I haven't bought a new computer since 1995. Since then, I've been running about a generation behind, as far as chips go. With my new G5 at work, I guess it's time to move up from my 266MHz G3 laptop at home. It topped out with 10.2.8 anyways. And yes, my daughter (3 yr old) has a faster Mac than I (333Mhz iMac) and my wife a G4 Cube. Hmmm...G5 laptop...arrrgggglll/drool.
He's flashing back to 1994 when Time and Newsweek first picked up on the term. Arrrggghh! Yes, it was mis-used and over used. And now it's dead. I hope.
Weird! I guess it must be a time thing. I read Neuromancer when it first came out (BBS days!) and was floored. The only thing that had prepared me for it was The Adolesence of P1 and Brunner's Shockwave Rider. The breadth and detail of Gibson's world was amazing, as well as the brevity of his writing. I love how he's able to paint Case in Japan, almost like a painting by Manet, with soundtrack by Berlin. Neuromancer is rather baroque and the style of it reminds me of Jules Verne.
Neuromancer's still on my yearly reading list, along with Mona Lisa Overdrive and Burning Chrome.
I really don't care for his later stuff. While interesting, they seem a little derivitive and more of a retelling. I haven't read Pattern Recognition yet and hope it'll be different.
I guess it all depends on what era you grew up with. If you've been saturated with the internet and email from day one, yeah, it'll be quaint. If you still remember how cool that first red LED watch or calculator was (I still have mine!), and have computers with no hard drives, then Neuromancer was likely earth shattering.
Re:I though otherwise, so did my physics teacher.
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I like the Indiana Jones episode where he is faced by some martial-arts ninja who hops around screams and shouts, waves his hands around menacingly and prepares to attack. Indiana lifts his gun and pulls the trigger once. "Bang". Attacker drops dead.
Was a swordsman, swing a sword around. They'd filmed the scene several times, where Indy was supposed to fight the guy, but Harrison Ford was tired and so pulled his gun fired off a blank at the guy. Film history after that.
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Look at stigmata. Supposedly, people who believe/prey enough develop bleeding sores.
As for the matrix, if your muscles contract hard enough, they could break bones. From what I remember, people rarely use all their muscle cells at the same time. If something caused your brain to send a signal turning all your muscle cells to contract, they could exert some tremendous force. 'Course, you'd likely just tear the anchor points or muscle tissue loose and then really be in a world of hurt.
I have a government issued assault weapon, sold to me by a government sponsored agency. It's an M1 Garand. It has a *shudder* bayonet lug! It also only holds 8 rounds of.30-06 and fires semi-auto (each time you pull the trigger, it fires one round, ejects the spent casing a loads a new round from the fixed magazine). This weapon was one of the reasons we were able to win WWII. Most of the axis troops were armed with bolt action rifles, which took longer to fire.
I've had a bullet bounce back and hit me at the range (not my shot, someone a couple lanes down). It tore a hole in my jeans (skin tight-still wearing jeans I had in high school, several pounds later), cut open my leg and bounced back into the range.
In Sindarin (or is it Quenya), El means star. Aragorn's Elvish name is Elessor or star of hope. There's also Elrond, but I forgot what the rest of his name means.
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I'm invisible to all women except lesbians. And all they want is a drinking buddy and a shoulder to cry on. Oh well, at least I get to hear about lesbian sex.
Base requirements are a 33MHz Quadra with 64MB RAM and 512k VRAM. Sweeeeet! There's only LAN play so you can pick and choose who you go up against. It's not 360 degree, only 45 degrees up and down, so less chance of getting disorientated. You can jump so that's one less key to worry about too.
Game Design (or any other limited professional field) is difficult to break into. When ever I meet or read about someone who's making it in one of these limited fields, I always find that they started early and were obsessed with their chosen activity. It's like trying to get into Pro sports or a professional symphony, or the astronaut corp. There's only so many slots and they are going to go to the best that are out there. This is almost always to someone who has trained their whole life for that slot.
This doesn't mean that you can't enter the field and become good or even great. It's just not likely that you're going to make it on the pro level, if you haven't already started in that field.
The best bet for game design is to find one of the open source engines, some people whose skills compliment your own (artists, sound production, scripting,etc), and start throwing together your own games and putting them out to be d/l'd. If your stuff is any good, your business might take off, ala Bungie and Ambrosia. If not, you'll still have fun making games. You'll just have to find something else to do to pay the bills.
From my experience, just about any real job in a creative type of field is usually filled by people who have been doing 'it' on their own for years in advance, before they made it professionally. If you really want to get into level design, start designing levels. Try everything. There are enough free editors out there that you really just have to sink some time and sweat into a project. Throw your stuff out on the internet and see if you get any kind of reaction, good or bad. Then go and do it again.
