Old players really never got all that tired of replacing gear. They get pissed when all their gear becomes instantly worthless.
New players will always hate. It doesn't matter if an expansion hands them all the sword of 1000 truths at launch, they will complain about how the game is unfair, and playing an hour a week should allow them to be as well geared and killing all the hardest stuff as the guys who spend 100 hours a week. The harder you make the game the more at the lower end of the extreme will complain and the easier you make the game, the more dedicated players you will lose. In MMOs, if you aren't willing to spend the time, you won't get to see the newest content, but if you stick around, you can when it becomes an expansion or two old. As it should be.
As my background, I played WoW for a very long time. Highest DPS on my server by far, and 4th highest DPS mage in the world. I also left when the next expansion came out exactly because all I had done had just been wiped out.
Everquest did their expansions right. Content from prior expansions were still relevant for a considerable amount of time. As a raiding guild, going from one expansion to the next didn't entirely invalidate all your gear. About half your gear became no longer best in slot, but half was still as good as it got, or at least 90% as good as what you could get in the new expansion. It wasn't hard for people to catch up, because you could get raid-level gear quickly, and be ready to go in a matter of weeks (starting from scratch), and many of our players did. Either leveling up a new raiding alt, or when the GMs decided to ban your character from the game, which happened on occasion during heated guild vs guild issues.
I'm sorry, but WoW just turned me off. After an ungodly amount of hours put into my character to get the best in slot gear, within hours of the expansion release, it was all gone. Rats would drop green gear better than what I got from the hardest raid bosses (Purple/Orange), it was a pretty big slap in the face. I wouldn't have minded if my best in slot set was barely raid worthy, but it wasn't even worthy of leveling and that is just wrong. Letting people catch up is fine to an extent, but wiping out a year or more of insane amount of effort just isn't.
It's no different than being young and being a programmer. If you are passionate about it, and continue learning, you'll master it. If you are doing it for a paycheck, then you'll quickly fall behind and become a useless relic that can't do anything in tomorrow's world. It really is that simple.
Then you obviously don't understand that MS-DOS is not, was not, will never be a RTOS.
You can't just calculate out that 4.125 seconds and subtract the interrupt handler time, because you aren't ever really sure when an interrupt will fire off in a MS-DOS environment. Interrupts are disabled quite often and for long periods of time (in today's terms), so that keyboard event may not even get picked up by the interrupt handler for.5 second or 2 seconds (granted it usually is much faster), but if you are running a machine that needs accuracy down to the thousandth of a second, basing it on MS-DOS is usually just fail.
There are ways of doing so, but I'd be willing to bet that your situation isn't one of them. There are/were very few programmers back in the day that knew enough about MS-DOS and how to actually reprogram the PIC to allow such things, and still keep MS-DOS happy. There are quite a few more now, but back then, I'd venture there was likely less than a few dozen in the entire world.
??? I don't know what high school you went to, but they taught it in mine, and I graduated in uh... 1987. They taught basic and pascal back then. They also taught data processing (computer hardware). Although granted, the teachers weren't all that great, back then, so they let me teach the class for my grade.
What high school did you go to that they *didn't* offer programming?
I can write you the code to force IE 10 to emulate IE 8 when connecting to those 15 apps and save you the trouble, it'll take me about 4 hours, and I'll bill you for 1/2 the cost of those 15 upgrades, that work for you?
What I really wish was Microsoft would allow multiple versions of IE to run on your system at once.
They do. Put different versions in different VMs. Put a shortcut to the app on their desktop, and the users doesn't even have to know it's actually running in a VM.
Visual Studio 2012 Update 2 will auto-compile any LESS file as you type in it (I think it does COFFEE as well) into both.css and.min.css versions.
If it's a.NET site, then you can reference the css files in a bundle which will combine multiple.css or.min.css files into a single file, and will auto build a new one whenever one of the files in the bundles changes. Pretty slick.
True, some applications designed for Windows break on Wine, but I also seem to remember some applications designed for Windows XP breaking on Windows Vista, Windows 7, or Windows 8.
Very very few applications don't run on Windows 8, none of which are in the top 200 most popular ones. They tend to be the applications that try to hook in deep into the system to bypass or monitor system things, like anti-virus software (Which you better have a more recent version of than a 5 year old version anyway), disk defraggers, and there are some device drivers that don't work as newer versions of Windows change the Device Driver interfaces, but there are usually newer versions of the device drivers anyway.
> I have ran Linux as my primary desktop for over ten years, never run an anti-virus, never got infected. I have run Windows as my primary desktop for over 20 years, never run an anti-virus, never got infected.
> Are you forgetting how radically different Win8 is from previous versions of windows? And, unlike iTunes or other proprietary garbage, there is no 79 page license you have to sign for Linux. As to migration costs, much of your old software will not run on Win8. Radically different? Seriously, put down the cool aid. Any Windows user can be moved to Win8 with about 30 seconds of training. Less if you install one of the Windows start menu programs, after which, most wouldn't be able to tell the difference other than the machine is "faster".
