Excellent Microsoft, keep destroying the wide spread use of your own OS, frustrating your end users, and alienating the next generation of system/software engineers.
My name comes back with luggage company. Put in my hometown, high school, college, even race scores posted to the internet, nope... luggage company. Clearly my master plan is safe for now.
I'm sad to say I must agree with this. Bush was my favorite president until I started to hear of all the violations on our people. All this spying at home and I don't feel a bit safer from terrorists. Quite the opposite with a government for the government instead of the people.
I travel regularly all over the U.S. I am huge on security and want me and my family to be safe.
However, what security does the TSA provide? It's pretty obvious that any intelligent enemy will continue to change tatics. This became all the more clear to me when the TSA harassed my wife for more than 5 minutes recently about my 4 month old son's baby bottle. It was more than three ounces because he eats more than three ounces, this was a revelation. They also continue to harass me for 'electronics density'.
You can't travel regularly without flying airlines. Terror is something pretty straight forward and it's being inflicted on america every day by the TSA. We are no safer.
Best case I can always go through security with just my book and my boxers. (they'll search my book for cellulose density) I'll then superglue my face so I have no expression and do the robot through the airport.
I have 4 TB right now for my media center on a total of 9 drives. C'mon I have to store all my Star Trek's, Galactica, etc... somewhere! However, all these drives make a lot of heat. My office regularly goes over 85f.
I interviewed with this guy when I worked in the ISU Research Park in 2000. Was not impressed...
Most of his employees at the time came from my company.
Few months later one of his developers, who was quite good, asked for a bigger piece of the pie and was canned. 3/4 of the rest of the dev staff promptly quit. This is the first I've heard of him since then.
This concept of V'ger having anything to do with the Borg seems somewhat obsurd to me. I was always hoping the Borg had some more mysterious and tragic beginning.
Perhaps a desperate nano-tech scientist tried to save his dying wife with nanites. Then she becomes the queen, assimilates him, and proceeds to conquer the galaxy.
TW2002 was a great BBS door game from the late 90's. I never met a trek fan who didn't love this game. You primary task was to trade at stations, get better ships, colonize and arm planets, and attack other players. I only remember it having the Federation and the Ferengi. You could even conquer the Ferengi homeworld called Ferrengal (not Ferenginar).
It had a wide and dynamic galaxy with secret routes, large planets, and big honkin' space guns. As a developer now I think back and overall it couldn't have been that hard of a game to design and write.
Even though the game hasn't changed it moved out of the BBS world a few years ago. You can run your own copy of Trade Wars 2002 via the Trade Wars Game Server on the internet.
I had also forgotten about the Advanced Simulations Manual. When I moved from my 8088 to my 386 the screens in Begin started going by too fast. I was distracted by women for a short while after that.
A few years later the 2.0 version came out which was CGA, though it might have been EGA. I played it for a while until I moved onto TNG Final Unity. I'll have to go dig for the floppy image on my server and play it again!
- Are there any Trek games that you think have really succeeded?
I tend to define the success of a Star Trek game by how many times I've gone back and played it over the years.
I feel like Birth of the Federation succeeded, although Microprose died. It's a real shame, for such a great, complex, and true to trek game to have not been followed up. However, I'm afraid if it is ever followed up, as we've seen once again with Legacy, the bottom line will be more important than quality of the game.
Other trek game I like to re-visit:
Armada II
SFC III
Away Team (don't laugh)
Bridge Commander
Now, if someone could just merge Birth of the Federation, Master of Orion II, Bridge Commander, Away Team, add in a good story line about the Iconians, allow all known trek races including minor ones, great cut scenes, dynamic star systems, ships, and heavy mod capabilities... then I could sleep at night.
Programming jobs may become harder to find in large corporations. However, smaller companies will usually hire locally. That probably won't change much.
As for the large scale off-shore dev, it's heavy underway now and you have to have xp and be pretty good to make it as a pure dev in a large scale environment.
Thankfully, one way or another, dev management in large environments will always learn that -you get what you pay for-
Yep, season 1 they tooled around and got to know the ship and crew. Season two they finally got some action, major damage to the ship and Romulans. At the end of season two they went into this region of space no one returns from looking for a race that attacked Earth. All of season three was them searching for the Xindi (sp?). Finally, at the end of season three they found the Xindi and made peace. The Enterprise was basically wasted in the process, nice effects. Season 4 they realized the show was in serious trouble and started addressing things like the Vulcan high command being asses and Vulcan's needing to return to peaceful ways. Also, they went into some detail about the Andorians and the beginnings of the Federation between Earth, Andoria, Vulcan, and one other race I can't remember. The Romulans got in there and stired up some trouble with a holo-ship instead of cloaking. Overall season 4 was pretty good, though too late to save the show.
Taking the story line into the past brought the last series to an unfortunate end... Nice to see they are trying the same thing with the next movie.
All I can say is, even numbered Star Trek movies don't suck, and this is an odd numbered one.
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Excellent Microsoft, keep destroying the wide spread use of your own OS, frustrating your end users, and alienating the next generation of system/software engineers.
We'll be that much better off.
My name comes back with luggage company.
Put in my hometown, high school, college, even race scores posted to the internet, nope... luggage company. Clearly my master plan is safe for now.
