but anyhow, i don't care, but *please* EA, please die already. you will never be the #1 publisher you always wanted to be, and you know it. you can say what you want about vivendi/ blizzard, they milk for cash as the next guy, but at least they say so and do it with some decency. and in the end their games are just better than yours. but if you got any money left to burn, i'm selling some common sense, as usual.
when he's such a great game designer, he should be able to come up with some new franchise that tops mario and zelda. after all, these are the things he's famous for: inventing new stuff. now, taking a franchise and turn the already developed characters into some new game is one thing (if the game is great that's good), but the real genius comes up with a new theme. do it. now.
and, tbh, just *talking* about game design and what needs to be done is lame, at least for a guy like him. don't talk, do.
Anyone noticed how the criticism of linux desktop distros, especially ubuntu, is getting more and more just about hardware and driver issues? Seems like the desktops (I only can speak for gtk/ gnome) are quite usable and I hear less and less complaints about them.
I switched a year ago and my xubuntu is running quite fine on my amd 64, and the last reason to boot into windows has vanished since i took the adventure and got my WoW to work with wine;) Which, btw, was dead simple.
First, I'm not from the US. While your comment makes sense in a way, all you say is what's bad, and even that very vaguely. You name it the "System". The thing is, this "system", capitalism, is nothing more than just a system. Nobody really controls it. It is not in place because some government want it that way, it is just there (really, it would be impossible for a government of a capitalistic state to just call it off). And since you speak about asia, part of the "poisonous influence" is also the base of wealth for a lot of asian countries. It is always very easy to point at the satan USA and it's capitalistic system (and there sure is a lot of stuff wrong with it), but the world isn't as simple as that anymore.
And btw, the original "American Dream", what most people still think when they talk about the USA, comes from a very nice concept, negative liberty (or negative freedom), which simply means a system in which the individual has as much freedom as possible without interfering other people's freedom. If you want that and have a wealthy nation, then the only option would be capitalism. You have to accept that most people in the USA really want to live that way.
The attempts to bring "Freedom and Democracy" to other nations, by force if necessary, is a mistake (this would be "positive liberty") for sure. But nobody did force capitalism onto the republic of china for instance, no. It's just that everyone gets greedy, that's the way it is. It is also just a matter of time until the stock markets in asia get a crash of their own, it comes with the system. Whether this is just a system property or a real system failure, well, the future will show.
GKT+ is a C api, QT is not. If GTK+ would vanish in favour of some new toolkit based on QT, it won't be possible anymore to write GUI applications for mainstream linux in C, you HAVE to use the abomination called C++. While "abomination" is cleary expressing just my opinion, not having a major GUI toolkit around based on pure C is madness. Except there is someone left who likes the look of TK. As a side note...I love git, and it really is the most advanced SCM today, but if git gui wouldn't be a ugly TK app, maybe more ppl would jump on that wagon.
This is BS. It is totally legal to buy this game, it is on the index meaning it cannot be advertised. And ofc it is illegal to sell it to under aged people. You may have to ask at the counter for this game (and chances are that the shop owner won't have it, because he too thinks it is forbidden like "mein kampf"), or you may have to order it online, but it is NOT banned.
While there is a lot of stupidity going on in Germany regarding violent games and other stuff, and making advertisement for a product illegal is very close to censorship, it is not as simple as TFS tells you. You just have to buy your violent game of choice online, that's it.
that's weird...at first glance i thought they just wanted to mark the places where german is the language (cos it's about l10n), but then again...i call FNORD on this one.
See, I do something 3Dish, it is open source (or will be when i revive my 5 year old sourceforge project and do the initial commit). So just gimme my paycheck.
My box runs ubuntu 8.04, it's a 64bit system and flash is working (in FF3). FF3 tells me I'm using a plugin called Shockwave Flash 9.0 r124. I never came across a flash application that wouldn't run. And I don't remember any fuss when installing the plugin. Hm.
In germany, the RIAA abuses the criminal courts to get the ID of file sharers. They file a criminal report on which the authorities have to act. Then they demand access to the records in order to obtain the identity of the "terrorist". Criminal charges are dropped in 99.9% of all cases, but the RIAA has the identity and files a civil suit.
There is no misdeed, that America has done in the last 150 years, that is not beaten by something, China has done in the last 60.
So? Does this make the stuff America did and does any better? But yeah, right, I have the right to beat the crap out of you because look, over there, someone's beating someone else a bit harder. Comparing bad to worse does not change the fact that bad is bad.
