- Many of these people "weren't productive,"
- A lot of people hid. There were all these employees [working remotely] and nobody knew they were still at Yahoo.
You do have to wonder how you could 'loose track' of your employees in this day and age...
And I have to wonder how people still can't tell the difference between "lose" and "loose" in this day and age...
I think you may be confusing Romero's NotLD with Boris Sagal's "The Omega Man" (1971) starring Charlton Heston. Omega was definitely based on Matheson's "I am Legend".
I would pay cash money to see a duck playing Dance Central. Normal or otherwise. (preferably otherwise).
No "whoosh" please. I get it. I just like ducks.
What are you, the fucking speech police or something? I think its pretty goddamned cute when making a point regarding political corruption and power run amok that you deem it vital to your point to correct someones fucking speech with that inane "Fixed That For Ya" drivel. Here's a hint, kiddo; It does not make you appear to be any more intelligent nor does it make you look witty or erudite, no, you come off like a fucking douchebag tool when you do shit like that, and I know for a fact you would not do the same thing in the context of a public debate, for almost certainly you would be either ridiculed or pummeled to the fucking ground.
There ought to be an Internet License.
Anger management therapy. Seriously. Look into it.
Which, given the industry's propensity to run once-great franchises straight into the ground as quickly as possible, probably means less than a year from now.
Well if that happens then they blame the pirates for lost sales, which is the current way game companies deal with poor sales.
Piracy rates are can be tracked. They'll know, to within a moderately narrow margin of error, how many copies were pirated, and they'll know exactly how many were sold. Both numbers will have been estimated prior to launch by the bean counters.
If the game fails to reach its sales quota, but is pirated more extensively than anticipated, what that tells them is that even more extreme anti-piracy measures are needed. The difference between sales figures and sales projections will be treated as "lost sales", with the blame placed on the rising piracy figures.
If the game tanks, and the piracy rates are no higher than expected, that sends a different message. It tells them that the piracy rates aren't to blame for the "lost sales" - customer boycotts are.
The only way to kill DRM in the long run is to convince the people making the decisions that it's costing them more money than it's worth. Don't buy or pirate Ubisoft's crap. Don't give them money or mindshare. Write them off as a loss, and buy games from publishers who don't treat their paying customers this way. Either they'll learn to do better, or the publishers who don't saddle their games with this crap will out-compete the ones who do in the long haul.
Even if they could determine how many copies were pirated, an illicit download does not necessarily equal a lost sale. Some of those downloads for sure could have been sales, but in my experience (and that of the malcontents I sometimes call my friends), many people download the game, play it for 20 minutes, decide it's not for them, uninstall, delete and move on. On the other hand, there are also those that download it, play it for 20 minutes, decide that yes, they like it, and then purchase it. It's not black and white.
Not banned yet, but there are restrictions on LiPo batteries on commercial aircraft. I don't have a citation handy, but I fly R/C aircraft that use LiPos and have to ship most of them to my destination if I am planning on taking my R/C stuff with me.
I fly R/C helicopters and there is no limit to the inverted flight characteristics of a collective-pitch R/C heli. If you've got the skill, you can hover and fly it inverted all day long -- same as normal. level flight. (and yes, it is cool)
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Not at all. Read this: http://www.businessinsider.com/why-marissa-mayer-told-remote-employees-to-work-in-an-office--or-quit-2013-2
- Many of these people "weren't productive," - A lot of people hid. There were all these employees [working remotely] and nobody knew they were still at Yahoo.
You do have to wonder how you could 'loose track' of your employees in this day and age...
And I have to wonder how people still can't tell the difference between "lose" and "loose" in this day and age...
I think you may be confusing Romero's NotLD with Boris Sagal's "The Omega Man" (1971) starring Charlton Heston. Omega was definitely based on Matheson's "I am Legend".
I would pay cash money to see a duck playing Dance Central. Normal or otherwise. (preferably otherwise). No "whoosh" please. I get it. I just like ducks.
