If they were to take this to extremes, they would be also suing lawyers who represented clients that the USCG was suing, due to 'lost money and time.' Hell, maybe I should go ahead and file a broad-spectrum lawsuit against companies across the world for 'lost money and time' because they didn't hire me to work for them.
To understand the poor coding, you must understand the game industry and the choices they make. I'll explain using analogies that everyone can understand.
Example 1: Your task is to build a house. You can make your own brick, cut your own lumber, pour your own concrete foundation using concrete that you mixed, do your own plumbing, etc. The quality of your house is based on however much time you feel like spending to do it yourself. Obviously this would take far far too long, so you opt to use materials already created. You buy all the ingredients. Obviously some may not be up to your standard, but the loss of quality is relatively low compared to the vast amount of time you will save. You've given up a little and gained a lot.
Example 2: Your task is to build a house. You have three days to do it. The previous house, using the components you purchased, took several weeks to build. Your only solution is to use modular components. AKA, bed room. Living room. Kitchen. Bathroom. Assemble with a crane, connect together on a foundation, voila. A house. The quality suffers quite a bit using this pre-built solution, but you got the job done on time. It was the only way you could do it. You gave up a lot to get the job done on time.
Example 3: Your employer now realizes you can build houses in three days, and that there's a high demand for your house building services because you did such a good job in example one. Still, your employer thinks you can build it a little faster. Two days to build the house now. They know people won't care about the quality because once they've bought it, they've paid for it. As long as it still meets the most basic definition of a house and doesn't endanger the lives of the people living in it, it's suitable for sale. Your only option is to make a house factory and simply air lift the house in once complete. You don't even have time to secure the thing to the damn foundation.
So we've gone from perfect house to shitty house that will slide off its foundation in a strong wind. This is how the game industry is. They HAVE to use shitty tools and shitty coding to slop things out the door as fast as they can, because the marketing team has promised Call of Duty Black Ops 2 and 3 to be out by February and won't even tell the developers this until January 25th. Guess what department the executives are in?
The chip producer might end up with reduced profits, or they might end up with the same profit. Net result: Negatively affected. The chip seller might end up with reduced profits, or they might end up with the same profit. Net result: Negatively affected. The 'trader' might end up with increased profits, or they might end up with the same profit. Net result: Positively affected. The buyer might end up paying more, or they might not buy the chips. Net result: Negatively affected.
A good or service is only worth what people are willing to pay. The 'trader' is the only one that benefits. For everyone else, it makes the sale less likely and more expensive.
When I was in elementary school, we had these. We started out with openable desks that you could put your stuff in, you could get comfortable, arrange your chair however you wanted. It was nice, there was no left or right handed distinction. They were always right in front of you.
As I moved through the grades, my left-handed self was forced to use right-handed desks, which caused cramps and gave me a 'hunch.' There was no storage on or under the desk. There was no getting comfortable. Just 3 hour stretches of nothing but discomfort. If you were tall or fat, you'd be uncomfortable all day long.
Zygna is the John Farson to EA's Gilead, and the rest of the video game market is the Affiliation. Zygna is going to rise up, seemingly from nothing, leading the weak minded and dumb, and overthrow Gilead and the rest of the Affiliation. Nothing will be the same in their wake.
Of course, Zygna isn't the cause of the world moving on, they are merely a symptom. This doesn't bode well for us real gamers, us gunslingers.
We've known it for years (decades, even) that there are taste receptors in the lungs. People with no taste/smells can taste things if they inhale deep enough. Also, there are taste receptors in the sinuses, on the roof of the mouth, and under the tongue as well.
No justification? The justification is higher revenue gained through legal and well-defined means. Just because most people don't read the contracts to realize that deep on page seventy five of part one of your cell phone text messaging agreement there's a clause that charges you $8/text to anyone that has been out of country in the past month doesn't mean that they aren't legally responsible for the debt!
Anyway, enough of the snark.
I think you're kind of right, in that they need to be more clear and laid out. The way they do it, it's like a car dealership advertising their car for $10,000, and then hiding fee after fee in the five hundred pages you have ten minutes to read while the dealer is running your credit, totaling out to be $30,000 for the car. It should be something like below:
500 minutes per 30 day period 500 texts per 30 day period 50MB of data per 30 day period
$0.10/minute over 500 per 30 day period $0.01/text over 500 per 30 day period $1.00/MB over 50MB per 30 day period
Along with easy-to-access ways to figure out how much you've used of each. Maybe a built in monitor on the phone.
