I haven't timed timed it, but it's certainly faster than the numbers you provided. Are you really that lazy? How long/complicated is it to just time your page refreshes? A guy replies to you with real numbers and your answer is "I can't be bothered with facts"?
And you seriously expect people view your posts as nothing more than a random rant?
No "average" professionals get summer, winter, and spring breaks like teachers do. When you compare that to the fact that "average" professionals get 2 weeks of vacation, you get 60% of the pay for 75% ~ 80% of work, so it is not as terrible as you indicate, not great, but not that terrible.
Microsoft faces that EXACT same choice from RIAA, where if they do not provide a DRM, they cannot sell music. But MS has an open format option in PlayforSure where any manufacturer can license it.
Apple refuses to license FairPlay to anyone but themselves.
So why is that RIAA's fault when one company offers and open method and Apple does not?
So by your logic, if Blockbuster does not sell beer at their store it is liquor board's fault?
If you actually RTFA on NYTimes and better yet, read Post,WSJ, LA Time article about it, then you would know that people who actually know anything about this is basically saying that Apple's internal investigation is a joke and there are numerous contradictions in the internal report.
The Slashdot remarks fall into three categories: jokers, Apple Fanboys, and people who actually read the articles and thinks that Steve Jobs is a crook for fixing the books (even if he tried to exchange his ill-gotten gains with other restricted stocks) and an idiot for doing something that really has no effect on his net worth.
Based on all the reports so far (outside Apple's own report which is full of contradictions) I would say your analogy is bit off.
A better analogy would be: If someone goes into a bank and directs his accomplice to rob it, deposit some of the robbed money into his own account, then gets caught, and then he gives the money back to the bank.
Obviously, it is still very early, but Jobs is looking guiltier and guiltier every day. Getting an outside lawyer was probably forced upon him rather than on option for him,
...British newspaper reported that CEO Steve Jobs received 7.5 million stock options in 2001 without getting required approval from the company's board.
The Financial Times, citing people familiar with the matter, reported that records were later falsified to indicate that directors had OKd the grant to Jobs. Apple will disclose the false records in a regulatory filing by Friday, according to the newspaper.
If true, what a loser. Has hundreds of millions, but that was obviously not enough for him. To think he would falsify records to get just few million more... pathetic.
Recently, Washington State DOT painted big white dots on a section of I-5 and put up a sign that said "To drive safely, keep two dots between you and the car in front of you". I'm sure somebody at the DOT thought this would be a great way to remind people about the distance laws.
However, DOT had to remove the dots after 2 weeks because it was creating ungodly traffic jam in the area (people were slowing down abruptly to increase the following distance).
Strictly enforcing distance law would have the same effect as people would disobey them when cops are not around and try to obey them when they see a cop (kinda like how people slow down when they see a cop and traffic builds up behind the cop).
By endorsing copyright extensions, U2's complete hypocracy is exposed.
Bono goes around meeting world leaders begging for drug patents to be not enforced in Africa so that they can make cheap AIDS drugs available. YET when it is something that they own, they are not willing to share with the public.
I would say that is a classic case of talking out of their arse.
This is doubly true when they say they are for the poor and the working class and then moves out of Ireland when they raise the income tax.
Seriously, everything Bono/U2 does for AIDS campaign is nothing more than a PR campaign to sell more records.
Hmmm.... by your argument, chess (or poker or hearts or...) is a game with very limited replay value.
To me, and by definition, replay value means how likely you are to play that same game again. To argue that multiplayer replay does not count as "replay value" seems VERY short sighted.
Online multiplayer has HUGE replay value PRECISELY because it involves situations with different paths and situations. Even in a simple game types like Capture the Flag, with human players involved, there are almost limitless ways to play the match out - THUS providing greater replay value than any single player game even if its "world" is immense.
Let's talk about character development. My "character", over many hours of multiplayer games, is better at almost all aspects of the game from targeting to strategies. And due to that games play out much differently now than when I first began playing multiplayer games.
Replay value is replay value. It is great that some single player RPG can hold your interest for a long time. But nothing replaces the human interaction - just go ask a WOW'er.
I have logged WELL OVER thousands of hours on Halo MP (yes, it is sad) and will have spent well over 100 hours by this weekend on GOW.
By that standard, games like Zelda where I RARELY every play over again (definitely not enough to reach 1000 hours) falls quite a bit short to FPS like Halo and GOW.
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You gotta give him props to admit that his favorite game is a "princess" game...;)
The enemy AI on GOW is excellent. They vary their strategies even if you play the same level over and over again. Insane level is, insane. It is almost impossible without a good human coop partner.
Between the multiplayer and a pretty good single player game, I have spent about 70-80 hours since the game came out (stopped playing all other games) - so, yes, I would say it has GREAT replay value.
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Not exactly. Zune music service only allows sharing of items if they have been granted explicit copyright for the songs. Which is why many songs are not available for sharing and you can just upload a song to share.
