Few things can be made attractive to make you want to buy them. It works for things you can make a fad out of (iPod) but not so much for things you actually need (hygiene products). Most products that you use are so boring and mundane that the only way to get you to try them is to bombard you with the brand name until you give in. They try to make really clever commercials about them, but they are either so cheezy to put you off or are interesting and funny because they actually have nothing to do with the product, leaving you laughing but wondering what they were advertising in the first place.
So you don't hate your job, that doesn't mean its healthy to do it 24/7. The topic is something that most people wish would happen, to be allowed to leave work issues at work so they can have a life of their own.
Leave what you do for work at work when you're done at the end of the work day. That way you will continue not to hate your job, you will not begin to loath waking up and having to do it your every waking moment. Use your free time for your interests, for whatever you find enjoyable. If its programming, fine do that but have it be something that is related to your own interests, not what someone who is cracking the proverbial whip at your back tells you to do.
His boss may even realize this and so to keep a happy and healthy employee he tells them not to take work home with them when they are finished work for the day. Most places only make a show of wanting their employees to keep work and their own free time separate.
The interesting problems get worked on already by virtue of being interesting. Its the mundane that they have to offer bounties for or no one ever looks at them.
I also had a thought. Do these even install a pseudo-device? As in one that shows up in the device manager? If not, their operations probably don't fall under the realms of installing a 'real' device so never triggering the 'this isn't signed.'
Since I doubt CD protection drivers have gone through the Windows certification process, I don't see how loosing the 'Designed for Windows' logo would be a problem for them.
I hate to break it to you, but having a game that is 18+ won't be any different on the maturity scale when talking about the player base then any MMO is now. "Not just so we can say naughty words," you've already made it no different then any online game out there.
A lot of those people running around that make you say 'that guy must be just some 13 yr old kid,' often isn't and is probably over 18 anyway.
There's no dilemma for people who aren't idiots. You're supposed to pick your battles carefully, and if you have something bad to say you don't do it somewhere that has your name plastered all over it. You can have your own opinions about anything, but work is no different then anywhere else; you better be able to face the consequences of your actions.
Not to many are using Fedora or Slackware on some white box with parts from Best Buy to do HPC. They have been altered to specifically run on hardware that was made specifically for this, and even then management of it is not exactly simple. Not that I believe that 2003 Server will suddenly change that but just using Linux somewhere does not automatically make it the cheapest way.
And I believe the correct answer to your question is Traditionally it has been done by tuned versions of commercial Unices which added to the base cost of the OS over and above the very expensive custom built hardware. Recently Linux has become able to do many of these tasks by similarly being modified at a significant cost running on the same expensive custom hardware. The recent HPC installation using mostly off the shelf parts (they didn't use Ethernet) was the one at Virginia Tech and that ran OS X, not Linux.
Same reason they criticize FF games after 6, the 'Playstation Generation,' XBoxers and the like. They played something earlier (Chrono Trigger) and think that somehow that makes them better then everyone else so they have to find something to complain about with the new one. When you compare them side by side, CC does have better graphics then FF9 does which may cause slowdowns on the PS1 that FF9 wouldn't. You have to really be looking for it though and it doesn't impact the game play at all.
Playing something closer to when it was first released or doing something earlier then someone else doesn't make you any better, it just makes you older and more likely to die first.
You might want to give up that teenage angst one day, there's nothing to 'get' about video games. The answer to why games aren't covered the same way as TV or movies is quite simple. They aren't TV shows or movies. Shocking isn't it? There is no big star to know the intimate details of or be called this seconds sexiest man or woman. You don't go out for an evening to sit back and watch a movie, or spend a quiet night at home watching something. You don't have to do anything to enjoy a movie or TV show and the reviewer of them had the same experience that you did. It's not like that with a game, unless the game was so poorly done as to give the player no control over either the characters or the outcome of events.
Well if you already use GMail, what's a little more personal information? Of course Google can index it and add it to the increasingly large profile of you.
The cost of turning that into a safe datacenter environment would be enormous. When was the last time you heard of a abandoned factory being built to hold a temperature controlled environment? The costs that go into making a real datacenter are significant, and building the place from scratch for that purpose can be cheaper. Building a datacenter right downtown is a stupid idea, but that doesn't make building it out in the boonies a good one.
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Few things can be made attractive to make you want to buy them. It works for things you can make a fad out of (iPod) but not so much for things you actually need (hygiene products). Most products that you use are so boring and mundane that the only way to get you to try them is to bombard you with the brand name until you give in. They try to make really clever commercials about them, but they are either so cheezy to put you off or are interesting and funny because they actually have nothing to do with the product, leaving you laughing but wondering what they were advertising in the first place.
