>> If you work for an auto shop, and take book time to do every job, they will fire your ass
Sure, because book time is the maximum amount of time it should take, and the maximum amount any customer should be charged for.
So if you always took book time to do your job, you'd basically be as slow as a mechanic can be, and be fired. So, the faster you work, the fatter the profit margin.
A good mechanic will always charge you less than book time, but calculate book time when quoting, and they'll gaurantee that this will be the maximum you'll be charged for the job (even if they screw up and go over).
It beats the hell out of "oh you need a new blogerfloog module, they only make those on the highest treetops in belize, and they cost 8 zillion dollars"
>> How much money does a head gasket cost? Well, the gasket, itself, is under fifty dollars. How much does a head gasket job cost?
Auto repair is a bad example, as mechanics have a big book of repair jobs, and how many man hours can be charged for each one. It's like Kellys Blue Book but lists fair market value for repair work.
I'm sure someone else can fill in the details, but I know it exists, and if your mechanic isnt using it and is pulling numbers out of the air, he's a crook and you should go somewhere else.
Try Mortal Kombat Gold for the Dreamcast. The buggiest video game I have every played. Random reboots, freezes, graphical glitches. God-awful. They quietly upgraded it, and the newer version sold with a "hot! new!" sticker on the box.
The only xbox problems I've heard of are people playing "backup" games, or playing on modded consoles. Ie; recent mods have implemented a software reset feature which crashes many games. And it's known that running games from EvolutionX while the network cable is plugged in can lead to random freezes.
They are different, but that doesnt mean that they're irrelevant.
With all my effort focused in not trying to sound like a troll, I can only say, sometimes it's fun to go out.
I've had much more fun drunk at the bar with my friends playing Cruis'n USA head-to-head than I ever could playing the N64 port.
I can think of a few dozen hillbillies I know who bought NFL Blitz after it was installed in the bar down the street.
Who do you think buys all those golf games? And why do you think EA sports titles are the perennial #1 sellers? It ain't because the evercrack addicts.
As long as there are people who go out, there will be stuff out there to entertain them (for a small fee). Arcades arent what they were (what they were was a hangout for loitering kids), but it'll be a long time before they're obsolete.
Not just the Dave and Busters and Jillians, and the Chuck e Cheeses, but every redneck bar within 200 miles of me has at least 2 or 3 arcade machines. Usually a Golden Tee Golf, a Deer Hunter Machine, or whatever.
Lots of family restaurants around here have them too, places like Fuddruckers have them.
The arcades arent as lucrative as they were, but they're here to stay.
From MS's point of view, it's just selling more Xbox hardware. Other people buy it, make the games, and do all the work. They just sell more xbox dev kits and the hardware at a higher price.
It's a good system for arcade hardware too. Cheap, backwards compatible (it's PC based, so code developed for it will likely be relevant on xbox 2), and a pretty cool feature set. The built in ethernet alone will make for some cool multiplayer cabinets.
"To make sure that uploads don't hurt downloads, we also move ACK packets to the front of the queue."
It's pretty cool, it throttles your speeds to just under what the maximum should be, so that queueing will only happen on your linux box, and then you can prioritize what you want.
I'm serious. I went to my local indie game shop who can always procure the rarest and most obscure games on a weeks notice (they carry GP32 and Wonderswan fer cryin out loud), and asked about the PS2 linux kit, and they looked at me like I had a booger in my nose.
In retrospect, I may well have had a booger in my nose.
You have a link from a site to order this thing from for a US PS2?
And I'm wondering about this: "NOTE: Linux Kit (for PlayStation 2) is a tool for Linux enthusiasts and programmers only. It will NOT enhance your PlayStation 2 games. The hard disk drive formatted for Linux cannot be used with HDD-compatible PlayStation 2 games."
So can you still play games? If you wanted to play a HDD compatible game (if one existed) would you have to switch HDDs?
And whats the deal with the requirements? "REQUIRES A PLAYSTATION 2 SYSTEM, VGA MONITOR [WITH SYNC-ON-GREEN CAPABILITY] AND MEMORY CARD (8MB) (FOR PLAYSTATI0N 2) [DEDICATED TO LINUX KIT USE], ALL SOLD SEPARATELY."
