While coders and project managers want to see structured plans, directories, storyboards and timelines, each creative person usually has his or her own way of working with files
If they insist that they can only work using their personal way of doing things, they are incompetent hacks that have no place in a big project. The idea that the art guys must be pampered and they ideosyncrasies allowed to fuck up the project is really dumb.
The exact same problem arises with programmers and coding styles, and any project manager worth their salt rightfully expects his programmers to adher to a common coding standard. It may not be 100% comfortable to work with, but it is far, far better than having mixed coding styles cause misunderstanding and waste of time.
Yet it's a simple fact, that earth's oil reserves ARE limited and that exponential growth (or shrinkage) IS impossible in our limited universe. Pretending otherwise is just ignorance. With computers, it's not really a problem since nothing really crucially depends on getting more powerful computers all the time. Unfortunately, this is not so with fossil fuel reserves. Unless we find alternative energy sources, mankind is in really deep shit quite soon, not when fossil fuels run out, but well before that time, when they become much more expensive to get out of the ground. Realize that the comfortable predictions of 100 years or more of oil reserves include ones that will be 10 times more expensive to use.
That's a pretty strange definition of "selling at a loss" you have there. No, it is indeed the case that most consoles cost more (parts+assembly+distribution) than they are sold for, at least early on. Profits are made by licensing games. That's perfectly normal. But with the Xbox, this loss was already there when it was retailing for $299, and further lowering of the price could mean that Microsoft will *never* be able to recoup the loss.
Sorry, but declaring everyone with political views opposed to your own to be "at war with America" IS either trolling or being an amazingly dumb hypocrite. Both deserve to be moderated down.
Yeah, and I can't stand it when the Anti-DMCAists say "This person is being sued for something that should be allowed" and think that is proof of the DMCA being bad. People get sued frivolously. Get used to it!
32MB of RAM won't even do for Windows 95 to have it run
smoothly. As soon as you fire up something heavier than wordpad, it swaps.
Not at all. On my first job, I was doing webpages on a W95 box with 16 MB of RAM, running Netscape and a HTML editor in parallel. It didn't swap much unless it had to start Java. By today's standards, W95 is amazingly light-weight.
Scientology isn't really much of a religion at all, really. It's an MLM scheme that has found posing as a religion to be highly conductive to its fraudulent business practices.
Indeed. My current case is black, and I bought it in '98. It was one of the last models of Escom, a company that had its first big success by selling a (then) high-end 80386 game system in black.
They've already successfully sued the content provider. But the want the cache and links to copies of the content removed - getting them all shut down could take forever.
Nope, the content is not legal. That's why DB successfully sued the ISP in the Netherlands. Now they want Google links and caches to be removed as well.
I'll call bull on that. Mozilla 0.9.9 on Linux takes about 2 times as much memory as Netscape 4 and is about 10 times slower starting up or rendering large pages. On Solaris, the situation is even worse, a lot so. I really like its features, but it's NOT fast. In fact, it's too slow to be usable as a general browser.
The reason for this shizo strategy is that ISPs basically craoss-subsidize private connections by charging overproportionally more for business connections, in order to win private marketshare. This is done by artificially distinguishing between "upload bandwidth" and "download bandwidth", the former being mostly sold to businesses and the later to private customers.
The difference is that since IRC channels are basically public, monitoring them is both easier and no violation of civil rights.
BTW, another quote:
There is no freedom without security.
-- Wilhelm von Humboldt
Total freedom means survival of the strongest and least scrupulous and those valuable to them, i.e. mainly the freedom to be robbed, raped, murdered and suppressed. The ideal is to find a balance between freedom and security.
Looks more like you are the five year old... If artists get no money out of their contracts with the lables, why do they sign them in the first place, huh?
Not that I like the behaviour of the RIAA or don't think that the whole business could be arranged much better, but the "I want everything for free!" faction IS hurting the artists, IS acting purely out of greed and quite pathetic with their oft-repeated flawed justifications.
This kind of thing has been making headlines in Germany recently. Many sites try to coerce users (especially kids) into installing "high-speed" or "priority" internet dialers that in reality just change the default internet connection to an extremely expensive number. By the time you get the phone bill, it's often in the four-figures. The telco doesn't want to be responsible since they just rent out the numbers, and the companies that rent them are also mostly resellers with with the final "customers" mostly being based outside Germany.
What parts of the Kernel source I've looked at (SCSI and USB, when a CD burner and a CF reader didn't work) were actually *quite* clean and well-commented. So clean and well-commented, in fact, that I was able to fix the problem (more or less) even though I had no experience whatsoever with kernel development and little with C.
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If they insist that they can only work using their personal way of doing things, they are incompetent hacks that have no place in a big project. The idea that the art guys must be pampered and they ideosyncrasies allowed to fuck up the project is really dumb.
