Surely the better solution is to use drugs etc to control Malaria instead of make some superbug that will eventually have some supermalaria? It's not as if controlling Malaria is an expensive or unknown problem.
The publisher makes a hell of a lot more than $1 a title, and the money certainly doesn't go to the developer. The retailers take a huge chunk of it. Realistically speaking, the publisher takes the lionshare of the profit - and uses that to cover the advances made to the developer.
The reason games cost $60 is nothing to do with the cost of manufacturing anyway, the console manufacturers run a cartel and have agreed these prices.
...a friend of mine figured he could get great Google listings by autogenerating trashy link farm pages, he had the top 1000 porn search terms all cunningly mispelled, ie "Brittney Spares" and hundreds of thousands of static pages all linking into each other across a bunch of subdomains. For about a year we reckoned he had some stupid percentage of all porn listings in Google, and in that time he made around $1,000,000 from banner clicks. Eventually Google caught onto it and blocked his sites enmass, but he'd made enough to buy some property by then.
The Warhammers are different companies and publishers. Warhammer Fantasy is Mythic(DAOC)/EA. Warhammer 40K is Vigil(ex NCSoft)/THQ. Not that NCSoft US has any experience in developing MMO's really - they buy them in from third parties or the Koreans.
Fair point, however it works perfectly satisfactorily for a green field site, Windows boxes integrate perfectly well into a Domain environment - and the majority of the AD stuff can be managed perfectly well using OD.
Meh didn't read the press release, they count only active subs. I'll be one of those reactivating my account soon with the release of BC. I guess those subs figures will surge a fair bit - availability of the expansion is going to be interesting.
WoW has 8 million players true, but around half of them are in AsiaPac where the pricing model is completely different. We also don't know whether the 8 million figures are active subs or not. I personally have 2 accounts that have lapsed, do those count towards the 8 mill or not?
Britain, or more properly Great Britain is the name of the island(s) on which Scotland, Wales and England are located. The correct short name for the country itself is United Kingdom or UK.
Apple doesn't really care what you do with the hardware you purchase. To a certain extent, if you do something non sanctioned and then expect support then they do care. But yeah you're right.
Apple isn't wholly a hardware or software company - that's looking at their business in PC terms. They are an "experience" company, i would have said computer but they seemed to have dropped that. OSX is a value-add and integral part of the product they offer; they aren't in the same business as say Dell.
It depend on how much processing power you have to throw at the compression / uncompression algorithm. You can compress 1080 into way lower than that but it's computationally expensive - particularly for current consumer level set top boxes. There will be a tipping point when silicon brute force combined with network capacity allow for streamed HD content, consigning little plastic disks to the wastebin of history.
Perhaps it would have if I was taking any stance on the issue, rather than pointing out the sheer redundancy of the news item about big business paying for shills to espouse the company line. It's like running a story about the Moon continuing to orbit the Earth.
On topic, it's sheer bloody arrogance to assume that mankind isn't effecting the overall environment - climate change is obviously an emotive issue, but you just have to drive a thousand miles through heavy agricultural regions that were once plains or forests to see the human effect.
It's pretty obvious when you see those graphs of temperature vs co2 over the last 600,000 years or whatever when there is a sharp rise in atmospheric energy vs co2 that almost exactly correlates with industrialisation.
Which the grandparent hadn't even bothered to read up on. "It's a Mac it can't do those stuff". Yet OSX Server is a drop in replacement for an NT Domain server without the honerous CAL pricing (It's SAMBA/LDAP/CUPS etc etc with a decent centralised management toolset).
I don't have experience in running it in the Enterprise, but it's a very solid choice for running a SME off of - at a far lower cost than Microsoft. We had around 200 users running on OSX and Windows with roaming profiles, centralised user management, 5TB of network shares, network printing all on a couple of Tiger servers.
Yes, the hardware costs are greater - but the software costs are much much lower.
