Well EVE and specific EVE players made the news and became somewhat famous only a few weeks ago for that gigantic battle they just had.
MIght be kind of interesting, an auther might need some creative licence to make it work I would think. (There has been some debate that the player that caused the huge EVE battle was an idiot, made a misclick mistake, or did it intentionally).
The thing that usually kills a MMO is that WOW is super entrenched and most MMO's are more less copycats in Fantasy world.
I can think of one example in that Star Wars was not. It has some launch problems initially, but not for long. However from what I have heard, it was super fun leveling up, but once you got to the end game, well there wasn't any really. If anyone looked at WOW as a model of what to do to make money and a good MMO, it would be that the leveling up is just the begining, the end game is the game. That is how you keep people forever.
Another example that doesn't apply is EVE. Not fantasy clone. Very different. So far as I know a healthy (more less depending on outlook:) community of players.
I know I would love this idea. When I heard about a possible Fallout Online I SQUEE! a bit. That said, with the history, I would give the edge to Fallout, however Bungie doesn't seem to be going about this half assed, by saying they are going to spend 10 years on the project and 10 books for a story line, etc... they are building history and fans that want to play the game.
The lobby groups have done a pretty good job over the years confusing what copyright and copyright infringement is. Your average Canadian probably doesn't give a flip about any of it, nor do they see the larger repercussions that come with it later. There is a smaller subset that is aware, and vocal, but until politicians see majority votes it isn't a big deal to them. That is the fight. Education VS FUD.
That said this is the what, the 5th year Canada has been "put" on this list as the biggest pirates of the 7 seas OH NOES! However this is just another example of lobby group speading FUD in hopes of keeping people confused and unawares while putting pressure on politicians to agree to their draconian proposals.
Years later, when things are even worse, "I told you so" rings hollow.
There is also a ton of requirements that many would not need to do like PIA and TRA. FOI requirements, etc... Also funding is usualy bonkers, where you waste a lot simply trying to fingure out how to do a multi year project using annual allotments, which change annually. Changes driven by managers that either don't understand the buisness or want to change it during the middle of the project (or need to for political reasons). The having to more less pick the lowest bidder regardless if you don't think they are the best choice for the job is likely another issue. More taxpayer money is wasted ensuring taxpayer money isn't being wasted. It has always boggeled my mind that rather than punish the few instances of people cheating the system, they put a blanket policy down on everyone to ensure "this never happens again", the end result being that it costs more and takes longer to do anything. Then you have the fact that every couple of years the political landscape changes, and your project may not be a priority anymore. Anyway, it canbe a frustrating process to say the least. Also those cost values get hugly inflated by the fact that just about everything is contracted out. Typically government workers of this type have been gutted one way or another. Consultants know this, and charge 600$ an hour. To say they see government contracts as juicy teats is an understatement. All the prices and costs will be inflated, even vendoring it out to maybe the 5 companies that could do it. Then once they get the contract, they will use all the above to further change the costing structure (some legit) to have those explosive numbers.
I actually liked Star Trek even if they did the time travel thing. My beef is they did the time travel thing so poorly. The one huge stupid plot hole is:
So your world gets destroyed by a black hole, and you get thrown back in time by 3 years. Do you:
A) Go on a murderous rampage to commit genicide against the people who you blame for not saving your people.
OR
B) Actually just fly over and warn everyone and save your people etc...
I guess A) makes for a better more exciting movie. However if I was him, I think I would have just went ahead and save my people. That way I am a hero, and I don't die etc...
Everything in Top Gear is true. Nothing is ever staged in that show. It is 100% real.
Sarcasm.
That said, I haven't seen the epsoide in question (Canada is several seasons behind:(). Usually it is pretty easy to see that something is being staged in Top Gear. Though they do have a political slant (i.e. cars are great, piss off), so I don't know if they tried to be a bit sneaky or not. Usually it is pretty in cheek however.
Meh. Just have it run on blood. It could have the needles that would pierce your skin each time you put it on, and little micro pumps to suck up the blood.
Heck with all the Vampire mania going on with tweens these days it should be an instant hit. Put that sparkly faced vamphunk on it and the market will swoon.
