You might want to keep in mind that their employees are not objects that can just be traded around, forced into retirement, and fired. They're people. I'm not saying this doesn't happen, I'm just saying that the few guys in upper management have a moral responsibility to attempt to not do such things to other people.
Most people don't feel too bad about killing chickens for meat since chickens don't appear to be persons. Unfortunately, many also see nothing wrong with ignoring the effects of relocations and whatnot on the people at the company.
Even Iran's vice-president has a daily blog on a popular site with 'musings about politics and life.'
Here's a little bit I copied from his site:
22-02-2004: meetings is teh sux0rs
HEY, sup all??? jus got back from a informasional meating on how were totally kicking the liberals's @$$ in teh polls this year!!!!1 those losers are such morons! to bad the voter turnout was bad! Dude u guys need 2 go out and vote so i can be your leader next year wouldnt that be gr8???
All so, there was this totally hot reporter there who kept talking 2 me asking questions and $h!t. She was totaly n 2 me and i was gonna get her # but those loser body guards said i had to go to another meeting. gawd, what pr!cks!!!
anyway, i gotta go sighn sum papers, ttyl.
The whole text-based game industry is being replaced, or has been replaced, by games with visuals because there is no good reason to restrict gameplay to text-only when you can spruce it up with immersive graphical environmen
Sort of like how those old text-based "books" disappeared shortly after the invention of the motion picture?
So this thing is a toaster, correct? Will it finally solve the problem that is switching between toast and Pop-Tarts? I don't want to give either of these delicious foods up and I don't have space in my dorm for two toasters set to different levels.
I...very rarely use any...quotes in context...every story I've...done...I...tainted...And, most of the time, I'm...more accurate...than the story that I'm following up on.
This guy has no idea what he's talking about. Mainstream media reporters do great work. This man contradicts himself and generally brags about how he exploits ellipses to twist people's words around on Slashdot (though presumably, he does this in everyday conversation). He clearly has no credibility.
Cause, you know, sometimes programmers like to help out on the dialogue, too
"Ok, dude, get this: then right as the player's ship has been slowed by the tractor beam, the bad guy goes 'All your base are belong to us!' Wouldn't that be f@#$ing awesome? Man, script writing is easy!"
In court you fight the fights that need fighting that you can win. To do otherwise is pointless.
I didn't RYFC, but there are many firms out there that do not fight the fights that they can win. They fight the fights that they have a chance of winning. Since they can't win every case that they argue, they make up for their monetary losses in lost cases by charging insanely high lawyer fees (win one case out of 5 at $1 million and your average is $200,000 per case). Kind of like a lottery, I think, but this is how it's done. I saw it in a movie.
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#1: Parent's basement. I mean, I'd bet most of Counterstrike was made there.
You might want to keep in mind that their employees are not objects that can just be traded around, forced into retirement, and fired. They're people. I'm not saying this doesn't happen, I'm just saying that the few guys in upper management have a moral responsibility to attempt to not do such things to other people.
Most people don't feel too bad about killing chickens for meat since chickens don't appear to be persons. Unfortunately, many also see nothing wrong with ignoring the effects of relocations and whatnot on the people at the company.
What about that 1 in 6250 for the automated filters? Your computer might be spying on you at this very moment!
This is indeed a disturbing development.
Yeah, "10 times better" should be 998.4%, right?
And that's impossible. No one can give more than one hundred percent. By definition that is the most anyone can give
This poster has clearly RTFM.
Here's a little bit I copied from his site:
(Glad he's not one of the leaders of my country)
Sort of like how those old text-based "books" disappeared shortly after the invention of the motion picture?
Same goes for Lindows, err, I mean Lin---s.
You must be new here
(BAM! +5, Overused Joke)
I'll buy one, but I'm going to need to borrow their license to print money, first. Photoshop won't let me scan dollar bills anymore...
What are you talking about? They're trying to rid the universe of women.
But who can get in to Area 51 first? You and your Dragan Flyer Predator or the aliens and their UFOs from Mars?
It's a race to determine the superiority of two teams: Aliens vs. Predator!
He is real, but his love is not.
And all those Star Wars fans have convinced themselves that the slot in R2D2 was designed to hold a light saber...
Have you ever played System Shock 2? I imagine that it will be something like that.
So this thing is a toaster, correct? Will it finally solve the problem that is switching between toast and Pop-Tarts? I don't want to give either of these delicious foods up and I don't have space in my dorm for two toasters set to different levels.
This guy has no idea what he's talking about. Mainstream media reporters do great work. This man contradicts himself and generally brags about how he exploits ellipses to twist people's words around on Slashdot (though presumably, he does this in everyday conversation). He clearly has no credibility.
Sincerely,
FOX News. Fair and balanced.
Let's see, here:
Original, inane comment: +4 (not even overrated).
Factual reply: +2.
Commenting on how moderation works: +3.
Ok... BSD license. Patent protection? CPL. Seriously, there are already enough licenses out there.
Long live the Atlantic Accelerator.
Best. Level. Ever.
"Ok, dude, get this: then right as the player's ship has been slowed by the tractor beam, the bad guy goes 'All your base are belong to us!' Wouldn't that be f@#$ing awesome? Man, script writing is easy!"
You could always run KDE.
Additionally, they would not have to worry about users filing complaints or bug reports. Quite a far-reaching solution you've got there.
Hence the high probability for quick capitulation.
I didn't RYFC, but there are many firms out there that do not fight the fights that they can win. They fight the fights that they have a chance of winning. Since they can't win every case that they argue, they make up for their monetary losses in lost cases by charging insanely high lawyer fees (win one case out of 5 at $1 million and your average is $200,000 per case). Kind of like a lottery, I think, but this is how it's done. I saw it in a movie.