If you are a parent and you are truly that worried, then stop paying for your kid to play WoW.
Don't filter a MMO and downgrade it for us. It starts with filters and then just expands and makes the good online games dull.
If you don't want your child to do something, don't let them.
It is not Blizzard's or SOE's fault little Timmy showed his wang to his class, it is your fault. Maybe you should have taught him that is not acceptable to do.
Not all parents are like this. Some parents out there still do a great job parenting, but the parents that want to censor games instead of just not letting their kids play them, GRR! (that is my way of not getting flagged for flamebait and stopping).
Really, if you are worried about people having your information, why give it to them?
It is a valid question.
It would be like me changing my/. account name to JohnSmith241995 or something like that.
It is the internet. Give the information you want to, and if you give too much, then, uh, I guess maybe you might not want to.
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Exactly.
Really, I gave up on ever trying to even get a score.
I am trying to just post to post and try to provide feedback or a funny comment.
Honestly, as long as somebody is reading the random stuff I put up, than I am at least satisfied.
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Lol, at least your comments are looked at.
I posted 1 dumb comment awhile back that was tagged as flamebait, and it seems that since then, I get no love, which is disappointing.
I do not understand the system, especially when people make posts that just say mod parent up and get tagged 5 for funny.
Oh well. I am not complaining, just stating that some of us try to actively post and still have bad karma from way too long ago, hehehe
I currently use Windows 7 for Media Center and a custom web application that I wrote for "grabbing" streaming movies and tv from places like Hulu.
It has worked great for me so far.
I just used Silverlight (yeah yeah, I know), and wrote a web app that can crawl the big name streaming video sites and get the video out of it and embed it in a web page created on the fly within silverlight, and then it will automatically go to full screen mode to have a TV like effect. It is not 100% perfect, but works well.
I am a programmer analyst at my job and have to be on call. It is in a rotation. I do not get paid extra for it. In fact, I am the lowest paid person on my team.
That would be awesome if I got paid extra or got paid the "big bucks" like some of you think, but it does not happen.
When I say on call, I mean I have to walk around with a Blackberry by my side that is issued by my company.
I want to know what companies you guys work for, because my salary definately does not reflect the fact that I am on call. In fact, when we started going on call on my team, my pay stayed the same.
I agree.
Doing this will not stop pirating.
It will actually give pirates another excuse to pirate.
Some of the people ripping are incredibly bright and smart and can easily work around anything you throw at them.
Just like what has been mentioned before, all they are trying to do is control their medium completely.
When a consumer buys something, they should assume they own it. It should not be a situation of them just borrowing it or renting it.
The more restrictions that are put on all media, the more people will pirate it.
One item that seems to come up alot is computer games. You can easily look at some top selling games and see how much drm free code effected them. Some of those games even spawn homebrews that are so good that they get commercially released (Yes, I did buy counter strike for x-box).
This is definately a 2 way thing. There are pirates out there that refuse to pay for a thing. There are also movie companies out there that want to charge me $1 just for looking at the dvd case to their new movie at Target.
As to offering more goods, with the huge jump in technology, are they seriously saying that the reason why we get the shaft with way too much stuff is because of pirating?
Movie stars still make millions upon millions for movies, so we know the industry is not hurting. When Christian Bale is paid $8.50 an hour to make a movie, then they can talk about the financial burden.
I just graduated recently with a degree in CS and I had an instructor who would do half and half. The class was data structures.
He did this in a very good way. He would go over the theories and concepts of a data structure for the first half, and then he would actually keep his computer projected onto the screen while he was actually programming the data structure we just discussed.
Of course, class participation was a must. When I say he was programming it, he was really just typing what we told him until the entire class got stuck. When we got stuck on a piece that we clearly did not know, he would go into great detail about that piece.
Honestly, I learned more from that data structures class than any other class I took at college.
Really, using PowerPoint is not bad if you do it correctly.
Nintendo does this stuff with their handhelds. This is nothing new. With how well the DS is selling, they can afford to make multiple models.
Chances are, in a year or 2, they will make another variant of the DS. Just look at how many revisions they did to the Gameboy if you think 4 is alot.
