In several cases, I would have been able to fix a problem with the computer right then and there, but because of the type of problem it was, I was always told not to fix it because they would instead have to send the computer out.
Yeah, I missed that part in my little rant. It completely floored me when I was presented with problems I could fix and was prohibited from doing so.
I worked in the Geek Squad at Best Buy for a little while back when they first took up the name. A few fun things I noticed while working there.
-In changing over from being a computer sales person to a tech, absolutely no form of test was administered to assess my proficiency before putting me to work formatting people's computers (I could have literally not known how to do this before being assigned to this job.) -The only training that was administered to me upon transfer to the department was an abysmal program that failed to teach me the ins and outs of the database I would be using (and there were gaps in my knowledge about computer tech work that needed addressing at the time). -Almost without exception the only thing done by Geek Squad members to computers which were brought in was a reformat and reinstall of the OS. If that didn't work the computer was almost always sent out of the store for weeks on end for repair. -My boss spent over half of his time at work in various hiding places yakking on his cell phone. He was never held accountable for this.
Eventually my complete disgust with our lack of service, outright hatred of all levels of management and just general dislike of being forced to con people into buying things they don't need drove me to leave. I now work quite happily (at a dollar less an hour) at a locally owned supermarket while I finish me degree. Of every part time job I've ever had (high school included) this was by far the worst.
I could go on about all kinds of other things about Best Buy outside of the context of the Geek Squad but I'll stay on topic. Also, it should be noted that these are only my own experiences working in one store.
Of course I could have meant the Wii as while the price hasnt officially been officially announced the prevailing word on the street is that it will be priced at 250.
Furthermore, from what I've seen, the big justification for the PS3 having a substantially higher price to the 360 is the Blu-ray player on the PS3 (of course the PS3 has a few other edges over the 360 but they do not amount to anything too substancial). I would suggest that the few extra hundred dollars for this media player is not worth it for the following reasons:
-It is for a media format which is not yet an official standard and may never be. -It is for a media format for which there is no substantial media library to purchase from and it is unlikely that one will form in the next few years (it took the DVD market quite some time to build up to its now impressive library). -DVD is still a thoroughly adequate media format to sit with until the new standard media format is decided and some would suggest that neither of the new formats offer enough to the casual consumer to encourage a rapid change over to the new format.
I both agree and disagree. In the realm of RPGs the case can be certainly be made that locked content is a good thing since most of the game play in PC or console RPGs is just that, one of unlocking content. However, I can't help but apply the authors views to one of my favorite types of console game, fighters.
The real fun of fighting games is playing againts other human players, fun which is significantly hindered by the fact that almost all fighters require you to unlock significant content in a manor that is far less fun. With fighting games one essentially gets a crippled game (very few fight mode options and only a small handfull of fighters) out of the box in regards to multiplayer, which then has to be worked on in order to get it to where the user wants it to be (in other words maybe 30 hours of boring game play). This raises the question, why should I have to submit myself to extended hours of boring repititive game play just so I can have the game I want for the real meat of the game, multiplayer?
In the past it was possible to just copy other peoples saves in order to get the full version of the game for multiplayer but nowadays a number of developers are not allowing thier saves to be moved between memory cards to prevent this sort of "cheating".
Well for those of us who choose to not have cable because we find that the bulk of what's on tv to not be worth the monthly fee, the new trend in streaming is nice for the rare show we want to watch. In addition, those in the work place or similar environment (one which lacks a TV but has a computer) find this sort of thing very convenient.
Of course I'm currently without any kind of provider for World Cup streaming which sucks (first time in well over a year I've wished I had cable). The only sources offering World Cup streaming to the U.S. market I can find are ESPN's service but my broadband provider doesn't subscribe to it.
Anybody have any leads for streaming services I might be able to watch this stuff on (I'm perfectly willing to pay a subscription fee btw). Worse comes to worse I'm sure I can just get this stuff via torrents but I'd prefer it in real time.
I reject your claim that it would be more likely to get a flesh eating infection from getting a cut while gardening. Furthermore, given the rise in antibiotic resistance staff infection (especially in hospitals) I don't need an increased level of exposure to this kind of stuff.
I wash my hands after I take a dump and before shaking someones hand. Likewise, hospital workers should change their clothes after working and before going out into public. It's just sanitary.
