As i have gotten older as a gamer (mid 40s) I have found myself moving aroud the different types of games to being settled into one game type (MMORPG) I find the use of PVP in games to be over done, so I aim at games with more of a community and more professions that don't make you sit there aiming at someone with a gun.
I also find myself playing games for a good 4+ years. I just finsihed playing Entropian Univese (6 years) after the devs got too greedy about money, and am now playing afterworld.ru, which is a Indi game about to go gold.
About 25% of my online society (Hunters-unlimited.com) is sweedish and uses those funny little dots in their words. Plus one or the games we play (entropiauniverse.com) is also sweedish, They are a pleasure to play with, speaking multiple languages (for the most part). With all that extra night time in the winter they keep our soc warm.
As a non linux user(sorry) i agree 100%, Lots of open source software just has terrible installs for the noob. Im not a computer noob (25 years doing systems) but i am a open source noob. I understand that all the bells and whistles and knobs are different for different people, but I would think that a good layed out "basic isntallation for the following setups" going thru all the things you HAVE to do to get a peice of software running, would be a great idea.
I dont usually need exact instructions , although i think most people need them, but i find i get stuck on the silliest things because i was SUPPOSE to know that step and do it automaticly. I didnt know that, no-where did it mention i should know that, and why is it so hard to find the answer or the person who can tell me that i should know that? back down the manual into a noob installation guide so everyone can install it and lots of people will. Or as a very old boss of mine once told me. Never let the developer write the manual, only they will be able to use the software.
thanks for listening, now back to flaming the non-linux guy.
I hate to complain, but in certain places isn't just 1 hijacked machine considered to be, too many? If that 1 hijack is on a machine connected to personnel files, military files, or population files then the data that could be stoeln could be huge. I cn imagine someone who has purchased a million or so hijacked machines would try to use some interesting tools on every machine just to see if 1 or 2 of them show good secure government data.
This scares me, i don't care if its 1 machine or 10,000 machines.
Your a public company, with employees, and stock holders, and various other things that you HAVE TO work to maintain a good corporation for.
You then decide on the risk of using software that IS NOT supported, and in many cases, the company who wrote it is 5-10 years out of business. Now what is the risk of hardware failure when you you probably dont even have all the hardware or software diskettes (CDs werent even used back then) to reproduce the hardware or drivers or software on another server?
ok you accept the risk? Fine its a risk and acceptable, but did you inform the board of directors who might then need to inform all the employees, stockholders, investors, and all of the people who it is their duty to inform, that if the software or hardware goes down, you could lose your XXXX database and that whole business process for XX amount of days and the information might not be recoverable?
Risk is risk and I understand not spending money if the risk is offest by price (say upgrading from Exchange 2000 to Exchange 2003, for alot of people, not worth the cost). BUT if you do not first make an informed decision and only think Money, then do not inform those who also have to take the risk into consideration. Then you are endagering your stockholders or worse your employees might not have a job next week. That is not a risk assessment, that is a person who is endangering a greater group of people. There are many of them out there, in 15 years of consulting i have seen dozens, if not more.
And isn't that the whole gotcha of the Title of this article in the first place? Informing people about how you do things and the decisions you make. Be it giving away stock or maintaining a decade over peice of software or hardware... Have you truely informed and taken a good risk assumption?/Rant
Well its not illegal (and i agree with informaing the stock holders makes it legal) at the moment. Odds are it will be very soon, but saying that, all the companys I follow didn't inform their investors, so they broke the rules. A few smart ones, made a quick change to their output to investors at the beginning of the year to squeeze it in, but again.. I wasnt informed when they actually did it.
so as a stock holder, Im highly annoyed that i had to buy stck at actual market prices.
I also work with some companies that don't get rid of software and I have a a few hundred clients still using ccmail, yep ccmail. And a bunch of those on Novell 3/4 servers (yep 3.12 still survives). It aint broke and they havent fixed it, but at some time I keep telling them those servers will finally go down and they will break and they will have to fix it.
