Complex games are usually done, using spiral model. With a non-predetermined number of rounds.
One usually stops, when it’s “good enough”, and all pre-identified (potential) problems are identified.
Of course that does not mean that there are no problems that the team is not aware of. But it also means, that one could theoretically continue forever. That “And the last 10% take another 90% of the time.” saying is a vast understatement here.
Which means, that the decision is left to the manager. Who cuts it off at a specific point, depending on the finances and experience.
Now the thing is, that EA, for example, usually cuts it off as early as possible, with only maximum quick buck in mind. Their near-monopolistic dominance does not make it better, as they can get away with much more by simply adding more marketing. (Which in a feedback loop shifts even more budget from development to marketing.)
That’s the problem with companies like EA. They are not a creativity-driven company anymore. But solely a money-driven one. They literally don’t care what happens after you bought the game. And because of the same effect, that makes people vote for the same bunch of criminals called a party, that raped them some terms ago in, they will buy the next game too. (In both cases it’s the hype and disinformation. Like when EA buys nearly every magazine out there, and/or only offers real pictures and videos to those who give high ratings.)
(It’s not just EA though. Rockstar is just as bad, with GTA 3 SA being unplayable by the majority of users, upon release, and the only patches being available on gamecopyworld. Or the huge load of bugs in GTA IV, like 3 sec input lag, and extremely crappy graphics for its performance. But they at least have some creative drive left.)
So we are, obviously, an essential part in this problem. And we normally can’t change all those idiots who buy those games anyway. Also, of course, a company, in the real end, always is driven by money. Because it’s a company. Of course you can decide to stay smaller, and focus on other ideals. But what do you think how many companies do this? And what do you think happens to a company, when they hire the typical “worked in a completely different industry, but thinks a manager is a manager, and therefore focuses solely on the common aspects” manager? Or when they go public, and EA buys them. Or EA simply kills them by using its dominance.
Only a privately owned company with a strong leader can stay that way in the long run. And even then it would need to be just as good at marketing the games, as EA. I hope, some day, that will be me. But it’s going to be one hell of a ride!
what comes out when you combine a) the Indian police shooting the moon at a solar eclipse in i think 1908 or something like that, and b) preschool children destroying each other’s stuff, because they are angry at each other.
Or a) that uncontacted tribe shooting arrows at the helicopter above them in 2008, and b) a couple of monkeys going crazy and trashing each other’s belongings.
But I don’t want to insult any Indians, tribes, children or monkeys.;)
Simple thing: Would the code as it is today, exist without your prior code?
Definitely not. It is based on your code and ideas. That in in literal writing is different, and is a transformed version, does not change that.
A simple comparison: Take an image, put a couple of optical distortion filters on top, and save it as a png instead of jpeg. The image still is in there, and not magically “gone”. had the image not existed, the result would not be the same. Therefore the original image is an integral part, even if that is not visible anymore.
You forgot, that if you did not know that the houses were made of eggshells, and it is generally assumed that houses are not made of eggshells, that this would rather be a nasty trap, and that the lawsuit would in that case be a scam tactic.
The report into the pilot trial of ISP-level filtering demonstrates that blocking RC-rated material can be done with 100 percent accuracy and negligible impact on internet speed
Except that if your house actually burns down, they first employ a dozen professional detectives to make up something... anything... to blame you, similar to the “pre-existing condition“ “excuse”, and pay you... nothing at all.
And then you can’t even end the contract, because of a minimum duration of half a century or something.
I never had a insurance (except where forced by law), and I’ll never get one. (Yes, I got as far as to say, that if that causes me to die, that was OK.)
Dude. It’s a website. Simply use this thing here for the javascript: http://closure-compiler.appspot.com/home (And render all HTML by use of JS/DOM generation.)
There’s one problem with that statement. And it can be condensed to one word: “amount”!
How much do they all take? Because if this is not in the proper balance, it’s not fair.
Also, the definitions of “balance” and “fair” differ from person to person. And everybody who states, that his definition is the only correct one, is an egocentric asshole, and therefore also definitely not correct.
I tried to live by these rules, when building up my life from nothing again.
