That's not what he's saying, but of course any opportunity to find validation for your own generalizations; any crack in the door that will permit a wisp of racism and your preferred version of class stratification to creep in is all you needed.
Yes, there are parents who do not value education possibly because they've come to some jacked up conclusions (about as valid as your opinion).
There are teachers who value the paycheck and have jacked up conclusions about the students they teach (about as valid as your opinion).
There are also teachers, parents and students successfully forming the necessary triumvirate for successful education whom are limited by things such as curriculum scope, cutbacks in time/activities and an unwillingness to advance children who do excel.
That said please leave your insidious rhetoric at the door. Please.
Don't you think that regardless of how the boycott initiated, that she (and tons of other Black folk, including my grandparents) were tired?
In specific, tired of being relegated to second class citizenry? It's not a conflicting story, because that's how it was explained to me. She was asked why she wouldn't get up; she was tired. Wouldn't take a rocket scientist to figure out what she was tired of after her first incident of being kicked off the bus.
I can cite direct sources (specifically someone who was as a young youth minister at that time in Birmingham), but c'mon this woman stood to lose a lot, possibly her life (which did happen to several).
Rosa was a secretary for the NAACP, had a stellar reputation and actually had had a similar incident happen sometime before.
Whether or not the second incident was intentional (and Rosa says/said it wasn't however I sure she was very well aware that this would a great test of the law) is not important.
What was important is that while several others had done the same thing, her reputation permitted her case to be the one chosen to be pursued and rallied around.
The same principle was applied a few years back in Heller vs District of Columbia regarding their handgun laws.
So the sentiment expressed above extends to the U.S. government?
They were more than happy to overlook the gassings as long as Saddam was putting the boot to the Ayatollah's screaming masses... It wasn't until he got greedy that he became a problem.
They use the "book" analogy to describe it: you buy a book and you can loan it to your friends all you want, but only one person gets to read it at once.
Except that you can resell a book.
I've been an advocate of Steam, and I'm not happy to say that I've reached my limitation with the service. While I was perfectly fine with buying Valve's games and using Steam, I was not comfortable buying games from other publishers/developers on Steam. I think Steam has been good for Valve, and there are other developers who want it to be good for them as well.
Recently I purchased a copy of Empire Total War, which I did not realize required Steam. I was pretty damned upset, as
1. I keep all my non Steam games on a separate drive and there's no option to have multiple game paths in Steam and...
2.I simply don't want to buy non Valve games on Steam.
Based on that (and a little licensing issue I need to resolve with them), that may be the last Steam purchase I make. And that's a shame because Valve does make great products.
Now the arguments about how "theft must be prevented", and concerns about resales/second hand game markets by developers and publishing houses... We all have to eat.
We all have bills to pay and food to put on the table, but if I have purchased a license to a game I should, no.. I must be able to take that copy/account and sell it. While I know no one wants the headache of dealing with whether or not a sale took place, on and on, there has to be a true mechanism for this.
One has to weigh the push M$ has put behind cultivating coders who feel comfortable doing things in DX (with the advantage of support from M$), versus the shops that have the luxury to tool around in GL (id software and a few others).
Being able to pick up a phone and get support is huge to them, with the added bonus of writing for a select set of API's that are supposedly guaranteed to work with the varying M$ operating systems.
Don't get me wrong; I agree with you. But as the old saying goes: Money talks; bullsh!t...
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I was paying for 100 hours a month, then unlimited by 1995 as well (but my "innanet" usage began in university in full earnest addiction circa 1993). Gopher, IRC and USENET. I think I spent more time 'hanging out' on IRC and in newsgroups than I do on the Web these days.
In reading the article, this is concerning console games, and is interesting to me for two reasons:
1. This is primarily a discussion about consoles, not PC gaming (there's not much market for used PC games in the last few years).
2. Piracy isn't rampant on the new Next Gen consoles, or am I just out of the loop?
It sounds like publishers want to go down the same road they did with PC gaming (and probably marginalize it as well), and GameStop and others are helping them provide an excuse. Admittedly, GameStop's used pricing model is... ridiculously priced. Yes, I know they have overhead, but selling at just below the price point of the new does sound like undercutting. Buybacks does this too.
I don't think console gamers particularly 14...15 year olds who spend part of their allowance coupled with the trade in to get the next big games are ready for what we have, with key authentication, and birth to death ownership...to resale ability at all...
