as cultural differences are two of the items you will see on almost every outsourcing pros & cons list.
and there's no cultural differences between a former farm hand from Alambama and an investment banker from NYC. No sir...
killed, college educated professionals can now make as much money as their counterparts in third-world countries!
See I wouldn't mind so much living in Montana or Tennesse or out in the Midwest somewhere as long I can get broadband. Even if I make half of what I'm making working a tech Job in the SF Bay Area at least in the Mid-west I could buy a house with it. Here I can barely pay my rent.
Although, the whole being black and gay* thing might be a bit of a problem...
sites like empornium (google it) are pretty safe. I think the porn industry has either realized that they've benfited greatly from P2P or realize wouldn't actually make them any money.
Sites like Suprnova (again google it) on the other hand are Dead Sites Walking.
But tobacco is a politically acceptable substance to hate, and so it is banned and its users persecuted.
You'll have my sympathy when a cop beats the shit out of you and tosses you ina cell with rapists and muggers becuase he found a cigarette in your shoe...
knee jerk response. In a virtual world NONE of those categories actually exist. I 've played female characters, I've known women who play male characters. In a game these are constructs that have no more basis in reality than Orge, Drow, Gaint or Alignment.
My point is simply if this in-game "discrimination" (that was well within the context of the game by the way)was based on some other equally artifical criteria this would not even be a news story. Is this discrimination equally hienous if I replaced all mention of the male sex in the game with Type A and the Female sex with Type B? What if all of the graphics were changed so that the only distinguishable difference between Type A & B is that A's wear blue shirts B's wear green. Will we then have a small scandal? Some how I doubt it.
But why am I even bothering to argue this with you? I can see you've already chosen to be offended, so my trying to reason with you is lspinning a top in mud.
I'm sick of people bitchin' because they don't feel a certain activity is "life".
This was like my aunt telling me to "Get off the computer and go do something." and in the same breathe complaing that all my cousin does is play basketball...
If you play female some NPCs wont trade with you, if you play a white guy you won't be able to jump, if you play someone of X decent you will be better at Y, etc.
The thing is ALL RPG's do this already, with fantasy races and classes. There were lots of MUDS that I played where if you were an Orge or a Drow or a Giant, some of the NPC vendors wouldn't sell you anything, and if you were Evil you'd get jumped by city guards. It went with the territory. Yet whenever anyone tries to aplly this to gender especially people become very angry. Its a huge double standard.
There's been a lot of people using racial slurs on gaming servers lately. It's a shame that it's so widespread and that very few people say anything when it occurs during gameplay. I miss the days when you'd hear "nice shot" or "good luck" on a server instead of a bunch of insults.
I've seen this also, but it doesn't worry me so much. On a commerically operated game server, users get banned quickly for this kind of thing. On free private servers (Jim's Counter-Strike server etc.) its pretty much immpossible to avoid because even if the server owner wants to police his server he probably can't all the time. As far as I can rememeber playing online ( playing Unreal ) they've always been idiots. It was the main reason I started joining game clans.
If you followed it every instant of every day, forfeiting sleep, food, and work time for the purpose of tracking it, then it probably means you need to get a significant other.;)
I was asked to build an adult website. I would have usually just refused.
Seriously? Whats the difference between building a porn site and a site for any old company? As long as they're not promoting anything illegal or dangerous who cares what your clients do?
And why would you talk to your kids about it? How old are they? I could see running it by your wife but your kids. I guess we have vastly different ideas about things.
I was impressed with the little imperfections in her skin tone. Its the kind of thing magazines will touch up to erase but this guy puts in here, you don't even really notice it, but it makes it not plastic somehow, and subtle shadowing, Man I've spent hours trying to get that look with a film camera and natural light...and the tiny covering of body hair.
I've never seen CG like this, it is a little creepy how real/unreal it feels. Its very surreal stuff.
Skynet realized that whole nuke your enemies and destroy the world thing was so 1991. So it decides to do 21st Century style.
Send a Governator back in time to drown the humans in useless legislation. They'll never have time to stop theie military AI from becoming self-aware while they're chasing down 12 year old media terrorists and corpse fuckers.
