Imagine if someone hacked their limbs to randomly produce a force an order of magnitude greater than expected. There's something about paraplegics accidentally launching themselves across a stadium that makes me giggle even on a Monday morning.
Certainly, if you'd like to put your back out, I've hosted plenty of LAN parties back when everyone and their mum owned a CRT, and the fancier PC setups with 21" monitors were the ultimate nightmare to assist with. Those things are so front heavy they're more cumbersome than anything else, would hate to drop one on my toes.
I wonder whether or not some Amerikan government employees have infiltrated the group, Anon and/b/ do generally look upon geek culture and gaming favourably after-all. This seems to have slipped some minds.
I imagine it has something to do with the girls not knowing they were being photographed. In his defence, most of the economic availability of porn on the net translates to little more than 40 year old 'teens' groaning and moaning the same damn lines over and over again while getting their dusty vaginas pounded by men with pot bellies.
Reading through the first and second pages comes up with such treats as "Fukushima meltdown could be template for terror", "sustainability experts: nuclear energy not essential", "radiation understated after quake" and "nuclear in 2018 more expensive than solar PV today". Definitely an agenda there, especially with the abuse of the word 'terror', regardless of whether or not the stories are credible.
I think Sony's chief failure in this whole incident is that they believe their customers like to take it in the back-door as frequently and as messily as they do.
They're pretty drab even for a computer game, the X series looks a lot nicer than that screenshot. See here: http://www.egosoft.com/ Of course, the problem with X is that the entire series of games has the most diabolical story telling and voice acting I've ever experienced. Even worse than Breed! A great example is the fact that they named the alien bad guys the "Kh'aak" and then gave every voice actor an american accent. Kh'aak invasion indeed.
Albeit a slightly desperate one, over Bill. An excerpt from the article reads:
"Someone recently asked me what it was like meeting Bill Gates, who I interviewed a few times back at Engadget. I said, I know it sounds like a cliché, but it is very easy, when you sit down with one, to tell that you're talking to a genius. As soon as Bill opens his mouth, you think: this person is on a different level than the rest of us. It can be kind of intimidating, but it can also be a little hypnotic if you let yourself get pulled into his vision. Yes, believe it or not, Bill Gates has his own Reality Distortion Field (and I mean that as a high compliment)."
I don't think it's too far a stretch of the imagination to picture the author frothing at the mouth while writing that little gem of literature one handed. That one paragraph is like a wank all on its own. First we have the foreplay - "Someone recently asked me what it was like meeting Bill Gates...", ooh getting warmed up! Then there's the main course of johnson beating that's on "...a different level". And finally, the reality distortion fieUUUuuh yeeeaah.
Far be it from me to suggest that if the person mentioned were Steve Jobs instead of Bill, everyone would have pointed this out already, but the article does read like an Ode to Apple with MS in its place.
Here here! I predict that the mountains of waste produced by this new evolving race of homoretardus will eventually collapse under its own weight, engulfing Amerika in a tide of dirty nappies, burger boxes and cheeto bags. I'm calling a recyclable beer can as the instigator of it all.
Well regarding the group, you can probably design an algorithm to detect islands like that. For instance, languages like Actionscript 3 for Flash and C# contain garbage collecting algorithms that search for islands of self referencing data that seem to be detached from the rest of the program, and free up the memory they use. However it is absolutely not fool proof. About the one guy - I never understood why newer MMOs like WoW, Aion and Rift don't offer escalating bounty rewards on notorious PvPers. It would give the PvPers something to brag about, and when they are eventually utterly engulfed by angry players, a little closure for the little guys that got stomped. The trouble with MMOs is that they don't recognise ganking either positively or negatively, the devs instead apply blanket 'fixes' that can ruin the fun for people that just want to blow up a town for a while (e.g. Sergra at Crossroads back in vanilla WoW).
