Perhaps they should target the more advanced games to the online majority more and they will get the attention of the more tech savy people who only play good games and not Mario Kart.
I'm sorry for totally missing the entire point of your post and only focusing on this one issue, but good lord, man, what's wrong with Mario Kart?! I spent countless hours on that game. It was fun! Myself, I'm convinced that one of the reasons the cube faltered was because nintendo spent waaaay too long coming out with the latest kart incarnation.
At the risk of getting flamed, she's a little skinny for my taste. Don't get me wrong, she's a beautiful girl, but I'd suspect that she looks better clothed than not.
Look, when using a generic term, I don't think it matters all that much, either, but then again I'm also male. Somehow, I have a feeling that if you were in sales and someone referred to you as a "saleswoman" you'd be pissed. Yes, yes, the word shouldn't matter, but the crux of the situation is that words do matter.
So while I don't quite buy into calling my mailman a mailperson (he's a man, so in my mind he's a mailman) I also would never call a woman a mailman (probably just use mail carrier).
Think about it, who is really less sexist/racist the person who wants to keep accounting for sex/race in their language/lifestyle/hiring practices. Or the person who just wants to forget about it and treat everyone equally?**
I've heard this time and time again. The fact is, of course you don't treat all genders/races the same--nobody does. This is not to call you a racist, but to simply keep in mind that race is very much on the minds of the people in our country (I'm assuming that, like me, you're from the US).
To bury your head in the sand and insist on a "colorblind" society is bullshit because our society never has, and likely never will be, completely colorblind.
" Best of luck to the ILM team that has to make the CG fur look right."
Monsters Inc. and Ice Age shown it can be done.
It's much easier to create realistic-looking CG fur, water, etc when the only other point of reference is more computer graphics. When you have a big, furry CG wookie standing next to a real human it better be really well done, or else it'll just look stupid.
For those of you who don't get the joke, click here for a written explanation.
For a more bandwidth-intensive explanation go to:
http://www.brainthink.com/amusements/bush_fooled_a gain/bush_fooled_again.php
There's a clip on that second page that's almost a meg large and I don't want the poor bastard getting/.ed--hence no hypertext link./.'s lameness filter looks like it's putting an extra space in "again"; take out the space to get to the link.
Self defense and gun ownership rights are critically important to me so I guess that any discussions of them are more prone to be emotional than a discussion over something else.
We all have pet issues that get our blood boiling, and the temptation to go ballistic on/. is a powerful one at times. You think, "godamnitt, if everyone would just agree with me than we wouldn't have anymore problems!"
Thanks for being a good sport about my post and receiving it in the spirit with which it was intended.
There, that snotty enough of a reply for you? It's distateful to me to have to deal with such immaturity.
Yeah, actually, that was just about snotty enough. You accuse the other guy of trolling, simply for his use of a bad analogy? Seriously, if that's all it took to troll, then about 99% of./ers could be labeled so. The guy you responded to might've thought about what you said, but now he just thinks you're a jerk and he'd probably discount the most impeccable logic so long as it came from you.
Oh, and I'm not any kind of hater; you've actually been on my friends list for awhile. Just passing along some advice. Feel free to heed or ignore it at your discretion.
Court conservatives. Make them see that draconian laws like this just build up big government.
I'd like to see this work out, I really would. Now, maybe I'm just being pessimistic, but it seems to me that the largest conservative political party in the US (the GOP) are taking traditionally conservative values and throwing them out the window in favor of the Neoconservative agenda. It's going to be hard to court the right wing of politics in this country when the "less government" creed of conservatism is being thrown out in favor of "less government . . . when it suits our purposes."
Are we talking about pay or respect?
. . .
Respect is based on what people have gone through. Pay is based on the value they can generate.
