They are absolutely correct, though. Nobody wins in class action suits except the lawyers. They are designed to be penal measures against a company where the people who had the problem with the company get nearly nothing in return, and the lawyers' "fee" is 90% of the payout. If it were a GIGNORMOUS company like Microsoft or Google, where you know they already have a fleet of lawyers and tons of money to blow, then this would be a scam, but as it is Valve is not a huge company outside their popularity.
Sorry to NYCL, but most lawyers don't have peoples' best interests in mind, only their own. At least, that has been my far-reaching experience with them.
He uses a siting classification system developed by Michel Leroy for Meteofrance in 1999 that was improved in 2010 to quantify the effect of heat sinks and sources within the thermometer viewshed by calculation of the area- weighted and distance-weighted impact of biasing elements to calculate both raw and gridded 30 year trends for each surveyed station
What the hell did I just read?
I swear there are parts from the Corporate Bullshit Generator going on in there...
I've never meet someone really happy with Quickbooks...it's just accounting software is really boring to develop
FTFY.
I like to think I didn't go to school for computer science to write an over-sized calculator, and I'm not sure my mind could handle days and days and days of just programming math algorithms.
Considering QuickBooks gained much of its end-user popularity and success from spamming infomercials on every TV channel they could, as well as free tax return prep from Intuit slathered with QB ads, extreme internet and flyer marketing, and a lot of door-to-door pushing to large companies, I have a good idea of where to start.
Also, I think you severely underestimate how absolutely mind-numbingly boring writing accounting software is. Just because I COULD rewrite QB doesn't mean I want to.
Excel is a perfectly good spreadsheet program. I don't know what you think they're using it for, exactly, but for storing grids of numbers and applying simple calculations to them repeatedly, it can't be beat. I know it's the 'cool' thing to hate on Microsoft, but they actually have some good accomplishments if you look beyond their modern ventures and current vomiting-up of Windows.
The sad thing is Excel can probably do every last thing QuickBooks can, likely in about 5% of the code.
No kidding! If it takes 10 million lines for QuickBooks, then it is probably stored in a.txt file using the decimal number ASCII representation of the letters in the code instead of the letter itself.
I have seen programs that do a hell of a lot more than that does (3D graphics, advanced audio processing, database software) written in fractions of that amount of code. Two million lines should pretty well top out any overcomplicated calculator program, unless it's written for the government. It sounds like they would be well suited by starting from scratch and re-writing it.
So in summary, their case study should be titled "How NOT to manage program code"
Ah yes, the 90s...when you had to actually hack something to be called a hacker, instead of borrowing a friend's phone and downloading their data, and the stock market was there to make you money instead of suck all of yours up to the wealthy top tier who pays off the government to look the other way.
The government sucks. It is the most un-American thing in the country. Fuck them, and everything they stand for.
The downfall of America will be its corporations and their influence on politics. The downfall of corporations will be the government's over regulation of their business. The public suffers from both.
The only one winning in America right now is the fucking politicians. Think it's time for a change...
As Microsoft doesn't make any of their own hardware for PCs, I fail to see how OEMs have failed them, since their entire Windows line rests exclusively on OEM hardware, running on a third-party architecture. Without OEMs, there probably wouldn't even be Microsoft, or they'd probably be a 50-employee banking software company in rural Michigan.
I agree, though, that ASUS is the only company pushing the boundaries of conventional 'laptop shaped computer' design. There are a few nice leaps from Lenovo as well, but they seem to be on to rehashing the same designs now with different guts, over and over and over.
Microsoft should invest in getting a small form tablet which can run an x86 architecture. This is the only way they will compete with anyone else on the market, especially those that use their (normal) Windows OSes with ease on their tablet/convertible laptops.
What the hell are you thinking, Microsoft? Nobody wants Windows 8, with your goofy-ass MetroUI boxes on some obscure(even if it's ARM) architecture. Please, just make a NORMAL WINDOWS TABLET if you are going to trip into that market. When I start my tablet, I want to see Windows 7, or better yet XP with the rolling hills and fluffy little clouds, and that friendly little START button right where I expect it.
I guess what I'm trying to say is that I want a Windows laptop that I don't have to open and close...is that so hard?
