If I'm the best person to provide aid, then I'll provide aid.
Otherwise, I'm happy to film or photograph. Anybody threatening me as a result gets filmed or photographed, right up until the point I put them in hospital through self defence.
Although while we're waiting for the ambulance it's a recursive problem.
Hmm, no. They're the collaborative social playing of a game, together.
What you've described is far more akin to twitch streaming, although people have used misidentified it as a Let's Play.
I think Twitch's tremendous success demonstrates that although you may not be part of that market, there's a clear market for people wanting to watch people play games.
It needs to be clear that Forbes was not compromised and there is no technical wrongdoing on their part in this matter
Using a request to view their content as an excuse to distribute malware is a pretty fucking big technical wrongdoing.
If they can't vet the content they're presenting then they shouldn't fucking present it, unless they want blacklisting by anti-malware lists - e.g. the ones Google and Microsoft maintain.
It's possible to acquire a large number of games that are not encumbered with DRM - between free games, re-releases on sites like gog.com, small developers that can't afford DRM technologies, sensible developers that understand economics and realise DRM doesn't help their overall revenue and ethical developers that choose not to fuck over their customers, there is a tremendous amount of choice available.
I'm thinking this is just an anti-Apple troll hard at work
That'll be why a kid managed to spend several grand on an iPad with minimal effort. Shit, the article acknowledges that Apple refunded the expenditure. From one perspective, they're the good guys.
Of course, from another perspective they don't have too much choice, and they've also already set the precedent.
Would you settle for a $50 maximum, that could be incremented by the consumer only through a 2FA protected pro-active choice, with stepped levels?
I don't think that would be terribly onerous on mobile, and I'd support a monthly/quarterly reset back to the lower level.
On Steam (I don't know about XBL) a different approach may be needed; an individual game could cost over $100 with ease. A cap may not make sense, additional protection against someone spending $5k on Train Simulator 2016 and all of its DLC doesn't sound unreasonable.
Steam does already however do this - e.g. they frequently invite me to re-enter my CCV2 number, although I'll admit I haven't examined the trigger for that request.
It doesn't matter what people want if they're abusively coerced through scientifically derived marketing and conditioning into expenditure they wouldn't rationally make.
Harshly put, and only partly right. Project managers manage resources, budgets, costs, stakeholders, timescales and as a result, the project.
The architect also manages the project, but takes accountability for the technical correctness of it, the design, the quality.
In other words, the answer is to get a good architect. Make them accountable for quality. Give them the authority to deliver on that accountability.
At this point the number of bugs becomes irrelevant, the complex compromises between functionality, security, user experience, data integrity, resilience, stability, availability and cost can be properly assessed.
Etiquette can normally be found written up. Looking at Amazon, "modern etiquette" and "modern manners" bring up a number of useful looking books and the book reviews seem to be helpful.
Etiquette books don't tell you why it's fine for a woman to say 'nice dress' but not a man. Or why it's fine for one man to go 'hey gorgeous, fancy a shag' - in the office - and not another.
I don't know all the rules, I'm still learning them. I know rules exist, but not which ones, and books are limited in their help.
But thanks for telling me it's all my fault. I'm fucking fine with other people with Aspergers, it's cunts that think everyone else can read in between the lines that have the problem.
Yes, I'm calling you a cunt. Yes, that's rude. No, don't expect a fucking apology.
So, you have so much experience living and working as a woman, have you, Cedric?
Call yourself a consultant, you can't even get someone's name right.
No, I haven't enjoyed the advantages of living and working as a woman. I've suffered the advantages and disadvantages of having Aspergers, which include being misunderstood by women and given far less opportunity than the ones with whom I work.
I see women getting networking opportunities, advancement opportunities, payrises, flexible working options that just aren't available to men.
I don't think women have it easy. I just wish they'd fucking realise that men don't have it easy, it's not sexism, and if they want equality then fucking well welcome.
Go back to your cave (you DID understand the "shadows" reference, didn't you...or was that wa-a-ay over your head?
Yes, it was. But I do retreat to my cave, often - it's the only way I can mentally recover from the stress of talking to people.
It's ok, I'm fine online, you're not hurting me. Well, beyond pretending that I'm the evil holding you back, but really that's hurting you more.
You seem to assume I tolerate "staff members unable to handle female techie".
Maybe it's different in Silicon Valley but I see competent female techies all over the place and they all get respect for their abilities.
I've seen sexism a number of times at my current organisation. Predominantly it's been women demeaning, harassing, devaluing or otherwise underestimating men.
Where it's anything else, I've spoken out, stepped in and haven't yet had to escalate. Maybe I should have the confidence to stop the women too, I'm just too fucking scared of the inevitable HR complaint.
I'm merely failing to observe the local etiquette, often because I just don't have a fucking clue what it is. I'm failing to respond to body language, because it's a total mystery to me. I'm being honest, because that's respectful.
