Actually, no they don't. The physical server cost may be trivial, but the cost to host it, supply bandwidth, maintain it and keep it updated is not. We aren't even talking about the dev work required to do something useful.
Or are you talking about one of those companies that hires the VP of Marketing's 15yr old nephew to do the dev work instead of a real person? Boy, you betcha, that's gonna be successful.
I did some checking and I found out that Wizards is actually a for profit company. Your post made me think for a second that they were a non-profit organization created to help spread D&D around to poor and underprivileged people.
You may want to check that out yourself. You seem to be confused about why Wizards is in business.
A publisher is usually the funding behind a development project. Without a publisher, most development teams could never afford to up front the cash. The cut that the publisher makes has to cover marketing, admin costs, the cost of games that never sell or never make it to market and also they have to make a profit.
We all love to hate publishers and some may deserve the hate, but without a publisher, many games that we've played would have never made it to market.
It's disturbing that it's so easy for people to hate any large company or corporation, yet they have so very little education about how the real world works. Publishers are necessary because development teams don't have enough money to pay themselves to spend 5 years making a game.
Do the math. Two parties are involved and without one, the other can't make a game. The dev needs money and the money needs dev. The way I see it, 50/50 sounds about right for a dev team without a big name like Valve, id, etc.
The very fact that you think a government funded news organization is some how trustworthy illustrates the extreme gap between the US culture of freedom and distrust of bureaucratic governments and the willingness of the European elite to drink whatever koolaid they are given.
The BBC *is* dubious and any mental midget who thinks otherwise has stuck their pointy head into the sand and refuses to see the world for what it really is.
The reports are that he's flying to Oslo to accept. Are you surprised now? This is beyond a joke and it amazes me that any American could take seriously anything these Eurotards say or anyone they give awards to.
Obama is essentially getting an award for campaign promises and campaign speeches. It's disgusting.
"I have yet to find a media file that vlc cannot play."
VLC works fine for 50% of the common every-day formats that everyone uses. And in reality It does play about 90% of the formats out there.
The problem is that while it "plays" these formats, it looks like absolute shit. Playback is often choppy and trying to rewind or advance through a movie causes all sorts of havoc, including crashing VLC.
What's worse, is that even though they've supposedly improved the subtitle support and MKV container support, it's still a load of unusable crap and I'd rather use some old player with a crummy UI like MPlayer, just so I can enjoy the movie.
VLC was a good option for me when there wasn't a damned thing else I could use, but now that I have a choice, VLC can die a slow death.
I would be embarrassed to put my name to a product like VLC when there are plenty of other free tools out there that kick my software's ass.
Perhaps you can help me with something I genuinely don't understand. Why is it that there is such a passionate movement for wanting more pollution, more shitty water, more shitty air, more shitty soil? Even if you don't agree with the science that shows global warming is manmade, why not work to clean up the environment anyway? I don't understand what motivates you.
Global Warming is nothing more than religious fascism wrapped up in a pretty package of guilt and stranded polar bears. Your idiotic question illustrates this perfectly. In your mind, people who disagree with the shit being passed off as science want dirty water, more pollution and some section of the US to fall off into the ocean.
No one, NO ONE wants "more pollution, more shitty water, more shitty air, more shitty soil". Just because you think the sky is falling and are willing to believe any bullshit story you hear, it doesn't mean we all are going to open our pocketbooks so that people like you can push for more taxes to combat this "problem".
The earth has been cooling for years now and the very idea that any climate change means doom and destruction is a FUCKING joke. For decades now scientists with axes to grind and funding to aquire have been crying that we only have 10 more years to go, or 20 more years to go. In the 60's it was global cooling, in the 90's it was global warning and now that we are in a massive cooling cycle, they've wised up and are now saying *ANY* climate change is bad.
I don't believe it and I don't trust the "scientists" who subscribe to this shit theory. Follow the money and you'll find the real reason people are pushing this. Pollution credits, green companies and carbon offsets are a huge business.
The only warming that is happening are the gasbags who are constantly crying about climate change.
You retards have been promising us an apocalypse for YEARS now. Where is it? Where is the show?
Why yes, of course! Obama wouldn't lie, would he? A politician can be trusted no matter what they say!
Thanks for letting me know that. All these years, I've had a healthy distrust for politicians and those affiliated with government, but you've helped me see the light.
I'll be sure to cast my ballot for our savior, keeper of truth, guardian of democracy. The Lord Barak Obama.
You are kidding yourself. Liberal Democrats and activists are the groups that started the push for legalizing gay marriage at the federal level and conservatives are pushing back. It's always been up to the state to decide what constitutes marriage, but conservatives have had to fight back at the federal level themselves to keep liberal Democrats from creating broad federal laws that legalize it, regardless of the states decision.
