...more than once. Enough people have computers now that slang related to email in particular (i.e. SPAM) affects enough people to make its way into the media.
If the car spontaneously sets itself on fire, I couldn't pinpoint the problem but I'd think I could confidently say something is amiss.
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While I agree it's theoretically possible for video games to become more serious storywise, I honestly doubt it will happen.
The first reason is cost of creation; the lack of a real artistic indie segment is the fact that good artists are rarely good programmers and vice-versa. No one is going to play a game that doesn't work even if the story is awesome, so any gamer indie market will always gravitate toward playable games with little to no storyline in the absence of either:
-Dev tools that make it so that any kid can make a working video game
-The occasional fluke
-Some method of pairing the handful of good writers with enough spare time and the good programmers with enough spare time
Similar pressures exist in the corporate environment, although in that case it's more like "Why am I going to take away money from the programming and visual design (risking making the game unplayable) when we could just make the game good and tack a superficial storyline on top?" Again, an unplayable game is a bad game even if the story is brilliant, and game companies are looking to sell games.
So I wouldn't say the medium is incapable of "high art", but the medium does favor "low art" heavily.
Not surprising
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It's hard to feature serious topics like religion in an only semi-serious art medium like video games. I konw the RPG fanatics think video games are an art form just like movies, but the reality is that most video game stories are as deep as the average action flick.
What's the typical action flick treatment of religion? Barely existent if at all, and usually just an excuse to give people cool special powers.
That was directed at people who complain that the same people call them repeatedly. If someone's that angry at telemarketing and gets called by the same people every day even after asking to be removed, they might be justified in taking them to court.
frustrate the workforce to get them to quit and take a job that isn't disliked by most people.
Oh please. If I didn't do it someone else would do it. Anyone who harasses me on a call is just kicking the tires because the engine won't start.
Honestly, the people who like what they do are the ones who don't care anyway. Meanwhile, the people who actually take issue to being harassed are the ones who already don't want to be doing what they're doing.
The correct action is to ask them to flag you Do-Not-Call, THEN hang up. That way you may have legal recourse if you get called again. Or at least say you're not interested.
Some telemarketers will throw you back in the queue if they think you might have been interested but your phone messed up.
I feel for the person on the other end who is often just some low wage person trying to make a living, but that's not my problem.
I'd wager "often" is more like "always" (I have less than $500 to my name, I'm basically jobhunting any time I'm not working right now), but honestly I wouldn't be offended if you just hung up. What bothers me is the people who shriek into the phone or swear me out, and then stupidly DON'T be asked to take off the calling list. Some of my coworkers put that type of person back into the queue because, hey, they didn't ask not to be called and it's not like the person that got screamed at was the one who made the decision to make the call.
I haven't had my own computer for a few months so I don't know if this has been addressed by now, but at least the "Tabwarning" plugin should be installed by default. Until I discovered Tabwarning/Tabextension, I almost quit using Firefox because I'd close a window out of habit, forgetting that it would also close the eight other websites I was visiting at the time.
> However - a company is in no position to dictate terms to their customers.
Um, they are in a position to do exactly that. The idea is that if losing a few customers is made up for by whatever benefits the terms produce, so be it.
Businesses exist to serve customers and make money, but that doesn't mean pandering to every single demand they get.
I have had instances where there were over 20 windows open on my machine...if not for taskbar grouping, I'd have to ALT-TAB to find whatever I wanted since you couldn't tell what anything was otherwise. With grouping, I get say a group of 10, a group of 7 and a group of 3 and everything is two clicks away.
Just because a feature is useless for you doesn't mean it's useless for everyone.
That doesn't mean he advocates killing people from Republican states. He's just saying, "If you were trying to get revenge on Bush, that's the wrong way to do it."
If the attacks had been on Canada and I said "Why are you bombing CANADA for disagreeing with US policy?", would that mean I advocate killing Americans?
You think Nintendo would leave emulators alone for this long when they tried to sue Game Genie out of existence?
It's funny, I do remember a campaign online by Nintendo trying to get rid of emulators...they out and out lied by saying on their website that emulators were illegal even though they're not.:) They're just as bad as the RIAA at times.
If you don't remember/never heard of those incidents, maybe you remember Bleem! being a commercial product sold in stores? Sony did try to stop that one, but found that as long as the Bleem! authors didn't copy actual BIOS code or distribute copyrighted games without permission, it was legal.
Nintendo and Sega have shut down a lot of ROM sites, however. Copyrighted games are still copyrighted games.
Re:Mod me -1 "Get out of your parent's basement"..
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Hrm. You are right. I was just thinking "always works outside the law". Batman has kind of gone back and forth. Probably part of the reason the police gave him a badge was to make some of his actions more kosher.
Mod me -1 "Get out of your parent's basement"...
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...but there have been instances within comic books of multiple heroes taking similar monikers or costumes causing confusion throughout the general public. For example, Spider-Man stopped using his black (cloth) costume when people started mistaking him for Venom. There have been instances in the DC comics universe where there was more than one Green Lantern at a time, and there have also been multiple Batgirls.
Probably the best example would be Spider-Woman, as there have been no less than FIVE of them, sometimes operating simultanously, and until the fourth and fifth surfaced none of them had anything to do with each other at all.
Of course, with very few exceptions* most superheroes operate outside of the law, so doing anything about it legally would be like drug lords filing anti-trust suits against each other.
*Batman, officially a Gotham police officer, and Captain America, created by the US government, for example...
My first spyware infection told me exactly what program was causing it. I then found that the program named did appear in my add/remove programs in Windows, and after one of my friends told me what Ad-aware was I installed it and found nothing.
