We now seem to be pinning child pornography onto Microsoft. I think second to spam 'security warnings' from people trying to further their career, or flog software is my current internet pet-hate. If you run a recent version of windows, own some antivirus software and set them both to auto-update 99.99% of all this crap just isn't going to affect you.
and getting too far into the details of this specific problem, referencing coding techniques etc. The actual problem is common to pretty much any worker when he's asked for a good product as soon as possible - when he knows these two edicts are both impossible to fulfill simultaneously.
Personally I feel the most important thing is to get the superior to 'buy-in' to what you're doing. If time's short and you don't feel the product will be great if done within this limit then tell your boss, explain your reasoning, document what's not going to be perfect and get him to stick his name to it.
This actually helps in two ways, if it does all go wrong you have a very good defense (I told you so), but more likely your boss will get the initial constraints altered e.g. explain the situation to the client.
Occasionally when time is short and the work is urgently required you're going to have to release a buggy mess of code. My personal advice is to get working on a point release of it the moment the original has left your hands. It'll take a while for the code to be implemented and the bugs surface. If the moment the user reports a problem you can produce a lovely working upgrade then they'll be impressed with your customer support and you can sleep at night.
Modding can be negative or positve. "Over-Rated" is a negative mod that should be applied when you feel a positive mod has previously been awarded incorrectly. Troll/Offtopic would all have been acceptable to me, but this irritates.
How something can be rated as over-rated, before it's been modded is beyond me *sighs* Well at least I can sit back for the afternoon and watch the original modded up as the paragon of non-xenophobic wit that it is.
which will naturally never get off my arse to implement, was to create a GSM/GPS hybrid unit. It would function entirely like a standard GPS unit, except it could report back it's location and speed to a central server. The server could then distribute this information to other users of the system. e.g. If the speed of 10 users on a motorway suddenly dropped you could assume that there was a traffic jam. The unit could then calculate whether the journey of other motorists, whose route was along this motorway would be faster by keeping them on it, or routing them on lesser roads/longer alternative routes. The more people that used the system, the more effective it would become, the more people would use it etc. The actual technology would be relatively easy to implement with data being transfered by either GSM or encoded SMS - I'm sure you could find an operator willing to provide this service at very low cost.
A simpler system could be created very cheaply with java code running on today's handsets and positioning based upon relative BTS signal strengths.
We don't need more roads, we just need to stop people piling down the same ones at the same time.
but it's the one that the games console manufacturers have chosen to adopt - and it's the one they have to defend. MS was forced to adopt this strategy when they entered the market so they could compete.
Personally I don't really have a problem with it. The cheap purchase price of the console allows more people to access it (I'm especially thinking of myself a good few years back trying to coax my parents to purchase me a console for Christmas) and then imposes a 'tax' on the games. If you're using pocket money you carefully select a few excellent games, if you've got too much you can buy all the crap you like.
why when you clean you print heads can't you specify only to clean the heads of one colour - i.e. the one that's blocked. My f'in Canon S900 cost me a small fortune to keep fed with ink as the heads kept on blocking. The whole head now is completely shot (and this happened on the day my warranty ran out). I phoned them up from work to tell them this, they said I had to run a print test, told them I had (obviously) but that wasn't good enough. They wanted me to do it while I was on the phone to them. After a bit of a 'discussion' I agreed to phone back that evening from home. I did - and their office was closed. Shame, it was a lovely printer when it worked... Surely there's room in the market for a 'quality' printer company to emerge? I don't mind paying quite a bit more for a printer that works, has decent sized ink tanks etc. I wouldn't even mind paying a small premium for manufacturer carts, I don't want to put crap in my machine, but the price difference currently is just too ridiculous to ignore.
Both some Palestian militants and some parts of the Israeli army have commited atrocities (and continue to do so). Whilst I would condem the actions of both sides, the Israeli army as a representative of a democratic government has a duty to abide by international law. If you watched the BBC documentary on Israel's arms program you'd be left in little doubt of it's existence and even if you choose to take another view, there are a number of interesting facts that came to light.
Whilst I would usually chuckle with mirth at such a witty posting, I just clicked the bastard link sitting in my office and just had to explain "what was that" to the guy next to me.
