IMO, decent engine, but repetitive. What it's missing is a bigger story line, something that will suck you in. As it is, I don't feel one bit threatened as I hack all these powerful corporations.
And they also have... what, maybe 10 unique missions? It's a good start, but they better hire some good writers... What do you think?
"I went to the doctors, and sure enough it was a fairly large blood clot logged under my knee"
"Also, during that year and a half"
OK, I'm no doctor, but... You say it was A clot, and that it took you 1.5 years for your body to absorb it? Why not cut in, and just remove it surgically? Wouldn't that surgery recovery take a lot less than a freaking year and a half?
Just curious... there's no way they'd be sticking needles up me for that long:)
In order for this tax cut to matter to you... how much stock do you have to own? Let's say you own Coke stock... which is around $70/share. Its dividends are $1, I think. So how much stock do you have to own in order for your yearly dividend return to be so high where the tax break would be significant? A lot. For $500,000 worth of Coke stock, you'd make around $7000 in dividends per year. (I think I'm doing the numbers right, I'm no economist). Who has enough disposable cash to own half a million dollars worth of stock? It's not your 'average Joe,' who's probably unemployed right now.
Tax cut for the rich? In the amounts that matter, yes, yes, and triple yes.
I am wholeheartedly for the idea. But... with the vast achievements in the scientific arena, it just might not be an option, short of making it your profession.
Ok, so suppose you read a paper. First you have to understand it. Then you have to look for holes in the theory which would make you say: wait a minute, they're wrong there! And seriously, without a good basis, and then a good (maybe master's level knowledge), how would you know to look for these holes? Maybe the actual hole is in the data people collected. Then what are you going to do? Buy yourself some Hubble time and a supercomputer array to verify their figures? I'm afraid we're long past the point of verifying stuff like this for ourselves. Sure, it's easy enough to catch a frog and rub its legs together, or tie a key to a kite. The way things are today... forget it. Instead, we rely on reputations. Several institutions have top physicists of their own, and each group works on the same problem. They post their findings, duke it out, and whoever wins, we'll believe them:)
I think we should apply our powers of reasoning in the social arena. Try to figure out the politics of your own country (or the world, for the adventurous), and who's doing what to whom. Just that will keep us occupied, while our elite scientists work on the real problems:)
At the old office we used to have a pretty nice table (ah, the dotcom days). There was a "move" I was fond of, the squeezer. You just kinda pinch the ball between the player and the table, and then you just cranked hard. The ball just shot out, and the forward spin on it was incredible. Many a time you would score a goal after the ball hit the goalie/defender, and just spun right around him to the side, and into the goal.
The point being: I'd consider that an "advanced" shot, but it bends the hell out of the bars. Would you allow that?
Well, elitism in what sense? People with money putting their kids through the best schools in the nation? Oh wait, that's already happening.
I like the "educational elitism" idea. Require 200% out of the kids. Separate kids based on scores at every educational level. There are those who can easily handle it, and become *very* well prepared for college, and competitive in the world market. Those who can't handle 200% will still give you at least 130%. I've seen it in action (an East European school system; we had entrance exams to get into highschools!), and god dammit, it works.
BTW, on that scale, the US requires about 20%... You have a pulse, and turn in just about anything for your assignments, you're a B student already.
Challenge the kids! They will surprise you with what they're capable of.
Heh... I liked Trespasser. That was the first game that I'd seen with a Viper 550 card... I remember marvelling at the jungle and all the new effects... like the ripples and reflections in the water. There were many moments when I was out of ammo, and I had to run past raptors or avoid them... I could hear them running after me... Then last minute I ran into a shack, and closed the door while the raptor was trying to push in. The only thing that half-bothered me was (obviously) the aiming part. But once you learned how to use it, it was all right... Of course, 99% of people out there will disagree with me on this one:)
9. Any homemade CM process and tools 10. No CM process or tools 11. VSS
Ha ha! That's pretty funny.
Maybe I'm just so lucky, but I've never had VSS database get corrupted. Actually, that's not 100% true... the one time somebody went into the/data folder and deleted a few files from the database. But show me a database that wouldn't crap out when users start whacking its internal files.
Which version have you used? Note: I'm not a huge VSS fan or anything. I just think it has its place.
