I was excited when Mythic picked up the Warhammer franchise for an MMO, but then realized they were doing the fantasy side and not the Warhammer 3000 stuff:(
My perfect MMO now would be the world and options of AO(huge world set in a futuristic time, guns, implants,etc...), with the combat mechanics of DAoC (for some reason out of all the MMOs I've played combat just felt right in this game, especially PvP).
I totally agree. Something having to do with starcraft would be nice.
AO wasn't too bad if they hadn't killed the game with such a bad release.
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What's interesting to me is that I can watch any news source and immediately see the bias. A persons goal shouldn't be to discredit one or the other, but to understand how the information is being delivered and take what they can from it. Does FOX have a right wing bias? Sure, I know that going in and adjust for it the same way I adjust for a left bias on nearly every other news source. It's just like when I'm watching the BBC I adjust for a slight anti-american bias.
At the end of the day it's people who report the news and even if they try, it's hard to remove all biases. It's not the reporters fault for being human, but the people who watch the news for not thinking for themselves.
I agree. Wikipedia is a great place to start, and that's what I tell people when I introduce them to it. Would I use it as a source in a research paper? Definitely not. What I would use it for is a spring board to get a general understanding of a topic and a starter place for references. For this use wikipedia is a great resource.
Totally dependent on the wine. Some wines are created to be drank right away while others are bottled with the idea that will need to be stored for a certain amount of time before they will ready to drink.
The main problem with the storage of wine is that corks fail. As consumers get over their problems with screw caps (thus less chance for wine to go bad while in the bottle) I wonder if more wines will be designed to be stored for a long period of time.
Good engineers choose the best tool for the task at hand.
Exactly. So many times people slam one tool/language for whatever reason not realizing that nearly every tool has it's place. VB6 is probably one of the greatest examples of tool slamming. VB6 was fun/easy to slam for it's short comings, but it was probably one of the simplest to use tools to make a data entry application.
I agree with everything you just said. As a lead developer I rarely spend entire days alone coding. New challenges come up all the time and having the team there to stand at the white board and figure out the solution is critical.
The only time telecommuting has ever worked for me is when I plan my week around pushing certain types of work till Friday. Even then I usually end up working harder from home just to prove that I was indeed working:)
I empathize and even think I said it sucks that it happened.
As far as CEO salaries/bonuses are concerned, I'm somewhat torn. It's not their fault that companies are willing to pay them that much (blame the board if you want to blame anyone). Companies are willing to pony up for good reason though. A great CEO can take a company from being small time employing a few people and making a little money to being huge and employing thousands while making lots of money. Of course they don't do the day to day work, but not that's not their job. Their job is to figure out where to position the company to be successful years from now and to motivate the employees. But, like anyone you hire they don't always work out.
Of course this is anecdotal, but we've been trying to hire someone now for 6 months. Out of all the people we've interview only one was even remotely qualified and he took a different job. Have you thought that maybe those former programmers/sysadmins aren't qualified to do anything else? It's interesting because even through the economy down turn we had from the internet bubble hangover, qualified people I knew had no problems finding good, well paying jobs. Hell, I have 2 job offers open on the table right now. I'm just negotiating on salary...
Why should we care? Of course it sucks to lose your job, but what do you expect everyone else to do? Do you want the gov. to step in and support Sun?
IMHO, Sun has been completely mismanged for a long time and these cuts might not even be enough to save them. It's a good thing that they are finally cutting people in order to try to stay open and continue providing jobs to those who are left. The people who get cut will presumable go out and find another job. Such is life...
I agree. You have people saying how much music today sucks while at the same time downloading by the truckloads. If people really want the quality to increase then don't buy it, download it, or even acknowlege its existence.
From the xxAA standpoint, they see all the downloading and think they are producing great stuff and all they need to do is lock it down to force people to pay for it.
IDE or not, I'm not sure how you could get through any c or c++ and never have heard of a linker. I would blame how the earlier courses were taught and not the fact they had used an IDE. Hell, most(all?) of my c/c++ code is either written in VC or XCode and I have to deal the the damn linker all the time lol...
You're splitting hairs on what it means to own something. One of the definitions of ownership is "the act of having and controlling property." Having full control of something in this case is synonymous with owning. By passing more regulations/laws the gov. is effectively taking control and thus ownership from the actual owners of a business. If I run a business, but the gov. tells me what I can charge and who I can sell too then the gov. might as well own it.
