This table is completely disheartening if you're a programmer. Monster has over 250 cities/areas you can search (on their US site, that is), making an average of 10 or so jobs for the top 3 languages PER AREA. Yuck. Obviously this won't be the case, but that means some areas will have NO jobs listed for a particular area. With a total of 9741 job listings, that makes a total paper average of ~40 jobs per area. I really hope things start looking better than this.
Another thing to consider, of the total 20K jobs across all 3 services, how many of those are dupes? Maybe half? More?
If you want to applaud the efforts of a game development crew, then pick a team like id or Epic. These guys set internal release dates but tell the world that their games will be out "when they're done". They always seem to deliver a game in a timely manner, they always make good on the hype, and they both leave legacies for their products by crafting engines that other games are built upon. How those guys stay focused year after year and still manage to be on top is definitely book material. I would love to see a project management book by John Carmack and Tim Sweeney hit the shelves some day. These guys know how to get it done.
3D Realms, IMO, is living on their legacy created by Duke 3D. Granted they've spent some time helping other games get out the door (Max Payne, Duke titles for consoles, etc.), but I think someone above summed it up best : their outfit comes across more like a rich man's hobby. Were it not for the reputation of 3D Realms, I think you'd see Duke Forever getting the same treatment as Daikatana, Ion Storm and John Romero got a while back. If you think about it, there isn't much difference between the two except that Romero had a track record with a different company. Let's all hope that Duke 4 doesn't come out as flawed as Daikatana.
So now that I've said my piece, yeah, I think it's cool that 3DR can laugh about the progress made on their latest game. But I would prefer that they quit laughing and joking and actually ship something that even halfway meets the hype they've built. At least the hype has died down in the last year or two, giving them a much lower hype-target to hit!
try to use a game finding tool other than Gamespy -- the alternatives don't support as many games, thanks to "exclusive content"
Try The All-Seeing Eye. It's a great way to see all of the servers out there, assuming that the game you want to play has a master server that enumerates all of the hosts. Windows-only, as far as I know.
The worst you can do is sue me, and I've got no money! What are they going to do? Jail me for writing something and putting it on a website?
Having money is not a requirement for you to be the defendant in a lawsuit. The court can have your paycheck garnered for the rest of your life until you pay back what you owe. Should you refuse to work and/or pay out what you owe as the result of a settlement, then jail is an option. There you can slave away in the cafeteria for X number of years to payback the debt.
Face it, some way or another you're gonna take it in the ass. Personally, I would rather take it in the ass in the proverbial sense rather than the physical sense.
You want to "Appreciate" me, give me a half-day off or something.
Here's a better idea : send something to the wife and 9-month-old daughter that I've neglected while working 15 hour days slaving to ship a product that that's been plagued with management problems. Me, I'm just glad being gainfully employed, but my family deserves a little something for the patience they've had with me being at work a ton.
I worked at a company once that bought the wives flowers and dinner at a local restaurant right before crunch time. It went a long way in pacifying the spouses, which means employees are happier and more likely to tolerate working long hours. Wish more companies would get a clue like that, and not just at Christmas time.
But the catch there is this : fake your connection and you'll only get a part of the content you could have if you were honest about your connection. In other words, sites could meter not only the ad type, but the content type of their site as well. Faking your connection as a 28.8 modem when you're sitting on a T1 would result in you not seeing full media like you would expect. For some people that may be fine, but for others they want to utilize all of their bandwidth, even if that means viewing fuller ads.
Of course, this would all have to be done on a site-by-site basis, but it would be a way for sites to cover high bandwidth costs. Larger, interactive advertisments would cost more, helping to pay for the more media-rich content that would be served to those being honest about their connection. Text ads would cost less, coinciding with the cost of serving text-only or close-to-text-only content.
Obviously this suggestion isn't the be-all/end-all, but perhaps it could be a start.
As much as people hate giving out information, maybe one answer would be to have your browser send the connection type you are on. If you configure the properties correctly, then you'll only get content and advertisments that are fitting of your bandwidth.
I know there have been plenty of times I've been on a modem and wished that somehow the other side knew that information automatically and didn't push huge Flash movies my way.
Cable companies, on the other hand, have to deal with advertizers who are seeing their dollars, potentially, go to waste on PVR users.
This may be discussed below, but I haven't seen it...
Here is what I don't understand. Let's say I tape all of my Monday night shows for 2 hours using my PVR. As far as my satellite company is concerned, I *watched* those shows and all of the accompanying ads. Chalk up another viewer with the other 10 million that watched the same thing. So where's the problem here? Just because my PVR recorded the show for me doesn't change the fact that the show was "watched". Unless the cable and satellite companies are reporting true viewers versus virtual viewers, in which case they're the dolts that are counting the viewship in a bizarre manner. Once the show has been aired, what do they care if I watch the commercials or not?
