Google bid on the 700MHz auction a few years ago and either lost or purposefully underbid
I'm not sure if you understand how an auction works but there's no such thing as 'underbidding'. You bid what you want to pay, and if someone else wants to pay more they bid more. Your lack of auction savvy makes me wonder why you aren't condemning the other parties at the auction for purposefully inflating the price instead!
Well, the fact that you were honest for most of the time does not detract from the fact that you have still lied to a criminal investigator. I'm sure Hans Reiser has met many women without killing them, but that wasn't used to mitigate his sentence.
Why would Joe Average get some senator they don't even know investigated when they could do it to their boss, coworkers, ex-girlfriends, people who cut them off in the parking lot? I don't think you've thought this through.
Did you just say pirates will -buy- a commercial unrarer? I think you missed something somewhere. The other point you're missing is that Joe Average won't buy DVD's, high speed internet, etc to pirate: They'll have them already.
Too much for too little? Why pay anything at all when you can get it for free? This is the reality behind the vast majority of game piracy. It is available for free, I can take it with 0 consequences, therefore I will do so.
Well, given I said 'either/or' you didn't correct me, because I have no way of knowing which scenario was true. If they did EK first, they just ran out of time on Kalimdor. (Or alternatively just didn't give a shit about the quality of the continent, which doesn't sound like the blizzard I know)
In terms of quests/content, I would have thought the undercity was a lot more fleshed out. But I'll admit I never got an orc character to the point where they would have been getting quests out of orctown.
In any case, what I'm getting at is that as a rule of thumb the Eastern Kingdoms was far superior to anything in Kalimdor, either because they did Kalimdor before EK and learned how to do it better. Or because they did EK and then rushed it out with Kalimdor half done.
Blizzard did ship WoW with just Stormwind and the Undercity as capital cities, I don't know if you ever went to Darnassus but it's just an empty shell. ie: completely dead contentwise, even 2 years after launch.
In fact, most of Kalimdor felt unfinished until content was patched in later on (Theramore is the most recent example of this).
"So you volunteer your information to every pair of smooth-talking people in suits and shades who can't produce any documentation?"
Presumably they had a badge and ID card which proved that they were members of the FBI. That's really documentation enough to for one government arm to cooperate with another government arm.
" don't think the cops should be spending their time pulling over the common public just because a computer said so. "
What if the government spent billions hiring enough police that they could call the insurance companies manually for each car that drove past? Would that be suitable? This is exactly the same, it's just more efficient. Why do you hate efficiency!
From the page "Fully approved via the ASF, the ASF Sponsorship Program is the official avenue for substantial, non-directed monetary contributions to the ASF. It is the closest and most direct method for a corporation or individual to support the ASF.".
The 'official avenue for substantial monetary contributes to the ASF' sounds like the way I would go if I wanted to donate a substantial amount of money officially, even if I wasn't intending to follow up next year.
There's nothing on the page to indicate that you're signing up for a 'sponsorship contribution' in the same way you sponsor a starving child, just that if you pay X thousand for a year you'll be considered a 'Platinum/Gold/Chalk' sponsor until next year where if you want to maintain the 'perk', you have to pony up again.
Well, here is an idea. Don't treat one time donations as a fucking revenue stream. Retarded management is the problem in your scenario, not donations from Microsoft.
Kids should be kids, people old enough to attend Yale Law school should act like fucking adults.
I'm looking forward to more of this in the future, the sooner everyone realises that the internet isn't a place where you can act like a retard with no penalties, the more likely it is that we're not going to end up with a bunch of ineffective 'internet laws' courtesy of your local lawmakers.
That's because you are a zealot. Unless you're saying that the cash had been dipped in radioactive goo before it was handed over, there is no reason for an organisation not to take a donation for a good cause just because it came from a company you personally don't like.
Probably because iPhone games are an 'untapped market' to date, and the first person to make a really good one will sell a million units courtesy of the precreated marketing channel and DRM which hinders piracy.
Lawyers, Doctors, Plumbers and Electricians all need a physical presence and as such the work can't be done by (occasionally) equally skilled staff in other countries at cheaper prices.
If you're going to do a job that can be done from anywhere in the world, you'd better make sure you're doing it for the lowest cost or you're going to get screwed.
If you don't know enough to be able to read the notes and determine whether a given fix is important to you or not, you should be installing everything.
Whether it's a security fix or a 'Occasionally system would start writing/dev/random across the filesystem' bug, if you don't know what they're talking about - install the damned thing or (preferably) realise that you need an expert in this job and hire someone.
No doubt HP has hundreds, if not -thousands- of people who have the same position as this guy. That's the point. He can work in his job for a few months and see what is available in the company. There's a lot more opportunity to move in the X thousand staff new department than his 5,10,X man department in his old company.
There aren't enough system-level developers who want to be 'sysadmins', and there sure as hell aren't enough sysadmins who want to be system-level developers.
They're different competencies with different skillsets.
Any sysadmin who has been doing their job would consult their 'OS vendor' who they have a 'support agreement' with, and get the 'official' patch for their OS.
I sure hope there aren't any sysadmins who are running critical business stuff over the Ubuntu CD they found on the cover of 'Linux Monthly'.
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Google bid on the 700MHz auction a few years ago and either lost or purposefully underbid
I'm not sure if you understand how an auction works but there's no such thing as 'underbidding'. You bid what you want to pay, and if someone else wants to pay more they bid more. Your lack of auction savvy makes me wonder why you aren't condemning the other parties at the auction for purposefully inflating the price instead!
