A lot - and I speak from experience - of prospective games developers get so wrapped up in tweaking their engines that they never actually get around to writing one game, let alone a series. And that's why the Intartubes are littered with the sad corpses of hundreds of open source game engines, some of them rather good, in various states of disrepair and abandonment, and so few really outstanding open source games.
Calm down, Sparky. If you want to roll out some Communist "3 year plan", then sure, let's get on it, but it needs to be targeted at the backbone, not the last mile. Create a surplus of supply (more backbone capacity), and the cost of supplying to the home will come down. Just drive up demand at the home, make the supply even scarcer, and what do you think will happen to the cost, or the service?
This is not your private development repository we're talking about.
Yes, I know, thanks. I wasn't talking about that in the first place. I was talking about my "company release tree". There's a whole bunch of legacy or tried-and-abandoned cruft in there that it's not worth anyone's time to remove. And yes, it goes out to customers, and no, they don't care; they only care if the things that they are paying for work.
If you (and I do mean you personally) are spending time doing that sort of tidying on your releases, then you're not working on paid tasks, and you are surplus to requirements. Sucks to be you.
Since we are starting today we need to future proof, so it has to be gigabit each way.
What's the point? Your cable example shows exactly why the last mile is not the problem: you'll get throttled upstream anyway.
Which reminds me, Virgin Media are well overdue a bitch-slapping from the ASA for their ludicrous speed claims. The basic 10Mb/s package is a joke, since it only takes 10 minutes use at 10Mb/s to hit the usage cap and get throttled down to 2Mb/s. In effect, it's a 2Mb/s service with occasional bursts of 10Mb/s performance.
This could be an ancient script cut-and-pasted to suit. Heck, I've still got a Makefile that has a section for Ultrix but it doesn't mean that it works or that I'm supporting it.
Oh God, yes, my wife will cream herself at that too. But when her desktop locks her out after suspend - which it will, as the case of the year old/etc/shadow permissions changing bug is still extant after 2+ years of being ignored, then she'll come wailing to me.
Oops, there was a bug in my bug report. Yes, I find that's it's better to keep upgrading to "unstable" versions than to wait for backports to the hilariously titled "supported" versions. Unfortunately, the more people do that, the less incentive there is to backport.
And even that doesn't always work; I yet again can't unlock my screen after suspend in 9.10, a recurring problem which keeps coming back in various forms since at least 8.04 and which - hello Canonical - is a red flag issue for Joe User.
I know the difficulty of trying to persuade geeks to work on things that don't interest them, but doing so is Canonical's job. When users say "I can't unlock my screen after suspend", that's a drop-everything issue. How can they not get that?
Well, I'm clearly not playing in my intellectual league. I mean, I can't figure out how to find a route that's shorter than a straight line, so I guess I'll have to cede the field to your non-Euclidean hyperspace geometry. You win an Internets.
Noted anonymous Intartubes nobody Rogerborg today called for the Department of National Federal Executive Bureaucracy to investigate the funding and steering of alleged "advocacy group" Consumer Watchdog for possible Unclean Hands manipulation by Microsoft, the Gnomes of Zurich, and/or the Saucer People.
If a lab has spent a long time, let's say 10 years, accumulating some hard fought data
If a lab has been spending my tax money for 10 years, I want my employees to give me my data right Goddamn now.
The "reward" for doing publicly funded research is that you keep getting funded. I don't care one whit what you think you're entitled to: if you're taking my money, you work for me.
You can say that button placement is super-uber-infinitely-less-important all you like, but you're a stupid stupid-head so I'm not going to listen to you. Hey, it turns out that Mark's line of argument is actually quite effective!
We are Klingons^W Nerds! Such trivialities matter to Our People. If you wrong us, shall we not reach for our inhalers? Then after we've caught our breath, shall we not revenge, a dish best served cold, with a side helping of "Oh, now you want feedback from us, do you?"
You say LTS like it's meaningful. Backporting is incidental to hackers; nobody wants to be Legacy Support Guy. 9.04 is still full of bugs that nobody (in Canonical) gives a damn about, because they're too busy slamming new ones into 10.04. LTS is just shorthand for "It's not likely to get much more borked over time".
A moment's thought would reveal that the road distance cannot be shorter than the straight line distance. If you set the cameras up to calculate speed based on the time and straight line distance, then the actual vehicle speed must be at least that speed or faster. They only have to show that you must have exceeded the speed limit, not exactly what speed you were doing.
Roads may have different speed limits.
