The entire course is a rip off, nothing more than a daycare/fantasy camp for spoiled kids too lazy to hack it in a real school.
I mean, there's no academic work, no learning at all. Just sitting around talking about games. No-duh conversations like "This game is fun because it's not too hard and not too easy".
I mean, you'd think they'd just offer it as a completely extra-curricular 'club', so any students interested could join and hang out and get guest speakers and all that. A sensible school would do just that, but these guys want more tuition money.
Oh well, I pity the future Guildhall Alumni who wonder why an A+ in 'Dig-Dug' doesn't impress employers on their resume.
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And it sounds like this entire "course" could be covered in a 2 hour weekend seminar.
What a joke.
McDonalds Hamburger University and now this.
If this is where the 'higher' education is headed in america, no wonder the rest of the world is running circles around us.
Anything but work.
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In Class:
These industry experts supporting the Guildhall are what make our program so great! Just think about this - who better to design levels curriculum than Levelord himself? And students at other schools may read about video gaming history, but at the Guildhall our students will hear about how things happened from the people who actually made the history. What's more, our students will not simply talk about their favorite games with fellow students; as part of their coursework, they will actually discuss details of those games with the people who are making them - what a difference!
Extra-curricular:
Aside from classroom assignments and projects, which will run throughout the entire program, our students will have weekly or biweekly LAN parties. Students will take big-name games, challenge each other, and then explore what made it work the way it did. Also, we hear a lot from the experts working with us that a truly professional game developer will never lose sight of the simple fact that games have to be fun to be successful, so of course our students will also spend time discussing what made the games FUN!
Sitting around talking about Pac-Man won't make you employable. Even if you're talking with "Levelord" or the two gay men from Penny-Arcade.
>> What if instead of MP3s this guy was suspected of transferring 6000 kiddy porn images?
Big difference. Copyright violation is a tort (civil wrong), whereas distributing kiddy porn is a federal crime.
I have no problem with mandated law enforcement agencies getting my info. I do have a problem with it being available to every jackass who thinks he's been wronged and wants to sue.
With the former (kiddy porn), a LEO would have to get a warrant - which would require some burden of proof on his part. With the latter (copyright infringment) all anyone needs is a subpeona, which requires nothing more than a "good faith" belief that one has been wronged.
The articles linked are relatively short on details, but I did glean the fact that the individual is *suspected* by the RIAA of downloading music. 600 sounds like one of the RIAAs made up numbers, but it doesnt matter.
So, some girl blew you off on ICQ? Got her IP? Want her real life name and info? Sure, send an official looking letter to her ISP and say you 'suspect' her of downloading your stuff. Want to harrass some kid because he likes PS2 and not XBox? Same deal.
I hope you LEOs are paying attention. See that kid on IRC talking about smoking a joint? Want his real name and address? Here you go.
It does, I'm just raising the point that what makes Linus inherently more trustworthy than Bill Gates?
I'm not trying to troll or flame, just want to point out that Open Source software is every bit as vulnerable to trojan horses/backdoors as closed source.
Sounds like a good way to alter the code stored on a hacked machine to install backdoors for you to get into others.
Do you OSS folks actually read through every line of source before you build something big like Apache or Squid or SAMBA, just to make sure noone has altered the code?
Actually, the interview with the "PR Guy" is just cut and paste from the "Press Release" on the website.
Funny that HomeLan and Ferrago.co.uk, two sites I've never heard of, scooped not only the mainstream media, but every gaming media outlet (IGN et al) as well.
PC games aren't console games, they're worlds apart with less and less crossover.
If you prefer PC games, good for you. But show me a good fighter (a la Dead Or Alive or Tekken) or platformer (a la Mario Sunshine) for the PC. Or any good arcade ports for PC. It's just not conducive to it. I recently tried Dragons Lair 3D on my PC, and it's choppy and slow compared to the way it played on Xbox. A trend with most console ports.
On the other side, playing FPS and RTS games with a gamepad pretty much stinks.
>> The current prices of hardware is incredible. I just built another great system for $400.
That so? My PS2/Xbox and NGC combined cost less than the P4 rig I just put together. And I recycled the radeon and sb live from my old machine. All that cost was case/psu, CPU, mobo and RAM.
