Just like religion. It's a bunch of made up bullshit with so many holes in it the only way someone can be stupid enough to believe is to call it "faith".
It's sad really that people live their lives in fear of what will happen after death than how they can make the world a better place for everyone while they are alive. Religion is the root of all evil.
That is how the Thief series did it. Normal, Hard, Difficult or something like that (the first version was the standard easy, medium, hard).
I'd like to see more games that require thinking like Thief II (the best in the series).
I'm about to get Jade Empire which is why I bought the XBox in the first place (well for that and College Football, FIFA & MLB).
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Ultima IV & V were by far my favorites. I still haven't finished Ultima V. If my company ever makes me loaded I'm starting over in 1983 and working my way up to [current date]. I still haven't finished the first Baldur's Gate and it's hard sometimes to get these old games to run on a more current system.
My redneck uncles did that for Y2K and they have probably never used a computer. I wonder what they are doing with all those 50 Gallon Drums of dried beans & rice. Who would want to live on beans and rice for 5 years anyway? Maybe if you had some Lousianna Hot Sauce.
When I was in France they thought I was Canadian (sp?) because I spoke french but not with a french accent. Voilà, I'm from Canada. Seriously though I didn't meet a rude french person the whole time I was there (south of france and paris area too). Maybe it was because it was in August when everyone is on vacation/holiday.
Damn you in Canada with your social programs and politicians that aren't dickshits
The women in London beat the rest of the world hands down. Although in Texas and Oklahoma there are a lot of beautiful women. However, the Texas women tend to over do the hair and makeup.
More developers frequently doesn't make a better product (as the MS example reinforces). Frequently a small team with good direction and planning can achieve significant goals that larger teams cannot because there are too many bullshit meetings, updates to flow charts and tracking mechanisims for managers, and overall too many fucking people with their hands in the mix as to features, etc... (frequently excluding end-users).
I like parts of the extreme programming methodology but only for demos. For actual products you can work out a lot of errors by giving users a quick product and reimplementing with the new found knowledge of what worked and what didn't in the first itteration. Constantly updating and modifying a finished code base tends to be a shitty way to give customers/clients a good product.
Version 2.0 of any product should be a complete rewrite in my opinion. Hell, if you documented at all the additional features in the 1.0 version you can usually do a significantly better job with a better idea of the scope of what the project will be the second time around. Not to mention you have all the logic already programmed which from my perspective is about 90% of a project (of course leaving out the other 90%).
The companies I compete against in my field (just got another account after demoing against them in the same week) are so stuck with their piece of shit legacy code that they cannot see the advantage in just reimplementing their product. We've done essentially that in about 5 months (of crazy hours working) but we have a clean code base that was well planned and doesn't have any legacy code that keeps our customers from getting all the services/features in our product they need.
Just my thoughts on why a clean start is sometimes better than trying to take a piece of shit and make it into a hamburger.
I'd rather see the Madden commercial than the XBox360 commercial. If it shows what it can really do that would be impressive. The console could look like a turd for all I care (hell it may keep it from getting stolen).
Apparently you don't develop software. Developing a specific product takes the same amount of time for 1 client as it does for 1000 clients.
This is the attractive part of being a software company, it costs the same to develop for 1 as it does for Many. Your fixed costs may be high initially but as you get more clients your costs approach a negligable amount.
Build what customers need and want and you'll do well. Tell the customers what they need or want and your in trouble.
RAM DISK. He said it in the question. Ever run a 15GB DB in RAM instead of on a physical disk? It's very fast. There are a ton of options that would be good in RAM. Albeit if he were running a DB application more than one processor would probably be beneficial as well.
assembly isn't platform independent. It may be O/S independent but certainly not platform. C/C++/Java are the best for that. I agree with a previous poster though. For strictly UI design I would go with any.Net language or VB6. You can't build a UI any faster than in VB, especially in Java. GridBagLayout is a nightmare and it is the best offered layout manager. When I used to do a lot of java development we developed our own layout manager which worked a hell of a lot easier. I wish I would have saved that code!
I have to disagree. MS is a lot easier for me to keep up to date. I prefer linux but having both systems rooted in my younger days linux (depending on your distro and installed packages) is a bit more work to stay on top of.
That being said Linux is significantly more secure in my opinion. Which is why I lock down my MS based servers behind Linux based firewalls.