Entry level to my mind means a user facing role, desktop support or such. The single most important thing for them to have is social skills - i'd rather hire someone that the users get on with and has difficulty with the tech than someone who irritates the users enough to start complaining to managers. You can get a feel for social skills in a 10 min chat. If you have a friend in the marketing department or whatever ask them to help you out with a social appraisal. The tech side of it is easier.
...some kind of middleware, world building platform. Kosters games have consistently been sandboxes, and don't see that he will change focus on this. There were some quotes on the site about having a a couple of worlds on the back burner, and also about making frontier spaces available for players to colonize. A more game orientated second-life?
The graphic on the site certainly indicates a genre neutral social MMO.
Thats a fair point, but you have to remember that Japan signed up to those principles under protest. The problems with whale species are primarlily down to the west hunting them to extinction for oil anyway, and its not like the US gives a damn about international laws anyway.
In Britain the government were pushing for 3 months imprisonment without charge under the guise of terrorism, they settled on 1 month. A lot of US and UK citizens are disappeared into Guantanemo bay. We don't launch nukes at our own to keep them in check, but we certainly overstress the dangers of terrorism to scare the populace and justify the erosian of liberties and freedoms. Which ties into the last point about brain-washing, our governments operate and justify themselves on the platform of terror.
And whats your point? For many cultures in the world Dolphins are food, just as we in the west eat cows. Go to India, and i'm sure you'll find many people that think our wholesale butchery of cows is disgusting. Is it okay to wholesale farm / slaughter Tuna, but not to do the same to Dolphins?
I find the whole argument about protecting one animal, because its not in your societal norms to eat, but wholesale slaughtering a different species to be offensive and simplistic. Even worse was this idiot hippy hollywood kid anthromorphising Dolphins, they aren't human - and if they were then we would consider their behaviour completely unacceptable.
If the Japs want to eat dolphins then fairplay to them, we are in NO moral position to complain.
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Surely the better solution is to use drugs etc to control Malaria instead of make some superbug that will eventually have some supermalaria? It's not as if controlling Malaria is an expensive or unknown problem.
The publisher makes a hell of a lot more than $1 a title, and the money certainly doesn't go to the developer. The retailers take a huge chunk of it. Realistically speaking, the publisher takes the lionshare of the profit - and uses that to cover the advances made to the developer.
The reason games cost $60 is nothing to do with the cost of manufacturing anyway, the console manufacturers run a cartel and have agreed these prices.
...a friend of mine figured he could get great Google listings by autogenerating trashy link farm pages, he had the top 1000 porn search terms all cunningly mispelled, ie "Brittney Spares" and hundreds of thousands of static pages all linking into each other across a bunch of subdomains. For about a year we reckoned he had some stupid percentage of all porn listings in Google, and in that time he made around $1,000,000 from banner clicks. Eventually Google caught onto it and blocked his sites enmass, but he'd made enough to buy some property by then.
The Warhammers are different companies and publishers. Warhammer Fantasy is Mythic(DAOC)/EA. Warhammer 40K is Vigil(ex NCSoft)/THQ. Not that NCSoft US has any experience in developing MMO's really - they buy them in from third parties or the Koreans.
That's inane. Windows knows that a PHP file is a text file because you opened it in notepad once or whatever.
Boxed my 600 for a few years, when I came back to it the metal components had rusted. It's in a landfill somewhere now.
Couple of pints of beer, sets you up in the way no other breakfast can. You fall asleep again for another 4 hours.
Fair point, however it works perfectly satisfactorily for a green field site, Windows boxes integrate perfectly well into a Domain environment - and the majority of the AD stuff can be managed perfectly well using OD.
Meh didn't read the press release, they count only active subs. I'll be one of those reactivating my account soon with the release of BC. I guess those subs figures will surge a fair bit - availability of the expansion is going to be interesting.
WoW has 8 million players true, but around half of them are in AsiaPac where the pricing model is completely different. We also don't know whether the 8 million figures are active subs or not. I personally have 2 accounts that have lapsed, do those count towards the 8 mill or not?
nitpicking.
Britain, or more properly Great Britain is the name of the island(s) on which Scotland, Wales and England are located. The correct short name for the country itself is United Kingdom or UK.
