products that cost less:
is this evil (as so many walmart haters like to label)? and dont say that chinese products are shit, there is some very high quality stuff coming out of china (despite the fear campaign the media is pushing)
putting people who barely make enough money to survive out of business:
maybe these people need to do something else to make a living if it is so bad. how about if I move into town and open a tiny store that takes away their customers? does that make me evil, or am i just another guy with a successful small business? how large does my business need to be in order to be classified as 'evil'?
being anti-union:
shutting down a store to curb what could be an epidemic in their organization? you know what unions do, right? they organize workers so that they can pressure the organization for more benefits/money/vacation/whatever, otherwise the workers dont work. whether this is necessary at walmart, i do not know, but i do understand entirely why walmart canned them: because that was the only way to handle it.
im not a regular walmart shopper. hell, there isnt even a walmart IN my town (closest one is 100 miles away), but there are some (not all of them, of course) shitty small businesses either running local rackets or offer little service/products because they can get away with it. a walmart (or any other nationwide store) would force these shops to either improve their service or get shut down. the small store has every advantage when walmart moves in on them. they have an existing client base, a reliable location (and if not, they should have fixed that long ago), prices that arent exorbitant (if its a good business), and hopefully a good reputation in the community. if walmart can pop into any town and knock some barely-functioning businesses out, then where is the real problem?
Well, if it ever comes to that, what will stop you from using your old pre-rental workstation with software written by groups of people who wont put up with this crap, or even just yourself?
This is what a lot of people said when XP came out, and now everyone is using it and refusing to move to vista.
When the next vista-only killer app (game) comes out, everyone will bitch and moan about how MS is forcing them to upgrade -and then they'll upgrade. Fast-forward six years and "Vista SP2 is the best windows, i'll NEVER upgrade to Windows PecanPie (or whatever focus groups call it)!!"
Im not saying it cant be done, i run win2k when i have to use windows.
i think most people are more interested in having the cake and eating it rather than simply abstaining from cake.
denying yourself something you "need" (windows, cigarettes, the latest top-40 single) is a pretty tall order this day and age.
It is an excessive punishment, but they were being stupid to begin with.
And whats with the cute little story? Do you really think people need to be manipulated into thinking the punishment was too harsh?
At my place of employment, my boss' (the IT manager) schedule goes something like:
Arrive at work two hours late
Check the internet for 30min until the 1000 meeting
Muck up someone's workstation and pull someone from doing something important to fix it
Waste some money on crap and delay spending money on necessary supplies
Make a random problem an emergency and pull someone from doing something important to fix it
Go home shortly after lunch, maybe stay 'late' and leave about 1430
Iv always been under the impression that ; means the second command will run no matter what happens during the first command, and && will not execute anything further unless the first command exited without errors.
Using &&, if yum errored out because your internet is down, you dont reboot your system needlessly.
And I agree, the original "correction" was completely unnecessary.
I am 110% on board with parents taking an active role in the raising of their children, but how many good parents are there that have gangster-wannabe kids wearing pants around their knees and doing stupid shit during and after school? Lots.
Im not putting anything on video games, just saying that you can the best parent in the world, but your kid still has the ultimate decision on how he wants to be. Sometimes being parent of the year isnt enough.
Rockstar cares, because there are people who shop at walmart:
people that dont follow games that might see the game and buy it on a whim,
people who played the first and notice in the store that number two is out,
people who see a "mature" looking game and decide they need it,
people who think it might make a good gift for their moody kid,
people who want to pick it up on their way home after work,
etc...
Just because you and I purchase stuff online doesnt mean that everyone does, or even wants to.
Shit, 768k down at $10/mo is 128k faster and $55 cheaper than what i have now.
Greetings from interior Alaska.
That said, i still get about 5GB downloaded a day (24hrs), so unless youre downloading DVD9s, the wait isnt too bad for most things.
It hurts when I think of when I was in Japan, though. We had fibre running from the phone pole to the switch upstairs and enough bandwidth that I maxed out my concurrent usenet provider connection limit before the bandwidth ran out -and that was only about $30USD/mo.
I know that upscaling can make things look nicer, but those pics they used to show it off sucked ass!
