Not that I'm trying to exonerate the PHBs of the world, but having a good leader who is able to focus a team towards a goal, and more specificially a financially worth while goal all while maintaining motiviation and finishing with a polished execution is so very far from trying to exert the least amount of energy.
Business people and bosses aren't inherently lazy by nature - you've just got a bad one.
I oft wonder why posts about BitCoin get marked negatively so fast. While the above post is nothing but opinion - what makes that opinion any less valid than if I said, "BitCoin is a great, anonymous way to spend money on illicit substances."
Grow up, slashmods. People can have dissenting opinions.
It's fine and dandy to rebel against it, but like it or not Facebook provides a service (centralizing communication, sharing and event planing) and all they charge is your consent to farm your information. Failing to recognize Facebook's utilities in a sorry attempt at wit doesn't make you cool - it makes you a hipster.
I don't like facebook, I don't have an account. But seriously - Facebook is good for people who want social interaction at the expense of privacy. No more, no less.
I'm having trouble finding a news story for it, so this will be anecdotal and uncited, sorry.
Cameras in my town (near Philadelphia, PA) have been shot, run over and set on fire. I've heard of similar happenings in Texas so it wouldn't surprise me. And as further evidence that you either over estimate how responsible people are or under estimate how willing they are to protect their love of speeding our cousins across the pond in the UK have taken to destorying their Orwellian amount of surveilance cameras by the hundreds per week.
Exactly which part of you assumes that the multi-billionaire who managed to keep an iron-fisted control of his multi-billion dollar company during its IPO threw shrewed legal and financial means is going to lose any of it to his wife and not the thousands of investors who do that for a living?
... actually on second thought -- they were living together in California before they got married? In that great state, she would claim they had a verbal agreement to split assets... then I could tell you that what she would "get" is directly proportional to how good her lawyers are (so you know, the usual.)
The fact that it took testing to prove what should have been expected is the sad part.
That my friend, is the scientific process. Can't fault them for that. As much as I agree that this is too little too late I don't think if I was some mid-senior level employee at a multinational multimillion dollar business that I would make a decision on this scale without a focus group to blame it on. That's a problem with business in general and not just Ubisoft.
Though they still suck it, and how, I'll reserve my excitment until I see a little more headway in the right direction from them in the form of good games and _no_ DRM, because that's what I want.
Don't mistake me here - I would rather have open source any day of the week. But I'd like to see statistics showing the "shelf-life" of FOSS software versus closed, paid-for-software.. I'd be genuinely curious if more usage is gotten out of community supported tools over closed-source.
it will be around as long as someone capable of maintaining needs it.
I think that kind of says it right there... it just happens to be that money is a great motivator for people maintaining things.
They responded to a passage from asked to agree or disagree to a passage
Good thing the editors were not involved in this study. They would have had to read the passage... and then respond to a passage from asked to agree or disagree to a passage.
As the global telecom guru for a Fortune 500 I max my bench at 350 while weighing 170 and I've just recently got my squat to 505. Some people geek out over numbers in D&D and some geek out over what an extra 2g of glutamine will do in a post workout drink.
I thought it was about Rocky and Drago, a scrappy underdog hockey team, Patrick Swayze's guerilla warfare outfit, Tom Clancy's career and a few CoD:MW games. Damn you pop culture! You failed me again.
What makes you think that any competent (and I know it's popular to assume that they're not, but that's asinine) law enforcement wouldn't more prefer to get the IP and time information that each Tweet was posted from if that was the case? How many times and how many people have been tracked down through this method?
I think it's safe to assume this guy wasn't using a proxy even to mask his location. Not that he should have to, but if you want what you're talking about it should be done.
But that would make a really good YouTube video. You and David debating this in the middle of a 1 lane highway with a 18 wheeler bearing down on you at full tilt. It's the only way we'll settle this argument. With everyone dead.
At least my hypothetical non-sense has more of a chance of happening than BitCoin./rimshot
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Not that I'm trying to exonerate the PHBs of the world, but having a good leader who is able to focus a team towards a goal, and more specificially a financially worth while goal all while maintaining motiviation and finishing with a polished execution is so very far from trying to exert the least amount of energy.
Business people and bosses aren't inherently lazy by nature - you've just got a bad one.
I oft wonder why posts about BitCoin get marked negatively so fast. While the above post is nothing but opinion - what makes that opinion any less valid than if I said, "BitCoin is a great, anonymous way to spend money on illicit substances."
Grow up, slashmods. People can have dissenting opinions.
A social life.
