This reminds me of how they came up with a 'look' for the movie Dick Tracy. Unfortunately, everything else sucked.
I used to have more faith in Frank Miller's tallent, but crap like Dark Knight Strikes Again and RoboCop II have seriously altered my opinion of his skills as a writer. And now he's Co-directing with Mr. Spy Kids.
Second System Syndrome can usually be chalked up to poor project management. Without proper leadership any project can spiral out of control and never reach a conclusion. Poor focus, scope creep, bad testing, a failure to meet the customer's requirements.
Burt Rutan knows how to get what he wants from his people. He's a good leader with a good team. And the part that might make the biggest difference between Scaled and PARC - it's Burt's show. He's always the deciding vote. I'm sure he's kicked a lot of dead weight ideas out of the way in his many years of designing flying craft.
Damn that congress for getting in the way of awarding an X-Prize!
--Later---
Damn that congress! NASA gave another technology contact to Microsoft!
So what would people say if NASA asked for a new technology and the best entry was from a company with ties to the sitting president? Or a company with a bad reputation, such as SCO?
A NASA X-Prize could become a magnet very for political charges of contract favoritism. NASA has managed to remain a government agency without the stigma of being partisan to one party. That changes the moment people think NASA is offering sweetheart contracts to companies with friends in high places.
If Sontag were using higher numbers, I could understand his using a range. But SCO has only sold a maximum of 30 licenses in the whole damn world. I think Chris should be able to remember an exact number.
You'd think he would wake up each morning with that number in his head. It would be something like "Jesus, the Feds are coming after us for 23 counts of racketeering."
Maybe he could use a computer to help he remember a more exact number! I heard once upon a time SCO was a software company, they just might have someody who could setup a machine that can track numbers in the low double digits.
You wrote recently on your site about the doors Trek opens and the doors Trek shuts. Some actors have turned the convention circuit into their entire livelihood, perhaps for lack of other opportunities (you know the type and I'm sure you've shared the stage with one or two). They know they will never act again, and some have let their looks go. Acting for them is the occasional commercial endorsement. They mainly depend on the trek fan base for their living.
How much fear is there that the party is ending and that the fans have had enough? Do they talk privately about how trek has run out of gas and it's only a matter of time before there is no demand for another version?
It's not you. Slashdot stories are mainly submitted by readers, not all of whom are writers, so it's Timothy this time who's not doing his job.
I see this sort of thing almost every day on Slashdot. When a new protocol or language is discussed, the story does not make clear why this does or does not matter to most readers.
Since this website is identified so closely with Linux users, it doesn't help the outside perception of us as elitists when we don't care to convey knowledge in a way that is clear.
Computer Associates is a very well known company, and most people will assume it is them being discussed in the Slashdot story. But assuming is different than knowing. The first time CA was used in the story it should have been 'Computer Associates (CA)'.
If Slashdot aspires to be a news blog ("News for Nerds") they should follow proper editorial standards occasionally. The New York Times, Associated Press, LA Times, and numerous other newspapers publish writing style guidelines. Editors at countless newspapers use the New York Times writing style guide as a baseline for their own stories.
If Slashdot aspires to be a news blog ("News for Nerds") it is their job to inform the reader, not leaving any room for doubt. That doesn't mean treating the reader like an idiot. It does mean understanding people without CS degrees also come here to read about rapidly changing technology issues.
It is a writer's job to be clear, and an editor's job to catch when he/she fails. Since story submissions on Slashdot are done by readers it falls on the editors to determine if a story needs to be corrected./. editors do not perform this task.
Would it kill the Slashdot editors to learn some proper editing skills? In the course of a story you should define all acronyms rather than assume all readers know every combination of letters and numbers.
Get a book on Associated Press writing style and use it.
It is only illegal to save the GM seeds from one year to the next. Those farmers using the GM seeds are bound to the terms of a contract - just like someone using the GPL is bound to those terms.
A farmer not buying GM seeds is not compelled legally to do a damn thing different.
