I see your point. And keep my tat covered up at work, but any corporation that ACTUALLY wants the only kind of diversity that really matters (in the survival sense), which is diversity of viewpoint, should expect that people who think in 'different' modes might have a different appearance. If I was hiring coders, designers or marketers I think that piercings and outrageous tats would be s sign of 'out of the box' thinking (well, more of a indicator if the possibility that the modified one was an original thinker, they might just be a following sheep, but at least they are following something besides Bschool clonishness.)
You might be right, but for those of us with lives and families online gaming can be a pain.
I only have a few hours a week to play games, and those come at odd an unpredictable times; thus it is a royal pain to log onto a server of join a clan, etc.
Hell, I play games because I want to gedt the hell away FROM having to interact with other people!:-)
Give me the following:
1- GREAT AI 2-unpredictible replay 3- DVD install 4- supreme realism (e.g if you get shot with a 9mm round your subsequent performance WILL be seriously impared, DOH) 5"good enough" graphics - nice but will not make up for bad design as afar as the immersive experince goes.
Do the above and I'll gladly pay $100 or so several times a year for a good PC game. I'm 44, I've been playing games since Spacewar in 1976 and rebuilt my whole PC to play Wolf 3d when it came out; cost is not an issue, quality is.
No slam on teens and 20 somethings, was there and still think that the average gamer is above average intelligence, but my demographic is a little different.
It was "common sense" that the sun went around the earth, it was "common sense" that a heavier object would fall faster than a lighter object (all things being equal), and that an object that was moving would do so only as a result of a continuing force, and on and on.
Thhe fact that this is a underhanded flamefest is a Good Thing, IMO. If Kerry thinks the leaders of other countries are going to be any nicer than thhe WORST that Rove and the swifties can throw at him he's nuts. Welcome to the big leagues, John. But then I'm a Libertarian and so I KNOW my party is going to lose, so let 'em rogh each other up. There really is no hope until we shitcan the two party system and Greens, Libertarians and everyone else can have an actual reason to VOTE for someone they give a crap about.
But you have to admit that it is pretty stupid for the FBI and CIA to not be able to share information with each other and with local police agencies. It would be like having to have several different video cards, one for games, one for work, one for email, just a wast. I think it's stupid to have seperate national and international intelligence agencies -roll NSA, CIA, NRO and FBI into one and eliminate reduncency.
Thus, if -Competent, Evil deal with by steering towards co workers, -if Incompetent Harmless, hang out with, senl lots of 'feel good' memos and cutsie emails, -if Incompetent Evil - HIDE -if Competent Harmless then upwardly delegate as much work as possible.
Some people, myself included, will simply not invest in any company that does not expense options. Other people will gladly take risks in companies that do whatever the hell they want in granting and expensing options. Maybe one party will make money, maybe both, maybe neither; you pays your money and you take you place at the table WRT betting on risks/rewards. Of course I realize that I have little chance of catching the next totally hot startup, but I've studied a hell of a lot of accounting and IMO a company is only as good as the accounting method they use; anybody throwing money around in the market who doesn't know GAAP and SAP and the difference betweent them is a fool- they still might be a lucky fool, but still a fool.
I get 1.5 meg on my SBC DSL and good cheap phone and long distance service. As usual, the state should just shut the crap up and get out of the market.
This state is run by a bunch of socialist baboons whose then wonder why every business that can afford to gets out as quickly as possible.
IMHO quality images do more to create and maintain public enthusiasm for space exploration than all the statistics in the world about the benefits of the space program; far too many geeks and/or scientists underestimate and underutilize the best of all marketing tools we have for getting funding and support for the space program. I hope they don't forget about the value of a pretty picture.
I apologize, you are quite right and I did not express myself clearly; of course all decent hackers are artists.
I *MEANT* "skill with visual composition and realization in specific sketching, drawing and painting", at least in this context. That'll teach me to post before drinking my morning coffee.....
Best quote from the story: "hardest thing is to create the drawing and this is something that no software can do for you."
Amen
I've got a couple of friends who are with great with computer graphics the way I was with photography: technical mastery but little artistic sensibility; I got Zone system and the Schwiempflug rule (converging fields of focus) down just like my buds have Quark/Photoslop whatever, but - somebody with artistic ability -that's a rarity,a bitch to teach and seldom combined with hacking ability
Correct. My understanding is that they were going to try to provide a 'talent agent' model; matching a developer with a client; building the hardware and supporting the OS would give them leverage and expertise to do so efficently. The goal (actually, the Holy Grail)of a lot of the smarter big companies is to co-opt the nimblness of small cos and individuals yet maintain the assets that go along with hugeness -capital and other resources.