You could of course just surgically implant it into your wrist, though upgrades might be expensive.
But for the really chronos fan, have a chip implanted directly into your brain, that using your neural connections not only powers itself using the electrical impulses of your brain, but also sends the time information directly into the neural cluster that is responsible for keeping track of time, making you never forget what time it current is and when you turned into a cyborg. I've heard with the recent advances that the death rate is down to only 10%
Or you could use a series of mechinical gears and switches attached to a spring, and strap it to your wrist.
There is a nuclear powered quartz watch that will last for 10,000 years, however it also weighs 1000kg, produces a lot of scalding steam, consumes a lot of water, and causes cancer of the wrist.
Or Apple could realize that no one wears a watch anymore because they all use their Phone to tell time. Unless they want to put out their Phone buisness so that no one uses a Phone to call anyone, they just use their watch. That just seems overly complicated and unproductive however.
Took COBOL in University. I didn't think it was a particularly hard language to code, however it wasn't exactly all that exciting either. It is rather adept as moving around account information and financials it seemed.
One thing I did notice was that the professors that teach it did not adhere to the same programming design rules of other CS languages. I mean I recall some other professors loving the optimization you can get out of recursive algorithms. So for my final project in COBOL I threw one in there, and though myself sort of proud of the elegance of it. However it was the ONE thing the COBOL professor docked me points off from. He was NOT a fan of that sort of design.
His main gripe seems to be around the 10,000$ fee to be able to develop xbox content.
While I get his point that they might be excluding many young innovative Indy game developers, they are also protecting themselves from the 99% that are not but would try to develop some crap anyway. This way you only get those people that are really serious about making a game. I mean for a start up business, 10,000$ for access to sell your product to HOW many users, is not a big deal. It is to make sure that only quality games are being submitted not halfassed ones.
It is the same reason why they have to prohibitive update fees. First one is free, and then they get progressively more expensive the more you do. Some have said this leads to developers giving up on code because they will never realize the profit from it. However the incentive is clear: STOP MAKING BUGGY CODE! Test your shit before you submit it, do not rush development and then submit some half assed, half finished dreck.
As for content, I think they are going generally in the right direction. However it shouldn't be xbox making deals with content creators, that is what players like Netflix and the like should do. Yes they could tone down the ads a bit. I get it, you are a business and want to sell me stuff. However chill out a bit ya? I dissagree about the them not capitalizing on kenict. I think they did they best they could. As a technology, it is not precise enough for serious gaming, but is great for fun party type games. The difficulty was that people interested in those kind of games bought a Nintendo. They did try to drop the price to compete with this, but then again building a catalog of that type of games takes a bit of time. If they could refine the control, I think that would be the future. Bottom line, when the next console comes out, it is likely going to cost like 500$, people interested in casual gaming do not want to spend 500$, it is that simple. So until you refine the control, and have the use for casual party games, do not expect huge sales, until of course your console prices drop to matching the low end, which is years and years away from initial release.
Anyway back to the fees. Microsoft is worth like 30 Billion or whatever. They do not make money off these fees (or that is not the purpose). It is an attempt to cultivate their garden of developers in that only the desired will continue, and the rest will wither and die.
I recall doing a big project for College. The program in question was a big one, and there were a lot of background processes going on using a large amount of data. To compound that, it was written using VB, and using a GIS addon which wasn't exactly lightning optimized. In any case I can't remember what all the thing did now, something to do with old age homes or something. In any case it had a horrific load time on startup. I recall trying different methods, of selectively loading, etc... but it was almost better to get it out of the way rather than annoy the user continuously. So I wrote a progress bar for the application so that the user (i.e the prof that was grading the work) wouldn't think the thing had simply crashed at startup.
I also cheated horribly. All I did was time how long it took to load several times. Since it was using the exact same data and the exact same hardware every time, the time elapsed was for all intents identical. I then added a nifty showy flash screen (to simply waste more load time, I assume this is why everyone does it now) attached to a timer, then added a progress bar that incremented to another timer for the balance of the time left over. It had nothing to do with the actual work being completed, nor was it in any way connected to anything other than I knew the process took about 12 seconds or whatever. Once the timer finished it would bring up now loaded program all ready for use. Since I tied it directly to the timer, even if you put it on a faster computer, or used less complex data, it would still load in the exact same time. The only thing they would mess it up, would be if you made the data even more complex, or put it on a slower system, in which likely the progress bar would finish, and the program would load, but be unavailable for a few more seconds while it finished loading.
