I was on the forum last night and I saw a post where the title goes something like 'fixing bugs should be a priority not deleting posts'. Guess what it has a 5star rating when I was reading it, and I went ahead to give it a 5star rating because it expresses a lot of sentiments I had about the game. For those of you who dont know the SWG forum has a rating system where readers can apply 1 to 5 (best) stars on any given post except you cant rate posts by devs.
Next thing you know the webpage refreshes and it has a 1star rating with a post by a dev on the bottom saying the thread has been locked !
Not only are SWG devs deleting, locking posts, they're also 1starring them! How low can this get?
Stock market analysts are like telemarketers with a bigger budget. They're designed to fleece you out of your wallets. Marketing is at stake when you get invitations to expensive restaurants for dinner just to listen to some financial analyst flap about how to invest your 401k money.
Merryl Lynch should take its own advise
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I've been an avid investor and it is my experience that the financial firms such as MerrylLynch, PriceWaterhouseCoopers and others have their own biased stance. They are either flogging a company so that a competitor will rise in value or just are simply wrong.
Furthermore, I think you're describing Merryl Lynch's business model here. Marketing is how financial industry make money, hell they can sell you paper for your dollars, they gotta be doing a great job of marketing.
Who's Wall Street to talk about substance? The whole financial industry is operating on hot air. Oh wait, hot air actually has some value.
You'd be suprised how much more money companies are paying their employees to do for what you are doing because they have to 1. hire developers 2. hire more developers just in case the others quit 3. hire a manager to interface with the boss and HR 4. hire a technical manager to interface with the developer 5. hire a program manager to interface the technical manager with the people manager 6. rent an office space to fit all these people in 7. provide free coffee and corporate expense accounts
So, you should be making double the money an entry-level person makes in a typical software company.
Just a thought. Don't take it too seriously.
isn't aimster girl fat? why she modelling?
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i cant believe there is such a fuss about the aimster model. this just goes to show that geeks have no taste.
you seem to believe that market forces are driven by supply-demand, whereas in the real world inflation is caused by the oligarchy of company execs who had your daily necessities by the balls, who raises the prices of road tolls and transporation fees on basis of misguided accounting reports(re: ny transit), and those who run the prices of mcdonalds, safeway foods, and yes your gasoline prices. economics professions are inherently poor because its based on the fall promise that supply and demand influence prices on a linear, if not mathmatical, matter.
and who do you suppose will get fired next? the abundance of consultants now with no more company clients cuz they all ran out of business except for microsoft? this is a computer equivilence of recursively shooting yourself in the foot.
it's not a free market.. its a oligarchy or market making firms (that runs the computers who operate the market) jacking up prices and squeezing them cyclically.
who says "buy low, sell high" doesnt apply to brokerage firms who actually sells you the commodities and buy 'em from you when you sell.
if we live in a secure world, how would companies like @Stake make money? @Stake clearly fired Geer for a good reason. They want to be in business 10 years from now, and apperantly Geer had released a paper, however rudimentary, pointed security to a right direction.
If I am a competing organization, say company B, who's CEO has a brilliant new idea to put company A out of business, or at least to claim market share from them, would it not be true that in order to implement this idea in a timely manner, I would have to beef up my labor staff?
Sure, if you can come up with a more efficient and better way to do it, yes... but that implies you will have to hire less people than Company A does to do the same job.. And what do you suppose will happen when company A goes out of business?
The amount of "stuff" that can be bought for a given amount of "real money" goes up and up. That is why it's not zero-sum.
that's incorrect. we have inflation all the time.
that's crap... even phone companies themselves market VoIP as a product. once the infrastructure has been built, it cost very little to maintain. this is basically a means to drive up your cost of living.
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I dont think its SOE policy to patch games with more bugs than fixes. Its more like the SWG devs screwed up.
I was on the forum last night and I saw a post where the title goes something like 'fixing bugs should be a priority not deleting posts'. Guess what it has a 5star rating when I was reading it, and I went ahead to give it a 5star rating because it expresses a lot of sentiments I had about the game. For those of you who dont know the SWG forum has a rating system where readers can apply 1 to 5 (best) stars on any given post except you cant rate posts by devs.
Next thing you know the webpage refreshes and it has a 1star rating with a post by a dev on the bottom saying the thread has been locked !
Not only are SWG devs deleting, locking posts, they're also 1starring them! How low can this get?
oh well its good to know I'm rid of spammer even if my number gets into somebody's R&D database. lesser of the two evils
inquiring minds want to know
Stock market analysts are like telemarketers with a bigger budget. They're designed to fleece you out of your wallets. Marketing is at stake when you get invitations to expensive restaurants for dinner just to listen to some financial analyst flap about how to invest your 401k money.
I've been an avid investor and it is my experience that the financial firms such as MerrylLynch, PriceWaterhouseCoopers and others have their own biased stance. They are either flogging a company so that a competitor will rise in value or just are simply wrong. Furthermore, I think you're describing Merryl Lynch's business model here. Marketing is how financial industry make money, hell they can sell you paper for your dollars, they gotta be doing a great job of marketing. Who's Wall Street to talk about substance? The whole financial industry is operating on hot air. Oh wait, hot air actually has some value.
You'd be suprised how much more money companies are paying their employees to do for what you are doing because they have to 1. hire developers 2. hire more developers just in case the others quit 3. hire a manager to interface with the boss and HR 4. hire a technical manager to interface with the developer 5. hire a program manager to interface the technical manager with the people manager 6. rent an office space to fit all these people in 7. provide free coffee and corporate expense accounts So, you should be making double the money an entry-level person makes in a typical software company. Just a thought. Don't take it too seriously.
i cant believe there is such a fuss about the aimster model. this just goes to show that geeks have no taste.
you seem to believe that market forces are driven by supply-demand, whereas in the real world inflation is caused by the oligarchy of company execs who had your daily necessities by the balls, who raises the prices of road tolls and transporation fees on basis of misguided accounting reports(re: ny transit), and those who run the prices of mcdonalds, safeway foods, and yes your gasoline prices. economics professions are inherently poor because its based on the fall promise that supply and demand influence prices on a linear, if not mathmatical, matter.
and who do you suppose will get fired next? the abundance of consultants now with no more company clients cuz they all ran out of business except for microsoft? this is a computer equivilence of recursively shooting yourself in the foot.
it's not a free market.. its a oligarchy or market making firms (that runs the computers who operate the market) jacking up prices and squeezing them cyclically. who says "buy low, sell high" doesnt apply to brokerage firms who actually sells you the commodities and buy 'em from you when you sell.
you should buy a brain first but i doubt anybody's selling one
if we live in a secure world, how would companies like @Stake make money? @Stake clearly fired Geer for a good reason. They want to be in business 10 years from now, and apperantly Geer had released a paper, however rudimentary, pointed security to a right direction.
If I am a competing organization, say company B, who's CEO has a brilliant new idea to put company A out of business, or at least to claim market share from them, would it not be true that in order to implement this idea in a timely manner, I would have to beef up my labor staff? Sure, if you can come up with a more efficient and better way to do it, yes... but that implies you will have to hire less people than Company A does to do the same job.. And what do you suppose will happen when company A goes out of business?
The amount of "stuff" that can be bought for a given amount of "real money" goes up and up. That is why it's not zero-sum. that's incorrect. we have inflation all the time.
that's crap... even phone companies themselves market VoIP as a product. once the infrastructure has been built, it cost very little to maintain. this is basically a means to drive up your cost of living.
instead of taxing the internet, lets tax non-profit organizations. (they're all run by corrupted businessmen who reap profits and rob the poor)
internet tax has to be stopped