Do you really think that it was just accident and incompetence resulting in massive profits that they pretty much let Windows be pirated for years here, right up to rolling out a pretty effective validation system with XP? If they had had such a system much earlier Redhat/SUSE would have crushed '95, but 100 million joe/jane users thought they were so slick having their brother in law the ' hacker' put their copy of Windows on.. until one fine day XP comes out, they have a massive previous market share, built on the backs of 'leet' folks and *NOW* you've got to pay the piper since everything you and everybody else has runs only on windows and Linux/Mac/OS2 are on the margins. Sheer genius; like any 'con' built on the laziness and greed of the sucker- just done to millions over decades. Of course, maybe I'm just paranoid and Gates and co are just real lucky....
yeah, I can think of a few sentences involving Jenna Jameson and/or Taylor Rain that'll give infowalker some real interesting 'third party behaviors':-)
perhaps true, but many of us have real lives and find it truly impracticle to play oneline; I have maybe two hours a week, in ten minute increments, to play games (and no problem or compunction about plunking down $50, $100 or more to buy one). I am not interested in keeping up my skillz to match a bunch of teenagers with no job or family who are online for two or ten hours a day, so for me (and a lot of my 40+ ex hacker buddies) 'massivly multiplayer' just does not matter; just like I love MTGathering but hell if I'm going to spend $3K on cards, my friends and I all play with proxies (copies of cards) so it's a matter of skill, not having no life outside of the game. (no disrespect meant to someone whose entire life is gaming, I was there once and games are a very valuable tool of intellectual development, IMHO) At 43 I'm one of the original video game generation, starting with \spacewar and various Apple1 sims. I still love gaming as much as I did 20 or 25 years ago but if I have a choice between jumping my wife's bones or hanging with a bunch of 15 year olds in some 'clan' the kids can go on without me. Sorry, I've got the doctorate to work on and other stuff to do to bother with a LAN party, so I won't pay one cent more for that functionality; good AI (defined as something that can suprise me 9 times out of 10 and approach each situation differently even in replays) is worth an extra $30 or $40.
My job should be fucking protected because I fucking VOTE.
Fuck the rest of the world,saved their asses from starvation, saved their asses from communism and now the bastards want to do my $20 an hour job for $2, nuke 'em after we test our airborne aids virus on any of them ('Them'= non english speaking non American citizen)
The old saw "it's easier to get forgiveness than permission". The only difference is that they are getting a little more savy (or conservative) as to when to pull back before the lawsuit actually starts. What do they have to lose by trying- the undying love of the geek community?
I, being over 40 and thus of declining testastarone and ever more practical cars would gladly have one of these devices in my car in exchange for reduced insurance rates. Also, the last two times I've been in accidents I'VE BEEN STOPPED!!! Done want one? fine, just don't bitch if your insurance doubles and mine halves.
I am as strong a second admendment supporter as anyone who has ever posted on Slashdot, but, IMHO driving a car is a *PRIVILEGE* not a *RIGHT*. We can debate forever if having a gun is or is not a right (right= inherently belonging to the individual and not to be taken away from them unless they violate the social contract, eg incarceration). PRIVILEGE = PRIVATE (privi) + LAW (lege). PRIVILEGES have to be earned and can be made conditional upon meeting qualifications.
Notice that those who fly airplanes do not bitch about the requirements. Personally, I am of the opinion that there should be a voice recorder, a camera at each of the four corners, a yearly license renewal involving a very strict driving test and built in breathelyzwers in ALL cars. Couple this with vastly INCREASED or eliminated speed limits; make it as hard to get a DL as it is to get a commerical airplane lic, but then let those willing to undergo the scrutiny to drive as fast as they want on the interstate. IMO privelege must always equal responsibility.
I love high tech as much as anyone on Slashdot, but paper ballots make a whole lot more sense: with even a modicum of security you have the originals for recount (recounts being actually pretty straightfoward Florida FUD not withstanding).
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I see your point. And keep my tat covered up at work, but any corporation that ACTUALLY wants the only kind of diversity that really matters (in the survival sense), which is diversity of viewpoint, should expect that people who think in 'different' modes might have a different appearance. If I was hiring coders, designers or marketers I think that piercings and outrageous tats would be s sign of 'out of the box' thinking (well, more of a indicator if the possibility that the modified one was an original thinker, they might just be a following sheep, but at least they are following something besides Bschool clonishness.)
