Good grief man, you can't be serious! Hahaha... A twenty-six year old rockstar in computer programming, 2 years experience... Oh wait, you are serious, let me laugh even harder! HAHAHA! Whew, that's better:)
You need to learn a bit of humility. I've been programming for as long as you've been alive, and I'm only 38. Yes, I even got paid work in computer programming before most kids are able to get a job at McDonalds, which fueled my desire to learn and work even more. By the time I was 26, I was already running my own consulting business, and still am to this day. I may know a thing or two, and occasionally pat myself on the back for being clever, but I certainly know that there's more out there that I don't know.
Maybe I'm a bit above average as a programmer, but whether I am or not comes secondary to the way I handle myself and my treat clients, and people in general. You can't go around acting like you're smarter and better than everyone else. Eventually it's going to come back to haunt you.
Good luck with your job working for the man as a "rockstar"... If you're genuinely talented maybe I'll hire you someday;)
Thanks! Glad that you like it... The game was my first journey into Objective-C and Xcode. Being a Windows guy (yes, yes, I know but my consulting job requires Windows for proprietary automation software) I probably should have started smaller as it took months to learn and redo things as I found better methods of doing what I wanted. It definitely was interesting to try to adapt this to a device with no keyboard at all, some things end up being slightly more cumbersome (extra taps on screen) but I'm pretty happy with the overall flow.
I have a few more updates that I want to do with Rogue Touch, then I'll probably start a new more advanced rogue-like game this fall. Anyone who wants to discuss or help design that feel free to stop by my forums and post http://forums.chronosoft.com/ or send me an e-mail:)
Yeah, that is a sore spot with me. I had a great score of like 4.5 stars before I decided to hold a little sale (first one ever since I put it on the store). You see, whenever something is 99 cents, it invites anyone to take a chance on it even if they've never heard of the game or even the whole genre of roguelikes. And then those same people decide that it's not their cup of tea and delete the game, leaving behind a nice 1-star rating to drag down your average.
I certainly don't plan on doing that again any time soon:)
If you do like it, please by all means leave another positive review. If you're in the USA, you can see there are *many* 5 star written reviews, but it needs more to offset the hoard of 1 star haters. Heck, I actually just got published for real- in the UK, Retro Gamer magazine (issue 63) did a mini review in their mobile round-up. Rogue Touch got 89% and the compliment of being "the best rogue game they have played recently on any system"!
Well, I do hate the fact you cannot reply to reviews (sometimes that would be *very* helpful), but did you ever think of starting a forum or finding a well established on-topic forum to post in?
I did both with Rogue Touch (yep, iPhone programmer in my spare time too). I post regularly at TouchArcade and also created my own forum for people to socialize and get help (at http://www.chronosoft.com/). It's been a great way to get suggestions and interact with users of my game, and I recommend it highly over the "blog" style websites a lot of iPhone devs seem to be using.
Now my seasoned Rogue Touch players can help new players out when I'm too busy to post myself. That sort of thing wouldn't be possible with an e-mail support system...
Well, If you'd like a more modern rogue implementation with tilesets, and have an iPhone or iPod Touch, you could give Rogue Touch a try. I wrote this version from scratch in my spare time over last fall and winter as a way to fill in downtime from consulting. Borrowed some graphics from public domain tilesets, and drew others myself. It's a tribute to the Atari ST and Amiga versions of Rogue, and it's gained quite a following lately... as a matter of fact one of my players alerted me to this story (I used to post here regularly, but have been away for a while... had to quit reading so I could get some real work done!!).
Anyway a lot of neat little tweaks were made to the formula without messing up the core game: new equipment and magic, some animations, secret characters (that have unique abilities and starting equipment), and an online leaderboard to compete with dungeon crawlers all over the world.
I have an RV082 and can second or third it's recommendations. I've got it on a UPS, and have had uptimes of 250+ days with it (including lots of Bittorrent usage). Rock solid device, and the built in VPN allows me to get at all my gear in the house easily while away!
Bah, don't let them get you (modded) down. I'm with you... up in NH. Everytime I see stories like this I'm glad to live where I do. No major quakes, hurricanes, deadly insects, cyclones, tornadoes, gigantic wildfires, etc. You may get the beat down remnants of a hurricane up the coast occasionally, or an ice storm in the winter but these are peanuts compared to what a lot of people suffer with.
Well, I can supply my own experiences for you, after using a 32GB Samsung SSD for a year, and a 64GB Samsung SSD for several months...
