He's referring only to the Games section of Slashdot, and your "Slashdot is news for nerds. Nerds like games." pseudo-Confucius drivel is annoying. But the parent is right, I could sit with two browsers open - one with 1up.com and the other with gamespot.com - and I'd be looking at the equivalent of the Games section here.
What are all these "fans" and such that you all are talking about? My computer works fine and doesnt make any noise whatsoever..
..although this is probably due to the fact that my computer is simply a 8 year old boy sitting in an aluminum cage under my desk with an abacus. I brought it into Best Buy last week to get some upgrades installed, and, yada yada yada, I'm up for parole in 6 years...
The ESRB ratings system is completely backwards... slapping, "Adults Only; severe violence and sexual themes" on a game box is the equivalent of "Hello Teenager; this game is the virtual equivalent of crack! Play it and experience all your depeest curiousities without your parents knowing!!"
If I ran the ESRB the kids wouldn't play anything I didn't want them to play. What kind of 14 year old kid is gonna buy a GTA:SA box with the sticker, "Mom and Dad say buy this game! It makes you good at math, schoolwork, and builds character! It's so fun, your sister is going to want to share it with you!!"
I'm going to have to disagree with your post here:
Game developers are required to report all disk contents to the ESRB and to the console manufacturers, whether that content is accessible or not. In fact, if it's not accessible, Sony will make you take it off the disk.
This just simply isn't true. There exist plenty of unfinished areas and sidequests in games like Final Fantasy X (PS2) and KOTOR2 (XBOX) that didn't make it into the final cut because of the rush to meet shipping dates. You can't seriously expect a developer who is under extreme pressure to get a game out to market on time to check every nook and cranny of their virtual universe to make sure that it is entirely "accessable", can you? And what if some programmer accidentally leaves some monster.is_invincible() set to true on a gateway boss to a sidequest, thereby making that sidequest inaccessable to those who don't patch the game?
If Sony and Microsoft call them on violating their console licence, they could put an end to Rockstar's future Xbox and PS2 titles.
Maybe we should talk about how Microsoft has a history of not giving a flying fsck about any sort of standards and practices law. Given that they would rather pay $600MM fines than take their products off the shelves, I don't see them pulling the plug on the cash-machine that is GTA because of any futile standard or law. And finally:
Set aside the moral issues, and Rockstar still made a very stupid business move.
Um, I don't know if you remember what it was like to be a kid, but if I were still a 15 year old guy that hadn't yet bought GTA:SA and I read about a this mod on the internet, I'd pretty much sell my kidney(s) to get a copy of the game. This is advertising you can't pay for, and Rockstar knows that.
... that feels like this study is stupid? From TFA:
Through a Web survey involving more than 10,000 employees, the report found that personal Internet surfing ranked as the top method of cooling one's heels at work.
Gee, most people on a web survey spend their personal time on the Internet. Thats like going to to a Red Sox game and surveying people on what their favorite sport is! I'll post again in a few, but for right now, I'm going to go to a strip club and survey people on womens' rights.
South Koreans are the most wired-up of all Earthfolk and waste hours of their lives engaging in online gaming and assuming virtual identities in role-playing games.
Hahahaha, I guess South Koreans "waste" hours of their lives playing MMORPGS. Other people waste hours of their lives spewing poorly-written copy for an internet-only newspaper. I'll take the first, please.
The author of the article bought his original DVD player for $100. You would rather buy "the high-end at 10x the price and save 100x in the cost of [your] time", meaning that you would spend $1,000 to buy a better player.
Let's assume that this project would take someone who is completely new to the subject 10 hours to complete. You, on the other hand, being smart enough to justify the high price of your time, can probably perform this upgrade in 5 hours (I'm assuming/being fairly conservative). Then, in order to save "100x in the cost" by buying a better player, your 5 hours must be worth $11,000. This means that you effectively make $2,200 an hour.
I appreciate your "insightful" post Mr. Gates, but you are not welcome here.
