You should take that business model and go explain it to the hundreds of thousands of investors making money out of buying low and selling high. when they buy low, the shares they're buying are risky, then if they pick right, it boom, the value raises like crazy and they sell.
not saying that every risk pays off (thus calling it a risk) but sitting back and watching sure isnt how I ride my business.
>> saying that Rare will only do downloadable content if there is a need.
that is so lame. "we'll jump in the bandwagon only if we see other people are making money first"
historically, its the one taking the risk that gets payed off in the long run. those jumping in later only gets fractions (ok, except for blizzard and WoW)
If we're beginning to see downloadable content its because there's a need for it, it'll only become bigger now.
then they tell us : do download illegal songs...we don't care we'll make you pay either way, in fact, we'll make you pay double if you do pay for your songs...
>> I don't own any GTA titles at the moment, so this might be a good buy for me.
man that smells like a sponsored post right there.
truth is, if you dont have any GTA title yet its probably because you're not a big GTA fan to begin with, and if you are but have pirated them instead (bad boy!) then you won't want to buy them either.
there will always be a margin of idiots, that's just a fact of life, I myself am a complete idiot in the domain of (for instance) sailing so any seasoned sailor could probably tell me anything and I'd just take his word for it.
but in the same way i p4wn my parents at gaming i get p4wned by my nephew (and niece...sigh). there are things that just transmit themselves with time.
I agree with several replies to my post actually but i was trying to say that people just take spam as a part of the internet without really trying to fight it (ok ok OK!!! i know some are fighthing but most are happy just watching)
but....meh.... ive always been a dreamer, i guess theres no way to educate the current suckers.
another idea i had once was to make a website with all the products advertisement i received by mail and list them on the web, to give the "spamware buyers" a one stop shop to buy it all, hoping to "steal" business from the spammers but my logical side of the brain tells me to not open that can of worm....
What i don't get is why spam is still an issue in this day and age of the internet.
The reason behind spam is simple : it works.
i mean.... it just goddamn works... why otherwise would company pay hundreds of thousands to defend themselves legally and invest in various ways to get to our inbox ?
There are stupid people out there buying from those guys, or whatever product they are advertising.
If you cut the money income, you cut the spam...
instead of spending $$$ and time trying to prevent spam from arriving in our inbox we should spend that money and time educating the crowd that "spamware" is most of the time just a way to get money out of your pocket with no real return value.
That about sums up why i haven't switched to linux yet.
I tried ubuntu and two other variations that were supposed to be easy too but in the end i dont have the time to learn it all.
There used to be a time where i enjoyed spending hours just playing around with something, not being afraid to mess it up but that's not the case anymore.
I got a day job where we use windows then i come back home where i spend time with my girlfriend, i game a little and do some "real" manual work like fixing the car or stop that leak in the bathroom.
and in the end, i dont have the energy to learn ubuntu (even if its easy). because learning it requires me to sit in front of the pc and browse the net and search, go on forums, ask questions, wait reply, try something....etc its time consuming.
granted its easier once you got the basics but getting those basics is time consuming and i guess that where the average joe (like me?) just wont switch even if i love open source and dont like MS too much for various reasons.
People will always find something. When you got hundreds of thousands of people checking your software for whatever issue they can find, odds are that they WILL find something. Just because its fun to bash MS doesnt mean its feasible to create a software with zero vulnerabilitise, that's impossible, new vulnerabilites are created each weeks.
I mind much less IE's security than IE's compliance to w3 standards. now THAT is annoying. having constantly to create two versions of your code. one for the compliant browsers and then one for IE.
For some reason, the suits at MS thinks that because lots of people use their software they have a moral obligation to tell people what the standards should be. Ok...I know IE7 is not as bad... but its still bad:-)
I'm not saying to choose MS or the big G for the fame but rather whom he likes more. Wearing bling bling is kinda cool but if you're allergic to its alloy then it makes you itchy and full of red spots.
That's why I'm saying its important to go with the company he'd be willing to give it all to make it succeed.
I've read pretty good advices but I think you should also consider this...
If you had to state out loud in front of 2k people whom you work for, which company would make you proud enough to yell that you work for them ? without making you want to hide under the rug.
Because in the end, you have to like your job, you have to be able to embrace the company's goals and methods.
