There's a lot of things you don't have to do in Windows if you are ok with the fact Windows will eventually get slower and run like complete shit until you reinstall it and start the cycle all over.
We all know how Grandma Mable loves backing up all her porno and reinstalling windows every 6 months to a year.
My forum is invite only. You can register but I won't approve the account unless someone on the inside vouches for you and this works because I intend to keep the community small.
I assume you want more people to come so I would suggest ignoring the idiots and banning them. As a troll, I know that if you give them attention they'll just keep at it.:P
The games industry loves to tout how many mature people play games now. Well if that is the case then why is it always a huge concern people try to ensure that kids don't play M rated games? If so many adults play games why is xbox live filled with so many teenage tards calling me a faggot?
I think it the law should be very strict about the sales of games to kids and should punish irresponsible parents for allowing their kids to play lots of games they shouldn't play. Parental controls should be turned on by default on consoles. Possibly with some sort of system that requires a $0.01 charge to a card or a call to a 1-800 number to verify it's an adult wanted to reverse the controls.
In return the government agrees to shut the hell up about gaming and allow publishers to ship the most violent games ever and games chock full of nudity, rape and bestiality.
In reality this won't happen and I do believe the gaming industry, like most industries love to prey on kids because quite frankly kids are dumb and it's easier to get kids to part with their money.
Being a brick layer can mean people will admire your work for ages.
Being a programmer means that the few years your program is relevant will be filled with numerous complaints about how shit it is and how bad you do your job.
The problem is we're expected to develop a site that looks decent in all these old crummy browsers that shouldn't even be around for numerous reasons.
People shouldn't have to upgrade the second something new comes out but rather than putting work into making something work in IE, those people should get a "print version" style for websites. That way they don't miss out on the important stuff (the information) but it's very basic and means they're more likely to move on from their outdated browser.
If things are indented properly then it's no problem. If you happen to be a bit blind with code, open it up in Notepad++ and hit ctrl + T to find the other bracket. I think a lot of IDEs also provide similar support.
I've never had an issue with it which isn't to say some don't but I find proper commenting and decent tabbing helps me learn someone else's code more than spreading things out even more vertically with the bracket it on its own line.
It's supposed to make money though from getting retailers to buy their wares not by selling tickets. Otherwise why not open it to everyone?
CES gets by fine with some level of maturity not seen at E3 for ages. Gaming is still being aimed almost exclusively at teenage boys (excluding Nintendo) which was fine when I was a teenage boy but I'm not anymore and I've been playing games since the early 80's. Sadly, aside from graphics, not much has changed aside from things becoming more homogeneous over the years.
The gaming press is a joke too. Popular sites like Kotaku read more like the National Enquirer. It's all fluff with no real gaming info.
I think the fact Nintendo is doing so well proves that people want something different because they're willing to buy the Wii despite the fact most games are shit. Don't get me wrong we do need mindless shooters and what not too. We just need more variety.
If gaming doesn't want advance in popularity that's fine. We can continue as we are and probably head towards another crash if the same practices of rising prices with less innovation are kept up.
But I think people want gaming to advance otherwise they wouldn't desperately compare it to Hollywood at any given chance.
Ding ding ding - we have a winner.
Real coders write code that you can take a ruler from any given close brace and draw a vertical line right up to the matching open brace, every time. Everybody else gets fired.
My guess is that they're grateful to get away from a company that uses a ruler to check code.
It implies you're a bunch of code nazis and probably have to be because your code is too complicated or just plain shit.
That is one thing I truly hate with a passion. The curly bracket belongs on the line with the if statement not below. Spacing can make things more readable but you can go too far with it.
Being that I'm not in the motorcycle industry the only event I'd go to is one for the public and they're geared towards yuppies who think they're bad ass when they dress up like hell's angels sso of course they're full of women who wouldn't give those guys the time of day outside of the convention.
Gaming has the same problem as US politics. No one actually cares about all the options or who is actually better. It's all about who can blow the biggest wad of cash to say they're the best.
