Every year at GDC they have more and more Agile workshops. Seems like every studio I know is using scrum. I don't see any indication that agile is going away at all. Certainly there are agile projects that have failed, as have waterfall projects. But it really sounds like the author had some bad experiences with bad project management, and decided to blame the entire Agile methodology for it.
From what I've seen, game projects involve milestone deliverables based on the publisher requirements and events like GDC or Leipzeig. Within those milestone timelines, they use agile methods to adapt to changes and keep on schedule.
Tritium lights are perfectly legal in the United States. Do a google search and there are lots of places that sell them in the US - they are quite common for Exit signs. WalMart was recently fined for improperly disposing of them because they use them in all their stores.
Your quip about Chalk River is just off-topic flamebait. There's a lot of screwed-up stuff happening on that reactor, and it can't be summarized in this conversation. Suffice it to say, I work with someone who has a lot of experience in CANDU reactors and taking that reactor temporarily offline for maintenance is a very smart thing to do. It it not up to spec.
(d) Lithium batteries. Except as provided in Sec. 172.102, Special Provision A101 of this subchapter, vehicles, engines and machinery powered by lithium metal batteries that are transported with these batteries installed are forbidden aboard passenger-carrying aircraft. *
Are electronic devices part of "vehicles, engines, and machinery?" I hope not. Else you can't use your ipod. 172.102 isn't in the linked article so I don't know what the special provisions are.
What do batteries look like on security scans? Can the scanners not penetrate them? If the scanners have trouble with them, then I submit that this is a veiled attempt at stopping terrorists from hiding bombs in or behind lithium-ion batteries.
I think they would be better off if they were honest, instead of hiding behind public-relations speak. How about:
"We are shutting down XBOX live for old games because the economy sucks, and we either provide service for old games, or service for new games. We can't afford infinite amounts of computer power. It would be awesome to provide service for older games forever, sorry. We hope we have provided service for long enough to warrant continued purchase of future XBOX titles. Have a nice day."
Considering that without calibration, where you touch won't match AT ALL where the system thinks you are touching, t
That is not correct.
The amount of calibration varies based on on what touch-screen technology you are using. But today, the screens come pre-calibrated out of the factory. We don't need to recalibrate. In theory, you might have to if the humidity or temperature changes significantly. Or if you rotate the display.
Our embedded devices run on vxworks, and Elo does not provide vxworks drivers. So our manufacturing group calibrates the monitors in-house when the device is assembled. The users do not have the ability to recalibrate.
Moreover, I have seen too many touchscreen devices that...
That sounds awful. I wouldn't use those vendors. The Elo screens I am referring to do not do that.
Agreed. If cars had only been manufactured for scientific research, we would be riding in horses and buggies. You must expand something beyond pure science to have it scale. It must become profitable.
If it wasn't for manned spaceflight, the modern environmental movement simply wouldn't exist. Seriously, prove me wrong here.
The burden of proof lies with you since you are making the assertion. Provide evidence that the modern environmental movement was a product of manned spaceflight, and the unmanned robotic flights could not have achieved the required results.
No one is out to get you. No one has the time or energy to get you. Life is not CSI.
This is a common fallacy. Nobody is _currently_ out to get you, and it is _currently_ too expensive to do so. But as soon as it either becomes cheap enough (for example - if there was a universal system for storing this information, like Obama has proposed, or if future computers make it easy to search this stuff) or if someone was out to get you (you are running for public office, you pissed-off someone important, you get a lot of money) then suddenly the economics of the situation change.
To use another example - this is why the government should not be allowed to wiretap phones or email without a warrant. When the laws were put into place, it would have been absurdly expensive to have someone or some machine filter through phone calls or voice mails or emails to determine who was a potential terrorist. And why would they want to when there was no perceived threat? But 2001 arrives, and now there is a perceived value in doing it, and technology like carnivore makes it easy to do. So all of a sudden something that was not a concern is now a real possibility.
