I've been to Hiroshima. The atomic bomb killed 140,000 people, if you include those who died of bomb-related injuries and illnesses, within (iirc) a year after the attack. If you increase that to five years, the number increases by many thousands, though I don't recall the exact number.
The bomb levelled literally the entire city -- only one building remained, now referred to as the Genbaku Dome . It's still standing, but it has been re-inforced with a steel structure to retain the shape it was in after the war.
Anyway, the point is that even if this meteor was "substantially bigger" than the 200-pound record holder, I find it extremely hard to believe that it would do even a miniscule fraction of the what the A-bomb did.
That seems to be correct, according to this article, dated April 4:
"But having a hand crank stuck to the device likely would have subjected the machine to too many wrenching forces, so it will now be connected to the AC electrical adapter.
In fact, because the adapter can rest on the ground, the power generator might take the form of a foot pedal rather than a hand crank altogether."
I'm no expert, but I have about 20 people in my office, connecting through the net through a NAT'ed firewall. If we all looked at this guy's blog at work, he would technically have 20 unique visitors coming from a single IP address, so that would actually deflate his number of visitors based on IP address. It seems like Max's law is a little one-sided.
And why should that come out of the band's pocket anyway? It wasn't the band that manufactured the records. If anything, the label and band should split the risk evenly.
I seriously think the big record labels are on borrowed time -- all they have left is American Idol type garbage that no one with a brain takes seriously. I mean, the major record labels were never that good, but you would get a Nirvana off Geffen or whatever once in a while. I can't even see that happening again. Why would a band let themselves get screwed over when it's easy enough to get on iTunes on a smaller label?
Actually there were a bunch of cart-swapping tricks for the Sega Genesis. I rememember one you could do to get the Japanese title screen for the Revenge of Shinobi. This is bringing back memories of GamePro magazine...
A quick Google search revealed this seemingly comprehensive list.
I liked Digg at first, but then got tired of seeing the same articles day after day: "177 php tutorials!", "Ruby on Rails for newbies!", "Create a dynamic drop down list with Ajax!"
Still worth an occasional visit, but it's gotten a lot less likely that you'll find anything worth reading.
These guys are working on a fan-made follow-up to LOOM, which was one of the most interesting games of it's (or any) time. They haven't released anything on this, so who knows if it'll be any good, but I like the idea.
If Lucasarts wants to be a top developer, they should probably be taking the hint from these guys, and building up it's portfolio of francises. It's kind of weird that they didn't, because as many here have pointed out, they had several excellent games, and most of the Star Wars games have been crap, especially the old ones.
No, we're not going to offer some Google products, such as Gmail or Blogger, on Google.cn until we're comfortable that we can do so in a manner that respects our users' interests in the privacy of their personal communications.
Is he talking about only American game developers? Or developers from all of the world?
One possible explanation is that something like 50% of the games in the world are produced in Japan, where 10-12+ hour days are pretty typical at EVERY company, and game companies are no exception. A lot of the stuff the Japanese produce is crap that never makes it out of the home market, but there are definitely huge, globally competitive companies like Konami, Capcom, Square, Namco, etc. Since this is what the American companies have to compete with, it's not really surprising that game developers are overworked.
I would say the release conditions the poster described are more the result of the working environment imposed by the company than a lack of engineering discipline. So I agree that what he's doing isn't "engineering", but that doesn't mean the guy isn't an engineer, or lacks engineering skills.
Website designers pander to Google's algorithm in order to make their sites come up earlier in the results, to attract more traffic to their sites. This is referred to as "SEO".
Companies tailor their products to Wal-Mart's practices (whether you agree with them or not) in order to make more sales. This would be... "Wal-Mart Optimization"?
Yup. He went after a bunch of mutual fund companies a couple years ago http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutual_fund_scandal_( 2003) that got big press. I was living overseas at the time and it was in the news. I think he went after H&R Block at one point as well, but I haven't looked that up.
This guy is definitely the most high profile State Attorney General in the country, and he does have a pattern of making his targets look bad in the media.
"Mr. Rocholl says that in making such decisions he weighs whether the resources he needs to study and disarm any potential risks from Skype or other free services would outweigh the time or money that might be saved by using them."
That sounds a little more rational than "anything I don't understand is bad". Based on some of the stuff I've seen people try to install at places I've worked, I'd say this approach is justified.
"Larry is troubled by shocking discovery that his favourite anti-spyware app has been running a rootkit on his PC since he downloaded it. Feeling betrayed, he formats his Windows partition, swearing himself forever to OpenDarwin. But he's in for another surprise when Darwine turns up a few bugs of it's own."
Actually, this could develop into an interesting fork off the/. effect -- everyone knows/. drives gobs of traffic to other websites, but does it help to attract to other communities as well? You certainly should have a bit more awareness now (I never heard of you guys until now), hope it translates into some growth for you guys.
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That hasn't stopped the iPod from selling in Japan.
It could have been worse...
I've been to Hiroshima. The atomic bomb killed 140,000 people, if you include those who died of bomb-related injuries and illnesses, within (iirc) a year after the attack. If you increase that to five years, the number increases by many thousands, though I don't recall the exact number.
