We have fierce competition on the mobile market in most of EU; if you are bound by a contract it's because you are paying off your phone bought on credit, one month cancellation term is the norm else.
In fact, the competition is so fierce in Denmark now, you get unlimited voice, SMS, MMS in almost all subscriptions, only thing varying these days are the data plans.
In SR2 you could pimp out everything you owned, my personal favorite car is the APC, pimped with candy glossed purple military decals. Also, SR3 is frankly too easy, you get all the goodies served; in SR2 you had to earn your way to the penthouse, just felt that much more satisfying.
That being said, SR3 was extremely entertaining and I'll be first in line for the SR4 release.
Well, for one, clicks and pageviews are old old ways of measure and are pretty much dead. What counts are conversions and those are pretty fucking easy to track, after all, they will be visiting you.
Also, 3rd party cookies are going to be blocked by Firefox, which means Chrome and the rest will follow suit soon enough, which means ad networks are going to have a tough time unless they reinvent themselves.
Make ad placement a part of the editorial job again, have competent people place them and you will see conversions go back up.
Well, if they want me to view ads, it's very easy. 1. Host them your self you lazy ass fucktards! There is nothing more frustrating for users than waiting some 3-5 seconds for some stupid adserver to respond with whatever crap they want to sell. Also, adnetworks are prime system for spreading malware, vet your friggin ads, host them and serve them proper. 2. No flash. No moving about. No Sound.
I fucking hate working from home. When I enter my apartment, it's my life, not the company. Having a very distinct line between working and being off is extremely important.
Also, while it might work for some people to remote in, I bloody hate it when I can't get hold of my coworkers because they are doing their laundry, shopping or whatever the fuck the tend to do, when they should be working.
If you have the ability to separate your work and your life when you work from home, good for you; but mostly, I find it doesn't work.
What makes you think plants aren't sentient? As sibling points out, you are on the side of the one that screams the loudest, not the one that wants to live the most.
Personally I don't care whether it's one way or the other, fact is, we humans need to eat meat, we have evolved into these "monsters" as you think of "us".
And if you think I'm a monster, well thank you, I'll take that as a compliment coming from someone that are so full of hot air, they could be used for weather services...
But you never responded to my question, how much leather did you say you use on a daily basis? In fact, how exactly do you get about your daily chores without abusing animals? Do tell, because I'm truly dumbfounded when it comes to figuring out how you do-gooders manage to not hurt any of mother earths precious animals when you live your life.
So plants should suffer instead? Have you seen how they grow plants these days? Most of them don't ever get to put their roots in soil, but are grown on horrible artificial conditions!
Where does your do good end? Is your clothes made under proper sustainable conditions? How about your computer? Your car? Furniture?
If I had the money to live "right", I'd (probably) do it, but for me to live the way I want, someone has to suffer. Sure I could forgo the telly, the car, the flushing toilet - I could probably live on vegs for a decade or two before dying from malnutrition. (Oh did someone just say vitamin supplement? You know what suffered to make those pills? Pigs.)
Spare me the feel good, do-gooder bullshit. You might think you are doing it right, but fact is, people, plants and animals are suffering just the same for you to live your way.
That would be slightly disgusting, but hey, if screwing with meat floats your boat....
Personally I don't mind animals suffering for my pleasure - in fact, looking at my gadgets and my way of living, I'd go as far as apparently, I don't mind humans suffering for my pleasure. I wear clothes produced by cheap labor in India, I use computers produced by cheap labor in China, I eat meat produced under horrible conditions; however, it does make my life pretty nice.
What I really really truely LOATHE is when a program, even when you download the English version, insists on serving you localized stuff. Especially since a lot of open source developers seem to get a hard-on by making up new translations for something.
Gimp for instance, insists on speaking Danish, with everything translated, which makes it pretty much impossible to use, since the Danish words makes absolutely no sense to anyone except the guy who did the translation. (For those who are in the same situation, you can change the language by setting LANG in windows to C, however, this will mess up Ruby's ability to comprehend local letters, so use with caution - or make it part of the shortcut).
Just looked at those glasses and thought, those would be nice to have playing poker (live) - and reading your post it did made me wonder, how good are you at picking up changes in peoples blood flow?
