Excuse me, there is NO other reason that this agency is pulling crap in all fronts and frauding people. ALL directors, responsibles, important bureaucrats are appointed by bush's office and other republicans, and they are responsible only to the bush's office. The fault lies therein.
we are not capable of, but dislike mass boycotts or similar stuff unless there is a real big thing going on, like the net neutrality thing. but, we have strong opinions and act on them. just think about linux/ms, open/closed source and so on. think about consolers and pc gamers.
we dont go boycott, we silently make preferences. it affects things eventually.
we are gamers. we are people who have opinions, and we act on them. if you annoy us by "RIAAing" whatever we hold dear and like, annoy our community sites or sour our gaming fun on the internet or any place, we will make sure that whichever jerkados involved in this "showdown" gets their show down in the next title they put out to the market.
it is mainly for people who graduated from high school pre 1990 and early 90s. the email wasnt all that established back then, and not only that, many email services that came up during the era do not still stand.
excuse me, these people are kinda already have one foot in the grave. and they really ARE from a long bygone era. their views should not be taken into account when judging the fate of something that belongs to 21st century.
Nope, not gonna; if you don't understand the difference between article structures and weighted lists, son, I'm not giving you my card as a cheat sheet. Also not leaving my five-digit Slashdot ID at "the reception" (ooh, is there cake?!) either -- and you're lucky I didn't simply identify Schilling as a pitcher for a Boston-based Yankees farm team. Go Rockies. come on ma/paps, you very well know that in such articles whatever is important gets described either on entry phases or before mid section of the article. and its exactly like that. it IS a structure and in that structure it repeatedly not only mentions that the geekiests are the people who have irrelevant degrees, but also puts the real geeks last, and explicitly states that these are "less" geek, but deserved mention. so, someone who have done squad leadership in big mmogs in major guilds, and then this having cut it, went off to set a mmo company up, despite he is actually a sports celebrity gets a honorary, small mention, but someone who had acquired a degree in any field with good salary and social status in mind, but then became celebrity are hi-profile geeks. i think not.
Red Sox ace pitcher Curt Schilling is a notorious EverQuest and Advanced Squad Leader junkie who has gone so far as to found his very own MMORPG firm and blog, but without more sports stars on our list, he was simply too much of an outlier. this is MAJOR geek. what kind of "geek" understanding the creators of TFA has, i dont know, but definitely they seem to have bought it from a local ma&pa shop. the example above classifies one of the top place in the highest mountain of geekdom, yet these jerks have put him at the bottom of the list for having "too much sports". idiots.
the list is totally upside down. this girl placed people who got degrees from any field at the top of the list, yet real geeks at the bottom. she must have a degree fetish or something.
Angela Gunn, please leave your geek membership card at the reception on your way out. thank you.
engineering is a profession and people do not go to college because of their geeky aspirations, but in order to get good salaries and a social status in life, unfortunately. and this unfortunately has been as such for centuries. with the logic that this article is using, we have to classify almost any engineer or science related branch graduate from the last 200 years as geeks. which is totally absurd. i just cant understand why the people who are mentioned at the start of the list have been put in geek category just because of their degrees in this or that field.
the sole fact that many of these people shown as "geeks" due to having a degree in a field are making a living and fame with totally different activities than their degree suggests is that they were pushed/coerced into choosing such a field to study while they were young because of the practical necessities of society - the need for good salary and social status. therefore they do not have any difference to countless people we have as friends from college, who have a degree in a field, but totally irrelevant when it comes to geek considerations. the list is therefore not valid.
"geek" is a way of thinking and behaving. it has much to do with getting excited about new things, using them, even pioneering some of them, or accepting the ways of the online world (which kinda almost totally turn around geeky concepts like tech, blogs, networking, internet, humor) and acting on them, having a strong imagination and not being afraid to use and enjoy it, being creative with a creative community, having a killing sense of humor and etc etc.
technically they are not a monopoly, from individual registrar to individual registrar. BUT, if you take them as registrarS, they are a monopoly in respect to customers, since the all top level registrars constitute the entirety of the domain name distribution rooftop. And if they all freely employ this whois data trick, that directly creates a monopoly situation in which the monopolist (all registrars in this case) can provide themselves preferential treatment when it comes to domain name registrations.
I can assure you that where there is demand, there will be businesses rushing to provide the supply. Its appalling to see people complaining about excessive demand.
its possible that you missed the windows update in which microsoft put that autoinstaller in customer pcs. it was a few months ago from what i remember. i dont do anything here, and there are no autoinstalls either, but i never used auto update for 4 years anyway.
forcing Windows Desktop Search on networks via the 'automatic install' feature of Windows Update -- even if they had configured their systems not to use the program. what part of EVEN IF THEY CONFIGURED THEIR SYSTEMS NOT TO USE THE PROGRAM you dont understand ?
registrar doing this kind of thing is illegal. the top provider of some resources, registrar is roughly the monopoly when it comes to selling domains. registrar(s) actually, in bulk. therefore if a registrar is freely allowed to squat in this manner, then the users dont have a chance. this almost resembles a total monopoly situation.
