He is a personification of the PC itself. His character is supposed to be the computer, not the person using the computer.
So the commercial isn't saying PC users
Who's saying the MS ad is any different? Take a look at all the different types of PC's out there from Dell, HP, to the subnotebooks etc... The "PC itself" is as diverse as its userbase.
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Cost is a very dubious claim. - How much is your downtime worth?
What are the SLA's for the outsourcing company? How fast can they get there? What is the recourse if they fail to meet it? How expensive is it for any of your critical systems to be down? What is the learning curve for an outsourcing company to come in and look at it? Did they set it up? What's the upfront costs to that? What if they go under?
Time is the one commodity that limits everyone, and every minute a critical system is down it costs the business money.
And, conversely, IT staff can and do massively impede productive workers... the parts of the company that make money.
At this stage in the game, IT and Ops should equally be seen as profit generators. It goes something like this; Without operations you don't have a product to sell, and thus you have no business. Without IT you can't bring your product to market and sell it profitably, and thus you have no business.
Amen to that. Some of the biggest jerks I've ever come across in business have been network administrators. Immature selfish idiots with little idea of how business actually works. They would be quickly out of a job if they worked in any other department.
Any other department but Sales. I have seen some absolute deplorable behavior from sales people, because frankly if they they can sell (and aren't breaking any laws) that's all that matters. They are the ones making the business money and they can get A LOT MORE latitude than any other position depending on how good they are.
India is home to two major linguistic families: Indo-Aryan (spoken by about 74% of the population) and Dravidian (spoken by about 24%). Other languages spoken in India come from the Austro-Asiatic and Tibeto-Burman linguistic families. Hindi, with the largest number of speakers,[100] is the official language of the union.[101] English, which is extensively used in business and administration, has the status of a 'subsidiary official language.'[6] The constitution also recognises in particular 21
other languages that are either abundantly spoken or have classical status. The number of dialects in India is as high as 1,652.[102]
Without researching and relearning everything about cognitive dissonance, I'd like to comment. So this is like brainwashing yourself, if I'm reading you correctly.
I can't buy into this too heavily, despite having seen people who are trying to brainwash themselves with the goofy self-made propaganda that sales jobs (especially the pyramid variety) seem to push. I don't think it's a longterm thing, and I don't think pretending to be happy all the time when you are not really makes you happier.
Tony Robbins said "You get what you focus on." If you focus on positive things, you will attract positive things, if you focus on negative you will attract negative.
I made a conscious effort do do this while my brother was dying of cancer. It doesn't instantly change your life or anything, but it does help. Rather than lashing out about the unfairness of my brother's situation I was happy for the time I spent with him prior, for the care he got at the hospital, and for the people I haven't seen in over a decade to come out of the woods to offer their help, love and support.
Focusing on positives got me through a real difficult time, and I continued to do until it was habitual. Call it brainwashing if you like, but your mind will naturally filter out what it doesn't deem important. You just have to define (for it) what is important.
End of story, no musician needs to collect royalties for a song they wrote 70 years ago. Usually they are dead by then... Wealthy assholes inheriting their wealthy assholeness to their kids, which in turn insist they have the right to earn money with doing nothing while everyone else is struggling to come up with the money for their lifestyle.
Samuel Clemens wrote at length about extending Copyright laws (and tried to have them extended several times) and the basic argument boils down to this, "everyone wants a better life for themselves and their family, don't they deserve to benefit from the fruits of your labor".
Now if I could just get the songs from GH 1 and 2 in the game (I know some are DLC, and it would be impossible since...
Some of them are being picked up as DLC options (Ace of Spades for one)... Honestly, I'd be thrilled to buy Crossroads and Bark at the Moon (again) with the extra note charts...
As much as I'd like to get my hopes up for a version of Rock Band on the Wii that's worth buying, I clicked that link, and the sub link in that article and as much as I got was:
"While we didn't get into nitty-gritty details, I was assured by representatives of Harmonix at E3 this year that the Wii version of Rock Band 2 will be a much more competitive product.
A "much more competitive product" could mean "It comes with 90 tracks!", or "you can play the Mushroom Kingdom theme in this version!" or "You can use your Mii's!" Nowhere in either article did they confirm feature parity with the other console versions, or specifically say there would be DLC or online play. If you can site a source where they actually say the Wii Version of Rock Band2, will specifically have, a Character creator, a World tour mode, DLC, online play, or GH guitar support, I would love to see it.
So DLC maketh the game? not sure I'd agree with that. Some things that GHWT is likely to have (superior hardware, for a start) also weigh in quite heavily.
For RockBand, yeah. No DLC is a deal breaker for me, and I've convinced my parents to NOT buy Rock Band Wii for that reason. If they put RB2 out with feature parity with the 360 version then I may recommend it, as it stands they are looking forward to GH:WT simply because it has all the features Harmonix RIPPED OUT of RB when porting to the Wii.
