There is an equitable resolution to this problem. We already have it.
That word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
Douchebags who think this is acceptable either STFU or take it to their private country clubs or deer blinds. If you really feel the need to express your douchebaggery on a public street, then go ahead, just try to avoid feeling butt-hurt when normal people point out that you are a douchebag.
Ah, except, in this case, you're the one being the douchebag, by your own earlier definition, by proclaiming that YOUR standards of behavior should be the standard for the workplace. It's inherently hypocritical.
Also, your assumptions are flawed. I rarely make jokes at work at all, other than snarky comments littered in my code. Your assumption that I'm one of these "douchebags" outs you as having an idealogical position, rather than a pragmatic one, on the issue.
The simple fact of the matter is that there is an inherent lie in claiming to be "just after being treated the same way" when the actual demands are to be treated better, such as in this case.
You can either be "Equal" or you can be a delicate flower that needs special protection. You can't be both.
The only bullshit is people thinking their own views of what is professional conduct should somehow be the standard of their workplace. You think rape jokes or commenting on peoples' tits are acceptable?
For the record, "off-color" does not imply "racist."
And see, this is why there will never be an equitable resolution to the whole political correctness problem. Because no one said anything about "rape jokes" or "commenting on people's tits," but that was immediately where you ran.
The only bullshit is people thinking their own views of what is professional conduct should somehow be the standard of their workplace.
Unless, of course, that person is a woman and the standard of workplace behavior is already "mellow and laid back" to that sort of joke, of course. THEN, naturally, it's not bullshit.
Anyway, I never said that I think any/all workplaces should have my standard of behavior. What I said was that it was demonstrably false that this "Sexual Harassment" political correctness bullshit is "women just wanting to be treated the same way that men are treated."
Ah, the entitled....Weak willed individuals unable to deny themselves something and entitlements speak volumes.
"Entitlements" like being paid for the rest of their lives PLUS four more generations, for work completed once.
"Entitlements" like the power to punish suspected infringers without any interference from?
"Entitlements" such as not even being financially responsible for the exercise of the above, instead putting that off on the ISP and their workforces, without compensation?
Talk some more about "entitlements", you shilling ballsack.
That's where I ended up when I got sick of uTorrent turning itself into the next Azureus/Vuze. It really doesn't handle magnet links very well, though. For some reason, you can't change the base download location on a magnet, you have to "add torrent in paused mode," then manually change the location.
Seems very strange to me but it's still better than the mess that uTorrent is.
Well, with few exceptions, I honestly haven't been that impressed with the mobile gaming offerings. Maybe they're targeted at the same demographic as the "facebook" type games that I don't play either, but they all seem more like physics engine tech demos than games. When they first started hyping this thing, people were talking about things like "how to get the AA and AAA devs on board" and other delusional stuff like that. That's what I mean when I say it's never going to happen
Now if the games don't manifest into reality (they wont. It's been tried before), there's till an actual reason to own one of these things. Since I quit cable, my big MythTV box is just overkill. Might be able to replace it with an Ouya and an external HD or NAS.
Not bad for $99 (already have the external HD and NAS)
It took a week for them to respond to me, but I went by the letter of the TOS and went through the support site. What I got was a patronizing dribble of how this is "better for Valve and better for me." (Well, that's pretty much the textbook example of a half-truth, isn't it?) and a presumptuous brush off of "thanks for reading [these self-serving blog links] and your continued use of the Steam service. "
It's refreshing to see at least there are people on Slashdot who "get it." On the gamer sites, it's a bunch of idiots parroting "Were you planning on suing? Then you gave up your games for nothing!" I hate humanity, sometimes.
Oh, I already buy a metric shit-ton of stuff from GOG. No worries there.:)
It just chafes. I display a very un-geek-like humility and think "maybe I'm being too tinfoil hatty. They really haven't stepped on anyone's dick in several years. I should give them a chance." Then BOOM.
