That happens way too rarely to register in risk assessment and management. Look at Sony and how many blunders they had. And? Not even a dent in the sales.
Legal punishment is the only one that is reliable enough to make corporations care. Because it WILL happen, there is no uncertainty involved.
You may trust me on this one: The average "leftist" is about as fed up and pissed about those self styled professional victims as the average "rightist" is about the religious nutjobs.
Yes, they exist. Yes, they piss me off. Fringe groups exist in both political camps. Get used to them. The quicker you ignore them, the faster they probably will go away.
Sadly, we can no longer point to the right and claim that only you have loonies with no grasp of reality in your ranks. We now have them too.
As long as you don't get punished for carelessly losing customer data, it's not a liability. At best it's something you can sell. At worst it's something you don't give a fuck about.
This is exactly the problem we're in today: We lack money on the demand side and have an overwhelming surplus of money on the supply side.
There is a lot of money begging to be invested. The interest rates alone are a dead giveaway. We're a hair from "you have to pay us to take your money and park it", i.e. negative interest. Actually, at the refinance side, we have arrived there already. People who have capital are almost willing to back ANYTHING that could look like it might at some point in the future actually mature. That's also the reason why the real estate market is still in a huge bubble. And the next big problem is that any actual recovery of the economy would make that bubble pop instantly, because as soon as there is actually an economy to invest in, real estate prices will plummet again.
It pains me to say it, but we somehow need to get money into the hands of the idiots. Idiots buy bling. And that's exactly what we need now. We need people too stupid to fix their own shit so they have to hire people, from mechanics to bricklayers to carpenters and so on, to do shit for them. We don't need more production, we need consumption. Yes, consumption. We need more idiots stuffing their face with greasy hamburgers and dying an early death. We need people wasting their life at the mall. Our economy depends on people having disposable income.
We need people who have spending money. The more people, the better. Because if it's only a few, they will not spend it all. And we need to spend it all. We have a ton of money on the supply side wanting to be invested, but no businesses to invest in because there is nobody to buy whatever those businesses would sell. We need people who can buy.
Sheet protectors. They also help organizing the charsheets in a binder. That way you can also put the sheet on the table without fearing spills and stuff (unless you have to take it out to write on it.
You can also use whiteboard marker to write right on the protectors for temporary marks (like ticking off HP boxes or the like), and wipe it with a tissue after the evening.
It's easy to roll dice silently. How? By rolling them constantly. Keep talking and every now and then grab a few dice and roll them. The first 1-2 evenings your players will sit at the edge of their seat, thinking that something important is happening, or they start searching every stone in the dungeon wall whenever you reach for the dice 'cause they think they failed a trap check.
Just tell them when they ask why you rolled the dice that you felt like it and loved their reaction. They will NEVER EVER get tipped off by you casually rolling a few dice.
The same goes for combat rolls and calculations. Guess what (and don't tell my players): I cheat. Yes, I do. 9 out of 10 times, the moment they sit down at my table, the game is already done. And most of the time won, unless they get too careless and cocky and need to find out that sometimes the dragon wins. Ok, we don't play D&D, usually it's some highly political drama with more emphasis on telling a story, and you usually die from making the wrong kind of enemy without having the right kind of friend to back you up, rather than from some freak dice roll, but in the end, it works the same way and for the same reason: Nothing is more frustrating than wasting an old character due to a freak dice accident.
The same applies to you as a GM. You have prepared a scene and some of the things you have to do rely on dice rolling? Be prepared for this ancient treasure of laughter:
"The assassin steps out of the shadows and attacks you. He (rolls) hits (rolls)... himself... (rolls)... critically... (rolls)... and dies."
With a hint of bad luck that was the NPC that supposedly should have been subdued by the characters, who would then learn who hired him to kill them... and so on. Now you're sitting there without a story. Effin' great.
Or, as a friend and long time player of mine put it, "When you take the dice, it's time to relax because nothing important ever came out of a dice roll with you." It's true. I prefer my players to carve their fate due to their actions. Not because they happen to have bad luck with their dice at the wrong moment.
