Many years ago, the Canadian version of Best Buy had a great sale on floppy diskettes.
When I walked into the store, they had 3 pallettes of floppies on display in the middle of the aisle. I experienced a rare moment of insight - when computer stuff is on display the same way cans of soup are displayed at a grocery store, the margins are probably as crappy as cans of soup - mom'n'pop computer stores were doomed.
I've worked some fairly technical IT jobs (admittedly not science or engineering), and bullshitters always seem to get by. If there's any teamwork going on at all, they'll find a way to deflect the tough/annoying jobs.
1) That's a lot of maybes. Viruses used to pull cute corruption tricks but I haven't seen that behaviour since I was scanning 5-1/4" floppies for boot sector viruses.
2) I keep dailies for a week and monthlies essentially forever, i.e. burned to CD/DVD. Not perfect, but I wouldn't be totally hosed.
utilitarian
adj 1: having a useful function; "utilitarian steel tables" [syn: useful]
2: having utility often to the exclusion of values; "plain
utilitarian kitchenware"
n : someone who believes that the value of a thing depends on
its utility
> which experiences, practices, and pressures you think have > made you a better writer?
Honest criticism of my flaws.
Don't condone bad spelling/grammar, disorganization, or unclear writing.
This may be the first time in their lives that a teacher hasn't tolerated horrible writing. These guys will be honestly surprised that their work isn't "good enough".
Will you get into trouble if you fail half the class?
> It is perhaps somewhat presumptuous to disagree with someone > like Greg Costikyan, but nevertheless I have my doubts as to > the book's overall utility.
I don't think this book is useful.
> While this book certainly seems like the sort of be-all, > end-all of game design theory, what it amounts to is little > more than a list, each item on the list referring to the other > items like bloggers hawking each others' hyperlinks.
This book is little more than a cross-referenced list.
Please pull the thesaurus out of your ass and get to the point.
This isn't junior high english class. You should be communicating ideas, not trying to show how clever you are.
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Many years ago, the Canadian version of Best Buy had a great sale on floppy diskettes.
When I walked into the store, they had 3 pallettes of floppies on display in the middle of the aisle. I experienced a rare moment of insight - when computer stuff is on display the same way cans of soup are displayed at a grocery store, the margins are probably as crappy as cans of soup - mom'n'pop computer stores were doomed.
Scoop details here.
I've worked some fairly technical IT jobs (admittedly not science or engineering), and bullshitters always seem to get by. If there's any teamwork going on at all, they'll find a way to deflect the tough/annoying jobs.
> At work, there is a simple and 100% effective metric.
> You can either do something, or you can't. Not much of
> a gray area.
Yeah, smooth-talking incompetants always get found out in the end, and politics never plays a role.
> Why are the companies worth so much money? Why
> is MySpace worth over half a billion dollars
> without a proper revenue model?
Because nobody learned a damn thing from the dot-bomb.
It's a cron job.
99.9% of the time the backup doesn't capture any interesting changes, but you never know.
1) That's a lot of maybes. Viruses used to pull cute corruption tricks but I haven't seen that behaviour since I was scanning 5-1/4" floppies for boot sector viruses.
2) I keep dailies for a week and monthlies essentially forever, i.e. burned to CD/DVD. Not perfect, but I wouldn't be totally hosed.
People who don't backup /home every night deserve everything they get.
How does your setup recover when someone's IP address randomly changes?
I'd give up a lot of features for quicker boot times.
My old old Motorola brick was instant-on, everything since has had more features and slower boot times.
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utilitarian
adj 1: having a useful function; "utilitarian steel tables" [syn: useful]
2: having utility often to the exclusion of values; "plain
utilitarian kitchenware"
n : someone who believes that the value of a thing depends on
its utility
Master of Orion allowed you to depopulate entire planets.
:)
The sequel allowed you to blow up planets once your tech was high enough.
Good times
> which experiences, practices, and pressures you think have
> made you a better writer?
Honest criticism of my flaws.
Don't condone bad spelling/grammar, disorganization, or unclear writing.
This may be the first time in their lives that a teacher hasn't tolerated horrible writing. These guys will be honestly surprised that their work isn't "good enough".
Will you get into trouble if you fail half the class?
They're already developing/testing on several different architectures, what's one more source of insanity?
If the tree compiled cleanly with both compilers, they'd develop with speedycompiler and ship the GCC optimized version.
Hi, Jeff.
Loved Nethegate, bought it and subsequently several more Avernum/Generforge titles. Looking forward to Nethergate 2.0.
Speaking of indie rpgs, have you tried the Mount and Blade betas?
Spiderweb needs a better engine, those guys need a plot and an English spellchecker -> a marriage made in heaven!
Jeff is well known in the Mac gaming community and has a loyal following there.
The Slashdot comments were better written than the article!!
ba-dum-bump
The guy mentioned K12, educational pricing can be a funny thing.
> No, but a blizzard could last a month, and in some places
> happen every year.
Hahaha, we had a mild winter this year, only one snowstorm with over 2 feet of snow.
Some years we have 4 or 5 storms like that.
You get toughened up fast, it isn't a big deal.
> I'd rather deal with a Hurricane over a blizzard
Seriously?
By spring the snow has melted, do uprooted trees magically pop back into place?
> There is a bit more happening in my brain than in a marmoset's.
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof.
Big words are effective when used properly.
Baroque verbiage is counterproductive if the only raison d'être is obfuscation and self-aggrandizement.
Horribly convoluted run-on sentences are rarely appropriate.
Go read a random paragraph from Dickens or Twain, and then re-read this fellow's review.
Or perhaps another big word and awkward phrase fetishist?
> Perhaps a little less caffeine might help, too.
You can't even write 8 words without adding bullshit? Hint:
Less caffeine might help.
> It is perhaps somewhat presumptuous to disagree with someone
> like Greg Costikyan, but nevertheless I have my doubts as to
> the book's overall utility.
I don't think this book is useful.
> While this book certainly seems like the sort of be-all,
> end-all of game design theory, what it amounts to is little
> more than a list, each item on the list referring to the other
> items like bloggers hawking each others' hyperlinks.
This book is little more than a cross-referenced list.
Please pull the thesaurus out of your ass and get to the point.
This isn't junior high english class. You should be communicating ideas, not trying to show how clever you are.