if you took your typical office co-worker, and had them making electronic voting machines for a commercial vendor, why would you think that they would be blunder free?
im just saying, all the conspiracy theorists and whatnot dont take into account that the average goverment worker is about as smart as the lady taking your pictures at the DMV. all those government workers and thier dumbass contractors aren't really 'smarter than the average bear', if occam's razor can be used: they are just dumb people making stupid mistakes.
in summary: don't overestimate the intelligence of your average gov't worker/contractor.
...and you'll be paying for the next 17 years as well. a lot of people do it; getting the ability to even go to college (i.e. be accepted somewhere and have the government support to actually pay for it) is something that you are taking for granted, and something that the previous administration made one of thier top priorities: if you want to go to college you can, but you will pay for it until you are 40.
I wonder how much the author received in royalties for using those specific (and as others pointed out, non-optimal) components. Of all the DIY options, they don't seem to be very thougth out.
Gaming blogs are for people that don't actually play the games, and would rather write about them than fire them up and play them.
I'm sure that there are incentives to being a gaming journalist, but I don't know any "journalist" that has stayed up 3 days straight camping for an Everquest drop (just to get spawn jumped) or bought 14 different mice before returning 13 just to see which gets you the most headshots. You know, attributes of real gamers.
People that play World of Therycraft instead of actually raiding. Message board campers that brag about thier FPS skills. They all share commonalities with people that write about games and game design; they arent real.
Some users posted on the lightreading.com website forums that Juniper's CEO was bribing lawyers to hide firings of 4 top officials in the company (including a senior HR manager). Juniper is now suing the posters of such information.
Actually, I wonder who wrote the software that made it easy enough for some low level agent to do a search through the library system for that particular book... and then correlate that information with enough other databases such that the boolean values were triggered so that the individual would need to be visited.
thats supposedly what the dept. of homeland security is all about: getting all the databases in the world easily searchable/cross indexable so that the low level GMan can do thier rounds.
It could be different if USC wasn't just a degree factory. I am in one of the Master's programs akin to the Interactive entertainment one (albeit through the engineering school). The problem with it, and with all the USC MS degrees is it seems that they basically churn out degrees for money.
USC is not cheap. It is currently $981/credit. Assuming that a MS consists of 16-20 credits per year, this new Game Design curriculum is going to set back each candidate by on average 3x18=$52k. Thats in USD. Granted they get a MFA for that price, and there are some classes sponsored by EA and other game companies from the area, but if you get admitted into the program, you will graduate and with at least a 2.5GPA.
Supposedly, education at USC isnt really about the education and more about the networking. Like I said, there are many game industry jobs in the area which are always trying to foster communication with academia. And since USC is private, corporate sponsorship is easier to do so with them than with any of the other CalState/UC schools in LA. It doesnt mean that the corporations actually hire out of the USC programs (nor are these programs proven to lead to succes in the industry... they are too young for that!), but there are enough USC alums in those companies that getting a job at one isnt really difficult with your 2.5GPA, because odds are someone you know will know someone to recommend you.
And a USC recommendation is better than a 4.0 MIT degree. Which is what you pay for.
You can't have a pvp game that uses instances. Some of the best PvP ive ever been exposed to was the dungeon resource xp spots in Asheron's Call on Darktide. Same with the dungeon's in UO: its where people fought, because thier fights were to control resources. It was competitive, and you couldn't famr gold/xp at the best spots without earning that right.
The fact that all PvP is now done in instances in WoW has IMHO really hurt the game (other than the required 40 man instances eek!), since players no longer get to fight over and use persistance resources that everyone could access. The arenas in STV and DM are nice, as well as the huge outdoor raid boss fights, but not near the types of fights that occur over persistant areas in other games, as players dont need to hold/use the areas after killing the boss or opening the chest.
Since I got my ipod hooked up to my car stereo (just through a $10 tape player interface), I've almost rear-ended 3 people. I'm always looking down to check which songs I want to play... and it is only a regular old non-video ipod. At least on my cell phone I can keep an eye on the road.
