Haha, I wasted a good chunk of my GPA during the two years I was hooked to a Quake 3 mod called Weapons Factory. I don't really mind, it made that particular time of my life (where education was mostly irrelevant non-major-related busywork) fly by faster and more fun.
I think as long as you do more than just play a game -- ie, make an attempt at building your own content for it, be it investing time in making levels or whatever user-end creativity any particular game allows -- you shouldn't feel guilty. I'm about to graduate this December, with more skills under my belt than my university ever bothered to teach me as a result of tinkering with Nethack's code, making custom levels for Quake, building your own modules for Neverwinter Nights (which is like, levelbuilding and coding and storywriting all in one, very fun), etc. Just more good stuff to put on your resume.
Of course, a previous attempt lead to a typo of "Dog.createUniverse()", to which then all the atomic particles were made of Kibbles 'n Bits (tm), and galaxies were populated by millions of millions of chaseable squirrels orbiting around in giant, stellar circles.
It looks like a better letter to send would be one to the Attorney General of Tennessee. This amounts to nothing else but a crime which deserves to be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law, plain and simple.
Where the public can look in and see Congressmen hoot and holler amongst each other? It would resemble a zoo. A big, smelly, unkempt zoo with monkey feces flying left and right, in more ways than one.
I think it's more accurate to say that.plan files were a more analogous precursor to weblogs, depending on how some people used them. Especially software developers and sysadmins.
Very curious; I always thought everything under/usr/src/linux-x.y.z was distro-independent (only differences being actual kernel version differences); that is, what you'd get from the appropriate x.y.z version download from kernel.org.
Because I'm sure someone reading www.theonion.com will suddenly mistakenly think an envelope from George W. Bush himself is taped to their computer screen should they do something as dastardly as use that sacred, holy, immaculate seal in one of their articles.
Maybe this actually happened to Georgie himself and he's just in a bad mood today? "I got me a letter from me! Ahh haha YAAAAAY!! Eh? Wha? Aww... I done been tricked again:(:("
Meier admits to "borrowing" many of the technology tree ideas from a board game also called Civilization (published in the United Kingdom in 1980 by Hartland Trefoil (later by Gibson Games), and in the United States in 1981 by Avalon Hill). The early versions of the game even included a flier of information and ordering materials for the board game. In an ironic twist, there is now a board game based on the computer game version of Civilization.
As much as Civilization rocks, Sid doesn't have much to stand on if he's claiming that anyone else who makes a Civilization-ish game is violating his intellectual property. You can't copyright a genre.
The hard part, in my experience, seems to be getting your foot in the door into the videogames industry in the first place. Every single job opening I've read that I saw and said, "I'm totally qualified for that -- all they skills they're looking for, I have", also then have one other requirement: either "Must have 2-3 years prior job experience" or "Must have credits on (x) previous console titles."
Well gee, if EVERY job position requires PRIOR JOB EXPERIENCE, how can you possibly EVER GET JOB EXPERIENCE if you can't get hired for NOT HAVING PRIOR JOB EXPERIENCE?
I wouldn't mind so much if it said "prior experience / credits preferred" (I wouldn't mind having to "prove" myself in order to get a job) but they all seem to say "prior experience / credits required" (where it seems like, even if you "prove" yourself, "well sorry, you haven't had previous work in this industry before". Two months away from graduating college and I'm starting to really panic over whether or not I'll be even given the chance to bring my experience into a job, over something that seems superficial and silly rather than anything related to competence in any given talent.
Big red shiny asshole notwithstanding, was anyone else reminded of Creative Labs, with their patent on that dynamic shadowing algorithm they used to extort id Software into getting EAX tech in Doom 3, despite the fact that Creative Labs is not really a company that specializes in, nor has really historically contributed much to, computer graphics?
It just seems a bit of a waste of time and money for Toyota to do this, especially if it was merely a publicity stunt. I don't think marketers of any company understand that just because an idea sounds fun and catchy, doesn't mean it's necessarily pragmatic.
Yeah, Windows is for people -- the same people who think Thomas Kinkade and Tom Clancy are the best things to happen to their living rooms and the fine arts, and spend a quarter of their income on tickets to Wrestlemania events.
Feng shui in public buildings and banning GMail? Yeah I know this is off topic but I'd really like to see some sources cited for those two bits mentioned. Or were you being facetious?
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Haha, I wasted a good chunk of my GPA during the two years I was hooked to a Quake 3 mod called Weapons Factory. I don't really mind, it made that particular time of my life (where education was mostly irrelevant non-major-related busywork) fly by faster and more fun.
I think as long as you do more than just play a game -- ie, make an attempt at building your own content for it, be it investing time in making levels or whatever user-end creativity any particular game allows -- you shouldn't feel guilty. I'm about to graduate this December, with more skills under my belt than my university ever bothered to teach me as a result of tinkering with Nethack's code, making custom levels for Quake, building your own modules for Neverwinter Nights (which is like, levelbuilding and coding and storywriting all in one, very fun), etc. Just more good stuff to put on your resume.
