I never went any further with the series so I wonder what they could cook up. SimCity was effectively trying to plan a city and solve it's problems as it grows and managing resources.
Ironically, it was a huge struggle which I never got very good at, perhaps there's a lesson there. About the time I decided to dump it I hit all the disaster buttons on the city and, lo, like real-life, it suddenly started to go well. Nothing like building after a disaster to revive a slumping economy (assuming you started with a pretty good one, rather than say, Goshzilla stomping through half of Africa and things going from bad to worse.) I haven't had much urge to play it since.
Nothing beats time under your belt, but if you don't have time, then what?
I'd recommend at the least a BS in CS, oh, and wear a clean shirt, minimal face piercings, tasteful haircut, use of mouthwash and leaving your ego at the door for any interviews. It is a buyers market and that means you've got to be on your best behavior, since you can bet others will go so far as to wear a tie to get the job. 1999 was like last century, ok?
The ultimate question remains, where's Microsoft's pain threshold and how much further will they go before throwing (a) more good money after bad OR (b) in the towel.
San Jose Mercury had an article on Saturday about the XBox and how it compares to the Game Cube and PS2 and basically panned it. In a nutshell, HALO isn't strong enough and there's no signature game anyone has to have.
Also, this morning there was some blurb on the radio about Microsoft rolling out XBox Live.
Mr. Lott, a Mississippi Republican, had been on the losing side of a series of votes on amendments.
Lott just burns me up. His pissing and moaning seems even to extreme for a republican. Aside from in issue which may increase litigation (which IS our right, to see redress, etc.) I can't figure where someone would expect the average citizen to tolerate business swapping information, which may be inaccurate and used to deny service or increase cost to citizens. Seems we're always being left in the 'opt-out' mode by someone from a state which really is a backwater for american business. I'm also puzzled by McCain's tack on this, as it seems contrary to his norm.
Even in the overheated IT job market prior to 2000, I was surprised how many companies still held out for at least Bachelors degree. With the considerably cooler market you will enter, you will be in competition with people with experience, degrees or both. Don't handicap yourself going for quick money. It's much harder to find time to finish school (finding time, scheduling i.e. core courses seem to be held when you can never take them, if family happens, etc.) when you've started working full time and may require the sacrifice of saving up, quitting your job and then going to school full time. If you value having a career job and a social life, too, get school out of contention for your time first.
To kids today, it'll look as slick and polished as any of dozens of sci-fi/fantasy flicks loaded with CGI.
Back in 1977, after watching years of cheezey films I sat in a theater in Midland, Michigan to see a film people were completely at a loss to describe, other than, "You just have to see this man, just go see it." I nearly dropped my popcorn at the start when the corellian(sp?) ship rumbled overhead firing away. The fairly new theater had Surround and Lucas put it to good use. Not since Tora Tora Tora had I been so impressed by a film, and George Lucas knew what few other filmmakers understood, effect when managed carefully can make up for a lot of short comings. I didn't pay much attention to some of the sets (which look pretty camp now) because I was so impressed, not hard when compared to a lot of films in the mid-late 70's. Now they put piles of money into flicks so overdramatic and littered with acting they make 50's B movies look like Shakespeare. The impression has lasted years and for that I'm content.
Kids today missed out, maybe Spider-Man or Independence Day would be their defining moment in cinematic memory. We'll have to ask them in about 25 years.
There was an article last week about the estimated cost to the economy of ~$300M. Just an observation from my morning commute, the traffic was very sparse and moved fast, I had the definite feel that there's a lot of people taking the day off to see EP2.
[IE not for Linux] competition among Linux browsers is still a good thing, it's not where the competition really needs to take place.
True, however, the innovation which takes place in the Open Source arena pushes Opera, Konqueror, Mozilla, et al, to new heights of user friendliness, usability, and features, which is all the better for Linux to underscore it's strengths and the weakness of someone's FUD about modular operating systems.
Not to be confused with the Borg's idea of embrace and extend.
Not bugs, security holes, standards non-compliant, e.g. IE.
When companies appear to die after turning down offers, I wonder, what do you have to gain by not just taking whatever money and running? Ok, maybe they'll sleep better at night, but somehow I don't feel that figures into it all that much.
Yeah, you're endowed with certain inalienable rights.
But, last I looked, Cingular isn't the Government (tho they probably do own a chunk of it.)
Check your service agreement for those nasty little phrases like, "Cingular reserves the right to...", which give them all the clout they need.
