I know, I'm replying twice, but I just realized that I found time to rant about MMO games, but I didn't actually tell you the title of NCSoft's upcoming Road Warrior-esque MMO title, which was my intention.:-) It's called Auto Assault.
And just so I don't look like a total idiot (if that's possible), here are some links with more info:
The shooter/car-carnage ratio is dangerously off scale.. gta is fun - but the softwarehouses keep churning out FPS'ers - We need weapons mounted on custom job-vehicles and fun bump'n run action.
NCSoft (folks behind City of Heroes, Lineage) is making a Road Warrior type MMO game. Can't find many details yet (I first heard about it in June's Computer Gaming World) but it looks like it might be what you're looking for.
Of course, if I had my way, it would be a stand-alone title with online play (like StarCraft, Half-Life, NWN) instead of a subscription-based MMO game. But it seems that more and more publishers are pushing subscription-based MMO titles.
Am I the only one who read this and tried to figure out how it was that Paypal was selling cocaine to Freenet?
Glad it wasn't just me.:-) I was thinking, "Damn, child porn on Freenet, now coke??" Then I started thinking about how one would use Freenet to deal blow, and then, and only then, did I figure out what the hell the headline was talking about.
I see your list is pretty similar to mine. However, in place of MultiDesk, might I recommend Virtual Dimension. It's another virtual desktop manager for Windows. It includes the visual pager you desire, as well as adding the ability to set shortcuts for paging, making windows always-on-top, exist in all desktops, minimize to tray, make arbitrary windows transparent, etc. Combined with allSnap to give windows snap-to-edge behavior, I don't long for KDE quite as much on my Windows machine anymore.:-)
Sadly, OpenOffice is not supported using Documents to Go for palmOS. Even when I save the document as an excel spreadsheet and try to transfer it over, Documents to Go throws a hissy fit and spits out an error. Documents to Go claims no plans to support native OO format, either.
If this company utilizes pda's, then OO is not the way to go.
I think the way around this is to use Documents to Go v6, which has native support for MS Office files. That is, it doesn't need the translation by the conduit. Office documents can be emailed, put onto an expansion card, etc. and will be usable on the handheld. More info at http://www.dataviz.com/products/documentstogo/dxtg _features.html.
Unfortunately, I don't have first-hand experience with the new version (v5 came w/ my T|C and I've not bothered to upgrade yet) but I'm assuming that one could export a document in a Microsoft format using OOo, copy it to the Palm, and use it w/ Documents to Go.
I'd be curious to know if anyone has tried this, and to know what the results were.
Existing products already do this, though they have a PC requirement: in particluar, seeSlim Devices' offerings. Phillips has an Internet Radio device as well: the FW-i1000. I'm not seeing how these new devices bring much in the way of added value (especially comparted to the Squeezebox by Slim) but then again, having more choices is better. I love Webcasts, and the more ways I have to listen to it, the better. And the more listeners, the better -- I wish more people knew that there is a lot more to listen to than ClearChannel.
BTW, did anyone else find this quote odd? "Hutchison wouldn't say who he's been talking to, but he claimed to have received plenty of interest from ISPs looking to build products to sell on top of their broadband access offerings - particular those who want to target punters without a PC."
ISPs wanting to sell broadband to folks w/o a PC? Does this market really exist?
Re:Artists: This is your cue: sell on CD Baby!
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Get together, purchase the tools or access to the tools to create music directly, make CDs, and together, negotiate to sell them to stores.
Or leave out the last step and sell them directly to fans via CD Baby. Check out their "about" page. They only sell music that comes directly from musicians. Artists set the prices on the albums (most are around $10, which hits the $1/song price point), and they get a much higher percentage of the sale without all the RIAA middlemen to pay. Plus, CD Baby has all sorts of recommendations -- music for a certain mood, style, "sounds like", etc. -- making it easy to find music to match your tastes.
So check out the site, listen to samples of the music, and throw some cash at whoever is making music you enjoy. And stick it to the Man in the process!:-)
They're probably the only thing keeping me from switching to Firefox.
Ah, but I use mouse gestures with Firefox every day! There are extensions that add this funcionality. Go to http://texturizer.net/firefox/extensions/ and look at the "Mouse gestures" section. I personally use Radial Context -- it's basically mouse gestures w/ a GUI that helps you remember little-used commands.
