Worst that could happen is everyone walking out calmly and in order.
That is far from the worst that can happen. That is in fact the best case scenario outside of no one believing them and there truly not being a fire. Provoking people into violent acts of desperation by instilling the immediate fear of death into them, such that their rationality is severely compromised is outright negligent. This is why we have things like temporary insanity and heat of passion defenses.
I feel that you should be perfectly free to shout "Fire!" in a theater. However I also feel that if you end up causing a situation where someone is injured, you should be held liable for your negligent actions. Freedom of speech should not mean freedom from responsibility of that speech.
What if you told a blind person that the light at an intersection was green and there was no traffic, causing them to walk into the street and get run over? Would you push the free speech argument? You didn't kill him; the guy behind the wheel of the car did. That doesn't mean you weren't immensely negligent as a result of what you said.
As a closer example to the theater, what if in that same situation you screamed in front of a blind man "Everyone get out of the way! A car is heading straight for us!" causing him to jump out of the way and into actual traffic? Would you still feel like you were completely free of the burden of responsibility?
I don't think google cache should necessarily be used for looking into a websites history especially beyond an ownership change when the site is completely different. That's something for the Internet Archive project. I think people should be able to request any previously cached pages be removed (can they already? the notion of pages being removed on request was vague enough that I don't know if it's ona per-page basis or can be per site) and updated with modern content. It doesn't need to be an immediate process, just a queue that Google goes through.
You are a goddamn idiot. I never said his opinions have no meaning to the projects he works on; I am saying condemning Microsoft, implying that he is leaking their evil plans and now denying it because of his comments on a private twitter account is nothing but conjecture.
But of course, if someone dares not make every oppertunity to take swipes at Microsoft must either be an idiot or paid damage control. Stay classy.
It shouldn't take large sections of code. The interaction between the client and the server is minimal at best. The game doesn't actually offload any real computations, and cooperation between cities in regions is handled on the most basic level (JSON responses just saying simple things like how much power is available to buy, etc)
I think about the only somewhat complex interaction with the server is the global economy system.
The game already basically saves a local cache of its state offline when the net goes offline, and if you leave the region and come back, it will load it right back up. Dumping and reloading that cache to disk may be the most difficult task. I don't pretend to know all the details of the implementation but crackers are clever.
I'm sure at some point we will see an offline crack of some description. Whether or not it will allow more than working in single cities is up for debate, but I am sure it will eventually happen.
I'm aware of his position, but how exactly does that change anything I've said? I merely stated that it was his personal feelings on a very controversial topic and had nothing to do with Microsoft proper.
AC was implying that Microsoft has a dastardly plan in store and once they caught wind that people aren't actually that keen on it, they're throwing the messenger under the bus and implying it was all a misunderstanding. That's not what happened. Someone at Microsoft (Creative Director or not,) who does not publicly represent Microsoft, spoke their personal thoughts in a "private" place and caused a shitstorm huge enough that Microsoft had to jump in and explain that his words don't actually represent Microsoft. That's all.
Steve Balmer could make a post on a private twitter account tomorrow saying he doesn't understand why people care that Hitler killed millions of Jews. That doesn't mean Microsoft has some sort of pro-Hitler/Nazi agenda.
What the hell are you talking about? Some Microsoft guy made some comments thorugh personal channels and you think they're "sacrificing" him for them as though this was some sort of official announcement they're recanting?
Erm... You're confusing external functionality that isn't cross platform (ActiveX, the old DirectX-labeled text effects, etc) versus internal functionality designed to integrate better with the browser. This is obviously the latter.
Ridiculous. I'm sorry, but do you have any idea how much it actually costs to hire a bunch of customer service reps? As a small company, each new hire not directly related to the creation of the device is less money making sure the device gets made at all. They have been operating on a small amount of money as it is relative to what it was they were trying to do. Cutting it even thinner for something as superflous as being able to personally baby each contributor about the status of their individual unit is just silly. Devices are shipping. People will get their devices when they get them. It's not like if they hired someone they would be able to say exactly when individual people are going to get their device anyway any more than simple updates that apply to everyone.
The sad thing is that you are exactly the kind of person the government wants. The poster child of the hopefully voting population. You simply roll over and accept anything that happens to you because you can't be bothered to question anything.
