The games industry -currently- supports the small indie developer making 10,000 sales rather than 1,000,000. But the games industry is still an industry. And more importantly, the retail industry is still the retail industry.
If Mall-Games-Co has the choice between a hot selling game and a mediocre selling one, they're going to pick the hot game in an instant. The shelf space costs them the same!
And as long as gamers keep preferring console games to PC games, the game industry will be beholden to the retail industry's way of things.
Except that you wouldn't be here if not for said extinction period. Who says that killing humanity off so that squid/birds/insects/dolphins can evolve to dig up our fossils and make bad movies about us isn't in everyone's best interest [but ours]?
While I was certainly ready to aim glib comments, you're right about most missing the point. You're also rather missing the point that no matter if either global warming [a large scale climate shift] rather than global warming [a geologically small 'hot streak'] is causing sea levels to rise, the root result is the problem at hand, and likely the only problem our generation will be able to identify, let alone deal with.
And really, even that point shouldn't be enough to prevent glib comments about a city built below the un-risen sea level, in an area frequented every August/September by a hurricane or two.
Lee's conduct threatens to disclose or Lee inevitably will disclose Microsoft's trade secrets to Google and/or others for his and/or Google's financial gain in the course of working to improve Google search products that compete with Microsoft, and in the course of establishing and building Google's presence in China to compete with Microsoft's efforts in China.
"Well then maybe you should've made him not want to leave."
I find it amusing that companies are allowed to fuck employees in the race for cheaper labor, but valuable employees [alledgedly] aren't allowed to fuck employers in the race for higher wages.
Except for the ingrained collusion, I don't see much problem with poker bots. I mean, who cares if they play statistics to the tee?
If anything that will only guarantee their losses when they hold a good hand vs the best hand. A common scenario in poker is when you have the 2nd best hand and someone is betting into you. You have to ask "what are the chances they have it?".
Oh, how I'd love to be at a table full of bots that would never think that I really do have the best hand.
Low risk. Right. Perhaps you're looking at different startups than I am but standard employees often work those 75 hours a week for:
- generally rock bottom salary. - the chance that even that will disappear on a moment's notice. - perhaps some stock options that are unlikely to ever be worth more than the bits they're taking up in some HR database - the possibility of having that startup's failure emblazened upon your resume for the rest of your days [more important for execs, but still]
And that ignores all of the social risks taken by spending that much time at your job and not with your mate/kids/friends.
Not to say that investors aren't risking a bit, but to steal a tidbit of wisdom from the poker world, "100 chips is a lot more valuable to a man with 100 chips than a man with a thousand."
This sort of technology isn't new. Intrusion Detection systems have used it for 5 years or so, though their targets are better tailored to the setup. Anyways, most of those systems needed modified to include signatures.
Why? Because the systems couldn't be guaranteed to win 'bake off' tests versus their signature based competators. Competators that often only had signatures for the often ancient and arcane vulnerabilites used in the tests.
Such shiny statistics are like catnip for executives it seems.
Anyways, this sort of setup is wonderful that not only does it detect new attacks, it's also usually an order of magnitude faster than the signature scanners.
They likely won't fight a warrant, and I would be doubtful they'd fight a plausible cease and desist; but I know they won't crack down themselves on hosts running servers, pegging bandwidth for p2p stuff, or otherwise using the service provided. And they're not going to resell my contact info.
Unfortunately, that's leaps and bounds above any other American ISP I've encountered.
You might want to contact Symantec about this. The primary reason they bought Veritas [and to a lesser degree Brightmail] was to make this sort of SEC mandated email archival setup.
Companies ask for a free market labor economy. Cheap developers in Russia and Asia are good, but when the supply is low [like high end search developers] they won't fork out the extra bucks to keep them.
I used to be one of the people who used IM exclusively compared to email, even for asynchronous messaging. But that was in college, when it was easy to coerce your friends into using the same messenger, and easy to exchange IM usernames at a party or in class.
As an adult, that's not so much the case. In the workplace such standardization can occur, but not often otherwise. E-mail is guaranteed to work, and is accepted for inter-company communication.
Does the 30 year old washing machine down the hall still wash clothes?
Of course it does. As a consumer, I want something that works. Unless I own stock or work for someone like Dell, I couldn't give a crap about new computer sales.
I admit I've never watched the series, and wasn't a huge fan of Whedon's other stuff, the little I saw of it. I did see the trailer for Serenity though before Mr and Mrs Smith, which was better than I expected.
The trailer too was better than I expected. Good eye candy, interesting looking story, enough to get me to likely see the film when I wouldn't before. It made the film look like a [big] film, and not just a long TV show like so many converts these days.
I mean if it -is- really secure. During the WTC attacks, IRC channels [cnn.com's irc feed comes to mind] did exceptionally well, when cell towers and conventional communications mediums were fubar'd. During that sort of thing, a 1 to many communications protocol is what's really needed anyways.