And there is a fundamental flaw in this order of priorities. The “self-esteem and stuff” category has a fundamental and deep property to it, that makes you worry about it very very early. Essentially, it is in a somehow intertwined way also the very first thing to think about.
I haven’t really found out why and how. I just know that it’s completely impossible to just focus on the lower things, until you got them handled. Maybe because it takes forever until they are handled. Maybe because it’s not that “step one, then step two,...” but rather “much of step one, a little bit of stop two... then a bit less of step one, a little more of step two...”. Meaning that you already try to handle all steps at the very beginning.
I myself lose the ability to even handle the basic stuff, when I don’t have the ability to pursue the higher stuff from time to time. I simply can’t stand it, and feel like I’m not really alive, but a zombie.
So Maslow is definitely wrong here. But if you lower the resolution of your look at it, he appears to be right.
15 years ago “AJAX” was not technically possible with any of the major browser. Not even elegant (or nasty) tricks. I know, because I tried!
Only when browsers gained the ability to either communicate with a Java applet, which then communicated with the server (because of the lack of a real DOM, this was very crude back then), or the ability to change the content of a page inside a object tag (only possible with a bit of DOM), was it that this was possible at all.
I don’t remember the exact date, but I was one of the first to do it. I had to do it all by myself. Because nobody on the net did even remotely know what I was talking about.
But you can check when those API parts were implemented by Netscape and Microsoft. This was definitely less than 15 years ago. More like 5-10.
And back then, we did not call it AJAX. It was not even XML. It was a simple server communication channel. Or “network driver”, in my “browser OS”.
But we all knew, that this would be patent trolling, so...
Well, IANAL, but as anyone can claim to be the owner, I think anyone can sue.
And logically, that one gets paid or gets the debt, and funds the lawsuit, as a result of being the one who sued.
About e): Well, I guess same as someone can “troll’ by taking the free software (work of others) and selling it for money. But that’s kinda the point of GPL, no? Dunno.
Now this is the story all about how my karma got flipped, turned upside down. And I'd like to take a minute, just to write abo(u)t. I'll tell you how I became the prince of a site called Slashdot.
In eastern 4chan born and raised. On the/b/ where I spent most of my days. Trolling out, maxing, perplexing all cool, and posting some goatses, nude girls from the school. When a couple of fags, they were up to much bad, started making trouble in my neighbourthread. I got in one little flame and my mom got scared, And said "You're moving outta the basement and 4chan, and take a shower!".
I surfed for a site, and when it got white, the URL said "slash" and had a dot in the name. If anything I could say that this site was geek rot, but I thought nah, forget it, ma home's now Slashdot!
I scrolled up to a thread, ’t was one or two And I yelled to kdawson "How flippantly flabbergasting of you!" Looked at my preview. I was enraging bhagwad, to yell at the post of the prince of Slashdot.
What about this here is not talking to another real live human?
I don’t get why many people always act as if people on the net somehow were not real.
Just because you act differently on the net, doesn’t mean we do.:) (Some newbies tend to think they are anonymous, and because in reality they can’t fully be themselves for some reason, they do it here. I once was like this too. Luckily, I started to be myself everywhere. And somehow the Internet helped me with this.)
If you want to see it as “real”, see it as we all writing real letters with a pen on paper, and sending them to each other. ^^
Slashdot Mirror
Complex games are usually done, using spiral model.
With a non-predetermined number of rounds.
One usually stops, when it’s “good enough”, and all pre-identified (potential) problems are identified.
Of course that does not mean that there are no problems that the team is not aware of.
But it also means, that one could theoretically continue forever.
That “And the last 10% take another 90% of the time.” saying is a vast understatement here.
Which means, that the decision is left to the manager. Who cuts it off at a specific point, depending on the finances and experience.
Now the thing is, that EA, for example, usually cuts it off as early as possible, with only maximum quick buck in mind.
Their near-monopolistic dominance does not make it better, as they can get away with much more by simply adding more marketing. (Which in a feedback loop shifts even more budget from development to marketing.)
That’s the problem with companies like EA. They are not a creativity-driven company anymore. But solely a money-driven one. They literally don’t care what happens after you bought the game.
