Think of all the money they would save if they focused on making fun content instead of, as all MMOs do, focus on creating dull, repetitive tasks that either OCD folks get hooked on or the 1337 dudes deal with just so they can top the meters.
This is what MOBAs are.
Of course, then they wouldn't have legions of hooked players forking over $1,000s of dollar to play the same thing over, and over, and over. So, their strategy is obviously the better money maker than mine.
And MOBAs are making money without the necessity of monthly subscriptions(World of Tanks does have a subscription model for premium accounts, but it's not required to play). People are still playing the same thing over and over, but it's competitive and it's against other humans, just like playing Counterstrike or Starcraft or something.
Unlikely it was only $20-40m. They were deeply invested in the game and it was nearly beta when they shitcanned it last year. Star Wars The Old Republic cost over $150m (est.), Warhammer Online was somewhere near $100m in 2008 dollar, etc. CCP reported a loss of $21m in R&D after shutting down the World of Darkness MMO development, and CCP is developing no where near the scope or cost of Blizzard. This is at least a $100m loss, likely closer to $200m-$250m. Bobby Kotick himself said that in order to challenge WoW a developer would need to make a $500m investment(to which John Smedley replied that $500m was too much, but $100m is the minimum).
Meh. It depends. You're either discarded as overqualified(and likely to jump ship) if you have a PhD and you're applying for a job that is loaded with people with 4 year degrees, or you're held to a higher standard that you may not know or may not be capable of achieving at the present time(or ever?).
The optimal answer is to apply for jobs that require that PhD.
To be fair, Samsung is releasing 4.4.4 to older devices right now. The Note 3, which has been replaced by the 4 as of a few weeks ago, just started rollouts with carriers last week.
1: To have Americans work on critical projects and not spill the beans to your competition, you need a NDA and non-compete agreement, both if which you pay American workers a premium for. With H1B's, you don't.
Well, Facebook is located in California where non-competes are not legally enforceable, so there's that
Exactly. There are many jobs in the tech field. I work in product implementation and training. We have some people with more technical oriented degrees like CIS, MIS, Math, Biology, but we also have people with English Lit, Performing Arts, etc. The biggest part of the job is being able to understand the technology and at the same time train a layman(something many technical people struggle with) and convert their terminology and design requirements into the terminology and capabilities of the system. Someone with a CS degree could do the job, and it pays comparably, but someone with a liberal arts degree could do the same, as long as they are both technical and able to teach lay people.
Ice is also made by snow. Glaciers are formed by snow. The geological definition of an ice sheet, like the Antarctic ice sheets, is a continental glacier.
Here's a very straightforward summary from wiki: Ice enters the sheet through precipitation as snow. This snow is then compacted to form glacier ice which moves under gravity towards the coast. Most of it is carried to the coast by fast moving ice streams. The ice then passes into the ocean, often forming vast floating ice shelves. These shelves then melt or calve off to give icebergs that eventually melt.
Precipitation occurs closer to the freezing point. The colder it gets, the less there is, in general(because there's less moisture in the air, which makes it hard to have precipitation).
It's important to note that the Antarctic has been recovering ozone for 40 years since CFCs were banned. That means more protection from the sun. More ice, more rain, less UV, etc. It stands to reason that the Antarctic would grow ice as the natural greenhouse effect of having an ozone would take effect.
Sometimes you're creating that new software in an old environment. When I worked for ADP we were constantly creating new software written in DataBASIC, simply because the environment we were working in was a PICK environment.
Then you read sites like Reddit and Twitter and see all the Russian apologists, just like the Hugo Chavez apologists that used to exist. The problem is that the news agencies now quote/source directly from those sites. Eventually, you get a 9/11-Afghan War situation where you're damned if do and you're damned if you don't
Well, tiny shops can compete, but sometimes they're deliberately excluded because they're not backed by a major IT consulting firm/custom solution provider(such as IBM, Northrop, etc) or major COTS vendor(such as ADP, Kronos, etc). The company I work for was independent for 20 years and very successful, but we weren't even allowed to submit RFPs on some projects because of requirements like that
Have an AMD 1090T with a Crossfired Radeon 6870s. Rig is old, but moderately beefy. Game ran fine on medium settings. May not have 4k textures and 16x anti-aliasing, but any hardcore gamer can deal with a little graphic fidelity loss for a playable game(r_picmip 5 anyone?)
Actually, things have changed. As part of this announcement they also announced that they will be digging through your browser history in order to provide more targeted ads, rather than just mining what you do through their website and websites that track for them
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This is what MOBAs are.
