The new Microsoft is only run by Carebears and Unicorns and rainbow coloured ponies (or so I'm told).
Friendly Neighbourhood Extortion Company has declared war on The new Microsoft. Within 24 hours fighting can legally occur between those involved.
For your convenience we have included the appropriate CONCORD War Rules:
The weekly cost is 6,000,000.00 ISK and you will receive a bill which needs to be paid promptly to maintain the war. If the bill is not paid before it is due then the war will be cancelled. If the war is cancelled then do not pay any outstanding bills for that war.
When an active war has been cancelled, there is a 24 hour grace period during which you can still be legally attacked.
If you are at war with a corporation that joins an alliance then the war will change from being against the corporation to being against the alliance.
If you are at war with an alliance and a corporation leaves that alliance then you will still be at war with the alliance but also temporarily at war with the corporation that left. The war against the corporation that leaves an alliance lasts 24 hours during this period you can attack them until the war expires.
Should you wish to resume hostilities against such a corporation then you need to declare war again.
I have to wonder what will happen when facebook goes into decline and cash dries up, and they start selling pictures to porn sites. what if you go for a job and they recognise you from a site you have nothing to do with called bustedpartysluts.com?
I'd ask the interviewer what he was doing trawling porn sites in the first place;-)
Actually, I'm pretty sure the document you're distributing does not actually contain said fonts, just an instruction that certain pieces of text are to displayed using that font.
If the machine that is being used to display the document doesn't have the font in question...it'll revert to a default font or crap out depending on the software used.
With that kind of attitude I'm sure you'll be part of other ventures and do better next time:-)
Just out of curiosity(hope you spot this since you posted anon), will you at least be able to refer to this idea as a brainchild of yours when collecting capital for another venture in the future?
Also, the idea of having a robot transcribe your love messages is far more acceptable to many than having a guy listen to your deepest thoughts and giggling while doing so. Who knows? He might even put a few jokes in there.
Heck, you can just see it...that's movie material right there.
Spinvox employee #1 to Spinvox employee #2: "Oh man, will you look at this? How is this guy ever expecting to get laid when this is how he tries to woo a woman?"
Spinvox employee #2 to Spinvox employee #1: "Well, we did just get paid for the first time in 3 months. Heck, I'm in a good mood, give it to me and I'll fix it up a bit for him."
Queue 2 hours of cheesy Hollywood romantic comedy ending with customer's girlfriend living happily ever after with Spinvox employee #2.
more frequently between marketing and legal, im certain random DMCA lawsuits against high profile social services like wikipedia that stand for the common good would never see the light of day.
Yes...because marketing people are the last bastion of hope and common sense in a world otherwise gone mad...:P
I'm not sure if humanity is ready to handle the issues with creating a human brain in an electronic test tube. What do you do when it comes time to turn the experiment off and it yells "Don't do that! I don't want to die!"?
You create the Matrix and plug it in? Or, failing that, hook it up to World of Warcraft to shut it up for a few years while you figure out what to do next.
In some states you can be arrested and charged with a full-blown DUI for riding a bicycle while drunk.
Over here in the Netherlands you can get arrested, and lose your license, when riding a bicycle while under the influence.
Rationale for this is that although the odds of a bicycle running over someone and seriously injuring or killing that person are a lot smaller than with a car, a drunk cyclist can still disrupt traffic quite badly and cause accidents in a myriad of other ways. Just imagine trying to overtake a cyclist in a car only to see him go left all of a sudden...hello pile-up.
Then again we've got more bicycles than people over here;-)
I have seen this straw man thrown out again and again, that existing infrastructure can't possibly support the widespread use of electric cars, but you never hear that from anyone in the electrical utility industry. Any reliable system in this country is designed to handle the maximum anticipated peak load that customers require on the worst day (think maximum AC load on the hottest day, maximum heating load on the coldest day) on top of the normal industrial load. Even this peak only occurs for a few hours, a few days of the year, and normal electrical load rises to a peak during business hours and falls off sharply after that. The rest of the time the capacity if the system is grossly underutilized.
Heck, some countries are already working on making it a reality. Right now cities are already putting electric vehicles and charging points in place, and the Netherlands is working towards having 10000 public charging points in place by 2012. (That's plenty to cover the entire country btw;-))
Infrastructure in terms of the grid isn't too much of an issue, the ability to generate enough power is though...but there the increased demand should make it viable to put more power generation in place.
