Yes, there were allegations/proof she was paid by MS. Go check the comes documents where they suggest she trolls and she says she would be happy to do so.
Miguel has never HELPED the open source community. People just dont' recognize the difference between an open source program that benefits people vs an open source program that creates legal risk.
My reasons for "hating" MS are based on fact, not opinion - that's why people actually do care and read what I say. I don't need to spin things or mislead if the truth and facts that exist do a better job of hurting their own campaigns.
Show me someone else on Microsoft's payroll who doesn't have an anti anything that Microsoft doesnt' like bais.
difficulty: maureen o'gara, florian, miguel all are on the payroll. The fact is you should not trust anything from someone who works with an ethically questionable company that has never changed their strategy in over 20 years.
the reality is: there's zero guarantee they'll stand up to the government, something twitter actually does.
So it sounds great, but it'd be a gigantic loss to freedom worldwide if people pick app.net over twitter at the moment. Guarantee that app.net can't afford lawyers like twitter.
back in the 2g days maybe, but not since 3g, and absolutely not since LTE nor real 4g does congestion even become a factor. IT's more an issue of "Carrier doesn't want to improve coverage" vs "users who want actual coverage".
The real one is this: if you exploit the market and it's later found to not be legal (aka not okay with arenanet), they don't take away what you've already done.
Welcome to your own imaginary society - it's not actually like what you state it is.
Let's not start with the reddit meme all over again. In comparison to every other MMO arenanet punishes players instead of focusing on fixing problems.
I've always expected HP, Dell and eventually Lenovo to be displaced by companies that are more flexible with their options. Instead we end up with large vendors and small vendors, but nothing substantial seems to change with time.
There are two groups responsible. One is Miguel, and the other is Microsoft. Considering that they're both pigs from the same trough, both are responsible for these issues. Yes taking money from MS is an issue. It pretty much specifies a lack of ethics. No major company that has ever done so ends up doing anything successfully with the partnership. see: Yahoo, Novell, Nokia, windows phone, facebook, Barnes and Noble.
The point is - mono becomes irrelevant if it's not functional. Mono (and moonlight) are not excused if they have a partnership between Microsoft and Novell that is causing a delay of multiple YEARS for implementation. That's not absolving Mono of guilt, that's the fault of Miguel. Considering it was a proprietary implementation in the first place it was almost impossible for anyone to legally work on the mono project anyway. Literally he became a willing plant for microsoft by looking to implement mono aka.net aka software microsoft stole anyway, designed in a fashion to break GPL.
They are doing so, but everything is stayed until december. The impact of the jury doing shit like this at the moment is zero. No precedent, case is not closed, appeals haven't even started and apple can't go after samsung for money. Also since the jury was so haphazard in their wacky judgment they decided some devices are not infringing - so samsung can have those immediately removed from the case and/or threats as well.
Basically, the jury made this really really complicated. Now's when the case is going to actually move forward, based on the judge's responses - assuming the judge doesn't try to sidestep the whole thing.
The foreman drove the jury verdict, admitted it and exposed his own failure of logic. He made a giant spectacular leap of logic and ignored all directions given by the court. Usually that fits in the category of saying a jury has done a shit job.
That's not an ego issue, it's pretty much clear fact.
Keeping an application deliberately incompatible while releasing older versions which are still incompatible is not an example of a functioning piece of software.
MS: "you have to have silverlight version 5" Mono: "version 2.1, no plan to upgrade". ETC. That's not open source, that's a fraud of a statement to call it anything other than acting like they care while doing nothing. Miguel is as shill as it gets, and always has been right up there with Florian - except that Miguel is already paid by Microsoft directly. Not that hard to figure this out.
Linux desktop wasn't, and isn't killed by Mac. An article with quotes by Miguel should be treated as the same category as an article with quotes from Florian. aka assumed to be false and misleading. Why haven't people realized this? Miguel changed his colors once he started with mono, and it never ended. Just like how Florian says that just because he's paid by microsoft/oracle doesnt' mean it influences his writings.
PC's have never been dying. They have a specific use, and it has always remained for years. It's not going to go away when portable hardware simply cannot compare with a pc's capability. That even goes for windows 8 surface devices. Growing? No, probably not. stable? yes. No worries, we're only due for another 20-40 years of "is the PC dying?" articles on slashdot.
Or we could have pc makers wake up to that they don't have to build windows boxes and start doing things which can, you know, reboot the PC industry. Dell is no exception considering they only offer ubuntu as an official option on old hardware.
god forbid you're forced to acknowledge that a ton of people are gigantic assholes (including the person who takes personal offense at others daring to communicate) and leave it to society to encourage them to not blab on the phone. You know, like functional society.