It's funny, too. After railing about steam and their horrible TOS for so long and being shouted down by world + dog, I actually started thinking that maybe, just maybe, I was wrong and I was being a little unreasonable. So I bit the bullet and bought my first Steam game.
It was Borderlands GOTY, on sale, on July 29. 2 days later, they came out with that new "We're above the courts" TOS and I had to try[0] to cancel my account. I'm only out 8 bucks, but that was seriously a facepalm moment. I hate being right all the damn time.
[0] Emphasis on "Try to." The TOS says to cancel, you need to contact support through the Steam website. Ain't no categories there about cancelling your account, and the stupid thing doesn't let you leave it blank if nothing matches. I went for my best guess ("Suspended account") figuring it would at least get to the accounts department or whatever, and still haven't heard back from them.
You do realize that some people would rather use that RAM to power the applications they're working on, rather than some magpie's wet dream of a DE getting in their way, right?
I find it convenient when PayPal is a payment option so that I do not have to provide my credit card information to every vendor / seller on the World Wide Web.
The downside being that you DO have to give your card information to PayPal, who weren't exactly the most trustworthy bunch of bastards BEFORE being borged by eBay.
1) Can marketing alone really sell 100 million units of a $500 product on such a short period? And if it's the case, why didn't they run these marketing campaigns 10 years ago? I'm sorry but that doesn't make any sense.
Since when does the result of marketing have to make sense? And the answer is 'yes.' If you need more proof, just look at every damn "Christmas shopping season" ever. Game systems, Furby, Tickle-Me-Elmo, etc, etc, etc.
1. Marketing - You never saw a commercial for a Fujitsu Stylistic while watching "America's Next Top Model." People can't buy something if they don't know it exists.
2. Pricing - As ridiculously overpriced as the iPad and its ilk are, they're far cheaper than the tablet PCs of the past. Even the weak and slow 'cheap' ones were over a grand, which made them pretty hard to justify for those geeks who even knew they were available.
Who in the hell is going to carry around a clipboard and watch?
What is this, 1912? The electronic gagetry to replace the "clipboard and watch" has been around so long that you get them for $20 at the checkout isle in the goddamn grocery store, FFS.
And considering that we're talking about a friggin' dial-home pill here, one can't really play the luddite card.
I beg to differ; as a projectile from a cannon, gold would probably work much better than wood or styrofoam.
That just means that wood and styrofoam are useless, too. I imagine that the titanium hull of a starship would weather the ablative strike of a soft gold projectile rather well.
Clearly that could never work! Certainly Blizzard themselves could never, ever think of it! I mean, just look at how many Offline characters slipped into closed BattleNet in Diablo 2!
BSD freedoms ARE lossy. There is BSD code in use by Microsoft and Apple that has been extended, closed and made unavailable to the community. That sort of makes BSD code long-term unsustainable.
What a shame, too. The *BSDs would have been so much better off if they'd had a TCP/IP stack, but Microsoft had to go and rip it off and close it on them so they couldn't use it. Oh, wait...
Seriously, how do people who are so (ostensibly) skilled in critical thinking, problem-solving, and logic (you know, the core programming skills) keep repeating this old canard without seeing it for the steaming lump of bullshit that it is?
I guess looking like they're incapable of thinking straight is preferable to the more honest "I don't want anybody doing better with MY CODE than I did without getting a cut! Software wants to be free, but this software is MINE MINE MINE!"
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There is an equitable resolution to this problem. We already have it.
That word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
Douchebags who think this is acceptable either STFU or take it to their private country clubs or deer blinds. If you really feel the need to express your douchebaggery on a public street, then go ahead, just try to avoid feeling butt-hurt when normal people point out that you are a douchebag.
Ah, except, in this case, you're the one being the douchebag, by your own earlier definition, by proclaiming that YOUR standards of behavior should be the standard for the workplace. It's inherently hypocritical.
