...You risk doing one of those "superman saves the day by sucking the tidal wave up on a tornado" bits
No MMO restricts the number of players because the world if too crowded, they do it because server architecture limits the amount of people on a given server/world. That's just how it is.
The only reason to combine servers is because it will cost them les to run the whole show on fewer boxes and the servers arent handling the max capacity of people yet.
Good luck to the poster trying to sell the SoE spin as a good thing. If people buy it move to Washington as I'm sure there will be lots of work waiting for you there on both sides of the policitcal fence.
How long before I'd be shut down for opening a guild as follows:
"The knights of the White Dragon are looking for new members, we are a guild centered around white christian gamers of conservative viewpoints with strong sense of racial pride"
Then when someone protests shut down all arguement with:
"We're already taking down Rag and don't mind letting you leech tier 1 epics on the weekly runs as we're all decked"
How will Google make money off this. They are a publically held company, if they go on too many jaunts into the world of producing non profitable things shareholders who have catapulted the stock price up will rebel. I see a few ways to make money here.
A) Put ads on the desktop
B) Charge for the OS - A sure fire way to make all those Ubuntu people REALLY happy.
I do not pretend to underestimate the amount of clout the Google name has. But how much of that clout will be used in ways which don't violate the "Dont be evil" rule?
First, the Chinese government tells google to add the misspellings to the filtering list.
Second , the misspelling list keeps growing, google has to keep updating, which is taking up resources.
Third, China, or maybe even Google just put it a phoenetic parsing bit and ban on phoenetics. Maybe they apply some other ingenious code (something google can and does come up with all the time) to the problem.
Result, a more efficient and adaptive censoring machine.
Face it people, Google has jumped the "evil" shark.
Contrary to what you guys are ranting...
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I don't think their study is trying to say 'Cure this virus and cure obesity'. It seems more to point towards reasons that some people invariably gain more weight eating the same foods as others. There are factors of caloric absorbtion, and also factors of metabolisms being capable of breaking down and using fat. Many metabolic processes can easily be affected by contagens in the system.
What is to say that some viruses might also be affecting this?
If some treatment can just help a person who has struggled against weight their whole life have a slightly easier struggle without harming their body in a more severe way then more power to them.
If Google decided to censor searches in the US because the government wanted illegal topics to be non serachable would that be evil? Sure it would.
/s/US/China
Simply put Google choose to compromise it's ethics because it wouldn't be able to make money in China otherwise.
Profits over Ethics = evil
Take your Google apologies elsewhere.. If they didn't want to be judged in a black and white sense they should not publically brandish and pride themselves in a black and white corporate motto. kthxbai
My wife and I both play Warcrack, and in our guild there are MULTIPLE family sets. We are constantly linking "Oh that's such and suchs kid..." Makes us watch our potty mouths in guild chat some, which I guess is a good thing, although we still cuss like sailors on the vent server during raids.
When my wife and I have kids I fully expect them to game with us, or conversely it might be us gaming with them. Either way, I think of it as a positive. Some of the best memories I have as a child are of things I did with my grandparents who raised me.
Leveraging Xbox live as a networking system to game against others, put in all the PsP goodies like local wireless access.
Slap a derivative of Windows Mobile on it for the OS so you also have a PDA capable device. And make it look and feel like other OS products people know (windows and media center)
Give it a touchscreen to nudge in on the PDA market futher.
Enough storage capacity out of the box to be a small MP3 jukebox of viable portable drive.
Not to mention the ways to integrate it and tie it in as the device which moves between your media center, xbox, and windows machine.... Lots of possibilities to leverage work they've done in other areas.
He could have opened up before the questions with a list of all the next winning lottery numbers, the names and phone numbers of all the biggest spam coordinaters on the planet, announcing an update that would fully secure XP, AND a magic word that would make your significant other clean the house and fetch you some chocolate pudding..
.. and you guys still would have cruxified him.
After he even gave you pudding.. sheesh.
He took the questions and answered them. Were you people expecting him to come pleading for the mercy of the wise and all seeing linux gods or something? Were you expecting him to say "Oh well.. we know linux is better.."
If so, please just give it up now, change your sig to reflect which complete bias you currently support so we can more easily filter things around here.
I work in a very security oriented company, we design software used by I believe all the fortune 5 and 95% of the 500 at the last count. He made one really valid point in my eyes. As much as OpenBSD can harp about how secure they are can they harp about how they include all the usability functions and features that XP does in the default install?
I also live in Texas, I also have never heard of this loony. I am not sold on the Kinky Friedman movement as some are here. (Most of those people live around his stomping grounds in the more liberal areas of the state.) My personal bet is we're going to get a moderate republican in the next election via support of the bible belt, but being centrist enough to pull in some urban population support.
