They exist between developers/engineers and end users. You have call center workers that log this stuff in and then someone else that reads thru it and decides what gets passed on. The only time it actually makes it up the chain is when it hits CNN because someone died, or in the case of someone famous that says something to the media. Only now will they hear of it and investigate it. The guy says he can reproduce it, and it's Woz.... if he say it's there I believe him. It's too bad that most bugs go unfixed because of the barriers put in place.
Hi fanboy, Since you may not know.... Do you start to build houses on the ground or do you lay a foundation first? Say, a kernel? So... Apple does what everyone else does, they take what is out there and nobody faults them for that. That happens to be open source software. They do a few tweaks, add some gawky brushed metal to it and you guys gobble it up as some innovation. Now, do you think that Apple could just build their OS without having a complete, functional kernel with drivers? Of that I have no doubt but they opted to take a free, open source kernel and use it. They did not do that.... and denying the fact that the kernel and other tools that make up that operation system are all BSD at the core is just the response I expected from an uneducated fanboy.
I just to cheer for Apple over Microsoft, the problem is now the tables have turned, who do you think I would rather cheer for?
I haven't seen a whole lot of listening from Apple in many years. All they do over there is make white things that start with 'I' that are nothing more than glorified Dell computers. Apple is the new Microsoft.... and Steve Jobs is jealous of Bill, that's what he is after.
"customers are pragmatic about quality, and the open source and free software movements haven't produced anything remotely as useful as Mac OS X and the iPhone."
No.. they just created what runs on the them, that's all.. Meh.
As I waste karma.... Yes that's right apple fanboys... Screw Apple I don't care if it's a knock-off application. I don't care if some chinese company put it out there. I don't care if someone bought their review! Apple probably does it! Apple = The pot calling the kettle black...... What I DO care about is Apple being phone and computer police. I bought it, it's mine. If I want a knock-off app, dammit I paid for the phone and it's my choice not yours. There are many, many knock off applications out there for virtually anything and some people like them, some don't.
If Microsoft started playing application police there would be hell to pay but oh no, it's Apple..... that's okay.
It works well, you just need a windows server/workstation to push it to clients and for clients to get updates from. It's also not very resource hungry.
Isk farmers in eve are really out of control. You can pull up a list of contracts on a farmer character and see trillions of isk flowing into the hands of isk sellers on ebay, report this and nothing is done....
I would ask their economist how rich players can afford the very best and how that shapes the economy in the game, when people cheat.
Cheating is going on, and I know it cannot be stopped... but it is even obvious to the layman by the quantity of isk farmer posts on the official forums.
The more companies and people they sue successfully, the better their chances are.. right? So, perhaps they are going after what they perceive as the 'weaker targets' in order to solidify this?
So, they go after red hat and novell, hoping they will pay... IBM, etc have far more cash and they are not going after them because they would get pummeled into the ground.
Smells like a pump and dump, or a pump and sell deal with this patent troll, especially with the M$ goon with them.
Well, they claim that nobody petitioned it in their corporation. So, if nobody asked for this supposed bug to be looked into, why did they pick DS1 and the goons to look at?
It stinks to high heavens.
Look at their CEOs info (LucasWV) - he has a statement that reads:
Statement on dev misconduct:
for the record, Darkstar1 has 3 pos in game only and they have always worked fine and have never been petitioned by anyone in the corp for not working, the statement given by CCP is incorrect and simply not true as far as i can tell. I am certain that the developer joining our corp is above board and no malice intended but frankly the manner in which he did it in these times of little trust and confidence in certain parties leads to a high level of suspision and drama. Too much of the actions are clouded and fogged, all it would of taken was an explanation via a mail or something to say he was going to do what he did.
This incident shows clearly that there is still a lack of trust when it comes to the developers of this game acting in a trustworthy unbaised manner, i remind you all that the ISD bias and events issues are still unaccounted for......
it was written.. "The European Union already has an unresolved antitrust dispute with Microsoft, and Adobe and Symantec would be silly not to play that card for all it's worth."
When was the US antitrust suit settled? Last I really knew about it, they managed to get it all tossed out except the monopoly ruling, then George Bush came to be.... and they got a 'get out of jail, free' card, so to speak.
