This is a dumb article. The vast majority of *top* game designers/programmers are Japanese. With few exceptions the best games are all Made In Japan. Do I care if there may not be a single gaijin of any color employed in a Japanese game company? Nope. So why should it matter in the US (where the games are nearly all crap anyway)?
It has been noted that it is extremely easy to fall under the radar and just be completely ignored in Japan. You mean, fall below your peers' expectations of you. The window watchers (I sat across from one for almost a year) are just fine. His typical day was come in to work at exactly 9am, entering the area as the morning gong was sounding. Spend a few minutes picking out a journal from a book shelf, then putting his feet up on his desk and falling asleep until the lunch gong. At which point he would shake himself awake, make a phonecall (or pretend to make a phonecall) then rush out. Repeat for after lunch and the going home gong. He was *always* out the door before the gong stopped.
Looked happy to me and he was making good money too.
Suicides are from real failure, like bad scores on a test in school, failing your family, or failing to make enough profit as a CEO for your company, stuff like that.
I'm not sure what "study" you're citing because you failed to provide a link, but I assure you that it is full of shit or you have misquoted something.
I just want to know if I'm alone in thinking that for PvP oriented players this is just too little too late? Maybe, but you don't count. The subscriber base keeps expanding.
I'll be waiting in line to get my 0 day copy when it comes out.
I'm hoping they move this Arena crap to another Universe and just do what they do best - give us great PvE.
(I'm a master baiter in WoW, 375 fishing skill in several different characters).
The 17 pound Catfish is a joke item. It's a gift given by fishermen to people they don't like very much because it's the smallest of the XX pound fish. Anyone showing it off is automatically branded as an idiot by anyone who knows better.
And yes, I've given away some of those to people I didn't like very much.
Ditto. I tried out two MMOs when I first decided to try it. D&D Storm Reach was the first. In Storm Reach, you are penalized experience on death and after my trial period (and I had gone down to a store to buy a permanent copy to keep playing) I found out my character was permanently dead, well, that was that.
I then tried out World of Warcraft and I still have a running subscription. Two if you count the one for my wife.
I love Nethack, I've played it for over 2 decades, but it's a different sort of thing.
A more accurate history would be that open source was quite common before the mid-1980s, but it didn't need a name. True. Unix was distributed as source to Universities. To name some specific examples, X10 and Emacs were distributed as source. net.sources* was gaining popularity.
The earliest commercial Unix I had at home (a System VR1/2 hybrid) was distributed with some open source (rather amazing since the whole distribution was on 360k floppies).
Going back even further, wasn't CP/M-80 sometimes distributed as source?
But really now. I *did* have to dodge sniper fire from angry Chiba farmers who didn't want their land "annexed" into a new runway the first time I flew into Narita.
You don't understand the history of China. I didn't (intend to) imply that it would be the "west" doing the evaluation. Regime change in China is always over the dead bloody body of the predecessor.
I'm curious as to paranoid about what ? As am I. I presume it's all the fear-mongering in the last 7 years.
The most paranoid I've ever been was on my first train ride in Japan and there was a lovely young lady. 20ish, who got on a few stations before Tokyo and stood by the doors and who had on a most amazing dress that wasn't held up and on by anything that I could detect. I was so afraid it was going to fall down and damage my prudish USian eyes...
The issue *is* with Beijing being given the Olympics. Beijing is a dirty, polluted city - far, far worse than the infamous LA smog. They had armies of people clearing the landscape of litter when I was there (a week before the Olympic Committee came).
I recall the ridiculous discussions about having the Marathon held in the LA area when the Olympics were held there in 1984 due to air pollution issues. Bah. Beijing is worse and LA has gotten better.
This was marked as a "Troll", but it's correct. Some day in the future, this Olympics will be regarded the same as the 1936 Olympics. Sometimes the truth hurts.
I was in Beijing the week before the Olympic Committee went there. You slashdot members grep my posting history, I've posted here what I saw at that time.
I won't be watching these Olympics on TV.
