This is the reason that indie music, games and movies can often break through and become a runaway success.
They can, but I'm not sure I'd say often.
For an interesting look into indie game development, take a look at the film Indie Game. It is quite revealing
I've actually had conversations with people about their daily graphs, which clearly show huge profits from new players within the first 10 minutes of play, followed by no profit thereafter. When I've pointed out what those graphs indicate, by and large the response was always "but the analytics says these people are all in the 30-40 year old age range, so we aren't exploiting children in the way you're suggesting".
If you have verifiable data available that shows this I would love to see it.
Boeing was hemmoraging(sic) cash up until recently, and this switchover may save them a lot of money at the cost of some run-up problems.
Does the cost of those run-up problems remind anyone else of this little bit of dialog?
Hoban 'Wash' Washburn: This landing is gonna get pretty interesting.
Capt. Malcolm Reynolds: Define "interesting".
Hoban 'Wash' Washburn: [deadpan] Oh God, oh God, we're all going to die?
I have a friend who is a retired newspaper journalist. I wonder if I could interest him in devising some guidelines for ShashDot postings that even amateurs could apply with some improvement to the quality of their posts. Anyone enthusiastic about this?
This will remain irrelevant until the editors do some editing rather than accepting article submissions that are no more than the output of a script that scrapes an RSS feed.
tl;dr: security by obscurity is a bad thing!
Maybe that's why this is an article about steganography rather than security?
Where can you buy a decent RPN device today?
You buy an older HP calculator on eBay of course.
You think you can "educate" people, best of luck to you, but you just want to interest people to something they do not want to care about, full stop.
As the old saying goes, Never try to teach a pig to sing. It just wastes your time and annoys the pig.
Could some astute lawyer (IANAL) produce a standard boilerplate response form and offer it for a nominal fee?
I believe that the proper reply can be found here.
Atleast in the EU, there is some evidence that intelligent life exists, and rational debate is encouraged.
Citation needed.
What's with this urge to punish? What has Marvell done that's so evil? Other than being a powerful US corporation, that is.
They made billions of dollars off the patents of others and didn't pay appropriately to the patent holders?
I would hope that a judge/jury would only be able to award punitive damages if the plaintiff provided convincing evidence that the defendant willfully and knowingly violated the plaintiff's patents.
As OT as this is, I was moderating but all I seem to being doing lately is moderating down advertising 'comment' crap like this wasting mod points that could have been used for of upmodding other, more relevant and interesting comments.
Surely there must be a way of moderating this junk "Advertising" or something that doesn't affect your other mod point for relevant stuff. aaarrrggghh
This is why slashdot is doomed and will likely fail completely within the next year or so. Readership apathy is increasing for the following reasons, among others:
Eventually people will tire of just filtering comment spam and will stop moderating altogether. Combine that with the declining content quality and the people that provide intelligent, interesting or insightful commentary will stop coming. After that it will become just another 4chan. It's a shame and I will be sorry to see it go, but that's the way things are going.
A gun is more like a car. If you want to own it and operate it there some regulations to limit the risk that your neighbors have to endure.
None of the regulation around firearms are in any way related to "the risk that your neighbors have to endure". Try again dumb ass.
The rule on staying alive as a program manager is to give 'em a number or give 'em a date, but never give 'em both at once.