The hysteria that E3 became did nothing for small developers & publishers as there was no way they could afford to compete with the likes of Sony, EA, MS and Nintendo.
I'd personally rather have the opportunity to more games on display at a games convention than what EA has to offer plus millions of dollars in flashy lights and women.
Even if my sex life only consisted of my hand, I'd rather see just games and go out and buy a prostitute later.
I would buy that if the industry had creativity but a company like Epic knocking out nothing but Unreal sequels or GoW sequels or Square-Enix knocking out Final Fantasy 500. Don't forget all the Mortal Kombat sequels which have recently taken a step backwards rather than forwards with MK vs DC since DC won't allow their characters to be attacked with proper fatalities. None of that is creative or imaginative.
By that logic Game Cock should have the most creative titles rather than some tard in a chicken costume blowing VC's money claiming "the man" is keeping him down while publishing rather average games.
Old E3: New games, for gamers, and coverage by gamers.
New E3: New games, for the PR/Hype machines, and coverage by journalists pretending to be gamers.
Yeah, no idea why it's dying...
No problem is that E3 was always supposed to be a industry only sort of thing. To help show off the new & upcoming stuff to get retailers interested to buy up these new games for the holidays. But people posing as journalists kept getting in and with the internet it just got out of hand.
It became less about games and about how much you spent on half naked girls for sweaty virgins to harass. There is no qualification for being a journalist on the internet, which is good for a lot of things, but it's not good for E3 as it was taking the focus off games.
The industry still has a lot of growing up to do. The fact it's probably the only indutry that can't seem to hold a major business event without turning it into softcore porn should concern people.
As much as people want to tout that gaming is growing it's not really. The numbers they use against movies includes everything including controllers, power leads, etc. We're losing imagination and genres because everything is so similar that they dare not risk doing something new. Plus they have to raise prices to keep going and we can probably expect price to rise during the next generation.
Does that sound like a healthy world domination industry? I don't think so. The only thing they do have going for them is that gamers do tend to be more obsessive about their hobby than others so they can count on there being a certain level of sales.
In fact I think the reason they taken to pussifying the term hardcore gamer into core gamer is because it doesn't mean the same thing anymore. It means that's their core audience that will eat up any old shit they shovel they sell as long as it's a sequel, features lots of guns and gang of hulking space marines of questionable sexuality.
That is true but RE4 was done right. It's ok to port title after all most games aren't exclsuives anymore. The problem is when it's literally the PS2 game with no real thought put into the controls.
Super Mario Galaxy has been released. I think even RE4 feel older now if it were to be released today.
Dead Rising is coming to the Wii and it'll be interesting to see how Capcom pulls that one off.
I have no qualms with your choosing GoW as an example but it should be pointed out that, despite CliffyB growing up as a Nintendo fan (and appearing in Nintendo Power), their company is pretty anti-Nintendo and I bet you'd find they won't port any of their games to a Nintendo system unless absolutely necessary.
Think about it, everyone is releasing DS games. Even Microsoft / Rare's Viva Pinata is coming to the DS yet Epic hasn't done anything on the DS despite the fact it being a huge money maker for everyone involved. To be honest I'm glad because Epic isn't a very imaginative company at all and probably needs to sell their engine just so they don't end up like Acclaim.
Simply put, the third parties can't figure out what Wii owners 'want.' Some people even believe that all Wii owners want is "games from Nintendo" and little else.
That's a load of BS because if 3rd parties are actually making those Wii games thinking people want them then they're nuts. People never wanted movie based games or another Cruisin' sequel and they certainly don't want PS2 ports which would cheaper to buy on the PS2.
What they do want are high quality games which most 3rd parties aren't making. Capcom does make high quality games and they've made a lot of money from the Wii.
The Wii has been number one worldwide for awhile now but not in the US until now. Despite, what the article may say, the DS and the Wii aren't in the same market. That's like saying the Wii is actually in 5th place behind toasters.
