Another vote for FFXIVARR - thoroughly enjoying it right now. Traditional trinity combat, interesting dungeon boss mechanics, lots of incentives for open world grouping, beautiful graphics.
You get what you pay for. You earn what you get, one way or another.
If you marry someone much prettier, you will have a live of submission. If you take a job paid too much, they won't let you forget it. If you lie or cheat, you will get-in over your head. There is always justice. If you come from segregation, your world view might need an adjustment.
Disclosure - I work for Oracle.
If you think support is 13 levels removed from development, you haven't worked at a software company. As we speak, I'm sitting in a conference room with no fewer than 4 product managers. I've worked personally with developers for a variety of our products. And we're a BIG company. When I was working support at a startup, I could walk over to the dev area and physically bully them into helping me troubleshoot when it was necessary. Oracle is very good about making sure that development is well aware of how the products are used in the field and what the issues are; getting involved in support is only a part of that.
Well, I can't say much useful about that. As you know, list price usually != sale price, negotiate your discounts, etc. It's worth it to enough people, I suppose, otherwise they wouldn't charge that much.
Disclosure - I work for Oracle, though not for the OBIEE team.
The people I know that work with OBIEE repeatedly claim the best scaling BI architecture in the industry. They even went so far as to describe in fairly deep detail the specific technical reasons for it, which I believe added up to being able to horizontally scale the software components to meet your specific performance needs.
re: do a search for linux...
The "first thing" you're referring to is an ad. Do a search for Linux on Google, and you get the same exact link as the first result on the right-hand side under "Relevant ads" or whatever they're called - MSN just calls them "sponsored sites".
I'm not advocating trusting Microsoft, but I really think you were not being objective here and felt the need to.....object.
Another reason why people buy commercial software - it's already written. Yes, Oracle, PS, and SAP would take some time to implement, but it's possible to buy consulting services to make that process go a lot faster and smoother. I work for a software company - we write and sell software. I am NEVER worried about losing business to open source - the stuff we write has been battle-tested by thousands of customers. The CIO at any company evaluating software solutions will be hard-pressed to recommend to his CFO that they spend the money allocated in the budget to software purchases on develoment instead. People just don't have that kind of time on their hands.
I'm having a bit of deja vu here. Didn't Reagan push the same arguments for his "trickle-down" economics theories? This is hardly an original line of thought....albeit one I tend to agree with.
Ok, defragging makes sense.
About warranties - that doesn't address my example. MTBF for Hyundays surely is not 10 years or 100,000 miles. And MTBF for Toyotas is well over the standard 5 years - those cars run forever.
About the arms race - what do you mean by 'escalating' it? Are you suggesting that the AV companies stop trying to reverse-engineer viruses? I'm not sure what you're arguing for.
I'm not sure how the point about filesystems is relevant, so I'll let that go. As far as your warranty argument - if that is true, we should all buy Hyundays, as they offer the longest warranty. Does that imply that Hyundays last the longest on the road? No....they're crap. Although I'm not sure what MTBF stands for.
As to the arms race - as far as I can tell, we're already in the midst of it. Fortunately for AV companies, they'll never win, as the world keeps pumping out better idiots and more malicious coders.
If this isn't tin-foil conspiracy theory thinking, I don't know what is. What's next? You going to accuse the people that write defrag utilities of intentionally leaving your disk fragmented so that you have to keep using their software? Cars are specifically designed to break down immediately upon the expiration of the factory warranty in such a way that only the dealer can fix?
To whom ever modded this "interesting" - you're entitled to your own definition of "interesting", but I disagree with it.
createPopup() doesn't create an external popup window. Instead, it creates something that looks more or less like what you get when you mouseover an image with an alt attribute. Most often, this is used to show informational messages, etc, when things are hovered on. I'm sure someone could come up with a way to use this for advertising, but it'd have to be quite clever. As far as I know, the other browsers you mention do not support this feature, for better or worse.