Another thing I notice is that the cable companies are the ones complaining. I don't see the major networks crying foul : NBC, CBS, ABC, Fox (here in the States, at least). Or are they raising a stink as well and I'm just not reading the right articles?
However you look at it, though, it just boils down to control. These execs are pissed that the public actually has a modicum of control over how and when they view their television, and the lack of their precise control is what they're truly pissed about.
I use Dish. Right now it's pouring down rain and my wife is watching some kind of soap opera. In fact, it's been raining all weekend and I had no problem taping all of my English Premier League games over Saturday and Sunday.
When I signed up, I got a PVR. After a few months, it started whining like the HDD was bad. So they sent out a tech to install a new one, no questions asked. I've got a dish with dual LNBs, 2 receivers and the option for more with just a phone call. I have one set of wires (2 bundled together) that the technician neatly ran down from the roof, under the eave and into my attic where all other wires from around the house come together. You can only see the wires if you go and stand RIGHT UNDER the dish and look up.
The browsable guide is WAY faster than the AT&T Digital Cable we get around here. It's much better on the PVR box than the basic receiver we have in the bedroom, but that's for obvious reasons. Granted I didn't have a huge selection of PVRs, but the one I have does the job, so why do I need to see 15 models on the website just to sate my geek desire for gawking at toys?
Now if you have a problem with trees blocking your dish, then you live in an underground house in the Redwood forests of California. My single-story house has a roof that peaks out at AT LEAST 30 feet, then there's the chimney if that's not high enough. I would be willing to doubt that most people live in a location where they can't get a dish around the trees. Then again, I live in Texas, so trees aren't exactly in abundance.
All in all, it sounds to me like you either had a bad experience or just like to complain. I'd be inclined to go with the former, though.:-)
Who knows, but all of my telecommuncations bills seem to have a "Universal Service Fee" each month. Maybe it's time we all stood up and got our money's worth!
They're not asking for more, they're just asking to keep what they signed up for when they had their cable modem service installed.
Unfortunately they got a nice little EULA that says the company can change the TOS at any time, for any reason, in any manner they see fit. The company also gets to steal your Christmas tree and the presents underneath if you try to complain about it. After all, you did read all of that verbose 500 page agreement while the technician was standing there complaining about running late to his next appointment, right? And you truly read and understood all of the carbon-copy forms said impatient technician handed you, despite his explanation that the forms just said that you agree to not abuse the service, right?
The problem is that our definition of unlimited and their definition of unlimited tend to be two separate entries in the dictionary. They say that the unlimited internet means you can go wherever you damn well please and not be restricted, trying to pull the crowd that uses internet services like Prodigy and AOL.
We on the other hand think that unlimited means no download limits and no bandwidth caps. Unfortunately that won't ever happen. "Unlimited Internet" is not the same as "unlimited bandwidth" or "unlimited downloads", so a company saying "unlimited Internet" is correct from their FUD-ish marketing point-of-view.
To me, if you want unbridled access, you need to be purchasing an unbridled pipe, such as a T-carrier line. It really aggravates me when people complain that they can't download 50 gigs of data in 10 seconds on a USD$39.99 Internet connection. It's like the people in my office that complain about rush hour traffic every morning yet refuse to take the toll roads that are often less congested. Pony up some cash if you want the luxury of faster access!
We shouldn't expect some kind of uber-bandwidth for a few bucks a month. Probably not a popular opinion with the crowd here, but it's my take on this whole broadband-in-the-home thing. Now if the company tries to pawn off unlimited downloading on the cheap, well that company deserves to be held to their advertisment.
I think what you're referring to is Apple Masters, which I believe is a discontinued program. Any of the links (such as http://applemasters.apple.com/) now point to the homepage. The last Apple WWDC that I attended in 2000 had Herbie as a guest, along with Gregory Hines and Bryan Adams. Maybe now that the Masters program appears defunct, Mr. Hancock is no longer bound by any sort of obligation (real or implied) with Apple.
At one time, some (most?) of the providers here in the States gave you the first minute free. I had Sprint service a few years ago and the first incoming minute was free; same with AT&T when we switched. Now you are billed whenever you pick up the phone. You are also billed when calling your own voice mail and you're billed when you hit the "Send" button, whether the other end actually answers or not.