As long as they can find ways to keep the DS fresh, they will continue to sell it extremely well, and knowing Nintendo, they will continue to find ways. Correct me if I am wrong, but I was under the assumption that the GBA Micro was released while the DS was out, which means even through the DS being released, Nintendo still found a way to keep the GBA fresh.
This is not Sega making dumb mistakes with hardware, this is Nintendo. They are making changes to the hardware like they normally do, and judging from the sales of the DS, they know what they are doing
This goes for many people that are seen as "wierd": there are people that do not care about what the societal norm is for being normal.
I think it is good. It is the same situation with dating. Most people will put on a persona when meeting a person they want to date, and then once you start heavily dating, the other person is surprised at the person they are dating since it is not the same person they met.
Many programmers are just good examples of people that do not care about the social norm since many of them have been tagged as outcasts for awhile anyway, so they might as well be themselves instead of trying to fit in.
People that try to fit in are not fully being themselves, which is sad. Some people will actually convince themselves in their head that they are different that who they are. Don't worry, it will all come back eventually.
If you are a nerd, do not be depressed about it, try to become a rockstar in the nerd field. Hey, Cliffy B did a pretty good job of doing that.
Let's face it, WoW started as WarCraft, which is a RTS.
I do not play WoW anymore, but what I noticed from WoW was that it was very close to a MMORTS. I say this because with the all the groups "raiding" (or as we should call it, zerging) and also using huge groups where certain people in each group with specific abilities are required to fight other groups or bosses. Honestly, if you could zoom out enough and not be centered on your character while a group was zerging or fighting a boss, you would see this as well.
Now for C&C, this would work very similar to WoW. The difference would be that there would not be as much magic, dragons, basically fantasty elements.
Now if they did this correct, it would not be a persistent world version of Battlefield, which is also a game distributed by EA. If they made this more point and click and not as much FPS, there is great potential.
WoW has proven that you can take a concept from a game that is based as a RTS and make it, obviously, incredibly successful.
Come on, as everybody knows who posts anywhere on any message board the number one rule: Don't feed the trolls.
He is just a big enough troll to bring it out of immature flame wars and into a court room.
Yes, we all know he is dumb, but if you feed the trolls, they will want more. Just ignore him. Obviously nobody likes him. He got disbarred, which means that is how much people enjoy his presence.
As long as we pay attention to him he will not stop. I stopped caring about Jack Thompson once he got disbarred. He lost hiw little war he started once that happened. I say let the man die his slow painful death, which is exactly what is happening right now, but don't give him reason to continue doing it.
If you couldn't tell, I work for one of the companies where I am doing everything.
It is nice that I am getting so much recognition for it though. It could be true that 5-10 years down the road it will be different, but right now, it is nice.
What I do not like is the people here that hate their job.
Sure, it is/., so people will be cynical, but anybody that hates what they do or thinks IT is not all it is cracked up to be should find another job.
I am not directing what I said to people at my job (unless you secretly know my username and are actually working where I work busting me posting on./)
I hate when people, even on./, will say how much this job sucks. It really doesn't.
I can tell you did not read everything, because I never once said that I hate what I do. I love being a programmer. It is the best job I have ever had.
What I do not like are the old farts that are squatting on the job only for pay. My point is that they are only working for the pay and not the passion. There are lots of programmers that are very passionate about what we do, and have to deal with some random old guy with an attitude that thinks they are better than everybody else. That same old person hates their job and is squatting until they retire.
I know this from experience because I see them in my department all the time. They do not do what I do, they are just in the same department.
Obviously with your comment and vague response, you are not really in the industry, but more of an outsider (and the fact that you quoted me saying how long I have been doing this as if that was the focal point of everything I said).
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If you are a parent and you are truly that worried, then stop paying for your kid to play WoW. Don't filter a MMO and downgrade it for us. It starts with filters and then just expands and makes the good online games dull. If you don't want your child to do something, don't let them. It is not Blizzard's or SOE's fault little Timmy showed his wang to his class, it is your fault. Maybe you should have taught him that is not acceptable to do. Not all parents are like this. Some parents out there still do a great job parenting, but the parents that want to censor games instead of just not letting their kids play them, GRR! (that is my way of not getting flagged for flamebait and stopping).
