Agreed. Sorta.
Yes, few home have HD TVs. But the question is "How many households willing to spend $600 on a console game system have HDTVs?"
I think the numbers would be different and would side with the angry crowd. This is obviously all speculation.
The funny thing is that this reminds me of when the NES 8-bit system came out and it had a coaxial cable connection, but at the time many still hadn't bought in to cable-tv and thus still had television with those uhf/vhf screws on the back for antanae connections! So all these parents had to rush over to Radio Shack (which was uber at the time) on Christmas morning and find the coax-to-vhf screw-thingy converter. *sigh*
And, thus, history repeats itself.
ehh... I'm not much of a "stander". I can't just stand on something and let it take me somewhere. When someone is going to give me a ride and say "I'm on my way", I start walking in the direction from which they will be coming.
I'd rather have someone invent some inline skates with removable chasis so I could move by my own body's power, but at a quicker pace.
Once you hit 60... What's the point... Honestly.
It got boring for me after about the 15th Scholo run.
Well, you gotta remember that they're shooting for a different audience than exists in Everquest. Blizzard, to make as much as possible, has to keep WoW developed so as to appeal to as large an audience as possible. This particularly includes the more youthful, instant-gratification-oriented typed. They want to hit 60 and kill lots of stuff easier.
Everquest on the other hand is about to release its 12th expansion and, even without being anywhere near the mythical "end-game", is constantly housing 24, 54, and 72-person raids. I will doubt that WoW will ever develop to the point that Everquest has simply because it must keep all rewards attainable by the majority of the audience within a relatively short amount of time.
Thus, you grind to 60, get some nice gear... then... make some alts. Try out another class and wait for the next expansion. Do some raids where available. Get into a more mature guild (not necessarily in language, but in tactics and goals).
Yes, his line of work was hazardous. Yes, we all saw it coming.
But no one ever wanted it to happen. He was a genuinely nice, good, and well-meaning guy who did what he could to help the conservation effort-- and I'm no treehugger.
Yes, he died doing what he loved to do, but I'm sure we all wish it would have happened much further down the line.
Thanks for all the educational programming, Steve.
Also, -1 Flamebait to this article for assuming that being the 'only one' is a girl-only problem. Any new job comes with that feeling. It's just amplified when you're outside of your gender pool. Get over it, and get to work.
Indeed! Try being a male in education. Or in child care! Guys may think the new girl is hot, but I'd rather be gawked at than feared as an potential molestor or rapist!!
"A job should be nothing more than a means to supporting your lifestyle. Sure...hopefully you can enjoy your work, but, really...does it matter who you do it for? Your job should not be YOU."
This is a completely personal opinion. A lot of us follow the philosophy that if you're going to be working for 1/3 of your day, you should be doing something you love. Something that gives purpose and value to that 1/3 of your day. (For me, it's education).
When you lose what you love, what is giving actual purpose in your life, you lose your soul. You feel empty. You can lose a million or lose a hundred but if you lose what you put value in, then you have nothing.
Even worse, when you get such a impersonal lay off notice, you are devalued. If you got this email, then the powers that be did not see your work, your life, your intelligence, nor the well-being of your family worth the 45 minutes of pay it would have taken to tell you in person.
I hope that someday soon the people who made the decision to use email to lay people off feel not just regret, but shame, TRUE shame, for what they did.
You add money to the picture and you will get lawsuits claiming defamation etc.
Keep it free. No one worth their salt does real "research" at Wiki anyway. We go their to find +5 Informative or +5 insightful -- Not +5 Guaranteed Fact.
So you're saying a psychic who says to expect a death in a the family is guilty of making a death threat?
No, I think you too loosely interpret the word "threat". It's more like a completely uneducated prediction with little or no damage caused beyond a bunch of people thinking "Who the hell sent this?"
I would consider this along the lines of a prank call but most likely on a scale that the kid didn't comprehend.
