First off, I sincerely doubt that they paid 2 Bil. Maybe 4-5 hundred million, but I doubt even that much went into that campaign. As far as a bunch of folks taking in the ass, like the AC said, I doubt that either. It is Star Wars, and they wouldn't have put any money into it if it wouldn't have broken even. Lucas is doing well enough with the video games to not have to worry about much.
As for whether or not Pepsi would pay for Jar-Jar isn't the issue. It's whether or not they will pay for Star Wars, which they did for Ep1, and they did for Ep2, and I'll bet that they'll be back for Ep3 too.
Obviously they do, because they did pay for the rights to associate Star Wars w/ Pepsi products, and People continued to by pepsi products. Lucas continues to rake in cash from all his licensing deals, and will continue to have cash flow from that. Lets not forget the fact that he still has the original trilogy in his back pocket, waiting to do a DVD release for that. He won't run out of money any time soon, and in the meanwhile he'll continue to shoot himself in the foot with bad Star Wars movies, and whether we like it or not, enough people will go see them to pay for the film, and will buy the associated merchandise to keep it going for another bad movie.
I'm going to have to side with the AC on this one. As long as Lucas does nothing more than pump out more shitty Star Wars movies, people will continue to go see them, regardless of how much they suck. Once you count in the licensing deals, he's made back the cost, plus a bit. What's really sad, is that people didn't boycott the second after the first one sucked, and I sincerely doubt that anyone will ditch on Ep III just because the last one was way subpar. As for what happnes with the Tales of the New Republic, should they be made, Only time will tell on that.
RedOctane has a metal pad they just started selling @ $200 bucks. They will even bundle in a copy of DDRMax2 for 20 bucks or so, IIRC.
To top it off, it comes with a conversion box, so if a buddy feels like getting a real good work hauling his XBox over, you can plug that into the same pad for some DDR UltraMix action.
Thanks to the AC that beat me on this, but that's pretty much about it. Consistent code is code more easily readable. Readable code is easily maintained by people who didn't write it. My system is well into the Maintenance stage of it's lifecycle, and I've found that there are parts of the software I love working with due to the fact that they are consistent, easily read and followed works of art, while others are about garbage. As for fundamentals, that is the entire point of coding standards. They are the fundamentals of writing good code, and being consistent is one of them, which case sensitivity helps enforce.
Yes, however the counterarguement to this point has already been made, but I'll reply here with it just so you see it.
While Case Sensitivity might not be an issue if good coding practice is followed, It is included in languages such as Java to help enforce those same standards. I know several people who have taken an Intro to CS class in the last year, and all of the classes were taught with Java, of all things. By selecting a language that has built-in constraints that will enforce good coding practices, you can skimp on that in favor of ensuring that they learn the fundamentals of writing code in any language.
I hope that helped you understand things a little bit better. Oh, and for the record, I'm also a real programmer, and I'm stuck working in SQL and PL/SQL, which are both utterly case-insensitive, not to mention the fact that they are absolutely unforgiving when it comes to bad code.
For everything you've talked about here, not having to worry about it is all well and good. However, what you fail to take into account is that in the real world, where people get paid to write code for a living, and especially in cases where you might not have the same team of coders on a project over it's lifetime who will know what everything is and does. I currently work on a system that has been in use for around 10 years, and I can assure you that most of the original team no longer works for this company, let alone on the project.
Bottom line is that while you may have a point in cases where the code will only ever be seen by the individual that wrote it in the first place, in cases where the software will go through a full life cycle and eventually become a sustainment system makes readability and understandability an absolute necessity, otherwise you'd never be able to sustain the system with any sense of efficiency.
I hope that this 'nudged' you into getting a clue about writing good code. Cheers.
Go RTFA. It only says no bid in the headline, all the article text reports it as a secret bidding process, which is allowable in relation to National Security issues.
I'm always logged in, but despite the fact that the blurb had it, what does it actually add besides the same old bush-bashing that everyone with mod points seems to love so much?
The comment itself brings nothing relevant to the conversations, as much as you'd like to think it does. What on earth does the cost of moving oil have to do with the Army's research into a new type of hydrogen fuel cell technology.
Second, all you are really doing is taking a quote from the blurb, spewing some crap about the possible cost of moving an oil tanker from kuwait to Baghdad, which is landlocked anyway, and using that to bash Pres. Bush for Haliburton being the low bidder on the rebuilding efforts.
Ahhh.. but if there are two screens, then we can assume that the handheld itself will be 2x wider.. which means 2x more room for batteries, and voila!! 15 hours of battery life, and everyone is happy!
If you want UT2k3 with no CD, go grab the V2225 patch, and install that. It removes the CD check from the install, and lets you play with no CD at all. Go Epic!!
"...but at that price it better have some damned good games if they intend to sell it to us gaijins."
Someone needs to brush up on their japanese skills. Calling a foreigner a gaijin is the rough equivilent of calling an italian-american a wop, or a black person a nigger. A foreigner is acctually gaigokujin.
I never said it wasn't and in all honesty, it gets a big goose-egg for a buy too. However, I still think it's a good idea, regardless of having 0 worth.
uhh.... just because my name is female, doesn't mean I am. this is slashdot after all, and I'm still scarred from the evil horrid cgi script running trolls around here who use them to redirect from harmless sites to goatse.cx *shudder*
The catch is that he didn't claim they did either. They took a bunch of existing tech out there, which is all pretty cool, and made it work right. Try reading the whole comment next time, kay?
If all you have are geeks: Monty Python. It must be said. Holy Grail, Life of Brian, whatever. A roomfull of fans and the fun is in watching with the sound off, to see who remembers the most lines.
