As another poster said, Half-life looks very good with more modern machines. And the FPS/quality ratio of that game is outstanding IMO.
In the "There should be a remake" section: Rock and roll racing (SNES). Anyone knows any remake? I liked this game a lot.
I would say a FF4 and/or FF6 remake, but I think Square is already working on a FF4 remake huh? (That's funny, I held shift a little too long, and the result was "FF$", which is not an unrealistic representation...)
Element 5 *is* an online transaction processor. I don't think that Element5's verisign certificate is actually expired. I rather think that Hare does not link to the good certificate. When the certificate are renewed, I don't know why, the link sometimes change. It happened to me once...
"This cycle has worked for me for about 18 years now."
You're lucky. You could pile some money before the IT bubble popped.
Nevertheless, it is encouraging to see that this kind of life can actually work pretty well. Now I have to try to raise my "hobby time/work time" ratio:)
Well, be prepared to live poor, but happy. I'm currently between 2 jobs, and I'm much more actively working on my own projects that trying to find a new job...
Well, unless I'm very lucky and my business get of and finally gets me money, I will soon have to start working for somebody else than myself, because I'm quite running out of money. However, my plan is to work, hum... 1 year, and pay myself a little 3 months of cool developing... again:)
As I said in another post a while ago, money not only buys cars and houses, it buys time. Try to save money for that, instead of wasting money on useless crap, getting into debt, and then being *forced* to work because of these debts.
I was about to register there when I bumped into the language list. Too bad they don't have pascal (MS sponsored, I should have known...). I know that I should be able to write in one of these language, but people using one of these language as their main language will always have a considerable advantage over me (Except for VB coders, of course, who are inherently bad coders;) ).
I prefer the way ICFP does. It was my first try this year, and I liked it. Too bad my brother and I made bad design choices at the start, we couldn't make any useable ant AI on time... I have a great (delphi) ant simulator though...
If you really want to protect your backups from fire/natural disasters, I suggest that you go to your local bank and open a safety box. Record a CD-R, record a second copy in case your first fail, put that all in the safety box, along with anything else you would like to keep safe, and perform a CD rotations when your data change.
That's what I would do if I didn't have my parents to host my second backup copies in their house.
10% attrition? In my case, I can't remember a CD-R I recorded that ever failed (I don't use CD-RW, maybe these are something else...). All my source backup are on CD-R, and I make quite a lot of them. I also burn a *lot* of music compilations for my car. Some of the CD-R there stopped working after (quite) a while, but it is only because a car is a harsh environment for a CD-R.
The CD-R brand must have something to do with it. I only use Sony's CD-R. Not for a particular reason. Only that none of them ever failed me.
Thus, my opinion is that CD-R are one of the bests (if not the best) solutions for non-industrial backups. By industrial, I mean freaking mission-critial multi-GB multi-millions dollars worth backups.
Note: I never tried DVD-R. You must code a *lot* of lines to make your projects' sources weight more than 700 mb. (Hum, quick cvs tree check: 75 mb... ok, I might be wrong here. However, these 75 mb were a *lot* of work for me...)
I think that wal-mart has much more interest in keeping their "ass-ociates" training time low, at the cost of some "theft" (I think we can categorize price swap as theft). The theft cost is lower than the training cost.
But in fact, what wal-mart might do is just stop selling computer hardware if they begin to lose money because of their employee's cluelessness in that field.
Back in the RPG Maker 95 days (Or was it called something else? I can't remember), I was quite enthusiast about this program (I never managed to do anything good with it though), but since the release of NWN, one must work very hard to try to match it.
But anyway, I came to the conclusion, after having spent countless hours working on NWN scripts (It was quite fun...), that I was better investing my time coding *real* programs (There's no money to make with NWN games, it's forbidden by the license.)
Personally, my technique to choose to buy a game or not is based on my past experience.
Ubisoft = bad Bioware = Technically good games, but quite mediocre storylines squaresoft = Most of their products are outstanding. origin = used to be one of the bests. (nostalgic *sigh*)
I wish there was a way (something like a central database) to track good game developers. Thus, if I really liked a game, I will seek for games from the same lead designer. It would be a better way to know which game I will like, because squaresoft *did* make some games I didn't like.
Goddammit, that's a good idea I got there. I wish I had some experience in crawler programming, I could do it relatively easily.
That's what demos are for. What games publishers should do is to distribute a "free demo CD" next to their 50$ game. The customer grabs a couple of these CDs to the store, try them, and come back to buy games he/she liked.
I don't think diablo II applies to your example. I really think that Diablo II's sprites are made of rendered 3d models. Thus, if they have to make a change to the necromancer, the change their 3d super-detailed model, and then run their "render all sprites from model" script.
For old games like FF6, your text applies, but it was what... 32*32 sprites? not a big deal to change.
