Microsoft didn't even allow you to install any other OS. Instead, their security was so completely shot that they could not keep you from doing so.
Don't trust a company to keep their promises. Instead rely on their security record, or lack thereof, to be unable to keep you from fulfilling your own wishes.
Then again, US logistics is a lot more complicated and expensive than Russian. As a friend of mine and former GDR soldier said "Never ever go to war with Russia. Russians are nuts! The Russian soldier needs three things to fight until the death: A loaf of bread, a side of bacon and a direction."
1. nation. 2. often misattributed as a prefix for a type of music endemic to culturally impoverished areas of the Southern US; properly the prefix for this type of music is “shitty-.”
Theorycrafting existed a LONG time before WoW infested the MMO world. Its name comes more from the fact that crafting was a tedious, boring chore in most games that usually consisted of first calculating long lists of ingredients with different places to get them from, factoring in the time it takes to acquire them and eventually staring at the screen for a few minutes watching a progress bar move. Theorycrafting isn't that different from this fun pastime.
Once you start theorycrafting, you stop playing the game. You start gaming the game. Whether this is fun is very debatable.
They all cover roughly 15-20 years. Boomers span post-war to the early/mid of the 60s, GenX go from there to the late 70s/early 80s and millennial go from there to the late 90s. The Post-Millenials will probably end around now, what we'll christen the next generation, well, I don't know yet. Those generations are only labeled long after they reach maturity. The "Greatest Generation (~1900-1924) got their name in the 1920s, after all. So I'd even dare to say that GenY, maybe even GenX is more a placeholder for whatever it will be called in hindsight.
In the end, what matters is what the generations will be known for. GenX is the first generation that had access to affordable home computers. GenY the first generation to grow up with the internet, and the current youth the first to be under constant surveillance not only by their parents but also, well, everyone, from government to corporations.
You can see this in their behaviour and stance towards privacy concerns. GenX generally fails to see the appeal of tools that let you tell the world how your latest dump was, GenY embraces it and GenZ, while easily able to adopt anything and everything related to the internet, does pause and ponder the privacy implications more than GenY does.
None of the stuff in the phones is "lost". It's not like those phones are sent off planet. They're sent to a dump. And it's less commercially viable to "mine" these elements there than from the natural deposit.
At some point in the future, when extracting those materials from the earth becomes more and more expensive, recycling those phones, i.e. "mining the dump" becomes economically viable. So think of the future generations and dump them in one place, so your grandchildren have a chance to hit the jackpot when digging in the dump for lithium.
Commendable, but rare. Sadly, many people who grow up today come out into reality (after living with helicopter parents for most of their life and "safe space" colleges for the rest) and think the world owes them something for their mere existence.
I'm not saying that this is the normal case (yet... I have that feeling that they get more the older I get), but I do get some applicants that really think the world revolves around them and that I should feel blessed for them to even show up for the interview.
When I sink money in a game and don't get fun out of it, it's lost money. Every cent spent for fun is well spent. But I want my fun out of a game NOW. Not "when I spent enough time and money to get the ultraspecialawesome reward".
There's a rather simple game I enjoy playing, called Defiance. It's kinda mindless and repetitive as all fuck, but at the same time rather satisfying. It's easy to pick up, instantly understandable and the "leveling" you do is mostly for show. Basically it's mowing down rows after rows of monsters together with a few dozen other players, and after an hour of driving around and mowing down mobs you get some sort of token reward nobody gives a fuck about. The reward is certainly NOT worth the hour invested, but there is never a shortage of players. Because the action itself is FUN. It's satisfying and rewarding to just PLAY the game. Hell, I am not even sure now whether you actually get anything in the end but a "it's over, and these guys were with you in the game" screen...
That's a great reason to play it. Interact with people, enjoy the company, teaming up to do stuff together that you can't really do alone, all great reasons.
I can even understand people who want to squeeze that last dps out and crunch numbers all day, to be honest, that was one of the reasons I played them. I crunched numbers and worked out better performance, though it was mostly for the other players because, well, actually playing was less interesting to me. That was just execution of what I designed and developed. That's boring. But working out a plan how to fire what skill so cooldown times and recast times fall together, that was fun!
