This guy has the nerve to complain that he was ONLY paid $100k to essentially do voice over work. Apparently, he has absolutely no frame of reference for the entertainment industry (or at least, no frame of reference that's grounded in reality). Furthermore, the comparison in the article which says:
Had this been a television program, a film, an album, a radio show or virtually any other sort of traditional recorded performance, Mr. Hollick and the other actors in the game would have made millions by now.
That is such crap. By that rationale, eveyone who had ever done voice-over work for documentaries, or was a guest on a radio show would be a millionaire. The problem here is that this person a) maybe didn't negotiate well at the onset of the project and b) is confusing the success of the game with his success. These games didn't succeed and become wildly popular BECAUSE of this person's voice (or simulated gait for crying out loud). Rather, this person gained popularity due to the game's success (due to the design, art work, marketing, R&D, etc etc). This just sounds like a whiney guy who can't find other work....maybe because he isn't that great as a "voice actor".
By the way, before you flame me or mod me troll, I am a composer for TV and movies, and am fully aware of each deal I enter into. If I make a choice to negotiate a set price for a project, and that project subsequently takes off and becomes wildly successful, I have no one by myself to blame for not negotiaitng a piece of the back end and making sure I get residuals/royalties. This guy need to learm the business if he's going to progress any further.
That's exactly what I was thinking. For such a well compensated guy, he doesn't sound too bright if he's choosing such evil sounding nicknames for his spec hardware projects.
Do you really find that many people with Microsoft Works documents? I'm not saying you don't, it's just surprising, as most corporate environments seem to be totally tethered to MS Office. I couldn't tell you the last time I used Works, to be honest, I didn't realize it was still being developed/supported.
ll of the cages are extended beyond the raised floor down to the concrete
A good method, although a cheaper and easier method would be to use the raised floor tiles that screw down to the pedestals at all 4 corners. Just a thought;-).
I could not agree more. Various technical skills can be taught/learned, but people skills are so often overlooked by people on specific career paths. If there is 1 essential skill to any job, it is good people skills. This means not only learning to deal with difficult customers (as you alluded to in the "BK Lounge" analogy) but also learning to manage people (this includes managing UP as well as managing DOWN).
I wasn't thrilled at the time to be working at several of the crappy jobs I had in my younger days (dry cleaner, JC Penney, maintenance tech, etc) but I was at least able to recognize opportunities to improve myself by learning at each one.
This whole article is a lot of nonsesne. 92 miles square is 8464 square miles.....Our current energy infrastructure cost trillions of dollars to build, and solar thermal would be more expensive.
From TFA:
In June 2007, Nevada Solar One, the state's first CSP plant, went online. On 275 acres near Boulder City, it provides 64 MW of electricity from 98 percent solar power and 2 percent natural gas.
That's an awful lot of power from a reasonably sized parcel of land. It seems quite reasonable that many of such sites placed strategically around the country could cumulatively add up to the 8464 square miles needed. In short, you might want to consider that they might be using the 92 mi x 92 mi as an example rather than proposing 1 central and huge plant (not to mention the security risk of this).
Also, you must consider that a lot of the costs of our current electrical system have been for the distribution, which doesn't have to be rebuilt entirely. It absolutely needs overhauling and expanding, but to make the comparison of adding new types of generation plants to the existing grid with the construction of the entire grid from scratch is just a red herring.
a plant was larger than 3 gigawats (he doesn't mention if this number is electrical or if it is thermal, but it's probably electrical). That is one freaking huge solar power station (the largest to date is a couple hundred megawats).
Bull Crap!. There are MUCH larger plants than you even realize. Maybe you should do a little research before you spout off with a bunch of underinformed nay-saying.
Unfortunately it is never practical to maintain an air gap.
Bullshit. I've worked at several MAJOR data centers with fully integrated Building Automation Systems which were completely separated from the companies' intranets and from the internet. You must bear in mind that this type of security protects BOTH sides. That is, in addition to protecting the B.A.S./SCADA system from outside attack directly, it also prevents someone from being able to access the SCADA system and from there, hack into corporate intranets.
The most obvious thing is to get a rental car, drive it through some mud until the plates aren't legible Dude, were you watching old reruns of "The Dukes of Hazard" or "Chips" when you wrote that? I understand your point, but that's a little 1980's TV Drama-ish, don't you think? I think he might notice an odd, very muddy car lurking across from his house.
