Why can we not edit posts on Slashdot after its posted?.
I accidently used the possessive pronoun Their several times instead of the correct use of There. Oh well. Teach me to slow down and think before I type.
I worked for New World Computing/3do (Worked on Might and Magic 3 through 8) and I must say their are upsides to the video game industry as well
There is the opposite of Crunch time, and that is slack time. Between projects or at the beginning of a project their was plenty of time to slack. We played lots of video games (obviously) and had lots of time off to make up for the intense periods of crunch time (sometimes 24-48 hours straight when working to meet a ship date).
I didn't have much of a life back then but it was probably the best job I have ever had. I enjoyed being at work and had great bosses and co-workers.
I would still be working in the industry if I could, unfortunately I moved to a place where their is no video game industry at all (Hawaii) but I make MUCH more money now than I ever did in Video games, so I guess its a trade off. I have a great job now, but I don't enjoy it like I did with designing video games.
So Basically, the money isn't that good and the hours can be horrible, but the atmosphere of working in that field is wonderful. I have been playing video games for most of my life (30 out of my 40 years) and I don't see myself ever losing interest in video games.
This is exactly the problem we have in Hawaii. I work for Hawaiian Electric companies (Maui Electric) and this is the reason that we want the Public utilities commission to revisit the NEM program.
Since we are paying retail rates for energy generated by NEM customers, it is shifting the burden of grid maintenance to the customers without PV. Our Minimum bills for NEM customers are about 18$ a month, this is not enough to cover the cost of maintaining/upgrading the grid. We submitted a proposal to the PUC for a flat rate connection fee as well as wholesale energy production prices.
Also to note, Hawaiian Electric never "barred" solar NEM applications, we had to conduct interconnection studies on certain circuits as they were already over 120% of Daytime Minimum Load, we had to increase that limit to 250% of DML we also had to request help from solar companies to make changes to their Inverters . Also, we do require customers to pay for local infrastructure updates if needed in order to interconnect to the grid (additional transformers or other safety equipment)
Note: The observatories are private research facilities and generally not open to the public. Stargazing is best done at the VIS, where we are equipped for visitors, have telescopes you can look through, and temperatures are much warmer than the summit.
I live in Hawaii and am excited for the new 30 meter telescope. There are currently 13 telescopes at the summit of Mauna Kea. https://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/mko...
This project has been in the works for 7 years, The local population that is against the building of this telescope has had that long to protest, but didn't actually start protesting until the project was already underway.
From what I hear on my Facebook feed from my Hawaiian friends is that they oppose the building of this new telescope because they consider Mauna kea a sacred place, as well as the sheer size of this new telescope. The summit is sacred to ancient Hawaiians, so much that a kapu (Ancient Hawaiian law) was made that only important tribal chiefs were allowed up at the summit. (Breaking Kapu usually meant death). So in old Hawaii only a select few were allowed up on the volcano. I don't know why anyone is complaining. in new Hawaii anyone can visit the summit and see the majestic views of the island as well as some amazing star-gazing at night.
I don't speak up on Facebook even though many of my friends are asking me to sign a petition to stop the building of the telescope as well as protesting locally (I am on Maui). Its hard since most of my friends are not very techy or interested much in science. I keep my mouth shut since I fear I will be ostracized for speaking my true opinion.
Only complaint I have, I really wish most of these telescopes were open to the public. I have never had the opportunity to look through anything bigger than a backyard telescope and it would be amazing to be able to see what a thirty meter telescope can do.
I agree, I have been on/. since at least 1999 and the best solution is just to leave the Classic option and you can do whatever you want with the "Beta" version of slashdot. You have made changes over the years and I always go back to the "Classic" look of Slashdot. I like the current density of information on the home page and do not want to scroll through 8 pages just to see 4 stories.
So make whatever changes you like, even make it the default view for new visitors, but for us oldtimers please leave us with the option to opt out.
I've never felt the urge to pile on with "off-topic" spam -- until now. We've tried lobbying, we've tried rational discussion, we've tried voting; none seem to have any effect. So, now, we're "movin' on up" to the equivalent of rioting in the streets.
And, yep, I'm signing my name.
I agree. I just checked out the beta real quick and it could not even load the comments. I have been reading slashdot for 14+ years and I do not think that the site needs any sort of face lift
Get off my Lawn!
Please do not change Slashdot. I will not continue to visit this site if they default to this new interface.