So anyway, it was mainly subterfuge to simply hide a cludgy loading process.
Also a hypothesis is something based on reason and logic usually given some empirical observation.
Like I think Diet Coke will evaporate at much the same rate as water, given that it is mostly water. That is a hypothesis. Then one follows it up with a procedure to test the hypothesis called an "experiment". Based on the results of the experiment you get "data" from "observations" and can make some "conclusions". If your experiment is repeatable, and peer reviewed, it is generally accepted as fact. This is all about grade 5 science experiment kind of thing.
One might call the bible "observation", though I am not sure how empirical it might be. However none of it is based on reason, or logic. In fact due to the discrepancies, and inconsistencies, one might question the validity of those observations (not to mention the outlandish claims). Heck anyone that studies ancient history will tell you about placing too much stock on any material that old, not to mention material that has been in circulation.
I was about to highlight a stupid example of doing an experiment praying, but it really isn't worth it. It is just ludicrous.
Not sure how they re-organized themselves, however AMD *was* a cpu making, not a gpu maker. They bought out the Canadian company ATI that was nVidia's only real competitor and rebranded the whole thing eventually as AMD. ATI makes the gpu. So unless AMD is new to Austin, or they have combined production across locations, likely they are not one and the same. From what I understand ATI was a pretty cool company.
I just ditched Apple for Sansung 2 weeks ago. I had a very hard time deciding between the iPhone 5 and Galaxy S III. However the Samsung does have more going for it, however it isn't because Apple is "falling" behind. It is because most of these things are by Apple design, in that they are purposely doing it in favor of their buisness plan to make more profit as the expense of their clients. Things like MicroSD slot. I bought a 64GB chip from Amazon.ca for 65$, and now have a 80GB smartphone. Care to know what the 64GB iPhone 5 costs? That is your answer as to why this "feature" is not included. You can say the same about iTunes, and the Apple market. The accessories. Everything to do with Apple is built around this idea, that if you make it easy to do it one way you can Monitize, then make it a real pain in the ass or impossible to do it any other way, you can make even more money, even "lock in" loyalty. Even the whole Apple/Google Maps gaff was due to the same policy. Heck I still have 50$ in iTunes money, however for those reasons I choose to break the Apple chains. Why would I continue to give money to a company that continually treats me like that, its crazy. Many are happy to do so however.
Considering that BOTH US and Canadian governments are poised to buy jets that cost between 100-200M a pop, is it really coming as a surprise that pilots will be training with more sim time VS taking the caddy out for a spin?
Sure there are trainer jets and the like, however there are only so many of these, and they are old and getting older. Our F22 are hellish to maintain or so I hear and require a huge expense in maintiance hours for every hour of actual flight time.
So yeah less more expensive jets equals more flight simulator for pilots.
That said, you can already see that the US is expending more and more in the terms of drones, where I don't believe Canada has yet. I suspect that this will be the next logical platform that Canada will emulate. I can't see Canada ever aquiring an AC, however perhaps a "drone ship" might be something worth doing.
Since day one of the Flood (which was a long time ago) HD companies have been Profiteering. I refuse to participate. They have jacked the prices on all of us using the flood as an excuse and then artificially kept it high. With the number of HD companies out there, I wouldn't be suprised if there was actual colusion and as some point an investigation about insider price setting. Unfortunatly it won't help consumers in the short term. Remember the memory BS years ago, yeah well they did eventually investigate it, and found all parties guilty, and fined everyone, but just part of doing buisness and it was years too late to help any of the consumers. They also recently caught LCD makers as well.
