Hmmm, I didn't see the article before/. effect... but I believe these are some of the titles:
The AntiTrust Shuffle (TM)
You play either Bill Gates or Steve Balmer and using a dance pad you whip out the moves to avoid the slings and arrows of outrageous justice. As you improve your skills you can advance to being the Master of the DRM Market, as you manipulate (again, via the dance pad) the masses and the RIAA/MPAA against each other towards more control for yourself. You can even do doubles with two game pads.
Inter game bonus rounds let you earn extra points based on effectiveness of various celebration dances and 'who's the man' gesturees.
Embrace and Extend (TM)
Kind of like a tetris game where those rectangular pieces that fall from above and can fit in a lot of other game slots below, but in this you must catch the pieces in mid-fall and re-shape them to VisualSquarish#.net shapes where they only seem to fit in the Microsoft game slot... If you don't have time to to 'extend' the pieces you still earn points by getting them all to go into the Microsoft Game slot anyway, if you don't get into MS you loose points and are told you are a loser. (also available for WinCE handhelds)
'Innovation' Avenger (TM)
Fight the evil GPL who wish to suck Innovation out of the Microsoft Universe. Armed with the best legal offenses and wads of cash you pick off the relentless multitudes of drones (liiks like sinistar, but the drones are building some sort of Penguin...)
The game employs advanced AI technologies where the AI drones get smarter faster than you do... But you can also can get political and corporate power-ups to throw more roadblocks into their assault.
Here's his big break, he can jump in and become the computer 'game engineer' who saves Silicon Valley by making it work with hollywood's finest.
Yep, we can have him play Nolan Bushnell... no Trip Hawkins... (wait, he's not with EA anymore, right?) Well someone...
Starting out with his 'geek years' bumbling about not making much money (a scant billion or three on titles such as Sim whatever) And how he meets the beautiful (but really smart and talented) movie starlet (who coubles in lighting and special effects - she learned it from her dad and uncle).
The movie concludes as he brings Hollywood sex and glitz to the Valley, soon the SVEI (Silicon Valley Entertainment Industry) lawers are busy whittling away more rights of the consumer for the 'betterment of the Industry'.)
1. A resume is a tool to convince your perspective employer that they WANT to have you work for them. They want someone who produces (whatever) better then the others, or that can at the very least handle the work needed.
With that said you think of your resume as the sticker you see on a shiny new car; it lists all the features you would want in a car, that's what you want to do, list thew education, job tasks and skills your employer would want in an employee..
If you need to attach a cover letter or do an interview, this part is likening it to the sales, pitch by said auto dealer - you got them hooked by the facts (the sticker/resume) now comes the point to sell them on idea of buying - tell them how you are going to make it all work smoothly, solve their problems, etc. Or explain what it is you see as an opportunity for you in this job and what you can bring to it or the team at large.
2. Write these things out long and start trimming down then have someone else read it (maybe someone not technically inclined and soneone else who is) they will help find those nasty mistypings (like I am probably writing now), clean up some obfuscated grammar and maybe make it a bit less technical (or more so if necessary).
3. Finish it up (and make it stand out in some way - if you think that is wise; designers use fancy layouts and fonts, maybe for programmers you could put a game listing on the back or something...:-/)
4. Distribute it and practice interviewing and communicating for any interviews (rember, you gotta have a slick pitch and sound like a normal human).
While you are writing the resume, keep in mind somone will be screening a whole stack of these, missing information (no dates in employment history, large time gaps, etc.), bad explanations ("my bosses didn't like me"), or just general unreadability (sloppy, unorganized, etc) will give it bad marks and won't help you make it to the interview stack.
I've screened and interviewed for the agency I work at and many resumes have a lot to be desired. Another thought, is if yoiu can grab some resumes of your peers and play screener, hiring for the job you want, see what works as you read through the stack and try to make it work in yours.
-- If you do go through a resume service, read and know your resume, you may get quizzed on it (and it may be presented differently than the way you would)
Were there any claims to your actions that you feel were unfounded (value of software, actions, abandonware/shareware/freeware in the list of programs in question, etc.)
How did they treat you in the arresst and conviction process?
And did you feel the witnesses, prosecution and judge were sufficiently knowledgeable to handle the case?
