As long as people keep eating fried foods, then there will be an abundant supply of clean fuel... So F U to those who tell us what we should and should not eat.
It is proven that recession/depression deeply affects the purchasing decision of a consumer. Entertainment items are considered luxury items and when the money isn't there, that is the first thing to get cut from a spender's budget. Secondly, for those that still want a gaming fix tend to look at cheaper games. The cheaper games tend to be used games over the new ones. The publishers and developers of the game industry have been trying to figure out ways where they can still make a profit from used game sales as their new game sales are short-lived. You don't see Gamestop having as much financial trouble. Heck, they are reporting that used game sales are still as good as before. If the publishers had a way of figuring out how to make a profit, then they might not have been in a bad situation they are at now.
A lot of colleges today will either take off points or simply throw away papers that have sources cited to wikipedia due to it's known major inaccuracies.
Nope. Apparently, this tool created for this school project is not over. The second half of the experiment, after they take down the software, should be to see what kind of punishment they would receive if this were to happen in the real world.
Then they will really know, not just by the reactions of Amazon and their take down notice, but through the legal system about the social feedback such a software will receive...
-Liberal Arts BA -Information Technology BS -Digital Media BA -Game Design BA
All of these degrees were created for one reason.... to take in people who do not have the ability to do hard math and reading, but are able to pay for a high level education. This is a gold mine for Universities and Colleges all around mainly for two reasons. Reason number one is, because many students who want to avoid hard math will flock to those degrees like flies on doodoo. Mention the word Calculus and they will cringe! Second reason is that Universities do not have to hire high level educators. It costs money, a good amount, to find professors to teach high level courses involving high levels of math, engineering, and sciences. They want to save as much money as possible. And most of the professors who end up teaching for the degrees I listed are adjunct professors, which get paid a lot less than a tenure professor.
As for me, I ultimately chose Civil Engineering because people need roads & bridges built/repaired, as well as buildings. My job outlook is still good even this bad economy so as long as I am good and build up a network with employers. I looked into schools that offer 'game design', information technology, etc. What I found is that those are very much like vocational training. You basically learn the tools of the trade and nothing else. Just like a mechanic is taught how to fix a car, but they don't know how to design one. That's how these degrees are handled.
Also, you cannot learn game design. It takes experience. Also, a lot of people going into that degree have it in their head that that is what they will be doing once they graduate (I thought this too when I was interested in it). Sad fact is that they won't. Game Design, you need tons of experience to get a job as one at another company. Also, most of these include programming language courses, but they don't teach the fundamentals of computer software engineering so that when a new standard comes out, they can easily grasp it and implement it into their own software design (this applies to everything other than game programming and that is the general educational goal of Computer Science). This is why programmers who create graphics engine are all computer science majors or are super smart and learned it on their own.
The thing is, it will be very hard to find a job in this field once you graduate. Why? Because someone with just a highschool diploma can just as easily get a job that you paid $50,000+ to learn and took you 4 years to do it. I have a friend who works as a level designer. He makes roughly $49,000 a year and he only went to college (community college) for 1 year before he quit and devoted his full time learning the ins and outs of Unreal Level Editing and eventually got hired. It took him 3 years to end up with that salary. He now knows how to model in Maya and 3DS Max and he did not go to school for any of this! He used the Internet and books to learn all of that. There are just way too many people wanting to get into this industry because it is easy to learn. It is all about networking with those who are already in the industry, which is how it is in almost every industry.
In conclusion. Those degrees are useless, in my opinion. If I want to go to college it is to get an education that will last me almost my whole life. I don't want to go to school and pay for something that I can learn from a book at the bookstore! Do not let me stop you from doing what you want to do though. I have met those who are into the game development jobs they went to school for, but that is because they also have good communication skills and know how to market themselves to employers and live up to their expectations.
Overall, it is all about networking and putting yourself out there so that you get noticed and when they look at your resume/demo reel, they can easily remember you and realise that you are a good candidate for the job.
