the actual application is trivial save for the scaling to millions of users...
Exactly.
Now, You can spout that your independant framework is the best way to go, and even if you manage to master the untrivial task of scaling to millions of users, when you get offered large sums of money for your product, lets see you not sell out.
I may not like what Zuckerberg is doing, but I can't honestly say I wouldn't do the same were I in his position. I think a small bit of the hate directed towards him is generated by the jealousy that his product is on top.
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I keep trying to give you the +1 normal mod but it doesn't work.
Our shop is primarily XP, but we're starting our move to 7 this summer. Supposedly, anyways. We only have 1 or 2 Win7 test boxes set up to test our applications, but we're so bogged down with the help desk we haven't had a chance to try out anything.
BAM. You hit the nail so hard on the head it went through the 2 by 4.
We're a small to medium sized company. We push out various proxy settings for different people using IE so that we can actively log what people are browsing without pushing them through a single point of failure. Being able to update people's proxy settings via active directory groups makes it a seemless experience so no one has to run around to 200 computers and change them all.
But the bigger issue is... bumbumbumduuuummm... Web Apps! Any Custom Web App built by our company for either ourselves or our clients is 100% designed for IE. We don't have the time or resources to test other browsers for bugs or glitches, nor to deal with them as they come up. So we develop for IE. IE is that target. Now, I don't know if the Chrome Frame is going to mess with that, we generally keep browser addons to a minimum around here. But so long as it doesn't dramaticly alter the display or functionality of the code we write, I think it'd be A-OK.
Yes! Thank you. Another thing to point out, is that there are blockbuster games, games that have big release dates. Halo series, Final Fantasy games, I can name a few games that have had people lined up before the store opens, or even massive parties in the streets.
There are also these kinds of movies, Harry Potter, Star Wars, and Spiderman come to mind.
Now, I haven't seen anyone take a legitamit BLOCKBUSTER game and turn it into a movie. Doom wasn't really a blockbuster. The original Doom sure has a large fan base and the latest Doom game was alright I guess, but neither of them really compell people to go and continue the series (if another Doom came out tomorrow, it still wouldn't sell as well as another Gears of War).
Prince of Persia even isn't quite a blockbuster, but its a popular game series, and it recently had a movie adaptation. One that was pretty good, I might add. Disney did a good job with it. Say what you want about Disney's take on Romance, which seems to be a little more about delivering clever one liners than it is about getting with the opposite sex, its actually entertaining because it doesn't draw so much from the movie.
So, like what you've said, their expectations need to be properly aligned. I think if they want a #1 hit movie, they need to do the #1 hit games, and not the 20 year old ones people have "heard" of, the ones people actually enjoy.
Are you kidding me? As far as Doom is concerned, it was an amazingly terrible story in the video game.
It was good for maybe what... the first half an hour? So was the movie!
I think video game to movie adaptations go about as far as developers have taken their actual core storyline elements in games.
Prince of Persia, recent release, was ACTUALLY a good movie. I think it did the game justice, focusing a fair bit on acrobatics, which to me has been the appealling feature of the entire game series. It also had the Sands of Time, and they didn't over use the SoT like every gamer who used it when they missed a jump. The best part is I took a handful of people who have never even heard of the game, and they liked it too! 8/10 as far as movies go. (Weak romance and some cliche parts, but meh).
So, I think you need a good director and scriptwriter who actually has a passion for the game to make the movie.
See, we just need to get people to study the correlation between violence and Cosmo. Even if the results are inconclusive, maybe we can still get it banned.
Bios sounds cooler and is easier to say. (Yoo-fee? Yoo-Figh? ooweef... damnit)
And whenever that clunky UI comes up, computer illiterate people go into a daze and stop asking so many questions.
I guess I'll start spending as much time with it as I can before it goes away... Start - Shutdown - Restart. F12 F12 F12 F12 F12 F12 F12 F12 F12 F12 F12 F12
Where does one get a job being a "professional gamer" other than working for a game developer?
It's easy in that you don't have to apply to become one, like most jobs, but also tough in that you won't make any money for a little while, like playing in a Band.
1) Find a popular multiplayer game 2) Get good at said game 3) Search for a league online for said game 4) Join league 5) Win tournaments 6) ??? 7) Professional Gamer/Profit
If you're going to plug yourself, at least set up a webcam.
*pause for laughter*
Seriously though, I think there are a lot of physical activities that gamers would enjoy if they just put forth the effort to go and try them. For example, I own just about every Star Wars game there is, and I'm pretty big on medieval settings.
There was a thing this past weekend at the local military museum, which had preformers of warriors from all era's, ancient Roman Gladiators, Vikings, Crusaders, Imperialistic, civil war, WW2, you name it. For me, it was interesting to watch the Gladiators face off and to watch the knights have duels. As a fun activity, they were giving beginner sword fighting lessons to people willing, in a full suit of chainmail. Complete with all the fixings, leather gloves, a tabard, iron helmet, greaves, pauldrons...
