Codemasters didn't "make" Operation Flashpoint, Bohemia Interactive did. BI has developed the entire series. Codemasters published OFP, they made the box and the manual.
Thanks for the sanity check. Globalization doesn't just affect people that work on assembly lines.
Now that the quality of care is becoming on par, and often better than that in the US, I think it's only a matter of time before the big daddy of medical care in the US, insurance, starts moving towards cost cutting via treatment overseas. A number of insurance companies in Europe are already doing this, and NHS in the UK has a pilot voucher program going for overseas care... Only a matter of time.
You're required to make sure that your car is roadworthy, and can be fined if it's not (Oklahoma did away with inspections not too long ago).
Saves a lot of bureaucratic overhead, and allows people to drive older cars when there is no alternative (like cheap public transportation, in Europe I fully believe that it's either cheap or efficient, not both, sometimes neither).
Case in point, I've got a 1988 Fiat Panda that's registered in Germany. I am paying a massive amount of money because it doesn't have a catalytic converter, and therefore is a very naughty high polluting vehicle. Now I also happen to have an SLK with a 5.5L evil beast of an engine in it. Apparently, the government believes that the little 750cc engine will do more damage than the environment than the SLK. There are even places that I can't drive the Panda because it is too dirty. What really boggles the mind though, is that the decision on how much your car pollutes is based off of a sample per m3 of exhaust, doesn't have anything to do with the volume of pollutants that your car produces over a period of time...
Yea, I think this would be great for the US! Think about all the jobs it would create, and the best part, seeing all the poor people scramble to pay for $500 parts that they don't really need to be safe, but are required to pass inspection!
Not when they're blowing up metros, storming embassies, shooting film directors, blowing up trains...
Yea, it's stupid. On the other hand, if a group of Argentine paratroopers decided to go for a stroll through downtown Stanley dressed in their military clothes and making comments about where the safest place in the town might be, I would have to say that seems pretty stupid to me, and they would probably get some sort of attention.
seriously now, if you were sitting out in front of a federal building and some redneck dressed in bdus parks a moving van in front, you wouldn't be the slightest bit worried? Would you rather grandma gets into the metro car with an Indian in a suit, or the 20 stone Nigerians decked out big poofy jackets?
This family was treated very badly, but they would have to be really really oblivious to dress up like the people that we see on our tvs every night yelling death to america, make comments about the safest place to sit in a plane, and not realize that people might get a bit nervous.
Yea, we tend to profile. It's our brain trying to warn us that patterns are being matched and we need to take notice.
AirTran was completely worthless here. They just made my airline selection process that much easier.
I think that the real reason can be summed up in a single word "money".
Some people leave, usually just planning on doing so for a couple of years to save up, and then coming back and buying a flat.
I'm in Pecs once a week, and I've got to say that the guys are quite on the ball as far as tech skills go. They don't want to leave because they have families, and the cost of living isn't nuts like in Budapest, and they generally live a good life.
On a side note, I know quite a few Finns in Prague.....
Gun and knife crime is on the up in the UK despite a ban on personal ownership of firearms...The people want to be safer, two options, let the citizens defend themselves, or have the government do it. The government has decided to turn the UK into a surveillance state as a consequence of that need for protection. They are slowly realizing that isn't working, so the police are being rearmed... I ask myself quite often, what happens when that doesn't solve the problem? What is the next step that the government will take to control the problem?
That's kind of what I'm getting at, usage of French as an international language was at its height a while back. In the majority of the colonies, you are just as well off with English as French when speaking to anyone under 45.
I'm not trying to dismiss the French language as a whole, I just have a hard time with the argument that anyone that has dealings(professional or leisure) with France should speak the language. There is already a common language that makes communication very easy, and the majority of the French already speak it....
That is quite a few languages to master in order to communicate with colleagues. What languages are emails sent in? How about conference calls with say an Australian, German, and a Frenchman? Do the English people in your company speak French?
I don't see what's nonsense there. In the rest of the world, English is another standard skill that is learned.
Here in Germany, it is a given that everyone will speak basic English, because they took it in school. It doesn't mean that you have to be fluent. It's same reason that I expect most people that went to school to know how to multiply and divide.
I have a hard time believing that French children are somehow slower than their Polish or Japanese counterparts in that they are somehow disadvantaged because they don't speak with Natives.
