They've also pushed into the realm of network adaptors, Hard disk drives, and other areas they felt they needed to compete in. They poured a lot of resources into the PSP. Sony was by no means resting on their laurels.
Yes, long after the XBox went with network connectivity and a hard drives. That's resting on your laurels. And their online strategy was (and is), well, not guaranteed to succeed, to put it nicely.
Nintendo was more hampered by developer relations than any resting. Although they certainly got a good kick in the pants, and *that* gave us the DS. Nintendo has realized that the graphics race is not the race to compete in, and they went back and innovated again. The GC was not really innovative except for the controller. (Which, uh, is "not so good" (tm) ) Then again, you win some, you lose some. I've got high hopes for the Revolution - if they can market it.
Little good the League of Nations did to prevent WWII
Of course, one might want to make the argument that it didn't have the leverage to prevent it because the US never joined.. But let's not have facts get in the way of a good UN bash, right?
Donald Trump testified for over a half hour on just how screwed up the UN was when it came to construction costs and project planning.
How often did Trump go bankrupt? That makes him an expert on projection cost and project planning how?
Afghanistan was more interested in growing opium then food
... after having been enticed to get into the trade by the CIA...
Zimbabwe is refusing to let the UN build housing for people whose homes the warlords destroyed.
And that makes it the UN's fault how?
Look, the UN is not perfect, but it's better than any other option. Sort of like democracy.
Did you notice Everquest on PS2? SWG? I didn't think so. MMORPGs will be the realm of the PC for quite some time and face completely different constraints than console games.
Sony is blatantly kicking itself out of the console online space by doing their "Free-For-All" solution. Don't believe me - look what it did for online games on the PS2.
Gee, I don't know about the PC gamer's online gaming experience being crap. I've only been PC gaming online for 4 years now, and a member of an online gaming clan for 3 of those years
That's putting you pretty far out of the average Joe category. The average Joe I'm talking about sees a console as similar to any other appliance. He doesn't want to be in a "Clan", or "rent a server". He wants to play, and keep in touch with his friends. Without any effort. Just plug the thing in. Sony's not offering that, and neither is the PC.
You probably don't want to develop the game either but no game no money Actually, I develop games *only* because I want to. If I wanted plenty of money, I'd be working for a bank.
Game publishers don't make games because they want to, they do it to make money So if developing decent online for PS2 takes significantly longer than for XBox, the game publisher will do what?
There's plenty of average Joes playing PC games online If 300,000 is your idea of plenty... (Yes, that's WoW only - but that's the point. The user base gets fragmented without a uniform backend)
And have you ever used Steam Oh, you mean the online system that doesn't let me play offline and has a broken friends system? (OK. I jest. Steam is good. But it's good in part because it's similar to Live. Sony is *nuts* not to provide something similar)
And what makes you think systems like Xbox Live authenticate content and block stuff from shock sites like Goatse? The fact that I've actually worked with Live?
Uh, yes. Because the PC online experience for your average Joe is *crap*. Live is about getting
- average Joe to play. No dice with PC games
- having a universal friends system. (I don't see that on the PC. And don't say GameSpy. POS)
- having universal voice chat. How many different voice chats do you have on the PC?
- Micropayments for content.
- Authenticated content only. Let me just say goatse....
As for Sony doing it anyways: You remember the Red vs Blue movie about games for the Mac? "Well, there's that puzzle thing. And Photoshop...." Same applies for Sony online. There's SOCOM. And SOCOM II.
From a developer POV, Sony's idea is not so good. I don't *want* to develop all that stuff when I'm writing a game. Hence, nobody does it.
Guess I deserved that smackdown. As I said above, I assumed C++. (And was in a bad mood...)
I'm still maintaining you can only judge a person by having them *write* code, though. Throwing a made-up problem at them will lead to different assumptions, based on their backgrounds. Having them write code will force them to operate at least on a consistent set of assumptions - their own.
Actually, they don't need to know anything about gets() or puts() to answer the question correctly. If it was C++, then they would. All they need to know is how pointers are passed to functions, which is very very basic knowledge.
Apologies for the assumption that it was C++, not C. Rare are the places that can or do differentiate between the two. And yes, in that case it is indeed basic knowledge. Maybe I've just seen a couple too many really bad C++ interviews, so I'm overly sensitive.
Oh, great. Another person testing for memorization of language details. The correct answer is, of course: "It will not compile, since you forgot to provide headers". (Yes, I know the problem with gets - but smart-ass questions get smart-ass answers. And it actually does matter - who am I to say if you don't have your own version of gets?)
Uh, I'd love to tell you your facts are wrong, but since the post is pure conjecture, that's kind of hard;)
1) "The harder they work on keeping people from using it, the less effort they can put in making it good"
And why would that be? There's this little thing called "hiring". They can actually have people work on both concepts.
