If you're going to criticise, double-check your own figures. Adding another card is 100% more for both GPU and expense, not 200% (that would be three cards).
Wait a minute, what exactly is it that you are doing for these countries? Taking well-trained, experienced professionals off their hands?
I've probably used up a lot of UK taxes doing things like being born, going to school and then university after that. If I go to the US, they're unlikely to get that money back anytime soon. On the other hand, the US gets a productive worker without having to train them up first. Sounds like a good deal for the US.
I'm sorry you feel that way. I've been offered a job in the US, subject to getting a H1-B, and I'm really looking forward to it - the place I'm working is basically the place to go for what I enjoy doing. I've been in their community for about four years or so.
I'm not being paid any less than a good US graduate starting salary, and I believe that to be reasonable for the skills I have. Frankly, the H1-B is a great way to get qualified people into the US, and I'm sure your country has benefited from it. Yes, it may mean that jobs go to forieners. But if they make the effort to be the best for the job, how is that unfair?
Yeah, that's what I did for my project. From what I can tell, it's working, too - the libraries worked first time under Mono, and yet I still get to use the Windows I love.:-)
Most UK universities don't work like that. You do English, you study English, and all of your courses are related to that. You do Computer Science, you do computer-related courses. Maybe a little bit of maths and electronic engineering on the side. No English classes.:-)
It's open-source . . . that's practically warez to start with! Besides, I use optimized firebird trunk builds, and it's not really convenient to get them by BT.:-)
Because they are implementing FTP upload. Read the darn post. And it may be the new "default download format" for people trading warez, moviez, anime and possibly linux distros, but I certainly use FTP way more than I do BT, because I actually upload stuff to a site where people see it, not leech off others.:-)
The worm will attempt to propagate immediately by sending copies of itself out across the wire to random targets. After sending a predefined number of packets, Witty attempts to open a randomly determined physical drive and write 64k of data to a random location. This cycle repeats for every 20,000 packets sent.
Assumably it a) does the damage and b) starts sending itself out. Nothing appears wrong until they reboot, and then . . . boom, their computer turns into a pile of radioactive sludge.
WindowBlinds has that, see bottom left. There's a whole lot of software with that in the Windows Catalog. There were a lot of hoops to jump through, and yes, it costs some money (but you get software back as well as the logo).
I haven't read the reviewed book. I have however read this book, and it was incredibly good - one of those "couldn't put it down" moments. I would recommend it to all wishing to learn about this historic machine.
About as much as I'd pay for the comments of an AC.;-)
You can go and look up my details on my site. I have nothing to hide. Yes, I'm pro-Stardock. So are a lot of people. Amazingly enough in these days, my support is not conditional on money changing hands.
If you can beat it at Intelligent, you have essentially beaten the AI. Anything higher and it starts getting more money from it's colonies (evil genius civs long ago realised that slavery pays great dividends;-).
Probably not a lot. But these updates will not be as timely as the ones that appear on Stardock Central, they won't be as easy to install, and they'll be as risky as any other downloaded warez. You get what you pay for.:-)
I've been a Stardock follower for quite a while now. See, I tried out some of their software quite a while back, and I found a rather nasty bug in their window skinning product, WindowBlinds. So I decided to go report it.
Most companies would simply have acknowledged the bug, maybe offering a simple thank-you. Their response was to give me a registered copy of the software and encourage me to submit more bugs.
(disclaimer: this approach may not work for everyone:-)
Stardock are good. They don't mess their customers around - they might not always do what some of them want, but hey, that's true of any company, and at least they explain why;-). They go the extra mile to help - almost every member of the company is available on IRC, from the CEO downwards. They have a dedicated community on the Stardock newsgroups and over at WinCustomize, who helped them transition from OS/2 to Windows - people bought Object Desktop subscriptions a year before it was officially out, because they trusted Stardock to deliver.
Heck, they even had a positive cashflow throughout the dot-com era, because they didn't rely on stupid business plans and massive investment. Just on listening to their customers, making a good product and shipping it.
GalCiv is one of those products. It's got a solid AI, and more gameplay than you can shake a stick at. And the price is right. So go get it now.
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If you're going to criticise, double-check your own figures. Adding another card is 100% more for both GPU and expense, not 200% (that would be three cards).
Wait a minute, what exactly is it that you are doing for these countries? Taking well-trained, experienced professionals off their hands?
I've probably used up a lot of UK taxes doing things like being born, going to school and then university after that. If I go to the US, they're unlikely to get that money back anytime soon. On the other hand, the US gets a productive worker without having to train them up first. Sounds like a good deal for the US.