Breaking copyright is absolutely ok and I advocate it. Guess what? the entire world does it daily. That's why things like fair use exists, because copyright is improperly asserted in it's current form. Copyright as is, simply does not apply properly to digital products.
google play ratings are as reliable as my own imagination is as an authoritative source. Most people will rate an app as follows, and you can replace "game" with "app" if needed.
"this game is awesome!" 5 stars "this game is awesome!" 1 star "this game crashes my phone! minus one star until it's fixed!" 4 stars "this game crashes my phone!" 1 star "this game crashes my phone!" 5 stars.
Ratings on google play are not only gamed (and yes, we know when they're being gamed), but have probably the most useless ratings of any system I've ever seen implemented. This is like saying "look at my yelp rating! look at my metacritic professional rating" while failing to acknowledge the hilariousness of said scores.
My argument does hold water, you're just too ignorant to accept that piracy has NOTHING to do with how you define your own quality. Your customers will pirate your app if they are not given the features they want in the app, which is reflective of that the quality of the app is not where they want it to be. But yes, please grandstand like you are an amazing app developer! we really care! (not really). If 95% are pirating, the question should be: How can I support those underwhelmed fans? Not: how do I fight it/piracy is bad. Fighting piracy does nothing for piracy rates, and to believe otherwise is to delude yourself. This has been covered a million times showing that piracy is beneficial .
In short, there is absolutely no valid argument that exists to complain about piracy, because it is beneficial. It is your own fault if you can't figure out how to take advantage of that.
the only reason people pirate on android is because we have shitty developers like the guy who decries piracy as the reason for him making a shitty app.
see how this circle works?
make apps that aren't openly hostile to your customers and/or basically stupid, and guess what? people are more than happy to pay for them, especially if they are well made.
The point is, release what you promise to release. Don't call it a game and then remove 10% which people have to pay extra for. That has nothing to do with completeness of a game and everything to do with a profit extraction. What the hell is this BS about focusing on how complete a game needs to be? the focus is on not charging EXTRA. If a game is $40 to play, the game is not $50 to play (DLC). Simple and fucking done.
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Yes, there were allegations/proof she was paid by MS. Go check the comes documents where they suggest she trolls and she says she would be happy to do so.
Miguel has never HELPED the open source community. People just dont' recognize the difference between an open source program that benefits people vs an open source program that creates legal risk.
My reasons for "hating" MS are based on fact, not opinion - that's why people actually do care and read what I say. I don't need to spin things or mislead if the truth and facts that exist do a better job of hurting their own campaigns.
It has never failed to be true, but nice try!
Show me someone else on Microsoft's payroll who doesn't have an anti anything that Microsoft doesnt' like bais.
difficulty: maureen o'gara, florian, miguel all are on the payroll. The fact is you should not trust anything from someone who works with an ethically questionable company that has never changed their strategy in over 20 years.
because they proclaimed "but we're not twitter!"
the reality is: there's zero guarantee they'll stand up to the government, something twitter actually does.
So it sounds great, but it'd be a gigantic loss to freedom worldwide if people pick app.net over twitter at the moment. Guarantee that app.net can't afford lawyers like twitter.
back in the 2g days maybe, but not since 3g, and absolutely not since LTE nor real 4g does congestion even become a factor. IT's more an issue of "Carrier doesn't want to improve coverage" vs "users who want actual coverage".
actually, your comparison is wrong.
The real one is this: if you exploit the market and it's later found to not be legal (aka not okay with arenanet), they don't take away what you've already done.
Welcome to your own imaginary society - it's not actually like what you state it is.
because he's paid by microsoft?
again, his comments are in the same category as Florian and should be summarized dismissed as such.
Let's not start with the reddit meme all over again. In comparison to every other MMO arenanet punishes players instead of focusing on fixing problems.
I've always expected HP, Dell and eventually Lenovo to be displaced by companies that are more flexible with their options. Instead we end up with large vendors and small vendors, but nothing substantial seems to change with time.
There are two groups responsible. One is Miguel, and the other is Microsoft. Considering that they're both pigs from the same trough, both are responsible for these issues. Yes taking money from MS is an issue. It pretty much specifies a lack of ethics. No major company that has ever done so ends up doing anything successfully with the partnership. see: Yahoo, Novell, Nokia, windows phone, facebook, Barnes and Noble.
The point is - mono becomes irrelevant if it's not functional. Mono (and moonlight) are not excused if they have a partnership between Microsoft and Novell that is causing a delay of multiple YEARS for implementation. That's not absolving Mono of guilt, that's the fault of Miguel. Considering it was a proprietary implementation in the first place it was almost impossible for anyone to legally work on the mono project anyway. Literally he became a willing plant for microsoft by looking to implement mono aka .net aka software microsoft stole anyway, designed in a fashion to break GPL.
