That article says that Half-Life 2 is for sale, not DNF. Is there another article that talks about DNF?
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You could do that to one or two chips and get away with it. But if you come in with a whole pocket full of them, they would probably kick you out and bar you.
Casinos are all about trying to make the customer happy so they can take their money. The minute you go from someone they can make money from to someone they suspect is trying to unfairly take money from them they start playing hardball.
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At the casino I worked at, employees who have acess to the kitchen are not the same ones that have access to enough chips to make it worthwhile. There are cameras everywhere in a casino, out on the floor as well as behind the scenes.
I honestly can't think that employee theft of chips is really that huge of an issue since the ammount of money that each cashier has is counted at the end of shift and if you are off enough money to make stealing chips worth it, say $500+ then they will not let you work there long if you are off that much very often. They even went so far as to make us use clear cups with clear liquid in them in the cage so that we could drop things in them.
Dealers are under a lot more scrutiny from the cameras than cashiers. There are dedicated cameras looking at the chips on the table.
At the casino I worked at, chips in the chip bank, (in storage) are supposed to be counted and verified every shift so a theft there would be caught fairly easilly.
When I worked in the cashier cage and was the banker in charge of the cashiers in the cage, it wasn't uncommon to call down to the vault and have half a million dollars in cash delivered. So with that kind of money floating around, if I was going to steal, i wouldn't have been chips. If, as an employee, you are going to steal from the casino, you need to go big becasue if you do it multiple times, you will get caught.
I was an English major in my undergrad and I knew (and still do know) that my spelling is horrible and that my grammar was shakey but there was not one single class on grammar in my entire major. I was amazed by that. THe department was mainly composed of people who would go on to teach English (as I did for a breif time) and yet they didn't give us a class to work on grammar.
Of course when I turn something in for a grade or to be published, I usually spend more than five minutes writing it and actually proofread it. The same cannot be said of my postings on slashdot.
That may be true, but how many crap bridges were designed before people came up with good ones? How many crap combustion engines were designed before good ones were made? For every success there are lots and lots of failures. A bridge may work, but in many cases a simple bridge is, like the majority of papers that I seem to read, nothing more than a variation on all teh bridges that have come before. So the bridge may be functional, but it may not show any particulr creativity or innovation. It may be built on sound theories, but I have read many many papers built on sound theories but at the end of which I asked myself, "so what?" Out of all the bridges that exist in the world, how many of them are notable? Precious few. Out of all the papers that are written how many are notable? Precious few.
As soemone who is getting thier Phd in a liberal arts field, let me just say that in reality, like any other field 90% of the stuff I read is crap. Once you get to the graduate level and move beyond the stuff that is famous in a field you will see how little good quality stuff there really is out there. I just started this last semester on my phd. I am finding that in my classes here at my new university, a good 75% of the assigned readings are either the exact same articles that I read in my masters program, or just articles that have the same ideas as other articles I've already read. While there are dozens of journals publishing papers every months, there is really just a very small finite amount of work that is really noteworthy.
In doing my personal research there have been lots and lots of books where I shook my head and asked myself how this could have been published. The same is true of conferneces. I've been to a handfull of academic conferences and it never fails that the vast majority of the papers presented are pointless or trivial. (Certainly there may be people who saw my paper and thought the same thing, who knows). Thus it is not surprizing that the conference discussed in the article was full of crap.
So lets not jump on academia and say it is ALL a bunch of crap. Yes 90% of it is but how is that any different than any other field. How often are there articles about incompetent tech support, or IT guys who just totally screw up simple things? Remember, 90% of everything is crap.
Yes I remember it. It was computer chronicles. I remember it being the entire screen though. I thought it was cool at the time and wanted one but luckilly had no idea where to get one (this was way before i even knew what the internet was)
The problem is that Grand Theft Auto III is very obviously patterned after some very well known mafia movies. If those movies are ok, why aren't videogames?
Not long ago, an official from Australia called for the ban of Project Gotham Racing 2 because it "...sends the wrong message to young people. It is actually glorifying speed and power." So videogames are bad despite the fact that this game is at least advertised as being like the Fast and the Furious films.
