when IPTV becomes more ubiqutous, or when more people start watching news, music videos, etc. online. Yahoo! music streaming, anyone? iTunes, anyone?
IPTV is set to evolve soon, too, to where a Comcast user in Los Angeles can subscribe to a provider streaming from Texas. Episodes of TV shows can be seen online now, and whole libraries are going to be coming online.
Bittorrent's just a big shark in a really really big ocean of bandwidth problems about to hit you like a tsunami.
The backbone will get stronger or new markets won't emerge. Apparently in this day and age, the market has right of way.
Customers getting what they paid for? Are you nuts?! That's communism! You pay for 6mbps per second, you should be happy with 768kbps. People having the freedom to use bit torrent and the privacy of encryption, what kind of collectivi-er, confiscationli-er, what are you, one of those SWARTHY PEOPLE?!!!
because UT2004 brought everything together: maturity of genre, absolute adrenaline-raising fun, balanced weapons, great team play mechanics (exemplified at the next level by Onslaught, originally "invented" by threewave CTF for Quake), it made connecting to games a snap, player models worked perfectly (IME), etc etc...
UT2004 should be in the halls of fame for getting everything right and balanced, and for looking good doing it.
Definitely a FPS with the RPG element very successfully overlaid.
No gaming hall of fame is worth its salt without Deus Ex. Not RPG halls of fame or FPS. (Although The Elder Scrolls would utterly conquer any RPG hall of fame.)
DRM is like buying a Ford Expedition SUV that you think you own, but lo and behold, the hood is welded shut to prevent non Ford technicians from servicing, and to keep you from buying after market parts for it. It's like having a black box in your Expedition that shuts you down or calls the cops on you if you drive 66mph or cross state lines without paying a Ford interstate crossing fee. DRM is also like Chevron slapping in a gasoline meter that dings you an extra $1 per gallon for choosing Valero gasoline, or just shuts your car down and voids your warranty.
You're going to be competing against East Indian kids who wrote their first database-based file system by 16 and who are now onto AI projects at 18.
Of course you're also competing against kids who are struggling with Partial Differential Equations at 18 and their third foreign language, too. Guess which language that is.
And parents were able to communicate with their kids before the arrival of the telephone.
There are cell phones now that only allow you to call 1 or 2 numbers (that, of course, being your #), which are ideal for kids. I'd be more than glad to settle with that. But there's no law saying the State or any authority can keep me from being in communication with my child 24/7.
Oh and I pay taxes into those schools, so those school authorities are accountable to me. I as a voter get to decide what my rights are as a parent.
but if she did start her own IT business/consulting gig, she would have the advantage of having better social skills, thus better marketing skills, and if her skills are equal to her competitors, she can out compete men. There are clients who would be put off by tech savvy women, but are they worth doing business with?
Excuse me? That's my way of communicating with my kid.
You haven't been a parent when there's an emergency at the school and all the land lines to the school are jammed by concerned parents calling in, and you can bypass that with a cell phone.
What, do you think Powerpoint is going to be THE NEXT BIG THING above and beyond basic math, science and history?
There is room for computing in the classroom as LONG as it is used to accelerate the learning of the hard skills like math, science and history. Powerpoint should be a side issue, with programming and entry level network administration training being closer to the forefront (but far behind math, science and history).
I can't believe what's being called 'flamebait' nowadays...
wouldn't that result in said gunpowder sprinkler being sued in court? (not to mention busted by the ATF, lol!)
Sorry, but a lot of those "women" are men
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There was a recent/. article talking about how men log on MMORPGs as women players, especially to get preferential treatment (such as gifts, help, etc.).
Trust no identity whose face you don't see on a live cam. And not even all of those...
They're not getting laid at home. As a woman, you probably are. Really.
But more relevantly, don't worry about the clique. Do your job and collect your paycheck. The good old boys' networks in the average workplace won't last long. I've been in two workplaces like that and both went bankrupt. They'll have their comraderie, but you'll have your actual achievements on your resume, and maybe you'll even decide to run your own business later on; women-owned businesses statistically do better, anyway.
Now I manage a fairly egalitarian workplace where guys don't crap themselves over women coworkers. We judge people by their skill and not their gender. I know this is anecdotal, but hey, I don't see us going down any time soon, so my theory of egalitarian employers doing better, is... unshaken.
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That's a slower, more painful death.
is your friend. Er, was.
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You can pick up your final check on Tuesday.
Our data center has three backbones coming through here.
:)
If we're down, we know for sure that we have bigger problems than an outage: namely, it's time to crawl into a bomb shelter and wait things out.
Not quite as much a loss of man hours as going to the movies, eating, vacations, etc.
Haven't you heard, America is all about productivity and anything short of productive behavior is a loss of man hours.
"So what's the difference between a monkey fetus and a human fetus? Huh? Huh?!!!" argument.
The Government has no right to search or seize anything without a warrant.
There are no gray areas here. Search & seizure is not legal without a warrant. Period. No warrant without probable cause. Period. Dot. Stop.
I refuse to accept a police/surveillance state as a "cure" for terrorism.