Deus Ex had a lot of dialog concerning "serious social issues". In fact, that was the driving force behing the game. And throughout, you encountered characters that would talk to you at length about government, free will, etc. I found the comments they made quite interesting -- in fact, several of them made it into my fortune quotes list.
It was also very interesting playing that game in 2003. My wife, who hates video games with a passion, was actually interested in the game's plot and actually started studying in my office so she could hear the dialog whenever it happened. This usually led to me pausing the game and discussing politics with her, because often some aspect of the game directly related to current political goings-on.
So, yes, I think that games can address social issues. Games can be used to tell stories. Some of them are interesting and thought-provoking, like Deus Ex. Other games tell entertaining stories, or no story at all. Games are an avenue for expression, just like painting, music, writing, or film. What creators (be they painters, composers, or game designers) chose to do with their medium is entirely up to them. Can they "address serious social concerns?" Sure. Can they be purely for entertainment and fun? Absolutely.
Unless memory fails me, Baldur's Gate also allowed you develop a gay relationship. There wasn't any particular special treatment for it, it just didn't exclude conversation by gender. You couldn't have a child tho:P
A friend of mine told me he did same-sex romances in BG2 w/o mods. Started the game as a male character, but used the Girdle of Masculinity/Feminity, changing the character to a woman. The trick is that all the romance scripts in the game are based on what gender the character starts out as, and are not affected by said magical item. The end result was my friend's (now) female character having an interesting romantic tangle w/ Jeheria, Viconia, and Aerie.:-)
With all this deathly serious fantasy coming out, someone really needs to produce some good fantasy parody, and Terry Pratchett's Discworld series is just the thing if you ask me.
Actually, someone has already done that. The Wyrd Sisters and Soul Music have both been done as animated mini-series. I've seen the latter, and it's quite fun. I didn't care much for the style of animation, but the voice acting is wonderful.
You can get them at Amazon.com (and no, it's not a referral link).
I don't know what parts of the movie you enjoyed. Until the second movie came out, I got a kick out of the Gnostic stuff and the other Stoner Philosophy 101 references. They were cool, they made the movie more fun to watch, and were decent filler between the awesome visuals and sound production. Sadly, I can't watch the filler between the cool parts of the movie anymore without whincing while thinking about the other two movies in the series. The sequels really ruined the original for me.
I didn't mean to imply that I didn't enjoy the visuals -- I particularly liked how subtle some of the effects were, little camera tricks that I didn't pick up on until seeing the movie for the second or third time. I just liked the Gnostic symbolism more. For me, the action scenes were the filler between the cool parts of the movie.:-)
The people I was talking about who liked the lobby scene and other action sequences were the kind of people that either didn't understand or didn't care about the symbolism in the movie -- for them, it was just a action flick. Judging from the trailer, I, Robot has the potential to be just an action movie w/ Will Smith one-liners. Or it could be an action movie w/ Will Smith one-liners and some food for thought inspired by Issac Asimov. I'm hoping for the latter.
To me, Asimov's Robot stories were about exploring the concept of unbreakable laws, and how humans who depend upon the reliability of apparently such infallible laws react and adapt to situations when they fail. They're a wonderful blend of "what if" stories supported by an interesting range of (perhaps somewhat flat) human-robot counterpart relationships.
Perhaps the change in focus from percieved unbreakable "truths" and how humans deal with them to a (seemingly, from the trailer) more character-driven story is simply due to the change in media from book to film. I imagine it would be a lot harder to tell a story on the big screen without the aid of that story being character driven -- especially when trying to sell said story to Hollywood studios and American audiences. This may not be bad -- certainly one could tell a character-driven story and still hit all the philosophical questions. Whether this movie will do that remains to be seen.
Ok, so it seems the consensus so far is that the trailer implies that I, Robot is going to be an action-driven "Will Smith-takes-on-the-killer-robots" kind of movie. I can certainly see that. But remember the alchemy of trailers -- you can make any movie look like anything in sixty seconds. Bad movies can come across as worth seeing, and good movies can appear bland, boring, or uninteresting. Perhaps the trailer isn't geared toward the Asimov crowd -- perhaps it's geared to the action-movie crowd to draw in people who would otherwise say, "Issac who?". Perhaps it will be like the first Matrix movie -- thought-provoking ideas wrapped in an action setting.
