All of them, from Brad McQuaid, Raph Koster, to Lord British, they all have egos the size of planets. Reading their posts to various forums and industry sites it is evident that they cannot learn. Well I will be nice, I have seen much from Brad recently, but Raph proves time and time again his disconnect.
Hell even Jessica Mulligan, who wrote Biting the Hand - a sometimes hard look at the gaming industry, turned into what she/he claimed was the problem. After taking the helm of AC2 and now AC1 she seemed to operate in a manner completely opposite of what she was preaching beforehand. Granted turing around the Turbine ship wasn't going to be easy but its moving.
The problem comes down to the fact they hit on success and suddenly feel as if they are the only ones with opinions that matter. Which probably explains why most are fearful of doing another game or if they do it it never lives up to expectation.
When I first watched this, taped to my VCR, I was not impressed. However I later downloaded a bittorrent of it, captured from satellite or similar, and after watching it a few times where I could back up and such I found I enjoyed many aspects of it.
Watching it without the commercials really improved it. Anyone else find otherwise decent programs on Sci-Fi ruined by the deluge of commercials?
The UN is the last place you want with any control over the internet. Why you ask? Simple, outside of the Security Council the UN is proof of what is wrong with a pure democracy. Piss-ant countries have votes of equal strength of large countries. This allows them to band together to punish countries which adopt ideals they don't like, have flourishing economies, complain about the piss-ant countries human rights violations, and etc.
Look at the crap that goes on in the GA concerning Israel. No one takes the GA seriously anymore. Armnament comittees and Human Rights committees are routinely stacked with the worst abusers if not directly chaired by them. The Iraq Oil for Food program was a cash cow for the UN. The admin fees were exhorbinant and when some countries complained they got bought off.
If anything the net should be controlled by a publically controlled body. Something that people can get a hand on. Governments and world governments make businesses look like saints.
First the tax cuts have improved the economy and that can be proven. Every time they have been tried the economy has improved. It first was shown under JFK! Yeah, JFK drastically cut taxes and the economy took off.
What is killing the budget is that neither Republicans or Democrats will stop spending. It used to be that Republicans didn't spend as freely as Democrats. That all changed with the new "Compassionate Republicans". They are simply the "old Democrats" whereas the Deomcrats moved onto to Socialist.
NASA budget wise, the Shuttle and The Space Station are both colossal wastes of money based on ideas from the 70s. Yeah I know, the space station was only recently approved, but its inherently based in 70s think.
If you keep using half assed solutions you will be paying to keep them afloat, more than doing it right.
If it comes down to taxes or the Hubble I will keep my tax money, THANK YOU. There are many other areas of waste that need to be corrected first. Entitlement programs will break the bank and some already are. Hate Bush all you want but we have a society more concerned with what government will do for them than they are with what they can do for themselves. As long as that "gimme" attitude exist we won't have a real space program. Hell we won't have much at all soon. Entitlements will eat the majority of the budget leaving nothing for frills like a Space Station.
Don't think that Kerry or whomever the Democrats nominate will be any better. They want to raise taxes AND spend EVEN MORE MONEY! Guess what, you won't have much of a space program then either. You might get lucky and have them "placate the nerds" by saving the Hubble and long term hobbling NASA.
Repeat after me, tax cuts don't increase the deficit. Out of control spending does. If they had not kept raising the budge the tax cuts would not have been noticable.
Also, the tax cuts if revoked would put back less than 150B of the money that isn't there. However it would certainly tank the stock market, lead to higher unemployment, and probably a serious reduction in items like.... UH NASA!
There he is complaining about DOT printers and yet we purchased 40+ thermals just last year.
What it comes down to is we have an article full of ignorance of the application of many of these items. Just because he doesn't need them or work in an industry that can use many of them they suddenly become obsolete.
It is like the egos of pc-server people who always claimed they could supplant the mainframe. Sure, in certain low impact areas it was fine. Put someone's job on the line and a lot of peoples money and you go with something that is guaranteed to work.
As for the printers. Dots and Thermals are great in warehouse settings. Rugged lasers and such are very expensive. Changing cartridges is not something you can trust most warehouse people do either.
They need to put the people in jail. Find the MS-Euro chiefs who knowningly followed this path of exploitation and lock them up.
A fine against a corporation is just like a tax against a corporation. It is an embedded tax on the consumer. Whether or not many EU people buy MS products they will be paying this "fine". Simply put too many companies and governments use MS products which spreads the cost.
Another alternative would be for the EU to use it as an excuse to move to a linux variant or encourage the schools and other public institutions to do so.
Again, a fine is just a tax, so don't be cheering up that tax you will be paying.
It is actually an embedded tax. You pay their taxes through purchases you make. The government relies on people being ignorant. They burn this into little tykes heads in school.
