I would not touch Steam, until the user gets to choose which patches to run the game with
You've had the ability to avoid patching your Steam games for around a decade now.
That's not quite selective patching but effectively operates the same way, given patches generally have a dependency relationship. If you skip one you mostly aren't getting later ones whether you're on Steam or not.
Nah, I invested the 80GB of download to take a look and although it's a simple shooter with fairly basic and repetitive gameplay the free version is already constrained in a way that merely cuts off progress rather than removing core elements of the game.
It's not good enough to entice me to buy the additional content but the free version is a playable game in its own right.
The only way that the tax issues they have get solved is by international agreement about the rules of where companies pay tax.
The UK has even less power to dictate that on their own, and with Brexit looming, they don't even get to take aggressive negotiating positions on matters of trade
You stupid ignorant fuck will you stop spewing your idiocy all over Slashdot.
For example: The UK just introduced a new tax on revenue that will apply to Facebook.
What was that? Exactly what you said they couldn't and wouldn't do? Yes.
Some things we do still do right. Mostly. Unless you're accused of terrorism based on illegally gathered evidence that the security services don't want people to know they have.
regarding UK regulations that affect US companies doing business there, that is regulated by the trade agreements between the US and the UK
Only to an extent. Facebook is not being asked to comply with any regulations not already enforced against British and other companies. This isn't an international trade issue, this is a "Facebook are breaking UK law" issue.
If the US want to overrule UK law then yes, I'd rather we stopped trading with them. Why the fuck do you think Brexit even happened?
That's not entirely true. As a permanent member of the UN security council, one of the world's largest economies, a nuclear power with substantial conventional force projection capabilities and a centuries old reputation the UK exerts a tremendous amount of influence.
It just doesn't derive from its position in the Commonwealth.
I think you'll find the cricket is merely an excuse for a good tea.
Indeed, I think you'll find England have paused their rampant domination of a struggling Sri Lankan side so that they can enjoy a nice mid afternoon cuppa in Galle.
It'll be nice if Jennings can get his century when they resume, although the 351 run lead is probably already enough.
I find it fascinating that you've made assumptions about the politics (and marital status) of the person to whom you replied, none of which relate even slightly to the post they made.
What's wrong with that question? I mean, the answer is, "By exploiting the personal data of our users to manipulate them" and that's exactly the fucking issue at hand.
I fear the person to whom you replied doesn't even understand the issue, and is thus entirely incapable of comprehending the implications of the European response to it.
Where the jobs are has been, is and will continue to be entirely fucking irrelevant.
Where the revenues are generated and profits made is the key factor and companies are generating a lot of revenue and profit in the UK then using international tax laws to pay pitiful levels of tax there. That's why the UK is stating that this is not an acceptable way to operate and that an additional tax will now be levied.
Lets face it, Twitter and Facebook don't exactly have high UK employment to start with.
If Amazon, Facebook and Apple decide not to operate in the UK then their tax burden in the country will indeed be zero.
Right now they do operate in the UK, they just don't pay a sensible or reasonable level of tax on the profits they make here. I think pay up or fuck off is a perfectly acceptable demand from the Government.
It raises average salaries and increases community wealth. That will result in some people lording it over their neighbours but will also result in people investing in improving their community.
Taking people out of subsistence living is a basic first step towards a large range of improvements, including education and gaining a more complex range of skills.
Children of Men was commercially successful and will continue to generate revenues for decades.
The Fate of the Furious (to pick the most recent in the franchise) earned far more money far more quickly so I can understand investment going into films like that but it certainly doesn't preclude making good films.
It's a strange profession where being great at one thing typically means you're great at most things.
Hmm, no. You can be great at software engineering but that's a massive field in its own right. There are four people on the planet that are great at algorithm design, software engineering, network topologies, storage configuration, database administration, project management, testing, service acceptance, hardware design, disaster recovery planning, data centre wiring and data science, all at the same time. Well, four people with a margin for error of 4 or so.
Most of the issues are intuitive to those with strong abstract reasoning.
20 years experience means you don't need to reason, you know the answer already. Hands-on implementation experience means you avoid the mistakes that intuition can't escape.
Abstract reasoning is also a skill that allows one to horizontally transfer understanding from one area to another.
