I am still skeptical of Sun. They are coerced into behaving nicely by the huge open source community which is not that much interested in what they have to offer anymore and have a lot of influence in the market. And let's face it, they opened up Java after IcedTea is out for quite a while now.
Skin cancer rates have also to do with melanin production in the skin or better said the lack of. For example if you lived in uk all your life and so did all your ancestors for the past 100 generations you have probably not have evolved (damn it I used this word again) a very efficient melanin production mechanism compered to one of south European, Semitic or African ancestry. If you are in that situation and go 2 weeks a year to southern Spain and get totally sunburned every year, yes you have an increased risk of skin cancer compared to a local farmer who works in the sun every day.
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Anyone getting into the business is competing against naive entrants in their late-teens/early-twenties; the type who are willing (and able) to work for peanuts to do what (they think) they love, until they get burnt out and are replaced by more newbies.
I was wondering why all the games seems so puerile.
To keep the analogy with Hollywood going. Blair Witch Project ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blair_Witch_Project ) had a budget of 35K$ and made 248M$ in sales. So how many "New Super Idea" are you willing to invest a small sum of money in as opposed to 10M$ one "Latest Franchise with Guaranteed Sales 27" on the hope that the brainwashed consumers are going to make you 11M$. One day you might have a big surprise.
The analogy with Hollywood is perfect here. I am getting tired of the same crap repackaged over and over again on a bigger and bigger budget. I want new ideas not sims2 gaming programing package.
On the other hand most of the CS degrees around have physics courses attached to them, numerical methods, system simulation, image processing, advanced algorithms and do forth. No serious CS degree I know officially includes "blowing friends to kingdom-come with an RPG launcher"
I would take a teaching job anytime for a job in the UK gaming industry payed twice as much. Not only that there is a meaning to what you are doing but you will have a life as well.
Despite the games companies constantly bleating about how much money they make and how games are now a bigger contributor to the British economy than films, they seem unwilling or unable to compensate leading engineering talent.
I still remember when UK software industry was boasting that it makes more money than the car industry, but I think this is because the state their car industry is in.
I am continually spammed by UK recruiting agencies that request high qualifications and pay you 20K pounds and 50 hour week, but there is a plus to it. The uniform is provided.
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I wold say Novell is a pretty mormonic company to start with.
and they even have some really impressive hardware,
Have you ever worked with the Sun Blades?the continued exodus of top execs
This might prove to be a very good thing!ZFS is already implemented on FreeBSD.
What competitors? SCO?
I am still skeptical of Sun. They are coerced into behaving nicely by the huge open source community which is not that much interested in what they have to offer anymore and have a lot of influence in the market. And let's face it, they opened up Java after IcedTea is out for quite a while now.
Buy local then.
I guess the weak dollar will bring more jobs back at "home" only the kind you do not really want.
Telling the truth, not so much.
And the truth is?....Yep! Run Climate Prediction client. http://www.climateprediction.net/
Skin cancer rates have also to do with melanin production in the skin or better said the lack of. For example if you lived in uk all your life and so did all your ancestors for the past 100 generations you have probably not have evolved (damn it I used this word again) a very efficient melanin production mechanism compered to one of south European, Semitic or African ancestry. If you are in that situation and go 2 weeks a year to southern Spain and get totally sunburned every year, yes you have an increased risk of skin cancer compared to a local farmer who works in the sun every day.
I hoped it was going to be declared obsolete this year.
What is not really mentioned is that Jason2 is a joint program between: CNES (Centre National d'Ãtudes Spatiales) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CNES NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA Eumetsat (European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eumetsat NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NOAA CNES and NASA are involved for the launch period and after the satellite operations will be carried out by Eumetsat and NOAA. For more info: http://www.eumetsat.int/Home/Main/What_We_Do/Satellites/Jason/index.htm?l=en
Damn it! I can't sleep without a TV!
Well that explains why they are puerile and dumb. :)
both Jaguar and Landrover
I guess you meant Tata.To keep the analogy with Hollywood going. Blair Witch Project ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blair_Witch_Project ) had a budget of 35K$ and made 248M$ in sales. So how many "New Super Idea" are you willing to invest a small sum of money in as opposed to 10M$ one "Latest Franchise with Guaranteed Sales 27" on the hope that the brainwashed consumers are going to make you 11M$. One day you might have a big surprise.
The analogy with Hollywood is perfect here. I am getting tired of the same crap repackaged over and over again on a bigger and bigger budget. I want new ideas not sims2 gaming programing package.
On the other hand most of the CS degrees around have physics courses attached to them, numerical methods, system simulation, image processing, advanced algorithms and do forth. No serious CS degree I know officially includes "blowing friends to kingdom-come with an RPG launcher"
I would take a teaching job anytime for a job in the UK gaming industry payed twice as much. Not only that there is a meaning to what you are doing but you will have a life as well.
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Despite the games companies constantly bleating about how much money they make and how games are now a bigger contributor to the British economy than films, they seem unwilling or unable to compensate leading engineering talent.
I still remember when UK software industry was boasting that it makes more money than the car industry, but I think this is because the state their car industry is in.I am continually spammed by UK recruiting agencies that request high qualifications and pay you 20K pounds and 50 hour week, but there is a plus to it. The uniform is provided.
Sorry! It was US. http://www.newtechusa.com/ppi/pressroom.asp#higher
I thought the British gaming industry uses chimps and Visual Basic.