Rice. The US grows rice and sells it to China, who manufacture goods and clothing and sell them back. One of the big advantages of the US is that it has got lots of fertile land.
Strangely the US still has a higher per capita income than China, but players of Elite will know this may not last.
The problem isnt that there arent enough programmers, it's simply that you need the best... with artists you can make do with less talented one, since they can simply spend more time on their assignments while you hire more of them to do the work of the single better artist. With programming this doesnt work.
I can agree a little bit with that; although it is nicer to have genius-artists, you can get by with merely good artists if you have strong wise management (a rare commodity in games companies). Probably a good asset-management system helps too. Unfortunately with poor coders you have to take time away from the good ones to fix all the bad stuff, which might take longer than if the good ones had written it in the first place.
For open-source of course the situation seems to be different - there seems to be a dramatic shortage of free artists compared to free programmers.
Further to your point IIRC in the UK possessing kiddie pr0n is illegal even if no kid was involved (i.e. it was drawn in photoshop). That must invoke a few questions then around the edges (what if the drawing is of an alien creature who just happens to look young? etc.).
But then listening to music with "repetitive beats" in a group of 3 or more people outside is illegal (under laws to stop "raves") so the UK govt is quite fond of drafting broad laws.
I have also had Heisenbugs which are due to code/data alignment issues. For example if two items of data were in the same 256 byte page the code worked but if they were in different pages they didn't. This was affected by the difference between release and debug builds.
Also, on the 6502, a JMP indirect instruction would fail if the data straddled a page boundary. And with a compiler I am using now, I am not completely convinced that its code is completely page-safe for calling function pointers (there might be a 1 in 65536 chance of the code being "unfortunate"). In these situations, use the disassembler!
On fancy-pants PC systems you might also find that threading/synchronisation is an important issue - the system i/o routines might cause a thread yield which prevents certain bugs from showing.
As with the other companies, some years ago they sacked every employee, so I think that Activision is here just in name only, unless some of the old-timers have returned since.
Similarly someone recently bought the "Commodore" name, ditto for "Mastertronic" and the other companies.
When I tried the iris recognition system at the millenium dome (i.e. in 2000) and got scanned in, when I went to the other machine a couple of metres away it didn't recognise me?
Oh, so that's what mofo stands for. Obviously yet more proof that americans can't spell then... it should be mofu if it is an abbreviation; otherwise it would be referring to a woman who works for a dutch aircraft company.
The WHO said that eating too much sugar is bad for you. The sugar companies told the US administration to correct the WHO - a high sugar diet is great for you, and the proof is in the fit healthy people you see in the television adverts for candy!
Look at the video/dvd for Soul Music - the cartoon adaptation of the Terry Pratchett Discworld novel, by Cosgrove Hall (the people who brought you the classic cartoon series Dangermouse) - it has nice pastiches of 60s music.
It's part of the whole computer science ethic of never using a concise phrase when they could use a three-letter-acronym that is used for many different purposes instead.
Mathematicians really like this approach too, except they try to name everything a single unicode symbol, going through the latin and greek alphabets (For example pi can be a constant 3.142... or it can be a variable) and sometimes trudging into Cyrillic and Hebrew rather than have multi-character variable names. No doubt the addition of Kanji to operating systems opens up new realms of possibilities to them.
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Whereas with his game Smash TV you are shooting enemies to collect consumer goods and cash! A worthy pursuit indeed.
Great game, but I fail to see how it takes the moral high ground. And yup, I have written a game where you have to shoot perps to get points :-/
Strangely the US still has a higher per capita income than China, but players of Elite will know this may not last.
I can agree a little bit with that; although it is nicer to have genius-artists, you can get by with merely good artists if you have strong wise management (a rare commodity in games companies). Probably a good asset-management system helps too. Unfortunately with poor coders you have to take time away from the good ones to fix all the bad stuff, which might take longer than if the good ones had written it in the first place.
For open-source of course the situation seems to be different - there seems to be a dramatic shortage of free artists compared to free programmers.
Was he on it?
Ancient Rome.
policeman cause crime
Various UK police forces in the 1970s.
and the good folks at Symantec
Um, ah, um, those nice virus protection folks are always welcome to consume 20Mbytes of RAM and grind my machine to a halt.
Not as tall as Phil Harrison (Sony) or Dave Perry (Interplay) though :-)
But then listening to music with "repetitive beats" in a group of 3 or more people outside is illegal (under laws to stop "raves") so the UK govt is quite fond of drafting broad laws.
On fancy-pants PC systems you might also find that threading/synchronisation is an important issue - the system i/o routines might cause a thread yield which prevents certain bugs from showing.
However, the current crop of stuff from them (e.g. extreme sports games) is quite good too.
I love Prince of Persia but thinking that it was developed with slave labour makes me uneasy.
As with the other companies, some years ago they sacked every employee, so I think that Activision is here just in name only, unless some of the old-timers have returned since.
Similarly someone recently bought the "Commodore" name, ditto for "Mastertronic" and the other companies.
When I tried the iris recognition system at the millenium dome (i.e. in 2000) and got scanned in, when I went to the other machine a couple of metres away it didn't recognise me?
Oh, so that's what mofo stands for. Obviously yet more proof that americans can't spell then... it should be mofu if it is an abbreviation; otherwise it would be referring to a woman who works for a dutch aircraft company.
quick google...
Named after the Penn and Teller fan channel? Seems a bit obscure.
A motor racing league?
New York sports team?
None of those meanings seem particularly funny, and if it aint on the first page it cant be important :-)
Which still hasn't come out, though it was promised for december last year :-(
It placed me near Nelson Mandela which surprised me - I thought I was pretty centrist economically - but its not exactly an insult.
The WHO said that eating too much sugar is bad for you. The sugar companies told the US administration to correct the WHO - a high sugar diet is great for you, and the proof is in the fit healthy people you see in the television adverts for candy!
Already diluted the brand with Javascript.
Well, we have at least these meanings:
How does a Belgian talk to a Belgian :-)
The problem is that there are too many damn whales, eating all the fish :-/ (they propose a simple solution).
The write-in candidates are going to make the screen a bit messy.
Look at the video/dvd for Soul Music - the cartoon adaptation of the Terry Pratchett Discworld novel, by Cosgrove Hall (the people who brought you the classic cartoon series Dangermouse) - it has nice pastiches of 60s music.
Mathematicians really like this approach too, except they try to name everything a single unicode symbol, going through the latin and greek alphabets (For example pi can be a constant 3.142... or it can be a variable) and sometimes trudging into Cyrillic and Hebrew rather than have multi-character variable names. No doubt the addition of Kanji to operating systems opens up new realms of possibilities to them.
Dubya: What's the French for laissez faire?