If I made a mistake 1/100000th the scale of that screw-up, I'd be fired, blackballed from the industry and likely sucking cock behind the dumpsters at 7/11 just to get hooch money. Most of us would.
This "oops" is just one more case of this administration pulling the wool over our eyes and hoping we don't notice. Questioning our patriotism isn't working anymore, neither is questioning our intelligence, so they're putting their own out there.
This will continue so long as our media engages in a 24/7 fight for the eyes of a country that only pays attention to things that are colourful, shocking, and don't make them think too much. We're letting them off the hook, and articles like this - years after this war should have been stopped - are simply too fucking late.
Consider the fictional characters of Pokémon, the Japanese game franchise with a huge global following, for example. Almost 500 of them have biographies on the English-language version of Wikipedia (the largest edition, with over 2m entries), with a level of detail that many real characters would envy. But search for biographies of the leaders of the Solidarity movement in Poland, and you would find no more than a dozen--and they are rather poorly edited.
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Basically, it means that the Pokemon franchise has a lot more fervent editors than the Solidarity movement in Poland. Whereas not many people have enough information to speak with authority about the latter, there are a LOT of people that have knowledge of every minute detail of the former. And considering the subjects in question, said people have a LOT of time on their hands.
To me, I think it's less a problem with Wikipedia and more a problem with society, and really, the goal of the Deletionists is laudible, but Wikipedia will never, ever, ever EVER be respected within the academic community, just due to the fact that anyone can edit it; any respected teacher will automatically shun a Wikipedia reference, though not necessarilly the good articles that could be linked from it. But just the example above from TFA, the only articles that will have proper accountability are the ones that a lot of people know about... so for the best information on Lost, Pokemon and Britney Spears, Wikipedia's got it!
Oh, GOD no! We have one, and we have way too many people that waste their time talking on Jabber as if it was AIM. And they won't let us force software that will prevent people from installing modifications like Off The Record (Pidgin app that prevents convos from being logged), and we can't really use our logs for shit.
What about lock-in? If someone starts using a type of software that was developed by whatever was the hot software back in the Mesozoic Era, they and their users eventually become locked in; management in that case oftentimes it's too expensive/too painful to users to upgrade; they stick with what works. I worked at a company used software that was so old and antiquated that we had major problems keeping it working, but we couldn't change anything because "the users might complain". It's a shitty position to be in and I'm glad I'm gone, but companies think like this.
It doesn't matter how shortsighted the company is; if they develop for a platform, and it's necessary software for a job, then the platform will stay in place. The company designing the software can be as shortsighted as they want because they have their clients by the shorthairs.
When I was about three, we had a game called Maze Craze on the Atari VCS. I loved that game, but I was hooked when we went to a local arcade and found a copy of Donkey Kong.
Who modded this to flamebait? Who gave the retards the mod points? Lusers are the weakest link in IT. This is a common fact. But since this isn't flaming Windows, it's flamebait?
Yahoo earned this. They bent over backwards to do business with China, and now they're paying the karmic price. Personally, after what they did to those journalists and bloggers, I love it.
I've never had an issue that I've fixed by repairing or reinstalling a.jpg file, or by running diagnostics on an.avi.
Look, I'm glad they got another paedophile, but I hate the way they did it. Honestly, the techs shouldn't have been looking at pictures and/or videos at all. If they were looking at that stuff, they were either going "hey, let's see what his family pictures are" or "hey, let's see if he has any porn!"; it's like they went for the latter, and then went "Woah! Bad porn!". Either way, it had nothing to do with repairing the issue, and I know if I had to put my PC in for repairs (fat chance), I'd be mortified at the thought that all my personal files are basically at the whim of some PFY, for him or her to read and mock at will.
And for those that say "learn how to fix it faggots", not everyone has that ability or time, and they shouldn't have to sit on pins and needles wondering if someone's going through their PC. And encrypting every picture and every document is not only user unfriendly, but it's not something everyone has the knowledge of how to do. They don't think "some fag could be going through my shit". Professional decorum is in order here.
All the big-time games seem to be FPS games, and that's not really my cup of tea, so I can't really vote for games that I don't enjoy playing. So for me? GOTY = Football Manager 2008, which means two straight years of Football Manager dominance.
Wonderful, so they're making an iPod game that I beat way back in 1991, and has been ported anywhere that will take it. So when is Sega going to make a NEW Sonic game that doesn't suck cock?
I don't always have three other friends to get together with and just jam with; if I did, we'd have a real rock band if we wanted to. Again, it's my opinion, but said opinion is that games are better when they can be played by one person, especially with the old-school charms that those games have.
Rock Band, to me - remember, opinion - is a great novelty, but that's about it.
If you are a gamer and own any handheld systems, you've got two perfect gifts if you're any kind of gamer: look into Castlevania: The Dracula X Chronicles for PSP, or Contra 4 for DS. They're both infinitely more awesome than Rock Band, in my opinion.
When it comes to Blackberrys, or even cell phones and webmail (our email is accesible through a webmail portal, and I have VPN access), I personally make everyone at my company stick to an on-call schedule; I am on call on X days, at X times, and don't call me otherwise. If someone makes a mistake, I'll help them, but at two, not only am I hanging up, but I'm making it a management issue at that point.
