There is a package called RPGMaker that has been used for games that sell commercially as well as shareware type games. Considering all that, I would assume that it's inexpensive and easy to use and good enough to get a good start with.
More than that, I really can't tell you except that it seems to be updated fairly often so it should be a supported system.
Hope that helps and good luck.
Re:recruiters - comment from the book's author
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I have also worked with many recruiters. The way I look at it is similar to what you say. They are out for themselves. Fair enough. If I'm talking to them I'm out for myself too. Using recruiters is similar to using Google. Well, maybe Bing. You are looking for something and they are offering. They won't always offer exactly what you want so you will need to screen for yourself and don't be afraid to say "No, that job is a poor fit." You don't always use the first link the search engines give you do you ?
Good recruiters will try to make good matches. This makes them look good to the companies they work for and their paying clients (the companies they place at) plus the people they place will tell others about it and their resource pool will grow. Chances are poor recruiters won't be in the business for long and you don't need to deal with them anyway. Why waste your time. They're a commodity like search engines.
On the other hand they're humans too and keeping a good relationship with the good ones can pay off nicely when they can confidently go to a company and say "I know this guy and I really think he'd fit in well here". That's an inside recommendation right there.
This is good advice. Not that they're loathsome humans, but that they are "your man on the inside". It's well worth keeping an eye on the job market via some of these folks. It's good to have 6 months' funds in the bank, but even better to have a handful of recruiters who know you, are familiar with your job interests and skills. Before I left the country, I was in touch with several recruiters in Canada for a number of years. They'd call when a job came along and I'd tell them that I was currently happy with my position but that the job was interesting/not to my liking and thank them for keeping in touch. When it was time to move jobs I had a network of people who knew where the jobs were already and were comfortable putting me forward and I didn't mind one bit that they were making a chunk of cash by placing me when it meant I didn't have to burn my 6 months of savings before finding a new job.
Re:Ninjas were assassins, not peasants
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Yeah, the problem with the situation in the U.S. is that guns are already abundant anywhere, so banning guns in one area just creates a small pool of unarmed people in a sea of guns.
In places like Australia where there are few guns (well, few handguns) people with a gun are an anomaly as opposed to say "from across the street where the rules are different".
Even in Canada with "the world's longest border" with the U.S. manages to keep guns fairly uncommon by law. The U.S. is a special case where anyone wanting a gun can practically pick one up with their beer at the supermarket (slight exaggeration) and mandating less guns just empowers the criminals.
I believe there's still a rule/law in Israel that allows people to pick fruit from groves to eat there (not to take home) though of course there are those who steal buckets/carloads of oranges.
You know though, that games is one of the major lock-ins for Windows. If Steam was to start releasing Linux versions of games I think that would be the final key to allowing me and hopefully a whole community of folks like me to get rid of their last Windows box and go entirely Win free.
There have to be other people who have 1 Windows license for their best gaming hardware which would be much nicer as a *nix box.
Yeah, I'm pretty sure it's fine as long as you don't want that game as part of your Kernel (the Windows model)
Userland is anyone's playground as far as I know.
Yes. I love the gog concept and fully support it with my wallet too. They're working with the rights holders to re-release these old games so we get a guaranteed working version of our old favourites and in return these companies get new press and a kickback for playing nicely.
When my son's old enough he's going to be playing gog games. I'm sure the games I loved as a teen will be fresh for him too before he becomes jaded.
Seriously ? 3 free games ? Sheesh. I signed up too early. Anyway, I'm not really complaining.
No way. Microsoft has never been Lawful Evil. Okay, maybe when they started, but they definitely moved away from lawful when they started using standover tactics and extortion to monopolise the market. There was a definite Chaotic Evil time but now maybe they're Neutral Evil. They'll follow the laws if they have to... but as soon as nobody is looking it's shank time.
We all know this is part of the Microsoft agenda to convert human souls into Mechwarriors.
Oh suuure. That'll work really well. I'm just firing up my 100T Atlas running the new Microsoft for Mechs....
Reactor...online...
Sensors...[beep]... Sensors.... down...
Weapons...online...
All systems...[beep] All systems...
There has been an error in WinHeatCTL.dll and the system has become unstable.
McAfee4Mechs has found a virus WinMissileHax.32 in executable file Reactor_control.exe and the file has been deleted.
All systems Critical...
Reactor Critical...
[Blue Screen]
Plus if they're still selling the games, they're hardly abandonware.
I remember being extremely mad at Microsoft when I bought a force feedback joystick from them for Win95 which they completely refused to support in win2000/XP. It was for MW games too. Jerks. Everything is abandonware with Microsoft.