We all make stupid mistakes and attempt pranks as kids. Computers and the internet just make it easier for more people to be affected.
Public service (2-weeks straight, 3 hours/day) seems a decent match of rehab/punishment. If you think he has the potential to be a repeat offender, make sure he's not allowed to be on a computer witout someone looking over his shoulder for a month.
Scare him, teach him, let him become a better person.
1) You choose to question authority because you understand man's potential for selfish motives especially when man is in positions of power. You choose to look for lies or misinformation in case they are there, not because you "know" they are there.
2) You wear tinfoil blinders and simply accept what your favorite authority figures tell you because you truly believe they mean the best for you and everyone else. You ignore history and you actually think "These guys, ya, these guys are different.
Am I the only one that sees this as a well-contained and rigged attempt at advertising security in high-control situations?
OF COURSE it's going to be difficult/improbably to hack the Vista box that MS provides to Black Hat. It's running no unnecessary processes and has all known security checks locked down.
What really matters (to consumers) is the following is whether or not it will be as secure when 15 different unnecessary and unupdated programs are running in the background.
I'm not sure of the statistics, but having experience with police/crime records, I'm pretty damn sure kids are more likely to be sexually molested/offended by people living in their own homes than any other people. Hell, I would put my bank on the estimation that legal guardians are more likely to harm a child than anyone else.
So let's do it. Let's ban guardianship and emancipate all children today!!
Well, I thought the article was intended to be America-centric. And I think you're right about one of the causes being "drive". We in America are taught from day 1 that could be the best/richest/most powerful. President, doctor, lawyer, and business owner: these are the occupations told to use over and over again in primary school and often by parents and family.
An American child soon learns that no, not everyone can be president. Doctors and lawyers go through some of the longest durations of schooling and even when they do start making money,they're so busy paying off debt or just keeping their high-pay job that they don't have time to enjoy it.
So it comes down to owning a business. Americans typically want one of two things create a product that would be indespinsible to some/all or provide a simple service and corner the market on it.
It's the easiest of the four mentioned "options" so many have been heading off to get their MBAs and trying at it. Some make it, most don't. Either way, MANY try -- hence the start-ups.
You see, whether we buy into it or not, the idea of making massive amounts of profit is contantly drilled into the American mind as the main form of success. American youth, and many older, idolize sports stars (who "play" for money), actors (who work 5 months for 3+ million dollars), and CEO prodigies (who look like they don't work much at all). Thus, they all want their easy money. Again, their misconception of the business world says "I'll -just- start my own business!"
I am going to agree with this post 115%. It is ALL about the experience you have going into a job. I made a long rant of a post above based on this and my post played down the importance of a degree and certs so long as you can prove you know whatever system the job wants you to use of even if you're able to say "Yes, I've worked in a similar situation for 2 years or more". 10 years experience is golden.
Also, someone had replied to my post saying "don't be a martyr" but I'm with you and say "You have to like what you do. You have to look forward to it."
It really isn't just the Tech Industry that has raised its standard. Almost everyone has. The problem for most, however, isn't the lack of certifications or education, but the lack of experience pertinent to individual positions.
My girlfriend is a university graduate and holds a pharmacy technician certification and license. She got them (and about 500 hours of experience in a pharmacy) because she planned on going to pharmacy school. Then, considering she wasn't happy telling people, "Sorry Mr. Goldman, the insurance company doesn't feel as though your Alzheimer's is worth treating. You got $283.43 on ya?"
So she's on the job market again and has been for the last 2 months. Bachelor's degree, high quality experience in --AN-- industry and nothing. Why? Because companies and organizations no longer gauge the value of applicants by their credentials or educational degrees. All they want to see is hard experience directly working with the company database or "... at least 3+ years working knowledge of ".
Why? I dare say as an educator that it's because the market has been flooded with bachelor degrees and MS Certification, and this certification, etc.
