there is no asian/european country that has been around for thousands of years in a stable condition. they all have been invaded and their populations killed off to make room for the invaders.
mongols invaded china the romans pushed the gauls into england and then ireland. the current french are franks, who were invaders in the early part of the last millenium. same with most other europeans. they were the barbarians who invaded the roman empire and settled down.
depends on your job. there are high and low paying jobs where you have to be on site to work. my wife and i are lucky that we can work from home if need be
and you think you have it good now, but wait a few decades. people's kids will grow up and they will forget about you since the kids can watch themselves. people will always spend time as a family with kids and grandchildren and cousins and others. you and your wife will be alone and bitter in your old age.
or you will end up like some of the dummies i see who had kids late in life, like in their late 40's or early 50's. and when you're in the age where you want to chill out and watch the game on sunday you will have to manage with small kids that monopolize your time
my first son was born when i was 35. i'm going to push my kids to have kids themselves in their early 20's and i'll try to play child care if i can. this way by the time they hit their older years they will be financially secure and will be able to relax more.
i've seen people in the army have kids in their early 20's. one person i still chat with on facebook is in his mid 40's and some of his kids are grown up in their 20's. he's chillin now. that's right, right about the time you're older and make more money your kids are gone and you can use that money to pamper yourself
did Sid meier or any of the early other early game pioneers invent their genres? nope, they copied pre-computer concepts RTS games in general are just faster versions of chess
farmville and Cityville weren't that different from Sim City and Civilization. Cityville was actually partly designed by Brian Reynolds or whatever his name was. I've read he did more work on Civ than Sid Meier.
big difference is you had to spend money or get friends to play Zynga games to get further in the game. it wasn't an experience where you lock yourself in the house for a weekend playing Civ
most of the anti-social geeks ranted about how the games sucked, but they were pretty much the same as the Civ and Sim City i've played since the 80's
used to be you had 5 kids and 2 of them would die by 5 or 10. smallpox, typhoid, cholera, polio, death in child birth. add in your normal bacterial infections spreading and making your kids blind or some other disability because anti-biotics weren't available.
these days we have vaccines, antibiotics and other drugs to treat conditions that used to kill.
my older kid had pneumonia a few years back. a little zithromax and he was ready for day care in 2 days. one of my school teachers once said that pneumonia put her in the hospital for a month before that it wasn't that unusual to die from it
if you read the article they have a nice chart going back to the 1800's. the last 50 some years the birth rate has been flat since peaking in 1960.
right about the same time as women going into the work force and becoming independent and having children later. instead of peaks and valleys like before we will probably have a nice smooth birth rate going forward as people have kids later in life
they built a new addition over the last 3 years to handle more students and they are still getting more applications than seats. this is for kindergarten. 160 some seats and they got almost 200 applications. this is for a NYC public school
activision and EA are publishers, they don't develop many games themselves
the games are developed by smaller studios. problem is you need to pay people before the game ships along with paying for millions of copies of games to be printed and boxed before you sell a copy. the publishers have the money for this
mobile you just send your game to apple and let them take their 30%. there is also a lot less nitpicking about graphics on mobile. i've seen more than a few cool desktop games get panned by critics because their graphics weren't the most amazing they had seen.
the lower cost of entry for mobile meant a lot more competition for zynga
nintendo should have put more hardware into the actual console and not used that tablet thingy they ship with it. just write an android/IOS app to run on the cheapest tablets and connect to the console like MS is doing with Smartglass.
They pioneered casual gaming. the kind of stuff people could play that had nothing to do with hack and slack and murder. most people have no dreams of imagining themselves shooting others or hacking them to death like the so called real gamers. funny thing is that most of their games were just like the so called hard core real games.
too bad they ignored mobile and are now history while lots of other studios like Rovio are now making lots of money
just like alfred sloan passing henry ford back in the day because ford refused to deviate from his original vision of a single model of mass produced car
the management is morons. for years they stuck to flash to make development easier and faster and ignored mobile. i used to play mafia wars and farmville and others to kill time, but the problem was you had to do it on a computer. work blocked facebook for a long time. that meant at home i had to take out my laptop, boot it up, get into facebook and the game just to play the 15 minutes or so before they wanted money. on my iphone i just unlock the phone and play
playing the zynga games once a day meant it took months to get anything done, got boring really fast. and they cranked out new games every other month
meanwhile gameloft, rovio and others built mobile games and then added facebook and other social features and are now printing money
even reading something as simple as wikipedia yields knowledge that Greenland's climate has changed dramatically many times over the last 100,000 years. proven by ice core samples.
