Meanwhile, Steve in the next cube over is answering the call as he's next in line, he responds to the email that comes in and generally puts forth more effort than you. This is recognized by management. Steve gets a promotion eventually, you do not. Moreover, management sees Steve's fervor, they want more Steves and they hire more Steves. Eventually there is a dip in funds and we have increased costs, someone must go. Who do you think they fire? (Hint: it isn't one of the Steve clones).
I'm not trying to justify it, but the reality is whoever makes more money for the boss, whether the lower employees make more is irrelevant.
So what you're saying is that you were foolish enough to agree to be available during outside hours. You have no one to blame but yourself for not establishing boundaries, on call hours after hours, finding subordinates to be available during off hours, or establishing competent service level agreements.
Not every job will let you establish this, but it should be set from the interview. And hey, maybe there's threat of being fired if you don't perform, but jokes on them, if they fire you, you owe them nothing. At the very least you can begin searching for your next job where at least you'll be happy and maybe someone can appreciate your real value.
That's his point. Reader is a cloud service and he's losing his data and access to the "application" that google provided. I think you'll be hard pressed to find a service that will support the export of google reader data. Even if he goes to another service, it could happen there too.
However if it were a desktop app, he could just go on like it never happened.
Personally I haven't found a reader app that synchronizes what I've read in my feeds across devices, recommends new feeds from a large search database, allows me to group feeds and read entire groups, or access the service from external apps and devices.
Uh, dipshit, we're still there the last time I looked at my cell phone bill. Personally I don't like filtering through all the ads and images and bullshit when I can aggregate headlines from multiple sites and read only what I want to read.
That is an unqualified opinion. No "good" desktop for what? For games? There's isn't because linux as a game platform has been largely non-existent. But there are plenty of environments with minimalistic UIs that could be good and I think that's what Valve is building here. I'd argue that there's no good desktop environment for gaming, period. Windows just is not and never has been a good gaming environment either, it's just the defacto desktop OS.
If this moves developers to make ports of their games for Linux more and more, I think you'll see people playing less and less on Windows as they'll have the option to run on a "free" alternative. This is good for the hobbyist market.
Stop letting movies do your thinking. AI/Artificial Intelligence exists as studies in machine learning, game theory, pattern recognition and several other topics.
You've been trained to think that self aware computers in AI by movies like War Games, the Matrix, that abysmal spielberg AI movie, and the Terminator movies. Go read a book.
They are both post apocalyptic games with comepletely different feel.
For one thing, Fallout has that tacked on RPG mode on the PIP-Boy that can completely remove the FPS aspect of the game. But it is also much more focused on training up skills. Weapons are also pretty static and it's tough to create something better, let alone different stats.
Borderlands is a FPS first and foremost with LOTS of weapons, they all do different and FUN things. The game borders on outrageous in building a fun environment to run around. It also happens to be pretty hilarious.
Sorry, I've played and loved both. They're different games. You might as well try to compare them to Gears of War while you're at it.
If you had an old windows system you were upgrading, you bought the upgrade version. If you were cheap and didn't need microsoft support you bought the system builders/OEM version. If you had a system without an OS (meaning you built it yourself) you bought the full retail version.
I can understand the potential of a VM'd license, I don't understand offering one for people that "build their own systems". They already have two versions that work for that.
Why do you people continue to believe that the "bucket" plans are the only data plans? They're shared family plans, not individual plans which still exist.
This, THIS! I 100% agree with this, which is the one thing I absolutely hate about iTunes match. I love my iPhone, I love that I carry music, video, a camera, phone, my calendar, email and more in one device. I love that they finally got wireless syncing done RIGHT on my device so that podcasts, smart playlists and autogenerated genius lists are automatically updated. As soon as I turn on iTunes match though, the phone forgets how to sync, instead replaced with a system that can download/psuedo stream all of my music. I can no longer push "play all" because it tries to play music that may not be on the device, if I'm on a wifi is just starts playing music that I might not want on my device at all or worse, burn up cell data with a switch buried far into the settings menu that makes it a pain to enable and disable freely. Then my device slow sucks up more and more space and there's no clean way to remove music aside from deleting each song you don't want. I've disabled Match and then tried syncing only to find it doesn't remove the downloaded music that I had on the device while synced.
That said, I love what Match has done for my appletv experience as well as my iPad where I don't normally store music, but having access to all of it anywhere I'm on wifi (and not at work) is awesome.
