This is a pretty ignorant, if rhetorical, question. Along the lines of asking what good replacing a 100w incandescent light bulb with a 23w CFL is in the grand scheme of things. The answer? The single light bulb and the single PR marketing action make virtually no impact. Are they pointless?
BP obviously wants to continue operating and overcome this disaster. Regardless of what other actions they take, do you think that is possible WITHOUT trying to boost their image through PR?
"blindsides" is pretty appalling considering a million stories have been run about apps that were previously approved being denied or pulled after the fact. I said it before and I'll say it again: You know what you're getting in to, quit acting surprised.
There's another way to look at this: the more times an article like this shows up in a respected blog or publication, the more seriously people will take it.
Great theory, but apparently it doesn't get through these peoples' thick skulls. Note "blindsides" in the headline.
How can a company be prepared to invest into a platform that can change at any time
I don't know. Why don't we ask someone who ha ---- Oh wait, that's you!
Years later, after it's been documented in to oblivion that Apple dicks app store developers over. The developers either know full well what they are getting themselves in to or they are completely retarded. Yet we here we are, hearing the same tired $@%&ing story once again. The insignificant details are different but nothing else is.
App store devs, you KNOW you have two options: Deal with it or don't. Now, please, kindly tell your story on Twitter, Facebook status updates or somewhere else no one is paying attention and quit robbing the rest of us of our mental bandwidth.
While I agree to an extent, I think you're horribly overestimating the maturity of 14 year olds (and 18 year olds). My firm opinion is that the reason there are so many kids going to 4 year colleges is because 1) they want the best for themselves, 2) believe they can succeed, 3) will get a better or higher paying job with a BS and, most importantly, 4) don't have any idea what else to do after they graduate from high school. Society has basically made the decision "do you want to be successful or just start working now?"
Since, at 18 years old and graduated from high school, people still don't know what to do, making the decision prior to high school doesn't make much sense at all.
Given how many times consumers get screwed by corporations or mega-stores, I agree they need to be taught a lesson.
Right, right, but what the fuck was the lesson?
CIA Superior: What did we learn, Palmer?
CIA Officer: I don't know, sir.
CIA Superior: I don't fuckin' know either. I guess we learned not to do it again.
CIA Officer: Yes, sir.
CIA Superior: I'm fucked if I know what we did.
Seriously, identify the next similar situation for me. I'd like to know how, as a vendor, you prevent something like this from happening. The way I see it, you have two options. 1) Stop selling, as I said in my OP, anything with a network interface. Or, 2) keep selling them because they sell ridiculous volumes and eat the cost when the company responsible puts you in a tough spot, since you're still filthy fucking rich from it.
What is really tacky is all the whining about the lack of Flash on Apple devices. The people calling for it are undoubtedly the same people who were bitching about what an awful piece of garbage Flash is right up until they found out they couldn't get it on their iPhones. At a time where there are alternatives and better options are right around the corner, no less.
This comment makes me feel like your whole reasoning behind this was to "teach the store a lesson." But what I'm guessing the way it turned out, you were just a complete jackass that felt like he was in-the-know causing trouble just for the sake of it.
You know they can't "restore the Other OS function" any better than you can. What lesson are you trying to teach them? "Don't do it again?" Don't do what, sell anything that connects to the internet?
If the point was getting your money back because Other OS was your deciding factor on the purchase, good for you. But urging everyone to go pull your shenanigans is a waste of time since the overwhelming majority of people buying this video game console are doing it to play video games.
Did you have a point? Or are you just pointing out that you didn't realize a company's higher net profit means they pay more taxes, so rather than giving that money to the government, they give that money to their employees in the form of bonuses and raises? Net-zero isn't just a badass ISP.
I would LOVE to pay for new high quality episodes for the original Doom engine.
Wow, really? There are more than enough levels out there for you to pick and choose "high quality." It wouldn't be hard to find a high school student failing English class to write up a story as good as Doom's original (and far better than the movie).
Have you looked at the ports of Doom? Some of them have some... I want to say "pretty impressive," but they just aren't given the current gaming landscape... added features that would put them about on par with the RPGs the original article discusses.
