/sarcasm Oh look! Yet another parrot whose brain was deformed from the radiation.
Geo-thermal, wave, solar, wind, and magnetic energy sources don't pollute like nuclear when they fail but keep sticking your head in the sand trying to ignore the _actual_ consequences when nuclear fails.
Yeah, let's ignore the SAFE alternatives and go with the unsafe one!/s
The only reason nuclear is "viable" is because we've dumped thousands of dollars of research into nuclear reactors.
Geothermal and wave would be viable if we would do the same -- plus they don't leave that bullshit radiation nonsense WHEN(*) they fail.
But let's keep investing into archaic unsafe technology and pollute the environment when they fail while we 50+ years for the short-sighted consequences to go away!/s
(*) Anyone who rides motorcycles quickly learns it is NOT a matter of IF you will go down but WHEN.
* Private one that my family uses and know that they can get a near instantaneous response, and * Public one that I use for ALL business related emails. I also have an email alias for _each_ company so I can which fucker sells me out if they do.
I'd rather take my chances with "unsupported" Windows 7 (been running with automatic updates disabled for years) then allow that MS spyware garbage on my networks and risk updates that break. Nothing will change next year except maybe more computers running Win 7 inside VMs.
Telemetry should be OPT IN, not opt in. If MS can't even respect my wishes then I can't respect their forced downgrades.
-- NEVER mix business with pleasure; your business will get fucked over by someone who enjoys the pleasure
Depending on the size and state of the game dev studio a publisher may do one or more of the following:
* Traditionally, Pay for all (or partial) development of the game * Traditionally, Marketing * Traditionally, Quality Assurance. Does the game dev have ALL the GPUs / phones / tablets released from the past 5+ years? * Traditionally, Localization * Helo define Alpha, Beta, and Gold states * Withhold milestone payments if deliverables haven't meet the goals * Contract out other developers to help (one dev team might do single player, another multiplayer) * Contract our Cinematics * Telemetry * Voice Recording * Distribution Logistics * Make and keep SKU Deals. They have experience dealing with Walmart, Costco, etc. * Change design based on regional culture & demographics * Interface with Nintendo, Sony, and Microsoft's over getting dev consoles, making sure the game meets their technical requirements checklists, and dealing with their idiotic policies so your game can get released on their platform
It all depends on how much experience, size, and money the game developer studio has.
I don't think that will help.:-/ The classic meme:
"Fun detected; Nerf incoming."
has been true before they merged with Craptivision.
When they insult PC fans at the 2018 BlizzCon who supported them for the past 20+ years with an idiotic "Don't you guys have phones?!" response you can tell they are severely out of touch with what fans want./sarcasm Yeah, some shitty reskinned Chinese mobile ARPG clone with MTX is what PC gamers want! NOT.
Ironically the thing is that this COULD have worked if they had announced: Yes, Diablo 4 is in the works. In the meantime here is a mobile Diablo game to hold you over until then.
They jumped the shark when they shutdown bnetd 2 because "a program in RAM is an illegal copy". **Facepalm**
> Which means we should be spending less and taxing more, not spending $5 billion on something that's not even effective at preventing what it's designed to prevent.
Agreed. Right now spending is not sustainable.
>... so in programmer's terms this is...
a memory leak. Sooner or later you are going to have to do a hard reboot.
Which is bullshit. WHY does the location even matter if you are paying per stream???
i.e. If I travel outside the country I get hit by their bullshit geo-IP blocking. I'm *paying* for the fucking service but can't use it -- all because I'm out of the country??? WTF! (Yes, I know its because of the greed of the Content Creators who license their IP and not technically Netflix's fault but this is still bullshit.)
All these shenanigans do is just drive people to use proxies.
> She can't take her watching history, and her list of bookmarked titles to her new account. > Come on dudes, your devs could easily add account merges and splits
Agreed! That would be REALLY nice Quality of Life improvement. You are spot on about watching history being "locked" to an account. This isn't fucking rocket science -- just some basic computer science.