Example, have one client running a ccmail network on a NT cluster on servers that have to be 1996? That is an example of how to run a network on 5 cents a day. coarse then it breaks and then it costs you $250,000 a day in losses, but some people just don't understand that.
well if the US government does it why not a very large corporation. Im a parent, I know if i do something i can't nearly be as mad at my children for doing it also.
Interesting Triva. Why is there an interstate highway in Hawaii when it goes to no other state? Because all military bases, when the project was created, had to be linked to the interstate system. It was one of the selling points to the public... we can move troops and equipment in case of need to other parts of the US. So the intertate highway system in Hawaii connects the militray bases.
It also has. just barely, but has the 2 mile straight length that was demanded in each highway every so often for landing endangered aircraft.
Also from the discovery or history channel learned that lots of it was designed from the German Autobahn system and how the intersections don't stop traffic.
I started wearing glasses when i was 2 years old, at the age of 35 I decided that the coke bottles that had burned a bump in my nose had to go. $5000, 3 surgeries (one had to be done twice) later i can see 21/23 (Was about 39/46). It was the best money spent, 7 years later my eyes are just starting to get weaker again. I hope that in 5 or so more years i still wont need glasses, which will mean a good 12 years seeing my alarm clock in the morning.
One note, on second surgery of first eye (They werent close enough the first time) they had to draw a line on my eye where the old cut had been made so they could cut in the same place again. I hope nobody ever has to have some draw on there eye, it was not at all pleasant and truely blew out my blood pressure for the day.
When they asked people to buy your stock they took their money. Now they need to grow up a touch and start acting like a real corporate entity. Although you are no longer getting your money from them, your stock price is determined by how the act. The last few weeks they have acted like a bunch of High school kids dropping hints, putting data on their website by accident, and making the market price of their stock take massive moves. One can't do this in a grown up world, give in Google and give us some nnumbers or at least clean up your outside look at the company. I havent touched their stock because i think its over valuated and because i see no stability in their actions.
what competition? They still price at pretty much list price everything they sell except for junk and old games.
Its just to market leaders trying to combine to make all the money instead of just half for each. I dont see that affecting prices any (unless they now sell above list price).
I spend alot of my time working with my vendors to make them happy and get certified. I have 1 vendor that has good and somewhat hard tests, you really have to know your stuff to be certified.
BUT I have one vendor whos tests are wrong. plain and simple, whenever I take the test I fail, then i make copies of the wrong answers, email whomever thought they knew how to make a test, that I'm actually correct in my answers and that they are not. Not once has this company and a few others thru history fixed their exams. I must siomply take the exam and answer the question WRONG to pass.
So certification is only as good as the person or company who wrote the test. Alpha-bit soup is simply a waste of time in my brain.
Sorry to say kids but the writer does make some part of a point. Everyone loves to hate success (unless they are part of it). Some point in the future you will be talking about google as GOOGLE_ZON and how they have takin over too much of the internet, and control too much information. It will happen, its bound to....
1) Person on comcast gets zombie-fied 2) starts sending out spam to say IBM 3) IBM sends back spam to the zombie 4) IBM gets put on every RBL list because it actually is sending spam, think about it 5) comcast and every major company using that RBL and every user in comcast can no longer get mail from IBM 6) IBM yells and screams to RBL list owner that they really arent sending spam, just well sending back email to people who didn't ask for it, or didn't want it or didn't sign up for it. OK they are sending spam... just not bad spam.
Only positive I see is maybe ISPs like comcast might wake the hell up and start cleaning up the problems and stop ignoring their users.
And what it took me was. commitment, good people, never sleeping, and a truck load of beer.
But really, starting a company is the scarest thing i have ever done, I was lucky, im past the 10 year mark and past the daily effects of cash flow. which brings me to the secret of starting a business....
CASH FLOW - CASH FLOW - CASH FLOWYou need cash to start, you need to sell the product, you need people to actuall pay you for it so you can build or sell more product, so people will at some point actually pay for it....... and on and on..