It's a TOR network site. It's impossible to figure out who is hosting the website (or accessing it), without having either full knowledge of the onion network or hacking the physical server and see if there is any information identifying the host.
Not only that, but I sure hope they make sure those guns are nice and clean before each round is fired off - blanks can easily kill if there is something in the barrel.
The U.S wont respect the agreements, then Antigua doesn't have to either. Just like any other trade sanction being used around the world - you go for where it hurts to make the big guy play ball.
Not necessarily; had the same problems described by poster in former work place. We solved it by locking down commits, bug reports and had the database guys drive development.
No development was allowed without a bug/feature request, no commits where allowed without a bug reference. Database guys made the calls since the company money where in their domain.
In the beginning there was a bit of unrest, but the rest of the crew quickly realized it was actually really nice to know exactly what went where and why. When you got the processes down and you can show improvement, then you go ask the big guy for more money to do proper test driven development.
So you are saying they hid the throttling from you? Or where you just too dumb to not read the actual terms of the contract?
Be glad you aren't on a Danish network with throttling, we get 1 KB/s, but those are the terms, don't hear people around here crying about it when they get hit by the contract.
No? The last one I bought is called killer (Christiania, Copenhagen, Denmark). It will knock your socks off if you don't know what you are doing. Three hits from that and you are blissful for a couple of hours.
There was a program on Danish national TV about hash (Kampen om hampen (still on youtube for those who understand Danish), they say that there is not enough evidence that hash will cause short term memory loss - in fact, they speculate that it might be more to do with the expected result, rather than actual fact. e.g. "Oh boy man, I was so high last night, I can't remember a thing"; they also note that there is no evidence that the loss of memory from your previous evening is any greater than your normal evenings, and there is also the fact, that a lot of casual smokers will consume alcohol in the process - leaving you to wonder what exactly caused a memory lapse.
Again, more research in proper settings needs to be done.
I have an IQ between 128 and 140 depending on the test. I smoke pot from time to time. I'm part owner of a company and work full time as a consultant.
I have never suffered from loss of memory from smoking pot, I have only once experienced "the munchies", I have never lost control while being high. Drinking alcohol however, I've experienced massive blackouts, I've lost entire evenings in the haze of strong booze, I've woken up in my own bed, only to wonder how the fuck I got home. I have experienced hangovers lasting more than a day with exhaustion lasting a week. Pot on the other hand last for a couple of hours and leaves my body in a relaxed state for up to a week.
In the circles I move, I meet a lot of the higher echelons of our society and a lot of them smoke weed or do harder drugs.
Does this prove anything? Heck no. I doubt there will be any useful data, until experiments are run under proper control. Data based on peoples own perception will be flawed.
You know what, if you are good and you show you know how to handle everything, sure, do it your way, but until you've proven yourself, you are doing what "we" tell you.
First of all it will weed out the anti authority programmers. (There is a lot of people who will refuse to do this - the door is right there...)
Next, it will test if you can handle stress - quality of the code (should be) is irrelevant in these kind of tests. But you learn a lot about how people act under stress.
Personal experience, during an interview I was asked to implement a hash map on a whiteboard. What they where looking for was not an actual shiny working example (hands up, those who don't need to go look in a book to find a proper hashing function (or the interwebs)) - they wanted to see how I handled myself in a stressful situation.
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Did you read the part that said EU?
We have fierce competition on the mobile market in most of EU; if you are bound by a contract it's because you are paying off your phone bought on credit, one month cancellation term is the norm else.
In fact, the competition is so fierce in Denmark now, you get unlimited voice, SMS, MMS in almost all subscriptions, only thing varying these days are the data plans.
Yeah, sorry, I should have made it clear it was on the PS3 I endorsed it :-)
Never tried it on the PC, but I've heard some horrible stories.
SR3 is actually not that good compared to SR2 :-)
In SR2 you could pimp out everything you owned, my personal favorite car is the APC, pimped with candy glossed purple military decals. Also, SR3 is frankly too easy, you get all the goodies served; in SR2 you had to earn your way to the penthouse, just felt that much more satisfying.
