Rotation of staff. The people who were there when the previous fuckups happened are long gone. So new people in new seats and coming up with BRILLIANT ideas, which repeat the fuckups. Wash rinse repeat. I would also bet that the people doing the coding are not the people making the decisions, it's either marketing or fucking business making these asshole decisions. I would bet if you spoke to any of the actual software engineers they would say that they didn't have a choice, the decision to do XYZ again came down from the top. What microsoft needs to start doing is listening to their fucking engineers and not their fucking bean counters. They are a SOFTWARE company, and by not listening to their SOFTWARE people they are killing themselves. I have been a MS stack programmer since I left school and even I am starting to drift away from microsoft, the only PC's in my house running windows now are gaming rigs, everything else is running linux.
And he wrote it after going through the firebombing of Dresden, the single most agressive act of deliberate violence on innocent civilians EVER! Hiroshima and Negasaki pale in comparison to the shit they dropped on Dresden.
So do I, but it still irks me that I have to. I mean Skyrim was basically unplayable on PC until they brought out SkyUI. I am a big PC gamer, I bought GTA V for console because it came out first, but as soon as it came out on PC I bought it again.
Why do I get a feeling that you work for Unanimous? But what he is saying is true anyways, whether you like it or not. I know a lot of punters who won't place bets at home etc. but only at the track, where they can get the opinion, or consensus from other punters, in otherwords, a collection of individuals. Why spend two years building an "online platform" when there have been plenty of them built already. Anyone old enough to remember IRC? Hell, you could all just log into World of Warcraft and start "swarming". I would also mention StarCraft, but I think there is too much swarming in that game as it is.
While in this case I agree that it's the last desperate move by a company slashing operating costs to stay afloat, I doubt that was the case when Disney outsourced their IT stuffs to India.
Join the party mofo's, we had threats of AGOA being recinded to force crappy American chicken (tainted with cyanide) on us. So unless I raised the damn chicken myself there will be no chicken for me for the next 4 years.
I have before, sennheiser cordless headphones lasted a year or three before finally giving up the ghost.
Currently wearing out a pair of razer headphones at home, and logitech at work - both of them are starting to fall apart in regards to the ear padding, I have seen replacement pads for the razer but can't seem to find any for the logitech.
Yeah, but China is an ally, the US is the enemy (and by extension South Korea). Kim might be a bit nuts but he is not going to fire a missile at China becuase it would be "easier", or blackmail his only fucking ally.
I doubt that there are many FBI "Agents" in anon, but I bet there are a metric buttload of informers being leaned on my FBI Agents in Anon. Only a total idiot would participate in any Anon inspired crap. I would think most self respecting slashdotters could write their own virus to make a botnet and do a DDos all by themsleves.
Agree with you 100%, I stopped buying expensive head phones ages ago, because they break. I don't buy cheap ass tinny ones, but I'm not some sound aficionado who can hear a fly fart from across the room, or tell that the end of the jack is not gold fucking plated. So a decent pair with good bass is more than sufficient until I need to buy another pair because I fell out of my chair and ripped the cord out of the headphones (if I don't just solder them back on myself anyways). Usually it's the ear padding that goes, why don't they make it easy to find and replace those?
I disagree with the "drivers that don't know where they are going part", how can you drive around a city for a year and not get to know the fucking layout. They are floundering around so that they can charge you more. I had one Uber driver who intentionally tried to take the long way around on the ring road, I was like "WTF dude, turn left, not right". Had another who cruised at 60kph the whole way, at the time I thought he was just driving safe or trying to save fuel or something, till I got the bill and it was 20% higher than I usually pay on that trip. So yeah, I use Uber, it's a handy way to get home after a piss up, but if there is any alternative I use that instead.
Well add to that the fact that a gaming rig does not have to be upgraded every six months to play the latest games, I've had my current graphics card for oh, 2 maybe three years, and only now am I starting to get frame rates lower than I like. I remember having to upgrade the kids PC's every year, and every other year replace them entirely (it made xmas shopping a LOT easier) so the cost of ownership of a gaming rig has come down significantly. I read an article (probably here on/.) about most tweens preferring PC gaming over mobile AND console. So yeah, I take this "study" with a pinch of salt, same as all the ones proclaiming the death of the PC.
Well diamonds were perhaps a bad example, since we can make them now in such fine quality that it's almost impossible to distinguish from the real thing.
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Fuck, they made a movie about car parts?
Where is a mod point when you need one.