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Business-side executives who think they can manage without understanding anything at all about the technical details are just as arrogant and dangerous to the bottom line as techies who think they don't need to understand anything about the business.
No, it is just fine for a business executive to don't understand any technical detail. However, it is not fine for a business executive to not trust people assigned to understand all the technical details and worry about them. That is arrogant. But to say "Well, I don't have a clue what all this fuss is about, but when the architect says we need this layer of security, so be it, after all it is his job to know such things" is pragmatic and therefore good.
OK, let's take Africa as an example. Yea, it might be a stereotype, but it's true. What would be needed there to give it a chance? Easy answer: Basic heavy industries (coal, steel and oil) and basic infrastructure (railways, power plants and solid highways). Btw, the resources for all this are all right there. This is the very basic every country in every continent needs to get things going. There is no way around it, unless this is accomplished people will suffer in extreme ways no matter what clever politics you apply to them.
One thing stands in the way of making this real, and that is the west idealizing peasant life. No, these are not some "native people" wanting to "live in harmony with nature", no, these are suffering human beings that cannot help themselves while some ecologists are telling them to use solar panels because of the sake of the planet. In this very case, screw the planet, it can take 20 years more of this, even more so as it would be on a level that cannot compete with the stuff the west is doing just to keep the lights in NY on. You simply cannot feed a steel industry with solar panels. If you would be the one to chose: "save the environment" or "save billions of people", what side you take? Greenpeace took the wrong one, and that's why their founder left it for good.
And spare me this "but with the environment destroyed there is no [whatsoever]". This is neither about you looking at beautiful african landscapes nor the rain forest. Just take a side, because eventually, it will come to this anyway.
As Mr. Gates no doubt is a very intelligent man, he must know this. Does he invest his money that way? Is his charity work dedicated to this? I don't know, but if it is not, it is meaningless.
Want proof? Since I can think the so called "west" is pumping money into charities and the people suffer ever since. Every 20 to 30 years the body count from "civil wars" in Africa hits the WW2 mark. Nothing has changed with all the charities, especially the public ones. But nice parties they throw while they're at it.
Apart from the advertisement, this is a very good advice which more of us nerds should take. I'm doing a similar thing, after years as developer I changed to the consulting business. I only write code in emergencies (firefighting etc), but I know that I could.
But mostly I don't work as an IT consultant, just doing stuff in various businesses. If you are able to do a lot of abstraction and to adjust yourself to the semantics of that particular business, you just need to pick up the money from the pavement, because your competition usually consists of accenture material and generally lacks of common sense and pragmatism which is stuff that your BS should have taught you.
Applying your skills to a different field with much a better financial outcome is usually a good thing.
He did a lot for you Americans. Especially for your image. First time I saw some of his routines and recognized how successful he was, even in the main stream, I was happy to notice that there is some common sense over there, in masses. And he got better with age, one of the finest "grumpy old man" I've ever seen. And he was funny as hell though.
for some sort of people. atm you get sued for the part before.com, after you get sued for both. and a lot more people will get sued, because disney.sux and disney.myass and disney.isgay will all belong to different people. but it does not stop there, the funny man that owns.isgay will not have very much fun... nearly every subdomain will be a reason for suing. that is a problem every meaningful TLD will have. on the other hand, what is a company forced to do? yea, as some already mentioned, disney will not only (as it is now) be forced to buy.de,.uk and what not, it now will be forced to buy nearly every crap it can get.
...as simple as that. Whatever you do, avoid isms and agendas. Have your common sense (the minimalistic version) ready and get used to some basic moral rules (which you are free to define by yourself, they don't come from anywhere else), but that's it. Don't try to build up your own "complete picture of everything", because then, you don't learn or experience, you only judge, you compare and (if you're lucky) adjust that picture, which is too little. You won't need a taught mechanic like skepticism that way because skepticism is a mechanic for comparing stuff with the "complete picture of everything", it only gives your POV a higher value.
i've seen it countless times. the nightmare when it comes to reinstall xp on a laptop. vista is even worse. there is this "oem backup cd" and there is the "driver cd". mind you, both cds are made exactly for your hardware. and in most cases, there's another cd flying around with some strange versions of some drivers you need in order to get bluetooth or other fancy stuff working. i've been recently through this with a vaio from a coworker. and it still is a nightmare, because the drivers are out of date by now, xp update installs some driver which is incompatible with some other one on the third cd and so on.
