You cannot sell a bunch of million of copies with those, but most of them made their money and for many of the original ones (Tony Tough, Runaway , etc...) sequels are in the works.
I think you can currently sell between 50.000 and 300.000 copies of those games worldwide (With around 300.000 being The Longest Journey). But they also often are much cheaper to produce than other genres, given that the current tool situation is very good, to excellent.
Hence no bigger studio produces those games anymore (except the anual Myst sequel) but many smaller shops and even single developers do that stuff.
The situation is that smaller studios can make a living out of that stuff, and hence prolly more adventure games were released last year than RPGs.
All I conclude is that you just replaced a bunch of people who could not handle the technology (I assume the problems were query related)
PHP per se is slower than JSP...
So you are quite good at what you are doing the people you replaced are not...
In LCDs you have the 50/60 Hz flickering of the background light, the next problem is the switching time/color tearing, which only recently has become a sort of neglectable issue, also there are still somewhat problems with color calibration.
Ok all this problems will be solved soon, but the LCDs are still not fully there (even my own Sony X-black although better then most of the other LCDs still has somewhat disadvantages over a good CRT)
I am no atomic scientist, but gimme a break, we have breeders here in europe they are no solution they simply try to get some of the less toxic stuff out of the wast which is still usable and blow that stuff back into the reactor and voila bang there comes the toxic stuff again.
Breeders are no full recycling system, they are just helping out at the tip of the iceberg, by reducing the iceberg a few centimiters---
The main problem is, that not only the surrounding area was affected, basically the fallout was blown over half of Europe.
Living in Austria, I still can remember those days, we suddenly had radiation peaks in several areas and it was not recommended to go there.
Same went for the radiated rain which went down, there were warnings to avoid them.
Eating musrooms even was a huge problems several years after the desaster (nobody knows how the situation now is, people simply don't care about it anymore)
Well there are not too many statistics about that in our area but given my personal impression on people I know and have seen, the cases of styroid problems definitely have risen since then.... (dunno about cancer over here)
Now in fact lets have a look, Austria a country several thousand kilometers away from the desaster area still got the fallout and all the problems, I don't wanna know how bad the situation is in the areas in Belarus and the Ukraine affected by the desaster. (or even in the baltic countries)
First of all, given that some people already posted that old artefacts can be found left and right, you are too narrow minded.
First of all look at the climate, 10000 years ago the ice age ended, during ice age the possiblity to settle down was limited, same goes for moval, the major tribal moves happened at the beginning of the ice age.
Second we now have humans in billions on this planet, during the ice age the population of humans were a few hundred thousand on the entire planet, so expect tribes the size of families and expect that once land was found which could feed the entire tribe it would not move until the climate forced them to.
So if a few tribes reached the continental US, they probably would have settled down at a place, the climate would have kept them to low numbers or even would have eradicated them and at the end of the ice age the climate would have changed to mor humanly conditions helping to feed more people.
Haha... if you run into one of thos nutwits, try to tell them that they deny the greatness of god by bringing up fairytales written down by native people around 3000 years ago, while evidence of some greater making reaching millions and billions of years can be found left and right:-D
You obviously have no clue on what the P-M really is except for Intels marketing papers...;-)
Seriously the P-M has been the best x86 design by intel the last 10 years.
The reason why they were selling it in mobile only computers is, that it would have made the P4 look bad, due to the MHz race.
I am not in the game industry, but expect crunch times from time to time, but what EA did was to make crunch times the norm. The problem with that attitude is that you basically run your people into the ground that way, and the work generally suffers from that.
Sorry to say that but having to work 7 days a week in a 12-14 hours work cycle, even the strongest person is brain fried after a few years that way and has to drop out of comp sci totally.
I dont think the gaming industry is that much different to other fields, you can run in other fields also into this attitude. All I can say is as soon as you see that this company tries to force you into overtime as the norm, flee as fast as possible.
I am not sorry for EA in this case, gimme a break, forcing people to work for 70hs+ and neither compensating them decently nor stopping this immense crunch time is like
hiring them until they cannot work anymore and spitting them out afterwards.
This is not slavery but close to it.
Face it people but everybody who does that just exploits the inexperience of the people they were hiring and doing a pump out and dump scheme, without looking at the health of their employees.
Those people deserve a huge smack on their head.
Going down on EA, there wont be to many people wanting to work for EA anymore, guess EAs lets get skilled people and press them out like ripe oranges hire and dump scheme will backfire in the long term.
Well, Gaming is different...
Everywhere where arts is involved heavily outsourcing to sweat shops is only a partial solution. Even in animation core work is done in the west.
The problem is that there are cultural differences between east and west which cannot be overcome easily.
Japan has become big in culture for doing there own stuff, but trying to take over western stuff always failed.
EA is a company which works on the cultural side of things and I am not sure if they realize that if they go the outsourcing route. There has to be a core situated locally and that core definitely is not a manager forcing people to 1900th working hours.
Lets leave this aside, Serbia/Kosovo was the perfect example of having justified reasons, but even that was inner european sphere so to say.
