[Roz] is a produced of a program nobody needs for a shrink nobody cares about, but the guy who picks up the garbage is the looser.
Technically, Roz was looser. But in real life, garbage men are losers because they work in and around filth. Whether you like it or not, there is a hierarchy for jobs. If you can't do, you teach. If you can't teach, you clean.
Tell me the results of the following two scenarios:
1: All the garbage men go on strike for a year.
2: Bill Gates goes on strike for a year.
Which one will you notice?
Potential revenue? I agree with the post a few places above yours: People are downloading it now because it's free, not because they need it and would have paid for it otherwise. Codeweavers hit market saturation, so now they're pulling a Microsoft, and letting some free copies roam in the wild to try and win more business. And I'm betting it will work.
Lucasarts: What were your most popular games? X-Wing? Tie Fighter? Hmm... Make what everyone's wanted for a Looooong time, a MMO Star Wars starfighter game.
Load 128 players into a 100(Tie) versus 28(xwing) battle with a little briefing ahead of time as to the goals, maybe even include capital ship piloting and hyperspace buoys for tactics. Racing the Kessel Run, Speeder races, Blasting a womp-rat in your T-16; these things are fun, even more fun against other human-level intelligences. A Star Wars RPG? I've got old West End books for that, and it's sooo much better than what a computer could ever provide.
Trucks will all be driven by computer in a few (10-20?) years.
HAHAHA hahaha haha HAHAHAHA hahaha
Whooo! Sorry for the derision, but that was all the talk 20 years ago (except it was "2001" then). Light passenger cars might be computer driven (more likely assisted, like auto-braking for safety) in special cases after 25 years, but 40 ton trucks should be the province of a human until computers can think like people. There's extra training needed to pilot a big rig correctly; that means it would be doubly hard for a computer to handle unforeseen scenarios.
What makes a fact or statement fit for inclusion is verifiability -- that it appeared in some other publication,
I finally figured out what bugs me about this; it means that Wikipedia is only a repository of Media-knowledge: what publication owners want us to know (or believe). Where is the line drawn for a publication? Would the Federalist Papers have made the cut?
If the Brooklyn Bridge were destroyed, what effect would it have on the local economy? There is your hidden value. The bridge produces value despite there being no price tag.
Okay, now I assume you're saying "But the bridge is unique, and it _could_ be sold/leased by the city to a toll-company"... Well, what about wind? If magically, all wind stopped, what does that do to everything? The wind produces value despite no price tag. Therefore, we value the wind.
From a Natural Selection standpoint, I wonder if this means stupid humans were not common until we started farming. If smart guys with better reflexes tend to have healthier sperm and ejaculate sooner, you'd think that their brood would outpace the stupid brood (until the smart ones started farming, and using[paying] the stupid ones for farm labor).
Fellow nerds, we need to get back to basics. Anyone know how to start a fire?
Every company, and no company. They all say 2-5 years to scare away the losers. Employers like entry level programmers because they usually have good documenting skills, are malleable to new methods, and can be paid with peanuts. The problem is, employers scare away the legitimately good (and honest) graduates by saying they want experience and get the liars, whom they have to sift through to find a recent graduate that knows what they want.
Your problem now is that you aren't a recent graduate any more.
as a parent and tax payer, I'd want all their text books to be in pdf and able to be saved, viewed, printed, quoted from anywhere.
This alone would have been awesome back in the early 90's. We had BBS's back then. Since the students weren't allowed to go to our lockers (Lockers can hide drugzngunz!) during the day, we had to carry all of our books everywhere. Leaving the books in the classrooms, then dialing a school BBS to read the material at home would have been uber-cool.
There are ssh client apps, login to your favorite *nix box to monitor your screen'd tintin++ session every now and then to make sure it's still killing mobiles in no-pkill zones.
Wrong timing, games would come out after thanksgiving if that was the case.
In the U.S.A., Christmas sales have already started (with weird marketing ads; jack-o-lanterns wearing Santa hats). The best part about releasing a game for Christmas sales period: The geeks will buy the games, and some people who shop for the geeks will buy the games (ostensibly for the geeks because they've been raving about game XYZ for months), sit on them for a couple months, then give them as gifts Dec 25th, only to find out that they can't be returned at some retailers.
Slashdot Mirror
Debian?
[Roz] is a produced of a program nobody needs for a shrink nobody cares about, but the guy who picks up the garbage is the looser.
Technically, Roz was looser. But in real life, garbage men are losers because they work in and around filth. Whether you like it or not, there is a hierarchy for jobs. If you can't do, you teach. If you can't teach, you clean.
Tell me the results of the following two scenarios:
1: All the garbage men go on strike for a year.
2: Bill Gates goes on strike for a year.
Which one will you notice?
