Games companies and Hollywood haven't run out of idea's, there's plenty of original idea's yet to be tapped. The problem is these companies are unwilling to risk their capital on a new, and unproven, Intellectual Property. Thats why we see remakes and sequels. Back in the 80's and 90's game development was smaller, faster and required a lot less cash and time investment up front...if your wild new idea didn't fly it wasen't as much of a financial setback...games today are very expensive to produce, why take risks especially in this economy?
My experience differs, the software dev's I've delt with tend to be the IT troublemakers using their knowledge of IT to abuse the system. I can't even count how many times I've caught software dev's attempting to setup bitorrent and web spider scripts to download and archive porn, movies, illegal software etc all on company equipment...setting up their own unsanctioned LAN's...and because they're smart they're tougher (however not impossible) to catch doing this. Dev's come with their own bag of user issues, believe me.
If you cut a piece of holographic film in half, each half contains the entire picture...just smaller and with a bit less detail.
Thats part of the holographic principle, the original theory anyway was meant to make it MORE resilliant damage to the media was supposed to reduce it's capacity. Reality will likely be different from the original dream of course.
I have a way of dealing with asshats who won't STFU in the theatre that so far has worked for me almost everytime. Basically, make a spectacle of the whole thing sure it's a bit embarassing but the shame is primarily on the person who is truly offending, eventually the whole audience gets mad and that person will shut up out of shame. For example you turn to them, and speak to them in a really loud voice, "HI, I COULDN'T HELP BUT OVERHEAR YOUR CONVERSATION. MIND IF I JOIN IN??? I MAY AS WELL CONSIDERING YOU'RE TALKING SO MUCH I CAN'T FOCUS ON THE MOVIE...."
The Ethernet slow downs you describe are only in proportion to users when it's a half duplex hub and users are sharing the same broadcast domain and collisions abound. In modern networks ethernet switching reduces the amount of needless crosstalk with full duplex on each port, the only time you see a broadcast is if it's intentional or a device needs to discover where a MAC address is. So I'm really not sure I understand your arguement, it seems irrelevant to me.
Next thing I know I'll be required to plug my old skool Scrabble, Chess, Monopoly, Twister, Clue etc board games into the internet in order to unlock them to play. Oh and don't forget any friends I choose to invite over to play will have to have their own account licenses too....sorry little Billy, no internet access...no credit card..NO Hungry Hungry Hippos!
I for one will not pay to download the first rate epic titles I like, even if I save money and space without having physical media around...why? Because I don't want to pay my ISP money for the bandwidth required so I can pay for a big ass download. A large part of game companies production cost goes into pressing discs, packaging and distributing the product to shelves...a download service reduces that cost for THEM significantly, yet do you think we'll see much of a discount? No, look to the cost ebook's as an example...an ebook costs almost as much as it would be to buy the hardcopy. Even worse you can't sell that game back used to reclaim some of the assets, and what if your place got burglarized...good luck reclaiming the cost of a downloaded product with your property insurance company...they'd likely laugh at you "uhhh how many Wii points do we reimburse you for?".
No you're not, Miller was great when he first started producing great material in the 80's. It was refreshing to see how he re-invented Batman for example (The Dark Knight). His work falls flat over time, almost all his characters are ultra-violent and I find over time is he relies on that crutch of breaking out a "big fight" in order to help move the plot along. Many good comic book writers as they mature often grow out of always resorting to that tired story mechanic.
Most routers and switches support some form of Layer 2 flow-control for environments where the TCP window scaling protocols aren't used. If Layer 2 flow-control is enabled congestion is less likely with the use of RNR frames.
Prefer never to have existed? Have you even seen someone with Downs Syndrome? Most of them have a perpetual smile on their face. When you're lacking intelligence, you're often too stupid to understand what you should worry about...ignorance really is bliss.
1080p isn't exactly worth it IMHO, I settled for a 720p budget 42" Vizio TV which I got on a refurb firesale because most of the HD content I've seen doesn't support 1080p it's native is only 720p. I simply couldn't justify the $400 extra. Read the back of a lot of PS3 and bluray disc's you'll be surpised to find a considerable amount of them don't do 1080p yet.
I find it interesting to hear your story as it bears some initial similarity to mine, yet our path's differed. According to my parents I learned to read just before my second birthday and could even spell simple words (had this fisher price desk with magnetic letters I'd spell out words with, I loved that thing). I was assessed as intelligent but barely managed to scrape by in school, hell I failed grade 10 math TWICE! Fascinated and enthralled by computers since I got my first one (C64) when I was 8...but couldn't get the grades to get to university. Oddly enough I just said "Fuck school" and busted my ass to develop my career, and I've done very well for myself financially especially since I turned contract IT consultant. That being said, in my eyes, I consider your academic career and credentials far more laudable than my own.
Ultima 4 was near and dear to my heart, one of the first CRPG's that offered a plot based on morality instead of "kill the big foozle waiting for you at the end".
However it didn't allow the player the freedom to win by being the badguy, nor did it allow for multiple choices to excel in each virtue however your choices had to drive you to become a paragon for good otherwise you couldn't win so moral choices had direct consequences on the end game (despite it's limitations). Over 20 years later, few games have matched that the moral decisions had almost no effect on how Fable played out it just influenced your appearence...aesthetics don't make for playing a role.
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Become a contract consultant for their former employer for nearly double what they made as a salaried employee. ;)
Games companies and Hollywood haven't run out of idea's, there's plenty of original idea's yet to be tapped. The problem is these companies are unwilling to risk their capital on a new, and unproven, Intellectual Property. Thats why we see remakes and sequels. Back in the 80's and 90's game development was smaller, faster and required a lot less cash and time investment up front...if your wild new idea didn't fly it wasen't as much of a financial setback...games today are very expensive to produce, why take risks especially in this economy?
