That's what writers do. Writers write. And then when they try to get jobs doing more writing, instead of just saying "I'm a good writer, honest! My mom thinks so!", they can say "Here are some samples of my work."
You don't have to pull the next Bioshock out of your pants but it wouldn't hurt to rustle up some sort of tool kit which does all the hard and boring work for you, anything from NWN or HL2 to World Forge to FRUA or some cheezy flash-based RPG maker you found on a Korean web site one night while on a squishee bender, and just write something. Even if you think it sucks, just do it. That's how you get better.
Writing for games definitely seems to be the one place a lot of developers are willing to half-ass completely. They don't seem to realize how ONE semi-competent writer could basically go through and make every line at least better than cringe-worthy.
Or, they do realize it, decide right up front that they need to bring in at least one semi-competent writer, and then get stuck in a situation like this:
[Cue the flashback music and effects]
"Whatever happened to that writer guy, anyway? He was here for a few days last month, sat in Paul's office for a few hours and then disappeared. We have a deadline coming up next week and all I have is a handful of notes he left on a napkin and an auto-reply from his email saying that he's out of the office until last Tuesday."
"Yeah, about that... He has been sitting in a hotel room down the street, which Paul was paying for, and writing. On his own, without letting anyone see it until he was done. Thing is, he's really a novelist and I don't think he quite understands what we needed. I showed him the tool set, some of the storyboards we had worked out early on, and all that, but what he sent me looks like a manuscript for a book. Paul still believes in him, but he took off for Brighton this morning and now I'm going to have to find someone who can turn this wreck into something we can use."
"I'm someone, aren't I?"
"Yup. It's either you or that guy in the art department who keeps trying to hide drawings of penises in all the stained glass windows."
"Okay. I'll go get my shovel..."
And the road to schlock is paved with good intentions.
Meh. I've tried a number of the various MythTV flavors and it all comes down to the stupidity that the "We're Linux, We Can Fix Anything" crowd insists that I blow upwards of $800 buying new hardware to get it to work.
Keep in mind: I've got an Athlon X2, 4 GB of RAM slotted, and the "incompatible" parts are (a) my video board and tv capture board (ATi All-In-Wonder 9600XT and HDTV Wonder respectively) and my remote control (Remote Wonder 2).
I think you're confusing the stupidity that the "We're ATI, Of Course We Have Drivers, Which Version of Windows XP Do You Have?" crowd with the "We're Linux, Please Just Release Some Damn Specs So We Can Support The Hardware Already" crowd. There's a difference, you know.
If I had a no-name brand capture card from some fly-by-night taiwanese company, this might make sense, but there is NO excuse for Linux not supporting hardware from one of the two big players in the industry.
Remember, that address again is Investor.Relations@amd.com.
One of the top links is this interview with the company president. The fact that he keeps talking about "megawatts of energy per hour" puts my cynicism into overdrive
Yeah. You'd think that the president of an engineering company would at least know what a watt is and how it differs from, say, a Joule.
Maybe my old friends Merriam and Webster can help you with this one.
corn (n)
1. A grain or seed.
2. The grain obtained from a plant, especially of cereal crops.
3. A cereal plant grown for its grain (locally denoting the leading crop of that district, i.e. oats in parts of Scotland and Ireland, wheat, barley etc. in England and Wales, maize in the Americas).
High churn rates mean new customers have low, volatile expected lifetime values. This has a negative impact on the equity value of each customer, making it difficult to justify the valuation multiples seen by membership-driven websites in other verticals.
...but an English translation might be more accessible.
But whoever thought the term applies to the services provided by web apps is just an idiot.
Some day, I'm going to have to introduce you to a new game called 'Bridge', something called 'set theory' or perhaps just to the concept of 'twins'. Then you might learn a few whole new meanings for that word and wonder why you were such an idiot about it before.
The buyer immediately went to the police, who initially treated it as a joke; when they realised he was serious, they swooped on his home and seized his camera and PC.
So basically he got punished for doing the right thing.
