I wish they'd hammer this into our heads HARDER in school, though. I agree with you that we Canadians should know all this, but the sad fact is that a lot don't. I think a stronger political component in Social Studies is in order.
It's a sad state of affairs that quite a few Canadians know more about the American political system than their own. Myself included.
Agreed. It's a disgrace that this game is being censored, but I also believe that it's a disgrace that it was even created in the first place.
I realize that violence sells, but you'd think that the folks making these games would try to direct the powers of their talents in a much less horrific direction. I'm not saying that there shouldn't be violence in games, but to make it the focus, the goal, the reason that the game exists? It just seems wrong and sad to me.
Perhaps in my original point I should have said "books are better FOR SOME PEOPLE" instead of just "books are better".. because there ARE a lot of people out there who learn best from books, and who feel more confident about tackling new problems if they have a reference to refer to.
I personally use a combo of books/web references whenever I do *anything* new. I learn best that way.
Oh.. one more thank you. I STILL have nightmares that heavily feature the sound of arachnotrons walking around. There was one level, a big square with hallways surrounding it, that had a bunch of these guys in it. Every single time I played it, it scared the shit outta me.
So thank you, id Software.. for fueling my nightmares for 10 years.:)
Redefining multiplayer is understating it a bit. At least for me. I will never forget the first time I played multiplayer Doom. The whole concept of playing while linked up with someone else totally blew me away. I was young, impressionable, and I completely fell in love with mulitplayer FPS games. Thanks, Doom.
Doom turned me into a hardcore gamer for many years. Quake II sorta killed it for me, and I haven't played a FPS since it came out, but those glory years were amazing.
Thank you, id Software. You wasted many years of this girl's life, and many years of many other people's lives as well.:)
The web and IRC work best if you know the questions you want to ask. Books are better for introducing people to new concepts and giving them the right questions to ask of the wonderful folks on IRC and the right terms to search for in Google, IMHO.
My apologies for the slip.. I actually thought that calling them kiwifruit was the wrong way to do it, and intentionally left the fruit bit off. I'll use dictionary.com next time I have a moment of confusion.:)
Some do, yes.. others do not. Pears, for example. Or kiwis. Or mangos. Or papaya. Or melons.
Bananas are just about the only fruit I can think of that you can tell accurately tell ripeness based on color. There's probably more than that, but my point is that color is not a good indication of ripeness for most fruits.:)
We use Asterisk at our office, and it's fabulous. You don't have to be a large company to reap its benefits. *sales pitch* Everyone should check it out! *end of pitch*:)
That's exactly what I thought when I read that. If they're reading all the emails going into and out of the companies that they monitor (which they must be doing to see that kind of information), then they're seeing a hell of a lot more than pre-merger details. NDAs are great and all, but that thought kinda scares me.
It's bad enough knowing that our own admins do such things.. but an entire outside organization having access to all our correspondence?
I was going to ask the same thing. From a shared hosting point of view, it doesn't really matter too much. IMHO, of course.:) You won't have root access to a shared hosting server, so all you really need the space for is for storing content and parsing scripts. And either distribution will do those things.
Unless of course he's referring to dedicated hosting, in which case he should be able to choose his own distribution.
I'm going to argue with you on this one.:) I'm the Technical Support and Customer Service Manager at a web hosting company, and we pride ourselves on our support/customer service. Our phone system doesn't have a million menu items. We rarely ever have wait times on our phone lines. Our support reps are experts, and they're all passionate about the technology we use. And they're here 24 hours a day.
As far as staff turnover, we have found that it isn't a problem. I don't consider training "a waste" when I look around and realize that most of my staff have been here for well over a year, and the ones that have moved on have mostly moved on to other positions at our company. We've made our company a fun and exciting place to work, and people just don't want to leave. They want to get promoted, which happens frequently.
So, it *is* possible to have expert technicians that don't cost a fortune in turnover and training.
i'm certainly not technically inept just because i use a tool to blog. i WROTE my first blogging tool. i've since switched to moveable type because i was too lazy to re-write my archiving scripts and they badly needed it.
because they're usually comprised of snippets of real people's experiences and thoughts. unedited and raw. there are a ton of bad blogs, sure.. but there are at least an equal amount of great ones.
