1) Do you think the blatant lies and fabrications regarding SWG features told during its development helped or hurt the game upon release?
2) Regarding Quality Assurance: Have you considered hiring someone who would actually play the game and give feedback during its development? For example, "This game isn't fun." "This is a bullshit way to become a Jedi!"
3) You limit the number of characters per account, and charge for additional slots. Back in the day, you claimed that the characters were SO customizable that the storage requirements are too high.
Assuming each character has:
-255 points of customization (they do not) -Each with 255 points of granularity. (they do not) And each character has an average of 1000 items (ha!) with over 4 BILLION options for each item (HAHAHA).
That adds up to:
1 byte per character customization = 255 bytes. 1000 X 4 bytes per item = 4000 bytes.
So, that is approximately 4 meg per character, uncompressed.
My question is:
Are you complete bullshitters, crappy programmers or greedy fucks? Please detail your answer with additional examples.
They will certainly start offering versions of office for mac which look and act identically to the windows version. It will pollute the mac interface...
"Did you know I get paid $20 an hour, and you have already used up $2 of my employers time just talking to me?"
Actually, that is the big reason why you can't get rid of "stupid" class action lawsuits. What is to prevent a company from stealing 10 cents from everyone in the country if no one person can reasonably fight it?
Nonetheless, I have to say that despite the tendancy for geeks to latch on to a crappy cancelled show, Firefly was a great series. Rent/Buy/Steal the DVD and check it out for yourself.
I don't think HE was being racist. Some porn is advertised as "interracial" catering to an existing fetish. It is not portrayed as normal in the porn, and is often shown as a bunch of "thugs" taking advantange of a woman.
If you have any further evidence to back up your claims I would love to see it, though.
Someone else already linked it from archive.org. I found the two articles you linked extremely amusing. "China isn't a customer of ours." Right. The fact that they're lying even now should say something about the company. If you must do filtering, great, but if you're in a position to make decisions about what software to use, remember what kind of company Websense is.
They sold their filtering software to the Chinese government for use in censorship of pro-democracy sites. They actually had the news release on their website a few years ago.
When asked "Gosh, do you think that this is a moral thing for an American company do to?" they replied "Hey, we just sell the software, we can't be responsible for how people use it."
Anyone who has worked with sales before knows that is a load of shit. Before you start talking to a customer, you learn about their needs so you can better sell your product. There's no way they just passively got a contact with the chinese government. I promise you, they were over there for weeks, showing powerpoint presentations claiming that their product could filter and report on dissidents MUCH better than the competition.
They've been putting up this bullshit about web usage for years. A few years ago, it was porn at work, and how companies are at risk for lawsuits if they don't immediately buy a filter. Of course, this fails the "What if it wasn't on a computer?" test, since if I brought an old-fashioned porn mag to work and was caught reading it, i'd be fired, and the company wouldn't be negligent. They don't need a $100,000 porn scanner at each door... but since it is on a COMPTUER, well, it is magic.
I mean, check out the management. Their CEO looks like he is about to rip off his false face to reveal the reptilian features underneath.
A really damn *big* handgun... ought to get attention from some people.
Actually, that would be a cool plot point. Have him be too "elite" to transform until they need the gun, then have it be a dramatic event in the movie, as through he is a walking WMD.
"What?? Megaton is transforming? HOLY MOTHER OF KRUNK! I WISH I HAD WRITTEN MY ROBOT MOTHER MORE! RUN!!! RUUUUNNNNN!"
I reluctantly dropped Tivo a month ago to switch to the cable company's offering. My new DVR can record two HDTV channels simultaneously, while the Tivo hadn't seen significant updates since 2001. (Besides their HEAVILY DRMed copy to PC. You need to enter in a password everytime you watch a show.)
Hopefully someone will provide an inexpensive way to show these movies. Perhaps a small set-top device provided by netflix in exchange for a service contract that can download a movie or two for later viewing.
Or we could, of course, continue to support businesses that aren't able to compete properly
That's a lovely libertarian theory, except that maybe if I'm a publisher, I _want_ to have lots of little bookstores around selling my goods, otherwise the big ones could start dictating terms and prices to me.
The reason you have release dates is so that ALL dealers have a chance to sell the book. Otherwise the stores with better distribution systems would get it in stock first, while the others would have to wait.
Then the publisher would have to worry about which store to ship to first, because the first store who receives it has a massive sales boost.
Eventually, every small bookstore goes out of business.
This whole submission makes no sense. It has nothing to do with DRM.
Pop-ups and spyware suck, but do you really want a precedent that says that programs running on your computer should be altered by what ADVERTISEMENT you happen to be watching?
If a price is dropped so low that competitors simply can't compete with the price at all, that is almost certainly in violation of anti-trust acts.
