He is being charged. Actually it looks to be exactly the same case, just that it's 10 days instead of 24 hours.
The need to charge Dymov due to the fact that, for him, was elected as a preventive measure under house arrest, and prosecution must be charged within 10 days from the date of the application of preventive measures.
Just like within game development industry. Most of them don't require ridiculous hours. But there is always the single random one, regardless of industry. It just shows that game development is normal industry like any other.
According to Alexei in the indictment were not listed his specific criminal acts, but simply stated that he committed fraud. They say investigators have not found everything, because detailed charges will be filed Dymov later. In addition, it is not against the CCP [], was handed a resolution to bring an accused on the pretext that it is "secret" character.
So he is being held until final charges are issued? Sounds like something that would happen in every country.
Even more so, it seems like Google has been doing some huge changes lately (maybe pulling out of china, android for mobile phones, photographing every street on the planet, current "main guys" and owners starting to sell shares).
Remember that their current stance on privacy (and especially their datamining everywhere) doesn't tell anything how the company will be ran in future. It's even more worry some when the 'geeky' owners sell their shares and leave control to business people.
In fact he could be describing any company working in any industry. I guess people still think game development is something glamorous, something like it was as a teenager when you had lots of fun ideas (or at least ideas that were fun for you). Fact is that it's an industry like any other. And maybe it should be too - look what happened to Duke Nukem Forever after 10 years. They missed the general professional guidelines. Sure it probably was tons of fun having strippers doing their thing in motion capture room and running the place as more developer hippy place, but the product never finished.
Maybe Rockstar is too much on the other edge, but doing a huge game like GTA requires pushing people to work on it.
Which is one of the reason I never really continued more into game development - at least I can still enjoy doing it at home for my own fun.
I *really* hate Google for destroying the right-click copy-link-location. Maybe I'll change to Bing, it does not do that.
This is because they want the data on which result you click. What, you though they didn't do that? When you're clicking any Google link, theres subsequent javascript request being sent to Google on what link you clicked. Completely invisible for user, but good data for Google.
I never see either Bing's or Google's homepage. I just search using my browsers search bar. Actually I was surprised to see Google's fade-in homepage manually after friend told about it.
Even more than just Apple vs Google fight, this is serious battle between Microsoft and Google. MS has actually made their search engine better than Google (the different categories and combining them together shows this, and it's greatly improved over Live search).
Immediately when Bing was released Google tried to answer back with its sidebar options. But it never really got where Bing is. And now Bing keeps gaining marketshare faster than ever before. It is actually a good product, and actually something MS has left alone from their other marketing efforts (for example, they use flash instead of silverlight, because flash is installed on so many machines, and do not try to promote silverlight on cost of their search engine).
I hate microsofts business practices as much as the next guy on slashdot, but Bing is something they're actually done really good. Yesterdays news about Bing deleting user data in 6 months just shows that bitter battle with Google is getting even better and better. Bing keeps gaining market share every month, faster and faster. Google pulls out from China market. Google CEO says privacy doesn't matter. This is something to watch while drinking cola and making some popcorns - two giants fighting to death.
This shows competition is good. It surely leads to innovations.
It's irrelevant to try to tell the good sides of using it. If you are doing application development, you have most likely used VS, and can see why its so much better than the other tools available. I could try to argue with technical points, but that would be pointless.
Visual Studio is the favorite IDE for lots of programmers and without a doubt still the one thats considered best there is.
However I've started doing some Linux programming along with other languages that could be developed on Linux (PHP, Delphi/Kylix). However the IDE's I've tested dont seem to compare with Visual Studio or even Delphi's IDE. In most cases they're mostly somewhat advanced text editors and building and debugging is more inconvenient. They just dont feel like complete IDE's where you can do your work. Is there such professional suites available on Linux and if not, what could be done to improve the existing IDE's and tools to that level?
Well even if so, there's probably a reason for such policy (probably has nothing to do with him). The point is, people have come to work under certain terms and so they should. Of course, suggestions are welcome and good. But if the people upper to them want to do things otherwise, so should he. Even if he knows better.
Well, what if everyone wanted to use their own custom solution? This might not be an issue in a company that has 4-10 employees, but one with 100-10000 surely is going to be. Even if you can get it all work together, theres always some idiots who think they're the best and then break their computers, risk security of the network, cause delays, require system admins to work disabling their custom installed software and do what they can to reverse what that retard did.
Sure, play with your own things at home. No problem with that, I do too. But if you're coming to work, on a payroll, just do your work and please try to understand why such restrictions are necessary on a large company.