What should they do? Roll over and die while the Democrats pass legislation that uses the constitution for toilet paper?
This happened in India, not the US. Who here is familiar with basic Indian law and how do you know that any such idea of the "right to privacy" exists in India? Don't confuse the world's draconian laws with the freedom we exclusively enjoy here in the US. Even countries that look "free" on the outside like Britain are hounded CCTV cameras every where they go.
This sort of behavior around the word only surprises the ignorant people here who do not even understand the most basic concepts of our republic.
I know it's hard to let your bigotry towards religious people not show on/., but this is going a bit too far. People don't believe that memories are stored in the soul and it's certainly not a cultural debate. I think your dagger is the first. Congratulations for drudging up a non-existent reason for slashdot to irrationally hate religious people even more.
Agreed. Global warming/climate change argument has long since turned into a religion and did so the moment people began to refuse to debate the issue.
If the world as observed by "science" were an unbreakable fact until the end of time, we'd all be living on a flat earth instead of this nice, mostly-round one.
This comment was inflammatory, not insightful. I doubt the author could give one single example of how he has experienced semi-totalitarian rule from the US government outside of some paranoid delusion that George W. Bush is listening to his personal phone calls to his psychiatrist or his local tin-foil hat helpline.
Comments like this is are nothing more than ignorant straw-man arguments. Nothing insightful about the ravings of a fool.
I'm amazed that people are taking this person seriously. His employer is asking him to perform a duty that is legal and probably within the bounds of his capabilities and function. He can choose to either comply or not comply. Based on whether or not he lives in a right-to-work state, his employer can choose to fire or not fire him if he refuses to comply. It's simple.
My suggestion is to get off your arrogant high-horse, shut your whiny mouth and do your FUCKING job instead of spending all your time reading slashdot and wondering if your evil employee will fire you for refusing to get the fuck back to work.
No, I won't play that game. You made an idiotic statement as if it's fact, but you are just spouting nonsense. You, in your own mind, obviously have this stereotype of ID/creationists and you think they espouse their beliefs as scientific theory, but it's just that. A stereotype.
If you want to sit around and call these people names, or laugh at them, that's your prerogative, but don't insert stupid statements about scientific theory into the argument just to validate your own bigotry towards other people.
Your post made no sense. Let's take a break and sit back and see if we couldn't remove a few of those run-on sentences. Try completing a few of those thoughts you had and maybe throw in some decent punctuation here and there. I'm not asking you to pass muster for English 301. Just sort of make it legible for the "rest of us".
I have little in common with people from other countries other than DNA. My culture is radically different; my religion is different and my personal values are so completely opposed that you could find almost no comparison.
I will die a free man before I am forced to live under any other government's tyranny and oppression.
Nations and borders, thankfully, exist for a damned good reason.
You would be AMAZED at how many people here at slashdot think that a forum owner is bound to recognize the First Amendment in the process of administering their forum. Stupid and ignorant users routinely bitch and whine about First Amendment rights whenever a post is moderated or a user is banned.
1) Ban his account and ban future accounts that he creates. If you have some misguided notion that this is a PR issue, post a note about why he's banned and how you expect people to contribute by posting constructive criticism, not attacks.
2) Ignore him. By responding to him, you only give him satisfaction and validation.
3) Isn't this something you learn to deal with as a child? Why is an adult having issues with this that they can't solve themselves?
4) Since when is slashdot a forum for whiney bitches who complain about Jimmy calling him names? Get over it. YOU are giving him the power to upset you.
Many times we have to put up with stupid and poorly thought out "features" in OSS software and our only recourse is to "submit a patch".
Well, these guys have taken that one step further and I say more power to them. It's about time someone took asshole OSS developers to task and answer these ridiculous calls to submit patches when we are voicing real concerns.
He didn't ask if you were being a normal parent, he was asking if you were viewing porn with your 6 year old? That's what you were advocating. No one is talking about viewing a health class movie about the miracle of life, we are talking about porn and until you quickly changed the subject, so were you.
You are a dirty, hypocritcal, holier-than-thou type who obviously has few social manners. Thanks for being "that guy".
Oh, thank you for this post. I get so damned sick of the holier than thou types who think that showing MY 10 year old, bangbus reruns is just a natural fact of life and we parents should stop being so uptight. "Son, put down the rattle we need to talk. Did you know that can actually pay some slut $50 to get in a van and be assfucked by a total stranger on tape."
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Actually, no they don't. The physical server cost may be trivial, but the cost to host it, supply bandwidth, maintain it and keep it updated is not. We aren't even talking about the dev work required to do something useful.
