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From the old days of the coleco and the Atari, the game was the game. For a developer it was already beautiful to have design the game itself that many nowadays popular features in a video game were absent.
Todays, video games have evolved, game console are a million times more powerful and player have refined their game. Young kids are born with a joystick and remote in their hands. Still some rely on cheats found in video game to get an edge of the game or their opponent. Is this cheating ? Not really.
Most video games cheats codes are inserted in games by the developer with the only intention of spicing up their video game. Sometimes, cheats inserted in the video games have the sole purpose of bringing a comical element in the video game and are far from giving an advantage to the player using this cheats.
Some cheat codes are inserted to create a buzz around a game. The more people find the hidden cheats, the more they talk about it.
And lastly, cheats codes are sometimes uses by some skilled player to get the maximum skills against an opponent.
This is certainly not cheating, it's using the inner function of the games. This completely differs from modifying and the game from what it is originally designed for. This is true cheating and dishonest.
So, don't be afraid to use those video games cheats codes and have fun. Many websites are offering a very detailed listing of multiple video games cheat codes. Some specialized on a specific console while some are multi-platforms sites that list many cheats codes. Some even have more then 40000 cheats codes.
Video game player. Owns a few Video game cheats website. Born with a remote in hand, as been playing since the age of Atari.
The Writing Crisis and What it Means to you and your Business
THE PAST
If you are of my generation, you will surely remember the days when businesses and organizations were rife with what we then called secretaries. These secretaries made their bosses look good in almost every way, especially their writing. That's right. These incredible people knew every rule of grammar and punctuation and took great pride in their skills. Often, the boss would hand them a hand-scribbled, unintelligible note to which the secretary waved her magic wand, and voila! There suddenly appeared a grammatically correct, well-written document that impressed colleagues, bosses, customers, and vendors.
THE PRESENT
Today the ability to sustain the salaries of such grammar mavens is gone. We are in an age of extracting the maximum productivity from the fewest possible resources. Thus, ladies and gents, we are on our own to produce the kind of writing that makes us, and our organizations, look credible and professional.
Consider:
$20.83 – the cost for an executive making $100,000 + to read a 10-page document
$1,200 – the cost of a writer to produce a 10-page document
$35 million – the loss incurred by Coleco when they put out an instruction manual that customers could not make sense of and so returned their newly purchased Adam computers
Untold losses in life and money – the Challenger and Columbia shuttle disasters were based on poor writing and communication
The stories go on ad-infinitum, but the bottom line is that writing is a high ticket item yet a low budget priority in most organizations today.
In addition, I'm sorry to say, the plot thickens.
The plot thickens because most of the existing writing skills in today's workplace are in the hands of those nearing retirement.
Conversely, a recent survey of adult prose skills found that there is a huge pool of labor out there, but that by 2030, 119 million people will have literacy skills below employable levels.
As a point of comparison, that same year the US population is projected to be 360 million.
Using a little interpolation, we're talking about 40% of the available pool will be unemployable.
Here's another one that will make you feel all warm and fuzzy.
Today, the US ranks 16th out of the total 21 member countries of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).
Experts say the issue is the growing disparity between an exploding immigrant population that lacks opportunities for and access to education and those who do have a high school education or above. The line is also drawn because of significant economic disparity between those with and those without at least a high school education. Among OECD countries there is no such labor pool disparity.
THE FUTURE
Now, what does this mean to me, you ask?
First, if you are in business, you are in for a wallop.
Between now and 2014, growth will be 46% for jobs in professional, management, technical and high level sales areas.
If we do the math, that means the labor pool will have exploded, but the requisite skills – as in writing, among others, will not be there.
I think we can safely say that the growth of human capital sufficient to meet the needs of our future business needs portends to be a significant problem.
THE ANSWER
Let me go on record here to say the solution is not simple.
But we already knew that, right?
I see the need for three parties to come together:
government, education, and business.
From government and business we need support and funding, from education we need graduates who have the requisite skills necessary to be competent and productive employees in the multicultural workplace of the future.
About the Author
Variety is the spice of life and the source of great fodder. So says writer, scholar, teacher, and business practitioner Mary Anne Donovan. Mary Anne has been teaching in both graduate and undergraduate programs for the past nine years, with a specialty in business, technical and professional communications. In addition, she is the Chief Editor of Writer Online, a professional ezine for writers and lovers of writing. Mary Anne has her master's degree in liberal studies with a concentration in digital virtual literacy and rhetoric from Empire State College.
The blog can be found at www.businesswriting-courses.com
Baby-Name Advice Sought: Should I name my baby son Atari Combat, Coleco Adam, Mattel Aquarius or Sega Genesis?
Cool 80s sounding names are a sure path to the NFL. It's been 15 months now and we still haven't come up with a name. Thanks for your help.
Let's see now...Atari Combat Cacciatore - no; Coleco Adam Cacciatore - yes (sounds best); Mattel Aquarius Cacciatore - yes (2nd best); Sega Genesis Cacciatore - no. You might also try Coleco Atari Cacciatore. (I would keep Atari as the middle name. Atari Cacciatore doesn't flow off the tongue, but Coleco Cacciatore does.) Now, pick a name for that babby boy! 15 mos. - why don't you let him pick his own name? ; P
Dragon's Lair 1 & 2, Space Ace headed to Wii in the Dragon's Lair trilogy
Don Bluth's famous animated arcade games have seen their fair share of individual ports, but Destineer is bringing his entire collection to a console in a single game for the first time, packaging Dragon's Lair 1, Dragon's Lair 2, and Space Ace to the Wii with the Dragon's Lair trilogy.
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