Our managers don't GIVE us development specs, or keep changing the specs every 5 minutes so that a formal document is worthless.
Or, in my personal experience, we stick to a formal document for 3/4 of the product then get hit with feature creep for the last 1/4 which makes the product late, buggy, over budget, etc, etc, etc
Sure, I've tried instituting "processes" and management's alwasy keen on the idea. But when push comes to shove, >poof.
The only time management ever stuck with a process was the medical company that, by law, required governmental oversight that demanded process. And you don't want to know how much we skirted process anyway. (Most of the times we built the product first, then wrote the "planning" documentation second.)
Not *everybody* knows, and as the story declines in popularity, new generations will discover it anew and want to watch it in chronological order. If the movies weren't numbered I wouldn't have an issue with it. But they are... implying that there's an ORDER to viewing it.
And Vader didn't destroy Alderaan in Episode 4. Tarkin did.
That'd be fine. But Lucas is claiming to be paying homage to the serial. Y'know, where you see things in serial order. That's why he numbered the episodes. If he had left the numbers off I'd be more inclined to agree with you.
(Frankly, I think he would've gotten alot more mileage if Anakin had just been cloned in the clone wars, one clone turned to the dark side and became Vader and killed him, but it was Vader who had sired the children, not Anakin... That solves your suprise AND the goofy Obi-wan line in ROTJ "It is true, from a certain point of view...")
If Lucas reveals that Anakin is Darth Vader in Episode 3, then there is *NO* suprise that Vader is Luke's father in Empire Strikes Back.
"Luke... *I* am your father" "Yeah Dad, I saw that back in Episode 3"
I can only hope that Lucas has Anakin fall into the lava pit in one scene and then this new figure, Darth Vader mysteriously appears at the end of Episode 3. But no, Lucas has already said "We're going to get to see Anakin put the helmet on."
Which means the CORRECT viewing order for future generations of Star Wars fans MUST be... 4, 5, 6, and then 1,2 and 3. NOT in chronological order.
Or in the words of Comic-book guy... "Worst continuity, Ever!"
I worked for a phone company in a large downtown office building that employed thousands. The building needed a new elevator system so, to save money, they had an experimental elevator system installed.
Instead of pusing an up or down button and waiting for an elevator, you had a number pad with an LCD display. You punched in the number of the floor you wanted to go to and the LCD would display the letter of the elevator you were assigned to. There were no floor controls inside the elevator. The system would cache people onto floors, maximizing elevator efficiency, right?
Well, in theory... but not in practice.
The building wasn't populated evenly on all the floors. Of a 20 story building, 4 floors were in heavy use (customer service departments) 2 were used only for storage, 2 were for the switching lines and the rest of the floors had typical light office usage.
So in rush hour in the morning the system has a notoriously bad habit of maxing out one elevator at a time for the 4 customer service floors before allocating the next. Even MORE ironic was that the program would get into a loop of cycling the same 2 elevators to serve the same heavy use floors. (One would be going up as the other would be just finishing its cycle and the program wouldn't allocate a third elevator until the one coming down was filled.)
So you'd walk into the building at rush hour in the morning (when everybody should be wanting to just go UP) and there's a bank of 10 elevators, 5 to a wall and there'd be about 40 people crowded in front of 2 elevator doors for about 5 minutes waiting to board.
But it gets WORSE! Alot of people would see friends they knew who had already "punched in" and would just get in line with them without punching in themselves and screw up the whole count.
Then you had the "smart" people who would "punch in" a floor many times to get the system to allocate a third and NOT cache them in with the other loads.
At times it was alot of fun just playing with the elevator system than actually doing work. (one more interesting factoid... someone writing the program must've taken the above into account because there were times when I would work late and the coworkers and I would leave at 10pm from the 16th floor. We'd both punch in within seconds of each other and get TWO elevators.)
Is it better to make a "B" title with last year's tech dressed up to look like this year's tech and sell it to the publisher as an "A" title. Then to try to make a completely new kick butt game?
If the publisher doesn't understand honest schedules, then it stands to reason the publisher isn't going to understand tech, but "buzzwords".
(And ironically, isn't that what we're mostly seeing from the media companies today?)
The schools teach that in an offhand sort of way... How the developer has to understand the customer's needs better than the customer does.
He was collecting the names of all the insurance company's clients... So uh... so he could notify them of their ability to join the class action lawsuit!
He was... he was helping the government investigate a corrupt company, yeah! He was James Bond! Saving the innocent from themselves!
Yeah... he had no intention whatsoever of joining a competing company and stealing the client list.
I made an opinion. But then there were people who thought SCO was acting independently because why would Microsoft stoop so low?.NET is a friggin' VM!!! Anybody could do it! Sun did! There's no innovation there. Microsoft hired away Borland's main man with an obscene amount of cash and said, make a new language that we can call our own. Nobody would touch Delphi with a ten foot pole, but now C#, C#, C#... and, oh yeah.. C is dead.
