But how am I going to be SCARED of GM corn if it's due to something else?
Big science-y words like "genetic" and "nuclear" are supposed to scare the pants off me for no reason!! You can't take that away from me, it's all I have!
Okay so I need a cell phone to do my job, and keep in touch with my family.
If you need a phone to do your job, get your employer to pay for it. As for keeping in touch with your family, I never had any problems with that a decade ago when I had no cell phone.
Exactly what do I do? Buy one of those crappy PAYGO cell phones that break in 6 months, and has no features?
Sure, why not?
How do I check my email and keep my calendar with one of those?
Use a computer.
Telling me not to buy it when there are no choices for me is not a choice, it's basically telling me to find a job and a lifestyle that doesn't require a cell phone.
Ok... and?
Look, I'm sorry that life involves making choices. But sometimes you just have to cope.
Are you kidding? The ONLY good thing about that movie was the Douglas Trumbull effects. The plot was retardedly... retarded (launching forests into SPACE?), the acting was passable at best, and the Joan Baez soundtrack wailing hurt my ears. And it's dated horribly.
Oh, and even the good effects were constantly re-used. (How many times did we see a biodome launched into space from the same angle? 10? More?)
The ecological message was done much better in, for example, Soylent Green. If that's the part you admire.
I always thought Farscape, while not a remake, was more than a little bit homage to Buck Rogers. It has the same setup, basically, except replace "frozen in time" with "shot through a wormhole."
I'd like to see more Farscape, but considering it just ended I don't think that's likely for another 20 years until it gets rebooted probably.
Man that cyborg guy in C.O.P.S.... every time the criminals shot at him, the bullets hit his metal body and deflected away. Even as a 12-year-old, I was screaming, "AIM FOR HIS HEAD YOU IDIOTS!" every episode.
What the flying fuck does it matter whether my email is on the same domain as my resume? That doesn't say anything about me at all. Why would that be a negative mark? Why would setting up email be a point in my favor? Complete idiots can set up email at a domain, and extremely skilled people might choose not to-- it's meaningless.
Again, if you're going to use some ridiculous arbitrary standard to judge resumes, fine. But don't come here and pretend like there's some deep-thinking behind it.
They paid for the rooms, same as everybody else. The hotel had no objections to what they were doing...
Sure, the timing means that they were taking advantage of the marketing for CES, but that's not against the law. (Hell, it's an old long-standing tradition, if anything.)
No, I get what you're saying. Forums work better if you don't assume I'm a retard, and instead read and comprehend what you're replying to.
What I'm saying is that you can't answer the question, "does this person own a domain?" by looking at their email address. If you're screening resumes based on that criteria, you're tossing away resumes completely arbitrarily, which I think is terrible.
I choose not to use Gmail attached to my domain-- does that mean I magically somehow no longer own the domain? No, of course not.
Now, that all said, if your criteria was actually "owns a domain *and uses that domain for email", well, then perhaps the original poster would have a point. But that's not what he said.
That's because the DOM sucks ass. Libraries like Prototype and JQuery can make the DOM suck slightly less ass, but unfortunately you're still getting some ass-suckage leaking though.
Believe me, if you were doing GUI programming in C++ or C# and had to go through DOM it would suck just as much.
If my email address is blah@gmail.com, that says absolutely *nothing* about whether or not I run a domain. So if you're criteria for not tossing the resume is "owns a domain" then what good does looking at the email address do?
The joke was that the summary wasn't talking about Communicator, but instead something called "Communincator." Notice the spelling error. It should have a nice squiggly red underline in your browser.
And now I have explained the joke, thus killing it... sorry.
Plus, AOL does actually employ technical people, you know. Mock them all you want, but somebody's out there keeping their network going from day to day. (Our company hired an ex-AOL employee, and he's very good at his job.)
Marathon had the impossible levels too... they're really quite cool, and I haven't seen anything like them in Prey or Portal.
For example, you could make a figure-8 level where the two crossing hallways in the center "don't intersect" with each other. So and your friend can be standing literally in the same place, but you can't see each other because you're in different hallways. One of the Marathon multiplayer levels was mind-bending by using this trick... it made the radar completely useless.
First, it assumes that the pgsql developers of importance can be bought.
The biggest assumption is that Oracle wants to do this in the first place. Microsoft has SQL Server and IBM has DB2, neither of them have tried to buy out PostGRE... Sun's been around for decades and they've never tried it before...
The point is received gobs of money and now he's whining like a toddler. I think everybody's fucking sick of it by now.
If he signed a bad deal, THAT IS HIS FAULT AND HE SHOULD FUCKING COPE WITH IT LIKE AN ADULT! And stop spamming up this, and other, forums with his bullshit whining.