But it is. A small company can't launch a console, because they can't subsidize a billion dollars in losses up front. Only Sony, etc can, AND that is only because they already have a position in the market.
It wasn't too long ago that IBM was complaining about the decline in the number of students pursuing CS degrees in the U.S.
I firmly believe that this is just a PR effort conducted by major players in the IT world in order to make the public believe that that outsourced jobs are ones that people here just couldn't do.
Instead of saying "We're moving jobs to India because it is cheaper." they change it to "We're moving jobs to India because people in the U.S are unable to qualify for them."
It's the difference between murder and manslaughter - both wind up with a dead victim, but the former says you are a "very bad person" the latter doesn't.
Manslaughter doesn't mean you're a good person, it just means you didn't intend to kill the victim. I might have intended simply to break your arm, but missed.
Hey, another slashdot dupe. I read the same article and almost identical comments 7 years ago when someone realized you could change NT 4 Workstation to NT 4 Server by changing a registry entry and rebooting...
Tiered versions are extremely common in the commercial software industry. Customers don't want to pay for features they don't want, while other customers will pay extra for features they demand.
When it is done correctly, it uses the same codebase. The fact that you're able to hack the versioning is completely meaningless.
This isn't some difficult to understand article like "Random company says obscure technical thing", which when presented different ways may slip past an editor.
This is "MICROSOFT IS MAKING ANTI-VIRUS SOFTWARE". It is a simple concept, and a memorable and controversal one at that. An editor could have searched on "Microsoft" or "virus" and seen the obvious dupe. Do a search for virus right now. It is amusing.
This place has really degenerated to dupes and several nonsense articles. They need new editors.
Like a baby, we won't really appreciate its value until it's matured a bit.
Are you kidding? Babies are worth $15,000-$20,000 easily, even if they're female. Once e-Bay stops being a bunch of pussies and we get some open bidding started, I expect their value to go up even higher.
Once again, we see that the./ editors have no idea what they're writing about.
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1) Do you think the blatant lies and fabrications regarding SWG features told during its development helped or hurt the game upon release?
2) Regarding Quality Assurance: Have you considered hiring someone who would actually play the game and give feedback during its development? For example, "This game isn't fun." "This is a bullshit way to become a Jedi!"
3) You limit the number of characters per account, and charge for additional slots. Back in the day, you claimed that the characters were SO customizable that the storage requirements are too high.
Assuming each character has:
-255 points of customization (they do not)
-Each with 255 points of granularity. (they do not)
And each character has an average of 1000 items (ha!) with over 4 BILLION options for each item (HAHAHA).
That adds up to:
1 byte per character customization = 255 bytes.
1000 X 4 bytes per item = 4000 bytes.
So, that is approximately 4 meg per character, uncompressed.
My question is:
Are you complete bullshitters, crappy programmers or greedy fucks? Please detail your answer with additional examples.
The fundimentalists stopped listening to Jews in A.D 33
I guarantee that if I did a study, it would show that P2P users were four times as likely to be shot and killed than a non-P2P user.
Why? P2P users are young, and most shooting deaths are of younger people.
Correlations don't necessarily mean anything.
They will certainly start offering versions of office for mac which look and act identically to the windows version. It will pollute the mac interface...
Actually, it looks like the guy just got a form letter from an HR rep, which he then responded to like a complete asshole.
Yeah, OK, you don't like Microsoft. We get it. That wasn't a reason to attack and insult an HR rep that was clearly the butt of a joke.
"Did you know I get paid $20 an hour, and you have already used up $2 of my employers time just talking to me?"
Actually, that is the big reason why you can't get rid of "stupid" class action lawsuits. What is to prevent a company from stealing 10 cents from everyone in the country if no one person can reasonably fight it?
Nonetheless, I have to say that despite the tendancy for geeks to latch on to a crappy cancelled show, Firefly was a great series. Rent/Buy/Steal the DVD and check it out for yourself.
I don't think HE was being racist. Some porn is advertised as "interracial" catering to an existing fetish. It is not portrayed as normal in the porn, and is often shown as a bunch of "thugs" taking advantange of a woman.
If you have any further evidence to back up your claims I would love to see it, though.
Someone else already linked it from archive.org. I found the two articles you linked extremely amusing. "China isn't a customer of ours." Right.
The fact that they're lying even now should say something about the company. If you must do filtering, great, but if you're in a position to make decisions about what software to use, remember what kind of company Websense is.
When asked "Gosh, do you think that this is a moral thing for an American company do to?" they replied "Hey, we just sell the software, we can't be responsible for how people use it."
