Also, it APPEARS to be an error on Oxford's part. But maybe Oxford is sinisterly creating these errors. Maybe it's all a big conspiracy... And any denial of the conspiracy simply provides yet more evidence of it.
I think it's worth RTFA and the Oxford response in his comments section. Pasted below:
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It is common to bill the homeowner for fire services. I know this from firsthand experience in San Francisco. However, they really don't seem to care if you don't pay (eg -- they didn't turn it over to collections when I didn't). I guess you could get into a lot of debate about this, whether or not taxes should cover everything (yes, IMHO, unless you're dealing with arson, in which case the arsonist shold pay, not the resident), etc.
My position was that since the courts have held that cities don't *have* to provide fire services (you can't sue them for not showing up, for instance) it was just voluntary on their part to show up at my place in the first place, so I figured, hey, thanks guys!
And before you start to yell at me for karmic imabalance, when a fire-hydrant broke in front of my house and, in the process of shutting off, the fire department flooded my basement, I didn't go after them, even though they admitted I could have, so I figure we're even.
People love him when he's dishing out progressive/lib barbs, but if he takes on a more controversial subject than "George Bush is a dummy," suddenly a) no one can be bothered to stand up for him and b) people start bagging on the script.
I don't understand why more people aren't personally pissed off at this guy. He's the EIC of one of the leading PC mags, and he backs Vista whole hog -- how many people trusted him and "upgraded" themselves -- and now he changes his mind? After PC Mag devoted countless pages to shilling for Vista?
I understand people change their minds, but I'd be lying if I said I question whether or not his change of heart on Vista would be public if he wasn't leaving the magazine world (dependent heavily on MS for ad revenue and stories) for another field.
Dynasoar. I mean, Dynasoar. Neil Armstrong was chief test pilot before he bugged out for Apollo, and given his engineering background, he wouldn't have been on board if it wouldn't have worked. It was killed to concentrate resources on the nation's moon obsession (not that that's a bad thing, necessarily).
I just wish the "we need hybrids! we need hydrogen" crowd wasn't also the "no nukes!" crowd. Gimme nuclear power and a hrydrogen fuel cell over my gas engine anyday, but not the former witot the latter.
This is so fucked. I drive a four cylinder gasoline powered car. I guarentee it uses less energy and emits less carbon than a "clean" hyrdogen BMW. Why? Because the energy cost of making hyrdrogen is higher than the energy cost of refining gasoline, and outputs more carbon than the gasoline refining process and the gasoline burning process. The exception would be if the hyrdogen was refined via a clean enegry proces, such as nuclear, solar or wind power.
People who look at what comes out of the tail pipe of a car and call that the level of pollution are just total retards. You need to look at where what in you car comes from.
Arnold is no longer my friend. What state has the largest portion of the game industry pie? He should be sucking up to the game industry, like CA sucks up to movie industry, not slagging it off.
They're funded by the fees you have to pay to get a rating, actually, not by the dues you pay to the ESA. Not everyone is member of the ESA, but you need an ESRB rating to get a product code (that is, to ship on) all the game consoles. I'm sure most retailed require one for PC games too. So it's "voluntary," but not really. But, it's also pretty straightforward. Most companies have a pretty good idea of what they'll get before the submit, but it still can have a "chilling effect" because it's pretty pricey to submit and resubmit, so sometimes you might get pressure to modify content before your frist submission to ensure that you get through in one pass.
That said, I haven't been following the current kerfuffle at all re: 3D Realms and Manhunt 2. The ESRB's ratings standards seem to have a tendency to shift from year to year -- there were a lot of shifts before the announcement of the new E10 rating as the system tried to deal with what were clearly E10 games without a rating there. Lots of stuff that should have technically been T got an E because it clearly was _supposed_ to be an E game, or games would find that one tiny thing sprung them from E to T unexpectedly, which has a big sales impact because it limits where and to whom you can market the game. (You couldn't advertise a T game in Disney Adventures magazine, for instance).
One thing I havne't seen is vindictiveness on the part of the ESRB to a specific publisher or developer, but I also haven't worked with any pubs or projects that pissed the ESRB off.
Sony's revolution wasn't the PS2, it was the PS1. It was the system that first realy started the maturation of the game industry and how it was perceived. Other systems (NES, Atari 2600) were certainly insanely popular, but the PS1 was the first system, especially in Europe, that felt "cool," This was due to both its then revolutionary industrial design, its extremely advanced (for the time) graphics technology, and Sony's intense lifestyle-based marketing efforts. The Genesis and Super NES were marketed and accepted as kids toys. Having one in your dorm was considered a funny novelty, but serious people played games on PC, if at all, since games were for kids.
PlayStation 1 changed all that, and by the time PS2 rolled around, games were just seen as normal entertainment accessory among young adults, not something you grew out of. It's worth noting that while you mention the Dreamcast (a sweet system to be sure, and one that *should* have beaten PS2), you didn't mention PS1's competitors, the ill-conceived Saturn (which Sega originally envisioned as a 2D machine) or the late to the gate N64 (which, while it had the benefit of Nintendo's awesome games, sucked technically), or even the pathetic Jaguar of 3DO. Thanks to its brilliant design, and Sony's then-innovative technical and devloper support practices, PS1 totally chnaged the games industry internally, and how games were perceived by consumers externally. A lot of that comes down to Ken Kutaragi. In person, he came across as a really charming, brilliant guy (I met him a few times when I was in the press), and what he did for the game industry with PS1, I think, is his greatest accomplishment.
