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Thursday, November 30, 2006
Wednesday, November 29, 2006
Console War
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Tuesday, November 28, 2006
Retour sur mes vacances
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Monday, November 27, 2006
Im back from Disney!
Juste un petit mot, car j'ai pas beaucoup de temps puisque le lundi je joue au hockey, pour vous dire que je suis de retour de Disney, le pays des rêves. Peu importe à quel point je vous raconte mon voyage, peu importe vos attentes. Disney vous le rendra à la puissance dix multiplié par mille. C'est la plus hot place au monde pour s'amuser et se divertir. C'est tellement intense, c'est indescriptible. J'ai encore des étoiles dans les yeux et très mais très hate d'y retourner.
Merci à Jocelyn qui a fait une super job en mon absence! Nous avons pas encore prit le temps de ce rencontrer malgré les tentatives de Joe. Mais j'ai hâte de le raconter!
Have a Magical day!
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Friday, November 24, 2006
James Bond: Playing Poker
Joe here again.
I don't care what you think about the new James Bond movie. It sucks.
Like, as if I want to pay 10$ to see James Bond play Texas hold'em. That's not what I want. I'm not watching the fuking Casino Channel. I wanted to see James Bond, with all the gadgets and cool super vilans that are geared to take over the world.
Here's what I got: a semi cool vilan that bleeds from the left eye. He's not even a real vilan, he's just a dishonest banker who likes poker. No world domination plot here, no doomsday device, just some looser with a gambling problem.
And the new James Bond? Why the fuck did they pick Eminem to play the role? How does this Eminem looking dude have anything to do with the Bond I wanted to see. Blue eyed & blond? WFT? They even let him a chance to pick it up at some point in the movie: a bartender asks him is he wants his drink shaken or stired. He ansered "I don't give a flying fuck, turd!", I swear that's what he says. They could have made him say "Uh.. yeah, shaken please", but they had to make him a bastard.
And the gadgets? No gadgets. I guess they tought people don't like gadgets anymore.
I know what you are thinking (if you haven't seen the movie yet): If they changed to movie so much from all precedent instances, they surely must have put a few naked chicks in there to make it interesting, right? Fuck no. The only ass we see in there is Bond's. I don't know who this actor is, but they really tried to capitalize on his naked body all thru the film.
So did I like the movie? I hated it. But I probably would have liked it a lot if it didn't pretend to be a Bond film. They should have actually casted Eminem for the role, and called it "Slim Shady Playing Poker". That would have been cool. Slim Shady playing poker against Dr Dre, Kenny Rogers, Celine Dion and Micheal Jackson. And he kills Celine and Micheal at the end, saving the world. That would rock.
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Thursday, November 23, 2006
ISV
TheTrap here again. Hello.
Let's talk about Micro ISV.
Independant Software Vendors.
People like me, because that's what I do.
ISV is a fairly new term, we used to be called Indies. But I guess I haven't been in the market long enough to call myself an indie. I've been at it for a little over a year and a half right now. Here is how I see the progression of the indie scene since the 386:
There was a time far far away when a complete game could be programmed by a single guy. All of it: story, art, music, programming. Could take a few months or a year. It was possible.
Than computers became a little faster, memory became cheaper, and videos cards started to support more than 256 colors. So games became bigger and better. Read: more complex and a lot more work to create. I remember when King's Quest IV came out, I though it was lame, but a best seller anyway, and it required a team of 10+ to make, with a million dollar budget. 1 mil? That was insane. It was clear that a single guy could not produce video games anymore, at least not make a living off it.
So time passes. And as we enter the 21st century, something new happens: hot shit starts coming out of people's garages. OpenGL and Direct-X give a thumbs up to developers. Garage Games and ID Software (and others) give away their hot game engines to indies. The Counter Strike (indy made) mod hits the street, giving indies much south after attention. Software E-business sites go online, affiliate programs appear. Download sites standarize the PAD distribution format and pop up everywhere. Suddenly it becomes possible again for indies to actually make money from their software.
inhumangames.com is basically 2 guys. They made Trash (That's the game's name). It took something like 4-5 years. This game fucking rulez. They had no deadline and could tune it as long as they wanted, making it perfect. No marketing shit, no compromises, no boss limiting your creative freedom because of some hiearchical nonsense reason or administrative/marketing evil plot.
Do we need indies? Yeah.
So there I am, an independant software developer, with a puny motion detection program. I just wanted to survive, maybe eat a little. But now I'm dealing with fortune 500s. Can a MIcro ISV survive now a days? I think so. Is it hard? Yeah, sometimes, I guess. Maybe you just need some luck. I don't really know how, but it is possible, beleive that.
Here is the cheesy part: Anything is possible. You should at least try. Am I inspiring you? Come on. Get inspired, you lazy dork.
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Monday, November 20, 2006
Secrets
I have been promoted while Judge is spending time under Florida sun, so now I'm writing on the front page.