So you don't hate your job, that doesn't mean its healthy to do it 24/7. The topic is something that most people wish would happen, to be allowed to leave work issues at work so they can have a life of their own.
Leave what you do for work at work when you're done at the end of the work day. That way you will continue not to hate your job, you will not begin to loath waking up and having to do it your every waking moment. Use your free time for your interests, for whatever you find enjoyable. If its programming, fine do that but have it be something that is related to your own interests, not what someone who is cracking the proverbial whip at your back tells you to do.
His boss may even realize this and so to keep a happy and healthy employee he tells them not to take work home with them when they are finished work for the day. Most places only make a show of wanting their employees to keep work and their own free time separate.
The interesting problems get worked on already by virtue of being interesting. Its the mundane that they have to offer bounties for or no one ever looks at them.
Since episodic content delivery and apparently MMO's in general seem to already be patented, anything else listed here probably already is patented.
I'm sure that really bothers them too.
You can turn that off so I'm sure there's a way for the software to get around it.
Since I doubt CD protection drivers have gone through the Windows certification process, I don't see how loosing the 'Designed for Windows' logo would be a problem for them.
All of those reasons condense down to 'It's free.'
I hate to break it to you, but having a game that is 18+ won't be any different on the maturity scale when talking about the player base then any MMO is now. "Not just so we can say naughty words," you've already made it no different then any online game out there.
A lot of those people running around that make you say 'that guy must be just some 13 yr old kid,' often isn't and is probably over 18 anyway.
Uh ... what are you using then? Should I even be asking?
There's no dilemma for people who aren't idiots. You're supposed to pick your battles carefully, and if you have something bad to say you don't do it somewhere that has your name plastered all over it. You can have your own opinions about anything, but work is no different then anywhere else; you better be able to face the consequences of your actions.
Not to many are using Fedora or Slackware on some white box with parts from Best Buy to do HPC. They have been altered to specifically run on hardware that was made specifically for this, and even then management of it is not exactly simple. Not that I believe that 2003 Server will suddenly change that but just using Linux somewhere does not automatically make it the cheapest way.
And I believe the correct answer to your question is Traditionally it has been done by tuned versions of commercial Unices which added to the base cost of the OS over and above the very expensive custom built hardware. Recently Linux has become able to do many of these tasks by similarly being modified at a significant cost running on the same expensive custom hardware. The recent HPC installation using mostly off the shelf parts (they didn't use Ethernet) was the one at Virginia Tech and that ran OS X, not Linux.
So it's exactly like the miles-per-gallon on new cars.
Na those Germans are smart. They're obviously going to use the best DE for Linux.
But the sequel would be huge.
There
Interns.
Same reason they criticize FF games after 6, the 'Playstation Generation,' XBoxers and the like. They played something earlier (Chrono Trigger) and think that somehow that makes them better then everyone else so they have to find something to complain about with the new one. When you compare them side by side, CC does have better graphics then FF9 does which may cause slowdowns on the PS1 that FF9 wouldn't. You have to really be looking for it though and it doesn't impact the game play at all.
Playing something closer to when it was first released or doing something earlier then someone else doesn't make you any better, it just makes you older and more likely to die first.
You might want to give up that teenage angst one day, there's nothing to 'get' about video games. The answer to why games aren't covered the same way as TV or movies is quite simple. They aren't TV shows or movies. Shocking isn't it? There is no big star to know the intimate details of or be called this seconds sexiest man or woman. You don't go out for an evening to sit back and watch a movie, or spend a quiet night at home watching something. You don't have to do anything to enjoy a movie or TV show and the reviewer of them had the same experience that you did. It's not like that with a game, unless the game was so poorly done as to give the player no control over either the characters or the outcome of events.
It may run reliably, but you would really have to be stupid to attach them to the net directly.
Well if you already use GMail, what's a little more personal information? Of course Google can index it and add it to the increasingly large profile of you.
mount(8) isn't the only way to access media, and a lot of others do not require root.
He said host, not guest. You don't need a host OS with ESX, it is the host. Solaris x86 is supported as a guest in most (all?) VMware products.
The cost of turning that into a safe datacenter environment would be enormous. When was the last time you heard of a abandoned factory being built to hold a temperature controlled environment? The costs that go into making a real datacenter are significant, and building the place from scratch for that purpose can be cheaper. Building a datacenter right downtown is a stupid idea, but that doesn't make building it out in the boonies a good one.