Programmers are people too. We all get agitated from time to time, especially when crunch time comes around. I don't think I've seen a single codebase completely devoid of passive aggressive comments on some level.
I think that's inside one of their MFC tool programs. I also found this in one of the code pages for one of those:
void FuckingWellSetTheDocumentNameAndDontBloodyIgnoreMeYouCunt(LPCSTR psDocName) {
if (gpLastOpenedModViewDoc)
{// make absolutely fucking sure this bastard does as it's told...//
gpLastOpenedModViewDoc->SetPathName(psDocName,false);
gpLastOpenedModViewDoc->SetTitle (psDocName);
} }
I have so much sympathy for this anonymous programmer.
I always love searching the source code for common swears, where you can tell crunch time came around and everyone is frustrated with everyone else. These codebases are ripe with fun ones.
1. Users are NOT familiar with the Windows UI. The UI changes every damn release, in substantial ways, requiring retraining or lots of trial and error. Ironically, Windows 7 with its new large task bar and large icons, looks almost exactly like my GNOME 0.9x desktop on Slackware Linux 3.x, circa 1996.
No, the theme changes. The UI design itself has stood relatively untouched since its inception. Most major UI changes up until Windows 8 were purely cosmetic and almost universally had a means to revert to older forms.
It wasn't until Windows 8 when achieving any of the older functionality was pretty much universally removed.
HOW did this get modded +5 Informative? It's blatantly WRONG. Incognito has been in since Chrome launch. It was one of the main advertised features of the damn thing.
No, but it is tradition that some doofus will point out that their particular location has moved on and it's an outrage to still see April fools content.
Unfortunately for you, this site doesn't operate on your time.
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All of my rage when I see a timestamp on something that says "5 months ago" or "1 year ago". All. Of. My. Rage.
I was with you until you said this:
Worst that could happen is everyone walking out calmly and in order.
That is far from the worst that can happen. That is in fact the best case scenario outside of no one believing them and there truly not being a fire. Provoking people into violent acts of desperation by instilling the immediate fear of death into them, such that their rationality is severely compromised is outright negligent. This is why we have things like temporary insanity and heat of passion defenses.
I feel that you should be perfectly free to shout "Fire!" in a theater. However I also feel that if you end up causing a situation where someone is injured, you should be held liable for your negligent actions. Freedom of speech should not mean freedom from responsibility of that speech.
What if you told a blind person that the light at an intersection was green and there was no traffic, causing them to walk into the street and get run over? Would you push the free speech argument? You didn't kill him; the guy behind the wheel of the car did. That doesn't mean you weren't immensely negligent as a result of what you said.
As a closer example to the theater, what if in that same situation you screamed in front of a blind man "Everyone get out of the way! A car is heading straight for us!" causing him to jump out of the way and into actual traffic? Would you still feel like you were completely free of the burden of responsibility?
The truly terrifying thing about this post is that there are people who actually think this sort of thing is a good idea.
I don't think google cache should necessarily be used for looking into a websites history especially beyond an ownership change when the site is completely different. That's something for the Internet Archive project. I think people should be able to request any previously cached pages be removed (can they already? the notion of pages being removed on request was vague enough that I don't know if it's ona per-page basis or can be per site) and updated with modern content. It doesn't need to be an immediate process, just a queue that Google goes through.
You are a goddamn idiot. I never said his opinions have no meaning to the projects he works on; I am saying condemning Microsoft, implying that he is leaking their evil plans and now denying it because of his comments on a private twitter account is nothing but conjecture.
But of course, if someone dares not make every oppertunity to take swipes at Microsoft must either be an idiot or paid damage control. Stay classy.
It shouldn't take large sections of code. The interaction between the client and the server is minimal at best. The game doesn't actually offload any real computations, and cooperation between cities in regions is handled on the most basic level (JSON responses just saying simple things like how much power is available to buy, etc)
I think about the only somewhat complex interaction with the server is the global economy system.
The game already basically saves a local cache of its state offline when the net goes offline, and if you leave the region and come back, it will load it right back up. Dumping and reloading that cache to disk may be the most difficult task. I don't pretend to know all the details of the implementation but crackers are clever.
