You also have to be aware that you have to be in a certain position to make such demands, the US is slowly but surely loosing that position. The european countries have not had such a position for a long time. And I must say it is more cozy not to have it than to have it. But the US has to get used to it, and that transition is mentally hard for a lot of people!
I would not be so harsh about Obama,he has to face an entirely different situation. Bush also was not honest about his believes, most of the Iraq war just was done to get a handful of US corporations to cash in. Cheneys company was one of the huge winners of this deal, the international soldiers the loosers.
Obama currently fights an entirely different battle, Bush gave to him a basically fucked up country, not close to bankrupcy but with a serious debt problem, an pushing everything through is a problem because the entire parliament is just whores on the payroll of lobbyists anymore. So to get your agendas even remotely through you have to do some rearrangements with the current political situation. The situation of Bush was much easier because he just reigned for the payroll of the lobbyists and did not care about anything else.
For that I personally think Obama has been doing very well, but my personal opinion simply is you cannot rule the US anymore, there is too much greed selfishism and too much bribery (on legal level via donations) going on. I personally doubt anyone could do better than Obama did, I think 99% of all people in his position would even do worse.
Ah something was denied to the US the US defense trigger some have comes out automatically without thinking. You have to be aware of that this treaty was a mutual spy upon you treaty. The US could not legally spy on the transactions of its own citizense but they could more or less spy upon the europeans, and vice versa, so what happens is that the data gets exchanged (all friend countries so why even doing some spying?) and then suddenly the US government has "YOUR" data (as well as all european governments and foreign agencies).
Before wishing us evil, think twice that the EU government has basically stopped a blatant spy attack of the US government against its own citizens and vice versa. Besides shifting banking data also opens the door to industry espionage especially in the banking sector. Kicking all this was a good thing for both sides.
I hope the same will happen to whatever the dreaded Acta group currently negotiates. The EU parliament already is pretty pissed that they do not get any information as well there is a very high chance that the Acta groups treaties never will make it through the parliament no matter what is in there, they already made a significant number of people angry so that they vote against it automatically.
Wake up apple has been like that for several years now and it becomes worse and worse every year. One of the reasons why I went for an android phone instead, still buy macs, but they are on the edge...
It is the new machines which had problems, my guess is that bootcamp did not have all drivers in needed to run Win7 on the new machines (or install them that is)
I forgot to mention, my experience is that old machines usually are supported by Apple within a 4-5 years timeframe. The so normally OS upgrades work 4 years min sometimes over 8 years although the last 2-3 years might be hackish like it used to be with the old G2 grey boxes. Apple tends to integrate too much and use that one for incentive to upgrade (not being able to update the graphics card can be a break point for many, but you should have known that upfront when buying the machine). In case of notebooks it does not matter, portable machines usually never survive more than 3-4 years anyway.
On the pc side of things that happens at least on OS level, usually it is the drivers which become an issue once a new OS version comes out. There was a shitload of people who could not decently upgrade to vista because they did not get any new drivers. As for the aperture thing, there is also on the windows side the problem once a new OS version comes out you in many cases have to upgrade, I think the percentages of programs which needs upgrade is more on OSX though because windows try to keep backwards compatibility, but that causes serious bloat which OSX thankfully does not drag along. I have yet to think of a single program on my machine which did not survive the 10.5 or 10.5 upgrade, guess I was lucky. (not an aperture user)
Actually the entire iPad is a joke, not only the lockin, the thing screams for connectivity yet they did not add an SD reader they nickel and dime it out of their customers with an adapter, the thing also seriously needs a webcam. Etc... I am waiting for other alternatives (hopefully Tegra2 based) which will come out this year, Apple is it not!
Even if apple does that to the mini they probably will loose about 90% of their sales, the biggest part of the mini sales go towards the htpc crowd (sorry steve but AppleTV is a joke) and the colocation partners they have, neither of that crowd loves to be locked in. Also if they do that to the rest of the machines they will loose a lot of customers (Apple currently is hugely popular currently for instance within the java developer crowd even despite their half assed effots of supporting it somehow) and they will leave the platform. A customer once lost is hard to regain. Apple is not stupid they know that well.
Hey, dont change that, the company I work for does a good living by providing quality work, we usually come in when clients get frustrated with the big outsourcers and want someone who gets the work done instead of flooding you with salesdrones.
That is rather easy to say, probably within the next 100 years and we will be the cause ourselves, either war or famine, or sickness, but in any case the cause will be greed and overpopulation. I still believe the earth itself or nature itself has self regulartory effects in the small as in the big, if one species endangers the entire of the host then some self regulatory mechanism strikes in which decimates the numbers again. You can see that in the small with virii and in the big with species doing collective suicide in times of getting to overpopulated.
