Blizzard needs to take the D3 graphics engine, remake D2 in it (with the same skill system, enemies, loot, etc), and then roll around in all their money
@Sterno guy makes my skin crawl, such a pathological liar
and it's not over the line, his 'debate' strategy is discuss until you've got an opinion against me, then shout over you until nobody can hear you, if all else fails lie to make you look like a terrorist
well if i get fired i still have the holiday that ia have saved up this year that i can use next year even if i got no job i can go on holiday and get paied
@fbueckert yes, when you have a job yoru employer has to pay a % of your pay to the goverment so the goverment can pay for your vacation the next year (the % is on top of your salary not deducted iirc)
I would classify 'drop <importantfinancialdatabase>;' as work, run by accident of course, due to lack of sleep, and being at work every day for the last 52 weeks
Like Google here in the UK (and I presume elsewhere). The office is amazing - it's a mini-paradise, but your life becomes a Google life. You work/eat/socialize etc. all within the Google ecosystem.
could be, for some reason the people who have made this system though it was a good idea to have it load all data in to memory and do sorting/calculations etc there rather than make some sql calls that limits the data, so takes forever to test modifications to the old code
The company provided cell phones to the IT guys for on-call support.
The assumption at that point was basically, "We've given you a cell phone. That means you now provide on-call support 24/7. Oh, and we're not going to pay you any extra, either."
All employs in my company gets cellphones (even the student workers) and the mandatory signature on emails has you company cell phone number, great when the customer spots the phone number and calls you >.<
Does Assassins's Creed : Revelations have some cheat or console access to enable console commands?
In my search I found this site. How do I employ it in the game?
According to the site Infinite Ammunition: Get 100% Sync in DNA Sequence 7.
How do I get it? And what is 100% Sync in DNA?
I am a...
We'd have to deal with such fun problems as, "The call center is too cold!", or "We don't have enough people to answer the phones, and our manager isn't answering!"
@QAdley Did I mention this was Useless Office Politics Guy?
Yeah, so, apparently, this carried over to the managers as well; if there was a problem, and they were working on something, they'd call us to help them fix it.
Didn't matter if it was the weekend or the evening; if they had a problem, we had to help.
We were launching a new campaign on New Year's Day, of all the inane, stupid, moronic times to launch one.
my department was called Servicecenter (we service outside customers), and we have an emal alias called Servicecenter.All, because of that we some times get emails requesting more printing paper and stuff like that >.<
Because our job wasn't just programming, it was IT jack-of-all-trades. So we'd get called about a single computer not working in the call center, even when there were extras to use.
After New Year's Day, she turned in her cell phone because she just couldn't cope with it anymore.
And honestly, after getting two dozen calls from the same guy because he's a moron would've done it for me, too.
At this point, I wasn't on the on-call list due to being a junior programmer, and I had made it quite clear I wasn't going to do it if they didn't pay me for it.
So, she turns in her cell phone, and a couple days later, goes on stress leave, leaving me to hold down the fort completely.
So, before they have a chance to dump the cell phone on me with the same assumptions, I tell my boss exactly what it would take for me to be on-call.
It involved getting paid respectably for doing on-call work.
All I got out of him was, "The CEO will never go for that."
So, I told him I wasn't going to do on-call work.
I forgot to mention; we were launching this campaign in the middle of moving our office to another floor.
So, since the other programmer had also been organizing and doing everything else we needed to do to get the space ready (we had a couple grunts to help us with the simple stuff, mostly because they were gaining experience without getting paid for it)
When she went of stress leave, that got left in the air.
I took it over, because the only other person in Technical had made it very clear he wanted nothing to do with it.
A couple days later, I get a call from work during off hours.
I find out the call center had been given my cell number without my authorization.
When I confronted my boss about it, all he said was, "Well, you're doing what the other programmer did, so we need to get a hold of you just like we did her."
He was of the opinion that I should be lucky that I kept my job, after telling him I wasn't going to do on-call work.
@StrixVaria I had been looking already for quite some time; but it was hard to find another job at the time, as this was literally my first programming job.
@pixel I'll work a couple hours outside normal hours if the shit really hits the fan, but that's it. If they start expecting me to continually put in overtime, they can shove it.