Halo is fantastic multiplayer co-op. The co-op play is exactly the same as the single player games - except there are two of you and it's a great deal more fun (as has been previusly mentioned). A great deal of attention has actually been put into this mode and in my humble mind it's the finest dynamic of what is in my mind one of the finest games ever created (and is sadly often overlooked, or merely thought of as a cheap addon). Great little 'moments' arise when playing e.g. You're pinned down and getting the shit kicked out of you, you shout at your flatmate who leaps onto a jeep and races to the rescue. Leap onboard and be rushed to safety whilst lobbing plasma bolts at your attackers with the meaty plasma gun on the back of the vehicle. Ok Ok...I know it sounds a little sad and 'computer gamey' but it really is genuine "light up your face" fun.
If you're after something else then maybe Four Swords (on GBA Zelda) or linkup between GBA and Gamecube for the Windwalker.
If somebody buys the rights to own a full film and cuts out all the sex and violence for the copy they make - can they legally sell me the outtakes? This would provide me a much more enjoyable 10 minute version of Basic Instinct.
I will never buy a major label CD again. I don't care how deserving you are of money for your art - if you let yourself be represented by those fuckers, I'm going to treat you with the respect you deserve.
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I think you're being a bit pedantic here. As Shinobi has progressed across the various platforms/versions it has changed quite a bit - If you conpare the original and latest versions they don't have an awful lot in common apart from the ninja chap and the superfluous story line. Denouncing Shadow Dancer as a non-shinobi game using your criteria seems a bit harsh. Maybe I've just got a soft spot for the game as I remember in my cash strapped youth you could pick up very cheap Jap imports of Shadow Dancer (and Strider for that matter) *shuffles off to hunt for his Megadrive (that might be Genesis to you folks)*
Is not because they are desperately trying to get their hands on every bit of money they can - it's to send a mesage to other networks considering supplying the MS line of phones. The case should be (and is) between MS and Sendo, except MS being a big corporation is quite willing to spin it out with delays and had no real reason previously to try to come to a quick settlement. They could just carry on selling 'their' phones and keep pushing Sendo away. Now Sendo have been smart here by suing Orange - any other network operator who is considering which phones to carry is going to be much less likely to select the MS one. They've got no shortage of choices, the MS phone isn't particularly wonderful and now comes with the extreme likelihood of a lawsuit. Why would they want to risk it?
Sendo will now remove most of MS's customers. MS will be in the position that until they settle the lawsuit with Sendo, nobody is going to buy their phones from them. I suspect cutting their income will be an effective way of convincing them to come to the settlement table with a large sack of cash for Sendo.
Hmm. If I steal software that I find I love and advise my company to buy a 200 site license for and download a few tracks that I later buy the album from - who loses? I've done both. I've also downloaded software that I binned and music I never listened to again then tough, you create poor software and bad music? - you don't deserve my money.
we can regard it like the credit card comnpanies - the provider of the MMORPG is responsible to it's customers and then the MMORPG provider can then try to recover from the abuser. I can't see Ubisoft coughing up several million in 'lost man-hours' to it's subscribers and I can't see them recovering the massive sum from the people that exploited the system.
but this should depend on how secure/enjoyable they've made it. If everybody in the game could grant themselves money then the ingame currency is worthless. If the publisher hasn't made it too hard for certain people to generate money (as is the case in a number of MMORPGs then the currency id automatically devalued).
Absolutely - you've got to understand the market you're playing in. I might have sold my boiler-room stocks for a 10x profit, but I'm not going to go bleating to the securities commision if I lose my shirt. The facts are there for all to see and as with any market if you go in unprepared you get screwed.
In the UK at least all banks must be insured, or have assets to cover all potential losses before they are allowed to operate as a 'bank'. If there had been numerous stories of people being given bank 'admin access' I would not bank online with that provider. The point I was trying to make was that the number of people in the Beta program reporting being given god access to this MMORPG should have been an indicator to an educated consumer that there were likely to be bugs in the final product. If your only concern was the fun of the game, then I absiolutely agree this should be your major criteria for chosing the MMORPG - however, if you are a person who values your virtual assets highly then sure you should chose your MMORPG with the same criteria you would any other serive containing valuable assets (i.e. your bank). Basically if many people have been reporting bugs for months, don't act surprised and unaware when they affect you.
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We now seem to be pinning child pornography onto Microsoft. I think second to spam 'security warnings' from people trying to further their career, or flog software is my current internet pet-hate. If you run a recent version of windows, own some antivirus software and set them both to auto-update 99.99% of all this crap just isn't going to affect you.