Your question is like; "I want to be a cabinet maker. What brand saw should I buy?" Start doing wood work and you'll figure out what you like and what works for you.
On the flip side, if you're coming out of high school and you haven't been designing games or layouts (even on paper) by now, it's likely that you don't have the spark to make it, at least as far as doing it for a living. I learned this in art school (had GI Bill, art sounded easy). The best students lived, breathed, and ate creating. The rest of us picked up skills and technique but the ones making it were the ones that were almost obsessed with what they did. As for me, I was just there 'cause art was fun'. Dropped out after two years and started fixing computers for $$$. I've always been a tinkerer and fixer of things; finally realized that I should make a living at what 'I do'.
Professional game design is just like professional sports, only with less money for the players. Kinda' like being a symphonic musician; you put in more time than a surgeon in training and get paid less than a meter maid. Go figure.
In the future, I'll make sure to use Sarcasm tags, in an effort to help keep panties' wadding to a minimum. Especially when replying to valued and important posts.
It is not Your but You're. Just think before you post. Are making a contraction of You are or are you talking about one person's item? For example, Your stupid, overwraught, illiterate post. Notice that I did not say You're a stupid, overwraught, illiterate poster. That would be rude.
Another problem with the home theater is that you have to make the popcorn a day in advance and set it out so that it has that nice, stale texture. If you haven't done proper planning, you will miss out on the theater experience. For the drinks, you only have to leave them out for an hour or so, to make them warm and flat tasting.
But they're charging $16.98 for Pluto Nash, the Extended Special Edition. That's over 1 hour of my labor, to earn that much cash. How else am I going to see the deleted nude scenes with Randy Quaid?
Did you try NetBSD? That group's always been cool. 'Course, I've only messed with NetBSD on Macs. With 1% of 3% of computer users, it's smallness may have something to do with it.
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I haven't bought a new computer since 1995. Since then, I've been running about a generation behind, as far as chips go. With my new G5 at work, I guess it's time to move up from my 266MHz G3 laptop at home. It topped out with 10.2.8 anyways. And yes, my daughter (3 yr old) has a faster Mac than I (333Mhz iMac) and my wife a G4 Cube. Hmmm...G5 laptop...arrrgggglll/drool.
He's flashing back to 1994 when Time and Newsweek first picked up on the term. Arrrggghh! Yes, it was mis-used and over used. And now it's dead. I hope.
I think Brunner's Shockwave Rider is more influential on Neuromancer, myself.
Weird! I guess it must be a time thing. I read Neuromancer when it first came out (BBS days!) and was floored. The only thing that had prepared me for it was The Adolesence of P1 and Brunner's Shockwave Rider. The breadth and detail of Gibson's world was amazing, as well as the brevity of his writing. I love how he's able to paint Case in Japan, almost like a painting by Manet, with soundtrack by Berlin. Neuromancer is rather baroque and the style of it reminds me of Jules Verne.
Neuromancer's still on my yearly reading list, along with Mona Lisa Overdrive and Burning Chrome.
I really don't care for his later stuff. While interesting, they seem a little derivitive and more of a retelling. I haven't read Pattern Recognition yet and hope it'll be different.
I guess it all depends on what era you grew up with. If you've been saturated with the internet and email from day one, yeah, it'll be quaint. If you still remember how cool that first red LED watch or calculator was (I still have mine!), and have computers with no hard drives, then Neuromancer was likely earth shattering.
I like the Indiana Jones episode where he is faced by some martial-arts ninja who hops around screams and shouts, waves his hands around menacingly and prepares to attack. Indiana lifts his gun and pulls the trigger once. "Bang". Attacker drops dead.
Was a swordsman, swing a sword around. They'd filmed the scene several times, where Indy was supposed to fight the guy, but Harrison Ford was tired and so pulled his gun fired off a blank at the guy. Film history after that.
Look at stigmata. Supposedly, people who believe/prey enough develop bleeding sores.
As for the matrix, if your muscles contract hard enough, they could break bones. From what I remember, people rarely use all their muscle cells at the same time. If something caused your brain to send a signal turning all your muscle cells to contract, they could exert some tremendous force. 'Course, you'd likely just tear the anchor points or muscle tissue loose and then really be in a world of hurt.
I have a government issued assault weapon, sold to me by a government sponsored agency. It's an M1 Garand. It has a *shudder* bayonet lug! It also only holds 8 rounds of .30-06 and fires semi-auto (each time you pull the trigger, it fires one round, ejects the spent casing a loads a new round from the fixed magazine). This weapon was one of the reasons we were able to win WWII. Most of the axis troops were armed with bolt action rifles, which took longer to fire.
