The problem was brought to EA's attention and they did take action about it. The action was to silence their critics. Since they could have put the same effort into solving the problem, I can only assume that they feel that child prostitution is an appealing feature of their product. Therefore, shame on them.
At most of the jobs I've ever had, I've been forced to use Windows to some extent. I'm a Mac programmer. So, you can't say that people aren't forced to use Windows. That's exactly why most people do use Windows, in fact.
At one company it was because they setup the bug database in MS Access. At another it was the kind of source code repository they choose to use. (Both of these were arbitrary and rather stupid choices.) At another company it was because the economy went bad and I could either program Windows or get laid off. There have been a few places where all I had to deal with was the Mac, but that's a very few places.
Given the ability, how can you say to your wife, "Honey, I don't want you to see my location every minute of every day?"
I open my mouth and say it, or better yet, just turn the damn "feature" off. (Or easier still, I just don't show her how that feature works.)
What kind of wife do you have where you have to put up with being ankle braceleted to her all the time? I treat my wife well, I don't track her whereabouts or record her phone calls, and I expect the same back. If she doesn't like it, then she knows where the door is.
I think that their thinking is that if their ad can evade the popup, then it is the only ad you see, so you will pay more attention to it.
Another part of why ads are so annoying is that research shows that people respond to very clear, in your face, obvious, and memorable ads. Since everyone on/. would probably list X10 as one of the most annoying ad campaigns, they are "doing a good job" simply because so many people know who they are.
However, popup ad blocking evading ads (long convoluted phrase) kind of cross a line into a realm that I don't think has really been researched. These are ads where clearly the advertiser is not wanted. I'm sure that if an advertiser paid some toughs to come to your house and kick your ass while chanting advertising slogans, you probably wouldn't forget that company. On ther other hand, would you buy their products, probably not, but then again you never know what some fools will buy.
I won't be allowing my child to sign up for The Sims Online (which she would love to do - she is a huge Sims fan.) I am sorry that their solution to problems like prostitution is to silence critics. They sure as hell won't get any money from me.
And there are a lot of people like you, my friend (such as myself.) I will not pay for a game that requires activation every time to run it. I want to pay for the game, then own my copy and be able to legitimately use it.
Someone in an earlier post talked about back in the 8 bit days when game companies used to put copy protection on the games. They found out that legitimate customers won't stand for it, and why should we? My ISP goes down from time to time and I don't want to be unable to play my favorite games every time that happens.
OK, but "Linux" isn't a word that means anything other than the Linux kernel. If I do a search for "Windows" and I get Anderson Windows (in case you don't know, they are a famous company that makes the square glass things that go in walls) as one of the results, can Microsoft successfully sue Google because they trademarked the name "Windows".
They say the G5s are quiet, but on the other hand they have like 9 fans and I used to have a G4 tower that sounded like a fscking tornado. So, when they say it is "pretty quiet" I think they must mean that it is very loud. I'm here typing this on a PowerBook G4 with the fan going. It is not quiet.
Since this is such an important, one way mission, and both President Bush and President Bush II have proposed manned missions to Mars, I nominate the whole Bush family to go on this important, one way mission to Mars.
Let's make sure we get all of them. Jenna, both Barbaras, Jeb, Barbara, both Georges, Neil, and all the rest. They will be the selfless heros who first colonized Mars! This will cap off their family's long service to America and humanity in general and put them in the history books as truely great and selfless pioneers!
And Dick Cheney, Paul Wolfowitz, and Karl Rove can go along too!
Damn straight! And while World War 2 might not be happening *now*, you never know when you'll wake up and find that the calendar reads 1939 and you're right in the middle of it again.
I'm for zeroing out every useless federal program like NASA, AmTrak, PBS, etc. We should cut the military back to what it takes to defend the country - not conquer the entire world. We need to close the federal department of education (the small amount of money they give schools does very little and they tie up schools with all kinds of goofy regulations). Then let's get the national debt under control.
The amount of money Bush is proposing isn't enough to do anything. Second, the timeline isn't 2010, its 2030.
Plus, I do not believe Nasa really went to the moon in the first place.
Fine. However, you aren't really talking about a real world situation, are you?
Let's say that I have a moderately sized project containing 100,000 lines of code. Scrapping a few hundred lines of code within that project and rewriting that section is fine. Scraping the entire 100,000 lines and starting over... well you'd better have a damn good reason.
I've inherited codebases that large. Ones that were originally written by non-professional programmers, too. In one case the guy was a physician and amateur programmer. After two years of working on the program, it no longer contained much of his original code - and had been refactored into a very readable and maintainable codebase. However, during those two years, we had shipped 2 major releases and probably another 3 minor releases of the software. If I had chucked the whole thing and rewritten from scratch, we would not have had continual improvement in quality and would not have been able to show progress.
