I happen to have a veto if people are hired at my company or not. If I find a post in a forum by a candiate who refers to Microsoft as M$ I'm going to make my bosses not hire him because he's not able to make unbiased decisions regarding technology (".NET SUCKS LOL LIKE BILLG DOES ROFL"). I might be wrong about this about 10 percent of the time, but it's worth it because we are hiring less idiots that way.
I just want to say: There are a lot of people who find that whole "M$" thing very stupid. It's not just one little "pet peeve" of one guy.
I don't really get all of this. Where I live (germany) I just walk into a store at release date and buy the game. If it's a big game they are going to have tons of the game in stock, if not they are going to have like 10 which nobody is going to buy before me anyways.
The last time I actually did anything close to "pre-ordering" was for the World of Warcraft release, and that was going to the store before work instead of after. Could have bought the next few days too before they simply didn't give out any more copies because the servers couldn't handle the load.
Are you sure about this? Because in this case it wasn't a loophole but a court that basically said: "Yes, this has been a crime, but the delict was so small that nobody actually cares". If this wouldn't have been about people sharing some files on a P2P network, but an organization that lets you illegaly download thousands of songs from their high speed FTP server for a fee, the delinquents would have been spoken guilty under the same law the P2P guys could have been but haven't.
It's pretty much like carrying around a little bit of cannabis. It's forbidding but if aren't very very unlucky nothing will happen to you even you get cought. On the other hand, if you have like 4 pounds of it lying around in your house you are fucked because you're probably a dealer.
I would wait a few months before starting to learn it. Even if non of the higher courts mess this up (which I am actually quite optimistic about) the EUs government will. It always does.
I've been told that learning german is quite hard btw.
Sorry, you still can't say that. Atrocities like the fact that David Hasselhoff's records sold well in Germany are still fresh in our collective memory!
Sadly I have no mod points so I have to tell you: LMAO!
I believe that many mission critical engineering libraries are still in Fortran (they were a few years ago)
True. At least the current versions of the big mechanical engineering systems like CatiaV5 and Pro/ENGINEER still do the heavy math stuff in Fortran. It seems that the language just fits perfectly for this kind of things.
I guess the point is that a lot of games are released months later in Europe than in the US or Japan. Resident Evil 4 for example was released here about three months after the US launch (longest three months ever).
On the other hand, I really appreciate that all Nintendo games come with a 60 HZ mode no "PAL-Bars". That's worth the wait.
So, you are saying that this kind of bug only is found when porting to another platform? That's intresting. I thought you'd find bugs by testing the software, no matter what platform you are developing for.
Okay, stuff like memory corruption can sometimes be found more easily when porting, but this is clearly a logic bug that doesn't have to do anything with the platform it runs on.
Yes I would like to have the game on Linux too. But it honestly, it would be just as buggy there as it is on Windows.
I fail to see why Oracle would actually cancel MySQL if they bought MySQL AB. I mean, they wouldn't be competing with them anymore, but they would own them.
Why would anyone close a profitable buisness department?
Yeah, but Visual C++ 2005 still comes with a normal C++ Compiler that creates Win32 executables. So, no problem there.
They even managed to make the thing almost standarts compilant as well by now and wxWindows is a pretty good free GUI Toolkit (don't use MFC. Just don't, it's horrible).
First of all, the list you linked to is called "Top World War 2 First Person Games". There are a lot of other ones, that are very good
Second of all, killing Nazi soldiers in games, books and movies is pretty much okay for every german. Nobody frowns upon it and actually nobody cares.
Other than that: The only reason they bring this up now is because they weren't able to form a halfway working government since the elections and need something else to talk about. As soon as every one of these assholes holds some kind of office that allows him to live in wealth for the rest of his live, they will ditch the topic and start the actual work.
And by work I mean, lose every single last bit of common sense they had, start breaking promises they made before the elections and create laws that drive the unemployment into unseen heights.
Then why are all the best games not released on gamecube?
Last time I checked there where a whole lot of very good games on the GameCube and actually the best game (Metroid Prime) was among them. You see what I did? I stated my opinion as a fact and thus won the argument! Hooray!
Why is it that naive, idealistic comments get modded up, but harsh realistic comments get modded down?
I guess it's because the stuff you think is harsh and realistic is actually just wrong, as my opinion just proved.
What's the difference? Slashdot and the WoW Forums are both places where people bitch and moan about the service they are using and don't seem to understand that the only persons deciding what belongs into said service are the creators of it.
Yeah, but some of these "answers" weren't even answers technically. Just take a look at question 2. I'll sum it up:
"What would you have done differently?"
"Yes!"
I don't get it. If they didn't want to let the developers respond (which would have been very intresting by the way), why even bother to set up this whole thing. It's just bad PR in the end.
In the end, the OP is right. They actually thought people where stupid enough to believe that those questions where answered by developers.
Not really. A Windows XP Theme is used for all applications that use the standard windows components. Just like a KDE Theme is used for all applications that use the KDE API for their interface.
Of course everybody can write their own set of widgets (and way to many people do), but that was the case with 95 too.
My guess is that WGF will just be DirectX 10 with a new name which happens to be the API for the xbox 360 too. Perhaps they will break more backwards compatibility than usual but it won't make a that big difference.
Probalby it's going to be something like what.NET was for the Windows API, just way less different.
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Out of curiosity: What's the definition of a "Giant"? I mean, are you just a really big guy?
I happen to have a veto if people are hired at my company or not. If I find a post in a forum by a candiate who refers to Microsoft as M$ I'm going to make my bosses not hire him because he's not able to make unbiased decisions regarding technology (".NET SUCKS LOL LIKE BILLG DOES ROFL"). I might be wrong about this about 10 percent of the time, but it's worth it because we are hiring less idiots that way.
