While 1-1 coaching will always have its place, there is more and more help getting available to on-line gamers in form of communities (gaming help websites) and some automated tools. If you are looking at making this your profession watch out for these help options as your competitors!
While this is a welcome achievement, a key challenge is to get the local processes in place to effectively utilize the early warning. Unfortunately some of the most vulnerable spots are far-flung areas with lack of resources and processes to handle effective evacuations etc.
If you feel so strongly about this, why not take an extra step beyond what couple of anonymous cowards wrote.. perhaps an email to me for an explanation..(please see my response to the first posting which started all of this.)
I didn't want to be part of a religious battle, and it looks like I became part of one. No community wins, if this is the way to muffle others' comments.
It would have been good if you had taken a step beyond reading the posting of the anonymous coward. It is telling that he/she chose to go out of their way to provide selective information which lead to all this interpretation. (anyway you can read my response to that posting).
What is perhaps unfortunate is that some folks decided a smear tactic to cut out the message, instead of providing their opinion openly.
I go on a break and come back to find all of this - being classified as a troll, my slashdot Karma downgraded...Argh..
Well, there was no need to do all this detective work. My affliation with this vendor is very clearly listed on the "About Us" page of my website. They provide my hosting and domain service. Which is also the reason why they showed up in the whois query (I have asked them to change this, since obviously whois information is the authoritative source for associations and interpretations here....).
Since I had nothing to gain with the posting, I didn't clutter my comment with all of my interactions with the vendor.
As far as your comment on my experience with various operating systems, that is a cheapshot and I don't think is worthy of a response.
I absolutely know what you are saying (regarding big vendors giving away the stuff). However, I did do some research on this. It turns out that if you want a high resolution (in my case the LC2440N is WSXGA+ and dual-boot with XP-Pro, i.e. you would order XP-PRO from dell and load ubuntu on your own) then the Dell choice was *way* more expensive. You cannot order such a system through "Home use", you have to order it through "Small business use", which for whatever reason adds a whole lot of cost. I did this research about two months ago. At that point I found this to be a much better deal (also I didn't want to deal with getting hold of proper video, wireless drivers etc...).
well in your case it sounds like an integrator did some work before the system with ubuntu got to you. you can get some integrator to setup an apple box for you as well..
sorry but I don't quite understand the logic above. sure I bought the laptop from LinuxCertified (which acted as an "integrator"), but the point is that I paid less than the system I bought from Apple. Perhaps there are some intermediaries who will customize an Apple system to my wishes without additional cost - but I am not aware of those. But in any case, the initial cost of acquisition is not the most important thing (although it is important - and as I said Ubuntu laptop was less expensive for me as compared to equivalent OS-X based machine), the more important thing is ongoing support and availability of applications. This is where I think my current Ubuntu based setup is far superior.
I am one of these switchers as well. I am a gamer and developer, and had been a long term Apple user. But high cost of Apple and not a whole lot of support finally got to me. I recently ordered a LinuxCertified LC2440N laptop pre-loaded with Ubuntu. I have to say, I was blown away with this change - it really felt like an "upgrade". My previous experience (about two years ago) with Linux was not that good. But Ubuntu seems to have changed all of this. Ubuntu (and the laptop) came fully working - with all the applications I needed, wireless etc. Plus the Ubuntu user forums are probably the best I have seen. I am not surprised about this switch at all.
In my opinion, the battle for video consoles has even more strongly shifted from the best hardware capabilities to the best titles availability. Of course, title availability was always important, but with all video consoles providing hardware capabilities needed for most games today, it is all about development of titles at this point. This is where Microsoft excels. So, IMHO, the top dog of the future will be Xbox. Sony and Nintendo will duke it out for the second place.
LOL! Scary. But googling also found the following:
After analyzing the data, Amazon.com has determined that transporter (733324) primarily lives on Cheetos & Vitamin tablets and finds no time for reading books (spends all his time posting funnies on slashdot)
Well technology didn't quite cut it for the Australians today. Brazil
took the game 2-0.
On the other hand, the Socceroos played very well. They had at least
two open goal chances. It came down to old-fashioned skills.
Australians were excellent in creating chances, but just couldn't
finish off. Brazilians had two great goals in the second half. But
their super-star Ronaldo put out another so-so performance. According
to one commentator:
"Ronaldo's performance was better than against Croatia -
but not by much. He played the pass for Adriano to score but cuts a
dejected figure as he trudges off to consoling pats from the dug-out."
Technology is of course changing the games, but probably online games more than soccer!
IMHO, OS-X is pretty much a closed operating system at this point. All of the innovation is dictated by Apple. BTW, I am not saying that is necessarily a bad thing, but I do believe that Apple can not claim that OS-X has the benefits (and downsides) of open source development.
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What about Scrabble and Chess? These have the busiest game rooms on online play sites such as Yahoo Games.
yeah, clean water for every child is more important and urgent than a laptop. Any surprise?
