The code I write at home for my own enjoyment is far higher quality than what I write to satisfy the terms of my employment contract. End of anecdote.
You bring up a good point - I love to code at home for my own projects, and it does give me the opportunity to refine my technique. My point though is that the people who will be getting paid aren't your average "I'm coding for my own enjoyment at home" coders, but the people who really have submerged themselves and parts of their lives with this project, and after a while even coding something that was fun at first can become routine and uninteresting. I think the offer of money is just incentive to help foster the motivation that Dunc-Tank wants to see.
but is something, and that something is, well, money.
I've rarely seen a better motivator for getting something done - especially in a timely manner - than money. If I'm volunteering with children or for a good cause (no, I know - Debian is a good cause too, but you know what I mean) then I'm going to do my best regardless because I feel like I'm helping benefit people who are less fortunate than me. However, if I'm working a job to maintain myself (and possibly my family) and I'm volunteering to develop a large open-source project and not getting payed for that extra work I do when I get home or when I'm up late at night, then a little money can go a long way.
I don't think money would cause those being payed to work less at all, instead I think we'd see an increase in both the timeliness of development and the quality of code in the next Debian release.
Now, if I had a look at, say this page linked from this article, noted here, then I probably wouldn't need TFA to tell me that Mario 2 was an almost complete rip off of some other game.
Now, the early days of AOL CDs weren't bad, as they came in DVD cases that you could snag from Circuit City's display case in the front. Peel off the labels, remove the AOL CD and viola! New DVD case for whatever. I used mine to hold my senior project CD, the judges like a good DVD casing, apparently.
There apparently is a condition called Isotonic Overhydration, and from what I've read it seems quite similar in effects as normal water overhydration. Again, people who are generally healthy and don't have kidney or heart problems are at a very low risk for this without taking in a seriously large amount of liquid in a small span of time.
but myspace is not an option. 8 image uploads are allowed, and not as a gallery
12 images, maximum (they changed this some time ago). And it seems like a gallery to me when the thumbnails are laid out in a table, and clicking on one gives you the image, fullsize, with Previous and Next buttons to navigate.
from ncbi.nlm.nih.gov: "This article reviews several recent military cases and three deaths that have occurred as a result of overhydration, with resultant hyponatremia and cerebral edema. All of these cases are associated with more than 5 L (usually 10-20 L) of water intake during a period of a few hours."
Though unlikely to occur with a healthy person, death can be the result of overhydration in people with kidney
and heart problems. Taking in overly large amounts of water in a short span of time can also kill a normally healthy person, but the cases of this are few and far between ( and are often related to the use of MDMA and the improper judgement of sufficent water to remain hydrated ).
Oh - and rereading the review - it appears the reviewer's "biggest complaint" was the lack of keyboard. That's what seperates a tablet from a tiny laptop retard
Correct you are, but it should also be noted that a well-done tablet shouldn't make the user feel the need for a keyboard. IF a tablet PC is developed with good software and a good interface, then one wouldn't generally think to need a keyboard for input, rather the user would find the handwriting input system suitable and easy-to-use, which apparently isn't the case for the 770. If I were using the 770, I shoudln't expect to need a keyboard, but if the device's input system sucks then I'm going to hope that there is some alternative which, aside from the 'cramped onscreen keyboard,' there isn't. If your product leaves users clammoring for a keyboard device then you should probably reconsider 1) your available acessories or 2) your user input interface.
Its actually pretty interesting. Alot of today's gamers aren't as familiar with the 2D environments and simple gameplay - fly and shoot. It presents quite a change of pace for the average gamer and, if someone really takes the time, those statistics could be valuable. Maybe there is some way to compare them to similar gaming tasks in today's realm of quality graphics, crisp sound and interactive gameplay. I think it's a good starting point for learning alot about how the mind of the gamer works - including how well patterns are processed and stored, how gamers approach games differently based on appearance.
There are plenty of good reasons to have this kind of data recorded, not just for a plug on/..
Getting 15 people together to do a statistical analysis to find out whether a boss self-desructs isn't quite as efficient as just having one person avoiding the boss for a while and just seeing whether it blows up or not.
I don't think his point was to find out whether or not the boss self-desrtucted - it was about analyzing statistics about gameplay and they just happened to stumble upon the boss's self-destructing.
