Comment Summary is wrong (Score 3) 109
Star Citizen raised over $6 million dollars ($2 million via kickstarter, $4 million via paypal). Since the campaign it has raised nearly $1 million dollars more (total $6.9 million).
Comment Re:I approve (Score 0) 805
The parent post was making fun of its parent... "Because his good" is possessive, just like "Because your good". He was being absurd to make a point; You missed it.
Comment Not the problem ... (Score 1) 113
These people need a few more critical thinking skills. If the option for PP was removed, the pointless meetings would still be held. The same 85% of people attending these meetings would continue to feel their time (and money) was being wasted. Removing PP as an option will not save 2.1 billion francs.
Comment Re:More than just knowledge (Score 2, Insightful) 453
While hiring people on a temporary basis sounds like a good idea, it has some serious flaws. Hiring 3 temporary employees with the plan to axe 2 makes for a very stressful/hostile work environment. Only those potential employees with no other job opportunities/offers would even consider it (which is most likely the worst applicants). The list of bad aspects of this idea is longer.
Microsoft Disconnects Modded Xbox Users 738
S-4'N3 writes "The BBC reports that Microsoft has disconnected approximately 600,000 Xbox users from Xbox Live because the devices they are using have been modified, either with software or with new chips, to play pirated games. 'Microsoft confirmed that it had banned a "small percentage" of the 20 million Xbox Live users worldwide.
Microsoft said that modifying an Xbox 360 console 'violates' the service's 'terms of use' and would result in a player being disconnected.'"
Comment Re:Showing their cards at last (Score 1) 173
Saying "Cloud is just a fancy way of saying OPS" is along the lines of saying "Oak is just a fancy way of saying tree".
Yup, you are 100% correct, "other people's servers" is a nebulous, non-accurate, gaseous term that doesn't quite hit the nail on the head (just like "clould computing"). On the other hand, it doesn't make me feel like a pointy-haired boss when I use it in conversation with others.
Who wants to play buzz-word bingo?
Comment Re:Showing their cards at last (Score 1) 173
But that doesn't mean that every datacentre is a cloud, because a cloud has properties that most datacentres do not.
Maybe not, but that is besides the point. The "cloud" is just a fancy way of saying "other peoples servers" (OPS).
Barack Obama Wins the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize 1721
Barack Obama has just been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. The BBC opines: "In awarding President Obama the Nobel Peace Prize, the Norwegian committee is honoring his intentions more than his achievements. After all he has been in office only just over eight months and he will presumably hope to serve eight years, so it is very early in his term to get this award. ... The committee does not make any secret of its approach. It states that he is being given the prize 'for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and co-operation between peoples.' This is of course an implied criticism of former US president George W Bush and the neo-conservatives, who were often accused of trying to change the world in their image." The Washington Post collects more reactions from around the world.
Comment Re:Simple (Score 5, Interesting) 250
Or even just keeping a copy of your own data on your own system.
Thats why I don't call it "cloud computing", I prefer OPS (other peoples servers). Its more self-explanitory.
Comment Re:It's about Local Control (Score 2, Funny) 171
I'm down with OPS. Yah, you know me.
Comment Re:It's about Local Control (Score 3, Insightful) 171
Storing confidential data in the "cloud" (how I hate that term) is a
Lots of users say they hate using the term "the cloud", but they continue to use it anyway. Why not just say "other peoples servers"?
Comment Re:Let me fix that foryou.. (Score 1) 351
Who says there'll be no app store? There might well be plenty, if MS don't restrict it so that you can only run apps from one store.
This article says there will be a closed app store.. with a few free lame apps, thats as good as *no* app store.
Comment Re:Legal Question (Score 1) 646
Yeah, I'm sure they send all those profiles to charity, that is if there are any profits left after their $2000 / hr wages.
Comment Re:From Mogwai to Gremlin (Score 5, Funny) 236
LoJack swiftly changes to HiJack with a good meal after midnight
There, fixed that for you. A splash of water would give you more laptops... if only
Researcher Trolls MMO, Surprised When Players Hate Him 895
D1gital_Prob3 writes with this excerpt from a story about David Myers, a Loyola professor who spent some time studying superhero MMO City of Heroes/Villains:
"... he aimed the pointer at his opponent, the virtual comic book villain 'Syphris.' Myers, 55, flicked the buttons on his mouse and magically transported his opponent to the front of a cartoon robot execution squad. In an instant, the squad pulverized the player. Syphris fired an instant message at Myers moments later. 'If you kill me one more time I will come and kill you for real and I am not kidding.' ... As part of his experiment, Myers decided to play the game by the designers' rules — disregarding any customs set by the players. His character soon became very unpopular. At first, players tried to beat him in the game to make him quit. Myers was too skilled to be run off, however. They then made him an outcast, a World Wide Web pariah that the creator of Syphris — along with hundreds of other faceless gamers — detested."
