Seriously, WTF is this!
Where I'm from, I can wake up and decide I'm going to change my name. I start using it, and that's my fucking name.
The government don't own my name.
Your name is established by use. Official documents can be changed later.
How's that work when you pay taxes? Or open a bank account? Wherever you live must be a great place to launder money.
Sure you can. It's called "Doing Business As" here, and you pay something like 150 to 250 dollars to register. It's useful for people who write using pen names and don't want to have to make sure that every place they write for gets the proper name on the check come payment time.
So there is absolutely no reason to complain about not having documentation for having documentation that states you're using a different name. Name change or DBA documentation, it comes back to the same thing...
Seriously. That guy/girl has issues. If the government hasn't issued you a legal name change, you can't just conduct business with another name. Sure, you can try... but good luck getting a bank account in your "preferred" name if it's not official.
You don't understand something here. If "they" stop regurgitating anti-US propaganda, they will incur the wrath of their miserable, smelly, crusty, bearded Marxist college professors and won't graduate college. Then they will have to WORK for a living instead of parasitizing via occupations such as writers of children's books, patent attorneys, cloud storage engineers, and investment managers for Ivy League universities.
EXACTLY. If I don't do it, I'll end up working in a factory, making less than minimum wage, and drowning my sorrows in cheap beer while watching fox news explain why this has been caused by the foreigners... a life the AC parent is quite familiar with.
I open a terminal window on my Mac. Do it every day for one reason or another.
It's particularly fun to go fullscreen with it and run nethack, and people actually think you're doing something very brainy and technical.
Hear Hear!
Realistically, I'm not seeking nostalgia with my computer. When I do want a touch of it, I turn to my PSP and emulate some old-school NES/SNES action. Or I build linux from scratch on something unsupported, and see if I can get it functional *enough*. That certainly reminds me of the old days...
The better question is... what games really need it? Most of the popular games on the market are still programmed to run well on 7 year old hardware.
Well sure, some game still run on old hardware. Whether or not the run well is a completely subjective opinion.
Now I'm not saying you need to buy new, top of the line hardware every year to enjoy your games... but the exponential speed/power increase means that you need to be getting mid-range hardware every few years to play modern titles at high resolution with decent detail.
Again, you're not wrong. But I like to play at FHD with 4x AA and very high details. If you're okay with VGA @ low, then you can keep your dual 9800gtx setup for another few years. See, the low/entry level point for graphics performance is... low. VERY low. Even modern IGP solutions will play many games at 20fps. But I like to see this sort of high-end tech come out, because it puts downward pressure on mid-range cards, that perform quite well considering their low price. I won't buy a top-of-the-line card every year... but I'm glad that someone will, because those purchases drive the innovation.
You may also notice that most popular games on the market are console ports, designed to run on consoles. But not all of them... so if you're still playing MW2 or some other brainless console port, sure. You're right. Pat yourself on the back for that earth-shattering revelation.
Ya.. I looked at your other posts, and you're pretty much a tiny little asshat in each and every one. Have a good life freakshow.
Exactly! You disagree with my points, but can't disagree with the facts. So you disagree with my personality, and pretend that you're the better person because of it.
And you *may* be a better person. I'm not here to decide that. But you seem to be confused on the difference between being right and being better.
Of course, reverting to ad-hominum attacks isn't usually a sign that you're a better person. Usually it implies a small mind that can't comprehend big ideas... too bad we're not even working on big ideas here - just garden variety ideas that don't get airplay on fox news. So I guess it's understandable that you don't really *get* it... You've been told what your opinion is, but one has told you which facts you need to back it up yet.
I'm not personally aware that either Keynes or Marx suggested that wholesale asset stripping of an economy would be a good thing. And even if they did, I would venture to say that it doesn't seem to be working out all that well in practice.
Of course, if you really want to get all snippy about justifying our arguments, then you have to do a lot more than drop the names of a couple of famous economists into the debate. A fallacious appeal to authority, I believe that's called...
Yeah... I'd have to name some economists and link you to the idea that they support. And in that link, it would be helpful if those economists were mentioned. Too bad I didn't do that, right?... hold on, let me check something...
NEVERMIND. That's exactly what I did. Not my problem if you're uninformed, especially after I wasted my time trying to inform you.
