yer missing the point...too many of us are working full time and still barely staying above the poverty level...what little we can set aside doesn't add up fast enough (e.g. old car dies before we can save for a new one)...it's not a question of ever getting ahead and reaping the rewards; it's about staving off total ruin for another day in the hopes your situation miraculously improves...
works in theory...if you're not one the many who are already a paycheck away from disaster...living like a monk on a vow of poverty so you can put away $100/month doesn't let you buy that house/car/tuition any time soon, especially if it has to go towards all 3...
yeah, the difference is that it's obvious (to most) that coffee is scalding hot and that sticking your fingers in a live blender or wall socket is bad. That's why we shouldn't be able to sue those manufacturers when we ignore warning labels and safety mechanisms. The same can't be said when grandma opens an e-mail attachment thinking that she's opening an actual e-mail from her 7 y/o grandson. Hell, that scenario even explains away a spammers typical bad grammar and spelling (at least if the subject line isn't sexual in nature...)
The burden should be on the designers of the website, software, OS, etc. whom have the expertise. When lawsuits (however ridiculous the settlements may be) start biting the companies in the bottomline, software will get a lot more secure and a lot more user friendly.
Granted, but it's still got to be a cash grab. After all, Blizzard can support Diablo II with an annual patch/upgrade (chintzy as it is) after 5 yrs. w/o subscription fees, despite apparently abandoning the franchise at Blizzcon. Either they've found a way to make money off it, or (more likely) the expense of maintaining is less than we would think. Subscriptions would only account for the creation of new content (token expense to "plug it in" to the existing game), which doesn't justify charging me the price of the game all over again, several times a year. Sorry, I'll spend my money elsewhere...and so will other casual gamers once the novelty of MMORPG wears off...
If you think $60 is too expensive for a game, then do not buy it.
Buy it? No problem. Subscribe to it so that within a couple of months I've increased the their profit margins astronomically compared to a standalone game? Not interested. Forced to watch ads on top of that? Quit gaming and hope I'm not in the minority...but I'll bet that in the long run, I'm not...
IIRC a person reaches terminal velocity after anything higher than a six-story fall...you don't expect to survive a fall like that very often, but you're not completely surprised when it happens, either. But by that same logic, you shouldn't be completely surprised that some survived a fall from an airplane w/ a faulty parachute...
ex-gf had an expression for friday nights when no one was doing anything. she said she was just going to have to sit around home in her underwear watching porn and masturbating til her pubic hair turned orange
as another poster mentioned, you file the complaint, the DA's office press the charges. If you change your mind, they may go ahead without you, even if you want the charges dropped. It's not your call and they won't likely accede to your change of heart if they think they've got a solid case without you, if for no other reason than that they'd already gone to the trouble of beginning procedings.
In practise though, they will likely drop the charges because often their case will fall apart if you are no longer an enthusiastic witness on the stand...
Brent Spiner wanted to kill him off. It took some arm twisting to get him to do the last movie or two. He felt that the character had run its course (I've never heard anything to suggest that he felt that the character had been painted into a corner development-wise).
They should have gotten the guy who played Lore or even Dr. Soong. Those guys could have passed as Data w/o pissing off the audience...
hate to reply to myself, but just to be clear:
in Ontario, there are rules about employers giving notice and/or severance, but no rules (that I ever found, including in the links in ths thread) for employees giving notice i.e. they don't need to give any...custom, not law
mod parent I up.
In a similar situation, I opted to burn bridges, because I would not have trusted my boss' references anyway. In my case, his reputation preceeded him and it was a "plus" in some interviews that I had tolerated him as long as I did. Would still do it again, but it would have been even better if I'd had documentation of his unreasonableness.
maybe I read the wrong stuff, but I checked it out for my own job about 4 yrs ago and found out that no notice was necessary in ontario. I'm pretty sure I found the info *on* the Ministry of Labour's website...
unless Daimaou works for another computer industry giant with deep pockets (i.e. Microsoft, HP, Sun, etc.), he should just point out that IBM may have a claim to the code. See how his company's lawyers feel about going to court against IBM...from his description of the situation, it would be nice to see a megacorp steamroll a little guy while fighting for the "good guys" for a change...
granted my exposure to corporate computing is virtually nil, but if Linus et al. keep building better mousetraps, someone still has to improve them, maintain them and repair them, if open source is to be the wave of the future (or the present).
