Pretty soon the RFID implants will become mandatory, or nearly so. If we put up with fingerprinting for drivers licenses, retinal scans to get kids from school, there's only RFID left. I remember an article about how "liberating" it was to have an RFID chip, and how much easier it'll make our life. I figure I'll hold out as long as I can.
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Let's assume that the limited arsenal new players get is going to restricted to weapons that were in the game originally (so nothing from the expansion pack). Are the new players going to be at an inherent disadvantage?
I might have to dust this off when it goes to free play. I had fun, but the lag was a bit much to make a FPS tollerable.
"For better or worse, what I do, Hideo Kojima, myself, is run the museum and also create the art that's displayed in the museum."
So he creates the art and the museum... But the whole isn't enough to count as art? I disagree somewhat on the point that art is not meant to connect with a wide variety of people. There are certainly some artists that don't care, but for the most part I believe artists like to have their works appreciated by the widest base possible. Whether that outlet be movies, music, paintings, or (depending on personal beliefs) video games.
The important thing to remember is that the claim came from a group who gets paid to help people file patents. So someone who stands to make some cash if people start throwing their patent proofreading and prior arts searches to them said "Hey, 98% of patents have problems! Maybe you should find another group to look over your stuff!"
And, most sadly, in fear of losing what power they held onto, the Democrats mostly went along for the ride, voting up Republican plans to strip the country of its social safety nets, to run an endless, world-wide war against terrorism, and invade energy-rich countries on the pretext that they masterminded the 9/11 attack.
I'd say Republicans just swapped from the unwinable "War on Drugs" that we had in the 90s to the unwinable war on terror. As far as I can see back in history, at least for the last 50 years or so, our political leaders have kept us on a leash through fear. We had a threat of nuclear war at any time. Kennedy entered us into Vietnam in order to stop some "domino effect" of comunism. This wasn't long after Truman sent us into Korea under much the same guise. We had a threat of swine flu that turned out to be nothing, and a fuel crisis that made life rough. We were all told that drugs and militia's would be the cause of tons of violence in the 90s, and had some marginaly legal actions against US citizens during that time. Now we get terrorism, and some avian bird flu to top off the SARS from a couple of years ago. Plenty to keep us scared.
The most depressing part is that neither party is really doing anything about it. Democrats (well, Hillary Clinton and Howard Dean at least) are chomping at the bit to do something more forceful against Iran. Do they just want a war to call their very own?
Oh, I guess that explains why so large a proportion of conservatives vote democrat then?
Yes, actually it does. Or at least it did for the longest time. Some of the most conservative portions of the United States (the South) have been Democrat for a long, long time. That's started to shift recently, but there are still a lot of conservatives that vote Democrat.
I think I know what he's talking about. Possibly. Final Fantasy X killed me with cinematics. It'd be a long cinematic, then I'd get to walk through maybe three game screens. That would be followed by another huge cinematic. And the three screens I got to walk through were pre-ordained. So it wasn't like I got to do some stuff and explore and THEN hit a cutscene to further the story along. I got bored of that quickly... Or at least before I hit the point that was supposed to start the more open-ended game play (according to what I've heard).
"The most obvious reason were the mixed earnings results from Yahoo," Standard & Poor's analyst Scott Kessler said of Tuesday's disappointing quarterly earnings report from Yahoo Inc
It's not like Google was the only stock to take a dive, the market was hurting yesterday. The Tokyo stocks have been hurting for the past few days (or at least hurting badly). Sure, there could be fear about the Justice department scrutiny. It could also just be that everythings hurting right now. Correlation does not necessarily mean causation (to butcher a phrase).
Call it a force of habit... Mentioning the left immediately equates to Democrats, based on the conversations I have with people. In same sense, the people I tend to hear the most about immediately equate being conservative (in any sense) with being a Republican. I will apologize for jumping to conclusions.
I did come off a particulary charged conversation with one of those types when I ran across your post. My point is that both sides are doing a poor job of actually standing up for what is right. One only has to look as far as the USA PATRIOT act vote to see. I don't see either side as blameless, and I hope that some politicians can stop politicing long enough to actually get us as a nation back on the right track. I'm one of those (perhaps rare) conservatives that does not give Bush a free ride. He's done a lot wrong. But I also think Clinton fell short in many ways.
Al Franken was quick to point out to people that blamed Clinton for cutting the military budget that "Clinton's military" was able to run roughshod over the Iraqi armed forces (apologize, I don't remember which book specifically that was in). Everybody ignoring Rwanda doesn't make it right for everybody to ignore Darfur, but it does show a lack of concern for what is right coming from both sides.
I *am* deeply set in my beliefs, but not deeply partisan. I think both political parties are doing a decent job screwing up. I just don't like for either side to think theirs is above reproach.
