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biina:
There is nothing constructive about laying blame.

Please point me to where "the blaming" is in that report.

tosh_acer:
where are you coming from? You suddenly travelled and became the voice of the masses or what? many have gone, been there, and came back to assist the country, not stay put and become empty barrel critics.

Is that directed at me? I will post a reply if it is.

tboy1:
Sunday evening should be fine
Just make sure you dont mistakenly log off when you getting trashing 
Those kids online r used to doing this - especially when you beating them silly, just before the final whistle you see 'CONNECTION LOST' on ur TV screen 

I am not the type to do such things. It is merely a game and not a matter of life and death. I have been beaten and I mean "trashed" online and I just take it as I need to improve. On the flip side I have more wins than loss.

I tend to only come out of a game if lagging is very bad.

~Sauron~:
I can't believe no one plays FIFA09 online in this part of the hemisphere.
Do people still play PES 2009 in this day and age when there's FIFA??
Cheese n Rice. . . . . . . .

Surely the taste is in the pudding? As evident by the numbers of pro evo players here. You know there is usually a middle line and not everything is "my way or the high way". Both games are good games and each have their flaws.

@Kobojunkie I see what you mean and yeah it makes sense. As a result I am posting this to help such people.


How Can I Learn to Accept Constructive Criticism?

[b]The ability to accept constructive criticism comes very easily to some people, while others have a difficult time processing any comments that touch on the abilities or competence of the individual. Still, learning to accept suggestions that are intended to improve performance in some aspect of our lives can be the first step in becoming a better person. Here are a few things to keep in mind about the nature of constructive criticism and how to become more comfortable with receiving and processing this form of personal critique.

One of the first steps in accepting suggestions for improvement is to remove emotions from the equation. This may be difficult to accomplish, the but effort is well worth the results. By not allowing our sense of ego or our tender feelings to stand in the way of objectively considering the comments concerning our behavior, we open the door to possibly accept constructive criticism and learn something that will help improve the quality of our lives.

Second, it is important to recognize that the person offering the criticism is doing so in an effort to help, not hurt. Choosing to see the remarks in this light makes it easier to see the critic as an ally, rather than a foe. Ultimately, both of you have the same goal in mind, which is to help you become even better at something than you already are. When you can accept constructive criticism as a tool for improvement offered by a friendly source, you go a long way toward achieving personal growth.

Last, defuse any seemingly harsh comments by asking for clarification from the critic. The fact is that most of us sometimes have trouble choosing the right words. If something your critic states does not seem to have merit, ask for examples of your behavior that illustrate the point he or she is trying to make. This exercise will help you understand how your actions are perceived, and also present the chance for both of you to examine a real life situation and explore together how that event could have been handled in a more productive manner.

Accepting constructive criticism is important for just about everyone. Whether in the workplace, in the community, or even in the home, the ability to receive and accept constructive criticism can have a positive impact on our relationships. By remaining objective, asking clarifying questions, and seeing your critic as your ally, it is possible to learn to accept constructive criticism in the spirit that was intended. [/b]

Hopefully people will read this and see where some of us are coming from at least.

@Kobojunkie I see what you mean and yeah it makes sense. As a result I am posting this to help such people.


How Can I Learn to Accept Constructive Criticism?

[b]The ability to accept constructive criticism comes very easily to some people, while others have a difficult time processing any comments that touch on the abilities or competence of the individual. Still, learning to accept suggestions that are intended to improve performance in some aspect of our lives can be the first step in becoming a better person. Here are a few things to keep in mind about the nature of constructive criticism and how to become more comfortable with receiving and processing this form of personal critique.

One of the first steps in accepting suggestions for improvement is to remove emotions from the equation. This may be difficult to accomplish, the but effort is well worth the results. By not allowing our sense of ego or our tender feelings to stand in the way of objectively considering the comments concerning our behavior, we open the door to possibly accept constructive criticism and learn something that will help improve the quality of our lives.

Second, it is important to recognize that the person offering the criticism is doing so in an effort to help, not hurt. Choosing to see the remarks in this light makes it easier to see the critic as an ally, rather than a foe. Ultimately, both of you have the same goal in mind, which is to help you become even better at something than you already are. When you can accept constructive criticism as a tool for improvement offered by a friendly source, you go a long way toward achieving personal growth.

Last, defuse any seemingly harsh comments by asking for clarification from the critic. The fact is that most of us sometimes have trouble choosing the right words. If something your critic states does not seem to have merit, ask for examples of your behavior that illustrate the point he or she is trying to make. This exercise will help you understand how your actions are perceived, and also present the chance for both of you to examine a real life situation and explore together how that event could have been handled in a more productive manner.

