That's like nominating my dad. Sure, he has over 30 years of experience in the Computer Industry as an engineer, but none of those years is in the past 10.
The op-ed piece on gamasutra reads like a nice puff piece you'd find in the front of (insert wholesome magazine here). The author grew up playing the Nintendo entertainment system. I have always whole-heartedly believed this system to be the "Barney the purple dinosaur" in a world of Sesame Streets, Electric Companies, and Bloodhound Gangs. The games were exceptionally babyish at a time when there were systems which already had grown up games, like the commodore 64/128, and the atari 2600. The NES may have been a favorite of children for a reason. The juvenile tradition continues at Nintendo. I can't say I share the author's beliefs about games still being childish. I grew up playing all types of games. Some of them childish, most were more mature. Some of you are thinking stuff like manhunt and resident evil. I was already an adult when those were released. I grew up playing a lot of flight simulators, classic D&D games, and adventure games. Below I will provide a list of mature games I grew up playing so the author can realize the error of his ways.
1984: Ancient Art of War, Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, Gauntlet, Sopwith, Zork 3 1985: 007 A View to a Kill, Adventure Contstruction Set, A Mind Forever Voyaging, Lords of Conquest, World Tour Golf 1986: Psi 5 Trading Company, Bard's Tale II The Destiny Knight, F-15 Strike Eagle, King's Quest III: To Heir is Human, Platoon, Beyond the Titanic, Chessmaster 2000, Ace Air Combat, Roadwar 2000 1987: Stock Market: The Game, Ancient Art of War at Sea, Wasteland, Destroyer, Sub Battle Simulator, Prohibition, F-19 Stealth Fighter, Leisure Suit Larry, Police Quest 1988: Shogun, MS flight Simulator, The Hunt for Red October, D&D: Pool of Radiance, 688 Attack Sub, Bard's Tale III, Neuromancer 1989: Risk, Sim City, MS Flight Simulator 4, D&D: Curse of the Azure Bonds, A10 Tank Killer, Populous 1990: The Incredible Machine, Ancient Art of War in the Skies, Railroad Tycoon, Silent Service II, King's Quest V, Police Quest 3, Wing Commander 1991: Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe, Wing Commander 2, Eye of the Beholder II, Death Knights of Krynn, Chuck Yeager's Air Combat, Castles, Sid Meier's Civilization 1992: Aces of the Pacific WWII, Beyond Zork, Lost Files of Sherlock Holmes, Star Trek 25th Anniversary, Castles II, Masters of Orion, Links, Elder Scrolls Arena, Ultima VII 1993: Syndicate, MS Flight Sim 5, Privateer, Wing Commander Academy, Settlers, Aces over Europe, Return to Zork, Bloodnet, Betrayal At Krondor
alright, I just got bored doing that. was going to go to this year, but meh. Also add every hex tile turn-based game. no kid wants to play those.
but you get the picture. all those games are more appealing to adults than kids.
In case you haven't noticed, the fruits were already redistributed, from our wallets to a vault owned by some millionaire-turned-billionaire.
People like you always try to act like democrats want to take what you've earned and give it to poor people.
You're wrong and you probably will never realize it. They want to take from the obscenely rich and give it to poor people.
It's pretty fair to say that there's nothing a man can do, who earns a few million dollars a year, to justify that as his fair share. What can a man do to rightfully earn that much over a man who works harder and longer that earns peanuts? Let's not discuss education or intelligence. They don't matter here. I want to know how you, who probably doesn't even make $100k a year can stick up for people who have systematically pillaged both the American Treasury and picked the pockets of Americans for over a generation.
Not that I care about this that much, but really? The Chinese government is taxing gamers that sell game money?
Granted, people are dumb enough to spend their hard earned money buying game gold.
But taxing those who sell it? even more ludicrous.
This is part of why I avoid MMO games like the plague. They're filled with stupid people who have no life. And before you say, "wait a minute, I have a life and I play", Nope, no you don't.
I have said this before, all MMO games to date have been an endless cycle of carrot on a string. Upgrade, socialize, upgrade socialize, upgrade, socialize. I've got better things to do and better games to play. Games that can actually be completed.
The Internet is out there waiting for us to use it. The ISPs are trying to stifle our use of it.
I use legal services on the Internet to consume media.
Tivo Hulu Netflix instant Xbox Live gaming both PC and Xbox downloading Linux updates amazon unbox itunes amazon mp3 pandora radio revision3 TV Steam store EA online store
I use all of these services and depending on the month, usage may be more than 250GB.
Not only is it not consumer friendly, but it's a step in the wrong direction.
This should set off alarms at apple, amazon, netflix, nbc, microsoft, and other media conglomerates.
If we don't have the transfer available, we can't consume these services.
I wasn't suggesting that employees won't have downtime. But what you're suggesting is that they will have like 30-40% downtime.
If they have more than 5% downtime, maybe it's time to downsize.