Immoral: Ignoring the genocide in Rwanda
Short-sighted: Cutting millitary, education and intelligence spending
Uncaring: Got me there, I can't think of something right off the top of my head
Unethical: Wire-tapping
Deeply Partisan: Probably no need to point out that both sides are guilty of this.
I'm sorry, but the left/liberals/Democrats/progressives don't get a free pass at being the moral and upstanding side of American politics either. I think one doesn't have to look too hard to see examples of ignoring what is right (not right like Republican but right like what makes the most moral and ethical sense) on both sides of the aisle. Don't get me wrong, I don't think Bush has done a good job at all. But I don't think the Democrats are going to save us. They both seem to be after the same end result, just slightly different ways to get there.
"Government agencies" can take down websites without even determining if a crime has taken place? Land of the free, hmm? I can see where this is going...
I think the forum was hosted in Bulgaria. I didn't realize they were a land of the free, too...
I live in an area that's got plenty of technical writers looking for work. They have to go the old-fashioned route, look for a job like the rest of us.
if you're innocent, you shouldn't have to worry (true, but only if the government isn't violating the rights of the innocent, and leads to the possibility of forfeiting other rights).
The sad thing is that even the innocent have to fear these days. I'm sure if you look hard enough you can find the story about the toddler on the no fly list and other examples of the innocent being at the very least inconvenienced. At some point we have to draw the line and say enough is enough. Unfortunately I think that line should've been drawn about 10 years ago...
It's a hand-me-down from someone who didn't have good eating habits... Either that or he felt obligated to feed his keyboard. I'm no saint, either. I bet we could've beat the keyboards in the study. I'm hoping it works out like the old Simpsons episode, where Mr. Burns can't get sick because all the diseases are trying to get at him at the same time.
What the fuck are you talking about? Do the math: 6 xbox 360s an hour * 24 hours a day * 31 days a month = 4464 xbox 360s a month
That's why my second sentance (yeah, I know, it's a long way to go for some) was "I guess the reality is that sort of scheme doesn't dent the overall shipments much."
Thanks for helping me ephasize the rest of my post.
If they minimize their shipments by avoiding doing something crazy like...oh...let's say giving away a PS3 every 10 minutes for a month. I guess the reality is that sort of scheme doesn't dent the overall shipments much. I think it will be tough for them to overcome the high start-up cost, and if the game offerings just aren't there at release it will be even less compelling to be an early adopter.
As someone who doesn't work in a buisness environment, I'm curious to what goes on meetings and what exaclty causes so much stress in them. Anyone care to bring me up to speed?
Sure. Of course I can only speak for meetings where I work, but I'll give it a shot. A meeting is an hour or so out of your day that could typically be spent get work done. It seems like meetings are most likely to occur just when I get on a roll toward solving a problem. We have some meetings that require us to travel to other locations, so the entire one hour meeting time can stretch into the two to two and half hour range. Perhaps the worst part about a lot of meetings is that there is no material to cover (just getting the entire staff together for some "face time"), or so little information it would've been just as productive to shoot an email out to pass along the info and/or solicit feedback.
And that's not even touching on meetings where you find out someone else hasn't gotten a thing done all year, and you're the lucky person that gets to assist them while maintaining your current work load.
Ok, I've got some questions about the game in general. I didn't participate in beta, but I'm always looking for some MMORPG to satisfy my "jones." I've looked at some of the comments, so I'm not going to ask if it's solo-friendly...
Is there a level grind? It looks like there is, but you have to complete the dungeons to earn the xp to progress toward a level.
Does the game lend itself to the holy trinity-style of group that EQ led to, or is it pretty forgiving of class makeup? I don't want to select a class to get pounced on by the anti-necro "u guyz sux n grpz" crowd that seems to spring up in MMORPGS. Similarly, I'm not wild about having to hang around in town forever as we bid on the next cleric to log in. In PnP D&D clerics were more than just healers, and a group could get by (maybe not perfectly) without having a tank, healer and damage dealer (especially because DMs could get mean and totally ignore the agro rules that are common in MMORPGS).
If we don't technically produce enough units to meet our sales goals, we can't possibly hit our targets. My cynical side can't see an easy to turn this into another way to massage a manufactured shortage to continue to pump demand, but I suppose it's possible. Part of me does wonder if there are a lot of units tied up in bundled packages that aren't selling, though.
Instead of a console that doesn't technically exist, they're shipping a keyboard that has no possible value whatsoever. I know that their VC's must be chomping at the bit to get something out of 'em, but c'mon.
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Pretty soon the RFID implants will become mandatory, or nearly so. If we put up with fingerprinting for drivers licenses, retinal scans to get kids from school, there's only RFID left. I remember an article about how "liberating" it was to have an RFID chip, and how much easier it'll make our life. I figure I'll hold out as long as I can.
