EVE has locked out new players essentially because it takes too long to get your skills up.
I hear this quoted often by people without the patience to give EVE a try. It's flat wrong and demonstrates your ignorance of how EVE is implemented. You don't need five years to succeed in your chosen profession; heck, you don't even need 6 months. The largest part of being successful is gaining experience through playtime and having a certain amount of fearlessness. I wager that this is true of most every MMORPG. Past a certain point, your training just adds versatility anyhow.
I think you don't understand how large businesses operate. They minimize risk whenever possible, sometimes even at the expense of profits. Running servers without some kind of safety net (read as: someone outside the company to blame) is a huge risk. Even if they have talented admin(s) on their staff, employees get sick, quit, or just don't feel like fixing some things.
This is how large business operates. It's amazing they make any profit at all.
I'm not sure what to make of this. I put "linux lower tco" into your comparator site. The first Google result was pro-MS, but Bing didn't place a pro-MS result until #9.
I have to respectfully disagree here. When you make a lifestyle out of anything, when that thing is suddenly gone you notice it. All the time. ALL THE TIME.
It might not be a physical addition like nicotine, alcohol, or hard drugs, but it is still an addiction.
God, I love this movie to death! I'm glad to see someone else watched it and enjoys it as much as I do.
Also, it was filmed in my home town (Addison, suburb of Dallas, TX). It's fun pointing out where the various scenes are relative to my apartment.
So has Adobe figured out that it's better to have the Linux geeks in their corner than opposing them?
I was pretty happy when they released the 64-bit Flash 10 beta for Linux before demoing other operating systems. It feels like a change for the better from them, and I hope it's genuine.
For anyone in the Dallas/Fort Worth area, there is an Adobe Flex interest and advocacy group that meets at my university (the University of Texas @ Dallas). Their website is http://www.d-flex.org/, and they meet every month on Thursdays.
I heard the leader of the organization speak at a UUG recently, and it seems like a really neat tool. You'll have to forgive me for promoting it over Silverlight. I'm always suspicious of Microsoft's long-term intentions, as their history has born out time and time again how malicious they are. I just don't trust them.
Do nothing at all! This isn't a problem, it's a symptom of a healthy open source movement. If anything, be happy that there's so much interest in Linux and open source.
The kernel and tools that constitute a Linux distribution are open and free, and there is nothing you can do, legally or otherwise, to prevent someone from creating another distribution. This is the very essence of open source and the GPL, the thing that gives it (and you) so much power.
And it's not like a lot of these smaller distributions are expecting a huge following. Often they fill needs or particular niches and are usually happy remaining small and focused upon a certain thing. This isn't a competition by any means. You don't win any prize for having the most users of any distribution (RedHat notwithstanding). To think this way is treating Linux as a vehicle to stroke your own ego and is an incorrect attitude.
I'm uncertain if you're being deliberately sarcastic or not, so...
You forget the sunk costs of previous work on the operating system. Surely Apple is allowed to recover the enormous costs of the many man-years of programming and management effort that went into making OS X and all its updates.
Recently I migrated my file server from an ECS motherboard I was unsure of to an Intel Q35 mobo manufactured by Foxconn. When I booted up again, the kernel hung when it reached ACPI detection, and I didn't know why. After grafting 2.6.24.5 into/boot it started working again, but my nic is still unrecognized.
At the time I found it quite odd that they'd make such radical changes to a well-established chipset. Now I know it's the motherboard manufacturer poisoning the bios information. I concur with the whistle-blower that this doesn't appear to be incidental. The analogy to a landmine is very telling. What on earth is their reasoning for this?
I'm exceptionally disappointed in Foxconn for pulling this stunt. The gentleman from the original post has done some very good research into this, but it's hard for me to outright condemn them and say they're in MS's pocket. That would be too ridiculous for words. But I'm still left with the question "Why did they do this?"
What really sucks is I was impressed by the quality of manufacturing and packaging. I remember thinking "I'll probably buy this brand again" and now I can't. Way to go, Foxconn, and by extension Way to go Intel. You've burned a solid customer here.
I should also mention that Foxconn is the brand that manufactures iPhones and possibly other Apple hardware.
It was a great thing to learn back four years ago. I picked up a php & mysql book and went to town, built quite a few cool websites. In the end though, I look back and realize that the language of php seems somewhat childish. The bar for entry is so low that anyone can do it, and it's hard to stand out amongst all the chaff.
Perhaps that's just elitism talking, but then again these days I do a lot of VBA development (ugh).
I've run into this very thing before in trying to decide what to study. There are so many different web languages, each of which come with their own toolsets and frameworks. How are we expected to keep up with it all? I don't want to commit to a language or technology that might easily be eclipsed within 2-3 years.
