as a former art major (with mad skills) that is now a programmer... that is now working on a game - it is always funny to me when I go to these sites and see pretty impressive screen shots, some well rendered and textured models, and then they show the concept art and it SUCKS!!!!
It looks like they hired retarded 3rd graders and gave them crayons and 2 hours to come up with stuff. As long as it gets the job done, then fine - but why the hell put it on the site?
good concept art and storyboards would be in the Matrix book, and I think the second warcraft had some good concept art... other than that - total crap.
I know on the animation boards and mailing lists there are many of them that are AMAZING artists and animators - but I suppose not all software houses can get them (most of them - the really amazing ones - were with disney if I recall correctly).
my friend got it on his laptop and then had some weird things happen with someone trying to get his ebay account password.
as far as I know, this thing isn't malicious beyond replicating itself and breaking into your box - annoying - but it doesn't screw up data files, or download your porn to some central server...
In some ways I agree with what he says - other ways I disagree.
For instance - the image recognition software has shown to be far better at recognizing people - so he is neglegent there - the mistakes are when it finds near matches and then hands it over to people to make judegment... and they don't always do so well. Granted it isn't perfect - but they aren't saying to kill them on contact - it would just set a wanring.
I agree that this whole thing is weird to me. The economy sucks and nobody is really behind the president. so what would help - well a war sure would. how will we do that? and then this happens. BinLadin has claimed ownership to everything he has ever done, all gruesome acts - why would he deny this one since it is just what he was trying to do when he bombed the garage there?
Part of me feels very much like this whole thing is turning into small town america where the redneck cops just grab the first black man they see and say he is the culprit to whatever crime they need to be solved, they lock him up and done. of course he will say he didn't do it, he's a lyin'
but it also doesn't bother me too much b/c the people they are going to get aren't entirely innocent (if Bin didn't do this and they kill him, it won't bother me, he deserves it for other actions - although I'd rather they just let him get anally raped over and over again in our prison system rather than just kill him...)
there is a fine line between sanity and crazy talk - and Stallman is skirting either side in what he wrote there...
and heavy - which is the main problem - it isn't like they were burined in sand - metal and debris and stuff.
you can survive a while without food obviously (longer if you are fat), and the water is what really gets you, you need that. they have air though, the problem woudl lie in if they are wounded, or something fell on them so as to hinder their breathing.
there are acconts of some walking away, and others where the guy didn't even know the building had collapsed, that was how well preserved his area was.
a man was on the radio saying there were 20 ft wide and 7 ft tall pockets that he was workking with and there were people in there. he said the problem is that there is stuff on top of them and they can't just push stuff aside b/c it caves in on them.
I can recall sitting in my grandfather's computer room and playing castle wolfenstein on an ald apple... I think apple][ - the characters were made up of text characters. the gamplay was similar, except you were looking down on a map, a very elaborate map.
I spent many hours doing that, and then once wolfenstein 3D came out, I was amazed and would play it at a friend of the family's house - he was a rich doctor and had a 486!!!
those were the days.
now I just hide in the basement and punch my genitals.
the carbs aren't the problem directly - it is the insulin rush that accopanies it - I'd say you are getting too many low glycemic ones and you need high instead.
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yeah - it is also pretty common when small children are learning to read - it is easier. but once you become a better reader, then you no longer need to do this.
hence my other comment - I see no reason it should have been moderated down.
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still have two things:
1) stupid users
2) quantum crypt
with these in place, you can be sure to ignore how fast computers are and just think that it all ain't gonna matter none either way - quantum shouldn't be feasible to break, and stupid users assure that they'll leave the password on a yellow sticky right near where it should be used. ------------------------------------------- -------
most (if not all) of the traits he points out are likely not caused by playing the games, but are instead what causes them to play the games. if they are smart and are puzzle sovers and inquisitive, then they will like the game. but if you take a mentally retarded kid and put him down in from of myst, albert einstein you will not make - you will just have some retarded kid playing myst and possibly not all that well.
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you are only talking about one use of it - yes, it sucks for applets on the page - but it is nice for back end stuff and is fine for that. ------------------------------------------- -------
Thanks - it was a genuine question.
now, out of curiousity, why the hesitation to tell me? I know I'm not 100% up to date on all databses - I do seem to recall this one being made free within the past 6 months now that you mention it.... ------------------------------------------ --------
yeah, agreed - sorry, I meant the 4* series. although I still think the new Netscape (6*) sucks balls due to its inability to truly follow the DHTML spec even though they claim it does -------------------------------------------- ------
Just curious - and I'm serious - what database can do all the same stuff as SQL but is free? mySQL can't do transactions (I know they are in the next verison... but that isn't here yet) - so what can you use to replace it? you mention how it sucks that it costs so much, which would be a valid arguement if there were a cheaper and or free alternative - and I'm aware of many other databases, but as far as I know the free ones are feature limited and the other ones with the features are even more expensive...
