It's pretty hard to write an application any other way. You can sandbox all you like, but there's always still something connecting all the layers to each other.
Employees'(or prospective employees') personal lives should be strictly off limits unless the employee voluntarily discloses the information as per professional interview guidelines(such as listing interests on a resume' or answering an interviewer's questions).
Why? The information's both public and readily available. If someone's application for employment is dismissed because they appear to be a drunken stoner that enjoys whining about former employers then...why should the prospective employer not be aware of it?
Yes, and a good point to that is if you're willing to make yourself look like an idiot then you may just as well be willing to make who you work for look like idiots.
It's fair game, I just hate to think of someone with the same name as you living in the same area as you making you look bad. I have a fairly obscure surname yet there's still at least one person with my first and last name who posts with that first and last name while I do not. If someone googles my name, all they'll find is this other person in a few somewhat discouraging discussions.
That sounds like an awful lot of personal responsibility. I'm way too young and carefree to worry about silly things like privacy and rights and things coming to bite me in the ass later.
House of cards? It took long enough for me to go back to bed and sleep a while, then I got up and found out getting woken up for it wasn't a dream, then by the time I was actually aware of what was going on one of the buildings finally collapsed.
Holy crap, just imagine if you had to pay for every comment on Slashdot, even the anonymous cowards that don't say anything useful, much like the advertisements I get about four times a week now because some assholes thought it would be +1 Funny and +1 Informative to randomly stick my cell phone number into all those stupid sites.
The solution is obvious, simply outsource all the work and fire the IT employees. This will give you massive savings, make the few domestic employees more reliable, and give you super management powers that will make you invincible.
I don't know about that, a lot of people talked about LD, but it was poorly marketed (most I usually saw about it was 3AM commercials) and I don't remember seeing rows of LD's at WalMart prepared for discount mass consumption.
LD itself was also less durable than VHS, much larger, and the players were God-awful to work with.
I don't know, I've seen some pretty big, HD LCDs at Best Buy the other day for under a thousand, this being less than a decade after 15 inch LCD's with bad pixels costing around $4000
It's actually getting pulled out of the ground far faster than it's even getting turned into useful products. Apparently in the ground isn't a safe enough place to store all that prehistoric garbage.
If you've spent five years conditioning your body to break a world record and still haven't achieved it, then are you deluding yourself?
When I got sucked up into cigarettes, I didn't have the goal of... well... anything. I smoked, then I wanted another, then I wanted another, that went on, next day, same thing, there was no thinking of planning. I smoked, when I ran out, I got more, eventually I started budgeting more and more into it.
When I saw the IQ504 at Best Buy I fell in love immediately, I was just pained to see Vista was the operating system on it, though I wasn't surprised. I'm thinking someday soon of going in with an Ubuntu 8.04 disk and seeing how it runs on it, of course that won't tell me how it runs on the IQ506 which is the one I'd rather get, but still, I want it.
What I really like about it is the thought of not having to grab a mouse for every little thing I want to do, my wrists hurt pretty bad as it is and I've been doing so much mouse wrangling at work lately I'm back to wearing a splint for more than just sleeping.
What's nice (and bad) about the new touchsmarts is they don't use the traditional touchscreens, they save some money by actually putting an IR ring around the whole screen that sees where you break the beam, which it sense as depression on the mouse button and absolute location on the screen, and when you lift your finger it's letting go of the button. This means no pressure on the screen (but it seems tough enough to handle a few prods) and a little less grease building up.
Of course you have to keep the ring free of dust, but it's good practice to keep a monitor clean anyways. It also limits use a little, but I don't see how it's different than a traditional touch screen in effect.
I've never been a fan of hardware integration until lately, I'm playing less games and I've already used the same everything for three years now and I've gotten by fine.
Now after all that I have to admit I oh-so-cannot afford to but one right now (same computer, no upgrades, 3 years), I still have to get a car, pay off student loans, and debts, and keep up on rent and bills.
Sounds more like a problem with the movie industry than games. Unless you are requesting a 20 hour movie, in which case - find a trilogy or tv show series. Either way, a game is meant to be played, most games with stories nowadays are boring because they decide to force you to watch cinematics, and if you don't watch them, then you won't know your objectives and what you should do next.
That's the expectation that's really messing things up. Half Life 2 wasn't really story immerse, but the way it told the story it did was remarkable, you didn't really get forced to sit back and watch the cinematic, you got swept up into it. That's the kind of story interaction I'd like to see more of.
It's cut scenes and narrations that just don't belong that drives me crazy, it's like you could have made the game any which way and bullshit some story alongside it.
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It's pretty hard to write an application any other way. You can sandbox all you like, but there's always still something connecting all the layers to each other.
It's perfectly good software if it worked the way it was intended.
Expect Vista to bla #####
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Why? The information's both public and readily available. If someone's application for employment is dismissed because they appear to be a drunken stoner that enjoys whining about former employers then...why should the prospective employer not be aware of it?
