And probably never will. Maybe it requires an MBA to understand how chasing away paying customers is good for business?
And then in a minor accident a window gets smashed
on
Car Window Touchscreens
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· Score: 5, Insightful
And it costs $4000 to replace.
Goodie.
This is just another in a long trend of stuffing more and more nonsense into cars, which is the opposite of what we need. What we need are light, simple, effecient cars. What they try to build instead is cars with touchscreen windows.
Until they decide to freeze your account for a few months because some joker on eBay lodged a totally fake complaint. At that point you may not like them so much anymore.
Paypal's service is pretty terrible whenever there's any kind of problem. You're really just counting on getting lucky that you're not one of the people who does.
Since the last few 3D movies have done over half their sales in 2D, I wouldn't be too worried. There's a pretty good 3D backlash building up. If they really start only showing some things in 3D, don't see them at all. Money talks.
Nintendo's learning that with the surprising weakness of the 3DS.
The problem with Facebook is that it's full of narcissistic bullshit like that, and people being emo because they want attention. I only had an account at all so people would stop bothering me to make one, and thanks to G+ I don't use it anymore.
Thank god. An hour on facebook will make you hate humanity.
Sports games pretty much already do work that way. For the people who play these, paying $30/year for it to play as long as they keep paying is actually a far better deal then buying the new version every year.
There's some genres of games where a subscription model actually makes a lot of sense. This is one of them.
They didn't think that maybe people didn't finish Heavy Rain because it turned a lot of people off with the screwy controls, rather then that it was too long?
There's a fairly large segment of the people who buy any game that won't finish it because it turns out they don't like it very much.
So why didn't they just have their web servers issue a 403 Forbidden when the Google news bot shows up? It's not like it's hard to detect, since it calls itself the Google news bot.
Hey look at that, problem solved without lawyers and asshattery. I guess that made far too much sense for the MBAs.
Games this old with a reputation this bad facing a marketing juggernaut like TOR as direct competition don't suddenly start gaining players by changing the game yet again.
If TOR is successful it'll be a lot longer then 5 years. Hell, Vanguard is still going and that was a bomb.
But yes, MMOs come to an end at some point. New games come out. Games are not an investment, they're recreation. If you refuse to play any game that you might not be able to load a save game from in 20 years, your gaming options are pretty slim.
You mean if you plan things in a publically accessable area on the Internet, other people might read it and plan accordingly?
Are these people really stupid enough to think this would somehow work? I guess for their next act they'll discuss plans to eat & dash at a restraurant by yelling the plans to each other right outside the restraurant front door?
"Oh sorry, we only hire people who interned for us. You can come work for free for a year and we'll talk about it then. No? Alright. Hey Congress, we can't find any workers! Open up some more visa spots for us!"
It's a uniquely American thing to defend a corrupt and wrong system as the fault of the victim. Probably why the US is going backwards as a world power so quickly.
You know that Chrome is actually better then Firefox at a fair bit of stuff, right?
Not to mention that if an enterprise wants to deploy something that isn't IE, Chrome provides some tools to do that while Firefox tells them to screw off. One of these is better for market share then the other.
Because your gaming catalog would still be bringing in the same amount of revenue to them, and people who won't buy triple the number of games would result in less money? And because AAA games are a lot more expensive to make then dinky little iPhone apps?
Yeah, and the most secure server on the planet is the one that's locked in a bunker and not plugged in. Not terribly useful though.
The system you so love because it blocks spammers also acts as an effective barrier for normal communication. It's a PITA that people just don't bother with. Usability matters, and Nintendo doesn't have it.
We actually DO have test cycles with Office updates, because they've been known to break some of our legacy Access/automation apps, which thankfully we're not creating new ones of.
But with IE patch tuesday updates? Nope, because Microsoft is really good about not changing how things work in those whenever possible. They don't randomly stuff breaking changes to the Javascript engine in a security update.
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And probably never will. Maybe it requires an MBA to understand how chasing away paying customers is good for business?
And it costs $4000 to replace.
Goodie.
This is just another in a long trend of stuffing more and more nonsense into cars, which is the opposite of what we need. What we need are light, simple, effecient cars. What they try to build instead is cars with touchscreen windows.
Until they decide to freeze your account for a few months because some joker on eBay lodged a totally fake complaint. At that point you may not like them so much anymore.