If you're correct, and the iPhone can't sync its calender OTA, it's dead to me, and probably a lot of other business people as well. The 100% touchscreen interface is already suspect -- it looks well designed, and easy to use, but I dread trying to type an email on it. I'm willing to carry a really bulky, balky, Windows device (Cingular 8525) just for the keyboard. The iPhone looks nice, but it appears to be too passive for most hardcore phone users.
Usually what you do is use all the data you can find. Then you rerun history and see how it comes out. The closer is comes to real history, the stornger you say your model is, and the better you feel about using it predictively.
You may say "but you used historical data, of course it comes out that way!" but really, if your model is flawed, it usually doesn't, because you have a lot of randomness in the model. For isntance, your model may not drop the atomic bomb, and the US gets repelled on the Japanese beaches (which prolly would have happened -- Japan was gearing up all its defenses to defend the exact place the US was planning to invade), etc.
I was talking to someone about a statistical model for predicting urban growth (sprawl) in the SF Bay area and they guys were really pleased with their model, except when they ran it "in the past" it kept predicting growth along a certain corridor that never materialized. So they were going to have to keep working on the model till it would first describe/predict reality before they used it to try to predict the future.
I assume the lame processors these days are due to power consumption. I'd happy go back to a monochrome screen in return for a wicked fast processor. Or a really efficiently written OS. I have a Cingular 8525 abd while it's nice in some respects, it chugs terribly at times.
I'm really surprised no one has suggested Deneba's Canvas . Or maybe it is for OSX only? It's nice because it's different than Illustrator, and therefore, things made in it don't automagically look like they were done in Illustrator.
The fact that the dominant power structure in this country does better for itself when there's an outside threat doesn't in turn mean that all outside threats are created by that power structure, or that all outside threats are actually harmless.
Put more simply: The president may be a tool, but that doesn't mean that the people he's railing against aren't also tools, or even much worse than he is. That's the biggest problem I have with "progressives" in this country -- they think evil or incompetence is a kind of zero sum game. If the president of the US is bad, his enemies can't *really* be all that bad, which is totally untrue.
Most analysists think MS is now making $$ per unit sold. But I doubt they were like "let's ban the modders' machines so we can pick up litereally THOUSANDS of dollars in incremental revenue." More likely it's like "the network account isn't the issue, it's the machine, so ban the machine."
I know you're being sarcastic, but let's face it -- programming is not super easy, and not for everyone. Why try and trick people by making a stupid, slow, bloated, high level language they're never going to be able to use to create compelling games (#1 thing kids want to make with computers), and that doesn't teach them how computers actually work. Why not, you know, have them actually learn how computers work, so later they know what the fsck the code they are writing is doing.
You're going to raise a much better generation of programmers if you give all the kids Game Boy Colors, emulators, lots of sample code, and books on Z80 assembly. Assembly is as easy, if not easier, to learn than high level languages, especially with a simple 8-bit assembler. You know EXACTLY what the CPU is doing at all times, and you end up being a much better programmer later. By enabling kids to make real games, you provide motivation, not just dumbed-down, high-level crap.
Halo wasn't revolutionary in any area, except having best in class controls, graphics, story, multiplayer, VO, weapons, level design, physics, etc.
No ONE element of Halo stands out against the competition, but Halo taken as a whole is a masterpiece, especially compared to what was available when it first shipped. Once that first game is the sweetness, people are into the franchise, and that's why we're talking about it still.
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Hey! I know a way to solve this... have the cell phone's OFF button ACTUALLY TURN IT OFF. (Please begin circular debate).
Also, it APPEARS to be an error on Oxford's part. But maybe Oxford is sinisterly creating these errors. Maybe it's all a big conspiracy... And any denial of the conspiracy simply provides yet more evidence of it.
My position was that since the courts have held that cities don't *have* to provide fire services (you can't sue them for not showing up, for instance) it was just voluntary on their part to show up at my place in the first place, so I figured, hey, thanks guys!
And before you start to yell at me for karmic imabalance, when a fire-hydrant broke in front of my house and, in the process of shutting off, the fire department flooded my basement, I didn't go after them, even though they admitted I could have, so I figure we're even.
People love him when he's dishing out progressive/lib barbs, but if he takes on a more controversial subject than "George Bush is a dummy," suddenly a) no one can be bothered to stand up for him and b) people start bagging on the script.
I understand people change their minds, but I'd be lying if I said I question whether or not his change of heart on Vista would be public if he wasn't leaving the magazine world (dependent heavily on MS for ad revenue and stories) for another field.
Rush Linbaugh, inclined to believe an anti-EPA theory? I'm shocked, simply SHOCKED!
