Let's pick some fancy words to describe something in completely the wrong way. There is no "Photonic Boom". There's no magical photonic pressure wave. It's just seeing the delay from the reflection because you are projecting on to a sphere. Why... I mean... why not just explain that without using such a shitty and misleading term?

I love your take on it. An electric car battery will be more or less a weapon of mass destruction. The rules will still make no sense whatsoever though. Possessing a "high capacity" battery will be a federal offense, but carrying many small batteries will be perfectly legal. I don't know how they'll handle 'wire' in this dystopia

Bullets. Guns aren't worth much if there isn't ammunition, and ammunition has been getting very expensive. Plus, most bullets don't last forever, intentionally. This way you can start shutting down suppliers and really make shooting impractical. You'll be stuck with muskets if you can still buy the gun powder. I'm just waiting for battery technology to reach the point that we can have usable homemade gauss rifles.

If they want to have any chance of pushing this garbage through they should at least attack the FCC properly. Go on about censorship and surveillance, that's what gets jimmies rustled right now. It wouldn't be any less true than the statements they've already made.

Okay, nuclear is an older technology, but it's practically a newborn compared to wind power. As for "danger", I think we've beat that horse enough already.

I bought it and can't stand it. I quit halfway through the second mission. Too many silly scripted events and weird key combinations, plus the controls in general feel floaty - which wouldn't be a huge deal if timing and precision weren't an issue. Does it get better after the intro missions? If the rest of the game has this Prince of Persia feel I can't imagine getting through it.

These aren't fusion reactors, and there's no reason with modern technology to have meltdowns that spray debris all over the place... and you don't build them in heavily populated areas to begin with. We've got Palo Verde way out there as a precaution. This is all over reaction. You're way more likely to die from radiation from the extra fun bits in coal than from an actual nuclear disaster.

I think some people may not like it because now there's less of an excuse to have a crappy game. I think it's great. Let's raise the bar and purge some of the garbage.

I keep getting mod points that I can't use because the dropdown isn't rendering anymore.

I just really want to know if there is anything in there about "offensive content" or "national security". I could imagine this being a power grab to censor the internet and strip encryption. They have been pretty hot lately about encryption and all the sudden this happens... I'm paranoid.

We're not talking about accuracy or track records, we're talking about providing an estimate. These organizations estimate and project constantly, and they are wrong a lot, but it works overall. It gives some structure and a goal for the project. Sales projections are clearly worse, pure voodoo, but we still do them, because they work somehow. At the very least, these estimates come from someone charged with knowing a lot about the subject, so it's a good idea to clue everyone else in on what you think the timeline could be.

Our rule for new projects was x2 for a best case scenario and then raised an order of magnitude(hour-day-week-month-year). For example - If everything goes well this job should take 1 day of continuous work - so we estimate in our hellhole of a reality it will be done in 2 weeks. It was surprisingly accurate.

Thanks, I was beginning to think that software developers were completely dissociated from the rest of the world. Writing the software isn't the only part of the business. Marketing and sales are going to have to know about when things are done so they know when to have everything ready, and that's not even getting into the financial and executive parts of things. Not to mention you are basically saying that you have no idea how much the project is going to cost. Really, if you can't at least provide an estimate then it's either not your job to do so or you need to find a new job.