Let's assume that the limited arsenal new players get is going to restricted to weapons that were in the game originally (so nothing from the expansion pack). Are the new players going to be at an inherent disadvantage?
I might have to dust this off when it goes to free play. I had fun, but the lag was a bit much to make a FPS tollerable.
"For better or worse, what I do, Hideo Kojima, myself, is run the museum and also create the art that's displayed in the museum."
So he creates the art and the museum... But the whole isn't enough to count as art? I disagree somewhat on the point that art is not meant to connect with a wide variety of people. There are certainly some artists that don't care, but for the most part I believe artists like to have their works appreciated by the widest base possible. Whether that outlet be movies, music, paintings, or (depending on personal beliefs) video games.
How are they arriving at this conclusion?
The important thing to remember is that the claim came from a group who gets paid to help people file patents. So someone who stands to make some cash if people start throwing their patent proofreading and prior arts searches to them said "Hey, 98% of patents have problems! Maybe you should find another group to look over your stuff!"
And, most sadly, in fear of losing what power they held onto, the Democrats mostly went along for the ride, voting up Republican plans to strip the country of its social safety nets, to run an endless, world-wide war against terrorism, and invade energy-rich countries on the pretext that they masterminded the 9/11 attack.
I'd say Republicans just swapped from the unwinable "War on Drugs" that we had in the 90s to the unwinable war on terror. As far as I can see back in history, at least for the last 50 years or so, our political leaders have kept us on a leash through fear. We had a threat of nuclear war at any time. Kennedy entered us into Vietnam in order to stop some "domino effect" of comunism. This wasn't long after Truman sent us into Korea under much the same guise. We had a threat of swine flu that turned out to be nothing, and a fuel crisis that made life rough. We were all told that drugs and militia's would be the cause of tons of violence in the 90s, and had some marginaly legal actions against US citizens during that time. Now we get terrorism, and some avian bird flu to top off the SARS from a couple of years ago. Plenty to keep us scared.
The most depressing part is that neither party is really doing anything about it. Democrats (well, Hillary Clinton and Howard Dean at least) are chomping at the bit to do something more forceful against Iran. Do they just want a war to call their very own?
Oh, I guess that explains why so large a proportion of conservatives vote democrat then?
Yes, actually it does. Or at least it did for the longest time. Some of the most conservative portions of the United States (the South) have been Democrat for a long, long time. That's started to shift recently, but there are still a lot of conservatives that vote Democrat.
I think I know what he's talking about. Possibly. Final Fantasy X killed me with cinematics. It'd be a long cinematic, then I'd get to walk through maybe three game screens. That would be followed by another huge cinematic. And the three screens I got to walk through were pre-ordained. So it wasn't like I got to do some stuff and explore and THEN hit a cutscene to further the story along. I got bored of that quickly... Or at least before I hit the point that was supposed to start the more open-ended game play (according to what I've heard).
Why not look at this part of the article:
"The most obvious reason were the mixed earnings results from Yahoo," Standard & Poor's analyst Scott Kessler said of Tuesday's disappointing quarterly earnings report from Yahoo Inc
It's not like Google was the only stock to take a dive, the market was hurting yesterday. The Tokyo stocks have been hurting for the past few days (or at least hurting badly). Sure, there could be fear about the Justice department scrutiny. It could also just be that everythings hurting right now. Correlation does not necessarily mean causation (to butcher a phrase).
Call it a force of habit... Mentioning the left immediately equates to Democrats, based on the conversations I have with people. In same sense, the people I tend to hear the most about immediately equate being conservative (in any sense) with being a Republican. I will apologize for jumping to conclusions.
I did come off a particulary charged conversation with one of those types when I ran across your post. My point is that both sides are doing a poor job of actually standing up for what is right. One only has to look as far as the USA PATRIOT act vote to see. I don't see either side as blameless, and I hope that some politicians can stop politicing long enough to actually get us as a nation back on the right track. I'm one of those (perhaps rare) conservatives that does not give Bush a free ride. He's done a lot wrong. But I also think Clinton fell short in many ways.
Al Franken was quick to point out to people that blamed Clinton for cutting the military budget that "Clinton's military" was able to run roughshod over the Iraqi armed forces (apologize, I don't remember which book specifically that was in). Everybody ignoring Rwanda doesn't make it right for everybody to ignore Darfur, but it does show a lack of concern for what is right coming from both sides.
I *am* deeply set in my beliefs, but not deeply partisan. I think both political parties are doing a decent job screwing up. I just don't like for either side to think theirs is above reproach.
Let's look at Democrats:
Immoral: Ignoring the genocide in Rwanda
Short-sighted: Cutting millitary, education and intelligence spending
Uncaring: Got me there, I can't think of something right off the top of my head
Unethical: Wire-tapping
Deeply Partisan: Probably no need to point out that both sides are guilty of this.
