It's also why they are trying to kill solar.

You could have stopped there, because that sums it up nicely.

Here's a only partly contrived example based on something I witnessed once in an order management system: Consider a search service, a datawarehouse server, an LDAP system, and a messaging system that all depend on aspects of a user definition. However, LDAP doesn't give a hoot about any of the others, and the SSO team does their thing in a relative vacuum. They work on LDAP, and have what they think is their own personal attribute in LDAP, let's call it a companyUserId. They've used this ID as a username for a while, and the datawarehouse folks, seeing it, used it in reports 6 months ago. The messaging system, after it was created, in a 100% Agile way, decided to use these usernames as an abstraction for the user. The SSO folks decided that the ID was badly designed, doesn't meet their need for rapid indexing, and convert them all to numbers. Or, the messaging folks decide to allow users to set those usernames to whatever they want, and don't do a uniqueness test. There's so many ways that things can be tested as components and work perfectly well but go to shit in a complex system if there's not a cohesive design in place and it's managed by someone. And before you go "SCRUM will solve all this" no it won't. There were 100s involved in this development effort.

Agile won't save you from failure in these cases. Complex enterprise solutions by their nature require significant effort to get even the basic scaffolding up, and by the time they get to a scale where certain classes of problems become evident, you've already sunk quite a bit into the project. This isn't moving GUI widget from the left corner to the middle and something Agile is good at, but changing a data structure that is layered throughout 6 sets of services, for instance, one or two that the modeler may not even be aware of. This is where enterprise and data architects live and earn their pay, or fail and go to management to repeat their failures.

Science without religion is science. Religion is blind.

Slick.. :)

So it's highly like the iPhone 6S / 7 will be made with this instead of Gorilla glass?

I was thinking "Wanted'. I like 5th Element better.

Or even "The Thaw", still far better than AvP.

Do you pronounce it "ter" (tar with an e) or "tre" (tree with a short 'e')? My guess is the british just can't spell. ;)

Man, did 1 AC post all 3 in an effort to start a negative diatribe?

I downloaded the installer from GoG, so I can install as many times as I want. The Steam one isn't an installer. So, you have your game directories backed up - yay for you. You're still running from the original install. Pay attention and read the GPP for all that it says. And do try to "install" that backup to a new PC without Steam.

Note, I do have some Steam stuff, but if I can get it on GoG vs Steam, GoG always FTW. Hell, I'll get it on GoG even if I have it on Steam, because then I can make an actual physical copy that is installable whenever and wherever I want.

No Steam, no backups. Try installing that on a new PC without Steam.

Crap, my disk 4 of The Humans won't read....

So Comcast is buying TWC?

Steam goes away, or changes their policies, or stops supporting this game. Your machine crashes. What then?