Of course, I knew lots of people who said, "You know the scene where Neo shoots everything? That was the best part!" Apparently the parts of the movie I enjoyed went right by them. Maybe I, Robot will be the same way. Those looking for an action movie will get that, and those of us wanting action and something thought-provoking to talk about afterwards will get our way, too.
There needs to be a chapter on bash prompts. I have seen some slick prompts. Displaying; uptime, current directory size, time, battery power, etc. I'm pretty satisfied with a user@host:~, but i do like to put color in mine.
I don't know if such a book (or chapter in a book) exists, but here are some links:
Streaming music -- try Live365
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Apart from Media Player, whats left? I feel like if I want to hear music through the computer, I have be willing to sell my soul.
Try Live365. They have thousands of online broadcasters and a huge variety of genres, all broadcasting in MP3 streams. Not all of them are free -- some are "Premium" broadcasters that require membership (membership is only a few bucks a month, however -- quite the deal, really). And the free stations do have occational ads. But you can listen with the MP3 player of your choice. Also, you can generally bookmark this site once it's playing in your MP3 player, and in so doing skip the hassle of going to the Live365 Web site every time you want to tune in. As an added bonus, if you so desire, you can sign up w/ Live365 and start your own Webcast.
There's a lot of good streaming music (and talk, and comedy, and...) stations still out there -- you don't need Real's or anyone else's media player to find them for you.
robyn217 writes "Hey, KBs and mice aren't the most glamorous hardware in your system but there's no reason for them to be dull.
I think that your keyboard and mouse are much more important than people realize. After all, they are the primary way you interact w/ your PC, aside from the screen. When I built my new machine recently, I went to the local computer retail shop and walked down the keyboard isle, trying out every keyboard they had on display. I typed a paragraph of text. Did some editing commands in vi. Pretended I was playing my favorite FPS.
Glamor doesn't matter, and I don't care how "dull" my keyboard is -- if I'm going to be using this PC for eight hours a day doing work, I want it to be as comfortable as possible. That's the bottom line.
BTW, does anyone else hate the keyboards w/ the arrow keys not in the inverted 'T', and the Home/End/PgUp/PgDn combo layed out in a 2x3 matrix instead of a 3x2? My keyboard at work has the latter, and I'm forever hitting Delete, thinking I'm going for End. It makes me feel like a pirate w/ a steering wheel in my pants -- it drives me nuts!
Although I believe there is a transfer limit somewhere around 1GB a month for residential users, they don't seem to police it. I've been using SpeakEasy for over 3 years, have had some months with much more than 1GB used, and never a letter stating that I went over.
Actually, there is no bandwidth limit -- in fact, they are completely OK with customers running servers and similar bandwidth-intensive activities. From Speakeasy's Terms of Service:
Bandwidth: As an ISP, Speakeasy's bottom line is determined partially by the amount of bandwidth customers utilize. Speakeasy can normally balance that cost and utilization while continuing to provide great service to all customers. Customers will not be charged for the bandwidth consumed, nor do we have specific limits or caps on that bandwidth. If you utilize any of your Speakeasy services in a manner which consumes excessive bandwidth or affects Speakeasy's core equipment, overall network performance, or other users' services, Speakeasy may require that you cease or alter these activities.
In other words, just be cool, and they'll be cool. This is one of the reasons I chose Speakeasy as my broadband provider -- they're not jerks about bandwidth, their support people actually know what they're talking about, and unlike Comcast, they don't send me ads in the mail twice a week trying to convince me that I will have an unfullfilled existance if I don't subscribe to cable TV.:-)
I'd like to put it on my handspring. Is there a way to upgrade the OS? I don't see a "Buy it now!" or "Upgrade here!" button anywhere. Will this just go to new devices being sold?
First, the reason you don't see a "Buy it now!" or similar button is because this is not a release to the general public, but instead just to licenced developers such as Sony, Handspring, PalmOne, and Kyocera. However, as far as I know the answer to your question is "maybe." Upgrading to Palm OS 6 depends on three factors:
Having an ARM processor in your handheld -- older PDAs don't have the capabilities to run the new OS.
Having the handheld be capable of flash upgrades of the OS. I know older Palms could do this, and I'm assuming the current ones can as well . . . don't know about HandSpring or Sony devices.
Whether or not the hardware vendor releases an upgrade. Since you're upgrading the entire OS by flashing it (including any customizations done by the vendor), you can't simply have a generic image that will upgrade any device running Palm OS.
