KOTOR II was so poorly developed this can only be a good thing.
And this is coming from someone who thinks EA may be one of the worst things in the gaming industry right now (especially because they're becoming so indispensable).
The only real risk here is the next star wars game will be an interior design simulator using The Sims engine, set in a Galaxy far, far away...
In our society, anyone more successful than us is automatically the bad guy.
No one likes a winner - that's why the media invented terms like "iPod Killer" and publishes glowing articles on every new product to hit the market that can fit the bill, salivating for Apples failure.
The same reason America's Funniest Home Video's was so successful. The same reason we embedd "journalists" in military units in theatres of war to catch all that death on film. Culturally ingrained sadism.
On another note - I may be a cynic, but it never ceases to amaze me how fast top billing, world shaking, future of space travel, front page news can turn into a slownewsday tag on slashdot.
not so long ago, the discussion would be on if we would ever see the shuttle land again - and if it would be decades before any privately owned spacecraft achieved the same feat.
I support a large number of HP DL380s across a large GAN; they can take a few minutes to boot and for all services to start up. Many of them are frequently shut down due to extended power outages caused by tropical electrical-storms in the area. Other sites turn off their generator every night, so the server has to be shutdown.
I don't much care about the downtime, but clients are faced with an outage of several minutes every time the server so much as reboots. I'm sure everyone here knows how people get when there's a 5 minute delay before they can start repeatedly (and optimistically) clicking the 'Check Mail' button. I'm sure they'd love the faster boot times:)
I don't relish the idea of populating a 16GB hibernation file - even on arrays of SAS drives. It might be easy to trivialise this question in a workstation context, but it has its relevance.
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If there's anything thought provoking about this article, it's made me wonder how WoW stacks up in profitability versus OFFLINE RPGS.
How much money did Neverwinter Nights make?
It's almost unthinkable that an online RPG could reach that critical mass, it seems like only yesterday I was outraged when I bought Ultima Online and learned it had a monthly fee.
Does anyone have that kind of information on hand?
If he doesn't have enough time to spend playing computer games to the exclusion of other activities, then maybe he needs a new hobby. Maybe there's a market for games you can run through a token linear storyline in about 2 hours? Oh yeah, Hollywood.
Stress is when you get given too much work to do in too short a period of time and it can only be completed through your own raw output, not by referencing the work of others - usually as a result of poor resourcing and budgeting by management, and over-commitment to service levels.
one might say people who continue to work for such companies or in such conditions are idiots and just stressing themselves. This is either true (in a lot of cases) or just short-sighted (in many others).
As an example, I work in a high stress position, providing my services cheaper than my peers for a job I genuinely believe in (providing technology to under-privileged children so they can complete school and break out of the poverty cycle). If that's not worth a bit of stress, I don't know what is.
anyone who says they have no stress or don't believe in stress just doesn't have a stressful job. their experiences don't define anyone elses - nor invalidate them.
"When contacted for his feelings on this controversial casting, William Shatner, who played Kirk in each previous appearance on the small or big screen, had this to say"
400 comments in here already so feel free to mod redundant;)
I actually clicked on this one with genuine interest; as a practical matter, I have trouble with this all the time in my work life because I support windows, unix and mac systems in server and workstations capacity, with files moving between in archived and non archived forms.
Needless to say filename issues are a frequent pain in the balls.
You have a SAMBA share containing 2,500 Windows profiles, you write a bash script to move them from one disk nearing capacity to a newly installed redundant volume with adequate capacity.
How many folders do you think you will find named "user.name's pictures"?
Different naming standards in different platforms is only slow news material if you're not nerdy enough;)
People keep arguing that there are just too few macs out there to promote the spread of a serious mac virus - Isn't that, through sheer logical fallacy, as flawed an argument as security through obscurity?
Let's travel back in time a little to when there were as many Windows users as there are MacOS X users in the modern day. How many Windows machines were infected by how many virii?
And to think, a decade ago you didn't have the ubiquity of the internet to spread an infection with the ease we see today. How on earth did they manage?
The question of WHY there are no MacOS X infections is the most interesting part of this story.
is a number of bash scripts on servers he manages that perform complex series of command line tasks with a single command executed by the helpdesk operator. Not a bad idea, as it eliminates the potential for human error by unskilled or unwary operators, but i can see why it wouldn't have been rolled out by the tech staff or approved by management:
If i was a helpdesk operator in a company managing linux servers, my only way up the ladder would be by increasing my skillset in the managed environment. Having the hard work done for my by a simple script, and not having to take the responsibility for my actions in the environment means I dont personally develop in a technical capacity (the management reason).
It also means they could replace me with someone with no skills whatsoever (the tech reason)
Funny the tech reason is so brief compared to the management reason;)
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Or, we could sue Microsoft for making Vista awkward to navigate - you don't have to be blind to have trouble with that one.
Good thing Obsidian haven't been bought by EA then - 6 months is more than they could expect to develop a full game ;)
I stand justifiably corrected... The original KOTOR was a winner in my books.... but, I guess, what have they done for me lately? ;)
KOTOR II was so poorly developed this can only be a good thing. And this is coming from someone who thinks EA may be one of the worst things in the gaming industry right now (especially because they're becoming so indispensable). The only real risk here is the next star wars game will be an interior design simulator using The Sims engine, set in a Galaxy far, far away...
