And no one murders anyone, rapes are unheard of, and companies don't try their hardest to get around OSHA and EPA regulations. Just because people break the laws doesn't me we give up and repeal them.
Isn't the idea behind the rating system is that minors would need parental consent to purchase and play the games? The reason that there isn't more governmental regulation of movie ticket sales and DVD sales and rentals is because the industries themselves have shown due dilligence about enforcing their rating systems.
If the gaming rating systems is perceived to be a joke, the government WILL step in.
His car? A pinto. The car is so damned light that it beats a lot of muscle cars for the 1/4, and nothing, I mean nothing, is worth more than the look on the face of someone who was just beaten by a car known far as wide for it's lack of anything worthy.
I get a similar feeling when people realize they were just owned by my wife at CS.:)
I personally can't wait to find out what happens when your geeky wife logs onto slashdot and finds you implicitly comparing her to something known far and wide for its lack of anything worthy. Buddy, are you in for the "-1, flamebait" of your life...
Great. So when is NASA going to start pulling off these cheap, repeatable, and reusable human flight programs. If Scaled Composites can piggy back, why can't NASA?
Are you sure about that? After all, the first six were failures, and 7 stopped working less than an hour after release. I honestly don't know about the rest of the missions, save 13 was the first color pictures of Venus.
I agree with the general point about "faster/cheaper" versus "slower/robust/expensive" though.
This is a really interesting and insightful comment, but I have a few additions and points I'd like to make.
I think you make an excellent case for the first point. I think you are right on target that many an experienced developer might sign on to do a fast-cheap project but in the end be unable to sacrifice quality to do so. The temptation to do just a bit of user input checking, to make that data screen load a tad faster, would be irresistable, and would quickly add up.
I think you ultimately miss out on the second case, the fast-good scenario. Inexperienced developers would not be working on a project that had to be delivered fast and good, because the funds would be there for the best programmer with the most experience using the best tools available.
And the last case, cheap-good, I think you miss out, not because of an incorrect understanding of the developer view point as in the fast-good case. Your first exception doesn't seem to be an exception at all. On a cheap-good project, time should be taken to polish and improve, and there should be no time constraint that would halt this process before it was completed. The second exception is a case of the client going back on their word and adding "fast" to the cheap-good stipulation, which wrecks the whole equation. Or, I guess if I read the second objection another way, you are saying the developer would get bored of the project and not take the time to make it "good". That seems to be a problem of a developer's maturity level or dicipline, which is unfortunately a widespread problem.
Anyway, excellent review, and excellent comments to go with it. If only Slashdot was this interesting all of the time.
James Randi did a nice write up about this, with some great pictures and commentary about the machine on his site. You can find a direct link to the articles here and here. I especially enjoyed the artwork depicting how the person inside fit in the contraption and enabled it to play chess. This was a very, very clever little hoax!
So, did you miss the fact that Harry himself said up front that the movie wasn't in final form? Look, Harry has done some asinine things, and his reputation for gushing over any piece of celluloid he sees needs no further comment here. But Harry has NEVER fabricated a review. Ever. So, take the review, minus the hype, and its still pretty informative. There are things in the review that haven't been leaked before (Obi-wans interaction with the deathstick pusher, for one) that will be easy to verify come opening day.
Many states are enacting telephone privacy laws that telemarketer's must adhere to. In my home state of Indiana, you can add yourself to a list of numbers telemarketer's cannot call at the Attorney General's site. [www.in.gov] Unfortunately the legislation, while passed, won't take effect until January 1st, 2002, but oh, what a happy new year we'll have.
All it takes is enough letters, emails, and phone calls to your Attorney General to get your state to take action. So complain to yours today.
I did RTFA, and like many others I'm very skeptical that they will make orbit, let alone the moon. I found the site to be really long on promise and short on potential.
I thought other slashdotter's would like to see the opposite, a site short on promise and long on potential, and heck, even has video of rocket platform crashes and stuff. Content-free Carmack's site is not. I guess my thing is: which advances commercial spacetravel -- which is the real point here -- more; some CGI pictures of an unmanned lunar lander, or real people working on real rocketry that aren't burning money on press-releases and pretty pictures. And the pictures aren't even that pretty.
So the question becomes: if someone is in the race for the moon, but never even makes it to orbit, is the race really that interesting to follow? I guess we'll see come '4th quarter 2001'...
Forget these losers. I think JC will beat slick marketing anytime. If anybody is going into orbit first, my money is on him. Check out Carmack's rocket site:
http://www.armadilloaerospace.com/
The project logs are immensely entertaining reading!
What version of A&A do you play? I've played for ten years, off and on, and Japan at best plays a small spoiler role of keeping the US at bay.
A&A *always* comes down to the USSR piling up infantry on Karelia, and the Nazi's piling up tanks and fighters in an attempt to smash the Soviet's infantry. All other conflicts are background noise.
So the question is: how many tanks and fighters can Microsoft afford to throw at GNU before IBM and Red Hat start attacking their mainland and robbing them of the production points needed to sustain their attack on free software. Uh, yeah...
Yup, that's the one. He took possession of the first one manufactured earlier this year. There was a pretty nice write up about it in the March Cycleworld, page 28. Some choice quotes:
Stopping, too, requires a bit of know-how. "You've got a lot of lag, both on and off throttle," Leno explains. "If you shut off at 80 mph, you're still going 80 mph. And you have no compression braking at all, so you learn to brake a half-second earlier than you normally would. Whenever I want to stop, I hit the neutral button, then get on the brakes."
This is, of course, because the engine doesn't have any natural braking ability at all... When you stop applying throttle, the turbine still keeps freespinning, which means you still get propulsion. Yikes!