Paypal's service is pretty terrible whenever there's any kind of problem. You're really just counting on getting lucky that you're not one of the people who does.
This is news? Coming up next you'll tell us that a new study predicts the Sun will continue to rise in the East?
Maybe he's from one of those countries that America likes to blow up?
Since the last few 3D movies have done over half their sales in 2D, I wouldn't be too worried. There's a pretty good 3D backlash building up. If they really start only showing some things in 3D, don't see them at all. Money talks.
Nintendo's learning that with the surprising weakness of the 3DS.
That's when you block the person instead.
The problem with Facebook is that it's full of narcissistic bullshit like that, and people being emo because they want attention. I only had an account at all so people would stop bothering me to make one, and thanks to G+ I don't use it anymore.
Thank god. An hour on facebook will make you hate humanity.
Sports games pretty much already do work that way. For the people who play these, paying $30/year for it to play as long as they keep paying is actually a far better deal then buying the new version every year.
There's some genres of games where a subscription model actually makes a lot of sense. This is one of them.
They didn't think that maybe people didn't finish Heavy Rain because it turned a lot of people off with the screwy controls, rather then that it was too long?
There's a fairly large segment of the people who buy any game that won't finish it because it turns out they don't like it very much.
Hurd might beat bitcoin in a "has practical uses" benchmark. :P
It measured 37 Stallmans hire on the GNU/RMS Freedom benchmark.
So why didn't they just have their web servers issue a 403 Forbidden when the Google news bot shows up? It's not like it's hard to detect, since it calls itself the Google news bot.
Hey look at that, problem solved without lawyers and asshattery. I guess that made far too much sense for the MBAs.
Games this old with a reputation this bad facing a marketing juggernaut like TOR as direct competition don't suddenly start gaining players by changing the game yet again.
If TOR is successful it'll be a lot longer then 5 years. Hell, Vanguard is still going and that was a bomb.
But yes, MMOs come to an end at some point. New games come out. Games are not an investment, they're recreation. If you refuse to play any game that you might not be able to load a save game from in 20 years, your gaming options are pretty slim.
It's not a complex when you really are the smartest guy in the room.
No, it actually is about MBAs. Accounting professionals for example bring a useful skill: accounting.
MBAs are the people who are good at nothing in particular and generally exist to get in the way of the people who actually produce.
You mean if you plan things in a publically accessable area on the Internet, other people might read it and plan accordingly?
Are these people really stupid enough to think this would somehow work? I guess for their next act they'll discuss plans to eat & dash at a restraurant by yelling the plans to each other right outside the restraurant front door?
PostgreSQL can be had at a similar price point to MySQL only is better at pretty much everything else.
Welcome to the US patent system: designed for patent trolls and lawyers by bought corrupt politicians.
"Oh sorry, we only hire people who interned for us. You can come work for free for a year and we'll talk about it then. No? Alright. Hey Congress, we can't find any workers! Open up some more visa spots for us!"
It's a uniquely American thing to defend a corrupt and wrong system as the fault of the victim. Probably why the US is going backwards as a world power so quickly.
Where's my -1 (Has no fucking clue what he's talking about) mod when I need it? This is in fact illegal in Canada, and large swaths of Europe.
The US just has some ass-backwards labour standards and people try to explain it away with bullshit like this.
You know that Chrome is actually better then Firefox at a fair bit of stuff, right?
Not to mention that if an enterprise wants to deploy something that isn't IE, Chrome provides some tools to do that while Firefox tells them to screw off. One of these is better for market share then the other.
Because your gaming catalog would still be bringing in the same amount of revenue to them, and people who won't buy triple the number of games would result in less money? And because AAA games are a lot more expensive to make then dinky little iPhone apps?
Yeah, and the most secure server on the planet is the one that's locked in a bunker and not plugged in. Not terribly useful though.
The system you so love because it blocks spammers also acts as an effective barrier for normal communication. It's a PITA that people just don't bother with. Usability matters, and Nintendo doesn't have it.
We actually DO have test cycles with Office updates, because they've been known to break some of our legacy Access/automation apps, which thankfully we're not creating new ones of.
But with IE patch tuesday updates? Nope, because Microsoft is really good about not changing how things work in those whenever possible. They don't randomly stuff breaking changes to the Javascript engine in a security update.