Tell me, where in all of that am I being sexist? Where am I being an arsehole? Where exactly am I intentionally upsetting people?
How the fuck am I meant to be in the wrong here, when other people are judging me by their rules, including the ones my disability makes it impossible for me to even fucking know exist?
Now do you understand? Being polite is something I was taught as a child. Guess what: I hold doors open for people. A woman accused me of sexism because I held a door open for her.
Project yourself into that fucking situation and tell me just what the fuck the answer is, because confusion, stress and anger were all things I immediately had to suppress.
There are, of course, bad consultants out there. But your ability to suss out exactly what the situation is from a few lines makes you either psychic or... something else.
Being a good consultant means being able to come into an organisation and add value. It means overcoming the natural resistance of the permanent staff. It means keeping the primary stakeholder happy, and often requires wielding that stakeholder's personal influence as a weapon.
If CAOgdin was a good consultant, she'd know this, she'd accept it and she'd get on with it. Instead she's complaining that her gender is the issue.
Strange. I'm not sexist. If anything, I'm almost certainly less sexist than you: I treat women much the same as I treat men.
The problem is that you and every fucking woman out there screams sexism when I do that.
Don't go telling me that it's me in the wrong for this, or that I'm repressing women. The only repression going on around here is your common fucking sense.
Women on dating websites complain of constantly receiving dick pics.
This is the one valid complaint that I think probably applies to women far more than to men. Although I'll admit I haven't asked gay friends whether the same thing happens on their specialist sites too.
As a man in a senior leadership role, trust me, it's got fuck all to do with gender.
I can walk into a room, command respect and get the people in the room motivated and delivering a shared outcome. That's fuck all to do with my gender and everything to do with being good at my job, showing respect to them and how I can demonstrate my expertise, my ability to process information and my ability to make decisions that feels inclusive.
I've had to learn all that shit. It's fucking hard. It pays off.
I can walk into other rooms and be marginalised because it's someone else's domain, and she commands respect, processes information better than me, makes decisions better than I could and does it with a level of emotional intelligence I can only fucking admire from a distance. She's also two management levels senior to me, and will be on the board of a FTSE100 company before she's 50.
Her gender isn't holding her back or causing her problems. Shit, 70% of the staff in her global team are female.
If you're struggling, it's not your gender. It's because you're an arrogant ignorant bullshit artist that gets caught out when you speak with the experts. But to be fair, you've admitted you're a consultant already.
Being autistic (or on the spectrum somewhere) is no excuse for deliberately being a cock towards women.
Failing to read body language, observe social niceties and participate in social events is not deliberately being a cock towards women.
Hasn't fucking stopped them complaining about it though.
Women I've harassed, assaulted or intentionally insulted in the office, in the past two decades : 0 Women that have physically assaulted me (let alone the other shit): 3
Yet somehow Bruce thinks it's my fault that the office isn't a female friendly environment? Shit. Fuck Bruce and fuck you.
Interesting. You call it a troll post, I find little in there to challenge.
In my experience, sexist people just don't know how to communicate with women, and feel threatened. Grow up, and be a man!
You sexist piece of shit, stop telling men how to be a man.
I don't know how to communicate with women. That's because I have Aspergers; I can't communicate with fucking anybody. Women complain about sexual objectification; I objectify everybody and everything and there's nothing sexual about it.
Threatened? I'm feeling very threatened by people telling me that all of my success is because I'm sexist, misogynistic, benefiting from some sort of invisible privilege or otherwise have advantages. Fuck them and fuck you, I've had to work hard for my success and fight against people that get this social interaction shit every fucking step of the way.
Hey Bruce. As someone with Aspergers, I'd love to know where the empathy is from everybody else out there in everything else I do.
School, university, jobs, career, dating, socialising, hobbies, dealing with governmental agencies; there's a massive empathy gap. They all expect me to act 'normally'.
Forgive me if I completely lack empathy for women that don't want to enter a world in which I'm comfortable, in which skill, interest and capability matter more than social niceties, in which people can say what they think, where people are honest.
Those women get it easy everywhere else. People with Aspergers already compromise fucking everywhere so how about stop trying to fix us and fix the rest of the bloody world.
maybe he would not have such a hard time getting donations to keep it going.
My understanding is that wikipedia has a massive cash pool, enough to fund potentially decades of continued operation, and the ongoing fundraising is frankly bewildering.
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If I'm the best person to provide aid, then I'll provide aid.
Otherwise, I'm happy to film or photograph. Anybody threatening me as a result gets filmed or photographed, right up until the point I put them in hospital through self defence.
Although while we're waiting for the ambulance it's a recursive problem.
Hmm, no. They're the collaborative social playing of a game, together.
What you've described is far more akin to twitch streaming, although people have used misidentified it as a Let's Play.