Personally, I'd feel this takes away an important element of the game. Sure, nobody likes playing down endless hours of roll-playing, but rolling those dice and watching them as they land and decide your fate, calculating and hoping that it will eventually come up with enough damage to slay the dragon (and not enough to end your character's life) is part of the whole experience, as is players and GM describing what's happening and finding ways to describe the roll result in game terms.
Just hacking down a fight in an app with the GM going "Ok, you engage the dragon... and after 9 fight rounds you win, you lose 64 HP, you lost 44 and you 23, write down thisorthatmany XP and whatevermany gold pieces, and (push button on the app) your loot is (turns phone around so players see the list of items)..."
That's kinda NOT what I want in my RP. If I want that, I don't need to assemble friends and enjoy the smell of Red Bull and nachos for a whole evening, I get to turn on my PC and play Skyrim.
This is actually going to be the real problem here.
Retiring Vista is no biggie. I don't know anyone who didn't immediately replace Vista with Seven as soon as it became available. On the other hand, I can also not name that many people who replaced 7 with 8 once that hit the market. Even with 8.1, the amount of people who made the switch is rather low. And I know a lot of people and companies, myself and my company included, that rely heavily on Win7 even today. On the other hand, I do not know any large companies that embraced Win8/8.1 in any way and the acceptance of Win10 so far is, at best, lukewarm, at worst hostile with a big "when hell freezes over" stamp from the CISO.
More recently our development department even started to look around for a replacement of VS15, with the Telemetry blunder in VS15SP2 the switch to VS17 is not a given as it was in the years before from 10 to 13 and to 15. And I dare say we're not alone. CISOs talk. And I'm not the only one who is very unhappy with the direction Microsoft is heading. A simple Win10 rollout as it had been in the past with MS systems where the main concern was whether the key applications will run on the new platform will certainly not happen. This will at the very least include a lengthy and probably quite costly security audit as well. And not even whether it's secure against someone breaking in, more concerning the data that leaves the machine towards Redmond.
You can see that reflected in changes in bidding catalogs as well. More and more you find demands that software development has to be "OS agnostic" or they demand outright that a client has to be provided for Windows and Linux. My guess is that quite a few companies that I have to deal with are at the very least pondering whether it might be possible to think about considering leaving the Windows platform.
Psychopath, not sociopath. You needn't go out of your way to make the life of others miserable to be a good CEO. You just mustn't give a fuck about it.
Every time you may ask yourself "is that morally justifiable", the psychopath has already done it. And he doesn't even understand what to contemplate about.
Our system reinforces that behaviour. You're better off as a psychopath in such a position. Corporations are intelligence without conscience. The closer you are to this yourself, the better you function in such a system.
First and foremost, how long do you play your characters? If the answer is "maybe a year or two, tops", it may be ok. If you have characters that date back ten and more years, you might want to consider that your phone or iPod most likely won't last that long. Can you transfer that character sheet at all? What if your phone gets stolen or breaks? Are you prepared to lose a character you've been playing for years and grew attached to because technology croaks?
And then there's that other aspect. The character sheets that are so old that the sheet itself is already at +2 for the thousands of times you erased HPs and rewrote them, the different pencils used that tell the story and tell even more of the time it took to gain your treasures and equipment and yes, even the various stains the sheet accumulates over the years, where the level of a character can already be deduced by the state the char sheet is in.
I don't really think I'd want to replace that with a phone app. Not to mention that people fiddling with their phone during RPG night are already annoying as fuck anyway.
You want to be represented? No problem there, dump your Turkish allegiance and become Dutch. Or German for that matter. It's actually quite easy, way easier than in other countries.
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That happens way too rarely to register in risk assessment and management. Look at Sony and how many blunders they had. And? Not even a dent in the sales.
Legal punishment is the only one that is reliable enough to make corporations care. Because it WILL happen, there is no uncertainty involved.
It's kinky if you use a feather during sex.
But perverted if you use the whole penguin.
It's more a matter of frequency. I mean, you get some leaked CIA documents every other week and they tell the shocking tale that the CIA spies on you.
But a Disney service shutting down, you don't see that every day!
Is it too early for a Michael Jackson joke?
Being fisted by the invisible hand ... sounds like it's straight out of some hentai.
Wait, you should offer CANDY?
