Interesting how your government always steps in when mob profits are at stake.
Human rights..not so much, constitutional attacks..not so much, environmental devastation..no not that either. But organized crime profits at risk sure do get them off their ass.
I have been increasingly dissatisfied with Sony's quality and dealing with their customer support was infuriating. I never recommend Sony for anything any more. Maybe the videogame business unit is better but I just don't want to deal with these people ever again for any reason. I consider them nothing but a buch of petty criminals from my personal experiences.
Rogue/Hack/NetHack were old school. These would be mentioned more if the average videogame columnist was old enough to shave...and those games are only if you don't count Zork.
So when someone uses the name of my business (that does not have a web presence) and they advertise on my registered business name would they not owe me money for profiting from my trademarked or copyrighted business name? Maybe I should ask them when my check is coming.
"..IT workers who are disgruntled, paranoid, generally show up late, argue with colleagues, and generally perform poorly."
First off if you populate your IT staff with prozac junkie yes men who always do what management thinks they want then you won't need to be sabotaged.
But it is good to know that the problem isn't workers being screwed over by sleaze bag corporations with no real recourse. Apparently taking direct action against people who really do deserve every bad thing that can happen to a human being is the problem.
You can't have the sheep standing on their hind legs.
Maybe the real question is how we can get the social parasites out of the board room and into the cages where they belong.
I'm probably paranoid.. I hope I'm paranoid enough.
I would like to see a study on how many companies who got sabotaged deserved worse than what they got.
If they government won't pull the corporate charter of sleazy companies then it is the right and obligation of people to crush these companies out of existence. Corporations exist for the common good as well as that of the shareholders. If you read the history behind why companies were granted these powers it's pretty clear that they are welching on the deal. It's not only unfair for the people victimized by these corporations but it is unfair for the honest companies who have to compete against them on unequal terms.
Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital. -Aaron Levenstein
My experience trying to use technology from universities is pretty bleak.
First of all there is an arrogant attitude permeating academia that I simply won't tolerate.
Real things are learned in the real world. School in the best case scenario just smoothes out the learning curve.
Very few students or staff have any tangible experience with the real world and it causes problems when trying to accomplish anything.
Personally I no longer waste my time with school children.
Emotion in media does not have much to do with screen resolution in fact surprisingly the opposite is true.
It seems that media (called cool media) where the consumer's brain can fill in the blanks is more emotionally immersive. Interactivity also cools the media which is why/. is so much more fun than the newspaper.
If you're interested in that sort of stuff then there is simply no better book than Marshall McLuhan's "Understanding Media:The Extensions of Man".
Something like the Wii invokes emotion by an inductive process of using physical sympathy with the character to create immersion and emotional empathy. This is why HD graphics were not a priority on the Wii.
I've actually designed and done proof of concept on a system where a galvanic skin response meter is used along with a coil for breath rate and a pulse monitor to determine changes in stress levels.
This is great for horror games. By exposing the user to a calibration sequence of stimuli like spiders, rats, simulated falling etc you can fairly accurately determine what really freaks people out and use that against them.
The effect is that if rats scare them then rats will scurry out of every corner. If spiders make their blood run cold then the place will crawl with them. It's kind of like dynamically generating their own personalized nightmare.
It's a simple database selection to change one type of monster to another and if I ever get funding for it then you'll see just how emotionally interactive a video game can be.
That's the sad reality of the industry. Information Technology people are supposed to be able to do their jobs effectively without information. It's sort of like hiring a carpenter and not giving them any proper wood..then blaming the carpenter for not growing a tree out of their ass.
The mistakes I usually see are these: -Not having any documentation -Storing it in a big fileshare directory (not a bad first step toward having documentation) -Storing it in a different place for every group -Adding it to a big web site that only web admins can edit -Punishing low level techs for updating documentation in their call statistics -Using systems that do not allow peer updates (the ONLY way to keep a knowledge base current) -Using systems that don't allow keyword/phrase searching -Using systems that don't allow for odd formats like pdfs or visio docs -Designating editors/reviewers and then not allocating any time to do the actual work on an ongoing basis
I also get a lot of push back from techs who think that the only reason everything is being documented is so that their job can be given to someone in India. Usually they are absolutely correct in that assumption.
Maybe the more relevant question is how we can prevent smart people from wasting their lives working for morons.
If you are the CEO or any senior exec of a public company you have to sign a piece of paper that commits you legally to chasing profit for the stock holders.
If there was any commitment from government toward making society better then maybe there would be repercussions for certain activities that would punish execs who do things like screw up the environment or rip off their customers.
Since corporations run government maybe we should get to vote for CEOs. Then we could call our system a democracy again.
I think I should be able to claim my Hunter's pets as live stock. My Warlock's minions I'm claiming as dependants. Repair costs on armor and potions used are business expenses. Can I joint file with my wife in Fable? She's a much lower tax bracket. Anything I spend on my guild is a professional association deduction. How much depreciation can I claim on my epics once the Burning Crusade comes out? Can I claim a religious exemption on my priest?
Since most of the services the government delivers are just the supply of speculative fiction why not tax fictitious assets to pay for wars about fictitious threats?
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Interesting how your government always steps in when mob profits are at stake. Human rights..not so much, constitutional attacks..not so much, environmental devastation..no not that either. But organized crime profits at risk sure do get them off their ass.
I think the old Beachcombers episodes dubbed into French should all be uploaded into YouTube just to make everyone happy.
