If, on the other hand, you're feeling like motivating people, how about Nickel and Dimed, on (not) Getting by in America. Excellent read, and likely to make them study twice as hard in college.
The best part of the entire article is that the sentence "I officially veered off the path of rational thought and entered the dreaded forest of unthinking nostalgia," appears next to an ad for Star Wars Galaxies.
Tomorrow I'm going to go into work and make some hideous, torrential mistakes through gross negligence upon my part. I'm going to be twice as productive by doing everything half-assed. I'll be a rubber stamp for the dumbest, most obviously wrong ideas known to man. And then when the Boss finally catches my mistakes and goes through the costly process of repairing them, I'll simply say that these repairs are part of the process. Someone else will fix them, as that is what someone else is paid to do.
And when my kids ask me how I'm doing at work, I'll say that I'm doing my country proud.
Simple. Just rename the finder to something else, then take the target application and rename it "Finder" with file type "FNDR" and application "MOVR." Voila! Instant Kiosk!
That not working? Well, log in as root. Move the Finder out of your/System/Library/CoreServices/ directory. Rename whatever you want "Finder" and plop it in that folder.
Still not working? Oh, you meant Windows. Can't help you there.
I'd like you to point out one such case against a monopolist that you remember where money (and nothing else) was paid in restitution.
There is a very famous case, which supports the voucher "punishment," whereby for its rampant and flagrant price fixing Nintendo was ordered to send out $5 vouchers to its customers. The irony was that Nintendo at the time was making more than $5 per cartridge sold thanks to its flagrant price fixing, so even when being "punished" it was making a profit due to the activity it was being punished for.
1. There is NO copy controlled software on US or UK releases of Beastie Boys' "To the 5 Boroughs."
2. The disk *IS* copy controlled in Europe - which is standard policy for all Capitol/EMI titles (and a policy used by ALL major labels in Europe).
3. The copy protection system used for all EMI/Capitol releases including "To the 5 Boroughs" is Macrovision's CDS-200, which sets up an audio player into the users RAM (not hard drive) to playback the RED book audio on the disk. It does absolutely NOT install any kind of spyware, shareware, silverware, or ladies wear onto the users system.
You can find more information on the technology used here: http://www.macrovision.com/products/cds/cds 200/ind ex.shtml
This is what EMI has to say about it: Reports that "spyware" is being included on the Beastie Boy's CD, 'To The Five Boroughs' are absolutely untrue.
While the Beastie Boys CD does use copy control in some territories, there is no copy control on the Beasties Boys discs in the US or the UK. Where copy protection is used, it is Macrovision's CDS-200 technology; the same technology being used for the past several months around the world for all of EMI's releases in those territories. This Macrovision technology does NOT install spyware or vaporware of any kind on a users PC. In fact, CDS-200 does not install software applications of ANY KIND on a user's PC. All the copy protection in CDS-200 is hardware based, meaning that it is dependent on the physical properties and the format of the CD. None of the copy protection in CDS-200 requires software applications to be loaded onto a computer.
The technology does activate a proprietary Macrovision player in order to play the CD on a PC, and that player converts WMA compressed files to audio on the fly. It also temporarily installs a graphic "skin" for the player. Nothing is permanently installed on a hard drive. These details can be verified in the 'install.log' file in the computer's root directory.
Ah... and we get back to my favorite Mulligan quote: "would-be game designers take note: Ideas are a dime a dozen and worth what they cost"
And with that, you have earned a fan.
Coming up with ideas is easy. Coming up with the simplest idea that most minimally impacts the development schedule but will greatly improve gameplay is a little harder. And, of course, pushing it through to the point of implementation, testing, adjusting, re-invisioning, re-implementing, and tweaking is where the meat of design lies.
You're only going to get paid for ideas if you have enough to give away.
I too thought FireFly was a horrible series from the one episode that I saw. But watch a few, and you will be hooked. Joss is a master of the larger story arc, and while his characters may not be the most interesting in the immediately-grabbing sense, they become terribly, terribly addicting when spread out over two or three episodes (when played in the proper order, damn Fox). The professional seductress actually returns shortly thereafter for a second episode, where she has married an old friend of the Captain's. What follows is a masterfully written series of innuendos and backstabs that really clicks with the ensemble cast.
