Would it kill people to speak in normal sentences instead of Market Speak(TM)?
I think Market Speak(TM) revolutionizes leading-edge initiatives by deploying mesh synergistic relationships and innovates in user-centric niches by enabling strategy scalable streamlined virtual communities and transition collaborative deliverables!
No, another option is do your personal email at home not at work
Yes this may work for someone who has a normal (40h/week) job but when you are in my position and spending time home basically means get home, goto bed, get up, take a shower and leave for work, you have to cut some slack (or offer an alternative) when someone sends a few personal emails from time to time.
There is a difference between keeping the emails to hand them over for legal reasons and reading every word of every email that goes by, "just in case".
A lot of employers block access to gmail, hotmail, msn messenger etc. which leaves people with only one option, company mail.
Also, when you say email is company property, I understand the technical principle that the bits and bytes are on the company owned servers but it's still a form of communication and people should have the right to a little privacy. When I talk on the company phone (or even company paid cell for that matter), I do not expect someone to be listening to my every conversation. This is becoming ridiculous, my employer pays me to do a job and I do it. He shouldn't have the right to ear, see and read everything I do in the company office because he's afraid I may leak private information. Where will we have to draw the line between the company's right to corporate secrecy and its employees' right to privacy? Heck! who's watching me at night in case I may talk to a friend or a relative about some secret company ploy?
Finally, to answer your last question, I use company mail because it's the only thing I can use and I spend over 60 hours a week there:-P
This game has his name on it because it came out of his game studio (Red Storm entertainment which was bought by UbiSoft).
I have to correct you on this one, the game was created in the montreal studio of Ubisoft. Ubi decided to tag it as a Clancy product simply because, as you said, it sells.
but are phone companies responsable if you use a phone line to commit a crime? Are car and gun compagnies responsable if you rob a bank with a gun and use a car to get away? It's hard to prove that filesharing networks are solely there to exchange copyrighted materials and nothing else.
In the province of Quebec, if the item doesn't scan it ain't free but if the price at the cash register is wrong (especially if it's higher), the retailer has to give you the item if it's a less than 10$ item or a 10$ rebate if it's more. It's called the Price accuracy Policy. Also, the lowest advertized price prevails.
whether it will be a simple flash of a photo ID card (which many teenagers don't have)
Can't say for the rest of the world, but in Canada most teenagers have either a school ID, a yearly bus card with photo (at least for the Montreal area) or a medicare card (sun card for Quebec).
Also, as mentionned in other comments, this should be considered a good thing since kids won't be able to buy games they shouldn't be playing. Sure it won't be easily enforceable but isn't it the same thing for other age restricted goods (cigarettes, alcohol and adult magazines)?
Finally, I really don't get the paranoïa about retailers building databases of customers. I don't see why they would use this as a way to get your customer info. Aside from the needs of a system (hardware and software) to collect this information, this would be limited to customers between the ages of 14 and 24 (considering not many people over the age of 24 look underage).
I think most people in the industry will see this as a step in the right direction. At the risk of sounding like a troll (which is NOT my intention), I'd say it's better then restricting the sales to an entire population. At least adults can make a choice to buy a product and even let their kids play if they judge the game appropriate.
The reported file sizes and timestamps are part of the infringement letter. So the MPAA thinks a 62k file contains a whole movie, proving us they send these notices without even checking if they make sense.
I'm no scientist and this is news to me! Can anyone tell me if I should stop using my Ionic Breeze before it eats all of my electronics or are we talking about a high concentration of O3?
From sharper image's site: "Ionic Breeze® complies with U.S. safety requirements for low ozone emission (less than 50 parts per billion) as tested by Underwriters Laboratories under their UL867 standard for consumer products."
There was an interesting article about the different mentality regarding work hours in Europe in the August issue of Business 2.0 entitled All Work, No Play? It Doesn't Pay. (hope this link works for everyone)
I think the subtitle speaks for it self : "European companies get it, but when will their workaholic American counterparts? Longer hours don't always add up to better work."
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Cause you can only have one home page
Actually, you can have multiple tabs as homepages (at least in IE7 and Firefox).
Everybody knows the good ol'DOS edit command was far superior!
Would it kill people to speak in normal sentences instead of Market Speak(TM)?
I think Market Speak(TM) revolutionizes leading-edge initiatives by deploying mesh synergistic relationships and innovates in user-centric niches by enabling strategy scalable streamlined virtual communities and transition collaborative deliverables!
Using that structure of thought.
Yes... because that structure of thought really worked well for the "war on drugs". When will they ever learn!
Those are the server specs.
