A friend of mine got hacked three times. Blizzard sent him an authenticator for free. It costs them less to send the free authenticator that keep fixing his account.
What you are saying is that if they got $6.50 out of him instead of giving him the device for free, that it would have been an additional $6.50 in pure profit?
Question #1 will be : "Did blizzard make you buy one in order to play the game, and are there any consequences to not doing so?"... "No, and No"...."Case dismissed"
No, and Yes. An authenticator is required for some aspects of some of blizzards games, such as the real money auction house in diablo 3. This requirement most certainly was not advertised during initial sales, but the real money auction house feature was advertised during initial sales as a selling point. In fact, you will find slashdot articles about the real money auction house prior to the games release.
The extraordinary claim is you claiming something opposite to the supreme court judges, the finder of fact. Voter fraud continues to be a big problem in the United States. Thats not me saying it. Thats the supreme court saying it.
You didn't know that because you only hear what you want to hear. You only read that which supports the party line that you inserted into your mouth.
They do not like allocating hundreds of millions of euros into a project and then finding out that it was all wasted
You are ignoring the criticism if you think it requires a partner not throwing money at this project to figure out that its a waste.
The current cost projection is US$6.8 Billion (~5.3 billion euros.) If the ESA doesnt admit by now that it has been and will continue to be money wasted, then the ESA is as corrupted as NASA.
The fact that you don't see it means that you really have no idea how much money that is. Thats about 4 times as much money as it took to develop the space shuttle, a god damned re-entry vehicle with reusable fuel tanks, and put it into space for the first time. Normally in industries, costs go down over time. Not so with government-funded space programs. Costs are skyrocketing out of control, and no its not added value. Its pure corruption.
I get that we like to support science shit.. space stuff in particular.. but you gotta call a spade a spade.
Which 'standard' are you measuring inflation by? They change the CPI standard every 10 years.
If you use the pre-1980 standard for CPI, then the current annual inflation rate is over 10%.
If you use the 1980 to 1990 standard, then the current annual inflation rate is 5.5%.
If you use the current post 2010 standard, then the inflation rate is 2%.
What we are currently measuring is historic levels of bullshit manipulation of CPI. Stop being a drone.
I suspect it has to do with shared libraries. The installer may or may not have installed a new version, which may or may not be materially different in practice, and may or may not have completed due to other processes currently using the library. The installer would have to be more complicated to track this information through to the end.. such a simple thing to simply recommend a reboot instead.
Indeed, the point of drug testing before being hired isnt the prove that you arent a drug user, because it doesnt do that. Its to prove that you can go a few days (or several weeks in the case of marijuana) without them, which it does prove.
Do you really want to hire a guy that can't even go a few days without snorting a line? Of course not, because thats not just a drug users, thats someone addicted to coke. Nobody wants to hire any old random coke addict.
The same is true for random drug testing, because even when those tested are chosen at random its generally not a surprise that the tests will be next week.
Drug testing continues because it works. It finds people that have a real problem with drugs.
Clearly I have no clue what I'm talking about where SSDs are up to 10 times faster then hard drives.
You have no clue what you are talking about because you are claiming that seek times are a significant portion of compile time. I could have called you completely retarded and still got modded up, because you really are completely retarded.
That is allegations floating around that the Intel compiler puts checks in the binaries that will only turn on MMX and other advanced bits when running on a Genuine Intel
No, the Republicans will spend the next four years obstructing anything and everything in order to make the government look dysfunctional
Thats funny, because the Democrat Senate has been obstructing anything and everything coming out of the Republican House, even important things like budgets.
Funny how you dipshit party fanboys only see what the other side is doing. The reason is because you truly have no idea what your side is doing.
This is a funny little test, which you can take (and fail) yourself, and then you can throw it at one of your oppositely minded fanboy friends for the same result. Give your estimate of how much money the federal government has spent since the last time it passed a budget. (A) $3 trillion, (B) $6 trillion, or (C) $9 trillion.
Its a trick question. The answer is currently $13 trillion. The government has blown through $13 trillion without any consideration at all. Thats extreme prejudicial disrespect to you and I from both parties. The really gross part of it is that its your pet favorite party that has a strong majority in the Senate that wont even consider a budget, let alone make counter-propositions to one coming out of the House.
