The Nazgul felt left out of the latest series of events, so they had to figure out a way to shove them in there!
I 'like' IBM for the most part, but it's important to remember that a good chunk of it's existence is owed to keeping hundreds of lawyers billing hours for decades. At least until recently, there were guys there who have literally never practiced law outside of their IP department getting ready to retire.
Certainly doesn't mean that the quality is there. Most purely crowdfunded games I've played have fallen into the category that Steve Jackson's games filled 2 decades ago - at best, they are fun once or twice, but beyond that, they are defective (and downright unfun.) The only difference is that it's so easy to get high-quality stuff manufactured now, the game doesn't literally fall apart after you play it.
It certainly doesn't help that the established industry has basically turned into a card game business in the last 5 years. The deck-building game concept was fun and novel back when Dominion landed, but it seems to be 90% of the 'new' product now. Even worse, card games lend themselves much more naturally to expansions, and people are repeating the same mistakes that were made decades ago with Netrunner and Magic.
Hasbro owns WotC. So, Hasbro makes Axis and Allies, Lords of Waterdeep, Risk, Acquire, and Vegas Showdown (among others.) If it ever actually happened, Hasbro told the CAH guys they weren't interested for much the same reason that LGS's don't stock the product - while the game is amusing if you are 18+, it's not the kind of thing you want on the shelf when you have pre-teens wandering around.
You should come to Denver. We have (arguably) one of the worst environments for electric cars (Snow, many cold days, rapid temp fluctuation, and driving patterns that often include hills if you like the mountains,) and we are something like Tesla's 2nd or 3rd most popular region per capita.
Sure, many people also have a 2nd or 3rd car (typically an SUV) to drive, but I know quite a few people who just own a Tesla, or a Volt, or an i3, or a Leaf, and they are all pretty happy with their choices.
Not sure why this isn't modded +5 Funny yet - this guy is hilarious. 'Modern College Training' for industry-standard coding practices - he's a laugh riot! Next thing, he's going to tell you why the kiddie who was taught scripting at the local Community College thinks he can re-write your entire, decade old proprietary software built for hardware that you pay 6 figures a year to support in 2 weeks with a couple of cloud-hosted servers!
I (and most experienced software PM's) would rather have a 40-year-old with 15 years experience in 'dead' languages than some FOB 'Graduate' who's spent the last year writing code in an environment that's not going to be fit for production for another 18 mos. Give me someone who accepts that you have to get from point A to point B first, instead of just assuming that you can start from point C, with a clean environment, and no legacy.
But...but...but... Look at all those numbers! eSports is the FUTURE! What people really want to watch is a bunch of face cams to see the players really squint at the screen!
The exact comparison I made in the comments of the Kotaku article, and the discussion I've had half a dozen times in the last week regarding the process in general. Inexperienced company signs stupid contract and dies when something goes wrong, news at 11...
I got a 3 day suspension ~15 years ago because a group of us 'nerds' figured out admin access to the schools network, not because I used it, but because I gave the access to most of my entire class without them knowing about it to cover my tracks.
I shudder to think what would have happened today...
There's a very good reason that many sociologists have a sub-generation (Gen-Y) that refers to the first few years of the 'Milennial' generation. Traditional generational divides for culture, morality, and other social behavior work pretty well for Gen-X/Milennial/Gen-Z, but there is a sub-set of Milennials (those of us born in the early 80's) that are pretty much defined for having pre-computer developmental years, but having been introduced to the internet during maturity. This gave us more 'traditional' communication skills, but then gave us a very large environment (The Web) to develop and grow. Younger Milennials typically had their development influenced by 'The Internet,' and they have certainly had more direct access to technology as juveniles (I was born in '84, and I didn't get my own cellphone until ~98 when I was 14. I know people who were born in '96 who got them at the same time. Hell, I know people with kids born right at the end - 00-01 - who had iPhones before they got to Middle School.)
The result is that you have a small, niche-generation of people who were able to get very involved in 'Tech' because of their familiarity through a learning process that required reasonable effort, and much of the rest of the generation has just always had the presence of 'Tech' around them with very little effort. The former will likely be advantaged when it comes to careers involving more fundamental implementations of technology (think SysAdmin and Coder), the latter will likely find more success where tech is used as an enabler, or where they are able to leverage more sophisticated higher-level platforms (think Modern-Day Web Designer and most App development.)
This sounds like the same sort of thing that has been plaguing 'normal' users for the last 2 years, except now, instead of locking down Word docs and photos, it's killing game save files.
Betcha their ransom pay rate is way higher with gamers. Smart move, fuckers...
Imagine, a technology that would allow you to connect peripherals wirelessly. You know, like Bluetooth, which has been around since 1994. Look at how it dominates the peripheral industry!/sarcasm
Look, my inherent dislike of AAPL (and the people who love it) died some time ago. The problem I have with them now is not the fault of the Company - it's the idiots who keep buying this stuff. Seriously, gold colored iPhones, solid gold tchotckes that are designed to be obsolete within 2 years - madness.
