Try to understand the type of person you're dealing with, says Steve Smith, a technical business consultant in Seattle for storage maker EMC Corp. "If I'm dealing with a [nonintuitive] person, I need to put things in concrete language. This person doesn't want abstractions."
The problem is a lot of IT, particularly when programming can be abstract, this is not a problem but users as questions like "why isn't it working"
IT people expect users to always know what they want, and they can get exasperated when they don't. "Business people have a right to change their minds, because the business changes," says Ellen Gottesdiener, principal consultant at EBG Consulting in Carmel, Ind.
The problem here is that business people know thier business, and say "i have problem X" whereas I don't understand X. so i then ask questions to gain an understanding of X. So now after spending all that time (money) understanding and another boatload of time (money) coding up something which is starting to look like it will do the job the business owner changes thier mind. By this time a change of direction may cost me thousands of pounds and its thier right to change thier mind? Perhaps we would find business people less "annoying" if they were prepared to pay (with money) for thier own indecisiveness.
You can be 100% blind. however you can also look at it as an investment (providing you don't go blind) as you would have spent more on glasses over your life than the one off surgery.
...This means all homebrew and hobbyist coders in the UK can no longer modify their consoles to run games they have written. Gamers who like to mod their consoles to play games on import early are also out of luck
OK i'd take the 0.1% argument for the PS2 but this probably applies to the XBox too. I have been known to use copied games on mine (it actually is very rare, and only what i've got off friends etc, which you prolly would all defend if its music), but mostly its for XBMC (DVD, Gr8 Living Room MP3 player, AVI Player, Mame-Ox (which is by far the best Mame version there is).
Also there is XLink Messenger which means you don't have to pay for XBox Live! at some ridiculous $$$ per month.
So for the PS2 yeh very few legal reason for modding, but the XBox is an absolutely amazing developer friendly, looks good under TV platform.
PS. I also have another one in the loft as my DNS and Mail server!
and your paying the price, you should have tried writing IE and testing Moz, Opera etc. then Then writing Moz, then Opera.
I personally find that if I write for Mozilla Firefox its usually only slight modifications needed for IE etc, and most of that is Javascript related.
IE's rendering engine is deliberately not picky, therefore it stands to reason its a bad choice to program for. Safari (KHTML) and Moz (Gecko) are OSS and as such tend to stick to the standards pretty well.
Opera used to (don't know if its still the case) stick absolutely to the standards so it may make a very good choice. I however don't test for it because of its small market share and it's still closed source.
Use Moz and go with the Web Developer Tools (http://texturizer.net/firefox/extensions/#webdeve loper) and click on the little tick thing on the right side of the bar and make sure you have "Standards compliance mode" as the Render Mode, then a quick check on IE (Windows) and your pretty much gonna be OK.
Sortof, Windows.Forms runs via Wine in Linux (I don't know why they made this decision). The GTK bits are a seperate API (which is like the windows one if i remember rightly) but is not directly windows compatible.
My recommendation, GTK libs on Mono, make it a thin client to a server of whatever type you want, this gives you portability where your clients usually want it.
MS has been harping on that OSS is more expensive the its products for years now. The only reason this can be is BECAUSE YOU HAVE TO EMPLOY PEOPLE TO ADMINISTER / INSTALL IT. These people must also (nearly always) be local to the business in question. Now we hear that it kills jobs. Both can't be true. Sure you could arue that there are less developers and more administrators but even thats a pretty flaky argument.
...strategy, a lot of even the bigger (and smaller) software companies will be using p2p in future in some way. not to mention other bits and peices that will innevitably get wrapped up into any law.
Radio 1 itself (under Beeb?)? BT had a music download service, I'm sure if they are still running it they'd be more than happy to lend a hand. OK this one prolly aint free but its bound to be something around the early mp3.com rates. your not telling me that type of exposur even on very low profit margins isnt going to be incredibly successful
...why are they not making a chart of legal FREE downloads? The BBC _should_ have no comercial intrest in labels at all, and they should have no influence over it because it's funded by the british public. Radio 1(& 2 for older people) have a huge percentage of the listeners here (almost certainly way over 50%, infact pretty much everything non-BBC is local/regional radio).
If they did this and were still broadcasting quality it could be amazing.
People here are saying its like a 192kb/s mp3. AAC is about 1/3 better (see http://www.mp3-tech.org/aac.html) than mp3 (imho) which brings it closer to 160kb/s mp3. you've also got to remember that this isn't a lame vbr comparrison but a fraunhoffer cbr comparrison which has not had the massive open souce development efforts over many many years.
So yes, very adequete on iPod (especailly with those relatively average headphones that come with it), but for playing through any mid to high level hi-fi (depending on music type) it could be better.
