This is almost positively the work of some jerk in the manufacturing plant who pocketed the game is it is being printed in mass for world release on the 9th of November.
Have you ever seen the kind of security the manufacturing and distribution plants have? The major CD distributor for Walmart and Best Buy and others hires TEMPS, and has a large security firm on the premises to make sure no one is walking off with items.
While it is possible it could have been anyone within Bungie that leaked it, it is more likely that it is a temp at the distribution plant with no loyalty at all to the company that did it.
I graduated with a CS degree this year, but I decided a little of a year before that law school was the way to go instead.
Not surprisingly, the biggest challenge I had was convincing admissions that I actually wanted to be a lawyer, and wasn't just hiding from the job situation (especially in my field).
Anyway, I had been looking for a different field of work since about the middle of my junior year. I can do CS, but I tired of it. Friends of mine that I outperformed in school landed $55,000/yr jobs with defense contractors (in the midwest). I decided that I could either deal with it and work in a job I would hate the rest of my life, or work in a field where I can impact society and people's lives in a more direct way.
I chose the latter. I'm very glad that I did. Law school so far has been one of the most rewarding experiences of my life. (I have yet to decide what I want to specialize in, and it doesn't really matter until after the first year anyway.)
With all that said, my point is that just because you're currently specialized in a certain field, if you have a college education, chances are you're going to be very adaptable, and able to find something else to do. You're not the high specialized buggy mechanic that will never be able to learn how to be an auto mechanic, because he learned the trade as an apprentice and has no other education. If you learned a trade in college, and didn't learn how to learn, you missed out on the biggest part of your undergraduate education.
I've never seen a room-full of drooling programmers whose job was to fill in the blanks after the software engineers spec'd it all out for them.
That is exactly how most outsourcing operations work. The software engineers at home do the spec work, and all of that, then send it off to the "code factory" overseas that does the grunt work.
A friend who has had to deal with offshoring in his work place basically said that most of the overseas coding that gets done is only useful to the point of getting exactly what you asked for. They're not very adaptable, they rarely communicate with the client, etc. You give them something to accomplish, and that's what you get. Sort of like a "code factory."
It sounds attractive, but like your post points out, it's rarely the best thing for the quality of the product.
If you signed your registration card, they have your signature; my signature was in the book the first time I voted. Although, given how screwed up everything with the elections is, I'm not surprised at all.
I don't know how many people take my feelings into consideration when voting, but apparently I did something in the past 24 hours that led to my "fans" list increasing tenfold. I'm easily amused. If any of those "fans" would like to donate to my college fund, just contact me at the address above.
Just to appease you, I'll go and post the same comment I posted here, modified to fit that article. Honestly, I probably would have posted the same thing if that article actually made it to the front page.
Oddly enough, since I bothered to read that article you'll notice they only had 2 Nobel laureates sign their article. ("neenerneener, we had more Nobel laureates sign our paper than you!") I don't know how anyone could fail to see that these two "open letters" aren't worth any more than the paper they are printed on.
that you could probably also find just as many economists willing to sign something in favor of Bush's policies, and that several of them would be high profile influential people in the field.
I don't usually go beyond the front page. You'll notice I posted the comment that you linked just a few minutes ago. The story is too stale to bother posting anything else there.
I have no doubt that you could find 300 experts in any of the issues at debate in the presidential election and get them to sign an open letter stating that one of the candidates is right or wrong, and find just as many for the opposing side.
Is it really that hard for people to see this? It's not that difficult to find 300 professors in the same field that will sign something supporting one candidate over the other, (or attacking the policies of the other).
In short, I would take this open letter with a grain of salt and nothing more.
300 qualified economists that support Bush('s policies) 300 qualified economists that support Kerry('s policies) 300 qualified economists that are against Kerry('s policies) 300 qualified economists that are against Bush('s policies)
ad infinitum
That they found 300 to say something bad about Kerry is no surprise at all.
Yeah, that's clearly what I intended. I was merely pointing out that this says nothing more than a petition from 1,000,000 citizens saying they support one candidate over the other, because you could find just as many willing to do the opposite.