My biggest concern is the amount of time required just to keep up with the Jonses. How much time can I siphon away from paying work on php to learn about rails or django? What about the X number of new Ajax toolkits that have recently emerged, or some supposedly fantastic deployment set? I think of how fast javascript has accelerated since 2005 from digraceful reject to shining star, and it truly terrifies me how little I know of it. I'm used to mastering a language, understanding its uses and differences from others, then applying it towards the future. Do I have time to do that any more?
In the end, I came to the conclusion that I would just study Java and its ilk, because it seems to have made major inroads in enterprise applications and it's free-ish. That's good enough for me, and it bodes well for long term stability.
This kind of semi-ignorant rhetoric smacks of something else... Oh yes! The retards who played Gran Turismo 3 and came away convinced that the Subaru Imprezza WRX was the best vehicle evar; all-wheel drive pwns everything else!
Sure, there's some truth to what you say. But to bluntly assess "Obviously, you have not seen any HD 1080p big screen in the last 6 months to a year" is completely stupid, as is "AND yes a 24" LCD monitor is a far better picture than any movie theater." The sense of scale that comes from watching a movie on a huge screen at the theater is difficult to duplicate, even if the quality is not up to par with 1080p.
The frothy-mouthed madmanesque style you're going about proselytizing us does not inspire confidence nor a desire to continue listening to you. In short, chill the fuck out and enjoy your movie.
From Wikipedia: Stereotypes are ideas held about members of particular groups, based solely on membership in that group. They are often used in a negative or prejudicial sense and are frequently used to justify certain discriminatory behaviors. More benignly, they may express sometimes-accurate folk wisdom about social reality.
From Merriam-Webster: [S]omething conforming to a fixed or general pattern; especially : a standardized mental picture that is held in common by members of a group and that represents an oversimplified opinion, prejudiced attitude, or uncritical judgment
In reading these two definitions, I realize that I erred in using the word "stereotype." I didn't mean to convery a negative connotation, but instead something along the lines of "if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, then it's probably a duck." Help me out here, what's the proper word?
I don't think it's lazy thinking to categorize people|objects|things if you've had enough experience with them. The world is so varied, and when you're on the run and need to make quick decisions, you rely on those assumptions (harmful or not) to speed things up.
No, listening to Reggae does not make you immersed in the pot culture, perhaps just an observer. I occasionally listen to country music, and I live in Texas. Does that make me a cowbow? (Nope)
Anyways, I'm interested to hear your stance, since you stated your background, but never got around to mentioning what you felt on the matter.
Good for you. Now go log in and then let's have a rational discussion without this cloud of anonymonity between us. It's easy to make bold declarative statements like this on the internet.
I suppose you also believe that people who believe Pot should be legal also smoke it?
I believe that's a fair assumption. Maybe they don't personally toke, but they immerse themselves in an environment where others are smoking it and it's OK to do so. And from anecdotal evidence from when I was at college: The people that screamed the loudest about rights on the illegal file sharing web boards had the largest amounts shared. It's impossible to say whether they downloaded illegally because they believed they had the right to, or they said that merely to justify their habit.
Stereotypes exist for a reason: they're usually pretty accurate (certain racial stereotypes aside). Don't be so defensive.
Dear god, calm down the anti-RIAA rhetoric and think about what you've just said for a second. The buying and selling of used goods has at best a tenuous relationship to the sale of new goods that are still being produced. It will usually follow the new price up and down as it fluctuates, but it is always less than the new. Exceptions arise when a particular pressing of an album is no longer produced new. CD shops that buy used CDs from consumers do not pay the RIAA a dime for the privilege. Same then when a used CD is sold; the RIAA only sees dollars when the original sale is made. This is the reason they hate the 2nd hand market so much and tried to stamp it out. Try the First-sale Doctrine. The new CD market drives the 2nd hand market, not the other way around. Don't let your hate cloud your vision to the simple facts of economics.
And you make the assumption that anyone that even sells RIAA material should go out of business. Can you get any more rabid than that? They sell other stuff yaknow, you're tossing the baby out with the bath water. Why don't you go burn down every CD store in your home town if that's the way you feel.
http://www.retromud.org/ - regularly 90+ players on at a time, fantaistic guild/class system, active wizzes, very complete, massive worlds (11,000+ rooms I think). I wasted a significant amount of time there in college, it was great.
http://lensmoor.org/ - different flavor, but same characteristics as above. Very active.
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I hear this quoted often by people without the patience to give EVE a try. It's flat wrong and demonstrates your ignorance of how EVE is implemented. You don't need five years to succeed in your chosen profession; heck, you don't even need 6 months. The largest part of being successful is gaining experience through playtime and having a certain amount of fearlessness. I wager that this is true of most every MMORPG. Past a certain point, your training just adds versatility anyhow.