The bottleneck for businesses seems to be lack (or potential lack in the future) of qualified people.
M$ loses potential profit equal to GDP of a small country due to pirated Windows copies. They remedy this by increasing the incentives for buying legit copies. If this results in a less secure internet for everyone, this is neither their problem nor their fault (in any direct sense).
Joe Average is not going to understand that the internet being slower and/or more unsafe than ever could be blamed on M$ policy, even *if* he cares. By the same token though, I think the new M$ policy will backfire, because Joe Average already is ignorant/indifferent to security concerns and will take the pirated Windows. The smaller % that *are* security conscious might just decide to investigate Linux rather than fork out money for a legit Windows copy.
I'm hardly an M$ apologist, but if this were nearly any other company,/.ers would be saying "hey ya gotta do what ya gotta do to protect your investment" and we'd be feeling sorry for their no-win situation.
Of course, if Windows didn't have so many holes and bad default settings in the first place....
I understand that Heisenberg says you can't know both the direction *and* velocity of a particle at any given time and my understanding is that quantum physics/mechanics derives (at least in large part) from the Uncertainty Principal. To my mind, not being able to determine precise velocity and precise direction at the same time doesn't mean that a particle doesn't have both qualities. In which case much of quantum physics/mechanics is moot, including subatomic darwinism.
Please explain the holes in my understanding, but be gentle please:)
I refuse to fly. I'm not worried at all about my security, though I have no faith that I'm safer now than before. I simply refuse to be part of the process of eliminating our rights. It means that I only travel where I can drive, but even that is merely the least evil option, since leaving Long Island means being tracked (by license plate) at every bridge & thruway toll until I get away from the I-95 corridor. It's not so bad that I'll move just to get away from it, but since I'll be moving next year anyway, you can bet that I'll do what I can to stay away from all those cameras.
Back on topic, my point is that I'm one of the people who doesn't spend money on tourism like he used to. Unfortunately, the government cites that as proof that I'm still afraid to travel and that they should ratchet up the "security" even tighter.
Marvel is also suing Ticonderoga Pencil Co (TPC) and Ginsu Knives, Inc. A spokesman for Marvel explained "TPC needs to be stopped; we've got thousands of kids sketching Hulk and Spiderman in their school notebooks without sending us a cent, and well Ginsu is clearly enabling many of those same kids to make Wolverine-style claws. We just wish we could have gotten an injunction to ban homemade Halloween costumes altogether..."
But have id or anyone else ported games while they were still hot on the console/WinPC market? (dunno, just asking) Even if this isn't the first time a game was ported while it was still hot, every time it happens, it builds momentum to get Joe Casual Gamer to switch to Linux. If all else fails, it will eventually create a market for retro/nostalgia PC gamers like there is for ported console games.
What kind of sick world do we live in when we can actually cheer a sweatshop Borg retail organization for their gambit to topple the RIAA? Even M$ can't bully the RIAA into DRM, but Wal-Mart has them scared.
Enjoy it while it lasts. Once Wal-Mart wins this pissing match, they'll have M$ sized monopoly on album sales, be able to re-raise the prices (with the extra profit in their pockets not the RIAA) and just to rub salt in the consumers wound, we'll have less artist selection than we do now because everyone must be plain vanilla to keep Wal-Mart happy.
The cure for consumers against the RIAA could well be worse than the disease.
