Symantec purchased Veritas. Veritas wrote the volume manager (Disk Management in the mmc) that is used by Windows 2000 and later. If you check the registry, you'll find reference to the veritas volume manager.
With the first Combat Upgrade, SOE introduced the concept of levels to SWG. It was a combat level, not an experience level. CLs ranged from 1 - 80. CLs were determined by the professions you progressed through and was a fairly accurate rating of your ability to kill mobs.
The NGE maintained the level concept but it is more straight-forward now. There are only 9 professions, instead of 34. Like other MMOs, your profession is set once chosen and there are defined experience levels to progress through. At certain hallmark levels, you are granted skills and items.
It's far more simplistic and easy see where you're going.
I'm in the same boat. I took the day off on launch day to play and suffered through all of the subscription issues at launch. I played a class that was ignored until just before the NGE updates (Ranger) and think that with some GUI tweaks the NGE will be the most enjoyable version of SWG yet, even with my class blinking out of existence.
it has been opined that they did not make a mistake.. and somehow there is danger inherent in the kessel run.. and the closer you go to the hazards, the more distance you take off the run.. and therefore the falcon was fast enough and solo a good enough pilot that the measurement of distance was appropriate...
or.. we're just making excuses for Lucas making a mistake... =)
but.. the developer of the app using this data needs his data backed up in x number of hours.. and the users of said app are moaning and groaning about how the app feels.. and the backup folks are complaining that they can't get things done in the window that's needed.. and they shoe horn the solution in to make it all just work with the least number of complaints...
and.. oh yeah.. now the data is on a tape and protected from disaster.. but open for anyone else to peruse...
Or... they could have architected a solution that doesn't impact the app, doesn't impact the customers.. and give the backup folks the piece of mind that the backup was successful, protected and secure.
That would cost money.. and it would take S..M..R..T smart people to implement it.
"Recently, John Kerry gave a speech in which he claimed Americans are
actually paying more taxes under Bush, despite the tax cuts. He gave no
explanation and provided no data for this claim."
The airline industry lowered their prices.. and their revenues went up. Analysts threw their hands up.
Common sense tells people that if your product (taxes) is cheaper (tax cut) more people will use your product (pay taxes) and therefore you'll get more revenue ( more taxes paid). Explanation wouldn't help Kerry.. it wouldn't end up being as negative as he's trying to make it out to be.
Trust me, I'm not saying your degree won't provide you valuable information and training for a successful career in IT or software development. I'm simply saying that graduate programs at major universities do not look favorably on certain accreditation, ACICS included.
Call a few local Universities with graduate programs in Computer Science and ask if they accept a degree with ACICS accreditation as sufficient for admission to their graduate programs. I'd be willing to be most will say that it is not. The University of Phoenix has the same problem.
If you're not going to grad school, this is completely irrelevant.
20 years... DOJ hounds at their heels... Citizens of multiple states taking them to court regarding unfair business practices... Scrutiny over their backdoor funding of SCO...
Maybe not a new head, but possibly someone who is now able to read the news.
They are accredited.. check their website. The ACICS accredited them. Which is good and bad. They are in the same boat as technical colleges and other online "universities".
They'll give you a degree you can use to bolter your job opportunities, but gives you no chance for advancement. Graduate programs at any real University will absolutely laugh if you try to use this BS as meeting the requirement for admission.
They are accredited, but only in that community college / technical college way. You can get your BS from these guys, but not a single graduate program will touch you.
-snip- and people who dared to make a WinCE device act like an MP3 player -snip-
DARED? What are you smoking? They made the interface to their MP3 player the iPod interface. Beyond the flawed logic of using an interface designed to be used with a thumb on a device with a stylus and multiple buttons, they simply ripped off the interface wholesale.. dared... seems shortsighted and not daring.
"But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly, for you tread on my dreams" - W.B. Yeats, The Cloths of Heaven
How many people in this survey understand what the encryption we use is for? How many people did they survey in industries that are affected by this?
My problem with all of this is simple. Let's ban the production of software with "uncrackable" encryption. Does that mean the government would have the ability to confiscate all copies of old software that violate this rule? Would they be able to prosecute people who have legally purchased old software based on the old standard?
This is reactionary crap. People don't want cameras capturing their image as they walk the streets of Tampa Bay.. but let's ignore privacy concerns in our coversations we think are being done in confidence with others.
This move does nothing to solve the problem. People are going to be doing illegal things with or without encryption software available at CompUSA..
This move does nothing to discuss the issue that criminals could write the software themselves. That isn't a stretch of the imagination. They spent thousands of dollars to send people to flight school in this country so they could fly 767s. Is it inconveivable that they could pick up a "how to teach yourself C++" and "Encryption Algorithm" books?
I know we all have our doubts about the historical relevance of this article, but I've got one massive issue with this.
If it were written by a professor seeking to gain some credibility with this, I highly doubt he would use the phrase, "... I'm not saying the game is going to be crap..." That seems like something a 7th grader would write.
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Symantec purchased Veritas. Veritas wrote the volume manager (Disk Management in the mmc) that is used by Windows 2000 and later. If you check the registry, you'll find reference to the veritas volume manager.
