Why would anyone in their right mind get this as their work phone. If you travel a lot and work from your phone, the iPhone cant be a legitimate option. If you have even a half way demanding job, you wont be able to get your work done. The oh's and aw's wont put the powerpoint on the screen. The iPhone is not a suitable corporate phone people, face it. They made it for the cool factor, not the usefulness factor. They are not targeting corporate users at all. That is why they have a dog skateboarding on a video for their ad, they want the kids, not the corporate users.
Probably true, but unlike the iPod, the iPhone will not stand a chance in 2 years if this one is not the success they hope it to be. Not to mention that they have extreme competition for those $'s where they pretty much created the iPod market for themselves. In two years, when faced with having to pay $120 to fix the battery or get a new iPhone, how many will just say Eff the iPhone and get the new latest and greatest from one of the other half dozen competitors.
Oh I agree, I was just saying that if a company cannot compete it does not deserve to be around. I do not foresee AMD going anywhere anytime soon and we all benefit from that. Was merely making the case that a company does not deserve to be around just to be around.
Only if they deserve to be there. Having AMD around just to it around is pointless. Intel is competing and dominating right now. If AMD cannot survive because of it, so be it. they deserve to go. Of course, I am not advocating for a monopoly, but if AMD cannot compete, I am all for them failing.
Hmm... now I didn't RTFA, but the summary doesn't mention anything even remotely equivalent to "we wanted more money". So do you have any other information you base that on, or is it just pulled out of the ass? Especially given that I suspect they were better paid at Blizzard than at some startup company noone heard about yet, that assumption seems somewhat fragile. Give me a break, what else is it about? They wanted open communication to what know about their future, which means money. Considering the people we are talking about, it was all about money. You think Roper feared for his job security? Please. Also, they were better paid at Blizzard? That was the problem for them, they were being paid. They wanted a part of the action and they deserved it for sure. Vivindi was in a pinch something fierce in 2003 and Blizzard was its most valuable piece that could be offloaded to help them. When they did not get any sign it or anything was going to happen, they jumped ship.
As for position of strength, I beg to differ. World Of Warcraft turned out to be a bigger money printing machine than anyone expected, Vivendi included. People thought the old Everquest was a money printing license, and is what got half the developpers and publisher in a frenzy to try to make yet another MMO. And most attempts to imitate it failed pretty badly. Well, WoW overtook it by a whole freakin' order of magnitude. It has some 95% of the MMO market IIRC.
Basically, as dev team achievements go, these guys pulled an _amazing_ achievement. I don't know what happened there, but that team had some incredible talent and worked surprisingly well. Design talent, programming talent (considering almost every MMO before was traditionally a _horribly_ buggy mess, and would spend eternity creating two new bugs for each one fixed... and some got into a dead end and got cancelled), etc. See, you have no idea what you are talking about. Roper and the guys helped with WOW sure, it was a team effort. That being said, WoW and War3 were developed exclusively in the main Blizzard office. All these guys that left were Blizzard North people who were behind Diablo. They had NOTHING to go to the table with other than patch 1.10 which was not about to impress the suits. Blizzard North was around for 4 years after the release of D2 and had nothing to show for it in 2003. At the same time, the main Blizzard office churned out War3 and WoW was an open book still. Again, Blizzard North had minimal involvement with WoW. They were D2 and whatever other unannounced project, if any, they had.
Roper is a smart man, no doubt, and losing him hurt the company surely. Was he irreplaceable? Maybe for the Diablo franchise and the voice of the grunt, but not Blizzard as a whole.
Well Flagship got the big dogs and thus, money to produce their games. The other companies are following a much harder route to get their game out. I would give the another year or so till it looks like vaporware.
Also, Blizzard has done fine since the people left. WoW changes a ton in alpha/beta and much of its success can be attributed to those changes. Same with War3, the expansion was nothing spectacular, but the improvements to Battle.net were. Plus, Ghost was in production, but axed because of the timing of the product. Starcraft 2 looks more than promising as well.
