ESPN was decent, but the reason for the increase was almost entirely price. Sega couldn't keep up that $20 price point forever. If EA still sold twice as many at $50, they could sell a WHOLE lot more at $20.
Yes, I know it's all completely optional, but the default settings the Grandma's and random people will use mine an extreme amount of data. And the little side bar with "automatic rss feeds" and what not seems even more intrusive then ever before.
A good analogy for what Google did was first they got one credit card (the IPO). They maxed this credit card out with lots of hirings and acquisitions (Dodgeball?). Now to stay competitive with MS and Yahoo they need to get another credit card....maybe to buy that Chef they were talking about. However, unlike any normal kind of debt, they have no obligation to pay it back, or even pay interest (a dividend) on this. They probably figure their earnings will suck for Q3, so they might as well get as much cash out as they can before the ship sinks. Maybe they can aquire some other company that has a more stable income and pray that keeps them afloat.
Semi joking troll aside, People say they got this cash out to make an aquisition, but really they could have done that with a stock swap (like most large mergers). They make a billion in profits every quarter, so it can't just be to pay salaries and buy computers. They really just want to take advantage of an over inflated stock while they can...as its been falling for a while.
Just to be devil's advocate...what if he started stalking a girl in the game, and harrasing her. Or what if he found out she was cheating on her virtual spouse and started blackmailing her for virtual gold? All those things virtual or not can probably be tried in the real world, despite them being "in game"
I used to crank out my old Mac for that very same reason, but now you can play on Windows boxes: http://www.ambrosiasw.com/games/evn/ . It's EV Nova, but its pretty much the same as the original, even a little better.
Google is a major investor in one of those Internet-over-power-lines companies. Perhaps someone got their rumors mixed up, but there may be some sort of Google internet coming your way (Or at least Google will have their hand in it)
Although I am too lazy to look up any hard evidence (and when is it necessary on slashdot?), I've heard that Postgre-SQL is much better at heavy loads then MySQL.
This is not the number of users. No one ever says that, although people seem to misinterpret the download count to mean active users.
Firefox continues this hype though by making big press releases and banners celebrating the number of downloads. You are correct that the number is basically meaningless, but it is not others that make it out to be something, it's Mozilla themselves.
There is no reason to be "scared" of this. Microsoft has never sued anyone for violating their patents, they register them as a defensive measure, so you can't patent the same thing and then sue them for usin git.
I've noticed a decent amount of code changes that appear to be implemented, and then rolled back. (Testing in production i suppose?) One I noticed a month or two ago that was gone a day or two later was an "Alter Relationship" link instead of seeing the friend/foe bubbles. Another change they rollout and rollback seems to be allowing Anonymous cowards posting from proxies...sometimes i can post as anonymous at work, sometimes not (mostly not...with the "Slowdown cowboy, Its been 15 minutes since you last posted" error.
Anyone having trouble with it still is usually using Linux and hasn't gotten their true-type fonts working correctly.
I don't know...I installed OpenOffice on my mother-in-law's new computer to save her the expense of Office...showed her how to use it and open her files etc... It ended up being a never ending headache for me getting calls about how it wouldn't display her office files right, or how she couldn't figure out how to do something. In the end she ended up sneaking a copy of MS Office on there without me knowing. I could never pin down exactly what her problems were, it may have just been resistance to change, but she sure hated OpenOffice.
Theres a big difference in making something more advanced and making something look more advanced. The grandparent simply wanted his stuff to "look" impressive. And mixing a bunch of shit in there to make something look impressive is exactly the kind of thing you probably end up cleaning up.
or bring in ideas from Perl or C to my PHP code to make it look more advanced
Who are you trying to impress? Why don't you just write whatever PHP you need to get the job done, no one cares if your code looks more advanced, it drives me nuts when people have this mentality in my office.
I'm not sure where you get that idea? I've seen plenty of cases of law enforcement breaking up illegal drug trades, phishing, fraud, piracy etc on computers. Maybe the child porn ones are high profile, but it certainly doesn't seem like thats ALL they are worried about. And even if it was, I would say child porn probably would be one of the best ones to focus your efforts on as it hurts people on a different level then the crimes cited above.