Firefly is a good series, and worthy of a second look. The whole lot is available on DVD (a very worthy purchase), or if you would like to sample first it is available for download. And quite frankly, I don't feel the slightest bit bad for posting the link so that they can be seen in the way they should have been, before Fox decided to trash continuity.
Besides, the show gave us some truly great quotes.
Simon: I'm trying to put this as delicately as I can. How do I know you won't kill me in my sleep? Mal: You don't know know me, son, so let me explain this to you once. If I ever kill you, you'll be awake, you'll be facing me, and you'll be armed. Simon: Are you always this sentimental? Mal: Had a good day.
Mal: (spares Atherton) Mercy is the mark of a great man. (stabs Atherton with his sword) I guess I'm just a good man. (stabs Atherton again) Well, I'm alright. Harrow: You didn't have to wound the man. Mal: Yeah I know, it was just funny.
Kaylee: Wash, tell me I'm pretty. Wash: Were I unwed I would take you in a man-like fashion. Kaylee: 'Cause I'm pretty? Wash: 'Cause you're pretty.
Kaylee: Is that him? Mal: That's the buffet table. Kaylee: How will we know unless we question it?
Simon: You're out of your mind. Early: That's between me and my mind.
Mal: The wheel never stops turning, Badger. Badger: Only matters to the people on the rim.
Zoe: Jayne, this is something the Captain has to do on his own. Mal: (fighting for his life) No...no it's not! Zoe: Oh. (shoots)
Zoe: Preacher, don't the Bible have some pretty specific things to say about killing? Book: Quite specific. It is, however, somewhat fuzzier on kneecaps.
River: What am I? Simon: You are my beautiful sister. River: I threw up on your bed. Simon: Yep, definitely my sister.
Rvd. Book: I might be needing a preacher. Mal: That's good, you just lay there and be ironic.
Mal: Ship like this, be with you until the day you die. Zoe: That's because it's a deathtrap.
Wash: Little River just gets more colorful by the minute. What will she do next? Zoe: Either blow us up or rub soup in her hair. It's a toss-up. Wash: I hope she does the soup thing. It's always a hoot, and we don't all die from it.
Wash: Psychic, though? That sounds like something out of science fiction. Zoe: You live on a spaceship, dear.
Papyrus Studios and Impressions Games are both Boston-area studios... While their closures come amidst the opening (at least publically) of Tilted Mill and Turbine's major expansion push, you just can't help but feel that this developer's region is again being pinched out by the larger west-coast developers. When Looking Glass closed, it was a blow felt across the region, one that was delt not because Looking Glass was unworthy, but because the publisher felt the region was unworthy. This turned out to be a blessing in disguise, as every team out here benefits in some way or another from a lot of experienced Looking Glass people, but why was that studio closed? Why did one of the most successful game developers get canned? Why did no white knight show up?
This isn't such a clear-cut case of the expendability of your north-west studios. Papayrus has been frozen with Nascar for years, and losing that license meant losing their company. Impression games was stuck too, stuck making Caeser and other historical strategy games in a saturated market. I don't think the closure of either of these studios comes as a surprise to anybody. But one can't shake the feeling that we're in for another round of publisher abuse, looking at their North East studios as if they were expendable, despite having produced Asheron's Call, Karaoke Revolution, System Shock II, Empire Earth, Neverwinter Nights, Thief 1 and 2, The great Mind Rover, etc, etc.
1: Funny retort about clippy, modded +5 insightful 2: Serious post defending Power Point, modded -1 Flamebait 3: Humorous post about necessary height of a post to go over one's head, modded +2 interesting 4: Serious post questioning the connection between wooden posts and the stability of Microsoft Software, modded +2 Funny Meta comment about the rediculousness of it all: Priceless.
