The main complaints are not this, it is that many companies paid huge amounts of money on licenses because microsoft said the give me every update license would be cheaper then purchasing the upgrades when the product was released. Now they have paid thier money and they are getting nothing.
Meanwhile some of poor DBA have to work with a product which was lacking major database capabilites when it was released, and now have to tell managers they the capabilities and money they were expecting for 2004 will be late 2005
The big licened MMORPG are the things to come after SWG. Here you can release an extremly poor MMORPG with extermly stupid design(thanks raph) yet sell 300,000 because of the name attached. Then you can expect to keep less then 1/3 but while you are being paid to develop the game after which you try to get people to sign up.
As for how to do it, you have to set up a world that feels like the movies or books and allows them to interact with areas mentioned in the book. Middle Earth looks like it is taking a good view of it, they have said that the areas from the movies will be in the game but after the ring bearer or whoever the important person/event passed through/happened so that you cannot modify the even of the story, and no climbing over the characters.
This are differeces between emabassies and military bases.
embassies have far more freedom in what can be done on thier soil, and are governed by law amoung a wide range of countries, military laws are dictacted by agreements between the two countries or NATO depending on the type of base.
For instance if you commit a crime on an embassy it will generally require the ambassador to decide if you get procicuted by the local or shipped back to your country, however on a military base it will depend on the agreement written for that country.
As for citizenship back in the 80s if you were born on an embassy you had were automacticly considered a US citizen with no real rights of citizenship of the country where you were born, if born on a military base it was as if you where a regular person. Now depending on the parents country and country born in may have some agreements on when you have to choose what citizenship you do pick or if you even have to or can just be a dual citizen.
However for being president of the US he law has been if your parents were thier on offical business you are considered eligable to that position, and if you are thier on offical business you meet the reisdence qualifcations.
All theses sites that people are mentions are already searchable by google.
Just enter the main ingredients and the word recipe and you will get hundreds of hits. Then if you want more switch over to google groups and you will get even more.
I have even gotten to the point I have removed most recipe software from my computer, it is just quicker to use google.
You are 100% right on that. We should start testing for oil in our own country and drill for it locally.
The problem is that testing, and then building the facilities to get to finds takes a while, and we have a huge amount of short sighted people who don't like that.
You mean like the developers of Doom, Civilization, or Sims?
The main reason you don't see a devs name is because companies don't want to promote someone and then have them quit and take thier name with them.
The biggest difference I would see is that you get no free trip to a safe location.
The problem I see with this is that if you wander into a really dangerous location you will constantly dieing(err sleeping) as you attempt to get back to a safer area, talk about fustrating.
I still think Turbine had the best system of any MMORPG with AC1. Thier when you died you lost a few of the highest cost items(number based on level) in your corpse, theses were filled in with "death items" basicly high cost items of no other use. If you could not get back to your corpse you lost thoses items, which meant you needed to spend money to purchase new items. HOwever you were not really in danger of loosing major items. In addition you got a 5% penalty(which you needed to work off by earning exp, but the exp still went into the exp pool) to Hit points and your stats, so a single dead generally did not mean much but you get 4+ deads before you could work it off you started to loose the abaility to cast certain spells or use thoses magical items you normally did.
However the main penalty with AC1 dead was that thier was no player resurecte spell so if you died during a quest you were out of the quest, a major penalty and if a person was of importance to the quest you better protect that person.
Old News.
This week the martians are claiming that Bush armed the Phobosians who started a war; then he went and kipnapped the former martian leader who is now living in forced exile on Deimos.
It is next to impossible to charge MS with dumping thier OS software.
Microsoft charges the same the software be it in India, China or the US; this is something that is allowing Linux to make huge in roads is because of the huge costs.
Microsoft is currently discussing if they will be lowering thier price to the local countries standards, but they have many problems that factor into it.
You do have a fair amount of systems that are switching over to Linux as the servers instead of windows. Granted alot of the older ones were originally running on Solaris, then were in the process of being switched in Windows, and then got switched to Linux. However you are also starting to see a fair amount of new large scale projects that start off on Linux.
The biggest problem with Linux on the desktop and for local projects is that most branches of the military get huge enterprise licenses. For example when I was doing work with the Air Force we used Oracle because we could call a number and get a free license for Oracle, now I am working at an Army base we use MS-SQL server because I can call a number and get a free license for MS-SQL server.
Sigh, I do miss my Oracle database it was far easier to provide the solutions the users needed.
You could do almost the same thing by including a CD-R drive instead of the hard drive.
You bill it as the abaility to write CD(a first for a console). The actual process requires that you save the music to the flash then you can record from the flash to the CDR.
Price wise you would probably still come out ahead with not having to deal with the Hard drive, and the few dollars extra cost for the CD-R vs a standard read only CD would not be that much.
Check your phone book for your local coin dealer.
In you are in an Euro country sometimes your local bank will get the 10 Euro coins in, or you can request that they get some for you, sometimes they can, but it may be harder to get a Netherland coin outside of the Netherland bank.
They were hired to develop expansion packs so I would expect that the first expansion pack for Battlefield Vietnam will be produced by Desert Combat crew.
