If the FBI came to me and told me that one of my hosts had bomb making info, I'd give them access to the server, so that they can monitor who are accessing the site, in order to locate them. If people go to this site, this means that they are interested by its content.
Closing the site just sends an alert to the terrorists, and allows them to flee or enter dormant mode, with no way to track them later.
1. How do you know ? 100 millions is more expensive than most Pixar movies. I doubt there is much more movie than in a Pixar, and I doubt the money was spent on the code, or in the gameplay. 2. Probably the keyboard and mouse routines, and the dynamic compression, maybe 2000 lines ?
The Hollywood Accounting here is that they add all the previous developments into the total, since they use parts of the previous sources.
So, they add the prices of Warcraft, Starcraft, Diablo 2, and I'm probably missing some others...
Frankly, this is one of the poorest PR I ever read.
If I would have managed a game which cost 100 millions, it would mean that I'm a very bad manager, and I doubt I'll ever find another job. As an ex-game programmer, I know how much game companies like to announce that their game cost a fortune, but these are lies.
And now, I'm prepared to hear that they'll spend 1 billion on their next game.
What will happen when a iPhone user tries to contact 911, with a member of his family between life and death ? If this happened to you, you would probably panick and not try to reset the phone.
Frankly, if I were the lawyer of the class-suit, I would point onto this argument, not yours.
Most GM food is biologically perfectly safe to eat.
Citation needed.
In France, a journalist filmed a documentary about Monsanto's practices. She discovered that the directors of MonSanto were only eating organic food (in France, it's called 'bio').
So I think that your argument is not acknowledged even at Monsanto's.
So, basically, the resellers were making money by reselling tickets that they bought via hacking of the reservation system. And now, you'd like to preserve the current flawed system ?
Suggestion: Allow the system to reimburse the tickets (minus 5-10% of the original price, for example), and all the problems are solved.
This system works fine with train reservations, why won't it work on concert tickets ?
Probably something about how every time an alternative has been tried it has ended terribly with large losses of life and shitty living conditions for those who linger on.
Last December, I lost my 320Gb full of data due to their infamous click bug: when you power on the drive, it does a lot of clicking noises, and is very slow. They released a patch which never solved my problem.
In fact, I lost 3 Seagates last year, so I cannot trust them anymore to store any of my data.
This one looks pretty expensive. Seagate's heat dissipation is not very good, and also you cannot power down the drive when connected on a TV.
The development competition is nice when the project is very short, and no quality is needed, so most of the consultants projects are in this category.
However, it's the most terrible approach for long time projects.
One of my colleagues explained me that in his previous job, there were 2 software architects who competed this way when a new extension in their project was needed. The winner was never chosen by the code quality, but by the first delivery, so I can only imagine how terrible is the code to maintain, since most of the code has been written in a few minutes.
There is a known rule that states that the most time is spent on writing the first code, the least time is spent on maintaining it.
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That is absolutely stupid !
If the FBI came to me and told me that one of my hosts had bomb making info, I'd give them access to the server, so that they can monitor who are accessing the site, in order to locate them.
If people go to this site, this means that they are interested by its content.
Closing the site just sends an alert to the terrorists, and allows them to flee or enter dormant mode, with no way to track them later.
So they conclude that the ritual obviously works, and they must keep doing it every day.
This is called Cargo Cult:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargo_cult
Why are you making things up ?
1. How do you know ? 100 millions is more expensive than most Pixar movies. I doubt there is much more movie than in a Pixar, and I doubt the money was spent on the code, or in the gameplay.
2. Probably the keyboard and mouse routines, and the dynamic compression, maybe 2000 lines ?
You must be new here.
I started on a TI58C.
The Hollywood Accounting here is that they add all the previous developments into the total, since they use parts of the previous sources.
So, they add the prices of Warcraft, Starcraft, Diablo 2, and I'm probably missing some others...
Frankly, this is one of the poorest PR I ever read.
If I would have managed a game which cost 100 millions, it would mean that I'm a very bad manager, and I doubt I'll ever find another job.
As an ex-game programmer, I know how much game companies like to announce that their game cost a fortune, but these are lies.
And now, I'm prepared to hear that they'll spend 1 billion on their next game.
No, it's too dangerous.
It's easier and safer to attack weak people, and to ransom them.
Hmm, it sounds like the RIAA are acting like real pirates.
What will happen when a iPhone user tries to contact 911, with a member of his family between life and death ?
If this happened to you, you would probably panick and not try to reset the phone.
Frankly, if I were the lawyer of the class-suit, I would point onto this argument, not yours.
And I'm pretty sure a recall would be forced.
Donald Knuth, is that you ?
Most GM food is biologically perfectly safe to eat.
Citation needed.
In France, a journalist filmed a documentary about Monsanto's practices.
She discovered that the directors of MonSanto were only eating organic food (in France, it's called 'bio').
So I think that your argument is not acknowledged even at Monsanto's.
Four months ago, kdawson put the opposite story on the front page:
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/03/02/0135238/Scalpers-Earned-25M-Gaming-Online-Ticket-Sellers
So, basically, the resellers were making money by reselling tickets that they bought via hacking of the reservation system.
And now, you'd like to preserve the current flawed system ?
Suggestion:
Allow the system to reimburse the tickets (minus 5-10% of the original price, for example), and all the problems are solved.
This system works fine with train reservations, why won't it work on concert tickets ?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kibbutz
or european democracies (like Sweden), which are a mix between capitalism and communism.
No, you see only totalitarism opposing to capitalism.
There are a lot of other ways.
Probably something about how every time an alternative has been tried it has ended terribly with large losses of life and shitty living conditions for those who linger on.
How is that different from capitalism ?
Why not somebody hotter, like the porn-star Asia Carrera ? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asia_Carrera
Or Tex 3.16 will be released in 2012, just before the end of the world.
Capitalism is great
Citation needed.
instead of pulling hot air out, it forced hot air into the case
Vapor-hardware ?
I bought a 1Tb Samsung, they are very good.
My next buy will be the 1.5Tb (5400 RPM), for external storage.
Last December, I lost my 320Gb full of data due to their infamous click bug: when you power on the drive, it does a lot of clicking noises, and is very slow.
They released a patch which never solved my problem.
In fact, I lost 3 Seagates last year, so I cannot trust them anymore to store any of my data.
This one looks pretty expensive.
Seagate's heat dissipation is not very good, and also you cannot power down the drive when connected on a TV.
Is anybody married here ?
I think it is quite reasonable to assume that half of the registered users is not using the site at all
I think the 80/20 rule applies here.
That is: 20% of registered people use Facebook daily, and use 80% of the resources.
The development competition is nice when the project is very short, and no quality is needed, so most of the consultants projects are in this category.
However, it's the most terrible approach for long time projects.
One of my colleagues explained me that in his previous job, there were 2 software architects who competed this way when a new extension in their project was needed.
The winner was never chosen by the code quality, but by the first delivery, so I can only imagine how terrible is the code to maintain, since most of the code has been written in a few minutes.
There is a known rule that states that the most time is spent on writing the first code, the least time is spent on maintaining it.
And version 7 is expected next week ;-)
Jobs has particular domain skills which go beyond pure business management.
Yes, Jobs always wanted to become a guru.
He finally succeeded.
I wonder if the folks who do network design at AT&T have any idea at all that their job is related to security.
Yes, they are securing their wages.
Since it takes a lot of time, they don't have time to spend on customers.