We should do what is right, and protect information, even if we think that it is not likely to be abused.
They're not: they're putting extra instructions on-board which help implement AES more efficiently. They may also allow you to implement other algorithms more efficiently...
Why do those devices require drivers? They should just act like a mouse.
I work on an embedded medical device and we use Elo touch screens (www.elotouch.com). Technically, the devices don't require drivers at all - just plug-into USB or serial. You do need the drivers if you want to run the calibration, or use any of the fancy features.
Why put AES on-board? I thought AES was relatively fast as encryption algorithms go. Plus, it is inevitable that AES will be replaced at some point, so why include something so specific in a chip now? It will suck to have to implement that in the processor in 20 years when nobody uses AES any longer. This is the whole point of a processor - include generic instructions that are useful for implementing any algorithm.
Windows ReadyBoost already does this. Plug-in an SSD, turn it on, and it caches frequently accessed files there. The last benchmark I read on it said it wasn't any faster though - probably because USB flash-drive SSDs are really slow since they are optimized for physical size, data density, and power consumption -- not speed.
What are you talking about? Both the parent and grandparent of your post used the words "most likely" and "info suggests" yet you act like they drew sweeping conclusions. And you start your post with "oh the facts!" then point out that we don't have any facts yet?
"What kind of robot will automatically follow a leader, carry 400 lbs. (182 kg) of military gear, walk 20 miles in all manner of weather, and go 24 hours without refueling? Well, we might soon find out as DARPA has awarded a $32 million contract to build its Legged Squad Support System (LS3) which uses sensors and a GPS to walk along with soldiers across all manner of terrain in any weather without pulling any muscles."
We've pressured some countries to ban child labor with disastrous unintended consequences. One big one is an increase in child prostitution, drug dealing, etc, since they can't survive without the kids' income and all the legitimate work is now illegal....It's important to make sure the adults in these countries can earn enough to live before sanctioning them for child labor.
Interesting. But shouldn't these labor laws result in the prices being higher, so countries should be able to sell their goods at "American" prices? At which point, the children should not have to become drug dealers?
1) France's nuclear program is not as perfect as it would seem. The fact that they sent away some of their radioactive material means it isn't a closed system. 2) If you really want to be green, throwing your pollution into someone else's back yard is kinda cheating.
Although, come to think of it -- isn't the city of Chernobyl the ideal storage grounds? It's already screwed for the next billion years right? What's hard would a little more do?
(I'm kidding... mostly)
They also increase the volume of their nuclear waste through recycling it.
Hey - where can I read about this? Is increasing the "volume" necessarily a bad thing? It's a trade-off, isn't it? And when we say "increasing the volume" are we comparing that to mining new fuel?
"30% of freshman university students fail a 'simple English test' at Waterloo University (up from 25% a few years ago.
This doesn't necessarily mean that students are not writing as well as they used to. Could this be better explained by changing demographics at this particular university?
For example, perhaps the schools in the area are becoming worse. Or maybe more students are applying to the university due to an economic down turn. Or a manufacturing plant laid off area workers. Or maybe the change in SAT scoring adjusted the threshold of people who think they can get into the school. Or maybe more people are feeling empowered to go to school than there were in previous years.
I know I'm just one data point, but every PhD I have ever met deserves their credentials. I can't comment on their writing skills though. I'm speaking of engineering, math, and physics fields though, so maybe it is different in the arts.
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Every year at GDC they have more and more Agile workshops. Seems like every studio I know is using scrum. I don't see any indication that agile is going away at all. Certainly there are agile projects that have failed, as have waterfall projects. But it really sounds like the author had some bad experiences with bad project management, and decided to blame the entire Agile methodology for it.
From what I've seen, game projects involve milestone deliverables based on the publisher requirements and events like GDC or Leipzeig. Within those milestone timelines, they use agile methods to adapt to changes and keep on schedule.