It's not a monopoly if the market is more or less evenly split and one company just happens to have a slightly larger slice. I would suggest you look the word up in the dictionary.
It's amazing how many people have boring pictures and enjoy sending pictures of their ugly kids.
I think O2 should have the decency to warn people about this but they haven't and I know that because I'm an O2 customer. Thankfully I only use my phone for calls so this doesn't affect me.
It's not like people 10,000 years in the future have to figure out where a caveman buried his poo. We have so much information now they should know.
We could have something that wipes out all our computers and books but if that happens I'm sure a few nuclear waste sites will be the least of their concerns.
I'm sure Indians can code just as well. The only problem with outsourcing is when it's a call centre. People often can't fully understand the Indian on the other end and the Indian often can't fully understand the person calling which isn't a skill issue. It's an issue that everyone faces when speaking to someone who speaks a language they don't hear on a regular basis.
As far as this article, it has nothing to do with some Indians programming skills. It has to do with the fact they're taking money to create jobs in Florida but instead are shipping jobs to India. So not only are they taking jobs away but they're wasting people's tax money. I can't see how you can defend that.
I don't think it has to do with being a "cheap crappy consumer router".
I hate to admit it but I still have the BT Home Hub which came with my 8meg upgrade but it works and I've never had to reset it in the 8 months that I've had it and considering home hubs are supposed to be some of the shittiest modems/routers around, I think I'm doing quite well.
The cost of something will always a part of it but I think I think how the router is configured and how often it's attacked play a larger part of the problem.
The difference between say PHP and Javascript is smaller than the difference between English and Spanish. Most computer languages are similar enough you should be able to get up and running on any of them a short period of time if you are well experienced at one of them. That can't be said about English and Spanish.
Slashdot Mirror
There's a lot of things you don't have to do in Windows if you are ok with the fact Windows will eventually get slower and run like complete shit until you reinstall it and start the cycle all over.
We all know how Grandma Mable loves backing up all her porno and reinstalling windows every 6 months to a year.
My forum is invite only. You can register but I won't approve the account unless someone on the inside vouches for you and this works because I intend to keep the community small.
:P
I assume you want more people to come so I would suggest ignoring the idiots and banning them. As a troll, I know that if you give them attention they'll just keep at it.
The games industry loves to tout how many mature people play games now. Well if that is the case then why is it always a huge concern people try to ensure that kids don't play M rated games? If so many adults play games why is xbox live filled with so many teenage tards calling me a faggot?
I think it the law should be very strict about the sales of games to kids and should punish irresponsible parents for allowing their kids to play lots of games they shouldn't play. Parental controls should be turned on by default on consoles. Possibly with some sort of system that requires a $0.01 charge to a card or a call to a 1-800 number to verify it's an adult wanted to reverse the controls.
In return the government agrees to shut the hell up about gaming and allow publishers to ship the most violent games ever and games chock full of nudity, rape and bestiality.
In reality this won't happen and I do believe the gaming industry, like most industries love to prey on kids because quite frankly kids are dumb and it's easier to get kids to part with their money.
Being a brick layer can mean people will admire your work for ages.
Being a programmer means that the few years your program is relevant will be filled with numerous complaints about how shit it is and how bad you do your job.
The problem is we're expected to develop a site that looks decent in all these old crummy browsers that shouldn't even be around for numerous reasons.
People shouldn't have to upgrade the second something new comes out but rather than putting work into making something work in IE, those people should get a "print version" style for websites. That way they don't miss out on the important stuff (the information) but it's very basic and means they're more likely to move on from their outdated browser.
If things are indented properly then it's no problem. If you happen to be a bit blind with code, open it up in Notepad++ and hit ctrl + T to find the other bracket. I think a lot of IDEs also provide similar support.
I've never had an issue with it which isn't to say some don't but I find proper commenting and decent tabbing helps me learn someone else's code more than spreading things out even more vertically with the bracket it on its own line.
