Apart from feel. And I don't mean 3d, but feeling in command of a fleet.
*craft didn't put me in command of anything, neither did Age of Empires and the C&C series; they all gave me some puppets to play with.
Homeworld gave me a fleet; a mothership, destroyers, cruisers, frigates, fighters, all. And it was my fleet; I went where it travelled, and it was always the same fleet (except if you had to do an emergency hyperspace jump and leave most of your fighters/corvettes behind). It really had the atmosphere down (no pun), which many other games in the genre truly lack. Oddly enough, I found the atmosphere to be similar to Babylon Five (and thus to Descent: Freespace, in my twisted little world)
If you reduce anything it enough, there is nothing that sets it apart from its peers.
Hey, this Joe Beda sure worked on a lot of products: Google Groups Beda Image Search Beda Google Local Beda Google News Beda Google Catalogs Beda etc...
Maybe they should fucking hire a guy named "Released". (Beda, Beta; you say tomato, I saw tomato)
The thing with a battlefield is that you'd find the strangest people on it, including innocent bystanders caught up in a battle, and being forced to fight. If I were in a warzone and US soldiers were shooting at me, I'd shoot the fuck back. Would that make me an enemy combatant? Should I have just gotten shot like a good little civilian?
The US deported foreign nationals against their will, so they could not stand trial in the nation of their birth or the nations in which they committed these acts. Which may not even technically have been crimes. Keep in mind that the US were the foreigners, for a second.
This is like a fundamentalist Islam government coming to America, forcibly deporting you to whereever, and then saying "Well, he's committed stupid crime this and that, he's obviously guilty, so yeah, we kinda nabbed him. No, you can't see him right now, and it's not because of the acid burns, either."
Good developers can shift deadlines and milestone-dates with arguments to their project manager; you're "misunderestimating" the importance of project *management*.
If you're having to scramble to make a deadline, you can't plan worth a shit. Good developers should, obviously, have some skill in this area, and should help their project managers determine a sane schedule. The manager, however, should ensure that this schedule is kept.
You can't have a project be managed competently by someone who has to do the actual work, too. Take a look at construction workers (who *do* seem to be able to complete work on time). The people building the stuff are directed by the higherups, who ensure that everything is built when it has to be.
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Deadlines focus the development effort. Without the need to ever finish anything, you'll never finish anything because there's *always* something you can add or improve.
Milestones keep the development on track, and deadlines are used in projectplanning to determine an end state for the development project.
Besides all this, lots'o'time doesn't give you quality, necessarily. Look at knowledgable modern artists; all the time in the world, and all they produce is a pile of crap.
This key is bound to an existing (probably now suspended, due to quitting) account, with billing information and personal details attached. Of course you can't use that key again.
However, you now have a perfectly legal copy of the game (even according to their EULA, which must be a first for a MMO game), without a functioning key. The solution is obvious: Have them send you a replacement key.
They lose nothing, you don't have someone else's baggage, and it should be standard procedure for when a retail key is compromised by store clerks or a 'friend'.
That's how it is for Dutch mobile phones. We get a two-digit prefix (as opposed to a 3-digit area code for landlines) of "06", which was previously used for 'information numbers' and sexlines. An 06-number tells you nothing about where it's being used from, except that it's a mobile phone. Those special services all migrated to 0800 (free) and 0900 (expensive).
Like most sane countries, cost to call to a mobile phone is higher per minute than to a landline, but not egregiously so, and all costs are charged to the caller, not the callee.
Naturally, area codes are larger in the US, but the principle applies. "We don't really do long distance", here.
Mobile phone numbers are portable, but landline numbers (if moving out of the area) aren't, to the best of my knowledge. Otherwise, what'd be the point of area codes?
For example, if I buy a processor from Intel in the Intel branded box, I get a warranty. If I buy the *same* processor in an "OEM" box at a discounted rate, no warranty.
See, this wouldn't fly in the European Union. EU laws state that everything you buy has a two year warranty (at least for hardware). If you buy a processor, and it breaks after a year, you can send it back to the supplier for warranty even if it's an OEM.
That's why harddrives in the EU are a little more expensive than in the US; as manufacturers move to producing crap, and lowering their warranties to 1yr, they *have* to offer 2yr warranties over here. As such, they jack prices up a bit.
No, this is like having someone yell "I want brand X of producttype foobar", who is then approached by someone who says "Have a look at brand Y of producttype foobar", while at the same time that person finds what he was looking for.
Well, searching for 'linux' only gives me Dutch pages. While I am Dutch, and on a Dutch network, if I do not check the 'search for pages in Dutch' box, shouldn't I get English pages?
This alone is reason enough not to use it in most cases.
But the look is clean enough, and it looks like no sponsored links on the "linux" keyword.
It's called the 'catwalk'. The runway is where aircraft take off.
