I simply don't want movie prices to continue to increase.
I will NOT pay $12 to see a movie. I very much dislike paying $8. No complaints at $6.
I don't want to fund this crazy scheme, that the posts here have said won't even work, by seeing my movie tickets go up.
About 6 months ago my girlfriend and I joined Netflix. We've been to the theatre once since then. I prefer the theatre, but were students, and can't afford to pay $20 to see a movie.
As I see it, with every job I've had there were times when I was the best person, and some projects where I wasn't.
The universally perfect employee doesn't exist, so: Should all employees be reduced to 'consultants', without job longevity or benifits, because they won't be best for the job at some point?
I really wonder. I hear this 'best for the job' argument a lot, and I don't completely get it. Perhaps someone will give me insight.
Jeez. I thought the/. crowd was supposed to be a bit intellectual, but most of the posts I've read about this thus far are mostly knee-jerk, anti-PC, mysogony.
The article isn't claiming that she feels victimized or 'whining' about the portrayal of the female body. It's actually quite good, IF you're capable of turning off your 'the world hates me for being a white, middle-class, male' alarms. Show some dignity and don't have a hissy-fit over a woman commenting on gender in games.
Getting to her final comments I think she has some well formed points, and I agree whole-heartedly:
"I don't want to see a shelf of pink boxes of "girl games". I just want to see better games in general - games which are more thoughtful, more provocative, more interesting, with better character design.
Something you hear over and over again in the research around what girls want out of games are themes like "open-ended" and "less-goal oriented" and "co-operative play". These are also the themes which most adult gamers seem to want, too. Talking with my friends who are game developers and designers, they don't want to see bouncy boobs, necessarily (although there's a place for that, sure); they want evolved gameplay, emergent gameplay - with great characters. Set up some rules and let the players play with both the gamespace and the genderspace, however they wish. Don't push girls away from games like Tomb Raider just because you're afraid boys won't like to identify with Lara. Don't insert gratuitous sex - or for that matter, violence. Make it *mean* something. Don't bind gender with too many built-in characteristics, but let girls be girls in your game. Allow a lot of different types of female characters, not just thin, pretty, busty ones.
The end result isn't just going to appeal to women, it'll appeal to a lot of people across the board who want smart, fun, engaging games."
Anyone who likes games can relate. This isn't femi-nazi rhetoric, so allow yourself to ponder it a bit before being a reactionary.
Okay. First, I've read both articles and found both to be quite good reads. The Rez Vibrator article was great. The thing has no real obvious applicable shape other than what she did with it. It's like the company said: 'don't waste time on design, their stoners. They'll figure some crazy way to use it.' I don't think the article was any more than a that: an article. It wasn't exploiting the authors sexuality for hits or money.
Second, the genderspace article is NOT screaming in a neo-feminist way for 'equality'. It's simply making what I see as a very good statement about the assumptions and generalizations withing the industries character design. She is not shying away from T&A games, she is simply saying 'hey, girls play games now to, why not some good girl characters that alienate us less?'. She even likes the idea of DOA, it just doesn't appeal to her.
But, you could have RTFA.
Instead you chose to feel emasculated. I think that says WAY more about you than the issue of 'equality'.
I said copper twice, when I meant to say brass. I was even thinking the word brass, so I don't know where copper came from; having a bit of an attention deficit day I guess.
Lead is added to the brass to make it easier to machine. The brass fittings are the problem.
I travel to a large government laboratory on Long Island a few times a year to do experiments. Because of some problems in the past of things leaking into the ground water ALL water is tested quite extensively on a regular basis.
Turns out that because the plumbing on site is quite old, the copper fittings are starting to 'leak' lead. Lead is a component of copper.
Now all the dorm sinks have a sign that says: If the water has not been run for 6 hours or more it is recommended that you run cold water for 2 minutes before cooking or drinking.
This is to flush the lead out of the standing water in the pipes. After six hours the lead has reached an unsafe level, by their standards.
Last August it recommended 30 seconds to a minute of running water before drinking. So, I guess the problem is getting worse.
I don't see why this wouldn't be the case with every building with old plumbing, so FYI: you may want to let it run for a bit before making that first pot of coffee.
The site claims that some of the gas-powered stools run up to 50 mph!
With the small footprint that these babies have, I wonder how many of the builders consider the problem with a tight turning radius on a VERY top-heavy cart (the site also claims this a 'sport for the overweight') at 50 mph.
I have a very vivid mental image of one of these turning at that speed, and it don't look fun.
On another note, I can't resist:
Get pulled over on one of these and you'll likely have to take a breath-alyzer and give a STOOL SAMPLE.
And what if I felt a bit under the weather, but didn't want to miss my flight? Could I just hold a cold soda can up to my face (assuming availability in a Singapore airport)? How about freezing one those sleeping masks people often use for long flights?