some of us older folk have had to read end of the world nonsense since we were kids and it never happens. with most people by their late twenties or early thirties they realize that its nonsense
the climate has always changed and will always change. its nonsense to believe that the climate has to always stay the same
1000 years ago Greenland had no ice as well because the Vikings were living on it. we know this because they left a lot of garbage before they left as the ice sheet came back. they were making wine in england 1000 years ago because it was warm enough to grow grapes.
we also know the conditions in coastal areas and cities at the time from writings and environmental evidence
did the major coastal cities sink into the ocean 1000 years ago when it was just as warm as today and Greenland had no ice? what about during the Pax Romana?
no budget, no money for onsite servers means cloud
even then for such a small environment there is no reason to buy your own hardware and code everything from scratch when someone has probably done all the work for you in a hosted solution
i work on the west side of manhattan a few days a week and the NJ drivers are some of the worst ones
along with the asian truck drivers any car with NJ plates would rather run you over or cut you off instead of letting you cross the street on your green light
or someone involved in selling the stolen phones or other stolen property will get a lot of calls from stolen phones because the dumb criminals don't want to use their personal phones
good police work has always been about going through mountains of data and finding one or two clues to catch the scumbags. most criminals are morons as well and leave lots of clues that have to be found and identified.
a few years back a doctor was killed near the elementary school i went to. the cops caught the guy in georgia. the scumbag tried to jump a subway turnstile years ago and was caught. the cops got a partial print from the bullet and went through the old arrest records paper finger prints manually to catch the guy. turns out he was related to the doctor's soon to be ex-wife and there were lots of cell phone records and now she's in jail as well
in the 21st century we have computers and the police don't have to do a lot of repetative work anymore
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the prinicipal was a moron for using a school computer. if it was his own computer then a search warrant would apply.
there is no asian/european country that has been around for thousands of years in a stable condition. they all have been invaded and their populations killed off to make room for the invaders.
mongols invaded china
the romans pushed the gauls into england and then ireland. the current french are franks, who were invaders in the early part of the last millenium. same with most other europeans. they were the barbarians who invaded the roman empire and settled down.
depends on your job. there are high and low paying jobs where you have to be on site to work. my wife and i are lucky that we can work from home if need be
and you think you have it good now, but wait a few decades. people's kids will grow up and they will forget about you since the kids can watch themselves. people will always spend time as a family with kids and grandchildren and cousins and others. you and your wife will be alone and bitter in your old age.
or you will end up like some of the dummies i see who had kids late in life, like in their late 40's or early 50's. and when you're in the age where you want to chill out and watch the game on sunday you will have to manage with small kids that monopolize your time
my first son was born when i was 35. i'm going to push my kids to have kids themselves in their early 20's and i'll try to play child care if i can. this way by the time they hit their older years they will be financially secure and will be able to relax more.
i've seen people in the army have kids in their early 20's. one person i still chat with on facebook is in his mid 40's and some of his kids are grown up in their 20's. he's chillin now. that's right, right about the time you're older and make more money your kids are gone and you can use that money to pamper yourself
really?
did henry ford invent the car?
did Sid meier or any of the early other early game pioneers invent their genres? nope, they copied pre-computer concepts
RTS games in general are just faster versions of chess
farmville and Cityville weren't that different from Sim City and Civilization. Cityville was actually partly designed by Brian Reynolds or whatever his name was. I've read he did more work on Civ than Sid Meier.
big difference is you had to spend money or get friends to play Zynga games to get further in the game. it wasn't an experience where you lock yourself in the house for a weekend playing Civ
most of the anti-social geeks ranted about how the games sucked, but they were pretty much the same as the Civ and Sim City i've played since the 80's
used to be you had 5 kids and 2 of them would die by 5 or 10. smallpox, typhoid, cholera, polio, death in child birth. add in your normal bacterial infections spreading and making your kids blind or some other disability because anti-biotics weren't available.
these days we have vaccines, antibiotics and other drugs to treat conditions that used to kill.
my older kid had pneumonia a few years back. a little zithromax and he was ready for day care in 2 days.
one of my school teachers once said that pneumonia put her in the hospital for a month
before that it wasn't that unusual to die from it
most wealthy people don't get their money from salary, but from investments.
fat chance on taxing everyone's investments that haven't been turned into cash
if you read the article they have a nice chart going back to the 1800's. the last 50 some years the birth rate has been flat since peaking in 1960.
