While this is an interesting concept, the way this concept is described is pointless. One of the 'rules' is not to use knights, wizards, clerics, or dragons in the game, but the designers can use massai warriors, shamans, and kangaroos. Okay, so the retelling of the King Arthur remains derivative whether you use knights, Massai warriors, or accountants.
The issue here is breaking down cliches and stereotypes, rendering the expected moot. Games shouldn't be designed for the newest gadget, but the newest gadget should be designed for the games. Essentially, game designers shouldn't be thinking about hardware. Of course, if they aren't then they will be designing games no one can play.
I'd much rather see game designers commit themselves to 'rational environments'. Instead of designing the game with power ups (med kits, ammo, armor, etc) in oil barrels and crates, put them in rational places or don't require them in the game in such a quantity that they need to be collected in that fashion. Imagine a game that doesn't have generic med kits instantly bringing you back up in health. Or, if the medical supplies you carried in on your mission run out, you have to divert from the main objective to find the medlabs to get more bandages, painkillers, etc.
I personally hate having to blow everything up to find stuff.
First of all, why would Kaga (the fictitious bored millionaire who constructed Kitchen Stadium for his amusement) have only pretty-good chefs as the Iron Chefs? These guys are the tops of their field. To win fame in Kitchen Stadium you don't get it by defeating the short order cook from Denny's.
Second, if the Iron Chef didn't win consistently, he should be replaced.
Third, if the Iron Chef didn't win consistently, it would be pointless to call the show Iron Chef.
I do believe measuring click-through to determine ad effectiveness is about as silly as measuring the number of people who rush out to the store after seeing the doritos commercial. This isn't how people react to advertising.
There are admittedly times (usually 3:00am) when I am susceptible to clicking on banner ads. Of course, if you will notice, this is also the same time of day when TV is filled with infomercials asking you to CALL NOW. A banner ad is an informercial expecting an instantaneous response from the consumer. Very few products leave the infomercial land to become the cornerstones of an industry.
What an ad agency needs to do is to evaluate how to use internet advertising to increase product awareness, increase brand identity, and to demonstrate the product. The real change of how ads work on the internet will come when a third party non-computer related company begins to take market share away from the market leader through effective web ads. Personally, I think the current 7-Up ad campaign (the ineffectual adman) would make for a great web campaign using banner ads and short clips (clips that play when activated, avoiding the 'forced' aspect).
Until such an event occurs, all we are going to get are one website advertising for another website.
This is a slightly naive point-of-view. Many sites wouldn't exist if it wasn't for ad revenue. My own personal site wouldn't exist if it weren't for the few hundred dollars I pull in through side web projects.
I'm sort of reminded of the Denis Leary commercials he did for IBM some years back where he yells at the idealistic kids who kept saying things like business shouldn't have anything to do with the internet. Although, in hindsight, I'm sure many businesses were wishing they had left the internet alone.
But what if I don't want to constantly monitor what my house is doing to 'teach it'. Sure if the TV turned on and I didn't want it on I could turn it off, but isn't that like having a three-year old running around that you have to constantly monitor. I can barely take care of my plants.
1. The initial learning curve for the house would be months. I prefer to spend my time doing other things than teaching my house what temperature I like my baths, what level of brightness I like the lights in my living room at 5:00pm compared to 10:00pm, etc.
2. Exceptions are even harder to get programmed in in a short period of time. I'd hate to plan a romantic Valentine's Day with a candlelit dinner to suddenly have the TV kick on to Babylon 5 and all the lights switch to blue.
I'm not so much against the NSA having stations that cost umpteen million to build. I am against them squandering the money but abandoning materials that could have been a) salvaged b) recycled c) sold d) donated.
Some sense of thriftiness would be appropriate. Selling the fiber optic cable in and of itself could have help offset the national debt. Not by much, but every dollar counts.
I know this planet that has this stuff that when taken in vast quantities allows the user to fold space allowing for instantaneous interplanetary travel.