I see no reason to assist Microsoft in taking over the world. Microsoft owns.NET and Microsoft owns C#. Microsoft isn't going to LET.NET work on Linux long term, remember they see Linux as a THREAT. Right now though, this serves their purposes to further entrench C# and.NET in the psyche of programmers. Less time spent on other projects (Python, Java, etc) further entrenches Microsoft's hold on Programmer Mindshare and dictates how the world will compute. I have no problem with Microsoft as a company. I have some problems with how it runs its business, but hey that's life. But why, when you have a completely separate AND OPEN platform, do you want to adopt a closed source solution as the anchor point to the GUI?
Granted it didn't introduce any radically new play elements and had a really bad ending... But as an experience of an interactive cartoon, it was fun and at the very least, DIFFERENT then the normal pablum put out today.
I didn't say there wasn't a way to do remote debugging on XPSP2. Microsoft said they had to rewrite their remote debugger to work with XPSP2. I said, "Hey, y'know, I just turn the firewall off."
Second, good for them. When I see the functionality or maybe even if they had documented that functionality as part of their SECURITY CHANGES, I'll shut up about it.
Outlook XP blocked me from viewing ZIP files unless I edited the registry, how is ANY NORMAL user supposed to correct that?!?
FTP makes use of the ports in strange and unconventional ways... riiight. In any event, my complaint is that (and this is gleaning from the Microsoft article) the PROGRAM ITSELF must clear itself with the firewall. Your link doesn't implies that's no longer the case, but if that's true... why rewrite Visual Studio.NET?
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Our managers don't GIVE us development specs, or keep changing the specs every 5 minutes so that a formal document is worthless.
Or, in my personal experience, we stick to a formal document for 3/4 of the product then get hit with feature creep for the last 1/4 which makes the product late, buggy, over budget, etc, etc, etc
Sure, I've tried instituting "processes" and management's alwasy keen on the idea. But when push comes to shove, >poof.
The only time management ever stuck with a process was the medical company that, by law, required governmental oversight that demanded process. And you don't want to know how much we skirted process anyway. (Most of the times we built the product first, then wrote the "planning" documentation second.)
Lawsuits aside, this guy INVENTED Pong AND Simon!
Which means he's ultimately single-handedly responsible for starting the video game AND electronic game business of the late 70's early 80's!!
(You young whipper snappers wouldn't understand, Pong and Simon had about as much market saturation as Pokemon and Yugi-oh.)
Episode 4 or Episode 1? :)
There were others? :)
Not *everybody* knows, and as the story declines in popularity, new generations will discover it anew and want to watch it in chronological order. If the movies weren't numbered I wouldn't have an issue with it. But they are... implying that there's an ORDER to viewing it.
And Vader didn't destroy Alderaan in Episode 4. Tarkin did.
But I'm sure you just want to nitpick that, too.
Or in some cases just 4 and 5...
I find it intersting that fans refer to the movies as:
Star Wars
Empire Strikes Back
Return of the Jedi
Episode 1
Episode 2
(and probably) Episode 3
That'd be fine. But Lucas is claiming to be paying homage to the serial. Y'know, where you see things in serial order. That's why he numbered the episodes. If he had left the numbers off I'd be more inclined to agree with you.
(Frankly, I think he would've gotten alot more mileage if Anakin had just been cloned in the clone wars, one clone turned to the dark side and became Vader and killed him, but it was Vader who had sired the children, not Anakin... That solves your suprise AND the goofy Obi-wan line in ROTJ "It is true, from a certain point of view...")
If Lucas reveals that Anakin is Darth Vader in Episode 3, then there is *NO* suprise that Vader is Luke's father in Empire Strikes Back.
"Luke... *I* am your father"
"Yeah Dad, I saw that back in Episode 3"
I can only hope that Lucas has Anakin fall into the lava pit in one scene and then this new figure, Darth Vader mysteriously appears at the end of Episode 3. But no, Lucas has already said "We're going to get to see Anakin put the helmet on."
Which means the CORRECT viewing order for future generations of Star Wars fans MUST be... 4, 5, 6, and then 1,2 and 3. NOT in chronological order.
Or in the words of Comic-book guy... "Worst continuity, Ever!"
I worked for a phone company in a large downtown office building that employed thousands. The building needed a new elevator system so, to save money, they had an experimental elevator system installed.
Instead of pusing an up or down button and waiting for an elevator, you had a number pad with an LCD display. You punched in the number of the floor you wanted to go to and the LCD would display the letter of the elevator you were assigned to. There were no floor controls inside the elevator. The system would cache people onto floors, maximizing elevator efficiency, right?
Well, in theory... but not in practice.
The building wasn't populated evenly on all the floors. Of a 20 story building, 4 floors were in heavy use (customer service departments) 2 were used only for storage, 2 were for the switching lines and the rest of the floors had typical light office usage.