How can we remedy this? Make it standard for companies to supply their applicant pool with training software. You want your applicant pool to be qualified and to integrate, achieving 85%+ productivity, within a week? Then you should really post downloadable software on the website from which you advertise jobs.
Bsck to my girlfriend, she's applied for many positions at same University at which I work. She's no longer looking for something that will "stimulate her mind" as she's willing to work in the payroll department-- "entry level". But, of course "Required: 3+ years of the *** payroll system including , , "
Save your time, with the education, guys. Graduate high school, get a couple certs just to make your resume a bit more full, and make a friend on the inside. Connections really do seem to be the only way to get a job today. =(
1st Question: What resolution are the photos at? 2nd Question: What compression?
I have a pal in real estate who invested mucho dinero on a bangin comp and camera because it was "so" necessary to have when showing off a piece of property. One day, he gets a hold of me to look at his very laggy computer and I find thousands of photos of houses (about 25 per house with one being labeled -Final- each) each photo at some insane resolution of 2048.
I asked him what he needed such high-res photos of the houses for and he said "I need the best photo possible when advertising." I asked him to show me a sample of the advertisement and, no kidding here, he popped out a magazine with a few of the houses at 3"x3".
So we filtered out what photos he wanted to keep, archived the old/irrelevant ones (just used winrar), and set his camera to default to 800.
Sure enough, we freed up about 30GB (then defragged for the sake of his VirtMem)
boosting the prices in the Auction House etc because there are people with more gold to spend.
Doesn't that happen with or without gold farming?
Once a server gets to a certain age, it can be assumed that the acquisition of gold/platinum becomes easier as people have multiple, high-level characters to farm low-level areas. When enough farming has been done, a great deal of people use that farmed gold/plat to build a twink (a character that is geared using resources not of its own abilities) through the auction house or bazaar.
Wouldn't this have the very same effect? Could cash-for-gold really be blamed entirely or even within an accurate 10%-ile with this type of LEGAL phenomenon occuring daily?
Am I the only one that sees that pandering to the lowest common denominator for a GOOD product actually benefits everyone? If less people use Internet Explorer (because nobody updates anyway) then less people can have their lives/businesses interupted by malware. Thus, the big numbers convincing simple people for the sake of good, is GOOD.
It's like health. Stay healthy, and you will live longer and more comfortabley. Not many people are healthy for the sake of their own health. But, tell guys that girls will have sex with them because they look healthy and -WHAM!- guys are hitting the gym.
If my location is being tracked, databased, and thrown into a final report to question my committment to work or a company, I will quit. It is that simple.
Personally, I rank autonomy as a Top-3 requirement when choosing employment. If I am going to be followed or if I will have to do "performance reports" I just wont take a job. Why? Because I like to be happy where I work. When I am happy, I work long hours. I goof off every so offten, cracking jokes with colleagues over AIM or reading slashdot, but this all contributes to a worker keeping sanity. Seriously, this is about 20 minutes wasted per day. Less on busy days.
Why ruin that?
Summary: 1) Everyone would like to goof off from time to time. Most people actually do goof off. 2) Would tracking your employees be good for the company in the long run or would it just create disgruntled workers and "workarounds?" 3) If they don't trust that I am working, then why should I trust them at all?
Everythings sounds crazy until you find out it works. Lots of people thought it was crazy to implent porcelain teeth with titanium roots that bond to bone... but it happened. AND they're not suceptible to rot.
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Agreed. Sorta. Yes, few home have HD TVs. But the question is "How many households willing to spend $600 on a console game system have HDTVs?" I think the numbers would be different and would side with the angry crowd. This is obviously all speculation. The funny thing is that this reminds me of when the NES 8-bit system came out and it had a coaxial cable connection, but at the time many still hadn't bought in to cable-tv and thus still had television with those uhf/vhf screws on the back for antanae connections! So all these parents had to rush over to Radio Shack (which was uber at the time) on Christmas morning and find the coax-to-vhf screw-thingy converter. *sigh* And, thus, history repeats itself.
ehh... I'm not much of a "stander". I can't just stand on something and let it take me somewhere. When someone is going to give me a ride and say "I'm on my way", I start walking in the direction from which they will be coming.
