Other than EA and Take Two, who else is currently making baseball games that this deal might affect? Acclaim's All-Star Baseball 2006+ has other issues to deal with at the moment...
I'd rather they'd fix the aging thing, so I can live in a twenty-something body until I die at a relatively normal age. 2030 puts me at about 60 when I go for my immortality jab. I'm not sure I want to spend eternity as a 60-year-old. Or will it make me younger, too?
I recall, after a several hours of furious play on a two player tetris clone, watching a news report on TV. As the newsreader was talking, I was mentally filling in the gaps around their shoulders and head with tetris blocks. I knew then that I should take a longer break before playing again!
It seems like only a few weeks ago we were reading about plastic prisms that will bring us cheaper, better flat screen displays. Are there any new screen technologies that may be making a debut in the stores in the next couple of years?
While you make valid points, remember that this is Joel's open response to college students who would otherwise be contacting him for career advice - not all students would fall into that category. It is fair to say that anyone contacting him for such advice sees his career path as desirable, otherwise they wouldn't be asking.
Robert X Cringley posted this article earlier in the summer describing a system that offers high quality video on demand over narrowband connections. I'm a little sceptical about the codec he describes - I'll believe it when I see it - but interesting, nevertheless. Anyone have any first hand experience with this?
When I transferred to an overseas office back in January, it became apparent that I couldn't take my aquarium with me, so I sold it to a guy at work whose kids were wanting some pet fish after seeing Finding Nemo. No prizes for guessing what he wrote in my leaving card!
Parent hit it on the head... the state of the industry from an outsider's point of view is significantly different to those working (or attempting to work) in the industry. The picture is painted that everything is rosy, and record sales are being made, but where on earth is all the money going? Everything seems to be sliding downhill at the moment, as it has been over the past three or four years, with development studios going under all the time. Even Microsoft have been laying off teams.
Until earlier this year, I lived a few hundred metres down the road from this place. I always wondered if the cameras along the security fence were tracking me as I walked the dog, or if that was just my general paranoia.
it can be harder for a developer to make a quality game when the platform limitations constrict them too much.
Meh.. it depends on your metric of "quality", which is subjective at best. One problem with the PS2, particularly in the early days, was the amount of effort spent on battling with the more powerful but more complex hardware, instead of spending the time making the game fun. More power != Easier development.
Back in my day you were lucky if you didn't have any personal possessions in the building when it was locked and the contents auctioned off on behalf of angry creditors.
I reached this conclusion after using photoshop CS with the Genuine Fractals scaling plugin on a G4 powermac to enlarge the picture over 500%.
Ah, well there's your problem: you need to use the surveillance tape enhancement system from CSI. Grissom & Co will not only find the true explanation, but they'll give you the license plate and a photo of the pilot of the UFO that struck that lamp post after miscalculating his last superluminal speed jump.
I had a problem with IE opening a full screen advert seemingly at random. Spybot and Adaware found nothing, and I'd tried scanning the drive for files containing at least part of the url it was fetching ads from, and again found nothing.
It wasn't until I was playing Star Wars Galaxies that I found the problem. SWG had consumed every last resource on the machine, and Windows popped up an error message saying that a VB script didn't have the memory to open iexplore.exe. This tiny script had gotten itself into my startup, and launches IE pointed at an advert server once an hour. I'm kicking myself for not checking there in the first place, but I'd just assumed it was something that had embedded itself deep into IE.
Thanks SWG! Shame it was a bit dull poking rats with sticks, though.
Of course, in these enlightened days, IE has taken a backseat to Firefox.:)
Agreed... US tv shows are remarkably tame compared to the UK. Even late night broadcasts of shows or films seem to have every remotely adult-themed word or scene blanked out. I found it difficult to believe that so many people wanted further restrictions and censorship... but now, it seems, we find the truth.
I use suprnova essentially for time-shifting tv shows. For example, as I was away for thanksgiving, I missed Enterprise last Friday, and the Saturday repeat, so I downloaded it on Sunday, watched it and deleted it.
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Other than EA and Take Two, who else is currently making baseball games that this deal might affect? Acclaim's All-Star Baseball 2006+ has other issues to deal with at the moment...
I'd rather they'd fix the aging thing, so I can live in a twenty-something body until I die at a relatively normal age. 2030 puts me at about 60 when I go for my immortality jab. I'm not sure I want to spend eternity as a 60-year-old. Or will it make me younger, too?
more space exploration
And while we're limited to sub-light speed travel, immortality will prove rather useful.
I just use a bot to listen to the music and tell me if I liked it or not. It mostly says "no", so I assume it's working fine.
