VMWare jumped way ahead of the pack in terms of "basic" VM management early. That's why they're a big name now.
Now their "basic" package isn't doing much more than many of the Open Source projects and Microsoft offering (which is why some of their offerings like VMWare Server have become free). What VMWare has now is a large bundle of enterprise products for managing VMs and their data across the network and across your SAN.
If you want to delve into Virtualization for resume fodder, your best bet is to start looking at the enterprise tools they have to offer. Many have free trials.
At this point though, as a developer myself, if all you're going to do with it is generate multiple environments for testing and you haven't touched VMWare products, I would look at VirtualBox.
...the glaring problem that I have with VirtualBox, VM management.
I love that they use XML for defining a system. I love that they have a virtual disk manager. But they do not have a process for bundling both together if I have a virtual machine with a disk image that I am dedicating to it.
The end result is migrating a VM or even upgrading an install with non-default settings is a huge hassle. And the default puts VM-client xml files in a different location than their virtual disk images.
In VMWare, I just move the entire directory and start a vm with the appropriate vmx file.
a.) there are a lot of parents that don't care and would allow their children to play. "Here johnny, here's the credit card, go ahead and sign up". b.) I've met more than my fair share of immature 18+'rs.
The bottom line, you shouldn't have to push. Believe it or not, changing the amount of fluids (particularly water) as well as upping your fiber intake should do the trick.
Since I've changed that much of my diet (more water and a glass or two of Konsyl, a pure fiber supplement, every day) the crap literally falls out of me and in massive quantity. At the worst, your breathing and sitting up straight while taking a bowel movement should be enough to work it out of you. Remember to breathe, the displacement of organs that results from breathing causes a massaging type of action to help move things along in your system. Any strain beyond that and there is something wrong.
I really wish there were a manual on this kind of thing, I never realized how bad some of those "common" bathroom habits were for your body. For instance, all those people that sit on the toilet while reading increase the chance of developing hemorrhoids or other blood vessel related complications due to the extended stress it puts on that part of the body.
Well I'll feel fortunate that a hemorrhoid is all I developed from that kind of strain. Seriously though, if you have to push that hard, it's time to evaluate your fiber intake.
That's the point. Many people don't want to learn and/or are self conscious while trying to learn. A video game or simulation that makes it feel easy, while still emulating the motions and producing more pleasing results.
Guitar Hero really is the next step in air guitaring... with a score.
ALso.... I hate slashdot post editting screens that don't remind me I actually have to insert my own html tags for proper text breaks and I fail for preview.
"If you saw notes that you didn't hear, it was either:
- likely the fact that the game designers decided to ignore the fact that you shouldn't be playing EVERY guitar, including bass at times, in the actual song.
- The sync was off, which is a horrendous problem between the game and audio where the timing of a note can be as much as half a second or even a second in some displays. On most games you might not notice, to a tuned ear, you hear the lag.
There's also a third option, I've noticed a lot of people pay too much attention to exactly timing the notes being played and frequently play too early or too late.
Regardless, a controller is not a guitar and it's response is not going to be the same as a real guitar."
If you saw notes that you didn't hear, it was either:
- likely the fact that the game designers decided to ignore the fact that you shouldn't be playing EVERY guitar, including bass at times, in the actual song.
- The sync was off, which is a horrendous problem between the game and audio where the timing of a note can be as much as half a second or even a second in some displays. On most games you might not notice, to a tuned ear, you hear the lag.
There's also a third option, I've noticed a lot of people pay too much attention to exactly timing the notes being played and frequently play too early or too late.
Regardless, a controller is not a guitar and it's response is not going to be the same as a real guitar.
Welcome to the death of hardcore gaming. Everyone is cashing in on the casual crowd now, and why not, you get more cash out of the masses than you do a small core geek crowd.
I'd argue but in the end the only point that matters is that you seem to think you're entitled to every game because you play on a PC.
It just doesn't work that way and it doesn't even work that way in consoles either. I couldn't play Super Smash Bros. Brawl on anything other than a Wii. Guess what I did, I bought a Wii. I couldn't play Halo 3 or Dead Rising on anything other than an XBox 360, I bought one. I can't play Resistance fall of Man on anything other than a PS3, I didn't buy a PS3 because I still can't justify the expenditure on that and I'm fine with that.
Learn to accept that either you can't play every game without owning other systems or you need to make enough money to own all systems.