You people are being way too harsh on this trader... haven't any of you ever suffered from a typo? I know I have. Last month when I was writing an e-mail to my girlfriend, instead of typing,
"I miss you hunny and I can't wait to see you this weekend;)...",
I typed,
"Jesus Christ woman you have ruined my life and I've been cheating on you with your sister!!"
Why is this a troll? He's exactly right.. I don't ever remember ever being like,
"Oh my god... all my base belong to WHO!?!?!??"
While FF3 (FF6j) and to a lesser extent FF2 (FF5j) for SNES did have some of the best stories and cinematic qualities to them, their predecessors left a little sump'n sump'n to be desired. I mean cmon, freggin 4 identical red-haired fighters can save the universe in FF1 for NES and nobody thinks this is strange!? Let's talk about games like Metal Gear when guards yell "I FEEL ASLEEP!!" when they fall asleep.. This isn't exactly 4th wall, wow I'm watching something magical unfold, stuff we're talking about here. Don't get me wrong, my favorite game of all time is Dr. Mario, where for some reason Mario has gotten his M.D. in internal medicine and is qualified to dole out painkillers and sweet, sweet chill/fever music... please don't judge me.
Hahaha, thats exactly what the median means: that 1/2 of their people make more than $60,000/year! The *average* would still be $60,000/year if 1 person made $59MM a year and 999 people made $1,001/year. You suck!!
For a few years now (~3 to 4), MSFT has allowed entire countries to pirate Windows XP freely for home and professional use. Countries like China, among many others in the far east, rely almost exclusively on pirated copies of XP that are purchased illegally on the street. MSFT, whether anyone likes to admit it or not, is extremely intelligent when it comes to business. They have essentially captured 100% market share in countries where 99% of the residents could not afford to purchase a $300 copy of Windows XP with an entire year's salary with this policy. You can see MSFT freely admit this activity with a little searching. Now that MSFT is allowing only legal copies of XP to be updated, they are entering the second phase of the policy in which they force these developing countries to *continue* to use XP. Anyone who thought that they might have gotten the better of MSFT by pirating is now on the losing end, as they have to shell out cash at some point in the future to stay protected from the millions of exploits/spyware/adware/pwnxed/etcetc that plague Windows. Watch in a few years when Microsoft dominates China's telecom market with the fact that everyone is using Windows.
If a resume lists a school that advertises on tv, I throw it out immediately.
I seriously hope that you are either joking or you are experiencing a temporary "lapse of judgement" as a manager in this post. Go ahead and watch any college football/basketball game and you'll regularly see ads on TV for Wharton, Kellogg, and Sloan (three of the best business schools in the world). I am currently getting my degree in Financial Engineering (although I came in as a CS major) at Princeton, so I have been allowed some incredible internships. In my experience, students that attend(ed) lesser-known colleges -- including those "advertising" colleges that you thumb your nose at -- have been just as productive, enthusiastic, and intelligent as my peers at Princeton. And a lot of them don't have that Ivy-league ego, which is also a definite plus. Once you get to work on the first day, the playing field is level again. So go ahead and throw out those resumes of hard-working people that you think might not be good enough... and I promise I'll look at *your* resume when I'm hiring.
I don't believe IE could ever really drop down that much, because all the computer labs on campus have IE on default and cannot install FireFox. There is the Netscape option, but almost no one uses that.
I disagree. All the new computers sold to students here at Princeton have Firefox as the default web browser and use Mozilla for email. This is true for the cluster computers as well; they all use Firefox and Mozilla. Princeton's Office of Information Technology has openly said that they encourage use of Firefox because of the gamut of spyware and virii plaguing IE, as well as decreased resource overhead on cluster computers. I think that once enough Sasser worms and the like get to IE-using computers on college campuses, universities will have to make the switch if for nothing more than to stop the hassle of issuing constant virus protection updates and toolkits. If this does start happenning, look for a huge jump in Mozilla/Firefox usage.
