Most of the time what you said is correct. It does make me think of the Disney Maleficent movie from 2014 though. It is pretty much what you said, shown from the "Bad Guy's" perspective and you see they really aren't out to be bad, they are just misunderstood or are angry and acting out. Now that I think about it, there was also the play or musical about the wicked witch from Oz called Wicked that was similar.
One thing about Netflix though, is that they readily fire low performers.
Actually, according to the CEO of Netflix, they fire adequate performers as well. They only want the exceptional. If you are only average you will be let go.
Netflix's theory is that if you want to have incredible employees, you should treat employees like adults. And, you know, they actually put it in terms that is really almost that blunt, and that means giving your employees a lot of freedom, a lot of responsibility. And then if they fail to live up to that trust or if they fail to perform - and not just perform adequately but perform exceptionally - the company says you should get rid of them. So they make a practice of firing people. There's this legendary slide deck that the CEO, Reed Hastings, shared publically about this philosophy. And in one slide, you know, it says, like every company, we try to hire well. Unlike most companies, average performance gets a generous severance package.
The other point is that Netflix has a policy of firing people who do normal/acceptable/average work. On public radio this morning I was listening to them speak about the new policy as well as the unlimited vacation time. Here is the relevant quote.
Netflix's theory is that if you want to have incredible employees, you should treat employees like adults. And, you know, they actually put it in terms that is really almost that blunt, and that means giving your employees a lot of freedom, a lot of responsibility. And then if they fail to live up to that trust or if they fail to perform - and not just perform adequately but perform exceptionally - the company says you should get rid of them. So they make a practice of firing people. There's this legendary slide deck that the CEO, Reed Hastings, shared publically about this philosophy. And in one slide, you know, it says, like every company, we try to hire well. Unlike most companies, average performance gets a generous severance package.
So if you take your vacation, you had better be working through it or you will appear to be less exceptional than the other people there and end up without a job. In the end you will take less, or even no vacation because you need to work your ass off to stay employed with them. Not such a nice policy when viewed from that angle. Looks good in the papers though!
it's probably cheaper to just maintain the temperature rather than start having to cool everything again.
Congrats! That might be the stupidest thing I've ever read on slashdot. If you really believe this to be true you should write a paper describing the new physics that makes it possible!
I'm not sure about the physics of the heat transfer, but the extra wear and tear on the AC system could be a factor. I turned on my AC once the summer got really hot one year and the coils iced over and the entire AC unit stopped working. If I had started it earlier when things were not as hot the AC would not have had to run constantly for 2 days like it did. It would have been able to turn on and off as needed to keep the temperature in the set range. Motors like to cool off between uses. When you run them constantly they tend to heat up and can end up failing. The cost of replacing a motor can wipe out any savings you got from turning off the AC for the weekend.
But if we or another race out in the Universe did collapse the vacuum and destroy the Universe, wouldn't it only be one of the Many Worlds? We would continue to exist in the alternate Universe where the bubble did not form. It would turn out to be like the quantum experiments where they see probabilities of things, but in this case it would always be a probability of 100% not collapsing the vacuum since any World that did collapse would cease to exist and there would be no observers to measure that probability.
Yeah, if you don't have a million bucks to buy that small crappy house, then you are homeless. Makes sense to me that there would be a lot of them in that type of place.
If I saw a sign saying they had a special paint that bounces pee back it would make me want to try it out. I have plenty of curiosity and interest in new technology that hearing about this would have the opposite effect. I bet others out there feel the same way. It would also be interesting to see if there is a way to angle against the wall and have it bounce off further away from you and still not get splash on.
It's like a lot of people in this thread have never gone pee before after drinking a lot of any liquid. You pee before you leave the establishment, then 30 or 40 minutes later you have to pee again. Now all the places are closed and you sure aren't going to just pee yourself. Or maybe you would choose to do that, but it is still public urination and the pee is still on the street either way.
