Well, I'm sure as a human being he's a fine person. But when you're talking about electing him to public office, I'd be far more interested in how he ran his organization, since we'd be electing him to run OUR organization. So no, I do mean Microsoft, and I'm not interested so much in his qualities as a human being.
And I don't feel he ran his organization in any kind of ethical manner.
> The answer is that succesful politicians are not developed, they're bought.
There was an interesting piece on PBS some years back where they interviewed 4 former California governors at once: Davis, Wilson, Jerry Brown and... uh... someone whose name escapes me at the moment.
Anyway, there was an interesting discussion about what they'd do to 'fix' California if they could, and one of them was to -increase- the amount of time legislators were elected for. They said that the situation now was that the legislators were there for such a brief amount of time between elections that they basically had no time to learn how to do their jobs. When faced with this dilemma, these freshman legislators turn to the only people there with experience at the job at hand - the lobbyists, who have typically been around Sacramento for many years and know how to get things done. As the governors explained it, this is the mechanism by which lobbyists essentially buy laws.
Another thing they thought would be a good idea: pushing the legislature back to part-time, so they had less time to pass useless laws. Say what you will about Arnold, he's like the veto king. He vetoed more laws in his first month than previous governors did their entire term.
GWB Couldn't last a week in any engineering capacity--not just because he is an absolute idiot, but because he has no concept of responsibility, honesty, fairness, ethics
ok, and which of these qualities do you contend Gates posesses? I might buy 'responsibility,' but after that you'll have an argument on your hands.
> Thus, he would not be financed by donors with questionable motives or those with their own interests at heart.
People who say this drive me nuts. First: although he is rich, he didn't get that way by spending his own money when he didn't have to. Second: you have some kind of idea that because he's rich that he doesn't want any more money. How does that even start to make sense? I'll just go ahead and point out that Arnold here in CA has taken a bunch of money from special interests. And yet he's a multihojillionaire. HOW CAN THIS BE?!? Could it be that people always want more money, no matter how much they have? Hmmm.
Being a good businessman has nothing to do with being an effective President. Our government does not work like a business - it was specifically designed by the founding fathers not to.
The problem is that what he describes isn't how our government works. When Perot ran, he always talked about getting elected and goin' down to Warshington to "fix" stuff. Well, we have an entire system of government specifically designed to prevent that. The system just doesn't allow, nor should it allow, the president to "fix" things according to his desires.
ok, yeah, I just re-read that and it seems a little funny, given the last few years, but y'all know what I mean.
>If you let it be too efficient, then they do things like round up all the gays, communists, jews, and anyone else they dislike and throw them in jail.
this is about the dumbest thing I've read in some time. You're confusing a system of checks and balances with ineffiency.
> well, millions in the US reflected on the christian bible - all written 1800+ years ago, some written 3000+ years ago.
that doesn't make it [i]relevant commentary[/i]. It might be a good guide on general moral issues, of course, but that's not what we're talking about here.
I have a firm belief that US education started going down the toilet when they stopped teaching latin in schools. I am all for a strong grounding in the classics. But pretending like there's nothing new under the sun and that the situation now is the same as it was 3000, 100, or even 30 years ago is just not grounded in reality.
NEW YORK -- Reggie Fils-Aime, Nintendo of America president, is a man on a mission. His mission is to sell the red-hot Nintendo Wii and make sure people who have them love them.
"Are we feeling good about our success? Do we think we can have more success in the future? Absolutely," he said during a stuffed 40-minute interview with MTV News in a hotel just south of Central Park. "I do think that highlights a difference between us and our competitors: We're not arrogant. We don't view success as a right. We feel we need to earn success every day. And we're going to do that by being true to the gamer."
In the same hotel 51 weeks ago, Fils-Aime gave MTV News an early handle on the Nintendo Wii controller (see "First Look: Nintendo Revolution Controller Feels Smooth As Puppet Strings"). Now he's ready to talk about any Wii topic under the sun -- to a point.
"We're looking at this as about eight days into the mission," he said, opening with a report of the company's recent success. Nintendo has sold 600,000 Wiis in North America and nearly half as many extra Wii controllers, Fils-Aime said (see "Wii Unmasked: Nintendo Reveals Price, Launch Date, Lineup Of Games"). The company has also sold more than 450,000 copies of "The Legend of Zelda: The Twilight Princess." He said "Red Steel," "Rayman Raving Rabbids" and "Madden" all have sold well, as has the surgery game "Trauma Center: Second Opinion."