The way I did this was that I would take a particular part of the code and refactor it into readability. Then I would add the new features requested. Then, I would fix bugs. At one point, I even ended up creating a brand new project and then migrating over all the pieces I had created for the app. I did that to solve some app-wide architectural issues. Still, I never was in a situation where I could not build the whole app and show all the functionality to people.
A total rewrite is hardly ever necessary. I've inherited many codebases before that had architectural problems. It is possible to refactor them.
Plus, you need to make sure you're not just changing something to match "your style" of programming. You need to know you are really getting a benefit. I will agree that one possible future benefit could be that the code is easier to maintain. For example, refactoring the codebase so that all instances of the same problem use the same mechanism is a very valid refactor (e.g. change all containers to be STL containers).
He doesn't have any intention to go to the moon, or mars. He'll be out of office by then even if he gets elected. His dad suggested the same thing and it didn't happen. It isn't going to ever happen. We don't have the money and it isn't worth it anyway. Congress is never going to vote for it.
People are upset by the fact that Microsoft has abused its monopoly power by playing many, many dirty tricks to drive competitors out of business. For example, they pressured OEMs to prevent them from optionally shipping BeOS on new machines. They stole code from QuickTime and then pressured Apple into dropping the lawsuit by threatening to cancel Office for Mac. They prevent OEMs from pre-loading certain software so they can kill competitors (like they did Netscape.)
People hate Microsoft because of their dirty tricks, not because they are a monopoly.
For whatever reason, you hate Apple. Fine. You have other choices. Since Apple is only 5% of the market, can't you just ignore it?
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The problem was brought to EA's attention and they did take action about it. The action was to silence their critics. Since they could have put the same effort into solving the problem, I can only assume that they feel that child prostitution is an appealing feature of their product. Therefore, shame on them.
No one is making you use Windows.
At most of the jobs I've ever had, I've been forced to use Windows to some extent. I'm a Mac programmer. So, you can't say that people aren't forced to use Windows. That's exactly why most people do use Windows, in fact.
At one company it was because they setup the bug database in MS Access. At another it was the kind of source code repository they choose to use. (Both of these were arbitrary and rather stupid choices.) At another company it was because the economy went bad and I could either program Windows or get laid off. There have been a few places where all I had to deal with was the Mac, but that's a very few places.
My wife and I also play the Sims, but we aren't signing up for a service that supports child prostitution.
Given the ability, how can you say to your wife, "Honey, I don't want you to see my location every minute of every day?"
I open my mouth and say it, or better yet, just turn the damn "feature" off. (Or easier still, I just don't show her how that feature works.)
What kind of wife do you have where you have to put up with being ankle braceleted to her all the time? I treat my wife well, I don't track her whereabouts or record her phone calls, and I expect the same back. If she doesn't like it, then she knows where the door is.
Thousands of families? I don't believe that. Try tens (i.e. less than 100).
I totally don't believe it to be thousands, besides the fact that the kidnapper would just throw the phone away.
You should call the police if there is someone putting a gun to your head and forcing you to buy a Mac.
Oh, there's not anyone doing that? Then *shut the fuck up*.
I think that their thinking is that if their ad can evade the popup, then it is the only ad you see, so you will pay more attention to it.
/. would probably list X10 as one of the most annoying ad campaigns, they are "doing a good job" simply because so many people know who they are.
Another part of why ads are so annoying is that research shows that people respond to very clear, in your face, obvious, and memorable ads. Since everyone on
However, popup ad blocking evading ads (long convoluted phrase) kind of cross a line into a realm that I don't think has really been researched. These are ads where clearly the advertiser is not wanted. I'm sure that if an advertiser paid some toughs to come to your house and kick your ass while chanting advertising slogans, you probably wouldn't forget that company. On ther other hand, would you buy their products, probably not, but then again you never know what some fools will buy.
I won't be allowing my child to sign up for The Sims Online (which she would love to do - she is a huge Sims fan.) I am sorry that their solution to problems like prostitution is to silence critics. They sure as hell won't get any money from me.
And there are a lot of people like you, my friend (such as myself.) I will not pay for a game that requires activation every time to run it. I want to pay for the game, then own my copy and be able to legitimately use it.
Someone in an earlier post talked about back in the 8 bit days when game companies used to put copy protection on the games. They found out that legitimate customers won't stand for it, and why should we? My ISP goes down from time to time and I don't want to be unable to play my favorite games every time that happens.