2) "this says that Linux is going to improve compared to OS X,"
Uhuh. Linux - the powerhouse of well designed UIs.
3) "they will fail to attract as many hackers as they could"
Why would they *want* to attract more hackers? As far as the infrastructure goes, they're using BSD - so infrastructure stuff runs just fine. As far as the UI goes - as soon as there are OSS projects with a decent UI, we can talk about this again. Not happening so far.
4) "I already switched from OS X to Linux because I find it technically superior"
Surprise message of the day - nobody cares about technical superiority. What it's all about is that it's easy to use. And since most people consider configuring kernels or drivers not part of they want to do, Linux isn't easy to use. It might be for you. It isn't for me.
And before you start telling me that that's because I'm not technical enough - I ran Linux since 0.02. I switched away from it for OS X. Because I *really* don't want to run XConfig and figure out PS2 mouse intricacies and resolve interrupt conflicts when I have actual work to do.
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It's really easy
a) I want something that actually looks decent. Most MP3 player companies wouldn't know industrial design if it bit them.
b) It ties in nicely with a music program that rips, gives me a music store. And before somebody whines about all the OSS tools that give you the same: They look like shit. They are a hassle to install. It takes fiddling to make them work.
And that's it in a nutshell - it just works, and it looks good.
Government agencies, insurance companies, banks and other institutions have all your details on record anyway and shouldn't be too hard to reaquire in the event of a disaster
Good god, those agencies are slow as molasses when they have nothing else to do. In case of a disaster, the wait is going to be years! Apart from that - if you lose your documents you can't prove who you are
Plan at least to safeguard that. And skip the "thumbdrive" nonsense. Good old paper copy still works best. Just make sure you can easily access it - so safe deposit might not work, either. (The whole "ID yourself" thing again).
As for cc's and other things - yes, that's pretty unnecessary once you can ID yourself. If you can remember you had them. (You can get a credit report, but again, that might take a while).
"[You have a stable society when some nut guns down a schoolyard and the law doesn't change.]"
Why would the *law* need to change? Gunning down schoolyards is already illegal. Posession of guns by minors has either restrictions (U.S.) or is illegal (most of the rest of the world). Carrying loaded guns into a school is illegal. What else do you need to make illegal?
This is not the faiing of law - it shows a failure of society.
There's a *trivial* fix for this. Actual (material I think would be the term) damanges go to the plaintiff, punitive damages to a non-profit organization. (Jury' choice, judge's choice, randomly from an "approved" list, you pick).
People get money for the actual damages caused to them. The company still feels the pain. Greedy lawyers can't attach themselves to the money. Society benefits.
Look, Ma! We'd just have to actually want to change things...
Actually, H1B workers do not need to provide vaccination papers - at least not from my home country (Germany).
What's funny is that once you apply for a Greencard, you do need to take a health test. (That's at the earliest two years after you entered the country. INS is a tad bit slow). So diseases you have at that time you either spread around or actually *got* in the states.
What's even funnier is that the only clinics willing to do health checks for immigrants (at least in Chicago) are dirty hellholes that look like they've been imported from a 3rd-world country. You're more likely to get sick there than anything else. And no, not because of the immigrants - because they are *dirtholes*. To make things even *more* entertaining, the people employed there are often moonlighting - the guy supposed to do my chest X-Ray was not an X-Ray techician, but an emergency vehicle driver on his second job.
(I bowed out of that, and had an X-Ray taken at a decent hospital at my own cost, but not everybody can afford that)
Sorry - if Americans are worried about immigrants carrying diseases, they need to get their healthcare system in better shape. The current system is a joke.
Yep. Right. We'll catch him like we caught those guys on expired visa before they flew planes into the building.
It's pork for a defense contractor, plain and simple. It's not going to protect a single soul in NYC. But go ahead, believe in security through a surveillance state - that has always worked out in the past, right?
We have more than enough security measures in place - more data isn't going to help overwhelmed analysts. (It is, however, a great boon to people who want privacy - the more data channels there are, the either it is to DDoS the people/computers behind it)
The cameras in London enabled them to identity who the suicide bombers were. If a suicide bomber jumped on a train on the underground in NYC, and blew himself up, we couldn't even figure out who did it!
That's certainly worth $212 million - the bastard might do it again!
If you are a professional-level programmer, you'll have a professional-level program to impress me, right?
And if you can make an impression, you will get an internship. It's every company's dream to get a professional intern (think about it - professional labor for less money!)
However, you might find that what you consider professional level, and what professionals consider professional level are not entirely in agreement. It's not only the ability to bang out code - there's the whole maintainability thing, documentation, people skills, etc....