While 1-1 coaching will always have its place, there is more and more help getting available to on-line gamers in form of communities (gaming help websites) and some automated tools. If you are looking at making this your profession watch out for these help options as your competitors!
Well we just celebrated the Get Firefox day. Perhaps the day IE7 gets pushed via Windows update would be yet another Get Firefox day.
Stay away from all forms of online gambling including poker. Sure way to burn lots of cash while in college...
Well, depends on where the non-Kyoto based earth leads us...
So, when will humans get there?
While this is a welcome achievement, a key challenge is to get the local processes in place to effectively utilize the early warning. Unfortunately some of the most vulnerable spots are far-flung areas with lack of resources and processes to handle effective evacuations etc.
This may push down on my skrable skores..
I didn't want to be part of a religious battle, and it looks like I became part of one. No community wins, if this is the way to muffle others' comments.
What is perhaps unfortunate is that some folks decided a smear tactic to cut out the message, instead of providing their opinion openly.
Please see my other posting on this topic.
Well, there was no need to do all this detective work. My affliation with this vendor is very clearly listed on the "About Us" page of my website. They provide my hosting and domain service. Which is also the reason why they showed up in the whois query (I have asked them to change this, since obviously whois information is the authoritative source for associations and interpretations here....).
Since I had nothing to gain with the posting, I didn't clutter my comment with all of my interactions with the vendor.
As far as your comment on my experience with various operating systems, that is a cheapshot and I don't think is worthy of a response.
I absolutely know what you are saying (regarding big vendors giving away the stuff). However, I did do some research on this. It turns out that if you want a high resolution (in my case the LC2440N is WSXGA+ and dual-boot with XP-Pro, i.e. you would order XP-PRO from dell and load ubuntu on your own) then the Dell choice was *way* more expensive. You cannot order such a system through "Home use", you have to order it through "Small business use", which for whatever reason adds a whole lot of cost. I did this research about two months ago. At that point I found this to be a much better deal (also I didn't want to deal with getting hold of proper video, wireless drivers etc...).
sorry but I don't quite understand the logic above. sure I bought the laptop from LinuxCertified (which acted as an "integrator"), but the point is that I paid less than the system I bought from Apple. Perhaps there are some intermediaries who will customize an Apple system to my wishes without additional cost - but I am not aware of those. But in any case, the initial cost of acquisition is not the most important thing (although it is important - and as I said Ubuntu laptop was less expensive for me as compared to equivalent OS-X based machine), the more important thing is ongoing support and availability of applications. This is where I think my current Ubuntu based setup is far superior.
I am one of these switchers as well. I am a gamer and developer, and had been a long term Apple user. But high cost of Apple and not a whole lot of support finally got to me. I recently ordered a LinuxCertified LC2440N laptop pre-loaded with Ubuntu. I have to say, I was blown away with this change - it really felt like an "upgrade". My previous experience (about two years ago) with Linux was not that good. But Ubuntu seems to have changed all of this. Ubuntu (and the laptop) came fully working - with all the applications I needed, wireless etc. Plus the Ubuntu user forums are probably the best I have seen. I am not surprised about this switch at all.
But on the other it would be cool to have a co-operative for video game developers. Is there one already? Or is the business model too hard for that?
In my opinion, the battle for video consoles has even more strongly shifted from the best hardware capabilities to the best titles availability. Of course, title availability was always important, but with all video consoles providing hardware capabilities needed for most games today, it is all about development of titles at this point. This is where Microsoft excels. So, IMHO, the top dog of the future will be Xbox. Sony and Nintendo will duke it out for the second place.
I really thought this was an established old wives tail..
After analyzing the data, Amazon.com has determined that transporter (733324) primarily lives on Cheetos & Vitamin tablets and finds no time for reading books (spends all his time posting funnies on slashdot)
Well technology didn't quite cut it for the Australians today. Brazil took the game 2-0.
On the other hand, the Socceroos played very well. They had at least two open goal chances. It came down to old-fashioned skills. Australians were excellent in creating chances, but just couldn't finish off. Brazilians had two great goals in the second half. But their super-star Ronaldo put out another so-so performance. According to one commentator:
"Ronaldo's performance was better than against Croatia - but not by much. He played the pass for Adriano to score but cuts a dejected figure as he trudges off to consoling pats from the dug-out."
Technology is of course changing the games, but probably online games more than soccer!
Hmm.. I wonder what they will deduce from correlating my reading habits with my eating habits.
While the supreme court ruling a few days back took out some teeth from the patent trolls, they still remain too powerful.
Can anyone give an example of a successful open source project which spent a good chunk of its early years as a completely proprietary software?
IMHO, OS-X is pretty much a closed operating system at this point. All of the innovation is dictated by Apple. BTW, I am not saying that is necessarily a bad thing, but I do believe that Apple can not claim that OS-X has the benefits (and downsides) of open source development.