I don't remember saying regulations weren't important, just that the more regulations that are controlling business the more socialist we have become. A great example of these are price gouging laws. When the gov. starts telling businesses what they can charge I'm not sure how you can't call that form of socialism.
Could be that the additives they put in cost more of a flat rate per gallon. The higher octane gas has additives that cost 10c more regardless of the price of the underlying gasoline. Just a thought...
How did he misuse the work 'socialism'? From your comment above Socialism is the system of government under which the government/people own the means of production.
Then the comment you responded to above talks about how our capitalistic society is collapsing into socialism either through outright gov. ownership or through a myriad of regulations in which the gov. is dictating to the private enterprise what they can or can not do. Sounds pretty close to me to your definition of socialism.
I generally prefer the diet versions of softdrinks now b/c I'm used to them not being so sweet. If they had normal versions that were just less sweet, I would get those instead of the diet ones.
BTW, Coke Zero is probably the closest thing to a normal flavor diet soft drink I've had. But, like most of the sugar substitutes it has a bit of an aftertaste.
When I go to google then I want them to list all of their competitors so I can clearly make my choice. If that's what MS is supposed to do, then Google should also.
For example, if company A has a monopoly on cars (and has been deemed a monopoly), it can not require customers to use it's own brand of gas.
What a terrible analogy. Who exactly is being forced to use the MSN search? It's there as the default and other options are easily added. This is more akin to MS leaving a brocheure in the car urging you to use the MS gas stations.
I agree. What's more interesting to me though is to wonder about why is Google so worried about this. If they are the best search engine and it's easy to change in IE7, then why bring the courts into the picture? IMHO, Google has started losing some of it's luster. Searching is cool and all, but what else are they going to do? If Google is that worried about losing market share simply b/c of a switch to IE, then they are in a more vulnerable position than even I thought.
I say it is underhanded b/c they tied it to a hot button issue. If countries like China and India want the US and other developed countries to just give them money, then say so. Instead they tie it to emmisions and green-house gasses 0_o. I'm all for cleaning things up. Lets look at putting together a treaty that puts everyone under the microscope of managing their emmisions and not just the big bad evil US.
I think a recession will eventually come b/c you can only live so long on debt. Low rates and nearly free money have allowed the economy to continue along. With rates as low as they were the economy should've been booming. Instead housing boomed and the rest of the economy limpled along.
As soon as rates go up people quit purchasing and debts come due. Housing is a great example of this. At one point someone could get their dog a 500k loan to buy an 1000sqft house (overpriced?). Or someone could go out and borrow money with a adjustable rate against the paper gains in their house. When poeple are living on debt, as rates go up they are going to have to tighten their spending habits a lot. A few months back the amount americans saved vs. what they earned during the previous month was a negative number! That doesn't leave a lot of cushion for the now rising rates.
In fact, the opposite is far more plausible: the move to energy efficient technologies would spur new R&D, it would result in modernization of our transportation and manufacturing infrastructure, it would improve efficiency,
Good point. The problem is that those things cost money which you later admit US doesn't have much of anymore. Modernization of transportation is greatly needed, and the US is starting to move in that direction with more fuel efficient cars, hybrids, etc... What's really needed though is good mass transportation. The problem is that in the US there is a lot of ground to cover unlike many places in Europe. Something like high speed rail between cities would be great, but the costs are huge.
The US economy is already in deep trouble; it's living on borrowed money, provided by China and other nations
I agree totally. After 9/11 the gov. should've just let the US economy go through a recession and rebalance itself. Instead they lowered rates and China stepped in and started buying bonds so we ended up with a huge housing bubble and then the housing ATM. Eventually the recession that should've happened then will eventually come due.
I used to really worry about China owning so much of the US debt, and how they had us by the balls until I realized we have them in nearly the same situation. If China were to dump all it's US debt and force our interest rates to sky rocket, basically crushing the US economy, it hurts them just as much. They are killing one of their biggest customers at that point. I guess they could just say screw it and do something like that anyways and play the odds that they come out ahead at the end of the day.
