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Sure, just the kind of people you want to share a draught with.
I just sold off an HTPC and a file server. Just this desktop now, and I'm considering hocking it and my two 20" LCDs and getting a solid, yet affordable notebook.
I just realized that I was missing a lot of life during the last couple of years while I was busy timeshifting TV programs, ripping DVDs, and serving worthless web pages nobody visited.
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Basketball is the worst sport when it comes to transferring the real-life experience to a video game. There is simply no realilistic AI to simulate a basketball game.
And you think people are going to share the ball in a MMO basketball game? Sure, the box score will show that every player got 15 shots, but what it won't show is that they were all half-court shots from the hip after they stole the ball from a teammate......Hey, wait a minute. That's a lot like the NBA. They may be on to something here!;)
At what point do you just stop consuming? This push and pull between advertisers/marketers and human beings (yes, Virginia, there is a difference) is like a game of tic-tac-toe. The only way to win is not to play (consume).
I don't know how many people you have working under your domain or what business you are in, but perhaps you could consider a move to a forum based solution. If your business does something that would benefit from a community-based forum, I recommend going in that direction.
Just a small-timer's observation, but I have pursued running a mail server for a small web site I run, and I found the process to be defeating in every way. SMTP, POP, and DNS constitute a remarkably arcane way of sending text-based message between computers. Just something in me feels that it should no be this complicated. Alas, it is what everyone uses, so that's the way it will be for a very long time.
I know there's plenty of mail admins running around here that will read this post and want to have a meltdown, because they think I am a moron. I just can't help but believe I'm the only one who feels that mail admining is too complicated relative to its importance to smaller (individual) groups.
I'm a fascist when it comes to DVD quality. Never handle them except by their edges. Always put them in their container/sleeve when not in use. Apparently, I'm a lone wolf in this respect, because when I go to any local Blockbuster to rent a DVD, the discs are absolutely fucking maimed. Scratches all over. Some that I would qualify as "cuts." Not scratches, but deep grooves in the disc. People are goddamned animals, and this is proof.
In contrast, my experience with Blockbuster's mailed discs has been very good. Maybe 1-2 out of each twenty I've rented have been bad. Blockbuster has quickly shipped a new disc when informed of a bad disc.
Not happy about the price hike to $18/month though. I'm a high volume user, so I'll probably stick with them. For now.
What is it with executives and directors and their fixation with sending simple memos and messages via Word attachments in e-mails? Everybody else is on board with plain text (except some folks who are smitten with font coloring). Why can't the dolts at the top of the totem pole type in their mail client's editor and hit "Send?"
Kinda like the robotic arm and processor that Cyberdyne Systems were working on in T2, huh? You know what this means don't you?
I'm gonna have to get a Harley, some leather duds, and a tough pair of shades and blow up the pckeyboard.com offices. I HATE THOSE KEYBOARDS! THEY MUST BE STOPPED! The IBM M-series keyboard can't be reasoned with. It can't be bartered with. And it won't stop until my eardrums are dead. TA-TING!
A couple years working in a university computer lab surrounded by those things almost broke my will to live, but there was a co-worker who taught me how to survive it.
This is a profession that takes too much 1) time, 2) money, and 3) patience. You will spend every moment of your weekend and evenings editing video. You will burn GDPs worth of cash in order to store your video and build a computer that can cut and render it. And yet you'll still "botch" somebody's wedding or seminar, because your customer is the next Stanley Kubrick and you're just a bitchass with a camera and a swinging dick.
I am a literary agent. I recently read your novella, "Ample Bosom," and I think it is a smash! Your talent for the mammary gland-carburetor metaphor leaps off of the page! I want to represent you. Please call the number below at your earliest convenience...
Since I can have an extra hour of light at the end of the work day. That means I can get out on my bike and get some miles in before dark. And before you fuckers suggest that I go in to work an hour earlier, I must tell you that I cannot. I work in television, and programming doesn't shift with DST. If something airs at 3pm, it airs at 3pm.
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Sure, just the kind of people you want to share a draught with.
Fastball has been removed from the server.
Yeah, just the kind of people you want to share a draught with.
About 1000...
(logs on to eBay and patiently waits for the surplus to show up)
Surprisingly good writing from a high school senior.
:rolleyes:
Yeah, a "rising senior."
I just sold off an HTPC and a file server. Just this desktop now, and I'm considering hocking it and my two 20" LCDs and getting a solid, yet affordable notebook.
I just realized that I was missing a lot of life during the last couple of years while I was busy timeshifting TV programs, ripping DVDs, and serving worthless web pages nobody visited.
You missed the Politics section. It's one up from here.
plus two managers
Sure, I could see that working.
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teHManAg3r argues the call with the first base umpire.
teHManAg3r has been thrown out of the game by the first base umpire!
(teHManAg3r disconnected.)
(3ar1_vv3av3r joins.)
