He hits it on the head. EVE as a single player experience gets old pretty quickly. Grinding missions, eh...not that fun after awhile. The real content is what you make yourself, writing your own MMO story when you join a player corp. PvP is ridiculously simple to get into and a new player with a few basic skills can be an important part of a small fleet. Sounds like the parent expected it to be more like Wow and the like...guess what? It's not WoW! Thank God for that too.
The only thing that beats Superman is green kryptonite but it puts a twist in his tights when MS Word crashes when he's got a deadline to beat at the Daily Planet. Superman runs Windows.
Batman...as Bruce Wayne, he's so rich, he doesn't own a computer at all. He has other people do that for him. In fact, he's got someone who runs his Blackberry because he can't be bothered.
However, in the Bat Cave, Batman runs a Beowulf cluster running a custom BatBSD.
Spiderman runs Mac. Sorry, but as a photographer, I'm just thinking he's a Mac guy. Plus with all those pithy zingers he flings while he swings, he's just that hip.
Remember that shit you pulled over on us with Intel? No? Well I fucking do. I wanna see you cry when this recession drives a bunch of college going young people to love our new little netbooks with a custom Linux on it and find out that they don't need you anymore.
Kisses,
Mark H
We moved all our chairs to the parking lot so when you show up to act like a raving maniac, which you are, you can at least do it outside.
Far be it from me to defend Microsoft here, but this tool is clearly not meant for network deployment. There are other, more robust tools for doing just that...WSUS comes to mind.
Still, I think this is a tool bound to fail. MS has this nasty habit of changing their KB page locations, which could make it interesting. Also, is this what MS thought OneCare could be (if I'm remembering the name right)?
I'm going to disagree with you on this. The teachers I didn't like in school were the ones obsessed with their meager power and/or teachers who were basically mailing it in because they couldn't be fired. This also ties in with coaches who were teachers because it was the only way they could coach (rather than teachers who were good coaches--I want to make that distinction because there's a good number of these people too). Some of these had high standards as well, but that doesn't always translate to being able to convey the information to everyone.
High standards can only go so far if you don't at least try to relate to your students, which is why this is so difficult in the first place. Every student is different and responds to different stimuli. Having to be able to deal with as many students as possible while trying to teach as much information as you can and keep the kids engaged...no wonder teaching is such a hard profession.
Also, it's not just hard for students to distinguish good and bad teaching...sometimes the teachers themselves don't know.
You have a dim view of this. How is it that I see the link you posted of his biography entirely different than you?
Harvard Law grad, with honors. Not everyone can say this. Might be a friend of Obama's but doesn't necessarily exclude him from being qualified.
Your statement on clerking is off the mark. My wife clerked for two judges, both of them pretty conservative guys, one at the district level and one on the circuit level (my wife, btw, is not even close to being a conservative). Clerking for any judge is a competitive position, usually sought after by hundreds of applicants. Clerking for the USSC is a highly sought after position and a huge honor. Wouldn't serving for a conservative and a liberal judge at least show an ability to work across the aisle? Plus, having clerking experience really can pay off to know how the court thinks and what they demand in terms of what arguments make the grade.
Did you skip over the part about Barry Diller and IAC? You know Barry, the guy who helped start Fox Broadcasting? His involvement with Common Sense Media seems somewhat balanced out with some of the other companies who's boards he has served on.
Of course you skipped right over the part where it said he previously worked for the FCC as General Council and all, denoting a level of experience with the organization he's being appointed.
The ultimate judge of this guy will be the positions he takes and the moves the FCC make during his reign, but to say that he only got this because he was Obama's buddy (which he is) and that he's not qualified (he's far more qualified than the last few FCC chairs we've had) is missing the forest for the trees.
Oh please. You are talking about the scam, I'm talking about how the malware ends up on the system in the first place. How does it get there before they get suckered in and buy it, hmmm? Sure, it's all bait to get someone to pony up money for the supposed "fix", but before that, it shows up as a bunch of pop-ups and home page redirects letting you know that you have malware. PLUS, some variants prevent you from getting to web pages which would help you remove it.
Here's my point that you so carefully missed. MS said that it cleaned 400,000 PCs of Antivirus 2009. Digging a little further into the article you find they claim that they cleaned about one million PCs from other malware software in the last quarter. Lets assumed that even with those big numbers, they missed some (even though an honest assessment would be that they haven't even scratched the surface). The problem is that we have a browser (IE) which still is infuriatingly easy to load with malware/spyware. Coupled with an OS which either in the case of XP, offers no protection from installing items in the background or Vista, which the UAC frustrates the user in such a way that they feel better when it is off.
