Man, what I wouldn't give to be a fly on the wall in the meeting where these yahoo's go into Redmond and tell Microsoft they owe them a royalty for every version of IE, Office, and any other program that can read JPG's. They'll be lucky if Ballmer doesn't have their company bought or sued into the ground by the time they get their parking validated.
Without Flash, how else are you going to make your vaporware product which you have little or no hard information on still look professional and exciting?
The other reply is correct, too: Don't blame the tool, blame the user.
Maybe it's my age, but I'm not seeing the paragraph that says "After this is all over please return to our policy of giving out whatever information a caller should ask for". It's just heads-up to their service reps.
Hell yeah. Too bad the expansion packs to that game ruined it with the Tie Defender. Flying a ship with the firepower of a Star Destroyer and the manuverability of an A-Wing just takes all the fun out of it, no matter how many waves of X-Wings they send at you.
Sorry, but you're wrong. Think of it as a software development problem. You can throw all the money/coders in the world at a project, and it still does not guarentee they will find every bug. And with a game like this, only a few bugs could send the game into total oblivion (the dupe issue seems like the biggest one).
There WILL be hacks, dupes, and other cheats discovered and exploited in this game. There's just no question about it: It will happen. It's just a matter of how the company will deal with it.
If a contractor can save money he will, but unless he is a bad contractor (in which case he won't be around long), they won't purchase the lowest quality materials just because they are cheap. They try to find a happy medium.
This is the exact thought I had when he talks about hiring the $5k electrical contractor rather than the $15k one. Those savings won't seem so big in 10 years when you have to pay someone to re-wire your entire house because all the wire and outlets they originally put in was crap and are now a fire hazard.
BS. Lusers are called lusers for a reason. I'm not talking about every Windows user here, but all it takes is one to be a problem.
With some people, You can tell them to their face "Do not open emails from people you do not know", print it out in 124 point font banners hung over their cubicles, show them pict-o-grams of evil viruses destroying their data, bring Special Guest Star Burt Lancaster to reinforce the point, and drop by daily with the message written in icing on delicious chocolate cake. The minute you turn your back, they're off checking out the cool new Shakira screen saver someone sent them. The point is, it's still a problem, and it's not a problem you can completely solve with "30 minute training courses".
And please don't lay this all on Windows and Outlook either. Yes, there are some questionable design decisions in these programs. But if the whole world was running Linux or something similar, people would be causing problems running everything as root, or whatever other stupid things you can do to get yourself in trouble.
Do McAfee and Symantec sometimes go overboard with their warnings to sell more copies of their software? Of course they do. What company doesn't? Or did you think it was absolutely, positively necessary to see your doctor about Prilosec?
Yeah, I see you trying to justify your actions in your own mind by recalling past examples that really don't have a thing to do with the Napster situation. Oh I know, you're "fighting the good fight" against greedy corporations looking to take away your rights. Let's see if I can clarify it further for you:
Jesus - Religious Freedom, Equality of Man
Boston Tea Party - Taxation without Representation
American Revolution - Same thing, freedom from tyranny
Freeing Slaves - Equality of Man
Napster - You getting music (a luxury item) for free.
"One of these things ain't quite like the other, one of these things just doesn't belong." But whatever helps you sleep at night I guess.
Holed up in his California cocoon, Lucas seemed to fall out of touch with post-9/11 America.
Hello? He was producing a science-fiction movie. You know, A Long Time Ago in a Galaxy Far Far Away and all that? A movie that should have little or nothing to do with the real world. Nevermind the fact that the script for this movie was probably written many months, if not years, before 9-11.
What did you expect, some contrived pointless scene where all the Jedi stop and mention how the Coruscant police and firemen are the "real heroes"? Maybe they should have called Jango Fett a terrorist instead of a bounty hunter? Come on. Star Wars has nothing to do with our real world, it's escapism. Lucas doesn't have some sort of moral obligation to refer to or otherwise acknowledge real world events. It's a movie for God's sake.
The RIAA complaining about a monopoly. Heh, that just makes my day.
