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  1. Chris Wedge worked on Tron on The Story of Tron · · Score: 1

    Chris Wedge was an animator on Tron and latter went on to co-found Blue Sky Studios and make Ice Age and Robots.

  2. I for one on Interview With Reiser4 Author Hans Reiser · · Score: 0, Redundant

    would welcome our new reiser 4 overlords once it gets integrated into 2.6.x mainline.

  3. Re:Bah! no linux version? on Classic MMOG Raised From the Dead by Past Players · · Score: 1

    The game is old enough that it would probably play fine via an emulator. Something to try if you have time on your hands.

  4. Redhat drops the ball again on Red Hat Lays Groundwork for Fedora Foundation · · Score: 1

    Redhat has really screwed up with their ever changing strategy concerning their OS. They decide to ditch out on providing a free version of RH for none enterprise people. Then ditched out on supporting older versions and instead tell people to use the fedoralegacy project for security updates. Then the fedoralegacy project pretty much goes belly up. I have switched all my servers over to Debian and the last hold out will be switched when the current project ships in mid-summer.

  5. I was in the previous version of this book! on Game Creation and Careers · · Score: 1

    Game Designs, Secrets of the Sages. It ended being an OK read but I always found the articles in Game Developer Magazine much more illuminating. Marc is a nice guy though.

  6. WTF? on Beginning PHP 5 and MySQL E-Commerce · · Score: 1

    Are you getting payed to pimp this garbage?

  7. Rusty is a heartless Republican on EA Reconsiders Overtime Position · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    who is somewhat to the right of Mr. Burns. This is just more spin and boulderdash.

  8. Insomniacs did well at EA Redwood Shores on Can People Really Program 80+ Hours a Week? · · Score: 1

    During my four years at EA I noticed that a lot of the programmers that didn't quickly burn out were insomniacs. Upper management put a high value on spending lots of time onsite even though productivity was not good. I saw many programmers quickly burn out trying to write non-stuttering audio streaming code for the PSX1 and PSX2.

  9. Re:So why the US don't follow Canada's steps... on NYT on EA Games · · Score: 1

    EA Canada in Burnaby does exactly the same shit.

  10. Re:So why the US don't follow Canada's steps... on NYT on EA Games · · Score: 1

    Your theory is wrong. EA Canada in Vancouver (really Burnaby) is a huge dev studio (NBA basketball, NHL hockey to name a few) and EA Canada rides their workers just as hard.

  11. Re:Wow! Still in the U.S. ?? on EA Games: The Human Story · · Score: 1

    You really work for the evil empire? EA outsourced most of its development while I was there and was quite happy to drive many small development studios under. The worthless production staff preferred outside development since it gave them more times to hang out and polish their immediate superiors ass. If they didn't like a delivery from an outside studio they wouldn't pay, with internal development they would have to argue.

  12. Re:More reasons to come to Canada on EA Games: The Human Story · · Score: 1

    Go to EA Canada for more of the same.

  13. EA == Dilbert + Bush on EA Games: The Human Story · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I worked at EA corporate headquarters/studio for four years, though it felt like ten. EA is a dilbertian corporate hell. There was such an entrenched culture of lying, blame and spin that it was really difficult to get people to trust enough to work together effectively as a team. At one point they spent about a million dollars for an outside consultancy to come in and tell the upper management that they were too hard on people. Well Duh. Then for about a year the upper management rhetoric was "EA will be the number 1 people company". Rhetoric changed but nothing else. Pretty much every studio they buy up they have destroyed by imposing the "EA" way. Just a bunch of greedy Republican fucktards, welcome to 21st century America folks!

  14. Re:In the '70s, they followed Friedman on We Pledge Allegiance to the Penguin · · Score: 1

    It is very difficult to get a permanent visa and even more difficult to get a work permit for Brazil. Your best chance would be to have a company sponser you or be married to a Brazillian.

  15. Re:Specific Ocean? on Writing Software for Worldwide Distribution Proves Difficult · · Score: 1

    Wellll being from Ohio, you should know that the majority of the original settlers of Ohio were German Americans and that German was a required language in Ohio public schools till right up before the begining of WW1. So the incentive for a German could be relatives that emigrated to the US...

  16. Re:Evolution? on Living Without a Pulse · · Score: 1

    "Evolution is a scientific theory" If you have really studied evolution you would know that evolution (that species morphologically change over time) is not a theory but a _fact_ which is well documented in the fossil record. The means by which evolution occurs, in the case of Darwin's Natural Selection _is_ a theory.

  17. Re:What's stopping me from buying one of these on TV Tuners For The PC: Internal Or External · · Score: 1

    Why not get a gamecube emulator and some USB controllers for your Mac?