Bah. The console vs PC gay-battles are every bit as lame as the Sony vs Nintendo console wars.
I like good games, and thats that. I don't discriminate based on which platform they were released for. Competition is good.
And if it's not a hoax, why is the only place to report on an American company with lofty goals of dethroning Sony, MS and Nintendo some uk web-zine that I've never heard of?
And why does a google search on 'infinium' and 'phantom' return zilch - nothing even remotely related to gaming or tech?
Gawd.. Do some fact checking, or just quit reposting anything remotely to do with gaming at all. You don't know what you're talking about and this is the second time within a couple weeks that a console hoax has made it to the front page.
Something tells me this is just a joke. I sat and listened to the little media hype thingy, and I actually laughed out loud.
It shows a little rendered image of a console, while saying things like "Imagine being able to pay for each play" and "Imagine downloading the latest patches and bugfixes".
To a geek, the only acceptable email is plaintext with no markups, or even capital letters or punctuation.
That's why this won't 'eliminate' spam. Sure it can keep it out of your corporate intranet, if you expect only plaintext memos, but it won't let grandma know if the picture in her inbox is of one of her grandchildren or this guy.
Not just the business implementations. They'll be the ones to *truly* put it on the desktop, and get Joe Mama interested in it.
As the big dogs do more and more of the serious work, the mere 'hobbiests' will be muffled when it comes to decision making.
Eventually kernel patches will be decided on in a boardroom deep in IBM, and Linus will be in his cubicle at Transmeta, powerless to do anything about it.
Frankly, the way it's been done up to now just doesnt cut it. Too many people with no real authority pulling in different directions. In a corporate setting, you can come up with a design, and make everyone code towards that design.
Now, here's something I wondered about under the GPL. Does the GPL require that code be readily compilable under a free compiler?
If IBM tweaked the kernel source such that it would only compile and operate properly under the 'IBM-C' compiler, then couldnt they effectively force you to pay to run linux, even if the source is free?
Linux has many scripting choices available. Pretty much everything in the enterprise level MS world is COM/ActiveX, so you have a consistent interface to script to.
With linux you wind up with a mixed bag of CORBA, return values, parsing text output, no external interface at all.
My problem with linux is just consistency in general. Every distrib or application seems to bring it's own rulebook to the arena, and it can be frustrating to manage.
Eg, remember the Linux Filesystem Standard? What happened to it? I thought we were all supposed to follow it and have a standard method to determine where files go. I haven't heard much about it in years, and lots of bigger apps I've tried to use seem to like to put their stuff wherever they want.
There really needs to be a uniting body of some sort, a Moses to lead the linux community out of the desert because we've been wandering forever. Just a comprehensive set of rules for good applications to conform to.
Isn't it nice to see our (well I'm a permanant US resident now) government working so hard to drive the technology sector out of the country? There's been a ton of good innovation and startups from Canada (ATI springs to mind), but they seem to do all they can to drive 'em away.
I guess they figure having shows like X-Files film in Vancouver is worth more to the country.
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It's only a 3000 gate FPGA. I doubt you could even dump an 8-bit 6502 onto it.
The entire course is a rip off, nothing more than a daycare/fantasy camp for spoiled kids too lazy to hack it in a real school.
I mean, there's no academic work, no learning at all. Just sitting around talking about games. No-duh conversations like "This game is fun because it's not too hard and not too easy".
I mean, you'd think they'd just offer it as a completely extra-curricular 'club', so any students interested could join and hang out and get guest speakers and all that. A sensible school would do just that, but these guys want more tuition money.
Oh well, I pity the future Guildhall Alumni who wonder why an A+ in 'Dig-Dug' doesn't impress employers on their resume.
And it sounds like this entire "course" could be covered in a 2 hour weekend seminar.
What a joke.
McDonalds Hamburger University and now this.
If this is where the 'higher' education is headed in america, no wonder the rest of the world is running circles around us.
Anything but work.