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Yes, long after the XBox went with network connectivity and a hard drives. That's resting on your laurels. And their online strategy was (and is), well, not guaranteed to succeed, to put it nicely.
Nintendo was more hampered by developer relations than any resting. Although they certainly got a good kick in the pants, and *that* gave us the DS. Nintendo has realized that the graphics race is not the race to compete in, and they went back and innovated again. The GC was not really innovative except for the controller. (Which, uh, is "not so good" (tm) ) Then again, you win some, you lose some. I've got high hopes for the Revolution - if they can market it.
Of course, one might want to make the argument that it didn't have the leverage to prevent it because the US never joined.. But let's not have facts get in the way of a good UN bash, right?
How often did Trump go bankrupt? That makes him an expert on projection cost and project planning how?
And that makes it the UN's fault how?
Look, the UN is not perfect, but it's better than any other option. Sort of like democracy.
Note - this is talking about *consoles*
Did you notice Everquest on PS2? SWG? I didn't think so. MMORPGs will be the realm of the PC for quite some time and face completely different constraints than console games.
Sony is blatantly kicking itself out of the console online space by doing their "Free-For-All" solution. Don't believe me - look what it did for online games on the PS2.
Live has a lot over the PS2's system, but it doesn't have much over the PC(at least worth paying for).
Say you. Looking at the numbers of people subscribing to Live vs. the number of people playing Sony stuff online, some people seem to differ....
Gee, I don't know about the PC gamer's online gaming experience being crap. I've only been PC gaming online for 4 years now, and a member of an online gaming clan for 3 of those years
That's putting you pretty far out of the average Joe category. The average Joe I'm talking about sees a console as similar to any other appliance. He doesn't want to be in a "Clan", or "rent a server". He wants to play, and keep in touch with his friends. Without any effort. Just plug the thing in. Sony's not offering that, and neither is the PC.
You probably don't want to develop the game either but no game no money
Actually, I develop games *only* because I want to. If I wanted plenty of money, I'd be working for a bank.
Game publishers don't make games because they want to, they do it to make money
So if developing decent online for PS2 takes significantly longer than for XBox, the game publisher will do what?
There's plenty of average Joes playing PC games online
If 300,000 is your idea of plenty... (Yes, that's WoW only - but that's the point. The user base gets fragmented without a uniform backend)
And have you ever used Steam
Oh, you mean the online system that doesn't let me play offline and has a broken friends system? (OK. I jest. Steam is good. But it's good in part because it's similar to Live. Sony is *nuts* not to provide something similar)
And what makes you think systems like Xbox Live authenticate content and block stuff from shock sites like Goatse?
The fact that I've actually worked with Live?
Uh, yes. Because the PC online experience for your average Joe is *crap*. Live is about getting
- average Joe to play. No dice with PC games
- having a universal friends system. (I don't see that on the PC. And don't say GameSpy. POS)
- having universal voice chat. How many different voice chats do you have on the PC?
- Micropayments for content.
- Authenticated content only. Let me just say goatse....
As for Sony doing it anyways: You remember the Red vs Blue movie about games for the Mac? "Well, there's that puzzle thing. And Photoshop...." Same applies for Sony online. There's SOCOM. And SOCOM II.
From a developer POV, Sony's idea is not so good. I don't *want* to develop all that stuff when I'm writing a game. Hence, nobody does it.
Heh - except we're not in Santa Monica any more ;)
Guess I deserved that smackdown. As I said above, I assumed C++. (And was in a bad mood...)
I'm still maintaining you can only judge a person by having them *write* code, though. Throwing a made-up problem at them will lead to different assumptions, based on their backgrounds. Having them write code will force them to operate at least on a consistent set of assumptions - their own.
Actually, they don't need to know anything about gets() or puts() to answer the question correctly. If it was C++, then they would. All they need to know is how pointers are passed to functions, which is very very basic knowledge.
Apologies for the assumption that it was C++, not C. Rare are the places that can or do differentiate between the two. And yes, in that case it is indeed basic knowledge. Maybe I've just seen a couple too many really bad C++ interviews, so I'm overly sensitive.
Oh, great. Another person testing for memorization of language details. The correct answer is, of course: "It will not compile, since you forgot to provide headers". (Yes, I know the problem with gets - but smart-ass questions get smart-ass answers. And it actually does matter - who am I to say if you don't have your own version of gets?)
Uh, I'd love to tell you your facts are wrong, but since the post is pure conjecture, that's kind of hard ;)
1) "The harder they work on keeping people from using it, the less effort they can put in making it good"
And why would that be? There's this little thing called "hiring". They can actually have people work on both concepts.
2) "this says that Linux is going to improve compared to OS X,"
Uhuh. Linux - the powerhouse of well designed UIs.
