The modern consumer is stupid. They sacrifice quality to attain an increasingly lower price point. No matter that, in the long run, the low price point cost them more money, they only care about the price at the moment.
do we need continued 10 fold increases in productivity? If we are a society that is going to require work from our citizens, then we need to provide work for our citizens to do. We only need increased productivity if we are, as a society, going to support at a reasonable level those persons who have been automated out of the work force and can't be retrained (and there are a lot of them). Business has a social obligation to support the societies that it parasitizes. Besides, if it doesn't support the society that it feeds off, soon it will have exhausted its food supply.
Verizon complaining about Comcast...In my experience, Verizon has the worst customer service record of any of them. At least, in Illnois. Now in Calfornia, SBC and Comcast are about equally bad.
O'Reilly actually has a point burried beneath his typical inflamatory rhetoric
It depends on the particular reality you want to invest in. For instance, O'Reilly is invested in a Milton Freidman world, where the rich prosper, the poor are lazy, and everyone who disagrees with him is wrong. He acknowledges no short comings in his own reality. He attacks anyone who points out the short comings in his version of reality. Sort of like/.ers, eh?
There is a lack of self-perception in all of these arguements. No one willingly admits that there are giant short comings in their own ideas, because this woudl be admitting that they have inadequately thought out their lives/personal philosophies/lifestyles. And in truth, most have, if for no other reason than they haven't been forced to think outside of their own narrow world and point of view.
Just to correct a misconception, they don't only support Windows on this title. In fact, the already support a Linux/Unix variant in OS X (no, I'm not a Mac fanatic). With the stace already in place, there's no real reason not to create a linux client. It shouldn't entail so much work as to make it unprofitable to port the Mac client to a straight Linux client. I believe there is a significant population of users who would buy and use the Linux client. And Blizzard, with only one game on the market and none in the non-vaporware pipe, cannot afford to leave any sort of significant population of users on the table.
Ah, but if the company has the duty to dislose/report, then the contractor is free of liability unless he is contractually obligated to handle/protect the data. That doesn't sound like the guy's situation. Sounds like he was just brought in to tell them how to tighten up their security. The company retains control over and responsibility for their data, thus the responsibility to dislose and the penalties for not disclosing.
his only choice is to quit working there. He is only a consultant, so he can make recommendations, but the company is free to ignore him. Odds are that he is likely to be bound by a non-disclosure agreement regarding the network and data situation at the company, as well.
I lived in LA for several years and didn't notice Latinos being harder workers. In fact, the janitorial staff at my office was almost all Latino and they never did their jobs. The office was often filthy, the simple tasks required of a janitor going undone. Furthermore, of the 30 some janitorial staff that were Latino, all had been there for at least 5 years, and yet only 1 of them had bothered to learn English.
Furthermore, at least in LA, there was a massive backlash from illegal latinos against their children learning English. There were charter schools popping up all over the place that taught Spanish language cirriculum so these people who only wanted American money, but didn't want to become a part of America, could send their children to some place more fitting their designs. Not to mention the large number of Latinos who regard themselves as Mexican and Southern California as part of Mexico.
I see no good in allowing these people who refuse to integrate and become Americans, rather than Mexicans living in the US, to continue to come unchecked and work as they please.
The blanket hate speech laws are applied extremely broadly and with predjudice. Criticize a Jews or Isreal, and you are beloved. Criticize a muslim or muslim theocracy, and you are fined and threatened with jail. At least in my experience.
I would consider moving to are Toronto, Canada, and Scotland (I lean towards somewhere in Islay). However, I am not inclined to move because Canada has terrible speech abridging laws and Scotland has the horrible UK "Kill you pets" quarantine laws, and I'm not leaving my dogs behind. So, I'll stay in the US. And support centrist candidates.
think constantly about how Mexicans are treated back in the US, and I honestly have to say I can't imagine that there is anywhere in the world that welcomes immigrants as well as the Dutch welcome high-tech people with valuable skills.
