Could we please quit with the stupid punctuation in conference names? It just messes with search engines, folder structures, etc. Just call this "VScon" and everyone will get the message that this is for Microsoft developers using Visual Studio.
>> user ratings on Metacritic come in significantly lower than critics' ratings...lack of content
And yet, someone will still buy this shiny plastic turd of a game.
The movie's not out yet and I'm already tired of Star Wars. I'm half hoping JJ will "Star Trek" the franchise, deep-sixing it in a way not even Jar-Jar or the racist "trade federation Asians" could do, and clear off some shelf space and mindshare for something new and creative.
>> there's a mute button on your remote. Learn to use it.
It's 2015. Where's my "skip" button? Hell, I'd take a "flag this commercial as inappropriate - show me TWO OTHER non-dick-hardening commercials instead" button.
>> ammunition to force tech companies away from end-to-end encryption
Um...what major social or web site actually uses "end to end" encryption? Lots of sites use HTTPS to connect a client to a server, but all those communications are decrypted and easily snooped/stored/retransmitted at the server.
(Where "end to end" encryption means "only the sender and recipient can see the plaintext message" - examples include PGP-encrypted messages, SMIME-encrypted emails, "strong zip" encrypted files and the like.)
This makes perfect sense: the original Microsoft group will write vulnerable applications while the new services group chases the problem around. Brilliant!
>> it removed the stupid fuckups from our society to a location where we can safely dispose of them by bombing
That was kind of the point behind invading Iraq, if you listen to certain neo-cons. Unfortunately, it turns out that 1) the supply of stupid fuckups is nearly inexhaustible, 2) they start hiding among the civilians (which we then bomb) and 3) some are happy to "play ISIS" in their own backyards (like this fuckup).
>> Anonymous Takes Down Thousands of ISIS-Related Twitter Accounts
Call me stupid but why doesn't Twitter shut off terrorist/childporn/etc. accounts regularly? Isn't there a TOS for that? Is there ANY way to get kicked off of Twitter?
...then your company is stupid for putting you in the booth. I've done booth tours before because I wanted to actually talk to some people about what they thought of my products or at least why they've never heard of our company.
>> trade shows are often your best way to meet your own company's executives, especially at casual after-show gatherings
Then your executives probably suck too. They should be scaring up more business or soothing cash cow customers, not fucking around with the help.
>> You might also meet execs from other companies and be open to conversations about changing jobs, but this is not something you want to talk about with your bosses or their bosses, but is best kept quiet until or unless you have a firm offer in hand.
So...your hope is to tag along to a convention on your existing employer's dime, fuck around, and strike up a conversation that gets you hired by someone else on the convention floor? Are you supposed to slip your resume in with your company's glossies, or write "get me out of here" on your business card, or what?
>> Open source programmers can usually build better code faster, often because their have bosses who pay them to build something that will pay off next quarter, not next century
Huh? Open source is the "paid" side of the coding world? Commercial products take centuries to release? Please show me the straw man you're trying to build.
I looked at the screenshots - some crappy robots and a ninja around a 1990's era block of wood, in a "tavern" where the textures don't even flow together.
Why are the graphics this poor for a "VR" experience?
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This. Nor is plutonium.
Call me when we're putting things in orbit with hemp and sunshine.
>> whopping £2.3 million on Kickstarter ($3.5 million), after asking for a mere £125,000 to get off the ground
Yeah, if I were the project founders, I'd say "fuck it," pocket the money and head to the beach too.
>> Surely that's because you're searching for the wrong term. The right one is: "Connect(); // 2015"
Sure, that would have been my 1,455th guess. :) Someone please mod parent up as "funny". The rest of you*, go fire your marketing team.
* = For values of "rest of you" equal to "anyone having anything to do with this conference."
Try a Google search for "Connect();" and see what happens. ("Microsoft Connect Conference" ain't even on the first page.)
>> they need these in Dubai for their jet-pack equipped firefighters!
Have you been to the UAE? When I first heard about that I thought they were just planning to launch Filipinos* at the fire until it was smothered.
* = https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
>> Connect();
Could we please quit with the stupid punctuation in conference names? It just messes with search engines, folder structures, etc. Just call this "VScon" and everyone will get the message that this is for Microsoft developers using Visual Studio.
