Please don't recommend anyone following Johnathan Blow's path. He's only famous because he made the first XBLA game that wasn't awful AND was done by a single person. There are a number of other XBLA games that are far superior in quality (both by being less esoteric in the story and having superior gameplay), but they were done by teams. He also had about $200k-$300k to expend while he worked 4 hours a day and lived like he had money, and he made it in 2-3 years. He got lucky that it did well. Honestly, I wasn't very impressed with it, certainly not enough to recommend anyone else pay $15 for it.
Best advice: Make it. But keep your day job. It will take you a while to get it made and polished, and if you want, published, but you'll need SOMETHING in a portfolio to have any shot of getting a job. And you really don't want to be working on it 12 hours a day without any other income, because you will quickly find yourself broke and difficult to re-employ if you don't have much to show for your efforts.
To the parent: the bare minimum to start is not a bad place to start, it's exactly what you need (in combination with luck) to get that first job and get some experience. If he stops there, he won't excel, but if that's just step 1 then there's no problem. Also, please don't perpetuate the feeling that game developers work extra long hours (outside of 8am to 5pm) - if new blood comes in expecting it, it'll keep happening, keeping the QoL low. The only way to change something like that is to make sure that future employees refuse to work under those conditions, and that will leave studios able to compete under those terms and weed out the ones who foster such horrifying working conditions.
AJAX is a great technology that has vastly improved the usefulness of the web. However, like every other fad, it gets significantly overused in places where it just IS NOT reasonable. I wish more developers would come to the realization that AJAX != 'Web 2.0-ifying your page' and move back to using the right technology for a given problem. AJAX everywhere just reeks of the same kind of software bloat that makes modern computers run slow compared to 5-10 year old equipment.
Done. No browser restart, no configuring, it just is there. It's much simpler than installing an add-on, plugin, Firefox extension, etc. because it's just a small code snippet that runs in the browser's now-exposed Javascript VM, as opposed to a module that needs to be loaded when the browser fires up.
They do give a similar effect. Helium is different because it is much lighter than the other components of air, so any oxygen in your lungs, trachea, and mouth sinks into your lungs and dulls the 'asphyxiation' effect. Also note majority - N2O does, in fact, have some euphoric properties, but only a little more than asphyxiation.
I can't speak to the hallucinogenic properties. I've never heard mention of it, but it wouldn't surprise me.
Nitrous oxide is non-addictive. In many people, it gives an enhanced sense of euphoria, though a majority of that feeling comes from near-asphyxiation. It's a bit more potent than Dust-Off, but otherwise gives similar results.
They had to be like that, to attract people who otherwise revile Star Trek for being a nerd's pastime. How else are you supposed to draw in the masses and make a killing?
It was great, and definitely worth seeing. There's a lot of action that you seem to not be interested in, but the plot & acting are excellent.
It's so unfortunate that researchers these days don't realize that correlation can easily be a coincidence, and not a real relationship between two variables. It is especially unsuited in this case given the tiny number of data points and, oh, the convolution of these results with other factors like OS bundling (Windows/IE) and time on market (All 3, most significantly Chrome).
A more interesting (and likely actually related) set of data would be browser performance vs. market growth rate. Where are those numbers?
Also, web developers don't curse IE because it's slow. In fact, many pages are still static and don't feature nifty DHTML tricks, so the slowness of IE has no effect on the page at all. We web developers curse IE because it's not standards compliant and because making both the CSS and those nifty DHTML tricks WORK in IE is like eating barbed wire. Firefox has acceptable Javascript performance and is mostly standards compliant, and the existence of the Firebug plugin makes it invaluable as a web developer's test browser. I don't think web developers will curse a browser like Firefox for slow Javascript performance like we curse IE for violating all the standards.
Because the addition of a single (or even multiple) neutrons has a negligible effect on the chemical properties of a material. Just because the nucleus has approximately double the mass, doesn't mean it can behave that differently from hydrogen. Case in point: Noble gases. They've got enormous nuclei (especially by comparison to hydrogen and deuterium), but are still gases because they have very weak interactions with nearby atoms.
In short, deuterium is a gas at STP.
That's not to say they can't make UDD, but the pressure/temperature stability of the material is suspect.
I really hope they aren't. If they do, I'll cry when MSGM announces its first product - the Microsoft Wheels. Also, roads will pass Iraq to become the Most Dangerous Place on Earth.
Google Starleague and some combination of replay, download, watch, and finals. There are a number hosted on youtube; I've never found a good single source for the replays. There is commentary in Korean, and occasional shots of the fans, but the games are well covered and those guys are amazingly good at SC.
Watch some of the pro replays. There are people worlds better than your friend, than you, than me, and than most people you encounter online. Your blanket statement is patently false, as evidenced by these replays. Zerg can survive and win late game.
