noamineo wrote on Mar 2^nd, 2018 at 5:24pm:


False.  My company is privately held and we don't give a fuck about quarterly numbers.  Haven't for the 15 years its been in business.

We do monitor cash flow and revenues and spend a fair amount of time on revenue projections and the impact of various decisions on revenues. 

noamineo wrote on Mar 2^nd, 2018 at 5:25pm:

It’s not a “feeling”. You literally don’t own shit. You may have purchased a limited license allowing you to use their shit, but at no point did you ever gain ownership of said shit. Good luck suing them for “taking your shit”

dixonncox wrote on Mar 2^nd, 2018 at 5:32pm:

So do I.  A Cloud based/moble software development company.  And I've had our TOS and EULA's enforced by a court more than once.   It's all in the verbiage and how you can prove they read and accepted it.   Blanket, one size fits all statements about EULA's are reductive.   Just because company X's EULA wasn't enforceable doesn't mean all EULA's aren't enforceable.  That's an ignorant statement based on the fallacy of composition. For example, if a person travels through a town for the first time and sees 5 people, all of them children, they may erroneously conclude that there are no adult residents in the town.

noamineo wrote on Mar 2^nd, 2018 at 6:00pm:


Probably depends on the nature of the business.   I'm in a cloud computing with annuity stream revenues.   I care more about how many active contracts I have, how many new clients are coming in, how many renewals we have coming up in the next 6 months, and the risk associated with them renewing or not.  We use 6 month and 24 month rolling trend lines on all of it.    

And then do a similar thing with expenses.   (which luckily are more static). 

If you were in less of an annuity business and in more of a discrete sales business (like selling cars or houses for example) then I could see where quarterly numbers are useful.  Monthly numbers have too much variation, suffer from small sample size, and statistical noise (a blizzard one week or something throws off everything) to be valuable indicators of performance.  Annual is too infrequent to respond to trends in your industry and customers.   Quarterly is a nice middle ground.

Asheras wrote on Mar 2^nd, 2018 at 5:41pm:

Easy, just use an alternative launcher. 
I have not seen the EULA since years.

Asheras wrote on Mar 2^nd, 2018 at 5:41pm:


Be intertesting to find out how well-written or implemented SSG's EULA is. lol Can see where that could bite them in the ass.

MMO EULAs have been thrown out plenty of times in the past. One wonders whether it was written by the company lawyer(who knows how to make it legally binding) or the community manager(who knows how to take the EULA from another game and do a find-and-replace).

Vaultaccount wrote on Mar 3^rd, 2018 at 7:48am:


Because they were a center point of the last round of bans - and really good at exploits.

Vaultaccount wrote on Mar 3^rd, 2018 at 7:48am:


Haven't been logging in, so not sure about the honeypot exploit or who was using it - but there were a ton of exploiters active on Cannith (very obviously so, if you know what to look for).

Like you said, they're mostly smaller guilds who are tight lipped about it...with the one exception.

popcorn anybody ?

i kinda enjoy everything about this, very chaotic and salty

This is the most fun I've had since jeets

I'll have to confess that seeing some of these character names disappear from existence by the most severe ban hammer ever known to DDO Exploiters Anonymous, those very same names who have publicly criticized me and my guild mates for partaking in interpretive gameplay in the past, makes me pretty damn happy.

As a present for making my Saturday morning so pleasant, please let me know if you need some extra dragon scales on your first life back up through GH. I'm here for you in your time of need.

Shame.

Gunga wrote on Mar 3^rd, 2018 at 1:23pm:


Stealing this for later use. Thx

Gunga wrote on Mar 3^rd, 2018 at 1:23pm: