They could call it the Nintendo crap bucket, doesn't matter. I'm still getting one so I can play all those old Nintendo games.
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It shouldnt be a surprise that if you want people to work longer than a 40-hour week but you don't pay them for overtime, that you will get an inferior result. What exactly is the employee's motivation other than termination? That's like a prison mentality, 'either break these rocks or we beat the crap out of you. Once you're done breaking the rocks, we'll beat the crap out of you.' Not much to look forward to except a delay of additional punishment in terms of more longer hours in the future.
Eventually people will favor creativity, and people like me will 'herd the cats' and make some sweet games. Until then, have fun with John Madden 20XX!
The only drawback, as with Lego, is that once you attach a block to the "base", it occupies those "connections". This isn't quite like Lego in that you probably can't just use the connectors on top of the new nanoscale structures to get at whatever the cell was doing anyhow... or maybe you can, and science is completely way more badass than I thought!
This will lead to some interesting Post-Traumatic Stress disorders in the future. Some poor army guy will take one bite of his eggplant parmesan and dive under the table, all, "INCOMING! AAIEE!"
It has nothing to do with whether or not they honored him. It has everything to do with whether or not they appropriated Miro's actual work to make the logo, and if it wasn't that transformative/derivative, then the family is right that they screwed up... legally, they should have asked permission to use his work that way, although it is a bit of a grey area when you chop up existing works, it's still commercial use of a work of art. Now, if they hand-drew something in the style of Miro, fine, but TFA clearly states they borrowed Miro's actual works to do the logo... that's bad, I don't care who you are, you don't just take someone's work.
It's apparently not just in the style of, but a rip-off of a few of his paintings, which to me sounds fishy at best and copyright violation at worst.
"Google's logo allegedly incorporated images from Miro's ``The Escape Ladder,'' 1940, ``Nocture,'' 1940, and ``The Beautiful Bird Revealing the Unknown to a Pair of Lovers,'' 1941."
Before you rip on it as being some style issue, read the FA, because it says right in there that it is actually using Miro's real works.
All you have to do is know one name, one word even, and any search anywhere will return adult material. Are they gonna put something in front of that? How about just typing in a url that goes to some detail page beyond the index page? Blocking all of that takes a trememdous amount of work... way harder than just "watch your kids" and "tell them about what's there". Any kid can go into a bookstore and see books with adult material in them, in fact you can go to any commercial big-box bookstore (barnes + noble, etc) and you'll see a slew of underage kids in the adult book area. We're just people, people!
Thanks for not being philanthropic with your money and investing in some art. There's only 2 kinds of rich people, the kind that sponsors the arts, and total scrooges. How embarassing for him... I can hear the head-shaking of the worldwide philanthropic-rich-people community as well as the starving artists everywhere (AHEM).
They're trying to convert it to a big demographic study/advertisement thing. They recently have this area where you can pick your favorite brands or products. Who in the hell cares what products or brands are my favorite, and why would I advertise that from my profile unless I was being paid something for click-thru or whatever? Totally awful exploitation of the customer base, IMHO.
If microsoft released a whole bunch of stuff, they'd get nailed with so many monopoly lawsuits it could actually bankrupt them. That's why they have to be late to the game, otherwise they will be accused of antitrust(not that they won't anyways, but it would be easier).
I'd like to see a test on a tv like i have that does 700 lines, just a general nice TV. Does it offer me ANY visible benefit over standard DVD? The vast majority of the population just wont care to upgrade if it means they have to buy a $3000+ dollar tv to see the difference.
no, but security through hiding in the mountains and controlling the influence of the entire mob apparently works pretty well -- he was hidden for almost his whole adult life.
Odds are if you were holding one of the Godfather's messages long enough to decipher it, that means you had to get it from someone in the mafia. They took these from him, which is one thing. Of course you can do that if you're the police/fbi/etc. and you've captured the boss. If you're just some shmoe, you can break the code all you want, the boss is still coming after you.
Suppose I hire the kind of people who are creative enough to create a good game, and then I hire people that are able to code that creativity into a functioning product. Isn't this a much better model than hiring 50 super-coders to bust out YAJMF? (Yet Another John Madden Football) Game development is expensive to get right, but if you have a team that can make lots of good and different games, games good enough to develop franchises from (i.e. Zelda and Mario), then you will win. If you take one painfully stale idea and re-release it over and over, it will cost you more each time in order to generate the same sales, because PEOPLE GET BORED. It should be real obvious how to manage creativity, but apparently few want to take charge and do it. There's such a ready supply of young kids looking to "code games" that they can be duped into thinking that "some company" is cool when in fact it's a slave ship. Any gaming company that leverages creativity over slave hours and slave pay will be the champion in the long run, bar none.
