In some ways I was more stressed before I got my programming job then I am now. Yes there is stress meeting deadlines and such, but I think it's all in how you look at it.
I find that by working the standard 40 and then going home I look forward to both going home and going to work. I guess I hit a good balance, which is nice. Overtime is always nice to, but in moderation. Constant overtime can be more harmful then helpful I think.
Either way, it's all in how satisfied you are at the end of the day I guess, atleast for me. I'd say if your thinking of factory work get in with a good union. After 3 and 1/2 years at a boiler factory before getting a job in my field I realize unions are the way to go for that kind of work.
Finally if you just want to blow off some steam, fire up Quake, UT, or something and go Noob hunting. Nothing takes care of stress like a few easy frags.;)
My first car was a late model '76 Chevy Malabu Classic (LEAD SLED), puke green, rusted dent in the right rear from a truck smacking it at 40mph. I got that car for $900 of news paper delivery money and it lasted me from about 1987/88 to about 2003 with heavy milage for a college student traveling from Lancaster PA to Harrisburg PA each day along with work and other things.
What finally killed it was inspection.. Seems that two weeks before we had a huge rainstorm that flooded everywhere and I was driving friends home. I was traveling flooded back roads and the car went in to water that was high enough to seep in through the floor. Bottomed it out like twice, ah it was great.. Got them home and drove myself home.
Anyhow the inspection revealed that I broke the rear axel and smashed the transmition housing. Yet it still drove like nothing was wrong. Atleast to me anyway.:) God forbid I ever do anything like that with my current 2003 Saturn Ion. It'd be totaled probebly on the first hill I would hit or short out from high water.
Granted the car I have now is nice compared to the old one, but I know what I would a)feel safer in and b)know which was less complicated to fix on my own if I had to.
There are a lot of old films that are slowly decaying away by just sitting around, this could really save those films for future generations.
Once they got it cleaned up though, I hope they make film backups of the restored digital films. Incase of something that hits and wipes out all digital data. Be a shame if they all got restored and suddenly deleted by some weird natural phenomina or a stupid mistake.
Not only is he great for sniffing out packets, but he can herd them where I want them. Not to mention he also handles Jehova's Witnesses spam to/dev/null everytime they ping the front door.
Perhaps it would be a good time to start an independent game company. If Joe P. Shareholder is going to outsource your bread and butter, time to innovate and outclass his outsourcing. Just my two cents on the deal, why let all that creative tallent go to waste locally?
Wired has one on a vigilante group that goes after perverts in chat rooms that prey apon children. As much as I admire the intent of every day people to keep things clean, decent, and honest. I also have to agree with points in this other article where law enforcement is being hampered by scaring off the bad people to go deeper underground and the problem just gets burried and not delt with completely. Next thing you know you have a problem thats 10x's worse then before since it wasn't handled properly to begin with.
In the case of the software vigilantes. They're in for a world of legal hurt I think even though their basic intentions are good.
Nice to see some companies caring about their customers by notifying them there's a problem. I wish Sprint/Earthlink was as good as Comcast in the customer service, hell the one tech guy who came out to work on our line even recomended Comcast over his company. oO
Here's a little story about Sprint/Earthlink you may all enjoy. Last year at around Febuary. They got a hold of my home and said that DSL was available. We signed up and they called a month later saying the 1.5 DSL was available so we signed up for that.
Well for 7 months we had no problems. Everything worked perfectly. Then they decided that individual computers at a home must now go through a router and switched the system over to that. This caused regular disconnects at my house because they neglected to send us any notification of the service change.
After the router was installed and we went through it, we still got regular disconnects from the service. After about 3 month, 3 Sprint technicians, and 1 Earthlink tecnician.
Finally the conclusion was reached that the 1.5 DSL was the problem cause we were about 24,000 feet from the office or just outside the bubble. And we could only get the lower speed. Which doesn't explain why it worked for 7 months w/out a hitch before their connection policy change.
We asked if it was possible to be switched to a closer office, they said there was one closer but it wasn't ready to handle connections. We asked if they could notify us of when it will be ready so we can switch and have better service. The technician said they wouldn't and no reason was given.
At this point your probebly wondering why we didn't switch to Comcast. Well they neglected to send us a bill for about 3 months and repeated calls were getting nowhere so switching was on hold. A carrier pigeon would have been more of an option.
