Maybe Activision isn't targeting the U.S. as much anymore. Maybe they're targeting countries that actually have modern internet infrastructure.
It's beginning to happen with large companies: A majority of their revenue comes from overseas now. Why not game companies too?
My girlfriend's (very old) laptop died earlier this year, prompting me to shop for a laptop for her, and I got one too, so we're actually quite new to modern gaming.
Now, we can take our gaming wherever we go, and we *do* like the outdoors. Camping trip? Hey honey, I'm bushed from rock climbing all day. Let's plug in at this electric site and play an hour of diablo 2. She's at a conference? Hey Honey, the wifi connection on the 28th floor of this hotel *sucks*, but let's play some multiplayer offline.
We're blown away that a company would be dim enough to have an always-online requirement. Even our broadband at home has connectivity issues (RCN isn't great) and we're IN THE MIDDLE OF CHICAGO. Seriously, Activision, we think you're a bunch of idiots and probably won't buy your game.
Reliability of current infrastruture sucks. Ubiquity of current infrastructure vs. where we actually might want to play isn't that great either. Blizzard, you could have sold another couple copies, and now you won't.
The way to beat them is to stop consuming..
Stop worrying about Twitter.
Stop booking face.
Stop trying to feed an endless desire for the music, movies, and media created.
By trying to feed our own lust for this stuff, we're creating the war. SImply stop fighting, and they completely lose. Without our putting worth on it, media has no value.
Perhaps easier said than done, but I'll bet it would have some good upshots. People might talk to each other again for a change, instead of everyone jamming earbuds in their heads and ignoring everything around them. I'll bet it could do wonders for our democracy.
Oh, lovely. A false dichotomy first: "You either have too many laws or none at all". This is wrong.
Second, if we keep thinking "well, at least it's not THAT bad" we'll keep having our rights eroded. That thinking isn't what got us this nation. "Oh, the status quo is good enough"... What got us this nation in the first place was striving toward something better, not something perfect, but better. Giving in and saying,"well, at least they haven't taken everything I have away" is what plebs do, what serfs do, and when they finally come and smash your face (metaphorically or physically), in that moment you'll understand that you should have stood up with your fellow citizens (NOT CONSUMERS) and demanded better.
Get some spine and stand up to the powers that be, I'm sick of this midwestern mentality of non-conflict.
Why do I get the feeling that America is trying to turn it's OWN PEOPLE into terrorists by committing so many injustices that people eventually just say "fuck it" and start committing crimes? This is a very sad state of the union...
Count us in.
Starting Monday we're shutting off our cable. Screw you, RCN. HBO, if you'd just offer an online-only subscription we'd pay you $5-10/mo just to watch game of thrones, and probably other shows. But you don't.
RCN sucks balls (it's video on demand is garbage of the worst sort). We watch Food Network, Cartoon Network, and we like silent movies on AMC sometimes. But you won't allow us to pay you money for just those channels (though you cable companies promised it 10-15 years ago), so we (all three of us here) are voting with our dollars and telling you to GO GET STUFFED.
I've lived without TV before, and I'm sure I'll find much more satisfying things to do than the Boob Tube.
Goodbye, you stupid, asshat "communication" companies. You couldn't listen to your subscribers if they spelled it out in 96 point Futura.
ATTENTION SLASHDOT: With the increasing use of inaccurate headlines, how about you give us, the users, the ability to mod headlines up or down? That way, we can see a little red or green bar that indicates if a headline is legit or full of shit.
I'm sorry, but it shouldn't be the job you direct ire toward, it should be the people themselves and their work ethic.
As a financial advisor and ex IT person, I found IT to be completely unrewarding. There was no meaningful interaction with people, I got no recognition, and the hours were awful!
Now, by working very diligently to inform my clients about their benefits, researching investments and applying strategies to help them make more money than if they'd hired me, and finally presenting it to people in a manner they will understand *follow through on* (something IT could stand to learn from), I have 1) Meaningful interaction with people, 2) occasional recognition and self-satisfaction in the short term, with long term results and recognition that i can get someone to/through retirement or their kids to college, and 3) Even longer hours. But I sort of like doing those longer hours, and I have the flexibility to tell my boss (mostly me) to shove off.
