Now if a certain development house (NCSoft) would just kick Chinese IPs from their NA servers like they did to NA IPs on their Korean servers, I can start really playing, and I can safely ignore cries of RANG RANG and 999999 from ebay/etc. adena farmers.
Finally, one less site selling in-game stuff for money. Almost every MMO has a policy against this, but they do it anyway. It has to stop. It is cheating. I don't care about any arguments about the time it takes to do X in the game. Why not just create an idspispopd equivalent? That's what developers are doing if they don't at least fight this.
The Lineage 2 expansions are called chronicles, and they are updates/patches to the clients including new content. Apparently NCSoft figured out that people didn't want to pay for expansions. What they did this time around is charge for a retail box up-front, which I suppose will help pay for development of new chronicles. I'd rather have the old Lineage: The Blood Pledge model of downloading the game and paying the monthly fee.
Right, the imbalance where wages don't keep pace with inflation at the base level. Of course it would be nice to keep inflation down, but that gives corporate America an excuse to raise cable bills and service fees $1-5 a month to 'keep pace with' inflation.
It's not whining when the people you hire overseas are truly incompetent. That's what this shop was, truly. They blew a major QA project for one department, and lasted three months with another division upstairs before being taken off of that project. We have a very competent Ukranian operation that we work with, and a division of our own company in Bangalore that works out fine because they weren't hired for their cheapness, but rather for their competence. When the company in question is in charge of the HR issues, you can pick your remote employees, and get the cream of the crop.
But like working with every consultant, it is extremely important to track their mistakes and their successes. In the case of the outfit we fired, the former outweighed the latter.
But the dirty thing is that there are managers wandering around to see 'who is working' and looking for excuses to put people out to pasture in order to replace them for 1/4 the 'price'. Some managers actually think that the biggest unnecessary expense is salary, a rather dim and short-sighted view for a company expecting workers who will bend over backwards to give them a quality product.
It's appeasement to the management by saying 'yesyes,' which is apparently some sort of Hindi word that means "I don't know what the fuck I'm talking about but I want your contract." Management wants yes men, and unfortunately, foreign shops are all too happy to deliver low quality work for 1/8th the price of American work. You want increased value for the domestic IT worker, grow a fucking spine and tell your manager EVERY time your offshore counterpart fucks up. We were able to rid ourselves of a offshore contractor that way.
The best thing I can say to you is that if you want to 'sell' the test results to your management, etc., you are going to have to do both database/application server capacity and load testing and user-side 'performance' testing if you have a user-side to your application. For some reason, PHBs on up like to see the little application animating its brains out. I'd suggest Mercury Interactive's WinRunner and LoadRunner, but I was too lazy to RTFQ and beside that, I've been coding in WinRunner all day, and I now need beer to soothe my nerves.
I like how P&CP (performance and capacity planning) becomes S&VT when you are talking "Enterprise" applications. It's funny how far people will go to sell a new approach, or to pad their resume with more buzzwords that nobody understands.
This is also true, but it is better to be browser agnostic and code to web standards instead of waiting till you're blue in the face for browsers to support XSLT completely.;)
I have a template engine based on standards. It's called XSLT, and it's built into the most recent PHP versions. Especially nice is the 5.x branch, since it has been completely rebuilt for speed and compatibility to libxml2. I have a site full of XML, and I transform it with a central XSL template file into the displayed content. It's a shallow learning curve, and I can change the entire site's layout by a few XSL tweaks. For me, it is the perfect solution.
A language in which one programs entirely in paradigm shifts, and "sea_change" is a reserved word. Any reference to descendant classes are referred to as frere; their parent classes as pere. I would go on, but Slate isn't as much fun as the other new programming language, Salon.
Well since your MP3 player has neither >2 channel audio or 96KHz+ sample rate, I can see how MP3 players are useless. If you rip a high resolution source into a low resolution source, you'll get exactly what the article/release is intending to give you: a lower quality version of the tracks on disc.
It means that when you put it in your DVD-ROM on your computer, you can put the AAC copy on your portable device. You could have figured that out if you RTFB (Read The Fucking Blurb)
Actually, I wouldn't put the label "Country" on the "Western" there. There is a serious difference in the two styles, at least to me. Country is that whiny twangy stuff, of which the late Mr. Cash never did, and Western has more of a melodic quality with quite a bit more refinement. Only in modern times would they put a "country" music song on a western movie. Plain spoken gents like Mr. Cash have a subtlety and understatement that a Garth Brooks couldn't approach.
What drives me nuts is when people refer to the tower/desktop case as the 'CPU'. Sure, the CPU, like the HDD, is INSIDE the case, but the contents are not the whole.
There is one of these people at my office as well. Giganormous, high pitched voice and alternately smelling just fine or absolutely rank. Either deodorant is an option in his life, or showers are on alternating days. He's really nice, but you have to breathe without using your nose for a while.
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Now if a certain development house (NCSoft) would just kick Chinese IPs from their NA servers like they did to NA IPs on their Korean servers, I can start really playing, and I can safely ignore cries of RANG RANG and 999999 from ebay/etc. adena farmers.
Finally, one less site selling in-game stuff for money. Almost every MMO has a policy against this, but they do it anyway. It has to stop. It is cheating. I don't care about any arguments about the time it takes to do X in the game. Why not just create an idspispopd equivalent? That's what developers are doing if they don't at least fight this.
