I sometimes despair at how useless some people are at grammar. Do you know what a "past participle" is? SHOWN is a past participle, SHOWED is past tense.
Look it up
Until then, do refrain from being smug. "Was showed" is wrong English, and the fact that this fact has to be pointed out to you by a Greek guy living in Portugal should shame you enough to force you to buy a grammar book.
I don't want to get too political in slashdot but, basically, no, the US has missed the space challenge unless huge changes can be made. Yes, in the 60s it was a matter of prestige - two superpowers you see. Now, there is only one. What if China even puts a man on the moon? The US put one 40 years ago, they will say. In the meantime, "space age" technology is developed directly for war time without the pretext of the "space race" as it was in the 60s.
One of your greatest presidents, also, had advanced the idea of a joint US/USSR space program. Here's a question: who was it and what happened to him?
The military already has a lot of the government's business without having to deal with actual accidents that receive worldwide attention. If a spaceshuttle blows up and 5 people die, people will remember it for ever. If something goes wrong while testing some other kind of military technology (depleted uranium, for example), that might kill thousands of people, nobody will care.
No, it's not being hampered by "whiny politicians". Rather, the space program, not being the driver for the military industry any more has fallen back in the priorities of your government. Why test military technology in space when you can bomb Iraq / Afghanistan / Serbia etc? OT but you bet your ass it's true.
Bollocks. Netherlands, like all the civilised world, has the obligation to protect copyrights. Just because Kazaa was found legal over there does not mean that the act of downloading songs through kazaa is legal itself.
Please take the time of actually visiting emusic before making stupid comments. Emusic was the only site where you could download independent music. Totally non-RIAA.
As I have said before, what you are doing by downloading music off kazaa is not fucking "civil disobedience". You are not a hero, fighting mankind's bads. You are a criminal, according to the laws of your country. Don't like the laws? It's a democracy, have them changed. But don't think that coming to slashdot and whining about "price-fixing" in an industry that creates jobs and profits is in any way constructive. There was a great service that offered 100% unlimited MP3s, totally non-RIAA, lame-encoded VBR MP3s at that. Did you join or did you go on downloading Shakira from Kazaa?
I joined and I was a happy customer, knowing I not only supported indy music but also a model of business that would, eventually, lead to the big recording companies to rethink their business attitudes. If you didn't join, kindly shut the fuck up. You are a fucking hypocrite. And yes, this is a flame. I'm bored as FUCK seeing the same idiotic Pavlovian responses everytime this subject comes up.
It took me two minutes to find the credit card I signed up with and cancel it. I have wanted to cancel since they changed to that shitty download manager that does not let you queue more than 40 mp3s. I was never a huge downloader but I liked the fact that I could queue up 10 albums once every two months and listen to them. They totally screwed my user experience with that stupid limitation. So, yes, I am very sad to stop being their customer since I learnt of artists there was no way I could find out about but there is NO WAY this price structure is realistic.
I am a project manager for medium to large IT projects. I'm also a BSc in IS and MBA with a MSc in IS coming up.
To put it bluntly, the one job for a project manager is solving problems. Not preventing them. Problems will arise, no matter how well you plan them. You might have an excellent Gantt chart made at the beginning of the project but chances are it will have to be ammended lots of times by the time of the alpha version.
QA is not something you only do at the end, as well. It is ongoing, starting at the first alpha and finishing with the last beta, sometimes after that. Why after release? Because there is this thing called "spec sheet" that specifies not only what features the project has but also when it is to be delivered. Sometimes there are huge penalties associated with non-delivery so you postpone non-showstopping bug crushing for after release. It is a fact. In my book, any project manager who does not release a project because the font in module 220 does not look good, is a bad project manager.
Your insinuation that Valve did not plan QA testing at the beginning of the project is based on many, probably far out, assumptions. Nobody knows why HL2 was delayed. I would like to know what you would do if you were the pm of HL2 and you suddenly found that playtesters found out that map 3 was horribly boring. Would you release the game? Would you delay it? It's not that easy being a PM, you see...