So it would still be perfectly legal under the new Australian law.
Do more work and make less money just so that you can "keep a fair number of linux players happy". Because we all know keeping Linux players happy is SO MUCH more important than keeping the rest of the players happy.
I am amazed that Blizzard hasn't thought of it already.
Brilliant!!!
What a crock of BS. I see why you were able to rise up to VP level, you are full of hot air.
THERE IS NO WAY IN HELL you can deduce all those items (Passion, Communication, Teamwork,Flexibility, Teamwork, Potential, BK) in a freaking one hour interview. Are you kidding me? Best you can hope for in a one hour interview is to figure out whether or not he/she was lying about anything on their resume. Almost all research on job interviews indicate that people make up their mind on whether or not to hire within first 15 seconds.
Even if you are some Yoda and can deduce those things from a interview, you must not be hiring much because you probably can count in one hand you the number of people you can demonstrate those abilities in an hour. I have interviewed hundreds of candidates over the years. I can honestly say, I have never met a candidate who showed abilities in all of those areas. If you are looking for a perfect candidate, no such beast exists (or at least they won't be going to interviews to get hired). In fact, some of the best developers I ever hired were guys who BOMBED their interviews (usually shy, not very outgoing, etc.), but are demons when it come to producing effecient codes.
What a baloney. I wish you would tell us which company you work for so I know to stay away from it.
Where did you get your science education? Bob Jones University?
Almost every example you mention was "common sense" knowledge that was passed from generation to generation without any scientific testing. What corrected those mis-conception was actual testing of FACTS which proved that they were wrong (as in observing the stars and planets and calculating their path and turns out it is much simpler when you put the Sun in the middle).
And no scientist would or ever say that atom is the smallest thing in the universe. What scientist would say is that it is the smallest object that we can observe (either directly or indirectly), which is exactly what we say about quarks.
Seriously, you need to go back and take some realy scientific courses.
In every other aspect of science we were taught alternatives to established theories to compare the merits and why one theory is more valid than others, from Ether to creationism.
Hmmm... if that is how science was taught to you, then you need to go back and ask for a refund, or at least ask them to hire a REAL science teacher.
Science is not a political debate. It is not about which side looks prettier or which side makes a better argument. In fact, science does NOT choose sides. Either the hypothesis stands on its own or it fails on FACTS. Evolution is NOT strengthened by debunking Creationism. You can ONLY support and solidify Evolution by presenting FACTS supporting the Evolution itself.
Which also explains why Intelligent Design is not real science because their ENTIRE position is based on "weakness" of Evolution and not why ID is valid.
You have obviously have not worked on huge private company projects.
I know personally about a Fortune 100 company who blew $1 billion on an IT project that went FUBAR.
It was led by who's who in IT consulting world and all the top hardware manufacturers. But that did not stop them from wasting all that money (actually made it easier to waste money when you figure out how much those consulting companies charge).
It is simple - large projects are hard. It does not matter if government or private free market does it. The chances of something going wrong increases with every complexity you add. The government is an easy target because they take on more big projects than private industries. But that does not mean they do it any worse.
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And you seriously expect people view your posts as nothing more than a random rant?
Let's compare apples to apples.
No "average" professionals get summer, winter, and spring breaks like teachers do. When you compare that to the fact that "average" professionals get 2 weeks of vacation, you get 60% of the pay for 75% ~ 80% of work, so it is not as terrible as you indicate, not great, but not that terrible.
Wow, that is some great circular logic there.
Microsoft faces that EXACT same choice from RIAA, where if they do not provide a DRM, they cannot sell music. But MS has an open format option in PlayforSure where any manufacturer can license it.
Apple refuses to license FairPlay to anyone but themselves.
So why is that RIAA's fault when one company offers and open method and Apple does not?
So by your logic, if Blockbuster does not sell beer at their store it is liquor board's fault?
The Slashdot remarks fall into three categories: jokers, Apple Fanboys, and people who actually read the articles and thinks that Steve Jobs is a crook for fixing the books (even if he tried to exchange his ill-gotten gains with other restricted stocks) and an idiot for doing something that really has no effect on his net worth.
A better analogy would be: If someone goes into a bank and directs his accomplice to rob it, deposit some of the robbed money into his own account, then gets caught, and then he gives the money back to the bank.
So did he do something wrong? HELL YEAH!!!
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/ 12/28/APPLE.TMP
If true, what a loser. Has hundreds of millions, but that was obviously not enough for him. To think he would falsify records to get just few million more... pathetic.
Recently, Washington State DOT painted big white dots on a section of I-5 and put up a sign that said "To drive safely, keep two dots between you and the car in front of you". I'm sure somebody at the DOT thought this would be a great way to remind people about the distance laws.
However, DOT had to remove the dots after 2 weeks because it was creating ungodly traffic jam in the area (people were slowing down abruptly to increase the following distance).
