Comment: Re:pfftt... (Score 1) 551
Steven Wright.
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I fall into the old fart 'get off my lawn!' camp. I'm in my 40s and have been doing dev since I started 6502 Assembler on my C-64 way way back in the day.
To be honest I find the opposite of this article to be true... this old dog has no problem learning new tricks. I'm writing my best code now, and every day I get better. I can draw on decades of experience and use that to quickly assimilate new languages, data formats, communication protocols... bring it on! I feel quite confident in my ability to learn most new languages in relatively short time because I've seen the same functionality done so many times in other languages I know how the code should flow. That to me is a tremendous asset.
The real problem is normal users that do not really know what is happening on their computers and really do not care. It always brings me back to images of windows users with 20 different toolbars loaded in to IE.
Maybe they were just toolbar collectors? There must be some reason for their psychosis.
Dead on, EA really doesn't care... they've said and done as much time and time again when this stuff happens.
So I say, FUCK EA! Stop buying their garbage lemmings!
$5000 max for all infringement prior to the filing date of the lawsuit. You can not be sued for the same infringement twice.
However, $5000 is also unlikely as the range is from $100 to $5000 with emphasis implied towards the low end of that scale.
The current Conservative government is already bowing (hugely) to corporate interests. And they are actively crushing anything or anyone who gets in their way.
This is a government who:
In short, this is the most fascist, opaque, anti-democratic, spend happy, bunch of pathological liars for a government in Canadian history. I mean, when Canadians are talking about revolution you know something is seriously f'd up.
Terrorists only win when we let them win. The over-reaction of the world governments has made terrorism a viable way to affect change. When in reality the damage and death toll they usually cause is far less than the number of deaths caused by enjoying our freedoms, ie. driving your car.
I grew up overseas on a military base and bomb scares were somewhat regular. I learned very early on that these people are cowards, and cowards are not to be pandered too, they are not to be validated by changing our way of life. As soon as we do that they have won.
I just played the PS3 demo of Dante's Inferno, available on PSN and releasing Feb 9th 2010... awesome demo... I highly recommend checking it out if you like button mashers like God of War.
I think religious overtones in the game scripts would and do work well so long as the story is compelling. More often than not the conflict between good and evil is what drives a game's story and religion is certainly filled with lots of that. So the opportunity is there to find great stories to use as an influence... I just don't want to be preached to.
IANA-Particle Physicist || Theoretical Astrophysicist.
I am however fascinated by space and the science (albeit the layman's view) behind our understanding of it. One thing I have read about is the expansion energy that seems to be pushing the universe apart. If this energy can be found and quantified how plausible is it to create a negative effect, or localized contraction of space, to facilitate a new type of travel?
I don't claim to understand the amount of energy needed but seeing as this energy is dark and pretty much everywhere maybe we don't need black hole-esque power to achieve warping space.
Ah - these days we have the 'terrorist ghost', earlier we had the 'communist ghost'.
I wonder what's next.
That would be the ghost of common sense. Pretty sure that poor bastard is dead these days.
Well, O.K. I'll compromise with my principles because of EXISTENTIAL DESPAIR!