Jobs probably is probably miles ahead of the other candidates when it comes to foreign policy, particularly the Iraq issue. The Jobs solution? Simple: Oust Saddam, set up a puppet government, rename the country "iRaq", and insist that cartographers color it "lickable raspberry" on all their maps. Not to mention replacing militant Islam with a hip, edgy new "switch" campaign.
The iRaqis would find themselves embraced by the developed world!
I keep expecting this Philyaw/Pulitzer jerk to go off and start his own wacky cult religion that's simultaneously very stylish amongst Hollywood types and very expensive to participate in. 'Cause his grandiose inflated claims sound a lot like Elron's.
If this kind of situation turns you on (no pun intended), then I recommend Snow Crash. It contains a computer/psychovirus which manifests itself as a bitmap that bypasses critical thinking and renders whoever looks at it a babbling idiot. It seemed a bit far-fetched at the time, but these days we have goatse.
There's a lot more stuff in this book that makes it a worthwhile read. I have yet to see a techno-thriller approach it in accuracy and fun, so I'm skeptical when a new one comes along.
In order to find out what gamers want, it's important to look at what gamers are buying. And they are buying your Resident Evils and your GTAs. The market has changed from the 8-bit Nintendo days, and gamers want to see more blood, violence, sex, and realism. That's where the smart money is.
Miyamoto will likely go down in history as the Walt Disney of gaming, and he will likely continue to produce excellent titles. But they won't sell all that well in the fast-twitch X-tr33m PlayStation world.
The only platform worth developing for, if you write a computer game, is Microsoft Windows. The only API considered worth using is DirectX. I try to avoid running Windows if I can, and DirectX is a horrid, horrid API. Factor in irresponsible coding of drivers that lead to crashes, and irresponsible coding of the game itself (called the let's ship it now and release a patch syndrome), and you have a recipe for disaster. There are just too many variables to manage, too many things that can go wrong.
Lack of good AI is perfect for the Doom zombies I think. And when you're confronted with a horde of mindless zombies, the fact remains that there's a horde of 'em, no matter how mindless they are. That's what made the original Doom such a chillingly great game.
Linux is, from a technical standpoint, a superior operating system.
From a social standpoint, it all depends. Linux supports fewer commercial applications than does Windows; this emerges from the current state of the industry that if you want to market your software, you will write it for Windows.
This has nothing to do with the technical merits of Linux, and everything to do with economics as seen through the eyes of the businessmen who run software companies. It's a chicken-and-egg problem, and very difficult to resolve: the only way to stimulate a Linux market for games is to write games for Linux, and yet no one will do so because there isn't enough of a market!
It's actually nice to see M$ so scared that they're using their clout to scare companies into making bad moves like an early release of something so flawed.
You say that now, but in five years, Microsoft will be on Smartphone 3.0 -- the version that actually works -- and Symbian will be on that F-word-company web site.
When you get a system that supports annotation, and lets you consider the object code and symbol tables as part of a dynamic system linked with the source code, then you'll really get to play.
I predict that very few people in the US and Europe will be employed to develop software in 5-10 years time.
The difference between contracting out to an Indian IT farm and hiring a great programmer -- from any country -- is rather akin to the difference between employing 100 monkeys and hoping one of them will bang out Hamlet, and hiring William Shakespeare.
The truly brilliant programmers are few. And pretty expensive. But they're well worth it.
Back when I was a kid, and Tandy Corp. was Tandy Corp. we used to go into Radio Shack all the time, my dad and I. And the staff there knew each of us by name, and knew how to help us find what we were looking for there.
Sometimes when companies know your personal data it can be to your advantage. Of course now I wouldn't trust them nearly as much.
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Jobs probably is probably miles ahead of the other candidates when it comes to foreign policy, particularly the Iraq issue. The Jobs solution? Simple: Oust Saddam, set up a puppet government, rename the country "iRaq", and insist that cartographers color it "lickable raspberry" on all their maps. Not to mention replacing militant Islam with a hip, edgy new "switch" campaign.
The iRaqis would find themselves embraced by the developed world!
Frank just got a 2000" TV.
