So, those against death penalty, cite me one instance of the death penalty NOT removing the person from society.
That's in the category of "questions that are ridiculously easy to answer". The answer is: Every time an innocent person was put to death for a crime they did not commit.
The prediction of PC gaming death is an eternally recurring one. Yes, more PC developers are always becoming console developers (even exclusive ones).
But what people often overlook is that there's a life-cycle to game development studios. You start out small making PC games because it's an open platform and fairly cheap to develop for. You move on to console development someday when you have the cash for console licensing, development, and want to gamble for access to the larger customer base.
This cycle will continue to happen as long as anyone thinks they can break into the business as a startup. To analysts it's like looking at a river and saying "this river must run dry because all the water is moving in one direction".
"[Balmer] explains that Microsoft wanted to focus on fewer legislations and that the anti-discrimination bill was one of the bills that they didn't have the resources to follow. Also, far from caving in to Rev.Hutcherson, Microsoft told him to take a hike when he asked them to fire 2 employees for testifying during the legislation consideration period."
This is total horseshit and corporate PR covering up what actually happened. If you read the NY Times article, there's at least 3 pieces of solid evidence demonstrating that MS pulled their support at exactly the time that Hutccherson was meeting with a VP threatening a boycott.
What about the social contract that I should be able to enjoy public spaces without the audio/visual clutter from advertisements on walls, billboards, signs, the sidewalk, park benches, buildings, megaphones, ice-cream trucks, blaring radios, speaker cars, wrapped over buses, on turnstiles, inside of subway tunnels, public-paid TV channels, sporting events... "and milk cartons, and T-shirts, and bananas, and written in the sky"?
Funny how no one ever deigned to talk about any "social contract" regarding advertising until we got the power to start blocking it?
The mission of LLGP (Linux Live Game Project) is show to Wintendo users that also Linux can be used to game.
To really cultivate games on Linux, the community first and foremost needs to convince game developers that Linux is a viable platform. Users come later, when there are must-have games they want to play.
How about too much time at game development? While I was working on Nascar Racing 2 (testing the spotter reactions and playing after-hours), while driving home in the wee morning hours, I would:
- Feel like I should check out the current collision detection behavior by casually "rubbing" against the car in the lane next to me.
- Get suddenly angry when someone went in the right lane to slow down, when obviously the pit lane's over on the left. Geez, buddy!
Funny how this government article makes absolutely no mention of global warming. And it insinuates that melting ice caps are a wonderful boon, as well.
Scientists believe that the enormous piece of ice broke away as part of a long-term natural cycle (every 50-to-100 years, or so) in which the shelf, which is roughly the size of Texas, sheds pieces much as human fingernails grow and break off...
Ironically, a collision between the iceberg and the ice tongue could make things easier for both penguins and ships. If the ice tongue collapses, the way may be opened for sea ice to escape the Sound.
You'll probably get some respondents jousting with you here. I'll just chime in and say that I agree with this statement 100%. It's about the most plain-spoken, clear observation of the situation that I can think of.
TRAFFIC WARNING - Traffic in this city is expanding. The commuters are getting militant. Highway shootings are on the rise. Either build more roads and rails or get a bulletproof limo.
Any time an entire class fails, it is on the professor's shoulders. Since we assume that the people in the class are both mentally competent and reasonably intelligent based on the fact that they're in college...
You may want to also consider the case of many junior/community colleges, which frequently have no admissions requirements or processes (known as "open admissions").
The requirements are to exploit 10 holes in unix software...
Not quite. From the first slide here's the credit specification (emphasis mine):
What you have to do
Exams are 40% of your grade. Also three types of homework. 1. Read assigned parts of textbook. Assignment due 2004.08.25: foreword and preface of textbook. 2. Read assigned C program excerpts before we discuss them in class. 3. 60% of your grade: discover 10 new security holes in deployed UNIX software. 40 students = 400 new holes. Collaboration is encouraged. 4 students who find 1 bug each receive 1/4 credit for it.
Presumably a toy program you write on your doesn't count as "deployed UNIX software".
I ask you to name me another time the US mainland was attacked to such effect by a foreign entity?
You're right. The US mainland has never been attacked by such a tiny force of foreigners (20 guys, 3 years ago). That definitely warrants wholesale governmental and constitutional changes.
Our adventures with Electronic Arts began less than a year ago.
As a former 5-year veteran of the PC game industry (I think that counts as veteran)... only someone who's been exposed to the industry less than a year could think to right this article. Of course it's totally on-target and correct, but it's SO omnipresent that no one who's been in it for a length of time would think to be so outraged.
Myself and friends (all with prior gaming experience) have had phone interviews where we were practically hung up on if we tried to put ANY limitations or boundaries on the hours we might work. Even to "reasonable" amounts of crunch time.
"Well, look, I already told you. I deal with the goddamn customers so the engineers don't have to!! I have people skills!! I am good at dealing with people!!! Can't you understand that?!? WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE?!!!!!!!"
For Christ's sake. I'm sure the U.S. is the only country that can fund this kind of bleeding-edge massive weapons research at this point.
What the hell for? For something even more hellacious to be scared witless about after plans leak out in 30 years and we're jumping up and down about how much terrorists would like to use it against us? I can see it now: "We don't want the smoking gun to be a continental-sized antimatter disintegration! How can we not act?".
Add the automated robot army forces that Congress is demanding, and we can colonize any nation without American casualties, which is the only thing anyone cares about. Blech.
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Fabricating data? Super, now he can get job in the current government.
number-crunching + play-acting = f***ing crack, man
It also helps if there's a mustachioed villain who allegedly tried to assassinate the president's father. It's time for a Family Fued!
Artists who have backed anti-piracy campaigns, include Metallica, Tatu and Peter Gabriel.
