Telling me that sales of the Wii has dropped is simply saying they aren't selling as phenomenally well as they were when it was released, the same thing happened with the Xbox360. This simply indicates it's reached it's saturation point, not an indication of product failure. A slow down in sales after 5 years is normal. The PS3 on the other hand did not experience the majority of its sales after it's redesign.
The 360 just had its best ever year, So what exactly did you mean by the same thing happened with the 360? the PS3 is also on its peak year. Wii certainly was not a failure, But sales are definitely not in a happy place for them right now, nor have they been for over 12 months. Sales collapsed far sooner than nintendo were anticipating.
I don't like all these patent lawsuits, but to be fair most of the pioneering work in digital photography was done by Kodak, they just failed to turn that into a successfull business model, so how the hell can they be a patent troll?
The reality of this world is giving stuff away for free doesn't pay the gas bill or put food on the table. People that want to spend there lives devoted to their art need to pay the bills, if there art isn't paying the bills then they must do something else to pay the bills and hence there will be less art. Not sure whether that is a good thing or a bad thing, but the reality is you can't eat good will.
It was never the quality of his prose that made him so renowned, rather it was the quality, depth and originality of his stories. I remember fighting through those books 20 odd years ago, if it wasn't for such an engaging story line I would have never gotten through even the first one.
Yes there is a reason why they call them script kiddies and NO it isn't for the reason you stated. It is because they don't actually know how the stuff they use works, they just download prescripted malware and use it against sites rather than learning how to do it themselves.
At the age of 38 I love history, reading about it, watching shows about it and sometimes researching online about topics that interest me, BUT back in school I hated it, so did most of my friends, I couldn't think of a better way to put kids OFF computing than to turn classes into history lessons. Unless kids have significantly changed (which I doubt) then history is not the way to garner interest in a subject, it is the way to turn them off it.
this laptop I am working on now was installed 2 days ago, used a win7 install with nothing slipstreamed and connected to an ADSL line. took around 20 mins for the initial install + another hour or so for all the updates. It certainly is too slow with nothing slipstreamed, but it isn't an all day job by any measure.
It's not about faith in the media, It's about faith in the inability of any company that is screwing people over to permanently silence millions of companies from saying anything anywhere. Hell they couldn't even manage to silence everyone for there patent agreements and we KNOW they were trying to do that, yet somehow we are supposed to believe they can successfully silence an exponentially larger group of people (many of whom dislike them) while at the same time screwing them over?
How did you get marked as interesting with that FUD. If Microsoft were making such clandestine deals it would be all over the press, or do you think somehow Microsoft is able to scare millions of companies into absolute silence on the issue? FFS take your tin foil hat off and take a good look at what you wrote. incidently MS DOES use IIS for all it's sites, however they utilise providers such as akamai for content delivery whcih can make it appear they are not using IIS.
The exploit doesn't depend on ASP, it depends on poor code written by application developers in ASP or Cold fusion. You can't blame the technology for bad application developers.
You seem to have some reading comprehension problems, it is NOT a MSSQL vulnerability at all, it is bad application programming which then allows an attacker to leverage MSSQL with malicious code.
I have dealt with 2 cinema franchises during my time as a sys admin. For both of them the ticket price was nearly completely made up of the payment back to studio/distribution arm. Not sure if it is true for all cinemas but they certainly did not make their money from the tickets, they made it almost exclusively from the concession stands and other premium services.
HR are not that bad if you brief them properly, if HR are causing significant problems in the process then you have inadequately trained HR or you have failed IT people that are not working well with HR. We provide them with parameters about what to exclude, if they are unsure then they let us review them. There are a lot of very easy filtering that HR can provide. e.g. you require a person with exceptional written and communications skills, then anyone that can't spell or put together a decent resume can probably be safely filtered. likewise if you have selection criteria that requires X and they don't state they have X then they can be dropped from the list, we can sometimes see in excess of a couple of hundred resumes for a position, at most we can afford the time to interview 10% of those, If you are really good and are being filtered out before you get interviews then chances are you need to take a serious look at your resume and perhaps read a few books on presenting a resume.
