For quite some time now I, along with some friends of mine, have been considering starting a gaming company. The gaming industry now nets even more money that the movie industry, so this is obviously a potentionally lucrative nische in SW development.
However, coming up with a gaming concept; a storyline for the game, is anything but trivial. Finding some concept that hasnt been done to death already seems almost impossible. Anyone have any ideas?
Actually, if you do, please email them to big.nothing@bigger.com (and don't tell anyone that YOU had the idea first or that you told it to me!).
After installing Windows and all available patches/hotfixes I immediately install:
1. ZoneAlarm 2. Norton AntiVirus 3. LavaSoft AdAware 4. MS Baseline Security Analyzer (to find any security holes I might have missed when configuring Windows.) 5. WinZip 6. Trillian 7. WinAmp 8. Google Toolbar 9. Acrobat Reader, Flash, ShockWave and QuickTime plugins 10. ACDSee
Step 1-4 in that order, the rest in no particular order. After that, I install programs I actually USE:
* MS Office * Macromedia DreamWeaver, Flash and Fireworks * Adobe Photoshop and Acrobat
And/or if the b0xen is for development:
* MS ASP.NET Web MAtrix * SharpDevelop * WinCVS * WinMerge * HTML-kit * TCL and Python * documentation for languages etc (such as VBScript documentation, DotNet Framework dokumentation, etc.)
And/or if the b0xen is for games:
* Half-Life * Steam * Counter-Strike 1.6 * Additional maps etc for Counter-Strike *...and maybe some other game, like Hitman II, Comanche 3, America's Army, etc.
Other crap I usually install: * Nero Burning Rom * DC++ * Ventrilo * Some DVD player * NetLimiter (excellent for limiting DC++ bandwidth use while playing Counter-Strike) * WinTasks * StartRight
Boss: Hey, Dave, what's the capacity of our website software? Dave: What do you mean? Boss: Well, a client asked me how much traffic load it can handle. Dave: I dunnow, we never REALLY stress-tested the thing. Want me to find out? Boss: Yes, please do! Dave: OK, I'll need 400 post-it note pads, 650 balloons and a digital camera. Boss: Huh?
April Fools: April 1; celebrated by playing of practical jokes Practical Joke: A mischievous trick played on a person, especially one that causes the victim to experience embarrassment, indignity, or discomfort. Slashdotting: the specific practical joke of removing a persons website from the internet.
The reference is from episode #67, "Three hundred Big Boys":
A news reel reveals that Zapp Branigan has overthrown a planet of arachnids and as a result, Earth President Nixon is rewarding the entire population of the planet a $300 "fun bill."
The rest of the episode consists of vignettes of how the Planet Express gang (and Kif) utilize their refund. Fry buys 100 cups of coffee; Leela has a unique encounter with a whale; Bender buys theft tools to steal the world's most expensive cigar; Professor Farnsworth tries an anti-aging cream and meets a woman hiding a weight problem; Amy rents an airbike, and her clumsiness results in Kif's gift (an expensive watch) falling into the whale's airhole; Dr. Zoidberg pretends to be rich and ultimately feels nothingness; and Hermes buys an out-of-control toy for his son.
After Kif is incarcerated for trying to retrieve Amy's watch, the gang goes to the Treasures of the Silk Surplus benefit, where Bender's cigar starts a fire and only the over-caffeinated Fry (moving so fast even flames appear to be still) can save all the attendees.
Wow! I didn't get any mod points for the comment, but your reply is ten times better than getting +5 Funny. This is by far the nicest comment I've seen in a looong time, especially here on slashdot. Thanx for the kind words!:-)
Mon aeroglisseur est plein d'anguilles. (French) Il mio hovercraft e pieno di anguille. (Italian) O meu hovercraft esta chio das enguias. (Portuguese) Mi aerodeslizador esta lleno de anguilas. (Spanish) Mea navicula pendens anguillarum plena est. (Latin) Mia kusenveturilo estas plena da angiloj. (Esperanto) Mein Luftkissenfahrzeug ist voller Aale. (German) Mijn hovercraft zit vol palingen. (Dutch) Min svavare ar full av alar. (Swedish) Luftputefartoyet mitt er fullt av al. (Norwegian) Moje vozilo na zrani blazini je polno jegulj. (Slovenian) Mae fy hofrenfad yn llawn o lyswennod. (Welsh) Ilmatyynyalukseni on taynna ankeriaita. (Finnish) Legparnas hajom tele van angolnakkal. (Hungarian) Hoverkraf saya penuh belut. (Indonesian)
"Only downside it seems is that you cannot use normal CDs. You have to use CDs which can actually are designed to allow this 'burning' on the flipside"
True, but for those of you too lazy to RTFA:
"HP estimates that a drive that uses LightScribe will carry a premium of about $10 over the going price today, and that a disc will cost about a dime more than today's discs. There are no consumables like ink or ink jet cartridges; the only consumable is the disc itself"
So price shouldn't be an issue here, although availability might be. Anywho, Imna get me one of these...
