it's not always mistakes that require support - a lot of times, it's feature creep or moving buttons around. Clearly, that's not something the dev should do for free.
But yeah, support should be spelled out as part of the dev agreement.
wouldn't an elegant solution to the problem be to inform users during the purchase using a blurb along the lines of: "In-app purchases include a 30% charge to offset the fees from Apple to complete the purchase. This additional fee does not apply to purchases made directly from our website."
modular storage and local expansion cards work better in standardized rackable chassis... and it looks way neater than a bunch of freestanding circuit boards... so I guess you'd have to pick between cool and neat.
I got a few...
"The new fragrance is called 'Smug'"
"There's a $249 charge for Apple Aroma Care to keep your smell refreshed as new versions come out"
"The first version of the atomizer will have a lot of features you never knew you needed, but later versions will drop those in favor of still other features you don't actually need at all, but will learn to rely on."
"The bottle and spritzer are not upgradable, but why would you want to change perfection?"
"Well, at least now I'll be able to smell a douchebag in advance so I can know when to take the next elevator."
Offer both subsidized plans and unsubsidized plans, and let the consumer decide which is best. Some people wil bring their own phones and pay less for service, and others will keep their free phones and pay a lot more for service. Win-win. There would need to be a restriction that would only allow NEW users to take advantage of the unsubsidized plan to prevent someone from getting a free phone and immediately switching to the unsubsidized plan, but it would cause a flood of new customers to jump from the other carriers.
Problem - I'm slightly annoyed.
Solution - Interfere with someone else's right to liberty.
Gotcha. I'll have to remember that the next time I see someone wearing a t-shirt in public of a band I don't like. I'll just spray paint over their shirt, and I won't be slightly annoyed any more. Perfect solution to the problem.
I think you misunderstand my position (or, rather, I haven't explained it clearly enough...)
I'm not saying that in general the competition generated from an appropriately regulated free market is bad - quite the opposite - I'm addressing the generalization by the post I was replying to that says "authority" can't be trusted in a crisis, whatever that's supposed to mean. "The authority" could be government, owners of the company, contractors slated to do the cleanup, volunteers, or those wild monkeys they let loose to track radiation with - I have no idea what the coward meant. Yeah, people generally are incompetent in anything they have no training in. That's why we call the trained ones "authorities" in their fields.
authorities can't be trusted??? mighty wide brush you're painting with, and I'm a dyed-in-the-wool Conservative who is wary of anyone who runs for public office, so for me to say that is pretty substantial...
what constitutes an "authority" in your mind, and why are they incapable of being trusted in a crisis? Who else would be better in this circumstance, private enterprise?/I can't believe I have to put it this way, but this is one of those times when a centralized government is absolutely needed to fix a problem
I played FFXI for over 5 years, only stopping after life changes made playing too costly from a time sink standpoint... I played the FFXIV Beta for all of 10 hours before uninstalling with a simple note to the devs: "This game is nowhere near ready for Beta." I'm quite surprised it was released at all... but FFXI was a very good game for the brand, even if it was quite obviously geared with a large bias toward the Japanese market with North America (and finally Europe) as an afterthought.
Can't speak for other states, but in Arizona, it is the Judge's discretion to assign a "sex offender" label to a criminal. Any criminal. The crime doesn't have to be sexual in nature AT ALL. The judge simply decides if it was done with sexual motivation, which is highly objective, to say the least.
Hypothetical example: you are on a stretch of highway in Arizona with no restroom in sight. You have to go, and you have to go NOW. You pull over, see that nobody is around for miles, whip it out behind your tire and take a whiz. State cop comes barrelling down the highway (because he can) and sees your car is stopped, pulls over to investigate as you're zipping up, and arrests you for urinating in public.