3) "they will fail to attract as many hackers as they could"
Why would they *want* to attract more hackers? As far as the infrastructure goes, they're using BSD - so infrastructure stuff runs just fine. As far as the UI goes - as soon as there are OSS projects with a decent UI, we can talk about this again. Not happening so far.
4) "I already switched from OS X to Linux because I find it technically superior"
Surprise message of the day - nobody cares about technical superiority. What it's all about is that it's easy to use. And since most people consider configuring kernels or drivers not part of they want to do, Linux isn't easy to use. It might be for you. It isn't for me.
And before you start telling me that that's because I'm not technical enough - I ran Linux since 0.02. I switched away from it for OS X. Because I *really* don't want to run XConfig and figure out PS2 mouse intricacies and resolve interrupt conflicts when I have actual work to do.
It's really easy
a) I want something that actually looks decent. Most MP3 player companies wouldn't know industrial design if it bit them.
b) It ties in nicely with a music program that rips, gives me a music store. And before somebody whines about all the OSS tools that give you the same: They look like shit. They are a hassle to install. It takes fiddling to make them work.
And that's it in a nutshell - it just works, and it looks good.
Good god, those agencies are slow as molasses when they have nothing else to do. In case of a disaster, the wait is going to be years! Apart from that - if you lose your documents you can't prove who you are
Plan at least to safeguard that. And skip the "thumbdrive" nonsense. Good old paper copy still works best. Just make sure you can easily access it - so safe deposit might not work, either. (The whole "ID yourself" thing again).
As for cc's and other things - yes, that's pretty unnecessary once you can ID yourself. If you can remember you had them. (You can get a credit report, but again, that might take a while).
Why would the *law* need to change? Gunning down schoolyards is already illegal. Posession of guns by minors has either restrictions (U.S.) or is illegal (most of the rest of the world). Carrying loaded guns into a school is illegal. What else do you need to make illegal?
This is not the faiing of law - it shows a failure of society.
There's a *trivial* fix for this. Actual (material I think would be the term) damanges go to the plaintiff, punitive damages to a non-profit organization. (Jury' choice, judge's choice, randomly from an "approved" list, you pick).
People get money for the actual damages caused to them. The company still feels the pain. Greedy lawyers can't attach themselves to the money. Society benefits.
Look, Ma! We'd just have to actually want to change things...
Can't believe I'm the first one to say this, but
Step 1: Bit Torrent
Step 2: ???
Step 3: Profit!
You must ALL be new around here!
At least Nintendogs is missing. What about PictoChat? There's more to wireless gaming on the DS than the few games that are listed in the article....
Uh - it detects the # of connection to your WAP. I hope people are not BTing from there and instead come through your cable/DSL connection.
Actually, H1B workers do not need to provide vaccination papers - at least not from my home country (Germany).
What's funny is that once you apply for a Greencard, you do need to take a health test. (That's at the earliest two years after you entered the country. INS is a tad bit slow). So diseases you have at that time you either spread around or actually *got* in the states.
What's even funnier is that the only clinics willing to do health checks for immigrants (at least in Chicago) are dirty hellholes that look like they've been imported from a 3rd-world country. You're more likely to get sick there than anything else. And no, not because of the immigrants - because they are *dirtholes*. To make things even *more* entertaining, the people employed there are often moonlighting - the guy supposed to do my chest X-Ray was not an X-Ray techician, but an emergency vehicle driver on his second job.
(I bowed out of that, and had an X-Ray taken at a decent hospital at my own cost, but not everybody can afford that)
Sorry - if Americans are worried about immigrants carrying diseases, they need to get their healthcare system in better shape. The current system is a joke.
"Is this scene going to be important to the plot?"
For the current crop of movies, the answer is "no" by default. So drink all you want, you won't miss much.
Play "Buffy" instead of StarTrek, and you've got a winning combo. Working fine for me...
Yep. Right. We'll catch him like we caught those guys on expired visa before they flew planes into the building.
It's pork for a defense contractor, plain and simple. It's not going to protect a single soul in NYC. But go ahead, believe in security through a surveillance state - that has always worked out in the past, right?
We have more than enough security measures in place - more data isn't going to help overwhelmed analysts. (It is, however, a great boon to people who want privacy - the more data channels there are, the either it is to DDoS the people/computers behind it)
That's certainly worth $212 million - the bastard might do it again!
If you are a professional-level programmer, you'll have a professional-level program to impress me, right?
And if you can make an impression, you will get an internship. It's every company's dream to get a professional intern (think about it - professional labor for less money!)
However, you might find that what you consider professional level, and what professionals consider professional level are not entirely in agreement. It's not only the ability to bang out code - there's the whole maintainability thing, documentation, people skills, etc....