Keep in mind space flight doesn't have as much use to the citizenry and businesspeople of the world when compared to traditional air flight. It's likely to remain a toy unless they can turn it into some kind of economically advantageous form of travel. You can fly around the world for under under $10,000. Or you can fly a quick trip into space and back for $200,000. Prices will go way down though, due to standardization and marketization.
I would have figured Macs to be a hotbed of virus activity, but there just aren't that many viruses that target Macs, because PCs are just too big of a market share. My reasoning is because Macs 'just work' which means that it should be a lot easier for that virus to 'just wok' with little-to-no user interaction. Of course, there are/were plenty of ways to install something without the user knowing on Windows.
It used to be so bad that simply connecting a bare vanilla Windows XP machine to the network and turning the computer on would get you some kind of worm and your PC would join its brethren bots.
The police know that a criminal has shopped at this particular Wal-Mart store in the past few hours. They want security to review all the tapes and give a play-by-play of their exact movements and purchases. They want it to be hand-delivered by the person who normally does the security, to the state police headquarters 300 miles away by midnight tonight.
Funny..a company was just fined a few million for (illegal) human experimentation of their bone anchoring glue which resulted in several deaths, but a spammer that didn't cause any physical harm or death is fined a billion dollars. Let's get some file sharers fined for more than the GDP of several small nations combined too, for good measure.
I hate spammers, but you're telling me that a few million spam messages are worth more than several LIVES and ILLEGAL MEDICAL EXPERIMENTATION ON HUMANS?
Rest assured, you'll never catch those in charge. I doubt there are names on it. Maybe an agency, but they aren't going to be dumb enough to step into Iran. Iran is simply using these arrests as as political tool to further their own goals.
I can see it now. You'll have to link your Facebook account to your phone.
"John Q called Sally A. 12:05AM - 1:22AM. Three people like this. Two comments." "Suzie Q: OMG why were you calling that slut after I went to bed?? 9:32AM." "John Q: We were just talking about work, I swear!"
I, for one, am interested in hearing what they have to say. Sure, it'll probably turn out to be something simple, but what if it really IS UFOs? We can't disregard every crazy-sounding theory.
Remember, the earth isn't flat, the earth isn't the center of the universe, AND things smaller than they eye can see actually exist.
Perhaps if they need to cut required costs, then they have no business being in business? Surely it's not impossible to make a no-frills airline actually work out. Oh wait it is because if you're too competitive no airports will let you land there because they don't want you competing with their airlines.
Mod parent up. Cutting 50% of the carbs out of your diet will make most anyone lose weight. Even if you keep them ALL but use less refined carbs (wheat bread as opposed to white bread), you'll probably still lose weight if you get any kind of exercise. Carbs are the kind of energy that can turn into fat, and the more processed they are, the easier it is for the body to turn them into fat. At one end you have unprocessed whole grains like people used to eat in the middle ages, and at the other end you have pure sugar. Slower burning carbs will make you feel full for longer, since it physically takes longer for the body to process. Sugar is fully processed within an hour, so you get a 'sugar high' and then crash. Slow burning carbs will be with you for several hours, and there won't be any high or any crash. You'll just notice that you're hungry again in a few hours, instead of being sleepy/starving.
"That's way too short to encode very much more than anything informational. I'll bet it just says "Hey guys, happy birthday" or something."
Obviously someone failed Russian spy school. If you'll look on your nifty little code sheet there that you were forced (at gunpoint by your teacher) to memorize, you'll see that the numbers 74 14 35 74 correspond to specific operations. Naimina is also listed, and also corresponds to specific operations. Since we're all friends here, I'll give you a little reminder, just buy me a drink next time you see me, eh? The 74 is row seven column four. You'll notice that operation is to
How can you tell who sucks, though? You can put the best teacher into a bad environment and they'll do poorly. You put them into a school where they're underpaid, the school barely has supplies, the students don't care that they'll never make it through school, the parents actively encourage them to not do homework, etc. Traditionally these are all the problems of inner city schools. They can be fixed with programs, supplies, and better paid teachers.
