Another replier here suggested green, so maybe the colour on my TV is off. I had the Splinter Cell Chaos Theory demo on an OXM disc, and sometimes it would crash during a quicksave: the screen would flicker, then finally just show solid cyan and I would have to reboot. Take that as an anecdote or a joke--in any case, the MS guy was right, from a certain point of view.
How much did real pay for this excelent PR on slashdot? I mean, linking directly to press releases is news now?
Judging by the comments, not nearly enough. But just wait a bit, the rest should be coming through soon. Yeah, I had to make my own buffering joke too.
The state of the music industry and its bastardization of the art of music is in dire straits
Didn't you hear "Money For Nothing"? I think it's pretty obvious that the bastardization of the art of music has nothing to do with the Dire Straights.
Of course, the real problem, IMO, has little to do with the format itself, but with how often people send.docs for seemingly no reason. It aggravates me to no end how often clients and peopel from school send out emails with the text of the email in an attatched.doc file, when the content of the file is nothing more than plain text that could have simply been put in the email, or at least a plaintext file.
I don't know the number of Joe & Jane Users who are responsible for the proliferation of.doc files, as in the case above, but I'm guessing if it's not most of them, it's at least many, and still that must count in the millions. So, many average home users want to send a written document to someone: there's a 90+% chance they're using Windows, and in every anecdotal case I could provide, they're using MS Word. Joe User doesn't think if he only needs to write something on the computer as plain-text, rich text, or a proprietary file format--he wants to write something, he clicks the blue [w]. Anyway, everybody else uses Word, right?
Word is, for these millions, the be-all end-all word processor. Have you seen a default WinXP setup? Of course you have. Whenever I see one I have to, whether with explanation, by force, or just surreptiously, uncheck Hide extensions for known file types--that setting is the bane of my existence. Suddenly, Joe User sees that Letter To Mom is actually Letter To Mom.doc: then you have to explain that the document does not automagically open--it's in a format that can only be reliably opened with one program that not everyone necessarily has or cares to use; and that it could be saved as a different, more accesible or appropriate, format.
That usually and ultimately doesn't change anything, but I'd like to think maybe they've been set on the right track to thinking about access to information. Otherwise it's conversations forever consisting of:
"What format is the file you're trying to open?"
"It says it's a Word file."
"What's the file extension? The three letters after the dot--I mean, period?"
"There's no period--it says it's supposed to open in Word..."
"It's a lot of fun," Joyce Jones said. "But I can only do it about two times for every four times he does."
Exactly how fat is she that her 250 lb son has twice the energy she does? Okay okay, maybe she's just old.
In West Virginia, Robrietta Lambert, a physical education teacher at Franklin Elementary in Pendleton County, believes she already knows what all the studies will find. She has been using the video game in her classes since last fall.
"It improves cardiovascular health as well as eye-hand coordination," Lambert said.
That is one fucking hardcore teacher--doesn't the game get hard enough already using your feet? I've always wanted to try out DDR (in private), but the top floor of an apartment I want to stay in is not conducive to that; though I wonder how much good Donkey Kong Jungle Beat does me?
If that's all the outlay required, what say a few of us Slashdotters got together, put a business plan which calls for $1mill, goto some some VCs and tell them about the next sure thing, then take the company public and retire by November.... Or did I miss something?
Actually, the Soul Calibur series is head and shoulders above above its brethren, and has been since the first one. The Dead Or Alive series on Xbox and now Tekken 5 are its only real competition these days, since SNK and arcade fighting games pretty well bit the dust.
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You're absolutely correct. I turned up my bullshit-detector before reading, but the article was so saturated in the stuff, it practically caused a second detector to spring into existence, defying all known laws (as "articles" such as that are wont to do). FTA:
"Web services are enabling companies to unlock the knowledge of an organization, empowering individual workers to make more strategic decisions, and turning a company's most valuable asset into a strategic tool that drives competitive advantage."
That was one sentence. How is knowledge unlocked, and what knowledge was locked up? How does so-called unlocked knowledge empower invididual workers to make more strategic decisions? Strategic how? How does it turn a company's valuable asset into a strategic tool? Is this a different sense of strategic? What is a company's most valuable asset? The empowered workers? Again, how does any of this specifically drive competitive advantage? And, as it's been pointed out, what the bloody hell does any of that have to do with Carr's piece?
That was worth than buzzwordery and platitudes, that was writing with a leaky pen in a bowl of water. I don't want to come off as a Bill-Gates-is-the-devil type, because I don't think he is. I guess he is (or was) a shrewd businessman, but he really comes off as a mouthpiece, who continually consigns himself further and further to irrelevancy in his own goddamned field everytime he opens his yap. I'll take Ballmer for more stimulating things to say.