That being said, SR3 was extremely entertaining and I'll be first in line for the SR4 release.
tl;dr, go pick up SR2.
Well, for one, clicks and pageviews are old old ways of measure and are pretty much dead. What counts are conversions and those are pretty fucking easy to track, after all, they will be visiting you.
Also, 3rd party cookies are going to be blocked by Firefox, which means Chrome and the rest will follow suit soon enough, which means ad networks are going to have a tough time unless they reinvent themselves.
Make ad placement a part of the editorial job again, have competent people place them and you will see conversions go back up.
Well, if they want me to view ads, it's very easy.
1. Host them your self you lazy ass fucktards! There is nothing more frustrating for users than waiting some 3-5 seconds for some stupid adserver to respond with whatever crap they want to sell. Also, adnetworks are prime system for spreading malware, vet your friggin ads, host them and serve them proper.
2. No flash. No moving about. No Sound.
Do that and you wont be blocked (by me).
Geesus christ, whats with the negative vibes coming from the Slashdot crowd???
No, they do not fix everything at once, so fucking what? They are at least trying to fix part of the problem.
Yeah would be nice to have all the worlds problems solved in one go, but you know what, it's much easier to fix it if we solve it one step at a time.
I fucking hate working from home. When I enter my apartment, it's my life, not the company. Having a very distinct line between working and being off is extremely important.
Also, while it might work for some people to remote in, I bloody hate it when I can't get hold of my coworkers because they are doing their laundry, shopping or whatever the fuck the tend to do, when they should be working.
If you have the ability to separate your work and your life when you work from home, good for you; but mostly, I find it doesn't work.
So what if they ARE sentient?
What makes you think plants aren't sentient? As sibling points out, you are on the side of the one that screams the loudest, not the one that wants to live the most.
Personally I don't care whether it's one way or the other, fact is, we humans need to eat meat, we have evolved into these "monsters" as you think of "us".
And if you think I'm a monster, well thank you, I'll take that as a compliment coming from someone that are so full of hot air, they could be used for weather services...
But you never responded to my question, how much leather did you say you use on a daily basis? In fact, how exactly do you get about your daily chores without abusing animals? Do tell, because I'm truly dumbfounded when it comes to figuring out how you do-gooders manage to not hurt any of mother earths precious animals when you live your life.
So plants should suffer instead? Have you seen how they grow plants these days? Most of them don't ever get to put their roots in soil, but are grown on horrible artificial conditions!
Where does your do good end? Is your clothes made under proper sustainable conditions? How about your computer? Your car? Furniture?
If I had the money to live "right", I'd (probably) do it, but for me to live the way I want, someone has to suffer. Sure I could forgo the telly, the car, the flushing toilet - I could probably live on vegs for a decade or two before dying from malnutrition. (Oh did someone just say vitamin supplement? You know what suffered to make those pills? Pigs.)
Spare me the feel good, do-gooder bullshit. You might think you are doing it right, but fact is, people, plants and animals are suffering just the same for you to live your way.
That would be slightly disgusting, but hey, if screwing with meat floats your boat....
Personally I don't mind animals suffering for my pleasure - in fact, looking at my gadgets and my way of living, I'd go as far as apparently, I don't mind humans suffering for my pleasure. I wear clothes produced by cheap labor in India, I use computers produced by cheap labor in China, I eat meat produced under horrible conditions; however, it does make my life pretty nice.
Amen to that.
What I really really truely LOATHE is when a program, even when you download the English version, insists on serving you localized stuff. Especially since a lot of open source developers seem to get a hard-on by making up new translations for something.
Gimp for instance, insists on speaking Danish, with everything translated, which makes it pretty much impossible to use, since the Danish words makes absolutely no sense to anyone except the guy who did the translation. (For those who are in the same situation, you can change the language by setting LANG in windows to C, however, this will mess up Ruby's ability to comprehend local letters, so use with caution - or make it part of the shortcut).
Just looked at those glasses and thought, those would be nice to have playing poker (live) - and reading your post it did made me wonder, how good are you at picking up changes in peoples blood flow?