But sure, let's move on to ad-hominum attacks, since you're fundamentally incapable of assimilating new and relevant information to this conversation. You know, like concepts that are completely related, and sourced, and dumbed down to a level that even a 5th grader could understand... but you couldn't be bothered to read, because, you know, TL;DR...
And don't forget, if you don't really bother to read the responses to your posts and just continue repeating your initial ideas... you'll never lose an argument. Mostly because the other person will realize that talking with you is an exercise in futility and leave. But also because that's not an argument, that's the "fox news" model of conversation.
I call out anyone who tries to justify their agression with morality.
Oh, by the way, I think we need to give to the poor. So I donate some of my income to the united way. That makes me a genius. Also, it reinforces my completely unrelated points that I've made previously. I mean, since that's what you're trying to do... since you're obviously unable to defend your ideas, you'll just defend your personal integrity. They're not the same, by the way. Like I said before, I don't really expect you to understand.
Hopefully, the amount of personal enjoyment they extract from the game is more than what they put into it by paying for the game with their personal enjoyment proxy.
And... that's not an investment. That's a purchase. See, you *are* correct... so long as we're not talking about investing. But hey, if you want to mix it all up and confuse yourself, go ahead. I'm not the boss of you.
Wow. If that's the case, it's a terrible investment, or his time truly is worth next to nothing.
...said the guy posting +2 on Slashdot.
See, when you post comments that get modded UP, you get additional karma. When you post comments that get no modding, you get karma. When you post comments that get modded down, you lose a tiny, tiny, tiny bit of karma. Basically, any activity here gets you to +2 karma pretty quick if you're not consistently posting down-modded messages. Even pointless messages get you to +2 karma eventually - basically, you're rewarded for participating in a community with higher visibility.
But I don't need to explain that to you, you're obviously a genius.
So, if you're a single woman and tell your catholic priest you're using birth control, he'll probably tell you the pope doesn't like it and suggest something else. If you tell your mormon church official that you're using birth control, they will require you to go to counseling about the evils of premarital sex and if you don't go, they will toss you from the church, which may very well result in all your friends and family refusing to continue to associate with you. And don't think that's limited to severe behaviors - I knew an (unmarried) couple pushed into intensive religious counseling because the church officials found out they were both laying horizontally on the same bed at the same time! (By, I believe, basically suggesting to the female half that she better be honest or god was going to smite her.)
Nice! You're definitely not right, but that's not why you're posting, is it?
Did you just say "invest"? In an MMO? Do you actually expect a return on that investment?
He said invest his time, smart ass. With mmo's the time you spend accumulates with your investment. I know you aren't this dumb about the difference between MMO's and other on-line games so quit acting like it.
Wow. If that's the case, it's a terrible investment, or his time truly is worth next to nothing.
You get a payoff in satisfaction, and the longer you've been there the more smug you get to feel. If you don't get your payoff in smugness which is like a kind of satisfaction multiplier (think quad damage) then perhaps your purchase is devalued. We do, after all, compete (however humorously) on the basis of UID here on slashdot, which IMO is basically an MMORPG with an ultra-simplified stat system and a really bad interface.
Yeah... well, so long as you're putting in satisfaction, and your payout is larger than your pay-in... then your investment is working for you. I'm glad to know that hours and hours of grinding counts as satisfaction for you.
Unless you think you're "buying" a certain something with one currency and taking out a greater amount of an equivalent currency in the future that could not be purchased for a similar price (adjusted for inflation...). Then I'd believe the fact that you think you're investing. I (and most people) still won't side with your (obviously wrong) ideas... but I'd believe the fact that you're stupid enough to believe it.
How can you talk about fucking up a franchise if it's running for almost 7 years.. In my book that doesn't count as fucking up, as enough people seemed to have liked it, you propably didn't, but that doesn't mean it wasn't successfull..
A) Not a franchise. B) Existence is not proof of success (or profitability) C) Your books don't count for nearly as much as you think, so don't worry if people disagree with you - It's a compliment that you got noticed at all!
Don't you mean, astro martin? or maybe pasta al denté? Or maybe it was fuego muy caliente. Perhaps pardonnez-moi, voulez-vous coucher avec moi, ce soir? I blame NAMBLA.