One of the things that has bothered me with services such as Steam (even though I am accepting of it) is the birth to death piece. If I get tired of a game and wish to resell it, there should be a mechanism by which I revoke my key and the new owner of the media gets a new one. Of course, Valve makes no money on a second hand sale and doesn't want to deal with the headache.
Can you imagine that playing out on consoles? Not too long ago game developers were lauding consoles for being a place that is preferable to the PC...
I suffered a bout of ID fraud in which there were several online purchases of The Burning Crusade on a card of mine. All of the purchases were in to European arms of Blizzard.
I tried to resolve this with Blizzard as at the time I'd had an account, and my son as well (no CC attached, using Game time cards only and none of these purchases were to my legit accounts). They responded with the typical "maybe someone charged your card...a family member" email they usually send.
I called Blizzard as well and asked to speak to someone in account security. Couldn't get past the snaky rep who basically said they won't talk to you.
I called the bank and had them issue charge backs.
Prior to this experience, I was a solid Blizzard fan. Bought all their games, had a good time. They sent me an email after the bank did their business, I suspect it said they were freezing my account because of all this biz, but at this point I didn't care, and still don't (and probably won't unless they directly apologize, but that's unlikely to happen).
Blizzard could do no wrong with me, and now they can't really do right. They make wonderful products, but horrid customer care. Hence, I won't be buying anything from them.
Ironically I've had good luck with Valve. I had a copy of Half-Life 2 with which the CD Key had been used; I took a snapshot of the discs, with the manual key in view (and reciept) and emailed it to Valve. It was fixed in an hour. Same thing with EA and my copy of BF2.
When I bought the Orange Box, I wasn't aware that it came with HL2, and Steam asked did I wish to gift it to someone, which I did. The thought that Steam isn't guaranteed bugs me, but as I've said.. I've had good experiences.
I must admit that while I wish to see the film, I do agree with the man that penned it. If he'd have intended it to be a film, he'd have written a film. I'm not convinced it can be done justice in 2 hours and 20 minutes.
THose concerns are valid, but the reason the best and brightest went to great lengths is because they had the ability to.
Once you start adding bean counting administrators, political gamesmanship and toying with a diminishing budget, stuff can go sour quick.
It's no different than an IT environment where you're being told what to implement all the while not being given the tools/support to make it happen seamlessly.
There is no executive at Apple, not even Steve Jobs with the RDF turned on 11, that can justify before the shareholders the huge loss of revenue and profit that will result from such an action.
Sadly I think the only thing one can do with things this size, is appoint someone and pray he isn't chaotic evil.
No. You can invest in your staff and ensure that via training and promoting those with a good work ethic you have multiple resources to absorb the load and ensure redundancy regarding skills required to maintain the environment. Of course, most organizations still look at IT as a loss; the companies/organizations that don't look at IT staff like that seem to not have these kinds of problems.
Except this network was not owned by a business; it was owned by the people of San Francisco. So, if he's a resident...
Now while I agree with the parent that I personally would not do this (I'd follow similar steps the parent outlined culminating in quitting if I felt that ethically I could not do what was asked), I don't think this guy was bat shit crazy. Woefully misguided perhaps... ok. WOEFULLY WOEFULLY misguided, but not nuts.
We've all dealt with the middleman guy in the chain of command that wants something done that isn't secure or violates an established precedent.
It's the nature of the beast however; you have to pick you battles, document and CYA so that when it blows up, it's quite obvious you were under order and properly notified those above that it was not a good idea.
I just want to know what the hell was so serious that he went this damned far (because no one's gonna hire his ass after this).
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That's not what he's saying, but of course any opportunity to find validation for your own generalizations; any crack in the door that will permit a wisp of racism and your preferred version of class stratification to creep in is all you needed.
Yes, there are parents who do not value education possibly because they've come to some jacked up conclusions (about as valid as your opinion).
There are teachers who value the paycheck and have jacked up conclusions about the students they teach (about as valid as your opinion).
There are also teachers, parents and students successfully forming the necessary triumvirate for successful education whom are limited by things such as curriculum scope, cutbacks in time/activities and an unwillingness to advance children who do excel.
That said please leave your insidious rhetoric at the door. Please.