Dynasoar. I mean, Dynasoar. Neil Armstrong was chief test pilot before he bugged out for Apollo, and given his engineering background, he wouldn't have been on board if it wouldn't have worked. It was killed to concentrate resources on the nation's moon obsession (not that that's a bad thing, necessarily).
The real victim in the case, at least now that it's resolved, is GrokLaw. What the hell are they going to do now, without this case to report on!?
I just wish the "we need hybrids! we need hydrogen" crowd wasn't also the "no nukes!" crowd. Gimme nuclear power and a hrydrogen fuel cell over my gas engine anyday, but not the former witot the latter.
People who look at what comes out of the tail pipe of a car and call that the level of pollution are just total retards. You need to look at where what in you car comes from.
Arnold is no longer my friend. What state has the largest portion of the game industry pie? He should be sucking up to the game industry, like CA sucks up to movie industry, not slagging it off.
That said, I haven't been following the current kerfuffle at all re: 3D Realms and Manhunt 2. The ESRB's ratings standards seem to have a tendency to shift from year to year -- there were a lot of shifts before the announcement of the new E10 rating as the system tried to deal with what were clearly E10 games without a rating there. Lots of stuff that should have technically been T got an E because it clearly was _supposed_ to be an E game, or games would find that one tiny thing sprung them from E to T unexpectedly, which has a big sales impact because it limits where and to whom you can market the game. (You couldn't advertise a T game in Disney Adventures magazine, for instance).
One thing I havne't seen is vindictiveness on the part of the ESRB to a specific publisher or developer, but I also haven't worked with any pubs or projects that pissed the ESRB off.
PlayStation 1 changed all that, and by the time PS2 rolled around, games were just seen as normal entertainment accessory among young adults, not something you grew out of. It's worth noting that while you mention the Dreamcast (a sweet system to be sure, and one that *should* have beaten PS2), you didn't mention PS1's competitors, the ill-conceived Saturn (which Sega originally envisioned as a 2D machine) or the late to the gate N64 (which, while it had the benefit of Nintendo's awesome games, sucked technically), or even the pathetic Jaguar of 3DO. Thanks to its brilliant design, and Sony's then-innovative technical and devloper support practices, PS1 totally chnaged the games industry internally, and how games were perceived by consumers externally. A lot of that comes down to Ken Kutaragi. In person, he came across as a really charming, brilliant guy (I met him a few times when I was in the press), and what he did for the game industry with PS1, I think, is his greatest accomplishment.
If you're correct, and the iPhone can't sync its calender OTA, it's dead to me, and probably a lot of other business people as well. The 100% touchscreen interface is already suspect -- it looks well designed, and easy to use, but I dread trying to type an email on it. I'm willing to carry a really bulky, balky, Windows device (Cingular 8525) just for the keyboard. The iPhone looks nice, but it appears to be too passive for most hardcore phone users.
You may say "but you used historical data, of course it comes out that way!" but really, if your model is flawed, it usually doesn't, because you have a lot of randomness in the model. For isntance, your model may not drop the atomic bomb, and the US gets repelled on the Japanese beaches (which prolly would have happened -- Japan was gearing up all its defenses to defend the exact place the US was planning to invade), etc.
I was talking to someone about a statistical model for predicting urban growth (sprawl) in the SF Bay area and they guys were really pleased with their model, except when they ran it "in the past" it kept predicting growth along a certain corridor that never materialized. So they were going to have to keep working on the model till it would first describe/predict reality before they used it to try to predict the future.
I assume the lame processors these days are due to power consumption. I'd happy go back to a monochrome screen in return for a wicked fast processor. Or a really efficiently written OS. I have a Cingular 8525 abd while it's nice in some respects, it chugs terribly at times.
I'm really surprised no one has suggested Deneba's Canvas . Or maybe it is for OSX only? It's nice because it's different than Illustrator, and therefore, things made in it don't automagically look like they were done in Illustrator.
Put more simply: The president may be a tool, but that doesn't mean that the people he's railing against aren't also tools, or even much worse than he is. That's the biggest problem I have with "progressives" in this country -- they think evil or incompetence is a kind of zero sum game. If the president of the US is bad, his enemies can't *really* be all that bad, which is totally untrue.
Most cable modems don't have a contract period, just a "oh look how cheap it is" period.
There's a collary there. A typical slashdotter knows more than whoever the expert is in the story only to the extent that he has not RTFA.
Most analysists think MS is now making $$ per unit sold. But I doubt they were like "let's ban the modders' machines so we can pick up litereally THOUSANDS of dollars in incremental revenue." More likely it's like "the network account isn't the issue, it's the machine, so ban the machine."
You're going to raise a much better generation of programmers if you give all the kids Game Boy Colors, emulators, lots of sample code, and books on Z80 assembly. Assembly is as easy, if not easier, to learn than high level languages, especially with a simple 8-bit assembler. You know EXACTLY what the CPU is doing at all times, and you end up being a much better programmer later. By enabling kids to make real games, you provide motivation, not just dumbed-down, high-level crap.
No ONE element of Halo stands out against the competition, but Halo taken as a whole is a masterpiece, especially compared to what was available when it first shipped. Once that first game is the sweetness, people are into the franchise, and that's why we're talking about it still.