Many others have gone off of Blizzard to betterpastures. Here, you can do something about the farmers instead of having a GM take care of it. As for private servers, they arent " just for the pirate", they're for those who want a bit better experience without the farming/exploits (Maybe you might want to take a clue on that one, Blizzard - or are those greenbacks inhibiting that?).
So far, NCSoft NA has been relatively sane with the well regulated private servers out there - versus the rabid Blizzard. All the bad things in L2 are usually with the commerce elements in the game. Your choice, funding invulnerable farmers and future lawsuits, or a decent pvp/grind?
It makes me wonder where the US (not the New Yorker from India) placed in this and where their submissions are - I highly doubt that their submissions would be that bad on their own. I just see this as another PR article for offshoring to downplay the problem of US being high enough quality to have to fix offshored code regularly(and thus negating any "competitive advantage" the Far East has).
Please read what I wrote rather than responding to what you WANT me to have written. I accused no one of anything. This is an anomoly, and a very pronounced one (they did not just WIN, they were the only team in the world to solve all of the problems).
I would tend to suspect a flaw in test administration due to language or cultural bias rather than outright cheating, myself (see, no conspiracy theory). Still, it's worth looking into.
Well, the only way to tell if they are without flaw is to rig it to our advantage and see them still winning. Start with figuring what Beijing wont train them in those contests, and start throwing that at them. On top of that, add something that will allow the US a decent advantage. Do both with no notice to anyone, and watch a few shamed souls be humbled in China, that the US really does have its stuff in order. Repeat until Bejing flies a white flag, or wins somehow.
Since they've gone from the path of selling high quality machines to bowing out to Hong Kong knockoff quality companies such as Dell, is there a place one can spend the extra money for a US design and for the most part, US or Non-Asian parts? Apple doesnt count here, they just ship their designs from China ala IBM Thinkpads. Also, until one can build a laptop from the ground up with our own choice in parts, the excuse of "build your own" doesnt really hold up.
...but here it's an expectation? Well, I guess this is what you get for giving these places the "rich man's loophole" by making it a nice large (and possibly price fixed) admission fee that's conditionally waived for the undeserving. Now when some Ohio State (or even better, Wright State) students would return the favor for the Wright Flyer stunt at MIT, that'd be news, not some high-tax state that caters to the same crowd as MIT's nearbyneighbors, also home to Caltech's evilneighbors.
Well, if you look at them and the upstream from those projects up to the company with regards to the education of those whom work there:
Gmail: Forever in beta, forever mired by that "50 perpetual invites" syndrome. Applies their search technology to your email.
Orkut: Why Stanford culture is better as a test case to study social interaction [gone wrong] versus their development of something to facilitate it. Little relation from what's seen except concepts to build up Orkut, mostly to defend it against the majority.
Google: Upstream of both projects, the search technology powers Gmail if not both.
Well, if you look at it - they only contain parts that are search related. The rest is signature work by Stanford, MIT, et al - innovation by absolute exclusion. Never mind the highly competent minds that come from the landlocked states and/or those not of the Ivory Tower philosophy. If these kind projects came from a search company with a Berkeley or Midwestern mindset, they'd not have as many of the ones with FOAF as a requirement to use given anything but the thumbs down.
1:Find country with lax labor laws with nearby neighbors described as "militant" to target's country. 2:Remove the ability to access the data physically or remotely via destructive means. (null routing companies and countries linked to target, political manipulation, EMP, conventional explosives, N/B/C if desperate) 3:Repeat 2 periodically to insure no third party benefactors such as other countries with proper labor laws (using documented loopholes such as offshoring) are able to prop up target country.
Bug will manifest itself in countries where lax labor laws, political instability and deep pocketed groups meet.
Possible solutions:
-International pressure to encourage target country to harmonize trade laws with countries with higher labor law standards to remove bugs with Free Trade. Militants would still be present but would be in clear minority if present.
-Limited protectionism until harmonized labor law standards are guaranteed and permanent elimination of all "Ivy League"* style exclusions/barriers to higher education in third party countries such as US/UK. Usefulness would gradually increase as a wider base of the population gains higher education without (practical and theoretical) barriers to entry as documented later on. -Countries who provide residence for third parties in the benefit of this bug would be "creatively encouraged" to disallow "representation of a person" to any organization that offshores (and all supporters of disallowed organization to prevent shifting of labor to circumvent) under laws concerning bribery.