Strictly enforcing distance law would have the same effect as people would disobey them when cops are not around and try to obey them when they see a cop (kinda like how people slow down when they see a cop and traffic builds up behind the cop).
So, by definition, humans are success. Since we are so good at propagating. It is not like we have wiped out every other species on earth.
Neither is human.
That is BS. Influenza virus is one of the most successful "parasites" out there. And it kills whole host of humans.
Bono goes around meeting world leaders begging for drug patents to be not enforced in Africa so that they can make cheap AIDS drugs available. YET when it is something that they own, they are not willing to share with the public.
I would say that is a classic case of talking out of their arse.
This is doubly true when they say they are for the poor and the working class and then moves out of Ireland when they raise the income tax.
Seriously, everything Bono/U2 does for AIDS campaign is nothing more than a PR campaign to sell more records.
To me, and by definition, replay value means how likely you are to play that same game again. To argue that multiplayer replay does not count as "replay value" seems VERY short sighted.
Online multiplayer has HUGE replay value PRECISELY because it involves situations with different paths and situations. Even in a simple game types like Capture the Flag, with human players involved, there are almost limitless ways to play the match out - THUS providing greater replay value than any single player game even if its "world" is immense.
Let's talk about character development. My "character", over many hours of multiplayer games, is better at almost all aspects of the game from targeting to strategies. And due to that games play out much differently now than when I first began playing multiplayer games.
Replay value is replay value. It is great that some single player RPG can hold your interest for a long time. But nothing replaces the human interaction - just go ask a WOW'er.
By that standard, games like Zelda where I RARELY every play over again (definitely not enough to reach 1000 hours) falls quite a bit short to FPS like Halo and GOW.
You gotta give him props to admit that his favorite game is a "princess" game... ;)
Between the multiplayer and a pretty good single player game, I have spent about 70-80 hours since the game came out (stopped playing all other games) - so, yes, I would say it has GREAT replay value.
It is by FAR the best game out this year.
How do you have good technology when you have a terrible developer?
Not exactly. Zune music service only allows sharing of items if they have been granted explicit copyright for the songs. Which is why many songs are not available for sharing and you can just upload a song to share.
So it would still be perfectly legal under the new Australian law.
If you are going to reply to a thread, perhaps you should read the entire thread.
Oh, and why should Linux players play less than all other players?
Do more work and make less money just so that you can "keep a fair number of linux players happy". Because we all know keeping Linux players happy is SO MUCH more important than keeping the rest of the players happy.
I am amazed that Blizzard hasn't thought of it already. Brilliant!!!
THERE IS NO WAY IN HELL you can deduce all those items (Passion, Communication, Teamwork,Flexibility, Teamwork, Potential, BK) in a freaking one hour interview. Are you kidding me? Best you can hope for in a one hour interview is to figure out whether or not he/she was lying about anything on their resume. Almost all research on job interviews indicate that people make up their mind on whether or not to hire within first 15 seconds.
Even if you are some Yoda and can deduce those things from a interview, you must not be hiring much because you probably can count in one hand you the number of people you can demonstrate those abilities in an hour. I have interviewed hundreds of candidates over the years. I can honestly say, I have never met a candidate who showed abilities in all of those areas. If you are looking for a perfect candidate, no such beast exists (or at least they won't be going to interviews to get hired). In fact, some of the best developers I ever hired were guys who BOMBED their interviews (usually shy, not very outgoing, etc.), but are demons when it come to producing effecient codes.
What a baloney. I wish you would tell us which company you work for so I know to stay away from it.
Where did you get your science education? Bob Jones University?
Almost every example you mention was "common sense" knowledge that was passed from generation to generation without any scientific testing. What corrected those mis-conception was actual testing of FACTS which proved that they were wrong (as in observing the stars and planets and calculating their path and turns out it is much simpler when you put the Sun in the middle).
And no scientist would or ever say that atom is the smallest thing in the universe. What scientist would say is that it is the smallest object that we can observe (either directly or indirectly), which is exactly what we say about quarks.
Seriously, you need to go back and take some realy scientific courses.
Science is not a political debate. It is not about which side looks prettier or which side makes a better argument. In fact, science does NOT choose sides. Either the hypothesis stands on its own or it fails on FACTS. Evolution is NOT strengthened by debunking Creationism. You can ONLY support and solidify Evolution by presenting FACTS supporting the Evolution itself.
Which also explains why Intelligent Design is not real science because their ENTIRE position is based on "weakness" of Evolution and not why ID is valid.
I know personally about a Fortune 100 company who blew $1 billion on an IT project that went FUBAR.
It was led by who's who in IT consulting world and all the top hardware manufacturers. But that did not stop them from wasting all that money (actually made it easier to waste money when you figure out how much those consulting companies charge).
It is simple - large projects are hard. It does not matter if government or private free market does it. The chances of something going wrong increases with every complexity you add. The government is an easy target because they take on more big projects than private industries. But that does not mean they do it any worse.