and linux has to compete against this with a universal installer image. no made-for-your-hardware driver discs. and it does well. i've seen ppl often asking for one of those live-cds just to be able to download a driver for their fancy networking card because they need networking in order to download other xp drivers. if there were premade ubuntu-based installer cds made by pc vendors that perfectly mirror your hardware, windows would be history (except for the games department).
sorry if that has been asked before, i cba to read it all. but isn't novell the company that has some sort of deal with ms? like playing together in the same team and stuff? i don't get it, this lawsuit business just drives me crazy.
sorry to say, but if you are not smart enough to pick the gems out of the mud your not worth you salt and should stick to developing "web applications". sorry, it just is that way. ever heard of wicket? no xml whatsoever. ever heard of ejb3? no xml whatsoever. ever heard of integration? like, with what the real (banking) world runs (and i'm not speaking of FIX)? mainframes and stuff? good luck with your python when it comes to qa and reliable long running transactions involving asynchronous communications plus friggin tight security. there actually IS a world outside the crud department, and for this world the word enterprise is used, rightly so. goddammit, you ruby/ python/ fotm guys do your nice lamp applications, play with web2.0 and what not, have fun, and be quiet.
What's with web developers that have to test html code on IE6? It's really a shame for MS that you can't have IE6 and IE7 installed side by side (I know it IS somehow possible, but that's way too complicated and not the point here). To bad that you always need a second (virtual) machine, just to test html code. And now they are forcing the upgrade...Stupid.
I'd just go with the 5th ammendment defense - I don't have to tell you things that could incriminate me.
oh boy. that's a law like any law and thus changeable. why do people think that these "constitution" thing will protect them in the end? some people wave hands or put cards in a jar or whatever play they like to convince you someone that was voted by someone who was somehow voted for by you voted that there is no such thing as the "5th amendment". or they take the short cut and tell you "yes, it's still there, but not for you, because you are FOTM enemy this month, so this way please".
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but anyhow, i don't care, but *please* EA, please die already. you will never be the #1 publisher you always wanted to be, and you know it. you can say what you want about vivendi/ blizzard, they milk for cash as the next guy, but at least they say so and do it with some decency. and in the end their games are just better than yours. but if you got any money left to burn, i'm selling some common sense, as usual.
when he's such a great game designer, he should be able to come up with some new franchise that tops mario and zelda. after all, these are the things he's famous for: inventing new stuff. now, taking a franchise and turn the already developed characters into some new game is one thing (if the game is great that's good), but the real genius comes up with a new theme. do it. now.
and, tbh, just *talking* about game design and what needs to be done is lame, at least for a guy like him. don't talk, do.
finally. someone. got it.
Anyone noticed how the criticism of linux desktop distros, especially ubuntu, is getting more and more just about hardware and driver issues? Seems like the desktops (I only can speak for gtk/ gnome) are quite usable and I hear less and less complaints about them.
;) Which, btw, was dead simple.
I switched a year ago and my xubuntu is running quite fine on my amd 64, and the last reason to boot into windows has vanished since i took the adventure and got my WoW to work with wine
Another factor in a Windows-centric corporate environment, SVN will function very usefully without a server
Which is actually the point in using git, almost all the time you work locally or by pushing to repos in your intranet.
First, I'm not from the US. While your comment makes sense in a way, all you say is what's bad, and even that very vaguely. You name it the "System". The thing is, this "system", capitalism, is nothing more than just a system. Nobody really controls it. It is not in place because some government want it that way, it is just there (really, it would be impossible for a government of a capitalistic state to just call it off). And since you speak about asia, part of the "poisonous influence" is also the base of wealth for a lot of asian countries. It is always very easy to point at the satan USA and it's capitalistic system (and there sure is a lot of stuff wrong with it), but the world isn't as simple as that anymore.
And btw, the original "American Dream", what most people still think when they talk about the USA, comes from a very nice concept, negative liberty (or negative freedom), which simply means a system in which the individual has as much freedom as possible without interfering other people's freedom. If you want that and have a wealthy nation, then the only option would be capitalism. You have to accept that most people in the USA really want to live that way.
The attempts to bring "Freedom and Democracy" to other nations, by force if necessary, is a mistake (this would be "positive liberty") for sure. But nobody did force capitalism onto the republic of china for instance, no. It's just that everyone gets greedy, that's the way it is. It is also just a matter of time until the stock markets in asia get a crash of their own, it comes with the system. Whether this is just a system property or a real system failure, well, the future will show.