What editor are you using? You might be able to get a decent editor to generate some code for your blog posts, but good luck finding on that can write complaint code while still viewing the same in all browsers. HTML today is essentially HTML/CSS right? You are sensible so I think you will agree with that. Now, being good at HTML, like you said, is pretty outdated. Writing HTML code has become easier if anything. There is much less markup than the old days of table hacking and such. Anyways, when you throw CSS into the mix with all the standards and browser compatibility, it becomes a much more complicated job. Efficiency often steps into the realm of HTML/CSS coders too, so that is added complexity. Point being, yes, some HTML can be automated, but in a professional environment, someone good at HTML/CSS is still highly valuable.
As evidence, Insight here in AZ is interviewing for a HTML/CSS developer with light javascript knowledge for $55/65K a year. They were even promising significant pay raises for learning J2EE if you did not know it already. Does this represent the whole market or anything? No, but it does represent my area and goes to show the value of someone who is 'good' at HTML/CSS.
Give me a break, why are you reading into this so much. If you believe that garbage you need a reality check.
The campaign manager found a website project manager to construct and maintain the site. The campaign manager wanted x, y, and z to work like so. The web manager took those specs and choose an operating system, probably the only their company uses most, if not exclusively, and went that way.
If even one of these 23 sites had its OS designated by someone other than the project manager, based on needs, I would be very surprised.
You do realize, this sort of detail is meaningless to pretty much everyone right?
It was, it was! Our group is actually much like you described. The core group travels from game to game, picking up people in that game if it ever comes to that point. In wow, of course, we had a majority of people that were not part of the core group. Occasionally, we will adopt a 'random' from a game into the fold, but in all honestly, it is pretty rare. I would say we add one or two people from a game we played for over a year. It is a sort of a big deal to get invited honestly. Not because we are elitists or anything, but because anyone new is going to be around for a long time as one of us. It is like inviting a new member to your e-family or something:)
Real easy question huh? It was in 1906. It was in a very remote area (Nobody is believed to have died in the explosion). So, you think the indigenous people, who chalked the explosion up the the fury of their god; had the area which is remote even to them, all mapped out and surveyed in 1906?
I got on the online gaming bandwagon during WarCraft 2 on Kali and since then, I have played with the same group of friends, in some capacity or another, under the same clan/team/guild name, ever since. We transcended WarCraft 2 and remained in contact as good friends ever since. It had nothing to do with loyalty to the name or game, just the people you are playing with. Not everyone played every game with the group and the group did not expand into every game. People do their own thing if they want, but they are not cast out or not longer considered part of the group. We are friends first, teammates, clan mates, guild mates, second. Hell, in the early days of WoW we all played under one tag, but eventually one group went another way and had a rival guild in the same server. Sure there were some heated moments, but sure enough, nobody was cast out and we played the next game together.
I do not believe in a group having a legacy for influencing this or doing that. At the end of the day, the only thing that counts are the friendships your forged and ended up valuing more than a great record, an epic item, or prestigious rank/title. I would boost the accomplishments of my group of friends to be far and above more impressive than any accomplishments an 'entity' has achieved.
How thinned out would the lobes be? Probably nothing major by the time it got here? Assuming it spreads out to infinity in all directions. I would think that our magnetic field could handle it by the time it got here. Just a guess of course, perhaps someone can chime in with some knowledge.
I cannot believe that garbage gets modded up. My dream is nothing close to 100% unemployment, that is disgusting. The world we would live in with your dream realized is my biggest nightmare.
The point of advancement is to answer questions. The more questions we answer, the easier life gets for sure, but you continue the quest to answer questions. We should never be content with where we are as a people. We should strive to advance our species forever and always. Contentment breeds complacence. Complacence gets us nowhere.
Nobody would also want to make anything new ever again. The advancement of technologies would come to a halt. That is what he is trying to say. You are dodging the real issue here and you know it.
With something like this your essentially eliminate the market economy and thus production will cease to exist. People would have little incentive to want to make anything new or improved because they would make no money off of it. They would have lost their job and live in an economy with no money or spare capitol to mess around with.
Answering like you did is juvenile and you know it. I could say that people would replicate huge bombs and kill everyone too. That is not what he is trying to say. He communicated his point just fine to me, why are you so reluctant to see it? Because you know he is right.
