Indeed. The problem is the Wii can't accommodate the games design as implemented by the Xbox 360 or the Playstation 3; translation "We can't bang out a quick port to increase our sales base. Sorry, Wii-users."
For two places in a row. Setup meetings with management, explained the deal (in both cases, I was not the only IT staffer, btw.). We said get on your people.
See at small companies, one person tends to get very arrogant. They believe they are SO important because there aren't 10,000 people in their department. Only THEY can do their job. Sometimes it's true thanks to make it up as you go mentality. Most times it's utter self-righteousness.
Anyway, if there aren't signs of improvement over the next few weeks, I quit - found a new job. Coincidently the other IT guys also quit both places as well, both before and after me.
Me not so much a fan of OpenDNS. I prefer pointing my DNS @ L3's servers... 4.1.1.1-.6
I have Comcast Biz class (no cap, less snooping since there is a signed agreement dictating such - for me at least). I will check this when I have a chance.
GREAT now that is going to show up in search engines, and some studio asshole will be like "LOOK! The people want more Tom Cruise!" and we're going to get MORE shitty movies with that asshole in them! THINK before you hit the Submit button, man!
I'm no Nintendo fanboy or apologist, in fact I sold my Wii due in part to displeasure with the Wii Motion Plus/accessory factory they've let it become... I don't get this sentiment when it comes to Nintendo this E3.
MS and Sony did little more than show off sequels for established IP, a couple new brands (if that) and introduce their own motion controls. Yet everyone I've talked to makes it sound like Nintendo's event was a bust.
I think it's less that Nintendo announcements really ate shit, when the reality is it was simply on par w/ MS/Sony. Perhaps people's expectations are set too high thanks to the success of the Wii and DS/i.
I'm reminded of a story about the Buddha. Paraphrased: A woman came to the Buddha filled with grief over the death of her child. She asked the Buddha if there was anything that could be done to cure her grief. The Buddha said he knew of a concoction that would do so, and listed off ingredients. The woman got excited and said she would collect the ingredients post-haste. Before she left the Buddha said "The ingredients cannot come from a household that has experienced the loss of a loved one (child, parent, grand-parent, sibling)." The woman agreed to follow the directive and went off in search of the ingredients.
Everywhere around town she went she found people that were willing to give her the items she requested. However when mentioning the stipulation that it come from a home where no one had died, everyone had to turn her away. She went throughout the whole village and was unable to find someone that had not dealt with such a loss. Realizing this, she discovered the cure to her grief.
Life spares no one of suffering.
Are the people posting these all over for kicks utter twats? Yes. Is the family over reacting? Also yes.
No one should have to see their child in such a way, but plenty people do. If you live in a warzone like Iraq or another country that deals with terrorist bombings all year long, likely you've seen it live.
But by all means, let's make an emotionally charged issue out of this. Let's censor the Internet. That will surely stop these things from happening in the first place, right? Thank goodness!
I recently looked through my NewEgg order history with them; all computer parts, orders going back to 2001ish I think (over a couple dozen orders - I used my own account to buy for a small company I use to work for). Never paid for extra shipping, received everything in 3-4 biz days. I even got them to credit me back ten bucks when the part was put on a weekend sale two days later. Everything showed up in good working order, never had them ship something incorrectly.
Moral of the story: YMMV. For myself and countless others I've recommended NewEgg to, they've never failed to deliver.
So you walk around and can either save/kill+harvest the lil girls and there is someone talking to you over the radio, this time with a drill on your hand! This is a sequel? Sounds more like an expansion pack.
Doesn't mean those reasons are right. Copyright shouldn't allow someone to collect forever for working once. And it really shouldn't be relied on as a gift to for their family after death. If I die my family doesn't luck into some extra cash because from users of the network and computers I support.
An encrypted file filled with financial information, locked up and merely tagged "financial information" would only tell you what sort of data is in there. If you can't view the data, no harm no foul?
I'm curious about this too, since I live in a state w/o a sales tax (Oregon). I can't imagine that if I buy from Amazon I'd have to pay WA sales tax (or wherever the item comes from).