3d is bad. the interface, map and visuals do not give the feeling of the era due to 3d gigs. eu2 interface, map made it look like you were looking on a map on the table in actual 17th century.
instead of spitting crap around in insulting and uncivil manner by anonymous coward crecedentials, post with your own nick, if you want to be taken seriously.
If linux had come under such an attack, and a foundation makes an announcement for need of donations to an emergency linux defense fund, there are SO many developers, webmasters, communities that would put the donation buttons on their sites and garner SO many donations that, the amount they could gather up would make microsoft's yearly revenues look ridiculous. with that kind of funds, an entire senate can be bought. therefore i dont see anything to scare away from linux.
1 - Linux does not infringe upon anything microsoft. Even if it did, if microsoft brought any lawsuit on the matter, the capital behind linux defense would be so immense due to big corps and foundations and even governments giving a shoulder to it that, it would eventually end up like sco case.
2 - Microsoft vs linux is a lost case for microsoft in europe. Eu favors linux, loves it, encourages it from underhand. Eu dislikes microsoft practices. (evident from latest rulings) And even some governments in europe heavily invest in linux. (some french govt agencies, some states in germany, central europeans and so on).
3 - Big markets for software are, U.S., Eu, China, Southeast asia general, Japan. Eu is lost to microsoft. In eu, companies play with eu rules, not their own. China is a communist party dicta, if microsoft goes foul with them (and they dare not) poooooof - a country that can put out 28 million out on duty to inform on great firewall breakers can field a million programmers to weed out microsoft code from linux and come up with their own distro, and then oust microsoft for good. noone can raise an objection, its communist party - you gotta stomach it. Southeast asia is a mixed pot, where ms can win, it can lose in someplace else, and they are so accustomed to piracy that they wouldnt care whether linux infringed upon microsoft and their govt ruled against it or not. That leaves only US and Japan as playgrounds for microsoft. in u.s. only, ms can put a strong lawsuit, but, as said, in here there is much capital to defend linux that microsoft dare not do it either. i wont name names and companies and foundations here, but you know them all already. So, there is only japan. the only weak place against microsoft is japan, and korea, and that japanese company did the only viable thing they could do. i dont blame them.
I played mmos over 5 years time without major pauses now, im SO bored of the routine and lack of catchy content (swg, wow, eve, lotro included, although lotro fared better when it comes to catchy story implementation) that i turned to single player again. I played Darklands (a major 1992 game that is still unsurpassed) and now playing Europe Universalis 2 again, and it rocks.
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Excuse me, there is NO other reason that this agency is pulling crap in all fronts and frauding people. ALL directors, responsibles, important bureaucrats are appointed by bush's office and other republicans, and they are responsible only to the bush's office. The fault lies therein.
we are not capable of, but dislike mass boycotts or similar stuff unless there is a real big thing going on, like the net neutrality thing. but, we have strong opinions and act on them. just think about linux/ms, open/closed source and so on. think about consolers and pc gamers.
we dont go boycott, we silently make preferences. it affects things eventually.
because this bunch of gamers are the customers of the gaming companies. if they cant sell, they cant keep up.
with ?
we are gamers. we are people who have opinions, and we act on them. if you annoy us by "RIAAing" whatever we hold dear and like, annoy our community sites or sour our gaming fun on the internet or any place, we will make sure that whichever jerkados involved in this "showdown" gets their show down in the next title they put out to the market.
consider yourself warned.
it is mainly for people who graduated from high school pre 1990 and early 90s. the email wasnt all that established back then, and not only that, many email services that came up during the era do not still stand.
excuse me, these people are kinda already have one foot in the grave. and they really ARE from a long bygone era. their views should not be taken into account when judging the fate of something that belongs to 21st century.
the list is totally upside down. this girl placed people who got degrees from any field at the top of the list, yet real geeks at the bottom. she must have a degree fetish or something.
Angela Gunn, please leave your geek membership card at the reception on your way out. thank you.
engineering is a profession and people do not go to college because of their geeky aspirations, but in order to get good salaries and a social status in life, unfortunately. and this unfortunately has been as such for centuries. with the logic that this article is using, we have to classify almost any engineer or science related branch graduate from the last 200 years as geeks. which is totally absurd. i just cant understand why the people who are mentioned at the start of the list have been put in geek category just because of their degrees in this or that field.
the sole fact that many of these people shown as "geeks" due to having a degree in a field are making a living and fame with totally different activities than their degree suggests is that they were pushed/coerced into choosing such a field to study while they were young because of the practical necessities of society - the need for good salary and social status. therefore they do not have any difference to countless people we have as friends from college, who have a degree in a field, but totally irrelevant when it comes to geek considerations. the list is therefore not valid.