As soon as an organisation reaches a certain size you have a fair share number of people whose live is basically trying to get up the foodchain by all legal means instead of working for a common goal, and those end up in middle and upper management but as soon as they are there they do not change their ways but try to fortify their position by making everyone elses life miserable. I have seen that several times. Corporations are so often higher up entrenched with internal intrique and politics that it feels like hell down the foodchain. One thing btw. why I personally think that the US economy is doomed, US corporations are so entrenched with infighting within itself and against each other (the Microsoft, Google, Apple triangle currently is a prime example as well as the patent trolls) that they forget entirely about a common goal and that others are there as well. The classical example in history is the western roman empire which fell mainly because at a time of crisis they were not able to stop the infighting for the top of the foodchain but presumed and in the end the strongest won, but with the price of being reduce to parts of italy. It would have come different if they worked for a common goal instead of trying to outarmy each other!
If you wanna have a stroke or heart attack in your mid thirties then do it... Constant overwork and stress causes burnout, strokes, heart attack, due to constant adrenaline being too high and other things it does to your body. Sport helps to some degree to lower that again, but it is hard to so sport if you are in a constrant crunch dreadmill.
Problem is those guys should report the companies to the authorities... They usually clearly break labor laws, and that means they owe the employes a lot of money. EA already lost a load of money over the incident several years ago. I assume Rockstar needs to learn its lesson as well.
Problem of age, often it comes down to the fact, first job, being inexperience, ending up in a high profile shitplace and being worked to a burnout, after that the management cashes in and you are let go... Most of the times you have to go through one of those dreadmills to really get the fact straight. I have been through that, and when my last job started to develop in the same way, I simply quit, I had learned my lession. You can get those shit jobs also outside of the games industry, but they are not as common! All I can say is once you see such a job starts to develop into this direction, immediately start to look for other options, polish up your resume and go for interviews (heck even if they want you to make overtime, you can leave for any reason if you are outside of your working hours) and once you landed something decently, give to them hard... And then leave! The other option is to sue them into oblivion for breaking the labor laws (also once you are out of the dreadmill) those guys do not understand any other language! Those bosses behave like the school bullies and unless you hit them really hard they will not change their ways!
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You also have to be aware that you have to be in a certain position to make such demands, the US is slowly but surely loosing that position. The european countries have not had such a position for a long time. And I must say it is more cozy not to have it than to have it.
But the US has to get used to it, and that transition is mentally hard for a lot of people!
I forgot that is how I judge the situation as an outsider.
I would not be so harsh about Obama,he has to face an entirely different situation. Bush also was not honest about his believes, most of the Iraq war just was done to get a handful of US corporations to cash in. Cheneys company was one of the huge winners of this deal, the international soldiers the loosers.
Obama currently fights an entirely different battle, Bush gave to him a basically fucked up country, not close to bankrupcy but with a serious debt problem, an pushing everything through is a problem because the entire parliament is just whores on the payroll of lobbyists anymore. So to get your agendas even remotely through you have to do some rearrangements with the current political situation. The situation of Bush was much easier because he just reigned for the payroll of the lobbyists and did not care about anything else.
For that I personally think Obama has been doing very well, but my personal opinion simply is you cannot rule the US anymore, there is too much greed selfishism and too much bribery (on legal level via donations) going on. I personally doubt anyone could do better than Obama did, I think 99% of all people in his position would even do worse.
Ah something was denied to the US the US defense trigger some have comes out automatically without thinking. You have to be aware of that this treaty was a mutual spy upon you treaty. The US could not legally spy on the transactions of its own citizense but they could more or less spy upon the europeans, and vice versa, so what happens is that the data gets exchanged (all friend countries so why even doing some spying?) and then suddenly the US government has "YOUR" data (as well as all european governments and foreign agencies).
Before wishing us evil, think twice that the EU government has basically stopped a blatant spy attack of the US government against its own citizens and vice versa. Besides shifting banking data also opens the door to industry espionage especially in the banking sector.
Kicking all this was a good thing for both sides.
I hope the same will happen to whatever the dreaded Acta group currently negotiates. The EU parliament already is pretty pissed that they do not get any information as well there is a very high chance that the Acta groups treaties never will make it through the parliament no matter what is in there, they already made a significant number of people angry so that they vote against it automatically.
Actually depends on where you live in europe...
Wake up apple has been like that for several years now and it becomes worse and worse every year.
One of the reasons why I went for an android phone instead, still buy macs, but they are on the edge...
Steve has spoken lets worship our savior and führer...
You can pretty much expect that this is a non issue between most european countries among themselves :-)
For outsourcing the production to the lowest bidder...
No worries, the current malware trendes are flash and pdf :-)
they are unified enough
It is the new machines which had problems, my guess is that bootcamp did not have all drivers in needed to run Win7 on the new machines (or install them that is)
I forgot to mention, my experience is that old machines usually are supported by Apple within a 4-5 years timeframe. The so normally OS upgrades work 4 years min sometimes over 8 years although the last 2-3 years might be hackish like it used to be with the old G2 grey boxes.
