You'll probably be better off getting a regular bachelors in something like literature or maybe an art degree, in my opinion.
I spoke with the hiring manager at bioware and indeed their storyline plotters are mostly English majors with some secondary qualification as well (IE. A CS diploma).
Look, most people who want to code games are gamers. They're young, have little motivation to learn hard topics (by hard I mean solid, such as advanced math and sciences, not necessarily difficult). Heck, many have little motivation to do anything but play games.
I don't know about that correlation. 100% of the CS who graduated with me were medium to hardcore gamers. Myself included. Almost the entirety of the last 2 generations are gamers of some form so you correlation is very poor.
Gamers tend to have obsessive focus on things that interests them. They make ideal workers if they can find a field they are interested in. When I code something interesting the time passes just as if I was playing warcraft 3. It helps to have that ability to focus.
It sounds like the spots would still be there, but they'd be meter-less: which would make the spots in front of the Apple store very appealing. Might as well step in since it's right there. Whoops, you walked out with a new Macbook and an ipod nano!
Perhaps the first day. Then the subsequent 10 years after you go to work early to park your car there taking up the space from a potential apple customer.
To add insult to injury, the entire 3 year long project I was involved in was shelved and started over soon after that, wasting around $60 million. This wasn't the first (or last) time I saw a business waste millions of dollars. I think of these things any time a libertarian says, "Business can do things more efficiently!
Sure they can. The government is in the business of burning money and businesses do it much more efficiently. Look at enron or woldcom, it burned hundreds of twice as fast as most government agencies.
It's behavior shifting. Intrusive and flashy ads are blocked. Subtle Google Adwords are not.So the ad companies can just try to be less intrusive and they get through. You do popups, java overlays, annoying flash ads then you get blocked.
Of course. That's why average salaries go down as you get older.
A more serious answer:
Discovering new and important things tend to happen before 30, before your concept of what is possible takes root. Once it does it's difficult to think outside the box. But along with this you discover the shortcuts in your trade or profession and accumulate little tricks that you didn't have time for. Eventually you reach some plateau where new tricks don't improve your performance. From there people pay you more for the assumption that you must know enough to do the job and your salary may still rise even though you have stopped improving. Simply because your more entrenched in what you do and know more tricks to guard your position and show your worth.
I am 27, haven't done anything amazing but my salary has doubled since starting out after university. I haven't learned all that many tricks of my trade but I have learned plenty of human engineering so while I do exactly the same job I entrench myself and show more value only because I learned tricks to show the value I create without being crass about it. So I get paid more for the same general quality of work. I also bring 5 more years of connections to my job and 5 more years of emotional growth.
I will point out the flaw, "conservative" and "liberal" are subjective labels. How do you objectively decide that someone is conservative or liberal? Do you go by their self identification? If so, how do you select your candidates? Are the subjects of your study representative of all people who self identify that way? I can go on. There are so many variables about people that trying to determine differences in cognitive ability based on political leanings is junk.
Their self applied labels. So what ever convinced them to be one or the other has some correlation. We haven't done tests to determine causation. So for some reason being Lib correlates to more accurate adaptability in simple tests of reflexes.
The deal is not so much that conservatives like corporate leaders, it is that conservatives believe that if they work hard, and get a bit lucky, they can form their own business as well, and achieve a degree of independence. On the other hand, a socialist system offers no independence at all.
Umm.. depends on which conservative. The libertarian, regan conservatives were into free, independence and so on. The Modern bush conservatives are completely opposed to freedom and independence. They want a nanny state much worse then any democrats because this nanny state no only cares about how you take care of yourself but also what you think, what you do in bed, and who your friends are. At least the Demo's only care about if you smoke and if your willing to pay a extra 10% of yoru income so that you are less likely to be mugged by the desperately poor.
The most you can say from the study at hand is that the liberal subjects appear to weight new information more than past conditioning. In some cases this will lead to more accurate results (as in this test), but it is just as conceivable that in other cases this leads to less accurate results, false positives if you will.
I suppose you could say liberals take a few extra tries to be certain of a pattern while Conservatives assume a pattern quicker. Meaning in situations with a set pattern conservatives appear to get it faster but in situations where the patterns changes the liberals are more accurate.
It's going to suck playing a Druid. "Protect the forest? Or beat the crap out of trees to get talents? I use the talentes to protect the forest, so is it justified? But then, I'm not really protecting it at all if I'm harassing all the animal nests to get talents. I should have been a Cleric, dammit."
I know it's not what you mean, but the idea of Visual Basic running in some sort of homebrew VB Interpreter Servlet running inside the Servlet Container makes me weep.
Real men don't weep. Real men stand next to the thousand degree CPU and like it.
well.. you can always store them on the ps3 using the ps2 mem card to transfer. pain in the ass sure but it's an option. I think it's a peripheral computability thing? or does it not run at all?
The thinker to idiots ratio on that group is better then 50:50 so I think it aught exist and be supported by people who respect the ability to voice an opinion without censure.