.02 worth.
Just my
You might be right, but for those of us with lives and families online gaming can be a pain.
:-)
I only have a few hours a week to play games, and those come at odd an unpredictable times; thus it is a royal pain to log onto a server of join a clan, etc.
Hell, I play games because I want to gedt the hell away FROM having to interact with other people!
Give me the following:
1- GREAT AI
2-unpredictible replay
3- DVD install
4- supreme realism (e.g if you get shot with a 9mm round your subsequent performance WILL be seriously impared, DOH)
5"good enough" graphics - nice but will not make up for bad design as afar as the immersive experince goes.
Do the above and I'll gladly pay $100 or so several times a year for a good PC game. I'm 44, I've been playing games since Spacewar in 1976 and rebuilt my whole PC to play Wolf 3d when it came out; cost is not an issue, quality is.
No slam on teens and 20 somethings, was there and still think that the average gamer is above average intelligence, but my demographic is a little different.
The great Richard Fenyman said that "anyone who was NOT confused by and annoyed at quantum mechanics did not understand it"!
Exactly!
It was "common sense" that the sun went around the earth, it was "common sense" that a heavier object would fall faster than a lighter object (all things being equal), and that an object that was moving would do so only as a result of a continuing force, and on and on.
Gee, looks like they got some free word of mouth advertising *AND* market research. Pretty smart.
Went out running this morning (4:30am PST, 13:30 GMT).
Wow....
Thhe fact that this is a underhanded flamefest is a Good Thing, IMO.
If Kerry thinks the leaders of other countries are going to be any nicer than thhe WORST that Rove and the swifties can throw at him he's nuts. Welcome to the big leagues, John.
But then I'm a Libertarian and so I KNOW my party is going to lose, so let 'em rogh each other up. There really is no hope until we shitcan the two party system and Greens, Libertarians and everyone else can have an actual reason to VOTE for someone they give a crap about.
But you have to admit that it is pretty stupid for the FBI and CIA to not be able to share information with each other and with local police agencies. It would be like having to have several different video cards, one for games, one for work, one for email, just a wast. I think it's stupid to have seperate national and international intelligence agencies -roll NSA, CIA, NRO and FBI into one and eliminate reduncency.
simple but effective boss matrix:
Evil
Harmless
by
Competent
Incompetent
Thus, if
-Competent, Evil deal with by steering towards co workers,
-if Incompetent Harmless, hang out with, senl lots of 'feel good' memos and cutsie emails,
-if Incompetent Evil - HIDE
-if Competent Harmless then upwardly delegate as much work as possible.
Some people, myself included, will simply not invest in any company that does not expense options.
Other people will gladly take risks in companies that do whatever the hell they want in granting and expensing options.
Maybe one party will make money, maybe both, maybe neither; you pays your money and you take you place at the table WRT betting on risks/rewards.
Of course I realize that I have little chance of catching the next totally hot startup, but I've studied a hell of a lot of accounting and IMO a company is only as good as the accounting method they use; anybody throwing money around in the market who doesn't know GAAP and SAP and the difference betweent them is a fool- they still might be a lucky fool, but still a fool.
I get 1.5 meg on my SBC DSL and good cheap phone and long distance service. As usual, the state should just shut the crap up and get out of the market.
This state is run by a bunch of socialist baboons whose then wonder why every business that can afford to gets out as quickly as possible.
like, particularly in regards to the Asia Carrerra skin......
IMHO quality images do more to create and maintain public enthusiasm for space exploration than all the statistics in the world about the benefits of the space program; far too many geeks and/or scientists underestimate and underutilize the best of all marketing tools we have for getting funding and support for the space program. I hope they don't forget about the value of a pretty picture.
I apologize, you are quite right and I did not express myself clearly; of course all decent hackers are artists.
I *MEANT* "skill with visual composition and realization in specific sketching, drawing and painting", at least in this context.
That'll teach me to post before drinking my morning coffee.....
Best quote from the story:
"hardest thing is to create the drawing and this is something that no software can do for you."
Amen
I've got a couple of friends who are with great with computer graphics the way I was with photography: technical mastery but little artistic sensibility; I got Zone system and the Schwiempflug rule (converging fields of focus) down just like my buds have Quark/Photoslop whatever, but - somebody with artistic ability -that's a rarity,a bitch to teach and seldom combined with hacking ability
Most of the idiot homphobes (wait- I'm being redundant) wouldn't know Turing from Barney the Dinosaur.
