And this, ladies and gentlemen, is why we seem to have continually bad economy since about the year 2000. We've been trained to see it that way and have gotten to the point where, upon an upwards turn of the economy, some drama will magically, and timely, unfold to make us realize just how close to the cliff we've already gotten... again. And again... and... again.
There are only a few games I really want and since God of War is among them, naturally I'm leaning towards the PS3. Problem is, if you only have two or three packaged games and another couple of downloadable ones that interest you, the average price per game becomes pretty steep.
Now I'm certainly not an average gamer. I'm still shedding a tear whenever I think of the nineties and I have very little interest in graphic fireworks. I seek catching gameplay and so far, I've only had very few games deliver for me.
The question now becomes, does Sony want me as a customer? That is a marketing decision, but if they do, a PS3 should cost no more than 250 for me. Frankly, I'd rather they put the card reader and backwards compatibility back in and rip out the BluRay player... (yes, I do realize that is nonsense since the effing games come on BluRay. All I want to say is I'd have beeen content with DVD media)
This happens when you trust people who make money when you don't feel well. When will people learn that doctors do not profit from you being healthy? Neither do pharmaceutical companies. Taking medicine in the belief that whoever gave it to you wanted you to feel better is very naive.
It's stuff like this, and many personal experiences, that make me so cynical toward doctors. It's a sad state of things, but there you have it.
Pft. Feed it enough microcode to learn and develop its own intelligence and you're there. Just because you define life as something not made with computer-chips does not mean I do as well.
External factors delay the release of the game, not the game's state itself. Furthermore, they will continue to develop the game until those external requirements are met.
Dare we hope for the first truly polished, and moderately bug-free game release in a decade?
Aw, don't even start this... I've been talking to Christians for years, I know how you argue your point, it just remains a fact that neither logic nor the English language support them.
My parent poster specifically said that the man has to love the woman sacrificially no matter what she does wrong (and this includes doing it intentionally!).
There is no fucking way to weasel out of that one, exactly like there is no way to weasel out of the "God is almighty and all-knowing, yet is not responsible for our behaviour even though he created us knowing what we'd do in the first place"-trap.
It's okay to interpret the bible. Nay, it's a must, even. Problem is christians think THEIR interpretation is the only one that counts. And that's all I'm going to say about this.
I whole-heartedly agree. Somewhere else someone made an example of a stressful day. Of course this happens. But I've known my wife for seven years. It's the equivalent of an emotional sledgehammer for us when the other comes home frustrated.
Of course you cut them some slack and after a bit of a cool-down, everything's peachy again.
The connection between arguing and resentment was made by the parent poster, so your first paragraph doesn't really make sense, does it?
We often have differences in opinion. More often than one would think, it's pretty easy to just say "Hey, we disagree. So you do it your way, it doesn't impact my life anyway".
You know why that works? Because we checked beforehand whether our characters were compatible. The big things have been discussed a long, looong time ago.
I have no problem if the divorce comes before the kids. But more often than is good, children follow a marriage and then it's too frickin late. Damage will be done either way. Break up, and your kids will have to deal with shit. Don't break up and kids will have to deal with YOUR shit.
The commitment is important only because of the children. For men doubly so, because at that point they will be very open to financial attack from their spouse. That's why I'm saying you have to be sure about getting married beforehand. Divorce should be a last resort, not an easy way out.
You are right, of course, that you can easily live together and even have kids without getting married. But people who have kids outside a marriage tend to look into legalities beforehand (in some countries fathers need to adopt their kids if they have been born outside of marriage).
That's all I'm saying. Go into a deeper commitment, whatever form that might have take, with open eyes and an open mind.
My wife and I have lived together for over six years now and as far as I know, we never truly argued.
This is something I hear very often. Couples who don't argue don't last. Well, crap, we're doomed. Why is it good advice to have an outlet for suppressed resent? Why not advise to talk it out (as in discussing it) BEFORE it cann even become suppressed? Why do you have to resent your partner in the first place?
Us, we don't do resentment. We just don't see the need.
