deeply enough into any of the phone makers, you'll find that Apple probably is the least offensive of the lot.
Good observation. I suppose we should consider ourselves lucky not to have received the Slashdot Death Sentence (IE your karma is marked negative forever).
THERE IS NO FUCKING NEED FOR ANOTHER NFC PROTOCOL BESIDES BLUETOOTH!
Smartphone penetration will never be high enough, nor will they be so guaranteed to never run out of juice, crash, or get hacked, that NFC payment systems and similar gimmickry will reach the level of penetration so that one never needs to carry magnetic swipe cards as well.
NFC is there so you can feel hip (but look like a fanny pack geeky fuck) at the Starbucks when you wave your stupid phone around by the register. It's not an actual technology that will reach high penetration. It's more akin to all those laptops that had IRDA - nice in theory but really just a waste.
It's also there as a bullet point on a list so various phone companies can say "Hah, our enormous bullet point list has NFC and Apple doesn't! Take that Apple with your inferior, less bullet point laden phone!"
What a bunch of crap. There are plenty of cheap bars where you can use you Google Glasses.
I for one really enjoy my local Rogue Taproom, where cell phones are banned. I find it's refreshing to sit down at a bar and talk to people, rather than watching a bunch of people play Adult Game-Boy.
It's just charming when there are, though. Somehow I think it's more honorable when there isn't any pretense of a "story" being anything more than a paid marketing promotion, rather than this method of trying to sneak ads into our eye-holes.
By the way, I'm expecting episode 2 of Slashdot Radio any day now. What say the fine folks at Dice Holdings?
But how else can "anonymous reader" engage Dice Holdings' genius marketing team to promote thepowerbase.com's awesome news aggregator?
I think you are missing the point of these slashdot stories. They are pure SEO spam, designed to uprank whatever shitty site is giving us a synopsis of what is happening at another site.
It's really too bad the internet took off and was noticed by business and advertising types. We need a modern day digital Jesus to upset the money changers' tables.
You can tell the really important slashvertisements because Roblimo posts them, rather than letting spelling and grammar-checking champion samzenpus do the hard work.
It's clear here that old Cliff forgot what it used to be like in the old days, where a couple of guys could make a AAA game in their garage over the summer. We have independent developers creating games that the big boys won't touch, while EA is determined to publish almost nothing but sequels and derivative crap. Yes, it costs EA $100 million to make a game, but that's only after the Hollywood style accounting! And besides, the cost of producing the latest EA shitware IS EA'S PROBLEM NOT MINE!
He ist wants to yell at the gaming community as a whole "shut the fuck up and stop complaining about our shitty DLC policy even though it sucks" but he is simultaneously trying to pretend that this isn't his message.
Fuck EA and their two bit trick ass bullshit games. If I wanted to pay extra for everything that should have come with the initial price I'd go to a fucking fancy steakhouse!
No, no, forget logic. Mine's no worse than yours, anyway - and probably much better, depending on which authority you intend to appeal to. I appeal to the authority of European health care systems and academic institutions, whom do not recommend flu shots, and you are appealing to American big pharmacorps, and their pet academics, who say, oh yeah you need a flu shot.
Of course, you have no real way to respond to this so you go off and throw a little fit of your own.
Flu shots don't work, they are bullshit, and the entire top level of the CDC is infested with pharma shills and people who (or whose spouses) are heavily invested in big pharma, or work for big pharma, or worked for big farma and will work for them once their tenure in gubberment is over.
Trust the machine, little one. it's looking out for you!
I said there were serious bugs in Firefox. You claimed that you've never had a problem. I said that the bugzilla shows that people are having problems.
You have tried to narrow the scope of my statement to your own experience. That's fine, but as I wondered above, what's your point? Frankly I've never had many issues with Firefox either, except for extreme memory hogging type behavior, but this doesn't mean there aren't serious bugs.
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Bullshit. Ubi and EA get complained about here on Slashdot but their games seem to be selling just fine.