Very well thought out; I really had to think through the loose terminology I'd been using. When I was discussing a teacher not being able to "get much respect" I was sort of equating pay with respect, I'll admit. I think the problem is we're talking about respect from two different angles: you were referring to respect from the individual and I was talking about respect from society. Allow me to clarify, the way our (I'm assuming you're an American as well) society seems to work is that your relative salary is equal to however much society values your contributions.
Your example of the brilliant theoretician who couldn't code his way out of a paper bag is an interesting one, in that it's fairly analgous to the problem a teacher faces. In both of these people's cases there is no item up for sale, no way to make an easy profit on what these people do. If society were interested in paying for pure science or for a well-educated populace, then these people would doubtless be paid much more. I would argue that--with respect to these kinds of people--society's priorities are backwards, but then what the hell do I know? (note: this doesn't keep me from prattling endlessly on/.)
Your points regarding education make sense to me, consider them conceded.
You're not suggesting that a harder course entitles you to more pay, right?
Not in the slightest. However, when I hear teachers unions complaining that their pay doesn't match up with their level of education, well . . . it just doesn't seem to me that 4 years of school entitles someone to a hefty salary. After all, if it's the easiest curriculum, can you really expect to be treated with that much respect? I hope you see my point.
I wish this status quo would change; teaching is a noble profession. In my ideal world, the training process for teachers would be more rigorous, their pay would be higher, and they'd get a little support (instead of antagonism) from parents.
That being said, I knew far too many kids in college who went the teaching route because it was "easy". With all these slackers mucking it up for the good teachers, is it a wonder that people think any idiot can do the job? What's funny is that all the "html engineers" caused the same problem in the tech field. They read a book on javascript and html and suddenly they were engineers. It took a while, but management figured out these bozos didn't really know what they were talking about, and it wouldn't surprise me if this sour experience has had a detrimental effect on tech workers to this day.
$35K is better than most teachers make, and they have to deal with whiny children every day. On some days they have to deal with children with guns. They also had to go to college. Want that job instead?
Teaching is a hard job, and I respect the profession. However, your assertion that they had to go to college just like us educated techies doesn't wash with me. Popquiz hotshot: what's the easiest department at almost any university?
Just a hunch, but I'd say that a likely reason their products suck--and not all of them do--is because management is more interested in new features than in bugfixes. After all, you can sell new features, but customers don't like paying for bugfixes.
And what makes you think that a pretentious ass like you knows more about law than judges who have passed law school?
Oh, that's just insulting. I'm not a pretentious ass, just a plan ole' regular ass.
As for your other comment, I don't think I know more about law than the frauds on the high court, I just happen not to ignore what little I do know when it's politically convenient to do so. Besides, using your argument, a layman would have no business contesting the Dred Scott decision
The same Abdullah Al Muhajir (that's the name Jose Padilla uses, don'cha know) whose case was reviewed twice by federal judges, both times finding his detainment valid? Yeah, I thought so.
Oh, you mean he goes by a muslim name! Well, hell, that changes everything! Thanks for straightening us all out. After all, it's much easier to be in favor of illegal detainments when they only happen to types of people we don't like.
And just because we have two idiot judges who favor ideology over the actual, you know, law doesn't mean a whole lot in my book. Hell, last time I counted we had five of them in our highest court.
WindowsXP is by far the most advanced consumer level operating system
I don't own a mac but a couple of geeks I know have "converted" recently, and they're quite impressed with the power of OSX. If you prefer XP, I can buy that, but to call XP "by far" the most advanced consumer OS is stretching it.
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Perhaps they should target the more advanced games to the online majority more and they will get the attention of the more tech savy people who only play good games and not Mario Kart.
I'm sorry for totally missing the entire point of your post and only focusing on this one issue, but good lord, man, what's wrong with Mario Kart?! I spent countless hours on that game. It was fun! Myself, I'm convinced that one of the reasons the cube faltered was because nintendo spent waaaay too long coming out with the latest kart incarnation.
Either that, or outlaw friendship.
/.ers will be in full accordance with the law ;)
And if they go that route, for once
Quite right, citizen! I'll dash off to the bookstore immediately to purchase Ann Coulter's new book!
