Oh, and if you want to try an interesting academic excercise, go watch what Hollywood thought Virtual Reality would be back in 1993 then look at the games we play today. When you shake your head and go 'so?' think about what 16-bit games were like and the fact that Wolfenstein had not been main-stream yet.
I'll tack something on to this: the only reason so called "virtual reality" games didn't become more popular is because the 3D technology that enabled them was big, expensive, and not particularly impressive.
If this latest push to get large scale adoption of 3D displays into the home catches on, you can bet your ass that we'll start seeing "VR games" like you wouldn't believe.
IT Administrators are there to do what they are told. Admins who think they can 'demand justifications' are just jumped up losers who are envious of people doing real work that they are simply not smart enough to do.
Sorry, but this is utter bullshit. I speak as an engineer in a development department who frequently needs to work with IT administration.
Keeping the shop running is a cost of doing business. But that doesn't mean it isn't appropriate to try to do some kind of cost containment or planning on it. Believe me, I've seen enough bonehead mistakes to know that if our development group ran our IT infrastructure, it would be a total shambles. (Not to say that I love it as it is, but at least it's mostly functional.)
I have no idea how it is where you work - maybe your IT department is jacked up crazy, or maybe you're just a peon sulking because you didn't get your shiny new test environment. But once your workstations and users start to number in the thousands, you can bet your ass that you'd better have a good plan to deal with them. That means budget, manpower, and authority, for someone in the group.
As for the original post: if nobody who is actually in the IT group has the ability to set a budget, let alone the ability to hire and fire within reason, you are utterly boned. If I would prepare to flee.
It's fairly well known, in fact. It's called "tactile feedback", and it helps tremendously in doing things by muscle memory rather than conscious thought.
There's a perverse part of me that wants to see classic fighter game (think Devil May Cry) combos adapted for this one. "Architect T-Square Decapitation" has promise.
"In Denmark, it's legal to make copies of commercial videos for backup or other private purposes. It's also illegal to break the DRM that restricts copying of DVDs. Deciding to find out which law mattered, Henrik Anderson reported himself for 100 violations of the DRM-breaking law (he ripped his DVD collection to his computer) and demanded that the Danish anti-piracy Antipiratgruppen do something about it. They promised him a response, then didn't respond. So now he's reporting himself to the police. He wants a trial, so that the legality of the DRM-breaking law can be tested in court."
Something is awesome in the state of Denmark. And it's Anderson.
"I hear this all the time," [Craigslist CEO] Buckmaster says. "You guys are so primitive, you are like cavemen. Don't you have any sense of aesthetic? But the people I hear it from are invariably working for firms that want the job of redoing the site. In all the complaints and requests we get from users, this is never one of them. Time spent on the site, the number of people who post--we're the leader. It could be we're doing one or two things right."
I'm with you, but the Slashdot zeitgeist is usually "piracy is a-ok!"
I'm going to have to disagree with you there. I see a lot of people complaining about DRM and draconian copyright enforcement, which I sympathize with. But it's pretty rare that you'll see someone out-and-out defending piracy here.
Unless it's, you know, cool pirates. Yarr.
Or I dunno, maybe my filter is turned up too high. Maybe I'm just too high. Whatevs.
[Maybe people should be more well-rounded.] Then you wouldn't be pegged with (and the associated stigmas) of a certain stereotype.
I was heavy into science in high school, as well as sports and other extra-curricular activities. I never had a problem with any group of people.
<sarcasm> Right - people get picked on in high school because they're not sufficiently well rounded. That was exactly my experience.
How clearly I remember the captain of the wrestling team accosting me in gym class in my sophomore year, throwing me against the wall, and sneering, "You know, you could really benefit from a more diverse set of interests." </sarcasm>
Personally, I'm about to start fish farming in my apartment. I've already got over 100 varieties of food bearing plants growing in here, and soon I'll have protein in addition to vegetables. Should remove fertilizer for my plants from the budget too once the kinks are worked out.
Whoa - are there any online resources about this that you could link to? I had no idea people did this on a home/personal scale.
I had to watch fifteen minutes of some hysterical young woman crying because her dad was a diseased and overweight US senator who decided to throw himself out of an airlock in some misguided sense of justice. Was I the only one who was thinking "if all you have to do is push a button, there's about fifty better ways to do it than this -- like drop one of those floating camera balls on it maybe?"
I was expecting the tubby video-game playing kid (oh lovely, like I needed that stereotype resurrected again) to say, "Hello? Can't we duct-tape a pen to one of these camera things and punch it in that way?" I was all set to be annoyed at them for doing something that obvious, and they surprised me by doing something less obvious, but way dumber. So, hooray, I guess.
Anyway - I never really liked Atlantis, and got pretty tired of SG-1 about two seasons before they finally killed it off. But I'll probably wind up watching this because it seems like they want to take it in a more "grown up" direction, and I can get behind that.
