Has it come to this? Why not just take anyone that "looks like a terrorist" and shuffle them off to camps, like we unfortunately did with thousands of Asian Americans in WWII? I know they're just a company, but it is alarming to see any action that just blankly denies access to their systems based on something as generic as a name. It's not like blocking all Adolf Hitler's either, there are TONS of people named Mohammed, it is a very common name. I had two of them in my grade school classes, both exact same name of Mohammed Ali.
I can answer that, he wasn't able to bill more than x hours, or it was a fixed price contract. In those cases, when you're running an overage, your boss will probably say things like, " I don't care what you do, i don't care how you do it, get this done immediately." He was probably given a wink and a nudge to go ahead, and got caught somehow politically through accessing a high-level account, someone blew their stack, and now the game is up. Fact is, this happens a LOT more than people will admit (until they're caught).
We have these in ohio: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crane_fly and they look just like enormous mosquitos, so much so that you can't help freaking out if one gets near you!
I think that quote "any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic;" requires one other caveat... sufficiently advanced relative to your experience. If you'd never seen or understood how a butane lighter before, that looks like magic. To Ted Stevens, clearly the internet is beyond his level of technical understanding... I can just see the publicist standing just off-camera wildly making the "CUT" sign as he spewed this stuff!
Why not go out to the desert, somewhere like Arizona, to launch these things? Whose brilliant idea was it to launch from Florida in the summer, pretty much right in hurricane season? Furthermore, how come the weather can delay a launch, but the complaints of engineers are ignored? I think a healthy amount of concern is relevant at this point for NASA and the space program. They have just not had enough money for way too long.
I don't think we should think of this as a move that Google may 'sell' the machines they make, aside from selling Google search or app appliances one day. The vast majority of chips they would be making are probably to 'own the supply chain' for their own massive server systems. This is similar in concept to the early Ford Motor Company that owned the steel mills, etc. Google just wants the lowest net cost per computing cycle, and if Dell wants to earn a profit selling them computers in bulk, it might be cheaper for Google to bring that profit in-house.
Floppy missed the list... come on, that definitely is a suggestive name for a game. Of course, Irritating Stick's cover art is classic! That just hurts to even look at.
When is the general subscription coming? I want to pay like $10-$20 and be on all the different games, not $x per game. That's just not being managed right -- they'd all share a lot more purchases, customers, etc. if they could just combine user bases through a single subscription model.
If it's a super hit game, then charging $100 on the first day or for pre-release is only good economics -- if there are people willing to pay that much, why not? You can always drop the price later, while increasing it later will definitely sting more. Granted, I would prefer to not see any games over $50, I know that the market is just so high now that if a console is $600 when it used to be $100, then games are probably pushing $100 or even $150 for it! Now if you're dumb enough to buy madden 20XX supreme ultra plus edition for $100, then you deserve to be disappointed if it turns out to be "Yet Another Football Game".
When you're talking about a special edition, why not include some of the older versions running on the (available) emulators? I guess it's hard to get the PS2 to do emulation, but at least including some of the low-selling older PS1 FF versions would be a nice gesture to long time fans of the series.
Of course it looks like a waste, so do any of the other things you can contribute to... until they hit their mark. Now while I'll agree that protein folding has more immediate advantages to cures, etc. , SETI discovering a real intelligent alien signal would generate a flurry of spending that would likely yield many more inventions, something like what the first space race did for technology.
Here's another shocker: They probably wanted it to be discovered for the publicity... but they probably figured it would stay an underground thing. They apparently forgot that it's 2006 and people now spend way too much time "thinking of the children". Back in the day, games would have full on hidden swear words, etc. hidden in there, and it never made the news or whatever. Heck, who hasn't been to an arcade and seen some creatively NC-17 vulgarities on the high score boards?
SETI might seem like a waste to everyone, and maybe it is... until joe 6-pack running it in his basement finds an intelligent, alien signal. Then all bets are off!
I think we should abandon trying to get interoperability from Microsoft and simply do what we did in the old days: reverse engineer conversion tools as much as possible! (In terms of converting their "open" format to a real open format.)
The defintion of a 'god' has changed somewhat. With an army of programmers/designers behind games now, it would be more like the creative director than the programmer, assuming they were able to generate a lot of interesting and unique game ideas.
I still think that at any time, however, a genius individual can produce a tetris-like game (i.e. Tetris), and completely either create a new genre, and/or dismantle or change the direction of the gaming world. With so many games on the market, it may be harder to hear that "voice of reason" than in years past.
Why not use rfid tags and hook it to one of those "press a button to make beep noise" key-finding devices? That way, if the item floats to another compartment, you hit a button in the cockpit and then just float towards the noise... IANARS (rocket scientist), but my dad's a retired one, not that it matters.
