The only thing that can "fix" the industry is another complete collapse, followed by a rebirth consisting of small players (NO mega-corps). The video game industry, foolishly wanting to be like Hollywood, has gotten it's wish: it's become a faceless corporate giant with no soul, fixated purely on focus groups, numbers, and endless rehashes of tired junk. All style with little to no substance. Just die already.
Another side of it is the incompatibility of art and money. As much as it pains me to call video games 'art', I acknowledge that the developers practice a form of art; the developers being those who code, the sound recordists and the people who generate the graphical assets, etc. The vast majority of traditional artwork (as a visual medium), just like music, is mostly obscure and will never turn a profit. The problem is not the medium, but with those who do not understand art as human expression and those same people who must attach a price tag to everything.
The "failure" is not the medium, it is the endless greed inherent in large corporations who 'care' nothing of the craftsmen that enable them to profit.
Real art (whatever that is) cannot be made on an assembly line...
I'll probably pick one up when Amazon has them back in stock. I like the idea of an underpowered console, as weird as that sounds.
RANT
Modern mainstream games (360 and PS3 I'm specifically referring to) just suck. Endless rehashes with overblown budgets, 10 million polys per frame that look pretty great, but the games themselves pretty much just bore me to tears. 0 substance. Not to even mention the $60 price-tag for these overrated, over-hyped, disappointing excuses for a game. I'm not even using my 360 or PS3 these days, they just sit there. I'm no longer willing to give MS, Sony or the big publishers one more cent, or even a minute of my time. They just disgust me. AAA to me means "stay far away", it's rehashed vanilla crap for the masses. Actually, modern mainstream games remind me of Hollywood (that's not a compliment, BTW).
/RANT
Anyways, I like the idea of a console released by a small company that anyone can write games for, and I plan on supporting them with a purchase. I think it's a huge plus that there's no Call of Boredom or Gears of Boredom type games on this platform.
Wait a few days until actual retail buyers get the units in their hands. Right now on Amazon for example, the majority of the reviewers are kickstarter people, and half of those are whiners who are surprised they didn't get the thing delivered on a silver platter w/a complementary BJ. The sense of entitlement that some of these kickstarters display is pretty sickening. It got to the point reading the Amazon reviews where, when I saw the word "kickstarter", I immediately skipped to the next review.
If I've learned one thing, that is the fact that you don't buy rev. 1 of *any* tech related product. I've got better things to do w/my time than pay to alpha test hardware/firmware/software.
Congrats on the release OUYA! I wish you the best of luck.
Ugh, just terrible. Instead of toying with people, why don't you you first talk to them? Ask them about themselves. What do they like to do for fun? Any hobbies? You know, treat them like human beings, not a toy to play with. That way you can get a feel for their personality without being a jerk and screwing with them.
And here's a novel idea: if you're hiring a programmer (for instance), how about, I don't know, asking them to write a "Hello, World! " program. From what I've read, that right there will thin out a good half to three-quarters of the candidates. You could even have one of your minions do this part.
Have them meet the team; do they hit it off at all? Ratchet up the programming exercises. This is not rocket science (unless you work for NASA, that is;) ).
Mod parent up; we get the the government we deserve, as the saying goes. I mean, come on already, do people actually believe a single word uttered by anyone in DC politics associated w/either the R or D parties? Time and time again these sad excuses for human beings (referring to the federal government) have proven themselves to be outright filthy liars to just plain criminals.
Listen up folks: this type of despicable, criminal behavior is a prerequisite to be a part of either the D or R teams; why can't you understand this obvious truth? Do you actually think you can rise to any level of power in either of those parties if you have a shred of decency? Fuck no, you will be marginalized or just kicked to the gutter.
I'll say it again in case you missed the point: you *must* join the machine to be a part of either the R or D parties, and the machine is corrupt and broken beyond repair. Why do you keep repeating this insane behavior of voting for these scum? Do you really think that anything will ever change for the better? IT CANNOT AND WILL NOT!
You know how some people say that if you abstain from voting, then you don't get to bitch and moan about the results? Well, I have a revised version: if you vote Republicrat, then you should STFU and never complain about the results, because the problem is not really the Republicrats, it is YOU for enabling then allowing this behavior that is destroying this country.