Considering there are probably thousands of economists throughout the country, it doesn't seem very unlikely at all that it could be possible, does it? Most of the people that signed this thing probably just looked at it and said "Hey, it supports Bush, I support Bush, sure I'll sign it!" I bothered to look into a few of the professors and a number of them have next to no research qualifications in the field, or teach only entry level courses in economics at their university.
To keep things in perspective, kids die of hunger all over the world and don't even know what video games are. Therefore, one should feel compelled to suck it up and carry around a piece of plastic in his wallet.
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Sorry, that has to be the lamest thing I've ever heard. I seriously hope you're being sarcastic, but the rest of your comment leads me to believe otherwise. Just in case you weren't kidding:
By your logic, I shouldn't complain when asked for ID to buy anything. I mean, what's the big deal with giving up your right to privacy when people are starving? What's the big deal with giving up your right to _______ when people are starving?
That's almost as pathetic as the "but it's for the children's sake!" argument.
that you could probably also find just as many economists willing to sign something in favor of Kerry's policies, and that several of them would be high profile influential people in the field.
Why is that surprising? I imagine that if a building was imploded it would be removed as well. I guess I don't see the big deal with it, people want real-world scenery, and if you fly a plane over Manhattan today, you won't see the World Trade Center.
Wasn't one of the MS flight sims changed in the last minute to remove the twin towers?
A patch was released for Flight Simulator 2000, nearly a year after it was released, which would remove the towers. It was entirely optional, but it makes sense, because I can imagine some people might not want to see them there, since they really weren't there.
Later versions have them removed completely, which is no big surprise at all. I would imagine if a building in their landscape files was destroyed for any reason it would be taken out of the game.
Did you read the article? (Never rely on the crap that the submitter gives you) What the "robolawyer" will do is you give it a set of terms that you do or do not agree with, and it will determine if the EULA meets your requirements, and report back. It doesn't change the terms of the agreement, the terms of the agreement are set in stone by the writer, and you can't agree to anything else.
It's like hiring someone to review lengthy documents for you and tell you whether or not you should sign it and why.
The only info Google will have is very basic usage statistics, no content or otherwise. Information that would be basically useless to anyone else. All the searching is done locally, and the information about what the search actually contained is stored locally.
Get rid of the tin foil hat, it seems to be restricting the blood flow to your brain.
Best Buy already sells most CDs at or below what they pay for them (especially new releases, which are often sold below cost), because they don't sell them to make a profit, they sell them to bring you into the store.
I have yet to hear of any smaller record stores heading to Best Buy to buy CDs and then resell them in their stores, probably because the costs involved are greater than the few cents they save (labor, transportatio, etc.)
Kudos to Walmart for beating the record industries margins down. As long as they only stock 5000 cds in each store, independent retailers should have no worries if they figure out how to position themselves correctly. The beauty of this is it could also force the record companies to sell to distributors and record stores for a lower price, actually helping the smaller guys.
Walmart does this with every one of their suppliers. They force them into selling to them at a lower price than anyone else; the suppliers will sell their products at the old price to all the other retailers. This might not harm the record industry as much as it has hurt other businesses, but often times it forces the suppliers to cut jobs and find short term solutions to save a few bucks (sacrificing quality) in order to meet Walmart's demands.
In the end, this isn't good for anyone. Sure you can buy things at Walmart cheaper, but at the expense of every person involved at getting that product to the shelf. Walmart doesn't take a profit margin hit, they force everyone else to.
Somewhere along the line I remember a quote from a manufacter of some product, "The only thing worse than doing business with Walmart, is not doing business with Walmart." The only way to fix the problem, is to not shop there.
Slashdot Mirror
I am finished indexing.
It continually indexes as you add more files, it's just the first run through the takes awhile. Otherwise it's useless.
Anyway, it might have 4 processes, but it only uses about 2-4 MB of memory. The Windows Update control uses more than that.
This is almost positively the work of some jerk in the manufacturing plant who pocketed the game is it is being printed in mass for world release on the 9th of November.