All in all, it's just another way to eat at your wallet. I cancelled my AT&T phone because of the outrageous charges, constricting rules and stupid taxes. Yeah, I miss it, but I don't feel like I need to ice down my ass every month after being raped by the cell phone company.
Sure you can get external drives cheaper, but they are usually enclosed in a 5.25" external case, making transportation of the unit cumbersome. This device, by all appearances, will slip into a side pocket of a laptop bag. Add that it doubles as a portable CD player (which can't be said of a dedicated drive), a DVD player (which may be said of a traditional external drive, but if you built your own), an MP3 player AND it has Memory Stick capabilites, which can't be said of any external CD burner that I know of. Acquiring all of the requisite hardware for the same price is not an issue, but getting all of the functionality in the same lightweight, small-footprint device is an issue for those the live on airplanes/airports and their ilk.
One additional bonus that this device presents laptop users : most modern laptops have some sort of swapable drive bay that houses the optical drive but will also house a second battery. With this (IMO, relatively inexpensive) drive, you can add a second battery but still retain portability and optical drive connectivity.
What's even better is the "Sponsored Link" on the right advertising "Windows Replacement". OK, so I left of the "House-" part of that...oops. I'll just saction myself from ever posting about Microsoft again.
A quick search for the GBA/GBC ROM modules (like the Flash Linker) turned up nothing. The MultiBoot stuff is still there, but that's it. Unless these items were removed long ago, in which case I'll stand corrected.
Select "Adults Only" and then search. You should get 15 titles, none of which sound familiar. Maybe Hastings (as mentioned above) has them on the top shelf with the Penthouse entertainment.
Well, true, but eating a ton of apples and a ton of grains (breads, rice, etc.) will back you up. One would think that the 2 would balance out, but not when you keep stopping your body from naturally releasing waste.
Just try it and hold back the urge to poop for 2 weeks. Don't say I didn't warn you, though.:^)
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This table is completely disheartening if you're a programmer. Monster has over 250 cities/areas you can search (on their US site, that is), making an average of 10 or so jobs for the top 3 languages PER AREA. Yuck. Obviously this won't be the case, but that means some areas will have NO jobs listed for a particular area. With a total of 9741 job listings, that makes a total paper average of ~40 jobs per area. I really hope things start looking better than this.
Another thing to consider, of the total 20K jobs across all 3 services, how many of those are dupes? Maybe half? More?
South Korea is at the cutting edge of technology that is transforming the political system, making it more open and democratic
Maybe GWB should bribe the North Koreans with cell phones if they'll quit doing nuclear weapon shiznit. I'll start by donating my Nokia piece of crap!
If you want to applaud the efforts of a game development crew, then pick a team like id or Epic. These guys set internal release dates but tell the world that their games will be out "when they're done". They always seem to deliver a game in a timely manner, they always make good on the hype, and they both leave legacies for their products by crafting engines that other games are built upon. How those guys stay focused year after year and still manage to be on top is definitely book material. I would love to see a project management book by John Carmack and Tim Sweeney hit the shelves some day. These guys know how to get it done.
3D Realms, IMO, is living on their legacy created by Duke 3D. Granted they've spent some time helping other games get out the door (Max Payne, Duke titles for consoles, etc.), but I think someone above summed it up best : their outfit comes across more like a rich man's hobby. Were it not for the reputation of 3D Realms, I think you'd see Duke Forever getting the same treatment as Daikatana, Ion Storm and John Romero got a while back. If you think about it, there isn't much difference between the two except that Romero had a track record with a different company. Let's all hope that Duke 4 doesn't come out as flawed as Daikatana.
So now that I've said my piece, yeah, I think it's cool that 3DR can laugh about the progress made on their latest game. But I would prefer that they quit laughing and joking and actually ship something that even halfway meets the hype they've built. At least the hype has died down in the last year or two, giving them a much lower hype-target to hit!
try to use a game finding tool other than Gamespy -- the alternatives don't support as many games, thanks to "exclusive content"
Try The All-Seeing Eye. It's a great way to see all of the servers out there, assuming that the game you want to play has a master server that enumerates all of the hosts. Windows-only, as far as I know.
and that people really are dumb enough to pay upfront for the device, and pay ongoing amounts for the functionality
You must not have heard of this little game called Everquest.
The worst you can do is sue me, and I've got no money! What are they going to do? Jail me for writing something and putting it on a website?
Having money is not a requirement for you to be the defendant in a lawsuit. The court can have your paycheck garnered for the rest of your life until you pay back what you owe. Should you refuse to work and/or pay out what you owe as the result of a settlement, then jail is an option. There you can slave away in the cafeteria for X number of years to payback the debt.