Don't aim at which job will give you the most $$$ or which one will get your career advance faster. Things come in due time when you do them right. If both companies appeals to you, then go for the best offer. If you don't like the way Google do things then go for MS - or vice versa. If none of them appeals to you, turn down both of 'em. If THEY want you, chances are you are qualified enough to get a job wherever YOU want.
>>The game creators seem to think that it is a positive portrayal of Muslims to change them from being terrorists who are shot at to terrorists who are shooting.
Lets look at how things are viewed from this side of the sea shall we ? (and i mean north america)
When is the last time a media has made the muslims look good ?
Movies, books, News, video games.
As far as I can recall, the last time must have been somewhere during 30s where muslims were more depicted as rich individuals and being envied by us for being allowed to have more than one wife.
It was not any better before but especially since 09-2001 we no longer look at Asian people or russian people to be the iconic bad guy (Rambo/Rocky anyone ?). Now any kind of war movie HAS to be somewhere in the desert with some american trying to fix this things up.
I'm not saying muslims are perfect, they have their bad apples just as much as we do but you know, they also got a bunch of good apples in the tree.
Seriously, think about it, how would the average american feel if suddenly all foreign medias would start using the U.S. "fabled" marines as the bad guys - corrupted by money and power, hungered for domination. and not only in movies, *everywhere*. Before long that idea would get stuck in the europeans head, and asian, muslims, russians..well... anyone not in N. America.
You need to look with both eyes opened, they have terrorist and so do we. they have nice people and so do we. It not because the Bush administration chooses to show only the muslims as bad people that suddenly they are actually all bad.
When the original author talks about "their side of the story" he means the story of the average muslims that is not a terrorist. He talks about that mom who lost a son due to collateral damage. He talks about that son who lost his parents because they were suspected of terrorist activity (almost like catholic inquisition...), he talks about the average muslims being frustrated because suddenly some US president decided it was ok to track Ben laden by all means necessary (which he hasnt caught yet btw) and that in the mean time would be a good time to switch hussein with his own dictator to facilitate oil control.
I mean, I'm just rambling here but I think the muslims have got all the rights to be angry, not that it justifies all the violence over there but i certainly understand what he means when he says "our side of the story".
"I'm more enamored of Vista's Flip 3D feature, which basically takes all of the open windows on your desktop, stands them up on end and stacks them in a way that you can cycle through to the one you want to use. "...geez, then we wonder why we gotta have a top-of-the-line PC with 1G of ram....just to run the OS smoothly. What happened to my good ole alt-tab and shift-alt-tab ? I dont recall having any kind of problem with that.
I guess that if we apply "golden age" to the moment where the new medium was born (electronic gaming) then yes, golden age was back in the 70-80s.
but i still believe we are in a golden age of gaming - probably more on the end of it.
maybe this decade hasnt seen the birth of gaming but lots of new faces of gaming were born. if golden age simply means the moment of artistic evolution where people just go and let their mind be creative with a medium then we have to talk about all the various faces of gaming. : 3d shooters, puzzlers, MMOs.
but im not gonna argue againt Wiki and you:) in the strict sense, we're in a renaissance era - not a golden one.
I think you're just emphasizing on the basics of the expression (Golden Age) but like anything, the expression "Golden Age" has various meanings. in this example i would say it means more an era, a state where everything is just simpler, broad, easy and trouble-free. (like the 70s was the golden age of pot and steamy windshields!!)
In the case of the article, I believe golden age is right. With the current state of the market, every type of gamer can find their fair share of games. young, teen, adult, seniors, they can all play and from various source like consoles, cell phones, PCs, portable console and each source offers a pletora of styles and each styles has a truckload of titles.
Sure you can refer to the 70s-80s as the golden age if you like but it was not as golden as it is now. Back then, ok so we had pacman, defender, pong and they ARE classics but they only appealed to a small portion of people - compared to what gaming is today we might want to call it the jurassic age (which came WAY before greeks and their golden age of mythology). then things evolved so much that right now, its a free for all - you wanna game, sure ok, choose your style, choose your game and play!
tsk tsk.... I should revoke your geek badge right there.
>>One more show of geekish ignorance and I'll have your nerd badge!
its well known that geeks and nerds aren't the same. a nerd may be geekishly ignorant just as a geek may be nerdily ignorant.
Thus, a nerd-badge wearer may comfortable display geekish ignorance.
