ASP has no DB requirement whatsoever, MySQL works just fine, as does every other DB system. IIS though is pretty much part and parcel with ASP, but then you would only be doing ASP if you were already using windows server and then IIS is free anyway.
Well yeah, what else would you expect when an R&D division hires you to innovate for them, they would never hire anyone if their employees could just claim all the inventions and innovations for themselves while taking home a pay cheque.
I can assure you that they weren't asked to do that the minimal budget that this is being proposed at, if they had said here is 50 billion to develop 5x cheaper and 5x more energy dense in 5 years, it would be at best a hail mary chance of achieving it, to do it on 120 million over 5 years would take incredible luck.
Stop making excuses for them. No it isn't easy to get right, but when google can pay less than 100k tax on in excess of a billion dollars of profit their is something critically wrong. You can demand that they show fair costs of production and tax on the goods being sold in the country, rather than the current bullshit where they will charge a subsiderary $1000 on a $10 item to avoid tax in that country, There are a many many simple changes to tax systems that can be made that would go a long way to rectifying the situation, no it will never be perfect, but it can be a thousand times better.
It is a serious problem all around the world, I don't blame the likes of Google, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft etc taking advantage of it as after all it is legal, but damn the countries affected need to wake up and change their tax laws to stop this crap happening. They don't even have to give them harsh treatment, just bring them into line with what the respective company tax rates are for each company, the best start is to block local government contracts if they are funnelling the proceeds through international tax havens. Basically similar to what the UK have done with the cloud providers but more widespread.
They aren't being asked to censor content, the content has long been removed from the offending site, they are being told to stop showing libellous content that no longer exists, only google has the content therefore it is perfectly reasonable that they are now responsible for the consequences for showing it.
It isn't hard to find the information, what the A/C submitted appears to be accurate and the story has simply been slanted to make it look like the FBI is using dirty tactics when it appears that it is megaupload that is being called on their dirty tactics.
That is purely a fallacious excuse megaupload tried to use. Nothing was preventing them from removing the links to the other 1999 files, the files would not have been deleted or altered in any way.
NO, it means if they tell you to do something then keep the evidence they told you to do it. You would be in far more shit for not doing what they ordered and have no comeback in court.
That is an article based on rumors from long before the wii U was released. THQ are not the only developers to comment on the sluggish CPU in the wii U. I don't think anything much is really confirmed about the CPU yet, except it ISN'T a Power7 CPU as that was confirmed by IBM, it is instead a faster version of what was in the wii.
No I don't think this is aimed at me and that is the problem. Steam is successful because of its massive audience, that audience is NOT the console gaming audience. The problem they are facing is they expect their PC market to suffer under win8 and the availability of the app store, but what they seem to be doing here is not actually addressing that problem, instead they are trying to win there way into a much smaller and far more competitive market, it smells of desperation or poor forethought.
I game on my PC as I like the power and flexibility I can achieve where I can upgrade at will and not be limited. If I wanted a console gaming experience I would buy a console and to be honest it would be a ps or an xbox not a steambox, I certainly won't be buying a steam console or any other console as my primary gaming platform and I cannot conceive of anything valve can do can make me desire a console instead of a gaming PC.
It isn't a step towards the babel fish at all. The babel fish delivered brain waves directly to the speach center of the listening person thus needed no knowledge of the language being spoken or received. Simply processing one understood language to another is not any sort of step towards a babel fish.
Probably like all large projects, no one wants to pull the plug as at that point they have to admit the whole thing is a failure. The more it blows out the more determined they become to deliver as the fallout for the failure only gets worse the further over budget they become. I have been involved in similar projects (though not to this scale) and it is always easier to beg for more funds or bleed the funds of other projects than it is to admit the project is a failure and simply stop the waste.
