Comment Re:Not the best plan. (Score 1) 182
If you need caffeine to function normally, you have a problem
... which could be being a parent to a young child and thereby regularly deprived of sleep. A terrible addiction, procreation.
If you need caffeine to function normally, you have a problem
... which could be being a parent to a young child and thereby regularly deprived of sleep. A terrible addiction, procreation.
If you're going to suggest an app, Signal is the one. For one, it's open source. Second, it's backed by the EFF and a number of luminaries not the least of whom is Edward Snowden.
Maybe because the VW CEO resigned in disgrace and the Porsche CEO took over with a mandate to clean up VW's act, purportedly because Porsche was squeaky clean?
Adblock Edge for those who don't want "acceptable" ads showing up.
Irrespective of how good or bad you think it is today, do you not think it could be worse?
By labelling it as a future situation, you can engage people with opposing views to at least acknowledge that there is a potential future problem that can be actioned.
me in BC buying a car from a guy who bought/brought it in from Alberta and sold it through his car dealership in BC. Then Ford comes in and torches my car because I didn't get it through a dealer in BC and because the prices are lower in Alberta so it was unfair to the dealer in BC since it wasn't sold through an authorized dealer, leaving the burnt-out wreck in my driveway.
FTFY.
FireChat requires that users create an account online (with an email address) before they can use the app. This and the lack of encryption limits its usefulness.
(x) Scammy developers will pay people in 4th-world countries to say their app is great.
Not disagreeing entirely with what you're saying in the rest of your post, but this particular issue could be mitigated by having ratings only factor in scoring from the same region/country as the prospective customer.
In addition to Voyager529's response above, another major BSD is OpenBSD, which focuses on security.
... or a mass relay connected to a galaxy-wide FTL network.
The results aggregate data for all users of each provider. In Australia at least, many providers offer different types of access (e.g. cable, DSL, 4G wireless), making some of the results less than meaningful.
no one will miss the subset of the species that "is unstable, creates wars, has weapons to wipe out the world twice over, and makes computer viruses" when our new overlords wipe them out. (You know who you are!)
Setting aside instability, most people may not be inclined to initiate wars, wipe the world out or create viruses, but if a sentient AI took over, many would resort to these measures to reassert their dominance/freedom.
So you have a team of devs sitting idle for two months. Well, you could put them on fixing some of the more egregious bugs found (leading to day 1 patches) because they have an extra 2 months to fix it, and the other devs (and artists, etc) can work on making extras (day 1 DLC). Because the moment the game is released, gamers might find a bug and you need to get people fixing it.
Developers can't sit around idle, and if a game's done, either you reallocate them to a new project, or lay them off. Either option doesn't work if you need to fix bugs. That's why you have day 1 patches (extra 2 months to fix bugs), day 1 DLC (2 months to generate content), and day 1 gamebreaking bugs.
Sounds like the answer is staring the gaming industry in the face: when preparing the game's business case, incorporate the outputs of those two months into a free patch/expansion patch, and set the price accordingly (or define the initial feature set accordingly, if price needs to be X). Of course, it's easier to be greedy and generate an additional revenue stream (paid DLC).
Crazee Edeee, his prices are INSANE!!!