And MOBAs are making money without the necessity of monthly subscriptions(World of Tanks does have a subscription model for premium accounts, but it's not required to play). People are still playing the same thing over and over, but it's competitive and it's against other humans, just like playing Counterstrike or Starcraft or something.
Unlikely it was only $20-40m. They were deeply invested in the game and it was nearly beta when they shitcanned it last year. Star Wars The Old Republic cost over $150m (est.), Warhammer Online was somewhere near $100m in 2008 dollar, etc. CCP reported a loss of $21m in R&D after shutting down the World of Darkness MMO development, and CCP is developing no where near the scope or cost of Blizzard. This is at least a $100m loss, likely closer to $200m-$250m. Bobby Kotick himself said that in order to challenge WoW a developer would need to make a $500m investment(to which John Smedley replied that $500m was too much, but $100m is the minimum).
Meh. It depends. You're either discarded as overqualified(and likely to jump ship) if you have a PhD and you're applying for a job that is loaded with people with 4 year degrees, or you're held to a higher standard that you may not know or may not be capable of achieving at the present time(or ever?).
The optimal answer is to apply for jobs that require that PhD.
To be fair, Samsung is releasing 4.4.4 to older devices right now. The Note 3, which has been replaced by the 4 as of a few weeks ago, just started rollouts with carriers last week.
Well, Facebook is located in California where non-competes are not legally enforceable, so there's that
People tear down Sarah Palin all the time. What amazing things has she done?
Exactly. There are many jobs in the tech field. I work in product implementation and training. We have some people with more technical oriented degrees like CIS, MIS, Math, Biology, but we also have people with English Lit, Performing Arts, etc. The biggest part of the job is being able to understand the technology and at the same time train a layman(something many technical people struggle with) and convert their terminology and design requirements into the terminology and capabilities of the system. Someone with a CS degree could do the job, and it pays comparably, but someone with a liberal arts degree could do the same, as long as they are both technical and able to teach lay people.
Ice is also made by snow. Glaciers are formed by snow. The geological definition of an ice sheet, like the Antarctic ice sheets, is a continental glacier.
Here's a very straightforward summary from wiki: Ice enters the sheet through precipitation as snow. This snow is then compacted to form glacier ice which moves under gravity towards the coast. Most of it is carried to the coast by fast moving ice streams. The ice then passes into the ocean, often forming vast floating ice shelves. These shelves then melt or calve off to give icebergs that eventually melt.
Talking about snow, specifically, that is. Not precipitation in general
Precipitation occurs closer to the freezing point. The colder it gets, the less there is, in general(because there's less moisture in the air, which makes it hard to have precipitation).
It's important to note that the Antarctic has been recovering ozone for 40 years since CFCs were banned. That means more protection from the sun. More ice, more rain, less UV, etc. It stands to reason that the Antarctic would grow ice as the natural greenhouse effect of having an ozone would take effect.
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Sometimes you're creating that new software in an old environment. When I worked for ADP we were constantly creating new software written in DataBASIC, simply because the environment we were working in was a PICK environment.
People like Jacksonville Jaguar fans who were blacked out in their local market for home games and wanted to see the football game?
The guy who implied it by saying precedent is precedent
Where exactly do you think people hear things first these days? Certainly not on the evening news.
Then you read sites like Reddit and Twitter and see all the Russian apologists, just like the Hugo Chavez apologists that used to exist. The problem is that the news agencies now quote/source directly from those sites. Eventually, you get a 9/11-Afghan War situation where you're damned if do and you're damned if you don't
Well, tiny shops can compete, but sometimes they're deliberately excluded because they're not backed by a major IT consulting firm/custom solution provider(such as IBM, Northrop, etc) or major COTS vendor(such as ADP, Kronos, etc). The company I work for was independent for 20 years and very successful, but we weren't even allowed to submit RFPs on some projects because of requirements like that
Have an AMD 1090T with a Crossfired Radeon 6870s. Rig is old, but moderately beefy. Game ran fine on medium settings. May not have 4k textures and 16x anti-aliasing, but any hardcore gamer can deal with a little graphic fidelity loss for a playable game(r_picmip 5 anyone?)
Android can do this.
Or just switch to Open Office or other derivatives. Like all of those that hated ribbons did nearly a decade ago
Doesn't stop frivolous lawsuits from costing them lawyer fees, though
Wrong
I'd say Jurassic Park has held up quite well. And, actually, the most dated effects in the film are computer generated, not practical animatronics.
Actually, things have changed. As part of this announcement they also announced that they will be digging through your browser history in order to provide more targeted ads, rather than just mining what you do through their website and websites that track for them