All the clout you need is to go find someone who doesn't have those little phrases in the contract and subscribe to their service. You probably have that right, as, last I looked, no bills have passed the House binding you to indentured servitude.
What a stupid name, 'Opteron', it has that empty corporate feel to it. They should have stuck with Hammer, which suggest something strong, Sledgehammer powerful.
As if the buddy-buddy stuff between Sanders and Microsoft at the trial hasn't sickened me already. And I was so looking forward to this.
Hmm.. Intel bad? AMD good? I'll have to think about that.
Ah, it was ok, but there was one about 2 years ago in October, 5.3 in San Juan Bautista, felt in Watsonville like a slightly drunken stagger. Pretty neat the way the earth gently heaved around for about 20 seconds then quietly stopped. This one shook things a little, but nothing was knocked over (in Capitola, 2nd floor of a townhouse [It's mine! My apartment! Back! Go find your own!]) not even a stack of about 20 pennies on a counter.
Ist nicht der Loma Prieta, machen Sie nichts mit das paniken fleein. Die Erde quakken ist eine kleine bumpen in der nacht, nichts mehr. Nicht outen das fenster liepen und schkrimmen das sky ist gefallen, alzo nichts mit das auto gestuffen mit alles pozezens und zu Iowa gemoven. Just sitzen und watchen das USGS geslashdotten.
When the BIG one comes, all the land east of the San Andreas (or mebbe Hayward) Fault will slide off into the Atlantic. Betcha wish ya were in sunny... uh... cool and windy (and often foggy during the summer) Santa Cruz, eh?:-)
I was lying in bed (In Capitola, east of Santa Cruz) and the building shook a for about 15 seconds. Big deal. 5.2 is nothing. What's more fascinating is that this rates an article on Slashdot. I'm going to sleep now, ok? Shall I post an article on that?
I guess the infomation I was after was: Are keyboards buffered, or otherwise isolated on current PC motherboards in such a way that shorts in the KB wouldn't damage the mobo.
From this morning's USA Today article: "The Federal Trade Commission is preparing an antitrust lawsuit against once-highflying computer-chip maker Rambus, people familiar with the case
say."
In a nutshell, the FTC is likely to bar Rambus from collecting royalties on SDRAM and may go so far as to bar royalties on DDR.
WHOOMP!! There it is!
Maybe contact the FTC on this matter, couldn't hurt, it's only a toll free call and some elevator music, but bad patents seem to be getting their attention at last.
Slashdot Mirror
Ironically, it was a huge struggle which I never got very good at, perhaps there's a lesson there. About the time I decided to dump it I hit all the disaster buttons on the city and, lo, like real-life, it suddenly started to go well. Nothing like building after a disaster to revive a slumping economy (assuming you started with a pretty good one, rather than say, Goshzilla stomping through half of Africa and things going from bad to worse.) I haven't had much urge to play it since.
I'd recommend at the least a BS in CS, oh, and wear a clean shirt, minimal face piercings, tasteful haircut, use of mouthwash and leaving your ego at the door for any interviews. It is a buyers market and that means you've got to be on your best behavior, since you can bet others will go so far as to wear a tie to get the job. 1999 was like last century, ok?
Oh, wait, this wasn't one of the damn polls...
San Jose Mercury had an article on Saturday about the XBox and how it compares to the Game Cube and PS2 and basically panned it. In a nutshell, HALO isn't strong enough and there's no signature game anyone has to have.
Also, this morning there was some blurb on the radio about Microsoft rolling out XBox Live.
More parody on the Fool
Lott just burns me up. His pissing and moaning seems even to extreme for a republican. Aside from in issue which may increase litigation (which IS our right, to see redress, etc.) I can't figure where someone would expect the average citizen to tolerate business swapping information, which may be inaccurate and used to deny service or increase cost to citizens. Seems we're always being left in the 'opt-out' mode by someone from a state which really is a backwater for american business. I'm also puzzled by McCain's tack on this, as it seems contrary to his norm.
Cuneiform is awl write!
I kept one credit card for billing such services, when I was done I cancelled the card. :)
Even in the overheated IT job market prior to 2000, I was surprised how many companies still held out for at least Bachelors degree. With the considerably cooler market you will enter, you will be in competition with people with experience, degrees or both. Don't handicap yourself going for quick money. It's much harder to find time to finish school (finding time, scheduling i.e. core courses seem to be held when you can never take them, if family happens, etc.) when you've started working full time and may require the sacrifice of saving up, quitting your job and then going to school full time. If you value having a career job and a social life, too, get school out of contention for your time first.