At least the Republicans know what their party is doing, because you dweebs keep telling them. Turn your head to the left, my friend. Its obstructionists on that side too. Now stop being a partisan bitch and start paying attention to whats actually going on. Whats going on is a matter of easily accessed public record, for christ sakes.
Who said anything about making them illegal? You are clearly so vested in unions that you cant even read simple english, because I didnt say anything even close to what you just went all blathering on about.
The corporation they're organized against enjoys all kinds of government protections. So why shouldn't the people organizing?
..because the people organizing arent everybody. Now the individual faces two protected monsters instead of just one. Nice world your fallacious logic has built, eh?
And if the company voluntarily negotiates a deal with us according to mutually acceptable terms, that's all good. And if one of the terms of that deal is that the company agrees not to hire people who aren't members of our group...
This is the government protection of the group that over-rides the protection of the individual. I am a member of a union which was voted in about 4 years ago. The problem is that not everyone voted for the union, yet now everyone is a member by rule of law. Sorry, the union is not in actuality an emergent result of the individuals rights. Unions of destroyed the rights of individuals.
The right reform is to simply end the government protection of the unions while maintaining each individuals right to bargain collectively. There doesnt need to be an "official organization" that gets protection, and in fact the only protection the "official organization" should receive should be those that are collectively emergent from the individual rights of people behaving collectively.
Whenever we're not using it, the Kinect will be turned around to face some porn!
You better own the right to that porn... its one thing if you incidentally broadcast copyrighted material back to the mothership, but its another thing entirely if you do it on purpose.
Look, I feel you, I do... but you arent thinking clearly about this.
As others have pointed out, the company is always attempting to set the price to maximize overall profits, but thats not profit per item. The price you see is essentially the maximum point of a graph of products (= multiplication).. one variable is the profit per item based on price, and the other is the number of units that can be moved based on price.
The upshot of this is that corporate taxes make corporations less efficient. They move fewer units because the taxes move the maximum point towards higher prices/lower production, and that results in fewer jobs. This effect of fewer jobs also compounds the problem because that means fewer people can afford things, putting even more downward pressure on production and thus jobs as well.
In any event, due to these realities, its OK to tax corporations quite a bit so long as your country enjoys "full" or "nearly full" employment, because the loss in efficiency at that point doesnt really effect anything other than some balance sheets. However if you are experiencing high rates of unemployment then corporate taxes are a very bad idea.
It isn't necessarily about making money, IMO. It is about creating an ecosystem that allows their existing product to continue to thrive.
I think that you have missed the fact that Microsoft is foremost a software company and have had no problems in the past being the dominant player in other peoples ecosystems. Pretty much every home computer that you could buy in the late 70's to early 80's featured at its forefront a Microsoft BASIC, often baked right into a ROM chip that they booted to. Even Apples computers ran Microsoft BASIC. While at the time software companies werent making much money (any of them), Microsoft was already at the forefront.
When Microsoft bailed Apple out the year noted in my signature, one of the conditions that Apple insisted on is that Microsoft continued to produce Office for Macintosh computers. Microsoft was so dominant on Apple's ecosystem that the very survival of Apple depended upon Microsoft continuing to support the platform.
Currently Microsoft is trying to get into the hardware game, but this is probably a mistake, but not because it wont work.. but because its much easier to just write software for whatever is in vogue. Microsofts biggest recent mistake is probably neglecting to jump early onto the Android bandwagon. They seem to be moving to rectify this, as a Microsoft product manager has recently confirmed Office 2013 for both iOS and Android.
Look at how quickly hardware manufacturers go from top-3 to being seriously fucked. Motorola? Palm? Nokia? RIM? Being a hardware manufacturer is only great if you continue to be great at it. Once you make a single mis-step, or if someone else comes along and is even better at being great, then you lose your user base so you also lose the edge in your software base and there is simply no recovery from that.
When I was growing up, there was the internet and I was on it.. as a teen I hacked my way into university VMS systems so that I could use IRC (and back then IRC was a single thing, not just a protocol) and hunt around for files with archie.
