Speaking in as computer scientist from London, and having worked at several unsuccessful start ups, watched others in similar start ups based in the UK and who have friends in the EU who are at successful start-ups, the one anecdotal piece of advise I have is this - Don't let public school 'boys' anywhere near your c-suite. They can't fathom how to work in a cooperative manner, and only see relationships in terms of being beneath or above. They tend to hire old school 'chums' instead of talent and lack creative ability. The only good thing they are good at is bring in investment, which is a bloody shame.
Here, let me fix that for you.
Why do *some* anarchists hate *some* science. The original question was in a similar vein to : why do slashdotters hate sausages?
Would a knock-on effect be to cause great harm to web proxies used by people to circumvent state and corporate censorship, as well a download pirated stuff?
4 years will equal 2 years in prison at a cost of £42,000 a year. 42000 x 2 x 2 = £168,000 in tax money. Joy.
PS Thinking of deleting my Facebook because frankly I say dumb stuff I don't mean when drunk.
OD&D - The perfect dungeon based roleplaying game, with dungeons. Just where the hell can I buy Chainmail?!
BD&D - Pandering to the Rogue-like crowd. Also, when my DM's in a bad mood with me and make up biased rules.
AD&D - Pandering to the Dungeon Master crowd. Also, can we not start at 5th level and I play a Wizard? With psionics?
2D&D - Pandering to Diablo crowd. Also, whoo, this all tastes a little Vanilla.
3D&D - Pandering to the Ultima Online crowd. Also, while I've spent 40 hours perfecting my NPC liche, it's too complicated to actually run.
4D&D - Pandering to the WOW crowd. Also, it's only fun when actually, you know, playing the game.
"Dear Bob, thanks for giving me the opportunity to work for your company which I really enjoyed and think you've got the smarts to take it big. Shame only a third of your management team are going to actually help you get there, but at least you've got some good people."
+1 For Scratch, my 9 year old daughter and I did a simple pet game in Scratch, with animation, movement and some basic maths in 2 hours the other night.
I finished a 2 year contract at a tier 1 investment bank a few months ago and apart from some freelancing for old friends I've had nothing since. I've been contracting for 11 years and it's the worst I've seen it in London, UK since the dot com burst.
Many of the IT contractors I know are hurting too and looking for permie work to ride out the next couple of years.
I'm not a doom sayer. I think things are actually in much better shape than the newspapers say, but it seems like a lot of managers are being asked to cut budgets as well as put on hold new projects, that means contractors go first and get hired last.
1. Wages in the computer games programming market are very far behind what you can get doing a 9-6 mainstream programming job.
2. Younger programmers in the UK have very different aspirations to those of my youth, they are looking for a decent 'middle-class' career, not working in entertainment industry or being scientists.
3. Who the hell wants to work in the middle of freakin' nowhere. Tons of games companies moved out of the big cities to rural backwaters to get there costs down, but now the employees that had to move with them have left nobody wants in.
4. Games designers don't have to be programmers. It used to be that you had a great idea, wrote the code and $$$ profit. But now designers come through the level designer route and so don't fill out the junior programming positions.
I'd love to work back in the games industry but I have a life to support.
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Speaking in as computer scientist from London, and having worked at several unsuccessful start ups, watched others in similar start ups based in the UK and who have friends in the EU who are at successful start-ups, the one anecdotal piece of advise I have is this - Don't let public school 'boys' anywhere near your c-suite. They can't fathom how to work in a cooperative manner, and only see relationships in terms of being beneath or above. They tend to hire old school 'chums' instead of talent and lack creative ability. The only good thing they are good at is bring in investment, which is a bloody shame.
why do slashdotters hate sausages?
Because they're bigger than their dicks.
Well there is that :)
Here, let me fix that for you. Why do *some* anarchists hate *some* science. The original question was in a similar vein to : why do slashdotters hate sausages?
Would a knock-on effect be to cause great harm to web proxies used by people to circumvent state and corporate censorship, as well a download pirated stuff?
"Now, he is the only one who can see what he is doing on his computer." As long as he wears his tin foil hat obviously.
4 years will equal 2 years in prison at a cost of £42,000 a year. 42000 x 2 x 2 = £168,000 in tax money. Joy. PS Thinking of deleting my Facebook because frankly I say dumb stuff I don't mean when drunk.
"It's a trap"
Only if I can be a fighting-man?
Can you cut and paste this into all those forum comments who do this routinely. I was making a point about making a point.
Your wrong in my revised world view. I have a point to prove and therefore can twist history as much as I need to make it. ;)
OD&D - The perfect dungeon based roleplaying game, with dungeons. Just where the hell can I buy Chainmail?!
BD&D - Pandering to the Rogue-like crowd. Also, when my DM's in a bad mood with me and make up biased rules.
AD&D - Pandering to the Dungeon Master crowd. Also, can we not start at 5th level and I play a Wizard? With psionics?
2D&D - Pandering to Diablo crowd. Also, whoo, this all tastes a little Vanilla.
3D&D - Pandering to the Ultima Online crowd. Also, while I've spent 40 hours perfecting my NPC liche, it's too complicated to actually run.
4D&D - Pandering to the WOW crowd. Also, it's only fun when actually, you know, playing the game.
Now T&T, there is a game.
Mod this up! We're already talking MC vs Agile in the office now.
Only no-tails aren't local.
It's been 'terraformed' in line with Yuggoth.
"Dear Bob, thanks for giving me the opportunity to work for your company which I really enjoyed and think you've got the smarts to take it big. Shame only a third of your management team are going to actually help you get there, but at least you've got some good people."
+1 For Scratch, my 9 year old daughter and I did a simple pet game in Scratch, with animation, movement and some basic maths in 2 hours the other night.
David, sames is true for 2nd hand Alien Items mate.
I finished a 2 year contract at a tier 1 investment bank a few months ago and apart from some freelancing for old friends I've had nothing since. I've been contracting for 11 years and it's the worst I've seen it in London, UK since the dot com burst. Many of the IT contractors I know are hurting too and looking for permie work to ride out the next couple of years. I'm not a doom sayer. I think things are actually in much better shape than the newspapers say, but it seems like a lot of managers are being asked to cut budgets as well as put on hold new projects, that means contractors go first and get hired last.
1. Wages in the computer games programming market are very far behind what you can get doing a 9-6 mainstream programming job.
2. Younger programmers in the UK have very different aspirations to those of my youth, they are looking for a decent 'middle-class' career, not working in entertainment industry or being scientists.
3. Who the hell wants to work in the middle of freakin' nowhere. Tons of games companies moved out of the big cities to rural backwaters to get there costs down, but now the employees that had to move with them have left nobody wants in.
4. Games designers don't have to be programmers. It used to be that you had a great idea, wrote the code and $$$ profit. But now designers come through the level designer route and so don't fill out the junior programming positions.
I'd love to work back in the games industry but I have a life to support.
Who is this 'Italy' you talk of?
L'dMFAO. Thank you.
If these are point scoring units and if it can deep strike in Gamma missions.
I'm looking forward to deep strike battlefield videos, all in the name of The Greater Good.
Maube they could try and understand why the bugs launch their attacks at earth?
Here are a bunch of projects looking for doc writers on Source Forge. http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/05/04/08 39241#topcomment