All you have to do is recognize an apple security badge one time and suddenly you'll be able to recognize apple employees at large since most people do not put their badges away. It always easy to tell who works at Qualcomm, fellow employees at SCEA, etc, while eating at the local food court over here.
Wow, did the mods seriously not even read the article either before modding this +5? This is completely wrong. This is how Valve enters a market. They bring over steam and their source games, so there's something in the list for the platform.
There is an offline option, but you must already be online to enable a game for offline play.
That's incorrect. If you're disconnected from the internet, there is now a "Play Offline" button in the error dialogue when Steam says it can't connect to its services, which switches to the 30 day offline mode. If you can't see that button, completely close out steam and reopen it. You'll see it on the next connection error you see.
It was finicky for the longest time but I've never had a single problem seeing the button since.
The reason I ask this is the one criticism I have for Steam is on their big sales it is often difficult to see at a glance which games use ONLY Steam DRM
Huh? It's not, really. In the game details (where the publisher, etc are displayed) for the game and even sometimes in the system requirements, it will say "Uses 3rd Party DRM" and often which form of DRM it is. Games that require you to be online (Ubisoft crap) will have an online disclaimer under the description which states this fact as well.
Some games omit this information but any time I've seen this happen it always seems to have been an oversight rather than having no intention to mention it.
Nice straw man. I knew I would receive opposition to my view, but I didn't think it would almost universally of the kind where people intentionally misrepresented my intentions. Did I really need to add "as punishment" considering the nature of the article, the other comments, common sense, and the person I replied to before people understood my intent?
I'm curious about how spanking could be classified in the same area in the examples you give. Both situations could lead to issues up to and including death if such problems requiring this care are not provided, and are only necessary because there is no way to prevent this pain while providing the cure to the situation. I'm sorry if I find it hard to believe backtalk is in line with medical treatment. I do not believe social order should be maintained through physical discipline. That is the root of my issue with spanking.
A real problem with spanking as a whole is it is more often not the clearly responsible, loving parents you describe who are doing this. Another part of the problem is how vague the word "spanking" is. I am not strictly opposed to the idea of spanking but the reasoning, implementation, and severity. I grew up in a spanking household. Spanking in my house were incidents that often led to bruising. Lets not pretend this is abnormal in scale. My dad was not an especially violent person, or a drunk. He was a hard worker and a generally well rounded person. I did not even feel the way I do now back when I was a kid receiving these spankings. I certainly did not like them, and it made me fear my father, but I had no interest in the politics of it as I was just a kid. It was around the time my dad broke down in his old age and told me how sorry he was for it that I started to consider the actual issue and form my own opinion.
Honestly, it doesn't matter what I think, or what you think. People will do what they think is right when raising their kids. This can either be terrible or it can be good. But I'm only providing my point of view over what I think is right in this world made of shades of grey.
2. People complaining about the version numbers, as the version number is now something you should only encounter when you go looking for it.
The only reason this actually works for Chrome is because all extensions written for Chrome are completely forward compatible. This is not the case with Firefox as of my last dealing with it, and the API is still subject to go bonkers and change without notice between updates. Users who want or need to install plugins for Firefox will most certainly be exposed to the version number still.
Don't dare? What is there to really say since Mozilla finally got off its lazy ass after some several years and worked on the problem rather than playing a perpetual round of the blame game with plugin developers?
I guess people could still criticize it took Mozilla this long to take the situation seriously.
I'm using it just fine though my domain. In fact, there's even special considerations for domain users. When sharing links, I'm offered the added option to allow specific shared links to be shared only between my domain inhabitants.
No ability to name the Google Drive folder, only choose its location (the same as dropbox, but a lot of people were hoping for "pick any folder anywhere").
That's incorrect. If you specify advanced setup, it lets you pick exactly where and what the folder is named (Mine is just named "GDrive").
I'm personally disappointed by their sharing scheme, that you need to perform so many steps to get a link to share, and there's absolutely no means to generate a link without going through all the steps on the webpage itself.
A bit rough around the edges. For some reason, it won't sync new.txt files that are created inside. It will just say the files on unsyncable even if nothing has been put into the text documents yet, and even if data is stored in said documents. It's new, so I'm giving it the benefit of the doubt. But I definitely would stick to dropbox for ease of use, unless I want to share entire directories, then Google Drive is the superior store.
Wow, really? Do you really think the Xbox 360 and WinRT are both even remotely comparable in terms of enterprise desirability to make such a wacky comparison?
However, it would be best if the employer spelled that out with a contract. It would probably be best if such enterprises had their employees sign a "non-compete" for the industry their organization is in, effective in case the employee voluntarily chose to leave, and with a small salary continuing for the non-compete period to secure the employee from being hired by a competitor during that period. This is more fair to both employer and employee -- the employee cannot be poached, unless the employee is fired without cause; if the employee is released with cause, or chooses to leave the business, they continue to be paid a sustaining wage. The competitor can offer the 33% increase after the 2 or 3 year period.
