When you make conscious decisions like this, it is amazaing how your habits change. I have a few perks that I "can't do without"
So exactly why are you doing without? Why are you living without these perks? So that you can increase your wealth? But what is the point of said wealth? At some point, the only reason you've increased your wealth is so that you can enjoy spending it on some perk or another. No one saves money for its own sake, it's always about increasing your standard of living, and that is, in the end, just a collection of perks
That analogy doesn't work however, because it implies that the unintended goal is more important than the original goal, and not detrimental to the original goal. Meither of those assumptions is true for flickr. Hosting screenshots is/not/ more important that hosting photos. You can argue that it's just as important, but it's not more important, unlike the situation in your analogy.
Secondly, hosting screenshots could easily be seen as being detrimental to their main goal of hosting photos. They aren't about image hosting, they're about photo hosting, and conceivably, someone who isn't interested in screenshots may be annoyed if they start popping up all over the "photo" site they signed up with.
Finally, it's worth pointing out that the only thing that actually happens when you host screenshots is that they don't appear when you do a search. If your friend hosts screenshots and points you at his account, you will see the shots just fine. You can even have flickr groups dedicated to screenshots from second life without any problems. This is a storm in a teacup. If you want to find secondlife images on flickr, you can, but for people who don't want to deal with screenshots, they aren't going to accidently stumble over them. Sounds about perfect to me
They were launched here in Australia at the beginning of the month, and my wife and I walked in to the store after lunch, not even being aware that it was a launch day or that the DS was anything special (I'm not really up on Nintendo portables). We ended up just picking one up off the shelf though and buying it for a present for a friend.
There were no lines or stock shortages that I saw...
Hmmm... I wouldn't say that working for MS automatically makes you a fan of everything they do, and CRM is vastly removed from the Xbox and FASA teams - they are a huge company. Although maybe I should be more cynical...
Perhaps you should. Sure, being a worker for MS won't automatically make him a fan. It may however make him unwilling to continue to say negative things about his employer when in the public eye, and said employer is aware of it.
I just can't believe that anyone who knows Shadowrun would say an elf melding through a wall "feels Shadowrun".
Why shell out money for brand name recognition if you're going to scare off the people who actually do recpgnise the name. The people that the changes are aimed at are going to be people that have never actually heard of Shadowrun before...
Been there done that. It's the same situation with our online casinos. If they're based in Australia, they can accept customers from anywhere in the world except Australia. It defies imagination really...
Personally, I don't block most ads. What I do block is flash, which includes the most annoying ads. I hate popups, and flash is a way past pop up blockers. I hate ads that make sound, and flash lets them do that as well.
I don't mind ads that quietly sit on the page without being obnoxious, so I don't block them
Now imagine that system if you've only got 1 song with 5 stars. Your "5 star" group has a slightly better chance of being selected than your 3 or 4 star group, which means that everytime it's "5 star song time" you'll get the same song. If your 3 and 4 star lists are 1 hundred or so songs strong each, you'll very quickly notice the repetition.
Obviously 1 song in the group is a bit of an exaggeration, it gets the point across. That idea wouldn't work:)
iiNet is the largest provider of ADSL behind Telstra and Optus, and soon to be the 3rd largest ISP overall. They don't do many TV ads I'll admit, but I don't know that "no one has ever heard of" is exactly accurate either:)
Why do you need it? Because without it, him describing his personal experience is simply no use at all in determining what your own experience will be like. The author obviously loved the game, but was that because the graphics were so great they immersed him? Or was it simply because he loved Star Wars, and any game that allowed him to have a light sabre duel online would invoke such a reaction in him?
He describes a purely personal experience from a purely personal perspective, which makes for great reading, but not for a good review.
Bear in mind, I am criticising the article from the point of view of a review, and from that point of view only.
Well I must have missed something, because I thought the entire purpose of the article was alternatives to traditional reviewing style. My comment was made in that context. If you're seeing another context, then of course my comment won't apply.
When your local university has classes on film criticism, do you mock them because they're considering greater questions than whether or not "Blade: Trinity" is worth seeing this week at the multiplex?
Firstly, I don't remember mocking anyone. It was not intended as a sarcastic, biting comment, it was just my thoughts on the matter.
That being said, if I went to a class on film criticism, I'm sure they would do more than simplytalking about conveying the personal experience you have when watching a film. That might be a valid part of it, but surely you need to deconstruct the film at least a little.
I hope this "new style" of games journalism doesn't catch on. I mean sure Bow, Nigger was an interesting read, but it didn't actually tell me anything useful about the game, other than it's good enough to let the authors imagination fill in all the details required to have a good gaming experience.
Given that any game will fit that requirement when played by the right person, the whole thing becomes a little meaningless...