Yes, and a good point to that is if you're willing to make yourself look like an idiot then you may just as well be willing to make who you work for look like idiots.
It's fair game, I just hate to think of someone with the same name as you living in the same area as you making you look bad. I have a fairly obscure surname yet there's still at least one person with my first and last name who posts with that first and last name while I do not. If someone googles my name, all they'll find is this other person in a few somewhat discouraging discussions.
That sounds like an awful lot of personal responsibility. I'm way too young and carefree to worry about silly things like privacy and rights and things coming to bite me in the ass later.
House of cards? It took long enough for me to go back to bed and sleep a while, then I got up and found out getting woken up for it wasn't a dream, then by the time I was actually aware of what was going on one of the buildings finally collapsed.
Is it really a problem? I must filter it out when I see it, I can't think of one time I saw someone say 'loosing'.
Holy crap, just imagine if you had to pay for every comment on Slashdot, even the anonymous cowards that don't say anything useful, much like the advertisements I get about four times a week now because some assholes thought it would be +1 Funny and +1 Informative to randomly stick my cell phone number into all those stupid sites.
No, nonsense, I mean
Successful = (Google [Less Than] Evil)
They're totally just jealous of Google actually being less than evil and still being successful.
The solution is obvious, simply outsource all the work and fire the IT employees. This will give you massive savings, make the few domestic employees more reliable, and give you super management powers that will make you invincible.
Awesome! I reply gibberish to something that already has nothing to do with the article and I get modded down for offtopic!
ALL HAIL SLASHDOT!
I agree completely. I, Aphoxema, heartily endorse this product and/or service.
Holy guacamole!
This is the most outrageous news I've heard on Slashdot ALL WEEK!
I don't know about that, a lot of people talked about LD, but it was poorly marketed (most I usually saw about it was 3AM commercials) and I don't remember seeing rows of LD's at WalMart prepared for discount mass consumption.
LD itself was also less durable than VHS, much larger, and the players were God-awful to work with.
I don't know, I've seen some pretty big, HD LCDs at Best Buy the other day for under a thousand, this being less than a decade after 15 inch LCD's with bad pixels costing around $4000
I don't know, how many 10 cent SMS messages can you fit in your phone calls?
It's actually getting pulled out of the ground far faster than it's even getting turned into useful products. Apparently in the ground isn't a safe enough place to store all that prehistoric garbage.
Nonsense, unless the cost of phone calls and emails in China are, what, millions of times what it is in the US?
Yeah, because we know that SMS messages are way more valuable than a phone call or email.
My first and last was two big hits of chronic. It wasn't mind bending or incredible, it was just awful.
If you've spent five years conditioning your body to break a world record and still haven't achieved it, then are you deluding yourself?
When I got sucked up into cigarettes, I didn't have the goal of... well... anything. I smoked, then I wanted another, then I wanted another, that went on, next day, same thing, there was no thinking of planning. I smoked, when I ran out, I got more, eventually I started budgeting more and more into it.
In contrast to the only people who think cigarettes aren't addictive are the ones who have just started smoking them.
When I saw the IQ504 at Best Buy I fell in love immediately, I was just pained to see Vista was the operating system on it, though I wasn't surprised. I'm thinking someday soon of going in with an Ubuntu 8.04 disk and seeing how it runs on it, of course that won't tell me how it runs on the IQ506 which is the one I'd rather get, but still, I want it.
What I really like about it is the thought of not having to grab a mouse for every little thing I want to do, my wrists hurt pretty bad as it is and I've been doing so much mouse wrangling at work lately I'm back to wearing a splint for more than just sleeping.
What's nice (and bad) about the new touchsmarts is they don't use the traditional touchscreens, they save some money by actually putting an IR ring around the whole screen that sees where you break the beam, which it sense as depression on the mouse button and absolute location on the screen, and when you lift your finger it's letting go of the button. This means no pressure on the screen (but it seems tough enough to handle a few prods) and a little less grease building up.
Of course you have to keep the ring free of dust, but it's good practice to keep a monitor clean anyways. It also limits use a little, but I don't see how it's different than a traditional touch screen in effect.
I've never been a fan of hardware integration until lately, I'm playing less games and I've already used the same everything for three years now and I've gotten by fine.
Now after all that I have to admit I oh-so-cannot afford to but one right now (same computer, no upgrades, 3 years), I still have to get a car, pay off student loans, and debts, and keep up on rent and bills.
Sounds more like a problem with the movie industry than games. Unless you are requesting a 20 hour movie, in which case - find a trilogy or tv show series. Either way, a game is meant to be played, most games with stories nowadays are boring because they decide to force you to watch cinematics, and if you don't watch them, then you won't know your objectives and what you should do next.
That's the expectation that's really messing things up. Half Life 2 wasn't really story immerse, but the way it told the story it did was remarkable, you didn't really get forced to sit back and watch the cinematic, you got swept up into it. That's the kind of story interaction I'd like to see more of.
It's cut scenes and narrations that just don't belong that drives me crazy, it's like you could have made the game any which way and bullshit some story alongside it.