...the market can sort out which one is really best, and it will end up as the reference standard
That seems good but what happens when two companies develope two pieces of software with identical functionality but one supports OpenStandardA and the other OpenStandardB? To the user, it appears to work and function the same, but then when said user moves from ProductA to ProductB or, lets say, sends a co-worker who uses ProductB an OpenStandardA document, what happens?
You hit a brick wall.
Instead of the two companies working together to develope a standard for their formats, they've put up a nasty roadblock for their users. Yes, competition in creating the standard is good, but the community should pick one and then everyone should drop the other, even its own creators in favor of whats best for the users.
It seems then that a decent reasoning behind making this system non-IE based would be that a decent number of people either don't use 1) an OS supported by IE or 2) a version of IE that will implement these "technologies." The USPTO could end up being just plain annoying to the decently large number of people using Firefox, Opera, Links or any other browser and even those who use older versions of IE. Fire up that there pen & paper!
I have a friend who works for EB Games and yes, they are placing AO stickers on the copies they currently have and they just keep those copies behind the counter. I haven't heard anything about them getting M-rated versions, though I'm sure they will be soon enough.
And Rockstar shouldn't be at trial for anything as ridiculous as this. Our government has many more pressing matters at hand than getting angry at a publisher whose games were bought by parents who could (hopefully) see the ESRB rating and not care.
Surely they are the best people to write optimized code for their processors, but, when the majority of software developers are handed compilers from Intel, why not just use those? I'm not going to go out of my way to find an AMD compiler when Intel is going to give theirs to me for buying 3-thousand Itaniums. Puh-lease.
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...and the company says that it is more forgiving now than it was with Windows XP
Um, thats about all I can say is "What?"
err um I mean "hackers of New Zeland, unite!"
The code I write at home for my own enjoyment is far higher quality than what I write to satisfy the terms of my employment contract. End of anecdote.
You bring up a good point - I love to code at home for my own projects, and it does give me the opportunity to refine my technique. My point though is that the people who will be getting paid aren't your average "I'm coding for my own enjoyment at home" coders, but the people who really have submerged themselves and parts of their lives with this project, and after a while even coding something that was fun at first can become routine and uninteresting. I think the offer of money is just incentive to help foster the motivation that Dunc-Tank wants to see.
but is something, and that something is, well, money.
I've rarely seen a better motivator for getting something done - especially in a timely manner - than money. If I'm volunteering with children or for a good cause (no, I know - Debian is a good cause too, but you know what I mean) then I'm going to do my best regardless because I feel like I'm helping benefit people who are less fortunate than me. However, if I'm working a job to maintain myself (and possibly my family) and I'm volunteering to develop a large open-source project and not getting payed for that extra work I do when I get home or when I'm up late at night, then a little money can go a long way.
I don't think money would cause those being payed to work less at all, instead I think we'd see an increase in both the timeliness of development and the quality of code in the next Debian release.
This is unfortunate mistake
Yes, it is.
With a few easily acquired psychedelics and a television, one can easily recreate the feeling of deja vu in the comfort of one's own home.
Now, if I had a look at, say this page linked from this article, noted here, then I probably wouldn't need TFA to tell me that Mario 2 was an almost complete rip off of some other game.
is going to make Metal Gear Solid much more difficult
Now, the early days of AOL CDs weren't bad, as they came in DVD cases that you could snag from Circuit City's display case in the front. Peel off the labels, remove the AOL CD and viola! New DVD case for whatever. I used mine to hold my senior project CD, the judges like a good DVD casing, apparently.
There apparently is a condition called Isotonic Overhydration, and from what I've read it seems quite similar in effects as normal water overhydration. Again, people who are generally healthy and don't have kidney or heart problems are at a very low risk for this without taking in a seriously large amount of liquid in a small span of time.
"Ever heard of water intoxication?"
Yes, and for those who want to know more:
wikipedia entry
erowid vaults
whoa - who knew water intoxication was so widespread and deadly?
but myspace is not an option. 8 image uploads are allowed, and not as a gallery
12 images, maximum (they changed this some time ago). And it seems like a gallery to me when the thumbnails are laid out in a table, and clicking on one gives you the image, fullsize, with Previous and Next buttons to navigate.
from ncbi.nlm.nih.gov: "This article reviews several recent military cases and three deaths that have occurred as a result of overhydration, with resultant hyponatremia and cerebral edema. All of these cases are associated with more than 5 L (usually 10-20 L) of water intake during a period of a few hours." Though unlikely to occur with a healthy person, death can be the result of overhydration in people with kidney and heart problems. Taking in overly large amounts of water in a short span of time can also kill a normally healthy person, but the cases of this are few and far between ( and are often related to the use of MDMA and the improper judgement of sufficent water to remain hydrated ).
