Just out of sheer, morbid curiosity.....would you have any company run under strict leadership of nothing BUT the employees? If so, who would you elect other than yourself?
I agree. I'm salary and have been for more than 12 years. If, as salary, I was required to work 60+ hours a week, I'd demand to go back to salary at the same BASE rate for 40 hours. That would be some hellacious OT at my current rate for 20+ OT hours; not including Sundays (man that would be nice). I've put in 75-80 work weeks during crunch times, however I'll also admit I didn't put in much over 40 the next. My employees gave me shit about it though because I came in a little later but I stayed a little too. Acchhhh, what do they know about salary.
I agree. We can't even coexist on this planet and now we're thinking along the lines of planetary domination. Jeezus H. Murphy. Well, at least we'd have a place to send the "illegal aliens"; regardless of nationalism.
Yeah but the price of the phone is fixed and it would only be worth it if you chose not to use the service and planned on seeing your relatives 2 or 3 times. OTOH, I'd gladly buy the phone for the specific reason of NOT being able to physically be in the same room with some relatives.
Most states already have a tax levied for 911 service (look at your next home phone bill). If it's not specifically spelled out on your bill, believe you me it's included under some other tax.
That's really frickin' sad when a person needs a product like a music player to announce to the world about themselves, their values and their aspirations. Ahh but what the hell; people have been doing that for decades with cars.
HEY! I like being pandered to! Besides, I think I'd be a little pissed if I purchased what I thought to be a legitimate product and found it wasn't a year or two down the road. Yeah, it still may function correctly; up to the point I need a patch. That sounds like a headache I just don't need and please don't throw the "just install Linux" catch phrase out there. Crap, now I'm getting a headache.
Actually, you should go to your local place of worship and speak to the deity in charge to see if your soul is still intact. If you don't have a place of worship you probably don't give a shit anyway.
They still are, however if you switch now just because of a music player you're just plain off your rocker. Seek help or better sources of information other than an iPod.
That was probably one of the most useless posts I've ever read. Aesthetic performance of any given product is completely subjective where actual performance of said product is more than likely objective. In other words: would you rather have a player that only held 1 MB worth of data that is completely "cool" over another player that was "ugly" and could hold twice or three times as much? Even if you would, could you justify spending 3x more just for the aesthetics? I think you could; based on your post. Since we're on Slashdot I can say this: there is the technical way of looking at things and the subjective. Most of the time those concepts try to meet in the middle but I can't see how they can in this case. Functional is functional and you pay for the rest. That's not a concept generally accepted on Slashdot; or obviously by yourself.
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Kinda like the old 1.5 x 1.5 8.5mm projector screens. I love it! I'm stocking up too!
The problem is industries revolve around customer satisfaction and rightfully so. The people who legally purchase products don't give two shits about copy protection, people who pirate or activation. The current wave of these "protections" from the industry tend to hurt these people; and I'm sorry but hurting.01% of your paying customer base is still too much. They pay to NOT have these restrictions placed on them and get irritated when they are. Yes, there's piracy but don't penalize a fraction of your customer base to implement bullshit tactics like this. You'll only alienate a few and the word will spread. It always does. Don't like it? Don't spend 3 quadrillion dollars on R&D and game development. The technology will catch up in a more reasonable way, trust me.
Well that's really the crux of the whole issue, isn't it? The publisher can cut you off at the knees at will because they "feel" you've violated some liscense agreement. What's the consumer's recourse? A lawyer. Right. People in general will hire an attorney, waste (more than likely) several months of their life and miss work all to pursue consideration from a judge on a $50.00 game. More than likely, customers will just be turned off, pissed off and then just plain off the company pulling these antics. If that's the future of gaming count me out. I won't be purchasing this game anytime soon or anything else from Valve in the near future. Unlike others in most of these forums I actually do vote with my pocketbook and I will survive without HL2. I've survived 3 years without new CD's and I, too, don't see this as an issue.
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I guess that's why you're posting AC; you have no knowledge of either. Come back when you have 1 of the 2 AND experienced real life. Cock.
I was waiting for some asshole to make the link between the Republican party and EA. Thanks
No wonder you're posting AC
Just out of sheer, morbid curiosity.....would you have any company run under strict leadership of nothing BUT the employees? If so, who would you elect other than yourself?
