Taking builk testing responsibilities off developers so they can work on more important stuff.
More.. important.. stuff, than making sure their code works?
I mean, I guess "a developer" is someone who "writes code" regardless if it works well, or at all? By that reasoning, "a thousands monkeys on a thousand keyboards" is the gold standard for programming excellence?
About as well as you would expect. I'd imagine the percentage of people that CONSIDERED the Zune, at some point, for more than 2 seconds was probably closer to 80%. Even the act of consciously deciding not to do something is an act of consideration, so lower the temporal threshold and you approach 100% of respondents.
Frame the universe in your question, and you get only your universe in the answer.
Don't trust Google and Facebook with your personal information! Store it with Anonymous instead!
Let's be fair, here. Given how lax corporations have become with the data that represents "us", I figure signing up to Anon-plus is.. well.. just cutting out the middle man.
I found this guy on youtube, rather amazing! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNjWecipbTA He plays COD WAW, and is pretty good at the zombie levels. He cannot move and aim at the same time, but he manages to get pretty far.
I sit on my ass in utter awe. And here I was getting annoyed at the driving scenes in L.A. Noire..... wow.
As a gamer who has a mild neurological condition that limits fine motor control in one of my hands... and have become increasingly annoyed at the complexity of controllers and control schemes (the shoulder buttons on a dualshock controller are particularly hard to reliably control)...
I both salute this man, and I wonder what kinds of games one can actually play with such a controller... the amount of reflexes and reaction time required to play most (90%?) of the games, seems like it would be beyond what you could convey through one of these devices in a useful amount of time..
In the end I bought $100 worth of plants. If I didn't have my smart phone, then I wouldn't have bought anything.
No, no no no no. You, sir, are doing it "wrong". You walk into the store, look around a bit.. "I like this and this and this, but I have a cat", you say to the well informed sales person. They helpfully tell you that the second one will kill your cat with a single glance. You purchase a number of items, with the assistance of the helpfully trained staff.
It is not our responsibility to do the salesman's job for them. Likewise, I refuse to use those damned "self check out" things.
FUD. MSN Messenger has always used a password authentication to access Hotmail, (some of the early versions put it in plaintext on the local webpage that is ran), but that was fixed, its no longer clear.
So.. I hate to say it, but this "typical of Microsoft" thing is only in your mind, this time.
(Note: at various times yesterday during Hotmail's patching periods, any attempts to read your mail @ Hotmail via MSN Messenger failed, with 403 as the result. However, that hasn't been the case for well over 12 hours now)
Not meaning to piss anyone off.. but this probably isn't the best thread (Blizzard being blocked) to be calling for censorship, reguardless if they "love Microsoft" or not. The caps, yes, the opinion, no.
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Taking builk testing responsibilities off developers so they can work on more important stuff.
More.. important.. stuff, than making sure their code works?
I mean, I guess "a developer" is someone who "writes code" regardless if it works well, or at all? By that reasoning, "a thousands monkeys on a thousand keyboards" is the gold standard for programming excellence?
I can understand the motivation for a content producer to "protect" their "property"... (This is their logic, not mine.)
I'm just having a hard time figuring out what a cosmetics company, or a shoe company, give two shits about this.
Is it really just to force negative press / reviews offline? Does SOPA even give that power?
If not that, then... why throw money at it?
(Nike and Ford both make software.. so.. MAYBE.... BUT.. Estee Lauder? I'm pretty sure they don't...)
About as well as you would expect. I'd imagine the percentage of people that CONSIDERED the Zune, at some point, for more than 2 seconds was probably closer to 80%. Even the act of consciously deciding not to do something is an act of consideration, so lower the temporal threshold and you approach 100% of respondents.
Frame the universe in your question, and you get only your universe in the answer.
Don't trust Google and Facebook with your personal information! Store it with Anonymous instead!
Let's be fair, here. Given how lax corporations have become with the data that represents "us", I figure signing up to Anon-plus is.. well.. just cutting out the middle man.
I found this guy on youtube, rather amazing! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNjWecipbTA He plays COD WAW, and is pretty good at the zombie levels. He cannot move and aim at the same time, but he manages to get pretty far.
I sit on my ass in utter awe. And here I was getting annoyed at the driving scenes in L.A. Noire. .... wow.
As a gamer who has a mild neurological condition that limits fine motor control in one of my hands... and have become increasingly annoyed at the complexity of controllers and control schemes (the shoulder buttons on a dualshock controller are particularly hard to reliably control)...
I both salute this man, and I wonder what kinds of games one can actually play with such a controller... the amount of reflexes and reaction time required to play most (90%?) of the games, seems like it would be beyond what you could convey through one of these devices in a useful amount of time..
Maybe the kid is a Stallmanite, and refused to trust his data to the cloud....
Seriously... how much more science does the general populace need, anyway?
And I'm talking the new mythbusters aka "blow'd up", not the actual quasi-interesting stuff they used to do.
In the end I bought $100 worth of plants. If I didn't have my smart phone, then I wouldn't have bought anything.
No, no no no no. You, sir, are doing it "wrong". You walk into the store, look around a bit.. "I like this and this and this, but I have a cat", you say to the well informed sales person. They helpfully tell you that the second one will kill your cat with a single glance. You purchase a number of items, with the assistance of the helpfully trained staff.
It is not our responsibility to do the salesman's job for them. Likewise, I refuse to use those damned "self check out" things.
FUD. MSN Messenger has always used a password authentication to access Hotmail, (some of the early versions put it in plaintext on the local webpage that is ran), but that was fixed, its no longer clear.
So.. I hate to say it, but this "typical of Microsoft" thing is only in your mind, this time.
(Note: at various times yesterday during Hotmail's patching periods, any attempts to read your mail @ Hotmail via MSN Messenger failed, with 403 as the result. However, that hasn't been the case for well over 12 hours now)
Not meaning to piss anyone off.. but this probably isn't the best thread (Blizzard being blocked) to be calling for censorship, reguardless if they "love Microsoft" or not. The caps, yes, the opinion, no.