There seems to be 2 kinds of working from home:
1) I'm taking a sickie really and I don't feel like working and look the business has provided me with a good excuse.
2) Legitimate working from home.
and
3) I know I'm going to be working for 16 hours today and I'm sure as hell not sitting in an office by myself
4) I have to work on a Saturday and I'm sure as hell not sitting in an office by myself
Generally these two knock off the slacking off factor.
Yup, according to GamePolitics, these would be the same parents that physcially and sexually abused the child.
"Other witnessed testified that Delbert Posey crushed Cody's fingers with a pair of pliers and held a hay hook to his groin. Cody told the court that on the night before the murders his father tried to make him have sex with his stepmother and burned him with a heated metal rod when he refused."
So of course it's GTA that taught the kid about violence...
It probably shouldn't influence a gamer's decision to purchase the PS3, but it's a lot more interesting to me than the tilt functionality of the new controller, or Blu-ray for that matter.
True and true. I suppose it might influence a gamer's decision to pick up a PS3 though, depending on the reason that they were holding off buying it. The only reason I can think of that this would negate is the "Sony are evil" concept that was brought about by rootkit issues. Reasons such as "no good games", "too damn expensive", "it's just prettier graphics", "I don't have HD" and possibly others I can't even think of still apply. There's no reason the 360 or Wii couldn't do this (although I'll readily admit that the Wii probably won't be able to process as much... but still).
but I don't think there's any way to spin this as a negative
Sony's delay in PAL regions slows research into the cure for Alzheimer's?
Okay... maybe there isn't a way to spin this as a negative....
I guess if you consider a blank stare, shuffling around in my seat, and looking around the room for something interesting "attentiveness."
In fact I managed to sleep through quite a few lectures. Obviously it depends on the class size and how the room is, but it's still fairly easy to do.
People like me might be rare, they might not.
Agreed. Really, there's no real point forcing everyone to conform to the same standard. I would imagine that the student would be in the best position to know how they best learn. And as mentioned elsewhere, some people are going to skip lectures and pass and others will skip lectures and fail. Tis the way of all things. While I can apreciate that the way a lecturer is ranked is based on the performance of his or her students, have a little faith.
Or failing that, do some sort of quirky thing in every lecture that can't really be really understood in a podcast. Possibly dress up as your subject material. That'd probably draw a crowd...
Really though, you've either got a situation where the student gains nothing from being there (in which case, why do you care if they are... attending is the same as the podcast) or they gain something from the being there (in which case, what are you worried about, it won't transmit to the podcast). F'instance if Q&A is important then listening to the podcast, the student will then realise that they probably should attend, as there are questions that they want to ask. Or they won't.
But let's face facts, by providing the podcast, you've helped those students who probably have attended and the students who probably wouldn't have attended regardless of if a podcast was available might have got some assistance anyway.
When asked for rebuttal, the owner of 404 stated "that just, like, your opinion, man."
401 refused to comment, although cries could be heard of "Who are you? I don't know you!"
307 pointed to someone else...
Eh, I've probably got this wrong... they were probably just impersonating the numbers.
I don't understand this name. I swear there stealing this idea from the director of "Snakes on a Plane".
If they were doing that wouldn't it be called the "Nintendo Console"?
They're par for the course and an acceptable trade-off.
Looking at Edge 142, (thier preview section is called 'Hype'), most of thier previews run through what's in the game and what the developers will need to do to the game before release to make it decent. A few choice quotes:
"... appears to do little of consequence and little to offend, but will that be to little to justify its price?"
"Having only played through the initial levels in a tightly restricted early beta test, it would be dangerous to jump to conclusions..."
My point therefore is go find a mag that doesn't gush over previews, they exist. I've found that multiformat mags are a little less gushy than single format mags, but hey.
An even better documentry is Whatever happened to Baz?. I think it's important to see both points of view of any issue and this truly shows how Australia really isn't the easiest place for the toads to live. It's an emotionally charged account of one toads concern for his friend. A must watch really...
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All that aside, it's very rude for you to criticize something that people are writing and giving away freely on their own time and their own dime. Lots of people have used it successfully. If it doesn't work for you, track down the bugs and either report them or patch them. Vague, general complaints about the developers' priorities are completely out of line.
But it's not a bug, it's a feature request. I can hardly see a bugrep looking like:
Bug: MythTV is a pain in the ass to set up When installing MythTV on FC4 version blah, running on my machine with specs of foo, I found that the setup sucked. I traced this to line 620 of such and such, where the code rather strangely skips over the call to function display_user_friendly_setup. The function itself seems to have accidently had all of it's code removed... oh no wait... it was never there was it?