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I was excited when Mythic picked up the Warhammer franchise for an MMO, but then realized they were doing the fantasy side and not the Warhammer 3000 stuff :(
My perfect MMO now would be the world and options of AO(huge world set in a futuristic time, guns, implants,etc...), with the combat mechanics of DAoC (for some reason out of all the MMOs I've played combat just felt right in this game, especially PvP).
I totally agree. Something having to do with starcraft would be nice.
AO wasn't too bad if they hadn't killed the game with such a bad release.
What's interesting to me is that I can watch any news source and immediately see the bias. A persons goal shouldn't be to discredit one or the other, but to understand how the information is being delivered and take what they can from it. Does FOX have a right wing bias? Sure, I know that going in and adjust for it the same way I adjust for a left bias on nearly every other news source. It's just like when I'm watching the BBC I adjust for a slight anti-american bias.
At the end of the day it's people who report the news and even if they try, it's hard to remove all biases. It's not the reporters fault for being human, but the people who watch the news for not thinking for themselves.
I agree. Wikipedia is a great place to start, and that's what I tell people when I introduce them to it. Would I use it as a source in a research paper? Definitely not. What I would use it for is a spring board to get a general understanding of a topic and a starter place for references. For this use wikipedia is a great resource.
Totally dependent on the wine. Some wines are created to be drank right away while others are bottled with the idea that will need to be stored for a certain amount of time before they will ready to drink.
The main problem with the storage of wine is that corks fail. As consumers get over their problems with screw caps (thus less chance for wine to go bad while in the bottle) I wonder if more wines will be designed to be stored for a long period of time.
Good engineers choose the best tool for the task at hand.
Exactly. So many times people slam one tool/language for whatever reason not realizing that nearly every tool has it's place. VB6 is probably one of the greatest examples of tool slamming. VB6 was fun/easy to slam for it's short comings, but it was probably one of the simplest to use tools to make a data entry application.
I agree with everything you just said. As a lead developer I rarely spend entire days alone coding. New challenges come up all the time and having the team there to stand at the white board and figure out the solution is critical.
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The only time telecommuting has ever worked for me is when I plan my week around pushing certain types of work till Friday. Even then I usually end up working harder from home just to prove that I was indeed working
I empathize and even think I said it sucks that it happened.
As far as CEO salaries/bonuses are concerned, I'm somewhat torn. It's not their fault that companies are willing to pay them that much (blame the board if you want to blame anyone). Companies are willing to pony up for good reason though. A great CEO can take a company from being small time employing a few people and making a little money to being huge and employing thousands while making lots of money. Of course they don't do the day to day work, but not that's not their job. Their job is to figure out where to position the company to be successful years from now and to motivate the employees. But, like anyone you hire they don't always work out.
Of course this is anecdotal, but we've been trying to hire someone now for 6 months. Out of all the people we've interview only one was even remotely qualified and he took a different job. Have you thought that maybe those former programmers/sysadmins aren't qualified to do anything else? It's interesting because even through the economy down turn we had from the internet bubble hangover, qualified people I knew had no problems finding good, well paying jobs. Hell, I have 2 job offers open on the table right now. I'm just negotiating on salary...
Why should we care? Of course it sucks to lose your job, but what do you expect everyone else to do? Do you want the gov. to step in and support Sun?
IMHO, Sun has been completely mismanged for a long time and these cuts might not even be enough to save them. It's a good thing that they are finally cutting people in order to try to stay open and continue providing jobs to those who are left. The people who get cut will presumable go out and find another job. Such is life...
I agree. You have people saying how much music today sucks while at the same time downloading by the truckloads. If people really want the quality to increase then don't buy it, download it, or even acknowlege its existence.
From the xxAA standpoint, they see all the downloading and think they are producing great stuff and all they need to do is lock it down to force people to pay for it.
IDE or not, I'm not sure how you could get through any c or c++ and never have heard of a linker. I would blame how the earlier courses were taught and not the fact they had used an IDE. Hell, most(all?) of my c/c++ code is either written in VC or XCode and I have to deal the the damn linker all the time lol...
You're splitting hairs on what it means to own something. One of the definitions of ownership is "the act of having and controlling property." Having full control of something in this case is synonymous with owning. By passing more regulations/laws the gov. is effectively taking control and thus ownership from the actual owners of a business. If I run a business, but the gov. tells me what I can charge and who I can sell too then the gov. might as well own it.
