Lack of support, poor backward compatibility and shifting standards are all common problems for open source.
I worked for the company that used MySQL for very data-intense large application and my recollection was that a) updates always broke something b) some things never worked as intended and required hacks c) it cost money to get developers to fix specific bug that severely affected them but very few other people d) problems with fail over, where any hardware failure caused few hours delay from real time for a day or so. I'm sure overall cost, even with costs of time lost by database programmer, was a lot less than enterprise database.
How do you go about "unwittingly downloaded a keylogger program"? Even if you run Win OS and use IE at default settings it takes unpatched exploit and/or click of OK. After that keylogger needs to get past firewall to ring home to be of any use. So can someone explain how this can happen on a properly maintained computer?
Guilty of what? Guilty of to 'conspiracy to commit corporate greed infringement' and 'criminal moneygrabing infringement'? I hope it goes in front of the jury and we get Jury Nullification
I think Google in its current iteration is on decline as a useful search tool. Bombing, link farms, ebay links and overabundance of throw-away index sites makes it harder to find about anything with a simple search. For example searching for any specific service or business, like car dealerships, produces endless layers of indexes that live off add revenue. I think Google is rapidly approaching GIGO.
There are people out there that tend to obsess, here is article from UO days that tells the same story. There always will be people that obsess over something, be it gambling, sex, job, food, alcohol or success. What puzzles me is that wasting your life away in front of the computer playing mmorpgs is not OK, but wasting away your life in front of the computer pulling 60 work hours weeks is OK.
How does it feel to have EA suck the soul out of your studio and make you push your product unfinished with core feature removed since they are too 'risky' and/or will affect ESRB rating?
To me this auction shows that Star Treck is still very strong brand and is very capable of producing popular shows given that it stays true to its theme.
What massively parallel tasks would possibly need 80 cores? I can see uses for two, maybe 4 cores but what are advantages of 80 core chip as opposed to system with 40 2-core processors we can have now?
Our System is used for multi-office (100+ calling stations in 10+ different locations) along with our centralized call monitoring and long distance termination. Asterisk might work well for single-office 5 lines setup fine, but as I said it does not work well unsupervised past small-scale applications while CISCO does.
At my work we have Asterisk PBX/VoIP and its still way too raw to use. Unending list of problems and bugs, things work differently with new releases and it is not that stable or efficient under heavy loads. We end up having to purchase very beefy hardware and hire a guy whoes job it to monitor/fix it 24/7.
If you are looking for community ATITD would be the game to play if you like to socialize over adventure, EvE if you are into sci-fi and PvP. Just to name few mmogs that have wastly superior 'community' aspect than WoW - old NWN, UO, M59, AC, ATITD, EvE, SB.
If anything WoW lacks in player interaction and community when compared to other games in its genre due to heavy use of instances and hard segregation by levels. Best communities are usually formed in games where players need to rely on others for protection from common enemy, trade or achievement of in-game goals. In WoW, aside from grouping, you don't ever need anything from other players. Simple fact that you can reach maximum level without speaking a single world to others demonstrate that community and player interaction is not a strong point of WoW.
I find it fairly annoying that WoW given credit for many things its not good at just because its so large and people notice/know about it.
Details can be found here and here
Scammer used basic Ponzi scheme - set up a bank that gave interest on investments. Used new investments to pay off interest. Eventually, like all pyrmid schemes, it run out of investors so scammer cashed out and made "I won Eve" video. This worked since there are quite a few legitimate buisness in EVE, mostly pawnshops for T2 BPO's, that give good returns.
There are two types of addiction, psychological and physiological, that should not be confused.
Physiological addiction is where your body requires a substance intake in order to continue functioning without excessive stress. Most hard drugs, alcohol and tobacco fall into this category. With physiological addiction your metabolism, hormonal balance and/or nervous system affected in a way that your body requires continued consumption.
