Of course, all the Wing Commander games released after 1992 (read: almost all of them) were developed by an Origin Systems that belonged to EA. Without the monetary support provided by EA, there's no way the larger budgeted Wing Commander games could have been produced.
They own a rather large number of development houses, some that they created (like the EA Sports group...) and others that they obtained (Maxis, Origin, etc.) They most definately make their own games.
Although I understand the spirit in which you posted this, I don't understand why it's ludicrous to imagine that someone would not be bound by something they avoided agreeing to...
Actually... I was reading in Time (?) at the barber's that Jackson thinks, while it's still the stame story, that this upcoming movie is the least faithful of the three. He thinks, however, that it makes it a better movie than it would otherwise be.
There are a (relatively) finite number of methods to construct a bridge between two points. Once it has been built, if you carry a 5 kg load across it, then carry a 5000 kg load across, you can be pretty sure that it will support all loads between those two values.
Except that you discover a year later when the bridge collapses that the 5000 kg load put small stress fractures in a bolt and the redundancies you designed in didn't hold... That would be a horrible way to design bridges... especially if you waited until after the bridge was made to figure out the basic limits of the design.
Skyscraper will not collapse if it was built a ton or two heavier than planned. Jet airliner can fly with half of its engines completely off.
In contrast, software has no redundancy. Throw a DLL out of project, and the rest of your code is useless.
You're paying for the redundancy in the first two examples, though... It's been designed in, because that's what proper engineers do. Software has less redundancy because it isn't programmed to have it.
You appear to have drifted the topic slightly, however... back in the original post this was said:
"Yeah. Because the whole AMU (atomic mass units) scale and all the other elements are based on the weight of the hydrogen atom, anyway."
The AMU is *not* based on the mass of the hydrogen atom... It use to be, but that doesn't change the fact that it isn't. It was the basis of the unit from the mid 1800s to the early 1900s, then it switched to oxygen until the 70s, and since then, the unit has been defined with relation to Carbon.
It doesn't need to be based on them... it's just rather convenient... You could quite easily define time, say, atomically, using half lives or atomic vibrations or something to that effect. I'm not quite sure what method atomic clocks use, but you could obviously base your unit off of that... I wouldn't want to, but that doesn't mean you can't do it.
"BTW, I ran Win98 for 2 years straight without ever reformatting. Had to baby it a lot and learned about scanreg, saving my ass many times. Amazing how horrible the registry is. Why didn't MS just use text file system instead of a crappy registry that needs a tool to keep it in check."
I've run W98 SE as my main OS since it was released... also, this was an upgrade from an install of an OEM version of Windows 95 that I first put on the disk in 1996. It's survived without a reformat or a reinstall and only a small degree of registry tinkering... It still runs fine, it's not clunky or noticably unstable.
No... there's this little thing called gravity... You'd have to magically balance it so there was enough thrust pushing you upward to negate the gravitational force... which would be somewhat difficult to do in a rocket sled:) You could easily jump a really long way, though!
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Or I could go to a place that lacks trees... which would make life much easier!
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Of course, all the Wing Commander games released after 1992 (read: almost all of them) were developed by an Origin Systems that belonged to EA. Without the monetary support provided by EA, there's no way the larger budgeted Wing Commander games could have been produced.
They own a rather large number of development houses, some that they created (like the EA Sports group...) and others that they obtained (Maxis, Origin, etc.) They most definately make their own games.
EA bought Maxis in 1997... so they both make an equal amount of money, as they're one and the same.
Although I understand the spirit in which you posted this, I don't understand why it's ludicrous to imagine that someone would not be bound by something they avoided agreeing to...
90% = 100% .9 = 1
multiply by 10
9 = 10
subtract 8
1 = 2
yay!
So now if I gnutella on a T3 am I suddenly stealing 28x the music because it's "really fast"?!
I don't know... are you?
Of course, from their point of view, it makes more sense to go after these people and the regular consumer... Which is what they're doing.
Actually... I was reading in Time (?) at the barber's that Jackson thinks, while it's still the stame story, that this upcoming movie is the least faithful of the three. He thinks, however, that it makes it a better movie than it would otherwise be.
Nope... probably the Stasi (Ministerium für Staatssicherheit) who were the East German secret police.
Wow... They put all the people in a room and sent the phones home? :(
Glad I don't work for them.
And who says there is no software like bridge. There are servers, applications that are rock solid. They won't break for months (sometimes years)
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I understand what you meant... but I still find it kind of funny, since a bridge that broke after months wouldn't be so very rock solid
There are a (relatively) finite number of methods to construct a bridge between two points. Once it has been built, if you carry a 5 kg load across it, then carry a 5000 kg load across, you can be pretty sure that it will support all loads between those two values.
Except that you discover a year later when the bridge collapses that the 5000 kg load put small stress fractures in a bolt and the redundancies you designed in didn't hold... That would be a horrible way to design bridges... especially if you waited until after the bridge was made to figure out the basic limits of the design.
Skyscraper will not collapse if it was built a ton or two heavier than planned. Jet airliner can fly with half of its engines completely off.
In contrast, software has no redundancy. Throw a DLL out of project, and the rest of your code is useless.
You're paying for the redundancy in the first two examples, though... It's been designed in, because that's what proper engineers do. Software has less redundancy because it isn't programmed to have it.
That would have been more entertaining if you'd gotten the right 'its'... actually, nevermind, it was rather entertaining this way...
its - possesive
it's - contraction of it is
That's stupid... the definition of the AMU has been changed multiple times, so obviously it can be changed...
hrm... that sure wasn't in response to the right comment... ah well...
You appear to have drifted the topic slightly, however... back in the original post this was said:
"Yeah. Because the whole AMU (atomic mass units) scale and all the other elements are based on the weight of the hydrogen atom, anyway."
The AMU is *not* based on the mass of the hydrogen atom... It use to be, but that doesn't change the fact that it isn't. It was the basis of the unit from the mid 1800s to the early 1900s, then it switched to oxygen until the 70s, and since then, the unit has been defined with relation to Carbon.
Wow... that page says:
"so one hydrogen atom is about one amu. "
That's definately the way I would define units... A kilometer is about 1000 meters... yep... that's the way I'd say it. [/sarcasm]
It doesn't need to be based on them... it's just rather convenient... You could quite easily define time, say, atomically, using half lives or atomic vibrations or something to that effect. I'm not quite sure what method atomic clocks use, but you could obviously base your unit off of that... I wouldn't want to, but that doesn't mean you can't do it.
No, one AMU is defined as 1/12th the mass of a Carbon 12 atom...
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Wait... what about the people who've been innocently killed by the death penalty? Did the death penalty help them somehow?
Don't you love puppies? :(
"BTW, I ran Win98 for 2 years straight without ever reformatting. Had to baby it a lot and learned about scanreg, saving my ass many times. Amazing how horrible the registry is. Why didn't MS just use text file system instead of a crappy registry that needs a tool to keep it in check."
I've run W98 SE as my main OS since it was released... also, this was an upgrade from an install of an OEM version of Windows 95 that I first put on the disk in 1996. It's survived without a reformat or a reinstall and only a small degree of registry tinkering... It still runs fine, it's not clunky or noticably unstable.
No... there's this little thing called gravity... You'd have to magically balance it so there was enough thrust pushing you upward to negate the gravitational force... which would be somewhat difficult to do in a rocket sled :) You could easily jump a really long way, though!
Or I could go to a place that lacks trees... which would make life much easier!