I have never actually played WoW, but I have seen others playing it, and the graphics didn't look like they were all that intensive.
WoW has some sort of adaptive graphics engine. It'll degrade graphics quality fairly gracefully to the point where your graphics system can keep up.
It's a neat feature - it means that Blizzard can provide very pretty, immersive graphics for people running higher end cards, while still selling monthly subscriptions to people with older graphics cards. And retaining customers who upgrade their graphics cards by giving them immediate pretties for doing so, and so on. As opposed to some other MMOs which don't do it as gracefully, so end up either providing mediocre graphics to everyone or being unplayable on anything other than the latest, shiniest graphics hardware when they launch.
Fahrenheit: Indigo Prophecy Director's Cut: PC CD ROM
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
Leisure Suit Larry: Magna Cum Laude Uncut and Uncensored
Singles
Peak Entertainment Casinos
Critical Point
Tokimeki Checkin!
Water Closet: The Forbidden Chamber
Snow Drop
X-Change
Thrill Kill
All Nude Nikki
Body Language
Riana Rouge
WET - The Sexy Empire
All Nude Glamour
All Nude Cyber
Cyber Photographer
The Joy Of Sex
Playboy Screensaver:The Women Of Playboy
Crystal Fantasy
The only one that was given an AO rating solely for violence or gore was Thrill Kill on the PS1. (Peak Entertainment Casinos was dinged for "gambling" and all the rest include "strong sexual content" as at least part of the reason for the rating.
It's ironic that Firefox (and the rest of Mozilla) is supported primarily by dollars derived from advertising-supported content, while most of the discussions of the features Firefox has revolve around it's functionality for depriving dollars from much of the other advertising-supported content their users want to look at.
It's just a technology demo right now and is on a server that likely won't survive a slashdotting, but it's a fun toy as-is. The next step is to add bookmarking and search-by-IP, search-by-ASN and some additional data sources to overlay.
It's hard to fake competence. It's easy to fake all the other stuff. People who aren't actually terribly good, but who come from families that are good at doing or faking up all the other "well rounded personality stuff" hate pure standardised tests.
People who do wonderfully in high school, because of a tightly constrained environment and a pushy family, but who aren't any good at problem-solving on their own, or working without a fixed timetable, or who just don't have the diversity of interests and social skills to thrive living on their own tend to hate the more general judgements.
Both extremes of people are more likely to fail than those in the middle ground - those who are actually pretty good at the subjects they do, but not entirely focused on them - so a testing system in the middle ground is likely to be more accurate at picking out those who'll survive and benefit from real higher education (always assuming you're in a country where there is such a thing, of course).
(Me? I spent most of college in the theatre or the bar, and scraped through with a gentlemans second. Thanks for asking.)
Without knowing the details of where you are it's hard to be specific.
If you have cell access, do you have access to any cellular data service?
Line of sight radio (to an ISP, or to someone who can get DSL service) ?
ISDN?
You say you want a ticketing system, but that doesn't sound like what you really need (if it were, I'd suggest RT for issue tracking or Trac for defect tracking).
I'd take a look at SugarCRM, or one of it's forks instead. MySQL only, so be careful to keep regular backups.
Qt comes in a range of versions. They're mostly freely available for open source products. For closed source products, the most sophisticated single-platform version, incuding a years worth of support, is $1100 / seat for small business and startups for up to 3 seats. The original poster wanted 3 seats.
The only reason he'd have to pay $3300 / seat would be if he had more than $200,000 cash on hand. Not as available credit, but cash in the bank. Or if he was already bringing in more than $200,000 a year in revenue.
I don't have much sympathy for well-funded startups that decide to choose bad technology rather than good technology because it's a grand or two cheaper. I expect this one will burn through its VC and crash and burn fairly quickly.
The people who run these things usually have a rather superior attitude, and a rather childish attitude toward the law.
SpamHaus is (almost always) one of the rare exceptions to that.
But this lawsuit seems completely ludicrous. Even with an undefended lawsuit it should have been obvious that this was outside their jurisdiction. Isn't there some restriction here?
Perhaps. SpamHaus, to the extent there is an entity called SpamHaus, does have infrastructure in the US or under the indirect control of US corporations.
Once a few idiots whose insecure wireless access points are used to send spam, phish people or upload child porn get prosecuted and are unable to use the "I'm stupid, and I never knew that my access point was a attractive nuisance!" excuse it might start to have some effect.
Pestpatrol. A word synonymous with incompetence in my mind.
They listed one of my applications (Sam Spade - an elderly windows whois / traceroute client, basically) as a security risk. I started to get phone calls about it from users (I have quite a lot of users, so a few of them were bound to be running pestpatrol).
I called the company responsible for pestpatrol several times, and they told me many things that turned out not to be true ("It's not listed", "We can certainly remove it", "Traceroute is a major security risk for enterprise customers.", "We have removed it", "Oh, when we said we'd removed it we meant, uh....", "We'll remove it within six weeks...").