Well, golly, you've got them there. There's no way they could set up the camera sites so that they can show that the calculated speed exceeded the maximum for any of the possible routes. I mean, an $80 SatNav can do those sort of devilish calculations, but no human is capable of such infernal feats of arithmagic!
Uh, perhaps because renegades like me and thee - heck, we're probably filthy hackers, and we may even have links to organised crime - who upgrade our systems are an insignificantly small market, and Intel are happy to cede it to AMD in order to squeeze more profit out of the other 98% of their customers?
Heck, I remember "integrated graphics" the first time round. It was called "using the CPU to do graphics", and it was good enough for us to render buggy whips in 2D, sometimes even 2.5D.
Also, what's with kids these days playing their hippety-hop music way too loud using integrated chips rather than a good old ISA SoundBlaster 16?
I'd like to see an interview with the queues of uneducated rural yokels waiting outside, desperate for a job in this factory, asking them why they're prepared to sign up for this work.
The root cause of this glut of unemployed peasants is rural mechanisation. China is just going through the same Industrial Revolution growing pains as Europe did in the 18th century, and wishy washy liberal bleating that it shouldn't be so isn't going to change that one iota - it is so, and in time, they'll be better for it.
Short response: the jobs in this factory are better than nothing.
What the... they're acquiring "intellectual property" rights in order to actually use them to create something, instead of to sue other people for creating things? How deliciously old fashioned!
I "find" stuff all the time. It's like... recycling. Just the other week, I "found" a sweet bike in the park, just leaning against a tree near some total douches playing with a frisbee. Bonus, the seat was still totally warm when I jumped on and pedalled hell for leather away. And talk about the great price that I got when I sold my newly "found" bike down at the local pawn shop!
Heck, I bet if I could get inside Gizmondo's office by "finding" an open window late at night, I could "find" a truck load of great stuff just lying around unattended, free for anyone to take!
Slashdot Mirror
Note carefully that the author is also talking about re-using most of his resources - models and UI - and only adding new story content.
OK, Source is derived from Quake, but does Half Life 2 look like Quake 1?
It's an apples to Bad Analogies comparison though, since RPG audiences are not FPS audiences.
Reminds me of the excellent Write Games, Not Engines.
A lot - and I speak from experience - of prospective games developers get so wrapped up in tweaking their engines that they never actually get around to writing one game, let alone a series. And that's why the Intartubes are littered with the sad corpses of hundreds of open source game engines, some of them rather good, in various states of disrepair and abandonment, and so few really outstanding open source games.
Calm down, Sparky. If you want to roll out some Communist "3 year plan", then sure, let's get on it, but it needs to be targeted at the backbone, not the last mile. Create a surplus of supply (more backbone capacity), and the cost of supplying to the home will come down. Just drive up demand at the home, make the supply even scarcer, and what do you think will happen to the cost, or the service?
Yes, I know, thanks. I wasn't talking about that in the first place. I was talking about my "company release tree". There's a whole bunch of legacy or tried-and-abandoned cruft in there that it's not worth anyone's time to remove. And yes, it goes out to customers, and no, they don't care; they only care if the things that they are paying for work.
If you (and I do mean you personally) are spending time doing that sort of tidying on your releases, then you're not working on paid tasks, and you are surplus to requirements. Sucks to be you.
What's the point? Your cable example shows exactly why the last mile is not the problem: you'll get throttled upstream anyway.
Which reminds me, Virgin Media are well overdue a bitch-slapping from the ASA for their ludicrous speed claims. The basic 10Mb/s package is a joke, since it only takes 10 minutes use at 10Mb/s to hit the usage cap and get throttled down to 2Mb/s. In effect, it's a 2Mb/s service with occasional bursts of 10Mb/s performance.
And thusly have they earned my $5.99. Thanks for the heads-up.
This could be an ancient script cut-and-pasted to suit. Heck, I've still got a Makefile that has a section for Ultrix but it doesn't mean that it works or that I'm supporting it.
Oh God, yes, my wife will cream herself at that too. But when her desktop locks her out after suspend - which it will, as the case of the year old /etc/shadow permissions changing bug is still extant after 2+ years of being ignored, then she'll come wailing to me.
Oops, there was a bug in my bug report. Yes, I find that's it's better to keep upgrading to "unstable" versions than to wait for backports to the hilariously titled "supported" versions. Unfortunately, the more people do that, the less incentive there is to backport.