There are three people associated with a child in their school time. The parents, the teachers, and the kids themselves. Starting with the parents, we have to get them to care. There are parents that actively encourage their kids to 'go out and play' rather than do homework. There are parents that cannot or will not provide safety and nourishment for their children. There are parents that actively abuse them. Find a way to make the parents play nice or take their kids away, possibly levying criminal charges. With the teachers, pay them more. Hire them some help so they don't have to put in 12 hour days. Make sure that they don't have to buy supplies out of pocket. Keep them well trained and in the loop. Lastly, with the kids, punish bullying harshly and swiftly. Since it's mostly about image, let them know just how manly it makes them look to pick on kids that they perceive to be weaker than them. Get rid of the fighting and the weapons. Bust up the gangs. Make school feel SAFE for them. You can't learn if you're worried about getting shanked in third period or which one of your friends took that bullet out in the courtyard.
World War III would last until some nuclear power felt that they were in serious danger of losing previously-held and non-disputed territory to an enemy. They'd drop a few tactical nukes on the invaders and the nuclear war would be on. Then it would leave little choice for everyone else involved because suddenly someone declared that they don't mind using nukes to put them at a tactical advantage. It wouldn't be a far stretch for said nuclear power to then decide that nuking someone else's border to soften up their defenses and prevent losses of their own forces. From there, it wouldn't be a far stretch for said nuclear power to then decide that nuking someone else's farm lands or industrial centers to prevent losses of their own forces in the future.
Indeed, it really is a slippery slope. The problem with nuclear weapons isn't that someone may use one and then stop, the problem is that once someone uses them, it's a lot easier to justify future uses for similar reasons.
The reason most people don't recycle is because it's a massive pain in the ass to separate out 6 different kinds of materials when a single plastic ring can ruin the entire batch. It's like a good hour of work every time you go to take the recycling off. Perhaps rather than bitching at the consumers to do this work, they should refine their process and make to where they can process the stuff and still get a decent usable product regardless of the plastic rings?
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If they were to take this to extremes, they would be also suing lawyers who represented clients that the USCG was suing, due to 'lost money and time.' Hell, maybe I should go ahead and file a broad-spectrum lawsuit against companies across the world for 'lost money and time' because they didn't hire me to work for them.
To understand the poor coding, you must understand the game industry and the choices they make. I'll explain using analogies that everyone can understand.
Example 1: Your task is to build a house. You can make your own brick, cut your own lumber, pour your own concrete foundation using concrete that you mixed, do your own plumbing, etc. The quality of your house is based on however much time you feel like spending to do it yourself. Obviously this would take far far too long, so you opt to use materials already created. You buy all the ingredients. Obviously some may not be up to your standard, but the loss of quality is relatively low compared to the vast amount of time you will save. You've given up a little and gained a lot.
Example 2: Your task is to build a house. You have three days to do it. The previous house, using the components you purchased, took several weeks to build. Your only solution is to use modular components. AKA, bed room. Living room. Kitchen. Bathroom. Assemble with a crane, connect together on a foundation, voila. A house. The quality suffers quite a bit using this pre-built solution, but you got the job done on time. It was the only way you could do it. You gave up a lot to get the job done on time.
Example 3: Your employer now realizes you can build houses in three days, and that there's a high demand for your house building services because you did such a good job in example one. Still, your employer thinks you can build it a little faster. Two days to build the house now. They know people won't care about the quality because once they've bought it, they've paid for it. As long as it still meets the most basic definition of a house and doesn't endanger the lives of the people living in it, it's suitable for sale. Your only option is to make a house factory and simply air lift the house in once complete. You don't even have time to secure the thing to the damn foundation.
So we've gone from perfect house to shitty house that will slide off its foundation in a strong wind. This is how the game industry is. They HAVE to use shitty tools and shitty coding to slop things out the door as fast as they can, because the marketing team has promised Call of Duty Black Ops 2 and 3 to be out by February and won't even tell the developers this until January 25th. Guess what department the executives are in?
This all seemed like advertising shill to me. It was like.
"X device sucked, unlike Kinect."
"Y device sucked, unlike Kinect."
"Z device sucked, unlike Kinect."
If they would have put, "unlike Kinect, Wii, or Move." it would have been more neutral.
The chip producer might end up with reduced profits, or they might end up with the same profit. Net result: Negatively affected.
The chip seller might end up with reduced profits, or they might end up with the same profit. Net result: Negatively affected.
The 'trader' might end up with increased profits, or they might end up with the same profit. Net result: Positively affected.
The buyer might end up paying more, or they might not buy the chips. Net result: Negatively affected.
