In my opinion, the thing that ruined Arcades forever is Ride on games.
Now nobody cares if a game plays well, it is all about how realistic the snow mobile you are riding looks.
I blame Gameworks. That place is jam packed with 1.00 per play piece of crap ride on games.
Now if you wanna play games that are fun instead of impressivly massive, you have to play a console.
Upright arcade games are dead, Ride on games killed them, and Consoles took over their niche.
Small business teams are nimble enough to get the job done. Large business has to outsource because it is so bloated it cannot function in a creative way. I am convinced that big business development is capable of maintenence and only maintenence.
Since they have to outsource to survive, they weigh the costs and sending it to a well managed code farm in india seems like the cheaper solution.
I believe that a well managed code farm in india can do the work of roughly 1 capable developer working in a small shop in america, and it costs about the same as well.
The truth is organized and manufacturing oriented shops cannot possibly put out worthwile stuff because they are not afforded the luxury of creativity.
Long live the indie strip mall dev shops!
I heard from a slightly credable insider
HP as a company is trying to compete in all things dell has (like a personal vendeta type thing?)
in this light, it makes sense that they would just brand an iPod to compete with the (way cheaper) dell DJ
This article makes me laugh because HP's slogan is "Invent" not "License and private label"
Are you serious? an e-book read by stephen hawking? I download the mp3s because people reading books do accents and sometimes do fun voices, *sigh* it reminds me of kindergarten all over again. I could not listen to a synth for 80,000 words.
don't we need actual voice recog first
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my experience with voice recognition (yes even your beloved Via-Voice) is that it blows and will for some time. We probably need better speech recognition before we get speech to speech.
so was the dreamcast, and now every console is a 3d rendering CD/dvd based personal computer with internet connectivity.
Soon 3d video cards will be a handheld must -- I blame Ngage.
New tech often flops, does not mean it does not change anything... look at the i-mac, now look at the slew of all-in-ones offered today.
They are mislead to believe that only new 3d rendered pieces of shit are worth their while, meanwhile zelda bonus disks containing mid 1980s zelda games that spank anything modern on gameplay are flying off the shelf.
if you want badass 2d gaming you have to buy a gameboy advance because the hardware is not advanced enough to forget gameplay yet... damn you NGage.
I can get my voice mail e-mailed to me as wav files, which is really cool cause my phone-PDA playes wav files and recieves e-mails anywhere.
I also don't mind the free longdistance nation wide and the fact that I get to choose my area code.
but now between 802.11b access point, Router/firewall, and Voip Router, I have 3 routing devices behind my Entertainment center.
Just wait it out, your company will be begging to hire you back at a higher salery when offshore fvcks their codebase.
I have been involved in 3 incidents where offshore development ruined an app, and I got paid overtime to fix it...
Offshore does not work, it appears to work, so as long as _you_ work, instead of appearing to work, you have little to worry about.
Our test is: read in a fixed length file, display it, add/remove/edit a record in it, save it back out. you may use Any language of your choice and you may use google.
we have not in 3 years had a developer take the full hour and finish even a rough program to do it. Degree or no, nobody can do it...
The funny thing is that all of us finished it in 15-20 minutes back in 1999
I dunno what that means, but I do know that there is a not "Glut" of developers, but a glut of people calling themselves something they are not.
if someone steals my car and mowes down 10 people am I responsible, certainly not.
What if I left my keys in the car?
What if I left it running at a gas station?
What if I did not know what a key was for but I left my keys in there anyway?
I think the only ones that will be held accountable for their equipment is us, the geeks.
This just in, if you actually try to do backups...
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you will have backups.
this as innovative as saying: Make backups of your system.
I deleted all of mine when I started Launchcast [yahoo.com] seriously it is free and legal and I controll the music enough to where I don't hear songs I hate and I hear new songs that I might like, in fact I like it better than my mp3s because it has better variety... now if they would just work with firebird...
I wish I was not a corporate whore, but yahoo's free music service is better than radio or MP3s.
did you go to College? did you take ANY programming class that was taught by someone that you would gladly recommend to be part of your Development team today?
PHD in Compsci != programmer
Sure they taught you to make a hello world program in fortran using a mini-frame 25 years after those were the industry standard, but they could not program their way out of a paper bag.
Sure I did not go to MIT, but I never met a Compsci professor that was also a programmer
I learn more in as week on Google Groups than I learned in 4 years for $50k
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In my opinion, the thing that ruined Arcades forever is Ride on games. Now nobody cares if a game plays well, it is all about how realistic the snow mobile you are riding looks. I blame Gameworks. That place is jam packed with 1.00 per play piece of crap ride on games. Now if you wanna play games that are fun instead of impressivly massive, you have to play a console. Upright arcade games are dead, Ride on games killed them, and Consoles took over their niche.