It's a TOR network site. It's impossible to figure out who is hosting the website (or accessing it), without having either full knowledge of the onion network or hacking the physical server and see if there is any information identifying the host.
Not only that, but I sure hope they make sure those guns are nice and clean before each round is fired off - blanks can easily kill if there is something in the barrel.
No, it's absolutely how it should be.
The U.S wont respect the agreements, then Antigua doesn't have to either. Just like any other trade sanction being used around the world - you go for where it hurts to make the big guy play ball.
Since you are abusing their equipment, you are probably going to be up for all sorts of fun unlawful computer acts.
And if you are going to prank them, send the "You're fired" from back to the future...
Not necessarily; had the same problems described by poster in former work place. We solved it by locking down commits, bug reports and had the database guys drive development.
No development was allowed without a bug/feature request, no commits where allowed without a bug reference. Database guys made the calls since the company money where in their domain.
In the beginning there was a bit of unrest, but the rest of the crew quickly realized it was actually really nice to know exactly what went where and why. When you got the processes down and you can show improvement, then you go ask the big guy for more money to do proper test driven development.
Yes, because customers who behave like asshats and make fools of themselves make the corporations listen...
And in Denmark, when you switch provider, they will often contact you and ask you why, so I think I prefer our version.
So you are saying they hid the throttling from you? Or where you just too dumb to not read the actual terms of the contract?
Be glad you aren't on a Danish network with throttling, we get 1 KB/s, but those are the terms, don't hear people around here crying about it when they get hit by the contract.
Why is it absurd? You got what you paid for, would you rather get billed like GP by the GB when going over? Or completely dropped from the net?
While I agree data cap sucks, fact is, you have a contract with them, like it or not, those are the terms.
No? The last one I bought is called killer (Christiania, Copenhagen, Denmark). It will knock your socks off if you don't know what you are doing. Three hits from that and you are blissful for a couple of hours.
There was a program on Danish national TV about hash (Kampen om hampen (still on youtube for those who understand Danish), they say that there is not enough evidence that hash will cause short term memory loss - in fact, they speculate that it might be more to do with the expected result, rather than actual fact. e.g. "Oh boy man, I was so high last night, I can't remember a thing"; they also note that there is no evidence that the loss of memory from your previous evening is any greater than your normal evenings, and there is also the fact, that a lot of casual smokers will consume alcohol in the process - leaving you to wonder what exactly caused a memory lapse.
Again, more research in proper settings needs to be done.
I have an IQ between 128 and 140 depending on the test. I smoke pot from time to time. I'm part owner of a company and work full time as a consultant.
I have never suffered from loss of memory from smoking pot, I have only once experienced "the munchies", I have never lost control while being high. Drinking alcohol however, I've experienced massive blackouts, I've lost entire evenings in the haze of strong booze, I've woken up in my own bed, only to wonder how the fuck I got home. I have experienced hangovers lasting more than a day with exhaustion lasting a week. Pot on the other hand last for a couple of hours and leaves my body in a relaxed state for up to a week.
In the circles I move, I meet a lot of the higher echelons of our society and a lot of them smoke weed or do harder drugs.
Does this prove anything? Heck no. I doubt there will be any useful data, until experiments are run under proper control. Data based on peoples own perception will be flawed.
Well, other people claim that what shows a player is human is the fact that stress gets to them and they start making mistakes...
Not saying he didn't cheat, but you guys can't both claim that his lack of errors and his errors proves he is using a computer.
Point of note, it was only disabled for the last games, which means it was in the "money"?
You know what, if you are good and you show you know how to handle everything, sure, do it your way, but until you've proven yourself, you are doing what "we" tell you.
If the people performing the test are any good.
First of all it will weed out the anti authority programmers. (There is a lot of people who will refuse to do this - the door is right there...)
Next, it will test if you can handle stress - quality of the code (should be) is irrelevant in these kind of tests. But you learn a lot about how people act under stress.
Personal experience, during an interview I was asked to implement a hash map on a whiteboard. What they where looking for was not an actual shiny working example (hands up, those who don't need to go look in a book to find a proper hashing function (or the interwebs)) - they wanted to see how I handled myself in a stressful situation.