@StrixVaria when I started my last job (was my first job) it was specifically set hours, within the first 6 months they wanted me to have a phone so I could be contactable outside of work hours but didn't see it fit to pay a 17 year old for working on call
Resorting to calling my personal phone to try and work around me turning down a company phone without a payrise is harrasment, they have no dealings calling me outside of work hours
The conversation on the Monday afterwards resulted in a summary dismissal, which got turned around into my boss calling me a little girl and flirting with me and how I was happy to completely destroy his life and the company if they didn't give me proper severance pay and a reference
We have big contracts with people like the austrailian navy, NATO, NHS, Disney etc
and write software that manages employee distribution throughout an organisational structure
and their pay, which is where most of this company's support calls come from
but as the company only has 200 employees, and 4 locations, telling you the name of it narrows down my geographical location far too much for me to announce it on the internet :)
I have a bunch of different characters and different specs that I play WoW with. I have a very difficult time finding an add-on that lets me manage all of my keybinds across these characters. I tried one called keyboard profiler, but it does a fairly terrible job at saving the keybinds. when I re...
I'm stuck on a puzzle in the City of the Dead. There is a lever in the middle of the room, to the left (if you're looking at the lever and standing in the back of the room) is a gap and a switch on the wall, to the right is a gate and a movable block behind it, and there is a large gate in front ...
One of them was a sub-level 60 gloves that were pretty much worthless. The other was the Natalya's crossbow, which isn't very good, but I was hoping someone might give me a couple hundred thousand for just to get the set bonus.
" As a reminder, these changes will only affect Legendary items that drop after the release of patch 1.0.4. This includes items that haven’t been identified yet (as items are rolled when they drop)."
In related news, the AH suggestion thing that comes up when you first open it tipped me off to a nice legendary amulet for my barbarian which I was able to buy for just 150K. I think that's the first time I've used it successfully
I played last night, so whatever suspicious activity occurred must've been this morning. I was just trying to login to view my profile when I got that message.
I've heard from many people that Portal is a great game, etc. But I have a few questions about the game:
About how many hours of gameplay does it offer?
Is there a point to playing it after winning?
Is there a "freestyle" mode or other way to just mess around with the portal gun?
Are there good...
@fbueckert I agree, but there are a few parts in the question that are okay.
> Is there a "freestyle" mode or other way to just mess around with the portal gun?
Well, just the one, really.
The other three sub-questions are... pretty bad, to be honest.
About how many hours of gameplay does it offer?
Is there a point to playing it after winning?
Is there a "freestyle" mode or other way to just mess around with the portal gun?
Are there good mods or additional, community created levels?
Look at the accepted answer.
'yes there is a point to playing after winning' entirely depends on the player.
I'm going down my huge backlog of unplayed Steam games and I'm thinking the best way to tackle the list is to go through the shortest games first and then concentrate on the 20+ hour ones. I'm wondering if there's a website or something else that has an estimated amount of gameplay time for games...
Usually it's the opposite of kerplunk. I start with no struts, or very few struts, then keep launching and adding struts until it doesn't asplode on the way up.
Think if it as "Reverse Russian Kerplunk." You're playing kerplunk backwards, and lives are at risk everytime you play!
@Sterno It actually was edited like 3 hours ago, and given a new title (the old one was 'is portal worth getting') which I didn't realize. The current one isn't very good either.
@GnomeSlice I don't think #2 is bad. "Is there a point?" could be thought of as subjective maybe, but with the number of games that have bonus modes after you complete the "main" game, I see it more as a question of what content there is beyond the main campaign
not "will I have fun playing the same thing over and over again?"
I am following the formula in this video to try to learn how DPS is calculated in Diablo 3.
I was wondering if anyone know where % increase to Damage fits in the equation? If I had to take a guess I would think it was in step 1, but want to make sure first.
Thanks.
Does Assassins's Creed : Revelations have some cheat or console access to enable console commands?
In my search I found this site. How do I employ it in the game?
According to the site Infinite Ammunition: Get 100% Sync in DNA Sequence 7.
How do I get it? And what is 100% Sync in DNA?
I am a...
I am following the formula in this video to try to learn how DPS is calculated in Diablo 3.
I was wondering if anyone know where % increase to Damage fits in the equation? If I had to take a guess I would think it was in step 1, but want to make sure first.
Thanks.