Employee downtime is very costly to a business.
And I wasn't writing specifically about tech companies.
If you work for an insurance company, or a mortgage broker, or a doctor, or dunder mifflin, you're not supposed to have more that an hour of downtime a day for your federally mandated breaks.
That being said, I understand people have downtime. I've worked in places where the boss thought that downtime meant you weren't working.(despite being almost three times as productive as other employees).
I'm just saying if it were my business, I would try to minimize downtime because it's costly overhead.
sometimes it's very essential to business to control the way in which its employees communicate. If it were my company, I would prohibit company business on any service not explicit in the employee communications manual. (yes, I would write an employee communications manual). Such a manual would lay out a terms of use for using company resources.
Sometimes you have to enact damage control, but it's rarely necessary if your employees know what they can and can't disseminate over services like facebook and twitter.
Lest we forget corporate secrets going out over someone's flickr album. In this new day and age, employees are expected to be productive while communicating readily and instantly with the rest of the social world. There is a way to do it safely. Sometimes you simply must restrict their access if it would damage the company.
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I don't believe anyone claimed this was a gaming card.
This is a scientific number cruncher. Its use is in visual computer modeling for anything from weather models to physics models.
How about folding@home? this does it faster than any computer on the block.
All of you kids making jokes about crysis are missing the point. This might run games, but it's a science processor first.
seconded. I'm still here on the PC buying and playing games.
and to all those publishers: "Hey douchebags, who do you think is buying all the high end PC components?"
That's like nominating my dad. Sure, he has over 30 years of experience in the Computer Industry as an engineer, but none of those years is in the past 10.
CIOs have always been clueless.
Simple. Send your IT people home for one week of paid vacation.
See what happens.
The op-ed piece on gamasutra reads like a nice puff piece you'd find in the front of (insert wholesome magazine here). The author grew up playing the Nintendo entertainment system. I have always whole-heartedly believed this system to be the "Barney the purple dinosaur" in a world of Sesame Streets, Electric Companies, and Bloodhound Gangs. The games were exceptionally babyish at a time when there were systems which already had grown up games, like the commodore 64/128, and the atari 2600. The NES may have been a favorite of children for a reason. The juvenile tradition continues at Nintendo. I can't say I share the author's beliefs about games still being childish. I grew up playing all types of games. Some of them childish, most were more mature. Some of you are thinking stuff like manhunt and resident evil. I was already an adult when those were released. I grew up playing a lot of flight simulators, classic D&D games, and adventure games. Below I will provide a list of mature games I grew up playing so the author can realize the error of his ways.
1984: Ancient Art of War, Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, Gauntlet, Sopwith, Zork 3
1985: 007 A View to a Kill, Adventure Contstruction Set, A Mind Forever Voyaging, Lords of Conquest, World Tour Golf
1986: Psi 5 Trading Company, Bard's Tale II The Destiny Knight, F-15 Strike Eagle, King's Quest III: To Heir is Human, Platoon, Beyond the Titanic, Chessmaster 2000, Ace Air Combat, Roadwar 2000
1987: Stock Market: The Game, Ancient Art of War at Sea, Wasteland, Destroyer, Sub Battle Simulator, Prohibition, F-19 Stealth Fighter, Leisure Suit Larry, Police Quest
1988: Shogun, MS flight Simulator, The Hunt for Red October, D&D: Pool of Radiance, 688 Attack Sub, Bard's Tale III, Neuromancer
1989: Risk, Sim City, MS Flight Simulator 4, D&D: Curse of the Azure Bonds, A10 Tank Killer, Populous
1990: The Incredible Machine, Ancient Art of War in the Skies, Railroad Tycoon, Silent Service II, King's Quest V, Police Quest 3, Wing Commander
1991: Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe, Wing Commander 2, Eye of the Beholder II, Death Knights of Krynn, Chuck Yeager's Air Combat, Castles, Sid Meier's Civilization
1992: Aces of the Pacific WWII, Beyond Zork, Lost Files of Sherlock Holmes, Star Trek 25th Anniversary, Castles II, Masters of Orion, Links, Elder Scrolls Arena, Ultima VII
1993: Syndicate, MS Flight Sim 5, Privateer, Wing Commander Academy, Settlers, Aces over Europe, Return to Zork, Bloodnet, Betrayal At Krondor
alright, I just got bored doing that. was going to go to this year, but meh. Also add every hex tile turn-based game. no kid wants to play those.
but you get the picture. all those games are more appealing to adults than kids.
In Soviet Russia, key generator gives you whole key.
Again, DRM screws the paying customers.
Typical neoconservative.
In case you haven't noticed, the fruits were already redistributed, from our wallets to a vault owned by some millionaire-turned-billionaire.
People like you always try to act like democrats want to take what you've earned and give it to poor people.
You're wrong and you probably will never realize it. They want to take from the obscenely rich and give it to poor people.