Anyone who has worked with sales before knows that is a load of shit. Before you start talking to a customer, you learn about their needs so you can better sell your product. There's no way they just passively got a contact with the chinese government. I promise you, they were over there for weeks, showing powerpoint presentations claiming that their product could filter and report on dissidents MUCH better than the competition.
They've been putting up this bullshit about web usage for years. A few years ago, it was porn at work, and how companies are at risk for lawsuits if they don't immediately buy a filter. Of course, this fails the "What if it wasn't on a computer?" test, since if I brought an old-fashioned porn mag to work and was caught reading it, i'd be fired, and the company wouldn't be negligent. They don't need a $100,000 porn scanner at each door... but since it is on a COMPTUER, well, it is magic.
I mean, check out the management. Their CEO looks like he is about to rip off his false face to reveal the reptilian features underneath.
Its amazing what people are motivated to develop when they're confident that they are NEVER getting laid.
(RPI Alums, you know what I mean.)
A really damn *big* handgun... ought to get attention from some people.
Actually, that would be a cool plot point. Have him be too "elite" to transform until they need the gun, then have it be a dramatic event in the movie, as through he is a walking WMD.
"What?? Megaton is transforming? HOLY MOTHER OF KRUNK! I WISH I HAD WRITTEN MY ROBOT MOTHER MORE! RUN!!! RUUUUNNNNN!"
I reluctantly dropped Tivo a month ago to switch to the cable company's offering. My new DVR can record two HDTV channels simultaneously, while the Tivo hadn't seen significant updates since 2001. (Besides their HEAVILY DRMed copy to PC. You need to enter in a password everytime you watch a show.)
Hopefully someone will provide an inexpensive way to show these movies. Perhaps a small set-top device provided by netflix in exchange for a service contract that can download a movie or two for later viewing.
Or we could, of course, continue to support businesses that aren't able to compete properly
That's a lovely libertarian theory, except that maybe if I'm a publisher, I _want_ to have lots of little bookstores around selling my goods, otherwise the big ones could start dictating terms and prices to me.
The reason you have release dates is so that ALL dealers have a chance to sell the book. Otherwise the stores with better distribution systems would get it in stock first, while the others would have to wait.
Then the publisher would have to worry about which store to ship to first, because the first store who receives it has a massive sales boost.
Eventually, every small bookstore goes out of business.
This whole submission makes no sense. It has nothing to do with DRM.
"Here is some sample code. char asterick foo equals new char open bracket three zero close bracket semicolon."
Pop-ups and spyware suck, but do you really want a precedent that says that programs running on your computer should be altered by what ADVERTISEMENT you happen to be watching?
If a price is dropped so low that competitors simply can't compete with the price at all, that is almost certainly in violation of anti-trust acts.
But it is. A small company can't launch a console, because they can't subsidize a billion dollars in losses up front. Only Sony, etc can, AND that is only because they already have a position in the market.
It wasn't too long ago that IBM was complaining about the decline in the number of students pursuing CS degrees in the U.S.
I firmly believe that this is just a PR effort conducted by major players in the IT world in order to make the public believe that that outsourced jobs are ones that people here just couldn't do.
Instead of saying "We're moving jobs to India because it is cheaper." they change it to "We're moving jobs to India because people in the U.S are unable to qualify for them."
"Macs are just WAY too expensive. I can get a complete system for under $300, or I can spend almost DOUBLE on a Mac Mini."
It's the difference between murder and manslaughter - both wind up with a dead victim, but the former says you are a "very bad person" the latter doesn't.
Manslaughter doesn't mean you're a good person, it just means you didn't intend to kill the victim. I might have intended simply to break your arm, but missed.
Hey, another slashdot dupe. I read the same article and almost identical comments 7 years ago when someone realized you could change NT 4 Workstation to NT 4 Server by changing a registry entry and rebooting...
Tiered versions are extremely common in the commercial software industry. Customers don't want to pay for features they don't want, while other customers will pay extra for features they demand.
When it is done correctly, it uses the same codebase. The fact that you're able to hack the versioning is completely meaningless.
This isn't some difficult to understand article like "Random company says obscure technical thing", which when presented different ways may slip past an editor.
This is "MICROSOFT IS MAKING ANTI-VIRUS SOFTWARE". It is a simple concept, and a memorable and controversal one at that. An editor could have searched on "Microsoft" or "virus" and seen the obvious dupe. Do a search for virus right now. It is amusing.
This place has really degenerated to dupes and several nonsense articles. They need new editors.
I wonder how much "productivity" we lose due to Christmas.
Are you kidding? Babies are worth $15,000-$20,000 easily, even if they're female. Once e-Bay stops being a bunch of pussies and we get some open bidding started, I expect their value to go up even higher.
Once again, we see that the