This is funny, because around here, the only people that carry Treos are the Sales guys who are the lest technical people in the whole company.
And why would you want to type on that tiny little keyboard? And run Windows on your mobile phone? I cant really think of a less desirable thing to carry with me.
Treo for the bling factor, Blackberry if you need to actually get some work done.
You must have had a shitty Blackberry then dude. My 2290 is super fast. I can delete all messages just as fast as I can delete one message, in about.25 seconds.
Syncing with BES makes my life about 10 times easier. I have never had a any of these problems you are referring to.
I think you are compairing Blackberries from years ago with the Treos of today.
Some people would say not having a job, girlfriend/wife, or a social life is cheating, since those people are able to play 12 hours a day.
Buying gold levels the playing field a bit. It makes perfect sense really.
If you are a kid with nothing to do, you have tons of time to play and grind up all that gold and loot. You probably don't have the money to buy gold on eBay since you don't have a job, but everything works out since you still wind up with the gold and uberloot.
If you are an adult, with a job, SO, kids, social life, etc, there is no way in hell you have the time to grind your toons up or earn gold, so you take a little bit of the money you earned at your real job, and apply it to your game toon. Now, you didn't have to spend 20 hours skinning mobs and collecting plants to earn enough gold to buy whatever it is that you wanted.
It is indeed a problem that this screws with the economy a bit. I don't think the answer is stopping people from buying gold on eBay though; I think the answer is more creative content from the developers.
It is hard to strike a balance between the jobless/lifeless kids, and the adults with jobs and families, but it is after all, the job of the developers to solve this issue.
Unfortunately, I think most game designers and developers haven't gotten it quite right yet. There needs to be a way to "cash in" all the work you have put in to the game, so that you aren't stuck with a few high lvl toons you are bored with. It would have been nice to take my 45 mage, my 32 druid, my 27 hunter, my 24 warrior, etc., and trade them in for bonuses or faster advancement for a new toon.
The thought of completely starting over is enough to make a lot of people cancel their accounts.
There are tons of books about the exact same stuff TDC talks about. I have read so many, that TDC told my nothing I hadnt already read about 93 times before.
This device has suffered a fatal exception, and will be shut down. A log file including details of your call has been sent to Microsoft for further investigation."
Doesnt my Blackberry already do this?
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I am pretty sure that after 8pm, my Blackberry doesnt make a sound, and goes to vibrate only.
After midnight, vibrate is disabled, except for my Nagios alerts, which are always allowed to wake me up.
Nothing new. Move on.
The problem is that most people have no idea that the term "game" means much more than "something kids do with each other".
Ask John Nash, Oskar Morgenstern or John von Neumann.
Politics. Economics. All games.
most people who have worked at MSFT arent willing to dilvulge that info unless it is needed, and a post on/. does is not considered a legitimate place to start shit with an alleged former employer.
i may or may not have worked for MSN for a few years, and may or may not know exactly how hotmail worked up until about 2005.
satisfying your questions about my alleged expertise on this matter is not more important than avoiding a fight with billg. sorry.
This is only half true. The _front end_ runs on Windows with IIS. The _back end_, where the email data is stored (the User Stores), are Solaris.
The front end machines dont mean much. If one or twenty go down, there are tons more to take their place. They are simply removed from the load balancing and marked as "admin plz fix this some day".
The back end machines however, are super critical, as each user lives one one, and only one, user store. That machine goes down, and hundreds of thousands, to millions, of Hotmail users cant get to their mail.
And thats why those machines run Solaris.
So you are saying the MSFT FTE's dream is to only be allowed to work for one year, then take a forced 3 month un-paid vacation, and have shitty benefits?
What department are you in? Im guessing either Marketing or Legal, because I dont believe a word you said.
As far as contractor's sucking compaired to FTE's, I find that interesting, since many blue-badgers dont do shit all day except surf slashdot and fark all day, take 2 hour lunches, and polish their Audis.
Oh, and review themselves for weeks before it's time for their 1 on 1's.
I worked in the Silicon Valley Campus for MSN, as an orange badge. When billg or ballmer was in the building, orange badges were not allowed anywhere near them.
Unfortunately, the room they would use for their all-hands (all blue badge hands that is) meetings when the big guys were in town happened to also be our cafeteria, which would be locked down with heavy duty fire doors.
Half of our department would get up and leave, which would double the amount of work the orange badges had to do for the duration of the meetings.
Orange badges are not allowed to work for more than 12 months -1 day, without a 100 day break in between contracts. This was to encourage managers to not re-hire contractors, in case they start getting some expectations.
