I have 2 kids, 2.5 and 1.5 they both have always had video games around I mean they probably heard Zelda In utero. They both know how to move a guy on the screen with a d-pad, they both know how to push buttons, how to get a game to boot up on a gameboy (insert game switch power on).
There was no "start" I played games with the kids in my lap from the first day they were born. It is part of their life, part of their culture, part of their education.
It is like asking how old they should be before they are allowed to listen to a conversation...
I will opt for the unlimited option at twice or even three times the price no matter if I will hit the cap or not, it's just the way I do business. I can budget $80 a month for unlimited, I can't budget $20 a month, except january where I have a $500 overage because MSDN licenses changed and I have to download 100 DVD ISOs before they lapse;)
Give me all your pills both red and blue
you are all pawns in the virus smith's cruel game of shitty dialogue.
I will be blinded by a life ending wound, then I will go reason with the wizard of oz
At which time he will agree to everything I say for no logical reason.
Then I will fly off into the sunset and leave fans and critics going "Worst ending ever"
one that runs on both time and electricity, so as you slow down it charges the backup battery and you can keep going through the magic of hybrid synergy drive!
Don't forget steroids[r], holoduke[h], shrink ray, and laser trip mines. The beauty in the weapons/items in that game is that they had a small selection of very well implemented weapons/itmes that would work the way you expected them to work.
Did anyone else know the steroids would instantly grow you from a shrink... neither did most opponents on Heat.net the best is the second time they shrink you, you holoduke instead of steroids, and then get behind them and 'roid it up and shoot them dead. Beauty. It is just a far cry from the current state of FPSs which is: "Snipe, tank, or rocket"
I have yet to find something more satisfying than sending an elevator full of pipebombs at an unsuspecting player.
The truth for me is that I have still not played a FPS that was more FUN than Duke3D... Sure I have played games with better graphics, better engines, better stories, better mechanics, better multiplayer. But I have yet to find a, FPS game that was so consistantly "fun". It was just the right blend of cartooney, hard boiled, tongue'in'cheek, and psudo-realisim. And I don't believe anyone else has got it quite right yet.
I will still buy it on release day. Even if I have top buy it in...
I think more likely is that if they do come and visit, it will be for scientific curiosity. And they will accidentally bring their "common cold" or "smallpox" and wipe most of us out. Then they will make a generous allotment of part of our land as a "human reservation".
But don't worry we will make a fortune in gold plated latinum with our tax exempt casinos.
I think it is ridiculous that they guy that "taught" Computer Science will likely make a third of what a computer scientist makes.
And be honest, in your career as a developer, did you learn more from the 4 years you spent in college on a BS:CS or in the 6 months at your first development job with a mentor?
The answer, of course, for me was that I leanred more in my first month of doing bug fixes than I did in 4 years at a decent college.
not to be a jerk but ford never really STOPPED making the fairlane 500. You can go to Australia and plunk down your $50k(aus) and drive away your brand new 5.4 liter 430hp V8 Fairlane.
Perhaps things would be better if Microsoft built their own machines, like Apple, but that's never going to happen.
I love that you have a Xbox360 link in your Sig:D
it's really easy to disable the hiberfile. It is just in a really stupid place for the config in Vista (and XP for that matter) it is in the power management settings. A check box for "enable hibernate support".
Not that I disagree about a small drive and vista, just trying to share the info.
My Windows dev machine at work (yes I have to support some non *nix apps) has a 40gb HD with 2 versions of Visual Studio, and Eclipse running fine.
All of my home PCs have a few hundred of your earth gigs, but that is for the numerous copyright violations I perform daily. I have no such plans with a $3200 laptop, which I would only get if, say my work were to purchase it for me.
I think it's silly to force a biological metaphor but if you have to:
Allergic reactions are where your body identifies foreign or even native substances as harmful and treats them with hostillity (like by making your eyes water and your nose run to flush them out) This is an immune over-reaction, which is what the article is talking about.
AIDS would be more like the many many viruses that seek to shut down common anti-virus programs. But of course, AIDS is more scary and sensational than histamine
When anything more than the dismal world of blue-collar education requires a university degree, it sure is a necessity.
I guess if you have nothing to offer perspective employers besides a sheepskin that's true.
I make lots of money in my white collar software development job for a top bank. I left my full acedemic scholorship behind when I dropped out of college with ~60 credit hours.
I have plenty of friends working retail or slightly better with their college educations. Of the 12 or so people in my circle of friends that have a bachelor's or above, you could combine any 3 of their salaries and they still don't make what I make.