Nice try, attempting to sneak that in there. Are there really any artists in Tatu?
So, those against death penalty, cite me one instance of the death penalty NOT removing the person from society.
That's in the category of "questions that are ridiculously easy to answer". The answer is: Every time an innocent person was put to death for a crime they did not commit.
The prediction of PC gaming death is an eternally recurring one. Yes, more PC developers are always becoming console developers (even exclusive ones).
But what people often overlook is that there's a life-cycle to game development studios. You start out small making PC games because it's an open platform and fairly cheap to develop for. You move on to console development someday when you have the cash for console licensing, development, and want to gamble for access to the larger customer base.
This cycle will continue to happen as long as anyone thinks they can break into the business as a startup. To analysts it's like looking at a river and saying "this river must run dry because all the water is moving in one direction".
"[Balmer] explains that Microsoft wanted to focus on fewer legislations and that the anti-discrimination bill was one of the bills that they didn't have the resources to follow. Also, far from caving in to Rev.Hutcherson, Microsoft told him to take a hike when he asked them to fire 2 employees for testifying during the legislation consideration period."
This is total horseshit and corporate PR covering up what actually happened. If you read the NY Times article, there's at least 3 pieces of solid evidence demonstrating that MS pulled their support at exactly the time that Hutccherson was meeting with a VP threatening a boycott.
What about the social contract that I should be able to enjoy public spaces without the audio/visual clutter from advertisements on walls, billboards, signs, the sidewalk, park benches, buildings, megaphones, ice-cream trucks, blaring radios, speaker cars, wrapped over buses, on turnstiles, inside of subway tunnels, public-paid TV channels, sporting events... "and milk cartons, and T-shirts, and bananas, and written in the sky"?
Funny how no one ever deigned to talk about any "social contract" regarding advertising until we got the power to start blocking it?
If someone asks if you want to be immortal, you say YES!!
The mission of LLGP (Linux Live Game Project) is show to Wintendo users that also Linux can be used to game.
To really cultivate games on Linux, the community first and foremost needs to convince game developers that Linux is a viable platform. Users come later, when there are must-have games they want to play.
How about too much time at game development? While I was working on Nascar Racing 2 (testing the spotter reactions and playing after-hours), while driving home in the wee morning hours, I would:
- Feel like I should check out the current collision detection behavior by casually "rubbing" against the car in the lane next to me.
- Get suddenly angry when someone went in the right lane to slow down, when obviously the pit lane's over on the left. Geez, buddy!
Funny how this government article makes absolutely no mention of global warming. And it insinuates that melting ice caps are a wonderful boon, as well.
Scientists believe that the enormous piece of ice broke away as part of a long-term natural cycle (every 50-to-100 years, or so) in which the shelf, which is roughly the size of Texas, sheds pieces much as human fingernails grow and break off...
Ironically, a collision between the iceberg and the ice tongue could make things easier for both penguins and ships. If the ice tongue collapses, the way may be opened for sea ice to escape the Sound.
You'll probably get some respondents jousting with you here. I'll just chime in and say that I agree with this statement 100%. It's about the most plain-spoken, clear observation of the situation that I can think of.
Now all we need is some satalite imagery of packets being blocked.
That would be markedly better evidence than they bothered to develop for the WMD's for the Iraq invasion.
Really, just an artist's conceptualization is all that's required.
TRAFFIC WARNING -
Traffic in this city is expanding.
The commuters are getting militant.
Highway shootings are on the rise.
Either build more roads and rails or get a bulletproof limo.
Any time an entire class fails, it is on the professor's shoulders. Since we assume that the people in the class are both mentally competent and reasonably intelligent based on the fact that they're in college...
You may want to also consider the case of many junior/community colleges, which frequently have no admissions requirements or processes (known as "open admissions").
Not quite. From the first slide here's the credit specification (emphasis mine):
Presumably a toy program you write on your doesn't count as "deployed UNIX software".
I ask you to name me another time the US mainland was attacked to such effect by a foreign entity?
You're right. The US mainland has never been attacked by such a tiny force of foreigners (20 guys, 3 years ago). That definitely warrants wholesale governmental and constitutional changes.
In my 35 years of coding experience...
The folks at a place like EA are all in their lower 20's, and physically capable of amazing feats that you or I would only dream of.
Don't you go back in time if you go that fast? I thought I saw that in Star Trev IV...
Our adventures with Electronic Arts began less than a year ago.
As a former 5-year veteran of the PC game industry (I think that counts as veteran)... only someone who's been exposed to the industry less than a year could think to right this article. Of course it's totally on-target and correct, but it's SO omnipresent that no one who's been in it for a length of time would think to be so outraged.
Myself and friends (all with prior gaming experience) have had phone interviews where we were practically hung up on if we tried to put ANY limitations or boundaries on the hours we might work. Even to "reasonable" amounts of crunch time.
It's often the rush for money that makes us move to fast to do the job right.
Wow, what did you get paid for that article?
"Well, look, I already told you. I deal with the goddamn customers so the engineers don't have to!! I have people skills!! I am good at dealing with people!!! Can't you understand that?!? WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE?!!!!!!!"
Tom from Office Space
For Christ's sake. I'm sure the U.S. is the only country that can fund this kind of bleeding-edge massive weapons research at this point.
What the hell for? For something even more hellacious to be scared witless about after plans leak out in 30 years and we're jumping up and down about how much terrorists would like to use it against us? I can see it now: "We don't want the smoking gun to be a continental-sized antimatter disintegration! How can we not act?".
Add the automated robot army forces that Congress is demanding, and we can colonize any nation without American casualties, which is the only thing anyone cares about. Blech.
Sounds like a grand Crusade!