"Even if you are not asking for a position in sales, you are selling a product: yourself."
If you had ever talked to a child who has to sell herself every single day, you'd stop using that tired old line and realize selling yourself has absolutely nothing to do with selling a part of your time with very specific rules on how that time can be spent.
If you sell me something, it's mine and I can do whatever I want with it. This has absolutely nothing to do with interviewing for a job, unless you're selling yourself to be my slave.
Let me just point out that 3840x2160 is a brilliant resolution, because 2160/720 = 3 and 2160/1080 = 2. Of course, since this is Slashdot, I'm sure you've all realized this already, but it does mean that you can upscale HD content without distorting the image. A 1080p monitor does not show 720p as well as a 720p monitor does, because the upscaling will result in some lines being shown twice and some only being shown once (none of this is true for CRTs, though, only LCD and plasma monitors).
I hope you don't have a job, because all that time spent fighting in the store could have easily been spent making enough money to buy 10 new CDs, yet all you got is store credit for one.:) Oh, and many people probably enjoy their job a lot more than they enjoy fighting in a store, so not only would you have gotten a lot more CDs out of working instead, you would probably also have enjoyed getting them a lot more.:)
I have the opposite story, I signed up for Xbox Live with yearly renewal. After a few months I stopped using it and forgot about it. I think I even saw them send me e-mails that said they would charge me for another year soon, but what can I say? I'm an idiot, just ignored them.
One day I'm checking my credit card statement (which I don't do often enough) and some weeks earlier I see Microsoft has charged me for $49.99.
I signed up for yearly renewal, I stop using it, they charge me for another year, my loss, right? Well, wrong, because I called up their hotline, explained that I was no longer using the service and would like to know whether I could get a partial refund. Yes, I knew it would be a stretch, but whatever, it was worth a shot.
I was immediately granted a full refund, no questions asked. I was simply shocked, Microsoft had my money, it was my own fault I didn't cancel the account and yet they just give me a full refund, even though I'm already several weeks into the next year.
If Microsoft's customer service is as evil as they are, then I wish more companies had evil customer service.
So true. I wouldn't call myself addicted to WoW, it's just the best game I've ever played and I love playing it so much. Even now, after two years of playing it, many times in a day I realize that "Wow, this is an awesome game!" and so I tell my guild how amazing WoW is, in case they have forgotten.
WoW gives me what I need, and I'm not talking about games. I, like everyone else, I suspect, have a very deep need to accomplish something, to get somewhere, to develop. WoW fulfills this desire, it gives me very strong feeling of accomplishment, constantly rewarding me and reminding me that I've grown in the game.
I do worry about this sometimes, sometimes when I've played all day, even though I've had so much fun and I feel like I've accomplished so much, I realize that I haven't really gotten anywhere, only changed some entries in a database somewhere.
However, I shake it off, because dealing with WoW is so much easier (and so much more rewarding) than dealing with everything else. But in the back of my mind, the feeling is always there that I'm wasting my time.
They've managed to build a game that I love playing and a game that makes me accomplish so much every single day, or at least feel like I have.
I do believe ignorance is bliss. If I could choose to only read good news, I would. WoW makes me happy and gives me more fulfillment than I think I could ever get anywhere in the real world, so what's wrong with playing it all the time?
Tomorrow I will be playing WoW all day again, hopefully finally earn that new piece of equipment I've been dreaming about. When I do, I know I will feel like it was a major achievement and I will feel really good about myself as a person, my desire to grow will be fulfilled, at least for a while.
So even though I love the way I've chosen to live my life with WoW, there's still a part of me that feels like I should be growing IRL instead. But then again, like how? I am not interested in friends or family, I'm not good with other people and gave up on friendships and relationships years ago, before I even knew what an MMO was. I taught myself to play the piano and I feel good about that, but it's nothing compared to my achievements in WoW. I could try to get a good career and make that my personal goal, but I've never had a job I cared about and I can't imagine having a job I would like either.
WoW makes you feel like you can fail, but you can't really, at least not if you keep putting time into it. IRL if something can reward you, you can probably fail as well, and I always play it safe with my life, never take any big chances, to avoid personal failures, so I never lose, but I never win either. In WoW, I always win.
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"There are 2 Windows Vista users." = +2 Funny
"There are less than 2 Linux users." = -1 Troll
"There are less than 2 Linux + Mac users." = +1 Funny
Go figure.
No, they didn't, I went through the portal at midnight and played all night on EU Jaedenar, not a single server crash.