You must be new here. :)
Potential revenue? I agree with the post a few places above yours: People are downloading it now because it's free, not because they need it and would have paid for it otherwise. Codeweavers hit market saturation, so now they're pulling a Microsoft, and letting some free copies roam in the wild to try and win more business. And I'm betting it will work.
A week later everyone will forget Lehman Brothers even existed.
I did until you reminded me.
It's not slashdotted; they just turned the servers off until tomorrow.
Does something like this throw the Big Crunch (and cyclical universe by extension) out the window?
Lucasarts: What were your most popular games? X-Wing? Tie Fighter? Hmm... Make what everyone's wanted for a Looooong time, a MMO Star Wars starfighter game.
Load 128 players into a 100(Tie) versus 28(xwing) battle with a little briefing ahead of time as to the goals, maybe even include capital ship piloting and hyperspace buoys for tactics. Racing the Kessel Run, Speeder races, Blasting a womp-rat in your T-16; these things are fun, even more fun against other human-level intelligences. A Star Wars RPG? I've got old West End books for that, and it's sooo much better than what a computer could ever provide.
Or Maniac Mansion 3 / Day of the Tentacle 2
What's a fest?
Festival, Gathering, Party
Kambakhsh was charged with circulating an article on women's rights that he found online.
Seems to be about Kambakhsh's rights online at the very least.
Trucks will all be driven by computer in a few (10-20?) years.
HAHAHA hahaha haha HAHAHAHA hahaha
Whooo! Sorry for the derision, but that was all the talk 20 years ago (except it was "2001" then). Light passenger cars might be computer driven (more likely assisted, like auto-braking for safety) in special cases after 25 years, but 40 ton trucks should be the province of a human until computers can think like people. There's extra training needed to pilot a big rig correctly; that means it would be doubly hard for a computer to handle unforeseen scenarios.
There's a lot of mechanical energy involved in peeling tape. (Including creating and depositing the glue & tape film)
Republic Rocket Jumper
What makes a fact or statement fit for inclusion is verifiability -- that it appeared in some other publication,
I finally figured out what bugs me about this; it means that Wikipedia is only a repository of Media-knowledge: what publication owners want us to know (or believe). Where is the line drawn for a publication? Would the Federalist Papers have made the cut?
If the Brooklyn Bridge were destroyed, what effect would it have on the local economy? There is your hidden value. The bridge produces value despite there being no price tag.
Okay, now I assume you're saying "But the bridge is unique, and it _could_ be sold/leased by the city to a toll-company"... Well, what about wind? If magically, all wind stopped, what does that do to everything? The wind produces value despite no price tag. Therefore, we value the wind.
My family was not well to do when I was in elementary school, and we had an ancient BW TV. I dream in technocolor. Heck, the _world_ is in color.
You forgot the rest of the equation. His portable drive is a lug-able RAID 0 array with two power supplies.
"Got me thinking it might be time to find a new, cheaper hobby"
Paper & pencil RPGs; small initial investment (used books from game store), no monthly fees, large return in fun.
So Spock's not in Pike's crew at this time, and not wearing the older gold/beige uniforms?
From a Natural Selection standpoint, I wonder if this means stupid humans were not common until we started farming. If smart guys with better reflexes tend to have healthier sperm and ejaculate sooner, you'd think that their brood would outpace the stupid brood (until the smart ones started farming, and using[paying] the stupid ones for farm labor).
Fellow nerds, we need to get back to basics. Anyone know how to start a fire?
Every company, and no company. They all say 2-5 years to scare away the losers. Employers like entry level programmers because they usually have good documenting skills, are malleable to new methods, and can be paid with peanuts. The problem is, employers scare away the legitimately good (and honest) graduates by saying they want experience and get the liars, whom they have to sift through to find a recent graduate that knows what they want.
Your problem now is that you aren't a recent graduate any more.
as a parent and tax payer, I'd want all their text books to be in pdf and able to be saved, viewed, printed, quoted from anywhere.
This alone would have been awesome back in the early 90's. We had BBS's back then. Since the students weren't allowed to go to our lockers (Lockers can hide drugzngunz!) during the day, we had to carry all of our books everywhere. Leaving the books in the classrooms, then dialing a school BBS to read the material at home would have been uber-cool.
There are ssh client apps, login to your favorite *nix box to monitor your screen'd tintin++ session every now and then to make sure it's still killing mobiles in no-pkill zones.
Wrong timing, games would come out after thanksgiving if that was the case.
In the U.S.A., Christmas sales have already started (with weird marketing ads; jack-o-lanterns wearing Santa hats). The best part about releasing a game for Christmas sales period: The geeks will buy the games, and some people who shop for the geeks will buy the games (ostensibly for the geeks because they've been raving about game XYZ for months), sit on them for a couple months, then give them as gifts Dec 25th, only to find out that they can't be returned at some retailers.
"ESR loves the sound of his own voice."
How, he's like a Dragon. Can you subdue him with the flat of your blade?