I'm am pleasantly surprised by their lawyers in this case.
Not to mention ELATED ! This is still one of my favourite franchises.
You should be updating a local server from Mcafee and then disseminating your.DATs from there when you're happy with them.
That's how enterprise systems are usually set up.
In this case it's your admin's fault that your company is losing $millions by being down proactively.. Though by fighting fires in panic mode he/she will look good to management for saving the computers.
What most people don't realise at all is that pretty much all the hardware out there that Linux is run on was developed for Windows. That means that before it hits the shelves it's been designed and had drivers written to work with Windows. Linux is lucky if it has a "best effort" driver coded by the hardware manufacturer. Othewise all these drivers are coded by people supporting Linux and not the hardware.
That's why stuff "just works" in Windows. That's the way it was designed.
That's like saying that you bought two Ford gearboxes and when you put one in your Ford it "Just worked" but when you tried to put the other into your Volkswagon you had too much trouble and therefore VWs suck.
On the other hand you're right and it's unfair to expect your grandmother to get that gearbox into the Volkswagon.
Also, 80% or so of those games are "unavailable in your area" if you happen to live in Australia. Say what ?! The internet goes All The Way to my place. Why can't I download your stuff ? Assuming I'm willing to pay, I'm sure my VISA card is as good as anyone else's. That's just plain stupid. I can buy anything that hits Steam. I think Valve are doing a better job here as much as I like some of Stardock's other stuff.
That's a nice future. That's how it should be. A Sins of a Solar Empire dev decides to go on holiday and at the taxi rank he tells them he helped write Sins and it's all "Duuuude, you ride free!" and on the way to the airport they pass some poor schmuck dragging a suitcase along the road and he asks "What's up guy?" and the poor schlep says "I work for Ubisoft. The taxi driver wouldn't take me"
Oh please. Jews are not a race, black is a race, white is a race. It's a fucking religion, nothing more. Try this: go and find some DNA that shows Jewishness, or a Jew gene. You can't. They don't exist.
just like music from 1950 will sound simple and cheesy to most modern listeners
Modern listeners (who like rap or country western) aren't exactly experts in the field of appreciating music.
Modern listeners (who like pop music) aren't exactly experts... I remember a skit I saw recently by a group that did a medley of about 30 hit songs using only 3 chords for the whole thing. I wish I could find a version of it online but my search-fu is failing me.
Yes, we know Hatta. You have no imagination and absolutely no capability of reading meaning into words.
If someone wrote, "Jimmy's dog is red" you'd complain that dogs can't really be red. If they then went on to imply that Jimmy's friend was Red, then you'd get all upset because they were speaking nonsense when in fact there may have been hints there that Jimmy's friend had communist leanings. If later on the story revealed that Jimmy's friend shared everything he had with all his friends and struggled throughout his life to help everyone and ended up broke and bereft you'd complain that the story didn't have a happy ending rather than see that it was an allegory about Soviet Russia and how communism won't work because the greedy will take and take and so on.
We hear you. You don't understand fiction. That's okay. Go read non-fiction. Let someone spell things out for you in plain words. If that is what you enjoy then that's perfect for you. Personally, I enjoy fiction but I'm not going to tell you that all non-fiction is bunk. I read Hawking's "A Brief History of Time" and enjoyed that. I even got my wife to read it, though lacking some of the grounding to understand it she struggled a bit with the concepts. It might not have been a good decision of mine though it worked out okay.
Maybe you need to better pick books to read. You know what you like and you don't like to stray, so read your books and leave us to read ours.
Well, that's your opinion, but I have to say that after playing Sega Rally with an ELSA Revelator card and the included shutter glasses and the effect was great. I'm not a big fan of driving games but the experience was absolutely better with 3D.
Sure, it wouldn't make much difference playing Donkey Kong, but I don't think that's necessarily the intended market.
Well, first, they have the devices (I read another article as described by GP) and while they components aren't bio-compatible, they encapsulate them so they're safe. They have also tested them on real, live, fluffy bunnies which were unharmed by the tests.
As for goggles, well, some of us like to look somewhat like regular people and not wear goggles and propeller hats in public.
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And you have to not be Pauline Hanson apparently.
There is a package called RPGMaker that has been used for games that sell commercially as well as shareware type games. Considering all that, I would assume that it's inexpensive and easy to use and good enough to get a good start with.
More than that, I really can't tell you except that it seems to be updated fairly often so it should be a supported system.
Hope that helps and good luck.