What's wrong with Kristen Dunst naked?
At the risk of getting flamed, she's a little skinny for my taste. Don't get me wrong, she's a beautiful girl, but I'd suspect that she looks better clothed than not.
. . . in two years, the machines I'm purchasing for the office will be better than that for less than $300.
And they'll still only have 128 MB of RAM.
*shakes fist at vendors*
Because it's not important!
Look, when using a generic term, I don't think it matters all that much, either, but then again I'm also male. Somehow, I have a feeling that if you were in sales and someone referred to you as a "saleswoman" you'd be pissed. Yes, yes, the word shouldn't matter, but the crux of the situation is that words do matter.
So while I don't quite buy into calling my mailman a mailperson (he's a man, so in my mind he's a mailman) I also would never call a woman a mailman (probably just use mail carrier).
Think about it, who is really less sexist/racist the person who wants to keep accounting for sex/race in their language/lifestyle/hiring practices. Or the person who just wants to forget about it and treat everyone equally?**
I've heard this time and time again. The fact is, of course you don't treat all genders/races the same--nobody does. This is not to call you a racist, but to simply keep in mind that race is very much on the minds of the people in our country (I'm assuming that, like me, you're from the US). To bury your head in the sand and insist on a "colorblind" society is bullshit because our society never has, and likely never will be, completely colorblind.
If Carter had integrity, his incompetence far outweighed it.
/., please substitute "Dubya" in place of "Carter".
Wow, I was really confused until I realized this was an obvious typo. Readers of
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I do hate being a pendantic asshole . . .
;)
Yeah, I'm sure it keeps you up at night
" Best of luck to the ILM team that has to make the CG fur look right."
Monsters Inc. and Ice Age shown it can be done.
It's much easier to create realistic-looking CG fur, water, etc when the only other point of reference is more computer graphics. When you have a big, furry CG wookie standing next to a real human it better be really well done, or else it'll just look stupid.
For those of you who don't get the joke, click here for a written explanation.
a gain/bush_fooled_again.php
/.ed--hence no hypertext link. /.'s lameness filter looks like it's putting an extra space in "again"; take out the space to get to the link.
For a more bandwidth-intensive explanation go to:
http://www.brainthink.com/amusements/bush_fooled_
There's a clip on that second page that's almost a meg large and I don't want the poor bastard getting
Self defense and gun ownership rights are critically important to me so I guess that any discussions of them are more prone to be emotional than a discussion over something else.
/. is a powerful one at times. You think, "godamnitt, if everyone would just agree with me than we wouldn't have anymore problems!"
We all have pet issues that get our blood boiling, and the temptation to go ballistic on
Thanks for being a good sport about my post and receiving it in the spirit with which it was intended.
There, that snotty enough of a reply for you? It's distateful to me to have to deal with such immaturity.
./ers could be labeled so. The guy you responded to might've thought about what you said, but now he just thinks you're a jerk and he'd probably discount the most impeccable logic so long as it came from you.
Yeah, actually, that was just about snotty enough. You accuse the other guy of trolling, simply for his use of a bad analogy? Seriously, if that's all it took to troll, then about 99% of
Oh, and I'm not any kind of hater; you've actually been on my friends list for awhile. Just passing along some advice. Feel free to heed or ignore it at your discretion.
Court conservatives. Make them see that draconian laws like this just build up big government.
I'd like to see this work out, I really would. Now, maybe I'm just being pessimistic, but it seems to me that the largest conservative political party in the US (the GOP) are taking traditionally conservative values and throwing them out the window in favor of the Neoconservative agenda. It's going to be hard to court the right wing of politics in this country when the "less government" creed of conservatism is being thrown out in favor of "less government . . . when it suits our purposes."
Are we talking about pay or respect?
/.)
. . .
Respect is based on what people have gone through. Pay is based on the value they can generate.