Try to right program code comments as much as possible as long as memory permits it (if you do have a memory cap).
It makes your job down the road a lot easier, as well as other people's job easier, too.
Try to have it make sense, too. Overall, doing this helps you in retaining how the code works step by step so that you will almost know it like the back of your hand.
Isn't Silver Iodide bad for you, specifically your skin? I know there's this concoction (that has silver) that if you take too much of it turns your skin blue and is irreversible.
If china pumps a ton of this stuff out, this will obviously get into the drinking water and then the athletes will drink that water as well as the local citizens and so you get blue skinned Chinese and athletes!
I think the US, UK, and its allies should boycott the Olympics. Of course I'd like our country to show China that democracy is way better than communism like we did to the Russians back in the hey-day, but China has smog (high levels of mercury and lead than any smog city in the world) and now silver iodide in their drinking water. I wouldn't want our strapping young athletes to end up with lungs like that of a smoker and have asthma attacks.
Let's hope that the deal means no more crappy sitcoms that just take and take from old favorites like Seinfeld, Friends, & Cheers. That type of workmanship is why they've been getting crappy pay in the first place.
I think this car would fare better in city markets. They can be used as taxis and replace the gas guzzling V8 Taxis that take up the road in NYC. With the size of the car being small, this can put more cars on the road.
Slate's Chris Suellentrop chatted with Newsweek's N'Gai Croal, the New York Times' Seth Schiesel, and MTV's Stephen Totilo (all MVPs of game discussion)
Heh. Yeh, right......
I didn't know slate and nytimes had the top gaming gurus.....
If such a thing exist, which i doubt it does, then why would they use it on protesters? If they have developed this type of technology, then I'm sure they'd deploy them in high priority areas like in the Middle East, China, etc..
With the hardware in these videocards advancing - the drivers will little, by little stop supporting games from the Win95/98 era.
I am a Thief fan, a BIG one. I own all series and downloaded each and every fan mission. I have tried to make my own but have since stopped. It was at first because my Pentium Pro, 96mb RAM and 8mb Video card could not support Thief 2's DromEd program very well and it required a Pentium 2 CPU. But I later upgraded to an Athlon 2500XP and 128mb Video card and Windows XP. I had trouble installing these games from the getgo, especially my favorite, Thief 1 & Thief Gold. Because of that I had to hunt down old and cheap computer parts.
I haven't been in touch with the fan scene but I doubt you can get Thief 2 to play on Vista and even on Xp with the latest drivers if you have a high end videocard that has been out for over a year now.
The architecture in the hardware has changed to where new drivers no longer support older architecture GPUs. If you want to experience these games then you have to hunt down Pentium 2/3 hardware plus 16mb Voodoo3 or 32mb TNT2 cards and hard to find Win98 drivers for motherboard drivers, etc to get these games to work ok.
I have built one but using my current PC and school, I am still unable to continue working on my fan mission, but I plan to someday. The Thief Fan Mission scene will never die out as long as there still fans out there dedicated to keep the series alive and well by making more adventurous and innovative level designs. Calendra's Cistern is one of my favorites as well as Thief2x.
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Just because the ruling didn't go in the defendant's favour DOES NOT mean their rights were violated. What a bunch of stupids.
As long as people keep eating fried foods, then there will be an abundant supply of clean fuel... So F U to those who tell us what we should and should not eat.
Up with trans fats, down with... boiled crap.
It is proven that recession/depression deeply affects the purchasing decision of a consumer. Entertainment items are considered luxury items and when the money isn't there, that is the first thing to get cut from a spender's budget. Secondly, for those that still want a gaming fix tend to look at cheaper games. The cheaper games tend to be used games over the new ones. The publishers and developers of the game industry have been trying to figure out ways where they can still make a profit from used game sales as their new game sales are short-lived. You don't see Gamestop having as much financial trouble. Heck, they are reporting that used game sales are still as good as before. If the publishers had a way of figuring out how to make a profit, then they might not have been in a bad situation they are at now.
