That is not a game. That is an animation with a truly stupid caption. It would need to be reasonably complicated for it to qualify, at least as complicated as checkers.
The problem with web based advertising is that no one is going to go to the trouble of jumping online just to click banner ads. For that matter, no one actually watches TV to see commercials either.
The difference is that with the internet, the user gets to choose what content he is looking at. When watching TV, they can show a commercial, and you cannot choose to skip it.
The Ad companies have to figure out that no one wants to clik on banner ads, and no one will visit a site where the ads become intrusive.
A better form of advertising would be to try to make the ads more like games. Put in game textures of logo's on Quake maps. If the level is fun to play in, no one will really care too much that there is a giant bloody pepsi logo in the center of the court yard. If the ad was actually fun to interact with, then it would get attention.
The new series is quite different from the other Star Trek series in many ways. And I will say that it is a good thing. They did quite a few things right.
First, the technology was appropriate to the timeframe. The ship has a maximum speed of about Warp 4. The warp core looks primitive. The medical techniques look primitive. There is no universal translater, just a linguist.
Another element they got right was the distrust between the Vulcans and Humans. Some posters have already complained about the rehashing of the "Emotionless Vulcans vs Irrational Humans". That will be a factor, but the issue is larger then that. The distrust between the two races goes beyond the emotion vs logic debate. The humans see the Vulcans as being restrictive and patronizing. And the Vulcans are somewhat racist. The role of the Vulcans is very close to that of a colonizing authority as in the British of the 18th century. An intresting side effect is that the humans are currently in the role of one of the many background races that really does not matter in the greater scheme of things.
They will have to be careful though if they wish to do better the Voyager did. They cannot fall back too often on "Sexy Exotic Alien Softcore" before they alienate too many long time fans. And the temporal villians are something else to be cautious with. It will allow the series to explain some deviations in continuity, but they must avoid breaking all continuity with the other series.
This pilot was stronger then the TNG and DS9 pilots. And Trek shows tend to take a while to 'hit their stride'. It will be a few weeks before I come to a conclusion, but the series is off to a good start.
Worf's comment in the DS9 tribble episode was intended as a non-explanation, and is meaningless. He did not actually say something happened to change the appearance of the Klingons. He merely said "we do not speak of it".
As for the decontamination scene, it was one of two things. Either they are setting up for a long term arc where the Vulcan and the first officer beome romantically involved, or it was just a cheap grab for attention. If it was just a cheap grab for attention, then I say that it is disappointing, but not too suprising.
Universtiy tuition and other related costs will typically add up to about$5000. A computer and decent connection will cost about $1000. This indicates a basic lack of inteligence, but being an idiot is not yet illegal. And as long as the instructor is still being paid, then why care about this?
So therefore, I am indeed enjoying my job. I specifically went out of my way to get a job in the videogame industry specifically because I wanted a job that I would enjoy. I could make more money doing other kinds of work, but then life would suck.
At this time, I program videogame and get paid for it. My life most emphatically does not suck. When people do ask me what I do for a reason, I cannot answer the question without gloating. To me, this is the definition of success.
A few years back, a programmer working on Ultima Online was fired for selling in game items on e-bay. He would create the accounts on the server, stack in a few of the requested items, and then sell them.
It could turn into an extra revenue stream for the developers if used very carefully, but such a thing would eventually destroy the game for average players. And here is another question for you to consider. Is it illegal for a hacker to create these items using a bug or hack, and then sell them for cash? And of course, I mean outside of the legality issues of hacking onto the servers in the first place.
Sony is a Japanese company. Does the US Legal system really have much right to tell a Japanese company what technologies it can and cannot develop?
The only reasons I can think of for Sony to comply are Japanese surrender terms from World War 2, or trade agreements that would get Sony to recognize US patents. In that case, it would be the Japanese Govt who should be enforcing this, not the US courts.
Its much like the choice to support AMD's 3DNOW or Intel's SIMD instructions. If you use DirectX 8 or OpenGL, the issue is usually dealt with by the graphics library and the card drivers. Some bleeding edge features are initially only supportible by writing specific code, but that is the exception.
One of the primary reasons that Linux users give for using Linux is that they dont have to shell out a few hundred dollars on operating systems and other apps.
So how many Linux users actually spend money on Linux Applications?
