Or they protest in person because their (VOIP) phones and their email are down. That's what I meant. I know normal people understand 'no net == no mail', but there are pathological cases.
"When people are sitting around waiting for the network to come back up, or the departmental printer keeps not working right, or the web is really slow--if there's an explanation forthcoming quickly, people can understand that you're working like mad to fix it. When an IT department has a stand-offish attitude and refuses to answer phone calls and emails in a timely way, people will assume the worst."
The problem is when the network is down and they want you to answer their emails.
The rebuttal to your point is "I can try to solve this, or I can talk to you about it. Pick one". Not saying that it's the right answer all the time, I guess the correct reply is in the middle.
All those examples cite causes not artificially produced to end the use of your product. If the monitor dies after 5 years, it's (hopefully) not because a conscious decision from the maker. If your tires wear out, it's due to the use, not because Michelin decided to add a rot-fast compound to the rubber. The DRM is a completely different beast. Ask yourself if any of the examples you mentioned are the equivalent of a dead man's switch like DRM is.
Part of the problem is programmers who don't care about international use (often Americans) and start using symbols that are easy for them to type but uncommon in other countries. That said, lots of European layouts feature gratuitous layout changes; for example, the German keyboard swaps Y and Z for no apparent reason.
That was a hilarious couple of sentences, rebutting in the first one the assumption you make in the second...
If the new customers take 35 minutes to eat the same sandwich they could have eaten in 10, thus blocking the seats for other hapless bastards, McDonalds hasn't much to pat themselves in the back for. Which is the point of the summary, nevermind the article.
What's Argentina got to do with this? We've not had a communist government ever. The current administration is as corrupt as they come, as populist, demagogic and disgusting as it can be, but not communist by any rational definition.
How are thee irrelevant, inflammatory and offtopic? Let me count the ways...
Seriously, what the eff does this have to do with the new release of JS? Pointing out that there was a bit of a struggle between Eich/Mozilla and Microsoft about the new additions to the language would at least have been on topic, but this?
Seriously, get out of the basement, wash and stop the useless bashing. There's such a lot of useful bashing to be done...
You could, you know, _buy_ one of those distros, like SuSE or Mandriva, and have the comfort of knowing that there's someone there to give you the shaft on the phone or by email directly when things go wrong, without needing to subscribe to a mailing list to be left in the lurch.
Yeah, there was no way at all of being widely read or commented in the 1960s. Not a newspaper, not a radio out there where a nutcase could make a point. William R. Hearst sure needed a blog to swing opinion.
You can hardly argue about correlation, causation or coincidence if you have no idea when they happened.
I only gave an example, the expectation was that you could extend it to analyzing other chains of events where time is important.
In chemistry, we have to know what the atomic weight of Carbon is, the names and symbols of the elements, etc. In IT. knowing bytes, words, and multiples of 2 is useful, not to mention the syntax of several languages. In history, what you have to memorize is places and dates.
Then, when you know that, you start to think about them. But not before.
In History, to have any chance of critical thinking and correctly interpreting facts you have to know -to a variable precision- when the things you study about happened.
For example, saying that Napoleon fought the Spaniards and saying 'the ViceRoyalty of the River Plate started a process of independence from Spain in the first decades of the 19th Century' doesn't mean much. To understand that one helped the other happen, -because the king of Spain was busy fighting in his homeland to quash the rebels over South America- you need some dates.
They might even win an award for this: '1999 IgNobel Award in Sociology: Steve Penfold, of York University in Toronto, "for d oing his Ph.D. thesis on the sociology of Canadian donut shops."' http://www.hno.harvard.edu/gazette/1999/10.07/Ig-Nobels.html
Sure, that sort of scenario may be the exception more than the rule. But then, you could say the same of scenarios where someone would have pirated the game, but bought it due to DRM.
Any evidence of this? Any instance of a game where there was not a 0-day crack due to DRM?
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Or they protest in person because their (VOIP) phones and their email are down. That's what I meant. I know normal people understand 'no net == no mail', but there are pathological cases.
"When people are sitting around waiting for the network to come back up, or the departmental printer keeps not working right, or the web is really slow--if there's an explanation forthcoming quickly, people can understand that you're working like mad to fix it. When an IT department has a stand-offish attitude and refuses to answer phone calls and emails in a timely way, people will assume the worst."
