The two Ubisoft games I've played recently (Assassins Creed and Prince of Persia) were both beautiful to look at but incredibly repetitive and not all that fun to play after an hour or so. Since then, on more than one occasion I've seen an awesome trailer that made me think "damn I need to go get that game"...until the Ubisoft logo comes up and I think "nevermind...there are better things to spend my $60 on"...I imagine that has more to do with their sales lag than piracy does...it's not like piracy rates have suddenly shot through the roof.
It would be nice if more companies would spend their resources improving linux projects as a whole rather than trying to roll their own distributions. I see HP spending a lot of time reinventing several wheels here when their developers' time could be put to much better use in the community.
Damn wasting all my mod points earlier today...this is by far the most intelligent response to the article...unfortunately, the/. crowd is hard pressed to read the articles that are linked here...there's no way the majority of them are going to go off and do actual research in *gasp* books
"Anti-vacationists" huh? Luckily they should be completely burnt out in a couple years...
Incidentally, I'm not sure I see how this does anything to "hurt the health of this nation"...
Meh...mine died for the first time last month. It was two weeks from the time I got off the phone w/ tech support to the time I was playing again. They sent a replacement (refurbished, I imagine) to significantly cut down on the turn around time. I was impressed since the CSR told me it would be more than a month.
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Wow...just...wow...
>I will say this. If she's posting personal information and people are identifying him and sending death threats, I want this woman prosecuted, >persecuted, and hung from her toenails. As a support rep, personally attacking someone and putting their life in danger is immoral and wrong on >so many levels.
She posted his name...hardly anything criminal or immoral. It's not her fault people know how to use google (in fact...if *you* knew how to use google, you could easily find the "complete exchange"). She's also not responsible for other people making threats against him.
>1) You singled out a peon who works at a big company, even if he is the supervisor. He doesn't make policy, he only enforces it. Blame the >company, not a single person.
As a *customer service* rep. (no way he's a manager), it IS his responsibility to not be an asshat. He failed...I blame him for that...I blame the company for hiring him.
>3) You want help? Take the high road. This is the low road. To said "he's a jerk and I'm making fun of you for ever and ever." How mature is >that?
He was an ass from the get-go...he was trying to extort money from her (and, actually, the $5.95 plan ensures "Account Preservation" so trying to force the $19.95 plan on her was even more over the top.
>4) He's getting death threats. OMG I'm going to find YOUR address and YOUR picture and get a bunch of support reps to give you death threats, >you stupid bitch, and see how you like it! Death threats are nothing to laugh at, and are completely over the top, no matter what he said about >your email.
Like I said...she just posted his name...everyone else took it from there.
>5) I'm shocked and amazed at people who torment support reps as incompetant, rude, and unsocial. Do you realize how much shit we get thrown at >us every day and how hard this job is because people like this? The nicer you are to me, the nicer I am for you. I get people yelling at me >every day, and I help them, but I don't wanna, and I can't help that feeling. When I call someone for service, and I never yell at the person on > the phone. I know form personal experience that being nice is the way to go. Now you've completely ruined your chance at ever getting your >email back because, when an asshole pissed you off, you decided to be an even bigger asshole.
If you were competent, polite, and social perhaps you wouldn't get so much shit. Most of the CS reps I've dealt/worked with know how to read a troubleshooting flowchart and that's about the extent of their "competence". You deserve the shit you get.
>He has every right to sue her, and I hope she gets taken to the cleaners. Yes I'm emotional about this because this is scary to me. You don't >take out your petty problems on a support rep. The support rep is just a cog in a wheel. Keep it oiled and it will do the job, but don't take a >wrench to it just because it won't do what the machine can't do.
Sure, he could sue her...he'd lose. Badly. And in many states he'd end up having to pay her court costs.
Wow...just...wow...
>I will say this. If she's posting personal information and people are identifying him and sending death threats, I want this woman prosecuted,
>persecuted, and hung from her toenails. As a support rep, personally attacking someone and putting their life in danger is immoral and wrong on
>so many levels.
She posted his name...hardly anything criminal or immoral. It's not her fault people know how to use google (in fact...if *you* knew how to use google, you could easily find the "complete exchange"). She's also not responsible for other people making threats against him.
>1) You singled out a peon who works at a big company, even if he is the supervisor. He doesn't make policy, he only enforces it. Blame the
>company, not a single person.