On a side note, my girlfriend studied in Clermont for a couple of semesters. Every time that I came to visit, it was never a problem to communicate in English for the basics. Not many people seemed to speak German, Czech, or Polish, so I was a bit out of luck on that front. I have family that lives in a small village close to Castres. When we visited last summer, I didn't have a problem doing shopping or asking for the basics in English, especially after everyone found out that I'm related to the baker. Maybe that was a special case, but I don't have more problems in France than in other places that I visit.
Maybe it's more a question of wanting to versus actual knowledge. I know lots of French people that speak great English, but are uncomfortable because they are self conscious about making mistakes.
Yea, and my German passport is also in Irish.
Granted lots of international organizations use French as an accepted alternate to English, I don't think anyone can say that it would be on the top of the list for a traveler. I also don't know of any international corporations that use French as the corporate language.
The difference is that English is the language of global communication. It's not a second language, it's a basic skill that is taught to prepare the person for just such an occasion, whether that be a Frenchie in Fair Rapids, or a Kiwi in Clermont. All little French children, as well as little Dutch, German, Czech, Italian, and Russian kids are all taught English in school because it is the defacto standard for communication.
For bonus points, I'm a German living in the Czech Republic working for an international company. Languages work like this here, the older people speak German, the middle aged English and broken Russian, and the younger people speak English.
I guess if 200 years of industry is erased using a massive amount incendiaries, you generally have a chance to build up a new without too many relics of the early industrial age chasing you. Here in Germany, we're in the same boat.
On the other hand, maybe what you're describing is mankind invading into nature due of rapid expansion?
It's not really a problem with corporations, the problem is when you take away the accountability of the owners. That's the major loophole. Limited liability is one hell of a loophole...
Are there any blanket consumer protection laws with regards to what information a provider can release to a third party? I always thought that it was completely at the discretion of the provider as to what information they can disclose, and for what reason. I hope I'm wrong.
It's too easy to blame it on lack of oversight from regulators. The prime people that are responsible for this are the people that run the company, and to a lesser degree, the people that work there.
That's the thing, here in the Czech Republic, and most of Europe, illegal immigrants that are identified as such are generally deported rather quickly. In the border states, illegal immigration is so rampant, and enforcement of the law is so lax, that there are kids that have literally grown up (primary school, college, working) in the United States that are nonetheless residing there illegally. Personally, I think that's the result of not enforcing the law properly to begin with. You now have a situation where it would be a huge miscarriage of justice to deport these people, but at the same time, they are still illegal. Seal the borders up and grant amnesty to those already in the United States, problem solved.
But back to the original intent of the post, it's an issue that needs to be dealt with and not ignored. If you need to have that joke explained, then you're probably ignoring the problem in general. I think that proposing laws such as the California Dream Act, which would provide financial aid to illegal immigrants, is the wrong way to go about things. Make them legal, then you don't have to create silly laws that just add to an already Kafkaesque Californian bureaucracy.
Every year hundreds of thousands of Mexicans cross the border from Mexico into the United States, often illegally. Being that the large portion of these immigrants are illegal, they generally put a strain on already stretched social services in the Unites States while providing cheap untaxed labor to unscrupulous American businessmen. These Mexican immigrants are willing to work in less than ideal conditions because it is still better than working in Mexico.
Alright, it was an easy joke playing on stereotypes. But then again, the stereotypes are mostly true, which makes it quite funny from the perspective of an American, or anyone that has knowledge about illegal Mexican immigration to the United States. It's funny, laugh. Alternatively, see if you can maybe get Mexicans to legally migrate, then maybe the joke wouldn't be so funny.
Attempting to hide information doesn't mean that people will get sloppy with security. It just means that the information is not being published. If hiding the information is being sold as a safeguard, then it is time to fire your security and risk team, as they are not doing their job.
It would be kind of stupid to publish all the information as there is no need to make it public. You shouldn't punish making it public, but again, there is no need. The door lock manufacturer on the otherhand might make information on their safeguard public in proving to you the buying public that their door locks are safe. What's the problem?
The argument that security through obscurity is not a safeguard is 100% correct. In this case, you would assume that the attacker has all the information on your security implementation and build everything based on that assumption. On the other hand, if that information isn't public, then it would possibly make an attackers job much more difficult. The attacker would have to spend additional resources in gathering the information. Why would you want to actively help the attacker save resources? What benefit does making the information public bring?
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Codemasters didn't "make" Operation Flashpoint, Bohemia Interactive did. BI has developed the entire series. Codemasters published OFP, they made the box and the manual.
Thanks for the sanity check. Globalization doesn't just affect people that work on assembly lines.
