Otherwise you might want to look into Message Oriented Middleware, things like MQ Series or in worst case scenario, even Microsoft MQ. There are plenty of options. This would allow you to put policies on the messages, handle routing (in case you need to deliver to different recipients), guarantee delivery at least once, do type conversions/transformations etc.
Sure, I understand that. I'm just tired of all these "global" announcements that really affect a tiny fraction of global users. Also very tired of all the arcane old licensing deals...
The Premier League offering in my country is very crappy and very limited - and the commentators are even crappier, the packaging sucks and it's really freaking expensive channel to get for the value you're getting - just for once, it would be so cool to be able to get the freedom to choose whatever value proposition you like, instead of being force fed by all these middlemen..
But yeah, like you said, there's too much money involved, so there's probably very little hope of it ever working like that.. and in the meanwhile I'll be watching the games at the local pub that "pirates" it off Sky (i.e. they have a subscription through proxy in UK). Oh well, for a second there I thought I'd have to buy a Xbox:-)
From TFA: "Millions of Xbox 360 owners in Britain and Ireland will be able to watch live programing such as Premier League soccer and movies following a deal with pay-TV group BSkyB"
That's not very "global" to me - what about the millions of Xbox users outside UK who'd also want to pay and see Premier League and other stuff on their Xbox? And yeah, that was rhetorical question, I know we're hosed until the "global" train arrives on our little local station.
I swear by Eclipse - I mostly do Java these days though, but I do have it setup for C++, Perl and PHP as well. Good plug-in support - easy to install and update.. what's not to like?:-)
Integrates with most versioning tools through plug-ins (CVS, SVN etc).
This pretty much sums it all up. Work experience gets you employability - Masters/Ph.D is about seeing just how deep the rabbit hole goes.
I never really enjoyed academia when I was younger so I went for work experience and I have never regretted it. Having said that - now on my older days - I'm finding myself strangely fascinated by the idea of exploring the "deep ends" of my field in academic environment. Once you get into "working life" you'll find out that there's really not that many opportunities to research on the same level as there is in academia. I've been toying with the idea of "going back", however that will have to wait until the children are a bit older (other priorities at the moment).
And every single player will say the same thing about the devs in the game of their choice. Just look at how the WoW community is accusing their devs of "ruining the game". How about you back that claim up with some facts?
To me it seems CCP devs really listen to the community - and they've implemented a bunch of player addressed concern over the years.
C'mon man, show us the stats - show us just how bad the CCP track record is compared to entire gaming industry. I dare you.
It's advertised as security add-on, yet it contains obfuscated code and it exposes the users to security risks on the very same domain you download it from? Ugh, and it didn't even prompt me.
Goodbye noscript, never again will you be part of my Firefox.
You (or someone) thinks a game has a horribly broken feature A and therefore thinks it's ok to pirate the shit? Excuse me but just as the quote says, you're trying to rationalize your thiefing.
If you think game is broken piece of crap, don't buy it. It doesn't give magically give you right to ignore copyrights and pirate it.
I think it's more likely that this is Ballmer's strategy against his own failings with Vista.
They're in desperate need of getting people off XP - it's starting to show it's age from marketing point of view and I'm sure MS would like to move to a new technological platform as well.
It's also nice to see they've really looked at things that went wrong with Vista launch - I don't think they really can afford to bomb Windows 7 launch.
Finland went through very similar economic crisis during early 90s (http://www.hs.fi/english/article/US+economic+crisis+Finnish+d%C3%A9j%C3%A0+vu/1135239664850). Guess who was rooted to his terminal coding during all this time? (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linus_Torvalds) Guess what happened when he decided - apparently against all common sense - to release his work (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_source)?
I'm not sure if you knew this or not, but Word actually has had "Track Changes" feature for quite a while - I agree it's not the greatest of implementations, but it does the job - especially in smaller office situations like you describe above. Also, if you have your document on a shared drive and someone else is editing it, you have the option of letting Word notify you when the document is available again.
If I could I'd mod you up. Instead I'm going to post a "meetoo"
That "creative artist" is way of line, sure they probably make great things happen with their voices and the game is probably much better product because of that.. but in the end the voice actors are just such a small piece of the cake, so many others deserve to get their millions first.
or does anyone know where Illinois dumps used tech
Most likely in China, Africa or India since US is unwilling to take care of their own electronic waste or even follow (and ratify) international treaties. So yeah, do a world a favor and buy off some used tech before it goes to 3rd world countries where children have to sort through it.