In Class:
These industry experts supporting the Guildhall are what make our program so great! Just think about this - who better to design levels curriculum than Levelord himself? And students at other schools may read about video gaming history, but at the Guildhall our students will hear about how things happened from the people who actually made the history. What's more, our students will not simply talk about their favorite games with fellow students; as part of their coursework, they will actually discuss details of those games with the people who are making them - what a difference!
Extra-curricular:
Aside from classroom assignments and projects, which will run throughout the entire program, our students will have weekly or biweekly LAN parties. Students will take big-name games, challenge each other, and then explore what made it work the way it did. Also, we hear a lot from the experts working with us that a truly professional game developer will never lose sight of the simple fact that games have to be fun to be successful, so of course our students will also spend time discussing what made the games FUN!
Sitting around talking about Pac-Man won't make you employable. Even if you're talking with "Levelord" or the two gay men from Penny-Arcade.
Trust me.
Under 2k/XP notepad doesn't have this limit.
And Bill Gates never actually said that.
From the Microsoft folks:
1) Why would we some cheesy meta-blog?
2) Who gives a squirmy shit what a bunch of trolls think?
3) I dunno, string up michael?
Woohoo an anti-MS troll modded +, on slashdot no less.
.sh, .rc, .etc, .config, etc files that need to be editted to get it to work.
Windows doesn't have 4 zillion and 1
What would windows users possibly need with vi? (Btw, you can run vi if you want it)
It's more pathetic than anything else.
It's amateur hour. Like a 7th grade science fair.
And noone there has any money.
And there's a parking lot full of idling mini-vans while everyone's mom reads Cosmo and waits for them to finish their little 'expo'.
>> Which will come first, Duke Nukem Forever or KDE 3.1?
both will be bundled with GeforceFX.
>> What if instead of MP3s this guy was suspected of transferring 6000 kiddy porn images?
Big difference. Copyright violation is a tort (civil wrong), whereas distributing kiddy porn is a federal crime.
I have no problem with mandated law enforcement agencies getting my info. I do have a problem with it being available to every jackass who thinks he's been wronged and wants to sue.
With the former (kiddy porn), a LEO would have to get a warrant - which would require some burden of proof on his part. With the latter (copyright infringment) all anyone needs is a subpeona, which requires nothing more than a "good faith" belief that one has been wronged.
600 files? I could easily share more than 600 files worth of public domain software, music, and books.
600 files is jack shit. This is a small server. They're after the Joe Nobodies now.
The articles linked are relatively short on details, but I did glean the fact that the individual is *suspected* by the RIAA of downloading music. 600 sounds like one of the RIAAs made up numbers, but it doesnt matter.
So, some girl blew you off on ICQ? Got her IP? Want her real life name and info? Sure, send an official looking letter to her ISP and say you 'suspect' her of downloading your stuff. Want to harrass some kid because he likes PS2 and not XBox? Same deal.
I hope you LEOs are paying attention. See that kid on IRC talking about smoking a joint? Want his real name and address? Here you go.
This marks the end of privacy online.
It does, I'm just raising the point that what makes Linus inherently more trustworthy than Bill Gates?
I'm not trying to troll or flame, just want to point out that Open Source software is every bit as vulnerable to trojan horses/backdoors as closed source.
Sounds like a good way to alter the code stored on a hacked machine to install backdoors for you to get into others.
Do you OSS folks actually read through every line of source before you build something big like Apache or Squid or SAMBA, just to make sure noone has altered the code?
Actually, the interview with the "PR Guy" is just cut and paste from the "Press Release" on the website.
Funny that HomeLan and Ferrago.co.uk, two sites I've never heard of, scooped not only the mainstream media, but every gaming media outlet (IGN et al) as well.
PC games aren't console games, they're worlds apart with less and less crossover.
If you prefer PC games, good for you. But show me a good fighter (a la Dead Or Alive or Tekken) or platformer (a la Mario Sunshine) for the PC. Or any good arcade ports for PC. It's just not conducive to it. I recently tried Dragons Lair 3D on my PC, and it's choppy and slow compared to the way it played on Xbox. A trend with most console ports.
On the other side, playing FPS and RTS games with a gamepad pretty much stinks.
>> The current prices of hardware is incredible. I just built another great system for $400.
