Clearly you have the advantage of being neurotypical. A lot of people in IT can not read body language well, don't pick up on non-verbal or even verbal cues and really don't know how the fuck you interpret someone else's feelings without asking them.
At which point they get slammed for making an unwanted advance.
Fuck you and your lovey feely bullshit. Society dictates that men must make the first move so women can fucking well cope with some men not being very good at it.
Harassment can't be done without intent. At least not until mind reading is invented.
"Good morning. Oh, new shoes, I like them"
Is that harassment? I'll tell you my HR department's persective, "That depends how it makes her feel"
Well how the fuck do I build a rapport and relationship with my colleagues without being a fucking mind reader, if harassment is possible when you're trying to give someone a genuine compliment?
Fuck this modern interpretation of harassment. If I want you to feel uncomfortable, trust me, you'll fucking realise. Until then assume I'm just being nice and if you don't like it, fucking tell me.
The game I wrote in '92 that's still live on the Internet, the one from '93 that's still live, the website I wrote in '92 that's still online or the multiple contributions to other web presences that I've made since?
My free content is on Wikipedia, IMDB, fifty forums and right fucking here in this article.
I don't even get ad revenue, so what's your point exactly?
No, I don't want to prevent terrorist attacks, if it means losing basic values of British culture.
Yes, I'd rather have people die to terrorism than prevent justice. Yes, I've been the target of terror attacks. Yes, I've known victims of terror attacks. Yes, I've lived in a warzone.
No, I'm not going to throw away essential liberties in a failed attempt to stay "safe". At risk of impressing you further, fuck that.
I don't get points on my licence without breaking the law.
But since you ask, 1 - A parole period does fuck all to help with someone born and raised in Manchester that's nonetheless enough of a fuckwit to kill several people including himself
2 - They already do. Just because you can't see the actions doesn't mean that they aren't being taken. Shit, the whole Control Orders thing was a visible action that was a fucking terrible idea and condemned people to house arrest despite never being convicted of a crime.
I left the UK twice last year. I'm not sure the US police would understand what the fuck I was doing if I tried to check in with them and my employer would want to know why I wasn't in the office.
I left the UK earlier this year. There were no local authorities with whom to check in. When you're inside a volcano the police tend to be too fucking sensible to open a local office for you.
Late this year or early next year I'm going to be going abroad for a couple of months. I know where I'm going only as far as I need to prepare visas and car insurance. At times I'm going to be a full day's drive from the nearest town. I'm also going to be within easy driving distance of "the middle east"; I could easily turn right and end up in Iraq, or Iran, or Afghanistan.
So concentrate resources on non-whites
No wonder you're posting anonymously. How about we focus resources on key risks, and not be bigoted racists about it.
1% is a massive proportion, and you're also disregarding the active or tacit support of another 20-30%.
Shit, go to Pakistan and the percentages are higher than that.
I live near a city with over 300k residents. You think 3000 of them are violent, and another 50,000 support that violence?
Yeah, I think targeting the fuckwits that believe in invisible pink unicorns is appropriate. I think mocking their stupid beliefs is needed, I think preventing them brainwashing children is long overdue and I'd absolutely cut off all of their governmental funding and tax the hell out of any money imported from overseas.
Men are prosecuted for crimes more than women, receive harsher sentences and are also more likely to have untreated mental issues that lead to behaviour considered criminal.
So no, putting gender (or race) in doesn't make sense at all. In fact leaving gender out would probably help remove some of the sentencing discrepancy.
does anyone really think that triple-A rated games would sell anywhere near their typical levels if DRM were not used ?
Yes, I think they would.
Two key factors: 1 - Look at the fall in music piracy rates once commercial streaming and download services became available and prices stopped being so gouging. This demonstrates that people are willing to spend money on their entertainment. A lot of piracy is also by people that just can't afford all of the games that they want, so no, they're not going to be spending money that they don't have.
2 - Computer games have always been available for free. I didn't buy all the games I played on my Vic-20, there was an entire sneakernet system for C64 and Amiga games and by the time I bought a PC the internet had releases from Razor 1911 and their peers easily and readily available. Nobody has ever had to buy computer games, but the market still grew to support these games with 8 and 9 digit budgets.