It's a neat puzzle.
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Yeah, the first point is pretty important.
I'm still not sure whether he (the original poster) would have used 'mind' or 'want'.
You'll buy vid cards like consoles. Drop $100 (it's my fantasy, I'll keep the prices low) for competing proprietary cards to play certain games that aren't cross-platform. I currently own a PS2 and a GameCube for this reason.
I think that I would be willing to run a machine with both an nVidia card and an ATI card in it if it meant that all games would work out of the box.
But then games would be expected to work out of the box.
Plus, I'd finally get around to hooking up another display.
Kudos. I couldn't think of as good a way to say that.
I'm just remembering a required social studies class in my senior year of high school where we covered the three branches of government.
I had been taught about the holy american trinity every fucking year since the third grade. And every year they acted like it was new information. It's really not that much information to choke down, so why did I have homework on it for eight straight years? Who is holding who back?
Teaching certificates and class outlines need to be updated/reformed. I simply don't know how.
I don't know about that. Seems anytime I look at reviews on amazon or yahoo! shopping there is very little middle. People usually either give 5 stars or 1 star.
The five stars I don't trust often because: 1) people frequently need to justify a purchase by believing that they got the best thing. 2) fan boys 3) companies that see no ethics violation in 'reviewing' their own product.
The one stars I don't frequently trust because: 1) idiots who can't plug something in, and blame the manufacturer for a shitty product. 2) fan boys of the other team 3) companies that see no ethics violation in 'reviewing' their competitors product.
For things like movies and games I have a few reviewers that I generally align with, and know pretty well where our tastes differ.
But with a new electronics purchase it is getting to be nearly impossible to get good unbiased reviews. I REALLY wish that all these companies would see the wrong in 'reviewing' their own or their competition's products automatically.
I never did homework in HS. It was almost always a waste of time, and fortunatly most of my educators realized that if every test resulted in me getting a high score, then there was no point.
The college I went to: all the classes I took in my major (physics) I never had to turn in homework. You did what it took to understand the material, and to satisfy your curiosity. If one problem looked obvious, skip it and spend the extra time on the fucking hard one.
Now in the graduate school I go to: homework is VERY important for the core courses. But then, it's very rare that there is an obvious problem, so by my collegiate standards I would be doing all the problems anyway.
Just because 'your' tax dollars are going towards his HS 'education' doesn't mean the system is infallable. In my experience most HS teachers just follow the formula, and equivelant homework for all students is part of that formula.
Knowing what you need to do to understand, and knowing what you don't know at all are a large buoy in your professional life. Take advantage of this time to learn how to not waste time on 'time fillers'.
I think the whole system is rediculous. Parents who can't remember their little daily rebellions that their parents never learned about stifle their children. Kids need some risk and adventure and leashes like these take that away. Plus I think there is a lot to be said for the accountability of a term-long project that a student blows off until the end. What are these kids going to do in college when their parents arn't making sure they are caught up every single night?
There is no reason that a 40% shouldn't be an A. The letters are a construct to relate the percentages to broader standings. Nothing more. I think that it is a huge mistake that students universally believe that 80% to 90% is a B, because, frankly, it's impossible to write an exam that will always work that way.
When I assign things, I try to assign problems that I think are interesting, the students will learn and get practice from, and relate to the material. If those problems end up being too easy or too hard doesn't mean that every student will get an A or fail respectively.
Harder work is often better anyway. Because it allows everyone to see their limits. Every class has at least one outstanding student, and they need to be pressured to work hard too. How many people have you met that were advanced for their class and never realized that that didn't make them a genius. A good exam has no students getting a perfect score, and hopefully all students can get something right. Then the respective grades (over as large a student history as possible) are put into the letter construct.
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I simply don't want movie prices to continue to increase.
I will NOT pay $12 to see a movie.
I very much dislike paying $8.
No complaints at $6.
I don't want to fund this crazy scheme, that the posts here have said won't even work, by seeing my movie tickets go up.
About 6 months ago my girlfriend and I joined Netflix. We've been to the theatre once since then. I prefer the theatre, but were students, and can't afford to pay $20 to see a movie.
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Re: "Hire the best person for the job"
As I see it, with every job I've had there were times when I was the best person, and some projects where I wasn't.
The universally perfect employee doesn't exist, so:
Should all employees be reduced to 'consultants', without job longevity or benifits, because they won't be best for the job at some point?
I really wonder. I hear this 'best for the job' argument a lot, and I don't completely get it. Perhaps someone will give me insight.
Jeez. I thought the /. crowd was supposed to be a bit intellectual, but most of the posts I've read about this thus far are mostly knee-jerk, anti-PC, mysogony.