I prefer 2D games. I can't be alone! Take out the cinematics, and graphically talking, I almost prefer FF6 to FF7. Ok, maybe not quite, because FF6's graphics are quite outdated, but still... Let's say that I prefer "Tales of destiny" (PS1 2D RPG) graphics.
I played both UO and SWG (Koster follower). I know that a lot of people say that UO's graphics are awful (I'm talking about the 2D version here, not the 3D), but I still prefer them to SWG's graphics.
And here come the hypothetical examples. 3D Starcraft? Please don't! The graphics are cute enough as they are. 3D Civ? Would be awful!
A good test to make would be that everybody list their all-time favourite games, and see if they are 2D or 3D. How many FF4/6, chrono trigger, startcraft/warcraft would there be in that list? Of course we could use the recent Title Fight gamespot made, but the divisions were very badly made, because all the old games were in the same division, and UO was in the same division than all other ultimas...
There is a lot more than DW and Notepad in source editing. I personally use Crimson Editor (Free, http://www.crimsoneditor.com/) for my XML/XSLT/XHTML/CSS edition, and the highlighting is mostly flawlessly.
This sounds like the "Deadly Viper Assassination Squad"
In fact, I bet the creator of this scam had that idea after having watched Kill Bill, but he watched it in it's nigerian translation, and he tried to translate that back into english, and there we go: INTERNATIONAL ASSASINATORS AND WORLD SECURITY ORGANISATIONS
This is the standard argument. However, depending on your playstyle, not 100% of the 40-60 hours you play are really entertainment. A *lot* of this time is pure grinding, and I personally don't call that "entertainment".
Even if you say that you enjoy grinding. Do you enjoy 1 hour of grinding as much as 1 hour of Lord of the rings? I doubt it.
On the other side, a movie is 2 hours of 100% entertainment (If you choose the right movie, of course).
My personal opinion on the MMORPG prices is that 15$ is ok, but I don't know if I would still pay the fees if it was 20$.
As a side note, I consider my 15$ for "The White Stripes - Elephant" a much better investment than my last 15$ invested in SWG.
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As another poster said, Half-life looks very good with more modern machines. And the FPS/quality ratio of that game is outstanding IMO.
In the "There should be a remake" section: Rock and roll racing (SNES). Anyone knows any remake? I liked this game a lot.
I would say a FF4 and/or FF6 remake, but I think Square is already working on a FF4 remake huh? (That's funny, I held shift a little too long, and the result was "FF$", which is not an unrealistic representation...)
I work at home, YIC :) my free time is unhealtly mixed with my work time.
Element 5 *is* an online transaction processor. I don't think that Element5's verisign certificate is actually expired. I rather think that Hare does not link to the good certificate. When the certificate are renewed, I don't know why, the link sometimes change. It happened to me once...
I should stop slashdot. I would have *much* more free time :)
"This cycle has worked for me for about 18 years now."
:)
You're lucky. You could pile some money before the IT bubble popped.
Nevertheless, it is encouraging to see that this kind of life can actually work pretty well. Now I have to try to raise my "hobby time/work time" ratio
Well, be prepared to live poor, but happy. I'm currently between 2 jobs, and I'm much more actively working on my own projects that trying to find a new job...
:)
Well, unless I'm very lucky and my business get of and finally gets me money, I will soon have to start working for somebody else than myself, because I'm quite running out of money. However, my plan is to work, hum... 1 year, and pay myself a little 3 months of cool developing... again
As I said in another post a while ago, money not only buys cars and houses, it buys time. Try to save money for that, instead of wasting money on useless crap, getting into debt, and then being *forced* to work because of these debts.
I was about to register there when I bumped into the language list. Too bad they don't have pascal (MS sponsored, I should have known...). I know that I should be able to write in one of these language, but people using one of these language as their main language will always have a considerable advantage over me (Except for VB coders, of course, who are inherently bad coders ;) ).
I prefer the way ICFP does. It was my first try this year, and I liked it. Too bad my brother and I made bad design choices at the start, we couldn't make any useable ant AI on time... I have a great (delphi) ant simulator though...
I agree with you, but on this point:
I would like to point that XSLT already exists, and it is not a replacement to CSS, but a complement. XSLT = data format CSS = style
If you really want to protect your backups from fire/natural disasters, I suggest that you go to your local bank and open a safety box. Record a CD-R, record a second copy in case your first fail, put that all in the safety box, along with anything else you would like to keep safe, and perform a CD rotations when your data change.
That's what I would do if I didn't have my parents to host my second backup copies in their house.
10% attrition? In my case, I can't remember a CD-R I recorded that ever failed (I don't use CD-RW, maybe these are something else...). All my source backup are on CD-R, and I make quite a lot of them. I also burn a *lot* of music compilations for my car. Some of the CD-R there stopped working after (quite) a while, but it is only because a car is a harsh environment for a CD-R.
