Bullshit its exactly the same thing, and to know and let such a thing occur is morally corrupt. Of course the worlds sense of morality is seriously skewed these days anyway.
I know they make there money doing the virus defense business, however if they really knew and didn't bother to alert the world to this threat, they right up there with Sadam and company in my book. This is gross criminal negligence in my book, if my company was heavly affected I'd take 'em to court!
They used to be one of the best....used to be pretty much any game I bought was Origin, Bullfrog, Sierra(et al), or Blizzard...well we all know whats happened... I really miss Origin...Lucas Arts has me placated for a while with the X-wing and Tie games, but they seem to have abandoned the space shooter...I am just itching for a good space Shooter like wing commander again, but alas....
Perhaps its time that the running of the internet be taken out of any one nations hands. Perhaps the correct solution is to no longer leave the controlling body's in the hands of the US. Perhaps the running of the internet should become a United Nations function?
Sounds like everything wrong with UO
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....the curious part from what I have read is it sounds like everything thats wrong is exactly what was/is wrong with UO since it was launched...has EA learned nothing?
I have never played the sims but I have thought about it, I have friends that love the game and had hoped to join in when it went online, but it sounds to me like I might not bother now...I had also thought that it was going to be anoportunity to take an already well developed sim charter and move him into a larger world thta sounds as well like its not true.
Maybe its time to really shake things up...all through DS9 they sort of pointed to the Federation being on the verge of colapse...
Maybe its time that happened, perhaps we need to have "Star Trek:It all goes to Hell!"
I think its also about time they started thinking along the lines of what shows were the best...do those point to good movie Ideas...lets face it ST:II was just an extention of one of the best series episodes....
We had the Borg in a movie that was good, the best of the NG movies in fact...perhaps we need a "Q" movie.
Or maybe an Updating of the Genesis stuff would make a good Movie?
How about Mirror Universe? The NG has never delt with mirror universe except in books...(Deep Space 9 did, but thats not NG)
Maybe some of the cooler bad guys from Delta Quadrant found a way to follow Voyager?
Its just another ugly effect of the way the US economy works... 1. Get Educated 2. Get Hired 3. Want enough money from your job to have a life 4. Cost of things you want is driven by the cost of the people who work for the people that sell the things you want 5. Need a job that pays for the things you want. 6. Can't get that demand lower prices 7. the people that sell the things you want need to sell them cheaper 7a. your one of the people that works for the people that sell the things that other people want. 8. They need the people, of whom you are one, that make the things (real, or ethereal like code) they make to make them cheaper 9. Outsourcing of american jobs in your realm happens. 10 Start back at (1.)
It brings up the more interesting question: Is there actually a shift going on where what were once white collar jobs are really now blue collar jobs? Is todays web admin really more a job that lines up with the assembly line worker of old, a job that has gotten exported over time?
I was going to reply to this, but the others who have already summed up the problem so well that I have nothing to add of value.
Oh and by the way I am a programmer English sentence structure doesn't matter a bit in my world so who cares! However since you asked, in addition to my sciences classes I also minored in English.
I am with you and I do understand, I am ADD and always will be the problem doesn't go away, but it can be trained to be suppressed. I am also dyslexic(I swear that word exists to prove the condition...if you really are it takes 20 minutes to spell it:>), and never learned to read until the 3rd grade and not well till I was in the middle of the fourth. I can offer advise on how I got through...I am not the attacking type especially since I know i face this with my own children...
My parents had a hard rule nothing distracting in my bedroom...no TV, no video games, I had music and my toys and such but nothing that might be a deterant to learning my lesson, if I got sent there.
Homework had to be done, no questions about it and they had to see it...if they found out I had not done homework I got grounded in my room end of story. I lived in fear of a teacher calling and rating me out which did happen....
I screwed up so bad once that I was doing math problems for a week instead of anything else, NO TV, come stright home, do homework or do the math problems(we were learning multiplication so the only way I could get off grounding for not doing my homework was writting the tables from 1 - 100)
In the case of reading assignments there was no arguing, if I didn't do it I got locked in my room till I did, and if I did anything but read I got locked in there longer...the lesson do what you have to then you can do what you want to!
Help him organize, and reward good organization...after the homework is done, make sure its packed into the bookbag...stuff like that...i was an organizational mess (still am really, but I learned to concentrate on getting the important things in the right place)
ADD(etc) is not a crutch, it will not go away, it has to be trained around. Its not going to work in the real world(tm) so don't let it be an excuse in school. My parents never filled me in on the problems I had, but they knew and made me work through them...
