I remember reading somewhere that the only problem diving on hydrogen is that its explosive when mixed with oxygen at high pressures
Diving on hydrogen??? And the only problem you see is that it can be explosive when mixed??? How about suffocation (or do you not consider that a problem)?
Hot air has killed...
[Insert your favourite joke about politicians here!!!]
And it never occurs to ask you what separates a Turkey from a Saudi Arabia?
If trying to do it with the least possible number of border crossings, yet still remaining on dry land, the answer is "An Iraq"
Disobeying your parents is punishable by death (in The Bible).
Yes, but...
Being one third of the holy trinity, he was his own father... how could he possibly disobey himself?
They don't lead, they follow. And follow rather poorly at that. To an extent, that's been their MO since Gates
If anything, you've just given a good reason for Bill to step back up to the plate. If everything only started to turn to $#it when he started taking a backseat, surely the logic would be to bring him back to prominence to return the company to its heyday?
I'm not saying I think this would be a good idea. It just seems to be the resulting recommendation if you take your analysis to its logical conclusion.
Personally, if I was Bill, I wouldn't want to step back into the CEO role anyway. Find a good replacement for Ballmer (heck... pretty much ANYONE could qualify!) and stick it out as chairman, influencing where possible, but not micromanaging it into the dirt...
He was very tech oriented and worked extensively with people in the field to try to make his novels sound as accurate on the details as he could.
...with the glaring and amazingly stupid exception of the physically implausible "life signs detector" in Rainbow Six. In fact, the whole Rainbow Six book felt a bit weird, even though the plot was cool. The Brain Eater must have gotten him too in the end, it seems.
I did find myself wondering, when I read the book, whether the idea for creating this magical device was just a means of justifying / explaining the "radar" type display that was in the game released around the same time (Hey, guys... how are we going to explain how in the game we're making you'll know the exact location and orientation of enemies and hostages we can't even see? Oh, we'll just conjure a magical doodad that can detect a human heartbeat through walls! Great!).
Since the two were in development at the same time, I figured that this would be a possible explanation for why Clancy's near-habitual technical plausibility seemed to be taking the month off when this device found its way into the books. It's just a guess on my part, though. I guess we'll never know now (unless someone at either the game or the book's publishers fess up to the conversation happening)!
Maybe this unfortunate micromanaging was the reason Lucasarts contracted out their Knights of the Old Republic franchise.
I've got to admit... I think BioWare have done a pretty decent job with the franchise. I only hope that they don't go down the ME route with is and screw it up over future iterations like they did with ME3 vs earlier incarnations!
If there is one sure rule in game design, it's that players don't know what they want. If your business plan involves building the game based on who complains the loudest or longest for a specific feature, you might as well light your money on fire.
True, up to a point. Customers may not know every feature that they DO want in a product, but you can be pretty certain that they will know what features they DO NOT want to see UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES in that product. Too many innovators and developers pay so much heed to the assertion (often true) that customers don't know what they really want, that they forget that they are capable of knowing what they don't want and hence ignore all feedback. This can often be a surefire route to failure.
I would guess that LucasFilm have realised this, as there was only minimal screen-time for JarJar in Ep II & III, but the same does not appear to be quite so true as regards LucasArts.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1315978/Las-Vegas-hotel-death-ray-leaves-guests-severe-burns.html No, building engineers need to be VERY CAREFUL about how concave-shaped buildings are oriented, relative to the sun. They still haven't learned, see link above.
They???
No... One guy, both cases!
That being said... what was the council's planning department doing the day those plans turned up? Oh yeah... Planning departments are all pencil-pushers, not engineers, so they'll rubber stamp anything without giving it any serious consideration! Didn't even check the architect's track record and query if he'd made sure he didn't repeat the same mistake! And they wonder why many of us in the UK do not see our Council Tax as value for money?!?
I'm not a huge fan of just listening to voices
Really? I find that they can be quite entertaining... Especially the ones in your head!
Low Ping Bastards that we were stayed in the 30-50m range.
30-50 minutes for a ping?!? That must be torture, even in something as old as Quake!
anything younger than 2007 will probably have a core 2 duel core Intel chip ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Core_2) or one of the equivalent AMD duel core chips, and that is not so far of 7 years old now
Emphasis mine
Last time I checked... if the various cores in your rig are fighting for supremacy, you've got a seriously suspect OS
Long computations which yield zero are probably all for naught.
