It's not easy for someone sophisticated in technology just 'step into' these politics. These are still big companies, and those who make the decisions just consult geeks if they want to - and believe them - if they want to.
Hah, why would anyone bother to take the personal risk of hacking anything like that..
From what I've read, the system was so full of flaws that the outcome would have most likely ended undecipherable anyway, without any extra intervention.
Combine the two. Go develop applications or services to your 'previous' profession. Make it a valuable advantage!
Clients will appreciate someone who f.ex. develops tools for them and is proficient also in their field of profession. You will understand what the people who will use the service/application really WANT from it.
Well, Level Designers I know are more of 3d modellers than just jigsaw builders with premade tools..
It's not just getting a good, interesting and playable level together.. you should be able to make it live to at least to some point and make it look somewhat good as well.
I think pre-made level design tools like in NWN might help you to learn create nicely plotted levels, but dunno about anything else..:(
.. the multilingual meaning of word 'Orkut' first.
Why? 'Orkut' means 'multiple orgasms' in finnish slang, and not just any regional slang but in pretty much nationwide spoken language.
It's fun, but I still think twice before I send anyone an invitation email with subject: "Come and join me in Orkut!". People would think that I'm sending them porn site advertisements or proposing inappropriate action in the middle of a day and most likely wouldn't even open the mail but flame me instead.. sigh:D
Well, I suppose we're still a tiny percent of world population but f.ex. Linkedin.com has a huge percent of finns logged in their service and we do have globally operating companies like Nokia:)
I hope all these guys wake up from their technological ambitions early enough and put more priority on fair voting than too fast technological advancement on huge matters like this..
.. or the world might see a day when the candidate who has employed more and better 3v1L hAxx0rZ will get to 'lead the free world'.
Or, maybe it's the time has come for the world's first open source President of the United States.
If he starts acting like a loon, just dpkg-reconfigure..
We've had that stuff here in Finland for almost two years now as a commercial service. It ain't that bad. If you want to be tracked, you'll have to log in to the service and give a specific permission to anyone who you want to give permission to track you. Nothing else. The service is AFAIK mostly used by delivery companies and taxis, who can efficiently track the motion of their units. And even that is not 'big brother' stuff (too long coffee break! ay!), but simply for practical use to see which unit is closest to a specific point or area. Operators even offer service packages and special software clients which utilize this system.
Of course this kind of service always has the potential for misuse, but at least here there has not been any problems so far.
The location-based advertising is same thing, at least in Europe even potential technologies that allow this are very strictly regulated. It's not a problem. Seems that unlike on Email, cellular spam is not becoming a problem here - not at least in the near future.. it's very strongly opt-in and the law is forced efficiently.
I'm not absolutely certain if the US players follow the cellular marketing guidelines we have here in Europe, but I suppose they do because otherwise your cell would have had been spammed quite heavily already.
Location-based cell advertising ain't that new thing either - the technology has been around for a good while.. it's just that deploying mass tracking isn't still cost-effective enough for marketing.
Nothing changes the fact that using the word 'soft' in the end of name has been very common (though unoriginal at this point) practice in many scenes since the early 80's.
If a guy takes his own name and adds 'soft' in the end, there's a fair chance that it is really just an innocent coincidence.
Question: People tend to use their own name when marketing professional, creative services. Does Mike Rowe has more moral rights to use his own name than Microsoft has rights to dictate the use of common word 'soft'?
Yeah, it's the law, I know, but the world where I thought I was living there were things like 'corporate image'. But it seems that we are reaching a phase where some players don't have to care anymore. Enormous amount of bad publicity over a small matter which does not mean ANYTHING and does not pose any harm to MS as a company. Scary.
Can _anyone_ present even one remote possibility on how the domain mentioned could possibly cause any problems to Microsoft? I guess the pronounciation is more of a problem to Mike himself - if he tells eg. via phone some potential client to send mail to mike@mikerowesoft.com, it might end up into mike@microsoft.com.. and if you tell someone to go to microsoft.com, nobody figures that in their heads as 'mikerowesoft.com' - maybe more of the opposite. And that's still Mike's problem.
But what MS should very well know is that a case like this, based on some damn pronounciation, would gather attention. Negative attention. This is *so* weird. I mean really, really, weird PR from Microsoft.. even a bit unprofessional.. starting all the way from that $10 trick:P
Imagine what kind of new workplace pranks this allows us to bring forward.. Itching powder, anyone?
And they should do the same with these as we have here in Finland: Train cabin doors here have round handles which have a picture of hand.. but with only 4 fingers. The designers involved called it a creative and refreshing idea, I'd call it the ultimate source of fun and confusion when applied to biometrics systems.
Or, the technicians could just put the scanner next to the supervisor's office and configure it such that only showing middle finger is enough for identification..
