I keep being tempted by this game. I like the premise. I did the trial, enjoyed the time. I even like the idea of all the schemes and betrayals that are EVE legends.
But every time I get close to signing up, there's some story of CCP employee misconduct affecting gameplay, and that just turns me right off the game.
I'd hoped they'd cleaned up their act, but it seems the answer is no.
CCP, you need transparency. You need to have clear rules for employees, and enforce them in a public manner. You have serious work to do to clean up your reputation.
It IS costing you money, without any question whatsoever.
Ok, let's do this. Make a Tech Politics category, which I'll keep turned on. And make a "random story we post for no tech related reason whatsoever" category that I'll turn off.
The bottom line is this kind of story is off-topic. Period. Make it so I can filter off-topic stories out and I'll shut up.
Indeed. I stopped reading Boing Boing when they posted one too many off-topic political stories, and I'll do the same with Slashdot if they go down this road. I've been here for years, but I read my politics (and I do read a *lot* of politics) at places that have some idea what they're talking about.
I know stories about politics make you feel "important" and "relevant", but if it aint geek related, I don't want to read it here.
Becasue we left the industry years ago, tired of people hiring buzzword checklists instead of the ability to understand what a piece of sftware is really doing, and trying to pay less for more work.
We code what we want to code, on our own time and without ridiculous "project management" systems that no one even understands, much less implements in a helpful way.
But he's certainly not infallible on tech policy. He is, after all, Al "Clipper Chip" Gore, and for that I cannot forgive him.
In the greatest of ironies, it was John Ashcroft who led the fight against good ol skipjack.
Times do change...
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My usenet access came through a state university where I had a friend of a friend who was an admin.
I might be mis-remembering, but I don't think I had usenet directly until my netcom account.
And then when AOL got usenet! Ah the screams of pain! But it turned out usenet was too complicated for the AOL masses and it didn't matter all that much anyway.
Now usenet is essentially the same small group of people it was 10 years ago. The same exact people, in fact.
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I keep being tempted by this game. I like the premise. I did the trial, enjoyed the time. I even like the idea of all the schemes and betrayals that are EVE legends.
But every time I get close to signing up, there's some story of CCP employee misconduct affecting gameplay, and that just turns me right off the game.
I'd hoped they'd cleaned up their act, but it seems the answer is no.
CCP, you need transparency. You need to have clear rules for employees, and enforce them in a public manner. You have serious work to do to clean up your reputation.
It IS costing you money, without any question whatsoever.
Ok, let's do this. Make a Tech Politics category, which I'll keep turned on. And make a "random story we post for no tech related reason whatsoever" category that I'll turn off.
The bottom line is this kind of story is off-topic. Period. Make it so I can filter off-topic stories out and I'll shut up.
Don't, and I won't.
There's nothing tech or science related in this story. Just an attempt by someone to "important" and "relevant" again.
I don't come to slashdot for pure politics. If there are more stories along these lines, I will lose interest and stop visiting.
This is a tech site. If some of the editors want a politics site, go start it.
Did you miss the "confessed to killing 8 people" part?
Well...
I'd say people who couldn't obtain the correct email for her probably shouldn't be admitted to MIT.
Indeed. I stopped reading Boing Boing when they posted one too many off-topic political stories, and I'll do the same with Slashdot if they go down this road. I've been here for years, but I read my politics (and I do read a *lot* of politics) at places that have some idea what they're talking about.
I know stories about politics make you feel "important" and "relevant", but if it aint geek related, I don't want to read it here.
Wear Sunscreen.
And Japan and South Korea nowhere in the top ten.
Riiiiiiiiiiiiiight.
Don't interfere with Bill-Bashing!
That's part of their schtick. They aren't like other corporations, or so they say.
Turns out when money is on the line, oh yes they are just like other corporations.
So if they're like everybody else, why do they deserve geek community support?
Maybe now we'll see some real development on Linux!
Enough to make one. If there's content people want, they'll break joost too.
It's as if they never learn...
Becasue we left the industry years ago, tired of people hiring buzzword checklists instead of the ability to understand what a piece of sftware is really doing, and trying to pay less for more work.
We code what we want to code, on our own time and without ridiculous "project management" systems that no one even understands, much less implements in a helpful way.
That's why.
Do you have the same reaction? Why or why not?
It's his story. If he didn't mean it, he shouldn't have put it out there.
Typical of these "research" companies, though. Completely typcial.
Does anyone here believe this will actually happen?
I do not.
First among them, The Long Tail, and why it would benefit the site to take advantage of it rather than ignore it.
The whole "notability" criteria seems very much like 1980s thinking. So many lessons of the internet being ignored there.
Just curious.
Gosh, I hope that no one who published the books Google wants to put online made a similar agreement with anyone.
Do you know why?
We don't pay enough for the skills.
When a less-skilled, less-demanding job pays the same, what do people do?
Yes, that's right.
"We don't want to pay local workers enough".
Maybe so, maybe so.
But he's certainly not infallible on tech policy. He is, after all, Al "Clipper Chip" Gore, and for that I cannot forgive him.
In the greatest of ironies, it was John Ashcroft who led the fight against good ol skipjack.
Times do change...
My usenet access came through a state university where I had a friend of a friend who was an admin.
I might be mis-remembering, but I don't think I had usenet directly until my netcom account.
And then when AOL got usenet! Ah the screams of pain! But it turned out usenet was too complicated for the AOL masses and it didn't matter all that much anyway.
Now usenet is essentially the same small group of people it was 10 years ago. The same exact people, in fact.
So that's good.
Commercializing the internet?
How'd that ever work out anyway?
When you try to control use and charge for standards.
WWW is a good example of what happens when you don't.