Valve Fires Jeri Ellsworth

roaf85 said:
It doesn't mean that the project of some steam box is dead I just don't see valve releasing a console on their own. They might license out the technology to someone else, but a good majority of their layoffs were people who were working around the hard ware space.

I am just stating what I think is my opinion.
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Aren’t they going to be using Xi3 people to develop the hardware?

“Xi3 announces Valve investment for Piston gaming PC”
http://ces.cnet.com/8301-34439_1-57562655/xi3-announces-valve-investment-for-piston-gaming-pc/

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"Valve is using CES, it seems, to meet with several different hardware companies - like Xi3 - in order to sell the idea that they could create a Steam Box of their own, creating a market in which buyers can choose from a Lenovo Steam Box, an Xi3 Steam Box, a Dell Steam Box, an Asus Steam Box and so forth."

http://www.bit-tech.net/news/hardware/2013/01/09/xi3-steam-box/1
 
DW-UK said:
Aren’t they going to be using Xi3 people to develop the hardware?

“Xi3 announces Valve investment for Piston gaming PC”
http://ces.cnet.com/8301-34439_1-57562655/xi3-announces-valve-investment-for-piston-gaming-pc/

Plus

"Valve is using CES, it seems, to meet with several different hardware companies - like Xi3 - in order to sell the idea that they could create a Steam Box of their own, creating a market in which buyers can choose from a Lenovo Steam Box, an Xi3 Steam Box, a Dell Steam Box, an Asus Steam Box and so forth."

http://www.bit-tech.net/news/hardware/2013/01/09/xi3-steam-box/1
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News is still fairly current, maybe that is why they laid those people off? Thanks for the links.
 
Hi guys. Jason Alexander here. You may know me from the hit TV series Seinfeld and...some other things.
 
Travolta said:
Rumor has it she was fired for eating Gabe's lunch out of the break room fridge.
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True story- as a former job this guy kept getting the brownie stolen out of his brownbag lunch everyday - a lunch that his wife lovingly put together every morning. One day the wife had had enough and baked a shit-ton of ex-lax into the brownie, and like clockwork it got stolen again - but for the last time.

Turned out to be one of the fatties in accounting (surprise, surprise)
 
Fix Me said:
Generally, if a company is going to kill a project and lay off everyone working on it, won't they usually say as much when the layoffs occur so there's no speculation? That's not to say they won't kill it at some future date, but for now I think it's a little early to be calling it dead or even assuming it's in trouble.
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I don't know, but I bet a lot of it depends on whether it's a publicly-traded company or not.
 
odditory said:
True story- as a former job this guy kept getting the brownie stolen out of his brownbag lunch everyday - a lunch that his wife lovingly put together every morning. One day the wife had had enough and baked a shit-ton of ex-lax into the brownie, and like clockwork it got stolen again - but for the last time.

Turned out to be one of the fatties in accounting (surprise, surprise)
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Do you guys work around savages or something? I have never had an issue with lunch. That is like taboo.
 
odditory said:
True story- as a former job this guy kept getting the brownie stolen out of his brownbag lunch everyday - a lunch that his wife lovingly put together every morning. One day the wife had had enough and baked a shit-ton of ex-lax into the brownie, and like clockwork it got stolen again - but for the last time.

Turned out to be one of the fatties in accounting (surprise, surprise)
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This story made my day, thanks!
 
roaf85 said:
Do you guys work around savages or something? I have never had an issue with lunch. That is like taboo.
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A taboo that is occasionally broken. There are multitudes of ways to nip that in the bud. The exlax story is one of them. I've done worse.
 
I found one *cameras* someone was doing it to me, so I started doing it back I would eat his sandwich and leave a note letting him know it needed pepper. I would eat his chips put them back as if they were still sealed *he hated that the most* I would leave a note requesting specific brands of things to bring it. I had endless amounts of fun with it. Then he blew up one day and lost it, I stopped after that oddly enough so did he.
 
dbu8554 said:
I found one *cameras* someone was doing it to me, so I started doing it back I would eat his sandwich and leave a note letting him know it needed pepper. I would eat his chips put them back as if they were still sealed *he hated that the most* I would leave a note requesting specific brands of things to bring it. I had endless amounts of fun with it. Then he blew up one day and lost it, I stopped after that oddly enough so did he.
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In what grade did this happen?
 
Safety said:
In what grade did this happen?
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have you never worked with someone who's a complete pain in the ass? if not, then never leave your job. you are one in a million who are that fortunate. i sit right across from this childish asshole who refuses to talk to me for the most assinine reason i dont want to get into. hes 30 and lives with his parents, his mom packs his lunch for him everyday and does his laundry etc, and he spends all his tons of disposable income on guns because he's afraid of obama doing something vague which will require his having lots of guns. he also pirates every AAA video game even though we work at an engineering firm and make tons of money.

tldr: some people are assholes.
 
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