Hope that helps some. I would hazard a guess and say that ARM-based devices from Palm (Tungsten|T, Tungsten|C, Zire 71, etc) will be upgradable, and that Palm will provide such an upgrade, simply because they've done so in the past. Couldn't say for other Handspring or other vendors.
The Baldur's Gate series are some of my favorite games, so I'm thrilled at the mere rumor of a sequel coming out of BioWare. However, recently Slashdot mourned the passing of Black Isle Studios. At the time, I got the impression that no more Black Isle meant no more Baldur's Gate. Apparently, I was wrong. I think this is because I've never really understood the relationship between Black Isle and BioWare. Could someone enlighten me as to who was responsible for what?
Just in case anyone is curious, I'm in Denver, it's 8:22pm, and we can't see anything. Either the thing isn't on yet, it's too misty here to see it at this distance, or it's not a visible light laser. Bummer, I was looking forward to the lights show.
I live in Boulder, and was interested in seeing this as well. Unfortunately, according to the Daily Camera (local Boulder newspaper) the test time was moved 4 pm MST, meaning we've already missed seeing it.
From the paper: "They originally planned to turn it on tonight but have changed the test time to 4 p.m. Sunday, Ball spokeswoman Emilia Reed said."
Is this book really neccessary??
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His only goal is to warn new hires about the various landmines that exist, buried under the polite exterior of the corporate landscape. You may not like what he has to say, but no one ever said that software engineering was a pretty job. If they did, they were telling you a lie.
Is this really the "corporate landscape" for many software engineers? A job so bad where you feel compelled to check for keyloggers, keep paper trails locked in a home safe, etc.?
Granted, I've not been out of school that long, but every job I've had was in a friendly, cooperative environment w/ good people who wanted to write good software. We don't assign blame, we don't sabotage people's code -- we fix problems we find and give each other help when its needed. But then, I've always worked in scientific computing, so maybe I'm not in the "corporate landscape" as such.
So am I wearing rose-colored glasses and blinding myself to the cut-throat world of commercial software development, or is the author of this book simply over-reacting?
Also, if I were to find myself in a job where I felt a need to take the precautions suggested in this book, I'd be looking for a new job. I can't believe that any company could maintain such a draconian work environment and keep employees.
I now sit back and await all the posts telling me how naive I am.:-)
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Some wise poker advise: "If you don't know who's the sucker at the table, it's you."
And just so I don't look like a total idiot (if that's possible), here are some links with more info:
NCSoft (folks behind City of Heroes, Lineage) is making a Road Warrior type MMO game. Can't find many details yet (I first heard about it in June's Computer Gaming World) but it looks like it might be what you're looking for.
Of course, if I had my way, it would be a stand-alone title with online play (like StarCraft, Half-Life, NWN) instead of a subscription-based MMO game. But it seems that more and more publishers are pushing subscription-based MMO titles.
Wait, 127.0.0.1 points to my machine! You're not protecting your brand, you're trying to hijack mine! Just wait until my lawyer hears about this! ;-)
Glad it wasn't just me. :-) I was thinking, "Damn, child porn on Freenet, now coke??" Then I started thinking about how one would use Freenet to deal blow, and then, and only then, did I figure out what the hell the headline was talking about.
Sigh.
I see your list is pretty similar to mine. However, in place of MultiDesk, might I recommend Virtual Dimension. It's another virtual desktop manager for Windows. It includes the visual pager you desire, as well as adding the ability to set shortcuts for paging, making windows always-on-top, exist in all desktops, minimize to tray, make arbitrary windows transparent, etc. Combined with allSnap to give windows snap-to-edge behavior, I don't long for KDE quite as much on my Windows machine anymore. :-)
I think the way around this is to use Documents to Go v6, which has native support for MS Office files. That is, it doesn't need the translation by the conduit. Office documents can be emailed, put onto an expansion card, etc. and will be usable on the handheld. More info at http://www.dataviz.com/products/documentstogo/dxtg _features.html.
Unfortunately, I don't have first-hand experience with the new version (v5 came w/ my T|C and I've not bothered to upgrade yet) but I'm assuming that one could export a document in a Microsoft format using OOo, copy it to the Palm, and use it w/ Documents to Go.
I'd be curious to know if anyone has tried this, and to know what the results were.
