from what I've heard ubisoft has an oh-so great reputation for treating their employees well...
Yes, actually they do, I have 3 friends who work for Rainbow Studios in Phoenix and they love it! I've been told on multiple occasions that I have a seat there waiting for me. But I'm opting to finish college and grab a master's first.
But this news, along with the state of the industry as a whole is just very depressing...It seems that by the time I will get out and am ready to hit the scene, there won't be much left in terms of great places work for. All the legacy developers and publishers will have long been consolidated away or eaten up (as in the case of ubi.) And the only thing that will be remain are a bunch of these neo-fascist EA sweatshops.
It's sad but really, this is the only way I ultimately see the industry going...but I guess good things don't last forever.
Of course, living in the commie state that I do, you'll never hear any of these concerns voiced over the mass media channels...
Wow I'm really sorry for you having to live in a country where you have no free speech, your media is never critical of the government's actions; always running the party line. Must be just horrible...
You should really conceder breaking free of your oppression and moving to the United States, which is the freest, most democratic...oh shit....ummm
Ok, looks like that war on communism sure was successful...were now becoming those damn communists we tried so hard to kill 20 years ago.
"I've wisened up to the fact that, even though they may charge horrible prices, I might still be stealing."
"might be"?
Fuck you, Laws don't make things right or wrong, they just make things illegal.
In this case it's clear; they are abusing the copyright system to assert more money for themselves, while alienating you from your natural rights. They are using this system to blot out freedom of speech, chill research and stifle innovation, because technology no longer fits their business model.
It's only "stealing" because they've muscled laws into place making it such, freedom of speech is a natural right, a corporations "right" to profit and manage intellectual property is not.
Since last time I checked morality is an absolute, it does not bend for copyright law.
Hmm, that's kinda funny; I don't seem Microsoft on their list...methinks their waiting to build up a larger legal precedent first before trying to taking on the last boss.
But still, even if they do manage to get all the way up to level 10 and square off against the giant 500 lb Gorilla himself...I don't seem them winning. If governments have trouble smacking it up, I really don't see these guys posing much of a threat to it.
I could be wrong, but this might be one of the few times where Microsoft is actually going to stand up for the industry...
Unless McKool Smith entered in the 30 life code....then were all b0rked!!
No, and that's not really the issue anyway...its just "supposed to reduce the risk of terrorism", so people wont object to giant surveillance drones being installed over their heads.
My tin foil hat can't help but see these things as the precursor to 20 years from now when its common practice and wholly accepted to be monitored your entire day and flagged as potential a "terrorist" for doing anything out of the ordinary, like hanging out by a bridge.
Granted, I'm sure there are plenty legitimate non-infringing uses for this but...it's just so easy and tempting to turn them off once the infrastructure's in place.
Okay guys, its open season on me, set grills to flame...
Terrorists have no power, unless we give it to them (through fear)...doing shit like this is just making it worse (unduly causing more public fear). Assuming for a moment that fighting terrorism was the real purpose of this...
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"You'd think they'd understand the value of infrastructure, you know?"
HA!
At the store I worked at in Fort Wayne, Indiana (same place their CIO is from btw) the door to the room housing the all store's rack mount servers was always halfway ajar...
Okay, that's bad enough but the door to this room was located right in the stores main entrance lobby (where the greeters are). Yeah, they kept grocery bags in there...and left it open so cashers could easily get them.
There are no cameras in the main lobby, and if I had a pair...man I would have loved to teach them a lesson!!
"That isn't parody, that's Showing The Movie With No Sound."
"In order to protect our copyright, anyone who plans to commercially exhibit our films has to go through the appropriate channels," said Lucasfilm spokeswoman Lynne Hale."
I thought copyright was a control designed to protect peoples work from being copied without permission...not from being displayed without sound! Controlling how a movie is played back, regardless of the intent (commercial or otherwise) is outside of the scope of the copyright on their work.
"Why are all the spyware programs written for Windows rather than Mac or Linux."
B/c first these things work by volume, windows has a farlarger userbase to attack than any of the others. Second, there are alot more, less knowledgeable users on windows than on other platforms. So statistically its far easyer to doop them into installing your garbageware than users of other systems.
To me this "Growser" seems like it might be just as much of a firefox killer as it is an IE killer. I mean after all both "Growser" and firefox are both targeting unconverted IE users. Every new convert it gets, is one less new firefox user.
With all the built in name recognition and positive brand identity the Google logo carries, it seems like "Growser" could easily steal the thunder away from firefox. Cause as we've all just seen, quality is irrelivent, its all about how bad you shuv it into the users face. I feal, a featured link on their homepage, combinde with growing public awareness, could quickly turn firefox into the underdog.
"Safari is a strong player on the Mac front, but it still has market to gain to completely overshadow IE5/Mac"
That just doesnt make a lick of sense, how is microsoft able to infect mac with IE so easily? I can totally see how they pulled it off on window systems, but seriously does apple actually bundle it as the default browers on macos or what?
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from what I've heard ubisoft has an oh-so great reputation for treating their employees well...
Yes, actually they do, I have 3 friends who work for Rainbow Studios in Phoenix and they love it! I've been told on multiple occasions that I have a seat there waiting for me. But I'm opting to finish college and grab a master's first.
But this news, along with the state of the industry as a whole is just very depressing...It seems that by the time I will get out and am ready to hit the scene, there won't be much left in terms of great places work for. All the legacy developers and publishers will have long been consolidated away or eaten up (as in the case of ubi.) And the only thing that will be remain are a bunch of these neo-fascist EA sweatshops.