It looks to me like the PS3 just blurs the picture, I'm sure they could do a better job on comparison pics than what is up there now.
Im sure that with all the rabid halo/anti-nintendo kids on the net, the bungie mario bros clone will be better than any mario game. Mario is for kids, bungie games arent -and all that.
It also seems kind of unbalanced.
Miyamoto claiming he can make something like a complicated "next-gen" fps, and bungie guy claiming he can make something like an uncomplicated-by-design sidescroller that could be just as easily done on an NES. yeah, i would take that challenge too.
I was debating the poster's opinion. I took the post seriously, and I responded with what I considered to be content that rebutted the posted opinion. So what is your objection to this? Does "embrace" mean that I have to agree? I don't think so!
I'll go out on a limb and say more people like you should have mod points. That would solve the problem of having to hide your identity when you have an unpopular opinion. I think thats the point the original poster was trying to make, that slashdot's messed up, not you specifically.
The word "this" from "The US isnt foisting this on anyone else" would be me saying that the US isnt forcing this on anyone else. Let me know if i need to repeat it again.
A guy who cannot comprehend that simple sentence represents 49% of the US population?
You didnt say it, but this is awfully close to blaming the US for most of the world's (current and future) problems.
If another country decides to follow in the US' footsteps, thats their choice. The US isnt foisting this on anyone else. If its a bad idea, then maybe the other countries that adopt it need their citizens to rethink who they elected last time around and not blame the US for their own weird politicians.
When did breaking simple rules become the authorities fault? At least on slashdot, it seems that if you arent some kind of social activist (or in this case, deviant) then youre automatically the bad guy.
This is on the Army's network. Youre only on the Army's network when youre at work or when youre on TDY.
If your spouse is using a workstation connected to the army network, then they would obviously fall under the same rules.
Did you know that if you plug personal hardware into an Army workstation (mp3 player, usb flash, keyboard, whatever) then the army takes ownership of it? [sarcasm]THE ARMY IS STEALING EVERYTHING YOU OWN!![/sarcasm]
These are old regs that have been slightly modified and affect no one outside of work. Slow news day + popular distrust of the government = this article. The its a shock-piece and little more.
By the way, you can get the document that wired "obtained" from this public website: http://www.army.mil/usapa/epubs/
because the Army is trying to secretly stifle the rights of its workers.
So, because the democrats won Ohio in 2006, did the republicans try to steal the election and not do a good enough job, did the democrats steal the election, or did the democrats win fair and square because theyre saints?
Nevermind, stupid question to ask in these parts...
Xenogears was so text-heavy because it didnt have FMV, but people who enjoyed the game were people who were interested in the story being told. I think its the same thing with MGS. Yes, youre not playing it, but its furthering the plot in ways that wouldnt be possible or as effective if you were playing through the same situation. FMV is good when it isnt just filler or a place to show off something neat looking. I see most of the FF FMVs as technical showcases with little substance (much like the FF movie).
I played all the way through Xenosaga because i was interested in the story, and the FMVs told it well. I admit though, that I gave up on Xenosaga Episode 2. The battles were too long and tedious, even for minor enemies. It sucked all the joy out of unfolding the story.
If you have played Super Paper Mario then you would understand that its completely different from its predecessors and doesnt play like much else out there.
If I start using apostrophes in my posts on slashdot, does that mean that everyone else will use apostrophes? Nintendo did their part, the ports and rehashes from other companies arent their fault.
Super Swing Golf doesnt get any talk, but I absolutely love it. Its got deeper swing mechanics than the Tiger Woods game for wii, allowing me to slice in the game as much as I do in real life.
It isnt realistic, but that adds to the fun. If you like golf, this is a solid buy. Its also a great party game, even if you have only one controller.
NiGHTS was an awesome idea and felt new because of the (analog) controller, it being on any other system would be cool, but definitely a cop-out in the control sense.
The Wii will offer a potentially amazing new control method, and I'll buy it, but I think that NiGHTS would really shine on the DS. The stylus would work perfectly.
Anyway, wonderful news. Hopefully it will live up to the original and sell well.