1) Mine have been formatted NTFS, running Windows XP (and additionally Apple HFS Journaled recently when experimenting with OS X). I do not defragment the SSD, there is no point. Read speeds have always been better than write speed, but I see no difference in performance over time.
2) Both of the drives I have are fully functional, even though I abused the 32GB one mercilessly. That laptop has only 1GB of RAM and I would run so many programs that things were swapping constantly for the past year.
3) The 32GB SSD has been through airport scanners approximately 50 times now, no problems. The 64GB is too new, only travelled a few times so far.
4) My laptops are always on the go, brought into many factories as a consultant. While in my bag it has taken falls down sets of stairs. The laptop itself (a Fujitsu P1610) has been dropped from a height of 3.5 to 4 feet onto a metal catwalk while running with no adverse affects (other than a few scuffs and dents on the corners).
5) Not sure how well they stand up to static, but it has stood up well to a variety of high EM fields, and high/low temperatures. No data loss. I have had regular hard disks die from working next to large transformers (and their magnetic fields) for an afternoon.
Hope that helps you. For my line of work, they have been incredible. I used to go through 3 or 4 laptop hard disks per year due to various issues. Now the only reason I bought the 64GB SSD is increased storage capacity.
The worst thing they could have done was going x86, their hardware safety shell was PPC and now it's gone.
Maybe that's why they picked up a certain chipmaker for $278 million recently? I'm sure they can still compile Leopard (or it's next generation) to PCC and universal binaries are everywhere. Plus PA Semi's chips sound more efficient than anything else they could get their hands on right now, a MacBook (Pro) that ran all day on a charge would be sweet.
If you want wireless, try a Linksys WPC54GS card (NOT the WPC54G). I got one for $39 brand new, and it uses the Broadcom chipset. The non-speedboost version (54G, no S) uses the Atheros chipset which seems much more fussy about working with Hacintoshes. Assuming your PC Card slot is working this will auto-detect as an Airport Card, no drivers needed. Worked fine on my Fujitsu P1620.
More brave souls can try to get a new Mini PCI or Mini PCI-E card off eBay (the Dell 1390 and 1490 cards usually work well). I tried this and failed since my Mini PCI-E slot is misconfigured in the BIOS, but you'd be putting the Dell card into an actual Dell laptop. Seems like it would be a slam dunk.
Once everyone has been bred for superior intelligence and there are no more morons... who's going to clean the toilets? Our superior intelligence will allow us to design and build robots to take care of that!
My wife (5'10" blonde with blue eyes, yes some of us are attractive and married or have girlfriends here!) was held up for 30 minutes at Heathrow airport for a fucking pink Nintendo DS in a little pink carrying case with charger, headphones, and catridges stuffed in it. I couldn't believe it... Probably one of the most recognizable portable devices around, and they were worried it could have been a bomb!
Yep that's right. I bring my laptop into some harsh industrial environments as a contractor. And I used to get picked for the explosive swab test quite a bit. Enough so that the supervising authority (who had to come appraise the situation when the little machine goes beep) would actually recognize me immediately and tell them to let me go!!!
Put me in the pile of people who've been flying with tiny laptops containing SSDs almost every week for a year now. No one has ever stopped me. In fact, I think I used to get harassed more with a full size laptop! They would have me power it on, or do the swab for explosives test. Maybe they think my current one (Fujitsu P1610) is just a portable DVD player or something:)
I travel 2-3 times a month with a Fujitsu P1610 (8.9 inch screen with SSD, no more hard drive) that definitely qualifies as "uber-tiny". The most attention I got was when I had taken it out of the case and put it in the same tote as my shoes for the X-ray machine. The guy running the X-ray could only see my shoes in the tote, he says I need to get my laptop into a tote as well. I told him it's already in the tote with my shoes... Anyway he actually stops the machine and gets up, walks over and looks in my tote! He didn't believe me until he saw it, and said that was the smallest laptop he'd ever seen and figured there was no way to fit all that in one tote without stacking (which is a no-no as well).
Yep I got 10 mod points the other day as well. Was there an announcement we missed? Or maybe they are rewarding people who do not abuse their points with more than others?
I agree it was a very frustrating game, I had the Xbox version. Walked away from it several times, but eventually over different sessions and the course of a few months I managed to beat the damned thing.
The Futurama characters and story are the only reason I kept playing. If it was some generic platformer... I'd like to put the little bastard in a sack and toss the sack in a river and hurl the river into space! (thanks Hermes!)
