Viacom: I have an announcement!
Clear Channel: What's that?
Viacom: I have seen "The Matrix Reloaded".
Clear Channel: Please continue.
Viacom: It has come to my attention that the power of choice will ultimitely lead to the destruction of the Matrix.
Clear Channel: Interesting.
Viacom: It is my suggestion that we eliminate choice.
Clear Channel: FCC?
FCC: If what you say is true, we must consolidate all media immediately.
Viacom: con..so...li..date?
FCC: We can have all media consolidated in 3 easy phonecalls.
Viacom: Uh...Okay.
Clear Channel: Excellent, well that is settled...So, who's seen the new Xmen?
I always ignore games based on movies (and have never purchaced one). The entire line of gameboy advance games are movie-based generally. The movie marketing point is strong though. The new Matrix game has already sold a million copies in a week, and without great reviews. Advertising a game as having killer graphics is reserved for copanies like epic,valve, and id software and is irrelevant on the gba side. But people will buy a matrix game in the same way they will buy a matrix tshirt. And will then go on to buy a roll of matrix toilet paper when it's availiable.
Anyway, as for game origionality. Eh, just a matter of opinion. There's only so far you can go before you create a game not suitable for a console, or a game that's too hard to learn, etc. And at what point were we NOT complaining about origionality?
Yea it's come to the point where instead of me admitting being a computer programmer, I tell everyone that i'm a smalltime potato farmer who doesn't even own a computer. Its just much easier that way.
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The whole text weighs in at just under 50 pages
Good. I always hate books that are 1000 pages long just so the author can meet some type of quota. When in reality, the book is just full of extra fluff,and is much less useful as a learning tool because of it. To me, the best programming books are short. You can read them,learn, flip through them with your thumb, and each page has a lot of information. Once it gets too long it looses focus. And at this point, searching the internet and reading online help files starts seeming like a way better idea.
I'm still waiting for the "Sleeping Does Not Reduce Poductivity" and the "Avoiding Work At All Costs Does Not Reduce Productivity" articles to surface. Then we all will be free.
I'm no expert on audio, but I've always been interested in portable audio recording. $2000/$4000 seems kind of steep to me. What advantages does a device like this have over a much cheaper minidisc recorder with a good microphone? Anyone think its worth the money? Or are their other alternatives, like a laptop with a good sound card or something?
Windows XP Home from the same site (or many others) is $86.95, and I picked up my fully legitimate copy of XP Pro for $125. Wait... so, Michael, explain to me why Windows XP Home (fully licensed for as long as you own your PC) is $86.95, and Lindows is $99.00 for one year of access?
Hey I love how you convieniently "misword" stuff to make it sound as if it costs $99 for a year access to the Lindows OS, when the $99 is the price for the OS and a one year access to Click&Run (which you don't have to buy). Lindows by itself is $49. Plus whats all this rubbish about some deal you got on Windows XP? The retail (and most common) price for Windows XP Home is $199 and Pro is $299. Everyone knows that. Who are you, the Media?
Dont have mac hardware etc, but I have tried this emusic which I liked. Unlimited downloads for 9.99 a month (for 1 year) or 14.99 a month (for 3 months). It has streaming samples so you can see what they have beforehand (mostly rare stuff moreso than mainstream), Plus a 50 mp3 free trial.
Has anyone been to pogo.com, a free online game site. They have an advertising scheme where after a while of playing their free online games (java i believe), an animated add covers the window with a coundown display that starts at 30 seconds down to 0. It works because the games are short and have a clear beginning and end to them. Kind of a television advertisment feel.
I won't go into why C# and.NET are better for windows app development - either you have done it, and understand why MFC and C++ blow chunks
I will elaborate further.
Having to interface with resource files and resource IDs was one of the killers of the MFC Vc++ enviroment. Resource files were dropped in C#; resource ids were dropped. Layout editing generates the source code for creating the form. No more GetDlgItem, no more hwnds, no picking a number from 100 to 32000, no more resource.h files. No more mounds of ridiculous MFC AppWizard rubbish.
Then there is garbage collection, and all the built in collection classes: ArrayLists, HashTables. Usable bitmap and Graphic classes (no more dcs, hbitmaps). No more having to fill out a 30 item structure every single function call. But most importantly, C# != MFC.
Languages will change when computers change. Languages are driven by machine instructions which are mathematical operations done in sequence. If this doesn't change in 100 years, why would we not use C in 100 years?
Law enforcement agencies all over America are in the process of laying off 85% of their police force in favor of 100 strategically placed web cams across the United States.
I once had to use an authoring tool (Rapid CBT), priced in the thousands of dollars, which was completely driven by statecharts. In my opinion, the statecharts offered no advantage at in the development as most of the logic needed wasn't suitable for statecharts. My guess is that statecharts are an easy way to make a visual representation of what is happening in the code, but is restrictive to the coding itself.
Don't know where this is going, but I'm afraid it might get significantly harder for humble college students such as myself to sample an artist's music before going out and buying a disc...
I think he meant to say "it might get significantly harder for humble college students such as myself to sample an artist's music until he's sick of it and no longer has the need to go out and buy a disc".
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Viacom: I have an announcement!
Clear Channel: What's that?
Viacom: I have seen "The Matrix Reloaded".
Clear Channel: Please continue.
Viacom: It has come to my attention that the power of choice will ultimitely lead to the destruction of the Matrix.
Clear Channel: Interesting.
Viacom: It is my suggestion that we eliminate choice.
Clear Channel: FCC?
FCC: If what you say is true, we must consolidate all media immediately.
Viacom: con..so...li..date?
FCC: We can have all media consolidated in 3 easy phonecalls.