The Lineage 2 expansions are called chronicles, and they are updates/patches to the clients including new content. Apparently NCSoft figured out that people didn't want to pay for expansions. What they did this time around is charge for a retail box up-front, which I suppose will help pay for development of new chronicles. I'd rather have the old Lineage: The Blood Pledge model of downloading the game and paying the monthly fee.
Track records in this case were falsified. Without being able to check the BBB, we really can't tell or hold the firm accountable when they blow it.
One of my co-workers suggested outsourcing the CEOs of companies. Sounds like fun.
What they obviously need is an ergonomic mouse shaped like a penis/A..
Right, the imbalance where wages don't keep pace with inflation at the base level. Of course it would be nice to keep inflation down, but that gives corporate America an excuse to raise cable bills and service fees $1-5 a month to 'keep pace with' inflation.
It's not whining when the people you hire overseas are truly incompetent. That's what this shop was, truly. They blew a major QA project for one department, and lasted three months with another division upstairs before being taken off of that project. We have a very competent Ukranian operation that we work with, and a division of our own company in Bangalore that works out fine because they weren't hired for their cheapness, but rather for their competence. When the company in question is in charge of the HR issues, you can pick your remote employees, and get the cream of the crop.
But like working with every consultant, it is extremely important to track their mistakes and their successes. In the case of the outfit we fired, the former outweighed the latter.
But the dirty thing is that there are managers wandering around to see 'who is working' and looking for excuses to put people out to pasture in order to replace them for 1/4 the 'price'. Some managers actually think that the biggest unnecessary expense is salary, a rather dim and short-sighted view for a company expecting workers who will bend over backwards to give them a quality product.
It's appeasement to the management by saying 'yesyes,' which is apparently some sort of Hindi word that means "I don't know what the fuck I'm talking about but I want your contract." Management wants yes men, and unfortunately, foreign shops are all too happy to deliver low quality work for 1/8th the price of American work. You want increased value for the domestic IT worker, grow a fucking spine and tell your manager EVERY time your offshore counterpart fucks up. We were able to rid ourselves of a offshore contractor that way.
The best thing I can say to you is that if you want to 'sell' the test results to your management, etc., you are going to have to do both database/application server capacity and load testing and user-side 'performance' testing if you have a user-side to your application. For some reason, PHBs on up like to see the little application animating its brains out. I'd suggest Mercury Interactive's WinRunner and LoadRunner, but I was too lazy to RTFQ and beside that, I've been coding in WinRunner all day, and I now need beer to soothe my nerves.
I like how P&CP (performance and capacity planning) becomes S&VT when you are talking "Enterprise" applications. It's funny how far people will go to sell a new approach, or to pad their resume with more buzzwords that nobody understands.
For some reason, I want a Pepsi after watching that video.
Lucky. The Castlevania games keep crashing on me. It's probably because I'm using a too-new pogoshell.
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4/5 seasons are out, so what's the big deal? It's not like the 5th season (FUCK TNT) had anything to do with the first four (FUCK TNT) anyway..
This is also true, but it is better to be browser agnostic and code to web standards instead of waiting till you're blue in the face for browsers to support XSLT completely. ;)
I have a template engine based on standards. It's called XSLT, and it's built into the most recent PHP versions. Especially nice is the 5.x branch, since it has been completely rebuilt for speed and compatibility to libxml2. I have a site full of XML, and I transform it with a central XSL template file into the displayed content. It's a shallow learning curve, and I can change the entire site's layout by a few XSL tweaks. For me, it is the perfect solution.
A language in which one programs entirely in paradigm shifts, and "sea_change" is a reserved word. Any reference to descendant classes are referred to as frere; their parent classes as pere. I would go on, but Slate isn't as much fun as the other new programming language, Salon.
Rail? Step away from Quake, it's warping your mind.
Sounds like someone's office needs Squid. Seriously, proxy caches work well.
Well since your MP3 player has neither >2 channel audio or 96KHz+ sample rate, I can see how MP3 players are useless. If you rip a high resolution source into a low resolution source, you'll get exactly what the article/release is intending to give you: a lower quality version of the tracks on disc.
It means that when you put it in your DVD-ROM on your computer, you can put the AAC copy on your portable device. You could have figured that out if you RTFB (Read The Fucking Blurb)
Actually, I wouldn't put the label "Country" on the "Western" there. There is a serious difference in the two styles, at least to me. Country is that whiny twangy stuff, of which the late Mr. Cash never did, and Western has more of a melodic quality with quite a bit more refinement. Only in modern times would they put a "country" music song on a western movie. Plain spoken gents like Mr. Cash have a subtlety and understatement that a Garth Brooks couldn't approach.
What drives me nuts is when people refer to the tower/desktop case as the 'CPU'. Sure, the CPU, like the HDD, is INSIDE the case, but the contents are not the whole.
Great! All I need are some flashpots, foam beams, and a red shirt and I'll be set!
There is one of these people at my office as well. Giganormous, high pitched voice and alternately smelling just fine or absolutely rank. Either deodorant is an option in his life, or showers are on alternating days. He's really nice, but you have to breathe without using your nose for a while.
I have to see it for myself.
My Infocus X1 is only 800x600, you insensitive clod!