Follow Slashdot stories on Twitter

 



Forgot your password?
typodupeerror
×

Comment Productivity issue (Score 1) 1002

There are two very good reasons to have two monitors when coding. They are both related with the ability to browse the internet. The first is to have the ability to do search for fixes to various issues that you will run into during the day. Being forced to switch back and forth between windows on a single monitor can become frustrating and inhibit productivity. The second reason is to have the ability to take small mental breaks throughout the day. The ability to take a 3-5 minute break to relax the mind is probably one of the most underestimated productivity issues in a work environment. This issue has been known in the VFX industry for a while and they encourage these small breaks. It is almost the opposite for any other business office, where internet browsing is looked upon as anti-productive.

Comment Lawsuits? (Score 0) 451

Doesn't Apple keep lobbing lawsuits at other tablet manufacturers? Seems like everyday I read an article about Apple suing someone for supposed patent infringement. Maybe they see the writing on the wall and are just trying to stall other tablets from getting onto the market for as long as possible.

Comment Who cares? (Score 2) 308

I mean, we have to accept at some point that we are all in a public place. I for one don't want to have to live life online like a fugitive. Constantly changing my identity and browsing habits just to throw off marketers. And if you are smart you can easily avoid scammers by being more vigilant with your important information.
Piracy

Call of Duty: Black Ops the Most Pirated Game of the Year 5

Torrentfreak reports that after calculating download frequency for pirated copies of popular video games, Call of Duty: Black Ops has won the dubious honor of being the most pirated game of 2010. The PC version of the game was torrented roughly 4,270,000 times, and the Xbox 360 version was downloaded an additional 930,000 times. (The most pirated Wii game was Super Mario Galaxy 2, and Dante's Inferno somehow managed to accrue the most downloads of Xbox 360 games.) Fortunately for Activision, the game has still made over $1 billion in sales, and its 20,000,000+ players have racked up over 600,000,000 man-hours of play time since the game's launch in early November.

Comment Re:Pub, social, dollars (Score 5, Insightful) 439

You only got the point half right. What is happening is that many people are not buying EA's single player games that only have 20 hours of game play because their games are generally crap. EA is not willing to put the money into making worth while 20 hour game much less a good 50-60 hour single player game (it hurts their profit margin). They have realized that it is cheaper just to add a multi-player and try to pass it off as extra playing time. But really, who the hell buys a game based on the amount of playing time. I would rather spend 60 bucks on a 20 hour master piece than a 60 hour turd.

Comment Re:Net neutrality is not capitalism (Score 3, Insightful) 402

What you are speaking of is absolute Free Market Capitalism, which doesn't exit in this country and for good reason. The government, on behalf of the people, set up rules which regulate business that protect the people from irresponsible business practice and promotes a fair trading environment. Certain sectors of our economy require more regulations than others due to their importance to daily life. The internet falls into this category and it should be protected from greedy corporations so that we can all have equal access to it. I for one don't want the rich to have special access to the internet that can't get due to my small pay check.

Comment Re:3-D (Score 1) 261

See, the problem is that 3D is purely a money making gimmick. Do you think Lucas and Cameron spent all those years pushing it and developing for it just for artistic integrity? F no! They both knew that it was a good money making machine that will puts peoples butts back into the empty theater seats. So I can give two shits whether you actually like it. You are in a very small minority. Most of the people who actually go see 3D movies are the mindless idiots who go see Michael Bay movies. You want technological innovation? Well then make digital film cameras capable of the richness that analog film gives you at half the price. Or figure out how to make non-creepy digital characters. All I see is the big tech companies trying to cash in and making all TV's 3D and charging more for them. Next thing you know you won't be able to buy a non-3D TV. Just like how it's getting harder and harder to buy a 1920x1200 resolution monitor because display makers are trying to cash in on the 1080p craze.

Comment Not out of the ordinary. (Score 5, Insightful) 589

Most new technologies end up in the hands of the rich first, mainly because of the costs of production. Over time, if the technology ends up proving itself and becomes cheaper to produce, it starts to permeate itself into the rest of the market, it's just simple economics. Just look at the PC, most families couldn't afford one until well into the late 90's.

Slashdot Top Deals

egrep -n '^[a-z].*\(' $ | sort -t':' +2.0

Working...