Other Consoles that were backwards compatible in some form or another:
Genesis (played Master System games, with attachment that cost as much as a master system) Game Boy Pocket/Color/Advance Game Gear (played Master System games, with cheap attachment) Nomad (played Genesis games) N64 (played SNES / NES games, with 3rd party attachment) Turbo Duo (Played normal TurboGraphix 16 and CD games) Turbo Express Portable (played normal TG16 games)
It doesn't look like there have been enough backwards-compatible systems to say whether or not it is a blessing or a curse to system sales. It is true that the backwards compatibility of the Genesis saddled it with using the Z80 as a sound processor, which created that trademark Genesis thuddy, explody sound. Backwards compatibility in the PS2 added greatly to the complexity of programming for it, but it looks like it was the right move for the system. The Game Boy has always been helped by backwards compatibility, though the great simplicity of the system makes this less of a chore. As few people (on these shores) had a Turbo Graphix or a Sega Master System, the benefits of backwards compatibility on the Genesis and the Duo was minimal.
The moral of the story seems to be if you have a successful system, make it backwards compatible. Is the XBox successful enough to warrant that tradeoff?...
Thank you, John Laliberte, who provided a wonderful G-mail account for yours truly, and Jon, who offered a few hours later. Theirs are the path of true righteousness. I lie prostate in their aura.
Or is it prostrate? I can't check right now, because Google doesn't seem to be responding.
In defense of upgrades to consoles, a practice I personally find distasteful, the 4MB N64 Ram Pack and the PS1 Dual Shock were both surprisingly successful additions to their respective consoles. They fulfilled three major prerequisites for console upgrades. 1: They were inescapable. Most games after a certain point used them, the systems started selling with them, etc. 2: They provided a genuinely better experience. 3: They were pretty darned cheap. In the case of the RAM upgrade, it came free with games.
NEC floundered in no small part because the US company responsible for the console made some of the worst decisions possible WRT porting the excellent games available in Japan. This came to a head when NEC USA decided to launch their hybrid system with the everpowerful might of... Camp California, a beach-boys sidescroller. Even their excellent version of Street Fighter never saw these shores, for reasons nobody can fathom. Bonk was a pretty cool mascot for his time, but Bonk alone a system does not sell (especially when it takes 3 years to get the second game across the sea). How long was it before Ys III finally came out?
Well, it could go up to 360^2, though you would be hard pressed to keep the camera out of that picture. You could also venture out into t, leading to 360 T shots. You could also mount it on a movable platform of some sort, and get X, Y, and Z values, though for comparatively limited values of X Y and Z. And for that matter the spectrum values could be modulated more than it already is, leading to a potential Lambda range, as well as temperature, audio, and alpha beta gamma radiation detection.
Thus, the panoramic camera could be 360^2TXYZLTmpVArBrGr.
It probably wouldn't have fit in a press release, though.
Come on now, if you're going to grovel, be creative!
There was a man without gmail Whose VAC could tell quite the tale his wife worked real hard to stack the punch cards but she died, and now he's in jail
One gig, two gigs or three Gmail's the right size for me Don't be upset I read the usenet all archived, from 1903
My Friendster, and his big gut has been reclusive somewhat Gmail requests he won't address I think that he moved to orkut
I could be rich, without a doubt I found an unbeatable route this Nigerian guy wants a reply but I can't with my inbox maxed out
My mailbox will always O flow inflators, fellators, you know I get lots of spam Thanks to my mam That woman named me Info
Anyone have a spare invite for a clever guy? cgenman@pobox.com
I've seen that counter go from 56 to 79 in roughly the past hour. If we assume 23 have been given away in the past hour, and the possibility of getting an account is 1 in 30,000, then the person has probably gotten 690000 hits. That breaks down to 191 hits per second.
That sounds believeable to me. Of course, if you go by their counter, they're recieving about 500 hits per second... but perhaps the Slashdot effect intensifies the longer the link has been on the front page, and therefore the number of people who have scripted automated systems.
The name of the game was Ore no Ryouri, sometimes called Ore no Ryori, an alternative spelling. I never played the full version, only the one that came with one of the Playstation Underground disks. You're right, it was a great game, and I would love to get my hands on a full version. Lots of info is available with a little googling.
There was actually a very good food simulator for the PS1 that involved chopping carrots, stirring noodles, and juggling tasks and customers around (a pot boils whether you watch it or not, but you need to strain the noodles before they get mushy). It came on one of the Playstation Underground disks, and was called Ore no Ryouri, one of the most fun games I've played in a long time. Definitely worth a try, if you can find it.
