Hey (after looking like a complete ass in front of you) are you guys hiring programmers? Recently graduating computer engineer with a penchant for OOP.
I was half expecting him to wish for more wishes, have godlike strength/power/intelligence, use an einstein quote, or say he likes everything the way it is....
(Yes i did use bold and italics to make fun of the bad format of the article)
Has Spector ever
produced anything average, I wonder?
Mr.Spector wrote some books that he has mentioned that were subpar.
A quick search on amazon will give you a
list of what he's written (lameness filter won't let me put a link, but the URL: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-ur l/index=books&field-author=Spector%2C%20Warren). Disclaimer:
I haven't read any of these, so I dunno if any of them are excellent or subpar, but in interviews, he's mentioned that he hated them....
Warren Spector (aka God) in charge is the best news I've heard in the PC Gaming industry!
Everything outta IonStorm will mean it has a great plot, and incredible gameplay, not to mention a good RPG element!
My only question is why not change the name to "Looking Glass Studios"? After the major breaking of Looking Glass, Warren hired most of the employees. Its almost like a reincarnation!
Ads are only successful when they are annoying/intrusive. Its the like basic rule of marketing. When everyone does the same thing, it isn't annoying anymore and the marketeers have to switch.
For people browsing the web, its now simple to just ignore the top inch of a webpage, because its an ad. Pop-up's are the new annoyances. Give it a year, and people will be adept at ignorning them, and they'll have to find something more intrusive (maybe putting the add right in the middle of the sentence you are reading?). The point is, marketing evolves with humans. They'll always be annoying. Might as well get used to being annoyed (whatever happened to my right of happiness??).
The next level seems clear: to round up convicted murders and psychopaths and have them tear one
another up, then sell the grisly pictures over the Web to anybody with $10. Maybe fires, traffic
accidents, shootings, or the next federal and state executions could be broadcast that way, too, a new
revenue source for embattled popular media. Believe me, it will happen.
Ever read "The Running Man" by Richard Bachman (aka Stephen King)? I'm not talkin the cheesy movie with 'ahhhnold', but the book.
Jon, I think your beef is more along the lines of reality based TV than its relation to the internet. Lots of worse, cheesier, get more money techniques exist on the internet, and the bigbrother fiasco doesn't surprise any of us.
Yes, reality TV is getting out of hand, but the public still watches. Therefore, they try and make more money by giving us more.
Its amazing.... after all these years of great media, companies are just selling stuff to make more money. SURPRISE!
I just hope they set a warning that
you need a plugin to run Java,
From the article: Without this step, "any Web
page that contains Java
applications will not run -- it
will be a dead page," said Jan
Vitek, a professor of computer
science at Purdue University,
A "dead page" tells me that it isn't popping up a warning, but giving you like a 404....
UGH!
Wait... allow me to correct myself. If Napster does anything like "Natalie Portman signs on to Napster as intern, puts in a beowulf cluster, then pours grits down her pants", please post that article.
I entirely agree. The next napster article should be "Napster regains itself as king of online sharing" or "Napster files for Chapter 11". We don't care if its anything else.
produce energy significantly in excess of what
they're putting in
And this isn't enough? Sounds like a perpetual motion machine that creates extra energy. Think about it. Put these in a "Distributive Model" and I don't think we need to worry about rising gas prices.
Maybe I'm just not *getting it* (and I can already feel the replies that are gonna call me an idiot...).
Lets not be zealots like are closed minded friends. Open source is superior for lots of applications, but not necessarily all applications.
A very specific program for a very small client (only) isn't a good open source project. Open source is wonderful if it works with/for a large communitee. Allow me to explain a little better. Its not a good open source project if it only works/only needed for one company and will never be needed again, because it won't reap the benefits of open source (no one will check the code for errors, or want to expand the code or add new features, etc...).
I am for open/free source, but I just don't want everyone to have a narrow view of open source.
This probably isn't the best example (I'm sure that several people that reply to this will point it out). I'm just trying to explain that closed source still has its advantages, however few there may be.
-- "That's one small step for man..." "STOP POKING ME!!!!"
Libraries are how napster got the idea in the first place! Sharing music is like sharing literature. If its illegal for music, it *must* be illegal for books! Watch out, everyone, the internet is next.... then your phone.... then talking to people....
Moderators, please note the extreme sarcasm in the way I'm typing;-)
-- "That's one small step for man..." "STOP POKING ME!!!!"
It was fantastic. Katz is trying really hard to get "in" with the geek crowd. He expects the geeks to really hate anything made by computers cause it isn't "perfect." Well, I'll be damned cause I thought the movie was perfect.
From the beginning of the movie, where you can see a closeup of the lead actresses... her hair movies perfectly (I believe they traced each hair folicle differently), you can see the pores on her skin, you can see -blemishes- on her skin. Its not like a perfect human, but a -real- human. Even the subtle expressions on the faces showed the perfect amount of emotion. Another impressive part was after a butch marine chick was fighting a battle with the "phantoms", she had hard nipples. Talk about attention to details!;-) I was in awe from the beginning to the end. Nothing said "fake" or "plastic" to me, I, actually, had to keep telling myself that this was made by computers, because it was so unbelivably good. Watch for physics mistakes, or fluid dynamic mistakes. Everything worked like it should of. I felt the lip sincing was on, animation was spectacular, and everything fell into place. Katz was just trying to predict everyone's feelings (and failed like normal).