No, that's not at all a "demon" customer. You're more or less a good customer. A demon customer does not save all packaging material, does require a lot of assistance in selecting anything, including te most minute items, and is generally a pain in various areas of the salespeoples' bodies. I worked in retail while in high school, and people like you were always a pleasure to deal with.
Wait, you're saying that a market that exists because of FREE software is rich with capital potential? Can you back up that "significant chunk" statement? What percentage of the workstations in the "movie industry" (a very vague entity) are running Linux? My limited knowlege would lead me to believe Macs are the dominant player in that market.
Thank you for mentioning the larger issue at hand and not focusing on the technical shortcomings of this pre-pre-alpha release. Clearly, this thing is not ready for prime time, so, please, stop posting about how many results you got for a particular term - nobody is impressed. It may claim to search a billion pages, but obviously the interface presented here does not have access to all of that data. Even if Microsoft was trying to force a rigged search engine down people's throats, do ya'll think they would be so stupid as to purposefully return 0 results for Linux-related queries? If they're really criminal masterminds like so many people think, they'd have done a much more subtle job of fixing the results.
You'd be really surprised just how many people there are in the world who, when it comes to computers, don't ever bother changing their default page, etc. Microsoft has done quite well up to this point by playing to the lowest common denominator (which is what you get anytime you're pushing "ease of use" over actual features/technology). I'm sure that if IE 7 ships with this thing set to the default search page, they'll get their share of hits.
Besides, are you really that upset that Microsoft is going to waste time and money? If you really wanted to subvert them, you should encourage them to throw as much behind this as possible, just to watch it all fail miserably.
Off-topic, but I must defend T-Mobile. Their customer service has been great for me, both when I was switching from Nextel and ever since for various things. I haven't had any service problems in Mass, NY, California, and Europe.
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Another vote for FFXIVARR - thoroughly enjoying it right now. Traditional trinity combat, interesting dungeon boss mechanics, lots of incentives for open world grouping, beautiful graphics.
You get what you pay for. You earn what you get, one way or another.
If you marry someone much prettier, you will have a live of submission. If you take a job paid too much, they won't let you forget it. If you lie or cheat, you will get-in over your head. There is always justice. If you come from segregation, your world view might need an adjustment.
Correction, you earn what you negotiate.
22% of what you pay initially, annually. Just like everything else Oracle sells. Quit being a dick.
Disclosure - I work for Oracle. If you think support is 13 levels removed from development, you haven't worked at a software company. As we speak, I'm sitting in a conference room with no fewer than 4 product managers. I've worked personally with developers for a variety of our products. And we're a BIG company. When I was working support at a startup, I could walk over to the dev area and physically bully them into helping me troubleshoot when it was necessary. Oracle is very good about making sure that development is well aware of how the products are used in the field and what the issues are; getting involved in support is only a part of that.
Well, I can't say much useful about that. As you know, list price usually != sale price, negotiate your discounts, etc. It's worth it to enough people, I suppose, otherwise they wouldn't charge that much.
Disclosure - I work for Oracle, though not for the OBIEE team. The people I know that work with OBIEE repeatedly claim the best scaling BI architecture in the industry. They even went so far as to describe in fairly deep detail the specific technical reasons for it, which I believe added up to being able to horizontally scale the software components to meet your specific performance needs.
Classic. Someone making fun of "furriners what can't read good" makes two mistakes in his post. Apparent, not appearant. Can't, not cant.
re: do a search for linux... The "first thing" you're referring to is an ad. Do a search for Linux on Google, and you get the same exact link as the first result on the right-hand side under "Relevant ads" or whatever they're called - MSN just calls them "sponsored sites". I'm not advocating trusting Microsoft, but I really think you were not being objective here and felt the need to.....object.
Another reason why people buy commercial software - it's already written. Yes, Oracle, PS, and SAP would take some time to implement, but it's possible to buy consulting services to make that process go a lot faster and smoother. I work for a software company - we write and sell software. I am NEVER worried about losing business to open source - the stuff we write has been battle-tested by thousands of customers. The CIO at any company evaluating software solutions will be hard-pressed to recommend to his CFO that they spend the money allocated in the budget to software purchases on develoment instead. People just don't have that kind of time on their hands.
