Telling someone three years before you release a game that you are going to put the ability to land on asteroids and make windows on starships transparent is not a "promise". People blasted Sean Murray for doing exactly what he said which was
"And when we ship the game not everything will be possible. But this is a game we will be making for quite a while, even after it comes out."
"As for what it isn't? According to Murray, it might not be the game all the various trailers released for the PS4 and PC exclusive made it out to be."
'That means this maybe isn't the game you imagined from those trailers,' he writes. 'If you hoped for things like PvP multiplayer or city building, piloting freighters, or building civilizations... that isn't what NMS is. Over time it might become some of those things through updates.'
"It’s not really a multiplayer game, that’s not really the way to think about it. There are infinitesimal chances, very, very small chances of you even coming across a place that another player has been to . . . The most likely thing that is going to happen is you are going to come across a planet and some other players has been there and they’ve named that planet and the creatures, and I’m sure they’ve given it a good name."
They will quickly find, much to their chagrin, that people will still end up watching Marvel movies rather than some movie about everyone in a French village being struck with a devastating plague of ennui.
But why do you do this? This seems the perfect example of wasting time. You are wasting the time of a ton of employees on the off chance that a few will have something important to say that could just as easily be distributed via email. Rather than waste the time of the employees who have nothing to contribute nor need to spend their time listening when they could be doing actual work, why not waste the time of the employees who do need to contribute, and have them send out an email to everyone, or even to you so you can coalesce all of the day's information into a digest for people to read and have as a reference?
Look, many companies have policies that try to limit meetings, because lots of modern companies understand they have a tendency to be time-watsers when people could actually be doing other work.
Why not focus on something else that may have a tendency to be a time-waster? I understand if your conference calls go swimmingly and everyone is engaged, but there's nothing wrong with questioning if this is the majority of the time.
In my experience, the vast majority of conference calls are for disseminating information from some people to many more people. This can be much more easily accomplished through emails. It may be the case that no one wants to write up a long screed about how Q1 went and what to expect in Q2, but by writing that up, only one person's time is wasted while on the conference call everyone's time is. By using email for this sort of information, and employee can also decide if the contents are even remotely useful for them, and can also use it as a reference point later.
If you are referring to conference calls where coming to a decision is important, and all of the participants have some say or potentially some say or something to contribute, that is a different story. But in many industries this is just not the case, and it's much more likely to be the former situation.
But I don't wan't to live on an acre of horse property. I also don't care about owning a home. I live and rent in San Francisco, and have for 20 years. Yeah, it's very expensive, but there are things I have near my place I cna't find anywhere else. I live in a mostly Russian/Chinese neighborhood with 4 Russian delis, 4 large Asian supermarkets, ~10 sushi restaurants, 4 schools, parks, a Polish deli, 3 Indian restaurants, a soul food place, a tiki bar, multiple churches, synagogues, Thai, Korean, Cajun, Filipino, Vietnamese, Taiwanese restaurants, all within a few blocks of my home. If I am missing something for a meal that I'm making, I go right arounf the corner to one of 4-5 bodegas we have within a block or two to get what I need.
So yeah, I pay a premium for this, and have to put up with a lot of stuff folks who live in the country don't have to. But I choose to, and I love it.
Because people don't navigate like this. No one estimates when they need to turn by time passed. People look for streets or landmarks from their current spot. It's easy to overengineer this though.
The vast, vast majority of perpetrators of gun violence in this country are not Persian or women or vegan.
The fact that a Persian vegan woman is the perpetrator in this instance does not change the fact that the vast, vast majority of perpetrators of gun violence in this country are not Persian or women or vegan.
What they all have in common is the easy availability of guns, which is fucking stupid. Guns should be banned.
Exactly. As soon as someone comes up with a standard and an agreement by manufacturers to adhere to it, such as all iterations of a graphics card being something like GTX+1000, then GTX+1010, a company whose card *should* be GTX+1020 would name it GTX+1100 just to get better sales, and then you just have lawsuits that follow and a richer card manufacturer.