Ivy League style exclusions, specified: - Leaving in impractical loophole of excessive amount for admissions/tuition to maintain indirect requirement of fallback of being "well-connected" in the process of obtaining education. Eliminating this may anger the existing benefactors into using defensive measures, but it is a must. - Admissions policies that are designed to reject the usable majority to design a deep pocketed minority that proceeds to apply similar policies to society for a nonbeneficial (see Google projects with policies that mirror some universities) and possibly destructive result (See Harvard, Yale, and the non Ivies Berkeley and Stanford). - Hypocritical policy of wanting more students that come from backgrounds that arent targeted by them, but only allowing minority amounts of them outside of public controversy to calm public outrage.
...or Dell/Post-Fiorina HP? Having some experience servicing them, they're just the low end of of the food chain in machines. IBM would do well NOT to follow NCR's moves this time.
It'd be fine to drop the consumer machines and the G series thinkpads (which arent even IBM's) and concentrate on cranking out quality equipment. I didnt buy IBM for the price - I bought them for the quality product and service that no competitor such as HP (I'm not funding your US job bought plane or any other stunts, Carly- I'll take someone who doesnt tell people to ignore engineers) or Dell (I dont know who you are, but you arent "Tim" in tech support).
Well, I'd think they were looking at the Berkeley name more than the state program they decided to attack. If anything, I'd almost say Berkeley did the scamming to get the job - the target group who couldnt afford to challenge it. Put the program in some other college in CA where it'll get some use, not some Ivory Tower.
Well, there's one thing missing from this ipaq, and it's the sleeve system. Never mind that there's builtins(I dont play the dual standard game of SD), but I'd still want to throw in a dual pcmcia sleeve and go wired/wireless on my terms (200mW 802.11b card, antenna jacks, GPRS cards, wired Ethernet, etc.), and if I wanted to do so where I have AC, to be able to plug in a pcmcia interfaced notebook drive to gain up to 80GB capacity off of IDE. If I want to slim it down, I can remove the sleeve, and any apparent bulk there is gone.
Excuses people give for the sleeve's removal:
USB
The excuse of USB is not valid since they do not directly attach to the pda as with the sleeve.
Builtin peripherals:
The excuse of the builtins isnt valid either for this pda, as I'd rather use the chipset of my choice simply by plugging it in. When HP returns that to their ipaqs, then they will have me as their customer.
I'd just go get a R51/T4x/T4xP if you have that kind of money. Besides, most of those have only one pcmcia slot if any *cough*Dell*cough*Sony*cough* and if you manage to snag one with good onboard video and at least 1400x1500 display, you might as well have a reliable, flakeless laptop that'll hold to the abuses of daily travel. If you're lucky enough, you'll have Doom 3 on it and see how it plays out somewhere with the broadband style connection in some of your spare time. BTW: This one will probably not work for a while until the guts are figured out, and you still have only one slot for pcmcia, which is a bit surprising for any laptop worth its salt today. Provided it's not some redundant cardbus USB bridge or some saner, purer PCMCIA card that appears as a serial port, it will be a mystery.
I'd recommend avoiding Ewing and his company when it comes to his firmware - given his blatant violations(and admission through changing the license to correct what violations he's done). All you'll get is some person who is less than honest in his dealings with people. Just use the other distributions out there and save yourself the grief.
However, if you want to take a look at what Sveasoft offers without giving him more ammunition, here's a link to the current images and source.
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Well, it probably hurt that you werent some uppity Stanfordite. No wonder you got kicked out. It's one thing to have preference as a person to their college, it's another to base your entire company around the people from there and the practices of said university. Given how Google was, it's no surprise we have some of their sidejobs as they are. Uppity people in need of a constant humbling.
Sort of reminds me of this guy. Same game, different player.
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Well, I'd have to have my choice be the Ipaq 3650, since it has all the things I want - Open OS (has to be flashed in, but it canbedone), PCMCIA(dual) expandability via sleeves (SD != open, no usb host on 3650, and allows for the use of 2.5" laptop drives via pcmcia enclosures as well as wifi), reasonable screen size (320x240), usable battery (even with dual pcmcia, at least 2hrs can be had) and even the use of keyboards via serial port are possible. The only thing that's been screwed up with them isnt even in that model, but down the line when HP lopped off the sleeve. When HP can make something with these features, I'll give them a look. Until then, I'll go for whomever brings back dual pcmcia and no SD.
