Microsoft is in a position to place antivirus/spyware apps into their OS. Symantec makes ~50% of all revenue from NAV. This lawsuit isn't much more than corporate blackmail. Microsoft agrees to not bundle their AV, or otherwise completely screw NAV, and Symantec agrees not to tie up Vista in court.
I did play the first, though admittedly not much and some time ago. I found the soundtrack [in 3 at least] to be pretty appropriate. Perhaps I just liked the novelty of real music with my game after decades of hit and miss composition.
It's not that gamers don't care, it's that they're not going to change their purchasing decisions based on the ads. I don't know of anyone that wants contrived ads in their games. The only things that are decent are things that add to the game, such as actual restaraunts in Crazy Taxi, or EA's use of actual songs for their soundtracks (in Burnout for example).
AT&T is not a state, and thus cannot have any state secrets to disclose. If another state shared such a 'secret' with a public company, it's no longer secret is it?
He's worked for more than 20 years on this one particular system for this one particularly large company. A few years ago, his division was sold to a consultantcy company. The consultantcy company then resold the division to a larger companys' consultantcy division.
The worker is still sitting in the same cube, working on the same system for the same company. Between two resales in under a year though he lost 20% salary, 20+ years of seniority, all accrued PTO, and went from good health benefits to mediocre.
Such wholesale injustice would not occur [without repercussions] in a union shop. Just because most modern unions are corrupt or ineffective bastions of mediocrity does not mean they're invariably that. The concept of the workers' union should not be abandoned, especially with the increasing commoditization of the skilled worker.
What is unique to the game industry is the 'one and done' product cycles. Teams don't generally get multiple releases together to refine and hone their practices and procedures.
TV commercials around here at least after 10pm have been featuring a lot more sultry "friend finder" commercials on broadcast TV, and lightly censored 'girls gone wild' commercials on basic cable.
Far more offensive than pixellated boobies. Hell, the kids are likely on the internet in the first place to find out about the hack. If kids aren't already corrupted by all of the boobies [and worse!] on the internet, some scantly clad model isn't going to harm them.
Why do you need a chip when your fingerprint or retina pattern would do the same thing? Better yet, they're significantly harder to duplicate and there's no chance for health issues.
3,501 uses of the Patriot Act to get quick warrants. While I'd assume that some to most were used for suspects which were not national security threats [abuse], I'd also assume that it wasn't all 3,501. Some were used for peoples who posed or at least were legitimately suspected to pose a direct threat to national security.
Granted, that's not a good reason, but it is the law. People using the law, as intended, isn't abuse. Hate the law, not those who obey it.
That's odd, because they've never been really valuable to anyone in the industry I knew. The MCSE in particular was always a good sign that the candidate had no practical computer skills.
Why would you want to use an arbitrary, difficult to debug format like text when you could use.NET objects?!
I don't know. On another note, I can't understand why modern C++ programmers push for templated classes! Just pass it all in as a void pointer and cast as needed.
Go to your public library, fill out the application.
Public libraries have computers for public use for just this reason [and to allow children from lower income families to print out reports that are required to be typed...].
Now, if we could just force more companies to get rid of horrible antiquated application forms which completely duplicate the information presented on every single resume...
That's odd. Having just moved to part of the midwest [for aforementioned cheaper cost of living] and done some job hunting, it seems like hiring managers wouldn't know good talent if it slapped them across the face. No phone screens. The most elementary of technical and business interviews. Even the secretaries out in Silicon Valley had to go through a more rigorous evaluation than what I've seen in the midwest.
Its predecessors maybe, and certainly at first glance Oblivion looks and plays like Morrowind with shaders, but it's not. Not for me at least.
They took the major problems with Morrowind (stupid/boring combat, repetative quests, tedious overland travel) and fixed them. Not even just fixed them, but turned the tables. The addition of blocking, effective stealth and more realistic weapon styles makes for interesting, satisfying combat. Quests are now interesting and varied (indeed, I've yet to go on a fetch quest, or a "kill all at $place" quest). Quick travel, an effective map system, and horses(!) were implemented to help overland travel concerns.