right about the same time as women going into the work force and becoming independent and having children later. instead of peaks and valleys like before we will probably have a nice smooth birth rate going forward as people have kids later in life
they built a new addition over the last 3 years to handle more students and they are still getting more applications than seats. this is for kindergarten. 160 some seats and they got almost 200 applications. this is for a NYC public school
activision and EA are publishers, they don't develop many games themselves
the games are developed by smaller studios. problem is you need to pay people before the game ships along with paying for millions of copies of games to be printed and boxed before you sell a copy. the publishers have the money for this
mobile you just send your game to apple and let them take their 30%. there is also a lot less nitpicking about graphics on mobile. i've seen more than a few cool desktop games get panned by critics because their graphics weren't the most amazing they had seen.
the lower cost of entry for mobile meant a lot more competition for zynga
really?
nintendo should have put more hardware into the actual console and not used that tablet thingy they ship with it. just write an android/IOS app to run on the cheapest tablets and connect to the console like MS is doing with Smartglass.
They pioneered casual gaming. the kind of stuff people could play that had nothing to do with hack and slack and murder. most people have no dreams of imagining themselves shooting others or hacking them to death like the so called real gamers. funny thing is that most of their games were just like the so called hard core real games.
too bad they ignored mobile and are now history while lots of other studios like Rovio are now making lots of money
just like alfred sloan passing henry ford back in the day because ford refused to deviate from his original vision of a single model of mass produced car
really? look how their games turned out. almost no one plays them anymore
the management is morons. for years they stuck to flash to make development easier and faster and ignored mobile. i used to play mafia wars and farmville and others to kill time, but the problem was you had to do it on a computer. work blocked facebook for a long time. that meant at home i had to take out my laptop, boot it up, get into facebook and the game just to play the 15 minutes or so before they wanted money. on my iphone i just unlock the phone and play
playing the zynga games once a day meant it took months to get anything done, got boring really fast. and they cranked out new games every other month
meanwhile gameloft, rovio and others built mobile games and then added facebook and other social features and are now printing money
even reading something as simple as wikipedia yields knowledge that Greenland's climate has changed dramatically many times over the last 100,000 years. proven by ice core samples.
some of us older folk have had to read end of the world nonsense since we were kids and it never happens. with most people by their late twenties or early thirties they realize that its nonsense
the climate has always changed and will always change. its nonsense to believe that the climate has to always stay the same
1000 years ago Greenland had no ice as well because the Vikings were living on it. we know this because they left a lot of garbage before they left as the ice sheet came back. they were making wine in england 1000 years ago because it was warm enough to grow grapes.
we also know the conditions in coastal areas and cities at the time from writings and environmental evidence
did the major coastal cities sink into the ocean 1000 years ago when it was just as warm as today and Greenland had no ice? what about during the Pax Romana?
google docs might take care of some of this
no budget, no money for onsite servers means cloud
even then for such a small environment there is no reason to buy your own hardware and code everything from scratch when someone has probably done all the work for you in a hosted solution
yep, all that money we spent on weapons and tech for the Cold War didn't amount to anything
google+ is nothing but an advertising path for bloggers and some other internet celebs
i use it to kill time but don't think of it as a real social network. its like a forum where people post semi-cool stuff
I have friends from different political views and religions and never comment on almost anything they write
Anti Obama nonsense
Nonsense about Muslims taking over or how America is a Christian country
Etc
Just ignore it
Maybe people need to learn to gently stop and not on a dime like a race car driver?
i work on the west side of manhattan a few days a week and the NJ drivers are some of the worst ones
along with the asian truck drivers any car with NJ plates would rather run you over or cut you off instead of letting you cross the street on your green light
or someone involved in selling the stolen phones or other stolen property will get a lot of calls from stolen phones because the dumb criminals don't want to use their personal phones
the cops aren't really that smart
good police work has always been about going through mountains of data and finding one or two clues to catch the scumbags. most criminals are morons as well and leave lots of clues that have to be found and identified.
a few years back a doctor was killed near the elementary school i went to. the cops caught the guy in georgia. the scumbag tried to jump a subway turnstile years ago and was caught. the cops got a partial print from the bullet and went through the old arrest records paper finger prints manually to catch the guy. turns out he was related to the doctor's soon to be ex-wife and there were lots of cell phone records and now she's in jail as well
in the 21st century we have computers and the police don't have to do a lot of repetative work anymore
if my phone is ever stolen i give the NYPD permission to monitor the calls the scumbags make off MY PROPERTY
and one of these days i need to go down to the police station and have the NYPD engrave my phone like they do with cars