After a while you will get tired of the same set lists and want more variety. If the Wii version didn't have online play I wouldn't care, but DLC (to the flash memory, or SD card) is a must and they even ripped out the character creator and World tour modes... How dumb is that?
Do they think anyone bought Guitar Hero 1 or 2 for the graphics?
You could just as easily argue that the Trekverse is the ultimate triumph of capitalism: everybody's rich. And rich people consider it vulgar to talk about money. That would cover Data's poker sessions. If there's no money, what are they playing for?
They are playing for "chips". It's an arbitrary denomination, like playing for "High score" in a video game. One of the reasons they don't discuss money is that the replicator can provide them with whatever they need. They perform their duty and are provided for by the system. "Work according to ability, take according to need".
Actually it's a reference to the movie Idiocracy which is pretty funny for the first half then goes down hill the longer the focus on the future.
Honestly I didn't realize it was a real product until today, but if they support movies like that I'll have to try one.
Achievements are free. In fact Xbox Live Silver (The free version) does everything Xbox live Gold ($50 a year) except allow online multiplayer, voice chat, and Gold members are the first to see new content (like demos), Silver users get the rest for free.
The thought of a Wii port for Final Fantasy XIII makes me cringe.
For one, the system isn't nearly as powerful as the 360, let alone the PS3. Those pretty graphics you see on GameTrailers would have to be seriously toned down.
Considering all of the PS2 Final Fantasies (and Kingdom Hearts) were 480i (not even progressive scan!) I'm sure they could make it "Pretty enough" if they wanted to.
Don't forget TIGER WOODS!
If you haven't played it yet then pick up 09. They did a good job with 08, but from what I've been reading they nailed 1:1 motion detection in 09... That, and it's the first one that's online (for Wii) .
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We all know which operating system guys with beards use.
He looked like a mainframe guy to me...
He is a personification of the PC itself. His character is supposed to be the computer, not the person using the computer.
So the commercial isn't saying PC users
Who's saying the MS ad is any different? Take a look at all the different types of PC's out there from Dell, HP, to the subnotebooks etc... The "PC itself" is as diverse as its userbase.
What are the SLA's for the outsourcing company? How fast can they get there? What is the recourse if they fail to meet it? How expensive is it for any of your critical systems to be down? What is the learning curve for an outsourcing company to come in and look at it? Did they set it up? What's the upfront costs to that? What if they go under?
Time is the one commodity that limits everyone, and every minute a critical system is down it costs the business money.
And, conversely, IT staff can and do massively impede productive workers... the parts of the company that make money.
At this stage in the game, IT and Ops should equally be seen as profit generators. It goes something like this; Without operations you don't have a product to sell, and thus you have no business. Without IT you can't bring your product to market and sell it profitably, and thus you have no business.
Amen to that. Some of the biggest jerks I've ever come across in business have been network administrators. Immature selfish idiots with little idea of how business actually works. They would be quickly out of a job if they worked in any other department.
Any other department but Sales. I have seen some absolute deplorable behavior from sales people, because frankly if they they can sell (and aren't breaking any laws) that's all that matters. They are the ones making the business money and they can get A LOT MORE latitude than any other position depending on how good they are.
India is home to two major linguistic families: Indo-Aryan (spoken by about 74% of the population) and Dravidian (spoken by about 24%). Other languages spoken in India come from the Austro-Asiatic and Tibeto-Burman linguistic families. Hindi, with the largest number of speakers,[100] is the official language of the union.[101] English, which is extensively used in business and administration, has the status of a 'subsidiary official language.'[6] The constitution also recognises in particular 21 other languages that are either abundantly spoken or have classical status. The number of dialects in India is as high as 1,652.[102]
India Demographics
Given the population of India is over a billion and Hindi is the national language you're well out. Almost all indians speak it as a 2nd language.
Hindi is one of 2 National languages. English is the other.
Without researching and relearning everything about cognitive dissonance, I'd like to comment. So this is like brainwashing yourself, if I'm reading you correctly.
I can't buy into this too heavily, despite having seen people who are trying to brainwash themselves with the goofy self-made propaganda that sales jobs (especially the pyramid variety) seem to push. I don't think it's a longterm thing, and I don't think pretending to be happy all the time when you are not really makes you happier.
Tony Robbins said "You get what you focus on." If you focus on positive things, you will attract positive things, if you focus on negative you will attract negative.
I made a conscious effort do do this while my brother was dying of cancer. It doesn't instantly change your life or anything, but it does help. Rather than lashing out about the unfairness of my brother's situation I was happy for the time I spent with him prior, for the care he got at the hospital, and for the people I haven't seen in over a decade to come out of the woods to offer their help, love and support.
Focusing on positives got me through a real difficult time, and I continued to do until it was habitual. Call it brainwashing if you like, but your mind will naturally filter out what it doesn't deem important. You just have to define (for it) what is important.
