^^ Poster took the words out of my mouth. We get it. They both suck. We aren't worthy for your precious formats now come abck in 8-10 years when regular people actually care about aliasing and mpeg artifacting. If you lookup something like 'mpeg quality loss', you'll notice very little or no reference to consumer based products, and all to to with mastering. The problem is that consumers just -don't- need that much quality in this day and age. Perdiod.
Now please editors, we -know- it won't be adopted, we know the storms are brewing around a format without much of a market. We know we'll buy it anyways cause we're sadistic techno-slaves. Please, let the next HD-* article be about: or . Just imagine this much waste of time debating over HDMI/Component/DVI. I'd have blown my brains out years about =) Well, maybe not so severe, but Slashot, you're really pressing my buttons!!
You're looking at the wrong companys to 'lead' a united approach. You will see The Microsoft and Sony (PS divison) leading the charge to 'join sonys metaverse! Be an orc today, tomorrow a jedi!' Its all a very slight variation on what Sony already has today with its universal pay scheme. The hook is that It'll also look a lot like MS live arcade.
Basically, you'll pay for the service and be given unlimited access to all realms (verses) that the service hosts. MS will come up with some nifty lauch titles to make people go ooh and ahhh all over. They'll start building a player base. When 3rd party XYZ, a young budding startup wants to get into the MMO space, instead of building a market from scratch, they could opt into a contract with Microsft to host their service on the MS live-type service. Once hosted, MS will pay XYZ for the time and use that the players waste on that particular game. Thats just what I think the pay scheme'll look like. It seems pretty plausible to me. It benefits everyone pretty equally. Obviously MS gets the advantage cause their holding the player base. But, the little guys can scrape by and get some money for their development costs without worrying about 'where's our audience?'.
Now how the in-game behaviour works is another question. Assuming the above example of the 'business of multi-versic games', we can assume MS would have a lobby-type area that you have some kind of common ground that all player base will reside in. It'll have crub like IM/Top score boards/Rankings/Game-entry areas/Mini-games/diverging visual themes depending on what genre we're going to log into.. portals, oh gods. There's so much that can get put into whats effectively the 'openning screen' that its too pointless to talk about all the cool things that could come from this.
The drawback of course is that it takes away from the immersion of 'that' game so that you don't really relate to the in-game avitars in the same way you would in a stand-alone game. Also, having a multi-versic system will mean universal sign-ons and trying to come up with an original name in a virtual world of millions and millions of people will be an issue first and foremost. Maybe passport signon anyone?? *shudder*
Everything that you say is true, btu I doubt keeping netscape updated on a regular basis would've saved netscape's dwindling numbers. The biggest push I saw in IE numbers was when they started desktop / systems integration by mandating the joining of IE/Explorer. Having the browser on your system, 'permanently' means that anyone who just wanted to 'surf the net' would use IE over netscape simply because it was there.
After that point, the only way netscape could float was bundling with other products. Obviously, all attempts to keep share fell over and here we are today. There's a small market share of (mostly technical) people using firefox due to its advanced features and 'security' (No non-trivial browsers are there yet). Microsoft doesn't want to compete fairly if it doesn't have to. It'll continue throwing more and more into core products until anti-trust regulators finally put their feet down and say break them up or pay up the a$$. IE will always have a high market share as long as they're the 'default' browser. Anything that touches Windows & Office are the 'default' product.
Maybe some day they'll release the sources and you can run your own version of the web service locally. Doesn't make much sense for individuals, but for a company with n hundreds/thousands of employess, it may save quite a few clams over office. Of course it'd have to competefavorably with other OSS / free offerings.
They don't need to. The '3d' desktop you talk about is highly different from an accelerated 2d desktop which most ventors are trying to sell. Just because a 2d desktop is rendered using OpenGL, it doesn't mean that client applications need to know that anything at all has changed. Its very possible to have a seperate 2d API then a 3d API but only for features that require 3d graphics.
A feature like zooming can be implemented in either 2d or 3d space. It'd be more efficient to run a zoom on a 3d accelerated video card than doing in cpu cycles.
Now, lets say you wanted to have windows rotate on screen like a cube. Thats now a purely 3d feature which means that you'd need to support a 3d library to implement it. The main difference is that there are 2d ops that can be supported by 3d graphics cards and there are 3d features that have to use 3d either in card or software. Yes, the later operations will be slow on archaic systems but the former would easily switch between the two and would potentially save a lot of cpu cycles for truely innovative enhancements.
"However, Martin also added that he supports network operators' desires to offer different levels of broadband service at different speeds and at different pricing"
Here he's saying he wants to do something for ISPs. One would assume that the ISPs will gain something out of this, not remain the status quo. This wouldn't be news if he said everything was staying the same now would it.
