No other industry I am aware of requires constant certification like ours, offers the lowest salaries for our skillsets, yet has the highest turnover rates.
To be quite fair, I couldn't recommend the industry to someone unless they really loved the work.
My guild leader has two toons with the name Cmdr in them. He hasn't changed his or been forced to yet. I also know people who had to change the guild name 'Wermacht' because it was concerned anti semetic (for being German?? wtf??).
They're pretty inconsistent with their rulings. Having said that I've helped friends to argue warnings before and get them lifted. You just gotta email the right people and have a persuasive argument.
1. How does a customer provide direct feedback over underlying in game issues such as game balance, bugs, that seriously undermine their class? I have many issues with the mage class and would like to know what Blizzard plans on doing to address them.
2. What is the process to formally lodge a complaint about a Community Manager? *cough* Eyonix *cough* *cough*
I've worked for three different ISPs in two different countries. All of them tier 1 ISPs too no less and in areas that dealt specifically with complaints logged by these same assclowns. Trust me when I say that no ISP will be signing this code of conduct. It's a legal quagmire that no ISP wants to be entangled in.
Hmm so if I jokingly say to someone "Oh god, just hang yourself now and end it all" I can be charged with inciting suicide? Great. This is what happens when you live in a country where there is no Bill of Rights and there is no "Freedom of speech". Goddamn convention....
So given the rich are just getting richer this means the smaller gaming companies are going to have that much a harder time at getting into the industry to compete with the big boys.
So how will smaller mobs wanting to make the next Quake or Baldur's Gate 2 try breaking into the market? I just don't see how it will be possible...
Nope. They are not allowed to judge the content. It has to go straight to the Feds for making that assessment. It's the same in Australia as it is in the States.
They can try and sue them. Getting logs out of an ISP going back as far as they're talking would be like squeezing blood from a stone. Depends on the ISP and the country of said ISP I suppose.... but yes, most hard indeed.
We were looking at trialing Spybot for our workplace. We're talking about a large number of workstations too (10,000+).
I was asked to contact them with questions we had regarding their product, technical and licensing questions.
Over the span of five weeks, we'd sent at LEAST five emails (that I can remember) to them trying to get a response out of them. Two were ignored, two replies we received were copied and pasted off their website (gee, like we hadn't read it before) and when my manager had jack of it and asked for a fax number (since no contact details were available on their website) we were told to email them our questions.
*Sigh*
I find it funny the article talks about how great Spybot is. Screw Spybot. The product is fine for individual home users and have no intention of ever asking another person anything about it -- but I would not try deploying something like that over a large enterprise environment. God forbid you should need to call someone for technical support....
"Not entirely true. Selective enforcement is a legitimate defense, particularly if related to accusations of harassment. For example, police can't just stop blacks who are speeding. True, they are breaking the law so they can be stopped, but they can't do it selectively to target certain groups or individuals. That doesn't mean he can use it as a legal defense here, but it does mean that what others do (and aren't prosecuted for) is not entirely irrelevant"
I can listen to Linkin Park's "Hybrid Theory" just fine on my Powerbook G4 (via. superdrive) and yet, not their older CD, "Meteora".
Gone are the days where you used to be able to buy a CD and trust that your player could handle it. It's like nobody gives a crap about standards anymore.
Now the more they bloat these CDs, the more incompatible they become, the less likely I will be to buy them and more likely I am to pirate them. Either way, I will listen to the music I want, when I want. They can either provide it for a reasonable price with ease of use or I will get it elsewhere and not pay them a cent. Very simple really. And I'm willing to bet that I am not alone.
The recording industry needs to wake up, smell the coffee and adapt or die. At the end of the day, they will not outsmart the very people who provide the technical services they rely on.
I'd been using Firefox for ages without dramas. I switched to Linux in the end because I wanted something that:
didn't have an uptime of 48 hours on average,
didn't crash inexplicably
and finally, didn't install software without my permission.
Not to sound like I'm preaching to the converted here but a very large portion of the issues I experienced were directly related to IE bugs. Bugs experienced despite: latest patches, up to date anti virus software, decent firewall, solid security practises (and I work in ITsec too btw).
Funnily enough, the above is all Microsoft tells you that you need to do when using their products to remain "safe"...*chuckle*
Sysadmins should be forcing all their users to switch to Firefox and see just how long before Microsoft finally pull their heads out of their asses and get the job done properly.
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No other industry I am aware of requires constant certification like ours, offers the lowest salaries for our skillsets, yet has the highest turnover rates.
To be quite fair, I couldn't recommend the industry to someone unless they really loved the work.
My guild leader has two toons with the name Cmdr in them. He hasn't changed his or been forced to yet.
I also know people who had to change the guild name 'Wermacht' because it was concerned anti semetic (for being German?? wtf??).
They're pretty inconsistent with their rulings. Having said that I've helped friends to argue warnings before and get them lifted. You just gotta email the right people and have a persuasive argument.
1. How does a customer provide direct feedback over underlying in game issues such as game balance, bugs, that seriously undermine their class? I have many issues with the mage class and would like to know what Blizzard plans on doing to address them.