And Fashion TV just has a lots of sticks with clothes strutting up and down repetitively. Once you come to that realization, all interest fades. Zapping around from Fashion TV, which a colleague switches the TV to all the goddamn time, to random channels at work one sunday morning gave me: - Report on exotic dancers (including demonstrations, nipples blurred for public TV) - Yoga by two young ladies with huge breasts, bending and twisting and grinding, oh my.
What is the legal age of consent (if it exists) in China? Using the term rape might not be correct in this case. Marriagable age used to be under 10 just a short while back, in parts of the US. (no more than 150-200 years, perhaps as little as 100 years ago).
Anyway, there's a difference between being a harsh ruler and being harsh to your people, and claiming to be a benevolent ruler and still being harsh to your people.
Pragmatically equivalent, but morally very different.
However, if you are just another interchangeable cog, ie. artists and low to mid level producers, you will of course be worked to death and discarded when no longer needed. Shit like that happens when you have skills with very low marketplace value.
Now see, that is where EA sucks. Artists (including writers, concept artists, graphics artists) are what makes games great. Engineers build machines, where artists build worlds.<P>
With EA mechanically producing game after game, one more ho-hum than the next, your statement makes a lot of sense.
It's uneducated work that 16-year-olds can typically do. Charge money to drive out there, and then $30-50 an hour (depending on whether you plan to pay taxes, naturally:), ought to be enough for anybody.
This is why these people declare time *to* those projects, which is how you can have someone working two projects without billing conflicts, and how you can track what they are doing with their time.
If you work at a place that doesn't do this (but does bill to a project), you're looking at a company that will soon outprice itself in the marketplace.
There are far more important things in life then money, and the sooner one figures that out, the closer one will come to having a fulfulling life.
Yeah, like food, a home, a social life, all things that cost money.
Your attitude, while not wrong, is only ever uttered by people who *have* money. Those who live nearer the poverty line will take crappy, wellpaying jobs over excellent, poor-paying jobs because they *need* the money. Therefore, well-paying jobs are more valued than enjoyable jobs. The ability to pick a job/employer you like is very much a luxury, not a given.
Not everyone is in your situation. This realization, of course, is also part of the maturity equation.
This is already a problem in some area's. The Hague, frex, has a pirate station at 97.2, and BBC3 is at 97.1MHz. Not that many people in The Hague listen to BBC3 radio, but still...
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Apart from feel. And I don't mean 3d, but feeling in command of a fleet.
*craft didn't put me in command of anything, neither did Age of Empires and the C&C series; they all gave me some puppets to play with.
Homeworld gave me a fleet; a mothership, destroyers, cruisers, frigates, fighters, all. And it was my fleet; I went where it travelled, and it was always the same fleet (except if you had to do an emergency hyperspace jump and leave most of your fighters/corvettes behind). It really had the atmosphere down (no pun), which many other games in the genre truly lack. Oddly enough, I found the atmosphere to be similar to Babylon Five (and thus to Descent: Freespace, in my twisted little world)
If you reduce anything it enough, there is nothing that sets it apart from its peers.
When they can't prove it, and give you warranty.
Wow, I sound disgruntled with the company. Not so, just found it funny given Google's 'beta' policies.
Hey, this Joe Beda sure worked on a lot of products:
Google Groups Beda
Image Search Beda
Google Local Beda
Google News Beda
Google Catalogs Beda
etc...
Maybe they should fucking hire a guy named "Released".
(Beda, Beta; you say tomato, I saw tomato)
In some nations, owning the original is not necessary to being allowed a backup. Destruction of said original being a reason to MAKE backups.
The thing with a battlefield is that you'd find the strangest people on it, including innocent bystanders caught up in a battle, and being forced to fight. If I were in a warzone and US soldiers were shooting at me, I'd shoot the fuck back. Would that make me an enemy combatant? Should I have just gotten shot like a good little civilian?
The US deported foreign nationals against their will, so they could not stand trial in the nation of their birth or the nations in which they committed these acts. Which may not even technically have been crimes. Keep in mind that the US were the foreigners, for a second.
This is like a fundamentalist Islam government coming to America, forcibly deporting you to whereever, and then saying "Well, he's committed stupid crime this and that, he's obviously guilty, so yeah, we kinda nabbed him. No, you can't see him right now, and it's not because of the acid burns, either."
Good developers can shift deadlines and milestone-dates with arguments to their project manager; you're "misunderestimating" the importance of project *management*.
If you're having to scramble to make a deadline, you can't plan worth a shit. Good developers should, obviously, have some skill in this area, and should help their project managers determine a sane schedule. The manager, however, should ensure that this schedule is kept.
You can't have a project be managed competently by someone who has to do the actual work, too. Take a look at construction workers (who *do* seem to be able to complete work on time). The people building the stuff are directed by the higherups, who ensure that everything is built when it has to be.
