First off, I'd like to say that I think the managing of games has come a long way from the beginning. In the beginning, it seemed like you needed one key inventor/genius player on a team to make a great game. It had to be someone's child. That's what would make great games. Nowadays, people know how to manage a team and have more experience. I think that this would lead the way to great games being made without the need of one star player. A solid team with mediocre people can make a great game.
Our game science has advanced to the point where its no longer required to have a resident genius to churn out shitty sequel after shitty sequel. Imagine that.
Step 1: Enable call forwarding, forward to a friends cell. Step 2: Leave phone a site of the 'slumber party' Step 3: Rave all night, secure in the knowledge that Verizon is reporting you at Sally's slumber party while you do cocktails of meth and ecstasy in the middle of the desert.
I spent what felt like years trying to find the path to the 'Best single ending' in that book. I tried to map out every option so I could find the legitimate path.
Never did, it was very disappointing.
Inside UFO 54-40 was one of the few CYOA books that had 'a best ending', the others were all pretty open ended in the first series.
There were also the RPG CYOA style books where you had to write in the books, maintain hit points etc. Those were -incredible-.
I think you are correct for now, they are not really the standard Fortune 500 corp and there is a unique attitude that is somewhat anti-establishment which is nice.
However I believe that this is a luxury and if the stock price tumbles that may change dramatically. They can afford 'not to play the game' right now because there is so much money in the game for everyone. If that changes, even a bit, the house can start to crumble and google could change.
As others have said, they are banking on out-innovating the competition but to a certain extent its a race against time to get more solid revenue streams in place so that the collapse of any single one doesn't impact the whole.
I hope they make it, I think they do good stuff but I don't buy the hype and I truly believe that MS tends to eat all (unfortunately) and they will have a major impact on google in the years to come.
This is very similiar to early broadband access. When congress passed the Telecom act all of a sudden all these little regional players (Covad etc) came in to give us IDSL and everyone hailed 'the end of the large telecom dinosaur that cant adapt to the future' etc etc. Look at where we are now, we all get our bandwidth from some huge corp and the little guy is all but dead.
Never mistake slowness for weakness when the entity being slow is a large, ancient and powerful. There is a lot said for NOT being a first mover in those scenarios and I think this can also hurt google. Being at the top makes an easy target!
The only reason you don't care about money is because you have enough not to care.
Your in it for the money, you just happen to work in a place that pays you what you need to FEEL like your not in it for the money.
And therein lies the genius of the Human Resources Gnomes who secretly control our lives.
Christ, I am in it for the money. If I wasn't I'd be working on the really hard problems like 'how do I get more sleep' or 'what new games can I play with my kids today'.
Not in it for the money. Great, send your paycheck to me.
You would be amazed at how unrelated 'knowledge' and 'in charge of the topic' are at the VP level and above in a large corp.
Yes, he probably knows more then the PR SpokesBot but his own PR SpokesBot indoctrination combined with not having touched a compiler in 15 years create a unique form of PR SpokesBot that is dangerous and deadly.. Smart enough to fool the geeks but trained enough to not impact the stock price.
My audience is 'well to do Internet Explorer users on nearly modern hardware' and the app requires absolutely no OS integration. For that audience Flash is a great container.
But I agree, today Flash/DHTML are almost like Java applets circa 1996. Very geewhiz but offering little outside of their own entertainment value.
Since Laszlo apps can be output either as DHTML or as SWF contained content it works wonders for embedded development.
I'm building a small embedded linux based system to handle my A/V switching infrastructure in my home. The box itself can be considered a toaster, very much like a LinkSys router. Combining thttpd, Ruby (small footprint with Ruby2exe) serving POX(Plain Ole XML) and then Laszlo as the SWF contained client I can provide a hugely rich experience for the user on my minimalistic embedded platform.
The Eclipe IDE tools are 'Ok' and do the job well enough at the start but you'll need to tweak it a bit more to get a really solid look.
Overall this is a fantastic alternative to Adobe Flex in many ways, particularly in its openness, huge community support and low/no cost. Flex 2.0 is also low low cost now but we will see how that plays out.
So, for me Laszlo is Rich App on a thin client primarily. Very nice.
China, India and the US are in a death grip with one another. For any one party to pull out and 'change the ruleset' would mean their exclusion and destruction.
Thats globalization for you, Mutually Assured Economic Destruction. Some interesting reading on this is in a great book called 'The Pentagons New Map', highly recommended no matter where on the political spectrum you fall.
It will take -decades-, if not longer, for these countries to create enough of an internal market for these gadgets and that is plenty of time for restictive societies like the EU and the US to change their ways. And thats assuming that these countries still exist in their current form in 30, 40 or even 50 years.
Never underestimate the flexibility of the western world.
I am constantly amazed at how businesses accept email as a valid form of document management. Unfortunately, from a user perspective, its just about perfect for this but from an IT/risk management perspective its one of the most evil practices. Inefficient, high risk and difficult to properly index unless your google.