So, when was this all settled? According to the Wikipedia article on this... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_antitrust_c ase It has not been finalized... so.. Perhaps they should be lobbying here in the states too. (In Europe they are more likely to DO something about it, however.)
My wife is horribly bad at downloading and installing crap and malware, visiting crappy, malicious pages with internet exploder, etc.
Her machine used to run slackware that I had set up for her, no problems at all. However, updating things usually meant me sitting there for a few hours to do so.
I tossed Ubuntu onto a cd, told her to install this, and she did it. She loves it.
She can install things she wants with the GUI, it keeps itself up to date... The layman can do it... it is painless.
I was skeptical at first but, I saw, I believed.
Why flame it or call it crap? For what it is, and it is actually quite good, it just works. I am not a fanboy, by any means. I have Gentoo and Debian machines all over, for my use.
Remember the target audience for Ubuntu: people that are not computer savvy. (like my wife)
It works for her, I would ask everyone to at least LOOK at it before you flame it.
Send these guys in Michigan a thank-you note for creating laws that have some bite. Use Michigan as an example for your own politicians....
The feds cannot do it, they are too corrupt with big industry hanging dollar bills in their faces. On the state level, its a little bit less corrupt and you actually have SOME chance of getting a law against spam thru.
I *HATE* visual studio. I find myself doing it in notepad instead!
Now, in other IDEs, like Kdeveop, you dont get all that wiz-bang stuff, you need to actually KNOW what your writing. Not to mention, the interface sucks in visual studio (IMO)
Sure....... you can put together some little window that does neat little things but pointing and clicking, but do you know what its actually DOING? How does it draw that button, or that textedit in there?
If you dragged it onto the screen and set a few things here and there, who is doing the work?
If you run a guy over, and its your temmate.... its a teamkill, fine. if you collide with another vehicle and its your teams vehicle, one of 2 things happen: 1. you die and its a suicide. 2. you die because they killed you. and they get punished for a teamkill. 3 the reverse happens, you kill them, die yourself but your punsished for a teamkill. ive seen guys go from best player on the team, to bumping a jeep full of guys accidentally, having it blow up (WTH??) and being punished, or thrown off the server.
thats just one example. add each vehicle type to that and multiply.
the user interface?... the 'refresh servers' button is really a 'delete servers' button. it never refreshes! the pingtimes are all wrong. you cant change your name, NOT EVER! lots of questionable weapon firing. i once unloaded a whole clip into an enemy and he fired a single pistol shot at me and I died. we both were actually puzzled by that so much that we talked about it the next 10 minutes. the same thing happened again 2 days later to me and another play, on a different map, on a different server.
game is so buggy its horrid. it got an 8? its fixed, I would give it a 3. I just wonder who EA paid to get that score.
when you look at the header to the source.... say:
* Freequest IRCD - src/hosthash.c
* Copyright (C) 2004-2005 Mark Rutherford (mark@freequest.net)
who owns it? since I look at code at least several hours a day, how can you not see that its stated clearly in the header???? sounds like another attack on the GPL to me.
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They exist between developers/engineers and end users.
You have call center workers that log this stuff in and then someone else that reads thru it and decides what gets passed on.
The only time it actually makes it up the chain is when it hits CNN because someone died, or in the case of someone famous that says something to the media.
Only now will they hear of it and investigate it.
The guy says he can reproduce it, and it's Woz.... if he say it's there I believe him.
It's too bad that most bugs go unfixed because of the barriers put in place.
I think it has more promise than the iWidgets do.
It's a more open platform which IMHO gives it more potential.
Is there an app for that?
Hi fanboy,
Since you may not know....
Do you start to build houses on the ground or do you lay a foundation first?
Say, a kernel?
So... Apple does what everyone else does, they take what is out there and nobody faults them for that.
That happens to be open source software.
They do a few tweaks, add some gawky brushed metal to it and you guys gobble it up as some innovation.
Now, do you think that Apple could just build their OS without having a complete, functional kernel with drivers?
Of that I have no doubt but they opted to take a free, open source kernel and use it.
They did not do that.... and denying the fact that the kernel and other tools that make up that operation system are all BSD at the core is just the response I expected from an uneducated fanboy.
