You make an excellent point. Could his site not be as popular being a "virtual house"? Did it have to pretend to be real? The tech would still be as good & neat.
I may get modded down for calling you the loser that you are, but I hope instead enough people are pissed off enough at you that they mod me up to +5 instead. Or someone with a slashdot account reposts this, so someone at Google sees it.
You created a fraud. Congratulations. Only losers such as yourself know what runs through your mind during all the time you took to create your fraud. It would make an interesting psychology class.
Not a big deal if it was confined to the slashdot crowd. But your site was picked up by mainstream press, and kids and adults from all over the world were entertained in believing your site to be real. Hopefully most non-slashdotters will continue to believe that, since they are unlikely to return unless they bookmarked the site and remember to return. Or maybe you'll continue your fraud and they won't know the difference.
It may also serve as a good lesson on fraud for the older kids. But the younger kids? You gave them a lollipop, and it turned out to have a castor oil center. Hope you got a good laugh out of it, because you and a small minority of slashdotters are probably the only ones. I'd guess that most others, including most slashdot regulars feel let down or disappointed. And from the handfull of posts I read, also feel that you are a fraud.
You pulled off a hoax, and got a helicopter ride and some Google cash out of it. Most fraudsters/losers are able to pull something like this off once in a while. But eventually, you'll end up in a grab-your-ankles situation. And when that happens, all I can say is, 8-]
So in closing, I hope Google sues you to recover any money they paid you for your fraudulent site. Even if they lose, it will cost you for the lawyer or settlement, and Google won't miss the couple of grand they spend in legal fees at all. They protected their brand against fraud in your case, and it will have been money well spent.
Congratulations. You are now known across the internet as a fraud. I'll bet the rest of your life revolves around fraud as well. Gated community? Get used to those bars.
I'd have to agree. Maybe not as strongly as you, but I agree. I am an easily influenced person and after reading reactions/facts going opposite what I think I will often add that to my opinion. However, after reading a whole bunch of posts, his reaction, and the articles, I still don't know why he did it.
The tech behind it seems cool but that doesn't make me want to cheer him on. I don't feel cheated, I just feel kind of sad. It didn't help that he continually shilled his site on here. So he fooled a bunch of people. How is that any kind of achievement?
I spent this past weekend with the SO's family. On Sunday we were at a family holiday party around Massapequa in NY and a completely untechnical conversation started on how my SO's dad got his old Super 8 films converted to DVD. Let me tell you it would make even the bluest-shirted 16-yr old Best Buy employee cringe. Mind you, most of the audience was 50 or older. But they were saying things like "You know, they have DVDs that play CDs now."
Grandma was asked if she had a DVD player and she said yes, she thought she did. When she was asked if she could watch movies on it, she said no, that's what the tape player is for. "I have the one that plays, what, it plays the records." And she made a spinning motion with her fingers.
Luckily I was able to find the football game but others weren't so lucky.
A great many high school students ARE just focused on scoring, rims and car stereos.
That, sadly, does not change upon graduation.
I would think doing a variety of topics to reach different people would work. My votes would go to:
Programming for cell phones (games, etc)
Programming for video games. Specifically, have someone model a room or the school in UnrealEd (very easy to use -- haven't used it in 5+ years so don't know how many advances there have been)
Programming for cars. Can you optimize the on-board computer on a Mustang? What does it do? etc. This could get a good response.
Do a PHP webpage with sports stats over the past couple of years. If you can have that info similar to how, say, CBS.sportsline.com shows their NFL fantasy football stats, it would be a hit.
Multimedia in music (Reason, qbase, even Fruity Loops)
Film (bring in a digital camera and some video editing software, set up a green screen, etc -- they did this in my middle school in the early early 90s and I thought it was incredible)
Art (Photoshop, Freehand/Illustrator, Wacom tablets)
Networks. Wireless networks, security, etc? (this could be a bit dull)
Sure, it's a bit superficial, just have some "learn more" handouts or CDs so those interested can find out more on their own. Make sure to leave a business card or a number so people can call you (or a friendly assistant) with questions.