You will never fix this problem with a technical solution. Either completely virtualize the meeting using formal telepresence, or acknowledge that people won't be able to attend and have a meeting without them.
If you absolutely must do it the way you are doing, just buy a used Polycom and be done with it.
should not be determined based on the fucking diversity of the participants. This is like complaining that music programs traditionally have under representation of white males - maybe you can threaten theater and music grants if they don't get more alpha jocks to participate...
This shouldn't surprise you. ITunes, especially on Windows, was a nightmare to manage in parallel with any other music software. Odds are this was just a happy accident that AAPL just didn't do anything to fix.
Newspapers start reporting on the Internet! You can get a documentary on DVD about the future of streaming, and the buggy-whip makers are designing novelty car decorations!
What authors (or writers, or artists) do you enjoy reading most? I often find that the people I like to read like to read the people I should be reading.
I'd have to look more into the Google implementation, but I can say with "I work on it" certainty that Apple Pay uses EMV Tokenization, and is treated like Card Present, and that it was the first major tokenization effort we've rolled out.
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The Nazgul felt left out of the latest series of events, so they had to figure out a way to shove them in there!
I 'like' IBM for the most part, but it's important to remember that a good chunk of it's existence is owed to keeping hundreds of lawyers billing hours for decades. At least until recently, there were guys there who have literally never practiced law outside of their IP department getting ready to retire.
Wish this could be +6.
It certainly doesn't help that the established industry has basically turned into a card game business in the last 5 years. The deck-building game concept was fun and novel back when Dominion landed, but it seems to be 90% of the 'new' product now. Even worse, card games lend themselves much more naturally to expansions, and people are repeating the same mistakes that were made decades ago with Netrunner and Magic.
Hasbro owns WotC. So, Hasbro makes Axis and Allies, Lords of Waterdeep, Risk, Acquire, and Vegas Showdown (among others.) If it ever actually happened, Hasbro told the CAH guys they weren't interested for much the same reason that LGS's don't stock the product - while the game is amusing if you are 18+, it's not the kind of thing you want on the shelf when you have pre-teens wandering around.
Sure, many people also have a 2nd or 3rd car (typically an SUV) to drive, but I know quite a few people who just own a Tesla, or a Volt, or an i3, or a Leaf, and they are all pretty happy with their choices.
I (and most experienced software PM's) would rather have a 40-year-old with 15 years experience in 'dead' languages than some FOB 'Graduate' who's spent the last year writing code in an environment that's not going to be fit for production for another 18 mos. Give me someone who accepts that you have to get from point A to point B first, instead of just assuming that you can start from point C, with a clean environment, and no legacy.
When it comes to Texans and Judges, they both think the rules apply to somebody else.
But...but...but... Look at all those numbers! eSports is the FUTURE! What people really want to watch is a bunch of face cams to see the players really squint at the screen!
The exact comparison I made in the comments of the Kotaku article, and the discussion I've had half a dozen times in the last week regarding the process in general. Inexperienced company signs stupid contract and dies when something goes wrong, news at 11...
I shudder to think what would have happened today...
The result is that you have a small, niche-generation of people who were able to get very involved in 'Tech' because of their familiarity through a learning process that required reasonable effort, and much of the rest of the generation has just always had the presence of 'Tech' around them with very little effort. The former will likely be advantaged when it comes to careers involving more fundamental implementations of technology (think SysAdmin and Coder), the latter will likely find more success where tech is used as an enabler, or where they are able to leverage more sophisticated higher-level platforms (think Modern-Day Web Designer and most App development.)
You keep on fighting the good fight, grandpa.
Shhhhh, don't say that out loud! This is Slashdot after all - MS is the Devil!
Seriously? This is a real thing? Fuck the current Tort system...
Betcha their ransom pay rate is way higher with gamers. Smart move, fuckers...
Look, my inherent dislike of AAPL (and the people who love it) died some time ago. The problem I have with them now is not the fault of the Company - it's the idiots who keep buying this stuff. Seriously, gold colored iPhones, solid gold tchotckes that are designed to be obsolete within 2 years - madness.
If you absolutely must do it the way you are doing, just buy a used Polycom and be done with it.
should not be determined based on the fucking diversity of the participants. This is like complaining that music programs traditionally have under representation of white males - maybe you can threaten theater and music grants if they don't get more alpha jocks to participate...
Can they prevent wireless companies from blocking hotspots next?
This shouldn't surprise you. ITunes, especially on Windows, was a nightmare to manage in parallel with any other music software. Odds are this was just a happy accident that AAPL just didn't do anything to fix.
Newspapers start reporting on the Internet! You can get a documentary on DVD about the future of streaming, and the buggy-whip makers are designing novelty car decorations!
Or you could watch the AMC Remake from 2009, making Nolan's potential effort a Remake of a Remake...
Visa has a tokenization program available for 3rd parties who want to integrate it. It just so happens that the biggest vendor so far is Apple.
Also, thank you for Spider.
I'd have to look more into the Google implementation, but I can say with "I work on it" certainty that Apple Pay uses EMV Tokenization, and is treated like Card Present, and that it was the first major tokenization effort we've rolled out.