Milestones keep the development on track, and deadlines are used in projectplanning to determine an end state for the development project.
Besides all this, lots'o'time doesn't give you quality, necessarily. Look at knowledgable modern artists; all the time in the world, and all they produce is a pile of crap.
Wait, there's news?
I thought step four was "Fire Rick Berman out of a cannon" ?
This key is bound to an existing (probably now suspended, due to quitting) account, with billing information and personal details attached. Of course you can't use that key again.
However, you now have a perfectly legal copy of the game (even according to their EULA, which must be a first for a MMO game), without a functioning key. The solution is obvious: Have them send you a replacement key.
They lose nothing, you don't have someone else's baggage, and it should be standard procedure for when a retail key is compromised by store clerks or a 'friend'.
That's how it is for Dutch mobile phones. We get a two-digit prefix (as opposed to a 3-digit area code for landlines) of "06", which was previously used for 'information numbers' and sexlines. An 06-number tells you nothing about where it's being used from, except that it's a mobile phone. Those special services all migrated to 0800 (free) and 0900 (expensive).
Like most sane countries, cost to call to a mobile phone is higher per minute than to a landline, but not egregiously so, and all costs are charged to the caller, not the callee.
Naturally, area codes are larger in the US, but the principle applies. "We don't really do long distance", here.
Mobile phone numbers are portable, but landline numbers (if moving out of the area) aren't, to the best of my knowledge. Otherwise, what'd be the point of area codes?
See, this wouldn't fly in the European Union. EU laws state that everything you buy has a two year warranty (at least for hardware). If you buy a processor, and it breaks after a year, you can send it back to the supplier for warranty even if it's an OEM.
That's why harddrives in the EU are a little more expensive than in the US; as manufacturers move to producing crap, and lowering their warranties to 1yr, they *have* to offer 2yr warranties over here. As such, they jack prices up a bit.
No, this is like having someone yell "I want brand X of producttype foobar", who is then approached by someone who says "Have a look at brand Y of producttype foobar", while at the same time that person finds what he was looking for.
And then Brand X starts crying foul.
Sure we do. I see an end to spam.
1) They light up the sky.
2) Track the source of the advertisement to a geographical region
3) Shoot the fuckers (for fun! no profit!)
It is a problem that will solve itself.
Well, searching for 'linux' only gives me Dutch pages. While I am Dutch, and on a Dutch network, if I do not check the 'search for pages in Dutch' box, shouldn't I get English pages?
This alone is reason enough not to use it in most cases.
But the look is clean enough, and it looks like no sponsored links on the "linux" keyword.
It's called the 'catwalk'. The runway is where aircraft take off.
And Fashion TV just has a lots of sticks with clothes strutting up and down repetitively. Once you come to that realization, all interest fades. Zapping around from Fashion TV, which a colleague switches the TV to all the goddamn time, to random channels at work one sunday morning gave me:
- Report on exotic dancers (including demonstrations, nipples blurred for public TV)
- Yoga by two young ladies with huge breasts, bending and twisting and grinding, oh my.
Both infinitely more interesting to watch.
What is the legal age of consent (if it exists) in China? Using the term rape might not be correct in this case. Marriagable age used to be under 10 just a short while back, in parts of the US. (no more than 150-200 years, perhaps as little as 100 years ago).
Anyway, there's a difference between being a harsh ruler and being harsh to your people, and claiming to be a benevolent ruler and still being harsh to your people.
Pragmatically equivalent, but morally very different.
Now see, that is where EA sucks. Artists (including writers, concept artists, graphics artists) are what makes games great. Engineers build machines, where artists build worlds.<P>
With EA mechanically producing game after game, one more ho-hum than the next, your statement makes a lot of sense.
A $100/hr to fix a computer *is* a scam.
:), ought to be enough for anybody.
It's uneducated work that 16-year-olds can typically do. Charge money to drive out there, and then $30-50 an hour (depending on whether you plan to pay taxes, naturally
This is why these people declare time *to* those projects, which is how you can have someone working two projects without billing conflicts, and how you can track what they are doing with their time.
If you work at a place that doesn't do this (but does bill to a project), you're looking at a company that will soon outprice itself in the marketplace.
$8 million is enough to retire on, if you play your cards right, so who cares?
Your attitude, while not wrong, is only ever uttered by people who *have* money. Those who live nearer the poverty line will take crappy, wellpaying jobs over excellent, poor-paying jobs because they *need* the money. Therefore, well-paying jobs are more valued than enjoyable jobs. The ability to pick a job/employer you like is very much a luxury, not a given.
Not everyone is in your situation. This realization, of course, is also part of the maturity equation.
This is already a problem in some area's. The Hague, frex, has a pirate station at 97.2, and BBC3 is at 97.1MHz. Not that many people in The Hague listen to BBC3 radio, but still...