This would basically be a brilliant move if it could be pulled off. iTMS as a Wii channel? Oh yeah...
But try to get that idea past Japanese regulators, they don't take very kindly to the idea of "Gaijin" buying up their prominent corporations. Too bad, though. They seem made for eachother.
The entire patenting system is basically a joke. Patents have become a way for companies to bully other companies or to defraud them of their own innovations.
Seriously, who is granting these patents? 100-year old great grandmothers who skim through technical proposals between quilting sessions? "Oh that sounds NEAT. What smart young boys and girls you all are..."
I can't believe that Chrono Trigger didn't make this list at all. Like Final Fantasy 7, I found myself incredibly endeared to the game's characters. Interspersing the game's locales throughout the past, present, and future meant your actions in one time could drastically affect the world in later times. You felt like your small group of characters were shaping the history of an entire world.
One of the very best selling SNES games, and a blurring of the line between linear and non-linear storytelling.
Shame on all you Linux nerds screaming "FUD! FUD! FUD!" It's the God's honest truth: you can't expect a marketplace filled with people who barely understand the basics of computing to have to worry about compiling device drivers.
When someone sits down at their computer after installing new hardware, they want to go: "click, click, it works. Great, now I can get to finishing that report/touching up that image/crunching those numbers".
I won't make the argument that Linux doesn't have a wide base of hardware support. But that support is very technical and inaccessible to the layperson. Extra, painless support needs to come from the Linux community, the hardware industry, or both.
Until then, people WILL continue to use crappy operating systems *cough*Windows*cough* because they can rely on easy instructions, wizards, pre-compiled drivers, and phone support.
Right now I have one browser window/tab open and Mail open in the background. That's all.
I like tabs, but only for flipping back and forth quickly between a few web pages. Why on earth would you need to be actively switching between 25 different things? Are you that good at multitasking?
Don't fool yourself: you're just not closing things that you don't need. I bet there's a million icons on your desktop that could be better stored in other directories. Organize!
Isn't this the basically the same thing as Ananova? And didn't that come out, like, 6 years ago?
I am skeptical. News anchors, don't start looking for a new job just yet.
Perhaps YOUR comment would be more helpful in allowing me to fully understand the issues involved if it in fact provided me with additional information rather than simply stating that I'm wrong and/or ignorant.
Have you personally received SPAM from this company? Did you see their noses grow when they gave statements about the case?
UPDATE: Just as I posted this, a client found that he was unable to send us an e-mail due to a problem with spam-blocking software. It seems we need someone tweaking our mail rules full-time. That's not really acceptable from a business standpoint.
Why can't this system we've created just work properly?
Despite all the predictions of doom and gloom, and despite the attempts to mitigate blame from Spam blacklists to mail admins, I say that this is the inevitable conclusion to the way broad "spam blacklists" are run.
As annoying as SPAM is, it can't possibly compete with the damage that spam-blocker's false positives have on the e-mail system. The company I work for has never sent a single piece of spam, but we routinely find ourselves dealing with problems relating to open blacklists and spam-catching software. You have to understand that when business relies to e-mail as a communications medium, it can't afford to have that vital conduit blocked because some asshat administrator insists that your company spams or is an open relay or whatnot when it is in fact not. Even my ISP's domain is frequently blocked, even though they're one of the largest telecomm companies in Canada.
One of two things needs to happen: either spam needs to be legislated out of existence, or a proper organization needs to be set up in order two blacklist spam servers while doing their utmost to prevent false positives. Because when it comes down to it, getting a load of annoying junk in your inbox can't compare with never getting a critical e-mail about your job, family, business, or finances.
Hear, hear. Seems that some of us are lacking in aspects of journalistic integrity. Give me the facts, and I'll decide how the story spins after reading it. No need to force a conclusion, even implied, before your audience even starts reading.
From the experience of myself and my friends, the only people in the theatre were there to egg on a B-movie. There were cheers when Samuel first came on screen, and wild screams when he finally enunciated his anticipated "mutha---- snakes on this mutha---- plane" line.
As far as I can tell, the only people who came to see this movie were fans who were aware of the internet hype. As far as the general public audience is concerned, this movie is a total bust.
Wait for the DVD sales. Perhaps the shut-in internet addicts will prefer to see the film in the privacy of their own cave.
I don't, no. But I still think it's hookum. And so do these peeps. Dark matter is a popular idea right now, that doesn't make it the right idea.
I'll believe in dark matter when someone brings some back to Earth for show-and-tell day.
This would be terribly interesting if dark matter actually existed and wasn't just a fudge factor necessitated by a poor understanding of how general relativity relates to quantum mechanics.