The bomb levelled literally the entire city -- only one building remained, now referred to as the Genbaku Dome . It's still standing, but it has been re-inforced with a steel structure to retain the shape it was in after the war.
Anyway, the point is that even if this meteor was "substantially bigger" than the 200-pound record holder, I find it extremely hard to believe that it would do even a miniscule fraction of the what the A-bomb did.
Funnily enough, the Japanese have also developed a superior version of Mr. Roboto.
Strangely they left out the elements about Kilroy! Kilroy.
That seems to be correct, according to this article, dated April 4:
"But having a hand crank stuck to the device likely would have subjected the machine to too many wrenching forces, so it will now be connected to the AC electrical adapter.
In fact, because the adapter can rest on the ground, the power generator might take the form of a foot pedal rather than a hand crank altogether."
The percentage that agrees with him anyway.
I thought spinners were for 50 Cent's Escalade.
I'm no expert, but I have about 20 people in my office, connecting through the net through a NAT'ed firewall. If we all looked at this guy's blog at work, he would technically have 20 unique visitors coming from a single IP address, so that would actually deflate his number of visitors based on IP address. It seems like Max's law is a little one-sided.
...they can get the original guy who played Lamar. He carried part II.
And why should that come out of the band's pocket anyway? It wasn't the band that manufactured the records. If anything, the label and band should split the risk evenly.
I seriously think the big record labels are on borrowed time -- all they have left is American Idol type garbage that no one with a brain takes seriously. I mean, the major record labels were never that good, but you would get a Nirvana off Geffen or whatever once in a while. I can't even see that happening again. Why would a band let themselves get screwed over when it's easy enough to get on iTunes on a smaller label?
Actually there were a bunch of cart-swapping tricks for the Sega Genesis. I rememember one you could do to get the Japanese title screen for the Revenge of Shinobi. This is bringing back memories of GamePro magazine...
A quick Google search revealed this seemingly comprehensive list.
I liked Digg at first, but then got tired of seeing the same articles day after day: "177 php tutorials!", "Ruby on Rails for newbies!", "Create a dynamic drop down list with Ajax!"
Still worth an occasional visit, but it's gotten a lot less likely that you'll find anything worth reading.
You can use the "undigg" link that is immediately to the left of the "problem?" dropdown menu.
These guys are working on a fan-made follow-up to LOOM, which was one of the most interesting games of it's (or any) time. They haven't released anything on this, so who knows if it'll be any good, but I like the idea.
If Lucasarts wants to be a top developer, they should probably be taking the hint from these guys, and building up it's portfolio of francises. It's kind of weird that they didn't, because as many here have pointed out, they had several excellent games, and most of the Star Wars games have been crap, especially the old ones.
From this Google blog posting, date January 27, 2006:
No, we're not going to offer some Google products, such as Gmail or Blogger, on Google.cn until we're comfortable that we can do so in a manner that respects our users' interests in the privacy of their personal communications.
However, there is an alternative...
I would call this "hacking" in the skills sense, but executing these scripts does result in defacements, which is listed on the reference site.
Only one in 1999? What a wonderful world we lived in. This presents a rather different picture.
...or shop there.
Is he talking about only American game developers? Or developers from all of the world?
One possible explanation is that something like 50% of the games in the world are produced in Japan, where 10-12+ hour days are pretty typical at EVERY company, and game companies are no exception. A lot of the stuff the Japanese produce is crap that never makes it out of the home market, but there are definitely huge, globally competitive companies like Konami, Capcom, Square, Namco, etc. Since this is what the American companies have to compete with, it's not really surprising that game developers are overworked.
I would say the release conditions the poster described are more the result of the working environment imposed by the company than a lack of engineering discipline. So I agree that what he's doing isn't "engineering", but that doesn't mean the guy isn't an engineer, or lacks engineering skills.
Website designers pander to Google's algorithm in order to make their sites come up earlier in the results, to attract more traffic to their sites. This is referred to as "SEO".
Companies tailor their products to Wal-Mart's practices (whether you agree with them or not) in order to make more sales. This would be... "Wal-Mart Optimization"?
Yup. He went after a bunch of mutual fund companies a couple years ago http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutual_fund_scandal_( 2003) that got big press. I was living overseas at the time and it was in the news. I think he went after H&R Block at one point as well, but I haven't looked that up.
This guy is definitely the most high profile State Attorney General in the country, and he does have a pattern of making his targets look bad in the media.
Article follows that up with:
"Mr. Rocholl says that in making such decisions he weighs whether the resources he needs to study and disarm any potential risks from Skype or other free services would outweigh the time or money that might be saved by using them."
That sounds a little more rational than "anything I don't understand is bad". Based on some of the stuff I've seen people try to install at places I've worked, I'd say this approach is justified.
"Larry is troubled by shocking discovery that his favourite anti-spyware app has been running a rootkit on his PC since he downloaded it. Feeling betrayed, he formats his Windows partition, swearing himself forever to OpenDarwin. But he's in for another surprise when Darwine turns up a few bugs of it's own."
Actually, this could develop into an interesting fork off the /. effect -- everyone knows /. drives gobs of traffic to other websites, but does it help to attract to other communities as well? You certainly should have a bit more awareness now (I never heard of you guys until now), hope it translates into some growth for you guys.