I mean, a couple years ago? Maybe. Now? No. So what's changed? Well, I've gotten older, there are better movies out there that I'd spend my money on, and frankly, I'm tired of producers yanking our chains with new versions every couple years.
So no. I will not be buying this, as I suspect will be the general refrain from his target base.
This is business, not government. In business, you perform a cost analysis, with the risks and potential benefits.
Morality, ethics don't really enter in to the question unless it becomes a PR and marketing issue.
Hurd was doing a great job for the company, and yes he fucked up. However, I believe someone used this situation as a cover for their own personal agenda.
I hate the need for wikileaks, if not wikileaks directly.
Freedom of the press was supposed to be a balance between this and the traditional media. However, with the major news outlets falling over themselves to appease different market segments, real news gets lost in the translations. Real information is not reported when it should be, letting situations like Iraq happen.
Professors should teach with whatever medium they feel most comfortable with. As a student, I am there to learn the concepts and ideas they are providing. Anything that gets in the way of that transfer of knowledge is a bad thing.
Perhaps not, but it can always come down to; you agree to the terms or find another job.
That he was responsible for this software ( which sounds more like resume fluffing...but I digress ) indicates he has some skill. I'm sure if he's really that valuable, he'll be able to find someone to pay him what he thinks he's worth.
Merge stop and yield? That's one of those ideas that sound awesome, until you consider that people will be involved.
We are just getting round abouts where I live, and people are constantly stopping at those things when no one is there, or trying to go even though they don't have the right away.
People are idiots, and couldn't handle such a suggestion.
Little johnny ( and his parents ) can look at the percentage and figure it out then.
Or maybe, just maybe, seeing a big red F on a report card might motivate his parents to contact the teacher and find out why their child is failing..maybe encouraging them to actually get involved in the child's education.
Note: The actual percentage of children who are trying and still fail is ridiculously low. As in, you won't find a single one in your average highschool. If it takes an unqualified F to get child/parents motivated, it's worth it.
Remove D, by itself, wouldn't do anything. That's not what they are doing though. They are not letting anyone who gets 69% and lower to pass. Hence, they now have two redundant grades, so they are eliminating one of them. Given that everyone associates F with Fail, it makes sense to get rid of D.
Not sure why this is as confusing as it is. My guess would be that a few people got 'D's in their english classes.
But all data. We store data without regard for it's lifetime, filling up harddrives which then need to be backed up. In some cases, we have data which has existed for 15 years or more. We dare not delete it, because it might someday be useful, but in the meantime it takes up disk storage space which costs extreme amounts of money to maintain.
What we need is a built in expiration date, known to all. When the file is written to disk, it is done so with a default expiration date. When that date comes, it is naturally deleted. Perhaps different data sets have different dates.
Not many. Absolute control of the devices connecting up to a corporate network is a selling point for RIM and their customers, not a detriment.
This kind of underlines the point about hooking up personal devices to something as critical as corporate email services. It's a bad idea and should not be done as it gives up a significant amount of control over email and it's delivery. RIM understands this, and their BBs are the answer to this problem.
One might argue that you already have an idea about the quality of the DLC; you purchased the base game afterall, so it's not like you are going into it blind.
Let's take fallout 3, for example. When I finished it, I still wanted to play more. Even after wandering the waste land, doing every possible mission, I still wanted more. Then I saw that brotherhood of steel would allow me that "more", so I forked over the cash for it.
Good games stand to make more money from this model, while bad games will probably lose more. I know I think I spent close to $100 for fallout 3, and feel it was money well spent.
Define a small coding project, deliverables and all, and bring in each candidate to complete it as a pre-interview. Then call back those that did the best job.
Most of the fiction books I read are a part of a series.
I don't know many people that pick up a series at book 5.
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The BOOK publishing industry has had a model similar to this in place for a while, and I would love to see video games follow this. Most of the books I read are parts of a series, so I buy the first book ( the starter ), and then the next books ( DLCs ).
Just like with book publishing, you could do DLC packs with price reductions after they've been out a while.
As long as they deliver value proportional to the cost, I'm good with this.
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I mean, a couple years ago? Maybe. Now? No. So what's changed? Well, I've gotten older, there are better movies out there that I'd spend my money on, and frankly, I'm tired of producers yanking our chains with new versions every couple years.
So no. I will not be buying this, as I suspect will be the general refrain from his target base.
No one votes FOR a candidate, everyone votes AGAINST the "other guy". That's the only way to explain Pelosi, Obama, Bush, Hatch, Stevens...
This is business, not government. In business, you perform a cost analysis, with the risks and potential benefits.
Morality, ethics don't really enter in to the question unless it becomes a PR and marketing issue.
Hurd was doing a great job for the company, and yes he fucked up. However, I believe someone used this situation as a cover for their own personal agenda.