In any case, this is an obvious case of Profiteering, and until prices lower to what they should be, I have refused, and will continue to refuse to buy more. I'll optimize what I have if need be (baring outright failure). I mean prior to the flood which was like what 2 years ago, I bought a 2TB HD for 70$. Look at every computer component out there and what happens with prices over time. This has nothing to do with the flood and is totally a calculated buisness decision to make more profit as the expense of the consumer.
So ya. I hope they lose money hand over fist the greedy bastards. Maybe then they will come to their collective senses.
Likely the author was trying to make it more contraversal than it really had to be to generate some readership. I know a number of artists, many of them non-musical. It does seem like musicians have more "outs" (gigs, lessons, royalties, sales, etc...) than most to make an actual living at the craft, which is why I guess my response was a bit full of vitrol. Though I have heard of many comprimises some artists have had to make, just to keep doing what they love to do. Like a painter might toll for years before getting reconginsion, finally get discovered, however then galleries only want that popular style not interested in anything else, which they pump out to make a living so they can continue to create art they may find more geniune.
OMG I'm not making a million dollars playing the Harpsichord! Life is so unfair!
Seriously. You play the Cello. What makes you think you have some sort of entitlement to lots of money?
You are an artist. Most artists are POOR. Only very few are able to be very successful. Be it fire arts, mucic, etc... How much do you think the average potter, painter, or any other antiquated artistic expression makes. If you think they get it in for the money then your got another thing coming, you picked the wrong profession. You should have trained to be a banker or something. Is it hard to make a living as an artist? Yes it is. It is not like this is a new thing. The amount of entitlement that copyright has enabled is absurd.
Not really no, unless you count my grandfather, but that was WWII. Then again I'm Canadian. I have some friends in active service, that have been to some nasy places, but Vets are typically considered to be no longer in the military though right?
Slashdot Mirror
lol.
Well EVE and specific EVE players made the news and became somewhat famous only a few weeks ago for that gigantic battle they just had.
MIght be kind of interesting, an auther might need some creative licence to make it work I would think. (There has been some debate that the player that caused the huge EVE battle was an idiot, made a misclick mistake, or did it intentionally).
The thing that usually kills a MMO is that WOW is super entrenched and most MMO's are more less copycats in Fantasy world.
I can think of one example in that Star Wars was not. It has some launch problems initially, but not for long. However from what I have heard, it was super fun leveling up, but once you got to the end game, well there wasn't any really. If anyone looked at WOW as a model of what to do to make money and a good MMO, it would be that the leveling up is just the begining, the end game is the game. That is how you keep people forever.
Another example that doesn't apply is EVE. Not fantasy clone. Very different. So far as I know a healthy (more less depending on outlook:) community of players.
I know I would love this idea. When I heard about a possible Fallout Online I SQUEE! a bit. That said, with the history, I would give the edge to Fallout, however Bungie doesn't seem to be going about this half assed, by saying they are going to spend 10 years on the project and 10 books for a story line, etc... they are building history and fans that want to play the game.
Name 3. No? Name 1.
The oft rumored Fallout Online (which would be awsome) is the only one to come to mind, and it doesn't exist yet, if ever.
1) Vote
2) ???
3) PROFIT!!!
Unfortunatlly mostly yes.
The lobby groups have done a pretty good job over the years confusing what copyright and copyright infringement is. Your average Canadian probably doesn't give a flip about any of it, nor do they see the larger repercussions that come with it later. There is a smaller subset that is aware, and vocal, but until politicians see majority votes it isn't a big deal to them. That is the fight. Education VS FUD.
That said this is the what, the 5th year Canada has been "put" on this list as the biggest pirates of the 7 seas OH NOES! However this is just another example of lobby group speading FUD in hopes of keeping people confused and unawares while putting pressure on politicians to agree to their draconian proposals.
Years later, when things are even worse, "I told you so" rings hollow.
This. This. This.