Tell me, if Protoss and Terran are clearly superior to Zerg, then why do all of these professional Starcraft players choose Zerg? Maybe because the differences in races are better exploitable by different players with different strategies? Claiming that the Zerg are terrible because they only have cheap units shows that you have never played a decent Zerg player.
And if you wiped him with 3 zealots, then he is not a good example of a Zerg player. Decent players can fend off 3 zealots with 11 drones.
Has everyone given up on ray tracing, radiosity, etc.? These things require MUCH more computational power than what current graphics cards can provide, and as soon as games start using new, shiny hardware to produce new, shiny graphics, we're going to see a decent spike in price for a short while before it comes back down.
I could install it just fine, but I couldn't keep it installed because the feature I bought the laptop for (the Wacom digitizer) was buggy. It ran perfectly otherwise, and was (in more ways than I enumerated) superior to running Windows on it. 'Couldn't install' was a replacement for 'could not use for intended purpose'.
They're plenty of use. I used a tablet for all of my college notes, which made it convenient to copy&send to friends who might have missed class. The fact that I couldn't install Linux on it (despite several failed attempts) was irritating, because my battery life was better on Linux (surprise!) and the tablet was significantly faster under Linux. Unfortunately, the calibration would frequently de-align itself and screen rotation didn't always rotate the calibration as well (i.e. pointing at the lower left would make the cursor jump to the upper right).
In answer to your comment about desktop use, I know many artists who do most of their work in Photoshop using a Wacom tablet. They hate using a mouse for that kind of work. If you question these users' importance overall, I can only direct you to the frequent conversation about 'I need apps that don't work in Linux! You can't use GIMP as a replacement for Photoshop!'.
I agree it's not that huge of a deal, but it might be a dealbreaker for a not-insignificant number of people.
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Luckily, propyl cyanide is only a health rating of 2 and has an LD50 of 50-100mg/kg. By contrast, potassium cyanide has an LD50 of 6mg/kg, and it is likely that sodium cyanide is close to that value.
Just like you shouldn't think that wood alcohol is a viable substitute for grain alcohol. It sounds like it'd be similar, but 10mL's will make you blind and 30 will kill you.
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Please don't recommend anyone following Johnathan Blow's path. He's only famous because he made the first XBLA game that wasn't awful AND was done by a single person. There are a number of other XBLA games that are far superior in quality (both by being less esoteric in the story and having superior gameplay), but they were done by teams. He also had about $200k-$300k to expend while he worked 4 hours a day and lived like he had money, and he made it in 2-3 years. He got lucky that it did well. Honestly, I wasn't very impressed with it, certainly not enough to recommend anyone else pay $15 for it.
Best advice: Make it. But keep your day job. It will take you a while to get it made and polished, and if you want, published, but you'll need SOMETHING in a portfolio to have any shot of getting a job. And you really don't want to be working on it 12 hours a day without any other income, because you will quickly find yourself broke and difficult to re-employ if you don't have much to show for your efforts.
To the parent: the bare minimum to start is not a bad place to start, it's exactly what you need (in combination with luck) to get that first job and get some experience. If he stops there, he won't excel, but if that's just step 1 then there's no problem. Also, please don't perpetuate the feeling that game developers work extra long hours (outside of 8am to 5pm) - if new blood comes in expecting it, it'll keep happening, keeping the QoL low. The only way to change something like that is to make sure that future employees refuse to work under those conditions, and that will leave studios able to compete under those terms and weed out the ones who foster such horrifying working conditions.
AJAX is a great technology that has vastly improved the usefulness of the web. However, like every other fad, it gets significantly overused in places where it just IS NOT reasonable. I wish more developers would come to the realization that AJAX != 'Web 2.0-ifying your page' and move back to using the right technology for a given problem. AJAX everywhere just reeks of the same kind of software bloat that makes modern computers run slow compared to 5-10 year old equipment.
When all you have is a hammer...
Hmm. I'm not following your logic. Where's
3.5) ???
Oh, you mean someone actually figured out what ??? was?
... could it possibly be so hard to write voting software? It just... I... but...
It's gotta be deliberate. Right?
Install Ad Blocker!
Done. No browser restart, no configuring, it just is there. It's much simpler than installing an add-on, plugin, Firefox extension, etc. because it's just a small code snippet that runs in the browser's now-exposed Javascript VM, as opposed to a module that needs to be loaded when the browser fires up.
I'm with aero2600-5. Where do you work, and how do I get your job / a job similar to yours?
Not having to support IE must be sweet, sweet bliss...
They do give a similar effect. Helium is different because it is much lighter than the other components of air, so any oxygen in your lungs, trachea, and mouth sinks into your lungs and dulls the 'asphyxiation' effect. Also note majority - N2O does, in fact, have some euphoric properties, but only a little more than asphyxiation.
I can't speak to the hallucinogenic properties. I've never heard mention of it, but it wouldn't surprise me.
Nitrous oxide is non-addictive. In many people, it gives an enhanced sense of euphoria, though a majority of that feeling comes from near-asphyxiation. It's a bit more potent than Dust-Off, but otherwise gives similar results.