As a person who has worked in the editorial business, albeit not as a journalist, let me assure you 100% that the first "hard" question you asked a "celebrity" would be your last one as he/she would not only walk out but you'd be blacked out from all subsequent events. Also, I don't understand how someone with a BA in Journalism would be better writing for a gaming site than, say, one with no formal qualifications. You need to like games, understand how they work and be able to see through the hype. Gamespy, gamespot and ign are not fan gaming sites, they are industry fed sites and if you think you will see hard hitting commentary there, you are living in a world of your own. Even the excellent gamespot "gamespotting" features are harmless little ramblings.
Oh, Jesus Christ. How does playing a CD or a DVD make the PS2 into a PC? If anything, it makes it into an entertainment system which, although interesting, is completely nothing like a PC. EU regulations are there not to screw the gaming public, as you might think, but rather to benefit the computer buying public. Sony have been trying to use a loophole in a law that is clear as hell by resorting to shenanigans such as bundling a version of BASIC with the PS2 and the whole Linux thing. The fact is that the PS2 is, for 99.9% of the people out there, a gaming machine, and it would be stupid not to tax it as such. I'm not being "awkward", instead I'm engaged in what seems like a futile attempt to show that your arguments are not only irrelevant but, also, have no foundation. Unfortunately, I'm not succeding.
Excuse me, but I don't feel like going into a fruitless argument just for the sake of it. Could you please point me to an actual thing that you can do with a non-modded PS2 other than playing games? Because I certainly cannot think of any.
How exactly is the argument flawed? A computer, it can be argued, has tools to do wordprocessing, programming, video editing, etc. You can work on it and, indeed, that's what most people do. A PS2, however, has absolutely no chance of being seen as a computer since the only thing it can do is play games. Only with the Linux kit does it become something resembling a PC, but still it does not come as standard (thank the Lord), there is no argument here.
C++ interface? What? When you program in VS.NET you don't get a different interface when programing in VB and when you are programing in C++. Also, what are you talking about "rearranges everything"? I've never seen another piece of software that is so easy to customise as VS.NET. It can be overwhelming, especially the first time you drag and drop a toolbar into a detached table and you try to put it back.
You are mixing up languages with the development interface. One has nothing to do with the other, in fact I love using Activestate's Python in Visual Studio. I'm sorry, but, to be honest, you don't really sound you've used VS to actually program anything.
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Look it up
Until then, do refrain from being smug. "Was showed" is wrong English, and the fact that this fact has to be pointed out to you by a Greek guy living in Portugal should shame you enough to force you to buy a grammar book.
One of your greatest presidents, also, had advanced the idea of a joint US/USSR space program. Here's a question: who was it and what happened to him?
The military already has a lot of the government's business without having to deal with actual accidents that receive worldwide attention. If a spaceshuttle blows up and 5 people die, people will remember it for ever. If something goes wrong while testing some other kind of military technology (depleted uranium, for example), that might kill thousands of people, nobody will care.
No, it's not being hampered by "whiny politicians". Rather, the space program, not being the driver for the military industry any more has fallen back in the priorities of your government. Why test military technology in space when you can bomb Iraq / Afghanistan / Serbia etc? OT but you bet your ass it's true.
Just visited your site, btw, excellent photo. My compliments to the photographer.
Any questions?
What, you want more? :->
Emusic had Lame-encoded VBR MP3s after a major upgrade some months ago. Cannot really imagine any better quality than this...
As I have said before, what you are doing by downloading music off kazaa is not fucking "civil disobedience". You are not a hero, fighting mankind's bads. You are a criminal, according to the laws of your country. Don't like the laws? It's a democracy, have them changed. But don't think that coming to slashdot and whining about "price-fixing" in an industry that creates jobs and profits is in any way constructive. There was a great service that offered 100% unlimited MP3s, totally non-RIAA, lame-encoded VBR MP3s at that. Did you join or did you go on downloading Shakira from Kazaa?
I joined and I was a happy customer, knowing I not only supported indy music but also a model of business that would, eventually, lead to the big recording companies to rethink their business attitudes. If you didn't join, kindly shut the fuck up. You are a fucking hypocrite. And yes, this is a flame. I'm bored as FUCK seeing the same idiotic Pavlovian responses everytime this subject comes up.