After 10 years of purchasing Mac stuff, it usually is later in January and Later in July - as stated after the MacWorld announcements (if Steve is pushing something new, the older models will be reduced; or if sales are sluggish, the model prices will be lowered). The worst time is before Xmas and around June.
Same thing goes with used, as new better models or lower prices are announced the prices for used equipment goes down accordingly.
My problem is being at a non-profit much of the equipment purchasing comes at the end of fiscal year in June and/or December (depending on grant years).:-/
Also for Mac stuff watch MacWarehouse and Mac Zone both of them have reduced prices during closeouts, and a clearance area that may have good values.
It seems a lot of utilities who can't make the mainstream shareware it. They programatically disable features and then use a password key to unlock the features on software payment (One that I have registered products through, that seems to be good is Kagi. They do all the payment processing and take a paercentage or a per license commision off the proceeds.
When I am looking for a utility (for my Mac, which has a lack of broad product range commercial vendors) I go to the Info-Archives and Download.com. So those are places I would suggest to post your apps.
But don't forget an accompanying website, with good details and screen shots (even if it is a utility, people will want to see what the UI looks like.)
If you get popular, then big vendors will look for you (or you will become the big vendor).
Actually they'll be stopped at our systems' border just short of the content jamming sattilite field where they must agree to a Digital Rights agreement as drafted by the government, (now composed of the interplanetary Recording Artists and Motion Images guild and Microsoft Unlimited.)
Failure to do so woould mean seisure of said craft for inspection for contiband material and installation of DRM devices and operating systems (plus being charged a nominal but mandatory processing/licensing fee). Acceptance would be the same thing.. but we would smile when we enforced it.
Yep, there goes your computeter disk space and processing time in support for another device with cut-rate hardware features.
IF it was something that hooked to an iPod, THEN you would have a hot product, as you don't need to have the computer on and running a task to intercept those shows, added portability, etc. etc. etc.
You Whipersnappers!
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Alterations of a PC game are called "mods." Although modifying began among hard-core hackers,
I began a whole lot longer before that, Go back to the 70s/80s where people with their 'big three' home computers starting out by modifying BASIC from a tape program or type-in listing (Yep I remember giving the mansters in Cursor's Dungeon silly names and myself better recharge stats)
A Few years later as 8-bit computing progressed many pirates added extras to their 'cracked' games (which they called 'trainers' added such options as too many lives, indesctructible, level jump, etc.)
Next the designers themseleves were modding their own games before release, type in this combo or do that joystick move to get free lives, etc.
Being in the non-profit industry I am always looking to save dollars on technology (especially in the long term as we don't have the funds to buy new equipment every year.)
Linux looks good, open source is good too if/when you have the tech knowlege for it, inexpensive, lots of power without the price Web ready and some cool development tools.
But!
The rest of the world uses Microsoft, documents in Word, Excel, Power Poiint, etc. (I know star office addresses some of this.)
Staff want training in their programs (they are business people, not computer people) and what training they are getting is usually only available in Microsoft (case in point, a recent organizational training focused on Project 2000, which is now only on Windows).
Third they have specific needs like fund accounting software - which our current product of choice (which is a must for several key admin spots) seems to be following the Microsoft Windows/SQL Server and/or Terminal Server bandwagon.
Like GEM, Be, GeoWorks, OS/2, AmigaDos, etc. It doesn't matter how good the computer or OS is, if you don't have the applications people need, all you have is a fancy box with blinkin lights.
Of course if some 'burned by windows' software company were to start developing such 'required for business' applications for linux, the market is pretty open for making themselves a leader in linux business apps...
Sounds great to me, I would keep it as educational as possible, first person shooters probably aren't the education most paretns want to see thouugh.
Games I would use
- Basic Strategy
- Employs realistic physics (can base a lesson on predited/actual outcomes)
- Uses more the motor hand/eye skills (like math, history)
- Is cooperative in play (Very important here in a school setting!)
- also of someone is doing too well assign then to help those who aren't to encourage teamwork.
If the school has a programming class or club, they should have the opportunity during that time to do network program testing/development too (access to a networked system while learning programming is a good thing).
I think it is a tremendous opportunity for the kids to really learn something useful.
I think that statement requires proof. I would like to see them demonstrate the ease to get a movie from DVD to the internet with a single click. I know where I live DSL is an empty promise.
