I have yet to see a Creationist willing to stand up and offer their points in a valid scientific setting.
Two guys argue about the value of x. One says x=2. The other says x=3. The first guy says "I have yet to see an x=3er willing to stand up and offer their points in a setting where x=2."
Despite evidence showing the sun was the center of our galaxy, the all-knowing Church cried "heresy" because it was against their beliefs.
Where in the Bible does it say that the Earth is the center of the galaxy?
I don't think that is what the GP is saying. I think he is saying if you have bought two games from one Steam account, you cannot play one on one computer and one on another computer. At least that is my understanding of what the GP was saying. I am not vouching as to whether that is true.
I do know that my stepson bought me Civ 5 for my birthday last year, a physical copy, but for some reason, it seems to want to connect to Steam in order for me to play it. I don't understand that at all, and I will probably never buy anything from Steam for that reason.
Never, ever pirate anything. It spurs their belief that people really want their product, but just aren't willing to pay for it. Instead, avoid the product altogether and encourage others to avoid it.
If it was a rental, it should have been made clear from the beginning. They sell you the electronic copy as if it is yours to keep and reread whenever you want. If it was sold as a rental, the price needs to be adjusted accordingly. I am willing to pay $10 to $15 for a physical copy of a book. I am not willing to pay that much for an electronic copy because it doesn't have the same tactile feedback, is less convenient and I have to have accessories to use it. To me an electronic copy is worth less than a physical copy. My library is willing to rent me physical books for free, so if the DRM companies are going to rent me electronic copies, they are going to have to do make a better offer than the local library. For example, they could pay me to read their book. This might make up for the inconvenience of having to have some sort of e-reader to read them.
I can only speak for myself and the people I know (of course i will add your opinion), but our cable gave us the option of HBO, Cinemax, Showtime, VUE and local channels. We had only VUE and local channels.Most people I knew had HBO and local channels. I'm not aware of ESPN even being an option in my area, because my stepdad was big into football an we would have had it if it was available. We didn't have MTV available either, but the restaurant where I worked had it.
I remember one of the salespeople at Radio Shack when I was growing up had a Masters Degree. One could make the joke that he couldn't get a job, but in truth I think a salesperson at Radio Shack paid much better relative to society as a whole back in the 1980s than it does now.
Apparently your "good old days" of cable started in the 1990's. In the early 1980s, we had cable, and there was no Home Shopping Network (apparently HSN went national in 1985). There were no commercials on cable either, because almost everything on cable was a movie channel of some sort. The only thing with commercials was the local channels which were available also available over cable.
Maybe the internet itself has changed. There is still good technical info out there, but somehow it seems harder to find.
Yep. My dad had the same theory about television. Back in the day, there were three channels of content. There is still the same amount of information being broadcast, but it is spread somewhere amongst the 700 channels available.
Back in the day, you could find what you wanted on the internet without having to use google. These days, you have to use google and you have to hope that the site with the content you want is better at promoting their content than the redirectors are at promoting their lack of content.
They wouldn't pay for it if it somehow didn't make sense.
Sure they would. It doesn't have to make sense, it just has to be marketed to them as making sense. In other words, the marketing department has to sell to the company the idea that it will drive up profits. The marketing department is very good at marketing...themselves.
Now that you've laughed about them, in a couple weeks you're going to forget about the "never buy" part and just remember the "felt strongly" part. Then when you're buying the products, the "brand you'll never buy" will be the brand you vaguely remember, so that's the one you'll put in the basket.
I hope my subconscious is better at remembering those things than my conscious. Because I'll often be telling coworkers about a funny commercial and the first words out of my mouth are always "I don't remember who the commercial was for, but...".
you'd have no idea where to go to find someone who could provide you with a good or service, whether anyone else would provide you with a good or service, or any information about said good or service.
Well, we have the internet, and reviews.If I am interested in a product, including whether or not it exists, I go to the internet and research what other people use and the pluses and minuses of various products.