I graduated DigiPen. There was exactly one SNES related course, and that was because they had some Dev Kit's for it. (As it is, the SNES is not too different from the Gamboy color and the Gameboy Advance, though that was the course that revealed to me the simple fact that I do not want to work at the Assembly level for any length of time if I can avoid it). And DigiPen is not only for US students. It is for anyone who can afford the tuition and living costs. Also, I have yet to work on a Nintendo Console, though I would not mind the chance to do so.
At the time I graduated, there were plans for the new course to incorporate more recent console tech. Though I cannot speak with any accuracy on what they teach now.
As for how much weight A DigiPen diploma carries, it varies. Some companies hired DigiPen grads, liked what they got, and hired more. Others did not like what they got, and those companies did not hire more.
Since I am currently employed and truly love my job, I have to say that for me, DigiPen was a great choice.
And as for the primary thread, I can say the following. The one thing that helps for getting a job as a designer is knowledge of a wide range of games.
First, I say that the author is a bit on the bitter side, or the stupid side of things. As fun as company Orgies can be, they are simply a dangerous and bad idea. If one Asshole had chosen to sue WotC at that time, they could have probably managed to clean it out. The CEO simply managed to make good, and as often happens, he is told that he sold out.
On the other end of things, one thing that always suprises/pisses me off is the following scenario. Company A lisences out a product to Company B. Comany B uses that liscense effectively, and manages to make a shitload of money. Company A tires to use its liscence to do the same thing, failing to realize they are too fucking stupid to have the same success doing that same thing.
Rare made GoldenEye for the N64. That game is legendary. MGM then chose to have its internal dev teams follow up, or liscened out the property to other companies on terms undoubtedly more favorable to its self. Those games are not legendary.
It is my one profound hope that the people who run Hasbro realize that WotC knows a whole hell of alot more about D&D then they do, and simply give them a budget, and otherwise turn their backs on the process. I also hope that the statements made in the article are false, and that BioWare will continue to develop D&D based games. Hasbro is big and it has alot of money, but having more money then someone else does not mean you know more then they do.
Sony already knows that it blew it with its PS2. The thing is too difficult to develop for. However, they are not doing them selves a favor by hyping the PS2. What they should be doing is cranking out some decent developer libraries for the machine.
But that wont happen. Not only has Sony made the machine hard to develop for, now they are afraid that the XBox is going to kill their system anyway. And to think that Microsofts initial fear was that they were afraid Sony would turn the PS2 into an all in one internet appliance, DVD player and game machine. It makes me laugh.
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DS9, Gul Dukat was not a one dimensional badguy. Not by much, but he then, not all villians need to be. He was truly a hate worthy and well developed villian and lasted for the duration of the series.
And as far as the Quality of various episodes of Trek, well, it actually ends up rougly average with the rest of the drek that is on TV these days.
Nothing pisses me off more then people who try to make them selves sound somehow educated and inteligent then by trashing this movie or that series. Either you like it enough to watch it, or not. I will admit that some people will express frustration when a long running series is not living up to expectations, but that is no reason to kill the franchise.
After all, why the hell do you think they choose to launch a new series rather then continue an existing one? Yes, they recycle material, but mostly because much of that material is relevant to the back story of the given universe. And, yes, nothing horribly bad seems to have lasting effect because much of Trek is in an idealized utopian and tolerant society. So its difficult to create stories with internal conflict as the focus while remaining consistent with the established universe.
Roddenberry is dead. Trek is not going to be the same as it was when he was alive. It could be better then it is, but that is not such a good reason to continually harp about how much you miss the "Glory Days".
Watch Evil Dead 2 and Army of Darkness. The movie came before the Duke, and most of the one liners in Duke that I am aware of came from these movies.
Some of the better quotes Ash:
"Good, Bad, Im the guy with the Gun"
"This... is my BOOM STICK"
"Give me some Sugar Baby"
"Hail to the King, Baby"
"Klatu, Veratam Nicghghgmmnngh"
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I am able to distinguish between movies that are good and movies that I liked or enjoyed watching. Movies like D&D are not meant to be good movies. Its nice when they suprise you, but that is simply not what it was meant to be in this case. I find it hard to beleive that anyone would have paid to see D&D expecting it to be a a good movie.
