it might show that joggers are just as happy as sunbathers.
I would venture to say that joggers are as happy as sunbathers. Maybe I'm outside the norm here, but I'd rather be jogging than sunbathing. Just like I'd rather be coding than watching TV.
There is a feeling you get in the middle of a good run that is euphoric. You feel like you could run forever. It's a happy feeling.
If the pirate knew everything that you and I know, including (1) how to install, configure, and use linux, and (2) how to recover all his important files and make them work in linux, then he might consider switching to linux full-time.
Unfortunately, I don't know the profile of the average windows pirate, but I would assume that he doesn't know the things that we know, and that retaining access to the files that are important to him and the other software (office, iTunes, digital camera, etc.) that he is used to - and may have paid for - is going to outweigh the cost of purchasing windows (which is like $88).
Several years ago, my former employer (NIS) registered trademarks for the Ethereal name and logo. At the time this provided valuable legal protection for the project. Unfortunately, when I left we weren't able to come to an agreement on the trademarks and they stayed behind.
I recently surveyed the players of my game, Warband 1066, and one of the questions I asked was about their age. I had a single category for "30+", and nearly 30% of the surveyed players put themselves in that category. I had expected that most would be in the 18-24 range, and was surprised at the outcome. Over 50% were 25 or older.
Maybe I should not be that surprised - I'm 27, and I'm creating a game that I would enjoy playing. Still, I expected more college-age adults and less full-time-job adults.
I'd suggest some websites with free MMORPGs, but those have gone downhill the past couple years as well. Well, at least the ones I knew about and used frequently.
Are you talking about those turn-based browser games? If so, and you like that sort of thing, you might give my game a try. It's different from the big name browser games in that there's no link-clicking and more strategy. The link's in my sig.
Maybe, but if the article has references then you can check those sources and come to your own conclusion.
Then what good is the article? Why have an article in the first place? Maybe Wikipedia should just be a lists of links about topics? Why not just use Google?
The people that use the site must police the site.
That's the problem. The people who use the site to look up facts about something can't police that entry because they don't know the facts about that thing.
If you don't know who Ronald Reagan is, and Wikipedia tells you he was an astronaut, you can't fix it because you don't know it's wrong. Eventually someone who knows about Reagan will probably fix it, but in the mean time you believe a fallacy.
0.97 Is Jerry Garcia dead? 0.90 Did Jerry Garcia die in 1995? 0.85 Was Jerry Garcia a member of "the Grateful Dead" before he died? 0.76 Did Jerry Garcia play guitar for the Grateful Dead? 0.32 Did Jerry Garcia have 9.5 fingers?
I don't understand how it's 32% probable that Jerry Garcia had 9.5 fingers. Does that mean that, of all the Jerry Garcias in the world, 32% of them have lost half a finger? Or that Jerry Garcia of the Grateful dead had 9.5 fingers for 32% of his life?
It should be fairly trivial if you can program. You can even get a free perl interpreter (ActivePerl or something) if you don't have VisualC++ or somesuch. Put your program in the startup folder, or as a scheduled task.
The simplest would be to make a secret webpage for her and set that as her homepage in IE. Although that is trivial to change, whoever steals it (or buys the stolen thing) will probably boot it up and start IE, hitting your web page.
The bottom line IMO is that the anti copyright mob are a bunch of spineless opportunistic whiners, so I don't expect to see them forming an effective, cohesive group of any sort.
I actually agree with you here. I am for copyrights, but think that the DMCA and things like that are a little extreme.
Either way a candidate stands, for or against, it's much easier to campaign with a platform of emotional/sensational issues like abortion, Iraq, etc.
Money can buy influence, but in the end it is each "user" in that voting booth that should be throwing out those elected officials that don't respect them!
I don't think any of my elected officials even have copyright/IP issues on their platform. Even if I do vote against them because of their stand on that issue, they don't know it was because of that issue. They probably assume it was their stance on Iraq, or some other headline issue.