1st off, why cant I use the TV as a display? And what is an 8 meg memory card needed for if it comes with a 40 gig HDD?
>>Now that there is an option to get CDs for $15, but with 15 songs you DO want on it.
Says who? I can guarantee I wont find 15 songs I want on their site. It'll be all mainstream top 40 type of stuff that I dont buy (its on the radio ad nauseum, why would I?)
I dont use P2P, but I do download some mp3s once in awhile, and it's usually from a friend or someone I know who has similar tastes sending me obscure old punk or metal that is hard to find in stores, and impossible on services like this.
Show me a link to Mr Bungle on Apple's music site. Not even a really obscure example, but I can guarantee it wont be there.
>> $.99 a song with the ability to burn to CD doesn't sound too bad.
Sure, and when you like punk stuff like me, a CD can easily contain 30 tracks.
Even for a more normal 10-15 track album, it's still retail prices, with the added bonus that you pay the production cost yourself, with your own burner and media.
If this service was from MSFT or Sony you'd hate it.
It's good that a company actually has the balls to recall a faulty product. It's kind of a shame that it has to be a fire hazard to make it happen, and not poor quality. I guess it's the lawyers who made the call, fearing wrongful death suits when some kid dies of inhalation while playing UT.
The PC market is flooded with second rate, faulty, poorly designed and nonfunctional hardware.
I once had an NEC monitor that burned out on me, had it replaced, that one burned out, replaced again, that one burned out ad nauseum - 5 in a row. By the 6th, they had stopped manufacturing them and I got a different one, which still works fine today.
I knew the monitor was designed poorly, they knew it was designed poorly (they only made 'em for like 6 months). Wouldnt a recall have been easier and cheaper than cross shipping me 5 replacements in a row?
Oh well. I just wish there were more corporations willing to stand behind their merchandise.
I'm still missing the big pictures. It's usually the case that trivial examples used to explain a programming concept are the worst implementation of the concept. Like when taught recursion with the factorial example. A for loop with a collector variable is a much better implementation than a recursive function.
For the logging example, macros (I'm thinking in C++) seem to work better. I define a macro like #define DEBUG_LOG write_log(), then link against my library that defines write_log, and other debugging functions. In the release builds, I redefine the macros to nothing, and dont link the library. I do the same thing for sanity checks and assertions and other debugging tasks.
Maybe I just need to read some better examples about what aspects would do, beacause in this case they'd just add obscurity to the code. Perhaps this is something better suited for larger more distributed projects?
I've always had it driven in my head that good code should read like a book. With aspects the code would read like a book with the first and last few dozen pages missing.
So you're saying that aspects are helper functions or classes, that are implicitly called, rather than explicitly? (maybe implicit is the wrong word, but they're attached from outside the code itself)?
So this basically saves you the hassle of writing stuff like this?
#ifdef DEBUG
do this #endif
Seems in a large project it would be real easy to forget about code that executes that you cant see.. Is the added complexity worth it?
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>> smoking thier laptop for it's menthol? lord knows i would
Go for it! I'll start preparing your Darwin Award nomination now.
(Methanol will kill you dead, AFAIK)
Make it run on atmospheric methane, and install a pay-per-use WAP in every Taco Bell.
It'll like be like printing your own money!
Yeah and there was like a WAR or something because of the GAMES. Then to stop the WAR he had to play GAMES with the computer.
I think it was called, "The Bus that Couldnt Slow Down".
>> If you work for an auto shop, and take book time to do every job, they will fire your ass
Sure, because book time is the maximum amount of time it should take, and the maximum amount any customer should be charged for.
So if you always took book time to do your job, you'd basically be as slow as a mechanic can be, and be fired. So, the faster you work, the fatter the profit margin.
A good mechanic will always charge you less than book time, but calculate book time when quoting, and they'll gaurantee that this will be the maximum you'll be charged for the job (even if they screw up and go over).
It beats the hell out of "oh you need a new blogerfloog module, they only make those on the highest treetops in belize, and they cost 8 zillion dollars"
Thanks for the 'news', but I'm not in the market for a laptop right now.
