i would say we need to make jr high and sr high schools super hard. and require testing to advance grades. and other requirements. and when students dont pass they dont get ahead! none of this testing and then letting them go ahead even if they fail! or that the bar to go ahead is too low. We need high school to be so hard that these kids start killing themselves (maybe not that hard) like in japan or something. Maybe more personal attention to students would help instead of everyone being faceless. The harder the challenge thrown at a kid usually they harder they work to accomplish it. The potential of not being able to get a high school diploma might make people work harder or get smarter! also less ridicule of smart people would be nice. anyway i'm just spouting whatever comes out my head, take anything i say with a grain of salt.
more importantly, it seems the CIA has a lot of free time when the guys are at their desks and have nothing to do but edit wiki. On the other hand, they are the business of intelligence and well someone has to add entries to the damn thing.
are these companies going to publishers? or direct to developer houses? If its direct to a developer then $5mil is a good chunk. Most of the time developers just get a budget from the publisher while the publisher is making tons off sales. So going to a publisher is like going to the middle man and B2B should interact with the content developers.
Yea, it is how a regular person would react to something. They just assume something will work and if it doesnt its just broken or something. Idiot proofing computers isnt the answer i think. It should be smartifying people. Its a lot easier to tell someone how to use a tool that it is to build a tool that just never messes up. But then again, some people just dont learn or dont want to learn which saddens me.
I know that people act as you have described with dling and then not knowing where their dl went. but, WHY! how can people just sit there after dling something and just be ok that they dont know where it went? if I ate some food and then it just never came out the other end I would be worried!
every time I think about these matters I just get frustrated with the universe. It feels futile to keep fighting against mass idiocy every day.
bring back the middle class. They are the ones that are gonna be the content buyers. Super rich people didnt get rich wasting their time watching movies and dling mp3s. And poor people cant afford to buy the crap. Middle class is the only ones that can afford to be entertained by those industries and it is a group of people that are diminishing every day due to many factors. So when people are making less money you think they are gonna keep buying all that entertainment crap at the same old price?! Entertainment industries are dumb. In business you cant think that things should go a certain way due to entitlement! You gotta earn it! and change with the times if you want to exist as the times change! Typing posts on/. unfortunately wont change the world because everyone here knows this already and entertainment big wigs are not young enuff to understand the intertubes. They are picking up email just when that boat left! jeez!
ugh, i know you are right. Even though i dont want that to be the case. I just hate jumping back between windows and linux! its annoying! and i dont like doing a vm. my life just sux i think! basically i exist between world and no one will accept me. Hmm maybe i need like 2 computers running on my desk. everything i do between platforms can just be sent over the network.
i dunno about the mac thing. Every time i used graphics softwares on a mac (photoshop, maya, etc.) it usually runs kind of slow compared to when i run it in windows. I have a decent machine for what i do (dual core X2, quadro fx video, and 4 gb ram.) Everyone that has showed off to me their macs just dont live up to my expectations. I dont know what is it. That whole mac vs pc in the graphics dept. is an old adage and hardware is almost the same now. Im not a linux fanboy or anything I just want good software on a free OS that I happen to like. Basically windows and OSX do not cater to my needs. In price and performance. They just have the software i need which is definately grounds to complain on.
Hey Adobe! There are other OS's that OS X and Windows! Make your stuff work in Linux! ALL of it! I seriously hope that M$ creating this stuff will cause adobe to make their suites for Linux. I don't care if its closed source I just don't wanna have to use windows for graphics stuff anymore! I wanna use my 64bit processor for reals! And then I hope other popular art packages move to Linux and then the world will be safer and those Dell PC's with Ubuntu installed will be worth something to some people! Some people like me!
is when did homo erectus, habilis and the neanderthals give way to homo sapiens. There are different kinds of gorillas and monkeys and fishies and doggies and snakes. Why did only one type of homo-whatever survive? Or is that even the case? Are the different homo-whatevers genetically divergent enuff to not be able to cross impregnate? I havent read up on all the current theories so in traditional/. action i will not read any articles and wait for people to post the answers to me!
so what if it's bad, or considered wrong. Wanting innocent hacking to not be seen as illegal is boring. Part of getting access to a system is the risk of getting caught! Risk is fun. If it wasn't we would only be content hacking sandboxes of our own creation.
uhh, haven't heard this for a while...
Hack the planet!
