Close enough. I was making a point that I have CDRs that I burned when CDRs first came out and they still work and that they were the cheapest CDRs at the time (around $40 for a 10 pack). My burner was a huge SCSI external Pinnacle 1x that looked like half a VCR. Before that I had a WORM drive. So I missed the age by a few years get a life flamers.
I used to love that service. $9.95 a month for unlimited downloads. It wasn't mainstream music or labels (which sucks anyways IMO) but a lot of small labels. I subscribed for a few years until they ended the unlimited downloads and went to a much stricter and useless plan (x downloads for x dollars a month). The unlimited downloads was great for trying out all kinds of music. I still have hundreds of MP3 cds downloaded from them and one my albums is still available online and enough people download it with the new plan that I make a decent amount of money off it. None of the MP3s are DRMed either.
can't make up it's mind here in Phoenix. We went from record rainfall and a lot of flooding (which hasn't happened for about 20 years) to record temps last week and this week of over 80 F. We already hit 115+ in the Summer I'd like to see some global cooling, or maybe California to break off and make the western boarder of Arizona a beach. If global warming can help with that I'll start spraying as much aerosol as I can.
True remember all the NASA bashing on here by people looking at the Mars lander pictures and claiming NASA was putting false colors in. NASA had to explain how the colors were done.
The terragen pics look cool, the mosaics of the real pictures even better. I'm anxiously waiting for the offical pics from NASA.
Except Maxis released it themselves. The thing would bite your sim and there was a good chance the sim would become sick and die. The magic expresso machines seems pretty nice compared to that hehe. I personally can't stand the Sims games, can't get into it. My daughter loves them though.
This wasn't a laser pointer. It was a commerical grade green laser used for testing fiber optics. Plus the guy came out multiple nights and pointed it planes/helicopters. He wasn't just goofing around with it one night and boom he's arrested.
You are really just asking to be arrested selling modded Xboxes with games already on them. Did they think no one would notice? Not like when I worked in South Korea a few years ago in Songtan where there were shops everywhere with Playstation copies for sale (for about $3 each) on the racks.
I'm much the same. I started college going for Electrical Engineering. Decided I didn't like it or the university and ended up with an AAS in Electronic Technology and an AAS in Electromechanical Technology. I have programmed as a hobby since I was a little kid using Apple 2s and TRS-80s. Through a few years of tech jobs I would get a chance to code something once in a while. Then I got a job at the company I have worked for the last 8 1/2 years. The first couple of years I worked my way up from the manufacturing floor through engineering to software. I'm a senior level developer with no CS experience.
Don't know why you have that stipulation but buy an Xbox, modchip (or softmod for free), and a wireless adapter for less than $300 and it'll do everything. Buying an Xbox and never any games for it actually hurts MS anyways.
Exactly. I may work a 60 hour week and only have 5-6 hours of coding. Sometimes if it's a new product or major release upgrade then I'll code a lot more. Otherwise it's a lot more requirements reviews, design reviews, implementation reviews, ClearQuest/ClearCase work, a ton of meetings then a bit of coding, then testing.
I'm sitting at work now (6:15 pm) and winding down. The last few weeks I've worked 12 hours a day for 5 days plus being on call at night and weekends. Working a lot of hours can cause you to make mistakes while coding. Also getting near to a software release and having management through a bunch of new features and changing the way lot of functions work is even worse than working long hours. I don't have a have a problem normally making show stopping mistakes but some of my coworkers do make a lot of mistakes when working 60+ hour weeks.
Most of my work right now consists of using the Watcom C compiler and debugger under QNX 4.25 with no GUI. I use Ultra Edit as my editor for almost everything with the occasional use of vi under QNX. For merges and diffs I use Araxis Merge. I don't need any fancy IDEs I can do everything I need to do with just those tools.
We're running QNX 4.25 for our control software on our newest tool. It runs well and can handle a lot of system control with not a lot of computer power. 800mhz P3 QNX 4.25 box can handle hundreds of IO operations, logging of virtually everything, data sampling, SECS/GEM, etc with very little CPU used. When the control system is upgraded we'll be running 6.0.
MPAA has learned of a thing called a BBS that could be used to trade movies at blazing 56k speeds. They are asking all SysOps to grant them user accounts and give them the phone number to the BBS.
Hopefully they do not get admitted to Internet2 since their goal to is sue people on it.
Fortunately for me though there's crunch times usually during Alpha testing for a new release where I'm working those hours and travel for the beta release to a customer, but then I may have a couple months where I don't have enough work to stay at work for 40 hours during the week and I can come in at 9 and leave at 2:30. So it evens out which allows me to stay at the same job. If it was always like this I would have left a long time ago. I would imagine that game development follows the same type of cycle.
