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Comment look at the cost (Score 1) 41

by musixman (#38225826) Attached to: Ruby Clouds: Engine Yard Vs. Heroku
imo buy a dedicated server with managed support. The op's will be happy because they can SSH in & developers will be happy because they can ticket the hosting company for changes. Clouds have a purpose but nothing beats a dedicated box for cost/performance (you can get a decent one for $250 now a days)

Comment $200/yr per domain - $99/yr when open season. (Score 0) 245

by musixman (#37310930) Attached to: Porn-Industry Outsiders Fear 'Shakedown' In<nobr> <wbr></nobr>.XXX TLD
Important to note, It's $200/yr right now to pre-register 1 domain name.. it's not like it's $8-$9. Even after pre-registration when it goes open to anyone to buy it's still $99/yr per domain. I just want to know how someone is GIVEN a business to manage like that. It's going to created record profits for almost no work at the expense of other legit adult and mainstream businesses. Sounds like someone got a kickback to allow this to me.

Comment Not really funny (Score 0) 238

by musixman (#33034170) Attached to: Why You Never Ask the Designers For a Favor
If your a "designer" who can't complete a simple reward flyer in less then 5 minutes (1 photo centred with two lines of text) you really are full on retarded. If you can't find 5 minutes to help a co-worker who could easily poison you without you ever knowing.... you really are lazy. People with pets think of them as family members I don't think it's funny or insightful it's obnoxious.
Games

The Grown-Up Video Game 152

Posted by Soulskill from the getajob-hero dept.
Phaethon360 writes "Now, more than ever, we're seeing many Mature ratings (M+, 17+, 18) being distributed by various national media regulators. But that isn't the only indicator for a game's intended audience. It doesn't take a thousand swear words, scantily clad women or gratuitous violence to differentiate a ten-year-old's game from a twenty-year-old's. The spectrum of human emotions encompasses a wider palette than just revenge, fear, and loss, but the games that shy away from these are frequently mistaken as being for a younger audience. From the article: 'The human experience is one that is made up of great hardship, pain, loss, death, and a multitude of experiences seemingly designed to destroy a person. However, that same experience is also filled with joy, love, laughter, family and friends. ... These so-called “grown-up” games need not be relegated to the category of niche gaming. In fact, at times we find that these video games are capable of reaching mass popularity among the gaming community. It is here that we find one of our generation’s outlets for the expression of conflict.'"
Medicine

Interview With the Founder of a Video Game Rehab Clinic 59

Posted by Soulskill from the real-medicine dept.
Ten Ton Hammer has posted the transcript from an interview with Dr. Hilarie Cash, co-founder of the "reSTART Internet Addiction Recovery Program," a relatively new clinic that deals with adults who feel that they are addicted to video games. The interview contains some.. interesting nuggets of wisdom. If you want to avoid addiction, you'd better spend less than two hours per day on online entertainment! The good news is that she doesn't recommend beating people. "When people come, they come for 45 days. It is only for adults; patients must be 18 or older. When they first come, they come for a minimum 2 days to be interviewed and to interview us, because we don't want anyone there who doesn't want to be there. So if they decide they want to be there then they stay for 45 days or longer if they choose. During that time they don't have access to the internet. The idea is that it takes at least 30 days for the brain to make some adjustments it needs to make to get over this addiction, so the brain can begin to rewire back to normal. During that time we are helping them look at why they got addicted, what motivated their addiction and we're assessing to see what skills they are lacking so they can be successful in their adult lives. We try to make a good start at helping to build those skills."

Apple Orders 10 Million Tablets? 221

Posted by ScuttleMonkey from the pricepoint-better-be-right dept.
Arvisp writes "According to a blog post by former Google China president Kai-Fu Lee, Apple plans to produce nearly 10 million tablets in the still-unannounced product's first year. If Lee's blog post is to be believed, Apple plans to sell nearly twice as many tablets as it did iPhones in the product's first year."

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