...what? ~$1000+ for a Visual Studio license? What, do you think you need a high end version with an MSDN subscription before you can deploy Windows Store apps?
Overall: F Price: F Quality: F Responsiveness: F Punctuality: F Professionalism: F Description Of Work: Dietz Development was to perform: painting, refinish floors, electrical, plumbing and handyman work. I was instead left with damage to my home and work that had to be reaccomplished for thousands more than originally estimated. Member comments: My home was damaged' the "work" had to be re-accomplished; and Dietz tried to sue me for "monies due for his "work." I won in summary judgement (meaning that his case had no merit). Despite his claims, Dietz was/is not licensed to perform work in the state of VA. Further, he invoiced me for work not even performed and also sued me for work not even performed. Today (six months later) he just showed up at my door and '"wanted to talk to me." I said that I "didn't want to talk to him," closed the door , and called the police. (The police said his reason was that he had a "lien on my house"; however this "lien" was made null and void the day I won the case according to the court.) This is after filing my first ever police report when I found my jewelry missing and Dietz was the only one with a key. Bottom line do not put yourself through this nightmare of a contractor.
At first I was leaning in favor of the contractor but if what is actually said in this review is accurate (it will be easy to tell in the courts), then this contractor is seriously sleazy. I am curious why she would hire a contractor that isn't even licensed to work in the state though?
No, I didn't. It's just that the words you use in your entire message basically boils down to willfully handing over information about yourself as if that is the only way you are ever tracked. Searching for a product on Amazon, a search query on Google, merely visiting any particular site, or any number of things are sufficient to begin building profiles about you and your internet habits. It isn't always just posting your information on facebook for them to harvest or using gmail.
I agree that people shouldn't be posting things onto the internet they'd rather others not know about, but on that same vain I don't think the complex web of advertising networks embedded on practically every site on the internet should be able to pull literally everything you do on the internet and everywhere you go to figure out how to serve you ads.
Makes sense Microsoft is doing this "Windows Blue" thing where they release a new version every year. Good for sweeping Windows 8 under the floor quickly, and people will be itching for a new Windows that isn't crap.
I agree with you, but like many arguments spanning a wide variety of users, we're not all individually arguing for both things at the same time.
I shudder to think of what would happen to the internet under ITU or UN control. I definitely feel a "grass is greener" vibe, here. I certainly don't want to hop the fence only to see the grass isn't really grass but fields of glowing toxic sludge and no way back.
Making $1000 over costs could be considered "making money", but that doesn't mean they weren't just basically breaking even anyway, or were making so little that it doesn't justify the staffing requirements and work to keep it going.
Indeed, if that was the only thing that would ever exist at that site if it did go this route, you would be right. Fortunately, that would only be the start.
You have the worst imagination of anyone I've talked to on Slashdot to date. It's not about "building nerdy toys". It's about inspiring kids to use their imagination to create and broaden their horizons on what's possible.
You're probably the same kind of guy who thinks any kind of hands on learning is pointless and we should just have our kids reading questions and answers out of a textbook 8 hours a day.
Is this a serious honest to goodness question? Is it a joke? Is someone making a funny?
The answer is quite easily no, we should not make laws against stripping metadata. That is quite possibly one of the most absurd notions I've heard in a while. Lets take bad laws, learn from them, and then make worse laws! That will solve our problems, alright!
It seems as if every single user on Slashdot felt they had to chime in to alert the world that 10 GOTO 10 is in fact a loop, as if everybody else hadn't already made that point.
The public repository option for uploading makes no mention that you need to supply the code with a copyleft/copyright free license, just that the code is publicly listed and browsable. Why are people assuming that everyone is supposed to?
Are people confusing open source (publicly browsable source) from Open Source (the movement)?
What is the reasoning behind it being illegal to sell your non-vital organs? Is it to prevent people from being coerced into it under the guise of a legitimate transaction? Some weird pseudo prostitution thing about "selling your body"? Purely moral taboo?
Always wondered why this was the case. You'd think if this venue was opened up, there would be more organs going where they are needed without requiring the donor first have a nasty case of death.
I'm not a console user by any stretch of the imagination but some people prefer not to have a moving target for gaming. A single low-cost investment + games is preferable to many people than what us PC users deal with.
It hasn't been too bad with games generally being designed for consoles first keeping PC requirements down, but that's not always the case.
You know, "support the troops" doesn't necessarily mean support what they're being forced to do. Our troops are people, just like any of us civilians; they're just in dangerous circumstances. There's lots of ways to support them without agreeing with what's happening.
Unless you think we should be punishing them for being there, which would be a terrible thing to suggest as many of them don't want to be there, but have no choice.
So do you lack proper reading comprehension or were you just too lazy to follow the discussion properly? Try reading what I responded to and then you will realize that your comment has absolutely no relevancy to what was said.
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His inside understanding about how Microsoft does things is almost 20 years out of date.
The original post he made mentions one guy doing the entire port. So that 10k was for one person.
...what? ~$1000+ for a Visual Studio license? What, do you think you need a high end version with an MSDN subscription before you can deploy Windows Store apps?
You can even use the free express edition.
Finally, if you park the panels in the desert (where nearly nothing grows anyway), it's not even a worry.
That has to be the most uninformed, misguided thing you could say on the topic.