A good or service is only worth what people are willing to pay. The 'trader' is the only one that benefits. For everyone else, it makes the sale less likely and more expensive.
Just so you know, disclosing such information about nuclear reactors will probably draw the ire of the NRC and homeland security.
You're right, it is.
When I was in elementary school, we had these. We started out with openable desks that you could put your stuff in, you could get comfortable, arrange your chair however you wanted. It was nice, there was no left or right handed distinction. They were always right in front of you.
As I moved through the grades, my left-handed self was forced to use right-handed desks, which caused cramps and gave me a 'hunch.' There was no storage on or under the desk. There was no getting comfortable. Just 3 hour stretches of nothing but discomfort. If you were tall or fat, you'd be uncomfortable all day long.
Zygna is the John Farson to EA's Gilead, and the rest of the video game market is the Affiliation. Zygna is going to rise up, seemingly from nothing, leading the weak minded and dumb, and overthrow Gilead and the rest of the Affiliation. Nothing will be the same in their wake.
Of course, Zygna isn't the cause of the world moving on, they are merely a symptom. This doesn't bode well for us real gamers, us gunslingers.
We've known it for years (decades, even) that there are taste receptors in the lungs. People with no taste/smells can taste things if they inhale deep enough. Also, there are taste receptors in the sinuses, on the roof of the mouth, and under the tongue as well.
Because shit dude the 6870 is 1000 better than the 5870! And it's going for a lot less! It's a GREAT deal.
No justification? The justification is higher revenue gained through legal and well-defined means. Just because most people don't read the contracts to realize that deep on page seventy five of part one of your cell phone text messaging agreement there's a clause that charges you $8/text to anyone that has been out of country in the past month doesn't mean that they aren't legally responsible for the debt!
Anyway, enough of the snark.
I think you're kind of right, in that they need to be more clear and laid out. The way they do it, it's like a car dealership advertising their car for $10,000, and then hiding fee after fee in the five hundred pages you have ten minutes to read while the dealer is running your credit, totaling out to be $30,000 for the car. It should be something like below:
500 minutes per 30 day period
500 texts per 30 day period
50MB of data per 30 day period
$0.10/minute over 500 per 30 day period
$0.01/text over 500 per 30 day period
$1.00/MB over 50MB per 30 day period
Along with easy-to-access ways to figure out how much you've used of each. Maybe a built in monitor on the phone.
Keep in mind space flight doesn't have as much use to the citizenry and businesspeople of the world when compared to traditional air flight. It's likely to remain a toy unless they can turn it into some kind of economically advantageous form of travel. You can fly around the world for under under $10,000. Or you can fly a quick trip into space and back for $200,000. Prices will go way down though, due to standardization and marketization.
I would have figured Macs to be a hotbed of virus activity, but there just aren't that many viruses that target Macs, because PCs are just too big of a market share. My reasoning is because Macs 'just work' which means that it should be a lot easier for that virus to 'just wok' with little-to-no user interaction. Of course, there are/were plenty of ways to install something without the user knowing on Windows.
It used to be so bad that simply connecting a bare vanilla Windows XP machine to the network and turning the computer on would get you some kind of worm and your PC would join its brethren bots.
Crime Analogy:
The police know that a criminal has shopped at this particular Wal-Mart store in the past few hours. They want security to review all the tapes and give a play-by-play of their exact movements and purchases. They want it to be hand-delivered by the person who normally does the security, to the state police headquarters 300 miles away by midnight tonight.
Funny..a company was just fined a few million for (illegal) human experimentation of their bone anchoring glue which resulted in several deaths, but a spammer that didn't cause any physical harm or death is fined a billion dollars. Let's get some file sharers fined for more than the GDP of several small nations combined too, for good measure.
I hate spammers, but you're telling me that a few million spam messages are worth more than several LIVES and ILLEGAL MEDICAL EXPERIMENTATION ON HUMANS?
Rest assured, you'll never catch those in charge. I doubt there are names on it. Maybe an agency, but they aren't going to be dumb enough to step into Iran. Iran is simply using these arrests as as political tool to further their own goals.
I can see it now. You'll have to link your Facebook account to your phone.
"John Q called Sally A. 12:05AM - 1:22AM. Three people like this. Two comments."
"Suzie Q: OMG why were you calling that slut after I went to bed?? 9:32AM."
