CBC radio has a bunch of fantastic classical options, especially for those who don't know what they want and its free(unless your Canadian, in which case its tax dollars well spent).
I wounder if the games are sucking these days because the smart people leave and not because the working conditions are poor( although the former would be a result of the later).
Seriously how many people are actually going to sell Starcraft 2? Actually once the other campaigns are released they will need some sort of protection. If they don't add anything that changes multi-player with the next two campaigns, pirating and resale could be a significant loss for them. I don't think they want to go the way of C&C. I 'pirated' stacraft one numerous times, though I bought it first; I just kept loosing the cd case. I would prefer if Blizzard kept track of the cd-key, that was inconvenience to me. Heck I'd go for a digital download over a Box.
I for-see an interface similar to Googles custom homepage, that you can plug in widgets like twitter, flicker, google chat etc. You customise the permissions for each widget using a this sites authentication layer. This site would have its own widgets as well, that could be embedded into your Wordpress page, so people could see your friends on your wordpress page as well as on your homepage. This layer will store your data or it will just hand off it off to twitter/google/facebook. And it comes with a couple default configurations for noobs.
How does it make money? Just targetted ads when people are searching for new widgets. You could also sell custom installs to compete with Sharepoint for the corperate world.
Anyone wanna pay me to build it? grr how the frick can I add whitespace to my posts?
This is probably true for %98 percent of communities, but surely tech towns you can be involved with some good social activities without all the BS? Is it just a matter of moving to were the smart people are? I'm new too a city of 100k and I find it really hard to crack any sort of interesting social networks. I don't have patience for socialising with average people, nor facebook, so that's certainly a hindrance.
"HST they are shoving down our throats"
Why are non Americans so quick to pick up American media's catch phrase of the week? It's bad enough hearing the British do it. Why can't we be a bit original like; We are getting Fisted with HST? or our proctologists are wearing HST gloves. or maybe putting down the HST WMT(Weapon of Mass Tax).
In all serious I'm for HST, say what you will, but it in theory it'll increases tax revenue while improving transparency and reducing bureaucracy; its just bad politics.
It is amazing how enabling a public health care system is, even for myself, a 26 year old healthy guy. I think I would have been way to stressed to take the time I need to adapt my skills to this market.
personally I like pythons introspection and meaningful error messages. Oh and lack of compile complexities, actually I could probably go on for a while.
I also use space delimiting folding in Vim, which is quite natural with python.
the tabs do encourage you to break up your code, but personally, I see this as a good thing. if you have code nested 5-10 deep, its probably pretty ugly. And python isn't about being fast, its about not being ugly.
Perfect would be Python with the speed of well crafted assembly, optional gui tools of C#/objective-C, ease of deployment of PHP/JavaScript/J2EE and better Vim integration. I suppose Python's libraries could be a little more consistent.
google app engine may have java support, it's an obvious choice considering the number of developers. However python is right there beside it now, a choice that a few years ago would not have been considered for such an application. Python may still be behind, but its moving quickly.
4 years ago my Alma mater required all BSc to take a python course. That said Java is still the dominant language in the computer science department, but heck it is also the Alma mater of James Gosling(founder of Java).
Some guys will spend 100+k on a wood working shop; I'm sure there are enough people with money to put a few dollars down on cool biotech toys. A professor of mine bought a 30k drafting printer for printing large format photography.
take up a trade, after two years you can make 200k per year(ie 70h/week Union Ironworking in fort mcmurray/w loa). Work a couple months a year in your trade and program or volunteer the rest of the time.
I'm sure 3/4 of there returns for "damaged hardware" are in fact software issues. People would be returning the machines when they failed to install Office.
The RIAA is on the losing side of an technological arms race, They can spend hundreds of millions fighting bittorrent, and if they succeed, a student will simply write an encrypted bittorrent like client that operates soley on port 80, you could hide bittorrent data as jpg. Their is no differentiating that data. The only reason it doesn't exist is because students aren't being pushed enough. Hell even myself and some of my friends were considering recreating waste(encrypted file sharing community network) in python. This line of actions could end up very badly for RIAA's supporters. Students will always get there free data, whether its swapping.5tb disk drives or 2gb thumb drives or university networks or limewire or bittorrent or dvdrw or some encrypted software.