It's not just the gaming industry. I'm a senior level sofware engineer in the semiconductor capital equipement industry and am currently working 60+ hour weeks and am on call basically 24 hours a day. In addition I'm an hour away from work so at least 14 hours out of the day is involved in work. A lot of time I also need to VPN into work from home to solve an issue. It's tough (especially being salaried and not getting any extra money for overtime) on my family. Especially when I'm working a bad shift like 3pm - 3am or 6pm - 6am. But on the other hand my job pays for my nice house, cars, etc. I've been working almost 9 years and have a personal commitment to meet unreasonable deadlines, make sure everything is handled properly on a software release, travel to customer sites for a weeks at a time when a new release comes out, etc. You have to love your job to really handle it well. A lot of the blame for long hours is management allowing scope creep into a release.
Show's not too bad (though I don't care to watch it all the time, my wife rarely misses any of the 3). The software they are shown to use on the show makes me cringe though. They could at least try to make it look authentic. Take a low resolution picture, type a bunch of the stuff on the keyboard (why doesn't the software on the show use a mouse? Is typing more exciting for the viewer?), and bam picture resolution somehow increases greatly and they see a key clue in a reflection or something.
If you have DirecTV I think Ultimate TV is still the way to go. You can pick receivers up on Ebay for as low as $25. Hard drive is easily upgradable to a larger one and you get 30 second forward skip, 10 second back skip, and the normal fast forward/rewind. Plus there will never be banner ads on it since they no longer make UTV receivers. I thought about changing my 3 UTVs out to TIVOs but when I looked at them I really wasn't impressed enough to spend $300 to change them out plus a commitment for a year's service (to get the $99 price) to DirecTV.
Either you have an artistic touch and an eye for it or you don't. If you don't you may never have the knack for it(even with the art class colleges make you take in your first year of engineering). Coding and art are on different sides of the brain.
I've upgraded 4 desktop computers and a laptop computer to SP2 and have had zero problems. I waited quite a while before patching after reading all the bad things people wrote about it. My kid's computer was the guinea pig after a couple days on there I did my systems.
Since there's probably millions of XP installs all of them with WAV files edited with a pirated version of Sound Forge they should get a hefty fine. I once worked for a company that was audited by the BSA and was found to have a few unlicensed copies of Word (don't remember the exact number but we only had about 50 employees) and they ended getting fined $100,000. Nothing will happen to the founding member of the BSA for using unlicensed software in software they've made millions off of I'm sure. Makes me sick.
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Close enough. I was making a point that I have CDRs that I burned when CDRs first came out and they still work and that they were the cheapest CDRs at the time (around $40 for a 10 pack). My burner was a huge SCSI external Pinnacle 1x that looked like half a VCR. Before that I had a WORM drive. So I missed the age by a few years get a life flamers.
I used to love that service. $9.95 a month for unlimited downloads. It wasn't mainstream music or labels (which sucks anyways IMO) but a lot of small labels. I subscribed for a few years until they ended the unlimited downloads and went to a much stricter and useless plan (x downloads for x dollars a month). The unlimited downloads was great for trying out all kinds of music. I still have hundreds of MP3 cds downloaded from them and one my albums is still available online and enough people download it with the new plan that I make a decent amount of money off it. None of the MP3s are DRMed either.
I have a lot of CDRs that are 15+ years old and still work. These are the cheapest CDRs too from back then (which were still expensive).
can't make up it's mind here in Phoenix. We went from record rainfall and a lot of flooding (which hasn't happened for about 20 years) to record temps last week and this week of over 80 F. We already hit 115+ in the Summer I'd like to see some global cooling, or maybe California to break off and make the western boarder of Arizona a beach. If global warming can help with that I'll start spraying as much aerosol as I can.
True remember all the NASA bashing on here by people looking at the Mars lander pictures and claiming NASA was putting false colors in. NASA had to explain how the colors were done. The terragen pics look cool, the mosaics of the real pictures even better. I'm anxiously waiting for the offical pics from NASA.
for one welcome our new colored plastic robot overlords. The Roboraptor looks cool. I'll be checking them out in September.
Except Maxis released it themselves. The thing would bite your sim and there was a good chance the sim would become sick and die. The magic expresso machines seems pretty nice compared to that hehe. I personally can't stand the Sims games, can't get into it. My daughter loves them though.
This wasn't a laser pointer. It was a commerical grade green laser used for testing fiber optics. Plus the guy came out multiple nights and pointed it planes/helicopters. He wasn't just goofing around with it one night and boom he's arrested.
You are really just asking to be arrested selling modded Xboxes with games already on them. Did they think no one would notice? Not like when I worked in South Korea a few years ago in Songtan where there were shops everywhere with Playstation copies for sale (for about $3 each) on the racks.
I'm much the same. I started college going for Electrical Engineering. Decided I didn't like it or the university and ended up with an AAS in Electronic Technology and an AAS in Electromechanical Technology. I have programmed as a hobby since I was a little kid using Apple 2s and TRS-80s. Through a few years of tech jobs I would get a chance to code something once in a while. Then I got a job at the company I have worked for the last 8 1/2 years. The first couple of years I worked my way up from the manufacturing floor through engineering to software. I'm a senior level developer with no CS experience.