Hence there is no "tax break" on a corporation either.
X-Body cars, the Cimmaron by Caddy was by far the worst transgression were notorious at times.
Ford's Tempo & Topaz also developed bad reputations for oil seals.
Chrysler was just plain bad. Having to use the K-platform under about everything they offered. If anything they were the styling idiots of the 80s. Amazing turn around for that car maker. Still love Iaccoca's introduction of the mini-van where the door handle came off in his hand.
The also missed the Renault Alliance and Hyndai (sp?) Excel ? Their first car was atrocious.
Tell my boss about the great European craftsmanship. His E-Class is nearly a lemon. Apparently his problems are very common.
Frankly Europe has little place to brag compared to the Japanese.
The other side is this, most American cars ARE treated as disposable. People with higher incomes tended to take better care of their vehicles. These same people also had different tastes not served by American cars, but that is changing. I have seen some very old American cars with just regular service that are doing just fine. I have also seen some imports from Europe AND Japan that ran as good or bad as any of the worst American cars.
The person owning it has nearly as much to do with the longevity as the people making it. While in the 70s that might not have always been true it nearly is in the last 10.
many companies would be just happy to be supplying Wal-Mart and its associated companies. It is an accepted cost of business that you may have to adapt to them.
Put it this way, would you rather sell to them or have your competitor doing it?
the iSeries (new name of AS/400) and pSeries have been on the PowerPC processor type for many years. They were one of the first 64bit computers available for commercial purposes. The zSeries will join the iSeries on PowerPC processors beginning with the G5.
The iSeries can already run Linux as a hosted OS. While where I work hasn't allowed us to do so it is not a complicated process. The iSeries OS and microcode is C/C++ based. Many Unix applications can already be ported to the box via PASE (Portable Application Solutions Environment). The hosted OS gets a lot of benefit from the base OS of the system involved including use of many of the attached devices like high speed tape drives and libraries.
IBM is just levarging existing hardware, hardware that has reliablity that you do not get in PC based servers.
They purposefully chose this location to minimize the number of larger boulders. This makes movement of the Rover much easier and probably helped make the landing safer.
If NASA was given the funding to add Mars and the Moon ONTO to its existing systems we would forever be saddled with the Space Shuttle until the next disaster.
We are very fortunate that SOMEONE finally came out and said the space shuttle must go. How long have past Presidents been sitting on their collective hind ends just letting NASA be NASA?
Sorry, to give them more money means they keep that Spruce Goose going forever soaking the taxpayers and dooming and real chance at manned space exploration.
The shuttle effectively ENDED the manned space program.
The primary reason is that man can adapt. He can improvise. Risk brings rewards. With man on Mars you will not be limited as conventional rovers are.
We do not currently make probes capable of repair. While it is arguable that repairing an astronaut isn't going to be easy it is far easier that fixing the machines.
Many people seem to think its okay to risk astronaut lives going up into orbit but balk at other choices? Why should it be any different. We are talking about volunteers. How many people were lost exploring just our world? How many perished going to new depths in the ocean?
The space station is useless. It is of an age similar to that of the Space Shuttle. Until we leave orbit and build somewhere like the moon Space exploration and exploitation will forever be constrained.
We can the next 100 years putting things in orbit and it will get us no where. A base on the moon will at least be PERMANENT.
Perhaps one of the most entrenched languages of all time, and a very effective one. One thing most new programmers forget is that the primary purpose of any program is to get the job done.
COBOL works perfectly for that in many environments.
Sometimes I think the GUI set computing BACK more years than it advanced it.
I guess we need to look back at more Steve Jackson games for future technology ideas? Or perhaps he patented the idea and stands to make a killing now?
They blow it again and its over. Frankly I am not worried about them actually performing the technology based changes, those are easy. I do not see them making the administrative changes. Oh I see new glossy surface polishing, but underneath what will really change.
The is Government, they weren't accountable when Challenger blew up, and I doubt anyone was held truly accountable for Columbia.
Ditch the damn shuttle. All it does is hamper any possibility of real space usage. It is nothing more than a modern day spruce goose. It has so many things that can go wrong something will. I don't know if the nation has the stomach to lose another 7, and I don't want to find out.
Don't give employers this idea that working from home is a reward. My time is as valuable while in the office as outside of it.
Working from home will already save them money on heating, cooling, parking, insurance, and office space. There are also tax benefits in certain areas of the country for implementing such environment and traffic friendly procedures.
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All of them, from Brad McQuaid, Raph Koster, to Lord British, they all have egos the size of planets. Reading their posts to various forums and industry sites it is evident that they cannot learn. Well I will be nice, I have seen much from Brad recently, but Raph proves time and time again his disconnect.