Very well thought out; I really had to think through the loose terminology I'd been using. When I was discussing a teacher not being able to "get much respect" I was sort of equating pay with respect, I'll admit. I think the problem is we're talking about respect from two different angles: you were referring to respect from the individual and I was talking about respect from society. Allow me to clarify, the way our (I'm assuming you're an American as well) society seems to work is that your relative salary is equal to however much society values your contributions.
Your example of the brilliant theoretician who couldn't code his way out of a paper bag is an interesting one, in that it's fairly analgous to the problem a teacher faces. In both of these people's cases there is no item up for sale, no way to make an easy profit on what these people do. If society were interested in paying for pure science or for a well-educated populace, then these people would doubtless be paid much more. I would argue that--with respect to these kinds of people--society's priorities are backwards, but then what the hell do I know? (note: this doesn't keep me from prattling endlessly on
Your points regarding education make sense to me, consider them conceded.
You're not suggesting that a harder course entitles you to more pay, right?
Not in the slightest. However, when I hear teachers unions complaining that their pay doesn't match up with their level of education, well . . . it just doesn't seem to me that 4 years of school entitles someone to a hefty salary. After all, if it's the easiest curriculum, can you really expect to be treated with that much respect? I hope you see my point.
I wish this status quo would change; teaching is a noble profession. In my ideal world, the training process for teachers would be more rigorous, their pay would be higher, and they'd get a little support (instead of antagonism) from parents.
That being said, I knew far too many kids in college who went the teaching route because it was "easy". With all these slackers mucking it up for the good teachers, is it a wonder that people think any idiot can do the job? What's funny is that all the "html engineers" caused the same problem in the tech field. They read a book on javascript and html and suddenly they were engineers. It took a while, but management figured out these bozos didn't really know what they were talking about, and it wouldn't surprise me if this sour experience has had a detrimental effect on tech workers to this day.
$35K is better than most teachers make, and they have to deal with whiny children every day. On some days they have to deal with children with guns. They also had to go to college. Want that job instead?
Teaching is a hard job, and I respect the profession. However, your assertion that they had to go to college just like us educated techies doesn't wash with me. Popquiz hotshot: what's the easiest department at almost any university?
Just a hunch, but I'd say that a likely reason their products suck--and not all of them do--is because management is more interested in new features than in bugfixes. After all, you can sell new features, but customers don't like paying for bugfixes.
And what makes you think that a pretentious ass like you knows more about law than judges who have passed law school?
Oh, that's just insulting. I'm not a pretentious ass, just a plan ole' regular ass.
As for your other comment, I don't think I know more about law than the frauds on the high court, I just happen not to ignore what little I do know when it's politically convenient to do so. Besides, using your argument, a layman would have no business contesting the Dred Scott decision
Huzzah!
You are overly critical.
;)
This has got to be modded +1, Funny. Only the most overly critical would disagree
The same Abdullah Al Muhajir (that's the name Jose Padilla uses, don'cha know) whose case was reviewed twice by federal judges, both times finding his detainment valid? Yeah, I thought so.
Oh, you mean he goes by a muslim name! Well, hell, that changes everything! Thanks for straightening us all out. After all, it's much easier to be in favor of illegal detainments when they only happen to types of people we don't like.
And just because we have two idiot judges who favor ideology over the actual, you know, law doesn't mean a whole lot in my book. Hell, last time I counted we had five of them in our highest court.
Exactly. 93% (to be precise) . . .
;)
To be precise, maybe. To be accurate, no
LOL
Oh, man, that made my day.
Appreciate the link--great site. Esp like that you can sample a few tracks off each CD in lo-fi realaudio.
Great post. Honestly, who gets off telling people that the things they laugh at aren't really funny?
WindowsXP is by far the most advanced consumer level operating system
I don't own a mac but a couple of geeks I know have "converted" recently, and they're quite impressed with the power of OSX. If you prefer XP, I can buy that, but to call XP "by far" the most advanced consumer OS is stretching it.