...and the second was the removal of Brandon Eich because he held a non-progressive belief.
Why can't people that support Eich be honest about what it was that happened? He didn't get ousted for a bumper sticker on his car. Instead he used his wealth to support an ad-campaign that succeeded in suppressing the rights of up to 10% of the workers in his company. In fact we heard about this FROM HIS EMPLOYEES. He succeeded in turning the public against Mozilla. His actions didn't align with the stated goals of the organization, so... what... were they expected to fight his battle for him?
Like or hate Eich's departure as CEO, don't overplay Mozilla's responsibilities to your personal view on the matter if you're going to underplay his role in firing a shot that struck his own employees.
This time, though, it occurred to me that someone probably wrote in to complain that the power plant was normally in a completely different part of town, no doubt adding "I really hope somebody got fired for that blunder."
Nobody has actually complained* about that because... wait for it... that episode was really good. In fact there is a special reason why they got away with that particular gag: If they had shown you an accurate portrayal of Homer's drive to work it would have taken much longer than the window of time available to make that joke funny. In other words, they didn't show you that Homer lives next door to the power plant, they just showed you that his time was wasted in a visual way.
I'm not saying you don't need to pay attention to continuity. In fact, I can tell you a simple way to avoid a good deal of continuity issues: Avoid declaring anything about a character that isn't important to the plot. Dave Lister, for example, has had his appendix out twice. They used it early on as a gag because they needed a life event that can only happen once. The second time it was to show off that a new character had benevolent intentions towards them. Did it make sense to use it the first time? Yes. The second time... Um, no, they ended up locking him into a detail for just a throwaway gag. They did, however, establish he was an orphan and that was so important that it rang several times through the entire run of the series. You won't find any lines about him knowing his biological parents** for exactly that reason. Don't say your character has a brother or sister if you never intend to meet them or at least write them in again. We hear about Rimmer's brothers all the time, for example, but have no idea if Kochanski or the Cat are only-childs. Etc. We know about Rimmer's brothers because their treatment of him as a kid has had consequences on his character. It's built in to his character that his brothers tormented him, were smarter and more successful than him, and that they were more loved by his parents than he was. Because of this nobody is going to write a Red Dwarf script where Rimmer is an only child.
That said, don't worry so much about continuity. Make your story work. If you start hearing nitpicks about your character being left-handed instead of right-handed in one episode, it's not because continuity is such an ugly sin, it's because your story isn't entertaining and the nitpicks start becoming a lot more observable.
Oh... that and assholes like me look for problems like that just so we can point them out in order to look smarter. Don't worry about us, though, we paid for the DVD's and/or books because we wanted to go overboard researching it.;)
* Not one person saw that and said "I won't watch that show anymore."
** Yes, I know there's a problem with that statement, no I don't want to go into it.
You're right. XKCD was great until it started showing up on mainstream sites, now it's not 'hard' enough. "I liked it back when it was underground." And so on.
There's lots of high quality, popular stuff. xkcd isn't.
"... but I won't go into detail about what that is, mainly because if you start liking it I'll have to find something even more obscure to like so I can maintain my superiority!"
And, apparently, human drivers need extra sets of eyes. Now we need to make eye contact with pedestrians AND bicycles AND lane-splitting motorcycles coming up from behind us.
No, I'm not making that up. And no, I'm not giving you identifying info. I like to shoot time lapses and one of them was relevant to an article on their site. Sorry if that's hard to believe.
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...and the second was the removal of Brandon Eich because he held a non-progressive belief.
Why can't people that support Eich be honest about what it was that happened? He didn't get ousted for a bumper sticker on his car. Instead he used his wealth to support an ad-campaign that succeeded in suppressing the rights of up to 10% of the workers in his company. In fact we heard about this FROM HIS EMPLOYEES. He succeeded in turning the public against Mozilla. His actions didn't align with the stated goals of the organization, so ... what... were they expected to fight his battle for him?
Like or hate Eich's departure as CEO, don't overplay Mozilla's responsibilities to your personal view on the matter if you're going to underplay his role in firing a shot that struck his own employees.
This time, though, it occurred to me that someone probably wrote in to complain that the power plant was normally in a completely different part of town, no doubt adding "I really hope somebody got fired for that blunder."