Even worse is when old content gets pulled. How am I supposed to add it to my "Want to watch again list". I can't because the page no longer exists.
The Netflix UI is a complete clusterfuck at times. When you search for content that they don't have rights / license to they instead show "other related" shows. NO! I want to go to the entity I _searched_ for AND I want give you FEEDBACK that I'm interested in by pressing "Notify me when this becomes available". Kind of like a "Wish List". Gee, apparently this is too fucking hard to figure out!
HBO Go has a really nice feature "Leaving soon..." Content that will be going away at the end of the month. THAT's how you keep engagement high. INFORM people what they can't soon watch so they are more likely to watch it.
That thumbs up/down rating system is also shit. The 5 star system allows me to grade something as "Great!", "Good", "Meh", "Bad", "Total crap". Lacking fine granularity is NOT helpful.
Slashdot Mirror
Belgium has already made loot boxes illegal due to them being another form of gambling.
When is the US going to follow?
> People like you spreading this complete strawman bullshit
The residents of Fukushima are the ones saying you are full of shit.
/sarcasm Oh look! Yet another parrot whose brain was deformed from the radiation.
Geo-thermal, wave, solar, wind, and magnetic energy sources don't pollute like nuclear when they fail but keep sticking your head in the sand trying to ignore the _actual_ consequences when nuclear fails.
Yeah, let's ignore the SAFE alternatives and go with the unsafe one! /s
The only reason nuclear is "viable" is because we've dumped thousands of dollars of research into nuclear reactors.
Geothermal and wave would be viable if we would do the same -- plus they don't leave that bullshit radiation nonsense WHEN(*) they fail.
But let's keep investing into archaic unsafe technology and pollute the environment when they fail while we 50+ years for the short-sighted consequences to go away! /s
(*) Anyone who rides motorcycles quickly learns it is NOT a matter of IF you will go down but WHEN.
A slimmed down VM.
https://www.docker.com/resourc...
Using a shitty fucked up language like PHP is lazy and irresponsible in the first place.
Agreed. Bullshit clickbait tactics like that just reinforce the meme that the editors are idiots.
I have 2 domain names:
* Private one that my family uses and know that they can get a near instantaneous response, and
* Public one that I use for ALL business related emails. I also have an email alias for _each_ company so I can which fucker sells me out if they do.
If my name was John Smith:
john.amazon@smith.com
john.bank@smith.com
john.crapco@smith.com
john.groupon@smith.com
john.monoprice@smith.com
john.shadyco@smith.com
john.woot@smith.com
and I start getting emails from john.shadyco discussing crap co products/services then I know which of these assholes sold me out.
Whoops that should read:
default telemetry should be OPT IN, not opt out.
I'd rather take my chances with "unsupported" Windows 7 (been running with automatic updates disabled for years) then allow that MS spyware garbage on my networks and risk updates that break. Nothing will change next year except maybe more computers running Win 7 inside VMs.
Telemetry should be OPT IN, not opt in. If MS can't even respect my wishes then I can't respect their forced downgrades.
--
NEVER mix business with pleasure; your business will get fucked over by someone who enjoys the pleasure
/sarcasm Because there isn't enough (celebrity) porn on the internet already? :-)
I guess you could always watch the news naked =P
Depending on the size and state of the game dev studio a publisher may do one or more of the following:
* Traditionally, Pay for all (or partial) development of the game
* Traditionally, Marketing
* Traditionally, Quality Assurance. Does the game dev have ALL the GPUs / phones / tablets released from the past 5+ years?
* Traditionally, Localization
* Helo define Alpha, Beta, and Gold states
* Withhold milestone payments if deliverables haven't meet the goals
* Contract out other developers to help (one dev team might do single player, another multiplayer)
* Contract our Cinematics
* Telemetry
* Voice Recording
* Distribution Logistics
* Make and keep SKU Deals. They have experience dealing with Walmart, Costco, etc.