Now that the quality of care is becoming on par, and often better than that in the US, I think it's only a matter of time before the big daddy of medical care in the US, insurance, starts moving towards cost cutting via treatment overseas. A number of insurance companies in Europe are already doing this, and NHS in the UK has a pilot voucher program going for overseas care... Only a matter of time.
You're required to make sure that your car is roadworthy, and can be fined if it's not (Oklahoma did away with inspections not too long ago).
Saves a lot of bureaucratic overhead, and allows people to drive older cars when there is no alternative (like cheap public transportation, in Europe I fully believe that it's either cheap or efficient, not both, sometimes neither).
Case in point, I've got a 1988 Fiat Panda that's registered in Germany. I am paying a massive amount of money because it doesn't have a catalytic converter, and therefore is a very naughty high polluting vehicle. Now I also happen to have an SLK with a 5.5L evil beast of an engine in it. Apparently, the government believes that the little 750cc engine will do more damage than the environment than the SLK. There are even places that I can't drive the Panda because it is too dirty. What really boggles the mind though, is that the decision on how much your car pollutes is based off of a sample per m3 of exhaust, doesn't have anything to do with the volume of pollutants that your car produces over a period of time...
Yea, I think this would be great for the US! Think about all the jobs it would create, and the best part, seeing all the poor people scramble to pay for $500 parts that they don't really need to be safe, but are required to pass inspection!
I think I'll pass on that one.
Does that mean that cars are far more dangerous than guns?
Not when they're blowing up metros, storming embassies, shooting film directors, blowing up trains...
Yea, it's stupid. On the other hand, if a group of Argentine paratroopers decided to go for a stroll through downtown Stanley dressed in their military clothes and making comments about where the safest place in the town might be, I would have to say that seems pretty stupid to me, and they would probably get some sort of attention.
seriously now, if you were sitting out in front of a federal building and some redneck dressed in bdus parks a moving van in front, you wouldn't be the slightest bit worried? Would you rather grandma gets into the metro car with an Indian in a suit, or the 20 stone Nigerians decked out big poofy jackets? This family was treated very badly, but they would have to be really really oblivious to dress up like the people that we see on our tvs every night yelling death to america, make comments about the safest place to sit in a plane, and not realize that people might get a bit nervous. Yea, we tend to profile. It's our brain trying to warn us that patterns are being matched and we need to take notice. AirTran was completely worthless here. They just made my airline selection process that much easier.
not to nit pick, but Kavaja wasn't an anglo saxon. His last name means coffee in just about every slavic language.
I think that the real reason can be summed up in a single word "money". Some people leave, usually just planning on doing so for a couple of years to save up, and then coming back and buying a flat. I'm in Pecs once a week, and I've got to say that the guys are quite on the ball as far as tech skills go. They don't want to leave because they have families, and the cost of living isn't nuts like in Budapest, and they generally live a good life. On a side note, I know quite a few Finns in Prague.....
Gun and knife crime is on the up in the UK despite a ban on personal ownership of firearms...The people want to be safer, two options, let the citizens defend themselves, or have the government do it. The government has decided to turn the UK into a surveillance state as a consequence of that need for protection. They are slowly realizing that isn't working, so the police are being rearmed... I ask myself quite often, what happens when that doesn't solve the problem? What is the next step that the government will take to control the problem?
That's kind of what I'm getting at, usage of French as an international language was at its height a while back. In the majority of the colonies, you are just as well off with English as French when speaking to anyone under 45. I'm not trying to dismiss the French language as a whole, I just have a hard time with the argument that anyone that has dealings(professional or leisure) with France should speak the language. There is already a common language that makes communication very easy, and the majority of the French already speak it....
That is quite a few languages to master in order to communicate with colleagues. What languages are emails sent in? How about conference calls with say an Australian, German, and a Frenchman? Do the English people in your company speak French?
Here in Germany, it is a given that everyone will speak basic English, because they took it in school. It doesn't mean that you have to be fluent. It's same reason that I expect most people that went to school to know how to multiply and divide.
I have a hard time believing that French children are somehow slower than their Polish or Japanese counterparts in that they are somehow disadvantaged because they don't speak with Natives.
On a side note, my girlfriend studied in Clermont for a couple of semesters. Every time that I came to visit, it was never a problem to communicate in English for the basics. Not many people seemed to speak German, Czech, or Polish, so I was a bit out of luck on that front. I have family that lives in a small village close to Castres. When we visited last summer, I didn't have a problem doing shopping or asking for the basics in English, especially after everyone found out that I'm related to the baker. Maybe that was a special case, but I don't have more problems in France than in other places that I visit.
