I guess what they are trying to imply that getting a job at a Mega-corp is most like getting a job at anywhere else in the real world.
I suppose most computer nerds might have been confusing it with the tactics they've learned from video games. To work at Microsoft I simply cannot show up that the local bar, find the executives in the far room, and pass THE THREE TRIALS in order to work for them.
You have to move your fingers (or thumbs) far more - requiring more time than it is to press a key. You only ever have to a single key (the next key) 1 or 2 or 3 more times then you would have to press keys on a Qwerty keyboard, and once you memorize the pattern of T9 those 3 keypresses go like TAPTAPTAP
Don't YOU take this take it the the wrong way, but I happen to make an art like a pro of mangling English grammar structure. The thing is important to know what the message tried to say, not so much or a lot about how its delivery was delivered.
If people were willing to vote for American Idol, they would probably be willing to donate to AID using the exact same services.
I think it was just a matter of not being able to pledge money through your phone so effortlessly and efficiently. Giving your bank account info to some aid organization over the phone was more expensive and time consuming. Plus they take money monthly and not everyone wants to cover Red Cross' Paycheck unless they are actively working on an emergency like this one.
So now what excuses would you have left besides being a cheapscate? Especially if you spend more money texting reality TV shows every other week anyways.
I can't quite remember the details, but I think basically what they did was throttle their hardware if its running in synch with their competitors products, for no apparent reason besides making their products look better.
Can someone back me up on that? Or did I make that up in a dream one night...
Oh I agree with that completely. I just see it alot easier to self teach yourself in an environment like North America, where just about every house has a decent internet connection, library internet access is free, heck, you can check out books on programming if you want from said library. Information flows so freely around here.
India, being somewhere in the middle, is not quite Darfur but definately no United States, isn't the environment where you can easily break into programming. Those people with the money to afford such commodities are already in the industry they want to be (or forced to be by their parents, anyways).
There is no doubt that there will be people bidding for this job, they just won't be the self-taught or educated people who can prove their actual worth.
Also as a game designer I fully agree with 99% of what is up there.
The only discrepancy is, I tend to think that good Gameplay outweighs story just a tiny bit more. A game can actually have Very Little in the way of story and still be a major success. Demon's Souls for the PS3 has a 1 Paragraph story that you learn from the opening cutscene, and does not develop at all throughout the game, until you beat the final boss. It is currently among one of the top selling games, and I would venture its in my top 10 for Console games.
Moreover, there are flash games on Kongregate (like you mentioned) that have little to no story, and they manage to take up hours of my evening. Monster's Den. Linerider. Practically Any Tower Defense Game. All of them have maybe a sentence that describes the entire summation of their storyline but are still addicting enough to the point where people play them relentlessly.
But you hammered the nail right on the head - they all support each other, almost multiplicatively. Mass Effect is an amazing example of a game with no real "Innovative" gameplay elements. It had the cover and fire elements of Killswitch: Engage, and the dialogue elements of Wing Commander 4 onwards. The gameplay itself was on par with many of the third person shooters of the time. However, the reason it was shot into stardom was the absolutely amazing storyline delivery. They paced it in such a way that it kept you wanting to play it to find out what happens next. Each level was another piece of the puzzle that you just wanted to finish.
Runescape vs WoW is an example where technology (and Aesthetics) play a much bigger role. Albeit, the gameplay in WoW is a bit more complex, it really does boil down to a "who has bigger boots" contest - at least for a good portion of the game, from the beginning onwards. WoW however, has the technology to handle more people across a single server. It has the technology to do parties and instances. It also LOOKS a lot better. Runescape is of course free, with optional membership, so it does pretty good for itself. But there is a reason why WoW has 11 million+ subscribers, and truth be told, it is not all a majority of Blizzard Fanboys. Simply put, it has all the Technology built in to it that no other MMO before it had quite perfected.
I guess it really comes down to what kind of game you are developing. Essentially there are those who have really great gameplay mechanics they'd like to implement, and there are those who want to immerse their players more deeply in a story for hours of entertainment. Obviously they each rely on different parts of development.
A lot of people tend to think that just because the person is over in India they'll be willing to work for a sub-average wage. Which, given regular circumstances, is generally true. Coding is another thing all together. If you live in a poverish state, you can't be expected to know C++. In fact it might be a stretch to say you know how to operate a computer. Those people who get hired for "Tech Support" aren't guru's by any means (and I think we all knew that). But they have been trained how to handle with customers, the basics of operating a computer, and are given a good list of responses. Programming is not something you can train "on the job". You need previous knowledge on the basics of computers. Then you need to learn a bit of program theory, how it all works. Lastly you need to learn the Syntax of various languages. A lot of people drop out when they can't deal with the Syntax. Some people drop out when they can't get the theory. Some people just don't like computers. You can't hire someone off the street and think that within a short time they'll be able to pick up all of those skills.