Yes, you have to talk to lots of people, and you do lose a little bit of your soul, but that happens in EVERY job out there and I dare anyone to show me otherwise.
In closing, blame charismatic lazy people (a lot of advisors) for screwing their clients out of dollars. There ARE those of us working to help everyone who will listen be educated and, one hopes, do business with us to have a better future and less worry.
I would imagine that DARPA is worried about some sort of sub that they're having a problem seeing. Could be those drug subs, could be the Chinese, who knows.
OTOH, maybe it's a fairly low-level project and they're testing out whether gathering a bunch of data this way is useful at all. Just my two cents.
Or by whom, really.
Of course there are people who will profit mightily from this information, like Shell and BP.
Sure glad we found those huge oil reserves in the Western U.S. recently. Funny, that....
I was just in conversation with a former judge from Michigan, and he said that it's really true: The courts are NOT here to protect us, nor were they ever really. He explained that we gained ground in the 60s and 70s, but that's been lost. His current outlook is VERY pessimistic about the future of the legal system, but he also spent an entire career as a liberal judge in Michigan trying to hold back the tide.
So, all you Slashdotters: You're right! Now what do we do about it?
Oh, also, there's not much that went from 1000 to 300 in 30 seconds. A few stocks, but if you have all your retirement tied up in that then you are either an idiot or have a bad financial advisor
Um, mutual funds trade only once a day, at the close of the market. That's the majority of 401(k)s, with some self-managed brokerage accounts out there.
The problem is that the Union has such a stranglehold that until something drastic is done, they want to be sure that their boys have a crappy asphalt road to fix every couple years.
Between 3pm and 7:30, Chicago is a mess. Maybe not as bad as L.A. but good lord, something needs to be done.
My point? With government and interests as intertwined as they are, this just isn't feasible. I'm sort of waiting for the day that Chicago begins to fall behind because of its backward politics and union shenanigans.
It helps us because it puts us all on equal ground. Give them an inch, they took a mile.
It's time to take it back.
Now, whether anyone will give a shit and look up from their iMacWaveBrainEgoMasturbator and FrothaFuckachino long enough to even notice things can change is another matter entirely.
Ah, but as shares concentrate into the hands of the few and powerful,but sales dwindle, they will either sink or go back to their customers to actually give them something they want, yes?
DSS Woman: How long have you been unemployed, Mr Bisley? Tim: [checks watch] About an hour and a half. DSS Woman: Have you been looking for work? Tim: [laughs, then sees she's serious] Um, no. DSS Woman: Why did you leave your last job? Tim: Got fired. DSS Woman: Why? Tim: [nonchalantly] Uh, a difference of opinion... DSS Woman: The Phantom Menace? Tim: [pauses, then, surprised] Yeah... DSS Woman: Didn't you like it? Tim: [cautiously] No... DSS Woman: Well, [taps nose conspiratorially] you leave this with me. I'll get you some money out in the next few days.
Um, how about just hire a financial planner who will almost immediately raise a huge red flag? Forget the expensive brokers and insurance hucksters, just hire a normal, every day advisor. Problem solved! When they start asking "Where do these returns come from?" "What does he trade?" "Where is the historical data?" and "These statements look weird." I imagine it could have solved the problem.
I just don't understand it. People got really greedy, and rather than listen to or seek out prudent advice they kept on going. They were pigs and got slaughtered because of it.
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What I've been wondering is: Why the big screen? Why not glasses/a visor that just projects the image onto the lense? It would save a ton of space.
Maybe Activision isn't targeting the U.S. as much anymore. Maybe they're targeting countries that actually have modern internet infrastructure.
It's beginning to happen with large companies: A majority of their revenue comes from overseas now. Why not game companies too?
I'll chime in:
My girlfriend's (very old) laptop died earlier this year, prompting me to shop for a laptop for her, and I got one too, so we're actually quite new to modern gaming.
