With the creepy and sneaky moves and double speak and apparent selfish manipulative moves they have been making lately, Microsoft have made enemies of developer circles who were not enemies of Microsoft before.
We will prevent any such intent of microsoft forcing people/corporations to the open source solutions "they approve of".
Any open source movement that falls in to the err of allying themselves with microsoft's such selfish moves should take notice and straighten up themselves in line with the open source philosophy accordingly.
No. you are driving him out of business. either intentionally, or unintentionally. this is what you are doing. you are scuttling a public effort. this is what you are doing. mr barret, you fail.
should Firefox's 1,000 to 2,000 developers and 80,000 evangelists have full knowledge of how revenue is spent
Yes.
Open source was a method that is unheard of for creating and publishing things some time ago, and its proving that it is an unprecedented success, as it was pitted against hulky big proprietary method-using corporation's stuff and coming out stronger every day.
Some non-it sectors and foundations are going to employ open source methods for doing things. Manufacturing, hardware was recently discussed. If it goes like this, we can find many stuff being further developed by open source methods, imitating its success in i.t. So, it is changing our world.
Now hear this - privacy, finance and transparency are the present issues to integrate with open source, but when they are once integrated with it, and a transparency by ensuring privacy and a usable financial method is achieved, then there will be no reason not to implement these methods in areas from manufacturing to government.
in short, i am telling that the methods invented in open source foundations can be the key to revolutionizing the governmental systems in the world, getting much more closer to direct democracy and full transparency concepts.
Even the original C&C1 had different units for each side--GDI was about powerful but slower technology while NOD was about stealthier, faster technology. Red Alert 1 separated the sides even further. I think StarCraft was the first RTS game I played that had three races, though.
well powerful but slower stealthier and faster is not a differentiation methinks.
think about marine. think about how it mows down small units. think about how ineffective it is against bigger units. think about how ineffective it is in small numbers but how effective it is in high numbers.
and all sc units are like these. its not a differentiation in forms of "x is effective against y unit" but it is logical, small ammunition, ammunition type, damage type wise. this is differentiation.
Blizzard games have never had revolutionary features
diablo was a feature in itself. it opened up a WHOLE genre. dont come up saying that there was some obscure game million years ago that resembled some of its gameplay. doing it fully right and spreading the thing around counts.
starcraft was a revolution in itself. it was the FIRST game that had different races different from each other TOTALLY, while maintaining balance. all other games like age of empires and c&c had either different variants of all units for all races, or in the case of c&c, was a "build and send" game that didnt necessitate any tactics. in starcraft it was about wits, not who builds the most, fastest. you can get shafted despite having hordes if the opponent has appropriate units for fixing you up and does good micro.
im not gonna say anything about world of warcraft. 8 million people are playing it. it has become a milestone for all mmogs.
from the internet. apparently they are more harm then participant for the medium they are using. less of them to make the internet a better place, now !
not only every country's representatives are presold suck-ups to big buck. surprise, surprise, RIAA member crooks, you might have bought laws in united states for harassing "the people", who are the reason united states was founded for, but, look, your walled does not leverage any weight in many other countries. oh you poor riaa crooks you.
3-5 years of life in a campus that you do not like, but in a good university can ruin/change your life fundamentally.
you are making a mistake of evaluating human beings like machines - better in environments that will bring 'optimal' results for some standard goal.
it is not as such. humans are emotionally, psychologically complex creatures.
spending 3-5 years in an environment that excites you, fires you up, is fun and fulfilling with good atmosphere and social company that SUITS oneself, and in youth years of 18-22, the "free" years, which fundamentally and finally shapes and molds one's character, outlook on life and approach to life makes great positive difference than spending 3-5 years in an environment in which you will live indifference or dislike.
the former makes one into a happy persona that will sail easily through life, the latter makes one into an automaton.
its not ignoring or not ignoring what students think. you can take some opinion into account, but you can do that for 10 seconds and just ignore it.
its apparently that kind of "taking opinions into account" that stanford had already decided to sell their students to mere allegations. as if anyone can assure that riaa records are true and as if anyone was able to examine their "fact collecting" process.
universities with less reputation have saintized themselves against riaa by defending their students. it is pathetic for a university with stanford's reputation to do what they did.
judging by the quality of my writing in my post, and taking into account the fact that english is my secondary language, i have gone to a university that is probably way better than stanford.
Just roll Stanford down in your list of preferred colleges/universities.
A university/college which gives more crap for what money bosses think than its students think is a one that is down the drain. Their reputation and quality of graduates tend to deteriorate rapidly in 5-10 years, which affects even old time graduates.
Just choose a university that cant stomach being a bitch to big buck.
The stuff they most easily understand are these. a manager would be inclined to take a sweet deal a vendor is offering despite its risk, but if you put what carnage would a security con would result in, they will see the light. Problems generally happen to be that way. Vendors who are selling solid stuff rarely need to offer "sweet deals".