You really have to marvel at the arrogance of these people. They truly feel they can do whatever they want without consequence. Yeah I know, 50 years of history proves they have been able to so far, but even the dumbest dog will eventually attack it's master if it's beaten enough.
Our wireless guys pulled this off in 130 buildings over a several square kilometer area.
But what they didn't tell you is exactly how they managed to pulled it off. Let's just say that I'll be looking at a nice influx of WiFi-Tech talent in about 50-60 years. I think I'll start them off with a nice simple job at the Electronic CounterMeasures factory.
Choose Life. Choose a Master. Choose a Lightsaber. Choose a Clone Army. Choose a fucking big holo-projector, choose sonic showers, land-speeders, and electrical R2-D2 openers. Choose good health, low midichlorians, and blaster insurance. Choose fixed interest moisture farm repayments. Choose a starter smuggling ship. Choose your Jedi. Choose robes and matching sandals. Choose a three-piece body armor on hire purchase in a range of fucking alloys. Choose sitting on that Bantha-hide chair and watching mind-numbing, chain choaking slave girls, stuffing fucking slimy worms into your mouth. Choose rotting away in the belly of the Sarlack, pishing your last in a miserable home, nothing more than an embarrassment to the selfish, fucked up aprentices you spawned to kill all your breathren and take over the galaxy.
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Agreed, it's just too bad he updates once in a blue moon.
Man, what I wouldn't give to be a fly on the wall in the meeting where these yahoo's go into Redmond and tell Microsoft they owe them a royalty for every version of IE, Office, and any other program that can read JPG's. They'll be lucky if Ballmer doesn't have their company bought or sued into the ground by the time they get their parking validated.
Without Flash, how else are you going to make your vaporware product which you have little or no hard information on still look professional and exciting?
The other reply is correct, too: Don't blame the tool, blame the user.
Maybe it's my age, but I'm not seeing the paragraph that says "After this is all over please return to our policy of giving out whatever information a caller should ask for". It's just heads-up to their service reps.
Hell yeah. Too bad the expansion packs to that game ruined it with the Tie Defender. Flying a ship with the firepower of a Star Destroyer and the manuverability of an A-Wing just takes all the fun out of it, no matter how many waves of X-Wings they send at you.
You forgot to flame MS-SQL. I believe the correct position would be right after the Oracle zealot comment.
Why is it whenever I see the word "Brasil" I can't help thinking about that voice from the original Street Fighter 2 Arcade game? Go Blanka!
Sorry, but you're wrong. Think of it as a software development problem. You can throw all the money/coders in the world at a project, and it still does not guarentee they will find every bug. And with a game like this, only a few bugs could send the game into total oblivion (the dupe issue seems like the biggest one).
There WILL be hacks, dupes, and other cheats discovered and exploited in this game. There's just no question about it: It will happen. It's just a matter of how the company will deal with it.
What happend to just cancelling their service?
Turns out that our HW guys had a bug.
That actually happens a lot. You need to make sure your team has a nice balance of Soldiers, Engineers, and Snipers as well.
(Sorry, just a little TFC humor. Couldn't resist.)
Insert your Conan the Librarian or Wheel of Fish joke here.
I would never resort to such a blatant, cheap attempt at humor. Now if you'll excuse me I must go drink from the fire hose.
If a contractor can save money he will, but unless he is a bad contractor (in which case he won't be around long), they won't purchase the lowest quality materials just because they are cheap. They try to find a happy medium.
This is the exact thought I had when he talks about hiring the $5k electrical contractor rather than the $15k one. Those savings won't seem so big in 10 years when you have to pay someone to re-wire your entire house because all the wire and outlets they originally put in was crap and are now a fire hazard.
Cheaper is not always better.
BS. Lusers are called lusers for a reason. I'm not talking about every Windows user here, but all it takes is one to be a problem.
With some people, You can tell them to their face "Do not open emails from people you do not know", print it out in 124 point font banners hung over their cubicles, show them pict-o-grams of evil viruses destroying their data, bring Special Guest Star Burt Lancaster to reinforce the point, and drop by daily with the message written in icing on delicious chocolate cake. The minute you turn your back, they're off checking out the cool new Shakira screen saver someone sent them. The point is, it's still a problem, and it's not a problem you can completely solve with "30 minute training courses".