Finally in Febuary another Sprint tecnician came out. This guy knew exactly what he was doing and said that the office closer to use was ready to take connections after he heard our story. He hooked us right up to the closer office thats only 10,000ft away and we've been picture perfect since. I'd like to thank that fellow, but I didn't get his name cause I was at work when he stopped out.
Anyway, it's fellows like that and the ones that take the time to call people about problems that should get the good pay checks. Not the idiots who could careless and leave you hanging.
Sorry for the long winded story. But seeing this article made me think of what happened to me and especially of that one tech guy recomending Comcast over their company.
No pun, I've been in There and it's amazing to me. I personally like hoverboarding over the 3D landscape they got going there which is nice how it blends from one type to another. You could be atop of a clear hill and pretty much land surf down in to a valley thats not so bright and heavly forested.
The tricks you can do on a hoverboard are fun. Nothing like about 8 backflips as you fly off the rim of a valcano down to the valley floor on a hover board. Or using small mounds of dirt or small hills to get some nice huge air time.:P
At first the transitions seemed slightly odd but after reading the article and seeing how different areas are handled from different servers it makes sense and now I think it's nicely done given the challenge of keeping things in sync between multiple servers.
The paingun battles are fun and cute but definatly not up to Quake or UT feel. They're still fun to pelt someone from the top of a mountain with a well placed shot and watch them fly across the valley floor. No scope or zoom so you have to have skill.;)
The only thing I really feel disappointed on in There is the fact that the water is as solid as the land. I can litterly dune buggy across the bay to the next island or walk like on dry land. That was a big disappointment for me, but the other aspects of it don't let it dwell on my mind long.
They recently launched 2.0 of There and from what I can tell you can play various card games now in a social setting. There is a few other things they added as well, have to check out their site for it. www.there.com
Overall I feel like I'm in a big cartoon more then a video game. Which I think is neat. One thing I have to wonder about is their ability to hold on to name "There" especially with the Windows trade mark up in court right now. I don't know what kind of hold the company that runs There has on the term "There" but thats a little aside thought I had recently.
Here's one on wired. I saw that one before the headline here. As for who to believe, I'm inclined to go with twenty Nobel laureates and 40 other scientists over one Whitehouse full of politicians. No matter what your opinion on politics, don't forget to get out and vote this year and let them know how you feel about this and other issues.
I'd risk my life and I'm probebly not qualified at all to go up there. The chance to see something never seen before is well worth the risk. Ofcourse thats no excuse for not being cautious. Quite honestly, hubble is returning far more then I ever thought it would initially and it deserves every last bit of umpf to keep it regularlly serviced and working.
So if I blow up on my way back from fixing it atleast a lot of other people, grateful or not, will get the chance to see things never seen before. It's like those fella's who sailed across to a place called Americas.
Besides I'd be one of the few people this day and age lucky enough to see whats above the clouds. That alone makes the trip worth it, I also feel that it's my tax money put to good use.
Features don't mean anything if your laying in a ditch somewhere and you phone don't work but you can play Pac Man on it or take a picture of the wolf thats putting on the dinner bib while waiting for you to expire. I'd rather have a more durable and reliable featureless phone then something that would make Captain Picard blush for being so out of it.
I still havn't gotten a new phone in years.. mine still works.
Well depending on what he burned the whole tribe could have been stoned if it was some ancient canabis plant or something.
Also probebly the only way the guy who made the wheel got burned was sniffing too lose to the fire. Or he may not have gotten burned at all cause they were too stoned to care.
The solution is There. Not only do you get socialization but good gaming fun. They have social interaction with highly customizable avatars and emotes for them.
You can also compete in dune buggy races, paintball matches, hoverboarding, hoverbiking, exploring, etc. It's a very rich virtual world environment. The only draw back is it's open from like 12pm eastern to about 3am eastern.
As for graphics, it reminds me of a Disney movie cartoon only with 3D model characters/avatars.
Price is like introductory of around $50/year if that offer is still going. Otherwise it's around $100 for a year's subscription. Thing is you get the first two weeks free w/out having to give any financial information so it's just register, login, and go for 2 weeks with no credit card entry or anything.
Microsoft Coperation today advised users to upgrade their current Internet Explorer web browsers to Carrier Pigeon 1.0. This newly released software package transferes HTML documents safely and securly over the friendly skies.