As a *customer service* rep. (no way he's a manager), it IS his responsibility to not be an asshat. He failed...I blame him for that...I blame the company for hiring him.
>3) You want help? Take the high road. This is the low road. To said "he's a jerk and I'm making fun of you for ever and ever." How mature is
>that?
He was an ass from the get-go...he was trying to extort money from her (and, actually, the $5.95 plan ensures "Account Preservation" so trying to force the $19.95 plan on her was even more over the top.
>4) He's getting death threats. OMG I'm going to find YOUR address and YOUR picture and get a bunch of support reps to give you death threats,
>you stupid bitch, and see how you like it! Death threats are nothing to laugh at, and are completely over the top, no matter what he said about
>your email.
Like I said...she just posted his name...everyone else took it from there.
>5) I'm shocked and amazed at people who torment support reps as incompetant, rude, and unsocial. Do you realize how much shit we get thrown at
>us every day and how hard this job is because people like this? The nicer you are to me, the nicer I am for you. I get people yelling at me
>every day, and I help them, but I don't wanna, and I can't help that feeling. When I call someone for service, and I never yell at the person on
> the phone. I know form personal experience that being nice is the way to go. Now you've completely ruined your chance at ever getting your
>email back because, when an asshole pissed you off, you decided to be an even bigger asshole.
If you were competent, polite, and social perhaps you wouldn't get so much shit. Most of the CS reps I've dealt/worked with know how to read a troubleshooting flowchart and that's about the extent of their "competence". You deserve the shit you get.
>He has every right to sue her, and I hope she gets taken to the cleaners. Yes I'm emotional about this because this is scary to me. You don't
>take out your petty problems on a support rep. The support rep is just a cog in a wheel. Keep it oiled and it will do the job, but don't take a
>wrench to it just because it won't do what the machine can't do.
Sure, he could sue her...he'd lose. Badly. And in many states he'd end up having to pay her court costs.
There's enough crap out there that encourages everyone to "go for the win". If you're buying board games, especially for kids, I'd suggest looking into some cooperative games (check out Family Pastimes). I've been trying to get into these for a while, but unfortunately my friends have never been into them (they refer to "Our Town" as "Communist Monopoly"). But whatever, it's worth a look.
Money Magazine and Salary.com say Software Engineering is the "Best Job" out there. However, their criteria are hardly guaranteed to be the same as yours (actually, the criteria might be the same...but the priorities probably won't). It's really all about what you like to do. If you like to write programs and solve problems, CS is great and there's money to be made (somewhere...I'm told).
Even though the vast majority of users may never expose a defect, it doesn't render the defect "irrelevant"
There is a huge difference (in terms of user experience) between shutting down gracefully (with a nice message and cleaning up after yourself) and crashing all over the floor when running into an "unrecoverable error"
Encouraging sloppy coding practices (even if they are becoming "normal development practice"), especially in a large scale project with a (relatively) transient support group, is begging to run into serious problems in maintaining the code down the road
Personally, I think anyone who is even remotely serious about writing code should take (at the very least) a class on Software Engineering and spend some time learning about writing portable, easy to read, maintainable code with the mindset that you're probably not going to be the person fixing it when it breaks
"People" aren't going to buy hardware just to run the new Windows..."People" are going to buy hardware to run the new Windows which is required to play super mega blockbuster game X.
Aside from that, it won't be a terribly long time until commodity PCs have those specs standard (they're not really that far off). So "people" will just happen to start running the new Windows when it comes bundled with their machines.
for those of you who didn't RTFA, the suit was filed in Belgium. Unless Bush has invaded them recently, I'm pretty sure US law doesn't apply there...
I must say though, if we're going to get serious about monitoring the content on the internet (not saying we should...); this needs to be handled as international law because it's just retarded to do this on a country by country basis...
Is this not obvious? It may be interesting to know what position he sits in...I work/code with my feet up on the desk which, while more comfortable, puts a lot more weight/pressure on my tailbone region...I imagine DVT would set in much quicker in this position as opposed to the traditional feet-on-the-floor position.
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The two Ubisoft games I've played recently (Assassins Creed and Prince of Persia) were both beautiful to look at but incredibly repetitive and not all that fun to play after an hour or so. Since then, on more than one occasion I've seen an awesome trailer that made me think "damn I need to go get that game"...until the Ubisoft logo comes up and I think "nevermind...there are better things to spend my $60 on"...I imagine that has more to do with their sales lag than piracy does...it's not like piracy rates have suddenly shot through the roof.