About the only thing I don't like about the new series is the newly designed TARDIS. It's too unfamiliar.
Unfamiliar? It's alien... of course it's going to be unfamiliar. Of course I know what you're saying. But the TARDIS has been redesigned before. I think to some degree the interior has taken the good bits from the movie version and merged them with the design that most of us know (Tom Baker years). Nice site here.
Can't wait for the Australian release - mid summer - with all the people who don't have air-conditioned homes trying to run this think in 35+ degress celcius and see what happens...
Looking into my Liquid Crystal ball, I've seen a weather report from the future... here's an excerpt
"...from the northwest. And the CFA has issued a total XBox360 ban for tommorow, so it's tommorow's a great day to be playing PS2 or GC..."
Let's just criticize it for the REAL reason we don't like it:
"It's not a Sony, and we're all Playstation fanboys."
Oh sure, pretend us Nintendo fanboys don't exist why dontcha?
(I even still fancy a Colecovision - I think it has the perfect LadyBug conversion - say a prayer for me).
What's wrong with ladybug on the Coleco? I'd probably say that MouseTrap is a better game for the Coleco though. The first time I read your post I thought you were claiming the 2600 was superior to the Coleco, but my misunderstanding.
But look, I think what you desire is gameplay (and posibly of the pick up and play variety). And thus I suggest you buy a DS. Get Warioware (Touched! or the original) Tatio Revolution when it comes out, Retro Atari Classics, Dig Dug, Puyo Pop and so on.
Otherwise -... N64 10 games perfect condition...
Wait, wait. If the next-gen games suck your going to sell your N64? erm... Or are you going to go back and purchase all the games you loved back then (okay 1 gen ago..). Or are you going to start a retro store?
Coming soon... GTA: Brisvegas. Look, I don't really feel that local content is what I'm looking for in a game (although it'd be nice if Animal Crossing had an option for southern hemisphere so it is summer when it really is summer).
The best Australian game I've played of late was Destroy All Humans. It included nothing that was really Australian (you could say the humour was Australian though). Maybe local content is more important for sports titles, but for everything else, is it really that important?
Neither the rain nor the wind nor consumer opinion will stop Nintendo(TM) from trying to sell us ANOTHER copy of an already existing product it seems...
1. Remember that the Micro is evolution, the DS is revolution.
2. If by us, you mean 'slashdotters', it's not targetted at us. It's targetted at people who don't know what slashdot is.
3. 'Consumer opinion'.... er... the smaller Ipods sell pretty well against the original I'd guess, so why wouldn't the same be true of GBA?
After all, music is part of the computer world now, and in the computer industry prices only go down.:-)
Nah. Take CPUs... they stay the same price, but just get faster. In the future 240 bpm songs will be considered obsolete.
Oh, you missed the other bit with "XBox 360: Gamers Speak". It's subtitled "Take some of the world's top gamers. Add Xbox 360. See the results. Every word is thier own. No bribes. No arm-twisting. Honest. Pick one..." Below this are 10 trees. While I haven't clicked on all of them, the four I've randomly picked take me to a different website all with the word xbox in it's name.... hmmm...
Now, to my mind it seems like when I click on one of the trees I should be taken to a place where someone (I don't really care who) is discussing what it was like to play the 360. Not a news site. And it'd be shocking if i was taken to www.nintendofanboy.co.uk only to find that a nintendo fanboy had been converted by experiencing the magical land of Xbox360.
Also the true/false questions part has the lovely phrase "How much have you heard about Xbox 360? And how much of is it is true?". I'm not sure Microsoft really should ask us to question if they are lying to us...
All in all I'm a little confused about what Microsoft are trying to do here. Is the Xbox 360 powered by dual rabbits? If so how often will I need to feed them? Or will a magic tree be growing inside the console. Will I need to shut down said console to let the rabbits take a break to eat? Are the controllers made of carrots? When will I get to eat mystical mind altering fruit? Will it be released with the console or will I have to buy it later... So many questions are raised by this website, so little answers... Perhaps the answers will come later! Only time will tell.
Sorry, think the mystical fruit hit me a bit hard, but I'm coming down now.... oh.. I'm unimpressed....
Oh well at least next time an Xbox fan tells me Nintendo is too kiddy... I'll point them to this website.
If you want knowlegable employees who actually give a damn try shopping at a smaller, local game shop... though honestly I'll admit that they're very, very rare.