A lot of colleges today will either take off points or simply throw away papers that have sources cited to wikipedia due to it's known major inaccuracies.
Yes, in a literal sense. However... 4186/1424 = 2.939
Round that into a whole number and you get 3.
Dun dun dunnnn!
Dude, it's still immature and childish and shows how uneducated you really are about life in general when anyone mentions MS with M$.
This 90s joke is old. Get over it people!
Nope. Apparently, this tool created for this school project is not over. The second half of the experiment, after they take down the software, should be to see what kind of punishment they would receive if this were to happen in the real world.
Then they will really know, not just by the reactions of Amazon and their take down notice, but through the legal system about the social feedback such a software will receive...
This guy GOT IT! Anyone else who didn't needs a life.
Anyway, RIAA is getting what's coming to them, finally.
DID YOU GET that thing.... i sent you? *fart*
He's a douchebag. Stole Reality Engine for pennies, hired its programmer and then dropped his ass. Small community indeed... my ass.
List of useless degrees (IMO):
-Liberal Arts BA
-Information Technology BS
-Digital Media BA
-Game Design BA
All of these degrees were created for one reason.... to take in people who do not have the ability to do hard math and reading, but are able to pay for a high level education. This is a gold mine for Universities and Colleges all around mainly for two reasons. Reason number one is, because many students who want to avoid hard math will flock to those degrees like flies on doodoo. Mention the word Calculus and they will cringe! Second reason is that Universities do not have to hire high level educators. It costs money, a good amount, to find professors to teach high level courses involving high levels of math, engineering, and sciences. They want to save as much money as possible. And most of the professors who end up teaching for the degrees I listed are adjunct professors, which get paid a lot less than a tenure professor.
As for me, I ultimately chose Civil Engineering because people need roads & bridges built/repaired, as well as buildings. My job outlook is still good even this bad economy so as long as I am good and build up a network with employers. I looked into schools that offer 'game design', information technology, etc. What I found is that those are very much like vocational training. You basically learn the tools of the trade and nothing else. Just like a mechanic is taught how to fix a car, but they don't know how to design one. That's how these degrees are handled.
Also, you cannot learn game design. It takes experience. Also, a lot of people going into that degree have it in their head that that is what they will be doing once they graduate (I thought this too when I was interested in it). Sad fact is that they won't. Game Design, you need tons of experience to get a job as one at another company. Also, most of these include programming language courses, but they don't teach the fundamentals of computer software engineering so that when a new standard comes out, they can easily grasp it and implement it into their own software design (this applies to everything other than game programming and that is the general educational goal of Computer Science). This is why programmers who create graphics engine are all computer science majors or are super smart and learned it on their own.
The thing is, it will be very hard to find a job in this field once you graduate. Why? Because someone with just a highschool diploma can just as easily get a job that you paid $50,000+ to learn and took you 4 years to do it. I have a friend who works as a level designer. He makes roughly $49,000 a year and he only went to college (community college) for 1 year before he quit and devoted his full time learning the ins and outs of Unreal Level Editing and eventually got hired. It took him 3 years to end up with that salary. He now knows how to model in Maya and 3DS Max and he did not go to school for any of this! He used the Internet and books to learn all of that. There are just way too many people wanting to get into this industry because it is easy to learn. It is all about networking with those who are already in the industry, which is how it is in almost every industry.
In conclusion. Those degrees are useless, in my opinion. If I want to go to college it is to get an education that will last me almost my whole life. I don't want to go to school and pay for something that I can learn from a book at the bookstore! Do not let me stop you from doing what you want to do though. I have met those who are into the game development jobs they went to school for, but that is because they also have good communication skills and know how to market themselves to employers and live up to their expectations.
Overall, it is all about networking and putting yourself out there so that you get noticed and when they look at your resume/demo reel, they can easily remember you and realise that you are a good candidate for the job.