I'd rather have someone invent some inline skates with removable chasis so I could move by my own body's power, but at a quicker pace.
Once you hit 60... What's the point... Honestly.
It got boring for me after about the 15th Scholo run.
Well, you gotta remember that they're shooting for a different audience than exists in Everquest. Blizzard, to make as much as possible, has to keep WoW developed so as to appeal to as large an audience as possible. This particularly includes the more youthful, instant-gratification-oriented typed. They want to hit 60 and kill lots of stuff easier.
Everquest on the other hand is about to release its 12th expansion and, even without being anywhere near the mythical "end-game", is constantly housing 24, 54, and 72-person raids. I will doubt that WoW will ever develop to the point that Everquest has simply because it must keep all rewards attainable by the majority of the audience within a relatively short amount of time.
Thus, you grind to 60, get some nice gear... then... make some alts. Try out another class and wait for the next expansion. Do some raids where available. Get into a more mature guild (not necessarily in language, but in tactics and goals).
Yes, his line of work was hazardous.
Yes, we all saw it coming.
But no one ever wanted it to happen. He was a genuinely nice, good, and well-meaning guy who did what he could to help the conservation effort-- and I'm no treehugger.
Yes, he died doing what he loved to do, but I'm sure we all wish it would have happened much further down the line.
Thanks for all the educational programming, Steve.
Also, -1 Flamebait to this article for assuming that being the 'only one' is a girl-only problem. Any new job comes with that feeling. It's just amplified when you're outside of your gender pool. Get over it, and get to work.
Indeed! Try being a male in education. Or in child care! Guys may think the new girl is hot, but I'd rather be gawked at than feared as an potential molestor or rapist!!
"A job should be nothing more than a means to supporting your lifestyle. Sure...hopefully you can enjoy your work, but, really...does it matter who you do it for? Your job should not be YOU."
This is a completely personal opinion. A lot of us follow the philosophy that if you're going to be working for 1/3 of your day, you should be doing something you love. Something that gives purpose and value to that 1/3 of your day. (For me, it's education).
When you lose what you love, what is giving actual purpose in your life, you lose your soul. You feel empty. You can lose a million or lose a hundred but if you lose what you put value in, then you have nothing.
Even worse, when you get such a impersonal lay off notice, you are devalued. If you got this email, then the powers that be did not see your work, your life, your intelligence, nor the well-being of your family worth the 45 minutes of pay it would have taken to tell you in person.
I hope that someday soon the people who made the decision to use email to lay people off feel not just regret, but shame, TRUE shame, for what they did.
Mo' money, Mo' problems.
You add money to the picture and you will get lawsuits claiming defamation etc.
Keep it free. No one worth their salt does real "research" at Wiki anyway. We go their to find +5 Informative or +5 insightful -- Not +5 Guaranteed Fact.
So you're saying a psychic who says to expect a death in a the family is guilty of making a death threat?
No, I think you too loosely interpret the word "threat". It's more like a completely uneducated prediction with little or no damage caused beyond a bunch of people thinking "Who the hell sent this?"
I would consider this along the lines of a prank call but most likely on a scale that the kid didn't comprehend.
We all make stupid mistakes and attempt pranks as kids. Computers and the internet just make it easier for more people to be affected.
Public service (2-weeks straight, 3 hours/day) seems a decent match of rehab/punishment. If you think he has the potential to be a repeat offender, make sure he's not allowed to be on a computer witout someone looking over his shoulder for a month.
Scare him, teach him, let him become a better person.
It's a simple choice on slashdot:
1) You choose to question authority because you understand man's potential for selfish motives especially when man is in positions of power. You choose to look for lies or misinformation in case they are there, not because you "know" they are there.
