I wasn't targetting any specific party there, I'm not even American. I could have said any politician from Thatcher onwards, but this is a US site so not that many people would know what I was talking about.
Haven't all mainstream US politicians promised this since Reagan onwards? In any case believing what a politician tells you has been a recipe for disappointment for a very long time now.
Yes how dare people be worried about how they're going to pay the mortgage after all the work they can do gets sent overseas. The racist bastards! Or is there some mysterious IT cult that gives you three years' experience in a given field by some kind of voodoo magic?
First of all you've misconstrued what I said. I said that running your own business requires twice as much work as having a regular job; now most people would like to do something else with their lives apart from working all the time. As for a 90% chance of being out of work, well those are far, far worse odds than being an employee in my country. I don't know the ins and outs of US employment law but even if you're made redundant in the UK the company gives you money; that doesn't happen with a startup. In fact if you're self-employed (as opposed to a private limited company) if your company goes bust so do you. I'm tired of hearing libertarians on here going "just start your own company" as if it was the easiest thing in the world and a panacea for all the world's rat race woes. The fact of the matter is that you have to work twice as hard for no guaranteed income and zero job security. Some make it, usually the most vicious, but the majority fail because it is bloody hard to run a successful business and is no way in hell a substitute for a good job, especially if you're in your 30s or 40s and have kids to support and a mortgage to pay.
And you have the added bonus of having a 90% chance of being out of work within 3 years and having to work twice as many hours as someone else's employee.
No but getting the new project out of the door as fast as possible to score political points with the board is equally as important to senior management. They don't care that the crappy code will cost the company a fortune once it's in they just want to be able to say that they managed to get a system in in X amount of time.
At least the traditional record companies will front the artists the production money; Magnatune does no such thing. Do you think they deserve to charge so much?
I largely agree with your argument apart from this bit. Firstly Magnatune doesn't have a crapload of money to do this like the big companies do and secondly the big record companies don't hand the artists free money, they have to pay that loan back out of their royalties, which, given how much a CD sells for is a relative pittance.
I work in a non-IT job and I regularly hear complaints about the shoddiness of Windows or Word, so I'm not quite sure where you're coming from. Few people in the 'real' world, whatever that is, would spend hours dissecting the flaws in the Microsoft security and reliability model but if computers do come up in the conversation, "why is this so shit" is often asked.
You're right of course; when you buy a new OS you should also have to buy/rewrite all the other software you depend on. Honestly where do these customers get off, expecting the vendor to provide the product they want. [/sarcasm]
On XP LUA you don't need to run WoW with admin access, you just need to give the LUA full access to the WoW directory in Program Files. Could well be the same on Vista.
I don't see where you're coming from. This would be no different to grouping up in an MMORPG to raid a dungeon, just playing a sport rather than fighting a boss.
Why is Turkey having a hard time joining the EU? Hmmmm? One of the reasons cited is fear of mass immigration to the UK or Germany for work.
Not from mainstream politicians but from right-wingers looking for political capital. Turkey has been rejected so far mainly because its human rights behaviour would violate the ECHR.
Reader cwgmpls, for instance, doesn't buy the argument that OS X is safe only because it's more obscure than are the various versions of Windows. "Even if OS X is only 5% of all PCs in the world, surely there are a good number of hackers out there who would love to release an OS X virus into the wild, just to prove it can be done. Besides, the total number of OS X installs today is certainly greater than the total number of Windows installs that existed at the time the first Windows virus was released.
Most hackers don't need a huge number of installs to stroke their ego. The opportunity to prove that OS X is just as vulnerable as Windows should be more than enough to motivate someone to release an OS X virus into the wild. Yet no one has done it.
They have a responsibility to obey the law too, otherwise they'd be selling crack and pimping ho's since even Office isn't as profitable as being a large scale multinational gangsta.
However due to numerous issues this means that if you play Alliance, you get murdered and spawn camped for 1/2 an hour
Definitely depends on the server. I've only been corpse camped once in the six months I've played.
Crafting: nerfed to uselessness
Not sure what you mean by this, tailoring/skinning makes me a pretty decent income.
constant grinding
Now that's totally untrue, WoW has thousands of quests, some are kill x amount of bad guys, some are gather x amount of things, some are proper quests with a story. My character never FELT like he was getting any better over 40+ levels. As opposed to say, a Diablo character.
You didn't say what class you played but my warlock has gone from free HK to someone you don't annoy without a reason.
I've played quite a few MMORPGs and most were just one dimensional "grind until you're high enough to spend all your time fighting other players" type games. WoW has a lot to do: don't want to grind, do some quests. Don't want to quest go join a battleground. Fed up with battlegrounds go attack random strangers out in the world. Or if none of that appeals you could just wander around looking at the pretty graphics. I wouldn't describe WoW as perfect, there are things that annoy me about it but it's by far the best one of the bunch that I've ever played. Sounds like you got to Stranglethorn Vale and got fed up with the regular ganking.
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I wasn't targetting any specific party there, I'm not even American. I could have said any politician from Thatcher onwards, but this is a US site so not that many people would know what I was talking about.
Haven't all mainstream US politicians promised this since Reagan onwards? In any case believing what a politician tells you has been a recipe for disappointment for a very long time now.
"How to make money from WoW" ads. Real money item and gold buyers don't add anything to a game (except very easily beaten high levels :P).
maybe they'll pull an Apple and just withdraw the product from the market.
MS would no more withdraw from Europe than they would from the USA.