And yet, the accountants are so short-sighted they can't see that, absent IT, they'd be twiddling their puds doing bookkeeping for the local hardware store.
And how is that worse for them? They get the same pay anyway.
I have a long history in IT and working in different areas of jobs. Don't get me wrong, I think it's a great job - I wouldn't do else. But nothing sickens me more is the people who think they're the centre of the world and those 'stupid' accountants are just monkeys working for us.
Sorry to break it to you, but you are just a monkey for your departments boss too. As he is to his boss. And as he is to his main bosses. And how those are to shareholders. And how they are to taxers. And how those work for government. And how government work for people.. it just goes around. The point is, you think you're something special, but frankly, you are not.
For the accountants there is nothing glamorous working in IT industry. And actually, if I was an accountant and had to work with people like you, I rather go to work at that local hardware store to pick up the same pay but with nicer people that aren't assholes.
Even if they are not, it's a good thing. Actually the first thing I think EU has done correctly since my country joined it in early 2000. You also have to remember that Google also does business in EU area, but all of the data is stored in their US datacenters (which is quite gray area in EU law, but they are headquarted on Ireland for tax purposes so it maybe different law).
What I mostly care about is that my data is not stored in countries overseas to me (those in US can compare this to storing your data in China or other country in Asia, it's quite relevant) and that whatever data they save is deleted quite soon. EU countries are actually really strict about this. I hated when my workplace assigned me to make sure we complied to all the privacy terms and hand specific terms visible to users on what we save and for how long, but now that I think of it, it is really for peoples benefit.
After Google's CEO's comments about privacy is only wanted by wrongdoers and their massive influence all over the internet, mobile phones and soon desktop I'm starting to think Bing might be better. Like the summary states, Google says its decisions "aren't conditioned on what competitors do" and they want to do what they want. Seems like they got huge and got piss in their head.
When credit is due, I have to give it. Bing is done correctly, and Google seems like the falling star it once was. We want privacy - give it to us.
He actually hit the nail to head with this. This is the thing most people working with IT or geeky professions miss, and why they think everything free and such is so great movement. Business DOES NOT work on mere technical things. Nothing in the world does.
This all can be really put into one line: People don't care what you do. People care about results of what you can enable them to do. If you provide that, great! If you dont and jab about "better ways" to do things while costing time and money, then.. sorry, but bye bye.
As a more slashdot friendlier terms, do you really care how a pizza place makes your pizza? No. You only care about how good it tastes when you eat it.
Like sznupi said, these are for countries that don't generally visit english sites and have their own alternatives instead. Russia has its own Facebook too. You cannot apply global stats into country specific stats, like you seem to have done.
For those interested, here's a good article on Opera's share on CIS countries: A look at desktop market share, CIS edition. They flat-out beat IE(!), firefox and all other browsers.
Actually Opera has the perfect NoScript built-in. Disable global options for whatever you feel like (noscript example is javascript) and enable it in site preferences for the sites you want to. And you can control lots of other things than just javascript too.
As far as AdBlock goes, Opera has it's equivalent. But I've got used to Ad Muncher as it has updating block lists and it works in all browsers. Full version does cost, but I have no trouble paying for a software that does it's job good and that I use daily.
I always see people touting how Opera is so much better than Firefox, yet when ever I ask them about script blocking I get blank stares. This is my killer feature.
Now don't get me wrong. I do love games that are extremely moddable and with community. The recent days I have played Blockland, which has almost fully community driven multiplayer and addons. Every server has a its own characteristic, map and gameplay. And I've enjoyed it greatly. Even started making my own map and scripting a gameplay on it because that game actually is what I always wanted as a teen, a place where you can create things, destroy things, shoot, and create your own game.
It's a great community too. Small, but good. But that's the thing most likely. Community driven things work better when they're small. MW2 is a huge game. While we would definitely see great things from customizations, I would think it would most likely be in the cost of overall fun that it is now.
Opera has built-in "NoScript". Disable javascript globally and enable it in site preferences you want to have it. Really easy. (and not just javascript - you can do the same per-site configuration with a range of things)
Maybe it's just another successful get rich scheme? I mean, they get free advertising from OSS zealots who even pay for such advertising on newspapers like you said, they get OSS community to provide patches and ideas, while the CEO's and shareholders get the millions. It's all about how the marketing and PR makes it look, after all.
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He is being charged. Actually it looks to be exactly the same case, just that it's 10 days instead of 24 hours.