That's not to say there aren't educated programmers that come from developing countries. Every once in a while a hard working family will be able to afford an education, and once they have that education, they usually fly stateside to make more money. They know that with their education they can be making way more money than 4400 USD a year. So they go and tack an extra digit to that paycheck, keep half and the other half is more than enough to either fly the family to the States or support them in India.
Basically what it boils down to, they're going to get some guy who can talk the talk but not walk the walk. He'll agree to $4400 a year for as long as he can hold the job since he was only make $1000 a year back at his old job. Because anyone who knows what they're doing knows they are worth more.
What better way to prove that there isn't a conspiracy THAN TO TRY AND STOP PEOPLE FROM SPREADING IT.
This would have been a good article to write one of my 5 or 6 paragraph conspiracy theories that I whip up out of thin air, but I already did one of those today, and my brain hurts.
You don't HAVE to touch the same surface you are seeing though.
You can have a touch sensative surface and the image projected onto a monitor, same way you don't look at your mouse or keyboard when you type, you intuitively use a touch interface.
It removes the need for a keyboard, and allows you to make customizable keyboards, for lefthanded people (numpad on the left side) or people who prefer DVORAK (lol) - without the purchase of additional hardware.
Based on the pictures, it looks like this thing sticks a few inches off of your face while worn.
I know - which is actually quite confusing. They can make a smartphone Less than 2 inches thick, and it has a camera and screen built into it, what makes this headset so special?
All of the processing power could be offloaded to the sides, like where it rests on your ears or heads, and the front (which is still going to be the bulkiest part) would be no thicker than glasses from the 80's.
*Yes I realize I wrote "heads". At first it was a typing mistake, but then I didn't want to be an insensative clod to siamese twins.
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I guess what they are trying to imply that getting a job at a Mega-corp is most like getting a job at anywhere else in the real world.
I suppose most computer nerds might have been confusing it with the tactics they've learned from video games. To work at Microsoft I simply cannot show up that the local bar, find the executives in the far room, and pass THE THREE TRIALS in order to work for them.
You have to move your fingers (or thumbs) far more - requiring more time than it is to press a key. You only ever have to a single key (the next key) 1 or 2 or 3 more times then you would have to press keys on a Qwerty keyboard, and once you memorize the pattern of T9 those 3 keypresses go like TAPTAPTAP
Print off your statement.
I think I could beat it on T9!
Qwerty doesn't actually make texting faster, just easier for new people to pick up on.
Ask anyone who switched from using T9 to a Qwerty smartphone, how much their texting has changed.
I used to be able to text while I drove (I know, terrible) because I didn't have to look at the screen to text a message, and it only needed one hand.
Now a fully Qwerty keyboard requires 2 hands to even use properly, and is difficult to tell which key you are on unless you look at it.
You see Timmy, masturbation is kind of like when you move your big hand in such a way that you forget whats really happening.
Don't YOU take this take it the the wrong way, but I happen to make an art like a pro of mangling English grammar structure. The thing is important to know what the message tried to say, not so much or a lot about how its delivery was delivered.
If people were willing to vote for American Idol, they would probably be willing to donate to AID using the exact same services.
I think it was just a matter of not being able to pledge money through your phone so effortlessly and efficiently. Giving your bank account info to some aid organization over the phone was more expensive and time consuming. Plus they take money monthly and not everyone wants to cover Red Cross' Paycheck unless they are actively working on an emergency like this one.
So now what excuses would you have left besides being a cheapscate? Especially if you spend more money texting reality TV shows every other week anyways.
Not that it matters, but I think this is my favourite post today.
I can't quite remember the details, but I think basically what they did was throttle their hardware if its running in synch with their competitors products, for no apparent reason besides making their products look better.
Can someone back me up on that? Or did I make that up in a dream one night...
Oh I agree with that completely. I just see it alot easier to self teach yourself in an environment like North America, where just about every house has a decent internet connection, library internet access is free, heck, you can check out books on programming if you want from said library. Information flows so freely around here.
India, being somewhere in the middle, is not quite Darfur but definately no United States, isn't the environment where you can easily break into programming. Those people with the money to afford such commodities are already in the industry they want to be (or forced to be by their parents, anyways).
There is no doubt that there will be people bidding for this job, they just won't be the self-taught or educated people who can prove their actual worth.
Makes you suspicious about ME then doesn't it...
Also as a game designer I fully agree with 99% of what is up there.
The only discrepancy is, I tend to think that good Gameplay outweighs story just a tiny bit more. A game can actually have Very Little in the way of story and still be a major success. Demon's Souls for the PS3 has a 1 Paragraph story that you learn from the opening cutscene, and does not develop at all throughout the game, until you beat the final boss. It is currently among one of the top selling games, and I would venture its in my top 10 for Console games.
Moreover, there are flash games on Kongregate (like you mentioned) that have little to no story, and they manage to take up hours of my evening. Monster's Den. Linerider. Practically Any Tower Defense Game. All of them have maybe a sentence that describes the entire summation of their storyline but are still addicting enough to the point where people play them relentlessly.
