There is a site that does something just like this called Coolhomepages.com. It's not a search engine, but it has sites broken down into different categories (DHTML, Flash, Typographic, Retro, etc.) and visitors can rate the sites from 1 to 10 stars, or submit sites they feel deserving. A lot of the web designers I work with go to the site and look around for "inspiration."
Man, you sound really bitter. Not being friendly with the people in your office will hurt you more. If you come off as just a cold hearted bastard, who lives, breathes, and sleeps work, they're more likely to sabotage any chance you have at advancement or raise. What does a manager want more? A team that works well with each other, respects each other, and produces code/prodcuts/whatever to better the company, or a bunch of thoughtless individuals who only care how many zeros are in their salary?
Office relationships are fine, as long as they aren't on the same team. I've been at my job two years now, and there have been 3 office relationships of a romantic nature. The first two worked because for couple A, one was a Web developer and the other was in finance. For couple B, one was a secretary and the other a sys admin. It was the couple that were both in document management that split, and one ended up quiting because they spent all day at work together and then when home together, and once things went south, it just bombed. The other two couples are still together, and one of them just got engaged.
Here at my office we have regular (usually once or twice a week) 'attitude adjustment'. Generally, it consists of the people on our team going out to a bar, and bitching about customers. Whoever is in the worst mental shape gets all his/her drinks bought for them.
Once our boss heard us talking about going to a bar for 'AA' and thought we were a bunch of alcoholics who had fallen off the wagon.
The thing to remember about 7th graders is that they are really starting to get into the whole "What will other people think of me?" mind-set. A lot of them were probably unwilling to say they wish to see it just because they feared ridicule. If you were to isolate each one, tell them you would not reveal their answers, and then asked them if they wished to see the Harry Potter flick, I'd think you would find a lot more of them would say yes.
The thing you have to remember about this movie is that is the first of 7 movies. Rowling says there will be 7 books, so there will almost definitely be 7 movies. They are developing things for the movies yet to follow, not just this film. That's probably the reason for the long start.
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1 - PS2 is known as a more adult gaming platform. I just bought a PS2 and finding games for my 9 year old daughter is interesting. Maby MS can capitalize it if they are smart.
Generally, of the three main console offerings right now, Nintendo offers the most kid friendly titles, notably Pokemon. So perhaps that would be a better option for your daughter.
I wouldn't be surprised if either Sony or Microsoft buys out Nintendo for it's games and franchises. Despite lagging behind somewhat on the hardware, Nintendo, IMHO, has the biggest, most recognizable game franchises ever in Mario Bros., Zelda, Metroid, and Pokemon. Either of these companies would do well to step when Nintendo falters (I hope not - I grew up on the NES) and leverage their titles against the other system. That is what sells consoles: the games that are only available on one platform.
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While browsing Amazon yesterday, I saw Max Payne will be on the PSX2 as well.
According to the X-box coverage on CNet's News.com Gran Turismo 3 is a Sony developed game. I don't see them releasing that game for one of their competitor's machines.
You're absolutely correct. Not to long ago, when I was in high school, my Advanced Biology teacher wanted to show us Outbreak so we could see what was true in the movie about viruses (which we were studying at the time) and what they had taken artistic license with. But first, since it was R rated, everyone had to have a signed permission slip. This was a class of 11th and 12th graders. Even the 17 and 18 year olds had to have a permission slip, even though they could go rent it themselves or go see it in the theater. Schools would be an absolute great place for this technology.
The best way, I feel, for a good fun game is for everyone NOT to have their own equipment. Just go to a field, rent equal markers and rigs, and then just go do whatever. If that is laying down a ton of paint for cover-fire, or sniping people trying to take your flag, it emphasizes tactics and skill over some 12 year old with rich parents and his fully tripped out marker firing 20 rounds a second. I played with my brothers and their friends for a while, but stopped after a few sessions when it came down to which team could spray the most paint before their barrels got clogged. Just totally lacking in fun.
