The game will consist of a child racing to eat as many boxes of breakfast cereal as possible in an eating contest.
I'll blame the name screw up on the folks in marketing.
It should prove to be entertaining watching the media feeding frenzy....
At what institution was this occuring at? I have serious doubts about the validity of these claims. Being:
a) better looking than average
b) in a fraterity system
does not automatically label someone as more likely to cheat. Some of the most honest and hard-working people I know exist within the fraternity system. Some are good looking, some are not. Personally, I find the greatest percentage of cheaters come from Asian and East Indian backgrounds. This is not to point fingers at one specific group, it just happens that they represent the greatest number of post-secondary students that have the greatest amount of family pressure to succeed, and therefore are the most desparate.
Really. It works wonders. It helps to enforce the fact that your time is valuable. It also has a tendency of cutting down on situations where RTFM is the solution.
Now, before you go and think that this is unreasonable, please consider that:
- My wife's private accounting practice charges my business for all accounting related work.
- My best-friend the lawyer charges me for any legal work that he does.
- My brother-in-law the architech charged me for designing my house.
Why?
Because you don't respect a person's time and skills until you have to pay for them. Admittedly, all of these rates that I pay, and the rates that I charge, are less than what I/they charge regular clients.
Unlike the "help me move and I'll provide the beer and pizza" situations, computer problems are frequently commonplace. I mean, really, if your buddy asked you to move his furniture to a new appartment each month, you'd say "Hire a fscking mover!"
When their computer crashes every month because they run Windows 98 dispite you begging and pleading to switch, are you supposed to provide free help? No thanks!
I do provide free help for my father because he's running Linux and needs all the help he can get. Otherwise, as Bill G. would say, "Stand and deliver!"
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That's going to be the name of my game.
The game will consist of a child racing to eat as many boxes of breakfast cereal as possible in an eating contest. I'll blame the name screw up on the folks in marketing.
It should prove to be entertaining watching the media feeding frenzy....
Flip the eagle (no pun intended) updside down, shove the arrows up its ass and have it choking on the olive branch.
That's an appropriate seal for the current administration.
There goes my karma....
My time in IT has shown me the benefits of being a "Relaxation Therapist":
Better pay, grateful customers, my ass hurts less at the end of the day, and best of all, no risk of outsourcing!
At what institution was this occuring at? I have serious doubts about the validity of these claims. Being:
a) better looking than average
b) in a fraterity system
does not automatically label someone as more likely to cheat. Some of the most honest and hard-working people I know exist within the fraternity system. Some are good looking, some are not. Personally, I find the greatest percentage of cheaters come from Asian and East Indian backgrounds. This is not to point fingers at one specific group, it just happens that they represent the greatest number of post-secondary students that have the greatest amount of family pressure to succeed, and therefore are the most desparate.
Unlike a lot of the "twitch games" (meaning: if it moves, you shoot it, a la Doom, Half Life, etc.), this is the one game that damaged my psyche.
The original X-com was pre-RTS isometric game. But DAMN! Was it every moody and creepy. Made for some very scary dreams.
Now I have to go and repress all those thoughts again....
Why it stinks like fish!
They can smell flatulence the moment they hear it.
Clairvoyance or synesthesia?
You decide.
Really. It works wonders. It helps to enforce the fact that your time is valuable. It also has a tendency of cutting down on situations where RTFM is the solution.
Now, before you go and think that this is unreasonable, please consider that:
- My wife's private accounting practice charges my business for all accounting related work.
- My best-friend the lawyer charges me for any legal work that he does.
- My brother-in-law the architech charged me for designing my house.
Why?
Because you don't respect a person's time and skills until you have to pay for them. Admittedly, all of these rates that I pay, and the rates that I charge, are less than what I/they charge regular clients.
Unlike the "help me move and I'll provide the beer and pizza" situations, computer problems are frequently commonplace. I mean, really, if your buddy asked you to move his furniture to a new appartment each month, you'd say "Hire a fscking mover!"
When their computer crashes every month because they run Windows 98 dispite you begging and pleading to switch, are you supposed to provide free help? No thanks!
I do provide free help for my father because he's running Linux and needs all the help he can get. Otherwise, as Bill G. would say, "Stand and deliver!"
Cthulhu saves...in case he's hungry later.
Don't kid yourself. Just because you've paid the "Celine Dion tax" on your media does not mean that you can copy music at will.
Go to Sycop's web page on this to get a better understanding on what's involved.
Frankly, I'm pissed that I have to pay a levy for something that I only use for data.
And how does that differ from normal prejudice?
Managment using a flamethrower?
That I'd like to see!