And here's comes the employee number 20.. 21.. 22..
I still keep wondering which REALLY touches a _common_ citizen more:
- The fact that you now have some drone browsing some red planet's surface and others don't
or
- The fact that meanwhile you feel unearthly superiority over other earthlings and write about it to/. the FBI is browsing all your accounts and financial data without informing you - and it's perfectly legal. And much, much more.
I just wonder if I really should feel that sad about all this Beagle ping timeout thing..
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It's not easy for someone sophisticated in technology just 'step into' these politics. These are still big companies, and those who make the decisions just consult geeks if they want to - and believe them - if they want to.
Hah, why would anyone bother to take the personal risk of hacking anything like that.. From what I've read, the system was so full of flaws that the outcome would have most likely ended undecipherable anyway, without any extra intervention.
Or if you call gaming creative, please forgive me.. *sigh*
Clients will appreciate someone who f.ex. develops tools for them and is proficient also in their field of profession. You will understand what the people who will use the service/application really WANT from it.
Couldn't think of a better project manager..
It's not just getting a good, interesting and playable level together.. you should be able to make it live to at least to some point and make it look somewhat good as well.
I think pre-made level design tools like in NWN might help you to learn create nicely plotted levels, but dunno about anything else.. :(
Why? 'Orkut' means 'multiple orgasms' in finnish slang, and not just any regional slang but in pretty much nationwide spoken language.
It's fun, but I still think twice before I send anyone an invitation email with subject: "Come and join me in Orkut!". People would think that I'm sending them porn site advertisements or proposing inappropriate action in the middle of a day and most likely wouldn't even open the mail but flame me instead.. sigh :D
Well, I suppose we're still a tiny percent of world population but f.ex. Linkedin.com has a huge percent of finns logged in their service and we do have globally operating companies like Nokia :)
But, this is quite hilarious anyway.. heheh
Or, maybe it's the time has come for the world's first open source President of the United States. If he starts acting like a loon, just dpkg-reconfigure..
Ahh.
Why?
Of course this kind of service always has the potential for misuse, but at least here there has not been any problems so far.
The location-based advertising is same thing, at least in Europe even potential technologies that allow this are very strictly regulated. It's not a problem. Seems that unlike on Email, cellular spam is not becoming a problem here - not at least in the near future.. it's very strongly opt-in and the law is forced efficiently. I'm not absolutely certain if the US players follow the cellular marketing guidelines we have here in Europe, but I suppose they do because otherwise your cell would have had been spammed quite heavily already.
Location-based cell advertising ain't that new thing either - the technology has been around for a good while.. it's just that deploying mass tracking isn't still cost-effective enough for marketing.
If a guy takes his own name and adds 'soft' in the end, there's a fair chance that it is really just an innocent coincidence.
Question: People tend to use their own name when marketing professional, creative services. Does Mike Rowe has more moral rights to use his own name than Microsoft has rights to dictate the use of common word 'soft'?
Yeah, it's the law, I know, but the world where I thought I was living there were things like 'corporate image'. But it seems that we are reaching a phase where some players don't have to care anymore. Enormous amount of bad publicity over a small matter which does not mean ANYTHING and does not pose any harm to MS as a company. Scary.
Can _anyone_ present even one remote possibility on how the domain mentioned could possibly cause any problems to Microsoft? I guess the pronounciation is more of a problem to Mike himself - if he tells eg. via phone some potential client to send mail to mike@mikerowesoft.com, it might end up into mike@microsoft.com.. and if you tell someone to go to microsoft.com, nobody figures that in their heads as 'mikerowesoft.com' - maybe more of the opposite. And that's still Mike's problem.
But what MS should very well know is that a case like this, based on some damn pronounciation, would gather attention. Negative attention. This is *so* weird. I mean really, really, weird PR from Microsoft.. even a bit unprofessional.. starting all the way from that $10 trick :P
And they should do the same with these as we have here in Finland: Train cabin doors here have round handles which have a picture of hand.. but with only 4 fingers. The designers involved called it a creative and refreshing idea, I'd call it the ultimate source of fun and confusion when applied to biometrics systems.
Or, the technicians could just put the scanner next to the supervisor's office and configure it such that only showing middle finger is enough for identification..
And here's comes the employee number 20.. 21.. 22..
(especially the audio sync option)
- The fact that you now have some drone browsing some red planet's surface and others don't
or
- The fact that meanwhile you feel unearthly superiority over other earthlings and write about it to /. the FBI is browsing all your accounts and financial data without informing you - and it's perfectly legal. And much, much more.
I just wonder if I really should feel that sad about all this Beagle ping timeout thing..
I live a common life, therefore i prioritize
Yeah, including the United States itself :P
Hmm.. with several years' of hands-on experience, I wonder if this one could potentially have been written by some drunk native Finnish speaker.