Well, I'd pay a bit more if I had a bit of a hand in the options (read: modern day A31p equivalent), since the lack of expansion/PCMCIA bays is disturbing for such a machine. When did people only need one cardbus slot and no extra expansion slot, let alone the video being at XGA?
He's probably a blueblood. Also, the presence of a blog bought him points on the "elitism tolerance scale". When colleges have "acceptance" standards and offer the $INSANE_SUM buyout excuse for the rest, we'll have this kind of arrogance. Honest, "suitable acceptance candidate" and $EXCLUSIVE_COLLEGE is asking for the impossible when found together, so the blog and program for the iPods can be expected.
Well, you can escape the Stanfordites of Search...
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This company makes a engine nearly to that spec, but it's not aimed at the Internet, just law/personal information. If it were, you'd have a search engine that'd work as such.
Surprised nobody's come up with nothing but AMD SFF PC's - remember that the P4 EE came from the Xeon core. I'd not mind a SFF 2x socket 604 533 FSB system that do PCI-E and AGP at the same time, powered by a pair of SL6RQ's.
Ever since Sun played the EOL game with their framebuffers where they would leave in an old, obsolete cg6 when they undo support for perfectly good framebuffers such as the ZX and the double decker version of the Elite3d M6 in only 2 versions (removed in solaris 7 and 10 respectively). It's bad enough that Sun does it to their own. McNealy: Keep your hands off POWER. You do not need to ruin another architecture.
IBM can make the laptops, i.e. their A31p isnt bad for what it was made for - 15" 1600x1200 screen, near Radeon 8500 performance w/ GL oriented games with the Mobility FireGL 7800, 5400rpm disk, up to 1GB memory, and 2 open media bays (1 occupied by a CDRW/DVDROM). However, an equivalent would still cost around $3500 today, and that's well out of the range, even with possible discounts. If someone could update those specs, come down to about $1500 without using integrated video, have a solid construction, and keep the battery life, then you might just have something there. It's possible to have All Three, you just have to push for someone to do it.
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Many others have gone off of Blizzard to better pastures. Here, you can do something about the farmers instead of having a GM take care of it. As for private servers, they arent "
just for the pirate", they're for those who want a bit better experience without the farming/exploits (Maybe you might want to take a clue on that one, Blizzard - or are those greenbacks inhibiting that?).
So far, NCSoft NA has been relatively sane with the well regulated private servers out there - versus the rabid Blizzard. All the bad things in L2 are usually with the commerce elements in the game. Your choice, funding invulnerable farmers and future lawsuits, or a decent pvp/grind?
It makes me wonder where the US (not the New Yorker from India) placed in this and where their submissions are - I highly doubt that their submissions would be that bad on their own. I just see this as another PR article for offshoring to downplay the problem of US being high enough quality to have to fix offshored code regularly(and thus negating any "competitive advantage" the Far East has).
Please read what I wrote rather than responding to what you WANT me to have written. I accused no one of anything. This is an anomoly, and a very pronounced one (they did not just WIN, they were the only team in the world to solve all of the problems). I would tend to suspect a flaw in test administration due to language or cultural bias rather than outright cheating, myself (see, no conspiracy theory). Still, it's worth looking into.
Well, the only way to tell if they are without flaw is to rig it to our advantage and see them still winning. Start with figuring what Beijing wont train them in those contests, and start throwing that at them. On top of that, add something that will allow the US a decent advantage. Do both with no notice to anyone, and watch a few shamed souls be humbled in China, that the US really does have its stuff in order. Repeat until Bejing flies a white flag, or wins somehow.
Since they've gone from the path of selling high quality machines to bowing out to Hong Kong knockoff quality companies such as Dell, is there a place one can spend the extra money for a US design and for the most part, US or Non-Asian parts? Apple doesnt count here, they just ship their designs from China ala IBM Thinkpads. Also, until one can build a laptop from the ground up with our own choice in parts, the excuse of "build your own" doesnt really hold up.
...but here it's an expectation? Well, I guess this is what you get for giving these places the "rich man's loophole" by making it a nice large (and possibly price fixed) admission fee that's conditionally waived for the undeserving. Now when some Ohio State (or even better, Wright State) students would return the favor for the Wright Flyer stunt at MIT, that'd be news, not some high-tax state that caters to the same crowd as MIT's nearby neighbors, also home to Caltech's evil neighbors.