It doesn't matter how good you or your people or your product or whatever. It matters how good you collect the debts owed to you so you can either reinvest it or pay off the bank interest rates.
Im 40 years old and grew up in the video games are evil world for the last 30 years or so. Videos games are not evil, yes they can be over the edge, but thats why we have those things called parents. Remember them? Parents teach their children what is right and wrong and choose for them. I personally let my children play video games a few hours a day, they can tell you more about the history of the game (and maybe some real history becuase of it) and the articles/stuff they are using. They can also learn to budget, save money to buy more things, the thoery that working for something pays off in the end (and sometimes it doesn't). Pong wasn't the devils work, Asteriods didn't make me rob people for quarters, Galaxia Didn't turn me into a druggy. In fact they all turned me into a (i think) well rounded business man who works very hard to achieve his needs. sadly they never taught me to speel correctly.
But my Av software wont let me install the popware adware program, least it's smart enough to know better.
http://www.trendmicro.com/vinfo/virusencyclo/def au lt5.asp?VName=ADW_POP.A
Description: This is Trend Micro's detection for components of the legal adware called PopCap Loader from PopCap Games company. It is a Web plug-in that provides Web update features
Me and my wife own a successful consulting business (www.jconsult.com) for 11 years now. secrets? First rule 1 person has to be in charge. Each person must have their own work and be responsible for it. You have to expect your loved one to not be perfect, thats the biggest problem. You also have to allow them to fail, everyone fails, but its harder to let your family to do it. You have to allow the people you work with to leave and go do other things after work, my wife goes out 4 nites a week to get away from me:)
It hurts starting a business to begin with, doing it with family will be 4 times as worse. But if you make it, it can be much more rewarding.
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As i have gotten older as a gamer (mid 40s) I have found myself moving aroud the different types of games to being settled into one game type (MMORPG) I find the use of PVP in games to be over done, so I aim at games with more of a community and more professions that don't make you sit there aiming at someone with a gun.
I also find myself playing games for a good 4+ years. I just finsihed playing Entropian Univese (6 years) after the devs got too greedy about money, and am now playing afterworld.ru, which is a Indi game about to go gold.
I recommend finding a niche and enjoying it.
Dad
with FIOS. jsut saying
As a ccmail consultant i'm still hoping!
In Boston 2 years ago we were walkign on acorns, last year was a lower year, this year barely an acorn can be found. makes walking a bit safer :)
About 25% of my online society (Hunters-unlimited.com) is sweedish and uses those funny little dots in their words. Plus one or the games we play (entropiauniverse.com) is also sweedish, They are a pleasure to play with, speaking multiple languages (for the most part). With all that extra night time in the winter they keep our soc warm.
as uual whenever you do something to nature it screws somethign else.
cute idea thou
As a non linux user(sorry) i agree 100%, Lots of open source software just has terrible installs for the noob. Im not a computer noob (25 years doing systems) but i am a open source noob. I understand that all the bells and whistles and knobs are different for different people, but I would think that a good layed out "basic isntallation for the following setups" going thru all the things you HAVE to do to get a peice of software running, would be a great idea.
I dont usually need exact instructions , although i think most people need them, but i find i get stuck on the silliest things because i was SUPPOSE to know that step and do it automaticly. I didnt know that, no-where did it mention i should know that, and why is it so hard to find the answer or the person who can tell me that i should know that? back down the manual into a noob installation guide so everyone can install it and lots of people will. Or as a very old boss of mine once told me. Never let the developer write the manual, only they will be able to use the software.
thanks for listening, now back to flaming the non-linux guy.
I hate to complain, but in certain places isn't just 1 hijacked machine considered to be, too many? If that 1 hijack is on a machine connected to personnel files, military files, or population files then the data that could be stoeln could be huge. I cn imagine someone who has purchased a million or so hijacked machines would try to use some interesting tools on every machine just to see if 1 or 2 of them show good secure government data.
This scares me, i don't care if its 1 machine or 10,000 machines.
well ok think of it this way.