I'd just like to say that those doctors and nurses wearing scrubs in public outside of the hospital are horribly negligent of the health risks they are posing to others around them. These are individuals working with people sick enough to be in a hospital for christ's sake. Who knows what horrible germs have been coughed onto their scrubs or what pestulant ooze has leaked out over them. These people could literally be walking around with the MRSA bug (that they picked up from a patient) on their scrubs while they stand next to you in the sandwich line for lunch.
I had never thought of this prior to a conversation with my mother (who is a former nurse and now teaches nursing). Now I shy away from anyone out in public wearing those things.
Humans are bad at managing the environment? I would argue to the contrary. The massive systems of dykes, canals, and dams that have been engineered for the last several thousand years are a testament to humanities ability to successfully manipulate its environment to its own benefit.
Also, please explain why we should not attempt to halt or reduce air pollution (as you seem to be suggesting) because we're worried about causing other problems that may or may not exist. With that logic I wouldn't leave the house for fear of creating potential problems for others or myself since me leaving the house could fuck things up on both fronts.
So if we're developing lasers that shoot down missiles "half a world away" why on earth are we also developing a missile defense system that uses other missiles to shoot down incoming ballistics? It's much easier to shoot down an incoming missile with something that will get to its target almost as soon as it's fired. This becomes an even more relevant question given that the missile defense system hasn't even had one successful real world test yet!
Hitler lost the war because he was out produced, not because of his faith in technology. The Russians and the Americans could just produce one hell of allot more "stuff" than the Germans. Granted this stuff was often inferior to the German's stuff (the Sherman's cannon couldn't even penetrate the front or side armor of a German Tiger) which resulted in far higher loss rates but even then the Germans didn't have the resources or the production capacity to keep replenishing their forces.
So basically you're wrong:)
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As a fairly poor college student who left the computer industry during the 2001 depression I have lots of broken/obsolete computer hardware and not allot of money. The prices they charge at the recycle centers to take this stuff are quite steep for some one like myself (20 bucks for a monitor is a weekends worth of micro brews for me after all:) ) making just dumping them in the dumpster near my house extremely tempting. I'm sure there are allot of people less eco conscious than myself who see fit to just throw this crap away rather than pay the fairly hefty processing fees associated with proper disposal.
I wonder how polluted our own landfill is due to this.
"It turns out since one of my eyes was so much worse than the other, there was a telescoping effect that caused one eye to see things bigger than the other causing disorientation. Since contacts are right on the eye, that effect is no longer a factor."
I'm curious as to what you vision problem you have. I have a stigmatism in both eyes but it is significantly worse in one eye (my vision is near perfect in the other) and yet I have no problems with headaches or the like with my glasses. Was this "telescoping effect" diagnosed by a doctor? Perhaps you just had a poor or old prescription.
I would suggest that Nondescrypt's writing style really is quite distracting (in the excessive use of caps and non word characters). I would even go so far as to suggest that it's annoying.
While what you say is certainly more important than how you say it, the "how" is still important.
"We took the fast out of fast food. In fact the "slow food" places like McD and Burger King are were you probably spend the most time waiting to get your meal."
I know I can get a burger one hell of alot faster at a fast food place where I live than the more upscale burger places. I really don't understand that end of your "slow food" metaphore.
As for: "As for other services. Yeah great. Internet access through an ATM? Talk about a waste of hardware. You got a small bank vault, a complex teller machine sitting idle while somebody is browing goatse and 20 fuming customers behind him waiting to withdraw cash?"
While I was in college I lived right down the street from a mini-mart with an atm. Given that I'm prone to late night drinking I used this mini-mart often. The ATM at this place was almost always empty. Furthermore, I cant remember the last time I even waited at an atm outside of the one at my bank. ATMs at mini-marts (in my experience) have alot of down time between customers making this type of serive a very viable way to maximise profits.
"In a first-of-its-kind move, George Lucas has announced that Lucasfilm and 20th Century Fox will offer free 'replacement DVDs' to anyone who mails in pre-Special Edition VHS and Laserdisc copies of Star Wars episodes IV, V, and VI by April 30th. From the press release: 'This unique opportunity will help fans experience the complete and correct vision of my epic story.'"
The man is trying to rub out history with this move. Aside from the pirate versions of the laser disk, fans have few refuges for enduring copies of the triology which dont feature magic, blaster bolt dodging Han Solo or similiar crap which shows up in the new versons of the orginal Starwars triology. This is just another step in trying to erase what was seen by most fans, as a superior cinematic experience.
