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Combat Vets On CoD: Black Ops, Medal of Honor Taliban 93

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday November 23, 2010 @07:51AM from the not-as-messy-as-the-real-deal dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Thom 'SSGTRAN' Tran, seen in the Call of Duty: Black Ops live action trailer and in the game as the NVA multiplayer character, gets interviewed and talks about Medal of Honor's Taliban drama. '... to me, it's a non-issue. This is Hollywood. This is entertainment. There has to be a bad guy if there's going to be a good guy. It's that simple. Regardless of whether you call them — "Taliban" or "Op For" — you're looking at the same thing. They're the bad guys.'" Gamasutra published a related story about military simulation games from the perspective of black ops veteran and awesome-name-contest winner Wolfgang Hammersmith. "In his view, all gunfights are a series of ordered and logical decisions; when he explains it to me, I can sense him performing mental math, brain exercise, the kind that appeals to gamers and game designers. Precise skill, calculated reaction. Combat operations and pistolcraft are the man's life's work."

Comment Google founders (Score 1) 614

by korsmana on Wednesday November 17, 2010 @10:28PM (#34264128) Attached to: Sciencey Heroes For Young Children?

Larry Page and Sergey Brin, often dubbed the "Google Guys" . You have to give it to them; they changed how we search for anything, do work, research,etc. They came from no where in 1998 and now google is now a verb. You don't "Microsoft, Oracle, IBM," ... but everyone does google something.. AK

Comment Re:Here's an idea... (Score 1) 301

by korsmana on Monday November 09, 2009 @08:13PM (#30040526) Attached to: Reporting To Executives

Yes! Also, come prepared with some questions they may want to ask. It will almost certainly turn into questions you have not anticipated. And if you don't know say so. "Good question. I Don't know, but I'll come back with an answer" It is MUCH better than yes/no when you are BSing. They know it and will start to dig with a knife.

But most importantly, put your self in their shoes as the owner of the company. They want to understand how this makes the company better or worse. How does it make money. How does it impact on the customer (eg automated report is late 24hrs?? If a tree falls and no one hears it...).

And if you have a problem, they can be your best friend. Put it in terms of impact to the company. (eg if you have to much down time, tell them customer can't put in orders. )

You need to realize you are the expert and they are looking for your insight on how to direct the company. Tell them what you need to help do it.

AK

Comment Keep it to what they know already (Score 1) 481

by korsmana on Sunday July 06, 2008 @06:57PM (#24078167) Attached to: Best DNS Naming Scheme For Small/Medium Businesses?

I work for a large enterprise with +100K devices and their naming is standardized on the who made, where it is (ie geographic location) and it's role (server vs desktop). Plus some number to keep it unique. But strangely enough this standard only applies to the unix/linux machines. This standard is of great use because just knowing it's name you know a lot about the environment you are going to support. On the flip side. The Windows machines are the same as the primary user. eg jsmith-1. This has been in place for almost 20years so it works for us.

eg.p = personal
s = server

ott=ottawa
rich=richardson

s=sun micro
h=hp

We would see a names like these :

potts123=personal ottawa sun 123

srichh123=server richardson hp 123

AK

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