Maybe we should tax politicians under the "tax things we want less of" approach. Slap a yearly ding on any funds held by any political party.
I believe the stance and form that we hold Google to the "Don't be evil" motto breaks down to a simple check. Don't put profits above ethical and responsible behavior , EVEN IF IT'S LEGAL TO DO SO.
You can see this in why they haven't turned over search results to the US government. They're not being "evil" and holding to their ethics and a sense of right to privacy.
Now, why did they agree to mutilate search results by censoring them? (Which I think we can all agree is an evil thing to do, censorship and all..)
Answer : They're already doing business and making profits in the US, not helping the government won't hinder those profits. On the other hand if they want to make PROFITS in China by doing business there they have to agree to do "evil".
Profits > Ethics = Evil
They choose to pride themselves on the "Dont be evil" motto, that creates a pretty black/white line to judge on in this case. And agreeing to it gets back around to the quote already made about evil winning when good men do nothing.
We hold Google here to the "don't be evil" philosophy in the sense of : Don't put profit above responsible and ethical behavior, EVEN IF IT IS LEGAL.
Here we have something of the converse of this, to obey the law of that land requires doing something which I firmly believe is unethical in that it is restrictive of freedom of speech. Mostly because freedom of speech is not a guaranteed right in China.
Here the "Don't be evil" application would be not to operate in an area where operating in the area would require "evil" practices.
And by that standard, they fail when it comes to China.
As a side note, if it's so easy for them to acquiesce to China's request to censor search results, then why are they stonewalling the US government request for search result information? Answer, they are already doing business in the US, so have no need to bow to government pressure, they want to do business in China but will have to bow to it to operate. They are putting the ability to operate and make money in China above ethical response because it is what they have to do to make a profit there.
I work for a company that produces multiple commercial software titles used in fortune 5-500 companies. Our normal practice is the current version and the two prior major releases.
The problem is of course "major release" is a malleable term. In our terms say the software was 3.0 , 3.1, 4.0, 4.1 we would suppose 3.1 and up. As soon as we say this though some very large company doesn't want to upgrade and we end up supporting older more "legacy" systems because of the all mighty $$$.
As for testing other companies software for interoperability with ours we support our desktop products back to Win95 on windows platforms. For servers it does back to Windows 2000, RH right now back to 4.1, Solaris back to 8.
The unfortunate reality of all this is that every case will have enough variables for any given company that I don't honestly think there is a hard and fast rule to even start to apply.
What happens if you say "Nothing before IE 4, period", then a week later some customer comes up and says "If you can't get this working with IE3 we're taking our 2 million dollar purchase order and shopping elsewhere"?
I'll have to agree with the above comment on this. The normal "law" of such things is that by the time we have software that will really take advantage of this on a desktop level the price will have dropped because there will be a tier or two better processors released by that time.
That being said I tend to buy Intel processors for few reasons beyond "I've never had problems with them and I like things I never have problems with".
EXACTLY! I have been in the beta playing some and have realized that as pretty as the game is, and as much as I love the traditional D&D world/concept I will probably remain in WoW for the time being.
Not only are all the adventures instanced, you can't go into an instance unless you have been given the particular quest for that instance.
Then you get outside, and the town areas are instanced too (ala Guild Wars)
On the other hand, it has great eye candy (already had FilePlanet access so I have the hi res client)
An annoying bug I hit was that some vendors would have multiples of the same item for sale for different prices, and inevitably you would only be able to purchase the highest priced version of the item, although you could see the cheaper version (makes me understand the partnering with FilePlanet)
'You can use the leviathan forces of attention and enthusiasm that are swirling around Web 2.0 these days as a powerful enabler to make something important and exciting happen in your organization.'
/s/Web 2.0/in this mixed drink /s/organization/pants
Did these chicks writing this article have big cans?
Seriously, both male and female characters in these games are exaggerated, and this is on purpose. If you have a predominantly male audience yes you are going to make your female models what would attract that audience. That's the bottom line here.
The gaming industry even knows how to make fun of itself on this point, does anybody else remember the DoA advertisement that flashed to the 4 geeks on the couch playing the game and all had pillows placed to hide how "enthusiastic" they were about the game?
It would be like me complaining that all the guys in my wifes romance novels are all tall, muscular, rakish bad boys with hearts of gold. They're that way FOR A REASON. A book which portrays a leading man as something other than that is only considered a "change of pace" to "make a point".
Ok... hold on a sec there Tex...
It's called a ROOTkit. Named after.. let's see.. a ROOT user account access method. I don't think Windows has a "Root" to compromise, but the name carried over for software which allows surreptitious access to a system.
I don't think your comment about how these things are just about NEVER on *nix systems is accurate, but I could be wrong.
