I've seen firsthand how crappy this company is, and they are rotten from the inside out. Someone very close to me used to work there, and she observed that Verisign is run from within like a Dilbert company but worse.
The person I know was a UI Engineer, and VS saw fit to put her underneath the Documentation Manager. This person had no clue what a UI Engineer would do, but the company wouldn't put my friend into a group that made sense. The Doc manager was an evil being from another dimension, and ended up receiving a promotion to Director level, even though everyone who works under her hates her. She basically forced my friend into leaving; meanwhile, every other person my friend worked with wanted her to stay, and eventually several people tried to re-hire her later. She declined.
This is just one example, I'm sure there are tons of stories like this. You don't need to be a genius to know that a company that treats its own employees this bad will propagate this treatment to it's customers. From the domain name business group to the VPN and other groups, no high-level people at that company seem to give a shit about the customers. They've been the dominant player in their field for so long, they they don't care that all their software has bad UI, their customer service is crap, and their interal processes are shot to hell. Now their stock is in the toilet, and you can't be surprised about it.
It wasn't enough that we killed their children, stole their land, gave them diseases, slaughtered their food sources, raped their women, and destroyed their once-proud culture, now we won't even let them play Medal of Honor.
OT me all you want, but I highly reccommend you go get the book or rent the Book On Tape... the movie of Monte Christo was a typical paper-to-celluloid fiasco.
If Lucas is not just feeding us a line of pap (go ahead, call me naiive, I am), this could actually bode very well for fans who were abused by the crappy dialogue ("Yippee!", anyone?), concept-rape (Midichlorians, anyone?), and marketing to the nickelodeon crowd ("I don't care what galaxy you're from, that's gotta hurt!").
Plus, it's got nat port in filmy, backless dresses! This could be the most titillating moment in the SW universe since Leia and the Chain-mail bikini!
Although it's not likely to happen anytime soon, having China connected would more than triple the percentage of humans that use the web.
Sure, but if you read this article, it seems unlikely that the Chinese government will allow much in the way of freedom over the internet. The US would do well to squeeze China into relaxing the iron fist of censorship in order to promote freedom of Web... then we will see some serious innovation and the realization of the internet's potential.
As long as corporations have existed, they've been run by people trying to make money. Even non-profits are run by greedy people who steal (United Way and Goodwill come to mind of the top of my head). I think it's a fallacy to imagine that somewhere out there, the perfect corporation is run with the idea of making the world a better place, and where making money is secondary. The system just doesn't work that way.
The only thing harmful about the film adaptation of The Basketball Diaries was how hideously putrescent the translation from printed word to flim was. That film was a bastardization in almost every possible way of Jim Carroll's real-life and amazing diaries.
Even the scene in question was a hyperbolic over-exaggeration of what Carroll wrote.
You are suggesting that the kids who got killed (even assuming that they were actually kids who teased the two murderers) deserved it, because they teased those poor, fragile PSYCHOPATHS.
Really? What did you do when you got teased in school? My experience wasn't in high school, but grade school. In a so-called "Progressive", liberal private school, no less. I was raised by my parents to be a good little yes-man, to forgive my tormentors because they must have really low self-esteem to be such assholes, and to try to "laugh it off."
It was all a pile of bullshit. Had I been raised with less attentive parents who had guns around, I could easily have snapped and tried killing them... I sure fantasized about it (and certainly about beating them up) a lot. There was a point in jr. high where I started trying to fight everyone, and that didn't work because I was an underdeveloped wuss in addition to being a dweeby loser who wore hand-me down bellbottoms and had poor personal hygiene. Everyone who's been really abused in school knows that it's never "all in fun". "Making fun" is the wrong phrase; it's "Verbal/emotional/physical abuse", and it's perceived of as "normal" and kids "just being kids". And that's all fine, until someone puts an eye out.
You can't tell me for one second that Klebold and Harris deserve 100% of the blame. Obviously they crossed the line, but sucking down years of abuse at the hands of callous and uncaring people (jocks or otherwise) will turn anyone into a bitter, angry, and confused animal. I don't believe the kids they killed deserved to die, but I think it's disgusting how that community continues to scapegoat Doom and Marylin Manson and others, wave their little crosses around and look to Gawd for inspiration in these troubled times... and NO ONE will address the major factors: that their parents were utterly negligent, and that the Lord of the Flies style society that forms in EVERY school in this COUNTRY created two people who were wired just right to snap.