>I am not. I realize there are difficulties in switching from one environment to another. But sometimes it's worth it. Yes, sometimes.
Since when private entities like MPAA have the right to retain spies, especially in foreign countries?
Since, well, forever. Perhaps you don't know what a spy is, but they are quite legal, even for a private citizen to hire. Perhaps the word spy makes you think of undercover secret service agents doing illegal things, and yes, they probably are a spy, a government spy doing illegal things, but they are far from the only ones. You have corporate spies, financial spies, even a "private investigator" is a spy. You have spies in sports, trying to find secret plays, or weaknesses in a team. You have spies all over, you just associate the word incorrectly to the james bond type spies.
For your edification: spy/sp/ Noun A person who secretly collects and reports information about an enemy or competitor.
That seems to be the modus operandi of the IT world and the business world in general where if you're above 35 you're not even considered for a position no matter how many years of experience you have.
Really? I would say it's more if you are above 35, and yet your skill level is still terrible, then you're not considered for a position, no matter how many years you've been filling an empty chair.
If you really want to have effective deterrence, fines based on a percentage of annual income would be more effective. Some countries already do this with traffic tickets, to ensure that rich people have to care about getting a speeding ticket, rather than just laughing at the (to them) paltry amount.
If by some countries, you include the United States, then yes. Sure, silly infractions like 5-10 mph over the speed limit are fixed, but once you get higher, that's not always true. Take it from someone who got a fine, based on what I make, for speeding, in the United States.
Yeah, I had one of them. It really kind of sucked tbh. It would sync (download only if I remember correctly) contact information from my computer (name, address, phone number), and memos, but that was about it.
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Old players really never got all that tired of replacing gear. They get pissed when all their gear becomes instantly worthless.
New players will always hate. It doesn't matter if an expansion hands them all the sword of 1000 truths at launch, they will complain about how the game is unfair, and playing an hour a week should allow them to be as well geared and killing all the hardest stuff as the guys who spend 100 hours a week. The harder you make the game the more at the lower end of the extreme will complain and the easier you make the game, the more dedicated players you will lose. In MMOs, if you aren't willing to spend the time, you won't get to see the newest content, but if you stick around, you can when it becomes an expansion or two old. As it should be.
As my background, I played WoW for a very long time. Highest DPS on my server by far, and 4th highest DPS mage in the world. I also left when the next expansion came out exactly because all I had done had just been wiped out.
Everquest did their expansions right. Content from prior expansions were still relevant for a considerable amount of time. As a raiding guild, going from one expansion to the next didn't entirely invalidate all your gear. About half your gear became no longer best in slot, but half was still as good as it got, or at least 90% as good as what you could get in the new expansion. It wasn't hard for people to catch up, because you could get raid-level gear quickly, and be ready to go in a matter of weeks (starting from scratch), and many of our players did. Either leveling up a new raiding alt, or when the GMs decided to ban your character from the game, which happened on occasion during heated guild vs guild issues.
I'm sorry, but WoW just turned me off. After an ungodly amount of hours put into my character to get the best in slot gear, within hours of the expansion release, it was all gone. Rats would drop green gear better than what I got from the hardest raid bosses (Purple/Orange), it was a pretty big slap in the face. I wouldn't have minded if my best in slot set was barely raid worthy, but it wasn't even worthy of leveling and that is just wrong. Letting people catch up is fine to an extent, but wiping out a year or more of insane amount of effort just isn't.
Correct. It would be more likely telling Samsung to stop selling Androids, and just resell iPhones instead, which is much more profitable.
It's no different than being young and being a programmer. If you are passionate about it, and continue learning, you'll master it. If you are doing it for a paycheck, then you'll quickly fall behind and become a useless relic that can't do anything in tomorrow's world. It really is that simple.
Then you obviously don't understand that MS-DOS is not, was not, will never be a RTOS.
You can't just calculate out that 4.125 seconds and subtract the interrupt handler time, because you aren't ever really sure when an interrupt will fire off in a MS-DOS environment. Interrupts are disabled quite often and for long periods of time (in today's terms), so that keyboard event may not even get picked up by the interrupt handler for .5 second or 2 seconds (granted it usually is much faster), but if you are running a machine that needs accuracy down to the thousandth of a second, basing it on MS-DOS is usually just fail.
There are ways of doing so, but I'd be willing to bet that your situation isn't one of them. There are/were very few programmers back in the day that knew enough about MS-DOS and how to actually reprogram the PIC to allow such things, and still keep MS-DOS happy. There are quite a few more now, but back then, I'd venture there was likely less than a few dozen in the entire world.
IMO, teach programming in high school.
