It strikes me that there's a niche here for someone to offer similar support once MS drops XP
Wanted: Client Support Technicians
Technical Skills: None
Interpersonal Skills: Must be able to maintain polite and professional demeanor when faced with overwhelming grief
Communication Skills: Fluent english required (incromprehensible accent highly regarded)
But I fail to see how an article for/. about LucasArts studios closing is a bad thing. Does it matter who submitted it?
1. Star Wars
2. Computer games
3. Software design & coding
4. Software people becoming unemployed
It's seriously difficult to question the value of the info to the target audience.
Now.. if this post gets modded +5, you know you're actually in trouble.
Is self serving justification. "We sacrificied everything! We were so dedicated [sniff] it's not [sniff] [cry] FAAAIIIIRRR [sniff]"
The studio had the greatest franchise in the history of science fiction and failed. If the employees don't hold themselves responsible, I can see why it's been closed. Considering the epic failure of Kinect Starwars and the near complete disappointment of TOR.. it's pretty clear that LucasArts Studios has been on pump and dump for some years now. Thinking back, it's hard to recall a Star Wars game since X-Wing which has even come close to meeting expectations of the fans.
And I don't think you can blame the fans for having too high expectations. If TOR was even remotely like a an open ended MMO, people would have been glued to it like flies on shit. But despite the that being the only requirement.. well, the bar was too high. If the staff aren't the people responsible, who are?
I'd be the last person wanting to publicise my failure on a eulogy page, that's just flat out embarassing.
Better still, just pick up some homeless drug addicts from the streets, inject their brains with genetically engineered chemicals and fire electromagnetic radiation at them. This would represent enormous savings in medical care for drug addicts, and the best part is, the more you do it.. the more you save!
Time for the medical industry to get a bill drafted.. call it the "Cocaine User National Treatment of Substances" act. The genetically engineered chemical* would be far cheaper than the combined medical, social, environmental, law enforcement, organisation, legislational and incarceration costs of the war on drugs over the last 50 years and it's a realistic solution to the massive problem of drug addiction in the United States. 9 out of 10 doctors agree with the contents of the pending draft legislative framework for guided treatment of repeat abusers.
too busy to focus on actually running a technology company
That's okay, HP isn't a technology company anymore. HP is a cut price consumer electronics manufacturer. With the related level of interest in HP's products, a squabbling bunch of babies does just as well as the most brilliant leadership money can buy.
I don't see why science has such difficulty accepting that the noises birds make are a language, that the interractions of bees are communication, that elephants communicate over vast distances using noises too low a frequency for the human ear to detect or that whales can and do communicate over vast distances.
What? It isn't real if we can't prove it? That's just plain silly.
Who needs a 14MP Camera with a ditzy little lense.. what's the point? 1080p display with more pixels than the naked eye can actually see.. seriously? Who cares. Picture in picture display for front and rear cameras, NFC and optical recognition gestures? Why in the hell would I want to watch myself while recording a video, touch my phone to someone else's phone to transfer data between them or swipe in another way other than on the glass panel? It's a laundry list of features, all pretty much useless.
If the OS is terrible to use, the battery burns out in 2 hours and the phone is loaded with endless crapware that can't be removed, well.. who would want one?
But that the Chinese military has lots of employed hackers is already something everyone knows
Call me ignorant. The Chinese government claims it isn't hacking, and I've yet to see evidence to the contrary. Hyperbole, allegations, lies.. these all come in droves. Proof? Not a drop
I'd be shocked if the Chinese government didn't have defensive hacking capabilities. They probably even have offensive hacking capabilities. I'm positively certain that the Australian government has cyber security professionals on the payroll (because I've seen banner ads recruiting people for the jobs) and we all know that the US government has hackers on the payroll because they trumpet 'Cyber Security' left right and centre.
What you say 'everyone knows' about China has only been strenuously denied by the Chinese government.
It just makes me feel bad for some individual somewhere, that his life is just as mundane as anyone else's, and that he's seemingly unmotivated to perform his duty at top effort.
Not exactly the kind of message you want to send if you're hell-bent on promoting a cyber war or whatever
The lies will come in all sorts of shapes and sizes. This particular lie is promoting the idea that Chinese citizenry are down trodden, unhappy and poorly fed. The best and brightest are locked in jails and forced to work long hours without socialisation. There's always some truth in the lies, that's what makes them so compelling. That this particular lie feeds on the truth (that some Chinese workers live in poor or even terrible conditions) to construct something conceivably possible is simply the artistry in the campaign. eg. You believe it.
Always question things. This particular report comes with no evidence, no source, nothing to believe whatsoever. At best, it could be summarized as a story, fiction. It's delivered by a private security company, broadcast by a multi-national corporation and submitted to the largest tech news site on the web. To find the truth, follow the money.. it's pretty clear where the money is in this story.