There is a good reason for HR to be involved. Large companies nowadays get head-hunters that submit every wannabe for a job regardless of their qualifications. I just went through a hiring process where even after the cull by HR the amount of people being submitted for jobs they were completely unqualified for was horrendeous, I hate to think of how bad the resume's of the ones that HR culled were. HR being in the culling process is a necessary evil nowadays.
Err...what's wrong with this? People work and figure out how to do things...you seem to have an objection to them keeping what they earned through whatever actions they (legally) took to aquire such wealth and possessions?
Bill Gates without taxpayer infrastructure would be just a guy named Bill Gates. Same goes for every rich person in the United States; that's why Africa doesn't have anything like the Silicon Valley. While I agree that people have a right to earn money, it's limited, just like every other right we have.
Who is to decide what is enough? You? Me? The Federal Govt? And what does morality have to do with whatever a person attains as long as it is acquired in a legal manner?
You almost had it... it's you and me through the federal government. That's how democratic governments work.
Morality has everything to do with it. If we, as a society, let children wallow in poverty while a tiny percentage of our population makes millions of dollars per day, we're making a moral choice: feed, clothe, and educate children, or let one person have an amazing set of priceless art in his fourth vacation home. Those are choices, and choices always have moral consequences.
Firstly africa does his it's equivalent silicon valley, google it. Bill Gates had a rich family, but like many others that became mega rich he worked his arse off, whether you like him or hate him he certainly worked for it. You seem to want a communist state, I suggest you move to a communist country which determines how much an individual can have. where the fuck did these kiddies come from that have this moronic sense of entitlement, get out and fucking earn it. Incidently Bill Gates does more to help poverty stricken children in a single day then you will in your entire life.
I could not disagree more, I find constantly pulling the bosses arse out of the fire is the most amusing and satisfying part of my job. Without that I think I would find IT just too boring, I thrive on the challenges thrown up from others incompetence.
I know this is/. and the standards are pretty low. But this sort of garbage article posted purely to get money from clicks is a pretty poor even by/. standards. Can't we ban articles like this, the guy doesn't have the first clue about IT or enterprises, for that matter he doesn't even have a clue about users. So why post a pointless blog?
I have a smartphone. I am a lead tech/administrator for a very large enterprise environment. If I am not on call I DO NOT answer calls from work numbers and don't answer work emails, at first this annoyed some people but eventually they got used to it and many even learned to follow my example. If there is an expectation that people not at work/on call are needed then their is something wrong with the allocation of work and who is available on call. If the problem is so dire that they need me then they can dig up my home phone number or drive to my house and find me. I am constantly amazed by people that are willing to bound by their employer in their own free time.
Are yes of course, because it is completely impossible for 2 companies to implement the same thing where one is better than the other. The point is the game play is the same, while the story is richer. the lack of innovation int he game I think will kill it in the long run, like it has every other recent MMO that has gone for more of the same rather than trying to innovate.
Cheap to setup? moderate internet connection? MUD's were running around long before the internet was commonly available with even low baud rate modems and they cost a lot in computer resources to run. They were commonly snuck onto university systems and were a hideous waste of space and resources,.
Actually I thought the movie without the paintjob was far superior than the final cut. The movie was so bad that at least getting to see the wire frames on the CGI, some of the green screens and the wires for the stunts made the movie slightly more barable, without that stuff the movie was just plain bad.
From reading your other comments and seeing you haven't played the game and are basing all your information on what must be some seriously biased/fanboi based reviews I would suggest you stop posting and actually go try the game. It really is no different to wow and no the story is not done in some amazingly new way that is completely different to wow, it is done the same way, it is better and richer in story apart from that there is really minimal differences. Instead of refusing to believe myself and others that have played it and are still playing it I really suggest you try it for yourself, it is a good game, just not particularly revolutionary from anything that has come before it in the MMO space.
What a load of crap, as someone that played in 2 of the betas for SWTOR and is in the game now as an imperial agent, "Wow with light sabers and laser guns" is actually a perfect description. The game is much richer in story with a lot more effort put into the quest dialogue and story but apart from that it is a skinned version of wow. It is a nice change but even as a star wars fan I don't think this game will last as the "just another wow clone" syndrome will hit this game hard within a few months.
Really that sums it up, IBM make predictions based on stuff they specifically are working on, hoping it will create a little buzz even when there predictions are stupid and sitting at about a million to 1 chance of being globally adopted. I don't think any of there predictions have come particularly true, that includes there traffic system, which many other companies have had and developed over the last few decades too, they are still not in widespread use and even where they are like the proverbial finger in the dike.