Don't know why you have that stipulation but buy an Xbox, modchip (or softmod for free), and a wireless adapter for less than $300 and it'll do everything. Buying an Xbox and never any games for it actually hurts MS anyways.
Exactly. I may work a 60 hour week and only have 5-6 hours of coding. Sometimes if it's a new product or major release upgrade then I'll code a lot more. Otherwise it's a lot more requirements reviews, design reviews, implementation reviews, ClearQuest/ClearCase work, a ton of meetings then a bit of coding, then testing.
I'm sitting at work now (6:15 pm) and winding down. The last few weeks I've worked 12 hours a day for 5 days plus being on call at night and weekends. Working a lot of hours can cause you to make mistakes while coding. Also getting near to a software release and having management through a bunch of new features and changing the way lot of functions work is even worse than working long hours. I don't have a have a problem normally making show stopping mistakes but some of my coworkers do make a lot of mistakes when working 60+ hour weeks.
Most of my work right now consists of using the Watcom C compiler and debugger under QNX 4.25 with no GUI. I use Ultra Edit as my editor for almost everything with the occasional use of vi under QNX. For merges and diffs I use Araxis Merge. I don't need any fancy IDEs I can do everything I need to do with just those tools.
We're running QNX 4.25 for our control software on our newest tool. It runs well and can handle a lot of system control with not a lot of computer power. 800mhz P3 QNX 4.25 box can handle hundreds of IO operations, logging of virtually everything, data sampling, SECS/GEM, etc with very little CPU used. When the control system is upgraded we'll be running 6.0.
MPAA has learned of a thing called a BBS that could be used to trade movies at blazing 56k speeds. They are asking all SysOps to grant them user accounts and give them the phone number to the BBS. Hopefully they do not get admitted to Internet2 since their goal to is sue people on it.
Fortunately for me though there's crunch times usually during Alpha testing for a new release where I'm working those hours and travel for the beta release to a customer, but then I may have a couple months where I don't have enough work to stay at work for 40 hours during the week and I can come in at 9 and leave at 2:30. So it evens out which allows me to stay at the same job. If it was always like this I would have left a long time ago. I would imagine that game development follows the same type of cycle.
It's not just the gaming industry. I'm a senior level sofware engineer in the semiconductor capital equipement industry and am currently working 60+ hour weeks and am on call basically 24 hours a day. In addition I'm an hour away from work so at least 14 hours out of the day is involved in work. A lot of time I also need to VPN into work from home to solve an issue. It's tough (especially being salaried and not getting any extra money for overtime) on my family. Especially when I'm working a bad shift like 3pm - 3am or 6pm - 6am. But on the other hand my job pays for my nice house, cars, etc. I've been working almost 9 years and have a personal commitment to meet unreasonable deadlines, make sure everything is handled properly on a software release, travel to customer sites for a weeks at a time when a new release comes out, etc. You have to love your job to really handle it well. A lot of the blame for long hours is management allowing scope creep into a release.
Show's not too bad (though I don't care to watch it all the time, my wife rarely misses any of the 3). The software they are shown to use on the show makes me cringe though. They could at least try to make it look authentic. Take a low resolution picture, type a bunch of the stuff on the keyboard (why doesn't the software on the show use a mouse? Is typing more exciting for the viewer?), and bam picture resolution somehow increases greatly and they see a key clue in a reflection or something.
If you have DirecTV I think Ultimate TV is still the way to go. You can pick receivers up on Ebay for as low as $25. Hard drive is easily upgradable to a larger one and you get 30 second forward skip, 10 second back skip, and the normal fast forward/rewind. Plus there will never be banner ads on it since they no longer make UTV receivers. I thought about changing my 3 UTVs out to TIVOs but when I looked at them I really wasn't impressed enough to spend $300 to change them out plus a commitment for a year's service (to get the $99 price) to DirecTV.
Either you have an artistic touch and an eye for it or you don't. If you don't you may never have the knack for it(even with the art class colleges make you take in your first year of engineering). Coding and art are on different sides of the brain.
I've upgraded 4 desktop computers and a laptop computer to SP2 and have had zero problems. I waited quite a while before patching after reading all the bad things people wrote about it. My kid's computer was the guinea pig after a couple days on there I did my systems.
Since there's probably millions of XP installs all of them with WAV files edited with a pirated version of Sound Forge they should get a hefty fine. I once worked for a company that was audited by the BSA and was found to have a few unlicensed copies of Word (don't remember the exact number but we only had about 50 employees) and they ended getting fined $100,000. Nothing will happen to the founding member of the BSA for using unlicensed software in software they've made millions off of I'm sure. Makes me sick.
I bought a copy of Mechwarrior at EB last week for $13. There's about 40 of them on Ebay right now. Not that hard to find.
Don't know why he would buy 8 $75 modchips. A $10 or less copy of Mechwarrior or 007 and he could have soft modded them and installed Linux that way.