Not to mention having a decade of development behind it, the game will seriously kick ass.
Which game? Not the one the trailor depicts. DNForever could probably have been finished in 2001 and it would have looked like that e3 trailor from around that time. It's been endlessly re-written in a fruitless quest to keep a silly promise to make the Best Game Ever. They had that back in 2001. Then over the years Half Life 2, Doom 3 etc were written and released and so the ante was upped. This latest trailer is more like Duke Nukem 6 pack or Duke Nukem 7 sausages. The next trailer (due 2010) will be claimed as DNF but in reality will be Duke Nukem 8 ball. Duek Nukem 5 Star was lost in translation...:)
In both cases, they pay the band, pay for studio time, and the engineers who produce the final product. They then pay for the CDs to get printed, distribution of said CDs, and for advertising of their new releases. Even a fool can see that it's much better to spend, say, a million dollars on some drivel that tons of high school cheerleaders
At least some of that the "band" pays for in the form of a so-called "advance".
I used to work in a office with a man like that. He was perpetually angry. In fact we called him Mr.Angry. He was alway shouting about something. One hot day, the secretary brought us all ice creams. She took them around giving everybody one. When she got to Mr.Angry, he looked at her and snapped, "I can't have that, it's too sweet!" and then he walked angrily away.
That's my pointless story about my Mr.Angry. Every office has one. You'll be ok.
You just have to look at it from programmer's point of view.
Unfourtanately, that seems to be the prevailing view here on slashdot - the only point of view in the world worth considering is that of the programmer. It's unfourtanate because - while this site is primarily a place to hang out for programmers - the best UI based software is designed with the users in mind. If GIMP is aimed solely at programmers (not infeasible, given the oft repeated mantra "by programmers for programmers") someone needs to tell the thousands of non-programming people around the world that it's time to move on.
It is mostly, actually. What essentially happened under colonialism was that the continent was divided up into "countries" ignoring tribal demographics, resulting in "nations" where the population has a greater sense of tribal identity and loyalty than a national one. Most of the strife, civil war and genocide in Africa is a direct result of this. That and the fact that the political class are largely corrupt and the rest of the world keeps pouring arms into the continent.
I really don't understand this. Almost all the CDs sold in the last 20 years had no form of DRM
Ah, but back then, it wasn't technically possible for a consumer to make a perfect copy (i.e. digital) of a CD, distribute it worldwide very easily with each recipient being able to make another perfect copy and distribute that.
The industry killed DAT (Digital Audio Tape) as well, for that very reason. DAT would enable perfect copies of CDs to be made in place of using casettes. DAT tapes ended up being used in data centers for machine backups.
The coins -- mostly silver pieces -- could fetch several hundred to several thousand dollars each, with some possibly commanding much more, he said.
Not if there are thousands of them. Scarcity adds value. Hmmm 40 miles of the coast of England and they seek jurisdiction in a US courtroom? Sounds like a job for the SBS...
Meanwhile, the Developed Country's worker(s) should be not resting on their laurels but working to improve their value so that they cannot be replaced easily by outsourcing
Talking about Economics, where did the idea of infinitely improvable value come from? In a global (job/skills) market where a man from the USA and a man from India are equally skilled, anything the USian does to "improve his value" the Indian can and will do too - maybe becoming more valuable than the USian.
Jobs aren't being offshored to India and China because Indians and Chinese are more valuable, but simply because they cost less to employ. That situation will continue until the (inevitable) cycle of upward inflationary pressure in their economies (and maybe deflationary pressures in the US and Europe) increases the Indian/Chinese cost of living until those workers cost the same to employ as USians and Europeans.
Then the work will move on. We've seen it all before.
One day, they'll be offshoring work to Africa, you wait.
Perhaps most importantly, he knows what to say--just look at the excitement that has built up around somehow who's been in national politics for two years.
As a non-USian, I have to wonder how much of that is due to the Bush effect. When Bush took over from Clinton a massive conversational vacuum seemed to open up - a chasm of non-communication and verbal gaff. Not to take away from Obama, but Bush would make almost anyone sound good.
The last few debates I have watched, the answers were to poorly constructed, or circular, or not an answer at all....
That'll be because Bush was "debating" in them.;)
The translation was authorized by King James around 1608 or so. I'm just going off of what I've heard.
IIRC, there's actually no evidence that King James ever did authorise it. He did give his blessing to an effort to make an "official" new translation of the Bible, simply to counteract the spread of Bibles being imported from Geneva by Calvinists who had a pesky habit of questioning his "Devine Right to Rule". However, if memory serves, when the new translation was finished some 12 or 14 years later and appointed to be "read in churches", old King Jameie had long lost interest. It was all a political exercise, seemingly.
Crash Magazine, Monotone games to avoid "Attribute Clash", tinny "speaker", rubber keys with 9 different functions on each key, game swapping, Head Over Heals, KnightLore, Batman, Fairlight, Quazatron, Commando, Yie Ar Kung Fu, the Way of the Exploding Fist, Uridium etc etc. Those were the days that computing was fun.:)
Have to disagree with the comment about it having the best BASIC. BBC BASIC was the best.
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Ha ha! I thought the same thing. I'm not the only West Wing nut on here then!
is the option of selecting "sexual orientation" being grayed out What would be really interesting, is a "sexual harassment" option...
Not to mention having a decade of development behind it, the game will seriously kick ass.
:)
Which game? Not the one the trailor depicts. DNForever could probably have been finished in 2001 and it would have looked like that e3 trailor from around that time. It's been endlessly re-written in a fruitless quest to keep a silly promise to make the Best Game Ever. They had that back in 2001. Then over the years Half Life 2, Doom 3 etc were written and released and so the ante was upped. This latest trailer is more like Duke Nukem 6 pack or Duke Nukem 7 sausages. The next trailer (due 2010) will be claimed as DNF but in reality will be Duke Nukem 8 ball. Duek Nukem 5 Star was lost in translation...