Tritium lights are perfectly legal in the United States. Do a google search and there are lots of places that sell them in the US - they are quite common for Exit signs. WalMart was recently fined for improperly disposing of them because they use them in all their stores.
Your quip about Chalk River is just off-topic flamebait. There's a lot of screwed-up stuff happening on that reactor, and it can't be summarized in this conversation. Suffice it to say, I work with someone who has a lot of experience in CANDU reactors and taking that reactor temporarily offline for maintenance is a very smart thing to do. It it not up to spec.
(d) Lithium batteries. Except as provided in Sec. 172.102, Special
Provision A101 of this subchapter, vehicles, engines and machinery
powered by lithium metal batteries that are transported with these
batteries installed are forbidden aboard passenger-carrying aircraft. *
Are electronic devices part of "vehicles, engines, and machinery?" I hope not. Else you can't use your ipod. 172.102 isn't in the linked article so I don't know what the special provisions are.
What do batteries look like on security scans? Can the scanners not penetrate them? If the scanners have trouble with them, then I submit that this is a veiled attempt at stopping terrorists from hiding bombs in or behind lithium-ion batteries.
I think they would be better off if they were honest, instead of hiding behind public-relations speak. How about:
"We are shutting down XBOX live for old games because the economy sucks, and we either provide service for old games, or service for new games. We can't afford infinite amounts of computer power. It would be awesome to provide service for older games forever, sorry. We hope we have provided service for long enough to warrant continued purchase of future XBOX titles. Have a nice day."
Considering that without calibration, where you touch won't match AT ALL where the system thinks you are touching, t
That is not correct.
The amount of calibration varies based on on what touch-screen technology you are using. But today, the screens come pre-calibrated out of the factory. We don't need to recalibrate. In theory, you might have to if the humidity or temperature changes significantly. Or if you rotate the display.
Our embedded devices run on vxworks, and Elo does not provide vxworks drivers. So our manufacturing group calibrates the monitors in-house when the device is assembled. The users do not have the ability to recalibrate.
Moreover, I have seen too many touchscreen devices that...
That sounds awful. I wouldn't use those vendors. The Elo screens I am referring to do not do that.
Agreed. If cars had only been manufactured for scientific research, we would be riding in horses and buggies. You must expand something beyond pure science to have it scale. It must become profitable.
If it wasn't for manned spaceflight, the modern environmental movement simply wouldn't exist. Seriously, prove me wrong here.
The burden of proof lies with you since you are making the assertion. Provide evidence that the modern environmental movement was a product of manned spaceflight, and the unmanned robotic flights could not have achieved the required results.
No one is out to get you. No one has the time or energy to get you. Life is not CSI.
This is a common fallacy. Nobody is _currently_ out to get you, and it is _currently_ too expensive to do so. But as soon as it either becomes cheap enough (for example - if there was a universal system for storing this information, like Obama has proposed, or if future computers make it easy to search this stuff) or if someone was out to get you (you are running for public office, you pissed-off someone important, you get a lot of money) then suddenly the economics of the situation change.
To use another example - this is why the government should not be allowed to wiretap phones or email without a warrant. When the laws were put into place, it would have been absurdly expensive to have someone or some machine filter through phone calls or voice mails or emails to determine who was a potential terrorist. And why would they want to when there was no perceived threat? But 2001 arrives, and now there is a perceived value in doing it, and technology like carnivore makes it easy to do. So all of a sudden something that was not a concern is now a real possibility.
We should do what is right, and protect information, even if we think that it is not likely to be abused.
Beat-up the girl's boyfriend. Neither he, nor the girls, pestered me about wearing my backpack the wrong way ever again. :-)
Read the link he provided on Thiomersal. It has not been used in vaccines in the US in ten years,
That is false. The linked article does not say that. Thimerosal is used today, in many many vaccines. That is stated in the article you linked to, and according to the CDC, Thimerosal it is used in H1N1 vaccines used today
They're not: they're putting extra instructions on-board which help implement AES more efficiently. They may also allow you to implement other algorithms more efficiently...