"geek" is a way of thinking and behaving. it has much to do with getting excited about new things, using them, even pioneering some of them, or accepting the ways of the online world (which kinda almost totally turn around geeky concepts like tech, blogs, networking, internet, humor) and acting on them, having a strong imagination and not being afraid to use and enjoy it, being creative with a creative community, having a killing sense of humor and etc etc.
and read carefully this time
tomorrow ? and they can do it too.
only eu bureaucrats could pull such 2 stunts in just one gig. when a bureaucracy works, it really shines.
technically they are not a monopoly, from individual registrar to individual registrar. BUT, if you take them as registrarS, they are a monopoly in respect to customers, since the all top level registrars constitute the entirety of the domain name distribution rooftop. And if they all freely employ this whois data trick, that directly creates a monopoly situation in which the monopolist (all registrars in this case) can provide themselves preferential treatment when it comes to domain name registrations.
I can assure you that where there is demand, there will be businesses rushing to provide the supply. Its appalling to see people complaining about excessive demand.
its possible that you missed the windows update in which microsoft put that autoinstaller in customer pcs. it was a few months ago from what i remember. i dont do anything here, and there are no autoinstalls either, but i never used auto update for 4 years anyway.
registrar doing this kind of thing is illegal. the top provider of some resources, registrar is roughly the monopoly when it comes to selling domains. registrar(s) actually, in bulk. therefore if a registrar is freely allowed to squat in this manner, then the users dont have a chance. this almost resembles a total monopoly situation.
3d is bad. the interface, map and visuals do not give the feeling of the era due to 3d gigs. eu2 interface, map made it look like you were looking on a map on the table in actual 17th century.
instead of spitting crap around in insulting and uncivil manner by anonymous coward crecedentials, post with your own nick, if you want to be taken seriously.
eu 2 cuts it fine for now. but ill check. there are many people playing eu2. just connect to valkyrie net from the game.
If linux had come under such an attack, and a foundation makes an announcement for need of donations to an emergency linux defense fund, there are SO many developers, webmasters, communities that would put the donation buttons on their sites and garner SO many donations that, the amount they could gather up would make microsoft's yearly revenues look ridiculous. with that kind of funds, an entire senate can be bought. therefore i dont see anything to scare away from linux.
1 - Linux does not infringe upon anything microsoft. Even if it did, if microsoft brought any lawsuit on the matter, the capital behind linux defense would be so immense due to big corps and foundations and even governments giving a shoulder to it that, it would eventually end up like sco case.
2 - Microsoft vs linux is a lost case for microsoft in europe. Eu favors linux, loves it, encourages it from underhand. Eu dislikes microsoft practices. (evident from latest rulings) And even some governments in europe heavily invest in linux. (some french govt agencies, some states in germany, central europeans and so on).
3 - Big markets for software are, U.S., Eu, China, Southeast asia general, Japan. Eu is lost to microsoft. In eu, companies play with eu rules, not their own. China is a communist party dicta, if microsoft goes foul with them (and they dare not) poooooof - a country that can put out 28 million out on duty to inform on great firewall breakers can field a million programmers to weed out microsoft code from linux and come up with their own distro, and then oust microsoft for good. noone can raise an objection, its communist party - you gotta stomach it. Southeast asia is a mixed pot, where ms can win, it can lose in someplace else, and they are so accustomed to piracy that they wouldnt care whether linux infringed upon microsoft and their govt ruled against it or not. That leaves only US and Japan as playgrounds for microsoft. in u.s. only, ms can put a strong lawsuit, but, as said, in here there is much capital to defend linux that microsoft dare not do it either. i wont name names and companies and foundations here, but you know them all already. So, there is only japan. the only weak place against microsoft is japan, and korea, and that japanese company did the only viable thing they could do. i dont blame them.
current version of darklands has no bugs. get it from the-underdogs.info also visit darklands.net for darklands info. immense game.
That would lead them to procuring unregistered domain names with squatting in mind. Against competition and reason.
I played mmos over 5 years time without major pauses now, im SO bored of the routine and lack of catchy content (swg, wow, eve, lotro included, although lotro fared better when it comes to catchy story implementation) that i turned to single player again. I played Darklands (a major 1992 game that is still unsurpassed) and now playing Europe Universalis 2 again, and it rocks.