It would be nice if more companies would spend their resources improving linux projects as a whole rather than trying to roll their own distributions. I see HP spending a lot of time reinventing several wheels here when their developers' time could be put to much better use in the community.
"I do (know people)." - Sure, you're "friend" right? *wink*
"the WTC attacks never happened (only once in 16 billion years, or whatever)." - Twice actually...but who's counting
Damn wasting all my mod points earlier today...this is by far the most intelligent response to the article...unfortunately, the /. crowd is hard pressed to read the articles that are linked here...there's no way the majority of them are going to go off and do actual research in *gasp* books
"Anti-vacationists" huh? Luckily they should be completely burnt out in a couple years... Incidentally, I'm not sure I see how this does anything to "hurt the health of this nation"...
Meh...mine died for the first time last month. It was two weeks from the time I got off the phone w/ tech support to the time I was playing again. They sent a replacement (refurbished, I imagine) to significantly cut down on the turn around time. I was impressed since the CSR told me it would be more than a month.
I hear that works wonders
"intrusive" = interfering with M$'s bottom line
FYI...AS/400 is NOT a mainframe
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Wow...just...wow...
>I will say this. If she's posting personal information and people are identifying him and sending death threats, I want this woman prosecuted,
>persecuted, and hung from her toenails. As a support rep, personally attacking someone and putting their life in danger is immoral and wrong on
>so many levels.
She posted his name...hardly anything criminal or immoral. It's not her fault people know how to use google (in fact...if *you* knew how to use google, you could easily find the "complete exchange"). She's also not responsible for other people making threats against him.
>1) You singled out a peon who works at a big company, even if he is the supervisor. He doesn't make policy, he only enforces it. Blame the
>company, not a single person.
As a *customer service* rep. (no way he's a manager), it IS his responsibility to not be an asshat. He failed...I blame him for that...I blame the company for hiring him.
>3) You want help? Take the high road. This is the low road. To said "he's a jerk and I'm making fun of you for ever and ever." How mature is
>that?
He was an ass from the get-go...he was trying to extort money from her (and, actually, the $5.95 plan ensures "Account Preservation" so trying to force the $19.95 plan on her was even more over the top.
>4) He's getting death threats. OMG I'm going to find YOUR address and YOUR picture and get a bunch of support reps to give you death threats,
>you stupid bitch, and see how you like it! Death threats are nothing to laugh at, and are completely over the top, no matter what he said about
>your email.
Like I said...she just posted his name...everyone else took it from there.
>5) I'm shocked and amazed at people who torment support reps as incompetant, rude, and unsocial. Do you realize how much shit we get thrown at
>us every day and how hard this job is because people like this? The nicer you are to me, the nicer I am for you. I get people yelling at me
>every day, and I help them, but I don't wanna, and I can't help that feeling. When I call someone for service, and I never yell at the person on
> the phone. I know form personal experience that being nice is the way to go. Now you've completely ruined your chance at ever getting your
>email back because, when an asshole pissed you off, you decided to be an even bigger asshole.
If you were competent, polite, and social perhaps you wouldn't get so much shit. Most of the CS reps I've dealt/worked with know how to read a troubleshooting flowchart and that's about the extent of their "competence". You deserve the shit you get.
>He has every right to sue her, and I hope she gets taken to the cleaners. Yes I'm emotional about this because this is scary to me. You don't
>take out your petty problems on a support rep. The support rep is just a cog in a wheel. Keep it oiled and it will do the job, but don't take a
>wrench to it just because it won't do what the machine can't do.
Sure, he could sue her...he'd lose. Badly. And in many states he'd end up having to pay her court costs.