A company I used to work for 10-15 years ago took the approach of reward based incentives towards security. It was widely publicised that the Red Team existed and their job was to try to break the organisations security and too see what weaknesses existed, Conversely anyone that caught a member of the Red Team attempting to hack their machine, bypass security protocols, social engineer security information or any such other violation of security protocols and then reported that violation would receive prizes. The by product of this was employees who were constantly on the watch for people breaking security protocol as it was a chance to get some juicy rewards thus making everyone far more security aware. Not sure if they still do it but it was damn effective at the time as half the battle is getting staff to actually pay attention to security.
The story is about existing malware not new malware. Win 8 for the majority of software is 100% compatible with win 7, just win 8 includes defender to catch a lot of it out of the box. It is a good move, I just hope they keep going with it and get the out of the box detection rate even higher.
While there is some basis for your argument your maths fails horrible. You don't just need to more than double sales if you halve prices, you would need to triple, quadruple or even much more. Each game has a cost to produce, to sell, to market, combine that with a very large number of games will never even cover the development cost in revenue as they are very much like the movie market and they make the majority of the money from a few big titles. If you reduce prices by half many of your base costs remain the same plus it eats away at the very big selling titles profits.
secondly I am sure many of them would love to know how to compete with the used market? I personally haven't seen a workable model beyond what they are doing with the online tokens and activations. If they reduce prices then so does the used market. if games become $20 new then people will buy $10 used games instead. This isn't to say games shouldn't be cheaper, but you can't compete on price with an item that has all the price advantages.
I used to operate the same way up until about 6 years ago, I then wanted a loan for an investment property. Low an behold having no debt and no credit card record meant I actually didn't have a payment history the bank could use for a loan even though I had close to a hundred k in cash. Ever since then I have practically used my credit cards for everything (always paid off before end of month). I hate the fact that my history is tracked, but I hate the inconvenience of not being able to loan money when I want it even more.
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ASP has no DB requirement whatsoever, MySQL works just fine, as does every other DB system. IIS though is pretty much part and parcel with ASP, but then you would only be doing ASP if you were already using windows server and then IIS is free anyway.
Well yeah, what else would you expect when an R&D division hires you to innovate for them, they would never hire anyone if their employees could just claim all the inventions and innovations for themselves while taking home a pay cheque.
Erase pretty please!
I can assure you that they weren't asked to do that the minimal budget that this is being proposed at, if they had said here is 50 billion to develop 5x cheaper and 5x more energy dense in 5 years, it would be at best a hail mary chance of achieving it, to do it on 120 million over 5 years would take incredible luck.
Parents ARE allowed to teach their kids whatever the hell they want. IT is schools that must adhere to a curriculum if they are state funded.
Stop making excuses for them. No it isn't easy to get right, but when google can pay less than 100k tax on in excess of a billion dollars of profit their is something critically wrong. You can demand that they show fair costs of production and tax on the goods being sold in the country, rather than the current bullshit where they will charge a subsiderary $1000 on a $10 item to avoid tax in that country, There are a many many simple changes to tax systems that can be made that would go a long way to rectifying the situation, no it will never be perfect, but it can be a thousand times better.
It is a serious problem all around the world, I don't blame the likes of Google, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft etc taking advantage of it as after all it is legal, but damn the countries affected need to wake up and change their tax laws to stop this crap happening. They don't even have to give them harsh treatment, just bring them into line with what the respective company tax rates are for each company, the best start is to block local government contracts if they are funnelling the proceeds through international tax havens. Basically similar to what the UK have done with the cloud providers but more widespread.
So when did the UK invade and seize Ireland?
They aren't being asked to censor content, the content has long been removed from the offending site, they are being told to stop showing libellous content that no longer exists, only google has the content therefore it is perfectly reasonable that they are now responsible for the consequences for showing it.
It isn't hard to find the information, what the A/C submitted appears to be accurate and the story has simply been slanted to make it look like the FBI is using dirty tactics when it appears that it is megaupload that is being called on their dirty tactics.
That is purely a fallacious excuse megaupload tried to use. Nothing was preventing them from removing the links to the other 1999 files, the files would not have been deleted or altered in any way.
lucky then that it ISN'T a power 7 design.