The Snails character is not the type that shows up in Academy award winning movies. Comedy releif that relys on a character having the inteligence or common sense of a sack of hammers is not the mark of high art. How anyone could have seen his character in the commercials, then paid to see the movie, and walked away with a feeling of disgust should be hit.
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Actually, I can see some schools taking advantage of this. Most typical schools have a fair number of computers in their computer labs that are generally only in use from 8:00am to 3:30 pm. They could sign up with Process Tree, and use the cash to suppliment their budget.
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It is not the fault of the fortunate that your ancestors were either too stupid to make a fortune or not strong enough to keep others from taking it from them. No one can be blamed for the potential stupidity of anothers parents. And in the event your ancestors riches were taken from them, then it is not everyone's fault that it happened. Only the people who took it are responsible.
Copyright or Patents are meant to be a guarantee that Mental Labor has an intrinsic value, even if it is not as tangible as Physical Labor. Those purposes are not evil. That the laws can be abused is simply the fault of the law makers.
Not everyone is going to be motivated to benefit the entire human race, and I am not exactly sure that it should. I dont think it is right for someone with the inteligence and creativity of a pile of fecal matter to be able to benefit by taking someone elses work and selling it as their own.
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The reason these laws are passed is because no parent wants their 5 or 8 year old child watching the graphic display of a man writhing in pain and screaming while bleeding out after having his testicles blown off by a high power machine gun. The people who protest game violence are quite literally *your* parents, assuming your my age (21). I was 5 when I got into gaming, starting with pretty tame PackMan and BurgerTime games on Intelivision. Mario Bros. 1 for the NES took over when it came out. My parents think of games as being for 5 to 8 year olds. Soldier of Fortune is not a game for 5 to eight year olds. Every review of that game basically says 2 things about this game. First, the degree violence is offensive even to people used to defending game violence. Second, the game is just not that much fun once the novelty of the violence wears off. Most parents dont take too much time to look at a game if they are not buying it for themselves. They just pick it up, and then sh*t themselves when they get a look at their kids laughing at a man whose insides are twiching outside of the body the belong to. Such parents do not want their kids playing these games at arcades. The simplest way to do this is to have a law passed making this not possible. Its much easier then watching your kids actions 24/7. The only reason that the age is at 18 years is because some parents are more restrictive then others. END COMMUNICATION
I honestly hope this happens. I have absolutly no problem with huge corporate monopolies as long as they cannot pass and enforce laws directly. I remember a few years back some polititions in the US were getting pissed off because Walmart was selling pajamas made in Cuba in its Canadian stores. The US was arguing that Walmart should not do this because it was an american company. The end result is that Walmart is probably still selling those pajamas. Its not easy for one country to enforce its laws on another countrys soil if that country chooses not to co-operate. The options left are to either let the issue drop or call in the army. If Microsoft does move to Canada, then it will probably remain as one company, though its operating methods will probably be monitored differently here (in canada) then in the US. END COMMUNICATION
Just becuase the empasis moves from product to service does not mean the end of buggy crapware. AOL is a service, and it really sucks. A service or product is only as good as its priorities allow. Windows is intended to be mass market, and easy to use. It does this so well that Windows may yet be broken up over it. The priorities of Linux/BSD and others are in stability and functionality. There is so much functionality that the average user does not need most of it. The same will apply to any service. The service that is easiest to obtain, use, and maintain will usually win, even if something better is out there. The only real advantage that most Open Source products have to that end is that they are usually free. A free service is not profitable to provide unless it guarantees a market for a product, and a fee product is only profitiable if it creates a market for a service. As long as there is profit, there will be Suits.
So the idea of private/protected is to minimize the amount of info an "external" programmer is depending on, and to use "get and set" functions instead. Ok, so what if you remove the variables at a later date anyway? The functions then have nothing worthwhile to return. For purely internal values that "external" programmers do not/should not require access to, then yes, private is a good use. But if that value is needed outside the class, but shouldnt be changed outside the class, then why not allow for an access specifier that exposes the member to other classes, but does not allow other classes to change it? The only awkwardness is that a function declared under such a specifier would be conceptually strange. END COMMUNICATION
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That is not a game. That is an animation with a truly stupid caption. It would need to be reasonably complicated for it to qualify, at least as complicated as checkers.