I didn't choose to be a Republican any more than I chose to be a Jew. My family has been Republican (and Jewish) for several generations. Being a Republican is part and parcel of how I was raised and of who I am.
And here we have one of the main issues with democracy in the USA...80% of the electorate votes consistently for the same half of the 2-party system their parents vote for as well.
Will crApple cover up anything and everything even if that means tampering with the law and/or (American) constitution ? You bet
How, given that the constitution only applies to things the government can and cannot do, is "crApple" going to tamper with it? I know that it's a very precious document to the USA, but let the poor thing rest unless it's actually appropriate to wave it about, will ya?
And quite frankly, the PvP sucks as well since it generally is just getting a bigger blob than the next guy or killing defenseless people when they come through a gate (if you are lucky enough that someone comes through after sitting there for hours)....YDIW;-)there's SO much more that can be done if you're...creative.
More like I hope they aren't including Final Fantasy VIII [printfection.com] in that. God, what a terrible game. I Think people will start taking money back if they have to read the Emo-fied dialogue that comes out of Squall for that entire game....whatever.
Good to see that the users of/. are completely biased against Microsoft no matter what they do. Glad to see how open minded this community is. This Microsoft = Evil crap gets really old after awhile. They are one of the most innovative companies out, produce quality software, offer much of it for free (Virtual PC? SharePoint Designer?) to the development community, and now they're trying to put out drivers for Linux under a license that garuntees they will be open and free and still everyone on/. is going to bash them and say this is a conspiracy.
I've taken Software Engineering classes at 3 different Universities (Drexel, George Mason, and West Chester). At every University they presented studies comparing open and closed source software. Closed source wins on almost every level; fewer errors, quicker fixes, better performance. Open source is a great ideal but just because someone COULD go through and edit and contribute code doesn't mean someone WILL go through and fix the errors or even find them in the first place. When I was 16 this open source evangelism had me convinced; a Masters Degree in Computer Science and 10 years in the industry have convinced me that open source is more hype than anything else and very few people are going to sit day after day and produce quality code and products if they don't get paid for it. Microsoft has contributed more to computing than any single company but everyone on this site just loves to hate them for no real reason; and I'm sure you'll all be jumping into anything Google produces (such as Chrome OS) despite the fact that your Holy Google is nothing but DoubleClick 2.0.
I thought this was an open-minded community once; now I realize it is nothing but a bunch of like minded extremists who only want to hear their opinions confirmed without any real argument or debate. When Microsoft does something to promote software interoperability with your open source products I would think that these open source advocates would be happy; instead you assume it is a giant conspiracy to overthrow the open-source community. Grow up.
There's a different between bias and distrust that has grown over the years. Microsoft has shown time and time again that they're willing to do pretty much anything to get rid of the competition. Heck, they've even been ruled against based on unfair monopolistic practices on 2 different continents, so it's not like it's just a bunch of rabid Slashdotians who feel this way.
Now, if your 19 year old kid has been misbehaving, lying, cheating and stealing since he was 6, you're going to be very very wary before giving him your wallet to go and get some groceries. If Microsoft wants to play nice with the OSS community, they're going to have to work hard to *earn* that trust (back). Concrete example: Sharepoint. Don't get me wrong, I like it and I use it a lot at work. However, I still consider it to be a "lockin tool". Now, if Sharepoint were to interface properly with file formats from companies that compete with MS in other software fields such as Office applications, that'd be something to write about. Heck, making it work 100% with anything but IE would a nice start.
So? Who needs the damn gubernment? The invisible hand of the free market will come and smite these foul fraudsters once the general public has been informed about their terrible misdeeds!
Oh, wait. The general public is far too busy watching American Idol to constantly inform themselves about the gazillion jerks out there scamming (somewhat)honest people out of their money.
Lock Target -> ctrl-click on overview or in space.
And if you think those would come in handy fighting a level 2 mission....imagine yourself fighting 5 human pilots on your own;-)
As for firing all guns, see the other reply about grouping weapons. Grouping also allows you to reload/switch ammo with a single click(extremely useful on ships with 7/8 guns/launchers of the same type).
The concept of actually flying your ship over selecting targets on the objects list and being auto piloted there is pointless.
