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Yo, Stu.

Are there any plans to put Cannon Fodder on the various app stores?

And, if not, could you have a word with your Sensible chums? It's crying out for a port, surely?

Quote:

 

MCV has learnt that senior members of the GAME management teams have been told to brace for the possibility of administration.

Senior staff were told at a meeting with CEO Ian Shepherd earlier this week that the chain has approximately two weeks to turn its fortunes around.

http://www.mcvuk.com/news/read/d-day-looms-for-game/092556

Sad that it's coming to this, though inevitable. The fire-sale is a good short-term tactic, but arguably they wouldn't have needed to go that far if their prices were reasonable in the first place.

And sad/ironic that it's coming up just as the Channel Islands VAT loophole that has done so much to hinder the high-street is being closed in only three weeks. Not that it's a good thing in itself, given that there is some inevitability of price-rises from the online shops now as well.

(And WOSland seems to be down, unrelatedly.)

What is wrong with time rewinding?

I've just discovered that my town is actually part of Scotland.

Does that mean I get all the benefits that come with being part of scotland? Awesome. I presume I'll get to vote on independence too.

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/doncaster--is-part-of-scotland--after-900-year-old-administrative-error-comes-to-light.html

I haven't followed the discussion lately, so what racing game should I get for PS3?

GT5 is probably not for me, but feel free to make your case.

I was thinking about The Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit or Dirt 3.

What do you guys recommend? I already have the latest Wipeout HD.

Games
pix'n'love rush DX just added compatibility

Comp: list
http://forums.toucharcade.com/showthread.php?threadid=96023

Tools
BluTrol (jb) can convert lots of virtual joystick games
http://www.theverge.com/2012/1/10/2698288/blutrol-app-cydia-jailbroken-ios-adapts-games-icade-cabinet
Ifunbox http://www.google.nl/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=ifunbox&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CCoQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.i-funbox.com%2F&ei=nJUNT-rXNcSaOqie6GA&usg=AFQjCNF9USijQCeC-BUxnX0jN34pGFQamw


Stu's articles

Half a dream fulfilled: http://wosland.podgamer.com/?p=12356
Home improvement: http://wosland.podgamer.com/?p=12402
Work avoidance continue's: http://wosland.podgamer.com/?p=12462
Nearly there: http://wosland.podgamer.com/?p=12502#comment-16634

iMame: compatibility nv rams for Cave shooters
Dodonpachi: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/15113363/donpachi.zip
Esprade: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/15113363/espnvcfg.zip

C64:
for those interested, you can games to the c64 emu in almost the same way as to imame, with the exeption that
a) each game shpuld have its own directorry
b) everygame is has a .plist file (to change it to your game, search->replace the game where you've taken it from with the name of the game/image..
More here http://forums.toucharcade.com/showthread.php?t=32539&page=147
(although ftp there is not net when using ifunbox)

Check this out. Guy orders a couple of game controllers, then gets abused by the company that keeps missing its shipping dates.

So let's admire the first unboxing pictures and videos of it, shall we?

Play-Asia has photos. A whole gallery of them in fact. (Oooooh shiny!)

There's this video from GameWave.


(Fuck me, are those game cards small.)

I started working for my current employer in Sep 2010 for £7/hour and all I did was scan documents into a computer. I needed more money, so I asked for more hours. That was agreeable.

6 weeks later, they realise I'm capable of actually doing things with Microsoft Office, that I have people skills and that I can do a lot of things nobody else in the office can do with a computer.

Timing is excellent, because they are in the middle of trying to integrate a completely new line-of-business application (i.e., software that enables them to actually do business at all). It had not been going well and progress was slow. They went with an untested and incomplete bit of software to save some exorbitant monthly fees, but then realise very quickly that they still need to keep the old system running. So, they are now paying two lots of monthly fees.

So, for a salary of £18K, I start to take on more and more responsibility and end up project managing, developing and integrating (essentially, that means I translate the boss saying "I need it to do X" to the software company's M.D. who needs to hear "This needs to be a 50 character limit drop-down box that is available to a Word template"). Oh, I also become the de facto in-house IT support handling "can you sort out my personal laptop / iPhone / BlackBerry problem?".

In the background to all this, I have an offer with a second employer to become a manager of a new bicycle shop. I'm completely up-front with employer #1 about this and they are cool with the fact that I may be leaving them at some point in 2012 (I didn't have an exact date until recently, but I committed to a day when they asked me to). When the offer of managing was upgraded to the offer of "manage it well enough for 3 years and I will sell the shop to you and you can pay for it over the next 3 years", I accepted it on the basis that employer #1 had no offer of employment past the end of this integration project.

There is still work to be done on this new system for employer #1 and it will not be finished by the time I leave. They won't be replacing me, so the boss says "write me a document that tells me everything I have to know about our IT and how you make those Word templates". I politely tell him that most of it is skilled work and cannot be described in a handover document.

I'm still writing the handover document, which is now at 35 A4 pages of dense information covering every weird error, workaround, procedure, costs, hardware replacement schedule, procurement source, contact, equipment audit... a heap of hard work.

This Friday just past, I figure it's probably time I confirm my "after I'm gone" pricing for work they will ask me to do. Before that though, I have made 100% sure that they can manage without me. The software house can cover everything, but they are a minimum 10-day turnaround and the kind of things that I would be asked to do would generally need turning around in an hour.

I quote £35/hour for remote work and £40/hour for on-site.

Not figures I just pulled out of my backside, these are based on a conversation with the M.D. of the external software house (they charge £600 per day for any development work) and some plodding through of likely looking job adverts for things like "project management", "MS office developer" etc and then applying a hefty discount, because I actually do like working there and would like to see a job well done.

I get a response along the lines "£40 an hour?! You are having a laugh! Pay you more than the M.D. of the company makes?! No way!"

To which I reply "Get the M.D. to do the work then".

Both he and I say this in a jokey way, but I am absolutely pissed-off at the attitude. More pissed off as the weekend goes by, in fact.


I'm not oblivious to the notion that £40/hour is a lot of money to pay someone for doing work they previously received the equivalent of approx £10/hour. I would probably be happy with £35, but I have to factor in that I'm only going to be available on my days off from the bicycle shop (Sundays and Mondays) or late evenings, when I can do remote working. Other factors are having to sort out tax and NI payments due from the extra income - all during a time whilst I will need every waking hour to concentrate on developing an entirely new and unfamiliar career.

Which all leaves me with the attitude of "fuck you if you don't want to pay the value of the work" and me not wanting to actually go to work tomorrow. Except I will, because otherwise I'm the asshole.