When you have a female boss and female coworkers, you really don't want to be seen reading an article "about" female orgasms in the workplace...its just not professional and someone could find a way to make a big case about it.
The difference of course, was that slashdot didn't announce it when Yahoo added that feature. I'm frankly surprised the Google blog entry about "those freakonomics guys" didn't get posted here. No doubt at least 50 people submitted it as a story idea though.
Asians don't count because instead of complaining about why white people are the only ones creating games, they go out and freakin' create games themselves. There is absolutely nothing stopping a black or hispanic person from starting the best gaming company ever. In fact to keep up with Affirmative Action video game companies would probably hire you in a second if you were a non-asian minority that wanted to program games.
I dont see any option on their web site, besides just signing up for a big web hosting package including domain etc...maybe i'm not looking in the right place...
This is another one of those technologies like "blogging" that technically has been around forever (I could record an mp3 of my journal or whatever years ago), but suddenly is the hip new thing for journalists to talk about. Just like blogging, which is just a simplified version of one's home page as far as I'm concerned. Have we ran out of actual new tech to make fads out of? And who are the people that get into this podcasting...i just don't get it.
It looks like DreamHost (like many other sites I've seen) makes you register your domain with them....does anyone know of a service that allows you to just point your MX records at them, while they host email?
I did this same thing, but be warned, I would not trust this scenario if your company does not have it's own data center or you don't plan on hosting it in a data center (ie, don't setup the email server under your desk). One 24 hour span without power or internet and you won't get the chance for "anymore of your bright ideas". There are lots of reputable companies that do email hosting for small businesses that don't charge much, and handle all the backup, power, liability etc for you. Such as register.com or godaddy.com and a handful of others. If the blacklisting from AOL with those providers is a problem, setting up your own SMTP server is much less of a hassle.
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ESPN was decent, but the reason for the increase was almost entirely price. Sega couldn't keep up that $20 price point forever. If EA still sold twice as many at $50, they could sell a WHOLE lot more at $20.
Yes, I know it's all completely optional, but the default settings the Grandma's and random people will use mine an extreme amount of data. And the little side bar with "automatic rss feeds" and what not seems even more intrusive then ever before.
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A good analogy for what Google did was first they got one credit card (the IPO). They maxed this credit card out with lots of hirings and acquisitions (Dodgeball?). Now to stay competitive with MS and Yahoo they need to get another credit card....maybe to buy that Chef they were talking about. However, unlike any normal kind of debt, they have no obligation to pay it back, or even pay interest (a dividend) on this. They probably figure their earnings will suck for Q3, so they might as well get as much cash out as they can before the ship sinks. Maybe they can aquire some other company that has a more stable income and pray that keeps them afloat.
Semi joking troll aside, People say they got this cash out to make an aquisition, but really they could have done that with a stock swap (like most large mergers). They make a billion in profits every quarter, so it can't just be to pay salaries and buy computers. They really just want to take advantage of an over inflated stock while they can...as its been falling for a while.
Just to be devil's advocate...what if he started stalking a girl in the game, and harrasing her. Or what if he found out she was cheating on her virtual spouse and started blackmailing her for virtual gold? All those things virtual or not can probably be tried in the real world, despite them being "in game"
BTW, It is customary to use the abbreviation NSFW when you post a link like this.
I believe as the ass ambassador, he is entitled to diplomatic immunity in this case.
At least I hope so since he is publishing so many copyrighted images illegally....
I used to crank out my old Mac for that very same reason, but now you can play on Windows boxes: http://www.ambrosiasw.com/games/evn/ . It's EV Nova, but its pretty much the same as the original, even a little better.
Does this mean that they're going to be pushing the DS more heavily?
Yes...and the price just dropped to $130 today.
Postgre-SQL is open source too though, so i'm still good.
Google is a major investor in one of those Internet-over-power-lines companies. Perhaps someone got their rumors mixed up, but there may be some sort of Google internet coming your way (Or at least Google will have their hand in it)
Although I am too lazy to look up any hard evidence (and when is it necessary on slashdot?), I've heard that Postgre-SQL is much better at heavy loads then MySQL.