Wrong, now is the best time to be logical. They are entering a very serious commitment. Rationally tallying up all the good and the bad from their relationship so far is the most important thing they could do. If there is too much of the bad, then rationally and logically discussing whether they can overcome that in the future would also help them along.
Wait, what? Christ died for the church? I sincerely hope you're just trolling... or being sarcastic or whatever.
The christian ideas about marriage are sick to the core and should never be applied without liberal amounts of interpretation. Fact is, the christian interpretation of the bible is very heartless and uncaring, no matter the words they spout.
Love your wife sacrificially, even when she DOES NOT deserve it? I know that christians tend to sound like crackpots, but how in the seven levels of hell do you expect this to work? Do you really think your it-girl wife will respect you for lying at her feet whimpering for attention like a dog, never saying a word while she throws your money out the window? This is the stuff sitcom-stereotypes are made of and you want to tell us this somehow works?
Marital harmony will ensue... It isn't harmony, when half of the involved people have to completely bend over backwards for the other in the hopes that this person will take pity on them for it...
I'd disagree with you on those bachelor parties, but then again, only very few people have such a relentless grip on their jealousy as me and my wife do.
I will agree with the honesty, though. You made a good point: Demand it of your partner. In fact, you might have to TEACH it to her in the first place. I married a geek girl, not the cheerleader-type and she still had to be taught that yes, it is okay to tell me the truth, no it will not result in a fight and yes, I do want to hear her opinion.
My wife has had to deal with a mother who thought she had to be like her in order to be an acceptable child. You can imagine how puberty impacted on that relationship, though, so this situation might not necessarily apply to other women. Do not forget, though, that the stereotypes of a beer drinking, football addicted husband and the constantly frustrated and nagging wife come from somewhere. They are so prevalent in our media that, it seems, a lot of girls think that's the way it's supposed to work. Some of them have to literally be retaught.
Dude, how about a marriage-oriented marriage instead? You're not entering some club, you know.
Honesty is the key. A lot of people will disagree with me there, but if you can't be honest to your effing partner, with whom can you ever be honest then?
When I asked my first girl out, who happens to be my wife now, I told her my views on life and how I wanted and needed a relationship to be (both sexually and not) from the beginning. She happened to agree with what I said. I was honest and she was honest. That's why we've been married for almost four and a half years now and have been together for over seven.
No matter if one of the people involved tends toward submissive or dominant, the important part is that the relationship is built on being equal partners. Equal at least in the right to be happy and get from the relationship what they need. But to make each other happy, one must know what the other needs and what they have trouble dealing with.
I don't know how people can expect to live together for the rest of their lives, ideally, when they don't dare bring up wishes and dreams, fears and basic needs for fear of losing the other. How can people believe that someone whom you're afraid to tell your most important secrets, the things that are such a big part of you, would make a good partner?
The geekyness... what the heck does it matter? Whether you like being called a geek or not, the fact remains that we all have hobbies and interests. Being a geek is merely a label for how widely spread your hobby is (gaming retains its geeky status only through nostalgic means). Can you accept her hobbies? Can she accept yours? If not, you're going to have trouble that has nothing to do with geekyness anyway.
Oi, I'd like to remind you that this thing is located in Geneva, which is in the French speaking part of Switzerland. The rest of us don't like being confused with FRENCH speaking people;).
Seriously, though, I'm only half joking. The French have a very interesting work ethic and while our French Fries don't like being confused with real French people, one has to admit that they are close together from a mentality standpoint.
I know I'm pretty bigoted here, but unfortunately, I also speak from experience.
Then again, even Swiss German work ethics are going down the drain since we have this overwhelming influx of German and French managers who, incidentally, learnt their 'tricks' from the USA.
Interesting how you completely missed my point. Also interesting how much of a personality-profile you can create with one Slashdot post.
Do you truly believe a rant on an internet message board is what a job interview with me would look like? Damn, you're good. You should definitely get started on a career in Human Resources.
Your first point is utter bullshit. That might have been true for your average MCSE a few years ago, but serious certification does require a lot of in depth knowledge. So where do I fit in? I do storage, backup, Linux, Unix, MS SQL, a tiny bit of Oracle and just about everything in between. Show me a certificate for that.