I think Twitch's tremendous success demonstrates that although you may not be part of that market, there's a clear market for people wanting to watch people play games.
It needs to be clear that Forbes was not compromised and there is no technical wrongdoing on their part in this matter
Using a request to view their content as an excuse to distribute malware is a pretty fucking big technical wrongdoing.
If they can't vet the content they're presenting then they shouldn't fucking present it, unless they want blacklisting by anti-malware lists - e.g. the ones Google and Microsoft maintain.
What, you mean the way the web was working perfectly well a dozen years ago?
It's possible to acquire a large number of games that are not encumbered with DRM - between free games, re-releases on sites like gog.com, small developers that can't afford DRM technologies, sensible developers that understand economics and realise DRM doesn't help their overall revenue and ethical developers that choose not to fuck over their customers, there is a tremendous amount of choice available.
Crikey, where do you get your games news? There's never been more choice in gaming.
I'm thinking this is just an anti-Apple troll hard at work
That'll be why a kid managed to spend several grand on an iPad with minimal effort.
Shit, the article acknowledges that Apple refunded the expenditure. From one perspective, they're the good guys.
Of course, from another perspective they don't have too much choice, and they've also already set the precedent.
Would you settle for a $50 maximum, that could be incremented by the consumer only through a 2FA protected pro-active choice, with stepped levels?
I don't think that would be terribly onerous on mobile, and I'd support a monthly/quarterly reset back to the lower level.
On Steam (I don't know about XBL) a different approach may be needed; an individual game could cost over $100 with ease. A cap may not make sense, additional protection against someone spending $5k on Train Simulator 2016 and all of its DLC doesn't sound unreasonable.
Steam does already however do this - e.g. they frequently invite me to re-enter my CCV2 number, although I'll admit I haven't examined the trigger for that request.
It doesn't matter what people want if they're abusively coerced through scientifically derived marketing and conditioning into expenditure they wouldn't rationally make.
See my other post for relevant sources.
http://www.gameinformer.com/b/... is a basic reference but hides how abusive the game companies are.
http://toucharcade.com/2015/09... is the most damning, but also check http://motherboard.vice.com/re... and the coercive monetisation part of http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs...
http://www.theguardian.com/soc...
Carry on, cuntface.
Harshly put, and only partly right. Project managers manage resources, budgets, costs, stakeholders, timescales and as a result, the project.
The architect also manages the project, but takes accountability for the technical correctness of it, the design, the quality.
In other words, the answer is to get a good architect. Make them accountable for quality. Give them the authority to deliver on that accountability.
At this point the number of bugs becomes irrelevant, the complex compromises between functionality, security, user experience, data integrity, resilience, stability, availability and cost can be properly assessed.
Bugs are a tiny part of the whole.
You mistake objectivity for support.
Failing to go 'Al Qaeda are evil and must be destroyed' is not supporting them.
My experience is that Al Jazeera is far more objective than most UK news sources, let alone US ones.
Etiquette can normally be found written up. Looking at Amazon, "modern etiquette" and "modern manners" bring up a number of useful looking books and the book reviews seem to be helpful.
Etiquette books don't tell you why it's fine for a woman to say 'nice dress' but not a man. Or why it's fine for one man to go 'hey gorgeous, fancy a shag' - in the office - and not another.
I don't know all the rules, I'm still learning them. I know rules exist, but not which ones, and books are limited in their help.
But thanks for telling me it's all my fault. I'm fucking fine with other people with Aspergers, it's cunts that think everyone else can read in between the lines that have the problem.
Yes, I'm calling you a cunt. Yes, that's rude. No, don't expect a fucking apology.
So, you have so much experience living and working as a woman, have you, Cedric?
Call yourself a consultant, you can't even get someone's name right.
No, I haven't enjoyed the advantages of living and working as a woman. I've suffered the advantages and disadvantages of having Aspergers, which include being misunderstood by women and given far less opportunity than the ones with whom I work.
I see women getting networking opportunities, advancement opportunities, payrises, flexible working options that just aren't available to men.
I don't think women have it easy. I just wish they'd fucking realise that men don't have it easy, it's not sexism, and if they want equality then fucking well welcome.
Go back to your cave (you DID understand the "shadows" reference, didn't you...or was that wa-a-ay over your head?
Yes, it was. But I do retreat to my cave, often - it's the only way I can mentally recover from the stress of talking to people.
It's ok, I'm fine online, you're not hurting me. Well, beyond pretending that I'm the evil holding you back, but really that's hurting you more.
You seem to assume I tolerate "staff members unable to handle female techie".
Maybe it's different in Silicon Valley but I see competent female techies all over the place and they all get respect for their abilities.
I've seen sexism a number of times at my current organisation. Predominantly it's been women demeaning, harassing, devaluing or otherwise underestimating men.