It's fine and dandy to rebel against it, but like it or not Facebook provides a service (centralizing communication, sharing and event planing) and all they charge is your consent to farm your information. Failing to recognize Facebook's utilities in a sorry attempt at wit doesn't make you cool - it makes you a hipster.
I don't like facebook, I don't have an account. But seriously - Facebook is good for people who want social interaction at the expense of privacy. No more, no less.
Knees and toes... knees and toes?
/duck
I'm having trouble finding a news story for it, so this will be anecdotal and uncited, sorry.
Cameras in my town (near Philadelphia, PA) have been shot, run over and set on fire. I've heard of similar happenings in Texas so it wouldn't surprise me. And as further evidence that you either over estimate how responsible people are or under estimate how willing they are to protect their love of speeding our cousins across the pond in the UK have taken to destorying their Orwellian amount of surveilance cameras by the hundreds per week.
http://www.thenewspaper.com/news/28/2849.asp
The greatest trick the troll pulled was ... goatse?
First of all, I can't unsee what goatse was pulling.
Exactly which part of you assumes that the multi-billionaire who managed to keep an iron-fisted control of his multi-billion dollar company during its IPO threw shrewed legal and financial means is going to lose any of it to his wife and not the thousands of investors who do that for a living?
... actually on second thought -- they were living together in California before they got married? In that great state, she would claim they had a verbal agreement to split assets... then I could tell you that what she would "get" is directly proportional to how good her lawyers are (so you know, the usual.)
My fault, I modded it "Funny" thinking he was sarcastic. Posting to undo that.
The fact that it took testing to prove what should have been expected is the sad part.
That my friend, is the scientific process. Can't fault them for that. As much as I agree that this is too little too late I don't think if I was some mid-senior level employee at a multinational multimillion dollar business that I would make a decision on this scale without a focus group to blame it on. That's a problem with business in general and not just Ubisoft.
Though they still suck it, and how, I'll reserve my excitment until I see a little more headway in the right direction from them in the form of good games and _no_ DRM, because that's what I want.
it will be around as long as someone capable of maintaining needs it.
I think that kind of says it right there... it just happens to be that money is a great motivator for people maintaining things.
My Motorcycle gets 90mpg despite being 5 years old. Efficiency at it's finest.
No, that's my brother, Crazy-Talk. We're all a little worried about him.
http://www.lardlad.com/assets/quotes/season11/BABF13.shtml
C-C-C-C-C-Combo Breaker!
They responded to a passage from asked to agree or disagree to a passage
Good thing the editors were not involved in this study. They would have had to read the passage... and then respond to a passage from asked to agree or disagree to a passage.
I mean, honestly.
As the global telecom guru for a Fortune 500 I max my bench at 350 while weighing 170 and I've just recently got my squat to 505. Some people geek out over numbers in D&D and some geek out over what an extra 2g of glutamine will do in a post workout drink.
/rant
Let's grow up, shall we?
What?! It's evolving...
Congratulations! Your E.Coli evolved into MoreFundingForLenski.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._coli_long-term_evolution_experiment
I thought it was about Rocky and Drago, a scrappy underdog hockey team, Patrick Swayze's guerilla warfare outfit, Tom Clancy's career and a few CoD:MW games. Damn you pop culture! You failed me again.
3) Punishing your own clients and making it public has never ammounted to a great business strategy.
*checks Sony's stock price*
Looks fine to me.
He's helping them test it. It doesn't say he currently uses it. RTFA or even the summary, please.
Damn it. Now I've got indignation blue-balls. Quick, I need something else to be pissed off about.
Won't you please think of the children!
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There you go, that'll keep any red-blooded
What makes you think that any competent (and I know it's popular to assume that they're not, but that's asinine) law enforcement wouldn't more prefer to get the IP and time information that each Tweet was posted from if that was the case? How many times and how many people have been tracked down through this method?
I think it's safe to assume this guy wasn't using a proxy even to mask his location. Not that he should have to, but if you want what you're talking about it should be done.
Anyway the 1st amendment applies to the government, not to private companies. Why do so many people seem to not understand that?
Because they seem to get most of the other protections and rights that a person would, why not speech too? /sarcasm
Name a currency that isn't.
But that would make a really good YouTube video. You and David debating this in the middle of a 1 lane highway with a 18 wheeler bearing down on you at full tilt. It's the only way we'll settle this argument. With everyone dead.
/rimshot
At least my hypothetical non-sense has more of a chance of happening than BitCoin.
Does Ending a Headline in a Question Mark Signify Poor Writing?
Your mind has been blown.