I don't think the situation is as gloomy as it may seem. Some game companies are, albeit slowly, realizing that they will have to base their games on something other than military strategy, giving us a violent heroic character to play, or letting us kill our friends.
Don't get me wrong. The next innovative games are not entirely new. They are just based on different systems and events that technology advancements allow us to explore more deeply. Two examples of innovative, yet-not are Republic: The Revolution and The Sims. Both systems (politics and real life) have been done before. They just haven't been done since the days of CGA monitors.
Oh, c'mon!
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Change "her" to "him" and you'd be right. In the past year alone I've seen two men be fired, on the spot, without a chance for any rebuttal because a woman claimed sexual harassment. Of the four times I've seen a man claim he was sexually harassed by a female empoloyee, NOT ONCE was the woman fired, or even punished. In fact, in one instance, the man was fired!
As far as being bullied into working unpaid hours, don't. It's that simple. You don't want to work for a company that bullies it's employees. The employment market is bad, but not bad enough to stay in a situation like that.
If these game creators were really interested in creating a realistic game world, they would only allow about one sniper per hundred players. Furthermore, in order to play sniper, you'd have to meet a quota of long-range single-burst AK-47 shots from 200+ yards.
What happens when customer X, who runs hotspot Y, goes on vacation for a month. Lightning fries the AP. Who fixes the equipment? No way am I giving you the keys to my apartment for free Internet access.
I hope you're not a copyright lawyer because you fail to grasp the aim of copyrights. I am free to form derivitive works of any copyrighted material. What I can't do is copy and distribute it. That's why it is named a copyright.
Each instantiation of a dynamic web page is copyrighted the moment it is generated. A browser is free to modify a web page and a television broadcast reciever is free to modify a broadcast. This is not what ReplayTV was sued for. They were sued for contributory copyright infringement for including the features to distribute the broadcast copies.
Part of what people call "cheaper" is really the flexibility of buying parts as you need them. For example, if I wanted an Opteron system, I could buy just a motherboard and processor for ~$400.
Most applications have a good chunk of code they execute on startup (generating lookup tables, building graphs, etc). As processors get faster, applications will slowly move toward performing these functions in an on-demand manner. This will decrease application startup time, which seems to be what most MS Office users and Internet Explorer users want to eliminate when they say "My computer is _so_ slow."
The results simply confirm that users have caught on to the basic layout of most web sites, rather than giving insight into the basic instincts of users. Big whoop.
Does this mean they won't be using The Zone? If they do drop The Zone, perhaps they will port it to Linux. I would probably start playing again if they did.
Re:BitTorrent is no-go for small files..
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gzip the RSS file. It should reduce bandwidth by over 50%.
For your customers who are individuals (vs companies):
Simple pricing structures with simple paper work and no hidden costs. Simple, honest price increases. If you just need more cash, say so. Don't blame it on "market events."
Huge fuel-tankers are stationed near the belt. Many smaller drill ships, operated by people on Earth, wander around the belt finding smaller asteroids containing the appropriate minerals. When they find these asteroids, they drill anchor holes into them and slap a radio tag on them. Transport ships use these radio tags to find asteroids to bring back. They use the anchor holes to grip the asteroid, then pull it back toward Earth, stopping them just inside the gravitational pull of Earth so that they remain in orbit.
Then we send manned missions to carve up these asteroids and bring them back in capsules that are capable of re-entry.
Maybe Macromedia shouldn't have given the Linux folks a cold shoulder while sharecropping for Microsoft. They might not have such a bleek outlook if they had released the flash file format spec before it was reverse engineered or released a flash player before an alternative was released.
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Play Viewtiful Joe. It puts you in the most difficult movie ever.
I don't think the situation is as gloomy as it may seem. Some game companies are, albeit slowly, realizing that they will have to base their games on something other than military strategy, giving us a violent heroic character to play, or letting us kill our friends.
Don't get me wrong. The next innovative games are not entirely new. They are just based on different systems and events that technology advancements allow us to explore more deeply. Two examples of innovative, yet-not are Republic: The Revolution and The Sims. Both systems (politics and real life) have been done before. They just haven't been done since the days of CGA monitors.
