Slaves were the best way to bolster income. The way to avoid huge cities, and maximize income, was to devastate every city but the ones that were strategically important for unit recovery. I would take a city, kill all the people in it, sell off everything, max out the taxes, build one peasant unit, let it rebel, retake it with my big army, enslave it, then build one more peasant unit. After that all would be fine and no enemies would attack because there was no gain. I always felt it would be cool if cities could overflow and create suburbs. Then have the suburbs become hostile to you. It would make more sense than rouges popping up on the road in the middle of nowhere.
Microsoft, Apple, and Google battle it out for the new PIM (personal information management) environment which replaces the desktop environment. Microsoft relies on lock in and cloud applications. Apple relies on multimedia integration and mulimedia services. Google relies on the FOSS/OSS community to port applications to their cloud. As the years go by all three give up on lock in. The PIM environments of each company become so commingled, outside of each company branding it with their own look and feel, nobody is able to tell them apart. Consumers buy devices instead of software. The days of "I run windows, osx, linux" end.
There is no way they can block it without having an ssl proxy filter. That would allow them plain text views of user information. ie. bank account passwords, medical records... I think the government would stop that really quick.
Where are federal employment laws when you need them. Federal law should force non-compete employment contracts to be conjoined to the nature of forfeiture in any agreement. If you leave a company the contract restrictions remain, you forfeited in the agreement. If the employer discharges you for poor service, you forfeited the agreement. If the employer discharges you because of an inability of its own, it forfeits in the agreement. This, of course, would only be applicable to people falling into the venue of the Federal government.
I know this isn't a fix for people that would rather not pay for software; but, it does apply to a fair percentage of people that download games.
Bring back the demo. The only reason I have ever downloaded a game was to see if it was worth the money. The demo allows people that comfort. Back in the day, downloading the finished product after completion of the demo was pretty common. At least that is what happened with Doom, which we all know sealed ID's fate as a successful company.
Fix, get rid of, the mandatory CD/long waits for the DRM checks. When I get a game that is difficult to start because of all the CD/DVD checking/DRM evaluating bullshit, I WILL figure out how to get it to load without the CD. And when I go through all the hassle and hard work of figuring that out, I'm going to share it. When someone tar/rar/zips up the content of the game's folder with the crack in it and puts in on P2P networks, IMHO it is the "we want DRM" folks fault.
The one embedded in Fallout 3 was pretty cool to find. It being on a green screen really helped to bring back the feeling of playing them in the old days.
Maybe the next bios patch for my Toshiba will not completely fux Linux access to hardware again. Do I dare chance it? They might even have re-enabled VT. I'm soooo tempted. But the last 4 times I had to rebuild, hack, and rebuild to get hardware to work again. But if they are going to support OpenSolaris... But what if my fears are correct and the bios update makes my machine a Vista only POS. I'm soooo torn.
I will never buy a Toshiba Laptop EVER again. The assembly is shoddy, the hardware is the cheapest low grade crap they can put together, and the support is the worst on earth.
They are hunting for an Open Source OS that they can put on it for free (but charge you), that has very little hardware support so they don't have the shit storm of "why did you fuck this up" questions on their Linux support forums. It will take 2 years, max, for OpenSolaris to get to the same place (hardware support wise) as Linux. By then the laptop will no longer be supported.
I don't know why they want improvements. This doesn't follow their marketing department's desire to maximize value.
maximize value == Make sure nobody but the distributors, and that the distributors do, continue to make a profit by increasing the probability that something can happen that will produce a re-investment.
re-investment == Make the quality of the device shit so the customer must purchase a replacement.
If Linux wants to get big like Windows, then Linux needs to create a development environment that encourages closed-source, intellectual property loving, for profit software developers.
Like google? Oh wait, they don't sell ipl software. Maybe hiring the best of the best to develop for you because your open source business is worth billions is the key.
If this is anathema to the true GNU believers, then they are merely being shortsighted. Linux is already better than Windows. Any idiot can see that. Developers use Windows because they think that they can make money in Windows. When developers don't use Linux, the reason must be that the developers don't think that they can make money using Linux.
80% of the developers I know prefer OS/X. They write on the mac then compile the applications on vm's. All of the programmers I know develop at least one application on Linux that only exists because they wanted something to do something so they built it.
The Linux community should stop focusing on making cool Linux programs (for now). The community should devote most of its new effort to creating a development environment that makes it trivially easy to port a Windows or Mac program to Linux.
Because cool applications are a waist of resources and never produce re-usable code that can help to define an RAD?
Windows was successful because it cultivated closed-source developers. Linux will only become that successful if it also cultivates closed source developers. This is screamingly obvious.