Answer to your question 1 is somewhat speculative, but this brief might give some insight (but as it's from the pro-Basel gang, so I guess it could be a bit biased): http://olo.ban.org/Library/briefing2.html Quote:
Since the beginning of the Basel negotiations, the United States has adopted the viewpoint of its industry lobby and not of its public as it strongly opposes the concept of a no-exceptions waste trade ban. The US, even as a non-Party, fought hard against passage of all of the above noted decisions. To date, the United States, in both Republican and Democrat administrations continues to tow the corporate line in opposition to the primary thrust that the Basel Convention has taken -- imposing an OECD to non-OECD hazardous waste trade ban with the aim of ending the practice of dumping hazardous wastes on poorer countries in avoidance of paying the high costs of more appropriate waste management or prevention in wealthier industrialized nations.
So I guess it would come down to corporate lobbying (not entirely surprising I guess).
As to your question 2, (for the "workers" at least) I'm almost sure it's more about getting your daily bread and butter on the table than getting that 3rd car and a boat. The latter option might be for the people in charge/running the operation.
Great attitude buddy. So as long as someone takes it off your hands (and you can make a buck!) you don't need to know where the waste goes? Makes me really believe in future of mankind. Good stuff.
Now open your eyes and start acting responsibly, recycle your own waste in U.S and stop dumping/selling it around the world.
It's great to see new technologies that are easier to recycle.
Now if U.S could just stop pretending and sign the Basel Convention deal which restricts the export of e-waste so the children of Guiyu wouldn't have to waste away their lives in toxic pits melting our "green" and ecologically "safe" drives.
Recycling is great, recycling it near the consumpition is also great. Dumping it to China is not great, out of sight out of mind mentality comes and bites you in the ass sooner or later.
Ah yes, spent my last 1.5 years supporting business with both Mac and Pc users.
While most PC users were completely ok, my experience with the Mac crowd was very similar to yours. There were exceptions to the rule of course, but majority of them started off on their high-horses and big chunk of them never got off them.
Also, what was funny was that most of them were very vocal about the Apple/Mac superiority, but they were booting their Macbooks to Windows or using Windows in Virtual PC for their work.
So yeah, the mac-hardware is quite sweet, but mac-users are mostly pretentious idiots (I'm generalizing based on my own biased opinions of course) and I won't put myself in situation where I have to support a bunch of them again. (and then there's the whole issue of Apple screwing with their devs, changing API's, providing closed platforms etc, but that's another discussion)
I was about to click ok, before I realised the Safari box was clicked.
Of course they already bundle QuickTime with everything, their hardware platforms are closed, they constantly screw their developers over by tweaking with their API's. They're much worse than Microsoft in many ways and the only reason we've been saved from this is because they've decided to target niche market with their products.
Installing new software through an "Update" is of course about the same thing Real was doing with RealPlayer spyware couple of years ago.
Apparently they make back just about what they lose in bandwidth/server costs. Or so they say. I guess that will be one of the main points in the upcoming trial.
The PB guys make it sound like it's ideal hobbyist project and the prosecution wants to paint them as IP thieves bathing in money.
It "claims" PB is pulling 600k SEK / month with their ads (a sum quoted for last 4 months of activity). That works to about USD 93k/month. PB claims most/all of the money goes to upkeep of the site, bandwidth and servers.
Interesting to see if the prosecution manages to get a coherent case out of this... I have my doubts.
"Tourists are scared to death of visiting Arab countries and they should be"
Oh bollocks. The "terrorist image" might perhaps be what's keeping Americans from the pyramids, but that image is entirely of our own making (our, as in "we western whiteys"), it's not made by "the terrorists". Pushing fear is good business in the west.
Perhaps the Arab PR agencies should push their tourism more - but perhaps the American propaganga machine needs to tone down the message as well - not everyone in the arab world is evil as you seem to believe.
But tourists "should be scared to death of visiting Arab countries"? Oh please.
I don't think the human race will survive the coming global warming and after watching that video, I don't think we deserve to either. The display gets full points for not having any taste though..
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luckily we have bnetd!
oh wait...
Does your file have to be transferred in-synchro?