So in rush hour in the morning the system has a notoriously bad habit of maxing out one elevator at a time for the 4 customer service floors before allocating the next. Even MORE ironic was that the program would get into a loop of cycling the same 2 elevators to serve the same heavy use floors. (One would be going up as the other would be just finishing its cycle and the program wouldn't allocate a third elevator until the one coming down was filled.)
So you'd walk into the building at rush hour in the morning (when everybody should be wanting to just go UP) and there's a bank of 10 elevators, 5 to a wall and there'd be about 40 people crowded in front of 2 elevator doors for about 5 minutes waiting to board.
But it gets WORSE! Alot of people would see friends they knew who had already "punched in" and would just get in line with them without punching in themselves and screw up the whole count.
Then you had the "smart" people who would "punch in" a floor many times to get the system to allocate a third and NOT cache them in with the other loads.
At times it was alot of fun just playing with the elevator system than actually doing work.
(one more interesting factoid... someone writing the program must've taken the above into account because there were times when I would work late and the coworkers and I would leave at 10pm from the 16th floor. We'd both punch in within seconds of each other and get TWO elevators.)
But the press release says it affects ALL versions of WinAmp.
Is it better to just lie to the publisher?
Is it better to make a "B" title with last year's tech dressed up to look like this year's tech and sell it to the publisher as an "A" title. Then to try to make a completely new kick butt game?
If the publisher doesn't understand honest schedules, then it stands to reason the publisher isn't going to understand tech, but "buzzwords".
(And ironically, isn't that what we're mostly seeing from the media companies today?)
The schools teach that in an offhand sort of way... How the developer has to understand the customer's needs better than the customer does.
I guess.
I vaguely recall an old slashdot article that said the encryption was pretty weak, if not already broken.
I better go with a wireless keyboard! That'll stop people from capturing my keystrokes!
He was collecting the names of all the insurance company's clients... So uh... so he could notify them of their ability to join the class action lawsuit!
He was... he was helping the government investigate a corrupt company, yeah! He was James Bond! Saving the innocent from themselves!
Yeah... he had no intention whatsoever of joining a competing company and stealing the client list.
Why? Because the US (and Australia) signed a UNITED NATIONS TREATY that said they would.
General Link
The Treaty (PDF)
The FCC began its witch-hunt BEFORE the Janet Jackson incident and has been SPECIFICALLY targetting ClearChannel.
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http://www.sptimes.com/2004/01/28/Tampabay/Bubb
But don't let the facts stand in your way of a good conspiracy theory.
How many guys play the female characters in DOA?
I made an opinion. But then there were people who thought SCO was acting independently because why would Microsoft stoop so low? .NET is a friggin' VM!!! Anybody could do it! Sun did! There's no innovation there. Microsoft hired away Borland's main man with an obscene amount of cash and said, make a new language that we can call our own. Nobody would touch Delphi with a ten foot pole, but now C#, C#, C#... and, oh yeah.. C is dead.
.NET and Microsoft owns C#. Microsoft isn't going to LET .NET work on Linux long term, remember they see Linux as a THREAT. Right now though, this serves their purposes to further entrench C# and .NET in the psyche of programmers. Less time spent on other projects (Python, Java, etc) further entrenches Microsoft's hold on Programmer Mindshare and dictates how the world will compute. I have no problem with Microsoft as a company. I have some problems with how it runs its business, but hey that's life. But why, when you have a completely separate AND OPEN platform, do you want to adopt a closed source solution as the anchor point to the GUI?
I see no reason to assist Microsoft in taking over the world. Microsoft owns
Icaza is taking major investments from Microsoft?
If blue-sky scientific research is the only investment that pays dividences for eternity.
Then going to Mars is a GOOD THING.
http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,114653,0 0.asp
The gossip is that Eisner was considering quicktime, but went with Windows after Jobs decided to take Pixar away from Disney.
was CEO of Disney and switched Disney to Windows (stricly on merits mind you), people would be screaming bloody murder.
Oh wait...
Granted it didn't introduce any radically new play elements and had a really bad ending... But as an experience of an interactive cartoon, it was fun and at the very least, DIFFERENT then the normal pablum put out today.
But I agree with you on everything else.
I didn't say there wasn't a way to do remote debugging on XPSP2. Microsoft said they had to rewrite their remote debugger to work with XPSP2. I said, "Hey, y'know, I just turn the firewall off."
.NET?
Second, good for them. When I see the functionality or maybe even if they had documented that functionality as part of their SECURITY CHANGES, I'll shut up about it.
Outlook XP blocked me from viewing ZIP files unless I edited the registry, how is ANY NORMAL user supposed to correct that?!?
FTP makes use of the ports in strange and unconventional ways... riiight. In any event, my complaint is that (and this is gleaning from the Microsoft article) the PROGRAM ITSELF must clear itself with the firewall. Your link doesn't implies that's no longer the case, but if that's true... why rewrite Visual Studio