For clarity sake, you should have said :
"One more show of nerdish ignorance and I'll have your nerd badge!" since thinking there was 3 books is an outrageous mistake for any LORT Nerd that respect him/herself.
Also note there are several sub types of nerds, nerds merely referring the devotion to a specific interest such as LOTR, Matrix, Stamps, Pennies, Ponys or even Papyruses.
Whereas Geek refers to technically savvy people such as a hacker, programmer (me), dba (me), encryptologist, lanboy, gamer (me) - and as you can see im a goddamn geek albeit a very poor nerd
I wonder why you are so sad to see this model survive. 6 millions users cant be wrong. MMORPG are doing something right to survive for so long. The fact that it does not appeal to you is one thing but you should at least respect the fact that 6 millions other gamers actually like the game. Here... let me list a couple of things you will not get from a mame....
Social activities ----------------- - Get online with your friends and go kill mobs as a gang (PvE). - Make a party of player and wage war on another party (PvP). - Dress your male character with a robe while getting drunk on the beach... ok that's rather unorthodox but you *can* do it if/when you ever feel inclined to that sort of endeavour.
Updates ------- - Interact with the developers to have your game customized to your need. Tell them what you like and what you dont. They'll do everything they can to improve the game. - They'll also add content, quest, weapons, armors on a fairly regular basis. - Events! They can decide that on december 25th, the grinch is gonna come and kick everyone's ass in a WoW-kinda way.
But of course, you know that already, you've read it yourself just as much as people trying to convince you have told you. So again.... that type of interactivity may or may not appeal to you, but you have to admit it offers a gameplay widely different than that of a mame or snes game for instance.
Sure there's a fee but i don't think its overly priced. Based on a monthly fee of 15$ I can honestly say that I spend 3 times the price of that on a single date with my girlfriend, I spend 5 times that price on a monthly basis to go to the movies or buy CDs, I spend more than 100 times that price for a week in the south and yet... all of those do not offer me an entertainment as sustained as being able to log with my friend after a long day of work and just have fun with them.
The fee required can also be justified to buy the thousands of top-of-the-line servers required to support all the players, pay the developers and of course, lets not be blind, make a profit.
But all in all, I believe that MMOs do offer a value, a style, that offline games cannot offer.
When you say that your friends "throw money at all these games" I say they found a style of gaming that suits them. As long as everyone finds they own style, then all is good right ?
Sure coders aren't always to blame, but coders aren't always shiny either. I've hired consultants that kept promising they were the "shit", that they knew *exactly* what they were talking about so you hire them and next thing you know, their work is exactly just that : shit. Because they wanna do it *their* way, or because they didn't have time, because the way its designed is incorrect....yada yada yada. For every failure there's an excuse. I know deadlines are tough and that sometimes you have to round corners but thats no reason to transform the application into a sphere!
More often than not, when bugs are emergings like there's no tomorrow it because someone, somewhere didnt do his job properly. It could be the database that is not properly designed. It could be the business rules that are not precise enough, it could be because the programmer can't do good OOP. It could be because the manager thinks its always simple and that adding people will always solve the problem or because he thinks overtime will suddenly help like god touched the "easy" button. And when you start missing deadlines, its usually a team failure, not the failure of one even if its always all too easy to lay blame on someone while conformting ourselve with the reasons why if not *our* fault.
FYI, I'm a programmer by formation, I still do development actually, but I'm also a manager, so i see both sides of the mirror. What I'm trying to explain here is that its a team thing, not only the manager or not only the programmer.
I dont really see what sony's execs have to boast about. Other than the fact that they've successfully brought the PS3 from "Most Anticipated" to "Most Anticipated Failure"...
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You should take that business model and go explain it to the hundreds of thousands of investors making money out of buying low and selling high. when they buy low, the shares they're buying are risky, then if they pick right, it boom, the value raises like crazy and they sell.
not saying that every risk pays off (thus calling it a risk) but sitting back and watching sure isnt how I ride my business.
>> saying that Rare will only do downloadable content if there is a need.
that is so lame. "we'll jump in the bandwagon only if we see other people are making money first"
historically, its the one taking the risk that gets payed off in the long run. those jumping in later only gets fractions (ok, except for blizzard and WoW)
If we're beginning to see downloadable content its because there's a need for it, it'll only become bigger now.
>> Why, when I was a kid, we had to use our imagination to build stuff.