- a so-called "tiered" Internet service - A "so-called tiered internet servce" can refer to the customer's raw access, it can refer to the service provider's access, or it could also infer the interconnection between the two. This line doesn't alone tell us what part of 'internet service' the's refering to.
"structure that opponents say could give a market advantage to deep-pocket companies who can afford to pay service providers for preferential treatment"
Why, oh why would anyone be complaining about deep pockets swaying 'preferential treatment' if this had no connection to tiered inter-connection, not end-point access. This line clearly says that opponents of the above two lines see this as anti-competitive.
"While Martin said that consumers who don't pay for higher levels of Internet service shouldn't expect to get higher levels of performance, he did say in a following press conference that "the commission needs to make sure" that there are fair-trade ways to ensure that consumers "get what they are purchasing.""
In other words, how can the ISPs offer tiered inter-connection without this being a violation of the Consumer-ISP agreements that the consumer agreed to when they signed up for internet access. If the ISP said their bandwith was 1.5Mbs, but the ISP explicitly filters that down to 200kbs to google, the ISP is violating their agreement to offer 1.5Mbs service to their customer. Thats the issue I believe they "get what they are purchasing." that he's refering to.
.. realizes that these new formats are going to flop. They won't save you if you're down. They won't make bad movies good; they won't even make ok movies good. They'll make money off enthusiasts that'll buy a movie they already own in 2-3 formats who just -have- to buy it again. They won't get people to respect you for a devistatingly lackluster year of movie. They won't wash the bad taste out of my mouth for putting unskipable anti-priating ads on the DVDs I PAID FOR.
Yeah, unfortunately, for the 10 people waiting in line for high def dvd's, they'll probably just snub the system as a poor man's blu-ray player and buy a real one. Unless the gods take a hammer to everyone's head, I don't see how high def dvd's will have any market traction for at least 2 years.
They were talking about games created by Sony, not games that are licensed for playstation. Obviously low quality games are made for the dominating platform. They can't win on % of the market, but on sheer numbers, they could make -some- money off their product.
In addition to the other replies made against the parent,
No gay based organizations are 'hate' based groups who's primary message is suppressing others.
If I create an American Guild, I say thats fine, you're american and prowd. Even if you're not american, you may really like america and join the guild anyways. But, if I create a Europe, asia, australia sucks guild, it not based on loving who you are, its based on hating others. Its a fine line in some cases through. I could say "Manifest Destiny" (Guild on my server) is an offensive name to many, and could arguably be concidered a hate name against first nations people. If I called myself the patriots, you could arguably be hateful against imperialists, but in reality, most people accept the fact that the names aren't made for hateful purposes; That is also demonstrated by their behaviour to the rest of the player community.
Dude, seriously. Have you ever mentioned gender,age,work,family,personal angsts,etc..
I don't know how you play, bug the guild I'm with is pretty tight on our own personal lives. None of this is 'in-game' appropriate by your standards because its not in character. The only place that should enforce in-game character is in RP realms that ironicly was the 'safe' place to talk about GBLT guilds when bliz first responded.
It is inevitable that you will talk about your personal lives in game and as long as there is a chat function in game, you HAVE to expect a human being to talk about their real selves at least to some extent.
About your own gandparent post about more discrimination, you're missing the point completely. 1. I don't know of a single gay person that hates all straight people (they may exist, but are by far a minority), so if someone starts a 'gay' guild they're actually starting a gay-friendly guild. That means that they only allow in people that can accept their lifestyle.
2. Being 'outed' in the game doesn't mean much considering there is a harrasment policy thats enforced. If you call a gay person a ---, whatever they can report you. If you know they're gay and you don't want to group with them, thats your right. Its an easy policy to appease.
3. The ability to distinguish gay-tolerant vs. gay-bashers is the key to this whole issue from the get-go. If I was gay, I'd like to associate with people that don't think I'm going to burn in sinful hell. If you don't allow for channels of dialog to allow people to communicate, you could have a guy join a guild and become perfectly happy with it until one night, some drunk player starts spweing hate with the rest of your group joining in, then you realize, "Oh crap, these people hate -me-", so the common ground you thought you were forging with these people was an illusion. So, what do you do? Quit the guild and search for another one, hoping that they're more tolerant?
I don't want to change people, though I wish they'd grow up. I want people to be given the opportunity to find a group of people that are tolerant to them, and the pre-article state of affairs left that ability to find that group unnecessarily restricting.
Email is NOT for:
Sending binary copies of document XYZ
Not for archiving every piece of information that's communicated
If your user has 13GB of email, they most likely have an excessive amount of binary data floating around with it. Also, they've probably saved every useless piece of email that they've ever collected. As an ex-admin my boss was the most abusive offender. I always made sure to annoy staff to keep their exchange directories clean. Invariably, they'd always fill up again, and the cycle continued ad-infinitum.
