Ever been at a company that has a mandatory training course on computer operation? No? Well that's why. Hiring support personnel to cover user ignorance is like sweeping the problem under the rug, but it's a hell of a lot easier I'll give them that.
That's just the risk inherent in doing something illegal. Sometimes someone gets caught, and that person needs to be made an example of to scare others away. Blame your government for cultivating a culture of fearmongering and backwards thinking.
But let's be honest. If he actually does get the $32m fine then that just means he'll be paying a small sum every month until he hits the statute of limitation.
It comes from the game designer(s) and lead developers, who sat down before launching the project to decide on things like how doors should work. At least I hope that's how they do it. I can't imagine anyone would launch any kind of project without first having a document stating exactly what the project should be about. Especially not when money is involved.
If the game design document says "All doors should be openable, provided the door is unlocked, the player has the key or the player is willing to take a reputation hit by breaking and entering", then your job as a game developer is to implement doors as specified in the game design document.
If the game design document says "Doors are graphic inserts for effect only", then your job as a game developer is to implement the doors as specified in the game design document.
If the game design document doesn't say how to handle doors before people start building the game, then the game design document is incomplete.
Incomplete game design documents, like incomplete architect blueprints, lead to stupid things like what you get by googling "architecture fails".
Why not hot air? Surely they can mount an electric heat generator if it's going to be producing the stuff anyway. Then they can also regulate the balloons altitude on the fly.
If developers were left to their own devices, half of it wouldn't be finished (the half that's boring to code) and the rest would be unusable by normal people. Just look at Linux.:)
The dumbest part is the organizations already do this. You'll consistently across find across all esports tournaments that you have tournaments and then you have womens tournaments. How's that for equal rights. And of course no one argues if women want to join the regular tournament, but there has to be a special one just for them because... well I'm not sure, but I wouldn't be surprised if it has something to do with their breasts, and attracting more men to look at their breasts. But we wouldn't actually say that anywhere, no, instead we say that we enjoy diversifity. We enjoy being so diversifited that women need to do everything men do, just to prove women are just as handicapable as men. But do you know what the worst part is? Women fucking suck unbelievably much at computer games. Really. They do. It is so god-fucking awful to watch women play computer games, even on a "professional" level. You've probably already come across it. Women playing football or women playing soccer. They're just so shamefully bad I can't believe anyone would actually pay to watch it. It's like, dude, seriously, have you never fucking heard of the internet? It's full of naked women. Please stop paying out your ass to watch this ridiculous spectacle. What NFL team in their right mind would hire a woman to play for them when they're just not suited for it? They get massacred. They are physically incapable of competing with men in sports. Nature made them this way, not society. Why the fuck do all the men of the world have to suffer because it's unfair that women don't get an inherent advantage? Why do women need special treatment to compensate for them being underrepresented? You're a woman you say? Well here's a free pass to the finals where you get your face blown off cause you're terrible. What's that, no women won any of our tournaments you say? Well shit, let's give everyone a fucking trophy and do away with competition altogether. We don't watch or play competitively to win anyway, it's all about having fun! Right? Girls just want to have fun? Well boys want to fucking win and they will punch eachother in the face to do it. What happens when women do this? Why it's degrading! It's horrible! It's shameful for women to behave like men. Only when it suits them is it unfair that they aren't all men.
Won't this European network just be subject to the same censorship and spying paid for by American and Asian entities, as the current internet is anyway? Are there even any non-American and non-Asian entities capable of implementing and maintaining such a large scale network on their own, including using their own custom built non-American, non-Asian hardware, manufactured in a non-American, non-Asian factory?
This is a seriously complex undertaking they're suggesting.
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The thing is, people who take CS courses are typically in the smarter end of the spectrum, and they have no desire to associate themselves with the gangsta/mafioso/ghetto cultures, because whatever little these cultures bring to a classroom is rarely enough to compensate for the disruption they also bring. These cultures do not tolerate smartness, so they don't go well with a science course.
It does happen that people from these cultures break free from the taboo and land themselves in college, and that's fantastic, but blaming CS for their hardships isn't the right way to go about it.
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Ever been at a company that has a mandatory training course on computer operation? No? Well that's why. Hiring support personnel to cover user ignorance is like sweeping the problem under the rug, but it's a hell of a lot easier I'll give them that.
If I could get my own private compartment where people don't go when they're sick and cough in my neck and use Apple earplugs, then sure.
They're taking our jobs?
It's good right?
You have no clue and yet you express completely non-true information as fact. You're truly American. Good job guy.
I wonder what's stopping Microsoft from releasing Windows 7 Home Basic as a free optional upgrade to XP and Vista users via Windows Update.