Yeah, that's what They WANT you to think. The TRUTH is that there are white killer rabbits on Mars just waiting to take over the world! Their troops are already here, preparing the invasion disguised as - you guessed it - rabbits! These cuddly little furry animals are really little blood-thirsty aliens! Argh! I sprained my brain!
"Their preliminary data suggest that a coin will land the same way it started about 51 percent of the time. It would take about 10,000 tosses before a casual observer would become aware of such a small bias"
In other words: don't run off to Vegas and bet your life savings on coin tossing.
"I did a lot of work for an online video retailer that went out of business a couple of years ago, and the only "compensation" I got was to keep the 2000 DVD's and 600 VHS tapes they sent me to scan, catalog, and review for their site.
Unfortunately, it was all porn. Worse, it was all gay male porn."
So, let me get this stright (no pun intended); you willingly said yes to scanning, cataloging and REVIEWING 2600 male gay porn videos? I can understand why you're posting as AC.
"in the treatment of patients suffering Post Traumatic Stress Disorder; memories can be relived until they are accepted."
So... a guy having been tortured should be VR-tortured until he accepts it? Or someone having killed a bunch of kids in a war should relive that experience in VR until he accepts it? Color me sceptic, but I'm not sure thats a great idea.
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For quite some time now I, along with some friends of mine, have been considering starting a gaming company. The gaming industry now nets even more money that the movie industry, so this is obviously a potentionally lucrative nische in SW development.
However, coming up with a gaming concept; a storyline for the game, is anything but trivial. Finding some concept that hasnt been done to death already seems almost impossible. Anyone have any ideas?
Actually, if you do, please email them to big.nothing@bigger.com (and don't tell anyone that YOU had the idea first or that you told it to me!).
After installing Windows and all available patches/hotfixes I immediately install:
...and maybe some other game, like Hitman II, Comanche 3, America's Army, etc.
1. ZoneAlarm
2. Norton AntiVirus
3. LavaSoft AdAware
4. MS Baseline Security Analyzer (to find any security holes I might have missed when configuring Windows.)
5. WinZip
6. Trillian
7. WinAmp
8. Google Toolbar
9. Acrobat Reader, Flash, ShockWave and QuickTime plugins
10. ACDSee
Step 1-4 in that order, the rest in no particular order. After that, I install programs I actually USE:
* MS Office
* Macromedia DreamWeaver, Flash and Fireworks
* Adobe Photoshop and Acrobat
And/or if the b0xen is for development:
* MS ASP.NET Web MAtrix
* SharpDevelop
* WinCVS
* WinMerge
* HTML-kit
* TCL and Python
* documentation for languages etc (such as VBScript documentation, DotNet Framework dokumentation, etc.)
And/or if the b0xen is for games:
* Half-Life
* Steam
* Counter-Strike 1.6
* Additional maps etc for Counter-Strike
*
Other crap I usually install:
* Nero Burning Rom
* DC++
* Ventrilo
* Some DVD player
* NetLimiter (excellent for limiting DC++ bandwidth use while playing Counter-Strike)
* WinTasks
* StartRight
Lawsuits anyone?
The REAL storyline goes something like this:
Boss: Hey, Dave, what's the capacity of our website software?
Dave: What do you mean?
Boss: Well, a client asked me how much traffic load it can handle.
Dave: I dunnow, we never REALLY stress-tested the thing. Want me to find out?
Boss: Yes, please do!
Dave: OK, I'll need 400 post-it note pads, 650 balloons and a digital camera.
Boss: Huh?
I read that "Seeing-Eye Computer Goes Blind" and was thinking "sooo...?"
Bah - way to early in the morning for my brain to work.
April Fools: April 1; celebrated by playing of practical jokes
Practical Joke: A mischievous trick played on a person, especially one that causes the victim to experience embarrassment, indignity, or discomfort.
Slashdotting: the specific practical joke of removing a persons website from the internet.
Looks like they did. Just not YOUR submission :-)
The reference is from episode #67, "Three hundred Big Boys":
A news reel reveals that Zapp Branigan has overthrown a planet of arachnids and as a result, Earth President Nixon is rewarding the entire population of the planet a $300 "fun bill."