I'm pretty sure you can add someone to your friends list and then associate a plus bonus to all your friends in said list. Which seems to be exaclty what you're looking for. Check your user page up top.
Yeah and its not long that the 'Edit' nature of blogs will see the same linked to Goatse pictures from digg (when it gets popular enough). In fact, I can see 400 troll accounts set up just to 'digg' thier stories up to the top, to which they will later change the blog link to some goatse/tubgirl pic (since they control the blog).
I just opened up thier small business page and tried to look at the price of workstations with linux instead of windows xp, and could not get an option to add the red hat installation to the workstation. is there something special you have to do?
You're going to be waiting a long time. With how Shadowbane turned out, and its (lack of) current subscriber base, I doubt that *any* new MMORPG will not feature any sort of 'integrated' pvp the way Shadowbane did, or the way that Darkfall is planning. We will see what types of measures (and constrictions!) that DF puts in to prevent the typical problems that come with full FFA pvp games. In fact, since DF is supposedly a skill-based game and not a class-based game (like UO and AC were/are), then you might get a game that is fairly interesting from a "skill based" pvp point of view.
since CoV is a class based game using instance pvp zones, i highly doubt that it will be any different or better than the battlegrounds in WoW. in fact, i assume that it will have less meaning than the BGs, since killing someone in an instance (that they choose to be in) really isn't the nature of what seems to be the type of pvp that youre looking for (i.e. pvp that affects other's gameplay, and not just your own). i haven't played CoV since e3 2004 beta, so my knowledge could be off, but from the reviews i think that it isnt the type of game that youre looking for.
I once took a 18 hour bus ride down to Mazatlan from Tucson for spring break back in the day (for like $80USD). I would have killed to have some sort of digital entertainment, as this was the mid-90's, portable electronics were still very, very expensive (to a college kid) and to even own a pager you had to be slinging dope (j/k but they were associated with that back then). Besides, some of the towns we passed through didn't seem to be the friendliest of places: waving around $500 worth of accessories is an easy way to become a target. On the bus itself, you couldn't read a book in the dim bus lighting and couldnt sleep on the rough woven seats and the smell of shit from teh bathroom spread through the whole bus (there were only those vent things in the top of the bus, and no real air flow). There was nothing really to do except stare out the window at the dark mexican desolate landscape (it was mostly night time for the majority of the ride).
Has the spam filter been addressed? I still receive hundreds of junk emails a day to my yahoo account, of which 5-8 get past the filter and into the inbox. I get 1 per month (which is the abercrombie catalogue?!) message sent to my gmail account and that is most accurately sent to the 'Spam' Folder/Area/whatever. Until yahoo actually does its part to police spam, then I stay away from sending emails from my yahoo account (just forward them to my gmail account and reply from there).
And the UofM, Harvard, Stanford and other libraries are just implementing that business plan. But since they are non-profit libraries, the authors are having a hard time with them getting the rewards for books that they do not own the copyright to.
I wonder if the page ad clicks money would be split up between the publisher and the library if the author's guild would be happy. its almost like the author's guild should be suing the libraries for not splitting thier profits with them, but then again, these services have not gone live, so noone really knows.
I just want to cast a line into the tv like i did IRL as a kid. and then wrangle some trout out of the river. the fishing games are going to be awesome.
but in 3 years when those college students are full time employees at a large corporation, odds are they will still be working on and contributing back to those Open Source projects and others.
I know a *huge* hurdle in getting developers started contributing is actually finding a (non-dead) project they could contribute to successfully with a minimal learning curve. Since this summer of work thing was basically payning the students for thier learning curve, they should be making contributions for a long while.
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if you took your typical office co-worker, and had them making electronic voting machines for a commercial vendor, why would you think that they would be blunder free?
im just saying, all the conspiracy theorists and whatnot dont take into account that the average goverment worker is about as smart as the lady taking your pictures at the DMV. all those government workers and thier dumbass contractors aren't really 'smarter than the average bear', if occam's razor can be used: they are just dumb people making stupid mistakes.
in summary: don't overestimate the intelligence of your average gov't worker/contractor.
go to the library, ask the librarian. they will help you find all of the above.