I envied the cooks in the cafe, as they were considered "vendors", and had open ended positions, where as us orange badgers' time was always ticking away.
Is it possible you got more BES gripes because there are more BES users? Just curious.
The only time I have ever had any problem at all connecting to the BES server over the air, is when there is barely any GPRS signal.
I wouldnt mind seeing Arrested Development move to a premium cable channel. That might get me to actually get one of them premium cable channels I hear so much about.
Or maybe Arrested Devcelopment can go Bit Torrent only!
I have had my 7290 for about two months now, and it is by far the most useful PDA or phone I have ever had, by miles...
You think it's only useful for sending mail, and no good as a PDA?
I will venture to guess you were not using a Blackberry + BES + Exchange server. Writing myself a task or note, having it sync with the Exchange server is the most useful thing ever. Having full on Exchange Contacts, Tasks, Mail, Calendar, etc., a QWERTY keyboard, an extremely well thought out interface... what more do you need in a PDA? I dont even need to sync it with my laptop, ever, because I use BES. It's all done over the air, in about 2 seconds.
I leave my laptop at work now over night, since I have full access to my mail server and all its goodies, plus SSH through the Idokorro SSH/telnet client, on my Blackberry.
Help me understand why this is not a good PDA?
The music industry is upset because Apple created a better way to hear music, as the music industry was not attempting to make better music to hear in the first place.
I have always said, if the music industry really wanted to make money, they should be selling cheap hard drives, and give away the music.
Make the media free or damn-near-free, and sell the nifty hardware that goes with it. How can they not see this?
It will be funnily ironic when these anti-evolution, anti-science, anti-stem cell people, cash in on all the medical advances we are sure to see over the next 20-30 years.
This is why I demand a national registry of "Where you Stand".
If you are going to go out and protest stem cell research, then, you need to be disallowed from taking advantage of it down the line.
And if the Jebus people are right, they get Heaven for eternity.
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I accidentally my entire /20 to this page. Is this dangerous?
yes, i am sure you are at the spear's tip of the coming revolution.
This is funny, because around here, the only people that carry Treos are the Sales guys who are the lest technical people in the whole company.
And why would you want to type on that tiny little keyboard? And run Windows on your mobile phone? I cant really think of a less desirable thing to carry with me.
Treo for the bling factor, Blackberry if you need to actually get some work done.
You must have had a shitty Blackberry then dude. My 2290 is super fast. I can delete all messages just as fast as I can delete one message, in about .25 seconds.
Syncing with BES makes my life about 10 times easier. I have never had a any of these problems you are referring to.
I think you are compairing Blackberries from years ago with the Treos of today.
Have fun running Windows on your mobile phone.
CentOS + yum + Dag == more time to do other stuff at work.
CentOS makes money? Weird. I've never paid them one dime, and I have about 50 CentOS machines.
I don't think NPR "advocates" things, except journalism. Stop trying to paint NPR as having an agenda.
Some people would say not having a job, girlfriend/wife, or a social life is cheating, since those people are able to play 12 hours a day.
Buying gold levels the playing field a bit. It makes perfect sense really.
If you are a kid with nothing to do, you have tons of time to play and grind up all that gold and loot. You probably don't have the money to buy gold on eBay since you don't have a job, but everything works out since you still wind up with the gold and uberloot.
If you are an adult, with a job, SO, kids, social life, etc, there is no way in hell you have the time to grind your toons up or earn gold, so you take a little bit of the money you earned at your real job, and apply it to your game toon. Now, you didn't have to spend 20 hours skinning mobs and collecting plants to earn enough gold to buy whatever it is that you wanted.
It is indeed a problem that this screws with the economy a bit. I don't think the answer is stopping people from buying gold on eBay though; I think the answer is more creative content from the developers.
It is hard to strike a balance between the jobless/lifeless kids, and the adults with jobs and families, but it is after all, the job of the developers to solve this issue.
Unfortunately, I think most game designers and developers haven't gotten it quite right yet. There needs to be a way to "cash in" all the work you have put in to the game, so that you aren't stuck with a few high lvl toons you are bored with. It would have been nice to take my 45 mage, my 32 druid, my 27 hunter, my 24 warrior, etc., and trade them in for bonuses or faster advancement for a new toon.
The thought of completely starting over is enough to make a lot of people cancel their accounts.
It did me.
There are tons of books about the exact same stuff TDC talks about. I have read so many, that TDC told my nothing I hadnt already read about 93 times before.
This is just marketing.
or is your mobile phone just infected?
Have fun running a MS OS on your phone.
"Calling 4155532...