He offered a preview of the Wii's winter lineup. In addition to support from third-party game developers, Nintendo will publish three more titles for the Wii by the end of March: "WarioWare: Smooth Moves," "Wii Play" and "Mario Party 8." The first two will be released in January, the latter in March. All are compilations of shorter games.
"WarioWare" is a continuation of a popular series that barrages players with seconds-long games. "Wii Play" contains nine brief games, including an homage to "Duck Hunt," and will come packed with an extra Wii controller (but not a nunchuck). Nintendo has shown contraptions that turn a Wii controller into a "Duck Hunt"-style gun or, in the company's terms, a "zapper." "Wii Play" would seem to fit the bill, but Fils-Aime said, "We want the right title" to introduce it with.
Word broke of that early-2007 Nintendo trio earlier this month. Some fans complained that there weren't any meaty adventures on the list and predicted a winter gaming famine similar to the one that followed the launch of Nintendo's last two consoles. "I disagree with the comparison," he said. "I wasn't here for the GameCube launch, but there was a time period when there were no titles. There wasn't even titles you could or could not sink your teeth into. 'Wii Play' and 'WarioWare' are going to be hugely fun titles."
And for people who want more of an adventure to sink their teeth into once March passes? "Of the next batch of Nintendo releases, 'Metroid' is going to be next on that list," he said. And "Super Mario Galaxy"? Fils-Aime said to expect it any time between the end of March and next Christmas.
He fielded every question, even if he couldn't always give a rosy answer. People want Wii controllers bundled with nunchucks? If people start buying them in a one-to-one ratio, Nintendo would consider offering a bundle. Is there a DVD-playing Wii coming to the U.S. any time soon? "The answer is no." Will third parties start using the Miis -- Wii player avatars -- in their games? Fils-Aime said developers outside Nintendo now have the ability to drop them into their games as well, but,"Is there anything I've seen? No." Does he think the Reggie Mii his colleagues at Nintendo made looks like him? "The one they made had more of a scowl than the one I made."
Fils-Aime hyped an upcoming baseball game from 2K Sports as a perfect title for the Wii controller and said that "Godfather" Wii from EA is "very interesting." And he leapt to the defense of the weakly reviewed but strong-selling Ubisoft Wii game "Red Steel." "I think a lot of the reviews have been overly cr
> Honestly... no structure, no planning, no discipline, nothing but planning not to have a plan. This is asking for disaster, yet it's so popular that you can't avoid it on trendy tech blogs and even places like Slashdot that are supposed to be "for nerds."
Hello, first of what will doubtlessly be many uninformed posts whose authors clearly have no idea what a typical agile process involves!
Then buy a phone which has durability as a feature. Nextel has a bunch of motorola phones that will survive all kinds of abuse. I've had an i90 for going on 4 years now. I've gone through 3 faceplates, 2 batteries and 2 keypads.
> I'm also sorry you don't see it. If you honestly believe that all it takes is hard work, persistence and brains to make it big you're setting yourself up for quite a fall.
I said:
> Succeeding in business requires a fuckton of effort, insight and -some- luck.
You seem to think it's just luck. It's not. Successful people make their own luck, and work hard to capitalize on whatever good fortune comes their way.
Does being hardworking mean you'll be successful? Of course not. But comparing working hard to make millions with simply buying a lottery ticket and falling into a bag of money is just dumb.
Living abroad, you really get to see just what idiots Americans are, compared to the rest of the world's population. Their women are the worst kind of racists, refusing to stay with any local men.
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> I don't mean Microsoft, I mean Bill
Well, I'm sure as a human being he's a fine person. But when you're talking about electing him to public office, I'd be far more interested in how he ran his organization, since we'd be electing him to run OUR organization. So no, I do mean Microsoft, and I'm not interested so much in his qualities as a human being.
And I don't feel he ran his organization in any kind of ethical manner.
> The answer is that succesful politicians are not developed, they're bought.
... uh ... someone whose name escapes me at the moment.
There was an interesting piece on PBS some years back where they interviewed 4 former California governors at once: Davis, Wilson, Jerry Brown and
Anyway, there was an interesting discussion about what they'd do to 'fix' California if they could, and one of them was to -increase- the amount of time legislators were elected for. They said that the situation now was that the legislators were there for such a brief amount of time between elections that they basically had no time to learn how to do their jobs. When faced with this dilemma, these freshman legislators turn to the only people there with experience at the job at hand - the lobbyists, who have typically been around Sacramento for many years and know how to get things done. As the governors explained it, this is the mechanism by which lobbyists essentially buy laws.
