I truly doubt this software can function at the level claimed, but hey it makes great science fiction.
Hari Seldon would be pleased. Psychohistory has at last become a reality.
Other than that, it would be like a trash collector counting how many cans he emptied during the day..
Nice to see someone else thinks this is as stupid as I do. Sadly as a trash collector this is exactly what they do. All of us are expected to pick up x amount of containers in y amount of time. Nevermind the fact that on some routes, as a private scavenger that is, there may be a few miles between stops, or at others you may have close to 20 lined up and ready to go. Yet everyone is supposed to achieve the same unrealistic goal, because thats what the bean counters in the front office came up with. These would be the same bean counters who dumped several million dollars into a firm to develop a piece of software that would be able to update daily the fastest and most cost effective routes between every stop, only to be told after 2 years that it wasn't possible.
Metrics like these are by and large Bullshit. They're there so someone in middle, or upper-middle management (what a joke those positions have become) can justify their jobs, and for no other reason. People have been doing these jobs for decades without these idiotic metrics, and doing them well. If America really wants to compete in a global market, they'll eliminate middle management. Everytime I hear another study that says the American worker wastes so many hours of productivity a week on some activity I want to gag. Just let people do their damn jobs.
Do you happen to see a cost listed on that rather short list for the shell of the PS3? How about a cost for the interior housing? Screws? Maybe a cost for the included Duo Stick reader? No? How about a cost for the included controller, surely that would be there? Not there either? How about cost for packaging? The included demo disk? Power cord maybe? Manuals? Not there either huh? Hmmm lets think about this then. If we total up the cost of what isn't listed there, we'd get about $100 to perhaps $200 dollars (if you're a bit unrealistic). Whats that mean? Why that means that the estimated price would be 'around $900' or to put it another way, exactly what the article suggested. All you see listed there, is a rather small collection of the most critical and most expensive parts that make up the PS3 as a whole. If you add in everything that makes up a PS3, using they're estimates you'd get $900.
Call their total estimates into question all you want, but when you start off by trying to claim they don't know how to do simple addition, you sound like a moron.
Gamespot http://www.gamespot.com/news/6135979.html/ is reporting that Jack didn't even bother to file his complaint with the Seatle Police department until well after he'd faxed complaints to PA, Gamespot, 1up, and others.
I realize the mans not the brightest bulb on the show room floor, but you'd think sending in the complaint before the press release would be a no-brainer. This, if nothing else, absolutely shows off the character of the man. Show boating, and media attention first and foremost.
I'm with others, if he has finally filed a complaint with the SPD I hope they, and PA nail his ass to the wall for filing a false complaint. The only way the media will finally stop listening to him is if someone takes his ass to task for his tactics. Follow it all the way through the courts, get them to declare him an ass-hat and you have more credibility then all the Janet Reno and Trolling stories put together.
Sounds more like a robber holding the gun towards himself during a stickup. 'Give me control of the net or I'll shoot.'
The current system works, its not perfect, but its highly functional. In a best case scenario the European Union's solution, and others will take years to actually implement correctly. Years in which the internet does not function as smoothly as it has been. Years of headaches and frustrations to get their model working up to snuff.
But thats the best case, more then likely if they were to do this, as others have said, they will isolate their own countries from the wider network, something their citizens will not tolerate (except for perhaps Iran and others who this would be a blessing). Sadly this isn't going to cause any public outcry until it actually happened.
I think the US realizes that they're negotiating from a position of strength. I think the EU needs to come to this realization. I'm not saying they shouldn't drop their push for some reforms in ICANN and the internet as a whole, but they really shouldn't be spouting of nonsense about splitting away from the net, when its going to do them more harm then us.
Speaking as someone whose been MUDing for well over 5 years now and has graduated to coding the games rather then playing them I've always liked and enjoyed Pueblo. It's a nice little client and as far as I know its still free and available at http://pueblo.mozdev.org/downloads.html
Though I'm not 100% sure if thats the newest version out there. I'd heard some guys at Sourceforge were continueing development.
I highly recommend it. It doesn't have all the bells and whistles of some of the pay Clients but its good and solid, especially if you're writing code in notepad and copying it in all the time.