What aircraft carrier?
Anyone seen Bonzo?
and getting too far into the details of this specific problem, referencing coding techniques etc. The actual problem is common to pretty much any worker when he's asked for a good product as soon as possible - when he knows these two edicts are both impossible to fulfill simultaneously.
Personally I feel the most important thing is to get the superior to 'buy-in' to what you're doing. If time's short and you don't feel the product will be great if done within this limit then tell your boss, explain your reasoning, document what's not going to be perfect and get him to stick his name to it.
This actually helps in two ways, if it does all go wrong you have a very good defense (I told you so), but more likely your boss will get the initial constraints altered e.g. explain the situation to the client.
Occasionally when time is short and the work is urgently required you're going to have to release a buggy mess of code. My personal advice is to get working on a point release of it the moment the original has left your hands. It'll take a while for the code to be implemented and the bugs surface. If the moment the user reports a problem you can produce a lovely working upgrade then they'll be impressed with your customer support and you can sleep at night.
Modding can be negative or positve. "Over-Rated" is a negative mod that should be applied when you feel a positive mod has previously been awarded incorrectly. Troll/Offtopic would all have been acceptable to me, but this irritates.
How something can be rated as over-rated, before it's been modded is beyond me *sighs* Well at least I can sit back for the afternoon and watch the original modded up as the paragon of non-xenophobic wit that it is.
Thailand's national dish is sushi?
Also might I draw your attention to the thick nicotine cloud hovering above South-East Asia?
and the children in the US go out with their daddy's in their pointy white hats and lynch some negros.
which will naturally never get off my arse to implement, was to create a GSM/GPS hybrid unit. It would function entirely like a standard GPS unit, except it could report back it's location and speed to a central server. The server could then distribute this information to other users of the system.
e.g. If the speed of 10 users on a motorway suddenly dropped you could assume that there was a traffic jam. The unit could then calculate whether the journey of other motorists, whose route was along this motorway would be faster by keeping them on it, or routing them on lesser roads/longer alternative routes.
The more people that used the system, the more effective it would become, the more people would use it etc.
The actual technology would be relatively easy to implement with data being transfered by either GSM or encoded SMS - I'm sure you could find an operator willing to provide this service at very low cost.
A simpler system could be created very cheaply with java code running on today's handsets and positioning based upon relative BTS signal strengths.
We don't need more roads, we just need to stop people piling down the same ones at the same time.
but it's the one that the games console manufacturers have chosen to adopt - and it's the one they have to defend. MS was forced to adopt this strategy when they entered the market so they could compete.
Personally I don't really have a problem with it. The cheap purchase price of the console allows more people to access it (I'm especially thinking of myself a good few years back trying to coax my parents to purchase me a console for Christmas) and then imposes a 'tax' on the games. If you're using pocket money you carefully select a few excellent games, if you've got too much you can buy all the crap you like.
why when you clean you print heads can't you specify only to clean the heads of one colour - i.e. the one that's blocked. My f'in Canon S900 cost me a small fortune to keep fed with ink as the heads kept on blocking. The whole head now is completely shot (and this happened on the day my warranty ran out). I phoned them up from work to tell them this, they said I had to run a print test, told them I had (obviously) but that wasn't good enough. They wanted me to do it while I was on the phone to them. After a bit of a 'discussion' I agreed to phone back that evening from home. I did - and their office was closed. Shame, it was a lovely printer when it worked... Surely there's room in the market for a 'quality' printer company to emerge? I don't mind paying quite a bit more for a printer that works, has decent sized ink tanks etc. I wouldn't even mind paying a small premium for manufacturer carts, I don't want to put crap in my machine, but the price difference currently is just too ridiculous to ignore.
Both some Palestian militants and some parts of the Israeli army have commited atrocities (and continue to do so). Whilst I would condem the actions of both sides, the Israeli army as a representative of a democratic government has a duty to abide by international law. If you watched the BBC documentary on Israel's arms program you'd be left in little doubt of it's existence and even if you choose to take another view, there are a number of interesting facts that came to light.
Whilst I would usually chuckle with mirth at such a witty posting, I just clicked the bastard link sitting in my office and just had to explain "what was that" to the guy next to me.
I'm guessing you might manage to rustle up a few people willing to pay.
