You don't just sell your time. You show up, you think, you contribute your personality, skills, and effort. You go to work even when you don't want to. You sell yourself, and your happiness. You just don't sell as much of it for as low a price.
Actually you are for sale. You sell your time and skills for money, just like the other guy. The difference is, your price is just higher. It's like a really expensive hooker getting all condescending towards a cheap hooker for being a hooker.
I remain unimpressed with George W. Bush's magic plan to spread democracy by borrowing billions of dollars from China and doing business with them whenever possible. Articles like this only reinforce this feeling, as if it needed reinforcing.
NASA is probably not entirely to blame. They contract out so much stuff, that a lot of problems are created by interoperability issues between hardware and software designed by different companies.
I nominate Jack Thompson. Also good possibilities: Ricky Martin, Geraldo Rivera, and that guy with the horribly loud voice that does those cleaning product commercials.
This is why I only play PC games. When you "buy" a console, you are really just renting it from a huge corporation that doesn't give a god damn about you. I'm amazed that people torture themselves with consoles. Horrible controls, horrible service, unreliability, and DRM out the bum.
When my PC breaks, I don't have to send it to some company and wait 25 years while they erase all my software and then get it back with a little note that says "Fuck You." I keep backups and replace parts when they get old.
I think it would be funny if there actually was this elaborate, climactic ending, but there was a horrible technical glitch at HBO and the episode was accidentally cut off. Then the network panicked and decided to just leave it how it was shown and let everyone go nuts talking about it.
I think it's fairly common knowledge that DOOM 3 requires a high end graphically capable computer. Having 3 computers that fall short does not somehow magically combine system specs into one giant computer capable of running DOOM 3. You need to have a strong processor, copious RAM, and a powerful video card. Expecting DOOM 3 to run without these can hardly be reflected back to Id Software as a criticism of their work.
I've heard that electricity generation produces more carbon pollution than combustion engine technology. So is this a productive application of technology?
As perhaps his biggest fan, I am aware of that. However, I consider his interest to be "engineering" not "programming video games". He does nothing with his time except engineering, which is why he is so good at it.
I think it says volumes about how far removed from the realities of engineering your average "business person" is that releasing something when it's done is viewed as some kind of rogue attitude.
I would rather have 80% fewer games released every year, if each game was well crafted by a team with full creative control who were passionate about what they were working on and had ample time to finish. The only thing releasing a deluge of unfinished but in-time-for-christmas junk accomplishes is it lines the pocket of the kinds of sharks the industry could do without.
Don't get mad at us because the Revolution turned out to be the Nintendo Penis.
I like the Wii. It's a good piece of technology. However, that is a pretty bad marketing choice. I wonder if you'd be all "mature" and "grown up" if Sony was marketing a new console called the Twaught.
I think some of the negativity comes from being asked to spend $200 on a big thing that is so complex it requires me to upgrade my computer, and it does pretty much exactly what my current thing does. Not to mention that it will probably have an unknown (But larger than zero) amount of DRM and snooping software woven throughout.
For instance, here is a basic list of the applications I use regularly:
Firefox
Office XP
Notepad
DevC++
ZSNES
MathCAD
Games purchased before 2005
Winamp
Cakewalk Recording Studio
FruityLoops
And here is a list of applications I won't be able to use without Vista:
Games made after 2008
Slashdot Mirror
You don't just sell your time. You show up, you think, you contribute your personality, skills, and effort. You go to work even when you don't want to. You sell yourself, and your happiness. You just don't sell as much of it for as low a price.
Actually you are for sale. You sell your time and skills for money, just like the other guy. The difference is, your price is just higher. It's like a really expensive hooker getting all condescending towards a cheap hooker for being a hooker.
Heavy Metal is the testosterone soaked "Action Movie" of the music industry.
I remain unimpressed with George W. Bush's magic plan to spread democracy by borrowing billions of dollars from China and doing business with them whenever possible. Articles like this only reinforce this feeling, as if it needed reinforcing.
NASA is probably not entirely to blame. They contract out so much stuff, that a lot of problems are created by interoperability issues between hardware and software designed by different companies.
How was I trolling? I was just being silly. =(
I nominate Jack Thompson. Also good possibilities: Ricky Martin, Geraldo Rivera, and that guy with the horribly loud voice that does those cleaning product commercials.
This is why I only play PC games. When you "buy" a console, you are really just renting it from a huge corporation that doesn't give a god damn about you. I'm amazed that people torture themselves with consoles. Horrible controls, horrible service, unreliability, and DRM out the bum.
When my PC breaks, I don't have to send it to some company and wait 25 years while they erase all my software and then get it back with a little note that says "Fuck You." I keep backups and replace parts when they get old.
There's a joke in there somewhere...
I think it would be really funny if this was modded +5 Informative.
I think it would be funny if there actually was this elaborate, climactic ending, but there was a horrible technical glitch at HBO and the episode was accidentally cut off. Then the network panicked and decided to just leave it how it was shown and let everyone go nuts talking about it.
I think it's fairly common knowledge that DOOM 3 requires a high end graphically capable computer. Having 3 computers that fall short does not somehow magically combine system specs into one giant computer capable of running DOOM 3. You need to have a strong processor, copious RAM, and a powerful video card. Expecting DOOM 3 to run without these can hardly be reflected back to Id Software as a criticism of their work.
If you're not sure how feasible it would be to put post-it notes on your wall, you might not be an engineering student. =D
If by "some power plants" you mean "the vast, vast majority", then yes some power plants use carbon fuels like coal.
Your response was rude and hardly very enlightening.
I've heard that electricity generation produces more carbon pollution than combustion engine technology. So is this a productive application of technology?
As perhaps his biggest fan, I am aware of that. However, I consider his interest to be "engineering" not "programming video games". He does nothing with his time except engineering, which is why he is so good at it.
Tell that to John Carmack.
Mass Equals Force Times Acceleration!
I think it says volumes about how far removed from the realities of engineering your average "business person" is that releasing something when it's done is viewed as some kind of rogue attitude.
I would rather have 80% fewer games released every year, if each game was well crafted by a team with full creative control who were passionate about what they were working on and had ample time to finish. The only thing releasing a deluge of unfinished but in-time-for-christmas junk accomplishes is it lines the pocket of the kinds of sharks the industry could do without.
Don't get mad at us because the Revolution turned out to be the Nintendo Penis.
I like the Wii. It's a good piece of technology. However, that is a pretty bad marketing choice. I wonder if you'd be all "mature" and "grown up" if Sony was marketing a new console called the Twaught.
I think some of the negativity comes from being asked to spend $200 on a big thing that is so complex it requires me to upgrade my computer, and it does pretty much exactly what my current thing does. Not to mention that it will probably have an unknown (But larger than zero) amount of DRM and snooping software woven throughout.
For instance, here is a basic list of the applications I use regularly:
Firefox
Office XP
Notepad
DevC++
ZSNES
MathCAD
Games purchased before 2005
Winamp
Cakewalk Recording Studio
FruityLoops
And here is a list of applications I won't be able to use without Vista:
Games made after 2008
I get tired of hearing about how I should buy a wii because of how much someone's grandmother likes it. Should I start watching Matlock too?
Bush: Our enemies will never stop thinking of ways to harm our country and our people, and neither will we.
"Soapbox was launched last month to distribute movies and TV shows for big media companies,"
Don't big media companies have enough of a Soapbox by virtue of being big media companies?
This reminds me of a quote: "One of the surest signs that there is intelligent life in the universe is that they haven't contacted us."
I'm not sure who said it originally.