It was a very intense workout, just running around swinging a sword. I think I may try it again, should I get more time. I think its things like that (not necessarily the only case), that there are physical activities gamers might enjoy but they... well... don't...
Exactly. I mean, whats a few Trill nowadays? I'm sure every company has a trill or two just lying around, pocket change.
Seriously though, what would happen if they won it? Limewire would no doubt be disbanded, and if they manage to dump it on the founder, his great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great Grandchildren are going to hate him for it.
Except that there currently is no cure. We do not cure the cancer, we just treat it. And it works exactly like you described, they get better for a while, then they're back.
It's so "Win-win" *cough*, that I have a hard time believing that cancer research is actually doing what they are saying its doing. For all we know, they are merely researching the cancer, and not looking for a way to stop it.
But there I go with crazy conspiracies again. I like to put a little more faith in humanity than all that. Perhaps that will be my downfall.
Allow me to don the tinfoil hat for a moment, but if cancer research is a private field, I don't think they would strive towards finding a cure, or if they found it, I'm not sure they would publish it. There is much more money in treating repeat customers.
I'm not saying that its happening, just that I wouldn't be all too surprised if it were.
You laid out the problem perfectly while blowing completely past it:
If the legal age of adulthood is 18, and the legal age for dependants gets increased above 18, and the parents want them to be dependants (so they can exert control) and the 18 year old wants to be an adult... What happens?
Essentially, all it would take to get out of this prison would to be to claim your adulthood.
However, its in China, and not in America. But if they had similar laws, that would be a problem.
The only reason that logic holds true is because whenever someone comes up with a conspiracy theory its often so well thought out that the conspirators have to try it.
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I'm more concerned with that billboard for Sceptic tank repair.
In a perfect world.
the actual application is trivial save for the scaling to millions of users...
Exactly.
Now, You can spout that your independant framework is the best way to go, and even if you manage to master the untrivial task of scaling to millions of users, when you get offered large sums of money for your product, lets see you not sell out.
I may not like what Zuckerberg is doing, but I can't honestly say I wouldn't do the same were I in his position. I think a small bit of the hate directed towards him is generated by the jealousy that his product is on top.
I keep trying to give you the +1 normal mod but it doesn't work.
I think I would go postal.
Our shop is primarily XP, but we're starting our move to 7 this summer. Supposedly, anyways. We only have 1 or 2 Win7 test boxes set up to test our applications, but we're so bogged down with the help desk we haven't had a chance to try out anything.
Don't get me wrong - if it runs on Safari, thats fine, if it runs on Opera, thats great, we just don't support it.
We deal with a lot of oil and gas companies, the big ones you've heard of, which are not primarily Mac or Linux shops.
BAM. You hit the nail so hard on the head it went through the 2 by 4.
We're a small to medium sized company. We push out various proxy settings for different people using IE so that we can actively log what people are browsing without pushing them through a single point of failure. Being able to update people's proxy settings via active directory groups makes it a seemless experience so no one has to run around to 200 computers and change them all.
But the bigger issue is... bumbumbumduuuummm... Web Apps! Any Custom Web App built by our company for either ourselves or our clients is 100% designed for IE. We don't have the time or resources to test other browsers for bugs or glitches, nor to deal with them as they come up. So we develop for IE. IE is that target. Now, I don't know if the Chrome Frame is going to mess with that, we generally keep browser addons to a minimum around here. But so long as it doesn't dramaticly alter the display or functionality of the code we write, I think it'd be A-OK.
Yes! Thank you. Another thing to point out, is that there are blockbuster games, games that have big release dates. Halo series, Final Fantasy games, I can name a few games that have had people lined up before the store opens, or even massive parties in the streets.
There are also these kinds of movies, Harry Potter, Star Wars, and Spiderman come to mind.
Now, I haven't seen anyone take a legitamit BLOCKBUSTER game and turn it into a movie. Doom wasn't really a blockbuster. The original Doom sure has a large fan base and the latest Doom game was alright I guess, but neither of them really compell people to go and continue the series (if another Doom came out tomorrow, it still wouldn't sell as well as another Gears of War).
Prince of Persia even isn't quite a blockbuster, but its a popular game series, and it recently had a movie adaptation. One that was pretty good, I might add. Disney did a good job with it. Say what you want about Disney's take on Romance, which seems to be a little more about delivering clever one liners than it is about getting with the opposite sex, its actually entertaining because it doesn't draw so much from the movie.
So, like what you've said, their expectations need to be properly aligned. I think if they want a #1 hit movie, they need to do the #1 hit games, and not the 20 year old ones people have "heard" of, the ones people actually enjoy.