Oh good. That makes more sense.
I'm confused why this is new. Resistive touch screens have always been a polymer surface that could be attached to anything. For example:
http://www.elotouch.com/Technologies/AccuTouch/howitworks.asp
Why do those devices require drivers? They should just act like a mouse.
I work on an embedded medical device and we use Elo touch screens (www.elotouch.com). Technically, the devices don't require drivers at all - just plug-into USB or serial. You do need the drivers if you want to run the calibration, or use any of the fancy features.
Why put AES on-board? I thought AES was relatively fast as encryption algorithms go. Plus, it is inevitable that AES will be replaced at some point, so why include something so specific in a chip now? It will suck to have to implement that in the processor in 20 years when nobody uses AES any longer. This is the whole point of a processor - include generic instructions that are useful for implementing any algorithm.
Windows ReadyBoost already does this. Plug-in an SSD, turn it on, and it caches frequently accessed files there. The last benchmark I read on it said it wasn't any faster though - probably because USB flash-drive SSDs are really slow since they are optimized for physical size, data density, and power consumption -- not speed.
Oh! the facts!
What are you talking about? Both the parent and grandparent of your post used the words "most likely" and "info suggests" yet you act like they drew sweeping conclusions. And you start your post with "oh the facts!" then point out that we don't have any facts yet?
Aluminum has a lower coefficient of friction. Aluminum is http://www.engineershandbook.com/Tables/frictioncoefficients.htm
http://www.machinist-materials.com/comparison_table_for_plastics.htm
Not sure why it matters on a netbook though. :-)
"What kind of robot will automatically follow a leader, carry 400 lbs. (182 kg) of military gear, walk 20 miles in all manner of weather, and go 24 hours without refueling? Well, we might soon find out as DARPA has awarded a $32 million contract to build its Legged Squad Support System (LS3) which uses sensors and a GPS to walk along with soldiers across all manner of terrain in any weather without pulling any muscles."
A camel.
We've pressured some countries to ban child labor with disastrous unintended consequences. One big one is an increase in child prostitution, drug dealing, etc, since they can't survive without the kids' income and all the legitimate work is now illegal....It's important to make sure the adults in these countries can earn enough to live before sanctioning them for child labor.
Interesting. But shouldn't these labor laws result in the prices being higher, so countries should be able to sell their goods at "American" prices? At which point, the children should not have to become drug dealers?
touché
I'll defend his point. I see it as two-fold:
1) France's nuclear program is not as perfect as it would seem. The fact that they sent away some of their radioactive material means it isn't a closed system.
2) If you really want to be green, throwing your pollution into someone else's back yard is kinda cheating.
Although, come to think of it -- isn't the city of Chernobyl the ideal storage grounds? It's already screwed for the next billion years right? What's hard would a little more do?
(I'm kidding... mostly)
They also increase the volume of their nuclear waste through recycling it.
Hey - where can I read about this? Is increasing the "volume" necessarily a bad thing? It's a trade-off, isn't it? And when we say "increasing the volume" are we comparing that to mining new fuel?
"30% of freshman university students fail a 'simple English test' at Waterloo University (up from 25% a few years ago.
This doesn't necessarily mean that students are not writing as well as they used to. Could this be better explained by changing demographics at this particular university?
For example, perhaps the schools in the area are becoming worse. Or maybe more students are applying to the university due to an economic down turn. Or a manufacturing plant laid off area workers. Or maybe the change in SAT scoring adjusted the threshold of people who think they can get into the school. Or maybe more people are feeling empowered to go to school than there were in previous years.
I know I'm just one data point, but every PhD I have ever met deserves their credentials. I can't comment on their writing skills though. I'm speaking of engineering, math, and physics fields though, so maybe it is different in the arts.
From what I can read, some of them did it that way, but most used circular polarization.