BTW, did anyone else find this quote odd? "Hutchison wouldn't say who he's been talking to, but he claimed to have received plenty of interest from ISPs looking to build products to sell on top of their broadband access offerings - particular those who want to target punters without a PC."
ISPs wanting to sell broadband to folks w/o a PC? Does this market really exist?
Or leave out the last step and sell them directly to fans via CD Baby. Check out their "about" page. They only sell music that comes directly from musicians. Artists set the prices on the albums (most are around $10, which hits the $1/song price point), and they get a much higher percentage of the sale without all the RIAA middlemen to pay. Plus, CD Baby has all sorts of recommendations -- music for a certain mood, style, "sounds like", etc. -- making it easy to find music to match your tastes.
So check out the site, listen to samples of the music, and throw some cash at whoever is making music you enjoy. And stick it to the Man in the process! :-)
Ah, but I use mouse gestures with Firefox every day! There are extensions that add this funcionality. Go to http://texturizer.net/firefox/extensions/ and look at the "Mouse gestures" section. I personally use Radial Context -- it's basically mouse gestures w/ a GUI that helps you remember little-used commands.
It was also very interesting playing that game in 2003. My wife, who hates video games with a passion, was actually interested in the game's plot and actually started studying in my office so she could hear the dialog whenever it happened. This usually led to me pausing the game and discussing politics with her, because often some aspect of the game directly related to current political goings-on.
So, yes, I think that games can address social issues. Games can be used to tell stories. Some of them are interesting and thought-provoking, like Deus Ex. Other games tell entertaining stories, or no story at all. Games are an avenue for expression, just like painting, music, writing, or film. What creators (be they painters, composers, or game designers) chose to do with their medium is entirely up to them. Can they "address serious social concerns?" Sure. Can they be purely for entertainment and fun? Absolutely.
A friend of mine told me he did same-sex romances in BG2 w/o mods. Started the game as a male character, but used the Girdle of Masculinity/Feminity, changing the character to a woman. The trick is that all the romance scripts in the game are based on what gender the character starts out as, and are not affected by said magical item. The end result was my friend's (now) female character having an interesting romantic tangle w/ Jeheria, Viconia, and Aerie. :-)
Actually, someone has already done that. The Wyrd Sisters and Soul Music have both been done as animated mini-series. I've seen the latter, and it's quite fun. I didn't care much for the style of animation, but the voice acting is wonderful.
You can get them at Amazon.com (and no, it's not a referral link).
I didn't mean to imply that I didn't enjoy the visuals -- I particularly liked how subtle some of the effects were, little camera tricks that I didn't pick up on until seeing the movie for the second or third time. I just liked the Gnostic symbolism more. For me, the action scenes were the filler between the cool parts of the movie. :-)
The people I was talking about who liked the lobby scene and other action sequences were the kind of people that either didn't understand or didn't care about the symbolism in the movie -- for them, it was just a action flick. Judging from the trailer, I, Robot has the potential to be just an action movie w/ Will Smith one-liners. Or it could be an action movie w/ Will Smith one-liners and some food for thought inspired by Issac Asimov. I'm hoping for the latter.
Perhaps the change in focus from percieved unbreakable "truths" and how humans deal with them to a (seemingly, from the trailer) more character-driven story is simply due to the change in media from book to film. I imagine it would be a lot harder to tell a story on the big screen without the aid of that story being character driven -- especially when trying to sell said story to Hollywood studios and American audiences. This may not be bad -- certainly one could tell a character-driven story and still hit all the philosophical questions. Whether this movie will do that remains to be seen.
Of course, I knew lots of people who said, "You know the scene where Neo shoots everything? That was the best part!" Apparently the parts of the movie I enjoyed went right by them. Maybe I, Robot will be the same way. Those looking for an action movie will get that, and those of us wanting action and something thought-provoking to talk about afterwards will get our way, too.
Here's hoping. :-)
I don't know if such a book (or chapter in a book) exists, but here are some links:
Have fun...
Try Live365. They have thousands of online broadcasters and a huge variety of genres, all broadcasting in MP3 streams. Not all of them are free -- some are "Premium" broadcasters that require membership (membership is only a few bucks a month, however -- quite the deal, really). And the free stations do have occational ads. But you can listen with the MP3 player of your choice. Also, you can generally bookmark this site once it's playing in your MP3 player, and in so doing skip the hassle of going to the Live365 Web site every time you want to tune in. As an added bonus, if you so desire, you can sign up w/ Live365 and start your own Webcast.