But with all these measures, we were able to roughly stabilize the amount of email that any particular user had. Take the top 10 offenders, or those that set a MB line. Post their names in an email to the company. State something like: The following employees have email boxes that are excessively large. Please clean out your mailboxes by: 1. Deleting un-important emails that have attachments 2. Cleaning out 'deleted' folder 3. Removing unnessisary files 4. Archiving old email that is historically 'important'...
Anyways, if you have to talk to them in the face about what they need to do, then do it. Apathy wins the day if you sit on your ass and expect users to care about anything you say.
Inversely, I used to sysadmin a network where I installed Firefox onto a few dozen PC's but from only one download.
The numbers are obviously unreliable, but they do lead to trends. Maybe a 'better' number would be a % delta over month-month or quarter-quarter. Then again, you're assuming that people would understand what that means. Pure raw numbers at least cater to the lowest common denominator in that the vast majority of people know that 150M is a lot.
Maybe you just have some whack job friends. In Vancouver I have tons of Chinese descended friends from all three of the chinese political terretories, ha, I said it Taiwan =).
Anyways, the propaganda level that comes from them as much as I'd hear quips at our own government from other friends. For the most part, they're regular fun loving capitalistic secular people that are just trying to make ends meat. Maybe its different if you're just visiting the west vs. moving here, but I can't say I've seen any of you're 'constant goading' about taiwan or the such.
With all that said, we're all human beings and we all fall into the same traps, same complacency. I'd like to see societies that break out of the model. Mind you, its all our fault for it you know. We want our lives easy. We want stability. We want comfort. Unfortunately, the only way we seem to get there is censorship(forced or 'the rule'), passing responsibility to others, cultural lobotimization, group manipulation, greed, etc...
"You really need to get out and see the world for a reality check." Um, you're dissing your room-mate who is apparently seeing the world, but he's still seems intolerant to changing his beliefs which you seem to hate. What are you saying, believing in something even after seeing the world is wrong, or do you believe that seeing the world implies that they follow your ideals? Or, are you just tieing two loose concepts together to prove a weak point?
If you think that ignorance is the best policy then I see a problem with it. As you said, just because your daughter never hear of it before, doesn't mean that it'll never confront her. Ideally, you'd introduce new ideas to your children at a 'level' that they can make rational and informed decisions on. I mean hey, if I was a girl just below the bar and sleeping my way out of a failure and job at McDonalds for unforseen future, you're going to have to make a difficult moral decision to decide if you violate yourself for the chance of getting ahead or just staying afloat. Its easy for us to judge and to say that the behaviour is wrong, but put in that situation, you have to 'be' them to understand the conflict.
That said I succeeded in schooling without cheating even when the opportunities were there to grasp. I can personally say cheating is wrong and to be avoided at all costs, but I got it a lot easier than most which makes my opinion MEANINGLESS!
Umm, I though the point of going to university was that it was an opportunity cost in putting money in for a long investment. That investment may pay off for you, but other people would've been better off just working for the long haul. Too often that 'choice' is left out of perspective. You don't 'have' to go to school to be successful, and you may not be successful if you go to school.
Now, these poor sods could very well have gone to ivy league schools with grand ideas a magical pixies carrying them through life and ended up in dead end jobs. Maybe, these 'poor' guys make 70000+ a year and they're whining up a storm. With the little amount perspective we see from the posts its pretty hard to find any meaningful data to work with.
I downloaded the movie and watched it. I didn't much like it and I won't be buying it. Thats money lost to pirating to the studios, but its also a breakdown by the studios in two avenues.
1. There was such an incredible lag between Japanese and English releases that Those that really wanted to watch it (like me) downloaded it anyways.
2. The movie was a VERY niche piece. If you haven't played Final Fantasy VII (recently) you won't get WTF is going on. If you have played FF7 recently the thin plot will at least make sense.
CGI was great, but (angry voice) CGI doesn't make a good f*cking movie just as graphics don't define a good game.
Now, if they had done an international release within a reasonable amount of time, I would've gone to a rental store, rented it, hated it and lived my life all the same. But, the movie studios that made this would've received some marginal compensation for it. If they made a better movie, they'd be $30 richer (- the overhead).
Is this really a question? Jon cracks Encryption. HDCP is encryption. By cracking it, any dime store electricial engineer could program their own HDCP nullifiers. But once again, you need to crack the encryption scheme before that happens
Blue ocean implies bringing gamers out of people who aren't currently gamers; Hence, a sucessful Nintendo market expansion doesn't need to cut into Sony/MS sales. FPS players will still play FPS's. The only 'bleeding' would be 'red ocean' gamers tired of the same old crap being shilled to them and they decide to spend their dollars on something new.