When I wanted to apply information, I had to actually learn it, because there wasnt a browser in front of me to go get the information the instant I needed it. These days I can apply information without learning it.... I just need to cut, paste, and reformat it.
That doesn't change the fact however that you seem to be resistant to discussing the facts.
I am not resistant to discussing facts. You however seem to be very resistant to the notion that this isnt about global warming.
Look, clearly you are of the opinion that man is causing global warming and that you have this big pile of evidence to back it up. I'm on board to some extent. But why then do you support people being a dishonest fuck about it saying shit that isnt even close to evidence?
Why is it so hard for people to criticize the people in their own temple, even when the majority of their congregation is covered in shit? A reasonable person would recognize obviously faulty arguments no matter who or what they support, but in your case you simply can't see it because its coming from your own temple, and in fact you have been actively trying to defend the faulty argument by telling everyone all about how the conclusion is valid while being completely oblivious to the fact that the argument given was and always will be faulty.
Don't you call out fallacious arguments made by the opposition? Doesnt every fallacious argument given by the opposition undermine that opposition? Explain why fallacious arguments given by your supporters are different. Do you really believe that fallacious arguments that happen to support your conclusion somehow wont have the exact same effect as fallacious arguments used by the opposition? They WILL and DO undermine you.
It isnt the opposition to your conclusion that is your enemy.. its the legion of supporters of it that toss about fallacious arguments. They undermine you, and not only do you let it happen unchecked, you refuse to even acknowledge that the undermining is even taking place. You arent helping the cause at all. You are hurting it too, by defending these dishonest fucks.
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A friend of mine got hacked three times. Blizzard sent him an authenticator for free. It costs them less to send the free authenticator that keep fixing his account.
What you are saying is that if they got $6.50 out of him instead of giving him the device for free, that it would have been an additional $6.50 in pure profit?
Think about that for a moment.
Question #1 will be : "Did blizzard make you buy one in order to play the game, and are there any consequences to not doing so?"... "No, and No"...."Case dismissed"
No, and Yes. An authenticator is required for some aspects of some of blizzards games, such as the real money auction house in diablo 3. This requirement most certainly was not advertised during initial sales, but the real money auction house feature was advertised during initial sales as a selling point. In fact, you will find slashdot articles about the real money auction house prior to the games release.
How would you feel if I published an old pdf from you without asking or informing you?
I would feel grateful for keeping the dream alive.
The extraordinary claim is you claiming something opposite to the supreme court judges, the finder of fact. Voter fraud continues to be a big problem in the United States. Thats not me saying it. Thats the supreme court saying it.
You didn't know that because you only hear what you want to hear. You only read that which supports the party line that you inserted into your mouth.
They do not like allocating hundreds of millions of euros into a project and then finding out that it was all wasted
You are ignoring the criticism if you think it requires a partner not throwing money at this project to figure out that its a waste.
The current cost projection is US$6.8 Billion (~5.3 billion euros.) If the ESA doesnt admit by now that it has been and will continue to be money wasted, then the ESA is as corrupted as NASA.
The fact that you don't see it means that you really have no idea how much money that is. Thats about 4 times as much money as it took to develop the space shuttle, a god damned re-entry vehicle with reusable fuel tanks, and put it into space for the first time. Normally in industries, costs go down over time. Not so with government-funded space programs. Costs are skyrocketing out of control, and no its not added value. Its pure corruption.
I get that we like to support science shit.. space stuff in particular.. but you gotta call a spade a spade.
Inflation is very low by historical standards.
Standards. Funny word, that.
Which 'standard' are you measuring inflation by? They change the CPI standard every 10 years.
If you use the pre-1980 standard for CPI, then the current annual inflation rate is over 10%.
If you use the 1980 to 1990 standard, then the current annual inflation rate is 5.5%.
If you use the current post 2010 standard, then the inflation rate is 2%.
What we are currently measuring is historic levels of bullshit manipulation of CPI. Stop being a drone.
