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Comment Because nobody has a DirectX 11 Computer (Score 1) 518

Even now stores aren't exactly selling computers with 4-Gig of ram, a high-end directx 11 card, and the Quad-core processor power enough to run these absurd requirements. Look at starwas force unleashed. I can disable one of my cores and it won't play at all past the main menu like they are checking for dual core or something. i call Shanagans.

Comment Re:Well something fishy is going on (Score 1) 447

No more than going to the store finding all the 360 game in a display case. Reason is assholes steal them right out the case. Before circuit city died, I was buying a copy of fallout 3 and the box was still in the security device enclosure. the lady noted the weight was wrong and sure enough opened to no game.

Comment Re:Programming == Cut & Paste (Score 1) 623

Resume Pumpers

Problem: Solve a logistical delima by moving work being entered into an Excel spreadsheet to a SQL Server database.

Solution 1: The resume Pumper.
K we gona use a ASP.Net front end with login manager and user maintenance screens.
We're gona implement FAST, CRUD, create at least 70 classes to offload complexity.

Solution 2: The new hire.

Just use Sharepoint!
6-weeks later
Having some troubles, need an extension

Need 6 more weeks.
Hey I found a new job, bye.

Solution 3: The Unix guy
Well, if we had FOSSL(unix) we'd have this problem licked.
I'm going to get coffee be back Sunday.

Solution 4: The Engineer
Six months.
Huh?
I need Six months to make this thing work with active directory, SQL Server 2008, and argue with you about the short-comings of ASP.Net.

Comment Wrong XVID / DiVX is the way (Score 1, Interesting) 400

Why is it when the industry adopts a standard the OSS community must switch to something else? Take an Old Xbox with XBMC. Try playing these H.264 encoded videos then try playing an XVID encoded video. XVID is superior as I can actually watch and enjoy them on older technology. DiVX is a standard. My DVD player can handle XVID, my Xbox and my computer. Almost ever mkv, mp4, etc I download I convert to XVID. My second point is that everybody seems to be encoding for 720p. 480p is acceptable. Vote Xvid. Hell I think youtube should move to streaming XVID.

Comment Re:This is ridiculous. (Score 0) 633

Sounds like you are in Management.
What does Management do all day? 1. Dream about huge salary increases
2. Order people around without any thought to the order they lack
3. Hunt for a new job on JobFinditForMe.com
There should be fewer managers and more coders. ID software was entirely coder driven. Now look where they are. Micromanaged to the shithole. Rage will suck.

Comment Pirates of Silicon Valley (Score 0, Offtopic) 463

Used to as a child, I wanted a computer. On Christmas one year I got a vic-20. Like everybody else I played games on it. It didn't do much. What was the purpose for it? Back then we couldn't type papers in a word processor. You could make blocks move around and save them to a tape-player. So I didn't get hooked because I had an Atari. I could sit down and play for 10 minutes and leave it behind. But none the less I struggled to learn. So eventually I got a Tandy 1000 sl. I played more games on it. This has been the recurring factor throughout life. Now-a-days we just update facebook and taut how cool we are because we compiled a kernel in Linux. We express how elite we are by the mods we make to our game consoles. How we put down $300.00 for an operating system just so we could play a game. Switching operating systems, worrying about virus's, different component support, drivers, dvd-playback, why is it nobody is happy? Point of this is watching the original movie you developed an opinion that Gates, Jobs, and everyone else were just a bunch of jerks wasting our time. Money

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