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Are you kidding me? You think the public education system doesn't benefit society as a whole?
I guess you'd rather hire a person who cannot read or write to be your secretary. How about your tech support staff, why would they need any education. Software Engineers don't need school either. I guess reading Programming for Dummies should be enough.
The more educated a society is the more everyone benefits by having better people to hire and keeping a nation ahead of the intellectual curve (which we are falling far behind at this time).
Like our ability to run our government without deficit spending. Or to have a social medicine program for all. Maybe to fund college for anyone that wants to go. Or anything else that would benefit society as a whole.
We'd rather let grandmothers die by not receiving meds/medical care than have socialized medicine. But hey, we did get to the fucking moon first (allegedly). Smartest richest country in the world that can only seem to cut taxes for the wealthy. Sounds like Utopia to me.
I love how people say their religion is the one true faith but it was based off a religion that they call false (jewish then catholic). How does that logic work for people? I guess it isn't based on logic or nobody would believe in the Fairy God Father or his Son who is some how also God the recursive deity I guess since there is only one God but there is also Jesus and the Holy Ghost (who you don't hear much about anymore).
Religion is such a fucking joke. Unfortunately it has a lot of power in the world and as a consequence is the root of all evil along with the people that made it up.
Yea I really need my secretary to go to bigdicks.com during office hours. In the real world the internet isn't a blessing to worker productivity as much as it is a hinderence.
My guess is that is only the internet connection part of the T-1 not the actual line charges. There are local providers who quote $300/mo but that is just for them linking your T-1 to the internet, it doesn't include the sprint/sbc/... line charges between your location and their location (which runs about $700 a month too coincidentally).
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Just like religion. It's a bunch of made up bullshit with so many holes in it the only way someone can be stupid enough to believe is to call it "faith".
It's sad really that people live their lives in fear of what will happen after death than how they can make the world a better place for everyone while they are alive. Religion is the root of all evil.
That is how the Thief series did it. Normal, Hard, Difficult or something like that (the first version was the standard easy, medium, hard).
I'd like to see more games that require thinking like Thief II (the best in the series).
I'm about to get Jade Empire which is why I bought the XBox in the first place (well for that and College Football, FIFA & MLB).
Ultima IV & V were by far my favorites. I still haven't finished Ultima V. If my company ever makes me loaded I'm starting over in 1983 and working my way up to [current date]. I still haven't finished the first Baldur's Gate and it's hard sometimes to get these old games to run on a more current system.
My redneck uncles did that for Y2K and they have probably never used a computer. I wonder what they are doing with all those 50 Gallon Drums of dried beans & rice. Who would want to live on beans and rice for 5 years anyway? Maybe if you had some Lousianna Hot Sauce.
J'aime les gros roberts!
When I was in France they thought I was Canadian (sp?) because I spoke french but not with a french accent. Voilà, I'm from Canada. Seriously though I didn't meet a rude french person the whole time I was there (south of france and paris area too). Maybe it was because it was in August when everyone is on vacation/holiday.
Damn you in Canada with your social programs and politicians that aren't dickshits
God Damnit Hillary, I knew you were a man but posting as one is just not fair.
(Just a joke, I love the Clinton's except the brother)
The women in London beat the rest of the world hands down. Although in Texas and Oklahoma there are a lot of beautiful women. However, the Texas women tend to over do the hair and makeup.
Thanks for the link. I thought they said they weren't going to post it or replay it so you had to watch the damn draft.
Their tag line should be:
EA, We make great games but are ethically and morally challenged.
More developers frequently doesn't make a better product (as the MS example reinforces). Frequently a small team with good direction and planning can achieve significant goals that larger teams cannot because there are too many bullshit meetings, updates to flow charts and tracking mechanisims for managers, and overall too many fucking people with their hands in the mix as to features, etc... (frequently excluding end-users).
I like parts of the extreme programming methodology but only for demos. For actual products you can work out a lot of errors by giving users a quick product and reimplementing with the new found knowledge of what worked and what didn't in the first itteration. Constantly updating and modifying a finished code base tends to be a shitty way to give customers/clients a good product.
Version 2.0 of any product should be a complete rewrite in my opinion. Hell, if you documented at all the additional features in the 1.0 version you can usually do a significantly better job with a better idea of the scope of what the project will be the second time around. Not to mention you have all the logic already programmed which from my perspective is about 90% of a project (of course leaving out the other 90%).