Correct. My understanding is that they were going to try to provide a 'talent agent' model; matching a developer with a client; building the hardware and supporting the OS would give them leverage and expertise to do so efficently. The goal (actually, the Holy Grail)of a lot of the smarter big companies is to co-opt the nimblness of small cos and individuals yet maintain the assets that go along with hugeness -capital and other resources.
Why only in third world countries?
Do you really think that it was just accident and incompetence resulting in massive profits that they pretty much let Windows be pirated for years here, right up to rolling out a pretty effective validation system with XP? If they had had such a system much earlier Redhat/SUSE would have crushed '95, but 100 million joe/jane users thought they were so slick having their brother in law the ' hacker' put their copy of Windows on.. until one fine day XP comes out, they have a massive previous market share, built on the backs of 'leet' folks and *NOW* you've got to pay the piper since everything you and everybody else has runs only on windows and Linux/Mac/OS2 are on the margins. Sheer genius; like any 'con' built on the laziness and greed of the sucker- just done to millions over decades.
Of course, maybe I'm just paranoid and Gates and co are just real lucky....
yeah, I can think of a few sentences involving Jenna Jameson and/or Taylor Rain that'll give infowalker some real interesting 'third party behaviors' :-)
perhaps true, but many of us have real lives and find it truly impracticle to play oneline; I have maybe two hours a week, in ten minute increments, to play games (and no problem or compunction about plunking down $50, $100 or more to buy one). I am not interested in keeping up my skillz to match a bunch of teenagers with no job or family who are online for two or ten hours a day, so for me (and a lot of my 40+ ex hacker buddies) 'massivly multiplayer' just does not matter; just like I love MTGathering but hell if I'm going to spend $3K on cards, my friends and I all play with proxies (copies of cards) so it's a matter of skill, not having no life outside of the game. (no disrespect meant to someone whose entire life is gaming, I was there once and games are a very valuable tool of intellectual development, IMHO)
At 43 I'm one of the original video game generation, starting with \spacewar and various Apple1 sims. I still love gaming as much as I did 20 or 25 years ago but if I have a choice between jumping my wife's bones or hanging with a bunch of 15 year olds in some 'clan' the kids can go on without me. Sorry, I've got the doctorate to work on and other stuff to do to bother with a LAN party, so I won't pay one cent more for that functionality; good AI (defined as something that can suprise me 9 times out of 10 and approach each situation differently even in replays) is worth an extra $30 or $40.
My job should be fucking protected because I fucking VOTE.
Fuck the rest of the world,saved their asses from starvation, saved their asses from communism and now the bastards want to do my $20 an hour job for $2, nuke 'em after we test our airborne aids virus on any of them ('Them'= non english speaking non American citizen)
The old saw "it's easier to get forgiveness than permission". The only difference is that they are getting a little more savy (or conservative) as to when to pull back before the lawsuit actually starts. What do they have to lose by trying- the undying love of the geek community?
Pretty simple: Let the market decide.
I, being over 40 and thus of declining testastarone and ever more practical cars would gladly have one of these devices in my car in exchange for reduced insurance rates.
Also, the last two times I've been in accidents I'VE BEEN STOPPED!!! Done want one? fine, just don't bitch if your insurance doubles and mine halves.
I am as strong a second admendment supporter as anyone who has ever posted on Slashdot, but, IMHO driving a car is a *PRIVILEGE* not a *RIGHT*. We can debate forever if having a gun is or is not a right (right= inherently belonging to the individual and not to be taken away from them unless they violate the social contract, eg incarceration). PRIVILEGE = PRIVATE (privi) + LAW (lege). PRIVILEGES have to be earned and can be made conditional upon meeting qualifications.
Notice that those who fly airplanes do not bitch about the requirements.
Personally, I am of the opinion that there should be a voice recorder, a camera at each of the four corners, a yearly license renewal involving a very strict driving test and built in breathelyzwers in ALL cars. Couple this with vastly INCREASED or eliminated speed limits; make it as hard to get a DL as it is to get a commerical airplane lic, but then let those willing to undergo the scrutiny to drive as fast as they want on the interstate. IMO privelege must always equal responsibility.
I thought it said "indistinguishable as actual content".
I love high tech as much as anyone on Slashdot, but paper ballots make a whole lot more sense: with even a modicum of security you have the originals for recount (recounts being actually pretty straightfoward Florida FUD not withstanding).