I hate to say it but our only hope is that the man dies and leaves the rights to starwars to some one who isnt an asshole.
In contrast to what seems to be most of slashdot, I for one still enjoy the movie going experience.
Maybe I just have really nice theaters by me and I'm really lucky to boot but i really don't have alot of the problems that are mentioned here and in the parents follow-ups. My theaters are well set up and kept up well (no sticky floors, seats are nice, sounds good, no bleed through from other theaters), I almost never have noise disruptions from other patrons and the teenagers at the front door could care less about me bringing food in. The only down side I have for movie going is the high cost of the ticket.
On the otherside, the reasons I enjoy going to the theater are the superior setup (it still takes a rather expensive home theater to provide a superior experience IMHO) and the group experience of watching a movie in a theater. It's fun during a funny moment in a movie having 50 other people laughing with you or those intense moments when you can just feel the intensity building in the audience.
I suppose if I had all the problems you folks seem to be having I'd enjoy the experience a fair bit less but as it stands for me, I'm quite happy going to theaters for movies.
A big reason why adults are more hardcore gammers may be because they don't (typicaly) live with their parents like kids do. They don't have Moms and Dads bugging them to go outside to play and getting them into sports programs. Parents are in charge of the house's TV so if they want video games on it they can make it happen as opposed to kids who have to get their game time in when their parents arent using the tube. Likewise with the family computer.
One might say, in responce, that the wife (or husband) might serve as a limiting factor towards gaming for adults. One thing I have noticed, however, is that married men at least, often have friend networks far smaller than that of most children (which meens they go out to play far less often). While I only have a moderate number of married friends those that I know I see out in social situations far less while I see them playing more games or watching more tv now than they did when they were single. This being housebound seems to happen (albeit less so) to even those married couples who don't have children.
Even without Lucas they're going to have a hard time making this both interesting and true to the starwars story line. Luke is pretty much some country bumpkin living on a farm in his youth. He doesnt ever leave the planet, he's ignorant of city life in episode 4 so he probably won't be going to cities and running into the native crime lords that much, he won't know anything about or be learning the force and the character wont really develope at all given that luke starts off episode 4 as a winey, naive kid. That pretty much just leaves the sand people. A hundred episodes of fighting sand people sounds pretty terrible.
Sure there's a few other bits you can throw in there (like him developing his piloting skills through the canyons) but I just don't see how there's all that much good material to go with here.
one of the problems with lifting weight of this kind is whether or not our skeletons can take it. the bones in your limbs can only support so much weight. it doesnt do you any good to have the strength to lift a car over your head if it will break the bones in your arms in the process.
it strikes me that some sort of skeletal reinforcement will be needed before this can be used to its fullest extent.
I really don't think he is saying, "I'm educated so I'm right". It sounds far more like, "I've done some work in this area through my schooling (at a fairly advanced level) which establishes a descent level of familiarity with this material so here's my opinion". Stating one's credentials to establish that he or she has a certain level of knowledge on a subject is not the same as saying, "I'm right".
In regards to his spelling, being educated and having good spelling/grammar are not linked hand in hand. Furthermore, he is posting in an internet forum . I know this is extremely significant for many folks out there but for many others it's just a way to kill time. I know I frequently just quickly write out a post without checking spelling or grammar. I have other things to be doing with my self.
It seems this guy is getting trolled to death by petty complaints. I'm noticing none of the posts here even bother to address what he's actually saying before discrediting him.
I would suggest the most game companies would much rather take a hit on one game than do without the free advertising a review site of that (his company's) size affords them. In talking to him the reason previews are mostly positive is because of the reason stated by the parent (it isnt fair to finish an unfinished product) but that they do try to sift through for design flaws where they can.
plus i would agree with the parent in saying that most previews cant be all that bad as the person previewing it doesnt have a full game. they have a buggy piece of junk beta. its hard to say if the game will be good or not based off something like this
thus it is in the publishers/developers interest to have their games previewed because odds are the preview wont be all that bad
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In several cases, I would have been able to fix a problem with the computer right then and there, but because of the type of problem it was, I was always told not to fix it because they would instead have to send the computer out. Yeah, I missed that part in my little rant. It completely floored me when I was presented with problems I could fix and was prohibited from doing so.
