many of their customers do not realize all of the work that goes into these drivers.
A PR shill or a shitty developer had to say that. The very first large programming assignment I did for my CS degree involved a CLI. I wrote it so that it handled all input as long as it was typed correctly. IF the user typed something wrong, had too much whitespace, or whatever, the app crashed with a seg fault. But it worked perfectly if the user typed the right input. My professor flunked me. I told him that it worked perfectly if the input was correct, and that it took me so long to write (at the time, a week of pure programming was a lot of work). My professor said, when you get a real job, people are not going to care how long it takes you to write something. They'll want it to work perfectly. No bugs and delievered as quick as possible. A truer statement cannot be said. If an engineering organization hasn't learned that as long as ATI has been in business, then they need to go into a different line of work. That's why they get no pity from their users, and in my opinion, they don't deserve any.
I'm actually getting married next month and we hired a wedding band in March. The first thing the guy said to me was that he needed the song we would dance to ASAP so he could get the tabs off the internet and write out the chord changes for the other band members. While I guess the publishers could argue that they aren't making money off this guy, I still think that the owner of this site makes a valid argument when he says that distributing self-transcribed tabs really aren't violating the law. If anything, it increases appreciation for a song over the years and even keeps that song alive and in the public conciousness longer.
I haven't bought a CD or downloaded music in a long time (maybe over a year) and this really isn't going to make me want to rush out and start doing it again either.
Knee Jerk reactions by the legislature are not new to New Yorkers. I have three words: Rockefeller Drug Laws. At the time they were the harshest penalties in the United States for drug possession. From the article:
the penalty for selling two ounces... or more of heroin, morphine,... opium, cocaine, or... marijuana.... or possessing four ounces or more of the same substances, was made the same as that for second-degree murder
So this isn't an overreaction by the New York Senate - it's standard operating procedure! Even better, the laws weren't reformed for over 20 years. Just goes to show why we're the most dysfunctional state government in the country.
I tried Torque out but actually spoke with Jesse Schell about a year or two ago and he was pretty proud of this engine - note that he worked for Disney for a long time and now is at CMU, which is why the project is supported by both organizations. I guess Toontown (the Disney MMO for kids) runs this engine, and I'm pretty sure it was also used by the Pirates of the Caribbean interactive "game/ride" at Disney World in Orlando.
I think it's scripting engine is a considerable improvement over anything Torque can do, but I'm not sure of the overall technical abilities of Panda3d, having never tried it myself. My only work with Torque was via scripting - I wrote no C++ code nor did I touch the engine code whatsoever. If you get a full fledged Python engine I can tell you that it's worth investigating particularly if you have very few plans to touch the engine whatsoever. Torque's API documentation is sparse at best.
Plus, it allows Valve to sleep at night while I don't have to deal with a monstrosity like Starforce, which acts as a device driver and really screws up your CD and DVD ROM drives. I think Starforce is ten times worse than anything Sony did for anti-piracy, hands down.
Yeah, I really do think Trash talking is bad in general chat most often than not. I think it's the anonymity that's granted by being behind the computer. That's why when people find a good group of players, they stick with them. There was a great clan I ran with in Planetside like that which basically enforced the trash talk rules, and whose members were mature enough that trash talk wasn't necessary or tolerated. In general I don't participate in chat unless it's to coordinate strategy or whatnot, or they're just talking about offtopic stuff that doesn't flame opinions. Otherwise, it's useless.
How about the $50 you pay anually for XBox Live - it's deferred payment, but it's still there. And you won't be getting something like Home either.
Consumer choice is what it's all about - as a Linux user I find $600 to be a steal for the console, as well as the wireless and the remote play capability between my PSP and PS3 - which at some point will allow play over the internet. Even being able to play my PS3 not on my TV in my own house is great for those situations when girlfriend wants to watch Sex in the City reruns instead.
You can be unhappy and all that, but I'm a very satisfied customer and I think there are others out there who'd agree.
Because if there were, they'd be announcing those rather than "We've got 34 games coming up."
Umm, they did. They didn't just release a press release consisting of one sentence - "We've got 34 games coming up." They had info sessions for each of them. Want coverage? Go here. At least 30 links for you to dive into for about 25 games/environments (Home isn't really a game and it has 5 links). Plus streaming video.