The Michael Jackson Wikipedia article was inaccessible for several hours yesterday too.
What grown man, let alone a VP of technology would use the word SUPER to describe something technical?
They can rest easy knowing that their Fire-Wall, will protect them from a Black Hole too...not just outside intruders!
I hope I'm not the only one who, at first glance, misread the article title as being "Strat-O-Matic and ABBA Keep On Ticking"
My experience differs, the software dev's I've delt with tend to be the IT troublemakers using their knowledge of IT to abuse the system. I can't even count how many times I've caught software dev's attempting to setup bitorrent and web spider scripts to download and archive porn, movies, illegal software etc all on company equipment...setting up their own unsanctioned LAN's...and because they're smart they're tougher (however not impossible) to catch doing this. Dev's come with their own bag of user issues, believe me.
Bing, the search engine that'll return more links than you can throw a chair at!
To not get a Windows Mobile device
Oh just swallow your pride and admit the real reason you don't like these games, you got P0WNED by an 8 year old! ;)
Thats part of the holographic principle, the original theory anyway was meant to make it MORE resilliant damage to the media was supposed to reduce it's capacity. Reality will likely be different from the original dream of course.
I have a way of dealing with asshats who won't STFU in the theatre that so far has worked for me almost everytime. Basically, make a spectacle of the whole thing sure it's a bit embarassing but the shame is primarily on the person who is truly offending, eventually the whole audience gets mad and that person will shut up out of shame. For example you turn to them, and speak to them in a really loud voice, "HI, I COULDN'T HELP BUT OVERHEAR YOUR CONVERSATION. MIND IF I JOIN IN??? I MAY AS WELL CONSIDERING YOU'RE TALKING SO MUCH I CAN'T FOCUS ON THE MOVIE...."
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The Ethernet slow downs you describe are only in proportion to users when it's a half duplex hub and users are sharing the same broadcast domain and collisions abound. In modern networks ethernet switching reduces the amount of needless crosstalk with full duplex on each port, the only time you see a broadcast is if it's intentional or a device needs to discover where a MAC address is. So I'm really not sure I understand your arguement, it seems irrelevant to me.
Next thing I know I'll be required to plug my old skool Scrabble, Chess, Monopoly, Twister, Clue etc board games into the internet in order to unlock them to play. Oh and don't forget any friends I choose to invite over to play will have to have their own account licenses too....sorry little Billy, no internet access...no credit card..NO Hungry Hungry Hippos!
See at the time I bought my PS3 I said, "I'm buying a Blu-Ray player and I can play some games with as a bonus!" So it depends on your perspective.
I for one will not pay to download the first rate epic titles I like, even if I save money and space without having physical media around...why? Because I don't want to pay my ISP money for the bandwidth required so I can pay for a big ass download. A large part of game companies production cost goes into pressing discs, packaging and distributing the product to shelves...a download service reduces that cost for THEM significantly, yet do you think we'll see much of a discount? No, look to the cost ebook's as an example...an ebook costs almost as much as it would be to buy the hardcopy. Even worse you can't sell that game back used to reclaim some of the assets, and what if your place got burglarized...good luck reclaiming the cost of a downloaded product with your property insurance company...they'd likely laugh at you "uhhh how many Wii points do we reimburse you for?".
Average population's vision deteriates due to reading smaller text on smaller electronic screens.
No you're not, Miller was great when he first started producing great material in the 80's. It was refreshing to see how he re-invented Batman for example (The Dark Knight). His work falls flat over time, almost all his characters are ultra-violent and I find over time is he relies on that crutch of breaking out a "big fight" in order to help move the plot along. Many good comic book writers as they mature often grow out of always resorting to that tired story mechanic.
Even when it appears to die in the last issue, there's a miraculous and vengeful comback story.
Most routers and switches support some form of Layer 2 flow-control for environments where the TCP window scaling protocols aren't used. If Layer 2 flow-control is enabled congestion is less likely with the use of RNR frames.
Prefer never to have existed? Have you even seen someone with Downs Syndrome? Most of them have a perpetual smile on their face. When you're lacking intelligence, you're often too stupid to understand what you should worry about...ignorance really is bliss.
1080p isn't exactly worth it IMHO, I settled for a 720p budget 42" Vizio TV which I got on a refurb firesale because most of the HD content I've seen doesn't support 1080p it's native is only 720p. I simply couldn't justify the $400 extra. Read the back of a lot of PS3 and bluray disc's you'll be surpised to find a considerable amount of them don't do 1080p yet.
I find it interesting to hear your story as it bears some initial similarity to mine, yet our path's differed. According to my parents I learned to read just before my second birthday and could even spell simple words (had this fisher price desk with magnetic letters I'd spell out words with, I loved that thing). I was assessed as intelligent but barely managed to scrape by in school, hell I failed grade 10 math TWICE! Fascinated and enthralled by computers since I got my first one (C64) when I was 8...but couldn't get the grades to get to university. Oddly enough I just said "Fuck school" and busted my ass to develop my career, and I've done very well for myself financially especially since I turned contract IT consultant. That being said, in my eyes, I consider your academic career and credentials far more laudable than my own.
Ultima 4 was near and dear to my heart, one of the first CRPG's that offered a plot based on morality instead of "kill the big foozle waiting for you at the end". However it didn't allow the player the freedom to win by being the badguy, nor did it allow for multiple choices to excel in each virtue however your choices had to drive you to become a paragon for good otherwise you couldn't win so moral choices had direct consequences on the end game (despite it's limitations). Over 20 years later, few games have matched that the moral decisions had almost no effect on how Fable played out it just influenced your appearence...aesthetics don't make for playing a role.