Does anyone else see this as a lose-lose for these budding filmmakers? If the project is a success, ILM will own any distribution rights to it, since it was made with company resources. Meanwhile, these guys spent undoubtedly countless nights and weekends working on it, without pay. What will they have to show for it but a spot in the credits? Kinda reminds me of a certain operating system where people invest countless hours for no pay and other companies rake in the money from it.
I'm still waiting for Rendezvous with Rama to come out. They used to have some info up at the domain name, which is registered by Revelations Entertainment and was supposed to be sponsored by Intel. If the IMDB page is accurate, this might be coming out in a few years... but it's been simmering for about a decade so who knows how accurate that is.
On Canadian receipts, does it list the temperature of the fuel? Or does it say liters at 15 C? I kinda think that adding any more complexity to the dispenser is bad, because there is just more to screw up and not dispense the correct amount. The pump itself shows "volume corrected to n C", for whatever n is (I forget). And it was only ever that one place I had a problem with so I don't think the complexity is unmanageable... there's probably a trivial formula to correct the volume based on temperature reading.
And I paid for it once, probably from a temperature meter that was off (whether accidentally or not). I had filled up at a gas station and after driving away noticed that the receipt said I had filled up with about 65 liters of gas. If I'm running on total fumes by the time I fill up, I might be able to squeeze 55 liters or a bit higher into it. So clearly that one station had things off-kilter and ripped me off to the tune of almost 20%. But this was back when gas was cheap anyways and I couldn't be bothered to drive back and confront them.
A developer earning 50-60k up here is considered middle-upper class. He can afford a house on his own, along with all the latest tech toys. Certainly not in Vancouver where the average price of a fixer-upper house is about $800K. At $50 - 60K/year you could afford a 600 square foot condo.
Yes and let's ban the intartubes while we're at it. Last I checked, you could find plans for just about any type of explosive you want. After all, lives are at stake.
But if you give your computer a cookie, it's going to ask for a glass of milk... And that explains why some people look at breasts all day on their computers?
So in your clause "Raving lunatics like Theo" you'd like the reader to focus on the fact that he's raving, but the reader should basically ignore that you just happen to mention in passing that you think he's a lunatic? Perhaps you misread that. He might have been saying "Raving lunatics [are the kinds of people who really] like Theo". Not that it sheds a much nicer light, however.
Suppose I released a Microsoft Office plug in, and just listed 'any edition of Microsoft Office 2003 or later' as the requirement. Would you really expect it to work with "Microsoft Office 2004: Mac" without a specific mention of the Mac platform? Of course not. I'm guessing the majority of people would look at the requirements and think: any edition? Mac edition... check! 2003 or later? 2004... check! And if you didn't provide refunds when it failed to work, I suppose you can always argue with Visa/MC/Amex about the finer points of software requirements when you start getting chargebacks.
Also it says "by Canonical Ltd." so likely Shuttleworth & Co. somehow managed to become a vendor who has some kind of editor access to the Windows Marketplace site to update their own "drivers" and put in a link to the CNet site. A good publicity stunt, but that's about it.
Because any prediction algorithm running on publicly-available news will quickly be duplicated by the millions of other algorithm developers out there, cancelling out whatever legitimate edge it might have enjoyed for a few days or weeks. Assuming, of course, that they can reverse engineer the algorithm based solely on the trades. If it's an API where I can simply say "buy this", "sell that" and not have to upload the algorithm then that at least makes it difficult to duplicate.
A while back there was a discussion on stocks and someone pointed out a site where you could open an account, code up rules for stock trades, and then execute those trades based on your algorithm. You could do this either in a sandbox environment with play money, or pony up actual cash and make or lose big. A stock market API of sorts. I've been meaning to find that site again (likely there's a bunch) -- anyone have some URLs for sites like this?
How does it fight spam if the spammer can ask to be whitelisted, or if the spammer can pose as or actually be a business operating for more than a year? Lame. You combine it with other techniques, such as whitelisting only specific IP addresses and rejecting mail from those IPs if spam reports get too high. A business approaching Goodmail and saying "please whitelist these 500,000 zombie IP addresses" would be just a tad suspicious.