You mean the Campaign To Stop Weeaboo?
Of course, a previous attempt lead to a typo of "Dog.createUniverse()", to which then all the atomic particles were made of Kibbles 'n Bits (tm), and galaxies were populated by millions of millions of chaseable squirrels orbiting around in giant, stellar circles.
Creepy or funny?
It looks like a better letter to send would be one to the Attorney General of Tennessee. This amounts to nothing else but a crime which deserves to be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law, plain and simple.
You would have to in pre-C99 C code.
I don't know if you took my lighthearted sarcasm seriously, or if you're being counter-sarcastic beyond my own sarcasm-detecting abilities.
Being a philosophy major, you'll find it behind the counter of your local Starbucks. Go forth and make Socrates proud, young thinker!
Where the public can look in and see Congressmen hoot and holler amongst each other? It would resemble a zoo. A big, smelly, unkempt zoo with monkey feces flying left and right, in more ways than one.
The franchise hasn't been the same since the games stopped awarding you bonus points for running over an entire line of Elvises (Elvii?).
I think it's more accurate to say that .plan files were a more analogous precursor to weblogs, depending on how some people used them. Especially software developers and sysadmins.
Very curious; I always thought everything under /usr/src/linux-x.y.z was distro-independent (only differences being actual kernel version differences); that is, what you'd get from the appropriate x.y.z version download from kernel.org.
Because I'm sure someone reading www.theonion.com will suddenly mistakenly think an envelope from George W. Bush himself is taped to their computer screen should they do something as dastardly as use that sacred, holy, immaculate seal in one of their articles.
:( :("
Maybe this actually happened to Georgie himself and he's just in a bad mood today? "I got me a letter from me! Ahh haha YAAAAAY!! Eh? Wha? Aww... I done been tricked again
This wins the Internet.
From Wikipedia:
Inspiration
Meier admits to "borrowing" many of the technology tree ideas from a board game also called Civilization (published in the United Kingdom in 1980 by Hartland Trefoil (later by Gibson Games), and in the United States in 1981 by Avalon Hill). The early versions of the game even included a flier of information and ordering materials for the board game. In an ironic twist, there is now a board game based on the computer game version of Civilization.
As much as Civilization rocks, Sid doesn't have much to stand on if he's claiming that anyone else who makes a Civilization-ish game is violating his intellectual property. You can't copyright a genre.
The hard part, in my experience, seems to be getting your foot in the door into the videogames industry in the first place. Every single job opening I've read that I saw and said, "I'm totally qualified for that -- all they skills they're looking for, I have", also then have one other requirement: either "Must have 2-3 years prior job experience" or "Must have credits on (x) previous console titles."
Well gee, if EVERY job position requires PRIOR JOB EXPERIENCE, how can you possibly EVER GET JOB EXPERIENCE if you can't get hired for NOT HAVING PRIOR JOB EXPERIENCE?
I wouldn't mind so much if it said "prior experience / credits preferred" (I wouldn't mind having to "prove" myself in order to get a job) but they all seem to say "prior experience / credits required" (where it seems like, even if you "prove" yourself, "well sorry, you haven't had previous work in this industry before". Two months away from graduating college and I'm starting to really panic over whether or not I'll be even given the chance to bring my experience into a job, over something that seems superficial and silly rather than anything related to competence in any given talent.
You forgot to include the obligatory Tonya Harding reference.
The only reason Jack goes after videogames is because he's too mentally inept to drive a car to chase ambulances all day.
Well Formula One racing is automobile-related, so that would make a bit more sense for Toyota to participate in than botany.
Big red shiny asshole notwithstanding, was anyone else reminded of Creative Labs, with their patent on that dynamic shadowing algorithm they used to extort id Software into getting EAX tech in Doom 3, despite the fact that Creative Labs is not really a company that specializes in, nor has really historically contributed much to, computer graphics?
It just seems a bit of a waste of time and money for Toyota to do this, especially if it was merely a publicity stunt. I don't think marketers of any company understand that just because an idea sounds fun and catchy, doesn't mean it's necessarily pragmatic.
A strand the thickness of a human hair has the strength of a steel girder, but weighs around 0.00001% as much.
Any particular reason they don't they make buildings out of these carbon strands instead of with steel girders?
Yeah, Windows is for people -- the same people who think Thomas Kinkade and Tom Clancy are the best things to happen to their living rooms and the fine arts, and spend a quarter of their income on tickets to Wrestlemania events.
I look at my own life and wonder if I haven't made a bad trade by investing time in Internetting than things I otherwise could do ...
Well I heard there's bad things outside anyway, like mountain lions.
Feng shui in public buildings and banning GMail? Yeah I know this is off topic but I'd really like to see some sources cited for those two bits mentioned. Or were you being facetious?
What's this about felines in cryptozoology?