I'd dispute the zero human contact in a game where millions of people play. In the MMORPG I used to play loads of people have met in the real world and people who 'met' first in the game have dated and even married in the real world and I don't doubt that WoW will also have its real life meetings. MMORPGs are no more anti-social than web message boards, blogs, MSN or any of the other newer forms of communicating with strangers. Yes there are anti-social weirdoes involved but there are many more average joes and janes (more joes than janes though more's the pity:P).
I work for the UK immigration service and the amount of people trying to get in is staggering. I doubt the immigration service in say, Nigeria, is quite so stretched.
One of the disadvantages of respecting human rights is that you have to respect the rights of all humans, not just the ones you approve of. Treating criminals like animals may seem right in the short term but that leads to all sorts of unpleasant consequences, from prison riots to abuse of people with the 'wrong' political opinions.
So in white collar jobs you can do what you like without any supervision? Thought not. Money's better but the stress and bullshit is much worse. And the college education means fuck all when it's "restructuring" time.
Knowledge and capital need a lot less space than large numbers of humans moving from the many poor countries to the very few rich ones. Free movement of labour isn't practical when most of the labour would want to move to a fairly small area of the planet. I would never blame anyone wanting to come to the EU; it's a very nice place to live in comparison to most of the world, but we don't have infinite living space here.
A GUI designer does not make a language a toy, it makes it a language where time is saved in building the GUI painstakingly trial and error fashion - time that can be spent working on the logic. And given that most languages have GUI designers now that would make them all toys, which, having learned C++, makes me wonder what sort of toys you had as a child:P
You know I hear the same crud about political correctness over here but I'm at a loss to see why children not being able to read, write or do simple sums in their heads after several years at school has anything to do with political correctness. I'd be more inclined to look at teaching standards, clueless meddling by politicians or children having poor concentration due to eating bad food/too many distractions/bad parenting rather than whether or not the word 'fail' is used anymore. After all if you get crap grades in your exams it doesn't matter if it doesn't say 'fail' on the certificate: you won't find it any easier to get a job.
Of course years of the clueless meddling in said system has nothing to do with that at all. Perhaps instead of targets and agendas and getting corporate spindoctors in there should be some kind of concentration on you know teaching stuff?
It's not MS who've said that but four British MEPs, sadly unnamed, who show that they have the same grasp of technological issues as the average amoeba. I'd like to know who they are so I can set them straight, pointing out that if Microsoft would just obey the law this would be a non-issue.
That's why such over-emotional behaviour has never brought about a change....apart from all the times it has. In fact a lot of the stuff we take for granted would never have come about without such behaviour.
Why should anyone have to waste their time burning and reripping. I'm tired of people saying that. It's not an alternative; it's a hassle. A real alternative would be for the various music stores to provide MP3s without any shite attached.
Except that the long hours required and the almost certain risk of failure isn't really a decent alternative, especially if you have bills to pay and a family to support.
The very successful worms of the early 21st century were all about causing as much aggravation as possible. The creator of the ILOVEYOU virus didn't make any money from disrupting corporate email servers but he did get to cause a lot of aggravation. You think there are no virus writers wanting to stick it to smug Mac/Linux users? You think no-one would take the time and effort to annoy them? You don't understand human nature too well if you believe it's merely marketshare that's keeping malware away from OS X and Linux.
WoW runs just as happily using OpenGL on Windows and OSX - I'm not quite sure if there's a technical reason for the lack of a Linux client. Sign the petition and see if Blizz will change their minds.
Joe Westerner has been taught history where the same conditions being inflicted on far eastern workers were inflicted on his ancestors in the name of efficiency and profit but can see that efficiency and profit were not sacrificed (and in fact corporate profits have skyrocketed thanks to people having disposable income and leisure time to spend it) when those appalling conditions were swept away. If these workers had the money to buy their own homes, and all the goods to furnish it just think how much money businesses could make.
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I'd dispute the zero human contact in a game where millions of people play. In the MMORPG I used to play loads of people have met in the real world and people who 'met' first in the game have dated and even married in the real world and I don't doubt that WoW will also have its real life meetings. :P).