There is also a ton of requirements that many would not need to do like PIA and TRA. FOI requirements, etc... Also funding is usualy bonkers, where you waste a lot simply trying to fingure out how to do a multi year project using annual allotments, which change annually. Changes driven by managers that either don't understand the buisness or want to change it during the middle of the project (or need to for political reasons). The having to more less pick the lowest bidder regardless if you don't think they are the best choice for the job is likely another issue. More taxpayer money is wasted ensuring taxpayer money isn't being wasted. It has always boggeled my mind that rather than punish the few instances of people cheating the system, they put a blanket policy down on everyone to ensure "this never happens again", the end result being that it costs more and takes longer to do anything. Then you have the fact that every couple of years the political landscape changes, and your project may not be a priority anymore. Anyway, it canbe a frustrating process to say the least. Also those cost values get hugly inflated by the fact that just about everything is contracted out. Typically government workers of this type have been gutted one way or another. Consultants know this, and charge 600$ an hour. To say they see government contracts as juicy teats is an understatement. All the prices and costs will be inflated, even vendoring it out to maybe the 5 companies that could do it. Then once they get the contract, they will use all the above to further change the costing structure (some legit) to have those explosive numbers.
I actually liked Star Trek even if they did the time travel thing. My beef is they did the time travel thing so poorly. The one huge stupid plot hole is:
So your world gets destroyed by a black hole, and you get thrown back in time by 3 years. Do you:
A) Go on a murderous rampage to commit genicide against the people who you blame for not saving your people.
OR
B) Actually just fly over and warn everyone and save your people etc...
I guess A) makes for a better more exciting movie. However if I was him, I think I would have just went ahead and save my people. That way I am a hero, and I don't die etc...
Everything in Top Gear is true. Nothing is ever staged in that show. It is 100% real.
Sarcasm.
That said, I haven't seen the epsoide in question (Canada is several seasons behind :(). Usually it is pretty easy to see that something is being staged in Top Gear. Though they do have a political slant (i.e. cars are great, piss off), so I don't know if they tried to be a bit sneaky or not. Usually it is pretty in cheek however.
Meh. Just have it run on blood. It could have the needles that would pierce your skin each time you put it on, and little micro pumps to suck up the blood.
Heck with all the Vampire mania going on with tweens these days it should be an instant hit. Put that sparkly faced vamphunk on it and the market will swoon.
You could of course just surgically implant it into your wrist, though upgrades might be expensive.
But for the really chronos fan, have a chip implanted directly into your brain, that using your neural connections not only powers itself using the electrical impulses of your brain, but also sends the time information directly into the neural cluster that is responsible for keeping track of time, making you never forget what time it current is and when you turned into a cyborg. I've heard with the recent advances that the death rate is down to only 10%
Or you could use a series of mechinical gears and switches attached to a spring, and strap it to your wrist.
There is a nuclear powered quartz watch that will last for 10,000 years, however it also weighs 1000kg, produces a lot of scalding steam, consumes a lot of water, and causes cancer of the wrist.
Or Apple could realize that no one wears a watch anymore because they all use their Phone to tell time. Unless they want to put out their Phone buisness so that no one uses a Phone to call anyone, they just use their watch. That just seems overly complicated and unproductive however.
A) Cover up!
or
B) No one cares...
Since this is Slashdot, I'll go with option A.
Hopefully with this additional security this will keep all the "Cyber" out of Ahmerica!
Took COBOL in University. I didn't think it was a particularly hard language to code, however it wasn't exactly all that exciting either. It is rather adept as moving around account information and financials it seemed.
One thing I did notice was that the professors that teach it did not adhere to the same programming design rules of other CS languages. I mean I recall some other professors loving the optimization you can get out of recursive algorithms. So for my final project in COBOL I threw one in there, and though myself sort of proud of the elegance of it. However it was the ONE thing the COBOL professor docked me points off from. He was NOT a fan of that sort of design.
Now Assembly. That was hard.
His main gripe seems to be around the 10,000$ fee to be able to develop xbox content.
While I get his point that they might be excluding many young innovative Indy game developers, they are also protecting themselves from the 99% that are not but would try to develop some crap anyway. This way you only get those people that are really serious about making a game. I mean for a start up business, 10,000$ for access to sell your product to HOW many users, is not a big deal. It is to make sure that only quality games are being submitted not halfassed ones.
It is the same reason why they have to prohibitive update fees. First one is free, and then they get progressively more expensive the more you do. Some have said this leads to developers giving up on code because they will never realize the profit from it. However the incentive is clear: STOP MAKING BUGGY CODE! Test your shit before you submit it, do not rush development and then submit some half assed, half finished dreck.