Believe me, I've had to deal with this crap malware before and have it ruin many a day for me as I have to be the one to clean it off of people's computers when they get it. Incidently, you're little jab of "try a little research" is way off the mark. You never address how it ends up with the initial malware in the first place...which is through browsing and landing on unsafe sites. I am the first to recognize a PEBKAC when I see one, but this particular malware is nasty.
Anyone besides me concerned though that this piece of shit malware was eliminated on that many PCs? Doesn't that just scream that there is something fundamentally wrong with the browser and/or the OS?
Most firearm owners I've ever known are stable people.
The problem I have in this sentence is the word "most". I would feel much more comfortable if it were "all", but I don't think that's a valid statement.
Didn't I read something somewhere about spaceships being built in space? Atmospheric pressures and that stuff. How the hell is it going to get off the ground? Levitate for a bit while the impulse engines warm up?
I have a friend who told me this week that when she needs to go to the doctor, she goes to the emergency room. I was stunned. She said she did it because she doesn't like to make an appointment and have to wait somewhere. She didn't seem to care about the fact that every time she does this, she's driving up my premiums.
There's this selfishness that seems apparent to me in this regard, a sort of never-ending spiral. People like this don't go to a clinic or make an appointment, those decisions drive up costs for hospitals, drive up premiums for me, rinse, repeat.
What we don't do well in this country is preventative care, which is a shame because if we did, premiums would likely fall as well. Neither candidate really addresses this. This is what I would like to see happen, who can deliver this. Doesn't seem like McCain would promote this as his only approach seems to be a tax credit...which I have always felt is a dodge.
If a candidate can show a plan to provide basic care for all Americans, a reasonable way to promote preventative care and finally classify mental illness as a medical illness, that would be a health plan I can get behind. Unfortunately, with everything else going on, there's not much focus on this issue this year.
I wouldn't trust the American Enterprise Institute as far as I could throw them, being the prime authors of much of Bush II's public policy. Your citing of them means very little.
Wealth redistribution? Really? Poor people pay a larger proportion of their income in taxes (let's not just look at income tax, but overall tax burden, thank you) than people who are well off. I'd have to see more of this to be convinced that this is bad. I would be willing to guess (I don't have time to find the numbers) that there are more working poor than there are people on welfare. I fail to see how helping this group of people would be a bad thing.
If you are thinking taxation, what excites you about McCain's plan? It's pretty much just like Bush II's current plan. What wasteful spending do you cut out? It's an easy thing to say, difficult in practice. Many highway funds are done now through earmarks.
What you suggest (cut spending, let tax payers keep more money) is a pipe dream. I am tired of handing down more and more debt to our following generations. It is unsustainable and unrealistic to think that we can keep doing this without paying for the bill someday. At some point, we need to pony up and pay the bill
Good God, could you be any thicker than what shit you're happening to post. You know where I quoted that from the press release...from the section marked "Study Methodology".
I think you are offended at the whole average age conclusion of the study, rather than the other ideas it postulates. Why else would you be arguing about why some pimpled clerk at EB thinks the average age of the buyers in his store?
You know what, I checked out your "studies" (don't think I didn't notice you put quotes around the word). Hey thanks for taking out thirty seconds to post up a three year old study (which basically concludes the average age of a gamer is 30) and a completely unsourced website with a bunch of numbers.
You know what Jack, you want to know how they did the methodology even further than what's in the press release, call the guy who's listed in it. There's a name there and a phone number. Call him. Why should I do your dirty work? You're the guy with the problem with the numbers.
Oh, and why did I post so late? I was out with my friends having a couple beers...being social...just like other gamers I know.
If you believe that gamers use games to stay up to date on new technology you'll believe anything.
There was some truth to this at one point. Not so many years ago, I'd know with precision which chipset was better than another because of how it performed the games I was playing at the time. This was also around the time I'd play with the MTU settings to get the most out of my connection.
But now, there's little real need. I tend to buy games on their promise of fun, not on their blistering requirements or "mind-blowing" visual effects (is it weird that it's always the visual component?). My PC is still home-brew, but I don't put in the time into knowing the specs like I did. The need to just isn't there anymore.
My numbers are as real as theirs except ANYONE can get corraboration through any convenient outlet.
What numbers are you talking about? You have no numbers. As far as I see, you have an opinion, backed up by no data or even your precious "firsthand knowledge". You're like the guy who keeps saying a falsehood over and over again in hopes that it will convince someone that it is, in fact, the truth.
