That is indeed what I did but I did some further research (e.g. Google searching) and have seen it used both ways. But that's not to say it's being mis-used. Perhaps it is a similar issue as with DVD: I have seen it as both Digital Versatile Disc and Digital Video Disc.
What ticks me off is the fact that you aren't getting a discount or anything either. I understand that they are trying to puch their team services as a server product (like BizTalk, CS, MCMS, etc.) but they should at least have good discounts for getting less usage out of your subscription. Oh well... it's good to work for a Gold Certified partner!
I doubt it. Microsoft is creating several levels (or even sub-levrls) of MSDN subscriptions now that are geared toward your role. No longer will you have complete and full access to all of their products. You will only have access to products that fullfill your role (or the role for which you paid).
What that means is that I am assuming that there will be a MSDN Universal Game Developer license that will include XNA Studio but the MSDN Universal Software Architect will probably not.
I can dig up a link of you really want me to that provides evidence towards their different levels.
Sorry but that doesn't make any sense to me at all (the saying does but it's application here does not).
If you keep transcoding your file over and over again you are not losing imperceptible data. You are losing audible quality each time.
Of course, some people do not care and define perception as "Is there audio?" Other people define perception as "Does that high-hat sould like crap?" And it will if you keep transcoding.
... which is a good thing for the most part. Totally uncapping speeds could indeed overwhelm the hardware and nobody wins. The upstream is a different thing but the downloading I am more then happy with even the 3 Mbps that I have... I am sure I can find a use for 5 though...
I am sorry the mods took you down for the, you know, "you know's" but seriously. I have seen MANY Microsoft employed and certifed presenters with the worst presentation skills. That's not to say this guy is doing an official presentation but I simply could not sit through 30 seconds of his demo. Frankly, If I were some software house manager somewhere I would not have an idea as to what Avalon does if this guy is giving the presentation.
I always wondered that myself. I generally have no problem locating exactly the file or email that I want but there's always that one instance where I am looking for that damn email that I just can't remember to whom it was sent but I know the gist of what was in it.....
Too bad I don't use Outlook/OE. I've even tried Thunderbird's search but have never been able to find e-mail messages very easily.
And Windows users just love find's graphical interface. It's so easy to use and remember. But, of course, everyone in the world runs and Unix or Unix-like OS so, of course, none of them have the need to an easy to use GUI and, thus, agree that find is the app for them.
Sorry for the sarcasm, I am mostly just trying to be humorous but it always cracks me up when somebody always asks why would anyone need something other than (pick one): find, vi, grep, TeX, LaTeX, emacs
Myself? I love each and every one of those (well, except vi... sorry guys, I hate it), but if there wasn't a need for easy-to-use GUI apps, they probably wouldn't exist in such numbers.
I think your reasoning is sound and that's the scary part. There is nothing they can do to prevent professional counterfeiting and they know that. What they are doing is preventing the casual "pirates" from making copies. Does that help them? In my opinion, no way. It fact, I would say that it hurts them in at least two ways.
First, they alienate their customer by treating them like criminals. Of course, most consumers aren't even going to know this because their movis play just fine. However, when you get into the DRM systems used at iTunes, etc. then the consumer quickly realizes how limited they are. I like iTunes, because it's DRM is easily removed and I can FINALLY put my damn AACs on my MiniDisc.
Second, they may even encourage pirates to colloborate and share information more then they normally would just to SPITE them.
Even adding to what you have said, I find classes that teach languages not very useful. I found that at my University, I picked up mostly fundamentals that gave me the building blocks I needed to more easily learn any language that I needed to. In particular, and this goes for anyone regarldess of education level, nothing taught me more about fundamentals than writing Assembly, and eventually translating it to register transfer logic. It was tedious and it sucked but it's like, you know, the computer and me... we're like one now... and stuff.
Thanks;) As much as the mods hate spelling Nazi's I do appreciate them as nothing invalidates the point one is trying to make like a spelng misteak.
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I'll have to both agree and disagree. Yes, most places like to have a nice easy way to discard your resume. If you don't have higher education, you make it that much easier for them. That's not to say you wouldn't make a great employee. I have worked with people that have no degree's to people that have degree's in something completely unrelated to computers. While there are one or two of the degree-less that I wouldn't trade for a PhD, the rest just cannot put out the quality of work. That's not because they are not good programmers or are not experienced it's just that they lacked discipline and the ability to quickly adapt.
I know those are all generalizations but I am only repeating my experiences not making a formal statement.
I actually (personally) call those:
Debian Server = Testing
Debian Workstation = Unstable
I don't even feel the need to stick with the stable branch anymore. I just monitor the security mailing list and when I see some updates that affect me I upgrade that package. When a major package is updated (Apache, for instance) I wait a little bit and scan the Internet for success/failure anecdotes before I upgrade.