Nobody training anymore is an issue I deeply believe will be the downfall of industries. More and more companies these days don't want to train. I am an animator and from what I see in the games industry is that artists arent looked at on the same level as programmers when both jobs are equally important, one can't do their job without the other. So these companies dont want to train people, mostly because of the upfront costs. Businesses in the past decade I believe have stopped looking in the long term so much and just the right now bottom line. Its sad because animation and programming are the types of work a young newb could really use a great journeyman to apprentice. My friend who is a games programmer wishes he had someone to follow and learn from, too bad he is one of the best programmers at that small company so he feels he isnt learning much.
i believe the main problem is that the industry and the public caused the wrong term to be used just because it sounds better. Procedural programming is much more catchy than procedural content generation. Kinda like how nuclear is now pronounced and possibly spelled nucular. heh. The cool thing about spore though imo is the creature generation or modification tool. They spent a lot of time tweaking the powerful tools in the game so it is accessible to everyone. I hope the games lives up to the hype. Other places i guess you would find procedural something is with textures. Basically the major buzz about the power of procedural content generation is that its a means to put more power in the programmers hands. And to free up mundane tedious work so the artists on the project can do the more difficult stuff. Though some people would like to believe that it is to take power away from the artists on the project hoping someday that games are drawn with code alone.
altitude as well as oven construction play into it. Older or more simple type ovens (usually found in any old apartment) especially electric ovens dont heat very evenly and are difficult to control the temp.
can we make it out of real tubes this time? politicians will like this, they wont sound like idiots when describing the intertubes. Also, imagine the bandwidth potential of zipping physical DVDRs to your friends? What would bittorrent be like with real tubes! probably a big mess but whatever!
what i meant was that to a normal person, something that exists completely for free sounds like a trap or something untrustworthy. I know its weird logic but think about it this way. If a product is given for free then couldnt one think that this producer does not think his product is worth even money? Hence, the product has no monetary worth so it is in effect worthless. Even though we know it isnt worthless. It's the old way of thinking about trade and money between consumers and companies. I hope that clears up my point.
why not send extra fuel packages there well before the manned mission? A set of fuel packages can be sent, something that will land on mars to be retrieved and installed on the ship to get out of there and then in orbit to get back home. This way we can send a lander that can use retro rockets as well as air baggy chutes and whatnot. Hell, send a set of robots to build some stuff before we get there for other support in landing.
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i would say we need to make jr high and sr high schools super hard. and require testing to advance grades. and other requirements. and when students dont pass they dont get ahead! none of this testing and then letting them go ahead even if they fail! or that the bar to go ahead is too low. We need high school to be so hard that these kids start killing themselves (maybe not that hard) like in japan or something. Maybe more personal attention to students would help instead of everyone being faceless. The harder the challenge thrown at a kid usually they harder they work to accomplish it. The potential of not being able to get a high school diploma might make people work harder or get smarter! also less ridicule of smart people would be nice. anyway i'm just spouting whatever comes out my head, take anything i say with a grain of salt.
i miss thac0. Even though it was crazy it still had charm.
aww give him a break he atleast added the "robble robble" at he end and that just made my day.
more importantly, it seems the CIA has a lot of free time when the guys are at their desks and have nothing to do but edit wiki. On the other hand, they are the business of intelligence and well someone has to add entries to the damn thing.
all over your mom! mother earth that is.
are these companies going to publishers? or direct to developer houses? If its direct to a developer then $5mil is a good chunk. Most of the time developers just get a budget from the publisher while the publisher is making tons off sales. So going to a publisher is like going to the middle man and B2B should interact with the content developers.
Yea, it is how a regular person would react to something. They just assume something will work and if it doesnt its just broken or something. Idiot proofing computers isnt the answer i think. It should be smartifying people. Its a lot easier to tell someone how to use a tool that it is to build a tool that just never messes up. But then again, some people just dont learn or dont want to learn which saddens me.
I know that people act as you have described with dling and then not knowing where their dl went. but, WHY! how can people just sit there after dling something and just be ok that they dont know where it went? if I ate some food and then it just never came out the other end I would be worried! every time I think about these matters I just get frustrated with the universe. It feels futile to keep fighting against mass idiocy every day.
bring back the middle class. They are the ones that are gonna be the content buyers. Super rich people didnt get rich wasting their time watching movies and dling mp3s. And poor people cant afford to buy the crap. Middle class is the only ones that can afford to be entertained by those industries and it is a group of people that are diminishing every day due to many factors. So when people are making less money you think they are gonna keep buying all that entertainment crap at the same old price?! Entertainment industries are dumb. In business you cant think that things should go a certain way due to entitlement! You gotta earn it! and change with the times if you want to exist as the times change! Typing posts on /. unfortunately wont change the world because everyone here knows this already and entertainment big wigs are not young enuff to understand the intertubes. They are picking up email just when that boat left! jeez!