Accepting constructive criticism is important for just about everyone. Whether in the workplace, in the community, or even in the home, the ability to receive and accept constructive criticism can have a positive impact on our relationships. By remaining objective, asking clarifying questions, and seeing your critic as your ally, it is possible to learn to accept constructive criticism in the spirit that was intended. [/b]

Hopefully people will read this and see where some of us are coming from at least.

@Kobojunkie I see what you mean and yeah it makes sense. As a result I am posting this to help such people.


How Can I Learn to Accept Constructive Criticism?

[b]The ability to accept constructive criticism comes very easily to some people, while others have a difficult time processing any comments that touch on the abilities or competence of the individual. Still, learning to accept suggestions that are intended to improve performance in some aspect of our lives can be the first step in becoming a better person. Here are a few things to keep in mind about the nature of constructive criticism and how to become more comfortable with receiving and processing this form of personal critique.

One of the first steps in accepting suggestions for improvement is to remove emotions from the equation. This may be difficult to accomplish, the but effort is well worth the results. By not allowing our sense of ego or our tender feelings to stand in the way of objectively considering the comments concerning our behavior, we open the door to possibly accept constructive criticism and learn something that will help improve the quality of our lives.

Second, it is important to recognize that the person offering the criticism is doing so in an effort to help, not hurt. Choosing to see the remarks in this light makes it easier to see the critic as an ally, rather than a foe. Ultimately, both of you have the same goal in mind, which is to help you become even better at something than you already are. When you can accept constructive criticism as a tool for improvement offered by a friendly source, you go a long way toward achieving personal growth.

Last, defuse any seemingly harsh comments by asking for clarification from the critic. The fact is that most of us sometimes have trouble choosing the right words. If something your critic states does not seem to have merit, ask for examples of your behavior that illustrate the point he or she is trying to make. This exercise will help you understand how your actions are perceived, and also present the chance for both of you to examine a real life situation and explore together how that event could have been handled in a more productive manner.

Accepting constructive criticism is important for just about everyone. Whether in the workplace, in the community, or even in the home, the ability to receive and accept constructive criticism can have a positive impact on our relationships. By remaining objective, asking clarifying questions, and seeing your critic as your ally, it is possible to learn to accept constructive criticism in the spirit that was intended. [/b]

Hopefully people will read this and see where some of us are coming from at least.

You took time to make a thread, copy and paste, but some how you refuse to leave your opinion? Excellent.


Yardua may want to focus on much more pressing issues instead of encouraging division among the very people he is supposed to be ruling.

@georgecso

The inability to take on board criticism holds people back from improving and it appears we haven't learn this yet.

I havent played it online to be honest. I am currently replaying it because of the trophy support that was recently added.

Yes it is one the good adventure games I ever played too. The story is gripping and graphics aint too bad.

We may play on pro evo on sunday evening or so.

Funny thread. Highlights the massive "state of being unaware" that is ever present on this forum.

The action of a few, do not represent the majority. She won it, so no way "UK is racist" as suggested.

tosh_acer:
Restating the obvios and tainting it with lies to make it look like criticism is nothing but making fool of the heart of the writer - ok, the Group Report came out, what is debatable about it? what is new about what has ben said in their, what is the point re stating the obvious over and over and over again? it beats me hollow!

I addressed that with my post.

The people who runs our country are TOO DEAF and hence the continuous criticism. Eventually, there will be a new generation of those willing to take on board criticism and make improvements.

If we are been told the obvious all the time, don't that highlights or show our we are afraid of change or can make things better perhaps even our lives depended on it?

Finally, what lies are present in this report? You seem to agree it is the truth [as you agreed it is the obvious]

tosh_acer:
ELRazur

Many people who live in Nigeria have travelled far wider and to more sophisticated places on this earth and yet they take it easy in criticising - what is contructive in all the topics and write ups i have read and i am reading on Nairaand, especially this one?

Yes people have travelled far and wide, yet we haven't seen much impact as a result in over 40years.

The reports highlights that we have bad leadership etc. All those things highlighted should be taken into account and we work on them. It is as simple as that.

tombola:
Tell them TOSH.

What is the meaning of contructive criticism?

You really do not know? Surely, I thought it is obvious, any how, here is a link for you to read.
http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-constructive-criticism.htm

Constructive criticism is criticism kindly meant that has a goal of improving some area of another’s person’s life or work. Often constructive criticism refers specifically to the critique of someone else’s written or artistic work, in perhaps a teacher/student setting, that would allow that person to further improve the work or to improve their approach to future endeavors. However, constructive criticism can also apply to a critical reasoned analysis of a person’s behavior, as in a patient/therapist setting or a group therapy setting. Parents also try to employ constructive criticism to help their children improve their lives.

Ilelobola:
Might not have used the right words, it's still a proposal but the 2nd home + exepenses allowance and payrise remains in place whilst they think up an alternative which excludes scrapping it without a replacement. So either way they win.