As an example, I updatated my Apache/SSL a bit too soon and it broke my WebDAV Basic Auth. Good thing, as it turns out, as I just switched over to Digest authentication for an added layer of security.
Damn... I sooo remember when I upgraded to 1200 baud and was living it up. And yes, those were the days when you could measure a modem's rate in both baud and bps as the transmit rate stayed right with the switicing rate.
Nevermind now that I have RTFP and fully understood it:(... I could have sworn I read it over and over and yet I still missed the entire sentence devoted to saying that you are going to release a demo. Mods, mod my post down:)
"Someone handed me a picture and said, "This is a picture of me when I was younger." Every picture of you is when you were younger. "...Here's a picture of me when I'm older." Where'd you get that camera man?"
Indeed they do but for most CD Key-based games I have seen people more than willing to share their keys. However in online multiplayer games, like id's games) people are much more reluctant to share their keys for fear that they will invalidate their own copy of the game (or at least their use of the game). Of course, that simply breeds newer/better keygens but the really effective keygens seem to lag the release of the game by some amount of time.
Not sure how old you are, and I know there are some biochemistry reasons why you may not learn as quickly, but I never liked this double standard. You don't want to be age-discriminated and then you claim "age" makes it difficult for me to learn. As someone getting closer to the supposed age-of-dislearning (29) I have done my very best to stay sharp and learn every day.
Again, I know there are physical reasons why our learning process slows but lets not mistake that for complacency. Sorry if this sounds like flamebait as that was not my intent.
Is this accurate? Do they not plan on releasing a retail boxed version that does not need activation (via steam)? That would be a pitiful thing to see. I always liked id's product key idea where you cannot play multiplayer if you have an invalid or duplicated key so prior to any decent keygens nobody would ever give out their key. We were more than willing to share the media but we kept our keys locked up tight. Now if HL2 is committed to online activation that would be a slap across the face of the legit customers.
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That is indeed what I did but I did some further research (e.g. Google searching) and have seen it used both ways. But that's not to say it's being mis-used. Perhaps it is a similar issue as with DVD: I have seen it as both Digital Versatile Disc and Digital Video Disc.
I have seen it as both: Direct Broadcast Satellite and Digital Broadcast Satellite
What ticks me off is the fact that you aren't getting a discount or anything either. I understand that they are trying to puch their team services as a server product (like BizTalk, CS, MCMS, etc.) but they should at least have good discounts for getting less usage out of your subscription. Oh well ... it's good to work for a Gold Certified partner!
I doubt it. Microsoft is creating several levels (or even sub-levrls) of MSDN subscriptions now that are geared toward your role. No longer will you have complete and full access to all of their products. You will only have access to products that fullfill your role (or the role for which you paid).
What that means is that I am assuming that there will be a MSDN Universal Game Developer license that will include XNA Studio but the MSDN Universal Software Architect will probably not.
I can dig up a link of you really want me to that provides evidence towards their different levels.
That I agree with ... except the "if you know what you're doing part" ;)
Sorry but that doesn't make any sense to me at all (the saying does but it's application here does not). If you keep transcoding your file over and over again you are not losing imperceptible data. You are losing audible quality each time. Of course, some people do not care and define perception as "Is there audio?" Other people define perception as "Does that high-hat sould like crap?" And it will if you keep transcoding.
And you are STILL losing quality even if it was just transcoding like that.
... which is a good thing for the most part. Totally uncapping speeds could indeed overwhelm the hardware and nobody wins. The upstream is a different thing but the downloading I am more then happy with even the 3 Mbps that I have ... I am sure I can find a use for 5 though...
I am sorry the mods took you down for the, you know, "you know's" but seriously. I have seen MANY Microsoft employed and certifed presenters with the worst presentation skills. That's not to say this guy is doing an official presentation but I simply could not sit through 30 seconds of his demo. Frankly, If I were some software house manager somewhere I would not have an idea as to what Avalon does if this guy is giving the presentation.
I always wondered that myself. I generally have no problem locating exactly the file or email that I want but there's always that one instance where I am looking for that damn email that I just can't remember to whom it was sent but I know the gist of what was in it.....
Too bad I don't use Outlook/OE. I've even tried Thunderbird's search but have never been able to find e-mail messages very easily.
And Windows users just love find's graphical interface. It's so easy to use and remember. But, of course, everyone in the world runs and Unix or Unix-like OS so, of course, none of them have the need to an easy to use GUI and, thus, agree that find is the app for them.