Powershell was created for people who have absolutely no idea what they are doing. Sysadmins. As a developer it looks like fucking Greek to me.
Even though you can teach a dog a few tricks, it's doesn't necessarily mean that he is intelligent. But if you were able to ask him, I'd bet he'd have a pretty high opinion of his level of intelligence...
This is probably one of the biggest displays of ignorance I've seen in a long time. Do you even know how large data centers perform back ups. Using ****ing magnetic tapes(5TB by Fujitu being the biggest I've heard of). Tapes are big, slow as hell and one of the unreliable.
Speaking of ignorance, you do understand that LTO 3/4/5/6, released in 2005/2007/2010/2012 respectively, transfer data faster than hard drives, right? It's just the initial seek time that is slow. Once a given block is located on an LTO and the data starts to flow, the biggest challenge is feeding them fast enough to achieve their optimal hardware compression ratio, which tends to be just shy of 2:1 given a standard mix of business data.
Handled and stored properly, they are *very* reliable, and as an archival medium, I'd trust LTO over a spinning disk any day. Again, used an archival medium, they are rated at 15-30 years in terms of longevity.
A little perspective is needed here I think, and this fact is pretty scary. Ready for this?
The entire budget of NASA, from it's inception up to the current day, has been equivalent to (ready for this?) 2 years of the US military's budget. Think about that, and try not to weep.
Not that I disagree that we're in some serious financial straits...
YouTube is also hit or miss for me. Sometimes it'll work fine, other times I get the dreaded 10-20 seconds of video, then wait, wait, wait... forget it; close the tab. I'm on a 50mb/s Time-Warner connection in North Carolina, FWIW.
He thinks he has it bad? Hey, at least he's not on the Gnome dev team. Instead of crying to us, he'd be sobbing in his mother's arms!
HEADLINE: Paradise Lost!
[Germany]
Today, a naive idealist crashed headlong into reality, and his youthful dreams of utopia were shattered. No more Unicorns and skipping down candy-colored, lollipop lanes for this disillusioned, sensitive soul! Turn to page 6 and read all about the injustices this poor individual has suffered because of some mean old trolls on the Internet, and how his "everything should be like, free, man" world-view has been turned into "ve must rule with an IRON FIST, ja?".
Classic.
Come on Klaus, man up, hold your head high, and delete those posts. It's gonna be ok... they're just trolls and fan-boys, right? Right? And for the love of FSM, stay out of politics; we remember last time some sensitive budding artist got involved in politics there. (OK, that last part was uncalled for...)
At the same time, I really don't follow the logic of the "survivalist" types who want to hoard up ammo and believe that's the only sensible answer for "when it all falls apart". What's the real plan there? Just start shooting people to get what you need? If we're all so lacking in any kind of moral compass or care for anyone other than ourselves that absent of a strong central government, we're all going to revert to savages trying to kill each other to obtain their possessions?
No. It's to protect your family and your possessions (food, water, working automobiles w/fuel, etc). When (not if) the economy crashes, all social services will break down. These things (among others) cease to exist/function: police forces, grocery stores (food supplies), water supplies, electricity... "law & order" will cease to exist and from then on out it is survival of the fittest. Is it starting to make sense now?
They may as well shoot me... I don't want to hang around anymore in that world.
Oh, don't worry, "they" will. If you are in or around any urban area, you'll last 2-4 weeks at most with that pacifist attitude.
I read an excellent story on some guy's blog describing the chaos that ensued when the economy crashed in Argentina (I believe it was Argentina, I may be wrong, but it was a South American country). The story went down pretty much how I described it above, which is why I posted that comment. The only things that saved this guy and his family was the fact that he was armed, and they got the hell out of the city. He didn't actually have to kill anyone in self defense, but there were several occasions where people tried to relieve him of his property, and by having a rifle in plain view, he was able to keep what was his and run the rats off.
ERP = Enterprise Resource Planning, a bad name for a general class of business software that does just about anything, from billing to shipping & receiving, warehouse automation, reporting, etc, etc. Basically a somewhat integrated suite of applications that tie all (or many) aspects of a business together, implementing business processes in software.