Why not just use web pages, or better yet flash, or another multimedia form to create unique arts?
i personally believe that each person's blog is unique. my thoughts are certainly different from other people's thoughts, and i take great pride in the fact that i have maintained a blog for over 2 and a half years now.
sure, some of it is boring. and yeah, most of slashdot's readers would hate it. (i make a lot of references to very personal emotional experiences - most men don't "get it"..) but i am still convinced that blogging is an art form.
i beg to differ. i have had a blog since the beginning of 2000, and i have never felt as if i was wasting my time. blogs are great ways to experiment with writing, to get out your feelings, and to generate discussion amongst your peer group.
GoldMine is such a disaster. When their sales rep came to show our sales team how to use it, he loaded a virus onto the network with their install cd. Oops.;)
We use RT at my company (I'm the technical support manager at a web hosting company), and we've had no problems. And we're well beyond the 10,000 ticket mark.:)
Even with 40+ people using it at a time, it still holds up just fine.
What bugs me about it is this; I came to the store knowing what i wanted, if i had wanted to biggie size the combo (or whatever) i am smart enough to tell them myself. Its annoying when ordering something to be constanly interupted. Plus in the confusion of them constantly interupted, they screw up the order. Ask me those questions after i've told you what i want; i can always change my mind if i like what they have to say.
The problem is that lots of people do biggie size their order when asked if they want to by a clerk/salesperson. Suggestive selling works, which is why most retail and food chains use it extensively.
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I wish they'd hammer this into our heads HARDER in school, though. I agree with you that we Canadians should know all this, but the sad fact is that a lot don't. I think a stronger political component in Social Studies is in order.
It's a sad state of affairs that quite a few Canadians know more about the American political system than their own. Myself included.
Why are nukes such a big deal?
I'm hoping that you're kidding, but in case you're not...
http://www.csi.ad.jp/ABOMB/data.html
Perhaps a financial wreck, but it's also an amazing place to visit. If you're a music fan, that is.
Agreed. It's a disgrace that this game is being censored, but I also believe that it's a disgrace that it was even created in the first place.
I realize that violence sells, but you'd think that the folks making these games would try to direct the powers of their talents in a much less horrific direction. I'm not saying that there shouldn't be violence in games, but to make it the focus, the goal, the reason that the game exists? It just seems wrong and sad to me.
Perhaps in my original point I should have said "books are better FOR SOME PEOPLE" instead of just "books are better" .. because there ARE a lot of people out there who learn best from books, and who feel more confident about tackling new problems if they have a reference to refer to.
I personally use a combo of books/web references whenever I do *anything* new. I learn best that way.
Oh.. one more thank you. I STILL have nightmares that heavily feature the sound of arachnotrons walking around. There was one level, a big square with hallways surrounding it, that had a bunch of these guys in it. Every single time I played it, it scared the shit outta me.
:)
So thank you, id Software.. for fueling my nightmares for 10 years.
Redefining multiplayer is understating it a bit. At least for me. I will never forget the first time I played multiplayer Doom. The whole concept of playing while linked up with someone else totally blew me away. I was young, impressionable, and I completely fell in love with mulitplayer FPS games. Thanks, Doom.
:)
Doom turned me into a hardcore gamer for many years. Quake II sorta killed it for me, and I haven't played a FPS since it came out, but those glory years were amazing.
Thank you, id Software. You wasted many years of this girl's life, and many years of many other people's lives as well.
The web and IRC work best if you know the questions you want to ask. Books are better for introducing people to new concepts and giving them the right questions to ask of the wonderful folks on IRC and the right terms to search for in Google, IMHO.
Er, unless "convincing the boss to give me more drink tickets" is a game, I don't think I've ever played a game at a holiday party.
I'm a silly Canadian, thank you. :)
:)
My apologies for the slip.. I actually thought that calling them kiwifruit was the wrong way to do it, and intentionally left the fruit bit off. I'll use dictionary.com next time I have a moment of confusion.