/Rant
Your a public company, with employees, and stock holders, and various other things that you HAVE TO work to maintain a good corporation for.
You then decide on the risk of using software that IS NOT supported, and in many cases, the company who wrote it is 5-10 years out of business. Now what is the risk of hardware failure when you you probably dont even have all the hardware or software diskettes (CDs werent even used back then) to reproduce the hardware or drivers or software on another server?
ok you accept the risk? Fine its a risk and acceptable, but did you inform the board of directors who might then need to inform all the employees, stockholders, investors, and all of the people who it is their duty to inform, that if the software or hardware goes down, you could lose your XXXX database and that whole business process for XX amount of days and the information might not be recoverable?
Risk is risk and I understand not spending money if the risk is offest by price (say upgrading from Exchange 2000 to Exchange 2003, for alot of people, not worth the cost). BUT if you do not first make an informed decision and only think Money, then do not inform those who also have to take the risk into consideration. Then you are endagering your stockholders or worse your employees might not have a job next week. That is not a risk assessment, that is a person who is endangering a greater group of people. There are many of them out there, in 15 years of consulting i have seen dozens, if not more.
And isn't that the whole gotcha of the Title of this article in the first place? Informing people about how you do things and the decisions you make. Be it giving away stock or maintaining a decade over peice of software or hardware... Have you truely informed and taken a good risk assumption?
Well its not illegal (and i agree with informaing the stock holders makes it legal) at the moment. Odds are it will be very soon, but saying that, all the companys I follow didn't inform their investors, so they broke the rules. A few smart ones, made a quick change to their output to investors at the beginning of the year to squeeze it in, but again.. I wasnt informed when they actually did it.
so as a stock holder, Im highly annoyed that i had to buy stck at actual market prices.
I also work with some companies that don't get rid of software and I have a a few hundred clients still using ccmail, yep ccmail. And a bunch of those on Novell 3/4 servers (yep 3.12 still survives). It aint broke and they havent fixed it, but at some time I keep telling them those servers will finally go down and they will break and they will have to fix it.
Example, have one client running a ccmail network on a NT cluster on servers that have to be 1996? That is an example of how to run a network on 5 cents a day. coarse then it breaks and then it costs you $250,000 a day in losses, but some people just don't understand that.
well if the US government does it why not a very large corporation. Im a parent, I know if i do something i can't nearly be as mad at my children for doing it also.
Top 10 makes sense, top 100 is a bit of digging for no reason... in my opinion. intersting thou.
Interesting Triva. Why is there an interstate highway in Hawaii when it goes to no other state?
Because all military bases, when the project was created, had to be linked to the interstate system. It was one of the selling points to the public... we can move troops and equipment in case of need to other parts of the US. So the intertate highway system in Hawaii connects the militray bases.
It also has. just barely, but has the 2 mile straight length that was demanded in each highway every so often for landing endangered aircraft.
Also from the discovery or history channel learned that lots of it was designed from the German Autobahn system and how the intersections don't stop traffic.
I started wearing glasses when i was 2 years old, at the age of 35 I decided that the coke bottles that had burned a bump in my nose had to go. $5000, 3 surgeries (one had to be done twice) later i can see 21/23 (Was about 39/46). It was the best money spent, 7 years later my eyes are just starting to get weaker again. I hope that in 5 or so more years i still wont need glasses, which will mean a good 12 years seeing my alarm clock in the morning.
One note, on second surgery of first eye (They werent close enough the first time) they had to draw a line on my eye where the old cut had been made so they could cut in the same place again. I hope nobody ever has to have some draw on there eye, it was not at all pleasant and truely blew out my blood pressure for the day.
When they asked people to buy your stock they took their money. Now they need to grow up a touch and start acting like a real corporate entity. Although you are no longer getting your money from them, your stock price is determined by how the act. The last few weeks they have acted like a bunch of High school kids dropping hints, putting data on their website by accident, and making the market price of their stock take massive moves. One can't do this in a grown up world, give in Google and give us some nnumbers or at least clean up your outside look at the company. I havent touched their stock because i think its over valuated and because i see no stability in their actions.