I'm sorry, but the left/liberals/Democrats/progressives don't get a free pass at being the moral and upstanding side of American politics either. I think one doesn't have to look too hard to see examples of ignoring what is right (not right like Republican but right like what makes the most moral and ethical sense) on both sides of the aisle. Don't get me wrong, I don't think Bush has done a good job at all. But I don't think the Democrats are going to save us. They both seem to be after the same end result, just slightly different ways to get there.
"Government agencies" can take down websites without even determining if a crime has taken place? Land of the free, hmm? I can see where this is going...
I think the forum was hosted in Bulgaria. I didn't realize they were a land of the free, too...
I live in an area that's got plenty of technical writers looking for work. They have to go the old-fashioned route, look for a job like the rest of us.
if you're innocent, you shouldn't have to worry (true, but only if the government isn't violating the rights of the innocent, and leads to the possibility of forfeiting other rights).
The sad thing is that even the innocent have to fear these days. I'm sure if you look hard enough you can find the story about the toddler on the no fly list and other examples of the innocent being at the very least inconvenienced. At some point we have to draw the line and say enough is enough. Unfortunately I think that line should've been drawn about 10 years ago...
It's a hand-me-down from someone who didn't have good eating habits... Either that or he felt obligated to feed his keyboard. I'm no saint, either. I bet we could've beat the keyboards in the study. I'm hoping it works out like the old Simpsons episode, where Mr. Burns can't get sick because all the diseases are trying to get at him at the same time.
What the fuck are you talking about? Do the math: 6 xbox 360s an hour * 24 hours a day * 31 days a month = 4464 xbox 360s a month
That's why my second sentance (yeah, I know, it's a long way to go for some) was "I guess the reality is that sort of scheme doesn't dent the overall shipments much."
Thanks for helping me ephasize the rest of my post.
If they minimize their shipments by avoiding doing something crazy like...oh...let's say giving away a PS3 every 10 minutes for a month. I guess the reality is that sort of scheme doesn't dent the overall shipments much. I think it will be tough for them to overcome the high start-up cost, and if the game offerings just aren't there at release it will be even less compelling to be an early adopter.
As someone who doesn't work in a buisness environment, I'm curious to what goes on meetings and what exaclty causes so much stress in them. Anyone care to bring me up to speed?
Sure. Of course I can only speak for meetings where I work, but I'll give it a shot. A meeting is an hour or so out of your day that could typically be spent get work done. It seems like meetings are most likely to occur just when I get on a roll toward solving a problem. We have some meetings that require us to travel to other locations, so the entire one hour meeting time can stretch into the two to two and half hour range. Perhaps the worst part about a lot of meetings is that there is no material to cover (just getting the entire staff together for some "face time"), or so little information it would've been just as productive to shoot an email out to pass along the info and/or solicit feedback.
And that's not even touching on meetings where you find out someone else hasn't gotten a thing done all year, and you're the lucky person that gets to assist them while maintaining your current work load.
Now I just wish I hadn't moved away from all the PnP RPGers I used to know...
Ok, I've got some questions about the game in general. I didn't participate in beta, but I'm always looking for some MMORPG to satisfy my "jones." I've looked at some of the comments, so I'm not going to ask if it's solo-friendly...
Is there a level grind? It looks like there is, but you have to complete the dungeons to earn the xp to progress toward a level.
Does the game lend itself to the holy trinity-style of group that EQ led to, or is it pretty forgiving of class makeup? I don't want to select a class to get pounced on by the anti-necro "u guyz sux n grpz" crowd that seems to spring up in MMORPGS. Similarly, I'm not wild about having to hang around in town forever as we bid on the next cleric to log in. In PnP D&D clerics were more than just healers, and a group could get by (maybe not perfectly) without having a tank, healer and damage dealer (especially because DMs could get mean and totally ignore the agro rules that are common in MMORPGS).
It's not a requirement to bear arms (except in Texas), just a right.
If we don't technically produce enough units to meet our sales goals, we can't possibly hit our targets. My cynical side can't see an easy to turn this into another way to massage a manufactured shortage to continue to pump demand, but I suppose it's possible. Part of me does wonder if there are a lot of units tied up in bundled packages that aren't selling, though.
I've played Planetside. I know exactly what the lag is like!
Instead of a console that doesn't technically exist, they're shipping a keyboard that has no possible value whatsoever. I know that their VC's must be chomping at the bit to get something out of 'em, but c'mon.
I thought we were fighting against the horrible millitias in the 90s? Damn, I need to keep up too :(
Maybe I'm getting too stodgey, but someone should've consulted a Latin dictionary first.