The stance they've taken is likely due to "Barrens" or "Trade" chat that has occurred to WoW. It's flooded with people that prattling on with useless chat and chuck norris jokes. And when you have a "General" option and a "Trade" channel option, with one being more wide audience than the others, it becomes abundantly clear that you're not going to restrict your chat to either and just talk in one all the time.
You don't play wow much do you? After 70 there's still faction grinds, money grinds, and farming of profession materials (for potions, enchantments, gemming, etc.)
WoW is very much a grind game. The level 1-70 part is the smallest portion of the grindfest.
Don't tempt them. I'm sure they're already looking for more ways to ship Madden-like titles in a year. NCAA Football was their first step toward that goal.
Damnit.... now I'm pissed. I was working up the storyboarding of a modern Little Red Riding hood game and the "Reds" as a group of werewolf hunters....
sigh.
No I'm pretty sure I'm sitting on the original copy of the title of my car. Pretty sure the lien holder (Nissan) held onto it for 5 years while I paid it off, and then they sent it to me. I then had to show a copy to the local DMV/MVC so they knew I owned it for purposes of registration.
In other words I'm pretty sure you're 100% wrong.
Except they called it Warhammer Age of R....whatever. They purposely pushed the shortname to be W.A.R. WAR. They're banking on the shortname like World of Warcraft is to WoW.
That alone made me laugh.
Let me introduce you to my little friend goldeneye, FPS on a console and that was ~10 years ago
And it sucked. I'm sorry I can't stand GoldenEye fanboys. The aim style in the game was CRAP, the graphics sucked, there weren't masses of enemies to deal with, it moved awkwardly, and it totally sucked on that controller (though nintendo is at fault there). Goldeneye is just a representation of how crap FPSs were on consoles and how much Halo evolved the system.
Personally I'd pay $10 for access to a new WoW PvP Battleground map if they could pump them out a little more frequently. Three of the four have been there since the base game. And it looks like they're only adding one more. And interestingly, arena, IS ONLY DEATHMATCH STILL!!! New PvP modes please.
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VMWare jumped way ahead of the pack in terms of "basic" VM management early. That's why they're a big name now.
Now their "basic" package isn't doing much more than many of the Open Source projects and Microsoft offering (which is why some of their offerings like VMWare Server have become free). What VMWare has now is a large bundle of enterprise products for managing VMs and their data across the network and across your SAN.
If you want to delve into Virtualization for resume fodder, your best bet is to start looking at the enterprise tools they have to offer. Many have free trials.
At this point though, as a developer myself, if all you're going to do with it is generate multiple environments for testing and you haven't touched VMWare products, I would look at VirtualBox.
It's not nearly as simple to do without going to the command line with VirtualBox unless they've finally updated that in the gui.
I'm not saying it's hard though. I've done it, but it was a lot more intuitive when doing it with VMWare Server. Your mileage may vary though.
...the glaring problem that I have with VirtualBox, VM management.
I love that they use XML for defining a system. I love that they have a virtual disk manager. But they do not have a process for bundling both together if I have a virtual machine with a disk image that I am dedicating to it.
The end result is migrating a VM or even upgrading an install with non-default settings is a huge hassle. And the default puts VM-client xml files in a different location than their virtual disk images.
In VMWare, I just move the entire directory and start a vm with the appropriate vmx file.
"and partly because all players are 18+"
You really believe that matters?
a.) there are a lot of parents that don't care and would allow their children to play. "Here johnny, here's the credit card, go ahead and sign up".
b.) I've met more than my fair share of immature 18+'rs.
The bottom line, you shouldn't have to push. Believe it or not, changing the amount of fluids (particularly water) as well as upping your fiber intake should do the trick.
Since I've changed that much of my diet (more water and a glass or two of Konsyl, a pure fiber supplement, every day) the crap literally falls out of me and in massive quantity. At the worst, your breathing and sitting up straight while taking a bowel movement should be enough to work it out of you. Remember to breathe, the displacement of organs that results from breathing causes a massaging type of action to help move things along in your system. Any strain beyond that and there is something wrong.
I really wish there were a manual on this kind of thing, I never realized how bad some of those "common" bathroom habits were for your body. For instance, all those people that sit on the toilet while reading increase the chance of developing hemorrhoids or other blood vessel related complications due to the extended stress it puts on that part of the body.
Well I'll feel fortunate that a hemorrhoid is all I developed from that kind of strain. Seriously though, if you have to push that hard, it's time to evaluate your fiber intake.
