Why do we need all of the other browsers that we already have? Why have more than one search engine? Why climb Everest? You make it sound like the project is going to be a huge inconvenience, when you'll probably never hear of it again.
What the hell, are these X-ray machines or something with radioactive material in them that would sicken the user if he opened it up?!? I had better be sure thisn't some strange dream.
If old peripheral commercials taught me anything as a child, it's that the Kinect is probably filled with PURE AWESOME and would cause a person's head to explode and/or melt like they'd been exposed to the opened Ark of the Covenant.
Permissions? Content that can not only be permanently deleted, but will do itself in with the right settings? What the Hell does Facebook want with people who do things like that?
Stupid, stupid stunts like calling NINE SHOWS a "season" and postponing new shows for almost a YEAR. Who can follow a complicated story arc after that?
So you're saying that it was Moonlighting in space? Damn, I wish I had cable now.
Apparently, a week or two back, an ad agency contacted Neil Gaiman to see if they could get product placement in his next novel. He was aghast in the way that only mild-mannered, scary trousers authors can pull off.
I heard from a friend in the beta, that it was basically Final Fantasy 11 with a fresh coat of paint-- and this was a guy who enjoyed Final Fantasy 11. Given that 11 launched during the Everquest era, when players were treated with total contempt by devs, soloing was a grind almost as agonizing as waiting for a group, and it was easy to lose days' worth of progress in an encounter gone bad, it's not surprising that something in a similar vein would go over very poorly today.
Australia, New Zealand, Canada... at least one of the major providers in the States is going to a capped plan as well, and the rest will probably follow sooner than later.
It's Netdevil. They've had one game go into beta and fail, then years later go beta, go live, and fail, and years later have plans to go live again (namely, Jumpgate and Jumpgate Evolution). Their other 'big' game, Auto Assault, limped along for about a year after launch. How they got a license like LEGO, with that pedigree, is a mystery.
Lower prices, and a decent reader for less than a hundred bucks. It's a lot easier to rationalize buying books at ten bucks a shot, than it is to get them in a cheaper electronic format and plunk down for a perceptibly expensive socket to read them with.
I have a 1 Terabyte disk. I also have a Steam account, a large collection of games on traditional media, and a broadband contract that puts me in extra-hock if I go over 100 GB of bandwidth usage in a one-month period. With perfectly legal digital downloads, and install footprints ranging upwards of 15-20 GB (ignoring outliers like Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II, which is over 25), it isn't difficult to fill a large hard drive with something other than illicit video.
Besides which, 1 TB drives are CHEAP. You can still get 250 or 500 GB drives (and still have people ask what you need all that space for), but when you can get a terabyte for twenty bucks more, the savings isn't worth it.
Which rock have you been under for the last fifteen years? Buying the client, then paying for a subscription to the service has been standard operating procedure since the dawn of MMOs.
For those of you who don't use Valve's Steam storefront/game launch application, the app has a graph that shows usage rates at various scales. Typically it shows the last 48 hours, and typically the graph is sinusoidal. On Friday morning, at about twenty to eleven and at the top of a wave, connections plunged from 2.2 million to under 300,000, before leaping straight back up to 2 million-odd shortly after eleven.
Actually, there are a number of ways that a breathalyzer test can give a false positive, and a number of ways that an officer can otherwise cock up an arrest.
Ten years ago easily, Robert Cringely was doing some PBS show and had an episode dedicated to Microsoft. There were interviews, examinations of the company history, probably some shilling and that sort of thing. You know, the usual kind of thing that passes for a tech documentary. After everything was filmed, there were a few things to sign off on... and that's where things took a turn for the weird.
The MS lawyers, who clearly hadn't been in the loop until then, demanded the rights to the show. After a baffled silence, the PBS people shot back, 'What the fuck do you mean?' The response to that was, 'Oh, our mistake. We want the rights to the SERIES.' You know. So they could protect MS's image or something.
But no, this doesn't surprise me at all. This guy's basically been set up to be harvested like a ripe tomato-- he puts all of that effort into site design and upkeep, ropes in fans that might otherwise not care for the Discovery website, and delivers them up.