I think you don't understand how large businesses operate. They minimize risk whenever possible, sometimes even at the expense of profits. Running servers without some kind of safety net (read as: someone outside the company to blame) is a huge risk. Even if they have talented admin(s) on their staff, employees get sick, quit, or just don't feel like fixing some things. This is how large business operates. It's amazing they make any profit at all.
Give up dude. You got pwned, now take it like a man and learn something instead of desperately trying to regain a shred of your pride.
I'm not sure what to make of this. I put "linux lower tco" into your comparator site. The first Google result was pro-MS, but Bing didn't place a pro-MS result until #9.
I have to respectfully disagree here. When you make a lifestyle out of anything, when that thing is suddenly gone you notice it. All the time. ALL THE TIME. It might not be a physical addition like nicotine, alcohol, or hard drugs, but it is still an addiction.
I think you a verb.
God, I love this movie to death! I'm glad to see someone else watched it and enjoys it as much as I do. Also, it was filmed in my home town (Addison, suburb of Dallas, TX). It's fun pointing out where the various scenes are relative to my apartment.
So has Adobe figured out that it's better to have the Linux geeks in their corner than opposing them? I was pretty happy when they released the 64-bit Flash 10 beta for Linux before demoing other operating systems. It feels like a change for the better from them, and I hope it's genuine.
For anyone in the Dallas/Fort Worth area, there is an Adobe Flex interest and advocacy group that meets at my university (the University of Texas @ Dallas). Their website is http://www.d-flex.org/, and they meet every month on Thursdays.
I heard the leader of the organization speak at a UUG recently, and it seems like a really neat tool. You'll have to forgive me for promoting it over Silverlight. I'm always suspicious of Microsoft's long-term intentions, as their history has born out time and time again how malicious they are. I just don't trust them.
Do nothing at all! This isn't a problem, it's a symptom of a healthy open source movement. If anything, be happy that there's so much interest in Linux and open source.
The kernel and tools that constitute a Linux distribution are open and free, and there is nothing you can do, legally or otherwise, to prevent someone from creating another distribution. This is the very essence of open source and the GPL, the thing that gives it (and you) so much power.
And it's not like a lot of these smaller distributions are expecting a huge following. Often they fill needs or particular niches and are usually happy remaining small and focused upon a certain thing. This isn't a competition by any means. You don't win any prize for having the most users of any distribution (RedHat notwithstanding). To think this way is treating Linux as a vehicle to stroke your own ego and is an incorrect attitude.
I'm uncertain if you're being deliberately sarcastic or not, so ...
You forget the sunk costs of previous work on the operating system. Surely Apple is allowed to recover the enormous costs of the many man-years of programming and management effort that went into making OS X and all its updates.
Recently I migrated my file server from an ECS motherboard I was unsure of to an Intel Q35 mobo manufactured by Foxconn. When I booted up again, the kernel hung when it reached ACPI detection, and I didn't know why. After grafting 2.6.24.5 into /boot it started working again, but my nic is still unrecognized.
At the time I found it quite odd that they'd make such radical changes to a well-established chipset. Now I know it's the motherboard manufacturer poisoning the bios information. I concur with the whistle-blower that this doesn't appear to be incidental. The analogy to a landmine is very telling. What on earth is their reasoning for this?
I'm exceptionally disappointed in Foxconn for pulling this stunt. The gentleman from the original post has done some very good research into this, but it's hard for me to outright condemn them and say they're in MS's pocket. That would be too ridiculous for words. But I'm still left with the question "Why did they do this?"
What really sucks is I was impressed by the quality of manufacturing and packaging. I remember thinking "I'll probably buy this brand again" and now I can't. Way to go, Foxconn, and by extension Way to go Intel. You've burned a solid customer here.
I should also mention that Foxconn is the brand that manufactures iPhones and possibly other Apple hardware.
It was a great thing to learn back four years ago. I picked up a php & mysql book and went to town, built quite a few cool websites. In the end though, I look back and realize that the language of php seems somewhat childish. The bar for entry is so low that anyone can do it, and it's hard to stand out amongst all the chaff.
Perhaps that's just elitism talking, but then again these days I do a lot of VBA development (ugh).
I've run into this very thing before in trying to decide what to study. There are so many different web languages, each of which come with their own toolsets and frameworks. How are we expected to keep up with it all? I don't want to commit to a language or technology that might easily be eclipsed within 2-3 years.