The problem is not that videogames are exempt from being sometimes troubling. The problem is that so many in the media seem to think that other forms of media are exempt from being troubling. Videogmaes are scapegoats and when they do the things that have been done for years in other forms of media they get attacked.
Bill Nye was on TechTV a couple weeks ago talking about this. It was pretty interesting. They have a video of it on the TechTV site. http://www.techtv.com/screensavers/howto/story/0,2 4330,3587881,00.html
But wouldn't the warranty be over by the time the battery runs out? Also, if you bought the optional applecare, then it covers the replacement of a new battery.
Not only did he imply that Saruman was powerless, he came out and said it. He told Treebeard to watch him. So as it was presented in the film, Saruman is alive but captured in his tower.
Remember that sony has had a lot of experience with portable media as a result of the minidisc. Those are loved by a great many as being jog-proof and in a hard plastic case and pretty durable.
One would have to asssume that they are taking a lot of that tech and applying it to this new venture
I've never played the game, don't own a gamepby, so i may be completely wrong, however, my guess is that you can save games on the cartridges and they are using part of the save game space to apply the patch.
Didn't the original Zelda have a battery in the cartridge to keep saved games on it?
I know that someone here has already said, it but it bears repeating:
The reason this is different than ratings on films is that ratings on films, like ratings on videogmaes are volantary. There are no laws agains children seeing R rated films.
Secondly,
Leland Y. Yee - I have not personally played these games, however many of my staff members have. I have seen numerous footage pieces of these games, which clearly shows the need for such legislation.
I have said this many times, watching a clip of a videogame is like reading the script to a film. If you have not actually played the games, then you have very little idea what it is actually like to play them. If you have time to write a law, find a day to sit down and actually play the game. If you watch clips, surely you know that those are totally without context.
...Motor City Online? I predict that this will be jsut as successfull as Motor City Online. I think that, at least at this point, the relative failure of the Sims Online shows that MMO games jsut aren't for the mainstream yet.
Certainly the game makers need to keep trying and I'm glad they are. Eventually something will hit the wall and stick with teh general public. However, I just don't see this as being it.
people keep talking about the price, however, it seems that when compared to other pda's it is reasonably priced. This device's market doens't seem to be people who are sick of gameboys, but for people who have pda's and want to game, so from that perspective it doesn't seem out of line.
"But in the developing world, in Thailand, the parents, especially those parents who have teenage children, they must work very hard and they work until very late at night so they don't have the time to look after their children properly."
what they are really saying is that "our labor policies and minimum wage sucks, but rather than do something about it, we are going to make it easier for people to work themselves to death by taking cre of thier children for them."
When I was finishing up my master's thesis i was writing about a hypothetical audience that in fact could be male or female. I was conscious of the fact that if i used "he" that most readers would assume I was talking only about men becasue the subject matter is a field that is dominated by men, but I wanted to make statements that could apply to anyone.
Thus i avoided using "he" by carefully wording my sentences so that I avoided singuglar pronouns entirely. Using words like the player, ther reader, and one. I can only remember one instance in the 100+ pages where I couldn't think of a way to word the sentence adequately without using a pronoun and had to resort to "he or she."
My point is that we can write effectively without having to explicitly or implicitly chose a gendered pronoun if the gender is in fact at issue.
Catoon network has already spun off one channel, "Boomerang" which is all the old cartoons. However, I don't know how sucessful it is. I used to have Time-Warner cable (the owners of Cartoon Network and Boomerang) and they didn't carry it. If you can't get one of your subsidiaries to carry you channel, I think that indicates how sucessfull the channel is.
Thus since Boomerang does not seem to have much popularity (of course I could be totally wrong, it could be on every cable providor except the two i've had in the past 3 years) I would think that they would hesitate to spin off another channel at this point.
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That article says that Half-Life 2 is for sale, not DNF. Is there another article that talks about DNF?