I disagree. If my email address is schmuck@company.com, that 'company.com' implies it is the company's email. Now if I was running a gun bazaar using that email address, then Company could easily be held liable for my usage, especially if they don't have a policy in place to stop illegal activities. The case may be thrown out, but it wouldn't stop the lawsuits.
I like an earlier suggestion on making sure the employee has access to his/her personal email account from work (sort of like allowing the employee to access his/her personal voicemail from a work phone.)
This is a good point. Define the circumstances that will trigger monitoring. What defines the 'need'. I'm not saying give a How To Avoid Being Monitored brochure to the employee, but clearly state that reports of harassment, lost productivity, illegal activities will be causes for privacy invasion.
Best of all, though, is inform the employee the search is being made. None of this 9:00pm, all the workers have gone home, lets rustle through his stuff tactics. If there is an issue, then inform the employee and take care of it then and there. Again, I'm not saying give the employee enough notice to hide his tracks, but treat the employee like a human being who has rights and feelings.
This isn't too difficult. Make 'employee investigation' something that requires the employee's supervisor and Department Head or Senior Manager (if the Dept. Head is also the supervisor) to invade the employee's privacy. What this essentially does is prevent a supervisor from becoming a petty tyrant by forcing him/her to go to his/her boss. This also follows a basic rule of searching for evidence. If it is time to file a report, two accounts are better than one.
The other hidden result is Senior Management tends not to like to play around and will get annoyed if a supervisor is asking every other day to read someone's email.
I don't believe the issue is the human capacity for error, but the fact that this error could have been avoided by following the link and reading the story. If this was the first occurence of this particular error, then slack would be available, but this seems to happen every three months or so.
I don't belive in Taco-bashing as that doesn't accomplish anything. What I do believe in is calling this what it is...sloppy work. The whole point of the story queue is to weed out the BS. And for all of us who have posted legitimate stories to have them rejected, we have to have some sort of faith that there is a reasonable process at work here to continue to share the information we come across. But if it appears the stories are posted at random, that no editorial control is applied beyond looking at the title and letting emotion dictate what goes and what stays, then the whole process, the whole site, becomes meaningless.
As time goes, integrity must increase, not decrease.
Thank you for being bored. When I read the original it didn't look right but the last time I dealt with a phonetic alphabet was some twelve years ago when I was RPing in TSR's Top Secret/S.I. world. I'm personally very glad you cleared up the Oscar/Omega issue cuz I'm too lazy to look it up but it would have needled me all day.
Oh geez, let's bash Lucas for his success. It seems to be a common theme. The first three Star Wars movies were all about making money. To say Lucas is just churning out schlock for more bucks is annoying and untrue.
Nobody puts this much time, effort, and heartache (remember we are talking DECADES of work here), just to add another couple million to the bank account.
I agree with this view of 'good management' as a manager cannot be expected to know everything. But there is a sense, especially in highly contentious offices, that managers should be promoted from within the company, that in technological fields the 'grunts' tend to work against managers they think are dumb. It is Dilbert taken to an absurdist Lord of the Flies extreme.
Part of upper management most likely got there through the Peter Principle and dislike having lower level employees that can outshine them. Instead of leaving you in a position you are happy and content with, they want to put you off balance.
Admittedly, this is a highly cynical point-of-view. Most likely they think they are doing you a favor as it increases your worth in the company. I'm sure honest face to face meeting with the person you would be reporting to explaining your feelings regarding this promotion (i.e. going from a happy worker to a grumpy manager) they would probably reconsider. Also consider the fact they may not want to bring in someone above you out of fear you may react badly reporting to someone who knows less about the operation than you do. That would essentially be paying someone a significant salary who can't get the job done because of malice from below. Again, the answer is communication with upper management.
You've raised an interesting point that we can see being played out in this thread. On one hand we have the people saying 'learn by doing, ask someone' and then people like the person you responded saying 'I'm tired of newbies asking.'