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The problem with web based advertising is that no one is going to go to the trouble of jumping online just to click banner ads. For that matter, no one actually watches TV to see commercials either.
The difference is that with the internet, the user gets to choose what content he is looking at. When watching TV, they can show a commercial, and you cannot choose to skip it.
The Ad companies have to figure out that no one wants to clik on banner ads, and no one will visit a site where the ads become intrusive.
A better form of advertising would be to try to make the ads more like games. Put in game textures of logo's on Quake maps. If the level is fun to play in, no one will really care too much that there is a giant bloody pepsi logo in the center of the court yard. If the ad was actually fun to interact with, then it would get attention.
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The new series is quite different from the other Star Trek series in many ways. And I will say that it is a good thing. They did quite a few things right.
First, the technology was appropriate to the timeframe. The ship has a maximum speed of about Warp 4. The warp core looks primitive. The medical techniques look primitive. There is no universal translater, just a linguist.
Another element they got right was the distrust between the Vulcans and Humans. Some posters have already complained about the rehashing of the "Emotionless Vulcans vs Irrational Humans". That will be a factor, but the issue is larger then that. The distrust between the two races goes beyond the emotion vs logic debate. The humans see the Vulcans as being restrictive and patronizing. And the Vulcans are somewhat racist. The role of the Vulcans is very close to that of a colonizing authority as in the British of the 18th century. An intresting side effect is that the humans are currently in the role of one of the many background races that really does not matter in the greater scheme of things.
They will have to be careful though if they wish to do better the Voyager did. They cannot fall back too often on "Sexy Exotic Alien Softcore" before they alienate too many long time fans. And the temporal villians are something else to be cautious with. It will allow the series to explain some deviations in continuity, but they must avoid breaking all continuity with the other series.
This pilot was stronger then the TNG and DS9 pilots. And Trek shows tend to take a while to 'hit their stride'. It will be a few weeks before I come to a conclusion, but the series is off to a good start.
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Worf's comment in the DS9 tribble episode was intended as a non-explanation, and is meaningless. He did not actually say something happened to change the appearance of the Klingons. He merely said "we do not speak of it".
As for the decontamination scene, it was one of two things. Either they are setting up for a long term arc where the Vulcan and the first officer beome romantically involved, or it was just a cheap grab for attention. If it was just a cheap grab for attention, then I say that it is disappointing, but not too suprising.
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Universtiy tuition and other related costs will typically add up to about$5000. A computer and decent connection will cost about $1000. This indicates a basic lack of inteligence, but being an idiot is not yet illegal. And as long as the instructor is still being paid, then why care about this?
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So therefore, I am indeed enjoying my job. I specifically went out of my way to get a job in the videogame industry specifically because I wanted a job that I would enjoy. I could make more money doing other kinds of work, but then life would suck.
At this time, I program videogame and get paid for it. My life most emphatically does not suck. When people do ask me what I do for a reason, I cannot answer the question without gloating. To me, this is the definition of success.
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A few years back, a programmer working on Ultima Online was fired for selling in game items on e-bay. He would create the accounts on the server, stack in a few of the requested items, and then sell them.
It could turn into an extra revenue stream for the developers if used very carefully, but such a thing would eventually destroy the game for average players. And here is another question for you to consider. Is it illegal for a hacker to create these items using a bug or hack, and then sell them for cash? And of course, I mean outside of the legality issues of hacking onto the servers in the first place.
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Sony is a Japanese company. Does the US Legal system really have much right to tell a Japanese company what technologies it can and cannot develop?
The only reasons I can think of for Sony to comply are Japanese surrender terms from World War 2, or trade agreements that would get Sony to recognize US patents. In that case, it would be the Japanese Govt who should be enforcing this, not the US courts.
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Its much like the choice to support AMD's 3DNOW or Intel's SIMD instructions. If you use DirectX 8 or OpenGL, the issue is usually dealt with by the graphics library and the card drivers. Some bleeding edge features are initially only supportible by writing specific code, but that is the exception.
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One of the primary reasons that Linux users give for using Linux is that they dont have to shell out a few hundred dollars on operating systems and other apps.
So how many Linux users actually spend money on Linux Applications?