Honestly, Firefox is supported by the geek movement towards superior and sometimes, open source solutions. Geeks are geeks before they are Apple fanboys in most cases, so I see them supporting their geek roots over brand loyalty. I would content that Apple users are much more prone to installing and running Firefox than a Windows user is. I do not have the numbers, or if anyone does, but I bet the % of Apple users running FF is higher than the % of Windows users running it.
Geeks spawned the Firefox movement and they will support it as long as it is the best.
Blizzard would be the place any Diablo movie would be announced, just like everything else they do. They would work it up, start the hype machine, and ride it through the movies release. I highly doubt they are going to let word just, spill out. Nothing should be taken for anything of worth till Blizzard, themselves, say they are making a Diablo movie.
You really think that is true? You think people are that unwilling to admit a bad purchase/decision? When I spend over $x on a certain item for a certain thing, I expect certain results. If I guy a video card and it burns up for no apparent reason, I obviously will not be buying it again. Was it a bad choice to begin with, that is debatable, but probably not. Spending $60 on a game does not make me a fan because of the investment, the game itself does. People all over the net talk about buying a bad game. Now buying a $300 iPod could lend itself to instant fanboysim, I do see that, but only until they have a reason to not like it ya know? I loved my iPod for a while, but after a couple years and problems arose, I am more anti-Apple because of my iPod than I am pro-Apple. Generally speaking though, I think Tech/Gaming consumers are much more critical of their products in the long run. While they may be a fanboy upon purchase, I think that fandom could turn on a dime and turn into hatred for the company. Look at all the PS2 people who would not touch a Sony product nowadays. A couple years ago, Sony had fanboys everywhere you looked.
Who says that by then, after that many years, we wouldnt be able to control our own destiny. Plus, you think the universe will end in one of two ways, but you dont know that to be a certainty. Those are commonly held theories right now. They are not facts by any means. While they may certainly be true, it is ignorant to hold them as truth. We learn new things about our universe everyday and you think we have the end of time all figured 100% for sure? I don't buy it. Until we know everything we cannot assume we know how 'everything' will end.
No. When I expect to use the Adobe Creative Suite more than Visual Studio, Eclipse, any programing IDE, yes, a Mac it is. If it is the other way around, then I would get a PC Frankenbox.
I agree. Working with custom machines like you assume they are built would be a nightmare. Now I do work in a business, blah blah, that is dumb to ask, please.
The company builds the same computer X times, so they are all the same, at least with any insight from their IT department. I mean really, it comes down to how things are managed and handled at the company - if they set themselves up for nightmares, well they will come. When a computer breaks at my company, they do not just buy a new one, they try to diagnose and fix the problem before buying/building a new machine. We have the manpower and resources to do this, not all companies do sure, but many do at some level.
Show me the figures of you turn key solution for the office network of 10 computers. PCs will win out.
but if you need a machine to perform heavy multimedia duties in a professional environment Well you just switched things up did you not? We are now talking about multimedia machines? I never mentioned that, you just made it up. If I was getting a multimedia machine I am getting a Mac, hands down, no debate. That is where they shine after all.
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Why would anyone in their right mind get this as their work phone. If you travel a lot and work from your phone, the iPhone cant be a legitimate option. If you have even a half way demanding job, you wont be able to get your work done. The oh's and aw's wont put the powerpoint on the screen. The iPhone is not a suitable corporate phone people, face it. They made it for the cool factor, not the usefulness factor. They are not targeting corporate users at all. That is why they have a dog skateboarding on a video for their ad, they want the kids, not the corporate users.
Probably true, but unlike the iPod, the iPhone will not stand a chance in 2 years if this one is not the success they hope it to be. Not to mention that they have extreme competition for those $'s where they pretty much created the iPod market for themselves. In two years, when faced with having to pay $120 to fix the battery or get a new iPhone, how many will just say Eff the iPhone and get the new latest and greatest from one of the other half dozen competitors.
Oh I agree, I was just saying that if a company cannot compete it does not deserve to be around. I do not foresee AMD going anywhere anytime soon and we all benefit from that. Was merely making the case that a company does not deserve to be around just to be around.
Only if they deserve to be there. Having AMD around just to it around is pointless. Intel is competing and dominating right now. If AMD cannot survive because of it, so be it. they deserve to go. Of course, I am not advocating for a monopoly, but if AMD cannot compete, I am all for them failing.
