Conversely, if Rockstar needs 110 man-hours a week for every coder, they should hire 2 extra coders to meet the demand. If that breaks the budget, fuck the project, it's an unprofitable project. If it can't be profitable while adhering to reasonable work conditions and timelines, then it should not be undertaken in the first place.
Shorter work weeks or hiring more coders to do the work will likely make the project more profitable, not less. I can't believe for a moment that prolonged 60-110 hour work weeks are really more productive than a 40 hour work week. Of course, the first week of crunch you get a bit more work out of your people, but it comes at a cost. Soon, productivity will drop despite the extra hours. Demanding more hours will just tire them even more. A healthy, well-rested work force is far more productive.
One or two weeks of crunch before a real actual deadline can work, but after that, you'd better give them a week off to rest. If you can't afford to give them a week off, it's not worth it to demand that amount of overtime.
Considering these stories, it doesn't surprise me at all that LA Noire took 7 years. I bet a competent development house could do it for half the cost in less than half the time.
I'm wondering the same thing. I do upload photos to Facebook, but I never tag anything. But when I uploaded a photo of my son and my bother playing Angry Birds together, my brother immediately tagged himself on the photo. I should have asked why. Aren't you just giving Facebook extra information that you don't need or want them to have?
How about Flickr? There's no need for your friends to sign up, because anybody can look at your photos there. And you can easily use Facebook to share your Flickr photos.
I don't understand why anyone would think it is. Facebook is a place to share meaningless drivel with your friends, vague acquaintances and pretty much the entire rest of the world. If quality photo storage is an issue, you go to a site that's designed for that, and not for something else entirely.
That's the one I meant. A few years ago my impression was that it was specifically aimed at kids. I thought it was also initiated by Why the lucky stiff. The site looks very different now. Maybe to make it more general.
I suppose, but it's also a community thing. My brother learned to program at a young age mostly by typing BASIC code from hobby computer magazines, by recording binary from hobby computer radio shows. Do such magazines and radio shows still exist?
Well, of course there's the Web with more stuff than there ever was in the past, but that can also make it harder to find what you really need. For example, are there any introductory programming websites in Dutch? English might be an extra hurdle for non-native speaker kids.
Besides the fact that you're an ignorant troll, it isn't "100% safe". Maybe 90%... you wouldn't want to operate machinery, and I'm sure there are impurities in the smoke that would be harmful to a lesser extent than tobacco.
Lesser? Marijuana smoke contains more tar than tobacco smoke. 5 times, if I remember correctly. If you were to smoke marijuana like you smoke cigarettes (I don't think anybody does that, fortunately), you've got a pretty good chance of developing lung cancer.
Note that I'm all for the legalization of marijuana, and I don't use it myself. It's just that prohibition is harmful and supporting organized crime. But marijuana does need to be taxed and regulated just like alcohol and tobacco are.
So how well of a job are American prisons doing in reforming criminals? My impression is that they're the universities of crime. In fact, with privatized prisons, locking people up has in itself become a business. It has nothing to do with helping people.
The early church was pretty hard-core communist in some aspects. I'm pretty sure many American Christians would refuse to admit that, but many European Christians are quite aware of that fact.
Social programs is not the same thing as a centrally led plan economy. Look at Sweden for a capitalist economy with a lot of social programs. Compare that to a capitalist economy without those social programs, like the US. The US has way more poverty and crime. Also more billionaires, but that doesn't seem to do society a lot of good.
If we simply must derail this topic with politically divisive, completely unrelated stuff then I suppose we must also call out their Palestinian opponents as terrorists.
One big difference: Palestinian attacks do not come from the Palestinian Authority. Israeli attacks do come from the Israelian government.
Voice 2.0 definitely sounds stupid. "Phones may be over a century old, but we need to make it sound hip and edgy, like the Web!"
Sounds like an awesome service, though. At least if they only call me once BigCompany actually picks up the phone. Because the endless waiting is usually the worst. So in what countries do they offer this? My fear is the US only.
I don't really have a problem with ISPs filtering at the request of their customers. The details of the amendment determine just how much of a loophole it really is. If the ISPs offer subscriptions that filter evil Youtube content at a lower rate than subscriptions that allow access to Youtube, then it's a loophole that can be used by ISPs to filter by type of content. If, on the other hand, the filtered subscription has to be equal or higher in cost to unfiltered subscriptions, then it's not so much of a loophole. I'm not sure if it would matter much if the ISP also has to invent a plausible ideological reason why someone might want that content filtered.
I don't see ridiculous swathes of off-topic crap being posted in this thread by them. I do see you posting that. The only thing I'm doing is judging you by your actions. If this is what your request for a truce looks like, I'd rather you stopped requesting a truce.
If you really want to spend your time annoying people, by all means go for it. Just don't expect any sympathy. I have nothing to do with this vendetta you're pursuing, and neither have the vast majority of slashdot users. We would really appreciate it if you were to go fight your private war somewhere else.
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Conversely, if Rockstar needs 110 man-hours a week for every coder, they should hire 2 extra coders to meet the demand. If that breaks the budget, fuck the project, it's an unprofitable project. If it can't be profitable while adhering to reasonable work conditions and timelines, then it should not be undertaken in the first place.