Also, your assumptions are flawed. I rarely make jokes at work at all, other than snarky comments littered in my code. Your assumption that I'm one of these "douchebags" outs you as having an idealogical position, rather than a pragmatic one, on the issue.
The simple fact of the matter is that there is an inherent lie in claiming to be "just after being treated the same way" when the actual demands are to be treated better, such as in this case.
You can either be "Equal" or you can be a delicate flower that needs special protection. You can't be both.
Better than it would feel knowing that one is a semi-literate Political Correctness goblin with a twitchy knee.
The only bullshit is people thinking their own views of what is professional conduct should somehow be the standard of their workplace. You think rape jokes or commenting on peoples' tits are acceptable?
For the record, "off-color" does not imply "racist."
And see, this is why there will never be an equitable resolution to the whole political correctness problem. Because no one said anything about "rape jokes" or "commenting on people's tits," but that was immediately where you ran.
The only bullshit is people thinking their own views of what is professional conduct should somehow be the standard of their workplace.
Unless, of course, that person is a woman and the standard of workplace behavior is already "mellow and laid back" to that sort of joke, of course. THEN, naturally, it's not bullshit.
Anyway, I never said that I think any/all workplaces should have my standard of behavior. What I said was that it was demonstrably false that this "Sexual Harassment" political correctness bullshit is "women just wanting to be treated the same way that men are treated."
And your response actually supports that point.
Hm. Cut off my line for some reason, and I didn't even use any angle-brackets. The second line should read
"...without any interference from those pesky courts, much less an actual trial"
Ah, the entitled. ...Weak willed individuals unable to deny themselves something and entitlements speak volumes.
"Entitlements" like being paid for the rest of their lives PLUS four more generations, for work completed once.
"Entitlements" like the power to punish suspected infringers without any interference from?
"Entitlements" such as not even being financially responsible for the exercise of the above, instead putting that off on the ISP and their workforces, without compensation?
Talk some more about "entitlements", you shilling ballsack.
That's where I ended up when I got sick of uTorrent turning itself into the next Azureus/Vuze. It really doesn't handle magnet links very well, though. For some reason, you can't change the base download location on a magnet, you have to "add torrent in paused mode," then manually change the location.
Seems very strange to me but it's still better than the mess that uTorrent is.
All the women are asking for is to be treated the same as you'd treat the men.
Aww, that's cute. Too bad it's also bullshit.
Men don't overhear an off-color joke being told to another man and subject the whole office to PC-training.
When a man wears club-clothes to work, he can't file a complaint if someone says "what the FUCK are you wearing?"
Well, with few exceptions, I honestly haven't been that impressed with the mobile gaming offerings. Maybe they're targeted at the same demographic as the "facebook" type games that I don't play either, but they all seem more like physics engine tech demos than games. When they first started hyping this thing, people were talking about things like "how to get the AA and AAA devs on board" and other delusional stuff like that. That's what I mean when I say it's never going to happen
Now if the games don't manifest into reality (they wont. It's been tried before), there's till an actual reason to own one of these things. Since I quit cable, my big MythTV box is just overkill. Might be able to replace it with an Ouya and an external HD or NAS.
Not bad for $99 (already have the external HD and NAS)
It took a week for them to respond to me, but I went by the letter of the TOS and went through the support site. What I got was a patronizing dribble of how this is "better for Valve and better for me." (Well, that's pretty much the textbook example of a half-truth, isn't it?) and a presumptuous brush off of "thanks for reading [these self-serving blog links] and your continued use of the Steam service. "
It's refreshing to see at least there are people on Slashdot who "get it." On the gamer sites, it's a bunch of idiots parroting "Were you planning on suing? Then you gave up your games for nothing!" I hate humanity, sometimes.
Oh, I already buy a metric shit-ton of stuff from GOG. No worries there. :)
It just chafes. I display a very un-geek-like humility and think "maybe I'm being too tinfoil hatty. They really haven't stepped on anyone's dick in several years. I should give them a chance." Then BOOM.