I think they should give a live demonstration of 'pirating' a movie. (2 hr feature, make it something old and in color (some film with no value). I think the procedures needed to encode, transfer, receive and decode and the resulting 'lossless' qulaity would make a jury snicker (or at least fall asleep).
At that price (and that statement of ethics) I would think that they must be held partly accountable for any fraud perpetrated by those who acquire the.pro suffix.
Case in point, our databases run on FoxBase/FoxPro, microsoft dropped support (along with Project, and a bunch of other legacy apps), Filemaker is a joke in comparison to Fox, we do some communication via ARAP which doesn't work in classic via X (no DSL here; so VPN connectivity is out). Old printer, scanner, peripheral drivers? Not apple's problem.
Some of the software vendors don't make Mac (or any) products anymore so there won't ever be OSX versions.
Final Cut Pro: Matrox's video accellerator card crashes OSX (ever see the OSX's "text screen of death"... something different alright) and does not even provide accelleration via OSX.
ATI (older iMac/G3) support for OSX? Not as of last writing, some macs go much slower than with OS9...:-/
I think the tons'o files/directory structures vs data/resource forks suck. also new to the Mac are the three letter extensions (goody:-/ ).
It was inevitable but it leaves Apple in a bad position... It hasn't impressed me yet.:-P
I know of non-profit agencies where they wanted to be on the "Cutting Edge" of technology and bought into some bad plans. And being a non-profit they didn't have the IT staff to support it so that added to their consultancy costs.
Other agencies are going on the Microsoft bandwagon which they think MS will guide them into the new millennium without fuss or overhead and reduced costs down the road... well I'll leave it at that.
The right technology can be benefit. Too much of the wrong technology can be a detriment. Also without enough trained staff to take advantage of the technology it would be like a child care center installing Beowolf cluster and a T3.
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The title that scares me the most is "Microsoft Government" (No, I'm not kidding on that one, I get letters with that moniker monthly!).
P.S. Glad you guys liked my reply, it made my day.
Hmmm, I didn't see the article before /. effect... but I believe these are some of the titles:
The AntiTrust Shuffle (TM)
You play either Bill Gates or Steve Balmer and using a dance pad you whip out the moves to avoid the slings and arrows of outrageous justice. As you improve your skills you can advance to being the Master of the DRM Market, as you manipulate (again, via the dance pad) the masses and the RIAA/MPAA against each other towards more control for yourself. You can even do doubles with two game pads.
Inter game bonus rounds let you earn extra points based on effectiveness of various celebration dances and 'who's the man' gesturees.
Embrace and Extend (TM)
Kind of like a tetris game where those rectangular pieces that fall from above and can fit in a lot of other game slots below, but in this you must catch the pieces in mid-fall and re-shape them to VisualSquarish#.net shapes where they only seem to fit in the Microsoft game slot... If you don't have time to to 'extend' the pieces you still earn points by getting them all to go into the Microsoft Game slot anyway, if you don't get into MS you loose points and are told you are a loser. (also available for WinCE handhelds)
'Innovation' Avenger (TM)
Fight the evil GPL who wish to suck Innovation out of the Microsoft Universe. Armed with the best legal offenses and wads of cash you pick off the relentless multitudes of drones (liiks like sinistar, but the drones are building some sort of Penguin...)
The game employs advanced AI technologies where the AI drones get smarter faster than you do... But you can also can get political and corporate power-ups to throw more roadblocks into their assault.
EULA (TM)
Word game - still under development.
Have you guys heard of any others being planned?
Here's his big break, he can jump in and become the computer 'game engineer' who saves Silicon Valley by making it work with hollywood's finest.
Yep, we can have him play Nolan Bushnell... no Trip Hawkins... (wait, he's not with EA anymore, right?) Well someone...
Starting out with his 'geek years' bumbling about not making much money (a scant billion or three on titles such as Sim whatever) And how he meets the beautiful (but really smart and talented) movie starlet (who coubles in lighting and special effects - she learned it from her dad and uncle).
The movie concludes as he brings Hollywood sex and glitz to the Valley, soon the SVEI (Silicon Valley Entertainment Industry) lawers are busy whittling away more rights of the consumer for the 'betterment of the Industry'.)
The End.