Second, I have personally brought several projects to completion that have been worth a few millions. They all met expectations and were spot on budget-wise. Nobody cares. I have no certificates.
Wasn't it I who asked where this 'dream job' was?
I'll give you a wee little bit of advice, my friend. If something bores the heck out of you to the point that you obviously did not give the thing enough attention to begin with, you really should keep your opinion to yourself.
I wouldn't sue either... I mean, what's the point? It's not like you'd be getting millions out of it, you just waste time and try to explain what you did during all those months to your next prospective employer.
On the other hand, it would probably be bloody hilarious to film the interview and put it on youtube;).
Thing is, I'm starting to question IT as such. Hours are bade, wage is bad, recognition for my work is bad, stress levels are frickin' bad, future prospects are bad and the worst thing, job upkeep (i.e. certification) is damn expensive.
Can someone tell me a positive side of IT, please? I'm having trouble finding any.
Not that I'm American, but when and how DO you get to your dream job?
In this country, you can do an apprenticeship in just about anything. So I went into IT. I was good in school (top five of the class) and I showed above average skills in whatever I was doing.
I'm at my third job now. Let's skip how good or bad that one is and just get to what's interesting to me at the moment: Looking for a job. Personally, I'm a guy who is honest about what he can and can not do. I somehow convinced myself that good jobs cannot be had through lying because hey, if you had to lie to get it, can you expect an honest work environment? Either they overstated their requirements and you CAN do the job (but then what else are they going to expect from you that is not part of the job?) OR they were serious, you CAN'T do the job and what then?
For all three jobs, I've been working for sub-standard wage (meaning my salary was somewhere between 50% and 75% of what my work was worth), did unpaid overtime and was generally reachable at all times. I did not have the means to get certification and the companies had no interest in me having them.
So now I'm hearing "Well, for someone in IT, you did remarkably little certification". Or what about "Ah, so you wouldn't call yourself a geniusHmm..."?
Fact remains that doing honest and hard work brings you NOTHING. You must be a quack, a liar and just basically leech everything out of the company that you possibly can. Then you go to the next and rinse and repeat. It's what the managers do and it's what is expected of you. Being a carpenter is starting to sound bloody perfect just about now.
You're asking the wrong country. The US is, or at least the government is, applauding right now and thinking about how they can assimilate this great idea.
Frankly, I'm fucking scared of the western world and have been for a few years. I really, really want my own planet.
The abuse of the tool already happened... or at least the abuse is already intended. Just after this law was accepted (matter of single digit hours, not days, mind), politicians asked to extend this tool to contain sites besides CP. The next thing is terrorism. After that? Well, I think filesharing is a top candidate.
Nobody guarantees that it will stop there, though.
IMO, there are no bad carbs. There is just energy and whether your body is at liberty to be lean because enough of it comes in regularly and stress levels are low enough to not trigger starvation mode.
Calling food groups 'bad' is, IMO, about as insightful as an 'axis of evil'.
The problem with McDonald's food is not primarily the fat. It's the flavour enhancer.
Our body is pretty well able to regulate how much of our intake it actually processes, unless, of course, it is swamped with it. And therein lies the problem: Flavour enhancers override our senses and let us eat beyond what we need as sustenance.
From personal experience I know that I eat less the more unprocessed ingredients are used in food preparation. I'm less in a hurry to shovel it into my mouth, thus giving my stomach the time to process the stuff and tell me when it's enough.
The biggest problem we have nowadays is stress. Not only at work or in personal matters, but also when eating. We eat faster and thus more. So in my opinion, the less additives food has, the better you're off all around.
We do not live longer all that much, by the way. The problem is that in those statistics all the children and mothers that died at birth were included. Since these problems have lessened due to higher levels of hygiene during child birthing, our statistics have, of course, vastly improved.
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And this, ladies and gentlemen, is why we seem to have continually bad economy since about the year 2000. We've been trained to see it that way and have gotten to the point where, upon an upwards turn of the economy, some drama will magically, and timely, unfold to make us realize just how close to the cliff we've already gotten... again. And again... and... again.