Sure, some of their schemes backfire, but that's the thing with brinksmanship - you have to push your enemy (customers) as far as you think they can go, and then just a little further. Once you find that point at which they begin to push back, you're at the brink, and you can start assessing your strategy for edging them back a little more.
This, in effect, is what every one of these so-called blunders has been. A mere test to see how much abuse a customer will take before they really squeal.
I'd just like to leave this here. Yeah, I know Linux is great and everyfink, but Solaris is excellent and better in some ways. Oracle really ground my gears when they stopped supporting OpenSolaris and OpenIndiana is going nowhere fast.
RIP Sun.
Can we have the old ./ back once SXSW is done? Will these Slashvertisement interviews be a daily feature or are you going to tone it back to say, once a week or two?
I don't think people would even really object as long as you clearly labeled them as such. As I said the other day (and I know you read it Rob because you responded to me) Reddit has their paid placements highlighted in blue.
So, how about it Rob? Or are we counting on the "undercover" nature of these Slashvertisements for SEO?
Don't be such a Pharisee, Rob. I'm just poking gentle fun at you for diluting the Slashdot that we all knew and loved. I'm sure you don't really have much of a say in the direction Dice has taken this site, and I certainly am not the only one complaining here about it.
Maybe you can take these complaints as they are - genuine.
Anyway thanks for not giving me the Slashdot death penalty here for saying this. Not sure what the status is on that feature, because it's been a long while since there was an updated release of the Slashcode.
Helps to see correctly. Wikileaks is a spin machine, releasing what our handy dandy overlords have decided is fit for us plebeians to see.
You've deliberately mis-construed my meaning. Wikileaks is part of the media machine, and the fact that they would deign to edit cables proves this.
Step on up and see the high quality Slashdot marketing team at work folks! Another one of Roblimo' genuine interviews, always featuring very reliable information about products and services, is here for our consumption.
Tell us Rob, how much does Dice Holdings charge for a front page Slashvertisement? And when is Slashdot Radio episode 2 coming out?
There are thousands of cables and Wikileaks, the media friendly spin organization, was trickling them out one or two per day.
That's bullshit. The idea that they were editing the cables "for safety" is bullshit too.
Thankfully somebody released the whole unedited package.
Thanks, Roblimo, for another Slashvertisement. At least the Reddit stories that are paid placement ads have a blue background.
Why even have the "interview" shtick, and a better question - why the hell would a person pay money to some jerkass to file a FOIA claim? They are really easy to file yourself.
Keep this up, Slashdot! Pretty soon you'll be just as credible as a Jimmy Saville endorsed nanny service and have just as many patrons as well.
"Osama wasn't funded or trained by the US."
Tell us another lie!
I'm afraid I need a citation citing the need for a citation.
See how this works? Asking for a citation is useless - you can look shit up for yourself.
I will research anything you like for $150 an hour, though. Feel free to pay me ahead of time.
"this is becoming an equally relevant tech industry trade show"
Yes, perhaps partly due to the magic of Dice Holdings' marketing arm!
It's not as if the things being reported on here on /. from SXSW are particularly nerdy. Cloud computing? Feh. Whoopee.
Apple might be sue-happy, and they might use Foxconn, which has questionable labor practices, but Samsung is far more evil, Google helps dictators, Nokia was selling telecoms spying infrastructure to Syria...
Just pick the best phone for you. You will never find a cell phone manufacturer that actually is lily-white. Strangely enough, if you dig deeply enough into any of the phone makers, you'll find that Apple probably is the least offensive of the lot.
Why the hell is Slashdot pimping SXSW so diligently? Does Dice Holdings have a stake in SXSW?
I swear this whole site is becoming nothing but spam.
Good observation. I suppose we should consider ourselves lucky not to have received the Slashdot Death Sentence (IE your karma is marked negative forever).
God damn it, every time I look at this increasingly crypto-ad-laden site there's a new Roblimo story about SXSW.
WE GET IT. SXSW IS HIP.
Jeez, back off. Dice Holdings is really getting their money's worth out of Slashdot aren't they?