Oh, and keep Uwe Boll out of it.
Are you kidding me? As far as Doom is concerned, it was an amazingly terrible story in the video game.
It was good for maybe what... the first half an hour? So was the movie!
I think video game to movie adaptations go about as far as developers have taken their actual core storyline elements in games.
Prince of Persia, recent release, was ACTUALLY a good movie. I think it did the game justice, focusing a fair bit on acrobatics, which to me has been the appealling feature of the entire game series. It also had the Sands of Time, and they didn't over use the SoT like every gamer who used it when they missed a jump. The best part is I took a handful of people who have never even heard of the game, and they liked it too! 8/10 as far as movies go. (Weak romance and some cliche parts, but meh).
So, I think you need a good director and scriptwriter who actually has a passion for the game to make the movie.
See, we just need to get people to study the correlation between violence and Cosmo. Even if the results are inconclusive, maybe we can still get it banned.
Essentially, they wouldn't have to change to metric either, it'd be just as good if you did "Gallons per Mile" instead of "Miles per Gallon".
So I mean, going from 10 Gallon/Mile to 8 Gallon/Mile should save you as much gasoline as going from 6 Gallon/Mile to 4 Gallon/Mile.
Bios sounds cooler and is easier to say. (Yoo-fee? Yoo-Figh? ooweef... damnit)
And whenever that clunky UI comes up, computer illiterate people go into a daze and stop asking so many questions.
I guess I'll start spending as much time with it as I can before it goes away... Start - Shutdown - Restart. F12 F12 F12 F12 F12 F12 F12 F12 F12 F12 F12 F12
Where does one get a job being a "professional gamer" other than working for a game developer?
It's easy in that you don't have to apply to become one, like most jobs, but also tough in that you won't make any money for a little while, like playing in a Band.
1) Find a popular multiplayer game /Profit
2) Get good at said game
3) Search for a league online for said game
4) Join league
5) Win tournaments
6) ???
7) Professional Gamer
If you're going to plug yourself, at least set up a webcam.
*pause for laughter*
Seriously though, I think there are a lot of physical activities that gamers would enjoy if they just put forth the effort to go and try them. For example, I own just about every Star Wars game there is, and I'm pretty big on medieval settings.
There was a thing this past weekend at the local military museum, which had preformers of warriors from all era's, ancient Roman Gladiators, Vikings, Crusaders, Imperialistic, civil war, WW2, you name it. For me, it was interesting to watch the Gladiators face off and to watch the knights have duels. As a fun activity, they were giving beginner sword fighting lessons to people willing, in a full suit of chainmail. Complete with all the fixings, leather gloves, a tabard, iron helmet, greaves, pauldrons...
It was a very intense workout, just running around swinging a sword. I think I may try it again, should I get more time. I think its things like that (not necessarily the only case), that there are physical activities gamers might enjoy but they... well... don't...
I've never heard of that game, is it new?
*SMACK* Back to your cubicles! Logic only belongs IN CODE. Now, about those TPS reports. Did you see the memo?
Exactly. I mean, whats a few Trill nowadays? I'm sure every company has a trill or two just lying around, pocket change.
Seriously though, what would happen if they won it? Limewire would no doubt be disbanded, and if they manage to dump it on the founder, his great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great Grandchildren are going to hate him for it.
Except that there currently is no cure. We do not cure the cancer, we just treat it. And it works exactly like you described, they get better for a while, then they're back.
It's so "Win-win" *cough*, that I have a hard time believing that cancer research is actually doing what they are saying its doing. For all we know, they are merely researching the cancer, and not looking for a way to stop it.
But there I go with crazy conspiracies again. I like to put a little more faith in humanity than all that. Perhaps that will be my downfall.
Also in Canada. Nothing on Google, but Yahoo has sponsored links.
Allow me to don the tinfoil hat for a moment, but if cancer research is a private field, I don't think they would strive towards finding a cure, or if they found it, I'm not sure they would publish it. There is much more money in treating repeat customers.
I'm not saying that its happening, just that I wouldn't be all too surprised if it were.
You laid out the problem perfectly while blowing completely past it:
If the legal age of adulthood is 18, and the legal age for dependants gets increased above 18, and the parents want them to be dependants (so they can exert control) and the 18 year old wants to be an adult... What happens?
Essentially, all it would take to get out of this prison would to be to claim your adulthood.
However, its in China, and not in America. But if they had similar laws, that would be a problem.
Yeah, but are they comfortable? I'm not sure if I would want to trade sight for sore eyes.
Ah, well if the data is backed up than no problem. My mistake
The only reason that logic holds true is because whenever someone comes up with a conspiracy theory its often so well thought out that the conspirators have to try it.
It's for the children!
Err... Pedophiles! Rapists! uhhh....
Cyber Defense! ... Yeah!