Screw this. I am not going to obey this law. Tough. Go ahead and arrest me or fine me or whatever, when I get out/pay fines, I'll go right back to doing what I was going.
My sentiments exactly. This law is almost impossible to enforce. Trying to chase down people who break this law will cost the state millions. So what the point? Sounds like Arnold kowtowing to the Industry.
I didn't vote for the man, but I had to admit a while back that he was doing a decent job. Now this...
There is a Cult of Brevity that holds a certain amount of sway in the writing world. Some of its devotees are teachers (and students) in formal creative writing programs where the coin of the realm is short stories, or fragments thereof. Others are editors and journalists who, as a condition of their employment, must produce work of fixed length. Among people who follow the Cult of Brevity, the ability to write pieces that are not very long is thought to be the mark of the competent, well-trained, disciplined writer.
So you can imagine what such people think of people who write longer pieces, such as myself!
Many of the Cult of Brevity's more hard-core believers feel that writing long stuff is a sign of disgusting incontinence, egomania, pusillanimous editors, the decline of Western civilization, or all of the above. As must be obvious, I am not an adherent of the Cult of Brevity. Personally, I am delighted to read extremely long books, or series of books, as long as they hold my interest. To me it seems self-evident that the Cult of Brevity is grievously mistaken, and am not inclined to dispute it here.
At first, I agreed with him and then I started reading Quicksilver...
I'm with you on this one. I "liked" Crytonomicon but only because of its WWII historical elements . If not for that I'd probably be where I am now with Quicksilver, only reading it when I have absolutely nothing else to do. I remember an interview with Stephenson somewhere, he said the next book would be set somewhat in the future, which should elliminate some of the 17th Century navel gazing that made the Baroque cycle a tedious for me.
Better change to solid aluminum hats, or lead foil.
Damn right. Instead of eliminating mind controlling radio waves and CIA mind snoops, Tin Foil hats have been instead facilitaing the transmission of said waves.
This whole "Linux" thing just proves it. An operating system that has been proved not to exist by the most reputable of sources has infilatrated the personal computers of millions of users worldwide, governments, universities and corporations. Its a travesty I've spoke against tin-foil hats for years, but did anyone listen? No. Now look at the outcome.
Only the benevolent SCO can save you now. Put down your non-soft touch keyboard. Close down emacs-that-isn't and send them a check for $699. They'll sned you a special brainwave shield device codenamed License. Wrap it around your head. Be extra safe and get a second for your genetalia. Its your only hope! They is no time to lose! Your Faraday cages and 1024 bit GPG encryption are shams. Your salvataion lies in SCO!
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because the world is really lesser if every copy of Justified is wiped off the face of existence...
Come on dude, there must be some slightly more valuable way to spend your time.
as cultural differences are two of the items you will see on almost every outsourcing pros & cons list. and there's no cultural differences between a former farm hand from Alambama and an investment banker from NYC. No sir...
See I wouldn't mind so much living in Montana or Tennesse or out in the Midwest somewhere as long I can get broadband. Even if I make half of what I'm making working a tech Job in the SF Bay Area at least in the Mid-west I could buy a house with it. Here I can barely pay my rent.
Although, the whole being black and gay* thing might be a bit of a problem...
*Ok I'm not really gay...
sites like empornium (google it) are pretty safe. I think the porn industry has either realized that they've benfited greatly from P2P or realize wouldn't actually make them any money. Sites like Suprnova (again google it) on the other hand are Dead Sites Walking.
You'll have my sympathy when a cop beats the shit out of you and tosses you ina cell with rapists and muggers becuase he found a cigarette in your shoe...
My point is simply if this in-game "discrimination" (that was well within the context of the game by the way)was based on some other equally artifical criteria this would not even be a news story. Is this discrimination equally hienous if I replaced all mention of the male sex in the game with Type A and the Female sex with Type B? What if all of the graphics were changed so that the only distinguishable difference between Type A & B is that A's wear blue shirts B's wear green. Will we then have a small scandal? Some how I doubt it.
But why am I even bothering to argue this with you? I can see you've already chosen to be offended, so my trying to reason with you is lspinning a top in mud.
rofl. only on Sundays and Public Holidays.
This was like my aunt telling me to "Get off the computer and go do something." and in the same breathe complaing that all my cousin does is play basketball...