From TFA of that "top 10" list, they say that the stress level grade for a software engineer is B. I can't imagine a software development job where the stress level would be B, but it must be a very cushy software job. Most I'd say were stress level C at best, especially game developers. Sure, technically software engineering pays a lot of money because of supply & demand, but many positions pay a lot because of how stressful it is.
I've had coworkers from China. They say that the piracy over there is just ignored. For example, just like you can go and buy a hotdog or a newspaper in a 7/11 here, you can buy a "copy" of whatever you want software-wise over there. It's so bad that requiring an O/S is like holding back the ocean with a broom, it will make absolutely no difference. I'm not just talking about making copies of some existing software, I'm talking about full-scale organized piracy as an industry. It goes far enough that you can even buy DVD's of movies there before the movie is released in theaters over here (not camcorder-made either) !
"worldwide object of ridicule". Think about that for a minute... this wasn't just his friends messing with him, this was the entire world. That's a lot to deal with if you didn't elect to receive that type of attention. There are people like myself who would kill for that kinda publicity for my art, but that's not what he wanted at all, clearly.
Obviously if you stop drawing, you lose some of your ability at drawing. I think this applies to about anything. It doesnt' matter if you use computers to draw, it matters that you stop doing real drawings. By the way, as an MFA student, I can tell you that life drawing rules. If you think any computer simulation will ever, ever replace life drawing, you're wrong!
It's nice to see them step it up, so we can really lay it on when they fail this time. It's like when some big-city hotshot comes to a cowtown and tries to start a business thinking he will just bowl over everyone... then he realizes, the cowtown thing isn't an act. Japan isn't going to just go, "Oh, yeah, now I see! The 360 is way better than our Japanese awesome stuff." Just like how Anime isn't going to bump the Dukes of Hazzard from reruns in B.F.Egypt, USA, where half the population still drives orange '69 GTO's.
he's worth 90 billion dollars, he doesn't have to work. This article basically says that he checka-da-email all day. So basically Bill Gates' is the world's richest version of Strong Bad!
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Now all we need is to get the MPAA to sue the "property rights" movie for distributing pirated info or something, and the universe will implode!
They could call it the Nintendo crap bucket, doesn't matter. I'm still getting one so I can play all those old Nintendo games.
It shouldnt be a surprise that if you want people to work longer than a 40-hour week but you don't pay them for overtime, that you will get an inferior result. What exactly is the employee's motivation other than termination? That's like a prison mentality, 'either break these rocks or we beat the crap out of you. Once you're done breaking the rocks, we'll beat the crap out of you.' Not much to look forward to except a delay of additional punishment in terms of more longer hours in the future.
Eventually people will favor creativity, and people like me will 'herd the cats' and make some sweet games. Until then, have fun with John Madden 20XX!
MS's first move was to partner with IBM when they released DOS. They were on the side of big iron.
The only drawback, as with Lego, is that once you attach a block to the "base", it occupies those "connections". This isn't quite like Lego in that you probably can't just use the connectors on top of the new nanoscale structures to get at whatever the cell was doing anyhow... or maybe you can, and science is completely way more badass than I thought!
This will lead to some interesting Post-Traumatic Stress disorders in the future. Some poor army guy will take one bite of his eggplant parmesan and dive under the table, all, "INCOMING! AAIEE!"
It has nothing to do with whether or not they honored him. It has everything to do with whether or not they appropriated Miro's actual work to make the logo, and if it wasn't that transformative/derivative, then the family is right that they screwed up... legally, they should have asked permission to use his work that way, although it is a bit of a grey area when you chop up existing works, it's still commercial use of a work of art. Now, if they hand-drew something in the style of Miro, fine, but TFA clearly states they borrowed Miro's actual works to do the logo... that's bad, I don't care who you are, you don't just take someone's work.
It's apparently not just in the style of, but a rip-off of a few of his paintings, which to me sounds fishy at best and copyright violation at worst.
"Google's logo allegedly incorporated images from Miro's ``The Escape Ladder,'' 1940, ``Nocture,'' 1940, and ``The Beautiful Bird Revealing the Unknown to a Pair of Lovers,'' 1941."
Before you rip on it as being some style issue, read the FA, because it says right in there that it is actually using Miro's real works.
All you have to do is know one name, one word even, and any search anywhere will return adult material. Are they gonna put something in front of that? How about just typing in a url that goes to some detail page beyond the index page? Blocking all of that takes a trememdous amount of work... way harder than just "watch your kids" and "tell them about what's there". Any kid can go into a bookstore and see books with adult material in them, in fact you can go to any commercial big-box bookstore (barnes + noble, etc) and you'll see a slew of underage kids in the adult book area. We're just people, people!