The IGN article is not the actual study, but a press release about the study. Here's their methodology:
Research was conducted in two phases, a quantitative overview of gaming households among the U.S. online population, and a follow-up qualitative deep dive among the key segments in the gaming market.
The quantitative research was conducted in June 2008 by Ipsos MediaCT, the technology, media and entertainment division of Ipsos. Approximately 3,000 respondents completed the 25-minute online survey among an online representative population of 12- to 54-year-olds. Respondents qualified based on whether they owned a modern gaming console, handheld system, or a PC/Mac that is used to play games.
Follow-up qualitative research was conducted by Ipsos Understanding UnLtd. in August 2008. Three focus groups were carried out in Los Angeles, immediately followed by three in-home ethnographies to further assess how videogames are incorporated within the household.
If you want the actual study, why don't you contact Ipsos and get it. You clamor for firsthand knowledge...they conducted interviews with respondents in their own homes! How much more firsthand can you get?
If that's not enough for you, here's my firsthand information. I've been playing videogames since there were videogames, starting with Pong. In the MMO I play the most now, we took a poll in our forum of player age and the average age was in the low 40s. My last five game purchases were online. The last time I bought from somewhere like EB, it was a release day and everyone in line that day was around my age. Of my friends who play games, about half of them have got their significant others to play with them.
In my firsthand experience, even though there are friends of mine in their 20s who play games, there are greater numbers (not overwhelming, just greater) of gamers in their 30s. This is the generation who first grew up on games. I don't know why that number would sound so weird.
In a way, $100,000 isn't much for a university...any university really. Salary costs alone would eat up this amount quickly.
No, this $100,000 is likely coming out of small campus programs who are lucky to have a budget. If it's being routed out of the overall tech budget, chances are that's the computer lab upgrade budget or other small, but needed programs that could really use that money. Seems a shame that money isn't being used better.
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He hits it on the head. EVE as a single player experience gets old pretty quickly. Grinding missions, eh...not that fun after awhile. The real content is what you make yourself, writing your own MMO story when you join a player corp. PvP is ridiculously simple to get into and a new player with a few basic skills can be an important part of a small fleet. Sounds like the parent expected it to be more like Wow and the like...guess what? It's not WoW! Thank God for that too.
The only thing that beats Superman is green kryptonite but it puts a twist in his tights when MS Word crashes when he's got a deadline to beat at the Daily Planet. Superman runs Windows.
Batman...as Bruce Wayne, he's so rich, he doesn't own a computer at all. He has other people do that for him. In fact, he's got someone who runs his Blackberry because he can't be bothered.
However, in the Bat Cave, Batman runs a Beowulf cluster running a custom BatBSD.
Spiderman runs Mac. Sorry, but as a photographer, I'm just thinking he's a Mac guy. Plus with all those pithy zingers he flings while he swings, he's just that hip.
Dear Stevie,
Remember that shit you pulled over on us with Intel? No? Well I fucking do. I wanna see you cry when this recession drives a bunch of college going young people to love our new little netbooks with a custom Linux on it and find out that they don't need you anymore.
Kisses,
Mark H
We moved all our chairs to the parking lot so when you show up to act like a raving maniac, which you are, you can at least do it outside.
Far be it from me to defend Microsoft here, but this tool is clearly not meant for network deployment. There are other, more robust tools for doing just that...WSUS comes to mind.
Still, I think this is a tool bound to fail. MS has this nasty habit of changing their KB page locations, which could make it interesting. Also, is this what MS thought OneCare could be (if I'm remembering the name right)?
I'm going to disagree with you on this. The teachers I didn't like in school were the ones obsessed with their meager power and/or teachers who were basically mailing it in because they couldn't be fired. This also ties in with coaches who were teachers because it was the only way they could coach (rather than teachers who were good coaches--I want to make that distinction because there's a good number of these people too). Some of these had high standards as well, but that doesn't always translate to being able to convey the information to everyone.
High standards can only go so far if you don't at least try to relate to your students, which is why this is so difficult in the first place. Every student is different and responds to different stimuli. Having to be able to deal with as many students as possible while trying to teach as much information as you can and keep the kids engaged...no wonder teaching is such a hard profession.
Also, it's not just hard for students to distinguish good and bad teaching...sometimes the teachers themselves don't know.
You have a dim view of this. How is it that I see the link you posted of his biography entirely different than you?
Harvard Law grad, with honors. Not everyone can say this. Might be a friend of Obama's but doesn't necessarily exclude him from being qualified.