That so? My PS2/Xbox and NGC combined cost less than the P4 rig I just put together. And I recycled the radeon and sb live from my old machine. All that cost was case/psu, CPU, mobo and RAM.
Bah. The console vs PC gay-battles are every bit as lame as the Sony vs Nintendo console wars.
I like good games, and thats that. I don't discriminate based on which platform they were released for. Competition is good.
And if it's not a hoax, why is the only place to report on an American company with lofty goals of dethroning Sony, MS and Nintendo some uk web-zine that I've never heard of?
And why does a google search on 'infinium' and 'phantom' return zilch - nothing even remotely related to gaming or tech?
Gawd.. Do some fact checking, or just quit reposting anything remotely to do with gaming at all. You don't know what you're talking about and this is the second time within a couple weeks that a console hoax has made it to the front page.
Hahahahahahahhaa
excellent troll, my friend. Transmeta chip. I have tears in my eyes. Keep up the good work.
Something tells me this is just a joke. I sat and listened to the little media hype thingy, and I actually laughed out loud.
It shows a little rendered image of a console, while saying things like "Imagine being able to pay for each play" and "Imagine downloading the latest patches and bugfixes".
It's the Big Mac lunches with Cheeto chasers that are making your breasts larger, not spam.
We all hate spam, but you can't blame it for everything. Take some personal responsibility, tubby.
Yes, you block all HTML.
To a geek, the only acceptable email is plaintext with no markups, or even capital letters or punctuation.
That's why this won't 'eliminate' spam. Sure it can keep it out of your corporate intranet, if you expect only plaintext memos, but it won't let grandma know if the picture in her inbox is of one of her grandchildren or this guy.
Not just the business implementations. They'll be the ones to *truly* put it on the desktop, and get Joe Mama interested in it.
As the big dogs do more and more of the serious work, the mere 'hobbiests' will be muffled when it comes to decision making.
Eventually kernel patches will be decided on in a boardroom deep in IBM, and Linus will be in his cubicle at Transmeta, powerless to do anything about it.
Frankly, the way it's been done up to now just doesnt cut it. Too many people with no real authority pulling in different directions. In a corporate setting, you can come up with a design, and make everyone code towards that design.
Now, here's something I wondered about under the GPL. Does the GPL require that code be readily compilable under a free compiler?
If IBM tweaked the kernel source such that it would only compile and operate properly under the 'IBM-C' compiler, then couldnt they effectively force you to pay to run linux, even if the source is free?
Linux has many scripting choices available. Pretty much everything in the enterprise level MS world is COM/ActiveX, so you have a consistent interface to script to.
With linux you wind up with a mixed bag of CORBA, return values, parsing text output, no external interface at all.
My problem with linux is just consistency in general. Every distrib or application seems to bring it's own rulebook to the arena, and it can be frustrating to manage.
Eg, remember the Linux Filesystem Standard? What happened to it? I thought we were all supposed to follow it and have a standard method to determine where files go. I haven't heard much about it in years, and lots of bigger apps I've tried to use seem to like to put their stuff wherever they want.
There really needs to be a uniting body of some sort, a Moses to lead the linux community out of the desert because we've been wandering forever. Just a comprehensive set of rules for good applications to conform to.
Just bigger and a bit smaller. Maybe more like the Jaz drive.
The Zip drive was as cool piece of gear, I still use mine fairly regularly to shuttle files to and from the office.
I'm wondering, though, if this thing will have the same drawbacks, namely:
- too slow, both throughput and seek time. Made it OK for archiving, but you couldnt really run software off it
- too expensive, when CD-Rs started being a buck a pop, 20 bucks for 100 meg zip disks was silly
- too prone to failure. They frankly wore out too quick
- The Jaz drives were notoriously buggy and glitchy, and died all the time. A good friend had one and did nothing but cuss about it
Isn't it nice to see our (well I'm a permanant US resident now) government working so hard to drive the technology sector out of the country? There's been a ton of good innovation and startups from Canada (ATI springs to mind), but they seem to do all they can to drive 'em away.
I guess they figure having shows like X-Files film in Vancouver is worth more to the country.