(The best part of my trip to Beijing was seeing the airplane on the tarmac ready to take me back home to Tokyo and Freedom).
Oh yeah! (Major city == Ironforge for Alliance, I don't play Horde). I forgot all about that. I did all those quests religiously on a Draenei Shaman because I hate the Elekk and wanted a brewfest ram for a mount.
That was totally in-game though to draw the players who might not know that a special event is in progress to the brewfest grounds. Er, that's the basic point of advertising, isn't it?
A better way to work that scenario is to allow automobiles as ground "mounts", with the name prominently displayed and maybe an advertising slogan like "Drive your dreams, Toyota!" and some of the engineering profession gadgets could display stuff like "It's a Sony!"
(Advertisements on TV in Japan are quite good and often more entertaining than the program they are advertising for - think Miller Lite commercials on steroids for USians. I mean come on, who wouldn't be entertained by (now Gov.) Arnold drinking a refreshing cold beer on a commuter train to relieve the stress... Hey, that wouldn't be a bad idea for the ride between Stormwind City and Ironforge).
I think it would make a fun daily quest to have one of them be to just fly around Shattrath carrying an ad banner behind you.
That would be the best of both worlds. Don't look up if you don't like in-game ads and if you don't care, do the daily.
I suppose for this to really work, it would have to be possible for both Alliance and Horde to shoot you down while you're advertising. That sounds like fun, actually.
Honestly, if a "threat to shareholders" is the only offensive weapon Microsoft has, Microsoft may as well give up. Yahoo doesn't intend on becoming absorbed and re-branded, not to mention that such as deal would piss off a lot of users. Sure, but when has that ever stopped someone powerful enough to do something anyway? "A lot" isn't going to amount to any sizeable percentage, I'm afraid. The vast majority will continue on, just as with Hotmail, they may even be *happier* with Microsoft in charge.
Yahoo has become extremely unfriendly to non-Microsoft systems of late and even my Mac OS X box has problems playing all the music and videos there (which is my wife's favorite application, alas).
TFA only says the domain was bought by an anonymous buyer which probably means that it wasn't an actual Pizza business that bought it.
The whois for pizza.com still shows Christopher Clark as the owner.
I'd guess it's along the lines someone wrote earlier - it was bought by a speculator who has some idea of the true value of the domain name. US$2.6M is nothing compared to what those chains spend in advertising.
Hmm. Missed a comment.
His ca. 1985 lectures, They were filming in the 1980/1981 Physics 1 class, though I don't know how long they were taking footage afterwards. I think that was also the first year they gave him the Freshman Physics class.
Rumors were right. Yeah, I googled it after I posted that.
By now, millions of college and high school students (my students among them) have seen David L. Goodstein, and are still groaning at his puns Heh, like putting Descartes before the course?
You can view the series Thanks for the link, but I already paid $10k+ to see it live the first time.
chuckling at the 1980's college "fashions" seen in the lecture hall. Eek! That would include me! Ur, Caltech students at that time were not exactly among the best dressed students in the University world.
I never had any personal interaction with Dr. Goodstein other than sitting in his lectures, but I do recall that he was perhaps the most entertaining and best lecturer they gave us poor frosh.
What about in cases where the professor did write the book?
The interesting case I can think of is a textbook like The Feynman Lectures in Physics, which are derived from lectures made when he taught Freshman Physics. Rumor had it that David Goodstein was doing the same thing the year I had Freshman Physics at Caltech - there were often filming crews brought in for key lectures (like the day he derived E=mc**2, to a standing ovation...).
Could be. I'm a Linux guy and I can say that binary compatibility to userland is a high priority in Linux and Linus is at his angriest when that is broken by someone.
A kernel shouldn't *ever* break compatibility with userland. Period. Microsoft has blurred the distinction so much, I'm not sure whether they're referring to GUI libraries and other add-ons or not.
Stuff over the kernel is expected to evolve and presumably get better. It has in our world.
Userland stuff is less critical breakage. You can always recompile it. System calls and their API are with you forever.