The sheer level of corporate and technical incompetence involved was staggering (and I've dealt with some spectacularly incompetent companies). The idea that anyone would rely on them for anything security related is scary. (To be fair, I believe that I dealt with them early on in their buyout process, so it's conceivable that they've picked up some basic business practices from their new owner since then, but it's not something I'd bet the security of my network on).
My G5 plays World of Warcraft with better graphics, a comparable framerate and better stability than my wifes windows box (and I got the bundled graphics card when I bought the G5, rather than upgrading to the much nicer gaming card option).
But no, the Mini might become a media center, or a set top box, or a DVR or maybe even a casual gaming machine, perhaps. It's really unlikely to be a console competitor or your platform of choice for FPS in the near future. But that's because it's a very, very low-end box, not because it's a mac.
Is that the same Backbase that has "Your web browser is not compatible with the primary Backbase site. Find out which browsers are supported at the Compatible browsers page." at the top of the page, and whose demos are entirely broken?
Backbase support for Safari and Opera has been "forthcoming" for quite a while. It's not there yet. Which means that Backbase is
about as useful as ActiveX for public websites.
Nice architecture. Once it actually works I'll pay more attention to it. Right now? Not even close.
Ability to communicate clearly with the rest of the team is vital in pretty much any IT job above the level of scutwork. In the US that (usually)
means that you must be able to speak, and write, in clear, easy to understand English.
If you can't communicate clearly with the interviewer and recruiter, then you won't be able
to communicate clearly with the rest of your team. That significantly decreases your value
as a hire.
MySQL is fine for the vast majority of applications out there. You can build robust database applications with it, no problem. Now, if what you are really trying to say is that there's better things out there, then sure I'll agree with you. But to just say that you can't get robustness out of MySQL... I don't think that's accurate at all.
Hmm. Certainly looks like an informed opinion, but I wonder whether it could be from someone with a bias, perhaps?
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It compiles! Ship it!
Ah. There's the dead giveaway. Gnight is on the the MySQL Quality Assurance team.
Actually, yes, better marketing can make a better game.
An important part of marketing is understanding your audience and applying that information to the product to, well, make sure that it's a product that people will buy.
There are several obvious ways to do this, of course. One is to make a game that offers the, well, the experience the targeted users want. In other words, to make a good game. For some markets another approach is to base the game on
an already well-known character / universe / whatever.
That the latter is marketing driven game development with a crap result doesn't mean the the former isn't marketing driven
game development creating a good game.
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I have never actually played WoW, but I have seen others playing it, and the graphics didn't look like they were all that intensive.
WoW has some sort of adaptive graphics engine. It'll degrade graphics quality fairly gracefully to the point where your graphics system can keep up.
It's a neat feature - it means that Blizzard can provide very pretty, immersive graphics for people running higher end cards, while still selling monthly subscriptions to people with older graphics cards. And retaining customers who upgrade their graphics cards by giving them immediate pretties for doing so, and so on. As opposed to some other MMOs which don't do it as gracefully, so end up either providing mediocre graphics to everyone or being unplayable on anything other than the latest, shiniest graphics hardware when they launch.
The only one that was given an AO rating solely for violence or gore was Thrill Kill on the PS1. (Peak Entertainment Casinos was dinged for "gambling" and all the rest include "strong sexual content" as at least part of the reason for the rating.
I think you just reinvented slow glass
It's ironic that Firefox (and the rest of Mozilla) is supported primarily by dollars derived from advertising-supported content, while most of the discussions of the features Firefox has revolve around it's functionality for depriving dollars from much of the other advertising-supported content their users want to look at.
Our version is here: http://thewholeinternet.wordtothewise.com/
It's just a technology demo right now and is on a server that likely won't survive a slashdotting, but it's a fun toy as-is. The next step is to add bookmarking and search-by-IP, search-by-ASN and some additional data sources to overlay.
It's hard to fake competence. It's easy to fake all the other stuff. People who aren't actually terribly good, but who come from families that are good at doing or faking up all the other "well rounded personality stuff" hate pure standardised tests.
People who do wonderfully in high school, because of a tightly constrained environment and a pushy family, but who aren't any good at problem-solving on their own, or working without a fixed timetable, or who just don't have the diversity of interests and social skills to thrive living on their own tend to hate the more general judgements.
Both extremes of people are more likely to fail than those in the middle ground - those who are actually pretty good at the subjects they do, but not entirely focused on them - so a testing system in the middle ground is likely to be more accurate at picking out those who'll survive and benefit from real higher education (always assuming you're in a country where there is such a thing, of course).
(Me? I spent most of college in the theatre or the bar, and scraped through with a gentlemans second. Thanks for asking.)
Without knowing the details of where you are it's hard to be specific.
If you have cell access, do you have access to any cellular data service? Line of sight radio (to an ISP, or to someone who can get DSL service) ? ISDN?