It's pretty fair to say that there's nothing a man can do, who earns a few million dollars a year, to justify that as his fair share. What can a man do to rightfully earn that much over a man who works harder and longer that earns peanuts? Let's not discuss education or intelligence. They don't matter here. I want to know how you, who probably doesn't even make $100k a year can stick up for people who have systematically pillaged both the American Treasury and picked the pockets of Americans for over a generation.
Not that I care about this that much, but really? The Chinese government is taxing gamers that sell game money?
Granted, people are dumb enough to spend their hard earned money buying game gold.
But taxing those who sell it? even more ludicrous.
This is part of why I avoid MMO games like the plague. They're filled with stupid people who have no life. And before you say, "wait a minute, I have a life and I play", Nope, no you don't.
I have said this before, all MMO games to date have been an endless cycle of carrot on a string. Upgrade, socialize, upgrade socialize, upgrade, socialize. I've got better things to do and better games to play. Games that can actually be completed.
The Internet is out there waiting for us to use it. The ISPs are trying to stifle our use of it.
I use legal services on the Internet to consume media.
Tivo
Hulu
Netflix instant
Xbox Live
gaming both PC and Xbox
downloading Linux updates
amazon unbox
itunes
amazon mp3
pandora radio
revision3 TV
Steam store
EA online store
I use all of these services and depending on the month, usage may be more than 250GB.
Not only is it not consumer friendly, but it's a step in the wrong direction.
This should set off alarms at apple, amazon, netflix, nbc, microsoft, and other media conglomerates.
If we don't have the transfer available, we can't consume these services.
agreed. child's play deserves the money at which the snooty creationists turned up their noses.
maybe they want to stop skynet from being built.
Trolling and anger on the internet lead to more trolling and watching porn.
If there are people who are taking their rage offline, those people need anger management help.
For the rest of us, trolling and playing violent video games IS anger management.
First, correlation is not causation.
Second, aggression is not violence.
Third, this applies to all violent media exposure, not just video games.
Fourth, we have known about these links for more than a decade.
and I'm still alive.
In the sun's magnetic portal,
and I'm still alive.
governor of dumbfuckistan can't spell secedes.
I know the kind of trolls that lurk on forums. They usually piss everyone off.
That being said, rendering someone's $50 purchase useless because they complained in a forum is way over the fucking line.
EA will potentially get sued into submission.
Was this policy outlined in the game's literature at purchase time?
If not, this isn't going to fly. Even a half-brained judge will side with the troll on this one.
I thought he was going to play the doctor?
all of those questions are typical shit political questions. They don't force any real answers.
my question http://interviews.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=978947&cid=25190311
I asked that and it should have been put forth. Whomever chose the questions is a nitwit.
I'm 32 and I listen to just about everything. My son will grow up listening to everything.
I am a musician and my son will be as well. I am under the impression that children need indoctrination in music.
The beatles will always be in my top 3 no matter what happens. I will try to instill an appreciation for all music in my son.
So how do you deal with the 3-chord knockoffs being published these days? There's a very low wheat/chaff ratio.
I wasn't suggesting that employees won't have downtime. But what you're suggesting is that they will have like 30-40% downtime.
If they have more than 5% downtime, maybe it's time to downsize.
Employee downtime is very costly to a business.
And I wasn't writing specifically about tech companies.
If you work for an insurance company, or a mortgage broker, or a doctor, or dunder mifflin, you're not supposed to have more that an hour of downtime a day for your federally mandated breaks.
That being said, I understand people have downtime. I've worked in places where the boss thought that downtime meant you weren't working.(despite being almost three times as productive as other employees).
I'm just saying if it were my business, I would try to minimize downtime because it's costly overhead.
sometimes it's very essential to business to control the way in which its employees communicate. If it were my company, I would prohibit company business on any service not explicit in the employee communications manual. (yes, I would write an employee communications manual). Such a manual would lay out a terms of use for using company resources.
Sometimes you have to enact damage control, but it's rarely necessary if your employees know what they can and can't disseminate over services like facebook and twitter.
Lest we forget corporate secrets going out over someone's flickr album. In this new day and age, employees are expected to be productive while communicating readily and instantly with the rest of the social world. There is a way to do it safely. Sometimes you simply must restrict their access if it would damage the company.
it might be worth checking out.
will this new silicon fiber be more durable and less fragile than glass-fiber?
if not, what's the point?
He believes it's his project.
It is not.
It belongs to the mass of developers who contributed to it.
Happily they forked the codebase.
Sadly for Theony, no one will continue using Twiki. His actions are just bad for open source software.
McCain will promote deregulation, which allows all sorts of financial tomfoolery and promotes the building of monopolies.
Obama will promote regulation to prevent industry from acting against the interest of the American people.
I honestly would have become a republican if Ron Paul had won the primary. He didn't so I'm still npa and voting for Obama.