So will probably get modded "troll" for using a microsoft setup but here is what I use. Its easy for anyone especially non techies
Xbox 360
a windows box (currently a laptop)
Logitech harmony xbox remote
Only problem pretty sure only 1080i can't remember but looks good enough
The remote allows anyone one touch access to my media through the same remote that controls my entire living room entertainment center
Its low cost (used xbox 360 arcade runs really cheap)
My $0.02
IANAJL (I am not a japanese lawywer) but perhaps he made a copy of the files to get around any "property destruction" laws because essentially all he did was "move" the files. And by using his own artwork he avoids any possible infringement laws. And by distributing it on a p2p network he really didn't illegaly access the computer as the user initiated the download themselves, will be interesting to see if they find him guilty of much.
I know I shouldn't feed the trolls but here goes.
"Android" is open source and HTC's eris is also open source (you can download the source from HTC) and as such any one who owns an eris COULD find and fix the issue but unless you are extremely skilled and have lots of free time I don't think most people would do that.
As far as VZW fixing it that's like asking dell to fix a glitch in windows, its not their issue.
Or, like asking att to fix software or hardware on the iphone its not their product carriers run the networks we do not make devices.
Also just a note for any htc eris customers. verizons tech bulletins for this issue states that if a customer does not want to wait for the upcoming htc software fix that we are allowed to swap out the device for a different model although you may have to speak to someone who knows what they are doing in order to get this done.
I work for verizon wireless and yes verizon is wanting to fix this problem asap. the real problem though its not a network issue its a device issue and htc has their heads stuck up their ass and is not fixing it. Verizon cannot fix the issue since its a software issue and we don't make the software htc does. So blame htc and their shitty programming and poor quality control. So basically verizon is getting upset customers but has no resolution other than waiting for HTC to fix it.
Omega that was a serious game man, you had to program a simulated tank in a very high level programing language. game was made by origin in the 1990s. you could save your "tank" to disk and give it to a friend he could then load up your tank and have a tank ai battle against one of his own tank.
origin even had a dedicated bbs so you could download others tank ai and compete even get their source so you could analyze their tank ai.
the manuals were like intro programming books. two of em a believe. one of the hardest video games ever made, so it did not sell well:)
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Why can we not edit posts on Slashdot after its posted?.
I accidently used the possessive pronoun Their several times instead of the correct use of There. Oh well. Teach me to slow down and think before I type.
I worked for New World Computing/3do (Worked on Might and Magic 3 through 8) and I must say their are upsides to the video game industry as well
There is the opposite of Crunch time, and that is slack time. Between projects or at the beginning of a project their was plenty of time to slack. We played lots of video games (obviously) and had lots of time off to make up for the intense periods of crunch time (sometimes 24-48 hours straight when working to meet a ship date).
I didn't have much of a life back then but it was probably the best job I have ever had. I enjoyed being at work and had great bosses and co-workers.
I would still be working in the industry if I could, unfortunately I moved to a place where their is no video game industry at all (Hawaii) but I make MUCH more money now than I ever did in Video games, so I guess its a trade off.
I have a great job now, but I don't enjoy it like I did with designing video games.
So Basically, the money isn't that good and the hours can be horrible, but the atmosphere of working in that field is wonderful. I have been playing video games for most of my life (30 out of my 40 years) and I don't see myself ever losing interest in video games.
This is exactly the problem we have in Hawaii.
I work for Hawaiian Electric companies (Maui Electric) and this is the reason that we want the Public utilities commission to revisit the NEM program.
Since we are paying retail rates for energy generated by NEM customers, it is shifting the burden of grid maintenance to the customers without PV.
Our Minimum bills for NEM customers are about 18$ a month, this is not enough to cover the cost of maintaining/upgrading the grid.
We submitted a proposal to the PUC for a flat rate connection fee as well as wholesale energy production prices.
Also to note, Hawaiian Electric never "barred" solar NEM applications, we had to conduct interconnection studies on certain circuits as they were already over 120% of Daytime Minimum Load, we had to increase that limit to 250% of DML
we also had to request help from solar companies to make changes to their Inverters
. Also, we do require customers to pay for local infrastructure updates if needed in order to interconnect to the grid (additional transformers or other safety equipment)
Note: The observatories are private research facilities and generally not open to the public. Stargazing is best done at the VIS, where we are equipped for visitors, have telescopes you can look through, and temperatures are much warmer than the summit.
so unless I break in :), I think I am out of luck.