Where it's anything else, I've spoken out, stepped in and haven't yet had to escalate. Maybe I should have the confidence to stop the women too, I'm just too fucking scared of the inevitable HR complaint.
Curious. You seem to think I'm trying to be rude.
I'm merely failing to observe the local etiquette, often because I just don't have a fucking clue what it is. I'm failing to respond to body language, because it's a total mystery to me. I'm being honest, because that's respectful.
Tell me, where in all of that am I being sexist? Where am I being an arsehole? Where exactly am I intentionally upsetting people?
How the fuck am I meant to be in the wrong here, when other people are judging me by their rules, including the ones my disability makes it impossible for me to even fucking know exist?
Now do you understand? Being polite is something I was taught as a child. Guess what: I hold doors open for people. A woman accused me of sexism because I held a door open for her.
Project yourself into that fucking situation and tell me just what the fuck the answer is, because confusion, stress and anger were all things I immediately had to suppress.
There are, of course, bad consultants out there. But your ability to suss out exactly what the situation is from a few lines makes you either psychic or... something else.
Being a good consultant means being able to come into an organisation and add value. It means overcoming the natural resistance of the permanent staff. It means keeping the primary stakeholder happy, and often requires wielding that stakeholder's personal influence as a weapon.
If CAOgdin was a good consultant, she'd know this, she'd accept it and she'd get on with it. Instead she's complaining that her gender is the issue.
Sorry but her gender is not the fucking issue.
Strange. I'm not sexist. If anything, I'm almost certainly less sexist than you: I treat women much the same as I treat men.
The problem is that you and every fucking woman out there screams sexism when I do that.
Don't go telling me that it's me in the wrong for this, or that I'm repressing women. The only repression going on around here is your common fucking sense.
Women on dating websites complain of constantly receiving dick pics.
This is the one valid complaint that I think probably applies to women far more than to men. Although I'll admit I haven't asked gay friends whether the same thing happens on their specialist sites too.
As a man in a senior leadership role, trust me, it's got fuck all to do with gender.
I can walk into a room, command respect and get the people in the room motivated and delivering a shared outcome. That's fuck all to do with my gender and everything to do with being good at my job, showing respect to them and how I can demonstrate my expertise, my ability to process information and my ability to make decisions that feels inclusive.
I've had to learn all that shit. It's fucking hard. It pays off.
I can walk into other rooms and be marginalised because it's someone else's domain, and she commands respect, processes information better than me, makes decisions better than I could and does it with a level of emotional intelligence I can only fucking admire from a distance. She's also two management levels senior to me, and will be on the board of a FTSE100 company before she's 50.
Her gender isn't holding her back or causing her problems. Shit, 70% of the staff in her global team are female.
If you're struggling, it's not your gender. It's because you're an arrogant ignorant bullshit artist that gets caught out when you speak with the experts. But to be fair, you've admitted you're a consultant already.
Being autistic (or on the spectrum somewhere) is no excuse for deliberately being a cock towards women.
Failing to read body language, observe social niceties and participate in social events is not deliberately being a cock towards women.
Hasn't fucking stopped them complaining about it though.
Women I've harassed, assaulted or intentionally insulted in the office, in the past two decades : 0
Women that have physically assaulted me (let alone the other shit): 3
Yet somehow Bruce thinks it's my fault that the office isn't a female friendly environment? Shit. Fuck Bruce and fuck you.
Interesting. You call it a troll post, I find little in there to challenge.
In my experience, sexist people just don't know how to communicate with women, and feel threatened. Grow up, and be a man!
You sexist piece of shit, stop telling men how to be a man.
I don't know how to communicate with women. That's because I have Aspergers; I can't communicate with fucking anybody. Women complain about sexual objectification; I objectify everybody and everything and there's nothing sexual about it.
Threatened? I'm feeling very threatened by people telling me that all of my success is because I'm sexist, misogynistic, benefiting from some sort of invisible privilege or otherwise have advantages. Fuck them and fuck you, I've had to work hard for my success and fight against people that get this social interaction shit every fucking step of the way.
Hey Bruce. As someone with Aspergers, I'd love to know where the empathy is from everybody else out there in everything else I do.
School, university, jobs, career, dating, socialising, hobbies, dealing with governmental agencies; there's a massive empathy gap. They all expect me to act 'normally'.
Forgive me if I completely lack empathy for women that don't want to enter a world in which I'm comfortable, in which skill, interest and capability matter more than social niceties, in which people can say what they think, where people are honest.
Those women get it easy everywhere else. People with Aspergers already compromise fucking everywhere so how about stop trying to fix us and fix the rest of the bloody world.
maybe he would not have such a hard time getting donations to keep it going.
My understanding is that wikipedia has a massive cash pool, enough to fund potentially decades of continued operation, and the ongoing fundraising is frankly bewildering.
You have evidence they're short on cash?