More importantly, don't bring in the tech guru from your organization. Most questions won't go beyond "Can you do that with my picture/voice/car/phone?" not "What are some of the possible future expansions for binary values in Sub-TLA IDs?" -- get someone who is good at talking, talks with excitement, and nows something about the subject they're talking about. I know its superficial but having a fat, bearded man in glasses drone on about MySQL is not going to light the fire in any student.
I've had StumbleUpon for a while and then I just got tired of it. There's a lot of "Hey, that's a funny picture" type of links which I find easier to just search for. For example, Japanese T-Shirt folding. When you get into very common type of words or ones that are exploited by people seeking #1 Google results ("mortgage" for example), then you need to use your memory or bookmarks. Otherwise I can assume that I can find it again. I don't visit my bookmarks at all. In Firefox, I make great use of the Toolbar Folder since I regularly visit the same 10-12 sites (for work, etc).
"[Linux has] 985 bugs in 5.7 million lines of code, well below the industry average for commercial enterprise software. Windows XP, by comparison, contains about 40 million lines of code, with new bugs found on a frequent basis."
So Linux has 985 bugs. Windows has bugs that appear frequently. Ok that doesn't really tell me anything. I tried to dig a bit deeper and came up with: "Coverity has not analysed the source code to Microsoft Windows because the company does not have access to the source code, Hallem said. Apple Computer's Mac OS X has a great deal of proprietary programming, but the core of the operating system is based on BSD, an open-source operating system similar to Linux."
So everything is based on estimates. Now, you know and I know that the Linux kernel has less bugs... but this is a tentative (at best, shoddy at worst) way of presenting that idea.
Yes, Players Inc. was involved: "Electronic Arts announced today an exclusive licensing agreement with the National Football League and Players Inc. to develop, publish, and distribute interactive football games. These agreements give EA the exclusive rights to the NFL teams, stadiums, and players for use in its football video games for the next five years."
Even if there was a team that was "Philadelphia" you couldn't have them playing at the Linc, and certainly there'd be no T.O.
Midway has hired the writer of the show "Playmakers" to develop a new title, Blitz: Playmakers. The game will feature everything the NFL hated about the TV show, including drug use, and off-the-field habits the NFL likes to pretend never happens.
According to an interview earlier this year with Street & Smith's Sports Business Journal, an NFL spokesperson confirmed that they were through working with Midway: "Midway has been quietly dropped in a 'mutual decision' as an NFL video game licensee after years of controversy over the level of violence in its NFL Blitz game."
When IGN contacted Midway about the rumored Blitz: Playmakers, a spokesperson confirmed the game's existence and told us: "Enough of the 'No Fun League'...it's now time to talk about and prepare for the game the NFL wouldn't let anyone make... Blitz the way it should be played."
In Project Gotham Racing you can race several Porsches (Porsche Boxster S, Porsche Cayenne Turbo, Porsche 550 Spyder, Porsche 911 RS 2.7, Porsche Carrera Coupe, Porsche 911 Turbo, Porsche 911 GT3, Porsche 959, Porsche Carrera GT, Porsche 911 GT1). Did Bizarre Creations/MS pay money that Sony did not have?
The Grand Turismo series (at least in GT3) at least makes up for the no-Porsches rule by having Ruf models (I believe the CTR2 is the "ultimate" car you can get). It's not an "imaginary" model at all. If anything, the Ruf CTR2 (especially) makes the "supercars I dream of list" for a lot of enthusiasts. You're just unlikely to ever see a Ruf outside of Germany (and it is a Ruf, not a "Ruf Porsche").
And the Cayenne? Porsche has had record profits because of the Cayenne. If I was an employee and my dividends just went up 30/60 cents per share I would be AOK with it. Unfortunately the Cayenne is distasteful (I'm not talking about the Turbo and I can let the S slide without too much else to say). But the base model seems like a gussied-up Volkswagen -- no wait, it is! And a gussied-up Touareg base model at that. I digress.