Interesting. The thing here is these groups don't own Facebook. So doesn't Facebook have the right to criticize and or protest this hate speech be removing it? I mean the people in that group could always put up their own site? Think about things like newspapers. Just because you write a letter to the editor they don't have to print it. Just because you want to put an ad in they don't have to take it, even if you are a reporter the editor has the right to not publish what you write.
I guess the point was that 'F*ck Islam' was removed due to vocal dissension from another facebook group and the concerns of the advertisers (partly due to this other group). While other groups such as 'F*ck Jews', 'F*ck Christianity' and other semi-legitimate criticism groups were left alone. It was a company pandering to a vocal minority. As well the 'F*ck Islam' group was reported to be more along the lines of vocal criticism of problems within Islam vs an explicit hate group. It angered many over the hypocrisy and on the fact that various groups within this religion has a habit of using any means including murder to silence opposition.
If you frequent all of them would you then be an EMO, uber geek, trivia nerd, photographer, with an antique obsession, who enjoys poorly made video blogs, and gets smashed reguarly with your college buddies, while constantly chatting about nothing with low self esteem, whilst also enjoy shilling for a has been tech blog?
Apparently you're a little behind, because the hardware-back compatible 60GB model has been able to do these things with PS2 games for months now. It was just a firmware update that enabled it all.
I am aware it can and have a 60gb one. All of these fun features are from the software emu. Other tweaks haven't come yet but the upscaling and AA were enabled in a very early firmware revision.
If you turn off these features it goes back to hardware emu. If you leave any on it's Software emu.
They may not be buying PS2s, but that's because they're buying Wiis, not PS3s. Sony does not that kind of market dominance and control any more.
The jury is still out on how much of the wii's numbers overlap and exclude the PS3 potential customer base. Wii is in a completely different price bracket aimed at a different and larger market, the 360 is likely easting Sony's lunch as much or more then the wii.
The software emu rate success is pretty high. It doesn't hobble the non hardware versions much. In a random sampling of my library of 50+ ps2 games I have yet to hit one where the software emu wasn't good. No glitchiness yet.
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no, writing a virus to control a 50,000 node botnet isn't experience
That depends entirely on whom your applying with.
You'll probably be better off getting a regular bachelors in something like literature or maybe an art degree, in my opinion.
I spoke with the hiring manager at bioware and indeed their storyline plotters are mostly English majors with some secondary qualification as well (IE. A CS diploma).
Look, most people who want to code games are gamers. They're young, have little motivation to learn hard topics (by hard I mean solid, such as advanced math and sciences, not necessarily difficult). Heck, many have little motivation to do anything but play games.
I don't know about that correlation. 100% of the CS who graduated with me were medium to hardcore gamers. Myself included. Almost the entirety of the last 2 generations are gamers of some form so you correlation is very poor.
Gamers tend to have obsessive focus on things that interests them. They make ideal workers if they can find a field they are interested in. When I code something interesting the time passes just as if I was playing warcraft 3. It helps to have that ability to focus.
It sounds like the spots would still be there, but they'd be meter-less: which would make the spots in front of the Apple store very appealing. Might as well step in since it's right there. Whoops, you walked out with a new Macbook and an ipod nano!
Perhaps the first day. Then the subsequent 10 years after you go to work early to park your car there taking up the space from a potential apple customer.
To add insult to injury, the entire 3 year long project I was involved in was shelved and started over soon after that, wasting around $60 million. This wasn't the first (or last) time I saw a business waste millions of dollars. I think of these things any time a libertarian says, "Business can do things more efficiently!
Sure they can. The government is in the business of burning money and businesses do it much more efficiently. Look at enron or woldcom, it burned hundreds of twice as fast as most government agencies.
It's behavior shifting. Intrusive and flashy ads are blocked. Subtle Google Adwords are not.So the ad companies can just try to be less intrusive and they get through. You do popups, java overlays, annoying flash ads then you get blocked.
Of course. That's why average salaries go down as you get older.
A more serious answer:
Discovering new and important things tend to happen before 30, before your concept of what is possible takes root. Once it does it's difficult to think outside the box. But along with this you discover the shortcuts in your trade or profession and accumulate little tricks that you didn't have time for. Eventually you reach some plateau where new tricks don't improve your performance. From there people pay you more for the assumption that you must know enough to do the job and your salary may still rise even though you have stopped improving. Simply because your more entrenched in what you do and know more tricks to guard your position and show your worth.
I am 27, haven't done anything amazing but my salary has doubled since starting out after university. I haven't learned all that many tricks of my trade but I have learned plenty of human engineering so while I do exactly the same job I entrench myself and show more value only because I learned tricks to show the value I create without being crass about it. So I get paid more for the same general quality of work. I also bring 5 more years of connections to my job and 5 more years of emotional growth.
Of course. That's why average salaries go down as you get older.
Indeed, inflation is a bitch.
I will point out the flaw, "conservative" and "liberal" are subjective labels. How do you objectively decide that someone is conservative or liberal? Do you go by their self identification? If so, how do you select your candidates? Are the subjects of your study representative of all people who self identify that way? I can go on. There are so many variables about people that trying to determine differences in cognitive ability based on political leanings is junk.
