I'm a partner in a small company (not directly gaming related) and the number of times we've revised our logo is becomming insane. Nobody is ever 100% happy with it, despite trying everything. It's not because of bad artists, designers, or the like -- it's just that damn hard to make a logo for yourself!
Not to mention that logos have so many unwritten rules to follow: have to look good big and small, have to print in B&W well, have to be easily recognized, cannot offend a foreign culture, etc...
To tell you the truth, I'm considering just using a damn circle.:-p
It's called Business Ethics and it's a required class to get a Stanford MBA. Not sure about other schools. The fact of the matter is that it isn't about schooling (teaching / not teaching ethics) it's the mentality of the average business student.
Example: In class we were presented with a senario: Company A has been riping off senior citizens under the former CEO, you are now CEO and discover this; what do you do?
About 90% of the class (that's everybody except me) said "do nothing, but have a plan in case somebody figures it out."
I almost puked. My solution was to own up to the errors are set up a reinbursment system to restore the ill-gotten funds (rougly $4 million per the exercise). So techies - there you go: proof that the executive that you think is insane, truely is insane.
I live in Santa Rosa. Firstly I'd like to say I have no idea how they did anything illegal in any of the parks here with all the homeless people milling about. Secondly, why the hell wasn't think in our local newspapers?
Simply being from M$ does not make an idea bad. Take Xml/Http. Even Google likes it and it is a M$ idea. They built into IE 5.5 long before Mozilla/FireFox or any other browser had it.
M$ has had other good innovations too. Don't just knock something because it's from M$. Knock the Windows Registery because it's outdated, aniquated, and unreliable.:-p
Plans? No. But Balley's has these things, and they have rowers too. Exercise and beat the crap out the guy on the bike next to you. Makes exercising almost fun!
I remeber that Back to the Future ride, and I loved it too. I'm going to have to somehow convince my fiancee that building this thing is a good idea. I wish InventGeek.com had tips on how to convince girl friends/fiancees/wives that these things were worth the money the cost to build.
Why does our government feel the need to auction off the spectrum? Why can't they just increase the amount of availble spectrum ear marked for general purpose use? The now famous WiFi uses public spectrum and is easily the most famous radio - except perhaps radio itself.
Selling the spectrum will only accomplish two things: 1) Make some rich companies richer. 2) reduce innovation because only said companies can use the newly availble spectrum.
In truth, that's only a drop in the bucket. There are 6 billion people in the world, (pulling numbers out of a hat here) 1/4 who could afford $15/month and about half of them are 'eligable' gamers. That means 750 million people are possible, future online gamers. 5 million is a drop in the bucket.
And if a friend has DAO4 and it sucks? Will you consider and XBox360? I wouldn't... then again I'm waiting on Nintendo anyways. Give me good games over good graphics any day.
Anyone else find it funny that the release of a game with this name, will pretty much sum up if the XBox360 is dead or alive? and how competetive it'll be with PS3 whenever that finally makes it out.
I can't say that I agree with you. I've never come off of a four hour marithon of WoW and attempted to blast somebody with a Frost Bolt before...
Serisouly, if gaming were that dangerous we'd have hundreds, if not thousands, of cases of peopling being gunned down after an intense Quake session (people still playing Quake?).
Even if Opera sold, isn't the browser code itself protected by the GPL? Microsoft isn't going to buy what they cannot control because if MS buys Opera, the public still controls the source code - which is the same as having never bought Opera in the first place (from a competition killing stand point, ie M$).
Opera is not an American company - so the US government most likely wouldn't care. However, the EU would go ape over the deal and it would just never happen. Well, until Bill starts pouring money into helping EU farmers... which seems to be the only thing the EU commissions really ever care about.
This is good news. When I spoke with the Jack Emmert in February, he told me of several features and completed code that they coulnd't release because of "another company having to do with comicbooks, and a court". 8)
DDO has nothing on WoW. Trust me, I've played both.
Go download the stresstest and be as disappointed in DDO as I am. Then you won't have wonder much and you can just log as your Orc Hunter, or whatever.
Oh great and powerful Google, please add foreign countries, like Taiwan, to your wonderout maps program and please add them to this wonderous new Transit program. I'm really sick of getting lost and with your infinite knowledge, I need never be lost again.