If this is a large project and you just announce that you're going to do this project from scratch, no one will be interested because it takes too long to get going. Instead, design and write the app on your own first, and then put it out there. People are more likely to get interested and form a community if they have something to play with.
If you really think you're going to need help, get a small piece working and put that out there first a la Linus and Linux.
That's an incredibly expensive investment on Microsoft's end. Why host the servers yourself? Even Sony, who's launching Home for free, isn't hosting content on their server, it's P2P. As for detecting cheating, that would require access to source code that I'm sure most 3rd parties won't be willing to give up. I doubt they're doing game hosting and cheat detection.
I think this is a US vs. Canada thing or something (noting the origin of yours and GPs homepages). My fiance works for a movie studio, and they call the short things before the movie a trailer officially, but the any showing of the movie before it is released is called a screening, including those that are semi-open to the public. Preview isn't official lingo to my knowledge. Incidentally, the cardboard cutouts in the theaters are called standees and the posters are called one-sheets.
You're talking about a guy who promotes the fact that he had a huge number of Internet Donors in the 1Q, comparred to his opponent who had mostly large donors. This was played over the press for days. And where does most of the credit belong? With the MySpace page that got him tons of positive coverage.
So what does he go out and do? Try and take control of the page, which makes a lot of sense, but screws up the negotiation. Once he realizes he screws it up, he has his campaign spreads rumors that the guy was trying to cash in on the opportunity, which is utter bullshit because the guy spent 2.5 years on the project. It's not like he registered the name and tried to get money for it.
So basically, the point of the whole thing was that Obama doesn't care about his supporters, he just cares about the positive press they generate for him.
This guy was asking for $50,000 for two year's work part time. So $25,000. And he was factoring in that he was working between 5-10 hours a day lately maintaing the site.
He actually gave $10k to myspace to get more exposure for his page?
No he didn't. After the page's success, MySpace decided to set up the special section and ask each campaign to pay $10k for exposure on it, which each did. Anthony wanted part of that $10k to go to him - so he was basically asking the campaign to pay him a percentage of $10k representative of the fact that he set up and ran the page as part of the Insight feature on MySpace. MySpace gets $10k, and he gets a percentage of that on top of it all.
Bill Richardson is the most qualified and most electable candidate we have at this time. Obama, or Clinton would be disasters.
He also picked one of the most anti-abortion supreme court justices as his model justice, and didn't know when Roe v. Wade happened. So basically, the guy is not pro-choice, which kills his chances of ever getting the Democratic Party's nomination.
the volunteer's decision to try and cash out rather than cooperate with the campaign is a little short-sighted. If he really thought Obama had a shot at winning, he might have been better served to work with the campaign, maintain their official page
Your comment mangles what really is going on here. The guy asked for compensation and to become a paid consultant to the campaign. The campaign countered by saying they wanted a one time payment and full control. He gave them an offer and they balked. He's been cooperating with them all along, but the minute he suggested some kind of compensation, it got ugly. Of course, it's not clear what compensation he asked for initially, but the lump sum was the campaign's idea.
Are you kidding me? He's not charging $49k to give the name back - he started the site as a supporter of Obama 2 freakin years ago, not knowing that Obama would run for president. Now, the campaign wants to take control of his profile page and they asked him to come up with a rough sum rather than hire him as a campaign contributer.
This is a lot like Valve and the mods that came out of Half Life. Valve in that case hired the Counterstrike and DoD teams and gave them jobs. Obama decided they didn't want to do that and instead asked the guy to come up with a sum of money. As MyDD points out, it's roughly 32 cents per friend. That's not too shabby considering how much money they throw away on consultants. And it's only a one time payment. For a campaign that just raised $26 million, to balk at $50,000 is pretty crazy in my opinion.
I'm going to agree - a month advantage isn't going to do much, but I think there was almost a year between the releases of the Xbox and PS2 versions of GTA3 and later, Vice City.
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many of their customers do not realize all of the work that goes into these drivers.