I'm a full-time pvp pilot, and the position of my ship in the bigger picture is one of the most important aspects for me to manage. Dodging turret fire is best done at close range, but staying out of neut range of that damn domi AND maintaining enough speed at the same time to not take too much damage from that drake...far from pointless.
The EVE UI might not be to your taste, but you can't say it isn't complete.
Considering the nature of the corporation-based gameplay, desktop metaphor works really well. It is actually configured very much the same way as I have my fluxbox install, so the whole thing is pretty seamless and feels very natural.
Sure, it takes a month (or three) of use before you get the most out of it, but it really is user-friendly. (in the vi sense, not the notepad sense)
Having said that, an open-source client would rock!
Considering I had to look up how to have my corp apply for an alliance on a wiki this morning...I'd say the UI still has a few things left to be desired.
For those who are curious, you can't look it up in people and places and then right click it for a list of logical actions, like most other things in EVE. You have to go to the interface for managing your corporations, then go to alliances(makes sense so far, right?), and then call up a list of every alliance in the game, find the one you're looking for and in there you're allowed to right-click and apply. Yaaaaaaay...
CO2 ratings like this are retarded. As long as I keep seeing measurements in the form of weight rather than mass, I'm going to continue to think of everyone who talks about it as blabbering idiots.
140 tons where? At the surface of the planet or higher up in the atmosphere where it 'weighs' less? A cubic (insert whatever measurement you'd like) at sea level weighs differently than one in Death Valley or one on the ISS.
I might start listening when you start using proper forms of measurement for what you are measuring, until then its just political propoganda used for posturing and furthering some political parties agenda.
Not sure what kind of tons the GP was referring to, but over here a ton is 1000 kg which, unless i've really erased physics classes from my memory, was a unit of mass and not of weight.
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The new Microsoft is only run by Carebears and Unicorns and rainbow coloured ponies (or so I'm told).
Friendly Neighbourhood Extortion Company has declared war on The new Microsoft.
Within 24 hours fighting can legally occur between those involved.
For your convenience we have included the appropriate CONCORD War Rules:
The weekly cost is 6,000,000.00 ISK and you will receive a bill which needs to be paid promptly to maintain the war. If the bill is not paid before it is due then the war will be cancelled. If the war is cancelled then do not pay any outstanding bills for that war.
When an active war has been cancelled, there is a 24 hour grace period during which you can still be legally attacked.
If you are at war with a corporation that joins an alliance then the war will change from being against the corporation to being against the alliance.
If you are at war with an alliance and a corporation leaves that alliance then you will still be at war with the alliance but also temporarily at war with the corporation that left. The war against the corporation that leaves an alliance lasts 24 hours during this period you can attack them until the war expires.
Should you wish to resume hostilities against such a corporation then you need to declare war again.
I have to wonder what will happen when facebook goes into decline and cash dries up, and they start selling pictures to porn sites. what if you go for a job and they recognise you from a site you have nothing to do with called bustedpartysluts.com?
I'd ask the interviewer what he was doing trawling porn sites in the first place ;-)
I appreciate the GPL as a mechanism for the promotion of collaboration, but I can't stand people who try to tell other people what their problems are.
Ok guys...whatever happens, noone tells NonSequor about the benzene in his breakfast cereal, awright?
Actually, I'm pretty sure the document you're distributing does not actually contain said fonts, just an instruction that certain pieces of text are to displayed using that font.
If the machine that is being used to display the document doesn't have the font in question...it'll revert to a default font or crap out depending on the software used.
Theres gotta be some sort of upside to watching TV, some sort of skillset to be gained from years of doing it.
It's called "watercooler conversation material gathering" ;-)
Oh man! I'm so writing an iPhone app consisting of a single red bigass button to flip your bitter status!
I'm a gonna be rich!
Whatcha doing buddy? Oh, just flipping my bit.
With that kind of attitude I'm sure you'll be part of other ventures and do better next time :-)
Just out of curiosity(hope you spot this since you posted anon), will you at least be able to refer to this idea as a brainchild of yours when collecting capital for another venture in the future?
Ehmm, yeah...change its space by packacking it into another lightweight material? Say....plastic or if it's dry cardboard for all I care?
Not that hard to wrap an airfoil in such a way that it becomes a round or an elliptic shape, even with the sizes concerned.
Also, the idea of having a robot transcribe your love messages is far more acceptable to many than having a guy listen to your deepest thoughts and giggling while doing so. Who knows? He might even put a few jokes in there.