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Given the 1+ million strong army north of the border, and the questionable sanity of the leader controlling it, that border must be defended.
but auto-target machine guns? i thought bush just wanted to build a fence around canada...
yer missing the point...too many of us are working full time and still barely staying above the poverty level...what little we can set aside doesn't add up fast enough (e.g. old car dies before we can save for a new one)...it's not a question of ever getting ahead and reaping the rewards; it's about staving off total ruin for another day in the hopes your situation miraculously improves...
works in theory...if you're not one the many who are already a paycheck away from disaster...living like a monk on a vow of poverty so you can put away $100/month doesn't let you buy that house/car/tuition any time soon, especially if it has to go towards all 3...
yeah, the difference is that it's obvious (to most) that coffee is scalding hot and that sticking your fingers in a live blender or wall socket is bad. That's why we shouldn't be able to sue those manufacturers when we ignore warning labels and safety mechanisms. The same can't be said when grandma opens an e-mail attachment thinking that she's opening an actual e-mail from her 7 y/o grandson. Hell, that scenario even explains away a spammers typical bad grammar and spelling (at least if the subject line isn't sexual in nature...)
The burden should be on the designers of the website, software, OS, etc. whom have the expertise. When lawsuits (however ridiculous the settlements may be) start biting the companies in the bottomline, software will get a lot more secure and a lot more user friendly.
Granted, but it's still got to be a cash grab. After all, Blizzard can support Diablo II with an annual patch/upgrade (chintzy as it is) after 5 yrs. w/o subscription fees, despite apparently abandoning the franchise at Blizzcon. Either they've found a way to make money off it, or (more likely) the expense of maintaining is less than we would think. Subscriptions would only account for the creation of new content (token expense to "plug it in" to the existing game), which doesn't justify charging me the price of the game all over again, several times a year. Sorry, I'll spend my money elsewhere...and so will other casual gamers once the novelty of MMORPG wears off...
If you think $60 is too expensive for a game, then do not buy it.
Buy it? No problem. Subscribe to it so that within a couple of months I've increased the their profit margins astronomically compared to a standalone game? Not interested.
Forced to watch ads on top of that? Quit gaming and hope I'm not in the minority...but I'll bet that in the long run, I'm not...
"We decided then that we'd tie up with children's charities and donate the games to hospitals, shelters, homes and schools..."
Great, until they donate their excess copies of "Hot Coffee" capable GTA...
IIRC a person reaches terminal velocity after anything higher than a six-story fall...you don't expect to survive a fall like that very often, but you're not completely surprised when it happens, either. But by that same logic, you shouldn't be completely surprised that some survived a fall from an airplane w/ a faulty parachute...
ex-gf had an expression for friday nights when no one was doing anything. she said she was just going to have to sit around home in her underwear watching porn and masturbating til her pubic hair turned orange
perhaps she knows the grandparent poster?
as another poster mentioned, you file the complaint, the DA's office press the charges. If you change your mind, they may go ahead without you, even if you want the charges dropped. It's not your call and they won't likely accede to your change of heart if they think they've got a solid case without you, if for no other reason than that they'd already gone to the trouble of beginning procedings.
In practise though, they will likely drop the charges because often their case will fall apart if you are no longer an enthusiastic witness on the stand...
/still pissed they killed off Data.
Brent Spiner wanted to kill him off. It took some arm twisting to get him to do the last movie or two. He felt that the character had run its course (I've never heard anything to suggest that he felt that the character had been painted into a corner development-wise).
They should have gotten the guy who played Lore or even Dr. Soong. Those guys could have passed as Data w/o pissing off the audience...
hate to reply to myself, but just to be clear: in Ontario, there are rules about employers giving notice and/or severance, but no rules (that I ever found, including in the links in ths thread) for employees giving notice i.e. they don't need to give any...custom, not law
mod parent I up. In a similar situation, I opted to burn bridges, because I would not have trusted my boss' references anyway. In my case, his reputation preceeded him and it was a "plus" in some interviews that I had tolerated him as long as I did. Would still do it again, but it would have been even better if I'd had documentation of his unreasonableness.
maybe I read the wrong stuff, but I checked it out for my own job about 4 yrs ago and found out that no notice was necessary in ontario. I'm pretty sure I found the info *on* the Ministry of Labour's website...
unless Daimaou works for another computer industry giant with deep pockets (i.e. Microsoft, HP, Sun, etc.), he should just point out that IBM may have a claim to the code. See how his company's lawyers feel about going to court against IBM...from his description of the situation, it would be nice to see a megacorp steamroll a little guy while fighting for the "good guys" for a change...
granted my exposure to corporate computing is virtually nil, but if Linus et al. keep building better mousetraps, someone still has to improve them, maintain them and repair them, if open source is to be the wave of the future (or the present). The bottleneck for businesses seems to be lack (or potential lack in the future) of qualified people.
