The thing is, if you are a chinese guy playing on the English-language servers, you are a farmer. China has its own servers with regular chinese players (and farmers as well no doubt). Hence the very correct perception of Chinese=farmer.
Usually this kind of thing is caused by good old fashioned lag. You don't see what's really happening in real time because it all happens on the clients in the order recieved, with some prediction used to show you on screen what is likely happening. But you don't know for sure what is happening until your client gets all the info from the server.
So you may see a guy in front of you and be shooting your heavy artillary at the ground where he is, but he's not really there; since you aimed your heavy weapons at the ground and not him the game can't know you meant to hit him, so he gets to come around and knife you while all this is going on.
Sounds like the test was written by the people who wrote the books... which is fine until you consider that they are often the least knowledgeable people in a company about tha actual product. They know literally what their doc says and that's it on the understanding level because their expertise is making it look and sound good. Kinda like if your mom made up a test from a user's manual, sure it would be "correct" but you better have memorized every page if you want a good score...
I think a charge-off is actually when they write off the debt as unrecoverable. They get some tax deduction so it's not a total loss, and you then owe the IRS taxes on the monetary 'gift' you were given. That was my understanding the last time I had to deal with debt collectors anyway.
XP N is supposed to be a bust. MS doesn't want you to buy the version some government made them create. They want it to die a quiet death after it serves its purpose of compliance.
Probably some truth there, think of the savings when they release service packs. Of course, also think of what will happen when the seemingly unavoidable security hole is found and customers start downloading worm-laden files straight from the MS machine.
Sigh. That is exactly what it is. Good vs Evil. The Jedi are Pure Good. The emporer is Pure Evil. Being a selfish piece of crap like Anakin and killing all your friends on the off chance it might help save your wife is Pure Evil.
Ah... but you see she lost the will to live, or so the medbot said (presumably because she lost Anakin). That part actually adds up although it's kind of a chicken and egg situation; she will die because she loses Anakin, but she loses him because she is going to die.
I'm not defending this ridiculous movie by any stretch but I thought that the story itself was pretty good, despite a couple of plot holes. I especially liked the Darth Plagus back story, that really fleshed out Palpatine. Between that and his fights with Yoda and Mace you see what he's really all about. He's really kind of a pitiful guy, a sad-sack coward of a villain who schemed a bunch and got lucky a couple of times. Not far removed from E.B. Farnham, if you ever watch Deadwood.
Anyway, what these movies really needed was someone to be the Han Solo character, and there just wasn't one in there anywhere.
The thing is, in the business universe you are either growing or dying. Staying the same is not considered success in the business world. The ultimate goal of any business is to become GE or WPP or some other mega-corp with a quarter of a million employees worldwide.
I grew to like Voyager eventually, but they made a LOT of mistakes.
[Nerd rant to follow]
My least favorite mistake they made right out of the gate: they missed a perfect opportunity to bring Nick Locarno (Wesley's squad leader at the academy) back for some redemption, Tom Paris was a knock-off of him anyway (the flashy pilot who was disgraced in starfleet). Locarno was an interesting, complex character with some background. But they bring the guy who played him on for a minutely different role instead. Go figure.
I always thought Chakotay was from the same Native American group that Wes Crusher met the traveler with on TNG (his last episode) - the "stain of blood" episode. Maybe not though, I have no proof.
Kim was definitely American, whatever his descent.
That said, this sort of competition is fairly pointless: being able to "infect" a machine with no action taken by the user boils down to finding buffer/heap overflows and the like in running software.
Ummm, so you're dismissing out-of-hand the very type of attack for which even savvy users are likely to be victims? I would say that overflow attacks are exactly the kind of thing we should be worried about for any operating system. This kind of attack leads to worldwide near-instant infection (remember Code Red and Slammer?). And I don't mean "infection".
Having said that, it's probably not worth a virus writer's time to work on infecting a Mac due to the low market share. Even if he were able to control the entire Mac population, that's still a small fraction of what is connected to the internet. So in any case this whole story is kind of a waste of time.
That's hilarious. It's true that people skills can't be taught, but neither can intelligence; you can send Dumb Friendly Charlie to all the classes in the world and get him all the certs in the world, but he will still try the wrong strategy first on most problems because he is not cut out for brain work. But at least he smiles at you while he's getting nothing done!
And don't forget that a bunch of the money they make is sent to their real home, i.e. relatives in Mexico. So that's an economic drain in and of itself. Not to mention the fact that neither Mexico nor the US gets any kind of income tax out of the deal. This cheap labor is getting more expensive all the time. You might even say it's time to hire some damn Americans already.
Ironically, we are talking about the party that loves the NRA, so when it all finally comes to a head regular folks will still be able to overthrow the police state using their trusty assault rifles.
Hmmm, you bring up a good point. Star Trek's audience spans both the red and blue states, so when Star Trek gets too smart reminding viewers what their tax dollars are doing in Iraq, half the audience will tune out from the discomfort and guilt. While the other half may cheer on the show's social commentary, it is really asking to be canceled when you alienate redneck america like that.
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Now who's making overly broad generalizations... why it's little old YOU!
The thing is, if you are a chinese guy playing on the English-language servers, you are a farmer. China has its own servers with regular chinese players (and farmers as well no doubt). Hence the very correct perception of Chinese=farmer.