Oh totally I have. My family and many of my friends back home spend most of their time simply "going through the motions". Sure they will take a vaca to somewhere nice and sunny to relax, but that's once or twice every 5 years. I notice the same mentality with native Oregonians, they have blinders on, but the people that have moved here have been to many other places and are very aware of their attitudes, unlike where I came from where it's mostly lifers. Where I moved to in particular (Portland) has a lot of transplants and I noticed the correlation you mentioned a while ago.
I think I see what you're saying, that it's not the place, but the person. I guess that would pretty much blow away the results of this study, right?
I moved FROM Wisconsin to Oregon 5 years ago and I have to say my life is far more diverse now, far more cheery. When I deal with people from "back home" they don't seem to be happy so much as living in willful ignorance.
I guess what I'm saying is my anecdotal experience is that people in the "more depressed" regions are more aware of their true mood and perhaps answer more honestly because of it?
Un-American? That's like saying the Boston Tea Party was "Un-British of them". Where would it have gotten us for the founding fathers to shut up and take it?
Sure the Dixie Chicks' actions didn't amount to more than a media stunt, but it's far from un-American.
SWG didn't fail because everyone wanted to be a Jedi. Even now when Jedi is a starting class, there are plenty of non-Jedi. SWG failed because it was 3D chat with a leveling system. There was nothing to the quests in place a launch, there was no content to play through.
I think sci-fi MMOs haven't gotten the attention simply because sci-fi tends to be more complex. Like you said, in fantasy you have the knight in armor, wizards with spells, you usually also have grumpy dwarves that like beer and fighting. Name 5 cookie cutter archetypes that you have all across nearly ALL sci-fi.
It's easier to design a game with content that is universal and customers will swallow up the familiar more easilly.
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Indeed. The problem is the Wii can't accommodate the games design as implemented by the Xbox 360 or the Playstation 3; translation "We can't bang out a quick port to increase our sales base. Sorry, Wii-users."
For two places in a row. Setup meetings with management, explained the deal (in both cases, I was not the only IT staffer, btw.). We said get on your people.
See at small companies, one person tends to get very arrogant. They believe they are SO important because there aren't 10,000 people in their department. Only THEY can do their job. Sometimes it's true thanks to make it up as you go mentality. Most times it's utter self-righteousness.
Anyway, if there aren't signs of improvement over the next few weeks, I quit - found a new job. Coincidently the other IT guys also quit both places as well, both before and after me.
Me not so much a fan of OpenDNS. I prefer pointing my DNS @ L3's servers... 4.1.1.1-.6
I have Comcast Biz class (no cap, less snooping since there is a signed agreement dictating such - for me at least). I will check this when I have a chance.
*chirp* Would be nice to have someone else to chirp with */chirp*
"LOL I WANT NEW TOM CROOSE MOOVIES".
GREAT now that is going to show up in search engines, and some studio asshole will be like "LOOK! The people want more Tom Cruise!" and we're going to get MORE shitty movies with that asshole in them! THINK before you hit the Submit button, man!
I'm no Nintendo fanboy or apologist, in fact I sold my Wii due in part to displeasure with the Wii Motion Plus/accessory factory they've let it become... I don't get this sentiment when it comes to Nintendo this E3.
MS and Sony did little more than show off sequels for established IP, a couple new brands (if that) and introduce their own motion controls. Yet everyone I've talked to makes it sound like Nintendo's event was a bust.
I think it's less that Nintendo announcements really ate shit, when the reality is it was simply on par w/ MS/Sony. Perhaps people's expectations are set too high thanks to the success of the Wii and DS/i.
Same here. I'm tempted by the Pre, but this little voice in the back of my head says "Don't do it!"
I've been with Sprint since 2002 and have little to complain about, but they're takin' their sweet ass time with putting out an Android handset.
You forgot the United States. 700 billion in handouts to banks and rich people because they needed to be rescued from themselves.
Pf, 250 Million-bits...!? I demand 1 Billion-bits! *pinky to mouth*
Are there many non-PR types in "journalism" these days anyway?
Holy Shit! You aren't full of it!