Parental intattention created the opportunity in Klebold and Harris, and years of brutalization created the motivation. subtract either, and chances are that the Columbine massacre doesn't happen. Why, then, is it so hard for these people to see past their own noses? They hide behind Christianity and absolutely refuse to look for the root of the problem. And they call Klebold and Harris PSYCHOPATHS because that's the easiest thing to do. Every reaction to this tragedy has been the authorities taking the easy path. You all read it in the "Hellmouth" series. It's all bullshit. Until someone prominent steps out and says "where were the parents? And where were the teachers? Why is this school functioning like a prison?", the authorities will keep on making the same mistakes. And labeling Klebold and Harris as PSYCHOPATHS because they couldn't take being fucked with for another year is stupid, narrow-minded and hateful.
This has already been established by many people to be a class of information known as "inflammatory bullshit." Doom doesn't teach jack shit about real shooting skills.
Look, I'm not trying to troll here, but who spend the 1990s body-slamming mom & pop bookstores out of existence? Oh, yeah, that's right, Barnes & Noble. Sympathizing with them over Amazon is just substituting one corporate good for another.
I understand that to some degree, the above assertion is irrelevant. Amazon still made a dumb move with the patent, and should be rebuffed. Obviously the outcome of the one-click case could set a really bad precedent, but it's hard for me to get up any sympathy for B&N.
Doom and Doom II had BRIGHT colors. The monsters were pink, white, purple and red, green, flesh, brown, etc etc. The environments were tan, green, brown, blue, gray, red, orange, etc etc etc.
Doom was all about destruction and mindless carnage, but it was actually pretty bright. People complained about Q3A's bright colors, but in fact I think Dooms bright colors helped the game be more fun. I think if Doom 3 is as dark as shown in those screenshots (and that's a relatively big "if" for a game still in development), it will be a snooze unless the gameplay is totally unprecedented.
for more on the shades of black palette, see here.
What a ripper. Doom and Doom II were great in part because they had colorful levels and colorful monsters. Anyone remember the Cacodemons, Barons of Hell and Cyberdemons? Pure greatness.
For some reason, they went to an all-brown palette for Quake, and got so many complaints about it, Quake 2 and Q3A were super-colorful. But people bitched about that too. Q3A is too much like a cheezy arcade game, they whined. Quake 2 doesn't look like you're in a serious battle against evil. Too many colors!
Well, thanks a lot. Doom 3 is gonna look use the "dirt, feces and concrete" palette. Wonderful.
The problem is that no matter what science comes up with to show that human beings (and indeed all of nature) evolved, these standard responses will always come back to hit us:
"Gawd put that there to test our faith" -- Bill Hicks
Gawd put them scientists there to find that jee-nome to test our faith.
All you scientists will burn in hell come the Judgment Day
The problem with zealots is that they will never, ever, no matter what the scientific evidence, back down. They will always say that it's part of Gawd's plan. Praise Jeebus.
My question here is, what constituded "being warned" in these cases? Was it an email? A form letter? A phone call someone never got? It smacks of overkill for the crime, kind of like Operation Sundevil.
I spent most of my high school and college years forgetting everything important. Now that I'm working, I finally got a PDA to help me keep my life straight... looks like I'm really fucked now.
A/. story that pertains to Linux is practically ignored?? Maybe all the sterotypes I've heard about/. are wrong. I guess I need to check the <A HREF="http://www.userfriendly.org">UF</A> archives again.
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I would only support a dub that had more appropriate actor choices. Claire Danes was forgettable in Mononoke, and Billy Bob Thornton was flat-out miscast.
Just give us subtitles... hollywood would probably cast nick cage as Tetsuo and Jack Nicholson as Kaneda. I haven't seen many anime films where the dub is better than having to do a little reading
You can't analyze trashy novels as if they were real literature. They're great for reading on the beach or whatever - but analysis? Never
Thank you so much... you reveal much by your own words. Calling Card's work trash pretty much discounts everything I read in your post, even the helpful hint about lit-crit. I've talked to numerous people who don't like Card's work, but not one of those has called it trashy.
Card is probably one of the best Sci-fi (and beyond) writers out there today. He creates three-dimensional, dynamic characters and makes you believe in them. His works are exciting, thought-provoking, and enjoyable.