That's just the risk inherent in doing something illegal. Sometimes someone gets caught, and that person needs to be made an example of to scare others away. Blame your government for cultivating a culture of fearmongering and backwards thinking.
But let's be honest. If he actually does get the $32m fine then that just means he'll be paying a small sum every month until he hits the statute of limitation.
It's not like they take all his money forever.
They did win though. Twice.
It comes from the game designer(s) and lead developers, who sat down before launching the project to decide on things like how doors should work. At least I hope that's how they do it. I can't imagine anyone would launch any kind of project without first having a document stating exactly what the project should be about. Especially not when money is involved.
If the game design document says "All doors should be openable, provided the door is unlocked, the player has the key or the player is willing to take a reputation hit by breaking and entering", then your job as a game developer is to implement doors as specified in the game design document.
If the game design document says "Doors are graphic inserts for effect only", then your job as a game developer is to implement the doors as specified in the game design document.
If the game design document doesn't say how to handle doors before people start building the game, then the game design document is incomplete.
Incomplete game design documents, like incomplete architect blueprints, lead to stupid things like what you get by googling "architecture fails".
Why not hot air? Surely they can mount an electric heat generator if it's going to be producing the stuff anyway. Then they can also regulate the balloons altitude on the fly.
There must be somewhere in Alaska where there aren't any people around. There must be.
Or make the VCR stop saying 12:00?
If developers were left to their own devices, half of it wouldn't be finished (the half that's boring to code) and the rest would be unusable by normal people. Just look at Linux. :)
Not drones, pidgeons. http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc...
Weapons of Mass Media you mean.
And when do these ignorant dumbasses learn that being afraid of mass media just makes them look even more ignorant and backwards?
The dumbest part is the organizations already do this. You'll consistently across find across all esports tournaments that you have tournaments and then you have womens tournaments. How's that for equal rights. And of course no one argues if women want to join the regular tournament, but there has to be a special one just for them because... well I'm not sure, but I wouldn't be surprised if it has something to do with their breasts, and attracting more men to look at their breasts. But we wouldn't actually say that anywhere, no, instead we say that we enjoy diversifity. We enjoy being so diversifited that women need to do everything men do, just to prove women are just as handicapable as men. But do you know what the worst part is? Women fucking suck unbelievably much at computer games. Really. They do. It is so god-fucking awful to watch women play computer games, even on a "professional" level. You've probably already come across it. Women playing football or women playing soccer. They're just so shamefully bad I can't believe anyone would actually pay to watch it. It's like, dude, seriously, have you never fucking heard of the internet? It's full of naked women. Please stop paying out your ass to watch this ridiculous spectacle. What NFL team in their right mind would hire a woman to play for them when they're just not suited for it? They get massacred. They are physically incapable of competing with men in sports. Nature made them this way, not society. Why the fuck do all the men of the world have to suffer because it's unfair that women don't get an inherent advantage? Why do women need special treatment to compensate for them being underrepresented? You're a woman you say? Well here's a free pass to the finals where you get your face blown off cause you're terrible. What's that, no women won any of our tournaments you say? Well shit, let's give everyone a fucking trophy and do away with competition altogether. We don't watch or play competitively to win anyway, it's all about having fun! Right? Girls just want to have fun? Well boys want to fucking win and they will punch eachother in the face to do it. What happens when women do this? Why it's degrading! It's horrible! It's shameful for women to behave like men. Only when it suits them is it unfair that they aren't all men.
Won't this European network just be subject to the same censorship and spying paid for by American and Asian entities, as the current internet is anyway? Are there even any non-American and non-Asian entities capable of implementing and maintaining such a large scale network on their own, including using their own custom built non-American, non-Asian hardware, manufactured in a non-American, non-Asian factory?
This is a seriously complex undertaking they're suggesting.
No they wont.
Isn't that pretty much any developers dream?
At time of writing the group's tally stands at a tame $10 million.
Is a tame 10 million a good or a bad number? Were they expecting more, since it's only tame? Or is tame a good word when talking numbers?
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And yet he loads it at the very bottom, thus not affecting site performance in the least.
It's not racist, it's culturally biased.
The thing is, people who take CS courses are typically in the smarter end of the spectrum, and they have no desire to associate themselves with the gangsta/mafioso/ghetto cultures, because whatever little these cultures bring to a classroom is rarely enough to compensate for the disruption they also bring. These cultures do not tolerate smartness, so they don't go well with a science course.
It does happen that people from these cultures break free from the taboo and land themselves in college, and that's fantastic, but blaming CS for their hardships isn't the right way to go about it.
It's not over yet. Daddy Moneybags can still come to the rescue and get him off with a slap on the wrist.