If a 21 year old guy is screwing a 16 year old girl, you know he's taking advantage of her mentally and physically in the majority of cases, and most of society would frown on it. Just to pick on this statement... What if it's the 16 year old girl that is taking advantage of the older guy? As a high-school girl, by giving up a bit of sex she gets a guy with job so he can spend money on her, a car so he can take her places, an ID that will allow him to buy her alcohol... you get the idea. Hell, maybe she just likes the older guys because they have a better idea of how to please her in bed. You never know. God knows it's been a long time since I was in high school but I remember girls exactly like that, and they were definitely getting the better end of the bargain.
Yes, the original trilogy was complete crap. Buggy nearly to the point of being unplayable. The new Lego Star Wars - Complete Saga for the DS was done from scratch by another developer and is much better. I can also throw in a hearty recommendation for Clubhouse games!
Exactly, I'm one of the little guys and I do some contracting with large, multi-billion dollar companies. There's no way I'm getting cash payments out of them, and no way they would allow payment to slide "under the table" without reporting to the goverment every penny paid out.
Or at least I do, as well as many other people I know. We're in our mid-to-late thirties, grew up with arcades and Atari 2600s. I still play games as often as I can with the kids. We'll play together (three on one in Halo multiplayer- I'm a tough SOB, they need to gang up on me), or sometimes I will play a game and they will watch (it's funny how the kids and wife would ask me to play Dragon Quest VIII, and sit there watching for hours!)...
Lately we've been arguing over the Nintendo DS, only 2 of them in a house with 5 people. I am buying three more with some good multiplayer games for Christmas!
Hopefully they will look back and remember these times when they get older, and keep up the tradition with kids of their own. Their "real" dad pretty much ignores them whenever they are together. I'd hate for them to grow up to be like him.
Yep, my experience is the same. I'm on the opposite side of the US, can't find one in stock anywhere. Now, I haven't sat around frantically calling every store in a 50 mile radius every morning as some people would suggest, but every time I'm out and in a store that (in theory) carries the Wii they are sold out. Been trying randomly for 9 months now with no luck.
I finally caved in this week and ordered one through an Amazon.com reseller (read "eBay scalping scumbag") for $100 markup over retail price. I figured it was better to try now and succeed rather than disappoint the wife and kids at Christmas when even the scalper supply dries up.
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Good grief man, you can't be serious! Hahaha... A twenty-six year old rockstar in computer programming, 2 years experience... Oh wait, you are serious, let me laugh even harder! HAHAHA! Whew, that's better :)
;)
You need to learn a bit of humility. I've been programming for as long as you've been alive, and I'm only 38. Yes, I even got paid work in computer programming before most kids are able to get a job at McDonalds, which fueled my desire to learn and work even more. By the time I was 26, I was already running my own consulting business, and still am to this day. I may know a thing or two, and occasionally pat myself on the back for being clever, but I certainly know that there's more out there that I don't know.
Maybe I'm a bit above average as a programmer, but whether I am or not comes secondary to the way I handle myself and my treat clients, and people in general. You can't go around acting like you're smarter and better than everyone else. Eventually it's going to come back to haunt you.
Good luck with your job working for the man as a "rockstar"... If you're genuinely talented maybe I'll hire you someday
Thanks! Glad that you like it... The game was my first journey into Objective-C and Xcode. Being a Windows guy (yes, yes, I know but my consulting job requires Windows for proprietary automation software) I probably should have started smaller as it took months to learn and redo things as I found better methods of doing what I wanted. It definitely was interesting to try to adapt this to a device with no keyboard at all, some things end up being slightly more cumbersome (extra taps on screen) but I'm pretty happy with the overall flow.
:)
I have a few more updates that I want to do with Rogue Touch, then I'll probably start a new more advanced rogue-like game this fall. Anyone who wants to discuss or help design that feel free to stop by my forums and post http://forums.chronosoft.com/ or send me an e-mail
Yeah, that is a sore spot with me. I had a great score of like 4.5 stars before I decided to hold a little sale (first one ever since I put it on the store). You see, whenever something is 99 cents, it invites anyone to take a chance on it even if they've never heard of the game or even the whole genre of roguelikes. And then those same people decide that it's not their cup of tea and delete the game, leaving behind a nice 1-star rating to drag down your average.