Or perhaps you don't understand how science works. When you find out something about how viruses react to an environment, why can you suddenly claim it does not work the same way with different viruses and another animal. Shouldn't you, you know, actually do a study or something to come to that conclusion?
Actually the numbers would be higher if the doctors stopped discounting all the injuries that come up because it can't possibly be from a vaccine. . . They are completely safe and effective. It is thought that vaccine injuries are under-reported by as much as 90%.
Also, maybe it sucks, but if you have limited research resources, it's more efficient to try and develop a new vaccine to save millions of lives than it is to improve an old one and save dozens.
Or you could just spend more money on your PR and advertising. Like Merck did with the MMR. The Mumps part of the vaccine has been sold to us as being 95% effective. Well it seems they have been lying to the government and the population for a few decades now and it is much closer to 35% effective. Why spend money unwisely when you can control what people believe so easily. And anyone who doubts the effectiveness of a vaccine is labeled an "anti-vaxxer" who should be shot on sight. Yeah, the pro-vaxxers are such GREAT people! It totally makes me want to run out and get more of them just for fun!
Don't forget about how Merck was found to be lying about the effectiveness of the Mumps part of the MMR. It is more like 35% effective. So you can believe the lies if you want. I would rather have the facts and would like to see true scientific studies done on these things. Something like a double blind study, which is not allowed with vaccines since they are assumed to work, so we can't withhold treatment of them for a study. Sounds like circular reasoning to me.
Most vaccines are not 100% effective. You need a certain percentage of the population to be immune for herd immunity to mean that they have little chance of contracting the disease (and, if they do, a good chance of being an isolated statistic rather than the centre of an outbreak). It only takes a few percent opting out of the vaccine to eliminate the herd immunity and make the entire population more vulnerable.
Except it looks like the whole herd immunity thing is a theory without any evidence. In China, where it is mandatory to get vaccinated, they still have massive outbreaks. There are plenty of cases in the U.S. also where the vaccine itself was responsible for the outbreak and 95% of the UNVACCINATED local population went uninfected. It is thought to be unacceptable to do a double blind study with vaccines because they are considered to work. So you can't even prove if these things work because we have assumed they do. Nice scientific method there!
The problem you miss is that of immunocompromised or otherwise medically exempted individuals - namely, people who don't have a choice whether they get vaccinated or not. It's not just a personal choice - if you choose not to get yourself or your kids vaccinated, you are potentially putting my kids at risk by doing so.
Maybe those people should go live in a quarantined compound somewhere.
It's pretty clear that states with more stringent vaccination requirements have higher vaccination rates:
Higher vaccination rates don't mean much. Even places like China, where pretty darn near 100% of the school children are vaccinated still have massive outbreaks of the diseases they vaccinated for. The whole herd immunity thing is a myth and too many people fall for the lies the experts tell everyone.
It's safe. It's effective. This study is only for chickens and has no way of working in humans.
I'm not too worried. The cracked copies are always Enterprise versions. Not that I intend to move to Windows 10 any time in the foreseeable future anyway.
Oh, and don't even tell me about anti-virus. That is just a CPU hog that does not get allowed on my system. If I download a cracked copy of software it will get scanned by an online scanner, but having crap running all the time that slows the PC to sludge and gives false positives when you program something is just right out!
This is probably a big part of the problem. People at home don't have a test system to screw around with. Even if they did, who wants to waste time doing crap like that. If the system is working now and updating it gives a chance of things breaking, don't update it. One woman they interview mentioned how she lost all her contacts in her smart phone when she updated the software. Yeah, I sure as hell would not update that any more. I don't do Microsoft updates either as safe computing gets me all the safety I need until I need to re-install the system due to bloat. Since Windows is only a gaming platform for me at this point, my re-installs are way down from what they used to be back in the XP days. Back then it would only be 12 - 18 months before a complete format and re-install would get things speedy again. I have heard that the bloat issue may not be as bad anymore, but I can't really verify since so few things are installed on it now.
