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Its a proven fact that if you don't use it you lose it. Your brain is constantly rewriting your memories, and information gets lost over time. This is why police get police reports ASAP, because its the most accurate account of the person before the mind begins trying to fill in the blanks with guess work. Believe me man, you do forget things. You're personality allows you to solve problems with experiences you have, weather its the experience of learning others experience (reading books) or actually getting out and doing something. In essence, its a hacker personality. When there is something blocking you, you find a way around it using every available resource you have.

Isn't it possible that a person will act the same based on track record because their environment is always the same and therefore there isn't an incentive to change their habits, especially if they are unaware of this? People can change enough to make a big difference when their eyes are opened and they realize what really matters in life. I've seen it happen.

Don't ever doubt yourself and your ideas. You will fail if you don't believe in what you're doing. You need to convince investors of your passion and conviction towards your ideas. They need to believe in you, but first, you need to believe in yourself and your capabilities and your own ideas. Did GM hesitate to compete with Ford? Did Pepsi hesitate to compete with Coke? Did LSD hesitate to... well you get my point.

He's looking at what could have been done to avoid this situation.

How the hell do cops and firefighters right off a car accident like this, as if its nothing?

People are ignorant.

Based on what?

I saw Full Metal Jacket when I was 4 years old and I loved it. I saw Texas Chainsaw Massacre and I laughed.

This scared the shit out of me.

Man.. I'm sorry if this isn't the response you're looking for, but the only thing that comes to mind now is that if you enjoy what you do, you'll be more successful then the person who is only looking for success and not enjoying what they do. All the people I listed were people that do this out of passion, and have become successful over time.

I dunno man, I admire them, they don't have a daily job, they have a daily dream.

Yes there are hard times, but everybody has their own difficulties, and when there is failure, you learn and try again towards success. I believe any entrepreneur will tell you that to win, you are going to lose, you are going to learn, and you will eventually be successful.

Well is there a way to hide your javascript, or compile it to hinder the ability to steal it so easily? I'd like to know cause as far as I knew you had to be extra careful on what you do with javascript to protect the security of your site. I always have my controllers verifying my input from javascript/ajax, cause I know my js is easily viewable.

In other words I'm not sure why we should be surprised and caring that someone stole javascript.

Okay.. but Javascript is free to view through the client machine no matter what. It brings up that question "if its easy to cheat, will people do it?" and the answer is, usually yes. Sure theft really sucks, but was there a way to prevent this other then trusting someone not to steal?

First thing that comes to mind is James Silva and The Dishwasher: Dead Samurai -> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dishwasher

James Silva has won recognition from Microsoft, has co-authored books on XNA game development. He's another kid that in the middle of no where upstate NY that did a great job, made a good product and is doing well for himself.

Also if you just look for indie game developers -> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_indie_game_developers alot of these games appear on STEAM (steampowered.com) and are distributed to many customers successfully for Win/Mac/Linux.

In fact most game developers started out as mod teams. Back in the Quake days, Team Fortress was made, and now the same people that made that made TF2. Left 4 Dead started out as a mod for HL2, and turned into a full fledged game on the OrangeBox engine.

Last thing that comes to mind is -> "http://sandboxgamemaker.com/ which is another production that has been very successful. My friend who's on the dev team has had stories come back from teachers in Europe and California that use this software with kids, and has helped them learn and find passion in their work.

If it pleases the court, I'd like to end with this. If you wish for me, I ask for a brief recess to prepare material. :-)

In the end Piracy saves us... http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/cmToK.j...

Going to work overtired is the same as going to work drunk -> http://theweek.com/article/index/202658/going-to-work-sleepy...

EA has grown so large they will "Challenge Everything" in their path that goes against their profit margin.

However I find it hard to believe its hard for small studios to have success. If the studio develops a good product and releases it to the masses on the internet or xbox live arcade, or the number of homebrew scenes, you will get attention. You just have to make a good product.

IMHO, some of the best games lately are free or not the latest and greatest. Corporate big wigs are pushing mainstream games into a corner and beating them a lead pipe for every bit of control over the flow of money and players. Activision and EA Corporate Big Wigs have fubared Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (tm) and Bad Company 2. Both games will suffer in the long run with lack of an SDK for the modding community. There is also a lack of dedicated server files, which remove the option for hosting your own game servers. The communities have spoken loud, and the developers do here this. Infinity Ward and Dice have already lost employees because they disagree with EA and Activision's control and greed.

In the end I am very loyal to the companies which remain respectful to its fans and work with the people, and not for the money.

Valve, iD, 3dRealms, are just a number of companies that are more concerned with producing a good game, and sharing the success all around. Love to 3rd party developers with SDK's, love to the players for not charging massive amounts of money for DLC, just good old love for developers.

In retrospect, I'm sorry for the abused developers all over. But they have a choice, and they choose to endure that reality. But some will choose to break off and make a startup. Valve was created by 2 former Microsoft employees, and they started small, and look at them now. They have produced games, software, and contributed to the community with massive amounts of information, and content to award the player, and the developers (both in house and 3rd party). Same goes for Epic Megagames, which continue to release Unreal Tournement games, with updated fresh engines. Id Software will continue to produce the next Doom and Quake. (Where it all began.) 3dRealms if I remember correctly has gone under, but I pray to god someone buys the Duke Nukem Forever project and finishes it soon. To quote Steve Ballmer: "Developers Developers Developers Developers Developers Developers Developers Developers Developers Developers Developers"

Now I need to get back to my job... as a developer. [I apologize if I was unorganized or off topic]

#learned "pick up" from a master (always wanted to have women in my life)

Could you please elaborate on this? Since graduating college, this is difficult to me.

That quote is fantastic, thank you very much.

Cannot money be a means to the end to justify the beginning? I work to pay off my student loans. I think that when my student loans are paid off, and my expenses are significantly lower, I can relieve myself of my job security and either relocate/travel and become a consultant/contractor maybe pursue a more fulfilling job.

If I'm reading this right he took messy javascript someone wrote, and ported it to a php library... If he didn't give original credit to the OP, then yeah thats rude, but don't we all end up porting old code at sometime or another?

Encore, small business is what drives the economy!

Looking at this from a networking scenario, will this create a mesh network of relationships, where a balanced trust is generated through each node, sharing information through the network replicating over each node... Okay now picture 1984, where everybody is equal, people can't have relationships, the government regulates everything... I don't know, something about this disturbs me. I have 3 friends I'd trust my life with, who'm I was best buds with in the respective areas/schools I went to (I went to different districts moving around alot). I haven't been diagnosed with anything other then to lose my college beer gut.

Please disregard this, I put very little effort in giving you any real information to know anything or understand anything about this situation. That was stupid of me. I'm an avid reader of the site, and I was in a state of looking for help, but I'm weak in asking the right questions. Thanks for your input.

Perhaps, truth be told, I already know her, I just can't seem to get her attention.

Thanks man, I'll definitely read it.

All this came from reading this-> http://i.imgur.com/ztpGt.png and I think it's pretty accurate.

Waiting on my violin to be repaired right now. Downsizing myself and my things, moving out of my apartment to live with a friend and save money.

I have my whole life to fall in love, and perhaps I can't fall in love right now cause my life is too calculated.