GKT+ is a C api, QT is not. If GTK+ would vanish in favour of some new toolkit based on QT, it won't be possible anymore to write GUI applications for mainstream linux in C, you HAVE to use the abomination called C++. While "abomination" is cleary expressing just my opinion, not having a major GUI toolkit around based on pure C is madness. Except there is someone left who likes the look of TK. As a side note...I love git, and it really is the most advanced SCM today, but if git gui wouldn't be a ugly TK app, maybe more ppl would jump on that wagon.
This is BS. It is totally legal to buy this game, it is on the index meaning it cannot be advertised. And ofc it is illegal to sell it to under aged people. You may have to ask at the counter for this game (and chances are that the shop owner won't have it, because he too thinks it is forbidden like "mein kampf"), or you may have to order it online, but it is NOT banned.
While there is a lot of stupidity going on in Germany regarding violent games and other stuff, and making advertisement for a product illegal is very close to censorship, it is not as simple as TFS tells you. You just have to buy your violent game of choice online, that's it.
that's weird...at first glance i thought they just wanted to mark the places where german is the language (cos it's about l10n), but then again...i call FNORD on this one.
See, I do something 3Dish, it is open source (or will be when i revive my 5 year old sourceforge project and do the initial commit). So just gimme my paycheck.
My box runs ubuntu 8.04, it's a 64bit system and flash is working (in FF3). FF3 tells me I'm using a plugin called Shockwave Flash 9.0 r124. I never came across a flash application that wouldn't run. And I don't remember any fuss when installing the plugin. Hm.
The RIAA is using civil suits.
In germany, the RIAA abuses the criminal courts to get the ID of file sharers. They file a criminal report on which the authorities have to act. Then they demand access to the records in order to obtain the identity of the "terrorist". Criminal charges are dropped in 99.9% of all cases, but the RIAA has the identity and files a civil suit.
There is no misdeed, that America has done in the last 150 years, that is not beaten by something, China has done in the last 60.
So? Does this make the stuff America did and does any better? But yeah, right, I have the right to beat the crap out of you because look, over there, someone's beating someone else a bit harder. Comparing bad to worse does not change the fact that bad is bad.
Business-side executives who think they can manage without understanding anything at all about the technical details are just as arrogant and dangerous to the bottom line as techies who think they don't need to understand anything about the business.
No, it is just fine for a business executive to don't understand any technical detail. However, it is not fine for a business executive to not trust people assigned to understand all the technical details and worry about them. That is arrogant. But to say "Well, I don't have a clue what all this fuss is about, but when the architect says we need this layer of security, so be it, after all it is his job to know such things" is pragmatic and therefore good.
How should Mr. Gates spend his charity money?
OK, let's take Africa as an example. Yea, it might be a stereotype, but it's true. What would be needed there to give it a chance? Easy answer: Basic heavy industries (coal, steel and oil) and basic infrastructure (railways, power plants and solid highways). Btw, the resources for all this are all right there. This is the very basic every country in every continent needs to get things going. There is no way around it, unless this is accomplished people will suffer in extreme ways no matter what clever politics you apply to them.
One thing stands in the way of making this real, and that is the west idealizing peasant life. No, these are not some "native people" wanting to "live in harmony with nature", no, these are suffering human beings that cannot help themselves while some ecologists are telling them to use solar panels because of the sake of the planet. In this very case, screw the planet, it can take 20 years more of this, even more so as it would be on a level that cannot compete with the stuff the west is doing just to keep the lights in NY on. You simply cannot feed a steel industry with solar panels. If you would be the one to chose: "save the environment" or "save billions of people", what side you take? Greenpeace took the wrong one, and that's why their founder left it for good.
And spare me this "but with the environment destroyed there is no [whatsoever]". This is neither about you looking at beautiful african landscapes nor the rain forest. Just take a side, because eventually, it will come to this anyway.
As Mr. Gates no doubt is a very intelligent man, he must know this. Does he invest his money that way? Is his charity work dedicated to this? I don't know, but if it is not, it is meaningless.
Want proof? Since I can think the so called "west" is pumping money into charities and the people suffer ever since. Every 20 to 30 years the body count from "civil wars" in Africa hits the WW2 mark. Nothing has changed with all the charities, especially the public ones. But nice parties they throw while they're at it.