The problem is that the gameplay is exactly the same as 16 years ago and, new levels or not, it feels like it. I actually much prefer playing the old levels to new ones when I play Doom with friends, which does happen for a couple weeks at a time about every other year.
I'm not sure what your motivation for this little rant, but comparing a couple guys coding in a basement for a privately owned company selling niche games to the biggest, publicly traded video game company in the world doesn't really seem relevant.
Ignoring the fact that they are in completely different markets, for a private, small business, making more money means for the owner "I make more money." For the publicly traded company it means "I either get paid more or the company pays more taxes." You can blame the guy for taking the money, or you can tell me what happens the next time you have the opportunity to give 10,000 people $10 more a year or yourself $100,000 more a year.
I don't have a clue what your acronyms mean -- can't even infer -- but I'll just read over them.
Unlocking cores that the manufacturer deems to be flawed - um, yeah.
The OP might as well have said, with the same sarcastic, completely ridiculous implication, "Run my processor at a clock rate that the manufacturer deems to be flawed - um, yeah."
The OP mentioned nothing about system criticality -- just implied that running a processor beyond the manufacturer's factory spec was a completely absurd idea. Like it doesn't happen all the time.
You're showing a complete lack of understanding as to how processors are rated and sold. AMD determines they need to meet a certain quota for each model of CPU. If it works out and all of the CPUs in their 1 million unit run works flawlessly, they will maximize their profit by disabling some of them and selling them for less money to account for that market without flooding the market with their top performing part.
Unless this is a rehash of when Intel were (alleged?) to be selling 486DX processors as 486SX with perfectly good maths co-processor cores disabled...
I'm going to go out on a limb here and guess that there are just about zero people on Slashdot who are able to and will freely outline for major corporations how to create a profitable business model.
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name of his friends and girlfriend (if any)
Heh, heh.
This is a pretty ignorant, if rhetorical, question. Along the lines of asking what good replacing a 100w incandescent light bulb with a 23w CFL is in the grand scheme of things. The answer? The single light bulb and the single PR marketing action make virtually no impact. Are they pointless?
BP obviously wants to continue operating and overcome this disaster. Regardless of what other actions they take, do you think that is possible WITHOUT trying to boost their image through PR?
"blindsides" is pretty appalling considering a million stories have been run about apps that were previously approved being denied or pulled after the fact. I said it before and I'll say it again: You know what you're getting in to, quit acting surprised.
Probably smarter to spin it as they were so addicted they commited crimes to get back online.
There's another way to look at this: the more times an article like this shows up in a respected blog or publication, the more seriously people will take it.
Great theory, but apparently it doesn't get through these peoples' thick skulls. Note "blindsides" in the headline.
How can a company be prepared to invest into a platform that can change at any time
I don't know. Why don't we ask someone who ha ---- Oh wait, that's you!
Years later, after it's been documented in to oblivion that Apple dicks app store developers over. The developers either know full well what they are getting themselves in to or they are completely retarded. Yet we here we are, hearing the same tired $@%&ing story once again. The insignificant details are different but nothing else is.
App store devs, you KNOW you have two options: Deal with it or don't. Now, please, kindly tell your story on Twitter, Facebook status updates or somewhere else no one is paying attention and quit robbing the rest of us of our mental bandwidth.
whether the mistreatment of workers deserves to be highlighted when considering such firms.
Workers killing themselves as proof their employer mistreats them? Seems just a tad presumptuous. Likely? Sure. Matter of fact? Of course not.
If you can't laugh at yourself...
While I agree to an extent, I think you're horribly overestimating the maturity of 14 year olds (and 18 year olds). My firm opinion is that the reason there are so many kids going to 4 year colleges is because 1) they want the best for themselves, 2) believe they can succeed, 3) will get a better or higher paying job with a BS and, most importantly, 4) don't have any idea what else to do after they graduate from high school. Society has basically made the decision "do you want to be successful or just start working now?"
Since, at 18 years old and graduated from high school, people still don't know what to do, making the decision prior to high school doesn't make much sense at all.