Exactly...there's a paved walkway in the middle of the fucking median WITH A TRASH CAN next to a light. And no crosswalk. They apparently built this thinking that is where people would cross to the buss station which is across the street, but decided against it and tried to force people to walk a hundred feet down to the actual intersection. I would have crossed there too if that is where I was heading.
And I think this is actually kindof the crux of the problem here...we are now at the spot where we are going to expect vehicles to decide, either hit that person, or swerve or brake and injure the driver or someone else. Those sorts of split second decisions people rarely have to make, but they *do* occasionally have to make them.
I'm of the opinion that we use applied philosophy...that is, given a person the option of two different types of software in their cars, and they have to decide which one they want.
1) Given the choice between the car hitting a pedestrian, or taking an action that will injure the driver or cause other, unintended consequences, you choose the vehicle that would hit the pedestrian, or,
2) Given the choice between the car hitting a pedestrian, or taking an action that will injure the driver or cause other, unintended consequences, you choose the vehicle that would make the chouce that would injure the driver or cause other unintended consequences.
That way, liability is limited as you made the choice at the beginning.
But we did have a lot of people who did not expect to see cars on the road, and instead expected to see a horse. Cars travelled faster than horses, and made different sounds, so if you were not expecting it you could have easily been hit. Take a look at old video of cars and trolleys going down market street in San Francisco from the 1910s and 20s, and you can see how it was a miracle people didn't get mowed down left and right.
I would heartily second this. This is the best series ever written, in my opinion. Many people say that the Watchmen is the best, but if you saw the movie, you might know to take that with a grain of salt. The Watchmen was great because it deconstructed the whole superhero mythos, but that makes no sense if you haven't been reading comics for a while.
I'd also recommend Astro City by Kirk Busiek. Saga is probably the best sci-fi series out right now. You might also read Y the Last Man, and Lucifer as well, which is a spinoff from the Sandman series.
It says, "Researchers have gathered freshman data over a three-year time frame so far, and they found that their predictions for who is more likely to drop out are 73 percent accurate"
So they are basing their predictions on certain behavior of the students. What specifically is that behavior?
The article is void on information on what specific statistics indicate a student is more likely to drop out. Are students who use their ID card to go to the rec center more likely to drop out over students who us it to enter the library? The article doesn't say.
God did not give rocks any sense in the way in which you use the term, and so this is gobbledygook. The whistleblower may have no sense, as in 0 sense, but he cannot have "null" sense, which is what you are implying, because that would mean the whistleblower is non-sentient, and I don't think you are implying that.
Except Daredevil and Jessica Jones are Marvel, and so are owned by Disney. Disney can't just remove it to their own streaming platform when it debuts, presumably, but they probably won't license any new shows with characters they own unless it will appear exclusively on Disney.
The major movie studios and content owners did not want to see Netflix become another Apple iTunes, which would allow them to set the prices of movies and have control over content distribution, so raised the licensing fees to astronomical levels. And of course, players like Disney saw how controlling the content distribution in this way could be very profitable, and they have no intention of making those sorts of deals again. the genie is out of the bottle and it is not going back in.
But that's fine. The original offerings from Netflix are often amazing, so it's no big loss.
It's not an issue of "instead." It's not effective in any way whatsoever. It's like that guy in the Monty Python skit who was so perturbed about the whole war in Europe that he threatened to write a letter to the newspaper. It's ludicrous.
Here's what they should do. Promise to make this persons credit information available to all Americans as soon as they get control of Congress in November, and then follow through.
Slashdot Mirror
Telling someone three years before you release a game that you are going to put the ability to land on asteroids and make windows on starships transparent is not a "promise". People blasted Sean Murray for doing exactly what he said which was
"And when we ship the game not everything will be possible. But this is a game we will be making for quite a while, even after it comes out."
https://www.reddit.com/r/NoMan...