I will agree that ease of use is important, and that apple products tend to do ok at this. But you have got to be fooling yourself if you think that the average n00b had any reason to other than fashion ditch their 8gb iPod in favor of a 20 40 80 whatever. sure they play video now, but I somehow doubt Joe sixpack is ready to pay $12,000 on iTunes, or even rip 12,000 of his own songs, or even use his pod as a usb drive to transfer files. The features, the convenience, the interface did NOT sell iPods. At least not to the average user in my experience. The distinctive earbuds are probably the most important feature in that device and I am not trying to be facetious. It is definatly more important to be seen with an iPod than it is to have one. Look at the commercials. Look at the Mac store. If you still say it is not about fashion first and technology second, I guess I lost ya.
Beyond occasional searching for music to play a particular song, I have not really met anyone who needed a slick interface on their Music files, they just hit random and go. Not only that, but how many people bought an iPod because it was the greatest thing ever and N-E-V-E-R use it? Well the iPhone solves that problem by making a fashion sensitive device that you will use, for which you do need the functionality. If the iPhone was exactly an iPod with no new interface but with a simple cellphone built in, I believe the success would be very similar.
The iPhone is a very good way to get people to pay monthly to be seen with the latest (or at least standard) slick gadget. It really is very smart from a fashion perspective.
There is hardly any market overlap. I mean seriously you can't use the iPhone for business, you can't use it to omgkfcbbq Instantmessage your friends. You can't use it for social networking. You can use it to show off that you paid 600 dollars for an animated MP3 player with integrated google maps, and a fun voicemail toy.
Should Prada be worried that Samsonite is comming out with a new suitcase line? No Prada sells expensive jewelry that looks like a purse, Samsonite sells luggage.
The iPhone is jewelery, it doesn't have to worry about ANY Phone competing with it.
I guess I'm just bitter because the iPhone does not have instant messaging or a fast way to type, the only thing I have really used a phone for in the last 5 years. So it seems like a step back, which everyone else is calling revolutionary. Since IM has always been the "killer app" on cellphones for me, the iPhone is not compatible with my ideal. Purchasing music and cute animations were never on my radar for a cellphone.
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I have 2 kids, 2.5 and 1.5 they both have always had video games around I mean they probably heard Zelda In utero. They both know how to move a guy on the screen with a d-pad, they both know how to push buttons, how to get a game to boot up on a gameboy (insert game switch power on).
There was no "start" I played games with the kids in my lap from the first day they were born. It is part of their life, part of their culture, part of their education.
It is like asking how old they should be before they are allowed to listen to a conversation...
I agree ascii porn is not good enough to achieve "gui" - I guess that's what the kids are calling it these days.
I will opt for the unlimited option at twice or even three times the price no matter if I will hit the cap or not, it's just the way I do business. I can budget $80 a month for unlimited, I can't budget $20 a month, except january where I have a $500 overage because MSDN licenses changed and I have to download 100 DVD ISOs before they lapse ;)
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No need to "wait for it for days" just saying.
Give me all your pills both red and blue
you are all pawns in the virus smith's cruel game of shitty dialogue.
I will be blinded by a life ending wound, then I will go reason with the wizard of oz
At which time he will agree to everything I say for no logical reason.
Then I will fly off into the sunset and leave fans and critics going "Worst ending ever"
one that runs on both time and electricity, so as you slow down it charges the backup battery and you can keep going through the magic of hybrid synergy drive!
Don't forget steroids[r], holoduke[h], shrink ray, and laser trip mines. The beauty in the weapons/items in that game is that they had a small selection of very well implemented weapons/itmes that would work the way you expected them to work.
Did anyone else know the steroids would instantly grow you from a shrink... neither did most opponents on Heat.net the best is the second time they shrink you, you holoduke instead of steroids, and then get behind them and 'roid it up and shoot them dead. Beauty. It is just a far cry from the current state of FPSs which is: "Snipe, tank, or rocket"
I have yet to find something more satisfying than sending an elevator full of pipebombs at an unsuspecting player.
The truth for me is that I have still not played a FPS that was more FUN than Duke3D... Sure I have played games with better graphics, better engines, better stories, better mechanics, better multiplayer. But I have yet to find a, FPS game that was so consistantly "fun". It was just the right blend of cartooney, hard boiled, tongue'in'cheek, and psudo-realisim. And I don't believe anyone else has got it quite right yet.
I will still buy it on release day. Even if I have top buy it in...
THE TWILIGHT ZONE
the lines are not blured, the gameboy/DS both kind of suck at mp3s and I can't imagine the iPod will be any better at Sonic than the gba is at MP3s.
I think more likely is that if they do come and visit, it will be for scientific curiosity. And they will accidentally bring their "common cold" or "smallpox" and wipe most of us out. Then they will make a generous allotment of part of our land as a "human reservation".