PS: a pox on your house, DS9 was better than Voyager and Enterprise, and at times better than TNG..
The one thing I will say is that a lot of people who were in on the Internet boom when it really started to take off did pretty well. I'm talking about the hardcore digerati who went to parties hosted by people like Louis Rossetto. But those guys were a very small group, and only could be defined as IT in the loosest of senses.
Kinda - Air was created by Peter Chilvers (who co-authored the application Bloom with Eno) and vocalist Sandra O'Neill. Brian Eno is credited because the app is "based on concepts" he created, but I don't think he was directly involved at all.
Didn't care for Air, by the way. Bloom is definitely nicer. I'll check out Trope soon.
In almost no case do I really need to learn the roads around a new place. The destinations hold my interest far more than the paved lanes that bring me there.
I realize that probably no one else feels this way, but: my wife and I have a long history of going on long road trips. When we were married, our honeymoon was to fling our remaining clean laundry in the back of the car, then drive north with no particular goal in mind. We made no travel arrangements, and no hotel reservations earlier than the day we intended to stay. (In one case, we actually stopped at a place and asked if they had any vacancies because... well, because if you were mostly broke and on your honeymoon, could you resist staying in the Grumpy suite?)
Anyway, I would drive, and my wife would read maps. We still have the same atlas in the back of the car. GPS is better in almost every respect, but it is severely lacking in nostalgia.
Sorry about that - you were responding to one of my posts' descendent posts (er... yeah), and I assumed you were referring to something that I had said.
I don't really feel guilty about staying up too late. It's just a self-destructive habit that I have that I'm not happy with and am trying to break.
And really, if a game about shooting people isn't appropriate for your daughter, then why is it appropriate for you? You got older, so now it's okay to kill people? Keep in mind while I am saying this that I play and enjoy violent games and even believe that violence can be justified (so long as you admit that it represents a kind of failure in itself) but I want to know what the separating line is. Is it the ability to separate fantasy from reality, or just wanting to keep her isolated from violence whether real or imaginary?
I'm with you on pretty much everything here, although obviously I'm not trying to say that it's "okay to kill people." Partially it's the fantasy from reality issue. But mostly, it's just that 4 year old girls can be freaked out by stuff that doesn't even make a dent in an adult brain. In the game I mentioned, there's a scene in which you hear audio from someone you're supposed to be rescuing being tortured. By the time you find him, he's dead. It's disturbing for me. By contrast, my daughter thinks Kung Fu Panda is scary. See where I'm going with this?
(Although I have to admit that nobody does evil scary voice like Ian McShane.)
If the issue is the kind of game you're playing, then play a different kind of game that you can play with your kid and stop skulking around like a criminal.
Maybe I should have been clearer.
I'm playing after she goes to bed because I like to play games that have adult subject matter. I would prefer my daughter not to watch me play, say, Rainbow 6 Vegas 2. Things I also don't do in front of my daughter include watching rated R movies and discussing sex. I don't feel guilty about any of those things.
I do occasionally play Wii Sports and Wii Fit with her, but honestly I don't get that much out of those games, and she tires of them quickly. Plus she's a little too small for the balance board to be able to figure out what she's doing. (Well, either that or she's just really klutzy. She is my daughter, after all.)
Anyway, the real issue here isn't that I start playing too late, it's that I stay up playing too late.
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Sir, poorly played. You should never pass up the opportunity to use the word "Wankel" in a sentence.
I'll tack something on to this: the only reason so called "virtual reality" games didn't become more popular is because the 3D technology that enabled them was big, expensive, and not particularly impressive.
If this latest push to get large scale adoption of 3D displays into the home catches on, you can bet your ass that we'll start seeing "VR games" like you wouldn't believe.
I'm quite sure that that 8% was merely introduced into our genetic code by an Intelligent Designer, just to throw scientists off the trail a bit.
Sorry, but this is utter bullshit. I speak as an engineer in a development department who frequently needs to work with IT administration.
Keeping the shop running is a cost of doing business. But that doesn't mean it isn't appropriate to try to do some kind of cost containment or planning on it. Believe me, I've seen enough bonehead mistakes to know that if our development group ran our IT infrastructure, it would be a total shambles. (Not to say that I love it as it is, but at least it's mostly functional.)
I have no idea how it is where you work - maybe your IT department is jacked up crazy, or maybe you're just a peon sulking because you didn't get your shiny new test environment. But once your workstations and users start to number in the thousands, you can bet your ass that you'd better have a good plan to deal with them. That means budget, manpower, and authority, for someone in the group.
As for the original post: if nobody who is actually in the IT group has the ability to set a budget, let alone the ability to hire and fire within reason, you are utterly boned. If I would prepare to flee.
