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Comment Re:"Deal with it" (Score 3, Interesting) 572

Executive summary of this post. When big wigs shoot from the hip recklessly it can be costly: http://oldforums.eveonline.com/?a=topic&threadID=1538881

This reminds me of the Eve Online where they were introducing a new currency Aurum, had an internal newsletter (Fearless (Greed is Good)) That debated the pro's and cons of virtual currency. The playerbase was upset for a number of reasons:

1. Pay to Win was not ruled out e.g. special ammo (some argue that PLEX is the same but I disagree).
2. Price on current virtual items was limited and overly expensive (Monacle Gate - $60 U.S. for a virtual monocle for one character).
3. Players felt that they were getting milked and non of their current fees were going back into development/bug fixing of Eve Online (Some milking is to be expected but the "perception" was all resources were going towards White Wolf MMO in Atlanta).

The internal (leaked) response from the CEO was basically don't listen to the players watch what they do. The public response from one of the developers was some diatribe about how $1000 dollar Japanese Jeans makes one feel (no seriously - http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2011/06/24/eve-clothes-defense/ read the italicized text).

The players then started mass rage quitting their subscriptions, the CSA (Player representatives) were flown and conference called to Iceland for an emergency meetings, CCP mea culpa'ed - reversed course on the most egregious issues and saved themselves from imminent death. However, CCP did not come out unscathed, they re-orged layed off a ton of people in the U.S. Atlanta that were working on White Wolf MMO which would not be cannibalistic to their core product. This was a bad call in my book but I don't have all the stats. They chose to keep developing DUST 514 a FPS for the Play Station 3 (Not sure how that is going) that can affect and be affected by Eve Online proper..

Comment Re:Pointing out the truth can not be bigotry... (Score 1) 1121

Good and evil are religious concepts, particularly of monotheistic religions that divide the world into two opposing camps. If you're an atheist, you should avoid using the words or you'll fall into the same dogmatic trap.

I'm a believer but I have to absolutely disagree. I invite you to read this article. It's long but by the 6th paragraph you will probably be re-evaluating your statement. http://www.aeonmagazine.com/world-views/troy-jollimore-secular-ethics/

Comment Re:Lame. (Score 1) 144

Why don't they just setup a number of VLANS, one for Faculty Staff, one for Students primary machines, one for research projects and one for open devices. I'm sure they already have a couple in place. Was their I.T. group consulted? Student Government and Faculty? I hope this wasn't an excuse to submit to CALEA http://www.fcc.gov/encyclopedia/communications-assistance-law-enforcement-act . Higher Ed does not have to abide by it but some Universities do it anyways. [quote]"After thorough review, the final court decision appears to allow for most, if not all, campus networks to be exempt from compliance". [/quote] http://www.educause.edu/library/calea

Comment Re:OSU Advisor (Score 1) 166

Hmm.

(Reposting link just for ease of reading) (At OSU, we developped theadvisor ( http://theadvisor.osu.edu/ [osu.edu] )

I went there and the Topic Search doesn't work for me. For example I typed in Psychology and got no papers back for the "use the following papers" step. Drop me a note at music65536@yahoo.com so we can bug-shoot a little.

Thanks.

Try search term genetic just to get a feel of it.

Comment Re:Theres nothing wrong with opinion (Score 1) 277

You mean Chris "Obama is Sending a Tingle Up My Leg" Matthews?

Yes that guy. There's no question which side Chris falls on but I was questioning parents post that Hardball was an unreserved supporter of the war under W's term as president. I'm not sure what Obama has to do with this branch of the discussion.

Comment Re:Theres nothing wrong with opinion (Score 1) 277

Hardball, for instance, was an unreserved supporter of the invasion of Iraq.

It was? I recall correctly (it has been a decade) Chris Mathews and Tim Russert of Meet the Press were part of the handful of people actually asking difficult questions. I've been watching a lot less of T.V. news/opinion/journalism lately. I just don't get why MSNBC and Fox report on each others crappiness - ratings I guess. I've now just started looking for decent long-form journalism websites to get my news now.

Comment Re:Well yes but, (Score 1) 459

Try again. If I send you a letter asking for you to send me your key and you send it that is either your own fault or the house keeper's fault (AT&T in this case). You/AT&T have the ability to not send the key. If this was a buffer overflow or some injection attack you might have a point but that is not the case in this instance.

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