People who buy in game currency always spout out like it never hurts anyone, and its their own business, etc etc... But putting monetary value on game stuff means that its about $$$, not fun anymore, and things like what you mention start happening... Its why many of us would not dismiss it as "its just a game, do what you want!"... We wanted it to KEEP it just a game...but all these other losers, pushing "its just a game, chill out!" were doing just the opposite, and ruinned it for everyone in the end.
Now, personally, I only play online games with private servers (so stuff like Neverwinter Nights, for example). That way it can stay just a game.
he is hanging out with impoverished college students most people I know prefer to buy games
Wow, I wish I lived in that world. Of everyone I hang out with (and I'm probably the only one making less than 80k/year of the bunch), I'm the odd one out, aside for one of the network architects, who actually buys games (and well, software in general).
Most (not all) people I know will actually not buy a console until there's a mod chip for it, pirate everything, and to add insult to injury, some (not my friends, obviously) will actually shun down anyone who pays for software as idiots who "are probably too dumb to pirate it".
Whats worse, is when you get "We're not an IT company" as an excuse to do an half assed job. Let just say I worked for one of the top 10 most profitable companies in the world, and we had a multi million dollar internal IT project. They had a fairly large IT department, and hired more 15-20$/hour consultant (yeah, you get what you pay for, trust me), to rebuild their entire internal software stack from scratch.
They'd cut corners like crazy (web application where the markup is so bad, theres 2 megs of HTML alone to download on every click? Not counting the Flash, images, etc here... Users were going INSANE, and management's excuse for not getting better ressources to get the job done right was always "We're not an IT company, we can't be expected to be able to do better than this!").
Javascript, especially when tied to a full featured framework such as ExtJS, is actually freagin cool. Add some IDE support, like in Visual Studio 2008, or in Aptana, and you've got one rock solid, multi purpose dynamic language that is already mainstream and well supported.
Not as cool as Groovy, and I'm a static typing fan myself, but thats the next best thing.
Considering how long Javascript has been out, and that javascript intensive applications are clearly there in the present, I don't think this is premature =P Its late!
I know its hard to beleive, but Microsoft -does- add APIs from versions to versions, and XP (and even more so Vista) have a lot of these. They're not going to spend months recoding a feature from scratch for 2k thats built in XP.
Thats correct. And as much as there are many issues with Windows security that -could- be exploited, usually, even there, the human side is easier to exploit... So those "skills" are portable... Will be interesting to see how the ecosystem reacts when it starts happening more and more... technological fixes won't do...
Your post is probably going to be the only one worth reading in the entire discussion, flooded in a deluge of "OMG VERSIGN R TEH GREEDIES!", which, while true, doesn't change the point.
Because there is a huge performance difference in gymnastic between younger and older contestants, as opposed to other sports. If all countries sent 12~ years old girls, that 14 year old one probably never would have won, too.
As someone pointed out, being younger in gymnastics is a huge advantage. If you pit a bunch of 12-14 years old against a group of 16+, and compare the results, the 16+ will get -trashed-. There's nothing impressive about a 12-14 years old beating someone older. The other way around is.
From the summary and skimming the comments and article real quick, I understand that this isn't anything more than a man in the middle attack coupled with an everyday Replay attack?
If its just that, welcome to the internet! Nothing to see here, move along.
Indeed, and there's more to it than that. Back then, Windows came out every 2-3 years. Now we're talking 5-6. So companies are exponentially more invested in XP than they were in 2k or 98 before their last upgrade. They -liked- not having new versions around (same with IE6 in the browser space::shudders::).
So you're not going to see upgrades anytime soon, even if Vista was completly flawless.
Indeed. Even 2 years after it came out, XP adoption in the enterprise was extremely small. Add to that the bunch of people who never even tried Vista (but heard of a friend who heard from a friend who read a blog about one of his friends who read the benchmarks that it sucked), and its easy to see those numbers.
The funniest part is all of the benchmarks from fresh installs, when its totally documented that a fresh install Vista will always suck (since its busy pre-analysing usage and building the cache for the first few days of usage).
XP was quite good for its time. Its unbearable now compared to all alternatives, be it the latest versions of Linux, Mac OSX, or Vista.
It will depend on the grocery store too. Where I am, there's 2 grocery stores competing against one another (sitting 200 meters apart, give or take).
One is "fancy". From what I understand, people there all make over 10$/hour, everything is expensive, but if you ask for help, they know what they're talking about. Service is amazing, everyone's polite, there are always twice as much cashiers as you need (except weekend evening, where laws here dictate a maximum, unfortunately), plus the people who bag your stuff. And the people who man the specialities (meat/fish counters, etc) are supposed to be paid quite a bit more too.
