Users are addicted to the false sense of hipsterness that they get from instagraming their dirty laundry. And what happens when the dealer ups the price? They just pay more. Not even something like this in the TOS would affect user base:
...and we own all your photos and information. We will sell everything you upload to anyone who pays us money for it (including governments, law enforcement, courts, coworkers, your current, future and ex partners, etc)...
Nothing will change until a new dealer comes around with a better product.
"If you want a minimal interface, you can configure Enlightenment to be quite minimal, but it takes effort. Enlightenment leans towards providing eye candy where it can, and often comes by default that way. This is how we roll. We always have. Haters gonna hate. That's how we roll. Bring on the lollipops!"
I'm sorry, all the bling is a turnoff. Like this. Sometimes less is more. Shadow, glow, glass rendering, sparkles and pixie dust is a bit much for the mouse cursor.
So let me get this straight. They are bringing in a consultant because they think the job is bigger than you can handle. And your suggestion is to be passive aggressive and play dumb?
But it sounds like you are in fact selfish. What do you think trying to hide it will get you?
"What positive approach can I try with the PM, with whom I have a good working relationship?"
So you want to dump some more oil on the fire. Your peers will hate you. Your boss will hate you. You will hate your job (although you might already). There are three possible long term outcomes:
a) you get with the plan
b) you quit
c) you get fired
I watched a good portion of the video, but could not reproduce any of this guy's complaints. I haven't modified the way the touchpad is setup on my laptop with a fresh windows 8 install, but there is no weather app popping up every 1.5 minutes due to moving the cursor (or swiping).
So I gave up watching, decided that life's too short to waste on this silliness (especially since we have 12 hours and 2 minutes till the end of the world).
"The problem is that, as usual, the law hasn't kept up with changes in technology and how people communicate"
This has nothing to do with law not keeping up with technology. You have to disclose certain private things to the SEC before you communicate it in non private circles. Be that a public announcement or telling your friends (warm blood friends or imaginary facebook friends makes no difference).
How about promoting hardware that actually works, has a case, multiple times the memory and in the end costs less than the RPi? The RPi will just sit in the junk pile unused after the initial buzz wears off and reality sets it.
I stopped reading there. You should get blocked. I hope my ISP blocked you, too. If I want to know what you're doing, I'll subscribe to your RSS feed or check your website. No need for you to be knocking on my email box.
Apple messed up big time. All they needed is one phone call to google:
Apple: We stop being dicks, no more lawsuits about round corners and sliding buttons.
Google: Sounds good, we give you maps with turn by turn navigation.
This would've saved them many millions on last minute crappy programmer hires to churn out a failed maps app. Their stock price probably wouldn't have tanked. Users would be happy. Ending the stupid patent lawsuits would've been a huge win for consumers.
Unfortunately they only kept the worst of Steve Jobs' (destroy android lawsuits) without a clear vision for future products (changing the aspect ratio of iphone and a 7" tablet that costs almost twice as much with half the specs etc).
* rely on electricity to prolong freshness of your food
* rely on stores to buy food instead of growing your own
* rely growing your own food without knowing how to hunt and gather, and properly butcher your pray
* rely on natural gas/oil/... to heat your house without having a backup wood stove with a year supply of hand chopped wood
* rely on cel phones/ landlines/post office to deliver messages without the backup of real life pigeons
* rely on modern medicine and doctors and ditching the good old wizard healing stuff
Of course the list goes on, but you started nailing the nail on the head (hopefully you didn't forget to stockpile a lifelong supply of carpentry tools and materials and mastered the use of them).
Why would this kill PC gaming? It's sounds like just another new console. It's locked down. Not any different than an Xbox or PS. Except without a designated controller, and good luck trying to find a wireless keyboard and mouse that will work for gaming.
You don't have to spend $1000 on new gfx cards every year. There is a sea of awesome games out there that will run more than happily on a $100 card or on integrated Intel gfx.
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And that no good Mitt Romney! Oh, wait a second...
Users are addicted to the false sense of hipsterness that they get from instagraming their dirty laundry. And what happens when the dealer ups the price? They just pay more. Not even something like this in the TOS would affect user base:
...and we own all your photos and information. We will sell everything you upload to anyone who pays us money for it (including governments, law enforcement, courts, coworkers, your current, future and ex partners, etc)...
Nothing will change until a new dealer comes around with a better product.
1gb memory costs less than $5 on the consumer market.
My desktop has 16gb memory. My laptop has 12gb. My phone has 2gb. Hell, even the mk802 has 1gb.
So what's the point?
What a great plan. I'm pretty sure Microsoft would love this, and there would be no lawyers involved.
Don't worry. There's an app for that.