Their self applied labels. So what ever convinced them to be one or the other has some correlation. We haven't done tests to determine causation. So for some reason being Lib correlates to more accurate adaptability in simple tests of reflexes.
The deal is not so much that conservatives like corporate leaders, it is that conservatives believe that if they work hard, and get a bit lucky, they can form their own business as well, and achieve a degree of independence. On the other hand, a socialist system offers no independence at all.
Umm.. depends on which conservative. The libertarian, regan conservatives were into free, independence and so on. The Modern bush conservatives are completely opposed to freedom and independence. They want a nanny state much worse then any democrats because this nanny state no only cares about how you take care of yourself but also what you think, what you do in bed, and who your friends are. At least the Demo's only care about if you smoke and if your willing to pay a extra 10% of yoru income so that you are less likely to be mugged by the desperately poor.
The most you can say from the study at hand is that the liberal subjects appear to weight new information more than past conditioning. In some cases this will lead to more accurate results (as in this test), but it is just as conceivable that in other cases this leads to less accurate results, false positives if you will.
I suppose you could say liberals take a few extra tries to be certain of a pattern while Conservatives assume a pattern quicker. Meaning in situations with a set pattern conservatives appear to get it faster but in situations where the patterns changes the liberals are more accurate.
IMNSHO, you don't truly understand the value of experience until you have teenage children.
I thought that taught you the value of alcoholism?
imho you're not old enough to have the experience required to know just how valuable experience can be.
Is that why the vast majority of people do their best and most well known work before 30.
* having sexual relations, and just mislaying a cigar.
Dear ErroneousBee,
I sincerely apologize I have mislayed my penis in your wife and daughter.
Best wishes
Kingmanic
It's going to suck playing a Druid. "Protect the forest? Or beat the crap out of trees to get talents? I use the talentes to protect the forest, so is it justified? But then, I'm not really protecting it at all if I'm harassing all the animal nests to get talents. I should have been a Cleric, dammit."
Just make him chaotic neutral and your fine.
I know it's not what you mean, but the idea of Visual Basic running in some sort of homebrew VB Interpreter Servlet running inside the Servlet Container makes me weep.
Real men don't weep. Real men stand next to the thousand degree CPU and like it.
well.. you can always store them on the ps3 using the ps2 mem card to transfer. pain in the ass sure but it's an option. I think it's a peripheral computability thing? or does it not run at all?
The thinker to idiots ratio on that group is better then 50:50 so I think it aught exist and be supported by people who respect the ability to voice an opinion without censure.
Interesting. The thing here is these groups don't own Facebook. So doesn't Facebook have the right to criticize and or protest this hate speech be removing it? I mean the people in that group could always put up their own site? Think about things like newspapers. Just because you write a letter to the editor they don't have to print it. Just because you want to put an ad in they don't have to take it, even if you are a reporter the editor has the right to not publish what you write.
I guess the point was that 'F*ck Islam' was removed due to vocal dissension from another facebook group and the concerns of the advertisers (partly due to this other group). While other groups such as 'F*ck Jews', 'F*ck Christianity' and other semi-legitimate criticism groups were left alone. It was a company pandering to a vocal minority. As well the 'F*ck Islam' group was reported to be more along the lines of vocal criticism of problems within Islam vs an explicit hate group. It angered many over the hypocrisy and on the fact that various groups within this religion has a habit of using any means including murder to silence opposition.
I'm not too sure but did free speech just trump economic interest and aggressive religious interests?
Should we celebrate? I'm so confused.
In anycase all you do is fight aliens in it, and is by far the most exciting thing ever likely to happen in a church.
Well, I've done some 'exciting' things in church. I guess it's subjective. It was exciting for the two of us. Ahh catholic school girls....
IANAP (I am not a priest)
If you frequent all of them would you then be an EMO, uber geek, trivia nerd, photographer, with an antique obsession, who enjoys poorly made video blogs, and gets smashed reguarly with your college buddies, while constantly chatting about nothing with low self esteem, whilst also enjoy shilling for a has been tech blog?
Apparently you're a little behind, because the hardware-back compatible 60GB model has been able to do these things with PS2 games for months now. It was just a firmware update that enabled it all.
I am aware it can and have a 60gb one. All of these fun features are from the software emu. Other tweaks haven't come yet but the upscaling and AA were enabled in a very early firmware revision.
If you turn off these features it goes back to hardware emu. If you leave any on it's Software emu.
They may not be buying PS2s, but that's because they're buying Wiis, not PS3s. Sony does not that kind of market dominance and control any more.
The jury is still out on how much of the wii's numbers overlap and exclude the PS3 potential customer base. Wii is in a completely different price bracket aimed at a different and larger market, the 360 is likely easting Sony's lunch as much or more then the wii.
The software emu rate success is pretty high. It doesn't hobble the non hardware versions much. In a random sampling of my library of 50+ ps2 games I have yet to hit one where the software emu wasn't good. No glitchiness yet.