The article isn't claiming that she feels victimized or 'whining' about the portrayal of the female body. It's actually quite good, IF you're capable of turning off your 'the world hates me for being a white, middle-class, male' alarms. Show some dignity and don't have a hissy-fit over a woman commenting on gender in games.
Getting to her final comments I think she has some well formed points, and I agree whole-heartedly:
"I don't want to see a shelf of pink boxes of "girl games". I just want to see better games in general - games which are more thoughtful, more provocative, more interesting, with better character design.
Something you hear over and over again in the research around what girls want out of games are themes like "open-ended" and "less-goal oriented" and "co-operative play". These are also the themes which most adult gamers seem to want, too. Talking with my friends who are game developers and designers, they don't want to see bouncy boobs, necessarily (although there's a place for that, sure); they want evolved gameplay, emergent gameplay - with great characters. Set up some rules and let the players play with both the gamespace and the genderspace, however they wish. Don't push girls away from games like Tomb Raider just because you're afraid boys won't like to identify with Lara. Don't insert gratuitous sex - or for that matter, violence. Make it *mean* something. Don't bind gender with too many built-in characteristics, but let girls be girls in your game. Allow a lot of different types of female characters, not just thin, pretty, busty ones.
The end result isn't just going to appeal to women, it'll appeal to a lot of people across the board who want smart, fun, engaging games."
Anyone who likes games can relate. This isn't femi-nazi rhetoric, so allow yourself to ponder it a bit before being a reactionary.
Ba.
Okay. First, I've read both articles and found both to be quite good reads. The Rez Vibrator article was great. The thing has no real obvious applicable shape other than what she did with it. It's like the company said: 'don't waste time on design, their stoners. They'll figure some crazy way to use it.' I don't think the article was any more than a that: an article. It wasn't exploiting the authors sexuality for hits or money.
Second, the genderspace article is NOT screaming in a neo-feminist way for 'equality'. It's simply making what I see as a very good statement about the assumptions and generalizations withing the industries character design. She is not shying away from T&A games, she is simply saying 'hey, girls play games now to, why not some good girl characters that alienate us less?'. She even likes the idea of DOA, it just doesn't appeal to her.
But, you could have RTFA.
Instead you chose to feel emasculated. I think that says WAY more about you than the issue of 'equality'.
Oops. You're right.
I said copper twice, when I meant to say brass. I was even thinking the word brass, so I don't know where copper came from; having a bit of an attention deficit day I guess.
Lead is added to the brass to make it easier to machine. The brass fittings are the problem.
Again, sorry for the confusion.
BTW, I should clarify:
The pipes are not lead. The problem really is from the copper.
I travel to a large government laboratory on Long Island a few times a year to do experiments. Because of some problems in the past of things leaking into the ground water ALL water is tested quite extensively on a regular basis.
Turns out that because the plumbing on site is quite old, the copper fittings are starting to 'leak' lead. Lead is a component of copper.
Now all the dorm sinks have a sign that says:
If the water has not been run for 6 hours or more it is recommended that you run cold water for 2 minutes before cooking or drinking.
This is to flush the lead out of the standing water in the pipes. After six hours the lead has reached an unsafe level, by their standards.
Last August it recommended 30 seconds to a minute of running water before drinking. So, I guess the problem is getting worse.
I don't see why this wouldn't be the case with every building with old plumbing, so FYI: you may want to let it run for a bit before making that first pot of coffee.
The site claims that some of the gas-powered stools run up to 50 mph!
With the small footprint that these babies have, I wonder how many of the builders consider the problem with a tight turning radius on a VERY top-heavy cart (the site also claims this a 'sport for the overweight') at 50 mph.
I have a very vivid mental image of one of these turning at that speed, and it don't look fun.
On another note, I can't resist:
Get pulled over on one of these and you'll likely have to take a breath-alyzer and give a STOOL SAMPLE.
Excuse me, I simply love a bad pun.
Right-o.
And what if I felt a bit under the weather, but didn't want to miss my flight? Could I just hold a cold soda can up to my face (assuming availability in a Singapore airport)? How about freezing one those sleeping masks people often use for long flights?
It's a neat puzzle.
Yeah, the first point is pretty important.
I'm still not sure whether he (the original poster) would have used 'mind' or 'want'.
Two very different meanings.
My god in the time it took to type that (started at 5th post) like 10 other posts making the same lame crack came up.
That's when you know you're both a slow typist and a very generic humourist.
Really, if I could moderate my own comments I'd have to give a -1 Redundant.
Perhaps there are only 5.000 participants, but that would imply the ability to have 5.001 participants, and that is just sick.
/. being US-centric, I had to re-read the number because of it's crazy euro-scheme.
Seriously, for all the times people complain about
Maybe in the future:
You'll buy vid cards like consoles. Drop $100 (it's my fantasy, I'll keep the prices low) for competing proprietary cards to play certain games that aren't cross-platform. I currently own a PS2 and a GameCube for this reason.