>> lasers are sci-fi's weapon of choice for melting away an enemy spaceship
No, I think lasers are sci-fi's weapon of choice for whittling down deflector shields.
>> user ratings on Metacritic come in significantly lower than critics' ratings...lack of content
And yet, someone will still buy this shiny plastic turd of a game.
The movie's not out yet and I'm already tired of Star Wars. I'm half hoping JJ will "Star Trek" the franchise, deep-sixing it in a way not even Jar-Jar or the racist "trade federation Asians" could do, and clear off some shelf space and mindshare for something new and creative.
Mass-market attorney advertisements in the US are a relatively recent phenomenon. Here's a quick history:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
>> there's a mute button on your remote. Learn to use it.
It's 2015. Where's my "skip" button? Hell, I'd take a "flag this commercial as inappropriate - show me TWO OTHER non-dick-hardening commercials instead" button.
>> surely we can do something about ISIS getting Redbull
Why stem the flow of Redbull? That crap will kill them too.
>> ammunition to force tech companies away from end-to-end encryption
Um...what major social or web site actually uses "end to end" encryption? Lots of sites use HTTPS to connect a client to a server, but all those communications are decrypted and easily snooped/stored/retransmitted at the server.
(Where "end to end" encryption means "only the sender and recipient can see the plaintext message" - examples include PGP-encrypted messages, SMIME-encrypted emails, "strong zip" encrypted files and the like.)
>> Isn't that precisely what companies are doing with security bug bounty programs?
No, that's called "outsourcing QA"
>> doubled its number of security executives
This makes perfect sense: the original Microsoft group will write vulnerable applications while the new services group chases the problem around. Brilliant!
>> You say that like there is an infinite number of moderators at twitter
No, I say that like there are a FINITE number of anonymous members who were able to make the necessary distinctions.
>> it removed the stupid fuckups from our society to a location where we can safely dispose of them by bombing
That was kind of the point behind invading Iraq, if you listen to certain neo-cons. Unfortunately, it turns out that 1) the supply of stupid fuckups is nearly inexhaustible, 2) they start hiding among the civilians (which we then bomb) and 3) some are happy to "play ISIS" in their own backyards (like this fuckup).
>> Anonymous Takes Down Thousands of ISIS-Related Twitter Accounts
Call me stupid but why doesn't Twitter shut off terrorist/childporn/etc. accounts regularly? Isn't there a TOS for that? Is there ANY way to get kicked off of Twitter?
...then your company is stupid for putting you in the booth. I've done booth tours before because I wanted to actually talk to some people about what they thought of my products or at least why they've never heard of our company.
>> trade shows are often your best way to meet your own company's executives, especially at casual after-show gatherings
Then your executives probably suck too. They should be scaring up more business or soothing cash cow customers, not fucking around with the help.
>> You might also meet execs from other companies and be open to conversations about changing jobs, but this is not something you want to talk about with your bosses or their bosses, but is best kept quiet until or unless you have a firm offer in hand.
So...your hope is to tag along to a convention on your existing employer's dime, fuck around, and strike up a conversation that gets you hired by someone else on the convention floor? Are you supposed to slip your resume in with your company's glossies, or write "get me out of here" on your business card, or what?
>> Paint Shop Pro in the 90's.
Look for "paint shop pro 6.02 abandonware" - something like http://www.oldapps.com/Paint_S...
>> worst terrorist attack in French history
French history is LONG. Check out the Rhineland Massacres, the Albigensian Crusade, and maybe the Carolingian Succession for starters.
>> encrytped
Someone, please buy the Dice interns a spellchecker for Christmas this year.
>> Open source programmers can usually build better code faster, often because their have bosses who pay them to build something that will pay off next quarter, not next century
Huh? Open source is the "paid" side of the coding world? Commercial products take centuries to release? Please show me the straw man you're trying to build.
https://roll20.net/ - yeah...that one has real video chat
I looked at the screenshots - some crappy robots and a ninja around a 1990's era block of wood, in a "tavern" where the textures don't even flow together.
Why are the graphics this poor for a "VR" experience?
The robe's important too if you're broadcasting video.