Personally, I haven't owned a console since SNES/Genesis days. Anything thats been worth playing has been on PC and I've loved it. Now, I have an expanding interest in party games so that I can play games with friends that ARE NOT GAMERS. So, I picked up a GCube and it seems to be livign up to what I want it for. That's just one genre that is drastically the other contenders. All they need are a few 'hit' genre ideas to make a real splash in sales.
Well, if you've been reading Blizzard's past notes on the subject they recommended taking GBLT talk to 'RP' (role-playing) servers is assuming that those participating in RP servers were more tolerant of homosexuality.
Now, it must be assumed that RP servers are the most accurate representation of the 'lore' and 'environment' of WoW, since there are tons of people dedicated to achieving it. Now if they didn't want a gay image in the game, why would they suggest GBLT guilds the start up there?
If only I knew 'RP' really ment people with an ounce of tolerance, I would've joined one of those servers day 1. Instead I muddle through guildless because of all the senseless gay-bashing from previous guilds. Mind you I'm not gay, but I can't tolerate hate speech against anyone.
Nobody's complaining about tiered client access charges. I'm in Canada and its a well established practice. I'm sure its the same in competetive US markets.
Thats not the problem. If I buy tiered package xyz from my ISP, I expect that that allows me xKBs or a total of yGB/month to be used in any way I choose. If they want to charge half the price for a tiered package that offers half the dl/capacity, thats fine too. Just don't tell me that I get 4MBs from the internet in general, but only 2kbs from Google or other 'obstructive' content providers.
The original Blackberries were B&W, and they were glorified pagers. They worked damn well at it too. They did have API's to add new programs to the device, and there were a hand full of vendors, through since the backbone networks were Datatak/Mobitex, they couldn't send to the internet without a 'middleware' server.
I must admit that I fell in love with this product almost instantly upon using it. My only grudge was my company gave me a 950 (2x4 in. screen) vs. the really sexy (4x4 in. screen).
Oh, and about the scroll wheel, I can see that if you're not used to it, it could be crap, but I really got to like it... hell, try playing mindsweeper on it and then you can graduate from scroll wheel academy!
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Wrong. The whole point being Visual Studio 7 was to support the new.NET technologies. So much so that they dropped the popular pre-.NET Visual Basic in favor of a new.NET version of it.
You missed my point. Visual Studio series of products would have gone on as they did before, 1,2,3,4,5,6,... 7. They would have had an entrenched user base using 7 no matter what they added to it. There will always be development shops that will always use Visual Studio, or whatever form of development technology Microsoft's flogging.
Wrong again. Most developers are spread all over the place as far as technologies they work with. One learns quickly that they'll be more efficient if the start off with the right tool for a particular job. Certainly most Java developers do, or have done, web development as well. I myself actively develop in both Java, C#, C/C++ (not as much), and PHP for various projects.
You may have a very diverse palette of skills to work from, but when employer X hires you for a job, they'll usually hire you for java,.NET, or (non java/non.NET) web development. You may see a 'prefer knowledge of other technologies' but if I want a java developer, I don't care if they have.NET experience.
As for new development work, you're still going to want to keep your development technologies to a bare minimum. Even through the best language for the job may be the easiest to deploy, it relys on everyone who touches the code / deployment to be familiar and trained in doing their jobs with it. If you use.NET and java code, C, C++, and perl in your development activities, you'll need trained people to design, code, review, maintain, assemble, and deploy. Its easy for small guys with 2 guys that do everything, or big guys that can farm each component out to 'divisions' but for anyone in between, it becomes a maintainance nightmare to maintain a highly hodge-podge development environment.
Well of course not, captain obvious. The technology is relatively new compared to other established ones... but have you looked at the new crop of programming job offerings lately?.NET jobs have been increasing.
Yes,.NET jobs have been growing, but mostly at the expense of development jobs that would have been for pre-vs7 development positions. All I'm saying is that Microsoft's.NET product isn't making significant inroads into areas that VS6 didn't already have an entrenched position.
You pay the American government for your quality of life. If you don't like it, there aren't export controls on your citizenship. Leave and find a country that doesn't make you whine so much. Taks away the taxes and regulations, and you get companys running a muck like they do in Asia, you get delapidated government services and social programs. You think your government's social programs do nothing for you now? You wouldn't want to live outside of your walled neighbourhood with armed security drones, and if you can't afford one of your own, you can get fed to the lions! Actually I'm taking this much too far, but so are you. The gov tax you to continue economic development, and frankly, your country isn't doing too badly when comapared to most westernized nations. I'd look at this as a growingly painfull adjustment to the balancing of the world's quality of living that globalization will -eventually- result in.