Don't get your hopes up. They only support platforms that the games are developed for. So the Valve stuff will likely work as they tightly couple Steam to their games, but as my Mac Library points out, there is very little cross platform compatibility.
when Nintendo fixed the Game Boy Advance by releasing the SP. Then they immediately jumped the shark and now every game system they release has 15 (exaggerating for emphasis) revisions before the next console. I haven't bought a Nintento portable since the SP if that's any indication of how I feel on the situation.
Sony can go fuck themselves too, but at least they finally put a second stick on their portable.
No, they innovated. They became our Internet providers. Greed drives this. The fact that a CEO can't recognize they shouldn't be making as much as they do or that maybe they shouldn't also get a fat bonus every few months.
My iPhone only replaced: -an iPod for music playing -my point and shoot camera -my "flip-phone" -my GPS
And on top of that I've now got: - a flashlight(the LED on the back is ridiculously handy, even if it's isn't it's purpose) - access to online searches instantly - movies, via netflix, ANYWHERE - access to my email ANYWHERE - Entertainment via games, I stopped carrying portable game systems. - Access to full color pictures to show to people at any time without killing trees. - A calendar and reminder/todo list, something I tried with a palm pilot years ago, but abandoned because it was just another device to carry that I didn't want.
And it comfortably slides into my pocket without looking like I'm carrying a baby on my side or sporting a massive tumor off of my hip. The post is marked funny, I don't find anything funny about it (so if it was your goal, you failed). Maybe you failed to realize it isn't a replacement for a computing device, it's a supplement.
Too late, have you seen Terraria (which I'll argue is better and more fun than minecraft), but the reality is that minecraft itself is already a clone.
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Meanwhile, Steve in the next cube over is answering the call as he's next in line, he responds to the email that comes in and generally puts forth more effort than you. This is recognized by management. Steve gets a promotion eventually, you do not. Moreover, management sees Steve's fervor, they want more Steves and they hire more Steves. Eventually there is a dip in funds and we have increased costs, someone must go. Who do you think they fire? (Hint: it isn't one of the Steve clones).
I'm not trying to justify it, but the reality is whoever makes more money for the boss, whether the lower employees make more is irrelevant.
So what you're saying is that you were foolish enough to agree to be available during outside hours. You have no one to blame but yourself for not establishing boundaries, on call hours after hours, finding subordinates to be available during off hours, or establishing competent service level agreements.
Not every job will let you establish this, but it should be set from the interview. And hey, maybe there's threat of being fired if you don't perform, but jokes on them, if they fire you, you owe them nothing. At the very least you can begin searching for your next job where at least you'll be happy and maybe someone can appreciate your real value.
Wait until they decide that gmail is in decline. Personally I'm moving out now.
That's his point. Reader is a cloud service and he's losing his data and access to the "application" that google provided. I think you'll be hard pressed to find a service that will support the export of google reader data. Even if he goes to another service, it could happen there too.
However if it were a desktop app, he could just go on like it never happened.
Personally I haven't found a reader app that synchronizes what I've read in my feeds across devices, recommends new feeds from a large search database, allows me to group feeds and read entire groups, or access the service from external apps and devices.
I'm about ready to kill my gmail account.
Uh, dipshit, we're still there the last time I looked at my cell phone bill. Personally I don't like filtering through all the ads and images and bullshit when I can aggregate headlines from multiple sites and read only what I want to read.
I have a linux server at work. I have an ipad with a highly functional SSH terminal (complete with an X display to work with) app.
I do all that you do with a more powerful server backing my workloads.
Spinning disk is for cheap storage, so either you are ripping blu-rays or poor or out of date.
Or you just have more applications installed than will fit on, say, a 128 GB SSD.
Which is why I have multiple 128GB SSDs to cover all of my apps and games (and actually a separate OS disk)......
That is an unqualified opinion. No "good" desktop for what? For games? There's isn't because linux as a game platform has been largely non-existent. But there are plenty of environments with minimalistic UIs that could be good and I think that's what Valve is building here. I'd argue that there's no good desktop environment for gaming, period. Windows just is not and never has been a good gaming environment either, it's just the defacto desktop OS.
If this moves developers to make ports of their games for Linux more and more, I think you'll see people playing less and less on Windows as they'll have the option to run on a "free" alternative. This is good for the hobbyist market.
