yep, CEO's make silly PR based statements all the time only to immediately turn that around into a law suit just weeks later if licensing or negotiations change. While it certainly hurts Oracles case it isn't really damning evidence in itself.
For every person that does stuff differently and suceeds there are dozens if not hundreds of others that did things differently and lost there shirt, having a good idea even if implemented well is no guarentee of financial success, those that suceeded first attempt like google quite often lack the objectiveness of how difficult the business world can be even with a good idea.
You really don't seem to have an understanding of how the Aussie rating system works at all do you? In Australia games like Mortal Kombat and Left 4 Dead are outright banned and other games have to have their content seriously censored before release (eg GTA) as the highest rating is for 15 year olds for Australia with Games. Australia does not have a mature or R equivalent ratings that the US and others sell games like Mortal Kombat under. our highest rating does not permit violent content, any sort of drug use or sexual content.
not just lessoning it, is completely eradicating. We go from games being altered for censorship or outright banned to games instead having age requirements. this is a massive step forward. So censorship is removed, putting age requirements on games is not censorship (though can sometimes be pretty annoying in itself).
It isn't about not wanting to be nice, nowadays when police kick the door down first and ask questions later you don't want to be in a position where the local pervert has an easy route to browse his kiddie porn through YOUR network. Even if you can later prove it wasn't you the hassle and trouble involved is just not worth the risk. Even when most use crap security there generally is no point to breaking it as there is nearly always some other moron that leaves theres open. Even from my living room where I am typing this I can see 11 AP's, 2 of which are completely open.
Sooooo you expect highly secure devices in military installations, cash machines, banks etc are blue tooth enabled and you think MS is the one that doesn't have a clue?
No one is forcing you to do anything, They are simply saying you no longer get support from them for any problems you may face with it, you can still use XP 50 years from now if you want.
It was not a public place, it was a store, as such apple actually has the right to refuse entry, ban photography and certainly refuse the rights of perverts to take privacy invading photos of people. I guess you think it is ok for people to install their own private cameras in the toilets or change rooms too?
personally I hate any DNS that returns anything except the IP address for what you typed, if it was a typo it should return an error. meaningful suggestions are just another excuse for a chance to market at you.
In all fairness they would be morons if they didn't do that, book companies are there to make money just like any other business, if you take away the profit from publishing text books (which for many there isn't much profit in many of them to start with) then why would they continue to do it?
Of course the Australian people had something to do with it. Labor were up front and clear that one of their goals if elected was to introduce internet filtering, parliament was just on way of introducing it, deals with ISP's is another, if you voted for labor you voted for censorship.
At the last election people were given the choice "freedom" or "fast internet". Enough took the fast internet and decided freedom was something they could worry about later. sadly you ill find those morons will also now be some of the ones screaming the loudest about the government censorship which they voted for.
That data is heavily biased and incomplete. It completely negates lost profit from future sales that will no longer occur as people took the opportunity to buy at the sale price, it also is a sales spike that cannot be maintained for anything but a very short term (their are not an infinite number of buyers) and will then result in a huge downturn in profits. In long run unless they can maintain those sort of sales for longer than the ridiculously short periods valve is dicussing it is likely to be a net loss if done at launch, but can be great at the end of a games life to get a final bit of revenue out before it is dead.
for example if I know I have an audience for a product of 20 people and sell 2 of the product per month at a profit of $100, If I reduce the price 75% and reduce my profit to say $25 per product but increase my sales to 10 people a month, I can claim I have increased profit by 25% and increased sales 500% by such an offer. however 2 months down the road instead of getting $200 a month I now get 0$ a month and overall have lost $1500. You cannot calculate short term profit gains with such a scheme without considering the long term losses, for the product example here my sales have to increase more than 4 fold for the life of the product in order to just break even by discounting.
I hate game prices as much as anyone and think they should be cheaper, but you have to remmeber a game has to generate income for the developer, for the developers failed games(for every success their are generally at least one or more games that lose money), the distributer, the retailer and the console maker. console makers generally have very large investments and depend on the game licensing revenue to fund the hardware. for games to be $20 you would probably be looking at significantly more upfront cost for the console and remember while you may buy 3 times as many games there are plenty that would still only buy a couple each year.