Then there's the other one. Which garentees that everything is cheaper than everywhere else and will price match (including walmart). Everyone there is paid minimum wadge, it stinks, they're yawning in your face, quality is awful, etc. I'm guessing they take all the people that the other place won't take.
I tend to do my debugging by inserting a lot of printf statements to indicate where in the program I currently am and the value of any critical variables at that time.
Wouldn't using a...you know... -debugger- be more efficient at doing that? Breakpoints, watching variables, etc?
Wow buddy. Accept corruption and idiocy? Haha, thats so much the opposite of what my point was, that I don't know where to start... I guess i'll try to keep it simple.
My actual point was simply that people should use this in a way to realise that the standard bodies have fallen long, long ago. It has nothing to do with MS. If you were to make a new standard body, and only make it resistant to the corruption of large scale "evil" corporations, it will fall -again-, since all the current ones fell without that (some without any corruption at all, as far as we know!).
Knowing that something sucks and need to be changed isn't enough to make things better. You need to understand WHY it happened. And its not because of MS in this case: they only abused things that everyone (who looked) knew was there. If people don't understand that, its just bound to happen again.
THIS, was my point. Not that its ok and we shouldn't do anything about it, jesus.
My local library makes thousands of CDs and DVDs available for copying (physical media, not over the 'net)... shouldn't they be prosecuted under German law?
I dont know about your local library, but when I was younger, my college did that. Catch is? They actually had deals which allowed it legally.
Wow, I knew about drugs being able to totally flip over someone's personality, but I wasn't aware of that one. How is it called? Seriously messed up though... Once you stop taking the drug, can you then get upset about things that happened while you were on it?
Correct, but what exactly does Microsoft have to do with it? They didn't stop the W3C from doing their job. They just ignored em. The W3C went ahead pulling standards out of their asses. Microsoft made things worse for EVERYONE ELSE, and possibly influenced the W3C into making CSS less complete (though seeing how much of CSS is ignored by Microsoft, it doesn't seem to slow down the W3C any).
Microsoft made things worse, sure. But they're not "largely responsible" for the W3C being so shitty: again, EVERYONE has troubles with that stupid spec.
Plus, CSS is far from the being the worse standard the W3C spit out, which again invalidate the fact that it sucks because of Microsoft. (Microsoft's stacks support SOAP just fine. Even supports the fancier parts, and non-W3C stuff on top of it such as WS-I! Doesn't change that SOAP blows.)
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People who buy in game currency always spout out like it never hurts anyone, and its their own business, etc etc... But putting monetary value on game stuff means that its about $$$, not fun anymore, and things like what you mention start happening... Its why many of us would not dismiss it as "its just a game, do what you want!"... We wanted it to KEEP it just a game...but all these other losers, pushing "its just a game, chill out!" were doing just the opposite, and ruinned it for everyone in the end.
Now, personally, I only play online games with private servers (so stuff like Neverwinter Nights, for example). That way it can stay just a game.
Wow, I wish I lived in that world. Of everyone I hang out with (and I'm probably the only one making less than 80k/year of the bunch), I'm the odd one out, aside for one of the network architects, who actually buys games (and well, software in general).
Most (not all) people I know will actually not buy a console until there's a mod chip for it, pirate everything, and to add insult to injury, some (not my friends, obviously) will actually shun down anyone who pays for software as idiots who "are probably too dumb to pirate it".
Whats worse, is when you get "We're not an IT company" as an excuse to do an half assed job. Let just say I worked for one of the top 10 most profitable companies in the world, and we had a multi million dollar internal IT project. They had a fairly large IT department, and hired more 15-20$/hour consultant (yeah, you get what you pay for, trust me), to rebuild their entire internal software stack from scratch.
They'd cut corners like crazy (web application where the markup is so bad, theres 2 megs of HTML alone to download on every click? Not counting the Flash, images, etc here... Users were going INSANE, and management's excuse for not getting better ressources to get the job done right was always "We're not an IT company, we can't be expected to be able to do better than this!").
It was -rediculous-.
Javascript, especially when tied to a full featured framework such as ExtJS, is actually freagin cool. Add some IDE support, like in Visual Studio 2008, or in Aptana, and you've got one rock solid, multi purpose dynamic language that is already mainstream and well supported.
Not as cool as Groovy, and I'm a static typing fan myself, but thats the next best thing.
Considering how long Javascript has been out, and that javascript intensive applications are clearly there in the present, I don't think this is premature =P Its late!
I know its hard to beleive, but Microsoft -does- add APIs from versions to versions, and XP (and even more so Vista) have a lot of these. They're not going to spend months recoding a feature from scratch for 2k thats built in XP.
Thats correct. And as much as there are many issues with Windows security that -could- be exploited, usually, even there, the human side is easier to exploit... So those "skills" are portable... Will be interesting to see how the ecosystem reacts when it starts happening more and more... technological fixes won't do...