I have also been putting off the update for my Galaxy S5 phone because I want to back everything up before doing it. Plus, when I actually do all the work of backing things up to mess with changing the firmware I am going to put Cyanogenmod on there anyway, so the stupid nagging update nag notice is just in my way. Once Cyanogenmod is there then the stupid update notices will be under my control and can be turned off or let them proceed since they don't screw up like Samsung would be likely to do.
If you can pay attention for one second and try to listen. She has made the threats against herself. YES! I do say that makes her a reprehensible person. There are links to the screenshots of the evidence here as well as other places where she attacked innocent people.
Being neutral that people (mostly women) are being repeatedly doxed is definitely a character flaw. Having strangers call your family or coworkers at 3AM and screaming at them is a pretty clear cut case of abuse.
It is true that you should not support people harassing other or doxxing them. That is why the GG side is the evil side. They have done way more doxxing and harassing than the innocent people who just want to play games. In fact, most of the threats against women were perpetrated by the GG side against themselves so they could have ammo in their cause. Wake up to the facts and do some research yourself!
There is definitely one side to the GG controversy that is intolerant and childish, but it isn't the women game developers.
I would agree it isn't women game developers that are the problem. It is only the GG gang that seems to be causing all the problems!
Unless you started backing the evil side before finding out they were a bunch of Jew killing Nazis. In that case neutrality is better than taking a side.
Actually, the cost of the placebo you are taking can make a difference on how well it works. There are plenty of links on a simple Google search, but here is one.
I also remember seeing two or three differently colored bottles of drugs that had different prices, but were all placebo. Doctors can prescribe these if they feel it would help.
I have a hard time seeing why games like Car Wars and some of your other games should have any difficulty going digital. In fact I am wishing for a Car Wars game to play. Not real time action/arcade, but the turn based one where you can use strategy and car build matters. Why haven't you created something like this yet? I guess I figured you were either already working on it, or you had your reasons not to do it.
P.S. I have plans for a turn based car battle game for Android and would love to partner up. If your interested, email me.
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Most of the time what you said is correct. It does make me think of the Disney Maleficent movie from 2014 though. It is pretty much what you said, shown from the "Bad Guy's" perspective and you see they really aren't out to be bad, they are just misunderstood or are angry and acting out. Now that I think about it, there was also the play or musical about the wicked witch from Oz called Wicked that was similar.
Don't forget the extra pay for being married! There is that also!
One thing about Netflix though, is that they readily fire low performers.
Actually, according to the CEO of Netflix, they fire adequate performers as well. They only want the exceptional. If you are only average you will be let go.
Heard this on the radio this morning.
Netflix's theory is that if you want to have incredible employees, you should treat employees like adults. And, you know, they actually put it in terms that is really almost that blunt, and that means giving your employees a lot of freedom, a lot of responsibility. And then if they fail to live up to that trust or if they fail to perform - and not just perform adequately but perform exceptionally - the company says you should get rid of them. So they make a practice of firing people. There's this legendary slide deck that the CEO, Reed Hastings, shared publically about this philosophy. And in one slide, you know, it says, like every company, we try to hire well. Unlike most companies, average performance gets a generous severance package.
The other point is that Netflix has a policy of firing people who do normal/acceptable/average work. On public radio this morning I was listening to them speak about the new policy as well as the unlimited vacation time. Here is the relevant quote.
Netflix's theory is that if you want to have incredible employees, you should treat employees like adults. And, you know, they actually put it in terms that is really almost that blunt, and that means giving your employees a lot of freedom, a lot of responsibility. And then if they fail to live up to that trust or if they fail to perform - and not just perform adequately but perform exceptionally - the company says you should get rid of them. So they make a practice of firing people. There's this legendary slide deck that the CEO, Reed Hastings, shared publically about this philosophy. And in one slide, you know, it says, like every company, we try to hire well. Unlike most companies, average performance gets a generous severance package.
