If you don't read the reviews, you don't realize its just everquest with SW races. When people find out you can't fly, let alone buy, spaceships, the game will tank.
Honestly, how can you make a SW game without spaceships?!?!
Since most CE apps (IE mobile phones) are coded with J2ME, now-a-days, simply adding J2ME into this new Linux extension would mean easy portability of already existing applications.
It all comes down to moola. You can have a well experienced older coder, and one a young kid that can code well....
First of all, the kid is probably half (or less) the cost of the older guy.
Second, you can try to lure the kid into staying in the project for a long time, thereby helping maintainability.
But on the other side of the fence, older coders don't want to be in management, so they'll always be your gruntwork force. If they wanted to be in management, they woulda tried a long time ago.
Surprisingly, though, most techies have no interest in going into management...
The best way to get into the gaming industry is to know someone in the gaming industry. Its impossible to get into, low pay, incredible amount of hours, and very little credit (unless you are the lead designer).
FYI - I'm a coder/techie, not HR. But your bitter rant is spoken like the 'things have gotten bad, I bitch about it to everyone except those that can change things'
Don't you think if they cared things wouldn't have gotten so bad in the first place?
Are they even aware of the problem? Has someone confronted them about what's going on?
Ever heard the expression The squeaky wheel gets the oil? Bitching to me doesn't solve anything, tactfully complaining to your manager, might.
My father is a 'big wig' in HR. We've seen many a strikes in the past.
Dealing with a union is nice, cause its a one-on-one arguement and you can get things moving that way.
But if everyone leaves in your situation, they need to know why you left, and who to talk to make things right.
Another point, during strikes, about 25% of the time, the people were simply replaced.
You are talking about a poor IT economy. Lots of unemployeed geeks that just want a job, even if its 50-60 hour weeks (as long as you can put food on the table).
The bottom line? Don't even think about doing this unless you are prepared not to come back.
You're better off just doing the work, and talking to management about compensation.
With all due respect, don't you think that one-sided stabs and heavy opinions shouldn't be put on the ends of articles, but should, instead, be placed in the comments? Whats the general opinion on that stance with the editors?
Absolutely true (Ultima 4 was my first, and VII was the best cause it took the longest... well over 4 months of constant playing), but its online games that really hurt the rest. Its too frustrating jumping into a game where someone reigns over everyone else. Now, I only play on servers full of friends, so I know that no one is cheating, and everyone just plays to have fun.
We here in central Oklahoma, USA are just climbing out of the wreckage of another series of tornadoes.
Ok, you just climbed out of tornado wreckage (which is nothing to laugh about, I've been through a couple when I lived in Indiana), but the first thing that comes to your mind is dude, I bet we can submit this to/. and they'll post it!
Seriously, though, its cool that technology can help when mother nature is being a muthah...
The answer is JBuilder. If you want to spend some cash, get the professional (or enterprise) edition. They are simply the best and easiest IDEs to use in Java.
And the standard edition you can get for free from Borland (although you do need to register).
Exactly... generics give you type specific containers, which is really nice if you need type specific coding (which is important in stuff like financial institute coding).
The only two alternatives is typed arrays (which only solves 1D solutions, stuff like trees and hashmaps can't be solved this way), or wrapping containers with type specific code (which is just tedious and a pain to maintain, and can be worked around).
I'm in the middle of thief2 right now (replaying it in preparation of Thief3). I really enjoy the second one more than the first, because its a lot more sneaking around people and machines to get the goals. The first had too much 'burricks and zombie' missions that I really didn't care for.
Umm, I believe we have already proven that life exists in the void of space. IIRC, wasn't MIR 'infected' (yes, it was a bad case, from what I heard) with a type of mold that wasn't terrestrial to our planet?
Now, IANA Astronomer/physicist/biologist (I'm just an engineer), but here's my input.
What you said is ENTIRELY true. We have no clue as to how other types of life can be formed. However, we DO know that water CAN cause life (worked for us, right?), so that's the 'first step' to finding life. Find stuff that formed like we did. Once we rule that out, we go into the void known as theoretical life, and try to piece something together.
Its easier to prove something exists when you have a good understanding of it before looking at something that could be 'anything'.
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Ah, I see you reviewed the book that goes BING!
Its that simple.
If you don't read the reviews, you don't realize its just everquest with SW races. When people find out you can't fly, let alone buy, spaceships, the game will tank.
Honestly, how can you make a SW game without spaceships?!?!
Since most CE apps (IE mobile phones) are coded with J2ME, now-a-days, simply adding J2ME into this new Linux extension would mean easy portability of already existing applications.
Lets see, chief shareholder of MS (which competes with Linux), in a PR interview claims that they are better, and linux will go away.
What do you expect people? Bill Gates annouces that Linux is pretty damn good and may give it a whirl, in other news MS stock drops 50%.
This is just bait to get you guys all riled up. Welcome to PR.
What more can you do with linear games such as the ones described in this story.
Who says one player games are linear?