Here are a few tips on Resumes:
:-/)
1. A resume is a tool to convince your perspective employer that they WANT to have you work for them. They want someone who produces (whatever) better then the others, or that can at the very least handle the work needed.
With that said you think of your resume as the sticker you see on a shiny new car; it lists all the features you would want in a car, that's what you want to do, list thew education, job tasks and skills your employer would want in an employee..
If you need to attach a cover letter or do an interview, this part is likening it to the sales, pitch by said auto dealer - you got them hooked by the facts (the sticker/resume) now comes the point to sell them on idea of buying - tell them how you are going to make it all work smoothly, solve their problems, etc. Or explain what it is you see as an opportunity for you in this job and what you can bring to it or the team at large.
2. Write these things out long and start trimming down then have someone else read it (maybe someone not technically inclined and soneone else who is) they will help find those nasty mistypings (like I am probably writing now), clean up some obfuscated grammar and maybe make it a bit less technical (or more so if necessary).
3. Finish it up (and make it stand out in some way - if you think that is wise; designers use fancy layouts and fonts, maybe for programmers you could put a game listing on the back or something...
4. Distribute it and practice interviewing and communicating for any interviews (rember, you gotta have a slick pitch and sound like a normal human).
While you are writing the resume, keep in mind somone will be screening a whole stack of these, missing information (no dates in employment history, large time gaps, etc.), bad explanations ("my bosses didn't like me"), or just general unreadability (sloppy, unorganized, etc) will give it bad marks and won't help you make it to the interview stack.
I've screened and interviewed for the agency I work at and many resumes have a lot to be desired. Another thought, is if yoiu can grab some resumes of your peers and play screener, hiring for the job you want, see what works as you read through the stack and try to make it work in yours.
-- If you do go through a resume service, read and know your resume, you may get quizzed on it (and it may be presented differently than the way you would)
This is an interesting perspective to hear from,
Were there any claims to your actions that you feel were unfounded (value of software, actions, abandonware/shareware/freeware in the list of programs in question, etc.)
How did they treat you in the arresst and conviction process?
And did you feel the witnesses, prosecution and judge were sufficiently knowledgeable to handle the case?
After 10 years of purchasing Mac stuff, it usually is later in January and Later in July - as stated after the MacWorld announcements (if Steve is pushing something new, the older models will be reduced; or if sales are sluggish, the model prices will be lowered). The worst time is before Xmas and around June.
:-/
Same thing goes with used, as new better models or lower prices are announced the prices for used equipment goes down accordingly.
My problem is being at a non-profit much of the equipment purchasing comes at the end of fiscal year in June and/or December (depending on grant years).
Also for Mac stuff watch MacWarehouse and Mac Zone both of them have reduced prices during closeouts, and a clearance area that may have good values.
It seems a lot of utilities who can't make the mainstream shareware it. They programatically disable features and then use a password key to unlock the features on software payment (One that I have registered products through, that seems to be good is Kagi. They do all the payment processing and take a paercentage or a per license commision off the proceeds. When I am looking for a utility (for my Mac, which has a lack of broad product range commercial vendors) I go to the Info-Archives and Download.com. So those are places I would suggest to post your apps. But don't forget an accompanying website, with good details and screen shots (even if it is a utility, people will want to see what the UI looks like.) If you get popular, then big vendors will look for you (or you will become the big vendor).
Yep once the inroads to Linux are completed Apple will produce CDs to scuttle the X-Box and turn it into their digital lifestyle hub. :-)
Some of the Commodore 64 Browsers require a shell account...
Failure to do so woould mean seisure of said craft for inspection for contiband material and installation of DRM devices and operating systems (plus being charged a nominal but mandatory processing/licensing fee). Acceptance would be the same thing.. but we would smile when we enforced it.
I don't understand; I can't seem to figure out where you put the fish...
So, all your airports are belong to U.S.?
Makes ya want to live off welfare, eh? ...no, wait, the government will probably out such a statement in your agreement too.
Now how should I think so I don't get in trouble...
My favorite Game for the Mac ins Chipmunk BASIC.
(=))
IF it was something that hooked to an iPod, THEN you would have a hot product, as you don't need to have the computer on and running a task to intercept those shows, added portability, etc. etc. etc.