So basically, because 12 kids were too fucking stupid not to ingest small pieces of metal, or their parents were too fucking dumb to supervise them around these things, nobody can have them, anywhere, at any age?
Land of the free, my ass. Fuck this country. Ten times over.
"Hello! I understand why you would want to kill a Nigerian prince, however, my country is in turmoil and my money is tied from my hands. Please allow me to send you a check for $30,000 which you can cash and please Western Union all but your $5000 back to me at this address:..."
You can literally put facts in front of people, and they will just ignore them
Including such facts as "This benzene-toluene mixture we combine with diesel fuel and water, then pump at high pressure into the bedrock where your drinking water comes from is totally harmless. Trust us. No, of course we won't let you test the chemicals we use, that's proprietary."
Not really. What they are saying is "Yes, Apple was granted a patent on something we were already doing, but they shouldn't have been because it is a standard element which many many people have been using, and Apple just decided they were cool enough to patent everyone's work for themselves."
Steve's dead, man. Nobody left at Apple has the balls to throw out aggressive new products like the Jobs did. As much as I hate the guy and his company, he definitely knew his shit when it came to generating hype out of thin air.
Calling McDonalds will just get you some sort of platitude like "Free LeBigMacs for Life!". Find a cop who speaks English(not easy in hate-everyone Paris) and explain it, maybe he will feel for the guy and help him out.
The French are possibly the meanest, least considerate people I have ever met. Go to Quebec instead - it's like France but with nicer people.
The correct solution would be to make your games cheaper, not make ours more expensive. Especially with the actual cost of developing these games coming down so much in the last decade.
I don't know where you pulled those numbers from, but for those exact game types, I paid nowhere near that much at release. I think you need to re-examine your historical pricelists, son.
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They are absolutely correct, though. Nobody wins in class action suits except the lawyers. They are designed to be penal measures against a company where the people who had the problem with the company get nearly nothing in return, and the lawyers' "fee" is 90% of the payout. If it were a GIGNORMOUS company like Microsoft or Google, where you know they already have a fleet of lawyers and tons of money to blow, then this would be a scam, but as it is Valve is not a huge company outside their popularity.
Sorry to NYCL, but most lawyers don't have peoples' best interests in mind, only their own. At least, that has been my far-reaching experience with them.
He uses a siting classification system developed by Michel Leroy for Meteofrance in 1999 that was improved in 2010 to quantify the effect of heat sinks and sources within the thermometer viewshed by calculation of the area- weighted and distance-weighted impact of biasing elements to calculate both raw and gridded 30 year trends for each surveyed station
What the hell did I just read?
I swear there are parts from the Corporate Bullshit Generator going on in there...
I've never meet someone really happy with Quickbooks...it's just accounting software is really boring to develop
FTFY.
I like to think I didn't go to school for computer science to write an over-sized calculator, and I'm not sure my mind could handle days and days and days of just programming math algorithms.
Considering QuickBooks gained much of its end-user popularity and success from spamming infomercials on every TV channel they could, as well as free tax return prep from Intuit slathered with QB ads, extreme internet and flyer marketing, and a lot of door-to-door pushing to large companies, I have a good idea of where to start.
Also, I think you severely underestimate how absolutely mind-numbingly boring writing accounting software is. Just because I COULD rewrite QB doesn't mean I want to.
You can use pretty much any spreadsheet program if you're not afraid of math and numbers.
Excel is a perfectly good spreadsheet program. I don't know what you think they're using it for, exactly, but for storing grids of numbers and applying simple calculations to them repeatedly, it can't be beat. I know it's the 'cool' thing to hate on Microsoft, but they actually have some good accomplishments if you look beyond their modern ventures and current vomiting-up of Windows.
The sad thing is Excel can probably do every last thing QuickBooks can, likely in about 5% of the code.
No kidding! If it takes 10 million lines for QuickBooks, then it is probably stored in a .txt file using the decimal number ASCII representation of the letters in the code instead of the letter itself.
I have seen programs that do a hell of a lot more than that does (3D graphics, advanced audio processing, database software) written in fractions of that amount of code. Two million lines should pretty well top out any overcomplicated calculator program, unless it's written for the government. It sounds like they would be well suited by starting from scratch and re-writing it.