Implementations typically run in timescales of years and millions of dollars, with teams of developers, DBAs, etc. The software suite is a canned solution that you then slightly (or vastly) modify to tailor to your business needs. ( My job as a systems & storage administrator at a major US-based snack food company has me managing the ~30 Linux servers that run our Oracle databases on the DB tier and Oracle EBusiness suite at the application tier, backed by all manner of storage arrays, NAS devices, FC SANs, load balancers, etc, etc. Fun stuff! )
Think of it as Quicken, but on a very large scale.
The IRS? Yes, and the FBI, the CIA, the ATF, the DEA, the NSA... the list goes on and on, and goes to prove that wherever there is power concentrated, no matter how small, it WILL be abused. Without oversight from a completely different branch of government, and without harsh penalties for any and all violations, these agencies have, and will continue to engage in:
Harassment
Domestic spying
Various types of espionage
Assassination
Illegal drug dealing
Illegal gun dealing
Torture
Murder of citizens in their homes
Shall I continue? Here's a fun game: match the TLA's with the offenses listed above.
Hyperbole in a headline? No, I just can't beleive it.
Ellison does not own this Hawaiian island. It is a portion of a state, as in one of the states that comprise the United States. He holds title (or more likely, a bank does) for a significant portion of the lots on this island. He does not "own the island".
Even if he aquired the title to every square mm of land on that island, he still would not own it. That just allows you to build on and occupy the land at the governments pleasure. And remember, even if you have a title to a plot of land, whatever is below the surface certainly does not belong to you. And because of the construct of Eminent Domain, you only have the right to occupy/use a portion of real estate as long as the government has no use for it.
Unless you are the federal government, you cannot truly own a shred of real estate in the real sense of the word "own". It's never fully yours to do with as you see fit.
I see a lot of people referring to disk arrays as "SANs", which is incorrect. A SAN (storage area network) refers to the network itself, not the array(s). Calling an array a SAN is like calling a networked PC a LAN!
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The only thing that can "fix" the industry is another complete collapse, followed by a rebirth consisting of small players (NO mega-corps). The video game industry, foolishly wanting to be like Hollywood, has gotten it's wish: it's become a faceless corporate giant with no soul, fixated purely on focus groups, numbers, and endless rehashes of tired junk. All style with little to no substance. Just die already.
Another side of it is the incompatibility of art and money. As much as it pains me to call video games 'art', I acknowledge that the developers practice a form of art; the developers being those who code, the sound recordists and the people who generate the graphical assets, etc. The vast majority of traditional artwork (as a visual medium), just like music, is mostly obscure and will never turn a profit. The problem is not the medium, but with those who do not understand art as human expression and those same people who must attach a price tag to everything.
The "failure" is not the medium, it is the endless greed inherent in large corporations who 'care' nothing of the craftsmen that enable them to profit.
Real art (whatever that is) cannot be made on an assembly line...
Money talks and bullshit walks...
I'll probably pick one up when Amazon has them back in stock. I like the idea of an underpowered console, as weird as that sounds.
/RANT
RANT
Modern mainstream games (360 and PS3 I'm specifically referring to) just suck. Endless rehashes with overblown budgets, 10 million polys per frame that look pretty great, but the games themselves pretty much just bore me to tears. 0 substance. Not to even mention the $60 price-tag for these overrated, over-hyped, disappointing excuses for a game. I'm not even using my 360 or PS3 these days, they just sit there. I'm no longer willing to give MS, Sony or the big publishers one more cent, or even a minute of my time. They just disgust me. AAA to me means "stay far away", it's rehashed vanilla crap for the masses. Actually, modern mainstream games remind me of Hollywood (that's not a compliment, BTW).
Anyways, I like the idea of a console released by a small company that anyone can write games for, and I plan on supporting them with a purchase. I think it's a huge plus that there's no Call of Boredom or Gears of Boredom type games on this platform.
Wait a few days until actual retail buyers get the units in their hands. Right now on Amazon for example, the majority of the reviewers are kickstarter people, and half of those are whiners who are surprised they didn't get the thing delivered on a silver platter w/a complementary BJ. The sense of entitlement that some of these kickstarters display is pretty sickening. It got to the point reading the Amazon reviews where, when I saw the word "kickstarter", I immediately skipped to the next review.