But I'm exceptional in that I demand my personal space. I tell my employers that I do have a life outside of work, and I will adhere to it, and if they don't like it they can go forth and multiply. But even in my own company - where job security is pretty good - people have this fear that if they don't make themselves available 24/7 that they will be fired or otherwise replaced, after which they will end up homeless in the streets. I'm guessing at other companies parallel to what we do, it's worse, as it's implied that if someone can't be reached, OK, we'll find someone that can. Naturally, someone with a family can't afford to be unemployed, even for a small time, and there's so much fear of corporate overlords able to effectively end someone's career with a penstroke that they overcompensate, and make themselves effectively serfs. And at my first job in this industry - my first real job in the civilian world since getting out of the Navy - my boss at the time would see me working late all the time (something I do partially because I do personal stuff during my normal workday as I see fit; hence, why I'm on Slashdot during the work day), and he gave me sage advice: the more you give, the more they're going to expect, and it's going to be impossible to put the bar back down. He was right, and I'm seeing that elsewhere.
Therefore, people that are given Crackberries from their jobs have a right to be worried, because companies aren't going to make that investment without expectation of a return. That return is going to be 100% availability, and frankly, if I was in that position, that's a concession that I'm not willing to make. The DIFFERENCE is that I'm not scared to look for another job, or tell the company to go forth if it came to that. A lot of people are.
I drew my own opinions a long time ago, when my native country voted the Torries in in the first place. I said that Harper was Bush Jr., but didn't have the power backing him that Bush does, and that he couldn't do any real significant damage. I also feel this bill will be defeated.
They advertise it. I hear their advertisements offering up to a $100,000 reward for turning in businesses on sports radio, at halftime of New York Jets games.
Look, as I received this comment notification, I was playing Contra 4. And I'm picking up a Wii eventually mainly for Galaxy, Fire Emblem, the Virtual Console and the fact that it's compatible with my Gamecube games. So the general point you're making, I'm down with that.
MY general point: the Nintendo "gimmick" systems gets a higher volume of shit-to-good than any other console.
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If I made a mistake 1/100000th the scale of that screw-up, I'd be fired, blackballed from the industry and likely sucking cock behind the dumpsters at 7/11 just to get hooch money. Most of us would.
This "oops" is just one more case of this administration pulling the wool over our eyes and hoping we don't notice. Questioning our patriotism isn't working anymore, neither is questioning our intelligence, so they're putting their own out there.
This will continue so long as our media engages in a 24/7 fight for the eyes of a country that only pays attention to things that are colourful, shocking, and don't make them think too much. We're letting them off the hook, and articles like this - years after this war should have been stopped - are simply too fucking late.
From TFA:
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Consider the fictional characters of Pokémon, the Japanese game franchise with a huge global following, for example. Almost 500 of them have biographies on the English-language version of Wikipedia (the largest edition, with over 2m entries), with a level of detail that many real characters would envy. But search for biographies of the leaders of the Solidarity movement in Poland, and you would find no more than a dozen--and they are rather poorly edited.
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Basically, it means that the Pokemon franchise has a lot more fervent editors than the Solidarity movement in Poland. Whereas not many people have enough information to speak with authority about the latter, there are a LOT of people that have knowledge of every minute detail of the former. And considering the subjects in question, said people have a LOT of time on their hands.
To me, I think it's less a problem with Wikipedia and more a problem with society, and really, the goal of the Deletionists is laudible, but Wikipedia will never, ever, ever EVER be respected within the academic community, just due to the fact that anyone can edit it; any respected teacher will automatically shun a Wikipedia reference, though not necessarilly the good articles that could be linked from it. But just the example above from TFA, the only articles that will have proper accountability are the ones that a lot of people know about... so for the best information on Lost, Pokemon and Britney Spears, Wikipedia's got it!
Oh, GOD no! We have one, and we have way too many people that waste their time talking on Jabber as if it was AIM. And they won't let us force software that will prevent people from installing modifications like Off The Record (Pidgin app that prevents convos from being logged), and we can't really use our logs for shit.
What about lock-in? If someone starts using a type of software that was developed by whatever was the hot software back in the Mesozoic Era, they and their users eventually become locked in; management in that case oftentimes it's too expensive/too painful to users to upgrade; they stick with what works. I worked at a company used software that was so old and antiquated that we had major problems keeping it working, but we couldn't change anything because "the users might complain". It's a shitty position to be in and I'm glad I'm gone, but companies think like this.
It doesn't matter how shortsighted the company is; if they develop for a platform, and it's necessary software for a job, then the platform will stay in place. The company designing the software can be as shortsighted as they want because they have their clients by the shorthairs.
When I was about three, we had a game called Maze Craze on the Atari VCS. I loved that game, but I was hooked when we went to a local arcade and found a copy of Donkey Kong.
That'd be awesome if I didn't have to spell Schenectady three times before getting it right. :(
Who modded this to flamebait? Who gave the retards the mod points? Lusers are the weakest link in IT. This is a common fact. But since this isn't flaming Windows, it's flamebait?
