Getting yourself into debt is always a dangerous proposition. It's just a risk you have to accept, if you don't want to (some might say "can't) save up for college beforehand or you don't want to (same here, with the "can't") work while going to school.
I feel it is right. I'm paying for my Internet connection, it has limited bandwidth, and I feel I should decide what travels on it. Loading the ad images increases the amount of time spent just waiting for the content to load. It provides no (nearly no, in some rare cases) value of its own. Often it is several times the size of the content.
Just like with spam. I've done business with companies that have eventually sold my email address to others. Some would say that it was their right (in some hidden EULA or whatever) to do so, in exchange for services given to me. I still feel it is right for me to seek ways to block that spam.
Agreed. I don't think you can call something "overpriced" after you've bought it. If you paid money for it, it was at exactly the right price or below.
2. Job market. Things are looking up slightly, but still the market for IT jobs is very slim, and EA is darn near the only game in town when it comes to game development.
I have a couple shelves full of games, the majority of which were not made by EA (and that aren't owned by EA now). I have a couple games made by independant developers.
Are you talking about the government? 'Cause that's what it sounds like to me.
No, I'm talking about a union, of course. The government doesn't tell me when I "shouldn't" work.
Or do you honestly think that striking is "having someone else fight your battles"?
I do think it is. How many times have you heard that such and such a union's leadership is bringing a contract back to its members and is recommending a yes vote? I'm in Seattle, with Boeing here, and I've heard it *all the time*. The workers aren't doing the fighting, they're basically "employees" of both the company and the union bosses.
In the end, if you want to be a scab, be a scab. If you don't want to strike because you feel working conditions are acceptable, it's the best thing you can do, short of graciously licking the shit off the jackboot of your corporate master. Oh, wait, same thing.
Amusing. You have to strike when other people think they're being mistreated, or else you're a scab, licking the shit off a "jackboot" of a "corporate master" -- nevermind if you're OK with the conditions, your opinion doesn't matter.
I don't buy in to it (heh, obviously). I can make these decisions for myself.
Nobody's forcing these people to work at EA or wherever. Why not just get another job or move on and do your own thing, if it's so bad?
No, it's far easier to just have someone else fight your battles for you, take your money, tell you when to work and when not to (without pay, of course), etc.
"When you have Bad Management burning you out, even if they're compensating you for it, sometimes you have to take responsibility for your well being and go take a shot at something better"
There's also nothing (not counting non-compete contracts, signed willingly) preventing a set of programmers from getting tired of the working conditions and starting their own company.
Of course, they're going to find the hours are probably the same, but they'd be doing it for themselves, and maybe that'd help them feel better.
Er, why should government have any involvement with a private business such as a baseball team at all? Doesn't make *any* sense, unless your government has way too many resources and not enough to do with them?
To be fair, I haven't seen a dupe in a long while. Now I haven't been reading slashdot constantly, but I also haven't seen very many others shouting dupe.
and 5) some company gets a big $$ contract deploying a system which is easily defeated, using a method any random layperson who's seen an action movie could come up with
Nice, that'd be excellent. I especially like the first one. There are so many newbie quests in games (although I don't know about WoW) where there's one person asking you to grab some items, as if you're the only one who can handle this task. That needs to stop.
They could then make those quests progressive. Once X number of items are collected, it starts the next step. Eventually, it should cause something to appear/happen the entire world can see (like you say, a wall for the city).
That's a game I think I'd enjoy. One with an evolving world that doesn't require developer interaction or patches to make each change happen. One where I can feel like I've done something for the world.
Agreed with you there. Morrowind's quests mostly all seemed to make sense, and "make a difference". That's something that I've always found missing in MMOGs.
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I say we poll old Koreans to find what they think about slow startup times.
Getting yourself into debt is always a dangerous proposition. It's just a risk you have to accept, if you don't want to (some might say "can't) save up for college beforehand or you don't want to (same here, with the "can't") work while going to school.
good set Mahjong tiles
I guess not.
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Am I the only slashdot user that thought that Minority Report qualified as a horror movie?
I guess so.
I feel it is right. I'm paying for my Internet connection, it has limited bandwidth, and I feel I should decide what travels on it. Loading the ad images increases the amount of time spent just waiting for the content to load. It provides no (nearly no, in some rare cases) value of its own. Often it is several times the size of the content.
