It's not a "cultural thing", they're just a bunch of cutthroat bloody liars who never take responsibility for or even admit to failure, and I'm middlingly sick of hearing it excused as "culture, man, you have to understand the culture". It's just plain old deception to keep the funding coming for another month.
IME, the only way to deal with it is to pay for fully QA'd, stamped and sealed results, not development. Apropos to this case, I'd pay for their magical tower in annual instalments after it was put up and stayed up.
Actual Actual Answer: Incorporate in Ireland for tax purposes, set up your headquarters in Ukraine to employ Russian rocket scientists for pennies, and launch from Kazakhstan.
Meanwhile NASA and the FAA can carry on with their "If we had any commercial space industry, it would behave just so" fantasies in peace. To quote the great philosopher Watterson, designing the snow fort is the fun part.
Yup, just more Microsoft word-spooge onto the faces of the developmentally naive.
Joke going around the office: Microsoft buys Yammer, renames it SharePoint Cloud Server 2012 Mobile Enterprise Social Networking Edition. - Gene Smith, Twitter
Someone left an MSDN magazine lying around in work. It had an article titled something like "Leveraging code re-use via multiparadigmatic metaprogramming lambda expressions". After some head scratching, I eventually figured out that they were talking about implementing macros in C#.
"Trickle down" is fine in theory. In practice, the smart new money goes where the smart old money went: appreciating assets like old art, old land, old bricks and mortar.
That's mostly a closed loop where the same goods go round and round for higher and higher prices. People rarely "cash out" and spend the profits on new things that drive demand.
I'd love to think that right now on Titan some right-minded blob is telepathically ranting "But the melting point of dihydrogen monoxide is 273K! Nothing could live in such a hostile environment!"
Sure, a lot of companies were initially fairly leery about a licence that they weren't all that used to, and sometimes doubly so because some portions of the free software camp had been very vocally anti-commercial and expected companies to overnight turn everything into free software.
Who's that then, Linus? And yes, that is a fair assessment of RMS off his meds. And RMS is always off his meds. I await his usual sneery snarling "GNU/Hurd's day will come" response with anticipation.
Prong 2 is to make Android cost more by continuing to engage catspawns to sue the pants off of any OEMs who use it until they knuckle under and buy patent licenses.
Oracle just took a swing and a miss, but they were burdened by a legacy of being in the business of making actual products. The next tranch of rabid puppets will be pure patent trolls with no history of reasonable behaviour to hold them back.
Complaining that a game is using the internet is like complaining a program is using more ram to run faster.
Complaining that a bad analogy relies on cars is like complaining Natalie Portman something something grits something.
Complaining that a single player game is reliant on an internet connection is like complaining that a single player game is reliant on an internet connection. There's just nothing as retarded as that with which to compare it.
What do you suggest an alternative? The US needs to export something to buy all that foreign made tech, the mainstream commercial porn industry is in freefall, and the German amateurs are already giving away most of the sick niche stuff free.
Lawyers to sue the world, politicians to tell them that it's OK to do so, and grunts with guns who make it OK to do so. Did I miss any?
What makes you so damn deserving that they should give it away to you at all?
Microsoft make their money from Windows (and Office). Developing apps for Windows adds value to Microsoft.
That's why they tried to limit Express to their new toytown touchscreen iWindows mess, to get apps developed for it that might tempt OEMs, businesses and end users to actually want it.
Looks like it's fool me once, shame on Microsoft, fool me seven or more times, shame on me though. We're not falling for that one again.
The USPTO in particular should be drowning in a sea of lawsuits by now. They'll only change their grant-by-default policy when rubberstamping idiotic obvious non-inventions costs them more than it earns them.
Saying that if you just quit your damn bitching and hold still, it won't be as bad as you imagine. Hell, once you've been slammed hard a few times, you'll hardly even notice it's happening.
Fine, you have your "eVerdict", now send some "eGoons" to collect on it.
Small claims awards are recovered by real bailiffs seizing real property, or by their threat of that happening. Good luck on getting someone who's already welched on a debt to give a damn what some online nerd has declared.
I've yet to find one. You could possibly class Gratuitous Space Battles or EVE as "space battleships", but they're essentially exercises in offline design, leading to pretty screen savers.
Personally I'd like to see a skill based wet navy game like Navy Field given a space spin. You know, actually aiming guns rather than just clicking and letting some subroutine handle it while you get on with the serious business of trading in the auction house or removing spam from your clan's forum.
You Yanks get Star Trek on your Netflix? You jammy bastards. The UK content just has Dr Who - the Sylvester McCoy Dr Who.
Actually, I have no idea what it has now, I watched everything that I wanted during a month's free trial, then cancelled. Since then, I've received an increasingly desperate succession of "Jesus Christ, please come back, there's even more ways to watch the exact same content!" emails.
I strongly suspect they may have shot their bolt way too early, with far too scattered a catalogue - providing a little of everything just means that everybody rips through what they want to see in short order. And since I'd have to re-subscribe in order to actually search the content library (lolwut?) there's essentially no chance that they'll see any more money out of me.
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It's not a "cultural thing", they're just a bunch of cutthroat bloody liars who never take responsibility for or even admit to failure, and I'm middlingly sick of hearing it excused as "culture, man, you have to understand the culture". It's just plain old deception to keep the funding coming for another month.
