PVP: a slugflest the outcome of which is basically predetermined from the beginning of the engagement.
No Captain Kirk ramming the crippled ship down the giant evil reefer's maw, no Adama jumping the battlestar into the atmosphere underneath the Cylon over watch, no hiding behind an asteroid, no jamming their comms, no collision damage... no skill or cunning at all. Once someone with a better fit scrams you, you can take your hands of the keyboard and the outcome will be the same.
I should be able to punch a hole in a faction BS in my Velator when entering warp. At 3 AU/sec that BS should vaporize.
So instead of addressing this complete lack of playability, what does CCP do? On no, not fixing the game mechanics. We get walking in stations.
Well (coming for a whippersnapper of a 44 year old) I would suggest:
1) getting some exercise to up your energy level. Take walks at lunch perhaps.
2) using your 55 years of maturity to keep your mouth at key moments shut even when you are right.
3) seeing has how you have been out of work for two years maybe consider a 35% pay "cut" (which to me seems like a 65% pay increase over what you are making now.)
At your (and my) age staying in development means being much better than the young kids (who as you pointed out are much less expensive), maintaining yourself as the "go to guy" which means being approachable but both developers and management, and unfortunately voluntarily giving up many of the decision making that managers have.
Leaving at 3, coping an attitude, and basically felling entitled to a > $100K paycheck just because you were a great Pascal developer in 1991 is simply not going to cut it.
I am at the point of starting a project and going balls to the wall to reverse engineer and produce an OpenCL driver for the OMAP/PowerVR SOC's (gumstix, pandaboard).
The US is also partner in the operations of the ROK/US Combined Forces Command (CFC), an integrated headquarters established in 1978, and is responsible for planning for the defense of the Republic of Korea.
The role of Combined Forces Command (CFC) during the armistice is to deter war. CFC's wartime role is to defeat external aggression. Its mission statement is: "Deter hostile acts of external aggression against the Republic of Korea by a combined military effort of the United States of America and the ROK; and in the event deterrence fails, defeat an external armed attack against the ROK."
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and then one day you get a raging case of the flu..... or simply oversleep.
Getting a decent job is going to be the least of his worries.
However he will be trusted to toss that salad.
Yeah... nobody has ever been busted for timebombing their former employers systems.
PVP: a slugflest the outcome of which is basically predetermined from the beginning of the engagement.
No Captain Kirk ramming the crippled ship down the giant evil reefer's maw, no Adama jumping the battlestar into the atmosphere underneath the Cylon over watch, no hiding behind an asteroid, no jamming their comms, no collision damage... no skill or cunning at all. Once someone with a better fit scrams you, you can take your hands of the keyboard and the outcome will be the same.
I should be able to punch a hole in a faction BS in my Velator when entering warp. At 3 AU/sec that BS should vaporize.
So instead of addressing this complete lack of playability, what does CCP do? On no, not fixing the game mechanics. We get walking in stations.
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Except for in EVE... everyone is a bad guy.
Because.... the bankers simply transfer the funds to an anonymous alt... and then simply don't undock their banker toon for a few weeks.
Silly fool.
Oh well.
Oh BTW, the Stanley Steamer had no transmission at all. Just crank shafts.
The Stanley Steamer engine would run just fine at 2 RPM.
Hey at least we won't have to go invade some country to get it.
Knowing us, we would sell it all to China.
Well (coming for a whippersnapper of a 44 year old) I would suggest:
1) getting some exercise to up your energy level. Take walks at lunch perhaps.
2) using your 55 years of maturity to keep your mouth at key moments shut even when you are right.
3) seeing has how you have been out of work for two years maybe consider a 35% pay "cut" (which to me seems like a 65% pay increase over what you are making now.)
At your (and my) age staying in development means being much better than the young kids (who as you pointed out are much less expensive), maintaining yourself as the "go to guy" which means being approachable but both developers and management, and unfortunately voluntarily giving up many of the decision making that managers have.
Leaving at 3, coping an attitude, and basically felling entitled to a > $100K paycheck just because you were a great Pascal developer in 1991 is simply not going to cut it.
After all I want sauce, and those golden eggs are a pain in the ass.
Asshole.
You made yourself an "EasyTarget" for that one. Harharhar.
>> The keyboard mouse LCD combo could still conceivably remain on the desk..
Yes, this would be convenient when one wants to type.
They made lots nice of smoking holes in the ground in Iraq... before they all decided to defect to Iran.
...I have to admit they are right (in this case).
Not that being right gives them the right to destroy.
I am at the point of starting a project and going balls to the wall to reverse engineer and produce an OpenCL driver for the OMAP/PowerVR SOC's (gumstix, pandaboard).
>> Why would someone write a virus that is targeted at 10% of the user base when they can target 90?
Because they are an asshole?
Springs are not legs. Hence, he should not compete against athletes with legs.
There should be another class for athletes like him.
Perhaps also an open class, that allows any enhancements once can think of: drugs, surgery, doping, springs... game on.
Would have been a much better ending.
I find it kind of warm in here....
Apes have already taken over the planet, you insensitive fool!
Horseshit.
The US is also partner in the operations of the ROK/US Combined Forces Command (CFC), an integrated headquarters established in 1978, and is responsible for planning for the defense of the Republic of Korea.
The role of Combined Forces Command (CFC) during the armistice is to deter war. CFC's wartime role is to defeat external aggression. Its mission statement is: "Deter hostile acts of external aggression against the Republic of Korea by a combined military effort of the United States of America and the ROK; and in the event deterrence fails, defeat an external armed attack against the ROK."
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/agency/dod/usfk.htm
and they will be cast as the Evil Empire as Microsoft was.
They are ready are, quite heavily.