The flagship products, i.e. AutoCAD, are closed source, but document utilities and the API's for standard formats (ISO and ASCII *.dxf for example) are open source. Note: the international file format standards were adopted from Autodesk's proprietary formats many years ago.
Bash Sony and SOE all you like, but I've been enjoying the hell out of Alpha/Closed Beta testing Everquest Landmark. The most satisfying part is that the devs are really paying attention to feedback and making substantive changes as we go, not just bug fixes. I'm looking forward to working on EQ Next as well.
Lots of things could crash the grid, and have. Lightning, squirrels, high demand, or an idiot with a pair of pliers. The real problem is the oft-described obsolescence and inherent instability of the systems running the grid. One of the chief problems with the US grid is the underpinning accounting algorithms that configure power buys and connections to maximize profits over stability and efficiency. System reaction time and response modes to anomalies are hampered by "What's the cheapest?" arguments over-riding "What's the best?" logic in the software. The decisions of switching station load dispatchers are driven by...wait for it...money.
Yes, today's children have the hipster-given right to grow up as gelatinous blobs, incapable of any physical activity beyond the minimum required to work an iPad.
Thank goodness for transparency. I mean, we all know how honest and forthcoming Chinese and Chinese-American businesses are. They're just like Western corporations now.
Best to keep in mind that it's exposed in spite of the system, not as a result of it. The disclosures you cite would never have seen the light of day if the system could have prevented it. If not for whistle-blowers and diligent journalists, we'd know nothing.
If the system had it's way, there would be no exposure at all.
Our current system in no way resembles the vision of the founding fathers.
And yes, We the Sheeple will put up with it. We're to busy, as a culture, with the Kardashians, the Final Four, and Warcraft.
Putin's neo-Stalinism aside, it may be sad to sit helplessly on the sidelines but the US has no territorial, economic, or security interest in Ukraine whatsoever. It's none of America's damn business.
Somewhere, sometime, the US has got to get over this notion of being the world's comic-book superhero.
Now is a good time to start. Picking a fight with a bully that has a huge nuclear arsenal is a bad idea.
All of this stuff about security, privacy, and accountability is just academic masturbation. It has been for years. It is not going to change, because those with the power to change it aren't about to.
The oligarchs who control our governments, security forces, and political parties, own us completely. It is too late to stop them. It is a waste of time to complain and dangerous to resist.
Seriously.
Can we just drop all the faux political drama and talk about, I don't know, programming or something?
Once an Evercracker, always an Evercracker I suppose. My preference is the fantasy genre, so that probably explains it. Sc-Fi and modern/urban settings don't interest me.
I am also an Alpha tester for Everquest Next Landmark, and enjoying the experience immensely. I also plan to be involved in Everquest Next once Landmark goes live.
It isn't as if adult websites haven't been using 3rd-party hosting of images and media for ages. You can't play a video without permission to foocdn.com.
The only thing that seems to have changed is the buzz words. Cloud my ass.
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teh lulz!
The flagship products, i.e. AutoCAD, are closed source, but document utilities and the API's for standard formats (ISO and ASCII *.dxf for example) are open source. Note: the international file format standards were adopted from Autodesk's proprietary formats many years ago.
News flash: game companies are businesses. Don't want to pay, go somewhere else. Easy as that.
Bash Sony and SOE all you like, but I've been enjoying the hell out of Alpha/Closed Beta testing Everquest Landmark. The most satisfying part is that the devs are really paying attention to feedback and making substantive changes as we go, not just bug fixes. I'm looking forward to working on EQ Next as well.
Correct. In such cases, the US sends in SEALS and the CIA, not Marines.
Lots of things could crash the grid, and have. Lightning, squirrels, high demand, or an idiot with a pair of pliers. The real problem is the oft-described obsolescence and inherent instability of the systems running the grid. One of the chief problems with the US grid is the underpinning accounting algorithms that configure power buys and connections to maximize profits over stability and efficiency. System reaction time and response modes to anomalies are hampered by "What's the cheapest?" arguments over-riding "What's the best?" logic in the software. The decisions of switching station load dispatchers are driven by...wait for it...money.
Next time they do the survey, I volunteer to be part of the baseline sample.
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Yes, today's children have the hipster-given right to grow up as gelatinous blobs, incapable of any physical activity beyond the minimum required to work an iPad.
Ignorant ass hat.
Best idea I've seen all day!
Thank goodness for transparency. I mean, we all know how honest and forthcoming Chinese and Chinese-American businesses are. They're just like Western corporations now.
Surely they wouldn't lie, would they?
Most of those are H1B bait. Some HR boffin is doing the diligence to set up another round of imported indentured servants.
I believe there are many roads in the Fukishima area that glow a pretty blue-green.
Not as long as Monsanto, Dole, Cargill, and ADM see Cuban agriculture as too much potential competition.
Who cares about jobs? There are profits at stake!
Seconded. Hear, hear!
Best to keep in mind that it's exposed in spite of the system, not as a result of it. The disclosures you cite would never have seen the light of day if the system could have prevented it. If not for whistle-blowers and diligent journalists, we'd know nothing.
If the system had it's way, there would be no exposure at all.
Our current system in no way resembles the vision of the founding fathers.
And yes, We the Sheeple will put up with it. We're to busy, as a culture, with the Kardashians, the Final Four, and Warcraft.
Putin's neo-Stalinism aside, it may be sad to sit helplessly on the sidelines but the US has no territorial, economic, or security interest in Ukraine whatsoever. It's none of America's damn business.
Somewhere, sometime, the US has got to get over this notion of being the world's comic-book superhero.
Now is a good time to start. Picking a fight with a bully that has a huge nuclear arsenal is a bad idea.
All of this stuff about security, privacy, and accountability is just academic masturbation. It has been for years. It is not going to change, because those with the power to change it aren't about to.
The oligarchs who control our governments, security forces, and political parties, own us completely. It is too late to stop them. It is a waste of time to complain and dangerous to resist.
Seriously.
Can we just drop all the faux political drama and talk about, I don't know, programming or something?
Please wait while Windows restarts your......KER-BAM!
Once an Evercracker, always an Evercracker I suppose. My preference is the fantasy genre, so that probably explains it. Sc-Fi and modern/urban settings don't interest me.
I am also an Alpha tester for Everquest Next Landmark, and enjoying the experience immensely. I also plan to be involved in Everquest Next once Landmark goes live.
Mod +5 Informative. Soylent is the death of Beta! All hail the mighty Soylent!
http://soylentnews.org/
65.5%! We win!
The invisible tentacles of the Flying Spaghetti Monster reach everywhere.
It isn't as if adult websites haven't been using 3rd-party hosting of images and media for ages. You can't play a video without permission to foocdn.com.
The only thing that seems to have changed is the buzz words. Cloud my ass.
Oh, and Beta still sucks.
Fracking is good for business, so the environmental and health arguments are falling on deaf ears. The Republocrat duopoly sees only dollar signs
And /. beta still sucks.