Champions was 1981 and had a point buy system, and that evolved into the Hero System. GURPS was 1986 but others had been doing classless systems for awhile, GURPS was mostly pushing a generic system.
DOS was just a niche, not even a real OS, and only around for a small fraction of the time operating systems have been around. Unless you mean mainframe DOS instead of PC stuff. Even by the standards of a time it wasn't an OS.
Too complicated. D&D went downhill after AD&D, taking a simple system and making it more and more complex. They should have trashed the outdated class system and gone with a straight up skill or point system like the competition, instead of creating a twisted hybrid.
When Germany first grabbed it's Lebensraum, Churchill was not yet prime minster, and it was Chamberlain still who thought Germany was done expanding. If Germany had stopped then and kept the agreement with Chamberlain...
"Your ancestors treated them like shit" is a good excuse if those ancestors are still alive. If the ancestors paid no compensation then who does? If you just wait it out long enough then the slate is wiped clean even though inequality still exists? Ya, so Native Americans got a raw deal and have to live on infertile dirt patches, but it'd be a violation of someone else's rights if they got some extra scholarships and preferences for college admissions.
The status quo has nothing about it worth defending and yet people keep trying to defend it.
Pay $20 versus hiring a lawyer and attempting to sue a wrongful accusation. I don't think it's going to happen. This needs a class action suit to get anywhere, and in much of the country there is strong political pressure to disallow class action suits, or to mandate binding arbitration (which the poorer guy _always_ loses).
That only applies to the legal system. Rightscorp is bypassing the legal system and instead getting the ISPs to do the work of law enforcement, and with no analogue to the court system. Basically there are three private parties, Rightscorp, the ISP, and the ISP's customer, and any of the three is legally allowed to presume the other two parties are guilty bastards without proof. Also any of the three are able to sue if they feel unfairly treated if they think some laws are being broken, and they can countersue if anyone sues them, if they'd rather spend that kind of money doing so.
Compare to MS Office which sucks outright, not just kind of sucks. Doesn't follow any standards (it doesn't even follow it's own standard it pushed through ISO). Has a clumsy user interface. Has low portability, not even supporting its own older formats without getting optional plugins, and every upgrade breaks something. Has poor interoperability with non Microsoft products. Is bloated and slow and is the main motivator for getting faster computers. Has irrational grammar rules. Is not worth the expensive price.
If it wasn't for Outlook, offices would have dumped it ages ago.
Until the USA entered, Germany did have the upper hand in a lot of ways. They were only fighting on one front at a time, and by all rights should have done much better against Russia except for some blunders as you say (such as not packing for winter). With the US though it was two active war fronts and Germany fell back quick after that.
In the early days all of Germany's neighbors were weak in comparison, they'd all been through WW1 also. No one really wanted to get into a war and were slow to react. If Germany had just grabbed their "lebensraum" and stopped they probably could have kept it.
They've spent almost their entire existence undermining open standards. I can't imagine them changing their minds now, not even in a deathbed conversion.
There could have been a middle of the road solution too. Use Windows, but with Linux standards. Open Office, Apache web servers, etc. Then you get the linux tools. Although seriously, the modern bloated ubuntus are no harder to use than windows.
And to be honest, there's the typical "user" experience. They think Microsoft is big, they must know what they're doing, they can find a "Learn Word in 21 Hours" book, they can find thousands of people with Microsoft certificates they can hire, so why not use Microsoft? Issues like have open standards means nothing to the person typing up memos or creating a database; Microsoft *is* the standard and all those other standards bodies are annoying buzzing sounds. If twenty years from now all the records are lost because no one can decode.docx files properly then it's not their problem but the problem of the lazy IT guys.
Bucking the trend is hard, when the herd of gazelles turns and runs one way then all the gazelles follow, unless you're a wildebeest.
There's no need for bribery or incentives to switch back to Microsoft, all that is needed is for the bureaucracy to forget the original reasons for open standards and transparency. Those were thought to be important back when Microsoft was under the spotlight in Europe for monopoly issues, but that spotlight has been off for a long time.
