This part made me laugh, "EA has been struggling against growing trend of social and mobile gaming."
You can only exploit a hit game for a few iterations before you have to get off your ass and come up with something new. But, it's hard to come up with something good when the talented developers get wise to your project [mis]management and either leave or won't work for you. http://ea-spouse.livejournal.com/274.html
It's called labor arbitrage, seeking an absolute advantage in labor costs. There aren't that many incentives for a career in STEM fields. These observations are from the SF Bay Area. My friends engineering company started new engineers (EE) out at $40k. Landscapers, maids, postmen, garbage collectors and road crews all make more (get paid for overtime) and they aren't trying to pay off student loans.
The followup article will be, "Rural Bangalore experiences boom in Systems Administrator jobs." Google, Oracle, MS, et. al all outsource anything low level that can be done remotely.
I saw a demonstration of Windows 7 Mobile last week. Microsoft decided to remove the VPN client and remote desktop features that were available in previous versions of Windows Mobile. But the award for lamest concept by a large margin was replacing cut and paste with auto-complete. That didn't go over to well during the Excel Viewer demonstration where people were asking how you transferred formulas from one cell to another.
Maybe they should ask the guys that were developing 3D games in 1995. Descent 3D comes to mind so does Hi-Octane both of which had 3D modes compatible with LCD glasses. HUDs and crosshairs were 2D. I worked for 3DTV [http://www.3dmagic.com/catalog/consumerframe.html] company in 1995/6 - demo'ing Descent 3D at Comdex among other things. FU Microsoft for killing off 3D gaming for a good 10 years.
My old IPAQ 6925 has a SIRFIII chipset which is a dedicated GPS chipset. I had to buy TomTom maps but it works without having to use the cellular network. Most of the Android phones are A-GPS. They use the cellular network. That way the carrier can make more money.
That's a fair assessment. At most of the small companies I've worked for whenever I suggest implementing some sort of IT risk management I get treated like I was trying to shakedown the owner for his kids lunch money.
I had a 6 digit UIN starting with 2 but I haven't used it in a few years. The guy that hacked my account is apparently still making use of it though. AOL absolutely refused to lock him out. Even though they had years of activity of me logging on from the same IP addresses in the US and having access to the old email account linked to the UIN they wouldn't reset the password and lock that clown out.
This is guerrilla marketing. This isn't hurting anyone. I suspect some folks in Apple's PR and Marketing departments are going to be laughing all the way to the bank when they deposit their bonuses. This has generated a huge amount of free publicity for the next gen $Phone.
Standardization among endpoints is the only real way to lessen the headache. If you know that workstations need to use port X and protocol Y it's much easier to setup. Without it you have some goofball configuring RDP to listen on 32322 not 3389 like most everyone else.
I'm with Toyota on this. How do they know if someone hit the wrong pedal or there was a software glitch. How many people are killed/injured a year because of people having senior moments? The DMV test in CA is a joke, they don't test you on the freeway/highway or check to see if you can navigate a country road at the speed limit without blowing the double yellow.
The NGE was the worst ever 'patch'. It was designed to make the game console friendly. Sony had a player base that was using PCs and basically said fuck you guys were simplifying the game so that it's so boring you'll leave. It worked, I left and everyone I played with left.
What I don't get from the reading the article, is that Microsoft is not bundling this product like IE or Media Player but making it available for download for free. The problem the A/V vendors have is that it will stifle competition. I know it's not FOSS but what implications does this have for FOSS? You can't give something away for free if it will hurt competitors? How can they be establishing a unlawful competitive advantage if they don't force people to use it?
Those applications are dual use so to speak. They can be used for both legal and illegal purposes. This is absolutely ridiculous. Most common every day items have illicit uses. What ever happened to personal responsibility. Take the common knife. It can be used for cutting food or committing an armed robbery. Does that mean some victim's rights group should be able to sue Wilkinson-Sword? The only winners in this situation are the lawyers who'll get a nice payday.