Just upgrade to Wordpress 1.2. You can set a threshold for number of links before a comment automatically requires moderation. So set it to 3, and if there are more than 3 links, it needs moderation before it appears.
You can also set up some keywords which make a post require moderation. Given that the idea of comment spam is to raise google rank for certain keywords, blacklisting these keywords is fairly effective.
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When you make conscious decisions like this, it is amazaing how your habits change. I have a few perks that I "can't do without"
So exactly why are you doing without? Why are you living without these perks? So that you can increase your wealth? But what is the point of said wealth? At some point, the only reason you've increased your wealth is so that you can enjoy spending it on some perk or another. No one saves money for its own sake, it's always about increasing your standard of living, and that is, in the end, just a collection of perks
That analogy doesn't work however, because it implies that the unintended goal is more important than the original goal, and not detrimental to the original goal. Meither of those assumptions is true for flickr. Hosting screenshots is /not/ more important that hosting photos. You can argue that it's just as important, but it's not more important, unlike the situation in your analogy.
Secondly, hosting screenshots could easily be seen as being detrimental to their main goal of hosting photos. They aren't about image hosting, they're about photo hosting, and conceivably, someone who isn't interested in screenshots may be annoyed if they start popping up all over the "photo" site they signed up with.
Finally, it's worth pointing out that the only thing that actually happens when you host screenshots is that they don't appear when you do a search. If your friend hosts screenshots and points you at his account, you will see the shots just fine. You can even have flickr groups dedicated to screenshots from second life without any problems. This is a storm in a teacup. If you want to find secondlife images on flickr, you can, but for people who don't want to deal with screenshots, they aren't going to accidently stumble over them. Sounds about perfect to me
They were launched here in Australia at the beginning of the month, and my wife and I walked in to the store after lunch, not even being aware that it was a launch day or that the DS was anything special (I'm not really up on Nintendo portables). We ended up just picking one up off the shelf though and buying it for a present for a friend.
There were no lines or stock shortages that I saw...
Perhaps you should. Sure, being a worker for MS won't automatically make him a fan. It may however make him unwilling to continue to say negative things about his employer when in the public eye, and said employer is aware of it.
I just can't believe that anyone who knows Shadowrun would say an elf melding through a wall "feels Shadowrun".
Why shell out money for brand name recognition if you're going to scare off the people who actually do recpgnise the name. The people that the changes are aimed at are going to be people that have never actually heard of Shadowrun before...
It's not "outside the US", it's apparently specific to Germany. It's working just fine here in Australia
Been there done that. It's the same situation with our online casinos. If they're based in Australia, they can accept customers from anywhere in the world except Australia. It defies imagination really...
I don't mind ads that quietly sit on the page without being obnoxious, so I don't block them
Obviously 1 song in the group is a bit of an exaggeration, it gets the point across. That idea wouldn't work :)
What point is it telling someone to "know their roots" if those roots only have meaning and context for any given person on an individual level?
Well no. The end of the hole is "in" the earth somewhere, but presumably the ship itself isn't :)
They need a giant drill ship to reach your backyard? Where on earth do you live?
Pendulums gain mass on each oscillation?!?!?
iiNet is the largest provider of ADSL behind Telstra and Optus, and soon to be the 3rd largest ISP overall. They don't do many TV ads I'll admit, but I don't know that "no one has ever heard of" is exactly accurate either :)
Lose the personal attacks huh? I told you how I interperated the comment/article. No need to snipe away at me because you saw it differently.
He describes a purely personal experience from a purely personal perspective, which makes for great reading, but not for a good review.
Bear in mind, I am criticising the article from the point of view of a review, and from that point of view only.
When your local university has classes on film criticism, do you mock them because they're considering greater questions than whether or not "Blade: Trinity" is worth seeing this week at the multiplex?
Firstly, I don't remember mocking anyone. It was not intended as a sarcastic, biting comment, it was just my thoughts on the matter.
That being said, if I went to a class on film criticism, I'm sure they would do more than simplytalking about conveying the personal experience you have when watching a film. That might be a valid part of it, but surely you need to deconstruct the film at least a little.
Given that any game will fit that requirement when played by the right person, the whole thing becomes a little meaningless...
Sounds about right except for the fact that you used the word angry when you should have used hate
But don't you know? Fear leads to Anger. Anger leads to Hate. Hate leads to suffering. :)
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They're not called joysticks for nothing :)
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You mean paid again on top of the payment received when the dentist went out and paid for the CD itself?
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Australia, the Broadband backwater
You can also set up some keywords which make a post require moderation. Given that the idea of comment spam is to raise google rank for certain keywords, blacklisting these keywords is fairly effective.
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What I do have a problem with, is the implication that the only people who read the article are in the US. That's not "centric", that's "incorrect"