I'm not trying to pick a fight - I want questions answered, that is all. -------------------------------------------- ------
although IE will accept XML written as HTML - with br's with the end slashes and such - but netscape won't.
netscape sucks hogs balls... sweaty ones. ------------------------------------------- -------
don't pay their secretaries? who said that? they work there, they get paid - this arguement was over benefits - and most temp agencies will provide those benefits anyway. ----------------------------------------- ---------
The author makes it sound as if all the software coming out of India rocks - but quite to the contrary, the developers I've worked with (over 100 now) from there are as close to retarded as I've ever worked with. One place I worked had a whole division over there because it was cheaper than here, and the code we saw from there... I can't even begin to explain how bad it was - but one of the smaller things was no error handling at all - if there was an error, just ignore it and the program would magically continue to run...
I'm sure there are companies such as the ones that author points to that are fantastic - but I'm sure there are companies such as that in any country, even the states. I peronsally dread it when I hear we are going to be working with a group from India - not in any sort of racist or cultural elitist way, but just in that I've worked with so many bad coders from there - I'd love to see that change, but I haven't so far. -------------------------------------------- ------
Wireless is great and there are tons of applications for it. WAP on the other hand is worthless at best and I can't say enough bad things about it. I'm currently given the task of making a commerce site fully WAP compatible through MS SiteServer... and it sucks... with a capital SUCKS! Text messaging is about all that today's phones are good for when it comes to text display, but as devices get more sophisticated, then the wireless stuff will be pretty cool... but WAP sucks balls. big hairy ones. ------------------------------------------- -------
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as a former art major (with mad skills) that is now a programmer... that is now working on a game - it is always funny to me when I go to these sites and see pretty impressive screen shots, some well rendered and textured models, and then they show the concept art and it SUCKS!!!!
It looks like they hired retarded 3rd graders and gave them crayons and 2 hours to come up with stuff. As long as it gets the job done, then fine - but why the hell put it on the site?
good concept art and storyboards would be in the Matrix book, and I think the second warcraft had some good concept art... other than that - total crap.
I know on the animation boards and mailing lists there are many of them that are AMAZING artists and animators - but I suppose not all software houses can get them (most of them - the really amazing ones - were with disney if I recall correctly).
my friend got it on his laptop and then had some weird things happen with someone trying to get his ebay account password.
as far as I know, this thing isn't malicious beyond replicating itself and breaking into your box - annoying - but it doesn't screw up data files, or download your porn to some central server...
reading through these shows slashdot as a bitter group of people...
that said, I've still not filled up my 8 megs in mine and I have no idea what you would need to do to fill the 16. know more people than me I suppose.
I still much prefer a monitor and keyboard. the palms aren't too useful to me right now. but I like shiny!
In some ways I agree with what he says - other ways I disagree.
For instance - the image recognition software has shown to be far better at recognizing people - so he is neglegent there - the mistakes are when it finds near matches and then hands it over to people to make judegment... and they don't always do so well. Granted it isn't perfect - but they aren't saying to kill them on contact - it would just set a wanring.
I agree that this whole thing is weird to me. The economy sucks and nobody is really behind the president. so what would help - well a war sure would. how will we do that? and then this happens. BinLadin has claimed ownership to everything he has ever done, all gruesome acts - why would he deny this one since it is just what he was trying to do when he bombed the garage there?
Part of me feels very much like this whole thing is turning into small town america where the redneck cops just grab the first black man they see and say he is the culprit to whatever crime they need to be solved, they lock him up and done. of course he will say he didn't do it, he's a lyin'
but it also doesn't bother me too much b/c the people they are going to get aren't entirely innocent (if Bin didn't do this and they kill him, it won't bother me, he deserves it for other actions - although I'd rather they just let him get anally raped over and over again in our prison system rather than just kill him...)
there is a fine line between sanity and crazy talk - and Stallman is skirting either side in what he wrote there...
duh - when your code fails with a nullPointerException - EVERYONE knows that you are supposed to smash things on your desk and kick the pcs.
or at least I thought everyone knew... get with it
doubtful - the thing is very breezy.
and heavy - which is the main problem - it isn't like they were burined in sand - metal and debris and stuff.
you can survive a while without food obviously (longer if you are fat), and the water is what really gets you, you need that. they have air though, the problem woudl lie in if they are wounded, or something fell on them so as to hinder their breathing.
there are acconts of some walking away, and others where the guy didn't even know the building had collapsed, that was how well preserved his area was.
a man was on the radio saying there were 20 ft wide and 7 ft tall pockets that he was workking with and there were people in there. he said the problem is that there is stuff on top of them and they can't just push stuff aside b/c it caves in on them.