NOTE: Microsoft is not responsible for packet loss during hunting season, unless it's wabbit season but definatly not duck season!
I know I should probebly read the advisory, but I use mozilla. So how would it help?
THe most experience I'd have with game editors is the Aurora Toolset for NWN. I think it's one of the more flexable yet easy to use game editors out there.
Back around Feb 2003 I started an online module called Mandrake that went well over 90+ areas when I decided to move on. I had a good base of players too, not near as much as some places but a good base. Since then I've worked on about 4 other module designs of my own including an arena one for the PVP section.
I'd say the scripting language and the flexability to created hundreds of possible paths for a module are it's greatest power over all the other editors out there. It's also relativly easy to use, the only thing is you don't get a nice print bound manual for the scripting though the script editor in there has a nice help reference side bar. It's also really nice to be able to script in counter measures for cheaters.
I'm not sure I'd ever want to do this professionally though. Seems it would make a better hobby then a job but thats my opinion.
...most people realize that it's time to consider a slightly different career.
While that may be true for the most part, it's really disheartening after spending four to five years in college and doing all that work for something you love which isn't there anymore. Ah but thats life.
The bouncing of the rover when it made it's initial landing attracted sand worms. It just so happened the rover was in a rocky place and the sand worm was pissed when it finally reached the rover after trudging along 18 days.
According to Nemesysco, its accuracy as a lie detector has proven to be less important than its ability to more quickly pinpoint for interrogators where there are problems in a subject's story.
Is it me or is there something funny about that statement? If it's not accurate then why even bother with the story? Seems to me I'd want something that is accurate AND helps me see problems in the subjects story.
I've always loved Star Trek. Genne Roddenberry was the best. Since he passed away the series went to hell in a hand basket I think. He had a vision for it, the rest just have dollar signs in their eyes and really kill the series with a lack of creative thinking.
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In some ways I was more stressed before I got my programming job then I am now. Yes there is stress meeting deadlines and such, but I think it's all in how you look at it.
;)
I find that by working the standard 40 and then going home I look forward to both going home and going to work. I guess I hit a good balance, which is nice. Overtime is always nice to, but in moderation. Constant overtime can be more harmful then helpful I think.
Either way, it's all in how satisfied you are at the end of the day I guess, atleast for me. I'd say if your thinking of factory work get in with a good union. After 3 and 1/2 years at a boiler factory before getting a job in my field I realize unions are the way to go for that kind of work.
Finally if you just want to blow off some steam, fire up Quake, UT, or something and go Noob hunting. Nothing takes care of stress like a few easy frags.
> Would you rather they use windows?
Apparently they already do -> 'Son of Windows' to control carrier
I hope to god they keep that thing patched, secured, and locked down tighter then people normally do with their machines.
My first car was a late model '76 Chevy Malabu Classic (LEAD SLED), puke green, rusted dent in the right rear from a truck smacking it at 40mph. I got that car for $900 of news paper delivery money and it lasted me from about 1987/88 to about 2003 with heavy milage for a college student traveling from Lancaster PA to Harrisburg PA each day along with work and other things.
:) God forbid I ever do anything like that with my current 2003 Saturn Ion. It'd be totaled probebly on the first hill I would hit or short out from high water.
What finally killed it was inspection.. Seems that two weeks before we had a huge rainstorm that flooded everywhere and I was driving friends home. I was traveling flooded back roads and the car went in to water that was high enough to seep in through the floor. Bottomed it out like twice, ah it was great.. Got them home and drove myself home.
Anyhow the inspection revealed that I broke the rear axel and smashed the transmition housing. Yet it still drove like nothing was wrong. Atleast to me anyway.
Granted the car I have now is nice compared to the old one, but I know what I would a)feel safer in and b)know which was less complicated to fix on my own if I had to.
There are a lot of old films that are slowly decaying away by just sitting around, this could really save those films for future generations.
Once they got it cleaned up though, I hope they make film backups of the restored digital films. Incase of something that hits and wipes out all digital data. Be a shame if they all got restored and suddenly deleted by some weird natural phenomina or a stupid mistake.
Not only is he great for sniffing out packets, but he can herd them where I want them. Not to mention he also handles Jehova's Witnesses spam to /dev/null everytime they ping the front door.
The republicans want to use popup campaign ads eh?
*Cues up Mozilla*
In the infomus words of your incumbent candidate, "Bring em on!"