I'm not trying to be negative here, but if you're going to review something, you should be a little more critical of it.
Riiight. If I like a book, why should I try to find something wrong with it? Sometimes my favorite authors make glaring miscues, in which case I try to be fair to them about it (example: Terry Brooks' latest, Ilse Witch, was woodenly written and almost boring), but in general if a book speaks to a reviewer, they have no obligation to put it down. It's a review, not a lit-crit essay.
The most egregious example I've seen to date is the Shannara series. They're re-releasing them in britain with beautiful paintings and elegant and subtle fonts.
So what do they do in the US? They add a horrible font in Garish colors, emblazon strips of black across the top and bottom that obscure the paintings, and even reduce the size of the cover paintings. Here is the proof.
Apparently, US publishers feel that a book cover that is not adorned with gross colors and ugly art will not catch the reader's eye and be sold. It's really too bad, because now I'm gonna have to pay out the ass ordering the UK versions.
I met Terry Brooks at a signing last year, and he agreed that the UK versions were much nicer.
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The person I know was a UI Engineer, and VS saw fit to put her underneath the Documentation Manager. This person had no clue what a UI Engineer would do, but the company wouldn't put my friend into a group that made sense. The Doc manager was an evil being from another dimension, and ended up receiving a promotion to Director level, even though everyone who works under her hates her. She basically forced my friend into leaving; meanwhile, every other person my friend worked with wanted her to stay, and eventually several people tried to re-hire her later. She declined.
This is just one example, I'm sure there are tons of stories like this. You don't need to be a genius to know that a company that treats its own employees this bad will propagate this treatment to it's customers. From the domain name business group to the VPN and other groups, no high-level people at that company seem to give a shit about the customers. They've been the dominant player in their field for so long, they they don't care that all their software has bad UI, their customer service is crap, and their interal processes are shot to hell. Now their stock is in the toilet, and you can't be surprised about it.
VS made their own bed.
This site puts Spiderman's birth year at 1977.
It wasn't enough that we killed their children, stole their land, gave them diseases, slaughtered their food sources, raped their women, and destroyed their once-proud culture, now we won't even let them play Medal of Honor.
Lucas has already chosen his cast, we're just making do with what we have. No need to question Natalie Portman's popularity in this venue.
OT me all you want, but I highly reccommend you go get the book or rent the Book On Tape... the movie of Monte Christo was a typical paper-to-celluloid fiasco.
Plus, it's got nat port in filmy, backless dresses! This could be the most titillating moment in the SW universe since Leia and the Chain-mail bikini!
Sure, but if you read this article, it seems unlikely that the Chinese government will allow much in the way of freedom over the internet. The US would do well to squeeze China into relaxing the iron fist of censorship in order to promote freedom of Web... then we will see some serious innovation and the realization of the internet's potential.
As long as corporations have existed, they've been run by people trying to make money. Even non-profits are run by greedy people who steal (United Way and Goodwill come to mind of the top of my head). I think it's a fallacy to imagine that somewhere out there, the perfect corporation is run with the idea of making the world a better place, and where making money is secondary. The system just doesn't work that way.
You know, like the book says? Sheesh! I'm no MENSA candidate, but I'm not dense...
Even the scene in question was a hyperbolic over-exaggeration of what Carroll wrote.
Really? What did you do when you got teased in school? My experience wasn't in high school, but grade school. In a so-called "Progressive", liberal private school, no less. I was raised by my parents to be a good little yes-man, to forgive my tormentors because they must have really low self-esteem to be such assholes, and to try to "laugh it off."
It was all a pile of bullshit. Had I been raised with less attentive parents who had guns around, I could easily have snapped and tried killing them... I sure fantasized about it (and certainly about beating them up) a lot. There was a point in jr. high where I started trying to fight everyone, and that didn't work because I was an underdeveloped wuss in addition to being a dweeby loser who wore hand-me down bellbottoms and had poor personal hygiene. Everyone who's been really abused in school knows that it's never "all in fun". "Making fun" is the wrong phrase; it's "Verbal/emotional/physical abuse", and it's perceived of as "normal" and kids "just being kids". And that's all fine, until someone puts an eye out.