Every piece of information you receive about a product that you didn't explicitly go and ask the vendor about is advertising
I would agree with that. I would also add "and therefore suspect". Of COURSE the vendor is going to say their product is better than their competitors and of COURSE they are going to say it is awesome. That is why you can't make your purchasing decision based on the vendor's advertisement. They are hoping you will, of course. Advertising is one thing I take into account when I look at a product. If they are spending a lot more on advertisement than a competitor, then it probably costs more to make up for the advertisement, or it doesn't perform as well so they have to give it more market exposure.
As a manager and as a developer I would strongly say that money very greatly increases my passion. I have been working 60+ hour weeks at my present job for 10 years with no raise, no bonus, and no advancement and I can tell you that I am EXTREMELY passionate about technology, but the lack of appreciation or recognition of my efforts has demotivated me to the point where I find it difficult to care anymore. All they would have to do is pay me industry standard for my position, and not only would I feel a lot better about the hours I put in, but I would have a lot less stress about money at home as well. Just because they haven't given me any more money over the last 10 years hasn't stopped the price of practically everything from going up 50-60% in that time.
At my office it is "We're okay with you coming in late so long as you put in 12 hrs each day and show up no later than 8 and leave no earlier than 6."
Seriously, you get no leniency whatsoever if you were up until 4 in the morning working on an unreasonable deadline. If you are not in first thing the next morning, you get a talking to. I've gotten in trouble for not resolving an issue within an hour when it was sent by e-mail at 6 in the morning. I can't leave my phone next to my bed because the binging and bonging goes on all night long. I can't tell the difference between a production down e-mail and one saying my expense report status has changed, so I am supposed to look at my phone every 15 minutes all night long whenever it dings at me.
Although I disagree that every programmer has to be passionate about programming, I would have to say that I most definitely am. In fact, I am so passionate that it makes me ill to see the hideous inefficiency of some of the past programs written at my company. Even now, they continue to not learn from their mistakes and have even gone through efforts to rewrite well written code in a less efficient manner and which does not integrate to the system and is not scalable.
Are the Accounts Payable people passionate about writing checks? Are the secretaries passionate about answering the phone? Are the Helpdesk people passionate about resettiing passwords? If so, then I guess they should required the programmers to be passionate about programming.
I would say a "Fake" T-shirt with a team logo directly benefits the team. Why should I have to pay for a shirt that advertises for your team? Shouldn't you be paying me? Of course, I buy neither official nor counterfeit NFL merchandise since I can't reach an advertising agreement with the NFL that we both find mutually beneficial.
Or it may well be that the quality control on the counterfeit merchandise is HIGHER than the QC for the official NFL. Just because the counterfeit is cheaper in price doesn't mean it is lower in quality. 90% of the price of the merchandise is the logo.
How are you going to pay them (they don't accept Euros) and how do they know how much you owe them. Do they go by the exchange rate at the time you were paid, or do they go by the exchange rate at the time that you change them to dollars?
Ultimately the responsibility for your safety resides with you. if the government has not declared an automatic snow day, but you think there is a strong possibility of blizzard-like conditions, then it is your duty to safeguard your children and yourself and stay home.
Smart business would have told their employees to work from home. The only people that had to show up was government employees and if your life may be on the line, I think it is worth taking a personal day.
Everybody is worried about who is at fault, but to me it is pretty obvious. Don't depend on Big Brother to look out for you. Big Brother looks out for himself, and only looks out for you if it is ultimately of benefit to him.
I lived 15 years in Chicago and never once saw the issues that we see every year in the south as far as ice and snow. When I lived in Chicago, it would snow, and that wasn't a big deal. Down here, it will be above freezing aloft but below freezing on the ground, so rain will fall down and immediately freeze on everything. Eventually the temperature aloft cools down and we will start to get first sleet and then finally snow. But by that time you have already half an inch of ice on the ground. I NEVER saw that in all of my time living in Chicago, nor when I lived in New Jersey.
I think it was 1989 or 1990 where we received 2 inches of ice in Oklahoma, and then snow on top of that. It was so thick, you could literally ice skate on your back yard.
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I have yet to see a Creationist willing to stand up and offer their points in a valid scientific setting.
Two guys argue about the value of x. One says x=2. The other says x=3. The first guy says "I have yet to see an x=3er willing to stand up and offer their points in a setting where x=2."