So it's ok for men to fund only projects founded by men, the traditional method that's been applied for centuries and is still ongoing? Or are you the type of person that believes all of society can in one day say "we're no longer racist or sexist" and the problem is solved, with no need for any additional action necessary to redress past inequalities? Ie, status quo is fine as long as we apologize.
But nothing forbids getting the unsigned code via a side channel. So get ScummVM on your console and it includes a note about how to get the unsigned version along with an HMAC or MD5 sum to verify it is secure.
What's scary to me is that a "trusted connection" is pre-installed! I was amazed that I could plug my phone into a Windows computer and it would automatically mount it and install drivers. Every other thing in the world I plug in would have Windows ask me first if I wanted to install, and I have all auto-play turned off. But because there was a signed driver Windows decides against my will to install it. I don't care if Microsoft thinks the certificate chain is safe, I do NOT want Windows to install anything without my permission!
In the Mac, every single time I plug in the phone to charge it it mounts a disk and pops up a window asking me to install. And every single time I cancel it and manually eject the volume. Annoying as hell (but at least it asks). That's how malware shows up, eventually someone clicks "yes".
There were tens of thousands of applicants for the position of sole astronaut. I think they should check back with the runner ups and see if they need a job.
And it's not like she was an active astronaut going to space all the time. She went once, then the rest of the time was mostly PR appearances.
To shut down even one department over this seems to indicate that someone was looking to shut it down anyway and was waiting for an excuse.
Egalitarian also implies no one is in charge. So big projects never get done, no one organizes defenses, no one settles disputes, etc. When someone does step forward and take the lead sometimes the others refuse to follow and will leave, which has happened in some more modern groups like communes.
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Champions was 1981 and had a point buy system, and that evolved into the Hero System. GURPS was 1986 but others had been doing classless systems for awhile, GURPS was mostly pushing a generic system.
DOS was just a niche, not even a real OS, and only around for a small fraction of the time operating systems have been around. Unless you mean mainframe DOS instead of PC stuff. Even by the standards of a time it wasn't an OS.
Too complicated. D&D went downhill after AD&D, taking a simple system and making it more and more complex. They should have trashed the outdated class system and gone with a straight up skill or point system like the competition, instead of creating a twisted hybrid.
When Germany first grabbed it's Lebensraum, Churchill was not yet prime minster, and it was Chamberlain still who thought Germany was done expanding. If Germany had stopped then and kept the agreement with Chamberlain...
Who said anything about suffering? I don't think feminists are making anyone suffer.
So we free the slaves, then say "good luck"?
"Your ancestors treated them like shit" is a good excuse if those ancestors are still alive. If the ancestors paid no compensation then who does? If you just wait it out long enough then the slate is wiped clean even though inequality still exists? Ya, so Native Americans got a raw deal and have to live on infertile dirt patches, but it'd be a violation of someone else's rights if they got some extra scholarships and preferences for college admissions.
The status quo has nothing about it worth defending and yet people keep trying to defend it.
That's why it needs to be a class action suit.
No one even needs proof though. Just a letter from Rightscorp to the ISP is enough.
Pay $20 versus hiring a lawyer and attempting to sue a wrongful accusation. I don't think it's going to happen. This needs a class action suit to get anywhere, and in much of the country there is strong political pressure to disallow class action suits, or to mandate binding arbitration (which the poorer guy _always_ loses).
That only applies to the legal system. Rightscorp is bypassing the legal system and instead getting the ISPs to do the work of law enforcement, and with no analogue to the court system. Basically there are three private parties, Rightscorp, the ISP, and the ISP's customer, and any of the three is legally allowed to presume the other two parties are guilty bastards without proof. Also any of the three are able to sue if they feel unfairly treated if they think some laws are being broken, and they can countersue if anyone sues them, if they'd rather spend that kind of money doing so.