Viacom: Uh...Okay.
Clear Channel: Excellent, well that is settled...So, who's seen the new Xmen?
I always ignore games based on movies (and have never purchaced one). The entire line of gameboy advance games are movie-based generally. The movie marketing point is strong though. The new Matrix game has already sold a million copies in a week, and without great reviews. Advertising a game as having killer graphics is reserved for copanies like epic,valve, and id software and is irrelevant on the gba side. But people will buy a matrix game in the same way they will buy a matrix tshirt. And will then go on to buy a roll of matrix toilet paper when it's availiable.
Anyway, as for game origionality. Eh, just a matter of opinion. There's only so far you can go before you create a game not suitable for a console, or a game that's too hard to learn, etc. And at what point were we NOT complaining about origionality?
I'd go for this maybe, but I'll pass on the "Learn you used $1000 of bandwidth when you get your bill" style of service.
Yea it's come to the point where instead of me admitting being a computer programmer, I tell everyone that i'm a smalltime potato farmer who doesn't even own a computer. Its just much easier that way.
The whole text weighs in at just under 50 pages
Good. I always hate books that are 1000 pages long just so the author can meet some type of quota. When in reality, the book is just full of extra fluff,and is much less useful as a learning tool because of it. To me, the best programming books are short. You can read them,learn, flip through them with your thumb, and each page has a lot of information. Once it gets too long it looses focus. And at this point, searching the internet and reading online help files starts seeming like a way better idea.
I'm still waiting for the "Sleeping Does Not Reduce Poductivity" and the "Avoiding Work At All Costs Does Not Reduce Productivity" articles to surface. Then we all will be free.
In other news, the world will end in 2000 due to programming errors which prevent computers from recognizing the year y2k and above...
...Until they put digital cameras embedded on the foreheads of the cops themselves.
Pictures of this coaster here. These go in the "you gotta be kidding me" category.
I'm no expert on audio, but I've always been interested in portable audio recording. $2000/$4000 seems kind of steep to me. What advantages does a device like this have over a much cheaper minidisc recorder with a good microphone? Anyone think its worth the money? Or are their other alternatives, like a laptop with a good sound card or something?
Steve Ballmer says DRM is an opportunity, not a prison
I think he meant to say that DRM is an opportunity to BE imprisoned.
Longhorn? Forget it. I'm now in the process to converting all my software to run on winPE. So thank you Microsoft...But no thanks.
Windows XP Home from the same site (or many others) is $86.95, and I picked up my fully legitimate copy of XP Pro for $125. Wait... so, Michael, explain to me why Windows XP Home (fully licensed for as long as you own your PC) is $86.95, and Lindows is $99.00 for one year of access?
Hey I love how you convieniently "misword" stuff to make it sound as if it costs $99 for a year access to the Lindows OS, when the $99 is the price for the OS and a one year access to Click&Run (which you don't have to buy). Lindows by itself is $49. Plus whats all this rubbish about some deal you got on Windows XP? The retail (and most common) price for Windows XP Home is $199 and Pro is $299. Everyone knows that. Who are you, the Media?
Dont have mac hardware etc, but I have tried this emusic which I liked. Unlimited downloads for 9.99 a month (for 1 year) or 14.99 a month (for 3 months). It has streaming samples so you can see what they have beforehand (mostly rare stuff moreso than mainstream), Plus a 50 mp3 free trial.
Has anyone been to pogo.com, a free online game site. They have an advertising scheme where after a while of playing their free online games (java i believe), an animated add covers the window with a coundown display that starts at 30 seconds down to 0. It works because the games are short and have a clear beginning and end to them. Kind of a television advertisment feel.
I won't go into why C# and .NET are better for windows app development - either you have done it, and understand why MFC and C++ blow chunks
I will elaborate further.
Having to interface with resource files and resource IDs was one of the killers of the MFC Vc++ enviroment. Resource files were dropped in C#; resource ids were dropped. Layout editing generates the source code for creating the form. No more GetDlgItem, no more hwnds, no picking a number from 100 to 32000, no more resource.h files. No more mounds of ridiculous MFC AppWizard rubbish.
Then there is garbage collection, and all the built in collection classes: ArrayLists, HashTables. Usable bitmap and Graphic classes (no more dcs, hbitmaps). No more having to fill out a 30 item structure every single function call. But most importantly, C# != MFC.
All the Modern Things have always existed, They've just been waiting.
-Björk
technology has potential to annihilate
...as well as the potential to protect us from annihilation.
The $100 price tag is the manufacturer's cost to install in consumer electronics item, not how much people can go out and buy it for.
This story has a lot of information on it. The main site i believe has been slashdotted.
Languages will change when computers change. Languages are driven by machine instructions which are mathematical operations done in sequence. If this doesn't change in 100 years, why would we not use C in 100 years?
Law enforcement agencies all over America are in the process of laying off 85% of their police force in favor of 100 strategically placed web cams across the United States.
I once had to use an authoring tool (Rapid CBT), priced in the thousands of dollars, which was completely driven by statecharts. In my opinion, the statecharts offered no advantage at in the development as most of the logic needed wasn't suitable for statecharts. My guess is that statecharts are an easy way to make a visual representation of what is happening in the code, but is restrictive to the coding itself.
I thought this was pretty much debunked a couple years ago?
...And a year ago...And 6 months ago...And a month ago...And a week ago...And two days ago...
Don't know where this is going, but I'm afraid it might get significantly harder for humble college students such as myself to sample an artist's music before going out and buying a disc...
I think he meant to say "it might get significantly harder for humble college students such as myself to sample an artist's music until he's sick of it and no longer has the need to go out and buy a disc".