As for content, I think they are going generally in the right direction. However it shouldn't be xbox making deals with content creators, that is what players like Netflix and the like should do. Yes they could tone down the ads a bit. I get it, you are a business and want to sell me stuff. However chill out a bit ya? I dissagree about the them not capitalizing on kenict. I think they did they best they could. As a technology, it is not precise enough for serious gaming, but is great for fun party type games. The difficulty was that people interested in those kind of games bought a Nintendo. They did try to drop the price to compete with this, but then again building a catalog of that type of games takes a bit of time. If they could refine the control, I think that would be the future. Bottom line, when the next console comes out, it is likely going to cost like 500$, people interested in casual gaming do not want to spend 500$, it is that simple. So until you refine the control, and have the use for casual party games, do not expect huge sales, until of course your console prices drop to matching the low end, which is years and years away from initial release.
Anyway back to the fees. Microsoft is worth like 30 Billion or whatever. They do not make money off these fees (or that is not the purpose). It is an attempt to cultivate their garden of developers in that only the desired will continue, and the rest will wither and die.
I recall doing a big project for College. The program in question was a big one, and there were a lot of background processes going on using a large amount of data. To compound that, it was written using VB, and using a GIS addon which wasn't exactly lightning optimized. In any case I can't remember what all the thing did now, something to do with old age homes or something. In any case it had a horrific load time on startup. I recall trying different methods, of selectively loading, etc... but it was almost better to get it out of the way rather than annoy the user continuously. So I wrote a progress bar for the application so that the user (i.e the prof that was grading the work) wouldn't think the thing had simply crashed at startup.
I also cheated horribly. All I did was time how long it took to load several times. Since it was using the exact same data and the exact same hardware every time, the time elapsed was for all intents identical. I then added a nifty showy flash screen (to simply waste more load time, I assume this is why everyone does it now) attached to a timer, then added a progress bar that incremented to another timer for the balance of the time left over. It had nothing to do with the actual work being completed, nor was it in any way connected to anything other than I knew the process took about 12 seconds or whatever. Once the timer finished it would bring up now loaded program all ready for use. Since I tied it directly to the timer, even if you put it on a faster computer, or used less complex data, it would still load in the exact same time. The only thing they would mess it up, would be if you made the data even more complex, or put it on a slower system, in which likely the progress bar would finish, and the program would load, but be unavailable for a few more seconds while it finished loading.
So anyway, it was mainly subterfuge to simply hide a cludgy loading process.
Also a hypothesis is something based on reason and logic usually given some empirical observation.
Like I think Diet Coke will evaporate at much the same rate as water, given that it is mostly water. That is a hypothesis. Then one follows it up with a procedure to test the hypothesis called an "experiment". Based on the results of the experiment you get "data" from "observations" and can make some "conclusions". If your experiment is repeatable, and peer reviewed, it is generally accepted as fact. This is all about grade 5 science experiment kind of thing.
One might call the bible "observation", though I am not sure how empirical it might be. However none of it is based on reason, or logic. In fact due to the discrepancies, and inconsistencies, one might question the validity of those observations (not to mention the outlandish claims). Heck anyone that studies ancient history will tell you about placing too much stock on any material that old, not to mention material that has been in circulation.
I was about to highlight a stupid example of doing an experiment praying, but it really isn't worth it. It is just ludicrous.
Not sure how they re-organized themselves, however AMD *was* a cpu making, not a gpu maker. They bought out the Canadian company ATI that was nVidia's only real competitor and rebranded the whole thing eventually as AMD. ATI makes the gpu. So unless AMD is new to Austin, or they have combined production across locations, likely they are not one and the same. From what I understand ATI was a pretty cool company.
