Actually, I reckon these guys deserve a whole lot of kudos! By staying out of the spotlight they manage to focus on the important stuff - making the games that we love to play!
Unfortunately in today's world most companies still believe that if you are unknown you cannot succeed, something that Tose have proven as wrong. I wish that there were more companies (especially in the gaming sector) that would be more interested in producing amazing, immersing titles without hunting around after the fame and glory which usually lead to less-than-optimum games.
Seriously though (and no, I don't mean to flame...) this is a good step. If more leading companies do this then maybe some sort of pressure can be applied. Unfortunately, if this doesn't apply to other large firms (i.e. Google) then this may be a huge market loss for Microsoft.
If Microsoft moves by itself, it opens up a huge consumer market to alternatives like Linux on the desktop and solidifies Google as a market leader in the webspace. People may argue that this is good (more Linux adoption etc) but is this s logical price?
Seems to me as though this is more talk to see what others reaction will be. I can't see Microsoft pulling out of such a huge market leaving it open to others with different principles.
I did - because I think that the cause is justified.
The extra money would have (hopefully) meant an extra two computers distributed, not to mention the fact that I would have become the proud owner of one of the first of these little gadgets. Of course, my personal gain is secondary...
Maybe the target was set a little too high - are there really that many people out there that care?
I think the point is they took all of these photos and instead of storing them as separate layers somewhere they combined them all into one huge photo:
Size on Hard Disk of the 3x16 bit final image: 51,625,586,000 byte"
Whereas Google Earth and the like, obviously, have more data they are still stored as separate images... (not sure why they needed to connect this one up into one image either, but it must be easier for them to analyse like that)
I am not sure if our tastes differ that much - I personally like using the shell, you'll be hard pressed to find my machine up and running with less than three shells open, one on vi(m) and one building and the other grepping. On the other hand I won't ever claim to be a vi or gdb guru - I'm still learning them as I go (though, who isn't?).
I find that gui's that mess with your project structure or force you into rigid workspaces (eclipse for example) with interesting rules of where you can and can't place code quite annoying. It would be nice to be able to just have a GUI that would integrate my own proper custom rules. On windows one of my favourite editing tools was always a simple editor (style editplus, not free but useful with excellent options for integrating custom tools.
I may be dreaming that there is a GUI out there that can just integrate with my current shell development and do what a graphical IDE is meant to do - make development easier without forcing the developer into bad practices and loss of knoweldge (as you mentioned).
but what is there to educate consumers regarding such a potential breach of privacy?
Common sense? When a big organisation gets rid of it's old computers it (usually) destroys the harddisks totally. Why should it be any different with mobile phones?
In a previous organisation that I worked for, the IT department (who happened to be in charge of all things cellular) made sure that every outgoing phone went through it's hands before going back to the cell operator for an upgrade or onselling etc.
The only education needed is in the specific technology department that handles these things and they just need to basically make sure that things are taken care of before the phone leaves the company - it usually isn't that hard.
IBM seems to have an office all around the world - just like there seems to be students all around the world. So why are these competitions always US only??? There are some amazing student programmers in other countries too...
It's just a bit of fun - and since it's in Australia most people will have to fly in (as opposed to driving), so the extra couple of hours is no big deal...
Wow! It's about time something like this came to Perth - Perth is an amazing venue which will be able to cater for both the convention side of things and the nightlife side of things. Exhibitions that are always held in large(r) cities can get boring - doesn't matter if you're in Sydney, New York or some other large city it's all basically the same.
It's refreshing to see that some companies want to change things a little bit and get out to less know cities that have heaps of personality and heaps to offer the professional and casual gamer who through it's gates...
I know that (as soon as I can see the site - because it's not Linux compat.) I'm going to be one of the first queing up for tickets to this event!
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Just as long as they remember that you don't always need technology to excite the imagination we may actually see something new and innovative out there.
Although the idea seems nice - how about the loss to the greater community? If I have a specific problem with something and someone answers on a forum that answer is up on the internet for scores of other people to find.
Combining this with your every day support forum in some way, say logs are posted or a summary is written by one of the sides, makes sure that the knoweledge isn't lost and can be used by others later on. Because what happens if this expert was the only one with the right answer and he isn't around?
This is getting a little OT. I never said that Opera was a "crappy product" - I don't think it is. I just don't like is as much as Firefox. Again, yes, Mozilla has/had the right marketing scheme to create the user following it has today - that is something that Opera sorely lacks, big time. That was the point, marketing is the name of the game today (see: Windows...).
OT: More function? True, Opera has more built in functions (or seems to have) though I don't seem to be lacking anything. If I find that I am missing something it takes me approx 2 minutes to get that feature - and I have endless customization options... is that more or less functional? The strength of a product is not always what it comes bundled with (because I can get Firefox to come bundled with whatever I want) but what you can do with the end product.
No serious knock intended, neither on the browser itself or on Opera's contribution to the web world. Mini browser etc. aside, the Opera web browser itself has never really taken off. I have used it for years and I like it, just not as much as I like Firefox. Can't argue with those benchmarks either (apart from to say that on my side, Firefox loads faster than Opera, i've never waited 17 seconds on my 600MHz computer - and he's on 800).
In the end, for some weird reason, Opera has been around for longer than Firefox but still Firefox seems much more popular. The fact that Opera came up with good ideas is of course nice, but it doesn't make it the best...
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Actually, I reckon these guys deserve a whole lot of kudos! By staying out of the spotlight they manage to focus on the important stuff - making the games that we love to play!
Unfortunately in today's world most companies still believe that if you are unknown you cannot succeed, something that Tose have proven as wrong. I wish that there were more companies (especially in the gaming sector) that would be more interested in producing amazing, immersing titles without hunting around after the fame and glory which usually lead to less-than-optimum games.
