I attribute that quote to one of those Wall Street types or sales guys who measure their success entirely by the size of their paycheck. "That engineer only makes $80k and has a tough job that required a complex degree with lots of math in it! What a maroon!" The engineer looks at the Wall Street guy making 3/4 of a million per year and goes "That guy hates his job, is always stressed out, works 90 hours every week, has no hobbies because his job is his life, any family he has he barely sees, it's kind of sad. Why make so much money if you won't get to spend it until after you're all burnt out?"
Plus the Engineer gets the satisfaction of actually being productive and making something instead of just being a leeching middleman. And no, "liquidity" is not a product.
You mean the one that comes with no apps and not even Google Play? While I was railing against bloatware, the Google Play store is a central part of the Android experience, as is gmail, Google Maps, etc...
CoH was NCSoft's only "western" MMO. Everything else is Korean grindfests and lots of expensive Free to Play games. That's one of the big reasons it was shut down, because they didn't want to maintain the second development staff, second set of offices, second server farm, etc... to keep the game running.
The only problem with the CoH2 theory is that NCSoft always hated CoH, especially after the game went over with a resounding thud in the Korean market. They tried to add new grind mechanics to appeal to the Korean playerbase, but there just wasn't any traction.
It still drives me crazy that there isn't a "reference install" for Android that you can use (perhaps missing support for any esoteric hardware on your device, but with drivers for all commonly used hardware) when your service provider invariably stops updating your phone (approximately 6 months after first releasing it, or whenever the new version of Android comes out).
Is it really that hard to do what people have been doing on PCs for ages now? You don't even have to upgrade the baseband, just leave it alone and let the OS talk to it via a standardized interface (which should already be true I hope). Plus, it would give you an easy way to remove all of the horrible carrier "value add" that they insist on putting in there.
I have to give credit to Apple that even users of the positively ancient iPhone 3GS still get first tier support. You would be hard pressed to find an Android phone from that era with official support for Jelly Bean. Maybe one of the Nexus phones?
I still wonder if the company that made them was actually told "make them taste bad so Soldiers don't try to eat them early", or if they realized during production that the taste was horrible and some smarty pants in marketing sold it to the military as a feature.
Every time I go and make copies at my local Kinkos, one of the clerks walks over and asks if it is my own work. I don't know what they would do if you said no though.
I'm pretty sure Rob and whomever is maintaining Slashcode now is absolutely terrified of Unicode after having a few comment pages reversed and other formatting snafus. It's a shame though, because safe handling of Unicode is far from impossible and way better than what they're doing now.
I don't know. In general people don't buy Windows Upgrades because they were so damn expensive, the only time they upgraded is when they bought a new machine. A $25 upgrade might actually have some takers and make more money.
That would have been a true statement regardless of when they did it. I'm sure they have just barely enough budget to pay people and equipment rentals and whatnot with the assumption that everything goes perfectly smoothly. It's not like Chernobyl is going to explode for a second time if they don't get the dome on it by 4:45 next Thursday.
You can always set up a tunnel broker if you want to play around with IPv6. It's ugly and messy, but it gets you on the network. I've been using this very service for over two years now and have never had a problem with it. As far as supported devices, I have an original 2G iPhone, a Nintendo Wii, an ancient Sharp Zarius, and a pair of TiVos that don't support IPv6, but everything else was able to autoconfigure an address and use it right away.
Also, it is entirely possible to run a pure IPv6 network today though a combination of DNS and packet translation. Basically, your IPv6 only hosts do a name lookup for a host using the local DNS server. The server queries but only finds a A record, which it then translates into a AAAA record by appending a well known prefix and returns that to the host. That host then opens a socket to the IPv6 address specified and sends the packet through a static NAT setup on your gateway to translate the packets back to IPv4, and also translate return packets to IPv6. It sounds esoteric, but this setup works (I use it in an IPv6 only test environment) and isn't hard to configure at all if you're using a Linux gateway. I've been using the Trick or Treat Daemon for DNS conversions and Tayga for the IP packet translation.
The US government has a mandate to support IPv6, which is why most.gov sites can be reached over IPv6. Otherwise they would be in the same boat as everybody else.
What we really need is for Comcast, Verizon, Time Warner, etc... to enable IPv6 on their networks. Almost nobody is going to set up a tunnel broker for their home connection, it's way to esoteric and most home routers are crap anyway.
If your browser is using 5GB with just one tab open, then it's leaking memory and quite a lot of it. You might want to look into disabling a few extensions to see if you can find the one that's leaking.
Yep, just like they added the Start Menu, or the ability to have windows overlap the taskbar in Win 7, or playing back videos you ripped at full resolution in Vista, etc...
Kickstarter doesn't give out money unless the project goes all the way to completion and meets its goals. There wouldn't be much point in suing them before the Kickstarter was over, they would just kill the Kickstarter and have no money to sue over. You have to wait until they've got a few million bucks. That's how patent trolling works.
That's usually because the file you want is somewhere that search doesn't check, like the AppData folder in your home directory. It's really annoying to me too, when I know that file is there, but search turns up a blank.
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I attribute that quote to one of those Wall Street types or sales guys who measure their success entirely by the size of their paycheck. "That engineer only makes $80k and has a tough job that required a complex degree with lots of math in it! What a maroon!" The engineer looks at the Wall Street guy making 3/4 of a million per year and goes "That guy hates his job, is always stressed out, works 90 hours every week, has no hobbies because his job is his life, any family he has he barely sees, it's kind of sad. Why make so much money if you won't get to spend it until after you're all burnt out?"