Try to right program code comments as much as possible as long as memory permits it (if you do have a memory cap).
It makes your job down the road a lot easier, as well as other people's job easier, too.
Try to have it make sense, too. Overall, doing this helps you in retaining how the code works step by step so that you will almost know it like the back of your hand.
He's holding the world hostage for... one million dollars!
bwuaahahahaha... bwuahahahaha... BWUAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.. *cue austin powers music*
Isn't Silver Iodide bad for you, specifically your skin? I know there's this concoction (that has silver) that if you take too much of it turns your skin blue and is irreversible.
If china pumps a ton of this stuff out, this will obviously get into the drinking water and then the athletes will drink that water as well as the local citizens and so you get blue skinned Chinese and athletes!
I think the US, UK, and its allies should boycott the Olympics. Of course I'd like our country to show China that democracy is way better than communism like we did to the Russians back in the hey-day, but China has smog (high levels of mercury and lead than any smog city in the world) and now silver iodide in their drinking water. I wouldn't want our strapping young athletes to end up with lungs like that of a smoker and have asthma attacks.
Basically, the british guy forgot to add a constant to the end. Problem solved.
Of course the Microsoft software will fail these tests as that is what ACID tests are designed for...
Let's hope that the deal means no more crappy sitcoms that just take and take from old favorites like Seinfeld, Friends, & Cheers. That type of workmanship is why they've been getting crappy pay in the first place.
Here's one, and only one, way to protect yourself from virus.
Don't visit porn sites; warez; emule.
That ought to keep you safe from viruses/trojans...
I think this car would fare better in city markets. They can be used as taxis and replace the gas guzzling V8 Taxis that take up the road in NYC. With the size of the car being small, this can put more cars on the road.
Slate's Chris Suellentrop chatted with Newsweek's N'Gai Croal, the New York Times' Seth Schiesel, and MTV's Stephen Totilo (all MVPs of game discussion)
Heh. Yeh, right......
I didn't know slate and nytimes had the top gaming gurus.....
Facebook, and its owner can simply put that consent for these ads into their Terms of Service agreement for new and existing users. Simple as that.
So, where's the equation? I need to know so that I have a chance at winning my state's lottery. I'm a poor college student!
Closest I got to winning the lotto jackpot here was with 4 numbers, out of 6.
If such a thing exist, which i doubt it does, then why would they use it on protesters? If they have developed this type of technology, then I'm sure they'd deploy them in high priority areas like in the Middle East, China, etc..
Blizzard will still continue to copy off of Warhammer, regardless if it comes out or not.
With the hardware in these videocards advancing - the drivers will little, by little stop supporting games from the Win95/98 era.
I am a Thief fan, a BIG one. I own all series and downloaded each and every fan mission. I have tried to make my own but have since stopped. It was at first because my Pentium Pro, 96mb RAM and 8mb Video card could not support Thief 2's DromEd program very well and it required a Pentium 2 CPU. But I later upgraded to an Athlon 2500XP and 128mb Video card and Windows XP. I had trouble installing these games from the getgo, especially my favorite, Thief 1 & Thief Gold. Because of that I had to hunt down old and cheap computer parts.
I haven't been in touch with the fan scene but I doubt you can get Thief 2 to play on Vista and even on Xp with the latest drivers if you have a high end videocard that has been out for over a year now.
The architecture in the hardware has changed to where new drivers no longer support older architecture GPUs. If you want to experience these games then you have to hunt down Pentium 2/3 hardware plus 16mb Voodoo3 or 32mb TNT2 cards and hard to find Win98 drivers for motherboard drivers, etc to get these games to work ok.
I have built one but using my current PC and school, I am still unable to continue working on my fan mission, but I plan to someday. The Thief Fan Mission scene will never die out as long as there still fans out there dedicated to keep the series alive and well by making more adventurous and innovative level designs. Calendra's Cistern is one of my favorites as well as Thief2x.