This article is related a bit.
Change "her" to "him" and you'd be right. In the past year alone I've seen two men be fired, on the spot, without a chance for any rebuttal because a woman claimed sexual harassment. Of the four times I've seen a man claim he was sexually harassed by a female empoloyee, NOT ONCE was the woman fired, or even punished. In fact, in one instance, the man was fired!
As far as being bullied into working unpaid hours, don't. It's that simple. You don't want to work for a company that bullies it's employees. The employment market is bad, but not bad enough to stay in a situation like that.
Where is the price?
... but this page was the third result in a search for "D-BUS Linux."
If these game creators were really interested in creating a realistic game world, they would only allow about one sniper per hundred players. Furthermore, in order to play sniper, you'd have to meet a quota of long-range single-burst AK-47 shots from 200+ yards.
What happens when customer X, who runs hotspot Y, goes on vacation for a month. Lightning fries the AP. Who fixes the equipment? No way am I giving you the keys to my apartment for free Internet access.
Whoops, didn't read the extended article.
Put each site in a CVS repository. Check it out, wget the live site, check the copy of the live site back into the CVS repository.
wget would be invaluable.
I hope you're not a copyright lawyer because you fail to grasp the aim of copyrights. I am free to form derivitive works of any copyrighted material. What I can't do is copy and distribute it. That's why it is named a copyright.
Each instantiation of a dynamic web page is copyrighted the moment it is generated. A browser is free to modify a web page and a television broadcast reciever is free to modify a broadcast. This is not what ReplayTV was sued for. They were sued for contributory copyright infringement for including the features to distribute the broadcast copies.
Oh, and the DMCA is not mentioned anywhere in the plaintiff's complaint.
At the least, they should give UP benchmarks. I've got a pretty good gut feeling that OSX scales to 2+ processors far better than WinXP.
Part of what people call "cheaper" is really the flexibility of buying parts as you need them. For example, if I wanted an Opteron system, I could buy just a motherboard and processor for ~$400.
Most applications have a good chunk of code they execute on startup (generating lookup tables, building graphs, etc). As processors get faster, applications will slowly move toward performing these functions in an on-demand manner. This will decrease application startup time, which seems to be what most MS Office users and Internet Explorer users want to eliminate when they say "My computer is _so_ slow."
And then we'll see $15 devices to blank out top 15 lines on the top or bottom of the screen.
The results simply confirm that users have caught on to the basic layout of most web sites, rather than giving insight into the basic instincts of users. Big whoop.
Does this mean they won't be using The Zone? If they do drop The Zone, perhaps they will port it to Linux. I would probably start playing again if they did.
gzip the RSS file. It should reduce bandwidth by over 50%.
"the tremendous victory of the ... Americans"
I see it more like a Hockey team, favored by 3, coming out with a win 1-0 in third overtime.
Bush would probably say that he _is_ a WMD :]
In late 2001 I saw a job posting that was looking for someone with 3-5 experience with .Net.
For your customers who are individuals (vs companies):
Simple pricing structures with simple paper work and no hidden costs.
Simple, honest price increases. If you just need more cash, say so. Don't blame it on "market events."
Don't some species of parrot and sea turtle live to be 120 or so?
Imagine this system...
Huge fuel-tankers are stationed near the belt. Many smaller drill ships, operated by people on Earth, wander around the belt finding smaller asteroids containing the appropriate minerals. When they find these asteroids, they drill anchor holes into them and slap a radio tag on them. Transport ships use these radio tags to find asteroids to bring back. They use the anchor holes to grip the asteroid, then pull it back toward Earth, stopping them just inside the gravitational pull of Earth so that they remain in orbit.
Then we send manned missions to carve up these asteroids and bring them back in capsules that are capable of re-entry.
Maybe Macromedia shouldn't have given the Linux folks a cold shoulder while sharecropping for Microsoft. They might not have such a bleek outlook if they had released the flash file format spec before it was reverse engineered or released a flash player before an alternative was released.