I will preface this with the fact that I have worked about 20 years now in the IT industry and worked for two of the "biggest evil empires" the industry has known as well as couple ideological startups. Right now Google is the golden child, and if you look back.. at one point in time so was IBM.. and so was Microsoft..
One lesson I have picked up in this industry and in the world in general is that we love building up heros only because we love tearing them down and watching them fall. It's a sad side of human existance but the inevitable fall of Google from the adulation and shameless love of the IT community will serve mostly to make people in the IT community feel better about themselves.
They wrote an article tooting their own horn and philosophy and this is breaking news in the IT world? Wasn't there something in Clerks about a guy.. who broke his neck... doing something???
Strive to reach consensus. Modern corporate mythology has the unique decision maker as hero. We adhere to the view that the "many are smarter than the few," and solicit a broad base of views before reaching any decision.
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No MMO restricts the number of players because the world if too crowded, they do it because server architecture limits the amount of people on a given server/world. That's just how it is.
The only reason to combine servers is because it will cost them les to run the whole show on fewer boxes and the servers arent handling the max capacity of people yet.
Good luck to the poster trying to sell the SoE spin as a good thing. If people buy it move to Washington as I'm sure there will be lots of work waiting for you there on both sides of the policitcal fence.
"The knights of the White Dragon are looking for new members, we are a guild centered around white christian gamers of conservative viewpoints with strong sense of racial pride"
Then when someone protests shut down all arguement with:
"We're already taking down Rag and don't mind letting you leech tier 1 epics on the weekly runs as we're all decked"
A) Put ads on the desktop
B) Charge for the OS - A sure fire way to make all those Ubuntu people REALLY happy.
I do not pretend to underestimate the amount of clout the Google name has. But how much of that clout will be used in ways which don't violate the "Dont be evil" rule?
Second , the misspelling list keeps growing, google has to keep updating, which is taking up resources.
Third, China, or maybe even Google just put it a phoenetic parsing bit and ban on phoenetics. Maybe they apply some other ingenious code (something google can and does come up with all the time) to the problem.
Result, a more efficient and adaptive censoring machine.
Face it people, Google has jumped the "evil" shark.
What is to say that some viruses might also be affecting this?
If some treatment can just help a person who has struggled against weight their whole life have a slightly easier struggle without harming their body in a more severe way then more power to them.
No, but given a chance I bet they will help the Chinese government put some there.
Simply put Google choose to compromise it's ethics because it wouldn't be able to make money in China otherwise.
Profits over Ethics = evil
Take your Google apologies elsewhere.. If they didn't want to be judged in a black and white sense they should not publically brandish and pride themselves in a black and white corporate motto. kthxbai
When my wife and I have kids I fully expect them to game with us, or conversely it might be us gaming with them. Either way, I think of it as a positive. Some of the best memories I have as a child are of things I did with my grandparents who raised me.
Slap a derivative of Windows Mobile on it for the OS so you also have a PDA capable device. And make it look and feel like other OS products people know (windows and media center)
Give it a touchscreen to nudge in on the PDA market futher.
Enough storage capacity out of the box to be a small MP3 jukebox of viable portable drive.
Not to mention the ways to integrate it and tie it in as the device which moves between your media center, xbox, and windows machine.... Lots of possibilities to leverage work they've done in other areas.
After he even gave you pudding.. sheesh.
He took the questions and answered them. Were you people expecting him to come pleading for the mercy of the wise and all seeing linux gods or something? Were you expecting him to say "Oh well.. we know linux is better.."
If so, please just give it up now, change your sig to reflect which complete bias you currently support so we can more easily filter things around here.
I work in a very security oriented company, we design software used by I believe all the fortune 5 and 95% of the 500 at the last count. He made one really valid point in my eyes. As much as OpenBSD can harp about how secure they are can they harp about how they include all the usability functions and features that XP does in the default install?
I also live in Texas, I also have never heard of this loony. I am not sold on the Kinky Friedman movement as some are here. (Most of those people live around his stomping grounds in the more liberal areas of the state.) My personal bet is we're going to get a moderate republican in the next election via support of the bible belt, but being centrist enough to pull in some urban population support.
Maybe we should tax politicians under the "tax things we want less of" approach. Slap a yearly ding on any funds held by any political party.
You can see this in why they haven't turned over search results to the US government. They're not being "evil" and holding to their ethics and a sense of right to privacy.
Now, why did they agree to mutilate search results by censoring them? (Which I think we can all agree is an evil thing to do, censorship and all..)
Answer : They're already doing business and making profits in the US, not helping the government won't hinder those profits. On the other hand if they want to make PROFITS in China by doing business there they have to agree to do "evil".