Comparison is not fair indeed. Each has a target audience, IMO. I used to work at a web-design company as a CCase admin... We used to have VSS, and tried to roll out CCase, but the developers HATED IT so much they used every possible leverage they had to start a new product in VSS.
VSS, I think, is a better choice for a small web design company where you don't have a staff of highly-trained sourcecode control admins to deal with the tools. Anybody can install and start using the tool in minutes... And if you don't need all that branching/merging stuff, VSS is a clear winner here.
Clearcase had its good sides. But as an admin, I found it just overwhelming at times, and at the first sign of network trouble, CCase was the first to go down. For all the features that it had, it was just too much trouble (interop stuff was pretty bad, never mind crossing domains). I would only use CCase when: 1) I had a large number of developers 2) those developers were highly disciplined and smart 3) expected parallel streams of the same product at the same time 4) was working with real programming languages (not CF/PHP/web code), where merging, and things like that would be crucial, where there are compilers involved and daily builds, too. 5) had $$$$$$$$$$$ to spend. Rational stuff is expensive!!!
Ugh. Honestly, don't bother. I also think that Fallout2 was the best game ever (well, JA2 was pretty close), but Arcanum just had something lacking.
I don't know if it was having up to 50 levels to advance through (in Fallout, if you get to 20, you're almost done), or what... but the game was buggy, and the story was nowhere near as varied, and the subplots kinda sucked ass. Trips/battles were drawn out, the scripting in terms of NPC interactions was nowhere near Fallout. IMO, this was a big disappointment of a game. But hey, one man's treasure...
I want to scream every time I hear a comparison between cars (car accidents) and guns.
There is a huge difference between a gun and a car. A car's primary purpose is to get you places. A gun's primary purpose is to accelerate little pieces of lead to cause great bodily harm to living creatures (i.e. KILL)! (bottom line).
Why aren't people allowed to own fully armed tanks parked in front of their house? Or biological weapons? (scratch that last one, my friend's bathroom is a counter example there). Where do you draw the line here?
In any case, you gun folks, argue any way you want, but please do not bring up this comparison (guns vs. cars) ever again.:)
Also a Q for you gun-is-my-protection folks out there... are there any non-lethal alternatives to guns out there? Like tazers, and the like? Would you consider that as your defense? "Shooting a burglar inside my own house would get me right into jail." Would frying his nuts off with a tazer get you the same? Just an honest Q.
Yes! Same board, same problem! Mine was in a desktop case, and it was impossible to see whether the mobo is actually touching or not. So what I did was this (after calling tech support): Once I made sure that the mobo was working fine outside of the case, I took a folded over piece of paper, and put it over each riser, taping it into place with scotch tape (imagine putting a paper towel over a cup, taping the corners to the desk). Then I put the mobo on that - worked. Then I screwed it in, two screws at a time (screws went through the paper), and booted fine each time. That solved the problem, the box is now rock-stable. Just hope the paper doesn't catch on fire... I have a ways to go till Fahrenheit 451.:)
Thanks for the info guys... I posted this based on my 1996 knowledge of the format... I only dabbled in it afterwards. I didn't know they published the specs, or some of the other stuff.
So - thanks to jonadab, for filling in the other bad things about pdfs;)...
And a reply to vi-rocks (which it does): "Oh, Sorry, you must be using a Windoze box"
Among other things, yes. As are many more people than anything else. Check that desktop usage breakdown, and please let me know which company is in the lead...
"First of all, your client is right"
When it comes to representing information on the web, PDF is a wrong solution. So no, they are not right. 1) Search engines are having a hard time parsing pdfs, if they can at all. 2) Did I say it? PDF Docs are huge!!! 3) Opening another application altogether to view a part of the site conveying info? Why don't they just create MS Word documents, create one homepage and just link to Word docs as subsections?
"Yes, I remember fearing those dreaded 700Kb downloads.... in 1989."
Average time people will wait for a page to download is 7 seconds. Longer than that = bad. 700Kb at a modem speed (5Kb/sec) is about 140s = over two minutes! Not everybody has a T3 line in their house, and even if they did, you will spend a bundle paying for all the bandwidth you need all of a sudden.
I may be wrong in some of the things I said, I'll admit, but I will defend the point that PDFs instead of html are a bad idea.