You could do that to one or two chips and get away with it. But if you come in with a whole pocket full of them, they would probably kick you out and bar you.
Casinos are all about trying to make the customer happy so they can take their money. The minute you go from someone they can make money from to someone they suspect is trying to unfairly take money from them they start playing hardball.
At the casino I worked at, employees who have acess to the kitchen are not the same ones that have access to enough chips to make it worthwhile. There are cameras everywhere in a casino, out on the floor as well as behind the scenes.
I honestly can't think that employee theft of chips is really that huge of an issue since the ammount of money that each cashier has is counted at the end of shift and if you are off enough money to make stealing chips worth it, say $500+ then they will not let you work there long if you are off that much very often. They even went so far as to make us use clear cups with clear liquid in them in the cage so that we could drop things in them.
Dealers are under a lot more scrutiny from the cameras than cashiers. There are dedicated cameras looking at the chips on the table.
At the casino I worked at, chips in the chip bank, (in storage) are supposed to be counted and verified every shift so a theft there would be caught fairly easilly.
When I worked in the cashier cage and was the banker in charge of the cashiers in the cage, it wasn't uncommon to call down to the vault and have half a million dollars in cash delivered. So with that kind of money floating around, if I was going to steal, i wouldn't have been chips. If, as an employee, you are going to steal from the casino, you need to go big becasue if you do it multiple times, you will get caught.
I was an English major in my undergrad and I knew (and still do know) that my spelling is horrible and that my grammar was shakey but there was not one single class on grammar in my entire major. I was amazed by that. THe department was mainly composed of people who would go on to teach English (as I did for a breif time) and yet they didn't give us a class to work on grammar.
Of course when I turn something in for a grade or to be published, I usually spend more than five minutes writing it and actually proofread it. The same cannot be said of my postings on slashdot.
That may be true, but how many crap bridges were designed before people came up with good ones? How many crap combustion engines were designed before good ones were made?
For every success there are lots and lots of failures. A bridge may work, but in many cases a simple bridge is, like the majority of papers that I seem to read, nothing more than a variation on all teh bridges that have come before. So the bridge may be functional, but it may not show any particulr creativity or innovation. It may be built on sound theories, but I have read many many papers built on sound theories but at the end of which I asked myself, "so what?" Out of all the bridges that exist in the world, how many of them are notable? Precious few. Out of all the papers that are written how many are notable? Precious few.
As soemone who is getting thier Phd in a liberal arts field, let me just say that in reality, like any other field 90% of the stuff I read is crap. Once you get to the graduate level and move beyond the stuff that is famous in a field you will see how little good quality stuff there really is out there. I just started this last semester on my phd. I am finding that in my classes here at my new university, a good 75% of the assigned readings are either the exact same articles that I read in my masters program, or just articles that have the same ideas as other articles I've already read. While there are dozens of journals publishing papers every months, there is really just a very small finite amount of work that is really noteworthy.
In doing my personal research there have been lots and lots of books where I shook my head and asked myself how this could have been published. The same is true of conferneces. I've been to a handfull of academic conferences and it never fails that the vast majority of the papers presented are pointless or trivial. (Certainly there may be people who saw my paper and thought the same thing, who knows). Thus it is not surprizing that the conference discussed in the article was full of crap.
So lets not jump on academia and say it is ALL a bunch of crap. Yes 90% of it is but how is that any different than any other field. How often are there articles about incompetent tech support, or IT guys who just totally screw up simple things? Remember, 90% of everything is crap.
Yes I remember it. It was computer chronicles. I remember it being the entire screen though. I thought it was cool at the time and wanted one but luckilly had no idea where to get one (this was way before i even knew what the internet was)
Simpsons did it.
The problem is that Grand Theft Auto III is very obviously patterned after some very well known mafia movies. If those movies are ok, why aren't videogames?
Not long ago, an official from Australia called for the ban of Project Gotham Racing 2 because it "...sends the wrong message to young people. It is actually glorifying speed and power." So videogames are bad despite the fact that this game is at least advertised as being like the Fast and the Furious films.