Bonus anecdote: Company of Heroes was released with no DRM. I've so far bought the game, bought the expansions, bought the Gold version, bought the game+expansions for a friend, bought the Gold version for a friend, bought Dawn of War as it was a precursor to CoH that I hadn't played, bought the expansions, bought the sequel, bought the expansions, bought the game for a friend. Yeah, that lack of DRM really hurt them there.
DRM on PC is a fucking abomination. Various DRM schemes have damaged system performance by installing bug ridden, insecure, obtrusive and pointless shit that runs even when the game isn't running, let alone the impact to the player's experience within the game through performance issues or wasting time by demanding some shitty code.
Then there are the ones that try and prevent you installing the game more than once, or three times, or five.
I don't buy Ubisoft games any more because of their perpetually shitty DRM. That's £500/year of computer gaming revenue they don't get to share, and that's just one person.
Would pirates buy this shit if it wasn't available for free? No. Shit, I have 180 games installed that I haven't played yet. I can skip one.
Wait, you read a month ago about a court decision that was made just two days ago? Check the dates on http://ij.org/wp-content/uploa... and learn to fucking read before you post here. No wonder you like Reddit.
I don't use Facebook, is there a one-click way to share something you've read with your contacts without using 'like'?
Just that my interpretation would be, "This is interesting" and absolutely nothing to do with "I like and endorse this message".
"Hitler should have finished the job"
I have Jewish friends that would laugh at that. It can be said as vicious, nasty and funny joke. Some people may not like that but fuck them and their sense of humour.
But it does mean that even taken literally, 'like' on a message such as that does not mean support for subjugating Russia.
They may like the fact the topic is being discussed. They may just like the person making the comments. They may have misunderstood the comments but liked the message they perceived. They may be too lazy to type out, "Yeah, that person really is a racist cunt".
We can't tell, and hitting 'like' being treated the same as an editorial review and publish is pretty fucking asinine.
Is $2,000 unreasonable for the Newest and Fastest CPU?
For consumer use? Yes.
Being that the top of the line Video Cards cost 5k.
For consumer use? No.
A high end PC back in 1997 costed about 5k. Adjusted for inflation a High End PC today will be about 9-10k that 2k CPU would be about the same.
The dual-CPU PC with near top-end gaming video card and RAID storage that I bought in '97 cost under 2k. Just how fucking high-end are you talking here?
In 2008 (so approx. mid-point between then and now) I was speccing gaming laptops, so more expensive than a standard PC. A full spec 1920x1200 screen laptop with SLI graphics was coming in at 2.4k and would outperform 95% of PCs sold as 'gaming' PCs. Sure, you could spend twice that if you're utterly fucking insane but it's still a high-end PC for that money.
These days I can buy a high-end PC for well under 3k. I'm not going to blow two thirds of that budget on a single CPU.
If you want to talk professional workstations where you have mixed workloads requiring multi-core grunt and/or multiple GPUs to support highly parallel processing then sure, the performance boost may be worth the expense. Probably not though - just buy two PCs for 1k each and spread your workload between them (or delegate to the cloud for the three hours a week you actually need that capacity).
So does my employer, but those market rates are heavily impacted by the substantial number of immigrants that are available and willing to take those rates.
It gets even sillier than that; my employer is only willing to pay market median rates in my city and bases pay raises on that rate, ignoring that anybody living nearby has access to jobs across half the country, and anybody any good can invariably get paid more elsewhere.
Add in that for my specific skillset we can't recruit anybody for less than 20% more than I'm earning.. either the June payrise surprises the hell out of me or I leave in September.
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Clearly you have the advantage of being neurotypical. A lot of people in IT can not read body language well, don't pick up on non-verbal or even verbal cues and really don't know how the fuck you interpret someone else's feelings without asking them.
At which point they get slammed for making an unwanted advance.
Fuck you and your lovey feely bullshit. Society dictates that men must make the first move so women can fucking well cope with some men not being very good at it.
Harassment can't be done without intent. At least not until mind reading is invented.
"Good morning. Oh, new shoes, I like them"
Is that harassment? I'll tell you my HR department's persective, "That depends how it makes her feel"
Well how the fuck do I build a rapport and relationship with my colleagues without being a fucking mind reader, if harassment is possible when you're trying to give someone a genuine compliment?
Fuck this modern interpretation of harassment. If I want you to feel uncomfortable, trust me, you'll fucking realise. Until then assume I'm just being nice and if you don't like it, fucking tell me.
Yes, every bit as hard as people with other genders or skin colours.