I don't think every person who has successfully installed and successfully run Linux are automatically obligated to help every schmoe who wants to install it. Some people try to install it just so they can 'belong' to this odd secret society. BUT, if you are hanging out in a location that a newbie will go for assistance and claim to be a Linux expert, that is akin to hanging out in the ER while saying you are a doctor. You can expect people coming to you for help.
I guess this could be an open source project of its own. What are the details you needed to know when you installed your first linux box?
This is a brilliant idea. Give those people making the conversion a head's up on what to expect, what kind of pitfalls there might be, and things that can be done ahead of time to help prevent some potential muckups.
I believe the poster is trying to learn it, yet is having difficulty finding learning material suited for his level of experience.
I feel for the poster. Computer downtime sucks. I know I have limited amount of time to 'fiddle' with my system as every hour it isn't up and running is an hour of worktime I am out. When the time comes for a major overhaul (like setting aside that weekend to pull an engine in your car) you want to make sure all the materials are there and ready.
Linux will crawl into more common usage, but it needs some pushing and coaxing. The first step is the acceptance that the broader user group has limited time to LEARN a new system.
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While this is an interesting concept, the way this concept is described is pointless. One of the 'rules' is not to use knights, wizards, clerics, or dragons in the game, but the designers can use massai warriors, shamans, and kangaroos. Okay, so the retelling of the King Arthur remains derivative whether you use knights, Massai warriors, or accountants. The issue here is breaking down cliches and stereotypes, rendering the expected moot. Games shouldn't be designed for the newest gadget, but the newest gadget should be designed for the games. Essentially, game designers shouldn't be thinking about hardware. Of course, if they aren't then they will be designing games no one can play. I'd much rather see game designers commit themselves to 'rational environments'. Instead of designing the game with power ups (med kits, ammo, armor, etc) in oil barrels and crates, put them in rational places or don't require them in the game in such a quantity that they need to be collected in that fashion. Imagine a game that doesn't have generic med kits instantly bringing you back up in health. Or, if the medical supplies you carried in on your mission run out, you have to divert from the main objective to find the medlabs to get more bandages, painkillers, etc. I personally hate having to blow everything up to find stuff.
First of all, why would Kaga (the fictitious bored millionaire who constructed Kitchen Stadium for his amusement) have only pretty-good chefs as the Iron Chefs? These guys are the tops of their field. To win fame in Kitchen Stadium you don't get it by defeating the short order cook from Denny's. Second, if the Iron Chef didn't win consistently, he should be replaced. Third, if the Iron Chef didn't win consistently, it would be pointless to call the show Iron Chef.
There are admittedly times (usually 3:00am) when I am susceptible to clicking on banner ads. Of course, if you will notice, this is also the same time of day when TV is filled with infomercials asking you to CALL NOW. A banner ad is an informercial expecting an instantaneous response from the consumer. Very few products leave the infomercial land to become the cornerstones of an industry.
What an ad agency needs to do is to evaluate how to use internet advertising to increase product awareness, increase brand identity, and to demonstrate the product. The real change of how ads work on the internet will come when a third party non-computer related company begins to take market share away from the market leader through effective web ads. Personally, I think the current 7-Up ad campaign (the ineffectual adman) would make for a great web campaign using banner ads and short clips (clips that play when activated, avoiding the 'forced' aspect).
Until such an event occurs, all we are going to get are one website advertising for another website.
I'm sort of reminded of the Denis Leary commercials he did for IBM some years back where he yells at the idealistic kids who kept saying things like business shouldn't have anything to do with the internet. Although, in hindsight, I'm sure many businesses were wishing they had left the internet alone.
How would the owner know if the house has adapted?
But what if I don't want to constantly monitor what my house is doing to 'teach it'. Sure if the TV turned on and I didn't want it on I could turn it off, but isn't that like having a three-year old running around that you have to constantly monitor. I can barely take care of my plants.