Amen to this. I've sent mine back to Tippman at least twice. My brother has sent his over 8. Everything from stretching the springs for a faster shot rate, modifying the bolt, everything. Just send it back, and boom. You get a new one. Can't do that next time you try to hack a Dreamcast, or a Furby, or a toaster oven, or, blah blah etc.
I'm finishing my degree from the University of Maryland right now, and I see this as a great potential for supplemental information for my coursework. I take a large majority of my classes over the Web so I can work full-time in addition to taking 12-15 credits a semester. Despite the extreme convience of taking my courses on-line, I feel as though I don't recieve as comprehensive instruction as I did in the classroom. These course materials, while certainly not identical, could certainly provide me with another point of view, and quite possibly giving me a better grasp of the material.
The Department of Navy will become even less *nix friendly with the full deployment of the Navy-Marine Core Intranet (NMCI). This initiative is to standarize all desktops, laptops, and servers to one platform, in this case Windows 2000 and both the servers and the desktops, all of it outsourced to EDS. Outside of tasks that require a *nix box, the choice is actually no choice at all: Dell boxes running Windows 2000.
I'm wondering if this will fall under prior art because the middle finger already represents the letters m, o, t, h, e, r, f, u, c, k, e, and r? Just a thought.
I'm sure you really want a challenge, but how about developing for Playstation 1 instead? I'm not sure how complex your game must be, but remember it takes teams of devlopers, graphic artists, etc. a year or two develop games, if not longer. Gran Turismo 3 is the first game that was solely developed using PSX2 code. How long did they probably have the pre-reqs and all this information you need to develop that game? While I'm sure you aren't doing anything as complex as GT3, I'd still suggest doing it for the PSX1 instead
One thing that bin Laden has going for him is millions of dollars. He is the heir of a wealthy Saudi construction magnate, and his worth is somewhere in the millions. He has enough resources to recruit people trained in flying.
I'm sorry. No one in this world had this coming! I don't care what injustices they've suffered or think they've suffered. To attack innocent civilians is absolutely outrageous and beyond justification. To condone the killing of innocent men, women, and children is positively fucking wrong! War is one thing. People in war willingly place their lives in the hands of the country for protection. To 1) Hijack planes filled with approximately 300 people each, then 2) fly them into two commercial(!) buildings with a combined 40,000 workers is lunancy and the work of an evil man. And I don't want to hear about the Pentagon being an exception to above because it is the home of the military. My father works for the DoD and was supposed to having a meeting there tomorrow. I am thinking God with all my heart that it wasn't today or that these terrorist pricks didn't wait another day. So fuck you!
I don't think destroying a city in SimCity would be considered violent. Sure, the act of destroying a city, when taken at face value, and with no context, it seems violent. But they way they can be destroyed in SimCity is relevant. They are through natural disasters and a monster. Human beings don't have control over natural phenomena and Godzilla is a product of imagination. It's not like say, Unreal Tournament, where a kid really could climb a tower with a sniper rifle and start shooting people.
Shoot, until I got to my junior and senior years in high school (I graduated in 97) where i was in the graphic arts program, Oregon Trail was the only thing we did on computers. In History it would be like "Ok. This week is our computer introduction week. We'll be going to the computer lab every day. You will play Oregon Trail, to 1) give you computer skills to apply to your future careers and 2) give you a bit of historical perspective on frontier life. Any questions?" This is why my kids will be home-schooled.
The difference between a technically sound game and an instant classic is in the storytelling.
I have to disagree somewhat. What makes a game a classic is the whole package. Think of a game as a girl (I know its hard for some of you). First, you look for intelligence/good personality (story-telling). Ok, she's smart. But is she pretty (good graphics)? Yep. Ok. Is she good in bed (game play)? Damn straight. Ok. Any of these three traits are desirable, but wouldn't you rather have all three when picking a wife/girlfriend? Of course you would. Same with games. It's the games that have the best combination of storytelling, graphics, and gameplay that are the classics.
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There is a site that does something just like this called Coolhomepages.com. It's not a search engine, but it has sites broken down into different categories (DHTML, Flash, Typographic, Retro, etc.) and visitors can rate the sites from 1 to 10 stars, or submit sites they feel deserving. A lot of the web designers I work with go to the site and look around for "inspiration."