I just ditched Apple for Sansung 2 weeks ago. I had a very hard time deciding between the iPhone 5 and Galaxy S III. However the Samsung does have more going for it, however it isn't because Apple is "falling" behind. It is because most of these things are by Apple design, in that they are purposely doing it in favor of their buisness plan to make more profit as the expense of their clients. Things like MicroSD slot. I bought a 64GB chip from Amazon.ca for 65$, and now have a 80GB smartphone. Care to know what the 64GB iPhone 5 costs? That is your answer as to why this "feature" is not included. You can say the same about iTunes, and the Apple market. The accessories. Everything to do with Apple is built around this idea, that if you make it easy to do it one way you can Monitize, then make it a real pain in the ass or impossible to do it any other way, you can make even more money, even "lock in" loyalty. Even the whole Apple/Google Maps gaff was due to the same policy. Heck I still have 50$ in iTunes money, however for those reasons I choose to break the Apple chains. Why would I continue to give money to a company that continually treats me like that, its crazy. Many are happy to do so however.
I thought they already did. Digital-Locks. Circumventing them now has been made illegal I believe. It will be interesting if one ever goes to court.
I am wondering how many kinds of Optical Surveillance are also discritely attached to that thing to spy on americans in DC?
Considering that BOTH US and Canadian governments are poised to buy jets that cost between 100-200M a pop, is it really coming as a surprise that pilots will be training with more sim time VS taking the caddy out for a spin?
Sure there are trainer jets and the like, however there are only so many of these, and they are old and getting older. Our F22 are hellish to maintain or so I hear and require a huge expense in maintiance hours for every hour of actual flight time.
So yeah less more expensive jets equals more flight simulator for pilots.
That said, you can already see that the US is expending more and more in the terms of drones, where I don't believe Canada has yet. I suspect that this will be the next logical platform that Canada will emulate. I can't see Canada ever aquiring an AC, however perhaps a "drone ship" might be something worth doing.
Since day one of the Flood (which was a long time ago) HD companies have been Profiteering. I refuse to participate. They have jacked the prices on all of us using the flood as an excuse and then artificially kept it high. With the number of HD companies out there, I wouldn't be suprised if there was actual colusion and as some point an investigation about insider price setting. Unfortunatly it won't help consumers in the short term. Remember the memory BS years ago, yeah well they did eventually investigate it, and found all parties guilty, and fined everyone, but just part of doing buisness and it was years too late to help any of the consumers. They also recently caught LCD makers as well.
In any case, this is an obvious case of Profiteering, and until prices lower to what they should be, I have refused, and will continue to refuse to buy more. I'll optimize what I have if need be (baring outright failure). I mean prior to the flood which was like what 2 years ago, I bought a 2TB HD for 70$. Look at every computer component out there and what happens with prices over time. This has nothing to do with the flood and is totally a calculated buisness decision to make more profit as the expense of the consumer.
So ya. I hope they lose money hand over fist the greedy bastards. Maybe then they will come to their collective senses.
LOL. I guess I didn't miss much by not RTFA.
Likely the author was trying to make it more contraversal than it really had to be to generate some readership. I know a number of artists, many of them non-musical. It does seem like musicians have more "outs" (gigs, lessons, royalties, sales, etc...) than most to make an actual living at the craft, which is why I guess my response was a bit full of vitrol. Though I have heard of many comprimises some artists have had to make, just to keep doing what they love to do. Like a painter might toll for years before getting reconginsion, finally get discovered, however then galleries only want that popular style not interested in anything else, which they pump out to make a living so they can continue to create art they may find more geniune.
OMG I'm not making a million dollars playing the Harpsichord! Life is so unfair!
Seriously. You play the Cello. What makes you think you have some sort of entitlement to lots of money?
You are an artist. Most artists are POOR. Only very few are able to be very successful. Be it fire arts, mucic, etc... How much do you think the average potter, painter, or any other antiquated artistic expression makes. If you think they get it in for the money then your got another thing coming, you picked the wrong profession. You should have trained to be a banker or something. Is it hard to make a living as an artist? Yes it is. It is not like this is a new thing. The amount of entitlement that copyright has enabled is absurd.
I'm saying the technology is a closer comparison than with an ultrabook. Care to argue that with me?
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Not really no, unless you count my grandfather, but that was WWII. Then again I'm Canadian. I have some friends in active service, that have been to some nasy places, but Vets are typically considered to be no longer in the military though right?