My biggest concern is the amount of time required just to keep up with the Jonses. How much time can I siphon away from paying work on php to learn about rails or django? What about the X number of new Ajax toolkits that have recently emerged, or some supposedly fantastic deployment set? I think of how fast javascript has accelerated since 2005 from digraceful reject to shining star, and it truly terrifies me how little I know of it. I'm used to mastering a language, understanding its uses and differences from others, then applying it towards the future. Do I have time to do that any more?
In the end, I came to the conclusion that I would just study Java and its ilk, because it seems to have made major inroads in enterprise applications and it's free-ish. That's good enough for me, and it bodes well for long term stability.
Maybe he or she is blind. Screen readers don't exactly enunciate very well.
This kind of semi-ignorant rhetoric smacks of something else ...
Oh yes! The retards who played Gran Turismo 3 and came away convinced that the Subaru Imprezza WRX was the best vehicle evar; all-wheel drive pwns everything else!
Sure, there's some truth to what you say. But to bluntly assess "Obviously, you have not seen any HD 1080p big screen in the last 6 months to a year" is completely stupid, as is "AND yes a 24" LCD monitor is a far better picture than any movie theater." The sense of scale that comes from watching a movie on a huge screen at the theater is difficult to duplicate, even if the quality is not up to par with 1080p.
The frothy-mouthed madmanesque style you're going about proselytizing us does not inspire confidence nor a desire to continue listening to you.
In short, chill the fuck out and enjoy your movie.
From Wikipedia: Stereotypes are ideas held about members of particular groups, based solely on membership in that group. They are often used in a negative or prejudicial sense and are frequently used to justify certain discriminatory behaviors. More benignly, they may express sometimes-accurate folk wisdom about social reality.
From Merriam-Webster: [S]omething conforming to a fixed or general pattern; especially : a standardized mental picture that is held in common by members of a group and that represents an oversimplified opinion, prejudiced attitude, or uncritical judgment
In reading these two definitions, I realize that I erred in using the word "stereotype." I didn't mean to convery a negative connotation, but instead something along the lines of "if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, then it's probably a duck." Help me out here, what's the proper word?
I don't think it's lazy thinking to categorize people|objects|things if you've had enough experience with them. The world is so varied, and when you're on the run and need to make quick decisions, you rely on those assumptions (harmful or not) to speed things up.
No, listening to Reggae does not make you immersed in the pot culture, perhaps just an observer. I occasionally listen to country music, and I live in Texas. Does that make me a cowbow? (Nope)
Anyways, I'm interested to hear your stance, since you stated your background, but never got around to mentioning what you felt on the matter.
Good for you. Now go log in and then let's have a rational discussion without this cloud of anonymonity between us. It's easy to make bold declarative statements like this on the internet.
I suppose you also believe that people who believe Pot should be legal also smoke it?
I believe that's a fair assumption. Maybe they don't personally toke, but they immerse themselves in an environment where others are smoking it and it's OK to do so.
And from anecdotal evidence from when I was at college: The people that screamed the loudest about rights on the illegal file sharing web boards had the largest amounts shared. It's impossible to say whether they downloaded illegally because they believed they had the right to, or they said that merely to justify their habit.
Stereotypes exist for a reason: they're usually pretty accurate (certain racial stereotypes aside). Don't be so defensive.
*whooosh* goes the joke sailing over your head.
Dear god, calm down the anti-RIAA rhetoric and think about what you've just said for a second.
The buying and selling of used goods has at best a tenuous relationship to the sale of new goods that are still being produced. It will usually follow the new price up and down as it fluctuates, but it is always less than the new. Exceptions arise when a particular pressing of an album is no longer produced new.
CD shops that buy used CDs from consumers do not pay the RIAA a dime for the privilege. Same then when a used CD is sold; the RIAA only sees dollars when the original sale is made. This is the reason they hate the 2nd hand market so much and tried to stamp it out. Try the First-sale Doctrine.
The new CD market drives the 2nd hand market, not the other way around. Don't let your hate cloud your vision to the simple facts of economics.
And you make the assumption that anyone that even sells RIAA material should go out of business. Can you get any more rabid than that? They sell other stuff yaknow, you're tossing the baby out with the bath water. Why don't you go burn down every CD store in your home town if that's the way you feel.
You, my friend, have a very good perspective of the future of energy. Bravo.
Along the same lines as saying "getting butts in seats." Do movie execs really think we're all a bunch of asses? ... ...
Don't answer that.
http://www.retromud.org/ - regularly 90+ players on at a time, fantaistic guild/class system, active wizzes, very complete, massive worlds (11,000+ rooms I think). I wasted a significant amount of time there in college, it was great.
http://lensmoor.org/ - different flavor, but same characteristics as above. Very active.