No, it's more like, "See? We're not evil, guys, seriously! If we were we wouldn't have a logo that wouldn't be out of place on a pre-school bulletin board!"
Anyhow, the problem that I have with sans-serif fonts is that they look childish. That's what you see in books for children, when they are learning to read.
Yep, and that's only compounded by the fact that the current logo animation has a child's hand initially drawing the logo in crayon before it morphs into its final form. Did they accidentally roll out a logo designed for some previously non-existent "Google Kids" service?
It's legal because none of the husbands trying to cheat on their wives will ever publicly complain, ever, not even now that it has been exposed, bwa ha ha ha.
If they had an affair through AM, got caught and divorced because of that, not only might they complain but they would be much more likely to.
That said, it comes back round to the fact that there were so few actual women on the site that there likely weren't many actual affairs that were arranged.
Yes - I experienced a very similar issue. I chose to upgrade my laptop (which I don't use much) first as a sort of test bed to see how I was going to like it before unleashing it on my desktop/gaming machine. The install hung, then said it needed to revert to Win7 which it did. So I tried again, and it sort of hung in the same spot. Then it kept rebooting and hanging at various percentages of completion. Then it got to 40% (in the big percent cirlce) and hung there. I went to bed, got up in the morning and it was still there. So I put the laptop to sleep, woke it up and it continued on its merry way.
After that it DID complete the Win 10 install, but it seems...buggy. Every time I go in to certain settings, the settings window hangs completely. I forget which setting, but my install does sort of seem broken. Makes me want to do a clean install when upgrading my desktop from Win 7, but Microsoft doesn't make that easy (have to upgrade Win7 completely, then create install media, then re-install from scratch). I had high hopes based on what people told me and what I read about Win 10. But now... I don't really have a big warm fuzzy feeling about it all...
In fact, if your real time numbers in recount go low, people will start demanding you pick up your share in vent, and then boot you from the raid... or just boot you from the raid before the boss goes down just for grins.
Sounds like you've played with a bunch of assholes.
You're either a hardcore raider/PVPer or you're not. If you are, that issue isn't a problem for you as you already will be "carrying your weight". If you aren't there are many smaller and more laid back guilds that would be happy to have you and don't care if you're 5% less efficient than the guy next to you.
Yep. You'd think it would, and original, unmodified vanilla WoW probably would run at like 1,000 fps on today's hardward. But they've added so much graphically with each expansion that it's similar in performance to a modern game. Maybe a little faster, but not much.
I understand your feelings, and if that happened to me I likely would have done the same. But there are MANY different MMOs out there, most of which don't allow the ganking of noobs. Most offer a strictly PVE (player vs. environment) option, where no "player killing" like that is even possible anywhere in the game. I know you've probably written off the whole genre based on what you said, but if not, try a different one but make sure it's on a PVE server.
From personal experience I can recommend: Everquest 2, World of Warcraft (yes), Lord of the Rings Online or Elder Scrolls Online. Rift is a good free-to-play MMO that's similat to WoW. You'd have nothing invested financially.
if it can outstrip military planes assigned to "escort it to a landing", then it will be seen as an even greater hijack threat in the US...
Some, but not all. The F-15 has a max speed somewhere around mach 2.5. But most of the fighters that would do common air intercept over US soil are F-16s as far as I know.
I'll pay $50/month for on demand access to ANY TV program or movie I want, when I want it, with no commercials. The industry doesn't seem to get that yet. So now I use Netflix whenever possible and use...other...means for the things Netflix doesn't have.
Goes to show you, that even if you fight like a mad dog, you still may be leaving money on the table.
Yep, I really have no way of knowing whether or not customers are bluffing. And buyers know that which is why they ask for discounts anyways. And when they do, I almost always give them at least something.
Some of the accounts I work with are too big to take the risk as long as I still have money left I can give them, and I almost always do. The trick is knowing when to say enough's enough and draw a line in the sand before I'm stuck with a multi million dollar account that consistently loses money.
I'll never know if I would have gotten more money had I gone higher, but that moment of insecurity still bothers me to this day.
You would have, almost certainly. I'm an Estimator, so I'm often in the position of throwing out a price on something. If I give someone a quote and get an e-mail from Sales 10 minutes later saying the customer has accepted it and is placing an order...I know for sure I've left money on the table.
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Trigger warning: The word violence is totally gonna come barreling through this post, doing like 40 in a 35.
I'm triggered by the word trigger, as it reminds me of big scary guns, and you failed to adequately warn me that said word would be used.
This round of PTSD is all on you, buddy!
No, it's more like, "See? We're not evil, guys, seriously! If we were we wouldn't have a logo that wouldn't be out of place on a pre-school bulletin board!"
Anyhow, the problem that I have with sans-serif fonts is that they look childish. That's what you see in books for children, when they are learning to read.
Yep, and that's only compounded by the fact that the current logo animation has a child's hand initially drawing the logo in crayon before it morphs into its final form. Did they accidentally roll out a logo designed for some previously non-existent "Google Kids" service?