I have been increasingly dissatisfied with Sony's quality and dealing with their customer support was infuriating.
I never recommend Sony for anything any more.
Maybe the videogame business unit is better but I just don't want to deal with these people ever again for any reason.
I consider them nothing but a buch of petty criminals from my personal experiences.
Rogue/Hack/NetHack were old school. ..and those games are only if you don't count Zork.
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These would be mentioned more if the average videogame columnist was old enough to shave.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogue_(computer_game
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nethack
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zork
So when someone uses the name of my business (that does not have a web presence) and they advertise on my registered business name would they not owe me money for profiting from my trademarked or copyrighted business name?
Maybe I should ask them when my check is coming.
The inventor of LSD also had an epiphany like that ..then things started to melt.
"..IT workers who are disgruntled, paranoid, generally show up late, argue with colleagues, and generally perform poorly." First off if you populate your IT staff with prozac junkie yes men who always do what management thinks they want then you won't need to be sabotaged. But it is good to know that the problem isn't workers being screwed over by sleaze bag corporations with no real recourse. Apparently taking direct action against people who really do deserve every bad thing that can happen to a human being is the problem. You can't have the sheep standing on their hind legs. Maybe the real question is how we can get the social parasites out of the board room and into the cages where they belong. I'm probably paranoid .. I hope I'm paranoid enough.
I would like to see a study on how many companies who got sabotaged deserved worse than what they got.
If they government won't pull the corporate charter of sleazy companies then it is the right and obligation of people to crush these companies out of existence. Corporations exist for the common good as well as that of the shareholders. If you read the history behind why companies were granted these powers it's pretty clear that they are welching on the deal. It's not only unfair for the people victimized by these corporations but it is unfair for the honest companies who have to compete against them on unequal terms.
Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital. -Aaron Levenstein
My experience trying to use technology from universities is pretty bleak. First of all there is an arrogant attitude permeating academia that I simply won't tolerate. Real things are learned in the real world. School in the best case scenario just smoothes out the learning curve. Very few students or staff have any tangible experience with the real world and it causes problems when trying to accomplish anything. Personally I no longer waste my time with school children.
Emotion in media does not have much to do with screen resolution in fact surprisingly the opposite is true.
/. is so much more fun than the newspaper.
It seems that media (called cool media) where the consumer's brain can fill in the blanks is more emotionally immersive. Interactivity also cools the media which is why
If you're interested in that sort of stuff then there is simply no better book than Marshall McLuhan's "Understanding Media:The Extensions of Man".
Here's the Wiki page on McLuhan for those who don't read dead trees http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_McLuhan
Something like the Wii invokes emotion by an inductive process of using physical sympathy with the character to create immersion and emotional empathy. This is why HD graphics were not a priority on the Wii.
I've actually designed and done proof of concept on a system where a galvanic skin response meter is used along with a coil for breath rate and a pulse monitor to determine changes in stress levels.
This is great for horror games.
By exposing the user to a calibration sequence of stimuli like spiders, rats, simulated falling etc you can fairly accurately determine what really freaks people out and use that against them.
The effect is that if rats scare them then rats will scurry out of every corner. If spiders make their blood run cold then the place will crawl with them.
It's kind of like dynamically generating their own personalized nightmare.
It's a simple database selection to change one type of monster to another and if I ever get funding for it then you'll see just how emotionally interactive a video game can be.
Here's a link to the affective computing project at MIT http://affect.media.mit.edu/index.php
They've done some great lab/theory work but failed to put it to any good use as is typical of academia.
That's the sad reality of the industry.
Information Technology people are supposed to be able to do their jobs effectively without information.
It's sort of like hiring a carpenter and not giving them any proper wood..then blaming the carpenter for not growing a tree out of their ass.
The mistakes I usually see are these:
-Not having any documentation
-Storing it in a big fileshare directory (not a bad first step toward having documentation)
-Storing it in a different place for every group
-Adding it to a big web site that only web admins can edit
-Punishing low level techs for updating documentation in their call statistics
-Using systems that do not allow peer updates (the ONLY way to keep a knowledge base current)
-Using systems that don't allow keyword/phrase searching
-Using systems that don't allow for odd formats like pdfs or visio docs
-Designating editors/reviewers and then not allocating any time to do the actual work on an ongoing basis
I also get a lot of push back from techs who think that the only reason everything is being documented is so that their job can be given to someone in India. Usually they are absolutely correct in that assumption.
Maybe the more relevant question is how we can prevent smart people from wasting their lives working for morons.
If you are the CEO or any senior exec of a public company you have to sign a piece of paper that commits you legally to chasing profit for the stock holders.
If there was any commitment from government toward making society better then maybe there would be repercussions for certain activities that would punish execs who do things like screw up the environment or rip off their customers.
Since corporations run government maybe we should get to vote for CEOs.
Then we could call our system a democracy again.
I think I should be able to claim my Hunter's pets as live stock.
My Warlock's minions I'm claiming as dependants.
Repair costs on armor and potions used are business expenses.
Can I joint file with my wife in Fable? She's a much lower tax bracket.
Anything I spend on my guild is a professional association deduction.
How much depreciation can I claim on my epics once the Burning Crusade comes out?
Can I claim a religious exemption on my priest?
Since most of the services the government delivers are just the supply of speculative fiction why not tax fictitious assets to pay for wars about fictitious threats?