Being one of those not so rare flash developers that hates flash, I would indeed care to speculate
Our investigation begins no further than the massive kludge that is the Flash interface. The program has been designed for both developers and designers alike, and where the two meet, there are dragons... and exploits. The Flash IDE suffers from some truly awful bugs (dragging tabs, resizing tweens, replacing text in the text editor to name but a few), then there are the game breakers like font positions appearing differently on PC vs Mac. So Adobe's difficulty in creating a program that unifies two different ways of thinking is already apparent.
Putting aside sloppy interface design, a big problem with Flash is that AS3 has still not been adopted by the majority of 'developers', IAB standards in fact mandate the use of Flash Player version 8, which uses AS2 / Actionscript Virtual Machine 1. One of their reasons being that Flash 9 is too slow (rubbish, it's 10x faster). So because AS3 is not the standard, each and every time you run flash player, you're also running flash player with support for Flash all the way down to version 1 (which was shakey to begin with), and all the bugs that entails. Simply put, Flash is too much of a clusterfuck to fix, we're basically looking at AS2 being the IE6 of Flash.
This link goes in depth about exploits in Flash: http://events.ccc.de/congress/2008/Fahrplan/events/2596.en.html There was a video to it as well, but I can't seem to find it right now. The sheer ease with which Flash can be exploited is actually quite horrifying.
They didn't mention salary, I expect it was pants - there was likely plenty of competition from other graduates for those positions so the companies could pay in peanuts.
During my degree in third year our 'big project' was to create a playable game from scratch. We ended up building our own graphics, physics and AI systems and made a space combat sim (we were all huge Freespace enthusiasts). That third year project with screaming lazors and surround sound sure as hell helped land us entry level positions at various software houses. A friend of mine also got into a company this way - he wrote a rippling water demo that utilized the PS2's vector processors and a one pass algorithm that allowed him to generate an almost unlimited number of waves without slowing the system down.
So obviously I call bullshit on this guy's 'don't hire people without real world experience' line as well.
I feel compelled to write this because I recently played the diabolical port of Bullet Storm on PC. I have absolutely no sympathy for Epic, nor for any other studio that shovels millions of dollars into a 10 hour title and can't even be bothered to support 4:3 aspect ratios. I remember when Epic actually released games with any sort of longevity - Like Unreal Tournament. Now they, like many other 'AAA' developers ship bloated, 'HD' (nonetheless held back by aging console hardware), soulless games that focus more on treating the player like, frankly, a fucking idiot without any free will than a thinking, feeling human being. Unsurprisingly, $60 IS too much to charge for a title and hopefully consumers will vote with their wallets. Perhaps soon we'll get back to having games with well thought out and engaging stories, instead of gratuitous crotch shots and a script that seems to revolve almost exclusively around killing dicks (no matter how funny that occasionally is). In recent years I've had more fun playing 'low-key' titles like Pixel Junk Shooter, Scott Pilgrim and Amnesia than any major title shipped by a big developer.
Yep you're right - it's actually kind of like Half-Life (which for some reason I find Cloverfield similar to). The story in HL is really, really simple and can be summarised as "government do silly experiment that may or may not have been sabotaged that opens portals to an alien dimension", but the execution draws you in. For me watching Cloverfield wasn't so much about deep and involved characters with dramatic back story; it was about a group of students caught in their own little apocalypse and their desperate (and sometimes stupid) attempts to escape. Out of interest, what was it about the story that you disliked? Was it simply not developed enough, or was it unbelievable, or something else?
The story wasn't all that impressive, but it's the best 'shakey cam' movie I've seen. I think part of it is that I'm an FPS and survival horror fan, so when I see a film that really draws those two genres together... into a film, it has a certain resonance with me.
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Imagine if someone hacked their limbs to randomly produce a force an order of magnitude greater than expected. There's something about paraplegics accidentally launching themselves across a stadium that makes me giggle even on a Monday morning.