It's supposed to make money though from getting retailers to buy their wares not by selling tickets. Otherwise why not open it to everyone?
CES gets by fine with some level of maturity not seen at E3 for ages. Gaming is still being aimed almost exclusively at teenage boys (excluding Nintendo) which was fine when I was a teenage boy but I'm not anymore and I've been playing games since the early 80's. Sadly, aside from graphics, not much has changed aside from things becoming more homogeneous over the years.
The gaming press is a joke too. Popular sites like Kotaku read more like the National Enquirer. It's all fluff with no real gaming info.
I think the fact Nintendo is doing so well proves that people want something different because they're willing to buy the Wii despite the fact most games are shit. Don't get me wrong we do need mindless shooters and what not too. We just need more variety.
If gaming doesn't want advance in popularity that's fine. We can continue as we are and probably head towards another crash if the same practices of rising prices with less innovation are kept up.
But I think people want gaming to advance otherwise they wouldn't desperately compare it to Hollywood at any given chance.
Fixing things isn't nearly as fun as calling an operating system and all of its users a bunch of gay lords.
Ding ding ding - we have a winner. Real coders write code that you can take a ruler from any given close brace and draw a vertical line right up to the matching open brace, every time. Everybody else gets fired.
My guess is that they're grateful to get away from a company that uses a ruler to check code.
It implies you're a bunch of code nazis and probably have to be because your code is too complicated or just plain shit.
That is one thing I truly hate with a passion. The curly bracket belongs on the line with the if statement not below. Spacing can make things more readable but you can go too far with it.
True but most cars are boring especially when you can't drive them so I would need breasts to entertain men.
Games, on the other hand, I love so I rather play games then pretend the girls standing near them find me interesting.
Being that I'm not in the motorcycle industry the only event I'd go to is one for the public and they're geared towards yuppies who think they're bad ass when they dress up like hell's angels sso of course they're full of women who wouldn't give those guys the time of day outside of the convention.
Gaming has the same problem as US politics. No one actually cares about all the options or who is actually better. It's all about who can blow the biggest wad of cash to say they're the best.
The hysteria that E3 became did nothing for small developers & publishers as there was no way they could afford to compete with the likes of Sony, EA, MS and Nintendo.
I'd personally rather have the opportunity to more games on display at a games convention than what EA has to offer plus millions of dollars in flashy lights and women.
Even if my sex life only consisted of my hand, I'd rather see just games and go out and buy a prostitute later.
I would buy that if the industry had creativity but a company like Epic knocking out nothing but Unreal sequels or GoW sequels or Square-Enix knocking out Final Fantasy 500. Don't forget all the Mortal Kombat sequels which have recently taken a step backwards rather than forwards with MK vs DC since DC won't allow their characters to be attacked with proper fatalities. None of that is creative or imaginative.
By that logic Game Cock should have the most creative titles rather than some tard in a chicken costume blowing VC's money claiming "the man" is keeping him down while publishing rather average games.
Go to a porno convention. That'll be 10 times better than E3.
Old E3: New games, for gamers, and coverage by gamers. New E3: New games, for the PR/Hype machines, and coverage by journalists pretending to be gamers. Yeah, no idea why it's dying...
No problem is that E3 was always supposed to be a industry only sort of thing. To help show off the new & upcoming stuff to get retailers interested to buy up these new games for the holidays. But people posing as journalists kept getting in and with the internet it just got out of hand.
It became less about games and about how much you spent on half naked girls for sweaty virgins to harass. There is no qualification for being a journalist on the internet, which is good for a lot of things, but it's not good for E3 as it was taking the focus off games.
The industry still has a lot of growing up to do. The fact it's probably the only indutry that can't seem to hold a major business event without turning it into softcore porn should concern people.
As much as people want to tout that gaming is growing it's not really. The numbers they use against movies includes everything including controllers, power leads, etc. We're losing imagination and genres because everything is so similar that they dare not risk doing something new. Plus they have to raise prices to keep going and we can probably expect price to rise during the next generation.