I call bullshit.
So would I and I think we are not alone.
There are only a few games I really want and since God of War is among them, naturally I'm leaning towards the PS3. Problem is, if you only have two or three packaged games and another couple of downloadable ones that interest you, the average price per game becomes pretty steep.
Now I'm certainly not an average gamer. I'm still shedding a tear whenever I think of the nineties and I have very little interest in graphic fireworks. I seek catching gameplay and so far, I've only had very few games deliver for me.
The question now becomes, does Sony want me as a customer? That is a marketing decision, but if they do, a PS3 should cost no more than 250 for me. Frankly, I'd rather they put the card reader and backwards compatibility back in and rip out the BluRay player... (yes, I do realize that is nonsense since the effing games come on BluRay. All I want to say is I'd have beeen content with DVD media)
And is so much less uncomfortable than blowing your nose.
Yeah right...
This happens when you trust people who make money when you don't feel well. When will people learn that doctors do not profit from you being healthy? Neither do pharmaceutical companies. Taking medicine in the belief that whoever gave it to you wanted you to feel better is very naive.
It's stuff like this, and many personal experiences, that make me so cynical toward doctors. It's a sad state of things, but there you have it.
Pft. Feed it enough microcode to learn and develop its own intelligence and you're there. Just because you define life as something not made with computer-chips does not mean I do as well.
External factors delay the release of the game, not the game's state itself. Furthermore, they will continue to develop the game until those external requirements are met.
Dare we hope for the first truly polished, and moderately bug-free game release in a decade?
Aw, don't even start this... I've been talking to Christians for years, I know how you argue your point, it just remains a fact that neither logic nor the English language support them.
My parent poster specifically said that the man has to love the woman sacrificially no matter what she does wrong (and this includes doing it intentionally!).
There is no fucking way to weasel out of that one, exactly like there is no way to weasel out of the "God is almighty and all-knowing, yet is not responsible for our behaviour even though he created us knowing what we'd do in the first place"-trap.
It's okay to interpret the bible. Nay, it's a must, even. Problem is christians think THEIR interpretation is the only one that counts. And that's all I'm going to say about this.
I whole-heartedly agree. Somewhere else someone made an example of a stressful day. Of course this happens. But I've known my wife for seven years. It's the equivalent of an emotional sledgehammer for us when the other comes home frustrated.
Of course you cut them some slack and after a bit of a cool-down, everything's peachy again.
The connection between arguing and resentment was made by the parent poster, so your first paragraph doesn't really make sense, does it?
We often have differences in opinion. More often than one would think, it's pretty easy to just say "Hey, we disagree. So you do it your way, it doesn't impact my life anyway".
You know why that works? Because we checked beforehand whether our characters were compatible. The big things have been discussed a long, looong time ago.
I have no problem if the divorce comes before the kids. But more often than is good, children follow a marriage and then it's too frickin late. Damage will be done either way. Break up, and your kids will have to deal with shit. Don't break up and kids will have to deal with YOUR shit.
The commitment is important only because of the children. For men doubly so, because at that point they will be very open to financial attack from their spouse. That's why I'm saying you have to be sure about getting married beforehand. Divorce should be a last resort, not an easy way out.
You are right, of course, that you can easily live together and even have kids without getting married. But people who have kids outside a marriage tend to look into legalities beforehand (in some countries fathers need to adopt their kids if they have been born outside of marriage).
That's all I'm saying. Go into a deeper commitment, whatever form that might have take, with open eyes and an open mind.
Define argue.
My wife and I have lived together for over six years now and as far as I know, we never truly argued.
This is something I hear very often. Couples who don't argue don't last. Well, crap, we're doomed. Why is it good advice to have an outlet for suppressed resent? Why not advise to talk it out (as in discussing it) BEFORE it cann even become suppressed? Why do you have to resent your partner in the first place?
Us, we don't do resentment. We just don't see the need.