Roper is a smart man, no doubt, and losing him hurt the company surely. Was he irreplaceable? Maybe for the Diablo franchise and the voice of the grunt, but not Blizzard as a whole.
Well Flagship got the big dogs and thus, money to produce their games. The other companies are following a much harder route to get their game out. I would give the another year or so till it looks like vaporware.
Also, Blizzard has done fine since the people left. WoW changes a ton in alpha/beta and much of its success can be attributed to those changes. Same with War3, the expansion was nothing spectacular, but the improvements to Battle.net were. Plus, Ghost was in production, but axed because of the timing of the product. Starcraft 2 looks more than promising as well.
...wanted more money, did not get it.
Really the problem was they weren't bargaining from a position of strength... Diablo 3 wasn't screaming right a long or anything.
What editor are you using? You might be able to get a decent editor to generate some code for your blog posts, but good luck finding on that can write complaint code while still viewing the same in all browsers. HTML today is essentially HTML/CSS right? You are sensible so I think you will agree with that. Now, being good at HTML, like you said, is pretty outdated. Writing HTML code has become easier if anything. There is much less markup than the old days of table hacking and such. Anyways, when you throw CSS into the mix with all the standards and browser compatibility, it becomes a much more complicated job. Efficiency often steps into the realm of HTML/CSS coders too, so that is added complexity. Point being, yes, some HTML can be automated, but in a professional environment, someone good at HTML/CSS is still highly valuable.
As evidence, Insight here in AZ is interviewing for a HTML/CSS developer with light javascript knowledge for $55/65K a year. They were even promising significant pay raises for learning J2EE if you did not know it already. Does this represent the whole market or anything? No, but it does represent my area and goes to show the value of someone who is 'good' at HTML/CSS.
Way to confuse bad web masters and design on the language.
Give me a break, why are you reading into this so much. If you believe that garbage you need a reality check.
The campaign manager found a website project manager to construct and maintain the site. The campaign manager wanted x, y, and z to work like so. The web manager took those specs and choose an operating system, probably the only their company uses most, if not exclusively, and went that way.
If even one of these 23 sites had its OS designated by someone other than the project manager, based on needs, I would be very surprised.
You do realize, this sort of detail is meaningless to pretty much everyone right?
It was, it was! Our group is actually much like you described. The core group travels from game to game, picking up people in that game if it ever comes to that point. In wow, of course, we had a majority of people that were not part of the core group. Occasionally, we will adopt a 'random' from a game into the fold, but in all honestly, it is pretty rare. I would say we add one or two people from a game we played for over a year. It is a sort of a big deal to get invited honestly. Not because we are elitists or anything, but because anyone new is going to be around for a long time as one of us. It is like inviting a new member to your e-family or something :)
Real easy question huh? It was in 1906. It was in a very remote area (Nobody is believed to have died in the explosion). So, you think the indigenous people, who chalked the explosion up the the fury of their god; had the area which is remote even to them, all mapped out and surveyed in 1906?
I got on the online gaming bandwagon during WarCraft 2 on Kali and since then, I have played with the same group of friends, in some capacity or another, under the same clan/team/guild name, ever since. We transcended WarCraft 2 and remained in contact as good friends ever since. It had nothing to do with loyalty to the name or game, just the people you are playing with. Not everyone played every game with the group and the group did not expand into every game. People do their own thing if they want, but they are not cast out or not longer considered part of the group. We are friends first, teammates, clan mates, guild mates, second. Hell, in the early days of WoW we all played under one tag, but eventually one group went another way and had a rival guild in the same server. Sure there were some heated moments, but sure enough, nobody was cast out and we played the next game together.
I do not believe in a group having a legacy for influencing this or doing that. At the end of the day, the only thing that counts are the friendships your forged and ended up valuing more than a great record, an epic item, or prestigious rank/title. I would boost the accomplishments of my group of friends to be far and above more impressive than any accomplishments an 'entity' has achieved.
How thinned out would the lobes be? Probably nothing major by the time it got here? Assuming it spreads out to infinity in all directions. I would think that our magnetic field could handle it by the time it got here. Just a guess of course, perhaps someone can chime in with some knowledge.
