No, Obama solved an important problem: as President he needs to look impeccably dressed. But he doesn't want to invest much more time in getting dressed in the morning than throwing on the first thing that comes out of his closet. So what he did is arrange his closet so that the first thing that comes out is one of a few very nice suits. That way he gets the best of both worlds: he can look Presidential without having to fuss over his wardrobe.
Naughty Dog I can see, as they are a Sony-exclusive developer.
I'd be interested to know who is developing Windows games on Linux. Everything I've read seems to suggest that most game developers consider Visual Studio an unparalleled toolkit (in particular with a debugger that's leagues ahead of Linux), and Direct3D a superior API in terms of performance, hardware feature support and ease of use.
To be fair, Romero is in a relationship with a grown-up now -- Brenda Braithwaite, who's actually a year older than him and a game designer in her own right. (Both the video kind and the kind involving actual pieces you can pick up.)
It's not like his last two girlfriends -- skanks he found on a game server and spent a lot of money case-modding.
Who Framed Roger Rabbit almost single-handedly pulled animation out of its 1980s kiddie ghetto. That film's universal appeal made adult animation fans mainstream, and generated studio interest in adult-oriented animation projects like The Simpsons, Ren and Stimpy -- and Batman: TAS (although in the case of that last it was specifically crafted to capitalize on the popularity of Batman (1989) and Batman Returns (1991) as well).
It dates from the late nineties when software vendors would offer reduced-feature versions of their software subtitled "Lite" or "Light" for zero or a considerably discounted cost compared to the full version. One of the most famous of which was Eudora Light, which was free; and contrasted with Eudora Pro, which cost about $40.
When it came time to offer free pack-in versions of popular Microsoft programs with Windows 98, Microsoft marketing decided that they didn't like the connotations of being feature-starved or nerfed that the "Light" designation bestowed, even though they were doing the same thing as everyone else and shipping feature-starved, nerfed versions of programs they normally charged money for. So they came up with this word "Express" which means the same thing, but has connotations of being fast and easy. The first programs to use this designation were, as I recall, FrontPage Express and Outlook Express.
The Macintosh was Jef Raskin's baby. Steve Jobs hated it, and tried to undermine it, until he loved it and (successfully) tried to shanghai it. I wonder if Apple is as successful as it is as much in spite of Jobs as because of him.
"Some had high hopes the genetic engineering would correct this trend in evolution, but sadly the greatest minds and resources where focused on conquering hair loss and prolonging erections."
It should be noted that personally I admire guys like you who do the hard work on technically exciting stuff that means something to people. I was just quoting Glengarry Glen Ross to illustrate that when large amounts of money are being moved around, to money people all else is irrelevant.
I'm nowhere near your level, but I work in the robotics field and to see the code I write move and control an autonomous device is cool beyond measure.
I have been called upon to "debug in minutes" though, as when one of our underwater vehicles is running a survey and it bobs to the surface on a mission abort, finding out what went wrong and fixing it if it's trivial is essential if you don't want to burn daylight.
I also don't have any problems with posting here under my real name.
HFT programmer:
Fuck you, that's my name. You know why, mister? Because you drove a Hyundai to get here tonight; I drove a $80,000 BMW. That's my name.
These guys don't give a shit about your piddly system of ethics. They're making more money than they know what to do with writing software that the guys who run America rely on every day.
... that there was an 80186 processor -- Intel's first 16-bit x86 offering. It was popular in embedded applications, but a few workstations based on it were made -- one of them being the Tandy Model 2000, a not-quite-IBM-compatible, MS-DOS-based PC which you could buy at Radio Shack. I owned a second-hand one of these, and even learned how to write assembly on it.
What I didn't learn until recently was that there was a version of Windows for this curious beast, and indeed the 2000 played an integral role in the development of Windows. Unlike its IBM cousins, the 2000 was offered with a high-res, 640x480 color graphics card as a standard option, and Microsoft was interested in implementing a full-color display for Windows. So, Microsoft developed the initial versions of color Windows on the 2000, and Bill Gates touted that fact in celebrity endorsements for Tandy ads.
The much more modular driver architecture of Windows -- a revolution in PC software at the time -- enabled it to be smoothly ported to the Tandy 2000 irrespective of the hardware incompatibilities that made it not a true PC compatible.
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It turns out David Ahl is a tea-party-grade conservative. Remember "Ninja-Endo", the blatantly racist, WWII-propaganda-style smear against Nintendo? Yeah, that was him who came up with that.
As instrumental as he was in bootstrapping the computer hobbyist community, today's computing world is probably better off without folks like him in high prominence.
Canada should have been the perfect blend of French cuisine, British culture, and American industry. But what they got instead was British cuisine, American culture and French industry.
That's just the problem. A Japanese wife is too good for the target audience of this game. Just like us, Japan has no shortage of pudgy, sweaty, repugnant turbo nerds who repel any decent girl with their offensive BO and even more offensive sexual proclivities. Hence the need for a virtual girlfriend, a computer entity which always reacts in the same sweet way and doesn't care what kind of pig you are.
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The Swedes in TGWTDT practically lived on aquavit, alongside coffee and sandwiches.
Then again I think those books were more about Stieg Larsson's much more exciting, thriller-screenplay Sweden than actual Sweden.
Technologic.
Technologic.
No, Obama solved an important problem: as President he needs to look impeccably dressed. But he doesn't want to invest much more time in getting dressed in the morning than throwing on the first thing that comes out of his closet. So what he did is arrange his closet so that the first thing that comes out is one of a few very nice suits. That way he gets the best of both worlds: he can look Presidential without having to fuss over his wardrobe.