* * * STOP: 0X00000032 (0x0000023, 0x00000423)
TELEPHONY_STACKID_LESS_THAN_ZERO
This device has suffered a fatal exception, and will be shut down. A log file including details of your call has been sent to Microsoft for further investigation."
I am pretty sure that after 8pm, my Blackberry doesnt make a sound, and goes to vibrate only. After midnight, vibrate is disabled, except for my Nagios alerts, which are always allowed to wake me up. Nothing new. Move on.
The problem is that most people have no idea that the term "game" means much more than "something kids do with each other". Ask John Nash, Oskar Morgenstern or John von Neumann. Politics. Economics. All games.
most people who have worked at MSFT arent willing to dilvulge that info unless it is needed, and a post on /. does is not considered a legitimate place to start shit with an alleged former employer.
i may or may not have worked for MSN for a few years, and may or may not know exactly how hotmail worked up until about 2005.
satisfying your questions about my alleged expertise on this matter is not more important than avoiding a fight with billg. sorry.
Dont like it? Try voting for a different dude. Everything is as it should be. So sayeth the great Queen Spider.
Lars and Britney might not have to starve to death after all.
This is only half true. The _front end_ runs on Windows with IIS. The _back end_, where the email data is stored (the User Stores), are Solaris. The front end machines dont mean much. If one or twenty go down, there are tons more to take their place. They are simply removed from the load balancing and marked as "admin plz fix this some day". The back end machines however, are super critical, as each user lives one one, and only one, user store. That machine goes down, and hundreds of thousands, to millions, of Hotmail users cant get to their mail. And thats why those machines run Solaris.
So you are saying the MSFT FTE's dream is to only be allowed to work for one year, then take a forced 3 month un-paid vacation, and have shitty benefits? What department are you in? Im guessing either Marketing or Legal, because I dont believe a word you said. As far as contractor's sucking compaired to FTE's, I find that interesting, since many blue-badgers dont do shit all day except surf slashdot and fark all day, take 2 hour lunches, and polish their Audis. Oh, and review themselves for weeks before it's time for their 1 on 1's.
I worked in the Silicon Valley Campus for MSN, as an orange badge. When billg or ballmer was in the building, orange badges were not allowed anywhere near them. Unfortunately, the room they would use for their all-hands (all blue badge hands that is) meetings when the big guys were in town happened to also be our cafeteria, which would be locked down with heavy duty fire doors. Half of our department would get up and leave, which would double the amount of work the orange badges had to do for the duration of the meetings. Orange badges are not allowed to work for more than 12 months -1 day, without a 100 day break in between contracts. This was to encourage managers to not re-hire contractors, in case they start getting some expectations. I envied the cooks in the cafe, as they were considered "vendors", and had open ended positions, where as us orange badgers' time was always ticking away.
Is it possible you got more BES gripes because there are more BES users? Just curious. The only time I have ever had any problem at all connecting to the BES server over the air, is when there is barely any GPRS signal.
I wouldnt mind seeing Arrested Development move to a premium cable channel. That might get me to actually get one of them premium cable channels I hear so much about. Or maybe Arrested Devcelopment can go Bit Torrent only!
I have had my 7290 for about two months now, and it is by far the most useful PDA or phone I have ever had, by miles... You think it's only useful for sending mail, and no good as a PDA? I will venture to guess you were not using a Blackberry + BES + Exchange server. Writing myself a task or note, having it sync with the Exchange server is the most useful thing ever. Having full on Exchange Contacts, Tasks, Mail, Calendar, etc., a QWERTY keyboard, an extremely well thought out interface... what more do you need in a PDA? I dont even need to sync it with my laptop, ever, because I use BES. It's all done over the air, in about 2 seconds. I leave my laptop at work now over night, since I have full access to my mail server and all its goodies, plus SSH through the Idokorro SSH/telnet client, on my Blackberry. Help me understand why this is not a good PDA?
The music industry is upset because Apple created a better way to hear music, as the music industry was not attempting to make better music to hear in the first place. I have always said, if the music industry really wanted to make money, they should be selling cheap hard drives, and give away the music. Make the media free or damn-near-free, and sell the nifty hardware that goes with it. How can they not see this?
to be figured in to the "war on piracy".
Who are these people that need MP3s on their mobile phones? Let them charge $10/song, only idiots are going to be affected anyway.
It will be funnily ironic when these anti-evolution, anti-science, anti-stem cell people, cash in on all the medical advances we are sure to see over the next 20-30 years. This is why I demand a national registry of "Where you Stand". If you are going to go out and protest stem cell research, then, you need to be disallowed from taking advantage of it down the line. And if the Jebus people are right, they get Heaven for eternity.