Some do, yes.. others do not. Pears, for example. Or kiwis. Or mangos. Or papaya. Or melons.
:)
Bananas are just about the only fruit I can think of that you can tell accurately tell ripeness based on color. There's probably more than that, but my point is that color is not a good indication of ripeness for most fruits.
We use Asterisk at our office, and it's fabulous. You don't have to be a large company to reap its benefits. *sales pitch* Everyone should check it out! *end of pitch* :)
That's exactly what I thought when I read that. If they're reading all the emails going into and out of the companies that they monitor (which they must be doing to see that kind of information), then they're seeing a hell of a lot more than pre-merger details. NDAs are great and all, but that thought kinda scares me.
It's bad enough knowing that our own admins do such things.. but an entire outside organization having access to all our correspondence?
*shudder* I wish more people used encryption..
I was going to ask the same thing. From a shared hosting point of view, it doesn't really matter too much. IMHO, of course. :) You won't have root access to a shared hosting server, so all you really need the space for is for storing content and parsing scripts. And either distribution will do those things.
Unless of course he's referring to dedicated hosting, in which case he should be able to choose his own distribution.
I'm going to argue with you on this one. :) I'm the Technical Support and Customer Service Manager at a web hosting company, and we pride ourselves on our support/customer service. Our phone system doesn't have a million menu items. We rarely ever have wait times on our phone lines. Our support reps are experts, and they're all passionate about the technology we use. And they're here 24 hours a day.
As far as staff turnover, we have found that it isn't a problem. I don't consider training "a waste" when I look around and realize that most of my staff have been here for well over a year, and the ones that have moved on have mostly moved on to other positions at our company. We've made our company a fun and exciting place to work, and people just don't want to leave. They want to get promoted, which happens frequently.
So, it *is* possible to have expert technicians that don't cost a fortune in turnover and training.
try this site which has an english version.
i got logged out a few times when trying to read a story.. something strange is afoot.
i'm certainly not technically inept just because i use a tool to blog. i WROTE my first blogging tool. i've since switched to moveable type because i was too lazy to re-write my archiving scripts and they badly needed it.
the article says that they're 99 percent sure that it was an impact crater, though.
rebecca blood wrote a very good essay on the history of weblogs that you may want to check out. she's since authored two books about blogging.
Why are people facinated with blogs?
because they're usually comprised of snippets of real people's experiences and thoughts. unedited and raw. there are a ton of bad blogs, sure.. but there are at least an equal amount of great ones.
Why not just use web pages, or better yet flash, or another multimedia form to create unique arts?
i personally believe that each person's blog is unique. my thoughts are certainly different from other people's thoughts, and i take great pride in the fact that i have maintained a blog for over 2 and a half years now.
sure, some of it is boring. and yeah, most of slashdot's readers would hate it. (i make a lot of references to very personal emotional experiences - most men don't "get it"..) but i am still convinced that blogging is an art form.
just because it's trendy doesn't make it bad.
i beg to differ. i have had a blog since the beginning of 2000, and i have never felt as if i was wasting my time. blogs are great ways to experiment with writing, to get out your feelings, and to generate discussion amongst your peer group.
GoldMine is such a disaster. When their sales rep came to show our sales team how to use it, he loaded a virus onto the network with their install cd. Oops. ;)
We use RT at my company (I'm the technical support manager at a web hosting company), and we've had no problems. And we're well beyond the 10,000 ticket mark. :)
Even with 40+ people using it at a time, it still holds up just fine.
What bugs me about it is this; I came to the store knowing what i wanted, if i had wanted to biggie size the combo (or whatever) i am smart enough to tell them myself. Its annoying when ordering something to be constanly interupted. Plus in the confusion of them constantly interupted, they screw up the order. Ask me those questions after i've told you what i want; i can always change my mind if i like what they have to say.
The problem is that lots of people do biggie size their order when asked if they want to by a clerk/salesperson. Suggestive selling works, which is why most retail and food chains use it extensively.