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^^ Poster took the words out of my mouth. We get it. They both suck. We aren't worthy for your precious formats now come abck in 8-10 years when regular people actually care about aliasing and mpeg artifacting. If you lookup something like 'mpeg quality loss', you'll notice very little or no reference to consumer based products, and all to to with mastering. The problem is that consumers just -don't- need that much quality in this day and age. Perdiod.
Now please editors, we -know- it won't be adopted, we know the storms are brewing around a format without much of a market. We know we'll buy it anyways cause we're sadistic techno-slaves. Please, let the next HD-* article be about: or . Just imagine this much waste of time debating over HDMI/Component/DVI. I'd have blown my brains out years about =) Well, maybe not so severe, but Slashot, you're really pressing my buttons!!
You're looking at the wrong companys to 'lead' a united approach. You will see The Microsoft and Sony (PS divison) leading the charge to 'join sonys metaverse! Be an orc today, tomorrow a jedi!' Its all a very slight variation on what Sony already has today with its universal pay scheme. The hook is that It'll also look a lot like MS live arcade.
Basically, you'll pay for the service and be given unlimited access to all realms (verses) that the service hosts. MS will come up with some nifty lauch titles to make people go ooh and ahhh all over. They'll start building a player base. When 3rd party XYZ, a young budding startup wants to get into the MMO space, instead of building a market from scratch, they could opt into a contract with Microsft to host their service on the MS live-type service. Once hosted, MS will pay XYZ for the time and use that the players waste on that particular game. Thats just what I think the pay scheme'll look like. It seems pretty plausible to me. It benefits everyone pretty equally. Obviously MS gets the advantage cause their holding the player base. But, the little guys can scrape by and get some money for their development costs without worrying about 'where's our audience?'.
Now how the in-game behaviour works is another question. Assuming the above example of the 'business of multi-versic games', we can assume MS would have a lobby-type area that you have some kind of common ground that all player base will reside in. It'll have crub like IM/Top score boards/Rankings/Game-entry areas/Mini-games/diverging visual themes depending on what genre we're going to log into.. portals, oh gods. There's so much that can get put into whats effectively the 'openning screen' that its too pointless to talk about all the cool things that could come from this.
The drawback of course is that it takes away from the immersion of 'that' game so that you don't really relate to the in-game avitars in the same way you would in a stand-alone game. Also, having a multi-versic system will mean universal sign-ons and trying to come up with an original name in a virtual world of millions and millions of people will be an issue first and foremost. Maybe passport signon anyone?? *shudder*
Everything that you say is true, btu I doubt keeping netscape updated on a regular basis would've saved netscape's dwindling numbers. The biggest push I saw in IE numbers was when they started desktop / systems integration by mandating the joining of IE/Explorer. Having the browser on your system, 'permanently' means that anyone who just wanted to 'surf the net' would use IE over netscape simply because it was there.
After that point, the only way netscape could float was bundling with other products. Obviously, all attempts to keep share fell over and here we are today. There's a small market share of (mostly technical) people using firefox due to its advanced features and 'security' (No non-trivial browsers are there yet). Microsoft doesn't want to compete fairly if it doesn't have to. It'll continue throwing more and more into core products until anti-trust regulators finally put their feet down and say break them up or pay up the a$$. IE will always have a high market share as long as they're the 'default' browser. Anything that touches Windows & Office are the 'default' product.
Maybe some day they'll release the sources and you can run your own version of the web service locally. Doesn't make much sense for individuals, but for a company with n hundreds/thousands of employess, it may save quite a few clams over office. Of course it'd have to competefavorably with other OSS / free offerings.
They don't need to. The '3d' desktop you talk about is highly different from an accelerated 2d desktop which most ventors are trying to sell. Just because a 2d desktop is rendered using OpenGL, it doesn't mean that client applications need to know that anything at all has changed. Its very possible to have a seperate 2d API then a 3d API but only for features that require 3d graphics.
A feature like zooming can be implemented in either 2d or 3d space. It'd be more efficient to run a zoom on a 3d accelerated video card than doing in cpu cycles.
Now, lets say you wanted to have windows rotate on screen like a cube. Thats now a purely 3d feature which means that you'd need to support a 3d library to implement it. The main difference is that there are 2d ops that can be supported by 3d graphics cards and there are 3d features that have to use 3d either in card or software. Yes, the later operations will be slow on archaic systems but the former would easily switch between the two and would potentially save a lot of cpu cycles for truely innovative enhancements.
Rebuke on your interpretation:
"However, Martin also added that he supports network operators' desires to offer different levels of broadband service at different speeds and at different pricing"
Here he's saying he wants to do something for ISPs. One would assume that the ISPs will gain something out of this, not remain the status quo. This wouldn't be news if he said everything was staying the same now would it.
