I've seen plenty of that kind of behaviour (PS3, easy 300hrs) Some of the glitches I've seen could be called "hacks" except I don't know how anyone could hack a PS3 games (at least not easily) and the behaviour of a large number of players and admins leaves the term "childish" for dead! EA's own antics with the various revisions and changes isn't much better, either.
What ever happened to playing games to have some fun?
I installed both (on Ubuntu server) and added an inline virus scanner (ClamAV) module to DansGuardian as well. DG also has pre-made blacklists available to save you a TON of time setting them up. It did take a little while to configure but it's been stable and effective (sometimes a little TOO effective for the older kids).
Very "black and white" view you have there. Anonymous would say they had a reason for every action they've taken, but since you've decided it was all just for fun I guess none of that matters.
I don't necessarily agree with every action they've taken, but I can understand why people would want to do some of the things they've done.
Which is also why I don't understand why programmers and IT usually put down other departments like sales and marketing. Maybe because they don't understand that it is actually hard work, and requires learning just like you do with programming books. Yes, some people will be good at it naturally, but majority aren't. It's the same with programmers and pretty much anything. The fact is, sales and marketing is hard work. It's especially hard to do it correctly, as it's usually the sales and marketing people that are responsible for the product gaining any users.
My personal experience and that of others I have talked to suggests that IT people, being particularly rooted in facts and logic, have little respect for people who routinely dance around pulling promises out of their backsides about products they don't understand and then expect the coders to just "sort it out" because the marketoids think they are the only ones bringing money into the business. It's also the same marketoids that get bonuses for sales that wouldn't have been possible if the coders hadn't put in huge amounts of unpaid overtime modifying production code to include ( non existent) features that the marketoids promised the customer without consulting the production team first. Sales and Marketing deserve respect? When they learn to SHOW some respect and act like team players THEN they might deserve something other than justified contempt.
If overtime is banned for IT workers how about industry and all other kickbacks, "gifts" and pork-barrelling being banned for senators. If IT workers have to live on their basic salary why shouldn't senators have to live on their basic stipend?
I worked in a slaughter house for a while (maintenance crew) and after I left it took three months to get the stink out of my skin.
Taking on anyone from Zynga would mean having to retrain them completely to get rid of all the bad habits they learned. It'd be easier and cheaper to just take on a fresh graduate and start from scratch. Since my first comment appears to have vanished I'll restate it: working for Zynga will make you unemployable. Their stink will stick to you like the smell from a slaughter house.
THE 12 DAYS OF ZYNGA CHRISTMAS!!!
12 blank screens
11 locked up links
10 games not working
9 days of screaming
8 posts not posting
7 emails bitching
6 times refreshing
5 salty tears
4 gifts missing
3 broken mice
2 therapists
and a programmer hanging from a treeeeee !!
Sucks to be you. Assholes!
You deserve to fail. If I ever see a former Zynga coder or QA person come through my door looking for a job I WILL have you thrown off the premises bodily.
Yours
All the people you have ripped off, falsely accused of cheating with no proof and otherwise slandered.
Not necessarily. That would imply the car makers gave a rat's ass about the consumer once they part with their cash and that they cared about making a properly engineered product over making money.
As an example, Porche invented series electric hybrid drive technology around 1908. Even then it was easier to drive, provided more and better controlled torque to the wheels when it was most needed and used substantially less fuel than a straight mechanical counterpart. They abandoned the technology because fuel cost about one cent a US gallon and mechanical cars were the "accepted" technology. They knew it was a better was of doing things but ignored it anyway. Car makers haven't changed a lot in the last hundred odd years.
I will NEVER buy a game that requires me to be online the whole time to play a single player game and will consistently advise friends and family to do the same. Congratulations to the guy who starts a replay about World of Warcrack, I don't play that either!
I wouldn't bother pirating a game with this level of DRM, either. I'd just go buy something else from a different production house that didn't treat legitimate buyers like criminals, or even an indie game.
and this is soooo much worse than the malware authors who do this on closed source software... how? Decompilers are readily available. The only thing they don't give you is the comments and annotations. If you're good enough to write decent malware then decompiling a closed source binary and inserting your payload really isn't an issue and people will trust what you put back into the wild because it's closed and "safe".
If Evolutionists can't provide sufficient evidence to disprove the null hypothesis then why should should Evolutionism itself not be considered just as much a matter of faith as Intelligent Design? Arguing that the existence of a process proves the non-existence of the process engineer is no better than saying we were all created as we are in an instant. Neither argument carries any logical validity and can only be considered as statements of "faith".
quite simply should be cancelled and banned. If some pharma company actually INVENTS some new gene that CANNOT occur due to natural mutation then fine, but when it occurs naturally ANYWHERE in nature then nobody should have the right to patent it. Clearly it was NOT their invention and discoveries and inventions are very different things.
Patents on "business methods" and software should also be blanket cancelled and forbidden, the first because it's a ridiculous concept and the second because software is a written work and already covered by copyright law. Neither is a physical innovation, which is what patents were supposed to cover.
I wanted to commit a PS3 to biomedical research on a project of MY choosing, as well as play LEGIT games but that was taken because... well it doesn't matter as it's too late now.
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I've seen plenty of that kind of behaviour (PS3, easy 300hrs) Some of the glitches I've seen could be called "hacks" except I don't know how anyone could hack a PS3 games (at least not easily) and the behaviour of a large number of players and admins leaves the term "childish" for dead! EA's own antics with the various revisions and changes isn't much better, either. What ever happened to playing games to have some fun?