There are so few candidates that it's impossible to find one that I agree with on all issues. As for the states that elected the congressmen who introduce DMCA-like bills, I doubt it was because they wanted new copyright law.
More complex games, while harder to learn, usually entertain me longer than simple games. I still enjoy Starcraft, but I got bored with Bejeweled long ago.
At the same time, a complex game has to really attract my attention if I'm going to devote the time to learn it. When I started playing EQ, I was nearly overwhelmed with the learning curve. However, the premise was so inviting that I took the time to learn my way around.
Still other games just didn't look fun enough to figure out how to play.
Well, it doesn't have to be all or nothing. I didn't want to advertise my game, Warband 1066, until it had been through a few rounds of testing from my friends. They gave me valuable feedback while I honed the gameplay over a period of months. Now, while it's not finished, it is ready for a larget audience, and I have confidence that I won't chase away early adopters with a game that sucks.
So there is a gray area between keeping it hidden and telling the world.
Sez who? I use my mac all the time without modal dialog boxes and windows.
OSX supports 3 types of dialogs and 2 of them are modal - document modal, and application modal.
Those types are good ideas. System modal is generally a bad idea, except for things like logging into the system. (Logging in to something, like a remote server, should be application modal, or perhaps even document modal, depending on the application and GUI).
You can understand that by firing the original team four years ago, then hiring a new team today, you have not created any jobs for domestic programmers, right?
I didn't fire anyone. I'm just a programmer, man.
Additionally, there was no "original team." It was a new product, initially developed overseas. When they learned their lesson, they hired some domestic people to do it right.
Next time, don't assume so much. It makes *you* look like the asshat.
Funny, nowhere in the text did it say that the outsourcing company was not domestic.
True, but it doesn't much matter. My point was that outsourcing companies don't have a vested interest in the long-term success of your project, in the way that hired programmers do. The Outsourcer's job is to deliver a product by a deadline. They don't have to sell it or support it, so there is little incentive to design a solid product.
There are two main drivers for any software development project: the first is the product the customer will see. The second is the codebase that the developer and his coworkers will be maintaining and expanding for the next few years. It is possible to create software which is passable from the customer point-of-view, but a nightmare to future developers. This is the kind of product that I have seen from outsourcers.
So, yeah I assumed that the outsourcing company was foreign. But it doesn't really matter.
Outsourcers have no vested interest in the long-term success of your project. I've spent the last 4 years recreating a product from ground up because the original product that the outsourcers built sucked. It was so hard to use and error prone that it hurt the reputation of our company, and cost us a lot of money.
We almost missed the market window because of this failure, but the company put together a team of domestic programmers, on salary, who want to see the product succeed, because it is in our own best interest. We started from scratch and built it the right way, and it has entered the market successfully.
I'm sorry, but I really don't have any sympathy for you. Maybe next time you'll create jobs for domestic programmers and they'll give you a product you can actually sell.
Why publish a traditional, monthly school newspaper on the web? People don't read the web that way.
Instead, switch to the slashdot/blog format. Publish articles as they happen, and your audience will connect with your site daily and keep up with the real news as it comes out.
The only reason school newspapers come out once a month is that it takes that long to produce enough material to fill a 10-12 page print newspaper. The web doesn't have those restrictions. Just publish the news on the website as it comes out.
VoIP makes a lot of sense when your company already has frame relay to its international offices. Why pay for international telephone calls when you can do it over your existing network?
Slashdot Mirror
it might show that joggers are just as happy as sunbathers.
I would venture to say that joggers are as happy as sunbathers. Maybe I'm outside the norm here, but I'd rather be jogging than sunbathing. Just like I'd rather be coding than watching TV.
There is a feeling you get in the middle of a good run that is euphoric. You feel like you could run forever. It's a happy feeling.
Money is a suprisingly efficient motivator.
If the pirate knew everything that you and I know, including (1) how to install, configure, and use linux, and (2) how to recover all his important files and make them work in linux, then he might consider switching to linux full-time.