ugh, i know you are right. Even though i dont want that to be the case. I just hate jumping back between windows and linux! its annoying! and i dont like doing a vm. my life just sux i think! basically i exist between world and no one will accept me. Hmm maybe i need like 2 computers running on my desk. everything i do between platforms can just be sent over the network.
i dunno about the mac thing. Every time i used graphics softwares on a mac (photoshop, maya, etc.) it usually runs kind of slow compared to when i run it in windows. I have a decent machine for what i do (dual core X2, quadro fx video, and 4 gb ram.) Everyone that has showed off to me their macs just dont live up to my expectations. I dont know what is it. That whole mac vs pc in the graphics dept. is an old adage and hardware is almost the same now. Im not a linux fanboy or anything I just want good software on a free OS that I happen to like. Basically windows and OSX do not cater to my needs. In price and performance. They just have the software i need which is definately grounds to complain on.
Hey Adobe! There are other OS's that OS X and Windows! Make your stuff work in Linux! ALL of it! I seriously hope that M$ creating this stuff will cause adobe to make their suites for Linux. I don't care if its closed source I just don't wanna have to use windows for graphics stuff anymore! I wanna use my 64bit processor for reals! And then I hope other popular art packages move to Linux and then the world will be safer and those Dell PC's with Ubuntu installed will be worth something to some people! Some people like me!
is when did homo erectus, habilis and the neanderthals give way to homo sapiens. There are different kinds of gorillas and monkeys and fishies and doggies and snakes. Why did only one type of homo-whatever survive? Or is that even the case? Are the different homo-whatevers genetically divergent enuff to not be able to cross impregnate? I havent read up on all the current theories so in traditional /. action i will not read any articles and wait for people to post the answers to me!
so what if it's bad, or considered wrong. Wanting innocent hacking to not be seen as illegal is boring. Part of getting access to a system is the risk of getting caught! Risk is fun. If it wasn't we would only be content hacking sandboxes of our own creation. uhh, haven't heard this for a while... Hack the planet!
Nobody training anymore is an issue I deeply believe will be the downfall of industries. More and more companies these days don't want to train. I am an animator and from what I see in the games industry is that artists arent looked at on the same level as programmers when both jobs are equally important, one can't do their job without the other. So these companies dont want to train people, mostly because of the upfront costs. Businesses in the past decade I believe have stopped looking in the long term so much and just the right now bottom line. Its sad because animation and programming are the types of work a young newb could really use a great journeyman to apprentice. My friend who is a games programmer wishes he had someone to follow and learn from, too bad he is one of the best programmers at that small company so he feels he isnt learning much.
oh that rascally Tom!
uh skip the wine and go straight to the 151. You cant be a pirate without rum!
unless you married the right kind of woman, namely a rich one.
you know you can just rip off the clasp on the bra every time until she cant afford to wear one.
i believe the main problem is that the industry and the public caused the wrong term to be used just because it sounds better. Procedural programming is much more catchy than procedural content generation. Kinda like how nuclear is now pronounced and possibly spelled nucular. heh. The cool thing about spore though imo is the creature generation or modification tool. They spent a lot of time tweaking the powerful tools in the game so it is accessible to everyone. I hope the games lives up to the hype. Other places i guess you would find procedural something is with textures. Basically the major buzz about the power of procedural content generation is that its a means to put more power in the programmers hands. And to free up mundane tedious work so the artists on the project can do the more difficult stuff. Though some people would like to believe that it is to take power away from the artists on the project hoping someday that games are drawn with code alone.
altitude as well as oven construction play into it. Older or more simple type ovens (usually found in any old apartment) especially electric ovens dont heat very evenly and are difficult to control the temp.
can we make it out of real tubes this time? politicians will like this, they wont sound like idiots when describing the intertubes. Also, imagine the bandwidth potential of zipping physical DVDRs to your friends? What would bittorrent be like with real tubes! probably a big mess but whatever!
don't forget internet radio! :(
what i meant was that to a normal person, something that exists completely for free sounds like a trap or something untrustworthy. I know its weird logic but think about it this way. If a product is given for free then couldnt one think that this producer does not think his product is worth even money? Hence, the product has no monetary worth so it is in effect worthless. Even though we know it isnt worthless. It's the old way of thinking about trade and money between consumers and companies. I hope that clears up my point.
why not send extra fuel packages there well before the manned mission? A set of fuel packages can be sent, something that will land on mars to be retrieved and installed on the ship to get out of there and then in orbit to get back home. This way we can send a lander that can use retro rockets as well as air baggy chutes and whatnot. Hell, send a set of robots to build some stuff before we get there for other support in landing.