If I've learned one thing, that is the fact that you don't buy rev. 1 of *any* tech related product. I've got better things to do w/my time than pay to alpha test hardware/firmware/software.
Congrats on the release OUYA! I wish you the best of luck.
Looking at his UID, his account was registered around 1999-2000'ish... of course he could've inherited it from his dad!
;)
I will now get off of your lawn
Apparently humor and sarcasm are lost on the mods today, because right now, the parent is modded "3, Interesting." Wow...
Ugh, just terrible. Instead of toying with people, why don't you you first talk to them? Ask them about themselves. What do they like to do for fun? Any hobbies? You know, treat them like human beings, not a toy to play with. That way you can get a feel for their personality without being a jerk and screwing with them.
;) ).
And here's a novel idea: if you're hiring a programmer (for instance), how about, I don't know, asking them to write a "Hello, World! " program. From what I've read, that right there will thin out a good half to three-quarters of the candidates. You could even have one of your minions do this part.
Have them meet the team; do they hit it off at all? Ratchet up the programming exercises. This is not rocket science (unless you work for NASA, that is
Mod parent up; we get the the government we deserve, as the saying goes. I mean, come on already, do people actually believe a single word uttered by anyone in DC politics associated w/either the R or D parties? Time and time again these sad excuses for human beings (referring to the federal government) have proven themselves to be outright filthy liars to just plain criminals.
Listen up folks: this type of despicable, criminal behavior is a prerequisite to be a part of either the D or R teams; why can't you understand this obvious truth? Do you actually think you can rise to any level of power in either of those parties if you have a shred of decency? Fuck no, you will be marginalized or just kicked to the gutter.
I'll say it again in case you missed the point: you *must* join the machine to be a part of either the R or D parties, and the machine is corrupt and broken beyond repair. Why do you keep repeating this insane behavior of voting for these scum? Do you really think that anything will ever change for the better? IT CANNOT AND WILL NOT!
You know how some people say that if you abstain from voting, then you don't get to bitch and moan about the results? Well, I have a revised version: if you vote Republicrat, then you should STFU and never complain about the results, because the problem is not really the Republicrats, it is YOU for enabling then allowing this behavior that is destroying this country.
Tell me how wrong I am...
Even though you can teach a dog a few tricks, it's doesn't necessarily mean that he is intelligent. But if you were able to ask him, I'd bet he'd have a pretty high opinion of his level of intelligence...
Speaking of ignorance, you do understand that LTO 3/4/5/6, released in 2005/2007/2010/2012 respectively, transfer data faster than hard drives, right? It's just the initial seek time that is slow. Once a given block is located on an LTO and the data starts to flow, the biggest challenge is feeding them fast enough to achieve their optimal hardware compression ratio, which tends to be just shy of 2:1 given a standard mix of business data.
Handled and stored properly, they are *very* reliable, and as an archival medium, I'd trust LTO over a spinning disk any day. Again, used an archival medium, they are rated at 15-30 years in terms of longevity.
Educate yourself: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_Tape-Open#Generations
WOOFYGOOFY = Off his meds...
hmm, not a very intelligent design...
A little perspective is needed here I think, and this fact is pretty scary. Ready for this?
The entire budget of NASA, from it's inception up to the current day, has been equivalent to (ready for this?) 2 years of the US military's budget. Think about that, and try not to weep.
Not that I disagree that we're in some serious financial straits...
YouTube is also hit or miss for me. Sometimes it'll work fine, other times I get the dreaded 10-20 seconds of video, then wait, wait, wait... forget it; close the tab. I'm on a 50mb/s Time-Warner connection in North Carolina, FWIW.
I think the problem with YouTube is YouTube...
Oooh, ooh, yeah! Freewill! Off-topic to be sure, but I just love Geddy's bass riffs before, and especially during Alex's guitar solo. Great stuff...
He thinks he has it bad? Hey, at least he's not on the Gnome dev team. Instead of crying to us, he'd be sobbing in his mother's arms!
HEADLINE: Paradise Lost!