Harder, if you want to examine basic shit like educational outcomes in the UK.
But that's ok, you keep your sarcastic racist sexist bigotry going. Just try and be honest about it.
Try under g for gibberish. Then look up yourself: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki...
The game I wrote in '92 that's still live on the Internet, the one from '93 that's still live, the website I wrote in '92 that's still online or the multiple contributions to other web presences that I've made since?
My free content is on Wikipedia, IMDB, fifty forums and right fucking here in this article.
I don't even get ad revenue, so what's your point exactly?
No, I don't want to prevent terrorist attacks, if it means losing basic values of British culture.
Yes, I'd rather have people die to terrorism than prevent justice.
Yes, I've been the target of terror attacks.
Yes, I've known victims of terror attacks.
Yes, I've lived in a warzone.
No, I'm not going to throw away essential liberties in a failed attempt to stay "safe". At risk of impressing you further, fuck that.
I don't get points on my licence without breaking the law.
But since you ask,
1 - A parole period does fuck all to help with someone born and raised in Manchester that's nonetheless enough of a fuckwit to kill several people including himself
2 - They already do. Just because you can't see the actions doesn't mean that they aren't being taken. Shit, the whole Control Orders thing was a visible action that was a fucking terrible idea and condemned people to house arrest despite never being convicted of a crime.
I don't support that, and fuck you if you do.
Are you some sort of total fuckwit?
I left the UK twice last year. I'm not sure the US police would understand what the fuck I was doing if I tried to check in with them and my employer would want to know why I wasn't in the office.
I left the UK earlier this year. There were no local authorities with whom to check in. When you're inside a volcano the police tend to be too fucking sensible to open a local office for you.
Late this year or early next year I'm going to be going abroad for a couple of months. I know where I'm going only as far as I need to prepare visas and car insurance. At times I'm going to be a full day's drive from the nearest town. I'm also going to be within easy driving distance of "the middle east"; I could easily turn right and end up in Iraq, or Iran, or Afghanistan.
So concentrate resources on non-whites
No wonder you're posting anonymously. How about we focus resources on key risks, and not be bigoted racists about it.
These are people stupid enough to think violence is a good way to generate publicity.
"I don't like you." -> Nobody gives a shit
"Fine, I'll kill 8 people." -> Global headline news
I don't think you have to be stupid to realise that violence is indeed a good way to generate publicity.
Some of these people need to be stripped of citizenship if applicable and deported (or jailed if that's not possible)...
Oh sure. Destroy 800 years of justice because you're scared?
Fuck that. Jail/deport criminals, not people that have the wrong point of view.
1% is a massive proportion, and you're also disregarding the active or tacit support of another 20-30%.
Shit, go to Pakistan and the percentages are higher than that.
I live near a city with over 300k residents. You think 3000 of them are violent, and another 50,000 support that violence?
Yeah, I think targeting the fuckwits that believe in invisible pink unicorns is appropriate. I think mocking their stupid beliefs is needed, I think preventing them brainwashing children is long overdue and I'd absolutely cut off all of their governmental funding and tax the hell out of any money imported from overseas.
Lawyer: Look, the alogorithm will give you a lower sentence if you get a haircut, find a job and stop getting drunk every night.
Society: Stop gaming the system!
Men commit far more crimes then women
Men are prosecuted for crimes more than women, receive harsher sentences and are also more likely to have untreated mental issues that lead to behaviour considered criminal.
So no, putting gender (or race) in doesn't make sense at all. In fact leaving gender out would probably help remove some of the sentencing discrepancy.
does anyone really think that triple-A rated games would sell anywhere near their typical levels if DRM were not used ?
Yes, I think they would.
Two key factors:
1 - Look at the fall in music piracy rates once commercial streaming and download services became available and prices stopped being so gouging. This demonstrates that people are willing to spend money on their entertainment. A lot of piracy is also by people that just can't afford all of the games that they want, so no, they're not going to be spending money that they don't have.
2 - Computer games have always been available for free. I didn't buy all the games I played on my Vic-20, there was an entire sneakernet system for C64 and Amiga games and by the time I bought a PC the internet had releases from Razor 1911 and their peers easily and readily available. Nobody has ever had to buy computer games, but the market still grew to support these games with 8 and 9 digit budgets.
