Maybe I should have read the whole article, or some of the comments here, but one thing that caught my eye was the controller and affordable price. It's good to see a company realizing that uber l337 super graphics dont make a good game (not that they hurt), but that innovative ideas, fun, and something people can actually afford lead to fun. (Sorry, but 800$ for the PS3??!! Or something like that, right? To much for me to afford, I have a life to pay for, outside of my play station (What do they say: live in your world, play in ours?))
Anyways, Sony should take a page from nintendo's book. And hopefully nintendo already figured out the region free / no-drm-crap stuff from sony.
This sounds good, as of lately my maxtor one touch HDD has been getting more and more corrupt sectors, and I am sick of running chkdsk overnight on it. I figure it's going to die on me soon and I don't look forward to getting another HDD.
Anyways, back on topic, at $0.15 a gig, it would take a long time before buying a hdd would be more affordable for me. (my hdd is 250g, I use about 100g, 100g = 15$, so after 10 months thats 150$... Still cheaper than this HDD that I didn't even get a year ago, on sale, for 200$)
I wonder if they will have an issue with my "favorite Bible quotes/hope_cops_dont_see_this" folder, or all of the iso's I downloaded *shify eyes*
The only downside is that you need enough RAM to run both operating systems simultaneously in a comfortable fashion, but 2GB of RAM is under $200 these days.
I just double checked the prices. The higher end MacBook pro, and the two intel iMac's all need 300$ to get a 2gig memory upgrade. The lower end mac book is 500$ to upgrade to 2 gigs of memory.
But I guess there is a bright side... Only 83$ a month for the higher end macbook with 2 gigs of ram, the better processor, and the 100g, 7200 rpm sata drive. (and the warentee)
Well the graphics are cool, but does it actually increase how useable my computer is? Not to mention the obivous questions like "will my crappy integrated graphics card even come close to running this?"
Forgive this flame bait, but who cares? Lot's of companies make sports games, be it tennis, golf, football, etc. Surely everyone could figure out that Rockstar had games other than the GTA line, so I ask again, how is this news worthy?
Maybe I should have RTFA, but I have never seen a MCE retail box anywhere, and was always under the impression that you could only get it preinstalled on computers from companies like Dell, HP, etc.
And of course, why anyone would want MCE is over my head, but that is another discussion. (I'll spare you the review, but I will say that it fits in "well" with Windows and other M$ Programs...)
All good points, but I think they also strengthen my point. Don't get me wrong, I am -good- with computers, when people I know have issues, they call me and I usualy get it fixed, and I am even doing well in my CS classes. But still, these things need to come down a few more levels to go main stream. (Not that they should cut down on what is there, it's great that anyone who wants to can go even further and actually understand what is going on... But for the most part, I just want mine to work, well.)
Ok, those -DO- look sweet, but the actual graphics are really the least of my concerns for a window manager. I would rather see it be very fast an responsive, clean, easy to understand, and setup up intellegently so that even my mother or grandparents can use it.
Oh ya, let's hope they ditch the two part windowsish looking start menu thing. First thing I did in XP was disable that... Instead lets see smart toolbars / menu's / buttons / etc.
Other than that, a carefully crafted mix of something google billboard like with a local college might work out well, especially if you at least hint to what you do and where you are located.
Thanks for thinking on your own, as for everyone else, feel free to read all suggested idea's and mix and match what you think is good.
Or of course, there is always the Lemmings method where you just do exactly what we say (Btw, send me your SSN and CC numbers, now)
Seriously, you could even post something like: "I work in a Small, high end IT cOnsultancy. We are currently on a large recruitmMnt drivE and our targets are very ambitious. We arE looking into alternative, original and cost-effective ways of hiring talented people. Google's Billboard ad comeS to mInd. As we are a consultancy, we need good communicators as well as techies and raising the company profile may be an aDded bOnus. WhaT is the Slashdot COMmunity'S experience with aLternAtive recruitment methodS? Were you Hired in an exciting or interesting way? How do you make even reJected candidates leave with a pOsitive impression? (Read Between the lines)"
And no, this isn't a troll post, ReAd BeTwEen ThE lInEs iF yOu MiSsEd WhErE i SaId ThAt.
Other than that, a carefully crafted mix of something google billboard like with a local college might work out well, especially if you at least hint to what you do and where you are located.
And for my final thought, with all things, you get what you pay for, so put in the time or plan to put up the bucks. And no going to a recruiter isn't an alternative, original or cost-effective way to find good people, IMHO.