The problem with spreading anthrax has never been that kind of delivery it has been making it small enough to do damage to a human.
Once you could dispense it small enough you would not need the model aircraft. One of the "news" shows after 9/11 they went and got models of the russian disperial devices filled it with a harmless white dust and set it up in the on a fire hydrant(or something like that) on a busy street of NYC. The dust was visible(unlike the real thing) and people just kept walking through it and could care less. Better chance of infecting people, and a RC plane would get people looking.
Except in thoses examples you are talking about business, telephone companies charge businesses large amounts and charge for this type of thing.
The main thing that killed this was the publicity, if this was just a person to person sale nothing would of happened, as soon as he got national press coverage and the price came close to $8,000+ you could guess that something was going to happen.
This is based on an uncle who build his own plane.
You could get the letter as an experimental aircraft, the FAA would need to do inspections on it to approve it but after that you would be ok until a certain number of hours had been flown(same as any other aircraft).
Prada has stored in the UK; they have stored in most major cities in Europe, just look for the high end/tourist shopping areas.
The one in London is on Sloane St.
Not really sure you would want the code.
When AC2 was released it had two major code problems, chat and authentication. Both of theses section were written by microsoft and given to Turbine, the developers of the rest of AC2. It was said that the code came from an in house MMORPG that was in development, the name Mythica was not yet out.
Later it was found that the problem with chat was that it was using.NET and that the under lying services could not handle the large amounts of information being passed around, so they stopped or crashed.
Any major credit card has an option to generate temp card numbers which are only good for a few months. You can use that to pay the initial time, then the number expires so the next time they try to bill you no valid card.
I figure they will contact you on how to get a payment source.
From HR people they said it generally works out like this.
If you have a big name recognition school, such as Harvard, MIT, Caltech,etc. You are going to probably be offered more just for the name and the preceived additional skill level of the person who graduates from one of them.
Then you have the local big name school, such as Texas A&M being worth more in texas then in California. Again because of preceived values and a far better chance that the person hiring is from or knows someone from.
Then you have everything else, and thier they just check the books to see if the place is accredited.
Then after a few years of actual work unless you have one of thoses huge top-tier ones it really does not matter.
This kind of thing is being discussed on Ed Fosters Gripe Line.
So far the best solution is to get a credit card that offers one of thoses programs that generates a unique number(most major cards offer this) for each transaction. This way you can enter the number and then come the next charge it is an invalid number, and chances are the company will contact you.
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The main complaints are not this, it is that many companies paid huge amounts of money on licenses because microsoft said the give me every update license would be cheaper then purchasing the upgrades when the product was released. Now they have paid thier money and they are getting nothing.
Meanwhile some of poor DBA have to work with a product which was lacking major database capabilites when it was released, and now have to tell managers they the capabilities and money they were expecting for 2004 will be late 2005
The big licened MMORPG are the things to come after SWG. Here you can release an extremly poor MMORPG with extermly stupid design(thanks raph) yet sell 300,000 because of the name attached. Then you can expect to keep less then 1/3 but while you are being paid to develop the game after which you try to get people to sign up.
As for how to do it, you have to set up a world that feels like the movies or books and allows them to interact with areas mentioned in the book.
Middle Earth looks like it is taking a good view of it, they have said that the areas from the movies will be in the game but after the ring bearer or whoever the important person/event passed through/happened so that you cannot modify the even of the story, and no climbing over the characters.
This are differeces between emabassies and military bases.
embassies have far more freedom in what can be done on thier soil, and are governed by law amoung a wide range of countries, military laws are dictacted by agreements between the two countries or NATO depending on the type of base. For instance if you commit a crime on an embassy it will generally require the ambassador to decide if you get procicuted by the local or shipped back to your country, however on a military base it will depend on the agreement written for that country.
As for citizenship back in the 80s if you were born on an embassy you had were automacticly considered a US citizen with no real rights of citizenship of the country where you were born, if born on a military base it was as if you where a regular person. Now depending on the parents country and country born in may have some agreements on when you have to choose what citizenship you do pick or if you even have to or can just be a dual citizen.
However for being president of the US he law has been if your parents were thier on offical business you are considered eligable to that position, and if you are thier on offical business you meet the reisdence qualifcations.
All theses sites that people are mentions are already searchable by google.
Just enter the main ingredients and the word recipe and you will get hundreds of hits. Then if you want more switch over to google groups and you will get even more.
I have even gotten to the point I have removed most recipe software from my computer, it is just quicker to use google.
Look up the case of People eating tasty animals vs people for the ethical treating of animals for a case where that was not true.
You are 100% right on that. We should start testing for oil in our own country and drill for it locally.
The problem is that testing, and then building the facilities to get to finds takes a while, and we have a huge amount of short sighted people who don't like that.
You mean like the developers of Doom, Civilization, or Sims?
The main reason you don't see a devs name is because companies don't want to promote someone and then have them quit and take thier name with them.
The biggest difference I would see is that you get no free trip to a safe location.
The problem I see with this is that if you wander into a really dangerous location you will constantly dieing(err sleeping) as you attempt to get back to a safer area, talk about fustrating.
