People used to be huge on degrees in the 70, 80, early 90s. None of that matters in today's tech industry where certifcation is all you need for a contract position. And there are FAR MORE contracting positions than fulltime available.
It's called sequels. FFX and FFXI could have all been the same game. Square-enix of course is known for milking sequels. I agree, overall the industry makes shorter and shorter RPGs.
But the games aren't more efficient or tighter. Look at FFX. It wasn't all 100% RPGs, they make you spent countless hours in those maze. And they were impossible without gamefaqs.com.
That kind of failure percentage is bigtime exaggeration. It's more like 5 out of 10 go bankrupt. Even then, it varies field to field. Not every startup is computer related.
I don't think the goal here is to prevent piracy. More like, they are trying to make money.
Except they really need to emulate PS1 games at the least to have a chance. They don't make oldie games anymore. So a year after your joined the service, and played every game... that's it. No one is making anymore new games.
The closest thing that came to real 3D was the 3D-glasses on the Sega master system. Nintendo tried to follow with the blue-red-10cent-paper glasses later, but that was a joke.
PLEASE! Redhat boot time is light years ahead of everyone else. Ever seen heavy duty hardware running Solaris, Aix, Hpux? It's almost common to see them take 1 hour to boot.
Someone should WHIP IT OUT, and paint it "49,000,000 users".
The FCC, congress, and every religious sector will be pissed. Firefox will get publicity on every news station. It'll top Michael Jackson and IE for sure after that.
AOL is so 90s. The only reason why their instant messeenger was a success, is because it's free. I am surprised they haven't made the chat service free.
When I think Hitachi, it brings up the Deskstar IDE line. Which was always the superior IDE choice, up until it launched the seriously flawed 75GB capacity drive.
When I think Seagate, it brings up top of the line SCSI.
At least things can transfer alot faster within US, if we actually lit the dark fibre underground. We planted so many during the.com eras, yet so many are still unlit due to unwillingness to the hire more techies for maintainance.
Well going outside the US is a different story. I really don't know how we connect to Europe etc.
Here, take this FREE visual studio 2005 Extreme Edition with FREE donuts... write all the programs you want. You just need to pay $300 for windows 2003 to compile it.
Never burn out. If you imagination is limited to robots and castles, LEGO would plain suck.
I used to build semi-automatic machine guns that can reload clips. Or shotguns with the lock and load feature. Sniper scopes too. Of course, I could never make them shoot.
You might want to define "well paying". I have talked to alot of CS majors who just came out of undergrad programs from top schools, their salary is an insult.
I also know alot of excellent grad students, also out of top schools, who have to settle for intern like positions. They are so overqualified, companies seriously don't know how to fit them in. Companies want young guys coming in fixing bugs, not architecting major projects.
My ultimate advice in the new millenium is get a "real estate" related degree. Work for a construction company. Forget grad schools unless you are highly devoted to a research position. There is enough software in the world now to run for the next 10 years.
If you want a true democracy, it has to begin with people's rights to say whatever they want. While US has the "freedom of speech", let's face it... the poor, minority and steretyped always struggle with this freedom.
Where Blogs come in HUGE is... you don't really know if the person doing the speaking is rich or poor. The status can be a complete mystery. That's true democracy.
While people mark that as Funny. Most people/companies/mission-critical-places still choose Oracle over MS SQL and MySQL. I really would like to see MySQL 5.0 compete and actually topple oracle in the market place.
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People used to be huge on degrees in the 70, 80, early 90s. None of that matters in today's tech industry where certifcation is all you need for a contract position. And there are FAR MORE contracting positions than fulltime available.
It's called sequels. FFX and FFXI could have all been the same game. Square-enix of course is known for milking sequels. I agree, overall the industry makes shorter and shorter RPGs.
But the games aren't more efficient or tighter. Look at FFX. It wasn't all 100% RPGs, they make you spent countless hours in those maze. And they were impossible without gamefaqs.com.