??? I don't know what high school you went to, but they taught it in mine, and I graduated in uh... 1987. They taught basic and pascal back then. They also taught data processing (computer hardware). Although granted, the teachers weren't all that great, back then, so they let me teach the class for my grade.
What high school did you go to that they *didn't* offer programming?
I can write you the code to force IE 10 to emulate IE 8 when connecting to those 15 apps and save you the trouble, it'll take me about 4 hours, and I'll bill you for 1/2 the cost of those 15 upgrades, that work for you?
What I really wish was Microsoft would allow multiple versions of IE to run on your system at once.
They do. Put different versions in different VMs. Put a shortcut to the app on their desktop, and the users doesn't even have to know it's actually running in a VM.
This isn't really a good example of why open source. You probably want the source code however, which isn't the same thing.
Based on the context in which he used it, I'm guessing it's Small/Medium Business.
Otherwise, it could mean Server Message Block (a network protocol), Steve Miller Band, System Management Bus, or perhaps Super Mario Brothers.
That's not what box model refers to.
Visual Studio 2012 Update 2 will auto-compile any LESS file as you type in it (I think it does COFFEE as well) into both .css and .min.css versions.
If it's a .NET site, then you can reference the css files in a bundle which will combine multiple .css or .min.css files into a single file, and will auto build a new one whenever one of the files in the bundles changes. Pretty slick.
And which relative path do you suggest they might use in their master page / global header so that it works in all cases:
from http://chase.com/
from https://chase.com/mortgages
from https://chase.com/banking
from https://chase.com/creditcards
from http://sub.chase.com/
from http://www.chase.com/external/something/yourpagehere.aspx
Yes, it is easy to anonymously give out random useless answers than to actually think about the question.
True, some applications designed for Windows break on Wine, but I also seem to remember some applications designed for Windows XP breaking on Windows Vista, Windows 7, or Windows 8.
Very very few applications don't run on Windows 8, none of which are in the top 200 most popular ones. They tend to be the applications that try to hook in deep into the system to bypass or monitor system things, like anti-virus software (Which you better have a more recent version of than a 5 year old version anyway), disk defraggers, and there are some device drivers that don't work as newer versions of Windows change the Device Driver interfaces, but there are usually newer versions of the device drivers anyway.
> I have ran Linux as my primary desktop for over ten years, never run an anti-virus, never got infected.
I have run Windows as my primary desktop for over 20 years, never run an anti-virus, never got infected.
> Are you forgetting how radically different Win8 is from previous versions of windows? And, unlike iTunes or other proprietary garbage, there is no 79 page license you have to sign for Linux. As to migration costs, much of your old software will not run on Win8.
Radically different? Seriously, put down the cool aid. Any Windows user can be moved to Win8 with about 30 seconds of training. Less if you install one of the Windows start menu programs, after which, most wouldn't be able to tell the difference other than the machine is "faster".
>I am not. I realize there are difficulties in switching from one environment to another. But sometimes it's worth it.
Yes, sometimes.
Since when private entities like MPAA have the right to retain spies, especially in foreign countries?
Since, well, forever. Perhaps you don't know what a spy is, but they are quite legal, even for a private citizen to hire. Perhaps the word spy makes you think of undercover secret service agents doing illegal things, and yes, they probably are a spy, a government spy doing illegal things, but they are far from the only ones. You have corporate spies, financial spies, even a "private investigator" is a spy. You have spies in sports, trying to find secret plays, or weaknesses in a team. You have spies all over, you just associate the word incorrectly to the james bond type spies.
For your edification: /sp/
spy
Noun
A person who secretly collects and reports information about an enemy or competitor.
The "chirping" sound will be programmable. I'll change mine to a cheering crowd.
Only a European thinks that "European" is a race.
That seems to be the modus operandi of the IT world and the business world in general where if you're above 35 you're not even considered for a position no matter how many years of experience you have.
Really? I would say it's more if you are above 35, and yet your skill level is still terrible, then you're not considered for a position, no matter how many years you've been filling an empty chair.
125 million tweets != 1250000000
125,000,000 * 142 = 16.5GB and easily fits into my desktop's memory.
If you really want to have effective deterrence, fines based on a percentage of annual income would be more effective. Some countries already do this with traffic tickets, to ensure that rich people have to care about getting a speeding ticket, rather than just laughing at the (to them) paltry amount.
If by some countries, you include the United States, then yes. Sure, silly infractions like 5-10 mph over the speed limit are fixed, but once you get higher, that's not always true. Take it from someone who got a fine, based on what I make, for speeding, in the United States.
Sad, but very true.
Anonymous Coward, sounds all too typical of a European.
And who declared them the "leading AV review site in the world"?
Yeah, I had one of them. It really kind of sucked tbh. It would sync (download only if I remember correctly) contact information from my computer (name, address, phone number), and memos, but that was about it.