I refute the suggestion that any pillow fight is inexplicable.
There are people. Pillows are present. Pillow fights are a logical outcome. The alternative is that there are pillows. People are present. Pillow fights are almost obligatory.
I find that curious. My manager couldn't do my job - he's happy to admit it, his background doesn't give him the skills or experience for it, he's shown no desire to learn it and he just can't do it.
What he can do, exceedingly well, is his job. I really like that, I consider it a great attribute, it means I can learn new and interesting skills from him and it means I can delegate shit I can't be arsed with to him too.
Society has low professional expectations for women, and pays them according to those expectations
Hang on. Someone working pseudo-part time (whatever the fuck that means) remotely is paid less than someone working fulltime in the office, and you're blaming that on gender?
Just fuck off with your ill informed misinformation, bigoted perspective, flawed belief that men get paid more for equal work and pretence getting to stay at home with the children is a "battle" for women.
It's bigoted cunts like you that perpetuate the current disparities in employment. I'd fucking love to be working part time on a partial wage, supported by someone working my current hours earning my current wage.
Trust me, I know several women that would have to work more for less pay to match. But that's fine, apparently it's because expectations are less on them. I don't give a flying fuck, I expect them to deliver more value than me to reflect their higher pay.
Hmm. You could call it an Iron Curtain too, that's a nifty name. Set up some checkpoints for legitimate visitors, maybe just letters for names - the phonetic alphabet might work here.
Who knows, maybe it'll prove as impervious as its namesake. i.e. Not very.
Yeah, Dragon Age : Origins was a genuinely excellent game - when I could play it.
The online DRM made it unplayable around 20% of the time, and as a result I refuse to buy any further entries in the Dragon Age series, and I refuse to buy EA games.
Then they release Dragon Age : Inquisition with Origin based DRM AND another separate DRM scheme that apparently fucks over SSDs AND needs online checks that regularly fail.
EA are basically begging me not to buy their games. I'm happy to oblige.
It's a shame, the game is probably excellent. I feel sorry for the development team, but they shouldn't have picked such a fuckwit publisher.
erm. The last seven games I bought cost me $6.66. Not 'each', $6.66 got me all seven. It actually got me nine games, but I already owned two so I'm being kind and not including them.
Although you can spend $60 on a PC game, it's incredibly rare. E.g. Company Of Heroes 2 Ardennes Assault, an AAA game, released this week, £18.31 ($28.77). Shit, the limited edition is only £22.
The bit that makes me laugh is that although this has caused media interest, although Trading Standards have become involved, although the reviews are probably going to cause the hotel to get serious attention from health and safety bodies, the local council and other government bodies, the stupidest thing of all is that the reviewer didn't even do anything that might incur the £100 charge.
Their review was relevant, accurate, succinct, informative and useful. I'd say it's a bloody excellent review, and that means it doesn't fall foul of the 'bad review' clause in the first place.
The best way to avoid subscription fees is to sell the fucking game and let me play it without needing to provide further services.
See also: Offline single player.
I appreciate this is a difficult proposition, especially in large scale first person space games. If only it had been possible in the X series, Freelancer, Privateer, Evothingy or, I don't know, fucking Elite. In 22k.
In case you haven't guessed, they've lost a sale here.
Offering the server as is would potentially reveal all the secrets that's in the galaxy, making exploration pretty much pointless.
As opposed to, I don't know, finding out that every other cunt in the game has already been there anyway, in the game instance you're playing?
I'm sure the server code for this kind of project is not same light piece, as you play the game more and more will have to be kept track off. Most likely more than you want running in the background while playing the game.
I play Dwarf Fortress. I play X3 variants. I play Football Manager. I play rich complex games that do a lot of work. I don't see why ED is any different.
Having the server out in the wild will just make it easier for cheats and bots to ruin the online experience.
Having the server unavailable ruins the offline experience. Give and take, and they chose to take. Fuck 'em.
As long as 'guru' is used in a gently deprecating way. Especially when referring to self.
Although I do like working in environments where the question, "Anybody know anything about.." risks the answer, "Yeah, he wrote the book on it" without sarcasm being involved.
Those people do tend to skip past mere labels though.
With no save-reload ability. With no modding. With no "lets try this out for a giggle" without consequences. With no exploration of your own private galaxy.