I fail to see how anyone can claim that calling me at 5:00 pm while I'm eating dinner to sell me life insurance or ask if I REALLY want to change phone companies for the umpteenth time is 'free speech'.
As a wise man once said, 'Your right to swing your arms back and forth, ends where my face begins.'
Just as standing on a suburban corner with a bullhorn at 4:00 am yelling out my political agenda for world domination isn't protected by free speech (as it violates noise ordinances), stopping telemarketers from calling my house is not violating their free speech rights. Their are perfectly allowed to have their views on which phone company the average American should be using, they can even publish, or state them, they just shouldn't be allowed to call me and personally bug me about it.
Niven also wrote about Criminals sentanced to execution being used for organ donation, and the slippery slope this might cause.
In one short story the character is arrested and faced with execution as he is a repeat offender. He escapes through some fluke in the system, and tries to run away through the federal building where he 'stumbles' upon the vats with executed criminals being used for organ donation. To make a long story short, he's recaptured, released on a technicality from prison, and the reader finds out he was in jail for a second offense of a minor traffic violation, the appetite for organs to keep the old living being that demanding in Niven's Sci-Fi world.
Sounds like a film worthy of Tom Cruise;)
Most of these films have just been 'optioned' which means that someone (usually a big movie studio) has forked over a few hundred thousand to a couple of million to the copywrite holder and said, 'Hey, we want to make a movie out of your game. For the next x amount of years we get that right'. It never guarntees that the movie will come out, but it shows a studio is interested, or is at least interested enough to buy up the rights so that it won't compete with another movie they may be releasing or so another studio won't be able to.
P.S. Mechwarrior was a board game long before it was a video game (Battletech, and Battledroids before that). Its also had its own cartoon series (http://www.pazsaz.com/battleth.html)
Not sure how much expierence you have with war gamming but there are a lot of factors to take into account.
Basically with Warhammer (and a lot of other games), you have several various 'factions'. Humans, Eldar, Orkz, Necron ect. Each faction tends to have different strengths and weaknesses. In those 'factions' you then have tons of different sub factions, also with things that they excel in and things that the do poorly in. For example Humans have the Space Marines and their various chapters. Within these sub-factions you now have several hundred different minatures to choose from, each on has different bonuses and negatives that need to be taken into consideration when fielding an army.
Figuring out which faction best suits your playing style, and then which minatures will offer you the best bang for their fielding costs can be an awful lot of work. Just take a look at the many forums run for Warhammer, and all the army advice people ask for. Having someone close by, such as a neighborhood hobby store guy, that you can go in and chat to face to face about the various positives and negatives of a particular army you're thinking of fielding, and what he'd recommend against say a Skink horde is an invaluable resource.
The thing is the majority of the players who play at a venue (some place that sells WH), buy from that venue to support it. The more assistance a particular venue offers, generally the more players will purchase from them.
The thing with WH though is that from what I've seen, the majority of sales that do not happen from an actual retail location (neighborhood hobby store), take place on e-bay as resale. I'm curious how GW is going to deal with this type of competition.
[sarcasm] Oh no you mean I'm not totally annomyous when I use the internet, wow you've really taught me a lesson [/sarcasm]
Damn there goes my 15 minutes of fame anyways.
First off, it's not illegal that was the point of me posting it to begin with, to ~inform~ people that when they throw things away it does have a habit of popping back up again in unexpected places. Simply because you've placed something in the trash can is no sure fire gurantee that it's going to get compacted into a nice mushy mass. If you don't want someone else getting their hands on it, destroy it before you put it in the trash. This includes everything from recipts, credit card apps to computers. Recent slashdot articles about the cases in Portland, as well as FBI searches since the 80's show that Judges often cite in their rulings that your trash is open to trash pickers which include your garbage men, in defending their logic that it is also open to the government.
My second point, is that these guys study is nothing new or surprising. As I mentioned it happens constantly with anyone who works as a garbage man. The few systems I end up getting from my dad to tinker with are generally nothing compared to some of the things that have shown up on other garbage men routes that I know. Lets make this point extremely clear then 'If you don't want information getting into other peoples hands destroy it before you throw it away'
Secondly its not generally against company policy, except very few places where say a company specifically states in their contract that all their trash is to be compacted. Since I know exactly where this computer was gotten from I know it doesn't fall under this. If you've ever worked at a private scavenger you'll realize that all the men who work their take things back from their routes, its a common practice [Again harking back to the Point of my original post that you ignored]. These things include everything from boxes of old movies, TVs, VCRs, computers, one guy even found a dirt bike stuffed into one of the containers on his route.
