Cool! We could apply this to computers and do away with the mouse...
Typical day at the support desk:
Support: "Hello, how can I help you?" User: "Hi, I can't see how to open an application" Support: "OK, you need to look at the application you want to open" User: "OK" Support: "Now, double blink with your left eye" User: "Hey! That did it!" Support: "Great, is there anything else I can help you with?" User: "Yeah, sometimes I'll be doing stuff and the popup menu will appear, it's quite annoying" Support: "Hmmm, perhaps you suffer from a nervous twitch" User: "Actually, I do have a problem in my right eye, that's probably it!" Support: "Thanks for calling, bye now."
Does anyone see the irony in Flowgram's demonstration?
Flowgram Guy 1: "OK, this is how Facebook stores billions of photos and serves thousands of them each second" Flowgram Guy 2: "Cool, maybe we should implement that technology" Flowgram Guy 1: "Why? It's not as if we're ever going to have our servers swamped with thousands of requests..."
Games just take too long to make these days. Look at GTA IV, that took years and cost close to $100M apparently. A British studio can't afford that, they just simply don't have the budget. The UK might be able to churn out something low key and amazing, but it probably won't do as well as the games that the US and Japan create.
Let's look at the movie industry quickly, the most recent film I saw was Iron Man which had an all star cast (and Gwyneth Paltrow) and amazing special effects. You're simply not going to get that from a British studio because of the lack of a budget. The UK does provide some real gems though, such as Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz, for a more reasonable budget, but I'm not sure how well they did outside the UK.
Everything I know about games programming is either self taught or read from tutorials on the web. My brother and I have been working on Blob And Conquer* for over two years now and, to be perfectly honest, it's been a fucking nightmare. Games development is seriously hard work and the Universities don't really give you enough education.
*Shameless plug that has nothing to do with anything
Can't I just refuse to let them access my laptop? Sure, they can turn it on to prove that it's really a laptop and not a bomb, but besides that they shouldn't be allowed to go through photos of me giving my 6 month old son a bath.
Personally, what I'm more worried about is that the pillock on customs manages to erase data from my computer / SD card.
Who the hell is going to buy this? Even if it proves to be a superior format, Toshiba have already shot themselves in the foot by dropping HD-DVD which they helped create. What's to say they won't drop this format too?
if this is worth attempting, especially in the trading industry.
(IANOC)
They really don't care if $2 million goes missing on a trade, so who the hell's going notice that it's a penny short?
Think about it, millions of trades going through the system each day and you, the IT developer, shave a single penny off each one of them. You could almost retire by the end of the month.
Now all I have to do is wait for this Credit Crunch to end and apply for a job working in the Front Office.
is the "in" thing to do at the moment. Why give something 9 or 10 out of 10 when you can go against the grain, give it a 4 and triple the amount of traffic (and therefore ad hits) to your site?
That said, if it turns out to be The Phantom Menace* of the Indy movies, I think I'll cry.
*On a second watch, I actually think Attack Of The Clones was worse
Maybe Facebook should also be made to come round to people's houses and teach them how to wipe their arses properly.
While Facebook might have to provide some responsibility, the 49 states and Columbia should actually tell the PARENTS to supervise their child's usage of the internet.
It had a fairly decent story that I would have found enjoyable if that script had been used for the movie. Perhaps the biggest problem was that Doom 3 suffered from the "walk backwards because that's where the enemies come from" syndrome or maybe not enough enemies on screen at a time.
I don't know what was wrong with it, but I'm sure someone else will let me know what problems they had with it...
Re:This reminds me of an old game...
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Iron Sky Trailer
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An if you really can't be arsed to play it the whole way through, just watch the video
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I thought ICQ died years ago. Apart from MSN, which I use very rarely, what other IM clients are in common use?
Is that one up version of the super dollar.
Yes it is. And soon someone will become the first to make 1 Giga-dollar and become
*drum roll*
a gigadollionaire
No one will be able to claim that a game of pool, snooker or soccer was won because the ball wasn't round enough...
Cool! We could apply this to computers and do away with the mouse...
Typical day at the support desk:
Support: "Hello, how can I help you?"
User: "Hi, I can't see how to open an application"
Support: "OK, you need to look at the application you want to open"
User: "OK"
Support: "Now, double blink with your left eye"
User: "Hey! That did it!"
Support: "Great, is there anything else I can help you with?"
User: "Yeah, sometimes I'll be doing stuff and the popup menu will appear, it's quite annoying"
Support: "Hmmm, perhaps you suffer from a nervous twitch"
User: "Actually, I do have a problem in my right eye, that's probably it!"