Bonus anecdote: Company of Heroes was released with no DRM. I've so far bought the game, bought the expansions, bought the Gold version, bought the game+expansions for a friend, bought the Gold version for a friend, bought Dawn of War as it was a precursor to CoH that I hadn't played, bought the expansions, bought the sequel, bought the expansions, bought the game for a friend. Yeah, that lack of DRM really hurt them there.
No way !
Yes way !
DRM on PC is a fucking abomination. Various DRM schemes have damaged system performance by installing bug ridden, insecure, obtrusive and pointless shit that runs even when the game isn't running, let alone the impact to the player's experience within the game through performance issues or wasting time by demanding some shitty code.
Then there are the ones that try and prevent you installing the game more than once, or three times, or five.
I don't buy Ubisoft games any more because of their perpetually shitty DRM. That's £500/year of computer gaming revenue they don't get to share, and that's just one person.
Would pirates buy this shit if it wasn't available for free? No. Shit, I have 180 games installed that I haven't played yet. I can skip one.
Wait, you read a month ago about a court decision that was made just two days ago?
Check the dates on http://ij.org/wp-content/uploa... and learn to fucking read before you post here. No wonder you like Reddit.
I don't use Facebook, is there a one-click way to share something you've read with your contacts without using 'like'?
Just that my interpretation would be, "This is interesting" and absolutely nothing to do with "I like and endorse this message".
"Hitler should have finished the job"
I have Jewish friends that would laugh at that. It can be said as vicious, nasty and funny joke. Some people may not like that but fuck them and their sense of humour.
But it does mean that even taken literally, 'like' on a message such as that does not mean support for subjugating Russia.
No, that would be fucking stupid.
You could however successfully argue that writing 'Like' on the gun does not make you responsible for someone else shooting it.
Shit, you're making me correct inane analogies now. Fuck this, I'm going to order a pizza.
That doesn't mean they endorse it.
They may like the fact the topic is being discussed. They may just like the person making the comments. They may have misunderstood the comments but liked the message they perceived. They may be too lazy to type out, "Yeah, that person really is a racist cunt".
We can't tell, and hitting 'like' being treated the same as an editorial review and publish is pretty fucking asinine.
physical trackball
Fuck fidget spinners, that trackball was all the tactile feedback I ever desired.
It was smooth and yet textured, truly a wonder to caress. I may need to hunt down my old G1 and have a fondle.
Wait? You mean that _isn't_ true?
Tell me who and we'll have words. They need to get back onto making our sweet sweet games fast AND pretty.
Is $2,000 unreasonable for the Newest and Fastest CPU?
For consumer use? Yes.
Being that the top of the line Video Cards cost 5k.
For consumer use? No.
A high end PC back in 1997 costed about 5k. Adjusted for inflation a High End PC today will be about 9-10k that 2k CPU would be about the same.
The dual-CPU PC with near top-end gaming video card and RAID storage that I bought in '97 cost under 2k. Just how fucking high-end are you talking here?
In 2008 (so approx. mid-point between then and now) I was speccing gaming laptops, so more expensive than a standard PC. A full spec 1920x1200 screen laptop with SLI graphics was coming in at 2.4k and would outperform 95% of PCs sold as 'gaming' PCs. Sure, you could spend twice that if you're utterly fucking insane but it's still a high-end PC for that money.
These days I can buy a high-end PC for well under 3k. I'm not going to blow two thirds of that budget on a single CPU.
If you want to talk professional workstations where you have mixed workloads requiring multi-core grunt and/or multiple GPUs to support highly parallel processing then sure, the performance boost may be worth the expense. Probably not though - just buy two PCs for 1k each and spread your workload between them (or delegate to the cloud for the three hours a week you actually need that capacity).
If creation is easier
Erm. 110010001000 stated that it's "much harder to create."
So your if clause returns false and we ignore the rest of your query.
We pay market rates
So does my employer, but those market rates are heavily impacted by the substantial number of immigrants that are available and willing to take those rates.
It gets even sillier than that; my employer is only willing to pay market median rates in my city and bases pay raises on that rate, ignoring that anybody living nearby has access to jobs across half the country, and anybody any good can invariably get paid more elsewhere.
Add in that for my specific skillset we can't recruit anybody for less than 20% more than I'm earning.. either the June payrise surprises the hell out of me or I leave in September.
This is not actually true. EU citizens can be asked to leave if they don't get a job within a few months.
Really? They have to be able to support themselves, I've never seen it stated anywhere that they have to get a job.
Which legislation states that?