Don't you think that regardless of how the boycott initiated, that she (and tons of other Black folk, including my grandparents) were tired?
In specific, tired of being relegated to second class citizenry? It's not a conflicting story, because that's how it was explained to me. She was asked why she wouldn't get up; she was tired. Wouldn't take a rocket scientist to figure out what she was tired of after her first incident of being kicked off the bus.
I can cite direct sources (specifically someone who was as a young youth minister at that time in Birmingham), but c'mon this woman stood to lose a lot, possibly her life (which did happen to several).
As I said...wouldn't take a rocket scientist...
What Quantum says is somewhat true.
Rosa was a secretary for the NAACP, had a stellar reputation and actually had had a similar incident happen sometime before.
Whether or not the second incident was intentional (and Rosa says/said it wasn't however I sure she was very well aware that this would a great test of the law) is not important.
What was important is that while several others had done the same thing, her reputation permitted her case to be the one chosen to be pursued and rallied around.
The same principle was applied a few years back in Heller vs District of Columbia regarding their handgun laws.
So the sentiment expressed above extends to the U.S. government?
They were more than happy to overlook the gassings as long as Saddam was putting the boot to the Ayatollah's screaming masses... It wasn't until he got greedy that he became a problem.
That usually the way it works.
That would be Commodore Matthew Perry, who opened up Japan by threat of force.
I wasn't sure if you were just trying to be funny...
They use the "book" analogy to describe it: you buy a book and you can loan it to your friends all you want, but only one person gets to read it at once.
Except that you can resell a book.
I've been an advocate of Steam, and I'm not happy to say that I've reached my limitation with the service. While I was perfectly fine with buying Valve's games and using Steam, I was not comfortable buying games from other publishers/developers on Steam. I think Steam has been good for Valve, and there are other developers who want it to be good for them as well.
Recently I purchased a copy of Empire Total War, which I did not realize required Steam. I was pretty damned upset, as
1. I keep all my non Steam games on a separate drive and there's no option to have multiple game paths in Steam and...
2.I simply don't want to buy non Valve games on Steam.
Based on that (and a little licensing issue I need to resolve with them), that may be the last Steam purchase I make. And that's a shame because Valve does make great products.
Now the arguments about how "theft must be prevented", and concerns about resales/second hand game markets by developers and publishing houses... We all have to eat.
We all have bills to pay and food to put on the table, but if I have purchased a license to a game I should, no.. I must be able to take that copy/account and sell it. While I know no one wants the headache of dealing with whether or not a sale took place, on and on, there has to be a true mechanism for this.
One has to weigh the push M$ has put behind cultivating coders who feel comfortable doing things in DX (with the advantage of support from M$), versus the shops that have the luxury to tool around in GL (id software and a few others).
Being able to pick up a phone and get support is huge to them, with the added bonus of writing for a select set of API's that are supposedly guaranteed to work with the varying M$ operating systems.
Don't get me wrong; I agree with you. But as the old saying goes: Money talks; bullsh!t...
I was paying for 100 hours a month, then unlimited by 1995 as well (but my "innanet" usage began in university in full earnest addiction circa 1993). Gopher, IRC and USENET. I think I spent more time 'hanging out' on IRC and in newsgroups than I do on the Web these days.
Considering most of the major wars since that time were initiated from a European perspective, it shouldn't seem so bizarre.
This isn't a slam or dig, just a note to remind us all that because you don't agree, you don't have to demean.
Not to mention they only fly one model line of aircraft; 737. 400s, 500s and different versions, but only 737's...
In reading the article, this is concerning console games, and is interesting to me for two reasons:
1. This is primarily a discussion about consoles, not PC gaming (there's not much market for used PC games in the last few years).
2. Piracy isn't rampant on the new Next Gen consoles, or am I just out of the loop?
It sounds like publishers want to go down the same road they did with PC gaming (and probably marginalize it as well), and GameStop and others are helping them provide an excuse. Admittedly, GameStop's used pricing model is... ridiculously priced. Yes, I know they have overhead, but selling at just below the price point of the new does sound like undercutting. Buybacks does this too.
I don't think console gamers particularly 14...15 year olds who spend part of their allowance coupled with the trade in to get the next big games are ready for what we have, with key authentication, and birth to death ownership...to resale ability at all...