Psychological addiction is completely different and based on operant conditioning, you are addicted to rewards of some activity, even if that activity involves consumption. Tendency for psychological addiction is what makes society, social interaction and ultimately learning possible. Human beings get addicted to success, recognition, fame, friends all the time. Human ability to self-motivate and have internal rewarding scheme is what makes us sentient.
As to WoW addicted kid - simple way to cure psychological addiction is reward substitution, if you can match what WoW has to offer to him. Kid got so heavily into WoW simply because it is an easy way to create peer network, get peer recognition and social interaction. Chances are his is lonely, considered a nerd by his peers, ignored by adults and doesn't have many friends - how can this compete with WoW where he is recognized, valued and probably respected member of his WoW peer group?
ISO and majority of similar regulations are all about 'see in an official way'. They are a weak guarantee against idiotic mistakes and negligence and mosty required to make sure nobody tries to ducktape and glue together important things that can go boom and kill people.
I would no recommend going OS for a system that prone to critical failures, like large automated parking systems, for number of reasons:
1) Liability - any failure is at large your responsibility, developers can be knowingly negligent and not be liable in any way 2) Support - you OS product might not have any support, if it does its costs are not fixed and you have to tie part of your budget into emergency and contingency funds 3) Standard compliance - forget ISO or any safety/regulations compliance 4) Need for internal support - OS will require you to maintain dedicated personnel capable of troubleshooting the system
OS works well for non-critical wide-use applications but I don't see it moving into other areas in the near future.
EA will whore out, milk dry Mythic and then will toss what left aside, just like they did to OSI, Westwood and many other once-great studios. I feel for Mythic employees, I hope they will like working 60-70h/week destroying souls of thier games one penny at a time.
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Imagine having to crank two things at once, your laptop and .... well you know.... heat generated by you will be quite considerable.
Lack of support, poor backward compatibility and shifting standards are all common problems for open source.
I worked for the company that used MySQL for very data-intense large application and my recollection was that a) updates always broke something b) some things never worked as intended and required hacks c) it cost money to get developers to fix specific bug that severely affected them but very few other people d) problems with fail over, where any hardware failure caused few hours delay from real time for a day or so. I'm sure overall cost, even with costs of time lost by database programmer, was a lot less than enterprise database.
How do you go about "unwittingly downloaded a keylogger program"? Even if you run Win OS and use IE at default settings it takes unpatched exploit and/or click of OK. After that keylogger needs to get past firewall to ring home to be of any use. So can someone explain how this can happen on a properly maintained computer?
Guilty of what? Guilty of to 'conspiracy to commit corporate greed infringement' and 'criminal moneygrabing infringement'? I hope it goes in front of the jury and we get Jury Nullification
I think Google in its current iteration is on decline as a useful search tool. Bombing, link farms, ebay links and overabundance of throw-away index sites makes it harder to find about anything with a simple search. For example searching for any specific service or business, like car dealerships, produces endless layers of indexes that live off add revenue. I think Google is rapidly approaching GIGO.
DAVE: Open the pod bay doors, HAL.
HAL: I'm afraid I can't do that, Dave.
There are people out there that tend to obsess, here is article from UO days that tells the same story. There always will be people that obsess over something, be it gambling, sex, job, food, alcohol or success. What puzzles me is that wasting your life away in front of the computer playing mmorpgs is not OK, but wasting away your life in front of the computer pulling 60 work hours weeks is OK.
How does it feel to have EA suck the soul out of your studio and make you push your product unfinished with core feature removed since they are too 'risky' and/or will affect ESRB rating?
To me this auction shows that Star Treck is still very strong brand and is very capable of producing popular shows given that it stays true to its theme.
Hollywood study finds that Hollywood deserves more money. Big surprise?
Just give that money to Antec
What massively parallel tasks would possibly need 80 cores? I can see uses for two, maybe 4 cores but what are advantages of 80 core chip as opposed to system with 40 2-core processors we can have now?
