Hmmmm...this explains why Amazon looked at my previous purchases (rubber tubing, astro-glide, book on "Feeding Your Pet Goat, handcuffs, black vinyl mask) and sent the police to pay me a visit.
I'm still waiting for that agreement to go through where we trade the vocal cords of Brendon Frazier for the suspension of the Iranian nuclear weapons program...
In other signs of what is to come with the AU-US Federal trade agreement coming into force, actor Paul Hogan of the "Crocodile Dundee" movies has been removed to an undisclosed location and beaten to death with large stones.
I thought it said "Metallica's Law" which, says that you have to ROCK HARD and ROCK OFTEN !! Oh, and they'll sue you if you copy their CD's. Oh, and they're on VH1 now.
You're just mad because they're not releasing the directors cut of "Gigli" in Europe (with over three hours of informative "behind the scenes" interviews !!) That, my friend, is pure cinema gold.
Everytime they do even the most minor thing, or are even "rumored" to be doing something, post a Slashdot story about it ("Google rumored to become next phone company. Google rumored to be buying Apple. Google knitting you a sweater for your birthday")
A little known difference between the French and American cell phone culture; In France, it's actually considered polite to talk on your cell phone during a movie. Because French movies suck.
Seriously. No explosions or Ben Affleck or anything. It's usually just people sitting around smoking and eating cheese in black and white. Who wouldn't want to talk through that ?
Well "Howdy Fucking Do" for Electronic Arts. After months of horrible press, they're finally "paying" some of their employees for the slave-like labor they're engaged in.
Now game designers have roughly the same expectations in the workplace as...hmmmm...McDonald's fry cooks. How enlightened of them.
Some people seem to be confused; let me help to explain. If I liked listening to "Pennywise" and bought all their CD's, and Ashley Simpson found out about it and charged me EXTRA to purchase her limited edition concert DVD with bonus interviews, AND if we both lived in Japan...I'd legally be allowed to force her to commit suicide in the town square. With a kitchen knife.
It's a rich and vibrant culture those Japanese have, I tell you.
Are you kidding ? Nintendo may dominate the handheld market (although, check back when PSP arrives) but their console business (ie: GameCube) has been a distant third in terms of overall sales to Sony and Microsoft since the GameCube made its debut.
Remember when the release of a Netscape mattered ?
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Milk was a nickle, and cars were called "trolley boxes"
And I seem to remember walking five miles in the snow to school. Each way. Even during the summer.
Man, that sucked. I sure am glad we have Firefox now.
The Resident Evil series, for me, was the turning point when video games could become just as an immersive experience as cinema. I remember playing RE:2, creeping through a dark mansion, right after being chased by snarling dogs that wanted a piece of my ass, and it being really, really, quiet.
It was late at night.
I was alone in the house.
The lamp next to me suddenly switched itself off (I keep it on a timer, since I go out of town frequently) That unnerved me so much, I stopped the game and turned it back on (keep in mind, I'm a grown adult, for christsakes)
Something burst through a mirror in the game, and it scared the living hell out of me. And that's when I realized that I was totally immersed, to the point where I stopped and thought "Damn, these aren't going to be for kids anymore..." and they weren't.
It's a great series, and Nintendo was smart to offer them an assload of cash to get the rights. But I also remember the inital announcements proclaiming "exculsive" -- and I remember how quickly that deal got redefined as "exculsive...at first, but we might port to another system later..."
Nintendo has no one to blame but themselves. Years ago, PlayStation and Xbox made concious efforts to market towards an older market, and Nintendo stuck with kids. Even now, there are less "adult" titles for GameCube, and a huge perception that Nintendo is a kids toy. GameCube even looks like a toy; small, brightly colored buttons on the controller, no built-in online, no hard drive (fyi - that's the feature that makes the xbox my favorite...never filling a memory card again with saved games) Sure there have been a few "darker" games, but not enough to shift the perception away from jumping on mushrooms and playing a magical flute. Even though their sales did go up last year, it was because kids wanted to play Pokemon, Zelda, and Mario Kart. Not a lot of adults want to play Pokemon (and those that do, keep them away from your children)
I'd buy a system if it had an exculsive game that I really, really wanted, but I gotta think I'm the minority. The next Resident Evil game might not be on GameCube, whatever people say. Contracts and agreements get broken if there's cash to be had. And like it or not, being "a best selling game exclusive to GameCube" is sort of like "having sex with your best looking cousin at the wedding" Sure, it's nice, but not really anything to brag about.
This reminds me of the old days of 3.5" floppy disks, when you'd cut a notch to make it double sided. Everyone would laugh and joke at how they'd stick it to the man, and then save their "Wizardry" games or word processing documents on disks that would eventually crap out on them.
I get that...but what I'm saying is that the article doesn't address the larger point, which is that teaching employees to do the simple things can probablly prevent 90% of the problems in the first place.
What employees need to do is follow the very simple instructions they're given. Change your password regularly. Don't make it obvious. Log out of the system when you're done. Don't use the same password at every site you visit. Etc...
It's simple, Private Pile...if you lock up that jelly doughnut in your footlocker, it's going to make it very hard for people to steal it.
This is actually a very clever legislative compromise...we can still steal cars, sell drugs and kill hookers in Grand Theft Auto, but now the game stars Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen.
...can't microsoft simply activate his internal brain chip implant and have him return to base ?
Man, evil corporations just aren't what they used to be. Back in my day, if one of your most valuable henchmen left your organization, you threw him into the shark pool and laughed manically at his screams. Of couse, back then, milk was a nickle and we used to call automobiles "trolley boxes"
"That Darn Chauncey" gets updated every weekday...the strips have a large, regular fanbase for its crudely drawn, but wickedly funny perspectives on relationships. Plus, most of the time, it's just too weird...