If i was good then i knew that after school while the sun was still out I was going to be able to see my friends, ride my bike etc, but after dinner 6:00pm or so...it was homework time and if I wanted to watch TV before Bed (which was quite early so I didn't have much time)...it had to get done, no arguements...the only way I was going to be up past my bed time was to finish homework...which by the way broke down like {k-4 8:00pm -9:00pm, 8 being more typical I don't think I really watched prime time TV till Middle school) (5-8 9:00pm-10pm...10 was a very special night and a real long shot most of the time) (9-12 10:00pm most nights-11:00pm more towards 11-12)
I couldn't agree more actually...parental involvement is the best way to encourage kids to do their best... Getting conflicting approaches to education is not the way to achivement... Even if parents breakup, they need to work together afterwards for the childs best interest in school matters... Its the kids fight to do well and learn, not whatever petty crap caused the parents to break up...all that should be considered history when it comes to the childs education....
I ran into the same thing...shop was not a path that the intelligent could go down...(actually a huge part of the problem was that even if you could get the class you didn't want to because the people who were there were the undesirables and you couldn't tead on thier turf...) Anyway sounds like you are trying (and thats all anyone can do).
There is an FE, CE, SM, PM field for each job rating, but what differnce does it make you can work you ass off in the IT department and then get told, Oh no one ever gets and FE(Far Exceeds)...mean while people you know in other departments (like marketing/sales) get handed reviews that have FE in every catagorey.
...you know how your kid is behaving, and you let him get away with it...your the problem not the school...its your job as a parent to make sure your kid has all his homework done everyday...not the school's...if you let your kid get away with that behavior your just setting him up for the big fall later on...good study habits need to start early. I'll grant you the school should also be giving him and automatic F if the homework isn't done when its supposed to be. In his own defense if he does well in the class without doing homework, maybe he doesn't need too...but then again perhaps he isn't challenged and belongs in a higher level class...I've always firmly believed any student that gets C's all the time might be because they don't care and are bored, make things harder, but by the same token stright A's mean the same thing...schools should aim for C's, NOT A's. C's mean the Kid is in the proper difficulty environment, if you can make it harder and they still get C's then you have done the right thing. A's mean its too damn easy...
...in the early 90's Umass Amherst's Eng program didn't have any problems with bad grades, I worked my ass off and still got screwed...all they cared about was exams and how well you did on them midterms and finals were so much a componet of grades that less than a B on either was certain disaster, as far as staying in your major or moving on in your major. I can aquire knowledge and respected as one of the most intelligent people where I work, I just don't test well on it.
I think people missed the point(and the fact that this obviously isn't a full RFC). All I am really saying is to add on to DNS in a way which makes it more useful and the central hub of a system which gets the information out about my machine or machines. The other systems are still need we still need DNS to retain its core functions, but perhaps allow users to self modify thier record when a change occurs and allow that change to filter out through the system in a peer to peer nature. The traditional routing protocols would just be picking up a promitive route from the tree they would lern how the update packet got to them and get a basic route back to original client...this information would then be useful to build more complex routes quickly....
Actually go deeper than that...what really needs to happen is a redesign of the underlying core of the whole damn thing...DNS, DHCP, and Routing need to be combined into a single protocol and server implimentation(already particially have that in DDNS)...but taken a step further(and I am being intentially light on details here, since its a huge subject) it would make the whole thing easier esspecially in todays world where everyone and thier brother has a web site (or other service) attached to their cable/DSL line, and they can't get a static IP and never mind getting IPs they migh own routed behind that IP to the rest of the world. One protocol that could publish IP/Domain Name/Routing for the whole shooting match through a rooted, treed and P2P system...(The root maintains order, tree allows clients to work backwards through the tree till they find the information they are looking for till they hit the root, the P2P moves updates around with sequence numbers probably in MD5 ro something to maintain chronology)...this is by no means the full idea, but might be a good seed....
I'd respond intelligently...except the poster was a idiot Anonymous coward....next time have some balls and post with your real name....and I might enlighten you, but considering your already stupid...I figure no amount of education is likely to change that...dumbass...
I wish I was moderator right now...you need modding up big time...amen brother...seeing "right to the heart of the matter"...oops sorry thats a line from a rush song...I guess I just broke the law....
How many people and companies that are willing to make money by being scum...worse still that the patent office is willing to grant them a patent on being a scum. P2P is good for the world, why the hell can't people just get over it and let it be.
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Bullshit its exactly the same thing, and to know and let such a thing occur is morally corrupt. Of course the worlds sense of morality is seriously skewed these days anyway.
