I own a small Internet company, and I play games. At one time my guild's leader was effective as a leader, that I thought he'd be very valuable for my company. When I approached him about it - he informed me that he was 17 and living in Asia (maening I cannot employ him), and couldn't actually speak English (just read and write it well).
I was just amazed. It seems that games can and do teach valuable leadership skills. And, as an American business person, I'm glad to see the competition (China) limit its own resources. What I'm afraid of, is our government doing the same thing - with gaming or otherwise.
I'll vouche for the Bay Area being a terrible place to go see a movie at the theater. Even the Metreon isn't cool enough to drag me inside with the kids anymore.
What I really want/need is a good alternative for Windows Server. Exchange sucks, pure and simple. In fact, it's so bad that everyone has noticed and my company can move off of it... if we can find a suitable solutiuon.
Now, the executives still love their Windows, so a platform change is out. What's out there for Windows that does everything Exchange does without the nightmare crashes, viruses, and general meltdowns?
Damn, have a spine. Don't let them play solitare when you teach. When I still taught, kids wouldn't have dared play a game in front of me in my class. I'd have them out on their ear.
Technology can be very useful when used correctly. Students doing papers in the commons, is common now. Imagine that. Laptops are for homework, but I agree, they have no place in the classroom. At least not my classroom.
My jaw just hit the floor. With WoW being as successful (#1 MMP) I figured that Blizzard would be the last game developer doing layoff... for any reason.
For an article about an interface on a web site about interfaces, the interface sucked!
Screenshots that cannot be enlarged, but are too small to see The screenshot on page 1 links to page 2 The screenshots on other pages are not linkable. And the damn ad at the top kept trying to talk to me; I'm at work! O_o
Otherwise, the 360's interface looks cool. Gotta play [no pun] with it a bit before I have any real comments.
There's a comicbook store in Richmond, near Oakland, that sells all of those japanimation toys. Voltron is just one of them. Seems to be a booming business among the younger Asian-American kids in the area.
In the original game there was a trait called Essence that defined how much of your humanity was left, compared to how much machine you'd become. Think Darth Vader.
I wonder how erked some execs where when they found out they were selling a piece of software that suggested technology made you less human. O_o
Better off getting a degree in something useful and just knowing IT and CS. That's what I did, and I do development for a living (while it lasts); and I have a real degree to fall back on when my job gets outsourced.
My company has a test server (stress testing) running Win2K server on an old Celeron 400 with 256MB of SDRAM (66 MHz ^_^) and it runs pretty well... suprisingly.
Perfect platform for stress testing multi-user apps because the platform sucks. If it works well there, it'll work anywhere (that supports Win32 code, that is).
A friend of mine works for Apple's internal marketing depertment and told me to wait until September to buy an iPod (which I was going to buy this month). He said he "couldn't" say why, but that I should wait.
Could this be why?
Can I get a MP3 player cheaper now, or is the video version just going to be hella expensive?
While that's true to some extent, it has brought Taiwan from a war torn 3rd world nation to an emerging 1st world nation in a generation.
I have no doubt, if they had the population, they'd surpass the United States in GDP just because of their productivity. Where we have slackers and drug addicts, they have 70%+ college graduates and massive foreign investment.
I may be American, but I have massive respect for the Taiwanese after living there and other parts of Asia.
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I was just amazed. It seems that games can and do teach valuable leadership skills. And, as an American business person, I'm glad to see the competition (China) limit its own resources. What I'm afraid of, is our government doing the same thing - with gaming or otherwise.
I'll vouche for the Bay Area being a terrible place to go see a movie at the theater. Even the Metreon isn't cool enough to drag me inside with the kids anymore.
Now, the executives still love their Windows, so a platform change is out. What's out there for Windows that does everything Exchange does without the nightmare crashes, viruses, and general meltdowns?
And the use MS Direct Draw. See ActiveX...
OK, that was bad...
Technology can be very useful when used correctly. Students doing papers in the commons, is common now. Imagine that. Laptops are for homework, but I agree, they have no place in the classroom. At least not my classroom.
So, at least there's no if a tree fell in the forest from a laser blast and no one was around to hear it metephores.
I say, go StarWars part deux!
But I cannot believe Golden Eye beat out both of the Half-Lifes.
Hey, now that there's been 2 half-lives past are we down to a quarter life?
My jaw just hit the floor. With WoW being as successful (#1 MMP) I figured that Blizzard would be the last game developer doing layoff... for any reason.
All those Mac people that used to tell me that I'd have to pry their one button mouse from their cold dead fingers will be so eating their words now.
Oh, this is just killin me... ^_^
Screenshots that cannot be enlarged, but are too small to see
The screenshot on page 1 links to page 2
The screenshots on other pages are not linkable.
And the damn ad at the top kept trying to talk to me; I'm at work! O_o
Otherwise, the 360's interface looks cool. Gotta play [no pun] with it a bit before I have any real comments.
1. Hire Americans in Arazona
2. Layoff everybody and outsource their positions
3. PROFIT!
They advertising that can sell advertisgin time.
I doubt it. I called it "japanimation" because that's what the signs say. I know it's Anime - but he's Japanese and I'm not, so I'll him name it.
Won't somebody please think of the children?!
There's a comicbook store in Richmond, near Oakland, that sells all of those japanimation toys. Voltron is just one of them. Seems to be a booming business among the younger Asian-American kids in the area.
Man, that ruins the whole ring it. ^_^
Dude, you're gonna need more than a tinfoil hat for this one!
I wonder how erked some execs where when they found out they were selling a piece of software that suggested technology made you less human. O_o
The OP forgot to mention you could puch groups of "bad guys" and pull one back to you. Like an 8-bit Scorpion from MK.
So I can see my career go to India or China?
Better off getting a degree in something useful and just knowing IT and CS. That's what I did, and I do development for a living (while it lasts); and I have a real degree to fall back on when my job gets outsourced.
Perfect platform for stress testing multi-user apps because the platform sucks. If it works well there, it'll work anywhere (that supports Win32 code, that is).
Could this be why?
Can I get a MP3 player cheaper now, or is the video version just going to be hella expensive?
The key word here is 'might' which loosely trasnlated means 'probably will'.
I have no doubt, if they had the population, they'd surpass the United States in GDP just because of their productivity. Where we have slackers and drug addicts, they have 70%+ college graduates and massive foreign investment.
I may be American, but I have massive respect for the Taiwanese after living there and other parts of Asia.