And even that doesn't always work; I yet again can't unlock my screen after suspend in 9.10, a recurring problem which keeps coming back in various forms since at least 8.04 and which - hello Canonical - is a red flag issue for Joe User.
I know the difficulty of trying to persuade geeks to work on things that don't interest them, but doing so is Canonical's job. When users say "I can't unlock my screen after suspend", that's a drop-everything issue. How can they not get that?
Well, I'm clearly not playing in my intellectual league. I mean, I can't figure out how to find a route that's shorter than a straight line, so I guess I'll have to cede the field to your non-Euclidean hyperspace geometry. You win an Internets.
Noted anonymous Intartubes nobody Rogerborg today called for the Department of National Federal Executive Bureaucracy to investigate the funding and steering of alleged "advocacy group" Consumer Watchdog for possible Unclean Hands manipulation by Microsoft, the Gnomes of Zurich, and/or the Saucer People.
If a lab has been spending my tax money for 10 years, I want my employees to give me my data right Goddamn now.
The "reward" for doing publicly funded research is that you keep getting funded. I don't care one whit what you think you're entitled to: if you're taking my money, you work for me.
You can say that button placement is super-uber-infinitely-less-important all you like, but you're a stupid stupid-head so I'm not going to listen to you. Hey, it turns out that Mark's line of argument is actually quite effective!
We are Klingons^W Nerds! Such trivialities matter to Our People. If you wrong us, shall we not reach for our inhalers? Then after we've caught our breath, shall we not revenge, a dish best served cold, with a side helping of "Oh, now you want feedback from us, do you?"
You say LTS like it's meaningful. Backporting is incidental to hackers; nobody wants to be Legacy Support Guy. 9.04 is still full of bugs that nobody (in Canonical) gives a damn about, because they're too busy slamming new ones into 10.04. LTS is just shorthand for "It's not likely to get much more borked over time".
Like most Christians, Muslims are only pious when there are people around who might tell god what they're doing.
What if you fly? What if you tunnel? What if a wizard did it?
You mean when they blabbed all the deep arcane inner trade secrets?
Damn, and I had my heart set on paying $100K and living as a slave on Sea Org for 5 years in order to find that out. :(
You don't understand why moderates aren't outraged?
Hint: they laugh off these hilariously pathetic whackos, then have a bacon sandwich and a beer, same as the rest of us.
Well, I'm glad you're at least that self aware.
A moment's thought would reveal that the road distance cannot be shorter than the straight line distance. If you set the cameras up to calculate speed based on the time and straight line distance, then the actual vehicle speed must be at least that speed or faster. They only have to show that you must have exceeded the speed limit, not exactly what speed you were doing.
Well, golly, you've got them there. There's no way they could set up the camera sites so that they can show that the calculated speed exceeded the maximum for any of the possible routes. I mean, an $80 SatNav can do those sort of devilish calculations, but no human is capable of such infernal feats of arithmagic!
Uh, perhaps because renegades like me and thee - heck, we're probably filthy hackers, and we may even have links to organised crime - who upgrade our systems are an insignificantly small market, and Intel are happy to cede it to AMD in order to squeeze more profit out of the other 98% of their customers?
Also, what's with kids these days playing their hippety-hop music way too loud using integrated chips rather than a good old ISA SoundBlaster 16?
See the It's Coming Right For Us defence, as enshrined in the PATROIT Act. Wait... you are a patriot, aren't you?
Thank you - I was about to post the same point.
I'd like to see an interview with the queues of uneducated rural yokels waiting outside, desperate for a job in this factory, asking them why they're prepared to sign up for this work.
The root cause of this glut of unemployed peasants is rural mechanisation. China is just going through the same Industrial Revolution growing pains as Europe did in the 18th century, and wishy washy liberal bleating that it shouldn't be so isn't going to change that one iota - it is so, and in time, they'll be better for it.
Short response: the jobs in this factory are better than nothing.
What the... they're acquiring "intellectual property" rights in order to actually use them to create something, instead of to sue other people for creating things? How deliciously old fashioned!
I "find" stuff all the time. It's like... recycling. Just the other week, I "found" a sweet bike in the park, just leaning against a tree near some total douches playing with a frisbee. Bonus, the seat was still totally warm when I jumped on and pedalled hell for leather away. And talk about the great price that I got when I sold my newly "found" bike down at the local pawn shop!
Heck, I bet if I could get inside Gizmondo's office by "finding" an open window late at night, I could "find" a truck load of great stuff just lying around unattended, free for anyone to take!