Your statement on clerking is off the mark. My wife clerked for two judges, both of them pretty conservative guys, one at the district level and one on the circuit level (my wife, btw, is not even close to being a conservative). Clerking for any judge is a competitive position, usually sought after by hundreds of applicants. Clerking for the USSC is a highly sought after position and a huge honor. Wouldn't serving for a conservative and a liberal judge at least show an ability to work across the aisle? Plus, having clerking experience really can pay off to know how the court thinks and what they demand in terms of what arguments make the grade.
Did you skip over the part about Barry Diller and IAC? You know Barry, the guy who helped start Fox Broadcasting? His involvement with Common Sense Media seems somewhat balanced out with some of the other companies who's boards he has served on.
Of course you skipped right over the part where it said he previously worked for the FCC as General Council and all, denoting a level of experience with the organization he's being appointed.
The ultimate judge of this guy will be the positions he takes and the moves the FCC make during his reign, but to say that he only got this because he was Obama's buddy (which he is) and that he's not qualified (he's far more qualified than the last few FCC chairs we've had) is missing the forest for the trees.
...and SCO-shilling who is so forgotten I can't even find him on Google anymore
Could it be that you refer to Rob Enderle? Interesting, but old bit about him here
Oh please. You are talking about the scam, I'm talking about how the malware ends up on the system in the first place. How does it get there before they get suckered in and buy it, hmmm? Sure, it's all bait to get someone to pony up money for the supposed "fix", but before that, it shows up as a bunch of pop-ups and home page redirects letting you know that you have malware. PLUS, some variants prevent you from getting to web pages which would help you remove it.
Here's my point that you so carefully missed. MS said that it cleaned 400,000 PCs of Antivirus 2009. Digging a little further into the article you find they claim that they cleaned about one million PCs from other malware software in the last quarter. Lets assumed that even with those big numbers, they missed some (even though an honest assessment would be that they haven't even scratched the surface). The problem is that we have a browser (IE) which still is infuriatingly easy to load with malware/spyware. Coupled with an OS which either in the case of XP, offers no protection from installing items in the background or Vista, which the UAC frustrates the user in such a way that they feel better when it is off.
Believe me, I've had to deal with this crap malware before and have it ruin many a day for me as I have to be the one to clean it off of people's computers when they get it. Incidently, you're little jab of "try a little research" is way off the mark. You never address how it ends up with the initial malware in the first place...which is through browsing and landing on unsafe sites. I am the first to recognize a PEBKAC when I see one, but this particular malware is nasty.
*golf clap*
Anyone besides me concerned though that this piece of shit malware was eliminated on that many PCs? Doesn't that just scream that there is something fundamentally wrong with the browser and/or the OS?
Kudos to you, good sir, for living up to you screen name!
Only missing a stunning denouement by including the season and show number for that old relic.
Maybe so, but the guy runs a donut shop. It's not like the patrons are there for the health food.
Most firearm owners I've ever known are stable people.
The problem I have in this sentence is the word "most". I would feel much more comfortable if it were "all", but I don't think that's a valid statement.
Desire and drive will get you further than talent. That is a fact. If this guy has the desire to do this, who are you to say he can't...or shouldn't.
More power to him, I say.
Meh, not as funny as you would think.
Is anyone else enjoying this or is it just me? I mean, this is like some kind of geek bitch-slap fight.
Didn't I read something somewhere about spaceships being built in space? Atmospheric pressures and that stuff. How the hell is it going to get off the ground? Levitate for a bit while the impulse engines warm up?
I have a friend who told me this week that when she needs to go to the doctor, she goes to the emergency room. I was stunned. She said she did it because she doesn't like to make an appointment and have to wait somewhere. She didn't seem to care about the fact that every time she does this, she's driving up my premiums.
There's this selfishness that seems apparent to me in this regard, a sort of never-ending spiral. People like this don't go to a clinic or make an appointment, those decisions drive up costs for hospitals, drive up premiums for me, rinse, repeat.
What we don't do well in this country is preventative care, which is a shame because if we did, premiums would likely fall as well. Neither candidate really addresses this. This is what I would like to see happen, who can deliver this. Doesn't seem like McCain would promote this as his only approach seems to be a tax credit...which I have always felt is a dodge.
If a candidate can show a plan to provide basic care for all Americans, a reasonable way to promote preventative care and finally classify mental illness as a medical illness, that would be a health plan I can get behind. Unfortunately, with everything else going on, there's not much focus on this issue this year.
Oh thank God. I hadn't seen a car analogy in the last couple of articles and was beginning to wonder if I was on the right site.