Thanks for not being philanthropic with your money and investing in some art. There's only 2 kinds of rich people, the kind that sponsors the arts, and total scrooges. How embarassing for him... I can hear the head-shaking of the worldwide philanthropic-rich-people community as well as the starving artists everywhere (AHEM).
They're trying to convert it to a big demographic study/advertisement thing. They recently have this area where you can pick your favorite brands or products. Who in the hell cares what products or brands are my favorite, and why would I advertise that from my profile unless I was being paid something for click-thru or whatever? Totally awful exploitation of the customer base, IMHO.
If microsoft released a whole bunch of stuff, they'd get nailed with so many monopoly lawsuits it could actually bankrupt them. That's why they have to be late to the game, otherwise they will be accused of antitrust(not that they won't anyways, but it would be easier).
I'd like to see a test on a tv like i have that does 700 lines, just a general nice TV. Does it offer me ANY visible benefit over standard DVD? The vast majority of the population just wont care to upgrade if it means they have to buy a $3000+ dollar tv to see the difference.
no, but security through hiding in the mountains and controlling the influence of the entire mob apparently works pretty well -- he was hidden for almost his whole adult life.
Odds are if you were holding one of the Godfather's messages long enough to decipher it, that means you had to get it from someone in the mafia. They took these from him, which is one thing. Of course you can do that if you're the police/fbi/etc. and you've captured the boss. If you're just some shmoe, you can break the code all you want, the boss is still coming after you.
What a way to welcome users to Windows, with an introduction to our friend, Fdisk, as in now your disk is 'f'ed!
Anyhow, it is unfortunate, and hopefully it will be fixed shortly.
Right, but that article lumped them together, specifically mentioning game design as one of the "cool" perks of being a "software engineer".
Suppose I hire the kind of people who are creative enough to create a good game, and then I hire people that are able to code that creativity into a functioning product. Isn't this a much better model than hiring 50 super-coders to bust out YAJMF? (Yet Another John Madden Football) Game development is expensive to get right, but if you have a team that can make lots of good and different games, games good enough to develop franchises from (i.e. Zelda and Mario), then you will win. If you take one painfully stale idea and re-release it over and over, it will cost you more each time in order to generate the same sales, because PEOPLE GET BORED. It should be real obvious how to manage creativity, but apparently few want to take charge and do it. There's such a ready supply of young kids looking to "code games" that they can be duped into thinking that "some company" is cool when in fact it's a slave ship. Any gaming company that leverages creativity over slave hours and slave pay will be the champion in the long run, bar none.
From TFA of that "top 10" list, they say that the stress level grade for a software engineer is B. I can't imagine a software development job where the stress level would be B, but it must be a very cushy software job. Most I'd say were stress level C at best, especially game developers. Sure, technically software engineering pays a lot of money because of supply & demand, but many positions pay a lot because of how stressful it is.
I've had coworkers from China. They say that the piracy over there is just ignored. For example, just like you can go and buy a hotdog or a newspaper in a 7/11 here, you can buy a "copy" of whatever you want software-wise over there. It's so bad that requiring an O/S is like holding back the ocean with a broom, it will make absolutely no difference. I'm not just talking about making copies of some existing software, I'm talking about full-scale organized piracy as an industry. It goes far enough that you can even buy DVD's of movies there before the movie is released in theaters over here (not camcorder-made either) !
Did I score on that prediction or what! Wow, I feel special./ 136253&from=rss
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"worldwide object of ridicule". Think about that for a minute... this wasn't just his friends messing with him, this was the entire world. That's a lot to deal with if you didn't elect to receive that type of attention. There are people like myself who would kill for that kinda publicity for my art, but that's not what he wanted at all, clearly.
Obviously if you stop drawing, you lose some of your ability at drawing. I think this applies to about anything. It doesnt' matter if you use computers to draw, it matters that you stop doing real drawings. By the way, as an MFA student, I can tell you that life drawing rules. If you think any computer simulation will ever, ever replace life drawing, you're wrong!
It's nice to see them step it up, so we can really lay it on when they fail this time. It's like when some big-city hotshot comes to a cowtown and tries to start a business thinking he will just bowl over everyone... then he realizes, the cowtown thing isn't an act. Japan isn't going to just go, "Oh, yeah, now I see! The 360 is way better than our Japanese awesome stuff." Just like how Anime isn't going to bump the Dukes of Hazzard from reruns in B.F.Egypt, USA, where half the population still drives orange '69 GTO's.
he's worth 90 billion dollars, he doesn't have to work. This article basically says that he checka-da-email all day. So basically Bill Gates' is the world's richest version of Strong Bad!