Exaclty. How is this any differnet from a football coach giving his team advice on their armor, and the tactics they'll use to pummel their opponents to the ground?
When Tom Clancy wrote The Sum of All Fears, he mentioned in the afterword that when he was researching how to build a nuke, he was able to get all the information he needed; so much so, in fact, that he changed details for the book, as he didn't want to put in an accurate, step-by-step description.
He mentions, for example, calling up..Oak Ridge? Or was it Lawrence Livermore? One of those places, and asking for information on the machinery, and having schematics and manuals and what not fed-ex'd to him the next day.
The trick is almost never in finding the information, only in drawing disparate information into a cohesive whole.
The old Microprose games for the C64 would all come with hundreds of pages of manuals. I learned flght theory from Gunship, theory of cryptography from Covert Action, sound physics from Red Storm Rising, history from Sword of the Samrai, Pirates!, and so on, economic theory from Railroad Tycoon.
Depends on your definition of mindless. My five year old daughter plays CtF in Unreal Tournament/UT 2003 and Jedi Knight 2 with me, and it's taught her a lot of 'intangibles;' acting under pressure, rapid data assimilation and application, basic tactics (both solo and team), resource management, decision making, and so on.
Oh, and her reading comprehension is faster now, too.
My year and a half old plays Reader Rabbit Toddler, and our biggest problem is that she's too smart for her own good; she's learned, for example, how to pop out the CD, find her other toddler game, pop it in, hit 'play' on the autorun, and go for it.
I'm afraid she's going to break off the CD tray one of these days...
The question becomes, of course, are women naturally better multi-taskers, or do they simply get more practice at it, in the average western female lifestyle?
The oft quoted example is 'Often, you'll find that Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery the DVD is cheaper than Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery the soundtrack is.
Really.
DVDs really are at the right price point, and you get a hell of a lot of bang for your buck. Especially if you have a decent HT rig. And a decent HT rig ain't all that expensive.
Also, give Terry Goodkind's 'Sword of Truth' series a try. He has a bit of a fasination with torture and S&M, but he also has some interesting takes on standard fantasy stuff. Also, rereading the series, I can see some things in the first book, for example, that are dead hints to stuff in the later books. Neat, as they're so off-hand and casual, that the first time you read it, it's not clubbing you over the head with 'FORESHADOW! FORESHADOW!'
Lets see..Wizard'S First Rule, Stone of Tears, Blood of the Fold, Temple of the Winds, Soul of the Fire, Faith of the Fallen, as I recall, are the order.
The T-1000 puts Arnie's arm into some giant gears, then leaves him there. Arnie manages to rip the arm off, leaving a stump, and go after the T-1000 with the grenade launcher.
In a perfect world, yes. But I've personally said to co-workers 'If you get a message with a subject of ILOVEYOU, do NOT open it!' and they'll say "Ok, I won't. Hey, I've got mail...oooh, the secretary loves me! *click click*'
The idea here is that by unilaterally blocking.vbs, for example, you're immune to new.vbs viruses which the scanner engine doesn't yet know about.
When sobig.E hit the world, scanners didn't know about it. Because it was in a zip file, it sailed right past a lot of precautionary attachment stripping.
Yes, once it was incorporated into virus defs, compressed attachment scanning will find it. But the question here is if.zip files should be unilaterally blocked to prevent the next.vbs virus from sneaking in that way.
Actually, on virus reciept, notify the recipient, NOT the sender, as the "sender" rarely is the sender. You often wind up spamming some poor bastard who's email address got picked at random.
Actually, I think you'll find that the dreamcast was far more piratable; most DCs didn't need any mods what so ever to play a properly ripped game; burn to CD and off you go.
Of course businesses can call users to advise of service outages, resolve billing disputes and the like; but no solicitation for new service unless the customer asks a leading question, giving implied oral consent to hear about new services on that particular call (e.g., the customer asks "How do I get Showtime" and the agent tells her).
Nonsense. One of the jobs of a proper salesperson/account manager (or are you going to build in byzantine rules about which is which) is to warm-call their clients and advise about new products/services. "Hey, Jim, you use a lot of our WidgetTron 3000s, just wanted to let you know that the WidgetTron 4000 is now available; want me to fax/email you the new feature set?"
Sure, there should be an ironclad 'opt out' process, but in general, there is certainly a legitimate place for calling existing customers, with new sales pitches, especially in business.
I don't think it's over confusion or cross branding, so much as they're using the word 'spam' to label something as undesirable, unwanted, and generally disgusting. "Nobody wants SPAM!"
And for those worried about losing the info, in twenty years or whatever, you can burn your books to redbook CD audio, from the Audible manager itself. Boom, done.
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Raspberry! I hate raspberry! There's only one man who'd DARE give me the raspberry....LONE STAR!
Other than bf2.4, you mean?
'Nuff said.
Exaclty. How is this any differnet from a football coach giving his team advice on their armor, and the tactics they'll use to pummel their opponents to the ground?