Slashdot? You're soaking in it!
I wouldn't trust the American Enterprise Institute as far as I could throw them, being the prime authors of much of Bush II's public policy. Your citing of them means very little.
Wealth redistribution? Really? Poor people pay a larger proportion of their income in taxes (let's not just look at income tax, but overall tax burden, thank you) than people who are well off. I'd have to see more of this to be convinced that this is bad. I would be willing to guess (I don't have time to find the numbers) that there are more working poor than there are people on welfare. I fail to see how helping this group of people would be a bad thing.
If you are thinking taxation, what excites you about McCain's plan? It's pretty much just like Bush II's current plan. What wasteful spending do you cut out? It's an easy thing to say, difficult in practice. Many highway funds are done now through earmarks.
What you suggest (cut spending, let tax payers keep more money) is a pipe dream. I am tired of handing down more and more debt to our following generations. It is unsustainable and unrealistic to think that we can keep doing this without paying for the bill someday. At some point, we need to pony up and pay the bill
Good God, could you be any thicker than what shit you're happening to post. You know where I quoted that from the press release...from the section marked "Study Methodology".
I think you are offended at the whole average age conclusion of the study, rather than the other ideas it postulates. Why else would you be arguing about why some pimpled clerk at EB thinks the average age of the buyers in his store?
You know what, I checked out your "studies" (don't think I didn't notice you put quotes around the word). Hey thanks for taking out thirty seconds to post up a three year old study (which basically concludes the average age of a gamer is 30) and a completely unsourced website with a bunch of numbers.
You know what Jack, you want to know how they did the methodology even further than what's in the press release, call the guy who's listed in it. There's a name there and a phone number. Call him. Why should I do your dirty work? You're the guy with the problem with the numbers.
Oh, and why did I post so late? I was out with my friends having a couple beers...being social...just like other gamers I know.
If you believe that gamers use games to stay up to date on new technology you'll believe anything.
There was some truth to this at one point. Not so many years ago, I'd know with precision which chipset was better than another because of how it performed the games I was playing at the time. This was also around the time I'd play with the MTU settings to get the most out of my connection.
But now, there's little real need. I tend to buy games on their promise of fun, not on their blistering requirements or "mind-blowing" visual effects (is it weird that it's always the visual component?). My PC is still home-brew, but I don't put in the time into knowing the specs like I did. The need to just isn't there anymore.
My numbers are as real as theirs except ANYONE can get corraboration through any convenient outlet.
What numbers are you talking about? You have no numbers. As far as I see, you have an opinion, backed up by no data or even your precious "firsthand knowledge". You're like the guy who keeps saying a falsehood over and over again in hopes that it will convince someone that it is, in fact, the truth.
The IGN article is not the actual study, but a press release about the study. Here's their methodology:
Research was conducted in two phases, a quantitative overview of gaming households among the U.S. online population, and a follow-up qualitative deep dive among the key segments in the gaming market.
The quantitative research was conducted in June 2008 by Ipsos MediaCT, the technology, media and entertainment division of Ipsos. Approximately 3,000 respondents completed the 25-minute online survey among an online representative population of 12- to 54-year-olds. Respondents qualified based on whether they owned a modern gaming console, handheld system, or a PC/Mac that is used to play games.
Follow-up qualitative research was conducted by Ipsos Understanding UnLtd. in August 2008. Three focus groups were carried out in Los Angeles, immediately followed by three in-home ethnographies to further assess how videogames are incorporated within the household.
If you want the actual study, why don't you contact Ipsos and get it. You clamor for firsthand knowledge...they conducted interviews with respondents in their own homes! How much more firsthand can you get?
If that's not enough for you, here's my firsthand information. I've been playing videogames since there were videogames, starting with Pong. In the MMO I play the most now, we took a poll in our forum of player age and the average age was in the low 40s. My last five game purchases were online. The last time I bought from somewhere like EB, it was a release day and everyone in line that day was around my age. Of my friends who play games, about half of them have got their significant others to play with them.
In my firsthand experience, even though there are friends of mine in their 20s who play games, there are greater numbers (not overwhelming, just greater) of gamers in their 30s. This is the generation who first grew up on games. I don't know why that number would sound so weird.
In a way, $100,000 isn't much for a university...any university really. Salary costs alone would eat up this amount quickly.
No, this $100,000 is likely coming out of small campus programs who are lucky to have a budget. If it's being routed out of the overall tech budget, chances are that's the computer lab upgrade budget or other small, but needed programs that could really use that money. Seems a shame that money isn't being used better.
Oh, they were different?