Certainly, if you'd like to put your back out, I've hosted plenty of LAN parties back when everyone and their mum owned a CRT, and the fancier PC setups with 21" monitors were the ultimate nightmare to assist with. Those things are so front heavy they're more cumbersome than anything else, would hate to drop one on my toes.
I don't buy games often, but when I do, I prefer Steam.
It's fairly inconsistent with their previous targets though.
I wonder whether or not some Amerikan government employees have infiltrated the group, Anon and /b/ do generally look upon geek culture and gaming favourably after-all. This seems to have slipped some minds.
I imagine it has something to do with the girls not knowing they were being photographed. In his defence, most of the economic availability of porn on the net translates to little more than 40 year old 'teens' groaning and moaning the same damn lines over and over again while getting their dusty vaginas pounded by men with pot bellies.
Some I'm just going to come out and say it:
rapidshare??
Reading through the first and second pages comes up with such treats as "Fukushima meltdown could be template for terror", "sustainability experts: nuclear energy not essential", "radiation understated after quake" and "nuclear in 2018 more expensive than solar PV today". Definitely an agenda there, especially with the abuse of the word 'terror', regardless of whether or not the stories are credible.
I think Sony's chief failure in this whole incident is that they believe their customers like to take it in the back-door as frequently and as messily as they do.
They're pretty drab even for a computer game, the X series looks a lot nicer than that screenshot. See here: http://www.egosoft.com/ Of course, the problem with X is that the entire series of games has the most diabolical story telling and voice acting I've ever experienced. Even worse than Breed! A great example is the fact that they named the alien bad guys the "Kh'aak" and then gave every voice actor an american accent. Kh'aak invasion indeed.
Albeit a slightly desperate one, over Bill. An excerpt from the article reads:
"Someone recently asked me what it was like meeting Bill Gates, who I interviewed a few times back at Engadget. I said, I know it sounds like a cliché, but it is very easy, when you sit down with one, to tell that you're talking to a genius. As soon as Bill opens his mouth, you think: this person is on a different level than the rest of us. It can be kind of intimidating, but it can also be a little hypnotic if you let yourself get pulled into his vision. Yes, believe it or not, Bill Gates has his own Reality Distortion Field (and I mean that as a high compliment)."
I don't think it's too far a stretch of the imagination to picture the author frothing at the mouth while writing that little gem of literature one handed. That one paragraph is like a wank all on its own. First we have the foreplay - "Someone recently asked me what it was like meeting Bill Gates...", ooh getting warmed up! Then there's the main course of johnson beating that's on "...a different level". And finally, the reality distortion fieUUUuuh yeeeaah.
Far be it from me to suggest that if the person mentioned were Steve Jobs instead of Bill, everyone would have pointed this out already, but the article does read like an Ode to Apple with MS in its place.
It's a bit crap really.
If I had points I'd mod you up, well played sir.
Here here! I predict that the mountains of waste produced by this new evolving race of homoretardus will eventually collapse under its own weight, engulfing Amerika in a tide of dirty nappies, burger boxes and cheeto bags. I'm calling a recyclable beer can as the instigator of it all.
Well regarding the group, you can probably design an algorithm to detect islands like that. For instance, languages like Actionscript 3 for Flash and C# contain garbage collecting algorithms that search for islands of self referencing data that seem to be detached from the rest of the program, and free up the memory they use. However it is absolutely not fool proof. About the one guy - I never understood why newer MMOs like WoW, Aion and Rift don't offer escalating bounty rewards on notorious PvPers. It would give the PvPers something to brag about, and when they are eventually utterly engulfed by angry players, a little closure for the little guys that got stomped. The trouble with MMOs is that they don't recognise ganking either positively or negatively, the devs instead apply blanket 'fixes' that can ruin the fun for people that just want to blow up a town for a while (e.g. Sergra at Crossroads back in vanilla WoW).
You pretty much hit the nail on the head, see my comment above.