* Change design based on regional culture & demographics
* Interface with Nintendo, Sony, and Microsoft's over getting dev consoles, making sure the game meets their technical requirements checklists, and dealing with their idiotic policies so your game can get released on their platform
It all depends on how much experience, size, and money the game developer studio has.
Yup, that's another great quote!
I don't think that will help. :-/ The classic meme:
"Fun detected; Nerf incoming."
has been true before they merged with Craptivision.
When they insult PC fans at the 2018 BlizzCon who supported them for the past 20+ years with an idiotic "Don't you guys have phones?!" response you can tell they are severely out of touch with what fans want. /sarcasm Yeah, some shitty reskinned Chinese mobile ARPG clone with MTX is what PC gamers want! NOT.
Ironically the thing is that this COULD have worked if they had announced: Yes, Diablo 4 is in the works. In the meantime here is a mobile Diablo game to hold you over until then.
They jumped the shark when they shutdown bnetd 2 because "a program in RAM is an illegal copy". **Facepalm**
Even the Diablo 2 producers says Blizzard is out of touch with gamers.
https://screenrant.com/diablo-...
Blizzard has long been dead. They are slowly burning through all the goodwill they bought over the years.
Blizzard still has to answer to the quarterly shareholders meetings.
Blizzard has just been less vocal about it.
No one remembers if a good game was late,
No one remembers if a bad game shipped on time.
-- Gabe
> Which means we should be spending less and taxing more, not spending $5 billion on something that's not even effective at preventing what it's designed to prevent.
Agreed. Right now spending is not sustainable.
> ... so in programmer's terms this is ...
a memory leak. Sooner or later you are going to have to do a hard reboot.
Which is bullshit. WHY does the location even matter if you are paying per stream???
i.e.
If I travel outside the country I get hit by their bullshit geo-IP blocking. I'm *paying* for the fucking service but can't use it -- all because I'm out of the country??? WTF! (Yes, I know its because of the greed of the Content Creators who license their IP and not technically Netflix's fault but this is still bullshit.)
All these shenanigans do is just drive people to use proxies.
LOL, Burn! Too funny.
> She can't take her watching history, and her list of bookmarked titles to her new account.
> Come on dudes, your devs could easily add account merges and splits
Agreed! That would be REALLY nice Quality of Life improvement. You are spot on about watching history being "locked" to an account. This isn't fucking rocket science -- just some basic computer science.
Even worse is when old content gets pulled. How am I supposed to add it to my "Want to watch again list". I can't because the page no longer exists.
The Netflix UI is a complete clusterfuck at times. When you search for content that they don't have rights / license to they instead show "other related" shows. NO! I want to go to the entity I _searched_ for AND I want give you FEEDBACK that I'm interested in by pressing "Notify me when this becomes available". Kind of like a "Wish List". Gee, apparently this is too fucking hard to figure out!
HBO Go has a really nice feature "Leaving soon..." Content that will be going away at the end of the month. THAT's how you keep engagement high. INFORM people what they can't soon watch so they are more likely to watch it.
That thumbs up/down rating system is also shit. The 5 star system allows me to grade something as "Great!", "Good", "Meh", "Bad", "Total crap". Lacking fine granularity is NOT helpful.
Do they even USE their product???
There is a real simple solution.
Just charge per stream.
Share your password with 50 people. You get billed at the Tier 50 level.
They could even have a family plan so the first 5 streams have a base rate, and charge for every X streams over that.
Why do they "need" AI to solve First. World. Problems. ?
No one gives a fuck about your political alignment or ideology.
Stop trying to push some bullshit narrative that is irreverent to the discussion at hand.
Do you have to talk out loud to be considered crazy ? :-)
It's disgusting that in this day and age we have to put up with spam calls that appear to be coming from the SAME bloody phone number as our phones!
I guess the telcos are more interested in money then respecting customer's time.
What can customers do to change the situation since the FCC appears to be doing fuck all about it ?
False prophets of religion have been replaced with false profits of capitalism. :-/