Prior to release, concerning the game's backlash re: historical accuracy with so much inclusivity, from Wikipedia, "EA chief creative officer Patrick SÃderlund said the developer was uninterested in taking flak for diversifying the gaming space. "We stand up for the cause, because I think those people who don't understand it, well, you have two choices: either accept it or don't buy the game," he said."
From this Slashdot post's summary at the end, "It seems that with Battlefield 5, EA -- not a company known for listening to its customers -- finally hit a brick wall, in the form of many Battlefield fans simply not buying or playing Battlefield 5."
I feel the biggest mistakes the media companies make is they don't realize that the small groups they're catering to are the most toxic people around, a group who condescend on their arrogant high horse towards (former) fans that outnumber them yet they reduce that larger group to a small handful because they perceive this noisy bunch as the actual fan base.
"I'm sorry but this doesn't seem realistic..."
- "STFU you're playing a video game you racist homophobe, of course it's not realistic. Clearly this game isn't for you!"
"... yea, I guess you're right". I've literally seen this play out on various forums.
Moving forward this toxicity is attributed to the brand and people will reject it for something else. Half the 'hate' directed at Ghostbusters had to do with the production team, the actors, and the minority of SJWs who directed vitriol at the actual fans of Ghostbusters. I loved the original Ghostbusters back in the 80's when I saw them both in theatres (even that second stinker), but the latest one I wouldn't even bother with on Netflix because of all that negativity. For better or for worse, the brand is soiled.
I have yet to see a single physical retailer turn down cash.
Yea, I clicked on the comments to write something along the same lines 'cause I pretty much only use cash for purchases and I've never had any issues anywhere in Canada, US, or Europe in my travels. At the start of every week I put $100 in my wallet or refresh it if it's low which keeps me in line at the grocers and all that.
At the end you wrote, "Unlike Amazon, Google did not pursue tax breaks or other incentives from New York."; Why? Amazon brought 25,000 employees to New York with a $5 billion dollar investment while Google br... no, wait, Google already has 7,000 employees in New York and said they'll double the headcount over the next 10 years. So, considering that the scenarios are not the same, why the comparison?
I hit Pause or 'Freeze' to literally pause or freeze the video that's playing, not to have it stop playing what I was watching to start playing something else. Either I want quiet to talk to whoever just walked into the room or is shouting at me from another room, or maybe the phone is ringing and I need to take a call, or maybe I want to freeze frame what I'm looking at to admire the greatest rack I've seen in a long time. Sometimes I just want things to stop to focus on something else with no distraction, maybe a game I'm playing on a tablet, who knows. Whatever the case may be, Hulu and AT&T have decided to undermine a classic viewing function and replace it with their profits and that doesn't sit well with me at all.
Wrong on all counts. The Mac Mini 2018 hasn't changed the chassis size since 2014 and measures in at 19.7cm wide while the Intel NUC is only 11cm wide. Common Intel NUC's, including mine, come stock with an Intel 760p NVMe SSD. Show me a single benchmark speed test that tests both drives with the same testing software with the same parameters. Hint: You won't find any because they haven't been done yet, all we know is it has a Toshiba SSD but what brand? If it's the XG5 the I/O will be similar to the Intel, slightly slower write and slightly slower read.
I'm curious about this 'run of the mill 12 year old amd64 desktop PC'...? At our company we use FreeBSD and OpenBSD for a number of secure server services and many of us run it on desktops to interact with those systems and we've never had a system it wouldn't install on with the vanilla kernel. A lot of people use pfSense on plenty of hardware configurations and the issues typically stem from oddball or cutting edge new hardware products.
Hmm I really have to scratch my brain on this one... I do recall 'moonlighting' as a term but I don't think it was popular outside of the TV show and people seemed to use it more to describe a night time job they didn't want others to know about like working at a gas station or fast food. I think "side job" was popular back then too but more connoted to a job that might at some point surpass one's primary job. Or maybe not...? Some people did say 'night job' too. Heck, now that I think of it maybe no one actually said "part time job" back then and that was more of a late 90's / 2000's term.
Non-millennial requiring a bit of an education here: for the past couple years I've been hearing younger people in their 20's and early 30's refer to a part time job as a 'side hustle'; Why the name change? Or is it not a name change and they've simply given a term for a job that isn't receiving the same participation level, the same effort as a part time job would? When I think of 'side hustle' I think of some dude dealing adirol on the side for some extra cash.
Or perhaps it's the same thing but millennials renamed it so they weren't hysterically laughed at for referring to this era as the "era of the part time job", something everyone seemed to have back in the 80's after their day job.