Probably in the same time where you could fix everything with duct tape and more nails.
i dont think the point was to be uber by displaying l33t h4ck1ng skillz0r. :)
but its a start at developping homebrewed apps for the wii. heck, maybe create homebrewed wiishops servers so users can share wii games.
thats the good thing with consoles on the net, its fairly easy to fool them once you know what kind of answer they expect.
How do you think they pay the bandwidth and power required to avoid their own site being /.'ed ??
Subscriptions ? ya right....
oh great,
...we don't care we'll make you pay either way, in fact, we'll make you pay double if you do pay for your songs...
first they tell us : don't download illegal songs
then they tell us : do download illegal songs
>> I don't own any GTA titles at the moment, so this might be a good buy for me.
man that smells like a sponsored post right there.
truth is, if you dont have any GTA title yet its probably because you're not a big GTA fan to begin with, and if you are but have pirated them instead (bad boy!) then you won't want to buy them either.
but heh...nice sale pitch.
Can't really speak for other countries but in canada its generally good.
p ?ppid=84&lcode=E&prov=35&gaid=9219&occ=2174&job=&s earch_key=1
You can use this website to find the trends for an occupation you wish to find info about...
http://www.labourmarketinformation.ca/
for instance....
a Programmer in Toronto (Ontario)
http://www.labourmarketinformation.ca/standard.as
its lame, its old and yet i cannot help it
i can see a translated japanese movie coming...
"all your base are belong to us, make your time"
haha, good reply there...
....meh.... ive always been a dreamer, i guess theres no way to educate the current suckers.
there will always be a margin of idiots, that's just a fact of life, I myself am a complete idiot in the domain of (for instance) sailing so any seasoned sailor could probably tell me anything and I'd just take his word for it.
but in the same way i p4wn my parents at gaming i get p4wned by my nephew (and niece...sigh). there are things that just transmit themselves with time.
I agree with several replies to my post actually but i was trying to say that people just take spam as a part of the internet without really trying to fight it (ok ok OK!!! i know some are fighthing but most are happy just watching)
but
another idea i had once was to make a website with all the products advertisement i received by mail and list them on the web, to give the "spamware buyers" a one stop shop to buy it all, hoping to "steal" business from the spammers but my logical side of the brain tells me to not open that can of worm....
What i don't get is why spam is still an issue in this day and age of the internet.
The reason behind spam is simple : it works.
i mean.... it just goddamn works... why otherwise would company pay hundreds of thousands to defend themselves legally and invest in various ways to get to our inbox ?
There are stupid people out there buying from those guys, or whatever product they are advertising.
If you cut the money income, you cut the spam...
instead of spending $$$ and time trying to prevent spam from arriving in our inbox we should spend that money and time educating the crowd that "spamware" is most of the time just a way to get money out of your pocket with no real return value.
That about sums up why i haven't switched to linux yet.
I tried ubuntu and two other variations that were supposed to be easy too but in the end i dont have the time to learn it all.
There used to be a time where i enjoyed spending hours just playing around with something, not being afraid to mess it up but that's not the case anymore.
I got a day job where we use windows then i come back home where i spend time with my girlfriend, i game a little and do some "real" manual work like fixing the car or stop that leak in the bathroom.
and in the end, i dont have the energy to learn ubuntu (even if its easy). because learning it requires me to sit in front of the pc and browse the net and search, go on forums, ask questions, wait reply, try something....etc its time consuming.
granted its easier once you got the basics but getting those basics is time consuming and i guess that where the average joe (like me?) just wont switch even if i love open source and dont like MS too much for various reasons.
At least its proof that they know who their enemy is, I wasn't sure they had figured that one out yet.
hum.
if you're will to buy at $499 and wait, why not shell out the extra $100 and have it now ?
100$ extended over a few months isn't a big deal.
People will always find something. When you got hundreds of thousands of people checking your software for whatever issue they can find, odds are that they WILL find something. Just because its fun to bash MS doesnt mean its feasible to create a software with zero vulnerabilitise, that's impossible, new vulnerabilites are created each weeks.
:-)
I mind much less IE's security than IE's compliance to w3 standards. now THAT is annoying. having constantly to create two versions of your code. one for the compliant browsers and then one for IE.
