You mean to tell me that in the movie about the time travelling, flying delorean, that runs variously on a fusion engine and stolen libyan plutonium, that there's something unrealistic about the plot of that movie? NOOOO!
haha.
(obviously 10*.3=3 not 10.3)
oh yeah? watch this. A=.3
10a=10.3
subtract a from both sides
10a-a=10.3-.3
10a=10
thus a=1! but a=.3! so does
" If you write a script, you're certain that the changes made will be identical on each box. If you're doing them all by hand, you aren't.'"
No... if you write a script, you're certain that the change ATTEMPT made is the same. The changes may very well not be the same, if one of the boxes is messed up, but you can be certain it wasn't because you did it differently on that box. That's the difference between a GUI and a CLI... you get a same attempt guarantee, which allows you to blame the box instead of yourself when management comes asking why it failed.
Most modern game ads on tv still show hardly any gameplay. The Wii will show gameplay, but a ton of other systems' games do not. They just show the pre-rendered payoff sequences. If you're not showing the actual gameplay, you are lying to people. It's that simple.
It seems like an interesting study in meta-creation, meaning in order to create from a fictional work you have to make the fiction that exists into the rule boundaries for your work to be considered part of the same fictional narrative.
If something like this were to happen, everyone could just use "John Smith" as their name and use the same pics, address, etc. on anything internet-facing. Once enough people do this, and it wouldn't take that many, it would be impossible to tell which "john smith" had posted what.
The point is that the company will find some way to try to claw back that investment, and unless you do extremely, exceptionally well on ROI, you will not be rich at all. The truly insidious part is that as you start to make more, the label rigs the ROI against you by taking out more pr and stuff in the name of selling more, when really it just eats away at your profit.
Reminds me of this horrific classic of how recording artists get ripped off:
http://www.negativland.com/albini.html
There's already an invisible keyboard, and we all know how well that's selling and how it's replaced all our regular keyboards. Oh wait, it didn't? Dang.
So the article being given away for free tells about how people aren't giving things away for free anymore, and that companies doing that are destroying their business, etc. Eat your own dog food much?
Every attempt to make programming "not programming" succeeds in specially crafted demos, but still fails at anything larger than the tiniest apps. Take a look at google's own screenshot of a game made with this... it still looks like regular programming, only perhaps grosser and more confusing because the blocks stretch out in unjustified directions. At least with a font-based programming language you can use a fixed-width font.
It says the hearing was scheduled for july 9, what was the outcome?
To understand a program you must become both the machine and the program.