Maybe it's more a question of wanting to versus actual knowledge. I know lots of French people that speak great English, but are uncomfortable because they are self conscious about making mistakes.
Yea, and my German passport is also in Irish. Granted lots of international organizations use French as an accepted alternate to English, I don't think anyone can say that it would be on the top of the list for a traveler. I also don't know of any international corporations that use French as the corporate language.
The difference is that English is the language of global communication. It's not a second language, it's a basic skill that is taught to prepare the person for just such an occasion, whether that be a Frenchie in Fair Rapids, or a Kiwi in Clermont. All little French children, as well as little Dutch, German, Czech, Italian, and Russian kids are all taught English in school because it is the defacto standard for communication. For bonus points, I'm a German living in the Czech Republic working for an international company. Languages work like this here, the older people speak German, the middle aged English and broken Russian, and the younger people speak English.
I guess if 200 years of industry is erased using a massive amount incendiaries, you generally have a chance to build up a new without too many relics of the early industrial age chasing you. Here in Germany, we're in the same boat. On the other hand, maybe what you're describing is mankind invading into nature due of rapid expansion?
Because google is using word to submit their semi anonymous critiques... shameful shameful
How is it unethical to use your own checkout system? Is it also unethical for a merchant to accept Visa and deny my very own Bongo card?
It's not really a problem with corporations, the problem is when you take away the accountability of the owners. That's the major loophole. Limited liability is one hell of a loophole...
Are there any blanket consumer protection laws with regards to what information a provider can release to a third party? I always thought that it was completely at the discretion of the provider as to what information they can disclose, and for what reason. I hope I'm wrong.
It's too easy to blame it on lack of oversight from regulators. The prime people that are responsible for this are the people that run the company, and to a lesser degree, the people that work there.
There is no excuse for that. Incompetence on the design level, as well as the enforcement level...Probably worthless auditors as well...
That's the thing, here in the Czech Republic, and most of Europe, illegal immigrants that are identified as such are generally deported rather quickly. In the border states, illegal immigration is so rampant, and enforcement of the law is so lax, that there are kids that have literally grown up (primary school, college, working) in the United States that are nonetheless residing there illegally. Personally, I think that's the result of not enforcing the law properly to begin with. You now have a situation where it would be a huge miscarriage of justice to deport these people, but at the same time, they are still illegal. Seal the borders up and grant amnesty to those already in the United States, problem solved.
But back to the original intent of the post, it's an issue that needs to be dealt with and not ignored. If you need to have that joke explained, then you're probably ignoring the problem in general. I think that proposing laws such as the California Dream Act, which would provide financial aid to illegal immigrants, is the wrong way to go about things. Make them legal, then you don't have to create silly laws that just add to an already Kafkaesque Californian bureaucracy.
Every year hundreds of thousands of Mexicans cross the border from Mexico into the United States, often illegally. Being that the large portion of these immigrants are illegal, they generally put a strain on already stretched social services in the Unites States while providing cheap untaxed labor to unscrupulous American businessmen. These Mexican immigrants are willing to work in less than ideal conditions because it is still better than working in Mexico.
Alright, it was an easy joke playing on stereotypes. But then again, the stereotypes are mostly true, which makes it quite funny from the perspective of an American, or anyone that has knowledge about illegal Mexican immigration to the United States. It's funny, laugh. Alternatively, see if you can maybe get Mexicans to legally migrate, then maybe the joke wouldn't be so funny.
Hope that clears things up a bit.
-Former legal migrant
Attempting to hide information doesn't mean that people will get sloppy with security. It just means that the information is not being published. If hiding the information is being sold as a safeguard, then it is time to fire your security and risk team, as they are not doing their job.
It would be kind of stupid to publish all the information as there is no need to make it public. You shouldn't punish making it public, but again, there is no need. The door lock manufacturer on the otherhand might make information on their safeguard public in proving to you the buying public that their door locks are safe. What's the problem?
The argument that security through obscurity is not a safeguard is 100% correct. In this case, you would assume that the attacker has all the information on your security implementation and build everything based on that assumption. On the other hand, if that information isn't public, then it would possibly make an attackers job much more difficult. The attacker would have to spend additional resources in gathering the information. Why would you want to actively help the attacker save resources? What benefit does making the information public bring?