Where there any surprises in server requirements? ie did user authentication require more then expected or internal network speed a bottleneck?
Also do game objects communicate with each other asynchronously? even if they are on the same physical server? do they communicate with one another in any case where they are not on the same server?
About how large is your game database, what types of events trigger queries and how often does this happen for a typical player?
If your having burn out check out this book, Tuesdays with Morrie. My favorite quote is along the lines of, If a culture doesnt suit you, don't buy it.
I think the problem is the player will not identify themselves with avatar and the suroundings. sci-fi is simply too abstract, with fantasy we know good and evil, elves and dwarves, and what to expect from them. If we start introducing new concepts, such as alians and dreary appacalyptic worlds. players need to go through a whole culture shock. In my opinion a significan part of world of warcraft's success is that the charactors and the world they live in fit together nicely and it draws the players in the fantasy that is destinct depending on your choosen race. This is a fairly unique atribute of WoW, as most mmorpgs just toss you in the same nooby zone with no imediantly precived consiquences of your opening decisions. I think sci-fi can be done and well enough to attract the main-stream. Obviously only weapon cant be essentialy different lighting bolts(guns) which would extremely limit gameplay, and players must be able to imurse themselves. If your going to have a cyborpunk guy, make sure he lives in a cyberpunk city, with cyberpunk buddies, not a orc weilding an axe/shotgun. btw i think warhammer is a rough world to do because to me(a somewhat outsider to the universe) seems extremely complicated, and just seems to lack sold foundation for a player new to the universe to relate to. ps sorry for the poor writeing, its not like im getting paid
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CBC radio has a bunch of fantastic classical options, especially for those who don't know what they want and its free(unless your Canadian, in which case its tax dollars well spent).
I wounder if the games are sucking these days because the smart people leave and not because the working conditions are poor( although the former would be a result of the later).
I still prefer, "there are 10 types of people in this world, those who get it and those who do not."
Seriously how many people are actually going to sell Starcraft 2? Actually once the other campaigns are released they will need some sort of protection. If they don't add anything that changes multi-player with the next two campaigns, pirating and resale could be a significant loss for them. I don't think they want to go the way of C&C. I 'pirated' stacraft one numerous times, though I bought it first; I just kept loosing the cd case. I would prefer if Blizzard kept track of the cd-key, that was inconvenience to me. Heck I'd go for a digital download over a Box.
I was thinking trying to get into mensa, they require a top %2 iq to get in right? That might be pushing it for me.
I for-see an interface similar to Googles custom homepage, that you can plug in widgets like twitter, flicker, google chat etc. You customise the permissions for each widget using a this sites authentication layer. This site would have its own widgets as well, that could be embedded into your Wordpress page, so people could see your friends on your wordpress page as well as on your homepage. This layer will store your data or it will just hand off it off to twitter/google/facebook. And it comes with a couple default configurations for noobs. How does it make money? Just targetted ads when people are searching for new widgets. You could also sell custom installs to compete with Sharepoint for the corperate world. Anyone wanna pay me to build it? grr how the frick can I add whitespace to my posts?
This is probably true for %98 percent of communities, but surely tech towns you can be involved with some good social activities without all the BS? Is it just a matter of moving to were the smart people are? I'm new too a city of 100k and I find it really hard to crack any sort of interesting social networks. I don't have patience for socialising with average people, nor facebook, so that's certainly a hindrance.
"HST they are shoving down our throats" Why are non Americans so quick to pick up American media's catch phrase of the week? It's bad enough hearing the British do it. Why can't we be a bit original like; We are getting Fisted with HST? or our proctologists are wearing HST gloves. or maybe putting down the HST WMT(Weapon of Mass Tax). In all serious I'm for HST, say what you will, but it in theory it'll increases tax revenue while improving transparency and reducing bureaucracy; its just bad politics.