They aren't the only tech players with patent portfolios. If they keep sueing deep pockets, they will find a fight. They should remember that they are late adapters to digital photography, and much of the technology they use is patented by other companies.
Besides your over the top sarcasm, perhaps you'd understand how that government could easily hit Scaled with regulations from 15 different agencies, often with contradictory rules. The burden of such rules are difficult enough for many large airlines to deal with.
How would you like to be a start-up and have union labor forced on you? The FAA could do this to Scaled. Pilots, flight crew, airport personel, Baggage handlers, checkpoint inspectors, ground crews - all are union labor, all would be subject to seperate contract negotiations.
Every airline and airplane manufacturer has lobbyists to help defend them against the ever present tide of Washington and it's new laws. Scaled will probably need one at some point.
The 2 largest airlines in the US are borderline bankrupt at this time. The cost of operations, high fuel prices, and new security measures is too great to fully add to the price of tickets.
I imagine this is why Scaled is anxious to form a partnership with Virgin. Perhaps they can piggyback on Virgin's contracts to solve some of these problems.
Fine headaches for a bunch of guys who just want to go into space. Yeah, I don't want a fuel tank falling through my roof. I also see where a small company could choke under the burden of thousands of pages of regulation.
Slashdot Mirror
Suit: "Hey, why are you guys just sitting around? Don't you have processors to build?"
Lazy yokel 1: "Nope. They told us we don't have to do that any more. They said we have IP now."
Lazy yokel 2: "Yeah. IP."
Suit: "We sell processors! What the hell are we going to do if we don't make processors!?!"
(pause)
Lazy yokel 1: "Wanna sue someone?"
Is this your way of asking for a copy of my bookmarks?
I should be able to make a few bucks from all these infringers of "The Quest for the Rings"!
Exactly where on the planet should a person move to stay away from all dangerous geological and weather phenomena?
Try to answer, if you really think there is such a place.
This reminds me of how they came up with a 'look' for the movie Dick Tracy. Unfortunately, everything else sucked.
I used to have more faith in Frank Miller's tallent, but crap like Dark Knight Strikes Again and RoboCop II have seriously altered my opinion of his skills as a writer. And now he's Co-directing with Mr. Spy Kids.
I'll wait for this one to hit HBO.
Your law is strong. Our lawyers are puny. Crush them!
Second System Syndrome can usually be chalked up to poor project management. Without proper leadership any project can spiral out of control and never reach a conclusion. Poor focus, scope creep, bad testing, a failure to meet the customer's requirements.
Burt Rutan knows how to get what he wants from his people. He's a good leader with a good team. And the part that might make the biggest difference between Scaled and PARC - it's Burt's show. He's always the deciding vote. I'm sure he's kicked a lot of dead weight ideas out of the way in his many years of designing flying craft.
Mod parent up.
Only a blind partisan could be happy with such a victory.
Mod parent up.
Video Game Awards
and
Motley Crew
Dude.
Have you EVER talked to a girl? Without using a credit card number?
How do you plan to get your RC boat down to the lake without exposing yourself to natural sunlight?
Flame away. I've got karma up the wazoo.
Damn that congress for getting in the way of awarding an X-Prize!
--Later---
Damn that congress! NASA gave another technology contact to Microsoft!
So what would people say if NASA asked for a new technology and the best entry was from a company with ties to the sitting president? Or a company with a bad reputation, such as SCO?
A NASA X-Prize could become a magnet very for political charges of contract favoritism. NASA has managed to remain a government agency without the stigma of being partisan to one party. That changes the moment people think NASA is offering sweetheart contracts to companies with friends in high places.
If Sontag were using higher numbers, I could understand his using a range. But SCO has only sold a maximum of 30 licenses in the whole damn world. I think Chris should be able to remember an exact number.
You'd think he would wake up each morning with that number in his head. It would be something like "Jesus, the Feds are coming after us for 23 counts of racketeering."