I don't remember saying regulations weren't important, just that the more regulations that are controlling business the more socialist we have become. A great example of these are price gouging laws. When the gov. starts telling businesses what they can charge I'm not sure how you can't call that form of socialism.
Could be that the additives they put in cost more of a flat rate per gallon. The higher octane gas has additives that cost 10c more regardless of the price of the underlying gasoline. Just a thought...
How did he misuse the work 'socialism'? From your comment above Socialism is the system of government under which the government/people own the means of production.
Then the comment you responded to above talks about how our capitalistic society is collapsing into socialism either through outright gov. ownership or through a myriad of regulations in which the gov. is dictating to the private enterprise what they can or can not do. Sounds pretty close to me to your definition of socialism.
I generally prefer the diet versions of softdrinks now b/c I'm used to them not being so sweet. If they had normal versions that were just less sweet, I would get those instead of the diet ones.
BTW, Coke Zero is probably the closest thing to a normal flavor diet soft drink I've had. But, like most of the sugar substitutes it has a bit of an aftertaste.
When I go to google then I want them to list all of their competitors so I can clearly make my choice. If that's what MS is supposed to do, then Google should also.
And this is MSs fault how?
For example, if company A has a monopoly on cars (and has been deemed a monopoly), it can not require customers to use it's own brand of gas.
What a terrible analogy. Who exactly is being forced to use the MSN search? It's there as the default and other options are easily added. This is more akin to MS leaving a brocheure in the car urging you to use the MS gas stations.
I agree. What's more interesting to me though is to wonder about why is Google so worried about this. If they are the best search engine and it's easy to change in IE7, then why bring the courts into the picture? IMHO, Google has started losing some of it's luster. Searching is cool and all, but what else are they going to do? If Google is that worried about losing market share simply b/c of a switch to IE, then they are in a more vulnerable position than even I thought.
but it is not reasonable for Microsoft to make their own product the default.
Huh? Think about that for a second...
I say it is underhanded b/c they tied it to a hot button issue. If countries like China and India want the US and other developed countries to just give them money, then say so. Instead they tie it to emmisions and green-house gasses 0_o. I'm all for cleaning things up. Lets look at putting together a treaty that puts everyone under the microscope of managing their emmisions and not just the big bad evil US.
I think a recession will eventually come b/c you can only live so long on debt. Low rates and nearly free money have allowed the economy to continue along. With rates as low as they were the economy should've been booming. Instead housing boomed and the rest of the economy limpled along.
As soon as rates go up people quit purchasing and debts come due. Housing is a great example of this. At one point someone could get their dog a 500k loan to buy an 1000sqft house (overpriced?). Or someone could go out and borrow money with a adjustable rate against the paper gains in their house. When poeple are living on debt, as rates go up they are going to have to tighten their spending habits a lot. A few months back the amount americans saved vs. what they earned during the previous month was a negative number! That doesn't leave a lot of cushion for the now rising rates.
Remember that a lot of cargo is hauled across the US by truck. $5/gallon gas will ripple through to all goods in the economy.
In fact, the opposite is far more plausible: the move to energy efficient technologies would spur new R&D, it would result in modernization of our transportation and manufacturing infrastructure, it would improve efficiency,
Good point. The problem is that those things cost money which you later admit US doesn't have much of anymore. Modernization of transportation is greatly needed, and the US is starting to move in that direction with more fuel efficient cars, hybrids, etc... What's really needed though is good mass transportation. The problem is that in the US there is a lot of ground to cover unlike many places in Europe. Something like high speed rail between cities would be great, but the costs are huge.
The US economy is already in deep trouble; it's living on borrowed money, provided by China and other nations
I agree totally. After 9/11 the gov. should've just let the US economy go through a recession and rebalance itself. Instead they lowered rates and China stepped in and started buying bonds so we ended up with a huge housing bubble and then the housing ATM. Eventually the recession that should've happened then will eventually come due.
I used to really worry about China owning so much of the US debt, and how they had us by the balls until I realized we have them in nearly the same situation. If China were to dump all it's US debt and force our interest rates to sky rocket, basically crushing the US economy, it hurts them just as much. They are killing one of their biggest customers at that point. I guess they could just say screw it and do something like that anyways and play the odds that they come out ahead at the end of the day.