Seriously though (and no, I don't mean to flame...) this is a good step. If more leading companies do this then maybe some sort of pressure can be applied. Unfortunately, if this doesn't apply to other large firms (i.e. Google) then this may be a huge market loss for Microsoft.
If Microsoft moves by itself, it opens up a huge consumer market to alternatives like Linux on the desktop and solidifies Google as a market leader in the webspace. People may argue that this is good (more Linux adoption etc) but is this s logical price?
Seems to me as though this is more talk to see what others reaction will be. I can't see Microsoft pulling out of such a huge market leaving it open to others with different principles.
I did - because I think that the cause is justified.
The extra money would have (hopefully) meant an extra two computers distributed, not to mention the fact that I would have become the proud owner of one of the first of these little gadgets. Of course, my personal gain is secondary...
Maybe the target was set a little too high - are there really that many people out there that care?
Unfortunately, although you can see the site, it isn't playing anything apart from the Gotuit logo ad - which, although pretty, is not my idea of fun.
I'm heading back to youtube...
I think the point is they took all of these photos and instead of storing them as separate layers somewhere they combined them all into one huge photo:
Whereas Google Earth and the like, obviously, have more data they are still stored as separate images... (not sure why they needed to connect this one up into one image either, but it must be easier for them to analyse like that)
I am not sure if our tastes differ that much - I personally like using the shell, you'll be hard pressed to find my machine up and running with less than three shells open, one on vi(m) and one building and the other grepping. On the other hand I won't ever claim to be a vi or gdb guru - I'm still learning them as I go (though, who isn't?).
I find that gui's that mess with your project structure or force you into rigid workspaces (eclipse for example) with interesting rules of where you can and can't place code quite annoying. It would be nice to be able to just have a GUI that would integrate my own proper custom rules. On windows one of my favourite editing tools was always a simple editor (style editplus, not free but useful with excellent options for integrating custom tools.
I may be dreaming that there is a GUI out there that can just integrate with my current shell development and do what a graphical IDE is meant to do - make development easier without forcing the developer into bad practices and loss of knoweldge (as you mentioned).
Common sense? When a big organisation gets rid of it's old computers it (usually) destroys the harddisks totally. Why should it be any different with mobile phones?
In a previous organisation that I worked for, the IT department (who happened to be in charge of all things cellular) made sure that every outgoing phone went through it's hands before going back to the cell operator for an upgrade or onselling etc.
The only education needed is in the specific technology department that handles these things and they just need to basically make sure that things are taken care of before the phone leaves the company - it usually isn't that hard.
IBM seems to have an office all around the world - just like there seems to be students all around the world. So why are these competitions always US only??? There are some amazing student programmers in other countries too...
the most isolated *capital* :)
It's just a bit of fun - and since it's in Australia most people will have to fly in (as opposed to driving), so the extra couple of hours is no big deal...
err who *walk* through it's gates...
Wow! It's about time something like this came to Perth - Perth is an amazing venue which will be able to cater for both the convention side of things and the nightlife side of things. Exhibitions that are always held in large(r) cities can get boring - doesn't matter if you're in Sydney, New York or some other large city it's all basically the same.
It's refreshing to see that some companies want to change things a little bit and get out to less know cities that have heaps of personality and heaps to offer the professional and casual gamer who through it's gates...
I know that (as soon as I can see the site - because it's not Linux compat.) I'm going to be one of the first queing up for tickets to this event!
Just as long as they remember that you don't always need technology to excite the imagination we may actually see something new and innovative out there.
Lego bricks anyone?
Although the idea seems nice - how about the loss to the greater community? If I have a specific problem with something and someone answers on a forum that answer is up on the internet for scores of other people to find.
Combining this with your every day support forum in some way, say logs are posted or a summary is written by one of the sides, makes sure that the knoweledge isn't lost and can be used by others later on. Because what happens if this expert was the only one with the right answer and he isn't around?
and this has what exactly to do with the misspelling of the name?
Oh. As for the politics side of things... don't believe everything you see on tv.
hmmm... I see your point.
Next up: How I connected my computer speakers (drum roll...) to my mp3 player so that I could listen to music without headphones!
ok... so it was a simple hack (the site is officially slashdotted so I can't see what he did exactly) - give him a break :)
What I want to know is whether or not it's cooling off his Technical Staff - who must be getting a slashdotted size of email!
This is getting a little OT. I never said that Opera was a "crappy product" - I don't think it is. I just don't like is as much as Firefox. Again, yes, Mozilla has/had the right marketing scheme to create the user following it has today - that is something that Opera sorely lacks, big time. That was the point, marketing is the name of the game today (see: Windows...). OT: More function? True, Opera has more built in functions (or seems to have) though I don't seem to be lacking anything. If I find that I am missing something it takes me approx 2 minutes to get that feature - and I have endless customization options... is that more or less functional? The strength of a product is not always what it comes bundled with (because I can get Firefox to come bundled with whatever I want) but what you can do with the end product.
No serious knock intended, neither on the browser itself or on Opera's contribution to the web world. Mini browser etc. aside, the Opera web browser itself has never really taken off. I have used it for years and I like it, just not as much as I like Firefox. Can't argue with those benchmarks either (apart from to say that on my side, Firefox loads faster than Opera, i've never waited 17 seconds on my 600MHz computer - and he's on 800).
In the end, for some weird reason, Opera has been around for longer than Firefox but still Firefox seems much more popular. The fact that Opera came up with good ideas is of course nice, but it doesn't make it the best...
must admit that the idea is cool - though the software is less than that. Is this a counter to Mozilla's excellent marketing strategys for Firefox?