Heck, you can just see it...that's movie material right there.
Spinvox employee #1 to Spinvox employee #2: "Oh man, will you look at this? How is this guy ever expecting to get laid when this is how he tries to woo a woman?"
Spinvox employee #2 to Spinvox employee #1: "Well, we did just get paid for the first time in 3 months. Heck, I'm in a good mood, give it to me and I'll fix it up a bit for him."
Queue 2 hours of cheesy Hollywood romantic comedy ending with customer's girlfriend living happily ever after with Spinvox employee #2.
more frequently between marketing and legal, im certain random DMCA lawsuits against high profile social services like wikipedia that stand for the common good would never see the light of day.
Yes...because marketing people are the last bastion of hope and common sense in a world otherwise gone mad... :P
I'm not sure if humanity is ready to handle the issues with creating a human brain in an electronic test tube. What do you do when it comes time to turn the experiment off and it yells "Don't do that! I don't want to die!"?
You create the Matrix and plug it in? Or, failing that, hook it up to World of Warcraft to shut it up for a few years while you figure out what to do next.
In some states you can be arrested and charged with a full-blown DUI for riding a bicycle while drunk.
Over here in the Netherlands you can get arrested, and lose your license, when riding a bicycle while under the influence.
Rationale for this is that although the odds of a bicycle running over someone and seriously injuring or killing that person are a lot smaller than with a car, a drunk cyclist can still disrupt traffic quite badly and cause accidents in a myriad of other ways. Just imagine trying to overtake a cyclist in a car only to see him go left all of a sudden...hello pile-up.
Then again we've got more bicycles than people over here ;-)
I have seen this straw man thrown out again and again, that existing infrastructure can't possibly support the widespread use of electric cars, but you never hear that from anyone in the electrical utility industry. Any reliable system in this country is designed to handle the maximum anticipated peak load that customers require on the worst day (think maximum AC load on the hottest day, maximum heating load on the coldest day) on top of the normal industrial load. Even this peak only occurs for a few hours, a few days of the year, and normal electrical load rises to a peak during business hours and falls off sharply after that. The rest of the time the capacity if the system is grossly underutilized.
Heck, some countries are already working on making it a reality. Right now cities are already putting electric vehicles and charging points in place, and the Netherlands is working towards having 10000 public charging points in place by 2012. (That's plenty to cover the entire country btw ;-))
Infrastructure in terms of the grid isn't too much of an issue, the ability to generate enough power is though...but there the increased demand should make it viable to put more power generation in place.
I didn't choose to be a Republican any more than I chose to be a Jew. My family has been Republican (and Jewish) for several generations. Being a Republican is part and parcel of how I was raised and of who I am.
And here we have one of the main issues with democracy in the USA...80% of the electorate votes consistently for the same half of the 2-party system their parents vote for as well.
1) Release code under GPL
2) Pigs fly and spread pig flue
3) ?????
4) Plague!
5) Robo-ballmer rules the world
Will crApple cover up anything and everything even if that means tampering with the law and/or (American) constitution ? You bet
How, given that the constitution only applies to things the government can and cannot do, is "crApple" going to tamper with it? I know that it's a very precious document to the USA, but let the poor thing rest unless it's actually appropriate to wave it about, will ya?
And quite frankly, the PvP sucks as well since it generally is just getting a bigger blob than the next guy or killing defenseless people when they come through a gate (if you are lucky enough that someone comes through after sitting there for hours). ...YDIW ;-)there's SO much more that can be done if you're...creative.
More like I hope they aren't including Final Fantasy VIII [printfection.com] in that. God, what a terrible game. I Think people will start taking money back if they have to read the Emo-fied dialogue that comes out of Squall for that entire game. ...whatever.
Good to see that the users of /. are completely biased against Microsoft no matter what they do. Glad to see how open minded this community is. This Microsoft = Evil crap gets really old after awhile. They are one of the most innovative companies out, produce quality software, offer much of it for free (Virtual PC? SharePoint Designer?) to the development community, and now they're trying to put out drivers for Linux under a license that garuntees they will be open and free and still everyone on /. is going to bash them and say this is a conspiracy.
