I've had the same sort of problem. My windows keys that I have are associated with SP1 installs. My roomate had a corporate SP2 install disk (with a key that has been used too many times to be considered 'legit'). Since I did not want to put the SP1 machine on the internet without the security updates of SP2, I installed using the SP2 disk... and the install would not take my MSDN certified keys! They were invalid to register a SP2 install using thier MS certification. I think that it would take a phone call to resolve the issue, but hot damn if I'm going to do that.
I can only think of how many calls MS would get if thier registration system was required to make the machine do anything!
I think that you (i.e. your demographic) not hearing about it is part of the appeal... facebook is much more university oriented, not allowing crazy old random guys to stalk you. They need a.edu email address to stalk you.
In fact, the people that don't understand why the founders of facebook.com want so much money for thier site haven't ever used thier site in the first place. They use something like myspace or linked in and think they know what a social network could entail. However, everyone, and I mean everyone, uses facebook to connect to each other at every college across the nation. Its much more prominent than myspace, and the types of communication and profile details are much more personal. For example, girls post thier cell numbers(!), people actually use thier realtime 'status message' (at the library, asleep, etc.), the photo interaction is actually useful and a slew of other things that just makes facebook better. I just finished my Masters Degree in CS and even the 'older' crowd at my school has embraced facebook and is using it to communicate the same way the undergrads are.
Granted, the majority of facebook is about college life (sex, binge drinking, sucky classes) but thats what the students want to talk about and that is what connects them. Its also what makes it fun.:)
Its better than -$156/year. since I started playing games in 1999: played UO then moved onto AC in those years and there was no real "gold farmer" type professional operations, it was more single person to single person transactions when people wanted something they couldnt obtain in game. Seemingly, I made +$1.2k in 3 years selling 3 accounts on ebay... when I kicked my "addiction"'s and quit gaming for a time (it was a permanent way to stop as the entry barrier got real big). That $1.2k is way more than the subscription costs that I paid over those 3 years. In fact, if I would have sold my 60 mage last year when I quit WoW (the first time), I would have made $500... way more than the $50 box+$80 monthly fees that I spent leveling up and playing him! I choose to keep him though... hard to let go to the time investment nowadays.
So, take it from me, MMORPGs used to be +/- cashflow operations; now they seem to be all WoW eating up subscription fees! even so, the amount of money that you 'spend' on them doesnt have to be a lot!
There will always be a niche market for well formulated PvP games. In fact, look at Guild Wars. While not neccesarily a MMOG; it can be said that a minority of players will line up to kill each other in a static world if given a fair ruleset that allows for some semblance of "skill". Even so, it is not a Free For All (FFA) PvP game like Shadowbane was, and since I have not played since the free period last year I cannot say how GW has panned out. I will tell you that skill based FFA PvP games will garner a lot of attention, as long as thier ruleset is consistent, fair and well forumlated.
Asheron's Call Darktide/Beta World Black was FFA PvP and players loved it. I should say players who were mages, melee characters hated it as there was a "lack of itemization" to use a WoW euphamism. They tried to balance the skills and did a somewhat fine job, but the macroing and duping drove away a lot of the 'honest' players. It was a combination of code and publisher policy issue that drove away the players.
Shadowbane also had a FFA PvP environment, and players loved the game; hated the login bugs, sb.exe errors, rampant duping, and tedium neccesary to recover from a ZERG destroyed city. Lots of people played the game on release, lots of people left the game in 6 months because of the flawed code and building ruleset. Code and ruleset drove the players away.
I hate to bring it up, as it is still looking 'far away', but Darkfall Online is the only real FFA PvP+ game that looks to be coming out. The original developers were supposedly Darktide players, played Shadowbane and other popular MMOG's, and thier rulebase (when I was following it 2 YEARS AGO) looked well thought out and fair a PvP environment. However, it has been in development for a long time. And people aren't really sure if and when it will ever *really* come out. Which is sad.
Ahh well, my point stands that games can be successful, filling the niche market of the PvP crowd. They won't neccesarily be 6 million+ subscribers successful, but they will make thier money.
/to-be-or-not-to-be/ actually returns the correct thing without any errors but/to.be.or.not.to.be/ does not. why would the reviewer mention something that doesn't work is beyond me.
and provide enough torque to stabilize the the tension in the braided wires. not to mention actually maintaining torque while ravelling or unravelling them. how are you going to do that without the same amount of power as in the electric push/pull case?
FYI, if you are on a windows box, the latest version (5.2) of winamp allows you to access your ipod in the same way that itunes does, through thier Media Library plugin. if you hate itunes then you never have to open it up to interface with your ipod. it is even stable.