All that you know for sure is that a writer or editor working with PC Pro used this opportunity to spin the story that way. Had he used different words to describe the same thing, then how would it look?
The buyer immediately went to the police, who were uncertain how to handle the case. Later that day representatives of the police and MI6 dropped by his home to request the return of the camera. In compliance with laws pertaining to national security his computer needed to be impounded, but the police apologized for the inconvenience and gave him a thousand pounds to replace the lost equipment.
Just imagine this. Imagine that when you write something, it takes time to be approved by the various layers of management and government. That these things need to be signed off on at more levels than you can count, and if you try to print or broadcast anything without having the approval of every single minister and official who could conceivably have an interest in it then you risk losing your job, being sent up country for a little 're-education', or accidentally tripping while in the back seat of a police car and tragically shooting yourself in the back of the head when you hit the seat.
Now imagine trying to give a live news broadcast of an important event, one in which everyone in the country, or at least everyone in the government, is going to be watching and paying very close attention to every word you say. And if you slip up and suggest that the yuhangyuans' space suits were in danger of leaking, or hint that the launch was delayed due to a malfunction in the Shenzhou's life support systems which might have killed everybody, or even if you slip up and refer to the yuhangyuans as Rik, Neil and Vyvyan, then you're going to have about twelve and a half seconds in which to say good bye to your career, family and friends.
But, hey, no pressure.
Under those circumstances, wouldn't you want to take a little time to be prepared?
Hanlon's other razor applies here. Never attribute to a massive government conspiracy that which can be easily explained by a healthy dose of good, old-fashioned paranoia.
This isn't like being fired because you beat your boss at golf, this is like being fired because you lost your temper, took out an ad in the local newspaper saying your company kills puppies, and then took a shit on your boss' desk.
...and then when your boss told you not to do that, so you told everyone at the company that she had it in for you because she was secretly a lesbian. And then you started posting photographs of members of the boss' family in the break room, and included several pages of hard core gay porn in the company's annual report.
This is like doing all that and then still keeping your job, only to continue showing up to work with no pants on and pissing on the water cooler every single day for the next year, and _then_ finally being fired.
No sane person could possibly be surprised that this happened, only that it took this long.
Slashdot Mirror
That's what writers do. Writers write. And then when they try to get jobs doing more writing, instead of just saying "I'm a good writer, honest! My mom thinks so!", they can say "Here are some samples of my work."
You don't have to pull the next Bioshock out of your pants but it wouldn't hurt to rustle up some sort of tool kit which does all the hard and boring work for you, anything from NWN or HL2 to World Forge to FRUA or some cheezy flash-based RPG maker you found on a Korean web site one night while on a squishee bender, and just write something. Even if you think it sucks, just do it. That's how you get better.
Or, they do realize it, decide right up front that they need to bring in at least one semi-competent writer, and then get stuck in a situation like this:
[Cue the flashback music and effects]
"Whatever happened to that writer guy, anyway? He was here for a few days last month, sat in Paul's office for a few hours and then disappeared. We have a deadline coming up next week and all I have is a handful of notes he left on a napkin and an auto-reply from his email saying that he's out of the office until last Tuesday."
"Yeah, about that... He has been sitting in a hotel room down the street, which Paul was paying for, and writing. On his own, without letting anyone see it until he was done. Thing is, he's really a novelist and I don't think he quite understands what we needed. I showed him the tool set, some of the storyboards we had worked out early on, and all that, but what he sent me looks like a manuscript for a book. Paul still believes in him, but he took off for Brighton this morning and now I'm going to have to find someone who can turn this wreck into something we can use."
"I'm someone, aren't I?"
"Yup. It's either you or that guy in the art department who keeps trying to hide drawings of penises in all the stained glass windows."
"Okay. I'll go get my shovel..."
And the road to schlock is paved with good intentions.
Oh, please, it's not like cell phones have some kind of built-in radio transmitter which would make them easy to...
Oh, yeah. Never mind.
I think you're confusing the stupidity that the "We're ATI, Of Course We Have Drivers, Which Version of Windows XP Do You Have?" crowd with the "We're Linux, Please Just Release Some Damn Specs So We Can Support The Hardware Already" crowd. There's a difference, you know.