Please, vbscript is do passé!
Write it in PowerShell, duh!
Your post is probably going to be the only one worth reading in the entire discussion, flooded in a deluge of "OMG VERSIGN R TEH GREEDIES!", which, while true, doesn't change the point.
That "nonsense" is the whole reason behind the age rule in the first place!
Same reason as with email spam. Real, potentially important calls get lost in the noise, making the medium a lot less useful.
Because there is a huge performance difference in gymnastic between younger and older contestants, as opposed to other sports. If all countries sent 12~ years old girls, that 14 year old one probably never would have won, too.
As someone pointed out, being younger in gymnastics is a huge advantage. If you pit a bunch of 12-14 years old against a group of 16+, and compare the results, the 16+ will get -trashed-. There's nothing impressive about a 12-14 years old beating someone older. The other way around is.
From the summary and skimming the comments and article real quick, I understand that this isn't anything more than a man in the middle attack coupled with an everyday Replay attack?
If its just that, welcome to the internet! Nothing to see here, move along.
Indeed, and there's more to it than that. Back then, Windows came out every 2-3 years. Now we're talking 5-6. So companies are exponentially more invested in XP than they were in 2k or 98 before their last upgrade. They -liked- not having new versions around (same with IE6 in the browser space ::shudders::).
So you're not going to see upgrades anytime soon, even if Vista was completly flawless.
Indeed. Even 2 years after it came out, XP adoption in the enterprise was extremely small. Add to that the bunch of people who never even tried Vista (but heard of a friend who heard from a friend who read a blog about one of his friends who read the benchmarks that it sucked), and its easy to see those numbers.
The funniest part is all of the benchmarks from fresh installs, when its totally documented that a fresh install Vista will always suck (since its busy pre-analysing usage and building the cache for the first few days of usage).
XP was quite good for its time. Its unbearable now compared to all alternatives, be it the latest versions of Linux, Mac OSX, or Vista.
It will depend on the grocery store too. Where I am, there's 2 grocery stores competing against one another (sitting 200 meters apart, give or take).
One is "fancy". From what I understand, people there all make over 10$/hour, everything is expensive, but if you ask for help, they know what they're talking about. Service is amazing, everyone's polite, there are always twice as much cashiers as you need (except weekend evening, where laws here dictate a maximum, unfortunately), plus the people who bag your stuff. And the people who man the specialities (meat/fish counters, etc) are supposed to be paid quite a bit more too.
Then there's the other one. Which garentees that everything is cheaper than everywhere else and will price match (including walmart). Everyone there is paid minimum wadge, it stinks, they're yawning in your face, quality is awful, etc. I'm guessing they take all the people that the other place won't take.
So really, it will depend on the grocery store.
Well, Microsoft -did- try and copy Apple when they made Vista...
Oh...hrm...yeah, I feel dumb.
Text files fortunately do not use paper.
Wouldn't using a...you know... -debugger- be more efficient at doing that? Breakpoints, watching variables, etc?
Wow buddy. Accept corruption and idiocy? Haha, thats so much the opposite of what my point was, that I don't know where to start... I guess i'll try to keep it simple.
My actual point was simply that people should use this in a way to realise that the standard bodies have fallen long, long ago. It has nothing to do with MS. If you were to make a new standard body, and only make it resistant to the corruption of large scale "evil" corporations, it will fall -again-, since all the current ones fell without that (some without any corruption at all, as far as we know!).
Knowing that something sucks and need to be changed isn't enough to make things better. You need to understand WHY it happened. And its not because of MS in this case: they only abused things that everyone (who looked) knew was there. If people don't understand that, its just bound to happen again.
THIS, was my point. Not that its ok and we shouldn't do anything about it, jesus.
I dont know about your local library, but when I was younger, my college did that. Catch is? They actually had deals which allowed it legally.
Wow, I knew about drugs being able to totally flip over someone's personality, but I wasn't aware of that one. How is it called? Seriously messed up though... Once you stop taking the drug, can you then get upset about things that happened while you were on it?
Correct, but what exactly does Microsoft have to do with it? They didn't stop the W3C from doing their job. They just ignored em. The W3C went ahead pulling standards out of their asses. Microsoft made things worse for EVERYONE ELSE, and possibly influenced the W3C into making CSS less complete (though seeing how much of CSS is ignored by Microsoft, it doesn't seem to slow down the W3C any).
Microsoft made things worse, sure. But they're not "largely responsible" for the W3C being so shitty: again, EVERYONE has troubles with that stupid spec.
Plus, CSS is far from the being the worse standard the W3C spit out, which again invalidate the fact that it sucks because of Microsoft. (Microsoft's stacks support SOAP just fine. Even supports the fancier parts, and non-W3C stuff on top of it such as WS-I! Doesn't change that SOAP blows.)