- a so-called "tiered" Internet service -
A "so-called tiered internet servce" can refer to the customer's raw access, it can refer to the service provider's access, or it could also infer the interconnection between the two. This line doesn't alone tell us what part of 'internet service' the's refering to.
"structure that opponents say could give a market advantage to deep-pocket companies who can afford to pay service providers for preferential treatment"
Why, oh why would anyone be complaining about deep pockets swaying 'preferential treatment' if this had no connection to tiered inter-connection, not end-point access. This line clearly says that opponents of the above two lines see this as anti-competitive.
"While Martin said that consumers who don't pay for higher levels of Internet service shouldn't expect to get higher levels of performance, he did say in a following press conference that "the commission needs to make sure" that there are fair-trade ways to ensure that consumers "get what they are purchasing.""
In other words, how can the ISPs offer tiered inter-connection without this being a violation of the Consumer-ISP agreements that the consumer agreed to when they signed up for internet access. If the ISP said their bandwith was 1.5Mbs, but the ISP explicitly filters that down to 200kbs to google, the ISP is violating their agreement to offer 1.5Mbs service to their customer. Thats the issue I believe they "get what they are purchasing." that he's refering to.
.. realizes that these new formats are going to flop.
They won't save you if you're down.
They won't make bad movies good; they won't even make ok movies good.
They'll make money off enthusiasts that'll buy a movie they already own in 2-3 formats who just -have- to buy it again.
They won't get people to respect you for a devistatingly lackluster year of movie.
They won't wash the bad taste out of my mouth for putting unskipable anti-priating ads on the DVDs I PAID FOR.
Yeah, unfortunately, for the 10 people waiting in line for high def dvd's, they'll probably just snub the system as a poor man's blu-ray player and buy a real one. Unless the gods take a hammer to everyone's head, I don't see how high def dvd's will have any market traction for at least 2 years.
They were talking about games created by Sony, not games that are licensed for playstation. Obviously low quality games are made for the dominating platform. They can't win on % of the market, but on sheer numbers, they could make -some- money off their product.
In addition to the other replies made against the parent,
No gay based organizations are 'hate' based groups who's primary message is suppressing others.
If I create an American Guild, I say thats fine, you're american and prowd. Even if you're not american, you may really like america and join the guild anyways. But, if I create a Europe, asia, australia sucks guild, it not based on loving who you are, its based on hating others. Its a fine line in some cases through. I could say "Manifest Destiny" (Guild on my server) is an offensive name to many, and could arguably be concidered a hate name against first nations people. If I called myself the patriots, you could arguably be hateful against imperialists, but in reality, most people accept the fact that the names aren't made for hateful purposes; That is also demonstrated by their behaviour to the rest of the player community.
Yeah, I mean really, we're talking about people that play WoW here! How can you talk about it if you've never been laid!
Dude, seriously. Have you ever mentioned gender,age,work,family,personal angsts,etc..
I don't know how you play, bug the guild I'm with is pretty tight on our own personal lives. None of this is 'in-game' appropriate by your standards because its not in character. The only place that should enforce in-game character is in RP realms that ironicly was the 'safe' place to talk about GBLT guilds when bliz first responded.
It is inevitable that you will talk about your personal lives in game and as long as there is a chat function in game, you HAVE to expect a human being to talk about their real selves at least to some extent.
About your own gandparent post about more discrimination, you're missing the point completely.
1. I don't know of a single gay person that hates all straight people (they may exist, but are by far a minority), so if someone starts a 'gay' guild they're actually starting a gay-friendly guild. That means that they only allow in people that can accept their lifestyle.
2. Being 'outed' in the game doesn't mean much considering there is a harrasment policy thats enforced. If you call a gay person a ---, whatever they can report you. If you know they're gay and you don't want to group with them, thats your right. Its an easy policy to appease.
3. The ability to distinguish gay-tolerant vs. gay-bashers is the key to this whole issue from the get-go. If I was gay, I'd like to associate with people that don't think I'm going to burn in sinful hell. If you don't allow for channels of dialog to allow people to communicate, you could have a guy join a guild and become perfectly happy with it until one night, some drunk player starts spweing hate with the rest of your group joining in, then you realize, "Oh crap, these people hate -me-", so the common ground you thought you were forging with these people was an illusion. So, what do you do? Quit the guild and search for another one, hoping that they're more tolerant?
I don't want to change people, though I wish they'd grow up. I want people to be given the opportunity to find a group of people that are tolerant to them, and the pre-article state of affairs left that ability to find that group unnecessarily restricting.
Email is NOT for:
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Sending binary copies of document XYZ
Not for archiving every piece of information that's communicated
If your user has 13GB of email, they most likely have an excessive amount of binary data floating around with it. Also, they've probably saved every useless piece of email that they've ever collected. As an ex-admin my boss was the most abusive offender. I always made sure to annoy staff to keep their exchange directories clean. Invariably, they'd always fill up again, and the cycle continued ad-infinitum.
