there is one major difference. If its two autonomous cars, they are connected wirelessly and are communicating. No 'unexpected' move will be made by either car. If one car is human... who knows what he could do...
I, too, was a UC Triangle. I dropped out cause when I didn't show up for like a year, they sent me to a collection agency to force me to pay my dues.
Real brotherhood, there....
Granted, if I didn't already live in a house with a buncha engineers, and didn't have a serious gf at the time (she ended up being married to me), and I lived in the Triangle house, it would have been to my benefit. They are (well, were) all great studiers and worked together on homework and such. But if you didn't live with them (or didn't at least spend a few hours a day there), you'd be an outcast, as I was.
First you have to have an autonomous car that can work with other autonomous cars, AND cars that are not autonomous. Its not like everyone will wake up at the same day and have autonomous cars. And those cars have to be better than those that aren't autonomous. Will I be able to force my car to speed if I'm running late? Then maybe I'm better off doing my own driving. How will the car handle it if some moron is driving like a maniac around me? How will it avoid being smacked around if he tries to cut me off?
Since he DOES have an entire department creating software to filter out spam, why doesn't he RELEASE said filters and help the rest of the world out? Hell, its MS... why not at least sell it and try to make that department profitable??
... but they overglamourize the job. The CSI people don't do the detective work... they do the crime scene work.
For an even worse example of something similar, look at the show "Crossing Jordan" where a medical examiner is doing detective work (umm... your job is looking at and studying corpses).
Maybe if the show had a detective, an ADA, and dedicated most of its time with the CSI team and showed how they interact with the other two, it would work better... think "Law & Order" with just a focus on CSI...
Actually, Navy NCIS does a good job. Good combo of detective work and their medical examiner and CSI are both big parts of the show. Very nerdy aspects... not a lot of junk science.
No offense, dude... but I can wait another 2 hours to play a game I've waited many years to play. I am not really complaining that much... yeah, it was bullocks and I was anxiously awaiting to actually play the game, but it didn't ruin my experience or anything.
I'd like to see piracy get knocked down a notch. I want games to be cheaper to buy. If that means waiting 3 hours when I buy a game, so be it.
At 7PM EST, I tried installing, setting up a steam account and unlocking the game with my CD Key. The whole process took about 3 hours.
The steam registration mostly returned back cause it couldn't even hit the master authentication server most of the night. Unlocking the game took between 45-60 minutes (on a fast cablemodem line).
Wasn't this expected though? Its like when a MMORPG releases and they can't handle the load. Do they just expect a few hundred people to get the (arguably) most anticipated game of the year on its opening day and the rest to just trickle in until Christmas??
I'm afraid I disagree with you. I have a TiVo, and the reason isn't so I can skip advertisements. Its a PVR, not a "fastforward through comercials for free" device. Sure, that's how many people view it, but that's not the purpose of it. Adding commercials doesn't betray the user, just annoys him. You had it good, but they aren't changing a fundamental point of TiVo... you can still record shows.. you can still save shows... you can still get season passes.
Honestly, I'm all for it if it means they stay afloat longer.
I agree. Waaaay back when counter strike was unpopular and in beta6, I found on one server I was almost the most accurate and almost had the most kills with the pump-action shotgun. I purposely used the shotgun more often just to see my name in lights, even though it wasn't a good weapon for certain maps.
Its nice to use to compare yourself to what you did a while ago, but the competition for "best x" makes it too distracting.
Companies can't fire people for organizing labor unions.
OK... the people form a union. They will not work until the demands are met. The "initial strike" if you will.
The company hires outside people instead.
They didn't fire anyone... the employees would not work unless demands were met, so they just found someone else to do the job. It happens all the times during strikes. My father is an HR executive. He's had to replace an entire plant before because the union was demanding far too much and they couldn't afford to pay the union what they wanted.
Sure, no one likes breaking a union line to work, but you'll be surprised at how effective it is when you bring in the entire replacement workforce all at once.
My 2 1/2 year old already plays with the 'real' legos. Just put them in front of him, and let him figure them out himself. My son doesn't do much (mostly just stacks'm as high as he can), but once he learned them, him and I started playing legos together and he's starting to understand he can build more than just 'up.'
Sure, as a kid, I played legos a lot... but as an adult, I never got into them.
I bought a big box of them for my two year old recently. Once he got it, I started playing with him to get him used to the different things you can do with legos... and I just couldn't stop.