If someone is using Comic Sans, the font is probably the least of their design worries.
Given how many times consumers get screwed by corporations or mega-stores, I agree they need to be taught a lesson.
Right, right, but what the fuck was the lesson?
CIA Superior: What did we learn, Palmer?
CIA Officer: I don't know, sir.
CIA Superior: I don't fuckin' know either. I guess we learned not to do it again.
CIA Officer: Yes, sir.
CIA Superior: I'm fucked if I know what we did.
Seriously, identify the next similar situation for me. I'd like to know how, as a vendor, you prevent something like this from happening. The way I see it, you have two options. 1) Stop selling, as I said in my OP, anything with a network interface. Or, 2) keep selling them because they sell ridiculous volumes and eat the cost when the company responsible puts you in a tough spot, since you're still filthy fucking rich from it.
What is really tacky is all the whining about the lack of Flash on Apple devices. The people calling for it are undoubtedly the same people who were bitching about what an awful piece of garbage Flash is right up until they found out they couldn't get it on their iPhones. At a time where there are alternatives and better options are right around the corner, no less.
It will teach Sony a lesson too.
This comment makes me feel like your whole reasoning behind this was to "teach the store a lesson." But what I'm guessing the way it turned out, you were just a complete jackass that felt like he was in-the-know causing trouble just for the sake of it.
You know they can't "restore the Other OS function" any better than you can. What lesson are you trying to teach them? "Don't do it again?" Don't do what, sell anything that connects to the internet?
If the point was getting your money back because Other OS was your deciding factor on the purchase, good for you. But urging everyone to go pull your shenanigans is a waste of time since the overwhelming majority of people buying this video game console are doing it to play video games.
I'm glad I read through before replying, because I like yours more than what I was going to say.
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But you till have your head? Triage, my friend.
Did you have a point? Or are you just pointing out that you didn't realize a company's higher net profit means they pay more taxes, so rather than giving that money to the government, they give that money to their employees in the form of bonuses and raises? Net-zero isn't just a badass ISP.
I would LOVE to pay for new high quality episodes for the original Doom engine.
Wow, really? There are more than enough levels out there for you to pick and choose "high quality." It wouldn't be hard to find a high school student failing English class to write up a story as good as Doom's original (and far better than the movie).
... I want to say "pretty impressive," but they just aren't given the current gaming landscape ... added features that would put them about on par with the RPGs the original article discusses.
Have you looked at the ports of Doom? Some of them have some
The problem is that the gameplay is exactly the same as 16 years ago and, new levels or not, it feels like it. I actually much prefer playing the old levels to new ones when I play Doom with friends, which does happen for a couple weeks at a time about every other year.
I'm not sure what your motivation for this little rant, but comparing a couple guys coding in a basement for a privately owned company selling niche games to the biggest, publicly traded video game company in the world doesn't really seem relevant.
Ignoring the fact that they are in completely different markets, for a private, small business, making more money means for the owner "I make more money." For the publicly traded company it means "I either get paid more or the company pays more taxes." You can blame the guy for taking the money, or you can tell me what happens the next time you have the opportunity to give 10,000 people $10 more a year or yourself $100,000 more a year.
Unlocking cores that the manufacturer deems to be flawed - um, yeah.
The OP might as well have said, with the same sarcastic, completely ridiculous implication, "Run my processor at a clock rate that the manufacturer deems to be flawed - um, yeah."
The OP mentioned nothing about system criticality -- just implied that running a processor beyond the manufacturer's factory spec was a completely absurd idea. Like it doesn't happen all the time.
Good idea.
BOOM! And the girl we were fighting over is yours, just like that!
Unless this is a rehash of when Intel were (alleged?) to be selling 486DX processors as 486SX with perfectly good maths co-processor cores disabled ...
Uh, yeah, basically that's what the article says.
Most of my team tries to format code as consistantly as possible. I just love the days I get to debug or enhance the code written by the other guy.
I'm going to go out on a limb here and guess that there are just about zero people on Slashdot who are able to and will freely outline for major corporations how to create a profitable business model.