This works even without geeks. Each line you remember is one drink, and if you can do the whole scene, you down your glass.
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As an aside, that site needs to stick it's head between it's knees and kiss it's ass goodbye, cuz here comes the slashdotting ^^
As for whether or not Pepsi would pay for Jar-Jar isn't the issue. It's whether or not they will pay for Star Wars, which they did for Ep1, and they did for Ep2, and I'll bet that they'll be back for Ep3 too.
Obviously they do, because they did pay for the rights to associate Star Wars w/ Pepsi products, and People continued to by pepsi products. Lucas continues to rake in cash from all his licensing deals, and will continue to have cash flow from that. Lets not forget the fact that he still has the original trilogy in his back pocket, waiting to do a DVD release for that. He won't run out of money any time soon, and in the meanwhile he'll continue to shoot himself in the foot with bad Star Wars movies, and whether we like it or not, enough people will go see them to pay for the film, and will buy the associated merchandise to keep it going for another bad movie.
Do you really think that people will stop buying Pepsi just because they don't like Star Wars?
I'm going to have to side with the AC on this one. As long as Lucas does nothing more than pump out more shitty Star Wars movies, people will continue to go see them, regardless of how much they suck. Once you count in the licensing deals, he's made back the cost, plus a bit. What's really sad, is that people didn't boycott the second after the first one sucked, and I sincerely doubt that anyone will ditch on Ep III just because the last one was way subpar. As for what happnes with the Tales of the New Republic, should they be made, Only time will tell on that.
To top it off, it comes with a conversion box, so if a buddy feels like getting a real good work hauling his XBox over, you can plug that into the same pad for some DDR UltraMix action.
Thanks to the AC that beat me on this, but that's pretty much about it. Consistent code is code more easily readable. Readable code is easily maintained by people who didn't write it. My system is well into the Maintenance stage of it's lifecycle, and I've found that there are parts of the software I love working with due to the fact that they are consistent, easily read and followed works of art, while others are about garbage. As for fundamentals, that is the entire point of coding standards. They are the fundamentals of writing good code, and being consistent is one of them, which case sensitivity helps enforce.
While Case Sensitivity might not be an issue if good coding practice is followed, It is included in languages such as Java to help enforce those same standards. I know several people who have taken an Intro to CS class in the last year, and all of the classes were taught with Java, of all things. By selecting a language that has built-in constraints that will enforce good coding practices, you can skimp on that in favor of ensuring that they learn the fundamentals of writing code in any language.
I hope that helped you understand things a little bit better. Oh, and for the record, I'm also a real programmer, and I'm stuck working in SQL and PL/SQL, which are both utterly case-insensitive, not to mention the fact that they are absolutely unforgiving when it comes to bad code.
Yes, but did he also stay at a Comfort Inn?
Bottom line is that while you may have a point in cases where the code will only ever be seen by the individual that wrote it in the first place, in cases where the software will go through a full life cycle and eventually become a sustainment system makes readability and understandability an absolute necessity, otherwise you'd never be able to sustain the system with any sense of efficiency.
I hope that this 'nudged' you into getting a clue about writing good code. Cheers.
Go RTFA. It only says no bid in the headline, all the article text reports it as a secret bidding process, which is allowable in relation to National Security issues.
I'm always logged in, but despite the fact that the blurb had it, what does it actually add besides the same old bush-bashing that everyone with mod points seems to love so much?
The comment itself brings nothing relevant to the conversations, as much as you'd like to think it does. What on earth does the cost of moving oil have to do with the Army's research into a new type of hydrogen fuel cell technology.
Second, all you are really doing is taking a quote from the blurb, spewing some crap about the possible cost of moving an oil tanker from kuwait to Baghdad, which is landlocked anyway, and using that to bash Pres. Bush for Haliburton being the low bidder on the rebuilding efforts.
Go troll elsewhere.
Ahhh.. but if there are two screens, then we can assume that the handheld itself will be 2x wider.. which means 2x more room for batteries, and voila!! 15 hours of battery life, and everyone is happy!
If you want UT2k3 with no CD, go grab the V2225 patch, and install that. It removes the CD check from the install, and lets you play with no CD at all. Go Epic!!
Someone needs to brush up on their japanese skills. Calling a foreigner a gaijin is the rough equivilent of calling an italian-american a wop, or a black person a nigger. A foreigner is acctually gaigokujin.
I never said it wasn't and in all honesty, it gets a big goose-egg for a buy too. However, I still think it's a good idea, regardless of having 0 worth.
So why is it that all the 128kbit AAC files I have come in at around 3.5 megs?
1. It actually works.
2. It's using vector tracking to read your motion into the game, which hasn't been done before on the level that the EyeToy does it.
So in closing, the next time you decide to be a complete and total dickhead, go get your self a fucking clue. The only thing retarded here is you.
the implication here was that my pocket would wind up in the same state as my psyche... a poor shriveled shell of it's former self.
uhh.... just because my name is female, doesn't mean I am. this is slashdot after all, and I'm still scarred from the evil horrid cgi script running trolls around here who use them to redirect from harmless sites to goatse.cx *shudder*
I think if it was goatse.cx, then that would be an indicator of the quality of said game, or at least what it would do to my pocket..
AFAIK, Pentax is the only way to go. Having Nikon or Canon on a camera is a true shame ;P
The catch is that he didn't claim they did either. They took a bunch of existing tech out there, which is all pretty cool, and made it work right. Try reading the whole comment next time, kay?
This works even without geeks. Each line you remember is one drink, and if you can do the whole scene, you down your glass.