According to a friend who works for Eidos: Sony want games that aren't ports and eidos specialises in simultaneous multi-console releases (sometimes with crap PC ports).
So:
Sony don't like this - they want exclusives.
If they can't get exclusives they want the best version which is difficult as the PS3 graphic capability is currently on par with the Xbox360
So basically Sony have shot themselves in the foot with their ridiculous pricing and then they proceed to blow their (few remaining) brains out of their arse.
MOH:PA had this dumb feature. You were supposed to get killed on the first level then game flashed back to pearl harbour... Dumbest idea ever. Just like those stupid stealth levels that are out of sync with the game style (RTCW), and totally unnecessary jumping puzzles (JK:JO).
If the dev wants to "kill" me do it in a cut scene and not in place where I have control as it ruins the game otherwise.
Long ago, the Coca-Cola management decided that their main competitor wasn't Pepsi or RC or even lemonade. They realized their main competitor was water! So they set out to market the product as a substitute for water. And it's worked very well.
Aside from the time they took pure drinking water and made it undrinkable -
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As I believe I stated here (that some twat modded troll despite being totally and utterly accurate) there is game breaking save system that is so flawed it can leave you unable to progress.
This has been mentioned time & again.
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Ah but this europe. In particular the UK the dollar is very weak at the moment I get nearly 2 USD for 1 GBP when I import DVDs from the states, other countries vary but generally providing you manage to bypass import duty & VAT* you can save a great deal of money.
Unfortunately thats why the R2 UK anime market is so feeble - it is a lot cheaper to buy R1 DVDs which often are released months (years) earlier.
[*] = Very random depend on the customs - sometimes stuff over the threshold will get through untaxed - I had $100 parcel come through untaxed and have yet to get stung for importing Japanese DVDs & CDs. NB the UK threshold is 18GBP which tends to be 30-36USD depending how weak the dollar is.
Well lets see, I had no chores to do, no real work. So I had a whole weekend with nothing planned & nothing I had to do. To me that was a dead weekend - 100% freetime to do whatever I wanted to do.
Things I could have done were completely optional. When you are going through a stress free period at work then there is less pressure to do stuff at the weekend.
It has been one chilled out (well hot & sweaty) summer. Which was a nice change, the previous few summers had been bizarrely busy normally I could take june, july, august easy or not work at all.
I have no idea why there is no pre-compiled driver for ivtv for ubuntu
That could be because the ivtv drivers require (at least for hauppauge cards) firmware extracted from the card's Windows drivers. FWIW The ivtv site does contain a download of pre-extracted firmware which is where I got my copy from not being bothered to download the hauppauge drivers or use the CD.
Personally I went from a pile of bits to a working mythtv box in 10 hours using Slackware 10.2 and 2.6.17.4 kernel and the latest subversion myth-fixes code. I used a VGA cable between my Radeon 9600 and my Samsung LCD TV (no messing with TV OUT) I'd have used a DVI-HDMI cable but I had my DVD player hooked up to that at the time. Of the 10 hours I spent about 3 tweaking settings.
The biggest annoyance is the lack of on screen fine-tune for analogue channels - randomly entering numbers is a bind.
Unless you use a pre-packaged mythtv I recommend you get the latest "fixes" version out of the subversion repository as it has a number of useful fixes including handling the mysql 5 timeout misfeature (delibrate & idiotic change to mysql 5.05 & above by mysql)
Also use myth-web (requires apache & php) as it has better UI to the recording options & for seeing upcoming recordings & conflicts.
My biggest regret is not buy a dual tuner card straight off. I only jumped for mythtv when my DVD recorder started freezing and I had enough bits (bar TV card) to build a system.
Total outlay £60 (Hauppauge PVR-150MCE - came with MCE remote) and later an £80 Silverstone LC-20 case (I bought this when I wanted move the system into the TV rack)
Well before disposable ones became all the rage they were made of cloth and could be washed. As a baby in the seventies I suffered with Terry Towelling nappies, my kid brother ten years later got the disposable kind. Actually several of my old nappies are still hanging around my parent's place - my mum uses one as a cloth for cleaning the bathroom and my dad has a could in the garage.
Dead Rising is an F grade game due the useless save system that can shaft you to the point you can't finish the game (if you are interested in the storyline that is).
I ask retardedly easy questions when I interview people, and on occasion I will be a bit vague on purpose, to see if they will ask clarifying questions or just fumble around for a half hour (guess which one gets you hired?).
When I get idiot interviewers like you, then they get the full blast of contempt. Never waste my time being trival vague and misleading. There are plenty better places to work than yours. Pushing out the crusty experienced people who won't tolerate that nonsense is not a very effective strategy.
