I have administered (and currently administer) a number of sites for various clients across a wide range of publishing systems - flat html, php, various CMSes running on Linux, UNIX, and Windows servers.
I cannot find the words to convey the depth of the loathing I feel for Joomla. It embodies the worst of Open Source - as if it were written by a million angsty teenagers suffering from ADHD, with duplicated functionality across a hundred different modules, little or no sensible documentation, and the usability issues...! Most CMSes try and at least LOOK like some thought has been given to how people in the real world will use them. Joomla feels and behaves like it was designed to be DELIBERATELY confusing, as if the author of any given module was sneering at his imaginary end user, thinking "it's perfectly obvious to ME what to do here, fuck you if you can't work it out, n00b".
Gah! Just thinking about Joomla makes me want to go and wash my hands.
Joomla is evil. That's all there is to it. The only way to get the functionality you would ever really need beyond basic content management is to pay large sums of money for commercial modules. The community is huge in the worst possible way. There are a million modules for one problem and it is near impossible to find the right one.
The interface is deplorable. None of the methods of content management make any sense, and it is obviously not meant to be user friendly considering the top dollar training offered for the system. If there were ever a CMS to avoid, this would be it.
operate your own infrastructure, no matter what the current hype is
Exactly. You should be digging trenches, laying fibre, and setting up entirely separate networks so that no email you send ever passes through a machine or a network or a cable accessible by a third party.
Or, put another way, "this is the second time in 15 years that amateur astronomers have discovered an object colliding with a planet - collisions which, if they had occurred here, would have sterilised if not utterly destroyed the Earth".
I am constantly coming up with 'clever' ideas. Most often I discover fundamental or practical flaws lurking in the details, which I'm fine with. As Edison said, 'I haven't failed; I've found 10,000 ways that don't work.'
I recall reading a quote of Nikola Tesla about Edison, something like "Edison wasted so much time and effort when he could have done it right on the first attempt if he just learned a bit of science".
I'm not sure if Edison is any sort of role model.
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1940... that was when Britain and its allies were fighting Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan simultaneously, while Americans sat at home and sent Jewish refugees from Europe back to the gas chambers, right?
Sure no US soldier has been killed by an enemy aircraft since 1951. But I seem to recall seeing a few thousand Americans killed by enemy aircraft on live television about eight years ago.
Every backup method has its own advantages and its own vulnerabilities. If you're backing up to an external drive, the drive could die suddenly and unexpectedly; if you're backing up to a second machine, you're at the mercy of hardware failures on that machine (PSU, memory, its own disks, etc); if you're backing up to an online service like Amazon S3, you have to be prepared for your data to be unavailable with no warning (anything from local ISP problems to the service going out of business).
The only sensible thing to do is use ALL of them, and hope that the advantages of all of them cover your ass for the vulnerabilities of one in particular.
(FWIW I back up to an external drive every fifteen minutes, to another machine on my LAN hourly, and to an online service nightly.)
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Bridges are designed by engineers. Software is designed by people who CALL themselves engineers. There's a big difference.
The bizarre thing is that Outlook really isn't very good
It used to be, once upon a time. I remember being blown away by Outlook 98. It just annihilated every other mail client on functions, interface, and usability. I swore by Outlook for years and years.
However, when I was asked by my present employer to select and deploy a new email system, I chose Google Apps, and now I do everything in gmail via a browser. Because it's better.
Look at the kind of money Activison can put behind a Call of Duty production
A game powered by id's engine. Every time someone buys CoD, id gets a piece. So id ain't complaining when Activision spends Activision's money promoting a game that makes id money.
Trivia: from 1998-2000, id made more money out of Half-Life than Valve did.
The English kicked the Puritans out, and I think it's time for Americans to do the same.
Noone kicked the Puritans out, they simply decided to sail across the sea to America to found Jesusland. And, as the topic at hand clearly demonstrates, they were successful.
"what are the best languages to study? What are the minimum diploma or degree requirements that most games companies will accept? Finally, is C++ the way to go? ASP? LUA?"
You seem to have confused "game designer" with "game programmer". A good game designer would be able to create a good game out of a story, a die, some arbitrary rules, and his imagination. It sounds like you are thinking of a different job description.
Argentine ants living in vast numbers across Europe, the US and Japan belong to the same interrelated colony, and will refuse to fight one another.
The colony may be the largest of its type ever known for any insect species, and could rival humans in the scale of its world domination.
Rival humans in scale? Shit. Stick some ants from Spain, California, and Japan together and they won't fight. Humans of any relationship will fight each other for any or no reason whatsoever.
I'd say the ants are the winners in that comparison.
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I have administered (and currently administer) a number of sites for various clients across a wide range of publishing systems - flat html, php, various CMSes running on Linux, UNIX, and Windows servers.
I cannot find the words to convey the depth of the loathing I feel for Joomla. It embodies the worst of Open Source - as if it were written by a million angsty teenagers suffering from ADHD, with duplicated functionality across a hundred different modules, little or no sensible documentation, and the usability issues...! Most CMSes try and at least LOOK like some thought has been given to how people in the real world will use them. Joomla feels and behaves like it was designed to be DELIBERATELY confusing, as if the author of any given module was sneering at his imaginary end user, thinking "it's perfectly obvious to ME what to do here, fuck you if you can't work it out, n00b".