Stop letting movies do your thinking. AI/Artificial Intelligence exists as studies in machine learning, game theory, pattern recognition and several other topics.
You've been trained to think that self aware computers in AI by movies like War Games, the Matrix, that abysmal spielberg AI movie, and the Terminator movies. Go read a book.
until they turn location services off....
But works with nothing else....
And I thought Willy Wonka was creepy...
They are both post apocalyptic games with comepletely different feel.
For one thing, Fallout has that tacked on RPG mode on the PIP-Boy that can completely remove the FPS aspect of the game. But it is also much more focused on training up skills. Weapons are also pretty static and it's tough to create something better, let alone different stats.
Borderlands is a FPS first and foremost with LOTS of weapons, they all do different and FUN things. The game borders on outrageous in building a fun environment to run around. It also happens to be pretty hilarious.
Sorry, I've played and loved both. They're different games. You might as well try to compare them to Gears of War while you're at it.
If you had an old windows system you were upgrading, you bought the upgrade version.
If you were cheap and didn't need microsoft support you bought the system builders/OEM version.
If you had a system without an OS (meaning you built it yourself) you bought the full retail version.
I can understand the potential of a VM'd license, I don't understand offering one for people that "build their own systems". They already have two versions that work for that.
Why do you people continue to believe that the "bucket" plans are the only data plans? They're shared family plans, not individual plans which still exist.
This, THIS! I 100% agree with this, which is the one thing I absolutely hate about iTunes match. I love my iPhone, I love that I carry music, video, a camera, phone, my calendar, email and more in one device. I love that they finally got wireless syncing done RIGHT on my device so that podcasts, smart playlists and autogenerated genius lists are automatically updated. As soon as I turn on iTunes match though, the phone forgets how to sync, instead replaced with a system that can download/psuedo stream all of my music. I can no longer push "play all" because it tries to play music that may not be on the device, if I'm on a wifi is just starts playing music that I might not want on my device at all or worse, burn up cell data with a switch buried far into the settings menu that makes it a pain to enable and disable freely. Then my device slow sucks up more and more space and there's no clean way to remove music aside from deleting each song you don't want. I've disabled Match and then tried syncing only to find it doesn't remove the downloaded music that I had on the device while synced.
That said, I love what Match has done for my appletv experience as well as my iPad where I don't normally store music, but having access to all of it anywhere I'm on wifi (and not at work) is awesome.
No offense, but most of that was likely done by the builder. They're worse than the craftsmen.
really great. Imagine how toned everyone's arms will be as a result of this technology coming into our every day lives!
Don't get your hopes up. They only support platforms that the games are developed for. So the Valve stuff will likely work as they tightly couple Steam to their games, but as my Mac Library points out, there is very little cross platform compatibility.
You aren't the majority, therefore your dollars don't count.
when Nintendo fixed the Game Boy Advance by releasing the SP. Then they immediately jumped the shark and now every game system they release has 15 (exaggerating for emphasis) revisions before the next console. I haven't bought a Nintento portable since the SP if that's any indication of how I feel on the situation.
Sony can go fuck themselves too, but at least they finally put a second stick on their portable.
No, they innovated. They became our Internet providers. Greed drives this. The fact that a CEO can't recognize they shouldn't be making as much as they do or that maybe they shouldn't also get a fat bonus every few months.
Oh yeah, you are the market, I forgot.
My iPhone only replaced:
-an iPod for music playing
-my point and shoot camera
-my "flip-phone"
-my GPS
And on top of that I've now got:
- a flashlight(the LED on the back is ridiculously handy, even if it's isn't it's purpose)
- access to online searches instantly
- movies, via netflix, ANYWHERE
- access to my email ANYWHERE
- Entertainment via games, I stopped carrying portable game systems.
- Access to full color pictures to show to people at any time without killing trees.
- A calendar and reminder/todo list, something I tried with a palm pilot years ago, but abandoned because it was just another device to carry that I didn't want.
And it comfortably slides into my pocket without looking like I'm carrying a baby on my side or sporting a massive tumor off of my hip. The post is marked funny, I don't find anything funny about it (so if it was your goal, you failed). Maybe you failed to realize it isn't a replacement for a computing device, it's a supplement.
Too late, have you seen Terraria (which I'll argue is better and more fun than minecraft), but the reality is that minecraft itself is already a clone.