Am I the only person who absolutely hates PDF's? A proprietary format where you 1) have to buy a piece of software that costs hundreds of dollars to be able to produce these documents (what else does that remind me of?) 2) where the documents get positively huge (one of our clients insists on building pdf documents instead of html/php docs because of "better graphical formatting" - never mind that a single one is 700Kb - who's going to sit through downloading that???) 3) where the documents' compression is so varied... you compress, you can't insert stuff into the doc anymore with scripts, you don't compress, you end up with a 2Tb doc.
Ridiculous. Hope MS takes them to the cleaners. I hate fucking Adobe PDF.
I admit I'm electronics ignorant... Would more capacitors in a device reduce the need for an immediate (sustained) power source, if we're talking about short bursts?
This may be why my X-wing can only shoot every second or so (in pulses), as opposed to having a pure beam laser?:)
Flat Screen Monitors = I love these babies. I find the picture 10x sharper than anything else. (ok, so I'm a bit biased - Viewsonic's professional series is amazing). LCD's suffer (IMO) from "dimming" in places when you move your head. And I heard people say they want 21" LCD's? The bigger the screen, the worse that problem is going to get!
Yeah, right. While I don't think we should be bailing anyone out, one has to wonder what will happen to all the money invested in those companies, if they're allowed to go under. Your average stockholder (401Ks anyone?) will keep losing money, while only the people in know (i.e. insider trading, and your Wall Street types) will sell before a bankrupcy happens. I'm beginning to think this whole "stock market" is a bad idea...
Yeah, you should move to DC. (after they catch the sniper, of course). Our NPR plays classical pretty much all freaking day long... How can somebody listen to 12 straight hours of that? I remember NPR in WV was so much cooler (am I really saying this?)... they had Night Shades and Echoes, a 3-hr block starting at 11. That was some good stuff...
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IMO, decent engine, but repetitive. What it's missing is a bigger story line, something that will suck you in. As it is, I don't feel one bit threatened as I hack all these powerful corporations.
... what, maybe 10 unique missions?
And they also have
It's a good start, but they better hire some good writers...
What do you think?
"I went to the doctors, and sure enough it was a fairly large blood clot logged under my knee"
:)
"Also, during that year and a half"
OK, I'm no doctor, but... You say it was A clot, and that it took you 1.5 years for your body to absorb it?
Why not cut in, and just remove it surgically? Wouldn't that surgery recovery take a lot less than a freaking year and a half?
Just curious... there's no way they'd be sticking needles up me for that long
In order for this tax cut to matter to you... how much stock do you have to own?
Let's say you own Coke stock... which is around $70/share. Its dividends are $1, I think.
So how much stock do you have to own in order for your yearly dividend return to be so high where the tax break would be significant? A lot.
For $500,000 worth of Coke stock, you'd make around $7000 in dividends per year. (I think I'm doing the numbers right, I'm no economist).
Who has enough disposable cash to own half a million dollars worth of stock? It's not your 'average Joe,' who's probably unemployed right now.
Tax cut for the rich? In the amounts that matter, yes, yes, and triple yes.
You think this would work for me? I live on the 18th floor...
But I like the idea, though...
I am wholeheartedly for the idea. But... with the vast achievements in the scientific arena, it just might not be an option, short of making it your profession.
:)
:)
Ok, so suppose you read a paper. First you have to understand it. Then you have to look for holes in the theory which would make you say: wait a minute, they're wrong there!
And seriously, without a good basis, and then a good (maybe master's level knowledge), how would you know to look for these holes? Maybe the actual hole is in the data people collected. Then what are you going to do? Buy yourself some Hubble time and a supercomputer array to verify their figures?
I'm afraid we're long past the point of verifying stuff like this for ourselves. Sure, it's easy enough to catch a frog and rub its legs together, or tie a key to a kite. The way things are today... forget it.
Instead, we rely on reputations. Several institutions have top physicists of their own, and each group works on the same problem. They post their findings, duke it out, and whoever wins, we'll believe them
I think we should apply our powers of reasoning in the social arena. Try to figure out the politics of your own country (or the world, for the adventurous), and who's doing what to whom. Just that will keep us occupied, while our elite scientists work on the real problems
At the old office we used to have a pretty nice table (ah, the dotcom days).
There was a "move" I was fond of, the squeezer. You just kinda pinch the ball between the player and the table, and then you just cranked hard. The ball just shot out, and the forward spin on it was incredible. Many a time you would score a goal after the ball hit the goalie/defender, and just spun right around him to the side, and into the goal.