Hell even Jessica Mulligan, who wrote Biting the Hand - a sometimes hard look at the gaming industry, turned into what she/he claimed was the problem. After taking the helm of AC2 and now AC1 she seemed to operate in a manner completely opposite of what she was preaching beforehand. Granted turing around the Turbine ship wasn't going to be easy but its moving.
The problem comes down to the fact they hit on success and suddenly feel as if they are the only ones with opinions that matter. Which probably explains why most are fearful of doing another game or if they do it it never lives up to expectation.
When I first watched this, taped to my VCR, I was not impressed. However I later downloaded a bittorrent of it, captured from satellite or similar, and after watching it a few times where I could back up and such I found I enjoyed many aspects of it.
Watching it without the commercials really improved it. Anyone else find otherwise decent programs on Sci-Fi ruined by the deluge of commercials?
Apparently no one.
The UN is the last place you want with any control over the internet. Why you ask? Simple, outside of the Security Council the UN is proof of what is wrong with a pure democracy. Piss-ant countries have votes of equal strength of large countries. This allows them to band together to punish countries which adopt ideals they don't like, have flourishing economies, complain about the piss-ant countries human rights violations, and etc.
Look at the crap that goes on in the GA concerning Israel. No one takes the GA seriously anymore. Armnament comittees and Human Rights committees are routinely stacked with the worst abusers if not directly chaired by them. The Iraq Oil for Food program was a cash cow for the UN. The admin fees were exhorbinant and when some countries complained they got bought off.
If anything the net should be controlled by a publically controlled body. Something that people can get a hand on. Governments and world governments make businesses look like saints.
First the tax cuts have improved the economy and that can be proven. Every time they have been tried the economy has improved. It first was shown under JFK! Yeah, JFK drastically cut taxes and the economy took off.
.... UH NASA!
What is killing the budget is that neither Republicans or Democrats will stop spending. It used to be that Republicans didn't spend as freely as Democrats. That all changed with the new "Compassionate Republicans". They are simply the "old Democrats" whereas the Deomcrats moved onto to Socialist.
NASA budget wise, the Shuttle and The Space Station are both colossal wastes of money based on ideas from the 70s. Yeah I know, the space station was only recently approved, but its inherently based in 70s think.
If you keep using half assed solutions you will be paying to keep them afloat, more than doing it right.
If it comes down to taxes or the Hubble I will keep my tax money, THANK YOU. There are many other areas of waste that need to be corrected first. Entitlement programs will break the bank and some already are. Hate Bush all you want but we have a society more concerned with what government will do for them than they are with what they can do for themselves. As long as that "gimme" attitude exist we won't have a real space program. Hell we won't have much at all soon. Entitlements will eat the majority of the budget leaving nothing for frills like a Space Station.
Don't think that Kerry or whomever the Democrats nominate will be any better. They want to raise taxes AND spend EVEN MORE MONEY! Guess what, you won't have much of a space program then either. You might get lucky and have them "placate the nerds" by saving the Hubble and long term hobbling NASA.
Repeat after me, tax cuts don't increase the deficit. Out of control spending does. If they had not kept raising the budge the tax cuts would not have been noticable.
Also, the tax cuts if revoked would put back less than 150B of the money that isn't there. However it would certainly tank the stock market, lead to higher unemployment, and probably a serious reduction in items like
There he is complaining about DOT printers and yet we purchased 40+ thermals just last year.
What it comes down to is we have an article full of ignorance of the application of many of these items. Just because he doesn't need them or work in an industry that can use many of them they suddenly become obsolete.
It is like the egos of pc-server people who always claimed they could supplant the mainframe. Sure, in certain low impact areas it was fine. Put someone's job on the line and a lot of peoples money and you go with something that is guaranteed to work.
As for the printers. Dots and Thermals are great in warehouse settings. Rugged lasers and such are very expensive. Changing cartridges is not something you can trust most warehouse people do either.
They need to put the people in jail. Find the MS-Euro chiefs who knowningly followed this path of exploitation and lock them up.
A fine against a corporation is just like a tax against a corporation. It is an embedded tax on the consumer. Whether or not many EU people buy MS products they will be paying this "fine". Simply put too many companies and governments use MS products which spreads the cost.
Another alternative would be for the EU to use it as an excuse to move to a linux variant or encourage the schools and other public institutions to do so.
Again, a fine is just a tax, so don't be cheering up that tax you will be paying.
It is actually an embedded tax. You pay their taxes through purchases you make. The government relies on people being ignorant. They burn this into little tykes heads in school.
Hence there is no "tax break" on a corporation either.
So who really wins?
Looks like another tax winfall for the government.
Now if they make them give back money to everyone who can produce a valid Windows license I would be all for it.