Please forgive my lack of physics or other high end science classes, but what was the radio for? He mentiones turning it on, being able to put it anywhere in the room, and that you might as well put it on the table. Is it just to listen to while your waiting for the egg, or does it serve some purpose (something to transmit over the phones, or something to do with the radio waves, maybe?)?
Oh yes, please spare me the jokes, I prefer to deep fry my food.
I disagree, but I guess that is for the courts to decide. And either way, I stand by Rockstar and believe that they did not make the contents of the "Hot Coffee" mod available to anyone who bought the game. Some ToU/license violating moron opened it up to the world and made it available, not Rockstar.
Oooo, What is this little moisture absorbing packet in my medication...??! "Do." "not." "eat." *Eat's it anyway while blogging it and showing the world, some news channel rips it off, puts it on the 11 O'clock news, and millions of little kids everywhere die. The manufacturer is sued out of existence, no one is happy about any of it and meanwhile it's still not Rockstar's problem.*
(Please excuse my presentation of my point of view, but someone needs to show this in its real light where there is nothing more than some crappy lawyers and politicians making a last ditch effort to look good, get reelected/appointed and make money)
Let's think about this for a moment... Why should they be responsible for what someone else did to their product? The license agreements and such probably even specifically stated that you couldn't mod it, reverse engineer it, etc.
But hey, let's sue some bleach company because some stupid idiot mixed it with vinegar.
Ha, working at an airline like that sounds like fun, altho I do realize how much work they do. There have been a few times when we showed up early like many others to try and have our seats changed.
Anyways, thanks for the reply, cheered me up, along with thoughts of what I would do differently to help me lose my job next time.
Forgive me from my comments, I just had a shitty day at work (Costco, boxing stuff for members), and have to admit that ive never had issues with customers before today. Anyways, on with the post
A) Since this is IT, fire moron people who pull stupid shit and waste your time. ie, an idiot keeps getting email viruses from personal email. or, if your working with customers like me... Cancel their membership and remind him of what an ass he is (And I know that ppl will say that this would be bad, but this dude took lots of time, pissed off both the cashier and I, and was overly unpleasent. Him, his family and his friends wont detract largely from the 100k we generate in an hour)
B) Take pictures of the employee/customer from answer A of you strangling them with a computer cord, then let the staff add funny captions or comments to them. Or, if you work at costco like me, smash their eggs/bread, and make sure their chicken gets grease all over the new cloths they bought (after the transaction is complete, of course), then have their membership cancelled.
Customer Service blows ------------- By the way, if any of the morons I had to deal with today are reading this, I will A) Assume i've lost my job, not that I care at this point, and B) want to wish you a Merry Christmas, err, excuse me, "Happy Holidays"!!
Ok, with normal business, arent you charged from where the business your buying from is? If I drive all the way to New York (I live in CA), and buy something, they aren't charge me my sales tax rate at home, regardless of the fact that I could turn around and drive it right back. Thus is makes no sense for online businesses to have to do that.
PLUS, Don't physical businesses at least get some benifit from Sales Tax they collect (some might go to road contruction / repair, etc)? What would an online business get? Shouldn't sales tax we collect go to improve the local internet lines for people (our "roads" to our business, if you will), perhaps faster connections, less downtime, and so on.
Oh, but wait. I guess that's our ISP's job, not the governments.
Either way, if you ask me, they are out of line collecting sales tax, and it's only made worse by how they want to do it. If their going to do it, it needs to be re-figured-out so A) We're collecting for where we are based and B) The money goes, at least in part, to benifit us (see the roads example above).
And last time I checked, the internet had all kinds of computers / OS's / etc connecting to it, and it doesn't crash every 5 minutes for a day while the internet gods repeatedly fix the same problem, only to later blame it on total BS.
Unless SE can learn the meaning of Customer Support (Useful GMs, mostly working systems, not fucking over BSTs, etc) I'll take my money elseware.
Maybe they missed the hastle of dealing with SE all together. The useless GM's, the horrible IT staff that can never keep things running (wait no, the game is being "DDoS'd"), and the emergancy maitnence that never ends when it is supposed to (I didn't want to play on my day off anyways).
But then again, M$ Fanboys should be completely used to such problems.
So by internship, do they mean that they wont be paying?
I had an internship once, basicly a bunch of data entry and no pay. But really, this sounds great... Sign me up. Nothing better than giving your soul to the devil.