Perhaps it would be a good time to start an independent game company. If Joe P. Shareholder is going to outsource your bread and butter, time to innovate and outclass his outsourcing. Just my two cents on the deal, why let all that creative tallent go to waste locally?
Wired has one on a vigilante group that goes after perverts in chat rooms that prey apon children. As much as I admire the intent of every day people to keep things clean, decent, and honest. I also have to agree with points in this other article where law enforcement is being hampered by scaring off the bad people to go deeper underground and the problem just gets burried and not delt with completely. Next thing you know you have a problem thats 10x's worse then before since it wasn't handled properly to begin with.
In the case of the software vigilantes. They're in for a world of legal hurt I think even though their basic intentions are good.
Nice to see some companies caring about their customers by notifying them there's a problem. I wish Sprint/Earthlink was as good as Comcast in the customer service, hell the one tech guy who came out to work on our line even recomended Comcast over his company. oO
Here's a little story about Sprint/Earthlink you may all enjoy. Last year at around Febuary. They got a hold of my home and said that DSL was available. We signed up and they called a month later saying the 1.5 DSL was available so we signed up for that.
Well for 7 months we had no problems. Everything worked perfectly. Then they decided that individual computers at a home must now go through a router and switched the system over to that. This caused regular disconnects at my house because they neglected to send us any notification of the service change.
After the router was installed and we went through it, we still got regular disconnects from the service. After about 3 month, 3 Sprint technicians, and 1 Earthlink tecnician.
Finally the conclusion was reached that the 1.5 DSL was the problem cause we were about 24,000 feet from the office or just outside the bubble. And we could only get the lower speed. Which doesn't explain why it worked for 7 months w/out a hitch before their connection policy change.
We asked if it was possible to be switched to a closer office, they said there was one closer but it wasn't ready to handle connections. We asked if they could notify us of when it will be ready so we can switch and have better service. The technician said they wouldn't and no reason was given.
At this point your probebly wondering why we didn't switch to Comcast. Well they neglected to send us a bill for about 3 months and repeated calls were getting nowhere so switching was on hold. A carrier pigeon would have been more of an option.
Finally in Febuary another Sprint tecnician came out. This guy knew exactly what he was doing and said that the office closer to use was ready to take connections after he heard our story. He hooked us right up to the closer office thats only 10,000ft away and we've been picture perfect since. I'd like to thank that fellow, but I didn't get his name cause I was at work when he stopped out.
Anyway, it's fellows like that and the ones that take the time to call people about problems that should get the good pay checks. Not the idiots who could careless and leave you hanging.
Sorry for the long winded story. But seeing this article made me think of what happened to me and especially of that one tech guy recomending Comcast over their company.
Thats less trips to the car and now I can use my 21" monitor!
No pun, I've been in There and it's amazing to me. I personally like hoverboarding over the 3D landscape they got going there which is nice how it blends from one type to another. You could be atop of a clear hill and pretty much land surf down in to a valley thats not so bright and heavly forested.
:P
;)
The tricks you can do on a hoverboard are fun. Nothing like about 8 backflips as you fly off the rim of a valcano down to the valley floor on a hover board. Or using small mounds of dirt or small hills to get some nice huge air time.
At first the transitions seemed slightly odd but after reading the article and seeing how different areas are handled from different servers it makes sense and now I think it's nicely done given the challenge of keeping things in sync between multiple servers.
The paingun battles are fun and cute but definatly not up to Quake or UT feel. They're still fun to pelt someone from the top of a mountain with a well placed shot and watch them fly across the valley floor. No scope or zoom so you have to have skill.
The only thing I really feel disappointed on in There is the fact that the water is as solid as the land. I can litterly dune buggy across the bay to the next island or walk like on dry land. That was a big disappointment for me, but the other aspects of it don't let it dwell on my mind long.
They recently launched 2.0 of There and from what I can tell you can play various card games now in a social setting. There is a few other things they added as well, have to check out their site for it. www.there.com
Overall I feel like I'm in a big cartoon more then a video game. Which I think is neat. One thing I have to wonder about is their ability to hold on to name "There" especially with the Windows trade mark up in court right now. I don't know what kind of hold the company that runs There has on the term "There" but thats a little aside thought I had recently.