There's a lot of good streaming music (and talk, and comedy, and...) stations still out there -- you don't need Real's or anyone else's media player to find them for you.
http://imdb.com/name/nm0000306/
I think that your keyboard and mouse are much more important than people realize. After all, they are the primary way you interact w/ your PC, aside from the screen. When I built my new machine recently, I went to the local computer retail shop and walked down the keyboard isle, trying out every keyboard they had on display. I typed a paragraph of text. Did some editing commands in vi. Pretended I was playing my favorite FPS.
Glamor doesn't matter, and I don't care how "dull" my keyboard is -- if I'm going to be using this PC for eight hours a day doing work, I want it to be as comfortable as possible. That's the bottom line.
BTW, does anyone else hate the keyboards w/ the arrow keys not in the inverted 'T', and the Home/End/PgUp/PgDn combo layed out in a 2x3 matrix instead of a 3x2? My keyboard at work has the latter, and I'm forever hitting Delete, thinking I'm going for End. It makes me feel like a pirate w/ a steering wheel in my pants -- it drives me nuts!
Actually, there is no bandwidth limit -- in fact, they are completely OK with customers running servers and similar bandwidth-intensive activities. From Speakeasy's Terms of Service:
Bandwidth: As an ISP, Speakeasy's bottom line is determined partially by the amount of bandwidth customers utilize. Speakeasy can normally balance that cost and utilization while continuing to provide great service to all customers. Customers will not be charged for the bandwidth consumed, nor do we have specific limits or caps on that bandwidth. If you utilize any of your Speakeasy services in a manner which consumes excessive bandwidth or affects Speakeasy's core equipment, overall network performance, or other users' services, Speakeasy may require that you cease or alter these activities.
In other words, just be cool, and they'll be cool. This is one of the reasons I chose Speakeasy as my broadband provider -- they're not jerks about bandwidth, their support people actually know what they're talking about, and unlike Comcast, they don't send me ads in the mail twice a week trying to convince me that I will have an unfullfilled existance if I don't subscribe to cable TV. :-)
First, the reason you don't see a "Buy it now!" or similar button is because this is not a release to the general public, but instead just to licenced developers such as Sony, Handspring, PalmOne, and Kyocera. However, as far as I know the answer to your question is "maybe." Upgrading to Palm OS 6 depends on three factors:
Hope that helps some. I would hazard a guess and say that ARM-based devices from Palm (Tungsten|T, Tungsten|C, Zire 71, etc) will be upgradable, and that Palm will provide such an upgrade, simply because they've done so in the past. Couldn't say for other Handspring or other vendors.
The Baldur's Gate series are some of my favorite games, so I'm thrilled at the mere rumor of a sequel coming out of BioWare. However, recently Slashdot mourned the passing of Black Isle Studios. At the time, I got the impression that no more Black Isle meant no more Baldur's Gate. Apparently, I was wrong. I think this is because I've never really understood the relationship between Black Isle and BioWare. Could someone enlighten me as to who was responsible for what?
I live in Boulder, and was interested in seeing this as well. Unfortunately, according to the Daily Camera (local Boulder newspaper) the test time was moved 4 pm MST, meaning we've already missed seeing it.
From the paper: "They originally planned to turn it on tonight but have changed the test time to 4 p.m. Sunday, Ball spokeswoman Emilia Reed said."
Is this really the "corporate landscape" for many software engineers? A job so bad where you feel compelled to check for keyloggers, keep paper trails locked in a home safe, etc.?
Granted, I've not been out of school that long, but every job I've had was in a friendly, cooperative environment w/ good people who wanted to write good software. We don't assign blame, we don't sabotage people's code -- we fix problems we find and give each other help when its needed. But then, I've always worked in scientific computing, so maybe I'm not in the "corporate landscape" as such.
So am I wearing rose-colored glasses and blinding myself to the cut-throat world of commercial software development, or is the author of this book simply over-reacting?
Also, if I were to find myself in a job where I felt a need to take the precautions suggested in this book, I'd be looking for a new job. I can't believe that any company could maintain such a draconian work environment and keep employees.
I now sit back and await all the posts telling me how naive I am. :-)