M$ loses potential profit equal to GDP of a small country due to pirated Windows copies. They remedy this by increasing the incentives for buying legit copies. If this results in a less secure internet for everyone, this is neither their problem nor their fault (in any direct sense). Joe Average is not going to understand that the internet being slower and/or more unsafe than ever could be blamed on M$ policy, even *if* he cares. By the same token though, I think the new M$ policy will backfire, because Joe Average already is ignorant/indifferent to security concerns and will take the pirated Windows. The smaller % that *are* security conscious might just decide to investigate Linux rather than fork out money for a legit Windows copy. I'm hardly an M$ apologist, but if this were nearly any other company, /.ers would be saying "hey ya gotta do what ya gotta do to protect your investment" and we'd be feeling sorry for their no-win situation.
Of course, if Windows didn't have so many holes and bad default settings in the first place....
I understand that Heisenberg says you can't know both the direction *and* velocity of a particle at any given time and my understanding is that quantum physics/mechanics derives (at least in large part) from the Uncertainty Principal. To my mind, not being able to determine precise velocity and precise direction at the same time doesn't mean that a particle doesn't have both qualities. In which case much of quantum physics/mechanics is moot, including subatomic darwinism.
:)
Please explain the holes in my understanding, but be gentle please
I refuse to fly. I'm not worried at all about my security, though I have no faith that I'm safer now than before. I simply refuse to be part of the process of eliminating our rights. It means that I only travel where I can drive, but even that is merely the least evil option, since leaving Long Island means being tracked (by license plate) at every bridge & thruway toll until I get away from the I-95 corridor. It's not so bad that I'll move just to get away from it, but since I'll be moving next year anyway, you can bet that I'll do what I can to stay away from all those cameras.
Back on topic, my point is that I'm one of the people who doesn't spend money on tourism like he used to. Unfortunately, the government cites that as proof that I'm still afraid to travel and that they should ratchet up the "security" even tighter.
Marvel is also suing Ticonderoga Pencil Co (TPC) and Ginsu Knives, Inc. A spokesman for Marvel explained "TPC needs to be stopped; we've got thousands of kids sketching Hulk and Spiderman in their school notebooks without sending us a cent, and well Ginsu is clearly enabling many of those same kids to make Wolverine-style claws. We just wish we could have gotten an injunction to ban homemade Halloween costumes altogether..."
Pot, meet kettle. Kettle, meet pot. Now play nice children...
But have id or anyone else ported games while they were still hot on the console/WinPC market? (dunno, just asking) Even if this isn't the first time a game was ported while it was still hot, every time it happens, it builds momentum to get Joe Casual Gamer to switch to Linux. If all else fails, it will eventually create a market for retro/nostalgia PC gamers like there is for ported console games.
that sound, the one of mainstream games being ported to Linux, proving that there is a Linux gaming market? that's the sound of microsoft's DOOM
*ducks*
What kind of sick world do we live in when we can actually cheer a sweatshop Borg retail organization for their gambit to topple the RIAA? Even M$ can't bully the RIAA into DRM, but Wal-Mart has them scared.
Enjoy it while it lasts. Once Wal-Mart wins this pissing match, they'll have M$ sized monopoly on album sales, be able to re-raise the prices (with the extra profit in their pockets not the RIAA) and just to rub salt in the consumers wound, we'll have less artist selection than we do now because everyone must be plain vanilla to keep Wal-Mart happy.
The cure for consumers against the RIAA could well be worse than the disease.
This is a really nice tribute