Maybe I sound a little stupid here, but is there a possibility to access those sites if you are located at above.net powered backbones by going through providers like anonymizer.com?
Or would it help if macromedia.com used Akamai? How would that look like for above.net customers? Would it still be an access to macromedia.com or would it be an access to a232....akamai.net?
Just wondering...
Well, first (and IMHO most important) you are fortunately working in the gaming industry not in a security relevant industry like banking. So even if your programmers would like to share things with the open community it wouldn't be a too big concern. What do you want them to do? Develop a revolutionary new game engine (like Unreal was at its time)? Why not hire them with the perspective of open sourcing the engine at some point in time and focus on unique gameplay? They would be motivated (they _do_ something for the community, too) and the perspective of giving could attract great potential. Even if they would "sneak" pieces of the code out (like some other posters suggested) into open source it wouldn't matter because it is your plan anyway. Games are not completely based on technolgy, games live from the concept, the gameplay, the originality, etc. etc. Don't be afraid that Open Source programmers will be in your way en route to success. If the gameplay is good you will get there...
Go look for big consulting companies
Cap Gemini Ernst & Young
PriceWaterhouseCoopers
Accenture
KPMG
Arthur Andersen
Arthur D. Little
They all have offices in Europe. Other than that, look for European Companies with an American Presence (Brokat, Trintech, Intershop,...) or go with the big guys (IBM, the evil Empire, HP, Sun,...).
I am sure you will find something...
If you want ( and I am _not_ suggesting that) go and look closer. Leaving an SQL Server Port open can be just a simple error (and they can blame it on the sec guy at the hosting provider/internal IT dept.) of e.g. leaving a port open on the router. If there is nothing more than that you might look quite funny. But if you would find more go with the (numerous times suggested) free and later complete security assessment. Get consultant money for it. But make sure there is more open than just one hole!
I was working at one of the Top 5 banks of the world and we had the same issue.
Here is how we dealt with it:
- In a group of 5 we rotated on a weekly basis. Everybody was responsible to be on call for 7 days straight.
- We got paid (without incidents) roughly 60$/weekday and 120$/weekend day
- You had to be available by pager and mobile phone 24h
- You had to be on premises within one hour
- You are not allowed (out of insurance reasons) to go to the Datacenter on a weekday night with your own car. You had to take a Taxi. This was reimbursed.
- If an incident occured you were paid your normal salary plus 50% for weekend/night work.
- All was being paid monthly with your usual payroll
- The mobile phone and pager were company paid
I think this is a fair agreement, I hope this helps a little bit.
Companies like Digicash (today eCash Technologies) or Zeroknowledge are having a hard time these days. eCash was shut down completely in Europe with the stop of the Deutsche Bank support (see here), ZKS let go more than 25% of their employees a couple of weeks ago, not many people are using Hushmail's premium service, etc. etc. yada yada.
Everybody wants privacy, nobody wants to pay. It costs money to run a mixing network, it costs money to issue and check coins instead of just doing a LUN check to see if you CreditCard# is valid. SET was also a failure in the US. 3D Secure (see here) is coming up, protecting only the merchant, not the sensitive information of consumers. Why? Nobody wants to pay.
If you are about phantasy, games that happen in your mind, try (kind of ancient) MUDs (MultiUserDungeons). You can find the biggest list here. The games are quite entertaining, much like the Sim Stuff, you can marry, you can choose a profession, even extend the games as a wizard. You interact with people you never met, you can be someone you always wanted to be (or just be yourself). If you are more into visual entertainment you might want to try other worlds (new stuff, not so much imagination required) like Everquest or Ultima Online. Have fun exploring...
Well, it is difficult to decide from your post on what system is "the best" because it depends on personal taste (does a lot of "Kawumm" Bass make a good system for you?) and the room situation. You should try and go out to respected dealers like Magnolia Hifi and go into their test rooms. But, since I don't wanna make this a stupid "go figure it our for yourself post" let's try it anyway.
1) you have a limited budget of 1500$ which rules out a lot of Receiver options like BK or high class Denons. Good quality for the buck is delivered by Sony. You should try to look out for special deals on Sony "ES" (elevated standard) Receivers like the Sony STR-V333ES . You should be able to get a deal at around 700$. You really should go for the ES standard components here because of better parts used in the system.
2) Speakers. Hmmmm, this is a real personal taste question. I, personally, made good experiences with Bose systems like the Acoustimass 10 which sells at $999 and gives you the freedom to hide the middle and lower frequency module anywhere in the room while putting up only stylish little speakers. JBL is also a good choice and, usually, slightly cheaper.
So, I hope this helps a little.
MUDs are for people with fantasy left in their mind.
A MUD is a game that YOU live, that you make it for what it is and that happens mostly in your head. MUDs are more interactive, they build a community that is, IMHO, stronger than the ones build these days through EverQuest and alike.
I play MUDs now for more than 8 years and, yes, I still like them.
And all Internet games have one thing in common: if you play them carefully you can even make some friends there. You meet people that you, most likeley, would never meet in the real life. People that you would pass on the streets, in the bar or club because of the way they look. The MUDs lower this boundary a lot (even more than the EverQuest(s) where you "see" the other one, too) giving you a chance to learn more about the other people before you meet them (if ever) on a MUD party. Dangerous? I agree, MUDs are dangerous in a way that you might loose a sense of reality if you play somebody in the game that is definitely not you. If you create an alter ego that acts, looks,... in a way that you are not. And if you finally believe that this is you. I have seen this happen some times but not too often. Anyway, I think everybody should try and play a MUD and see if (s)he likes it.
A nice list of (english and german) MUDs can be found on www.mud.de .
Have fun!