Actually, most people have the wrong impression of what Murphy's Law actually is. It doesn't state that things go wrong at the worst moments, it states that if there exists the possibility that something can go wrong, then it eventually will. Murphy developed it when he was working on the reliability of systems as a function of their components:
[lim(L -> infinity)][P(L < infinity|some component has a positive failure rate)] = 1
where L is the lifetime of the system
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He's referring only to the Games section of Slashdot, and your "Slashdot is news for nerds. Nerds like games." pseudo-Confucius drivel is annoying. But the parent is right, I could sit with two browsers open - one with 1up.com and the other with gamespot.com - and I'd be looking at the equivalent of the Games section here.
Parent just fucking described every step towards making an H-bomb and included info on where to get the required materials!!!1eleven1
deglr6328, please don't ever let me piss you off...
If I ran the ESRB the kids wouldn't play anything I didn't want them to play. What kind of 14 year old kid is gonna buy a GTA:SA box with the sticker, "Mom and Dad say buy this game! It makes you good at math, schoolwork, and builds character! It's so fun, your sister is going to want to share it with you!!"
Game developers are required to report all disk contents to the ESRB and to the console manufacturers, whether that content is accessible or not. In fact, if it's not accessible, Sony will make you take it off the disk.
This just simply isn't true. There exist plenty of unfinished areas and sidequests in games like Final Fantasy X (PS2) and KOTOR2 (XBOX) that didn't make it into the final cut because of the rush to meet shipping dates. You can't seriously expect a developer who is under extreme pressure to get a game out to market on time to check every nook and cranny of their virtual universe to make sure that it is entirely "accessable", can you? And what if some programmer accidentally leaves some monster.is_invincible() set to true on a gateway boss to a sidequest, thereby making that sidequest inaccessable to those who don't patch the game?
If Sony and Microsoft call them on violating their console licence, they could put an end to Rockstar's future Xbox and PS2 titles.
Maybe we should talk about how Microsoft has a history of not giving a flying fsck about any sort of standards and practices law. Given that they would rather pay $600MM fines than take their products off the shelves, I don't see them pulling the plug on the cash-machine that is GTA because of any futile standard or law. And finally:
Set aside the moral issues, and Rockstar still made a very stupid business move.
Um, I don't know if you remember what it was like to be a kid, but if I were still a 15 year old guy that hadn't yet bought GTA:SA and I read about a this mod on the internet, I'd pretty much sell my kidney(s) to get a copy of the game. This is advertising you can't pay for, and Rockstar knows that.
Through a Web survey involving more than 10,000 employees, the report found that personal Internet surfing ranked as the top method of cooling one's heels at work.
Gee, most people on a web survey spend their personal time on the Internet. Thats like going to to a Red Sox game and surveying people on what their favorite sport is! I'll post again in a few, but for right now, I'm going to go to a strip club and survey people on womens' rights.
South Koreans are the most wired-up of all Earthfolk and waste hours of their lives engaging in online gaming and assuming virtual identities in role-playing games.
Hahahaha, I guess South Koreans "waste" hours of their lives playing MMORPGS. Other people waste hours of their lives spewing poorly-written copy for an internet-only newspaper. I'll take the first, please.
I have tears in my eyes from laughing so hard. Antifoidulus you are my father.
The author of the article bought his original DVD player for $100. You would rather buy "the high-end at 10x the price and save 100x in the cost of [your] time", meaning that you would spend $1,000 to buy a better player.
Let's assume that this project would take someone who is completely new to the subject 10 hours to complete. You, on the other hand, being smart enough to justify the high price of your time, can probably perform this upgrade in 5 hours (I'm assuming/being fairly conservative). Then, in order to save "100x in the cost" by buying a better player, your 5 hours must be worth $11,000. This means that you effectively make $2,200 an hour.
I appreciate your "insightful" post Mr. Gates, but you are not welcome here.