These are hosting basics. They should have made you login to support system and put a support ticket, even if you were using an email address that was registered with them - "from" address can easily be faked as known.
soe uses userbase as cash cows. they continue games only to draw a month's payments from them. just like they do with star wars - its like hosting business. recently they have created a small ploy to make people log in once so that their houses wont be purged if they closed their subscription. and probably theyll do it more. in that buying vanguard is like web hosts buy each others' clients - ready subscribers to pay monthly fees as long as you can take them.
they have managed to take a franchise like star wars and screw up its game SO bad that, swg have broken fastest account cancellation rate among mmos in history once, or maybe twice from what i remember.
it seems to me that new generation i.t. workers in the u.s. have expected the initially skyrocketing pay rates of the early 70s and 80s to be valid for their own generations too, DESPITE the increasing supply of i.t. workers from WITHIN the united states. hence, their wage expectancy have remained high, instead of adjusting to the high supply situation, disproportionate with their qualifications.
hence when an american company seeks someone for a position from within the u.s., they find candidates that demand much in contrast of their qualification and position in question. hence, they try to import someone from abroad who would accept more reasonable payrate for that position, leading to complaints that "not enough skilled workers" and "employers not willing to pay enough" complaints at the same time.
lets face it - we are not in 70s, or 80s anymore, and even not in 90s.
whence do i know - we are having EXACTLY the same issue here in turkey, but in ALL fields of engineering, sciences and such.
at early 80s, and 90s, there was a huge need for people in any technical field. countless new universities, technical schools and the like were founded at all levels, and the capacities of the existing ones were increased.
people who enrolled in these thought that the wave would ride the same years later. it has not came to pass like that - now there are zillions of qualified workers in all fields, but there are not enough jobs to give them. hence, we have an inflation of skilled workers here, which leads to drastic drops in wages and still high unemployment.
downside is, in a free market, one shouldnt decide on past. one should envision future - hence when enrolling in a program one should think how is it gonna be 10 years later, not how it is today. noone gave guarantees to those enrolling in colleges that they would be guaranteed the wages and positions they wanted, and noone has to do it either. in a free market, you invest and get your ROI or do not get it.
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With the creepy and sneaky moves and double speak and apparent selfish manipulative moves they have been making lately, Microsoft have made enemies of developer circles who were not enemies of Microsoft before.
We will prevent any such intent of microsoft forcing people/corporations to the open source solutions "they approve of".
Any open source movement that falls in to the err of allying themselves with microsoft's such selfish moves should take notice and straighten up themselves in line with the open source philosophy accordingly.
will the madness never end ?
and also put some Library of Congress saucing on it.
No. you are driving him out of business. either intentionally, or unintentionally. this is what you are doing. you are scuttling a public effort. this is what you are doing. mr barret, you fail.
Yes.
Open source was a method that is unheard of for creating and publishing things some time ago, and its proving that it is an unprecedented success, as it was pitted against hulky big proprietary method-using corporation's stuff and coming out stronger every day.
Some non-it sectors and foundations are going to employ open source methods for doing things. Manufacturing, hardware was recently discussed. If it goes like this, we can find many stuff being further developed by open source methods, imitating its success in i.t. So, it is changing our world.
Now hear this - privacy, finance and transparency are the present issues to integrate with open source, but when they are once integrated with it, and a transparency by ensuring privacy and a usable financial method is achieved, then there will be no reason not to implement these methods in areas from manufacturing to government.
in short, i am telling that the methods invented in open source foundations can be the key to revolutionizing the governmental systems in the world, getting much more closer to direct democracy and full transparency concepts.
im talking about hack&slash. its almost a genre itself.
well powerful but slower stealthier and faster is not a differentiation methinks.
think about marine. think about how it mows down small units. think about how ineffective it is against bigger units. think about how ineffective it is in small numbers but how effective it is in high numbers.
and all sc units are like these. its not a differentiation in forms of "x is effective against y unit" but it is logical, small ammunition, ammunition type, damage type wise. this is differentiation.
diablo was a feature in itself. it opened up a WHOLE genre. dont come up saying that there was some obscure game million years ago that resembled some of its gameplay. doing it fully right and spreading the thing around counts.
starcraft was a revolution in itself. it was the FIRST game that had different races different from each other TOTALLY, while maintaining balance. all other games like age of empires and c&c had either different variants of all units for all races, or in the case of c&c, was a "build and send" game that didnt necessitate any tactics. in starcraft it was about wits, not who builds the most, fastest. you can get shafted despite having hordes if the opponent has appropriate units for fixing you up and does good micro.
im not gonna say anything about world of warcraft. 8 million people are playing it. it has become a milestone for all mmogs.
only ignorant, insolent and selfish do that. the others do it out of not being left behind, if they ever do.
allowing some abusers exploit the commons and demolish it just for the of the concept of "commons" is contradictory and foolish.
from the internet. apparently they are more harm then participant for the medium they are using. less of them to make the internet a better place, now !
if memory needs to be spent for restoring ALL tabs that are lost in a crash, its worth that.
as valid.
not only every country's representatives are presold suck-ups to big buck. surprise, surprise, RIAA member crooks, you might have bought laws in united states for harassing "the people", who are the reason united states was founded for, but, look, your walled does not leverage any weight in many other countries. oh you poor riaa crooks you.