While it's true that, of course, there are substantial differences in the capabilities of word processors and email clients, I still don't quite understand your insistence on NOT including it with the rest of OO particularly since it's probably one of the ONLY things keeping a lot of people using M$ Office. I can understand if you have another email client you prefer (maybe you like only plain text, I dunno), but I don't get why it's such a big deal to have an Outlook replacement included in an open-source office suite that's basically trying to compete with M$ Office.
I don't understand your argument at all. You're trying to differentiate between a word processor being a document creator, and an email package being a "communication tool" as though the communication method isn't in effect a document itself. Furthermore, isn't the storage and classification of emails in one's inbox, personal folders, etc just a very crude database (in the sense that it allows a person to store, categorize, and reference messages)? If you can understand the need to bundle a database tool, why not an email interface?
I'm not trying to pick a fight, but I don't understand why you would specifically NOT want an Outlook replacement included, particularly considering that by most accounts, this is probably the single biggest hurdle to widespread OO adoption.
I think if we're nitpicking, the BASIC example above is incorrect as well. This page shows an example of a properly coded IF statement (basically, there shouldn't be parentheses nor should there be a $ in FRONT of the variable name).
They use all this legal-speak to define their patent, in order to make them seem novel and inventive. What the hell are you talking about? You obviously have no experience in creating/drafting patents. Take, for example, the patent I hold entitled "Manually actuated pressure initiation of uni-phonetic communication" which claims benefit under provision F.U.D. 34-19.2 of Provisional Application License 453/21.2532 filed in April 1984 which very clearly states:
This invention relates to a method of interfacing between an operator and a portable peripheral of an electronic calculation and computation machine (heretofore referred to as a "computer") for the purposes of allowing a methodology wherefore force may be applied at incremental levels from the operators singular or multiple digits to individually assigned and actuated surface switches (heretofore referred to as "keys") with the designed intent being to allow for individual transference of intended characters occurring in the alphabet of said language/verbiage (referred to in Section 12-4.987) in the order of the operator's determination with the sole intent of creating collections of said characters for the purposes of "spelling" and relating notions, ideas, and phrases (henceforth referred to as "words").
See? How simple is that? I mean, come on, it's not like I went out of my way to make that complicated, you must not understand this type of thing very well.
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This guy has the nerve to complain that he was ONLY paid $100k to essentially do voice over work. Apparently, he has absolutely no frame of reference for the entertainment industry (or at least, no frame of reference that's grounded in reality). Furthermore, the comparison in the article which says:
That is such crap. By that rationale, eveyone who had ever done voice-over work for documentaries, or was a guest on a radio show would be a millionaire. The problem here is that this person a) maybe didn't negotiate well at the onset of the project and b) is confusing the success of the game with his success. These games didn't succeed and become wildly popular BECAUSE of this person's voice (or simulated gait for crying out loud). Rather, this person gained popularity due to the game's success (due to the design, art work, marketing, R&D, etc etc). This just sounds like a whiney guy who can't find other work....maybe because he isn't that great as a "voice actor".
By the way, before you flame me or mod me troll, I am a composer for TV and movies, and am fully aware of each deal I enter into. If I make a choice to negotiate a set price for a project, and that project subsequently takes off and becomes wildly successful, I have no one by myself to blame for not negotiaitng a piece of the back end and making sure I get residuals/royalties. This guy need to learm the business if he's going to progress any further.
That's exactly what I was thinking. For such a well compensated guy, he doesn't sound too bright if he's choosing such evil sounding nicknames for his spec hardware projects.
Is it just me, or does that sound like some type of STD?
Do you really find that many people with Microsoft Works documents? I'm not saying you don't, it's just surprising, as most corporate environments seem to be totally tethered to MS Office. I couldn't tell you the last time I used Works, to be honest, I didn't realize it was still being developed/supported.
A good method, although a cheaper and easier method would be to use the raised floor tiles that screw down to the pedestals at all 4 corners. Just a thought
Have you considered looking here?
How long until the first goatse.cx text troll (complete with odiferous enhancement)?
I could not agree more. Various technical skills can be taught/learned, but people skills are so often overlooked by people on specific career paths. If there is 1 essential skill to any job, it is good people skills. This means not only learning to deal with difficult customers (as you alluded to in the "BK Lounge" analogy) but also learning to manage people (this includes managing UP as well as managing DOWN).