NO, it means if they tell you to do something then keep the evidence they told you to do it. You would be in far more shit for not doing what they ordered and have no comeback in court.
That is an article based on rumors from long before the wii U was released. THQ are not the only developers to comment on the sluggish CPU in the wii U. I don't think anything much is really confirmed about the CPU yet, except it ISN'T a Power7 CPU as that was confirmed by IBM, it is instead a faster version of what was in the wii.
No I don't think this is aimed at me and that is the problem. Steam is successful because of its massive audience, that audience is NOT the console gaming audience. The problem they are facing is they expect their PC market to suffer under win8 and the availability of the app store, but what they seem to be doing here is not actually addressing that problem, instead they are trying to win there way into a much smaller and far more competitive market, it smells of desperation or poor forethought.
I game on my PC as I like the power and flexibility I can achieve where I can upgrade at will and not be limited. If I wanted a console gaming experience I would buy a console and to be honest it would be a ps or an xbox not a steambox, I certainly won't be buying a steam console or any other console as my primary gaming platform and I cannot conceive of anything valve can do can make me desire a console instead of a gaming PC.
It isn't a step towards the babel fish at all. The babel fish delivered brain waves directly to the speach center of the listening person thus needed no knowledge of the language being spoken or received. Simply processing one understood language to another is not any sort of step towards a babel fish.
Probably like all large projects, no one wants to pull the plug as at that point they have to admit the whole thing is a failure. The more it blows out the more determined they become to deliver as the fallout for the failure only gets worse the further over budget they become. I have been involved in similar projects (though not to this scale) and it is always easier to beg for more funds or bleed the funds of other projects than it is to admit the project is a failure and simply stop the waste.
A company I used to work for 10-15 years ago took the approach of reward based incentives towards security. It was widely publicised that the Red Team existed and their job was to try to break the organisations security and too see what weaknesses existed, Conversely anyone that caught a member of the Red Team attempting to hack their machine, bypass security protocols, social engineer security information or any such other violation of security protocols and then reported that violation would receive prizes. The by product of this was employees who were constantly on the watch for people breaking security protocol as it was a chance to get some juicy rewards thus making everyone far more security aware. Not sure if they still do it but it was damn effective at the time as half the battle is getting staff to actually pay attention to security.
I submit that anyone insane enough to run McAfee or Norton were not murdered they commited suicide.
unlikely, Apple were claiming 14 days to complete the change, not weeks.
They don't fail to run because of incompatibility, they fail to run because win 8 includes defender by default which detects and blocks them.
The story is about existing malware not new malware. Win 8 for the majority of software is 100% compatible with win 7, just win 8 includes defender to catch a lot of it out of the box. It is a good move, I just hope they keep going with it and get the out of the box detection rate even higher.
While there is some basis for your argument your maths fails horrible. You don't just need to more than double sales if you halve prices, you would need to triple, quadruple or even much more. Each game has a cost to produce, to sell, to market, combine that with a very large number of games will never even cover the development cost in revenue as they are very much like the movie market and they make the majority of the money from a few big titles. If you reduce prices by half many of your base costs remain the same plus it eats away at the very big selling titles profits.
secondly I am sure many of them would love to know how to compete with the used market? I personally haven't seen a workable model beyond what they are doing with the online tokens and activations. If they reduce prices then so does the used market. if games become $20 new then people will buy $10 used games instead. This isn't to say games shouldn't be cheaper, but you can't compete on price with an item that has all the price advantages.
I used to operate the same way up until about 6 years ago, I then wanted a loan for an investment property. Low an behold having no debt and no credit card record meant I actually didn't have a payment history the bank could use for a loan even though I had close to a hundred k in cash. Ever since then I have practically used my credit cards for everything (always paid off before end of month). I hate the fact that my history is tracked, but I hate the inconvenience of not being able to loan money when I want it even more.