The problem is not that videogames are exempt from being sometimes troubling. The problem is that so many in the media seem to think that other forms of media are exempt from being troubling. Videogmaes are scapegoats and when they do the things that have been done for years in other forms of media they get attacked.
Bill Nye was on TechTV a couple weeks ago talking about this. It was pretty interesting. They have a video of it on the TechTV site. http://www.techtv.com/screensavers/howto/story/0,2 4330,3587881,00.html
But wouldn't the warranty be over by the time the battery runs out? Also, if you bought the optional applecare, then it covers the replacement of a new battery.
Not only did he imply that Saruman was powerless, he came out and said it. He told Treebeard to watch him. So as it was presented in the film, Saruman is alive but captured in his tower.
Isn't thinking of children what gets people who get caught with underaged prostitutes in trouble in the first place?
Doomworld still has some pretty usefull stuff up from their last celebration, five years ago. 5 Years of Doom is still a pretty interesting read.
i played it once and it just was not fun to us. we got about half way through and everyone went home.
No they were a playing card company. They made playing cards for a japanease game whose name I cannot recall.
Remember that sony has had a lot of experience with portable media as a result of the minidisc. Those are loved by a great many as being jog-proof and in a hard plastic case and pretty durable.
One would have to asssume that they are taking a lot of that tech and applying it to this new venture
I've never played the game, don't own a gamepby, so i may be completely wrong, however, my guess is that you can save games on the cartridges and they are using part of the save game space to apply the patch.
Didn't the original Zelda have a battery in the cartridge to keep saved games on it?
The reason this is different than ratings on films is that ratings on films, like ratings on videogmaes are volantary. There are no laws agains children seeing R rated films.
Secondly,
I have said this many times, watching a clip of a videogame is like reading the script to a film. If you have not actually played the games, then you have very little idea what it is actually like to play them. If you have time to write a law, find a day to sit down and actually play the game. If you watch clips, surely you know that those are totally without context.
...Motor City Online? I predict that this will be jsut as successfull as Motor City Online. I think that, at least at this point, the relative failure of the Sims Online shows that MMO games jsut aren't for the mainstream yet.
Certainly the game makers need to keep trying and I'm glad they are. Eventually something will hit the wall and stick with teh general public. However, I just don't see this as being it.
totally, i've got an old handspring visor which works great for me, but i'm tempted to upgrade.
people keep talking about the price, however, it seems that when compared to other pda's it is reasonably priced. This device's market doens't seem to be people who are sick of gameboys, but for people who have pda's and want to game, so from that perspective it doesn't seem out of line.
"But in the developing world, in Thailand, the parents, especially those parents who have teenage children, they must work very hard and they work until very late at night so they don't have the time to look after their children properly."
what they are really saying is that "our labor policies and minimum wage sucks, but rather than do something about it, we are going to make it easier for people to work themselves to death by taking cre of thier children for them."
When I was finishing up my master's thesis i was writing about a hypothetical audience that in fact could be male or female. I was conscious of the fact that if i used "he" that most readers would assume I was talking only about men becasue the subject matter is a field that is dominated by men, but I wanted to make statements that could apply to anyone.
Thus i avoided using "he" by carefully wording my sentences so that I avoided singuglar pronouns entirely. Using words like the player, ther reader, and one. I can only remember one instance in the 100+ pages where I couldn't think of a way to word the sentence adequately without using a pronoun and had to resort to "he or she."
My point is that we can write effectively without having to explicitly or implicitly chose a gendered pronoun if the gender is in fact at issue.
Catoon network has already spun off one channel, "Boomerang" which is all the old cartoons. However, I don't know how sucessful it is. I used to have Time-Warner cable (the owners of Cartoon Network and Boomerang) and they didn't carry it. If you can't get one of your subsidiaries to carry you channel, I think that indicates how sucessfull the channel is.
Thus since Boomerang does not seem to have much popularity (of course I could be totally wrong, it could be on every cable providor except the two i've had in the past 3 years) I would think that they would hesitate to spin off another channel at this point.