Yer damn right I plan on buying a whole lot more for him! Its a GREAT father-son activity!
I explained this in yesterday's article...
A union WILL NOT WORK in this instance. Why? Cause if you and all the game programmers join a union, the gaming companies will just replace each and every person. EVERY coder has, at one time or another, wanted to code video games. For each video game programmer that is employed right now, there is a hundred programmers that would kill for the job. If you unionize, they'll simply hire people that will take the job without going into a union.
Unions work for stuff like the blue collar automotive industry because people aren't beating down the doors wanting that kinda job. They can't replace all the workers. In the gaming industry, though, there is an extremely high desire for job and extremely low demand for jobs.
It simply won't work. You join together to form a union, you won't work in the industry anymore.
Contracts you sign always state that your job is can be terminated by your side or by their side. You can't stay for overtime? I'm sorry, we're going to have to let you go...
You don't stay for overtime... you'll simply be replaced by someone who will. As I said originally... there are hundreds who will agree to it.
Cause every programmer at one point or another wants to make video games. Don't like your job? Leave... there are 500 people that want to be in your place, anyway!
That's why most of the industry is young. Us 'older people' with families realize that they can't be in the gaming industry. I have a wife, kid, and another kid on the way. I'm not about to sacrifice my family so that I can work on video games. Sure, it was a dream of mine, but that's what the industry is about. Long hours, low pay, no pats on the back. If you don't like it, there is hundreds willing to take your spot.
I actually prefer it this way. That way we know there is no 'hardware trick' that allows cheating in, say, Madden. So when I get my butt stomped, I realize I'm just really bad at the game, and can't blame cheating;-)
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there is one major difference. If its two autonomous cars, they are connected wirelessly and are communicating. No 'unexpected' move will be made by either car. If one car is human... who knows what he could do...
I, too, was a UC Triangle. I dropped out cause when I didn't show up for like a year, they sent me to a collection agency to force me to pay my dues.
Real brotherhood, there....
Granted, if I didn't already live in a house with a buncha engineers, and didn't have a serious gf at the time (she ended up being married to me), and I lived in the Triangle house, it would have been to my benefit. They are (well, were) all great studiers and worked together on homework and such. But if you didn't live with them (or didn't at least spend a few hours a day there), you'd be an outcast, as I was.
First you have to have an autonomous car that can work with other autonomous cars, AND cars that are not autonomous. Its not like everyone will wake up at the same day and have autonomous cars. And those cars have to be better than those that aren't autonomous. Will I be able to force my car to speed if I'm running late? Then maybe I'm better off doing my own driving. How will the car handle it if some moron is driving like a maniac around me? How will it avoid being smacked around if he tries to cut me off?
spambayes does integrate VERY WELL with Outlook....
From the article:
"And so we have special technology which just filters (spam). Literally, there's a whole department, almost, that takes care of it."
I don't see Balmer calling people "special technology."
Since he DOES have an entire department creating software to filter out spam, why doesn't he RELEASE said filters and help the rest of the world out? Hell, its MS... why not at least sell it and try to make that department profitable??
... but they overglamourize the job. The CSI people don't do the detective work... they do the crime scene work.
For an even worse example of something similar, look at the show "Crossing Jordan" where a medical examiner is doing detective work (umm... your job is looking at and studying corpses).
Maybe if the show had a detective, an ADA, and dedicated most of its time with the CSI team and showed how they interact with the other two, it would work better... think "Law & Order" with just a focus on CSI...
Actually, Navy NCIS does a good job. Good combo of detective work and their medical examiner and CSI are both big parts of the show. Very nerdy aspects... not a lot of junk science.
Dude... The 3 hour wait of mine was worth it (and I only played for 2 hours last night)!!!
No offense, dude... but I can wait another 2 hours to play a game I've waited many years to play. I am not really complaining that much... yeah, it was bullocks and I was anxiously awaiting to actually play the game, but it didn't ruin my experience or anything.
I'd like to see piracy get knocked down a notch. I want games to be cheaper to buy. If that means waiting 3 hours when I buy a game, so be it.
I've heard this from a bunch of people. I'm not experiencing long load times at all. Could it just be my setup? 2.4GHz P4 (800MHz FSB) HT, 1GB Memory.
When I said "Wasn't this expected" I meant from Valve... didn't they expect a HUGE onslaught the day of the release?
I apologize for the confusion.
maybe if someone didn't steal and release the source code two years ago, valve wouldn't have had to do this to their customers.