However, the 5.2 version breaks the 5.1+ml_ipod plugin combination's ability to *rip* music off of ipod onto your computer.
I once had a professor that required us to buy his book for the class. It was a specialized simulation and modelling text and instead of just printing out the homework problems to go along with his slides (which were better reading than the text of the book!) he had us use the problems listed in the text. It was a crappy way for him to force 10 new sales of his book every other year, knowing that he got at least 50% of the $130 price tag of the book. That was a direct case of the profs and publishers benefiting.
uhh no, the stadium is always the art. whatever you do in it (football, soccer, paintball, gladiator matches) is the sport.
it doesnt matter if you paint the stadium with pellets, beer and hotdog wrappers, or the blood of non-believers the creation is the art, the activity is the sport.
now I could take the analogy back toward's ebert's: the game world could be construed as 'art', but the interaction with it is the 'game' (or sport).
the ability to mark uploaded pictures as other people alone is priceless.
for those that don't know: userA can upload pictures from an event onto thier facebook profile under EventX. Going through those pictures, they can label portions of the pictures as other users on the site. For instance, there is a picture of userB kissing userC, or another of userC throwing up. When you visit userC's profile, (assuming you are marked as thier friend) you can view all the pictures that other people labeled about them! When viewing those pictures, it then lists all the people in it...
It is 1000x better than anything that myspace has.
You aren't getting it then. Eclipse is the framework that IBM is building thier premiere office interactivity client Lotus Notes on. It is the framework: Lotus Notes will be an Eclipse plugin exported as an executable (on every platform x,y,z that eclipse runs on) that will run as a native application.
Eclipse is more than an IDE. In fact, I am pretty sure that the IDE is just another plugin that runs inside the framework to allow you to edit java code. Eclipse is an application framework that makes developing applications (I mean complete end to end applications) much easier; and these are not WebSphere applications: they are native executables.
this may sound crazy, and totally off topic, but i've considered the same thing: maximum possible salary by going go school or just graduate with a BS and work your way up the ladder.
Here is my analysis (i am not a finance person): 1/ Go to grad school:
-50k to pay for 2 years school
80k starting salary
2/ Work as an entry level IT position with a BS:
50k starting salary
5% raise per year (high I know, but the math is easier)
So you go to school for 3 years and spend 50k on it, in that same year the BS will have made 162k and will be currently making 58k. To work at the 80k/year job you need to work for at the very least 10 years (very generous estimate!) before the money averages out, and you start to gain monetarily over the person that got a job straight out of college.
Now, i could go on if that person changed companies 2 times in that 10 years with the post-graduate only having changed companies one time, they will most likely be making the same amount of money and the total money will never equalize.
its a weird analysis, but thats how i think (graduating with my MS in 4 weeks!)
The problem is that at the university level there are maybe 10 or so people IN THE WORLD that grasp and completely understand some advanced concepts in specific domains. It doesnt matter how the professor imparts that knowledge onto the student, because the student can't learn it anywhere else. in that sense, the professor is more of a "wise man", he isnt paid to teach he is paid because he has knowledge and understanding that noone else does.
the university is a place where you learn knowledge, but it shouldn't be general knowledge that you can pick up in a general textbook, it is knowledge that is gained by studying details of specific domains (students are generally made to "pick a major" course of study) that papers, journals, and specialized textbooks are written for that the layman could not understand. This may not be the case for tech colleges or community college levels, but at the university level it is and should be the case.
probably because they have every pump under 24 hour surveilance... and when that card is flagged as stolen, they auto-capture those pump's users. so even if there is no authorization, you are on camera while using the card. and if it is stolen, they have unrefutable evidence that you are guilty of it.
if you find a level 19 Blue BoE item, those usually sell for 15-20g for the level 60's that are twinking thier alts for the 10-19 WSG BG. Similarly, if you see those same items listed for less than 4g, you buy them and re-list them knowing they are below market value.
also, it helps if you take skinning|mining|herbalism as your tradeskill, they add gold to your character as he levels rather than take away from it (as you make sonsumables to skill up the other tradeskills).
the problem is, just how far do the companies have to go before they start to 'push buttons'? kids are damn fickle, they also follow the crowd... unless another online haven pops up to fill the role of myspace where everyone else goes, then noone will bother to move. In fact, it is almost like myspace is so entrenched as _the_ social networking site, that noone will ever be able to replace it entirely in the foreseeable future. unless, of course, they make it pay to play then it will die faster than something that dies really fast.
