No kidding. When I was looking for work a couple years ago, I applied for dozens of programming jobs, and only got two phone interviews, despite the fact that I've been writing software successfully for over 20 years.
Then I applied for a temp. teaching position at a local university. I was hired immediately, even though my only teaching experience was as a TA in the 1970's.
I looked throught the LucasFan site, and couldn't find anything about the legal issues. Wouldn't LucasArts have a valid complaint about them distributing a game that they have the rights to?
I was an early ST software developer and had a prototype model. I believe the power supplies were for the CPU (inside the KBD), the hard-drive (in a shop-built box), and a floppy drive.
Judging by their commercials, they're promoting their 'healthy' food to the 30-something female crowd, probably trying to encourage moms to give in to their kids' demands to go there.
The free downloads would appeal more to people in their teens, and they aren't the ones worried so much about fat and calories.
I agree. Seems like unused knowledge gets transferred into some sort of slower storage. I wonder what the limits are, though. Also, when those limits are reached, will new information replace the old, or will it simply not be retained.
In other words, is our brain like a disk drive, or is it like a cabinet with a limited number of CDR's?
Why stay in one place for that long? You have the potential to learn new things, meet new people...
This will be great for some people. But my experience is that there is a large portion of the population that doesn't want to learn new things, even when they're relatively young.
But what is the capacity of the human brain? More than 25 years ago, I was writing HP/1000 assembly code; yet I certainly couldn't do that today without completely relearing it.
From the article: We certainly live very different lives from that of our fathers and grandfathers.
I don't see this, even though I'm probably one of the older people here. In the 50's and 60's, my parents had cars, telephones, televisions, and most of the appliances we have today. The only really new things we have are computers.
If persons (NPC's) in the game actually start making decisions for themselves that were not scripted, then computer science will, indeed, have advanced quite a bit.
My daughter goes to Lincoln HS, and there's a teacher there, Mr. Bailey, who's supposedly the model for Mr. Burns' personality. He must be pretty old, since Groening graduated around 30 years ago.
But it appears to me that Burns is also inspired a lot by Howard Hughes (crazy rich old hermit who was a dashing aviator in the early 20th century).
Another thing about Springfield: It's a working-class town, but Eugene, just across the interstate, is a college town (U of O), which I'd guess represents Shelbyville.
It also enables closed-source development that people might not want to do for free. My employer sells fairly expensive EDA software, and we use TCL/TK for the GUI, GCC for compiling, and Linux as a development platform. Many of our customers (EE's doing hardware and chip design) run our product on Linux.
So, am I worried that someone will produce open-source versions of our tools, and that my job will go away? Not really, because:
1. EDA work tends to be fairly messy, and isn't the sort of thing a person might do for fun. 2. Even if someone does try to do open-source versions, it will take a looong time to catch up to the proprietary tools. 3. By the time someone does succeed, I'll want to be doing something else anyway.
They tried it with OS/2, and quickly learned that they're not suited to dealing with consumers (people who call for tech. support because their version of Myst doesn't display correctly with the 4-year-old video card that the neighbor kid put in their machine).
That's why my software group bought a second automatic espresso machine to be used as a spare. Previously, a breakdown of the machine would cause major productivity declines during the week it took to get it fixed.
That was Tom Wilson, who played the bad guy in Back to the Future. And of course, Paladin was played by John Rhys-Davis (spelling?), a very successful actor who's been in just about everything, including, most recently, LOTR.
Those were great games. Later, when the WC movie came out, it seemed a bit funny that the games had used better actors.
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No kidding. When I was looking for work a couple years ago, I applied for dozens of programming jobs, and only got two phone interviews, despite the fact that I've been writing software successfully for over 20 years.
Then I applied for a temp. teaching position at a local university. I was hired immediately, even though my only teaching experience was as a TA in the 1970's.
It's not usually a requirement, but PhD's are really common in the EDA (Electronic Design Automation) industry.
I looked throught the LucasFan site, and couldn't find anything about the legal issues. Wouldn't LucasArts have a valid complaint about them distributing a game that they have the rights to?