Well, if you look at them and the upstream from those projects up to the company with regards to the education of those whom work there:
Gmail: Forever in beta, forever mired by that "50 perpetual invites" syndrome. Applies their search technology to your email.
Orkut: Why Stanford culture is better as a test case to study social interaction [gone wrong] versus their development of something to facilitate it. Little relation from what's seen except concepts to build up Orkut, mostly to defend it against the majority.
Google: Upstream of both projects, the search technology powers Gmail if not both.
Well, if you look at it - they only contain parts that are search related. The rest is signature work by Stanford, MIT, et al - innovation by absolute exclusion. Never mind the highly competent minds that come from the landlocked states and/or those not of the Ivory Tower philosophy. If these kind projects came from a search company with a Berkeley or Midwestern mindset, they'd not have as many of the ones with FOAF as a requirement to use given anything but the thumbs down.
Also, the more likely one will get banned for it, the more likely it will get scammed - see Lineage II.
1:Find country with lax labor laws with nearby neighbors described as "militant" to target's country.
2:Remove the ability to access the data physically or remotely via destructive means. (null routing companies and countries linked to target, political manipulation, EMP, conventional explosives, N/B/C if desperate)
3:Repeat 2 periodically to insure no third party benefactors such as other countries with proper labor laws (using documented loopholes such as offshoring) are able to prop up target country.
Bug will manifest itself in countries where lax labor laws, political instability and deep pocketed groups meet.
Possible solutions:
-International pressure to encourage target country to harmonize trade laws with countries with higher labor law standards to remove bugs with Free Trade. Militants would still be present but would be in clear minority if present.
-Limited protectionism until harmonized labor law standards are guaranteed and permanent elimination of all "Ivy League"* style exclusions/barriers to higher education in third party countries such as US/UK. Usefulness would gradually increase as a wider base of the population gains higher education without (practical and theoretical) barriers to entry as documented later on.
-Countries who provide residence for third parties in the benefit of this bug would be "creatively encouraged" to disallow "representation of a person" to any organization that offshores (and all supporters of disallowed organization to prevent shifting of labor to circumvent) under laws concerning bribery.
Ivy League style exclusions, specified:
- Leaving in impractical loophole of excessive amount for admissions/tuition to maintain indirect requirement of fallback of being "well-connected" in the process of obtaining education. Eliminating this may anger the existing benefactors into using defensive measures, but it is a must.
- Admissions policies that are designed to reject the usable majority to design a deep pocketed minority that proceeds to apply similar policies to society for a nonbeneficial (see Google projects with policies that mirror some universities) and possibly destructive result (See Harvard, Yale, and the non Ivies Berkeley and Stanford).
- Hypocritical policy of wanting more students that come from backgrounds that arent targeted by them, but only allowing minority amounts of them outside of public controversy to calm public outrage.
...or Dell/Post-Fiorina HP? Having some experience servicing them, they're just the low end of of the food chain in machines. IBM would do well NOT to follow NCR's moves this time.
It'd be fine to drop the consumer machines and the G series thinkpads (which arent even IBM's) and concentrate on cranking out quality equipment. I didnt buy IBM for the price - I bought them for the quality product and service that no competitor such as HP (I'm not funding your US job bought plane or any other stunts, Carly- I'll take someone who doesnt tell people to ignore engineers) or Dell (I dont know who you are, but you arent "Tim" in tech support).
Well, I'd think they were looking at the Berkeley name more than the state program they decided to attack. If anything, I'd almost say Berkeley did the scamming to get the job - the target group who couldnt afford to challenge it. Put the program in some other college in CA where it'll get some use, not some Ivory Tower.
Well, there's one thing missing from this ipaq, and it's the sleeve system. Never mind that there's builtins(I dont play the dual standard game of SD), but I'd still want to throw in a dual pcmcia sleeve and go wired/wireless on my terms (200mW 802.11b card, antenna jacks, GPRS cards, wired Ethernet, etc.), and if I wanted to do so where I have AC, to be able to plug in a pcmcia interfaced notebook drive to gain up to 80GB capacity off of IDE. If I want to slim it down, I can remove the sleeve, and any apparent bulk there is gone. Excuses people give for the sleeve's removal:
USB
The excuse of USB is not valid since they do not directly attach to the pda as with the sleeve.