Computer gaming is escapism. I want to be a god in my own universe, not an also-ran in theirs.
I got my current job by applying directly with the company.
I didn't negotiate a signing on bonus, I was glad for the chance to work here. It had several non-financial benefits for me, and they were prepared to wait while I worked notice with my previous employer.
Would they have paid a recruiter a fee for me? I'd hope so:) Did the lack of fee influence them taking me over another candidate? I don't think so, but I haven't ever asked. Did me applying directly to them help demonstrate that I did actually know something about their organisation and want to join it? Yes.
So I got zero of 30%, but I got a job, and no recruiter involved. A win for me, and a win for the company.
Not everybody wants that. While emotionally the idea of being my own boss, having my own company, building a startup into a valuable organisation is appealling to me, I also know that I'd either go bankrupt or kill myself if I tried.
I can help you deliver your vision. I can influence and set direction for your company. I can add value several multiples beyond my own salary (and do, each year). I can't do that for myself, for a number of reasons.
It's a tricky one, and I don't have an easy answer. I do when interviewing look for people with curiousity and understanding, try and evaluate whether they do more than turn up and tap on a keyboard, but I haven't recruited enough developers to be able to easily assess relative productivity, communication skills (above a basic level) or team working.
I do know that I don't trust an agent working for the potential developer. They aren't acting in my interest, they know less about the candidate than the candidate themselves, and just because they work for a company called x10 doesn't mean their clientele are anywhere above average.
If a top end software engineer wants an agent, and the agent does the work of tracking down potential roles, assessing the hiring organisation, helping the engineer apply for the job, helping the engineer prepare for interview (or other recruitment activities) and then even handles salary negotiations on behalf of the engineer, I think that's a valuable contribution and I can understand the engineer taking their services (at a certain price).
If the agent rings me up and tells me they've got a great candidate they'll be invited to remove my number from their contact list.
I was going to quote the parts of your post I consider to be wrong, but realised it's everything you've said.
Average people are not as productive as above average people. Great software engineers work well on teams too; why inhibit your people by giving them mediocre colleagues?
Anybody that "just does his job" is a drain on the system. I want to work with and employ people that are constantly asking and answering, "Is there a better way of doing this?"
Sometimes they get it wrong, sure. But a bored software engineer doesn't lead you to unmaintainable software, it leads you to automated solutions where the brainpower of your above average developers is used to solve the difficult problems, not the mundane ones.
Sure, if you're working on a ten year government contract and everybody must follow the same bureaucratic process and innovation is a waste of four syllables then your approach may be the norm. The rest of us want to improve, whether it's ourselves, our company, our profession.
I hope I never accidentally find myself working for you. Although.. you wouldn't ever employ me. Hurrah!
Curious. You're acting as though the NHS in the UK doesn't have a website into which you can enter symptoms, and receive guidance on whether a medical professional is required.
Is this a universal panacea? No. Would you be better off with a mobile phone you can use the ring the hospital? Yes. Is there benefit to poor rural communities in Africa from access to the internet? Yes.
That's an inherently sexist, bigoted and false viewpoint - and also implicitly self-contradictory.
Women have to deal with sexual assault and date rape on a regular basis; men, yes it happens, but rarely outside of hostile environments such as prison.
You appear to have just declared hostile rape against men to be more acceptable than date rape against women. Forgive me for suggesting that's bigoted and sexist.
Incidentally boys are more likely than girls to be raped. That's includes date rape and other forms of penetrative sex.
The points you raised are for college philosophy classes and freshman bull sessions. Technically correct, but meaningless in real life.
The points you're making are great in misandrist circles, but the rest of us would like to minimise incidence of sexual assault and rape no matter what the gender of the victim. I'm sorry you don't agree.
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inexplicable pillow fights
I refute the suggestion that any pillow fight is inexplicable.
There are people. Pillows are present. Pillow fights are a logical outcome.
The alternative is that there are pillows. People are present. Pillow fights are almost obligatory.
Sufficiently advanced maths is hard for anybody. It's a great leveller: Everybody eventually bumps into a maths problem that they find hard.
Make her watch Clerks and learn a far superior way to get her nails done.
I find that curious. My manager couldn't do my job - he's happy to admit it, his background doesn't give him the skills or experience for it, he's shown no desire to learn it and he just can't do it.