Windows was successful because doit yourselfers were able to bootleg the OS, write their own applications, and build their own machines from easy to assemble hardware because IBM basically open sourced the bios.
with existing Linux distributions doing their best to look like Windows, and do everything that Windows can do.
This annoys me more than anything about some distro's. The iPhone didn't try to look and feel like Windows and look at its success. If Window Manager designers would get this through their heads IMHO Linux as a desktop would finally excel. Make Linux have a unique look and feel that attracts people to it.
Warning. This response will make people who love microsoft go booo hooo. Please read no further.
I wonder how anything with a non-zero pricetag can be more cost-effective than something that costs nothing.
Poorly written yet expensive point and click software that looks pretty + part time tech support (that just calls the seller's tech support when something goes wrong) + managers that are technological morons = non-zero software is better. How do you think windows made it?
I wonder how many hardware vendors refuse to open up for driver writers under the guise of "people will copy our IP" because they actually copied someones IP to create their hardware. Maybe "Broadcom is one of the last" because they are still using bits of someone elses work.
I asked a friend to see about putting together some covered golf carts and renting them out to people that use the bus system in Dallas. The idea was to have the carts at the major transit centers during work hours so people getting off the bus could finish their commute using the carts. My goal was to get the state to tell me what it would take to make them street legal enough for people to shuttle themselves around, at best a 5 mile radius of the transit centers. They said the carts had to have air bags! I couldn't believe it. For me to set up loaners that could potentially increase mass transit in one of the countries biggest super guzzle lead sled driving states I would have to redesign the carts into full fledged cars. sigh. At least some states give a rats.
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Slaves were the best way to bolster income. The way to avoid huge cities, and maximize income, was to devastate every city but the ones that were strategically important for unit recovery. I would take a city, kill all the people in it, sell off everything, max out the taxes, build one peasant unit, let it rebel, retake it with my big army, enslave it, then build one more peasant unit. After that all would be fine and no enemies would attack because there was no gain. I always felt it would be cool if cities could overflow and create suburbs. Then have the suburbs become hostile to you. It would make more sense than rouges popping up on the road in the middle of nowhere.
Microsoft, Apple, and Google battle it out for the new PIM (personal information management) environment which replaces the desktop environment. Microsoft relies on lock in and cloud applications. Apple relies on multimedia integration and mulimedia services. Google relies on the FOSS/OSS community to port applications to their cloud. As the years go by all three give up on lock in. The PIM environments of each company become so commingled, outside of each company branding it with their own look and feel, nobody is able to tell them apart. Consumers buy devices instead of software. The days of "I run windows, osx, linux" end.
Objects that stimulate the brain the most are wanted by individuals the most. Objects wanted by most are more valuable.
There is no way they can block it without having an ssl proxy filter. That would allow them plain text views of user information. ie. bank account passwords, medical records... I think the government would stop that really quick.
http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.ultrareach.com/download_en.htm&sa=X&oi=smap&resnum=1&ct=result&cd=1&usg=AFQjCNE-DVlL7PRbTeO5epMPAh810jBVoA
But then with, all the privacy protection governments are doing these days I could be wrong.
When did you work for Yahoo!?
Where are federal employment laws when you need them. Federal law should force non-compete employment contracts to be conjoined to the nature of forfeiture in any agreement. If you leave a company the contract restrictions remain, you forfeited in the agreement. If the employer discharges you for poor service, you forfeited the agreement. If the employer discharges you because of an inability of its own, it forfeits in the agreement. This, of course, would only be applicable to people falling into the venue of the Federal government.
It hasn't been 30 years. That would make me 30 + ...omfg! I'm freakin old!
you mean like tail -f /var/log/syslog right?
I know this isn't a fix for people that would rather not pay for software; but, it does apply to a fair percentage of people that download games.
Bring back the demo. The only reason I have ever downloaded a game was to see if it was worth the money. The demo allows people that comfort. Back in the day, downloading the finished product after completion of the demo was pretty common. At least that is what happened with Doom, which we all know sealed ID's fate as a successful company.
Fix, get rid of, the mandatory CD/long waits for the DRM checks. When I get a game that is difficult to start because of all the CD/DVD checking/DRM evaluating bullshit, I WILL figure out how to get it to load without the CD. And when I go through all the hassle and hard work of figuring that out, I'm going to share it. When someone tar/rar/zips up the content of the game's folder with the crack in it and puts in on P2P networks, IMHO it is the "we want DRM" folks fault.
What do you get when you mix a room full of scientists and beer? A VERY smart robot with the wheels falling off.