Sorry. Guess my attempt at grammar humor was too subtle. (I am not gifted).
We really need a way to teach the gifted children in a different manor than the dumb ones who need it repeated twenty times.
I don't think the gifted children would care whether they were taught in a different manor, or in a regular school building with all the other kids.
"Women are like canaries in coal mines."
If I find them passed out or dead around the office, I'll be sure to evacuate!
Meh. I'd hit that. (too much?)
What are you, the fucking speech police or something? I think its pretty goddamned cute when making a point regarding political corruption and power run amok that you deem it vital to your point to correct someones fucking speech with that inane "Fixed That For Ya" drivel. Here's a hint, kiddo; It does not make you appear to be any more intelligent nor does it make you look witty or erudite, no, you come off like a fucking douchebag tool when you do shit like that, and I know for a fact you would not do the same thing in the context of a public debate, for almost certainly you would be either ridiculed or pummeled to the fucking ground.
There ought to be an Internet License.
Anger management therapy. Seriously. Look into it.
Which, given the industry's propensity to run once-great franchises straight into the ground as quickly as possible, probably means less than a year from now.
Well if that happens then they blame the pirates for lost sales, which is the current way game companies deal with poor sales.
Piracy rates are can be tracked. They'll know, to within a moderately narrow margin of error, how many copies were pirated, and they'll know exactly how many were sold. Both numbers will have been estimated prior to launch by the bean counters.
If the game fails to reach its sales quota, but is pirated more extensively than anticipated, what that tells them is that even more extreme anti-piracy measures are needed. The difference between sales figures and sales projections will be treated as "lost sales", with the blame placed on the rising piracy figures.
If the game tanks, and the piracy rates are no higher than expected, that sends a different message. It tells them that the piracy rates aren't to blame for the "lost sales" - customer boycotts are.
The only way to kill DRM in the long run is to convince the people making the decisions that it's costing them more money than it's worth. Don't buy or pirate Ubisoft's crap. Don't give them money or mindshare. Write them off as a loss, and buy games from publishers who don't treat their paying customers this way. Either they'll learn to do better, or the publishers who don't saddle their games with this crap will out-compete the ones who do in the long haul.
Even if they could determine how many copies were pirated, an illicit download does not necessarily equal a lost sale. Some of those downloads for sure could have been sales, but in my experience (and that of the malcontents I sometimes call my friends), many people download the game, play it for 20 minutes, decide it's not for them, uninstall, delete and move on. On the other hand, there are also those that download it, play it for 20 minutes, decide that yes, they like it, and then purchase it. It's not black and white.
Or the Palistinians. If they can weaponize this technology, they may have a whole new way to hurl rocks at Israelis.
Not banned yet, but there are restrictions on LiPo batteries on commercial aircraft. I don't have a citation handy, but I fly R/C aircraft that use LiPos and have to ship most of them to my destination if I am planning on taking my R/C stuff with me.
right after BlizzCon.
He's not the guitarist he was before going throgh the plate glass window, but he's not all that bad, either.
Holy crap -- you actually know someone who was defenestrated?? (sorry, but I am *always* looking for an excuse to use that word)
MARGE Homer quiet. Acquire the deal.
Pedant alert... Marge: Homer quiet! You'll queer the deal.
I heard they were going to do that, but they couldn't get Rosanne Barr to play the lead roll.
I doubt seriously she'd be able to play the lead roll very long before eating it.
Annoying ad pop-up or Death by PowerPoint? Nope. Can't decide.
He was referring to this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P-38_can_opener You may whoosh me as you see fit.
limited upside-down flight, etc.
I fly R/C helicopters and there is no limit to the inverted flight characteristics of a collective-pitch R/C heli. If you've got the skill, you can hover and fly it inverted all day long -- same as normal. level flight. (and yes, it is cool)
A weather balloon IS an Unmanned Ariel Vehicle.
Just Ariel, or can Sebastian use it too? Also, will it work above the sea?
Now you're doing it on purpose.
New Mexico: Cleaner than real Mexico.
Long live Netware!