What he can do, exceedingly well, is his job. I really like that, I consider it a great attribute, it means I can learn new and interesting skills from him and it means I can delegate shit I can't be arsed with to him too.
I'm much happier than if he could only do my job.
Women end up taking a back seat (statistically speaking) because they are not as aggressive.
Explain the pay discrepancy between unmarried women with no children, and unmarried men with no children of the same age?
Note : the women earn more. Are you telling us they're more aggressive, or are you just full of shit?
Society has low professional expectations for women, and pays them according to those expectations
Hang on. Someone working pseudo-part time (whatever the fuck that means) remotely is paid less than someone working fulltime in the office, and you're blaming that on gender?
Just fuck off with your ill informed misinformation, bigoted perspective, flawed belief that men get paid more for equal work and pretence getting to stay at home with the children is a "battle" for women.
It's bigoted cunts like you that perpetuate the current disparities in employment. I'd fucking love to be working part time on a partial wage, supported by someone working my current hours earning my current wage.
Trust me, I know several women that would have to work more for less pay to match. But that's fine, apparently it's because expectations are less on them. I don't give a flying fuck, I expect them to deliver more value than me to reflect their higher pay.
I did that today.
Ok, I went one step better. I convinced the programmers to write up everything for me.
Haha.
It's ok, I'm not laughing at you : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H...
Be thankful - the alternative might have been Dwarf Fortress and then you'd have never dared try the bridge..
Hmm. You could call it an Iron Curtain too, that's a nifty name. Set up some checkpoints for legitimate visitors, maybe just letters for names - the phonetic alphabet might work here.
Who knows, maybe it'll prove as impervious as its namesake. i.e. Not very.
Yeah, Dragon Age : Origins was a genuinely excellent game - when I could play it.
The online DRM made it unplayable around 20% of the time, and as a result I refuse to buy any further entries in the Dragon Age series, and I refuse to buy EA games.
Then they release Dragon Age : Inquisition with Origin based DRM AND another separate DRM scheme that apparently fucks over SSDs AND needs online checks that regularly fail.
EA are basically begging me not to buy their games. I'm happy to oblige.
It's a shame, the game is probably excellent. I feel sorry for the development team, but they shouldn't have picked such a fuckwit publisher.
Anywhere from $5 to $60, same as for PC games.
erm. The last seven games I bought cost me $6.66. Not 'each', $6.66 got me all seven. It actually got me nine games, but I already owned two so I'm being kind and not including them.
Although you can spend $60 on a PC game, it's incredibly rare. E.g. Company Of Heroes 2 Ardennes Assault, an AAA game, released this week, £18.31 ($28.77). Shit, the limited edition is only £22.
The bit that makes me laugh is that although this has caused media interest, although Trading Standards have become involved, although the reviews are probably going to cause the hotel to get serious attention from health and safety bodies, the local council and other government bodies, the stupidest thing of all is that the reviewer didn't even do anything that might incur the £100 charge.
Their review was relevant, accurate, succinct, informative and useful. I'd say it's a bloody excellent review, and that means it doesn't fall foul of the 'bad review' clause in the first place.
Trading Standards (an official body with some fairly severe powers) have been involved and commented publicly on the matter. This is legit.
The best way to avoid subscription fees is to sell the fucking game and let me play it without needing to provide further services.
See also: Offline single player.
I appreciate this is a difficult proposition, especially in large scale first person space games. If only it had been possible in the X series, Freelancer, Privateer, Evothingy or, I don't know, fucking Elite. In 22k.
In case you haven't guessed, they've lost a sale here.
Offering the server as is would potentially reveal all the secrets that's in the galaxy, making exploration pretty much pointless.
As opposed to, I don't know, finding out that every other cunt in the game has already been there anyway, in the game instance you're playing?
I'm sure the server code for this kind of project is not same light piece, as you play the game more and more will have to be kept track off. Most likely more than you want running in the background while playing the game.
I play Dwarf Fortress. I play X3 variants. I play Football Manager. I play rich complex games that do a lot of work. I don't see why ED is any different.
Having the server out in the wild will just make it easier for cheats and bots to ruin the online experience.
Having the server unavailable ruins the offline experience. Give and take, and they chose to take. Fuck 'em.
As long as 'guru' is used in a gently deprecating way. Especially when referring to self.