Otherwise you might want to look into Message Oriented Middleware, things like MQ Series or in worst case scenario, even Microsoft MQ. There are plenty of options.
This would allow you to put policies on the messages, handle routing (in case you need to deliver to different recipients), guarantee delivery at least once, do type conversions/transformations etc.
Sure, I understand that.
I'm just tired of all these "global" announcements that really affect a tiny fraction of global users. Also very tired of all the arcane old licensing deals...
The Premier League offering in my country is very crappy and very limited - and the commentators are even crappier, the packaging sucks and it's really freaking expensive channel to get for the value you're getting - just for once, it would be so cool to be able to get the freedom to choose whatever value proposition you like, instead of being force fed by all these middlemen..
But yeah, like you said, there's too much money involved, so there's probably very little hope of it ever working like that .. and in the meanwhile I'll be watching the games at the local pub that "pirates" it off Sky (i.e. they have a subscription through proxy in UK). Oh well, for a second there I thought I'd have to buy a Xbox :-)
From TFA: "Millions of Xbox 360 owners in Britain and Ireland will be able to watch live programing such as Premier League soccer and movies following a deal with pay-TV group BSkyB"
That's not very "global" to me - what about the millions of Xbox users outside UK who'd also want to pay and see Premier League and other stuff on their Xbox? And yeah, that was rhetorical question, I know we're hosed until the "global" train arrives on our little local station.
I swear by Eclipse - I mostly do Java these days though, but I do have it setup for C++, Perl and PHP as well. :-)
Good plug-in support - easy to install and update.. what's not to like?
Integrates with most versioning tools through plug-ins (CVS, SVN etc).
Runs on all platforms. It's great.
This pretty much sums it all up.
Work experience gets you employability -
Masters/Ph.D is about seeing just how deep the rabbit hole goes.
I never really enjoyed academia when I was younger so I went for work experience and I have never regretted it.
Having said that - now on my older days - I'm finding myself strangely fascinated by the idea of exploring the "deep ends" of my field in academic environment.
Once you get into "working life" you'll find out that there's really not that many opportunities to research on the same level as there is in academia. I've been toying with the idea of "going back", however that will have to wait until the children are a bit older (other priorities at the moment).
Yes,
And every single player will say the same thing about the devs in the game of their choice. Just look at how the WoW community is accusing their devs of "ruining the game".
How about you back that claim up with some facts?
To me it seems CCP devs really listen to the community - and they've implemented a bunch of player addressed concern over the years.
C'mon man, show us the stats - show us just how bad the CCP track record is compared to entire gaming industry. I dare you.
It's advertised as security add-on, yet it contains obfuscated code and it exposes the users to security risks on the very same domain you download it from?
Ugh, and it didn't even prompt me.
Goodbye noscript, never again will you be part of my Firefox.
Huh? What?
You (or someone) thinks a game has a horribly broken feature A and therefore thinks it's ok to pirate the shit?
Excuse me but just as the quote says, you're trying to rationalize your thiefing.
If you think game is broken piece of crap, don't buy it. It doesn't give magically give you right to ignore copyrights and pirate it.
I think it's more likely that this is Ballmer's strategy against his own failings with Vista.
They're in desperate need of getting people off XP - it's starting to show it's age from marketing point of view and I'm sure MS would like to move to a new technological platform as well.
It's also nice to see they've really looked at things that went wrong with Vista launch - I don't think they really can afford to bomb Windows 7 launch.
Finland went through very similar economic crisis during early 90s (http://www.hs.fi/english/article/US+economic+crisis+Finnish+d%C3%A9j%C3%A0+vu/1135239664850).
Guess who was rooted to his terminal coding during all this time? (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linus_Torvalds)
Guess what happened when he decided - apparently against all common sense - to release his work (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_source)?
I'm not sure if you knew this or not, but Word actually has had "Track Changes" feature for quite a while - I agree it's not the greatest of implementations, but it does the job - especially in smaller office situations like you describe above.
Also, if you have your document on a shared drive and someone else is editing it, you have the option of letting Word notify you when the document is available again.
That might help your boss next time.
If I could I'd mod you up. Instead I'm going to post a "meetoo"
That "creative artist" is way of line, sure they probably make great things happen with their voices and the game is probably much better product because of that.. but in the end the voice actors are just such a small piece of the cake, so many others deserve to get their millions first.