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products that cost less:
is this evil (as so many walmart haters like to label)? and dont say that chinese products are shit, there is some very high quality stuff coming out of china (despite the fear campaign the media is pushing)
putting people who barely make enough money to survive out of business:
maybe these people need to do something else to make a living if it is so bad. how about if I move into town and open a tiny store that takes away their customers? does that make me evil, or am i just another guy with a successful small business? how large does my business need to be in order to be classified as 'evil'?
being anti-union:
shutting down a store to curb what could be an epidemic in their organization? you know what unions do, right? they organize workers so that they can pressure the organization for more benefits/money/vacation/whatever, otherwise the workers dont work. whether this is necessary at walmart, i do not know, but i do understand entirely why walmart canned them: because that was the only way to handle it.
im not a regular walmart shopper. hell, there isnt even a walmart IN my town (closest one is 100 miles away), but there are some (not all of them, of course) shitty small businesses either running local rackets or offer little service/products because they can get away with it. a walmart (or any other nationwide store) would force these shops to either improve their service or get shut down. the small store has every advantage when walmart moves in on them. they have an existing client base, a reliable location (and if not, they should have fixed that long ago), prices that arent exorbitant (if its a good business), and hopefully a good reputation in the community. if walmart can pop into any town and knock some barely-functioning businesses out, then where is the real problem?
Well, if it ever comes to that, what will stop you from using your old pre-rental workstation with software written by groups of people who wont put up with this crap, or even just yourself?
This is what a lot of people said when XP came out, and now everyone is using it and refusing to move to vista.
When the next vista-only killer app (game) comes out, everyone will bitch and moan about how MS is forcing them to upgrade -and then they'll upgrade. Fast-forward six years and "Vista SP2 is the best windows, i'll NEVER upgrade to Windows PecanPie (or whatever focus groups call it)!!"
Im not saying it cant be done, i run win2k when i have to use windows.
i think most people are more interested in having the cake and eating it rather than simply abstaining from cake.
denying yourself something you "need" (windows, cigarettes, the latest top-40 single) is a pretty tall order this day and age.
It is an excessive punishment, but they were being stupid to begin with.
And whats with the cute little story? Do you really think people need to be manipulated into thinking the punishment was too harsh?
You mean that juries are made up of people who wont lie to get out of it and show up willingly?
Who would want to be in the hands of THOSE people?!
At my place of employment, my boss' (the IT manager) schedule goes something like:
Arrive at work two hours late
Check the internet for 30min until the 1000 meeting
Muck up someone's workstation and pull someone from doing something important to fix it
Waste some money on crap and delay spending money on necessary supplies
Make a random problem an emergency and pull someone from doing something important to fix it
Go home shortly after lunch, maybe stay 'late' and leave about 1430
No, I'm not bitter at all ^_^
Iv always been under the impression that ; means the second command will run no matter what happens during the first command, and && will not execute anything further unless the first command exited without errors.
Using &&, if yum errored out because your internet is down, you dont reboot your system needlessly.
And I agree, the original "correction" was completely unnecessary.
I am 110% on board with parents taking an active role in the raising of their children, but how many good parents are there that have gangster-wannabe kids wearing pants around their knees and doing stupid shit during and after school? Lots.
Im not putting anything on video games, just saying that you can the best parent in the world, but your kid still has the ultimate decision on how he wants to be. Sometimes being parent of the year isnt enough.
Rockstar cares, because there are people who shop at walmart:
people that dont follow games that might see the game and buy it on a whim,
people who played the first and notice in the store that number two is out,
people who see a "mature" looking game and decide they need it, people who think it might make a good gift for their moody kid,
people who want to pick it up on their way home after work,
etc...
Just because you and I purchase stuff online doesnt mean that everyone does, or even wants to.
Shit, 768k down at $10/mo is 128k faster and $55 cheaper than what i have now.
Greetings from interior Alaska.
That said, i still get about 5GB downloaded a day (24hrs), so unless youre downloading DVD9s, the wait isnt too bad for most things.
It hurts when I think of when I was in Japan, though. We had fibre running from the phone pole to the switch upstairs and enough bandwidth that I maxed out my concurrent usenet provider connection limit before the bandwidth ran out -and that was only about $30USD/mo.
I know that upscaling can make things look nicer, but those pics they used to show it off sucked ass!