I know they make there money doing the virus defense business, however if they really knew and didn't bother to alert the world to this threat, they right up there with Sadam and company in my book. This is gross criminal negligence in my book, if my company was heavly affected I'd take 'em to court!
I'll have to look out for that one...although...I found starlancer extremely dissappointing....
They used to be one of the best....used to be pretty much any game I bought was Origin, Bullfrog, Sierra(et al), or Blizzard...well we all know whats happened...
I really miss Origin...Lucas Arts has me placated for a while with the X-wing and Tie games, but they seem to have abandoned the space shooter...I am just itching for a good space Shooter like wing commander again, but alas....
Perhaps its time that the running of the internet be taken out of any one nations hands. Perhaps the correct solution is to no longer leave the controlling body's in the hands of the US. Perhaps the running of the internet should become a United Nations function?
....the curious part from what I have read is it sounds like everything thats wrong is exactly what was/is wrong with UO since it was launched...has EA learned nothing?
I have never played the sims but I have thought about it, I have friends that love the game and had hoped to join in when it went online, but it sounds to me like I might not bother now...I had also thought that it was going to be anoportunity to take an already well developed sim charter and move him into a larger world thta sounds as well like its not true.
Maybe its time to really shake things up...all through DS9 they sort of pointed to the Federation being on the verge of colapse...
Maybe its time that happened, perhaps we need to have "Star Trek:It all goes to Hell!"
I think its also about time they started thinking along the lines of what shows were the best...do those point to good movie Ideas...lets face it ST:II was just an extention of one of the best series episodes....
We had the Borg in a movie that was good, the best of the NG movies in fact...perhaps we need a "Q" movie.
Or maybe an Updating of the Genesis stuff would make a good Movie?
How about Mirror Universe? The NG has never delt with mirror universe except in books...(Deep Space 9 did, but thats not NG)
Maybe some of the cooler bad guys from Delta Quadrant found a way to follow Voyager?
Its just another ugly effect of the way the US economy works...
1. Get Educated
2. Get Hired
3. Want enough money from your job to have a life
4. Cost of things you want is driven by the cost of the people who work for the people that sell the things you want
5. Need a job that pays for the things you want.
6. Can't get that demand lower prices
7. the people that sell the things you want need to sell them cheaper
7a. your one of the people that works for the people that sell the things that other people want.
8. They need the people, of whom you are one, that make the things (real, or ethereal like code) they make to make them cheaper
9. Outsourcing of american jobs in your realm happens.
10 Start back at (1.)
It brings up the more interesting question: Is there actually a shift going on where what were once white collar jobs are really now blue collar jobs? Is todays web admin really more a job that lines up with the assembly line worker of old, a job that has gotten exported over time?
I was going to reply to this, but the others who have already summed up the problem so well that I have nothing to add of value.
Oh and by the way I am a programmer English sentence structure doesn't matter a bit in my world so who cares! However since you asked, in addition to my sciences classes I also minored in English.
I am with you and I do understand, I am ADD and always will be the problem doesn't go away, but it can be trained to be suppressed. I am also dyslexic(I swear that word exists to prove the condition...if you really are it takes 20 minutes to spell it :>), and never learned to read until the 3rd grade and not well till I was in the middle of the fourth.
I can offer advise on how I got through...I am not the attacking type especially since I know i face this with my own children...
My parents had a hard rule nothing distracting in my bedroom...no TV, no video games, I had music and my toys and such but nothing that might be a deterant to learning my lesson, if I got sent there.
Homework had to be done, no questions about it and they had to see it...if they found out I had not done homework I got grounded in my room end of story. I lived in fear of a teacher calling and rating me out which did happen....
I screwed up so bad once that I was doing math problems for a week instead of anything else, NO TV, come stright home, do homework or do the math problems(we were learning multiplication so the only way I could get off grounding for not doing my homework was writting the tables from 1 - 100)
In the case of reading assignments there was no arguing, if I didn't do it I got locked in my room till I did, and if I did anything but read I got locked in there longer...the lesson do what you have to then you can do what you want to!
Help him organize, and reward good organization...after the homework is done, make sure its packed into the bookbag...stuff like that...i was an organizational mess (still am really, but I learned to concentrate on getting the important things in the right place)
ADD(etc) is not a crutch, it will not go away, it has to be trained around. Its not going to work in the real world(tm) so don't let it be an excuse in school. My parents never filled me in on the problems I had, but they knew and made me work through them...
