Wasn't Vista also supposed to drive people from Windows to Linux in droves?
Except that there weren't nearly 2000 linux games available on Steam when Vista released now was there? And now that a lot of these "free" to use engines like Unreal 4 and Unity make it much easier to release your game on the Linux platform its only going to grow. I've been a windows gamer for my entire life. I am looking forward to the day in the near future when I can just dump it for Linux as a gaming platform.
Even if that's true, what it means is that the plebes aren't being paid enough to pay taxes. If the richest among us want us to pay more of the taxes, they can pay us more wages.
It's paywalled but you can read the headline and first few lines.
http://www.wsj.com/articles/to...
Top 20% pay 84% of all taxes and bottom 20% not only DON'T pay taxes but actually get PAID by the IRS. We've had socialist redistribution of wealth in the USA for many years.
The interesting question, to me, is whether or not it was actually flying below the treeline. From TFA, the drone's owner presented flight data showing that the drone was not below the treeline, but the man who shot the drone down had two eyewitnesses saying it was lower. If we have altitude readings and video footage, it seems to me those should be able to trump eyewitnesses (assuming that data is complete and not suspect). That's why people are pushing to put bodycams on police, for example.
He shot it with birdshot from a shotgun. If it was above the treeline its doubtful he would have been able to bring it down with such a shot. Hit it? Maybe. But the further the range the less damage and more spread out the birdshot is.
Keep moving, or you will get fired? Who is going to hire someone who keeps switching jobs constantly? I'm sure you will be modded to +5 Insightful though.
You obviously haven't been keeping an eye on the job market. There are plenty of places who are looking for 6-12 month contracts to get some new site up and running, or to staff up for some new initiative that may last a couple years then who knows. I've never stayed at any IT job for longer than 3 years, and I have never once had a single hiring manager bring that up as a negative.
The ones you want to work for understand how the market is these days. And believe me, it's a seller's market. Companies are dying to find good IT talent. They realize that "global sourcing" is more like "you get what you pay for" and they want good help quickly. They can't promise they'll still have that need 5 years from now -- who can? -- and don't want to waste each others' time pretending that's not the case.
Even if you did stay at the same place for years, you wouldn't earn what you're worth. They'll pay the new guys a lot more than your yearly increase. So work the system to your favor, and always be the new guy.
This. I was at a company for just over three years, took their lowball offer because at the time I NEEDED a job. But after 3 years in they were still the cheap ass stingy company that hired me and refused to give me any kind of raise or path to higher paying positions.
So I found a new job that gave me a 30% raise. The new job wasn't exactly what was explained to me when I was hired, so 10 months into this job I found another one that was. Took another 15% raise from that point. I'm now earning over $40,000 more per year than I was at the original company. All within 1 year of moving on from their cheap asses. Moving can be very beneficial if done right and at the right times.
Not every game on Steam requires Steam to be open and logged in to play. There are many that are 100% DRM free. You can literally take the folder, move it and still launch the game even if steam is closed out completely. You just need Steam to install it initially then you can do what you wish with the game.
Examples of some of these games:
http://steam.wikia.com/wiki/Li...http://pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/T...
Except that neither of those things had any market with PC games. Resell and rentals is a console only thing. This game being cross-platform between PC and consoles, the console versions are affected by this exactly not at all.
How would Gamestop buy it? You would presumably be given a key to activate on Steam in the box. Once activated it's attached to your steam account. The box/DVD becomes worthless, even if the game itself were on the DVD.
Yeah, pretty much no one is impressed by your credentials. Moreover, no one really cares what you'd do.
Obviously Valve doesn't give a crap about your opinion since they're not managing their staff the way you do. Looks to me they are way more successful than probably any company you've been with. So good luck with that short man complex you got going on there.
You are free to piss away your money on any damned thing you want to.
But, in general, I'd say it's a fair observation that Kick Starter mostly serves to fund people who have an idea, and nothing else... who may or may not reach their goals, and who will probably still go under, leaving all of your stuff in the hands of an entity you wouldn't have started a business relationship with.
From the stories we see, it really has the hallmarks of a Ponzi scheme as a bunch of guys play the get-rich-quick game by pretending they have a business plan.
I've never heard of either Razer or Ouya, but the news stories I've seen over the last few years says I'd never pay into a Kick Starter.
Who you give your money to is your damned business.
It's like PT Barnum said, there's a sucker born every minute.
Razer has been around for years. Known for making "gaming" peripherals for the PC such as keyboards and mice. They're not running any kickstarter campaign here, they're absorbing some technical talent from a former kickstarter company to do something similar to what that company did. RTFA.
Helped improve race relations? Are you kidding me?! He's just as bad as as the ambulance chasers crazy uncle Al and Jesse. Any opportunity that presents itself to capitalize on some "race related" situation (Baltimore, Ferguson, Travon) he pounces on to keep fanning the flames of hatred for any who are not black.
Seems to me he's purposely trying to prompt a race war, not "improve relations".
Yes, because everything the government touches just blossoms like a rose. Lets pump more tax payer money and government oversight into education. That'll fix it.
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I'll laugh if they trace the IP back to their own Azure cloud system.
they are not bringing sql to linux
No, they're bringing their SQL Server to Linux.
they are not bringing sql to linux
No, they're bringing their SQL Server to Linux.
Thanks capt obvious
The FBI must have needed access to a single dead terrorist's switch.
Wasn't Vista also supposed to drive people from Windows to Linux in droves?
Except that there weren't nearly 2000 linux games available on Steam when Vista released now was there? And now that a lot of these "free" to use engines like Unreal 4 and Unity make it much easier to release your game on the Linux platform its only going to grow. I've been a windows gamer for my entire life. I am looking forward to the day in the near future when I can just dump it for Linux as a gaming platform.