Not to preach network TV as dogma, but I think some sort of community voting system might have done this contest proud. There's a huge difference between doing a webcomic five times a week, and doing a "good" webcomic five times a week. Maybe if people voted off these ones who were just "phoning it in" this would be a kinda interesting concept...
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Damn e-commerce ! (shakes fist at the sky)
I'm still waiting for that agreement to go through where we trade the vocal cords of Brendon Frazier for the suspension of the Iranian nuclear weapons program...
In other signs of what is to come with the AU-US Federal trade agreement coming into force, actor Paul Hogan of the "Crocodile Dundee" movies has been removed to an undisclosed location and beaten to death with large stones.
I thought it said "Metallica's Law" which, says that you have to ROCK HARD and ROCK OFTEN !! Oh, and they'll sue you if you copy their CD's. Oh, and they're on VH1 now.
You're just mad because they're not releasing the directors cut of "Gigli" in Europe (with over three hours of informative "behind the scenes" interviews !!) That, my friend, is pure cinema gold.
Everytime they do even the most minor thing, or are even "rumored" to be doing something, post a Slashdot story about it ("Google rumored to become next phone company. Google rumored to be buying Apple. Google knitting you a sweater for your birthday")
Seriously. No explosions or Ben Affleck or anything. It's usually just people sitting around smoking and eating cheese in black and white. Who wouldn't want to talk through that ?
Now game designers have roughly the same expectations in the workplace as...hmmmm...McDonald's fry cooks. How enlightened of them.
And I think that if all the "Star Wars" fans help me raise $30 million dollars to give to George Lucas, it could happen.
It's a rich and vibrant culture those Japanese have, I tell you.
Now it'll take four to eight weeks for my phone number to appear in the directory.
...in Russia, a new site called "ALLOFPEARPC" is selling the software for mere pennies. Apparently, there's no law against selling it, you know...
Does this mean Apple is going to be fined $500,000 for suing all those fan based websites ? I mean, heck, that's "Corporate Suicide" right ?
Are you kidding ? Nintendo may dominate the handheld market (although, check back when PSP arrives) but their console business (ie: GameCube) has been a distant third in terms of overall sales to Sony and Microsoft since the GameCube made its debut.
Milk was a nickle, and cars were called "trolley boxes" And I seem to remember walking five miles in the snow to school. Each way. Even during the summer.
Man, that sucked. I sure am glad we have Firefox now.
It was late at night.
I was alone in the house.
The lamp next to me suddenly switched itself off (I keep it on a timer, since I go out of town frequently) That unnerved me so much, I stopped the game and turned it back on (keep in mind, I'm a grown adult, for christsakes)
Something burst through a mirror in the game, and it scared the living hell out of me. And that's when I realized that I was totally immersed, to the point where I stopped and thought "Damn, these aren't going to be for kids anymore..." and they weren't.
It's a great series, and Nintendo was smart to offer them an assload of cash to get the rights. But I also remember the inital announcements proclaiming "exculsive" -- and I remember how quickly that deal got redefined as "exculsive...at first, but we might port to another system later..."
Nintendo has no one to blame but themselves. Years ago, PlayStation and Xbox made concious efforts to market towards an older market, and Nintendo stuck with kids. Even now, there are less "adult" titles for GameCube, and a huge perception that Nintendo is a kids toy. GameCube even looks like a toy; small, brightly colored buttons on the controller, no built-in online, no hard drive (fyi - that's the feature that makes the xbox my favorite...never filling a memory card again with saved games) Sure there have been a few "darker" games, but not enough to shift the perception away from jumping on mushrooms and playing a magical flute. Even though their sales did go up last year, it was because kids wanted to play Pokemon, Zelda, and Mario Kart. Not a lot of adults want to play Pokemon (and those that do, keep them away from your children)
I'd buy a system if it had an exculsive game that I really, really wanted, but I gotta think I'm the minority. The next Resident Evil game might not be on GameCube, whatever people say. Contracts and agreements get broken if there's cash to be had. And like it or not, being "a best selling game exclusive to GameCube" is sort of like "having sex with your best looking cousin at the wedding" Sure, it's nice, but not really anything to brag about.
THEN BREAKFAST WILL BE COMPLETE !!! MWAHAHAHAHA !!
THEN, you can fix "social engineering"
What employees need to do is follow the very simple instructions they're given. Change your password regularly. Don't make it obvious. Log out of the system when you're done. Don't use the same password at every site you visit. Etc...
It's simple, Private Pile...if you lock up that jelly doughnut in your footlocker, it's going to make it very hard for people to steal it.
This is actually a very clever legislative compromise...we can still steal cars, sell drugs and kill hookers in Grand Theft Auto, but now the game stars Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen.
Man, evil corporations just aren't what they used to be. Back in my day, if one of your most valuable henchmen left your organization, you threw him into the shark pool and laughed manically at his screams. Of couse, back then, milk was a nickle and we used to call automobiles "trolley boxes"
"Dude...you're not...like...my father, are you ? Whoaaa..total bummer, dude !!"
http://www.stupidchildren.com/darn_chauncey_1.html
Not to preach network TV as dogma, but I think some sort of community voting system might have done this contest proud. There's a huge difference between doing a webcomic five times a week, and doing a "good" webcomic five times a week. Maybe if people voted off these ones who were just "phoning it in" this would be a kinda interesting concept...