This is also known as 'Iridology' ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iridology ) and has been discounted as something that lacks any reproducible scientific basis.
Just because its 'Chinese' and 'Not Western' does NOT give it basis in fact.
As someone whose mother was scammed by these bastards I fully support their burning at the stake.
Like a government would ever let this secret out if it was real. Screw going to mars, they would rather sit a strike force in the middle of another country instaneously with the press of a button.
If this was remotely real we'd all be dead just for posting it.
Lets take the honest nigerians, have them start setting up to bust what is essentially the mafia in Nigeria and get them killed.
Make sure the webcam is on.
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Of course, tamiflu has nothing to do with this new strain.
Off to be the tool that I am!:)
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Reasonable precautions will be taken. What is this forum? Media Exposure of course. Now even all the nerds are flipped out and in a near state of panic.
This sort of thing plastered everywhere drives awareness and hyper-sensitivity to the topic.
Got a great speech from the CEO of a large bio-tech firm and the current industry view is that this WILL migrate human to human but its not in the cards for this winter. Tamiflu has already been pulled from the market and is being stockpiled while production is scheduled to ramp up soon in prep for the coming transmissions. The world is aware and will be driving towards a solution.
Point? Yes, it will start jumping but by the time it does the western world will be prepared.
I imagine millions in the 3rd world will die though.
Stratfor had a great piece on this issue, give it a read at some point. Its an alternative view though so it may not jell with your notions.
Once again, not refuting the fact that it will happen, just saying that it's not going to decimate the western world. Outside of the insane economic dislocation of course, all of our lives are built on the backs of 3rd world impoverished child labor and expensive t-shirts suck.
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I hear that compile times are a real bitch on this old hardware.
When MS Windows crashes and burns you reboot.
Try that with your career. These guys need to publish to stay employed and they have to be right as often as possible.
Unless you can flash the bios or something thats just the way it is.
First off, I'd like to say that I think the managing of games has come a long way from the beginning. In the beginning, it seemed like you needed one key inventor/genius player on a team to make a great game. It had to be someone's child. That's what would make great games. Nowadays, people know how to manage a team and have more experience. I think that this would lead the way to great games being made without the need of one star player. A solid team with mediocre people can make a great game.
Our game science has advanced to the point where its no longer required to have a resident genius to churn out shitty sequel after shitty sequel. Imagine that.
"As part of your eHarmony compatibility profile you will experience dungeon raids and other exercises designed to determine your true compatibility.'
"When Johhny cast the spell of Eternal Light and destroyed the dark lord I just knew he was the man for me!"
eHarmony MMPORG
Step 1: Enable call forwarding, forward to a friends cell.
Step 2: Leave phone a site of the 'slumber party'
Step 3: Rave all night, secure in the knowledge that Verizon is reporting you at Sally's slumber party while you do cocktails of meth and ecstasy in the middle of the desert.
Step 1: Write article about Apple
Step 2: Add RIM to article about Apple
Step 3: PROFIT when SlashDot posts to front-page
I spent what felt like years trying to find the path to the 'Best single ending' in that book. I tried to map out every option so I could find the legitimate path.
Never did, it was very disappointing.
Inside UFO 54-40 was one of the few CYOA books that had 'a best ending', the others were all pretty open ended in the first series.
There were also the RPG CYOA style books where you had to write in the books, maintain hit points etc. Those were -incredible-.
I have the Civilization IV soundtrack in my car. Its quite nice, glad I bought the deluxe edition.
Stallman is a twit, I was kidding, I write code for profit as well.
But damn I dig picassa.
I think you are correct for now, they are not really the standard Fortune 500 corp and there is a unique attitude that is somewhat anti-establishment which is nice.
However I believe that this is a luxury and if the stock price tumbles that may change dramatically. They can afford 'not to play the game' right now because there is so much money in the game for everyone. If that changes, even a bit, the house can start to crumble and google could change.
As others have said, they are banking on out-innovating the competition but to a certain extent its a race against time to get more solid revenue streams in place so that the collapse of any single one doesn't impact the whole.
I hope they make it, I think they do good stuff but I don't buy the hype and I truly believe that MS tends to eat all (unfortunately) and they will have a major impact on google in the years to come.
This is very similiar to early broadband access. When congress passed the Telecom act all of a sudden all these little regional players (Covad etc) came in to give us IDSL and everyone hailed 'the end of the large telecom dinosaur that cant adapt to the future' etc etc. Look at where we are now, we all get our bandwidth from some huge corp and the little guy is all but dead.
Never mistake slowness for weakness when the entity being slow is a large, ancient and powerful. There is a lot said for NOT being a first mover in those scenarios and I think this can also hurt google. Being at the top makes an easy target!
The only reason you don't care about money is because you have enough not to care.
Your in it for the money, you just happen to work in a place that pays you what you need to FEEL like your not in it for the money.