What, is your argument that you'd rather give up your freedoms to be safe?
NFL licensing is prohibitively expensive. No licensing, no NFL player models, and no real time ESPN/NFL stats.
At best you're stuck with "alternate football league" games in open source.
Other than that, yes, you're right, football is never going to evolve, it's ripe for becoming an open source game market.
when IPTV becomes more ubiqutous, or when more people start watching news, music videos, etc. online. Yahoo! music streaming, anyone? iTunes, anyone?
IPTV is set to evolve soon, too, to where a Comcast user in Los Angeles can subscribe to a provider streaming from Texas. Episodes of TV shows can be seen online now, and whole libraries are going to be coming online.
Bittorrent's just a big shark in a really really big ocean of bandwidth problems about to hit you like a tsunami.
The backbone will get stronger or new markets won't emerge. Apparently in this day and age, the market has right of way.
Customers getting what they paid for? Are you nuts?! That's communism! You pay for 6mbps per second, you should be happy with 768kbps. People having the freedom to use bit torrent and the privacy of encryption, what kind of collectivi-er, confiscationli-er, what are you, one of those SWARTHY PEOPLE?!!!
Grand Theft Football?
McMahon's WWE Touchdown?
There's no such thing as "a little code" even for us actual coders, much less in any gaming project, much less anything XNA-related.
A non-programmer shouldn't touch this stuff with a 12 meter (that's 39 and a half feet for us non-British people) pole.
because UT2004 brought everything together: maturity of genre, absolute adrenaline-raising fun, balanced weapons, great team play mechanics (exemplified at the next level by Onslaught, originally "invented" by threewave CTF for Quake), it made connecting to games a snap, player models worked perfectly (IME), etc etc...
UT2004 should be in the halls of fame for getting everything right and balanced, and for looking good doing it.
Definitely a FPS with the RPG element very successfully overlaid.
No gaming hall of fame is worth its salt without Deus Ex. Not RPG halls of fame or FPS. (Although The Elder Scrolls would utterly conquer any RPG hall of fame.)
DRM is like buying a Ford Expedition SUV that you think you own, but lo and behold, the hood is welded shut to prevent non Ford technicians from servicing, and to keep you from buying after market parts for it. It's like having a black box in your Expedition that shuts you down or calls the cops on you if you drive 66mph or cross state lines without paying a Ford interstate crossing fee. DRM is also like Chevron slapping in a gasoline meter that dings you an extra $1 per gallon for choosing Valero gasoline, or just shuts your car down and voids your warranty.
You're going to be competing against East Indian kids who wrote their first database-based file system by 16 and who are now onto AI projects at 18.
Of course you're also competing against kids who are struggling with Partial Differential Equations at 18 and their third foreign language, too. Guess which language that is.
And parents were able to communicate with their kids before the arrival of the telephone.
There are cell phones now that only allow you to call 1 or 2 numbers (that, of course, being your #), which are ideal for kids. I'd be more than glad to settle with that. But there's no law saying the State or any authority can keep me from being in communication with my child 24/7.
Oh and I pay taxes into those schools, so those school authorities are accountable to me. I as a voter get to decide what my rights are as a parent.
"It is by Starbucks that I set my mind in motion"?
but if she did start her own IT business/consulting gig, she would have the advantage of having better social skills, thus better marketing skills, and if her skills are equal to her competitors, she can out compete men. There are clients who would be put off by tech savvy women, but are they worth doing business with?
Excuse me? That's my way of communicating with my kid.
You haven't been a parent when there's an emergency at the school and all the land lines to the school are jammed by concerned parents calling in, and you can bypass that with a cell phone.
How is that FLAMEBAIT?!!!
What, do you think Powerpoint is going to be THE NEXT BIG THING above and beyond basic math, science and history?
There is room for computing in the classroom as LONG as it is used to accelerate the learning of the hard skills like math, science and history. Powerpoint should be a side issue, with programming and entry level network administration training being closer to the forefront (but far behind math, science and history).
I can't believe what's being called 'flamebait' nowadays...
Giving kids pen and paper allows them to write love notes to each other and draw pornographic things, news@11.
wouldn't that result in said gunpowder sprinkler being sued in court? (not to mention busted by the ATF, lol!)
There was a recent /. article talking about how men log on MMORPGs as women players, especially to get preferential treatment (such as gifts, help, etc.).
Trust no identity whose face you don't see on a live cam. And not even all of those...
They're not getting laid at home. As a woman, you probably are. Really.
But more relevantly, don't worry about the clique. Do your job and collect your paycheck. The good old boys' networks in the average workplace won't last long. I've been in two workplaces like that and both went bankrupt. They'll have their comraderie, but you'll have your actual achievements on your resume, and maybe you'll even decide to run your own business later on; women-owned businesses statistically do better, anyway.
Now I manage a fairly egalitarian workplace where guys don't crap themselves over women coworkers. We judge people by their skill and not their gender. I know this is anecdotal, but hey, I don't see us going down any time soon, so my theory of egalitarian employers doing better, is... unshaken.
Then buy in at the IPO level.