They are more worried about gold farmers who make a living off selling on ebay, etc. gold rather than the normal gamer. There are entire companies that hire people to dual box (having one player play multiple wow accounts on multiple computers) and farm gold. If it can be automated, they will do it. These actions really would hurt the game experience. As for copyright infringement, I'm not so sure about that.
With legal fees and the necessity to pay above of prevailing wage, H1B's cost more not less. your scenario is the exception not the rule. If you think a Google H1B probably with a phd is earning peanuts, you're wrong.
The nature of any business involves some cutthroat practices. From oil companies to the tech sector, see Enron to Sony. If you believe Microsoft's rivals have a clean slate you are mistaken. It is to kill or be killed, and in the process they have established more admirable products than not, improved the software industry far more than they have detracted from it, and more than any other company have bolstered us into this new era of mainstream computing. They don't pillage countries for their product, they don't "wack" mob targets, but they compete tooth and nail for marketshare. Yes they have leveraged themselves into other markets and us as consumers have benefited from it.
To see slashdotters whine about Microsoft's "illegal and immoral business practices" after the richest man in the world is following through with a pledge to give away the majority of his fortune really disappoints me. He did not do it to bolster his company's image. And even if he did, it's a small price for tens of billions of dollars.
Don't forget the difference between Computer Science and Computer Programming. Look into books that have complexity and algorithm analysis. "Introduction to Algorithms" is a good one stop solution.
The dev team of Ninja Gaiden went to PS3 because of its lukewarm sales on xbox. Forza isn't Burnout which is cross platform. Forza's sales are also lukewarm at best.
Halo is the systems only seller title, and, excuse me, one of 3 good titles.
I was interested by the source code because i couldn't believe it was as simple as it sounded.
I saw a n eat paragraph describing the purpose of the source.
If you can't understand that then I don't know what else you would want from/.
Am I the only one who finds it funny that Microsoft RESEARCH showcases a teddy bear with network access.
Where's the RESEARCH in that?
I could get some random goup of grad students to put a little box in a teddy bear with wifi and have some lame gui and perhaps mp3 player reading a story.
How does that get the spotlight in research?
Being a Junior with a CS major and a math minor, I can't help but feel I am the only one forgetting pretty much everything a year ago except for the concepts and the bare basics.
I believe college is to learn how to learn.
Any math intensive field one might fall in, you WILL need to reference and most likely relearn whatever skills you will need.
Perhaps I just have some serious memory loss for wtever reason but I just can't see myself taking wtever math intensive job without having to relearn something I forgot in college.
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They are more worried about gold farmers who make a living off selling on ebay, etc. gold rather than the normal gamer. There are entire companies that hire people to dual box (having one player play multiple wow accounts on multiple computers) and farm gold. If it can be automated, they will do it. These actions really would hurt the game experience. As for copyright infringement, I'm not so sure about that.
With legal fees and the necessity to pay above of prevailing wage, H1B's cost more not less. your scenario is the exception not the rule. If you think a Google H1B probably with a phd is earning peanuts, you're wrong.
The nature of any business involves some cutthroat practices. From oil companies to the tech sector, see Enron to Sony. If you believe Microsoft's rivals have a clean slate you are mistaken. It is to kill or be killed, and in the process they have established more admirable products than not, improved the software industry far more than they have detracted from it, and more than any other company have bolstered us into this new era of mainstream computing. They don't pillage countries for their product, they don't "wack" mob targets, but they compete tooth and nail for marketshare. Yes they have leveraged themselves into other markets and us as consumers have benefited from it.
To see slashdotters whine about Microsoft's "illegal and immoral business practices" after the richest man in the world is following through with a pledge to give away the majority of his fortune really disappoints me. He did not do it to bolster his company's image. And even if he did, it's a small price for tens of billions of dollars.
Don't forget the difference between Computer Science and Computer Programming. Look into books that have complexity and algorithm analysis. "Introduction to Algorithms" is a good one stop solution.
It'll be a DReaM that these measures don't get hacked in a week.
The dev team of Ninja Gaiden went to PS3 because of its lukewarm sales on xbox. Forza isn't Burnout which is cross platform. Forza's sales are also lukewarm at best. Halo is the systems only seller title, and, excuse me, one of 3 good titles.
you bastards had me seraching the gay forums for about 30 minutes. I can't find any torrent anywhere.
also get null pointer exception
I was interested by the source code because i couldn't believe it was as simple as it sounded. I saw a n eat paragraph describing the purpose of the source. If you can't understand that then I don't know what else you would want from /.
Am I the only one who finds it funny that Microsoft RESEARCH showcases a teddy bear with network access. Where's the RESEARCH in that? I could get some random goup of grad students to put a little box in a teddy bear with wifi and have some lame gui and perhaps mp3 player reading a story. How does that get the spotlight in research?
Being a Junior with a CS major and a math minor, I can't help but feel I am the only one forgetting pretty much everything a year ago except for the concepts and the bare basics. I believe college is to learn how to learn. Any math intensive field one might fall in, you WILL need to reference and most likely relearn whatever skills you will need. Perhaps I just have some serious memory loss for wtever reason but I just can't see myself taking wtever math intensive job without having to relearn something I forgot in college.