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Storage is very very cheap now. There's no reason to not have, say, Jimmy Buffet's complete discography (even if you hate him). An acquaintance of mine has maxed out his download since 1998. He basically downloads stuff 24/7, all the time, as much as he can. He has a Chinese version of Windows 3.1. And he archives it! I ask him "Why?" and he says, "Because I can." This is someone who before DVD burners already had 1000 CDs of junk.
Myself, I archived and kept a lot of stuff back in college. Now I don't have the time or desire to "try out" the latest games or software, and movies and music I generally buy anyway -- you could call me a pack rat that way. I know a lot of people with 1000 CDs or 1000 DVDs or some combination thereof.
The trouble of course, comes in organizing all this data. I came up with the solution of just creating folders by month, then sticking everything but my ripped CDs in there. It's actually a lot easier than creating a database or anything else, because I can say, "Hey, when did I download that FarCry demo I haven't played?" or "Where's that.PSD file for my friend's band?" and remember it was sometime over the summer. I've got the past 2-3 years organized that way and I don't throw out anything. Anything. For example:
May 2004. "Call Monitoring Monthly Scorecard.xls" - A performance evaluation I downloaded from Google. Completely irrelevant to anything I do right now or back then.
December 2003. "Sofa.txt" - Descriptions of classified ads for leather sofas.
December 2002. "bustyblonde2.avi" - *ahem*
August 2002. "happens_1_big.mov" - Quicktime movie of SciFi channel's "ScfiFi Happens" commercial with the WTC.
February 2002./criterionco/ - Cover scans of all Criterion Collection DVDs (up to #159).
All together I have about 10GB of random loose files in all these folders. But 10GB is cheap, and reliving some of the memories of what I downloaded is really fun (cue MasterCard commercial).
But... Can you create your own game assets? How easily "editable" is this game? I know some map editors and things of that nature came out for Total Annihiliation...
Is it that hard for an employer to get an HR intern or lackey to compile a list of all "real" universities in the US? Wouldn't this be as simple as getting the latest U.S. News & World Report college guide and looking at their top 200 list? (Or at least their directory).
My personal favorite is in the Mallrats DVD. If you go into setup (I think) there is a robot to the side. Select the robot until his eyes light up, then hit enter. A video comes up of Kevin Smith ridiculing you for trying to find Easter eggs, telling you that you didn't actually find one, and to get out of your parent's basement and live life instead of wasting time trying to find bonus scenes in DVDs. Then he says failing that, you should go to his store in Redbank, NJ.
The irony is that a good 60% of the posts in this thread have some bad grammar and/or spelling mistakes. At first I thought it was intentional but then they kept popping up a little too often. I'm not any better. Most of the time I don't make any major spelling or grammar errors, but I forget to close some HTML tag so the whole post is a link.
What I would personally recommend is for everyone to follow spelling and grammar rules in all their written communications, especially IM and IRC (if applicable). When you're on #favchannel (or whatever) and you start capitalizing, punctuating, and generally following the rules of English, you'll see it's a lot easier to do so in other important emails.
If you think you hate grammar and spelling Nazis, imagine one of them being your boss and never telling you your mistakes. That could cost a lot.
First, you need Excel 2003 Pro, although he is working on making the file work with all versions of Excel. (I'm not sure if he means Excel 2003 Student edition or Excel 97 onward).
Second, he's a pretty crappy player, or he picks his teams poorly.
A friend of mine was let go from the Red Clay Consolidated School District for not passing enough of his students (he's a H.S. history teacher). The kids would complain, if you're hard on them, the parents complain to you or to the school -- and when you're fair in grading (and not passing people just to pass them), you're "not a good teacher".
Now it might be possible there is more to the story but I have heard a lot like this coming from many different people all across the U.S.