I think that I would be willing to run a machine with both an nVidia card and an ATI card in it if it meant that all games would work out of the box.
But then games would be expected to work out of the box.
Plus, I'd finally get around to hooking up another display.
Kudos. I couldn't think of as good a way to say that.
I'm just remembering a required social studies class in my senior year of high school where we covered the three branches of government.
I had been taught about the holy american trinity every fucking year since the third grade. And every year they acted like it was new information. It's really not that much information to choke down, so why did I have homework on it for eight straight years? Who is holding who back?
Teaching certificates and class outlines need to be updated/reformed. I simply don't know how.
I use Gamespot reviews on occasion; a rule of thumb that has worked for me:
Don't buy any game you haven't personally played, or have a good friend who has played unless it gets:
An 'excellent' rating in the review
AND
User ratings are pretty matched with the reviewers after a couple weeks.
I've seen a few posts today about USENET, but I've never used it as a review forum.
I don't know about that. Seems anytime I look at reviews on amazon or yahoo! shopping there is very little middle. People usually either give 5 stars or 1 star.
The five stars I don't trust often because:
1) people frequently need to justify a purchase by believing that they got the best thing.
2) fan boys
3) companies that see no ethics violation in 'reviewing' their own product.
The one stars I don't frequently trust because:
1) idiots who can't plug something in, and blame the manufacturer for a shitty product.
2) fan boys of the other team
3) companies that see no ethics violation in 'reviewing' their competitors product.
For things like movies and games I have a few reviewers that I generally align with, and know pretty well where our tastes differ.
But with a new electronics purchase it is getting to be nearly impossible to get good unbiased reviews. I REALLY wish that all these companies would see the wrong in 'reviewing' their own or their competition's products automatically.
I'll-be-slashdotted-before-5th-post-department.
I mean really, if you're going to submit your own site, there's no excuse for an instant slashdotting.
Bullcrap.
I never did homework in HS. It was almost always a waste of time, and fortunatly most of my educators realized that if every test resulted in me getting a high score, then there was no point.
The college I went to: all the classes I took in my major (physics) I never had to turn in homework. You did what it took to understand the material, and to satisfy your curiosity. If one problem looked obvious, skip it and spend the extra time on the fucking hard one.
Now in the graduate school I go to: homework is VERY important for the core courses. But then, it's very rare that there is an obvious problem, so by my collegiate standards I would be doing all the problems anyway.
Just because 'your' tax dollars are going towards his HS 'education' doesn't mean the system is infallable. In my experience most HS teachers just follow the formula, and equivelant homework for all students is part of that formula.
Knowing what you need to do to understand, and knowing what you don't know at all are a large buoy in your professional life. Take advantage of this time to learn how to not waste time on 'time fillers'.
I think the whole system is rediculous. Parents who can't remember their little daily rebellions that their parents never learned about stifle their children. Kids need some risk and adventure and leashes like these take that away. Plus I think there is a lot to be said for the accountability of a term-long project that a student blows off until the end. What are these kids going to do in college when their parents arn't making sure they are caught up every single night?
--- they will have many more happy gamers that will gladly support their other products by purchasing them legitimately"---
You're suggesting that gamers have brand loyalty.
I don't. A good game is a good game regardless of brand, and a bad one can't change because of who made it. Remember State of Emergency?
The only way for game companies to keep making money is to keep making quality games.
Of course, sometimes brand can work against you, a la "Nintendo is for kiddies", but I digress.
I wanna know:
Generally, which browser on which OS gives you the best price on Amazon?
I'm screwed too.
I've been getting 'Heat Death' insurance on the cheap for years, and now my premiums are expanding!
Wait.
You can write a whole program in only two words?
Man I thought my Word skilz were mad, but you got it!
There is no reason that a 40% shouldn't be an A. The letters are a construct to relate the percentages to broader standings. Nothing more. I think that it is a huge mistake that students universally believe that 80% to 90% is a B, because, frankly, it's impossible to write an exam that will always work that way.
When I assign things, I try to assign problems that I think are interesting, the students will learn and get practice from, and relate to the material. If those problems end up being too easy or too hard doesn't mean that every student will get an A or fail respectively.
Harder work is often better anyway. Because it allows everyone to see their limits. Every class has at least one outstanding student, and they need to be pressured to work hard too. How many people have you met that were advanced for their class and never realized that that didn't make them a genius. A good exam has no students getting a perfect score, and hopefully all students can get something right. Then the respective grades (over as large a student history as possible) are put into the letter construct.
...where it's due damnit.
Gabe from Penny Arcade said this exact paragraph earlier in the week about Equilibrium.
Seriously, citing Gabe on this wouldn't effect the moderation you get, and it's pretty lame to steal words just to karma whore.