Well, the fact that you were honest for most of the time does not detract from the fact that you have still lied to a criminal investigator. I'm sure Hans Reiser has met many women without killing them, but that wasn't used to mitigate his sentence.
Your assumption is wrong. In some countries they don't even have 'unlimited data plans'.
Why would Joe Average get some senator they don't even know investigated when they could do it to their boss, coworkers, ex-girlfriends, people who cut them off in the parking lot? I don't think you've thought this through.
Did you just say pirates will -buy- a commercial unrarer? I think you missed something somewhere. The other point you're missing is that Joe Average won't buy DVD's, high speed internet, etc to pirate: They'll have them already.
Too much for too little? Why pay anything at all when you can get it for free? This is the reality behind the vast majority of game piracy. It is available for free, I can take it with 0 consequences, therefore I will do so.
Well, given I said 'either/or' you didn't correct me, because I have no way of knowing which scenario was true. If they did EK first, they just ran out of time on Kalimdor. (Or alternatively just didn't give a shit about the quality of the continent, which doesn't sound like the blizzard I know)
"Actually, no it won't. How are we gonna organize to fight back if our phones are bugged and our email is rinsed through the NSA/ATT?"
Holy shit, you're right. There was never any civil disobedience before the existance of phones and email.
In terms of quests/content, I would have thought the undercity was a lot more fleshed out. But I'll admit I never got an orc character to the point where they would have been getting quests out of orctown.
In any case, what I'm getting at is that as a rule of thumb the Eastern Kingdoms was far superior to anything in Kalimdor, either because they did Kalimdor before EK and learned how to do it better. Or because they did EK and then rushed it out with Kalimdor half done.
It's hard to say which is the case.
Blizzard did ship WoW with just Stormwind and the Undercity as capital cities, I don't know if you ever went to Darnassus but it's just an empty shell. ie: completely dead contentwise, even 2 years after launch.
In fact, most of Kalimdor felt unfinished until content was patched in later on (Theramore is the most recent example of this).
"So you volunteer your information to every pair of smooth-talking people in suits and shades who can't produce any documentation?"
Presumably they had a badge and ID card which proved that they were members of the FBI. That's really documentation enough to for one government arm to cooperate with another government arm.
" don't think the cops should be spending their time pulling over the common public just because a computer said so. "
What if the government spent billions hiring enough police that they could call the insurance companies manually for each car that drove past? Would that be suitable? This is exactly the same, it's just more efficient. Why do you hate efficiency!
From the page "Fully approved via the ASF, the ASF Sponsorship Program is the official avenue for substantial, non-directed monetary contributions to the ASF. It is the closest and most direct method for a corporation or individual to support the ASF.".
The 'official avenue for substantial monetary contributes to the ASF' sounds like the way I would go if I wanted to donate a substantial amount of money officially, even if I wasn't intending to follow up next year.
There's nothing on the page to indicate that you're signing up for a 'sponsorship contribution' in the same way you sponsor a starving child, just that if you pay X thousand for a year you'll be considered a 'Platinum/Gold/Chalk' sponsor until next year where if you want to maintain the 'perk', you have to pony up again.
Well, here is an idea. Don't treat one time donations as a fucking revenue stream. Retarded management is the problem in your scenario, not donations from Microsoft.
Kids should be kids, people old enough to attend Yale Law school should act like fucking adults.
I'm looking forward to more of this in the future, the sooner everyone realises that the internet isn't a place where you can act like a retard with no penalties, the more likely it is that we're not going to end up with a bunch of ineffective 'internet laws' courtesy of your local lawmakers.
That's because you are a zealot. Unless you're saying that the cash had been dipped in radioactive goo before it was handed over, there is no reason for an organisation not to take a donation for a good cause just because it came from a company you personally don't like.
Probably because iPhone games are an 'untapped market' to date, and the first person to make a really good one will sell a million units courtesy of the precreated marketing channel and DRM which hinders piracy.
Lawyers, Doctors, Plumbers and Electricians all need a physical presence and as such the work can't be done by (occasionally) equally skilled staff in other countries at cheaper prices.
If you're going to do a job that can be done from anywhere in the world, you'd better make sure you're doing it for the lowest cost or you're going to get screwed.
If you don't know enough to be able to read the notes and determine whether a given fix is important to you or not, you should be installing everything.
Whether it's a security fix or a 'Occasionally system would start writing /dev/random across the filesystem' bug, if you don't know what they're talking about - install the damned thing or (preferably) realise that you need an expert in this job and hire someone.
Google wouldn't be accountable in any case, it would be the people that decided 'hey, lets use google for this legally sensitive data'.
It might have had '6 capital' cities, but all of Kalimdor was a joke compared to the Eastern Kingdoms.
Kalimdor is only just starting to compare to the EK with the revamp of Ashenvale and Theramore.
No doubt HP has hundreds, if not -thousands- of people who have the same position as this guy. That's the point. He can work in his job for a few months and see what is available in the company. There's a lot more opportunity to move in the X thousand staff new department than his 5,10,X man department in his old company.
Join the new company, there's more opportunity for you being 'an IT guy in an IT company' than 'An IT guy in a widget company.'
There aren't enough system-level developers who want to be 'sysadmins', and there sure as hell aren't enough sysadmins who want to be system-level developers.
They're different competencies with different skillsets.
Any sysadmin who has been doing their job would consult their 'OS vendor' who they have a 'support agreement' with, and get the 'official' patch for their OS.
I sure hope there aren't any sysadmins who are running critical business stuff over the Ubuntu CD they found on the cover of 'Linux Monthly'.