I agree with you. The funny part is, so does michael. From the article: It's pretty easy
to settle when you're completely shut down anyway.
He says that its completely shut down anyway, yet he still posts the article. Not quite awake, yet, michael?
You know the really bad part, michael has a tendency to mod down people that make fun of him. I guess you all can still see my posts after this if you browse -1...
Just think about it: With a console, you CAN'T issure patches for a game.
This is true today, but probably not tomorrow. The birth of having broadband on your console box is an open invitation to gaming companies to sell the game quickly, because they can always patch it if necessary. But we all know that this is a serious problem with the software industry to date. Its business pushing software too far. But, alas, I digress...
-- "That's one small step for man..." "STOP POKING ME!!!!"
Allowing competition into the market will allow (gasp) innovation to be present.
Ahhh...Innovation would take over, until some kid makes something really new and exciting. He see's this new feature implemented and -everyone- is using it. Then he realizes, "everyone is using my idea, my product, and I'm not getting squat for it!"
Enter in the lawyer and patent laws. Finally, the kid patents the product, and starts charging everyone... distributers, end users, code borrowers, everyone. Everyone claims monopoly, it goes through the courts, cause taxpayers millions, and very little is done. Please read the beginning of what I wrote for the next part of the story (notice the recursion loop).
Every utopia has its flaws when actually attempted. Something *major* would have to happen to the economy (and government/laws for that matter) to get what you dream of. We can dream, and strive for it, just don't expect it to entirely happen.
I agree. Open source is great, but its not the answer for *everything*. Open source zealots are just as bad as closed source zealots (but has nothing to do with Protoss Zealots). The point is, you need to know when to use it and when not to. The balance is the key here...
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Hey (after looking like a complete ass in front of you) are you guys hiring programmers? Recently graduating computer engineer with a penchant for OOP.
Hey.... its worth a shot....
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I must say... the wishes are kinda lame.
I was half expecting him to wish for more wishes, have godlike strength/power/intelligence, use an einstein quote, or say he likes everything the way it is....
(Yes i did use bold and italics to make fun of the bad format of the article)
--
Has Spector ever produced anything average, I wonder?
r l/index=books&field-author=Spector%2C%20Warren).
Mr.Spector wrote some books that he has mentioned that were subpar.
A quick search on amazon will give you a list of what he's written (lameness filter won't let me put a link, but the URL: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-u
Disclaimer:
I haven't read any of these, so I dunno if any of them are excellent or subpar, but in interviews, he's mentioned that he hated them....
--
Warren Spector (aka God) in charge is the best news I've heard in the PC Gaming industry!
Everything outta IonStorm will mean it has a great plot, and incredible gameplay, not to mention a good RPG element!
My only question is why not change the name to "Looking Glass Studios"? After the major breaking of Looking Glass, Warren hired most of the employees. Its almost like a reincarnation!
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I knew I shouldn't of taken that speed reading class!! ;-)
My apologies.
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What about the original final fantasy for the NES??
I still play that game!
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Anyone buy my wife in the next room,
;-)
Post a picture and a price, please.
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Ads are only successful when they are annoying/intrusive. Its the like basic rule of marketing. When everyone does the same thing, it isn't annoying anymore and the marketeers have to switch.
For people browsing the web, its now simple to just ignore the top inch of a webpage, because its an ad. Pop-up's are the new annoyances. Give it a year, and people will be adept at ignorning them, and they'll have to find something more intrusive (maybe putting the add right in the middle of the sentence you are reading?). The point is, marketing evolves with humans. They'll always be annoying. Might as well get used to being annoyed (whatever happened to my right of happiness??).
--
The next level seems clear: to round up convicted murders and psychopaths and have them tear one another up, then sell the grisly pictures over the Web to anybody with $10. Maybe fires, traffic accidents, shootings, or the next federal and state executions could be broadcast that way, too, a new revenue source for embattled popular media. Believe me, it will happen.
Ever read "The Running Man" by Richard Bachman (aka Stephen King)? I'm not talkin the cheesy movie with 'ahhhnold', but the book.
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Jon, I think your beef is more along the lines of reality based TV than its relation to the internet. Lots of worse, cheesier, get more money techniques exist on the internet, and the bigbrother fiasco doesn't surprise any of us.
Yes, reality TV is getting out of hand, but the public still watches. Therefore, they try and make more money by giving us more.
Its amazing.... after all these years of great media, companies are just selling stuff to make more money. SURPRISE!
--
I just hope they set a warning that you need a plugin to run Java,
From the article:
Without this step, "any Web page that contains Java applications will not run -- it will be a dead page," said Jan Vitek, a professor of computer science at Purdue University,
A "dead page" tells me that it isn't popping up a warning, but giving you like a 404....