I just to cheer for Apple over Microsoft, the problem is now the tables have turned, who do you think I would rather cheer for?
I haven't seen a whole lot of listening from Apple in many years.
All they do over there is make white things that start with 'I' that are nothing more than glorified Dell computers.
Apple is the new Microsoft.... and Steve Jobs is jealous of Bill, that's what he is after.
"customers are pragmatic about quality, and the open source and free software movements haven't produced anything remotely as useful as Mac OS X and the iPhone."
No.. they just created what runs on the them, that's all..
Meh.
As I waste karma.... Yes that's right apple fanboys... Screw Apple
I don't care if it's a knock-off application.
I don't care if some chinese company put it out there.
I don't care if someone bought their review! Apple probably does it!
Apple = The pot calling the kettle black......
What I DO care about is Apple being phone and computer police.
I bought it, it's mine.
If I want a knock-off app, dammit I paid for the phone and it's my choice not yours.
There are many, many knock off applications out there for virtually anything and some people like them, some don't.
If Microsoft started playing application police there would be hell to pay but oh no, it's Apple..... that's okay.
It works well, you just need a windows server/workstation to push it to clients and for clients to get updates from.
It's also not very resource hungry.
I think 30 seats was around $1000
Try browsing to http://207.69.131.9/
I am getting...
"We are sorry, porn cannot be found.
We suggest that you check the spelling of the web address or try a different search term."
I did not search for anything.........
Xtree Gold preceded this by a long time, IIRC.
I have a copy in my attic that I had from the mid 80s
There is just tons of prior art for this patent.
Isk farmers in eve are really out of control.
You can pull up a list of contracts on a farmer character and see trillions of isk flowing into the hands of isk sellers on ebay, report this and nothing is done....
I would ask their economist how rich players can afford the very best and how that shapes the economy in the game, when people cheat.
Cheating is going on, and I know it cannot be stopped... but it is even obvious to the layman by the quantity of isk farmer posts on the official forums.
The more companies and people they sue successfully, the better their chances are.. right?
So, perhaps they are going after what they perceive as the 'weaker targets' in order to solidify this?
So, they go after red hat and novell, hoping they will pay...
IBM, etc have far more cash and they are not going after them because they would get pummeled into the ground.
Smells like a pump and dump, or a pump and sell deal with this patent troll, especially with the M$ goon with them.
This alone stifles creativity and innovation.....
Perhaps they should get a fucking clue?
So, I am glad to see their president, leader of crooks targeted to be robbed.
Transunion, like all other credit bureaus, sells your info to collectors to rip you off, and they sell you the same data even tho it is your data.
Fuck all of them I say.
'Local' law enforcement are considered CUSTOMERS?
What kind of fucked up thing is that?
Well, they claim that nobody petitioned it in their corporation.
So, if nobody asked for this supposed bug to be looked into, why did they pick DS1
and the goons to look at?
It stinks to high heavens.
Look at their CEOs info (LucasWV) - he has a statement that reads:
Statement on dev misconduct:
for the record, Darkstar1 has 3 pos in game only and they have always worked fine and have never been petitioned by anyone in the corp for not working, the statement given by CCP is incorrect and simply not true as far as i can tell.
I am certain that the developer joining our corp is above board and no malice intended but frankly the manner in which he did it in these times of little trust and confidence in certain parties leads to a high level of suspision and drama.
Too much of the actions are clouded and fogged, all it would of taken was an explanation via a mail or something to say he was going to do what he did.
This incident shows clearly that there is still a lack of trust when it comes to the developers of this game acting in a trustworthy unbaised manner, i remind you all that the ISD bias and events issues are still unaccounted for......
LUCASWV, - CEO of Darkstar1
I knew it was a matter of time before this happened again.
Grain of salt?? there are SCREENSHOTS to prove it.
So, why did a dev join a player corp, and when the CEO of the player corp petitions it
to find out WHY they did it, the petitions vanish?
Then, when they have no recourse, and no avenue of contacting CCP and they make it a PUBLIC question
they just start MASS BANNING players?
This is just inappropriate behavior from a company.
Every time these boneheads cheat/lie/and rush to ban players they lose money.
Another cover-up will take the place of this.
