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Only if you consider any job on this planet to be an American job first. Just another example of American arrogance.
No, just American jobs should be considered "American first". most other countries (including India) engage in some type of protectionism for their workers. Not only is it for their workers, but it's a matter of national security also. If most of your cars are made overseas, who will make your tanks in a time of war? If most of your technological items are made overseas, who is going to manufacture your weapons in a time of war? If most of your IT labor is coming from overseas, who is going to maintain your important computer systems? If most of your food supply comes from overseas who is going to farm for food after your supply is cut off or poisoned? If most of your energy (ie OIL) is imported from overseas, what are you going to do when that supply is cut off?
This isn't "American arrogance" it's common sense. Outsourcing whole industries can put your country at risk. Most countries are smart enough to realize that.
by lowering yourself to some level you degrade your rights as a human being just to "make it" into your profession. That's not any way to make a living, in my opinion.
It's funny, that you think earning 50k a year is a "degradation of your rights as a human being".
I'd rather not have to suck the cocks of five people so I could get an interview with some other guy when I could just look elsewhere for another job where I wouldn't have to do that.
"Sucking Cocks" isn't the same as working long hours. I can assure you that if it involved sucking cocks I wouldn't participate. Do you equate working overtime with sucking cocks for a living? Your perception of what is an abusive work enviornment is very strange to me. Almost every profession has it's version of "paying dues'. Ever see what a doctor goes through during their residency? Are they sucking cocks? If a cop has to work a night shift for his first 2 years, is he sucking cocks? At what point does working overtime become sucking cocks to you?
Ah, memories. The two launch titles for the PS1 (yes, there were only two!) were Toshiden and Ridge Racer. Toshiden was a graphical masterpiece that played like Street Fighter, and also, um, sucked
IIRC Street fighter the movie was released at launch with the PS one also. You might have blocked it out since the game sucked.
Actually, I looked it up because I thought I recalled more games being available at launch. I was right...
ESPN Extreme Games, Kileak - The DNA Imperative, Raiden Project, Ridge Racer, Battle Arena Tohshinden, Total Eclipse Turbo, NBA JAM Tournament Edition and Street Fighter: The Movie were all available when PS1 launched in North America. Mortal Kombat 3 came out 1 month after launch.
A lot of people keep saying that the N64 failed. 30 million units is not a failure. A lot of people keep saying that the N64 lost out due to a lack of a CD-ROM drive. I can sort of agree with that. It would have been cool for that machine to have an optical drive.
In the end, I bought a PS instead of a N64. I would have rather had a Cartrage based system, and paid the extra money to avoid the load times involved with CD based games, but the games themselves on the PS are what made me choose that over a N64 or saturn.
The real key to Sony's success wasn't so much the hardware, though that helped. Rather, it was that it flooded store shelves with titles.
When PS1 launched it had Mortal Kombat 3, which was huge at the time. It was the peak of the fighting game craze at the arcades, and that alone helped sell plenty of Playstations. That along with games like ridge racer and wipeout gave the PS a more interesting launch library. It wasn't that the PS had "flooded store shelves with titles" It was that they had the better titles at launch.
Exactly what EA abuses to get its employees: they hire a whole bunch of bright eyes college graduates
Who says I'm a college grad? I finsihed school years ago, I've been programming professionally for 5 years now.
willing to do anything to get their name in some sort of gane, then they abuse their willingness to work and burn them out.
Is it any different than a struggling actor or director getting paid little to nothing for their first film? It's true, I'd give up a lot professionally to be able to say I worked on a game released by EA or another game company that was respectable. Is there anything wrong with that? People make sacrifices in many industries to get an 'in'
Then when they quit, EA goes back to the farm and grabs the next bunch of grads and the cycle starts again. You can't just give up your rights just for your name to appear in a game: that's the problem.
You aren't giving up your "rights". That is way too overly dramatic. You may be taking a hard job, with long hours and no overtime pay but that is hardly giving up your rights. I would guess the average EA programmer isn't some 10$ an hour code monkey. They probably pull a salary somwhat close to application developers.
We will be all whining when they move their development to India. I hope you enjoy Madden Cricket 2007. That said, I would gladly work 70 hours a week to be in the credits of a video game.
What's removed is the ability to specify a date range, so that you could easily get historical information (for example, how people thought about a particular product just after it was introduced).
Actually, I recall using this to look through various newsgroups to see their reactions to 9/11. It was quite interesting, but I guess I won't be doing that anymore.:/
Why would you remove the search by date function? That is insanely useful when you are looking for posts about a particular product, especially tech products where you might only want the most recent posts, or you might be searching for an oudated product.
I like steam. I bought HL condition zero just for the CS:Source beta. I didn't mind just paying for the Beta, because I figured I had gotten my moneys worth x 10 out of HL1 with the CS mod.