Well, the basically destructive nature of the process, you've pretty much conceded with the term "slash-and-burn", or so it seems to me. The scope of that destruction is the point under debate.
We've both expressed a number of opinions in that regard. Or are you prepared to support your assertion that there is nothing un-ethical about MBA slash-and-burn?
No, I'm not going to defend creative destruction. I will let both Karl Marx and John Maynard Keynes defend it. I figure between Marxism/communism and Free market economics, you'll find an argument that suites your political background.
As for ethics, you're confusing public ethics and private ethics. Which is so funny, since you go on to encourage me with...
Oh dear, and we were being so polite, too. To answer the question, if you can make a case that I'm damaging the quality of life of a large number of people, and you can find a way to do it within the law, then yes, you should probably make the attempt.
So, on one hand, you'd like me to act within the law, if possible. Because that's alright. But on the other hand, you'd like MBAs to stop acting within the law. Because they need ethics?
Seriously. You know the character in this skit, that acts like an immature idiot college kid? That's you. Sure, it's lowbrow humour (idiots make such easy targets), but it's also on an intellectual level that you probably won't get - so I don't have to feel bad about hurting your feelings!
LOL! anti-eastern? is that how you read it? I'm not anti-eastern.. I'm anti-hypocrite.
It must be hard, hating yourself then. I suppose it's kinda like catholic guilt, and you just stop thinking about it after a while.
Seriously though, you're anti-american then... but you're standing up for the USA, and against China. That's kinda... hypocritical. I suppose you were attempting some sort of sarcasim/humour. Well, good luck with that, and don't quit your day job.
I suppose you could view china as saying one thing, then doing another. But their actions could reflect their belief system. You know, "It's for the good of the people". Or, "It's for the stability of the country". Sure, it's probably not true, but it's a value judgement.
The US on the other hand, "brings" democracy to other countries, then refuses to let them run themselves. Most americans preach freedom of speech and freedom of information, then lock up dissenters and strip human rights away from prisoners.
I'm not saying I particularly like china any more than I like the USA - they're both bottom of the barrel, and both have severely disillusioned citizens who tend to believe whatever they see on the news. I am saying that I don't think that any american that has participated in the democratic process has any sort of moral authority when talking about china. I am also saying that any american that hasn't participated in the democratic process (for whatever reason) isn't qualified to talk about the democratic process.
So, I send a bank a deal aimed at consumers who (for example) bought alcohol and restrict the geography to an overwhelmingly Mormon neighborhood and get back a list of names. I cross reference those with church memberships. I now can target the backsliders.
I have somehow magically not violated anyones privacy.
... What does mormonism and alcohol have to do with each other? Sure, the mormon faith says you can't drink. So does the muslim faith, and catholics aren't supposed to use contraception. How many muslims do you know that drink, and catholics that take the pill?
Exactly. Now grow up and stop viewing the world in black and white. That's just immature and not how things actually are.
No, you're not. What you are doing is knowingly and willingly destroying the vital national economic infrastructure for short term personal gain. Which is arguably rather worse.
Really? You have proof? Or is that just your opinion. I think that retards like you are ruining the world. Am I morally justified (or even compelled!) to get rid of you?
Trust me, any.. and I mean ANY country with enough power is going to be an asshole.. China just hasn't been strong enough yet, but you'll see... China can and will be just as much if not more of an asshat than the US ever was. As would ANY country. So spare me your America/Western hatred as if you have some culturally moral ground to stand on.
Spare me your anti-eastern hatred as if you have some culturally moral ground to stand on.
That's like saying a rapist is better at picking up women because he gets laid more often.
That's like saying you love women who wear Hitler mustaches and wear SS armbands.
I feel like my comment stands all on its own - no need to explain how I came to such a far fetched conclusion. I'm not going to explain how it's related. If I can connect the dots, so can all the intelligent people out there that read my out-of-context, can't-be-bothered-to-quote-the-relevant-section commentary.
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Seriously, WTF is this! Where I'm from, I can wake up and decide I'm going to change my name. I start using it, and that's my fucking name. The government don't own my name.
Your name is established by use. Official documents can be changed later.
How's that work when you pay taxes? Or open a bank account? Wherever you live must be a great place to launder money.