That kind of failure percentage is bigtime exaggeration. It's more like 5 out of 10 go bankrupt. Even then, it varies field to field. Not every startup is computer related.
Trade the devil you know with the devil you don't know. Wonderful!
Statistics are easily skewed.
To bring it down, all you have to do is incorporate a couple Interns at $5 an hour.
To bring it up, don't count Interns. Count salaried employees with overtime. Add your most expensive contractors.
There are two statistics that are constantly skewed high for CA. Real Estate and Silicon Valley salaries.
I don't think the goal here is to prevent piracy. More like, they are trying to make money.
Except they really need to emulate PS1 games at the least to have a chance. They don't make oldie games anymore. So a year after your joined the service, and played every game... that's it. No one is making anymore new games.
Redalert was superb. Then TA came out, the audience was chopped to half. When Westwood was bought out by EA, that was the end of the series.
The closest thing that came to real 3D was the 3D-glasses on the Sega master system. Nintendo tried to follow with the blue-red-10cent-paper glasses later, but that was a joke.
This looks fishy. I would expect a "hulk001" or "CadillacMan512", something with a number.
PLEASE! Redhat boot time is light years ahead of everyone else. Ever seen heavy duty hardware running Solaris, Aix, Hpux? It's almost common to see them take 1 hour to boot.
With Replay Music 2.0 + Rhapsody service, you keep everything.
Everytime Jobs regain power in the industry, he becomes an asshole again.
Someone should WHIP IT OUT, and paint it "49,000,000 users".
The FCC, congress, and every religious sector will be pissed. Firefox will get publicity on every news station. It'll top Michael Jackson and IE for sure after that.
AOL is so 90s. The only reason why their instant messeenger was a success, is because it's free. I am surprised they haven't made the chat service free.
When I think Hitachi, it brings up the Deskstar IDE line. Which was always the superior IDE choice, up until it launched the seriously flawed 75GB capacity drive.
When I think Seagate, it brings up top of the line SCSI.
Ummm yeah. I am still waiting for Virtual Valerie to hit PSP.
At least things can transfer alot faster within US, if we actually lit the dark fibre underground. We planted so many during the .com eras, yet so many are still unlit due to unwillingness to the hire more techies for maintainance.
Well going outside the US is a different story. I really don't know how we connect to Europe etc.
Imagine everytime a Dell Dimension comes out with a new version with higher capacity becomes slashdot news. This is NOT news.
Well about the iSCSI part, I think it almost doesn't matter. Fibre-channel is clearly the dominate protocol in the storage industry right now.
Here, take this FREE visual studio 2005 Extreme Edition with FREE donuts... write all the programs you want. You just need to pay $300 for windows 2003 to compile it.
Never burn out. If you imagination is limited to robots and castles, LEGO would plain suck.
I used to build semi-automatic machine guns that can reload clips. Or shotguns with the lock and load feature. Sniper scopes too. Of course, I could never make them shoot.
You might want to define "well paying". I have talked to alot of CS majors who just came out of undergrad programs from top schools, their salary is an insult.
I also know alot of excellent grad students, also out of top schools, who have to settle for intern like positions. They are so overqualified, companies seriously don't know how to fit them in. Companies want young guys coming in fixing bugs, not architecting major projects.
My ultimate advice in the new millenium is get a "real estate" related degree. Work for a construction company. Forget grad schools unless you are highly devoted to a research position. There is enough software in the world now to run for the next 10 years.
But you'll be moving to a server/thin-client model. We live in a world where everyone wants their own box.
If you want a true democracy, it has to begin with people's rights to say whatever they want. While US has the "freedom of speech", let's face it... the poor, minority and steretyped always struggle with this freedom.
Where Blogs come in HUGE is... you don't really know if the person doing the speaking is rich or poor. The status can be a complete mystery. That's true democracy.
While people mark that as Funny. Most people/companies/mission-critical-places still choose Oracle over MS SQL and MySQL. I really would like to see MySQL 5.0 compete and actually topple oracle in the market place.