MMORPGs are no more anti-social than web message boards, blogs, MSN or any of the other newer forms of communicating with strangers. Yes there are anti-social weirdoes involved but there are many more average joes and janes (more joes than janes though more's the pity
The majority of iPod users use MP3s
Don't give the GP grief when you don't back that one up with a link.
I work for the UK immigration service and the amount of people trying to get in is staggering. I doubt the immigration service in say, Nigeria, is quite so stretched.
Well it would be hard to find people for the board of directors for one thing.
One of the disadvantages of respecting human rights is that you have to respect the rights of all humans, not just the ones you approve of. Treating criminals like animals may seem right in the short term but that leads to all sorts of unpleasant consequences, from prison riots to abuse of people with the 'wrong' political opinions.
So in white collar jobs you can do what you like without any supervision? Thought not. Money's better but the stress and bullshit is much worse. And the college education means fuck all when it's "restructuring" time.
Knowledge and capital need a lot less space than large numbers of humans moving from the many poor countries to the very few rich ones. Free movement of labour isn't practical when most of the labour would want to move to a fairly small area of the planet. I would never blame anyone wanting to come to the EU; it's a very nice place to live in comparison to most of the world, but we don't have infinite living space here.
A GUI designer does not make a language a toy, it makes it a language where time is saved in building the GUI painstakingly trial and error fashion - time that can be spent working on the logic. And given that most languages have GUI designers now that would make them all toys, which, having learned C++, makes me wonder what sort of toys you had as a child :P
You know I hear the same crud about political correctness over here but I'm at a loss to see why children not being able to read, write or do simple sums in their heads after several years at school has anything to do with political correctness. I'd be more inclined to look at teaching standards, clueless meddling by politicians or children having poor concentration due to eating bad food/too many distractions/bad parenting rather than whether or not the word 'fail' is used anymore. After all if you get crap grades in your exams it doesn't matter if it doesn't say 'fail' on the certificate: you won't find it any easier to get a job.
Of course years of the clueless meddling in said system has nothing to do with that at all. Perhaps instead of targets and agendas and getting corporate spindoctors in there should be some kind of concentration on you know teaching stuff?
It's not MS who've said that but four British MEPs, sadly unnamed, who show that they have the same grasp of technological issues as the average amoeba. I'd like to know who they are so I can set them straight, pointing out that if Microsoft would just obey the law this would be a non-issue.
That's why such over-emotional behaviour has never brought about a change....apart from all the times it has. In fact a lot of the stuff we take for granted would never have come about without such behaviour.
You're a bit ignorant about Communism aren't you.
Why should anyone have to waste their time burning and reripping. I'm tired of people saying that. It's not an alternative; it's a hassle. A real alternative would be for the various music stores to provide MP3s without any shite attached.
Except that the long hours required and the almost certain risk of failure isn't really a decent alternative, especially if you have bills to pay and a family to support.
The very successful worms of the early 21st century were all about causing as much aggravation as possible. The creator of the ILOVEYOU virus didn't make any money from disrupting corporate email servers but he did get to cause a lot of aggravation. You think there are no virus writers wanting to stick it to smug Mac/Linux users? You think no-one would take the time and effort to annoy them? You don't understand human nature too well if you believe it's merely marketshare that's keeping malware away from OS X and Linux.
Economists do it all the time without ever justifying their comments with actual data, why do I have to?
And then you typed "cought". Ah hahahahahaha this could go on all dey :P
WoW runs just as happily using OpenGL on Windows and OSX - I'm not quite sure if there's a technical reason for the lack of a Linux client. Sign the petition and see if Blizz will change their minds.
Which would be correct if they were being paid a living wage.
Joe Westerner has been taught history where the same conditions being inflicted on far eastern workers were inflicted on his ancestors in the name of efficiency and profit but can see that efficiency and profit were not sacrificed (and in fact corporate profits have skyrocketed thanks to people having disposable income and leisure time to spend it) when those appalling conditions were swept away. If these workers had the money to buy their own homes, and all the goods to furnish it just think how much money businesses could make.
3000 BC? You must be one of them there fundam...finder...fadnama....radical christians.
It's probably the same guy who told me that he wouldn't want a hydrogen powered car because hydrogen's explosive.
From the link: nothing they produce ever works properly or performs to expectations. So I guess they already are.
Yeh heaven forbid that the legal system should investigate and punish criminal behaviour.