I've had a bullet bounce back and hit me at the range (not my shot, someone a couple lanes down). It tore a hole in my jeans (skin tight-still wearing jeans I had in high school, several pounds later), cut open my leg and bounced back into the range.
So why a cape? Was he trying to impress Elton John or Liberachi?
It's foil wrapped so he can check on the efficiency of airport security!
Flattened ovid cows will pack to a greater density in a barrel.
In Sindarin (or is it Quenya), El means star. Aragorn's Elvish name is Elessor or star of hope. There's also Elrond, but I forgot what the rest of his name means.
I'm invisible to all women except lesbians. And all they want is a drinking buddy and a shoulder to cry on. Oh well, at least I get to hear about lesbian sex.
Base requirements are a 33MHz Quadra with 64MB RAM and 512k VRAM. Sweeeeet! There's only LAN play so you can pick and choose who you go up against. It's not 360 degree, only 45 degrees up and down, so less chance of getting disorientated. You can jump so that's one less key to worry about too.
Frog blast the vent core!
Bill Gates' Mom was on the same charity board of directors as a VP at IBM and she convinced him to give Micro Soft a chance?
I have a copy of Minix I run on my Mac Classic. Cool!
Hear, hear! No more work.
Game Design (or any other limited professional field) is difficult to break into. When ever I meet or read about someone who's making it in one of these limited fields, I always find that they started early and were obsessed with their chosen activity. It's like trying to get into Pro sports or a professional symphony, or the astronaut corp. There's only so many slots and they are going to go to the best that are out there. This is almost always to someone who has trained their whole life for that slot.
This doesn't mean that you can't enter the field and become good or even great. It's just not likely that you're going to make it on the pro level, if you haven't already started in that field.
The best bet for game design is to find one of the open source engines, some people whose skills compliment your own (artists, sound production, scripting,etc), and start throwing together your own games and putting them out to be d/l'd. If your stuff is any good, your business might take off, ala Bungie and Ambrosia. If not, you'll still have fun making games. You'll just have to find something else to do to pay the bills.
From my experience, just about any real job in a creative type of field is usually filled by people who have been doing 'it' on their own for years in advance, before they made it professionally. If you really want to get into level design, start designing levels. Try everything. There are enough free editors out there that you really just have to sink some time and sweat into a project. Throw your stuff out on the internet and see if you get any kind of reaction, good or bad. Then go and do it again.
Your question is like; "I want to be a cabinet maker. What brand saw should I buy?" Start doing wood work and you'll figure out what you like and what works for you.
On the flip side, if you're coming out of high school and you haven't been designing games or layouts (even on paper) by now, it's likely that you don't have the spark to make it, at least as far as doing it for a living. I learned this in art school (had GI Bill, art sounded easy). The best students lived, breathed, and ate creating. The rest of us picked up skills and technique but the ones making it were the ones that were almost obsessed with what they did. As for me, I was just there 'cause art was fun'. Dropped out after two years and started fixing computers for $$$. I've always been a tinkerer and fixer of things; finally realized that I should make a living at what 'I do'.
Professional game design is just like professional sports, only with less money for the players. Kinda' like being a symphonic musician; you put in more time than a surgeon in training and get paid less than a meter maid. Go figure.
In the future, I'll make sure to use Sarcasm tags, in an effort to help keep panties' wadding to a minimum. Especially when replying to valued and important posts.
Your not remotely funny.
It is not Your but You're. Just think before you post. Are making a contraction of You are or are you talking about one person's item? For example, Your stupid, overwraught, illiterate post. Notice that I did not say You're a stupid, overwraught, illiterate poster. That would be rude.
Another problem with the home theater is that you have to make the popcorn a day in advance and set it out so that it has that nice, stale texture. If you haven't done proper planning, you will miss out on the theater experience. For the drinks, you only have to leave them out for an hour or so, to make them warm and flat tasting.
But they're charging $16.98 for Pluto Nash, the Extended Special Edition. That's over 1 hour of my labor, to earn that much cash. How else am I going to see the deleted nude scenes with Randy Quaid?
It's looking more and more like the right financial choice for movie enthusiasts is to buy a high-quality entertainment system and rent the DVD.
But RotK won't be out until next fall!
And the concession stand doesn't have Milk Duds or Dr. Pepper. Just chocolet chip cookies and Coke.
Did you try NetBSD? That group's always been cool. 'Course, I've only messed with NetBSD on Macs. With 1% of 3% of computer users, it's smallness may have something to do with it.