What are the advantages of having an online Office Suite? I'd say that the disadvantages include: security issues, slow speed, dependance on internet connection, limited features, harder to program, and probably many others. What is the point?
Personally, I don't respect computer programs. As a firefox user, I would consider switching to IE7 if it was easier to use or had better features than firefox.
The level of "journalism" being shown here is incredibly poor. I often wonder if there is a conspirac in place to demonise video games in print media. Since many print media outlets and tv stations lose income to online activities.
Not just videogames. The media always needs a boogeyman, whether it be radio, comic books, television, videogames or the internet.
I noticed your godgab website lists "buddhism" as a religion. It is not religion. it is a philosphopy.
The Buddha was a temporal, mortal man.
Please stop insulting Buddhist by associating their practices with those theists who suspsend reason (religions).
Karma, nirvana, ritual and rebirth. That fits my definition of religion. Of course, you should feel free to argue your points on the website.
Recently got done with a job search; didn't get any worthwhile responses until I posted my resume on craigslist, and out of that I got two great offers.
Just out of curiousity, but do you have a good education and lots of experience? It's too bad, but I'm not sure that method would work for all of us.
Nothing is more annoying than some C-average H.R. major who didn't even bother to look at your name until the phone was ringing, say "So tell me what it is you do!"
I think I spoke with that person recently. I emailed a resume in both pdf and opendocument format to an HR manager recently. I also included a link to my online, html format resume. Guess what the reply email that I recieved 3 weeks later said? "I couldn't open your resume, can you send it in word?". Shit!
I always find it funny when they require ten years of experience and don't pay nearly enough money. I actually just had an interview this morning for an electronics assembly position that pays minimum wage! I have friends with only their highschool and no experience making 4 times that much in unskilled labor positions.
More jobs. If you aren't searching nationally (which most people aren't) or leaving the fields blank ; there aren't more than one or two matches. Even these are mostly fake jobs listed from headhunters and placement agencies looking to expand their pool of workers. I'd also like to see less competition between the job websites. I don't like checking 15 websites for a job every day.
PS: For Canadian bums like me that are looking for a job, check this site out.
I did RTFA. I'll still contend that a good percentage of comic book readers are sharper than this fool. As with any media, comic books follow Sturgeon's Law, 90% are shite. But the other 10% are remarkable. They fly under the political/pop-culture radar, so they often address topics that are too controversial for other media. They must be concise due to the nature of the medium. Due to their stigma , they are generally not pretentious (not counting "art" comics which are the cause of all the woes of the world). Finally, due to the low relative cost of the medium it is possible get quirky innovative work accepted without focus-grouping and endless marketing driven script doctoring.
I can't disagree with that. There really are a lot of great comic books out there, and I'm sure that the people who read them are more literate than the average person.
Um, comic book generation? Has this fellow just recieved "Seduction of the Innocent" via Pony Express? The average Generation Y kid has seldom seen a comic book, they don't show up on the news stand anymore. The average of the modern comic book reader is 34 and the level of the high end of the comic book market is considerably more literate than this fool.
I had a similar rant written out, but I decided to read the article before I hit the reply button. The author is refering to the 34 year olds that you mentioned.
or example Warren Ellis'es issue of Planetary "Death Machine Telemetry" discusses the afterlife, nanotechnology, Richard Feynman, the Delphic oracle (and speculations on the biochemical nature of the fumes they inhaled) and the Kabbalah in one brilliant episode.
That is not an average comic book.;)
Given that a huge percentage of the population read manga over in Japan, and use e-mail and texting, this must account for their horrific litteracy rates. Horrifically high that is.
I thought that the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis had been written off by linguists?
You should possibly think about posting a link or definition when mentioning obscure things like that.
In linguistics, the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis (SWH) states that there is a systematic relationship between the grammatical categories of the language a person speaks and how that person both understands the world and behaves in it. This controversial hypothesis is named after the linguist and anthropologist Edward Sapir and his colleague and student Benjamin Whorf.
I worked in an office where one the the higher-ups capitalized the first letter of every line in his writing. Every generation has it's dummies. Personally I think the instant messenger talk is the new shorthand.
Is spam burning out, finding new markets, or are people just continuing to send spam even if they don't make a profit on it?
Well I'm pretty sure someone is making a profit out of it. It costs next to nothing to send a million emails, and there are a lot of dumbasses out there.