The other thing is, if Bush really decides to go into other countries, he won't have international support no matter being it Europe or non Europe, given the recent past.
So the US congress should be careful of giving another yes to anoter attack war, there will be no support from the outside.
There is a huge difference also in international support by fighting an attack war or a defensive war.
The funny thing is even if Europe had the ressources to fight sever offensive wars, it in its current state would not, the people are fed up with war and have been fed up with it since WW2 (you need severe reasons to drag the average European into a war, he/she would feel would be justified, Iraq was the classical example of not how to do it).
On the other hand, Europe is a good buffer zone for the US and always was. Europeans prolly would start to fight tough once they are attacked. Europe in its current state should not be underestimated as a defensive force but as an offencive, forget it. The mentality of the people is not like that.
Even if there are lots of problems with the transatlantic relations (most are caused by the idiotic Bush government) Europe still is the best ally the US can have against an atlantic coastal attack, most attackers who would try it that way, would get stuck way before, with around 500-800 million people working actively or passively against them und ultimately being stuck in Europe with an unresolvable resistance situation.
But having Europe attacking the US, there is no way, even if the US was unable to defend itself. Despite all the shoutings and problems, no western European even would get the idea, to attack the "brothers" in the US, although the younger brother currently has a big problem:-) .
on my Linux machine you have to root it first to get even write access onto the hosts file:-D.
But given the circumstances that most windows machines root every user and most windows users dont even have a clue about the existence of a hosts file on their machines, this is evil, but interesting.
Well one major hardware manufacturer, NVidia puts out excellent drivers.
The ATI drivers in their current state still are a joke. I wonder if there are two driver lines, since the SGIs also run on ATI and they definetly cannot get away with the driver quality you get from the ATI download page.
Thank god there is the ATI-DRI project, they produce much better much more stable drivers but they dont have full access to all the functions, so their drivers are a mixture of reverse engineering, a tiny little bit of information ATI has given to them and the lack of newer core functions (like how to enable pixel shading)
But for the 2d side of things they are the perfect choice currently, the ATI drivers are too unstable and to crashy.
Well the hardware coders in many cases know the windows internals, Microsoft is not as tight lipped about the Windows sourcecode as they were a few years ago, most of the bigger companies have access to the relevant code.
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You cannot sell a bunch of million of copies with those, but most of them made their money and for many of the original ones (Tony Tough, Runaway , etc...) sequels are in the works. I think you can currently sell between 50.000 and 300.000 copies of those games worldwide (With around 300.000 being The Longest Journey). But they also often are much cheaper to produce than other genres, given that the current tool situation is very good, to excellent. Hence no bigger studio produces those games anymore (except the anual Myst sequel) but many smaller shops and even single developers do that stuff. The situation is that smaller studios can make a living out of that stuff, and hence prolly more adventure games were released last year than RPGs.
Its as much dying as BSD... last year sort of was a golden year for adventure games with more releases than in the last few years combined...
Canon still has no decent linux drivers for their printers....
All I conclude is that you just replaced a bunch of people who could not handle the technology (I assume the problems were query related) PHP per se is slower than JSP... So you are quite good at what you are doing the people you replaced are not...
Developing a bad attitude towards violence can srew even more a person and its surroundings up than a bunch of naked tits ...
Do you think the americans have the god given right to pollute the planet...
Wake up, there is more at stake than short term profits.
In LCDs you have the 50/60 Hz flickering of the background light, the next problem is the switching time/color tearing, which only recently has become a sort of neglectable issue, also there are still somewhat problems with color calibration. Ok all this problems will be solved soon, but the LCDs are still not fully there (even my own Sony X-black although better then most of the other LCDs still has somewhat disadvantages over a good CRT)
I am no atomic scientist, but gimme a break, we have breeders here in europe they are no solution they simply try to get some of the less toxic stuff out of the wast which is still usable and blow that stuff back into the reactor and voila bang there comes the toxic stuff again. Breeders are no full recycling system, they are just helping out at the tip of the iceberg, by reducing the iceberg a few centimiters---
The main problem is, that not only the surrounding area was affected, basically the fallout was blown over half of Europe. Living in Austria, I still can remember those days, we suddenly had radiation peaks in several areas and it was not recommended to go there. Same went for the radiated rain which went down, there were warnings to avoid them. Eating musrooms even was a huge problems several years after the desaster (nobody knows how the situation now is, people simply don't care about it anymore) Well there are not too many statistics about that in our area but given my personal impression on people I know and have seen, the cases of styroid problems definitely have risen since then.... (dunno about cancer over here) Now in fact lets have a look, Austria a country several thousand kilometers away from the desaster area still got the fallout and all the problems, I don't wanna know how bad the situation is in the areas in Belarus and the Ukraine affected by the desaster. (or even in the baltic countries)
First of all, given that some people already posted that old artefacts can be found left and right, you are too narrow minded. First of all look at the climate, 10000 years ago the ice age ended, during ice age the possiblity to settle down was limited, same goes for moval, the major tribal moves happened at the beginning of the ice age. Second we now have humans in billions on this planet, during the ice age the population of humans were a few hundred thousand on the entire planet, so expect tribes the size of families and expect that once land was found which could feed the entire tribe it would not move until the climate forced them to. So if a few tribes reached the continental US, they probably would have settled down at a place, the climate would have kept them to low numbers or even would have eradicated them and at the end of the ice age the climate would have changed to mor humanly conditions helping to feed more people.