I've taken Software Engineering classes at 3 different Universities (Drexel, George Mason, and West Chester). At every University they presented studies comparing open and closed source software. Closed source wins on almost every level; fewer errors, quicker fixes, better performance. Open source is a great ideal but just because someone COULD go through and edit and contribute code doesn't mean someone WILL go through and fix the errors or even find them in the first place. When I was 16 this open source evangelism had me convinced; a Masters Degree in Computer Science and 10 years in the industry have convinced me that open source is more hype than anything else and very few people are going to sit day after day and produce quality code and products if they don't get paid for it. Microsoft has contributed more to computing than any single company but everyone on this site just loves to hate them for no real reason; and I'm sure you'll all be jumping into anything Google produces (such as Chrome OS) despite the fact that your Holy Google is nothing but DoubleClick 2.0.
I thought this was an open-minded community once; now I realize it is nothing but a bunch of like minded extremists who only want to hear their opinions confirmed without any real argument or debate. When Microsoft does something to promote software interoperability with your open source products I would think that these open source advocates would be happy; instead you assume it is a giant conspiracy to overthrow the open-source community. Grow up.
There's a different between bias and distrust that has grown over the years. Microsoft has shown time and time again that they're willing to do pretty much anything to get rid of the competition. Heck, they've even been ruled against based on unfair monopolistic practices on 2 different continents, so it's not like it's just a bunch of rabid Slashdotians who feel this way.
Now, if your 19 year old kid has been misbehaving, lying, cheating and stealing since he was 6, you're going to be very very wary before giving him your wallet to go and get some groceries. If Microsoft wants to play nice with the OSS community, they're going to have to work hard to *earn* that trust (back). Concrete example: Sharepoint. Don't get me wrong, I like it and I use it a lot at work. However, I still consider it to be a "lockin tool". Now, if Sharepoint were to interface properly with file formats from companies that compete with MS in other software fields such as Office applications, that'd be something to write about. Heck, making it work 100% with anything but IE would a nice start.
So? Who needs the damn gubernment? The invisible hand of the free market will come and smite these foul fraudsters once the general public has been informed about their terrible misdeeds!
Oh, wait. The general public is far too busy watching American Idol to constantly inform themselves about the gazillion jerks out there scamming (somewhat)honest people out of their money.
Sir Samuel Vimes 2010!
Oh wait...
Lock Target -> ctrl-click on overview or in space.
And if you think those would come in handy fighting a level 2 mission....imagine yourself fighting 5 human pilots on your own ;-)
As for firing all guns, see the other reply about grouping weapons. Grouping also allows you to reload/switch ammo with a single click(extremely useful on ships with 7/8 guns/launchers of the same type).
The concept of actually flying your ship over selecting targets on the objects list and being auto piloted there is pointless.
I'm a full-time pvp pilot, and the position of my ship in the bigger picture is one of the most important aspects for me to manage. Dodging turret fire is best done at close range, but staying out of neut range of that damn domi AND maintaining enough speed at the same time to not take too much damage from that drake...far from pointless.
The EVE UI might not be to your taste, but you can't say it isn't complete.
Considering the nature of the corporation-based gameplay, desktop metaphor works really well. It is actually configured very much the same way as I have my fluxbox install, so the whole thing is pretty seamless and feels very natural.
Sure, it takes a month (or three) of use before you get the most out of it, but it really is user-friendly. (in the vi sense, not the notepad sense)
Having said that, an open-source client would rock!
Considering I had to look up how to have my corp apply for an alliance on a wiki this morning...I'd say the UI still has a few things left to be desired.
For those who are curious, you can't look it up in people and places and then right click it for a list of logical actions, like most other things in EVE. You have to go to the interface for managing your corporations, then go to alliances(makes sense so far, right?), and then call up a list of every alliance in the game, find the one you're looking for and in there you're allowed to right-click and apply. Yaaaaaaay...
CO2 ratings like this are retarded. As long as I keep seeing measurements in the form of weight rather than mass, I'm going to continue to think of everyone who talks about it as blabbering idiots.
140 tons where? At the surface of the planet or higher up in the atmosphere where it 'weighs' less? A cubic (insert whatever measurement you'd like) at sea level weighs differently than one in Death Valley or one on the ISS.
I might start listening when you start using proper forms of measurement for what you are measuring, until then its just political propoganda used for posturing and furthering some political parties agenda.
Not sure what kind of tons the GP was referring to, but over here a ton is 1000 kg which, unless i've really erased physics classes from my memory, was a unit of mass and not of weight.