if orkut (i dont know about this, ive never been invited) went the way of myspace and started heavily recruiting profiles made along with the tight integration of every other google service, then i could see people moving over to that. but its been out for a while now, and noone that i know uses it. nor do you ever hear people in restaraunts talking about it like you do myspace. with the current recruitment model it cant replace myspace.
facebook.com seems to have a way better interface and integration than myspace, and it is slowly growing people profiles as they pass through college and keep thier accounts. but again, what makes it good is the niche market for students (im not even sure if HS students can profile there) and the way that they keep non-.edu emails from registering. again, it will never replace myspace for the 25+ somethings, but for college students it is used pretty much a lot more than myspace (where people seem okay with posting more personal information there).
i cant comment on friendster or linkedin or whatever else there is out there. unless someone recommends them to me or i see the network through random surfing, then i dont really care.:\
Paraphrasing the five points about why they are rejecting the request: 1/ Trust searchers have in google, 2/ search records wont actually tell whether or not the infomation is harmful 3/ the request results would return information about proprietary google search algorithms 4/ 'undue burden' on google to return the results due to 'system architecture'.
What I was talking about are points 3. and 4. above: the search/correlation algorithms used by the data mining tools and heck even the data that they are collecting itself isn't exaclty known and how much data and how/where it is stored is also not something that the DoD is going to be releasing.
I wasn't talking about the "wholesale breach of privacy", but rather that using automated tools (like google's spider) you get queried data that might not be authorized (i.e. when the spider index'es a page with a malformed robots.txt) but due to the bulk of the data being collected and cross referenced, it has to be automated. it is just the nature of using automated tools.
Since the datamining tool that they are using is automated (e.g. supposedly correlated foreign phone calls with domestic callers) then just how many people are going to be listed?
Can the DoD use the same excuse that google is giving it? that there is no easy way to deliver 10 million names (even you are probably 26 nodes down in the search tree) as it would be technologically unfeasable and reveal too much information about how and when and why they do thier searches.
Getting all that information out into the public might not be as trivial as doing a database dump.:x
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I've had the same sort of problem. My windows keys that I have are associated with SP1 installs. My roomate had a corporate SP2 install disk (with a key that has been used too many times to be considered 'legit'). Since I did not want to put the SP1 machine on the internet without the security updates of SP2, I installed using the SP2 disk... and the install would not take my MSDN certified keys! They were invalid to register a SP2 install using thier MS certification. I think that it would take a phone call to resolve the issue, but hot damn if I'm going to do that.
I can only think of how many calls MS would get if thier registration system was required to make the machine do anything!
I think that you (i.e. your demographic) not hearing about it is part of the appeal... facebook is much more university oriented, not allowing crazy old random guys to stalk you. They need a .edu email address to stalk you.
:)
In fact, the people that don't understand why the founders of facebook.com want so much money for thier site haven't ever used thier site in the first place. They use something like myspace or linked in and think they know what a social network could entail. However, everyone, and I mean everyone, uses facebook to connect to each other at every college across the nation. Its much more prominent than myspace, and the types of communication and profile details are much more personal. For example, girls post thier cell numbers(!), people actually use thier realtime 'status message' (at the library, asleep, etc.), the photo interaction is actually useful and a slew of other things that just makes facebook better. I just finished my Masters Degree in CS and even the 'older' crowd at my school has embraced facebook and is using it to communicate the same way the undergrads are.
Granted, the majority of facebook is about college life (sex, binge drinking, sucky classes) but thats what the students want to talk about and that is what connects them. Its also what makes it fun.
Its better than -$156/year. since I started playing games in 1999: played UO then moved onto AC in those years and there was no real "gold farmer" type professional operations, it was more single person to single person transactions when people wanted something they couldnt obtain in game. Seemingly, I made +$1.2k in 3 years selling 3 accounts on ebay... when I kicked my "addiction"'s and quit gaming for a time (it was a permanent way to stop as the entry barrier got real big). That $1.2k is way more than the subscription costs that I paid over those 3 years. In fact, if I would have sold my 60 mage last year when I quit WoW (the first time), I would have made $500... way more than the $50 box+$80 monthly fees that I spent leveling up and playing him! I choose to keep him though... hard to let go to the time investment nowadays.
So, take it from me, MMORPGs used to be +/- cashflow operations; now they seem to be all WoW eating up subscription fees! even so, the amount of money that you 'spend' on them doesnt have to be a lot!
There will always be a niche market for well formulated PvP games. In fact, look at Guild Wars. While not neccesarily a MMOG; it can be said that a minority of players will line up to kill each other in a static world if given a fair ruleset that allows for some semblance of "skill". Even so, it is not a Free For All (FFA) PvP game like Shadowbane was, and since I have not played since the free period last year I cannot say how GW has panned out. I will tell you that skill based FFA PvP games will garner a lot of attention, as long as thier ruleset is consistent, fair and well forumlated.