The top 20%tile are paying 90% of the taxes,
Even if that's true, what it means is that the plebes aren't being paid enough to pay taxes. If the richest among us want us to pay more of the taxes, they can pay us more wages.
It's paywalled but you can read the headline and first few lines. http://www.wsj.com/articles/to... Top 20% pay 84% of all taxes and bottom 20% not only DON'T pay taxes but actually get PAID by the IRS. We've had socialist redistribution of wealth in the USA for many years.
His tactics to win an argument include: Threats of lawsuits, flat out lies, insults, and talking over you so that you can't get your own point across
So just like every person on the left? Got it
The interesting question, to me, is whether or not it was actually flying below the treeline. From TFA, the drone's owner presented flight data showing that the drone was not below the treeline, but the man who shot the drone down had two eyewitnesses saying it was lower. If we have altitude readings and video footage, it seems to me those should be able to trump eyewitnesses (assuming that data is complete and not suspect). That's why people are pushing to put bodycams on police, for example.
He shot it with birdshot from a shotgun. If it was above the treeline its doubtful he would have been able to bring it down with such a shot. Hit it? Maybe. But the further the range the less damage and more spread out the birdshot is.
That's probably because you're so enamored with the way you're a complete idiot to see all the other ways of accomplishing the same thing.
Just erect a ton of "radio towers that are a few hundred feet high all over the property. Put flashing lights on them. Let the DEA complain.
Keep moving, or you will get fired? Who is going to hire someone who keeps switching jobs constantly? I'm sure you will be modded to +5 Insightful though.
You obviously haven't been keeping an eye on the job market. There are plenty of places who are looking for 6-12 month contracts to get some new site up and running, or to staff up for some new initiative that may last a couple years then who knows. I've never stayed at any IT job for longer than 3 years, and I have never once had a single hiring manager bring that up as a negative.
The ones you want to work for understand how the market is these days. And believe me, it's a seller's market. Companies are dying to find good IT talent. They realize that "global sourcing" is more like "you get what you pay for" and they want good help quickly. They can't promise they'll still have that need 5 years from now -- who can? -- and don't want to waste each others' time pretending that's not the case.
Even if you did stay at the same place for years, you wouldn't earn what you're worth. They'll pay the new guys a lot more than your yearly increase. So work the system to your favor, and always be the new guy.
This. I was at a company for just over three years, took their lowball offer because at the time I NEEDED a job. But after 3 years in they were still the cheap ass stingy company that hired me and refused to give me any kind of raise or path to higher paying positions. So I found a new job that gave me a 30% raise. The new job wasn't exactly what was explained to me when I was hired, so 10 months into this job I found another one that was. Took another 15% raise from that point. I'm now earning over $40,000 more per year than I was at the original company. All within 1 year of moving on from their cheap asses. Moving can be very beneficial if done right and at the right times.
And now you know why so many question the "science" of the climate change evangelists.
Not every game on Steam requires Steam to be open and logged in to play. There are many that are 100% DRM free. You can literally take the folder, move it and still launch the game even if steam is closed out completely. You just need Steam to install it initially then you can do what you wish with the game. Examples of some of these games: http://steam.wikia.com/wiki/Li... http://pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/T...
Except that neither of those things had any market with PC games. Resell and rentals is a console only thing. This game being cross-platform between PC and consoles, the console versions are affected by this exactly not at all.
How would Gamestop buy it? You would presumably be given a key to activate on Steam in the box. Once activated it's attached to your steam account. The box/DVD becomes worthless, even if the game itself were on the DVD.
Bought a Redhat book with CD's from a book store in the mid to late 90's. Experience was so painful I've been a windows guy since.
OK Capt. AMD. I'm sure that accounts for it right there..cough..shill....cough
Yeah, pretty much no one is impressed by your credentials. Moreover, no one really cares what you'd do. Obviously Valve doesn't give a crap about your opinion since they're not managing their staff the way you do. Looks to me they are way more successful than probably any company you've been with. So good luck with that short man complex you got going on there.
Isn't Mac OSX based off of some variant of Linux/Unix?
Maybe because not every SteamOS install is on a Dell Precision workstation??? Just sayin.
FTFY.
Talk about intolerance and hate. The exact things you accuse people in "The South" of doing. Project much?
or I don't know... why don't you test it and report back to us! lazy ass.
You get what you pay for
You are free to piss away your money on any damned thing you want to.
But, in general, I'd say it's a fair observation that Kick Starter mostly serves to fund people who have an idea, and nothing else ... who may or may not reach their goals, and who will probably still go under, leaving all of your stuff in the hands of an entity you wouldn't have started a business relationship with.
From the stories we see, it really has the hallmarks of a Ponzi scheme as a bunch of guys play the get-rich-quick game by pretending they have a business plan.
I've never heard of either Razer or Ouya, but the news stories I've seen over the last few years says I'd never pay into a Kick Starter.
Who you give your money to is your damned business.
It's like PT Barnum said, there's a sucker born every minute.
Razer has been around for years. Known for making "gaming" peripherals for the PC such as keyboards and mice. They're not running any kickstarter campaign here, they're absorbing some technical talent from a former kickstarter company to do something similar to what that company did. RTFA.
Helped improve race relations? Are you kidding me?! He's just as bad as as the ambulance chasers crazy uncle Al and Jesse. Any opportunity that presents itself to capitalize on some "race related" situation (Baltimore, Ferguson, Travon) he pounces on to keep fanning the flames of hatred for any who are not black. Seems to me he's purposely trying to prompt a race war, not "improve relations".
Yes, because everything the government touches just blossoms like a rose. Lets pump more tax payer money and government oversight into education. That'll fix it.