Don't buy one of those Ikea all wood living room cupboards that claim to have space for everything. They don't.
Get yourself an attractive metal rack that is sturdy enough to hold all your electronic equipment. Make sure that only the legs rest on the floor so that you have some room underneath the bottom rack to stick other stuff.
Then get some cafe curtains and cardboard boxes and throw anything that you want to keep but don't want to see out in the open in the cardboard boxes and slide the boxes under the rack. Now close the cafe curtains and you've got yourself an attractive setup without all that unsightly crap piled up.
Need more storage space? Get another rack and another set of cafe curtains. Use the rack as a plant stand or something (maybe put speakers on it) and just stick the crap you don't want to see underneath.
I'm all for good music in games. I was exaggerating about the quality of my speakers. However when I read quotes like the one in the summary about programmers taking pay cuts to improve the music quality, I begin to wonder what the priorities of the game maker are.
Figuring out the budget for a project is hard work and a delicate balancing act. All the more so for game projects where a graphical design team and audio design team are thrown into the mix with the programming team. However, when it all boils down to the essentials, I'd like a game with fewer bugs and not as good audio to one that had spectacular audio and was buggy and barely playable.
I only wish that the games in the second category were few and far between.
My speakers are little and sound tinny. The music quality is barely perceptible because the onboard audio chip isn't any good.
Am I the only one who would rather see more spent on building a better gaming experience rather than on hiring the Berlin Philharmonic to make some *background* music?
Sorry, interstate commerce is not controlled by the states. The law cannot and does not apply to spammers who work out of the jurisdiction of Missouri.
1. If you have a mailing list, find one or two developers or power users who you find particularly astute and sociable and ask them to become your program managers.
2. If you do not have a mailing list, start one.
3. Maintain control over the project at all cost by checking in all changes to the tree yourself and not allowing others to do so. If they want to fork the tree, it's up to them.
4. Once #3 becomes too much work, ask one of the people you selected in #1 to become the project Boss and take over the responsibilities in #3.
5. Keep a close eye on the project, even if you are no longer the Boss. Your initiative in creating the project will not go unnoticed, so your voice will have a lot of weight in settling any important project directional matters.
6. Require all patch copyrights be signed over to you or whatever entity you establish as the owner of the copyright to this product. (this will come in handy later when you turn around and make the project closed and screw all your non-paying customers) Ask for an affidavit for every patch proffered.
Originally a tire company (!!!), Nokia has expanded quickly into other markets completely unrelated to the core of their business. Since they moved into the cell phone business, it seems to have become their top priority, however even this focus is slipping. They are turning towards building home entertainment appliances like set top boxes and TiVo-like devices. Unfortunately, like when they moved towards cell phones and their tire business suffered, their cell phone quality is sufferring because of this refocusing on new markets.
Let's try to think about how we can help our fellow man by lending a hand.
It's wonderful to have the luxury to sit idly and contemplate the universe in all its glory. It's sublime to reach down into the gutters and pull those huddled, wretched masses yearning to breathe free into the full brotherhood of Man.
A great man once said, "Take care of yourself AND each other" No greater admonition exists.
Just like in other professions, while women may in fact be quite capable, they often lack the spark of creativity, strength, or deftness to reach the pinnacle of the profession.
Look at any profession and you will find that men dominate the upper ranks, from professional football to cooking.
I'm all for equal protection under the law, but when it comes to whining about 'Man vs. Machine' instead of 'People vs. Machine', you have got one foot in the proverbial dogshit.
Newton is rumored to have been an uber-asshole. An asshole among assholes. His main trait wasn't that he was eccentric, it was that he was an asshole to each and everyone he met.
It depends on the university and the department chair, but I'm willing to bet that you can find assholes in faculty at any given university.
So yes, Isaac Newton could probably have been hired on despite his assholeness.
You made a good point about sending faxes or using FedEx.
I find the best way to use email is to email the important information, then print out a copy and fax the copy, then call the recipient to find out if they received both the email and the fax.
Without the voice confirmation, it's impossible to tell (as your headached co-worker knows) whether or not the message has been delivered.
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Personal desktop RAID? They sell that at Best Buy?
Had a hard drive crash the other day without backups.
Are there any easy solutions that can write data out to two HDs redundantly, perhaps to two SCSI or USB external drives?
Don't buy one of those Ikea all wood living room cupboards that claim to have space for everything. They don't.
Get yourself an attractive metal rack that is sturdy enough to hold all your electronic equipment. Make sure that only the legs rest on the floor so that you have some room underneath the bottom rack to stick other stuff.
Then get some cafe curtains and cardboard boxes and throw anything that you want to keep but don't want to see out in the open in the cardboard boxes and slide the boxes under the rack. Now close the cafe curtains and you've got yourself an attractive setup without all that unsightly crap piled up.
Need more storage space? Get another rack and another set of cafe curtains. Use the rack as a plant stand or something (maybe put speakers on it) and just stick the crap you don't want to see underneath.
It's like magic and it's cheap.