From what i remember, no matter where you turned the paddle, it just walked the same, but I did try it with the joystick and had similar troubles... what was so hard is that as I recall, you can't control the guy once you jump.
If you've never played pitfall, especially with the original "controllers" (paddles - basically a knob and a button on a brick, if you've never used one)... that game is HARD. It looks a bit like a regular side-scroller, but one slightly off jump and you're dead. It took me forever just to get past that damned alligator in the first few screens! And yes, many older games are still awesome today, just like many older songs are still awesome today. Pitfall is definitely a classic, like Pac-Man. IMHO, every gamer should play it and other classic games at least once, so they can understand why us older folks get pissy about the latest graphics with Yet Another FPS behind it.
Yeah, BASIC/PHP/MYSQL is real bad, that's why all those genius programmers that use C++ never ran off the end of an array, caused a buffer overflow bug, or had any kind of memory cleanup problems... A crappy programmer is such in any language, and BASIC/PHP/MYSQL is a very useful tool for making smaller apps without having to get into the hardware details of the machine's operation.
Handling everything about the machine is neat, but it's something that honestly just wastes your time if you need a program that: reads a file, processes data and produces output. If that's all I'm doing, then why do I need to operate at a level that the O/S is going to conflict with?
first of all, it's not like you can take something to work, leave it in the other car, etc. If it's on the station, it's on the station still. If you didn't find it in 5 minutes, then your method for looking/putting away is failing. There should be a process, etc. etc. AFter all, you can't even "set something down" in space. "Setting down" a wrench would just make it float away, and then it would smack you in the head later on.
If Google offers widgets in the search results, won't that blow away Ask.com's being stuck with Wikipedia? I just hope they credit me, since I know they're all reading this and thinking about it now.
So I suppose it'll be just an instant after these hit shelves and get to houses, and then BAM! Someone posts the Captain Crunch(tm) hack for that dial-up billing, so that you get free movies. Why don't they just send you a flat-rate bill, and limit the number of movies you can swap out internally to the device? Seems much less risky for them.
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I'm sorry, but to me this is just yet another confusing syntax for the same old tricks.
Wheee! 2 different kinds of strings... yet another invitation for novices to create spaghetti code that I will have to clean up later, thanks!
Has it come to this? Why not just take anyone that "looks like a terrorist" and shuffle them off to camps, like we unfortunately did with thousands of Asian Americans in WWII? I know they're just a company, but it is alarming to see any action that just blankly denies access to their systems based on something as generic as a name. It's not like blocking all Adolf Hitler's either, there are TONS of people named Mohammed, it is a very common name. I had two of them in my grade school classes, both exact same name of Mohammed Ali.
I can answer that, he wasn't able to bill more than x hours, or it was a fixed price contract. In those cases, when you're running an overage, your boss will probably say things like, " I don't care what you do, i don't care how you do it, get this done immediately."
He was probably given a wink and a nudge to go ahead, and got caught somehow politically through accessing a high-level account, someone blew their stack, and now the game is up. Fact is, this happens a LOT more than people will admit (until they're caught).
We have these in ohio: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crane_fly and they look just like enormous mosquitos, so much so that you can't help freaking out if one gets near you!
Well, one night he borrowed his friend's lotus, and couldn't get the thing to shift right, and he got lost... wait, that's not it.
All those policies of 'no workplace romance' are b.s., the foundation of American small business is the mom-and-pop shop, not the mom-or-pop shop.
I think that quote "any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic;" requires one other caveat... sufficiently advanced relative to your experience. If you'd never seen or understood how a butane lighter before, that looks like magic. To Ted Stevens, clearly the internet is beyond his level of technical understanding... I can just see the publicist standing just off-camera wildly making the "CUT" sign as he spewed this stuff!
Why not go out to the desert, somewhere like Arizona, to launch these things? Whose brilliant idea was it to launch from Florida in the summer, pretty much right in hurricane season? Furthermore, how come the weather can delay a launch, but the complaints of engineers are ignored? I think a healthy amount of concern is relevant at this point for NASA and the space program. They have just not had enough money for way too long.
I don't think we should think of this as a move that Google may 'sell' the machines they make, aside from selling Google search or app appliances one day. The vast majority of chips they would be making are probably to 'own the supply chain' for their own massive server systems. This is similar in concept to the early Ford Motor Company that owned the steel mills, etc. Google just wants the lowest net cost per computing cycle, and if Dell wants to earn a profit selling them computers in bulk, it might be cheaper for Google to bring that profit in-house.
Floppy missed the list... come on, that definitely is a suggestive name for a game. Of course, Irritating Stick's cover art is classic! That just hurts to even look at.