Releasing your company's flagship title/game during October-December of 2004 is utter idiocy. Games are art, and they also technology, but they are mostly entertainment, which means that they Are A Business. Part of business is marketing. Making a decision to release a game to compete with Half-Life 2 or Halo 2 or MGS3 or GTA:SA is pretty stupid. If you look at movie studios, they are very smart about releasing their entertainment so as to not compete against the big heavy hitters (Star Wars, Matrix, Spiderman franchises). Each Tuesday, there are about 40-50 major DVD releases. The week Spider-man 2 came out, there were a total of only 17 releases.
If I were a smallish studio I would not be releasing our flagship game between October and November. I'd wait until December or before October, or try in the spring. If they consciously attempt to release it in November, they only have themselves to blame.
Yes, except this is an "OS War" not a company war. If you were doing a tech write-up you'd have to deal with a specific distro. By saying it's between Microsoft's Windows, Sun's Solaris (ha!), and Red Hat's Linux, it is saying it deals with only Redhat, not Linux as a whole. The war is not between MS, Sun, and Red Hat. It is between MS, Sun, Apple, and the OOS movement, with each of them teaming up once in a while.
Also, I would make the argument that "Red Hat" is not as well known as "Linux" noawadays, so appending "Red Hat's" to it is worthless.
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You make an excellent point. Could his site not be as popular being a "virtual house"? Did it have to pretend to be real? The tech would still be as good & neat.
I'd have to agree. Maybe not as strongly as you, but I agree. I am an easily influenced person and after reading reactions/facts going opposite what I think I will often add that to my opinion. However, after reading a whole bunch of posts, his reaction, and the articles, I still don't know why he did it.
The tech behind it seems cool but that doesn't make me want to cheer him on. I don't feel cheated, I just feel kind of sad. It didn't help that he continually shilled his site on here. So he fooled a bunch of people. How is that any kind of achievement?
I spent this past weekend with the SO's family. On Sunday we were at a family holiday party around Massapequa in NY and a completely untechnical conversation started on how my SO's dad got his old Super 8 films converted to DVD. Let me tell you it would make even the bluest-shirted 16-yr old Best Buy employee cringe. Mind you, most of the audience was 50 or older. But they were saying things like "You know, they have DVDs that play CDs now."
Grandma was asked if she had a DVD player and she said yes, she thought she did. When she was asked if she could watch movies on it, she said no, that's what the tape player is for. "I have the one that plays, what, it plays the records." And she made a spinning motion with her fingers.
Luckily I was able to find the football game but others weren't so lucky.
Except Snoop Dogg and John Singleton are working on a GTA-styled game called "Fear & Respect" . See more here.
That, sadly, does not change upon graduation.
I would think doing a variety of topics to reach different people would work. My votes would go to:
Sure, it's a bit superficial, just have some "learn more" handouts or CDs so those interested can find out more on their own. Make sure to leave a business card or a number so people can call you (or a friendly assistant) with questions.
More importantly, don't bring in the tech guru from your organization. Most questions won't go beyond "Can you do that with my picture/voice/car/phone?" not "What are some of the possible future expansions for binary values in Sub-TLA IDs?" -- get someone who is good at talking, talks with excitement, and nows something about the subject they're talking about. I know its superficial but having a fat, bearded man in glasses drone on about MySQL is not going to light the fire in any student.
I've had StumbleUpon for a while and then I just got tired of it. There's a lot of "Hey, that's a funny picture" type of links which I find easier to just search for. For example, Japanese T-Shirt folding. When you get into very common type of words or ones that are exploited by people seeking #1 Google results ("mortgage" for example), then you need to use your memory or bookmarks. Otherwise I can assume that I can find it again. I don't visit my bookmarks at all. In Firefox, I make great use of the Toolbar Folder since I regularly visit the same 10-12 sites (for work, etc).
First off, what does this statement mean?
"[Linux has] 985 bugs in 5.7 million lines of code, well below the industry average for commercial enterprise software. Windows XP, by comparison, contains about 40 million lines of code, with new bugs found on a frequent basis."