Romper bomper stomper boo
(And yes the new logo is like Romper Room and Comic Sans had an illicit affair, giving birth to this childish monstrosity of a logo.)
It's legal because none of the husbands trying to cheat on their wives will ever publicly complain, ever, not even now that it has been exposed, bwa ha ha ha.
If they had an affair through AM, got caught and divorced because of that, not only might they complain but they would be much more likely to.
That said, it comes back round to the fact that there were so few actual women on the site that there likely weren't many actual affairs that were arranged.
"Pick up that can"
All that sounds great but the problem is going to be scope creep. It'll be all innocent and noble at first, but give it 10 years...
I can't fathom how they think this makes sense, or that there won't be pushback.
There should be pushback. But there won't be pushback.
I wonder if we could genetically engineer dogs to poop barcoded turds.
as long as you forego the health insurance benefit of your fucking job.
Oops - can't even do that anymore if you live in the US...
Yes - I experienced a very similar issue. I chose to upgrade my laptop (which I don't use much) first as a sort of test bed to see how I was going to like it before unleashing it on my desktop/gaming machine. The install hung, then said it needed to revert to Win7 which it did. So I tried again, and it sort of hung in the same spot. Then it kept rebooting and hanging at various percentages of completion. Then it got to 40% (in the big percent cirlce) and hung there. I went to bed, got up in the morning and it was still there. So I put the laptop to sleep, woke it up and it continued on its merry way.
After that it DID complete the Win 10 install, but it seems...buggy. Every time I go in to certain settings, the settings window hangs completely. I forget which setting, but my install does sort of seem broken. Makes me want to do a clean install when upgrading my desktop from Win 7, but Microsoft doesn't make that easy (have to upgrade Win7 completely, then create install media, then re-install from scratch). I had high hopes based on what people told me and what I read about Win 10. But now... I don't really have a big warm fuzzy feeling about it all...
It is a little strange they say version 1.0 has been released when the current version is numbered 2015.8.5.1 ?
"2015.August.5th.Version 1", perhaps? Just a guess.
In fact, if your real time numbers in recount go low, people will start demanding you pick up your share in vent, and then boot you from the raid... or just boot you from the raid before the boss goes down just for grins.
Sounds like you've played with a bunch of assholes.
You're either a hardcore raider/PVPer or you're not. If you are, that issue isn't a problem for you as you already will be "carrying your weight". If you aren't there are many smaller and more laid back guilds that would be happy to have you and don't care if you're 5% less efficient than the guy next to you.
Unfortunately this is not true
Yep. You'd think it would, and original, unmodified vanilla WoW probably would run at like 1,000 fps on today's hardward. But they've added so much graphically with each expansion that it's similar in performance to a modern game. Maybe a little faster, but not much.
I understand your feelings, and if that happened to me I likely would have done the same. But there are MANY different MMOs out there, most of which don't allow the ganking of noobs. Most offer a strictly PVE (player vs. environment) option, where no "player killing" like that is even possible anywhere in the game. I know you've probably written off the whole genre based on what you said, but if not, try a different one but make sure it's on a PVE server.
From personal experience I can recommend: Everquest 2, World of Warcraft (yes), Lord of the Rings Online or Elder Scrolls Online. Rift is a good free-to-play MMO that's similat to WoW. You'd have nothing invested financially.
That's pretty poor. Why doesn't the device read it's own serial#?
Probably a liability thing in case someone is now afraid to use their device fearing it will burn their house down if they even turn it on.
Bose products are spectacularly over-priced.
if it can outstrip military planes assigned to "escort it to a landing", then it will be seen as an even greater hijack threat in the US...
Some, but not all. The F-15 has a max speed somewhere around mach 2.5. But most of the fighters that would do common air intercept over US soil are F-16s as far as I know.
Extremely well played...
I'll pay $50/month for on demand access to ANY TV program or movie I want, when I want it, with no commercials. The industry doesn't seem to get that yet. So now I use Netflix whenever possible and use...other...means for the things Netflix doesn't have.
Silly Squiggleslash. You should have added Social Justice Warriors to that list!
I think if he answers the GP's questions, we will also be able to deduce his position on SJWs.
Goes to show you, that even if you fight like a mad dog, you still may be leaving money on the table.
Yep, I really have no way of knowing whether or not customers are bluffing. And buyers know that which is why they ask for discounts anyways. And when they do, I almost always give them at least something.
Some of the accounts I work with are too big to take the risk as long as I still have money left I can give them, and I almost always do. The trick is knowing when to say enough's enough and draw a line in the sand before I'm stuck with a multi million dollar account that consistently loses money.
I'll never know if I would have gotten more money had I gone higher, but that moment of insecurity still bothers me to this day.
You would have, almost certainly. I'm an Estimator, so I'm often in the position of throwing out a price on something. If I give someone a quote and get an e-mail from Sales 10 minutes later saying the customer has accepted it and is placing an order...I know for sure I've left money on the table.
It really got out of hand fast.
Only if they think they can get another job.