Hey, at least he Simpsons are different! They copied Crazy Taxi instead of Mario Kart!
Man, you sound really bitter. Not being friendly with the people in your office will hurt you more. If you come off as just a cold hearted bastard, who lives, breathes, and sleeps work, they're more likely to sabotage any chance you have at advancement or raise. What does a manager want more? A team that works well with each other, respects each other, and produces code/prodcuts/whatever to better the company, or a bunch of thoughtless individuals who only care how many zeros are in their salary?
Office relationships are fine, as long as they aren't on the same team. I've been at my job two years now, and there have been 3 office relationships of a romantic nature. The first two worked because for couple A, one was a Web developer and the other was in finance. For couple B, one was a secretary and the other a sys admin. It was the couple that were both in document management that split, and one ended up quiting because they spent all day at work together and then when home together, and once things went south, it just bombed. The other two couples are still together, and one of them just got engaged.
Here at my office we have regular (usually once or twice a week) 'attitude adjustment'. Generally, it consists of the people on our team going out to a bar, and bitching about customers. Whoever is in the worst mental shape gets all his/her drinks bought for them.
Once our boss heard us talking about going to a bar for 'AA' and thought we were a bunch of alcoholics who had fallen off the wagon.
The thing to remember about 7th graders is that they are really starting to get into the whole "What will other people think of me?" mind-set. A lot of them were probably unwilling to say they wish to see it just because they feared ridicule. If you were to isolate each one, tell them you would not reveal their answers, and then asked them if they wished to see the Harry Potter flick, I'd think you would find a lot more of them would say yes.
The thing you have to remember about this movie is that is the first of 7 movies. Rowling says there will be 7 books, so there will almost definitely be 7 movies. They are developing things for the movies yet to follow, not just this film. That's probably the reason for the long start.
1 - PS2 is known as a more adult gaming platform. I just bought a PS2 and finding games for my 9 year old daughter is interesting. Maby MS can capitalize it if they are smart.
Generally, of the three main console offerings right now, Nintendo offers the most kid friendly titles, notably Pokemon. So perhaps that would be a better option for your daughter.
I wouldn't be surprised if either Sony or Microsoft buys out Nintendo for it's games and franchises. Despite lagging behind somewhat on the hardware, Nintendo, IMHO, has the biggest, most recognizable game franchises ever in Mario Bros., Zelda, Metroid, and Pokemon. Either of these companies would do well to step when Nintendo falters (I hope not - I grew up on the NES) and leverage their titles against the other system. That is what sells consoles: the games that are only available on one platform.
While browsing Amazon yesterday, I saw Max Payne will be on the PSX2 as well.
According to the X-box coverage on CNet's News.com Gran Turismo 3 is a Sony developed game. I don't see them releasing that game for one of their competitor's machines.
You're absolutely correct. Not to long ago, when I was in high school, my Advanced Biology teacher wanted to show us Outbreak so we could see what was true in the movie about viruses (which we were studying at the time) and what they had taken artistic license with. But first, since it was R rated, everyone had to have a signed permission slip. This was a class of 11th and 12th graders. Even the 17 and 18 year olds had to have a permission slip, even though they could go rent it themselves or go see it in the theater. Schools would be an absolute great place for this technology.
The best way, I feel, for a good fun game is for everyone NOT to have their own equipment. Just go to a field, rent equal markers and rigs, and then just go do whatever. If that is laying down a ton of paint for cover-fire, or sniping people trying to take your flag, it emphasizes tactics and skill over some 12 year old with rich parents and his fully tripped out marker firing 20 rounds a second. I played with my brothers and their friends for a while, but stopped after a few sessions when it came down to which team could spray the most paint before their barrels got clogged. Just totally lacking in fun.
Amen to this. I've sent mine back to Tippman at least twice. My brother has sent his over 8. Everything from stretching the springs for a faster shot rate, modifying the bolt, everything. Just send it back, and boom. You get a new one. Can't do that next time you try to hack a Dreamcast, or a Furby, or a toaster oven, or, blah blah etc.