And what useful skills do Mexicans have? They certainly aren't knowledge workers. And most of them refuse to even learn English. The US has laborers, if the business establishment would just pay enough. The only reason Mexicans are prefered by business is that they work for.25 cents/hour.
Obviously, when you have an incompetent like Tigole in charge, it takes 1600 employees to maintain WoW. Otherwise, Starcraft: Ghost would be out by now.
Not to mention, it's far easier to consildate network security and such to s data center than to hundreds of amorphous wireless devices spread over, say, a city scape.
Come on people...the defendant called the plaintiff a crook, a con artist, and a fraud. If youare going to complain about someone's service, you can give specific complaints. Give evidence to back it up. But you can't make unsubstantiated allegations, which the defendant did. "Stunning slap against free speech?" It was more like the spanking of a name calling toddler.
is the fact that they burn out in 3 years. Most people I know are willing to sacrifice a little picture quality (which they don't notice anyway) for an extended life of the product.
still hates yahoo mail! News at 11.
Yahoo Mail Beta isn't that bad. Sure, it's a little annoying (I liked the old yahoo mail). Sure, they are trying to draw users back to boost their advertising rates (that's what you get with a free webmail client, people!).
But the interface is more outlook like than gmail like (that will give them some fans, and some haters). Honestly, it is no worse than it was before, and it's not really much better. If you liked the old yahoo interface, you can function in this one, and it's no more intrusive that the last one was. If you didn't this one isn't going to win you over.
At least in the UK it is socially acceptable to criticise the government.
Of course, if criticize another person, or mention that Muslims comprise the majority of the world's terrorists, or siggest that Christianity or Islam are based in hatred of the other, you will be flayed alive and thrown naked into the Thames. Because in the UK, you only cricize the government. Everyone else is off limits, by law.
Yes. The bill actually says that as long as the President sends a peice of paper to Congress every 45 days saying you are a terrorist, he can monitor you as longs as he wants without a warrant. And moreover, he doesn't even have to have any prooof. He just has to say it.
`(e) United States Persons- Notwithstanding subsection (b), the President may not authorize electronic surveillance of a United States person under this section without an order under this title for a period of more than 90 days unless the President, acting through the Attorney General, submits a certification to each member of the congressional intelligence committees that--
`(1) the continued electronic surveillance of the United States person is vital to the national security of the United States;
`(2) describes the circumstances that have prevented the Attorney General from obtaining an order under this title for continued surveillance;
`(3) describes the reasons for believing the United States person is affiliated with or in communication with a terrorist organization or affiliate of a terrorist organization that is reasonably believed to be responsible for the terrorist attack; and
`(4) describes the foreign intelligence information derived from the electronic surveillance conducted under this section.
So, as long as the President (who is immune from prosecution for misconduct while President, except through impeachment) is willing to say that you are a terrorist and that he has reports saying that the NSA is getting foreign intelligence of some sort by spying on you, you can be monitored without a warrant, secret or otherwise...shades of G. Edgar Hoover...
What's the point of protecting us if we are enslaved to our government? There is no reason to protect people who aren't free. They have already given up the most valuable thing they had in their miserable lives.
Because there are a lot more "soft" gamers out there than hardcore ones, and they make a lot more money. As a developer, what would you prefer you market to be: 3% of the population or 30%?
Game developers are going to keep developing in the style the have developed in the past as long as they keep making money at it. This is true of any media company of any sort. They develop these socalled hardcore games because the games make them money.
As to your argument, developers don't really develop for the people who play games (at least the big ones don't). They develop for the people who spend money on the games. So who would you rather have as a customer, the part of the population that buys maybe 2 games a year? Or the part of the population that reliably buys 20 games a year?
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Just because I quit my job to play WoW, that doesn't mean a thing...Besides, I'm moving to China.
They play violent video games! Let's KILL them!