Usually this kind of thing is caused by good old fashioned lag. You don't see what's really happening in real time because it all happens on the clients in the order recieved, with some prediction used to show you on screen what is likely happening. But you don't know for sure what is happening until your client gets all the info from the server.
So you may see a guy in front of you and be shooting your heavy artillary at the ground where he is, but he's not really there; since you aimed your heavy weapons at the ground and not him the game can't know you meant to hit him, so he gets to come around and knife you while all this is going on.
Sounds like the test was written by the people who wrote the books... which is fine until you consider that they are often the least knowledgeable people in a company about tha actual product. They know literally what their doc says and that's it on the understanding level because their expertise is making it look and sound good. Kinda like if your mom made up a test from a user's manual, sure it would be "correct" but you better have memorized every page if you want a good score...
I think a charge-off is actually when they write off the debt as unrecoverable. They get some tax deduction so it's not a total loss, and you then owe the IRS taxes on the monetary 'gift' you were given. That was my understanding the last time I had to deal with debt collectors anyway.
XP N is supposed to be a bust. MS doesn't want you to buy the version some government made them create. They want it to die a quiet death after it serves its purpose of compliance.
Probably some truth there, think of the savings when they release service packs. Of course, also think of what will happen when the seemingly unavoidable security hole is found and customers start downloading worm-laden files straight from the MS machine.
Not always. It's either too dumb or too smart to work with SafeTP.
No that would be what Neutral would do. Good must destroy Evil. Haven't you been drinking the latest Bush kool-aid?
Sigh. That is exactly what it is. Good vs Evil. The Jedi are Pure Good. The emporer is Pure Evil. Being a selfish piece of crap like Anakin and killing all your friends on the off chance it might help save your wife is Pure Evil.
Ah... but you see she lost the will to live, or so the medbot said (presumably because she lost Anakin). That part actually adds up although it's kind of a chicken and egg situation; she will die because she loses Anakin, but she loses him because she is going to die.
I'm not defending this ridiculous movie by any stretch but I thought that the story itself was pretty good, despite a couple of plot holes. I especially liked the Darth Plagus back story, that really fleshed out Palpatine. Between that and his fights with Yoda and Mace you see what he's really all about. He's really kind of a pitiful guy, a sad-sack coward of a villain who schemed a bunch and got lucky a couple of times. Not far removed from E.B. Farnham, if you ever watch Deadwood.
Anyway, what these movies really needed was someone to be the Han Solo character, and there just wasn't one in there anywhere.
The thing is, in the business universe you are either growing or dying. Staying the same is not considered success in the business world. The ultimate goal of any business is to become GE or WPP or some other mega-corp with a quarter of a million employees worldwide.
I grew to like Voyager eventually, but they made a LOT of mistakes.
[Nerd rant to follow]
My least favorite mistake they made right out of the gate: they missed a perfect opportunity to bring Nick Locarno (Wesley's squad leader at the academy) back for some redemption, Tom Paris was a knock-off of him anyway (the flashy pilot who was disgraced in starfleet). Locarno was an interesting, complex character with some background. But they bring the guy who played him on for a minutely different role instead. Go figure.
I always thought Chakotay was from the same Native American group that Wes Crusher met the traveler with on TNG (his last episode) - the "stain of blood" episode. Maybe not though, I have no proof.
Kim was definitely American, whatever his descent.
Same with Futurama (sniff).
I was hoping this was an April Fool's joke...
Ummm, so you're dismissing out-of-hand the very type of attack for which even savvy users are likely to be victims? I would say that overflow attacks are exactly the kind of thing we should be worried about for any operating system. This kind of attack leads to worldwide near-instant infection (remember Code Red and Slammer?). And I don't mean "infection".
Having said that, it's probably not worth a virus writer's time to work on infecting a Mac due to the low market share. Even if he were able to control the entire Mac population, that's still a small fraction of what is connected to the internet. So in any case this whole story is kind of a waste of time.
What's funny is that MS's built-in website for exchange's "outlook web access" feature is asp written entirely in javascript - and it's ugly as hell!
That's hilarious. It's true that people skills can't be taught, but neither can intelligence; you can send Dumb Friendly Charlie to all the classes in the world and get him all the certs in the world, but he will still try the wrong strategy first on most problems because he is not cut out for brain work. But at least he smiles at you while he's getting nothing done!
The orginal parent comes from the George W. Bush School of Document Reading, with a degree in Faulty Assumptions, minor was Dumbassitude.
The Declaration of Independence is not part of our constitution and has no role in our government.
And don't forget that a bunch of the money they make is sent to their real home, i.e. relatives in Mexico. So that's an economic drain in and of itself. Not to mention the fact that neither Mexico nor the US gets any kind of income tax out of the deal. This cheap labor is getting more expensive all the time. You might even say it's time to hire some damn Americans already.
Which is why Steely Dan beat Eminem in 2001. Or why Ray Charles' album won big this year.
You must be thinking of the Billboard awards, which of course are redundant because sales are their own reward...
Ironically, we are talking about the party that loves the NRA, so when it all finally comes to a head regular folks will still be able to overthrow the police state using their trusty assault rifles.
Hmmm, you bring up a good point. Star Trek's audience spans both the red and blue states, so when Star Trek gets too smart reminding viewers what their tax dollars are doing in Iraq, half the audience will tune out from the discomfort and guilt. While the other half may cheer on the show's social commentary, it is really asking to be canceled when you alienate redneck america like that.