I wasn't going to buy HL2, but a friend called me up one night last week and said he had HL2 and wanted to start playing CS:Source. I went onto steam and bought HL2 so I could play online with him. The nice thing is since I was in the Beta it was preloaded on my computer already. It took me about 10 minutes to be up and playing, where as if I could only buy the game in the store it would have had to wait until the next day never mind dealing with the sub-humans that work at my local best buy, or the fan-boiz at the local gameshop.
I think steam is a great delivery system for games.
2 days later, the scanner software goes on the blink. Guess who is going to get blamed? Yeah, probably you, the kind relative that cleaned up the PC but didn't touch the scanner software.
This is the worst part about doing 'freebees' for friends and family. You are liable for anything they think you might have caused over the next few weeks.
My favorite one is a friend of mind who is utterly clueless when it comes to PC's and a klutz to boot. He will invite me over to do his tech support and then suggest solutions to his problems to me. "Hey do you think my Unreal Tournament is broken because you installed that adaware thing?".... Or even better yet, last week he calls me up because he couldn't figure out why his monitor wasn't working...he had kicked the plug out while installing a new mouse and not had not noticed until I told him to check the power cord....then 5 minutes later he calls back telling me his sound isn't working. I tell him to check the plug and sure enough he knocked that loose plugging the monitor back in.
This person makes over 100K a year in a sales job. 0_o I took up the wrong profession.
Be realistic here, games arn't as terrible to young minds as you might think. I've been setting fire to aliens in Marathon since I was 8, and nothing has happened except frustration at store clerks like yourself (I had to have my grandfather buy Blood Omen 2 for me), who think it's appropriate to censor every child.
It's not a matter of censorship, and children are very prone to impersonating things they see on television and in the video games they play. Ever seen a kids imitate professional wrestlers and they end up hurting one another? It's the same thing. At least if a parent is required to buy/rent games for a child that parent knows what the child is viewing or playing. Parents are responsible for their childrens actions, so they should at least know what is influencing those actions.
People are different, obviously that parent knew that Billy was mature enough to play Halo 2, and wrote that note. It's not up for you to judge.
Yes, it is up to the store clerks and managers to judge. Had that note been forged by the child and the parent found the child playing GTA, you don't think the first thing the parent would have done is bitched about the store to the media? These retailers need to protect themselves, so they have all the right in the world to judge if children may or may not rent/buy materials from them.
I tested my PC, which the sample code worked on, but it didn't seem to work on my mac which runs OSX 10.3.6 in safari or firefox. Safari comes back with a "Class undefined" and firefox just seems to ignore the javascript alert at the end.
Anyone else try this on the mac and have similar results?
Heh, so who is going to be the first to make a netstumbler type app for the DS?
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A has a formal policy of hiring young, naive people who are willing to work long hours for low pay.
Well, I'm young and willing to work long hours for low pay. Hire me EA. I'd gladly take a pay cut to make games instead of cheesy Java/SQL database apps. Say what you will about EA's hirings, getting into the video game industry and having EA on your resume is well worth the low pay for a little while.
I think the next few months for SWG should be do or die time. They have had their Jedi re-structuring, JTS and I think they have a combat revamp coming up. If all of that doesn't fix it, nothing will.
Not sayin' it is so... but HAD the election been accidentally given to Bush, now that Kerry has conceded, what would the legal recourse be??
Bush hasn't really won until the electoral college vote is done, which I believe is in December. If Kerry won a court battle in Florida the electoral votes could still go the other way. It is up to the free will of the electoral represenatives. The point of this article is moot anyway, even if Kerry got 260,000 extra votes, it wouldn't matter, Bush won Florida by about 400,000.
I don't see how this fits into the Republican ideal of smaller government. Should the government be concerned with if you decide to skip any commercials or promotional announcements? I'm sure the democrats will oppose this bill, and I would urge all Republicans to do the same. It is against the core values of your party.
PS- No matter what your political affiliation is, Do you think sending people to prison for three years who "bring a video camera into a movie theater to make a copy of the film for distribution" is a good use of your tax money? Those three years probably come to around/at least $150,000
You can easily make a gelatine film with fingerprints collected on everyday objects. No fancy equipment required either. When researches tested the technique at a recent show, every fingerprint reading device they were allowed to test, were fooled.
Hmm, so we are going to end up with 13 year olds War-Fingerprinting?
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Only if you consider any job on this planet to be an American job first. Just another example of American arrogance.
No, just American jobs should be considered "American first". most other countries (including India) engage in some type of protectionism for their workers. Not only is it for their workers, but it's a matter of national security also. If most of your cars are made overseas, who will make your tanks in a time of war? If most of your technological items are made overseas, who is going to manufacture your weapons in a time of war? If most of your IT labor is coming from overseas, who is going to maintain your important computer systems? If most of your food supply comes from overseas who is going to farm for food after your supply is cut off or poisoned? If most of your energy (ie OIL) is imported from overseas, what are you going to do when that supply is cut off?