I'm finishing my degree from the University of Maryland right now, and I see this as a great potential for supplemental information for my coursework. I take a large majority of my classes over the Web so I can work full-time in addition to taking 12-15 credits a semester. Despite the extreme convience of taking my courses on-line, I feel as though I don't recieve as comprehensive instruction as I did in the classroom. These course materials, while certainly not identical, could certainly provide me with another point of view, and quite possibly giving me a better grasp of the material.
The Department of Navy will become even less *nix friendly with the full deployment of the Navy-Marine Core Intranet (NMCI). This initiative is to standarize all desktops, laptops, and servers to one platform, in this case Windows 2000 and both the servers and the desktops, all of it outsourced to EDS. Outside of tasks that require a *nix box, the choice is actually no choice at all: Dell boxes running Windows 2000.
I'm wondering if this will fall under prior art because the middle finger already represents the letters m, o, t, h, e, r, f, u, c, k, e, and r? Just a thought.
Me and my naughty mind. As soon as I saw brown, I figured you'd say because she has her head up her ass.
Or, you can do like Chief Wiggum on the Simpsons and offer them boats. Although, I don't think Homer is much of a hacker.
I'm sure you really want a challenge, but how about developing for Playstation 1 instead? I'm not sure how complex your game must be, but remember it takes teams of devlopers, graphic artists, etc. a year or two develop games, if not longer. Gran Turismo 3 is the first game that was solely developed using PSX2 code. How long did they probably have the pre-reqs and all this information you need to develop that game? While I'm sure you aren't doing anything as complex as GT3, I'd still suggest doing it for the PSX1 instead
Can somebody mirror the list or post it or something? Fuckedcompany.com is Websensed as tasteless here at work.
One thing that bin Laden has going for him is millions of dollars. He is the heir of a wealthy Saudi construction magnate, and his worth is somewhere in the millions. He has enough resources to recruit people trained in flying.
I'm sorry. No one in this world had this coming! I don't care what injustices they've suffered or think they've suffered. To attack innocent civilians is absolutely outrageous and beyond justification. To condone the killing of innocent men, women, and children is positively fucking wrong! War is one thing. People in war willingly place their lives in the hands of the country for protection. To 1) Hijack planes filled with approximately 300 people each, then 2) fly them into two commercial(!) buildings with a combined 40,000 workers is lunancy and the work of an evil man. And I don't want to hear about the Pentagon being an exception to above because it is the home of the military. My father works for the DoD and was supposed to having a meeting there tomorrow. I am thinking God with all my heart that it wasn't today or that these terrorist pricks didn't wait another day. So fuck you!
I don't think destroying a city in SimCity would be considered violent. Sure, the act of destroying a city, when taken at face value, and with no context, it seems violent. But they way they can be destroyed in SimCity is relevant. They are through natural disasters and a monster. Human beings don't have control over natural phenomena and Godzilla is a product of imagination. It's not like say, Unreal Tournament, where a kid really could climb a tower with a sniper rifle and start shooting people.
Shoot, until I got to my junior and senior years in high school (I graduated in 97) where i was in the graphic arts program, Oregon Trail was the only thing we did on computers. In History it would be like "Ok. This week is our computer introduction week. We'll be going to the computer lab every day. You will play Oregon Trail, to 1) give you computer skills to apply to your future careers and 2) give you a bit of historical perspective on frontier life. Any questions?" This is why my kids will be home-schooled.
The difference between a technically sound game and an instant classic is in the storytelling.
I have to disagree somewhat. What makes a game a classic is the whole package. Think of a game as a girl (I know its hard for some of you). First, you look for intelligence/good personality (story-telling). Ok, she's smart. But is she pretty (good graphics)? Yep. Ok. Is she good in bed (game play)? Damn straight. Ok. Any of these three traits are desirable, but wouldn't you rather have all three when picking a wife/girlfriend? Of course you would. Same with games. It's the games that have the best combination of storytelling, graphics, and gameplay that are the classics.