Comment Re:Who? (Score 4, Funny) 556
Being a victim requires actual harm. What actual harm does a threat from some chickenshit web troll really do you?
In all fairness, they have been known to cancel the occasional movie.
Being a victim requires actual harm. What actual harm does a threat from some chickenshit web troll really do you?
In all fairness, they have been known to cancel the occasional movie.
So once we start using this on everything, 1 out of every 5 times, it will lead us to bogus conclusions with false statistical confidence....
Apparently the Trident Gum people have been using this for decades.
It's been said that the older you get, the faster time seems to pass.
It's also been said that time flies while you're having fun.
Therefore, the older I get, the more fun I must be having.
And what happens when the fire department finds out you can't afford to pay them for putting out your house fire? Do they just let your house burn and put out the fire when it spreads to the houses of people that can pay?
Early on in the life-cycle of a company, getting a reputation as being too immoral can hinder your ability to attract employees, customers, and investors. You need to make the most of your benefit of the doubt when you're small and no one knows about the people running the place. Once you've become a significant or dominant part of the market you're competing in, the public's perception of your morality doesn't matter as much.
In other words, your true nature as a heartless bastard shouldn't go public before your company does.
OMG...is slashdot going to turn into another forum for spoiled MMORPG players to whine about not getting exactly what they want?
It's more like they're not getting the product that they donated money for.
The larger problem is this: If a Kickstarter developer can renege on the promises they made to get people to donate to their project, and not suffer any negative repercussions from it, it's going to make it a lot harder for other developers to get people to donate - once somebody gets away with a bait & switch, everybody else comes under suspicion.
Well, I didn't interpret the article the same way you did. I thought the article was saying that you can be logical and still feel wonder.
Case in point: What's the one-word quote Spock is most known for?
"Fascinating."
There's a mass and temperature difference between gas giants and brown dwarf stars. The cutoff is whether the object in question has any fusion going on at all. At about 13x Jupiter mass it's big enough to fuse deuterium, and at 65x it can fuse lithium. If it's massive enough to fuse hydrogen, you've crossed into Red Dwarf territory (oh smeg!).
No form of sustained fusion has ever been detected within Jupiter, so it's not a brown dwarf, just a gas giant planet.
What would you download for a Klondike Bar?
Ah, but it can it also create the necessary flavoring to create something which tastes almost, but not entirely, unlike tea?
Yes, but they're trying to refine the process such that it doesn't also create a sperm whale and pot of petunias as a byproduct.
At least they're no longer printing it all out and sending it through the USPS. Progress is being made.
It's not just about people, it's also about the before buyout/after buyout difference in the quality of the products produced by the 'wholly owned subsidiary'.
People who enjoyed games by Westwood, Bioware, or Maxis before they were bought out by EA understand this.
Actually, there were a few arcade titles following the 80's crash offered advantages if you chipped in more coinage. Cyberball 2072 would sometimes give you the option to buy improved team performance or enhanced players between quarters. And I seem to recall Xybots offering extra in-game currency for tokens. Thankfully the trend never caught on back then.
HE-MAN!!!!
Sincerely,
The Ungrateful Yuppie Larva of the world.
Are we not counting Tex, or Griff's sister?
"Engineering without management is art." -- Jeff Johnson