It's not just stolen laptops that send information to their servers. Any laptop with this software installed sends periodic heartbeats to the computrace people.
Our PHB ordered it installed after getting a call from a golf buddy. It was ripped out a week later. The heartbeats contain enough [cleartext] information that the increased chance of the laptop being broken into, or the salesguy socially engineered using the info was deemed higher than the chance it'd ever be stolen.
No, but if someone buys a TV, puts it on their sidewalk, and turns it on, they shouldn't be suprised if a few bums come and watch it.
Sure, I have gripes against spammers using my bandwidth, but I have absolutely no sympathy for people complaining that spammers are abusing their open relay.
I certainly care about the "per population" bit. I don't take it as a sign of innovation slowing, but of people [on average] being less innovative, for whatever reason.
Personally, I think that's something interesting from a socialogical standpoint. What's causing it? Increased cost requirements, education requirements? Societal changes which have stifled innovation or academic persuits? Probably a great many things.
The fact of the matter is that simple mispellings and minor grammatical errors do -not- effect someone's ability to communicate effectively. English allows for... "good enough".
Unfortunately, I notice the same sort of trend. Not in the technical elite though. I notice it in forums, in games and otherwise from the 'immature crowd'. They seem to miss that point entirely. The amount of... mutilation done to their English -does- make their communication less efficient.
Maybe it's just some "you damned kids!" crotchety-ness on my part. I'd like to think that even the 1337-speakers of my day could write proper english when the scenario called for it. Some people I've seen in the past year or two just seem wholy incapable...
Minor errors and infrequent abbreviation is excusable. Making your writing hard to understand because you won't spend the effort just makes you sound retarded.
Could this open some eyes and increase interest in alternative (Linux, Mac) offerings?
Huh? Why would the fact that people are not interested in choosing their software package push people towards linux, where that unwanted feature is commonplace!??!
But how do AV researchers dissect such malware, especially when virus writers have devoted so much time to avoiding detection and perfecting their craft with self-decrypting viruses, polymorphic shellcode, and obfuscated loops.sic.
They don't. All they need to do is watch the thing go by on the wire and pick out something that vaguely looks like a unique signature for their dumb as dirt detection engines. And that assumes that such techniques are commonly used, which they're not.
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Except that Diablo is nothing more than a pretty roguelike. Gameplay from 10-15 years earlier!
I mean, if that isn't the perfect example of the article's commentary, I don't know what is...
The games industry -currently- supports the small indie developer making 10,000 sales rather than 1,000,000. But the games industry is still an industry. And more importantly, the retail industry is still the retail industry.
If Mall-Games-Co has the choice between a hot selling game and a mediocre selling one, they're going to pick the hot game in an instant. The shelf space costs them the same!
And as long as gamers keep preferring console games to PC games, the game industry will be beholden to the retail industry's way of things.
That aint exactly a good thing people.
Except that you wouldn't be here if not for said extinction period. Who says that killing humanity off so that squid/birds/insects/dolphins can evolve to dig up our fossils and make bad movies about us isn't in everyone's best interest [but ours]?
While I was certainly ready to aim glib comments, you're right about most missing the point. You're also rather missing the point that no matter if either global warming [a large scale climate shift] rather than global warming [a geologically small 'hot streak'] is causing sea levels to rise, the root result is the problem at hand, and likely the only problem our generation will be able to identify, let alone deal with.
And really, even that point shouldn't be enough to prevent glib comments about a city built below the un-risen sea level, in an area frequented every August/September by a hurricane or two.
Lee's conduct threatens to disclose or Lee inevitably will disclose Microsoft's trade secrets to Google and/or others for his and/or Google's financial gain in the course of working to improve Google search products that compete with Microsoft, and in the course of establishing and building Google's presence in China to compete with Microsoft's efforts in China.
"Well then maybe you should've made him not want to leave."
I find it amusing that companies are allowed to fuck employees in the race for cheaper labor, but valuable employees [alledgedly] aren't allowed to fuck employers in the race for higher wages.
Except for the ingrained collusion, I don't see much problem with poker bots. I mean, who cares if they play statistics to the tee?
If anything that will only guarantee their losses when they hold a good hand vs the best hand. A common scenario in poker is when you have the 2nd best hand and someone is betting into you. You have to ask "what are the chances they have it?".
Oh, how I'd love to be at a table full of bots that would never think that I really do have the best hand.
Low risk. Right. Perhaps you're looking at different startups than I am but standard employees often work those 75 hours a week for:
- generally rock bottom salary.
- the chance that even that will disappear on a moment's notice.
- perhaps some stock options that are unlikely to ever be worth more than the bits they're taking up in some HR database
- the possibility of having that startup's failure emblazened upon your resume for the rest of your days [more important for execs, but still]
And that ignores all of the social risks taken by spending that much time at your job and not with your mate/kids/friends.
Not to say that investors aren't risking a bit, but to steal a tidbit of wisdom from the poker world, "100 chips is a lot more valuable to a man with 100 chips than a man with a thousand."