Just a quick note, the chance of getting a Gmail account on Gmail machine is one in 30000 on any given reload. It would take 20794 reloads to have just a %50 chance of getting a GMail account. If one downloads Opera and sets the reload on the gmail machine to every second, that's two weeks. Now, admittedly, one could be smarmy and open a whole host of opera windows reloading every second, but we don't even know if the reloading window would blow away the winning announcement.
On the other hand, one could spend much less time writing clever limericks in the hopes that someone will give them an account
There was a man without gmail Whose VAC could tell quite the tale his wife worked real hard to stack the punch cards but she died, and now he's in jail
PROFESSIONAL PROFILE A new Software Engineering graduate looking for an introductory software development position. Participated in the co-operative education program, which provided four terms of directly related and progressive experience. A strong team player, as evidenced by excellent grades on the program's major final year team project.
EDUCATION Bachelor of Applied Science, Software Engineering 1999 - 2004 University Of Ottawa Participated in co-operative education programme Graduated Magna Cum Laude
EXPERIENCE Build Manager Software Engineering Final Project January - December 2003 Responsibilties Final year project that was part of the program that followed all the steps of the software development life cycle Developed on an on-line document management system Designated role was Build Manager, but also participated in all aspects of the project Used ASP and Visual Basic with MS Access as a database Accomplishments Completed the project on schedule and met all required performance criteria Achieved a mark of "A" in the course based on customer satisfaction, documentation of the system and quality assurance presentations
Web Developer Office of Critical Infrastructure Protection and Emergency Preparedness (OCIPEP) May - August 2003 Responsibilties Responsible for the upkeep and development of new features on the department Intranet site Used Visual Basic.Net and MS SQL Server to develop applications for use by the department employees Accomplishments Provided a high level of service and consistent performance of the Intranet Developed new tools such as an employee directory and an events calendar
Web Developer Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) August - December 2002 Responsibilties Development of a web based financial tracking application Used ASP with an MS Access database to allow for data entry and retrieval. A significant portion of the job was to meet with clients and users to obtain new requirements and resolve existing problems Accomplishments Project completed on schedule and provided targeted functionality
Web Developer Environment Canada (EC) January - April 2002 Responsibilties Responsible for working on many of EC's Intranet and Extranet web pages Used JavaScript to create interactive menus for the website Accomplishments Completed a major update to the on-line version of the health and safety manual Developed and implemented a Java based employee training application
Software Developer Human Resources Development Canada (HRDC) May - August 2001 Responsibilties Responsible for reverse engineering an N-tier e-commerce web application Worked jointly with a second software engineering student on the project Analyzed the application that used a variety of technologies including ASP, VB, MS IIS, SQL, XML and COM Accomplishments The reverse engineering of the application was successfully completed Developed skills with the above technologies and improved technical writing skills
SKILLS
Web Development - Experienced in web development with HTML, ASP, VB/VB.NET, and PHP Database Development - Experienced in database development with MS SQL Server, MS Access, and MySQL.
Application Development - Experienced in applications development for both Windows and Linux, in a variety of programming languages including C/C++, Java, Delphi, and Visual Basic ----------------
Whoever reads your resume is going to do so from the perspective of someone who needs X Y and Z, and needs it now. People are looking for a condensed skill section like "PHP, ASP, VB/VB.NET, HTML" (Don't lead with HTML). Your skills section is good, and would be a good leader, though it needs to be less wordy. Give me a list of what you can do. Remember, this list is targeting two peo
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If you're feeling educational, Game Development and Production by Erik Bethke.
If, on the other hand, you're feeling like motivating people, how about Nickel and Dimed, on (not) Getting by in America. Excellent read, and likely to make them study twice as hard in college.
The best part of the entire article is that the sentence "I officially veered off the path of rational thought and entered the dreaded forest of unthinking nostalgia," appears next to an ad for Star Wars Galaxies.
"How could it not be worth getting?"
Anyone else wonder if this is just a clever way to steal passwords?
