sorry did incorrect mod of overrated.. meant to do funny

No kidding, i played both, 3 was good, but NV by far was my favourite.

ah cause you think you're a hotshot in college knows all the latest tech, and cant figure out why the company wont use bleeding edge technologies. You dont really know about legacy support, or that a significant portion of your customers havent upgraded from windows 98 to xp, so still need to support it (this was 10+ years ago, and we still need to support xp / ie6)

nah he is a stubborn 75 year old british guy who just in this past 5 years finally came to the realization that the internet is here to stay. For the longest time he thought it was a passing fad. And I am not even joking.

I remember 2 years ago that he told me to add a feature to our website that changes the background color every month, and he wanted to approve the colours. Colours such as purple, shit brown, etc (oh and I forgot to mention my boss is also colour blind). This also meant having to change text colours so they wouldnt clash. I still have nightmares of the flourescent orange text on a blue background. I did it for a couple months but then I just outright refused because it looked so bad. 1990 geocities sites looked better than ours. I think he finally came to terms that he didnt need to micromanage the tech side of the business.

I mean this is a guy who gets his secretary to print off every email he gets, dictates his response into a voice recorder, and gives it to his secretary to type up an email. We call it the 9:30 flood because he always dictates the night before so she comes in at 9 and has 20 responses on the voice recorder waiting for her to type up.

He has no business in stating how he thinks a website should work.

this so much. As a lot of young people straight out of college I thought I knew it all. So I heard something and immediatly say "that's stupid, why would it do it that way?" Which ends up as 2 problems a)the person loses some respect for you and b) You could be wrong because you dont know the full picture. So you end up being in a big argument, when finally the other person says something that is key to the discussion that you didnt know about and then it makes sense why they did it that way

So now I always try to do "I dont understand", and "can you please explain the rational?" Because chances are I am just missing a piece of the puzzle. However, I have also learned anything that comes out of my bosses mouth is stupid, so I just nod and agree and do the opposite.

face/off

There was an AMA (ask my anything) on reddit a couple days ago from the devs of city skylines, and someone asked this very question

  "What would you do if EA tried to buy you?"
They responded with "Something like this".

Yup I think you nailed the answer on the head.

I would say about 50% of the people I know who were pirating content that werent using vpns are now. In the past 3 months I have been asked a dozen times from people a vpn service I recommend. People who I thought didnt even know what a vpn was.

I dont use a vpn. I have received over a dozen notices, and I dont give a shit. They cant do anything other than fine me $100. But they never will because their lawyer costs will be too high to justify it. Ill look into a VPN if the law changes or if it breaks out that people are actually starting to get fined.

Actually, this is a good analogy. You can get from Texas to New York using an F150 or using a Yaris. But what is the purpose? Are you lugging your spouse and 3 kids for a vacation? Then maybe go for an SUV or minivan that provides comfort. Are you transporting some goods? Maybe a truck with a tailer. Is cost a concern? Maybe fuel efficient vehicle. Are you a hipster? Maybe a Tesla.
But even with these different requirements, you still have choices.

exactly. happened once ever. And you right, I was preparing for a thanksgiving diner (canada so october). My thermostat was set to auto so AC kicked in due to all the heat coming from stove (and was a particulalry warm october.. i did turn off ac though). Was also doing laundry+dishes.

why dont you jusst create a self signed wildcard cert and install it in your browser?Thats what we do for our local development we have a wildcard cert with multiple SAN and it works great. Then just install it in our keychain

No, but if enough people even just did as OP was saying, charge it from grid overnight, maybe they wouldnt need as much power plants.

Peak of 15?? really?. What are you in a 4000sqft home with dual air conditioners, and running your oven + burners?. I do agree a peak of 3kw is fairly low. Turn on a dryer + ac and you blow right past it. But even a peak of 7 or 8 would be good for most people.

exactly. I was able to draw 20kW at once throughout my whole home (I have a whole house energy meter). I had 4 stove burners, oven, dryer, AC, dishwasher, couple computers/tvs all running at the same time. My energy meter starts making a loud beeping noise once you go past 15. This happened once. I can count on 1 hand how many times I hit 10+. I rarely go over 5.. But in summer I can easily hit 4

I would personally rather have Cs or even Ds. Oh wait, were you talking about the grades?