:)
I certainly don't plan on doing that again any time soon
If you do like it, please by all means leave another positive review. If you're in the USA, you can see there are *many* 5 star written reviews, but it needs more to offset the hoard of 1 star haters. Heck, I actually just got published for real- in the UK, Retro Gamer magazine (issue 63) did a mini review in their mobile round-up. Rogue Touch got 89% and the compliment of being "the best rogue game they have played recently on any system"!
Well, I do hate the fact you cannot reply to reviews (sometimes that would be *very* helpful), but did you ever think of starting a forum or finding a well established on-topic forum to post in?
I did both with Rogue Touch (yep, iPhone programmer in my spare time too). I post regularly at TouchArcade and also created my own forum for people to socialize and get help (at http://www.chronosoft.com/). It's been a great way to get suggestions and interact with users of my game, and I recommend it highly over the "blog" style websites a lot of iPhone devs seem to be using.
Now my seasoned Rogue Touch players can help new players out when I'm too busy to post myself. That sort of thing wouldn't be possible with an e-mail support system...
Well, If you'd like a more modern rogue implementation with tilesets, and have an iPhone or iPod Touch, you could give Rogue Touch a try. I wrote this version from scratch in my spare time over last fall and winter as a way to fill in downtime from consulting. Borrowed some graphics from public domain tilesets, and drew others myself. It's a tribute to the Atari ST and Amiga versions of Rogue, and it's gained quite a following lately... as a matter of fact one of my players alerted me to this story (I used to post here regularly, but have been away for a while... had to quit reading so I could get some real work done!!).
Anyway a lot of neat little tweaks were made to the formula without messing up the core game: new equipment and magic, some animations, secret characters (that have unique abilities and starting equipment), and an online leaderboard to compete with dungeon crawlers all over the world.
Come by my website http://www.chronosoft.com/ to see a video and check out the forums and leaderboards.
I'm sorry, but I don't believe you're from Maine. If you were the last sentence would have read: "They're wicked stupid." :)
I have an RV082 and can second or third it's recommendations. I've got it on a UPS, and have had uptimes of 250+ days with it (including lots of Bittorrent usage). Rock solid device, and the built in VPN allows me to get at all my gear in the house easily while away!
Bah, don't let them get you (modded) down. I'm with you... up in NH. Everytime I see stories like this I'm glad to live where I do. No major quakes, hurricanes, deadly insects, cyclones, tornadoes, gigantic wildfires, etc. You may get the beat down remnants of a hurricane up the coast occasionally, or an ice storm in the winter but these are peanuts compared to what a lot of people suffer with.
Well, I can supply my own experiences for you, after using a 32GB Samsung SSD for a year, and a 64GB Samsung SSD for several months...
1) Mine have been formatted NTFS, running Windows XP (and additionally Apple HFS Journaled recently when experimenting with OS X). I do not defragment the SSD, there is no point. Read speeds have always been better than write speed, but I see no difference in performance over time.
2) Both of the drives I have are fully functional, even though I abused the 32GB one mercilessly. That laptop has only 1GB of RAM and I would run so many programs that things were swapping constantly for the past year.
3) The 32GB SSD has been through airport scanners approximately 50 times now, no problems. The 64GB is too new, only travelled a few times so far.
4) My laptops are always on the go, brought into many factories as a consultant. While in my bag it has taken falls down sets of stairs. The laptop itself (a Fujitsu P1610) has been dropped from a height of 3.5 to 4 feet onto a metal catwalk while running with no adverse affects (other than a few scuffs and dents on the corners).
5) Not sure how well they stand up to static, but it has stood up well to a variety of high EM fields, and high/low temperatures. No data loss. I have had regular hard disks die from working next to large transformers (and their magnetic fields) for an afternoon.
Hope that helps you. For my line of work, they have been incredible. I used to go through 3 or 4 laptop hard disks per year due to various issues. Now the only reason I bought the 64GB SSD is increased storage capacity.
Maybe that's why they picked up a certain chipmaker for $278 million recently? I'm sure they can still compile Leopard (or it's next generation) to PCC and universal binaries are everywhere. Plus PA Semi's chips sound more efficient than anything else they could get their hands on right now, a MacBook (Pro) that ran all day on a charge would be sweet.
If you want wireless, try a Linksys WPC54GS card (NOT the WPC54G). I got one for $39 brand new, and it uses the Broadcom chipset. The non-speedboost version (54G, no S) uses the Atheros chipset which seems much more fussy about working with Hacintoshes. Assuming your PC Card slot is working this will auto-detect as an Airport Card, no drivers needed. Worked fine on my Fujitsu P1620.