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The modern consumer is stupid. They sacrifice quality to attain an increasingly lower price point. No matter that, in the long run, the low price point cost them more money, they only care about the price at the moment.
do we need continued 10 fold increases in productivity? If we are a society that is going to require work from our citizens, then we need to provide work for our citizens to do. We only need increased productivity if we are, as a society, going to support at a reasonable level those persons who have been automated out of the work force and can't be retrained (and there are a lot of them). Business has a social obligation to support the societies that it parasitizes. Besides, if it doesn't support the society that it feeds off, soon it will have exhausted its food supply.
Verizon complaining about Comcast...In my experience, Verizon has the worst customer service record of any of them. At least, in Illnois. Now in Calfornia, SBC and Comcast are about equally bad.
Guitar Hero and Guitar Hero II
O'Reilly actually has a point burried beneath his typical inflamatory rhetoric It depends on the particular reality you want to invest in. For instance, O'Reilly is invested in a Milton Freidman world, where the rich prosper, the poor are lazy, and everyone who disagrees with him is wrong. He acknowledges no short comings in his own reality. He attacks anyone who points out the short comings in his version of reality. Sort of like /.ers, eh?
There is a lack of self-perception in all of these arguements. No one willingly admits that there are giant short comings in their own ideas, because this woudl be admitting that they have inadequately thought out their lives/personal philosophies/lifestyles. And in truth, most have, if for no other reason than they haven't been forced to think outside of their own narrow world and point of view.
Just to correct a misconception, they don't only support Windows on this title. In fact, the already support a Linux/Unix variant in OS X (no, I'm not a Mac fanatic). With the stace already in place, there's no real reason not to create a linux client. It shouldn't entail so much work as to make it unprofitable to port the Mac client to a straight Linux client. I believe there is a significant population of users who would buy and use the Linux client. And Blizzard, with only one game on the market and none in the non-vaporware pipe, cannot afford to leave any sort of significant population of users on the table.
30 Million people dead! News at 11! :p
Ah, but if the company has the duty to dislose/report, then the contractor is free of liability unless he is contractually obligated to handle/protect the data. That doesn't sound like the guy's situation. Sounds like he was just brought in to tell them how to tighten up their security. The company retains control over and responsibility for their data, thus the responsibility to dislose and the penalties for not disclosing.
his only choice is to quit working there. He is only a consultant, so he can make recommendations, but the company is free to ignore him. Odds are that he is likely to be bound by a non-disclosure agreement regarding the network and data situation at the company, as well.
I lived in LA for several years and didn't notice Latinos being harder workers. In fact, the janitorial staff at my office was almost all Latino and they never did their jobs. The office was often filthy, the simple tasks required of a janitor going undone. Furthermore, of the 30 some janitorial staff that were Latino, all had been there for at least 5 years, and yet only 1 of them had bothered to learn English. Furthermore, at least in LA, there was a massive backlash from illegal latinos against their children learning English. There were charter schools popping up all over the place that taught Spanish language cirriculum so these people who only wanted American money, but didn't want to become a part of America, could send their children to some place more fitting their designs. Not to mention the large number of Latinos who regard themselves as Mexican and Southern California as part of Mexico. I see no good in allowing these people who refuse to integrate and become Americans, rather than Mexicans living in the US, to continue to come unchecked and work as they please.
The blanket hate speech laws are applied extremely broadly and with predjudice. Criticize a Jews or Isreal, and you are beloved. Criticize a muslim or muslim theocracy, and you are fined and threatened with jail. At least in my experience.
I would consider moving to are Toronto, Canada, and Scotland (I lean towards somewhere in Islay). However, I am not inclined to move because Canada has terrible speech abridging laws and Scotland has the horrible UK "Kill you pets" quarantine laws, and I'm not leaving my dogs behind. So, I'll stay in the US. And support centrist candidates.
think constantly about how Mexicans are treated back in the US, and I honestly have to say I can't imagine that there is anywhere in the world that welcomes immigrants as well as the Dutch welcome high-tech people with valuable skills.