Ask, and maybe you shall receive.
HADUOKEN!
There's a perverse part of me that wants to see classic fighter game (think Devil May Cry) combos adapted for this one. "Architect T-Square Decapitation" has promise.
Something is awesome in the state of Denmark. And it's Anderson.
Is that so shocking?
From TFA:
G-Wan has more of an East Coast flow than his brother.
Don't worry about him. He's just a little strange.
Ohm guessing you can figure it out if you try.
Free alternatives to their current stolen alternatives. There's a difference between free and stolen.
I'm going to have to disagree with you there. I see a lot of people complaining about DRM and draconian copyright enforcement, which I sympathize with. But it's pretty rare that you'll see someone out-and-out defending piracy here.
Unless it's, you know, cool pirates. Yarr.
Or I dunno, maybe my filter is turned up too high. Maybe I'm just too high. Whatevs.
Citation needed.
<sarcasm>
Right - people get picked on in high school because they're not sufficiently well rounded. That was exactly my experience.
How clearly I remember the captain of the wrestling team accosting me in gym class in my sophomore year, throwing me against the wall, and sneering, "You know, you could really benefit from a more diverse set of interests."
</sarcasm>
Whoa - are there any online resources about this that you could link to? I had no idea people did this on a home/personal scale.
True, but more to the point, Google is one of the organizations that respects it. And Murdoch knows this quite well, I'm sure.
I was expecting the tubby video-game playing kid (oh lovely, like I needed that stereotype resurrected again) to say, "Hello? Can't we duct-tape a pen to one of these camera things and punch it in that way?" I was all set to be annoyed at them for doing something that obvious, and they surprised me by doing something less obvious, but way dumber. So, hooray, I guess.
Anyway - I never really liked Atlantis, and got pretty tired of SG-1 about two seasons before they finally killed it off. But I'll probably wind up watching this because it seems like they want to take it in a more "grown up" direction, and I can get behind that.
PS: a pox on your house, DS9 was better than Voyager and Enterprise, and at times better than TNG..
The one thing I will say is that a lot of people who were in on the Internet boom when it really started to take off did pretty well. I'm talking about the hardcore digerati who went to parties hosted by people like Louis Rossetto. But those guys were a very small group, and only could be defined as IT in the loosest of senses.
Kinda - Air was created by Peter Chilvers (who co-authored the application Bloom with Eno) and vocalist Sandra O'Neill. Brian Eno is credited because the app is "based on concepts" he created, but I don't think he was directly involved at all.
Didn't care for Air, by the way. Bloom is definitely nicer. I'll check out Trope soon.
I realize that probably no one else feels this way, but: my wife and I have a long history of going on long road trips. When we were married, our honeymoon was to fling our remaining clean laundry in the back of the car, then drive north with no particular goal in mind. We made no travel arrangements, and no hotel reservations earlier than the day we intended to stay. (In one case, we actually stopped at a place and asked if they had any vacancies because... well, because if you were mostly broke and on your honeymoon, could you resist staying in the Grumpy suite?)
Anyway, I would drive, and my wife would read maps. We still have the same atlas in the back of the car. GPS is better in almost every respect, but it is severely lacking in nostalgia.
Are you kidding? The last mission to mars only cost $90 million, so this represents some serious inflation.
On the other hand, that mission didn't turn out so well, so maybe they're hedging their bets.
You sir, are correct.
Sorry about that - you were responding to one of my posts' descendent posts (er... yeah), and I assumed you were referring to something that I had said.
I don't really feel guilty about staying up too late. It's just a self-destructive habit that I have that I'm not happy with and am trying to break.
I'm with you on pretty much everything here, although obviously I'm not trying to say that it's "okay to kill people." Partially it's the fantasy from reality issue. But mostly, it's just that 4 year old girls can be freaked out by stuff that doesn't even make a dent in an adult brain. In the game I mentioned, there's a scene in which you hear audio from someone you're supposed to be rescuing being tortured. By the time you find him, he's dead. It's disturbing for me. By contrast, my daughter thinks Kung Fu Panda is scary. See where I'm going with this?
(Although I have to admit that nobody does evil scary voice like Ian McShane.)
Maybe I should have been clearer.
I'm playing after she goes to bed because I like to play games that have adult subject matter. I would prefer my daughter not to watch me play, say, Rainbow 6 Vegas 2. Things I also don't do in front of my daughter include watching rated R movies and discussing sex. I don't feel guilty about any of those things.
I do occasionally play Wii Sports and Wii Fit with her, but honestly I don't get that much out of those games, and she tires of them quickly. Plus she's a little too small for the balance board to be able to figure out what she's doing. (Well, either that or she's just really klutzy. She is my daughter, after all.)
Anyway, the real issue here isn't that I start playing too late, it's that I stay up playing too late.