A PR shill or a shitty developer had to say that. The very first large programming assignment I did for my CS degree involved a CLI. I wrote it so that it handled all input as long as it was typed correctly. IF the user typed something wrong, had too much whitespace, or whatever, the app crashed with a seg fault. But it worked perfectly if the user typed the right input. My professor flunked me. I told him that it worked perfectly if the input was correct, and that it took me so long to write (at the time, a week of pure programming was a lot of work). My professor said, when you get a real job, people are not going to care how long it takes you to write something. They'll want it to work perfectly. No bugs and delievered as quick as possible. A truer statement cannot be said. If an engineering organization hasn't learned that as long as ATI has been in business, then they need to go into a different line of work. That's why they get no pity from their users, and in my opinion, they don't deserve any.
I'm actually getting married next month and we hired a wedding band in March. The first thing the guy said to me was that he needed the song we would dance to ASAP so he could get the tabs off the internet and write out the chord changes for the other band members. While I guess the publishers could argue that they aren't making money off this guy, I still think that the owner of this site makes a valid argument when he says that distributing self-transcribed tabs really aren't violating the law. If anything, it increases appreciation for a song over the years and even keeps that song alive and in the public conciousness longer.
I haven't bought a CD or downloaded music in a long time (maybe over a year) and this really isn't going to make me want to rush out and start doing it again either.
Knee Jerk reactions by the legislature are not new to New Yorkers. I have three words: Rockefeller Drug Laws. At the time they were the harshest penalties in the United States for drug possession. From the article:
... or more of heroin, morphine, ... opium, cocaine, or ... marijuana .... or possessing four ounces or more of the same substances, was made the same as that for second-degree murder
the penalty for selling two ounces
So this isn't an overreaction by the New York Senate - it's standard operating procedure! Even better, the laws weren't reformed for over 20 years. Just goes to show why we're the most dysfunctional state government in the country.
I tried Torque out but actually spoke with Jesse Schell about a year or two ago and he was pretty proud of this engine - note that he worked for Disney for a long time and now is at CMU, which is why the project is supported by both organizations. I guess Toontown (the Disney MMO for kids) runs this engine, and I'm pretty sure it was also used by the Pirates of the Caribbean interactive "game/ride" at Disney World in Orlando.
I think it's scripting engine is a considerable improvement over anything Torque can do, but I'm not sure of the overall technical abilities of Panda3d, having never tried it myself. My only work with Torque was via scripting - I wrote no C++ code nor did I touch the engine code whatsoever. If you get a full fledged Python engine I can tell you that it's worth investigating particularly if you have very few plans to touch the engine whatsoever. Torque's API documentation is sparse at best.
Who the heck modded you interesting? Is their sarcasm-meter broken? Just because someone says the word interesting, doesn't make them interesting.
Insightful +1
All of which she says (said) "ewwwwww!" to, and not in a good way
Does anyone ever say ewwww in a good way?
I thought they'd all be too busy advocating Ron Paul for President.
My favorite quote? We are not libertarians, we are constitutionalists. Suuuure you are.
Plus, it allows Valve to sleep at night while I don't have to deal with a monstrosity like Starforce, which acts as a device driver and really screws up your CD and DVD ROM drives. I think Starforce is ten times worse than anything Sony did for anti-piracy, hands down.
Yeah, I really do think Trash talking is bad in general chat most often than not. I think it's the anonymity that's granted by being behind the computer. That's why when people find a good group of players, they stick with them. There was a great clan I ran with in Planetside like that which basically enforced the trash talk rules, and whose members were mature enough that trash talk wasn't necessary or tolerated. In general I don't participate in chat unless it's to coordinate strategy or whatnot, or they're just talking about offtopic stuff that doesn't flame opinions. Otherwise, it's useless.
How about the $50 you pay anually for XBox Live - it's deferred payment, but it's still there. And you won't be getting something like Home either.
Consumer choice is what it's all about - as a Linux user I find $600 to be a steal for the console, as well as the wireless and the remote play capability between my PSP and PS3 - which at some point will allow play over the internet. Even being able to play my PS3 not on my TV in my own house is great for those situations when girlfriend wants to watch Sex in the City reruns instead.
You can be unhappy and all that, but I'm a very satisfied customer and I think there are others out there who'd agree.
Because if there were, they'd be announcing those rather than "We've got 34 games coming up."
Umm, they did. They didn't just release a press release consisting of one sentence - "We've got 34 games coming up." They had info sessions for each of them. Want coverage? Go here. At least 30 links for you to dive into for about 25 games/environments (Home isn't really a game and it has 5 links). Plus streaming video.