Haha... if you run into one of thos nutwits, try to tell them that they deny the greatness of god by bringing up fairytales written down by native people around 3000 years ago, while evidence of some greater making reaching millions and billions of years can be found left and right :-D
You obviously have no clue on what the P-M really is except for Intels marketing papers... ;-)
Seriously the P-M has been the best x86 design by intel the last 10 years.
The reason why they were selling it in mobile only computers is, that it would have made the P4 look bad, due to the MHz race.
I am not in the game industry, but expect crunch times from time to time, but what EA did was to make crunch times the norm. The problem with that attitude is that you basically run your people into the ground that way, and the work generally suffers from that.
Sorry to say that but having to work 7 days a week in a 12-14 hours work cycle, even the strongest person is brain fried after a few years that way and has to drop out of comp sci totally.
I dont think the gaming industry is that much different to other fields, you can run in other fields also into this attitude. All I can say is as soon as you see that this company tries to force you into overtime as the norm, flee as fast as possible.
I am not sorry for EA in this case, gimme a break, forcing people to work for 70hs+ and neither compensating them decently nor stopping this immense crunch time is like hiring them until they cannot work anymore and spitting them out afterwards.
This is not slavery but close to it. Face it people but everybody who does that just exploits the inexperience of the people they were hiring and doing a pump out and dump scheme, without looking at the health of their employees. Those people deserve a huge smack on their head.
Going down on EA, there wont be to many people wanting to work for EA anymore, guess EAs lets get skilled people and press them out like ripe oranges hire and dump scheme will backfire in the long term.
Well, Gaming is different... Everywhere where arts is involved heavily outsourcing to sweat shops is only a partial solution. Even in animation core work is done in the west. The problem is that there are cultural differences between east and west which cannot be overcome easily. Japan has become big in culture for doing there own stuff, but trying to take over western stuff always failed. EA is a company which works on the cultural side of things and I am not sure if they realize that if they go the outsourcing route. There has to be a core situated locally and that core definitely is not a manager forcing people to 1900th working hours.
then they laugh at you then they fight you in the end you have won (Ghandi)
Lets leave this aside, Serbia/Kosovo was the perfect example of having justified reasons, but even that was inner european sphere so to say. The other thing is, if Bush really decides to go into other countries, he won't have international support no matter being it Europe or non Europe, given the recent past. So the US congress should be careful of giving another yes to anoter attack war, there will be no support from the outside. There is a huge difference also in international support by fighting an attack war or a defensive war.
The funny thing is even if Europe had the ressources to fight sever offensive wars, it in its current state would not, the people are fed up with war and have been fed up with it since WW2 (you need severe reasons to drag the average European into a war, he/she would feel would be justified, Iraq was the classical example of not how to do it).
:-) .
On the other hand, Europe is a good buffer zone for the US and always was. Europeans prolly would start to fight tough once they are attacked. Europe in its current state should not be underestimated as a defensive force but as an offencive, forget it. The mentality of the people is not like that.
Even if there are lots of problems with the transatlantic relations (most are caused by the idiotic Bush government) Europe still is the best ally the US can have against an atlantic coastal attack, most attackers who would try it that way, would get stuck way before, with around 500-800 million people working actively or passively against them und ultimately being stuck in Europe with an unresolvable resistance situation.
But having Europe attacking the US, there is no way, even if the US was unable to defend itself. Despite all the shoutings and problems, no western European even would get the idea, to attack the "brothers" in the US, although the younger brother currently has a big problem
Drugs, seems like the war on terror follows the same successful path...
on my Linux machine you have to root it first to get even write access onto the hosts file :-D.
But given the circumstances that most windows machines root every user and most windows users dont even have a clue about the existence of a hosts file on their machines, this is evil, but interesting.
Yes the missing x.org is a hazzle, but you can roll it yourself into debian without having to touch the core packag.
If gnoppix is based on Ubuntu, and Ubuntu is based on Debian, then who the hell is working on releasing sarge? ;)
The Hurd developers
Well one major hardware manufacturer, NVidia puts out excellent drivers. The ATI drivers in their current state still are a joke. I wonder if there are two driver lines, since the SGIs also run on ATI and they definetly cannot get away with the driver quality you get from the ATI download page.
Thank god there is the ATI-DRI project, they produce much better much more stable drivers but they dont have full access to all the functions, so their drivers are a mixture of reverse engineering, a tiny little bit of information ATI has given to them and the lack of newer core functions (like how to enable pixel shading) But for the 2d side of things they are the perfect choice currently, the ATI drivers are too unstable and to crashy.
Well the hardware coders in many cases know the windows internals, Microsoft is not as tight lipped about the Windows sourcecode as they were a few years ago, most of the bigger companies have access to the relevant code.