Military Grade is the same as ridiculously expensive items that is hard to maintain and requires special training to operate. Usually only available at universities, military or other government function where money is not an issue when you buy hardware only when talking labor cost. So basically the exact opposite of "Commercial grade".
Don't treat your customers like crap and think you can do whatever you want. That is what you can learn from the sony hacking and prevent it from happening to you.
Maybe they learned from a successful business model from cupertino. Where you lock in, treat everyone like crap and make them pay a premium price is the winning ticket to huge stock price increase.
Stop beeing retards and do internal invoicing. Not like the board of directors is billing "per decision". IT department as a billing self ruling department is so damn stupid. And no one seem to understand it. It is like having a fire department only going to fires that is in line with their mission statement.
And having an it department invocing per GB instead of having a budget for storage and then the company can allocate it as they please. And if someone has a bigger need, it should be a question for the company. Not a matter of giving a profitable it department.
AVGN at http://cinemassacre.com/ have singlehandedly done what the OP is thinking is a problem. HUGE database of documentation about various consoles. Including the odyssey etc. - Can't just the spend a couple of millions on AVGN and That Guy with the glassed ( http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/ ).
I have used glossy screens for a long time and I like them a lot. Even outside I think they are much better, yes you can get glare but they are alot more vibrant so you can actually see what is on the screen. The matte screen I had before, was unreadable outside. All the light was "cough" in the glass above the LCD and that made it very hard to read.
This is just my very personal opinion on the subject at hand of course.
When you clearly are have a not understood anything and is stuck in a dead end career of client support. I think you have to accept the fact you are a loser and will not succeed in anything in your life.
There is many many courses using expensive software, how does a laptop for each student solve this?
Office, Matlab, various cad and 3d packages, image editing, dtp etc.
The list is very long, and you can replace them with free software. But a a lot of software don't have a viable alternative in the free software realm or is a de facto standard.
This is very true. - But the question was howto pave your way into the bussines of game-development. And to get the extra EDGE over any of the 20 other applying for the spot of level designer. I assume that is a good way to get that edge, make your own kick-ass textures for the level.
Yes and no. - This thread is about _leve_ design. Not about game design. It all depends on the game, but if its going to be interaction, espessially between players. The levels has to be balanced. You can not have spots in the map that is godlike. Ie. warcraft III have a goldmine with 200k gold and all others have 15k gold. It will get unbalanced in a non-fun way. - But you can still have unbalanced characters that take very long time and skill to build up. - But still, the level has to be balanced for fun game play.
In my defense, I have to say that I am writing this, standing up in a computer lab. While students are demanding help. So it took like 15 minutes to write. I am very sorry for the bad bad baaaad english.
Remeber if you work as a level designer in a company making a game. I can not expect to work with tools that are full fledged.
The tools you are going to work with will constantly evolve, your tools availble will be added and removed as the game moves on.
To create an impressive portfolio that will pop eyes where you apply. Design very good levels for a wide area of games. And last but not least, they have to. Absolutly HAVE to be well balansed. Especially with a multi-player game. I have seen some very pretty levels done for counter-strike but that was very poor balanced. So they where never played.
Another big thing when you design a level. Make sure you make your own textures. If you have solid texturework you will have a far better shot at the job.
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How can I justify redhat or redhat-based distribution when there is debian?
Military Grade is the same as ridiculously expensive items that is hard to maintain and requires special training to operate. Usually only available at universities, military or other government function where money is not an issue when you buy hardware only when talking labor cost. So basically the exact opposite of "Commercial grade".
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Don't treat your customers like crap and think you can do whatever you want. That is what you can learn from the sony hacking and prevent it from happening to you.
IRC ftw. - Fast, textbased, privte chat when needed, multiple chatchannels for different groups.
And you don't have graphical smilies or video, so no one will fall for the temptation of laggy video conferencing.
Shouldn't it be windows friendly since they have to be there first Tuesday of the month.