And because of the same effect, that makes people vote for the same bunch of criminals called a party, that raped them some terms ago in, they will buy the next game too. (In both cases it’s the hype and disinformation. Like when EA buys nearly every magazine out there, and/or only offers real pictures and videos to those who give high ratings.)
(It’s not just EA though. Rockstar is just as bad, with GTA 3 SA being unplayable by the majority of users, upon release, and the only patches being available on gamecopyworld. Or the huge load of bugs in GTA IV, like 3 sec input lag, and extremely crappy graphics for its performance. But they at least have some creative drive left.)
So we are, obviously, an essential part in this problem. And we normally can’t change all those idiots who buy those games anyway.
Also, of course, a company, in the real end, always is driven by money. Because it’s a company.
Of course you can decide to stay smaller, and focus on other ideals. But what do you think how many companies do this?
And what do you think happens to a company, when they hire the typical “worked in a completely different industry, but thinks a manager is a manager, and therefore focuses solely on the common aspects” manager?
Or when they go public, and EA buys them. Or EA simply kills them by using its dominance.
Only a privately owned company with a strong leader can stay that way in the long run. And even then it would need to be just as good at marketing the games, as EA.
I hope, some day, that will be me. But it’s going to be one hell of a ride!
what comes out when you combine
a) the Indian police shooting the moon at a solar eclipse in i think 1908 or something like that, and
b) preschool children destroying each other’s stuff, because they are angry at each other.
Or
a) that uncontacted tribe shooting arrows at the helicopter above them in 2008, and
b) a couple of monkeys going crazy and trashing each other’s belongings.
But I don’t want to insult any Indians, tribes, children or monkeys. ;)
Simple thing: Would the code as it is today, exist without your prior code?
Definitely not. It is based on your code and ideas. That in in literal writing is different, and is a transformed version, does not change that.
A simple comparison: Take an image, put a couple of optical distortion filters on top, and save it as a png instead of jpeg. The image still is in there, and not magically “gone”. had the image not existed, the result would not be the same. Therefore the original image is an integral part, even if that is not visible anymore.
You forgot, that if you did not know that the houses were made of eggshells, and it is generally assumed that houses are not made of eggshells, that this would rather be a nasty trap, and that the lawsuit would in that case be a scam tactic.
Wait until they break out the “malware is a WMD” mind-twist. ^^
[...] and you're actually given the root password to the machine when you buy it.
You say that as if it were something special. You freakin’ bought the machine and it’s open source. So they better be, or you can sue their ass of!
I wrap a rolled pork roast in it. So it actually is a wrap.
Also I swallow exactly once.
A friend of mine called it “breathing in”.
And this is, why I am no mathematician. ^^
“in-depth article” and “slicing pizza” should never ever appear in the same sentence. Ever.
Suddenly I am much happier about my life. :D
And if you ever went out for even once in your life, so can you!
Wouldn’t that mean, that the statement, that all nukes would destroy the whole world were false, or that that explosion destroyed the whole world?
Seems we exist, hence the second one is a bit unlikely, to put it mildly, ...no?
At least the volcanoes don’t invade us, when there is some resource to exploit...
With PDF being an open standard, and there being tons of free lightweight readers out there, there is really no excuse to use the Acrobat Reader.
The report into the pilot trial of ISP-level filtering demonstrates that blocking RC-rated material can be done with 100 percent accuracy and negligible impact on internet speed
Riiight...
Protip: Darknet, tunneling proxy, EPIC FAIL. ^^
Five letters? Pah. Too long, didn’t click! ;)
Except that if your house actually burns down, they first employ a dozen professional detectives to make up something... anything... to blame you, similar to the “pre-existing condition“ “excuse”, and pay you... nothing at all.
And then you can’t even end the contract, because of a minimum duration of half a century or something.
I never had a insurance (except where forced by law), and I’ll never get one. (Yes, I got as far as to say, that if that causes me to die, that was OK.)
Dude. It’s a website. Simply use this thing here for the javascript: http://closure-compiler.appspot.com/home
(And render all HTML by use of JS/DOM generation.)
The commercial killer?
I let people all around the world do this by hand for me. They do a pretty perfect job.
It’s called file sharing. ^^
There’s one problem with that statement. And it can be condensed to one word: “amount”!