If we were U.S. Citizens, we wouldn't need a H1-B. :-)
I'm sorry you feel that way. I've been offered a job in the US, subject to getting a H1-B, and I'm really looking forward to it - the place I'm working is basically the place to go for what I enjoy doing. I've been in their community for about four years or so. I'm not being paid any less than a good US graduate starting salary, and I believe that to be reasonable for the skills I have. Frankly, the H1-B is a great way to get qualified people into the US, and I'm sure your country has benefited from it. Yes, it may mean that jobs go to forieners. But if they make the effort to be the best for the job, how is that unfair?
Well, naturally I'm heavily into BDSM culture as well. ;-)
It's been that for ages. Go read MSDN more often. ;-)
Yeah, that's what I did for my project. From what I can tell, it's working, too - the libraries worked first time under Mono, and yet I still get to use the Windows I love. :-)
Most UK universities don't work like that. You do English, you study English, and all of your courses are related to that. You do Computer Science, you do computer-related courses. Maybe a little bit of maths and electronic engineering on the side. No English classes. :-)
It's open-source . . . that's practically warez to start with! Besides, I use optimized firebird trunk builds, and it's not really convenient to get them by BT. :-)
Because they are implementing FTP upload. Read the darn post. And it may be the new "default download format" for people trading warez, moviez, anime and possibly linux distros, but I certainly use FTP way more than I do BT, because I actually upload stuff to a site where people see it, not leech off others. :-)
Technically, 0 is less than anything positive. :-)
Uh, it was 640kb. If you're going to bash BillG, at least get it right. ;-)
In fact, it's the other way around:
The worm will attempt to propagate immediately by sending copies of itself out across the wire to random targets. After sending a predefined number of packets, Witty attempts to open a randomly determined physical drive and write 64k of data to a random location. This cycle repeats for every 20,000 packets sent.
Assumably it a) does the damage and b) starts sending itself out. Nothing appears wrong until they reboot, and then . . . boom, their computer turns into a pile of radioactive sludge.
Galactic Civilizations?
Technically this is a sequel, but since the prequel was on OS/2 8 years ago . . .
WindowBlinds has that, see bottom left. There's a whole lot of software with that in the Windows Catalog. There were a lot of hoops to jump through, and yes, it costs some money (but you get software back as well as the logo).
I haven't read the reviewed book. I have however read this book, and it was incredibly good - one of those "couldn't put it down" moments. I would recommend it to all wishing to learn about this historic machine.
That page is working fine here . . .
If you buy it, you get to play it single-player.
About as much as I'd pay for the comments of an AC. ;-)
You can go and look up my details on my site. I have nothing to hide. Yes, I'm pro-Stardock. So are a lot of people. Amazingly enough in these days, my support is not conditional on money changing hands.
That's where the Drengin network comes in. You get all the Stardock games, and no overheads for boxes.
If you can beat it at Intelligent, you have essentially beaten the AI. Anything higher and it starts getting more money from it's colonies (evil genius civs long ago realised that slavery pays great dividends ;-).
Probably not a lot. But these updates will not be as timely as the ones that appear on Stardock Central, they won't be as easy to install, and they'll be as risky as any other downloaded warez. You get what you pay for. :-)
The game was Avarice. Unfortunately it was before it's time (or perhaps after it - the OS/2 market was dwindling to nothing by then).
I've been a Stardock follower for quite a while now. See, I tried out some of their software quite a while back, and I found a rather nasty bug in their window skinning product, WindowBlinds. So I decided to go report it.
:-)
;-). They go the extra mile to help - almost every member of the company is available on IRC, from the CEO downwards. They have a dedicated community on the Stardock newsgroups and over at WinCustomize, who helped them transition from OS/2 to Windows - people bought Object Desktop subscriptions a year before it was officially out, because they trusted Stardock to deliver.
;-)
Most companies would simply have acknowledged the bug, maybe offering a simple thank-you. Their response was to give me a registered copy of the software and encourage me to submit more bugs.
(disclaimer: this approach may not work for everyone
Stardock are good. They don't mess their customers around - they might not always do what some of them want, but hey, that's true of any company, and at least they explain why
Heck, they even had a positive cashflow throughout the dot-com era, because they didn't rely on stupid business plans and massive investment. Just on listening to their customers, making a good product and shipping it.
GalCiv is one of those products. It's got a solid AI, and more gameplay than you can shake a stick at. And the price is right. So go get it now.
And no, I don't get paid for this.
Whereas Galactic Civilizations is just $39.95 across the board:
EBGames
Amazon
Gamestop
CompUSA