(3ar1_vv3av3r is the visitor's new manager.)
3ar1_vv3av3r argues the call with the first base umpire.
3ar1_vv3av3r has been thrown out of the game by the first base umpire!
(3ar1_vv3av3r disconnected.)
(10uP!nn31a joins.)
Basketball is the worst sport when it comes to transferring the real-life experience to a video game. There is simply no realilistic AI to simulate a basketball game.
...Hey, wait a minute. That's a lot like the NBA. They may be on to something here! ;)
And you think people are going to share the ball in a MMO basketball game? Sure, the box score will show that every player got 15 shots, but what it won't show is that they were all half-court shots from the hip after they stole the ball from a teammate...
At what point do you just stop consuming? This push and pull between advertisers/marketers and human beings (yes, Virginia, there is a difference) is like a game of tic-tac-toe. The only way to win is not to play (consume).
I don't know how many people you have working under your domain or what business you are in, but perhaps you could consider a move to a forum based solution. If your business does something that would benefit from a community-based forum, I recommend going in that direction.
Just a small-timer's observation, but I have pursued running a mail server for a small web site I run, and I found the process to be defeating in every way. SMTP, POP, and DNS constitute a remarkably arcane way of sending text-based message between computers. Just something in me feels that it should no be this complicated. Alas, it is what everyone uses, so that's the way it will be for a very long time.
I know there's plenty of mail admins running around here that will read this post and want to have a meltdown, because they think I am a moron. I just can't help but believe I'm the only one who feels that mail admining is too complicated relative to its importance to smaller (individual) groups.
I'm a fascist when it comes to DVD quality. Never handle them except by their edges. Always put them in their container/sleeve when not in use. Apparently, I'm a lone wolf in this respect, because when I go to any local Blockbuster to rent a DVD, the discs are absolutely fucking maimed. Scratches all over. Some that I would qualify as "cuts." Not scratches, but deep grooves in the disc. People are goddamned animals, and this is proof.
In contrast, my experience with Blockbuster's mailed discs has been very good. Maybe 1-2 out of each twenty I've rented have been bad. Blockbuster has quickly shipped a new disc when informed of a bad disc.
Not happy about the price hike to $18/month though. I'm a high volume user, so I'll probably stick with them. For now.
What is it with executives and directors and their fixation with sending simple memos and messages via Word attachments in e-mails? Everybody else is on board with plain text (except some folks who are smitten with font coloring). Why can't the dolts at the top of the totem pole type in their mail client's editor and hit "Send?"
Gyration. I believe the compact keyboard would be of interest to you. I've used their keyboard/mouse combo before. Very good stuff.
Kinda like the robotic arm and processor that Cyberdyne Systems were working on in T2, huh? You know what this means don't you?
I'm gonna have to get a Harley, some leather duds, and a tough pair of shades and blow up the pckeyboard.com offices. I HATE THOSE KEYBOARDS! THEY MUST BE STOPPED! The IBM M-series keyboard can't be reasoned with. It can't be bartered with. And it won't stop until my eardrums are dead. TA-TING!
A couple years working in a university computer lab surrounded by those things almost broke my will to live, but there was a co-worker who taught me how to survive it.
His name was Conner. John Conner.
This is a profession that takes too much 1) time, 2) money, and 3) patience. You will spend every moment of your weekend and evenings editing video. You will burn GDPs worth of cash in order to store your video and build a computer that can cut and render it. And yet you'll still "botch" somebody's wedding or seminar, because your customer is the next Stanley Kubrick and you're just a bitchass with a camera and a swinging dick.
Save yourself this grief now. Get out.
I cannot believe my luck. Please, slashdot my auction for the SVG Essentials book. Also be sure to look at my auctions for other books on the cheap!
No, but I thought I heard someone offer a "Soyuz."
I am a literary agent. I recently read your novella, "Ample Bosom," and I think it is a smash! Your talent for the mammary gland-carburetor metaphor leaps off of the page! I want to represent you. Please call the number below at your earliest convenience...
Quake 4 better have the goods and not just rip offs of other, pretty games like Half-Life2.
Pretty like HL2? Yes. As boring? I hope not.
Google
[the grass is always greener on the other side] [Search]
*click*
Results 1 - 10 of about 1,950,000 for the grass is always greener on the other side
Guess so...
Actually, Zoom is on at 3pm.
How on earth was this post flamebait? If don't agree, fine. Tell me to get another job (:rolleyes:), but don't mod this flamebait for crying out loud.
Since I can have an extra hour of light at the end of the work day. That means I can get out on my bike and get some miles in before dark. And before you fuckers suggest that I go in to work an hour earlier, I must tell you that I cannot. I work in television, and programming doesn't shift with DST. If something airs at 3pm, it airs at 3pm.
Game design has little if anything to do with math. More writing than programming or algorithms.
You're right. I misread your post, sorry. Mod this dude up, folks.