Tomorrow I'm going to go into work and make some hideous, torrential mistakes through gross negligence upon my part. I'm going to be twice as productive by doing everything half-assed. I'll be a rubber stamp for the dumbest, most obviously wrong ideas known to man. And then when the Boss finally catches my mistakes and goes through the costly process of repairing them, I'll simply say that these repairs are part of the process. Someone else will fix them, as that is what someone else is paid to do.
And when my kids ask me how I'm doing at work, I'll say that I'm doing my country proud.
Simple. Just rename the finder to something else, then take the target application and rename it "Finder" with file type "FNDR" and application "MOVR." Voila! Instant Kiosk!
/System/Library/CoreServices/ directory. Rename whatever you want "Finder" and plop it in that folder.
That not working? Well, log in as root. Move the Finder out of your
Still not working? Oh, you meant Windows. Can't help you there.
I'd like you to point out one such case against a monopolist that you remember where money (and nothing else) was paid in restitution.
There is a very famous case, which supports the voucher "punishment," whereby for its rampant and flagrant price fixing Nintendo was ordered to send out $5 vouchers to its customers. The irony was that Nintendo at the time was making more than $5 per cartridge sold thanks to its flagrant price fixing, so even when being "punished" it was making a profit due to the activity it was being punished for.
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1. There is NO copy controlled software on US or UK releases of Beastie Boys' "To the 5 Boroughs."
2. The disk *IS* copy controlled in Europe - which is standard policy for all
Capitol/EMI titles (and a policy used by ALL major labels in Europe).
3. The copy protection system used for all EMI/Capitol releases including "To the 5 Boroughs" is Macrovision's CDS-200, which sets up an audio player into the users RAM (not hard drive) to playback the RED book audio on the disk. It does absolutely NOT install any kind of spyware, shareware, silverware, or ladies wear onto the users system.
You can find more information on the technology used here:
http://www.macrovision.com/products/cds/cd
This is what EMI has to say about it:
Reports that "spyware" is being included on the Beastie Boy's CD, 'To The Five Boroughs' are absolutely untrue.
While the Beastie Boys CD does use copy control in some territories, there is no copy control on the Beasties Boys discs in the US or the UK. Where copy protection is used, it is Macrovision's CDS-200 technology; the same technology being used for the past several months around the world for all of EMI's releases in those territories. This Macrovision technology does NOT install spyware or vaporware of any kind on a users PC. In fact, CDS-200 does not install software applications of ANY KIND on a user's PC. All the copy protection in CDS-200 is hardware based, meaning that it is dependent on the physical properties and the format of the CD. None of the copy protection in CDS-200 requires software applications to be loaded onto a computer.
The technology does activate a proprietary Macrovision player in order to play the CD on a PC, and that player converts WMA compressed files to audio on the fly. It also temporarily installs a graphic "skin" for the player. Nothing is permanently installed on a hard drive. These details can be verified in the 'install.log' file in the computer's root directory.
What are those senators smoking?
Amusingly enough, something that will get them a mandatory minimum 5 year sentence.
Ah... and we get back to my favorite Mulligan quote:
"would-be game designers take note: Ideas are a dime a dozen and worth what they cost"
And with that, you have earned a fan.
Coming up with ideas is easy. Coming up with the simplest idea that most minimally impacts the development schedule but will greatly improve gameplay is a little harder. And, of course, pushing it through to the point of implementation, testing, adjusting, re-invisioning, re-implementing, and tweaking is where the meat of design lies.
You're only going to get paid for ideas if you have enough to give away.
This is AWESOME! Now I get to compete with 350 MORE people for that ONE 25,000 yr entry level position!
I hate to break this to you, but zero out of 25,350 is still zero.
I too thought FireFly was a horrible series from the one episode that I saw. But watch a few, and you will be hooked. Joss is a master of the larger story arc, and while his characters may not be the most interesting in the immediately-grabbing sense, they become terribly, terribly addicting when spread out over two or three episodes (when played in the proper order, damn Fox). The professional seductress actually returns shortly thereafter for a second episode, where she has married an old friend of the Captain's. What follows is a masterfully written series of innuendos and backstabs that really clicks with the ensemble cast.