Gah! Just thinking about Joomla makes me want to go and wash my hands.
"How to Choose the Right CMS" - http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2009/01/how-to-choose-the-right-cms/ [webdesignerdepot.com]
Or, to phrase it more efficiently, "kdawson".
Err....that was a Stratocaster that Jimi Hendrix played the Star Spangled Banner on...
Hendrix's performance at Woodstock was played on a solidbody electric guitar, modulated by live effects, and recorded on multiple tracks.
All invented by Les Paul.
operate your own infrastructure, no matter what the current hype is
Exactly. You should be digging trenches, laying fibre, and setting up entirely separate networks so that no email you send ever passes through a machine or a network or a cable accessible by a third party.
what about 3G, GPS, UHF, Satellite TV etc...
Forget that stuff, what about THE SUN.
If you think that post came from Bezos himself and not the marketing department, I have a used copy of Animal Farm to sell you...
To be more god-like, you must be more round, heavy and gassy.
Truly, Americans are god's chosen people.
Or, put another way, "this is the second time in 15 years that amateur astronomers have discovered an object colliding with a planet - collisions which, if they had occurred here, would have sterilised if not utterly destroyed the Earth".
I am constantly coming up with 'clever' ideas. Most often I discover fundamental or practical flaws lurking in the details, which I'm fine with. As Edison said, 'I haven't failed; I've found 10,000 ways that don't work.'
I recall reading a quote of Nikola Tesla about Edison, something like "Edison wasted so much time and effort when he could have done it right on the first attempt if he just learned a bit of science".
I'm not sure if Edison is any sort of role model.
1940... that was when Britain and its allies were fighting Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan simultaneously, while Americans sat at home and sent Jewish refugees from Europe back to the gas chambers, right?
U-S-A! U-S-A!
Enemy planes shot down by F-22s anywhere ever: zero.
That's pretty damn pure all right.
Just fly one over the International Date Line.
Sure no US soldier has been killed by an enemy aircraft since 1951. But I seem to recall seeing a few thousand Americans killed by enemy aircraft on live television about eight years ago.
Fat lot of good the F-22s were then.
You'll be eating those words when China unveils their brand new designed-in-secret anti-ICBM system.
If push comes to shove, China just stops ITS money stops coming out of YOUR ATMs. War over.
"Modern games are extremely expensive to make. High-profile, AAA titles have budgets in the tens of millions"
Seen Gabe Newell lately? That's just for the catering.
Every backup method has its own advantages and its own vulnerabilities. If you're backing up to an external drive, the drive could die suddenly and unexpectedly; if you're backing up to a second machine, you're at the mercy of hardware failures on that machine (PSU, memory, its own disks, etc); if you're backing up to an online service like Amazon S3, you have to be prepared for your data to be unavailable with no warning (anything from local ISP problems to the service going out of business).
The only sensible thing to do is use ALL of them, and hope that the advantages of all of them cover your ass for the vulnerabilities of one in particular.
(FWIW I back up to an external drive every fifteen minutes, to another machine on my LAN hourly, and to an online service nightly.)
Bridges are designed by engineers. Software is designed by people who CALL themselves engineers. There's a big difference.
The bizarre thing is that Outlook really isn't very good
It used to be, once upon a time. I remember being blown away by Outlook 98. It just annihilated every other mail client on functions, interface, and usability. I swore by Outlook for years and years.
However, when I was asked by my present employer to select and deploy a new email system, I chose Google Apps, and now I do everything in gmail via a browser. Because it's better.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirm_Project
Look at the kind of money Activison can put behind a Call of Duty production
A game powered by id's engine. Every time someone buys CoD, id gets a piece. So id ain't complaining when Activision spends Activision's money promoting a game that makes id money.
Trivia: from 1998-2000, id made more money out of Half-Life than Valve did.
The English kicked the Puritans out, and I think it's time for Americans to do the same.
Noone kicked the Puritans out, they simply decided to sail across the sea to America to found Jesusland. And, as the topic at hand clearly demonstrates, they were successful.
...who the hell is Lori Drew?
"what are the best languages to study? What are the minimum diploma or degree requirements that most games companies will accept? Finally, is C++ the way to go? ASP? LUA?"
You seem to have confused "game designer" with "game programmer". A good game designer would be able to create a good game out of a story, a die, some arbitrary rules, and his imagination. It sounds like you are thinking of a different job description.
Argentine ants living in vast numbers across Europe, the US and Japan belong to the same interrelated colony, and will refuse to fight one another.
The colony may be the largest of its type ever known for any insect species, and could rival humans in the scale of its world domination.
Rival humans in scale? Shit. Stick some ants from Spain, California, and Japan together and they won't fight. Humans of any relationship will fight each other for any or no reason whatsoever.
I'd say the ants are the winners in that comparison.