Good lord, are computers with 512MB of RAM even capable of running Vista? My laptop with 2GB could barely hack that... it was more like walking Vista, not running it.
Nexgenwars.com has the Wii at 50% of this generation of consoles - emphasis on this generation. The PS2 still has a pretty wide install base and is slated to continue receiving games through next year. The Wii doesn't have 50% market share.
A great comment under the story says that LittleBigPlanet would have been more interesting if it was just shipped as a toolset with no pre-built levels. I'm inclined to agree!
You go right ahead. I buy video games because I want to play them, not because I want to make them and then play them. If I wanted to do that, I'd still be collecting Lego sets.
God help the internet helpdesk people who have to walk 67-year old customers through command line FTP in Windows 7 to get their sparkly new computer online, and the retail people who get yelled at because the computers they sold "don't work", etc.
I noticed they released Patapon 2 at $20 as a test case for digital distribution, and they have games in the UMD Legacy section of the Playstation Store in the $6-$23 range. If that's how they're thinking of pricing new games going forward, then it's absolutely the right way to go. At those kinds of prices the Playstation Store will compete hard with Gamestop's used PSP market and win head-to-head on titles that are hard to find or otherwise sold out in stores. Sure, Gamestop beats the Playstation Store on Wipeout Pure now, but what about in a year or two if Sony commits fully to making the digital model work at prices like this? I dunno...
Personally if I didn't already have a perfectly-working PSP-2000 I'd be keeping the PSP Go in mind.
Aren't the government and military getting some pretty hefty use out of it too? I have a feeling we'll all be forking over the money for upkeep by way of tax dollars if faced with the prospect of not having it anymore.
They are much less selective than 4-year schools and the programs tend to be more vocational in nature.
That said, taking some things like composition or entry-level mathematics tends to be the same regardless of whether you take it at a community college for $40/hour or at a university for $200/hour. Some of the stuff the kid took won't be worth anything anywhere, but he'll have a good chunk of his general education requirements knocked out at whatever university he gets into.
The day you move in, they have you download a program that as far as I can see just checks your security status in Windows to verify that everything is green. After that you're granted access and you can throw the program away. This persists through OS reloads and moving between dorms (I did both last year) so I guess you're authenticated by your MAC address.
Having a Windows-only policy on campus is an insanely shortsighted thing to do, given the number of students using Macbooks and the presence of UNIX-type environments in computer science departments. I'd wager if you just told them you run Linux you'd get a pass.
Does it already (partially?) execute even when it is just sitting there in the development environment?
Visual Studio picks through whatever classes you write and adds support for them to Intellisense. Maybe they've observed security issues with that in the past?
There are plenty of proxies out there too, so what exactly is this going to do?
Keep the mainstream folks who don't know what a proxy is (let alone how to use one) in check. For the rest, if they become an issue they'll just be labeled enemies of the state or whatever and dealt with accordingly.
Ok, I'll fill in the blank because now when I look at it that does seem kind of strange -
My middle school and an elementary school were in the same two-story building. Grades 6-8 took up half of the second floor, and K-6 got the first floor and the other half of the second floor. This was also at a military installation in Germany so turnover was insanely high and long-term familiarity with the bus system servicing the school was a pipe dream. So when bus passes got handed out, they got handed out to everyone in the building. I didn't need a bus pass to remember I rode bus 6 (yes I still remember), but the school administration preferred to play it safe rather than have a dunce get on the wrong bus and be lost in a foreign country.;)
When I was in middle school they gave all the kids a laminated bus pass with the bus number in big block type, and had the bus numbers spray painted on the sidewalk so everyone who had to ride the bus knew exactly where to line up. Nobody ever got on the wrong bus because nobody ever got in the wrong line. So why is this a recurring problem for your daughter's school district?
I say make them fix the problem instead of forcing you to shell out money to cover it up for them.
Bing goes 'beyond the traditional search engines to help you make faster, more informed decisions' by combining a 'great search engine' with organized results.
They change the search engine's name in an effort to draw a crowd, then they fuck it up by weighing it down with language that's awful damn close to the infinitely-scalable enterprise class web 2.0 productivity enhancement solution corporatespeak that makes people roll their eyes.
The only difference between a "beta" product like Gmail and any other software product requiring monthly patches is the fact that Google is honest enough to still call their product a work in progress. Like you said it's sufficiently stable for most folks, but I'd argue that they aren't any more non-committal to their SLA than other companies are to getting their product right on the first try. And anybody in charge of purchasing software for their organization - assuming they're doing their job properly and getting sufficient information before making decisions - will be aware of that fact.
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Ha, nice find. Love that show.
Good lord, are computers with 512MB of RAM even capable of running Vista? My laptop with 2GB could barely hack that... it was more like walking Vista, not running it.
Windows 7 is much, much better.
I believe this applies to the iPod Touch as well. Same OS, same access to games on the App Store.