My conscience is pretty clean about the matter. I don't plan on selling the data, or the machine. I think getting the guy who discarded the machine fired by reporting him to his work is stupid, and eventually supposing I find a better use for an old 486 100 mhz machine I'll probably reformat its drive. In the meantime however, the information is very interesting to read through on occasion as I already mentioned. It doesn't harm anyone [Just like posting information about me thats easilly found on the web doesn't harm me] unless someone actually decided to do something criminal with it.
If you can mine the information of the web your welcome to call his employer and complain, for the lot of good it'll do you. I'd post it and let you have at it, but seeing as its not me, I'd rather not put someone else through possibly unneeded aggrivation.
Thats not so bad. My dad happens to be a garbage man and often brings along an occasional system he's scavanged from the dumpsters along his route. Currently I have in my possession an old IBM Aptiva with some guys bank account information on it (He did his checking and stuff with it apparently), but worst of all I have what appears to be an old Gateway tower used to store Medical information for a major hospital in the area my father works. I have over 2 gigs of peoples medical history, including what they were put in the hospital for, insurance information, release dates ect.
I should really do the honost thing and reformat it but its always fun to flip the thing on and just page through stuff.
Who wants to place money some Environmentalist has this shut down, or at the very least stages protests about it for the amount of pollution caused by using diesel engines as a mobile power plant. I mean they protest just about every other time California tries to build a power plant in the state, why else would California depend so much on Washington state and others for their power
I'm curious as to whether Fox has thought this through more then most of us are willing to admit. Being a faithful fan of both shows it seems to me I've noticed much more creative energy being put into making Futurama, the end result being that the Simpsons has seriously started to lag. While Futurama is a great show, The Simpsons has a much larger, and wider fan base. Fox may be cutting Futurama in an effort to force Groeing to put all his effort back into the Simpsons. Not even sure how much time the man actual spends on either show but it is an idea.
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I truly doubt this software can function at the level claimed, but hey it makes great science fiction. Hari Seldon would be pleased. Psychohistory has at last become a reality.
Nice to see someone else thinks this is as stupid as I do. Sadly as a trash collector this is exactly what they do. All of us are expected to pick up x amount of containers in y amount of time. Nevermind the fact that on some routes, as a private scavenger that is, there may be a few miles between stops, or at others you may have close to 20 lined up and ready to go. Yet everyone is supposed to achieve the same unrealistic goal, because thats what the bean counters in the front office came up with. These would be the same bean counters who dumped several million dollars into a firm to develop a piece of software that would be able to update daily the fastest and most cost effective routes between every stop, only to be told after 2 years that it wasn't possible.
Metrics like these are by and large Bullshit. They're there so someone in middle, or upper-middle management (what a joke those positions have become) can justify their jobs, and for no other reason. People have been doing these jobs for decades without these idiotic metrics, and doing them well. If America really wants to compete in a global market, they'll eliminate middle management. Everytime I hear another study that says the American worker wastes so many hours of productivity a week on some activity I want to gag. Just let people do their damn jobs.
Do you happen to see a cost listed on that rather short list for the shell of the PS3? How about a cost for the interior housing? Screws? Maybe a cost for the included Duo Stick reader? No? How about a cost for the included controller, surely that would be there? Not there either? How about cost for packaging? The included demo disk? Power cord maybe? Manuals? Not there either huh? Hmmm lets think about this then. If we total up the cost of what isn't listed there, we'd get about $100 to perhaps $200 dollars (if you're a bit unrealistic). Whats that mean? Why that means that the estimated price would be 'around $900' or to put it another way, exactly what the article suggested. All you see listed there, is a rather small collection of the most critical and most expensive parts that make up the PS3 as a whole. If you add in everything that makes up a PS3, using they're estimates you'd get $900.
Call their total estimates into question all you want, but when you start off by trying to claim they don't know how to do simple addition, you sound like a moron.
