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Submission + - Creative Places to Work

Submitted by DieNadel on Thursday February 15, 2007 @07:07AM

DieNadel writes: The company I work for as a developer pays a good salary and gives me some stability, but it has a total lack of creative work. We mostly spend our days looking into bugs and doing really boring development. I'm therefore looking for a job in a new and more creative environment, but it's hard to figure out a place besides the usual suspects (Microsoft, Google and Apple). So, the place you work at gives you the ability to be creative? Do you know some companies that fit the profile (in the US and Worldwide)? Please let us know their name and how to apply.

Submission + - Vista = XP SP3

Submitted by

Anonymous Coward

on Thursday February 15, 2007 @06:50AM

Anonymous Coward writes: "Vista = XP SP3 Vienna in 2009. Vienna SP1 in year 2010 ? http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/02/09/HNvistaf ollowup_1.html"

Everybody Votes on the Wii 87

Posted by Zonk on Thursday February 15, 2007 @05:41AM from the it's-like-democracy-only-more-efficient dept.

Wired's Game|Life blog has up a post pointing out a surprise from Nintendo: a cute voting application now available on your Nintendo Wii. Unannounced and easy to understand, Everybody Votes appears to be attempting to gain a gestalt view of the Wii-owning population. The app gives you several multiple choice questions to answer, and allows you to submit your own. Chris Kohler hopes that this might be the beginning of downloads for small, entertaining programs Nintendo fans may have never otherwise seen. "If you've ever been to an E3 or read about Nintendo's booth, you know that they often show little demos or applications that never get released. Well, with Wii, it seems that we might actually start seeing those little experiments thrown out to the public. Since Nintendo as a game developer uses this first-prototype-something-fun style of design, we could see all kinds of things that ordinarily wouldn't ever make it out of Nintendo headquarters." I personally hope we get a full-fledged version of the conducting game that Miyamoto used to demo the system at last year's E3.

Submission + - Why Computer RPGs Waste Your Time

Submitted by

spidweb

on Thursday February 15, 2007 @03:24AM

spidweb writes: "RPGVault has an editorial about two particularly noxious qualities of computer role-playing games: They make you work forever to earn the right to do anything exciting, and they make you have to prove yourself by expending tons of your time. From the article: "So now, thinking about playing an RPG just makes me tired. I'm tired of starting a new game and being a loser. I'm tired of running the same errands to prove myself. The next time I enter my fantasy world, I want it to not assume that I'm a jackass."

The article is at:

http://rpgvault.ign.com/articles/763/763050p2.html "

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