Maybe he could use a computer to help he remember a more exact number! I heard once upon a time SCO was a software company, they just might have someody who could setup a machine that can track numbers in the low double digits.
You wrote recently on your site about the doors Trek opens and the doors Trek shuts. Some actors have turned the convention circuit into their entire livelihood, perhaps for lack of other opportunities (you know the type and I'm sure you've shared the stage with one or two). They know they will never act again, and some have let their looks go. Acting for them is the occasional commercial endorsement. They mainly depend on the trek fan base for their living.
How much fear is there that the party is ending and that the fans have had enough? Do they talk privately about how trek has run out of gas and it's only a matter of time before there is no demand for another version?
It's not you. Slashdot stories are mainly submitted by readers, not all of whom are writers, so it's Timothy this time who's not doing his job.
I see this sort of thing almost every day on Slashdot. When a new protocol or language is discussed, the story does not make clear why this does or does not matter to most readers.
Since this website is identified so closely with Linux users, it doesn't help the outside perception of us as elitists when we don't care to convey knowledge in a way that is clear.
Computer Associates is a very well known company, and most people will assume it is them being discussed in the Slashdot story. But assuming is different than knowing. The first time CA was used in the story it should have been 'Computer Associates (CA)'.
/. editors do not perform this task.
If Slashdot aspires to be a news blog ("News for Nerds") they should follow proper editorial standards occasionally. The New York Times, Associated Press, LA Times, and numerous other newspapers publish writing style guidelines. Editors at countless newspapers use the New York Times writing style guide as a baseline for their own stories.
If Slashdot aspires to be a news blog ("News for Nerds") it is their job to inform the reader, not leaving any room for doubt. That doesn't mean treating the reader like an idiot. It does mean understanding people without CS degrees also come here to read about rapidly changing technology issues.
It is a writer's job to be clear, and an editor's job to catch when he/she fails. Since story submissions on Slashdot are done by readers it falls on the editors to determine if a story needs to be corrected.
Would it kill the Slashdot editors to learn some proper editing skills? In the course of a story you should define all acronyms rather than assume all readers know every combination of letters and numbers.
Get a book on Associated Press writing style and use it.
Yea Anarchy? Somalia has great telecom? Um, sort of misses the big picture.
He won't know I did it for another 260 years.
So there
...microscope looks at you.
It is only illegal to save the GM seeds from one year to the next. Those farmers using the GM seeds are bound to the terms of a contract - just like someone using the GPL is bound to those terms.
A farmer not buying GM seeds is not compelled legally to do a damn thing different.
Mars Expensive Hardware Lob - The Mars Scorecard - 20:17 with Earth losing
c or ecard.html
http://www.bio.aps.anl.gov/~dgore/fun/PSL/marss
They aren't the only tech players with patent portfolios. If they keep sueing deep pockets, they will find a fight. They should remember that they are late adapters to digital photography, and much of the technology they use is patented by other companies.
Besides your over the top sarcasm, perhaps you'd understand how that government could easily hit Scaled with regulations from 15 different agencies, often with contradictory rules. The burden of such rules are difficult enough for many large airlines to deal with.
How would you like to be a start-up and have union labor forced on you? The FAA could do this to Scaled. Pilots, flight crew, airport personel, Baggage handlers, checkpoint inspectors, ground crews - all are union labor, all would be subject to seperate contract negotiations.
Every airline and airplane manufacturer has lobbyists to help defend them against the ever present tide of Washington and it's new laws. Scaled will probably need one at some point.
The 2 largest airlines in the US are borderline bankrupt at this time. The cost of operations, high fuel prices, and new security measures is too great to fully add to the price of tickets.
I imagine this is why Scaled is anxious to form a partnership with Virgin. Perhaps they can piggyback on Virgin's contracts to solve some of these problems.
Fine headaches for a bunch of guys who just want to go into space. Yeah, I don't want a fuel tank falling through my roof. I also see where a small company could choke under the burden of thousands of pages of regulation.