Does that sound like a healthy world domination industry? I don't think so. The only thing they do have going for them is that gamers do tend to be more obsessive about their hobby than others so they can count on there being a certain level of sales.
In fact I think the reason they taken to pussifying the term hardcore gamer into core gamer is because it doesn't mean the same thing anymore. It means that's their core audience that will eat up any old shit they shovel they sell as long as it's a sequel, features lots of guns and gang of hulking space marines of questionable sexuality.
That is true but RE4 was done right. It's ok to port title after all most games aren't exclsuives anymore. The problem is when it's literally the PS2 game with no real thought put into the controls.
Super Mario Galaxy has been released. I think even RE4 feel older now if it were to be released today.
Dead Rising is coming to the Wii and it'll be interesting to see how Capcom pulls that one off.
I have no qualms with your choosing GoW as an example but it should be pointed out that, despite CliffyB growing up as a Nintendo fan (and appearing in Nintendo Power), their company is pretty anti-Nintendo and I bet you'd find they won't port any of their games to a Nintendo system unless absolutely necessary.
Think about it, everyone is releasing DS games. Even Microsoft / Rare's Viva Pinata is coming to the DS yet Epic hasn't done anything on the DS despite the fact it being a huge money maker for everyone involved. To be honest I'm glad because Epic isn't a very imaginative company at all and probably needs to sell their engine just so they don't end up like Acclaim.
Simply put, the third parties can't figure out what Wii owners 'want.' Some people even believe that all Wii owners want is "games from Nintendo" and little else.
That's a load of BS because if 3rd parties are actually making those Wii games thinking people want them then they're nuts. People never wanted movie based games or another Cruisin' sequel and they certainly don't want PS2 ports which would cheaper to buy on the PS2.
What they do want are high quality games which most 3rd parties aren't making. Capcom does make high quality games and they've made a lot of money from the Wii.
The Wii has been number one worldwide for awhile now but not in the US until now. Despite, what the article may say, the DS and the Wii aren't in the same market. That's like saying the Wii is actually in 5th place behind toasters.
It's not a monopoly if the market is more or less evenly split and one company just happens to have a slightly larger slice. I would suggest you look the word up in the dictionary.
It's amazing how many people have boring pictures and enjoy sending pictures of their ugly kids.
I think O2 should have the decency to warn people about this but they haven't and I know that because I'm an O2 customer. Thankfully I only use my phone for calls so this doesn't affect me.
It's not like people 10,000 years in the future have to figure out where a caveman buried his poo. We have so much information now they should know.
We could have something that wipes out all our computers and books but if that happens I'm sure a few nuclear waste sites will be the least of their concerns.
My guess is was that he's looking at how Java's compiler works with multi-platforms and is implementing those ideas with javascript.
That or he's a bit slow in the head.
I'm sure Indians can code just as well. The only problem with outsourcing is when it's a call centre. People often can't fully understand the Indian on the other end and the Indian often can't fully understand the person calling which isn't a skill issue. It's an issue that everyone faces when speaking to someone who speaks a language they don't hear on a regular basis.
As far as this article, it has nothing to do with some Indians programming skills. It has to do with the fact they're taking money to create jobs in Florida but instead are shipping jobs to India. So not only are they taking jobs away but they're wasting people's tax money. I can't see how you can defend that.
I don't think it has to do with being a "cheap crappy consumer router".
I hate to admit it but I still have the BT Home Hub which came with my 8meg upgrade but it works and I've never had to reset it in the 8 months that I've had it and considering home hubs are supposed to be some of the shittiest modems/routers around, I think I'm doing quite well.
The cost of something will always a part of it but I think I think how the router is configured and how often it's attacked play a larger part of the problem.
The difference between say PHP and Javascript is smaller than the difference between English and Spanish. Most computer languages are similar enough you should be able to get up and running on any of them a short period of time if you are well experienced at one of them. That can't be said about English and Spanish.