.25 cents/hour.
And what useful skills do Mexicans have? They certainly aren't knowledge workers. And most of them refuse to even learn English. The US has laborers, if the business establishment would just pay enough. The only reason Mexicans are prefered by business is that they work for
Not really. I was just using that as an example. I don't actually like Starcraft. I was kind of hoping for Diablo 3 though...
Obviously, when you have an incompetent like Tigole in charge, it takes 1600 employees to maintain WoW. Otherwise, Starcraft: Ghost would be out by now.
Not to mention, it's far easier to consildate network security and such to s data center than to hundreds of amorphous wireless devices spread over, say, a city scape.
Come on people...the defendant called the plaintiff a crook, a con artist, and a fraud. If youare going to complain about someone's service, you can give specific complaints. Give evidence to back it up. But you can't make unsubstantiated allegations, which the defendant did.
"Stunning slap against free speech?" It was more like the spanking of a name calling toddler.
is the fact that they burn out in 3 years. Most people I know are willing to sacrifice a little picture quality (which they don't notice anyway) for an extended life of the product.
still hates yahoo mail! News at 11. Yahoo Mail Beta isn't that bad. Sure, it's a little annoying (I liked the old yahoo mail). Sure, they are trying to draw users back to boost their advertising rates (that's what you get with a free webmail client, people!). But the interface is more outlook like than gmail like (that will give them some fans, and some haters). Honestly, it is no worse than it was before, and it's not really much better. If you liked the old yahoo interface, you can function in this one, and it's no more intrusive that the last one was. If you didn't this one isn't going to win you over.
At least in the UK it is socially acceptable to criticise the government.
Of course, if criticize another person, or mention that Muslims comprise the majority of the world's terrorists, or siggest that Christianity or Islam are based in hatred of the other, you will be flayed alive and thrown naked into the Thames. Because in the UK, you only cricize the government. Everyone else is off limits, by law.
Go read the BILL!
Yes. The bill actually says that as long as the President sends a peice of paper to Congress every 45 days saying you are a terrorist, he can monitor you as longs as he wants without a warrant. And moreover, he doesn't even have to have any prooof. He just has to say it.
`(e) United States Persons- Notwithstanding subsection (b), the President may not authorize electronic surveillance of a United States person under this section without an order under this title for a period of more than 90 days unless the President, acting through the Attorney General, submits a certification to each member of the congressional intelligence committees that-- `(1) the continued electronic surveillance of the United States person is vital to the national security of the United States; `(2) describes the circumstances that have prevented the Attorney General from obtaining an order under this title for continued surveillance; `(3) describes the reasons for believing the United States person is affiliated with or in communication with a terrorist organization or affiliate of a terrorist organization that is reasonably believed to be responsible for the terrorist attack; and `(4) describes the foreign intelligence information derived from the electronic surveillance conducted under this section. So, as long as the President (who is immune from prosecution for misconduct while President, except through impeachment) is willing to say that you are a terrorist and that he has reports saying that the NSA is getting foreign intelligence of some sort by spying on you, you can be monitored without a warrant, secret or otherwise...shades of G. Edgar Hoover...
What's the point of protecting us if we are enslaved to our government? There is no reason to protect people who aren't free. They have already given up the most valuable thing they had in their miserable lives.
Because there are a lot more "soft" gamers out there than hardcore ones, and they make a lot more money. As a developer, what would you prefer you market to be: 3% of the population or 30%?
Game developers are going to keep developing in the style the have developed in the past as long as they keep making money at it. This is true of any media company of any sort. They develop these socalled hardcore games because the games make them money.
As to your argument, developers don't really develop for the people who play games (at least the big ones don't). They develop for the people who spend money on the games. So who would you rather have as a customer, the part of the population that buys maybe 2 games a year? Or the part of the population that reliably buys 20 games a year?