Another drawback (besides the noise) is the enormous heat that billows from the outward-facing slash-cut pipes. "I was sitting at a traffic light," Leno says in slightly hushed tones. "I looked in my rear-view mirror and saw this Infinity car bumper kind of fold in on itself. I thought, 'Oh jeez, let's just pull away from here...' "
Man, I wish MY bike could do that to cage-drivers! And I wish I had the sick cash Leno has to spend on my moto-habit...
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And no one murders anyone, rapes are unheard of, and companies don't try their hardest to get around OSHA and EPA regulations. Just because people break the laws doesn't me we give up and repeal them.
Isn't the idea behind the rating system is that minors would need parental consent to purchase and play the games? The reason that there isn't more governmental regulation of movie ticket sales and DVD sales and rentals is because the industries themselves have shown due dilligence about enforcing their rating systems.
If the gaming rating systems is perceived to be a joke, the government WILL step in.
His car? A pinto. The car is so damned light that it beats a lot of muscle cars for the 1/4, and nothing, I mean nothing, is worth more than the look on the face of someone who was just beaten by a car known far as wide for it's lack of anything worthy.
:)
I get a similar feeling when people realize they were just owned by my wife at CS.
I personally can't wait to find out what happens when your geeky wife logs onto slashdot and finds you implicitly comparing her to something known far and wide for its lack of anything worthy. Buddy, are you in for the "-1, flamebait" of your life...
those kind of people don't play on five inch screens. It does seem a bit like the article is a solution in search of a problem.
Great. So when is NASA going to start pulling off these cheap, repeatable, and reusable human flight programs. If Scaled Composites can piggy back, why can't NASA?
Yeah, cause you know, he can't turn appearences down. He only can raise prices.
I bet all of you who played the Army's "free game" will be sorry when this happens.
Are you sure about that? After all, the first six were failures, and 7 stopped working less than an hour after release. I honestly don't know about the rest of the missions, save 13 was the first color pictures of Venus.
I agree with the general point about "faster/cheaper" versus "slower/robust/expensive" though.
This is a really interesting and insightful comment, but I have a few additions and points I'd like to make.
I think you make an excellent case for the first point. I think you are right on target that many an experienced developer might sign on to do a fast-cheap project but in the end be unable to sacrifice quality to do so. The temptation to do just a bit of user input checking, to make that data screen load a tad faster, would be irresistable, and would quickly add up.
I think you ultimately miss out on the second case, the fast-good scenario. Inexperienced developers would not be working on a project that had to be delivered fast and good, because the funds would be there for the best programmer with the most experience using the best tools available.
And the last case, cheap-good, I think you miss out, not because of an incorrect understanding of the developer view point as in the fast-good case. Your first exception doesn't seem to be an exception at all. On a cheap-good project, time should be taken to polish and improve, and there should be no time constraint that would halt this process before it was completed. The second exception is a case of the client going back on their word and adding "fast" to the cheap-good stipulation, which wrecks the whole equation. Or, I guess if I read the second objection another way, you are saying the developer would get bored of the project and not take the time to make it "good". That seems to be a problem of a developer's maturity level or dicipline, which is unfortunately a widespread problem.
Anyway, excellent review, and excellent comments to go with it. If only Slashdot was this interesting all of the time.
James Randi did a nice write up about this, with some great pictures and commentary about the machine on his site. You can find a direct link to the articles here and here. I especially enjoyed the artwork depicting how the person inside fit in the contraption and enabled it to play chess. This was a very, very clever little hoax!
So, did you miss the fact that Harry himself said up front that the movie wasn't in final form? Look, Harry has done some asinine things, and his reputation for gushing over any piece of celluloid he sees needs no further comment here. But Harry has NEVER fabricated a review. Ever. So, take the review, minus the hype, and its still pretty informative. There are things in the review that haven't been leaked before (Obi-wans interaction with the deathstick pusher, for one) that will be easy to verify come opening day.
Many states are enacting telephone privacy laws that telemarketer's must adhere to. In my home state of Indiana, you can add yourself to a list of numbers telemarketer's cannot call at the Attorney General's site. [www.in.gov] Unfortunately the legislation, while passed, won't take effect until January 1st, 2002, but oh, what a happy new year we'll have.
All it takes is enough letters, emails, and phone calls to your Attorney General to get your state to take action. So complain to yours today.
I did RTFA, and like many others I'm very skeptical that they will make orbit, let alone the moon. I found the site to be really long on promise and short on potential.
I thought other slashdotter's would like to see the opposite, a site short on promise and long on potential, and heck, even has video of rocket platform crashes and stuff. Content-free Carmack's site is not. I guess my thing is: which advances commercial spacetravel -- which is the real point here -- more; some CGI pictures of an unmanned lunar lander, or real people working on real rocketry that aren't burning money on press-releases and pretty pictures. And the pictures aren't even that pretty.
So the question becomes: if someone is in the race for the moon, but never even makes it to orbit, is the race really that interesting to follow? I guess we'll see come '4th quarter 2001'...
Forget these losers. I think JC will beat slick marketing anytime. If anybody is going into orbit first, my money is on him. Check out Carmack's rocket site:
http://www.armadilloaerospace.com/
The project logs are immensely entertaining reading!
What version of A&A do you play? I've played for ten years, off and on, and Japan at best plays a small spoiler role of keeping the US at bay.
A&A *always* comes down to the USSR piling up infantry on Karelia, and the Nazi's piling up tanks and fighters in an attempt to smash the Soviet's infantry. All other conflicts are background noise.
So the question is: how many tanks and fighters can Microsoft afford to throw at GNU before IBM and Red Hat start attacking their mainland and robbing them of the production points needed to sustain their attack on free software. Uh, yeah...