"Most visited" means shit. A crap older story might be visited more than a very interesting story from last month. Focus on "most commented" instead, because comments are disabled after a while.
That's why I was talking about the freedom the Average Joe has - which is the freedom to do things Average Joes do - aka "not politics". Like being able to drink in a bar all night long, rather than have a curfew at 2 AM.
You forgot the women, mate. And the tsuica. (diacritics won't work) And the freedom. Believe it or not, Romania offers more freedom to the Average Joe than the USA does.
We're assuming it's languages affecting mindset. I'm not saying it isn't, but my truly non-professional gut feeling says language is affected by culture and environment, not the other way around.
I never said anything about stopping you from any vices, God forbid. I'm an avid gamer myself. It was all about being able to discuss them, and you can't discuss them unless you have enough data to pit them against each other and see which one is more likely to fuck you up.
Sure we, either personally or as society as a whole, have problems with addictions to other things and they can be terribly destructive, but bringing them into a discussion about the problems caused specifically by addiction to video gaming is a distraction.
Au contraire, my friend. We need to acknowledge, compare, sort, prioritize, then act on ALL of them, according to their final classification, therefore bringing other addictions into a discussion about a particular addiction, if done properly, could help realize the subject at hand is less important than others.
Everyone speaking the same language AND being on the same page is a HUUUGE assumption. The Declaration of Independence alone proves your assumption wrong.
" focused on privacy, security and ease of use" - oh, nice. I got the latest ISO, fired up VirtualBOX, created a new "Other Linux x64" machine, mounted the ISO and started it up in live mode. Got this: https://imgur.com/lzRMgga
I'm sorry but if the bloody thing doesn't even manage to start in live mode, then "ease of use" isn't really a feature, is it?
Installing it on a virtual HDD worked though, so I'll play with it but already found out that sound doesn't work - there's no audio output.
Actually, there are a number of games which implemented loot boxes the right way. Couple more prominent examples: 1. Path of Exile with their Mystery Boxes: these loot boxes cost 30c a piece (which is equal to 3 dollars), and the buyer is guaranteed that the item in the loot box would not cost less than 30c, with the average value of the item in the loot box being 110c (11 dollars). So no matter what you find in the box, you still gain. Sure, there's a chance of duplicates but you can use those items on multiple characters, for example. 2. World of Tanks currently has an event going which gives you Holidays-related loot boxes. The largest package contains 75 boxes and costs 90 Euro, and you are guaranteed to gain more value from the loot boxes than the amount you spend. I was gifted a large box and gained 30K gold (which alone costs 100 Euro), about 7M credits, a large selection of other in-game items (garage slots, repair kits, decorations, etc) and a couple Tier 4 premium tanks which I didn't own. A friend of mine bought two large packages and got 3 Tier 4 tanks, 2 Tier 8 tanks, 65K gold, 15M credits and many other in-game items.
If you're guaranteed to win more than you spend, only you don't know what exactly would you win, is it still considered gambling? I don't know, but it certainly feels more fair than other implementations of this game mechanic.
Here's an idea which actually helps customers: Offer a battery replacement at approved locations with the customer only paying for the price of a new battery. I would take my phone there, have the battery replaced, pay for the new battery and off I go. Customers are happy.
Note: I don't own anything Apple-related and I probably never will.
Define "playing". Look, the parallels you are drawing are not parallels at all. Apples and oranges.
"The right time" for cashing out was, so far, pretty much "every day". The ones who cling to it hoping to get even higher are greedy - and yes greed can make one stupid.
I envy you, man, you're so lucky. in my case it's quite the other way around. 90% is crap I don't care about and 10% is crap I already looked at and/or bought already.
Uuuuuhhhh, so aggressive. Maybe, just maybe they were smarter than you and now they're cashing out like there's no tomorrow on account of the large mass of Average Joes buying BTC at very high prices, in which case who should not be employed in any capacity beyond desktop support?
Nah, he only wanted to pay him X BTC every month, where X is the amount of BTC the rent is worth at that moment. So in terms of Euro (which my rent is due to be paid in) there would be no difference anyway.
My landlord knows I work in IT and offered to take my rent in bitcoin. I told him I don't own any. Amazon doesn't accept bitcoin but many other online stores do. Coinmap will help you: https://coinmap.org/welcome/
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At least you know they raised interest.
"Most visited" means shit. A crap older story might be visited more than a very interesting story from last month.
Focus on "most commented" instead, because comments are disabled after a while.
That's why I was talking about the freedom the Average Joe has - which is the freedom to do things Average Joes do - aka "not politics".
Like being able to drink in a bar all night long, rather than have a curfew at 2 AM.
You forgot the women, mate.
And the tsuica. (diacritics won't work)
And the freedom. Believe it or not, Romania offers more freedom to the Average Joe than the USA does.