Wow...just...wow... >I will say this. If she's posting personal information and people are identifying him and sending death threats, I want this woman prosecuted, >persecuted, and hung from her toenails. As a support rep, personally attacking someone and putting their life in danger is immoral and wrong on >so many levels. She posted his name...hardly anything criminal or immoral. It's not her fault people know how to use google (in fact...if *you* knew how to use google, you could easily find the "complete exchange"). She's also not responsible for other people making threats against him. >1) You singled out a peon who works at a big company, even if he is the supervisor. He doesn't make policy, he only enforces it. Blame the >company, not a single person. As a *customer service* rep. (no way he's a manager), it IS his responsibility to not be an asshat. He failed...I blame him for that...I blame the company for hiring him. >3) You want help? Take the high road. This is the low road. To said "he's a jerk and I'm making fun of you for ever and ever." How mature is >that? He was an ass from the get-go...he was trying to extort money from her (and, actually, the $5.95 plan ensures "Account Preservation" so trying to force the $19.95 plan on her was even more over the top. >4) He's getting death threats. OMG I'm going to find YOUR address and YOUR picture and get a bunch of support reps to give you death threats, >you stupid bitch, and see how you like it! Death threats are nothing to laugh at, and are completely over the top, no matter what he said about >your email. Like I said...she just posted his name...everyone else took it from there. >5) I'm shocked and amazed at people who torment support reps as incompetant, rude, and unsocial. Do you realize how much shit we get thrown at >us every day and how hard this job is because people like this? The nicer you are to me, the nicer I am for you. I get people yelling at me >every day, and I help them, but I don't wanna, and I can't help that feeling. When I call someone for service, and I never yell at the person on > the phone. I know form personal experience that being nice is the way to go. Now you've completely ruined your chance at ever getting your >email back because, when an asshole pissed you off, you decided to be an even bigger asshole. If you were competent, polite, and social perhaps you wouldn't get so much shit. Most of the CS reps I've dealt/worked with know how to read a troubleshooting flowchart and that's about the extent of their "competence". You deserve the shit you get. >He has every right to sue her, and I hope she gets taken to the cleaners. Yes I'm emotional about this because this is scary to me. You don't >take out your petty problems on a support rep. The support rep is just a cog in a wheel. Keep it oiled and it will do the job, but don't take a >wrench to it just because it won't do what the machine can't do. Sure, he could sue her...he'd lose. Badly. And in many states he'd end up having to pay her court costs.
>After all, the R in MSRP stands for recommended. I know that GameStop/EBGames routinely have prices a few dollars over the MSRP.
Actually, the 'R' in MSRP stands for "Retail". The 'S' does stand for "Suggested" though...
There's enough crap out there that encourages everyone to "go for the win". If you're buying board games, especially for kids, I'd suggest looking into some cooperative games (check out Family Pastimes). I've been trying to get into these for a while, but unfortunately my friends have never been into them (they refer to "Our Town" as "Communist Monopoly"). But whatever, it's worth a look.
Money Magazine and Salary.com say Software Engineering is the "Best Job" out there. However, their criteria are hardly guaranteed to be the same as yours (actually, the criteria might be the same...but the priorities probably won't). It's really all about what you like to do. If you like to write programs and solve problems, CS is great and there's money to be made (somewhere...I'm told).
Those were some of the best RPGs back in the day
Ah...I had that one...wasn't terribly ground breaking though...got me through a couple of weekends
"or advice from an adult friend" Yeah...and how many of those "adult friends" are pedophiles?
Duke Nukem Forever promises to support IPv6!
If their "black hat" days occurred when they were 16 and curious, what's the problem? If it was after High School, I doubt it.
Let's see. News Corporation is a publicly traded company. News Corporation owns MySpace. Rupert Murdoch says one of MySpace's goals isto take the market lead in online video from privately held YouTube in the next 60 to 70 days. Granted, I'm not a Murdoch fan, and I'm not going to contend that he's not a "moron", but do you really think News Corp. would push this if they thought they were going to get the pants sued off of them?
Personally, I think anyone who is even remotely serious about writing code should take (at the very least) a class on Software Engineering and spend some time learning about writing portable, easy to read, maintainable code with the mindset that you're probably not going to be the person fixing it when it breaks
How about: From the three-week-old-news department?
"People" aren't going to buy hardware just to run the new Windows..."People" are going to buy hardware to run the new Windows which is required to play super mega blockbuster game X. Aside from that, it won't be a terribly long time until commodity PCs have those specs standard (they're not really that far off). So "people" will just happen to start running the new Windows when it comes bundled with their machines.
for those of you who didn't RTFA, the suit was filed in Belgium. Unless Bush has invaded them recently, I'm pretty sure US law doesn't apply there...
I must say though, if we're going to get serious about monitoring the content on the internet (not saying we should...); this needs to be handled as international law because it's just retarded to do this on a country by country basis...
Is this not obvious? It may be interesting to know what position he sits in...I work/code with my feet up on the desk which, while more comfortable, puts a lot more weight/pressure on my tailbone region...I imagine DVT would set in much quicker in this position as opposed to the traditional feet-on-the-floor position.