If i was good then i knew that after school while the sun was still out I was going to be able to see my friends, ride my bike etc, but after dinner 6:00pm or so...it was homework time and if I wanted to watch TV before Bed (which was quite early so I didn't have much time)...it had to get done, no arguements...the only way I was going to be up past my bed time was to finish homework...which by the way broke down like {k-4 8:00pm -9:00pm, 8 being more typical I don't think I really watched prime time TV till Middle school) (5-8 9:00pm-10pm...10 was a very special night and a real long shot most of the time) (9-12 10:00pm most nights-11:00pm more towards 11-12)
I couldn't agree more actually...parental involvement is the best way to encourage kids to do their best...
Getting conflicting approaches to education is not the way to achivement...
Even if parents breakup, they need to work together afterwards for the childs best interest in school matters...
Its the kids fight to do well and learn, not whatever petty crap caused the parents to break up...all that should be considered history when it comes to the childs education....
I ran into the same thing...shop was not a path that the intelligent could go down...(actually a huge part of the problem was that even if you could get the class you didn't want to because the people who were there were the undesirables and you couldn't tead on thier turf...)
Anyway sounds like you are trying (and thats all anyone can do).
There is an FE, CE, SM, PM field for each job rating, but what differnce does it make you can work you ass off in the IT department and then get told, Oh no one ever gets and FE(Far Exceeds)...mean while people you know in other departments (like marketing/sales) get handed reviews that have FE in every catagorey.
...you know how your kid is behaving, and you let him get away with it...your the problem not the school...its your job as a parent to make sure your kid has all his homework done everyday...not the school's...if you let your kid get away with that behavior your just setting him up for the big fall later on...good study habits need to start early.
I'll grant you the school should also be giving him and automatic F if the homework isn't done when its supposed to be.
In his own defense if he does well in the class without doing homework, maybe he doesn't need too...but then again perhaps he isn't challenged and belongs in a higher level class...I've always firmly believed any student that gets C's all the time might be because they don't care and are bored, make things harder, but by the same token stright A's mean the same thing...schools should aim for C's, NOT A's. C's mean the Kid is in the proper difficulty environment, if you can make it harder and they still get C's then you have done the right thing. A's mean its too damn easy...
...in the early 90's Umass Amherst's Eng program didn't have any problems with bad grades, I worked my ass off and still got screwed...all they cared about was exams and how well you did on them midterms and finals were so much a componet of grades that less than a B on either was certain disaster, as far as staying in your major or moving on in your major. I can aquire knowledge and respected as one of the most intelligent people where I work, I just don't test well on it.
God I hate this fucking state! I can't even imagine, what I may or may not have purchased, i don't even keep those sorts of records...
I think people missed the point(and the fact that this obviously isn't a full RFC). All I am really saying is to add on to DNS in a way which makes it more useful and the central hub of a system which gets the information out about my machine or machines. The other systems are still need we still need DNS to retain its core functions, but perhaps allow users to self modify thier record when a change occurs and allow that change to filter out through the system in a peer to peer nature. The traditional routing protocols would just be picking up a promitive route from the tree they would lern how the update packet got to them and get a basic route back to original client...this information would then be useful to build more complex routes quickly....
Actually go deeper than that...what really needs to happen is a redesign of the underlying core of the whole damn thing...DNS, DHCP, and Routing need to be combined into a single protocol and server implimentation(already particially have that in DDNS)...but taken a step further(and I am being intentially light on details here, since its a huge subject) it would make the whole thing easier esspecially in todays world where everyone and thier brother has a web site (or other service) attached to their cable/DSL line, and they can't get a static IP and never mind getting IPs they migh own routed behind that IP to the rest of the world. One protocol that could publish IP/Domain Name/Routing for the whole shooting match through a rooted, treed and P2P system...(The root maintains order, tree allows clients to work backwards through the tree till they find the information they are looking for till they hit the root, the P2P moves updates around with sequence numbers probably in MD5 ro something to maintain chronology)...this is by no means the full idea, but might be a good seed....
I'd respond intelligently...except the poster was a idiot Anonymous coward....next time have some balls and post with your real name....and I might enlighten you, but considering your already stupid...I figure no amount of education is likely to change that...dumbass...
Thats the point I think patents should be useful to the general public this patent clearly is not....
There might finally be a road where I can drive as fast as I want and nobody will care...of course onn that road speeding is probably 30mph...:>
The holders of the MP3 patent already have that taken care of...they already degrade the original source for distrobution...
I wish I was moderator right now...you need modding up big time...amen brother...seeing "right to the heart of the matter"...oops sorry thats a line from a rush song...I guess I just broke the law....
How many people and companies that are willing to make money by being scum...worse still that the patent office is willing to grant them a patent on being a scum. P2P is good for the world, why the hell can't people just get over it and let it be.