Builtin peripherals:
The excuse of the builtins isnt valid either for this pda, as I'd rather use the chipset of my choice simply by plugging it in. When HP returns that to their ipaqs, then they will have me as their customer.
I'd just go get a R51/T4x/T4xP if you have that kind of money. Besides, most of those have only one pcmcia slot if any *cough*Dell*cough*Sony*cough* and if you manage to snag one with good onboard video and at least 1400x1500 display, you might as well have a reliable, flakeless laptop that'll hold to the abuses of daily travel. If you're lucky enough, you'll have Doom 3 on it and see how it plays out somewhere with the broadband style connection in some of your spare time.
BTW: This one will probably not work for a while until the guts are figured out, and you still have only one slot for pcmcia, which is a bit surprising for any laptop worth its salt today. Provided it's not some redundant cardbus USB bridge or some saner, purer PCMCIA card that appears as a serial port, it will be a mystery.
No, I'd rather see it used on India to combat the offshoring problem.
I'd recommend avoiding Ewing and his company when it comes to his firmware - given his blatant violations(and admission through changing the license to correct what violations he's done). All you'll get is some person who is less than honest in his dealings with people. Just use the other distributions out there and save yourself the grief. However, if you want to take a look at what Sveasoft offers without giving him more ammunition, here's a link to the current images and source.
Well, it probably hurt that you werent some uppity Stanfordite. No wonder you got kicked out. It's one thing to have preference as a person to their college, it's another to base your entire company around the people from there and the practices of said university. Given how Google was, it's no surprise we have some of their side jobs as they are. Uppity people in need of a constant humbling.
Sort of reminds me of this guy. Same game, different player.
Well, I'd have to have my choice be the Ipaq 3650, since it has all the things I want - Open OS (has to be flashed in, but it can be done), PCMCIA(dual) expandability via sleeves (SD != open, no usb host on 3650, and allows for the use of 2.5" laptop drives via pcmcia enclosures as well as wifi), reasonable screen size (320x240), usable battery (even with dual pcmcia, at least 2hrs can be had) and even the use of keyboards via serial port are possible. The only thing that's been screwed up with them isnt even in that model, but down the line when HP lopped off the sleeve. When HP can make something with these features, I'll give them a look. Until then, I'll go for whomever brings back dual pcmcia and no SD.
Well, then there'll be people figuring out how to get 10,000+ people on the case, just to shut them up in 2.5 years
Well, I'd pay a bit more if I had a bit of a hand in the options (read: modern day A31p equivalent), since the lack of expansion/PCMCIA bays is disturbing for such a machine. When did people only need one cardbus slot and no extra expansion slot, let alone the video being at XGA?
He's probably a blueblood. Also, the presence of a blog bought him points on the "elitism tolerance scale". When colleges have "acceptance" standards and offer the $INSANE_SUM buyout excuse for the rest, we'll have this kind of arrogance. Honest, "suitable acceptance candidate" and $EXCLUSIVE_COLLEGE is asking for the impossible when found together, so the blog and program for the iPods can be expected.
This company makes a engine nearly to that spec, but it's not aimed at the Internet, just law/personal information. If it were, you'd have a search engine that'd work as such.
Surprised nobody's come up with nothing but AMD SFF PC's - remember that the P4 EE came from the Xeon core. I'd not mind a SFF 2x socket 604 533 FSB system that do PCI-E and AGP at the same time, powered by a pair of SL6RQ's.
Obviously you havent looked hard enough.
Ever since Sun played the EOL game with their framebuffers where they would leave in an old, obsolete cg6 when they undo support for perfectly good framebuffers such as the ZX and the double decker version of the Elite3d M6 in only 2 versions (removed in solaris 7 and 10 respectively). It's bad enough that Sun does it to their own. McNealy: Keep your hands off POWER. You do not need to ruin another architecture.
IBM can make the laptops, i.e. their A31p isnt bad for what it was made for - 15" 1600x1200 screen, near Radeon 8500 performance w/ GL oriented games with the Mobility FireGL 7800, 5400rpm disk, up to 1GB memory, and 2 open media bays (1 occupied by a CDRW/DVDROM). However, an equivalent would still cost around $3500 today, and that's well out of the range, even with possible discounts. If someone could update those specs, come down to about $1500 without using integrated video, have a solid construction, and keep the battery life, then you might just have something there. It's possible to have All Three, you just have to push for someone to do it.