Practical, I'd say.
Microsoft just plowed a lot of money into BN. The law of money hats virtually guarantees us a Windows 8 Nook.
... you're gonna see some serious shit.
According to H.G. Wells, Mars would have been the first to send vehicles to fire laser beams at us...
You Don't Say?
+1, THIS!, etc.
WASD is for n00bs. I'm ESDX all the way.
TI-99 4-LiFE!
Naughty Dog I can see, as they are a Sony-exclusive developer.
I'd be interested to know who is developing Windows games on Linux. Everything I've read seems to suggest that most game developers consider Visual Studio an unparalleled toolkit (in particular with a debugger that's leagues ahead of Linux), and Direct3D a superior API in terms of performance, hardware feature support and ease of use.
To be fair, Romero is in a relationship with a grown-up now -- Brenda Braithwaite, who's actually a year older than him and a game designer in her own right. (Both the video kind and the kind involving actual pieces you can pick up.)
It's not like his last two girlfriends -- skanks he found on a game server and spent a lot of money case-modding.
Who Framed Roger Rabbit almost single-handedly pulled animation out of its 1980s kiddie ghetto. That film's universal appeal made adult animation fans mainstream, and generated studio interest in adult-oriented animation projects like The Simpsons, Ren and Stimpy -- and Batman: TAS (although in the case of that last it was specifically crafted to capitalize on the popularity of Batman (1989) and Batman Returns (1991) as well).
The novelization of Hackers was better than the original movie.
Imma let you finish but Apple's about to become the most profitable company OF ALL TIME!
IBM peeled off some Amiga developers to work on the Workplace Shell for OS/2 2.x and later. That OS also had some enthusiasts (and still has a few).
For me it's a terminal and some bare-assed window manager like WindowMaker or awesome.
Everything else is clutter I don't need or use.
It dates from the late nineties when software vendors would offer reduced-feature versions of their software subtitled "Lite" or "Light" for zero or a considerably discounted cost compared to the full version. One of the most famous of which was Eudora Light, which was free; and contrasted with Eudora Pro, which cost about $40.
When it came time to offer free pack-in versions of popular Microsoft programs with Windows 98, Microsoft marketing decided that they didn't like the connotations of being feature-starved or nerfed that the "Light" designation bestowed, even though they were doing the same thing as everyone else and shipping feature-starved, nerfed versions of programs they normally charged money for. So they came up with this word "Express" which means the same thing, but has connotations of being fast and easy. The first programs to use this designation were, as I recall, FrontPage Express and Outlook Express.
The Macintosh was Jef Raskin's baby. Steve Jobs hated it, and tried to undermine it, until he loved it and (successfully) tried to shanghai it. I wonder if Apple is as successful as it is as much in spite of Jobs as because of him.
Don't tease the octopus, kids!
"Some had high hopes the genetic engineering would correct this trend in evolution, but sadly the greatest minds and resources where focused on conquering hair loss and prolonging erections."
It should be noted that personally I admire guys like you who do the hard work on technically exciting stuff that means something to people. I was just quoting Glengarry Glen Ross to illustrate that when large amounts of money are being moved around, to money people all else is irrelevant.
I'm nowhere near your level, but I work in the robotics field and to see the code I write move and control an autonomous device is cool beyond measure.
I have been called upon to "debug in minutes" though, as when one of our underwater vehicles is running a survey and it bobs to the surface on a mission abort, finding out what went wrong and fixing it if it's trivial is essential if you don't want to burn daylight.
You:
I also don't have any problems with posting here under my real name.
HFT programmer:
Fuck you, that's my name. You know why, mister? Because you drove a Hyundai to get here tonight; I drove a $80,000 BMW. That's my name.
These guys don't give a shit about your piddly system of ethics. They're making more money than they know what to do with writing software that the guys who run America rely on every day.
... that there was an 80186 processor -- Intel's first 16-bit x86 offering. It was popular in embedded applications, but a few workstations based on it were made -- one of them being the Tandy Model 2000, a not-quite-IBM-compatible, MS-DOS-based PC which you could buy at Radio Shack. I owned a second-hand one of these, and even learned how to write assembly on it.
What I didn't learn until recently was that there was a version of Windows for this curious beast, and indeed the 2000 played an integral role in the development of Windows. Unlike its IBM cousins, the 2000 was offered with a high-res, 640x480 color graphics card as a standard option, and Microsoft was interested in implementing a full-color display for Windows. So, Microsoft developed the initial versions of color Windows on the 2000, and Bill Gates touted that fact in celebrity endorsements for Tandy ads.
The much more modular driver architecture of Windows -- a revolution in PC software at the time -- enabled it to be smoothly ported to the Tandy 2000 irrespective of the hardware incompatibilities that made it not a true PC compatible.
It turns out David Ahl is a tea-party-grade conservative. Remember "Ninja-Endo", the blatantly racist, WWII-propaganda-style smear against Nintendo? Yeah, that was him who came up with that.
As instrumental as he was in bootstrapping the computer hobbyist community, today's computing world is probably better off without folks like him in high prominence.
I've heard this variation:
Canada should have been the perfect blend of French cuisine, British culture, and American industry. But what they got instead was British cuisine, American culture and French industry.
That's just the problem. A Japanese wife is too good for the target audience of this game. Just like us, Japan has no shortage of pudgy, sweaty, repugnant turbo nerds who repel any decent girl with their offensive BO and even more offensive sexual proclivities. Hence the need for a virtual girlfriend, a computer entity which always reacts in the same sweet way and doesn't care what kind of pig you are.