Didn't see the the colonial master coming back as anything more than that.

Remember my point about how our citizens are too blind to see? [Nigerians am referring to here]. On comparison, the people here can see like you have, imagine millions more who have seen that. These people will use their votes and put the current govt out in the coming elections, mark my words. I for once won't be voting for them.

tosh_acer:
Dont mind them @Tombola

A bunch of nin compoops write jargons on the internet and some non entity people come here to discuss it as if it is worth the time and trouble.

It is very ironic coming from you. The irony is that you are here discussing it too. Perhaps if you stayed away from the thread, your point may have stand, I rest my case.

Why do we hate constructive criticism so much? How hard is it for us as a nation to take these criticism on board and put it to good use? That way we shut the critics up, but no, we aint doing nothing and hence we give them more ammo. It is a simple logic really.

tombola:
again, these diasporians out to rubbish Nigeria once again - foolish fools. A group of fools compile a report out to rubbish your country and you are out here singing their praises, what manner of people are these diasporians?

That do make you sound like you are bitter you know.

No one have rubbished your "beloved country" that I have seen. I think one of the biggest problem is how our people have a mentality of inability to take on board constructive criticism. Nothing wrong with pointing the obvious that our nation is bad, in fact, in a very bad state in some areas.

The thing people do not understand is that these so called "Diasporans" have seen how things work in other places, and just wish things will work too from where they come from hence the criticism. If anything, any one abroad who criticises Nigeria, really wants the best for Nigeria. The problem is that Nigeria refuses to take on board the criticism and hence it becomes a vicious cycle.

Ilelobola:
Very funny. So tell me who amongst them doesn't claim it or has refused the pay rise. Yes they are looking at doing away with it but  replacing it with Attendance Allowance. Ha, that's much better, pay me on top of my salary to come into work, nonsense. Well done to them for doing it within the law, they write the law, ensuring they are sorted out.

Keep waiting for the British government to come and help us? U think the UK or any of the other Giant nations want others to stop depending on them? I don't think so. No one is going to help us, until we start helping ourselves.

And where did I reject what they've said in their report? It certainly doesn't tell us anything we don't know or that's not obvious to anyone who tries to study Nigerian politics/economy. My point is, remove the plank in your eye first.

You seem to have misconstrued the news regarding that. It is a proposal and not a "full replacement" if I remember correctly.

The statement about the colonial master coming back comes as a joke or "tongue in cheek" to me. I am sure it was meant like that.

See my previous post on your last paragraph.

The psp is not exactly designed to store games on the memory card, hence why UMD exist. Having said that, using a third party software - i.e "hacking" your psp with such software allows you to store many games when needed.

You will need a third party firmware, search around as loads of them exist or you can speak to[b] infoeyes [/b]and pay him for the privilege.

A note of caution though, if you are doing it yourself, you really need to know what you are doing. If you dont, you can "brick" your psp i.e make it unusable forever.

Goodluck.

Nice one Blacksta, you just save me from typing another lengthy post.

Comparing UK's mp to Nigeria government is comparing a table and an orange. There is no similarity whatsoever.

This report maybe stating the obvious, but then again it is obvious that our leaders are perpetually deaf and our fellow nigerian citizen clearly lacks the sight to see.

Nice one Iykedee [is that short for Ikemefuna? ]

I see you have Pro evo, I am so adding you to my friendlist.

I stop selling or exchanging my games years back, I just collect them and go back to them. It never gets tiring.

People wont pay more than the value you see. Check out Demand and Supply concept/law.

Also, I don't think hip hop is overlooked in Nigeria.

OMO IBO:
im pretty much into most games except adventures. for some reason i cant seem to go online with any football games.
platform = ps3

You dont understand my question. I am asking what game title and on what platform [You answered the platform part]. Take a look at my thread here and see my list of games

https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-263397.0.html

Surely we have more owners of ps3 here than just the 3 or four of us?

The update is the firmware.
Post your yahoo chat or msn here. I offer much assistance as I can.

It should be noted that I wont be home till sunday evening.

I dont undertand everyone who have posted so far. It is easier to say lagbaja is good, tamodo is better. What does that solve? If you guys really want to have a proper debate, you all need to state your reasons as to why Rugged or Mode9 is better. Seriously how hard is that?

Here is a guideline on what to use.

Analyse each person's strength and compare with the other. It is advisable to be make fair comparison and not just talk s.h.i,t. For example comparing record sales is just stupid in my opinion. Address things like flow, flow delivery, punchlines, lyrical complexity, etc. If anyone need explanation on those, things I listed please ask.

Happy debating.

PS
Anyone that makes an insult loses a point and who ever they are defending loses that round too.



Now fire on.


PSS
By the way, I am a neutral guy here. I am not to bothered between both of them to be honest. I just appreciate rap.