Look at something like Deus Ex.
By placing multiple solutions to every puzzle, and affects that it makes to future stories, you can make a VERY complex and replayable game.
It just needs effort and desire poured into it.
You can use it royalty-free IF you publish your game (when you make one) with garagegames.
It all comes down to moola. You can have a well experienced older coder, and one a young kid that can code well....
First of all, the kid is probably half (or less) the cost of the older guy.
Second, you can try to lure the kid into staying in the project for a long time, thereby helping maintainability.
But on the other side of the fence, older coders don't want to be in management, so they'll always be your gruntwork force. If they wanted to be in management, they woulda tried a long time ago.
Surprisingly, though, most techies have no interest in going into management...
The best way to get into the gaming industry is to know someone in the gaming industry. Its impossible to get into, low pay, incredible amount of hours, and very little credit (unless you are the lead designer).
;-)
So, would you be my friend?
I'm not gonna play a video game for weeks now...
Moderation is a good thing.
FYI - I'm a coder/techie, not HR. But your bitter rant is spoken like the 'things have gotten bad, I bitch about it to everyone except those that can change things'
Don't you think if they cared things wouldn't have gotten so bad in the first place?
Are they even aware of the problem? Has someone confronted them about what's going on?
Ever heard the expression The squeaky wheel gets the oil? Bitching to me doesn't solve anything, tactfully complaining to your manager, might.
My father is a 'big wig' in HR. We've seen many a strikes in the past.
Dealing with a union is nice, cause its a one-on-one arguement and you can get things moving that way.
But if everyone leaves in your situation, they need to know why you left, and who to talk to make things right.
Another point, during strikes, about 25% of the time, the people were simply replaced.
You are talking about a poor IT economy. Lots of unemployeed geeks that just want a job, even if its 50-60 hour weeks (as long as you can put food on the table).
The bottom line? Don't even think about doing this unless you are prepared not to come back.
You're better off just doing the work, and talking to management about compensation.
With all due respect, don't you think that one-sided stabs and heavy opinions shouldn't be put on the ends of articles, but should, instead, be placed in the comments? Whats the general opinion on that stance with the editors?
But... where would we be without michaels inane, thoughtless quips?
That was retorical.
And now, the downmod!
Lets just hope the effects are a little more modern than the 80s series (although it was a great miniseries back in the day!).
Honestly, though, I think they'd do better to bring in John Doe or Firefly (hell, or even bab5) instead of redo'ing this old flick.
Absolutely true (Ultima 4 was my first, and VII was the best cause it took the longest... well over 4 months of constant playing), but its online games that really hurt the rest. Its too frustrating jumping into a game where someone reigns over everyone else. Now, I only play on servers full of friends, so I know that no one is cheating, and everyone just plays to have fun.
We here in central Oklahoma, USA are just climbing out of the wreckage of another series of tornadoes.
/. and they'll post it!
Ok, you just climbed out of tornado wreckage (which is nothing to laugh about, I've been through a couple when I lived in Indiana), but the first thing that comes to your mind is dude, I bet we can submit this to
Seriously, though, its cool that technology can help when mother nature is being a muthah...
Netbeans? Too slow!
Eclipse? Too Bulky!
The answer is JBuilder. If you want to spend some cash, get the professional (or enterprise) edition. They are simply the best and easiest IDEs to use in Java.
And the standard edition you can get for free from Borland (although you do need to register).
Exactly... generics give you type specific containers, which is really nice if you need type specific coding (which is important in stuff like financial institute coding).
The only two alternatives is typed arrays (which only solves 1D solutions, stuff like trees and hashmaps can't be solved this way), or wrapping containers with type specific code (which is just tedious and a pain to maintain, and can be worked around).
I'm in the middle of thief2 right now (replaying it in preparation of Thief3). I really enjoy the second one more than the first, because its a lot more sneaking around people and machines to get the goals. The first had too much 'burricks and zombie' missions that I really didn't care for.
Umm, I believe we have already proven that life exists in the void of space. IIRC, wasn't MIR 'infected' (yes, it was a bad case, from what I heard) with a type of mold that wasn't terrestrial to our planet?
Now, IANA Astronomer/physicist/biologist (I'm just an engineer), but here's my input.
What you said is ENTIRELY true. We have no clue as to how other types of life can be formed. However, we DO know that water CAN cause life (worked for us, right?), so that's the 'first step' to finding life. Find stuff that formed like we did. Once we rule that out, we go into the void known as theoretical life, and try to piece something together.
Its easier to prove something exists when you have a good understanding of it before looking at something that could be 'anything'.
My thoughts exactly. And not only will it just introduce new problems, how do you plan on switching millions of international users to a new system?
The best, cheapest, most efficient way to handle the issues with email is to fix email, not kill it and start again.
touche
The Best OCR scanner is an intern with a pencil. ;-)
My interests are in science and developer. He does the majority of the science articles that I don't want to miss.
I can usually tolerate his little sentence at the end of a submission, this was just going way too far.