"As for what it isn't? According to Murray, it might not be the game all the various trailers released for the PS4 and PC exclusive made it out to be."
'That means this maybe isn't the game you imagined from those trailers,' he writes. 'If you hoped for things like PvP multiplayer or city building, piloting freighters, or building civilizations ... that isn't what NMS is. Over time it might become some of those things through updates.'
http://www.gamenguide.com/arti...
"It’s not really a multiplayer game, that’s not really the way to think about it. There are infinitesimal chances, very, very small chances of you even coming across a place that another player has been to . . . The most likely thing that is going to happen is you are going to come across a planet and some other players has been there and they’ve named that planet and the creatures, and I’m sure they’ve given it a good name."
https://gamerant.com/no-mans-s...
"To be super clear - No Man's Sky is not a multiplayer game. Please don't go in looking for that experience."
https://twitter.com/nomanssky/...
They will quickly find, much to their chagrin, that people will still end up watching Marvel movies rather than some movie about everyone in a French village being struck with a devastating plague of ennui.
But why do you do this? This seems the perfect example of wasting time. You are wasting the time of a ton of employees on the off chance that a few will have something important to say that could just as easily be distributed via email. Rather than waste the time of the employees who have nothing to contribute nor need to spend their time listening when they could be doing actual work, why not waste the time of the employees who do need to contribute, and have them send out an email to everyone, or even to you so you can coalesce all of the day's information into a digest for people to read and have as a reference?
Look, many companies have policies that try to limit meetings, because lots of modern companies understand they have a tendency to be time-watsers when people could actually be doing other work.
Why not focus on something else that may have a tendency to be a time-waster? I understand if your conference calls go swimmingly and everyone is engaged, but there's nothing wrong with questioning if this is the majority of the time.
In my experience, the vast majority of conference calls are for disseminating information from some people to many more people. This can be much more easily accomplished through emails. It may be the case that no one wants to write up a long screed about how Q1 went and what to expect in Q2, but by writing that up, only one person's time is wasted while on the conference call everyone's time is. By using email for this sort of information, and employee can also decide if the contents are even remotely useful for them, and can also use it as a reference point later.
If you are referring to conference calls where coming to a decision is important, and all of the participants have some say or potentially some say or something to contribute, that is a different story. But in many industries this is just not the case, and it's much more likely to be the former situation.
But I don't wan't to live on an acre of horse property. I also don't care about owning a home. I live and rent in San Francisco, and have for 20 years. Yeah, it's very expensive, but there are things I have near my place I cna't find anywhere else. I live in a mostly Russian/Chinese neighborhood with 4 Russian delis, 4 large Asian supermarkets, ~10 sushi restaurants, 4 schools, parks, a Polish deli, 3 Indian restaurants, a soul food place, a tiki bar, multiple churches, synagogues, Thai, Korean, Cajun, Filipino, Vietnamese, Taiwanese restaurants, all within a few blocks of my home. If I am missing something for a meal that I'm making, I go right arounf the corner to one of 4-5 bodegas we have within a block or two to get what I need.
So yeah, I pay a premium for this, and have to put up with a lot of stuff folks who live in the country don't have to. But I choose to, and I love it.
Because people don't navigate like this. No one estimates when they need to turn by time passed. People look for streets or landmarks from their current spot. It's easy to overengineer this though.
The vast, vast majority of perpetrators of gun violence in this country are not Persian or women or vegan.
The fact that a Persian vegan woman is the perpetrator in this instance does not change the fact that the vast, vast majority of perpetrators of gun violence in this country are not Persian or women or vegan.
What they all have in common is the easy availability of guns, which is fucking stupid. Guns should be banned.
Exactly. As soon as someone comes up with a standard and an agreement by manufacturers to adhere to it, such as all iterations of a graphics card being something like GTX+1000, then GTX+1010, a company whose card *should* be GTX+1020 would name it GTX+1100 just to get better sales, and then you just have lawsuits that follow and a richer card manufacturer.