It is amazing how enabling a public health care system is, even for myself, a 26 year old healthy guy. I think I would have been way to stressed to take the time I need to adapt my skills to this market.
personally I like pythons introspection and meaningful error messages. Oh and lack of compile complexities, actually I could probably go on for a while. I also use space delimiting folding in Vim, which is quite natural with python. the tabs do encourage you to break up your code, but personally, I see this as a good thing. if you have code nested 5-10 deep, its probably pretty ugly. And python isn't about being fast, its about not being ugly.
Perfect would be Python with the speed of well crafted assembly, optional gui tools of C#/objective-C, ease of deployment of PHP/JavaScript/J2EE and better Vim integration. I suppose Python's libraries could be a little more consistent.
I am curious if anyone has any insight on what happened in 2004 to cause such a spike in python's "Rating". http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/paperinfo/tpci/Python.html
google app engine may have java support, it's an obvious choice considering the number of developers. However python is right there beside it now, a choice that a few years ago would not have been considered for such an application. Python may still be behind, but its moving quickly. 4 years ago my Alma mater required all BSc to take a python course. That said Java is still the dominant language in the computer science department, but heck it is also the Alma mater of James Gosling(founder of Java).
Just loose to Canada in the gold medal game, and you wont have to worry about an onslaught of DIY drowns attacking from the north.
Some guys will spend 100+k on a wood working shop; I'm sure there are enough people with money to put a few dollars down on cool biotech toys. A professor of mine bought a 30k drafting printer for printing large format photography.
Well I hope my reply doesn't send you into shock.
This would be awesome for unpowered aircraft. Perhaps they could provide/rent services and equipment. Probably hella dangerous though.
take up a trade, after two years you can make 200k per year(ie 70h/week Union Ironworking in fort mcmurray /w loa). Work a couple months a year in your trade and program or volunteer the rest of the time.
If you did good in english, you could write documentation.
I'm sure 3/4 of there returns for "damaged hardware" are in fact software issues. People would be returning the machines when they failed to install Office.
The RIAA is on the losing side of an technological arms race, They can spend hundreds of millions fighting bittorrent, and if they succeed, a student will simply write an encrypted bittorrent like client that operates soley on port 80, you could hide bittorrent data as jpg. Their is no differentiating that data. The only reason it doesn't exist is because students aren't being pushed enough. Hell even myself and some of my friends were considering recreating waste(encrypted file sharing community network) in python. This line of actions could end up very badly for RIAA's supporters. Students will always get there free data, whether its swapping .5tb disk drives or 2gb thumb drives or university networks or limewire or bittorrent or dvdrw or some encrypted software.
Where there any surprises in server requirements? ie did user authentication require more then expected or internal network speed a bottleneck?
Also do game objects communicate with each other asynchronously? even if they are on the same physical server? do they communicate with one another in any case where they are not on the same server?
About how large is your game database, what types of events trigger queries and how often does this happen for a typical player?
If your having burn out check out this book, Tuesdays with Morrie. My favorite quote is along the lines of, If a culture doesnt suit you, don't buy it.
the terrorists have already won.
I think the problem is the player will not identify themselves with avatar and the suroundings. sci-fi is simply too abstract, with fantasy we know good and evil, elves and dwarves, and what to expect from them. If we start introducing new concepts, such as alians and dreary appacalyptic worlds. players need to go through a whole culture shock. In my opinion a significan part of world of warcraft's success is that the charactors and the world they live in fit together nicely and it draws the players in the fantasy that is destinct depending on your choosen race. This is a fairly unique atribute of WoW, as most mmorpgs just toss you in the same nooby zone with no imediantly precived consiquences of your opening decisions. I think sci-fi can be done and well enough to attract the main-stream. Obviously only weapon cant be essentialy different lighting bolts(guns) which would extremely limit gameplay, and players must be able to imurse themselves. If your going to have a cyborpunk guy, make sure he lives in a cyberpunk city, with cyberpunk buddies, not a orc weilding an axe/shotgun.
btw i think warhammer is a rough world to do because to me(a somewhat outsider to the universe) seems extremely complicated, and just seems to lack sold foundation for a player new to the universe to relate to.
ps sorry for the poor writeing, its not like im getting paid