So you're saying Bradley Manning is a fabrication and not a real person?
Are you talking about the Bradley Manning who was incarcerated 3 years ago for a single secret release of classified material to a famously secure website?
Or are you talking about the other Bradley Manning who spent 3 years writing a public blog about secret military operations and is currently roaming freely somewhere in the mid-west writing reviews of ice-cream parlours under his secret identity.. 'BManning'?
A computer security firm 'found' a blog whose source cannot be verified. The content of the blog, apparently written by a specialist computer security agent of the Chinese government, talked about:
- The Chinese military
- The Chinese leadership
- Hacking techniques
- Hacking targets
- Lifestyles of government employed hackers
And was derisive. The Chinese government didn't happen to notice that one of their military intelligence agents living in a military dorm was regularly posting derisive and secret information for 3 years. Just to state the bleedingly obvious here, but this would never happen in the US and the Chinese are much stricter on information control.
So do you trust the Los Angeles Times and a private security agency pitching for government contracts, or... common sense?
That was back when we reached the moon. Does anyone really believe that technology is only catching up to travelling to Mars now? Seriously, who could be that gullible.
People keep coming back to Ubuntu and pestering Mark because Canonical was such an uplifting a driving force in Linux Distros. Canonical / Shuttleworth represented hope. Now, that hope is lost.
But nobody wants the hope to be lost so we all hang onto it. Hoping for hope's sake that Mr Mark might stop being stubborn and come to his senses.
Ultimately, it's got nothing to do with someone making decisions. It's got everything to do with someone making mistakes and then failing to admit that they've made mistakes. Making mistakes is human. If you're going to lead, you must be the most human else step aside. Mark isn't leading anymore, he's 'driving'. And since Ubuntu is slowly failing, Mark is driving that failure.
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Don't forget the ability to chain drives, that was pure awesomeness.
So, will we see OEM Windows PCs come by default with Thunderbolt ports? Or is this another fantastic, magical, extraordinary Apple Inc. exclusive?
You wouldn't seriously risk upgrading to Windows 8 just to be able to use 20 Gbps external connections would you???
It strikes me that there's a niche here for someone to offer similar support once MS drops XP
Wanted: Client Support Technicians
Technical Skills: None
Interpersonal Skills: Must be able to maintain polite and professional demeanor when faced with overwhelming grief
Communication Skills: Fluent english required (incromprehensible accent highly regarded)
Salary: 56kRs per year
What other choices do I have?
Mac's are light years ahead of Ubuntu and Ubuntu is moving backwards. There's only one realistic answer to that question.
One letter for you: $
.. where people finally say:
"I'd rather have software that works than software that's supported?"
Because it's about time.
Thankyou for the information.
/. about LucasArts studios closing is a bad thing. Does it matter who submitted it?
.. if this post gets modded +5, you know you're actually in trouble.
But I fail to see how an article for
1. Star Wars
2. Computer games
3. Software design & coding
4. Software people becoming unemployed
It's seriously difficult to question the value of the info to the target audience.
Now
Is self serving justification. "We sacrificied everything! We were so dedicated [sniff] it's not [sniff] [cry] FAAAIIIIRRR [sniff]"
.. it's pretty clear that LucasArts Studios has been on pump and dump for some years now. Thinking back, it's hard to recall a Star Wars game since X-Wing which has even come close to meeting expectations of the fans.
.. well, the bar was too high. If the staff aren't the people responsible, who are?
The studio had the greatest franchise in the history of science fiction and failed. If the employees don't hold themselves responsible, I can see why it's been closed. Considering the epic failure of Kinect Starwars and the near complete disappointment of TOR
And I don't think you can blame the fans for having too high expectations. If TOR was even remotely like a an open ended MMO, people would have been glued to it like flies on shit. But despite the that being the only requirement
I'd be the last person wanting to publicise my failure on a eulogy page, that's just flat out embarassing.
could be tested immediately in humans
Better still, just pick up some homeless drug addicts from the streets, inject their brains with genetically engineered chemicals and fire electromagnetic radiation at them. This would represent enormous savings in medical care for drug addicts, and the best part is, the more you do it .. the more you save!
Time for the medical industry to get a bill drafted.. call it the "Cocaine User National Treatment of Substances" act. The genetically engineered chemical* would be far cheaper than the combined medical, social, environmental, law enforcement, organisation, legislational and incarceration costs of the war on drugs over the last 50 years and it's a realistic solution to the massive problem of drug addiction in the United States. 9 out of 10 doctors agree with the contents of the pending draft legislative framework for guided treatment of repeat abusers.
*patent pending
too busy to focus on actually running a technology company
That's okay, HP isn't a technology company anymore. HP is a cut price consumer electronics manufacturer. With the related level of interest in HP's products, a squabbling bunch of babies does just as well as the most brilliant leadership money can buy.