Gamespot http://www.gamespot.com/news/6135979.html/ is reporting that Jack didn't even bother to file his complaint with the Seatle Police department until well after he'd faxed complaints to PA, Gamespot, 1up, and others.
I realize the mans not the brightest bulb on the show room floor, but you'd think sending in the complaint before the press release would be a no-brainer. This, if nothing else, absolutely shows off the character of the man. Show boating, and media attention first and foremost.
I'm with others, if he has finally filed a complaint with the SPD I hope they, and PA nail his ass to the wall for filing a false complaint. The only way the media will finally stop listening to him is if someone takes his ass to task for his tactics. Follow it all the way through the courts, get them to declare him an ass-hat and you have more credibility then all the Janet Reno and Trolling stories put together.
Sounds more like a robber holding the gun towards himself during a stickup. 'Give me control of the net or I'll shoot.'
The current system works, its not perfect, but its highly functional. In a best case scenario the European Union's solution, and others will take years to actually implement correctly. Years in which the internet does not function as smoothly as it has been. Years of headaches and frustrations to get their model working up to snuff.
But thats the best case, more then likely if they were to do this, as others have said, they will isolate their own countries from the wider network, something their citizens will not tolerate (except for perhaps Iran and others who this would be a blessing). Sadly this isn't going to cause any public outcry until it actually happened.
I think the US realizes that they're negotiating from a position of strength. I think the EU needs to come to this realization. I'm not saying they shouldn't drop their push for some reforms in ICANN and the internet as a whole, but they really shouldn't be spouting of nonsense about splitting away from the net, when its going to do them more harm then us.
Speaking as someone whose been MUDing for well over 5 years now and has graduated to coding the games rather then playing them I've always liked and enjoyed Pueblo. It's a nice little client and as far as I know its still free and available at http://pueblo.mozdev.org/downloads.html
Though I'm not 100% sure if thats the newest version out there. I'd heard some guys at Sourceforge were continueing development.
I highly recommend it. It doesn't have all the bells and whistles of some of the pay Clients but its good and solid, especially if you're writing code in notepad and copying it in all the time.
I fail to see how anyone can claim that calling me at 5:00 pm while I'm eating dinner to sell me life insurance or ask if I REALLY want to change phone companies for the umpteenth time is 'free speech'.
As a wise man once said, 'Your right to swing your arms back and forth, ends where my face begins.'
Just as standing on a suburban corner with a bullhorn at 4:00 am yelling out my political agenda for world domination isn't protected by free speech (as it violates noise ordinances), stopping telemarketers from calling my house is not violating their free speech rights. Their are perfectly allowed to have their views on which phone company the average American should be using, they can even publish, or state them, they just shouldn't be allowed to call me and personally bug me about it.
Niven also wrote about Criminals sentanced to execution being used for organ donation, and the slippery slope this might cause. In one short story the character is arrested and faced with execution as he is a repeat offender. He escapes through some fluke in the system, and tries to run away through the federal building where he 'stumbles' upon the vats with executed criminals being used for organ donation. To make a long story short, he's recaptured, released on a technicality from prison, and the reader finds out he was in jail for a second offense of a minor traffic violation, the appetite for organs to keep the old living being that demanding in Niven's Sci-Fi world. Sounds like a film worthy of Tom Cruise ;)
Most of these films have just been 'optioned' which means that someone (usually a big movie studio) has forked over a few hundred thousand to a couple of million to the copywrite holder and said, 'Hey, we want to make a movie out of your game. For the next x amount of years we get that right'. It never guarntees that the movie will come out, but it shows a studio is interested, or is at least interested enough to buy up the rights so that it won't compete with another movie they may be releasing or so another studio won't be able to.