Or are you talking about one of those companies that hires the VP of Marketing's 15yr old nephew to do the dev work instead of a real person? Boy, you betcha, that's gonna be successful.
I did some checking and I found out that Wizards is actually a for profit company. Your post made me think for a second that they were a non-profit organization created to help spread D&D around to poor and underprivileged people.
You may want to check that out yourself. You seem to be confused about why Wizards is in business.
A publisher is usually the funding behind a development project. Without a publisher, most development teams could never afford to up front the cash. The cut that the publisher makes has to cover marketing, admin costs, the cost of games that never sell or never make it to market and also they have to make a profit.
We all love to hate publishers and some may deserve the hate, but without a publisher, many games that we've played would have never made it to market.
It's disturbing that it's so easy for people to hate any large company or corporation, yet they have so very little education about how the real world works. Publishers are necessary because development teams don't have enough money to pay themselves to spend 5 years making a game.
Do the math. Two parties are involved and without one, the other can't make a game. The dev needs money and the money needs dev. The way I see it, 50/50 sounds about right for a dev team without a big name like Valve, id, etc.
The very fact that you think a government funded news organization is some how trustworthy illustrates the extreme gap between the US culture of freedom and distrust of bureaucratic governments and the willingness of the European elite to drink whatever koolaid they are given.
The BBC *is* dubious and any mental midget who thinks otherwise has stuck their pointy head into the sand and refuses to see the world for what it really is.
The reports are that he's flying to Oslo to accept. Are you surprised now? This is beyond a joke and it amazes me that any American could take seriously anything these Eurotards say or anyone they give awards to.
Obama is essentially getting an award for campaign promises and campaign speeches. It's disgusting.
"I have yet to find a media file that vlc cannot play."
VLC works fine for 50% of the common every-day formats that everyone uses. And in reality It does play about 90% of the formats out there.
The problem is that while it "plays" these formats, it looks like absolute shit. Playback is often choppy and trying to rewind or advance through a movie causes all sorts of havoc, including crashing VLC.
What's worse, is that even though they've supposedly improved the subtitle support and MKV container support, it's still a load of unusable crap and I'd rather use some old player with a crummy UI like MPlayer, just so I can enjoy the movie.
VLC was a good option for me when there wasn't a damned thing else I could use, but now that I have a choice, VLC can die a slow death.
I would be embarrassed to put my name to a product like VLC when there are plenty of other free tools out there that kick my software's ass.
Perhaps you can help me with something I genuinely don't understand. Why is it that there is such a passionate movement for wanting more pollution, more shitty water, more shitty air, more shitty soil? Even if you don't agree with the science that shows global warming is manmade, why not work to clean up the environment anyway? I don't understand what motivates you.
Global Warming is nothing more than religious fascism wrapped up in a pretty package of guilt and stranded polar bears. Your idiotic question illustrates this perfectly. In your mind, people who disagree with the shit being passed off as science want dirty water, more pollution and some section of the US to fall off into the ocean.
No one, NO ONE wants "more pollution, more shitty water, more shitty air, more shitty soil". Just because you think the sky is falling and are willing to believe any bullshit story you hear, it doesn't mean we all are going to open our pocketbooks so that people like you can push for more taxes to combat this "problem".
The earth has been cooling for years now and the very idea that any climate change means doom and destruction is a FUCKING joke. For decades now scientists with axes to grind and funding to aquire have been crying that we only have 10 more years to go, or 20 more years to go. In the 60's it was global cooling, in the 90's it was global warning and now that we are in a massive cooling cycle, they've wised up and are now saying *ANY* climate change is bad.
I don't believe it and I don't trust the "scientists" who subscribe to this shit theory. Follow the money and you'll find the real reason people are pushing this. Pollution credits, green companies and carbon offsets are a huge business.
The only warming that is happening are the gasbags who are constantly crying about climate change.
You retards have been promising us an apocalypse for YEARS now. Where is it? Where is the show?
I like postgreSQL, though mySQL is certainly very nice.
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Why yes, of course! Obama wouldn't lie, would he? A politician can be trusted no matter what they say!
Thanks for letting me know that. All these years, I've had a healthy distrust for politicians and those affiliated with government, but you've helped me see the light.
I'll be sure to cast my ballot for our savior, keeper of truth, guardian of democracy. The Lord Barak Obama.
You are kidding yourself. Liberal Democrats and activists are the groups that started the push for legalizing gay marriage at the federal level and conservatives are pushing back. It's always been up to the state to decide what constitutes marriage, but conservatives have had to fight back at the federal level themselves to keep liberal Democrats from creating broad federal laws that legalize it, regardless of the states decision.