I'm reminded of a story about the Buddha. Paraphrased: A woman came to the Buddha filled with grief over the death of her child. She asked the Buddha if there was anything that could be done to cure her grief. The Buddha said he knew of a concoction that would do so, and listed off ingredients. The woman got excited and said she would collect the ingredients post-haste. Before she left the Buddha said "The ingredients cannot come from a household that has experienced the loss of a loved one (child, parent, grand-parent, sibling)." The woman agreed to follow the directive and went off in search of the ingredients.
Everywhere around town she went she found people that were willing to give her the items she requested. However when mentioning the stipulation that it come from a home where no one had died, everyone had to turn her away. She went throughout the whole village and was unable to find someone that had not dealt with such a loss. Realizing this, she discovered the cure to her grief.
Life spares no one of suffering.
Are the people posting these all over for kicks utter twats? Yes. Is the family over reacting? Also yes.
No one should have to see their child in such a way, but plenty people do. If you live in a warzone like Iraq or another country that deals with terrorist bombings all year long, likely you've seen it live.
But by all means, let's make an emotionally charged issue out of this. Let's censor the Internet. That will surely stop these things from happening in the first place, right? Thank goodness!
I recently looked through my NewEgg order history with them; all computer parts, orders going back to 2001ish I think (over a couple dozen orders - I used my own account to buy for a small company I use to work for). Never paid for extra shipping, received everything in 3-4 biz days. I even got them to credit me back ten bucks when the part was put on a weekend sale two days later. Everything showed up in good working order, never had them ship something incorrectly.
Moral of the story: YMMV. For myself and countless others I've recommended NewEgg to, they've never failed to deliver.
So you walk around and can either save/kill+harvest the lil girls and there is someone talking to you over the radio, this time with a drill on your hand! This is a sequel? Sounds more like an expansion pack.
Doesn't mean those reasons are right. Copyright shouldn't allow someone to collect forever for working once. And it really shouldn't be relied on as a gift to for their family after death. If I die my family doesn't luck into some extra cash because from users of the network and computers I support.
/me starts boxing up the Louisiana lab
An encrypted file filled with financial information, locked up and merely tagged "financial information" would only tell you what sort of data is in there. If you can't view the data, no harm no foul?
I'm curious about this too, since I live in a state w/o a sales tax (Oregon). I can't imagine that if I buy from Amazon I'd have to pay WA sales tax (or wherever the item comes from).
Oh totally I have. My family and many of my friends back home spend most of their time simply "going through the motions". Sure they will take a vaca to somewhere nice and sunny to relax, but that's once or twice every 5 years. I notice the same mentality with native Oregonians, they have blinders on, but the people that have moved here have been to many other places and are very aware of their attitudes, unlike where I came from where it's mostly lifers. Where I moved to in particular (Portland) has a lot of transplants and I noticed the correlation you mentioned a while ago.
I think I see what you're saying, that it's not the place, but the person. I guess that would pretty much blow away the results of this study, right?
I moved FROM Wisconsin to Oregon 5 years ago and I have to say my life is far more diverse now, far more cheery. When I deal with people from "back home" they don't seem to be happy so much as living in willful ignorance.
I guess what I'm saying is my anecdotal experience is that people in the "more depressed" regions are more aware of their true mood and perhaps answer more honestly because of it?
Walkin' to school, uphill, both ways, in a blizzard.
Un-American? That's like saying the Boston Tea Party was "Un-British of them". Where would it have gotten us for the founding fathers to shut up and take it?
Sure the Dixie Chicks' actions didn't amount to more than a media stunt, but it's far from un-American.
SWG didn't fail because everyone wanted to be a Jedi. Even now when Jedi is a starting class, there are plenty of non-Jedi. SWG failed because it was 3D chat with a leveling system. There was nothing to the quests in place a launch, there was no content to play through.
I think sci-fi MMOs haven't gotten the attention simply because sci-fi tends to be more complex. Like you said, in fantasy you have the knight in armor, wizards with spells, you usually also have grumpy dwarves that like beer and fighting. Name 5 cookie cutter archetypes that you have all across nearly ALL sci-fi.
It's easier to design a game with content that is universal and customers will swallow up the familiar more easilly.
...but I'm not picky.
Then install Silverlight :P
(I know, I know. He may not be able to.)
Hell-if-I-know. If you need one that bad, it seems they have them on Amazon