They will say 'nothing inappropriate occurred and ignore/ban anyone that questions it.
it was written..
c ase
"The European Union already has an unresolved antitrust dispute with Microsoft, and Adobe and Symantec would be silly not to play that card for all it's worth."
When was the US antitrust suit settled?
Last I really knew about it, they managed to get it all tossed out except the monopoly ruling, then
George Bush came to be.... and they got a 'get out of jail, free' card, so to speak.
So, when was this all settled?
According to the Wikipedia article on this... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_antitrust_
It has not been finalized... so.. Perhaps they should be lobbying here in the states too.
(In Europe they are more likely to DO something about it, however.)
Here is *MY* deal with Ubuntu...
My wife is horribly bad at downloading and installing crap and malware, visiting crappy, malicious pages with internet exploder, etc.
Her machine used to run slackware that I had set up for her, no problems at all.
However, updating things usually meant me sitting there for a few hours to do so.
I tossed Ubuntu onto a cd, told her to install this, and she did it.
She loves it.
She can install things she wants with the GUI, it keeps itself up to date...
The layman can do it... it is painless.
I was skeptical at first but, I saw, I believed.
Why flame it or call it crap?
For what it is, and it is actually quite good, it just works.
I am not a fanboy, by any means.
I have Gentoo and Debian machines all over, for my use.
Remember the target audience for Ubuntu: people that are not computer savvy.
(like my wife)
It works for her, I would ask everyone to at least LOOK at it before you flame it.
Send these guys in Michigan a thank-you note for creating laws that have some bite.
Use Michigan as an example for your own politicians....
The feds cannot do it, they are too corrupt with big industry hanging dollar bills in their faces.
On the state level, its a little bit less corrupt and you actually have SOME chance of getting a
law against spam thru.
So, if its 'good for your career' its ok to be a robot?
Pfft.
Capacitors are a fact of like when it comes to electronics.
they go bad in TVs, Computers, even your clock radio.
thing is, we demand bigger and better and the power requirements are getting higher and higher.
Processors are getting faster and faster and that demands absolutely clean power.
I had 2 motherboards fail 2 days ago (how ironic)
Recapped with low ESR, hitemp caps and im good to go for at least another couple years.
Some of these caps are cheap, dont get me wrong.
Expecially on motherboards. but motherboards are cheap, too!
300 million seems like a big number. I wonder how many of these things they sold.
As far as Apple covering it up, what else is new.
I *HATE* visual studio. I find myself doing it in notepad instead!
Now, in other IDEs, like Kdeveop, you dont get all that wiz-bang stuff, you need to actually KNOW what your writing.
Not to mention, the interface sucks in visual studio (IMO)
Sure....... you can put together some little window that does neat little things
but pointing and clicking, but do you know what its actually DOING?
How does it draw that button, or that textedit in there?
If you dragged it onto the screen and set a few things here and there, who is doing the work?
mod parent up! its SO true!
If you run a guy over, and its your temmate.... its a teamkill, fine.
if you collide with another vehicle and its your teams vehicle, one of 2 things happen:
1. you die and its a suicide.
2. you die because they killed you. and they get punished for a teamkill.
3 the reverse happens, you kill them, die yourself but your punsished for a teamkill.
ive seen guys go from best player on the team, to bumping a jeep full of guys accidentally, having it blow up (WTH??) and being punished, or thrown off the server.
thats just one example. add each vehicle type to that and multiply.
the user interface?... the 'refresh servers' button is really a 'delete servers' button.
it never refreshes!
the pingtimes are all wrong.
you cant change your name, NOT EVER!
lots of questionable weapon firing. i once unloaded a whole clip into an enemy and he fired a single pistol shot at me and I died.
we both were actually puzzled by that so much that we talked about it the next 10 minutes.
the same thing happened again 2 days later to me and another play, on a different map, on a different server.
game is so buggy its horrid. it got an 8?
its fixed, I would give it a 3.
I just wonder who EA paid to get that score.
when you look at the header to the source.... :
say
* Freequest IRCD - src/hosthash.c
* Copyright (C) 2004-2005 Mark Rutherford (mark@freequest.net)
who owns it? since I look at code at least several hours a day, how can you not see that its stated clearly in the header????
sounds like another attack on the GPL to me.