Asheron's Call Darktide/Beta World Black was FFA PvP and players loved it. I should say players who were mages, melee characters hated it as there was a "lack of itemization" to use a WoW euphamism. They tried to balance the skills and did a somewhat fine job, but the macroing and duping drove away a lot of the 'honest' players. It was a combination of code and publisher policy issue that drove away the players.
Shadowbane also had a FFA PvP environment, and players loved the game; hated the login bugs, sb.exe errors, rampant duping, and tedium neccesary to recover from a ZERG destroyed city. Lots of people played the game on release, lots of people left the game in 6 months because of the flawed code and building ruleset. Code and ruleset drove the players away.
I hate to bring it up, as it is still looking 'far away', but Darkfall Online is the only real FFA PvP+ game that looks to be coming out. The original developers were supposedly Darktide players, played Shadowbane and other popular MMOG's, and thier rulebase (when I was following it 2 YEARS AGO) looked well thought out and fair a PvP environment. However, it has been in development for a long time. And people aren't really sure if and when it will ever *really* come out. Which is sad.
Ahh well, my point stands that games can be successful, filling the niche market of the PvP crowd. They won't neccesarily be 6 million+ subscribers successful, but they will make thier money.
/to-be-or-not-to-be/ actually returns the correct thing without any errors but /to.be.or.not.to.be/ does not. why would the reviewer mention something that doesn't work is beyond me.
that was who i thought of as well.
;)
if theoretical physicists all looked like her, there would be no need for cold fusion.
and provide enough torque to stabilize the the tension in the braided wires. not to mention actually maintaining torque while ravelling or unravelling them. how are you going to do that without the same amount of power as in the electric push/pull case?
his use of the 'totally cool' comments leaves me in complete certainty that this game will be 'totally cool'.
FYI, if you are on a windows box, the latest version (5.2) of winamp allows you to access your ipod in the same way that itunes does, through thier Media Library plugin. if you hate itunes then you never have to open it up to interface with your ipod. it is even stable.
However, the 5.2 version breaks the 5.1+ml_ipod plugin combination's ability to *rip* music off of ipod onto your computer.
I once had a professor that required us to buy his book for the class. It was a specialized simulation and modelling text and instead of just printing out the homework problems to go along with his slides (which were better reading than the text of the book!) he had us use the problems listed in the text. It was a crappy way for him to force 10 new sales of his book every other year, knowing that he got at least 50% of the $130 price tag of the book. That was a direct case of the profs and publishers benefiting.
uhh no, the stadium is always the art. whatever you do in it (football, soccer, paintball, gladiator matches) is the sport.
it doesnt matter if you paint the stadium with pellets, beer and hotdog wrappers, or the blood of non-believers the creation is the art, the activity is the sport.
now I could take the analogy back toward's ebert's: the game world could be construed as 'art', but the interaction with it is the 'game' (or sport).
the ability to mark uploaded pictures as other people alone is priceless.
for those that don't know: userA can upload pictures from an event onto thier facebook profile under EventX. Going through those pictures, they can label portions of the pictures as other users on the site. For instance, there is a picture of userB kissing userC, or another of userC throwing up. When you visit userC's profile, (assuming you are marked as thier friend) you can view all the pictures that other people labeled about them! When viewing those pictures, it then lists all the people in it...
It is 1000x better than anything that myspace has.
You aren't getting it then. Eclipse is the framework that IBM is building thier premiere office interactivity client Lotus Notes on. It is the framework: Lotus Notes will be an Eclipse plugin exported as an executable (on every platform x,y,z that eclipse runs on) that will run as a native application.
Eclipse is more than an IDE. In fact, I am pretty sure that the IDE is just another plugin that runs inside the framework to allow you to edit java code. Eclipse is an application framework that makes developing applications (I mean complete end to end applications) much easier; and these are not WebSphere applications: they are native executables.
this may sound crazy, and totally off topic, but i've considered the same thing: maximum possible salary by going go school or just graduate with a BS and work your way up the ladder.
Here is my analysis (i am not a finance person):
1/ Go to grad school:
-50k to pay for 2 years school
80k starting salary
2/ Work as an entry level IT position with a BS:
50k starting salary
5% raise per year (high I know, but the math is easier)
So you go to school for 3 years and spend 50k on it, in that same year the BS will have made 162k and will be currently making 58k. To work at the 80k/year job you need to work for at the very least 10 years (very generous estimate!) before the money averages out, and you start to gain monetarily over the person that got a job straight out of college.