Rotation of staff. The people who were there when the previous fuckups happened are long gone. So new people in new seats and coming up with BRILLIANT ideas, which repeat the fuckups. Wash rinse repeat. I would also bet that the people doing the coding are not the people making the decisions, it's either marketing or fucking business making these asshole decisions. I would bet if you spoke to any of the actual software engineers they would say that they didn't have a choice, the decision to do XYZ again came down from the top. What microsoft needs to start doing is listening to their fucking engineers and not their fucking bean counters. They are a SOFTWARE company, and by not listening to their SOFTWARE people they are killing themselves. I have been a MS stack programmer since I left school and even I am starting to drift away from microsoft, the only PC's in my house running windows now are gaming rigs, everything else is running linux.
I have a brother called Ross, but he is a bit of a tool, so he might be a lawyer.
It was probably written while banging a prostitute.
And he wrote it after going through the firebombing of Dresden, the single most agressive act of deliberate violence on innocent civilians EVER! Hiroshima and Negasaki pale in comparison to the shit they dropped on Dresden.
So do I, but it still irks me that I have to. I mean Skyrim was basically unplayable on PC until they brought out SkyUI. I am a big PC gamer, I bought GTA V for console because it came out first, but as soon as it came out on PC I bought it again.
Why do I get a feeling that you work for Unanimous? But what he is saying is true anyways, whether you like it or not. I know a lot of punters who won't place bets at home etc. but only at the track, where they can get the opinion, or consensus from other punters, in otherwords, a collection of individuals. Why spend two years building an "online platform" when there have been plenty of them built already. Anyone old enough to remember IRC? Hell, you could all just log into World of Warcraft and start "swarming". I would also mention StarCraft, but I think there is too much swarming in that game as it is.
I prefer a "Go fuck yourself" directive (with illustrations, or maybe just a link to goatse)
While in this case I agree that it's the last desperate move by a company slashing operating costs to stay afloat, I doubt that was the case when Disney outsourced their IT stuffs to India.
+1
And telemarketers!
Join the party mofo's, we had threats of AGOA being recinded to force crappy American chicken (tainted with cyanide) on us. So unless I raised the damn chicken myself there will be no chicken for me for the next 4 years.
I have before, sennheiser cordless headphones lasted a year or three before finally giving up the ghost. Currently wearing out a pair of razer headphones at home, and logitech at work - both of them are starting to fall apart in regards to the ear padding, I have seen replacement pads for the razer but can't seem to find any for the logitech.
Very interesting reading, thank you for that.
Agreed, and this move is going to result in another anti-competitive lawsuit, did they not learn from bundling IE all those years ago?
Yeah, but China is an ally, the US is the enemy (and by extension South Korea). Kim might be a bit nuts but he is not going to fire a missile at China becuase it would be "easier", or blackmail his only fucking ally.
I doubt that there are many FBI "Agents" in anon, but I bet there are a metric buttload of informers being leaned on my FBI Agents in Anon. Only a total idiot would participate in any Anon inspired crap. I would think most self respecting slashdotters could write their own virus to make a botnet and do a DDos all by themsleves.
Agree with you 100%, I stopped buying expensive head phones ages ago, because they break. I don't buy cheap ass tinny ones, but I'm not some sound aficionado who can hear a fly fart from across the room, or tell that the end of the jack is not gold fucking plated. So a decent pair with good bass is more than sufficient until I need to buy another pair because I fell out of my chair and ripped the cord out of the headphones (if I don't just solder them back on myself anyways). Usually it's the ear padding that goes, why don't they make it easy to find and replace those?
Erm, perhaps "It's not yet the year of linux", but hang in there, maybe next year.
I disagree with the "drivers that don't know where they are going part", how can you drive around a city for a year and not get to know the fucking layout. They are floundering around so that they can charge you more. I had one Uber driver who intentionally tried to take the long way around on the ring road, I was like "WTF dude, turn left, not right". Had another who cruised at 60kph the whole way, at the time I thought he was just driving safe or trying to save fuel or something, till I got the bill and it was 20% higher than I usually pay on that trip. So yeah, I use Uber, it's a handy way to get home after a piss up, but if there is any alternative I use that instead.
A heat pump and a refrigerator are the same thing? Or am I missing something? So this uses C02 instead, but the concept is still the same.
Well add to that the fact that a gaming rig does not have to be upgraded every six months to play the latest games, I've had my current graphics card for oh, 2 maybe three years, and only now am I starting to get frame rates lower than I like. I remember having to upgrade the kids PC's every year, and every other year replace them entirely (it made xmas shopping a LOT easier) so the cost of ownership of a gaming rig has come down significantly. I read an article (probably here on /.) about most tweens preferring PC gaming over mobile AND console. So yeah, I take this "study" with a pinch of salt, same as all the ones proclaiming the death of the PC.
Well diamonds were perhaps a bad example, since we can make them now in such fine quality that it's almost impossible to distinguish from the real thing.
Must be written in Java...
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