This isn't "American arrogance" it's common sense. Outsourcing whole industries can put your country at risk. Most countries are smart enough to realize that.
by lowering yourself to some level you degrade your rights as a human being just to "make it" into your profession. That's not any way to make a living, in my opinion.
It's funny, that you think earning 50k a year is a "degradation of your rights as a human being".
I'd rather not have to suck the cocks of five people so I could get an interview with some other guy when I could just look elsewhere for another job where I wouldn't have to do that.
"Sucking Cocks" isn't the same as working long hours. I can assure you that if it involved sucking cocks I wouldn't participate. Do you equate working overtime with sucking cocks for a living? Your perception of what is an abusive work enviornment is very strange to me. Almost every profession has it's version of "paying dues'. Ever see what a doctor goes through during their residency? Are they sucking cocks? If a cop has to work a night shift for his first 2 years, is he sucking cocks? At what point does working overtime become sucking cocks to you?
Ah, memories. The two launch titles for the PS1 (yes, there were only two!) were Toshiden and Ridge Racer. Toshiden was a graphical masterpiece that played like Street Fighter, and also, um, sucked
IIRC Street fighter the movie was released at launch with the PS one also. You might have blocked it out since the game sucked.
Actually, I looked it up because I thought I recalled more games being available at launch. I was right... ESPN Extreme Games, Kileak - The DNA Imperative, Raiden Project, Ridge Racer, Battle Arena Tohshinden, Total Eclipse Turbo, NBA JAM Tournament Edition and Street Fighter: The Movie were all available when PS1 launched in North America. Mortal Kombat 3 came out 1 month after launch.
A lot of people keep saying that the N64 failed. 30 million units is not a failure. A lot of people keep saying that the N64 lost out due to a lack of a CD-ROM drive. I can sort of agree with that. It would have been cool for that machine to have an optical drive.
In the end, I bought a PS instead of a N64. I would have rather had a Cartrage based system, and paid the extra money to avoid the load times involved with CD based games, but the games themselves on the PS are what made me choose that over a N64 or saturn.
The real key to Sony's success wasn't so much the hardware, though that helped. Rather, it was that it flooded store shelves with titles.
When PS1 launched it had Mortal Kombat 3, which was huge at the time. It was the peak of the fighting game craze at the arcades, and that alone helped sell plenty of Playstations. That along with games like ridge racer and wipeout gave the PS a more interesting launch library. It wasn't that the PS had "flooded store shelves with titles" It was that they had the better titles at launch.
Exactly what EA abuses to get its employees: they hire a whole bunch of bright eyes college graduates
Who says I'm a college grad? I finsihed school years ago, I've been programming professionally for 5 years now.
willing to do anything to get their name in some sort of gane, then they abuse their willingness to work and burn them out.
Is it any different than a struggling actor or director getting paid little to nothing for their first film? It's true, I'd give up a lot professionally to be able to say I worked on a game released by EA or another game company that was respectable. Is there anything wrong with that? People make sacrifices in many industries to get an 'in'
Then when they quit, EA goes back to the farm and grabs the next bunch of grads and the cycle starts again. You can't just give up your rights just for your name to appear in a game: that's the problem.
You aren't giving up your "rights". That is way too overly dramatic. You may be taking a hard job, with long hours and no overtime pay but that is hardly giving up your rights. I would guess the average EA programmer isn't some 10$ an hour code monkey. They probably pull a salary somwhat close to application developers.
We will be all whining when they move their development to India. I hope you enjoy Madden Cricket 2007. That said, I would gladly work 70 hours a week to be in the credits of a video game.
Metroid would be pretty sweet, but it would probably require an R rating since it would be a horror movie.
Wasn't there a Super Mario Brothers movie already that did poorly?
What's removed is the ability to specify a date range, so that you could easily get historical information (for example, how people thought about a particular product just after it was introduced).
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Actually, I recall using this to look through various newsgroups to see their reactions to 9/11. It was quite interesting, but I guess I won't be doing that anymore.
One petabyte of data in a cluster
Uhh, ok what is a petabyte? Is that like half of a veggie burger or something? I'm guessing 1000 Terrabytes?
Why would you remove the search by date function? That is insanely useful when you are looking for posts about a particular product, especially tech products where you might only want the most recent posts, or you might be searching for an oudated product.
I like steam. I bought HL condition zero just for the CS:Source beta. I didn't mind just paying for the Beta, because I figured I had gotten my moneys worth x 10 out of HL1 with the CS mod.
