Now, granted I've only seen 3 episodes of BB, but of those 3, only 1 of 9 matches kicked ass. In the other ones the bots get caught on the spikes on the side, or one of them can't move anymore, etc... Kinda pisses me off. Sure, some of the bots can take a LOT of punishment, but it just seems that perhaps the arena itself could use some adjustments. Mainly, get rid of the damn spiked walls. I'd like it a lot better if the bots had better weapons too, (faster, more agile.... you know, able to kill the other one no matter what position both are in). And finally, matches would probably be better if the teams actually spent as much time practicing with their bots as actually building their bots.
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"It's not illegal and the rich do own the government."
This is most definitely illegal. Sure, politicians get campaign funding from companies, but for that to be legal, they are required to report who gave them money, and what amount they were given. This info is available to the public, maybe on a web page somewhere? Not sure... Anyway, some parts of the government are controlled by the rich, but not everything. Anyone who actually cares about the way this country is supposed to work will understand me with this, at least I hope.
Anything that I've missed can probably be answered in the Simpsons episode where they all goto Washington, or the Futurama episode where Nixon gets elected president of earth.
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heh, I agree with your last statement
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That site makes me sick. First of all this is illegal according to federal law. That site should be down within a matter of days. The whole basis of voting for a leader is that everyone gets an EQUAL opportunity to influence the final decision. If you don't wanna vote, then don't vote. You're just giving up that right. But if you sell that vote, then your giving someone else a greater influence on the final decision than everyone else. And how are you sure that person won't sell the vote to someone else, and they perhaps vote in a way that is unfavorable to you. If this wasn't illegal, the rich would control the entire government until some of the middle class and most of the poor realize that a vote is more important than any dollar amount you can put on it.
New stuff always comes out in Japan first, many video games and the PSX2 for example. They do this cause it's a much smaller market there, and then they'll be able to predict what happens when they release their product to a much bigger market, US. Also, most of the companies that actually make the cool new stuff are based in Japan, or have some tie to it. Technology is starting to head towards Europe before the US these days, probably cause they are a smaller market too. It's easier for them to upgrade their wireless broadcasting antennae or whatever the hell they do. I still think we got some pretty nifty crap here. Besides, when it heads to Japan and Europe first, they get to experience the big bugs in the product, and then they're ironed out for us. This is the way it should be!
"you'll have the websphere group blaming the DB2 group who blames the AIX group within IBM"
Actually, it's kind of funny what really happens in IBM. I am working on Websphere at IBM, having lots of fun testing it, developers just love it when I show up with new defect reports. Websphere group never blames anyone else but other Websphere people. There must be a couple dozen different departments working on WCS.
This is truely ridiculous. Microsoft knows that most of the internet population is full of morons, and that they believe just cause one program has a higher verion number of the other, it's better. IE has many new "features". In my office, we use the word "features" when sometimes talking about a defect in the program. MS is trying to squash a lot of things with this new release. I hope that this is the smoking gun that can be used to tear Microsoft apart. I'm glad the product we're developing here only works with Netscape.
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Now, granted I've only seen 3 episodes of BB, but of those 3, only 1 of 9 matches kicked ass. In the other ones the bots get caught on the spikes on the side, or one of them can't move anymore, etc... Kinda pisses me off. Sure, some of the bots can take a LOT of punishment, but it just seems that perhaps the arena itself could use some adjustments. Mainly, get rid of the damn spiked walls. I'd like it a lot better if the bots had better weapons too, (faster, more agile.... you know, able to kill the other one no matter what position both are in). And finally, matches would probably be better if the teams actually spent as much time practicing with their bots as actually building their bots.
"It's not illegal and the rich do own the government."
This is most definitely illegal. Sure, politicians get campaign funding from companies, but for that to be legal, they are required to report who gave them money, and what amount they were given. This info is available to the public, maybe on a web page somewhere? Not sure... Anyway, some parts of the government are controlled by the rich, but not everything. Anyone who actually cares about the way this country is supposed to work will understand me with this, at least I hope.
Anything that I've missed can probably be answered in the Simpsons episode where they all goto Washington, or the Futurama episode where Nixon gets elected president of earth.
heh, I agree with your last statement
That site makes me sick. First of all this is illegal according to federal law. That site should be down within a matter of days. The whole basis of voting for a leader is that everyone gets an EQUAL opportunity to influence the final decision. If you don't wanna vote, then don't vote. You're just giving up that right. But if you sell that vote, then your giving someone else a greater influence on the final decision than everyone else. And how are you sure that person won't sell the vote to someone else, and they perhaps vote in a way that is unfavorable to you. If this wasn't illegal, the rich would control the entire government until some of the middle class and most of the poor realize that a vote is more important than any dollar amount you can put on it.
New stuff always comes out in Japan first, many video games and the PSX2 for example. They do this cause it's a much smaller market there, and then they'll be able to predict what happens when they release their product to a much bigger market, US. Also, most of the companies that actually make the cool new stuff are based in Japan, or have some tie to it. Technology is starting to head towards Europe before the US these days, probably cause they are a smaller market too. It's easier for them to upgrade their wireless broadcasting antennae or whatever the hell they do. I still think we got some pretty nifty crap here. Besides, when it heads to Japan and Europe first, they get to experience the big bugs in the product, and then they're ironed out for us. This is the way it should be!
"you'll have the websphere group blaming the DB2 group who blames the AIX group within IBM"
Actually, it's kind of funny what really happens in IBM. I am working on Websphere at IBM, having lots of fun testing it, developers just love it when I show up with new defect reports. Websphere group never blames anyone else but other Websphere people. There must be a couple dozen different departments working on WCS.
This is truely ridiculous. Microsoft knows that most of the internet population is full of morons, and that they believe just cause one program has a higher verion number of the other, it's better. IE has many new "features". In my office, we use the word "features" when sometimes talking about a defect in the program. MS is trying to squash a lot of things with this new release. I hope that this is the smoking gun that can be used to tear Microsoft apart. I'm glad the product we're developing here only works with Netscape.
That? That's not a bug. It's a feature!
oh yeah >8D