Now, we get to a judge who had a bad day. Their Cadillac was just washed, but a bird pooped on the hood on the way to work. Your case comes up, he decides that you really meant to whack off in the desert, so he forces you to register as a sex offender. Level 1, worst kind. Nothing in the law that says he can't. *(IANAL, this is from a discussion I had with a law student a few months back.)
What now? There IS NO RECOURSE other than an appeal, but as these judges are elected, many want to do "what's right for the community." Do you think your appeal is going to be heard? Fat chance. You're a sex offender caught with your pants down.
You let your kids run around the neighborhood unsupervised?
I don't - I watch my kids ALL. THE. TIME.
Which is more responsible?
(by the way, if you're about to say that you don't need to watch them because they're older and can, to some certain extent, take care of themselves, please consider that girl in Aruba - you think a map of sexual predators would have saved her from whatever fate she was exposed to? No - there is a first time for every offender, and there is ALWAYS a chance that YOUR kid could be the first.)
I was going to say in my earlier post that I was pointing out absurdity by being absurd, but I thought it would detract from the idea I was trying to get across.
A point you didn't respond to, so I assume you agree - that being, a map is neither a deterrant nor an effective tool. Scary to look at, maybe, but really, how does a map change how you protect your kids? Specifically?
Your last paragraph has made a black-and-white class of people that always behave the same way regardless of therapy and/or medication.
In fact, there *IS* evidence that sex offenders *CAN* change their behavior. If there was not, no court in 49 states (California excluded because they're just insane) would ever release them. Ever. There would be mandatory life sentences for every sex offender, no matter how "trivial" (the example of a woman claiming to be 18 but was really 16 is a good example) the intent of the offense.
People that talk in terms of "always" and "never" scare me more than sex offenders. After all, I have a gun in my home and keep VERY close watch on my children. But I can't defend myself against your ideas.
Not at all too far - in fact, I think we should expand on this idea. I want a map of everyone who has stolen a car. I like my car, I don't want to move into a neighborhood where a former car theif lives. You know he'll (or she'll) just go right back out and steal my car UNLESS they're on a searchable map. You've done it once, you'll do it again.
Oh, and I want a map of everyone who has back taxes yet to pay - you know they want to steal my car along with the car theif to pay some of those back taxes.
Don't forget the people who have late library books - they're cleptos, and just want to take my garden gnomes out front...
Mapping this kind of thing isn't a detternt - look at how many registered sex offenders there are. And it doesn't help parents to "make good decisions", either - if you aren't watching your kids enough already, it doesn't matter if there's a sex offender *LIVING* nearby... if something happens, you are partly responsible for not being prepared and educating your kids, and keeping track of them, and following up when they say they're giong to a friend's house...
Parents need to be prepared for the worst, but having a list like this will only make it possible for these people to be punished while they're not in prison or on parole or probation by some holier-than-thou zealot with a shotgun and too much Bud Light in his system. Click and shoot.
I am ignorant of the forces used in this technology, but if I am correct...
You have a space plasma generator orbiting the sun that will push payloads into a Mars-intercepting trajectory. OK, fine and dandy.
Now, if it's shooting all this high energy plasma out one end, won't there be a reaction of its own in the opposite direction, effectively causing the force on the payload to be cut in half, while also shooting itslef way the heck out of the original "stationary" orbit?
I'm sure someone smarter than me has already thought of this, I just can't see the solution.
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sorry, I forgot to use the "tongue in cheek" font.
my favorite was always "ES(T)O"... where the Equipment is Smarter (T)han the Operator
I charge people to run Windows Update for them, so I'm getting a kick, etc. ;)
it's not always mistakes that require support - a lot of times, it's feature creep or moving buttons around. Clearly, that's not something the dev should do for free. But yeah, support should be spelled out as part of the dev agreement.
wouldn't an elegant solution to the problem be to inform users during the purchase using a blurb along the lines of: "In-app purchases include a 30% charge to offset the fees from Apple to complete the purchase. This additional fee does not apply to purchases made directly from our website."
modular storage and local expansion cards work better in standardized rackable chassis... and it looks way neater than a bunch of freestanding circuit boards... so I guess you'd have to pick between cool and neat.