"John Q: We were just talking about work, I swear!"
I, for one, am interested in hearing what they have to say. Sure, it'll probably turn out to be something simple, but what if it really IS UFOs? We can't disregard every crazy-sounding theory.
Remember, the earth isn't flat, the earth isn't the center of the universe, AND things smaller than they eye can see actually exist.
Easy solution. Just deploy some troops with the training in 'trance' to ward off the worm's psychic attacks.
They closed down right in the middle of a sale. A lot of people are unable to get what they purchased.
I don't think this is the end of it.
Perhaps they got hit with a massive lawsuit or someone is considering buying them out?
Perhaps if they need to cut required costs, then they have no business being in business? Surely it's not impossible to make a no-frills airline actually work out. Oh wait it is because if you're too competitive no airports will let you land there because they don't want you competing with their airlines.
Mod parent up. Cutting 50% of the carbs out of your diet will make most anyone lose weight. Even if you keep them ALL but use less refined carbs (wheat bread as opposed to white bread), you'll probably still lose weight if you get any kind of exercise. Carbs are the kind of energy that can turn into fat, and the more processed they are, the easier it is for the body to turn them into fat. At one end you have unprocessed whole grains like people used to eat in the middle ages, and at the other end you have pure sugar. Slower burning carbs will make you feel full for longer, since it physically takes longer for the body to process. Sugar is fully processed within an hour, so you get a 'sugar high' and then crash. Slow burning carbs will be with you for several hours, and there won't be any high or any crash. You'll just notice that you're hungry again in a few hours, instead of being sleepy/starving.
"That's way too short to encode very much more than anything informational. I'll bet it just says "Hey guys, happy birthday" or something."
Obviously someone failed Russian spy school. If you'll look on your nifty little code sheet there that you were forced (at gunpoint by your teacher) to memorize, you'll see that the numbers 74 14 35 74 correspond to specific operations. Naimina is also listed, and also corresponds to specific operations. Since we're all friends here, I'll give you a little reminder, just buy me a drink next time you see me, eh? The 74 is row seven column four. You'll notice that operation is to
How can you tell who sucks, though? You can put the best teacher into a bad environment and they'll do poorly. You put them into a school where they're underpaid, the school barely has supplies, the students don't care that they'll never make it through school, the parents actively encourage them to not do homework, etc. Traditionally these are all the problems of inner city schools. They can be fixed with programs, supplies, and better paid teachers.
There are three people associated with a child in their school time. The parents, the teachers, and the kids themselves. Starting with the parents, we have to get them to care. There are parents that actively encourage their kids to 'go out and play' rather than do homework. There are parents that cannot or will not provide safety and nourishment for their children. There are parents that actively abuse them. Find a way to make the parents play nice or take their kids away, possibly levying criminal charges. With the teachers, pay them more. Hire them some help so they don't have to put in 12 hour days. Make sure that they don't have to buy supplies out of pocket. Keep them well trained and in the loop. Lastly, with the kids, punish bullying harshly and swiftly. Since it's mostly about image, let them know just how manly it makes them look to pick on kids that they perceive to be weaker than them. Get rid of the fighting and the weapons. Bust up the gangs. Make school feel SAFE for them. You can't learn if you're worried about getting shanked in third period or which one of your friends took that bullet out in the courtyard.
World War III would last until some nuclear power felt that they were in serious danger of losing previously-held and non-disputed territory to an enemy. They'd drop a few tactical nukes on the invaders and the nuclear war would be on. Then it would leave little choice for everyone else involved because suddenly someone declared that they don't mind using nukes to put them at a tactical advantage. It wouldn't be a far stretch for said nuclear power to then decide that nuking someone else's border to soften up their defenses and prevent losses of their own forces. From there, it wouldn't be a far stretch for said nuclear power to then decide that nuking someone else's farm lands or industrial centers to prevent losses of their own forces in the future.
Indeed, it really is a slippery slope. The problem with nuclear weapons isn't that someone may use one and then stop, the problem is that once someone uses them, it's a lot easier to justify future uses for similar reasons.
The reason most people don't recycle is because it's a massive pain in the ass to separate out 6 different kinds of materials when a single plastic ring can ruin the entire batch. It's like a good hour of work every time you go to take the recycling off. Perhaps rather than bitching at the consumers to do this work, they should refine their process and make to where they can process the stuff and still get a decent usable product regardless of the plastic rings?