When Tom Clancy wrote The Sum of All Fears, he mentioned in the afterword that when he was researching how to build a nuke, he was able to get all the information he needed; so much so, in fact, that he changed details for the book, as he didn't want to put in an accurate, step-by-step description.
He mentions, for example, calling up..Oak Ridge? Or was it Lawrence Livermore? One of those places, and asking for information on the machinery, and having schematics and manuals and what not fed-ex'd to him the next day.
The trick is almost never in finding the information, only in drawing disparate information into a cohesive whole.
But there is something to be said for *doing.*
The old Microprose games for the C64 would all come with hundreds of pages of manuals. I learned flght theory from Gunship, theory of cryptography from Covert Action, sound physics from Red Storm Rising, history from Sword of the Samrai, Pirates!, and so on, economic theory from Railroad Tycoon.
Depends on your definition of mindless. My five year old daughter plays CtF in Unreal Tournament/UT 2003 and Jedi Knight 2 with me, and it's taught her a lot of 'intangibles;' acting under pressure, rapid data assimilation and application, basic tactics (both solo and team), resource management, decision making, and so on.
Oh, and her reading comprehension is faster now, too.
My year and a half old plays Reader Rabbit Toddler, and our biggest problem is that she's too smart for her own good; she's learned, for example, how to pop out the CD, find her other toddler game, pop it in, hit 'play' on the autorun, and go for it.
I'm afraid she's going to break off the CD tray one of these days...
The question becomes, of course, are women naturally better multi-taskers, or do they simply get more practice at it, in the average western female lifestyle?
The oft quoted example is 'Often, you'll find that Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery the DVD is cheaper than Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery the soundtrack is.
Really.
DVDs really are at the right price point, and you get a hell of a lot of bang for your buck. Especially if you have a decent HT rig. And a decent HT rig ain't all that expensive.
Ah yes, that's the one I forgot.
Now THAT would be sweet. "We've got tone! Dodge left! Dodge left!"
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Also, give Terry Goodkind's 'Sword of Truth' series a try. He has a bit of a fasination with torture and S&M, but he also has some interesting takes on standard fantasy stuff. Also, rereading the series, I can see some things in the first book, for example, that are dead hints to stuff in the later books. Neat, as they're so off-hand and casual, that the first time you read it, it's not clubbing you over the head with 'FORESHADOW! FORESHADOW!'
Lets see..Wizard'S First Rule, Stone of Tears, Blood of the Fold, Temple of the Winds, Soul of the Fire, Faith of the Fallen, as I recall, are the order.
The T-1000 puts Arnie's arm into some giant gears, then leaves him there. Arnie manages to rip the arm off, leaving a stump, and go after the T-1000 with the grenade launcher.
In a perfect world, yes. But I've personally said to co-workers 'If you get a message with a subject of ILOVEYOU, do NOT open it!' and they'll say "Ok, I won't. Hey, I've got mail...oooh, the secretary loves me! *click click*'
The idea here is that by unilaterally blocking .vbs, for example, you're immune to new .vbs viruses which the scanner engine doesn't yet know about.
When sobig.E hit the world, scanners didn't know about it. Because it was in a zip file, it sailed right past a lot of precautionary attachment stripping.
Yes, once it was incorporated into virus defs, compressed attachment scanning will find it. But the question here is if .zip files should be unilaterally blocked to prevent the next .vbs virus from sneaking in that way.
Actually, on virus reciept, notify the recipient, NOT the sender, as the "sender" rarely is the sender. You often wind up spamming some poor bastard who's email address got picked at random.
Yes, and the idea here is for /. to *sell* them, which is rather difficult to do under an open content license.
It's not a question of 'practicing what you preach' so much as 'not being a one song musician.'
In my most humble opinion, at least.
Yes, because otherwise, you submit your idea, they like it, you win, they print the tshirts, then you sue them for 'copying' your design.
Most of the laws on the books are of the 'once bitten, twice shy' variety.
Disc juggler, as I recall.
There was some nice stuff you could get in Europe, but not North America, such as Rez, Headhunter, Shenmue 2.
Actually, I think you'll find that the dreamcast was far more piratable; most DCs didn't need any mods what so ever to play a properly ripped game; burn to CD and off you go.
Nonsense. One of the jobs of a proper salesperson/account manager (or are you going to build in byzantine rules about which is which) is to warm-call their clients and advise about new products/services. "Hey, Jim, you use a lot of our WidgetTron 3000s, just wanted to let you know that the WidgetTron 4000 is now available; want me to fax/email you the new feature set?"
Sure, there should be an ironclad 'opt out' process, but in general, there is certainly a legitimate place for calling existing customers, with new sales pitches, especially in business.
I don't think it's over confusion or cross branding, so much as they're using the word 'spam' to label something as undesirable, unwanted, and generally disgusting. "Nobody wants SPAM!"
Do they have a contract with MS, or a retainer?
Another vote for Audible.
And for those worried about losing the info, in twenty years or whatever, you can burn your books to redbook CD audio, from the Audible manager itself. Boom, done.