Civilization: Call to Power came out in 1999. Plus it's not even a 3D game. Plus it's turn-based, and doesn't rely on tight response times. Is that the best they have? Hardly a glowing recommendation.
DirectX is a combination of several not-entirely-related technologies. The graphics component is Direct3D, and the stupidly obvious competitor is OpenGL.
In that case, "making a competitor" might consist of nothing more than re-packaging and re-branding.
Because OpenGL is already better, as TFA explains. The problem is purely a marketing one, and requires a marketing response. The marketing response sounds like "complaining", but is actually encouraging people to think and explore their options.
Nobody's going to buy a product marketed with the brilliant tactic of whining. Has that ever worked in the history of ever? If that's the best marketing pitch you have to offer, then it's no wonder DirectX is more successful.
The result is called SDL. Again, these have already been done, they just aren't part of one giant marketing package,
Then it hasn't been done! You can't say in one sentence that it has been done but the most important part hasn't been done. WTF.
largely because they don't necessarily have anything to do with each other. For example, OpenGL powers my compositing window manager at the moment, but it really doesn't need to make any sound.
And DirectX might power the graphics in a CAD program, but not use DirectSound. But it's *still called* DirectX, it still has DirectX's level of support and documentation.
What makes you think the author of TFA hasn't done so? Indeed, what makes you think they would listen to the GP at all?
Just guessing. I honestly have no clue.
I understand what you're saying, but if it was that easy, we'd have done it already.
Well, der. Nowhere did I say it would be easy. Nowhere did I guarantee success. I'm just saying I have very little respect for a community that whines about not being involved in X, but at the same time doesn't have a product to do X. (X can be anything, here it happens to be video game development.)
Whining is not mutually exclusive with doing something about it.
If the whiner had linked to the project already taking this on, then I wouldn't have posted that rant. Since they didn't, I assume there's no project, and therefore it's just whining in this case.
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But how am I going to be SCARED of GM corn if it's due to something else?
Big science-y words like "genetic" and "nuclear" are supposed to scare the pants off me for no reason!! You can't take that away from me, it's all I have!
Okay so I need a cell phone to do my job, and keep in touch with my family.
If you need a phone to do your job, get your employer to pay for it. As for keeping in touch with your family, I never had any problems with that a decade ago when I had no cell phone.
Exactly what do I do? Buy one of those crappy PAYGO cell phones that break in 6 months, and has no features?
Sure, why not?
How do I check my email and keep my calendar with one of those?
Use a computer.
Telling me not to buy it when there are no choices for me is not a choice, it's basically telling me to find a job and a lifestyle that doesn't require a cell phone.
Ok... and?
Look, I'm sorry that life involves making choices. But sometimes you just have to cope.
Yes.
Someone explain to me why this is "insightful?" Please?
So... you're comparing a mediocre modern game to one of the best FPSes ever made?
The only real conclusion you can draw here is, "some games are good, some games are bad."
From the blurb in the summary, it sounds like "jackassery."
Are you kidding? The ONLY good thing about that movie was the Douglas Trumbull effects. The plot was retardedly... retarded (launching forests into SPACE?), the acting was passable at best, and the Joan Baez soundtrack wailing hurt my ears. And it's dated horribly.
Oh, and even the good effects were constantly re-used. (How many times did we see a biodome launched into space from the same angle? 10? More?)
The ecological message was done much better in, for example, Soylent Green. If that's the part you admire.
I always thought Farscape, while not a remake, was more than a little bit homage to Buck Rogers. It has the same setup, basically, except replace "frozen in time" with "shot through a wormhole."
I'd like to see more Farscape, but considering it just ended I don't think that's likely for another 20 years until it gets rebooted probably.
Man that cyborg guy in C.O.P.S.... every time the criminals shot at him, the bullets hit his metal body and deflected away. Even as a 12-year-old, I was screaming, "AIM FOR HIS HEAD YOU IDIOTS!" every episode.
It's Slashdot, you're required by law to mention Firefly every time anything sci-fi comes up. Firefly, Firefly, Firefly.
Personally, I'm a huge sci-fi fan, and I don't like Firefly at all. But I can't say that due to Slashdot Law. Oh crap, it's the Slashdot Police...
That's a good one. Imagine Blake's 7 with a *actual budget*.
What the flying fuck does it matter whether my email is on the same domain as my resume? That doesn't say anything about me at all. Why would that be a negative mark? Why would setting up email be a point in my favor? Complete idiots can set up email at a domain, and extremely skilled people might choose not to-- it's meaningless.
Again, if you're going to use some ridiculous arbitrary standard to judge resumes, fine. But don't come here and pretend like there's some deep-thinking behind it.
They paid for the rooms, same as everybody else. The hotel had no objections to what they were doing...