Initially I was excited to hear that Microsoft was finally acknowledging their search engine was absolute garbage... until I continued reading to discover they plan to make it even worse.
lol - https://gadgets.ndtv.com/lapto... - "HP Leads Global Laptop Market, Apple Takes Fourth Place" I think you meant Apple, not HP.
https://www.notebookcheck.net/... - "Market intelligence provider IDC has released a report detailing the state of the worldwide traditional PC market for the first quarter of 2018 (1Q18). According to the data, both Dell and HP have seen increases in market share in comparison to the first quarter of 2017 (1Q17).
Gramps? Why do you assume he's old? Because he has the motivation to take equipment apart and repair it? I realize millennials get a bad rap for their lack of motivation, work ethic, and self-repair but I hear good things about Generation Z so it's possible he's a young one with a parent that owns a brand new HP ProBook, HP EliteBook, or similar brand / series of notebook which doesn't follow Apple's 'let's solder everything on board and charge $700 to replace a solid state drive because it's soldered onto the mainboard".
Back when I co-owned an IT service business our most prominent calls were residential calls resolving issues created by Google enabling scammers to bilk elderly people out of money who were searching for support for D-Link support, Microsoft support, Apple support, etc., etc.. You name it, there's a fake support site for it.
Every few months I would feedback Google's scam ads and they never did anything about them. Why? Because Googling has happily and knowingly enabling scam artists.
We had one senior on a fixed income that was "Paying Microsoft" $500 a month because she used Google to find them to help her with an email problem and they alleged she needed to pay them to keep her computer safe from viruses. Sickening. I don't know why Google wasn't hanged for this behaviour ages ago, the first time they said they were going to fix this problem. I'm sure I commented on a number of these same articles in the past on Slashdot.
My question is, why is/. reporting on this irrelevant idiocy?
This is msmash's MO, post about first world millennial issues, SJWism, UBB, feminism, etc., things that have no or minimal relation to tech with little to no quality assurance. Typically when you see a vacuous Slashdot post, msmash is responsible.
I recall reading about this topic roughly 20 years ago in an issue of National Geographic except then it was reported as a natural occurrence rather than man made climate change. They were noting temperature changes as far back as the 70's and speculated that the warm air that produced what felt like unnatural weather would shift to a different area of Europe at some point.
Being an early bird is not a moral virtue. Different people have different circadian rhythms. If yours is naturally less than or about 24 hours, you'll find it easy to get up early, and fatiguing to stay up late. If yours is naturally, say, 25 hours, you'll find the reverse.
No, it's not a moral virtue. It's typically an adult job requirement.
But I feel you also missed my point, it's also a matter of choice. Considering that the circadian rhythm of humans isn't dictated by time zones, a person can choose to adjust work habits to 'reset' their circadian rhythm to match a responsible pattern that's inline with a standard work day. If a person can't be creative during a standard work day, an intelligent employer would simply seek out an employee that can be creative during the standard work day.
Look at it from the point of view of an (intelligent) employer. Unless I need you at specific times to cover a shift, why would I not want you to be working when you're most productive?
Looking at it from the point of view of an (intelligent) employer, I would want to hire employees that were most productive during regular work hours.
Sure, it takes a few years to shake off the juvenile need to sleep in after years of staying up late partying, or gaming, or binge watching TV shows, but at some point you become an adult with a family and you want to be in sync with the rest of the world. I'm now at the age where I've been alive longer in sync with circadian rhythm than the amount of years I've been out of sync, and I expect to be around for more years in sync with circadian rhythm. With that being said I expect that the majority of adults are biologically in tune with each other which is why most work environments I've been to have productivity peaks amongst most employees at the same time (mid morning and a half hour after lunch).
20 years ago we did not need netflix subscriptions and amazon prime and an apple Id just to watch movies
... no, we went to Jumbo Video here in Canada to pay $4.99 for a movie rental and maybe if we were lucky we could get three for $10. So basically one family movie night cost the same as a Netflix subscription cost today.
Oh, look, it's a member of the overdramatic SJW brigade! Pretty sure that I've never written cisgender within the comments of a Slashdot story and as such your opinion is rendered invalid. Furthermore you may want to consider that my comment was a sardonic tongue in cheek jab at those involved in this 'community internet network'.
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So some anonymous misogynists threatened to kill me. Click these links to learn more!
Prior to release, concerning the game's backlash re: historical accuracy with so much inclusivity, from Wikipedia, "EA chief creative officer Patrick SÃderlund said the developer was uninterested in taking flak for diversifying the gaming space. "We stand up for the cause, because I think those people who don't understand it, well, you have two choices: either accept it or don't buy the game," he said."
