And if they're used on me, I'm calling the police.
It's an interesting question actually - in the UK at least, you're generally not allowed to make as much noise as you like at your home/business. Noise and Statutory Nuisance Act, and all that. The fact that only some people can hear the noise does presumably not excuse it from being subject to the law. So the mosquito is probably illegal in England and Wales, or at least the teenagers affected could report the business owners for the violation and have it removed/disabled.
Well, that's raw material for at least three Penny Arcade comics right there, surely:-)
Occam's Razor leads me to Sturgeon's Revelation
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There are various theories here (in the book, review, comments) about why software sucks, but none of them seem to make more sense than Sturgeon's Revelation.
Being a developer myself, I'd like to argue that most developers aren't ego-driven and amateurish, but they are governed by Sturgeon's Revelation just same as most every other profession. This is certainly borne out by my experience anyway.
Actually, they are often cut for stupid reasons. For example, ask a Hollywood director how easy it is to get a studio to accept a comedy movie that lasts longer than 90 minutes.
More and more layers of abstraction are built on top of the basic AND, OR, and NOT operations that every program ultimately is made of.
You young whippersnappers with your fancy logical operations. When I was young, all we had was NAND. I once built an entire computer using only NAND gates.
Ha! They all seem to fly in atmosphere too, so you'd use the sound they make when flying in atmosphere, so they would all sound the same, regardless of manufacturer.
And the lasers are different colours so you know who's shooting at you. Duh! And lasers are invisible without particles anyway, so they're all projected onto the inside of the cockpits as it is.
As a friend of mine pointed out once, given they have some pretty cool technology, would you never think of fitting audio feedback into a space fighter? i.e. detect other ships, and give the pilot additional cues to where they are by sound position in the cockpit, and have different types of sound for different ships, and make explosion noises when ships blow up, etc?
I liked the way they built a multi-billion dollar amusement park with live freaking dinosaurs, but they only hired one programmer to do all the software/security.
That's nothing. I once saw an episode of CSI, where they had a woman on ropey b&w CCTV security footage, then zoomed into her face, and then zoomed into her eyeball, and saw the reflection of their suspect in the person's eyeball, and were able to identify the suspect from this.
There must have been, what, 8 pixels representing her eye in the original image. That's some awesome enhancement technology.
Could be tricky. I used to work on a product that was licensed by Corel - we had clipart, and Corel replaced most of it with their (superior) collection. With respect to our original cliaprt set, we had received legal threats about one of the drawings that won our clipart competition, because the submitter had apparently copied the image from a poster/photograph. It was nicely done, but still a copy.
When we mentioned this to Corel, they told us that they got legal threats/lawsuits like that too, about their clipart. Only difference was, on average, they got about one per day.
Most Britons SUPPORT CCTV. It's as simple as that. It reduces crime, and leads to prosecution for criminals.
Well, unless it's a speed camera, of course, the sole purpose of which is to photograph people breaking a specific well-known law, in which case it's a bloody outrage, shouldn't be allowed, a national disgrace, etc.
Britons support CCTV that catches other people breaking the law. Not them, when they were breaking the speed limit, but in an informed and responsible way.
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When does their fizzical Q4 end?
It's an interesting question actually - in the UK at least, you're generally not allowed to make as much noise as you like at your home/business. Noise and Statutory Nuisance Act, and all that. The fact that only some people can hear the noise does presumably not excuse it from being subject to the law. So the mosquito is probably illegal in England and Wales, or at least the teenagers affected could report the business owners for the violation and have it removed/disabled.
The slashdotter doth protest too much, methinks.
Well, that's raw material for at least three Penny Arcade comics right there, surely :-)
There are various theories here (in the book, review, comments) about why software sucks, but none of them seem to make more sense than Sturgeon's Revelation.
Being a developer myself, I'd like to argue that most developers aren't ego-driven and amateurish, but they are governed by Sturgeon's Revelation just same as most every other profession. This is certainly borne out by my experience anyway.
Was that because you couldn't spell credo?
As for the rest of your post, you're way too modest. You should big yourself up some more.
Actually, they are often cut for stupid reasons. For example, ask a Hollywood director how easy it is to get a studio to accept a comedy movie that lasts longer than 90 minutes.
Yes, I have seen the angle feature used twice in all of the DVDs I have:
I've noticed some DVDs don't have the angle feature on the remote now (and, for example, Windows Media Center doesn't seem to support it).
Second?! They're about to start the fifth run through here in the UK by my reckoning.
I had to tell my DVR to stop recording it because it was clogging up the schedules every single night and preventing other stuff from being recorded.
What will his wife do if the hard drive dies one day due to a hardware failure?
Either you've got backups or you haven't. When your irreplaceable data's gone, the reason why it's gone kind of fades into the background.
You young whippersnappers with your fancy logical operations. When I was young, all we had was NAND. I once built an entire computer using only NAND gates.
Ha! They all seem to fly in atmosphere too, so you'd use the sound they make when flying in atmosphere, so they would all sound the same, regardless of manufacturer.
And the lasers are different colours so you know who's shooting at you. Duh! And lasers are invisible without particles anyway, so they're all projected onto the inside of the cockpits as it is.
Go on, ask me another :-)
IIRC, in the book (long time since I read it, so could be wrong), Nedry was 'the programmer'.
Maybe they were trying to build an Interossiter?
As a friend of mine pointed out once, given they have some pretty cool technology, would you never think of fitting audio feedback into a space fighter? i.e. detect other ships, and give the pilot additional cues to where they are by sound position in the cockpit, and have different types of sound for different ships, and make explosion noises when ships blow up, etc?
I liked the way they built a multi-billion dollar amusement park with live freaking dinosaurs, but they only hired one programmer to do all the software/security.
That's nothing. I once saw an episode of CSI, where they had a woman on ropey b&w CCTV security footage, then zoomed into her face, and then zoomed into her eyeball, and saw the reflection of their suspect in the person's eyeball, and were able to identify the suspect from this.
There must have been, what, 8 pixels representing her eye in the original image. That's some awesome enhancement technology.
This is about a Sony first party title on a Sony console, i.e. developed entirely by Sony, and you want to blame other publishers/developers?
Of course this is a Sony idea. Engage brain, then open mouth.
Maybe Wal-Mart tried Unbox and decided it wasn't a problem (after they finished laughing).
What the hell are they? Hang on, I'll google them...
Yes - cut to the song; the routine's not working.
Could be tricky. I used to work on a product that was licensed by Corel - we had clipart, and Corel replaced most of it with their (superior) collection. With respect to our original cliaprt set, we had received legal threats about one of the drawings that won our clipart competition, because the submitter had apparently copied the image from a poster/photograph. It was nicely done, but still a copy.
When we mentioned this to Corel, they told us that they got legal threats/lawsuits like that too, about their clipart. Only difference was, on average, they got about one per day.
To go from:
to:
indicates you have much to learn about the games industry, and in particular, how publishers treat developers that are not already cash rich.
I don't need to backup. I already have backups on commercially pressed CDs, some of which are nearly 20 years old and still readable :-).
Well, unless it's a speed camera, of course, the sole purpose of which is to photograph people breaking a specific well-known law, in which case it's a bloody outrage, shouldn't be allowed, a national disgrace, etc.
Britons support CCTV that catches other people breaking the law. Not them, when they were breaking the speed limit, but in an informed and responsible way.