That's the point. Many people don't want to learn and/or are self conscious while trying to learn. A video game or simulation that makes it feel easy, while still emulating the motions and producing more pleasing results.
Guitar Hero really is the next step in air guitaring... with a score.
ALso.... I hate slashdot post editting screens that don't remind me I actually have to insert my own html tags for proper text breaks and I fail for preview.
"If you saw notes that you didn't hear, it was either:
- likely the fact that the game designers decided to ignore the fact that you shouldn't be playing EVERY guitar, including bass at times, in the actual song.
- The sync was off, which is a horrendous problem between the game and audio where the timing of a note can be as much as half a second or even a second in some displays. On most games you might not notice, to a tuned ear, you hear the lag.
There's also a third option, I've noticed a lot of people pay too much attention to exactly timing the notes being played and frequently play too early or too late.
Regardless, a controller is not a guitar and it's response is not going to be the same as a real guitar."
If you saw notes that you didn't hear, it was either: - likely the fact that the game designers decided to ignore the fact that you shouldn't be playing EVERY guitar, including bass at times, in the actual song. - The sync was off, which is a horrendous problem between the game and audio where the timing of a note can be as much as half a second or even a second in some displays. On most games you might not notice, to a tuned ear, you hear the lag. There's also a third option, I've noticed a lot of people pay too much attention to exactly timing the notes being played and frequently play too early or too late. Regardless, a controller is not a guitar and it's response is not going to be the same as a real guitar.
Welcome to the death of hardcore gaming. Everyone is cashing in on the casual crowd now, and why not, you get more cash out of the masses than you do a small core geek crowd.
I'd argue but in the end the only point that matters is that you seem to think you're entitled to every game because you play on a PC. It just doesn't work that way and it doesn't even work that way in consoles either. I couldn't play Super Smash Bros. Brawl on anything other than a Wii. Guess what I did, I bought a Wii. I couldn't play Halo 3 or Dead Rising on anything other than an XBox 360, I bought one. I can't play Resistance fall of Man on anything other than a PS3, I didn't buy a PS3 because I still can't justify the expenditure on that and I'm fine with that. Learn to accept that either you can't play every game without owning other systems or you need to make enough money to own all systems.
P&S fan?
How do you think it gets colocated...
Thanks, I just spit my afternoon latte all over my monitor.
The stance they've taken is likely due to "Barrens" or "Trade" chat that has occurred to WoW. It's flooded with people that prattling on with useless chat and chuck norris jokes. And when you have a "General" option and a "Trade" channel option, with one being more wide audience than the others, it becomes abundantly clear that you're not going to restrict your chat to either and just talk in one all the time.
You don't play wow much do you? After 70 there's still faction grinds, money grinds, and farming of profession materials (for potions, enchantments, gemming, etc.) WoW is very much a grind game. The level 1-70 part is the smallest portion of the grindfest.
Don't tempt them. I'm sure they're already looking for more ways to ship Madden-like titles in a year. NCAA Football was their first step toward that goal.
Damnit.... now I'm pissed. I was working up the storyboarding of a modern Little Red Riding hood game and the "Reds" as a group of werewolf hunters.... sigh.
No I'm pretty sure I'm sitting on the original copy of the title of my car. Pretty sure the lien holder (Nissan) held onto it for 5 years while I paid it off, and then they sent it to me. I then had to show a copy to the local DMV/MVC so they knew I owned it for purposes of registration. In other words I'm pretty sure you're 100% wrong.
Add Nintendo to that list as well. They have virtual console which is pushing download sales hard.
You didn't give up on proprietary OSes, you switched to one.
Except they called it Warhammer Age of R....whatever. They purposely pushed the shortname to be W.A.R. WAR. They're banking on the shortname like World of Warcraft is to WoW. That alone made me laugh.
Let me introduce you to my little friend goldeneye, FPS on a console and that was ~10 years ago
And it sucked. I'm sorry I can't stand GoldenEye fanboys. The aim style in the game was CRAP, the graphics sucked, there weren't masses of enemies to deal with, it moved awkwardly, and it totally sucked on that controller (though nintendo is at fault there). Goldeneye is just a representation of how crap FPSs were on consoles and how much Halo evolved the system.
I'm pretty sure WoW had four massive content patches between expansions, plus many minor patches in between.
Personally I'd pay $10 for access to a new WoW PvP Battleground map if they could pump them out a little more frequently. Three of the four have been there since the base game. And it looks like they're only adding one more. And interestingly, arena, IS ONLY DEATHMATCH STILL!!! New PvP modes please.