Firefly is a good series, and worthy of a second look. The whole lot is available on DVD (a very worthy purchase), or if you would like to sample first it is available for download. And quite frankly, I don't feel the slightest bit bad for posting the link so that they can be seen in the way they should have been, before Fox decided to trash continuity.
Besides, the show gave us some truly great quotes.
Simon: I'm trying to put this as delicately as I can. How do I know you won't kill me in my sleep?
Mal: You don't know know me, son, so let me explain this to you once. If I ever kill you, you'll be awake, you'll be facing me, and you'll be armed.
Simon: Are you always this sentimental?
Mal: Had a good day.
Mal: (spares Atherton) Mercy is the mark of a great man. (stabs Atherton with his sword) I guess I'm just a good man. (stabs Atherton again) Well, I'm alright.
Harrow: You didn't have to wound the man.
Mal: Yeah I know, it was just funny.
Kaylee: Wash, tell me I'm pretty.
Wash: Were I unwed I would take you in a man-like fashion.
Kaylee: 'Cause I'm pretty?
Wash: 'Cause you're pretty.
Kaylee: Is that him?
Mal: That's the buffet table.
Kaylee: How will we know unless we question it?
Simon: You're out of your mind.
Early: That's between me and my mind.
Mal: The wheel never stops turning, Badger.
Badger: Only matters to the people on the rim.
Zoe: Jayne, this is something the Captain has to do on his own.
Mal: (fighting for his life) No...no it's not!
Zoe: Oh. (shoots)
Zoe: Preacher, don't the Bible have some pretty specific things to say about killing?
Book: Quite specific. It is, however, somewhat fuzzier on kneecaps.
River: What am I?
Simon: You are my beautiful sister.
River: I threw up on your bed.
Simon: Yep, definitely my sister.
Rvd. Book: I might be needing a preacher.
Mal: That's good, you just lay there and be ironic.
Mal: Ship like this, be with you until the day you die.
Zoe: That's because it's a deathtrap.
Wash: Little River just gets more colorful by the minute. What will she do next?
Zoe: Either blow us up or rub soup in her hair. It's a toss-up.
Wash: I hope she does the soup thing. It's always a hoot, and we don't all die from it.
Wash: Psychic, though? That sounds like something out of science fiction.
Zoe: You live on a spaceship, dear.
(Quotes lifted from TV Tome.)
Papyrus Studios and Impressions Games are both Boston-area studios... While their closures come amidst the opening (at least publically) of Tilted Mill and Turbine's major expansion push, you just can't help but feel that this developer's region is again being pinched out by the larger west-coast developers. When Looking Glass closed, it was a blow felt across the region, one that was delt not because Looking Glass was unworthy, but because the publisher felt the region was unworthy. This turned out to be a blessing in disguise, as every team out here benefits in some way or another from a lot of experienced Looking Glass people, but why was that studio closed? Why did one of the most successful game developers get canned? Why did no white knight show up?
This isn't such a clear-cut case of the expendability of your north-west studios. Papayrus has been frozen with Nascar for years, and losing that license meant losing their company. Impression games was stuck too, stuck making Caeser and other historical strategy games in a saturated market. I don't think the closure of either of these studios comes as a surprise to anybody. But one can't shake the feeling that we're in for another round of publisher abuse, looking at their North East studios as if they were expendable, despite having produced Asheron's Call, Karaoke Revolution, System Shock II, Empire Earth, Neverwinter Nights, Thief 1 and 2, The great Mind Rover, etc, etc.
I can see where this is going:
1: Funny retort about clippy, modded +5 insightful
2: Serious post defending Power Point, modded -1 Flamebait
3: Humorous post about necessary height of a post to go over one's head, modded +2 interesting
4: Serious post questioning the connection between wooden posts and the stability of Microsoft Software, modded +2 Funny
Meta comment about the rediculousness of it all: Priceless.
Other Consoles that were backwards compatible in some form or another:
...