Certainly I've seen concept of a pivoting wing as described in an osborne book for kids in the early 80's in the chapter about space planes & hypersonice transport. The picture was of long thin fuselage with pan-am blue & white markings with a wing the when pivoted covered most of the fuselage except for the conventional tail fin.
The place is rife with incompetentence, and absolutely dogged with bureaucracy, politics and backstabbing. I can't understand how the word hasn't got out. It seems to be an extrordinarily well kept secret.
Hardly. Why do think 99% of UK politicians & civil servants (in the whitehall sense - not the spotty twerp at the job center) are oxbridge educated?
Answer: bureaucracy, politics and backstabbing...
Um, it doesn't cost nothing. My time or the OP's time costs the company money. That is the point you have so obviously have missed.
Hint: In the real world companies have internal budgets for resources.
For example: If it takes me a day to learn how to install & configure "Ultra Monkey" on a box, then that costs the company a day of my time not doing something else productive.
What's wrong with jar as a compression utility? In the tests I ran, I got almost equal compression vs. gzip with a -9 compression but jar was at least twice as fast. I used to tar then gzip large files but moved to jar about a year and a half ago. Its major flaw is the that it doesn't understand symbolic links but there are ways around that.
Jar (IIRC) uses the same algorithm as Gzip & Zip. If you looked at infozip (Zip for unix) which is available as a sun package (as zip & unzip respectively) you'll get symlink support as well.
Am I missing something? I am a Solaris/UNIX guy.
Yep the whole tar then gzip thing suggests your either still using sun's brain dead tar and you should be using gnu tar (gtar?) to do the gzip at the same time on the fly using the z switch.
HCI (human computer interaction) is a field of study that most people don't think about anymore. I recently took a class on gui design at my university. Prior to taking the course, i actually had a cs professor (my advisor) recommend I avoid the class. He didn't see a point to the class. I certainly did. I don't plan on devoting my life to HCI like my wife does, but I certainly think its beneficial to web designers and conventional application developers. Usability is quite important. To this day, whenever i write an app or design a website I test it with the mom test. If my mom can use it efficiently and understands what each feature/command does, I did well.
Your Prof was correct HCI is 90% standards, 10% common sense. Bad HCI & usability is either because the standards are crap - which is where the common sense comes in or because you haven't followed the standards.
Yes the mom test works. We use a Welsh test - we have a tame Welshman who can break anything, but can generally tell you how to fix it.
Try FlashPaper, it turns documents into Flash (or PDF). Basically Macromedia did with flash what Adobe should have done with PDF, but failed: "FlashPaper, because its just a Flash version 6 file, displays just about anywhere:Web browser, Window, Mac or Linux desktop, kiosks, plus some PDAs and mobile phones."
Now you've got me worried. I'm running 64bit slackware 10.1 on a production Xeon EMT64 box since May and so far the only downtime was when the UPS failed before the generator kicked in, current uptime is 109 days. I recently installed other similar servers four weeks ago, the only fun I had was with a dell branded ami megaraid card & getting the right driver loaded...
Mind you we finally retired a slackware 4.0 box after five years service as a mail server - one week after we migrated to the new box the old hardware died when the PSU failed & took out the motherboard in sympathy.
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So:
- Sony don't like this - they want exclusives.
- If they can't get exclusives they want the best version which is difficult as the PS3 graphic capability is currently on par with the Xbox360
So basically Sony have shot themselves in the foot with their ridiculous pricing and then they proceed to blow their (few remaining) brains out of their arse.Um, no around here we develop on Windows and upload to the linux servers (or even windows servers running php & iis)
There is no requirement to develop php on linux I have no idea where you would get a backassed idea like that...
Examples: Red Faction, Quake 4, and too many others
Examples: RTCW, MoH:AA
Examples: HL2, Jedi Knight - Jedi Outcast, Prey*
* = Although the gravity & portal puzzles made a welcome change, they were used as a substitute for jumping puzzles.
MOH:PA had this dumb feature. You were supposed to get killed on the first level then game flashed back to pearl harbour... Dumbest idea ever. Just like those stupid stealth levels that are out of sync with the game style (RTCW), and totally unnecessary jumping puzzles (JK:JO).
If the dev wants to "kill" me do it in a cut scene and not in place where I have control as it ruins the game otherwise.
Call of Duty is way better than any of the MoH games but was let down by sequels that are worse than any of the dire MoH sequels.
Aside from the time they took pure drinking water and made it undrinkable - See here
"The unforgivable flaw in this otherwise wonderful game is the horrible, broken save system"
Ah but this europe. In particular the UK the dollar is very weak at the moment I get nearly 2 USD for 1 GBP when I import DVDs from the states, other countries vary but generally providing you manage to bypass import duty & VAT* you can save a great deal of money.