Note by your lack of modpoints that no one finds that funny anymore. Try a Soviet Russia joke next time.
Ah, but what's better, NBC via your cable/satellite/whatever hookup or NBC video via iTunes on your Apple TV?
If this is a large project and you just announce that you're going to do this project from scratch, no one will be interested because it takes too long to get going. Instead, design and write the app on your own first, and then put it out there. People are more likely to get interested and form a community if they have something to play with.
If you really think you're going to need help, get a small piece working and put that out there first a la Linus and Linux.
That's an incredibly expensive investment on Microsoft's end. Why host the servers yourself? Even Sony, who's launching Home for free, isn't hosting content on their server, it's P2P. As for detecting cheating, that would require access to source code that I'm sure most 3rd parties won't be willing to give up. I doubt they're doing game hosting and cheat detection.
I think this is a US vs. Canada thing or something (noting the origin of yours and GPs homepages). My fiance works for a movie studio, and they call the short things before the movie a trailer officially, but the any showing of the movie before it is released is called a screening, including those that are semi-open to the public. Preview isn't official lingo to my knowledge. Incidentally, the cardboard cutouts in the theaters are called standees and the posters are called one-sheets.
You're talking about a guy who promotes the fact that he had a huge number of Internet Donors in the 1Q, comparred to his opponent who had mostly large donors. This was played over the press for days. And where does most of the credit belong? With the MySpace page that got him tons of positive coverage.
So what does he go out and do? Try and take control of the page, which makes a lot of sense, but screws up the negotiation. Once he realizes he screws it up, he has his campaign spreads rumors that the guy was trying to cash in on the opportunity, which is utter bullshit because the guy spent 2.5 years on the project. It's not like he registered the name and tried to get money for it.
So basically, the point of the whole thing was that Obama doesn't care about his supporters, he just cares about the positive press they generate for him.
This guy was asking for $50,000 for two year's work part time. So $25,000. And he was factoring in that he was working between 5-10 hours a day lately maintaing the site.
He actually gave $10k to myspace to get more exposure for his page?
No he didn't. After the page's success, MySpace decided to set up the special section and ask each campaign to pay $10k for exposure on it, which each did. Anthony wanted part of that $10k to go to him - so he was basically asking the campaign to pay him a percentage of $10k representative of the fact that he set up and ran the page as part of the Insight feature on MySpace. MySpace gets $10k, and he gets a percentage of that on top of it all.
You read it right. Everyone else is reading it wrong.
Bill Richardson is the most qualified and most electable candidate we have at this time. Obama, or Clinton would be disasters.
He also picked one of the most anti-abortion supreme court justices as his model justice, and didn't know when Roe v. Wade happened. So basically, the guy is not pro-choice, which kills his chances of ever getting the Democratic Party's nomination.
the volunteer's decision to try and cash out rather than cooperate with the campaign is a little short-sighted. If he really thought Obama had a shot at winning, he might have been better served to work with the campaign, maintain their official page
Your comment mangles what really is going on here. The guy asked for compensation and to become a paid consultant to the campaign. The campaign countered by saying they wanted a one time payment and full control. He gave them an offer and they balked. He's been cooperating with them all along, but the minute he suggested some kind of compensation, it got ugly. Of course, it's not clear what compensation he asked for initially, but the lump sum was the campaign's idea.
Are you kidding me? He's not charging $49k to give the name back - he started the site as a supporter of Obama 2 freakin years ago, not knowing that Obama would run for president. Now, the campaign wants to take control of his profile page and they asked him to come up with a rough sum rather than hire him as a campaign contributer.
This is a lot like Valve and the mods that came out of Half Life. Valve in that case hired the Counterstrike and DoD teams and gave them jobs. Obama decided they didn't want to do that and instead asked the guy to come up with a sum of money. As MyDD points out, it's roughly 32 cents per friend. That's not too shabby considering how much money they throw away on consultants. And it's only a one time payment. For a campaign that just raised $26 million, to balk at $50,000 is pretty crazy in my opinion.
I'm going to agree - a month advantage isn't going to do much, but I think there was almost a year between the releases of the Xbox and PS2 versions of GTA3 and later, Vice City.
Amazing how that comment reads so differently when you notice the article "the" in front of Enterprise.