Actually, I interviewed for M$ as a tech writer a few months back.
First phone interview: Fantastic...but the contact called right when I said I would NOT be available. Okay, that's a simple screw-up that we all make. We rescheduled.
Second, "group-based" phone interview: They called one freaking day early. There is no way that this was a miscommunication. This was on my calendar, and I verified the email while we called. I was caught off-guard, of course, but also felt like this was a genuinely crappy thing to do.
In the end, I didn't make the grade. Of course, the moment that I was asked "So, are you sure you're comfortable with working in a corporate environment?" after I'd just laid-out twelve years of doing just that made me realize that there was no way that I'd be hired there. But to this day I'm stunned by the gal of apparently deliberately calling me on the wrong day...twice.
Actually, generalizations aren't false if they're generally true. Yes, that might be an offensive concept to the "I'm-a-Special-Snowflake" Generation Me crowd, but that doesn't make it any less true.
Of course, exceptions to the rule exist, like you Grandmother, but they are just that; exceptions.
"Atheists killed far more people in the last century than religious zealots. And I say that not to malign atheism, though I personally disagree with it, but rather to show that people will find an excuse to kill each other regardless. Blaming it all on religion doesn't wash."
Um, care to cite some sources for that statement?
Though I don't agree with the idea that "religion is evil", even a cursory reading of a world history text makes it abundantly clear that people have killed each other over their religious beliefs throughout the length and breadth of our existence on this rock. When you add in things like the Crusades, the Albigensian Crusade, and that wacky ol' Inquisition (to say nothing of 9/11) it becomes clear that horrible things have been done to other human beings in the name of doctrine for a long, long time.
Personally? I think killing another human being because your god is different from their god is as morally reprehensible as stabbing someone because they think Hawkman is cooler than Superman.
Americans work more hours per week and more weeks per year than any other industrialized nation in the world. And you know what? We lead the planet in stress-related illnesses and heart attacks.
Yeah. Ain't we grand?
Americans don't need to work harder. Americans need to learn how to freaking relax. Only by doing that will our time off rejuvinate us enough to perform good work.
And, for the record, I've lived abroad (England for three years, Germany for four years) and worked with individuals in their home countries. To a one they thought Americans were overworked, overstressed, and a little scary. Gotta admit that I agree with them.
There has been a major change of tone among most other 360 owners I know and around the Net. Very much a feeling of despair and how could so many things have gone so wrong with the system.
What a complete and utter load of crap.
Yes, these are "dark days" when Oblivion gets released to rave reviews. These are truly the end-times when the emulation software gets better, not worse. And lo, dogs and cats must be living together because the console continues to gain a foothold in the market.
Seriously, my son and I have owned a 360 since December and we freaking love it. Does it replace all of our PC gaming? No; it'll never be an RTS platform. But for FPS and hardware-heavy titles like Oblivion it's an amazing, amazing piece of work. So when I read these constant -- and usually completely spurious -- tales of woe about the device ("It overheats!"/"It sucks!"/"It doesn't really do HD!") I wanna just scream.
If you are buying something for potential future features rather than buying it for what it is, you are a complete moron. If/when the addons that do what you want are released, then buy it.
Yes, because no one bought computers before there was any real software to run on it.
Oh, wait...
Okay, a lot of those links are dead, but the few that are active ain't bad.
Of course, NONE of them are as ambitious as "Starship Exeter". Those guys rented a WAREHOUSE for SETS, for god's sakes!!! Yikes!
By contrast, our first short, "Steve the Vampire", was shot, edited, and playing on Cable Access and the web in all of two months. Mind you, it ain't all that GOOD, and it doesn't have the production values that these guys obviously do, but we did it...and in far less time than seven years.
Me? I want to know where they came up with the name "B'fusalek".:-)
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Actually, I interviewed for M$ as a tech writer a few months back. First phone interview: Fantastic...but the contact called right when I said I would NOT be available. Okay, that's a simple screw-up that we all make. We rescheduled.
Second, "group-based" phone interview: They called one freaking day early. There is no way that this was a miscommunication. This was on my calendar, and I verified the email while we called. I was caught off-guard, of course, but also felt like this was a genuinely crappy thing to do.
In the end, I didn't make the grade. Of course, the moment that I was asked "So, are you sure you're comfortable with working in a corporate environment?" after I'd just laid-out twelve years of doing just that made me realize that there was no way that I'd be hired there. But to this day I'm stunned by the gal of apparently deliberately calling me on the wrong day...twice.
Actually, generalizations aren't false if they're generally true. Yes, that might be an offensive concept to the "I'm-a-Special-Snowflake" Generation Me crowd, but that doesn't make it any less true.
Of course, exceptions to the rule exist, like you Grandmother, but they are just that; exceptions.
Back to the regularly complaining...
"Atheists killed far more people in the last century than religious zealots. And I say that not to malign atheism, though I personally disagree with it, but rather to show that people will find an excuse to kill each other regardless. Blaming it all on religion doesn't wash."
Um, care to cite some sources for that statement?
Though I don't agree with the idea that "religion is evil", even a cursory reading of a world history text makes it abundantly clear that people have killed each other over their religious beliefs throughout the length and breadth of our existence on this rock. When you add in things like the Crusades, the Albigensian Crusade, and that wacky ol' Inquisition (to say nothing of 9/11) it becomes clear that horrible things have been done to other human beings in the name of doctrine for a long, long time.
Personally? I think killing another human being because your god is different from their god is as morally reprehensible as stabbing someone because they think Hawkman is cooler than Superman.
Oh, please. We need to learn how to relax.
Americans work more hours per week and more weeks per year than any other industrialized nation in the world. And you know what? We lead the planet in stress-related illnesses and heart attacks.
Yeah. Ain't we grand?
Americans don't need to work harder. Americans need to learn how to freaking relax. Only by doing that will our time off rejuvinate us enough to perform good work.
And, for the record, I've lived abroad (England for three years, Germany for four years) and worked with individuals in their home countries. To a one they thought Americans were overworked, overstressed, and a little scary. Gotta admit that I agree with them.
There has been a major change of tone among most other 360 owners I know and around the Net. Very much a feeling of despair and how could so many things have gone so wrong with the system.
What a complete and utter load of crap.
Yes, these are "dark days" when Oblivion gets released to rave reviews. These are truly the end-times when the emulation software gets better, not worse. And lo, dogs and cats must be living together because the console continues to gain a foothold in the market.
Seriously, my son and I have owned a 360 since December and we freaking love it. Does it replace all of our PC gaming? No; it'll never be an RTS platform. But for FPS and hardware-heavy titles like Oblivion it's an amazing, amazing piece of work. So when I read these constant -- and usually completely spurious -- tales of woe about the device ("It overheats!"/"It sucks!"/"It doesn't really do HD!") I wanna just scream.
If you are buying something for potential future features rather than buying it for what it is, you are a complete moron. If/when the addons that do what you want are released, then buy it. Yes, because no one bought computers before there was any real software to run on it. Oh, wait...
You'd be amazed how many people are making their own stuff, just for fun.
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Let's see:
http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Lab/2948/f
Okay, a lot of those links are dead, but the few that are active ain't bad.
Of course, NONE of them are as ambitious as "Starship Exeter". Those guys rented a WAREHOUSE for SETS, for god's sakes!!! Yikes!
By contrast, our first short, "Steve the Vampire", was shot, edited, and playing on Cable Access and the web in all of two months. Mind you, it ain't all that GOOD, and it doesn't have the production values that these guys obviously do, but we did it...and in far less time than seven years.
Me? I want to know where they came up with the name "B'fusalek".
Tony
http://www.stonesoupfilms.com/