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What's better than an indy game? A free, open source and cross platform indy game with easily downloadable user created content.
Lower prices mean more sales. Umm, what else is there to say?
What are the advantages of having an online Office Suite? I'd say that the disadvantages include: security issues, slow speed, dependance on internet connection, limited features, harder to program, and probably many others. What is the point?
Personally, I don't respect computer programs. As a firefox user, I would consider switching to IE7 if it was easier to use or had better features than firefox.
The level of "journalism" being shown here is incredibly poor. I often wonder if there is a conspirac in place to demonise video games in print media. Since many print media outlets and tv stations lose income to online activities.
Not just videogames. The media always needs a boogeyman, whether it be radio, comic books, television, videogames or the internet.
Thanks for the tip. I wasn't aware that it was possible to do that.
I noticed your godgab website lists "buddhism" as a religion. It is not religion. it is a philosphopy. The Buddha was a temporal, mortal man. Please stop insulting Buddhist by associating their practices with those theists who suspsend reason (religions).
Karma, nirvana, ritual and rebirth. That fits my definition of religion. Of course, you should feel free to argue your points on the website.
Recently got done with a job search; didn't get any worthwhile responses until I posted my resume on craigslist, and out of that I got two great offers.
Just out of curiousity, but do you have a good education and lots of experience? It's too bad, but I'm not sure that method would work for all of us.
There's a lot of people that don't have a degree in engineering that still need to pay the bills. We need to know where the jobs are.
Okay, but you better be right!
Very cool site. Any chance you guys are hiring ;)
Nothing is more annoying than some C-average H.R. major who didn't even bother to look at your name until the phone was ringing, say "So tell me what it is you do!"
I think I spoke with that person recently. I emailed a resume in both pdf and opendocument format to an HR manager recently. I also included a link to my online, html format resume. Guess what the reply email that I recieved 3 weeks later said? "I couldn't open your resume, can you send it in word?". Shit!
There's also the secret shopper scams on every job site that I have used.
I always find it funny when they require ten years of experience and don't pay nearly enough money. I actually just had an interview this morning for an electronics assembly position that pays minimum wage! I have friends with only their highschool and no experience making 4 times that much in unskilled labor positions.
More jobs. If you aren't searching nationally (which most people aren't) or leaving the fields blank ; there aren't more than one or two matches. Even these are mostly fake jobs listed from headhunters and placement agencies looking to expand their pool of workers. I'd also like to see less competition between the job websites. I don't like checking 15 websites for a job every day.
PS: For Canadian bums like me that are looking for a job, check this site out.
financially successful Enter The Matrix
Which means the game wasn't succesful with fans. The only good part of the game was the cutscenes.
I did RTFA. I'll still contend that a good percentage of comic book readers are sharper than this fool. As with any media, comic books follow Sturgeon's Law, 90% are shite. But the other 10% are remarkable. They fly under the political/pop-culture radar, so they often address topics that are too controversial for other media. They must be concise due to the nature of the medium. Due to their stigma , they are generally not pretentious (not counting "art" comics which are the cause of all the woes of the world). Finally, due to the low relative cost of the medium it is possible get quirky innovative work accepted without focus-grouping and endless marketing driven script doctoring.
I can't disagree with that. There really are a lot of great comic books out there, and I'm sure that the people who read them are more literate than the average person.
I had a similar rant written out, but I decided to read the article before I hit the reply button. The author is refering to the 34 year olds that you mentioned.
That is not an average comic book.
Exactly my thoughts.
You should possibly think about posting a link or definition when mentioning obscure things like that.
If you hate the "piss-poor quality of writing" on this site, why do you still come here? It just seems like a strange sort of masochism to me.
Probably to feel superior and look down on the rest of us. He's probably a wine snob too that doesn't get this new music.
I worked in an office where one the the higher-ups capitalized the first letter of every line in his writing. Every generation has it's dummies. Personally I think the instant messenger talk is the new shorthand.
You could always make try to hack your own peripheral.
Is spam burning out, finding new markets, or are people just continuing to send spam even if they don't make a profit on it?
Well I'm pretty sure someone is making a profit out of it. It costs next to nothing to send a million emails, and there are a lot of dumbasses out there.
Yeah, that's kind of like Compaq suing over reverse engineering, isn't it?
30% say that they just don't want it.
Old people...