I can recall sitting in my grandfather's computer room and playing castle wolfenstein on an ald apple... I think apple][ - the characters were made up of text characters. the gamplay was similar, except you were looking down on a map, a very elaborate map.
I spent many hours doing that, and then once wolfenstein 3D came out, I was amazed and would play it at a friend of the family's house - he was a rich doctor and had a 486!!!
those were the days.
now I just hide in the basement and punch my genitals.
I thought it said NASA - I wondered why they were even bothering- -----------
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the carbs aren't the problem directly - it is the insulin rush that accopanies it - I'd say you are getting too many low glycemic ones and you need high instead.- --
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yeah - it is also pretty common when small children are learning to read - it is easier. but once you become a better reader, then you no longer need to do this.- -------
hence my other comment - I see no reason it should have been moderated down.
I blame the deaf.
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still have two things:
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1) stupid users
2) quantum crypt
with these in place, you can be sure to ignore how fast computers are and just think that it all ain't gonna matter none either way - quantum shouldn't be feasible to break, and stupid users assure that they'll leave the password on a yellow sticky right near where it should be used.
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the blind that is.- -----
they always have bugged me.
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...of "things that won't get enforced"- -----------
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most (if not all) of the traits he points out are likely not caused by playing the games, but are instead what causes them to play the games. if they are smart and are puzzle sovers and inquisitive, then they will like the game. but if you take a mentally retarded kid and put him down in from of myst, albert einstein you will not make - you will just have some retarded kid playing myst and possibly not all that well.
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and for god's sake, I'm not trying to rip on retarded kids...
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what are these "books" you speak of?- -------
can you use them to kill things with?
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you are only talking about one use of it - yes, it sucks for applets on the page - but it is nice for back end stuff and is fine for that.- -------
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Thanks - it was a genuine question.- --------
now, out of curiousity, why the hesitation to tell me? I know I'm not 100% up to date on all databses - I do seem to recall this one being made free within the past 6 months now that you mention it....
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yeah, agreed - sorry, I meant the 4* series. although I still think the new Netscape (6*) sucks balls due to its inability to truly follow the DHTML spec even though they claim it does- ------
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Just curious - and I'm serious - what database can do all the same stuff as SQL but is free? mySQL can't do transactions (I know they are in the next verison... but that isn't here yet) - so what can you use to replace it? you mention how it sucks that it costs so much, which would be a valid arguement if there were a cheaper and or free alternative - and I'm aware of many other databases, but as far as I know the free ones are feature limited and the other ones with the features are even more expensive...- ------
I'm not trying to pick a fight - I want questions answered, that is all.
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although IE will accept XML written as HTML - with br's with the end slashes and such - but netscape won't.- -------
netscape sucks hogs balls... sweaty ones.
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well, technically the XSL is the CSS for XML- -----
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1) I'm not the IRS - I don't care how much you made - it isn't at all relatvent to the discussion at hand.
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2) MS wasn't hiring homeless people.
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don't pay their secretaries? who said that? they work there, they get paid - this arguement was over benefits - and most temp agencies will provide those benefits anyway.- ---------
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The author makes it sound as if all the software coming out of India rocks - but quite to the contrary, the developers I've worked with (over 100 now) from there are as close to retarded as I've ever worked with. One place I worked had a whole division over there because it was cheaper than here, and the code we saw from there... I can't even begin to explain how bad it was - but one of the smaller things was no error handling at all - if there was an error, just ignore it and the program would magically continue to run... I'm sure there are companies such as the ones that author points to that are fantastic - but I'm sure there are companies such as that in any country, even the states. I peronsally dread it when I hear we are going to be working with a group from India - not in any sort of racist or cultural elitist way, but just in that I've worked with so many bad coders from there - I'd love to see that change, but I haven't so far.- ------
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Wireless is great and there are tons of applications for it. WAP on the other hand is worthless at best and I can't say enough bad things about it. I'm currently given the task of making a commerce site fully WAP compatible through MS SiteServer... and it sucks... with a capital SUCKS! Text messaging is about all that today's phones are good for when it comes to text display, but as devices get more sophisticated, then the wireless stuff will be pretty cool... but WAP sucks balls. big hairy ones.- -------
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