The best punishment would be to be forced to repeatedly play the first hour or so of the game, After that it goes from fucking aweful to just plain bad.
I can't understand how everyone here is completely missing the point, for the enterprise the version number change is minor. It really doesn't matter, it is the fact of the previous version becoming officially UNSUPPORTED. Firefox is effectively removing themselves from the list of enterprise products as with long testing and release cycles for many enteprises the concept of something being unsupported so fast is completely unacceptable for an enterprise piece of software.
that is actually pretty well standard practise with Stock Options. Vesting is not enough to keep the shares, you have to exercise the options otherwise they are effectively null and void. depending on the situation the time for them going null and void is anything from the instant you leave to a few months after leaving.
Completely agree, Both companies I have worked for with stock options work exactly the same way, unlike the idiot in the article though I completely read documents that will affect me financially and ask questions if I am unsure. It is standard practise for options to evaporate on departure from a company, some immmediately, some within 30 or 90 days of departure.
There have been so many scandals with Eve over the years, why shouldn't CCP expect players to forgive them and continue on, history has taught them they will be forgiven regardless of how they abuse their customers.
You might want to actually read the full article, as usual the slashdot summary is full of shit. The only thing Microsoft announced was that you could use HTML5 and java script for the new interface, they are adding to.NET not dropping or reducing its use. If you read the full article their was no actual bombshell at all, just sensationalist journalism for the article title. obviously your client never bothered to read past the opening paragraph either so it can't have been much of an issue for them if their project wasn't even worth reading for a few minutes to see if their was any substance to what they saw.
To be fair their plan was for a minimum of 12mbps, which is no worse than what the current government is promising and significantly better than what most of us have now or for the next decade while we wait for the NBN.
To be fair its subscriber numbers put it a long way behind even EVE or LOTRO and Aion let alone WoW or many other MMO's. It would be better to say it sits right alongside Age of Conan.
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yep, CEO's make silly PR based statements all the time only to immediately turn that around into a law suit just weeks later if licensing or negotiations change. While it certainly hurts Oracles case it isn't really damning evidence in itself.
For every person that does stuff differently and suceeds there are dozens if not hundreds of others that did things differently and lost there shirt, having a good idea even if implemented well is no guarentee of financial success, those that suceeded first attempt like google quite often lack the objectiveness of how difficult the business world can be even with a good idea.
You really don't seem to have an understanding of how the Aussie rating system works at all do you? In Australia games like Mortal Kombat and Left 4 Dead are outright banned and other games have to have their content seriously censored before release (eg GTA) as the highest rating is for 15 year olds for Australia with Games. Australia does not have a mature or R equivalent ratings that the US and others sell games like Mortal Kombat under. our highest rating does not permit violent content, any sort of drug use or sexual content.
not just lessoning it, is completely eradicating. We go from games being altered for censorship or outright banned to games instead having age requirements. this is a massive step forward. So censorship is removed, putting age requirements on games is not censorship (though can sometimes be pretty annoying in itself).
It isn't about not wanting to be nice, nowadays when police kick the door down first and ask questions later you don't want to be in a position where the local pervert has an easy route to browse his kiddie porn through YOUR network. Even if you can later prove it wasn't you the hassle and trouble involved is just not worth the risk. Even when most use crap security there generally is no point to breaking it as there is nearly always some other moron that leaves theres open. Even from my living room where I am typing this I can see 11 AP's, 2 of which are completely open.
Sooooo you expect highly secure devices in military installations, cash machines, banks etc are blue tooth enabled and you think MS is the one that doesn't have a clue?
No one is forcing you to do anything, They are simply saying you no longer get support from them for any problems you may face with it, you can still use XP 50 years from now if you want.
So you find 0.6% an acceptable failure rate but 3% unacceptable. both those rates suck balls for any sort of important data.
It was not a public place, it was a store, as such apple actually has the right to refuse entry, ban photography and certainly refuse the rights of perverts to take privacy invading photos of people. I guess you think it is ok for people to install their own private cameras in the toilets or change rooms too?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_largest_global_technology_companies
personally I hate any DNS that returns anything except the IP address for what you typed, if it was a typo it should return an error. meaningful suggestions are just another excuse for a chance to market at you.