This sort of technology isn't new. Intrusion Detection systems have used it for 5 years or so, though their targets are better tailored to the setup. Anyways, most of those systems needed modified to include signatures.
Why? Because the systems couldn't be guaranteed to win 'bake off' tests versus their signature based competators. Competators that often only had signatures for the often ancient and arcane vulnerabilites used in the tests.
Such shiny statistics are like catnip for executives it seems.
Anyways, this sort of setup is wonderful that not only does it detect new attacks, it's also usually an order of magnitude faster than the signature scanners.
They likely won't fight a warrant, and I would be doubtful they'd fight a plausible cease and desist; but I know they won't crack down themselves on hosts running servers, pegging bandwidth for p2p stuff, or otherwise using the service provided. And they're not going to resell my contact info.
Unfortunately, that's leaps and bounds above any other American ISP I've encountered.
You might want to contact Symantec about this. The primary reason they bought Veritas [and to a lesser degree Brightmail] was to make this sort of SEC mandated email archival setup.
Did the $0 solution of turning off the warez while you play become some sort of lost art?
Companies ask for a free market labor economy. Cheap developers in Russia and Asia are good, but when the supply is low [like high end search developers] they won't fork out the extra bucks to keep them.
I used to be one of the people who used IM exclusively compared to email, even for asynchronous messaging. But that was in college, when it was easy to coerce your friends into using the same messenger, and easy to exchange IM usernames at a party or in class.
As an adult, that's not so much the case. In the workplace such standardization can occur, but not often otherwise. E-mail is guaranteed to work, and is accepted for inter-company communication.
Does the 30 year old washing machine down the hall still wash clothes?
Of course it does. As a consumer, I want something that works. Unless I own stock or work for someone like Dell, I couldn't give a crap about new computer sales.
I admit I've never watched the series, and wasn't a huge fan of Whedon's other stuff, the little I saw of it. I did see the trailer for Serenity though before Mr and Mrs Smith, which was better than I expected.
The trailer too was better than I expected. Good eye candy, interesting looking story, enough to get me to likely see the film when I wouldn't before. It made the film look like a [big] film, and not just a long TV show like so many converts these days.
Why?
I mean if it -is- really secure. During the WTC attacks, IRC channels [cnn.com's irc feed comes to mind] did exceptionally well, when cell towers and conventional communications mediums were fubar'd. During that sort of thing, a 1 to many communications protocol is what's really needed anyways.
It's not just stolen laptops that send information to their servers. Any laptop with this software installed sends periodic heartbeats to the computrace people.
Our PHB ordered it installed after getting a call from a golf buddy. It was ripped out a week later. The heartbeats contain enough [cleartext] information that the increased chance of the laptop being broken into, or the salesguy socially engineered using the info was deemed higher than the chance it'd ever be stolen.
Could this be the start of a Pleistocene park?
I thought one was opened about 4 and a half years ago, in Washington...
No, but if someone buys a TV, puts it on their sidewalk, and turns it on, they shouldn't be suprised if a few bums come and watch it.
Sure, I have gripes against spammers using my bandwidth, but I have absolutely no sympathy for people complaining that spammers are abusing their open relay.
I certainly care about the "per population" bit. I don't take it as a sign of innovation slowing, but of people [on average] being less innovative, for whatever reason.
Personally, I think that's something interesting from a socialogical standpoint. What's causing it? Increased cost requirements, education requirements? Societal changes which have stifled innovation or academic persuits? Probably a great many things.
The fact of the matter is that simple mispellings and minor grammatical errors do -not- effect someone's ability to communicate effectively. English allows for... "good enough".
Unfortunately, I notice the same sort of trend. Not in the technical elite though. I notice it in forums, in games and otherwise from the 'immature crowd'. They seem to miss that point entirely. The amount of... mutilation done to their English -does- make their communication less efficient.
Maybe it's just some "you damned kids!" crotchety-ness on my part. I'd like to think that even the 1337-speakers of my day could write proper english when the scenario called for it. Some people I've seen in the past year or two just seem wholy incapable...
Minor errors and infrequent abbreviation is excusable. Making your writing hard to understand because you won't spend the effort just makes you sound retarded.
Could this open some eyes and increase interest in alternative (Linux, Mac) offerings?
Huh? Why would the fact that people are not interested in choosing their software package push people towards linux, where that unwanted feature is commonplace!??!
But how do AV researchers dissect such malware, especially when virus writers have devoted so much time to avoiding detection and perfecting their craft with self-decrypting viruses, polymorphic shellcode, and obfuscated loops. sic.
They don't. All they need to do is watch the thing go by on the wire and pick out something that vaguely looks like a unique signature for their dumb as dirt detection engines. And that assumes that such techniques are commonly used, which they're not.
Why do the majority of 'out of the box' unix scripts run in plain sh?
Because in single user mode, or on a minimal install, that's all that guaranteed to be there.
Of why -acts- should be crimes, not simply states or possession.