I installed both (on Ubuntu server) and added an inline virus scanner (ClamAV) module to DansGuardian as well. DG also has pre-made blacklists available to save you a TON of time setting them up. It did take a little while to configure but it's been stable and effective (sometimes a little TOO effective for the older kids).
using the World Community Grid virtual super computer. www.worldcommunitygrid.org
Very "black and white" view you have there. Anonymous would say they had a reason for every action they've taken, but since you've decided it was all just for fun I guess none of that matters. I don't necessarily agree with every action they've taken, but I can understand why people would want to do some of the things they've done.
about the Poles being a bunch of morons until that became politically unacceptable. This does nothing but reinforce the original opinion.
Which is also why I don't understand why programmers and IT usually put down other departments like sales and marketing. Maybe because they don't understand that it is actually hard work, and requires learning just like you do with programming books. Yes, some people will be good at it naturally, but majority aren't. It's the same with programmers and pretty much anything. The fact is, sales and marketing is hard work. It's especially hard to do it correctly, as it's usually the sales and marketing people that are responsible for the product gaining any users.
My personal experience and that of others I have talked to suggests that IT people, being particularly rooted in facts and logic, have little respect for people who routinely dance around pulling promises out of their backsides about products they don't understand and then expect the coders to just "sort it out" because the marketoids think they are the only ones bringing money into the business. It's also the same marketoids that get bonuses for sales that wouldn't have been possible if the coders hadn't put in huge amounts of unpaid overtime modifying production code to include ( non existent) features that the marketoids promised the customer without consulting the production team first. Sales and Marketing deserve respect? When they learn to SHOW some respect and act like team players THEN they might deserve something other than justified contempt.
The whole beam is supposed to have the kinetic energy of an aircraft carrier.
So when can we expect this in a hand held, beam weapon form? Or should we just be welcoming our new mosquito overlords?
If overtime is banned for IT workers how about industry and all other kickbacks, "gifts" and pork-barrelling being banned for senators. If IT workers have to live on their basic salary why shouldn't senators have to live on their basic stipend?
I worked in a slaughter house for a while (maintenance crew) and after I left it took three months to get the stink out of my skin. Taking on anyone from Zynga would mean having to retrain them completely to get rid of all the bad habits they learned. It'd be easier and cheaper to just take on a fresh graduate and start from scratch. Since my first comment appears to have vanished I'll restate it: working for Zynga will make you unemployable. Their stink will stick to you like the smell from a slaughter house. THE 12 DAYS OF ZYNGA CHRISTMAS!!! 12 blank screens 11 locked up links 10 games not working 9 days of screaming 8 posts not posting 7 emails bitching 6 times refreshing 5 salty tears 4 gifts missing 3 broken mice 2 therapists and a programmer hanging from a treeeeee !!
these "Movie Rights Group" parasites will get the rough treatment from the courts that they deserve.
should we put another GPU on the barbie for them?
Sucks to be you. Assholes! You deserve to fail. If I ever see a former Zynga coder or QA person come through my door looking for a job I WILL have you thrown off the premises bodily. Yours All the people you have ripped off, falsely accused of cheating with no proof and otherwise slandered.
Not necessarily. That would imply the car makers gave a rat's ass about the consumer once they part with their cash and that they cared about making a properly engineered product over making money. As an example, Porche invented series electric hybrid drive technology around 1908. Even then it was easier to drive, provided more and better controlled torque to the wheels when it was most needed and used substantially less fuel than a straight mechanical counterpart. They abandoned the technology because fuel cost about one cent a US gallon and mechanical cars were the "accepted" technology. They knew it was a better was of doing things but ignored it anyway. Car makers haven't changed a lot in the last hundred odd years.
I will NEVER buy a game that requires me to be online the whole time to play a single player game and will consistently advise friends and family to do the same. Congratulations to the guy who starts a replay about World of Warcrack, I don't play that either! I wouldn't bother pirating a game with this level of DRM, either. I'd just go buy something else from a different production house that didn't treat legitimate buyers like criminals, or even an indie game.
VGer poot'd. Must have been a relief.
and this is soooo much worse than the malware authors who do this on closed source software ... how? Decompilers are readily available. The only thing they don't give you is the comments and annotations. If you're good enough to write decent malware then decompiling a closed source binary and inserting your payload really isn't an issue and people will trust what you put back into the wild because it's closed and "safe".
If Evolutionists can't provide sufficient evidence to disprove the null hypothesis then why should should Evolutionism itself not be considered just as much a matter of faith as Intelligent Design? Arguing that the existence of a process proves the non-existence of the process engineer is no better than saying we were all created as we are in an instant. Neither argument carries any logical validity and can only be considered as statements of "faith".
When we catch 'em we'll drop the bastards. . . . . . . .
poking out one eye just so I CAN'T EVER see that in 3D!
Precisely ...
or not
quite simply should be cancelled and banned. If some pharma company actually INVENTS some new gene that CANNOT occur due to natural mutation then fine, but when it occurs naturally ANYWHERE in nature then nobody should have the right to patent it. Clearly it was NOT their invention and discoveries and inventions are very different things. Patents on "business methods" and software should also be blanket cancelled and forbidden, the first because it's a ridiculous concept and the second because software is a written work and already covered by copyright law. Neither is a physical innovation, which is what patents were supposed to cover.
I wanted to commit a PS3 to biomedical research on a project of MY choosing, as well as play LEGIT games but that was taken because ... well it doesn't matter as it's too late now.
the RIAA is declared a terrorist organisation and all it's executive dragged off to Git-mo the better off the world, and the music industry, will be.
a new implementation of the "she'll be right, mate!" algorithm, or the "no wucken furries!" paradigm?
mmmmmmmm ... knobiliscious!