By your argument, every one of us who's ever played WoW or any FPS, should be awarded honorary doctorates in VR because we have so much "experience" with virtual worlds.
Just to say I have a compsci BSc. with specialisation in Virtual Reality, gained 2001.
As a professional video game tester from 1998 to 2004, I probably have more "real world" experience with virtual worlds than you have. I've played all the major FPS games that came out during that time and worked on Duke Nukem: Land of The Babes (PlayStation) and Unreal Tournament (Dreamcast/PC).
No, I made $25 on Monday from someone ordering $400 in running shoes over the weekend. I made a $5 bounty on an Audible membership yesterday. Still waiting for 13 products to ship.
What an amazing business you have...
Revenue stream... one of many in my business.
I'm sure it's a more valuable use of your time than meeting a nice girl and starting a family [...]
I've dated many girls over the years. Most weren't interested in marriage and value career over family. Of course, I avoided the psychotic bitches like the plague. Have enough of those in my extended family.
[...] or maybe going out and getting some exercise.
I'm losing one pound per week with my current diet and exercise program, for which someone is already calling BS on.
how do you know it never got fixed, if the last time you tried it was a few years ago?
The game got released in 2011. Still wasn't working in 2015, four years after the game got released. If you had a Radeon 7970 and an Intel processor, the game works fine. If you had a Radeon 7970 and a AMD processor, the game screws the pooch. This never got fixed by id Software.
I doubt that. I've been reassured that EVERYONE on Slashdot uses an ad blocker. Based on my data for Slashdot traffic to my websites, that's not true at all. Unless the ad blocker is enabled by default, most users probably won't turn it on.
Perhaps this was true years ago, however these kind of claims are silly now days.
That issue never got fixed. I tested it a few years ago before the video card got fried from a broken fan. The solution was to get an Nvidia video card and/or an Intel processor.
Those of us who ran into compatibility issues running id Software's "Rage" on the Radeon 7970 and AMD processor. You were lucky to get 1FPS once you got into the game. "Rage" ran fine with some minor visual artifacts on a nVidia 750 Ti video card.
$10k was a pretty common price point for Workstations during the early 1990s, especially graphics workstations.
I'm currently reading "Steve Jobs & The NeXT Big Thing" by Randall Stross. The NeXT computer was supposed to be better than the Mac and priced at $3,000 for the university market. When the NeXT computer got introduced, the universities balked at the $7,000 price tag for their students. Apple owned the educational market the inexpensive Macs.
Slashdot Mirror
Or, we can all skip lining your pockets and encouraging your shitty behavior, and buy it from Amazon without using affiliate link:
Or you can attention to my link and increase the click through rate by three times.
Everything I said still applies, and double now that you've tried to play it off as "just a joke."
Everything you wrote is bullshit. That's the joke.
So use your genius-level brain and learn that foreign language.
Why? I haven't watched TV in 20+ years. Heck, my 48" HDTV doesn't even have an OTA TV turner.
By your argument, every one of us who's ever played WoW or any FPS, should be awarded honorary doctorates in VR because we have so much "experience" with virtual worlds.
If you're interested in virtual world technology from the 1990's, I suggest reading "Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture" by David Kushner.
Ah, the smug rant of the incompetent, perpetually passed-over failure. "Nobody will hire me because the job requirements are ridiculous."
WOOOSH!
The only problem with OTA HDTV in Silicon Valley is that all the clear channels are in foreign languages. English channels are whitewashed in static.
Just to say I have a compsci BSc. with specialisation in Virtual Reality, gained 2001.
As a professional video game tester from 1998 to 2004, I probably have more "real world" experience with virtual worlds than you have. I've played all the major FPS games that came out during that time and worked on Duke Nukem: Land of The Babes (PlayStation) and Unreal Tournament (Dreamcast/PC).
I haven't heard anything about VRML in years. The last time was when I did my six-month internship for WorldsAway at Fujitsu in 1997. I still have my copy of "Avatars: Exploring and Building Virtual Worlds on the Internet" by Bruce Damer that I picked up from a virtual world fair at SFSU.
You need five years of VR experience before applying for a job. Never mind that decent VR headsets recently came out in the last few years.
Unfortunately, Michael Jackson is no longer with us. He wanted to be Agent M for so many years but never got the opportunity.
Yes but what a great job title. Imagine having "Planetary Protection Office" on your business cards
As long as you're not an Illegal Alien.
19 posts yesterday, and you earned about $2.50!
No, I made $25 on Monday from someone ordering $400 in running shoes over the weekend. I made a $5 bounty on an Audible membership yesterday. Still waiting for 13 products to ship.
What an amazing business you have...
Revenue stream... one of many in my business.
I'm sure it's a more valuable use of your time than meeting a nice girl and starting a family [...]
I've dated many girls over the years. Most weren't interested in marriage and value career over family. Of course, I avoided the psychotic bitches like the plague. Have enough of those in my extended family.
[...] or maybe going out and getting some exercise.
I'm losing one pound per week with my current diet and exercise program, for which someone is already calling BS on.
how do you know it never got fixed, if the last time you tried it was a few years ago?
The game got released in 2011. Still wasn't working in 2015, four years after the game got released. If you had a Radeon 7970 and an Intel processor, the game works fine. If you had a Radeon 7970 and a AMD processor, the game screws the pooch. This never got fixed by id Software.
You're so easy to trigger into your bullshit mode.
That's funny. All my asshole critics are posting more comments than I'm posting each day. Almost three to one. Annoying — for everyone else.
Is this the dreaded Dot Com-style collapse that I've been hearing about for the last two years or so?
None of which has anything to do with the fact that you have very few data points.
I have enough data to make an marketing intern blush.
Why don't you also throw in your weight and granola bar brand name into your "firehose of bullshit" Trumpian response?
My current weight is 358 pounds. I was 370 pounds 12 weeks ago or so. I'm losing one pound per week.
https://www.kickingthebitbucket.com/2017/07/18/losing-ten-pounds-with-a-digital-bathroom-scale/
As part of my diet, I eat two bars per weekday (ten per week): Clif Bars, Fiber One Bars and Power Bars.
Yes, your amazing 60 data points.
Six months of website data, four months of Amazon data, and my 10,000+ comment history (3,000+ comments this year alone).
I doubt that. I've been reassured that EVERYONE on Slashdot uses an ad blocker. Based on my data for Slashdot traffic to my websites, that's not true at all. Unless the ad blocker is enabled by default, most users probably won't turn it on.
Looks like some people need training on how to spot phishing email attempts.
Perhaps this was true years ago, however these kind of claims are silly now days.
That issue never got fixed. I tested it a few years ago before the video card got fried from a broken fan. The solution was to get an Nvidia video card and/or an Intel processor.
[...] polluting it with your noisome digital diarrhea.
You're sadly mistaken, sir! I posted 19 comments yesterday. My trolls posted two to three times as many comments.
Those of us who ran into compatibility issues running id Software's "Rage" on the Radeon 7970 and AMD processor. You were lucky to get 1FPS once you got into the game. "Rage" ran fine with some minor visual artifacts on a nVidia 750 Ti video card.
Not sure. But the Amazon Dot were selling like hotcakes on Prime Day.
Slashdot has been posting political stories ever since Al Gore invented the Intertubes.
$10k was a pretty common price point for Workstations during the early 1990s, especially graphics workstations.
I'm currently reading "Steve Jobs & The NeXT Big Thing" by Randall Stross. The NeXT computer was supposed to be better than the Mac and priced at $3,000 for the university market. When the NeXT computer got introduced, the universities balked at the $7,000 price tag for their students. Apple owned the educational market the inexpensive Macs.