Unfortunately thats why the R2 UK anime market is so feeble - it is a lot cheaper to buy R1 DVDs which often are released months (years) earlier.
[*] = Very random depend on the customs - sometimes stuff over the threshold will get through untaxed - I had $100 parcel come through untaxed and have yet to get stung for importing Japanese DVDs & CDs. NB the UK threshold is 18GBP which tends to be 30-36USD depending how weak the dollar is.
They just work
Well lets see, I had no chores to do, no real work. So I had a whole weekend with nothing planned & nothing I had to do. To me that was a dead weekend - 100% freetime to do whatever I wanted to do.
Things I could have done were completely optional. When you are going through a stress free period at work then there is less pressure to do stuff at the weekend.
It has been one chilled out (well hot & sweaty) summer. Which was a nice change, the previous few summers had been bizarrely busy normally I could take june, july, august easy or not work at all.
So it cost me nothing but being a waste of time with a worthwhile outcome. The final product was well worth the time spent.
That could be because the ivtv drivers require (at least for hauppauge cards) firmware extracted from the card's Windows drivers. FWIW The ivtv site does contain a download of pre-extracted firmware which is where I got my copy from not being bothered to download the hauppauge drivers or use the CD.
Personally I went from a pile of bits to a working mythtv box in 10 hours using Slackware 10.2 and 2.6.17.4 kernel and the latest subversion myth-fixes code. I used a VGA cable between my Radeon 9600 and my Samsung LCD TV (no messing with TV OUT) I'd have used a DVI-HDMI cable but I had my DVD player hooked up to that at the time. Of the 10 hours I spent about 3 tweaking settings.
The biggest annoyance is the lack of on screen fine-tune for analogue channels - randomly entering numbers is a bind.
Unless you use a pre-packaged mythtv I recommend you get the latest "fixes" version out of the subversion repository as it has a number of useful fixes including handling the mysql 5 timeout misfeature (delibrate & idiotic change to mysql 5.05 & above by mysql)
Also use myth-web (requires apache & php) as it has better UI to the recording options & for seeing upcoming recordings & conflicts.
My biggest regret is not buy a dual tuner card straight off. I only jumped for mythtv when my DVD recorder started freezing and I had enough bits (bar TV card) to build a system.
Total outlay £60 (Hauppauge PVR-150MCE - came with MCE remote) and later an £80 Silverstone LC-20 case (I bought this when I wanted move the system into the TV rack)
Dead Rising is an F grade game due the useless save system that can shaft you to the point you can't finish the game (if you are interested in the storyline that is).
Grade A show stopping bug.
When I get idiot interviewers like you, then they get the full blast of contempt. Never waste my time being trival vague and misleading. There are plenty better places to work than yours. Pushing out the crusty experienced people who won't tolerate that nonsense is not a very effective strategy.
Certainly I've seen concept of a pivoting wing as described in an osborne book for kids in the early 80's in the chapter about space planes & hypersonice transport. The picture was of long thin fuselage with pan-am blue & white markings with a wing the when pivoted covered most of the fuselage except for the conventional tail fin.
Hint: In the real world companies have internal budgets for resources.
For example: If it takes me a day to learn how to install & configure "Ultra Monkey" on a box, then that costs the company a day of my time not doing something else productive.
Jar (IIRC) uses the same algorithm as Gzip & Zip. If you looked at infozip (Zip for unix) which is available as a sun package (as zip & unzip respectively) you'll get symlink support as well.
Yep the whole tar then gzip thing suggests your either still using sun's brain dead tar and you should be using gnu tar (gtar?) to do the gzip at the same time on the fly using the z switch.
Your Prof was correct HCI is 90% standards, 10% common sense. Bad HCI & usability is either because the standards are crap - which is where the common sense comes in or because you haven't followed the standards.
Yes the mom test works. We use a Welsh test - we have a tame Welshman who can break anything, but can generally tell you how to fix it.
Try FlashPaper, it turns documents into Flash (or PDF). Basically Macromedia did with flash what Adobe should have done with PDF, but failed: "FlashPaper, because its just a Flash version 6 file, displays just about anywhere:Web browser, Window, Mac or Linux desktop, kiosks, plus some PDAs and mobile phones."
Now you've got me worried. I'm running 64bit slackware 10.1 on a production Xeon EMT64 box since May and so far the only downtime was when the UPS failed before the generator kicked in, current uptime is 109 days. I recently installed other similar servers four weeks ago, the only fun I had was with a dell branded ami megaraid card & getting the right driver loaded...
Mind you we finally retired a slackware 4.0 box after five years service as a mail server - one week after we migrated to the new box the old hardware died when the PSU failed & took out the motherboard in sympathy.