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I graduated DigiPen. There was exactly one SNES related course, and that was because they had some Dev Kit's for it. (As it is, the SNES is not too different from the Gamboy color and the Gameboy Advance, though that was the course that revealed to me the simple fact that I do not want to work at the Assembly level for any length of time if I can avoid it). And DigiPen is not only for US students. It is for anyone who can afford the tuition and living costs. Also, I have yet to work on a Nintendo Console, though I would not mind the chance to do so.
At the time I graduated, there were plans for the new course to incorporate more recent console tech. Though I cannot speak with any accuracy on what they teach now.
As for how much weight A DigiPen diploma carries, it varies. Some companies hired DigiPen grads, liked what they got, and hired more. Others did not like what they got, and those companies did not hire more.
Since I am currently employed and truly love my job, I have to say that for me, DigiPen was a great choice.
And as for the primary thread, I can say the following. The one thing that helps for getting a job as a designer is knowledge of a wide range of games.
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First, I say that the author is a bit on the bitter side, or the stupid side of things. As fun as company Orgies can be, they are simply a dangerous and bad idea. If one Asshole had chosen to sue WotC at that time, they could have probably managed to clean it out. The CEO simply managed to make good, and as often happens, he is told that he sold out.
On the other end of things, one thing that always suprises/pisses me off is the following scenario. Company A lisences out a product to Company B. Comany B uses that liscense effectively, and manages to make a shitload of money. Company A tires to use its liscence to do the same thing, failing to realize they are too fucking stupid to have the same success doing that same thing.
Rare made GoldenEye for the N64. That game is legendary. MGM then chose to have its internal dev teams follow up, or liscened out the property to other companies on terms undoubtedly more favorable to its self. Those games are not legendary.
It is my one profound hope that the people who run Hasbro realize that WotC knows a whole hell of alot more about D&D then they do, and simply give them a budget, and otherwise turn their backs on the process. I also hope that the statements made in the article are false, and that BioWare will continue to develop D&D based games. Hasbro is big and it has alot of money, but having more money then someone else does not mean you know more then they do.
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Sony already knows that it blew it with its PS2. The thing is too difficult to develop for. However, they are not doing them selves a favor by hyping the PS2. What they should be doing is cranking out some decent developer libraries for the machine. But that wont happen. Not only has Sony made the machine hard to develop for, now they are afraid that the XBox is going to kill their system anyway. And to think that Microsofts initial fear was that they were afraid Sony would turn the PS2 into an all in one internet appliance, DVD player and game machine. It makes me laugh. END COMMUNICATION
DS9, Gul Dukat was not a one dimensional badguy. Not by much, but he then, not all villians need to be. He was truly a hate worthy and well developed villian and lasted for the duration of the series.
And as far as the Quality of various episodes of Trek, well, it actually ends up rougly average with the rest of the drek that is on TV these days.
Nothing pisses me off more then people who try to make them selves sound somehow educated and inteligent then by trashing this movie or that series. Either you like it enough to watch it, or not. I will admit that some people will express frustration when a long running series is not living up to expectations, but that is no reason to kill the franchise.
After all, why the hell do you think they choose to launch a new series rather then continue an existing one? Yes, they recycle material, but mostly because much of that material is relevant to the back story of the given universe. And, yes, nothing horribly bad seems to have lasting effect because much of Trek is in an idealized utopian and tolerant society. So its difficult to create stories with internal conflict as the focus while remaining consistent with the established universe.
Roddenberry is dead. Trek is not going to be the same as it was when he was alive. It could be better then it is, but that is not such a good reason to continually harp about how much you miss the "Glory Days".