But with all these measures, we were able to roughly stabilize the amount of email that any particular user had. Take the top 10 offenders, or those that set a MB line. Post their names in an email to the company. State something like: The following employees have email boxes that are excessively large. Please clean out your mailboxes by:
1. Deleting un-important emails that have attachments
2. Cleaning out 'deleted' folder
3. Removing unnessisary files
4. Archiving old email that is historically 'important'
Anyways, if you have to talk to them in the face about what they need to do, then do it. Apathy wins the day if you sit on your ass and expect users to care about anything you say.
Inversely, I used to sysadmin a network where I installed Firefox onto a few dozen PC's but from only one download.
The numbers are obviously unreliable, but they do lead to trends. Maybe a 'better' number would be a % delta over month-month or quarter-quarter. Then again, you're assuming that people would understand what that means. Pure raw numbers at least cater to the lowest common denominator in that the vast majority of people know that 150M is a lot.
Maybe you just have some whack job friends. In Vancouver I have tons of Chinese descended friends from all three of the chinese political terretories, ha, I said it Taiwan =).
Anyways, the propaganda level that comes from them as much as I'd hear quips at our own government from other friends. For the most part, they're regular fun loving capitalistic secular people that are just trying to make ends meat. Maybe its different if you're just visiting the west vs. moving here, but I can't say I've seen any of you're 'constant goading' about taiwan or the such.
With all that said, we're all human beings and we all fall into the same traps, same complacency. I'd like to see societies that break out of the model. Mind you, its all our fault for it you know. We want our lives easy. We want stability. We want comfort. Unfortunately, the only way we seem to get there is censorship(forced or 'the rule'), passing responsibility to others, cultural lobotimization, group manipulation, greed, etc...
"You really need to get out and see the world for a reality check."
Um, you're dissing your room-mate who is apparently seeing the world, but he's still seems intolerant to changing his beliefs which you seem to hate. What are you saying, believing in something even after seeing the world is wrong, or do you believe that seeing the world implies that they follow your ideals? Or, are you just tieing two loose concepts together to prove a weak point?
If you think that ignorance is the best policy then I see a problem with it. As you said, just because your daughter never hear of it before, doesn't mean that it'll never confront her. Ideally, you'd introduce new ideas to your children at a 'level' that they can make rational and informed decisions on. I mean hey, if I was a girl just below the bar and sleeping my way out of a failure and job at McDonalds for unforseen future, you're going to have to make a difficult moral decision to decide if you violate yourself for the chance of getting ahead or just staying afloat. Its easy for us to judge and to say that the behaviour is wrong, but put in that situation, you have to 'be' them to understand the conflict.
That said I succeeded in schooling without cheating even when the opportunities were there to grasp. I can personally say cheating is wrong and to be avoided at all costs, but I got it a lot easier than most which makes my opinion MEANINGLESS!
Umm, I though the point of going to university was that it was an opportunity cost in putting money in for a long investment. That investment may pay off for you, but other people would've been better off just working for the long haul. Too often that 'choice' is left out of perspective. You don't 'have' to go to school to be successful, and you may not be successful if you go to school.
Now, these poor sods could very well have gone to ivy league schools with grand ideas a magical pixies carrying them through life and ended up in dead end jobs. Maybe, these 'poor' guys make 70000+ a year and they're whining up a storm. With the little amount perspective we see from the posts its pretty hard to find any meaningful data to work with.
A note on the pirating:
I downloaded the movie and watched it. I didn't much like it and I won't be buying it. Thats money lost to pirating to the studios, but its also a breakdown by the studios in two avenues.
1. There was such an incredible lag between Japanese and English releases that Those that really wanted to watch it (like me) downloaded it anyways.
2. The movie was a VERY niche piece. If you haven't played Final Fantasy VII (recently) you won't get WTF is going on. If you have played FF7 recently the thin plot will at least make sense.
CGI was great, but (angry voice) CGI doesn't make a good f*cking movie just as graphics don't define a good game.
Now, if they had done an international release within a reasonable amount of time, I would've gone to a rental store, rented it, hated it and lived my life all the same. But, the movie studios that made this would've received some marginal compensation for it. If they made a better movie, they'd be $30 richer (- the overhead).
Is this really a question? Jon cracks Encryption. HDCP is encryption. By cracking it, any dime store electricial engineer could program their own HDCP nullifiers. But once again, you need to crack the encryption scheme before that happens
Blue ocean implies bringing gamers out of people who aren't currently gamers; Hence, a sucessful Nintendo market expansion doesn't need to cut into Sony/MS sales. FPS players will still play FPS's. The only 'bleeding' would be 'red ocean' gamers tired of the same old crap being shilled to them and they decide to spend their dollars on something new.