So Linux has 985 bugs. Windows has bugs that appear frequently. Ok that doesn't really tell me anything. I tried to dig a bit deeper and came up with: "Coverity has not analysed the source code to Microsoft Windows because the company does not have access to the source code, Hallem said. Apple Computer's Mac OS X has a great deal of proprietary programming, but the core of the operating system is based on BSD, an open-source operating system similar to Linux."
So everything is based on estimates. Now, you know and I know that the Linux kernel has less bugs... but this is a tentative (at best, shoddy at worst) way of presenting that idea.
Yes, Players Inc. was involved: "Electronic Arts announced today an exclusive licensing agreement with the National Football League and Players Inc. to develop, publish, and distribute interactive football games. These agreements give EA the exclusive rights to the NFL teams, stadiums, and players for use in its football video games for the next five years."
Even if there was a team that was "Philadelphia" you couldn't have them playing at the Linc, and certainly there'd be no T.O.
Story source from IGN Sports.
Oh, yeah, it's gonna bomb.
Well...
In Project Gotham Racing you can race several Porsches (Porsche Boxster S, Porsche Cayenne Turbo, Porsche 550 Spyder, Porsche 911 RS 2.7, Porsche Carrera Coupe, Porsche 911 Turbo, Porsche 911 GT3, Porsche 959, Porsche Carrera GT, Porsche 911 GT1). Did Bizarre Creations/MS pay money that Sony did not have?
The Grand Turismo series (at least in GT3) at least makes up for the no-Porsches rule by having Ruf models (I believe the CTR2 is the "ultimate" car you can get). It's not an "imaginary" model at all. If anything, the Ruf CTR2 (especially) makes the "supercars I dream of list" for a lot of enthusiasts. You're just unlikely to ever see a Ruf outside of Germany (and it is a Ruf, not a "Ruf Porsche").
And the Cayenne? Porsche has had record profits because of the Cayenne. If I was an employee and my dividends just went up 30/60 cents per share I would be AOK with it. Unfortunately the Cayenne is distasteful (I'm not talking about the Turbo and I can let the S slide without too much else to say). But the base model seems like a gussied-up Volkswagen -- no wait, it is! And a gussied-up Touareg base model at that. I digress.
In Googlefight, burgle wins
Storage is very very cheap now. There's no reason to not have, say, Jimmy Buffet's complete discography (even if you hate him). An acquaintance of mine has maxed out his download since 1998. He basically downloads stuff 24/7, all the time, as much as he can. He has a Chinese version of Windows 3.1. And he archives it! I ask him "Why?" and he says, "Because I can." This is someone who before DVD burners already had 1000 CDs of junk.
.PSD file for my friend's band?" and remember it was sometime over the summer. I've got the past 2-3 years organized that way and I don't throw out anything. Anything. For example:
/criterionco/ - Cover scans of all Criterion Collection DVDs (up to #159).
Myself, I archived and kept a lot of stuff back in college. Now I don't have the time or desire to "try out" the latest games or software, and movies and music I generally buy anyway -- you could call me a pack rat that way. I know a lot of people with 1000 CDs or 1000 DVDs or some combination thereof.
The trouble of course, comes in organizing all this data. I came up with the solution of just creating folders by month, then sticking everything but my ripped CDs in there. It's actually a lot easier than creating a database or anything else, because I can say, "Hey, when did I download that FarCry demo I haven't played?" or "Where's that
May 2004. "Call Monitoring Monthly Scorecard.xls" - A performance evaluation I downloaded from Google. Completely irrelevant to anything I do right now or back then.
December 2003. "Sofa.txt" - Descriptions of classified ads for leather sofas.
December 2002. "bustyblonde2.avi" - *ahem*
August 2002. "happens_1_big.mov" - Quicktime movie of SciFi channel's "ScfiFi Happens" commercial with the WTC.
February 2002.
All together I have about 10GB of random loose files in all these folders. But 10GB is cheap, and reliving some of the memories of what I downloaded is really fun (cue MasterCard commercial).
No.