Apart from the advertisement, this is a very good advice which more of us nerds should take. I'm doing a similar thing, after years as developer I changed to the consulting business. I only write code in emergencies (firefighting etc), but I know that I could.
But mostly I don't work as an IT consultant, just doing stuff in various businesses. If you are able to do a lot of abstraction and to adjust yourself to the semantics of that particular business, you just need to pick up the money from the pavement, because your competition usually consists of accenture material and generally lacks of common sense and pragmatism which is stuff that your BS should have taught you.
Applying your skills to a different field with much a better financial outcome is usually a good thing.
He did a lot for you Americans. Especially for your image. First time I saw some of his routines and recognized how successful he was, even in the main stream, I was happy to notice that there is some common sense over there, in masses. And he got better with age, one of the finest "grumpy old man" I've ever seen. And he was funny as hell though.
for some sort of people. atm you get sued for the part before .com, after you get sued for both. and a lot more people will get sued, because disney.sux and disney.myass and disney.isgay will all belong to different people. but it does not stop there, the funny man that owns .isgay will not have very much fun... nearly every subdomain will be a reason for suing. that is a problem every meaningful TLD will have. on the other hand, what is a company forced to do? yea, as some already mentioned, disney will not only (as it is now) be forced to buy .de, .uk and what not, it now will be forced to buy nearly every crap it can get.
;)
but i for one, i.dontcare.tbh
...as simple as that. Whatever you do, avoid isms and agendas. Have your common sense (the minimalistic version) ready and get used to some basic moral rules (which you are free to define by yourself, they don't come from anywhere else), but that's it. Don't try to build up your own "complete picture of everything", because then, you don't learn or experience, you only judge, you compare and (if you're lucky) adjust that picture, which is too little. You won't need a taught mechanic like skepticism that way because skepticism is a mechanic for comparing stuff with the "complete picture of everything", it only gives your POV a higher value.
Oh, and try to be reasonable nice.
"[..]the most abusive users [...]"
since when is USING a flat rate abuse? Goddammit, sell your bandwidth as "10GB per month" and shut up.
i've seen it countless times. the nightmare when it comes to reinstall xp on a laptop. vista is even worse. there is this "oem backup cd" and there is the "driver cd". mind you, both cds are made exactly for your hardware. and in most cases, there's another cd flying around with some strange versions of some drivers you need in order to get bluetooth or other fancy stuff working. i've been recently through this with a vaio from a coworker. and it still is a nightmare, because the drivers are out of date by now, xp update installs some driver which is incompatible with some other one on the third cd and so on.
and linux has to compete against this with a universal installer image. no made-for-your-hardware driver discs. and it does well. i've seen ppl often asking for one of those live-cds just to be able to download a driver for their fancy networking card because they need networking in order to download other xp drivers. if there were premade ubuntu-based installer cds made by pc vendors that perfectly mirror your hardware, windows would be history (except for the games department).
sorry if that has been asked before, i cba to read it all. but isn't novell the company that has some sort of deal with ms? like playing together in the same team and stuff? i don't get it, this lawsuit business just drives me crazy.
sorry to say, but if you are not smart enough to pick the gems out of the mud your not worth you salt and should stick to developing "web applications". sorry, it just is that way. ever heard of wicket? no xml whatsoever. ever heard of ejb3? no xml whatsoever. ever heard of integration? like, with what the real (banking) world runs (and i'm not speaking of FIX)? mainframes and stuff? good luck with your python when it comes to qa and reliable long running transactions involving asynchronous communications plus friggin tight security. there actually IS a world outside the crud department, and for this world the word enterprise is used, rightly so. goddammit, you ruby/ python/ fotm guys do your nice lamp applications, play with web2.0 and what not, have fun, and be quiet.
What's with web developers that have to test html code on IE6? It's really a shame for MS that you can't have IE6 and IE7 installed side by side (I know it IS somehow possible, but that's way too complicated and not the point here). To bad that you always need a second (virtual) machine, just to test html code. And now they are forcing the upgrade...Stupid.
I'd just go with the 5th ammendment defense - I don't have to tell you things that could incriminate me.
oh boy. that's a law like any law and thus changeable. why do people think that these "constitution" thing will protect them in the end? some people wave hands or put cards in a jar or whatever play they like to convince you someone that was voted by someone who was somehow voted for by you voted that there is no such thing as the "5th amendment". or they take the short cut and tell you "yes, it's still there, but not for you, because you are FOTM enemy this month, so this way please".
jeez.