... Features are gr8 but look at the MMC card in the pics, this thing is HUGE. saying that maybe they could quite easily just shrink all the circuitary? isn't the iPod basically the size of the HDD inside it?
Exercise is gonna bring on the innevitable for the terminally unfit (fat). Did you see the size of her, sick. If she has a genetic weakness she should not have eaten so much as to make her that size.
How can I as a software developer take responsibility for loses when i use libraries etc that wont? oh and it would kill oss, you could say this code is just text that happens to compile, but unless everyone compiles thier own software, it'd never work.
1st game that I believe has been very good in more than one department, fps (loads of action, powrful enough weapons and sometimes weak enough baddies to give a feeling of Doom. Dark area's combined with amazing atmosphere, ability to shoot lights and lure enimies makes it nearly as good as splinter cell (it has more accurate lighting too) and better than manhunt, gr8 story (as far as i have got) and good RPG elements.
Unless there is something saying they can use the software, they can not. the whole point of a license is to give the customer a right to use it, and it will not matter how many thousands of pounds they paid you to build it! Therefore it doesnt technically matter if it is delivered. to put it into context they are un the same situation as if you had a warez copy of MSWord. Of course they know you've done the development so they may think they are in a very strong bargaining position, so its just how much you are prepared to stick to your guns. Id say your position is strong er than if you'd done this before starting work, as they know the quality of the end product and if you tell them "the license is you can use it on christmas day" they will have to pay someone else to develop and have yet more delay.
.... but not an amazing one, just say your open to contract work:-) unless its code, if your a coder your payed to document your code, not what your coding.
... I have to agree, i genrally feel that move based games tend to be some of the worst, not that they are often terrible, its just very rare that they try anything new or do anything better than before.
I have Riddick however is actually an amazing game, It doesn't do stealth as well as splinter cell however its significatly better than Manhunt (nearly as brutal too). Its not as good a raw shooter as say Quake 2 (still amazing) but its nearly that good (only really hampered by the lack of guns and the fact quite linear). Add all this to an atmosphere that is both very believable and very tense and you have a truly outstanding game
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Try to understand the type of person you're dealing with, says Steve Smith, a technical business consultant in Seattle for storage maker EMC Corp. "If I'm dealing with a [nonintuitive] person, I need to put things in concrete language. This person doesn't want abstractions."
The problem is a lot of IT, particularly when programming can be abstract, this is not a problem but users as questions like "why isn't it working"
IT people expect users to always know what they want, and they can get exasperated when they don't. "Business people have a right to change their minds, because the business changes," says Ellen Gottesdiener, principal consultant at EBG Consulting in Carmel, Ind.
The problem here is that business people know thier business, and say "i have problem X" whereas I don't understand X. so i then ask questions to gain an understanding of X. So now after spending all that time (money) understanding and another boatload of time (money) coding up something which is starting to look like it will do the job the business owner changes thier mind. By this time a change of direction may cost me thousands of pounds and its thier right to change thier mind? Perhaps we would find business people less "annoying" if they were prepared to pay (with money) for thier own indecisiveness.
You can be 100% blind. however you can also look at it as an investment (providing you don't go blind) as you would have spent more on glasses over your life than the one off surgery.
Act!, its fucking horrible. I mean really unbelievably horrible.
Wow im pretty impressed with what you've achieved. don't have a GBA but may try it out on a emulator at some point.
Keep up the (very) good work!
...This means all homebrew and hobbyist coders in the UK can no longer modify their consoles to run games they have written. Gamers who like to mod their consoles to play games on import early are also out of luck
OK i'd take the 0.1% argument for the PS2 but this probably applies to the XBox too. I have been known to use copied games on mine (it actually is very rare, and only what i've got off friends etc, which you prolly would all defend if its music), but mostly its for XBMC (DVD, Gr8 Living Room MP3 player, AVI Player, Mame-Ox (which is by far the best Mame version there is).
Also there is XLink Messenger which means you don't have to pay for XBox Live! at some ridiculous $$$ per month.
So for the PS2 yeh very few legal reason for modding, but the XBox is an absolutely amazing developer friendly, looks good under TV platform.
PS. I also have another one in the loft as my DNS and Mail server!
Guns are illegal here,
You say yes, the worst happens, you keep your job
You say no, the worst happens, you lose your job (or at least are very, very, very unpopular).
It aint your money.
and your paying the price, you should have tried writing IE and testing Moz, Opera etc. then Then writing Moz, then Opera.
e loper) and click on the little tick thing on the right side of the bar and make sure you have "Standards compliance mode" as the Render Mode, then a quick check on IE (Windows) and your pretty much gonna be OK.
I personally find that if I write for Mozilla Firefox its usually only slight modifications needed for IE etc, and most of that is Javascript related.