Wrong, now is the best time to be logical. They are entering a very serious commitment. Rationally tallying up all the good and the bad from their relationship so far is the most important thing they could do. If there is too much of the bad, then rationally and logically discussing whether they can overcome that in the future would also help them along.
Wait, what? Christ died for the church? I sincerely hope you're just trolling... or being sarcastic or whatever.
The christian ideas about marriage are sick to the core and should never be applied without liberal amounts of interpretation. Fact is, the christian interpretation of the bible is very heartless and uncaring, no matter the words they spout.
Love your wife sacrificially, even when she DOES NOT deserve it? I know that christians tend to sound like crackpots, but how in the seven levels of hell do you expect this to work? Do you really think your it-girl wife will respect you for lying at her feet whimpering for attention like a dog, never saying a word while she throws your money out the window? This is the stuff sitcom-stereotypes are made of and you want to tell us this somehow works?
Marital harmony will ensue... It isn't harmony, when half of the involved people have to completely bend over backwards for the other in the hopes that this person will take pity on them for it...
Man, you are a seriously fucked up individual...
I'd disagree with you on those bachelor parties, but then again, only very few people have such a relentless grip on their jealousy as me and my wife do.
I will agree with the honesty, though. You made a good point: Demand it of your partner. In fact, you might have to TEACH it to her in the first place. I married a geek girl, not the cheerleader-type and she still had to be taught that yes, it is okay to tell me the truth, no it will not result in a fight and yes, I do want to hear her opinion.
My wife has had to deal with a mother who thought she had to be like her in order to be an acceptable child. You can imagine how puberty impacted on that relationship, though, so this situation might not necessarily apply to other women. Do not forget, though, that the stereotypes of a beer drinking, football addicted husband and the constantly frustrated and nagging wife come from somewhere. They are so prevalent in our media that, it seems, a lot of girls think that's the way it's supposed to work. Some of them have to literally be retaught.
Dude, how about a marriage-oriented marriage instead? You're not entering some club, you know.
Honesty is the key. A lot of people will disagree with me there, but if you can't be honest to your effing partner, with whom can you ever be honest then?
When I asked my first girl out, who happens to be my wife now, I told her my views on life and how I wanted and needed a relationship to be (both sexually and not) from the beginning. She happened to agree with what I said. I was honest and she was honest. That's why we've been married for almost four and a half years now and have been together for over seven.
No matter if one of the people involved tends toward submissive or dominant, the important part is that the relationship is built on being equal partners. Equal at least in the right to be happy and get from the relationship what they need. But to make each other happy, one must know what the other needs and what they have trouble dealing with.
I don't know how people can expect to live together for the rest of their lives, ideally, when they don't dare bring up wishes and dreams, fears and basic needs for fear of losing the other. How can people believe that someone whom you're afraid to tell your most important secrets, the things that are such a big part of you, would make a good partner?
The geekyness... what the heck does it matter? Whether you like being called a geek or not, the fact remains that we all have hobbies and interests. Being a geek is merely a label for how widely spread your hobby is (gaming retains its geeky status only through nostalgic means). Can you accept her hobbies? Can she accept yours? If not, you're going to have trouble that has nothing to do with geekyness anyway.
Oi, I'd like to remind you that this thing is located in Geneva, which is in the French speaking part of Switzerland. The rest of us don't like being confused with FRENCH speaking people ;).
Seriously, though, I'm only half joking. The French have a very interesting work ethic and while our French Fries don't like being confused with real French people, one has to admit that they are close together from a mentality standpoint.
I know I'm pretty bigoted here, but unfortunately, I also speak from experience.
Then again, even Swiss German work ethics are going down the drain since we have this overwhelming influx of German and French managers who, incidentally, learnt their 'tricks' from the USA.
So you were lucky and your good work was, indeed, recognized. The fact that this often is not the case is what I'm whining about in the first place ;).
Interesting how you completely missed my point. Also interesting how much of a personality-profile you can create with one Slashdot post.
Do you truly believe a rant on an internet message board is what a job interview with me would look like? Damn, you're good. You should definitely get started on a career in Human Resources.