This is not the number of users. No one ever says that, although people seem to misinterpret the download count to mean active users.
Firefox continues this hype though by making big press releases and banners celebrating the number of downloads. You are correct that the number is basically meaningless, but it is not others that make it out to be something, it's Mozilla themselves.
There is no reason to be "scared" of this. Microsoft has never sued anyone for violating their patents, they register them as a defensive measure, so you can't patent the same thing and then sue them for usin git.
I've noticed a decent amount of code changes that appear to be implemented, and then rolled back. (Testing in production i suppose?) One I noticed a month or two ago that was gone a day or two later was an "Alter Relationship" link instead of seeing the friend/foe bubbles. Another change they rollout and rollback seems to be allowing Anonymous cowards posting from proxies...sometimes i can post as anonymous at work, sometimes not (mostly not...with the "Slowdown cowboy, Its been 15 minutes since you last posted" error.
Anyone having trouble with it still is usually using Linux and hasn't gotten their true-type fonts working correctly.
I don't know...I installed OpenOffice on my mother-in-law's new computer to save her the expense of Office...showed her how to use it and open her files etc... It ended up being a never ending headache for me getting calls about how it wouldn't display her office files right, or how she couldn't figure out how to do something. In the end she ended up sneaking a copy of MS Office on there without me knowing. I could never pin down exactly what her problems were, it may have just been resistance to change, but she sure hated OpenOffice.
Theres a big difference in making something more advanced and making something look more advanced. The grandparent simply wanted his stuff to "look" impressive. And mixing a bunch of shit in there to make something look impressive is exactly the kind of thing you probably end up cleaning up.
or bring in ideas from Perl or C to my PHP code to make it look more advanced
Who are you trying to impress? Why don't you just write whatever PHP you need to get the job done, no one cares if your code looks more advanced, it drives me nuts when people have this mentality in my office.
I'm not sure where you get that idea? I've seen plenty of cases of law enforcement breaking up illegal drug trades, phishing, fraud, piracy etc on computers. Maybe the child porn ones are high profile, but it certainly doesn't seem like thats ALL they are worried about. And even if it was, I would say child porn probably would be one of the best ones to focus your efforts on as it hurts people on a different level then the crimes cited above.
When you have a female boss and female coworkers, you really don't want to be seen reading an article "about" female orgasms in the workplace...its just not professional and someone could find a way to make a big case about it.
The difference of course, was that slashdot didn't announce it when Yahoo added that feature. I'm frankly surprised the Google blog entry about "those freakonomics guys" didn't get posted here. No doubt at least 50 people submitted it as a story idea though.
Asians don't count because instead of complaining about why white people are the only ones creating games, they go out and freakin' create games themselves. There is absolutely nothing stopping a black or hispanic person from starting the best gaming company ever. In fact to keep up with Affirmative Action video game companies would probably hire you in a second if you were a non-asian minority that wanted to program games.
I dont see any option on their web site, besides just signing up for a big web hosting package including domain etc...maybe i'm not looking in the right place...
This is another one of those technologies like "blogging" that technically has been around forever (I could record an mp3 of my journal or whatever years ago), but suddenly is the hip new thing for journalists to talk about. Just like blogging, which is just a simplified version of one's home page as far as I'm concerned. Have we ran out of actual new tech to make fads out of? And who are the people that get into this podcasting...i just don't get it.
It looks like DreamHost (like many other sites I've seen) makes you register your domain with them....does anyone know of a service that allows you to just point your MX records at them, while they host email?
I did this same thing, but be warned, I would not trust this scenario if your company does not have it's own data center or you don't plan on hosting it in a data center (ie, don't setup the email server under your desk). One 24 hour span without power or internet and you won't get the chance for "anymore of your bright ideas". There are lots of reputable companies that do email hosting for small businesses that don't charge much, and handle all the backup, power, liability etc for you. Such as register.com or godaddy.com and a handful of others. If the blacklisting from AOL with those providers is a problem, setting up your own SMTP server is much less of a hassle.