One of the things that has bothered me with services such as Steam (even though I am accepting of it) is the birth to death piece. If I get tired of a game and wish to resell it, there should be a mechanism by which I revoke my key and the new owner of the media gets a new one. Of course, Valve makes no money on a second hand sale and doesn't want to deal with the headache.
Can you imagine that playing out on consoles? Not too long ago game developers were lauding consoles for being a place that is preferable to the PC...
Nuff said.
I don't think you can buy a mid to high end vid card these days that doesn't have HDCP baked in; I'm not surprised.
Note that I didn't say I was enthralled, just not surprised.
So what you're saying is that Ford should have added a black light option? ;)
Oh, I did state that. Her words were they'll talk to the bank, but they won't talk to you. Ok then.
Thy talked to the bank.
I neglected to mention there was another personal Identifier in the photo. :)
well, blizzard isn't perfect.
I suffered a bout of ID fraud in which there were several online purchases of The Burning Crusade on a card of mine. All of the purchases were in to European arms of Blizzard.
I tried to resolve this with Blizzard as at the time I'd had an account, and my son as well (no CC attached, using Game time cards only and none of these purchases were to my legit accounts). They responded with the typical "maybe someone charged your card...a family member" email they usually send.
I called Blizzard as well and asked to speak to someone in account security. Couldn't get past the snaky rep who basically said they won't talk to you.
I called the bank and had them issue charge backs.
Prior to this experience, I was a solid Blizzard fan. Bought all their games, had a good time. They sent me an email after the bank did their business, I suspect it said they were freezing my account because of all this biz, but at this point I didn't care, and still don't (and probably won't unless they directly apologize, but that's unlikely to happen).
Blizzard could do no wrong with me, and now they can't really do right. They make wonderful products, but horrid customer care. Hence, I won't be buying anything from them.
Ironically I've had good luck with Valve. I had a copy of Half-Life 2 with which the CD Key had been used; I took a snapshot of the discs, with the manual key in view (and reciept) and emailed it to Valve. It was fixed in an hour. Same thing with EA and my copy of BF2.
When I bought the Orange Box, I wasn't aware that it came with HL2, and Steam asked did I wish to gift it to someone, which I did. The thought that Steam isn't guaranteed bugs me, but as I've said.. I've had good experiences.
...probably hoping it does.
I must admit that while I wish to see the film, I do agree with the man that penned it. If he'd have intended it to be a film, he'd have written a film. I'm not convinced it can be done justice in 2 hours and 20 minutes.
THose concerns are valid, but the reason the best and brightest went to great lengths is because they had the ability to.
Once you start adding bean counting administrators, political gamesmanship and toying with a diminishing budget, stuff can go sour quick.
It's no different than an IT environment where you're being told what to implement all the while not being given the tools/support to make it happen seamlessly.
We all can't be ladiesman217.... :)
1/7th of the world's population, it would make sense that you have the most participants, right?
There is no executive at Apple, not even Steve Jobs with the RDF turned on 11, that can justify before the shareholders the huge loss of revenue and profit that will result from such an action.
...
But this one goes to 11.
Sadly I think the only thing one can do with things this size, is appoint someone and pray he isn't chaotic evil.
No. You can invest in your staff and ensure that via training and promoting those with a good work ethic you have multiple resources to absorb the load and ensure redundancy regarding skills required to maintain the environment. Of course, most organizations still look at IT as a loss; the companies/organizations that don't look at IT staff like that seem to not have these kinds of problems.
Well after looking at this article, maybe he was off:
http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/148824/parts_of_san_francisco_network_still_locked_out.html
Except this network was not owned by a business; it was owned by the people of San Francisco. So, if he's a resident...
Now while I agree with the parent that I personally would not do this (I'd follow similar steps the parent outlined culminating in quitting if I felt that ethically I could not do what was asked), I don't think this guy was bat shit crazy. Woefully misguided perhaps... ok. WOEFULLY WOEFULLY misguided, but not nuts.
We've all dealt with the middleman guy in the chain of command that wants something done that isn't secure or violates an established precedent.
It's the nature of the beast however; you have to pick you battles, document and CYA so that when it blows up, it's quite obvious you were under order and properly notified those above that it was not a good idea.
I just want to know what the hell was so serious that he went this damned far (because no one's gonna hire his ass after this).