A little while ago, one of Basil's wheels fell off and they had to glue the sucker back on.
http://www.cafescientifique.org/
The one embedded in Fallout 3 was pretty cool to find. It being on a green screen really helped to bring back the feeling of playing them in the old days.
At least they don't sing about their freedom while it gets taken away.
Maybe the next bios patch for my Toshiba will not completely fux Linux access to hardware again. Do I dare chance it? They might even have re-enabled VT. I'm soooo tempted. But the last 4 times I had to rebuild, hack, and rebuild to get hardware to work again. But if they are going to support OpenSolaris... But what if my fears are correct and the bios update makes my machine a Vista only POS. I'm soooo torn.
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/general-10/warning-there-is-windows-in-my..-bios-544779/#post2705017
http://forums.computers.toshiba-europe.com/forums/message.jspa?messageID=61084
I will never buy a Toshiba Laptop EVER again. The assembly is shoddy, the hardware is the cheapest low grade crap they can put together, and the support is the worst on earth.
They are hunting for an Open Source OS that they can put on it for free (but charge you), that has very little hardware support so they don't have the shit storm of "why did you fuck this up" questions on their Linux support forums. It will take 2 years, max, for OpenSolaris to get to the same place (hardware support wise) as Linux. By then the laptop will no longer be supported.
wpgrep -c "/(reboot|BSOD)/" http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/12/18/006226
32^E I've run out of numbers.
I don't know why they want improvements. This doesn't follow their marketing department's desire to maximize value.
maximize value == Make sure nobody but the distributors, and that the distributors do, continue to make a profit by increasing the probability that something can happen that will produce a re-investment.
re-investment == Make the quality of the device shit so the customer must purchase a replacement.
If Linux wants to get big like Windows, then Linux needs to create a development environment that encourages closed-source, intellectual property loving, for profit software developers.
Like google? Oh wait, they don't sell ipl software. Maybe hiring the best of the best to develop for you because your open source business is worth billions is the key.
If this is anathema to the true GNU believers, then they are merely being shortsighted. Linux is already better than Windows. Any idiot can see that. Developers use Windows because they think that they can make money in Windows. When developers don't use Linux, the reason must be that the developers don't think that they can make money using Linux.
80% of the developers I know prefer OS/X. They write on the mac then compile the applications on vm's. All of the programmers I know develop at least one application on Linux that only exists because they wanted something to do something so they built it.
The Linux community should stop focusing on making cool Linux programs (for now). The community should devote most of its new effort to creating a development environment that makes it trivially easy to port a Windows or Mac program to Linux.
Because cool applications are a waist of resources and never produce re-usable code that can help to define an RAD?
Windows was successful because it cultivated closed-source developers. Linux will only become that successful if it also cultivates closed source developers. This is screamingly obvious.
Windows was successful because doit yourselfers were able to bootleg the OS, write their own applications, and build their own machines from easy to assemble hardware because IBM basically open sourced the bios.
with existing Linux distributions doing their best to look like Windows, and do everything that Windows can do.
This annoys me more than anything about some distro's. The iPhone didn't try to look and feel like Windows and look at its success. If Window Manager designers would get this through their heads IMHO Linux as a desktop would finally excel. Make Linux have a unique look and feel that attracts people to it.
Warning. This response will make people who love microsoft go booo hooo. Please read no further.
I wonder how anything with a non-zero pricetag can be more cost-effective than something that costs nothing.
Poorly written yet expensive point and click software that looks pretty + part time tech support (that just calls the seller's tech support when something goes wrong) + managers that are technological morons = non-zero software is better. How do you think windows made it?
FYN ACK
Broadcom is one of the last remaining holdouts
I wonder how many hardware vendors refuse to open up for driver writers under the guise of "people will copy our IP" because they actually copied someones IP to create their hardware. Maybe "Broadcom is one of the last" because they are still using bits of someone elses work.
New more speed just in time for the new more censored web.
ftfa: So what do you think?
She still wouldn't date someone on /.
I asked a friend to see about putting together some covered golf carts and renting them out to people that use the bus system in Dallas. The idea was to have the carts at the major transit centers during work hours so people getting off the bus could finish their commute using the carts. My goal was to get the state to tell me what it would take to make them street legal enough for people to shuttle themselves around, at best a 5 mile radius of the transit centers. They said the carts had to have air bags! I couldn't believe it. For me to set up loaners that could potentially increase mass transit in one of the countries biggest super guzzle lead sled driving states I would have to redesign the carts into full fledged cars. sigh. At least some states give a rats.
I thought it was, for the most part, plastic coated aluminum. Damn I'd be a rotten thief. "Yes sir. I'd like to sell this aluminum er plastic"
Agreed! StCredZero should be permanently banned from all speculative threads of discussion.