piracy had nothing to do with the nose-dive experienced by CD sales.
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>Oh wait, that's like exchanging friend codes.
Get off that, repeating it doesn't make it any more true.
>Other games companies eventually mimicked battle.net, and expanded on the idea.
Yes thats right. But you're trying to tell me we had 10 years of development that executives at Nintendo somehow missed. That they are still stuck in 1995 and trying to improve on the experience provided by Kali. Unlike you, I don't think they are that stupid or that ignorant. Friend codes is a feature designed for online kid safety. It is designed to limit Nintendo's liability in an unlikey case a pre-teen makes contact with an online predator. It is not a feature to make gaming more enjoyable. It is cumbersome to use and I believe you have to re-add your friends for every online wii/ds game you buy because each game generates a different friend code (stupid!).
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>Yeah, and do you remember how it worked 10 years ago? You exchanged IP addresses.
Did you actually play online games? What do you call Battle.net? Every other game either either shipped with a similar service, or with a server filter.
>But I can also understand why a lot of people wouldn't want that, and should be able to play with their friends without being exposed to random online gamers.
Maybe its because I've actually used online services that were done right that I see friend codes for what they really are, an attempt on the part of Nintendo to placate the parents of the preschoolers who might be in their audience. Battle.net, for example, allowed private games for friends and also had options to squelch any or all online gamers in public games, and it did it all without exchanging ips. I know what you're going to say "How could they possibly have figured out a way for players to join and host games online and without exchanging ips!!" - My guess is that they had many PhDs working on the problem:s.
Besides, I've never heard anyone ask for the friend code "feature".
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>That's good and bad.
No its just bad and lazy. And why are you putting the xbox model as the pinnacle of online gaming? Sony doesn't charge to play online and and online gaming has been around, in a big way, for over 10 years on the PC (usually free).
>Friend codes work well for me.
Friend codes might work well for 6 year old kids (and you), but most of us can handle being exposed to random online gamers.
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Virtual Console is just for playing old console games (n64, snes, etc.)
As someone else mentioned - Putin's party was going to win majority in a rigged or fair election. But in a fair election they most likely wouldn't get a super majority to push through constitutional changes.
What people are complaining about is that people assumed a "Vista Capable" computer would be able to run any version of Vista when it came out... meaning Vista Home Basic, Vista Home Premium all the way up to Vista Ultimate
Technically thats true no? I mean, if your system is underpowered, all version of Vista will disable Aero.
From the article: Microsoft was rumored to deliver a product that, true to its roots, ignored usability and instead tacked on impractical features such as wireless sharing.
Wireless sharing is a great idea, but Microsoft's implementation was so neutered and locked-down it ended up being a non-factor.
>When you guys get excited about a pre-release of a service pack, you're in enormous need of fresh air.
Why shouldn't people be interested. I use Vista day to day, I'm curious if some of the issues (performance mainly) I came across have been addressed.
>Nothing fixes Vista because XP wasn't broken.
Before Vista came out, if the collective was to be believed, XP was pointless, because win2k was the pinnacle of Windows OS. If there's nothing wrong with XP, then use XP.
(Also there was nothing wrong OSX Tiger what was the point of Leopard? There was nothing wrong with Gnome 2.14, whats the point of Gnome 2.20.. etc.)
>Musicians make money from live performances, not record sales. Records are advertisements for their live shows.
This is a stupid notion that will not die. Musicians do make money from record sales. Sometimes, their percentage is low, but thats because they probably sold the rights to publishing houses which do make money off record sales. If there was no protection on published music, musicians would not be able to do that. Indirectly or directly, lack of record sales hurts musicians.
Fact is that their works, under copyright law, are protected. Even if artists never made a dime off of recorded music, there is still the fact that pirating music is illegal, and that *only* owners of copyrighted content have a right to decide the method of distribution for their works.
>Records are advertisements for their live shows.
No they aren't. Records are protected works. They could be used as advertisements for some artist's live shows, but thats up to the artist to decide - not you.
The fact that there are so many people (not only Americans) that see no contradictions between a belief in God and the theory of evolution should tell you that it is not an easy concept.
I find that history tends to provide a stronger argument against religion than science, at least from my personal experience. I had no problem believing in theories of chemistry and biology and physics as well as God - but it was a university course on the history of Christianity that really made me disillusioned with my faith. I suspect, if Muslims studied an objective history of their faith, they would come to similar conclusion.