When is the general subscription coming? I want to pay like $10-$20 and be on all the different games, not $x per game. That's just not being managed right -- they'd all share a lot more purchases, customers, etc. if they could just combine user bases through a single subscription model.
If it's a super hit game, then charging $100 on the first day or for pre-release is only good economics -- if there are people willing to pay that much, why not? You can always drop the price later, while increasing it later will definitely sting more. Granted, I would prefer to not see any games over $50, I know that the market is just so high now that if a console is $600 when it used to be $100, then games are probably pushing $100 or even $150 for it! Now if you're dumb enough to buy madden 20XX supreme ultra plus edition for $100, then you deserve to be disappointed if it turns out to be "Yet Another Football Game".
When you're talking about a special edition, why not include some of the older versions running on the (available) emulators? I guess it's hard to get the PS2 to do emulation, but at least including some of the low-selling older PS1 FF versions would be a nice gesture to long time fans of the series.
Of course it looks like a waste, so do any of the other things you can contribute to... until they hit their mark. Now while I'll agree that protein folding has more immediate advantages to cures, etc. , SETI discovering a real intelligent alien signal would generate a flurry of spending that would likely yield many more inventions, something like what the first space race did for technology.
Here's another shocker: They probably wanted it to be discovered for the publicity... but they probably figured it would stay an underground thing. They apparently forgot that it's 2006 and people now spend way too much time "thinking of the children". Back in the day, games would have full on hidden swear words, etc. hidden in there, and it never made the news or whatever. Heck, who hasn't been to an arcade and seen some creatively NC-17 vulgarities on the high score boards?
As long as your imaginary friend is saying "DONT kill", I'm cool with it. It's when they switch to saying "DO kill" that I get concerned.
SETI might seem like a waste to everyone, and maybe it is... until joe 6-pack running it in his basement finds an intelligent, alien signal. Then all bets are off!
I think we should abandon trying to get interoperability from Microsoft and simply do what we did in the old days: reverse engineer conversion tools as much as possible! (In terms of converting their "open" format to a real open format.)
The defintion of a 'god' has changed somewhat. With an army of programmers/designers behind games now, it would be more like the creative director than the programmer, assuming they were able to generate a lot of interesting and unique game ideas.
I still think that at any time, however, a genius individual can produce a tetris-like game (i.e. Tetris), and completely either create a new genre, and/or dismantle or change the direction of the gaming world. With so many games on the market, it may be harder to hear that "voice of reason" than in years past.
Why not use rfid tags and hook it to one of those "press a button to make beep noise" key-finding devices? That way, if the item floats to another compartment, you hit a button in the cockpit and then just float towards the noise... IANARS (rocket scientist), but my dad's a retired one, not that it matters.
From what i remember, no matter where you turned the paddle, it just walked the same, but I did try it with the joystick and had similar troubles... what was so hard is that as I recall, you can't control the guy once you jump.
If you've never played pitfall, especially with the original "controllers" (paddles - basically a knob and a button on a brick, if you've never used one)... that game is HARD. It looks a bit like a regular side-scroller, but one slightly off jump and you're dead. It took me forever just to get past that damned alligator in the first few screens! And yes, many older games are still awesome today, just like many older songs are still awesome today. Pitfall is definitely a classic, like Pac-Man. IMHO, every gamer should play it and other classic games at least once, so they can understand why us older folks get pissy about the latest graphics with Yet Another FPS behind it.
Yeah, BASIC/PHP/MYSQL is real bad, that's why all those genius programmers that use C++ never ran off the end of an array, caused a buffer overflow bug, or had any kind of memory cleanup problems... A crappy programmer is such in any language, and BASIC/PHP/MYSQL is a very useful tool for making smaller apps without having to get into the hardware details of the machine's operation.
Handling everything about the machine is neat, but it's something that honestly just wastes your time if you need a program that: reads a file, processes data and produces output. If that's all I'm doing, then why do I need to operate at a level that the O/S is going to conflict with?
first of all, it's not like you can take something to work, leave it in the other car, etc. If it's on the station, it's on the station still. If you didn't find it in 5 minutes, then your method for looking/putting away is failing. There should be a process, etc. etc. AFter all, you can't even "set something down" in space. "Setting down" a wrench would just make it float away, and then it would smack you in the head later on.
If Google offers widgets in the search results, won't that blow away Ask.com's being stuck with Wikipedia? I just hope they credit me, since I know they're all reading this and thinking about it now.
So I suppose it'll be just an instant after these hit shelves and get to houses, and then BAM! Someone posts the Captain Crunch(tm) hack for that dial-up billing, so that you get free movies. Why don't they just send you a flat-rate bill, and limit the number of movies you can swap out internally to the device? Seems much less risky for them.