I'm sad to say I must agree with this. Bush was my favorite president until I started to hear of all the violations on our people. All this spying at home and I don't feel a bit safer from terrorists. Quite the opposite with a government for the government instead of the people.
I travel regularly all over the U.S. I am huge on security and want me and my family to be safe.
However, what security does the TSA provide? It's pretty obvious that any intelligent enemy will continue to change tatics. This became all the more clear to me when the TSA harassed my wife for more than 5 minutes recently about my 4 month old son's baby bottle. It was more than three ounces because he eats more than three ounces, this was a revelation. They also continue to harass me for 'electronics density'.
You can't travel regularly without flying airlines. Terror is something pretty straight forward and it's being inflicted on america every day by the TSA. We are no safer.
Best case I can always go through security with just my book and my boxers. (they'll search my book for cellulose density) I'll then superglue my face so I have no expression and do the robot through the airport.
I have 4 TB right now for my media center on a total of 9 drives. C'mon I have to store all my Star Trek's, Galactica, etc... somewhere! However, all these drives make a lot of heat. My office regularly goes over 85f.
I should get a few of these (rubbing hands)
I interviewed with this guy when I worked in the ISU Research Park in 2000. Was not impressed...
Most of his employees at the time came from my company.
Few months later one of his developers, who was quite good, asked for a bigger piece of the pie and was canned. 3/4 of the rest of the dev staff promptly quit. This is the first I've heard of him since then.
We'll probably see a Vulcan in a skyscraper with a telescope looking back at us.
It's mine.
Star Trek shields are static based, defense deflectors are gravity based.
I thought the main deflector was the big EM rig but it's used for navigation?
Why not all three?
Start out with the generational ship. Resupply them with constant acceleration anti-matter probes.
Then we'll pick everyone up in a few hundred years and carry them the rest of the way with warp drive.
God made it over millions of years. Now it belongs to someone because they -discovered- it.
I'm going to patent the tree.
This concept of V'ger having anything to do with the Borg seems somewhat obsurd to me. I was always hoping the Borg had some more mysterious and tragic beginning.
Perhaps a desperate nano-tech scientist tried to save his dying wife with nanites. Then she becomes the queen, assimilates him, and proceeds to conquer the galaxy.
TW2002 was a great BBS door game from the late 90's. I never met a trek fan who didn't love this game. You primary task was to trade at stations, get better ships, colonize and arm planets, and attack other players. I only remember it having the Federation and the Ferengi. You could even conquer the Ferengi homeworld called Ferrengal (not Ferenginar).
It had a wide and dynamic galaxy with secret routes, large planets, and big honkin' space guns. As a developer now I think back and overall it couldn't have been that hard of a game to design and write.
Even though the game hasn't changed it moved out of the BBS world a few years ago. You can run your own copy of Trade Wars 2002 via the Trade Wars Game Server on the internet.
I had also forgotten about the Advanced Simulations Manual. When I moved from my 8088 to my 386 the screens in Begin started going by too fast. I was distracted by women for a short while after that.
A few years later the 2.0 version came out which was CGA, though it might have been EGA. I played it for a while until I moved onto TNG Final Unity. I'll have to go dig for the floppy image on my server and play it again!
Well said, bravo! I got this game for my birthday in '98 (I think). I played one game through for 56 hours straight. It's still the best.
BEGIN was a shocking amazing Star Trek game. I had almost forgotten how many hours of my life were flushed away on it.
- Are there any Trek games that you think have really succeeded? I tend to define the success of a Star Trek game by how many times I've gone back and played it over the years. I feel like Birth of the Federation succeeded, although Microprose died. It's a real shame, for such a great, complex, and true to trek game to have not been followed up. However, I'm afraid if it is ever followed up, as we've seen once again with Legacy, the bottom line will be more important than quality of the game. Other trek game I like to re-visit: Armada II SFC III Away Team (don't laugh) Bridge Commander Now, if someone could just merge Birth of the Federation, Master of Orion II, Bridge Commander, Away Team, add in a good story line about the Iconians, allow all known trek races including minor ones, great cut scenes, dynamic star systems, ships, and heavy mod capabilities... then I could sleep at night.
Programming jobs may become harder to find in large corporations. However, smaller companies will usually hire locally. That probably won't change much. As for the large scale off-shore dev, it's heavy underway now and you have to have xp and be pretty good to make it as a pure dev in a large scale environment. Thankfully, one way or another, dev management in large environments will always learn that -you get what you pay for-
Yep, season 1 they tooled around and got to know the ship and crew. Season two they finally got some action, major damage to the ship and Romulans. At the end of season two they went into this region of space no one returns from looking for a race that attacked Earth. All of season three was them searching for the Xindi (sp?). Finally, at the end of season three they found the Xindi and made peace. The Enterprise was basically wasted in the process, nice effects. Season 4 they realized the show was in serious trouble and started addressing things like the Vulcan high command being asses and Vulcan's needing to return to peaceful ways. Also, they went into some detail about the Andorians and the beginnings of the Federation between Earth, Andoria, Vulcan, and one other race I can't remember. The Romulans got in there and stired up some trouble with a holo-ship instead of cloaking. Overall season 4 was pretty good, though too late to save the show.
Taking the story line into the past brought the last series to an unfortunate end... Nice to see they are trying the same thing with the next movie. All I can say is, even numbered Star Trek movies don't suck, and this is an odd numbered one.