Get one of those cheap Lindows boxes at Walmart.
Why dick around?
Or giant fungus that are spread over thousands of miles?
Or can we really point the blame where it belongs: the French and French Canadians.
I'm all for good music in games. I was exaggerating about the quality of my speakers. However when I read quotes like the one in the summary about programmers taking pay cuts to improve the music quality, I begin to wonder what the priorities of the game maker are.
Figuring out the budget for a project is hard work and a delicate balancing act. All the more so for game projects where a graphical design team and audio design team are thrown into the mix with the programming team. However, when it all boils down to the essentials, I'd like a game with fewer bugs and not as good audio to one that had spectacular audio and was buggy and barely playable.
I only wish that the games in the second category were few and far between.
My speakers are little and sound tinny. The music quality is barely perceptible because the onboard audio chip isn't any good.
Am I the only one who would rather see more spent on building a better gaming experience rather than on hiring the Berlin Philharmonic to make some *background* music?
Sorry, interstate commerce is not controlled by the states. The law cannot and does not apply to spammers who work out of the jurisdiction of Missouri.
1. If you have a mailing list, find one or two developers or power users who you find particularly astute and sociable and ask them to become your program managers.
2. If you do not have a mailing list, start one.
3. Maintain control over the project at all cost by checking in all changes to the tree yourself and not allowing others to do so. If they want to fork the tree, it's up to them.
4. Once #3 becomes too much work, ask one of the people you selected in #1 to become the project Boss and take over the responsibilities in #3.
5. Keep a close eye on the project, even if you are no longer the Boss. Your initiative in creating the project will not go unnoticed, so your voice will have a lot of weight in settling any important project directional matters.
6. Require all patch copyrights be signed over to you or whatever entity you establish as the owner of the copyright to this product. (this will come in handy later when you turn around and make the project closed and screw all your non-paying customers) Ask for an affidavit for every patch proffered.
7. Don't be an ass
8. Don't be an ass
9. Don't be an ass
10. Don't be an ass
Originally a tire company (!!!), Nokia has expanded quickly into other markets completely unrelated to the core of their business. Since they moved into the cell phone business, it seems to have become their top priority, however even this focus is slipping. They are turning towards building home entertainment appliances like set top boxes and TiVo-like devices. Unfortunately, like when they moved towards cell phones and their tire business suffered, their cell phone quality is sufferring because of this refocusing on new markets.
Unless you give it away for free.
Is the cost of power that you use while you are running these programs tax-deductible?
Doing something out of the goodness of your heart is awfully sweet. Getting the government to lower your taxes because of it is sweeter.
It's all pretty irrelevant in the here and now.
Let's try to think about how we can help our fellow man by lending a hand.
It's wonderful to have the luxury to sit idly and contemplate the universe in all its glory. It's sublime to reach down into the gutters and pull those huddled, wretched masses yearning to breathe free into the full brotherhood of Man.
A great man once said, "Take care of yourself AND each other" No greater admonition exists.
Give them zeros each and every time you find one of them cheating. They can appeal if they think it's unfair.
Samba.
How well a filesystem does on its own is great. How well it works and plays with others is more important.
When Valve was bought out by Microsoft a while back, I vowed never to buy another Valve game.
It's releases like this that make me falter in my steadfastness, though.
And then it doesn't work. Or it blows up.
Sound familiar Bill?
personkind?
Oh no you din't!
Just like in other professions, while women may in fact be quite capable, they often lack the spark of creativity, strength, or deftness to reach the pinnacle of the profession.
Look at any profession and you will find that men dominate the upper ranks, from professional football to cooking.
I'm all for equal protection under the law, but when it comes to whining about 'Man vs. Machine' instead of 'People vs. Machine', you have got one foot in the proverbial dogshit.
Loads of great ideas that are going to change the world and it's not going to cost barely anything!
It's like 1998 all over again!
Since I've started doing lunges at the gym, Mrs. Dancin Santa has become happier and more sexually satisfied.
I'm going to kill the elf who's been fucking her while I'm at the gym.
With storage prices falling through the floor, does it matter to anyone except whiny nerds whether the byte counts are done in base 10 or base 2?
In the words of William Shatner, "Get a life!"
The cheaper PSX doesn't have the 160Gb HD. But I am flexible here. They may have a different pricing model for the U.S. and Japan.
No.
But then again, I was actually at the CEATEC yesterday, so what do I know?
Newton is rumored to have been an uber-asshole. An asshole among assholes. His main trait wasn't that he was eccentric, it was that he was an asshole to each and everyone he met.
It depends on the university and the department chair, but I'm willing to bet that you can find assholes in faculty at any given university.
So yes, Isaac Newton could probably have been hired on despite his assholeness.
You made a good point about sending faxes or using FedEx.
I find the best way to use email is to email the important information, then print out a copy and fax the copy, then call the recipient to find out if they received both the email and the fax.
Without the voice confirmation, it's impossible to tell (as your headached co-worker knows) whether or not the message has been delivered.