The problem is when the network is down and they want you to answer their emails.
The rebuttal to your point is "I can try to solve this, or I can talk to you about it. Pick one". Not saying that it's the right answer all the time, I guess the correct reply is in the middle.
All those examples cite causes not artificially produced to end the use of your product. If the monitor dies after 5 years, it's (hopefully) not because a conscious decision from the maker. If your tires wear out, it's due to the use, not because Michelin decided to add a rot-fast compound to the rubber. The DRM is a completely different beast. Ask yourself if any of the examples you mentioned are the equivalent of a dead man's switch like DRM is.
I didn't know that "interacting with other people has a decidedly positive weight" only for artists.
That was a hilarious couple of sentences, rebutting in the first one the assumption you make in the second...
Silly little penguins, thank you very much.
If the new customers take 35 minutes to eat the same sandwich they could have eaten in 10, thus blocking the seats for other hapless bastards, McDonalds hasn't much to pat themselves in the back for.
Which is the point of the summary, nevermind the article.
Because DBus Ex is much more meaningful related to a game? Does it include its own card?
yes.
Ahem, actually, there might be a fine line between 'respecting employees and being cool' and 'taking eleven year to finish a program'.
Sorry, no, it's a line the size of a road.
I don't follow your logic. They test whether, under load, the js engine responds quickly, and for you that's 'overrated'?
Sure, in a year the hardware will allow us to deprecate the test, but right now (and at the time the test was developed) it does not.
At the very least, the test says 'Don't assume you can always have 30 fps displayed', which is a useful -if perhaps obvious- notion.
What's Argentina got to do with this? We've not had a communist government ever. The current administration is as corrupt as they come, as populist, demagogic and disgusting as it can be, but not communist by any rational definition.
How are thee irrelevant, inflammatory and offtopic? Let me count the ways...
Seriously, what the eff does this have to do with the new release of JS? Pointing out that there was a bit of a struggle between Eich/Mozilla and Microsoft about the new additions to the language would at least have been on topic, but this?
Seriously, get out of the basement, wash and stop the useless bashing. There's such a lot of useful bashing to be done...
You could, you know, _buy_ one of those distros, like SuSE or Mandriva, and have the comfort of knowing that there's someone there to give you the shaft on the phone or by email directly when things go wrong, without needing to subscribe to a mailing list to be left in the lurch.
Yeah, there was no way at all of being widely read or commented in the 1960s. Not a newspaper, not a radio out there where a nutcase could make a point. William R. Hearst sure needed a blog to swing opinion.
Good sir, you either misspelled Hydraulics or Hydrolicks.
You can hardly argue about correlation, causation or coincidence if you have no idea when they happened.
I only gave an example, the expectation was that you could extend it to analyzing other chains of events where time is important.
In chemistry, we have to know what the atomic weight of Carbon is, the names and symbols of the elements, etc. In IT. knowing bytes, words, and multiples of 2 is useful, not to mention the syntax of several languages. In history, what you have to memorize is places and dates.
Then, when you know that, you start to think about them. But not before.
In History, to have any chance of critical thinking and correctly interpreting facts you have to know -to a variable precision- when the things you study about happened.
For example, saying that Napoleon fought the Spaniards and saying 'the ViceRoyalty of the River Plate started a process of independence from Spain in the first decades of the 19th Century' doesn't mean much. To understand that one helped the other happen, -because the king of Spain was busy fighting in his homeland to quash the rebels over South America- you need some dates.
The superposition between the illiterate and those buying TTS devices seems to me a bit smaller than 100%. More like 0%.
They might even win an award for this:
'1999 IgNobel Award in Sociology: Steve Penfold, of York University in Toronto, "for d oing his Ph.D. thesis on the sociology of Canadian donut shops."' http://www.hno.harvard.edu/gazette/1999/10.07/Ig-Nobels.html
Well, it could be the other side of the frontier, couldn't it?
Trees also breathe out CO2, not only O2.
About the permanent death: implemented in Diablo and Diablo 2, on the harder difficulty levels.
Now this is what I call First Post. Well done!
Sure, that sort of scenario may be the exception more than the rule. But then, you could say the same of scenarios where someone would have pirated the game, but bought it due to DRM.
Any evidence of this? Any instance of a game where there was not a 0-day crack due to DRM?