It's all that Microsoft non-compliant human behavior. As soon as they fix that the need for patches will go away.
Back in 1977, after watching years of cheezey films I sat in a theater in Midland, Michigan to see a film people were completely at a loss to describe, other than, "You just have to see this man, just go see it." I nearly dropped my popcorn at the start when the corellian(sp?) ship rumbled overhead firing away. The fairly new theater had Surround and Lucas put it to good use. Not since Tora Tora Tora had I been so impressed by a film, and George Lucas knew what few other filmmakers understood, effect when managed carefully can make up for a lot of short comings. I didn't pay much attention to some of the sets (which look pretty camp now) because I was so impressed, not hard when compared to a lot of films in the mid-late 70's. Now they put piles of money into flicks so overdramatic and littered with acting they make 50's B movies look like Shakespeare. The impression has lasted years and for that I'm content.
Kids today missed out, maybe Spider-Man or Independence Day would be their defining moment in cinematic memory. We'll have to ask them in about 25 years.
#include jarjarslam.h
#include notasgoodastheoriginal.h
#include whereisjonkatzinallthiscomment.h
Spaceballs is probably the best thing to come out of star wars.
Actually, there have been some other great parodies like Thumb Wars and Hardware Wars.
Some really decent fan films, too.
Spaceballs is the only one in my collection, so far.
There was an article last week about the estimated cost to the economy of ~$300M. Just an observation from my morning commute, the traffic was very sparse and moved fast, I had the definite feel that there's a lot of people taking the day off to see EP2.
True, however, the innovation which takes place in the Open Source arena pushes Opera, Konqueror, Mozilla, et al, to new heights of user friendliness, usability, and features, which is all the better for Linux to underscore it's strengths and the weakness of someone's FUD about modular operating systems.
Not to be confused with the Borg's idea of embrace and extend.
Not bugs, security holes, standards non-compliant, e.g. IE.
Does buying it make these stupid ads go away?
When companies appear to die after turning down offers, I wonder, what do you have to gain by not just taking whatever money and running? Ok, maybe they'll sleep better at night, but somehow I don't feel that figures into it all that much.
Yeah, you're entitled to freedom of speech.
Yeah, you're endowed with certain inalienable rights.
But, last I looked, Cingular isn't the Government (tho they probably do own a chunk of it.)
Check your service agreement for those nasty little phrases like, "Cingular reserves the right to ...", which give them all the clout they need.
All the clout you need is to go find someone who doesn't have those little phrases in the contract and subscribe to their service. You probably have that right, as, last I looked, no bills have passed the House binding you to indentured servitude.
As if the buddy-buddy stuff between Sanders and Microsoft at the trial hasn't sickened me already. And I was so looking forward to this.
Hmm.. Intel bad? AMD good? I'll have to think about that.
Ah, it was ok, but there was one about 2 years ago in October, 5.3 in San Juan Bautista, felt in Watsonville like a slightly drunken stagger. Pretty neat the way the earth gently heaved around for about 20 seconds then quietly stopped. This one shook things a little, but nothing was knocked over (in Capitola, 2nd floor of a townhouse [It's mine! My apartment! Back! Go find your own!]) not even a stack of about 20 pennies on a counter.
When the BIG one comes, all the land east of the San Andreas (or mebbe Hayward) Fault will slide off into the Atlantic. Betcha wish ya were in sunny ... uh ... cool and windy (and often foggy during the summer) Santa Cruz, eh? :-)
I was lying in bed (In Capitola, east of Santa Cruz) and the building shook a for about 15 seconds. Big deal. 5.2 is nothing. What's more fascinating is that this rates an article on Slashdot. I'm going to sleep now, ok? Shall I post an article on that?
I guess the infomation I was after was: Are keyboards buffered, or otherwise isolated on current PC motherboards in such a way that shorts in the KB wouldn't damage the mobo.
I finally upgraded from Flash to No-Flash. I couldn't be happier! Now if I could just stop the animated GIFs I'd be ecstatic!
In a nutshell, the FTC is likely to bar Rambus from collecting royalties on SDRAM and may go so far as to bar royalties on DDR.
WHOOMP!! There it is!
Maybe contact the FTC on this matter, couldn't hurt, it's only a toll free call and some elevator music, but bad patents seem to be getting their attention at last.