So if you take your vacation, you had better be working through it or you will appear to be less exceptional than the other people there and end up without a job. In the end you will take less, or even no vacation because you need to work your ass off to stay employed with them. Not such a nice policy when viewed from that angle. Looks good in the papers though!
it's probably cheaper to just maintain the temperature rather than start having to cool everything again. Congrats! That might be the stupidest thing I've ever read on slashdot. If you really believe this to be true you should write a paper describing the new physics that makes it possible!
I'm not sure about the physics of the heat transfer, but the extra wear and tear on the AC system could be a factor. I turned on my AC once the summer got really hot one year and the coils iced over and the entire AC unit stopped working. If I had started it earlier when things were not as hot the AC would not have had to run constantly for 2 days like it did. It would have been able to turn on and off as needed to keep the temperature in the set range. Motors like to cool off between uses. When you run them constantly they tend to heat up and can end up failing. The cost of replacing a motor can wipe out any savings you got from turning off the AC for the weekend.
But if we or another race out in the Universe did collapse the vacuum and destroy the Universe, wouldn't it only be one of the Many Worlds? We would continue to exist in the alternate Universe where the bubble did not form. It would turn out to be like the quantum experiments where they see probabilities of things, but in this case it would always be a probability of 100% not collapsing the vacuum since any World that did collapse would cease to exist and there would be no observers to measure that probability.
Yeah, if you don't have a million bucks to buy that small crappy house, then you are homeless. Makes sense to me that there would be a lot of them in that type of place.
If I saw a sign saying they had a special paint that bounces pee back it would make me want to try it out. I have plenty of curiosity and interest in new technology that hearing about this would have the opposite effect. I bet others out there feel the same way. It would also be interesting to see if there is a way to angle against the wall and have it bounce off further away from you and still not get splash on.
It's like a lot of people in this thread have never gone pee before after drinking a lot of any liquid. You pee before you leave the establishment, then 30 or 40 minutes later you have to pee again. Now all the places are closed and you sure aren't going to just pee yourself. Or maybe you would choose to do that, but it is still public urination and the pee is still on the street either way.
Or perhaps you don't understand how science works. When you find out something about how viruses react to an environment, why can you suddenly claim it does not work the same way with different viruses and another animal. Shouldn't you, you know, actually do a study or something to come to that conclusion?
Actually the numbers would be higher if the doctors stopped discounting all the injuries that come up because it can't possibly be from a vaccine. . . They are completely safe and effective. It is thought that vaccine injuries are under-reported by as much as 90%.
Also, maybe it sucks, but if you have limited research resources, it's more efficient to try and develop a new vaccine to save millions of lives than it is to improve an old one and save dozens.
Or you could just spend more money on your PR and advertising. Like Merck did with the MMR. The Mumps part of the vaccine has been sold to us as being 95% effective. Well it seems they have been lying to the government and the population for a few decades now and it is much closer to 35% effective. Why spend money unwisely when you can control what people believe so easily. And anyone who doubts the effectiveness of a vaccine is labeled an "anti-vaxxer" who should be shot on sight. Yeah, the pro-vaxxers are such GREAT people! It totally makes me want to run out and get more of them just for fun!
Don't forget about how Merck was found to be lying about the effectiveness of the Mumps part of the MMR. It is more like 35% effective. So you can believe the lies if you want. I would rather have the facts and would like to see true scientific studies done on these things. Something like a double blind study, which is not allowed with vaccines since they are assumed to work, so we can't withhold treatment of them for a study. Sounds like circular reasoning to me.
Most vaccines are not 100% effective. You need a certain percentage of the population to be immune for herd immunity to mean that they have little chance of contracting the disease (and, if they do, a good chance of being an isolated statistic rather than the centre of an outbreak). It only takes a few percent opting out of the vaccine to eliminate the herd immunity and make the entire population more vulnerable.
Except it looks like the whole herd immunity thing is a theory without any evidence. In China, where it is mandatory to get vaccinated, they still have massive outbreaks. There are plenty of cases in the U.S. also where the vaccine itself was responsible for the outbreak and 95% of the UNVACCINATED local population went uninfected. It is thought to be unacceptable to do a double blind study with vaccines because they are considered to work. So you can't even prove if these things work because we have assumed they do. Nice scientific method there!