I keep expecting this Philyaw/Pulitzer jerk to go off and start his own wacky cult religion that's simultaneously very stylish amongst Hollywood types and very expensive to participate in. 'Cause his grandiose inflated claims sound a lot like Elron's.
Maybe with enough encouragement from a topless HAlle Berry, Stanley Jobson would be able to crack that 2048-bit encryption with a multi-headed worm!
My sister hassles me so she can play Kingdom Hearts for hours at a time. If she discovers EQ, she's gone.
Agree to nothing. Study the source, write your own documentation, and release it under GNU FDL.
The beauty of open source is, you can't get away with keeping secrets for very long.
Will Angelina Jolie be guest emceeing?
Will it look and sound like Rez?
fu stfu i sed no zerg rush wtf!!!!1!!!
If this kind of situation turns you on (no pun intended), then I recommend Snow Crash. It contains a computer/psychovirus which manifests itself as a bitmap that bypasses critical thinking and renders whoever looks at it a babbling idiot. It seemed a bit far-fetched at the time, but these days we have goatse.
There's a lot more stuff in this book that makes it a worthwhile read. I have yet to see a techno-thriller approach it in accuracy and fun, so I'm skeptical when a new one comes along.
This also happens to be the largest gamer demographic.
Again, money talks.
In order to find out what gamers want, it's important to look at what gamers are buying. And they are buying your Resident Evils and your GTAs. The market has changed from the 8-bit Nintendo days, and gamers want to see more blood, violence, sex, and realism. That's where the smart money is.
Miyamoto will likely go down in history as the Walt Disney of gaming, and he will likely continue to produce excellent titles. But they won't sell all that well in the fast-twitch X-tr33m PlayStation world.
Is anyone else reminded of the Rat Things from Stephenson's Snow Crash?
The only platform worth developing for, if you write a computer game, is Microsoft Windows. The only API considered worth using is DirectX. I try to avoid running Windows if I can, and DirectX is a horrid, horrid API. Factor in irresponsible coding of drivers that lead to crashes, and irresponsible coding of the game itself (called the let's ship it now and release a patch syndrome), and you have a recipe for disaster. There are just too many variables to manage, too many things that can go wrong.
Oh, and last I checked, PC's don't have Rez.
That computer could process larger amounts of data than anyone giving weather forecasts on the radio at the time...
It seems laughabel to us now, but back then, it was an advancement. Ever onward and upward, such is the progress of computing.
This.
Does that mean I can play it on my C64 or NES?
Lack of good AI is perfect for the Doom zombies I think. And when you're confronted with a horde of mindless zombies, the fact remains that there's a horde of 'em, no matter how mindless they are. That's what made the original Doom such a chillingly great game.
Squeak is fun, but I always come back to Scheme...
Linux is, from a technical standpoint, a superior operating system.
From a social standpoint, it all depends. Linux supports fewer commercial applications than does Windows; this emerges from the current state of the industry that if you want to market your software, you will write it for Windows.
This has nothing to do with the technical merits of Linux, and everything to do with economics as seen through the eyes of the businessmen who run software companies. It's a chicken-and-egg problem, and very difficult to resolve: the only way to stimulate a Linux market for games is to write games for Linux, and yet no one will do so because there isn't enough of a market!
You say that now, but in five years, Microsoft will be on Smartphone 3.0 -- the version that actually works -- and Symbian will be on that F-word-company web site.
The difference between contracting out to an Indian IT farm and hiring a great programmer -- from any country -- is rather akin to the difference between employing 100 monkeys and hoping one of them will bang out Hamlet, and hiring William Shakespeare.
The truly brilliant programmers are few. And pretty expensive. But they're well worth it.
Back when I was a kid, and Tandy Corp. was Tandy Corp. we used to go into Radio Shack all the time, my dad and I. And the staff there knew each of us by name, and knew how to help us find what we were looking for there.
Sometimes when companies know your personal data it can be to your advantage. Of course now I wouldn't trust them nearly as much.
Let me ask you something: Do you know anyone with one of those X-10 cameras? 'Cause I sure don't.
If you get a bad reputation, people won't buy from you. And certain kinds of advertising can kill your reputation.
... how will Strong Bad answer his e-mail on his COMPY 386?