Are you for real, man? To be honest, your whole post had me scratching my head but when I got to this part I have to wonder if you're just trolling.
It wasn't marketing, although I do imagine it helped. Valentino was the one who insisted on a mask when the idea was initially pitched. Valentino just wanted to be able to finish the series without scorn being directed at himself from the magic community until the series was over.
It's not bullshit, and reverse engineering has nothing to do with it. The reason Teller is suing is not because of the magic trick, but the pantomime. Teller has a valid copyright on Shadows. The copyright goes into great detail about how the scene is set up and performed.
For some reason, this guy got the bright idea to mimic the whole setup with the rose and the vase, the white background, etc. Had he changed it up a little, used a different kind of flower, something other than a large knife, etc, we wouldn't be having this problem right now. He even references Teller by name in the description for the video. On top of that? The kit he's selling also mimics the material Teller uses.
I'm entirely with Teller on this one. And before someone mentions that US copyright laws aren't enforced in Dutch courts, this person was selling the kits to the US too.
You really speak personally for all the users at your company and they all dislike the ribbon? Really? You're not exaggerating even a little bit to make your point of view look stronger?
Or do you call the police and/or social services everytime you hear somebody say "I'm gonna kill my kid when I get home"?
Seriously? This and that aren't even in the same ballpark. Talk about a leap in logic.
Jumping to conclusions? Off the cuff or not, my comment was not inappropriate as it was entirely based on the possibility he was serious. I said he sounded like he would be the worst type of parent for advocating harsh physical punishment in his post, which is in no way rare, not that he was as a matter of fact.
I agree that a penalty is justified, but 3.5 million is certainly not justified. I don't even think several thousand is justified. It's a sad day when even the judge even agrees but our laws are so screwed up that he's forced to accept it. I am curious why the $200 penalty was multiplied by the user count, though. If it's a server, wouldn't that be a single infraction?
As for what UMaple actually made, I find it hard to look down on them too hard. Only some odd $400 in AdSense revenue? I doubt their actual donations were that much higher with such a low user base, regardless of earning "enhanced privileges."
Not take it seriously? I've known a number of people with that attitude. Exactly why should I not take it so literally? Are you really naive enough to think that this sentiment doesn't actually exist among people you might otherwise consider a reasonable person?
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"And I want to spend half as much as I do today for it"
The article is a joke.
I wasn't attempting to be an ass about it. I only vaguely remember everything that happened and was curious if there was more to it I did not see.
Have a source for that? I don't recall that.
All you have to do is recognize an apple security badge one time and suddenly you'll be able to recognize apple employees at large since most people do not put their badges away. It always easy to tell who works at Qualcomm, fellow employees at SCEA, etc, while eating at the local food court over here.
Wow, did the mods seriously not even read the article either before modding this +5? This is completely wrong. This is how Valve enters a market. They bring over steam and their source games, so there's something in the list for the platform.
There is an offline option, but you must already be online to enable a game for offline play.
That's incorrect. If you're disconnected from the internet, there is now a "Play Offline" button in the error dialogue when Steam says it can't connect to its services, which switches to the 30 day offline mode. If you can't see that button, completely close out steam and reopen it. You'll see it on the next connection error you see.
It was finicky for the longest time but I've never had a single problem seeing the button since.
The reason I ask this is the one criticism I have for Steam is on their big sales it is often difficult to see at a glance which games use ONLY Steam DRM
Huh? It's not, really. In the game details (where the publisher, etc are displayed) for the game and even sometimes in the system requirements, it will say "Uses 3rd Party DRM" and often which form of DRM it is. Games that require you to be online (Ubisoft crap) will have an online disclaimer under the description which states this fact as well.
Some games omit this information but any time I've seen this happen it always seems to have been an oversight rather than having no intention to mention it.
Nice straw man. I knew I would receive opposition to my view, but I didn't think it would almost universally of the kind where people intentionally misrepresented my intentions. Did I really need to add "as punishment" considering the nature of the article, the other comments, common sense, and the person I replied to before people understood my intent?
I'm curious about how spanking could be classified in the same area in the examples you give. Both situations could lead to issues up to and including death if such problems requiring this care are not provided, and are only necessary because there is no way to prevent this pain while providing the cure to the situation. I'm sorry if I find it hard to believe backtalk is in line with medical treatment. I do not believe social order should be maintained through physical discipline. That is the root of my issue with spanking.
A real problem with spanking as a whole is it is more often not the clearly responsible, loving parents you describe who are doing this. Another part of the problem is how vague the word "spanking" is. I am not strictly opposed to the idea of spanking but the reasoning, implementation, and severity. I grew up in a spanking household. Spanking in my house were incidents that often led to bruising. Lets not pretend this is abnormal in scale. My dad was not an especially violent person, or a drunk. He was a hard worker and a generally well rounded person. I did not even feel the way I do now back when I was a kid receiving these spankings. I certainly did not like them, and it made me fear my father, but I had no interest in the politics of it as I was just a kid. It was around the time my dad broke down in his old age and told me how sorry he was for it that I started to consider the actual issue and form my own opinion.