Nobody has actually complained* about that because... wait for it... that episode was really good. In fact there is a special reason why they got away with that particular gag: If they had shown you an accurate portrayal of Homer's drive to work it would have taken much longer than the window of time available to make that joke funny. In other words, they didn't show you that Homer lives next door to the power plant, they just showed you that his time was wasted in a visual way.
I'm not saying you don't need to pay attention to continuity. In fact, I can tell you a simple way to avoid a good deal of continuity issues: Avoid declaring anything about a character that isn't important to the plot. Dave Lister, for example, has had his appendix out twice. They used it early on as a gag because they needed a life event that can only happen once. The second time it was to show off that a new character had benevolent intentions towards them. Did it make sense to use it the first time? Yes. The second time... Um, no, they ended up locking him into a detail for just a throwaway gag. They did, however, establish he was an orphan and that was so important that it rang several times through the entire run of the series. You won't find any lines about him knowing his biological parents** for exactly that reason. Don't say your character has a brother or sister if you never intend to meet them or at least write them in again. We hear about Rimmer's brothers all the time, for example, but have no idea if Kochanski or the Cat are only-childs. Etc. We know about Rimmer's brothers because their treatment of him as a kid has had consequences on his character. It's built in to his character that his brothers tormented him, were smarter and more successful than him, and that they were more loved by his parents than he was. Because of this nobody is going to write a Red Dwarf script where Rimmer is an only child.
That said, don't worry so much about continuity. Make your story work. If you start hearing nitpicks about your character being left-handed instead of right-handed in one episode, it's not because continuity is such an ugly sin, it's because your story isn't entertaining and the nitpicks start becoming a lot more observable.
Oh... that and assholes like me look for problems like that just so we can point them out in order to look smarter. Don't worry about us, though, we paid for the DVD's and/or books because we wanted to go overboard researching it. ;)
* Not one person saw that and said "I won't watch that show anymore."
** Yes, I know there's a problem with that statement, no I don't want to go into it.
Maybe I'm out of touch or something but I didn't even know what MOBA is.
It's just a subsection of RTS games. In terms of categorization it's right up there with people who play kart games on-line.
It was a term invented to make the PC Master Race sound like they have broader horizons than they really do.
Videos on Facebook play back just fine on my non-Flash-enabled PC and on my iOS devices.
In either scenario the files are all sitting on the hard drive under your desk. Basically all you said is: "My preferred alternative is no backups."
Yes, if it had reached that level it would have sufficed.
Yes.
You're right. XKCD was great until it started showing up on mainstream sites, now it's not 'hard' enough. "I liked it back when it was underground." And so on.
Poser.
The overwhelming amount of energy on the planet (well over 99.99999%) does in fact fall out of the sky.
Water, in fact, falls out of the sky as well. Think about that for a minute.
Just for fun you should peek in on Kansas some time. They're living the Republican dream!
'Any', not 'every'. And we all know why.
There's lots of high quality, popular stuff. xkcd isn't.
"... but I won't go into detail about what that is, mainly because if you start liking it I'll have to find something even more obscure to like so I can maintain my superiority!"
Nerd hipsterism is a sad thing to behold.
And once that car reaches 88 miles per hour, we can go back a few years to when that joke was funny!
And, apparently, human drivers need extra sets of eyes. Now we need to make eye contact with pedestrians AND bicycles AND lane-splitting motorcycles coming up from behind us.
Unless, of course, you're trolling for attention. In which case not being able to stand behind your remark demeans it.
Did you go: "Derp derp derp I hate Microsoft so they must be ignoring privacy settings!" ... as opposed to "Here are logs that prove what's happening?"
Just curious because there's a huge difference between the two.
Your anonymous posting in this case is costing you most of your credibility.
If there has been a lot of complaining about this then I stand corrected, never having encountered it before I didn't know it existed.
A real UI generally needs to show several concurrently from a possible set of dozens or even hundreds.
It should show you the current relevant ones, just like a plot-driven UI. What you're describing just becomes noise on the screen.
Given that it's 2015 and this is just coming up now, that's quite a leap to arrive at that conclusion.
Haha. Okay, I admit, you got me with that one.
No, I'm not making that up. And no, I'm not giving you identifying info. I like to shoot time lapses and one of them was relevant to an article on their site. Sorry if that's hard to believe.
I'm surprised to read this. CNN used one of my YouTube videos once, after they reached out to me to obtain permission. Bummer.
What you said suggests otherwise.
You should watch the news some time.