I think you're confusing Star Trek with Quantum of Solace.
Ahh... umm.. well... er...
Yeah. It did. Not really plot-related.
I have nothing more to say on this subject =(
They had to be like that, to attract people who otherwise revile Star Trek for being a nerd's pastime. How else are you supposed to draw in the masses and make a killing?
It was great, and definitely worth seeing. There's a lot of action that you seem to not be interested in, but the plot & acting are excellent.
It's so unfortunate that researchers these days don't realize that correlation can easily be a coincidence, and not a real relationship between two variables. It is especially unsuited in this case given the tiny number of data points and, oh, the convolution of these results with other factors like OS bundling (Windows/IE) and time on market (All 3, most significantly Chrome).
A more interesting (and likely actually related) set of data would be browser performance vs. market growth rate. Where are those numbers?
Also, web developers don't curse IE because it's slow. In fact, many pages are still static and don't feature nifty DHTML tricks, so the slowness of IE has no effect on the page at all. We web developers curse IE because it's not standards compliant and because making both the CSS and those nifty DHTML tricks WORK in IE is like eating barbed wire. Firefox has acceptable Javascript performance and is mostly standards compliant, and the existence of the Firebug plugin makes it invaluable as a web developer's test browser. I don't think web developers will curse a browser like Firefox for slow Javascript performance like we curse IE for violating all the standards.
Because the addition of a single (or even multiple) neutrons has a negligible effect on the chemical properties of a material. Just because the nucleus has approximately double the mass, doesn't mean it can behave that differently from hydrogen. Case in point: Noble gases. They've got enormous nuclei (especially by comparison to hydrogen and deuterium), but are still gases because they have very weak interactions with nearby atoms.
In short, deuterium is a gas at STP.
That's not to say they can't make UDD, but the pressure/temperature stability of the material is suspect.
I really hope they aren't. If they do, I'll cry when MSGM announces its first product - the Microsoft Wheels. Also, roads will pass Iraq to become the Most Dangerous Place on Earth.
Google Starleague and some combination of replay, download, watch, and finals. There are a number hosted on youtube; I've never found a good single source for the replays. There is commentary in Korean, and occasional shots of the fans, but the games are well covered and those guys are amazingly good at SC.
Watch some of the pro replays. There are people worlds better than your friend, than you, than me, and than most people you encounter online. Your blanket statement is patently false, as evidenced by these replays. Zerg can survive and win late game.
Tell me, if Protoss and Terran are clearly superior to Zerg, then why do all of these professional Starcraft players choose Zerg? Maybe because the differences in races are better exploitable by different players with different strategies? Claiming that the Zerg are terrible because they only have cheap units shows that you have never played a decent Zerg player.
And if you wiped him with 3 zealots, then he is not a good example of a Zerg player. Decent players can fend off 3 zealots with 11 drones.
Because Oracle bought Sun.
"The keypad entry lock is encrypted! Hold on, let me apply two gigs of RAM -- ok, that worked!" - Under Siege 2.
I laughed at this.
And then I died a little on the inside because it's so unfortunately true.
Has everyone given up on ray tracing, radiosity, etc.? These things require MUCH more computational power than what current graphics cards can provide, and as soon as games start using new, shiny hardware to produce new, shiny graphics, we're going to see a decent spike in price for a short while before it comes back down.
I could install it just fine, but I couldn't keep it installed because the feature I bought the laptop for (the Wacom digitizer) was buggy. It ran perfectly otherwise, and was (in more ways than I enumerated) superior to running Windows on it. 'Couldn't install' was a replacement for 'could not use for intended purpose'.
They're plenty of use. I used a tablet for all of my college notes, which made it convenient to copy&send to friends who might have missed class. The fact that I couldn't install Linux on it (despite several failed attempts) was irritating, because my battery life was better on Linux (surprise!) and the tablet was significantly faster under Linux. Unfortunately, the calibration would frequently de-align itself and screen rotation didn't always rotate the calibration as well (i.e. pointing at the lower left would make the cursor jump to the upper right).
In answer to your comment about desktop use, I know many artists who do most of their work in Photoshop using a Wacom tablet. They hate using a mouse for that kind of work. If you question these users' importance overall, I can only direct you to the frequent conversation about 'I need apps that don't work in Linux! You can't use GIMP as a replacement for Photoshop!'.
I agree it's not that huge of a deal, but it might be a dealbreaker for a not-insignificant number of people.
Recursion: See Recursion.
Luckily, propyl cyanide is only a health rating of 2 and has an LD50 of 50-100mg/kg. By contrast, potassium cyanide has an LD50 of 6mg/kg, and it is likely that sodium cyanide is close to that value.
Just like you shouldn't think that wood alcohol is a viable substitute for grain alcohol. It sounds like it'd be similar, but 10mL's will make you blind and 30 will kill you.