Face it, some way or another you're gonna take it in the ass. Personally, I would rather take it in the ass in the proverbial sense rather than the physical sense.
You want to "Appreciate" me, give me a half-day off or something.
Here's a better idea : send something to the wife and 9-month-old daughter that I've neglected while working 15 hour days slaving to ship a product that that's been plagued with management problems. Me, I'm just glad being gainfully employed, but my family deserves a little something for the patience they've had with me being at work a ton.
I worked at a company once that bought the wives flowers and dinner at a local restaurant right before crunch time. It went a long way in pacifying the spouses, which means employees are happier and more likely to tolerate working long hours. Wish more companies would get a clue like that, and not just at Christmas time.
But the catch there is this : fake your connection and you'll only get a part of the content you could have if you were honest about your connection. In other words, sites could meter not only the ad type, but the content type of their site as well. Faking your connection as a 28.8 modem when you're sitting on a T1 would result in you not seeing full media like you would expect. For some people that may be fine, but for others they want to utilize all of their bandwidth, even if that means viewing fuller ads.
Of course, this would all have to be done on a site-by-site basis, but it would be a way for sites to cover high bandwidth costs. Larger, interactive advertisments would cost more, helping to pay for the more media-rich content that would be served to those being honest about their connection. Text ads would cost less, coinciding with the cost of serving text-only or close-to-text-only content.
Obviously this suggestion isn't the be-all/end-all, but perhaps it could be a start.
As much as people hate giving out information, maybe one answer would be to have your browser send the connection type you are on. If you configure the properties correctly, then you'll only get content and advertisments that are fitting of your bandwidth.
I know there have been plenty of times I've been on a modem and wished that somehow the other side knew that information automatically and didn't push huge Flash movies my way.
Cable companies, on the other hand, have to deal with advertizers who are seeing their dollars, potentially, go to waste on PVR users.
This may be discussed below, but I haven't seen it...
Here is what I don't understand. Let's say I tape all of my Monday night shows for 2 hours using my PVR. As far as my satellite company is concerned, I *watched* those shows and all of the accompanying ads. Chalk up another viewer with the other 10 million that watched the same thing. So where's the problem here? Just because my PVR recorded the show for me doesn't change the fact that the show was "watched". Unless the cable and satellite companies are reporting true viewers versus virtual viewers, in which case they're the dolts that are counting the viewship in a bizarre manner. Once the show has been aired, what do they care if I watch the commercials or not?
Another thing I notice is that the cable companies are the ones complaining. I don't see the major networks crying foul : NBC, CBS, ABC, Fox (here in the States, at least). Or are they raising a stink as well and I'm just not reading the right articles?
However you look at it, though, it just boils down to control. These execs are pissed that the public actually has a modicum of control over how and when they view their television, and the lack of their precise control is what they're truly pissed about.
I use Dish. Right now it's pouring down rain and my wife is watching some kind of soap opera. In fact, it's been raining all weekend and I had no problem taping all of my English Premier League games over Saturday and Sunday.
:-)
When I signed up, I got a PVR. After a few months, it started whining like the HDD was bad. So they sent out a tech to install a new one, no questions asked. I've got a dish with dual LNBs, 2 receivers and the option for more with just a phone call. I have one set of wires (2 bundled together) that the technician neatly ran down from the roof, under the eave and into my attic where all other wires from around the house come together. You can only see the wires if you go and stand RIGHT UNDER the dish and look up.
The browsable guide is WAY faster than the AT&T Digital Cable we get around here. It's much better on the PVR box than the basic receiver we have in the bedroom, but that's for obvious reasons. Granted I didn't have a huge selection of PVRs, but the one I have does the job, so why do I need to see 15 models on the website just to sate my geek desire for gawking at toys?
Now if you have a problem with trees blocking your dish, then you live in an underground house in the Redwood forests of California. My single-story house has a roof that peaks out at AT LEAST 30 feet, then there's the chimney if that's not high enough. I would be willing to doubt that most people live in a location where they can't get a dish around the trees. Then again, I live in Texas, so trees aren't exactly in abundance.
All in all, it sounds to me like you either had a bad experience or just like to complain. I'd be inclined to go with the former, though.
Who knows, but all of my telecommuncations bills seem to have a "Universal Service Fee" each month. Maybe it's time we all stood up and got our money's worth!
Totally offtopic, but I think the word the poster was attempting to spell was accentuate
They're not asking for more, they're just asking to keep what they signed up for when they had their cable modem service installed.