Genesis (played Master System games, with attachment that cost as much as a master system)
Game Boy Pocket/Color/Advance
Game Gear (played Master System games, with cheap attachment)
Nomad (played Genesis games)
N64 (played SNES / NES games, with 3rd party attachment)
Turbo Duo (Played normal TurboGraphix 16 and CD games)
Turbo Express Portable (played normal TG16 games)
It doesn't look like there have been enough backwards-compatible systems to say whether or not it is a blessing or a curse to system sales. It is true that the backwards compatibility of the Genesis saddled it with using the Z80 as a sound processor, which created that trademark Genesis thuddy, explody sound. Backwards compatibility in the PS2 added greatly to the complexity of programming for it, but it looks like it was the right move for the system. The Game Boy has always been helped by backwards compatibility, though the great simplicity of the system makes this less of a chore. As few people (on these shores) had a Turbo Graphix or a Sega Master System, the benefits of backwards compatibility on the Genesis and the Duo was minimal.
The moral of the story seems to be if you have a successful system, make it backwards compatible. Is the XBox successful enough to warrant that tradeoff?
You do know all that the major US media news outlets do is re-run BBC stories, right?
Thank you, John Laliberte, who provided a wonderful G-mail account for yours truly, and Jon, who offered a few hours later. Theirs are the path of true righteousness. I lie prostate in their aura.
Or is it prostrate? I can't check right now, because Google doesn't seem to be responding.
- C
In defense of upgrades to consoles, a practice I personally find distasteful, the 4MB N64 Ram Pack and the PS1 Dual Shock were both surprisingly successful additions to their respective consoles. They fulfilled three major prerequisites for console upgrades. 1: They were inescapable. Most games after a certain point used them, the systems started selling with them, etc. 2: They provided a genuinely better experience. 3: They were pretty darned cheap. In the case of the RAM upgrade, it came free with games.
NEC floundered in no small part because the US company responsible for the console made some of the worst decisions possible WRT porting the excellent games available in Japan. This came to a head when NEC USA decided to launch their hybrid system with the everpowerful might of... Camp California, a beach-boys sidescroller. Even their excellent version of Street Fighter never saw these shores, for reasons nobody can fathom. Bonk was a pretty cool mascot for his time, but Bonk alone a system does not sell (especially when it takes 3 years to get the second game across the sea). How long was it before Ys III finally came out?
Well, it could go up to 360^2, though you would be hard pressed to keep the camera out of that picture. You could also venture out into t, leading to 360 T shots. You could also mount it on a movable platform of some sort, and get X, Y, and Z values, though for comparatively limited values of X Y and Z. And for that matter the spectrum values could be modulated more than it already is, leading to a potential Lambda range, as well as temperature, audio, and alpha beta gamma radiation detection.
Thus, the panoramic camera could be 360^2TXYZLTmpVArBrGr.
It probably wouldn't have fit in a press release, though.
I have a client that needs a server with quite a bit of storage, reasonable level of reliability and redundancy and all for as cheap as possible.
So what you need is this.
Come on now, if you're going to grovel, be creative!
There was a man without gmail
Whose VAC could tell quite the tale
his wife worked real hard
to stack the punch cards
but she died, and now he's in jail
One gig, two gigs or three
Gmail's the right size for me
Don't be upset
I read the usenet
all archived, from 1903
My Friendster, and his big gut
has been reclusive somewhat
Gmail requests
he won't address
I think that he moved to orkut
I could be rich, without a doubt
I found an unbeatable route
this Nigerian guy
wants a reply
but I can't with my inbox maxed out
My mailbox will always O flow
inflators, fellators, you know
I get lots of spam
Thanks to my mam
That woman named me Info
Anyone have a spare invite for a clever guy?
cgenman@pobox.com
I've seen that counter go from 56 to 79 in roughly the past hour. If we assume 23 have been given away in the past hour, and the possibility of getting an account is 1 in 30,000, then the person has probably gotten 690000 hits. That breaks down to 191 hits per second.
That sounds believeable to me. Of course, if you go by their counter, they're recieving about 500 hits per second... but perhaps the Slashdot effect intensifies the longer the link has been on the front page, and therefore the number of people who have scripted automated systems.
The name of the game was Ore no Ryouri, sometimes called Ore no Ryori, an alternative spelling. I never played the full version, only the one that came with one of the Playstation Underground disks. You're right, it was a great game, and I would love to get my hands on a full version. Lots of info is available with a little googling.