Welcome to the entitlement generation where everyone is a winner and awards are given for showing up.
That's not to say, though, that there are good people in this generation that know that working 40 hours a week isn't an unreasonable expectation, and that work doesn't mean updating Facebook and informing the world about the contents of their desk drawers. We do have a lot of young people who are eager to work, eager to learn and eager to move this world.
Just like with every generation there's quite a bit of chaff among the wheat. It's not like it was any different with us, and looking at the Boomer generation, it certainly wasn't any different for them either. In the end, though, what you will have in your office is what's left when the chaff has been shed.
That's basically why it became law in the first place. If it can be disabled at will, why not pass it? It's like passing a law that outlaws taking bribes, but only if both sides of the bribe agree to it being a bribe.
Games should be played for fun. Period. How long? Gee, I don't know, how long ago did Civilization 2 get launched?
Playing a game for ANY reason other than enjoyment is something I cannot really understand. Maybe that's why I rarely play MMOs for long. At some point, it stops being fun. It becomes a chore. Doing the same shit over and over to get a different number in front of your character portrait, so you can then go and participate in a group fight. Which is actually fun... for the first couple times. Then it again starts being a chore because you have to kill the same old monster a thousand times until whatever item you need to be "good enough" to enter another dungeon drops.
Sorry. Nope. I play games to enjoy myself. That may be for a few months. That may just be a few days. That may actually be a couple years. That may also be now again after I stopped for a few years. In the end, what matters is that games should be played for enjoyment of the act itself. Not some fake reward dangling like a carrot on a stick. The action itself should be rewarding. Then it's a good game.
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Trump is actually the better example, but that one will do, too.
Microsoft didn't even allow you to install any other OS. Instead, their security was so completely shot that they could not keep you from doing so.
Don't trust a company to keep their promises. Instead rely on their security record, or lack thereof, to be unable to keep you from fulfilling your own wishes.
The same way Sony usually proves that you had the intention to distribute their copyrighted material: By claim.
And even if you can somehow trace it, manpower isn't really the big problem of terrorism. Lives are cheap. And expendable.
Then again, US logistics is a lot more complicated and expensive than Russian. As a friend of mine and former GDR soldier said "Never ever go to war with Russia. Russians are nuts! The Russian soldier needs three things to fight until the death: A loaf of bread, a side of bacon and a direction."
Well, technically they were just ordering books. Blame Amazon and their drone delivery service...
country, noun
1. nation.
2. often misattributed as a prefix for a type of music endemic to culturally impoverished areas of the Southern US; properly the prefix for this type of music is “shitty-.”
Guess he's more interested in the Greek kind.
And shooting it down in a city accomplishes little if your enemy only wants it to explode SOMEWHERE.
Theorycrafting existed a LONG time before WoW infested the MMO world. Its name comes more from the fact that crafting was a tedious, boring chore in most games that usually consisted of first calculating long lists of ingredients with different places to get them from, factoring in the time it takes to acquire them and eventually staring at the screen for a few minutes watching a progress bar move. Theorycrafting isn't that different from this fun pastime.
Once you start theorycrafting, you stop playing the game. You start gaming the game. Whether this is fun is very debatable.
They all cover roughly 15-20 years. Boomers span post-war to the early/mid of the 60s, GenX go from there to the late 70s/early 80s and millennial go from there to the late 90s. The Post-Millenials will probably end around now, what we'll christen the next generation, well, I don't know yet. Those generations are only labeled long after they reach maturity. The "Greatest Generation (~1900-1924) got their name in the 1920s, after all. So I'd even dare to say that GenY, maybe even GenX is more a placeholder for whatever it will be called in hindsight.
In the end, what matters is what the generations will be known for. GenX is the first generation that had access to affordable home computers. GenY the first generation to grow up with the internet, and the current youth the first to be under constant surveillance not only by their parents but also, well, everyone, from government to corporations.
You can see this in their behaviour and stance towards privacy concerns. GenX generally fails to see the appeal of tools that let you tell the world how your latest dump was, GenY embraces it and GenZ, while easily able to adopt anything and everything related to the internet, does pause and ponder the privacy implications more than GenY does.
Well, I'd say there's hope for the next gen.