And please don't lay this all on Windows and Outlook either. Yes, there are some questionable design decisions in these programs. But if the whole world was running Linux or something similar, people would be causing problems running everything as root, or whatever other stupid things you can do to get yourself in trouble.
Do McAfee and Symantec sometimes go overboard with their warnings to sell more copies of their software? Of course they do. What company doesn't? Or did you think it was absolutely, positively necessary to see your doctor about Prilosec?
HAHAHAHAHAHA Someone is stupider than me HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA I know things you don't know HAHAHAHAHAHAHA I'm so fucking l33t it hurts my nads.
Grow up.
It used to be that companies would rarely ship a game if it was not bug free.
Wow, that's got to be the funniest thing I've read in quite some time. Thanks.
Kind of cool, but does this mean I need to start stocking up on vacuumm tubes for the Pentium 5?
See a pattern here?
Yeah, I see you trying to justify your actions in your own mind by recalling past examples that really don't have a thing to do with the Napster situation. Oh I know, you're "fighting the good fight" against greedy corporations looking to take away your rights. Let's see if I can clarify it further for you:
Jesus - Religious Freedom, Equality of Man
Boston Tea Party - Taxation without Representation
American Revolution - Same thing, freedom from tyranny
Freeing Slaves - Equality of Man
Napster - You getting music (a luxury item) for free.
"One of these things ain't quite like the other, one of these things just doesn't belong." But whatever helps you sleep at night I guess.
Holed up in his California cocoon, Lucas seemed to fall out of touch with post-9/11 America.
Hello? He was producing a science-fiction movie. You know, A Long Time Ago in a Galaxy Far Far Away and all that? A movie that should have little or nothing to do with the real world. Nevermind the fact that the script for this movie was probably written many months, if not years, before 9-11.
What did you expect, some contrived pointless scene where all the Jedi stop and mention how the Coruscant police and firemen are the "real heroes"? Maybe they should have called Jango Fett a terrorist instead of a bounty hunter? Come on. Star Wars has nothing to do with our real world, it's escapism. Lucas doesn't have some sort of moral obligation to refer to or otherwise acknowledge real world events. It's a movie for God's sake.
The RIAA complaining about a monopoly. Heh, that just makes my day.
You really have to marvel at the arrogance of these people. They truly feel they can do whatever they want without consequence. Yeah I know, 50 years of history proves they have been able to so far, but even the dumbest dog will eventually attack it's master if it's beaten enough.
Our wireless guys pulled this off in 130 buildings over a several square kilometer area.
But what they didn't tell you is exactly how they managed to pulled it off. Let's just say that I'll be looking at a nice influx of WiFi-Tech talent in about 50-60 years. I think I'll start them off with a nice simple job at the Electronic CounterMeasures factory.
Signed,
Satan
Wow, really? Because as we all know, The Register has never been anything but impartial and fair when dealing with Microsoft in the past...
When in doubt, raise concerns about terrorism, or inappropriately use 9/11 as a crutch. The new coin of Washington (both east and west it seems).
Nothing will ever be the same again indeed.
Damn, such an obvious line, can't believe I missed that one.
Choose Life. Choose a Master. Choose a Lightsaber. Choose a Clone Army. Choose a fucking big holo-projector, choose sonic showers, land-speeders, and electrical R2-D2 openers. Choose good health, low midichlorians, and blaster insurance. Choose fixed interest moisture farm repayments. Choose a starter smuggling ship. Choose your Jedi. Choose robes and matching sandals. Choose a three-piece body armor on hire purchase in a range of fucking alloys. Choose sitting on that Bantha-hide chair and watching mind-numbing, chain choaking slave girls, stuffing fucking slimy worms into your mouth. Choose rotting away in the belly of the Sarlack, pishing your last in a miserable home, nothing more than an embarrassment to the selfish, fucked up aprentices you spawned to kill all your breathren and take over the galaxy.
They're just afraid that seeing a head-butt will inspire all the soccer-hooligans in the audience to riot.
Well, that takes care of my UK-bashing for the day. Now on to the French...