It looks to me like the PS3 just blurs the picture, I'm sure they could do a better job on comparison pics than what is up there now.
Im sure that with all the rabid halo/anti-nintendo kids on the net, the bungie mario bros clone will be better than any mario game.
Mario is for kids, bungie games arent -and all that.
It also seems kind of unbalanced.
Miyamoto claiming he can make something like a complicated "next-gen" fps, and bungie guy claiming he can make something like an uncomplicated-by-design sidescroller that could be just as easily done on an NES.
yeah, i would take that challenge too.
I'll go out on a limb and say more people like you should have mod points. That would solve the problem of having to hide your identity when you have an unpopular opinion. I think thats the point the original poster was trying to make, that slashdot's messed up, not you specifically.
The word "this" from "The US isnt foisting this on anyone else" would be me saying that the US isnt forcing this on anyone else. Let me know if i need to repeat it again.
A guy who cannot comprehend that simple sentence represents 49% of the US population?
You didnt say it, but this is awfully close to blaming the US for most of the world's (current and future) problems.
If another country decides to follow in the US' footsteps, thats their choice. The US isnt foisting this on anyone else. If its a bad idea, then maybe the other countries that adopt it need their citizens to rethink who they elected last time around and not blame the US for their own weird politicians.
If I had mod points, you would get them.
When did breaking simple rules become the authorities fault? At least on slashdot, it seems that if you arent some kind of social activist (or in this case, deviant) then youre automatically the bad guy.
This is on the Army's network. Youre only on the Army's network when youre at work or when youre on TDY.
If your spouse is using a workstation connected to the army network, then they would obviously fall under the same rules.
Did you know that if you plug personal hardware into an Army workstation (mp3 player, usb flash, keyboard, whatever) then the army takes ownership of it?
[sarcasm]THE ARMY IS STEALING EVERYTHING YOU OWN!![/sarcasm]
These are old regs that have been slightly modified and affect no one outside of work. Slow news day + popular distrust of the government = this article. The its a shock-piece and little more.
By the way, you can get the document that wired "obtained" from this public website:
http://www.army.mil/usapa/epubs/
because the Army is trying to secretly stifle the rights of its workers.
So, because the democrats won Ohio in 2006, did the republicans try to steal the election and not do a good enough job, did the democrats steal the election, or did the democrats win fair and square because theyre saints?
Nevermind, stupid question to ask in these parts...
Xenogears was so text-heavy because it didnt have FMV, but people who enjoyed the game were people who were interested in the story being told. I think its the same thing with MGS. Yes, youre not playing it, but its furthering the plot in ways that wouldnt be possible or as effective if you were playing through the same situation. FMV is good when it isnt just filler or a place to show off something neat looking. I see most of the FF FMVs as technical showcases with little substance (much like the FF movie).
I played all the way through Xenosaga because i was interested in the story, and the FMVs told it well. I admit though, that I gave up on Xenosaga Episode 2. The battles were too long and tedious, even for minor enemies. It sucked all the joy out of unfolding the story.
How can you list off FFVI music without mentioning the opera music?!
And yeah, amazing soundtrack. I could play each song in its entirety in my head simply from your descriptions of when/where they played.
If you have played Super Paper Mario then you would understand that its completely different from its predecessors and doesnt play like much else out there.
If I start using apostrophes in my posts on slashdot, does that mean that everyone else will use apostrophes?
Nintendo did their part, the ports and rehashes from other companies arent their fault.
Perhaps because the original NiGHTS game was awesome and they have high hopes for the sequel?
Based on the news youve read, is there any other answer?
Super Swing Golf doesnt get any talk, but I absolutely love it. Its got deeper swing mechanics than the Tiger Woods game for wii, allowing me to slice in the game as much as I do in real life.
It isnt realistic, but that adds to the fun. If you like golf, this is a solid buy. Its also a great party game, even if you have only one controller.
NiGHTS was an awesome idea and felt new because of the (analog) controller, it being on any other system would be cool, but definitely a cop-out in the control sense.
The Wii will offer a potentially amazing new control method, and I'll buy it, but I think that NiGHTS would really shine on the DS. The stylus would work perfectly.
Anyway, wonderful news. Hopefully it will live up to the original and sell well.