First, you made a number of dumb assumptions in your third paragraph. Second, I guess assumptions are all you have to run on since you admitted you "have no idea what a 'PSP' is". And third, this is Slashdot: Games, not Slashdot: Finances--to reply accordingly would be to address the article's issues of game stores punishing impulse shoppers by requiring likely unneccesary pre-ordering. Only by posting the first chapter of your novella, or mashing your keyboard with your face, could you have replied less accordingly.
And since we're on topic (or at least, while one of us is), you might want to check out these games yourself. I have heard it argued that Grand Theft Auto (a videogame of some sort) would be a perfect arena for your misogyny.
Players are always trying to peek behind the DM's screen so they can see what's coming up next. Cheating on the dice rolls, making up munchkin characters, sneaking a look at the monster manual, etc. Untrustworthy, the whole lot of em.
Exactly. It's bad enough in a session when a player spies the loot first and feeds his supposed comrades to the orc patrol so he can have it to himself--or just backstabs them in the middle of the night. Now I would want these kinds of situations in real-life combat?
Even that aside, could you imagine fighting in an actual war with D&D players? Non-stop complaining about the "unfair" PKing! Count me out. I applaud the Israeli Army's clear-headed position--if only I could say the same for my GM.
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Let's see if mc chris states something in a language we can understand, and whether or not it really matters:
They dissipate the pungent odour of a power holder
Sand kickers coming sixty klicks upon the sonar
They're gonna fold me over like a trapper keeper folder
If this was D&D, you'd see me jump into a portal
I'm a geek, spelled G double-E K
I meet my boys in the basement about everyday
Comic books, card table, and cans of Coke
That we blow out of our nose after a Star Wars joke
We got style--tape on our glasses
Zits on our faces and hair on our asses
Shiny shoes, belt buckles and pocket protectors
Tricked out back packs like my main man Venkman's
We got problems--namely the jocks
The SUV suckers with class rings on their cocks
Otherwise known as the motherfuckers touching the tit
If I was Wolverine you'd hear my knuckles go "snikt"
I'm not perfect, the before picture of Peter Parker
I always trip and drop my tray in front of the girl that always sparkles
I got brains--fuck B's and C's
I got a grade point average higher than Hendrix on New Year's Eve
Okay, that was English. I can't speak for everyone, but I could venture a guess that at least some fraction of us can identify with those lyrics. Now I put forth that mc chris deserves the web time, on Slashdot of all places--and a little more respect, especially if one hasn't heard of him. Are we not geeks?
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Let's see, x dollar bounty divided by $0/hr volunteer work equals... damn, take the $150, cos 3 hours is a hell of a lot shorter than the alternative!
Another replier here suggested green, so maybe the colour on my TV is off. I had the Splinter Cell Chaos Theory demo on an OXM disc, and sometimes it would crash during a quicksave: the screen would flicker, then finally just show solid cyan and I would have to reboot. Take that as an anecdote or a joke--in any case, the MS guy was right, from a certain point of view.
well what fun will it be to watch movies then?
About as much fun as it is now? Or at least slightly more informative.
I thought of Lindows before I thought of Napolean Dynamite. Does that make me more of a geek, less, or is it just a step to the right?
How much did real pay for this excelent PR on slashdot? I mean, linking directly to press releases is news now?
Judging by the comments, not nearly enough. But just wait a bit, the rest should be coming through soon. Yeah, I had to make my own buffering joke too.
The state of the music industry and its bastardization of the art of music is in dire straits
Didn't you hear "Money For Nothing"? I think it's pretty obvious that the bastardization of the art of music has nothing to do with the Dire Straights.
Of course, the real problem, IMO, has little to do with the format itself, but with how often people send .docs for seemingly no reason. It aggravates me to no end how often clients and peopel from school send out emails with the text of the email in an attatched .doc file, when the content of the file is nothing more than plain text that could have simply been put in the email, or at least a plaintext file.
I don't know the number of Joe & Jane Users who are responsible for the proliferation of .doc files, as in the case above, but I'm guessing if it's not most of them, it's at least many, and still that must count in the millions. So, many average home users want to send a written document to someone: there's a 90+% chance they're using Windows, and in every anecdotal case I could provide, they're using MS Word. Joe User doesn't think if he only needs to write something on the computer as plain-text, rich text, or a proprietary file format--he wants to write something, he clicks the blue [w]. Anyway, everybody else uses Word, right?
Word is, for these millions, the be-all end-all word processor. Have you seen a default WinXP setup? Of course you have. Whenever I see one I have to, whether with explanation, by force, or just surreptiously, uncheck Hide extensions for known file types--that setting is the bane of my existence. Suddenly, Joe User sees that Letter To Mom is actually Letter To Mom.doc: then you have to explain that the document does not automagically open--it's in a format that can only be reliably opened with one program that not everyone necessarily has or cares to use; and that it could be saved as a different, more accesible or appropriate, format.
That usually and ultimately doesn't change anything, but I'd like to think maybe they've been set on the right track to thinking about access to information. Otherwise it's conversations forever consisting of:
"What format is the file you're trying to open?"