I disliked its predecessors, and generally hate single avatar RPGs, but Oblivion is fantastic.
I mean, that time period *is* where the Empire ruled with an iron force empowered fist. Using such a period as SciFi is supposed to [provide fantastic scenarios to mirror current events], would be interesting given recent strives to curtail Freedom around the world.
No, it's not at all likely compared to something like "Tatooine, 90210"; still, the opportunity is there.
Easy to enforce via script, and simple enough for even windows admins to remember. Sure, you get problems when people forget to remove old hosts, and in the time it takes for your servers to replicate from the master, but you'll get those with any setup really...
I don't see how this is anything new. EA's "time-tested strategy" (if you can somehow call a mere decade time-tested; completely ignoring the previous decade of the company's existance) is going safe for things. Sure, the context might be slightly off, but the gameplay itself isn't exactly new. Further, betting that the designer of the highest selling computer game ever is going to produce a winner (even on name recognition alone) doesn't strike me as a terribly risky call.
As opposed to trusting all of the intermediaries between you and google? Personally, I trust google to protect my privacy far more than say... Comcast, who has direct unencrypted access to every non-ssl web browsing session, gmail use, or email sent.
RT for short has a setup that will allow your clients to send problems to a particular email address and those problems get sucked into the Ticket Tracking tool. You'll still have to enter tickets caused via phone call, but it's terribly easy to use.
Sure, Average Joe would benefit greatly from even using marcos or knowing regular expressions, but the fact of the matter is that He would've 10 years ago too. What has changed in 10 years to somehow make scripting more accessable? Data accessability? Web apps? I don't think so.
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Would it bother them?
Leverage is leverage.
Microsoft is in a position to place antivirus/spyware apps into their OS. Symantec makes ~50% of all revenue from NAV. This lawsuit isn't much more than corporate blackmail. Microsoft agrees to not bundle their AV, or otherwise completely screw NAV, and Symantec agrees not to tie up Vista in court.
But aren't, since there are people willing to do them for less. You'd think the Wall Street Journal would have some economists on staff...
I did play the first, though admittedly not much and some time ago. I found the soundtrack [in 3 at least] to be pretty appropriate. Perhaps I just liked the novelty of real music with my game after decades of hit and miss composition.
It's not that gamers don't care, it's that they're not going to change their purchasing decisions based on the ads. I don't know of anyone that wants contrived ads in their games. The only things that are decent are things that add to the game, such as actual restaraunts in Crazy Taxi, or EA's use of actual songs for their soundtracks (in Burnout for example).
AT&T is not a state, and thus cannot have any state secrets to disclose. If another state shared such a 'secret' with a public company, it's no longer secret is it?
An aquaintance:
He's worked for more than 20 years on this one particular system for this one particularly large company. A few years ago, his division was sold to a consultantcy company. The consultantcy company then resold the division to a larger companys' consultantcy division.
The worker is still sitting in the same cube, working on the same system for the same company. Between two resales in under a year though he lost 20% salary, 20+ years of seniority, all accrued PTO, and went from good health benefits to mediocre.
Such wholesale injustice would not occur [without repercussions] in a union shop. Just because most modern unions are corrupt or ineffective bastions of mediocrity does not mean they're invariably that. The concept of the workers' union should not be abandoned, especially with the increasing commoditization of the skilled worker.
What is unique to the game industry is the 'one and done' product cycles. Teams don't generally get multiple releases together to refine and hone their practices and procedures.
TV commercials around here at least after 10pm have been featuring a lot more sultry "friend finder" commercials on broadcast TV, and lightly censored 'girls gone wild' commercials on basic cable.