Unfortunately they got a nice little EULA that says the company can change the TOS at any time, for any reason, in any manner they see fit. The company also gets to steal your Christmas tree and the presents underneath if you try to complain about it. After all, you did read all of that verbose 500 page agreement while the technician was standing there complaining about running late to his next appointment, right? And you truly read and understood all of the carbon-copy forms said impatient technician handed you, despite his explanation that the forms just said that you agree to not abuse the service, right?
No? Sorry, no Christmas for you!
The problem is that our definition of unlimited and their definition of unlimited tend to be two separate entries in the dictionary. They say that the unlimited internet means you can go wherever you damn well please and not be restricted, trying to pull the crowd that uses internet services like Prodigy and AOL.
We on the other hand think that unlimited means no download limits and no bandwidth caps. Unfortunately that won't ever happen. "Unlimited Internet" is not the same as "unlimited bandwidth" or "unlimited downloads", so a company saying "unlimited Internet" is correct from their FUD-ish marketing point-of-view.
To me, if you want unbridled access, you need to be purchasing an unbridled pipe, such as a T-carrier line. It really aggravates me when people complain that they can't download 50 gigs of data in 10 seconds on a USD$39.99 Internet connection. It's like the people in my office that complain about rush hour traffic every morning yet refuse to take the toll roads that are often less congested. Pony up some cash if you want the luxury of faster access!
We shouldn't expect some kind of uber-bandwidth for a few bucks a month. Probably not a popular opinion with the crowd here, but it's my take on this whole broadband-in-the-home thing. Now if the company tries to pawn off unlimited downloading on the cheap, well that company deserves to be held to their advertisment.
"Read the F***ing ID"?
I think what you're referring to is Apple Masters, which I believe is a discontinued program. Any of the links (such as http://applemasters.apple.com/) now point to the homepage. The last Apple WWDC that I attended in 2000 had Herbie as a guest, along with Gregory Hines and Bryan Adams. Maybe now that the Masters program appears defunct, Mr. Hancock is no longer bound by any sort of obligation (real or implied) with Apple.
At one time, some (most?) of the providers here in the States gave you the first minute free. I had Sprint service a few years ago and the first incoming minute was free; same with AT&T when we switched. Now you are billed whenever you pick up the phone. You are also billed when calling your own voice mail and you're billed when you hit the "Send" button, whether the other end actually answers or not.
All in all, it's just another way to eat at your wallet. I cancelled my AT&T phone because of the outrageous charges, constricting rules and stupid taxes. Yeah, I miss it, but I don't feel like I need to ice down my ass every month after being raped by the cell phone company.
Sure you can get external drives cheaper, but they are usually enclosed in a 5.25" external case, making transportation of the unit cumbersome. This device, by all appearances, will slip into a side pocket of a laptop bag. Add that it doubles as a portable CD player (which can't be said of a dedicated drive), a DVD player (which may be said of a traditional external drive, but if you built your own), an MP3 player AND it has Memory Stick capabilites, which can't be said of any external CD burner that I know of. Acquiring all of the requisite hardware for the same price is not an issue, but getting all of the functionality in the same lightweight, small-footprint device is an issue for those the live on airplanes/airports and their ilk.
One additional bonus that this device presents laptop users : most modern laptops have some sort of swapable drive bay that houses the optical drive but will also house a second battery. With this (IMO, relatively inexpensive) drive, you can add a second battery but still retain portability and optical drive connectivity.
What's even better is the "Sponsored Link" on the right advertising "Windows Replacement". OK, so I left of the "House-" part of that...oops. I'll just saction myself from ever posting about Microsoft again.
A quick search for the GBA/GBC ROM modules (like the Flash Linker) turned up nothing. The MultiBoot stuff is still there, but that's it. Unless these items were removed long ago, in which case I'll stand corrected.
http://www.esrb.org/power_search.asp?type=game
Select "Adults Only" and then search. You should get 15 titles, none of which sound familiar. Maybe Hastings (as mentioned above) has them on the top shelf with the Penthouse entertainment.
Believe what you want. Matters not to me. If you're that pissed about it, mod it down as "Offtopic" or something.
:^)
Besides, the story is about Humanshit, not Bullshit.
Well, true, but eating a ton of apples and a ton of grains (breads, rice, etc.) will back you up. One would think that the 2 would balance out, but not when you keep stopping your body from naturally releasing waste.
:^)
Just try it and hold back the urge to poop for 2 weeks. Don't say I didn't warn you, though.
Well, I can understand the "Funny" mods, but the "Interesting" one got me as well. :^)
Karma is a fickle thing...