I'm pretty sure this must have something to do with Planet X - and if it doesn't, just give it a year or two and soon it'll be all the rage on those late night radio shows...
They should have gone to priceline.com and named their own price. I bet they'd have been able to get a far better deal - and perhaps got to meet William Shatner!
A tech novice with 4 computers? That seems sort of unlikely. I'm not saying he's guilty, but the facts just don't seem to mesh with the description there.
Out of the 20 or so programmers I've known rather well over my life so far, about half have resorting to building their own web server (even in languages like Perl). They've done it for kicks (because, seriously, HTTP 1.0 is *easy*) or for practical reasons (like for the sort of problem you're having). Servers like Apache and IIS are for heavy loads and high reliability - but HTTP itself is a really simple protocol. Writing your own server should not only be reasonably trivial for someone such as yourself (from the sounds of it), but also an eye opener into a whole new way of approaching your problems. You said yourself that you never even considered it. Now consider asking yourself why not?
Well, I didn't arrange it... but apparently she didn't really notice I was hitting on her and stuff until her friends pointed out the possibility. It's odd how things work out sometimes.
Slashdot might not be your target audience directly, but depending upon the product I bet there's people here with daughters or sisters that are. That's how word spreads and how marketing works. Plus, your comments here will be crawled by Google and the like eventually and the more links to your site there are the better your search engine rankings. Just something to consider.:-)
The trick (snip) to women is that you have to take your time. (snip)...the female (snip) isn't as easily swayed, it can often take repeated oral prodding from friends before they are ready.
Totally. In fact, that's how I got my now-fiancee to go out with me in the first place!
How do you feel about this article in light of the fact that it was written by a woman? Near the end there's a sentence that reads: "Throughout history, we've had men telling __us__ what to think, how to look, and where to work." Usage of the word "us" seems to indicate that the author is a woman and she's trying to play the victim card throughout.
Side issue, but do you have a website for your work as a "insanely girly game designer" anywhere? You could consider adding it to your slashdot sig or profile to help spread the word of your efforts.
There's nothing stopping a group of women from getting together and starting their own indy game company and making the kind of stuff they want to play. Female programmers do, in fact, exist. The other elements of games (such as art/sound/music) are often already created by women or with the help of women, so, really, where's the problem here? If the market isn't fulfilling your desires then START YOUR OWN COMPANY! Plenty of guys have done it. Girls can too.
I don't really know, but it is also possible that console games require a heck of a lot more testing - after all there's basically no way to patch them at this point. PC games, on the other hand, can be easily patched when flaws are discovered.
Use an in-house Jabber server with several transports and connect to just one server (which in turn connects to several different services) with one client (there's several to pick from). Or switch to a Mac and use Adium.:-)
Heh. Funny moderating. I admit, my comment isn't terribly funny but it looks like about 3 or 4 people all had the same thought as me and posted about at the same time (I was probably latest to the game, though). I get modded redundant and several others echoing the same sentiments from the same movie have been modded up.:-) Oh well, my comment was basically redundant anyway.
I've never been so scared by a slashdot story in my whole life! Help! What do I do? Where do I go for help?!? WHAT'S THAT SHADOW BEHIND MY MONITOR!! AGHHHHHRRGGHHH!@&73.23.....
I would be amazed if the attempted theft of video games is higher than DVDs and CDs. Why don't they just put those electronic theft tags in the video game boxes the same way they do with the CDs and DVDs?
I know this is kind of off topic, but the comment about Wal-mart and beer brings up something I've wondered for ages... Why are the XBox/PS2/etc. games always hidden behind glass cases? The computer games aren't. Neither on the CDs or DVDs. And yet the console games are! They cost similar to some DVD movie packs, are larger than CDs, and aren't even illegal for minors. Very odd.
That's 3 days after I get married. It figures that the one next-gen console I'm actually looking forward to is to be released literally days after I lose my bachelorhood freedoms... Doh!
Meaning, you can get all the memory you want, but you can only access it at a high level (think Objects in Java). In C/C++ however, you can call malloc/new, create a big pool of memory (or just a single object), and then do whatever the heck you want with it.
Couldn't you do the same in Java by allocating a huge array once and then just doing things within that array? I admit it might not be quite as convenient, but if you really needed to do it, I think it could be done. (Note: Not a Java Programmer)
A few months ago I had a strange nightmare where you (Adam) were actually in my dream and MythBusters had been canceled (see, told you it was a nightmare!) due to liability concerns. You were feeling pretty upset about it (and Jaime was wondering what to do with the old dedicated MythBusters satellite that was still in orbit) and we were driving somewhere out in the country just to chill out. Suddenly we ran across a haunted house complete with ghosts and ghouls and steps that went nowhere. Don't worry, though, we managed to solve the mystery of the haunted house and excise the demons. Everyone got out okay. My question is: Have you ever had a dream about me?
"On one occasion I was even able to correct my instructor on the usage of particular syntax."
Only once? I was able to do that several times in my college career - without a laptop. Had to walk up hill both ways to do it, though... I suppose the laptop saved you *some* trouble.:-)
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I'm pretty sure this must have something to do with Planet X - and if it doesn't, just give it a year or two and soon it'll be all the rage on those late night radio shows...