Small business teams are nimble enough to get the job done. Large business has to outsource because it is so bloated it cannot function in a creative way. I am convinced that big business development is capable of maintenence and only maintenence. Since they have to outsource to survive, they weigh the costs and sending it to a well managed code farm in india seems like the cheaper solution. I believe that a well managed code farm in india can do the work of roughly 1 capable developer working in a small shop in america, and it costs about the same as well. The truth is organized and manufacturing oriented shops cannot possibly put out worthwile stuff because they are not afforded the luxury of creativity. Long live the indie strip mall dev shops!
These people are ejaculating in the face of the court of public opinion.
I heard from a slightly credable insider HP as a company is trying to compete in all things dell has (like a personal vendeta type thing?) in this light, it makes sense that they would just brand an iPod to compete with the (way cheaper) dell DJ This article makes me laugh because HP's slogan is "Invent" not "License and private label"
Are you serious? an e-book read by stephen hawking? I download the mp3s because people reading books do accents and sometimes do fun voices, *sigh* it reminds me of kindergarten all over again. I could not listen to a synth for 80,000 words.
my experience with voice recognition (yes even your beloved Via-Voice) is that it blows and will for some time. We probably need better speech recognition before we get speech to speech.
so was the dreamcast, and now every console is a 3d rendering CD/dvd based personal computer with internet connectivity. Soon 3d video cards will be a handheld must -- I blame Ngage. New tech often flops, does not mean it does not change anything... look at the i-mac, now look at the slew of all-in-ones offered today.
They are mislead to believe that only new 3d rendered pieces of shit are worth their while, meanwhile zelda bonus disks containing mid 1980s zelda games that spank anything modern on gameplay are flying off the shelf. if you want badass 2d gaming you have to buy a gameboy advance because the hardware is not advanced enough to forget gameplay yet... damn you NGage.
That game is just a glorified (mostly)single player mario party (currently mario party has 5 versions out)
so this is definatly not a new concept, just a wonderful variation on an N64 game.
that said, it is not original, just very good.
I can get my voice mail e-mailed to me as wav files, which is really cool cause my phone-PDA playes wav files and recieves e-mails anywhere. I also don't mind the free longdistance nation wide and the fact that I get to choose my area code. but now between 802.11b access point, Router/firewall, and Voip Router, I have 3 routing devices behind my Entertainment center.
Just wait it out, your company will be begging to hire you back at a higher salery when offshore fvcks their codebase. I have been involved in 3 incidents where offshore development ruined an app, and I got paid overtime to fix it... Offshore does not work, it appears to work, so as long as _you_ work, instead of appearing to work, you have little to worry about.
we are all screwed when that is issued [end sarcasm]
Our test is: read in a fixed length file, display it, add/remove/edit a record in it, save it back out. you may use Any language of your choice and you may use google. we have not in 3 years had a developer take the full hour and finish even a rough program to do it. Degree or no, nobody can do it... The funny thing is that all of us finished it in 15-20 minutes back in 1999 I dunno what that means, but I do know that there is a not "Glut" of developers, but a glut of people calling themselves something they are not.
if someone steals my car and mowes down 10 people am I responsible, certainly not. What if I left my keys in the car? What if I left it running at a gas station? What if I did not know what a key was for but I left my keys in there anyway? I think the only ones that will be held accountable for their equipment is us, the geeks.
you will have backups. this as innovative as saying: Make backups of your system.
don't talk the talk if you can't walk the walk anyone else think it is funny that a site with that name got slashdotted so quick?
and they all start with an $
I deleted all of mine when I started Launchcast [yahoo.com] seriously it is free and legal and I controll the music enough to where I don't hear songs I hate and I hear new songs that I might like, in fact I like it better than my mp3s because it has better variety... now if they would just work with firebird... I wish I was not a corporate whore, but yahoo's free music service is better than radio or MP3s.
old school BBS chat programs showed ALL text as it was written, now we are talking 1981 technology from before MS even heard of networking...
seriously just put it in cool stuff like penny-arcade so we dont have to link to it every 5 days
Damn, I want all that free stuff
did you go to College? did you take ANY programming class that was taught by someone that you would gladly recommend to be part of your Development team today? PHD in Compsci != programmer Sure they taught you to make a hello world program in fortran using a mini-frame 25 years after those were the industry standard, but they could not program their way out of a paper bag. Sure I did not go to MIT, but I never met a Compsci professor that was also a programmer I learn more in as week on Google Groups than I learned in 4 years for $50k
I don't know why but they never seem realistic. Maybe our bosses should fill em out.
Unless you are portrayed as a greedy billion dollar industry that sues kids
Didn't they see independence day? Morse code needs to stay universal