I was an early ST software developer and had a prototype model. I believe the power supplies were for the CPU (inside the KBD), the hard-drive (in a shop-built box), and a floppy drive.
But if you're a guy, even a fairly geeky one, the Porsche will get you a fair amount of female attention. I wouldn't say the same about the gaming PC.
Judging by their commercials, they're promoting their 'healthy' food to the 30-something female crowd, probably trying to encourage moms to give in to their kids' demands to go there.
The free downloads would appeal more to people in their teens, and they aren't the ones worried so much about fat and calories.
Guess I was lucky to actually sell my AtariST in the late 80's. But that thing was a monstrosity with something like 3 external power supplies.
Just curious, but I wonder what the speed (words/minute) is of an average Morse-code user. This could be fairly practical for text-messaging.
I agree. Seems like unused knowledge gets transferred into some sort of slower storage. I wonder what the limits are, though. Also, when those limits are reached, will new information replace the old, or will it simply not be retained.
In other words, is our brain like a disk drive, or is it like a cabinet with a limited number of CDR's?
I fear that if all our grandparents were still alive, we'd never be able to get anywhere because of all the RV's clogging up the highways.
...then the defects would be inherited by offspring.
Isn't that why sexual reproduction exists?
Why stay in one place for that long? You have the potential to learn new things, meet new people...
This will be great for some people. But my experience is that there is a large portion of the population that doesn't want to learn new things, even when they're relatively young.
But what is the capacity of the human brain? More than 25 years ago, I was writing HP/1000 assembly code; yet I certainly couldn't do that today without completely relearing it.
Trouble is that it costs real money, I think $200 to get started.
From the article: We certainly live very different lives from that of our fathers and grandfathers.
I don't see this, even though I'm probably one of the older people here. In the 50's and 60's, my parents had cars, telephones, televisions, and most of the appliances we have today. The only really new things we have are computers.
If persons (NPC's) in the game actually start making decisions for themselves that were not scripted, then computer science will, indeed, have advanced quite a bit.
Was this done by Old MacDonald?
Not so tough. According to Dave Barry, the aliens were using Windows. That's why they invaded us.
My daughter goes to Lincoln HS, and there's a teacher there, Mr. Bailey, who's supposedly the model for Mr. Burns' personality. He must be pretty old, since Groening graduated around 30 years ago.
But it appears to me that Burns is also inspired a lot by Howard Hughes (crazy rich old hermit who was a dashing aviator in the early 20th century).
Another thing about Springfield: It's a working-class town, but Eugene, just across the interstate, is a college town (U of O), which I'd guess represents Shelbyville.
That's "Enchanted Forest", and appears to be the park that Flanders buys and turns in "Praise Land" (or something like that).
Actually, it's a pretty nice place for younger kids.
It also enables closed-source development that people might not want to do for free. My employer sells fairly expensive EDA software, and we use TCL/TK for the GUI, GCC for compiling, and Linux as a development platform. Many of our customers (EE's doing hardware and chip design) run our product on Linux.
So, am I worried that someone will produce open-source versions of our tools, and that my job will go away? Not really, because:
1. EDA work tends to be fairly messy, and isn't the sort of thing a person might do for fun.
2. Even if someone does try to do open-source versions, it will take a looong time to catch up to the proprietary tools.
3. By the time someone does succeed, I'll want to be doing something else anyway.
They tried it with OS/2, and quickly learned that they're not suited to dealing with consumers (people who call for tech. support because their version of Myst doesn't display correctly with the 4-year-old video card that the neighbor kid put in their machine).
That's why my software group bought a second automatic espresso machine to be used as a spare. Previously, a breakdown of the machine would cause major productivity declines during the week it took to get it fixed.
You're right, passwords aren't the problem. For me, remembering which password goes with which service is the problem.
That was Tom Wilson, who played the bad guy in Back to the Future. And of course, Paladin was played by John Rhys-Davis (spelling?), a very successful actor who's been in just about everything, including, most recently, LOTR.
Those were great games. Later, when the WC movie came out, it seemed a bit funny that the games had used better actors.