... maybe now EA will start listening?
From this Slashdot post's summary at the end, "It seems that with Battlefield 5, EA -- not a company known for listening to its customers -- finally hit a brick wall, in the form of many Battlefield fans simply not buying or playing Battlefield 5."
I feel the biggest mistakes the media companies make is they don't realize that the small groups they're catering to are the most toxic people around, a group who condescend on their arrogant high horse towards (former) fans that outnumber them yet they reduce that larger group to a small handful because they perceive this noisy bunch as the actual fan base.
"I'm sorry but this doesn't seem realistic..."
- "STFU you're playing a video game you racist homophobe, of course it's not realistic. Clearly this game isn't for you!"
"... yea, I guess you're right". I've literally seen this play out on various forums.
Moving forward this toxicity is attributed to the brand and people will reject it for something else. Half the 'hate' directed at Ghostbusters had to do with the production team, the actors, and the minority of SJWs who directed vitriol at the actual fans of Ghostbusters. I loved the original Ghostbusters back in the 80's when I saw them both in theatres (even that second stinker), but the latest one I wouldn't even bother with on Netflix because of all that negativity. For better or for worse, the brand is soiled.
I have yet to see a single physical retailer turn down cash.
Yea, I clicked on the comments to write something along the same lines 'cause I pretty much only use cash for purchases and I've never had any issues anywhere in Canada, US, or Europe in my travels. At the start of every week I put $100 in my wallet or refresh it if it's low which keeps me in line at the grocers and all that.
At the end you wrote, "Unlike Amazon, Google did not pursue tax breaks or other incentives from New York."; Why? Amazon brought 25,000 employees to New York with a $5 billion dollar investment while Google br... no, wait, Google already has 7,000 employees in New York and said they'll double the headcount over the next 10 years. So, considering that the scenarios are not the same, why the comparison?
I hit Pause or 'Freeze' to literally pause or freeze the video that's playing, not to have it stop playing what I was watching to start playing something else. Either I want quiet to talk to whoever just walked into the room or is shouting at me from another room, or maybe the phone is ringing and I need to take a call, or maybe I want to freeze frame what I'm looking at to admire the greatest rack I've seen in a long time. Sometimes I just want things to stop to focus on something else with no distraction, maybe a game I'm playing on a tablet, who knows. Whatever the case may be, Hulu and AT&T have decided to undermine a classic viewing function and replace it with their profits and that doesn't sit well with me at all.
Wrong on all counts. The Mac Mini 2018 hasn't changed the chassis size since 2014 and measures in at 19.7cm wide while the Intel NUC is only 11cm wide. Common Intel NUC's, including mine, come stock with an Intel 760p NVMe SSD. Show me a single benchmark speed test that tests both drives with the same testing software with the same parameters. Hint: You won't find any because they haven't been done yet, all we know is it has a Toshiba SSD but what brand? If it's the XG5 the I/O will be similar to the Intel, slightly slower write and slightly slower read.
I get it, I see the name, you're an Apple fanboy.
An Intel NUC is smaller, faster, and the SSD is replaceable or upgradeable. I have one with a 1tb SATA SSD and a 256GB M.2 SSD.
I'm curious about this 'run of the mill 12 year old amd64 desktop PC'...? At our company we use FreeBSD and OpenBSD for a number of secure server services and many of us run it on desktops to interact with those systems and we've never had a system it wouldn't install on with the vanilla kernel. A lot of people use pfSense on plenty of hardware configurations and the issues typically stem from oddball or cutting edge new hardware products.
Hmm I really have to scratch my brain on this one... I do recall 'moonlighting' as a term but I don't think it was popular outside of the TV show and people seemed to use it more to describe a night time job they didn't want others to know about like working at a gas station or fast food. I think "side job" was popular back then too but more connoted to a job that might at some point surpass one's primary job. Or maybe not...? Some people did say 'night job' too. Heck, now that I think of it maybe no one actually said "part time job" back then and that was more of a late 90's / 2000's term.
Non-millennial requiring a bit of an education here: for the past couple years I've been hearing younger people in their 20's and early 30's refer to a part time job as a 'side hustle'; Why the name change? Or is it not a name change and they've simply given a term for a job that isn't receiving the same participation level, the same effort as a part time job would? When I think of 'side hustle' I think of some dude dealing adirol on the side for some extra cash.
Or perhaps it's the same thing but millennials renamed it so they weren't hysterically laughed at for referring to this era as the "era of the part time job", something everyone seemed to have back in the 80's after their day job.