As for gameplay, I think this picture gives some good clues. The monster that plummeted into the ground provides for the PVE aspects -- no doubt you'll have skills, weapons, etc. that you can level up as you fight the aliens. The other guy who's there repairing the street that the monster just destroyed is doing a kind of farming. The destroyed monorail in the background (cue Simpsons monorail song) provides an opportunity for a quest. Driving the garbage truck might be either a quest or even a profession.
That's just what I can see in the picture. I can imagine periodic earthquakes which shake pieces loose from buildings and need to be replaced. Some kind of "build this piece in a virtual environment using Lego Set #4987" type of stuff, etc. Could be interesting for those into that kind of stuff.
by froggero1 (848930) on 13:55 Wednesday 06 June 2007 (#19416443) (http://talsma.ca/)
that's the same crap ad-infested garbage hype video as the one on youtube. -- The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty. Thank you for your crap ad-infested comments. Your advertisements (sig and site link) are longer than your comment itself.
Um that's why people share files. Most of the RIAA music doesn't sound good for the ears, and we're sick of paying for a whole CD to get the one good track on it that they never release as a single! The MPAA wants to sell you 120 minutes of video on a DVD when all you want is the two minutes worth of some thespian's breasts. There you go... I've justified sharing ripped DVDs for you.
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I'm still waiting for Rendezvous with Rama to come out. They used to have some info up at the domain name, which is registered by Revelations Entertainment and was supposed to be sponsored by Intel. If the IMDB page is accurate, this might be coming out in a few years... but it's been simmering for about a decade so who knows how accurate that is.
And I paid for it once, probably from a temperature meter that was off (whether accidentally or not). I had filled up at a gas station and after driving away noticed that the receipt said I had filled up with about 65 liters of gas. If I'm running on total fumes by the time I fill up, I might be able to squeeze 55 liters or a bit higher into it. So clearly that one station had things off-kilter and ripped me off to the tune of almost 20%. But this was back when gas was cheap anyways and I couldn't be bothered to drive back and confront them.
Yes and let's ban the intartubes while we're at it. Last I checked, you could find plans for just about any type of explosive you want. After all, lives are at stake.
Also it says "by Canonical Ltd." so likely Shuttleworth & Co. somehow managed to become a vendor who has some kind of editor access to the Windows Marketplace site to update their own "drivers" and put in a link to the CNet site. A good publicity stunt, but that's about it.
I'm with you right up to the part where it says "Greetings, male sibling. Slip me some epidermis."
Okay, with a name like that I definitely clicked on the link... and I feel *so* cheated.
The most popular client platform is MetaTrader... Thanks, that might have been the one I was thinking of. And for stocks? What's the different story?
A while back there was a discussion on stocks and someone pointed out a site where you could open an account, code up rules for stock trades, and then execute those trades based on your algorithm. You could do this either in a sandbox environment with play money, or pony up actual cash and make or lose big. A stock market API of sorts. I've been meaning to find that site again (likely there's a bunch) -- anyone have some URLs for sites like this?
As for gameplay, I think this picture gives some good clues. The monster that plummeted into the ground provides for the PVE aspects -- no doubt you'll have skills, weapons, etc. that you can level up as you fight the aliens. The other guy who's there repairing the street that the monster just destroyed is doing a kind of farming. The destroyed monorail in the background (cue Simpsons monorail song) provides an opportunity for a quest. Driving the garbage truck might be either a quest or even a profession.
That's just what I can see in the picture. I can imagine periodic earthquakes which shake pieces loose from buildings and need to be replaced. Some kind of "build this piece in a virtual environment using Lego Set #4987" type of stuff, etc. Could be interesting for those into that kind of stuff.
(http://talsma.ca/)
that's the same crap ad-infested garbage hype video as the one on youtube.
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The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty. Thank you for your crap ad-infested comments. Your advertisements (sig and site link) are longer than your comment itself.
ALT+130 will work too if one byte will suffice.
Check out a comment on my journal from the Slashdot tag programmer -- he goes into some detail on rationale, bugs, etc.