And if I was, I'd have found this information myself.
BTW, I'm trying to sell an old waterbed. Do you mind if I stick a flyer up on the homepage? Thanks.
>> How much money does a head gasket cost? Well, the gasket, itself, is under fifty dollars. How much does a head gasket job cost?
Auto repair is a bad example, as mechanics have a big book of repair jobs, and how many man hours can be charged for each one. It's like Kellys Blue Book but lists fair market value for repair work.
I'm sure someone else can fill in the details, but I know it exists, and if your mechanic isnt using it and is pulling numbers out of the air, he's a crook and you should go somewhere else.
How about a price spoofing engine, that fakes cookies and whatever to make you look like "desirable customer".
Providing false information on a loan or mortgage is illegal, but would altering your browsing history count as fraud or no?
Try Mortal Kombat Gold for the Dreamcast. The buggiest video game I have every played. Random reboots, freezes, graphical glitches. God-awful. They quietly upgraded it, and the newer version sold with a "hot! new!" sticker on the box.
The only xbox problems I've heard of are people playing "backup" games, or playing on modded consoles. Ie; recent mods have implemented a software reset feature which crashes many games. And it's known that running games from EvolutionX while the network cable is plugged in can lead to random freezes.
They are different, but that doesnt mean that they're irrelevant.
With all my effort focused in not trying to sound like a troll, I can only say, sometimes it's fun to go out.
I've had much more fun drunk at the bar with my friends playing Cruis'n USA head-to-head than I ever could playing the N64 port.
I can think of a few dozen hillbillies I know who bought NFL Blitz after it was installed in the bar down the street.
Who do you think buys all those golf games? And why do you think EA sports titles are the perennial #1 sellers? It ain't because the evercrack addicts.
As long as there are people who go out, there will be stuff out there to entertain them (for a small fee). Arcades arent what they were (what they were was a hangout for loitering kids), but it'll be a long time before they're obsolete.
Not just the Dave and Busters and Jillians, and the Chuck e Cheeses, but every redneck bar within 200 miles of me has at least 2 or 3 arcade machines. Usually a Golden Tee Golf, a Deer Hunter Machine, or whatever.
Lots of family restaurants around here have them too, places like Fuddruckers have them.
The arcades arent as lucrative as they were, but they're here to stay.
From MS's point of view, it's just selling more Xbox hardware. Other people buy it, make the games, and do all the work. They just sell more xbox dev kits and the hardware at a higher price.
It's a good system for arcade hardware too. Cheap, backwards compatible (it's PC based, so code developed for it will likely be relevant on xbox 2), and a pretty cool feature set. The built in ethernet alone will make for some cool multiplayer cabinets.
And from the explanation in the readme:
"To make sure that uploads don't hurt downloads,
we also move ACK packets to the front of the queue."
It's pretty cool, it throttles your speeds to just under what the maximum should be, so that queueing will only happen on your linux box, and then you can prioritize what you want.
200 DOLLARS!
Screw you buddy
(sob)
thanks for nothing
(sob)
So then I tells him "Screw you buddy! Thanks for nothing!"
>> but what's the point of this past that?
You're a coder with an interest in running code against PS2 hardware, or anything other than an x86 for that matter.
It's neat to write some code and get it running on a Sega Genesis, Gameboy, SNES, TG16, or whatever.
This is the first time you've been officially sanctioned by the merciful corporate gods to be able to do so.
But
WHERE DO I GET IT?
I'm serious. I went to my local indie game shop who can always procure the rarest and most obscure games on a weeks notice (they carry GP32 and Wonderswan fer cryin out loud), and asked about the PS2 linux kit, and they looked at me like I had a booger in my nose.
In retrospect, I may well have had a booger in my nose.
You have a link from a site to order this thing from for a US PS2?
First off, where the hell do you get it from?
And I'm wondering about this:
"NOTE: Linux Kit (for PlayStation 2) is a tool for Linux enthusiasts and programmers only. It will NOT enhance your PlayStation 2 games. The hard disk drive formatted for Linux cannot be used with HDD-compatible PlayStation 2 games."
