I wouldn't be so sure that Apple is profiting at $200 per iPod. Maybe, but hardware manufacturers (see Sony's lower PS3 price) first need time to increase manufacturing efficiency to lower the price, and they are sometimes willing to take a hit because of the software (or songs, apps, etc.) that can then be sold on the device. So although Sony might not profit from each PS3 sold, they can make up the difference from all the games you buy.

I'd guess that's been how Apple sells their (handheld) hardware for decent prices.

Yup. We sometimes had some weird rules like that back in the midwest. But in Silicon Valley, engineers are king. If a manager of mine said that to me now, I'd laugh. If s/he was serious, I'd almost immediately move jobs.

To solve that problem, move somewhere that "gets" programmers (Boston, San Francisco and New York are other good places). After that, I highly recommend catchy, thumpy music without vocals. I listen to the house or progressive channels on Digitally Imported all day, personally.

I'm not bitching here, I promise: I am legitimately curious. I've played dozens of games like this and I know people who make games like this who would LOVE to get their game on Slashdot.

So what am I missing? How is this different or unique enough to justify a Slashdot posting? ... Anybody?

I've heard this argument before: I use music production software like Cubase that allows plugins called VSTs. They often are the cause for the entire application crashing and sometimes lots of work lost. The thing is, other applications (some would cite Apple's Logic) would not crash even when using the same VSTs, because they had more intelligent plugin architecture to help prevent crashes from 3rd party software. Firefox should do the same.

I'm a HUGE Firefox fan -- I've converted or tried to convert everyone I know that wasn't already a user in the last 5 years or so. I've got three Mozilla shirts, countless stickers, hats ... and I'm still losing my faith in the entire platform. Firebug is probably my biggest headache point right now, so those developers definitely need to get their shit together. But it could also be argued that Firefox is the source of truth and could provide improved crash prevention.

Most optimal answer! You win!

Srsly. Been there, done that. What's next?

Yup, Yahoo! did this for a long time when I was there; it was to help prevent naturally-occurring fires.

... But, it's Google, and anything they do belongs on the Slashdot homepage for some reason *yawn*

I'm with you. I'm looking forward to the next Elder Scrolls game WAY more than the next Fallout ... both are good but Oblivion is medieval fantasy and therefore wins.

Plus it took me about twice as long to beat Oblivion so I got to enjoy it for longer: http://raptr.com/richtaur

I actually interviewed a guy a while back for Yahoo! who only knew HTML and CSS. I call this person "almost worthless." Without any scripting knowledge (JavaScript, PHP/Python/Ruby), there really wasn't a position for this person anywhere in the company (and that says a lot for such a big web company).

The unfortunate thing is that there really is no perfect term for all the various kinds of web developers (a good default term). I call myself Frontend Engineer, but that really means nothing. This term particularly annoys my British co-workers because in England "engineer" means something very specific (similar to "doctor" in the states).

So a safe bet is to call anyone who develops for the web a "web developer" but then make damn sure to test their skills before ever considering hiring them.

I wasn't trying to compare what a jailbroken iPhone can do that other devices can't, I was saying what you can do with a jailbroken iPhone. It has some severe limitations (yes, like the inability to change text ringtones) that are easily fixed after breaking it.

iPhone is great, but a jailbroken iPhone is AWESOME! Oldschool emulators (Genesis, Nintendo), bash terminal, custom text ringtones, scp/ssh ... it's a fantastic device by itself, but without restrictions it's unbelievably good.

That's not a Tornado! What kinda crap are they trying to pull??

After getting a 360 a few months ago, my Wii has been collecting dust. Its only redeemable quality to me now is the Homebrew Channel, which Nintendo is *really* against. If they took that away from me, I'd basically be done with it... until the next Mario or Zelda game...

Really though, it seems like their primary market right now are gaming families, the Wii probably being their first console. These people don't even know *how* to pirate games, so who cares about a few stragglers? Suck it up, Nintendo.

http://raptr.com/getfirefox.php

Sorry, I just love it when someone dumps IE6 support. Gives me hope that the Interwebz is finally making progress after a decade of crap...

but thanks for the heads up?