2. What is the process to formally lodge a complaint about a Community Manager? *cough* Eyonix *cough* *cough*
I wonder what Jesper Johansen and Jason Garms @ Microsoft would have to say about this?
"There are times when we must all endure adjustments to the constitution in the name of security." - Palpatine, Episode III
Thus the eighth sign of the apocalypse appeared....
We all knew this was coming when our (Australian) government adopted the stupid FTA.
The FTA means our country will be hopelessly entangled in the same mess that is the US Government.
Kiss our patent and legal system goodbye.
Next thing you know, we'll be outlawing the sasquatch too...
Just as well that link works, the link off the article itself sure as hell doesn't.
I've worked for three different ISPs in two different countries. All of them tier 1 ISPs too no less and in areas that dealt specifically with complaints logged by these same assclowns. Trust me when I say that no ISP will be signing this code of conduct. It's a legal quagmire that no ISP wants to be entangled in.
Hmm so if I jokingly say to someone "Oh god, just hang yourself now and end it all" I can be charged with inciting suicide? Great. This is what happens when you live in a country where there is no Bill of Rights and there is no "Freedom of speech". Goddamn convention....
Sorry, maybe I misunderstand but just how exactly does this keep the closed source vendors honest?
All I see is that this means that closed source vendors have LESS to fear in France, not the reverse.
So given the rich are just getting richer this means the smaller gaming companies are going to have that much a harder time at getting into the industry to compete with the big boys. So how will smaller mobs wanting to make the next Quake or Baldur's Gate 2 try breaking into the market? I just don't see how it will be possible...
Nope. They are not allowed to judge the content. It has to go straight to the Feds for making that assessment. It's the same in Australia as it is in the States.
They can try and sue them. Getting logs out of an ISP going back as far as they're talking would be like squeezing blood from a stone. Depends on the ISP and the country of said ISP I suppose.... but yes, most hard indeed.
It is. Nice caveat that.
Then everyone just stores their passwords which the new spyware programs will rip out and abuse. Thus the cycle repeats itself.
Users will still be users at the end of the day... *sigh*.
We were looking at trialing Spybot for our workplace. We're talking about a large number of workstations too (10,000+).
I was asked to contact them with questions we had regarding their product, technical and licensing questions.
Over the span of five weeks, we'd sent at LEAST five emails (that I can remember) to them trying to get a response out of them. Two were ignored, two replies we received were copied and pasted off their website (gee, like we hadn't read it before) and when my manager had jack of it and asked for a fax number (since no contact details were available on their website) we were told to email them our questions.
*Sigh*
I find it funny the article talks about how great Spybot is. Screw Spybot. The product is fine for individual home users and have no intention of ever asking another person anything about it -- but I would not try deploying something like that over a large enterprise environment. God forbid you should need to call someone for technical support....
Wow. What a predictable post. And you bagged 3 points for that crap?
Where I work we were issued several notices by MIPII and it turns out they were harassing people for completely uncopyrighted material!
A lot of this is automated and not even checked.
I hope they get nailed for spamming.
"Not entirely true. Selective enforcement is a legitimate defense, particularly if related to accusations of harassment. For example, police can't just stop blacks who are speeding. True, they are breaking the law so they can be stopped, but they can't do it selectively to target certain groups or individuals. That doesn't mean he can use it as a legal defense here, but it does mean that what others do (and aren't prosecuted for) is not entirely irrelevant"
Ever heard of criminal profiling?
Do politicians in America go out of their way to stifle innovation or is it just my perception?
And how many users are there on your average Windows box and how many are running as admin?
I can listen to Linkin Park's "Hybrid Theory" just fine on my Powerbook G4 (via. superdrive) and yet, not their older CD, "Meteora".
Gone are the days where you used to be able to buy a CD and trust that your player could handle it. It's like nobody gives a crap about standards anymore.
Now the more they bloat these CDs, the more incompatible they become, the less likely I will be to buy them and more likely I am to pirate them. Either way, I will listen to the music I want, when I want. They can either provide it for a reasonable price with ease of use or I will get it elsewhere and not pay them a cent. Very simple really. And I'm willing to bet that I am not alone.
The recording industry needs to wake up, smell the coffee and adapt or die. At the end of the day, they will not outsmart the very people who provide the technical services they rely on.
Is there anyone here that is still using IE?
I'd been using Firefox for ages without dramas. I switched to Linux in the end because I wanted something that:
Not to sound like I'm preaching to the converted here but a very large portion of the issues I experienced were directly related to IE bugs. Bugs experienced despite: latest patches, up to date anti virus software, decent firewall, solid security practises (and I work in ITsec too btw).
Funnily enough, the above is all Microsoft tells you that you need to do when using their products to remain "safe"...*chuckle*
Sysadmins should be forcing all their users to switch to Firefox and see just how long before Microsoft finally pull their heads out of their asses and get the job done properly.
This is what happens when managers and lawmakers try to mess with technical matters beyond their comprehension.
Forgive them Lord, they know not what they do...
"I haven't yet seen any direct benefits from having it, but then again, I haven't been looking for another job."
:)
Wait until you start applying for your next job