With the first Combat Upgrade, SOE introduced the concept of levels to SWG. It was a combat level, not an experience level. CLs ranged from 1 - 80. CLs were determined by the professions you progressed through and was a fairly accurate rating of your ability to kill mobs.
The NGE maintained the level concept but it is more straight-forward now. There are only 9 professions, instead of 34. Like other MMOs, your profession is set once chosen and there are defined experience levels to progress through. At certain hallmark levels, you are granted skills and items.
It's far more simplistic and easy see where you're going.
I'm in the same boat. I took the day off on launch day to play and suffered through all of the subscription issues at launch. I played a class that was ignored until just before the NGE updates (Ranger) and think that with some GUI tweaks the NGE will be the most enjoyable version of SWG yet, even with my class blinking out of existence.
it has been opined that they did not make a mistake.. and somehow there is danger inherent in the kessel run.. and the closer you go to the hazards, the more distance you take off the run.. and therefore the falcon was fast enough and solo a good enough pilot that the measurement of distance was appropriate...
or.. we're just making excuses for Lucas making a mistake... =)
but.. the developer of the app using this data needs his data backed up in x number of hours.. and the users of said app are moaning and groaning about how the app feels.. and the backup folks are complaining that they can't get things done in the window that's needed.. and they shoe horn the solution in to make it all just work with the least number of complaints...
and.. oh yeah.. now the data is on a tape and protected from disaster.. but open for anyone else to peruse...
Or... they could have architected a solution that doesn't impact the app, doesn't impact the customers.. and give the backup folks the piece of mind that the backup was successful, protected and secure.
That would cost money.. and it would take S..M..R..T smart people to implement it.
"Recently, John Kerry gave a speech in which he claimed Americans are
actually paying more taxes under Bush, despite the tax cuts. He gave no
explanation and provided no data for this claim."
The airline industry lowered their prices.. and their revenues went up. Analysts threw their hands up.
Common sense tells people that if your product (taxes) is cheaper (tax cut) more people will use your product (pay taxes) and therefore you'll get more revenue ( more taxes paid). Explanation wouldn't help Kerry.. it wouldn't end up being as negative as he's trying to make it out to be.
Trust me, I'm not saying your degree won't provide you valuable information and training for a successful career in IT or software development. I'm simply saying that graduate programs at major universities do not look favorably on certain accreditation, ACICS included.
Call a few local Universities with graduate programs in Computer Science and ask if they accept a degree with ACICS accreditation as sufficient for admission to their graduate programs. I'd be willing to be most will say that it is not. The University of Phoenix has the same problem.
If you're not going to grad school, this is completely irrelevant.
20 years... DOJ hounds at their heels... Citizens of multiple states taking them to court regarding unfair business practices... Scrutiny over their backdoor funding of SCO...
Maybe not a new head, but possibly someone who is now able to read the news.
They are accredited.. check their website. The ACICS accredited them. Which is good and bad. They are in the same boat as technical colleges and other online "universities".
They'll give you a degree you can use to bolter your job opportunities, but gives you no chance for advancement. Graduate programs at any real University will absolutely laugh if you try to use this BS as meeting the requirement for admission.
They are accredited, but only in that community college / technical college way. You can get your BS from these guys, but not a single graduate program will touch you.
-snip-
and people who dared to make a WinCE device act like an MP3 player
-snip-
DARED? What are you smoking? They made the interface to their MP3 player the iPod interface. Beyond the flawed logic of using an interface designed to be used with a thumb on a device with a stylus and multiple buttons, they simply ripped off the interface wholesale.. dared... seems shortsighted and not daring.
"But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly, for you tread on my dreams" - W.B. Yeats, The Cloths of Heaven
river phoenix is dead.. they were practically the same guy..
How many people in this survey understand what the encryption we use is for? How many people did they survey in industries that are affected by this?
My problem with all of this is simple. Let's ban the production of software with "uncrackable" encryption. Does that mean the government would have the ability to confiscate all copies of old software that violate this rule? Would they be able to prosecute people who have legally purchased old software based on the old standard?
This is reactionary crap. People don't want cameras capturing their image as they walk the streets of Tampa Bay.. but let's ignore privacy concerns in our coversations we think are being done in confidence with others.
This move does nothing to solve the problem. People are going to be doing illegal things with or without encryption software available at CompUSA..
This move does nothing to discuss the issue that criminals could write the software themselves. That isn't a stretch of the imagination. They spent thousands of dollars to send people to flight school in this country so they could fly 767s. Is it inconveivable that they could pick up a "how to teach yourself C++" and "Encryption Algorithm" books?
I think not.
I know we all have our doubts about the historical relevance of this article, but I've got one massive issue with this.
If it were written by a professor seeking to gain some credibility with this, I highly doubt he would use the phrase, "... I'm not saying the game is going to be crap..." That seems like something a 7th grader would write.
Just my 2 cents.
You won't see it... it was tried way back in the early to mid 90s, I don't remember the name.
There were too many control problems. Swiveling your head, or seeing into your peripheral vision was too hard.
take football, if you're a running back trying to hit a hole, and you've lost your peripheral vision, you're going to get blindsided... everytime.
it was a neat concept, but unless they force fisheye views, it would be nearly impossible.