I worked in the Geek Squad at Best Buy for a little while back when they first took up the name. A few fun things I noticed while working there.
-In changing over from being a computer sales person to a tech, absolutely no form of test was administered to assess my proficiency before putting me to work formatting people's computers (I could have literally not known how to do this before being assigned to this job.)
-The only training that was administered to me upon transfer to the department was an abysmal program that failed to teach me the ins and outs of the database I would be using (and there were gaps in my knowledge about computer tech work that needed addressing at the time).
-Almost without exception the only thing done by Geek Squad members to computers which were brought in was a reformat and reinstall of the OS. If that didn't work the computer was almost always sent out of the store for weeks on end for repair.
-My boss spent over half of his time at work in various hiding places yakking on his cell phone. He was never held accountable for this.
Eventually my complete disgust with our lack of service, outright hatred of all levels of management and just general dislike of being forced to con people into buying things they don't need drove me to leave. I now work quite happily (at a dollar less an hour) at a locally owned supermarket while I finish me degree. Of every part time job I've ever had (high school included) this was by far the worst.
I could go on about all kinds of other things about Best Buy outside of the context of the Geek Squad but I'll stay on topic. Also, it should be noted that these are only my own experiences working in one store.
Of course I could have meant the Wii as while the price hasnt officially been officially announced the prevailing word on the street is that it will be priced at 250.
Furthermore, from what I've seen, the big justification for the PS3 having a substantially higher price to the 360 is the Blu-ray player on the PS3 (of course the PS3 has a few other edges over the 360 but they do not amount to anything too substancial). I would suggest that the few extra hundred dollars for this media player is not worth it for the following reasons:
-It is for a media format which is not yet an official standard and may never be.
-It is for a media format for which there is no substantial media library to purchase from and it is unlikely that one will form in the next few years (it took the DVD market quite some time to build up to its now impressive library).
-DVD is still a thoroughly adequate media format to sit with until the new standard media format is decided and some would suggest that neither of the new formats offer enough to the casual consumer to encourage a rapid change over to the new format.
For these reasons the PS3 is in fact overpriced.
"So the question becomes: Which system do you buy?"
That's easy. You buy the one that isnt ridiculously over priced.
I both agree and disagree. In the realm of RPGs the case can be certainly be made that locked content is a good thing since most of the game play in PC or console RPGs is just that, one of unlocking content. However, I can't help but apply the authors views to one of my favorite types of console game, fighters.
The real fun of fighting games is playing againts other human players, fun which is significantly hindered by the fact that almost all fighters require you to unlock significant content in a manor that is far less fun. With fighting games one essentially gets a crippled game (very few fight mode options and only a small handfull of fighters) out of the box in regards to multiplayer, which then has to be worked on in order to get it to where the user wants it to be (in other words maybe 30 hours of boring game play). This raises the question, why should I have to submit myself to extended hours of boring repititive game play just so I can have the game I want for the real meat of the game, multiplayer?
In the past it was possible to just copy other peoples saves in order to get the full version of the game for multiplayer but nowadays a number of developers are not allowing thier saves to be moved between memory cards to prevent this sort of "cheating".
Well for those of us who choose to not have cable because we find that the bulk of what's on tv to not be worth the monthly fee, the new trend in streaming is nice for the rare show we want to watch. In addition, those in the work place or similar environment (one which lacks a TV but has a computer) find this sort of thing very convenient.
Of course I'm currently without any kind of provider for World Cup streaming which sucks (first time in well over a year I've wished I had cable). The only sources offering World Cup streaming to the U.S. market I can find are ESPN's service but my broadband provider doesn't subscribe to it.
Anybody have any leads for streaming services I might be able to watch this stuff on (I'm perfectly willing to pay a subscription fee btw). Worse comes to worse I'm sure I can just get this stuff via torrents but I'd prefer it in real time.
How can we do this! This is clearly in violation of the Treaty of Algeron we signed with the Romulans.
I reject your claim that it would be more likely to get a flesh eating infection from getting a cut while gardening. Furthermore, given the rise in antibiotic resistance staff infection (especially in hospitals) I don't need an increased level of exposure to this kind of stuff.
I wash my hands after I take a dump and before shaking someones hand. Likewise, hospital workers should change their clothes after working and before going out into public. It's just sanitary.