From the project FAQ:
"If you want a minimal interface, you can configure Enlightenment to be quite minimal, but it takes effort. Enlightenment leans towards providing eye candy where it can, and often comes by default that way. This is how we roll. We always have. Haters gonna hate. That's how we roll. Bring on the lollipops!"
I'm sorry, all the bling is a turnoff. Like this. Sometimes less is more. Shadow, glow, glass rendering, sparkles and pixie dust is a bit much for the mouse cursor.
But you are suggesting to ask the wrong question.
There is nothing worse than dealing with passive aggressive people at the workplace. Period. (Of course not counting criminal behavior.)
This will get you your pink slip faster than the sharpie dries on it. At least at every company I worked for and on every project I managed.
So let me get this straight. They are bringing in a consultant because they think the job is bigger than you can handle. And your suggestion is to be passive aggressive and play dumb?
"without appearing selfish"
But it sounds like you are in fact selfish. What do you think trying to hide it will get you?
"What positive approach can I try with the PM, with whom I have a good working relationship?"
So you want to dump some more oil on the fire. Your peers will hate you. Your boss will hate you. You will hate your job (although you might already). There are three possible long term outcomes:
a) you get with the plan
b) you quit
c) you get fired
"And comment, dammit, comment."
Nothing like code that's been updated a hundred times with comments from a year ago. How about just write readable code?
Because in real life:
- specs change constantly
- need to work with crap that's already there
- there are deadlines
- need to get stuff done
And I'm pretty sure I'm forgetting some other points.
I watched a good portion of the video, but could not reproduce any of this guy's complaints. I haven't modified the way the touchpad is setup on my laptop with a fresh windows 8 install, but there is no weather app popping up every 1.5 minutes due to moving the cursor (or swiping).
So I gave up watching, decided that life's too short to waste on this silliness (especially since we have 12 hours and 2 minutes till the end of the world).
This sounds like a last ditch effort to save their crappy 3d engine, which has been left in the dust years ago by unity3d.
The real question is, why would you want to order something that doesn't work?
So nobody can buy, use nor die using them. Oh, wait...
"The problem is that, as usual, the law hasn't kept up with changes in technology and how people communicate"
This has nothing to do with law not keeping up with technology. You have to disclose certain private things to the SEC before you communicate it in non private circles. Be that a public announcement or telling your friends (warm blood friends or imaginary facebook friends makes no difference).
"chips for sensor systems"
Wonder what they mean by "sensor systems".
How about promoting hardware that actually works, has a case, multiple times the memory and in the end costs less than the RPi? The RPi will just sit in the junk pile unused after the initial buzz wears off and reality sets it.
There, I fixed the title for the article. I mean why read when I can play Angry Chipmunks or whatever on the same device?
I stopped reading there. You should get blocked. I hope my ISP blocked you, too. If I want to know what you're doing, I'll subscribe to your RSS feed or check your website. No need for you to be knocking on my email box.
Loud or less loud, commercials get the skip button treatments.
Apple messed up big time. All they needed is one phone call to google:
Apple: We stop being dicks, no more lawsuits about round corners and sliding buttons.
Google: Sounds good, we give you maps with turn by turn navigation.
This would've saved them many millions on last minute crappy programmer hires to churn out a failed maps app. Their stock price probably wouldn't have tanked. Users would be happy. Ending the stupid patent lawsuits would've been a huge win for consumers.
Unfortunately they only kept the worst of Steve Jobs' (destroy android lawsuits) without a clear vision for future products (changing the aspect ratio of iphone and a 7" tablet that costs almost twice as much with half the specs etc).
It's also utterly foolish to:
* rely on electricity to prolong freshness of your food
* rely on stores to buy food instead of growing your own
* rely growing your own food without knowing how to hunt and gather, and properly butcher your pray
* rely on natural gas/oil/... to heat your house without having a backup wood stove with a year supply of hand chopped wood
* rely on cel phones/ landlines/post office to deliver messages without the backup of real life pigeons
* rely on modern medicine and doctors and ditching the good old wizard healing stuff
Of course the list goes on, but you started nailing the nail on the head (hopefully you didn't forget to stockpile a lifelong supply of carpentry tools and materials and mastered the use of them).
I know two people with Valve accounts. But everyone I know uses Google. So they have some ways to go.
Why would this kill PC gaming? It's sounds like just another new console. It's locked down. Not any different than an Xbox or PS. Except without a designated controller, and good luck trying to find a wireless keyboard and mouse that will work for gaming.
You don't have to spend $1000 on new gfx cards every year. There is a sea of awesome games out there that will run more than happily on a $100 card or on integrated Intel gfx.