Price drops? Hell no, 10% across the board price jump to cover "losses due to unfair/unconstitutional competition" and add an extra year to contract lock-ins.
You kidding? They've got a huge shrine in their offices built around a diamond encrusted sign that says "Our Goal: OS Subscriptions". Even has a sacrificial altar, which last I saw had a struggling Clippy tied to it.
I can see how this could be damaging. It probably proves the whole lawsuit campaign is nothing more than them tossing huge chunks of money at the courts in the hope it scares everyone into not only stop copying, but even stop practicing fair use, and buying every cd as it comes out "just to be on the safe side".
Like how they regulate the roadways so you have to drive on a particular side (depending on which government is doing the regulating). Oh dear lord I hope they never make a connection between road service and internet. Legislation for "Wide/Long load" bitflags, mandating which side of the tube american packets must flow on, crosswalks in routers for dialup, IP address clearly visible in the front and end of the packet, speed limits based on state borders (or even better, a national speed limit set to 55kbps), packets must give way to emergency packets behind them.
And how exactly do we know it's a 10 year old yet they have no clue? Firing off a lawsuit before even doing a simple age check, that just screams competence to me...
Both parents, 2 siblings, and a couple extended family members are all teachers, or in the case of my father superintendent. Yes pay is ok, it's not stellar but it's good, though raises and cost of living increases rarely ever happen.
Benefits are excellent, summers off unless you opt for extra pay through summer school teaching. Good medical insurance for free, my dad's gets free generic drugs and anything over $200 in medical bills (including vision and dental) a year is covered 100%. Other benefits depend on tenure and position, like paid retraining, access to facilities after hours (my first real internet connection was in my dad's office, which I had free reign of after 6pm and on weekends). Some school districts recieve a lot of unnecessary grant money and budget allocation for tech upgrades, meaning at the end of the fiscal year even a small school can have $50k in unused tech cash and a need of ideas on what to spend it on. Biggest benefit is stability and portability. EVERY community needs teachers, and it usually takes a good decade for population growth rates to effect wether they still need 50 teachers, or just 45.
Downsides are what turn most people off from the job. Longer hours than most jobs. Enough unpaid overtime to make an EA programmer pity you. More breakroom drama than ABC's daytime lineup. No Child Left Behind and other completely fucking stupid plans and regulations. Daily exposure to more infectious diseases than most doctors will ever see (this is why they don't skimp on the medical insurance). Kids who wish you were sent to a siberian prison camp. Parents who ignore the fact their little angel is a holy terror and attribute everything from bad grades to disciplinary issues on your incompetence (so what if little billy was caught cheating, sleeps in class, and has started 3 fights this week alone, YOU hate him and are singling him out for undue punishment and failing grades). Parents who will do anything to correct any percieved issues with little angel's grades (death threats, my dad as a principal got dozens from parents looking for a way their kid won't fail 3rd grade again).
Wyoming High School students unite to fend off Russian invasion. All 70 of them.
What, you think I'm joking? I'm from there. Frankly they wouldn't even need 70, 6inches of hard packed mud armoring their trucks and more guns than people by a factor of atleast 5 makes wyoming the dumbest place in america to attack.
It should be, do you have any clue how many people walk right past the line to the registers and demand I drop whatever I'm doing so they can get $5 worth of quarters and a dime worth of pennies for those damn machines? Even better when they want that change out of a $100 bill or travellers check...
Why not just cut a chunk of the video file out, critical data that will make the file unplayable without, and a nontrivial amount so it can't be reconstructed. Take that data, encrypt it with the victim's assigned key, and distribute the video in 2 parts. The encrypted part is personally downloaded, while the bulk data is torrented. Then you just have a special plugin for windows media player or something else that reads both file streams and reconstructs on the fly, never recreating the real file. 20megs out of a 600meg movie would be trivial for them to serve to people and they'd still get the benefit of 600megs torrented.
Tribes had the seperate grenade controls from the beginning, without having a mod. It also had the limited weapons carrying feature, though it was limited by your armor class, not just 2.
Duke3d had a kick feature, a weapon available at all times at the push of a button, even when you were unarmed and kicking anyway. Made for some amusing play sessions, people running around doublekicking stuff.