Initially I was excited to hear that Microsoft was finally acknowledging their search engine was absolute garbage... until I continued reading to discover they plan to make it even worse.
lol - https://gadgets.ndtv.com/lapto... - " HP Leads Global Laptop Market, Apple Takes Fourth Place" I think you meant Apple, not HP.
https://www.notebookcheck.net/... - "Market intelligence provider IDC has released a report detailing the state of the worldwide traditional PC market for the first quarter of 2018 (1Q18). According to the data, both Dell and HP have seen increases in market share in comparison to the first quarter of 2017 (1Q17).
Gramps? Why do you assume he's old? Because he has the motivation to take equipment apart and repair it? I realize millennials get a bad rap for their lack of motivation, work ethic, and self-repair but I hear good things about Generation Z so it's possible he's a young one with a parent that owns a brand new HP ProBook, HP EliteBook, or similar brand / series of notebook which doesn't follow Apple's 'let's solder everything on board and charge $700 to replace a solid state drive because it's soldered onto the mainboard".
Back when I co-owned an IT service business our most prominent calls were residential calls resolving issues created by Google enabling scammers to bilk elderly people out of money who were searching for support for D-Link support, Microsoft support, Apple support, etc., etc.. You name it, there's a fake support site for it.
Every few months I would feedback Google's scam ads and they never did anything about them. Why? Because Googling has happily and knowingly enabling scam artists.
We had one senior on a fixed income that was "Paying Microsoft" $500 a month because she used Google to find them to help her with an email problem and they alleged she needed to pay them to keep her computer safe from viruses. Sickening. I don't know why Google wasn't hanged for this behaviour ages ago, the first time they said they were going to fix this problem. I'm sure I commented on a number of these same articles in the past on Slashdot.
My question is, why is /. reporting on this irrelevant idiocy?
This is msmash's MO, post about first world millennial issues, SJWism, UBB, feminism, etc., things that have no or minimal relation to tech with little to no quality assurance. Typically when you see a vacuous Slashdot post, msmash is responsible.
It's not an acceptable compromise for those buying the vehicles, I certainly wouldn't want a nagging vehicle when I already have a wife.
One person linking to an explanation with a brief summary makes sense, similar to informative posts by other posters.
I recall reading about this topic roughly 20 years ago in an issue of National Geographic except then it was reported as a natural occurrence rather than man made climate change. They were noting temperature changes as far back as the 70's and speculated that the warm air that produced what felt like unnatural weather would shift to a different area of Europe at some point.
Being an early bird is not a moral virtue. Different people have different circadian rhythms. If yours is naturally less than or about 24 hours, you'll find it easy to get up early, and fatiguing to stay up late. If yours is naturally, say, 25 hours, you'll find the reverse.
No, it's not a moral virtue. It's typically an adult job requirement.
But I feel you also missed my point, it's also a matter of choice. Considering that the circadian rhythm of humans isn't dictated by time zones, a person can choose to adjust work habits to 'reset' their circadian rhythm to match a responsible pattern that's inline with a standard work day. If a person can't be creative during a standard work day, an intelligent employer would simply seek out an employee that can be creative during the standard work day.
Look at it from the point of view of an (intelligent) employer. Unless I need you at specific times to cover a shift, why would I not want you to be working when you're most productive?
Looking at it from the point of view of an (intelligent) employer, I would want to hire employees that were most productive during regular work hours.
Sure, it takes a few years to shake off the juvenile need to sleep in after years of staying up late partying, or gaming, or binge watching TV shows, but at some point you become an adult with a family and you want to be in sync with the rest of the world. I'm now at the age where I've been alive longer in sync with circadian rhythm than the amount of years I've been out of sync, and I expect to be around for more years in sync with circadian rhythm. With that being said I expect that the majority of adults are biologically in tune with each other which is why most work environments I've been to have productivity peaks amongst most employees at the same time (mid morning and a half hour after lunch).
20 years ago we did not need netflix subscriptions and amazon prime and an apple Id just to watch movies
... no, we went to Jumbo Video here in Canada to pay $4.99 for a movie rental and maybe if we were lucky we could get three for $10. So basically one family movie night cost the same as a Netflix subscription cost today.
Indeed. I feel like i'm the only person who's ever effectively utilized it in enterprise IT. And password protected it.
Oh, look, it's a member of the overdramatic SJW brigade! Pretty sure that I've never written cisgender within the comments of a Slashdot story and as such your opinion is rendered invalid. Furthermore you may want to consider that my comment was a sardonic tongue in cheek jab at those involved in this 'community internet network'.
If you're a cisgender white male you are probably disqualified. Anything pro-Trump will probably be blocked as well, which isn't hypocritical because