Just like with spam. I've done business with companies that have eventually sold my email address to others. Some would say that it was their right (in some hidden EULA or whatever) to do so, in exchange for services given to me. I still feel it is right for me to seek ways to block that spam.
"Actually, i dont really get any mail at all."
Heh well, there ya go. Good on you. Hey, I've got an email address I never use, too, and somehow it doesn't get spam either. It's amazing.
Wal-Mart charges more for games than most stores. So, no, I don't buy any games there.
"A kick - because they still prefer business."
Those savages!
Agreed. I don't think you can call something "overpriced" after you've bought it. If you paid money for it, it was at exactly the right price or below.
I wish they'd never taught cursive. Cursive destroyed my handwriting. At least, that's my current theory on why my handwriting sucks. :)
Many software development firms make you sign
make? I think you mean "ask you to".
2. Job market. Things are looking up slightly, but still the market for IT jobs is very slim, and EA is darn near the only game in town when it comes to game development.
I have a couple shelves full of games, the majority of which were not made by EA (and that aren't owned by EA now). I have a couple games made by independant developers.
Are you talking about the government? 'Cause that's what it sounds like to me.
No, I'm talking about a union, of course. The government doesn't tell me when I "shouldn't" work.
Or do you honestly think that striking is "having someone else fight your battles"?
I do think it is. How many times have you heard that such and such a union's leadership is bringing a contract back to its members and is recommending a yes vote? I'm in Seattle, with Boeing here, and I've heard it *all the time*. The workers aren't doing the fighting, they're basically "employees" of both the company and the union bosses.
In the end, if you want to be a scab, be a scab. If you don't want to strike because you feel working conditions are acceptable, it's the best thing you can do, short of graciously licking the shit off the jackboot of your corporate master. Oh, wait, same thing.
Amusing. You have to strike when other people think they're being mistreated, or else you're a scab, licking the shit off a "jackboot" of a "corporate master" -- nevermind if you're OK with the conditions, your opinion doesn't matter.
I don't buy in to it (heh, obviously). I can make these decisions for myself.
Nobody's forcing these people to work at EA or wherever. Why not just get another job or move on and do your own thing, if it's so bad?
No, it's far easier to just have someone else fight your battles for you, take your money, tell you when to work and when not to (without pay, of course), etc.
"When you have Bad Management burning you out, even if they're compensating you for it, sometimes you have to take responsibility for your well being and go take a shot at something better"
There's also nothing (not counting non-compete contracts, signed willingly) preventing a set of programmers from getting tired of the working conditions and starting their own company.
Of course, they're going to find the hours are probably the same, but they'd be doing it for themselves, and maybe that'd help them feel better.
Er, no, he's saying work your ass off for pay or sit on your ass for no pay. How did you miss that?
Oh, you're pro-union. I get it. Selective understanding.
Sorry, BCentral among other sites have tried that and have not done so hot.
Maybe he thought you would be interested?
This is not flamebait or a troll, mods; you may just need to see "Team America" to understand it.
Er, why should government have any involvement with a private business such as a baseball team at all? Doesn't make *any* sense, unless your government has way too many resources and not enough to do with them?
Most if not all online games (MMOGs) have something like that in their EULAs. But, yeah, I doubt it would hold up in any court.
No offense intended but... cookies? It's 2004 and you're worried about cookies?
I like the idea of SpyBot's "immunize" functionality, although I've yet to actually test it out since I almost never use IE.
Burnout 2: Point of Impact was a lot of fun.
To be fair, I haven't seen a dupe in a long while. Now I haven't been reading slashdot constantly, but I also haven't seen very many others shouting dupe.
You forgot:
and 5) some company gets a big $$ contract deploying a system which is easily defeated, using a method any random layperson who's seen an action movie could come up with
Obviously, our society is progressing well.
Nice, that'd be excellent. I especially like the first one. There are so many newbie quests in games (although I don't know about WoW) where there's one person asking you to grab some items, as if you're the only one who can handle this task. That needs to stop.
They could then make those quests progressive. Once X number of items are collected, it starts the next step. Eventually, it should cause something to appear/happen the entire world can see (like you say, a wall for the city).
That's a game I think I'd enjoy. One with an evolving world that doesn't require developer interaction or patches to make each change happen. One where I can feel like I've done something for the world.
Agreed with you there. Morrowind's quests mostly all seemed to make sense, and "make a difference". That's something that I've always found missing in MMOGs.