2) You wear tinfoil blinders and simply accept what your favorite authority figures tell you because you truly believe they mean the best for you and everyone else. You ignore history and you actually think "These guys, ya, these guys are different.
Make your choice.
Am I the only one that sees this as a well-contained and rigged attempt at advertising security in high-control situations?
OF COURSE it's going to be difficult/improbably to hack the Vista box that MS provides to Black Hat. It's running no unnecessary processes and has all known security checks locked down.
What really matters (to consumers) is the following is whether or not it will be as secure when 15 different unnecessary and unupdated programs are running in the background.
No? Somehow, I'm not surprised.
I'm not sure of the statistics, but having experience with police/crime records, I'm pretty damn sure kids are more likely to be sexually molested/offended by people living in their own homes than any other people. Hell, I would put my bank on the estimation that legal guardians are more likely to harm a child than anyone else.
So let's do it. Let's ban guardianship and emancipate all children today!!
This is definitely one of the best response-rants I've read a great while. +more mod
Here here!!
I am so suprised that I can't find "for the sake of academics" or "to add to the general knowledge of the world".
Really though guys, I know a bunch of you are older and have families/lifestyles to support, but is money really the driving force here?
Thank you. Perfectly said. Now I don't have to say it.
Well, I thought the article was intended to be America-centric. And I think you're right about one of the causes being "drive". We in America are taught from day 1 that could be the best/richest/most powerful. President, doctor, lawyer, and business owner: these are the occupations told to use over and over again in primary school and often by parents and family.
An American child soon learns that no, not everyone can be president. Doctors and lawyers go through some of the longest durations of schooling and even when they do start making money,they're so busy paying off debt or just keeping their high-pay job that they don't have time to enjoy it.
So it comes down to owning a business. Americans typically want one of two things create a product that would be indespinsible to some/all or provide a simple service and corner the market on it.
It's the easiest of the four mentioned "options" so many have been heading off to get their MBAs and trying at it. Some make it, most don't. Either way, MANY try -- hence the start-ups.
You see, whether we buy into it or not, the idea of making massive amounts of profit is contantly drilled into the American mind as the main form of success. American youth, and many older, idolize sports stars (who "play" for money), actors (who work 5 months for 3+ million dollars), and CEO prodigies (who look like they don't work much at all). Thus, they all want their easy money. Again, their misconception of the business world says "I'll -just- start my own business!"
I am going to agree with this post 115%. It is ALL about the experience you have going into a job. I made a long rant of a post above based on this and my post played down the importance of a degree and certs so long as you can prove you know whatever system the job wants you to use of even if you're able to say "Yes, I've worked in a similar situation for 2 years or more". 10 years experience is golden. Also, someone had replied to my post saying "don't be a martyr" but I'm with you and say "You have to like what you do. You have to look forward to it."
It really isn't just the Tech Industry that has raised its standard. Almost everyone has. The problem for most, however, isn't the lack of certifications or education, but the lack of experience pertinent to individual positions.
My girlfriend is a university graduate and holds a pharmacy technician certification and license. She got them (and about 500 hours of experience in a pharmacy) because she planned on going to pharmacy school. Then, considering she wasn't happy telling people, "Sorry Mr. Goldman, the insurance company doesn't feel as though your Alzheimer's is worth treating. You got $283.43 on ya?"
So she's on the job market again and has been for the last 2 months. Bachelor's degree, high quality experience in --AN-- industry and nothing. Why? Because companies and organizations no longer gauge the value of applicants by their credentials or educational degrees. All they want to see is hard experience directly working with the company database or "... at least 3+ years working knowledge of ".
Why? I dare say as an educator that it's because the market has been flooded with bachelor degrees and MS Certification, and this certification, etc.