Our System is used for multi-office (100+ calling stations in 10+ different locations) along with our centralized call monitoring and long distance termination. Asterisk might work well for single-office 5 lines setup fine, but as I said it does not work well unsupervised past small-scale applications while CISCO does.
At my work we have Asterisk PBX/VoIP and its still way too raw to use. Unending list of problems and bugs, things work differently with new releases and it is not that stable or efficient under heavy loads. We end up having to purchase very beefy hardware and hire a guy whoes job it to monitor/fix it 24/7.
Imagine your crops now someone else's IP and you need to pay royalties. Imagine your crops now 'designed to work' with specific fertilizer.
If you are looking for community ATITD would be the game to play if you like to socialize over adventure, EvE if you are into sci-fi and PvP. Just to name few mmogs that have wastly superior 'community' aspect than WoW - old NWN, UO, M59, AC, ATITD, EvE, SB. If anything WoW lacks in player interaction and community when compared to other games in its genre due to heavy use of instances and hard segregation by levels. Best communities are usually formed in games where players need to rely on others for protection from common enemy, trade or achievement of in-game goals. In WoW, aside from grouping, you don't ever need anything from other players. Simple fact that you can reach maximum level without speaking a single world to others demonstrate that community and player interaction is not a strong point of WoW. I find it fairly annoying that WoW given credit for many things its not good at just because its so large and people notice/know about it.
You can tell automated operator all you think about company, product and voice menu and not get in trouble/hang up/perma hold.
Details can be found here and here Scammer used basic Ponzi scheme - set up a bank that gave interest on investments. Used new investments to pay off interest. Eventually, like all pyrmid schemes, it run out of investors so scammer cashed out and made "I won Eve" video. This worked since there are quite a few legitimate buisness in EVE, mostly pawnshops for T2 BPO's, that give good returns.
I think I will install one of these into my Yugo!
There are two types of addiction, psychological and physiological, that should not be confused. Physiological addiction is where your body requires a substance intake in order to continue functioning without excessive stress. Most hard drugs, alcohol and tobacco fall into this category. With physiological addiction your metabolism, hormonal balance and/or nervous system affected in a way that your body requires continued consumption. Psychological addiction is completely different and based on operant conditioning, you are addicted to rewards of some activity, even if that activity involves consumption. Tendency for psychological addiction is what makes society, social interaction and ultimately learning possible. Human beings get addicted to success, recognition, fame, friends all the time. Human ability to self-motivate and have internal rewarding scheme is what makes us sentient. As to WoW addicted kid - simple way to cure psychological addiction is reward substitution, if you can match what WoW has to offer to him. Kid got so heavily into WoW simply because it is an easy way to create peer network, get peer recognition and social interaction. Chances are his is lonely, considered a nerd by his peers, ignored by adults and doesn't have many friends - how can this compete with WoW where he is recognized, valued and probably respected member of his WoW peer group?
ISO and majority of similar regulations are all about 'see in an official way'. They are a weak guarantee against idiotic mistakes and negligence and mosty required to make sure nobody tries to ducktape and glue together important things that can go boom and kill people.
I would no recommend going OS for a system that prone to critical failures, like large automated parking systems, for number of reasons:
1) Liability - any failure is at large your responsibility, developers can be knowingly negligent and not be liable in any way
2) Support - you OS product might not have any support, if it does its costs are not fixed and you have to tie part of your budget into emergency and contingency funds
3) Standard compliance - forget ISO or any safety/regulations compliance
4) Need for internal support - OS will require you to maintain dedicated personnel capable of troubleshooting the system
OS works well for non-critical wide-use applications but I don't see it moving into other areas in the near future.
EA will whore out, milk dry Mythic and then will toss what left aside, just like they did to OSI, Westwood and many other once-great studios. I feel for Mythic employees, I hope they will like working 60-70h/week destroying souls of thier games one penny at a time.
With just little bit more plastic surgery Shatner can play that role himself...
Elvis is back, and back, and back some more! Or at least RFID reader at the airport says so.