Comment Pakistan's bandwidth (Score 1) 370
Ref: the article linked to in the post. "Pakistanâ(TM)s relatively anemic data pipeline"? That's a major understatement.
Comment Re:Results vary in different countries (Score 1) 439
Pakistan...
Comment Results vary in different countries (Score 1) 439
In my country, most people that age (who own a computer) don't even bother to use computers until absolutely necessary. Gaming is completely out of question!
Comment MAKS (Score 3, Interesting) 76
They're displaying their craft at the MAKS Air Show in Russia. They must be hoping to inveigle some multi-million dollar passengers. How many passengers do you suppose they need to break even with that price tag?
Too bad they can't demonstrate it at the MAKS too.
Excalibur Almaz To Offer Commercial Orbital Flights 76
xp65 alerts to the plans of an international consortium called Excalibur Almaz Limited to open up a new era of private orbital space flight for commercial customers. The group, consisting of Russian, US, and Japanese companies, will use a formerly top-secret Soviet re-entry vehicle called Almaz to carry paying research crews on one-week missions into Earth orbit by 2013. This ambition represents a large step beyond the sub-orbital flight market so far targeted by most other private space companies. "Excalibur has raised 'tens of millions of dollars' to initiate what will become a several hundred million dollar program, [CEO] Dula tells Spaceflight Now. He has spent more than 20 years eying this specific Almaz program... He also says 'the business plan closes' generating profits within a few years. His surveys have found research and science customers for space missions that are not tourist hops, but less demanding than ISS operations."
Comment On the issues of port (Score 3, Informative) 330
And I thought port was just some kind of wine... :|
XP Users Are Willing To Give Windows 7 a Chance 720
Harry writes "PC World and Technologizer conducted a survey of 5,000 people who use Windows XP as their primary operating system. Many have no plans to leave it, and 80% will be unhappy when Microsoft completely discontinues it. And attitudes towards Vista remain extremely negative. But a majority of those who know something about Windows 7 have a positive reaction. More important, 70 percent of respondents who have used Windows 7 say they like it, which is a sign that Windows 7 stands a chance of being what Vista never was: an upgrade good enough to convince most XP users to switch."
Comment Not eco friendly (Score 1) 497
The method is not at all eco-friendly - there's the wasted disk. It could potentially be used by others if you simply used something like Eraser or DBAN (which wipes data to beyond recovery by most means)...
Comment Crocodile Clips aka Yenka (Score 1) 145
This is one of my personal favourites for simulating physics experiments, God knows how many times it was useful in proving my teachers wrong ^.^
It is very much like a virtual lab. Yenka / Crocodile Clips has a version for other branches of science too. Free home use licenses.
Downside: it's not open source.
It is very much like a virtual lab. Yenka / Crocodile Clips has a version for other branches of science too. Free home use licenses.
Downside: it's not open source.
Comment Re:Psychology (Score 1) 399
I could quote a study that compared gaming consoles owned to the job of the main earning member of the family. Problem is, it was taken by a print magazine in Pakistan (where I live), and I couldn't refer you to it.
But I admit I may be wrong to generalize it for the rest of the world, particularly US.
Comment Psychology (Score 0) 399
It probably has a lot to do with psychology too. Consoles are generally used by richer people (children and adults) who, in addition to owning a computer, can afford to own consoles too (people who own consoles, in all likelihood, own computers before they own consoles).
These people are then less likely to be smiffed by a surcharge of a few dollars. Not that they like paying it, but they have fewer gripes. Companies, of course, home in on this very psyche.
The fact that consoles are closed also makes matters different, like so many before me have commented. But if the demographic it caters to failed, how would paid DLC ever have taken off?
These people are then less likely to be smiffed by a surcharge of a few dollars. Not that they like paying it, but they have fewer gripes. Companies, of course, home in on this very psyche.
The fact that consoles are closed also makes matters different, like so many before me have commented. But if the demographic it caters to failed, how would paid DLC ever have taken off?
Comment PC vs Consoles (Score 5, Funny) 399
Take that, you console-owning-PC-haters! :>
Comment Re:Not enough outsourcing, I suppose (Score 2, Interesting) 246
Actually, I happen to live in one of the countries I mentioned, and I happen to be involved in the related circles. I can tell for certain that all IT companies actually come back over and over again to these 'low cost' outsourcing centres. What surprises me is that no game developers ever do...
Comment Yeah, right... (Score 1) 165
... but I don't wanna die! :(
Comment Re:Not enough outsourcing, I suppose (Score 1) 246
Oops. Talk about filling forms while setting Slashdot prefs...