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Maybe I sound a little stupid here, but is there a possibility to access those sites if you are located at above.net powered backbones by going through providers like anonymizer.com? Or would it help if macromedia.com used Akamai? How would that look like for above.net customers? Would it still be an access to macromedia.com or would it be an access to a232....akamai.net? Just wondering ...
Well, first (and IMHO most important) you are fortunately working in the gaming industry not in a security relevant industry like banking. So even if your programmers would like to share things with the open community it wouldn't be a too big concern. What do you want them to do? Develop a revolutionary new game engine (like Unreal was at its time)? Why not hire them with the perspective of open sourcing the engine at some point in time and focus on unique gameplay? They would be motivated (they _do_ something for the community, too) and the perspective of giving could attract great potential. Even if they would "sneak" pieces of the code out (like some other posters suggested) into open source it wouldn't matter because it is your plan anyway. Games are not completely based on technolgy, games live from the concept, the gameplay, the originality, etc. etc. Don't be afraid that Open Source programmers will be in your way en route to success. If the gameplay is good you will get there ...
Go look for big consulting companies ...) or go with the big guys (IBM, the evil Empire, HP, Sun, ...).
I am sure you will find something ...
Cap Gemini Ernst & Young
PriceWaterhouseCoopers
Accenture
KPMG
Arthur Andersen
Arthur D. Little
They all have offices in Europe. Other than that, look for European Companies with an American Presence (Brokat, Trintech, Intershop,
If you want ( and I am _not_ suggesting that) go and look closer. Leaving an SQL Server Port open can be just a simple error (and they can blame it on the sec guy at the hosting provider/internal IT dept.) of e.g. leaving a port open on the router. If there is nothing more than that you might look quite funny. But if you would find more go with the (numerous times suggested) free and later complete security assessment. Get consultant money for it. But make sure there is more open than just one hole!
I was working at one of the Top 5 banks of the world and we had the same issue. Here is how we dealt with it: - In a group of 5 we rotated on a weekly basis. Everybody was responsible to be on call for 7 days straight.
- We got paid (without incidents) roughly 60$/weekday and 120$/weekend day
- You had to be available by pager and mobile phone 24h
- You had to be on premises within one hour
- You are not allowed (out of insurance reasons) to go to the Datacenter on a weekday night with your own car. You had to take a Taxi. This was reimbursed.
- If an incident occured you were paid your normal salary plus 50% for weekend/night work.
- All was being paid monthly with your usual payroll
- The mobile phone and pager were company paid
I think this is a fair agreement, I hope this helps a little bit.
Companies like Digicash (today eCash Technologies) or Zeroknowledge are having a hard time these days. eCash was shut down completely in Europe with the stop of the Deutsche Bank support (see here), ZKS let go more than 25% of their employees a couple of weeks ago, not many people are using Hushmail's premium service, etc. etc. yada yada. Everybody wants privacy, nobody wants to pay. It costs money to run a mixing network, it costs money to issue and check coins instead of just doing a LUN check to see if you CreditCard# is valid. SET was also a failure in the US. 3D Secure (see here) is coming up, protecting only the merchant, not the sensitive information of consumers. Why? Nobody wants to pay.
If you are about phantasy, games that happen in your mind, try (kind of ancient) MUDs (MultiUserDungeons). You can find the biggest list here. The games are quite entertaining, much like the Sim Stuff, you can marry, you can choose a profession, even extend the games as a wizard. You interact with people you never met, you can be someone you always wanted to be (or just be yourself). If you are more into visual entertainment you might want to try other worlds (new stuff, not so much imagination required) like Everquest or Ultima Online. Have fun exploring ...
Well, it is difficult to decide from your post on what system is "the best" because it depends on personal taste (does a lot of "Kawumm" Bass make a good system for you?) and the room situation.
You should try and go out to respected dealers like Magnolia Hifi and go into their test rooms.
But, since I don't wanna make this a stupid "go figure it our for yourself post" let's try it anyway.
1) you have a limited budget of 1500$ which rules out a lot of Receiver options like BK or high class Denons. Good quality for the buck is delivered by Sony. You should try to look out for special deals on Sony "ES" (elevated standard) Receivers like the Sony STR-V333ES . You should be able to get a deal at around 700$. You really should go for the ES standard components here because of better parts used in the system.
2) Speakers. Hmmmm, this is a real personal taste question. I, personally, made good experiences with Bose systems like the Acoustimass 10 which sells at $999 and gives you the freedom to hide the middle and lower frequency module anywhere in the room while putting up only stylish little speakers. JBL is also a good choice and, usually, slightly cheaper. So, I hope this helps a little.
Have a look here . They announced that the problem was fixed. Lets see if the "mechanism" to regain items will not be abused.
MUDs are for people with fantasy left in their mind. ... in a way that you are not. And if you finally believe that this is you. I have seen this happen some times but not too often.
A MUD is a game that YOU live, that you make it for what it is and that happens mostly in your head. MUDs are more interactive, they build a community that is, IMHO, stronger than the ones build these days through EverQuest and alike. I play MUDs now for more than 8 years and, yes, I still like them.
And all Internet games have one thing in common: if you play them carefully you can even make some friends there. You meet people that you, most likeley, would never meet in the real life. People that you would pass on the streets, in the bar or club because of the way they look. The MUDs lower this boundary a lot (even more than the EverQuest(s) where you "see" the other one, too) giving you a chance to learn more about the other people before you meet them (if ever) on a MUD party.
Dangerous? I agree, MUDs are dangerous in a way that you might loose a sense of reality if you play somebody in the game that is definitely not you. If you create an alter ego that acts, looks,
Anyway, I think everybody should try and play a MUD and see if (s)he likes it. A nice list of (english and german) MUDs can be found on www.mud.de . Have fun!
According to this article BMG will not drop their claims against Napster. Does anybody have more information on this? Sounds not very logical to me ...