Sorry.
To the point:
Do you think it sucks to not be able to tell a secret? Like when you have this really important thing happen to you, but you can't talk about it to anyone. If it never happened to you, you might want to start going out a little.
I don't like it. I'm not a mysterious guy. I'm an open book. I don't have many secrets, I don't like keeping them. I'll do it if I have to, but I'd rather not.
I know this girl that gave me a poisoned secret once, she confessed something to me that I really didn't want to know. And then I had to keep this poison secret with me. What a bitch.
I know another guy that was a real mystery. The kind of guy that does amazing things all the time, having lunch with rock stars and stuff. But he doesn't talk about it unless you beat it out if him. How does he do that? How can you handle having such a low profile?
I know a millionnaire that would never buy a new car because he's not a showoff. New cars are a bad investment, nothing looses value like a new car. He's *not* a cheap bastard, I can vouch for that. But you could look at him and never know he's a millionnaire, like he's keeping it a secret.
Some people can keep things to themselves. I'm not one of them, I don't know why. It's not that I want to brag, and I'm pretty sure I'm not a loudmouth. I had TheTrap.org long before myspace came up.
Anyway. I got a phone call a few days back that might change everything. Or nothing at all. Either way, it's a secret that I can't discuss right now, and it's killing me because I'm an open book.
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Friday, November 17, 2006
Nasty Minnie Mouse
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Wednesday, November 15, 2006
Un tsunami au japon! Yeah right!
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Tuesday, November 14, 2006
Rain
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Friday, November 10, 2006
La mode du Net
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Thursday, November 09, 2006
Hommage à la comptétence, Biencuit pour Chrets.
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Friday, November 03, 2006
Nos compléments d'aliments
On dirait qu'il ne se rendent pas compte qu'à partir du moment où nous somme conçu on commence à mourir! À la base l'oxygène est poison. À les écouter, il faudrait commencer à penser à arrêter de respirer. J'ai commencé. Je respire à intervalle de 30 secondes et si je retiens mon souffle assez longtemps j'ai un buzz.
Je suis d'accord pour mieux manger pour mieux vivre. Être conscient de ma saine nutrition. Mais je ne veux pas me faire publiciser plein de produits suppléments par la peur. Ces études sont nécessaires pour notre compréhension de la santé. Mais il y a aussi d'autres facteurs, le stress, les relations interpersonnelles et familiales mais le plus facile à changer et surtout le plus rapide est notre alimentation. Y a-t-il quelque chose de plus facile et sans effort que d'avaler une pilule de compléments alimentaires, plutôt que de changer son alimentation?
La foutu loi du moindre effort. L'humain est paresseux et impatient. (aussi de plus en plus gros et de moins en moins vite) L'industrie capitalise sur nos faiblesses.
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Thursday, November 02, 2006
Where is HP in the Sony Laptop Recall
So I assume HP considers paying for burned PCs is cheaper than change all of their sold laptop battery. Maybe my HP laptop is better than the others. Who knows? For a couple of month to come I attached an extinction device to my "not so portable anymore" laptop.It might be paranoia but I will never leave my laptop alone. Before, I was afraid of being Highjack or robbed. I was wrong. I should have feared spontaneous combustion.
Oh, don't forget to drink wine, one or two glasses a day; it seems it can help your health.
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Wednesday, November 01, 2006
Un sourire assuré!
J'ai maintenant deux nouveaux dentistes, un spécialisé dans les gencives m'explique que j'ai besoin de greffes de gencives sinon... c'est mal. Il ne ma pas trop convaincu. En discutant j'ai appris qu'il va acheter le cabinet d'un spécialiste, Léo que j'ai déjà consulté en 1997, à condition qu'il passe son examen?!?. J'imagine qu'il étudie encore. L'autre dentiste m'explique que mes dents de sagesses sont nuisible et qu'il y a plus d'effet secondaire "dangereux" de ce les faire retirer après le cap des trente ans. Il m'explique que c'est ma décision et je dois penser que j'ai mes dents pour encore soixante ans. Il a réussi à me faire peur.
Je comprends leur situation, de jeunes dentistes endettés jusqu'aux dents pour étudier, qui font l'achat d'un cabinet de dentiste qu'ils ont ultra-modernisé, faut que ça ce paye. Imaginer le nombre d'heures qu'ils doivent investir. Malgré le cash qui va rentrer, c'est tout un rythme de vie, ça m'impressionne.
Finalement, effectivement si mes assurances me couvre je vais me soumettre à leur conseils. Dans toute cette aventure j'ai surtout été épaté par l'approche technologique. Des radiographies numérisées affichées à un écran LCD, mon ancien dentiste n'avait pas cela. Les technos c'est tellement fun. Mais ça coûte cher, mon évaluation s'élève à 1500$. À quel point les dentistes abuses et/ou profite des assurances? À quel point ils abusent du fait que la santé, on niaise pas avec ça?
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