The rest of the episode consists of vignettes of how the Planet Express gang (and Kif) utilize their refund. Fry buys 100 cups of coffee; Leela has a unique encounter with a whale; Bender buys theft tools to steal the world's most expensive cigar; Professor Farnsworth tries an anti-aging cream and meets a woman hiding a weight problem; Amy rents an airbike, and her clumsiness results in Kif's gift (an expensive watch) falling into the whale's airhole; Dr. Zoidberg pretends to be rich and ultimately feels nothingness; and Hermes buys an out-of-control toy for his son.
After Kif is incarcerated for trying to retrieve Amy's watch, the gang goes to the Treasures of the Silk Surplus benefit, where Bender's cigar starts a fire and only the over-caffeinated Fry (moving so fast even flames appear to be still) can save all the attendees.
640K ought to be enough for anybody.
The contract to build the monster has been given to Haliburton.
In Soviet Russia, the browser picks YOUR name.
Wow! I didn't get any mod points for the comment, but your reply is ten times better than getting +5 Funny. This is by far the nicest comment I've seen in a looong time, especially here on slashdot. Thanx for the kind words! :-)
Does sleeping with your secretary count as "family business"?
Just FYI:
Mon aeroglisseur est plein d'anguilles. (French)
Il mio hovercraft e pieno di anguille. (Italian)
O meu hovercraft esta chio das enguias. (Portuguese)
Mi aerodeslizador esta lleno de anguilas. (Spanish)
Mea navicula pendens anguillarum plena est. (Latin)
Mia kusenveturilo estas plena da angiloj. (Esperanto)
Mein Luftkissenfahrzeug ist voller Aale. (German)
Mijn hovercraft zit vol palingen. (Dutch)
Min svavare ar full av alar. (Swedish)
Luftputefartoyet mitt er fullt av al. (Norwegian)
Moje vozilo na zrani blazini je polno jegulj. (Slovenian)
Mae fy hofrenfad yn llawn o lyswennod. (Welsh)
Ilmatyynyalukseni on taynna ankeriaita. (Finnish)
Legparnas hajom tele van angolnakkal. (Hungarian)
Hoverkraf saya penuh belut. (Indonesian)
"Ever gotten sick from eating one type of food"
Yepp - alcohol.
"...and avoided that type of food in the future?"
Nope, I still eat it.
"Exactly."
Eksaktli
"Only downside it seems is that you cannot use normal CDs. You have to use CDs which can actually are designed to allow this 'burning' on the flipside"
True, but for those of you too lazy to RTFA:
"HP estimates that a drive that uses LightScribe will carry a premium of about $10 over the going price today, and that a disc will cost about a dime more than today's discs. There are no consumables like ink or ink jet cartridges; the only consumable is the disc itself"
So price shouldn't be an issue here, although availability might be. Anywho, Imna get me one of these...
"Ya know, I feel like a month after I buy the extended version, they're release the super-trilogy version with more footage."
Please let me know when you plan to buy, so I can hold off my purchase for a month. Thanks in advance.
These events take place on the day of the Californian Primary Election. All events occur in real time.
Yeah, that's what They WANT you to think. The TRUTH is that there are white killer rabbits on Mars just waiting to take over the world! Their troops are already here, preparing the invasion disguised as - you guessed it - rabbits! These cuddly little furry animals are really little blood-thirsty aliens! Argh! I sprained my brain!
You state that you haven't seen me. The innuendo is that I do not exist.
Gaaah!
"Their preliminary data suggest that a coin will land the same way it started about 51 percent of the time. It would take about 10,000 tosses before a casual observer would become aware of such a small bias"
In other words: don't run off to Vegas and bet your life savings on coin tossing.
"I did a lot of work for an online video retailer that went out of business a couple of years ago, and the only "compensation" I got was to keep the 2000 DVD's and 600 VHS tapes they sent me to scan, catalog, and review for their site.
Unfortunately, it was all porn. Worse, it was all gay male porn."
So, let me get this stright (no pun intended); you willingly said yes to scanning, cataloging and REVIEWING 2600 male gay porn videos? I can understand why you're posting as AC.
Does this mean we have to start hating sendmail now?
"in the treatment of patients suffering Post Traumatic Stress Disorder; memories can be relived until they are accepted."
So... a guy having been tortured should be VR-tortured until he accepts it? Or someone having killed a bunch of kids in a war should relive that experience in VR until he accepts it? Color me sceptic, but I'm not sure thats a great idea.