Just as a heads up - they still ask for a credit card number when you register the free .info domain....not sure why. I just tried.
I'm having a bit of deja vu here. Didn't Reagan push the same arguments for his "trickle-down" economics theories? This is hardly an original line of thought....albeit one I tend to agree with.
Ok, defragging makes sense. About warranties - that doesn't address my example. MTBF for Hyundays surely is not 10 years or 100,000 miles. And MTBF for Toyotas is well over the standard 5 years - those cars run forever. About the arms race - what do you mean by 'escalating' it? Are you suggesting that the AV companies stop trying to reverse-engineer viruses? I'm not sure what you're arguing for.
I'm not sure how the point about filesystems is relevant, so I'll let that go. As far as your warranty argument - if that is true, we should all buy Hyundays, as they offer the longest warranty. Does that imply that Hyundays last the longest on the road? No....they're crap. Although I'm not sure what MTBF stands for.
As to the arms race - as far as I can tell, we're already in the midst of it. Fortunately for AV companies, they'll never win, as the world keeps pumping out better idiots and more malicious coders.
If this isn't tin-foil conspiracy theory thinking, I don't know what is. What's next? You going to accuse the people that write defrag utilities of intentionally leaving your disk fragmented so that you have to keep using their software? Cars are specifically designed to break down immediately upon the expiration of the factory warranty in such a way that only the dealer can fix?
To whom ever modded this "interesting" - you're entitled to your own definition of "interesting", but I disagree with it.
createPopup() doesn't create an external popup window. Instead, it creates something that looks more or less like what you get when you mouseover an image with an alt attribute. Most often, this is used to show informational messages, etc, when things are hovered on. I'm sure someone could come up with a way to use this for advertising, but it'd have to be quite clever. As far as I know, the other browsers you mention do not support this feature, for better or worse.
Correct - the diversity in this case pertains to the root-node servers, not Akamai's own.
......../me shuts up and slinks away with tail between legs.
Your research is thorough and convincing - you have succeeded in changing my opinion on this matter. Thank you.
No, that's not at all a "demon" customer. You're more or less a good customer. A demon customer does not save all packaging material, does require a lot of assistance in selecting anything, including te most minute items, and is generally a pain in various areas of the salespeoples' bodies. I worked in retail while in high school, and people like you were always a pleasure to deal with.
Don't reckon there's a -1 Arrogant mod. Offtopic is not at all accurate.
Wait, you're saying that a market that exists because of FREE software is rich with capital potential? Can you back up that "significant chunk" statement? What percentage of the workstations in the "movie industry" (a very vague entity) are running Linux? My limited knowlege would lead me to believe Macs are the dominant player in that market.
Thank you for mentioning the larger issue at hand and not focusing on the technical shortcomings of this pre-pre-alpha release. Clearly, this thing is not ready for prime time, so, please, stop posting about how many results you got for a particular term - nobody is impressed. It may claim to search a billion pages, but obviously the interface presented here does not have access to all of that data. Even if Microsoft was trying to force a rigged search engine down people's throats, do ya'll think they would be so stupid as to purposefully return 0 results for Linux-related queries? If they're really criminal masterminds like so many people think, they'd have done a much more subtle job of fixing the results.
You'd be really surprised just how many people there are in the world who, when it comes to computers, don't ever bother changing their default page, etc. Microsoft has done quite well up to this point by playing to the lowest common denominator (which is what you get anytime you're pushing "ease of use" over actual features/technology). I'm sure that if IE 7 ships with this thing set to the default search page, they'll get their share of hits. Besides, are you really that upset that Microsoft is going to waste time and money? If you really wanted to subvert them, you should encourage them to throw as much behind this as possible, just to watch it all fail miserably.
.....not that you're making broad sweeping generalizations or anything. How's about some facts to back dat dere up wid?
Off-topic, but I must defend T-Mobile. Their customer service has been great for me, both when I was switching from Nextel and ever since for various things. I haven't had any service problems in Mass, NY, California, and Europe.