Sure you can. It's called "Doing Business As" here, and you pay something like 150 to 250 dollars to register. It's useful for people who write using pen names and don't want to have to make sure that every place they write for gets the proper name on the check come payment time.
So there is absolutely no reason to complain about not having documentation for having documentation that states you're using a different name. Name change or DBA documentation, it comes back to the same thing ...
Which is why I'm calling BS on the article.
Seriously. That guy/girl has issues. If the government hasn't issued you a legal name change, you can't just conduct business with another name. Sure, you can try ... but good luck getting a bank account in your "preferred" name if it's not official.
Why they'd QQ about that is beyond me...
I go by "Gary"...
You don't understand something here. If "they" stop regurgitating anti-US propaganda, they will incur the wrath of their miserable, smelly, crusty, bearded Marxist college professors and won't graduate college. Then they will have to WORK for a living instead of parasitizing via occupations such as writers of children's books, patent attorneys, cloud storage engineers, and investment managers for Ivy League universities.
EXACTLY. If I don't do it, I'll end up working in a factory, making less than minimum wage, and drowning my sorrows in cheap beer while watching fox news explain why this has been caused by the foreigners ... a life the AC parent is quite familiar with.
I open a terminal window on my Mac. Do it every day for one reason or another.
It's particularly fun to go fullscreen with it and run nethack, and people actually think you're doing something very brainy and technical.
Hear Hear!
Realistically, I'm not seeking nostalgia with my computer. When I do want a touch of it, I turn to my PSP and emulate some old-school NES/SNES action. Or I build linux from scratch on something unsupported, and see if I can get it functional *enough*. That certainly reminds me of the old days...
The better question is... what games really need it? Most of the popular games on the market are still programmed to run well on 7 year old hardware.
Well sure, some game still run on old hardware. Whether or not the run well is a completely subjective opinion.
... low. VERY low. Even modern IGP solutions will play many games at 20fps. But I like to see this sort of high-end tech come out, because it puts downward pressure on mid-range cards, that perform quite well considering their low price. I won't buy a top-of-the-line card every year ... but I'm glad that someone will, because those purchases drive the innovation.
... so if you're still playing MW2 or some other brainless console port, sure. You're right. Pat yourself on the back for that earth-shattering revelation.
Now I'm not saying you need to buy new, top of the line hardware every year to enjoy your games... but the exponential speed/power increase means that you need to be getting mid-range hardware every few years to play modern titles at high resolution with decent detail.
Again, you're not wrong. But I like to play at FHD with 4x AA and very high details. If you're okay with VGA @ low, then you can keep your dual 9800gtx setup for another few years. See, the low/entry level point for graphics performance is
You may also notice that most popular games on the market are console ports, designed to run on consoles. But not all of them
Ya.. I looked at your other posts, and you're pretty much a tiny little asshat in each and every one. Have a good life freakshow.
Exactly! You disagree with my points, but can't disagree with the facts. So you disagree with my personality, and pretend that you're the better person because of it.
And you *may* be a better person. I'm not here to decide that. But you seem to be confused on the difference between being right and being better.
Of course, reverting to ad-hominum attacks isn't usually a sign that you're a better person. Usually it implies a small mind that can't comprehend big ideas... too bad we're not even working on big ideas here - just garden variety ideas that don't get airplay on fox news. So I guess it's understandable that you don't really *get* it... You've been told what your opinion is, but one has told you which facts you need to back it up yet.
I'm not personally aware that either Keynes or Marx suggested that wholesale asset stripping of an economy would be a good thing. And even if they did, I would venture to say that it doesn't seem to be working out all that well in practice. Of course, if you really want to get all snippy about justifying our arguments, then you have to do a lot more than drop the names of a couple of famous economists into the debate. A fallacious appeal to authority, I believe that's called...
Yeah... I'd have to name some economists and link you to the idea that they support. And in that link, it would be helpful if those economists were mentioned. Too bad I didn't do that, right? ... hold on, let me check something ...
... but you couldn't be bothered to read, because, you know, TL;DR...
... you'll never lose an argument. Mostly because the other person will realize that talking with you is an exercise in futility and leave. But also because that's not an argument, that's the "fox news" model of conversation.