They are punishing students for being ACCUSED. you dont need to be "Caught". and the accuser is riaa.
little different than spanish inquisition eh ?
3-5 years of life in a campus that you do not like, but in a good university can ruin/change your life fundamentally.
you are making a mistake of evaluating human beings like machines - better in environments that will bring 'optimal' results for some standard goal.
it is not as such. humans are emotionally, psychologically complex creatures.
spending 3-5 years in an environment that excites you, fires you up, is fun and fulfilling with good atmosphere and social company that SUITS oneself, and in youth years of 18-22, the "free" years, which fundamentally and finally shapes and molds one's character, outlook on life and approach to life makes great positive difference than spending 3-5 years in an environment in which you will live indifference or dislike.
the former makes one into a happy persona that will sail easily through life, the latter makes one into an automaton.
im not into flamewars.
its not ignoring or not ignoring what students think. you can take some opinion into account, but you can do that for 10 seconds and just ignore it.
its apparently that kind of "taking opinions into account" that stanford had already decided to sell their students to mere allegations. as if anyone can assure that riaa records are true and as if anyone was able to examine their "fact collecting" process.
universities with less reputation have saintized themselves against riaa by defending their students. it is pathetic for a university with stanford's reputation to do what they did.
judging by the quality of my writing in my post, and taking into account the fact that english is my secondary language, i have gone to a university that is probably way better than stanford.
Just roll Stanford down in your list of preferred colleges/universities.
A university/college which gives more crap for what money bosses think than its students think is a one that is down the drain. Their reputation and quality of graduates tend to deteriorate rapidly in 5-10 years, which affects even old time graduates.
Just choose a university that cant stomach being a bitch to big buck.
The stuff they most easily understand are these. a manager would be inclined to take a sweet deal a vendor is offering despite its risk, but if you put what carnage would a security con would result in, they will see the light. Problems generally happen to be that way. Vendors who are selling solid stuff rarely need to offer "sweet deals".
joking. not as far as that of course.
These are hosting basics. They should have made you login to support system and put a support ticket, even if you were using an email address that was registered with them - "from" address can easily be faked as known.
soe uses userbase as cash cows. they continue games only to draw a month's payments from them. just like they do with star wars - its like hosting business. recently they have created a small ploy to make people log in once so that their houses wont be purged if they closed their subscription. and probably theyll do it more. in that buying vanguard is like web hosts buy each others' clients - ready subscribers to pay monthly fees as long as you can take them.
down the drain that SOE is, precisely.
they have managed to take a franchise like star wars and screw up its game SO bad that, swg have broken fastest account cancellation rate among mmos in history once, or maybe twice from what i remember.
...or at a low enough salary.it seems to me that new generation i.t. workers in the u.s. have expected the initially skyrocketing pay rates of the early 70s and 80s to be valid for their own generations too, DESPITE the increasing supply of i.t. workers from WITHIN the united states. hence, their wage expectancy have remained high, instead of adjusting to the high supply situation, disproportionate with their qualifications.
hence when an american company seeks someone for a position from within the u.s., they find candidates that demand much in contrast of their qualification and position in question. hence, they try to import someone from abroad who would accept more reasonable payrate for that position, leading to complaints that "not enough skilled workers" and "employers not willing to pay enough" complaints at the same time.
lets face it - we are not in 70s, or 80s anymore, and even not in 90s.
whence do i know - we are having EXACTLY the same issue here in turkey, but in ALL fields of engineering, sciences and such.
at early 80s, and 90s, there was a huge need for people in any technical field. countless new universities, technical schools and the like were founded at all levels, and the capacities of the existing ones were increased.
people who enrolled in these thought that the wave would ride the same years later. it has not came to pass like that - now there are zillions of qualified workers in all fields, but there are not enough jobs to give them. hence, we have an inflation of skilled workers here, which leads to drastic drops in wages and still high unemployment.
downside is, in a free market, one shouldnt decide on past. one should envision future - hence when enrolling in a program one should think how is it gonna be 10 years later, not how it is today. noone gave guarantees to those enrolling in colleges that they would be guaranteed the wages and positions they wanted, and noone has to do it either. in a free market, you invest and get your ROI or do not get it.