They're starting to tarnish their image as the the Good Guy of the big internet companies. For me, their capitulation to the Chinese government was a big smug on their logo. And, that isn't the only questionable decision they've made in the last few years. Once you lose trust, you never get it back. Blind faith in a company is a powerful asset in itself.
In fact, by paying for expansions I think you encourage developers to continue popular games. But, as technically irrelevant as the notion of *where* the expansion content lives before you purchase it is (how is it any different from a locked demo?) this does have a bad air about it to the layman. I'd consider this more of a marketing fail.
But, then I listened to what most of my coworkers were doing on their time off. They were watching American Idol and Lost. So, what's the bigger waste of time? I quit playing MMOs when I saw how much time it was taking away from my regular "life management" chores.
Lots of owners have tons of natural fertilizer on hand that I'm sure they'd love to use in their backyard gardens. Same thing with farmers on an industrial scale.
I recommend you chose Mexico to pay taxes to since you don't seem to understand what Libertarian governments look like.
Oh, and Walmart chose the path of paying their workers crap wages and giving them crap benefits, then buying their goods from Chinese factories with no worker or environment protections in place to keep your t-shirts at $3/piece.
You're thinking in the micro. Think macro. How much time does it take to sort all those folders? How much time does it take to coordinate and delegate the workload between thousands of people sorting those folders? How long does it take to arrange for transportation of tons of this paper work between offices? What happens when Suzie from management is on vacation and Bill from the loading dock has to wait an extra few days to move said box of folders?
So, does that explain the rampant inefficiencies in Corporate America? The bigger *any* organization gets, the less efficient it becomes. There's a secretary sitting at a desk at Bank of America who knows how to cut her workload by 25%, but it'll never happen because her douchebag manager is out playing golf or banging the copy girl, etc. Such is life.
Sounds like this guy didn't document how he secured the system, then refused to show his employer how to access it again. I say screw him. You're working for the city and your employer. Their resources belong to them, including the security measures you put in place. You refuse to relinquish that access, whether the keys to the kingdom be virtual or real, then you deserve to go to jail. I hope he stays there. I have no clue why idiots like this become Slashdot Heroes.
Been awhile since I tried slogging through Natural Selection, but the impression I got was the choicest survivability attributes may be fleeting things. On top of that, the sexual selection attributes might even conflict with survivability. So, you could be the moose with the prettiest antlers that get all the girls/cows, but you'd get locked up in brush and starve to death. Same thing with humans. The hottest girl you've ever seen might be too dumb to tie her shoe laces. How's that help further the species, besides making you extremely pleased during your breeding years? So, just because we've evolved some attributes or culture doesn't say a damned thing about how good it is for humanity either right now or in the long run. Chance seems to play a very large part in the game.
The shear ignorance that's taken over the Interwebz.
One. Are you aware of all the too-big-to-fail companies that not only exist but get government bailouts? No, but that won't stop you from making ignorant comments. Two. Do you have any kind of historical context for why companies getting too big is a bad thing for everyone (sometimes even that company)? No. But, you're still willing to yap about the evil conspiracies to hold The Man (read Corporations) down.
Regardless of what everyone else says about that song, I've always liked it. Not sure how it became synonymous with crappy pop (and there's PLENTY of that to go around). Now, the comparison to Luther Vandross by the NYT? That is downright criminal!
We're full of anti-intellectual skeptics now. You really think the endeavors of a scientific arm of the government is going to get the funding it needs for whiz bang cutting edge programs? American Idol is on.
"from scratch" my ass. The "private" industry is riding on the coattails of about 70 years of government-financed rocket research. Let's see one of these "more efficient than the government" private entities finance a revolutionary technology on their own.
Stop idiots from blasting satellites in space an creating even more debris. Stop other idiots from giving the first group of idiots a reason to blow up satellites.
Wow, you actually calling what the Chinese make a fair wage? You call fair compensation "stealing employer's profits"? A friend of mine said that we love greed so much in this country we'll hurt ourselves to make other people rich.
That's a pretty ignorant statement, isn't it? But, since it aligns with your ideology I guess reality doesn't matter. I guess it was all those union guys in Wall Street that ran our economy into the dirt?
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Nice one, wish I had mod points
This is the new Slashdot. Are you really *that* surprised?
Will the reactor be running Vista?
They're starting to tarnish their image as the the Good Guy of the big internet companies. For me, their capitulation to the Chinese government was a big smug on their logo. And, that isn't the only questionable decision they've made in the last few years. Once you lose trust, you never get it back. Blind faith in a company is a powerful asset in itself.