I'm not saying that she's not responsible for looking both ways.... but she might have thought she was supposed to actually cross there.
FACING THE OTHER WAY.
If you are coming from under the bridge into that center area, you would not know that that's what those signs say; they face across the street!
Exactly...there's a paved walkway in the middle of the fucking median WITH A TRASH CAN next to a light. And no crosswalk. They apparently built this thinking that is where people would cross to the buss station which is across the street, but decided against it and tried to force people to walk a hundred feet down to the actual intersection. I would have crossed there too if that is where I was heading.
And I think this is actually kindof the crux of the problem here...we are now at the spot where we are going to expect vehicles to decide, either hit that person, or swerve or brake and injure the driver or someone else. Those sorts of split second decisions people rarely have to make, but they *do* occasionally have to make them.
I'm of the opinion that we use applied philosophy...that is, given a person the option of two different types of software in their cars, and they have to decide which one they want.
1) Given the choice between the car hitting a pedestrian, or taking an action that will injure the driver or cause other, unintended consequences, you choose the vehicle that would hit the pedestrian, or,
2) Given the choice between the car hitting a pedestrian, or taking an action that will injure the driver or cause other, unintended consequences, you choose the vehicle that would make the chouce that would injure the driver or cause other unintended consequences.
That way, liability is limited as you made the choice at the beginning.
But we did have a lot of people who did not expect to see cars on the road, and instead expected to see a horse. Cars travelled faster than horses, and made different sounds, so if you were not expecting it you could have easily been hit. Take a look at old video of cars and trolleys going down market street in San Francisco from the 1910s and 20s, and you can see how it was a miracle people didn't get mowed down left and right.
That is normally referred to as a book.
What do *you* mean, You People?
I would heartily second this. This is the best series ever written, in my opinion. Many people say that the Watchmen is the best, but if you saw the movie, you might know to take that with a grain of salt. The Watchmen was great because it deconstructed the whole superhero mythos, but that makes no sense if you haven't been reading comics for a while.
I'd also recommend Astro City by Kirk Busiek. Saga is probably the best sci-fi series out right now. You might also read Y the Last Man, and Lucifer as well, which is a spinoff from the Sandman series.
Undocumented workers do pay taxes, idiot.
It says, "Researchers have gathered freshman data over a three-year time frame so far, and they found that their predictions for who is more likely to drop out are 73 percent accurate"
So they are basing their predictions on certain behavior of the students. What specifically is that behavior?
The article is void on information on what specific statistics indicate a student is more likely to drop out. Are students who use their ID card to go to the rec center more likely to drop out over students who us it to enter the library? The article doesn't say.
I'm just returning /. to it's former pedantry, thank you.
God did not give rocks any sense in the way in which you use the term, and so this is gobbledygook. The whistleblower may have no sense, as in 0 sense, but he cannot have "null" sense, which is what you are implying, because that would mean the whistleblower is non-sentient, and I don't think you are implying that.
Except Daredevil and Jessica Jones are Marvel, and so are owned by Disney. Disney can't just remove it to their own streaming platform when it debuts, presumably, but they probably won't license any new shows with characters they own unless it will appear exclusively on Disney.
The major movie studios and content owners did not want to see Netflix become another Apple iTunes, which would allow them to set the prices of movies and have control over content distribution, so raised the licensing fees to astronomical levels. And of course, players like Disney saw how controlling the content distribution in this way could be very profitable, and they have no intention of making those sorts of deals again. the genie is out of the bottle and it is not going back in.
But that's fine. The original offerings from Netflix are often amazing, so it's no big loss.
It's not an issue of "instead." It's not effective in any way whatsoever. It's like that guy in the Monty Python skit who was so perturbed about the whole war in Europe that he threatened to write a letter to the newspaper. It's ludicrous.
Here's what they should do. Promise to make this persons credit information available to all Americans as soon as they get control of Congress in November, and then follow through.