I'd just like to say that those doctors and nurses wearing scrubs in public outside of the hospital are horribly negligent of the health risks they are posing to others around them. These are individuals working with people sick enough to be in a hospital for christ's sake. Who knows what horrible germs have been coughed onto their scrubs or what pestulant ooze has leaked out over them. These people could literally be walking around with the MRSA bug (that they picked up from a patient) on their scrubs while they stand next to you in the sandwich line for lunch.
I had never thought of this prior to a conversation with my mother (who is a former nurse and now teaches nursing). Now I shy away from anyone out in public wearing those things.
Humans are bad at managing the environment? I would argue to the contrary. The massive systems of dykes, canals, and dams that have been engineered for the last several thousand years are a testament to humanities ability to successfully manipulate its environment to its own benefit.
Also, please explain why we should not attempt to halt or reduce air pollution (as you seem to be suggesting) because we're worried about causing other problems that may or may not exist. With that logic I wouldn't leave the house for fear of creating potential problems for others or myself since me leaving the house could fuck things up on both fronts.
So if we're developing lasers that shoot down missiles "half a world away" why on earth are we also developing a missile defense system that uses other missiles to shoot down incoming ballistics? It's much easier to shoot down an incoming missile with something that will get to its target almost as soon as it's fired. This becomes an even more relevant question given that the missile defense system hasn't even had one successful real world test yet!
Hitler lost the war because he was out produced, not because of his faith in technology. The Russians and the Americans could just produce one hell of allot more "stuff" than the Germans. Granted this stuff was often inferior to the German's stuff (the Sherman's cannon couldn't even penetrate the front or side armor of a German Tiger) which resulted in far higher loss rates but even then the Germans didn't have the resources or the production capacity to keep replenishing their forces.
:)
So basically you're wrong
As a fairly poor college student who left the computer industry during the 2001 depression I have lots of broken/obsolete computer hardware and not allot of money. The prices they charge at the recycle centers to take this stuff are quite steep for some one like myself (20 bucks for a monitor is a weekends worth of micro brews for me after all :) ) making just dumping them in the dumpster near my house extremely tempting. I'm sure there are allot of people less eco conscious than myself who see fit to just throw this crap away rather than pay the fairly hefty processing fees associated with proper disposal.
I wonder how polluted our own landfill is due to this.
"It turns out since one of my eyes was so much worse than the other, there was a telescoping effect that caused one eye to see things bigger than the other causing disorientation. Since contacts are right on the eye, that effect is no longer a factor."
I'm curious as to what you vision problem you have. I have a stigmatism in both eyes but it is significantly worse in one eye (my vision is near perfect in the other) and yet I have no problems with headaches or the like with my glasses. Was this "telescoping effect" diagnosed by a doctor? Perhaps you just had a poor or old prescription.
I would suggest that Nondescrypt's writing style really is quite distracting (in the excessive use of caps and non word characters). I would even go so far as to suggest that it's annoying.
While what you say is certainly more important than how you say it, the "how" is still important.
"We took the fast out of fast food. In fact the "slow food" places like McD and Burger King are were you probably spend the most time waiting to get your meal."
I know I can get a burger one hell of alot faster at a fast food place where I live than the more upscale burger places. I really don't understand that end of your "slow food" metaphore.
As for: "As for other services. Yeah great. Internet access through an ATM? Talk about a waste of hardware. You got a small bank vault, a complex teller machine sitting idle while somebody is browing goatse and 20 fuming customers behind him waiting to withdraw cash?"
While I was in college I lived right down the street from a mini-mart with an atm. Given that I'm prone to late night drinking I used this mini-mart often. The ATM at this place was almost always empty. Furthermore, I cant remember the last time I even waited at an atm outside of the one at my bank. ATMs at mini-marts (in my experience) have alot of down time between customers making this type of serive a very viable way to maximise profits.
"In a first-of-its-kind move, George Lucas has announced that Lucasfilm and 20th Century Fox will offer free 'replacement DVDs' to anyone who mails in pre-Special Edition VHS and Laserdisc copies of Star Wars episodes IV, V, and VI by April 30th. From the press release: 'This unique opportunity will help fans experience the complete and correct vision of my epic story.'"
