I agree with that one, but that janitor lawsuit would be justified if they aren't given the tools (like brushes and rubber gloves) to do their job safely.
So if this is a frivolous lawsuit depends on what facebook actually delivered when they said they would give the needed support for that job. (and maybe misleading job descriptions)
I'm not taking a "stupid" from someone who can't recognize the difference between a MMORPG with thousands of players in a realm where each player is able to (temporarily) change the environment for all other players and a simple 5vs5 deathmatch on a limited map.
But I agree that slapping an MMO-label on what would be a simple shooter is ruining many good games. But It's not 100% scam. There is a good portion of hype in it. You say you remember the 90s.... Do you also remember what happened to games in the 2000s that did not come with an online multiplayer mode? They were unsellable. So there was an actual demand for the MMO/online "rebranding"
Does that qualify for a monthly subscription? Not really. For that I would expect more bells and whistles... ongoing content updates, events and that whole stuff.
For an online game, you are paying for the online service, like you did with AOL or your ISP. So I don't have a problem with subscribing to such a "Game as a service". But then again, Clients for online services used to be free and did not cost full retail price. (Aol coasters anyone?)
If you want to hide that www.slashdot.amp.google.com is served using AMP on Google servers instead of www.slashdot.com, dies hiding the www really help?
Each layer has to know how to operate the layer below to communicate with an remote entity on the same layer. But not with any deeper layer. (That's the whole point of it!)
So Layer 8 (the user) needs to know how to use the http-Layer, but nothing about the transport, switching or physical layer. Yes, convenience is a thing, but you shouldn't make it harder than necessary for people who want to know what urls are by hiding or disfiguring them.
Even if making it easy for the user is a good thing, if Level 8 wants to learn about Level 7, that's a good thing too. But indeed he should not be required to learn about TCP and IP.
If you're making 500k a month. Suck it up. Bank that money for a bit. Quit. And go enjoy a nice life off the properly invested money.
I don't think that's the point. That's what any sane person with a well paid, but unpleaseant job would do.
I guess their main problem is the insight, that their biggest dream turned out to be nothing but a grinding job. I loved programming and did it for fun. I'm not doing that anymore since I do it for a living. Yes! Even fun stuff like gaming turn into work if you HAVE TO do it.
Other things that *might* help, not just here, but everywhere: - setting realistic goals and being satisfied with them - figuring out how you want to define success for yourself
What's wrong with making more and more money? Why do you hate capitalism? Why do you hate America?
I wouldn't mind if they were celbrity enough to be on a cereal box. But they should be on there because they are famous for discovering that gap in the X-Ray emissions of the crab nebula and NOT being put on there hoping that would get them celebrity status and that celebrity status may spark that interest.
BTW.. Stefan Gerst. Without looking up.
But he is a regular on that kids show I'm a regular watcher of...
And more to point, we had that in the past, we kids were inspired by astronauts and knew their names, were amazed by the space ships, satellites and the visits to other planets. Somehow this all died and nobody cares anymore, except us, geeks & nerds.
Yes. And this wasn't because they were in commercials back then.
"I'd like to see kids growing up, instead of maybe wanting to be like a professional sports star, I'd like to see them grow up wanting to be a NASA astronaut, or a NASA scientist,"
Me too.
But if that happens because someone is appearing in commercials instead of news, then something is wrong on a much more fundamental level.
Slashdot Mirror
By that definition probably rather an "Anthology".
...it probably wasn't very controllable....
People on holiday know they have to return to their own nations within a time they understood before entering the USA.
A few times it wasn't that easy to explain the CBP office that concept..... like that you might want to return back home after a holiday...
But doing so you don't have to pass a border patrol checkpoint where they scan your passport and face.
Where trespassing is illegal.
Only place where bringing home work with you would mess that more would be if you're OB/GYN....
That's either in countries where any form of protest is already illegal or in countries where trespassing is stil illegal in the buff.
I agree with that one, but that janitor lawsuit would be justified if they aren't given the tools (like brushes and rubber gloves) to do their job safely.
So if this is a frivolous lawsuit depends on what facebook actually delivered when they said they would give the needed support for that job. (and maybe misleading job descriptions)
Wendy is not actually doing anything wrong, but lacking documentation and other paperwork.
Ubl's been that person for AMP, but, he writes, "we've found that it doesn't scale to the size of the AMP Project today."