I'm sure at some point we will see an offline crack of some description. Whether or not it will allow more than working in single cities is up for debate, but I am sure it will eventually happen.
I'm aware of his position, but how exactly does that change anything I've said? I merely stated that it was his personal feelings on a very controversial topic and had nothing to do with Microsoft proper.
AC was implying that Microsoft has a dastardly plan in store and once they caught wind that people aren't actually that keen on it, they're throwing the messenger under the bus and implying it was all a misunderstanding. That's not what happened. Someone at Microsoft (Creative Director or not,) who does not publicly represent Microsoft, spoke their personal thoughts in a "private" place and caused a shitstorm huge enough that Microsoft had to jump in and explain that his words don't actually represent Microsoft. That's all.
Steve Balmer could make a post on a private twitter account tomorrow saying he doesn't understand why people care that Hitler killed millions of Jews. That doesn't mean Microsoft has some sort of pro-Hitler/Nazi agenda.
What the hell are you talking about? Some Microsoft guy made some comments thorugh personal channels and you think they're "sacrificing" him for them as though this was some sort of official announcement they're recanting?
I had a boss with that exact mentality a while ago. It was pretty bad.
Erm... You're confusing external functionality that isn't cross platform (ActiveX, the old DirectX-labeled text effects, etc) versus internal functionality designed to integrate better with the browser. This is obviously the latter.
Yikes, the FUD is strong with this one.
Ridiculous. I'm sorry, but do you have any idea how much it actually costs to hire a bunch of customer service reps? As a small company, each new hire not directly related to the creation of the device is less money making sure the device gets made at all. They have been operating on a small amount of money as it is relative to what it was they were trying to do. Cutting it even thinner for something as superflous as being able to personally baby each contributor about the status of their individual unit is just silly. Devices are shipping. People will get their devices when they get them. It's not like if they hired someone they would be able to say exactly when individual people are going to get their device anyway any more than simple updates that apply to everyone.
The sad thing is that you are exactly the kind of person the government wants. The poster child of the hopefully voting population. You simply roll over and accept anything that happens to you because you can't be bothered to question anything.
Seems that was the coding standard for this project. Every single brace tied to an if statement describes what it's checking for.
Never heard of free time? Or does working productively mean signing away every waking moment of your life to the mighty dollar?
How does "working productively" have anything to do with boycotting something that you disagree with?
Programmers are people too. We all get agitated from time to time, especially when crunch time comes around. I don't think I've seen a single codebase completely devoid of passive aggressive comments on some level.
I think that's inside one of their MFC tool programs. I also found this in one of the code pages for one of those:
void FuckingWellSetTheDocumentNameAndDontBloodyIgnoreMeYouCunt(LPCSTR psDocName) // make absolutely fucking sure this bastard does as it's told... //
{
if (gpLastOpenedModViewDoc)
{
gpLastOpenedModViewDoc->SetPathName(psDocName,false);
gpLastOpenedModViewDoc->SetTitle (psDocName);
}
}
I have so much sympathy for this anonymous programmer.
I always love searching the source code for common swears, where you can tell crunch time came around and everyone is frustrated with everyone else. These codebases are ripe with fun ones.
Did she have any recourse for wrongful termination?
1. Users are NOT familiar with the Windows UI. The UI changes every damn release, in substantial ways, requiring retraining or lots of trial and error. Ironically, Windows 7 with its new large task bar and large icons, looks almost exactly like my GNOME 0.9x desktop on Slackware Linux 3.x, circa 1996.
No, the theme changes. The UI design itself has stood relatively untouched since its inception. Most major UI changes up until Windows 8 were purely cosmetic and almost universally had a means to revert to older forms.
It wasn't until Windows 8 when achieving any of the older functionality was pretty much universally removed.
HOW did this get modded +5 Informative? It's blatantly WRONG. Incognito has been in since Chrome launch. It was one of the main advertised features of the damn thing.
So, what, nearly 5 years then?
That's the argument Blizzard successfully made to win a case against a popular bot. Was honestly somewhat amazed it worked.
No, but it is tradition that some doofus will point out that their particular location has moved on and it's an outrage to still see April fools content.
Unfortunately for you, this site doesn't operate on your time.