No wonder I can't get laid. :(
You may trust me on this one: The average "leftist" is about as fed up and pissed about those self styled professional victims as the average "rightist" is about the religious nutjobs.
Yes, they exist. Yes, they piss me off. Fringe groups exist in both political camps. Get used to them. The quicker you ignore them, the faster they probably will go away.
Sadly, we can no longer point to the right and claim that only you have loonies with no grasp of reality in your ranks. We now have them too.
As long as you don't get punished for carelessly losing customer data, it's not a liability. At best it's something you can sell. At worst it's something you don't give a fuck about.
*sniff*
If only Mielke could be alive and see how much we learned from him and how we improved beyond his wildest dreams.
It's Samsung. Why should their Webpage be more current than their products?
Last time I checked the RIAA isn't art. Neither is a newspaper.
They may transport art, and they are replaced by a new medium that does it better.
I fail to see the story here.
This is exactly the problem we're in today: We lack money on the demand side and have an overwhelming surplus of money on the supply side.
There is a lot of money begging to be invested. The interest rates alone are a dead giveaway. We're a hair from "you have to pay us to take your money and park it", i.e. negative interest. Actually, at the refinance side, we have arrived there already. People who have capital are almost willing to back ANYTHING that could look like it might at some point in the future actually mature. That's also the reason why the real estate market is still in a huge bubble. And the next big problem is that any actual recovery of the economy would make that bubble pop instantly, because as soon as there is actually an economy to invest in, real estate prices will plummet again.
It pains me to say it, but we somehow need to get money into the hands of the idiots. Idiots buy bling. And that's exactly what we need now. We need people too stupid to fix their own shit so they have to hire people, from mechanics to bricklayers to carpenters and so on, to do shit for them. We don't need more production, we need consumption. Yes, consumption. We need more idiots stuffing their face with greasy hamburgers and dying an early death. We need people wasting their life at the mall. Our economy depends on people having disposable income.
We need people who have spending money. The more people, the better. Because if it's only a few, they will not spend it all. And we need to spend it all. We have a ton of money on the supply side wanting to be invested, but no businesses to invest in because there is nobody to buy whatever those businesses would sell. We need people who can buy.
We need way, way more money on the demand side.
Sheet protectors. They also help organizing the charsheets in a binder. That way you can also put the sheet on the table without fearing spills and stuff (unless you have to take it out to write on it.
You can also use whiteboard marker to write right on the protectors for temporary marks (like ticking off HP boxes or the like), and wipe it with a tissue after the evening.
It's easy to roll dice silently. How? By rolling them constantly. Keep talking and every now and then grab a few dice and roll them. The first 1-2 evenings your players will sit at the edge of their seat, thinking that something important is happening, or they start searching every stone in the dungeon wall whenever you reach for the dice 'cause they think they failed a trap check.
Just tell them when they ask why you rolled the dice that you felt like it and loved their reaction. They will NEVER EVER get tipped off by you casually rolling a few dice.
The same goes for combat rolls and calculations. Guess what (and don't tell my players): I cheat. Yes, I do. 9 out of 10 times, the moment they sit down at my table, the game is already done. And most of the time won, unless they get too careless and cocky and need to find out that sometimes the dragon wins. Ok, we don't play D&D, usually it's some highly political drama with more emphasis on telling a story, and you usually die from making the wrong kind of enemy without having the right kind of friend to back you up, rather than from some freak dice roll, but in the end, it works the same way and for the same reason: Nothing is more frustrating than wasting an old character due to a freak dice accident.
The same applies to you as a GM. You have prepared a scene and some of the things you have to do rely on dice rolling? Be prepared for this ancient treasure of laughter:
"The assassin steps out of the shadows and attacks you. He (rolls) hits (rolls) ... himself ... (rolls) ... critically ... (rolls) ... and dies."
With a hint of bad luck that was the NPC that supposedly should have been subdued by the characters, who would then learn who hired him to kill them... and so on. Now you're sitting there without a story. Effin' great.
Or, as a friend and long time player of mine put it, "When you take the dice, it's time to relax because nothing important ever came out of a dice roll with you." It's true. I prefer my players to carve their fate due to their actions. Not because they happen to have bad luck with their dice at the wrong moment.