Unfortunately, I don't know the profile of the average windows pirate, but I would assume that he doesn't know the things that we know, and that retaining access to the files that are important to him and the other software (office, iTunes, digital camera, etc.) that he is used to - and may have paid for - is going to outweigh the cost of purchasing windows (which is like $88).
does his old job own the trademark or something?
;>
Yes, according to the article.
Several years ago, my former employer (NIS) registered trademarks for the Ethereal name and logo. At the time this provided valuable legal protection for the project. Unfortunately, when I left we weren't able to come to an agreement on the trademarks and they stayed behind.
It's a good article. You should read it.
I recently surveyed the players of my game, Warband 1066, and one of the questions I asked was about their age. I had a single category for "30+", and nearly 30% of the surveyed players put themselves in that category. I had expected that most would be in the 18-24 range, and was surprised at the outcome. Over 50% were 25 or older.
Maybe I should not be that surprised - I'm 27, and I'm creating a game that I would enjoy playing. Still, I expected more college-age adults and less full-time-job adults.
I'd suggest some websites with free MMORPGs, but those have gone downhill the past couple years as well. Well, at least the ones I knew about and used frequently.
Are you talking about those turn-based browser games? If so, and you like that sort of thing, you might give my game a try. It's different from the big name browser games in that there's no link-clicking and more strategy. The link's in my sig.
Maybe, but if the article has references then you can check those sources and come to your own conclusion.
Then what good is the article? Why have an article in the first place? Maybe Wikipedia should just be a lists of links about topics? Why not just use Google?
The people that use the site must police the site.
That's the problem. The people who use the site to look up facts about something can't police that entry because they don't know the facts about that thing.
If you don't know who Ronald Reagan is, and Wikipedia tells you he was an astronaut, you can't fix it because you don't know it's wrong. Eventually someone who knows about Reagan will probably fix it, but in the mean time you believe a fallacy.
Until we all agree on a definition of art, it's pointless to argue that something is or is not art.
The worst part about learning game design is you have to deal with players, cheaters, and customer support.
All of these are very applicable in the real world. Even if you work on a team, and do just one part of the whole, you still have to do a lot of crap.
;) Sorry, I'm a little bitter today. Play Warband 1066. A new game just started this afternoon.
We can put men on Mars, but we can't nuke a research facility from orbit?
That's like.... a bummer.
Inaccurate, and weird.
0.97 Is Jerry Garcia dead?
0.90 Did Jerry Garcia die in 1995?
0.85 Was Jerry Garcia a member of "the Grateful Dead" before he died?
0.76 Did Jerry Garcia play guitar for the Grateful Dead?
0.32 Did Jerry Garcia have 9.5 fingers?
I don't understand how it's 32% probable that Jerry Garcia had 9.5 fingers. Does that mean that, of all the Jerry Garcias in the world, 32% of them have lost half a finger? Or that Jerry Garcia of the Grateful dead had 9.5 fingers for 32% of his life?
It should be fairly trivial if you can program. You can even get a free perl interpreter (ActivePerl or something) if you don't have VisualC++ or somesuch. Put your program in the startup folder, or as a scheduled task.
The simplest would be to make a secret webpage for her and set that as her homepage in IE. Although that is trivial to change, whoever steals it (or buys the stolen thing) will probably boot it up and start IE, hitting your web page.
HP is actually going to be contributing to Ubuntu. Of course, their reason is so that they can sell laptops that work flawlessly with Ubuntu.
Still, it's pretty cool. They laptops will come with FreeDOS (no Windows!) and you can get an Ubuntu CD from HP.
The bottom line IMO is that the anti copyright mob are a bunch of spineless opportunistic whiners, so I don't expect to see them forming an effective, cohesive group of any sort.
I actually agree with you here. I am for copyrights, but think that the DMCA and things like that are a little extreme.