Halo is fantastic multiplayer co-op. The co-op play is exactly the same as the single player games - except there are two of you and it's a great deal more fun (as has been previusly mentioned). A great deal of attention has actually been put into this mode and in my humble mind it's the finest dynamic of what is in my mind one of the finest games ever created (and is sadly often overlooked, or merely thought of as a cheap addon). Great little 'moments' arise when playing e.g. You're pinned down and getting the shit kicked out of you, you shout at your flatmate who leaps onto a jeep and races to the rescue. Leap onboard and be rushed to safety whilst lobbing plasma bolts at your attackers with the meaty plasma gun on the back of the vehicle. Ok Ok...I know it sounds a little sad and 'computer gamey' but it really is genuine "light up your face" fun. If you're after something else then maybe Four Swords (on GBA Zelda) or linkup between GBA and Gamecube for the Windwalker.
If somebody buys the rights to own a full film and cuts out all the sex and violence for the copy they make - can they legally sell me the outtakes? This would provide me a much more enjoyable 10 minute version of Basic Instinct.
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I will never buy a major label CD again. I don't care how deserving you are of money for your art - if you let yourself be represented by those fuckers, I'm going to treat you with the respect you deserve.
I think you're being a bit pedantic here. As Shinobi has progressed across the various platforms/versions it has changed quite a bit - If you conpare the original and latest versions they don't have an awful lot in common apart from the ninja chap and the superfluous story line. Denouncing Shadow Dancer as a non-shinobi game using your criteria seems a bit harsh. Maybe I've just got a soft spot for the game as I remember in my cash strapped youth you could pick up very cheap Jap imports of Shadow Dancer (and Strider for that matter) *shuffles off to hunt for his Megadrive (that might be Genesis to you folks)*
Is not because they are desperately trying to get their hands on every bit of money they can - it's to send a mesage to other networks considering supplying the MS line of phones. The case should be (and is) between MS and Sendo, except MS being a big corporation is quite willing to spin it out with delays and had no real reason previously to try to come to a quick settlement. They could just carry on selling 'their' phones and keep pushing Sendo away.
Now Sendo have been smart here by suing Orange - any other network operator who is considering which phones to carry is going to be much less likely to select the MS one. They've got no shortage of choices, the MS phone isn't particularly wonderful and now comes with the extreme likelihood of a lawsuit. Why would they want to risk it?
Sendo will now remove most of MS's customers. MS will be in the position that until they settle the lawsuit with Sendo, nobody is going to buy their phones from them. I suspect cutting their income will be an effective way of convincing them to come to the settlement table with a large sack of cash for Sendo.
Hmm. If I steal software that I find I love and advise my company to buy a 200 site license for and download a few tracks that I later buy the album from - who loses? I've done both. I've also downloaded software that I binned and music I never listened to again then tough, you create poor software and bad music? - you don't deserve my money.
I'll admit my post was a combination of moods, as seem by the massive number of contradictary mods, but I never have and never will post anonymously.
we can regard it like the credit card comnpanies - the provider of the MMORPG is responsible to it's customers and then the MMORPG provider can then try to recover from the abuser. I can't see Ubisoft coughing up several million in 'lost man-hours' to it's subscribers and I can't see them recovering the massive sum from the people that exploited the system.
but this should depend on how secure/enjoyable they've made it. If everybody in the game could grant themselves money then the ingame currency is worthless. If the publisher hasn't made it too hard for certain people to generate money (as is the case in a number of MMORPGs then the currency id automatically devalued).
Absolutely - you've got to understand the market you're playing in. I might have sold my boiler-room stocks for a 10x profit, but I'm not going to go bleating to the securities commision if I lose my shirt. The facts are there for all to see and as with any market if you go in unprepared you get screwed.
In the UK at least all banks must be insured, or have assets to cover all potential losses before they are allowed to operate as a 'bank'. If there had been numerous stories of people being given bank 'admin access' I would not bank online with that provider. The point I was trying to make was that the number of people in the Beta program reporting being given god access to this MMORPG should have been an indicator to an educated consumer that there were likely to be bugs in the final product. If your only concern was the fun of the game, then I absiolutely agree this should be your major criteria for chosing the MMORPG - however, if you are a person who values your virtual assets highly then sure you should chose your MMORPG with the same criteria you would any other serive containing valuable assets (i.e. your bank).
Basically if many people have been reporting bugs for months, don't act surprised and unaware when they affect you.