Compare to MS Office which sucks outright, not just kind of sucks. Doesn't follow any standards (it doesn't even follow it's own standard it pushed through ISO). Has a clumsy user interface. Has low portability, not even supporting its own older formats without getting optional plugins, and every upgrade breaks something. Has poor interoperability with non Microsoft products. Is bloated and slow and is the main motivator for getting faster computers. Has irrational grammar rules. Is not worth the expensive price.
If it wasn't for Outlook, offices would have dumped it ages ago.
Until the USA entered, Germany did have the upper hand in a lot of ways. They were only fighting on one front at a time, and by all rights should have done much better against Russia except for some blunders as you say (such as not packing for winter). With the US though it was two active war fronts and Germany fell back quick after that.
In the early days all of Germany's neighbors were weak in comparison, they'd all been through WW1 also. No one really wanted to get into a war and were slow to react. If Germany had just grabbed their "lebensraum" and stopped they probably could have kept it.
If they inherited it, then they have the ability to open up the protocol.
They've spent almost their entire existence undermining open standards. I can't imagine them changing their minds now, not even in a deathbed conversion.
There could have been a middle of the road solution too. Use Windows, but with Linux standards. Open Office, Apache web servers, etc. Then you get the linux tools. Although seriously, the modern bloated ubuntus are no harder to use than windows.
And to be honest, there's the typical "user" experience. They think Microsoft is big, they must know what they're doing, they can find a "Learn Word in 21 Hours" book, they can find thousands of people with Microsoft certificates they can hire, so why not use Microsoft? Issues like have open standards means nothing to the person typing up memos or creating a database; Microsoft *is* the standard and all those other standards bodies are annoying buzzing sounds. If twenty years from now all the records are lost because no one can decode .docx files properly then it's not their problem but the problem of the lazy IT guys.
Bucking the trend is hard, when the herd of gazelles turns and runs one way then all the gazelles follow, unless you're a wildebeest.
There's no need for bribery or incentives to switch back to Microsoft, all that is needed is for the bureaucracy to forget the original reasons for open standards and transparency. Those were thought to be important back when Microsoft was under the spotlight in Europe for monopoly issues, but that spotlight has been off for a long time.
So it's ok for men to fund only projects founded by men, the traditional method that's been applied for centuries and is still ongoing?
Or are you the type of person that believes all of society can in one day say "we're no longer racist or sexist" and the problem is solved, with no need for any additional action necessary to redress past inequalities? Ie, status quo is fine as long as we apologize.
But nothing forbids getting the unsigned code via a side channel. So get ScummVM on your console and it includes a note about how to get the unsigned version along with an HMAC or MD5 sum to verify it is secure.
This is no different from the Apple store or Google's Play Store. All app stores, by their very concept, are full of scamware.
And you lose credibility just by using "feminazi".
What's scary to me is that a "trusted connection" is pre-installed! I was amazed that I could plug my phone into a Windows computer and it would automatically mount it and install drivers. Every other thing in the world I plug in would have Windows ask me first if I wanted to install, and I have all auto-play turned off. But because there was a signed driver Windows decides against my will to install it. I don't care if Microsoft thinks the certificate chain is safe, I do NOT want Windows to install anything without my permission!
In the Mac, every single time I plug in the phone to charge it it mounts a disk and pops up a window asking me to install. And every single time I cancel it and manually eject the volume. Annoying as hell (but at least it asks). That's how malware shows up, eventually someone clicks "yes".
Gartner is useless. However you can pay them money and they'll increase your company's rating and this will fool people who trust Gartner's opinions.
There were tens of thousands of applicants for the position of sole astronaut. I think they should check back with the runner ups and see if they need a job.
And it's not like she was an active astronaut going to space all the time. She went once, then the rest of the time was mostly PR appearances.
To shut down even one department over this seems to indicate that someone was looking to shut it down anyway and was waiting for an excuse.
Egalitarian also implies no one is in charge. So big projects never get done, no one organizes defenses, no one settles disputes, etc. When someone does step forward and take the lead sometimes the others refuse to follow and will leave, which has happened in some more modern groups like communes.
True. Last time we hit Peak Stupid we were still doing pipelining stupid stuff. With modern technology we have super-scalar concurrent stupidity.