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Telling me that sales of the Wii has dropped is simply saying they aren't selling as phenomenally well as they were when it was released, the same thing happened with the Xbox360. This simply indicates it's reached it's saturation point, not an indication of product failure. A slow down in sales after 5 years is normal. The PS3 on the other hand did not experience the majority of its sales after it's redesign.
The 360 just had its best ever year, So what exactly did you mean by the same thing happened with the 360? the PS3 is also on its peak year. Wii certainly was not a failure, But sales are definitely not in a happy place for them right now, nor have they been for over 12 months. Sales collapsed far sooner than nintendo were anticipating.
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I don't like all these patent lawsuits, but to be fair most of the pioneering work in digital photography was done by Kodak, they just failed to turn that into a successfull business model, so how the hell can they be a patent troll?
The reality of this world is giving stuff away for free doesn't pay the gas bill or put food on the table. People that want to spend there lives devoted to their art need to pay the bills, if there art isn't paying the bills then they must do something else to pay the bills and hence there will be less art. Not sure whether that is a good thing or a bad thing, but the reality is you can't eat good will.
It was never the quality of his prose that made him so renowned, rather it was the quality, depth and originality of his stories. I remember fighting through those books 20 odd years ago, if it wasn't for such an engaging story line I would have never gotten through even the first one.
Yes there is a reason why they call them script kiddies and NO it isn't for the reason you stated. It is because they don't actually know how the stuff they use works, they just download prescripted malware and use it against sites rather than learning how to do it themselves.
At the age of 38 I love history, reading about it, watching shows about it and sometimes researching online about topics that interest me, BUT back in school I hated it, so did most of my friends, I couldn't think of a better way to put kids OFF computing than to turn classes into history lessons. Unless kids have significantly changed (which I doubt) then history is not the way to garner interest in a subject, it is the way to turn them off it.
this laptop I am working on now was installed 2 days ago, used a win7 install with nothing slipstreamed and connected to an ADSL line. took around 20 mins for the initial install + another hour or so for all the updates. It certainly is too slow with nothing slipstreamed, but it isn't an all day job by any measure.
It's not about faith in the media, It's about faith in the inability of any company that is screwing people over to permanently silence millions of companies from saying anything anywhere. Hell they couldn't even manage to silence everyone for there patent agreements and we KNOW they were trying to do that, yet somehow we are supposed to believe they can successfully silence an exponentially larger group of people (many of whom dislike them) while at the same time screwing them over?
How did you get marked as interesting with that FUD. If Microsoft were making such clandestine deals it would be all over the press, or do you think somehow Microsoft is able to scare millions of companies into absolute silence on the issue? FFS take your tin foil hat off and take a good look at what you wrote. incidently MS DOES use IIS for all it's sites, however they utilise providers such as akamai for content delivery whcih can make it appear they are not using IIS.
The exploit doesn't depend on ASP, it depends on poor code written by application developers in ASP or Cold fusion. You can't blame the technology for bad application developers.
You seem to have some reading comprehension problems, it is NOT a MSSQL vulnerability at all, it is bad application programming which then allows an attacker to leverage MSSQL with malicious code.
I have dealt with 2 cinema franchises during my time as a sys admin. For both of them the ticket price was nearly completely made up of the payment back to studio/distribution arm. Not sure if it is true for all cinemas but they certainly did not make their money from the tickets, they made it almost exclusively from the concession stands and other premium services.
HR are not that bad if you brief them properly, if HR are causing significant problems in the process then you have inadequately trained HR or you have failed IT people that are not working well with HR. We provide them with parameters about what to exclude, if they are unsure then they let us review them. There are a lot of very easy filtering that HR can provide. e.g. you require a person with exceptional written and communications skills, then anyone that can't spell or put together a decent resume can probably be safely filtered. likewise if you have selection criteria that requires X and they don't state they have X then they can be dropped from the list, we can sometimes see in excess of a couple of hundred resumes for a position, at most we can afford the time to interview 10% of those, If you are really good and are being filtered out before you get interviews then chances are you need to take a serious look at your resume and perhaps read a few books on presenting a resume.