I suspect it has to do with shared libraries. The installer may or may not have installed a new version, which may or may not be materially different in practice, and may or may not have completed due to other processes currently using the library. The installer would have to be more complicated to track this information through to the end.. such a simple thing to simply recommend a reboot instead.
Oh, Bob uses Button 6 for Fireball when he plays World of Warcraft.
How about, 'few people use button 6 for anything but button 7 is quite popular'
Indeed, the point of drug testing before being hired isnt the prove that you arent a drug user, because it doesnt do that. Its to prove that you can go a few days (or several weeks in the case of marijuana) without them, which it does prove.
Do you really want to hire a guy that can't even go a few days without snorting a line? Of course not, because thats not just a drug users, thats someone addicted to coke. Nobody wants to hire any old random coke addict.
The same is true for random drug testing, because even when those tested are chosen at random its generally not a surprise that the tests will be next week.
Drug testing continues because it works. It finds people that have a real problem with drugs.
Clearly I have no clue what I'm talking about where SSDs are up to 10 times faster then hard drives.
You have no clue what you are talking about because you are claiming that seek times are a significant portion of compile time. I could have called you completely retarded and still got modded up, because you really are completely retarded.
Or maybe RMS just took a bath.
No, thats scheduled for December 21st, 2012.
Another option is to switch from hard drives to SSDs since that handles the bottleneck at its source: time spent seeking to a track.
This guy clearly has no idea what he is talking about.
That is allegations floating around that the Intel compiler puts checks in the binaries that will only turn on MMX and other advanced bits when running on a Genuine Intel
Its not just allegation...
Due the the FTC ruling against Intel, its still not too late to get reimbursed by Intel if you purchased Intels compiler. Only a few more months left on that.
No, the Republicans will spend the next four years obstructing anything and everything in order to make the government look dysfunctional
Thats funny, because the Democrat Senate has been obstructing anything and everything coming out of the Republican House, even important things like budgets.
Funny how you dipshit party fanboys only see what the other side is doing. The reason is because you truly have no idea what your side is doing.
This is a funny little test, which you can take (and fail) yourself, and then you can throw it at one of your oppositely minded fanboy friends for the same result. Give your estimate of how much money the federal government has spent since the last time it passed a budget. (A) $3 trillion, (B) $6 trillion, or (C) $9 trillion.
Its a trick question. The answer is currently $13 trillion. The government has blown through $13 trillion without any consideration at all. Thats extreme prejudicial disrespect to you and I from both parties. The really gross part of it is that its your pet favorite party that has a strong majority in the Senate that wont even consider a budget, let alone make counter-propositions to one coming out of the House.
At least the Republicans know what their party is doing, because you dweebs keep telling them. Turn your head to the left, my friend. Its obstructionists on that side too. Now stop being a partisan bitch and start paying attention to whats actually going on. Whats going on is a matter of easily accessed public record, for christ sakes.
If you don't allow unions to be legal
Who said anything about making them illegal? You are clearly so vested in unions that you cant even read simple english, because I didnt say anything even close to what you just went all blathering on about.
The corporation they're organized against enjoys all kinds of government protections. So why shouldn't the people organizing?
A paper ballot and a black marker beats the hell out of the paper ballot and the No. 2 pencil.
And if the company voluntarily negotiates a deal with us according to mutually acceptable terms, that's all good. And if one of the terms of that deal is that the company agrees not to hire people who aren't members of our group...
This is the government protection of the group that over-rides the protection of the individual. I am a member of a union which was voted in about 4 years ago. The problem is that not everyone voted for the union, yet now everyone is a member by rule of law. Sorry, the union is not in actuality an emergent result of the individuals rights. Unions of destroyed the rights of individuals.
The right reform is to simply end the government protection of the unions while maintaining each individuals right to bargain collectively. There doesnt need to be an "official organization" that gets protection, and in fact the only protection the "official organization" should receive should be those that are collectively emergent from the individual rights of people behaving collectively.
Whenever we're not using it, the Kinect will be turned around to face some porn!
You better own the right to that porn... its one thing if you incidentally broadcast copyrighted material back to the mothership, but its another thing entirely if you do it on purpose.
Look, I feel you, I do... but you arent thinking clearly about this.