The point being: I'd consider that an "advanced" shot, but it bends the hell out of the bars. Would you allow that?
"As offensive as elitism is to us..."
Well, elitism in what sense? People with money putting their kids through the best schools in the nation? Oh wait, that's already happening.
I like the "educational elitism" idea. Require 200% out of the kids. Separate kids based on scores at every educational level. There are those who can easily handle it, and become *very* well prepared for college, and competitive in the world market. Those who can't handle 200% will still give you at least 130%. I've seen it in action (an East European school system; we had entrance exams to get into highschools!), and god dammit, it works.
BTW, on that scale, the US requires about 20%... You have a pulse, and turn in just about anything for your assignments, you're a B student already.
Challenge the kids! They will surprise you with what they're capable of.
Heh... I liked Trespasser. That was the first game that I'd seen with a Viper 550 card... I remember marvelling at the jungle and all the new effects... like the ripples and reflections in the water. :)
There were many moments when I was out of ammo, and I had to run past raptors or avoid them... I could hear them running after me... Then last minute I ran into a shack, and closed the door while the raptor was trying to push in.
The only thing that half-bothered me was (obviously) the aiming part. But once you learned how to use it, it was all right...
Of course, 99% of people out there will disagree with me on this one
So are you telling me you're carrying your laptop to the bathroom at work?
2002: No bonus; I was laid off and got nothing at all. (This is the Grinch Christmas)
I guess 2004 will have to be better than this.
So are you just going to drink 2003 away?
9. Any homemade CM process and tools
/data folder and deleted a few files from the database.
10. No CM process or tools
11. VSS
Ha ha! That's pretty funny.
Maybe I'm just so lucky, but I've never had VSS database get corrupted. Actually, that's not 100% true... the one time somebody went into the
But show me a database that wouldn't crap out when users start whacking its internal files.
Which version have you used?
Note: I'm not a huge VSS fan or anything. I just think it has its place.
Comparison is not fair indeed. Each has a target audience, IMO.
I used to work at a web-design company as a CCase admin... We used to have VSS, and tried to roll out CCase, but the developers HATED IT so much they used every possible leverage they had to start a new product in VSS.
VSS, I think, is a better choice for a small web design company where you don't have a staff of highly-trained sourcecode control admins to deal with the tools. Anybody can install and start using the tool in minutes... And if you don't need all that branching/merging stuff, VSS is a clear winner here.
Clearcase had its good sides. But as an admin, I found it just overwhelming at times, and at the first sign of network trouble, CCase was the first to go down. For all the features that it had, it was just too much trouble (interop stuff was pretty bad, never mind crossing domains). I would only use CCase when:
1) I had a large number of developers
2) those developers were highly disciplined and smart
3) expected parallel streams of the same product at the same time
4) was working with real programming languages (not CF/PHP/web code), where merging, and things like that would be crucial, where there are compilers involved and daily builds, too.
5) had $$$$$$$$$$$ to spend. Rational stuff is expensive!!!
Any other CCase admins out there?
Ugh. Honestly, don't bother.
I also think that Fallout2 was the best game ever (well, JA2 was pretty close), but Arcanum just had something lacking.
I don't know if it was having up to 50 levels to advance through (in Fallout, if you get to 20, you're almost done), or what... but the game was buggy, and the story was nowhere near as varied, and the subplots kinda sucked ass.
Trips/battles were drawn out, the scripting in terms of NPC interactions was nowhere near Fallout.
IMO, this was a big disappointment of a game.
But hey, one man's treasure...
I want to scream every time I hear a comparison between cars (car accidents) and guns.
:)
There is a huge difference between a gun and a car. A car's primary purpose is to get you places. A gun's primary purpose is to accelerate little pieces of lead to cause great bodily harm to living creatures (i.e. KILL)! (bottom line).
Why aren't people allowed to own fully armed tanks parked in front of their house? Or biological weapons? (scratch that last one, my friend's bathroom is a counter example there).
Where do you draw the line here?
In any case, you gun folks, argue any way you want, but please do not bring up this comparison (guns vs. cars) ever again.
Also a Q for you gun-is-my-protection folks out there... are there any non-lethal alternatives to guns out there? Like tazers, and the like? Would you consider that as your defense?