This is why you can develop that broad base of understanding. But don't pretend you're great at everything.
All of the things I listed above I can do. I can do them well enough to bullshit people working in those domains. I can them well enough to keep their customers happy.
I also know I'm far from great at most of them. I just happen to know enough to spot the difference, and to spot when the domain experts aren't doing their job well enough. I understand enough of the language, approaches and techniques to help them deliver what I need. I know I could do their job, I just can't be arsed spending five years getting to the level of knowledge and experience that I expect them to add today.
A man's got to know his limitations. -- Harry Callahan
Municipal authorities. Employers with large campuses. People living in high crime areas.
Electric bikes can cost more than a car but you can't tucj a car under your arm and walk off with it. I can understand people seeking to protect their investment.
A lease system feels a more appropriate model but I'm not GM.
Even if they have the base skills to be able to be able to do anything really well they won't have the exposure and experience in all areas
I don't expect my good software and hardware engineers to know how to solve all problems across all domains.
I do expect them to know that there will be a problem and articulate it sufficiently for a domain expert to provide a solution. I absolutely require them to be able to assess the viability and appropriateness of that solution.
This is why T shaped people are so valuable and never struggle for jobs. Be great at the thing you're great at but good enough to spot the bullshit everywhere else.
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I would not touch Steam, until the user gets to choose which patches to run the game with
You've had the ability to avoid patching your Steam games for around a decade now.
That's not quite selective patching but effectively operates the same way, given patches generally have a dependency relationship. If you skip one you mostly aren't getting later ones whether you're on Steam or not.
Sure Facebook can ignore UK law. They'll just have to close all their UK offices, sack all their UK staff and cease operating in the UK.
Entirely their choice.
The UK has no problem enforcing its laws on global multinationals and I'm fucking bewildered that you think otherwise.
Hmm. I got accused of cheating at Unreal Tournament. One defence I used was that I was regularly killing people that were clearly using aimbots.
But that was a proper online game, where map knowledge, skill and prediction could outperform reactive responses.
Nah, I invested the 80GB of download to take a look and although it's a simple shooter with fairly basic and repetitive gameplay the free version is already constrained in a way that merely cuts off progress rather than removing core elements of the game.
It's not good enough to entice me to buy the additional content but the free version is a playable game in its own right.
The only way that the tax issues they have get solved is by international agreement about the rules of where companies pay tax.
The UK has even less power to dictate that on their own, and with Brexit looming, they don't even get to take aggressive negotiating positions on matters of trade
You stupid ignorant fuck will you stop spewing your idiocy all over Slashdot.
For example: The UK just introduced a new tax on revenue that will apply to Facebook.
What was that? Exactly what you said they couldn't and wouldn't do? Yes.
What sort of trial do you think he'd get?
A fair one.
Some things we do still do right. Mostly. Unless you're accused of terrorism based on illegally gathered evidence that the security services don't want people to know they have.
And sure, the UK can have whatever privacy laws they want. As long as they apply it to all the companies, we won't care.
They do, and they do. But you do care, and you're so miserably misinformed it feels like wilful ignorance.
regarding UK regulations that affect US companies doing business there, that is regulated by the trade agreements between the US and the UK
Only to an extent. Facebook is not being asked to comply with any regulations not already enforced against British and other companies. This isn't an international trade issue, this is a "Facebook are breaking UK law" issue.
If the US want to overrule UK law then yes, I'd rather we stopped trading with them. Why the fuck do you think Brexit even happened?
Britain is more likely to put out an international arrest warrant
No, they're more likely to go "Well, fuck him" and regulate Facebook anyway.
That's not entirely true. As a permanent member of the UN security council, one of the world's largest economies, a nuclear power with substantial conventional force projection capabilities and a centuries old reputation the UK exerts a tremendous amount of influence.
It just doesn't derive from its position in the Commonwealth.
I think you'll find the cricket is merely an excuse for a good tea.
Indeed, I think you'll find England have paused their rampant domination of a struggling Sri Lankan side so that they can enjoy a nice mid afternoon cuppa in Galle.
It'll be nice if Jennings can get his century when they resume, although the 351 run lead is probably already enough.