It's sad but really, this is the only way I ultimately see the industry going...but I guess good things don't last forever.
Of course, living in the commie state that I do, you'll never hear any of these concerns voiced over the mass media channels...
Wow I'm really sorry for you having to live in a country where you have no free speech, your media is never critical of the government's actions; always running the party line. Must be just horrible...
You should really conceder breaking free of your oppression and moving to the United States, which is the freest, most democratic...oh shit....ummm
Ok, looks like that war on communism sure was successful...were now becoming those damn communists we tried so hard to kill 20 years ago.
A license to SCO unix...
"Statistics can be used to proove anything, 85% of all people know that..."
-Homer Simpson
They why the TAR does he support outsourcing!?
What a fucking guy, this president...
"I've wisened up to the fact that, even though they may charge horrible prices, I might still be stealing."
"might be"?
Fuck you,
Laws don't make things right or wrong, they just make things illegal.
In this case it's clear; they are abusing the copyright system to assert more money for themselves, while alienating you from your natural rights. They are using this system to blot out freedom of speech, chill research and stifle innovation, because technology no longer fits their business model.
It's only "stealing" because they've muscled laws into place making it such, freedom of speech is a natural right, a corporations "right" to profit and manage intellectual property is not.
Since last time I checked morality is an absolute, it does not bend for copyright law.
Hmm, that's kinda funny; I don't seem Microsoft on their list...methinks their waiting to build up a larger legal precedent first before trying to taking on the last boss.
But still, even if they do manage to get all the way up to level 10 and square off against the giant 500 lb Gorilla himself...I don't seem them winning. If governments have trouble smacking it up, I really don't see these guys posing much of a threat to it.
I could be wrong, but this might be one of the few times where Microsoft is actually going to stand up for the industry...
Unless McKool Smith entered in the 30 life code....then were all b0rked!!
Look, that technology is already here!!
Behold, a program which is capable of designing a new program!!
#include <stdio.h>
int main ( void )
{
FILE * output = fopen ( "c:\\newprogram.c", "w" );
fprintf ( output, "#include <stdio.h>\nint main ( void )\n{\nprintf(\"hello world!\");\nreturn 0;\n}" );
fclose ( output );
return 0;
}
Were all doomed you fools!!
error c2144: Syntax error, missing semicolon before identifier "vote";
Man, I Hate Teenagers! ....
Damn kids ruined my lawn too!
Did everybody forget how long it takes to press millions of cds, package them and distribute them worldwide?
No, and that's not really the issue anyway...its just "supposed to reduce the risk of terrorism", so people wont object to giant surveillance drones being installed over their heads.
My tin foil hat can't help but see these things as the precursor to 20 years from now when its common practice and wholly accepted to be monitored your entire day and flagged as potential a "terrorist" for doing anything out of the ordinary, like hanging out by a bridge. Granted, I'm sure there are plenty legitimate non-infringing uses for this but...it's just so easy and tempting to turn them off once the infrastructure's in place.
Okay guys, its open season on me, set grills to flame...
...speaking of which, I'm going to go "interact with my virtual object" right now.
Terrorists have no power, unless we give it to them (through fear)...doing shit like this is just making it worse (unduly causing more public fear). Assuming for a moment that fighting terrorism was the real purpose of this...
HA!
At the store I worked at in Fort Wayne, Indiana (same place their CIO is from btw) the door to the room housing the all store's rack mount servers was always halfway ajar...
Okay, that's bad enough but the door to this room was located right in the stores main entrance lobby (where the greeters are). Yeah, they kept grocery bags in there...and left it open so cashers could easily get them.
There are no cameras in the main lobby, and if I had a pair...man I would have loved to teach them a lesson!!
"In order to protect our copyright, anyone who plans to commercially exhibit our films has to go through the appropriate channels," said Lucasfilm spokeswoman Lynne Hale."
I thought copyright was a control designed to protect peoples work from being copied without permission...not from being displayed without sound!
Controlling how a movie is played back, regardless of the intent (commercial or otherwise) is outside of the scope of the copyright on their work.
ummm....my tinfoil hat says that this wasn't free
Anybody else here use Trillian? Besides the fact that it doesn't run on Linux and there's a pay version, how would you guys compare it to GAIM?
B/c first these things work by volume, windows has a farlarger userbase to attack than any of the others. Second, there are alot more, less knowledgeable users on windows than on other platforms. So statistically its far easyer to doop them into installing your garbageware than users of other systems.
To me this "Growser" seems like it might be just as much of a firefox killer as it is an IE killer. I mean after all both "Growser" and firefox are both targeting unconverted IE users. Every new convert it gets, is one less new firefox user.
With all the built in name recognition and positive brand identity the Google logo carries, it seems like "Growser" could easily steal the thunder away from firefox. Cause as we've all just seen, quality is irrelivent, its all about how bad you shuv it into the users face. I feal, a featured link on their homepage, combinde with growing public awareness, could quickly turn firefox into the underdog.
"Safari is a strong player on the Mac front, but it still has market to gain to completely overshadow IE5/Mac"
That just doesnt make a lick of sense, how is microsoft able to infect mac with IE so easily? I can totally see how they pulled it off on window systems, but seriously does apple actually bundle it as the default browers on macos or what?
Spoilers? I've got another spoiler for yah!
Everyone who uses to this site will die alone (cause no one will get married)...
Oh crap!
now I have to go change all my old 5'1/4 disk jokes to 3.5' disk jokes!
hmmm, is it just me, or is the Department of Justice starting to sound more like the "Minestry of Love" every day?...
Open the Door!
Ohh piss, Thought Police are here, and I haven't even submitted yet!!