"Shooting a burglar inside my own house would get me right into jail."
Would frying his nuts off with a tazer get you the same? Just an honest Q.
"How about driving down a long hill? Do you keep pressing the brakes? On a manual you just gear down, and let the engine brake for you."
Or you can just buy an automatic Rav 4. Its engine is already its best brake. I know, I own one.
Yes! Same board, same problem! Mine was in a desktop case, and it was impossible to see whether the mobo is actually touching or not. :)
So what I did was this (after calling tech support):
Once I made sure that the mobo was working fine outside of the case, I took a folded over piece of paper, and put it over each riser, taping it into place with scotch tape (imagine putting a paper towel over a cup, taping the corners to the desk).
Then I put the mobo on that - worked. Then I screwed it in, two screws at a time (screws went through the paper), and booted fine each time. That solved the problem, the box is now rock-stable. Just hope the paper doesn't catch on fire... I have a ways to go till Fahrenheit 451.
So... Do you feel better about yourself now?
Thanks for the info guys... I posted this based on my 1996 knowledge of the format... I only dabbled in it afterwards. I didn't know they published the specs, or some of the other stuff.
;) ...
.... in 1989."
So - thanks to jonadab, for filling in the other bad things about pdfs
And a reply to vi-rocks (which it does):
"Oh, Sorry, you must be using a Windoze box"
Among other things, yes. As are many more people than anything else. Check that desktop usage breakdown, and please let me know which company is in the lead...
"First of all, your client is right"
When it comes to representing information on the web, PDF is a wrong solution. So no, they are not right.
1) Search engines are having a hard time parsing pdfs, if they can at all.
2) Did I say it? PDF Docs are huge!!!
3) Opening another application altogether to view a part of the site conveying info? Why don't they just create MS Word documents, create one homepage and just link to Word docs as subsections?
"Yes, I remember fearing those dreaded 700Kb downloads
Average time people will wait for a page to download is 7 seconds. Longer than that = bad. 700Kb at a modem speed (5Kb/sec) is about 140s = over two minutes!
Not everybody has a T3 line in their house, and even if they did, you will spend a bundle paying for all the bandwidth you need all of a sudden.
I may be wrong in some of the things I said, I'll admit, but I will defend the point that PDFs instead of html are a bad idea.
Am I the only person who absolutely hates PDF's? A proprietary format where you
1) have to buy a piece of software that costs hundreds of dollars to be able to produce these documents (what else does that remind me of?)
2) where the documents get positively huge (one of our clients insists on building pdf documents instead of html/php docs because of "better graphical formatting" - never mind that a single one is 700Kb - who's going to sit through downloading that???)
3) where the documents' compression is so varied... you compress, you can't insert stuff into the doc anymore with scripts, you don't compress, you end up with a 2Tb doc.
Ridiculous. Hope MS takes them to the cleaners. I hate fucking Adobe PDF.
I admit I'm electronics ignorant... Would more capacitors in a device reduce the need for an immediate (sustained) power source, if we're talking about short bursts?
:)
This may be why my X-wing can only shoot every second or so (in pulses), as opposed to having a pure beam laser?
Of course, if you had the specs, you would immediately run into your basement and build yourself a box... right?
Flat Screen Monitors = I love these babies. I find the picture 10x sharper than anything else. (ok, so I'm a bit biased - Viewsonic's professional series is amazing). LCD's suffer (IMO) from "dimming" in places when you move your head. And I heard people say they want 21" LCD's? The bigger the screen, the worse that problem is going to get!
Am I the only one who thought this was so over the top it was actually very funny?
Yeah, right. While I don't think we should be bailing anyone out, one has to wonder what will happen to all the money invested in those companies, if they're allowed to go under. Your average stockholder (401Ks anyone?) will keep losing money, while only the people in know (i.e. insider trading, and your Wall Street types) will sell before a bankrupcy happens.
I'm beginning to think this whole "stock market" is a bad idea...
Yeah, you should move to DC. (after they catch the sniper, of course).
Our NPR plays classical pretty much all freaking day long... How can somebody listen to 12 straight hours of that?
I remember NPR in WV was so much cooler (am I really saying this?)... they had Night Shades and Echoes, a 3-hr block starting at 11. That was some good stuff...