The thing is ALL RPG's do this already, with fantasy races and classes. There were lots of MUDS that I played where if you were an Orge or a Drow or a Giant, some of the NPC vendors wouldn't sell you anything, and if you were Evil you'd get jumped by city guards. It went with the territory. Yet whenever anyone tries to aplly this to gender especially people become very angry. Its a huge double standard.
I've seen this also, but it doesn't worry me so much. On a commerically operated game server, users get banned quickly for this kind of thing. On free private servers (Jim's Counter-Strike server etc.) its pretty much immpossible to avoid because even if the server owner wants to police his server he probably can't all the time. As far as I can rememeber playing online ( playing Unreal ) they've always been idiots. It was the main reason I started joining game clans.
as soon as I can save the $5000
anyway, I give it 72 hours to show up on suprnova
Seriously? Whats the difference between building a porn site and a site for any old company? As long as they're not promoting anything illegal or dangerous who cares what your clients do?
And why would you talk to your kids about it? How old are they? I could see running it by your wife but your kids. I guess we have vastly different ideas about things.
I've never seen CG like this, it is a little creepy how real/unreal it feels. Its very surreal stuff.
Finally I can watch porn on my wristwatch. Could make using the two hand stroke a bit tricky though...
Send a Governator back in time to drown the humans in useless legislation. They'll never have time to stop theie military AI from becoming self-aware while they're chasing down 12 year old media terrorists and corpse fuckers.
My sentiments exactly. This law is almost impossible to enforce. Trying to chase down people who break this law will cost the state millions. So what the point? Sounds like Arnold kowtowing to the Industry.
I didn't vote for the man, but I had to admit a while back that he was doing a decent job. Now this...
Books too Long
There is a Cult of Brevity that holds a certain amount of sway in the writing world. Some of its devotees are teachers (and students) in formal creative writing programs where the coin of the realm is short stories, or fragments thereof. Others are editors and journalists who, as a condition of their employment, must produce work of fixed length. Among people who follow the Cult of Brevity, the ability to write pieces that are not very long is thought to be the mark of the competent, well-trained, disciplined writer.
So you can imagine what such people think of people who write longer pieces, such as myself!
Many of the Cult of Brevity's more hard-core believers feel that writing long stuff is a sign of disgusting incontinence, egomania, pusillanimous editors, the decline of Western civilization, or all of the above. As must be obvious, I am not an adherent of the Cult of Brevity. Personally, I am delighted to read extremely long books, or series of books, as long as they hold my interest. To me it seems self-evident that the Cult of Brevity is grievously mistaken, and am not inclined to dispute it here.
At first, I agreed with him and then I started reading Quicksilver...
I'm with you on this one. I "liked" Crytonomicon but only because of its WWII historical elements . If not for that I'd probably be where I am now with Quicksilver, only reading it when I have absolutely nothing else to do. I remember an interview with Stephenson somewhere, he said the next book would be set somewhat in the future, which should elliminate some of the 17th Century navel gazing that made the Baroque cycle a tedious for me.
MIB is that you?
Who are you and how can I have your life?
They've got pr0n on the Internet now? When did this happen? And why can't I find it on my AOL CD?
becuase he's talking about "p0rn" and you're looking for "pr0n", maybe?
well ok maybe they can tell you, but since I'm scarred for life from seeing that picture you should be too.
Damn right. Instead of eliminating mind controlling radio waves and CIA mind snoops, Tin Foil hats have been instead facilitaing the transmission of said waves.
This whole "Linux" thing just proves it. An operating system that has been proved not to exist by the most reputable of sources has infilatrated the personal computers of millions of users worldwide, governments, universities and corporations. Its a travesty I've spoke against tin-foil hats for years, but did anyone listen? No. Now look at the outcome.
Only the benevolent SCO can save you now. Put down your non-soft touch keyboard. Close down emacs-that-isn't and send them a check for $699. They'll sned you a special brainwave shield device codenamed License. Wrap it around your head. Be extra safe and get a second for your genetalia. Its your only hope! They is no time to lose! Your Faraday cages and 1024 bit GPG encryption are shams. Your salvataion lies in SCO!
YOUR SALVATION LIES IN SCO!!