From personal experience, most Sony products (including a laptop) have had quality problems: My Sony stereo's CD player no longer works (skips) My Sony Discman's volume control seems to be set on Random and the secret "constant noise" feature is permanently engaged My Sony television blacks out when trying to play DVDs through my Sony PS2 using S-Video hookups (though Xbox/normal DVD player work fine through the same TV) My PS2 stopped reading discs 3 months after I got it. I exchanged it, but now that's acting up. My original Sony Playstation had to be replaced twice due to discs skipping and not reading. And now, my very expensive Sony laptop is indecisive over how much RAM it has. After some googling, this appears to be the beginning of the end of my laptop.
I found this while researching problems with the laptop.
I joined a startup where things with the boss (read, cash cow) went sour from early on. The job market here was pretty bad, and we pretty much started looking for new jobs. The first guy who got caught looking for a new job was fired. On paper it was for insubordination, but it was made pretty clear to the rest of us what happened.
The rest of us were pretty pissed off, but we ended up not doing anything. The end result was that we pretty much left, one by one, and we all ended up being horribly bitter. It's still the only thing any of us can talk about when ever we run into each other.
Get out. Start something yourselves. And above all else, if some daddy's-little-rich-bitch who can't figure out email attachments is starting a tech company (or a tiny bit of her money is being used as leverage to get the loan to start it) and wants to hire you, tell her to go fuck herself.
It's a lot easier to dedicate the time and energy to searching for a job when you've got nothing else to do than when you're working 70 hours a week and miserable 24/7.
This proves that violence in real life and in television/movies causes violence in video games. Stop the violence! The pixels you save may be your own!
While the figures cited are somewhat bloated, there's a lot more cost associated with something like this than simply putting the cracked page back up. I've worked in organizations where this has happened (not my fault, though;>) and it usually leads to 1-2 weeks of beefing up security to prevent the same thing from happening again. This will usually include generating new passwords for all users in the system and phoning them to get the new passwords out. For public/non-profit organizations this can mean several thousand dollars and a couple hundred man-hours of personnel time which could be spent doing more important things.
Additionally, the effects of cloning aren't completely understood yet. Human DNA tends to fray at the ends after replicating so many times, and this has something to do with the aging process. What if we cloned someone and the clone stared developing signs of old age at 20? Bringing a disadvantaged person into the world is an issue in and of itself, but doing so artificially magnifies it about 100 times, don't you think?
Dang dang double-dang! I hate this day... Oh well, Never mind that I didn't go to work until after noon just to avoid this sort of thing. All hail the international community.;>
I thought it was fishy, though. Sure, I love/. but I figured something like this I would have heard from somewhere else, first.;>
Too bad Jon Katz' article on SexBots didn't get posted until today.;>
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From personal experience, most Sony products (including a laptop) have had quality problems:
My Sony stereo's CD player no longer works (skips)
My Sony Discman's volume control seems to be set on Random and the secret "constant noise" feature is permanently engaged
My Sony television blacks out when trying to play DVDs through my Sony PS2 using S-Video hookups (though Xbox/normal DVD player work fine through the same TV)
My PS2 stopped reading discs 3 months after I got it. I exchanged it, but now that's acting up.
My original Sony Playstation had to be replaced twice due to discs skipping and not reading.
And now, my very expensive Sony laptop is indecisive over how much RAM it has. After some googling, this appears to be the beginning of the end of my laptop.
I found this while researching problems with the laptop.
I joined a startup where things with the boss (read, cash cow) went sour from early on. The job market here was pretty bad, and we pretty much started looking for new jobs. The first guy who got caught looking for a new job was fired. On paper it was for insubordination, but it was made pretty clear to the rest of us what happened.
The rest of us were pretty pissed off, but we ended up not doing anything. The end result was that we pretty much left, one by one, and we all ended up being horribly bitter. It's still the only thing any of us can talk about when ever we run into each other.
Get out. Start something yourselves. And above all else, if some daddy's-little-rich-bitch who can't figure out email attachments is starting a tech company (or a tiny bit of her money is being used as leverage to get the loan to start it) and wants to hire you, tell her to go fuck herself.
It's a lot easier to dedicate the time and energy to searching for a job when you've got nothing else to do than when you're working 70 hours a week and miserable 24/7.
This proves that violence in real life and in television/movies causes violence in video games. Stop the violence! The pixels you save may be your own!
Sorry. Just had to say it.
While the figures cited are somewhat bloated, there's a lot more cost associated with something like this than simply putting the cracked page back up. I've worked in organizations where this has happened (not my fault, though ;>) and it usually leads to 1-2 weeks of beefing up security to prevent the same thing from happening again. This will usually include generating new passwords for all users in the system and phoning them to get the new passwords out. For public/non-profit organizations this can mean several thousand dollars and a couple hundred man-hours of personnel time which could be spent doing more important things.
Additionally, the effects of cloning aren't completely understood yet. Human DNA tends to fray at the ends after replicating so many times, and this has something to do with the aging process. What if we cloned someone and the clone stared developing signs of old age at 20? Bringing a disadvantaged person into the world is an issue in and of itself, but doing so artificially magnifies it about 100 times, don't you think?
Dang dang double-dang! ;>
/. but I figured something like this I would have heard from somewhere else, first. ;>
;>
I hate this day...
Oh well, Never mind that I didn't go to work until after noon just to avoid this sort of thing.
All hail the international community.
I thought it was fishy, though. Sure, I love
Too bad Jon Katz' article on SexBots didn't get posted until today.