However, after 3 years, our foreign workers get permanent work permits, and many of them pick up sticks and leave at that point, or in the case of some of the Russians, just put their feet up and coast until they're sacked. It's almost Dilbertesque how we claim that we've got the best employees, but seem to think that they're dumb enough not to jump to a higher class of sinking ship at the first opportunity.
Your job, for which you get paid is to edit submissions. This means, just as it does in any other journal, that you are not obliged to accept the submission of a reporter in its raw form. Please learn, understand and enforce the difference between possessive "its" and the contraction "it's".
That is all. You may now return to searching for goat porn or whatever it is that you actually do all day.
I view trying to prevent people from going into games development as a public service. It's going to be one of the last holdouts to outsourcing because USian and Yerpian games developers are already willing and eager to begger and burn themselves out in return for getting their name on a box.
If you want to write $10 games that nobody buys, Torque is just fine. Now, let's move into the real world, where people have mortgages and dental bills. So now you've got an older generation engine sitting right there. You might have to freshen or tweak it a bit to get it looking a little more up to date, so then you've only got to pay for scripting, level design, modelling, animation, textures, sounds, voice work, CGI, management, marketing, accounts sales and support.
Think how much GTA: San Andreas cost to produce, and how little of that was spend on tweaking the engine that they already had (comparable to starting with Torque).
From Penny Arcade, one of those comics that actually, you know, pays a living wage to its creators.
If you want to do webcomics as art, then sure, do it the Scott McCloud way, and suffer for your art. If you want to actually make a living at it, i.e. a full time job that allows you the time to do it professionally, then sticking to formats that actually lend themselves to serialisation, syndication or page-by-page paying adverts is probably a better idea than relying on the cloud of fairies to pay your rent.
It's those damn bits. If we could just do away with one, and get back to a good old analogue scale of "zero to whatever" then all this mess could be put back in the bottle, along with the genie.
Example. I've sent 3 mediocre reviews for this product (with at least a month between them), all of which have been shitcanned. Note that some reviews say that it broke within an hour but have slipped through because they still (cleverly, in retrospect) give it a five star rating.
It's clearly deceptive, and I've lodged a complaint with trading standards, which I expect to be equally efficiently ignored, but it's a salient lesson that you should read the reviews, ignore the ratings, and look for any negative points that the censors let slip through.
I get the argument about my unlicensed copy of Win2K Pro not actually costing Microsoft anything, but are you really denying that supporting unlicensed copies (which is what this article is about) doesn't cost Microsoft anything? You do understand that bandwidth isn't free, right?
No handwaving, no veering off topic. When I download updates for my unlicensed OS from Microsoft, it costs them money, they receive nothing in return or up front to compensate them. Yes or no?
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We were promised a humorous article.
The grandparent post seems pretty accurate to me. I doubt that you've got the actual experience to question it, but go ahead, surprise me.
However, after 3 years, our foreign workers get permanent work permits, and many of them pick up sticks and leave at that point, or in the case of some of the Russians, just put their feet up and coast until they're sacked. It's almost Dilbertesque how we claim that we've got the best employees, but seem to think that they're dumb enough not to jump to a higher class of sinking ship at the first opportunity.
Your job, for which you get paid is to edit submissions. This means, just as it does in any other journal, that you are not obliged to accept the submission of a reporter in its raw form. Please learn, understand and enforce the difference between possessive "its" and the contraction "it's".
That is all. You may now return to searching for goat porn or whatever it is that you actually do all day.
Innit?
List all of the indie games that you've purchased in the last five years, and how much you paid for them.
But why let facts get in the way of a good rant?
I view trying to prevent people from going into games development as a public service. It's going to be one of the last holdouts to outsourcing because USian and Yerpian games developers are already willing and eager to begger and burn themselves out in return for getting their name on a box.
Which a lot of failing games companies seem to do.
If you want to write $10 games that nobody buys, Torque is just fine. Now, let's move into the real world, where people have mortgages and dental bills. So now you've got an older generation engine sitting right there. You might have to freshen or tweak it a bit to get it looking a little more up to date, so then you've only got to pay for scripting, level design, modelling, animation, textures, sounds, voice work, CGI, management, marketing, accounts sales and support.
Think how much GTA: San Andreas cost to produce, and how little of that was spend on tweaking the engine that they already had (comparable to starting with Torque).
A cloud of fairies brings you golden coins. Make sure you have enough to pay the billy goats gruff!
Communism is bad? But Linux is communist. I don't understand.
From Penny Arcade, one of those comics that actually, you know, pays a living wage to its creators.
If you want to do webcomics as art, then sure, do it the Scott McCloud way, and suffer for your art. If you want to actually make a living at it, i.e. a full time job that allows you the time to do it professionally, then sticking to formats that actually lend themselves to serialisation, syndication or page-by-page paying adverts is probably a better idea than relying on the cloud of fairies to pay your rent.
I've been blinded by a flash of the obvious.
Let's just ban the word "pornography" altogether, thereby stopping all pornography.
It's those damn bits. If we could just do away with one, and get back to a good old analogue scale of "zero to whatever" then all this mess could be put back in the bottle, along with the genie.
Patent infringement suits against Microsoft, valid or frivilous, I don't really mind. Wouldn't that be sweet?
I mean, apart from the massive free surge in eyeballs generated by this Slashdot story, what have they achieved?
Then they can write and submit them, or pay someone to do so for them. That's the way it works.
Example. I've sent 3 mediocre reviews for this product (with at least a month between them), all of which have been shitcanned. Note that some reviews say that it broke within an hour but have slipped through because they still (cleverly, in retrospect) give it a five star rating.
It's clearly deceptive, and I've lodged a complaint with trading standards, which I expect to be equally efficiently ignored, but it's a salient lesson that you should read the reviews, ignore the ratings, and look for any negative points that the censors let slip through.
It's not your fault for veering off topic, you're probably new here.
Oh, you meant fun for them?
I get the argument about my unlicensed copy of Win2K Pro not actually costing Microsoft anything, but are you really denying that supporting unlicensed copies (which is what this article is about) doesn't cost Microsoft anything? You do understand that bandwidth isn't free, right?
No handwaving, no veering off topic. When I download updates for my unlicensed OS from Microsoft, it costs them money, they receive nothing in return or up front to compensate them. Yes or no?
Get an actual job developing for embedded environments which don't upgrade to the latest version of a filthy commie compiler every time it comes out.
Who's an angry little geek? You are. You are.
I believe it is in the interest of the world that a truly free state develop. I know it is in the interest of the Palestinian people that they can live in a society where they can express their opinion freely, a society where they can educate their children without hate, a society in which they can realize their dreams if they happen to be an entrepreneur. I know it's in Israel's interest that a free state evolve on her border. There's no other way to have a lasting peace, in my judgment, unless we all work to help develop the institutions necessary for a state to emerge: civil society, based upon justice, free speech, free elections, the right for people to express themselves freely.
Yes, freedom is a great idea for other people, isn't it?