And therein lies the genius of the Human Resources Gnomes who secretly control our lives.
Christ, I am in it for the money. If I wasn't I'd be working on the really hard problems like 'how do I get more sleep' or 'what new games can I play with my kids today'.
Not in it for the money. Great, send your paycheck to me.
Free as in beer, not FREEDOM!
Stallman would kill us all.
Now let me go pull my pictures into Picassa.
It is damn good software..
You would be amazed at how unrelated 'knowledge' and 'in charge of the topic' are at the VP level and above in a large corp.
Yes, he probably knows more then the PR SpokesBot but his own PR SpokesBot indoctrination combined with not having touched a compiler in 15 years create a unique form of PR SpokesBot that is dangerous and deadly.. Smart enough to fool the geeks but trained enough to not impact the stock price.
http://launcher.vexi.org/?core=0.92-test27&vexi=ht tp://download.vexi.org/widgets-0.92.vexi&vexi=http ://download.vexi.org/demo-1.0pre2.vexi
/.
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Proxy Error
The proxy server received an invalid response from an upstream server.
The proxy server could not handle the request GET
Reason: Could not connect to remote machine: Connection refused
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That kinda sucks. No other demo apps available.
I want to see the power of Vexi, can you show me the way?
Well, it really just depends on your audience.
My audience is 'well to do Internet Explorer users on nearly modern hardware' and the app requires absolutely no OS integration. For that audience Flash is a great container.
But I agree, today Flash/DHTML are almost like Java applets circa 1996. Very geewhiz but offering little outside of their own entertainment value.
I'm using the JJPlus Linux Appliance (linux.jjplus.com).
Great little machine, I highly recommend it.
Since Laszlo apps can be output either as DHTML or as SWF contained content it works wonders for embedded development.
I'm building a small embedded linux based system to handle my A/V switching infrastructure in my home. The box itself can be considered a toaster, very much like a LinkSys router. Combining thttpd, Ruby (small footprint with Ruby2exe) serving POX(Plain Ole XML) and then Laszlo as the SWF contained client I can provide a hugely rich experience for the user on my minimalistic embedded platform.
The Eclipe IDE tools are 'Ok' and do the job well enough at the start but you'll need to tweak it a bit more to get a really solid look.
Overall this is a fantastic alternative to Adobe Flex in many ways, particularly in its openness, huge community support and low/no cost. Flex 2.0 is also low low cost now but we will see how that plays out.
So, for me Laszlo is Rich App on a thin client primarily. Very nice.
China, India and the US are in a death grip with one another. For any one party to pull out and 'change the ruleset' would mean their exclusion and destruction.
Thats globalization for you, Mutually Assured Economic Destruction. Some interesting reading on this is in a great book called 'The Pentagons New Map', highly recommended no matter where on the political spectrum you fall.
It will take -decades-, if not longer, for these countries to create enough of an internal market for these gadgets and that is plenty of time for restictive societies like the EU and the US to change their ways. And thats assuming that these countries still exist in their current form in 30, 40 or even 50 years.
Never underestimate the flexibility of the western world.
I am constantly amazed at how businesses accept email as a valid form of document management. Unfortunately, from a user perspective, its just about perfect for this but from an IT/risk management perspective its one of the most evil practices. Inefficient, high risk and difficult to properly index unless your google.
:)
That said, I've got 2 GB in mine
This is also known as 'Iridology' ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iridology ) and has been discounted as something that lacks any reproducible scientific basis.
Just because its 'Chinese' and 'Not Western' does NOT give it basis in fact.
As someone whose mother was scammed by these bastards I fully support their burning at the stake.
Like a government would ever let this secret out if it was real. Screw going to mars, they would rather sit a strike force in the middle of another country instaneously with the press of a button.
If this was remotely real we'd all be dead just for posting it.
Lets take the honest nigerians, have them start setting up to bust what is essentially the mafia in Nigeria and get them killed.
Make sure the webcam is on.
Of course, tamiflu has nothing to do with this new strain.
:)
Off to be the tool that I am!
Reasonable precautions will be taken. What is this forum? Media Exposure of course. Now even all the nerds are flipped out and in a near state of panic.
This sort of thing plastered everywhere drives awareness and hyper-sensitivity to the topic.
Got a great speech from the CEO of a large bio-tech firm and the current industry view is that this WILL migrate human to human but its not in the cards for this winter. Tamiflu has already been pulled from the market and is being stockpiled while production is scheduled to ramp up soon in prep for the coming transmissions. The world is aware and will be driving towards a solution.
Point? Yes, it will start jumping but by the time it does the western world will be prepared.
I imagine millions in the 3rd world will die though.
Stratfor had a great piece on this issue, give it a read at some point. Its an alternative view though so it may not jell with your notions.
Once again, not refuting the fact that it will happen, just saying that it's not going to decimate the western world. Outside of the insane economic dislocation of course, all of our lives are built on the backs of 3rd world impoverished child labor and expensive t-shirts suck.