"It says it's a Word file."
"What's the file extension? The three letters after the dot--I mean, period?"
"There's no period--it says it's supposed to open in Word..."
Ad nausea.
You'd think I'd be better at the game then.
FTA:
Exactly how fat is she that her 250 lb son has twice the energy she does? Okay okay, maybe she's just old.
That is one fucking hardcore teacher--doesn't the game get hard enough already using your feet? I've always wanted to try out DDR (in private), but the top floor of an apartment I want to stay in is not conducive to that; though I wonder how much good Donkey Kong Jungle Beat does me?
If that's all the outlay required, what say a few of us Slashdotters got together, put a business plan which calls for $1mill, goto some some VCs and tell them about the next sure thing, then take the company public and retire by November.... Or did I miss something?
You missed "2. ????".
i do believe you forgot to mention Virtua Fighter 4: Evolution, which is easily (imho) the greatest fighting game of all time...
I do believe you're right, on both counts. I don't own a PS2, but that's really no excuse for forgetting.
Actually, the Soul Calibur series is head and shoulders above above its brethren, and has been since the first one. The Dead Or Alive series on Xbox and now Tekken 5 are its only real competition these days, since SNK and arcade fighting games pretty well bit the dust.
You're absolutely correct. I turned up my bullshit-detector before reading, but the article was so saturated in the stuff, it practically caused a second detector to spring into existence, defying all known laws (as "articles" such as that are wont to do). FTA:
"Web services are enabling companies to unlock the knowledge of an organization, empowering individual workers to make more strategic decisions, and turning a company's most valuable asset into a strategic tool that drives competitive advantage."
That was one sentence. How is knowledge unlocked, and what knowledge was locked up? How does so-called unlocked knowledge empower invididual workers to make more strategic decisions? Strategic how? How does it turn a company's valuable asset into a strategic tool? Is this a different sense of strategic? What is a company's most valuable asset? The empowered workers? Again, how does any of this specifically drive competitive advantage? And, as it's been pointed out, what the bloody hell does any of that have to do with Carr's piece?
That was worth than buzzwordery and platitudes, that was writing with a leaky pen in a bowl of water. I don't want to come off as a Bill-Gates-is-the-devil type, because I don't think he is. I guess he is (or was) a shrewd businessman, but he really comes off as a mouthpiece, who continually consigns himself further and further to irrelevancy in his own goddamned field everytime he opens his yap. I'll take Ballmer for more stimulating things to say.
First, you made a number of dumb assumptions in your third paragraph. Second, I guess assumptions are all you have to run on since you admitted you "have no idea what a 'PSP' is". And third, this is Slashdot: Games, not Slashdot: Finances--to reply accordingly would be to address the article's issues of game stores punishing impulse shoppers by requiring likely unneccesary pre-ordering. Only by posting the first chapter of your novella, or mashing your keyboard with your face, could you have replied less accordingly.
And since we're on topic (or at least, while one of us is), you might want to check out these games yourself. I have heard it argued that Grand Theft Auto (a videogame of some sort) would be a perfect arena for your misogyny.
Players are always trying to peek behind the DM's screen so they can see what's coming up next. Cheating on the dice rolls, making up munchkin characters, sneaking a look at the monster manual, etc. Untrustworthy, the whole lot of em. Exactly. It's bad enough in a session when a player spies the loot first and feeds his supposed comrades to the orc patrol so he can have it to himself--or just backstabs them in the middle of the night. Now I would want these kinds of situations in real-life combat? Even that aside, could you imagine fighting in an actual war with D&D players? Non-stop complaining about the "unfair" PKing! Count me out. I applaud the Israeli Army's clear-headed position--if only I could say the same for my GM.
Let's see if mc chris states something in a language we can understand, and whether or not it really matters:
They dissipate the pungent odour of a power holder
Sand kickers coming sixty klicks upon the sonar
They're gonna fold me over like a trapper keeper folder
If this was D&D, you'd see me jump into a portal
I'm a geek, spelled G double-E K
I meet my boys in the basement about everyday
Comic books, card table, and cans of Coke
That we blow out of our nose after a Star Wars joke
We got style--tape on our glasses
Zits on our faces and hair on our asses
Shiny shoes, belt buckles and pocket protectors
Tricked out back packs like my main man Venkman's
We got problems--namely the jocks
The SUV suckers with class rings on their cocks
Otherwise known as the motherfuckers touching the tit
If I was Wolverine you'd hear my knuckles go "snikt"
I'm not perfect, the before picture of Peter Parker
I always trip and drop my tray in front of the girl that always sparkles
I got brains--fuck B's and C's
I got a grade point average higher than Hendrix on New Year's Eve
Okay, that was English. I can't speak for everyone, but I could venture a guess that at least some fraction of us can identify with those lyrics. Now I put forth that mc chris deserves the web time, on Slashdot of all places--and a little more respect, especially if one hasn't heard of him. Are we not geeks?