This same thing happened to Ultima Online. When it first came out in 1996, it was a magnet drawing everyone interested in MMORPG. But after 5 years, the game starts to decline. Origin/EA stars adding in expansion modules until it no longer looked like the original game.
Please move on as time goes by...
The avionics business is the same way. A navigational radio or altimeter LRU, developed and certified with tools that run on Windows 98/95, must maintain the machines and various tools is was developed on until the product is 'sun setted' (which is at leased 20 years). One company maintains a VAX 11/780 due to the nature of the product still being in the field.
For embedded development work, it's a requirement that the dev pubs their build onto the target hardware. We just couldn't do our work without it.
But once the developed software has been tested on a test system, it should be left to QA/V&V to make installations...
Just tell them when word of their antics gets out, their business reputation will be ruined. Who would be able to trust a business with their data who blindly resets your password without a valid confirmation? A bad reputation has killed more businesses...
The Book of Swords Series is collectively a science fiction/fantasy novel series written by Fred Saberhagen. It's well worth the read of these smaller (page size) novels.
Regardless on their philosophy, it just shows what Microsoft is all about - showing what little regard they have for the development community and beating up on the small guy, who's not even making any money off it, trying to make the development community a better place to be...
...I can only say, it serves them right (Portal Player, Inc). Relying on Apple's iPod to go public is one thing, but relying upon one product to keep you going these years?
Starting out with an initial IPO of $14, and closing that day at $28, I just have one question. Where did all that money go? Well, loosing $220M in one day must really suck, but its all apart of their management style at PortalPlayer, Inc.
I called the Comcast service department (1-800-Comcast) and ask about this story. They have denied ever hearing about it, but they did mention I could be put on a non disclose list (which I then added myself to). They are also sending me their contract and policy concerning disclosing my personal information to any outside 3rd parties.
Lets all call and crack the whip!
I think I know who this guy is...
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He lives in AZ, just outside of Tucson. He use to come into our private MIRC and dc++ networks, always downloading but never giving anything up. He had about 2.9 Terrabytes last year. We eventually had to ban him since he never shared.
Interesting that he made the news...
Heads are going to roll in building 50 at Microsoft (the location of their media player devs) when this goes around.
So, is this the true representation of Microsoft DRM in action?;-)
Ben was fired from PPI. He did not quite!
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Ben was fired from PPI, he did not quite. I was where for over 2 years, know the inside on what really happened.
Two main reasons why he was fired:
* Incompetence: He didn't know how to run a development team and people who where on the firmware team at PPI didn't trust him
* Apple (what we called by the code name 'BandPass' at the time) did not trust him and could not work with him. He really angered a lot of people at Apple and almost cost PPI chances at building the iPod for them. He was mainly fired from PPI for this reason alone, since BandPass was are best (and only) customer who would ship at the time.
Every 6 months or so, I make a complete backup onto DVD-Rs. These days with 8x DVD-R burners and blank media going for $0.50, its just easier making backup copies onto DVD-Rs. Inbetween the 6 months, I backup if I have over 4.35gig of new stuff to backup and burn that.
That way you have a 'rotating' backup copy of your current items, as well as all your old backup copies.
RAID is a decent way to keep a systems FS up and running, but its no backup. I've had ATA cards and controlers take out whole HDD arrays.
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This same thing happened to Ultima Online. When it first came out in 1996, it was a magnet drawing everyone interested in MMORPG. But after 5 years, the game starts to decline. Origin/EA stars adding in expansion modules until it no longer looked like the original game. Please move on as time goes by...
The avionics business is the same way. A navigational radio or altimeter LRU, developed and certified with tools that run on Windows 98/95, must maintain the machines and various tools is was developed on until the product is 'sun setted' (which is at leased 20 years). One company maintains a VAX 11/780 due to the nature of the product still being in the field.
I believe "Beyond the Blue Event Horizon" (1980) explored a situation where a space craft was caught in the event horizon of a black hole.
For embedded development work, it's a requirement that the dev pubs their build onto the target hardware. We just couldn't do our work without it. But once the developed software has been tested on a test system, it should be left to QA/V&V to make installations...
Just tell them when word of their antics gets out, their business reputation will be ruined. Who would be able to trust a business with their data who blindly resets your password without a valid confirmation? A bad reputation has killed more businesses...
The Book of Swords Series is collectively a science fiction/fantasy novel series written by Fred Saberhagen. It's well worth the read of these smaller (page size) novels.
Regardless on their philosophy, it just shows what Microsoft is all about - showing what little regard they have for the development community and beating up on the small guy, who's not even making any money off it, trying to make the development community a better place to be...
...I can only say, it serves them right (Portal Player, Inc). Relying on Apple's iPod to go public is one thing, but relying upon one product to keep you going these years? Starting out with an initial IPO of $14, and closing that day at $28, I just have one question. Where did all that money go? Well, loosing $220M in one day must really suck, but its all apart of their management style at PortalPlayer, Inc.
What ports can I block off so MS will never get these logs?
I called the Comcast service department (1-800-Comcast) and ask about this story. They have denied ever hearing about it, but they did mention I could be put on a non disclose list (which I then added myself to). They are also sending me their contract and policy concerning disclosing my personal information to any outside 3rd parties. Lets all call and crack the whip!
Physics (or some sort of electronics)!
No dog good here. :)
He lives in AZ, just outside of Tucson. He use to come into our private MIRC and dc++ networks, always downloading but never giving anything up. He had about 2.9 Terrabytes last year. We eventually had to ban him since he never shared. Interesting that he made the news...
Heads are going to roll in building 50 at Microsoft (the location of their media player devs) when this goes around. So, is this the true representation of Microsoft DRM in action? ;-)
Ben was fired from PPI, he did not quite. I was where for over 2 years, know the inside on what really happened. Two main reasons why he was fired: * Incompetence: He didn't know how to run a development team and people who where on the firmware team at PPI didn't trust him * Apple (what we called by the code name 'BandPass' at the time) did not trust him and could not work with him. He really angered a lot of people at Apple and almost cost PPI chances at building the iPod for them. He was mainly fired from PPI for this reason alone, since BandPass was are best (and only) customer who would ship at the time.
Every 6 months or so, I make a complete backup onto DVD-Rs. These days with 8x DVD-R burners and blank media going for $0.50, its just easier making backup copies onto DVD-Rs. Inbetween the 6 months, I backup if I have over 4.35gig of new stuff to backup and burn that.
That way you have a 'rotating' backup copy of your current items, as well as all your old backup copies.
RAID is a decent way to keep a systems FS up and running, but its no backup. I've had ATA cards and controlers take out whole HDD arrays.
Always backup, regardless...