This is extremely important to do if people are serious about Linux on the desktop. Anyone who's actually developed technology for an end user and seen their responses unfiltered knows that we developers are unconsciously forgiving of little flaws that are just easier to work around than to fix --- except for end users.
This story brought back many memories! When I was in college (1975 - gasp!) I had a summer job at Chicago Coin Co. which was the former name of Stern electronics. I built the Dolphin game and a few others. They would produce a game for about 30 days, then change over production to a new one.
Their plant was on Diversey Ave in Chicago before moving to the suburbs. The site of their plant is now elegant condo-townhomes. I worked there with the largely mexican, black, and Appalachian workers. I started with basic assembly tasks (such as putting light bulbs into sockets over and over) but eventually moved to the manual assembly line and attached parts to the game surfaces.
I longed to move up to the tester positions. On that game you got a free ball after 100,000 points. Believe it or not, there were actually guys at the end of the assy line who played each game up to 100,000 just to test the free ball function!
Many more memories are flooding back - too many to tell. Glad that Stern has kept the place alive.
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This is extremely important to do if people are serious about Linux on the desktop. Anyone who's actually developed technology for an end user and seen their responses unfiltered knows that we developers are unconsciously forgiving of little flaws that are just easier to work around than to fix --- except for end users.
This story brought back many memories! When I was in college (1975 - gasp!) I had a summer job at Chicago Coin Co. which was the former name of Stern electronics. I built the Dolphin game and a few others. They would produce a game for about 30 days, then change over production to a new one. Their plant was on Diversey Ave in Chicago before moving to the suburbs. The site of their plant is now elegant condo-townhomes. I worked there with the largely mexican, black, and Appalachian workers. I started with basic assembly tasks (such as putting light bulbs into sockets over and over) but eventually moved to the manual assembly line and attached parts to the game surfaces. I longed to move up to the tester positions. On that game you got a free ball after 100,000 points. Believe it or not, there were actually guys at the end of the assy line who played each game up to 100,000 just to test the free ball function! Many more memories are flooding back - too many to tell. Glad that Stern has kept the place alive.