How much do they all take? Because if this is not in the proper balance, it’s not fair.
Also, the definitions of “balance” and “fair” differ from person to person. And everybody who states, that his definition is the only correct one, is an egocentric asshole, and therefore also definitely not correct.
I tried to live by these rules, when building up my life from nothing again.
And there is a fundamental flaw in this order of priorities. The “self-esteem and stuff” category has a fundamental and deep property to it, that makes you worry about it very very early. Essentially, it is in a somehow intertwined way also the very first thing to think about.
I haven’t really found out why and how. I just know that it’s completely impossible to just focus on the lower things, until you got them handled. ...” but rather “much of step one, a little bit of stop two... then a bit less of step one, a little more of step two...”. Meaning that you already try to handle all steps at the very beginning.
Maybe because it takes forever until they are handled. Maybe because it’s not that “step one, then step two,
I myself lose the ability to even handle the basic stuff, when I don’t have the ability to pursue the higher stuff from time to time. I simply can’t stand it, and feel like I’m not really alive, but a zombie.
So Maslow is definitely wrong here. But if you lower the resolution of your look at it, he appears to be right.
15 years ago “AJAX” was not technically possible with any of the major browser. Not even elegant (or nasty) tricks. I know, because I tried!
Only when browsers gained the ability to either communicate with a Java applet, which then communicated with the server (because of the lack of a real DOM, this was very crude back then), or the ability to change the content of a page inside a object tag (only possible with a bit of DOM), was it that this was possible at all.
I don’t remember the exact date, but I was one of the first to do it. I had to do it all by myself. Because nobody on the net did even remotely know what I was talking about.
But you can check when those API parts were implemented by Netscape and Microsoft. This was definitely less than 15 years ago. More like 5-10.
And back then, we did not call it AJAX. It was not even XML. It was a simple server communication channel. Or “network driver”, in my “browser OS”.
But we all knew, that this would be patent trolling, so...
Well, it’s all about forbidding the “lower class” to reproduce.
When chatting about sex is forbidden, but chatting about who you just shot is OK, you know that something is fucked up beyond all recognition.
Well, IANAL, but as anyone can claim to be the owner, I think anyone can sue.
And logically, that one gets paid or gets the debt, and funds the lawsuit, as a result of being the one who sued.
About e): Well, I guess same as someone can “troll’ by taking the free software (work of others) and selling it for money. But that’s kinda the point of GPL, no? Dunno.
Anyone who is a lawyer here to enlighten us?
Now this is the story all about how
my karma got flipped, turned upside down.
And I'd like to take a minute, just to write abo(u)t.
I'll tell you how I became the prince of a site called Slashdot.
In eastern 4chan born and raised. /b/ where I spent most of my days.
On the
Trolling out, maxing, perplexing all cool,
and posting some goatses, nude girls from the school.
When a couple of fags, they were up to much bad,
started making trouble in my neighbourthread.
I got in one little flame and my mom got scared,
And said "You're moving outta the basement and 4chan, and take a shower!".
I surfed for a site, and when it got white,
the URL said "slash" and had a dot in the name.
If anything I could say that this site was geek rot,
but I thought nah, forget it, ma home's now Slashdot!
I scrolled up to a thread, ’t was one or two
And I yelled to kdawson "How flippantly flabbergasting of you!"
Looked at my preview. I was enraging bhagwad,
to yell at the post of the prince of Slashdot.
What about this here is not talking to another real live human?
I don’t get why many people always act as if people on the net somehow were not real.
Just because you act differently on the net, doesn’t mean we do. :)
(Some newbies tend to think they are anonymous, and because in reality they can’t fully be themselves for some reason, they do it here. I once was like this too. Luckily, I started to be myself everywhere. And somehow the Internet helped me with this.)
If you want to see it as “real”, see it as we all writing real letters with a pen on paper, and sending them to each other. ^^
WTF? You call three and a half consoles too many?? And base your whole argumentation on that?
Sorry, but that way of arguing is what you find, when you search in the great lexicon of argumentation under FAIL. ^^
Bet that bacteria did not think about that either.
You know... cause they’re bacteria! ^^