The need to charge Dymov due to the fact that, for him, was elected as a preventive measure under house arrest, and prosecution must be charged within 10 days from the date of the application of preventive measures.
Just like within game development industry. Most of them don't require ridiculous hours. But there is always the single random one, regardless of industry. It just shows that game development is normal industry like any other.
To add to this, you need to pay big sums of money so you could bail out in US.
According to Alexei in the indictment were not listed his specific criminal acts, but simply stated that he committed fraud. They say investigators have not found everything, because detailed charges will be filed Dymov later. In addition, it is not against the CCP [], was handed a resolution to bring an accused on the pretext that it is "secret" character.
So he is being held until final charges are issued? Sounds like something that would happen in every country.
Even more so, it seems like Google has been doing some huge changes lately (maybe pulling out of china, android for mobile phones, photographing every street on the planet, current "main guys" and owners starting to sell shares).
Remember that their current stance on privacy (and especially their datamining everywhere) doesn't tell anything how the company will be ran in future. It's even more worry some when the 'geeky' owners sell their shares and leave control to business people.
In fact he could be describing any company working in any industry. I guess people still think game development is something glamorous, something like it was as a teenager when you had lots of fun ideas (or at least ideas that were fun for you). Fact is that it's an industry like any other. And maybe it should be too - look what happened to Duke Nukem Forever after 10 years. They missed the general professional guidelines. Sure it probably was tons of fun having strippers doing their thing in motion capture room and running the place as more developer hippy place, but the product never finished.
Maybe Rockstar is too much on the other edge, but doing a huge game like GTA requires pushing people to work on it.
Which is one of the reason I never really continued more into game development - at least I can still enjoy doing it at home for my own fun.
If you're a fan of tetris, check out First Person Tetris.
I still remember Daikatana. You mean it was a good game?
Goolge has the simplicity aspect right.
I *really* hate Google for destroying the right-click copy-link-location. Maybe I'll change to Bing, it does not do that.
This is because they want the data on which result you click. What, you though they didn't do that? When you're clicking any Google link, theres subsequent javascript request being sent to Google on what link you clicked. Completely invisible for user, but good data for Google.
I never see either Bing's or Google's homepage. I just search using my browsers search bar. Actually I was surprised to see Google's fade-in homepage manually after friend told about it.
Even more than just Apple vs Google fight, this is serious battle between Microsoft and Google. MS has actually made their search engine better than Google (the different categories and combining them together shows this, and it's greatly improved over Live search).
Immediately when Bing was released Google tried to answer back with its sidebar options. But it never really got where Bing is. And now Bing keeps gaining marketshare faster than ever before. It is actually a good product, and actually something MS has left alone from their other marketing efforts (for example, they use flash instead of silverlight, because flash is installed on so many machines, and do not try to promote silverlight on cost of their search engine).
I hate microsofts business practices as much as the next guy on slashdot, but Bing is something they're actually done really good. Yesterdays news about Bing deleting user data in 6 months just shows that bitter battle with Google is getting even better and better. Bing keeps gaining market share every month, faster and faster. Google pulls out from China market. Google CEO says privacy doesn't matter. This is something to watch while drinking cola and making some popcorns - two giants fighting to death.
This shows competition is good. It surely leads to innovations.
It's irrelevant to try to tell the good sides of using it. If you are doing application development, you have most likely used VS, and can see why its so much better than the other tools available. I could try to argue with technical points, but that would be pointless.
Visual Studio is the favorite IDE for lots of programmers and without a doubt still the one thats considered best there is.
However I've started doing some Linux programming along with other languages that could be developed on Linux (PHP, Delphi/Kylix). However the IDE's I've tested dont seem to compare with Visual Studio or even Delphi's IDE. In most cases they're mostly somewhat advanced text editors and building and debugging is more inconvenient. They just dont feel like complete IDE's where you can do your work. Is there such professional suites available on Linux and if not, what could be done to improve the existing IDE's and tools to that level?
Well even if so, there's probably a reason for such policy (probably has nothing to do with him). The point is, people have come to work under certain terms and so they should. Of course, suggestions are welcome and good. But if the people upper to them want to do things otherwise, so should he. Even if he knows better.
Well, what if everyone wanted to use their own custom solution? This might not be an issue in a company that has 4-10 employees, but one with 100-10000 surely is going to be. Even if you can get it all work together, theres always some idiots who think they're the best and then break their computers, risk security of the network, cause delays, require system admins to work disabling their custom installed software and do what they can to reverse what that retard did.