In fact, by paying for expansions I think you encourage developers to continue popular games. But, as technically irrelevant as the notion of *where* the expansion content lives before you purchase it is (how is it any different from a locked demo?) this does have a bad air about it to the layman. I'd consider this more of a marketing fail.
I just watched 1984 last night. Freedom is Slavery!
I love you. If you had Princess Leia hair buns in your profile pic, you'd be the perfect woman.
First-year computer science students rejoice! God doesn't know how to do OOD either!
But, then I listened to what most of my coworkers were doing on their time off. They were watching American Idol and Lost. So, what's the bigger waste of time? I quit playing MMOs when I saw how much time it was taking away from my regular "life management" chores.
The FDA doesn't exist to stop you from killing yourself. It exists to stop businesses from killing you.
Lots of owners have tons of natural fertilizer on hand that I'm sure they'd love to use in their backyard gardens. Same thing with farmers on an industrial scale.
A guy walking around on the Martian surface.
I recommend you chose Mexico to pay taxes to since you don't seem to understand what Libertarian governments look like.
Oh, and Walmart chose the path of paying their workers crap wages and giving them crap benefits, then buying their goods from Chinese factories with no worker or environment protections in place to keep your t-shirts at $3/piece.
You're thinking in the micro. Think macro. How much time does it take to sort all those folders? How much time does it take to coordinate and delegate the workload between thousands of people sorting those folders? How long does it take to arrange for transportation of tons of this paper work between offices? What happens when Suzie from management is on vacation and Bill from the loading dock has to wait an extra few days to move said box of folders?
So, does that explain the rampant inefficiencies in Corporate America? The bigger *any* organization gets, the less efficient it becomes. There's a secretary sitting at a desk at Bank of America who knows how to cut her workload by 25%, but it'll never happen because her douchebag manager is out playing golf or banging the copy girl, etc. Such is life.
Sounds like this guy didn't document how he secured the system, then refused to show his employer how to access it again. I say screw him. You're working for the city and your employer. Their resources belong to them, including the security measures you put in place. You refuse to relinquish that access, whether the keys to the kingdom be virtual or real, then you deserve to go to jail. I hope he stays there. I have no clue why idiots like this become Slashdot Heroes.
Been awhile since I tried slogging through Natural Selection, but the impression I got was the choicest survivability attributes may be fleeting things. On top of that, the sexual selection attributes might even conflict with survivability. So, you could be the moose with the prettiest antlers that get all the girls/cows, but you'd get locked up in brush and starve to death. Same thing with humans. The hottest girl you've ever seen might be too dumb to tie her shoe laces. How's that help further the species, besides making you extremely pleased during your breeding years? So, just because we've evolved some attributes or culture doesn't say a damned thing about how good it is for humanity either right now or in the long run. Chance seems to play a very large part in the game.
The shear ignorance that's taken over the Interwebz.
One. Are you aware of all the too-big-to-fail companies that not only exist but get government bailouts? No, but that won't stop you from making ignorant comments. Two. Do you have any kind of historical context for why companies getting too big is a bad thing for everyone (sometimes even that company)? No. But, you're still willing to yap about the evil conspiracies to hold The Man (read Corporations) down.
Ever seen Swordfish? There's a laughably funny attempt at making Hugh Jackman hammering away on a keyboard look sexy and energetic.
Regardless of what everyone else says about that song, I've always liked it. Not sure how it became synonymous with crappy pop (and there's PLENTY of that to go around). Now, the comparison to Luther Vandross by the NYT? That is downright criminal!
We're full of anti-intellectual skeptics now. You really think the endeavors of a scientific arm of the government is going to get the funding it needs for whiz bang cutting edge programs? American Idol is on.
"from scratch" my ass. The "private" industry is riding on the coattails of about 70 years of government-financed rocket research. Let's see one of these "more efficient than the government" private entities finance a revolutionary technology on their own.
Stop idiots from blasting satellites in space an creating even more debris. Stop other idiots from giving the first group of idiots a reason to blow up satellites.
Wow, you actually calling what the Chinese make a fair wage? You call fair compensation "stealing employer's profits"? A friend of mine said that we love greed so much in this country we'll hurt ourselves to make other people rich.
That's a pretty ignorant statement, isn't it? But, since it aligns with your ideology I guess reality doesn't matter. I guess it was all those union guys in Wall Street that ran our economy into the dirt?