Probably just a speck of lint on the lens.
Chahk
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RE: Our Poor Help Desk
Ah, that brings back memories of the good old "Please do not use 'REPLY TO ALL' when asking to be removed from the mailing list!" e-mail :)
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RE: You can lead a horse to water...
I can has a competent Linux Admin?
Our IT refuses to ditch our atrocious Webmail host for unknown reasons. Just this month we've has 3 outages that lasted half a day each; their web access is slower than Vista on 512MB RAM; the hold times when you call them are often over an hour.
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RE: Thanks for the export
@belgariontheking said:
I don't see what's so difficult about EDI transactions. I hear everybody and their mother bitching about it lately, but it's pretty straightforward.
The reason everyone's bitching about it is because a better way to describe the data has existed for years.
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RE: Turn your screen into a mirror
Didn't you know? Yahoo Answers is for people who are too stupid to use Google.
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RE: Thanks for the export
Also, quit complaining about CSV parsers. You have seen nothing until you've had to work with EDI and its many implementations such as X12 or EDIFACT. Our company had to create countless maps to convert the convoluted crap they call "transactions" into something readable like XML and back.
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RE: Thanks for the export
@Welbog said:
@bstorer said:
Unless they're on Wikipedia, they don't matter. Wikipedia is the absolute authority on everything. It says so on Wikipedia. And you know it'd never lie to you because it says it wouldn't.
What about Youtube? I saw a video on Youtube that said not to trust anything I see on Wikipedia.Youtube entry on Wikipedia specifically states not to trust anything said about Wikipedia because Wikipedia knows best.
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RE: How do you sell software? By fucking your legitimate buyers...
@Jeff S said:
So what should they do instead?
They should do a few things:
- Make games people will actually want to buy. "NHL 2011: Now with even more Shiny" might find a small base of die-hard fans for whom "NHL 2010: More Shiny" has lost its edge. Unfortunately for EA though, a third of that player base will opt for a cracked copy to see what the buzz is all about, realize they're being dupped and not buy the game afterwards. A new game that is trully innovative, fun and engaging will sell well, and far outweigh the revenue lost to piracy.
- Make game patches, updates and online content available to authenticated accounts only, ala Steam and Impulse. Sure pirates can still torrent the original game, but if they want the latest and greatest version - they'd need to either re-download the entire game and re-crack it, or shell out the measly $40.
- They need to stop pissing off paying customers with ridiculously draconian DRM schemes. 3 installations only? 10 activations? Blacklisted software? No thanks, I'd like my money back please.