But don't worry we will make a fortune in gold plated latinum with our tax exempt casinos.
z0mg it's a dejavu glitch, they changed something.
Not like the name "gamecock" is going to be hard to remember.
That's what she said.
I think it is ridiculous that they guy that "taught" Computer Science will likely make a third of what a computer scientist makes.
And be honest, in your career as a developer, did you learn more from the 4 years you spent in college on a BS:CS or in the 6 months at your first development job with a mentor?
The answer, of course, for me was that I leanred more in my first month of doing bug fixes than I did in 4 years at a decent college.
Some versions of duke nukem 3d were audio cds too.
notepad will open a 700mb file with no real issue... But yes, mplayer is better at opening them.
not to be a jerk but ford never really STOPPED making the fairlane 500. You can go to Australia and plunk down your $50k(aus) and drive away your brand new 5.4 liter 430hp V8 Fairlane.
joking aside
Perhaps things would be better if Microsoft built their own machines, like Apple, but that's never going to happen. I love that you have a Xbox360 link in your Sig :D
it's really easy to disable the hiberfile. It is just in a really stupid place for the config in Vista (and XP for that matter) it is in the power management settings. A check box for "enable hibernate support".
Not that I disagree about a small drive and vista, just trying to share the info.
My Windows dev machine at work (yes I have to support some non *nix apps) has a 40gb HD with 2 versions of Visual Studio, and Eclipse running fine.
All of my home PCs have a few hundred of your earth gigs, but that is for the numerous copyright violations I perform daily. I have no such plans with a $3200 laptop, which I would only get if, say my work were to purchase it for me.
I think it's silly to force a biological metaphor but if you have to:
Allergic reactions are where your body identifies foreign or even native substances as harmful and treats them with hostillity (like by making your eyes water and your nose run to flush them out) This is an immune over-reaction, which is what the article is talking about.
AIDS would be more like the many many viruses that seek to shut down common anti-virus programs. But of course, AIDS is more scary and sensational than histamine
When anything more than the dismal world of blue-collar education requires a university degree, it sure is a necessity.
I guess if you have nothing to offer perspective employers besides a sheepskin that's true.
I make lots of money in my white collar software development job for a top bank. I left my full acedemic scholorship behind when I dropped out of college with ~60 credit hours.
I have plenty of friends working retail or slightly better with their college educations. Of the 12 or so people in my circle of friends that have a bachelor's or above, you could combine any 3 of their salaries and they still don't make what I make.
does that mean that manbearpig will not come kill us? Or is the only way to stop global warming still to raise taxes?
I will agree that ease of use is important, and that apple products tend to do ok at this. But you have got to be fooling yourself if you think that the average n00b had any reason to other than fashion ditch their 8gb iPod in favor of a 20 40 80 whatever. sure they play video now, but I somehow doubt Joe sixpack is ready to pay $12,000 on iTunes, or even rip 12,000 of his own songs, or even use his pod as a usb drive to transfer files. The features, the convenience, the interface did NOT sell iPods. At least not to the average user in my experience. The distinctive earbuds are probably the most important feature in that device and I am not trying to be facetious. It is definatly more important to be seen with an iPod than it is to have one. Look at the commercials. Look at the Mac store. If you still say it is not about fashion first and technology second, I guess I lost ya. Beyond occasional searching for music to play a particular song, I have not really met anyone who needed a slick interface on their Music files, they just hit random and go. Not only that, but how many people bought an iPod because it was the greatest thing ever and N-E-V-E-R use it? Well the iPhone solves that problem by making a fashion sensitive device that you will use, for which you do need the functionality. If the iPhone was exactly an iPod with no new interface but with a simple cellphone built in, I believe the success would be very similar. The iPhone is a very good way to get people to pay monthly to be seen with the latest (or at least standard) slick gadget. It really is very smart from a fashion perspective.
Apple makes fashion accessories.
Google makes software that works.
There is hardly any market overlap. I mean seriously you can't use the iPhone for business, you can't use it to omgkfcbbq Instantmessage your friends. You can't use it for social networking. You can use it to show off that you paid 600 dollars for an animated MP3 player with integrated google maps, and a fun voicemail toy.
Should Prada be worried that Samsonite is comming out with a new suitcase line? No Prada sells expensive jewelry that looks like a purse, Samsonite sells luggage.
The iPhone is jewelery, it doesn't have to worry about ANY Phone competing with it.
I guess I'm just bitter because the iPhone does not have instant messaging or a fast way to type, the only thing I have really used a phone for in the last 5 years. So it seems like a step back, which everyone else is calling revolutionary. Since IM has always been the "killer app" on cellphones for me, the iPhone is not compatible with my ideal. Purchasing music and cute animations were never on my radar for a cellphone.