[Germany]
Today, a naive idealist crashed headlong into reality, and his youthful dreams of utopia were shattered. No more Unicorns and skipping down candy-colored, lollipop lanes for this disillusioned, sensitive soul! Turn to page 6 and read all about the injustices this poor individual has suffered because of some mean old trolls on the Internet, and how his "everything should be like, free, man" world-view has been turned into "ve must rule with an IRON FIST, ja?".
Classic.
Come on Klaus, man up, hold your head high, and delete those posts. It's gonna be ok... they're just trolls and fan-boys, right? Right? And for the love of FSM, stay out of politics; we remember last time some sensitive budding artist got involved in politics there. (OK, that last part was uncalled for...)
http://www.google.com/search?q=argentine+economic+crisis+blog
:)
Lots of fascinating reading there. Sleep tight
No. It's to protect your family and your possessions (food, water, working automobiles w/fuel, etc). When (not if) the economy crashes, all social services will break down. These things (among others) cease to exist/function: police forces, grocery stores (food supplies), water supplies, electricity... "law & order" will cease to exist and from then on out it is survival of the fittest. Is it starting to make sense now?
Oh, don't worry, "they" will. If you are in or around any urban area, you'll last 2-4 weeks at most with that pacifist attitude.
I read an excellent story on some guy's blog describing the chaos that ensued when the economy crashed in Argentina (I believe it was Argentina, I may be wrong, but it was a South American country). The story went down pretty much how I described it above, which is why I posted that comment. The only things that saved this guy and his family was the fact that he was armed, and they got the hell out of the city. He didn't actually have to kill anyone in self defense, but there were several occasions where people tried to relieve him of his property, and by having a rifle in plain view, he was able to keep what was his and run the rats off.
Scary stuff, straight out of Mad Max...
ERP = Enterprise Resource Planning, a bad name for a general class of business software that does just about anything, from billing to shipping & receiving, warehouse automation, reporting, etc, etc. Basically a somewhat integrated suite of applications that tie all (or many) aspects of a business together, implementing business processes in software.
Implementations typically run in timescales of years and millions of dollars, with teams of developers, DBAs, etc. The software suite is a canned solution that you then slightly (or vastly) modify to tailor to your business needs. ( My job as a systems & storage administrator at a major US-based snack food company has me managing the ~30 Linux servers that run our Oracle databases on the DB tier and Oracle EBusiness suite at the application tier, backed by all manner of storage arrays, NAS devices, FC SANs, load balancers, etc, etc. Fun stuff! )
Think of it as Quicken, but on a very large scale.
The IRS? Yes, and the FBI, the CIA, the ATF, the DEA, the NSA... the list goes on and on, and goes to prove that wherever there is power concentrated, no matter how small, it WILL be abused. Without oversight from a completely different branch of government, and without harsh penalties for any and all violations, these agencies have, and will continue to engage in:
Harassment
Domestic spying
Various types of espionage
Assassination
Illegal drug dealing
Illegal gun dealing
Torture
Murder of citizens in their homes
Shall I continue? Here's a fun game: match the TLA's with the offenses listed above.
Hyperbole in a headline? No, I just can't beleive it.
Ellison does not own this Hawaiian island. It is a portion of a state, as in one of the states that comprise the United States. He holds title (or more likely, a bank does) for a significant portion of the lots on this island. He does not "own the island".
Even if he aquired the title to every square mm of land on that island, he still would not own it. That just allows you to build on and occupy the land at the governments pleasure. And remember, even if you have a title to a plot of land, whatever is below the surface certainly does not belong to you. And because of the construct of Eminent Domain, you only have the right to occupy/use a portion of real estate as long as the government has no use for it.
Unless you are the federal government, you cannot truly own a shred of real estate in the real sense of the word "own". It's never fully yours to do with as you see fit.
I see a lot of people referring to disk arrays as "SANs", which is incorrect. A SAN (storage area network) refers to the network itself, not the array(s). Calling an array a SAN is like calling a networked PC a LAN!
Sorry, just a pet peeve of mine...
Don't sweat it; your English is better than the majority of the people who post here.
He's the one with the tear falling from his eye w/the crumbling WTC buildings in the background...
Especially if you're a male!
Yeah, if I were you, I wouldn't post that with my real name either...
Memo to drolli: What's your real name?