Yeah, but licencing agreements with MS scare me more...
You ever try to read the agreements MS makes you agree to by using their software. I'm not sure who gets my soul first the OS, Office, or Server division at Microsoft. Bill gets my kidneys and Steve gets all of my chairs upon my death. No idea why he wasn't chairs though...
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Not to mention that logos have so many unwritten rules to follow: have to look good big and small, have to print in B&W well, have to be easily recognized, cannot offend a foreign culture, etc...
To tell you the truth, I'm considering just using a damn circle. :-p
Thank you very much for the link.
Example: In class we were presented with a senario: Company A has been riping off senior citizens under the former CEO, you are now CEO and discover this; what do you do?
About 90% of the class (that's everybody except me) said "do nothing, but have a plan in case somebody figures it out."
I almost puked. My solution was to own up to the errors are set up a reinbursment system to restore the ill-gotten funds (rougly $4 million per the exercise). So techies - there you go: proof that the executive that you think is insane, truely is insane.
I live in Santa Rosa. Firstly I'd like to say I have no idea how they did anything illegal in any of the parks here with all the homeless people milling about. Secondly, why the hell wasn't think in our local newspapers?
When those operating systems account for 95% of users and ~40% of servers... I think it counts.
... insert obligitory 1, 2, 3, Profit! statement here.
M$ has had other good innovations too. Don't just knock something because it's from M$. Knock the Windows Registery because it's outdated, aniquated, and unreliable. :-p
(Mod me down if you have to...)
Hey there's an idea.
1...
2...
3 Profit!
Somebody help with 1 and 2 please!
I remeber that Back to the Future ride, and I loved it too. I'm going to have to somehow convince my fiancee that building this thing is a good idea. I wish InventGeek.com had tips on how to convince girl friends/fiancees/wives that these things were worth the money the cost to build.
Selling the spectrum will only accomplish two things: 1) Make some rich companies richer. 2) reduce innovation because only said companies can use the newly availble spectrum.
http://www.blizzard.com/press/051219.shtml
In truth, that's only a drop in the bucket. There are 6 billion people in the world, (pulling numbers out of a hat here) 1/4 who could afford $15/month and about half of them are 'eligable' gamers. That means 750 million people are possible, future online gamers. 5 million is a drop in the bucket.
Microsoft is defately going where the money is.
And if a friend has DAO4 and it sucks? Will you consider and XBox360? I wouldn't... then again I'm waiting on Nintendo anyways. Give me good games over good graphics any day.
Geez - I made a mistake here. Even included a question mark ("?") because I wasn't sure - and lazy...
Anyhoo - damn, that means M$ might consider buying them.
Anyone else find it funny that the release of a game with this name, will pretty much sum up if the XBox360 is dead or alive? and how competetive it'll be with PS3 whenever that finally makes it out.
Serisouly, if gaming were that dangerous we'd have hundreds, if not thousands, of cases of peopling being gunned down after an intense Quake session (people still playing Quake?).
Even if Opera sold, isn't the browser code itself protected by the GPL? Microsoft isn't going to buy what they cannot control because if MS buys Opera, the public still controls the source code - which is the same as having never bought Opera in the first place (from a competition killing stand point, ie M$).
Opera is not an American company - so the US government most likely wouldn't care. However, the EU would go ape over the deal and it would just never happen. Well, until Bill starts pouring money into helping EU farmers... which seems to be the only thing the EU commissions really ever care about.
AFAIK, in proper AJAX support in Safari is keep you off of certain websites that don't offer alternatives.
This is good news. When I spoke with the Jack Emmert in February, he told me of several features and completed code that they coulnd't release because of "another company having to do with comicbooks, and a court". 8)
Go download the stresstest and be as disappointed in DDO as I am. Then you won't have wonder much and you can just log as your Orc Hunter, or whatever.
No kidding - goddam the GAO is slow. I knew this without looking...
Amen.
Yeah - the $, the 0, and the N are evil, but that Y is kinda nice.
You ever try to read the agreements MS makes you agree to by using their software. I'm not sure who gets my soul first the OS, Office, or Server division at Microsoft. Bill gets my kidneys and Steve gets all of my chairs upon my death. No idea why he wasn't chairs though...
This aint Singapore you know? ^_^