The man is trying to rub out history with this move. Aside from the pirate versions of the laser disk, fans have few refuges for enduring copies of the triology which dont feature magic, blaster bolt dodging Han Solo or similiar crap which shows up in the new versons of the orginal Starwars triology. This is just another step in trying to erase what was seen by most fans, as a superior cinematic experience.
I hate to say it but our only hope is that the man dies and leaves the rights to starwars to some one who isnt an asshole.
In contrast to what seems to be most of slashdot, I for one still enjoy the movie going experience. Maybe I just have really nice theaters by me and I'm really lucky to boot but i really don't have alot of the problems that are mentioned here and in the parents follow-ups. My theaters are well set up and kept up well (no sticky floors, seats are nice, sounds good, no bleed through from other theaters), I almost never have noise disruptions from other patrons and the teenagers at the front door could care less about me bringing food in. The only down side I have for movie going is the high cost of the ticket. On the otherside, the reasons I enjoy going to the theater are the superior setup (it still takes a rather expensive home theater to provide a superior experience IMHO) and the group experience of watching a movie in a theater. It's fun during a funny moment in a movie having 50 other people laughing with you or those intense moments when you can just feel the intensity building in the audience. I suppose if I had all the problems you folks seem to be having I'd enjoy the experience a fair bit less but as it stands for me, I'm quite happy going to theaters for movies.
A big reason why adults are more hardcore gammers may be because they don't (typicaly) live with their parents like kids do. They don't have Moms and Dads bugging them to go outside to play and getting them into sports programs. Parents are in charge of the house's TV so if they want video games on it they can make it happen as opposed to kids who have to get their game time in when their parents arent using the tube. Likewise with the family computer.
One might say, in responce, that the wife (or husband) might serve as a limiting factor towards gaming for adults. One thing I have noticed, however, is that married men at least, often have friend networks far smaller than that of most children (which meens they go out to play far less often). While I only have a moderate number of married friends those that I know I see out in social situations far less while I see them playing more games or watching more tv now than they did when they were single. This being housebound seems to happen (albeit less so) to even those married couples who don't have children.
Even without Lucas they're going to have a hard time making this both interesting and true to the starwars story line. Luke is pretty much some country bumpkin living on a farm in his youth. He doesnt ever leave the planet, he's ignorant of city life in episode 4 so he probably won't be going to cities and running into the native crime lords that much, he won't know anything about or be learning the force and the character wont really develope at all given that luke starts off episode 4 as a winey, naive kid. That pretty much just leaves the sand people. A hundred episodes of fighting sand people sounds pretty terrible. Sure there's a few other bits you can throw in there (like him developing his piloting skills through the canyons) but I just don't see how there's all that much good material to go with here.
one of the problems with lifting weight of this kind is whether or not our skeletons can take it. the bones in your limbs can only support so much weight. it doesnt do you any good to have the strength to lift a car over your head if it will break the bones in your arms in the process.
it strikes me that some sort of skeletal reinforcement will be needed before this can be used to its fullest extent.
I really don't think he is saying, "I'm educated so I'm right". It sounds far more like, "I've done some work in this area through my schooling (at a fairly advanced level) which establishes a descent level of familiarity with this material so here's my opinion". Stating one's credentials to establish that he or she has a certain level of knowledge on a subject is not the same as saying, "I'm right".
In regards to his spelling, being educated and having good spelling/grammar are not linked hand in hand. Furthermore, he is posting in an internet forum . I know this is extremely significant for many folks out there but for many others it's just a way to kill time. I know I frequently just quickly write out a post without checking spelling or grammar. I have other things to be doing with my self.
It seems this guy is getting trolled to death by petty complaints. I'm noticing none of the posts here even bother to address what he's actually saying before discrediting him.
yeah, fusion power or the space elevator (both likely to be developed this century) won't be big by any standard...
I'm sure slashdoters could name off a number of other items that will have very big implications that are likely to be developed in the next century.
I would suggest the most game companies would much rather take a hit on one game than do without the free advertising a review site of that (his company's) size affords them. In talking to him the reason previews are mostly positive is because of the reason stated by the parent (it isnt fair to finish an unfinished product) but that they do try to sift through for design flaws where they can.
plus i would agree with the parent in saying that most previews cant be all that bad as the person previewing it doesnt have a full game. they have a buggy piece of junk beta. its hard to say if the game will be good or not based off something like this thus it is in the publishers/developers interest to have their games previewed because odds are the preview wont be all that bad