Your first point is utter bullshit. That might have been true for your average MCSE a few years ago, but serious certification does require a lot of in depth knowledge. So where do I fit in? I do storage, backup, Linux, Unix, MS SQL, a tiny bit of Oracle and just about everything in between. Show me a certificate for that.
Second, I have personally brought several projects to completion that have been worth a few millions. They all met expectations and were spot on budget-wise. Nobody cares. I have no certificates.
Wasn't it I who asked where this 'dream job' was?
I'll give you a wee little bit of advice, my friend. If something bores the heck out of you to the point that you obviously did not give the thing enough attention to begin with, you really should keep your opinion to yourself.
I wouldn't sue either... I mean, what's the point? It's not like you'd be getting millions out of it, you just waste time and try to explain what you did during all those months to your next prospective employer.
On the other hand, it would probably be bloody hilarious to film the interview and put it on youtube ;).
Thing is, I'm starting to question IT as such. Hours are bade, wage is bad, recognition for my work is bad, stress levels are frickin' bad, future prospects are bad and the worst thing, job upkeep (i.e. certification) is damn expensive.
Can someone tell me a positive side of IT, please? I'm having trouble finding any.
My first job WAS with a smaller company... the owner was just damn greedy.
Not that I'm American, but when and how DO you get to your dream job?
In this country, you can do an apprenticeship in just about anything. So I went into IT. I was good in school (top five of the class) and I showed above average skills in whatever I was doing.
I'm at my third job now. Let's skip how good or bad that one is and just get to what's interesting to me at the moment: Looking for a job. Personally, I'm a guy who is honest about what he can and can not do. I somehow convinced myself that good jobs cannot be had through lying because hey, if you had to lie to get it, can you expect an honest work environment? Either they overstated their requirements and you CAN do the job (but then what else are they going to expect from you that is not part of the job?) OR they were serious, you CAN'T do the job and what then?
For all three jobs, I've been working for sub-standard wage (meaning my salary was somewhere between 50% and 75% of what my work was worth), did unpaid overtime and was generally reachable at all times. I did not have the means to get certification and the companies had no interest in me having them.
So now I'm hearing "Well, for someone in IT, you did remarkably little certification". Or what about "Ah, so you wouldn't call yourself a geniusHmm..."?
Fact remains that doing honest and hard work brings you NOTHING. You must be a quack, a liar and just basically leech everything out of the company that you possibly can. Then you go to the next and rinse and repeat. It's what the managers do and it's what is expected of you. Being a carpenter is starting to sound bloody perfect just about now.
You're asking the wrong country. The US is, or at least the government is, applauding right now and thinking about how they can assimilate this great idea.
Frankly, I'm fucking scared of the western world and have been for a few years. I really, really want my own planet.
The abuse of the tool already happened... or at least the abuse is already intended. Just after this law was accepted (matter of single digit hours, not days, mind), politicians asked to extend this tool to contain sites besides CP. The next thing is terrorism. After that? Well, I think filesharing is a top candidate.
Nobody guarantees that it will stop there, though.
IMO, there are no bad carbs. There is just energy and whether your body is at liberty to be lean because enough of it comes in regularly and stress levels are low enough to not trigger starvation mode.
Calling food groups 'bad' is, IMO, about as insightful as an 'axis of evil'.
The problem with McDonald's food is not primarily the fat. It's the flavour enhancer.
Our body is pretty well able to regulate how much of our intake it actually processes, unless, of course, it is swamped with it. And therein lies the problem: Flavour enhancers override our senses and let us eat beyond what we need as sustenance.
From personal experience I know that I eat less the more unprocessed ingredients are used in food preparation. I'm less in a hurry to shovel it into my mouth, thus giving my stomach the time to process the stuff and tell me when it's enough.
The biggest problem we have nowadays is stress. Not only at work or in personal matters, but also when eating. We eat faster and thus more. So in my opinion, the less additives food has, the better you're off all around.
We do not live longer all that much, by the way. The problem is that in those statistics all the children and mothers that died at birth were included. Since these problems have lessened due to higher levels of hygiene during child birthing, our statistics have, of course, vastly improved.