It sounds like the city hired someone that actually knew what they're doing. This is an obvious mistake, it's usually required that you have to be related to someone and totally incompetent to get a city job. I was a volunteer at Interop Las Vegas 08 and the day before the show went live the ticket desk manager had myself and another volunteer go out and hide Fluke Etherscopes in vendor booths. We'd plug it in, radio in the IP and generate a little bit of traffic with a ping. Within 2-3 minutes they'd call us back and tell us which booth we were in.
It's a all about risk management for the companies involved. On one hand you have the Discovery Channel which depends on advertising revenues. On the other hand you have several large corporations that are using a flawed system. The question for the credit card companies is whether or not it's cheaper to use the system in place and pressure others not to disclose flaws or come up with something that works better. Sort of reminds me of Mitsubishi and the wheels flying off their heavy vehicles a few years ago. It was cheaper to payout settlements than recall and fix the vehicles. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitsubishi_Motors#Vehicle_defect_cover-up
I know the management of these companies have obligations to the shareholders but isn't about time they started to exhibit an obligation to not make fraud so easy with the current system?
I donate my old gear to charity. In the last 5 years I've donated at least 6 old but working computers to the local recycling center www.mcrc.org . The usable gear goes to someone that needs it, the unusable gear is disposed of properly and I get a tax deduction. The only thing I've had end up in a landfill are my copies of Windows NT 3.5, 4.0, and Win95 because I couldn't even give them away.
Ledin insists that his students mean no harm, and can't cause any because they work in the computer equivalent of biohazard suits: closed networks from which viruses can't escape.
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This part made me laugh, "EA has been struggling against growing trend of social and mobile gaming." You can only exploit a hit game for a few iterations before you have to get off your ass and come up with something new. But, it's hard to come up with something good when the talented developers get wise to your project [mis]management and either leave or won't work for you. http://ea-spouse.livejournal.com/274.html
It's called labor arbitrage, seeking an absolute advantage in labor costs. There aren't that many incentives for a career in STEM fields. These observations are from the SF Bay Area. My friends engineering company started new engineers (EE) out at $40k. Landscapers, maids, postmen, garbage collectors and road crews all make more (get paid for overtime) and they aren't trying to pay off student loans.
The followup article will be, "Rural Bangalore experiences boom in Systems Administrator jobs." Google, Oracle, MS, et. al all outsource anything low level that can be done remotely.
I saw a demonstration of Windows 7 Mobile last week. Microsoft decided to remove the VPN client and remote desktop features that were available in previous versions of Windows Mobile. But the award for lamest concept by a large margin was replacing cut and paste with auto-complete. That didn't go over to well during the Excel Viewer demonstration where people were asking how you transferred formulas from one cell to another.
Maybe they should ask the guys that were developing 3D games in 1995. Descent 3D comes to mind so does Hi-Octane both of which had 3D modes compatible with LCD glasses. HUDs and crosshairs were 2D. I worked for 3DTV [http://www.3dmagic.com/catalog/consumerframe.html] company in 1995/6 - demo'ing Descent 3D at Comdex among other things. FU Microsoft for killing off 3D gaming for a good 10 years.
My old IPAQ 6925 has a SIRFIII chipset which is a dedicated GPS chipset. I had to buy TomTom maps but it works without having to use the cellular network. Most of the Android phones are A-GPS. They use the cellular network. That way the carrier can make more money.
Did anyone else read the headline and think, isn't IOS up to version 12?
That's a fair assessment. At most of the small companies I've worked for whenever I suggest implementing some sort of IT risk management I get treated like I was trying to shakedown the owner for his kids lunch money.
If you going to be an advocate...don't regurgitate the marketing material of the company producing the software/service/hardware that your advocating.