...which makes me even more wary of dealing with them.
We're assuming it's languages affecting mindset. I'm not saying it isn't, but my truly non-professional gut feeling says language is affected by culture and environment, not the other way around.
I never said anything about stopping you from any vices, God forbid. I'm an avid gamer myself.
It was all about being able to discuss them, and you can't discuss them unless you have enough data to pit them against each other and see which one is more likely to fuck you up.
About that... I'm wondering when "spending time with me" became the norm, the standard?
Sure we, either personally or as society as a whole, have problems with addictions to other things and they can be terribly destructive, but bringing them into a discussion about the problems caused specifically by addiction to video gaming is a distraction.
Au contraire, my friend. We need to acknowledge, compare, sort, prioritize, then act on ALL of them, according to their final classification, therefore bringing other addictions into a discussion about a particular addiction, if done properly, could help realize the subject at hand is less important than others.
So 8 Nazi can't use Linux because of a division by zero exception?
An opacity slider??? On a dialogue window???
(goes off, mumbling "I gotta implement that! I gotta...")
I can accept that if everyone spoke one language that we might not advance as a species as quickly.
Why not?
Everyone speaking the same language AND being on the same page is a HUUUGE assumption.
The Declaration of Independence alone proves your assumption wrong.
Is culture defined by language, is language defined by culture or both?
" focused on privacy, security and ease of use" - oh, nice.
I got the latest ISO, fired up VirtualBOX, created a new "Other Linux x64" machine, mounted the ISO and started it up in live mode.
Got this:
https://imgur.com/lzRMgga
I'm sorry but if the bloody thing doesn't even manage to start in live mode, then "ease of use" isn't really a feature, is it?
Installing it on a virtual HDD worked though, so I'll play with it but already found out that sound doesn't work - there's no audio output.
Actually, there are a number of games which implemented loot boxes the right way. Couple more prominent examples:
1. Path of Exile with their Mystery Boxes: these loot boxes cost 30c a piece (which is equal to 3 dollars), and the buyer is guaranteed that the item in the loot box would not cost less than 30c, with the average value of the item in the loot box being 110c (11 dollars). So no matter what you find in the box, you still gain. Sure, there's a chance of duplicates but you can use those items on multiple characters, for example.
2. World of Tanks currently has an event going which gives you Holidays-related loot boxes. The largest package contains 75 boxes and costs 90 Euro, and you are guaranteed to gain more value from the loot boxes than the amount you spend. I was gifted a large box and gained 30K gold (which alone costs 100 Euro), about 7M credits, a large selection of other in-game items (garage slots, repair kits, decorations, etc) and a couple Tier 4 premium tanks which I didn't own. A friend of mine bought two large packages and got 3 Tier 4 tanks, 2 Tier 8 tanks, 65K gold, 15M credits and many other in-game items.
If you're guaranteed to win more than you spend, only you don't know what exactly would you win, is it still considered gambling? I don't know, but it certainly feels more fair than other implementations of this game mechanic.
Here's an idea which actually helps customers:
Offer a battery replacement at approved locations with the customer only paying for the price of a new battery. I would take my phone there, have the battery replaced, pay for the new battery and off I go.
Customers are happy.
Note: I don't own anything Apple-related and I probably never will.
Define "playing".
Look, the parallels you are drawing are not parallels at all. Apples and oranges.
"The right time" for cashing out was, so far, pretty much "every day". The ones who cling to it hoping to get even higher are greedy - and yes greed can make one stupid.
I envy you, man, you're so lucky. in my case it's quite the other way around. 90% is crap I don't care about and 10% is crap I already looked at and/or bought already.
Uuuuuhhhh, so aggressive.
Maybe, just maybe they were smarter than you and now they're cashing out like there's no tomorrow on account of the large mass of Average Joes buying BTC at very high prices, in which case who should not be employed in any capacity beyond desktop support?
Uhm, you might want to reconsider that statement. Could be academic though as the exosphere impacts particles only, but it still has some influence.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Yeah I know, Wikipedia but I can't be arsed to refer technical articles. Wiki would get you started though.
Nah, he only wanted to pay him X BTC every month, where X is the amount of BTC the rent is worth at that moment. So in terms of Euro (which my rent is due to be paid in) there would be no difference anyway.
My landlord knows I work in IT and offered to take my rent in bitcoin. I told him I don't own any.
Amazon doesn't accept bitcoin but many other online stores do. Coinmap will help you: https://coinmap.org/welcome/
The ISS is tiny compared to a solar collector, I guess in the range of "two magnitudes smaller".
No wind or friction in space
I suggest you look up "solar wind", "atmosphere density at high altitudes" and "Coronal Mass Ejections".