It's funny, too. After railing about steam and their horrible TOS for so long and being shouted down by world + dog, I actually started thinking that maybe, just maybe, I was wrong and I was being a little unreasonable. So I bit the bullet and bought my first Steam game.
It was Borderlands GOTY, on sale, on July 29. 2 days later, they came out with that new "We're above the courts" TOS and I had to try[0] to cancel my account. I'm only out 8 bucks, but that was seriously a facepalm moment. I hate being right all the damn time.
[0] Emphasis on "Try to." The TOS says to cancel, you need to contact support through the Steam website. Ain't no categories there about cancelling your account, and the stupid thing doesn't let you leave it blank if nothing matches. I went for my best guess ("Suspended account") figuring it would at least get to the accounts department or whatever, and still haven't heard back from them.
Fuck Valve and Steam.
You do realize that some people would rather use that RAM to power the applications they're working on, rather than some magpie's wet dream of a DE getting in their way, right?
I find it convenient when PayPal is a payment option so that I do not have to provide my credit card information to every vendor / seller on the World Wide Web.
The downside being that you DO have to give your card information to PayPal, who weren't exactly the most trustworthy bunch of bastards BEFORE being borged by eBay.
1) Can marketing alone really sell 100 million units of a $500 product on such a short period? And if it's the case, why didn't they run these marketing campaigns 10 years ago? I'm sorry but that doesn't make any sense.
Since when does the result of marketing have to make sense? And the answer is 'yes.' If you need more proof, just look at every damn "Christmas shopping season" ever. Game systems, Furby, Tickle-Me-Elmo, etc, etc, etc.
2) Overpriced compared to what it does.
There are at least two pretty obvious reasons.
1. Marketing - You never saw a commercial for a Fujitsu Stylistic while watching "America's Next Top Model." People can't buy something if they don't know it exists.
2. Pricing - As ridiculously overpriced as the iPad and its ilk are, they're far cheaper than the tablet PCs of the past. Even the weak and slow 'cheap' ones were over a grand, which made them pretty hard to justify for those geeks who even knew they were available.
Shit, the Note uses a foam-tipped stylus? I guess I got my hopes too high when I read that they'd licensed digitizer tech from Wacom...
YEAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH
(sorry...)
Hm. I wonder if that's compatible with PDroid (it would depend on which files it patches and how).
Who in the hell is going to carry around a clipboard and watch?
What is this, 1912? The electronic gagetry to replace the "clipboard and watch" has been around so long that you get them for $20 at the checkout isle in the goddamn grocery store, FFS.
And considering that we're talking about a friggin' dial-home pill here, one can't really play the luddite card.
If that were the case, then the first bit of space-dust would ventilate the ship (and anyone in the path of travel) as soon as they went to warp.
I beg to differ; as a projectile from a cannon, gold would probably work much better than wood or styrofoam.
That just means that wood and styrofoam are useless, too. I imagine that the titanium hull of a starship would weather the ablative strike of a soft gold projectile rather well.
Clearly that could never work! Certainly Blizzard themselves could never, ever think of it! I mean, just look at how many Offline characters slipped into closed BattleNet in Diablo 2!
BSD freedoms ARE lossy. There is BSD code in use by Microsoft and Apple that has been extended, closed and made unavailable to the community. That sort of makes BSD code long-term unsustainable.
What a shame, too. The *BSDs would have been so much better off if they'd had a TCP/IP stack, but Microsoft had to go and rip it off and close it on them so they couldn't use it. Oh, wait...
Seriously, how do people who are so (ostensibly) skilled in critical thinking, problem-solving, and logic (you know, the core programming skills) keep repeating this old canard without seeing it for the steaming lump of bullshit that it is?
I guess looking like they're incapable of thinking straight is preferable to the more honest "I don't want anybody doing better with MY CODE than I did without getting a cut! Software wants to be free, but this software is MINE MINE MINE!"
Don't call him buddy, dude.
Shut the fuck up, Donny.