Plus the Engineer gets the satisfaction of actually being productive and making something instead of just being a leeching middleman. And no, "liquidity" is not a product.
You mean the one that comes with no apps and not even Google Play? While I was railing against bloatware, the Google Play store is a central part of the Android experience, as is gmail, Google Maps, etc...
A decent portion of that 30% are people who have jailbroken their phones and are waiting for the jailbreaks to catch up.
CoH was NCSoft's only "western" MMO. Everything else is Korean grindfests and lots of expensive Free to Play games. That's one of the big reasons it was shut down, because they didn't want to maintain the second development staff, second set of offices, second server farm, etc... to keep the game running.
The only problem with the CoH2 theory is that NCSoft always hated CoH, especially after the game went over with a resounding thud in the Korean market. They tried to add new grind mechanics to appeal to the Korean playerbase, but there just wasn't any traction.
It still drives me crazy that there isn't a "reference install" for Android that you can use (perhaps missing support for any esoteric hardware on your device, but with drivers for all commonly used hardware) when your service provider invariably stops updating your phone (approximately 6 months after first releasing it, or whenever the new version of Android comes out).
Is it really that hard to do what people have been doing on PCs for ages now? You don't even have to upgrade the baseband, just leave it alone and let the OS talk to it via a standardized interface (which should already be true I hope). Plus, it would give you an easy way to remove all of the horrible carrier "value add" that they insist on putting in there.
I have to give credit to Apple that even users of the positively ancient iPhone 3GS still get first tier support. You would be hard pressed to find an Android phone from that era with official support for Jelly Bean. Maybe one of the Nexus phones?
It's well documented that iOS users tend to use their phones a lot more than Android users. Same thing in tablet space.
I've occasionally thought that some town in China could make make a killing by renaming itself USA.
I still wonder if the company that made them was actually told "make them taste bad so Soldiers don't try to eat them early", or if they realized during production that the taste was horrible and some smarty pants in marketing sold it to the military as a feature.
I've never seen an OEM PC with any Kaspersky stuff on it.
Every time I go and make copies at my local Kinkos, one of the clerks walks over and asks if it is my own work. I don't know what they would do if you said no though.
I'm pretty sure Rob and whomever is maintaining Slashcode now is absolutely terrified of Unicode after having a few comment pages reversed and other formatting snafus. It's a shame though, because safe handling of Unicode is far from impossible and way better than what they're doing now.
I don't know. In general people don't buy Windows Upgrades because they were so damn expensive, the only time they upgraded is when they bought a new machine. A $25 upgrade might actually have some takers and make more money.
That would have been a true statement regardless of when they did it. I'm sure they have just barely enough budget to pay people and equipment rentals and whatnot with the assumption that everything goes perfectly smoothly. It's not like Chernobyl is going to explode for a second time if they don't get the dome on it by 4:45 next Thursday.
Isn't alcohol produced by yeast?
You can always set up a tunnel broker if you want to play around with IPv6. It's ugly and messy, but it gets you on the network. I've been using this very service for over two years now and have never had a problem with it. As far as supported devices, I have an original 2G iPhone, a Nintendo Wii, an ancient Sharp Zarius, and a pair of TiVos that don't support IPv6, but everything else was able to autoconfigure an address and use it right away.
Also, it is entirely possible to run a pure IPv6 network today though a combination of DNS and packet translation. Basically, your IPv6 only hosts do a name lookup for a host using the local DNS server. The server queries but only finds a A record, which it then translates into a AAAA record by appending a well known prefix and returns that to the host. That host then opens a socket to the IPv6 address specified and sends the packet through a static NAT setup on your gateway to translate the packets back to IPv4, and also translate return packets to IPv6. It sounds esoteric, but this setup works (I use it in an IPv6 only test environment) and isn't hard to configure at all if you're using a Linux gateway. I've been using the Trick or Treat Daemon for DNS conversions and Tayga for the IP packet translation.
The US government has a mandate to support IPv6, which is why most .gov sites can be reached over IPv6. Otherwise they would be in the same boat as everybody else.
What we really need is for Comcast, Verizon, Time Warner, etc... to enable IPv6 on their networks. Almost nobody is going to set up a tunnel broker for their home connection, it's way to esoteric and most home routers are crap anyway.
If your browser is using 5GB with just one tab open, then it's leaking memory and quite a lot of it. You might want to look into disabling a few extensions to see if you can find the one that's leaking.
The change was to remove the start menu. There are alternate ways to launch programs, but the start menu was removed.
The low car crash fatalities are the direct result of "job killing regulation" from a big unelected government board too.
Yep, just like they added the Start Menu, or the ability to have windows overlap the taskbar in Win 7, or playing back videos you ripped at full resolution in Vista, etc...
Kickstarter doesn't give out money unless the project goes all the way to completion and meets its goals. There wouldn't be much point in suing them before the Kickstarter was over, they would just kill the Kickstarter and have no money to sue over. You have to wait until they've got a few million bucks. That's how patent trolling works.
Better than paying $200 every 4 years to remove features.
It's HP, printing money would end up costing you more in ink than the counterfeit bills would be worth.
That's usually because the file you want is somewhere that search doesn't check, like the AppData folder in your home directory. It's really annoying to me too, when I know that file is there, but search turns up a blank.