I think you will find the full name of what you are describing is "Bubble gum Hip Pop". It would be an insult to rap lovers like me to add "rap" to the end of that description.

Now for the matter at hand, I think music is changing and as it saddens me to say, we cannot change some of those things. However, true fans of HipHop [not Hip Pop] can carry on being true and just support as much as we can.

Most concious lyrist are not in it for the money, and contrary to what we think they sometimes make more money on their album than their popular counterpart. For example someone like Canibus is a classic example. His raps about science, technology, science fiction mixed with other intelligent stuff. His flows and delivery are second to none and almost untouchable. He is one of the first person ever to truly freestyle from the top of his head for almost 5mins without mistakes and making sense. He took on Wu-tang clan in a freestyle battle and it is generally accepted that he won that battle. What I am trying to paint here is how good Canibus is lyrically, however due to the fact that people just dont like intelligent rap, hence he is not commercially viable.

Speaking on his record sales, he makes more money on each record sales than most popular and commercially viable artist. He owns more right too. From the top of my head, he make like 6dollar or so for every cd sold, compare to his commercial artist that makes less - about 3box each on every cd sold.

You see my point is that, real hiphop may not appear to be selling, but it is really doing better for the artist involve. For the record, I believe people will get tired of all these commercial stuff soon. It is only a phase.

This is the Politics section. Do you need me to explain that to you? It means, threads created here should be mainly about Politics. Now, I dont know if you noticed, but your thread have no bearing whatsoever on politics. More over, the contents is lacking. You are wasting bandwidth, wasting people's time and just wanting attention.

Can you now see the problem?, You know, don't bother to answer.

And?

Some people need help.

~Sauron~:
But artistes are artistes, no??

It is necessary to make the clarification from the beginning, one of the thing you and I are guilty off and never did. Perhaps all those aggro could have been avoided.

~Sauron~:
We are talking about the relatively unknown Naija artistes here.
Peops like 50 cent, Eminem have other stuffs going for them.
Good production unit, good marketing outfit and several endorsements and TV appearances.
Any 50 cent interview on MTV/BET is more cash in his coffers.
Cats like M.I., Eedris must pay MITV/AIT to be on TV. They pay Radio stations to get airplay.

These are big time artistes.
If you dig deep into their career in the embryonic stage don't be surprised they musta performed at a loss way back.

This is where we may have been misunderstanding each other. My stance all along have been the big names in naija scene. The cats and dogs holding it down right now. P.Square are reported to have taken millions of money for some shows [50k dollars or so dont quote me on that], Sasha flies helicopter to go shopping, Tuface claims to make 10mila in a week. The point is these artist have massive disposable income and it wont have come from making a loss. Hence the point I was making all along.

As for the issues of paying in naija. While I disagree with it, I cannot change the system and I am not sure if those big names will pay on a regular basis when compared to the upcoming ones.

ActiveMan:
WETIN I WAN SAY,

MOST VIDEO THAT COST MOST ARE NOT LIKE quality FOR NIGERIANS FACE

Uk no be like Nigeria where you just go to one street and shoot a video, she will also pay the authority

Unless she is trying to tell a land mark story. She didnt use Number 10 downing street for that video or other places that will require permission, I really do not see how her claim stands.

You never heard of Channel U? Those artist shot their video almost anywhere and everywhere, with probably little or no permission (albeit they are shot with hand held camera)

~Sauron~:
If he was raking money in like you have claimed, he has no reason to take money without performing.
U have vindicated my stance with your example. These artistes have loads of expenses to worry about.
Trust me!!!

A simple case of this logic --> It is easy to get paid for doing nothing, than to get paid for doing something.

I really cant remember the thorough details, however the payment was for half now and half on completion.


Remember Rik waller? He famously sold two tickets and had to cancel the show. There is no way an artist will perform at a loss. Especially, those big names.

Do you think snoop dogg, 50cent et al will perform at a loss? I am sure if it aint a profit of at least half a million dollars those folk aint getting out of bed.

~Sauron~:
He got himself, not me!!!
ElRazur has got a one-track mind and he fails to realise Naija artistes spend more on overheads than their income.
Artistes like Azadus and co have been put out of business because of overheads.

I don't understand as to why someone will put out a show at a loss. So if Azadus is out of business as a result of bad practice, are you suggesting our artist are in it to make a loss? If everyone spends more than they take in, surely we will be debt ridden?

You know, that is the same approach Gordon's taken on the economy, "Spend our way out of recession". It just do not make a business sense to spend more than what your monthly/annual earnings are.

My friend in Ireland paid one artist upfront for a show. [This artist never turned up for the show - do a google and you will find out who he is] He apparently took like equivalent of millions of naira. I am sure this particular artist havent spent up to that kind of amount on his own video or putting up shows.