OK, but "Linux" isn't a word that means anything other than the Linux kernel. If I do a search for "Windows" and I get Anderson Windows (in case you don't know, they are a famous company that makes the square glass things that go in walls) as one of the results, can Microsoft successfully sue Google because they trademarked the name "Windows".
No, I didn't think so.
They say the G5s are quiet, but on the other hand they have like 9 fans and I used to have a G4 tower that sounded like a fscking tornado. So, when they say it is "pretty quiet" I think they must mean that it is very loud. I'm here typing this on a PowerBook G4 with the fan going. It is not quiet.
You should play Paperboy with it on MAME!
Yeah, and ketchup is a vegetable.
I guess once you vote republican you can believe anything.
Since this is such an important, one way mission, and both President Bush and President Bush II have proposed manned missions to Mars, I nominate the whole Bush family to go on this important, one way mission to Mars.
Let's make sure we get all of them. Jenna, both Barbaras, Jeb, Barbara, both Georges, Neil, and all the rest. They will be the selfless heros who first colonized Mars! This will cap off their family's long service to America and humanity in general and put them in the history books as truely great and selfless pioneers!
And Dick Cheney, Paul Wolfowitz, and Karl Rove can go along too!
The sooner we send them, the better.
Damn straight! And while World War 2 might not be happening *now*, you never know when you'll wake up and find that the calendar reads 1939 and you're right in the middle of it again.
Err... maybe not.
welcome our new Mrs. Paul gloing fish stick masters!
Yeah, when you are with a group and you all drop acid, that's when the patents start being filed.
I'm for zeroing out every useless federal program like NASA, AmTrak, PBS, etc. We should cut the military back to what it takes to defend the country - not conquer the entire world. We need to close the federal department of education (the small amount of money they give schools does very little and they tie up schools with all kinds of goofy regulations). Then let's get the national debt under control.
The amount of money Bush is proposing isn't enough to do anything. Second, the timeline isn't 2010, its 2030.
Plus, I do not believe Nasa really went to the moon in the first place.
Fine. However, you aren't really talking about a real world situation, are you?
Let's say that I have a moderately sized project containing 100,000 lines of code. Scrapping a few hundred lines of code within that project and rewriting that section is fine. Scraping the entire 100,000 lines and starting over... well you'd better have a damn good reason.
I've inherited codebases that large. Ones that were originally written by non-professional programmers, too. In one case the guy was a physician and amateur programmer. After two years of working on the program, it no longer contained much of his original code - and had been refactored into a very readable and maintainable codebase. However, during those two years, we had shipped 2 major releases and probably another 3 minor releases of the software. If I had chucked the whole thing and rewritten from scratch, we would not have had continual improvement in quality and would not have been able to show progress.
The way I did this was that I would take a particular part of the code and refactor it into readability. Then I would add the new features requested. Then, I would fix bugs. At one point, I even ended up creating a brand new project and then migrating over all the pieces I had created for the app. I did that to solve some app-wide architectural issues. Still, I never was in a situation where I could not build the whole app and show all the functionality to people.
A total rewrite is hardly ever necessary. I've inherited many codebases before that had architectural problems. It is possible to refactor them.
Plus, you need to make sure you're not just changing something to match "your style" of programming. You need to know you are really getting a benefit. I will agree that one possible future benefit could be that the code is easier to maintain. For example, refactoring the codebase so that all instances of the same problem use the same mechanism is a very valid refactor (e.g. change all containers to be STL containers).
He doesn't have any intention to go to the moon, or mars. He'll be out of office by then even if he gets elected. His dad suggested the same thing and it didn't happen. It isn't going to ever happen. We don't have the money and it isn't worth it anyway. Congress is never going to vote for it.
Damn! I need to be able to control handicapped people with a machine. I was planning to enter my great uncle in robot wars.
People are upset by the fact that Microsoft has abused its monopoly power by playing many, many dirty tricks to drive competitors out of business. For example, they pressured OEMs to prevent them from optionally shipping BeOS on new machines. They stole code from QuickTime and then pressured Apple into dropping the lawsuit by threatening to cancel Office for Mac. They prevent OEMs from pre-loading certain software so they can kill competitors (like they did Netscape.)
People hate Microsoft because of their dirty tricks, not because they are a monopoly.
For whatever reason, you hate Apple. Fine. You have other choices. Since Apple is only 5% of the market, can't you just ignore it?
He did mention fruit menu as being an indispensible piece of shareware. He mentioned it right along with ASM.
I'd much prefer being able to get rid of it altogether. When you hide it, it pops up whenever you get close to the edge of the display.
The dock is not a good substitute for the process menu (that it replaced.)