he may ultimately get sanctioned with negative inferences (instruction to the jury that they should assume anything Guliani didn’t turn over was basically a smoking gun against him)
Is there precedent for this? It's not like he's refusing to turn over records, he's just unable to due to financial hardships (allegedly, he could be lying I guess). If it were anybody else, that would be an incredibly fucked up thing for the courts to do to somebody.
I owned a Blackberry Passport back when it was a thing, and to this day it is the best phone I’ve ever owned. The keyboard was capacitive, so you could swipe your finger on it to scroll or move the cursor around. The OS also had a thing called “Blackberry Hub”, which was basically the Android notification tray on steroids. You could swipe up-right from any app to access a combined list of all your messages (email, sms, whatsapp, etc) in a common interface to quickly reply or compose messages.
It was all an incredibly well designed experience. I loved it so much that I never sold my passport even after it was clear BB was doomed. I still have it with the original box in my closet (next to an HTC Dream lol)
…but I wouldn’t buy something like this. As nice as the physical keyboard was, I was always way faster with a virtual keyboard. I’m sure that the capacitive/physical hybrid idea wasn’t explored to it’s fullest potential, but I can’t see it beating gesture typing on a modern virtual keyboard. Plus, BB10 OS was a major part of the formula that made the form factor compelling. Grafting a physical keyboard onto a modern Android device just isn’t going to be the same. That’s why I didn’t bother buying any of the Android-based Blackberry devices.
Although I will add that GBA/SNES emulation (and gaming in general) is a million times better with a clicky keyboard than virtual controls. I remember mapping the dpad to QWAS and having a blast playing through Link to the Past on it.
The decision to move away from real time with pause and small party size changes the identity of a bg game
You could've just led with that so we know which vocal minority you're coming from. I'm sure if it was RTWP with the exact same interface and tooltips, you'd be praising the game.
Maybe the other races don't count as "humanoid"? The dolphin people definitely wouldn't be considered humanoid at least, neither would the ents in middle earth I guess.
I know it feels gross, but asking is how you get people to do things. This is true for pretty much everything. That’s why mobile apps have a popup asking people to leave a rating, and Apple even has a standardized API for showing that popup since it’s so common.
So you should try something similar for you projects. Come up with an (ideally non-intrusive) ask that feels like a personal request rather than just a link dumped somewhere in a readme.
And if you feel bad about it, just remember that getting people to pay for OSS is a win for the whole ecosystem!
In Star Trek Enterprise, there’s an episode where the crew finds a planet being ravaged by disease. Bizarrely, the planet has two humanoid species: one dominant (intelligent, technologically advanced) and one less dominant (less evolved brains). The captain mentions that in every planet they’ve encountered, only one humanoid species survives the process of evolution.
Well, it turns out that the disease is genetic, it only affects the currently-dominant species, and they will go extinct in a few centuries because of it. The same evolutionary phenomenon that explorers encountered countless times before on other planets was happening right before their eyes.
Middle Earth has like at least 3 humanoid species (Man, Elf, Dwarf), more if you count Hobbits and Orcs. That’s totally incompatible with Star Trek lore!
Tips help the company a lot more than the worker. If everyone decides to just be an asshole for a while and stop tipping, the workers being exploited will quit, and companies will be forced to pay actual living wages to attract/retain workers.
But that’s not going to happen because the social pressure of tipping is just too strong… and I say that as someone who is part of the problem by always leaving a tip :/
He is a character who is not connected to the main conflict in the story in any way, and is meant to show that the world of middle earth is much larger and more mysterious than what the hobbits/men/elves/orcs are fighting over. His back story was left as a mystery on purpose. The simplest explanation to accept is that you’re just not supposed to know.
There is a whole lot of fan theory and actual letters from Tolkien himself explaining (or rather not explaining) the character.
That's funny, but I'm betting my nutsack that you just made that up, or it's copy pasta.