I find it fascinating that you've made assumptions about the politics (and marital status) of the person to whom you replied, none of which relate even slightly to the post they made.
It doesn't make you look good. Or sane.
Think facebook would be happy if the UK made a law with the fine being 10% of global revenue
The UK made a law with the fine being 2% of global revenue. But if the company doesn't resolve the underlying issues it can be levied multiple times.
What's wrong with that question? I mean, the answer is, "By exploiting the personal data of our users to manipulate them" and that's exactly the fucking issue at hand.
There is no such thing as "hate" speech, there is only free speech.
Don't be silly. Some speech could qualify as both, and at the same time.
How you respond to hate speech should be the discussion, not idiocy like "There is no such thing".
I fear the person to whom you replied doesn't even understand the issue, and is thus entirely incapable of comprehending the implications of the European response to it.
Hopefully your response will educate them.
Where the jobs are has been, is and will continue to be entirely fucking irrelevant.
Where the revenues are generated and profits made is the key factor and companies are generating a lot of revenue and profit in the UK then using international tax laws to pay pitiful levels of tax there. That's why the UK is stating that this is not an acceptable way to operate and that an additional tax will now be levied.
Lets face it, Twitter and Facebook don't exactly have high UK employment to start with.
If Amazon, Facebook and Apple decide not to operate in the UK then their tax burden in the country will indeed be zero.
Right now they do operate in the UK, they just don't pay a sensible or reasonable level of tax on the profits they make here. I think pay up or fuck off is a perfectly acceptable demand from the Government.
Sounds like the article writer thought it would never take away Kenyan jobs.
No, sounds like the writer is pushing their idiotic prejudices. After all..
smartphones are common and every other shop is selling chargers and accessories
Oh look, people are already accessing modern electronics.
It raises average salaries and increases community wealth. That will result in some people lording it over their neighbours but will also result in people investing in improving their community.
Taking people out of subsistence living is a basic first step towards a large range of improvements, including education and gaining a more complex range of skills.
Children of Men was commercially successful and will continue to generate revenues for decades.
The Fate of the Furious (to pick the most recent in the franchise) earned far more money far more quickly so I can understand investment going into films like that but it certainly doesn't preclude making good films.
It's a strange profession where being great at one thing typically means you're great at most things.
Hmm, no. You can be great at software engineering but that's a massive field in its own right. There are four people on the planet that are great at algorithm design, software engineering, network topologies, storage configuration, database administration, project management, testing, service acceptance, hardware design, disaster recovery planning, data centre wiring and data science, all at the same time. Well, four people with a margin for error of 4 or so.
Most of the issues are intuitive to those with strong abstract reasoning.
20 years experience means you don't need to reason, you know the answer already. Hands-on implementation experience means you avoid the mistakes that intuition can't escape.
Abstract reasoning is also a skill that allows one to horizontally transfer understanding from one area to another.
This is why you can develop that broad base of understanding. But don't pretend you're great at everything.
All of the things I listed above I can do. I can do them well enough to bullshit people working in those domains. I can them well enough to keep their customers happy.
I also know I'm far from great at most of them. I just happen to know enough to spot the difference, and to spot when the domain experts aren't doing their job well enough. I understand enough of the language, approaches and techniques to help them deliver what I need. I know I could do their job, I just can't be arsed spending five years getting to the level of knowledge and experience that I expect them to add today.
A man's got to know his limitations.
-- Harry Callahan
Municipal authorities.
Employers with large campuses.
People living in high crime areas.
Electric bikes can cost more than a car but you can't tucj a car under your arm and walk off with it. I can understand people seeking to protect their investment.
A lease system feels a more appropriate model but I'm not GM.
Even if they have the base skills to be able to be able to do anything really well they won't have the exposure and experience in all areas
I don't expect my good software and hardware engineers to know how to solve all problems across all domains.
I do expect them to know that there will be a problem and articulate it sufficiently for a domain expert to provide a solution. I absolutely require them to be able to assess the viability and appropriateness of that solution.
This is why T shaped people are so valuable and never struggle for jobs. Be great at the thing you're great at but good enough to spot the bullshit everywhere else.
I'm actually a huge fan of the Nevada desert. It's vast and empty and quiet and beautiful in it's own very unique way
Until some cunt builds a new city in it.