Remember before you buy the DVD drive to test it against SecuROM and other gameplay-prevention technologies, since the publisher certainly won't, and some games that you buy at the shop refuse to work if they you are using certain DVD drives. Like my Philips one for example.
Please please please don't let this be under Perpetual Copyright (TM) (Pat Pending.) (All rights reserved, US Megacorps united).
Oh, better far to live and die
Under the brave black flag I fly,
Than play a sanctimonious part
With a pirate head and a pirate heart.
Away to the cheating world go you,
Where pirates all are well-to-do;
But I'll be true to the song I sing,
And live and die a Pirate King.
For I am a Pirate King!
And it is, it is a glorious thing
To be a Pirate King!
If you say, go to the shops and buy a CD-ROM of a PC game and when you take it home find out that it refuses to play on your PC since you have a different model of CD-ROM than the three that the "copy-protection" company tested it on, can you sue them? All those PC companies are still in business so obviously not. If you buy it in australia for example, they will charge you $1.95 per minute to ring up their technical support line, so putting bugs in their code is a profit center.
The occupations mentioned in the article are artists, not programmers or IT. If you classify them as programmers you might as well say all secretaries are programmers since they use microsoft word (which is just as turing complete as 3ds max).
Well, India has just this month released its *first* 3d game. That puts it only a few years behind some eastern european country you've never heard of.
China on the other hand has Hong Kong and Taiwan with established semi-official industries, and EA is setting up shop in Shanghai.
The problem at the moment is that so many jobs at small companies have been outsourced *to* EA - as developers go broke or are bought by the behemoth. When all the jobs get dragged into California it becomes the only place to work, and there is a single point of failure for the industry.
He's resigning to clear the way for Bush to appoint him to the supreme court, according to vague rumours on the internet. If you thought he was dangerous as Attorney General you ain't seen nothing yet.
One minor point... remember the huge forest fires in indonesia that polluted the entire region a while back? I read recently that they have caused indonesia to become a *significant* producer of CO2, since the peat has gone from being a carbon sink to being a carbon source, possibly responsible for the huge blip that just got measured. If that is true then it is worth doing something about, even if it is a developing country.
IIRC some menus at bistros in europe had prices in multiple currencies, but it was more common to put an exchange rate there. Between the introduction of the Exchange Rate Mechanism and the actual Euro there was some exchange rate stability.
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After this months election results, outsiders think that those sentiments probably apply to the whole of the USA (or at least the red states).
Maths - how statistics can be manipulated to mislead you (e.g. non-zero base-points of graphs).
English - common fallacies (e.g. argumentum ad hominum).
Those areas are IMHO critical to having an informed citizenry.
And when the other 20 patent holders each want 5% of sales?
Remember before you buy the DVD drive to test it against SecuROM and other gameplay-prevention technologies, since the publisher certainly won't, and some games that you buy at the shop refuse to work if they you are using certain DVD drives. Like my Philips one for example.
Ghost who walks - man who can never die!
Silly costume - check
Secret identity - check (he travels incognito as mr walker)
Superhuman powers - sort of. Like batman or ironman, the ghost who walks is human, but he does have a habit of knocking out heavyweight boxing champs.
Predates copycat comicbooks - check (Feb. 17, 1936), years before Marvel comics (1939) or Superman (1938) or Batman (1939).
You could go the Tracey Emin or Damien Hirst route... and pay someone vast quantities of money for programmer art :-)
Please please please don't let this be under Perpetual Copyright (TM) (Pat Pending.) (All rights reserved, US Megacorps united).
Oh, better far to live and die
Under the brave black flag I fly,
Than play a sanctimonious part
With a pirate head and a pirate heart.
Away to the cheating world go you,
Where pirates all are well-to-do;
But I'll be true to the song I sing,
And live and die a Pirate King.
For I am a Pirate King!
And it is, it is a glorious thing
To be a Pirate King!
For I am a Pirate King!
Renderware is owned by EA. They can choose who uses it.
EA just *shut down* its studios in places like Austin Texas and moved them to california.
Because you can always trust a multimegabyte .exe file that claims to be a cracked copy of a commercial game, downloaded from some romanian web server.
If you say, go to the shops and buy a CD-ROM of a PC game and when you take it home find out that it refuses to play on your PC since you have a different model of CD-ROM than the three that the "copy-protection" company tested it on, can you sue them? All those PC companies are still in business so obviously not. If you buy it in australia for example, they will charge you $1.95 per minute to ring up their technical support line, so putting bugs in their code is a profit center.
Not being corrupt is all fine and dandy, but having a decent sized local market (like China, India, USA, EU) is a lot more helpful.
Isn't Micro Soft that japanese company that invented the SHIFT-JIS coding used for japanese text?
Yes, as the shirt-size of programmers.
Or go for cheap pine I suppose.
Nuts and bolts beats bricks in the technical innovation stakes...
The occupations mentioned in the article are artists, not programmers or IT. If you classify them as programmers you might as well say all secretaries are programmers since they use microsoft word (which is just as turing complete as 3ds max).
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China on the other hand has Hong Kong and Taiwan with established semi-official industries, and EA is setting up shop in Shanghai.
The problem at the moment is that so many jobs at small companies have been outsourced *to* EA - as developers go broke or are bought by the behemoth. When all the jobs get dragged into California it becomes the only place to work, and there is a single point of failure for the industry.
He's resigning to clear the way for Bush to appoint him to the supreme court, according to vague rumours on the internet. If you thought he was dangerous as Attorney General you ain't seen nothing yet.
Of course this theory doesn't explain florida, but if it gets flooded/blown away at least the spam output should be reduced.
One minor point... remember the huge forest fires in indonesia that polluted the entire region a while back? I read recently that they have caused indonesia to become a *significant* producer of CO2, since the peat has gone from being a carbon sink to being a carbon source, possibly responsible for the huge blip that just got measured. If that is true then it is worth doing something about, even if it is a developing country.
IIRC some menus at bistros in europe had prices in multiple currencies, but it was more common to put an exchange rate there. Between the introduction of the Exchange Rate Mechanism and the actual Euro there was some exchange rate stability.
Pah! That's nothing compared to learning German from pr0n videos...
Obviously a reference to using the mouse right-handed...
Revelation 13:17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
Universal product ID, with authentication...