The problem you miss is that of immunocompromised or otherwise medically exempted individuals - namely, people who don't have a choice whether they get vaccinated or not. It's not just a personal choice - if you choose not to get yourself or your kids vaccinated, you are potentially putting my kids at risk by doing so.
Maybe those people should go live in a quarantined compound somewhere.
It's pretty clear that states with more stringent vaccination requirements have higher vaccination rates:
Higher vaccination rates don't mean much. Even places like China, where pretty darn near 100% of the school children are vaccinated still have massive outbreaks of the diseases they vaccinated for. The whole herd immunity thing is a myth and too many people fall for the lies the experts tell everyone.
It's safe. It's effective. This study is only for chickens and has no way of working in humans.
I'm not too worried. The cracked copies are always Enterprise versions. Not that I intend to move to Windows 10 any time in the foreseeable future anyway.
Oh, and don't even tell me about anti-virus. That is just a CPU hog that does not get allowed on my system. If I download a cracked copy of software it will get scanned by an online scanner, but having crap running all the time that slows the PC to sludge and gives false positives when you program something is just right out!
Where are your test systems and test cases?
This is probably a big part of the problem. People at home don't have a test system to screw around with. Even if they did, who wants to waste time doing crap like that. If the system is working now and updating it gives a chance of things breaking, don't update it. One woman they interview mentioned how she lost all her contacts in her smart phone when she updated the software. Yeah, I sure as hell would not update that any more. I don't do Microsoft updates either as safe computing gets me all the safety I need until I need to re-install the system due to bloat. Since Windows is only a gaming platform for me at this point, my re-installs are way down from what they used to be back in the XP days. Back then it would only be 12 - 18 months before a complete format and re-install would get things speedy again. I have heard that the bloat issue may not be as bad anymore, but I can't really verify since so few things are installed on it now.
I have also been putting off the update for my Galaxy S5 phone because I want to back everything up before doing it. Plus, when I actually do all the work of backing things up to mess with changing the firmware I am going to put Cyanogenmod on there anyway, so the stupid nagging update nag notice is just in my way. Once Cyanogenmod is there then the stupid update notices will be under my control and can be turned off or let them proceed since they don't screw up like Samsung would be likely to do.
If you can pay attention for one second and try to listen. She has made the threats against herself. YES! I do say that makes her a reprehensible person. There are links to the screenshots of the evidence here as well as other places where she attacked innocent people.
My point was that her side is the Nazis and is saying we are wrong if we don't support her. Fuck that!
Being neutral that people (mostly women) are being repeatedly doxed is definitely a character flaw. Having strangers call your family or coworkers at 3AM and screaming at them is a pretty clear cut case of abuse.
It is true that you should not support people harassing other or doxxing them. That is why the GG side is the evil side. They have done way more doxxing and harassing than the innocent people who just want to play games. In fact, most of the threats against women were perpetrated by the GG side against themselves so they could have ammo in their cause. Wake up to the facts and do some research yourself!
There is definitely one side to the GG controversy that is intolerant and childish, but it isn't the women game developers.
I would agree it isn't women game developers that are the problem. It is only the GG gang that seems to be causing all the problems!
Unless you started backing the evil side before finding out they were a bunch of Jew killing Nazis. In that case neutrality is better than taking a side.
Actually, the cost of the placebo you are taking can make a difference on how well it works. There are plenty of links on a simple Google search, but here is one.
I also remember seeing two or three differently colored bottles of drugs that had different prices, but were all placebo. Doctors can prescribe these if they feel it would help.
I have a hard time seeing why games like Car Wars and some of your other games should have any difficulty going digital. In fact I am wishing for a Car Wars game to play. Not real time action/arcade, but the turn based one where you can use strategy and car build matters. Why haven't you created something like this yet? I guess I figured you were either already working on it, or you had your reasons not to do it.
P.S. I have plans for a turn based car battle game for Android and would love to partner up. If your interested, email me.