Boycotting Blizzard since bnetd

Hmm, maybe trade-alt is the way to go, then - my Empire standings don't really allow me to do any high-sec missioning (nor would I want to). Losing a Golem to CONCORD or militia NPCs would suck and skilling an alt to fly it is just...not that effective ;-)

Very interested in this proper setup of yours that makes 650M ISK in 15 hours - can you post more details please?
I also want to be able to purchase game time with my ISK.

luckily we have bnetd!
oh wait...

Does your file have to be transferred in-synchro?

Otherwise you might want to look into Message Oriented Middleware, things like MQ Series or in worst case scenario, even Microsoft MQ. There are plenty of options.
This would allow you to put policies on the messages, handle routing (in case you need to deliver to different recipients), guarantee delivery at least once, do type conversions/transformations etc.

I feel this poll is for the Americans, they still do business with checks.
I remember my parents using them in early 70s - I've been using online banking since early 90's to check my balance..

Sure, I understand that.
I'm just tired of all these "global" announcements that really affect a tiny fraction of global users. Also very tired of all the arcane old licensing deals...

The Premier League offering in my country is very crappy and very limited - and the commentators are even crappier, the packaging sucks and it's really freaking expensive channel to get for the value you're getting - just for once, it would be so cool to be able to get the freedom to choose whatever value proposition you like, instead of being force fed by all these middlemen..

But yeah, like you said, there's too much money involved, so there's probably very little hope of it ever working like that .. and in the meanwhile I'll be watching the games at the local pub that "pirates" it off Sky (i.e. they have a subscription through proxy in UK). Oh well, for a second there I thought I'd have to buy a Xbox :-)

From TFA: "Millions of Xbox 360 owners in Britain and Ireland will be able to watch live programing such as Premier League soccer and movies following a deal with pay-TV group BSkyB"

That's not very "global" to me - what about the millions of Xbox users outside UK who'd also want to pay and see Premier League and other stuff on their Xbox? And yeah, that was rhetorical question, I know we're hosed until the "global" train arrives on our little local station.

I swear by Eclipse - I mostly do Java these days though, but I do have it setup for C++, Perl and PHP as well.
Good plug-in support - easy to install and update.. what's not to like? :-)

Integrates with most versioning tools through plug-ins (CVS, SVN etc).

Runs on all platforms. It's great.

This pretty much sums it all up.
Work experience gets you employability -
Masters/Ph.D is about seeing just how deep the rabbit hole goes.

I never really enjoyed academia when I was younger so I went for work experience and I have never regretted it.
Having said that - now on my older days - I'm finding myself strangely fascinated by the idea of exploring the "deep ends" of my field in academic environment.
Once you get into "working life" you'll find out that there's really not that many opportunities to research on the same level as there is in academia. I've been toying with the idea of "going back", however that will have to wait until the children are a bit older (other priorities at the moment).

Yes,

And every single player will say the same thing about the devs in the game of their choice. Just look at how the WoW community is accusing their devs of "ruining the game".
How about you back that claim up with some facts?

To me it seems CCP devs really listen to the community - and they've implemented a bunch of player addressed concern over the years.

C'mon man, show us the stats - show us just how bad the CCP track record is compared to entire gaming industry. I dare you.

It's advertised as security add-on, yet it contains obfuscated code and it exposes the users to security risks on the very same domain you download it from?
Ugh, and it didn't even prompt me.

Goodbye noscript, never again will you be part of my Firefox.

Huh? What?

You (or someone) thinks a game has a horribly broken feature A and therefore thinks it's ok to pirate the shit?
Excuse me but just as the quote says, you're trying to rationalize your thiefing.

If you think game is broken piece of crap, don't buy it. It doesn't give magically give you right to ignore copyrights and pirate it.

I think it's more likely that this is Ballmer's strategy against his own failings with Vista.

They're in desperate need of getting people off XP - it's starting to show it's age from marketing point of view and I'm sure MS would like to move to a new technological platform as well.

It's also nice to see they've really looked at things that went wrong with Vista launch - I don't think they really can afford to bomb Windows 7 launch.