UGH!
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Ask that to all the DirectTV hackers that can't use there DirectTV reciever anymore...
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Wait... allow me to correct myself. If Napster does anything like "Natalie Portman signs on to Napster as intern, puts in a beowulf cluster, then pours grits down her pants", please post that article.
--
I entirely agree. The next napster article should be "Napster regains itself as king of online sharing" or "Napster files for Chapter 11". We don't care if its anything else.
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I think Shakespeare (I think) said it best when he said "Kill all the lawyers!"
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produce energy significantly in excess of what they're putting in
And this isn't enough? Sounds like a perpetual motion machine that creates extra energy. Think about it. Put these in a "Distributive Model" and I don't think we need to worry about rising gas prices.
Maybe I'm just not *getting it* (and I can already feel the replies that are gonna call me an idiot...).
--
Lets not be zealots like are closed minded friends. Open source is superior for lots of applications, but not necessarily all applications.
A very specific program for a very small client (only) isn't a good open source project. Open source is wonderful if it works with/for a large communitee. Allow me to explain a little better. Its not a good open source project if it only works/only needed for one company and will never be needed again, because it won't reap the benefits of open source (no one will check the code for errors, or want to expand the code or add new features, etc...).
I am for open/free source, but I just don't want everyone to have a narrow view of open source. This probably isn't the best example (I'm sure that several people that reply to this will point it out). I'm just trying to explain that closed source still has its advantages, however few there may be.
--
"That's one small step for man..." "STOP POKING ME!!!!"
Libraries are how napster got the idea in the first place! Sharing music is like sharing literature. If its illegal for music, it *must* be illegal for books! Watch out, everyone, the internet is next.... then your phone.... then talking to people....
;-)
Moderators, please note the extreme sarcasm in the way I'm typing
--
"That's one small step for man..." "STOP POKING ME!!!!"
It was fantastic. Katz is trying really hard to get "in" with the geek crowd. He expects the geeks to really hate anything made by computers cause it isn't "perfect." Well, I'll be damned cause I thought the movie was perfect.
;-)
From the beginning of the movie, where you can see a closeup of the lead actresses... her hair movies perfectly (I believe they traced each hair folicle differently), you can see the pores on her skin, you can see -blemishes- on her skin. Its not like a perfect human, but a -real- human. Even the subtle expressions on the faces showed the perfect amount of emotion. Another impressive part was after a butch marine chick was fighting a battle with the "phantoms", she had hard nipples. Talk about attention to details!
I was in awe from the beginning to the end. Nothing said "fake" or "plastic" to me, I, actually, had to keep telling myself that this was made by computers, because it was so unbelivably good. Watch for physics mistakes, or fluid dynamic mistakes. Everything worked like it should of. I felt the lip sincing was on, animation was spectacular, and everything fell into place. Katz was just trying to predict everyone's feelings (and failed like normal).
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I agree with you. The funny part is, so does michael. From the article:
It's pretty easy to settle when you're completely shut down anyway.
He says that its completely shut down anyway, yet he still posts the article. Not quite awake, yet, michael?
You know the really bad part, michael has a tendency to mod down people that make fun of him. I guess you all can still see my posts after this if you browse -1...
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You mean we have to worry about space (might as well add cpu/memory) efficency?
If you ask me, we shoulda been worrying about even when the technology was/is cheap.....
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Just think about it: With a console, you CAN'T issure patches for a game.
This is true today, but probably not tomorrow. The birth of having broadband on your console box is an open invitation to gaming companies to sell the game quickly, because they can always patch it if necessary. But we all know that this is a serious problem with the software industry to date. Its business pushing software too far. But, alas, I digress...
--
"That's one small step for man..." "STOP POKING ME!!!!"
Allowing competition into the market will allow (gasp) innovation to be present.
Ahhh...Innovation would take over, until some kid makes something really new and exciting. He see's this new feature implemented and -everyone- is using it. Then he realizes, "everyone is using my idea, my product, and I'm not getting squat for it!"
Enter in the lawyer and patent laws. Finally, the kid patents the product, and starts charging everyone... distributers, end users, code borrowers, everyone. Everyone claims monopoly, it goes through the courts, cause taxpayers millions, and very little is done. Please read the beginning of what I wrote for the next part of the story (notice the recursion loop).
Every utopia has its flaws when actually attempted.
Something *major* would have to happen to the economy (and government/laws for that matter) to get what you dream of. We can dream, and strive for it, just don't expect it to entirely happen.
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I may, also, win millions of dollars if I play the lottery, but that doesn't mean I buy any lottery tickets.
Think about how many people would volunteer, and then think of the odds that you are the one chosen.
"Lottery is taxes on those with bad math skills" (I know that's probably misquoted, but you get the jist).
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I agree. Open source is great, but its not the answer for *everything*. Open source zealots are just as bad as closed source zealots (but has nothing to do with Protoss Zealots). The point is, you need to know when to use it and when not to. The balance is the key here...
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