The CD-R brand must have something to do with it. I only use Sony's CD-R. Not for a particular reason. Only that none of them ever failed me.
Thus, my opinion is that CD-R are one of the bests (if not the best) solutions for non-industrial backups. By industrial, I mean freaking mission-critial multi-GB multi-millions dollars worth backups.
Note: I never tried DVD-R. You must code a *lot* of lines to make your projects' sources weight more than 700 mb. (Hum, quick cvs tree check: 75 mb... ok, I might be wrong here. However, these 75 mb were a *lot* of work for me...)
oops 6th calling.
But that will not be for madden! It will simply be your 8th sick calling for doom 3 (aug 10 - aug 3 - weekends = 8)
I think that wal-mart has much more interest in keeping their "ass-ociates" training time low, at the cost of some "theft" (I think we can categorize price swap as theft). The theft cost is lower than the training cost.
But in fact, what wal-mart might do is just stop selling computer hardware if they begin to lose money because of their employee's cluelessness in that field.
Back in the RPG Maker 95 days (Or was it called something else? I can't remember), I was quite enthusiast about this program (I never managed to do anything good with it though), but since the release of NWN, one must work very hard to try to match it.
But anyway, I came to the conclusion, after having spent countless hours working on NWN scripts (It was quite fun...), that I was better investing my time coding *real* programs (There's no money to make with NWN games, it's forbidden by the license.)
That is, indeed, a very interesting website.
Good point, I agree.
Personally, my technique to choose to buy a game or not is based on my past experience.
Ubisoft = bad
Bioware = Technically good games, but quite mediocre storylines
squaresoft = Most of their products are outstanding.
origin = used to be one of the bests. (nostalgic *sigh*)
I wish there was a way (something like a central database) to track good game developers. Thus, if I really liked a game, I will seek for games from the same lead designer. It would be a better way to know which game I will like, because squaresoft *did* make some games I didn't like.
Goddammit, that's a good idea I got there. I wish I had some experience in crawler programming, I could do it relatively easily.
That's what demos are for. What games publishers should do is to distribute a "free demo CD" next to their 50$ game. The customer grabs a couple of these CDs to the store, try them, and come back to buy games he/she liked.
I don't think diablo II applies to your example. I really think that Diablo II's sprites are made of rendered 3d models. Thus, if they have to make a change to the necromancer, the change their 3d super-detailed model, and then run their "render all sprites from model" script.
For old games like FF6, your text applies, but it was what... 32*32 sprites? not a big deal to change.
I would see him more as "The Eye". arg!
I prefer 2D games. I can't be alone! Take out the cinematics, and graphically talking, I almost prefer FF6 to FF7. Ok, maybe not quite, because FF6's graphics are quite outdated, but still... Let's say that I prefer "Tales of destiny" (PS1 2D RPG) graphics.
I played both UO and SWG (Koster follower). I know that a lot of people say that UO's graphics are awful (I'm talking about the 2D version here, not the 3D), but I still prefer them to SWG's graphics.
And here come the hypothetical examples. 3D Starcraft? Please don't! The graphics are cute enough as they are. 3D Civ? Would be awful!
A good test to make would be that everybody list their all-time favourite games, and see if they are 2D or 3D. How many FF4/6, chrono trigger, startcraft/warcraft would there be in that list? Of course we could use the recent Title Fight gamespot made, but the divisions were very badly made, because all the old games were in the same division, and UO was in the same division than all other ultimas...
There is a lot more than DW and Notepad in source editing. I personally use Crimson Editor (Free, http://www.crimsoneditor.com/) for my XML/XSLT/XHTML/CSS edition, and the highlighting is mostly flawlessly.
wysiwyg is for wannabe.
You should have specified that you quoted Traffic.
This sounds like the "Deadly Viper Assassination Squad"
In fact, I bet the creator of this scam had that idea after having watched Kill Bill, but he watched it in it's nigerian translation, and he tried to translate that back into english, and there we go: INTERNATIONAL ASSASINATORS AND WORLD SECURITY ORGANISATIONS
Maybe it could work, but you would have a lot of smoke. Besides, you would *constantly* have to shake your monitor for it to reset the picture.
This is the standard argument. However, depending on your playstyle, not 100% of the 40-60 hours you play are really entertainment. A *lot* of this time is pure grinding, and I personally don't call that "entertainment".
Even if you say that you enjoy grinding. Do you enjoy 1 hour of grinding as much as 1 hour of Lord of the rings? I doubt it.
On the other side, a movie is 2 hours of 100% entertainment (If you choose the right movie, of course).
My personal opinion on the MMORPG prices is that 15$ is ok, but I don't know if I would still pay the fees if it was 20$.
As a side note, I consider my 15$ for "The White Stripes - Elephant" a much better investment than my last 15$ invested in SWG.