The "magic of capitalism" you describe is called what Blizzard is doing now. Everyone running thier own relm at home (yeah, right) would be like counterstrike servers. People would play based on availablity, not quality. Plus, as we've seen with previous games where characters are stored on local computers, cheating would be rampant.
Takes time. We have a 3 week lag from order to delivery for our datacenter. Co-hosts still have to be configured IF they have the hardware to suit your needs. RL just takes more time.
Wouldn't huge stability issues, outages, and login queues two months after release construe a disastrous clusterfuck launch?
It would if they continued with no real fix in sight ala Star Wars. But the logon queue were really only seen during the first week of launch, and they have already fixed some of the nasty crash bugs. All and all, the game is working smoothly for the majority. The major problem now is that popular servers are getting performance reboots. So much for unix stability under load.
Hope Crushed: Anakin turns because he is a childish brat, not because of any ruthless cunning and manipulation by the Dark Siders. No devious plot, no moral delimas where he has to sacrifice himself to save others, no twisting of his life view. Just a brat. Darth Vader is the baddest dude in teh universe because he just needed a good spanking.
The problem is you're comparing to the gold standard, which is highly problematic. The amount of gold is fixed, while wealth is not. Or at least, is poorly expressed by gold. Our economies have nothing to do with gold and haven't for a long time. Our currencies are interlocked which enables us to drive more wealth. Stagnation in this event would be like standing still in a sprint. Sure, you're not losing ground, but you are worse off by the milisecond.
It would have been even more useful to have this information out when it was vulnerable, so I could have made a more informed choice. Of course, that would have hampard FF rollout. Et tu, Burtu?
You need to stop reasoning with sound bites. If the US went into bankrupcy, you can bet that last Euro won't be worth much. Europe relies on our captial markets as does China. It would trigger a world wide depression as each economic region, if not country, would be forced into reling on it's own internal engine, which is smaller as parts than whole. Stagnation would rule everywhere.
Will anybody bother switching if they don't know you exist? The only way for joe user to try open source and see how it stacks up is by running those apps on the current platform of choice: Windows.
Because by using good OS software like Open Office, Firebird and Thunderbird, you breakdown the general user's resistence to open source in general. Is it usable, can I get support, is it legit or just an exercise in some hacker's ego all get answered by using OS software on Windows. Since joe user can't go to Best Buy and pick up the lastest software for Linux, OS on Windows let's joe user give it a chance. An unwillingness to make OS available to Windows is digital elitism at it's worst.
Horsepuckey. If you (and slashdot) found out MS was running anything else BUT MS products for internal use you'd throw a fit and condemn 'em. And personally, I'd rather use a product that the developer themselves would trust end to end.
It's MS's "eat-your-own-dogfood" policy.
And it doesn't supprise me that internal MS desktop users run in admin mode. Most would be devs who would require it.
But the Japanese have yet to consistantly make a truck worth a damn is what he's saying. That may change, but if you need to haul, the American's still have the Janpanese beat.
Given that information, if these guys really think they're going to take a shot at VMware or VPC they are sadly mistaken. The big enterprise push with VMWare is ESX server doing lab functions and the ability to consolidate under-utilized Windows boxes.
Bullshit. We're a scapegoat for their every shortcomming. Why'd they hijack planes and run them into the World Trade Center? Because we kept our military bases in Saudi Arabia. At the request of Saudi Arabia. These guys are so racist that our presence insults thier warped view of religon. Why do they hate us? because we are friendly with Isreal, a country that no Arab army can defeat. Since the Arabs think themselves better warriors (well, everything really) than any Jew, it must be an outside source reason that they can't defeat the Jews. It must be the US. Whatever. There will be no peace in the ME until ME culture looks in the mirror and decides to make a human friendly change.
Funny, my company seems to think they own every minute of my off hour time with the constant beeping of the pager and the manditory 10 minute answer requirment.
What do you mean you we're having holiday dinner with the family???? Answer the pager and take care of the problem you worthless employee!!!
And appearing in "The Pope just might be Catholic 2":
Business people sue and settle not because they think they're right, not because they want to change company behavior (hey, I might be on top next time!), not because they give a rat's ass about how better or worse off you may be, but rather because they only cared about getting money.
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The "magic of capitalism" you describe is called what Blizzard is doing now. Everyone running thier own relm at home (yeah, right) would be like counterstrike servers. People would play based on availablity, not quality. Plus, as we've seen with previous games where characters are stored on local computers, cheating would be rampant.