So can you still play games? If you wanted to play a HDD compatible game (if one existed) would you have to switch HDDs?
And whats the deal with the requirements?
"REQUIRES A PLAYSTATION 2 SYSTEM, VGA MONITOR [WITH SYNC-ON-GREEN CAPABILITY] AND MEMORY CARD (8MB) (FOR PLAYSTATI0N 2) [DEDICATED TO LINUX KIT USE], ALL SOLD SEPARATELY."
1st off, why cant I use the TV as a display? And what is an 8 meg memory card needed for if it comes with a 40 gig HDD?
It's all about Mountain Dew Code Red these days, old timer.
I'm sure Dr Pepper goes just fine with your FORTRAN subroutines.
"If people on the Internet are actually interested in buying music, not just stealing it, this is the answer"
Actually, I'm interested in HEARING it before I do either.
>>Now that there is an option to get CDs for $15, but with 15 songs you DO want on it.
Says who? I can guarantee I wont find 15 songs I want on their site. It'll be all mainstream top 40 type of stuff that I dont buy (its on the radio ad nauseum, why would I?)
I dont use P2P, but I do download some mp3s once in awhile, and it's usually from a friend or someone I know who has similar tastes sending me obscure old punk or metal that is hard to find in stores, and impossible on services like this.
Show me a link to Mr Bungle on Apple's music site. Not even a really obscure example, but I can guarantee it wont be there.
>> the commpanies make just as much money
Umm, no, because before you payed 20 bucks for the Britney Spears album, now you pay a buck for the one song you like. They make 1/20th the profit.
change Britney Spears to whatever artist/group you think is 'cool'.
>> $.99 a song with the ability to burn to CD doesn't sound too bad.
Sure, and when you like punk stuff like me, a CD can easily contain 30 tracks.
Even for a more normal 10-15 track album, it's still retail prices, with the added bonus that you pay the production cost yourself, with your own burner and media.
If this service was from MSFT or Sony you'd hate it.
It's good that a company actually has the balls to recall a faulty product. It's kind of a shame that it has to be a fire hazard to make it happen, and not poor quality. I guess it's the lawyers who made the call, fearing wrongful death suits when some kid dies of inhalation while playing UT.
The PC market is flooded with second rate, faulty, poorly designed and nonfunctional hardware.
I once had an NEC monitor that burned out on me, had it replaced, that one burned out, replaced again, that one burned out ad nauseum - 5 in a row. By the 6th, they had stopped manufacturing them and I got a different one, which still works fine today.
I knew the monitor was designed poorly, they knew it was designed poorly (they only made 'em for like 6 months). Wouldnt a recall have been easier and cheaper than cross shipping me 5 replacements in a row?
Oh well. I just wish there were more corporations willing to stand behind their merchandise.
I'm still missing the big pictures. It's usually the case that trivial examples used to explain a programming concept are the worst implementation of the concept. Like when taught recursion with the factorial example. A for loop with a collector variable is a much better implementation than a recursive function.
For the logging example, macros (I'm thinking in C++) seem to work better. I define a macro like #define DEBUG_LOG write_log(), then link against my library that defines write_log, and other debugging functions. In the release builds, I redefine the macros to nothing, and dont link the library. I do the same thing for sanity checks and assertions and other debugging tasks.
Maybe I just need to read some better examples about what aspects would do, beacause in this case they'd just add obscurity to the code. Perhaps this is something better suited for larger more distributed projects?
I've always had it driven in my head that good code should read like a book. With aspects the code would read like a book with the first and last few dozen pages missing.
So you're saying that aspects are helper functions or classes, that are implicitly called, rather than explicitly? (maybe implicit is the wrong word, but they're attached from outside the code itself)?
So this basically saves you the hassle of writing stuff like this?
#ifdef DEBUG
do this
#endif
Seems in a large project it would be real easy to forget about code that executes that you cant see.. Is the added complexity worth it?
They distributed it to Cartoon Network where it airs as Lupin III. So I'd imagine they've overcome that little hurdle.
I'd heard that the characters from the Pink Panther series were based on Arsene Lupin, but from the bumbling detectives (Cluseau) point of view.