But you hammered the nail right on the head - they all support each other, almost multiplicatively. Mass Effect is an amazing example of a game with no real "Innovative" gameplay elements. It had the cover and fire elements of Killswitch: Engage, and the dialogue elements of Wing Commander 4 onwards. The gameplay itself was on par with many of the third person shooters of the time. However, the reason it was shot into stardom was the absolutely amazing storyline delivery. They paced it in such a way that it kept you wanting to play it to find out what happens next. Each level was another piece of the puzzle that you just wanted to finish.
Runescape vs WoW is an example where technology (and Aesthetics) play a much bigger role. Albeit, the gameplay in WoW is a bit more complex, it really does boil down to a "who has bigger boots" contest - at least for a good portion of the game, from the beginning onwards. WoW however, has the technology to handle more people across a single server. It has the technology to do parties and instances. It also LOOKS a lot better. Runescape is of course free, with optional membership, so it does pretty good for itself. But there is a reason why WoW has 11 million+ subscribers, and truth be told, it is not all a majority of Blizzard Fanboys. Simply put, it has all the Technology built in to it that no other MMO before it had quite perfected.
I guess it really comes down to what kind of game you are developing. Essentially there are those who have really great gameplay mechanics they'd like to implement, and there are those who want to immerse their players more deeply in a story for hours of entertainment. Obviously they each rely on different parts of development.
You criticize the White House for doing something we all do then you blame the wonderful effects of democracy on a web application?
It's the American Way. Shifting blame is pretty easy.
Repeat after me. "I think its your fault".
Now wasn't that fun?
You get what you pay for.
A lot of people tend to think that just because the person is over in India they'll be willing to work for a sub-average wage. Which, given regular circumstances, is generally true. Coding is another thing all together. If you live in a poverish state, you can't be expected to know C++. In fact it might be a stretch to say you know how to operate a computer. Those people who get hired for "Tech Support" aren't guru's by any means (and I think we all knew that). But they have been trained how to handle with customers, the basics of operating a computer, and are given a good list of responses. Programming is not something you can train "on the job". You need previous knowledge on the basics of computers. Then you need to learn a bit of program theory, how it all works. Lastly you need to learn the Syntax of various languages. A lot of people drop out when they can't deal with the Syntax. Some people drop out when they can't get the theory. Some people just don't like computers. You can't hire someone off the street and think that within a short time they'll be able to pick up all of those skills.
That's not to say there aren't educated programmers that come from developing countries. Every once in a while a hard working family will be able to afford an education, and once they have that education, they usually fly stateside to make more money. They know that with their education they can be making way more money than 4400 USD a year. So they go and tack an extra digit to that paycheck, keep half and the other half is more than enough to either fly the family to the States or support them in India.
Basically what it boils down to, they're going to get some guy who can talk the talk but not walk the walk. He'll agree to $4400 a year for as long as he can hold the job since he was only make $1000 a year back at his old job. Because anyone who knows what they're doing knows they are worth more.
AND they Pirated my Wife!
We aren't sure which.
No need to call me Sir, I am not a knight. If I were a knight, you could bet I'd be in on the whole thing.
No no no, you aren't seeing it.
Google can stay in China, or pull out, or do whatever its nefarious plan is, and now they can BLAME MICROSOFT!
Don't you know what this means?!?!?!?!?!?
Clearly this is all an elaborate ruse to market Chrome!
but you can't make an omelette without killing a few people. At least, I can't.
I don't know if you learned it from your Mother or what the deal is, but you're doing it wrong.
If (and only if!)
Compiler Error: Numerous Syntax Errors.
Line 1, 4; Object Expected
Line 1, 15; '(' Expected
Line 1, 16; Condition Expected
Line 1, 17; 'Then' Expected
Delivered
For what?
What better way to prove that there isn't a conspiracy
THAN TO TRY AND STOP PEOPLE FROM SPREADING IT.
This would have been a good article to write one of my 5 or 6 paragraph conspiracy theories that I whip up out of thin air, but I already did one of those today, and my brain hurts.
You don't HAVE to touch the same surface you are seeing though.
You can have a touch sensative surface and the image projected onto a monitor, same way you don't look at your mouse or keyboard when you type, you intuitively use a touch interface.
It removes the need for a keyboard, and allows you to make customizable keyboards, for lefthanded people (numpad on the left side) or people who prefer DVORAK (lol) - without the purchase of additional hardware.
Based on the pictures, it looks like this thing sticks a few inches off of your face while worn.
I know - which is actually quite confusing. They can make a smartphone Less than 2 inches thick, and it has a camera and screen built into it, what makes this headset so special?
All of the processing power could be offloaded to the sides, like where it rests on your ears or heads, and the front (which is still going to be the bulkiest part) would be no thicker than glasses from the 80's.
*Yes I realize I wrote "heads". At first it was a typing mistake, but then I didn't want to be an insensative clod to siamese twins.