"eliminating the need for NFC"
THERE IS NO FUCKING NEED FOR ANOTHER NFC PROTOCOL BESIDES BLUETOOTH!
Smartphone penetration will never be high enough, nor will they be so guaranteed to never run out of juice, crash, or get hacked, that NFC payment systems and similar gimmickry will reach the level of penetration so that one never needs to carry magnetic swipe cards as well.
NFC is there so you can feel hip (but look like a fanny pack geeky fuck) at the Starbucks when you wave your stupid phone around by the register. It's not an actual technology that will reach high penetration. It's more akin to all those laptops that had IRDA - nice in theory but really just a waste.
It's also there as a bullet point on a list so various phone companies can say "Hah, our enormous bullet point list has NFC and Apple doesn't! Take that Apple with your inferior, less bullet point laden phone!"
Wake up you idiots.
What a bunch of crap. There are plenty of cheap bars where you can use you Google Glasses.
I for one really enjoy my local Rogue Taproom, where cell phones are banned. I find it's refreshing to sit down at a bar and talk to people, rather than watching a bunch of people play Adult Game-Boy.
This is due more to Excel sucking than any other cause.
The same calculations can be done with Python or even Lisp or Smalltalk in a much more efficient way.
It's just charming when there are, though. Somehow I think it's more honorable when there isn't any pretense of a "story" being anything more than a paid marketing promotion, rather than this method of trying to sneak ads into our eye-holes.
By the way, I'm expecting episode 2 of Slashdot Radio any day now. What say the fine folks at Dice Holdings?
But how else can "anonymous reader" engage Dice Holdings' genius marketing team to promote thepowerbase.com's awesome news aggregator?
I think you are missing the point of these slashdot stories. They are pure SEO spam, designed to uprank whatever shitty site is giving us a synopsis of what is happening at another site.
It's really too bad the internet took off and was noticed by business and advertising types. We need a modern day digital Jesus to upset the money changers' tables.
You can tell the really important slashvertisements because Roblimo posts them, rather than letting spelling and grammar-checking champion samzenpus do the hard work.
Go Dice Holdings!
It's clear here that old Cliff forgot what it used to be like in the old days, where a couple of guys could make a AAA game in their garage over the summer. We have independent developers creating games that the big boys won't touch, while EA is determined to publish almost nothing but sequels and derivative crap. Yes, it costs EA $100 million to make a game, but that's only after the Hollywood style accounting! And besides, the cost of producing the latest EA shitware IS EA'S PROBLEM NOT MINE!
He ist wants to yell at the gaming community as a whole "shut the fuck up and stop complaining about our shitty DLC policy even though it sucks" but he is simultaneously trying to pretend that this isn't his message.
Fuck EA and their two bit trick ass bullshit games. If I wanted to pay extra for everything that should have come with the initial price I'd go to a fucking fancy steakhouse!
Since the supercookie BS started my policy is to allow only certain sites to store cookies, and no sites are allows local database storage.
It doesn't seem to actually break any sites either.
No, no, forget logic. Mine's no worse than yours, anyway - and probably much better, depending on which authority you intend to appeal to. I appeal to the authority of European health care systems and academic institutions, whom do not recommend flu shots, and you are appealing to American big pharmacorps, and their pet academics, who say, oh yeah you need a flu shot.
Of course, you have no real way to respond to this so you go off and throw a little fit of your own.
Flu shots don't work, they are bullshit, and the entire top level of the CDC is infested with pharma shills and people who (or whose spouses) are heavily invested in big pharma, or work for big pharma, or worked for big farma and will work for them once their tenure in gubberment is over.
Trust the machine, little one. it's looking out for you!
I said there were serious bugs in Firefox. You claimed that you've never had a problem. I said that the bugzilla shows that people are having problems.
You have tried to narrow the scope of my statement to your own experience. That's fine, but as I wondered above, what's your point? Frankly I've never had many issues with Firefox either, except for extreme memory hogging type behavior, but this doesn't mean there aren't serious bugs.