1. The initial learning curve for the house would be months. I prefer to spend my time doing other things than teaching my house what temperature I like my baths, what level of brightness I like the lights in my living room at 5:00pm compared to 10:00pm, etc. 2. Exceptions are even harder to get programmed in in a short period of time. I'd hate to plan a romantic Valentine's Day with a candlelit dinner to suddenly have the TV kick on to Babylon 5 and all the lights switch to blue.
I actually believe the article was referring to the Forest Service bulldozing the site, but I may be mistaken.
Some sense of thriftiness would be appropriate. Selling the fiber optic cable in and of itself could have help offset the national debt. Not by much, but every dollar counts.
I know this planet that has this stuff that when taken in vast quantities allows the user to fold space allowing for instantaneous interplanetary travel.
I like an earlier suggestion on making sure the employee has access to his/her personal email account from work (sort of like allowing the employee to access his/her personal voicemail from a work phone.)
Best of all, though, is inform the employee the search is being made. None of this 9:00pm, all the workers have gone home, lets rustle through his stuff tactics. If there is an issue, then inform the employee and take care of it then and there. Again, I'm not saying give the employee enough notice to hide his tracks, but treat the employee like a human being who has rights and feelings.
The other hidden result is Senior Management tends not to like to play around and will get annoyed if a supervisor is asking every other day to read someone's email.
LOL! And look the zoo let out all the monkeys for the great monolith event.
And would the proportions include the section embedded in the soil? Better uproot the whole thing to get the real answer.
Not as impressive as I had hoped.
I don't belive in Taco-bashing as that doesn't accomplish anything. What I do believe in is calling this what it is...sloppy work. The whole point of the story queue is to weed out the BS. And for all of us who have posted legitimate stories to have them rejected, we have to have some sort of faith that there is a reasonable process at work here to continue to share the information we come across. But if it appears the stories are posted at random, that no editorial control is applied beyond looking at the title and letting emotion dictate what goes and what stays, then the whole process, the whole site, becomes meaningless.
As time goes, integrity must increase, not decrease.
Thank you for being bored. When I read the original it didn't look right but the last time I dealt with a phonetic alphabet was some twelve years ago when I was RPing in TSR's Top Secret/S.I. world. I'm personally very glad you cleared up the Oscar/Omega issue cuz I'm too lazy to look it up but it would have needled me all day.
Nobody puts this much time, effort, and heartache (remember we are talking DECADES of work here), just to add another couple million to the bank account.
I agree with this view of 'good management' as a manager cannot be expected to know everything. But there is a sense, especially in highly contentious offices, that managers should be promoted from within the company, that in technological fields the 'grunts' tend to work against managers they think are dumb. It is Dilbert taken to an absurdist Lord of the Flies extreme.
Admittedly, this is a highly cynical point-of-view. Most likely they think they are doing you a favor as it increases your worth in the company. I'm sure honest face to face meeting with the person you would be reporting to explaining your feelings regarding this promotion (i.e. going from a happy worker to a grumpy manager) they would probably reconsider. Also consider the fact they may not want to bring in someone above you out of fear you may react badly reporting to someone who knows less about the operation than you do. That would essentially be paying someone a significant salary who can't get the job done because of malice from below. Again, the answer is communication with upper management.
I don't think every person who has successfully installed and successfully run Linux are automatically obligated to help every schmoe who wants to install it. Some people try to install it just so they can 'belong' to this odd secret society. BUT, if you are hanging out in a location that a newbie will go for assistance and claim to be a Linux expert, that is akin to hanging out in the ER while saying you are a doctor. You can expect people coming to you for help.
I feel for the poster. Computer downtime sucks. I know I have limited amount of time to 'fiddle' with my system as every hour it isn't up and running is an hour of worktime I am out. When the time comes for a major overhaul (like setting aside that weekend to pull an engine in your car) you want to make sure all the materials are there and ready.
Linux will crawl into more common usage, but it needs some pushing and coaxing. The first step is the acceptance that the broader user group has limited time to LEARN a new system.
The US government just categorically denied the existence of Santa Clause. http://www.salon.com/people/feature/2000/12/22/san ta/index.html