I began a whole lot longer before that, Go back to the 70s/80s where people with their 'big three' home computers starting out by modifying BASIC from a tape program or type-in listing (Yep I remember giving the mansters in Cursor's Dungeon silly names and myself better recharge stats)
A Few years later as 8-bit computing progressed many pirates added extras to their 'cracked' games (which they called 'trainers' added such options as too many lives, indesctructible, level jump, etc.)
Next the designers themseleves were modding their own games before release, type in this combo or do that joystick move to get free lives, etc.
The article is old news to me.
Linux looks good, open source is good too if/when you have the tech knowlege for it, inexpensive, lots of power without the price Web ready and some cool development tools.
But!
The rest of the world uses Microsoft, documents in Word, Excel, Power Poiint, etc. (I know star office addresses some of this.)
Staff want training in their programs (they are business people, not computer people) and what training they are getting is usually only available in Microsoft (case in point, a recent organizational training focused on Project 2000, which is now only on Windows).
Third they have specific needs like fund accounting software - which our current product of choice (which is a must for several key admin spots) seems to be following the Microsoft Windows/SQL Server and/or Terminal Server bandwagon.
Like GEM, Be, GeoWorks, OS/2, AmigaDos, etc. It doesn't matter how good the computer or OS is, if you don't have the applications people need, all you have is a fancy box with blinkin lights.
Of course if some 'burned by windows' software company were to start developing such 'required for business' applications for linux, the market is pretty open for making themselves a leader in linux business apps...
WHY IN THE GUL-DURNED HECK ARE THEY ASKING MICROSOFT HOW THEY SHOLD BE PUNISHED?
It's like asking ol' Charlie Manson if he thinks our locking him away is ok.
This isn't a trial it's more like a government funded PR circus.
Larry
Games I would use
- Basic Strategy
- Employs realistic physics (can base a lesson on predited/actual outcomes)
- Uses more the motor hand/eye skills (like math, history)
- Is cooperative in play (Very important here in a school setting!)
- also of someone is doing too well assign then to help those who aren't to encourage teamwork.
If the school has a programming class or club, they should have the opportunity during that time to do network program testing/development too (access to a networked system while learning programming is a good thing).
I think it is a tremendous opportunity for the kids to really learn something useful.
I think that statement requires proof. I would like to see them demonstrate the ease to get a movie from DVD to the internet with a single click. I know where I live DSL is an empty promise.
I think they should give a live demonstration of 'pirating' a movie. (2 hr feature, make it something old and in color (some film with no value). I think the procedures needed to encode, transfer, receive and decode and the resulting 'lossless' qulaity would make a jury snicker (or at least fall asleep).
The Clutch Cargo cartoons (?) did that 40 or so years ago... :-)
At that price (and that statement of ethics) I would think that they must be held partly accountable for any fraud perpetrated by those who acquire the .pro suffix.
Case in point, our databases run on FoxBase/FoxPro, microsoft dropped support (along with Project, and a bunch of other legacy apps), Filemaker is a joke in comparison to Fox, we do some communication via ARAP which doesn't work in classic via X (no DSL here; so VPN connectivity is out). Old printer, scanner, peripheral drivers? Not apple's problem.
:-/
:-/ ).
:-P
Some of the software vendors don't make Mac (or any) products anymore so there won't ever be OSX versions.
Final Cut Pro: Matrox's video accellerator card crashes OSX (ever see the OSX's "text screen of death"... something different alright) and does not even provide accelleration via OSX.
ATI (older iMac/G3) support for OSX? Not as of last writing, some macs go much slower than with OS9...
I think the tons'o files/directory structures vs data/resource forks suck. also new to the Mac are the three letter extensions (goody
It was inevitable but it leaves Apple in a bad position... It hasn't impressed me yet.
I know of non-profit agencies where they wanted to be on the "Cutting Edge" of technology and bought into some bad plans. And being a non-profit they didn't have the IT staff to support it so that added to their consultancy costs.
Other agencies are going on the Microsoft bandwagon which they think MS will guide them into the new millennium without fuss or overhead and reduced costs down the road... well I'll leave it at that.
The right technology can be benefit. Too much of the wrong technology can be a detriment. Also without enough trained staff to take advantage of the technology it would be like a child care center installing Beowolf cluster and a T3.