What should they do? Roll over and die while the Democrats pass legislation that uses the constitution for toilet paper?
This happened in India, not the US. Who here is familiar with basic Indian law and how do you know that any such idea of the "right to privacy" exists in India? Don't confuse the world's draconian laws with the freedom we exclusively enjoy here in the US. Even countries that look "free" on the outside like Britain are hounded CCTV cameras every where they go.
This sort of behavior around the word only surprises the ignorant people here who do not even understand the most basic concepts of our republic.
One more dagger? Who believes this?
I know it's hard to let your bigotry towards religious people not show on /., but this is going a bit too far. People don't believe that memories are stored in the soul and it's certainly not a cultural debate. I think your dagger is the first. Congratulations for drudging up a non-existent reason for slashdot to irrationally hate religious people even more.
Agreed. Global warming/climate change argument has long since turned into a religion and did so the moment people began to refuse to debate the issue.
If the world as observed by "science" were an unbreakable fact until the end of time, we'd all be living on a flat earth instead of this nice, mostly-round one.
This comment was inflammatory, not insightful. I doubt the author could give one single example of how he has experienced semi-totalitarian rule from the US government outside of some paranoid delusion that George W. Bush is listening to his personal phone calls to his psychiatrist or his local tin-foil hat helpline.
Comments like this is are nothing more than ignorant straw-man arguments. Nothing insightful about the ravings of a fool.
I'm amazed that people are taking this person seriously. His employer is asking him to perform a duty that is legal and probably within the bounds of his capabilities and function. He can choose to either comply or not comply. Based on whether or not he lives in a right-to-work state, his employer can choose to fire or not fire him if he refuses to comply. It's simple.
My suggestion is to get off your arrogant high-horse, shut your whiny mouth and do your FUCKING job instead of spending all your time reading slashdot and wondering if your evil employee will fire you for refusing to get the fuck back to work.
No, I won't play that game. You made an idiotic statement as if it's fact, but you are just spouting nonsense. You, in your own mind, obviously have this stereotype of ID/creationists and you think they espouse their beliefs as scientific theory, but it's just that. A stereotype.
If you want to sit around and call these people names, or laugh at them, that's your prerogative, but don't insert stupid statements about scientific theory into the argument just to validate your own bigotry towards other people.
Point me to a single article where the "media" has treated Intelligent Design as a valid scientific theory. I dare you.
hint: It's a belief, not a scientific theory.
Your post made no sense. Let's take a break and sit back and see if we couldn't remove a few of those run-on sentences. Try completing a few of those thoughts you had and maybe throw in some decent punctuation here and there. I'm not asking you to pass muster for English 301. Just sort of make it legible for the "rest of us".
I have little in common with people from other countries other than DNA. My culture is radically different; my religion is different and my personal values are so completely opposed that you could find almost no comparison.
I will die a free man before I am forced to live under any other government's tyranny and oppression.
Nations and borders, thankfully, exist for a damned good reason.
The Fires of Heaven board calls this the Retard Rickshaw.
You would be AMAZED at how many people here at slashdot think that a forum owner is bound to recognize the First Amendment in the process of administering their forum. Stupid and ignorant users routinely bitch and whine about First Amendment rights whenever a post is moderated or a user is banned.
It's just sad.
1) Ban his account and ban future accounts that he creates. If you have some misguided notion that this is a PR issue, post a note about why he's banned and how you expect people to contribute by posting constructive criticism, not attacks.
2) Ignore him. By responding to him, you only give him satisfaction and validation.
3) Isn't this something you learn to deal with as a child? Why is an adult having issues with this that they can't solve themselves?
4) Since when is slashdot a forum for whiney bitches who complain about Jimmy calling him names? Get over it. YOU are giving him the power to upset you.
Many times we have to put up with stupid and poorly thought out "features" in OSS software and our only recourse is to "submit a patch".
Well, these guys have taken that one step further and I say more power to them. It's about time someone took asshole OSS developers to task and answer these ridiculous calls to submit patches when we are voicing real concerns.
He didn't ask if you were being a normal parent, he was asking if you were viewing porn with your 6 year old? That's what you were advocating. No one is talking about viewing a health class movie about the miracle of life, we are talking about porn and until you quickly changed the subject, so were you.
You are a dirty, hypocritcal, holier-than-thou type who obviously has few social manners. Thanks for being "that guy".
Oh, thank you for this post. I get so damned sick of the holier than thou types who think that showing MY 10 year old, bangbus reruns is just a natural fact of life and we parents should stop being so uptight. "Son, put down the rattle we need to talk. Did you know that can actually pay some slut $50 to get in a van and be assfucked by a total stranger on tape."