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"I dated a girl who worked at a porn shop for a while"
There's gotta be a joke to be made there, just give me a minute...
I got nothing. Anyone?
"Even if you are not asking for a position in sales, you are selling a product: yourself."
If you had ever talked to a child who has to sell herself every single day, you'd stop using that tired old line and realize selling yourself has absolutely nothing to do with selling a part of your time with very specific rules on how that time can be spent.
If you sell me something, it's mine and I can do whatever I want with it. This has absolutely nothing to do with interviewing for a job, unless you're selling yourself to be my slave.
Oops, hasn't seen you had posted this and I pointed the same thing out in the next comment two hours later. Smooth. :)
Let me just point out that 3840x2160 is a brilliant resolution, because 2160/720 = 3 and 2160/1080 = 2. Of course, since this is Slashdot, I'm sure you've all realized this already, but it does mean that you can upscale HD content without distorting the image. A 1080p monitor does not show 720p as well as a 720p monitor does, because the upscaling will result in some lines being shown twice and some only being shown once (none of this is true for CRTs, though, only LCD and plasma monitors).
I hope you don't have a job, because all that time spent fighting in the store could have easily been spent making enough money to buy 10 new CDs, yet all you got is store credit for one. :) Oh, and many people probably enjoy their job a lot more than they enjoy fighting in a store, so not only would you have gotten a lot more CDs out of working instead, you would probably also have enjoyed getting them a lot more. :)
I have the opposite story, I signed up for Xbox Live with yearly renewal. After a few months I stopped using it and forgot about it. I think I even saw them send me e-mails that said they would charge me for another year soon, but what can I say? I'm an idiot, just ignored them.
One day I'm checking my credit card statement (which I don't do often enough) and some weeks earlier I see Microsoft has charged me for $49.99.
I signed up for yearly renewal, I stop using it, they charge me for another year, my loss, right? Well, wrong, because I called up their hotline, explained that I was no longer using the service and would like to know whether I could get a partial refund. Yes, I knew it would be a stretch, but whatever, it was worth a shot.
I was immediately granted a full refund, no questions asked. I was simply shocked, Microsoft had my money, it was my own fault I didn't cancel the account and yet they just give me a full refund, even though I'm already several weeks into the next year.
If Microsoft's customer service is as evil as they are, then I wish more companies had evil customer service.
"The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds."
Huh? That has nothing to do with optimism.
So true. I wouldn't call myself addicted to WoW, it's just the best game I've ever played and I love playing it so much. Even now, after two years of playing it, many times in a day I realize that "Wow, this is an awesome game!" and so I tell my guild how amazing WoW is, in case they have forgotten. WoW gives me what I need, and I'm not talking about games. I, like everyone else, I suspect, have a very deep need to accomplish something, to get somewhere, to develop. WoW fulfills this desire, it gives me very strong feeling of accomplishment, constantly rewarding me and reminding me that I've grown in the game. I do worry about this sometimes, sometimes when I've played all day, even though I've had so much fun and I feel like I've accomplished so much, I realize that I haven't really gotten anywhere, only changed some entries in a database somewhere. However, I shake it off, because dealing with WoW is so much easier (and so much more rewarding) than dealing with everything else. But in the back of my mind, the feeling is always there that I'm wasting my time. They've managed to build a game that I love playing and a game that makes me accomplish so much every single day, or at least feel like I have. I do believe ignorance is bliss. If I could choose to only read good news, I would. WoW makes me happy and gives me more fulfillment than I think I could ever get anywhere in the real world, so what's wrong with playing it all the time? Tomorrow I will be playing WoW all day again, hopefully finally earn that new piece of equipment I've been dreaming about. When I do, I know I will feel like it was a major achievement and I will feel really good about myself as a person, my desire to grow will be fulfilled, at least for a while. So even though I love the way I've chosen to live my life with WoW, there's still a part of me that feels like I should be growing IRL instead. But then again, like how? I am not interested in friends or family, I'm not good with other people and gave up on friendships and relationships years ago, before I even knew what an MMO was. I taught myself to play the piano and I feel good about that, but it's nothing compared to my achievements in WoW. I could try to get a good career and make that my personal goal, but I've never had a job I cared about and I can't imagine having a job I would like either. WoW makes you feel like you can fail, but you can't really, at least not if you keep putting time into it. IRL if something can reward you, you can probably fail as well, and I always play it safe with my life, never take any big chances, to avoid personal failures, so I never lose, but I never win either. In WoW, I always win.