Comment INSANE PRICE!!! (Score 1) 193
$80 for software?!?! What is this, 2005?
Comment Re:I BM, U BM, we all BM for IBM (Score 1) 397
Isn't that every consumer software company?
Comment You're just wrong ... (Score 1) 397
I can create an application that displays a big red button on the desktop which, when pressed, will completely wipe the hard drive without an annoying modal confirmation dialog box. Sure it'll give great "user experience" to those that would like to wipe their drive but is that reason enough to install and use something like this on a daily basis?
Giving users easy access to something destructive is not good UX design. It's the definition of bad UX design.
Comment Re:Quite impressive, but still fundamentally flawe (Score 1) 273
>flash doesn't belong on phones
By your reasoning, neither does HTML 5 canvas and video because they have the exact same (if not worse) issues.
Comment Windows 7 being equivalent to Windows Vista in ... (Score 1) 821
performance is not a bad thing. By the time Windows 7 is released, 3 years would have elapsed since Vista's release. Computers are better and cheaper. Discount brands give you at least a dual-core cpu with 2Gb of RAM. Windows 7 won't have the issue of being pre-installed on hardware that can't give it reasonable performance.
Comment Re:Well that's embarassing (Score 1) 659
>I'm sure they picked bible passages because the translations were mostly done for them already but I'm a little embarrassed that future generations are going to think how amazingly superstitious we were.
I don't think any less of the ancient Greeks for their mythology.
Journal Journal: Chavez beats Bush in race to dictatorship 4
Chavez has done it, he's beat Bush* in the race to become a dictator.
The Congress of Venezuela has granted Hugo Chavez the kind of authority that liberals in American think George Bush desperately desires: the ability to rule by decree. Who wants to take bets on how many liberals denounce this action and start calling Chavez a bloody tyrant the way they do Bush?
Submission + - 10 years of pushing for Linux - and giving up.
boyko.at.netqos writes: "Jim Sampson at Network Performance Daily writes about his attempts to get Linux working in a business/enterprise environment, but each time, he says, something critical just didn't work, and eventually, he just gave up.
"For the next ten years, I would go off and on back to this thought: I wanted to support the Open Source community, and to use Linux, but every time, the reality was that Linux just was not ready... Over the last six years, I've tried periodically to get Linux working in the enterprise, thinking, logically, that things must have improved. But every time, something — sometimes something very basic — prevented me from doing what I needed to do in Linux."
The article caps with his attempts to use Ubuntu Edgy Eft — only to find a bug that still prevented him from doing work."
"For the next ten years, I would go off and on back to this thought: I wanted to support the Open Source community, and to use Linux, but every time, the reality was that Linux just was not ready... Over the last six years, I've tried periodically to get Linux working in the enterprise, thinking, logically, that things must have improved. But every time, something — sometimes something very basic — prevented me from doing what I needed to do in Linux."
The article caps with his attempts to use Ubuntu Edgy Eft — only to find a bug that still prevented him from doing work."
Innovative, Original Games Have No Chance 225
In interviews with game developers this week, the tone seems to be that innovative, original thought is no longer welcome in the games industry. That definitely seems to be the tone behind IGN's interview with Okami producer Atsushi Inaba, and MTV's interview with Bioshock's Ken Levine (distracting flash site). Atsushi, speaking about the art style in his critically acclaimed but poorly selling adventure game, had this to say about originality in games: "You use the word 'difficult', but I think that it is becoming almost 'impossible' for an original game to succeed financially. This can't be blamed on anyone but it's a simple fact that an original game doesn't appeal to the majority of gamers." Meanwhile Levine, talking mostly about the level of art he's trying to create with the title, had this to say about some of his fellow designers: "Most video game people have read one book and seen one movie in their life, which is 'Lord of the Rings' and 'Aliens' or variations of that. There's great things in that, but you need some variety." While most of the rest of his comments are somewhat mild, he reiterates throughout that they're trying to do something that gamers may not "give a crap" about. What do you think? Has the industry gotten to the point where retreads are all that will sell, or is there still room in the marketplace for original ideas?
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