I hope that never happens. Corporate sponsorship has already ruined stadium names. However, if Planet Hollywood got to name a planet in exchange for some sponsorship dollars, that might be kinda funny.:p
that will be lost or stolen as company employees fail to properly encrypt back-ups, leave laptops in their car while running in for a latte or some such? Seriously, though, the article says storage is corporations' number 2 concern. What's number one from this survey? Is it security?
I'm sure there will be plenty more people looking to other sources for info besides the library in the future. This survey even shows that those who did go to the library weren't doing so for traditional purposes. Uni. libraries are a far better source for reference material, and much of the casual material average joes used to go to the library for is becoming available online. Perhaps this survey shows that public libraries have to adjust how they operate in order to stay relevant.:\
Color me the eternal optimist, but I would hope charities like this would at least help to reduce the witch hunt mentality a tiny bit from the mainstream media. The extreme anti-game types are pretty much set in their ways, but I think there are a lot of others who can be swayed not to write videogames off as big, bad killing simulators. The mainstream coverage of the Wii alone in 2007 put gaming in a more positive light this past year. As for Child's Play, I do believe they got a little bit of national attention when they started it up for this year's drive, so the media is at least showing a little bit of positive coverage in the industry.
Yes, it's just common sense. Even Homer Simpson knows to call himself Chunky Lover when online, and not use his real name. It's surprising, and disconcerting, how few people don't think to ensure their anonymity online.
I expect a huge statue to be erected in honor of Snake Plisken in the New York of the future. Fictitious character or not, it's the only decent thing to do.
I thought this guy was facing disbarment a while back. It just blows my mind that people still look for quotes from him on the game industry. Blaming societal woes on video games is just another new modern day equivalent of "the devil made me do it".
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I hope that never happens. Corporate sponsorship has already ruined stadium names. However, if Planet Hollywood got to name a planet in exchange for some sponsorship dollars, that might be kinda funny. :p
that will be lost or stolen as company employees fail to properly encrypt back-ups, leave laptops in their car while running in for a latte or some such? Seriously, though, the article says storage is corporations' number 2 concern. What's number one from this survey? Is it security?
I'm sure there will be plenty more people looking to other sources for info besides the library in the future. This survey even shows that those who did go to the library weren't doing so for traditional purposes. Uni. libraries are a far better source for reference material, and much of the casual material average joes used to go to the library for is becoming available online. Perhaps this survey shows that public libraries have to adjust how they operate in order to stay relevant. :\
Color me the eternal optimist, but I would hope charities like this would at least help to reduce the witch hunt mentality a tiny bit from the mainstream media. The extreme anti-game types are pretty much set in their ways, but I think there are a lot of others who can be swayed not to write videogames off as big, bad killing simulators. The mainstream coverage of the Wii alone in 2007 put gaming in a more positive light this past year. As for Child's Play, I do believe they got a little bit of national attention when they started it up for this year's drive, so the media is at least showing a little bit of positive coverage in the industry.
Yes, it's just common sense. Even Homer Simpson knows to call himself Chunky Lover when online, and not use his real name. It's surprising, and disconcerting, how few people don't think to ensure their anonymity online.
I expect a huge statue to be erected in honor of Snake Plisken in the New York of the future. Fictitious character or not, it's the only decent thing to do.
I thought this guy was facing disbarment a while back. It just blows my mind that people still look for quotes from him on the game industry. Blaming societal woes on video games is just another new modern day equivalent of "the devil made me do it".