"I miss you hunny and I can't wait to see you this weekend ;) ...",
I typed,
"Jesus Christ woman you have ruined my life and I've been cheating on you with your sister!!"
... I hate keyboards...
"Oh my god... all my base belong to WHO!?!?!??"
While FF3 (FF6j) and to a lesser extent FF2 (FF5j) for SNES did have some of the best stories and cinematic qualities to them, their predecessors left a little sump'n sump'n to be desired. I mean cmon, freggin 4 identical red-haired fighters can save the universe in FF1 for NES and nobody thinks this is strange!? Let's talk about games like Metal Gear when guards yell "I FEEL ASLEEP!!" when they fall asleep.. This isn't exactly 4th wall, wow I'm watching something magical unfold, stuff we're talking about here. Don't get me wrong, my favorite game of all time is Dr. Mario, where for some reason Mario has gotten his M.D. in internal medicine and is qualified to dole out painkillers and sweet, sweet chill/fever music... please don't judge me.
I joke! I joke!!
The US soldiers would probably give up their positions once the Iraqis heard them shouting "FUX0RING N00BS!!!11" or "thiS GUYS USING a WaLLHACK!!"
This reminds me of a hilarious review I saw on AO a few years back; had me in tears the first time!
Hahaha, thats exactly what the median means: that 1/2 of their people make more than $60,000/year! The *average* would still be $60,000/year if 1 person made $59MM a year and 999 people made $1,001/year. You suck!!
It *is* here. LightScribe is standard on all new HP desktops. Holla.
For a few years now (~3 to 4), MSFT has allowed entire countries to pirate Windows XP freely for home and professional use. Countries like China, among many others in the far east, rely almost exclusively on pirated copies of XP that are purchased illegally on the street. MSFT, whether anyone likes to admit it or not, is extremely intelligent when it comes to business. They have essentially captured 100% market share in countries where 99% of the residents could not afford to purchase a $300 copy of Windows XP with an entire year's salary with this policy. You can see MSFT freely admit this activity with a little searching. Now that MSFT is allowing only legal copies of XP to be updated, they are entering the second phase of the policy in which they force these developing countries to *continue* to use XP. Anyone who thought that they might have gotten the better of MSFT by pirating is now on the losing end, as they have to shell out cash at some point in the future to stay protected from the millions of exploits/spyware/adware/pwnxed/etcetc that plague Windows. Watch in a few years when Microsoft dominates China's telecom market with the fact that everyone is using Windows.
I seriously hope that you are either joking or you are experiencing a temporary "lapse of judgement" as a manager in this post. Go ahead and watch any college football/basketball game and you'll regularly see ads on TV for Wharton, Kellogg, and Sloan (three of the best business schools in the world). I am currently getting my degree in Financial Engineering (although I came in as a CS major) at Princeton, so I have been allowed some incredible internships. In my experience, students that attend(ed) lesser-known colleges -- including those "advertising" colleges that you thumb your nose at -- have been just as productive, enthusiastic, and intelligent as my peers at Princeton. And a lot of them don't have that Ivy-league ego, which is also a definite plus. Once you get to work on the first day, the playing field is level again. So go ahead and throw out those resumes of hard-working people that you think might not be good enough... and I promise I'll look at *your* resume when I'm hiring.
I disagree. All the new computers sold to students here at Princeton have Firefox as the default web browser and use Mozilla for email. This is true for the cluster computers as well; they all use Firefox and Mozilla. Princeton's Office of Information Technology has openly said that they encourage use of Firefox because of the gamut of spyware and virii plaguing IE, as well as decreased resource overhead on cluster computers. I think that once enough Sasser worms and the like get to IE-using computers on college campuses, universities will have to make the switch if for nothing more than to stop the hassle of issuing constant virus protection updates and toolkits. If this does start happenning, look for a huge jump in Mozilla/Firefox usage.
[lim(L -> infinity)][P(L < infinity|some component has a positive failure rate)] = 1 where L is the lifetime of the system