Overall: F
Price: F
Quality: F
Responsiveness: F
Punctuality: F
Professionalism: F
Description Of Work: Dietz Development was to perform: painting, refinish floors, electrical, plumbing and handyman work. I was instead left with damage to my home and work that had to be reaccomplished for thousands more than originally estimated.
Member comments: My home was damaged' the "work" had to be re-accomplished; and Dietz tried to sue me for "monies due for his "work." I won in summary judgement (meaning that his case had no merit). Despite his claims, Dietz was/is not licensed to perform work in the state of VA. Further, he invoiced me for work not even performed and also sued me for work not even performed. Today (six months later) he just showed up at my door and '"wanted to talk to me." I said that I "didn't want to talk to him," closed the door , and called the police. (The police said his reason was that he had a "lien on my house"; however this "lien" was made null and void the day I won the case according to the court.) This is after filing my first ever police report when I found my jewelry missing and Dietz was the only one with a key. Bottom line do not put yourself through this nightmare of a contractor.
At first I was leaning in favor of the contractor but if what is actually said in this review is accurate (it will be easy to tell in the courts), then this contractor is seriously sleazy. I am curious why she would hire a contractor that isn't even licensed to work in the state though?
You're clearly not someone worth having a discussion with.
No, I didn't. It's just that the words you use in your entire message basically boils down to willfully handing over information about yourself as if that is the only way you are ever tracked. Searching for a product on Amazon, a search query on Google, merely visiting any particular site, or any number of things are sufficient to begin building profiles about you and your internet habits. It isn't always just posting your information on facebook for them to harvest or using gmail.
I agree that people shouldn't be posting things onto the internet they'd rather others not know about, but on that same vain I don't think the complex web of advertising networks embedded on practically every site on the internet should be able to pull literally everything you do on the internet and everywhere you go to figure out how to serve you ads.
Makes sense Microsoft is doing this "Windows Blue" thing where they release a new version every year. Good for sweeping Windows 8 under the floor quickly, and people will be itching for a new Windows that isn't crap.
Why do you assume this law is directed only to Facebook or other free web services?
I agree with you, but like many arguments spanning a wide variety of users, we're not all individually arguing for both things at the same time.
I shudder to think of what would happen to the internet under ITU or UN control. I definitely feel a "grass is greener" vibe, here. I certainly don't want to hop the fence only to see the grass isn't really grass but fields of glowing toxic sludge and no way back.
Was NCSoft developer or just publisher of CoH?
I know they still publish several titles in north america, Guild Wars 2 being an incredibly recent example.
Seems they still have a bit of vested interest in the market.
Making $1000 over costs could be considered "making money", but that doesn't mean they weren't just basically breaking even anyway, or were making so little that it doesn't justify the staffing requirements and work to keep it going.
Indeed, if that was the only thing that would ever exist at that site if it did go this route, you would be right. Fortunately, that would only be the start.
You couldn't possibly know, neither from a short comment nor from a 5 page long one. But you can wish, can't you?
I'm pretty confident in my original assessment.
You have the worst imagination of anyone I've talked to on Slashdot to date. It's not about "building nerdy toys". It's about inspiring kids to use their imagination to create and broaden their horizons on what's possible.
You're probably the same kind of guy who thinks any kind of hands on learning is pointless and we should just have our kids reading questions and answers out of a textbook 8 hours a day.
Is this a serious honest to goodness question? Is it a joke? Is someone making a funny?
The answer is quite easily no, we should not make laws against stripping metadata. That is quite possibly one of the most absurd notions I've heard in a while. Lets take bad laws, learn from them, and then make worse laws! That will solve our problems, alright!
Yes, indeed; you are about the second dozenth person who has made this point so far.
Well now you know.
That's the only scenario you could think of in which someone would be using a mouse and keyboard at the same time? General typing?
It seems as if every single user on Slashdot felt they had to chime in to alert the world that 10 GOTO 10 is in fact a loop, as if everybody else hadn't already made that point.
I think so!
The public repository option for uploading makes no mention that you need to supply the code with a copyleft/copyright free license, just that the code is publicly listed and browsable. Why are people assuming that everyone is supposed to?
Are people confusing open source (publicly browsable source) from Open Source (the movement)?
What is the reasoning behind it being illegal to sell your non-vital organs? Is it to prevent people from being coerced into it under the guise of a legitimate transaction? Some weird pseudo prostitution thing about "selling your body"? Purely moral taboo?
Always wondered why this was the case. You'd think if this venue was opened up, there would be more organs going where they are needed without requiring the donor first have a nasty case of death.
I'm not a console user by any stretch of the imagination but some people prefer not to have a moving target for gaming. A single low-cost investment + games is preferable to many people than what us PC users deal with.
It hasn't been too bad with games generally being designed for consoles first keeping PC requirements down, but that's not always the case.
You know, "support the troops" doesn't necessarily mean support what they're being forced to do. Our troops are people, just like any of us civilians; they're just in dangerous circumstances. There's lots of ways to support them without agreeing with what's happening.
Unless you think we should be punishing them for being there, which would be a terrible thing to suggest as many of them don't want to be there, but have no choice.
So do you lack proper reading comprehension or were you just too lazy to follow the discussion properly? Try reading what I responded to and then you will realize that your comment has absolutely no relevancy to what was said.