Oh - and rereading the review - it appears the reviewer's "biggest complaint" was the lack of keyboard. That's what seperates a tablet from a tiny laptop retard
Correct you are, but it should also be noted that a well-done tablet shouldn't make the user feel the need for a keyboard. IF a tablet PC is developed with good software and a good interface, then one wouldn't generally think to need a keyboard for input, rather the user would find the handwriting input system suitable and easy-to-use, which apparently isn't the case for the 770. If I were using the 770, I shoudln't expect to need a keyboard, but if the device's input system sucks then I'm going to hope that there is some alternative which, aside from the 'cramped onscreen keyboard,' there isn't. If your product leaves users clammoring for a keyboard device then you should probably reconsider 1) your available acessories or 2) your user input interface.
Everyone knows ./ is not a haven of spelling & grammar anyway.
Which came first, the slash or the dot?
Its actually pretty interesting. Alot of today's gamers aren't as familiar with the 2D environments and simple gameplay - fly and shoot. It presents quite a change of pace for the average gamer and, if someone really takes the time, those statistics could be valuable. Maybe there is some way to compare them to similar gaming tasks in today's realm of quality graphics, crisp sound and interactive gameplay. I think it's a good starting point for learning alot about how the mind of the gamer works - including how well patterns are processed and stored, how gamers approach games differently based on appearance.
/..
There are plenty of good reasons to have this kind of data recorded, not just for a plug on
Getting 15 people together to do a statistical analysis to find out whether a boss self-desructs isn't quite as efficient as just having one person avoiding the boss for a while and just seeing whether it blows up or not.
I don't think his point was to find out whether or not the boss self-desrtucted - it was about analyzing statistics about gameplay and they just happened to stumble upon the boss's self-destructing.
then do I need a shotgun and a "No Tresspassing" sign?
"Ya'll get - out - of my sourcecode, now!"
...the market can sort out which one is really best, and it will end up as the reference standard
That seems good but what happens when two companies develope two pieces of software with identical functionality but one supports OpenStandardA and the other OpenStandardB? To the user, it appears to work and function the same, but then when said user moves from ProductA to ProductB or, lets say, sends a co-worker who uses ProductB an OpenStandardA document, what happens?
You hit a brick wall.
Instead of the two companies working together to develope a standard for their formats, they've put up a nasty roadblock for their users. Yes, competition in creating the standard is good, but the community should pick one and then everyone should drop the other, even its own creators in favor of whats best for the users.
It seems then that a decent reasoning behind making this system non-IE based would be that a decent number of people either don't use 1) an OS supported by IE or 2) a version of IE that will implement these "technologies." The USPTO could end up being just plain annoying to the decently large number of people using Firefox, Opera, Links or any other browser and even those who use older versions of IE. Fire up that there pen & paper!
Yeah, and it seems the Linux version of IE isn't available anymore, nor was it at any point unless you count Wine'd IE.
I have a friend who works for EB Games and yes, they are placing AO stickers on the copies they currently have and they just keep those copies behind the counter. I haven't heard anything about them getting M-rated versions, though I'm sure they will be soon enough.
A bit off-topic, but, Scott McCloud isn't one to be called informative.
And Rockstar shouldn't be at trial for anything as ridiculous as this. Our government has many more pressing matters at hand than getting angry at a publisher whose games were bought by parents who could (hopefully) see the ESRB rating and not care.
And you also might have seen it the other day, but here is a link to the Tron Light Cycles in Real Life article from here on /.
They used a GPS system along with laptops and other equipment. Its not very detailed, but it's probably worth a look.
Surely they are the best people to write optimized code for their processors, but, when the majority of software developers are handed compilers from Intel, why not just use those? I'm not going to go out of my way to find an AMD compiler when Intel is going to give theirs to me for buying 3-thousand Itaniums. Puh-lease.