As others have pointed out, the company is always attempting to set the price to maximize overall profits, but thats not profit per item. The price you see is essentially the maximum point of a graph of products (= multiplication).. one variable is the profit per item based on price, and the other is the number of units that can be moved based on price.
The upshot of this is that corporate taxes make corporations less efficient. They move fewer units because the taxes move the maximum point towards higher prices/lower production, and that results in fewer jobs. This effect of fewer jobs also compounds the problem because that means fewer people can afford things, putting even more downward pressure on production and thus jobs as well.
In any event, due to these realities, its OK to tax corporations quite a bit so long as your country enjoys "full" or "nearly full" employment, because the loss in efficiency at that point doesnt really effect anything other than some balance sheets. However if you are experiencing high rates of unemployment then corporate taxes are a very bad idea.
It isn't necessarily about making money, IMO. It is about creating an ecosystem that allows their existing product to continue to thrive.
I think that you have missed the fact that Microsoft is foremost a software company and have had no problems in the past being the dominant player in other peoples ecosystems. Pretty much every home computer that you could buy in the late 70's to early 80's featured at its forefront a Microsoft BASIC, often baked right into a ROM chip that they booted to. Even Apples computers ran Microsoft BASIC. While at the time software companies werent making much money (any of them), Microsoft was already at the forefront.
When Microsoft bailed Apple out the year noted in my signature, one of the conditions that Apple insisted on is that Microsoft continued to produce Office for Macintosh computers. Microsoft was so dominant on Apple's ecosystem that the very survival of Apple depended upon Microsoft continuing to support the platform.
Currently Microsoft is trying to get into the hardware game, but this is probably a mistake, but not because it wont work.. but because its much easier to just write software for whatever is in vogue. Microsofts biggest recent mistake is probably neglecting to jump early onto the Android bandwagon. They seem to be moving to rectify this, as a Microsoft product manager has recently confirmed Office 2013 for both iOS and Android.
Look at how quickly hardware manufacturers go from top-3 to being seriously fucked. Motorola? Palm? Nokia? RIM? Being a hardware manufacturer is only great if you continue to be great at it. Once you make a single mis-step, or if someone else comes along and is even better at being great, then you lose your user base so you also lose the edge in your software base and there is simply no recovery from that.
Its good to be a software company.
When I was growing up, there was the internet and I was on it.. as a teen I hacked my way into university VMS systems so that I could use IRC (and back then IRC was a single thing, not just a protocol) and hunt around for files with archie.
When I wanted to apply information, I had to actually learn it, because there wasnt a browser in front of me to go get the information the instant I needed it. These days I can apply information without learning it.... I just need to cut, paste, and reformat it.
That doesn't change the fact however that you seem to be resistant to discussing the facts.
I am not resistant to discussing facts. You however seem to be very resistant to the notion that this isnt about global warming.
Look, clearly you are of the opinion that man is causing global warming and that you have this big pile of evidence to back it up. I'm on board to some extent. But why then do you support people being a dishonest fuck about it saying shit that isnt even close to evidence?
Why is it so hard for people to criticize the people in their own temple, even when the majority of their congregation is covered in shit? A reasonable person would recognize obviously faulty arguments no matter who or what they support, but in your case you simply can't see it because its coming from your own temple, and in fact you have been actively trying to defend the faulty argument by telling everyone all about how the conclusion is valid while being completely oblivious to the fact that the argument given was and always will be faulty.
Don't you call out fallacious arguments made by the opposition? Doesnt every fallacious argument given by the opposition undermine that opposition? Explain why fallacious arguments given by your supporters are different. Do you really believe that fallacious arguments that happen to support your conclusion somehow wont have the exact same effect as fallacious arguments used by the opposition? They WILL and DO undermine you.
It isnt the opposition to your conclusion that is your enemy.. its the legion of supporters of it that toss about fallacious arguments. They undermine you, and not only do you let it happen unchecked, you refuse to even acknowledge that the undermining is even taking place. You arent helping the cause at all. You are hurting it too, by defending these dishonest fucks.
Well to be fair for the the majority of /. readers we aren't in the cheap desktop market.
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