I live in Hawaii and am excited for the new 30 meter telescope. There are currently 13 telescopes at the summit of Mauna Kea.
https://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/mko...
This project has been in the works for 7 years, The local population that is against the building of this telescope has had that long to protest, but didn't actually start protesting until the project was already underway.
From what I hear on my Facebook feed from my Hawaiian friends is that they oppose the building of this new telescope because they consider Mauna kea a sacred place, as well as the sheer size of this new telescope.
The summit is sacred to ancient Hawaiians, so much that a kapu (Ancient Hawaiian law) was made that only important tribal chiefs were allowed up at the summit. (Breaking Kapu usually meant death).
So in old Hawaii only a select few were allowed up on the volcano. I don't know why anyone is complaining. in new Hawaii anyone can visit the summit and see the majestic views of the island as well as some amazing star-gazing at night.
I don't speak up on Facebook even though many of my friends are asking me to sign a petition to stop the building of the telescope as well as protesting locally (I am on Maui). Its hard since most of my friends are not very techy or interested much in science. I keep my mouth shut since I fear I will be ostracized for speaking my true opinion.
Only complaint I have, I really wish most of these telescopes were open to the public. I have never had the opportunity to look through anything bigger than a backyard telescope and it would be amazing to be able to see what a thirty meter telescope can do.
I agree, I have been on /. since at least 1999 and the best solution is just to leave the Classic option and you can do whatever you want with the "Beta" version of slashdot.
You have made changes over the years and I always go back to the "Classic" look of Slashdot.
I like the current density of information on the home page and do not want to scroll through 8 pages just to see 4 stories.
So make whatever changes you like, even make it the default view for new visitors, but for us oldtimers please leave us with the option to opt out.
I've never felt the urge to pile on with "off-topic" spam -- until now. We've tried lobbying, we've tried rational discussion, we've tried voting; none seem to have any effect. So, now, we're "movin' on up" to the equivalent of rioting in the streets.
And, yep, I'm signing my name.
I agree. I just checked out the beta real quick and it could not even load the comments.
I have been reading slashdot for 14+ years and I do not think that the site needs any sort of face lift
Get off my Lawn!
Please do not change Slashdot. I will not continue to visit this site if they default to this new interface.
So will probably get modded "troll" for using a microsoft setup but here is what I use. Its easy for anyone especially non techies Xbox 360 a windows box (currently a laptop) Logitech harmony xbox remote Only problem pretty sure only 1080i can't remember but looks good enough The remote allows anyone one touch access to my media through the same remote that controls my entire living room entertainment center Its low cost (used xbox 360 arcade runs really cheap) My $0.02
But if we never mine on mars ill never be able to tell someone "Get your ass to mars" and actually mean it :)
IANAJL (I am not a japanese lawywer) but perhaps he made a copy of the files to get around any "property destruction" laws because essentially all he did was "move" the files. And by using his own artwork he avoids any possible infringement laws. And by distributing it on a p2p network he really didn't illegaly access the computer as the user initiated the download themselves, will be interesting to see if they find him guilty of much.
I know I shouldn't feed the trolls but here goes. "Android" is open source and HTC's eris is also open source (you can download the source from HTC) and as such any one who owns an eris COULD find and fix the issue but unless you are extremely skilled and have lots of free time I don't think most people would do that. As far as VZW fixing it that's like asking dell to fix a glitch in windows, its not their issue. Or, like asking att to fix software or hardware on the iphone its not their product carriers run the networks we do not make devices.
Also just a note for any htc eris customers. verizons tech bulletins for this issue states that if a customer does not want to wait for the upcoming htc software fix that we are allowed to swap out the device for a different model although you may have to speak to someone who knows what they are doing in order to get this done.
I work for verizon wireless and yes verizon is wanting to fix this problem asap. the real problem though its not a network issue its a device issue and htc has their heads stuck up their ass and is not fixing it. Verizon cannot fix the issue since its a software issue and we don't make the software htc does. So blame htc and their shitty programming and poor quality control. So basically verizon is getting upset customers but has no resolution other than waiting for HTC to fix it.
Omega that was a serious game man, you had to program a simulated tank in a very high level programing language. game was made by origin in the 1990s. you could save your "tank" to disk and give it to a friend he could then load up your tank and have a tank ai battle against one of his own tank. origin even had a dedicated bbs so you could download others tank ai and compete even get their source so you could analyze their tank ai. the manuals were like intro programming books. two of em a believe. one of the hardest video games ever made, so it did not sell well :)