Oh, and building the GUI into the core didn't begin with Microsoft. On my AT&T Unix PC with pre System V-R3 general shared libraries, it had a single shared libc/libm library with curses/termlib (the graphics stuffs were done via ioctl(2)s and write(2)s).
Fortunately, AT&T failed in their attempt to ruin Unix and we now have a host of Unix-alikes to choose from.
We can sit and arm chair direct Microsoft in to all sorts of fun things, but why bother when we could just pick up some free software codebase and do better for ourselves? Some of us already have. It is called "Linux".
For you folks that must have your Microsoft Windows XP, why not get behind the ReactOS guys? Why depend on Microsoft at all when you can do it yourselves - *better*?
AT&T did horrible things with the Unix we knew and loved so we wrote our Free version. Microsoft is apparently doing horrible things with the Microsoft Windows some of you know and love. So, just do it. There's another precedent from our world too. The founding father of our O/S, Ken Thompson went on to do Plan 9. Who runs Plan 9?
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This is a dumb article. The vast majority of *top* game designers/programmers are Japanese. With few exceptions the best games are all Made In Japan. Do I care if there may not be a single gaijin of any color employed in a Japanese game company? Nope. So why should it matter in the US (where the games are nearly all crap anyway)?
Looked happy to me and he was making good money too.
Suicides are from real failure, like bad scores on a test in school, failing your family, or failing to make enough profit as a CEO for your company, stuff like that.
I'm not sure what "study" you're citing because you failed to provide a link, but I assure you that it is full of shit or you have misquoted something.
When I first read the subject, I thought he was having people carrying Linux or Mac notebook computers detained in airports for further questioning ...
I'll be waiting in line to get my 0 day copy when it comes out.
I'm hoping they move this Arena crap to another Universe and just do what they do best - give us great PvE.
(I'm a master baiter in WoW, 375 fishing skill in several different characters).
The 17 pound Catfish is a joke item. It's a gift given by fishermen to people they don't like very much because it's the smallest of the XX pound fish. Anyone showing it off is automatically branded as an idiot by anyone who knows better.
And yes, I've given away some of those to people I didn't like very much.
Ditto. I tried out two MMOs when I first decided to try it. D&D Storm Reach was the first. In Storm Reach, you are penalized experience on death and after my trial period (and I had gone down to a store to buy a permanent copy to keep playing) I found out my character was permanently dead, well, that was that.
I then tried out World of Warcraft and I still have a running subscription. Two if you count the one for my wife.
I love Nethack, I've played it for over 2 decades, but it's a different sort of thing.
The earliest commercial Unix I had at home (a System VR1/2 hybrid) was distributed with some open source (rather amazing since the whole distribution was on 360k floppies).
Going back even further, wasn't CP/M-80 sometimes distributed as source?
As a milder example, human memory isn't photographic, ever. My favorite proof of this is the work of Adriaan de Groot see http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=3290
But really now. I *did* have to dodge sniper fire from angry Chiba farmers who didn't want their land "annexed" into a new runway the first time I flew into Narita.
You don't understand the history of China. I didn't (intend to) imply that it would be the "west" doing the evaluation. Regime change in China is always over the dead bloody body of the predecessor.
The most paranoid I've ever been was on my first train ride in Japan and there was a lovely young lady. 20ish, who got on a few stations before Tokyo and stood by the doors and who had on a most amazing dress that wasn't held up and on by anything that I could detect. I was so afraid it was going to fall down and damage my prudish USian eyes
Yes, you are right. This is indeed the second coming of the 1936 Olympics.
The issue *is* with Beijing being given the Olympics. Beijing is a dirty, polluted city - far, far worse than the infamous LA smog. They had armies of people clearing the landscape of litter when I was there (a week before the Olympic Committee came).
I recall the ridiculous discussions about having the Marathon held in the LA area when the Olympics were held there in 1984 due to air pollution issues. Bah. Beijing is worse and LA has gotten better.
This was marked as a "Troll", but it's correct. Some day in the future, this Olympics will be regarded the same as the 1936 Olympics. Sometimes the truth hurts.