Although I do like working in environments where the question, "Anybody know anything about.." risks the answer, "Yeah, he wrote the book on it" without sarcasm being involved.
Those people do tend to skip past mere labels though.
With no save-reload ability.
With no modding.
With no "lets try this out for a giggle" without consequences.
With no exploration of your own private galaxy.
Computer gaming is escapism. I want to be a god in my own universe, not an also-ran in theirs.
I got my current job by applying directly with the company.
I didn't negotiate a signing on bonus, I was glad for the chance to work here. It had several non-financial benefits for me, and they were prepared to wait while I worked notice with my previous employer.
Would they have paid a recruiter a fee for me? I'd hope so :) Did the lack of fee influence them taking me over another candidate? I don't think so, but I haven't ever asked. Did me applying directly to them help demonstrate that I did actually know something about their organisation and want to join it? Yes.
So I got zero of 30%, but I got a job, and no recruiter involved. A win for me, and a win for the company.
They have their own company/app/startup.
Not everybody wants that. While emotionally the idea of being my own boss, having my own company, building a startup into a valuable organisation is appealling to me, I also know that I'd either go bankrupt or kill myself if I tried.
I can help you deliver your vision. I can influence and set direction for your company. I can add value several multiples beyond my own salary (and do, each year). I can't do that for myself, for a number of reasons.
It's a tricky one, and I don't have an easy answer. I do when interviewing look for people with curiousity and understanding, try and evaluate whether they do more than turn up and tap on a keyboard, but I haven't recruited enough developers to be able to easily assess relative productivity, communication skills (above a basic level) or team working.
I do know that I don't trust an agent working for the potential developer. They aren't acting in my interest, they know less about the candidate than the candidate themselves, and just because they work for a company called x10 doesn't mean their clientele are anywhere above average.
If a top end software engineer wants an agent, and the agent does the work of tracking down potential roles, assessing the hiring organisation, helping the engineer apply for the job, helping the engineer prepare for interview (or other recruitment activities) and then even handles salary negotiations on behalf of the engineer, I think that's a valuable contribution and I can understand the engineer taking their services (at a certain price).
If the agent rings me up and tells me they've got a great candidate they'll be invited to remove my number from their contact list.
I was going to quote the parts of your post I consider to be wrong, but realised it's everything you've said.
Average people are not as productive as above average people. Great software engineers work well on teams too; why inhibit your people by giving them mediocre colleagues?
Anybody that "just does his job" is a drain on the system. I want to work with and employ people that are constantly asking and answering, "Is there a better way of doing this?"
Sometimes they get it wrong, sure. But a bored software engineer doesn't lead you to unmaintainable software, it leads you to automated solutions where the brainpower of your above average developers is used to solve the difficult problems, not the mundane ones.
Sure, if you're working on a ten year government contract and everybody must follow the same bureaucratic process and innovation is a waste of four syllables then your approach may be the norm. The rest of us want to improve, whether it's ourselves, our company, our profession.
I hope I never accidentally find myself working for you. Although.. you wouldn't ever employ me. Hurrah!
Curious. You're acting as though the NHS in the UK doesn't have a website into which you can enter symptoms, and receive guidance on whether a medical professional is required.
Is this a universal panacea? No.
Would you be better off with a mobile phone you can use the ring the hospital? Yes.
Is there benefit to poor rural communities in Africa from access to the internet? Yes.
You seem to disagree. Shrug.
Still, useful to know whether the 60 mile walk to the hospital dragging your family member behind you is necessary in advance.
Women are being impacted by sexism, men aren't.
That's an inherently sexist, bigoted and false viewpoint - and also implicitly self-contradictory.
Women have to deal with sexual assault and date rape on a regular basis; men, yes it happens, but rarely outside of hostile environments such as prison.
You appear to have just declared hostile rape against men to be more acceptable than date rape against women. Forgive me for suggesting that's bigoted and sexist.
Incidentally boys are more likely than girls to be raped. That's includes date rape and other forms of penetrative sex.
The points you raised are for college philosophy classes and freshman bull sessions. Technically correct, but meaningless in real life.
The points you're making are great in misandrist circles, but the rest of us would like to minimise incidence of sexual assault and rape no matter what the gender of the victim. I'm sorry you don't agree.