Now, we can take our gaming wherever we go, and we *do* like the outdoors. Camping trip? Hey honey, I'm bushed from rock climbing all day. Let's plug in at this electric site and play an hour of diablo 2. She's at a conference? Hey Honey, the wifi connection on the 28th floor of this hotel *sucks*, but let's play some multiplayer offline.
We're blown away that a company would be dim enough to have an always-online requirement. Even our broadband at home has connectivity issues (RCN isn't great) and we're IN THE MIDDLE OF CHICAGO. Seriously, Activision, we think you're a bunch of idiots and probably won't buy your game.
Reliability of current infrastruture sucks. Ubiquity of current infrastructure vs. where we actually might want to play isn't that great either. Blizzard, you could have sold another couple copies, and now you won't.
The way to beat them is to stop consuming.. Stop worrying about Twitter. Stop booking face. Stop trying to feed an endless desire for the music, movies, and media created. By trying to feed our own lust for this stuff, we're creating the war. SImply stop fighting, and they completely lose. Without our putting worth on it, media has no value. Perhaps easier said than done, but I'll bet it would have some good upshots. People might talk to each other again for a change, instead of everyone jamming earbuds in their heads and ignoring everything around them. I'll bet it could do wonders for our democracy.
Oh, lovely. A false dichotomy first: "You either have too many laws or none at all". This is wrong. Second, if we keep thinking "well, at least it's not THAT bad" we'll keep having our rights eroded. That thinking isn't what got us this nation. "Oh, the status quo is good enough"... What got us this nation in the first place was striving toward something better, not something perfect, but better. Giving in and saying,"well, at least they haven't taken everything I have away" is what plebs do, what serfs do, and when they finally come and smash your face (metaphorically or physically), in that moment you'll understand that you should have stood up with your fellow citizens (NOT CONSUMERS) and demanded better. Get some spine and stand up to the powers that be, I'm sick of this midwestern mentality of non-conflict.
Why do I get the feeling that America is trying to turn it's OWN PEOPLE into terrorists by committing so many injustices that people eventually just say "fuck it" and start committing crimes? This is a very sad state of the union...
Count us in.
Starting Monday we're shutting off our cable. Screw you, RCN. HBO, if you'd just offer an online-only subscription we'd pay you $5-10/mo just to watch game of thrones, and probably other shows. But you don't. RCN sucks balls (it's video on demand is garbage of the worst sort). We watch Food Network, Cartoon Network, and we like silent movies on AMC sometimes. But you won't allow us to pay you money for just those channels (though you cable companies promised it 10-15 years ago), so we (all three of us here) are voting with our dollars and telling you to GO GET STUFFED.
I've lived without TV before, and I'm sure I'll find much more satisfying things to do than the Boob Tube.
Goodbye, you stupid, asshat "communication" companies. You couldn't listen to your subscribers if they spelled it out in 96 point Futura.
Ok, this is it:
ATTENTION SLASHDOT: With the increasing use of inaccurate headlines, how about you give us, the users, the ability to mod headlines up or down? That way, we can see a little red or green bar that indicates if a headline is legit or full of shit.
Must not have paid their tithe...
I'm sorry, but it shouldn't be the job you direct ire toward, it should be the people themselves and their work ethic. As a financial advisor and ex IT person, I found IT to be completely unrewarding. There was no meaningful interaction with people, I got no recognition, and the hours were awful!
Now, by working very diligently to inform my clients about their benefits, researching investments and applying strategies to help them make more money than if they'd hired me, and finally presenting it to people in a manner they will understand *follow through on* (something IT could stand to learn from), I have 1) Meaningful interaction with people, 2) occasional recognition and self-satisfaction in the short term, with long term results and recognition that i can get someone to/through retirement or their kids to college, and 3) Even longer hours. But I sort of like doing those longer hours, and I have the flexibility to tell my boss (mostly me) to shove off.