Have you ever seen the kind of security the manufacturing and distribution plants have? The major CD distributor for Walmart and Best Buy and others hires TEMPS, and has a large security firm on the premises to make sure no one is walking off with items.
While it is possible it could have been anyone within Bungie that leaked it, it is more likely that it is a temp at the distribution plant with no loyalty at all to the company that did it.
I graduated with a CS degree this year, but I decided a little of a year before that law school was the way to go instead.
Not surprisingly, the biggest challenge I had was convincing admissions that I actually wanted to be a lawyer, and wasn't just hiding from the job situation (especially in my field).
Anyway, I had been looking for a different field of work since about the middle of my junior year. I can do CS, but I tired of it. Friends of mine that I outperformed in school landed $55,000/yr jobs with defense contractors (in the midwest). I decided that I could either deal with it and work in a job I would hate the rest of my life, or work in a field where I can impact society and people's lives in a more direct way.
I chose the latter. I'm very glad that I did. Law school so far has been one of the most rewarding experiences of my life. (I have yet to decide what I want to specialize in, and it doesn't really matter until after the first year anyway.)
With all that said, my point is that just because you're currently specialized in a certain field, if you have a college education, chances are you're going to be very adaptable, and able to find something else to do. You're not the high specialized buggy mechanic that will never be able to learn how to be an auto mechanic, because he learned the trade as an apprentice and has no other education. If you learned a trade in college, and didn't learn how to learn, you missed out on the biggest part of your undergraduate education.
I've never seen a room-full of drooling programmers whose job was to fill in the blanks after the software engineers spec'd it all out for them.
That is exactly how most outsourcing operations work. The software engineers at home do the spec work, and all of that, then send it off to the "code factory" overseas that does the grunt work.
A friend who has had to deal with offshoring in his work place basically said that most of the overseas coding that gets done is only useful to the point of getting exactly what you asked for. They're not very adaptable, they rarely communicate with the client, etc. You give them something to accomplish, and that's what you get. Sort of like a "code factory."
It sounds attractive, but like your post points out, it's rarely the best thing for the quality of the product.
If you signed your registration card, they have your signature; my signature was in the book the first time I voted. Although, given how screwed up everything with the elections is, I'm not surprised at all.
I don't know how many people take my feelings into consideration when voting, but apparently I did something in the past 24 hours that led to my "fans" list increasing tenfold. I'm easily amused. If any of those "fans" would like to donate to my college fund, just contact me at the address above.
Thank you very much.
Just to appease you, I'll go and post the same comment I posted here, modified to fit that article. Honestly, I probably would have posted the same thing if that article actually made it to the front page.
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Oddly enough, since I bothered to read that article you'll notice they only had 2 Nobel laureates sign their article. ("neenerneener, we had more Nobel laureates sign our paper than you!") I don't know how anyone could fail to see that these two "open letters" aren't worth any more than the paper they are printed on.
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=124945&cid=10
that you could probably also find just as many economists willing to sign something in favor of Bush's policies, and that several of them would be high profile influential people in the field.
Nothing to see here, move along.
I don't usually go beyond the front page. You'll notice I posted the comment that you linked just a few minutes ago. The story is too stale to bother posting anything else there.
I have no doubt that you could find 300 experts in any of the issues at debate in the presidential election and get them to sign an open letter stating that one of the candidates is right or wrong, and find just as many for the opposing side.
Is it really that hard for people to see this? It's not that difficult to find 300 professors in the same field that will sign something supporting one candidate over the other, (or attacking the policies of the other).
In short, I would take this open letter with a grain of salt and nothing more.
Exactly, you could probably find:
300 qualified economists that support Bush('s policies)
300 qualified economists that support Kerry('s policies)
300 qualified economists that are against Kerry('s policies)
300 qualified economists that are against Bush('s policies)
ad infinitum
That they found 300 to say something bad about Kerry is no surprise at all.