I was in Beijing the week before the Olympic Committee went there. You slashdot members grep my posting history, I've posted here what I saw at that time.
I won't be watching these Olympics on TV.
(The best part of my trip to Beijing was seeing the airplane on the tarmac ready to take me back home to Tokyo and Freedom).
Oh yeah! (Major city == Ironforge for Alliance, I don't play Horde). I forgot all about that. I did all those quests religiously on a Draenei Shaman because I hate the Elekk and wanted a brewfest ram for a mount.
That was totally in-game though to draw the players who might not know that a special event is in progress to the brewfest grounds. Er, that's the basic point of advertising, isn't it?
A better way to work that scenario is to allow automobiles as ground "mounts", with the name prominently displayed and maybe an advertising slogan like "Drive your dreams, Toyota!" and some of the engineering profession gadgets could display stuff like "It's a Sony!"
... Hey, that wouldn't be a bad idea for the ride between Stormwind City and Ironforge).
(Advertisements on TV in Japan are quite good and often more entertaining than the program they are advertising for - think Miller Lite commercials on steroids for USians. I mean come on, who wouldn't be entertained by (now Gov.) Arnold drinking a refreshing cold beer on a commuter train to relieve the stress
I think it would make a fun daily quest to have one of them be to just fly around Shattrath carrying an ad banner behind you.
That would be the best of both worlds. Don't look up if you don't like in-game ads and if you don't care, do the daily.
I suppose for this to really work, it would have to be possible for both Alliance and Horde to shoot you down while you're advertising. That sounds like fun, actually.
Groups is something else entirely. I'm talking about the music videos in its own section.
Yahoo has become extremely unfriendly to non-Microsoft systems of late and even my Mac OS X box has problems playing all the music and videos there (which is my wife's favorite application, alas).
Gee, that's a nice company you have there. It would be a shame if the stockholders lose faith in you ...
TFA only says the domain was bought by an anonymous buyer which probably means that it wasn't an actual Pizza business that bought it.
The whois for pizza.com still shows Christopher Clark as the owner.
I'd guess it's along the lines someone wrote earlier - it was bought by a speculator who has some idea of the true value of the domain name. US$2.6M is nothing compared to what those chains spend in advertising.
I never had any personal interaction with Dr. Goodstein other than sitting in his lectures, but I do recall that he was perhaps the most entertaining and best lecturer they gave us poor frosh.
What about in cases where the professor did write the book?
...).
The interesting case I can think of is a textbook like The Feynman Lectures in Physics, which are derived from lectures made when he taught Freshman Physics. Rumor had it that David Goodstein was doing the same thing the year I had Freshman Physics at Caltech - there were often filming crews brought in for key lectures (like the day he derived E=mc**2, to a standing ovation
Could be. I'm a Linux guy and I can say that binary compatibility to userland is a high priority in Linux and Linus is at his angriest when that is broken by someone.
A kernel shouldn't *ever* break compatibility with userland. Period. Microsoft has blurred the distinction so much, I'm not sure whether they're referring to GUI libraries and other add-ons or not.
Stuff over the kernel is expected to evolve and presumably get better. It has in our world.
Userland stuff is less critical breakage. You can always recompile it. System calls and their API are with you forever.
Oh, and building the GUI into the core didn't begin with Microsoft. On my AT&T Unix PC with pre System V-R3 general shared libraries, it had a single shared libc/libm library with curses/termlib (the graphics stuffs were done via ioctl(2)s and write(2)s).
Fortunately, AT&T failed in their attempt to ruin Unix and we now have a host of Unix-alikes to choose from.
For you folks that must have your Microsoft Windows XP, why not get behind the ReactOS guys? Why depend on Microsoft at all when you can do it yourselves - *better*?
AT&T did horrible things with the Unix we knew and loved so we wrote our Free version. Microsoft is apparently doing horrible things with the Microsoft Windows some of you know and love. So, just do it. There's another precedent from our world too. The founding father of our O/S, Ken Thompson went on to do Plan 9. Who runs Plan 9?