Don't blame Valve, blame the crackers and the hackers....
(For the record, I got a store-bought version).
At 7PM EST, I tried installing, setting up a steam account and unlocking the game with my CD Key. The whole process took about 3 hours.
The steam registration mostly returned back cause it couldn't even hit the master authentication server most of the night. Unlocking the game took between 45-60 minutes (on a fast cablemodem line).
Wasn't this expected though? Its like when a MMORPG releases and they can't handle the load. Do they just expect a few hundred people to get the (arguably) most anticipated game of the year on its opening day and the rest to just trickle in until Christmas??
I'm afraid I disagree with you. I have a TiVo, and the reason isn't so I can skip advertisements. Its a PVR, not a "fastforward through comercials for free" device. Sure, that's how many people view it, but that's not the purpose of it. Adding commercials doesn't betray the user, just annoys him. You had it good, but they aren't changing a fundamental point of TiVo... you can still record shows.. you can still save shows... you can still get season passes.
Honestly, I'm all for it if it means they stay afloat longer.
The story is /.'ed, so I haven't read it... did they compare staring at LCDs vs CRTs? I know LCDs are easier on the eyes...
I agree competely. In fact, I can't add anything else to this comment, cause, damnit, you said everything on my mind.
Hate just write a "Me Too!" reply, but I can't agree more with what you are saying!
I agree. Waaaay back when counter strike was unpopular and in beta6, I found on one server I was almost the most accurate and almost had the most kills with the pump-action shotgun. I purposely used the shotgun more often just to see my name in lights, even though it wasn't a good weapon for certain maps.
Its nice to use to compare yourself to what you did a while ago, but the competition for "best x" makes it too distracting.
Companies can't fire people for organizing labor unions.
OK... the people form a union. They will not work until the demands are met. The "initial strike" if you will.
The company hires outside people instead.
They didn't fire anyone... the employees would not work unless demands were met, so they just found someone else to do the job. It happens all the times during strikes. My father is an HR executive. He's had to replace an entire plant before because the union was demanding far too much and they couldn't afford to pay the union what they wanted.
Sure, no one likes breaking a union line to work, but you'll be surprised at how effective it is when you bring in the entire replacement workforce all at once.
My 2 1/2 year old already plays with the 'real' legos. Just put them in front of him, and let him figure them out himself. My son doesn't do much (mostly just stacks'm as high as he can), but once he learned them, him and I started playing legos together and he's starting to understand he can build more than just 'up.'
Sure, as a kid, I played legos a lot... but as an adult, I never got into them.
I bought a big box of them for my two year old recently. Once he got it, I started playing with him to get him used to the different things you can do with legos... and I just couldn't stop.
Yer damn right I plan on buying a whole lot more for him! Its a GREAT father-son activity!
I explained this in yesterday's article...
A union WILL NOT WORK in this instance. Why? Cause if you and all the game programmers join a union, the gaming companies will just replace each and every person. EVERY coder has, at one time or another, wanted to code video games. For each video game programmer that is employed right now, there is a hundred programmers that would kill for the job. If you unionize, they'll simply hire people that will take the job without going into a union.
Unions work for stuff like the blue collar automotive industry because people aren't beating down the doors wanting that kinda job. They can't replace all the workers. In the gaming industry, though, there is an extremely high desire for job and extremely low demand for jobs.
It simply won't work. You join together to form a union, you won't work in the industry anymore.
Contracts you sign always state that your job is can be terminated by your side or by their side. You can't stay for overtime? I'm sorry, we're going to have to let you go...
You don't stay for overtime... you'll simply be replaced by someone who will. As I said originally... there are hundreds who will agree to it.
Yet you still buy the games....
Make no mistake. The executives at EA care about one thing... profits.
Cause every programmer at one point or another wants to make video games. Don't like your job? Leave... there are 500 people that want to be in your place, anyway!
That's why most of the industry is young. Us 'older people' with families realize that they can't be in the gaming industry. I have a wife, kid, and another kid on the way. I'm not about to sacrifice my family so that I can work on video games. Sure, it was a dream of mine, but that's what the industry is about. Long hours, low pay, no pats on the back. If you don't like it, there is hundreds willing to take your spot.
I actually prefer it this way. That way we know there is no 'hardware trick' that allows cheating in, say, Madden. So when I get my butt stomped, I realize I'm just really bad at the game, and can't blame cheating ;-)