I hate the need for wikileaks, if not wikileaks directly.
Freedom of the press was supposed to be a balance between this and the traditional media. However, with the major news outlets falling over themselves to appease different market segments, real news gets lost in the translations. Real information is not reported when it should be, letting situations like Iraq happen.
No shit. OP: Bad news, if it's on company equipment, IT has already looked at it. Your fetish for donkeys is now well known.
As far as the personal stuff at home; who cares? Family means never having to explain the albino midget you keep in the closet.
While technically true, pattern recognition is the core of our intelligence.
More accurate to say that your intelligence lays in other areas than spacial recognition.
Professors should teach with whatever medium they feel most comfortable with. As a student, I am there to learn the concepts and ideas they are providing. Anything that gets in the way of that transfer of knowledge is a bad thing.
Yes, this is what's known as "capitalism". It's not meant to be fair, or more accurately, it's meant to be brutally fair.
We're all special flowers, I'm sure, but the market determines our value.
Perhaps not, but it can always come down to; you agree to the terms or find another job.
That he was responsible for this software ( which sounds more like resume fluffing...but I digress ) indicates he has some skill. I'm sure if he's really that valuable, he'll be able to find someone to pay him what he thinks he's worth.
I mean, correct me if I'm wrong here, but the programmer in question agreed to the terms BEFORE he wrote the first line of code.
Shouldn't gripes like these come up before you begin working? Maybe this is part of the problem, non?
We gonna go back to smell-o-vision next?
This isn't even remotely appealing to me.
Who's internet identity will they get?
So it's intent is to be a traffic hazard and introduce risk in to the equation?
Somehow, I think you've got that wrong.
Then it's not a "no-harm" instance, is it?
Merge stop and yield? That's one of those ideas that sound awesome, until you consider that people will be involved.
We are just getting round abouts where I live, and people are constantly stopping at those things when no one is there, or trying to go even though they don't have the right away.
People are idiots, and couldn't handle such a suggestion.
Little johnny ( and his parents ) can look at the percentage and figure it out then.
Or maybe, just maybe, seeing a big red F on a report card might motivate his parents to contact the teacher and find out why their child is failing..maybe encouraging them to actually get involved in the child's education.
Note: The actual percentage of children who are trying and still fail is ridiculously low. As in, you won't find a single one in your average highschool. If it takes an unqualified F to get child/parents motivated, it's worth it.
Remove D, by itself, wouldn't do anything. That's not what they are doing though. They are not letting anyone who gets 69% and lower to pass. Hence, they now have two redundant grades, so they are eliminating one of them. Given that everyone associates F with Fail, it makes sense to get rid of D.
Not sure why this is as confusing as it is. My guess would be that a few people got 'D's in their english classes.
But all data. We store data without regard for it's lifetime, filling up harddrives which then need to be backed up. In some cases, we have data which has existed for 15 years or more. We dare not delete it, because it might someday be useful, but in the meantime it takes up disk storage space which costs extreme amounts of money to maintain.
What we need is a built in expiration date, known to all. When the file is written to disk, it is done so with a default expiration date. When that date comes, it is naturally deleted. Perhaps different data sets have different dates.
Not many. Absolute control of the devices connecting up to a corporate network is a selling point for RIM and their customers, not a detriment.
This kind of underlines the point about hooking up personal devices to something as critical as corporate email services. It's a bad idea and should not be done as it gives up a significant amount of control over email and it's delivery. RIM understands this, and their BBs are the answer to this problem.
If the device is hooked up to a corporate BES server, then they can already read all of your sms / email.
Always better for the corporation to completely own the device, from start to finish, to prevent confusion.
One might argue that you already have an idea about the quality of the DLC; you purchased the base game afterall, so it's not like you are going into it blind.
Let's take fallout 3, for example. When I finished it, I still wanted to play more. Even after wandering the waste land, doing every possible mission, I still wanted more. Then I saw that brotherhood of steel would allow me that "more", so I forked over the cash for it.
Good games stand to make more money from this model, while bad games will probably lose more. I know I think I spent close to $100 for fallout 3, and feel it was money well spent.
Define a small coding project, deliverables and all, and bring in each candidate to complete it as a pre-interview. Then call back those that did the best job.
Problem solved?
Most of the fiction books I read are a part of a series.
I don't know many people that pick up a series at book 5.
The BOOK publishing industry has had a model similar to this in place for a while, and I would love to see video games follow this. Most of the books I read are parts of a series, so I buy the first book ( the starter ), and then the next books ( DLCs ).
Just like with book publishing, you could do DLC packs with price reductions after they've been out a while.
As long as they deliver value proportional to the cost, I'm good with this.
Maybe they have commented, but it got censored.
I'll show myself out.