There was actually a very good food simulator for the PS1 that involved chopping carrots, stirring noodles, and juggling tasks and customers around (a pot boils whether you watch it or not, but you need to strain the noodles before they get mushy). It came on one of the Playstation Underground disks, and was called Ore no Ryouri, one of the most fun games I've played in a long time. Definitely worth a try, if you can find it.
Just a quick note, the chance of getting a Gmail account on Gmail machine is one in 30000 on any given reload. It would take 20794 reloads to have just a %50 chance of getting a GMail account. If one downloads Opera and sets the reload on the gmail machine to every second, that's two weeks. Now, admittedly, one could be smarmy and open a whole host of opera windows reloading every second, but we don't even know if the reloading window would blow away the winning announcement.
On the other hand, one could spend much less time writing clever limericks in the hopes that someone will give them an account
There was a man without gmail
Whose VAC could tell quite the tale
his wife worked real hard
to stack the punch cards
but she died, and now he's in jail
cgenman@pobox.com
Eric Kibbee
.Net and MS SQL Server to develop applications for use by the department employees
716-169 Lees Avenue, Ottawa Ontario, K1S 5M2 Phone: (613) 612-7561 Email: eric@kibbee.ca
PROFESSIONAL PROFILE
A new Software Engineering graduate looking for an introductory software development position. Participated in the co-operative education program, which provided four terms of directly related and progressive experience. A strong team player, as evidenced by excellent grades on the program's major final year team project.
EDUCATION
Bachelor of Applied Science, Software Engineering 1999 - 2004
University Of Ottawa
Participated in co-operative education programme
Graduated Magna Cum Laude
EXPERIENCE
Build Manager
Software Engineering Final Project
January - December 2003
Responsibilties
Final year project that was part of the program that followed all the steps of the software development life cycle
Developed on an on-line document management system
Designated role was Build Manager, but also participated in all aspects of the project
Used ASP and Visual Basic with MS Access as a database
Accomplishments
Completed the project on schedule and met all required performance criteria
Achieved a mark of "A" in the course based on customer satisfaction, documentation of the system and quality assurance presentations
Web Developer
Office of Critical Infrastructure Protection and Emergency Preparedness (OCIPEP)
May - August 2003
Responsibilties
Responsible for the upkeep and development of new features on the department Intranet site
Used Visual Basic
Accomplishments
Provided a high level of service and consistent performance of the Intranet
Developed new tools such as an employee directory and an events calendar
Web Developer
Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO)
August - December 2002
Responsibilties
Development of a web based financial tracking application
Used ASP with an MS Access database to allow for data entry and retrieval.
A significant portion of the job was to meet with clients and users to obtain new requirements and resolve existing problems
Accomplishments
Project completed on schedule and provided targeted functionality
Web Developer
Environment Canada (EC)
January - April 2002
Responsibilties
Responsible for working on many of EC's Intranet and Extranet web pages
Used JavaScript to create interactive menus for the website
Accomplishments
Completed a major update to the on-line version of the health and safety manual
Developed and implemented a Java based employee training application
Software Developer
Human Resources Development Canada (HRDC)
May - August 2001
Responsibilties
Responsible for reverse engineering an N-tier e-commerce web application
Worked jointly with a second software engineering student on the project
Analyzed the application that used a variety of technologies including ASP, VB, MS IIS, SQL, XML and COM
Accomplishments
The reverse engineering of the application was successfully completed
Developed skills with the above technologies and improved technical writing skills
SKILLS
Web Development - Experienced in web development with HTML, ASP, VB/VB.NET, and PHP
Database Development - Experienced in database development with MS SQL Server, MS Access, and MySQL.
Application Development - Experienced in applications development for both Windows and Linux, in a variety of programming languages including C/C++, Java, Delphi, and Visual Basic
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Whoever reads your resume is going to do so from the perspective of someone who needs X Y and Z, and needs it now. People are looking for a condensed skill section like "PHP, ASP, VB/VB.NET, HTML" (Don't lead with HTML). Your skills section is good, and would be a good leader, though it needs to be less wordy. Give me a list of what you can do. Remember, this list is targeting two peo