I for one welcome our Carbon neutral overlords.
End of story, no musician needs to collect royalties for a song they wrote 70 years ago. Usually they are dead by then... Wealthy assholes inheriting their wealthy assholeness to their kids, which in turn insist they have the right to earn money with doing nothing while everyone else is struggling to come up with the money for their lifestyle.
Samuel Clemens wrote at length about extending Copyright laws (and tried to have them extended several times) and the basic argument boils down to this, "everyone wants a better life for themselves and their family, don't they deserve to benefit from the fruits of your labor".
Now if I could just get the songs from GH 1 and 2 in the game (I know some are DLC, and it would be impossible since...
Some of them are being picked up as DLC options (Ace of Spades for one)... Honestly, I'd be thrilled to buy Crossroads and Bark at the Moon (again) with the extra note charts...
How about a $10 option where I could transfer all tracks but "Train Kept a rollin" and "Timmy" ?
"It's so sad... She's 22 years old and already a grandma..."
Harmonix has already announced that RB2 for the Wii will have DLC and online play...
As much as I'd like to get my hopes up for a version of Rock Band on the Wii that's worth buying, I clicked that link, and the sub link in that article and as much as I got was:
"While we didn't get into nitty-gritty details, I was assured by representatives of Harmonix at E3 this year that the Wii version of Rock Band 2 will be a much more competitive product.
A "much more competitive product" could mean "It comes with 90 tracks!", or "you can play the Mushroom Kingdom theme in this version!" or "You can use your Mii's!" Nowhere in either article did they confirm feature parity with the other console versions, or specifically say there would be DLC or online play. If you can site a source where they actually say the Wii Version of Rock Band2, will specifically have, a Character creator, a World tour mode, DLC, online play, or GH guitar support, I would love to see it.
Thanks.
So DLC maketh the game? not sure I'd agree with that. Some things that GHWT is likely to have (superior hardware, for a start) also weigh in quite heavily.
For RockBand, yeah. No DLC is a deal breaker for me, and I've convinced my parents to NOT buy Rock Band Wii for that reason. If they put RB2 out with feature parity with the 360 version then I may recommend it, as it stands they are looking forward to GH:WT simply because it has all the features Harmonix RIPPED OUT of RB when porting to the Wii.
After a while you will get tired of the same set lists and want more variety. If the Wii version didn't have online play I wouldn't care, but DLC (to the flash memory, or SD card) is a must and they even ripped out the character creator and World tour modes... How dumb is that?
Do they think anyone bought Guitar Hero 1 or 2 for the graphics?
You could just as easily argue that the Trekverse is the ultimate triumph of capitalism: everybody's rich. And rich people consider it vulgar to talk about money. That would cover Data's poker sessions. If there's no money, what are they playing for?
They are playing for "chips". It's an arbitrary denomination, like playing for "High score" in a video game. One of the reasons they don't discuss money is that the replicator can provide them with whatever they need. They perform their duty and are provided for by the system. "Work according to ability, take according to need".
Supposedly all our social problems have gone away because everybody's "more evolved"
You may laugh, but that's exactly what many of the early Russian communists thought would happen.
And up until Deep Space 9 there was no mention of currency. The Federation under TNG, and TOS pretty much portrayed the communist ideal.
Actually it's a reference to the movie Idiocracy which is pretty funny for the first half then goes down hill the longer the focus on the future. Honestly I didn't realize it was a real product until today, but if they support movies like that I'll have to try one.
The key thing is to remember to replace those electrolytes.
Drink BRAWNDO: The Thirst Mutilator!
- Netflix Streaming downloads from Netflix are ONLY available on the Xbox 360. How is this a point for Sony, again?!
Are they Streaming in 1080p? Netflix's BluRay selection is great.
Achievements are free. In fact Xbox Live Silver (The free version) does everything Xbox live Gold ($50 a year) except allow online multiplayer, voice chat, and Gold members are the first to see new content (like demos), Silver users get the rest for free.
I have three which are keeping me in the PS3 camp for now:
I have 2.
- Netflix
- Little Big Planet.
The thought of a Wii port for Final Fantasy XIII makes me cringe.
For one, the system isn't nearly as powerful as the 360, let alone the PS3. Those pretty graphics you see on GameTrailers would have to be seriously toned down.
Considering all of the PS2 Final Fantasies (and Kingdom Hearts) were 480i (not even progressive scan!) I'm sure they could make it "Pretty enough" if they wanted to.
Don't forget TIGER WOODS! If you haven't played it yet then pick up 09. They did a good job with 08, but from what I've been reading they nailed 1:1 motion detection in 09... That, and it's the first one that's online (for Wii) .
That's all very well, but I can't get TFA to display in my PS3's built-in web browser without getting a "there is not enough memory" error!
That's interesting. It loads fine with the Wii's Opera browser.