Personally, I haven't owned a console since SNES/Genesis days. Anything thats been worth playing has been on PC and I've loved it. Now, I have an expanding interest in party games so that I can play games with friends that ARE NOT GAMERS. So, I picked up a GCube and it seems to be livign up to what I want it for. That's just one genre that is drastically the other contenders. All they need are a few 'hit' genre ideas to make a real splash in sales.
Well, if you've been reading Blizzard's past notes on the subject they recommended taking GBLT talk to 'RP' (role-playing) servers is assuming that those participating in RP servers were more tolerant of homosexuality.
Now, it must be assumed that RP servers are the most accurate representation of the 'lore' and 'environment' of WoW, since there are tons of people dedicated to achieving it. Now if they didn't want a gay image in the game, why would they suggest GBLT guilds the start up there?
If only I knew 'RP' really ment people with an ounce of tolerance, I would've joined one of those servers day 1. Instead I muddle through guildless because of all the senseless gay-bashing from previous guilds. Mind you I'm not gay, but I can't tolerate hate speech against anyone.
Nobody's complaining about tiered client access charges. I'm in Canada and its a well established practice. I'm sure its the same in competetive US markets.
Thats not the problem. If I buy tiered package xyz from my ISP, I expect that that allows me xKBs or a total of yGB/month to be used in any way I choose. If they want to charge half the price for a tiered package that offers half the dl/capacity, thats fine too. Just don't tell me that I get 4MBs from the internet in general, but only 2kbs from Google or other 'obstructive' content providers.
The original Blackberries were B&W, and they were glorified pagers. They worked damn well at it too. They did have API's to add new programs to the device, and there were a hand full of vendors, through since the backbone networks were Datatak/Mobitex, they couldn't send to the internet without a 'middleware' server.
I must admit that I fell in love with this product almost instantly upon using it. My only grudge was my company gave me a 950 (2x4 in. screen) vs. the really sexy (4x4 in. screen).
Oh, and about the scroll wheel, I can see that if you're not used to it, it could be crap, but I really got to like it... hell, try playing mindsweeper on it and then you can graduate from scroll wheel academy!
Wrong. The whole point being Visual Studio 7 was to support the new .NET technologies. So much so that they dropped the popular pre-.NET Visual Basic in favor of a new .NET version of it.
.NET, or (non java/non.NET) web development. You may see a 'prefer knowledge of other technologies' but if I want a java developer, I don't care if they have .NET experience.
.NET and java code, C, C++, and perl in your development activities, you'll need trained people to design, code, review, maintain, assemble, and deploy. Its easy for small guys with 2 guys that do everything, or big guys that can farm each component out to 'divisions' but for anyone in between, it becomes a maintainance nightmare to maintain a highly hodge-podge development environment.
.NET jobs have been increasing.
.NET jobs have been growing, but mostly at the expense of development jobs that would have been for pre-vs7 development positions. All I'm saying is that Microsoft's .NET product isn't making significant inroads into areas that VS6 didn't already have an entrenched position.
You missed my point. Visual Studio series of products would have gone on as they did before, 1,2,3,4,5,6,... 7. They would have had an entrenched user base using 7 no matter what they added to it. There will always be development shops that will always use Visual Studio, or whatever form of development technology Microsoft's flogging.
Wrong again. Most developers are spread all over the place as far as technologies they work with. One learns quickly that they'll be more efficient if the start off with the right tool for a particular job. Certainly most Java developers do, or have done, web development as well. I myself actively develop in both Java, C#, C/C++ (not as much), and PHP for various projects.
You may have a very diverse palette of skills to work from, but when employer X hires you for a job, they'll usually hire you for java,
As for new development work, you're still going to want to keep your development technologies to a bare minimum. Even through the best language for the job may be the easiest to deploy, it relys on everyone who touches the code / deployment to be familiar and trained in doing their jobs with it. If you use
Well of course not, captain obvious. The technology is relatively new compared to other established ones... but have you looked at the new crop of programming job offerings lately?
Yes,
You pay the American government for your quality of life. If you don't like it, there aren't export controls on your citizenship. Leave and find a country that doesn't make you whine so much. Taks away the taxes and regulations, and you get companys running a muck like they do in Asia, you get delapidated government services and social programs. You think your government's social programs do nothing for you now? You wouldn't want to live outside of your walled neighbourhood with armed security drones, and if you can't afford one of your own, you can get fed to the lions! Actually I'm taking this much too far, but so are you. The gov tax you to continue economic development, and frankly, your country isn't doing too badly when comapared to most westernized nations. I'd look at this as a growingly painfull adjustment to the balancing of the world's quality of living that globalization will -eventually- result in.