So in summary, their case study should be titled "How NOT to manage program code"
Ah yes, the 90s...when you had to actually hack something to be called a hacker, instead of borrowing a friend's phone and downloading their data, and the stock market was there to make you money instead of suck all of yours up to the wealthy top tier who pays off the government to look the other way.
The government sucks. It is the most un-American thing in the country. Fuck them, and everything they stand for.
Come get me fuckers, I'm waiting.
The downfall of America will be its corporations and their influence on politics. The downfall of corporations will be the government's over regulation of their business. The public suffers from both.
The only one winning in America right now is the fucking politicians. Think it's time for a change...
As Microsoft doesn't make any of their own hardware for PCs, I fail to see how OEMs have failed them, since their entire Windows line rests exclusively on OEM hardware, running on a third-party architecture. Without OEMs, there probably wouldn't even be Microsoft, or they'd probably be a 50-employee banking software company in rural Michigan.
I agree, though, that ASUS is the only company pushing the boundaries of conventional 'laptop shaped computer' design. There are a few nice leaps from Lenovo as well, but they seem to be on to rehashing the same designs now with different guts, over and over and over.
Microsoft should invest in getting a small form tablet which can run an x86 architecture. This is the only way they will compete with anyone else on the market, especially those that use their (normal) Windows OSes with ease on their tablet/convertible laptops.
What the hell are you thinking, Microsoft? Nobody wants Windows 8, with your goofy-ass MetroUI boxes on some obscure(even if it's ARM) architecture. Please, just make a NORMAL WINDOWS TABLET if you are going to trip into that market. When I start my tablet, I want to see Windows 7, or better yet XP with the rolling hills and fluffy little clouds, and that friendly little START button right where I expect it.
I guess what I'm trying to say is that I want a Windows laptop that I don't have to open and close...is that so hard?
So basically, because 12 kids were too fucking stupid not to ingest small pieces of metal, or their parents were too fucking dumb to supervise them around these things, nobody can have them, anywhere, at any age?
Land of the free, my ass. Fuck this country. Ten times over.
"Hello! I understand why you would want to kill a Nigerian prince, however, my country is in turmoil and my money is tied from my hands. Please allow me to send you a check for $30,000 which you can cash and please Western Union all but your $5000 back to me at this address: ..."
You can literally put facts in front of people, and they will just ignore them
Including such facts as "This benzene-toluene mixture we combine with diesel fuel and water, then pump at high pressure into the bedrock where your drinking water comes from is totally harmless. Trust us. No, of course we won't let you test the chemicals we use, that's proprietary."
Not really. What they are saying is "Yes, Apple was granted a patent on something we were already doing, but they shouldn't have been because it is a standard element which many many people have been using, and Apple just decided they were cool enough to patent everyone's work for themselves."
Steve's dead, man. Nobody left at Apple has the balls to throw out aggressive new products like the Jobs did. As much as I hate the guy and his company, he definitely knew his shit when it came to generating hype out of thin air.
No, but Facebook does...almost everywhere :o|
Perhaps they will take each other down in the ensuing legal battle, and they can both DIAF while the rest of the world benefits.
And I'm sorry, they're suing *Microsoft* for anti-competitive business practices? How is this not the definition of an antitrust situation?
The solution in both cases seems that it would be 'carry a huge freakin' knife'. I would say gun, but this isn't the US.
Bet the police would be interested when they had to clean someone up off the McDonald's floor.
Calling McDonalds will just get you some sort of platitude like "Free LeBigMacs for Life!". Find a cop who speaks English(not easy in hate-everyone Paris) and explain it, maybe he will feel for the guy and help him out.
The French are possibly the meanest, least considerate people I have ever met. Go to Quebec instead - it's like France but with nicer people.
France is AWESOME. Unless you have to deal with the French.
For the record, 'French' is not a race...
Funny, I am blaming their pricing for my piracy, and they are blaming my piracy for their prices.
Hey guys, I didn't pirate before you overcharged. Try again.
The correct solution would be to make your games cheaper, not make ours more expensive. Especially with the actual cost of developing these games coming down so much in the last decade.
I don't know where you pulled those numbers from, but for those exact game types, I paid nowhere near that much at release. I think you need to re-examine your historical pricelists, son.