Full readme is available on Gamespot
No, another option is do your personal email at home not at work
Yes this may work for someone who has a normal (40h/week) job but when you are in my position and spending time home basically means get home, goto bed, get up, take a shower and leave for work, you have to cut some slack (or offer an alternative) when someone sends a few personal emails from time to time.
There is a difference between keeping the emails to hand them over for legal reasons and reading every word of every email that goes by, "just in case".
A lot of employers block access to gmail, hotmail, msn messenger etc. which leaves people with only one option, company mail.
:-P
Also, when you say email is company property, I understand the technical principle that the bits and bytes are on the company owned servers but it's still a form of communication and people should have the right to a little privacy. When I talk on the company phone (or even company paid cell for that matter), I do not expect someone to be listening to my every conversation. This is becoming ridiculous, my employer pays me to do a job and I do it. He shouldn't have the right to ear, see and read everything I do in the company office because he's afraid I may leak private information. Where will we have to draw the line between the company's right to corporate secrecy and its employees' right to privacy? Heck! who's watching me at night in case I may talk to a friend or a relative about some secret company ploy?
Finally, to answer your last question, I use company mail because it's the only thing I can use and I spend over 60 hours a week there
The most innovative aspect of the space suit was that it's made so your tuxedo doesn't wrinkle under it.
Somebody needs to rent and/or read "The Corporation"...
I'm no expert but I also wonder how games built and often optimized for a totally different architecture (gpu, cpu, etc.) will be able to run?
Can it all be emulated?
This game has his name on it because it came out of his game studio (Red Storm entertainment which was bought by UbiSoft).
I have to correct you on this one, the game was created in the montreal studio of Ubisoft. Ubi decided to tag it as a Clancy product simply because, as you said, it sells.
Can we save some time and just repost all of the "M$ is Evil" posts from the last 5 years and just replace Microsoft with EA in each?
Actually, M$ should be replaced by €A.
And what's up with people who say "nucular" ?
but are phone companies responsable if you use a phone line to commit a crime? Are car and gun compagnies responsable if you rob a bank with a gun and use a car to get away? It's hard to prove that filesharing networks are solely there to exchange copyrighted materials and nothing else.
In the province of Quebec, if the item doesn't scan it ain't free but if the price at the cash register is wrong (especially if it's higher), the retailer has to give you the item if it's a less than 10$ item or a 10$ rebate if it's more. It's called the Price accuracy Policy. Also, the lowest advertized price prevails.
;-)
You gotta love our commy government!
whether it will be a simple flash of a photo ID card (which many teenagers don't have)
Can't say for the rest of the world, but in Canada most teenagers have either a school ID, a yearly bus card with photo (at least for the Montreal area) or a medicare card (sun card for Quebec).
Also, as mentionned in other comments, this should be considered a good thing since kids won't be able to buy games they shouldn't be playing. Sure it won't be easily enforceable but isn't it the same thing for other age restricted goods (cigarettes, alcohol and adult magazines)?
Finally, I really don't get the paranoïa about retailers building databases of customers. I don't see why they would use this as a way to get your customer info. Aside from the needs of a system (hardware and software) to collect this information, this would be limited to customers between the ages of 14 and 24 (considering not many people over the age of 24 look underage).
I think most people in the industry will see this as a step in the right direction. At the risk of sounding like a troll (which is NOT my intention), I'd say it's better then restricting the sales to an entire population. At least adults can make a choice to buy a product and even let their kids play if they judge the game appropriate.
The reported file sizes and timestamps are part of the infringement letter. So the MPAA thinks a 62k file contains a whole movie, proving us they send these notices without even checking if they make sense.
OMG! This is so funny considering the files are less than 100k in size. If I didn't know the MPAA was so dumb, I'd think those were pranks.
(parent is informative/interesting/whatever - mod it up!)
I seriously doubt I'd be revolted by seeing her naked...
As in Iceberg (mountain of ice) and White Castle (good burgers)...
... humm? Well, you get the point!
That's actually two words :P
I'm no scientist and this is news to me! Can anyone tell me if I should stop using my Ionic Breeze before it eats all of my electronics or are we talking about a high concentration of O3?
From sharper image's site: "Ionic Breeze® complies with U.S. safety requirements for low ozone emission (less than 50 parts per billion) as tested by Underwriters Laboratories under their UL867 standard for consumer products."
HELP!
It's fairly easy to distinguish moons and debris...
Debris are made of rock
Moons are made of cheese
There was an interesting article about the different mentality regarding work hours in Europe in the August issue of Business 2.0 entitled All Work, No Play? It Doesn't Pay. (hope this link works for everyone)
I think the subtitle speaks for it self : "European companies get it, but when will their workaholic American counterparts? Longer hours don't always add up to better work."