I wasn't going to buy HL2, but a friend called me up one night last week and said he had HL2 and wanted to start playing CS:Source. I went onto steam and bought HL2 so I could play online with him. The nice thing is since I was in the Beta it was preloaded on my computer already. It took me about 10 minutes to be up and playing, where as if I could only buy the game in the store it would have had to wait until the next day never mind dealing with the sub-humans that work at my local best buy, or the fan-boiz at the local gameshop.
I think steam is a great delivery system for games.
2 days later, the scanner software goes on the blink. Guess who is going to get blamed? Yeah, probably you, the kind relative that cleaned up the PC but didn't touch the scanner software.
This is the worst part about doing 'freebees' for friends and family. You are liable for anything they think you might have caused over the next few weeks.
My favorite one is a friend of mind who is utterly clueless when it comes to PC's and a klutz to boot. He will invite me over to do his tech support and then suggest solutions to his problems to me. "Hey do you think my Unreal Tournament is broken because you installed that adaware thing?".... Or even better yet, last week he calls me up because he couldn't figure out why his monitor wasn't working...he had kicked the plug out while installing a new mouse and not had not noticed until I told him to check the power cord....then 5 minutes later he calls back telling me his sound isn't working. I tell him to check the plug and sure enough he knocked that loose plugging the monitor back in.
This person makes over 100K a year in a sales job. 0_o I took up the wrong profession.
Be realistic here, games arn't as terrible to young minds as you might think. I've been setting fire to aliens in Marathon since I was 8, and nothing has happened except frustration at store clerks like yourself (I had to have my grandfather buy Blood Omen 2 for me), who think it's appropriate to censor every child.
It's not a matter of censorship, and children are very prone to impersonating things they see on television and in the video games they play. Ever seen a kids imitate professional wrestlers and they end up hurting one another? It's the same thing. At least if a parent is required to buy/rent games for a child that parent knows what the child is viewing or playing. Parents are responsible for their childrens actions, so they should at least know what is influencing those actions.
People are different, obviously that parent knew that Billy was mature enough to play Halo 2, and wrote that note. It's not up for you to judge.
Yes, it is up to the store clerks and managers to judge. Had that note been forged by the child and the parent found the child playing GTA, you don't think the first thing the parent would have done is bitched about the store to the media? These retailers need to protect themselves, so they have all the right in the world to judge if children may or may not rent/buy materials from them.
I tested my PC, which the sample code worked on, but it didn't seem to work on my mac which runs OSX 10.3.6 in safari or firefox. Safari comes back with a "Class undefined" and firefox just seems to ignore the javascript alert at the end.
Anyone else try this on the mac and have similar results?
If you ever think Java did something first, odds are, it's your ignorance showing.
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What does first matter? Java does everything THE BEST so being first really means nothing.
Better yet, what is this one?
http://www.google.com/ie
Heh, so who is going to be the first to make a netstumbler type app for the DS?
A has a formal policy of hiring young, naive people who are willing to work long hours for low pay.
Well, I'm young and willing to work long hours for low pay. Hire me EA. I'd gladly take a pay cut to make games instead of cheesy Java/SQL database apps. Say what you will about EA's hirings, getting into the video game industry and having EA on your resume is well worth the low pay for a little while.
I think the next few months for SWG should be do or die time. They have had their Jedi re-structuring, JTS and I think they have a combat revamp coming up. If all of that doesn't fix it, nothing will.
Not sayin' it is so... but HAD the election been accidentally given to Bush, now that Kerry has conceded, what would the legal recourse be??
Bush hasn't really won until the electoral college vote is done, which I believe is in December. If Kerry won a court battle in Florida the electoral votes could still go the other way. It is up to the free will of the electoral represenatives. The point of this article is moot anyway, even if Kerry got 260,000 extra votes, it wouldn't matter, Bush won Florida by about 400,000.
Researchers at UC Berkeley have crunched numbers and determined that 130,000-260,000 excess votes went to Bush in Florida
If it came from a less biased source I might believe it. Also 130,000 to 260,000 is a large gap for a statistical study.
I don't see how this fits into the Republican ideal of smaller government. Should the government be concerned with if you decide to skip any commercials or promotional announcements? I'm sure the democrats will oppose this bill, and I would urge all Republicans to do the same. It is against the core values of your party.
PS- No matter what your political affiliation is, Do you think sending people to prison for three years who "bring a video camera into a movie theater to make a copy of the film for distribution" is a good use of your tax money? Those three years probably come to around/at least $150,000
Except, in many cases, "0wn3d" will mean that someone cuts off your thumb. That's a pleasant thought.
So in Saudi Arabia, if you are caught stealing you will lose your password too! Or do they let you keep your hands after they cut them off?
You can easily make a gelatine film with fingerprints collected on everyday objects. No fancy equipment required either. When researches tested the technique at a recent show, every fingerprint reading device they were allowed to test, were fooled.
Hmm, so we are going to end up with 13 year olds War-Fingerprinting?
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