Holy crap dude. If you have gone on, I would have been hysterically laughing in my cube. We can stop the comments now, you won the thread.
Really, if you are worried about people having your information, why give it to them? It is a valid question. It would be like me changing my /. account name to JohnSmith241995 or something like that.
It is the internet. Give the information you want to, and if you give too much, then, uh, I guess maybe you might not want to.
Exactly. Really, I gave up on ever trying to even get a score. I am trying to just post to post and try to provide feedback or a funny comment. Honestly, as long as somebody is reading the random stuff I put up, than I am at least satisfied.
Lol, at least your comments are looked at. I posted 1 dumb comment awhile back that was tagged as flamebait, and it seems that since then, I get no love, which is disappointing. I do not understand the system, especially when people make posts that just say mod parent up and get tagged 5 for funny. Oh well. I am not complaining, just stating that some of us try to actively post and still have bad karma from way too long ago, hehehe
I have no clue what you are talking about, but there are pills and ointments you can use if you are dealing with that many fleas
I currently use Windows 7 for Media Center and a custom web application that I wrote for "grabbing" streaming movies and tv from places like Hulu. It has worked great for me so far. I just used Silverlight (yeah yeah, I know), and wrote a web app that can crawl the big name streaming video sites and get the video out of it and embed it in a web page created on the fly within silverlight, and then it will automatically go to full screen mode to have a TV like effect. It is not 100% perfect, but works well.
A company who just goes around getting patents to sue others so they can make money, or Microsoft. Hmm, I guess I will side with Linux this time.
Unless the CEO's name was Steve Jobbs. Enjoy.
I am a programmer analyst at my job and have to be on call. It is in a rotation. I do not get paid extra for it. In fact, I am the lowest paid person on my team. That would be awesome if I got paid extra or got paid the "big bucks" like some of you think, but it does not happen. When I say on call, I mean I have to walk around with a Blackberry by my side that is issued by my company. I want to know what companies you guys work for, because my salary definately does not reflect the fact that I am on call. In fact, when we started going on call on my team, my pay stayed the same.
I always knew there was something strange at the local church. They must be a gang.
In other news, 25 US Governemtn employees working on breakinf ecrypted passwords lose their jobs for playing Modern Warfare 2 on the clock.
I thought the Lolcat epidemic was over. Now it is only going to get worse
That is normally something good to put before you start throwing in spoilers to the movie.
Nice, so now m$ is going to figure out ways to make Unix BSOD as well (or the Unix equivalent to that).
I agree. Doing this will not stop pirating. It will actually give pirates another excuse to pirate. Some of the people ripping are incredibly bright and smart and can easily work around anything you throw at them. Just like what has been mentioned before, all they are trying to do is control their medium completely. When a consumer buys something, they should assume they own it. It should not be a situation of them just borrowing it or renting it. The more restrictions that are put on all media, the more people will pirate it. One item that seems to come up alot is computer games. You can easily look at some top selling games and see how much drm free code effected them. Some of those games even spawn homebrews that are so good that they get commercially released (Yes, I did buy counter strike for x-box). This is definately a 2 way thing. There are pirates out there that refuse to pay for a thing. There are also movie companies out there that want to charge me $1 just for looking at the dvd case to their new movie at Target. As to offering more goods, with the huge jump in technology, are they seriously saying that the reason why we get the shaft with way too much stuff is because of pirating? Movie stars still make millions upon millions for movies, so we know the industry is not hurting. When Christian Bale is paid $8.50 an hour to make a movie, then they can talk about the financial burden.
I just graduated recently with a degree in CS and I had an instructor who would do half and half. The class was data structures. He did this in a very good way. He would go over the theories and concepts of a data structure for the first half, and then he would actually keep his computer projected onto the screen while he was actually programming the data structure we just discussed. Of course, class participation was a must. When I say he was programming it, he was really just typing what we told him until the entire class got stuck. When we got stuck on a piece that we clearly did not know, he would go into great detail about that piece. Honestly, I learned more from that data structures class than any other class I took at college. Really, using PowerPoint is not bad if you do it correctly.
