I have seen 1000 zeolot comments in response to McVoy saying that innovation will cease.
He stated that companies trying to make money off of open source will stop innovation.
Things like libpng and the like, aren't huge companies with tons of paid coders and support people. So Yes, they are innovative.
I saw someone mention OpenBSD. I know for a fact they have had numerous issues with money. Without government funding they would be working out of a garage. Huge projects need coders, coders need money. Libpng took almost 10 years to get where it is today. How soon do you think it would have come to market as a closed source item?
Other open source companies that don't have a lot of community support, and pay people salaries to live (support, QA, coders) I would say they are on the lesser end of innovation.
I think a lot of knew about this (those who live in SF that is) My roomate and I live like 2 blocks from the presidio and we used to talk about it and how we wanted to get a job there. That was two years ago. It's right on the edge of the Presidio near the Marina.
The presidio was a military housing base and is now half residential/half military housing and commercial property. I think there are a few non-profits there, but there's a lot of little tech/media places too.
On a side note, I read they buried a lot of toxic chemicals under the presidio and a bunch of people may have contracted cancer from living there.
I think the MyThis and MyThat is as unoriginal now as iThis and iThat. It makes your project sound like a second year college CS project. Sure phpMyAdmin and the like are amazing, but they pioneered the phpMy thing, it's time for a new name!
great space game. had some bugs in beta, but has become really solid and fun. I've been active since late 2002 or something. Check out the features and the give it a try, free month trial.
I've seen guys with CS degrees go years in california without a job. Maybe in other parts of the country a degree is a job, but not in california. It's still a really hard market.
Plus you're looking at ~25K a year as a CS programmer thses days in Cali. And that MIGHT cover rent...forget about owning a car, or eating food.
I jumped ship early and at the end of this year i'll have a degree in managment. I will miss all the hardcore programming classes and all that, but I feel i'm a lot more hirable. Plus I don't have to get used to indian food if i don't want to.
Concentrate on your relationship. I had a long time GF and had to go to school, it destroyed our relationship. We lasted about a year before it was just too much to deal with. The last thing you should be thinking about is video games.
I knew i was wasting my time at my college. I just take courses like math and science and physics. I wish i could get credit for playing video games at school. Your parents money hard at work!
I didn't see any optical audio ins/outs. I paid top dollar for the ability to use optical audio on my home system, why doesn't this device have it? You are paying a premium for super quality video, why skimp on the audio??? Any ideas?
They say they have 30K subscribers and all this stuff is coming out. They are totally full of it. On average no more than 3000 people play(obviously if only 3000 people of the 30K log on at once, that would explain it, but i have a strong feeling this isn't the case). And we've been in retail for almost 6-7 months with no real content added since beta. They threw us a bone and gave us a new mining laser (great..better mining!). Basically theories are running around now, that 2003 is a retail-beta run. and in 2004 they will actually put some work into the game nd re-release it sorta. It's boring and lifeless at the moment.
We had a clan of around 40 guys from the beta test. Since then all but 2 have quit the game entirly because the compnay hasn't done much then fixed a few bugs every month. They promised stuff every month or so, and nothing has happened for half a year. We'll see what 2004 holds, but the rrest of my group is quiting next month. Don't know if we'll come back. They've been promising player owned items (space stations etc) for months now and then a few weeks ago they basically told us "next year maybe". As it stands now, we can only own ships. We can't build anything else really (save weapons etc).
Positives: The game is beautiful. and that's about it.
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blizzard has already given it's response to this: How can they tell the bots, from the chinese gold farmers, from the people farming for epic mounts.
that never works unless the guy is a retard.
everyone uses the DPT webpage now to pay. So that switch trick will happen much less.
It's the future man! plus i think that switch-er-roo thing is a wives tale.
and if it's not, you're a dick for doing it!
IT'S 50$ NOW FOR A PARKING TICKET!!!!
After watching this, it's no wonder nerds never get dates from hot chicks.
The info on the "most recent" dogslife news is dated feb of last year. Has there been anything done within a year and a half?
May not be 100% or even hardcore, but you can go from use case to code if you put in some time. It will also write Java code using your UML diagrams.
It's based off of Eclipse. Check it out if you can.
the population slowly dies off because none of them know how to reproduce..due to lack of experience with the opposite sex..