Either way a candidate stands, for or against, it's much easier to campaign with a platform of emotional/sensational issues like abortion, Iraq, etc.
Money can buy influence, but in the end it is each "user" in that voting booth that should be throwing out those elected officials that don't respect them!
I don't think any of my elected officials even have copyright/IP issues on their platform. Even if I do vote against them because of their stand on that issue, they don't know it was because of that issue. They probably assume it was their stance on Iraq, or some other headline issue.
There are so few candidates that it's impossible to find one that I agree with on all issues. As for the states that elected the congressmen who introduce DMCA-like bills, I doubt it was because they wanted new copyright law.
More complex games, while harder to learn, usually entertain me longer than simple games. I still enjoy Starcraft, but I got bored with Bejeweled long ago.
At the same time, a complex game has to really attract my attention if I'm going to devote the time to learn it. When I started playing EQ, I was nearly overwhelmed with the learning curve. However, the premise was so inviting that I took the time to learn my way around.
Still other games just didn't look fun enough to figure out how to play.
Well, it doesn't have to be all or nothing. I didn't want to advertise my game, Warband 1066, until it had been through a few rounds of testing from my friends. They gave me valuable feedback while I honed the gameplay over a period of months. Now, while it's not finished, it is ready for a larget audience, and I have confidence that I won't chase away early adopters with a game that sucks.
So there is a gray area between keeping it hidden and telling the world.
Sez who? I use my mac all the time without modal dialog boxes and windows.
OSX supports 3 types of dialogs and 2 of them are modal - document modal, and application modal.
Those types are good ideas. System modal is generally a bad idea, except for things like logging into the system. (Logging in to something, like a remote server, should be application modal, or perhaps even document modal, depending on the application and GUI).
My wife is a an auditor for a big-4 firm doing SOX work. Cha-ching!
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You can understand that by firing the original team four years ago, then hiring a new team today, you have not created any jobs for domestic programmers, right?
I didn't fire anyone. I'm just a programmer, man.
Additionally, there was no "original team." It was a new product, initially developed overseas. When they learned their lesson, they hired some domestic people to do it right.
Next time, don't assume so much. It makes *you* look like the asshat.
Funny, nowhere in the text did it say that the outsourcing company was not domestic.
True, but it doesn't much matter. My point was that outsourcing companies don't have a vested interest in the long-term success of your project, in the way that hired programmers do. The Outsourcer's job is to deliver a product by a deadline. They don't have to sell it or support it, so there is little incentive to design a solid product.
There are two main drivers for any software development project: the first is the product the customer will see. The second is the codebase that the developer and his coworkers will be maintaining and expanding for the next few years. It is possible to create software which is passable from the customer point-of-view, but a nightmare to future developers. This is the kind of product that I have seen from outsourcers.
So, yeah I assumed that the outsourcing company was foreign. But it doesn't really matter.
Outsourcers have no vested interest in the long-term success of your project. I've spent the last 4 years recreating a product from ground up because the original product that the outsourcers built sucked. It was so hard to use and error prone that it hurt the reputation of our company, and cost us a lot of money.
We almost missed the market window because of this failure, but the company put together a team of domestic programmers, on salary, who want to see the product succeed, because it is in our own best interest. We started from scratch and built it the right way, and it has entered the market successfully.
I'm sorry, but I really don't have any sympathy for you. Maybe next time you'll create jobs for domestic programmers and they'll give you a product you can actually sell.
Why publish a traditional, monthly school newspaper on the web? People don't read the web that way.
Instead, switch to the slashdot/blog format. Publish articles as they happen, and your audience will connect with your site daily and keep up with the real news as it comes out.
The only reason school newspapers come out once a month is that it takes that long to produce enough material to fill a 10-12 page print newspaper. The web doesn't have those restrictions. Just publish the news on the website as it comes out.
Movable Type or Wordpress should be fine.
VoIP makes a lot of sense when your company already has frame relay to its international offices. Why pay for international telephone calls when you can do it over your existing network?