Another thing they thought would be a good idea: pushing the legislature back to part-time, so they had less time to pass useless laws. Say what you will about Arnold, he's like the veto king. He vetoed more laws in his first month than previous governors did their entire term.
ok, and which of these qualities do you contend Gates posesses? I might buy 'responsibility,' but after that you'll have an argument on your hands.
> Thus, he would not be financed by donors with questionable motives or those with their own interests at heart.
People who say this drive me nuts. First: although he is rich, he didn't get that way by spending his own money when he didn't have to. Second: you have some kind of idea that because he's rich that he doesn't want any more money. How does that even start to make sense? I'll just go ahead and point out that Arnold here in CA has taken a bunch of money from special interests. And yet he's a multihojillionaire. HOW CAN THIS BE?!? Could it be that people always want more money, no matter how much they have? Hmmm.
Being a good businessman has nothing to do with being an effective President. Our government does not work like a business - it was specifically designed by the founding fathers not to.
The problem is that what he describes isn't how our government works. When Perot ran, he always talked about getting elected and goin' down to Warshington to "fix" stuff. Well, we have an entire system of government specifically designed to prevent that. The system just doesn't allow, nor should it allow, the president to "fix" things according to his desires.
ok, yeah, I just re-read that and it seems a little funny, given the last few years, but y'all know what I mean.
> Government is SUPPOSED to be inefficient.
>If you let it be too efficient, then they do things like round up all the gays, communists, jews, and anyone else they dislike and throw them in jail.
this is about the dumbest thing I've read in some time. You're confusing a system of checks and balances with ineffiency.
I earnestly yearn to meet the guy who coined this word so that I might punch his stupid face.
> well, millions in the US reflected on the christian bible - all written 1800+ years ago, some written 3000+ years ago.
that doesn't make it [i]relevant commentary[/i]. It might be a good guide on general moral issues, of course, but that's not what we're talking about here.
I have a firm belief that US education started going down the toilet when they stopped teaching latin in schools. I am all for a strong grounding in the classics. But pretending like there's nothing new under the sun and that the situation now is the same as it was 3000, 100, or even 30 years ago is just not grounded in reality.
woo! good tip, thanks!
I'm waiting for a port of Devil May Cry that lets you dual wield the wiimote as a gun. That would be SO AWESOME.
> in a year the differences of what you can do on a PS3 might be impressive?
well, it's pretty impressive -now-, but yeah, my guess would be on this option. Especially given the oddball parallel stuff.
If they give me a decent thumbboard I can wedge onto the wiimote and opera, I'll buy another one for my mom and tell her it's her new computer.
HOORAY! No more tech support for me!
> Honestly... no structure, no planning, no discipline, nothing but planning not to have a plan. This is asking for disaster, yet it's so popular that you can't avoid it on trendy tech blogs and even places like Slashdot that are supposed to be "for nerds."
Hello, first of what will doubtlessly be many uninformed posts whose authors clearly have no idea what a typical agile process involves!
Then buy a phone which has durability as a feature. Nextel has a bunch of motorola phones that will survive all kinds of abuse. I've had an i90 for going on 4 years now. I've gone through 3 faceplates, 2 batteries and 2 keypads.
> I'm also sorry you don't see it. If you honestly believe that all it takes is hard work, persistence and brains to make it big you're setting yourself up for quite a fall.
I said:
> Succeeding in business requires a fuckton of effort, insight and -some- luck.
You seem to think it's just luck. It's not. Successful people make their own luck, and work hard to capitalize on whatever good fortune comes their way.
Does being hardworking mean you'll be successful? Of course not. But comparing working hard to make millions with simply buying a lottery ticket and falling into a bag of money is just dumb.
that's a great point. Maybe we should reflect on the works of Pliny the Elder for a relevant perspective on the Columbine Shootings.
that was uncanny
Co-starring an irate Corey Feldman as Zonk.
modern day social values.
:(
hmm.
Ok, I can't think of any either.
Buying a winning lottery ticket requires zero effort and winning is entirely up to chance.
Succeeding in business requires a fuckton of effort, insight and -some- luck.
Sorry, I don't see it.
Yes, how dare he sell WoW gold to people who are eager to purchase it. What a monster.
ps: salesman, lawyer or gold-seller? grow up.
maybe you're just ugly
obviously it's a little of both. But equating his success to winning the lottery is ... well, it's simply incorrect.