Apple isn't wholly a hardware or software company - that's looking at their business in PC terms. They are an "experience" company, i would have said computer but they seemed to have dropped that. OSX is a value-add and integral part of the product they offer; they aren't in the same business as say Dell.
It depend on how much processing power you have to throw at the compression / uncompression algorithm. You can compress 1080 into way lower than that but it's computationally expensive - particularly for current consumer level set top boxes. There will be a tipping point when silicon brute force combined with network capacity allow for streamed HD content, consigning little plastic disks to the wastebin of history.
Perhaps it would have if I was taking any stance on the issue, rather than pointing out the sheer redundancy of the news item about big business paying for shills to espouse the company line. It's like running a story about the Moon continuing to orbit the Earth.
On topic, it's sheer bloody arrogance to assume that mankind isn't effecting the overall environment - climate change is obviously an emotive issue, but you just have to drive a thousand miles through heavy agricultural regions that were once plains or forests to see the human effect.
It's pretty obvious when you see those graphs of temperature vs co2 over the last 600,000 years or whatever when there is a sharp rise in atmospheric energy vs co2 that almost exactly correlates with industrialisation.
Big business lobbies to protect its interests!
Which the grandparent hadn't even bothered to read up on. "It's a Mac it can't do those stuff". Yet OSX Server is a drop in replacement for an NT Domain server without the honerous CAL pricing (It's SAMBA/LDAP/CUPS etc etc with a decent centralised management toolset).
http://www.apple.com/server/macosx/
$499 for 10 users, $999 for unlimited.
http://www.apple.com/xserve/raid/
Very competitive pricing.
I don't have experience in running it in the Enterprise, but it's a very solid choice for running a SME off of - at a far lower cost than Microsoft. We had around 200 users running on OSX and Windows with roaming profiles, centralised user management, 5TB of network shares, network printing all on a couple of Tiger servers.
Yes, the hardware costs are greater - but the software costs are much much lower.
Entry level to my mind means a user facing role, desktop support or such. The single most important thing for them to have is social skills - i'd rather hire someone that the users get on with and has difficulty with the tech than someone who irritates the users enough to start complaining to managers. You can get a feel for social skills in a 10 min chat. If you have a friend in the marketing department or whatever ask them to help you out with a social appraisal. The tech side of it is easier.
Whats with this Meme?
...some kind of middleware, world building platform. Kosters games have consistently been sandboxes, and don't see that he will change focus on this. There were some quotes on the site about having a a couple of worlds on the back burner, and also about making frontier spaces available for players to colonize. A more game orientated second-life?
The graphic on the site certainly indicates a genre neutral social MMO.
Thats a fair point, but you have to remember that Japan signed up to those principles under protest. The problems with whale species are primarlily down to the west hunting them to extinction for oil anyway, and its not like the US gives a damn about international laws anyway.
It's not as farfetched as you seem to think.
In Britain the government were pushing for 3 months imprisonment without charge under the guise of terrorism, they settled on 1 month. A lot of US and UK citizens are disappeared into Guantanemo bay. We don't launch nukes at our own to keep them in check, but we certainly overstress the dangers of terrorism to scare the populace and justify the erosian of liberties and freedoms. Which ties into the last point about brain-washing, our governments operate and justify themselves on the platform of terror.
And whats your point? For many cultures in the world Dolphins are food, just as we in the west eat cows. Go to India, and i'm sure you'll find many people that think our wholesale butchery of cows is disgusting. Is it okay to wholesale farm / slaughter Tuna, but not to do the same to Dolphins?
I find the whole argument about protecting one animal, because its not in your societal norms to eat, but wholesale slaughtering a different species to be offensive and simplistic. Even worse was this idiot hippy hollywood kid anthromorphising Dolphins, they aren't human - and if they were then we would consider their behaviour completely unacceptable.
If the Japs want to eat dolphins then fairplay to them, we are in NO moral position to complain.
Dont worry, Tuna is nearing extinction also.