I have also worked with many recruiters. The way I look at it is similar to what you say. They are out for themselves. Fair enough. If I'm talking to them I'm out for myself too. Using recruiters is similar to using Google. Well, maybe Bing. You are looking for something and they are offering. They won't always offer exactly what you want so you will need to screen for yourself and don't be afraid to say "No, that job is a poor fit." You don't always use the first link the search engines give you do you ?
Good recruiters will try to make good matches. This makes them look good to the companies they work for and their paying clients (the companies they place at) plus the people they place will tell others about it and their resource pool will grow. Chances are poor recruiters won't be in the business for long and you don't need to deal with them anyway. Why waste your time. They're a commodity like search engines.
On the other hand they're humans too and keeping a good relationship with the good ones can pay off nicely when they can confidently go to a company and say "I know this guy and I really think he'd fit in well here". That's an inside recommendation right there.
This is good advice. Not that they're loathsome humans, but that they are "your man on the inside". It's well worth keeping an eye on the job market via some of these folks. It's good to have 6 months' funds in the bank, but even better to have a handful of recruiters who know you, are familiar with your job interests and skills. Before I left the country, I was in touch with several recruiters in Canada for a number of years. They'd call when a job came along and I'd tell them that I was currently happy with my position but that the job was interesting/not to my liking and thank them for keeping in touch. When it was time to move jobs I had a network of people who knew where the jobs were already and were comfortable putting me forward and I didn't mind one bit that they were making a chunk of cash by placing me when it meant I didn't have to burn my 6 months of savings before finding a new job.
Yeah, the problem with the situation in the U.S. is that guns are already abundant anywhere, so banning guns in one area just creates a small pool of unarmed people in a sea of guns.
In places like Australia where there are few guns (well, few handguns) people with a gun are an anomaly as opposed to say "from across the street where the rules are different".
Even in Canada with "the world's longest border" with the U.S. manages to keep guns fairly uncommon by law. The U.S. is a special case where anyone wanting a gun can practically pick one up with their beer at the supermarket (slight exaggeration) and mandating less guns just empowers the criminals.
I believe there's still a rule/law in Israel that allows people to pick fruit from groves to eat there (not to take home) though of course there are those who steal buckets/carloads of oranges.
You know though, that games is one of the major lock-ins for Windows. If Steam was to start releasing Linux versions of games I think that would be the final key to allowing me and hopefully a whole community of folks like me to get rid of their last Windows box and go entirely Win free.
There have to be other people who have 1 Windows license for their best gaming hardware which would be much nicer as a *nix box.
Yeah, I'm pretty sure it's fine as long as you don't want that game as part of your Kernel (the Windows model)
Userland is anyone's playground as far as I know.
Yes. I love the gog concept and fully support it with my wallet too. They're working with the rights holders to re-release these old games so we get a guaranteed working version of our old favourites and in return these companies get new press and a kickback for playing nicely.
When my son's old enough he's going to be playing gog games. I'm sure the games I loved as a teen will be fresh for him too before he becomes jaded.
Seriously ? 3 free games ? Sheesh. I signed up too early. Anyway, I'm not really complaining.
No way. Microsoft has never been Lawful Evil. Okay, maybe when they started, but they definitely moved away from lawful when they started using standover tactics and extortion to monopolise the market. There was a definite Chaotic Evil time but now maybe they're Neutral Evil. They'll follow the laws if they have to ... but as soon as nobody is looking it's shank time.
We all know this is part of the Microsoft agenda to convert human souls into Mechwarriors.
Oh suuure. That'll work really well. I'm just firing up my 100T Atlas running the new Microsoft for Mechs....
Reactor...online... ... Sensors .... down ... ...
Sensors...[beep]
Weapons...online...
All systems...[beep] All systems
There has been an error in WinHeatCTL.dll and the system has become unstable.
McAfee4Mechs has found a virus WinMissileHax.32 in executable file Reactor_control.exe and the file has been deleted.
All systems Critical...
Reactor Critical...
[Blue Screen]
Game Over.
War Over.
Plus if they're still selling the games, they're hardly abandonware. I remember being extremely mad at Microsoft when I bought a force feedback joystick from them for Win95 which they completely refused to support in win2000/XP. It was for MW games too. Jerks. Everything is abandonware with Microsoft. I'm am pleasantly surprised by their lawyers in this case. Not to mention ELATED ! This is still one of my favourite franchises.
You should be updating a local server from Mcafee and then disseminating your .DATs from there when you're happy with them.
That's how enterprise systems are usually set up.
In this case it's your admin's fault that your company is losing $millions by being down proactively.. Though by fighting fires in panic mode he/she will look good to management for saving the computers.