P.S. Mechwarrior was a board game long before it was a video game (Battletech, and Battledroids before that). Its also had its own cartoon series (http://www.pazsaz.com/battleth.html)
Not sure how much expierence you have with war gamming but there are a lot of factors to take into account. Basically with Warhammer (and a lot of other games), you have several various 'factions'. Humans, Eldar, Orkz, Necron ect. Each faction tends to have different strengths and weaknesses. In those 'factions' you then have tons of different sub factions, also with things that they excel in and things that the do poorly in. For example Humans have the Space Marines and their various chapters. Within these sub-factions you now have several hundred different minatures to choose from, each on has different bonuses and negatives that need to be taken into consideration when fielding an army. Figuring out which faction best suits your playing style, and then which minatures will offer you the best bang for their fielding costs can be an awful lot of work. Just take a look at the many forums run for Warhammer, and all the army advice people ask for. Having someone close by, such as a neighborhood hobby store guy, that you can go in and chat to face to face about the various positives and negatives of a particular army you're thinking of fielding, and what he'd recommend against say a Skink horde is an invaluable resource. The thing is the majority of the players who play at a venue (some place that sells WH), buy from that venue to support it. The more assistance a particular venue offers, generally the more players will purchase from them. The thing with WH though is that from what I've seen, the majority of sales that do not happen from an actual retail location (neighborhood hobby store), take place on e-bay as resale. I'm curious how GW is going to deal with this type of competition.
[sarcasm] Oh no you mean I'm not totally annomyous when I use the internet, wow you've really taught me a lesson [/sarcasm] Damn there goes my 15 minutes of fame anyways. First off, it's not illegal that was the point of me posting it to begin with, to ~inform~ people that when they throw things away it does have a habit of popping back up again in unexpected places. Simply because you've placed something in the trash can is no sure fire gurantee that it's going to get compacted into a nice mushy mass. If you don't want someone else getting their hands on it, destroy it before you put it in the trash. This includes everything from recipts, credit card apps to computers. Recent slashdot articles about the cases in Portland, as well as FBI searches since the 80's show that Judges often cite in their rulings that your trash is open to trash pickers which include your garbage men, in defending their logic that it is also open to the government. My second point, is that these guys study is nothing new or surprising. As I mentioned it happens constantly with anyone who works as a garbage man. The few systems I end up getting from my dad to tinker with are generally nothing compared to some of the things that have shown up on other garbage men routes that I know. Lets make this point extremely clear then 'If you don't want information getting into other peoples hands destroy it before you throw it away' Secondly its not generally against company policy, except very few places where say a company specifically states in their contract that all their trash is to be compacted. Since I know exactly where this computer was gotten from I know it doesn't fall under this. If you've ever worked at a private scavenger you'll realize that all the men who work their take things back from their routes, its a common practice [Again harking back to the Point of my original post that you ignored]. These things include everything from boxes of old movies, TVs, VCRs, computers, one guy even found a dirt bike stuffed into one of the containers on his route. My conscience is pretty clean about the matter. I don't plan on selling the data, or the machine. I think getting the guy who discarded the machine fired by reporting him to his work is stupid, and eventually supposing I find a better use for an old 486 100 mhz machine I'll probably reformat its drive. In the meantime however, the information is very interesting to read through on occasion as I already mentioned. It doesn't harm anyone [Just like posting information about me thats easilly found on the web doesn't harm me] unless someone actually decided to do something criminal with it. If you can mine the information of the web your welcome to call his employer and complain, for the lot of good it'll do you. I'd post it and let you have at it, but seeing as its not me, I'd rather not put someone else through possibly unneeded aggrivation.
Thats not so bad. My dad happens to be a garbage man and often brings along an occasional system he's scavanged from the dumpsters along his route. Currently I have in my possession an old IBM Aptiva with some guys bank account information on it (He did his checking and stuff with it apparently), but worst of all I have what appears to be an old Gateway tower used to store Medical information for a major hospital in the area my father works. I have over 2 gigs of peoples medical history, including what they were put in the hospital for, insurance information, release dates ect.
I should really do the honost thing and reformat it but its always fun to flip the thing on and just page through stuff.
So thats how spiderman does it.
Who wants to place money some Environmentalist has this shut down, or at the very least stages protests about it for the amount of pollution caused by using diesel engines as a mobile power plant. I mean they protest just about every other time California tries to build a power plant in the state, why else would California depend so much on Washington state and others for their power
I'm curious as to whether Fox has thought this through more then most of us are willing to admit. Being a faithful fan of both shows it seems to me I've noticed much more creative energy being put into making Futurama, the end result being that the Simpsons has seriously started to lag. While Futurama is a great show, The Simpsons has a much larger, and wider fan base. Fox may be cutting Futurama in an effort to force Groeing to put all his effort back into the Simpsons. Not even sure how much time the man actual spends on either show but it is an idea.