well the news is that these particular two journos are shit.
nothing more to it, really.

if you knew the names of the people who accepted it through, you would also know that they don't do shit. that would be nice info.

it doesn't blind in the general direction of the target...
besides, the blinding is accidental by product.

also, it's not "fire". just like bombs are not "fire" and using a fire to make swords is not "making war with fire". So I think they only mean some shit like a forest fire. they don't have any forests anymore soo..

but 120 is at the expensive range of cable tv though?
and for 1TB / month, you would be providing a service equivalent of providing few hours of cable tv per day for what, 50-100 people?

you could run a fairly popular web forum for 100 bucks/ month, or an insanely popular walkthrough site, or the most popular nethack spoilers site there is.

you couldn't host a lot of videos, but who the fuck hosts videos apart from porn sites and there's only a handful of sites that actually host their own free porno anyways(most just link to the handful).

for majority of sites with written content or even video content(hosted on youtube or vimeo like everyone does now) it's just fine to operate on 100 bucks.

if you're doing data processing for 5 million people, that's going to cost you some of course. but even then it's probably not trivial data processing - and again, most people wouldn't be hosting mods or whatever for 5 million downloaders(it's not a small or even medium size operation to do that - basically you had more users than the most popular site in Finnish and the most popular sites in Finnish have you know, actual employees.).

well, you could do your own analysis on the clickthroughs that you're getting. as you should. how the fuck do you know otherwise if your ads are effective or not? dollars spent on marketing vs. dollars gained from marketing.

It's not clickthroughs that you really care about, it's how much dollars you need to spend for a sale.

big brands who do just "recognition" campaigns are another issue of course, since they care only about impressions.

thing is, you should know the site is popular before you buy the advertising on it.. if you just buy through an ad network, how are you going to know? you're not. and the newspaper or whatever you're buying direct from the site publisher to put the ads on has less incentive to run bots to steal your ad money than an ad network has.

if "computer games" count then consoles have nothing to offer on 3d games in time line of firsts.

elite was released a _decade_ before star fox after all and elite offers a true free space 3d environment(and filled polygon versions of elite were released afaik half a decade before starfox).

microprose (and even microsoft) released multiple polygon 3d simulation games for computers in the '80s. by 1990 the list of polygon 3d games is so long that the kid wouldn't have had time to finish them at all(or wouldn't have understood half of them and some of them don't have end goals anyways, maybe the kid would have enjoyed an '80s version of flight simulator who knows).

if you look at the article, the game set presented is _very_ shallow(pacman, contra, megaman etc). which made the project quite a bit less unusual, many parents put their kids to play old console games since a) the kids understand them b) it's cheap c) the young kids don't mind playing them, it's new to them and they don't see the difference to modern games that much.

i think he used a plug-n-play console.

all the games are pretty kid friendly.

and definitely not ALL of videogame history. it's just kid action games. not even a big bunch of them.

the title is faulty and frankly stupid in context of the original article. kids don't mind NES graphics and for 4 year old playing COD would be confusing anyways. none of the games mentioned take a significant time to finish.

there's a port of elite to NES.

I find it pretty fucking hard for the boy to play through all of videogame history. he wouldn't have the time.

let's just say that only playing through ultima 1,2,3,4,5,6 would take quite a bit. throw elite in there for another quite a bit.

I think it's this http://www.ericsson.com/thecom...

that is, the network ericsson, splitted away from the phone biz long time ago. they sell networks to network operators.

basically, it's pretty probable that you can't do a 3g phone without infringing. that's kinda shitty of course, since if you want to make a mobile phone that works on standard networks.... but its not just a patent troll as such. however, the india court probably should have just said that they're standard essential and fucked them over.

and all the big traditional players have cross license agreements, so this shit doesn't apply to them. it's only to keep new manufacturers away from the markets.

you would have thought that EVERYONE would have been anticipating just that though.

there's no point running a bot that looks like a low value customer and provided that you know what counts as a "high value customer" then surely you make it look like that.

like, what kind of idiots commissioned the study?? there's a reason why many people only pay for adclicks that result in a sale. because if you're paying for impressions, you're paying for air.

well, if they're not claiming catastrophic climate change being imminent any day now then they're just meteorologists. and meteorologists are staying out of it.

so the scientists that are climate scientists - and only climate scientists at that - have a bias that it's going to happen "soon" and is going to be huge. the hockey stick model. and every year they find more and more of things that will might cause it to be more severe and more severe.

just makes it kind of hard to have a real opinion. except that whatever my native country does has shit all nothing effect globally. and the chinese would be better off stopping with the coal for their own benefit.

I find it hard to play with the graphics packs.

I need to do too much checking what is what :.

if you had to wait for others to finish their turn or if the turns had a time limit, it would take much longer than couple of weeks for anyone to finish.

this is what many people forget. the interface as it is, is suited for a single player game. like instead of pressing a button and typing in a number to wait for 100 turns would you rather wait half an hour? all the game mechanics would need changing. thing is, nethack is TURN BASED. changing it to a realtime game doesn't quite work out simply and in the end it is something totally else.

and in a little while all the levels would be digged up. of course, you could make them bigger than the screen but that would be totally changing the game mechanic again.

gehenna isn't too bad. usually you would have strong enough character to take the normal enemies there anyways.

there's some forks with more classes to play etc.

but at the heart nethack is a memorization and risk minimization game.

all the insta deaths you need to prepare to counter(reflection is a must) and then just making the character strong enough to deal with the enemies - and there's a certain degree of luck involved in if you can prepare to some insta deaths before they become likely to happen.

but since nethack is already a complete game with beginning and an end goal(ascension), don't know what's there to update, I don't remember any bugs either really. the endgame is kind of ridiculous and the character needs to be kind of ridiculous(ac -27 and what have you) to face it but that's the game...

It's a holdover from the VERY old days of computing.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W...

management track people have higher turnover.

and harder time finding a job later. it's just mathematics that dictate it, also it tells that they're not really that much into the field itself, so while in theory they might be able to manage any kind of project(not just IT), it's pretty hard for many to find any.

also this is related to the supposed age discrimination in IT. the older you are, the more detached you are from the trench work the less likely it is for anyone to hire you since they could hire just anyone else with "management skills" to do the job, since all you have is "management skills", just like 10%+ of population.

anyhow, that's my experience - that management people have much higher turnover in the IT business. the more they are on the "management track" the less likely it is for them to be working 10 years from now(and I don't mean that they're "happily retired" either, just that nobody calls them up the second they hear they're out of work, where as the tech track people get contacted immediately).