IE's rendering engine is deliberately not picky, therefore it stands to reason its a bad choice to program for. Safari (KHTML) and Moz (Gecko) are OSS and as such tend to stick to the standards pretty well.
Opera used to (don't know if its still the case) stick absolutely to the standards so it may make a very good choice. I however don't test for it because of its small market share and it's still closed source.
Use Moz and go with the Web Developer Tools (http://texturizer.net/firefox/extensions/#webdev
The person who let it thru testing should be shot
Sortof, Windows.Forms runs via Wine in Linux (I don't know why they made this decision). The GTK bits are a seperate API (which is like the windows one if i remember rightly) but is not directly windows compatible.
My recommendation, GTK libs on Mono, make it a thin client to a server of whatever type you want, this gives you portability where your clients usually want it.
MS has been harping on that OSS is more expensive the its products for years now. The only reason this can be is BECAUSE YOU HAVE TO EMPLOY PEOPLE TO ADMINISTER / INSTALL IT. These people must also (nearly always) be local to the business in question. Now we hear that it kills jobs. Both can't be true. Sure you could arue that there are less developers and more administrators but even thats a pretty flaky argument.
...strategy, a lot of even the bigger (and smaller) software companies will be using p2p in future in some way. not to mention other bits and peices that will innevitably get wrapped up into any law.
Radio 1 itself (under Beeb?)? BT had a music download service, I'm sure if they are still running it they'd be more than happy to lend a hand. OK this one prolly aint free but its bound to be something around the early mp3.com rates. your not telling me that type of exposur even on very low profit margins isnt going to be incredibly successful
...why are they not making a chart of legal FREE downloads? The BBC _should_ have no comercial intrest in labels at all, and they should have no influence over it because it's funded by the british public. Radio 1(& 2 for older people) have a huge percentage of the listeners here (almost certainly way over 50%, infact pretty much everything non-BBC is local/regional radio).
If they did this and were still broadcasting quality it could be amazing.
People here are saying its like a 192kb/s mp3. AAC is about 1/3 better (see http://www.mp3-tech.org/aac.html) than mp3 (imho) which brings it closer to 160kb/s mp3. you've also got to remember that this isn't a lame vbr comparrison but a fraunhoffer cbr comparrison which has not had the massive open souce development efforts over many many years.
So yes, very adequete on iPod (especailly with those relatively average headphones that come with it), but for playing through any mid to high level hi-fi (depending on music type) it could be better.
... Features are gr8 but look at the MMC card in the pics, this thing is HUGE. saying that maybe they could quite easily just shrink all the circuitary? isn't the iPod basically the size of the HDD inside it?
Exercise is gonna bring on the innevitable for the terminally unfit (fat). Did you see the size of her, sick. If she has a genetic weakness she should not have eaten so much as to make her that size.
I thought Disney was EVIL? I'm all confused!
How can I as a software developer take responsibility for loses when i use libraries etc that wont? oh and it would kill oss, you could say this code is just text that happens to compile, but unless everyone compiles thier own software, it'd never work.
1st game that I believe has been very good in more than one department, fps (loads of action, powrful enough weapons and sometimes weak enough baddies to give a feeling of Doom. Dark area's combined with amazing atmosphere, ability to shoot lights and lure enimies makes it nearly as good as splinter cell (it has more accurate lighting too) and better than manhunt, gr8 story (as far as i have got) and good RPG elements.
Its a film license, how did it not suck!
Im in the UK.
Aging population means you get laws like this. Keeping the old bid's happy.
Unless there is something saying they can use the software, they can not. the whole point of a license is to give the customer a right to use it, and it will not matter how many thousands of pounds they paid you to build it! Therefore it doesnt technically matter if it is delivered. to put it into context they are un the same situation as if you had a warez copy of MSWord. Of course they know you've done the development so they may think they are in a very strong bargaining position, so its just how much you are prepared to stick to your guns. Id say your position is strong er than if you'd done this before starting work, as they know the quality of the end product and if you tell them "the license is you can use it on christmas day" they will have to pay someone else to develop and have yet more delay.
In short, be a hard bastard!
.... but not an amazing one, just say your open to contract work :-) unless its code, if your a coder your payed to document your code, not what your coding.
... I have to agree, i genrally feel that move based games tend to be some of the worst, not that they are often terrible, its just very rare that they try anything new or do anything better than before.
I have Riddick however is actually an amazing game, It doesn't do stealth as well as splinter cell however its significatly better than Manhunt (nearly as brutal too). Its not as good a raw shooter as say Quake 2 (still amazing) but its nearly that good (only really hampered by the lack of guns and the fact quite linear). Add all this to an atmosphere that is both very believable and very tense and you have a truly outstanding game