How can we remedy this? Make it standard for companies to supply their applicant pool with training software. You want your applicant pool to be qualified and to integrate, achieving 85%+ productivity, within a week? Then you should really post downloadable software on the website from which you advertise jobs.
Bsck to my girlfriend, she's applied for many positions at same University at which I work. She's no longer looking for something that will "stimulate her mind" as she's willing to work in the payroll department-- "entry level". But, of course "Required: 3+ years of the *** payroll system including , , "
Save your time, with the education, guys. Graduate high school, get a couple certs just to make your resume a bit more full, and make a friend on the inside. Connections really do seem to be the only way to get a job today. =(
Damn!
1st Question: What resolution are the photos at?
2nd Question: What compression?
I have a pal in real estate who invested mucho dinero on a bangin comp and camera because it was "so" necessary to have when showing off a piece of property. One day, he gets a hold of me to look at his very laggy computer and I find thousands of photos of houses (about 25 per house with one being labeled -Final- each) each photo at some insane resolution of 2048.
I asked him what he needed such high-res photos of the houses for and he said "I need the best photo possible when advertising." I asked him to show me a sample of the advertisement and, no kidding here, he popped out a magazine with a few of the houses at 3"x3".
So we filtered out what photos he wanted to keep, archived the old/irrelevant ones (just used winrar), and set his camera to default to 800.
Sure enough, we freed up about 30GB (then defragged for the sake of his VirtMem)
boosting the prices in the Auction House etc because there are people with more gold to spend.
Doesn't that happen with or without gold farming? Once a server gets to a certain age, it can be assumed that the acquisition of gold/platinum becomes easier as people have multiple, high-level characters to farm low-level areas. When enough farming has been done, a great deal of people use that farmed gold/plat to build a twink (a character that is geared using resources not of its own abilities) through the auction house or bazaar.
Wouldn't this have the very same effect? Could cash-for-gold really be blamed entirely or even within an accurate 10%-ile with this type of LEGAL phenomenon occuring daily?
I completely agree. But also...
Am I the only one that sees that pandering to the lowest common denominator for a GOOD product actually benefits everyone? If less people use Internet Explorer (because nobody updates anyway) then less people can have their lives/businesses interupted by malware. Thus, the big numbers convincing simple people for the sake of good, is GOOD.
It's like health. Stay healthy, and you will live longer and more comfortabley. Not many people are healthy for the sake of their own health. But, tell guys that girls will have sex with them because they look healthy and -WHAM!- guys are hitting the gym.
If my location is being tracked, databased, and thrown into a final report to question my committment to work or a company, I will quit. It is that simple.
Personally, I rank autonomy as a Top-3 requirement when choosing employment. If I am going to be followed or if I will have to do "performance reports" I just wont take a job. Why? Because I like to be happy where I work. When I am happy, I work long hours. I goof off every so offten, cracking jokes with colleagues over AIM or reading slashdot, but this all contributes to a worker keeping sanity. Seriously, this is about 20 minutes wasted per day. Less on busy days.
Why ruin that?
Summary:
1) Everyone would like to goof off from time to time. Most people actually do goof off.
2) Would tracking your employees be good for the company in the long run or would it just create disgruntled workers and "workarounds?"
3) If they don't trust that I am working, then why should I trust them at all?
Everythings sounds crazy until you find out it works. Lots of people thought it was crazy to implent porcelain teeth with titanium roots that bond to bone... but it happened. AND they're not suceptible to rot.
True... very true. But remember, we're creating such technologies so we can abuse such standards and still have a marvelous smile.
ex. Teeth whitening for smokers/coffee drinkers, tooth implants for those who don't sufficiently take care of their teeth, etc.
I believe you worded that wrong...
It's not that we allow everyone to vote, it's that we dont sufficiently educate those who vote.
Don't exclude the dumb, make them smarter and overcome!
Ya, but how long until companies include things like this
.... "
"... and by clicking "Next," you volunteer all self-collected data on your online habits to Sony Corp.
in thier EULAs?