More brave souls can try to get a new Mini PCI or Mini PCI-E card off eBay (the Dell 1390 and 1490 cards usually work well). I tried this and failed since my Mini PCI-E slot is misconfigured in the BIOS, but you'd be putting the Dell card into an actual Dell laptop. Seems like it would be a slam dunk.
My wife (5'10" blonde with blue eyes, yes some of us are attractive and married or have girlfriends here!) was held up for 30 minutes at Heathrow airport for a fucking pink Nintendo DS in a little pink carrying case with charger, headphones, and catridges stuffed in it. I couldn't believe it... Probably one of the most recognizable portable devices around, and they were worried it could have been a bomb!
Yep that's right. I bring my laptop into some harsh industrial environments as a contractor. And I used to get picked for the explosive swab test quite a bit. Enough so that the supervising authority (who had to come appraise the situation when the little machine goes beep) would actually recognize me immediately and tell them to let me go!!!
Put me in the pile of people who've been flying with tiny laptops containing SSDs almost every week for a year now. No one has ever stopped me. In fact, I think I used to get harassed more with a full size laptop! They would have me power it on, or do the swab for explosives test. Maybe they think my current one (Fujitsu P1610) is just a portable DVD player or something :)
I travel 2-3 times a month with a Fujitsu P1610 (8.9 inch screen with SSD, no more hard drive) that definitely qualifies as "uber-tiny". The most attention I got was when I had taken it out of the case and put it in the same tote as my shoes for the X-ray machine. The guy running the X-ray could only see my shoes in the tote, he says I need to get my laptop into a tote as well. I told him it's already in the tote with my shoes... Anyway he actually stops the machine and gets up, walks over and looks in my tote! He didn't believe me until he saw it, and said that was the smallest laptop he'd ever seen and figured there was no way to fit all that in one tote without stacking (which is a no-no as well).
Yep I got 10 mod points the other day as well. Was there an announcement we missed? Or maybe they are rewarding people who do not abuse their points with more than others?
I agree it was a very frustrating game, I had the Xbox version. Walked away from it several times, but eventually over different sessions and the course of a few months I managed to beat the damned thing.
The Futurama characters and story are the only reason I kept playing. If it was some generic platformer... I'd like to put the little bastard in a sack and toss the sack in a river and hurl the river into space! (thanks Hermes!)
Yes, the original trilogy was complete crap. Buggy nearly to the point of being unplayable. The new Lego Star Wars - Complete Saga for the DS was done from scratch by another developer and is much better. I can also throw in a hearty recommendation for Clubhouse games!
Exactly, I'm one of the little guys and I do some contracting with large, multi-billion dollar companies. There's no way I'm getting cash payments out of them, and no way they would allow payment to slide "under the table" without reporting to the goverment every penny paid out.
Or at least I do, as well as many other people I know. We're in our mid-to-late thirties, grew up with arcades and Atari 2600s. I still play games as often as I can with the kids. We'll play together (three on one in Halo multiplayer- I'm a tough SOB, they need to gang up on me), or sometimes I will play a game and they will watch (it's funny how the kids and wife would ask me to play Dragon Quest VIII, and sit there watching for hours!)... Lately we've been arguing over the Nintendo DS, only 2 of them in a house with 5 people. I am buying three more with some good multiplayer games for Christmas!
Hopefully they will look back and remember these times when they get older, and keep up the tradition with kids of their own. Their "real" dad pretty much ignores them whenever they are together. I'd hate for them to grow up to be like him.
You're doing precisely the same thing I would like to do. Can I ask what the monthly rate is on the T1?
:(
I need more upstream than Comcast will supply so I can run a server and VPN. Plus the bittorrent performance has been horrible lately
I can assure you that I had nothing to do with this incident ;)
Yep, my experience is the same. I'm on the opposite side of the US, can't find one in stock anywhere. Now, I haven't sat around frantically calling every store in a 50 mile radius every morning as some people would suggest, but every time I'm out and in a store that (in theory) carries the Wii they are sold out. Been trying randomly for 9 months now with no luck.
I finally caved in this week and ordered one through an Amazon.com reseller (read "eBay scalping scumbag") for $100 markup over retail price. I figured it was better to try now and succeed rather than disappoint the wife and kids at Christmas when even the scalper supply dries up.