I had a 6 digit UIN starting with 2 but I haven't used it in a few years. The guy that hacked my account is apparently still making use of it though. AOL absolutely refused to lock him out. Even though they had years of activity of me logging on from the same IP addresses in the US and having access to the old email account linked to the UIN they wouldn't reset the password and lock that clown out.
This is guerrilla marketing. This isn't hurting anyone. I suspect some folks in Apple's PR and Marketing departments are going to be laughing all the way to the bank when they deposit their bonuses. This has generated a huge amount of free publicity for the next gen $Phone.
Standardization among endpoints is the only real way to lessen the headache. If you know that workstations need to use port X and protocol Y it's much easier to setup. Without it you have some goofball configuring RDP to listen on 32322 not 3389 like most everyone else.
I'm with Toyota on this. How do they know if someone hit the wrong pedal or there was a software glitch. How many people are killed/injured a year because of people having senior moments? The DMV test in CA is a joke, they don't test you on the freeway/highway or check to see if you can navigate a country road at the speed limit without blowing the double yellow.
The NGE was the worst ever 'patch'. It was designed to make the game console friendly. Sony had a player base that was using PCs and basically said fuck you guys were simplifying the game so that it's so boring you'll leave. It worked, I left and everyone I played with left.
What I don't get from the reading the article, is that Microsoft is not bundling this product like IE or Media Player but making it available for download for free. The problem the A/V vendors have is that it will stifle competition. I know it's not FOSS but what implications does this have for FOSS? You can't give something away for free if it will hurt competitors? How can they be establishing a unlawful competitive advantage if they don't force people to use it?
Those applications are dual use so to speak. They can be used for both legal and illegal purposes. This is absolutely ridiculous. Most common every day items have illicit uses. What ever happened to personal responsibility. Take the common knife. It can be used for cutting food or committing an armed robbery. Does that mean some victim's rights group should be able to sue Wilkinson-Sword? The only winners in this situation are the lawyers who'll get a nice payday.
Actually, the right question might be is it cheaper to maintain in house staff or outsource?
If you're running Windows, use perfmon and see what the usage is under heavy load and scale accordingly.
It sounds like the city hired someone that actually knew what they're doing. This is an obvious mistake, it's usually required that you have to be related to someone and totally incompetent to get a city job. I was a volunteer at Interop Las Vegas 08 and the day before the show went live the ticket desk manager had myself and another volunteer go out and hide Fluke Etherscopes in vendor booths. We'd plug it in, radio in the IP and generate a little bit of traffic with a ping. Within 2-3 minutes they'd call us back and tell us which booth we were in.
It's a all about risk management for the companies involved. On one hand you have the Discovery Channel which depends on advertising revenues. On the other hand you have several large corporations that are using a flawed system. The question for the credit card companies is whether or not it's cheaper to use the system in place and pressure others not to disclose flaws or come up with something that works better. Sort of reminds me of Mitsubishi and the wheels flying off their heavy vehicles a few years ago. It was cheaper to payout settlements than recall and fix the vehicles. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitsubishi_Motors#Vehicle_defect_cover-up
I know the management of these companies have obligations to the shareholders but isn't about time they started to exhibit an obligation to not make fraud so easy with the current system?
That's so 1996. 3DTV and Stereographics were doing 2D - 3D conversion of video over 10 years ago. There just wasn't a demand for it in the US. http://web.archive.org/web/19971012195849/www.3dmagic.com/catalog/catalog.html
I donate my old gear to charity. In the last 5 years I've donated at least 6 old but working computers to the local recycling center www.mcrc.org . The usable gear goes to someone that needs it, the unusable gear is disposed of properly and I get a tax deduction. The only thing I've had end up in a landfill are my copies of Windows NT 3.5, 4.0, and Win95 because I couldn't even give them away.
You sound like Cisco. http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/26841
I think comparing Windows XP to 98SE/98 is a bad analogy. The appropriate comparison should be 98 to ME and XP to Vista (useable OS to garbage OS).