There is a good reason for HR to be involved. Large companies nowadays get head-hunters that submit every wannabe for a job regardless of their qualifications. I just went through a hiring process where even after the cull by HR the amount of people being submitted for jobs they were completely unqualified for was horrendeous, I hate to think of how bad the resume's of the ones that HR culled were. HR being in the culling process is a necessary evil nowadays.
Bill Gates without taxpayer infrastructure would be just a guy named Bill Gates. Same goes for every rich person in the United States; that's why Africa doesn't have anything like the Silicon Valley. While I agree that people have a right to earn money, it's limited, just like every other right we have.
You almost had it... it's you and me through the federal government. That's how democratic governments work.
Morality has everything to do with it. If we, as a society, let children wallow in poverty while a tiny percentage of our population makes millions of dollars per day, we're making a moral choice: feed, clothe, and educate children, or let one person have an amazing set of priceless art in his fourth vacation home. Those are choices, and choices always have moral consequences.
Firstly africa does his it's equivalent silicon valley, google it. Bill Gates had a rich family, but like many others that became mega rich he worked his arse off, whether you like him or hate him he certainly worked for it. You seem to want a communist state, I suggest you move to a communist country which determines how much an individual can have. where the fuck did these kiddies come from that have this moronic sense of entitlement, get out and fucking earn it. Incidently Bill Gates does more to help poverty stricken children in a single day then you will in your entire life.
I could not disagree more, I find constantly pulling the bosses arse out of the fire is the most amusing and satisfying part of my job. Without that I think I would find IT just too boring, I thrive on the challenges thrown up from others incompetence.
I know this is /. and the standards are pretty low. But this sort of garbage article posted purely to get money from clicks is a pretty poor even by /. standards. Can't we ban articles like this, the guy doesn't have the first clue about IT or enterprises, for that matter he doesn't even have a clue about users. So why post a pointless blog?
I have a smartphone. I am a lead tech/administrator for a very large enterprise environment. If I am not on call I DO NOT answer calls from work numbers and don't answer work emails, at first this annoyed some people but eventually they got used to it and many even learned to follow my example. If there is an expectation that people not at work/on call are needed then their is something wrong with the allocation of work and who is available on call. If the problem is so dire that they need me then they can dig up my home phone number or drive to my house and find me. I am constantly amazed by people that are willing to bound by their employer in their own free time.
Are yes of course, because it is completely impossible for 2 companies to implement the same thing where one is better than the other. The point is the game play is the same, while the story is richer. the lack of innovation int he game I think will kill it in the long run, like it has every other recent MMO that has gone for more of the same rather than trying to innovate.
Cheap to setup? moderate internet connection? MUD's were running around long before the internet was commonly available with even low baud rate modems and they cost a lot in computer resources to run. They were commonly snuck onto university systems and were a hideous waste of space and resources,.
Actually I thought the movie without the paintjob was far superior than the final cut. The movie was so bad that at least getting to see the wire frames on the CGI, some of the green screens and the wires for the stunts made the movie slightly more barable, without that stuff the movie was just plain bad.
From reading your other comments and seeing you haven't played the game and are basing all your information on what must be some seriously biased/fanboi based reviews I would suggest you stop posting and actually go try the game. It really is no different to wow and no the story is not done in some amazingly new way that is completely different to wow, it is done the same way, it is better and richer in story apart from that there is really minimal differences. Instead of refusing to believe myself and others that have played it and are still playing it I really suggest you try it for yourself, it is a good game, just not particularly revolutionary from anything that has come before it in the MMO space.
What a load of crap, as someone that played in 2 of the betas for SWTOR and is in the game now as an imperial agent, "Wow with light sabers and laser guns" is actually a perfect description. The game is much richer in story with a lot more effort put into the quest dialogue and story but apart from that it is a skinned version of wow. It is a nice change but even as a star wars fan I don't think this game will last as the "just another wow clone" syndrome will hit this game hard within a few months.
Really that sums it up, IBM make predictions based on stuff they specifically are working on, hoping it will create a little buzz even when there predictions are stupid and sitting at about a million to 1 chance of being globally adopted. I don't think any of there predictions have come particularly true, that includes there traffic system, which many other companies have had and developed over the last few decades too, they are still not in widespread use and even where they are like the proverbial finger in the dike.