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Watch Evil Dead 2 and Army of Darkness. The movie came before the Duke, and most of the one liners in Duke that I am aware of came from these movies. Some of the better quotes Ash: "Good, Bad, Im the guy with the Gun" "This... is my BOOM STICK" "Give me some Sugar Baby" "Hail to the King, Baby" "Klatu, Veratam Nicghghgmmnngh" END COMMUNICATION
I am able to distinguish between movies that are good and movies that I liked or enjoyed watching. Movies like D&D are not meant to be good movies. Its nice when they suprise you, but that is simply not what it was meant to be in this case. I find it hard to beleive that anyone would have paid to see D&D expecting it to be a a good movie. The Snails character is not the type that shows up in Academy award winning movies. Comedy releif that relys on a character having the inteligence or common sense of a sack of hammers is not the mark of high art. How anyone could have seen his character in the commercials, then paid to see the movie, and walked away with a feeling of disgust should be hit. END COMMUNICATION
Actually, I can see some schools taking advantage of this. Most typical schools have a fair number of computers in their computer labs that are generally only in use from 8:00am to 3:30 pm. They could sign up with Process Tree, and use the cash to suppliment their budget. END COMMUNICATION
It is not the fault of the fortunate that your ancestors were either too stupid to make a fortune or not strong enough to keep others from taking it from them. No one can be blamed for the potential stupidity of anothers parents. And in the event your ancestors riches were taken from them, then it is not everyone's fault that it happened. Only the people who took it are responsible. Copyright or Patents are meant to be a guarantee that Mental Labor has an intrinsic value, even if it is not as tangible as Physical Labor. Those purposes are not evil. That the laws can be abused is simply the fault of the law makers. Not everyone is going to be motivated to benefit the entire human race, and I am not exactly sure that it should. I dont think it is right for someone with the inteligence and creativity of a pile of fecal matter to be able to benefit by taking someone elses work and selling it as their own. END COMMUNICATION
The reason these laws are passed is because no parent wants their 5 or 8 year old child watching the graphic display of a man writhing in pain and screaming while bleeding out after having his testicles blown off by a high power machine gun. The people who protest game violence are quite literally *your* parents, assuming your my age (21). I was 5 when I got into gaming, starting with pretty tame PackMan and BurgerTime games on Intelivision. Mario Bros. 1 for the NES took over when it came out. My parents think of games as being for 5 to 8 year olds. Soldier of Fortune is not a game for 5 to eight year olds. Every review of that game basically says 2 things about this game. First, the degree violence is offensive even to people used to defending game violence. Second, the game is just not that much fun once the novelty of the violence wears off. Most parents dont take too much time to look at a game if they are not buying it for themselves. They just pick it up, and then sh*t themselves when they get a look at their kids laughing at a man whose insides are twiching outside of the body the belong to. Such parents do not want their kids playing these games at arcades. The simplest way to do this is to have a law passed making this not possible. Its much easier then watching your kids actions 24/7. The only reason that the age is at 18 years is because some parents are more restrictive then others. END COMMUNICATION
I honestly hope this happens. I have absolutly no problem with huge corporate monopolies as long as they cannot pass and enforce laws directly. I remember a few years back some polititions in the US were getting pissed off because Walmart was selling pajamas made in Cuba in its Canadian stores. The US was arguing that Walmart should not do this because it was an american company. The end result is that Walmart is probably still selling those pajamas. Its not easy for one country to enforce its laws on another countrys soil if that country chooses not to co-operate. The options left are to either let the issue drop or call in the army. If Microsoft does move to Canada, then it will probably remain as one company, though its operating methods will probably be monitored differently here (in canada) then in the US. END COMMUNICATION
Just becuase the empasis moves from product to service does not mean the end of buggy crapware. AOL is a service, and it really sucks. A service or product is only as good as its priorities allow. Windows is intended to be mass market, and easy to use. It does this so well that Windows may yet be broken up over it. The priorities of Linux/BSD and others are in stability and functionality. There is so much functionality that the average user does not need most of it. The same will apply to any service. The service that is easiest to obtain, use, and maintain will usually win, even if something better is out there. The only real advantage that most Open Source products have to that end is that they are usually free. A free service is not profitable to provide unless it guarantees a market for a product, and a fee product is only profitiable if it creates a market for a service. As long as there is profit, there will be Suits.
So the idea of private/protected is to minimize the amount of info an "external" programmer is depending on, and to use "get and set" functions instead. Ok, so what if you remove the variables at a later date anyway? The functions then have nothing worthwhile to return. For purely internal values that "external" programmers do not /should not require access to, then yes, private is a good use. But if that value is needed outside the class, but shouldnt be changed outside the class, then why not allow for an access specifier that exposes the member to other classes, but does not allow other classes to change it? The only awkwardness is that a function declared under such a specifier would be conceptually strange. END COMMUNICATION
Why do these keywords make the members for the class that they apply to completly inaccessable rather then simply unchangeable?
If the language could have been set up to allow other parts of a program to look at them but not change them (much like a const), then why wasnt it?