Honestly, it doesn't matter what I think, or what you think. People will do what they think is right when raising their kids. This can either be terrible or it can be good. But I'm only providing my point of view over what I think is right in this world made of shades of grey.
Inflicting physical pain upon a child is abuse.
2. People complaining about the version numbers, as the version number is now something you should only encounter when you go looking for it.
The only reason this actually works for Chrome is because all extensions written for Chrome are completely forward compatible. This is not the case with Firefox as of my last dealing with it, and the API is still subject to go bonkers and change without notice between updates. Users who want or need to install plugins for Firefox will most certainly be exposed to the version number still.
Don't dare? What is there to really say since Mozilla finally got off its lazy ass after some several years and worked on the problem rather than playing a perpetual round of the blame game with plugin developers?
I guess people could still criticize it took Mozilla this long to take the situation seriously.
I'm using it just fine though my domain. In fact, there's even special considerations for domain users. When sharing links, I'm offered the added option to allow specific shared links to be shared only between my domain inhabitants.
No ability to name the Google Drive folder, only choose its location (the same as dropbox, but a lot of people were hoping for "pick any folder anywhere").
That's incorrect. If you specify advanced setup, it lets you pick exactly where and what the folder is named (Mine is just named "GDrive").
I'm personally disappointed by their sharing scheme, that you need to perform so many steps to get a link to share, and there's absolutely no means to generate a link without going through all the steps on the webpage itself.
A bit rough around the edges. For some reason, it won't sync new .txt files that are created inside. It will just say the files on unsyncable even if nothing has been put into the text documents yet, and even if data is stored in said documents. It's new, so I'm giving it the benefit of the doubt. But I definitely would stick to dropbox for ease of use, unless I want to share entire directories, then Google Drive is the superior store.
Wow, really? Do you really think the Xbox 360 and WinRT are both even remotely comparable in terms of enterprise desirability to make such a wacky comparison?
However, it would be best if the employer spelled that out with a contract. It would probably be best if such enterprises had their employees sign a "non-compete" for the industry their organization is in, effective in case the employee voluntarily chose to leave, and with a small salary continuing for the non-compete period to secure the employee from being hired by a competitor during that period. This is more fair to both employer and employee -- the employee cannot be poached, unless the employee is fired without cause; if the employee is released with cause, or chooses to leave the business, they continue to be paid a sustaining wage. The competitor can offer the 33% increase after the 2 or 3 year period.
Are you for real, man? To be honest, your whole post had me scratching my head but when I got to this part I have to wonder if you're just trolling.
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It wasn't marketing, although I do imagine it helped. Valentino was the one who insisted on a mask when the idea was initially pitched. Valentino just wanted to be able to finish the series without scorn being directed at himself from the magic community until the series was over.
It's not bullshit, and reverse engineering has nothing to do with it. The reason Teller is suing is not because of the magic trick, but the pantomime. Teller has a valid copyright on Shadows. The copyright goes into great detail about how the scene is set up and performed.
For some reason, this guy got the bright idea to mimic the whole setup with the rose and the vase, the white background, etc. Had he changed it up a little, used a different kind of flower, something other than a large knife, etc, we wouldn't be having this problem right now. He even references Teller by name in the description for the video. On top of that? The kit he's selling also mimics the material Teller uses.
I'm entirely with Teller on this one. And before someone mentions that US copyright laws aren't enforced in Dutch courts, this person was selling the kits to the US too.
You deserve mod points, AC.
You really speak personally for all the users at your company and they all dislike the ribbon? Really? You're not exaggerating even a little bit to make your point of view look stronger?
....What? Why is that not Word's fault? Is it Microsoft's job to ensure that their formats are being loading properly in all third party software?
Or do you call the police and/or social services everytime you hear somebody say "I'm gonna kill my kid when I get home"?
Seriously? This and that aren't even in the same ballpark. Talk about a leap in logic.
Jumping to conclusions? Off the cuff or not, my comment was not inappropriate as it was entirely based on the possibility he was serious. I said he sounded like he would be the worst type of parent for advocating harsh physical punishment in his post, which is in no way rare, not that he was as a matter of fact.
I agree that a penalty is justified, but 3.5 million is certainly not justified. I don't even think several thousand is justified. It's a sad day when even the judge even agrees but our laws are so screwed up that he's forced to accept it. I am curious why the $200 penalty was multiplied by the user count, though. If it's a server, wouldn't that be a single infraction?
As for what UMaple actually made, I find it hard to look down on them too hard. Only some odd $400 in AdSense revenue? I doubt their actual donations were that much higher with such a low user base, regardless of earning "enhanced privileges."
Not take it seriously? I've known a number of people with that attitude. Exactly why should I not take it so literally? Are you really naive enough to think that this sentiment doesn't actually exist among people you might otherwise consider a reasonable person?
Spank the brat raw? You sound like you would be the absolute worst type of parent.