In all fairness they would be morons if they didn't do that, book companies are there to make money just like any other business, if you take away the profit from publishing text books (which for many there isn't much profit in many of them to start with) then why would they continue to do it?
Of course the Australian people had something to do with it. Labor were up front and clear that one of their goals if elected was to introduce internet filtering, parliament was just on way of introducing it, deals with ISP's is another, if you voted for labor you voted for censorship.
At the last election people were given the choice "freedom" or "fast internet". Enough took the fast internet and decided freedom was something they could worry about later. sadly you ill find those morons will also now be some of the ones screaming the loudest about the government censorship which they voted for.
That data is heavily biased and incomplete. It completely negates lost profit from future sales that will no longer occur as people took the opportunity to buy at the sale price, it also is a sales spike that cannot be maintained for anything but a very short term (their are not an infinite number of buyers) and will then result in a huge downturn in profits. In long run unless they can maintain those sort of sales for longer than the ridiculously short periods valve is dicussing it is likely to be a net loss if done at launch, but can be great at the end of a games life to get a final bit of revenue out before it is dead.
for example if I know I have an audience for a product of 20 people and sell 2 of the product per month at a profit of $100, If I reduce the price 75% and reduce my profit to say $25 per product but increase my sales to 10 people a month, I can claim I have increased profit by 25% and increased sales 500% by such an offer. however 2 months down the road instead of getting $200 a month I now get 0$ a month and overall have lost $1500. You cannot calculate short term profit gains with such a scheme without considering the long term losses, for the product example here my sales have to increase more than 4 fold for the life of the product in order to just break even by discounting.
I hate game prices as much as anyone and think they should be cheaper, but you have to remmeber a game has to generate income for the developer, for the developers failed games(for every success their are generally at least one or more games that lose money), the distributer, the retailer and the console maker. console makers generally have very large investments and depend on the game licensing revenue to fund the hardware. for games to be $20 you would probably be looking at significantly more upfront cost for the console and remember while you may buy 3 times as many games there are plenty that would still only buy a couple each year.
The best punishment would be to be forced to repeatedly play the first hour or so of the game, After that it goes from fucking aweful to just plain bad.
I can't understand how everyone here is completely missing the point, for the enterprise the version number change is minor. It really doesn't matter, it is the fact of the previous version becoming officially UNSUPPORTED. Firefox is effectively removing themselves from the list of enterprise products as with long testing and release cycles for many enteprises the concept of something being unsupported so fast is completely unacceptable for an enterprise piece of software.
They should be taught the basics of how to recognise such scams, not the details to perform them themselves.
that is actually pretty well standard practise with Stock Options. Vesting is not enough to keep the shares, you have to exercise the options otherwise they are effectively null and void. depending on the situation the time for them going null and void is anything from the instant you leave to a few months after leaving.
Completely agree, Both companies I have worked for with stock options work exactly the same way, unlike the idiot in the article though I completely read documents that will affect me financially and ask questions if I am unsure. It is standard practise for options to evaporate on departure from a company, some immmediately, some within 30 or 90 days of departure.
There have been so many scandals with Eve over the years, why shouldn't CCP expect players to forgive them and continue on, history has taught them they will be forgiven regardless of how they abuse their customers.
You might want to actually read the full article, as usual the slashdot summary is full of shit. The only thing Microsoft announced was that you could use HTML5 and java script for the new interface, they are adding to .NET not dropping or reducing its use. If you read the full article their was no actual bombshell at all, just sensationalist journalism for the article title. obviously your client never bothered to read past the opening paragraph either so it can't have been much of an issue for them if their project wasn't even worth reading for a few minutes to see if their was any substance to what they saw.
To be fair their plan was for a minimum of 12mbps, which is no worse than what the current government is promising and significantly better than what most of us have now or for the next decade while we wait for the NBN.
To be fair its subscriber numbers put it a long way behind even EVE or LOTRO and Aion let alone WoW or many other MMO's. It would be better to say it sits right alongside Age of Conan.