Worse, there's the possibility that this poor bastard is collateral damage from some internal power struggle-- someone in legal trying to be a keener, or a strike at a rival in marketing.
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Why do we need all of the other browsers that we already have? Why have more than one search engine? Why climb Everest? You make it sound like the project is going to be a huge inconvenience, when you'll probably never hear of it again.
If old peripheral commercials taught me anything as a child, it's that the Kinect is probably filled with PURE AWESOME and would cause a person's head to explode and/or melt like they'd been exposed to the opened Ark of the Covenant.
Oh. Wait.
Permissions? Content that can not only be permanently deleted, but will do itself in with the right settings? What the Hell does Facebook want with people who do things like that?
So you're saying that it was Moonlighting in space? Damn, I wish I had cable now.
Apparently, a week or two back, an ad agency contacted Neil Gaiman to see if they could get product placement in his next novel. He was aghast in the way that only mild-mannered, scary trousers authors can pull off.
Wowbagger the Infinitely Prolonged, is that you?
I heard from a friend in the beta, that it was basically Final Fantasy 11 with a fresh coat of paint-- and this was a guy who enjoyed Final Fantasy 11. Given that 11 launched during the Everquest era, when players were treated with total contempt by devs, soloing was a grind almost as agonizing as waiting for a group, and it was easy to lose days' worth of progress in an encounter gone bad, it's not surprising that something in a similar vein would go over very poorly today.
Australia, New Zealand, Canada... at least one of the major providers in the States is going to a capped plan as well, and the rest will probably follow sooner than later.
It's Netdevil. They've had one game go into beta and fail, then years later go beta, go live, and fail, and years later have plans to go live again (namely, Jumpgate and Jumpgate Evolution). Their other 'big' game, Auto Assault, limped along for about a year after launch. How they got a license like LEGO, with that pedigree, is a mystery.
Lower prices, and a decent reader for less than a hundred bucks. It's a lot easier to rationalize buying books at ten bucks a shot, than it is to get them in a cheaper electronic format and plunk down for a perceptibly expensive socket to read them with.
I don't get it. Does this mean that Oracle is run by Mr. Glass?
This is why we send them out to play in the sticks.
Besides which, 1 TB drives are CHEAP. You can still get 250 or 500 GB drives (and still have people ask what you need all that space for), but when you can get a terabyte for twenty bucks more, the savings isn't worth it.
Which rock have you been under for the last fifteen years? Buying the client, then paying for a subscription to the service has been standard operating procedure since the dawn of MMOs.
I still do that '3D' effect to my friends sometimes, along with the annoying 'doo-ee, doo-oo' sound effect.
...is clearly a wrist-mounted pager that notifies you that you're out of toner.
It's times like this that I wish Slashdot had a mod option named 'Strident'.
For those of you who don't use Valve's Steam storefront/game launch application, the app has a graph that shows usage rates at various scales. Typically it shows the last 48 hours, and typically the graph is sinusoidal. On Friday morning, at about twenty to eleven and at the top of a wave, connections plunged from 2.2 million to under 300,000, before leaping straight back up to 2 million-odd shortly after eleven.
...can't wait for these wall-wart 'freedom boxes' to get rooted on an astronomical scale.
Actually, there are a number of ways that a breathalyzer test can give a false positive, and a number of ways that an officer can otherwise cock up an arrest.
Oh, pleeeease? I want to be the first person to set up a Dixie Flatline gimmick account!
You mean the same politicians that have been doing so since the Internet started?
The MS lawyers, who clearly hadn't been in the loop until then, demanded the rights to the show. After a baffled silence, the PBS people shot back, 'What the fuck do you mean?' The response to that was, 'Oh, our mistake. We want the rights to the SERIES.' You know. So they could protect MS's image or something.
But no, this doesn't surprise me at all. This guy's basically been set up to be harvested like a ripe tomato-- he puts all of that effort into site design and upkeep, ropes in fans that might otherwise not care for the Discovery website, and delivers them up.
Worse, there's the possibility that this poor bastard is collateral damage from some internal power struggle-- someone in legal trying to be a keener, or a strike at a rival in marketing.