Sure, play with your own things at home. No problem with that, I do too. But if you're coming to work, on a payroll, just do your work and please try to understand why such restrictions are necessary on a large company.
And yet, the accountants are so short-sighted they can't see that, absent IT, they'd be twiddling their puds doing bookkeeping for the local hardware store.
And how is that worse for them? They get the same pay anyway.
I have a long history in IT and working in different areas of jobs. Don't get me wrong, I think it's a great job - I wouldn't do else. But nothing sickens me more is the people who think they're the centre of the world and those 'stupid' accountants are just monkeys working for us.
Sorry to break it to you, but you are just a monkey for your departments boss too. As he is to his boss. And as he is to his main bosses. And how those are to shareholders. And how they are to taxers. And how those work for government. And how government work for people.. it just goes around. The point is, you think you're something special, but frankly, you are not.
For the accountants there is nothing glamorous working in IT industry. And actually, if I was an accountant and had to work with people like you, I rather go to work at that local hardware store to pick up the same pay but with nicer people that aren't assholes.
Even if they are not, it's a good thing. Actually the first thing I think EU has done correctly since my country joined it in early 2000. You also have to remember that Google also does business in EU area, but all of the data is stored in their US datacenters (which is quite gray area in EU law, but they are headquarted on Ireland for tax purposes so it maybe different law).
What I mostly care about is that my data is not stored in countries overseas to me (those in US can compare this to storing your data in China or other country in Asia, it's quite relevant) and that whatever data they save is deleted quite soon. EU countries are actually really strict about this. I hated when my workplace assigned me to make sure we complied to all the privacy terms and hand specific terms visible to users on what we save and for how long, but now that I think of it, it is really for peoples benefit.
After Google's CEO's comments about privacy is only wanted by wrongdoers and their massive influence all over the internet, mobile phones and soon desktop I'm starting to think Bing might be better. Like the summary states, Google says its decisions "aren't conditioned on what competitors do" and they want to do what they want. Seems like they got huge and got piss in their head.
When credit is due, I have to give it. Bing is done correctly, and Google seems like the falling star it once was. We want privacy - give it to us.
He actually hit the nail to head with this. This is the thing most people working with IT or geeky professions miss, and why they think everything free and such is so great movement. Business DOES NOT work on mere technical things. Nothing in the world does.
This all can be really put into one line: People don't care what you do. People care about results of what you can enable them to do. If you provide that, great! If you dont and jab about "better ways" to do things while costing time and money, then.. sorry, but bye bye.
As a more slashdot friendlier terms, do you really care how a pizza place makes your pizza? No. You only care about how good it tastes when you eat it.
Like sznupi said, these are for countries that don't generally visit english sites and have their own alternatives instead. Russia has its own Facebook too. You cannot apply global stats into country specific stats, like you seem to have done.
For those interested, here's a good article on Opera's share on CIS countries: A look at desktop market share, CIS edition. They flat-out beat IE(!), firefox and all other browsers.
Actually Opera has the perfect NoScript built-in. Disable global options for whatever you feel like (noscript example is javascript) and enable it in site preferences for the sites you want to. And you can control lots of other things than just javascript too.
As far as AdBlock goes, Opera has it's equivalent. But I've got used to Ad Muncher as it has updating block lists and it works in all browsers. Full version does cost, but I have no trouble paying for a software that does it's job good and that I use daily.
I always see people touting how Opera is so much better than Firefox, yet when ever I ask them about script blocking I get blank stares. This is my killer feature.
Seems your people don't know much :)
Now don't get me wrong. I do love games that are extremely moddable and with community. The recent days I have played Blockland, which has almost fully community driven multiplayer and addons. Every server has a its own characteristic, map and gameplay. And I've enjoyed it greatly. Even started making my own map and scripting a gameplay on it because that game actually is what I always wanted as a teen, a place where you can create things, destroy things, shoot, and create your own game.
It's a great community too. Small, but good. But that's the thing most likely. Community driven things work better when they're small. MW2 is a huge game. While we would definitely see great things from customizations, I would think it would most likely be in the cost of overall fun that it is now.
Opera has built-in "NoScript". Disable javascript globally and enable it in site preferences you want to have it. Really easy. (and not just javascript - you can do the same per-site configuration with a range of things)
Opera has user javascript build-in.
Maybe it's just another successful get rich scheme? I mean, they get free advertising from OSS zealots who even pay for such advertising on newspapers like you said, they get OSS community to provide patches and ideas, while the CEO's and shareholders get the millions. It's all about how the marketing and PR makes it look, after all.