Yeah, that's clearly what I intended. I was merely pointing out that this says nothing more than a petition from 1,000,000 citizens saying they support one candidate over the other, because you could find just as many willing to do the opposite.
Considering there are probably thousands of economists throughout the country, it doesn't seem very unlikely at all that it could be possible, does it? Most of the people that signed this thing probably just looked at it and said "Hey, it supports Bush, I support Bush, sure I'll sign it!" I bothered to look into a few of the professors and a number of them have next to no research qualifications in the field, or teach only entry level courses in economics at their university.
To keep things in perspective, kids die of hunger all over the world and don't even know what video games are. Therefore, one should feel compelled to suck it up and carry around a piece of plastic in his wallet.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
Sorry, that has to be the lamest thing I've ever heard. I seriously hope you're being sarcastic, but the rest of your comment leads me to believe otherwise. Just in case you weren't kidding:
By your logic, I shouldn't complain when asked for ID to buy anything. I mean, what's the big deal with giving up your right to privacy when people are starving? What's the big deal with giving up your right to _______ when people are starving?
That's almost as pathetic as the "but it's for the children's sake!" argument.
that you could probably also find just as many economists willing to sign something in favor of Kerry's policies, and that several of them would be high profile influential people in the field.
Nothing to see here, move along.
Odd how they don't acknowledge that the economic deterioration began before he took office
Because it it wasn't!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Why is that surprising? I imagine that if a building was imploded it would be removed as well. I guess I don't see the big deal with it, people want real-world scenery, and if you fly a plane over Manhattan today, you won't see the World Trade Center.
my health card which also allowed me to vote just a few days earlier
If you signature matches the signature they have on file, you can't be compelled to show ID to vote.
Wasn't one of the MS flight sims changed in the last minute to remove the twin towers?
A patch was released for Flight Simulator 2000, nearly a year after it was released, which would remove the towers. It was entirely optional, but it makes sense, because I can imagine some people might not want to see them there, since they really weren't there.
Later versions have them removed completely, which is no big surprise at all. I would imagine if a building in their landscape files was destroyed for any reason it would be taken out of the game.
Did you read the article? (Never rely on the crap that the submitter gives you) What the "robolawyer" will do is you give it a set of terms that you do or do not agree with, and it will determine if the EULA meets your requirements, and report back. It doesn't change the terms of the agreement, the terms of the agreement are set in stone by the writer, and you can't agree to anything else.
It's like hiring someone to review lengthy documents for you and tell you whether or not you should sign it and why.
The only info Google will have is very basic usage statistics, no content or otherwise. Information that would be basically useless to anyone else. All the searching is done locally, and the information about what the search actually contained is stored locally.
Get rid of the tin foil hat, it seems to be restricting the blood flow to your brain.
Best Buy already sells most CDs at or below what they pay for them (especially new releases, which are often sold below cost), because they don't sell them to make a profit, they sell them to bring you into the store.
I have yet to hear of any smaller record stores heading to Best Buy to buy CDs and then resell them in their stores, probably because the costs involved are greater than the few cents they save (labor, transportatio, etc.)
Even the dead can't escape the wrath of Walmart.
Kudos to Walmart for beating the record industries margins down. As long as they only stock 5000 cds in each store, independent retailers should have no worries if they figure out how to position themselves correctly. The beauty of this is it could also force the record companies to sell to distributors and record stores for a lower price, actually helping the smaller guys.
Walmart does this with every one of their suppliers. They force them into selling to them at a lower price than anyone else; the suppliers will sell their products at the old price to all the other retailers. This might not harm the record industry as much as it has hurt other businesses, but often times it forces the suppliers to cut jobs and find short term solutions to save a few bucks (sacrificing quality) in order to meet Walmart's demands.
In the end, this isn't good for anyone. Sure you can buy things at Walmart cheaper, but at the expense of every person involved at getting that product to the shelf. Walmart doesn't take a profit margin hit, they force everyone else to.
Somewhere along the line I remember a quote from a manufacter of some product, "The only thing worse than doing business with Walmart, is not doing business with Walmart." The only way to fix the problem, is to not shop there.