Shorter work weeks or hiring more coders to do the work will likely make the project more profitable, not less. I can't believe for a moment that prolonged 60-110 hour work weeks are really more productive than a 40 hour work week. Of course, the first week of crunch you get a bit more work out of your people, but it comes at a cost. Soon, productivity will drop despite the extra hours. Demanding more hours will just tire them even more. A healthy, well-rested work force is far more productive.
One or two weeks of crunch before a real actual deadline can work, but after that, you'd better give them a week off to rest. If you can't afford to give them a week off, it's not worth it to demand that amount of overtime.
Considering these stories, it doesn't surprise me at all that LA Noire took 7 years. I bet a competent development house could do it for half the cost in less than half the time.
I'm wondering the same thing. I do upload photos to Facebook, but I never tag anything. But when I uploaded a photo of my son and my bother playing Angry Birds together, my brother immediately tagged himself on the photo. I should have asked why. Aren't you just giving Facebook extra information that you don't need or want them to have?
How about Flickr? There's no need for your friends to sign up, because anybody can look at your photos there. And you can easily use Facebook to share your Flickr photos.
Hopefully some valuable lessons will be learned by your sister and her friends.
To share, sure. But to store? I'd rather use GMail to store photos.
Facebook is not a place to store photos at all.
I don't understand why anyone would think it is. Facebook is a place to share meaningless drivel with your friends, vague acquaintances and pretty much the entire rest of the world. If quality photo storage is an issue, you go to a site that's designed for that, and not for something else entirely.
Any suggestions on re-rolling in RL?
I wish there was. I kinda regret taking Charisma as my dump stat. And it's not like I ever do anything with my Str and Dex anyway.
He tried to fix it after Sony broke it. The bastard!
That still doesn't make it a plan economy. Look it up.
That's the one I meant. A few years ago my impression was that it was specifically aimed at kids. I thought it was also initiated by Why the lucky stiff. The site looks very different now. Maybe to make it more general.
If I recall correctly, Ruby also has Hackity, a programming environment specifically for kids.
I suppose, but it's also a community thing. My brother learned to program at a young age mostly by typing BASIC code from hobby computer magazines, by recording binary from hobby computer radio shows. Do such magazines and radio shows still exist?
Well, of course there's the Web with more stuff than there ever was in the past, but that can also make it harder to find what you really need. For example, are there any introductory programming websites in Dutch? English might be an extra hurdle for non-native speaker kids.
really little dairy (betsy in the backyard).
Have you ever seen a cow? They're big!
Besides the fact that you're an ignorant troll, it isn't "100% safe". Maybe 90%... you wouldn't want to operate machinery, and I'm sure there are impurities in the smoke that would be harmful to a lesser extent than tobacco.
Lesser? Marijuana smoke contains more tar than tobacco smoke. 5 times, if I remember correctly. If you were to smoke marijuana like you smoke cigarettes (I don't think anybody does that, fortunately), you've got a pretty good chance of developing lung cancer.
Note that I'm all for the legalization of marijuana, and I don't use it myself. It's just that prohibition is harmful and supporting organized crime. But marijuana does need to be taxed and regulated just like alcohol and tobacco are.
So how well of a job are American prisons doing in reforming criminals? My impression is that they're the universities of crime. In fact, with privatized prisons, locking people up has in itself become a business. It has nothing to do with helping people.
I think Jesus and his posse were Socialists
The early church was pretty hard-core communist in some aspects. I'm pretty sure many American Christians would refuse to admit that, but many European Christians are quite aware of that fact.
Social programs is not the same thing as a centrally led plan economy. Look at Sweden for a capitalist economy with a lot of social programs. Compare that to a capitalist economy without those social programs, like the US. The US has way more poverty and crime. Also more billionaires, but that doesn't seem to do society a lot of good.
Not being politically malleable is no reason to drive someone to suicide. Not now, not then. Fire him and then knight him for his tremendous work.
If we simply must derail this topic with politically divisive, completely unrelated stuff then I suppose we must also call out their Palestinian opponents as terrorists.
One big difference: Palestinian attacks do not come from the Palestinian Authority. Israeli attacks do come from the Israelian government.
I looked at their site, and it's Canada + continental US. But they're looking into expanding to other countries, so that's good news.
Voice 2.0 definitely sounds stupid. "Phones may be over a century old, but we need to make it sound hip and edgy, like the Web!"
Sounds like an awesome service, though. At least if they only call me once BigCompany actually picks up the phone. Because the endless waiting is usually the worst. So in what countries do they offer this? My fear is the US only.
I usually just ask the wrong person to put me through to the right person.
I don't really have a problem with ISPs filtering at the request of their customers. The details of the amendment determine just how much of a loophole it really is. If the ISPs offer subscriptions that filter evil Youtube content at a lower rate than subscriptions that allow access to Youtube, then it's a loophole that can be used by ISPs to filter by type of content. If, on the other hand, the filtered subscription has to be equal or higher in cost to unfiltered subscriptions, then it's not so much of a loophole. I'm not sure if it would matter much if the ISP also has to invent a plausible ideological reason why someone might want that content filtered.
I don't see ridiculous swathes of off-topic crap being posted in this thread by them. I do see you posting that. The only thing I'm doing is judging you by your actions. If this is what your request for a truce looks like, I'd rather you stopped requesting a truce.
If you really want to spend your time annoying people, by all means go for it. Just don't expect any sympathy. I have nothing to do with this vendetta you're pursuing, and neither have the vast majority of slashdot users. We would really appreciate it if you were to go fight your private war somewhere else.