...and you'll be paying for the next 17 years as well. a lot of people do it; getting the ability to even go to college (i.e. be accepted somewhere and have the government support to actually pay for it) is something that you are taking for granted, and something that the previous administration made one of thier top priorities: if you want to go to college you can, but you will pay for it until you are 40.
I wonder how much the author received in royalties for using those specific (and as others pointed out, non-optimal) components. Of all the DIY options, they don't seem to be very thougth out.
I'm sure they just hired him so that he wouldn't hack on Gentoo and try to make it better; e.g. MS pays him $150k/year to NOT make a better OS. :d
Gaming blogs are for people that don't actually play the games, and would rather write about them than fire them up and play them.
I'm sure that there are incentives to being a gaming journalist, but I don't know any "journalist" that has stayed up 3 days straight camping for an Everquest drop (just to get spawn jumped) or bought 14 different mice before returning 13 just to see which gets you the most headshots. You know, attributes of real gamers.
People that play World of Therycraft instead of actually raiding. Message board campers that brag about thier FPS skills. They all share commonalities with people that write about games and game design; they arent real.
Most likely they would roll out thier own, just like they did for thier video service.
Some users posted on the lightreading.com website forums that Juniper's CEO was bribing lawyers to hide firings of 4 top officials in the company (including a senior HR manager). Juniper is now suing the posters of such information.
Actually, I wonder who wrote the software that made it easy enough for some low level agent to do a search through the library system for that particular book... and then correlate that information with enough other databases such that the boolean values were triggered so that the individual would need to be visited.
thats supposedly what the dept. of homeland security is all about: getting all the databases in the world easily searchable/cross indexable so that the low level GMan can do thier rounds.
It could be different if USC wasn't just a degree factory. I am in one of the Master's programs akin to the Interactive entertainment one (albeit through the engineering school). The problem with it, and with all the USC MS degrees is it seems that they basically churn out degrees for money.
USC is not cheap. It is currently $981/credit. Assuming that a MS consists of 16-20 credits per year, this new Game Design curriculum is going to set back each candidate by on average 3x18=$52k. Thats in USD. Granted they get a MFA for that price, and there are some classes sponsored by EA and other game companies from the area, but if you get admitted into the program, you will graduate and with at least a 2.5GPA.
Supposedly, education at USC isnt really about the education and more about the networking. Like I said, there are many game industry jobs in the area which are always trying to foster communication with academia. And since USC is private, corporate sponsorship is easier to do so with them than with any of the other CalState/UC schools in LA. It doesnt mean that the corporations actually hire out of the USC programs (nor are these programs proven to lead to succes in the industry... they are too young for that!), but there are enough USC alums in those companies that getting a job at one isnt really difficult with your 2.5GPA, because odds are someone you know will know someone to recommend you.
And a USC recommendation is better than a 4.0 MIT degree. Which is what you pay for.
You can't have a pvp game that uses instances. Some of the best PvP ive ever been exposed to was the dungeon resource xp spots in Asheron's Call on Darktide. Same with the dungeon's in UO: its where people fought, because thier fights were to control resources. It was competitive, and you couldn't famr gold/xp at the best spots without earning that right.
The fact that all PvP is now done in instances in WoW has IMHO really hurt the game (other than the required 40 man instances eek!), since players no longer get to fight over and use persistance resources that everyone could access. The arenas in STV and DM are nice, as well as the huge outdoor raid boss fights, but not near the types of fights that occur over persistant areas in other games, as players dont need to hold/use the areas after killing the boss or opening the chest.
Since I got my ipod hooked up to my car stereo (just through a $10 tape player interface), I've almost rear-ended 3 people. I'm always looking down to check which songs I want to play... and it is only a regular old non-video ipod. At least on my cell phone I can keep an eye on the road.