I still think Turbine had the best system of any MMORPG with AC1. Thier when you died you lost a few of the highest cost items(number based on level) in your corpse, theses were filled in with "death items" basicly high cost items of no other use. If you could not get back to your corpse you lost thoses items, which meant you needed to spend money to purchase new items. HOwever you were not really in danger of loosing major items. In addition you got a 5% penalty(which you needed to work off by earning exp, but the exp still went into the exp pool) to Hit points and your stats, so a single dead generally did not mean much but you get 4+ deads before you could work it off you started to loose the abaility to cast certain spells or use thoses magical items you normally did.
However the main penalty with AC1 dead was that thier was no player resurecte spell so if you died during a quest you were out of the quest, a major penalty and if a person was of importance to the quest you better protect that person.
Old News.
This week the martians are claiming that Bush armed the Phobosians who started a war; then he went and kipnapped the former martian leader who is now living in forced exile on Deimos.
It is next to impossible to charge MS with dumping thier OS software.
Microsoft charges the same the software be it in India, China or the US; this is something that is allowing Linux to make huge in roads is because of the huge costs.
Microsoft is currently discussing if they will be lowering thier price to the local countries standards, but they have many problems that factor into it.
You do have a fair amount of systems that are switching over to Linux as the servers instead of windows. Granted alot of the older ones were originally running on Solaris, then were in the process of being switched in Windows, and then got switched to Linux. However you are also starting to see a fair amount of new large scale projects that start off on Linux.
The biggest problem with Linux on the desktop and for local projects is that most branches of the military get huge enterprise licenses. For example when I was doing work with the Air Force we used Oracle because we could call a number and get a free license for Oracle, now I am working at an Army base we use MS-SQL server because I can call a number and get a free license for MS-SQL server.
Sigh, I do miss my Oracle database it was far easier to provide the solutions the users needed.
You could do almost the same thing by including a CD-R drive instead of the hard drive.
You bill it as the abaility to write CD(a first for a console). The actual process requires that you save the music to the flash then you can record from the flash to the CDR.
Price wise you would probably still come out ahead with not having to deal with the Hard drive, and the few dollars extra cost for the CD-R vs a standard read only CD would not be that much.
Check your phone book for your local coin dealer.
In you are in an Euro country sometimes your local bank will get the 10 Euro coins in, or you can request that they get some for you, sometimes they can, but it may be harder to get a Netherland coin outside of the Netherland bank.
They were hired to develop expansion packs so I would expect that the first expansion pack for Battlefield Vietnam will be produced by Desert Combat crew.
The problem with spreading anthrax has never been that kind of delivery it has been making it small enough to do damage to a human.
Once you could dispense it small enough you would not need the model aircraft. One of the "news" shows after 9/11 they went and got models of the russian disperial devices filled it with a harmless white dust and set it up in the on a fire hydrant(or something like that) on a busy street of NYC. The dust was visible(unlike the real thing) and people just kept walking through it and could care less. Better chance of infecting people, and a RC plane would get people looking.
Except in thoses examples you are talking about business, telephone companies charge businesses large amounts and charge for this type of thing.
The main thing that killed this was the publicity, if this was just a person to person sale nothing would of happened, as soon as he got national press coverage and the price came close to $8,000+ you could guess that something was going to happen.
This is based on an uncle who build his own plane.
You could get the letter as an experimental aircraft, the FAA would need to do inspections on it to approve it but after that you would be ok until a certain number of hours had been flown(same as any other aircraft).
Has anyone seen any info on when the Sci-fi channel will be releasing thier mini-series on DVD?
Prada has stored in the UK; they have stored in most major cities in Europe, just look for the high end/tourist shopping areas.
The one in London is on Sloane St.
Not really sure you would want the code. .NET and that the under lying services could not handle the large amounts of information being passed around, so they stopped or crashed.
When AC2 was released it had two major code problems, chat and authentication. Both of theses section were written by microsoft and given to Turbine, the developers of the rest of AC2. It was said that the code came from an in house MMORPG that was in development, the name Mythica was not yet out.
Later it was found that the problem with chat was that it was using
But they did not provide site to get it from.
But if you came out with a product called Linux Windows would Lindows sue you?
Any major credit card has an option to generate temp card numbers which are only good for a few months. You can use that to pay the initial time, then the number expires so the next time they try to bill you no valid card.
I figure they will contact you on how to get a payment source.
From HR people they said it generally works out like this.
If you have a big name recognition school, such as Harvard, MIT, Caltech,etc. You are going to probably be offered more just for the name and the preceived additional skill level of the person who graduates from one of them.
Then you have the local big name school, such as Texas A&M being worth more in texas then in California. Again because of preceived values and a far better chance that the person hiring is from or knows someone from.
Then you have everything else, and thier they just check the books to see if the place is accredited.
Then after a few years of actual work unless you have one of thoses huge top-tier ones it really does not matter.
This kind of thing is being discussed on Ed Fosters Gripe Line.
So far the best solution is to get a credit card that offers one of thoses programs that generates a unique number(most major cards offer this) for each transaction. This way you can enter the number and then come the next charge it is an invalid number, and chances are the company will contact you.