exactly. which is why it makes no sense for microsoft to be behind psystar, who are pushing for apple to take that new attitude

The Russian president just gave his state of the nation address, and suprised some with his calls to prosecute and end corruption, modernize and privatize industry, and strengthen democracy. This police officer may be speaking out, at least partly, because of what the president had to say.

the two links just above the horizontal ine on his website: http://dymovskiy.ru/

or: http://dymovskiy.ru/video/1.avi

http://dymovskiy.ru/video/2.avi

Strange, this indicates that verizon got in trouble for this exact practice back in 2007 and was supposed to stop.

I worked in the gaming industry, and didnt have any problem getting work afterward. My next employer was pleased that I had worked in a highly regulated industry where if our new code caused downtime, we had to explain to a state gaming board about how it happened.

I know adding more developers can slow down production in the short term, but 5 years on I would think they would have been able to scale their programming staff up a bit more by now. New ui elements (gear manager, quest helper, even voice chat) have tended to be late and light on features, so thats one area I would think could benifit from more bodies in the future.

This is right, but not entirely. Decommissioned GOES satellites go into a non stationary figure eight orbit. This is how GOES-3 is able to provide communication with the south pole. (See the bit about GOES-3)

It seems strange to me that you couple content additions (new dungeons, quests etc) with character balancing in your patches. Content takes a long time to develop, with the time between 3.0 and Ulduar having been what, 6-7 months? By coupling character balancing changes with the content changes, yu end up waiting 6-7 months to balance over and under powered classes, when many of the changes involve modifying a coefficient, a base dmg/healing/whatever amount, or a cooldown. I can understand that some balancing requires development, but there seems to be a clear divide in most cases between the work required to add content and the work required to add new talents or spells. Couldnt you do seperate patch iterations for class balance and content addition? If you did that, wouldnt it allow you to react more quickly to imbalances without causing the feeling that too many changes occured at once that was felt in a previous patch?

There have been one or two ideas coming out of string theory that give similar possibilities, stuff like adjusting the size of dimensions in order to change the properties of space. All but one share the same problem, of having to propogate an effect ahead of you at faster than lightspeed locally.

The exception was an idea coming out of the concept that there might be something acting a bit like an extra extended space dimension that was only accessable to gravity. If that were true you could curl the bubble that the ship was in around in this extra dimension and partially ahead of itself, using conventional mass outside of the space being affected to give the effect of repulsive gravity. I don't think anybody takes that hypothesis seriously anymore though.

Of course, the problem with nitrogen is that nitrogen = finer bubbles in the head = waiting longer to drink your beer. Actually, I was in a pub in Ireland once, and an (American, strike 1) girl ordered a half-pint of Guinness (which is strike 2 against her in the barkeep's mind; a half pint?). When he finished pouring it, he set it on the counter, and she immediately reached for it (strike 3). He smacked her hand, and told her to sit down and wait. She had no idea what was going on.

She later tried to order a "Smith Wicks" and was told, "never heard of it"...

What impact does outsourcing higher paying jobs to a poor country have on that country's economy? For instance when Dell sent support jobs to india, they were paying those support people many many times what most indians make, paying them with money from selling a product most indians could never afford. I would imagine that those with the outsourced jobs would be consuming a lot more than normal, which would drive up prices for things like housing, transportation, and cloths. These higher prices would negatively impact the average person trying to purchase those things, meaning that the average indian is worse off for having these higher paying jobs in their country.