Takes time. We have a 3 week lag from order to delivery for our datacenter. Co-hosts still have to be configured IF they have the hardware to suit your needs. RL just takes more time.
It would if they continued with no real fix in sight ala Star Wars. But the logon queue were really only seen during the first week of launch, and they have already fixed some of the nasty crash bugs. All and all, the game is working smoothly for the majority. The major problem now is that popular servers are getting performance reboots. So much for unix stability under load.
Hope Crushed: Anakin turns because he is a childish brat, not because of any ruthless cunning and manipulation by the Dark Siders. No devious plot, no moral delimas where he has to sacrifice himself to save others, no twisting of his life view. Just a brat. Darth Vader is the baddest dude in teh universe because he just needed a good spanking.
You're right about Lucas loving his money, buy I offer up the opinion that Lucas would slap this guy with a lawsuit from profiting on the SW works.
The problem is you're comparing to the gold standard, which is highly problematic. The amount of gold is fixed, while wealth is not. Or at least, is poorly expressed by gold. Our economies have nothing to do with gold and haven't for a long time. Our currencies are interlocked which enables us to drive more wealth. Stagnation in this event would be like standing still in a sprint. Sure, you're not losing ground, but you are worse off by the milisecond.
It would have been even more useful to have this information out when it was vulnerable, so I could have made a more informed choice. Of course, that would have hampard FF rollout. Et tu, Burtu?
Yeah well, it's not like that response leaps out of a vacuum, eh?
You need to stop reasoning with sound bites. If the US went into bankrupcy, you can bet that last Euro won't be worth much. Europe relies on our captial markets as does China. It would trigger a world wide depression as each economic region, if not country, would be forced into reling on it's own internal engine, which is smaller as parts than whole. Stagnation would rule everywhere.
Seeing how Firefox is an offshoot of Mozilla, which is an offshoot of Netscape, which has been around longer than IE, its a piss poor excuse.
It's to catch the terrorists, you see. We'll never violate your privacy (because you have none now).
Will anybody bother switching if they don't know you exist? The only way for joe user to try open source and see how it stacks up is by running those apps on the current platform of choice: Windows.
Because by using good OS software like Open Office, Firebird and Thunderbird, you breakdown the general user's resistence to open source in general. Is it usable, can I get support, is it legit or just an exercise in some hacker's ego all get answered by using OS software on Windows. Since joe user can't go to Best Buy and pick up the lastest software for Linux, OS on Windows let's joe user give it a chance. An unwillingness to make OS available to Windows is digital elitism at it's worst.
Horsepuckey. If you (and slashdot) found out MS was running anything else BUT MS products for internal use you'd throw a fit and condemn 'em. And personally, I'd rather use a product that the developer themselves would trust end to end.
It's MS's "eat-your-own-dogfood" policy. And it doesn't supprise me that internal MS desktop users run in admin mode. Most would be devs who would require it.
The fuck I don't need bookmarks or tabbed browsing. Screw you for trying to tell me what I need.
But the Japanese have yet to consistantly make a truck worth a damn is what he's saying. That may change, but if you need to haul, the American's still have the Janpanese beat.
what happened to Linux enabling you to do more while spending less?
Given that information, if these guys really think they're going to take a shot at VMware or VPC they are sadly mistaken. The big enterprise push with VMWare is ESX server doing lab functions and the ability to consolidate under-utilized Windows boxes.
Bullshit. We're a scapegoat for their every shortcomming. Why'd they hijack planes and run them into the World Trade Center? Because we kept our military bases in Saudi Arabia. At the request of Saudi Arabia. These guys are so racist that our presence insults thier warped view of religon. Why do they hate us? because we are friendly with Isreal, a country that no Arab army can defeat. Since the Arabs think themselves better warriors (well, everything really) than any Jew, it must be an outside source reason that they can't defeat the Jews. It must be the US. Whatever. There will be no peace in the ME until ME culture looks in the mirror and decides to make a human friendly change.
Yeah, but look what happened when Asimov used his own rules!
...we know you're lying.
What do you mean you we're having holiday dinner with the family???? Answer the pager and take care of the problem you worthless employee!!!
And appearing in "The Pope just might be Catholic 2": Business people sue and settle not because they think they're right, not because they want to change company behavior (hey, I might be on top next time!), not because they give a rat's ass about how better or worse off you may be, but rather because they only cared about getting money.
Sure, but they have a what, 40 Billion dollar war chest? File under petty change.