I recall, after a several hours of furious play on a two player tetris clone, watching a news report on TV. As the newsreader was talking, I was mentally filling in the gaps around their shoulders and head with tetris blocks. I knew then that I should take a longer break before playing again!
It seems like only a few weeks ago we were reading about plastic prisms that will bring us cheaper, better flat screen displays. Are there any new screen technologies that may be making a debut in the stores in the next couple of years?
While you make valid points, remember that this is Joel's open response to college students who would otherwise be contacting him for career advice - not all students would fall into that category. It is fair to say that anyone contacting him for such advice sees his career path as desirable, otherwise they wouldn't be asking.
Good grief... going by this story, which describes how text adventures handled swear words, you could have stumbled across a gold mine!
All I need is a "leverage", then I can call house...
Robert X Cringley posted this article earlier in the summer describing a system that offers high quality video on demand over narrowband connections. I'm a little sceptical about the codec he describes - I'll believe it when I see it - but interesting, nevertheless. Anyone have any first hand experience with this?
When I transferred to an overseas office back in January, it became apparent that I couldn't take my aquarium with me, so I sold it to a guy at work whose kids were wanting some pet fish after seeing Finding Nemo. No prizes for guessing what he wrote in my leaving card!
Robert X. Cringley has an interesting theory on IBM's recent PC sell-off here and here.
It's convoluted and mad enough to be the truth...
Parent hit it on the head... the state of the industry from an outsider's point of view is significantly different to those working (or attempting to work) in the industry. The picture is painted that everything is rosy, and record sales are being made, but where on earth is all the money going? Everything seems to be sliding downhill at the moment, as it has been over the past three or four years, with development studios going under all the time. Even Microsoft have been laying off teams.
Obviously, this is going to make the sysadmin job much easier and, quite frankly, dull.
To compensate, I recommend they shape the bricks like tetris blocks.
Until earlier this year, I lived a few hundred metres down the road from this place. I always wondered if the cameras along the security fence were tracking me as I walked the dog, or if that was just my general paranoia.
Reminds me of Excel Pacman... another fine example of bashing nails with a screwdriver. Brilliant, nevertheless.
is what you get on film
Or CCD, in this case...
Single lens reflex - the viewfinder looks through the main camera lens, so what you see - focus, zoom, filters, etc - is what you get on film.
The 2002 remake of The Time Machine, cost $80m but brought in less than $60m, if I'm reading these figures correctly.
it can be harder for a developer to make a quality game when the platform limitations constrict them too much.
Meh.. it depends on your metric of "quality", which is subjective at best. One problem with the PS2, particularly in the early days, was the amount of effort spent on battling with the more powerful but more complex hardware, instead of spending the time making the game fun. More power != Easier development.
Back in my day you were lucky if you didn't have any personal possessions in the building when it was locked and the contents auctioned off on behalf of angry creditors.
So you worked for Acclaim, I gather?
I reached this conclusion after using photoshop CS with the Genuine Fractals scaling plugin on a G4 powermac to enlarge the picture over 500%.
Ah, well there's your problem: you need to use the surveillance tape enhancement system from CSI. Grissom & Co will not only find the true explanation, but they'll give you the license plate and a photo of the pilot of the UFO that struck that lamp post after miscalculating his last superluminal speed jump.
I had a problem with IE opening a full screen advert seemingly at random. Spybot and Adaware found nothing, and I'd tried scanning the drive for files containing at least part of the url it was fetching ads from, and again found nothing.
:)
It wasn't until I was playing Star Wars Galaxies that I found the problem. SWG had consumed every last resource on the machine, and Windows popped up an error message saying that a VB script didn't have the memory to open iexplore.exe. This tiny script had gotten itself into my startup, and launches IE pointed at an advert server once an hour. I'm kicking myself for not checking there in the first place, but I'd just assumed it was something that had embedded itself deep into IE.
Thanks SWG! Shame it was a bit dull poking rats with sticks, though.
Of course, in these enlightened days, IE has taken a backseat to Firefox.
Agreed... US tv shows are remarkably tame compared to the UK. Even late night broadcasts of shows or films seem to have every remotely adult-themed word or scene blanked out. I found it difficult to believe that so many people wanted further restrictions and censorship... but now, it seems, we find the truth.
I use suprnova essentially for time-shifting tv shows. For example, as I was away for thanksgiving, I missed Enterprise last Friday, and the Saturday repeat, so I downloaded it on Sunday, watched it and deleted it.
So, um, am I breaking any laws here, or what?