Yes Microsoft has so much money that it can afford to pull out of such a sizeable market. *sigh*
Yes how dare people be worried about how they're going to pay the mortgage after all the work they can do gets sent overseas. The racist bastards! Or is there some mysterious IT cult that gives you three years' experience in a given field by some kind of voodoo magic?
First of all you've misconstrued what I said. I said that running your own business requires twice as much work as having a regular job; now most people would like to do something else with their lives apart from working all the time. As for a 90% chance of being out of work, well those are far, far worse odds than being an employee in my country. I don't know the ins and outs of US employment law but even if you're made redundant in the UK the company gives you money; that doesn't happen with a startup. In fact if you're self-employed (as opposed to a private limited company) if your company goes bust so do you.
I'm tired of hearing libertarians on here going "just start your own company" as if it was the easiest thing in the world and a panacea for all the world's rat race woes. The fact of the matter is that you have to work twice as hard for no guaranteed income and zero job security. Some make it, usually the most vicious, but the majority fail because it is bloody hard to run a successful business and is no way in hell a substitute for a good job, especially if you're in your 30s or 40s and have kids to support and a mortgage to pay.
And you have the added bonus of having a 90% chance of being out of work within 3 years and having to work twice as many hours as someone else's employee.
No but getting the new project out of the door as fast as possible to score political points with the board is equally as important to senior management. They don't care that the crappy code will cost the company a fortune once it's in they just want to be able to say that they managed to get a system in in X amount of time.
At least the traditional record companies will front the artists the production money; Magnatune does no such thing. Do you think they deserve to charge so much?
I largely agree with your argument apart from this bit. Firstly Magnatune doesn't have a crapload of money to do this like the big companies do and secondly the big record companies don't hand the artists free money, they have to pay that loan back out of their royalties, which, given how much a CD sells for is a relative pittance.
It runs quite nicely under Cedega if you want to make that switch.
I work in a non-IT job and I regularly hear complaints about the shoddiness of Windows or Word, so I'm not quite sure where you're coming from. Few people in the 'real' world, whatever that is, would spend hours dissecting the flaws in the Microsoft security and reliability model but if computers do come up in the conversation, "why is this so shit" is often asked.
Why wouldn't they? Linux is the no.2 server OS last time I heard with a not-insubstantial slice of that very significant market.
I tend to nowadays, just so anyone who disagrees with me has to say why rather than pointing out my spelling mistakes.
To define and punish Piracies
Ah so that's how the DMCA is constitutional. Arrrr shiver me timbers.
You're right of course; when you buy a new OS you should also have to buy/rewrite all the other software you depend on. Honestly where do these customers get off, expecting the vendor to provide the product they want. [/sarcasm]
On XP LUA you don't need to run WoW with admin access, you just need to give the LUA full access to the WoW directory in Program Files. Could well be the same on Vista.
You do realise that the cost of living also includes housing, clothing and medical care don't you?
Dammit learn to use apostrophes! Government's either implies possession or is short for government is, it doesn't belong on a plural.
I'm not sure about American football but soccer would be ok with this, you need to work as a team but a bit of individual brilliance can turn a game.
I don't see where you're coming from. This would be no different to grouping up in an MMORPG to raid a dungeon, just playing a sport rather than fighting a boss.
Why is Turkey having a hard time joining the EU? Hmmmm? One of the reasons cited is fear of mass immigration to the UK or Germany for work.
Not from mainstream politicians but from right-wingers looking for political capital. Turkey has been rejected so far mainly because its human rights behaviour would violate the ECHR.
Reader cwgmpls, for instance, doesn't buy the argument that OS X is safe only because it's more obscure than are the various versions of Windows.
"Even if OS X is only 5% of all PCs in the world, surely there are a good number of hackers out there who would love to release an OS X virus into the wild, just to prove it can be done. Besides, the total number of OS X installs today is certainly greater than the total number of Windows installs that existed at the time the first Windows virus was released.
Most hackers don't need a huge number of installs to stroke their ego. The opportunity to prove that OS X is just as vulnerable as Windows should be more than enough to motivate someone to release an OS X virus into the wild. Yet no one has done it.
They have a responsibility to obey the law too, otherwise they'd be selling crack and pimping ho's since even Office isn't as profitable as being a large scale multinational gangsta.
However due to numerous issues this means that if you play Alliance, you get murdered and spawn camped for 1/2 an hour
Definitely depends on the server. I've only been corpse camped once in the six months I've played.
Crafting: nerfed to uselessness
Not sure what you mean by this, tailoring/skinning makes me a pretty decent income.
constant grinding
Now that's totally untrue, WoW has thousands of quests, some are kill x amount of bad guys, some are gather x amount of things, some are proper quests with a story.
My character never FELT like he was getting any better over 40+ levels. As opposed to say, a Diablo character.
You didn't say what class you played but my warlock has gone from free HK to someone you don't annoy without a reason.
I've played quite a few MMORPGs and most were just one dimensional "grind until you're high enough to spend all your time fighting other players" type games. WoW has a lot to do: don't want to grind, do some quests. Don't want to quest go join a battleground. Fed up with battlegrounds go attack random strangers out in the world. Or if none of that appeals you could just wander around looking at the pretty graphics.
I wouldn't describe WoW as perfect, there are things that annoy me about it but it's by far the best one of the bunch that I've ever played. Sounds like you got to Stranglethorn Vale and got fed up with the regular ganking.