... sorry guys, I hate it), but if there wasn't a need for easy-to-use GUI apps, they probably wouldn't exist in such numbers.
Sorry for the sarcasm, I am mostly just trying to be humorous but it always cracks me up when somebody always asks why would anyone need something other than (pick one): find, vi, grep, TeX, LaTeX, emacs
Myself? I love each and every one of those (well, except vi
I like the analogy to prohibition. We're not there yet but the comparison still stands.
I think your reasoning is sound and that's the scary part. There is nothing they can do to prevent professional counterfeiting and they know that. What they are doing is preventing the casual "pirates" from making copies. Does that help them? In my opinion, no way. It fact, I would say that it hurts them in at least two ways.
First, they alienate their customer by treating them like criminals. Of course, most consumers aren't even going to know this because their movis play just fine. However, when you get into the DRM systems used at iTunes, etc. then the consumer quickly realizes how limited they are. I like iTunes, because it's DRM is easily removed and I can FINALLY put my damn AACs on my MiniDisc.
Second, they may even encourage pirates to colloborate and share information more then they normally would just to SPITE them.
Even adding to what you have said, I find classes that teach languages not very useful. I found that at my University, I picked up mostly fundamentals that gave me the building blocks I needed to more easily learn any language that I needed to. In particular, and this goes for anyone regarldess of education level, nothing taught me more about fundamentals than writing Assembly, and eventually translating it to register transfer logic. It was tedious and it sucked but it's like, you know, the computer and me ... we're like one now ... and stuff.
Thanks ;) As much as the mods hate spelling Nazi's I do appreciate them as nothing invalidates the point one is trying to make like a spelng misteak.
I'll have to both agree and disagree. Yes, most places like to have a nice easy way to discard your resume. If you don't have higher education, you make it that much easier for them. That's not to say you wouldn't make a great employee. I have worked with people that have no degree's to people that have degree's in something completely unrelated to computers. While there are one or two of the degree-less that I wouldn't trade for a PhD, the rest just cannot put out the quality of work. That's not because they are not good programmers or are not experienced it's just that they lacked discipline and the ability to quickly adapt.
I know those are all generalizations but I am only repeating my experiences not making a formal statement.
I actually (personally) call those: Debian Server = Testing Debian Workstation = Unstable I don't even feel the need to stick with the stable branch anymore. I just monitor the security mailing list and when I see some updates that affect me I upgrade that package. When a major package is updated (Apache, for instance) I wait a little bit and scan the Internet for success/failure anecdotes before I upgrade. As an example, I updatated my Apache/SSL a bit too soon and it broke my WebDAV Basic Auth. Good thing, as it turns out, as I just switched over to Digest authentication for an added layer of security.
Damn ... I sooo remember when I upgraded to 1200 baud and was living it up. And yes, those were the days when you could measure a modem's rate in both baud and bps as the transmit rate stayed right with the switicing rate.
Nevermind now that I have RTFP and fully understood it :( ... I could have sworn I read it over and over and yet I still missed the entire sentence devoted to saying that you are going to release a demo. Mods, mod my post down :)
Is there a demo version of the game? I would certainly love to try out the game before I snag it. It is certainly a nice twist on an FPS.
Reminds me of a Mitch Hedberg one-liner:
"Someone handed me a picture and said, "This is a picture of me when I was younger." Every picture of you is when you were younger. "...Here's a picture of me when I'm older." Where'd you get that camera man?"
Indeed they do but for most CD Key-based games I have seen people more than willing to share their keys. However in online multiplayer games, like id's games) people are much more reluctant to share their keys for fear that they will invalidate their own copy of the game (or at least their use of the game). Of course, that simply breeds newer/better keygens but the really effective keygens seem to lag the release of the game by some amount of time.
Not sure how old you are, and I know there are some biochemistry reasons why you may not learn as quickly, but I never liked this double standard. You don't want to be age-discriminated and then you claim "age" makes it difficult for me to learn. As someone getting closer to the supposed age-of-dislearning (29) I have done my very best to stay sharp and learn every day.
Again, I know there are physical reasons why our learning process slows but lets not mistake that for complacency. Sorry if this sounds like flamebait as that was not my intent.
Is this accurate? Do they not plan on releasing a retail boxed version that does not need activation (via steam)? That would be a pitiful thing to see. I always liked id's product key idea where you cannot play multiplayer if you have an invalid or duplicated key so prior to any decent keygens nobody would ever give out their key. We were more than willing to share the media but we kept our keys locked up tight. Now if HL2 is committed to online activation that would be a slap across the face of the legit customers.
Even out of context I would say I would not interpret it that way. And he did, in fact, help create the environment that led to the Internet.
Snopes always has the digs on this stuff.