I'm pretty sure you can add someone to your friends list and then associate a plus bonus to all your friends in said list. Which seems to be exaclty what you're looking for. Check your user page up top.
Yeah and its not long that the 'Edit' nature of blogs will see the same linked to Goatse pictures from digg (when it gets popular enough). In fact, I can see 400 troll accounts set up just to 'digg' thier stories up to the top, to which they will later change the blog link to some goatse/tubgirl pic (since they control the blog).
Me too, reading at anything other than -1 is just too boring. :x
I just opened up thier small business page and tried to look at the price of workstations with linux instead of windows xp, and could not get an option to add the red hat installation to the workstation. is there something special you have to do?
getting one of those would be neat.
You're going to be waiting a long time. With how Shadowbane turned out, and its (lack of) current subscriber base, I doubt that *any* new MMORPG will not feature any sort of 'integrated' pvp the way Shadowbane did, or the way that Darkfall is planning. We will see what types of measures (and constrictions!) that DF puts in to prevent the typical problems that come with full FFA pvp games. In fact, since DF is supposedly a skill-based game and not a class-based game (like UO and AC were/are), then you might get a game that is fairly interesting from a "skill based" pvp point of view.
since CoV is a class based game using instance pvp zones, i highly doubt that it will be any different or better than the battlegrounds in WoW. in fact, i assume that it will have less meaning than the BGs, since killing someone in an instance (that they choose to be in) really isn't the nature of what seems to be the type of pvp that youre looking for (i.e. pvp that affects other's gameplay, and not just your own). i haven't played CoV since e3 2004 beta, so my knowledge could be off, but from the reviews i think that it isnt the type of game that youre looking for.
I once took a 18 hour bus ride down to Mazatlan from Tucson for spring break back in the day (for like $80USD). I would have killed to have some sort of digital entertainment, as this was the mid-90's, portable electronics were still very, very expensive (to a college kid) and to even own a pager you had to be slinging dope (j/k but they were associated with that back then). Besides, some of the towns we passed through didn't seem to be the friendliest of places: waving around $500 worth of accessories is an easy way to become a target. On the bus itself, you couldn't read a book in the dim bus lighting and couldnt sleep on the rough woven seats and the smell of shit from teh bathroom spread through the whole bus (there were only those vent things in the top of the bus, and no real air flow). There was nothing really to do except stare out the window at the dark mexican desolate landscape (it was mostly night time for the majority of the ride).
Where did you get that DVD video for so cheap? Pray it wasn't down on teh corner from the guy in the shady hat and sunglasses?
Has the spam filter been addressed? I still receive hundreds of junk emails a day to my yahoo account, of which 5-8 get past the filter and into the inbox. I get 1 per month (which is the abercrombie catalogue?!) message sent to my gmail account and that is most accurately sent to the 'Spam' Folder/Area/whatever. Until yahoo actually does its part to police spam, then I stay away from sending emails from my yahoo account (just forward them to my gmail account and reply from there).
Exaclty.
And the UofM, Harvard, Stanford and other libraries are just implementing that business plan. But since they are non-profit libraries, the authors are having a hard time with them getting the rewards for books that they do not own the copyright to.
I wonder if the page ad clicks money would be split up between the publisher and the library if the author's guild would be happy. its almost like the author's guild should be suing the libraries for not splitting thier profits with them, but then again, these services have not gone live, so noone really knows.
I just want to cast a line into the tv like i did IRL as a kid. and then wrangle some trout out of the river. the fishing games are going to be awesome.
yep, and the less time my hand is on the mouse, the better. :D
but in 3 years when those college students are full time employees at a large corporation, odds are they will still be working on and contributing back to those Open Source projects and others.
I know a *huge* hurdle in getting developers started contributing is actually finding a (non-dead) project they could contribute to successfully with a minimal learning curve. Since this summer of work thing was basically payning the students for thier learning curve, they should be making contributions for a long while.
if you want to make a game from thier AC2 engine, you can license it all you want. Look at RYL. It is the asian AC2.