Personally, I'd feel this takes away an important element of the game. Sure, nobody likes playing down endless hours of roll-playing, but rolling those dice and watching them as they land and decide your fate, calculating and hoping that it will eventually come up with enough damage to slay the dragon (and not enough to end your character's life) is part of the whole experience, as is players and GM describing what's happening and finding ways to describe the roll result in game terms.
Just hacking down a fight in an app with the GM going "Ok, you engage the dragon ... and after 9 fight rounds you win, you lose 64 HP, you lost 44 and you 23, write down thisorthatmany XP and whatevermany gold pieces, and (push button on the app) your loot is (turns phone around so players see the list of items)..."
That's kinda NOT what I want in my RP. If I want that, I don't need to assemble friends and enjoy the smell of Red Bull and nachos for a whole evening, I get to turn on my PC and play Skyrim.
This is actually going to be the real problem here.
Retiring Vista is no biggie. I don't know anyone who didn't immediately replace Vista with Seven as soon as it became available. On the other hand, I can also not name that many people who replaced 7 with 8 once that hit the market. Even with 8.1, the amount of people who made the switch is rather low. And I know a lot of people and companies, myself and my company included, that rely heavily on Win7 even today. On the other hand, I do not know any large companies that embraced Win8/8.1 in any way and the acceptance of Win10 so far is, at best, lukewarm, at worst hostile with a big "when hell freezes over" stamp from the CISO.
More recently our development department even started to look around for a replacement of VS15, with the Telemetry blunder in VS15SP2 the switch to VS17 is not a given as it was in the years before from 10 to 13 and to 15. And I dare say we're not alone. CISOs talk. And I'm not the only one who is very unhappy with the direction Microsoft is heading. A simple Win10 rollout as it had been in the past with MS systems where the main concern was whether the key applications will run on the new platform will certainly not happen. This will at the very least include a lengthy and probably quite costly security audit as well. And not even whether it's secure against someone breaking in, more concerning the data that leaves the machine towards Redmond.
You can see that reflected in changes in bidding catalogs as well. More and more you find demands that software development has to be "OS agnostic" or they demand outright that a client has to be provided for Windows and Linux. My guess is that quite a few companies that I have to deal with are at the very least pondering whether it might be possible to think about considering leaving the Windows platform.
I agree, your computer looks clean.
Though I would change that background image, every time I use it as a jump host to do my ... work I get kinda distracted by the babe.
Well, to Vista's defense, it was equally easy to replace it with Win7 as it was to replace it with Ubuntu Linux.
Psychopath, not sociopath. You needn't go out of your way to make the life of others miserable to be a good CEO. You just mustn't give a fuck about it.
Don't be silly, who'd vote for someone like that?
I mean, imagine just how insanely awful the alternative has to be to make people vote for something like that!
Care to explain the difference?
Every time you may ask yourself "is that morally justifiable", the psychopath has already done it. And he doesn't even understand what to contemplate about.
Our system reinforces that behaviour. You're better off as a psychopath in such a position. Corporations are intelligence without conscience. The closer you are to this yourself, the better you function in such a system.
For so many reasons.
First and foremost, how long do you play your characters? If the answer is "maybe a year or two, tops", it may be ok. If you have characters that date back ten and more years, you might want to consider that your phone or iPod most likely won't last that long. Can you transfer that character sheet at all? What if your phone gets stolen or breaks? Are you prepared to lose a character you've been playing for years and grew attached to because technology croaks?
And then there's that other aspect. The character sheets that are so old that the sheet itself is already at +2 for the thousands of times you erased HPs and rewrote them, the different pencils used that tell the story and tell even more of the time it took to gain your treasures and equipment and yes, even the various stains the sheet accumulates over the years, where the level of a character can already be deduced by the state the char sheet is in.
I don't really think I'd want to replace that with a phone app. Not to mention that people fiddling with their phone during RPG night are already annoying as fuck anyway.
You want to be represented? No problem there, dump your Turkish allegiance and become Dutch. Or German for that matter. It's actually quite easy, way easier than in other countries.
Welcome to the post-factual times.
What you say needn't conform with reality. All that matters is how it makes people feel.