Vehicles had been done many times over in other games.
Really, there's nothing inovative about the halo series. What made it a decent game was a good storyline and the specific combination of features.
To summarize "your plan": - Forces people to transfer documents to removable media to get said document out of the company network, creates problems when you have to email documents out of the company (a requirement when working with other companies 99% of the time) - Does not prevent infected documents from entering the company, just shifts it from email attachments to the old infected floppies method - Does not prevent infections from spreading once inside the company, if a person needs to be able to send a document they've edited to someone else in the company, it doesn't matter if the recieving end only has read only privileges, the infected person has write, and all their docuemnts will be infected already - Creates new possibilities for confusion. YOU try teaching mr Has-problems-running-Tivo to upload documents to shares and link to those in his emails instead of just dragging and dropping into his email program like he's been doing for the past couple years
Your idea does very little. A virus like this set to infect all docuemnts will eventually get into your corporate network. Unless you completely prevent documents from entering and leaving the company in electronic form, then you've just forced not only your employees but the companies you work with to print out any documents changing hands then take the time to redigitize. Once in, an infected document is still an infected document, wether the people it's infecting have read only permissions or not.
You may slow it down some, but frankly without antivirus or a patch to the vulnerability, you cannot prevent it from infecting your entire network, barring completely isolating everyone from everyone else. But then, what's the point of a network?
So then they make one that scans local and mapped drives and infects ALL word documents it finds. Then a single person getting this would very quickly infect the entire company.
So other than inducing more user errors by adding more steps to people's tasks, what has your method accomplished?
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Price drops? Hell no, 10% across the board price jump to cover "losses due to unfair/unconstitutional competition" and add an extra year to contract lock-ins.
9 million accounts. 3 million belong to players, 6 million belong to farmers.
Though it'll still be cheaper than a color cartridge from HP.
I know I do.
"-1, The Goggles, they do nothing!"
You kidding? They've got a huge shrine in their offices built around a diamond encrusted sign that says "Our Goal: OS Subscriptions". Even has a sacrificial altar, which last I saw had a struggling Clippy tied to it.
I can see how this could be damaging.
It probably proves the whole lawsuit campaign is nothing more than them tossing huge chunks of money at the courts in the hope it scares everyone into not only stop copying, but even stop practicing fair use, and buying every cd as it comes out "just to be on the safe side".
Yeah, that's pretty much the point of the new royalty plan. You honestly think they want the sheep to have a choice?
God damnit, master cheif in the shiney light-up mouse ears we now sell is a mental image I never wanted...
Like how they regulate the roadways so you have to drive on a particular side (depending on which government is doing the regulating).
Oh dear lord I hope they never make a connection between road service and internet.
Legislation for "Wide/Long load" bitflags, mandating which side of the tube american packets must flow on, crosswalks in routers for dialup, IP address clearly visible in the front and end of the packet, speed limits based on state borders (or even better, a national speed limit set to 55kbps), packets must give way to emergency packets behind them.
And how exactly do we know it's a 10 year old yet they have no clue?
Firing off a lawsuit before even doing a simple age check, that just screams competence to me...
Exercise is a big thing in space, if they can keep the spacers in better shape and generate power at the same time, it's a good thing.
Both parents, 2 siblings, and a couple extended family members are all teachers, or in the case of my father superintendent.
Yes pay is ok, it's not stellar but it's good, though raises and cost of living increases rarely ever happen.
Benefits are excellent, summers off unless you opt for extra pay through summer school teaching. Good medical insurance for free, my dad's gets free generic drugs and anything over $200 in medical bills (including vision and dental) a year is covered 100%. Other benefits depend on tenure and position, like paid retraining, access to facilities after hours (my first real internet connection was in my dad's office, which I had free reign of after 6pm and on weekends). Some school districts recieve a lot of unnecessary grant money and budget allocation for tech upgrades, meaning at the end of the fiscal year even a small school can have $50k in unused tech cash and a need of ideas on what to spend it on.
Biggest benefit is stability and portability. EVERY community needs teachers, and it usually takes a good decade for population growth rates to effect wether they still need 50 teachers, or just 45.