Nexgenwars.com has the Wii at 50% of this generation of consoles - emphasis on this generation. The PS2 still has a pretty wide install base and is slated to continue receiving games through next year. The Wii doesn't have 50% market share.
A great comment under the story says that LittleBigPlanet would have been more interesting if it was just shipped as a toolset with no pre-built levels. I'm inclined to agree!
You go right ahead. I buy video games because I want to play them, not because I want to make them and then play them. If I wanted to do that, I'd still be collecting Lego sets.
Or he does, and had to wipe fingerprints off afterwards.
When was that, 10 years ago? It's been a long time since Windows 98...
FTP?
God help the internet helpdesk people who have to walk 67-year old customers through command line FTP in Windows 7 to get their sparkly new computer online, and the retail people who get yelled at because the computers they sold "don't work", etc.
I noticed they released Patapon 2 at $20 as a test case for digital distribution, and they have games in the UMD Legacy section of the Playstation Store in the $6-$23 range. If that's how they're thinking of pricing new games going forward, then it's absolutely the right way to go. At those kinds of prices the Playstation Store will compete hard with Gamestop's used PSP market and win head-to-head on titles that are hard to find or otherwise sold out in stores. Sure, Gamestop beats the Playstation Store on Wipeout Pure now, but what about in a year or two if Sony commits fully to making the digital model work at prices like this? I dunno...
Personally if I didn't already have a perfectly-working PSP-2000 I'd be keeping the PSP Go in mind.
Aren't the government and military getting some pretty hefty use out of it too? I have a feeling we'll all be forking over the money for upkeep by way of tax dollars if faced with the prospect of not having it anymore.
They are much less selective than 4-year schools and the programs tend to be more vocational in nature.
That said, taking some things like composition or entry-level mathematics tends to be the same regardless of whether you take it at a community college for $40/hour or at a university for $200/hour. Some of the stuff the kid took won't be worth anything anywhere, but he'll have a good chunk of his general education requirements knocked out at whatever university he gets into.
Silly. Everybody knows there are no girls on Slashdot!
I wonder what makes Google's situation different that makes them unafraid of that
In the real world, if you want freedom to do as you please you have to pay for it yourself.
Well he is paying to live in the dorm, so what's your point?
The day you move in, they have you download a program that as far as I can see just checks your security status in Windows to verify that everything is green. After that you're granted access and you can throw the program away. This persists through OS reloads and moving between dorms (I did both last year) so I guess you're authenticated by your MAC address.
Having a Windows-only policy on campus is an insanely shortsighted thing to do, given the number of students using Macbooks and the presence of UNIX-type environments in computer science departments. I'd wager if you just told them you run Linux you'd get a pass.
No kidding, this is a travesty against Crytek. We'll have to get the tech demos our systems will never run from someplace else now!
Me too. Chocolate chip plz!
Does it already (partially?) execute even when it is just sitting there in the development environment?
Visual Studio picks through whatever classes you write and adds support for them to Intellisense. Maybe they've observed security issues with that in the past?
There are plenty of proxies out there too, so what exactly is this going to do?
Keep the mainstream folks who don't know what a proxy is (let alone how to use one) in check. For the rest, if they become an issue they'll just be labeled enemies of the state or whatever and dealt with accordingly.
Ok, I'll fill in the blank because now when I look at it that does seem kind of strange -
;)
My middle school and an elementary school were in the same two-story building. Grades 6-8 took up half of the second floor, and K-6 got the first floor and the other half of the second floor. This was also at a military installation in Germany so turnover was insanely high and long-term familiarity with the bus system servicing the school was a pipe dream. So when bus passes got handed out, they got handed out to everyone in the building. I didn't need a bus pass to remember I rode bus 6 (yes I still remember), but the school administration preferred to play it safe rather than have a dunce get on the wrong bus and be lost in a foreign country.
When I was in middle school they gave all the kids a laminated bus pass with the bus number in big block type, and had the bus numbers spray painted on the sidewalk so everyone who had to ride the bus knew exactly where to line up. Nobody ever got on the wrong bus because nobody ever got in the wrong line. So why is this a recurring problem for your daughter's school district?
I say make them fix the problem instead of forcing you to shell out money to cover it up for them.
First picture makes the damn thing look like a VHS tape... heh
Bing goes 'beyond the traditional search engines to help you make faster, more informed decisions' by combining a 'great search engine' with organized results.
They change the search engine's name in an effort to draw a crowd, then they fuck it up by weighing it down with language that's awful damn close to the infinitely-scalable enterprise class web 2.0 productivity enhancement solution corporatespeak that makes people roll their eyes.
Tell that to every successful webcomic out there right now.
The only difference between a "beta" product like Gmail and any other software product requiring monthly patches is the fact that Google is honest enough to still call their product a work in progress. Like you said it's sufficiently stable for most folks, but I'd argue that they aren't any more non-committal to their SLA than other companies are to getting their product right on the first try. And anybody in charge of purchasing software for their organization - assuming they're doing their job properly and getting sufficient information before making decisions - will be aware of that fact.