Ever since the middle of Voyager, Rick Berman and Brannon Braga have been trying to "Fix" Star Trek. Make it hipper and more appealing to other audiences. Apparently they'd never heard of the phrase "if it ain't broke, don't fix it". Enterprise singlehandedly ruined one of the biggest Sci-Fi franchises in history. I think most fans would agree that Trek needs some serious time to lie fallow and grow new grassroots fandom.
Instead, someone has chosen to haul the still fresh corpse out of the closet, slap a thin veneer of shiny new paint on it and try to whore it to audiences who just finished vomiting up their disgust for Enterprise. Continually, I can't fathom why the people in control of Star Trek can't understand what they're doing wrong. Just let it lie for a bit... PLEASE.
Gimpshop really did hit the nail on the head in a powerful way. Let's face it; most amateur graphics artists are using a pirated copy of Photoshop. They'll continue to do so not only because it's the interface that they're familiar with, but also because the thousands if not millions of graphics tutorials in print and on the web assume the Photoshop interface. The issue is not introducing novices to the concepts of Layers and Color Correction, but rather transitioning the Photoshop savvy into the GIMP environment.
Open source is software developed by the community for the community. But the problem is always that the development community isn't very interested in making it easy for the community at large to use said software.
There's absolutely no sense in doing this. The proponents of such reform are ignorant of the fact that a "phonetic spelling" would depend largely on the particular speech dialect used. English is vastly used and varies widely. There's rhotic and non-rhotic accents of varying kinds in the United States, Canada, England, Wales, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Scotland... not to mention all the places English is spoken regularly as a second language.
It's both ignorant and arrogant to assume that one can "correct" the English language oneself after hundreds of years of natural evolution.
Years ago a friend told me his horror story of working tech support. A customer was having problems with their dial-up connection. A troubleshooting method for resetting their model of modem was known as the "jump start". When my friend informed the caller that they would attempt to walk through the procedure, the caller put down the phone and in his thick drawl shouted:
"Honey, bring me the jumper cables! This guys says we gotta give this sucker a jolt!"
DISCLAIMER: Shocking any part of your computer may permanently void your warranty.
It's a non-story being touted by yet another tech columnist who's realized that pushing mac users' buttons generates site traffic.
Indeed his fraction of a fraction geeks don't outweigh the larger fraction of geeks who want to use Darwin to port/pirate OS X to generic X86 hardware. Like is or not, Apple is still a business, and their goal is to make money.
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This would basically be a brilliant move if it could be pulled off. iTMS as a Wii channel? Oh yeah...
But try to get that idea past Japanese regulators, they don't take very kindly to the idea of "Gaijin" buying up their prominent corporations. Too bad, though. They seem made for eachother.
The entire patenting system is basically a joke. Patents have become a way for companies to bully other companies or to defraud them of their own innovations.
Seriously, who is granting these patents? 100-year old great grandmothers who skim through technical proposals between quilting sessions? "Oh that sounds NEAT. What smart young boys and girls you all are..."
I can't believe that Chrono Trigger didn't make this list at all. Like Final Fantasy 7, I found myself incredibly endeared to the game's characters. Interspersing the game's locales throughout the past, present, and future meant your actions in one time could drastically affect the world in later times. You felt like your small group of characters were shaping the history of an entire world.
One of the very best selling SNES games, and a blurring of the line between linear and non-linear storytelling.
Shame on all you Linux nerds screaming "FUD! FUD! FUD!" It's the God's honest truth: you can't expect a marketplace filled with people who barely understand the basics of computing to have to worry about compiling device drivers.
When someone sits down at their computer after installing new hardware, they want to go: "click, click, it works. Great, now I can get to finishing that report/touching up that image/crunching those numbers".
I won't make the argument that Linux doesn't have a wide base of hardware support. But that support is very technical and inaccessible to the layperson. Extra, painless support needs to come from the Linux community, the hardware industry, or both.
Until then, people WILL continue to use crappy operating systems *cough*Windows*cough* because they can rely on easy instructions, wizards, pre-compiled drivers, and phone support.
25? Geez...
Right now I have one browser window/tab open and Mail open in the background. That's all.
I like tabs, but only for flipping back and forth quickly between a few web pages. Why on earth would you need to be actively switching between 25 different things? Are you that good at multitasking?
Don't fool yourself: you're just not closing things that you don't need. I bet there's a million icons on your desktop that could be better stored in other directories. Organize!
Isn't this the basically the same thing as Ananova? And didn't that come out, like, 6 years ago? I am skeptical. News anchors, don't start looking for a new job just yet.
Perhaps YOUR comment would be more helpful in allowing me to fully understand the issues involved if it in fact provided me with additional information rather than simply stating that I'm wrong and/or ignorant.
Have you personally received SPAM from this company? Did you see their noses grow when they gave statements about the case?