If all spyware was like that I'd have no problem with it.
Honestly I wouldn't be surprised if the larger websites start hitting spyware makers for making it look like the advertisements are coming from the websites and not from some covertly-installed program. Surely companies would object to spyware makers "earning" advertisement dollars on the company's content, when all the ill will goes to the company.
Besides the incorrect assumption that all spyware requires confirmation from the user, your position is the equivalent of saying that date rape via roofies should be legal because if the chick didn't want to have sex, she shouldn't have accepted a drink from a stranger.
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If the car spontaneously sets itself on fire, I couldn't pinpoint the problem but I'd think I could confidently say something is amiss.
The first reason is cost of creation; the lack of a real artistic indie segment is the fact that good artists are rarely good programmers and vice-versa. No one is going to play a game that doesn't work even if the story is awesome, so any gamer indie market will always gravitate toward playable games with little to no storyline in the absence of either: -Dev tools that make it so that any kid can make a working video game -The occasional fluke -Some method of pairing the handful of good writers with enough spare time and the good programmers with enough spare time Similar pressures exist in the corporate environment, although in that case it's more like "Why am I going to take away money from the programming and visual design (risking making the game unplayable) when we could just make the game good and tack a superficial storyline on top?" Again, an unplayable game is a bad game even if the story is brilliant, and game companies are looking to sell games. So I wouldn't say the medium is incapable of "high art", but the medium does favor "low art" heavily.
What's the typical action flick treatment of religion? Barely existent if at all, and usually just an excuse to give people cool special powers.
I think he's using "unpatriotic" in the sense that anything not helpful to current US policy is "unpatriotic".
I was thinking more along the lines of the scene where the T-Rex busts in and eats the raptors before they can kill all the humans...
(Apologies in advnance for my terrible Spanish)
"Greetings, Mr. Kawasaki."
Because a handful of people with a lot of money like the fact that it exists.
That was directed at people who complain that the same people call them repeatedly. If someone's that angry at telemarketing and gets called by the same people every day even after asking to be removed, they might be justified in taking them to court.
Oh please. If I didn't do it someone else would do it. Anyone who harasses me on a call is just kicking the tires because the engine won't start.
Honestly, the people who like what they do are the ones who don't care anyway. Meanwhile, the people who actually take issue to being harassed are the ones who already don't want to be doing what they're doing.
Some telemarketers will throw you back in the queue if they think you might have been interested but your phone messed up.
I feel for the person on the other end who is often just some low wage person trying to make a living, but that's not my problem.
I'd wager "often" is more like "always" (I have less than $500 to my name, I'm basically jobhunting any time I'm not working right now), but honestly I wouldn't be offended if you just hung up. What bothers me is the people who shriek into the phone or swear me out, and then stupidly DON'T be asked to take off the calling list. Some of my coworkers put that type of person back into the queue because, hey, they didn't ask not to be called and it's not like the person that got screamed at was the one who made the decision to make the call.
I haven't had my own computer for a few months so I don't know if this has been addressed by now, but at least the "Tabwarning" plugin should be installed by default. Until I discovered Tabwarning/Tabextension, I almost quit using Firefox because I'd close a window out of habit, forgetting that it would also close the eight other websites I was visiting at the time.
No argument there. Companies have every right to (legally) attempt to make money, consumers have every right to (legally) attempt to save it.
Um, they are in a position to do exactly that. The idea is that if losing a few customers is made up for by whatever benefits the terms produce, so be it.
Businesses exist to serve customers and make money, but that doesn't mean pandering to every single demand they get.
Just because a feature is useless for you doesn't mean it's useless for everyone.
If the attacks had been on Canada and I said "Why are you bombing CANADA for disagreeing with US policy?", would that mean I advocate killing Americans?
It's funny, I do remember a campaign online by Nintendo trying to get rid of emulators...they out and out lied by saying on their website that emulators were illegal even though they're not. :) They're just as bad as the RIAA at times.
If you don't remember/never heard of those incidents, maybe you remember Bleem! being a commercial product sold in stores? Sony did try to stop that one, but found that as long as the Bleem! authors didn't copy actual BIOS code or distribute copyrighted games without permission, it was legal.
Nintendo and Sega have shut down a lot of ROM sites, however. Copyrighted games are still copyrighted games.
Hrm. You are right. I was just thinking "always works outside the law". Batman has kind of gone back and forth. Probably part of the reason the police gave him a badge was to make some of his actions more kosher.
Probably the best example would be Spider-Woman, as there have been no less than FIVE of them, sometimes operating simultanously, and until the fourth and fifth surfaced none of them had anything to do with each other at all.
Of course, with very few exceptions* most superheroes operate outside of the law, so doing anything about it legally would be like drug lords filing anti-trust suits against each other.
*Batman, officially a Gotham police officer, and Captain America, created by the US government, for example...
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Public libraries are useful to me since ideally I don't spend more than an hour or two a day online anyway.
If all spyware was like that I'd have no problem with it.
Honestly I wouldn't be surprised if the larger websites start hitting spyware makers for making it look like the advertisements are coming from the websites and not from some covertly-installed program. Surely companies would object to spyware makers "earning" advertisement dollars on the company's content, when all the ill will goes to the company.
Besides the incorrect assumption that all spyware requires confirmation from the user, your position is the equivalent of saying that date rape via roofies should be legal because if the chick didn't want to have sex, she shouldn't have accepted a drink from a stranger.
My sister: "What's this Firefox thing?"
Me: "That's the browser I use."
My sister: "Oh, so you use that instead of Internet?"
Me: "Internet explorer."
My sister: "Same thing!"