Excuse my french but fuck Audible.
They refuse to publish DRM-free audiobooks even if the author explicitly wants it.
They get $0 of my business.
Most likely in China, Africa or India since US is unwilling to take care of their own electronic waste or even follow (and ratify) international treaties.
So yeah, do a world a favor and buy off some used tech before it goes to 3rd world countries where children have to sort through it.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2002920133_ewaste09.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-waste#Problems
http://www.ban.org/photogallery/index.html
They seem to be working just fine from Sweden
Answer to your question 1 is somewhat speculative, but this brief might give some insight (but as it's from the pro-Basel gang, so I guess it could be a bit biased):
http://olo.ban.org/Library/briefing2.html
Quote:
So I guess it would come down to corporate lobbying (not entirely surprising I guess).
As to your question 2, (for the "workers" at least) I'm almost sure it's more about getting your daily bread and butter on the table than getting that 3rd car and a boat. The latter option might be for the people in charge/running the operation.
Great attitude buddy. So as long as someone takes it off your hands (and you can make a buck!) you don't need to know where the waste goes? Makes me really believe in future of mankind. Good stuff.
Now open your eyes and start acting responsibly, recycle your own waste in U.S and stop dumping/selling it around the world.
It's great to see new technologies that are easier to recycle.
Now if U.S could just stop pretending and sign the Basel Convention deal which restricts the export of e-waste so the children of Guiyu wouldn't have to waste away their lives in toxic pits melting our "green" and ecologically "safe" drives.
Recycling is great, recycling it near the consumpition is also great. Dumping it to China is not great, out of sight out of mind mentality comes and bites you in the ass sooner or later.
Ah yes, spent my last 1.5 years supporting business with both Mac and Pc users.
While most PC users were completely ok, my experience with the Mac crowd was very similar to yours.
There were exceptions to the rule of course, but majority of them started off on their high-horses and big chunk of them never got off them.
Also, what was funny was that most of them were very vocal about the Apple/Mac superiority, but they were booting their Macbooks to Windows or using Windows in Virtual PC for their work.
So yeah, the mac-hardware is quite sweet, but mac-users are mostly pretentious idiots (I'm generalizing based on my own biased opinions of course) and I won't put myself in situation where I have to support a bunch of them again. (and then there's the whole issue of Apple screwing with their devs, changing API's, providing closed platforms etc, but that's another discussion)
I was about to click ok, before I realised the Safari box was clicked.
Of course they already bundle QuickTime with everything, their hardware platforms are closed, they constantly screw their developers over by tweaking with their API's.
They're much worse than Microsoft in many ways and the only reason we've been saved from this is because they've decided to target niche market with their products.
Installing new software through an "Update" is of course about the same thing Real was doing with RealPlayer spyware couple of years ago.
Apple is rotten.
Apparently they make back just about what they lose in bandwidth/server costs. Or so they say.
I guess that will be one of the main points in the upcoming trial.
The PB guys make it sound like it's ideal hobbyist project and the prosecution wants to paint them as IP thieves bathing in money.
Here's one article (unfortunately in Swedish)
http://www.svd.se/nyheter/inrikes/artikel_334410.svd
It "claims" PB is pulling 600k SEK / month with their ads (a sum quoted for last 4 months of activity).
That works to about USD 93k/month. PB claims most/all of the money goes to upkeep of the site, bandwidth and servers.
Interesting to see if the prosecution manages to get a coherent case out of this... I have my doubts.
"Tourists are scared to death of visiting Arab countries and they should be"
Oh bollocks. The "terrorist image" might perhaps be what's keeping Americans from the pyramids, but that image is entirely of our own making (our, as in "we western whiteys"), it's not made by "the terrorists".
Pushing fear is good business in the west.
Perhaps the Arab PR agencies should push their tourism more - but perhaps the American propaganga machine needs to tone down the message as well - not everyone in the arab world is evil as you seem to believe.
But tourists "should be scared to death of visiting Arab countries"? Oh please.
I don't think the human race will survive the coming global warming and after watching that video, I don't think we deserve to either.
The display gets full points for not having any taste though..
They're probably afraid the hideous fugliness of the thing will make potential ad-clickers run
Some (alledged) pics here:
http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/11/amazon-kindle-meet-amazons-e-book-reader/