I'm posting this from a Macbook Pro with a 1920x1200 display, or about 135dpi.
They did. By most accounts, it sucked.
That's misleading. They decertified them, then recertified them with some additional security requirements.
See here: Elections chief gives OK to vote machines
You say you want a ticketing system, but that doesn't sound like what you really need (if it were, I'd suggest RT for issue tracking or Trac for defect tracking).
I'd take a look at SugarCRM, or one of it's forks instead. MySQL only, so be careful to keep regular backups.
Qt comes in a range of versions. They're mostly freely available for open source products. For closed source products, the most sophisticated single-platform version, incuding a years worth of support, is $1100 / seat for small business and startups for up to 3 seats. The original poster wanted 3 seats.
The only reason he'd have to pay $3300 / seat would be if he had more than $200,000 cash on hand. Not as available credit, but cash in the bank. Or if he was already bringing in more than $200,000 a year in revenue.
I don't have much sympathy for well-funded startups that decide to choose bad technology rather than good technology because it's a grand or two cheaper. I expect this one will burn through its VC and crash and burn fairly quickly.
The people who run these things usually have a rather superior attitude, and a rather childish attitude toward the law.
SpamHaus is (almost always) one of the rare exceptions to that.
But this lawsuit seems completely ludicrous. Even with an undefended lawsuit it should have been obvious that this was outside their jurisdiction. Isn't there some restriction here?
Perhaps. SpamHaus, to the extent there is an entity called SpamHaus, does have infrastructure in the US or under the indirect control of US corporations.
What proportion of those pursued would you estimate are violating copyright?
Once a few idiots whose insecure wireless access points are used to send spam, phish people or upload child porn get prosecuted and are unable to use the "I'm stupid, and I never knew that my access point was a attractive nuisance!" excuse it might start to have some effect.
Do US Bachelors degrees really give significant weight to attendance (as opposed to academic achievment, knowledge or master of the subject)?
Pestpatrol. A word synonymous with incompetence in my mind.
They listed one of my applications (Sam Spade - an elderly windows whois / traceroute client, basically) as a security risk. I started to get phone calls about it from users (I have quite a lot of users, so a few of them were bound to be running pestpatrol).
I called the company responsible for pestpatrol several times, and they told me many things that turned out not to be true ("It's not listed", "We can certainly remove it", "Traceroute is a major security risk for enterprise customers.", "We have removed it", "Oh, when we said we'd removed it we meant, uh....", "We'll remove it within six weeks...").
The sheer level of corporate and technical incompetence involved was staggering (and I've dealt with some spectacularly incompetent companies). The idea that anyone would rely on them for anything security related is scary. (To be fair, I believe that I dealt with them early on in their buyout process, so it's conceivable that they've picked up some basic business practices from their new owner since then, but it's not something I'd bet the security of my network on).
2. Stock Fraud
My G5 plays World of Warcraft with better graphics, a comparable framerate and better stability than my wifes windows box (and I got the bundled graphics card when I bought the G5, rather than upgrading to the much nicer gaming card option).
But no, the Mini might become a media center, or a set top box, or a DVR or maybe even a casual gaming machine, perhaps. It's really unlikely to be a console competitor or your platform of choice for FPS in the near future. But that's because it's a very, very low-end box, not because it's a mac.
Is that the same Backbase that has "Your web browser is not compatible with the primary Backbase site. Find out which browsers are supported at the Compatible browsers page." at the top of the page, and whose demos are entirely broken?
Backbase support for Safari and Opera has been "forthcoming" for quite a while. It's not there yet. Which means that Backbase is about as useful as ActiveX for public websites.
Nice architecture. Once it actually works I'll pay more attention to it. Right now? Not even close.
Ability to communicate clearly with the rest of the team is vital in pretty much any IT job above the level of scutwork. In the US that (usually) means that you must be able to speak, and write, in clear, easy to understand English.
If you can't communicate clearly with the interviewer and recruiter, then you won't be able to communicate clearly with the rest of your team. That significantly decreases your value as a hire.
Gnight writes
Hmm. Certainly looks like an informed opinion, but I wonder whether it could be from someone with a bias, perhaps?
Ah. There's the dead giveaway. Gnight is on the the MySQL Quality Assurance team.
When they get 1,000 clickthroughs from 1,000 different AOL users they only want to pay for one.
Actually, yes, better marketing can make a better game.
An important part of marketing is understanding your audience and applying that information to the product to, well, make sure that it's a product that people will buy.
There are several obvious ways to do this, of course. One is to make a game that offers the, well, the experience the targeted users want. In other words, to make a good game. For some markets another approach is to base the game on an already well-known character / universe / whatever.
That the latter is marketing driven game development with a crap result doesn't mean the the former isn't marketing driven game development creating a good game.
Yak have been email pump-n-dump spamming for quite a while now.
Remember, boys and girls! If it's slashverted, sell short!