I just want to say: There are a lot of people who find that whole "M$" thing very stupid. It's not just one little "pet peeve" of one guy.
IMHO & YMMV
I don't really get all of this. Where I live (germany) I just walk into a store at release date and buy the game. If it's a big game they are going to have tons of the game in stock, if not they are going to have like 10 which nobody is going to buy before me anyways.
The last time I actually did anything close to "pre-ordering" was for the World of Warcraft release, and that was going to the store before work instead of after. Could have bought the next few days too before they simply didn't give out any more copies because the servers couldn't handle the load.
"brain" can be used for both "Gehirn" and "Verstand".
Are you sure about this? Because in this case it wasn't a loophole but a court that basically said: "Yes, this has been a crime, but the delict was so small that nobody actually cares". If this wouldn't have been about people sharing some files on a P2P network, but an organization that lets you illegaly download thousands of songs from their high speed FTP server for a fee, the delinquents would have been spoken guilty under the same law the P2P guys could have been but haven't.
It's pretty much like carrying around a little bit of cannabis. It's forbidding but if aren't very very unlucky nothing will happen to you even you get cought. On the other hand, if you have like 4 pounds of it lying around in your house you are fucked because you're probably a dealer.
Makes a lot of sense to me.
Yes it does: "Gesunder Menschenverstand". If you translate it directly it would mean "a healthy human brain". Quite fitting, isn't it?
I would wait a few months before starting to learn it. Even if non of the higher courts mess this up (which I am actually quite optimistic about) the EUs government will. It always does.
I've been told that learning german is quite hard btw.
Sorry, you still can't say that. Atrocities like the fact that David Hasselhoff's records sold well in Germany are still fresh in our collective memory!
Sadly I have no mod points so I have to tell you: LMAO!
Karma be damned.
I believe that many mission critical engineering libraries are still in Fortran (they were a few years ago)
True. At least the current versions of the big mechanical engineering systems like CatiaV5 and Pro/ENGINEER still do the heavy math stuff in Fortran. It seems that the language just fits perfectly for this kind of things.
No no! It was because the receptionists kept telling them that the princess is in another castle!
I guess the point is that a lot of games are released months later in Europe than in the US or Japan. Resident Evil 4 for example was released here about three months after the US launch (longest three months ever).
On the other hand, I really appreciate that all Nintendo games come with a 60 HZ mode no "PAL-Bars". That's worth the wait.
I've got a job. What I need is a life.
Uh... looking at your Website, you seem to have quite the live.
That extension rocks by the way. Good work!
So, you are saying that this kind of bug only is found when porting to another platform? That's intresting. I thought you'd find bugs by testing the software, no matter what platform you are developing for.
Okay, stuff like memory corruption can sometimes be found more easily when porting, but this is clearly a logic bug that doesn't have to do anything with the platform it runs on.
Yes I would like to have the game on Linux too. But it honestly, it would be just as buggy there as it is on Windows.
I fail to see why Oracle would actually cancel MySQL if they bought MySQL AB. I mean, they wouldn't be competing with them anymore, but they would own them.
Why would anyone close a profitable buisness department?
Well, at least he's got chicken...
Yeah, but Visual C++ 2005 still comes with a normal C++ Compiler that creates Win32 executables. So, no problem there.
They even managed to make the thing almost standarts compilant as well by now and wxWindows is a pretty good free GUI Toolkit (don't use MFC. Just don't, it's horrible).
[...]Csikszentmihalyi, and he's Hungarian[...]
;-)
Seriously, I was this close to mod you funny...
First of all, the list you linked to is called "Top World War 2 First Person Games". There are a lot of other ones, that are very good
Second of all, killing Nazi soldiers in games, books and movies is pretty much okay for every german. Nobody frowns upon it and actually nobody cares.
Other than that: The only reason they bring this up now is because they weren't able to form a halfway working government since the elections and need something else to talk about. As soon as every one of these assholes holds some kind of office that allows him to live in wealth for the rest of his live, they will ditch the topic and start the actual work.
And by work I mean, lose every single last bit of common sense they had, start breaking promises they made before the elections and create laws that drive the unemployment into unseen heights.
Isn't that awesome?
Then why are all the best games not released on gamecube?
Last time I checked there where a whole lot of very good games on the GameCube and actually the best game (Metroid Prime) was among them. You see what I did? I stated my opinion as a fact and thus won the argument! Hooray!
Why is it that naive, idealistic comments get modded up, but harsh realistic comments get modded down?
I guess it's because the stuff you think is harsh and realistic is actually just wrong, as my opinion just proved.
What's the difference? Slashdot and the WoW Forums are both places where people bitch and moan about the service they are using and don't seem to understand that the only persons deciding what belongs into said service are the creators of it.
Yeah, but some of these "answers" weren't even answers technically. Just take a look at question 2. I'll sum it up:
"What would you have done differently?"
"Yes!"
I don't get it. If they didn't want to let the developers respond (which would have been very intresting by the way), why even bother to set up this whole thing. It's just bad PR in the end.
In the end, the OP is right. They actually thought people where stupid enough to believe that those questions where answered by developers.
That's wrong!
Not really. A Windows XP Theme is used for all applications that use the standard windows components. Just like a KDE Theme is used for all applications that use the KDE API for their interface.
Of course everybody can write their own set of widgets (and way to many people do), but that was the case with 95 too.
My guess is that WGF will just be DirectX 10 with a new name which happens to be the API for the xbox 360 too. Perhaps they will break more backwards compatibility than usual but it won't make a that big difference. .NET was for the Windows API, just way less different.
Probalby it's going to be something like what
I guess the point is that an open source project probably isn't able to do this. You know, the topic and stuff.