For some reason, the suits at MS thinks that because lots of people use their software they have a moral obligation to tell people what the standards should be. Ok...I know IE7 is not as bad... but its still bad
I'm not saying to choose MS or the big G for the fame but rather whom he likes more. Wearing bling bling is kinda cool but if you're allergic to its alloy then it makes you itchy and full of red spots.
That's why I'm saying its important to go with the company he'd be willing to give it all to make it succeed.
I've read pretty good advices but I think you should also consider this...
If you had to state out loud in front of 2k people whom you work for, which company would make you proud enough to yell that you work for them ? without making you want to hide under the rug.
Because in the end, you have to like your job, you have to be able to embrace the company's goals and methods.
Don't aim at which job will give you the most $$$ or which one will get your career advance faster. Things come in due time when you do them right. If both companies appeals to you, then go for the best offer. If you don't like the way Google do things then go for MS - or vice versa. If none of them appeals to you, turn down both of 'em. If THEY want you, chances are you are qualified enough to get a job wherever YOU want.
>>The game creators seem to think that it is a positive portrayal of Muslims to change them from being terrorists who are shot at to terrorists who are shooting.
Lets look at how things are viewed from this side of the sea shall we ? (and i mean north america)
When is the last time a media has made the muslims look good ?
Movies, books, News, video games.
As far as I can recall, the last time must have been somewhere during 30s where muslims were more depicted as rich individuals and being envied by us for being allowed to have more than one wife.
It was not any better before but especially since 09-2001 we no longer look at Asian people or russian people to be the iconic bad guy (Rambo/Rocky anyone ?). Now any kind of war movie HAS to be somewhere in the desert with some american trying to fix this things up.
I'm not saying muslims are perfect, they have their bad apples just as much as we do but you know, they also got a bunch of good apples in the tree.
Seriously, think about it, how would the average american feel if suddenly all foreign medias would start using the U.S. "fabled" marines as the bad guys - corrupted by money and power, hungered for domination. and not only in movies, *everywhere*. Before long that idea would get stuck in the europeans head, and asian, muslims, russians..well... anyone not in N. America.
You need to look with both eyes opened, they have terrorist and so do we. they have nice people and so do we. It not because the Bush administration chooses to show only the muslims as bad people that suddenly they are actually all bad.
When the original author talks about "their side of the story" he means the story of the average muslims that is not a terrorist. He talks about that mom who lost a son due to collateral damage. He talks about that son who lost his parents because they were suspected of terrorist activity (almost like catholic inquisition...), he talks about the average muslims being frustrated because suddenly some US president decided it was ok to track Ben laden by all means necessary (which he hasnt caught yet btw) and that in the mean time would be a good time to switch hussein with his own dictator to facilitate oil control.
I mean, I'm just rambling here but I think the muslims have got all the rights to be angry, not that it justifies all the violence over there but i certainly understand what he means when he says "our side of the story".
"I'm more enamored of Vista's Flip 3D feature, which basically takes all of the open windows on your desktop, stands them up on end and stacks them in a way that you can cycle through to the one you want to use. " ...geez, then we wonder why we gotta have a top-of-the-line PC with 1G of ram....just to run the OS smoothly. What happened to my good ole alt-tab and shift-alt-tab ? I dont recall having any kind of problem with that.
I guess that if we apply "golden age" to the moment where the new medium was born (electronic gaming) then yes, golden age was back in the 70-80s.
:) in the strict sense, we're in a renaissance era - not a golden one.
but i still believe we are in a golden age of gaming - probably more on the end of it.
maybe this decade hasnt seen the birth of gaming but lots of new faces of gaming were born. if golden age simply means the moment of artistic evolution where people just go and let their mind be creative with a medium then we have to talk about all the various faces of gaming. : 3d shooters, puzzlers, MMOs.
but im not gonna argue againt Wiki and you
I think you're just emphasizing on the basics of the expression (Golden Age) but like anything, the expression "Golden Age" has various meanings. in this example i would say it means more an era, a state where everything is just simpler, broad, easy and trouble-free. (like the 70s was the golden age of pot and steamy windshields!!)
In the case of the article, I believe golden age is right. With the current state of the market, every type of gamer can find their fair share of games. young, teen, adult, seniors, they can all play and from various source like consoles, cell phones, PCs, portable console and each source offers a pletora of styles and each styles has a truckload of titles.