Despite evidence showing the sun was the center of our galaxy, the all-knowing Church cried "heresy" because it was against their beliefs.
Where in the Bible does it say that the Earth is the center of the galaxy?
How many televangelists have been caught in hotel rooms with hookers/cocaine? Did that change anybody's opinion?
Not as many as the number of people who say there is no God who have been caught in hotel rooms with hookers/cocaine.
I don't think that is what the GP is saying. I think he is saying if you have bought two games from one Steam account, you cannot play one on one computer and one on another computer. At least that is my understanding of what the GP was saying. I am not vouching as to whether that is true.
I do know that my stepson bought me Civ 5 for my birthday last year, a physical copy, but for some reason, it seems to want to connect to Steam in order for me to play it. I don't understand that at all, and I will probably never buy anything from Steam for that reason.
Never, ever pirate anything. It spurs their belief that people really want their product, but just aren't willing to pay for it. Instead, avoid the product altogether and encourage others to avoid it.
If it was a rental, it should have been made clear from the beginning. They sell you the electronic copy as if it is yours to keep and reread whenever you want. If it was sold as a rental, the price needs to be adjusted accordingly. I am willing to pay $10 to $15 for a physical copy of a book. I am not willing to pay that much for an electronic copy because it doesn't have the same tactile feedback, is less convenient and I have to have accessories to use it. To me an electronic copy is worth less than a physical copy. My library is willing to rent me physical books for free, so if the DRM companies are going to rent me electronic copies, they are going to have to do make a better offer than the local library. For example, they could pay me to read their book. This might make up for the inconvenience of having to have some sort of e-reader to read them.
I can only speak for myself and the people I know (of course i will add your opinion), but our cable gave us the option of HBO, Cinemax, Showtime, VUE and local channels. We had only VUE and local channels.Most people I knew had HBO and local channels. I'm not aware of ESPN even being an option in my area, because my stepdad was big into football an we would have had it if it was available. We didn't have MTV available either, but the restaurant where I worked had it.
Sure you don't mean Rainer Beer?
Another real world example of the effectiveness of those $4 million commercials.
They paid for it so they could pad their expenses. You know, HOLLYWOOD ACCOUNTING, and all that.
Unless there are kickbacks for $4 million dollar ads, what is the point? Money spent is money spent.
Canadians don't have free health care any more than you get a free Big Mac after you paid at the register.
I remember one of the salespeople at Radio Shack when I was growing up had a Masters Degree. One could make the joke that he couldn't get a job, but in truth I think a salesperson at Radio Shack paid much better relative to society as a whole back in the 1980s than it does now.
Apparently your "good old days" of cable started in the 1990's. In the early 1980s, we had cable, and there was no Home Shopping Network (apparently HSN went national in 1985). There were no commercials on cable either, because almost everything on cable was a movie channel of some sort. The only thing with commercials was the local channels which were available also available over cable.
Maybe the internet itself has changed. There is still good technical info out there, but somehow it seems harder to find.
Yep. My dad had the same theory about television. Back in the day, there were three channels of content. There is still the same amount of information being broadcast, but it is spread somewhere amongst the 700 channels available.
Back in the day, you could find what you wanted on the internet without having to use google. These days, you have to use google and you have to hope that the site with the content you want is better at promoting their content than the redirectors are at promoting their lack of content.
They wouldn't pay for it if it somehow didn't make sense.
Sure they would. It doesn't have to make sense, it just has to be marketed to them as making sense. In other words, the marketing department has to sell to the company the idea that it will drive up profits. The marketing department is very good at marketing...themselves.
Now that you've laughed about them, in a couple weeks you're going to forget about the "never buy" part and just remember the "felt strongly" part. Then when you're buying the products, the "brand you'll never buy" will be the brand you vaguely remember, so that's the one you'll put in the basket.
I hope my subconscious is better at remembering those things than my conscious. Because I'll often be telling coworkers about a funny commercial and the first words out of my mouth are always "I don't remember who the commercial was for, but...".
you'd have no idea where to go to find someone who could provide you with a good or service, whether anyone else would provide you with a good or service, or any information about said good or service.
Well, we have the internet, and reviews.If I am interested in a product, including whether or not it exists, I go to the internet and research what other people use and the pluses and minuses of various products.