Apple tends to integrate too much and use that one for incentive to upgrade (not being able to update the graphics card can be a break point for many, but you should have known that upfront when buying the machine). In case of notebooks it does not matter, portable machines usually never survive more than 3-4 years anyway.
On the pc side of things that happens at least on OS level, usually it is the drivers which become an issue once a new OS version comes out. There was a shitload of people who could not decently upgrade to vista because they did not get any new drivers.
As for the aperture thing, there is also on the windows side the problem once a new OS version comes out you in many cases have to upgrade, I think the percentages of programs which needs upgrade is more on OSX though because windows try to keep backwards compatibility, but that causes serious bloat which OSX thankfully does not drag along.
I have yet to think of a single program on my machine which did not survive the 10.5 or 10.5 upgrade, guess I was lucky. (not an aperture user)
Not if you can get ahold of an oem or system builder edition ;-)
Hehe I am pretty sure this feature is disabled if you fetch the Google build of those scripts from the cloud...
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iTampon...
Actually the entire iPad is a joke, not only the lockin, the thing screams for connectivity yet they did not add an SD reader they nickel and dime it out of their customers with an adapter, the thing also seriously needs a webcam.
Etc... I am waiting for other alternatives (hopefully Tegra2 based) which will come out this year, Apple is it not!
Even if apple does that to the mini they probably will loose about 90% of their sales, the biggest part of the mini sales go towards the htpc crowd (sorry steve but AppleTV is a joke) and the colocation partners they have, neither of that crowd loves to be locked in.
Also if they do that to the rest of the machines they will loose a lot of customers (Apple currently is hugely popular currently for instance within the java developer crowd even despite their half assed effots of supporting it somehow) and they will leave the platform.
A customer once lost is hard to regain. Apple is not stupid they know that well.
Hey, dont change that, the company I work for does a good living by providing quality work, we usually come in when clients get frustrated with the big outsourcers and want someone who gets the work done instead of flooding you with salesdrones.
Hey, HP was a good company, good products, but that was before Fiorina, and before the ink printer scam started...
That is rather easy to say, probably within the next 100 years and we will be the cause ourselves, either war or famine, or sickness, but in any case the cause will be greed and overpopulation.
I still believe the earth itself or nature itself has self regulartory effects in the small as in the big, if one species endangers the entire of the host then some self regulatory mechanism strikes in which decimates the numbers again. You can see that in the small with virii and in the big with species doing collective suicide in times of getting to overpopulated.
As soon as an organisation reaches a certain size you have a fair share number of people whose live is basically trying to get up the foodchain by all legal means instead of working for a common goal, and those end up in middle and upper management but as soon as they are there they do not change their ways but try to fortify their position by making everyone elses life miserable.
I have seen that several times. Corporations are so often higher up entrenched with internal intrique and politics that it feels like hell down the foodchain. One thing btw. why I personally think that the US economy is doomed, US corporations are so entrenched with infighting within itself and against each other (the Microsoft, Google, Apple triangle currently is a prime example as well as the patent trolls) that they forget entirely about a common goal and that others are there as well. The classical example in history is the western roman empire which fell mainly because at a time of crisis they were not able to stop the infighting for the top of the foodchain but presumed and in the end the strongest won, but with the price of being reduce to parts of italy. It would have come different if they worked for a common goal instead of trying to outarmy each other!
If you wanna have a stroke or heart attack in your mid thirties then do it... Constant overwork and stress causes burnout, strokes, heart attack, due to constant adrenaline being too high and other things it does to your body.
Sport helps to some degree to lower that again, but it is hard to so sport if you are in a constrant crunch dreadmill.
Problem is those guys should report the companies to the authorities...
They usually clearly break labor laws, and that means they owe the employes a lot of money.
EA already lost a load of money over the incident several years ago. I assume Rockstar needs to learn its lesson as well.
Problem of age, often it comes down to the fact, first job, being inexperience, ending up in a high profile shitplace and being worked to a burnout, after that the management cashes in and you are let go...
Most of the times you have to go through one of those dreadmills to really get the fact straight.
I have been through that, and when my last job started to develop in the same way, I simply quit, I had learned my lession. You can get those shit jobs also outside of the games industry, but they are not as common!
All I can say is once you see such a job starts to develop into this direction, immediately start to look for other options, polish up your resume and go for interviews (heck even if they want you to make overtime, you can leave for any reason if you are outside of your working hours) and once you landed something decently, give to them hard...
And then leave! The other option is to sue them into oblivion for breaking the labor laws (also once you are out of the dreadmill) those guys do not understand any other language!
Those bosses behave like the school bullies and unless you hit them really hard they will not change their ways!