>Define "you". If, by "you", you mean the heads of business who are profitting from the free labor you are correct. If, by "you", you mean the tens of millions of Americans who mortgaged their house so that their children could attend college to be those skilled laborers, you are horribly incorrect.
I'm not quite sure where its written that a degree should guarantee you a job.
Look, I understand the sentiment but the fact is that if you're good, you're going to get employed.
>It shouldn't take a number theorist to see the similarity between the H1-B system and the slave trade.
I think you're being overly melodramatic. H1-B visas are not slave trade.
Totally agree. Here in Canada, there is a lot of serious debate about the "brain drain" of Canadian skilled labour (from doctors to developers) to foreign countries (mostly USA). God dang, you could do worse than have skilled professionals and academics wanting to work in your country. Dread the day when they don't.
is why Americans are so against H1B visas. You're getting skilled labour for free!!
Take my friend who works for Microsoft. Canada spent twenty years subsidizing his education (and other things like health care). They paid for all his schooling, they paid 50% of his university education and gave him thousands of dollars worth of interest free loans. So lets tally it up:
Total Cost to Americans: $0 Profit: >$100 000 in taxes paid (he's been working for a few years)
You can never have enough smart, ambitious people!!!!!!
>Because, in development of almost any non-trivial system that is on a deadline, there is going to be at least a bit of crunch time at the end. Nothing ever goes according to plan, and if you have a deadline to meet, chances are that there will be at least a little rush at the end of even the best planned projects.
Thats fair, but why do employees have to pay for this with their time? Why does the general IT culture dictate workers don't get compensated for extra time worked?
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piracy had nothing to do with the nose-dive experienced by CD sales.
>Oh wait, that's like exchanging friend codes.
Get off that, repeating it doesn't make it any more true.
>Other games companies eventually mimicked battle.net, and expanded on the idea.
Yes thats right. But you're trying to tell me we had 10 years of development that executives at Nintendo somehow missed. That they are still stuck in 1995 and trying to improve on the experience provided by Kali. Unlike you, I don't think they are that stupid or that ignorant. Friend codes is a feature designed for online kid safety. It is designed to limit Nintendo's liability in an unlikey case a pre-teen makes contact with an online predator. It is not a feature to make gaming more enjoyable. It is cumbersome to use and I believe you have to re-add your friends for every online wii/ds game you buy because each game generates a different friend code (stupid!).
>Yeah, and do you remember how it worked 10 years ago? You exchanged IP addresses.
:s.
Did you actually play online games? What do you call Battle.net? Every other game either either shipped with a similar service, or with a server filter.
>But I can also understand why a lot of people wouldn't want that, and should be able to play with their friends without being exposed to random online gamers.
Maybe its because I've actually used online services that were done right that I see friend codes for what they really are, an attempt on the part of Nintendo to placate the parents of the preschoolers who might be in their audience. Battle.net, for example, allowed private games for friends and also had options to squelch any or all online gamers in public games, and it did it all without exchanging ips. I know what you're going to say "How could they possibly have figured out a way for players to join and host games online and without exchanging ips!!" - My guess is that they had many PhDs working on the problem
Besides, I've never heard anyone ask for the friend code "feature".
>That's good and bad.
No its just bad and lazy. And why are you putting the xbox model as the pinnacle of online gaming? Sony doesn't charge to play online and and online gaming has been around, in a big way, for over 10 years on the PC (usually free).
>Friend codes work well for me.
Friend codes might work well for 6 year old kids (and you), but most of us can handle being exposed to random online gamers.
Virtual Console is just for playing old console games (n64, snes, etc.)
Online gaming on the Wii is atrocious.
As someone else mentioned - Putin's party was going to win majority in a rigged or fair election. But in a fair election they most likely wouldn't get a super majority to push through constitutional changes.
>the current implementation however is god awful one and completly unusable in the day and age of the Internet.
You're exaggerating. It needs a tune up here and there, but its working fine.
What people are complaining about is that people assumed a "Vista Capable" computer would be able to run any version of Vista when it came out... meaning Vista Home Basic, Vista Home Premium all the way up to Vista Ultimate
Technically thats true no? I mean, if your system is underpowered, all version of Vista will disable Aero.