Turns out it was some new codec where the only players available were at 0.0.1 alpha stage. Great. :-\
The MPAA pwned you on that one!
In both cases, they pay the band, pay for studio time, and the engineers who produce the final product. They then pay for the CDs to get printed, distribution of said CDs, and for advertising of their new releases. Even a fool can see that it's much better to spend, say, a million dollars on some drivel that tons of high school cheerleaders
At least some of that the "band" pays for in the form of a so-called "advance".
a system that only uses roads with sufficient capacity for lorries
You mean A-roads. Isn't that info available on the TeleAtlas maps already?
Pavements in Suburbia :)
An incovenient truth: There really is only about thousand linux users.
No, according to TFA, there are only 12 linux users.
I used to work in a office with a man like that. He was perpetually angry. In fact we called him Mr.Angry. He was alway shouting about something. One hot day, the secretary brought us all ice creams. She took them around giving everybody one. When she got to Mr.Angry, he looked at her and snapped, "I can't have that, it's too sweet!" and then he walked angrily away.
That's my pointless story about my Mr.Angry. Every office has one. You'll be ok.
You just have to look at it from programmer's point of view.
Unfourtanately, that seems to be the prevailing view here on slashdot - the only point of view in the world worth considering is that of the programmer. It's unfourtanate because - while this site is primarily a place to hang out for programmers - the best UI based software is designed with the users in mind. If GIMP is aimed solely at programmers (not infeasible, given the oft repeated mantra "by programmers for programmers") someone needs to tell the thousands of non-programming people around the world that it's time to move on.
why should you have to understand programming in order to paste a moustache on a photo of the Queen?
because you may have to explain precisely how you did it when you get arrested...
and likely Sun's got more money to print the chips than you do
Sun hasn't got more money than the Chinese government.
Yes. It's all the West's fault.
It is mostly, actually. What essentially happened under colonialism was that the continent was divided up into "countries" ignoring tribal demographics, resulting in "nations" where the population has a greater sense of tribal identity and loyalty than a national one. Most of the strife, civil war and genocide in Africa is a direct result of this. That and the fact that the political class are largely corrupt and the rest of the world keeps pouring arms into the continent.
I really don't understand this. Almost all the CDs sold in the last 20 years had no form of DRM
Ah, but back then, it wasn't technically possible for a consumer to make a perfect copy (i.e. digital) of a CD, distribute it worldwide very easily with each recipient being able to make another perfect copy and distribute that.
The industry killed DAT (Digital Audio Tape) as well, for that very reason. DAT would enable perfect copies of CDs to be made in place of using casettes. DAT tapes ended up being used in data centers for machine backups.
It's Mikel, you insensitive clod!
The coins -- mostly silver pieces -- could fetch several hundred to several thousand dollars each, with some possibly commanding much more, he said.
Not if there are thousands of them. Scarcity adds value. Hmmm 40 miles of the coast of England and they seek jurisdiction in a US courtroom? Sounds like a job for the SBS...
Wish I mod points - that's the funniest post I've read on slashdot for a while now.
--Quite frankly, we need her in the UK again.
That's so freaking funny, I actually LOL!
Wait...you were joking,right?
Meanwhile, the Developed Country's worker(s) should be not resting on their laurels but working to improve their value so that they cannot be replaced easily by outsourcing
Talking about Economics, where did the idea of infinitely improvable value come from? In a global (job/skills) market where a man from the USA and a man from India are equally skilled, anything the USian does to "improve his value" the Indian can and will do too - maybe becoming more valuable than the USian.
Jobs aren't being offshored to India and China because Indians and Chinese are more valuable, but simply because they cost less to employ. That situation will continue until the (inevitable) cycle of upward inflationary pressure in their economies (and maybe deflationary pressures in the US and Europe) increases the Indian/Chinese cost of living until those workers cost the same to employ as USians and Europeans.
Then the work will move on. We've seen it all before. One day, they'll be offshoring work to Africa, you wait.
Perhaps most importantly, he knows what to say--just look at the excitement that has built up around somehow who's been in national politics for two years.
As a non-USian, I have to wonder how much of that is due to the Bush effect. When Bush took over from Clinton a massive conversational vacuum seemed to open up - a chasm of non-communication and verbal gaff. Not to take away from Obama, but Bush would make almost anyone sound good.
The last few debates I have watched, the answers were to poorly constructed, or circular, or not an answer at all.... ;)
That'll be because Bush was "debating" in them.
The translation was authorized by King James around 1608 or so. I'm just going off of what I've heard.
IIRC, there's actually no evidence that King James ever did authorise it. He did give his blessing to an effort to make an "official" new translation of the Bible, simply to counteract the spread of Bibles being imported from Geneva by Calvinists who had a pesky habit of questioning his "Devine Right to Rule". However, if memory serves, when the new translation was finished some 12 or 14 years later and appointed to be "read in churches", old King Jameie had long lost interest. It was all a political exercise, seemingly.
Yeah, patent tits and such. BTW, the subject should be cash-udders. Or something.
Crash Magazine, Monotone games to avoid "Attribute Clash", tinny "speaker", rubber keys with 9 different functions on each key, game swapping, Head Over Heals, KnightLore, Batman, Fairlight, Quazatron, Commando, Yie Ar Kung Fu, the Way of the Exploding Fist, Uridium etc etc. Those were the days that computing was fun. :)
Have to disagree with the comment about it having the best BASIC. BBC BASIC was the best.
A fine spin, I'll grant you.