So what is it, exactly, that makes Windows 7 better from a usability perspective? I'm curious.
It doesn't have incredibly annoying UI misfeatures like focus-follows-mouse and highlight copy ?
I think you have it exactly wrong there. I wish it did have useful features exactly like those two.
What most people don't realise at all is that pretty much all the hardware out there that Linux is run on was developed for Windows. That means that before it hits the shelves it's been designed and had drivers written to work with Windows. Linux is lucky if it has a "best effort" driver coded by the hardware manufacturer.
Othewise all these drivers are coded by people supporting Linux and not the hardware.
That's why stuff "just works" in Windows. That's the way it was designed.
That's like saying that you bought two Ford gearboxes and when you put one in your Ford it "Just worked" but when you tried to put the other into your Volkswagon you had too much trouble and therefore VWs suck.
On the other hand you're right and it's unfair to expect your grandmother to get that gearbox into the Volkswagon.
Also, 80% or so of those games are "unavailable in your area" if you happen to live in Australia. Say what ?! The internet goes All The Way to my place. Why can't I download your stuff ? Assuming I'm willing to pay, I'm sure my VISA card is as good as anyone else's. That's just plain stupid. I can buy anything that hits Steam. I think Valve are doing a better job here as much as I like some of Stardock's other stuff.
That's a nice future. That's how it should be. A Sins of a Solar Empire dev decides to go on holiday and at the taxi rank he tells them he helped write Sins and it's all "Duuuude, you ride free!" and on the way to the airport they pass some poor schmuck dragging a suitcase along the road and he asks "What's up guy?" and the poor schlep says "I work for Ubisoft. The taxi driver wouldn't take me"
Just because it is a, "classic," doesn't mean I have to like it.
No, but you're expected to understand why it's a classic. Not just say "it's got too many pages".
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I had to read Madame Bovary as a college student...
Then you are truly lucky. When I took college English classes (recently, since I never went to college after HS),
Never ? You keep using that word. I do not think it means, what you think it means.
Oh please. Jews are not a race, black is a race, white is a race. It's a fucking religion, nothing more. Try this: go and find some DNA that shows Jewishness, or a Jew gene. You can't. They don't exist.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/7346496/View-from-the-Lab-Who-is-a-Jew-DNA-can-hold-the-key.html Haha ... moron. Just because you think something, doesn't make it true.
just like music from 1950 will sound simple and cheesy to most modern listeners
Modern listeners (who like rap or country western) aren't exactly experts in the field of appreciating music.
Modern listeners (who like pop music) aren't exactly experts ... I remember a skit I saw recently by a group that did a medley of about 30 hit songs using only 3 chords for the whole thing. I wish I could find a version of it online but my search-fu is failing me.
Yes, we know Hatta. You have no imagination and absolutely no capability of reading meaning into words. If someone wrote, "Jimmy's dog is red" you'd complain that dogs can't really be red. If they then went on to imply that Jimmy's friend was Red, then you'd get all upset because they were speaking nonsense when in fact there may have been hints there that Jimmy's friend had communist leanings. If later on the story revealed that Jimmy's friend shared everything he had with all his friends and struggled throughout his life to help everyone and ended up broke and bereft you'd complain that the story didn't have a happy ending rather than see that it was an allegory about Soviet Russia and how communism won't work because the greedy will take and take and so on. We hear you. You don't understand fiction. That's okay. Go read non-fiction. Let someone spell things out for you in plain words. If that is what you enjoy then that's perfect for you. Personally, I enjoy fiction but I'm not going to tell you that all non-fiction is bunk. I read Hawking's "A Brief History of Time" and enjoyed that. I even got my wife to read it, though lacking some of the grounding to understand it she struggled a bit with the concepts. It might not have been a good decision of mine though it worked out okay. Maybe you need to better pick books to read. You know what you like and you don't like to stray, so read your books and leave us to read ours.
Did you see the solar panel in the middle of the photo of the thing ? I'm guessing that's that what is for.
Well, that's your opinion, but I have to say that after playing Sega Rally with an ELSA Revelator card and the included shutter glasses and the effect was great. I'm not a big fan of driving games but the experience was absolutely better with 3D. Sure, it wouldn't make much difference playing Donkey Kong, but I don't think that's necessarily the intended market.
Well, first, they have the devices (I read another article as described by GP) and while they components aren't bio-compatible, they encapsulate them so they're safe. They have also tested them on real, live, fluffy bunnies which were unharmed by the tests.
As for goggles, well, some of us like to look somewhat like regular people and not wear goggles and propeller hats in public.