UPDATE: Just as I posted this, a client found that he was unable to send us an e-mail due to a problem with spam-blocking software. It seems we need someone tweaking our mail rules full-time. That's not really acceptable from a business standpoint. Why can't this system we've created just work properly?
Despite all the predictions of doom and gloom, and despite the attempts to mitigate blame from Spam blacklists to mail admins, I say that this is the inevitable conclusion to the way broad "spam blacklists" are run. As annoying as SPAM is, it can't possibly compete with the damage that spam-blocker's false positives have on the e-mail system. The company I work for has never sent a single piece of spam, but we routinely find ourselves dealing with problems relating to open blacklists and spam-catching software. You have to understand that when business relies to e-mail as a communications medium, it can't afford to have that vital conduit blocked because some asshat administrator insists that your company spams or is an open relay or whatnot when it is in fact not. Even my ISP's domain is frequently blocked, even though they're one of the largest telecomm companies in Canada. One of two things needs to happen: either spam needs to be legislated out of existence, or a proper organization needs to be set up in order two blacklist spam servers while doing their utmost to prevent false positives. Because when it comes down to it, getting a load of annoying junk in your inbox can't compare with never getting a critical e-mail about your job, family, business, or finances.
Hear, hear. Seems that some of us are lacking in aspects of journalistic integrity. Give me the facts, and I'll decide how the story spins after reading it. No need to force a conclusion, even implied, before your audience even starts reading.
Tsk tsk...
The President objects to things he doesn't understand.
From the experience of myself and my friends, the only people in the theatre were there to egg on a B-movie. There were cheers when Samuel first came on screen, and wild screams when he finally enunciated his anticipated "mutha---- snakes on this mutha---- plane" line. As far as I can tell, the only people who came to see this movie were fans who were aware of the internet hype. As far as the general public audience is concerned, this movie is a total bust. Wait for the DVD sales. Perhaps the shut-in internet addicts will prefer to see the film in the privacy of their own cave.
I don't, no. But I still think it's hookum. And so do these peeps. Dark matter is a popular idea right now, that doesn't make it the right idea. I'll believe in dark matter when someone brings some back to Earth for show-and-tell day.
This would be terribly interesting if dark matter actually existed and wasn't just a fudge factor necessitated by a poor understanding of how general relativity relates to quantum mechanics.
Bigger? Better? That's a joke, right?
Ever since the middle of Voyager, Rick Berman and Brannon Braga have been trying to "Fix" Star Trek. Make it hipper and more appealing to other audiences. Apparently they'd never heard of the phrase "if it ain't broke, don't fix it". Enterprise singlehandedly ruined one of the biggest Sci-Fi franchises in history. I think most fans would agree that Trek needs some serious time to lie fallow and grow new grassroots fandom.
Instead, someone has chosen to haul the still fresh corpse out of the closet, slap a thin veneer of shiny new paint on it and try to whore it to audiences who just finished vomiting up their disgust for Enterprise. Continually, I can't fathom why the people in control of Star Trek can't understand what they're doing wrong. Just let it lie for a bit... PLEASE.
P.S. - "MAAAAT DAAAAAIMON!"
Gimpshop really did hit the nail on the head in a powerful way. Let's face it; most amateur graphics artists are using a pirated copy of Photoshop. They'll continue to do so not only because it's the interface that they're familiar with, but also because the thousands if not millions of graphics tutorials in print and on the web assume the Photoshop interface. The issue is not introducing novices to the concepts of Layers and Color Correction, but rather transitioning the Photoshop savvy into the GIMP environment. Open source is software developed by the community for the community. But the problem is always that the development community isn't very interested in making it easy for the community at large to use said software.
"TV"? What's that?
There's absolutely no sense in doing this. The proponents of such reform are ignorant of the fact that a "phonetic spelling" would depend largely on the particular speech dialect used. English is vastly used and varies widely. There's rhotic and non-rhotic accents of varying kinds in the United States, Canada, England, Wales, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Scotland... not to mention all the places English is spoken regularly as a second language. It's both ignorant and arrogant to assume that one can "correct" the English language oneself after hundreds of years of natural evolution.
Years ago a friend told me his horror story of working tech support. A customer was having problems with their dial-up connection. A troubleshooting method for resetting their model of modem was known as the "jump start". When my friend informed the caller that they would attempt to walk through the procedure, the caller put down the phone and in his thick drawl shouted:
"Honey, bring me the jumper cables! This guys says we gotta give this sucker a jolt!"
DISCLAIMER: Shocking any part of your computer may permanently void your warranty.
It's a non-story being touted by yet another tech columnist who's realized that pushing mac users' buttons generates site traffic. Indeed his fraction of a fraction geeks don't outweigh the larger fraction of geeks who want to use Darwin to port/pirate OS X to generic X86 hardware. Like is or not, Apple is still a business, and their goal is to make money.