Why doesn't just Rhode Island update the infrastructure then?
You got gift certificates?
Man, I gotta work in your department.
But... Can you create your own game assets? How easily "editable" is this game? I know some map editors and things of that nature came out for Total Annihiliation...
Here are the Accoona results for "Soccer Manager 2005". It seems like a very generic name, so I don't know if it's the same as "Worldwide Soccer Manager". Xinhua is running an article with screenshots. It's quite likely this might be the title by Sports Interactive (or a bootleg of it), but unfortunately you need to be a member of their forums before you can search any information on their message board.
And yet, still no Longhorn.
Is it that hard for an employer to get an HR intern or lackey to compile a list of all "real" universities in the US? Wouldn't this be as simple as getting the latest U.S. News & World Report college guide and looking at their top 200 list? (Or at least their directory).
(Also referencing this post).
I could understand if you were checking on high schools (does Arco, ID have a Butte County High School, and are they really the Butte Pirates??), but colleges and universities?
My personal favorite is in the Mallrats DVD. If you go into setup (I think) there is a robot to the side. Select the robot until his eyes light up, then hit enter. A video comes up of Kevin Smith ridiculing you for trying to find Easter eggs, telling you that you didn't actually find one, and to get out of your parent's basement and live life instead of wasting time trying to find bonus scenes in DVDs. Then he says failing that, you should go to his store in Redbank, NJ.
The irony is that a good 60% of the posts in this thread have some bad grammar and/or spelling mistakes. At first I thought it was intentional but then they kept popping up a little too often. I'm not any better. Most of the time I don't make any major spelling or grammar errors, but I forget to close some HTML tag so the whole post is a link.
What I would personally recommend is for everyone to follow spelling and grammar rules in all their written communications, especially IM and IRC (if applicable). When you're on #favchannel (or whatever) and you start capitalizing, punctuating, and generally following the rules of English, you'll see it's a lot easier to do so in other important emails.
If you think you hate grammar and spelling Nazis, imagine one of them being your boss and never telling you your mistakes. That could cost a lot.
First, you need Excel 2003 Pro, although he is working on making the file work with all versions of Excel. (I'm not sure if he means Excel 2003 Student edition or Excel 97 onward).
Second, he's a pretty crappy player, or he picks his teams poorly.
Now it just makes me want to play Halo 2... Grr.
A friend of mine was let go from the Red Clay Consolidated School District for not passing enough of his students (he's a H.S. history teacher). The kids would complain, if you're hard on them, the parents complain to you or to the school -- and when you're fair in grading (and not passing people just to pass them), you're "not a good teacher".
Now it might be possible there is more to the story but I have heard a lot like this coming from many different people all across the U.S.
Releasing your company's flagship title/game during October-December of 2004 is utter idiocy. Games are art, and they also technology, but they are mostly entertainment, which means that they Are A Business. Part of business is marketing. Making a decision to release a game to compete with Half-Life 2 or Halo 2 or MGS3 or GTA:SA is pretty stupid. If you look at movie studios, they are very smart about releasing their entertainment so as to not compete against the big heavy hitters (Star Wars, Matrix, Spiderman franchises). Each Tuesday, there are about 40-50 major DVD releases. The week Spider-man 2 came out, there were a total of only 17 releases.
If I were a smallish studio I would not be releasing our flagship game between October and November. I'd wait until December or before October, or try in the spring. If they consciously attempt to release it in November, they only have themselves to blame.
Yes, except this is an "OS War" not a company war. If you were doing a tech write-up you'd have to deal with a specific distro. By saying it's between Microsoft's Windows, Sun's Solaris (ha!), and Red Hat's Linux, it is saying it deals with only Redhat, not Linux as a whole. The war is not between MS, Sun, and Red Hat. It is between MS, Sun, Apple, and the OOS movement, with each of them teaming up once in a while.
Also, I would make the argument that "Red Hat" is not as well known as "Linux" noawadays, so appending "Red Hat's" to it is worthless.