My small local game shop was bought out by Blockbuster (you insensitive clod). Thankfully the staff (who are mostly old jaded gamers) haven't left, so the advice they give is generally fairly good (when you buy an expansion pack they ask you if you have the original game) and will give you realistic release dates and so on.
I've never been mocked for buying a Gamecube game or had any bad advice (unlike EB). I think smaller is not better, it about finding those shops that have employees who know thier stuff and are willing to do the best for thier customer.
There have been a number of other projects to drill deep into the Earth's crust, though none has succeeded in reaching the mantle, as this Japanese team is trying to do.
Ah... But that's because none of them had Mr Driller on thier side.
and start using fingerprint scans
My work has been using fingerprints for about a month now. I got this message this morning:
"Your fingerprint will expire in 7 day(s).
Do you wish to change it now?"
Hmmm.... maybe I should start swapping fingers with my coworkers.
Slashdot Mirror
Hmmm... this is the new Slashdot Experience isn't it? Just so long as I don't have 10 year olds guessing my sexuality, I'll be happy.
So of course it's GTA that taught the kid about violence...
Sony's delay in PAL regions slows research into the cure for Alzheimer's? Okay... maybe there isn't a way to spin this as a negative....
Agreed. Really, there's no real point forcing everyone to conform to the same standard. I would imagine that the student would be in the best position to know how they best learn. And as mentioned elsewhere, some people are going to skip lectures and pass and others will skip lectures and fail. Tis the way of all things. While I can apreciate that the way a lecturer is ranked is based on the performance of his or her students, have a little faith.
Or failing that, do some sort of quirky thing in every lecture that can't really be really understood in a podcast. Possibly dress up as your subject material. That'd probably draw a crowd...
Really though, you've either got a situation where the student gains nothing from being there (in which case, why do you care if they are... attending is the same as the podcast) or they gain something from the being there (in which case, what are you worried about, it won't transmit to the podcast). F'instance if Q&A is important then listening to the podcast, the student will then realise that they probably should attend, as there are questions that they want to ask. Or they won't.
But let's face facts, by providing the podcast, you've helped those students who probably have attended and the students who probably wouldn't have attended regardless of if a podcast was available might have got some assistance anyway.
When asked for rebuttal, the owner of 404 stated "that just, like, your opinion, man."
401 refused to comment, although cries could be heard of "Who are you? I don't know you!"
307 pointed to someone else...
Eh, I've probably got this wrong... they were probably just impersonating the numbers.
I don't understand this name. I swear there stealing this idea from the director of "Snakes on a Plane".
If they were doing that wouldn't it be called the "Nintendo Console"?
They're par for the course and an acceptable trade-off.
Looking at Edge 142, (thier preview section is called 'Hype'), most of thier previews run through what's in the game and what the developers will need to do to the game before release to make it decent. A few choice quotes:
"... appears to do little of consequence and little to offend, but will that be to little to justify its price?"
"Having only played through the initial levels in a tightly restricted early beta test, it would be dangerous to jump to conclusions..."
My point therefore is go find a mag that doesn't gush over previews, they exist. I've found that multiformat mags are a little less gushy than single format mags, but hey.
An even better documentry is Whatever happened to Baz?. I think it's important to see both points of view of any issue and this truly shows how Australia really isn't the easiest place for the toads to live. It's an emotionally charged account of one toads concern for his friend. A must watch really...
But it's not a bug, it's a feature request. I can hardly see a bugrep looking like:getting much love
The keynote is available at the Sametime Forum.
The Sametime part kicks in at page 31ish.
Ed Brill also has some stuff up (including the sametime song).
I actually think it could be feasible to harness all that wasted heat from electronic equipment to cook food
Nah... it makes it taste funny...
About the only thing I don't like about the new series is the newly designed TARDIS. It's too unfamiliar.
Unfamiliar? It's alien... of course it's going to be unfamiliar. Of course I know what you're saying. But the TARDIS has been redesigned before. I think to some degree the interior has taken the good bits from the movie version and merged them with the design that most of us know (Tom Baker years). Nice site here.
Can't wait for the Australian release - mid summer - with all the people who don't have air-conditioned homes trying to run this think in 35+ degress celcius and see what happens...
Looking into my Liquid Crystal ball, I've seen a weather report from the future... here's an excerpt
"...from the northwest. And the CFA has issued a total XBox360 ban for tommorow, so it's tommorow's a great day to be playing PS2 or GC..."
Let's just criticize it for the REAL reason we don't like it:
"It's not a Sony, and we're all Playstation fanboys."
Oh sure, pretend us Nintendo fanboys don't exist why dontcha?