Slashdot Mirror
s/DDOSed/slashdoted
4 47298417176/index.html
http://mirrordot.com/stories/0b8da8db7dc8e63ecdb8
**ducks from the incomming rate down**
Maybe I should have read the whole article, or some of the comments here, but one thing that caught my eye was the controller and affordable price. It's good to see a company realizing that uber l337 super graphics dont make a good game (not that they hurt), but that innovative ideas, fun, and something people can actually afford lead to fun. (Sorry, but 800$ for the PS3??!! Or something like that, right? To much for me to afford, I have a life to pay for, outside of my play station (What do they say: live in your world, play in ours?))
Anyways, Sony should take a page from nintendo's book. And hopefully nintendo already figured out the region free / no-drm-crap stuff from sony.
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This sounds good, as of lately my maxtor one touch HDD has been getting more and more corrupt sectors, and I am sick of running chkdsk overnight on it. I figure it's going to die on me soon and I don't look forward to getting another HDD.
Anyways, back on topic, at $0.15 a gig, it would take a long time before buying a hdd would be more affordable for me. (my hdd is 250g, I use about 100g, 100g = 15$, so after 10 months thats 150$... Still cheaper than this HDD that I didn't even get a year ago, on sale, for 200$)
I wonder if they will have an issue with my "favorite Bible quotes/hope_cops_dont_see_this" folder, or all of the iso's I downloaded *shify eyes*
Huh? Isn't this why we have the supreme court? To overrule illegal laws...? Oh wait, Bush controls them now too.
I just double checked the prices. The higher end MacBook pro, and the two intel iMac's all need 300$ to get a 2gig memory upgrade. The lower end mac book is 500$ to upgrade to 2 gigs of memory.
But I guess there is a bright side... Only 83$ a month for the higher end macbook with 2 gigs of ram, the better processor, and the 100g, 7200 rpm sata drive. (and the warentee)
Well the graphics are cool, but does it actually increase how useable my computer is? Not to mention the obivous questions like "will my crappy integrated graphics card even come close to running this?"
Either way, I think I'll give it a try ^^
Forgive this flame bait, but who cares? Lot's of companies make sports games, be it tennis, golf, football, etc. Surely everyone could figure out that Rockstar had games other than the GTA line, so I ask again, how is this news worthy?
WinXP Boots on a Mac!!!11 / (yes, the !!!!1 is intended)
http://www.mathcaddy.com/windowsxpbootsonamac!!!!
Doh, the correct subject should have been: http://bash.org/?178890
!echo startkeylogger
So, if I have this right, the second version of these should either include laser death rays, or some kind of exploding mechanism?
(It is the predator that start out unarmed and now carries missiles, right?)
Maybe I should have RTFA, but I have never seen a MCE retail box anywhere, and was always under the impression that you could only get it preinstalled on computers from companies like Dell, HP, etc.
And of course, why anyone would want MCE is over my head, but that is another discussion. (I'll spare you the review, but I will say that it fits in "well" with Windows and other M$ Programs...)
All good points, but I think they also strengthen my point. Don't get me wrong, I am -good- with computers, when people I know have issues, they call me and I usualy get it fixed, and I am even doing well in my CS classes. But still, these things need to come down a few more levels to go main stream. (Not that they should cut down on what is there, it's great that anyone who wants to can go even further and actually understand what is going on... But for the most part, I just want mine to work, well.)
Ok, those -DO- look sweet, but the actual graphics are really the least of my concerns for a window manager. I would rather see it be very fast an responsive, clean, easy to understand, and setup up intellegently so that even my mother or grandparents can use it.
Oh ya, let's hope they ditch the two part windowsish looking start menu thing. First thing I did in XP was disable that... Instead lets see smart toolbars / menu's / buttons / etc.
Other than that, a carefully crafted mix of something google billboard like with a local college might work out well, especially if you at least hint to what you do and where you are located.
Thanks for thinking on your own, as for everyone else, feel free to read all suggested idea's and mix and match what you think is good.
Or of course, there is always the Lemmings method where you just do exactly what we say (Btw, send me your SSN and CC numbers, now)
And no, this isn't a troll post, ReAd BeTwEen ThE lInEs iF yOu MiSsEd WhErE i SaId ThAt.
Other than that, a carefully crafted mix of something google billboard like with a local college might work out well, especially if you at least hint to what you do and where you are located.
And for my final thought, with all things, you get what you pay for, so put in the time or plan to put up the bucks. And no going to a recruiter isn't an alternative, original or cost-effective way to find good people, IMHO.