X-Body cars, the Cimmaron by Caddy was by far the worst transgression were notorious at times.
Ford's Tempo & Topaz also developed bad reputations for oil seals.
Chrysler was just plain bad. Having to use the K-platform under about everything they offered. If anything they were the styling idiots of the 80s. Amazing turn around for that car maker. Still love Iaccoca's introduction of the mini-van where the door handle came off in his hand.
The also missed the Renault Alliance and Hyndai (sp?) Excel ? Their first car was atrocious.
Tell my boss about the great European craftsmanship. His E-Class is nearly a lemon. Apparently his problems are very common.
Frankly Europe has little place to brag compared to the Japanese.
The other side is this, most American cars ARE treated as disposable. People with higher incomes tended to take better care of their vehicles. These same people also had different tastes not served by American cars, but that is changing. I have seen some very old American cars with just regular service that are doing just fine. I have also seen some imports from Europe AND Japan that ran as good or bad as any of the worst American cars.
The person owning it has nearly as much to do with the longevity as the people making it. While in the 70s that might not have always been true it nearly is in the last 10.
many companies would be just happy to be supplying Wal-Mart and its associated companies. It is an accepted cost of business that you may have to adapt to them.
Put it this way, would you rather sell to them or have your competitor doing it?
the iSeries (new name of AS/400) and pSeries have been on the PowerPC processor type for many years. They were one of the first 64bit computers available for commercial purposes. The zSeries will join the iSeries on PowerPC processors beginning with the G5.
The iSeries can already run Linux as a hosted OS. While where I work hasn't allowed us to do so it is not a complicated process. The iSeries OS and microcode is C/C++ based. Many Unix applications can already be ported to the box via PASE (Portable Application Solutions Environment). The hosted OS gets a lot of benefit from the base OS of the system involved including use of many of the attached devices like high speed tape drives and libraries.
IBM is just levarging existing hardware, hardware that has reliablity that you do not get in PC based servers.
They purposefully chose this location to minimize the number of larger boulders. This makes movement of the Rover much easier and probably helped make the landing safer.
If NASA was given the funding to add Mars and the Moon ONTO to its existing systems we would forever be saddled with the Space Shuttle until the next disaster.
We are very fortunate that SOMEONE finally came out and said the space shuttle must go. How long have past Presidents been sitting on their collective hind ends just letting NASA be NASA?
Sorry, to give them more money means they keep that Spruce Goose going forever soaking the taxpayers and dooming and real chance at manned space exploration.
The shuttle effectively ENDED the manned space program.
The primary reason is that man can adapt. He can improvise. Risk brings rewards. With man on Mars you will not be limited as conventional rovers are.
We do not currently make probes capable of repair. While it is arguable that repairing an astronaut isn't going to be easy it is far easier that fixing the machines.
Many people seem to think its okay to risk astronaut lives going up into orbit but balk at other choices? Why should it be any different. We are talking about volunteers. How many people were lost exploring just our world? How many perished going to new depths in the ocean?
The ability to improvise is the key.
I guess Fox can do this next.
I suggest it be a Celebrity Survivor!
The space station is useless. It is of an age similar to that of the Space Shuttle. Until we leave orbit and build somewhere like the moon Space exploration and exploitation will forever be constrained.
We can the next 100 years putting things in orbit and it will get us no where. A base on the moon will at least be PERMANENT.
I can hardly wait to see that claim made!
Why can't these designers recreate existing rooms with LED lighting? I would like to see new uses for LED lighting that don't look garish.
There are very few products that are as recycable as automobiles.
Perhaps one of the most entrenched languages of all time, and a very effective one. One thing most new programmers forget is that the primary purpose of any program is to get the job done.
COBOL works perfectly for that in many environments.
Sometimes I think the GUI set computing BACK more years than it advanced it.
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I guess we need to look back at more Steve Jackson games for future technology ideas? Or perhaps he patented the idea and stands to make a killing now?
They blow it again and its over. Frankly I am not worried about them actually performing the technology based changes, those are easy. I do not see them making the administrative changes. Oh I see new glossy surface polishing, but underneath what will really change.
The is Government, they weren't accountable when Challenger blew up, and I doubt anyone was held truly accountable for Columbia.
Ditch the damn shuttle. All it does is hamper any possibility of real space usage. It is nothing more than a modern day spruce goose. It has so many things that can go wrong something will. I don't know if the nation has the stomach to lose another 7, and I don't want to find out.
Don't give employers this idea that working from home is a reward. My time is as valuable while in the office as outside of it.
Working from home will already save them money on heating, cooling, parking, insurance, and office space. There are also tax benefits in certain areas of the country for implementing such environment and traffic friendly procedures.
The numbers won't mean much unless you can define who they are? I know some web page designers who are classed as "programmers".