IME, the only way to deal with it is to pay for fully QA'd, stamped and sealed results, not development. Apropos to this case, I'd pay for their magical tower in annual instalments after it was put up and stayed up.
Meanwhile NASA and the FAA can carry on with their "If we had any commercial space industry, it would behave just so" fantasies in peace. To quote the great philosopher Watterson, designing the snow fort is the fun part.
Yup, just more Microsoft word-spooge onto the faces of the developmentally naive.
Someone left an MSDN magazine lying around in work. It had an article titled something like "Leveraging code re-use via multiparadigmatic metaprogramming lambda expressions". After some head scratching, I eventually figured out that they were talking about implementing macros in C#.
There is a limit to free speech though. And apparently that bar has been lowered to shouting "Eww!" in a crowded cafeteria.
Seems like we never stop hearing about it. You may be mistaking "hearing about" for "caring enough to do something about".
"Trickle down" is fine in theory. In practice, the smart new money goes where the smart old money went: appreciating assets like old art, old land, old bricks and mortar.
That's mostly a closed loop where the same goods go round and round for higher and higher prices. People rarely "cash out" and spend the profits on new things that drive demand.
You know, the actual content that it leaks? Nope? Rather chat about a juicy sex story instead, with all our oh-so-clever little bon mots?
I think this is essentially Mission Accomplished for the TLAs regardless of the outcome of any eventual trial.
I'd love to think that right now on Titan some right-minded blob is telepathically ranting "But the melting point of dihydrogen monoxide is 273K! Nothing could live in such a hostile environment!"
Who's that then, Linus? And yes, that is a fair assessment of RMS off his meds. And RMS is always off his meds. I await his usual sneery snarling "GNU/Hurd's day will come" response with anticipation.
Prong 2 is to make Android cost more by continuing to engage catspawns to sue the pants off of any OEMs who use it until they knuckle under and buy patent licenses.
Oracle just took a swing and a miss, but they were burdened by a legacy of being in the business of making actual products. The next tranch of rabid puppets will be pure patent trolls with no history of reasonable behaviour to hold them back.
Complaining that a bad analogy relies on cars is like complaining Natalie Portman something something grits something.
Complaining that a single player game is reliant on an internet connection is like complaining that a single player game is reliant on an internet connection. There's just nothing as retarded as that with which to compare it.
What do you suggest an alternative? The US needs to export something to buy all that foreign made tech, the mainstream commercial porn industry is in freefall, and the German amateurs are already giving away most of the sick niche stuff free.
Lawyers to sue the world, politicians to tell them that it's OK to do so, and grunts with guns who make it OK to do so. Did I miss any?
But God help you if you need to maintain their code, because I absolutely guarantee you that they won't.
I'm not entirely sure that's much different from his normal behaviour.
By the way, I've met the chap, this isn't really hyperbole.
Microsoft make their money from Windows (and Office). Developing apps for Windows adds value to Microsoft.
That's why they tried to limit Express to their new toytown touchscreen iWindows mess, to get apps developed for it that might tempt OEMs, businesses and end users to actually want it.
Looks like it's fool me once, shame on Microsoft, fool me seven or more times, shame on me though. We're not falling for that one again.
It's a Steve "ZOMG INTERNET ZOMBIES! ONLY STEVE CAN SAVE YOU! WITH BLINK TAGS!" Gibson article, calling it 'terrible' is largely redundant.
The USPTO in particular should be drowning in a sea of lawsuits by now. They'll only change their grant-by-default policy when rubberstamping idiotic obvious non-inventions costs them more than it earns them.
That nice. By the way, yes, I would like fries with that.
Saying that if you just quit your damn bitching and hold still, it won't be as bad as you imagine. Hell, once you've been slammed hard a few times, you'll hardly even notice it's happening.
Oh, tish, where would organised criminals come up with that amount of money?
Fine, you have your "eVerdict", now send some "eGoons" to collect on it.
Small claims awards are recovered by real bailiffs seizing real property, or by their threat of that happening. Good luck on getting someone who's already welched on a debt to give a damn what some online nerd has declared.
I've yet to find one. You could possibly class Gratuitous Space Battles or EVE as "space battleships", but they're essentially exercises in offline design, leading to pretty screen savers.
Personally I'd like to see a skill based wet navy game like Navy Field given a space spin. You know, actually aiming guns rather than just clicking and letting some subroutine handle it while you get on with the serious business of trading in the auction house or removing spam from your clan's forum.
Yes, you could probably knock it out over a long weekend, then retire by next Wednesday.
Self correction: not any "more" money out of me, any money at all. I'd be surprised if they've covering their office coffee budget.
You Yanks get Star Trek on your Netflix? You jammy bastards. The UK content just has Dr Who - the Sylvester McCoy Dr Who.
Actually, I have no idea what it has now, I watched everything that I wanted during a month's free trial, then cancelled. Since then, I've received an increasingly desperate succession of "Jesus Christ, please come back, there's even more ways to watch the exact same content!" emails.
I strongly suspect they may have shot their bolt way too early, with far too scattered a catalogue - providing a little of everything just means that everybody rips through what they want to see in short order. And since I'd have to re-subscribe in order to actually search the content library (lolwut?) there's essentially no chance that they'll see any more money out of me.