None of the stuff in the phones is "lost". It's not like those phones are sent off planet. They're sent to a dump. And it's less commercially viable to "mine" these elements there than from the natural deposit.
At some point in the future, when extracting those materials from the earth becomes more and more expensive, recycling those phones, i.e. "mining the dump" becomes economically viable. So think of the future generations and dump them in one place, so your grandchildren have a chance to hit the jackpot when digging in the dump for lithium.
Commendable, but rare. Sadly, many people who grow up today come out into reality (after living with helicopter parents for most of their life and "safe space" colleges for the rest) and think the world owes them something for their mere existence.
I'm not saying that this is the normal case (yet... I have that feeling that they get more the older I get), but I do get some applicants that really think the world revolves around them and that I should feel blessed for them to even show up for the interview.
Now I'm intrigued.
We would not only be far better off but also save a lot of money if we replaced the managers of most companies with magic 8-balls.
When I sink money in a game and don't get fun out of it, it's lost money. Every cent spent for fun is well spent. But I want my fun out of a game NOW. Not "when I spent enough time and money to get the ultraspecialawesome reward".
There's a rather simple game I enjoy playing, called Defiance. It's kinda mindless and repetitive as all fuck, but at the same time rather satisfying. It's easy to pick up, instantly understandable and the "leveling" you do is mostly for show. Basically it's mowing down rows after rows of monsters together with a few dozen other players, and after an hour of driving around and mowing down mobs you get some sort of token reward nobody gives a fuck about. The reward is certainly NOT worth the hour invested, but there is never a shortage of players. Because the action itself is FUN. It's satisfying and rewarding to just PLAY the game. Hell, I am not even sure now whether you actually get anything in the end but a "it's over, and these guys were with you in the game" screen...
That's a great reason to play it. Interact with people, enjoy the company, teaming up to do stuff together that you can't really do alone, all great reasons.
I can even understand people who want to squeeze that last dps out and crunch numbers all day, to be honest, that was one of the reasons I played them. I crunched numbers and worked out better performance, though it was mostly for the other players because, well, actually playing was less interesting to me. That was just execution of what I designed and developed. That's boring. But working out a plan how to fire what skill so cooldown times and recast times fall together, that was fun!
I am. Right now. Work is a mix of stress and boredom for me, with little in between. Right now it's boredom, you just missed an hour of stress.
Welcome to the wonderful world of security.
Welcome to the entitlement generation where everyone is a winner and awards are given for showing up.
That's not to say, though, that there are good people in this generation that know that working 40 hours a week isn't an unreasonable expectation, and that work doesn't mean updating Facebook and informing the world about the contents of their desk drawers. We do have a lot of young people who are eager to work, eager to learn and eager to move this world.
Just like with every generation there's quite a bit of chaff among the wheat. It's not like it was any different with us, and looking at the Boomer generation, it certainly wasn't any different for them either. In the end, though, what you will have in your office is what's left when the chaff has been shed.
That's basically why it became law in the first place. If it can be disabled at will, why not pass it? It's like passing a law that outlaws taking bribes, but only if both sides of the bribe agree to it being a bribe.
Yes. But they have a focus on cursor words.
Of course, you could just go to a chili festival...
This, combined with your name, begs for a topical reply. But I just don't want to go there.
I agree. But I guess for different reasons...
Games should be played for fun. Period. How long? Gee, I don't know, how long ago did Civilization 2 get launched?
Playing a game for ANY reason other than enjoyment is something I cannot really understand. Maybe that's why I rarely play MMOs for long. At some point, it stops being fun. It becomes a chore. Doing the same shit over and over to get a different number in front of your character portrait, so you can then go and participate in a group fight. Which is actually fun... for the first couple times. Then it again starts being a chore because you have to kill the same old monster a thousand times until whatever item you need to be "good enough" to enter another dungeon drops.
Sorry. Nope. I play games to enjoy myself. That may be for a few months. That may just be a few days. That may actually be a couple years. That may also be now again after I stopped for a few years. In the end, what matters is that games should be played for enjoyment of the act itself. Not some fake reward dangling like a carrot on a stick. The action itself should be rewarding. Then it's a good game.
I'll simply stay a second order vegetarian. I eat animals that are vegetarian.