*Watches karma drop like a rock*
That would be illegal, and make him subject to a massive lawsuit, and possible jail time.
Yahoo earned this. They bent over backwards to do business with China, and now they're paying the karmic price. Personally, after what they did to those journalists and bloggers, I love it.
OK, with video files, I can see this. But I can't see it with .jpgs.
Either way, I don't see what they have to do with doing what these techs were doing.
I've never had an issue that I've fixed by repairing or reinstalling a .jpg file, or by running diagnostics on an .avi.
Look, I'm glad they got another paedophile, but I hate the way they did it. Honestly, the techs shouldn't have been looking at pictures and/or videos at all. If they were looking at that stuff, they were either going "hey, let's see what his family pictures are" or "hey, let's see if he has any porn!"; it's like they went for the latter, and then went "Woah! Bad porn!". Either way, it had nothing to do with repairing the issue, and I know if I had to put my PC in for repairs (fat chance), I'd be mortified at the thought that all my personal files are basically at the whim of some PFY, for him or her to read and mock at will.
And for those that say "learn how to fix it faggots", not everyone has that ability or time, and they shouldn't have to sit on pins and needles wondering if someone's going through their PC. And encrypting every picture and every document is not only user unfriendly, but it's not something everyone has the knowledge of how to do. They don't think "some fag could be going through my shit". Professional decorum is in order here.
All the big-time games seem to be FPS games, and that's not really my cup of tea, so I can't really vote for games that I don't enjoy playing. So for me? GOTY = Football Manager 2008, which means two straight years of Football Manager dominance.
I never thought I'd see the day where "Crash Bandicoot" was thought of as not only old-school, but an old-school game worthy to be emulated.
Wonderful, so they're making an iPod game that I beat way back in 1991, and has been ported anywhere that will take it. So when is Sega going to make a NEW Sonic game that doesn't suck cock?
I think you missed the words "in my opinion".
I don't always have three other friends to get together with and just jam with; if I did, we'd have a real rock band if we wanted to. Again, it's my opinion, but said opinion is that games are better when they can be played by one person, especially with the old-school charms that those games have.
Rock Band, to me - remember, opinion - is a great novelty, but that's about it.
If you are a gamer and own any handheld systems, you've got two perfect gifts if you're any kind of gamer: look into Castlevania: The Dracula X Chronicles for PSP, or Contra 4 for DS. They're both infinitely more awesome than Rock Band, in my opinion.
When it comes to Blackberrys, or even cell phones and webmail (our email is accesible through a webmail portal, and I have VPN access), I personally make everyone at my company stick to an on-call schedule; I am on call on X days, at X times, and don't call me otherwise. If someone makes a mistake, I'll help them, but at two, not only am I hanging up, but I'm making it a management issue at that point.
But I'm exceptional in that I demand my personal space. I tell my employers that I do have a life outside of work, and I will adhere to it, and if they don't like it they can go forth and multiply. But even in my own company - where job security is pretty good - people have this fear that if they don't make themselves available 24/7 that they will be fired or otherwise replaced, after which they will end up homeless in the streets. I'm guessing at other companies parallel to what we do, it's worse, as it's implied that if someone can't be reached, OK, we'll find someone that can. Naturally, someone with a family can't afford to be unemployed, even for a small time, and there's so much fear of corporate overlords able to effectively end someone's career with a penstroke that they overcompensate, and make themselves effectively serfs. And at my first job in this industry - my first real job in the civilian world since getting out of the Navy - my boss at the time would see me working late all the time (something I do partially because I do personal stuff during my normal workday as I see fit; hence, why I'm on Slashdot during the work day), and he gave me sage advice: the more you give, the more they're going to expect, and it's going to be impossible to put the bar back down. He was right, and I'm seeing that elsewhere.
Therefore, people that are given Crackberries from their jobs have a right to be worried, because companies aren't going to make that investment without expectation of a return. That return is going to be 100% availability, and frankly, if I was in that position, that's a concession that I'm not willing to make. The DIFFERENCE is that I'm not scared to look for another job, or tell the company to go forth if it came to that. A lot of people are.
Right idea, wrong Ninja games. I'd vote for some of the music with the Ninja Gaiden games, personally.
Coming from an AC with nothing backing you up, I'm going to have to call bullshit.
I drew my own opinions a long time ago, when my native country voted the Torries in in the first place. I said that Harper was Bush Jr., but didn't have the power backing him that Bush does, and that he couldn't do any real significant damage. I also feel this bill will be defeated.
This article, by nature, is useless because of who posted it. Can we get the opinion of someone who's NOT a known tin-hatter?
They advertise it. I hear their advertisements offering up to a $100,000 reward for turning in businesses on sports radio, at halftime of New York Jets games.
Look, as I received this comment notification, I was playing Contra 4. And I'm picking up a Wii eventually mainly for Galaxy, Fire Emblem, the Virtual Console and the fact that it's compatible with my Gamecube games. So the general point you're making, I'm down with that.
MY general point: the Nintendo "gimmick" systems gets a higher volume of shit-to-good than any other console.