I wasn't thrilled at the time to be working at several of the crappy jobs I had in my younger days (dry cleaner, JC Penney, maintenance tech, etc) but I was at least able to recognize opportunities to improve myself by learning at each one.
Yes.....and the walrus was Paul.
Crap. Well, I am an idiot. Thanks to you and Bob-Taro for pointing out my GLARING oversight.
*beats head against calculator*
Hmmm. That's interesting. Although, when I do the conversions I get:
.0015625 square miles
;-)
1 acre =
so
92 Square Miles = 58,800 acres
58,800 acres / 275 acres = 213.8 individual plants.
Trust me, no offense taken, I like a good fact finding mission/error checking myself.
From TFA: In June 2007, Nevada Solar One, the state's first CSP plant, went online. On 275 acres near Boulder City, it provides 64 MW of electricity from 98 percent solar power and 2 percent natural gas.
That's an awful lot of power from a reasonably sized parcel of land. It seems quite reasonable that many of such sites placed strategically around the country could cumulatively add up to the 8464 square miles needed. In short, you might want to consider that they might be using the 92 mi x 92 mi as an example rather than proposing 1 central and huge plant (not to mention the security risk of this).
Also, you must consider that a lot of the costs of our current electrical system have been for the distribution, which doesn't have to be rebuilt entirely. It absolutely needs overhauling and expanding, but to make the comparison of adding new types of generation plants to the existing grid with the construction of the entire grid from scratch is just a red herring.
a plant was larger than 3 gigawats (he doesn't mention if this number is electrical or if it is thermal, but it's probably electrical). That is one freaking huge solar power station (the largest to date is a couple hundred megawats).
Bull Crap!. There are MUCH larger plants than you even realize. Maybe you should do a little research before you spout off with a bunch of underinformed nay-saying.
Bullshit. I've worked at several MAJOR data centers with fully integrated Building Automation Systems which were completely separated from the companies' intranets and from the internet. You must bear in mind that this type of security protects BOTH sides. That is, in addition to protecting the B.A.S./SCADA system from outside attack directly, it also prevents someone from being able to access the SCADA system and from there, hack into corporate intranets.
Dude, were you watching old reruns of "The Dukes of Hazard" or "Chips" when you wrote that? I understand your point, but that's a little 1980's TV Drama-ish, don't you think? I think he might notice an odd, very muddy car lurking across from his house.
While it's true that, of course, there are substantial differences in the capabilities of word processors and email clients, I still don't quite understand your insistence on NOT including it with the rest of OO particularly since it's probably one of the ONLY things keeping a lot of people using M$ Office. I can understand if you have another email client you prefer (maybe you like only plain text, I dunno), but I don't get why it's such a big deal to have an Outlook replacement included in an open-source office suite that's basically trying to compete with M$ Office.
I don't understand your argument at all. You're trying to differentiate between a word processor being a document creator, and an email package being a "communication tool" as though the communication method isn't in effect a document itself. Furthermore, isn't the storage and classification of emails in one's inbox, personal folders, etc just a very crude database (in the sense that it allows a person to store, categorize, and reference messages)? If you can understand the need to bundle a database tool, why not an email interface?
I'm not trying to pick a fight, but I don't understand why you would specifically NOT want an Outlook replacement included, particularly considering that by most accounts, this is probably the single biggest hurdle to widespread OO adoption.
My pleasure. I'm with you, either way, it's still a great quote. ;-)
Actually, that was Ben Franklin.
I think if we're nitpicking, the BASIC example above is incorrect as well. This page shows an example of a properly coded IF statement (basically, there shouldn't be parentheses nor should there be a $ in FRONT of the variable name).
Absolutely I did, but I'm just saying it's not like FTP is obscure.
Whoops, that first "no one" was supposed to have that link.
Yeah, cause no one uses FTP anymore, right?
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What the hell are you talking about? You obviously have no experience in creating/drafting patents. Take, for example, the patent I hold entitled "Manually actuated pressure initiation of uni-phonetic communication" which claims benefit under provision F.U.D. 34-19.2 of Provisional Application License 453/21.2532 filed in April 1984 which very clearly states:
See? How simple is that? I mean, come on, it's not like I went out of my way to make that complicated, you must not understand this type of thing very well.
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