I have seen 1000 zeolot comments in response to McVoy saying that innovation will cease.
He stated that companies trying to make money off of open source will stop innovation.
Things like libpng and the like, aren't huge companies with tons of paid coders and support people. So Yes, they are innovative.
I saw someone mention OpenBSD. I know for a fact they have had numerous issues with money. Without government funding they would be working out of a garage. Huge projects need coders, coders need money. Libpng took almost 10 years to get where it is today. How soon do you think it would have come to market as a closed source item?
Other open source companies that don't have a lot of community support, and pay people salaries to live (support, QA, coders) I would say they are on the lesser end of innovation.
IRC Channel says it's down for good:
http://www.ice.gov/graphics/index.htm
I think a lot of knew about this (those who live in SF that is) My roomate and I live like 2 blocks from the presidio and we used to talk about it and how we wanted to get a job there. That was two years ago. It's right on the edge of the Presidio near the Marina.
The presidio was a military housing base and is now half residential/half military housing and commercial property. I think there are a few non-profits there, but there's a lot of little tech/media places too.
On a side note, I read they buried a lot of toxic chemicals under the presidio and a bunch of people may have contracted cancer from living there.
Way to go Military!
I think the MyThis and MyThat is as unoriginal now as iThis and iThat. It makes your project sound like a second year college CS project. Sure phpMyAdmin and the like are amazing, but they pioneered the phpMy thing, it's time for a new name!
http://www.eve-online.com
great space game. had some bugs in beta, but has become really solid and fun. I've been active since late 2002 or something. Check out the features and the give it a try, free month trial.
I've seen guys with CS degrees go years in california without a job. Maybe in other parts of the country a degree is a job, but not in california. It's still a really hard market.
Plus you're looking at ~25K a year as a CS programmer thses days in Cali. And that MIGHT cover rent...forget about owning a car, or eating food.
Each brick of the planned prototype will contain 12 disks and up to 80GB of storage.
Either they are using 6.6 gig drives or they are using 12, 80 gig drives....which do you think it is?
there's still a bug in b2 that causes issues with interacting with tighvnc server. should be fixed in the next release though!
I see no turbo graphix do you?????
LAME collection...not worth 2 cents without a TG16......
VBAFB has some of the most beautiful launches. The fact that it's near the coast leads to amazing photos as the missles go out over the ocean.
I jumped ship early and at the end of this year i'll have a degree in managment. I will miss all the hardcore programming classes and all that, but I feel i'm a lot more hirable. Plus I don't have to get used to indian food if i don't want to.
No not only do we send our folks to the home, but now they won't ever see a human again! Hope you like robots! Take that mom and dad!
Use ventrilo. www.ventrilo.com
it's free, small, fast and easy to set up.
Concentrate on your relationship. I had a long time GF and had to go to school, it destroyed our relationship. We lasted about a year before it was just too much to deal with. The last thing you should be thinking about is video games.
Good luck and forget games!
I knew i was wasting my time at my college. I just take courses like math and science and physics. I wish i could get credit for playing video games at school. Your parents money hard at work!
I didn't see any optical audio ins/outs. I paid top dollar for the ability to use optical audio on my home system, why doesn't this device have it? You are paying a premium for super quality video, why skimp on the audio??? Any ideas?
They say they have 30K subscribers and all this stuff is coming out. They are totally full of it. On average no more than 3000 people play(obviously if only 3000 people of the 30K log on at once, that would explain it, but i have a strong feeling this isn't the case). And we've been in retail for almost 6-7 months with no real content added since beta. They threw us a bone and gave us a new mining laser (great..better mining!). Basically theories are running around now, that 2003 is a retail-beta run. and in 2004 they will actually put some work into the game nd re-release it sorta. It's boring and lifeless at the moment.
We had a clan of around 40 guys from the beta test. Since then all but 2 have quit the game entirly because the compnay hasn't done much then fixed a few bugs every month. They promised stuff every month or so, and nothing has happened for half a year. We'll see what 2004 holds, but the rrest of my group is quiting next month. Don't know if we'll come back. They've been promising player owned items (space stations etc) for months now and then a few weeks ago they basically told us "next year maybe". As it stands now, we can only own ships. We can't build anything else really (save weapons etc).
Positives: The game is beautiful. and that's about it.
Use ventrilo. free and has a few different ports. My clan uses it when we play eve-online