Yeah.. tell that to the Linux Kernel Developers Mailing List....
I'm not taking a "stupid" from someone who can't recognize the difference between a MMORPG with thousands of players in a realm where each player is able to (temporarily) change the environment for all other players and a simple 5vs5 deathmatch on a limited map.
But I agree that slapping an MMO-label on what would be a simple shooter is ruining many good games. But It's not 100% scam. There is a good portion of hype in it. You say you remember the 90s.... Do you also remember what happened to games in the 2000s that did not come with an online multiplayer mode? They were unsellable. So there was an actual demand for the MMO/online "rebranding"
Does that qualify for a monthly subscription? Not really. For that I would expect more bells and whistles... ongoing content updates, events and that whole stuff.
Don't they somehow do that by guaranteeing that there is something like 10 common, 5 uncommon, 4 rare and one epic?
Assuming that the odds have something to do with the rareness-tiers.
For an online game, you are paying for the online service, like you did with AOL or your ISP. So I don't have a problem with subscribing to such a "Game as a service". But then again, Clients for online services used to be free and did not cost full retail price. (Aol coasters anyone?)
Remember when you used to buy a game and could simply PLAY it?
shouldn't they hide the END of urls then?
If you want to hide that www.slashdot.amp.google.com is served using AMP on Google servers instead of www.slashdot.com, dies hiding the www really help?
That is not related.
Remember the ISO/OSI Layer model.
Each layer has to know how to operate the layer below to communicate with an remote entity on the same layer. But not with any deeper layer. (That's the whole point of it!)
So Layer 8 (the user) needs to know how to use the http-Layer, but nothing about the transport, switching or physical layer. Yes, convenience is a thing, but you shouldn't make it harder than necessary for people who want to know what urls are by hiding or disfiguring them.
Even if making it easy for the user is a good thing, if Level 8 wants to learn about Level 7, that's a good thing too. But indeed he should not be required to learn about TCP and IP.
Oh. Then it's "Anathem" Sorry, wrong novel....
And somehow, locking up the smart people for the common AND their own good sounds somehow appealing nowadays.
So the Andromeda strain is here.....
for some strange reason, I loved that movie as a kid. On the other hand, that might explain a lot nowadays...
And playing Fortnite on Twitch every day isn't exactly a soul crushing job.
A lot of things that are fun when you do them as a hobby stop being fun when you do them as a job.
But for the kind of money the guy is raking in. Let's just say that there are actual soul crushing jobs that pay orders of magnitude less.
But they miss the surprise of finding out that they are soul crushing jobs, too....
If you're making 500k a month. Suck it up. Bank that money for a bit. Quit. And go enjoy a nice life off the properly invested money.
I don't think that's the point. That's what any sane person with a well paid, but unpleaseant job would do.
I guess their main problem is the insight, that their biggest dream turned out to be nothing but a grinding job. I loved programming and did it for fun. I'm not doing that anymore since I do it for a living. Yes! Even fun stuff like gaming turn into work if you HAVE TO do it.
That's plain old dissapointment.
Other things that *might* help, not just here, but everywhere:
- setting realistic goals and being satisfied with them
- figuring out how you want to define success for yourself
What's wrong with making more and more money? Why do you hate capitalism? Why do you hate America?
Cause that's the all same, isn't it?
I wouldn't mind if they were celbrity enough to be on a cereal box. But they should be on there because they are famous for discovering that gap in the X-Ray emissions of the crab nebula and NOT being put on there hoping that would get them celebrity status and that celebrity status may spark that interest.
BTW.. Stefan Gerst. Without looking up.
But he is a regular on that kids show I'm a regular watcher of...
And more to point, we had that in the past, we kids were inspired by astronauts and knew their names, were amazed by the space ships, satellites and the visits to other planets. Somehow this all died and nobody cares anymore, except us, geeks & nerds.
Yes. And this wasn't because they were in commercials back then.
"I'd like to see kids growing up, instead of maybe wanting to be like a professional sports star, I'd like to see them grow up wanting to be a NASA astronaut, or a NASA scientist,"
Me too.
But if that happens because someone is appearing in commercials instead of news, then something is wrong on a much more fundamental level.
As with vibrations or sugar I would expect the soil in my flower pot to settle and become even more solid
But I'll check out the better explanation.