They are doing so, but everything is stayed until december. The impact of the jury doing shit like this at the moment is zero. No precedent, case is not closed, appeals haven't even started and apple can't go after samsung for money. Also since the jury was so haphazard in their wacky judgment they decided some devices are not infringing - so samsung can have those immediately removed from the case and/or threats as well.
Basically, the jury made this really really complicated. Now's when the case is going to actually move forward, based on the judge's responses - assuming the judge doesn't try to sidestep the whole thing.
The foreman drove the jury verdict, admitted it and exposed his own failure of logic. He made a giant spectacular leap of logic and ignored all directions given by the court. Usually that fits in the category of saying a jury has done a shit job.
That's not an ego issue, it's pretty much clear fact.
mono was not even remotely open source.
Keeping an application deliberately incompatible while releasing older versions which are still incompatible is not an example of a functioning piece of software.
MS: "you have to have silverlight version 5"
Mono: "version 2.1, no plan to upgrade". ETC. That's not open source, that's a fraud of a statement to call it anything other than acting like they care while doing nothing. Miguel is as shill as it gets, and always has been right up there with Florian - except that Miguel is already paid by Microsoft directly. Not that hard to figure this out.
self correction: 1 percent drop.
1 percent growth is within the realm of statistical anomalies.
Wake me up when it's 10% and then we might have something significant.
Linux desktop wasn't, and isn't killed by Mac. An article with quotes by Miguel should be treated as the same category as an article with quotes from Florian. aka assumed to be false and misleading.
Why haven't people realized this? Miguel changed his colors once he started with mono, and it never ended. Just like how Florian says that just because he's paid by microsoft/oracle doesnt' mean it influences his writings.
bless thy noodly appendages.
PC's have never been dying. They have a specific use, and it has always remained for years. It's not going to go away when portable hardware simply cannot compare with a pc's capability. That even goes for windows 8 surface devices. Growing? No, probably not. stable? yes. No worries, we're only due for another 20-40 years of "is the PC dying?" articles on slashdot.
Or we could have pc makers wake up to that they don't have to build windows boxes and start doing things which can, you know, reboot the PC industry. Dell is no exception considering they only offer ubuntu as an official option on old hardware.
you mean like people do on trains, buses, etc?
god forbid you're forced to acknowledge that a ton of people are gigantic assholes (including the person who takes personal offense at others daring to communicate) and leave it to society to encourage them to not blab on the phone. You know, like functional society.
Breaking copyright is absolutely ok and I advocate it. Guess what? the entire world does it daily. That's why things like fair use exists, because copyright is improperly asserted in it's current form. Copyright as is, simply does not apply properly to digital products.
Actually this is clippy 2.0 . How can you tell? The logo wasn't even changed.
Check out our new logo! astonishingly similar to our old logo! but it's new!
*waves hands*
these are not the logos you are looking for
google play ratings are as reliable as my own imagination is as an authoritative source. Most people will rate an app as follows, and you can replace "game" with "app" if needed.
"this game is awesome!" 5 stars
"this game is awesome!" 1 star
"this game crashes my phone! minus one star until it's fixed!" 4 stars
"this game crashes my phone!" 1 star
"this game crashes my phone!" 5 stars.
Ratings on google play are not only gamed (and yes, we know when they're being gamed), but have probably the most useless ratings of any system I've ever seen implemented. This is like saying "look at my yelp rating! look at my metacritic professional rating" while failing to acknowledge the hilariousness of said scores.
My argument does hold water, you're just too ignorant to accept that piracy has NOTHING to do with how you define your own quality. Your customers will pirate your app if they are not given the features they want in the app, which is reflective of that the quality of the app is not where they want it to be. But yes, please grandstand like you are an amazing app developer! we really care! (not really). If 95% are pirating, the question should be: How can I support those underwhelmed fans? Not: how do I fight it/piracy is bad. Fighting piracy does nothing for piracy rates, and to believe otherwise is to delude yourself. This has been covered a million times showing that piracy is beneficial .
In short, there is absolutely no valid argument that exists to complain about piracy, because it is beneficial. It is your own fault if you can't figure out how to take advantage of that.
for twice the cost and comes with twice the DRM, along with limited availability! enjoy!
the only reason people pirate on android is because we have shitty developers like the guy who decries piracy as the reason for him making a shitty app.
see how this circle works?
make apps that aren't openly hostile to your customers and/or basically stupid, and guess what? people are more than happy to pay for them, especially if they are well made.
Wha? Why do they need it in a chip? It's built into the OS: it's called upgrades (and the software that requires them).
The point is, release what you promise to release. Don't call it a game and then remove 10% which people have to pay extra for. That has nothing to do with completeness of a game and everything to do with a profit extraction. What the hell is this BS about focusing on how complete a game needs to be? the focus is on not charging EXTRA. If a game is $40 to play, the game is not $50 to play (DLC). Simple and fucking done.