Unions...yeah. That's always the answer because we all know how squeaky clean they are.
Well said
Nice reference for the California workforce. Oh well, it gave me a starting point for my state.
I agree. I'm salary and have been for more than 12 years. If, as salary, I was required to work 60+ hours a week, I'd demand to go back to salary at the same BASE rate for 40 hours. That would be some hellacious OT at my current rate for 20+ OT hours; not including Sundays (man that would be nice). I've put in 75-80 work weeks during crunch times, however I'll also admit I didn't put in much over 40 the next. My employees gave me shit about it though because I came in a little later but I stayed a little too. Acchhhh, what do they know about salary.
I agree. We can't even coexist on this planet and now we're thinking along the lines of planetary domination. Jeezus H. Murphy. Well, at least we'd have a place to send the "illegal aliens"; regardless of nationalism.
Yeah but the price of the phone is fixed and it would only be worth it if you chose not to use the service and planned on seeing your relatives 2 or 3 times. OTOH, I'd gladly buy the phone for the specific reason of NOT being able to physically be in the same room with some relatives.
There's already movie theaters with little cramped booths. It's a quarter per minute and has sticky floors.....so I've heard.
Most states already have a tax levied for 911 service (look at your next home phone bill). If it's not specifically spelled out on your bill, believe you me it's included under some other tax.
That's really frickin' sad when a person needs a product like a music player to announce to the world about themselves, their values and their aspirations. Ahh but what the hell; people have been doing that for decades with cars.
HEY! I like being pandered to! Besides, I think I'd be a little pissed if I purchased what I thought to be a legitimate product and found it wasn't a year or two down the road. Yeah, it still may function correctly; up to the point I need a patch. That sounds like a headache I just don't need and please don't throw the "just install Linux" catch phrase out there. Crap, now I'm getting a headache.
Actually, you should go to your local place of worship and speak to the deity in charge to see if your soul is still intact. If you don't have a place of worship you probably don't give a shit anyway.
I'm not trying to troll but what features have you mentioned that are NOT available in any Windows apps?
Point, set and match.
They still are, however if you switch now just because of a music player you're just plain off your rocker. Seek help or better sources of information other than an iPod.
That was probably one of the most useless posts I've ever read. Aesthetic performance of any given product is completely subjective where actual performance of said product is more than likely objective. In other words: would you rather have a player that only held 1 MB worth of data that is completely "cool" over another player that was "ugly" and could hold twice or three times as much? Even if you would, could you justify spending 3x more just for the aesthetics? I think you could; based on your post. Since we're on Slashdot I can say this: there is the technical way of looking at things and the subjective. Most of the time those concepts try to meet in the middle but I can't see how they can in this case. Functional is functional and you pay for the rest. That's not a concept generally accepted on Slashdot; or obviously by yourself.
Kinda like the old 1.5 x 1.5 8.5mm projector screens. I love it! I'm stocking up too!
I believe that's what most people here on slashdot who disagree are saying; vote with your pocketbook. I sure will be.
The problem is industries revolve around customer satisfaction and rightfully so. The people who legally purchase products don't give two shits about copy protection, people who pirate or activation. The current wave of these "protections" from the industry tend to hurt these people; and I'm sorry but hurting .01% of your paying customer base is still too much. They pay to NOT have these restrictions placed on them and get irritated when they are. Yes, there's piracy but don't penalize a fraction of your customer base to implement bullshit tactics like this. You'll only alienate a few and the word will spread. It always does. Don't like it? Don't spend 3 quadrillion dollars on R&D and game development. The technology will catch up in a more reasonable way, trust me.
Well that's really the crux of the whole issue, isn't it? The publisher can cut you off at the knees at will because they "feel" you've violated some liscense agreement. What's the consumer's recourse? A lawyer. Right. People in general will hire an attorney, waste (more than likely) several months of their life and miss work all to pursue consideration from a judge on a $50.00 game. More than likely, customers will just be turned off, pissed off and then just plain off the company pulling these antics. If that's the future of gaming count me out. I won't be purchasing this game anytime soon or anything else from Valve in the near future. Unlike others in most of these forums I actually do vote with my pocketbook and I will survive without HL2. I've survived 3 years without new CD's and I, too, don't see this as an issue.
Well, I guess it's just back to the "Live and Die in LA" era then. Damn, they always make us WORK.