When I see terrorists in skinny jeans, ironic tshirts and wayfarers, on their iPhones plotting the demise of the Great Satan, then I'll worry.

Thank you for trying but:

LucasFilm (the corporate entity) wanted to expand their business into other areas. In other words, they did want to be a games company.

The primary product is film, not games.

The last 15 years of internet dominance have been neat, but it seems like all of the "inventions" are clever ways to interact with each other. Entertainment and consumer products are booming, but what actual technologies are we inventing? Or to put it another way: what opportunities have gone past while we've been inventing toys and minting teenage millionaires?

For your information, Lucasarts THRIVED when it developed games internally, it was when they outsourced development that the rot set in. So... the history of Lucasarts 100% invalidates your rant and proofs you are a silly person nobody should listen too.

The point is this: when a larger corporate entity, whose business is not the making of software, then has an in-house department that makes that software, it will not follow market demands but will be obedient to management, who are one step removed from market demands.

The point isn't "develop their own games" if they are a games company; it's a non-games company developing games internally.

That was clear in the original message, but you either missed it or don't care. Judging by your angry and incoherent post, you're looking for an excuse to be offended and righteously angry. I hope you get that chip off your shoulder; living like that has never worked for me or anyone I know.

http://www.businessinsider.com/texas-da-killing-is-unprecedented-2013-4

Although this is an unpopular view, my take on it is that if we abandon the legitimate means in our system of recalling these people, we weaken those means and force the debate into an unnecessarily volatile mode.

Think with your logic, not your emotions :)

The company's core business of games based on the Star Wars license have been largely disappointing in both quality and sales.

The hidden story here is this: if your core business is not making computer games, and you decide to have an in-house team to do the games, keep in mind that these people are not driven as hard as they would be on the open market where the game is their only product.

When a team is in house, the customer are the other divisions of the company who need to be "satisfied" by what looks like a good project; this is a layer removed from the customer, who actually determines if the product succeeds by buying it or not.

This is the same reason people make fun of government employees. There's no quality-end-result motivation; the real job is to work the job, and to keep taking money for doing whatever it is hasn't gotten them fired yet.

A circle of trolls trolling one another? Starting with /. management.

He was just asserting that editors aren't necessary, correct? He disproved his own point!

FTFA:

D'Ambrosia expects a similar timeline for 400G Ethernet: standard ratification in 2017.

The article also notes that 100G, which was ratified in 2010, is just now barely coming online.

Thus doing a little math, we're likely to see this standard in 2020 at the earliest, later if the nation collapses in insolvency.

Using this now:

http://www.degraeve.com/rot13.php

Limping through /. front page.

As April Fool's official trolls go, this isn't bad. But no goatse. What gives?

send all your articles to Xarciv for free.

Naw, just run them through Dreamweaver and post them to Angelfire.com or livejournal.

Everyone that does actual work does not get payed for it by the publication.

That's "paid," homeslice. Thanks for submitting.

As in many cases, their costs are mostly to hire people who are capable of making intelligent editing decisions as well as doing the bulk work of editing.

Who do you want in charge of the place where you're submitting a paper? Someone who has little education, low intelligence and low personality skills, thus is paid very little? Or a relatively highly-paid, educated, personable and intelligent editor?

If you want quality, it costs all the way. It's not limited to the scientists alone. You will need to hire a competent editorial staff and that is far from free.

The camera built into my laptop most certainly can be turned off or completely disabled. It also has a little LED next to it that lights when it's active, so it's easy to know when it's on.

Actually, this can be circumvented, and as this case shows us, it has been done before.

and visual interfaces that may record motions I make that I do not intend to go into a computer.

I then go on to talk about visual gestures and how I don't want those recorded.

You seem to have mis-read the original message. I would apologize, but after having re-read it, I don't think it's unclear. I often read things hastily as well, and that can lead to this kind of misunderstanding.