Downsides are what turn most people off from the job. Longer hours than most jobs. Enough unpaid overtime to make an EA programmer pity you. More breakroom drama than ABC's daytime lineup. No Child Left Behind and other completely fucking stupid plans and regulations. Daily exposure to more infectious diseases than most doctors will ever see (this is why they don't skimp on the medical insurance).
Kids who wish you were sent to a siberian prison camp. Parents who ignore the fact their little angel is a holy terror and attribute everything from bad grades to disciplinary issues on your incompetence (so what if little billy was caught cheating, sleeps in class, and has started 3 fights this week alone, YOU hate him and are singling him out for undue punishment and failing grades). Parents who will do anything to correct any percieved issues with little angel's grades (death threats, my dad as a principal got dozens from parents looking for a way their kid won't fail 3rd grade again).
Wyoming High School students unite to fend off Russian invasion.
All 70 of them.
What, you think I'm joking? I'm from there.
Frankly they wouldn't even need 70, 6inches of hard packed mud armoring their trucks and more guns than people by a factor of atleast 5 makes wyoming the dumbest place in america to attack.
"Oh father who art in heaven..."?
It should be, do you have any clue how many people walk right past the line to the registers and demand I drop whatever I'm doing so they can get $5 worth of quarters and a dime worth of pennies for those damn machines?
Even better when they want that change out of a $100 bill or travellers check...
Why not just cut a chunk of the video file out, critical data that will make the file unplayable without, and a nontrivial amount so it can't be reconstructed.
Take that data, encrypt it with the victim's assigned key, and distribute the video in 2 parts. The encrypted part is personally downloaded, while the bulk data is torrented. Then you just have a special plugin for windows media player or something else that reads both file streams and reconstructs on the fly, never recreating the real file.
20megs out of a 600meg movie would be trivial for them to serve to people and they'd still get the benefit of 600megs torrented.
I thought it was Will Wright?
Accordion Hero: Mad Polka Beats
Then a year later, Duet Hero: Scottish Polka Madness, Accordions and Bagpipes.
Well, since you aren't a researcher, lemme translate.
"Stem cells! Stem cells! Look, we found stem cells! Give us more grant money!"
First time I read it there was a misspelling that omitted the first 't', so it got stuck in my head as Chu-thoo-loo, Chew Through You.
Tribes had the seperate grenade controls from the beginning, without having a mod.
It also had the limited weapons carrying feature, though it was limited by your armor class, not just 2.
Duke3d had a kick feature, a weapon available at all times at the push of a button, even when you were unarmed and kicking anyway. Made for some amusing play sessions, people running around doublekicking stuff.
Vehicles had been done many times over in other games.
Really, there's nothing inovative about the halo series. What made it a decent game was a good storyline and the specific combination of features.
To summarize "your plan":
- Forces people to transfer documents to removable media to get said document out of the company network, creates problems when you have to email documents out of the company (a requirement when working with other companies 99% of the time)
- Does not prevent infected documents from entering the company, just shifts it from email attachments to the old infected floppies method
- Does not prevent infections from spreading once inside the company, if a person needs to be able to send a document they've edited to someone else in the company, it doesn't matter if the recieving end only has read only privileges, the infected person has write, and all their docuemnts will be infected already
- Creates new possibilities for confusion. YOU try teaching mr Has-problems-running-Tivo to upload documents to shares and link to those in his emails instead of just dragging and dropping into his email program like he's been doing for the past couple years
Your idea does very little.
A virus like this set to infect all docuemnts will eventually get into your corporate network. Unless you completely prevent documents from entering and leaving the company in electronic form, then you've just forced not only your employees but the companies you work with to print out any documents changing hands then take the time to redigitize.
Once in, an infected document is still an infected document, wether the people it's infecting have read only permissions or not.
You may slow it down some, but frankly without antivirus or a patch to the vulnerability, you cannot prevent it from infecting your entire network, barring completely isolating everyone from everyone else. But then, what's the point of a network?
So then they make one that scans local and mapped drives and infects ALL word documents it finds. Then a single person getting this would very quickly infect the entire company.
So other than inducing more user errors by adding more steps to people's tasks, what has your method accomplished?
You're complaining about this NOT being a cookie cutter sequel?
Jesus, who do you work for, EA?