They should have gone to priceline.com and named their own price. I bet they'd have been able to get a far better deal - and perhaps got to meet William Shatner!
A tech novice with 4 computers? That seems sort of unlikely. I'm not saying he's guilty, but the facts just don't seem to mesh with the description there.
He said "dongle!" *snort* Heee heeeheheh.
Perhaps there was less liver problems because people likely to drink that much tea or whatever are less likely to drink a lot of alcohol?
Out of the 20 or so programmers I've known rather well over my life so far, about half have resorting to building their own web server (even in languages like Perl). They've done it for kicks (because, seriously, HTTP 1.0 is *easy*) or for practical reasons (like for the sort of problem you're having). Servers like Apache and IIS are for heavy loads and high reliability - but HTTP itself is a really simple protocol. Writing your own server should not only be reasonably trivial for someone such as yourself (from the sounds of it), but also an eye opener into a whole new way of approaching your problems. You said yourself that you never even considered it. Now consider asking yourself why not?
Well, I didn't arrange it... but apparently she didn't really notice I was hitting on her and stuff until her friends pointed out the possibility. It's odd how things work out sometimes.
Slashdot might not be your target audience directly, but depending upon the product I bet there's people here with daughters or sisters that are. That's how word spreads and how marketing works. Plus, your comments here will be crawled by Google and the like eventually and the more links to your site there are the better your search engine rankings. Just something to consider. :-)
The trick (snip) to women is that you have to take your time. (snip) ...the female (snip) isn't as easily swayed, it can often take repeated oral prodding from friends before they are ready.
Totally. In fact, that's how I got my now-fiancee to go out with me in the first place!
How do you feel about this article in light of the fact that it was written by a woman? Near the end there's a sentence that reads: "Throughout history, we've had men telling __us__ what to think, how to look, and where to work." Usage of the word "us" seems to indicate that the author is a woman and she's trying to play the victim card throughout.
Side issue, but do you have a website for your work as a "insanely girly game designer" anywhere? You could consider adding it to your slashdot sig or profile to help spread the word of your efforts.
Best Buy is far worse than Walmart. FAR worse... *shudder*
There's nothing stopping a group of women from getting together and starting their own indy game company and making the kind of stuff they want to play. Female programmers do, in fact, exist. The other elements of games (such as art/sound/music) are often already created by women or with the help of women, so, really, where's the problem here? If the market isn't fulfilling your desires then START YOUR OWN COMPANY! Plenty of guys have done it. Girls can too.
I don't really know, but it is also possible that console games require a heck of a lot more testing - after all there's basically no way to patch them at this point. PC games, on the other hand, can be easily patched when flaws are discovered.
I know! That's the best part! :-)
Use an in-house Jabber server with several transports and connect to just one server (which in turn connects to several different services) with one client (there's several to pick from). Or switch to a Mac and use Adium. :-)
Heh. Funny moderating. I admit, my comment isn't terribly funny but it looks like about 3 or 4 people all had the same thought as me and posted about at the same time (I was probably latest to the game, though). I get modded redundant and several others echoing the same sentiments from the same movie have been modded up. :-) Oh well, my comment was basically redundant anyway.
I've never been so scared by a slashdot story in my whole life! Help! What do I do? Where do I go for help?!? WHAT'S THAT SHADOW BEHIND MY MONITOR!! AGHHHHHRRGGHHH!@&73.23.....
..somebody has a case of "The Producers" to me.
I would be amazed if the attempted theft of video games is higher than DVDs and CDs. Why don't they just put those electronic theft tags in the video game boxes the same way they do with the CDs and DVDs?
I know this is kind of off topic, but the comment about Wal-mart and beer brings up something I've wondered for ages... Why are the XBox/PS2/etc. games always hidden behind glass cases? The computer games aren't. Neither on the CDs or DVDs. And yet the console games are! They cost similar to some DVD movie packs, are larger than CDs, and aren't even illegal for minors. Very odd.
That's 3 days after I get married. It figures that the one next-gen console I'm actually looking forward to is to be released literally days after I lose my bachelorhood freedoms... Doh!
Strings hurt my fingers. This would be so much better!
Meaning, you can get all the memory you want, but you can only access it at a high level (think Objects in Java). In C/C++ however, you can call malloc/new, create a big pool of memory (or just a single object), and then do whatever the heck you want with it.
Couldn't you do the same in Java by allocating a huge array once and then just doing things within that array? I admit it might not be quite as convenient, but if you really needed to do it, I think it could be done. (Note: Not a Java Programmer)
A few months ago I had a strange nightmare where you (Adam) were actually in my dream and MythBusters had been canceled (see, told you it was a nightmare!) due to liability concerns. You were feeling pretty upset about it (and Jaime was wondering what to do with the old dedicated MythBusters satellite that was still in orbit) and we were driving somewhere out in the country just to chill out. Suddenly we ran across a haunted house complete with ghosts and ghouls and steps that went nowhere. Don't worry, though, we managed to solve the mystery of the haunted house and excise the demons. Everyone got out okay. My question is: Have you ever had a dream about me?
"On one occasion I was even able to correct my instructor on the usage of particular syntax."
:-)
Only once? I was able to do that several times in my college career - without a laptop. Had to walk up hill both ways to do it, though... I suppose the laptop saved you *some* trouble.