Every piece of information you receive about a product that you didn't explicitly go and ask the vendor about is advertising
I would agree with that. I would also add "and therefore suspect". Of COURSE the vendor is going to say their product is better than their competitors and of COURSE they are going to say it is awesome. That is why you can't make your purchasing decision based on the vendor's advertisement. They are hoping you will, of course. Advertising is one thing I take into account when I look at a product. If they are spending a lot more on advertisement than a competitor, then it probably costs more to make up for the advertisement, or it doesn't perform as well so they have to give it more market exposure.
As a manager and as a developer I would strongly say that money very greatly increases my passion. I have been working 60+ hour weeks at my present job for 10 years with no raise, no bonus, and no advancement and I can tell you that I am EXTREMELY passionate about technology, but the lack of appreciation or recognition of my efforts has demotivated me to the point where I find it difficult to care anymore. All they would have to do is pay me industry standard for my position, and not only would I feel a lot better about the hours I put in, but I would have a lot less stress about money at home as well. Just because they haven't given me any more money over the last 10 years hasn't stopped the price of practically everything from going up 50-60% in that time.
At my office it is "We're okay with you coming in late so long as you put in 12 hrs each day and show up no later than 8 and leave no earlier than 6."
Seriously, you get no leniency whatsoever if you were up until 4 in the morning working on an unreasonable deadline. If you are not in first thing the next morning, you get a talking to. I've gotten in trouble for not resolving an issue within an hour when it was sent by e-mail at 6 in the morning. I can't leave my phone next to my bed because the binging and bonging goes on all night long. I can't tell the difference between a production down e-mail and one saying my expense report status has changed, so I am supposed to look at my phone every 15 minutes all night long whenever it dings at me.
Although I disagree that every programmer has to be passionate about programming, I would have to say that I most definitely am. In fact, I am so passionate that it makes me ill to see the hideous inefficiency of some of the past programs written at my company. Even now, they continue to not learn from their mistakes and have even gone through efforts to rewrite well written code in a less efficient manner and which does not integrate to the system and is not scalable.
Are the Accounts Payable people passionate about writing checks? Are the secretaries passionate about answering the phone? Are the Helpdesk people passionate about resettiing passwords? If so, then I guess they should required the programmers to be passionate about programming.
I would say a "Fake" T-shirt with a team logo directly benefits the team. Why should I have to pay for a shirt that advertises for your team? Shouldn't you be paying me? Of course, I buy neither official nor counterfeit NFL merchandise since I can't reach an advertising agreement with the NFL that we both find mutually beneficial.
Or it may well be that the quality control on the counterfeit merchandise is HIGHER than the QC for the official NFL. Just because the counterfeit is cheaper in price doesn't mean it is lower in quality. 90% of the price of the merchandise is the logo.
I've got TWO.
How are you going to pay them (they don't accept Euros) and how do they know how much you owe them. Do they go by the exchange rate at the time you were paid, or do they go by the exchange rate at the time that you change them to dollars?
Ultimately the responsibility for your safety resides with you. if the government has not declared an automatic snow day, but you think there is a strong possibility of blizzard-like conditions, then it is your duty to safeguard your children and yourself and stay home.
Smart business would have told their employees to work from home. The only people that had to show up was government employees and if your life may be on the line, I think it is worth taking a personal day.
Everybody is worried about who is at fault, but to me it is pretty obvious. Don't depend on Big Brother to look out for you. Big Brother looks out for himself, and only looks out for you if it is ultimately of benefit to him.
I lived 15 years in Chicago and never once saw the issues that we see every year in the south as far as ice and snow. When I lived in Chicago, it would snow, and that wasn't a big deal. Down here, it will be above freezing aloft but below freezing on the ground, so rain will fall down and immediately freeze on everything. Eventually the temperature aloft cools down and we will start to get first sleet and then finally snow. But by that time you have already half an inch of ice on the ground. I NEVER saw that in all of my time living in Chicago, nor when I lived in New Jersey.
I think it was 1989 or 1990 where we received 2 inches of ice in Oklahoma, and then snow on top of that. It was so thick, you could literally ice skate on your back yard.