Yes, you have to talk to lots of people, and you do lose a little bit of your soul, but that happens in EVERY job out there and I dare anyone to show me otherwise.
In closing, blame charismatic lazy people (a lot of advisors) for screwing their clients out of dollars. There ARE those of us working to help everyone who will listen be educated and, one hopes, do business with us to have a better future and less worry.
I would imagine that DARPA is worried about some sort of sub that they're having a problem seeing. Could be those drug subs, could be the Chinese, who knows.
OTOH, maybe it's a fairly low-level project and they're testing out whether gathering a bunch of data this way is useful at all. Just my two cents.
Or by whom, really. Of course there are people who will profit mightily from this information, like Shell and BP. Sure glad we found those huge oil reserves in the Western U.S. recently. Funny, that....
I was just in conversation with a former judge from Michigan, and he said that it's really true: The courts are NOT here to protect us, nor were they ever really. He explained that we gained ground in the 60s and 70s, but that's been lost. His current outlook is VERY pessimistic about the future of the legal system, but he also spent an entire career as a liberal judge in Michigan trying to hold back the tide.
So, all you Slashdotters: You're right! Now what do we do about it?
Oh, also, there's not much that went from 1000 to 300 in 30 seconds. A few stocks, but if you have all your retirement tied up in that then you are either an idiot or have a bad financial advisor
Um, mutual funds trade only once a day, at the close of the market. That's the majority of 401(k)s, with some self-managed brokerage accounts out there.
As a huge Police fan, my hat is off to you, sir. That was simply hilarious.
So what you're saying is that they've constructed a huge sparkly object underground? Did Barbara Streisand help fund this, by any chance?
Then why are Japanese people taking pictures all the time? Seems to me they'd know better.
Finally! A good excuse for some of my friends to not have to stay indoors all the time talking about how they're trying to catch up on Stargate.
Their lives have ground to a halt, their relationships have crumbled....
Yeah, it's a bad argument, but at least now it's one LESS excuse for them to hide from the world all the time.
Chicagoans have been thinking this for years.
The problem is that the Union has such a stranglehold that until something drastic is done, they want to be sure that their boys have a crappy asphalt road to fix every couple years.
Between 3pm and 7:30, Chicago is a mess. Maybe not as bad as L.A. but good lord, something needs to be done.
My point? With government and interests as intertwined as they are, this just isn't feasible. I'm sort of waiting for the day that Chicago begins to fall behind because of its backward politics and union shenanigans.
It helps us because it puts us all on equal ground. Give them an inch, they took a mile. It's time to take it back. Now, whether anyone will give a shit and look up from their iMacWaveBrainEgoMasturbator and FrothaFuckachino long enough to even notice things can change is another matter entirely.
Ah, but as shares concentrate into the hands of the few and powerful,but sales dwindle, they will either sink or go back to their customers to actually give them something they want, yes?
DSS Woman: How long have you been unemployed, Mr Bisley?
Tim: [checks watch] About an hour and a half.
DSS Woman: Have you been looking for work?
Tim: [laughs, then sees she's serious] Um, no.
DSS Woman: Why did you leave your last job?
Tim: Got fired.
DSS Woman: Why?
Tim: [nonchalantly] Uh, a difference of opinion...
DSS Woman: The Phantom Menace?
Tim: [pauses, then, surprised] Yeah...
DSS Woman: Didn't you like it?
Tim: [cautiously] No...
DSS Woman: Well, [taps nose conspiratorially] you leave this with me. I'll get you some money out in the next few days.
Rob:[To Barry]Just come on. What would it mean to you, that sentence: I haven't seen Evil Dead II yet?
Um, how about just hire a financial planner who will almost immediately raise a huge red flag?
Forget the expensive brokers and insurance hucksters, just hire a normal, every day advisor. Problem solved! When they start asking "Where do these returns come from?" "What does he trade?" "Where is the historical data?" and "These statements look weird." I imagine it could have solved the problem.
I just don't understand it. People got really greedy, and rather than listen to or seek out prudent advice they kept on going. They were pigs and got slaughtered because of it.