I miss you, where are you?
what competition? They still price at pretty much list price everything they sell except for junk and old games.
Its just to market leaders trying to combine to make all the money instead of just half for each. I dont see that affecting prices any (unless they now sell above list price).
I spend alot of my time working with my vendors to make them happy and get certified. I have 1 vendor that has good and somewhat hard tests, you really have to know your stuff to be certified.
BUT I have one vendor whos tests are wrong. plain and simple, whenever I take the test I fail, then i make copies of the wrong answers, email whomever thought they knew how to make a test, that I'm actually correct in my answers and that they are not. Not once has this company and a few others thru history fixed their exams. I must siomply take the exam and answer the question WRONG to pass.
So certification is only as good as the person or company who wrote the test. Alpha-bit soup is simply a waste of time in my brain.
Sorry to say kids but the writer does make some part of a point. Everyone loves to hate success (unless they are part of it). Some point in the future you will be talking about google as GOOGLE_ZON and how they have takin over too much of the internet, and control too much information. It will happen, its bound to....
1) Person on comcast gets zombie-fied
2) starts sending out spam to say IBM
3) IBM sends back spam to the zombie
4) IBM gets put on every RBL list because it actually is sending spam, think about it
5) comcast and every major company using that RBL and every user in comcast can no longer get mail from IBM
6) IBM yells and screams to RBL list owner that they really arent sending spam, just well sending back email to people who didn't ask for it, or didn't want it or didn't sign up for it. OK they are sending spam... just not bad spam.
Only positive I see is maybe ISPs like comcast might wake the hell up and start cleaning up the problems and stop ignoring their users.
And what it took me was. commitment, good people, never sleeping, and a truck load of beer.
But really, starting a company is the scarest thing i have ever done, I was lucky, im past the 10 year mark and past the daily effects of cash flow. which brings me to the secret of starting a business....
CASH FLOW - CASH FLOW - CASH FLOWYou need cash to start, you need to sell the product, you need people to actuall pay you for it so you can build or sell more product, so people will at some point actually pay for it....... and on and on..
It doesn't matter how good you or your people or your product or whatever. It matters how good you collect the debts owed to you so you can either reinvest it or pay off the bank interest rates.
CASH FLOW - CASH FLOW - CASH FLOW
Damn which reminds me, SEND CASH!
Im 40 years old and grew up in the video games are evil world for the last 30 years or so. Videos games are not evil, yes they can be over the edge, but thats why we have those things called parents. Remember them? Parents teach their children what is right and wrong and choose for them.
I personally let my children play video games a few hours a day, they can tell you more about the history of the game (and maybe some real history becuase of it) and the articles/stuff they are using. They can also learn to budget, save money to buy more things, the thoery that working for something pays off in the end (and sometimes it doesn't). Pong wasn't the devils work, Asteriods didn't make me rob people for quarters, Galaxia Didn't turn me into a druggy. In fact they all turned me into a (i think) well rounded business man who works very hard to achieve his needs. sadly they never taught me to speel correctly.
But my Av software wont let me install the popware adware program, least it's smart enough to know better.
f au lt5.asp?VName=ADW_POP.A
http://www.trendmicro.com/vinfo/virusencyclo/de
Description:
This is Trend Micro's detection for components of the legal adware called PopCap Loader from PopCap Games company. It is a Web plug-in that provides Web update features
Me and my wife own a successful consulting business (www.jconsult.com) for 11 years now. secrets? First rule 1 person has to be in charge. Each person must have their own work and be responsible for it. You have to expect your loved one to not be perfect, thats the biggest problem. You also have to allow them to fail, everyone fails, but its harder to let your family to do it. You have to allow the people you work with to leave and go do other things after work, my wife goes out 4 nites a week to get away from me :)
It hurts starting a business to begin with, doing it with family will be 4 times as worse. But if you make it, it can be much more rewarding.