Sure, the timing means that they were taking advantage of the marketing for CES, but that's not against the law. (Hell, it's an old long-standing tradition, if anything.)
Don't make excuses for this asshole move.
No, I get what you're saying. Forums work better if you don't assume I'm a retard, and instead read and comprehend what you're replying to.
What I'm saying is that you can't answer the question, "does this person own a domain?" by looking at their email address. If you're screening resumes based on that criteria, you're tossing away resumes completely arbitrarily, which I think is terrible.
I choose not to use Gmail attached to my domain-- does that mean I magically somehow no longer own the domain? No, of course not.
Now, that all said, if your criteria was actually "owns a domain *and uses that domain for email", well, then perhaps the original poster would have a point. But that's not what he said.
That's because the DOM sucks ass. Libraries like Prototype and JQuery can make the DOM suck slightly less ass, but unfortunately you're still getting some ass-suckage leaking though.
Believe me, if you were doing GUI programming in C++ or C# and had to go through DOM it would suck just as much.
Yeah, but you're still kind of missing my point.
If my email address is blah@gmail.com, that says absolutely *nothing* about whether or not I run a domain. So if you're criteria for not tossing the resume is "owns a domain" then what good does looking at the email address do?
The joke was that the summary wasn't talking about Communicator, but instead something called "Communincator." Notice the spelling error. It should have a nice squiggly red underline in your browser.
And now I have explained the joke, thus killing it... sorry.
Writing are hards!
I own several domain names, including my own name, but I don't use it for email. Who wants the headache of doing their own spam filtering? Not me.
If anything, I'd say that shows I'm a practical IT person, not something that should be dismissed out-of-hand.
Plus, AOL does actually employ technical people, you know. Mock them all you want, but somebody's out there keeping their network going from day to day. (Our company hired an ex-AOL employee, and he's very good at his job.)
Marathon had the impossible levels too... they're really quite cool, and I haven't seen anything like them in Prey or Portal.
For example, you could make a figure-8 level where the two crossing hallways in the center "don't intersect" with each other. So and your friend can be standing literally in the same place, but you can't see each other because you're in different hallways. One of the Marathon multiplayer levels was mind-bending by using this trick... it made the radar completely useless.
First, it assumes that the pgsql developers of importance can be bought.
The biggest assumption is that Oracle wants to do this in the first place. Microsoft has SQL Server and IBM has DB2, neither of them have tried to buy out PostGRE... Sun's been around for decades and they've never tried it before...
It's just fear-mongoring from Monty.
Whatever!
The point is received gobs of money and now he's whining like a toddler. I think everybody's fucking sick of it by now.
If he signed a bad deal, THAT IS HIS FAULT AND HE SHOULD FUCKING COPE WITH IT LIKE AN ADULT! And stop spamming up this, and other, forums with his bullshit whining.
What's your point? You've been modded "Insightful" but I don't get the significance of your post... ok so DirectX is Java and OpenGL is C-- so what?
Civilization: Call to Power came out in 1999. Plus it's not even a 3D game. Plus it's turn-based, and doesn't rely on tight response times. Is that the best they have? Hardly a glowing recommendation.
DirectX is a combination of several not-entirely-related technologies. The graphics component is Direct3D, and the stupidly obvious competitor is OpenGL.
In that case, "making a competitor" might consist of nothing more than re-packaging and re-branding.
Because OpenGL is already better, as TFA explains. The problem is purely a marketing one, and requires a marketing response. The marketing response sounds like "complaining", but is actually encouraging people to think and explore their options.
Nobody's going to buy a product marketed with the brilliant tactic of whining. Has that ever worked in the history of ever? If that's the best marketing pitch you have to offer, then it's no wonder DirectX is more successful.
The result is called SDL. Again, these have already been done, they just aren't part of one giant marketing package,
Then it hasn't been done! You can't say in one sentence that it has been done but the most important part hasn't been done. WTF.
largely because they don't necessarily have anything to do with each other. For example, OpenGL powers my compositing window manager at the moment, but it really doesn't need to make any sound.
And DirectX might power the graphics in a CAD program, but not use DirectSound. But it's *still called* DirectX, it still has DirectX's level of support and documentation.
What makes you think the author of TFA hasn't done so? Indeed, what makes you think they would listen to the GP at all?
Just guessing. I honestly have no clue.
I understand what you're saying, but if it was that easy, we'd have done it already.
Well, der. Nowhere did I say it would be easy. Nowhere did I guarantee success. I'm just saying I have very little respect for a community that whines about not being involved in X, but at the same time doesn't have a product to do X. (X can be anything, here it happens to be video game development.)
Whining is not mutually exclusive with doing something about it.
If the whiner had linked to the project already taking this on, then I wouldn't have posted that rant. Since they didn't, I assume there's no project, and therefore it's just whining in this case.