Every game that you can procure has some form of marketing, even if it is just limited to the box the game comes in, or the website it is accessed from. With that in mind I'd like the marketing to:

Show me a mix of character types, not just one skinny, large breasted woman wearing little more than underwear. (One game I will never look at, and know virtually nothing about because of this is Evony).

Advertise the social/team aspect more. I believe someone earlier in the discussion mentioned they would like to see a study in time vs progression in male vs female players. It is possible that women play for different reasons. I personally see no need to be the first/strongest in the game world, but would rather have fun playing with others. I am not saying this differentiation is clear cut across the gender line.

And my pipe dream is to be able to play a game like Halo and not get hit on or screamed at because I'm a girl on voice chat. I don't go on there to hit on guys or scream at others, why should I have to deal with that? I won't even wear a headset anymore. I'm not sure how developers or marketers would be able to address this issue, but it does hamper my enjoyment of some games. I am well aware that I am not the voice of every girl gamer out there (nor am I necessarily even consistent in my own views of games since I quite enjoy DOA beach volley ball) Big boobs aren't always a deal breaker, but lets have some choice?

Are those games marketed to females? I am only trying to say that game companies should focus some budget and marketing towards attracting females to their games. More gamers = more profit, unless I am mistaken.

Maybe more of my friends would play. Maybe I would play different games. Maybe I'd have a character who doesn't have to run around scantily clad with huge breasts. These are things we do complain about (and are reasons some of my other female friends won't start playing). And there are plenty of games I won't even look at because these images are all that constitute the marketing of the game. I'm just saying the games could milk more money out of their players by focusing some energy on us girls!

There are girls who game, and who game quite extensively. I would call myself one of those girls, and I easily log 20+ hours a week playing. Granted, my friend set is probably a little skewed since we're all females in either engineering or CS, so I won't comment on the numbers of girls that exhibit these traits. That being said, maybe game marketers will wake up and realize that we do play, and that we do invest a lot of time into it and maybe they'll actually try to start marketing to more of us. We're just as happy to plunk down our cash for a game. And we're probably more likely to plunk down extra cash on "accessories" and other non functional goodies to make our characters look good...

I don't work 24/7. Different hours of the day come with different opportunity costs based on what I would be doing were I not innovating.

Besides the obvious backup power, cooling, environmental stuff mentioned above....

1. Expandability.. how much rack/cage space is available nearby? Get a right of refusal on any empty space near your stuff if you can.
2. Power max per rack, can you get enough for SAN's, blades etc
3. Remote hands availability/skills/costs (really want to make a trip to the datacenter to replace dead hard drives? No. Do the employees know enough to do *limited* work for you)
4. 24/7 access, near employees if a physical presence is required
5. What sort of racks do they have? Can you buy your own?
6. Storage space. Need 100 servers shipped but don't have racks yet? Need to keep spare hardware on hand? Do they have room keep that for you?
7. How many/what carriers do they offer? How is access delivered? What does their network look like?
8. Do they have spare tools/network cables/misc parts. Can they order stuff for you, or is there some place nearby you can pick things up if needed in a hurry?
9. How many employees can you get access for?
10. Do they have a crash cart? Comfortable place to work? Wifi or other forms of internet access available?

OSI was founded by people who were unhappy with the Free Software Foundation and the GPL. OSI Founder Eric S. Raymond recently said that the GPL is no longer needed.

Recall that F=ma, a=F/m. Assuming that you have a negative mass, acceleration for an object will have to be in the reverse of the force excerted. You push a -m object left, it accelerates right.

Now, also recall that force of gravity Fg m1*m2 at any given radius. Now, assuming that m1 and m2 are positive, you will get a positive force, which means towards each other.

But now let's throw in one negative mass object. You'll then get a negative Fg, right? Which you'd think would mean that the objects fly apart, but remember that a negative mass object will go in the opposite direction of a force that's applied. That means that the negative mass object will be move towards the positive mass object, and the positive mass object will move away from the negative mass object. These will cancel out if the masses are the same. However, if, for example, you were on the earth with a small negative-mass object (let's give it a mass of 1kg, and it's on the surface), you would have:

Fg=-9.8 N

"dropping" the -1kg mass would result in the earth accelerating away from the negative mass at virtually 0m/s/s, while the -1kg mass would accelerate TOWARDS the earth at a rate of 9.8m/s/s

That said, the -1kg mass would indeed fall DOWN.

Using the same math and logic, it would follow that:

If the negative mass object is less massive than the positive, the objects would be pulled together.

If the negative mass object is more massive than the positive, the objects would fly apart.

If the negative mass object were more massive than the positive mass object, the objects would fall apart If the masses are the same, no acceleration would be observed.

Does anybody think this might eventually be a bad thing? I mean if it sucks in light whats to stop somebody from sticking their hand in it to see what it feels like.

From my understanding, libertarians have somehow managed to classify property rights as a negative right. And that is definitely not something that has a minuscule imposition.

Of course, the real question here is if property rights actually are a negative right at all. From my perspective, it looks and behaves a lot like most positive rights.

Well they don't really need to send a blinding light at the camera.. they can just project (near-)IR light from the projection booth,

In which case it can be a quite high intensity since people won't be able to see it!

make it vary randomly in intensity, and all but the most well-equipped cameras (with a *very* decent IR blocker that can at least block the frequency used by the theatre; no, the standard IR blocker does not cover this, as pointing a TV remote at your camera will show) record utter junk.

Some cameras can also "see" near UV too. Anyway plenty of security systems make use of the ability for cameras to use "invisible light".

But in the end, it still only takes 1 person - a projectionist not adhering to policy, a print shop that has a mysterious 'leak', a review board member wanting some extra crash - to get a transfer to a format that distribution groups can use, and the whole world will have access in no time.

There's also the issue of it being very difficult to secure things once you start pressing DVDs.

I was just pointing out a problem with the GPLv3, because people are pointing out problems with the GPLv2 and the entire solution here seems to be upgrading, for which I am warning. I do that because I think Microsoft is indirectly responsible for trolling by submitting these articles to /. and other sites.

Most people don't camcorder a theater movie for their personal collection. They do it to get a zero day pirate tape made that DOES get sold. There absolutely are pirates who make money selling pirated movies and software. It definitely is a distinct from someone who shares stuff freely, even though that really isn't fair use, and does at least partially steal from the publishing company.

Oh, naïveté.

Nothing will stop them from filing their patent unless you are aware of their filing, and object.

Then, if you were to do something w/ your idea, they may very well sue you, regardless of their patent's invalidity, making the gamble that you'd rather settle than deal with the legal proceedings required to invalidate their patent.

These guys aren't doing it cause they're smart. They're doing it because they think there's easy money to be made, and it's a pain in the ass to defend yourself in court.

This behavor is called patent trolling. I figure any careful reader of Slashdot would recognize this modus operandi, given it's frequency in News for Nerds.

So what can i say?
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Depends on your race, class, and faction.