I got a few...
"The new fragrance is called 'Smug'"
"There's a $249 charge for Apple Aroma Care to keep your smell refreshed as new versions come out"
"The first version of the atomizer will have a lot of features you never knew you needed, but later versions will drop those in favor of still other features you don't actually need at all, but will learn to rely on."
"The bottle and spritzer are not upgradable, but why would you want to change perfection?"
"Well, at least now I'll be able to smell a douchebag in advance so I can know when to take the next elevator."
Offer both subsidized plans and unsubsidized plans, and let the consumer decide which is best. Some people wil bring their own phones and pay less for service, and others will keep their free phones and pay a lot more for service. Win-win. There would need to be a restriction that would only allow NEW users to take advantage of the unsubsidized plan to prevent someone from getting a free phone and immediately switching to the unsubsidized plan, but it would cause a flood of new customers to jump from the other carriers.
Problem - I'm slightly annoyed. Solution - Interfere with someone else's right to liberty. Gotcha. I'll have to remember that the next time I see someone wearing a t-shirt in public of a band I don't like. I'll just spray paint over their shirt, and I won't be slightly annoyed any more. Perfect solution to the problem.
Yeah - "particularly impressive" this is not.
I wish I had mod points to spend on this one. To what address might I send an e-Beer?
I think you misunderstand my position (or, rather, I haven't explained it clearly enough...) I'm not saying that in general the competition generated from an appropriately regulated free market is bad - quite the opposite - I'm addressing the generalization by the post I was replying to that says "authority" can't be trusted in a crisis, whatever that's supposed to mean. "The authority" could be government, owners of the company, contractors slated to do the cleanup, volunteers, or those wild monkeys they let loose to track radiation with - I have no idea what the coward meant. Yeah, people generally are incompetent in anything they have no training in. That's why we call the trained ones "authorities" in their fields.
authorities can't be trusted??? mighty wide brush you're painting with, and I'm a dyed-in-the-wool Conservative who is wary of anyone who runs for public office, so for me to say that is pretty substantial... what constitutes an "authority" in your mind, and why are they incapable of being trusted in a crisis? Who else would be better in this circumstance, private enterprise? /I can't believe I have to put it this way, but this is one of those times when a centralized government is absolutely needed to fix a problem
I played FFXI for over 5 years, only stopping after life changes made playing too costly from a time sink standpoint... I played the FFXIV Beta for all of 10 hours before uninstalling with a simple note to the devs: "This game is nowhere near ready for Beta." I'm quite surprised it was released at all... but FFXI was a very good game for the brand, even if it was quite obviously geared with a large bias toward the Japanese market with North America (and finally Europe) as an afterthought.
So, just to be clear, we're talking about an MP3 player still, right?
Begs the question:
If scratched, DOES IT STILL PLAY MUSIC LIKE YOU EXPECTED IT TO DO WHEN YOU BOUGHT THE THING?
bujeebus.
Of course I watch them bathe. Oldest is 5, they like to bathe together, so I make sure the youngest isn't going face first into the suds.
Any other uninformed personal attacks you'd like to lob?
Can't speak for other states, but in Arizona, it is the Judge's discretion to assign a "sex offender" label to a criminal. Any criminal. The crime doesn't have to be sexual in nature AT ALL. The judge simply decides if it was done with sexual motivation, which is highly objective, to say the least.
Hypothetical example: you are on a stretch of highway in Arizona with no restroom in sight. You have to go, and you have to go NOW. You pull over, see that nobody is around for miles, whip it out behind your tire and take a whiz. State cop comes barrelling down the highway (because he can) and sees your car is stopped, pulls over to investigate as you're zipping up, and arrests you for urinating in public.