NEVERMIND. That's exactly what I did. Not my problem if you're uninformed, especially after I wasted my time trying to inform you.
But sure, let's move on to ad-hominum attacks, since you're fundamentally incapable of assimilating new and relevant information to this conversation. You know, like concepts that are completely related, and sourced, and dumbed down to a level that even a 5th grader could understand
And don't forget, if you don't really bother to read the responses to your posts and just continue repeating your initial ideas
I call out anyone who tries to justify their agression with morality.
Oh, by the way, I think we need to give to the poor. So I donate some of my income to the united way. That makes me a genius. Also, it reinforces my completely unrelated points that I've made previously. I mean, since that's what you're trying to do ... since you're obviously unable to defend your ideas, you'll just defend your personal integrity. They're not the same, by the way. Like I said before, I don't really expect you to understand.
I think you're too young to get the reference....
And I think you're too uneducated to realize I was mocking their inability to spell correctly.
To be honest though, is the MMO grind any worse than model trains?
Yeah. Because, see, you could *successfully* argue that model trains are an investment. Not so with the MMO grind.
Hopefully, the amount of personal enjoyment they extract from the game is more than what they put into it by paying for the game with their personal enjoyment proxy.
And ... that's not an investment. That's a purchase. See, you *are* correct ... so long as we're not talking about investing. But hey, if you want to mix it all up and confuse yourself, go ahead. I'm not the boss of you.
Wow. If that's the case, it's a terrible investment, or his time truly is worth next to nothing.
...said the guy posting +2 on Slashdot.
See, when you post comments that get modded UP, you get additional karma. When you post comments that get no modding, you get karma. When you post comments that get modded down, you lose a tiny, tiny, tiny bit of karma. Basically, any activity here gets you to +2 karma pretty quick if you're not consistently posting down-modded messages. Even pointless messages get you to +2 karma eventually - basically, you're rewarded for participating in a community with higher visibility.
But I don't need to explain that to you, you're obviously a genius.
So, if you're a single woman and tell your catholic priest you're using birth control, he'll probably tell you the pope doesn't like it and suggest something else. If you tell your mormon church official that you're using birth control, they will require you to go to counseling about the evils of premarital sex and if you don't go, they will toss you from the church, which may very well result in all your friends and family refusing to continue to associate with you. And don't think that's limited to severe behaviors - I knew an (unmarried) couple pushed into intensive religious counseling because the church officials found out they were both laying horizontally on the same bed at the same time! (By, I believe, basically suggesting to the female half that she better be honest or god was going to smite her.)
Nice! You're definitely not right, but that's not why you're posting, is it?
Did you just say "invest"? In an MMO? Do you actually expect a return on that investment?
He said invest his time, smart ass. With mmo's the time you spend accumulates with your investment. I know you aren't this dumb about the difference between MMO's and other on-line games so quit acting like it.
Wow. If that's the case, it's a terrible investment, or his time truly is worth next to nothing.
You get a payoff in satisfaction, and the longer you've been there the more smug you get to feel. If you don't get your payoff in smugness which is like a kind of satisfaction multiplier (think quad damage) then perhaps your purchase is devalued. We do, after all, compete (however humorously) on the basis of UID here on slashdot, which IMO is basically an MMORPG with an ultra-simplified stat system and a really bad interface.
Yeah... well, so long as you're putting in satisfaction, and your payout is larger than your pay-in ... then your investment is working for you. I'm glad to know that hours and hours of grinding counts as satisfaction for you.
... but I'd believe the fact that you're stupid enough to believe it.
Unless you think you're "buying" a certain something with one currency and taking out a greater amount of an equivalent currency in the future that could not be purchased for a similar price (adjusted for inflation...). Then I'd believe the fact that you think you're investing. I (and most people) still won't side with your (obviously wrong) ideas
How can you talk about fucking up a franchise if it's running for almost 7 years.. In my book that doesn't count as fucking up, as enough people seemed to have liked it, you propably didn't, but that doesn't mean it wasn't successfull..
A) Not a franchise.
B) Existence is not proof of success (or profitability)
C) Your books don't count for nearly as much as you think, so don't worry if people disagree with you - It's a compliment that you got noticed at all!