Far more offensive than pixellated boobies. Hell, the kids are likely on the internet in the first place to find out about the hack. If kids aren't already corrupted by all of the boobies [and worse!] on the internet, some scantly clad model isn't going to harm them.
Why do you need a chip when your fingerprint or retina pattern would do the same thing? Better yet, they're significantly harder to duplicate and there's no chance for health issues.
3,501 uses of the Patriot Act to get quick warrants. While I'd assume that some to most were used for suspects which were not national security threats [abuse], I'd also assume that it wasn't all 3,501. Some were used for peoples who posed or at least were legitimately suspected to pose a direct threat to national security.
Granted, that's not a good reason, but it is the law. People using the law, as intended, isn't abuse. Hate the law, not those who obey it.
That's odd, because they've never been really valuable to anyone in the industry I knew. The MCSE in particular was always a good sign that the candidate had no practical computer skills.
No need to mention how much it costs; to do so says that you'd be okay with such intrusions if they were suddenly free.
I don't know. On another note, I can't understand why modern C++ programmers push for templated classes! Just pass it all in as a void pointer and cast as needed.
Go to your public library, fill out the application.
Public libraries have computers for public use for just this reason [and to allow children from lower income families to print out reports that are required to be typed...].
Now, if we could just force more companies to get rid of horrible antiquated application forms which completely duplicate the information presented on every single resume...
How many relations exist for any combination of N pieces of data?
That's right, a shit ton.
That's odd. Having just moved to part of the midwest [for aforementioned cheaper cost of living] and done some job hunting, it seems like hiring managers wouldn't know good talent if it slapped them across the face. No phone screens. The most elementary of technical and business interviews. Even the secretaries out in Silicon Valley had to go through a more rigorous evaluation than what I've seen in the midwest.
Its predecessors maybe, and certainly at first glance Oblivion looks and plays like Morrowind with shaders, but it's not. Not for me at least.
They took the major problems with Morrowind (stupid/boring combat, repetative quests, tedious overland travel) and fixed them. Not even just fixed them, but turned the tables. The addition of blocking, effective stealth and more realistic weapon styles makes for interesting, satisfying combat. Quests are now interesting and varied (indeed, I've yet to go on a fetch quest, or a "kill all at $place" quest). Quick travel, an effective map system, and horses(!) were implemented to help overland travel concerns.
I disliked its predecessors, and generally hate single avatar RPGs, but Oblivion is fantastic.
I mean, that time period *is* where the Empire ruled with an iron force empowered fist. Using such a period as SciFi is supposed to [provide fantastic scenarios to mirror current events], would be interesting given recent strives to curtail Freedom around the world.
No, it's not at all likely compared to something like "Tatooine, 90210"; still, the opportunity is there.
you keep using that word; I do not think it means what you think it means.
and sorted by IP for the reverse.
Easy to enforce via script, and simple enough for even windows admins to remember. Sure, you get problems when people forget to remove old hosts, and in the time it takes for your servers to replicate from the master, but you'll get those with any setup really...
I don't see how this is anything new. EA's "time-tested strategy" (if you can somehow call a mere decade time-tested; completely ignoring the previous decade of the company's existance) is going safe for things. Sure, the context might be slightly off, but the gameplay itself isn't exactly new. Further, betting that the designer of the highest selling computer game ever is going to produce a winner (even on name recognition alone) doesn't strike me as a terribly risky call.
As opposed to trusting all of the intermediaries between you and google? Personally, I trust google to protect my privacy far more than say... Comcast, who has direct unencrypted access to every non-ssl web browsing session, gmail use, or email sent.
RT for short has a setup that will allow your clients to send problems to a particular email address and those problems get sucked into the Ticket Tracking tool. You'll still have to enter tickets caused via phone call, but it's terribly easy to use.
Sure, Average Joe would benefit greatly from even using marcos or knowing regular expressions, but the fact of the matter is that He would've 10 years ago too. What has changed in 10 years to somehow make scripting more accessable? Data accessability? Web apps? I don't think so.