The companies I compete against in my field (just got another account after demoing against them in the same week) are so stuck with their piece of shit legacy code that they cannot see the advantage in just reimplementing their product. We've done essentially that in about 5 months (of crazy hours working) but we have a clean code base that was well planned and doesn't have any legacy code that keeps our customers from getting all the services/features in our product they need.
Just my thoughts on why a clean start is sometimes better than trying to take a piece of shit and make it into a hamburger.
I'd rather see the Madden commercial than the XBox360 commercial. If it shows what it can really do that would be impressive. The console could look like a turd for all I care (hell it may keep it from getting stolen).
Apparently you don't develop software. Developing a specific product takes the same amount of time for 1 client as it does for 1000 clients.
This is the attractive part of being a software company, it costs the same to develop for 1 as it does for Many. Your fixed costs may be high initially but as you get more clients your costs approach a negligable amount.
Build what customers need and want and you'll do well. Tell the customers what they need or want and your in trouble.
I seem to recall it being 42. But I could be wrong.
EA Teaser Commercials
No eyes... so true.
They had MBA's at mission control?
There must be a PHB reference in there somewhere.
RAM DISK. He said it in the question. Ever run a 15GB DB in RAM instead of on a physical disk? It's very fast. There are a ton of options that would be good in RAM. Albeit if he were running a DB application more than one processor would probably be beneficial as well.
assembly isn't platform independent. It may be O/S independent but certainly not platform. C/C++/Java are the best for that. I agree with a previous poster though. For strictly UI design I would go with any .Net language or VB6. You can't build a UI any faster than in VB, especially in Java. GridBagLayout is a nightmare and it is the best offered layout manager. When I used to do a lot of java development we developed our own layout manager which worked a hell of a lot easier. I wish I would have saved that code!
I have to disagree. MS is a lot easier for me to keep up to date. I prefer linux but having both systems rooted in my younger days linux (depending on your distro and installed packages) is a bit more work to stay on top of.
That being said Linux is significantly more secure in my opinion. Which is why I lock down my MS based servers behind Linux based firewalls.
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Are you kidding me? You think the public education system doesn't benefit society as a whole?
I guess you'd rather hire a person who cannot read or write to be your secretary. How about your tech support staff, why would they need any education. Software Engineers don't need school either. I guess reading Programming for Dummies should be enough.
The more educated a society is the more everyone benefits by having better people to hire and keeping a nation ahead of the intellectual curve (which we are falling far behind at this time).
Like our ability to run our government without deficit spending. Or to have a social medicine program for all. Maybe to fund college for anyone that wants to go. Or anything else that would benefit society as a whole.
We'd rather let grandmothers die by not receiving meds/medical care than have socialized medicine. But hey, we did get to the fucking moon first (allegedly). Smartest richest country in the world that can only seem to cut taxes for the wealthy. Sounds like Utopia to me.
But Creationism has evolved. From a religious zealot belief to a more mainstream "alternative theory".
Religion has to evolve or it dies. Notice the shrinking catholic base moving to protestant religions first then from there to crazy ass baptist then to the new wave media/marketing driven churches where progressive (evolving) religion sells (warning: flash intro, Jesus Loves Flash).
I love how people say their religion is the one true faith but it was based off a religion that they call false (jewish then catholic). How does that logic work for people? I guess it isn't based on logic or nobody would believe in the Fairy God Father or his Son who is some how also God the recursive deity I guess since there is only one God but there is also Jesus and the Holy Ghost (who you don't hear much about anymore).
Religion is such a fucking joke. Unfortunately it has a lot of power in the world and as a consequence is the root of all evil along with the people that made it up.
So she's a MS Shill and she's fugly. Why the Wiki entry?
Yea I really need my secretary to go to bigdicks.com during office hours. In the real world the internet isn't a blessing to worker productivity as much as it is a hinderence.
My guess is that is only the internet connection part of the T-1 not the actual line charges. There are local providers who quote $300/mo but that is just for them linking your T-1 to the internet, it doesn't include the sprint/sbc/... line charges between your location and their location (which runs about $700 a month too coincidentally).
Proxy the internet and allow only approved sites. All businesses should do this to assist in keeping employee productivity higher.