If you can't estimate the cost of your product... any product... you won't stay in business very long.
Will you get the estimate right every time? No. But having a plan that changes, is better than no plan at all. With experience I've gotten better at estimating software. Put thought into it. Your job depends on it. No investors will support a venture without some business plan, and business plans depend on cost.
We'd all be destitute if we blindly handed over cash without asking for estimates.
I'm pretty sure he was referring to latency due to speed of light limitations.
Satellite internet has very high latency, and there is no fixing it. 22,000 miles up, then 22,500 miles down
Tidal forces are the driving factor for maintaining a liquid core. Europa, Io, Earth, Titan, and now Mercury illustrate this. Mars is larger and closer to the sun than all these moons, but has no tidal forces.
1. Our own moon violates this rule (it should be heated by the tidal force of the earth). When all is said and done I think we'll find that the moon's core is, if not molten, certainly heated.
2. Venus has a liquid core I believe, and it has no companion, no tidal forces.
Yes, I realize these statements contradict. Just throwing them out for discussion.
I agree with the spirit of this article, and don't want to be contrary, but the comment "the world is not always a nice place" is completely out of step with the topic, and mixing these topics is precisely what leads to trouble. The violence depicted in games is a mere caricature of the real thing, and a dangerous one at that.
With regards to which games are acceptable for children, our family is admittedly out of step with mainstream culture. My 4-year-old son has dabbled in Rome-Total-War. "Lemmings" has some disturbing content by preschool standards, especially the updated 3D-versions. But its on the approved list because the player is challenged with saving the lemmings rather than destroying them. Mario in contrast, is completely off-limits.
We will watch and discuss "Saving Private Ryan" before we introduce Mario. Though I don't distinguish between Mario and Gears-of-War, one could argue that Mario is worse because it sugar-coats aggression, makes it more palettable. Lobbing mushrooms and fireballs teaches aggression every bit as well as mortars.
NOTE: It composing this post, I used the concepts of "aggression" and "violence" somewhat interchangeably. They are of course not the same, but I wanted to limit this post to a few paragraphs. Apologies to those who are offended by this ambiguity.
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If you can't estimate the cost of your product... any product... you won't stay in business very long. Will you get the estimate right every time? No. But having a plan that changes, is better than no plan at all. With experience I've gotten better at estimating software. Put thought into it. Your job depends on it. No investors will support a venture without some business plan, and business plans depend on cost. We'd all be destitute if we blindly handed over cash without asking for estimates.
I'm pretty sure he was referring to latency due to speed of light limitations. Satellite internet has very high latency, and there is no fixing it. 22,000 miles up, then 22,500 miles down
To meet girls. No other reason.
Tidal forces are the driving factor for maintaining a liquid core. Europa, Io, Earth, Titan, and now Mercury illustrate this. Mars is larger and closer to the sun than all these moons, but has no tidal forces. 1. Our own moon violates this rule (it should be heated by the tidal force of the earth). When all is said and done I think we'll find that the moon's core is, if not molten, certainly heated. 2. Venus has a liquid core I believe, and it has no companion, no tidal forces. Yes, I realize these statements contradict. Just throwing them out for discussion.
I agree with the spirit of this article, and don't want to be contrary, but the comment "the world is not always a nice place" is completely out of step with the topic, and mixing these topics is precisely what leads to trouble. The violence depicted in games is a mere caricature of the real thing, and a dangerous one at that.
With regards to which games are acceptable for children, our family is admittedly out of step with mainstream culture. My 4-year-old son has dabbled in Rome-Total-War. "Lemmings" has some disturbing content by preschool standards, especially the updated 3D-versions. But its on the approved list because the player is challenged with saving the lemmings rather than destroying them. Mario in contrast, is completely off-limits.
We will watch and discuss "Saving Private Ryan" before we introduce Mario. Though I don't distinguish between Mario and Gears-of-War, one could argue that Mario is worse because it sugar-coats aggression, makes it more palettable. Lobbing mushrooms and fireballs teaches aggression every bit as well as mortars.
NOTE: It composing this post, I used the concepts of "aggression" and "violence" somewhat interchangeably. They are of course not the same, but I wanted to limit this post to a few paragraphs. Apologies to those who are offended by this ambiguity.