Now, i could go on if that person changed companies 2 times in that 10 years with the post-graduate only having changed companies one time, they will most likely be making the same amount of money and the total money will never equalize.
its a weird analysis, but thats how i think (graduating with my MS in 4 weeks!)
they just want to show off thier (recent) css :x
The problem is that at the university level there are maybe 10 or so people IN THE WORLD that grasp and completely understand some advanced concepts in specific domains. It doesnt matter how the professor imparts that knowledge onto the student, because the student can't learn it anywhere else. in that sense, the professor is more of a "wise man", he isnt paid to teach he is paid because he has knowledge and understanding that noone else does.
the university is a place where you learn knowledge, but it shouldn't be general knowledge that you can pick up in a general textbook, it is knowledge that is gained by studying details of specific domains (students are generally made to "pick a major" course of study) that papers, journals, and specialized textbooks are written for that the layman could not understand. This may not be the case for tech colleges or community college levels, but at the university level it is and should be the case.
probably because they have every pump under 24 hour surveilance... and when that card is flagged as stolen, they auto-capture those pump's users. so even if there is no authorization, you are on camera while using the card. and if it is stolen, they have unrefutable evidence that you are guilty of it.
if you find a level 19 Blue BoE item, those usually sell for 15-20g for the level 60's that are twinking thier alts for the 10-19 WSG BG. Similarly, if you see those same items listed for less than 4g, you buy them and re-list them knowing they are below market value.
also, it helps if you take skinning|mining|herbalism as your tradeskill, they add gold to your character as he levels rather than take away from it (as you make sonsumables to skill up the other tradeskills).
the problem is, just how far do the companies have to go before they start to 'push buttons'? kids are damn fickle, they also follow the crowd... unless another online haven pops up to fill the role of myspace where everyone else goes, then noone will bother to move. In fact, it is almost like myspace is so entrenched as _the_ social networking site, that noone will ever be able to replace it entirely in the foreseeable future. unless, of course, they make it pay to play then it will die faster than something that dies really fast.
:\
if orkut (i dont know about this, ive never been invited) went the way of myspace and started heavily recruiting profiles made along with the tight integration of every other google service, then i could see people moving over to that. but its been out for a while now, and noone that i know uses it. nor do you ever hear people in restaraunts talking about it like you do myspace. with the current recruitment model it cant replace myspace.
facebook.com seems to have a way better interface and integration than myspace, and it is slowly growing people profiles as they pass through college and keep thier accounts. but again, what makes it good is the niche market for students (im not even sure if HS students can profile there) and the way that they keep non-.edu emails from registering. again, it will never replace myspace for the 25+ somethings, but for college students it is used pretty much a lot more than myspace (where people seem okay with posting more personal information there).
i cant comment on friendster or linkedin or whatever else there is out there. unless someone recommends them to me or i see the network through random surfing, then i dont really care.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_million_articles
:D
goes to the Railway post.
Just like microsoft was the publisher of Asheron's Call and Turbine was the developer...
yeah right. MS's influence fucked up that game soo hard.
its probably from the fact that they are using Java to process thier Strings... and printing out a non-initialized String in java will print 'null'. :x
Ahh, see I just read google's official response to the DoJ request [shamelessly taken from this comment on the story you linked], it seems to outline technological and business concerns, not privacy ones.
Paraphrasing the five points about why they are rejecting the request: 1/ Trust searchers have in google, 2/ search records wont actually tell whether or not the infomation is harmful 3/ the request results would return information about proprietary google search algorithms 4/ 'undue burden' on google to return the results due to 'system architecture'.
What I was talking about are points 3. and 4. above: the search/correlation algorithms used by the data mining tools and heck even the data that they are collecting itself isn't exaclty known and how much data and how/where it is stored is also not something that the DoD is going to be releasing.
I wasn't talking about the "wholesale breach of privacy", but rather that using automated tools (like google's spider) you get queried data that might not be authorized (i.e. when the spider index'es a page with a malformed robots.txt) but due to the bulk of the data being collected and cross referenced, it has to be automated. it is just the nature of using automated tools.
Since the datamining tool that they are using is automated (e.g. supposedly correlated foreign phone calls with domestic callers) then just how many people are going to be listed?
:x
Can the DoD use the same excuse that google is giving it? that there is no easy way to deliver 10 million names (even you are probably 26 nodes down in the search tree) as it would be technologically unfeasable and reveal too much information about how and when and why they do thier searches.
Getting all that information out into the public might not be as trivial as doing a database dump.