The thing about cruel and unusual punishment is it creates resentment in otherwise law abiding citizens.
There's not better way to make people disrespect the law than to fail to apply it justly.
In our society, anyone more successful than us is automatically the bad guy.
No one likes a winner - that's why the media invented terms like "iPod Killer" and publishes glowing articles on every new product to hit the market that can fit the bill, salivating for Apples failure.
The same reason America's Funniest Home Video's was so successful. The same reason we embedd "journalists" in military units in theatres of war to catch all that death on film. Culturally ingrained sadism.
Never even heard of that game before, awesome : )
On another note - I may be a cynic, but it never ceases to amaze me how fast top billing, world shaking, future of space travel, front page news can turn into a slownewsday tag on slashdot.
not so long ago, the discussion would be on if we would ever see the shuttle land again - and if it would be decades before any privately owned spacecraft achieved the same feat.
I, for one, wish to welcome the return of our Interplay overlords
I support a large number of HP DL380s across a large GAN; they can take a few minutes to boot and for all services to start up. Many of them are frequently shut down due to extended power outages caused by tropical electrical-storms in the area. Other sites turn off their generator every night, so the server has to be shutdown.
:)
I don't much care about the downtime, but clients are faced with an outage of several minutes every time the server so much as reboots. I'm sure everyone here knows how people get when there's a 5 minute delay before they can start repeatedly (and optimistically) clicking the 'Check Mail' button. I'm sure they'd love the faster boot times
I don't relish the idea of populating a 16GB hibernation file - even on arrays of SAS drives. It might be easy to trivialise this question in a workstation context, but it has its relevance.
Congratulations, you've just been successfully manipulated.
If there's anything thought provoking about this article, it's made me wonder how WoW stacks up in profitability versus OFFLINE RPGS.
How much money did Neverwinter Nights make?
It's almost unthinkable that an online RPG could reach that critical mass, it seems like only yesterday I was outraged when I bought Ultima Online and learned it had a monthly fee.
Does anyone have that kind of information on hand?
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If he doesn't have enough time to spend playing computer games to the exclusion of other activities, then maybe he needs a new hobby.
Maybe there's a market for games you can run through a token linear storyline in about 2 hours? Oh yeah, Hollywood.
it's good to know that nanotechnology has been widely used for a very long time." :)
By civilizations that are long extinct...
Agreed, everyone was up in arms about China requiring companies to comply by it's laws. Does agreeing with someone automatically make them right?
This means you'll never need swap space again?
If your applications are taking 20 seconds to 'swap in' i suggest you buy faster storage/system bandwidth (bus/cpu), not more memory.
I also suggest you learn some manners if you want to be taken seriously in any sensible discussion.
Stress is when you get given too much work to do in too short a period of time and it can only be completed through your own raw output, not by referencing the work of others - usually as a result of poor resourcing and budgeting by management, and over-commitment to service levels.
one might say people who continue to work for such companies or in such conditions are idiots and just stressing themselves. This is either true (in a lot of cases) or just short-sighted (in many others).
As an example, I work in a high stress position, providing my services cheaper than my peers for a job I genuinely believe in (providing technology to under-privileged children so they can complete school and break out of the poverty cycle). If that's not worth a bit of stress, I don't know what is.
anyone who says they have no stress or don't believe in stress just doesn't have a stressful job. their experiences don't define anyone elses - nor invalidate them.
Looking at the "Sexual Tension" poster, all I hear is "Yo, Blair!"
400 comments in here already so feel free to mod redundant ;)
Sounds like a man who didn't own an electric flashlight ;)
Religion isn't intended to be a means of understanding the world - it's a means of understanding yourself and in turn, understanding God.
It's a shame most religions (or their followers) have lost sight of that point.
Needless to say filename issues are a frequent pain in the balls.
You have a SAMBA share containing 2,500 Windows profiles, you write a bash script to move them from one disk nearing capacity to a newly installed redundant volume with adequate capacity.
How many folders do you think you will find named "user.name's pictures"?
Different naming standards in different platforms is only slow news material if you're not nerdy enough ;)
People keep arguing that there are just too few macs out there to promote the spread of a serious mac virus - Isn't that, through sheer logical fallacy, as flawed an argument as security through obscurity? Let's travel back in time a little to when there were as many Windows users as there are MacOS X users in the modern day. How many Windows machines were infected by how many virii? And to think, a decade ago you didn't have the ubiquity of the internet to spread an infection with the ease we see today. How on earth did they manage? The question of WHY there are no MacOS X infections is the most interesting part of this story.
is a number of bash scripts on servers he manages that perform complex series of command line tasks with a single command executed by the helpdesk operator. Not a bad idea, as it eliminates the potential for human error by unskilled or unwary operators, but i can see why it wouldn't have been rolled out by the tech staff or approved by management: If i was a helpdesk operator in a company managing linux servers, my only way up the ladder would be by increasing my skillset in the managed environment. Having the hard work done for my by a simple script, and not having to take the responsibility for my actions in the environment means I dont personally develop in a technical capacity (the management reason). It also means they could replace me with someone with no skills whatsoever (the tech reason) Funny the tech reason is so brief compared to the management reason ;)