April fools!
I don't see why science has such difficulty accepting that the noises birds make are a language, that the interractions of bees are communication, that elephants communicate over vast distances using noises too low a frequency for the human ear to detect or that whales can and do communicate over vast distances.
What? It isn't real if we can't prove it? That's just plain silly.
SHIT!
.. yawn.
But I'm certain I'd lose it.
Who needs a 14MP Camera with a ditzy little lense .. what's the point? 1080p display with more pixels than the naked eye can actually see .. seriously? Who cares. Picture in picture display for front and rear cameras, NFC and optical recognition gestures? Why in the hell would I want to watch myself while recording a video, touch my phone to someone else's phone to transfer data between them or swipe in another way other than on the glass panel? It's a laundry list of features, all pretty much useless.
.. who would want one?
If the OS is terrible to use, the battery burns out in 2 hours and the phone is loaded with endless crapware that can't be removed, well
But that the Chinese military has lots of employed hackers is already something everyone knows
Call me ignorant. The Chinese government claims it isn't hacking, and I've yet to see evidence to the contrary. Hyperbole, allegations, lies .. these all come in droves. Proof? Not a drop
I'd be shocked if the Chinese government didn't have defensive hacking capabilities. They probably even have offensive hacking capabilities. I'm positively certain that the Australian government has cyber security professionals on the payroll (because I've seen banner ads recruiting people for the jobs) and we all know that the US government has hackers on the payroll because they trumpet 'Cyber Security' left right and centre.
What you say 'everyone knows' about China has only been strenuously denied by the Chinese government.
It just makes me feel bad for some individual somewhere, that his life is just as mundane as anyone else's, and that he's seemingly unmotivated to perform his duty at top effort. Not exactly the kind of message you want to send if you're hell-bent on promoting a cyber war or whatever
The lies will come in all sorts of shapes and sizes. This particular lie is promoting the idea that Chinese citizenry are down trodden, unhappy and poorly fed. The best and brightest are locked in jails and forced to work long hours without socialisation. There's always some truth in the lies, that's what makes them so compelling. That this particular lie feeds on the truth (that some Chinese workers live in poor or even terrible conditions) to construct something conceivably possible is simply the artistry in the campaign. eg. You believe it.
.. it's pretty clear where the money is in this story.
Always question things. This particular report comes with no evidence, no source, nothing to believe whatsoever. At best, it could be summarized as a story, fiction. It's delivered by a private security company, broadcast by a multi-national corporation and submitted to the largest tech news site on the web. To find the truth, follow the money
Personally, I never drank Kool-Aid.
So you're saying Bradley Manning is a fabrication and not a real person?
Are you talking about the Bradley Manning who was incarcerated 3 years ago for a single secret release of classified material to a famously secure website?
.. 'BManning'?
Or are you talking about the other Bradley Manning who spent 3 years writing a public blog about secret military operations and is currently roaming freely somewhere in the mid-west writing reviews of ice-cream parlours under his secret identity
A computer security firm 'found' a blog whose source cannot be verified. The content of the blog, apparently written by a specialist computer security agent of the Chinese government, talked about:
... common sense?
- The Chinese military
- The Chinese leadership
- Hacking techniques
- Hacking targets
- Lifestyles of government employed hackers
And was derisive. The Chinese government didn't happen to notice that one of their military intelligence agents living in a military dorm was regularly posting derisive and secret information for 3 years. Just to state the bleedingly obvious here, but this would never happen in the US and the Chinese are much stricter on information control.
So do you trust the Los Angeles Times and a private security agency pitching for government contracts, or
Take the red pill.
In this new version, the girl fights to stop Big Oil at the top from throwing barrels at the cute little monkey at the bottom
Pfft, back on ur bike hippy.
That was back when we reached the moon. Does anyone really believe that technology is only catching up to travelling to Mars now? Seriously, who could be that gullible.
the lack of helpful upstream collaboration
You've just got to get downstream from them.
"Myrrh was used by the ancient Egyptians, along with natron, for the embalming of mummies."
People keep coming back to Ubuntu and pestering Mark because Canonical was such an uplifting a driving force in Linux Distros. Canonical / Shuttleworth represented hope. Now, that hope is lost.
But nobody wants the hope to be lost so we all hang onto it. Hoping for hope's sake that Mr Mark might stop being stubborn and come to his senses.
Ultimately, it's got nothing to do with someone making decisions. It's got everything to do with someone making mistakes and then failing to admit that they've made mistakes. Making mistakes is human. If you're going to lead, you must be the most human else step aside. Mark isn't leading anymore, he's 'driving'. And since Ubuntu is slowly failing, Mark is driving that failure.