Profits > Ethics = Evil
They choose to pride themselves on the "Dont be evil" motto, that creates a pretty black/white line to judge on in this case. And agreeing to it gets back around to the quote already made about evil winning when good men do nothing.
We hold Google here to the "don't be evil" philosophy in the sense of : Don't put profit above responsible and ethical behavior, EVEN IF IT IS LEGAL.
Here we have something of the converse of this, to obey the law of that land requires doing something which I firmly believe is unethical in that it is restrictive of freedom of speech. Mostly because freedom of speech is not a guaranteed right in China.
Here the "Don't be evil" application would be not to operate in an area where operating in the area would require "evil" practices.
And by that standard, they fail when it comes to China.
As a side note, if it's so easy for them to acquiesce to China's request to censor search results, then why are they stonewalling the US government request for search result information? Answer, they are already doing business in the US, so have no need to bow to government pressure, they want to do business in China but will have to bow to it to operate. They are putting the ability to operate and make money in China above ethical response because it is what they have to do to make a profit there.
The problem is of course "major release" is a malleable term. In our terms say the software was 3.0 , 3.1, 4.0, 4.1 we would suppose 3.1 and up. As soon as we say this though some very large company doesn't want to upgrade and we end up supporting older more "legacy" systems because of the all mighty $$$.
As for testing other companies software for interoperability with ours we support our desktop products back to Win95 on windows platforms. For servers it does back to Windows 2000, RH right now back to 4.1, Solaris back to 8.
The unfortunate reality of all this is that every case will have enough variables for any given company that I don't honestly think there is a hard and fast rule to even start to apply.
What happens if you say "Nothing before IE 4, period", then a week later some customer comes up and says "If you can't get this working with IE3 we're taking our 2 million dollar purchase order and shopping elsewhere"?
That being said I tend to buy Intel processors for few reasons beyond "I've never had problems with them and I like things I never have problems with".
Hundreds of PC overclocking enthusiasts are looking into ways to get broadband on Pluto to support them moving there.
Could this be where they all went to sulk when they found out that they had no shot at being in the Willy Wonka remake?
EXACTLY! I have been in the beta playing some and have realized that as pretty as the game is, and as much as I love the traditional D&D world/concept I will probably remain in WoW for the time being.
Not only are all the adventures instanced, you can't go into an instance unless you have been given the particular quest for that instance.
Then you get outside, and the town areas are instanced too (ala Guild Wars)
On the other hand, it has great eye candy (already had FilePlanet access so I have the hi res client)
An annoying bug I hit was that some vendors would have multiples of the same item for sale for different prices, and inevitably you would only be able to purchase the highest priced version of the item, although you could see the cheaper version (makes me understand the partnering with FilePlanet)
'You can use the leviathan forces of attention and enthusiasm that are swirling around Web 2.0 these days as a powerful enabler to make something important and exciting happen in your organization.'
/s/Web 2.0/in this mixed drink
/s/organization/pants
Fixed?
Did these chicks writing this article have big cans?
Seriously, both male and female characters in these games are exaggerated, and this is on purpose. If you have a predominantly male audience yes you are going to make your female models what would attract that audience. That's the bottom line here.
The gaming industry even knows how to make fun of itself on this point, does anybody else remember the DoA advertisement that flashed to the 4 geeks on the couch playing the game and all had pillows placed to hide how "enthusiastic" they were about the game?
It would be like me complaining that all the guys in my wifes romance novels are all tall, muscular, rakish bad boys with hearts of gold. They're that way FOR A REASON. A book which portrays a leading man as something other than that is only considered a "change of pace" to "make a point".
Ok... hold on a sec there Tex...
It's called a ROOTkit. Named after.. let's see.. a ROOT user account access method. I don't think Windows has a "Root" to compromise, but the name carried over for software which allows surreptitious access to a system.
I don't think your comment about how these things are just about NEVER on *nix systems is accurate, but I could be wrong.
I will preface this with the fact that I have worked about 20 years now in the IT industry and worked for two of the "biggest evil empires" the industry has known as well as couple ideological startups. Right now Google is the golden child, and if you look back.. at one point in time so was IBM.. and so was Microsoft..
One lesson I have picked up in this industry and in the world in general is that we love building up heros only because we love tearing them down and watching them fall. It's a sad side of human existance but the inevitable fall of Google from the adulation and shameless love of the IT community will serve mostly to make people in the IT community feel better about themselves.
They wrote an article tooting their own horn and philosophy and this is breaking news in the IT world? Wasn't there something in Clerks about a guy.. who broke his neck... doing something???
Strive to reach consensus. Modern corporate mythology has the unique decision maker as hero. We adhere to the view that the "many are smarter than the few," and solicit a broad base of views before reaching any decision.
Might I direct you to... http://www.despair.com/idiocy.html