Don't be such a boyscout.
This is only 200 lines of code from a random forum posting - leave it and don't worry about it.
From the article: Microsoft was rumored to deliver a product that, true to its roots, ignored usability and instead tacked on impractical features such as wireless sharing.
Wireless sharing is a great idea, but Microsoft's implementation was so neutered and locked-down it ended up being a non-factor.
>When you guys get excited about a pre-release of a service pack, you're in enormous need of fresh air.
.. etc.)
Why shouldn't people be interested. I use Vista day to day, I'm curious if some of the issues (performance mainly) I came across have been addressed.
>Nothing fixes Vista because XP wasn't broken.
Before Vista came out, if the collective was to be believed, XP was pointless, because win2k was the pinnacle of Windows OS. If there's nothing wrong with XP, then use XP.
(Also there was nothing wrong OSX Tiger what was the point of Leopard? There was nothing wrong with Gnome 2.14, whats the point of Gnome 2.20
>Musicians make money from live performances, not record sales. Records are advertisements for their live shows.
This is a stupid notion that will not die. Musicians do make money from record sales. Sometimes, their percentage is low, but thats because they probably sold the rights to publishing houses which do make money off record sales. If there was no protection on published music, musicians would not be able to do that. Indirectly or directly, lack of record sales hurts musicians.
Fact is that their works, under copyright law, are protected. Even if artists never made a dime off of recorded music, there is still the fact that pirating music is illegal, and that *only* owners of copyrighted content have a right to decide the method of distribution for their works.
>Records are advertisements for their live shows.
No they aren't. Records are protected works. They could be used as advertisements for some artist's live shows, but thats up to the artist to decide - not you.
Pay-what-you-feel-is-right is not a business model, its charity.
I don't think its a great idea when its for music, and I don't like it when its advocated for Software and Software Developers.
I think its called competition.
The fact that there are so many people (not only Americans) that see no contradictions between a belief in God and the theory of evolution should tell you that it is not an easy concept.
I'm having trouble figuring out what the actual problem with Vista the mother had.
I find that history tends to provide a stronger argument against religion than science, at least from my personal experience. I had no problem believing in theories of chemistry and biology and physics as well as God - but it was a university course on the history of Christianity that really made me disillusioned with my faith. I suspect, if Muslims studied an objective history of their faith, they would come to similar conclusion.
This is slashdot. Why would I RTFA?
Why would you throw out perfectly good code and rewrite everything?
There's nothing wrong with PHP, especially if the current implementation does the job.
I'm just wondering why you're attributing car bombs and other terr^H^H^H^H insurgent actions to Americans?
>Define "you". If, by "you", you mean the heads of business who are profitting from the free labor you are correct. If, by "you", you mean the tens of millions of Americans who mortgaged their house so that their children could attend college to be those skilled laborers, you are horribly incorrect.
I'm not quite sure where its written that a degree should guarantee you a job.
Look, I understand the sentiment but the fact is that if you're good, you're going to get employed.
>It shouldn't take a number theorist to see the similarity between the H1-B system and the slave trade.
I think you're being overly melodramatic. H1-B visas are not slave trade.
Totally agree. Here in Canada, there is a lot of serious debate about the "brain drain" of Canadian skilled labour (from doctors to developers) to foreign countries (mostly USA). God dang, you could do worse than have skilled professionals and academics wanting to work in your country. Dread the day when they don't.
is why Americans are so against H1B visas. You're getting skilled labour for free!!
Take my friend who works for Microsoft. Canada spent twenty years subsidizing his education (and other things like health care). They paid for all his schooling, they paid 50% of his university education and gave him thousands of dollars worth of interest free loans. So lets tally it up:
Total Cost to Americans: $0
Profit: >$100 000 in taxes paid (he's been working for a few years)
You can never have enough smart, ambitious people!!!!!!
>Linux allows for multiple vendors to compete in the market (aka capitalism)
So Microsoft monopoly isn't capitalism then?
>Because, in development of almost any non-trivial system that is on a deadline, there is going to be at least a bit of crunch time at the end. Nothing ever goes according to plan, and if you have a deadline to meet, chances are that there will be at least a little rush at the end of even the best planned projects.
Thats fair, but why do employees have to pay for this with their time? Why does the general IT culture dictate workers don't get compensated for extra time worked?