It took me two minutes to find the credit card I signed up with and cancel it. I have wanted to cancel since they changed to that shitty download manager that does not let you queue more than 40 mp3s. I was never a huge downloader but I liked the fact that I could queue up 10 albums once every two months and listen to them. They totally screwed my user experience with that stupid limitation. So, yes, I am very sad to stop being their customer since I learnt of artists there was no way I could find out about but there is NO WAY this price structure is realistic.
No he didn't. He asked for "open source or otherwise".
I've seen slot-loaded DVD players from LG and Samsung and, I think, Pioneer too. They have been doing "that"
No, in real life it IS an extremely useful tool and, may I say, a definite requirement for everyone using IExplorer.
Anyway, I was talking in general, not specifically about Newell.
To put it bluntly, the one job for a project manager is solving problems. Not preventing them. Problems will arise, no matter how well you plan them. You might have an excellent Gantt chart made at the beginning of the project but chances are it will have to be ammended lots of times by the time of the alpha version.
QA is not something you only do at the end, as well. It is ongoing, starting at the first alpha and finishing with the last beta, sometimes after that. Why after release? Because there is this thing called "spec sheet" that specifies not only what features the project has but also when it is to be delivered. Sometimes there are huge penalties associated with non-delivery so you postpone non-showstopping bug crushing for after release. It is a fact. In my book, any project manager who does not release a project because the font in module 220 does not look good, is a bad project manager.
Your insinuation that Valve did not plan QA testing at the beginning of the project is based on many, probably far out, assumptions. Nobody knows why HL2 was delayed. I would like to know what you would do if you were the pm of HL2 and you suddenly found that playtesters found out that map 3 was horribly boring. Would you release the game? Would you delay it? It's not that easy being a PM, you see...
As a person who has worked in the editorial business, albeit not as a journalist, let me assure you 100% that the first "hard" question you asked a "celebrity" would be your last one as he/she would not only walk out but you'd be blacked out from all subsequent events. Also, I don't understand how someone with a BA in Journalism would be better writing for a gaming site than, say, one with no formal qualifications. You need to like games, understand how they work and be able to see through the hype. Gamespy, gamespot and ign are not fan gaming sites, they are industry fed sites and if you think you will see hard hitting commentary there, you are living in a world of your own. Even the excellent gamespot "gamespotting" features are harmless little ramblings.
Oh, Jesus Christ. How does playing a CD or a DVD make the PS2 into a PC? If anything, it makes it into an entertainment system which, although interesting, is completely nothing like a PC. EU regulations are there not to screw the gaming public, as you might think, but rather to benefit the computer buying public. Sony have been trying to use a loophole in a law that is clear as hell by resorting to shenanigans such as bundling a version of BASIC with the PS2 and the whole Linux thing. The fact is that the PS2 is, for 99.9% of the people out there, a gaming machine, and it would be stupid not to tax it as such. I'm not being "awkward", instead I'm engaged in what seems like a futile attempt to show that your arguments are not only irrelevant but, also, have no foundation. Unfortunately, I'm not succeding.
Well, a CD player plays music. A DVD player plays DVDs. There are computers without CD or DVD players. What is your point?
You are replying to the wrong guy, mate. I agree with you, obviously.
Excuse me, but I don't feel like going into a fruitless argument just for the sake of it. Could you please point me to an actual thing that you can do with a non-modded PS2 other than playing games? Because I certainly cannot think of any.
How exactly is the argument flawed? A computer, it can be argued, has tools to do wordprocessing, programming, video editing, etc. You can work on it and, indeed, that's what most people do. A PS2, however, has absolutely no chance of being seen as a computer since the only thing it can do is play games. Only with the Linux kit does it become something resembling a PC, but still it does not come as standard (thank the Lord), there is no argument here.
It was a mistake from a spokesperson, apparently. See here.
Yes, because we all know there are a lot of current games out that need OpenGL. Doom3 is not coming out until March next year.
You are mixing up languages with the development interface. One has nothing to do with the other, in fact I love using Activestate's Python in Visual Studio. I'm sorry, but, to be honest, you don't really sound you've used VS to actually program anything.
Just out of interest, have you ever used VS.NET? Say what you will about their OSes, but VS is an amazingly well built IDE.