Being one of those not so rare flash developers that hates flash, I would indeed care to speculate
Our investigation begins no further than the massive kludge that is the Flash interface. The program has been designed for both developers and designers alike, and where the two meet, there are dragons... and exploits. The Flash IDE suffers from some truly awful bugs (dragging tabs, resizing tweens, replacing text in the text editor to name but a few), then there are the game breakers like font positions appearing differently on PC vs Mac. So Adobe's difficulty in creating a program that unifies two different ways of thinking is already apparent.
Putting aside sloppy interface design, a big problem with Flash is that AS3 has still not been adopted by the majority of 'developers', IAB standards in fact mandate the use of Flash Player version 8, which uses AS2 / Actionscript Virtual Machine 1. One of their reasons being that Flash 9 is too slow (rubbish, it's 10x faster). So because AS3 is not the standard, each and every time you run flash player, you're also running flash player with support for Flash all the way down to version 1 (which was shakey to begin with), and all the bugs that entails. Simply put, Flash is too much of a clusterfuck to fix, we're basically looking at AS2 being the IE6 of Flash.
This link goes in depth about exploits in Flash: http://events.ccc.de/congress/2008/Fahrplan/events/2596.en.html There was a video to it as well, but I can't seem to find it right now. The sheer ease with which Flash can be exploited is actually quite horrifying.
+1 informative
The OP didn't differentiate, also our course didn't offer assignments in the typical sense of the word - all courseworks were at least a month long.
They didn't mention salary, I expect it was pants - there was likely plenty of competition from other graduates for those positions so the companies could pay in peanuts.
During my degree in third year our 'big project' was to create a playable game from scratch. We ended up building our own graphics, physics and AI systems and made a space combat sim (we were all huge Freespace enthusiasts). That third year project with screaming lazors and surround sound sure as hell helped land us entry level positions at various software houses. A friend of mine also got into a company this way - he wrote a rippling water demo that utilized the PS2's vector processors and a one pass algorithm that allowed him to generate an almost unlimited number of waves without slowing the system down.
So obviously I call bullshit on this guy's 'don't hire people without real world experience' line as well.
I feel compelled to write this because I recently played the diabolical port of Bullet Storm on PC. I have absolutely no sympathy for Epic, nor for any other studio that shovels millions of dollars into a 10 hour title and can't even be bothered to support 4:3 aspect ratios. I remember when Epic actually released games with any sort of longevity - Like Unreal Tournament. Now they, like many other 'AAA' developers ship bloated, 'HD' (nonetheless held back by aging console hardware), soulless games that focus more on treating the player like, frankly, a fucking idiot without any free will than a thinking, feeling human being. Unsurprisingly, $60 IS too much to charge for a title and hopefully consumers will vote with their wallets. Perhaps soon we'll get back to having games with well thought out and engaging stories, instead of gratuitous crotch shots and a script that seems to revolve almost exclusively around killing dicks (no matter how funny that occasionally is). In recent years I've had more fun playing 'low-key' titles like Pixel Junk Shooter, Scott Pilgrim and Amnesia than any major title shipped by a big developer.
Sucker Punch was amazing. It's difficult for a film to fail that has sword wielding girls facing off against giant robot Samurai's with chainguns.
You're just angry because it made you pukey wukey.
Yep you're right - it's actually kind of like Half-Life (which for some reason I find Cloverfield similar to). The story in HL is really, really simple and can be summarised as "government do silly experiment that may or may not have been sabotaged that opens portals to an alien dimension", but the execution draws you in. For me watching Cloverfield wasn't so much about deep and involved characters with dramatic back story; it was about a group of students caught in their own little apocalypse and their desperate (and sometimes stupid) attempts to escape. Out of interest, what was it about the story that you disliked? Was it simply not developed enough, or was it unbelievable, or something else?
The story wasn't all that impressive, but it's the best 'shakey cam' movie I've seen. I think part of it is that I'm an FPS and survival horror fan, so when I see a film that really draws those two genres together... into a film, it has a certain resonance with me.