The exact same problem arises with programmers and coding styles, and any project manager worth their salt rightfully expects his programmers to adher to a common coding standard. It may not be 100% comfortable to work with, but it is far, far better than having mixed coding styles cause misunderstanding and waste of time.
Well done. You're my nomination for this year's STTBA (Star Trek Technobabble Award).
Yet it's a simple fact, that earth's oil reserves ARE limited and that exponential growth (or shrinkage) IS impossible in our limited universe. Pretending otherwise is just ignorance. With computers, it's not really a problem since nothing really crucially depends on getting more powerful computers all the time. Unfortunately, this is not so with fossil fuel reserves. Unless we find alternative energy sources, mankind is in really deep shit quite soon, not when fossil fuels run out, but well before that time, when they become much more expensive to get out of the ground. Realize that the comfortable predictions of 100 years or more of oil reserves include ones that will be 10 times more expensive to use.
It certainly was. Come on, this is the internet, and those were geeks.
I'm not going to believe that that half-covered image in the first screenshot was the only piece of Pr0n to come up!
That's a pretty strange definition of "selling at a loss" you have there. No, it is indeed the case that most consoles cost more (parts+assembly+distribution) than they are sold for, at least early on. Profits are made by licensing games. That's perfectly normal. But with the Xbox, this loss was already there when it was retailing for $299, and further lowering of the price could mean that Microsoft will *never* be able to recoup the loss.
Sorry, but declaring everyone with political views opposed to your own to be "at war with America" IS either trolling or being an amazingly dumb hypocrite. Both deserve to be moderated down.
Yeah, and I can't stand it when the Anti-DMCAists say "This person is being sued for something that should be allowed" and think that is proof of the DMCA being bad. People get sued frivolously. Get used to it!
Now WHO is pushing a political agenda and unwilling to accept any result that doesn't reinforce his preconceptions, huh? Looks to me like it's you...
smoothly. As soon as you fire up something heavier than wordpad, it swaps.
Not at all. On my first job, I was doing webpages on a W95 box with 16 MB of RAM, running Netscape and a HTML editor in parallel. It didn't swap much unless it had to start Java. By today's standards, W95 is amazingly light-weight.
Scientology isn't really much of a religion at all, really. It's an MLM scheme that has found posing as a religion to be highly conductive to its fraudulent business practices.
Indeed. My current case is black, and I bought it in '98. It was one of the last models of Escom, a company that had its first big success by selling a (then) high-end 80386 game system in black.
The "not legal" part is in other codes of law that describes restrictions of rights which have been found to be desirable.
They've already successfully sued the content provider. But the want the cache and links to copies of the content removed - getting them all shut down could take forever.
Nope, the content is not legal. That's why DB successfully sued the ISP in the Netherlands. Now they want Google links and caches to be removed as well.
I'll call bull on that. Mozilla 0.9.9 on Linux takes about 2 times as much memory as Netscape 4 and is about 10 times slower starting up or rendering large pages. On Solaris, the situation is even worse, a lot so. I really like its features, but it's NOT fast. In fact, it's too slow to be usable as a general browser.
The reason for this shizo strategy is that ISPs basically craoss-subsidize private connections by charging overproportionally more for business connections, in order to win private marketshare.
This is done by artificially distinguishing between "upload bandwidth" and "download bandwidth", the former being mostly sold to businesses and the later to private customers.
Bull. Evangelion has its share of filler episodes just like the rest of them.
BTW, another quote:
There is no freedom without security.
-- Wilhelm von Humboldt
Total freedom means survival of the strongest and least scrupulous and those valuable to them, i.e. mainly the freedom to be robbed, raped, murdered and suppressed. The ideal is to find a balance between freedom and security.
On the other hand, a very corrupt society is not likely to maintain much freedom at all. Think about the effects of a corrupt justice system.
Nope, that's the USA, not China. Methinks someone didn't get the article's point.
Not that I like the behaviour of the RIAA or don't think that the whole business could be arranged much better, but the "I want everything for free!" faction IS hurting the artists, IS acting purely out of greed and quite pathetic with their oft-repeated flawed justifications.
This kind of thing has been making headlines in Germany recently.
Many sites try to coerce users (especially kids) into installing
"high-speed" or "priority" internet dialers that in reality just change the default internet
connection to an extremely expensive number. By the time you
get the phone bill, it's often in the four-figures. The telco
doesn't want to be responsible since they just rent out the
numbers, and the companies that rent them are also mostly resellers with
with the final "customers" mostly being based outside Germany.
Ya know, I first read your posting as "The Earth is degenerating these days. Britney and corruption abound"... Makes sense, too!
What parts of the Kernel source I've looked at (SCSI and USB, when a CD burner and a CF reader didn't work) were actually *quite* clean and well-commented. So clean and well-commented, in fact, that I was able to fix the problem (more or less) even though I had no experience whatsoever with kernel development and little with C.