Sure you can refer to the 70s-80s as the golden age if you like but it was not as golden as it is now. Back then, ok so we had pacman, defender, pong and they ARE classics but they only appealed to a small portion of people - compared to what gaming is today we might want to call it the jurassic age (which came WAY before greeks and their golden age of mythology). then things evolved so much that right now, its a free for all - you wanna game, sure ok, choose your style, choose your game and play!
tsk tsk.... I should revoke your geek badge right there.
>>One more show of geekish ignorance and I'll have your nerd badge!
its well known that geeks and nerds aren't the same. a nerd may be geekishly ignorant just as a geek may be nerdily ignorant.
Thus, a nerd-badge wearer may comfortable display geekish ignorance.
For clarity sake, you should have said :
"One more show of nerdish ignorance and I'll have your nerd badge!" since thinking there was 3 books is an outrageous mistake for any LORT Nerd that respect him/herself.
Also note there are several sub types of nerds, nerds merely referring the devotion to a specific interest such as LOTR, Matrix, Stamps, Pennies, Ponys or even Papyruses.
Whereas Geek refers to technically savvy people such as a hacker, programmer (me), dba (me), encryptologist, lanboy, gamer (me) - and as you can see im a goddamn geek albeit a very poor nerd
You can also check these links.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geek
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nerd
I wonder why you are so sad to see this model survive. 6 millions users cant be wrong. MMORPG are doing something right to survive for so long. The fact that it does not appeal to you is one thing but you should at least respect the fact that 6 millions other gamers actually like the game. Here... let me list a couple of things you will not get from a mame....
... ok that's rather unorthodox but you *can* do it if/when you ever feel inclined to that sort of endeavour.
... all of those do not offer me an entertainment as sustained as being able to log with my friend after a long day of work and just have fun with them.
Social activities
-----------------
- Get online with your friends and go kill mobs as a gang (PvE).
- Make a party of player and wage war on another party (PvP).
- Dress your male character with a robe while getting drunk on the beach
Updates
-------
- Interact with the developers to have your game customized to your need. Tell them what you like and what you dont. They'll do everything they can to improve the game.
- They'll also add content, quest, weapons, armors on a fairly regular basis.
- Events! They can decide that on december 25th, the grinch is gonna come and kick everyone's ass in a WoW-kinda way.
But of course, you know that already, you've read it yourself just as much as people trying to convince you have told you. So again.... that type of interactivity may or may not appeal to you, but you have to admit it offers a gameplay widely different than that of a mame or snes game for instance.
Sure there's a fee but i don't think its overly priced. Based on a monthly fee of 15$ I can honestly say that I spend 3 times the price of that on a single date with my girlfriend, I spend 5 times that price on a monthly basis to go to the movies or buy CDs, I spend more than 100 times that price for a week in the south and yet
The fee required can also be justified to buy the thousands of top-of-the-line servers required to support all the players, pay the developers and of course, lets not be blind, make a profit.
But all in all, I believe that MMOs do offer a value, a style, that offline games cannot offer.
When you say that your friends "throw money at all these games" I say they found a style of gaming that suits them. As long as everyone finds they own style, then all is good right ?
Sure coders aren't always to blame, but coders aren't always shiny either. I've hired consultants that kept promising they were the "shit", that they knew *exactly* what they were talking about so you hire them and next thing you know, their work is exactly just that : shit. Because they wanna do it *their* way, or because they didn't have time, because the way its designed is incorrect....yada yada yada. For every failure there's an excuse. I know deadlines are tough and that sometimes you have to round corners but thats no reason to transform the application into a sphere!
More often than not, when bugs are emergings like there's no tomorrow it because someone, somewhere didnt do his job properly. It could be the database that is not properly designed. It could be the business rules that are not precise enough, it could be because the programmer can't do good OOP. It could be because the manager thinks its always simple and that adding people will always solve the problem or because he thinks overtime will suddenly help like god touched the "easy" button. And when you start missing deadlines, its usually a team failure, not the failure of one even if its always all too easy to lay blame on someone while conformting ourselve with the reasons why if not *our* fault.
FYI, I'm a programmer by formation, I still do development actually, but I'm also a manager, so i see both sides of the mirror. What I'm trying to explain here is that its a team thing, not only the manager or not only the programmer.
I dont really see what sony's execs have to boast about. Other than the fact that they've successfully brought the PS3 from "Most Anticipated" to "Most Anticipated Failure"...
damn you sony, you've killed the ps.