I cannot believe that garbage gets modded up. My dream is nothing close to 100% unemployment, that is disgusting. The world we would live in with your dream realized is my biggest nightmare.
The point of advancement is to answer questions. The more questions we answer, the easier life gets for sure, but you continue the quest to answer questions. We should never be content with where we are as a people. We should strive to advance our species forever and always. Contentment breeds complacence. Complacence gets us nowhere.
Nobody would also want to make anything new ever again. The advancement of technologies would come to a halt. That is what he is trying to say. You are dodging the real issue here and you know it.
With something like this your essentially eliminate the market economy and thus production will cease to exist. People would have little incentive to want to make anything new or improved because they would make no money off of it. They would have lost their job and live in an economy with no money or spare capitol to mess around with.
Answering like you did is juvenile and you know it. I could say that people would replicate huge bombs and kill everyone too. That is not what he is trying to say. He communicated his point just fine to me, why are you so reluctant to see it? Because you know he is right.
Honestly, Firefox is supported by the geek movement towards superior and sometimes, open source solutions. Geeks are geeks before they are Apple fanboys in most cases, so I see them supporting their geek roots over brand loyalty. I would content that Apple users are much more prone to installing and running Firefox than a Windows user is. I do not have the numbers, or if anyone does, but I bet the % of Apple users running FF is higher than the % of Windows users running it.
Geeks spawned the Firefox movement and they will support it as long as it is the best.
Sounds good, thanks for clarifying what you meant. I was not disagreeing, merely prodding a little to figure out what you were trying to say.
Blizzard would be the place any Diablo movie would be announced, just like everything else they do. They would work it up, start the hype machine, and ride it through the movies release. I highly doubt they are going to let word just, spill out. Nothing should be taken for anything of worth till Blizzard, themselves, say they are making a Diablo movie.
You really think that is true? You think people are that unwilling to admit a bad purchase/decision? When I spend over $x on a certain item for a certain thing, I expect certain results. If I guy a video card and it burns up for no apparent reason, I obviously will not be buying it again. Was it a bad choice to begin with, that is debatable, but probably not. Spending $60 on a game does not make me a fan because of the investment, the game itself does. People all over the net talk about buying a bad game. Now buying a $300 iPod could lend itself to instant fanboysim, I do see that, but only until they have a reason to not like it ya know? I loved my iPod for a while, but after a couple years and problems arose, I am more anti-Apple because of my iPod than I am pro-Apple. Generally speaking though, I think Tech/Gaming consumers are much more critical of their products in the long run. While they may be a fanboy upon purchase, I think that fandom could turn on a dime and turn into hatred for the company. Look at all the PS2 people who would not touch a Sony product nowadays. A couple years ago, Sony had fanboys everywhere you looked.
Who says that by then, after that many years, we wouldnt be able to control our own destiny. Plus, you think the universe will end in one of two ways, but you dont know that to be a certainty. Those are commonly held theories right now. They are not facts by any means. While they may certainly be true, it is ignorant to hold them as truth. We learn new things about our universe everyday and you think we have the end of time all figured 100% for sure? I don't buy it. Until we know everything we cannot assume we know how 'everything' will end.
... as I would stop making money to live :)
No. When I expect to use the Adobe Creative Suite more than Visual Studio, Eclipse, any programing IDE, yes, a Mac it is. If it is the other way around, then I would get a PC Frankenbox.
I agree. Working with custom machines like you assume they are built would be a nightmare. Now I do work in a business, blah blah, that is dumb to ask, please.
The company builds the same computer X times, so they are all the same, at least with any insight from their IT department. I mean really, it comes down to how things are managed and handled at the company - if they set themselves up for nightmares, well they will come. When a computer breaks at my company, they do not just buy a new one, they try to diagnose and fix the problem before buying/building a new machine. We have the manpower and resources to do this, not all companies do sure, but many do at some level.
Show me the figures of you turn key solution for the office network of 10 computers. PCs will win out.
but if you need a machine to perform heavy multimedia duties in a professional environment Well you just switched things up did you not? We are now talking about multimedia machines? I never mentioned that, you just made it up. If I was getting a multimedia machine I am getting a Mac, hands down, no debate. That is where they shine after all.