Support: "Thanks for calling, bye now."
Does anyone see the irony in Flowgram's demonstration?
Flowgram Guy 1: "OK, this is how Facebook stores billions of photos and serves thousands of them each second"
Flowgram Guy 2: "Cool, maybe we should implement that technology"
Flowgram Guy 1: "Why? It's not as if we're ever going to have our servers swamped with thousands of requests..."
Even if they did manage to destroy the world, we'd all die so quickly there wouldn't be time to dish out any blame.
I can imagine the last words in the lab just before we all disappear into a singularity:
"Oops"
Mark Zuckerberg, "Inventor"
Games just take too long to make these days. Look at GTA IV, that took years and cost close to $100M apparently. A British studio can't afford that, they just simply don't have the budget. The UK might be able to churn out something low key and amazing, but it probably won't do as well as the games that the US and Japan create.
Let's look at the movie industry quickly, the most recent film I saw was Iron Man which had an all star cast (and Gwyneth Paltrow) and amazing special effects. You're simply not going to get that from a British studio because of the lack of a budget. The UK does provide some real gems though, such as Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz, for a more reasonable budget, but I'm not sure how well they did outside the UK.
Everything I know about games programming is either self taught or read from tutorials on the web. My brother and I have been working on Blob And Conquer* for over two years now and, to be perfectly honest, it's been a fucking nightmare. Games development is seriously hard work and the Universities don't really give you enough education.
*Shameless plug that has nothing to do with anything
Will I be able to play Spore?
But the networks have to agree not to intentionally clash shows just to have a ratings war.
(So basically it's not going to happen)
I can see it now, in about 5 years a bunch of natural light evading geeks lined in front of the Queen:
(To the first one)
"Please accept this MBE for fragging 50 players in under a minute without taking damage"
"Thank you, Ma'am"
(To the second one)
"Please accept this MBE for pulling off a 53 hit combo in Street Fighter IV"
"Thank you, Ma'am"
(To the third one)
"Please accept this MBE for obtaining 100% completion in GTA V"
"Thank you, Ma'am"
etc.
Can't I just refuse to let them access my laptop? Sure, they can turn it on to prove that it's really a laptop and not a bomb, but besides that they shouldn't be allowed to go through photos of me giving my 6 month old son a bath.
Personally, what I'm more worried about is that the pillock on customs manages to erase data from my computer / SD card.
that this will stop Microsoft from banning people from Xbox Live who have modded their systems.
this is from people continuously having to press CTRL + ALT + DEL
Thank you, I'm here all night! Try the veal!
And since my copy just finished downloading, I guess I'll go install it. I hope I don't have any
Clearly, you did...
Who the hell is going to buy this? Even if it proves to be a superior format, Toshiba have already shot themselves in the foot by dropping HD-DVD which they helped create. What's to say they won't drop this format too?
if this is worth attempting, especially in the trading industry.
(IANOC)
They really don't care if $2 million goes missing on a trade, so who the hell's going notice that it's a penny short?
Think about it, millions of trades going through the system each day and you, the IT developer, shave a single penny off each one of them. You could almost retire by the end of the month.
Now all I have to do is wait for this Credit Crunch to end and apply for a job working in the Front Office.
they first went there in 1945.
And in 2018, they are coming back.
is the "in" thing to do at the moment. Why give something 9 or 10 out of 10 when you can go against the grain, give it a 4 and triple the amount of traffic (and therefore ad hits) to your site?
That said, if it turns out to be The Phantom Menace* of the Indy movies, I think I'll cry.
*On a second watch, I actually think Attack Of The Clones was worse
China now has a reasonable excuse not to send any aid to Burma.
Maybe Facebook should also be made to come round to people's houses and teach them how to wipe their arses properly.
While Facebook might have to provide some responsibility, the 49 states and Columbia should actually tell the PARENTS to supervise their child's usage of the internet.
It had a fairly decent story that I would have found enjoyable if that script had been used for the movie. Perhaps the biggest problem was that Doom 3 suffered from the "walk backwards because that's where the enemies come from" syndrome or maybe not enough enemies on screen at a time.
I don't know what was wrong with it, but I'm sure someone else will let me know what problems they had with it...
An if you really can't be arsed to play it the whole way through, just watch the video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6vIHcxGyIA
Yes, much in the same way that Go Faster Stripes work...
I never thought anything could beat Hungry Hippo, but I think we have a new winner here!