Well, incompetence doesn't always guarantee market failure
And unfortunately, success isn't based on competence. *small tear*
asta la vista
Don't you mean, astro martin? or maybe pasta al denté? Or maybe it was fuego muy caliente. Perhaps pardonnez-moi, voulez-vous coucher avec moi, ce soir? I blame NAMBLA.
Well, the basically destructive nature of the process, you've pretty much conceded with the term "slash-and-burn", or so it seems to me. The scope of that destruction is the point under debate. We've both expressed a number of opinions in that regard. Or are you prepared to support your assertion that there is nothing un-ethical about MBA slash-and-burn?
No, I'm not going to defend creative destruction. I will let both Karl Marx and John Maynard Keynes defend it. I figure between Marxism/communism and Free market economics, you'll find an argument that suites your political background.
...
As for ethics, you're confusing public ethics and private ethics. Which is so funny, since you go on to encourage me with
Oh dear, and we were being so polite, too. To answer the question, if you can make a case that I'm damaging the quality of life of a large number of people, and you can find a way to do it within the law, then yes, you should probably make the attempt.
So, on one hand, you'd like me to act within the law, if possible. Because that's alright. But on the other hand, you'd like MBAs to stop acting within the law. Because they need ethics?
Seriously. You know the character in this skit, that acts like an immature idiot college kid? That's you. Sure, it's lowbrow humour (idiots make such easy targets), but it's also on an intellectual level that you probably won't get - so I don't have to feel bad about hurting your feelings!
LOL! anti-eastern? is that how you read it? I'm not anti-eastern.. I'm anti-hypocrite.
It must be hard, hating yourself then. I suppose it's kinda like catholic guilt, and you just stop thinking about it after a while.
... hypocritical. I suppose you were attempting some sort of sarcasim/humour. Well, good luck with that, and don't quit your day job.
Seriously though, you're anti-american then... but you're standing up for the USA, and against China. That's kinda
I suppose you could view china as saying one thing, then doing another. But their actions could reflect their belief system. You know, "It's for the good of the people". Or, "It's for the stability of the country". Sure, it's probably not true, but it's a value judgement.
The US on the other hand, "brings" democracy to other countries, then refuses to let them run themselves. Most americans preach freedom of speech and freedom of information, then lock up dissenters and strip human rights away from prisoners.
I'm not saying I particularly like china any more than I like the USA - they're both bottom of the barrel, and both have severely disillusioned citizens who tend to believe whatever they see on the news. I am saying that I don't think that any american that has participated in the democratic process has any sort of moral authority when talking about china. I am also saying that any american that hasn't participated in the democratic process (for whatever reason) isn't qualified to talk about the democratic process.
So, I send a bank a deal aimed at consumers who (for example) bought alcohol and restrict the geography to an overwhelmingly Mormon neighborhood and get back a list of names. I cross reference those with church memberships. I now can target the backsliders. I have somehow magically not violated anyones privacy.
... What does mormonism and alcohol have to do with each other? Sure, the mormon faith says you can't drink. So does the muslim faith, and catholics aren't supposed to use contraception. How many muslims do you know that drink, and catholics that take the pill?
Exactly. Now grow up and stop viewing the world in black and white. That's just immature and not how things actually are.
No, you're not. What you are doing is knowingly and willingly destroying the vital national economic infrastructure for short term personal gain. Which is arguably rather worse.
Really? You have proof? Or is that just your opinion. I think that retards like you are ruining the world. Am I morally justified (or even compelled!) to get rid of you?
Trust me, any.. and I mean ANY country with enough power is going to be an asshole.. China just hasn't been strong enough yet, but you'll see... China can and will be just as much if not more of an asshat than the US ever was. As would ANY country. So spare me your America/Western hatred as if you have some culturally moral ground to stand on.
Spare me your anti-eastern hatred as if you have some culturally moral ground to stand on.
That's like saying a rapist is better at picking up women because he gets laid more often.
That's like saying you love women who wear Hitler mustaches and wear SS armbands.
I feel like my comment stands all on its own - no need to explain how I came to such a far fetched conclusion. I'm not going to explain how it's related. If I can connect the dots, so can all the intelligent people out there that read my out-of-context, can't-be-bothered-to-quote-the-relevant-section commentary.