You can't tell me for one second that Klebold and Harris deserve 100% of the blame. Obviously they crossed the line, but sucking down years of abuse at the hands of callous and uncaring people (jocks or otherwise) will turn anyone into a bitter, angry, and confused animal. I don't believe the kids they killed deserved to die, but I think it's disgusting how that community continues to scapegoat Doom and Marylin Manson and others, wave their little crosses around and look to Gawd for inspiration in these troubled times... and NO ONE will address the major factors: that their parents were utterly negligent, and that the Lord of the Flies style society that forms in EVERY school in this COUNTRY created two people who were wired just right to snap.
Parental intattention created the opportunity in Klebold and Harris, and years of brutalization created the motivation. subtract either, and chances are that the Columbine massacre doesn't happen. Why, then, is it so hard for these people to see past their own noses? They hide behind Christianity and absolutely refuse to look for the root of the problem. And they call Klebold and Harris PSYCHOPATHS because that's the easiest thing to do. Every reaction to this tragedy has been the authorities taking the easy path. You all read it in the "Hellmouth" series. It's all bullshit. Until someone prominent steps out and says "where were the parents? And where were the teachers? Why is this school functioning like a prison?", the authorities will keep on making the same mistakes. And labeling Klebold and Harris as PSYCHOPATHS because they couldn't take being fucked with for another year is stupid, narrow-minded and hateful.
This has already been established by many people to be a class of information known as "inflammatory bullshit." Doom doesn't teach jack shit about real shooting skills.
I can never get into musiccity's servers using Napigator... anyone know any workarounds?
Sigh... even used the preview on that one too.
I understand that to some degree, the above assertion is irrelevant. Amazon still made a dumb move with the patent, and should be rebuffed. Obviously the outcome of the one-click case could set a really bad precedent, but it's hard for me to get up any sympathy for B&N.
Doom was all about destruction and mindless carnage, but it was actually pretty bright. People complained about Q3A's bright colors, but in fact I think Dooms bright colors helped the game be more fun. I think if Doom 3 is as dark as shown in those screenshots (and that's a relatively big "if" for a game still in development), it will be a snooze unless the gameplay is totally unprecedented.
for more on the shades of black palette, see here.
For some reason, they went to an all-brown palette for Quake, and got so many complaints about it, Quake 2 and Q3A were super-colorful. But people bitched about that too. Q3A is too much like a cheezy arcade game, they whined. Quake 2 doesn't look like you're in a serious battle against evil. Too many colors!
Well, thanks a lot. Doom 3 is gonna look use the "dirt, feces and concrete" palette. Wonderful.
The problem with zealots is that they will never, ever, no matter what the scientific evidence, back down. They will always say that it's part of Gawd's plan. Praise Jeebus.
My question here is, what constituded "being warned" in these cases? Was it an email? A form letter? A phone call someone never got? It smacks of overkill for the crime, kind of like Operation Sundevil.
A /. story that pertains to Linux is practically ignored?? Maybe all the sterotypes I've heard about /. are wrong. I guess I need to check the <A HREF="http://www.userfriendly.org">UF</A> archives again.
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Just give us subtitles... hollywood would probably cast nick cage as Tetsuo and Jack Nicholson as Kaneda. I haven't seen many anime films where the dub is better than having to do a little reading
Thank you so much... you reveal much by your own words. Calling Card's work trash pretty much discounts everything I read in your post, even the helpful hint about lit-crit. I've talked to numerous people who don't like Card's work, but not one of those has called it trashy.
Card is probably one of the best Sci-fi (and beyond) writers out there today. He creates three-dimensional, dynamic characters and makes you believe in them. His works are exciting, thought-provoking, and enjoyable.
I'm not trying to be negative here, but if you're going to review something, you should be a little more critical of it.
Riiight. If I like a book, why should I try to find something wrong with it? Sometimes my favorite authors make glaring miscues, in which case I try to be fair to them about it (example: Terry Brooks' latest, Ilse Witch, was woodenly written and almost boring), but in general if a book speaks to a reviewer, they have no obligation to put it down. It's a review, not a lit-crit essay.
So what do they do in the US? They add a horrible font in Garish colors, emblazon strips of black across the top and bottom that obscure the paintings, and even reduce the size of the cover paintings. Here is the proof.
Apparently, US publishers feel that a book cover that is not adorned with gross colors and ugly art will not catch the reader's eye and be sold. It's really too bad, because now I'm gonna have to pay out the ass ordering the UK versions.
I met Terry Brooks at a signing last year, and he agreed that the UK versions were much nicer.