Please forgive my lack of physics or other high end science classes, but what was the radio for? He mentiones turning it on, being able to put it anywhere in the room, and that you might as well put it on the table. Is it just to listen to while your waiting for the egg, or does it serve some purpose (something to transmit over the phones, or something to do with the radio waves, maybe?)?
Oh yes, please spare me the jokes, I prefer to deep fry my food.
I disagree, but I guess that is for the courts to decide. And either way, I stand by Rockstar and believe that they did not make the contents of the "Hot Coffee" mod available to anyone who bought the game. Some ToU/license violating moron opened it up to the world and made it available, not Rockstar.
Oooo, What is this little moisture absorbing packet in my medication...??! "Do." "not." "eat." *Eat's it anyway while blogging it and showing the world, some news channel rips it off, puts it on the 11 O'clock news, and millions of little kids everywhere die. The manufacturer is sued out of existence, no one is happy about any of it and meanwhile it's still not Rockstar's problem.*
(Please excuse my presentation of my point of view, but someone needs to show this in its real light where there is nothing more than some crappy lawyers and politicians making a last ditch effort to look good, get reelected/appointed and make money)
Let's think about this for a moment... Why should they be responsible for what someone else did to their product? The license agreements and such probably even specifically stated that you couldn't mod it, reverse engineer it, etc.
But hey, let's sue some bleach company because some stupid idiot mixed it with vinegar.
Ha, working at an airline like that sounds like fun, altho I do realize how much work they do. There have been a few times when we showed up early like many others to try and have our seats changed.
Anyways, thanks for the reply, cheered me up, along with thoughts of what I would do differently to help me lose my job next time.
Happy Holidays!
Forgive me from my comments, I just had a shitty day at work (Costco, boxing stuff for members), and have to admit that ive never had issues with customers before today. Anyways, on with the post
A) Since this is IT, fire moron people who pull stupid shit and waste your time. ie, an idiot keeps getting email viruses from personal email. or, if your working with customers like me... Cancel their membership and remind him of what an ass he is (And I know that ppl will say that this would be bad, but this dude took lots of time, pissed off both the cashier and I, and was overly unpleasent. Him, his family and his friends wont detract largely from the 100k we generate in an hour)
B) Take pictures of the employee/customer from answer A of you strangling them with a computer cord, then let the staff add funny captions or comments to them. Or, if you work at costco like me, smash their eggs/bread, and make sure their chicken gets grease all over the new cloths they bought (after the transaction is complete, of course), then have their membership cancelled.
Customer Service blows
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By the way, if any of the morons I had to deal with today are reading this, I will A) Assume i've lost my job, not that I care at this point, and B) want to wish you a Merry Christmas, err, excuse me, "Happy Holidays"!!
Ok, with normal business, arent you charged from where the business your buying from is? If I drive all the way to New York (I live in CA), and buy something, they aren't charge me my sales tax rate at home, regardless of the fact that I could turn around and drive it right back. Thus is makes no sense for online businesses to have to do that.
PLUS, Don't physical businesses at least get some benifit from Sales Tax they collect (some might go to road contruction / repair, etc)? What would an online business get? Shouldn't sales tax we collect go to improve the local internet lines for people (our "roads" to our business, if you will), perhaps faster connections, less downtime, and so on.
Oh, but wait. I guess that's our ISP's job, not the governments.
Either way, if you ask me, they are out of line collecting sales tax, and it's only made worse by how they want to do it. If their going to do it, it needs to be re-figured-out so A) We're collecting for where we are based and B) The money goes, at least in part, to benifit us (see the roads example above).
Maybe you missed the point of my post..?
And last time I checked, the internet had all kinds of computers / OS's / etc connecting to it, and it doesn't crash every 5 minutes for a day while the internet gods repeatedly fix the same problem, only to later blame it on total BS.
Unless SE can learn the meaning of Customer Support (Useful GMs, mostly working systems, not fucking over BSTs, etc) I'll take my money elseware.
Maybe they missed the hastle of dealing with SE all together. The useless GM's, the horrible IT staff that can never keep things running (wait no, the game is being "DDoS'd"), and the emergancy maitnence that never ends when it is supposed to (I didn't want to play on my day off anyways).
But then again, M$ Fanboys should be completely used to such problems.
I had an internship once, basicly a bunch of data entry and no pay. But really, this sounds great... Sign me up. Nothing better than giving your soul to the devil.
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