Here's one on wired. I saw that one before the headline here. As for who to believe, I'm inclined to go with twenty Nobel laureates and 40 other scientists over one Whitehouse full of politicians. No matter what your opinion on politics, don't forget to get out and vote this year and let them know how you feel about this and other issues.
I'd risk my life and I'm probebly not qualified at all to go up there. The chance to see something never seen before is well worth the risk. Ofcourse thats no excuse for not being cautious. Quite honestly, hubble is returning far more then I ever thought it would initially and it deserves every last bit of umpf to keep it regularlly serviced and working.
So if I blow up on my way back from fixing it atleast a lot of other people, grateful or not, will get the chance to see things never seen before. It's like those fella's who sailed across to a place called Americas.
Besides I'd be one of the few people this day and age lucky enough to see whats above the clouds. That alone makes the trip worth it, I also feel that it's my tax money put to good use.
Perhaps Kazaa should raid the record industry executives and represenatives for copies of Kazaa Lite? Whats good for the goose is good for the gander.
Features don't mean anything if your laying in a ditch somewhere and you phone don't work but you can play Pac Man on it or take a picture of the wolf thats putting on the dinner bib while waiting for you to expire. I'd rather have a more durable and reliable featureless phone then something that would make Captain Picard blush for being so out of it.
I still havn't gotten a new phone in years.. mine still works.
Well depending on what he burned the whole tribe could have been stoned if it was some ancient canabis plant or something.
Also probebly the only way the guy who made the wheel got burned was sniffing too lose to the fire. Or he may not have gotten burned at all cause they were too stoned to care.
The solution is There. Not only do you get socialization but good gaming fun. They have social interaction with highly customizable avatars and emotes for them.
You can also compete in dune buggy races, paintball matches, hoverboarding, hoverbiking, exploring, etc. It's a very rich virtual world environment. The only draw back is it's open from like 12pm eastern to about 3am eastern.
As for graphics, it reminds me of a Disney movie cartoon only with 3D model characters/avatars.
Price is like introductory of around $50/year if that offer is still going. Otherwise it's around $100 for a year's subscription. Thing is you get the first two weeks free w/out having to give any financial information so it's just register, login, and go for 2 weeks with no credit card entry or anything.
Microsoft Coperation today advised users to upgrade their current Internet Explorer web browsers to Carrier Pigeon 1.0. This newly released software package transferes HTML documents safely and securly over the friendly skies.
NOTE: Microsoft is not responsible for packet loss during hunting season, unless it's wabbit season but definatly not duck season!
I know I should probebly read the advisory, but I use mozilla. So how would it help?
Thats good, it was bad enough when I licked a street light with my tongue on a dare in the cold of winter once.
Since I was only half awake when I wrote the parent. Here's some resources for nwn module scripting.
NeverwinterNights Lexicon
NeverwinterNights Scripting University
Enjoy.
THe most experience I'd have with game editors is the Aurora Toolset for NWN. I think it's one of the more flexable yet easy to use game editors out there.
Back around Feb 2003 I started an online module called Mandrake that went well over 90+ areas when I decided to move on. I had a good base of players too, not near as much as some places but a good base. Since then I've worked on about 4 other module designs of my own including an arena one for the PVP section.
I'd say the scripting language and the flexability to created hundreds of possible paths for a module are it's greatest power over all the other editors out there. It's also relativly easy to use, the only thing is you don't get a nice print bound manual for the scripting though the script editor in there has a nice help reference side bar. It's also really nice to be able to script in counter measures for cheaters.
I'm not sure I'd ever want to do this professionally though. Seems it would make a better hobby then a job but thats my opinion.
While that may be true for the most part, it's really disheartening after spending four to five years in college and doing all that work for something you love which isn't there anymore. Ah but thats life.
The bouncing of the rover when it made it's initial landing attracted sand worms. It just so happened the rover was in a rocky place and the sand worm was pissed when it finally reached the rover after trudging along 18 days.
According to Nemesysco, its accuracy as a lie detector has proven to be less important than its ability to more quickly pinpoint for interrogators where there are problems in a subject's story.
Is it me or is there something funny about that statement? If it's not accurate then why even bother with the story? Seems to me I'd want something that is accurate AND helps me see problems in the subjects story.
I've always loved Star Trek. Genne Roddenberry was the best. Since he passed away the series went to hell in a hand basket I think. He had a vision for it, the rest just have dollar signs in their eyes and really kill the series with a lack of creative thinking.