Nintendo does this stuff with their handhelds. This is nothing new. With how well the DS is selling, they can afford to make multiple models. Chances are, in a year or 2, they will make another variant of the DS. Just look at how many revisions they did to the Gameboy if you think 4 is alot. As long as they can find ways to keep the DS fresh, they will continue to sell it extremely well, and knowing Nintendo, they will continue to find ways. Correct me if I am wrong, but I was under the assumption that the GBA Micro was released while the DS was out, which means even through the DS being released, Nintendo still found a way to keep the GBA fresh. This is not Sega making dumb mistakes with hardware, this is Nintendo. They are making changes to the hardware like they normally do, and judging from the sales of the DS, they know what they are doing
Let me know when you do and I will help you make processors and servers.
I will finally be able to drift around corners since I can't do it in real life, but I am a pretty awesome drifter in games.
Normal is really what society says is normal.
This goes for many people that are seen as "wierd": there are people that do not care about what the societal norm is for being normal.
I think it is good. It is the same situation with dating. Most people will put on a persona when meeting a person they want to date, and then once you start heavily dating, the other person is surprised at the person they are dating since it is not the same person they met.
Many programmers are just good examples of people that do not care about the social norm since many of them have been tagged as outcasts for awhile anyway, so they might as well be themselves instead of trying to fit in.
People that try to fit in are not fully being themselves, which is sad. Some people will actually convince themselves in their head that they are different that who they are. Don't worry, it will all come back eventually.
If you are a nerd, do not be depressed about it, try to become a rockstar in the nerd field. Hey, Cliffy B did a pretty good job of doing that.
Let's face it, WoW started as WarCraft, which is a RTS.
I do not play WoW anymore, but what I noticed from WoW was that it was very close to a MMORTS. I say this because with the all the groups "raiding" (or as we should call it, zerging) and also using huge groups where certain people in each group with specific abilities are required to fight other groups or bosses. Honestly, if you could zoom out enough and not be centered on your character while a group was zerging or fighting a boss, you would see this as well.
Now for C&C, this would work very similar to WoW. The difference would be that there would not be as much magic, dragons, basically fantasty elements.
Now if they did this correct, it would not be a persistent world version of Battlefield, which is also a game distributed by EA. If they made this more point and click and not as much FPS, there is great potential.
WoW has proven that you can take a concept from a game that is based as a RTS and make it, obviously, incredibly successful.
Come on, as everybody knows who posts anywhere on any message board the number one rule: Don't feed the trolls.
He is just a big enough troll to bring it out of immature flame wars and into a court room.
Yes, we all know he is dumb, but if you feed the trolls, they will want more. Just ignore him. Obviously nobody likes him. He got disbarred, which means that is how much people enjoy his presence.
As long as we pay attention to him he will not stop. I stopped caring about Jack Thompson once he got disbarred. He lost hiw little war he started once that happened. I say let the man die his slow painful death, which is exactly what is happening right now, but don't give him reason to continue doing it.
Turn the other cheek and just ignore the troll.
Right on. I can respect that.
If you couldn't tell, I work for one of the companies where I am doing everything.
It is nice that I am getting so much recognition for it though. It could be true that 5-10 years down the road it will be different, but right now, it is nice.
Actually, I love my job.
What I do not like is the people here that hate their job.
Sure, it is /., so people will be cynical, but anybody that hates what they do or thinks IT is not all it is cracked up to be should find another job.
I am not directing what I said to people at my job (unless you secretly know my username and are actually working where I work busting me posting on ./)
I hate when people, even on ./, will say how much this job sucks. It really doesn't.
I can tell you did not read everything, because I never once said that I hate what I do. I love being a programmer. It is the best job I have ever had.
What I do not like are the old farts that are squatting on the job only for pay. My point is that they are only working for the pay and not the passion. There are lots of programmers that are very passionate about what we do, and have to deal with some random old guy with an attitude that thinks they are better than everybody else. That same old person hates their job and is squatting until they retire.
I know this from experience because I see them in my department all the time. They do not do what I do, they are just in the same department.
Obviously with your comment and vague response, you are not really in the industry, but more of an outsider (and the fact that you quoted me saying how long I have been doing this as if that was the focal point of everything I said).