Remember, that address again is Investor.Relations@amd.com.
Bug number one with the Space Shuttle is that "Microsoft has a majority market share in space travel".
Yeah. You'd think that the president of an engineering company would at least know what a watt is and how it differs from, say, a Joule.
Maybe my old friends Merriam and Webster can help you with this one.
corn (n)
1. A grain or seed.
2. The grain obtained from a plant, especially of cereal crops.
3. A cereal plant grown for its grain (locally denoting the leading crop of that district, i.e. oats in parts of Scotland and Ireland, wheat, barley etc. in England and Wales, maize in the Americas).
So, um, grain is a corn.
It's called "Insightful". Just look around for some examples of its proper usage.
The First Rule of Acquisition isn't just some made up idea from Science Fiction, you know.
Because there are 900 pennies in a base ten dollar?
Is the MacBook expensive?
It costs $1299. That's a lot, so yes, it is expensive.
Any more questions?
Some day, I'm going to have to introduce you to a new game called 'Bridge', something called 'set theory' or perhaps just to the concept of 'twins'. Then you might learn a few whole new meanings for that word and wonder why you were such an idiot about it before.
And, based on this amazing success, you think that they would do any better with IPv6? Maybe the method of addressing isn't the real problem there.
"Six Languages You Wish The Yo-Yo Who Got Fired Before You Had Never Used"?
We could start with "Incomprehensible" and "I'm Just Learning This" and go on from there.
That's an interesting way to define it.
How about this? You have two kidneys. People wish to pay for them, but you are not selling at any price. Is that hoarding?
All of my scars are on the inside :-(
You're only supposed to reach inside of the computers with your hands, not swallow them whole.
All that you know for sure is that a writer or editor working with PC Pro used this opportunity to spin the story that way. Had he used different words to describe the same thing, then how would it look?
Wow. What a bunch of morons they were.
Which is what most people do instead of ever having heard of Slashdot. Welcome to The Rest Of The People.
Just imagine this. Imagine that when you write something, it takes time to be approved by the various layers of management and government. That these things need to be signed off on at more levels than you can count, and if you try to print or broadcast anything without having the approval of every single minister and official who could conceivably have an interest in it then you risk losing your job, being sent up country for a little 're-education', or accidentally tripping while in the back seat of a police car and tragically shooting yourself in the back of the head when you hit the seat.
Now imagine trying to give a live news broadcast of an important event, one in which everyone in the country, or at least everyone in the government, is going to be watching and paying very close attention to every word you say. And if you slip up and suggest that the yuhangyuans' space suits were in danger of leaking, or hint that the launch was delayed due to a malfunction in the Shenzhou's life support systems which might have killed everybody, or even if you slip up and refer to the yuhangyuans as Rik, Neil and Vyvyan, then you're going to have about twelve and a half seconds in which to say good bye to your career, family and friends.
But, hey, no pressure.
Under those circumstances, wouldn't you want to take a little time to be prepared?
Hanlon's other razor applies here. Never attribute to a massive government conspiracy that which can be easily explained by a healthy dose of good, old-fashioned paranoia.
...and then when your boss told you not to do that, so you told everyone at the company that she had it in for you because she was secretly a lesbian. And then you started posting photographs of members of the boss' family in the break room, and included several pages of hard core gay porn in the company's annual report.
Only to receive a stern talking to by the folks over at HR, and strong advice to seek the psychiatric help you so clearly need.
This is like doing all that and then still keeping your job, only to continue showing up to work with no pants on and pissing on the water cooler every single day for the next year, and _then_ finally being fired.
No sane person could possibly be surprised that this happened, only that it took this long.
All you need to do now is post signs reminding any potential evil-doers to "act suspicious" and the system will work perfectly.
C:\> del /f C:\Program Files\Adobe is probably the command you were thinking of.
If it wasn't then I heartily endorse it as an alternative.
Except in some states, or Canada, where you could be a woman.
Or even worse, what could happen if he were to lose his domain name?