Maybe they learned from a successful business model from cupertino. Where you lock in, treat everyone like crap and make them pay a premium price is the winning ticket to huge stock price increase.
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apple, us postal office, ford motor company, hp to name a few companies hoarding 16,7 millions ip-addresses each.
http://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv4-address-space/ipv4-address-space.xml
I answer this as I answer anyone asking for this kind of work conditions.
If you want charity, go to a charity organization. Don't work for free, end of story.
I have something to sell (my time) employer need something (my time) and he or her should pay for it.
What is this win-dose? You keep talking about.
Stop beeing retards and do internal invoicing. Not like the board of directors is billing "per decision". IT department as a billing self ruling department is so damn stupid. And no one seem to understand it. It is like having a fire department only going to fires that is in line with their mission statement.
And having an it department invocing per GB instead of having a budget for storage and then the company can allocate it as they please. And if someone has a bigger need, it should be a question for the company. Not a matter of giving a profitable it department.
AVGN at http://cinemassacre.com/ have singlehandedly done what the OP is thinking is a problem. HUGE database of documentation about various consoles. Including the odyssey etc. - Can't just the spend a couple of millions on AVGN and That Guy with the glassed ( http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/ ).
-L
I have used glossy screens for a long time and I like them a lot. Even outside I think they are much better, yes you can get glare but they are alot more vibrant so you can actually see what is on the screen. The matte screen I had before, was unreadable outside. All the light was "cough" in the glass above the LCD and that made it very hard to read.
This is just my very personal opinion on the subject at hand of course.
Flash is always the thing that kills my browser for no other reason then a crappy flash banner. - Flash can just go and die for all I care.
How can people have a crusade for a technology that is so damn young. What did you do before flash, was your life empty and unfullfilled?
Just put in XX hours of lag on the trading on stocks. The daytrading bring nothing positive to the companies.
When you clearly are have a not understood anything and is stuck in a dead end career of client support. I think you have to accept the fact you are a loser and will not succeed in anything in your life.
There is many many courses using expensive software, how does a laptop for each student solve this?
Office, Matlab, various cad and 3d packages, image editing, dtp etc.
The list is very long, and you can replace them with free software. But a a lot of software don't have a viable alternative in the free software realm or is a de facto standard.
As usual when we talk quality, in any discussion it all boils down to: You get what you pay for!
Buy crap equipment and you will get crap.
Here is an explaination:
Solaris is just like Unix(tm)(r) but without powerful tools that are easy to use.
-L
Caluclate 1 meter in inches
I have designed the course in this particualar software package.
-L
This is very true. - But the question was howto pave your way into the bussines of game-development. And to get the extra EDGE over any of the 20 other applying for the spot of level designer. I assume that is a good way to get that edge, make your own kick-ass textures for the level.
-L
Yes and no. - This thread is about _leve_ design. Not about game design. It all depends on the game, but if its going to be interaction, espessially between players. The levels has to be balanced. You can not have spots in the map that is godlike. Ie. warcraft III have a goldmine with 200k gold and all others have 15k gold. It will get unbalanced in a non-fun way. - But you can still have unbalanced characters that take very long time and skill to build up. - But still, the level has to be balanced for fun game play.
-L
In my defense, I have to say that I am writing this, standing up in a computer lab. While students are demanding help. So it took like 15 minutes to write. I am very sorry for the bad bad baaaad english.
Remeber if you work as a level designer in a company making a game. I can not expect to work with tools that are full fledged.
The tools you are going to work with will constantly evolve, your tools availble will be added and removed as the game moves on.
To create an impressive portfolio that will pop eyes where you apply. Design very good levels for a wide area of games. And last but not least, they have to. Absolutly HAVE to be well balansed. Especially with a multi-player game. I have seen some very pretty levels done for counter-strike but that was very poor balanced. So they where never played.
Another big thing when you design a level. Make sure you make your own textures. If you have solid texturework you will have a far better shot at the job.
-L
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