(I even still fancy a Colecovision - I think it has the perfect LadyBug conversion - say a prayer for me).
... N64 10 games perfect condition...
What's wrong with ladybug on the Coleco? I'd probably say that MouseTrap is a better game for the Coleco though. The first time I read your post I thought you were claiming the 2600 was superior to the Coleco, but my misunderstanding.
But look, I think what you desire is gameplay (and posibly of the pick up and play variety). And thus I suggest you buy a DS. Get Warioware (Touched! or the original) Tatio Revolution when it comes out, Retro Atari Classics, Dig Dug, Puyo Pop and so on.
Otherwise -
Wait, wait. If the next-gen games suck your going to sell your N64? erm... Or are you going to go back and purchase all the games you loved back then (okay 1 gen ago..). Or are you going to start a retro store?
It's like saying that Duke Nukem Forever won't come out on the GameCube
What?? Duke Nukem Forever isn't coming out ont the gamecube.... damn... I had money saved up for that one.
as an Australian, we don't get local content
Coming soon... GTA: Brisvegas. Look, I don't really feel that local content is what I'm looking for in a game (although it'd be nice if Animal Crossing had an option for southern hemisphere so it is summer when it really is summer).
The best Australian game I've played of late was Destroy All Humans. It included nothing that was really Australian (you could say the humour was Australian though). Maybe local content is more important for sports titles, but for everything else, is it really that important?
Neither the rain nor the wind nor consumer opinion will stop Nintendo(TM) from trying to sell us ANOTHER copy of an already existing product it seems...
1. Remember that the Micro is evolution, the DS is revolution.
2. If by us, you mean 'slashdotters', it's not targetted at us. It's targetted at people who don't know what slashdot is.
3. 'Consumer opinion'.... er... the smaller Ipods sell pretty well against the original I'd guess, so why wouldn't the same be true of GBA?
After all, music is part of the computer world now, and in the computer industry prices only go down. :-)
Nah. Take CPUs... they stay the same price, but just get faster. In the future 240 bpm songs will be considered obsolete.
Oh, you missed the other bit with "XBox 360: Gamers Speak". It's subtitled "Take some of the world's top gamers. Add Xbox 360. See the results. Every word is thier own. No bribes. No arm-twisting. Honest. Pick one..." Below this are 10 trees. While I haven't clicked on all of them, the four I've randomly picked take me to a different website all with the word xbox in it's name.... hmmm...
Now, to my mind it seems like when I click on one of the trees I should be taken to a place where someone (I don't really care who) is discussing what it was like to play the 360. Not a news site. And it'd be shocking if i was taken to www.nintendofanboy.co.uk only to find that a nintendo fanboy had been converted by experiencing the magical land of Xbox360.
Also the true/false questions part has the lovely phrase "How much have you heard about Xbox 360? And how much of is it is true?". I'm not sure Microsoft really should ask us to question if they are lying to us...
All in all I'm a little confused about what Microsoft are trying to do here. Is the Xbox 360 powered by dual rabbits? If so how often will I need to feed them? Or will a magic tree be growing inside the console. Will I need to shut down said console to let the rabbits take a break to eat? Are the controllers made of carrots? When will I get to eat mystical mind altering fruit? Will it be released with the console or will I have to buy it later... So many questions are raised by this website, so little answers... Perhaps the answers will come later! Only time will tell.
Sorry, think the mystical fruit hit me a bit hard, but I'm coming down now.... oh.. I'm unimpressed....
Oh well at least next time an Xbox fan tells me Nintendo is too kiddy... I'll point them to this website.
If you want knowlegable employees who actually give a damn try shopping at a smaller, local game shop... though honestly I'll admit that they're very, very rare.
My small local game shop was bought out by Blockbuster (you insensitive clod). Thankfully the staff (who are mostly old jaded gamers) haven't left, so the advice they give is generally fairly good (when you buy an expansion pack they ask you if you have the original game) and will give you realistic release dates and so on.
I've never been mocked for buying a Gamecube game or had any bad advice (unlike EB). I think smaller is not better, it about finding those shops that have employees who know thier stuff and are willing to do the best for thier customer.
There have been a number of other projects to drill deep into the Earth's crust, though none has succeeded in reaching the mantle, as this Japanese team is trying to do. Ah... But that's because none of them had Mr Driller on thier side.
and start using fingerprint scans
My work has been using fingerprints for about a month now. I got this message this morning: "Your fingerprint will expire in 7 day(s).
Do you wish to change it now?"
Hmmm.... maybe I should start swapping fingers with my coworkers.