Now, we get to a judge who had a bad day. Their Cadillac was just washed, but a bird pooped on the hood on the way to work. Your case comes up, he decides that you really meant to whack off in the desert, so he forces you to register as a sex offender. Level 1, worst kind. Nothing in the law that says he can't. *(IANAL, this is from a discussion I had with a law student a few months back.)
What now? There IS NO RECOURSE other than an appeal, but as these judges are elected, many want to do "what's right for the community." Do you think your appeal is going to be heard? Fat chance. You're a sex offender caught with your pants down.
You let your kids run around the neighborhood unsupervised?
I don't - I watch my kids ALL. THE. TIME.
Which is more responsible?
(by the way, if you're about to say that you don't need to watch them because they're older and can, to some certain extent, take care of themselves, please consider that girl in Aruba - you think a map of sexual predators would have saved her from whatever fate she was exposed to? No - there is a first time for every offender, and there is ALWAYS a chance that YOUR kid could be the first.)
I was going to say in my earlier post that I was pointing out absurdity by being absurd, but I thought it would detract from the idea I was trying to get across. A point you didn't respond to, so I assume you agree - that being, a map is neither a deterrant nor an effective tool. Scary to look at, maybe, but really, how does a map change how you protect your kids? Specifically?
Your last paragraph has made a black-and-white class of people that always behave the same way regardless of therapy and/or medication.
In fact, there *IS* evidence that sex offenders *CAN* change their behavior. If there was not, no court in 49 states (California excluded because they're just insane) would ever release them. Ever. There would be mandatory life sentences for every sex offender, no matter how "trivial" (the example of a woman claiming to be 18 but was really 16 is a good example) the intent of the offense.
People that talk in terms of "always" and "never" scare me more than sex offenders. After all, I have a gun in my home and keep VERY close watch on my children. But I can't defend myself against your ideas.
Not at all too far - in fact, I think we should expand on this idea. I want a map of everyone who has stolen a car. I like my car, I don't want to move into a neighborhood where a former car theif lives. You know he'll (or she'll) just go right back out and steal my car UNLESS they're on a searchable map. You've done it once, you'll do it again.
Oh, and I want a map of everyone who has back taxes yet to pay - you know they want to steal my car along with the car theif to pay some of those back taxes.
Don't forget the people who have late library books - they're cleptos, and just want to take my garden gnomes out front...
Mapping this kind of thing isn't a detternt - look at how many registered sex offenders there are. And it doesn't help parents to "make good decisions", either - if you aren't watching your kids enough already, it doesn't matter if there's a sex offender *LIVING* nearby... if something happens, you are partly responsible for not being prepared and educating your kids, and keeping track of them, and following up when they say they're giong to a friend's house...
Parents need to be prepared for the worst, but having a list like this will only make it possible for these people to be punished while they're not in prison or on parole or probation by some holier-than-thou zealot with a shotgun and too much Bud Light in his system. Click and shoot.
I'm having a hard time formulating a google query, as I have no frame of reference with which to include limiting or contextual ideas.
I assumed he meant U.S.A.ers as opposed to Canadians, as many of these topics dive into Canada vs. U.S.A.
while most of us do not like it
/. readers apparently like Kerry vs. Bush - so I am totally prepared to be moderated flamebait. Whatever.
um... actually, most of us DID like it - the plurality of the vote went for Bush, after all.
And, it's a testament to the will of the people, not just Kerry's character.
I know, I know - 43% to 18% of
I am ignorant of the forces used in this technology, but if I am correct...
You have a space plasma generator orbiting the sun that will push payloads into a Mars-intercepting trajectory. OK, fine and dandy.
Now, if it's shooting all this high energy plasma out one end, won't there be a reaction of its own in the opposite direction, effectively causing the force on the payload to be cut in half, while also shooting itslef way the heck out of the original "stationary" orbit? I'm sure someone smarter than me has already thought of this, I just can't see the solution.