Comment In other news, water is wet (Score 0) 133
So, they are ramping up their prices before a sale? Geez, never expected that.
Comment Re:This. SO MUCH This. (Score 0) 492
C# is no longer proprietary. Get your biases updated, people!
Freeware FPS Alien Arena 2007 Reviewed 158
Alienkillerrace writes "Linux.com has reviewed the brand new release of Alien Arena 2007, giving it a glowing review. 'New Alien Arena 6.10 blows away its FPS competition' claims that Alien Arena is now the very best of the freeware FPS games, surpassing even Tremulous."
MPAA Caught Uploading Fake Torrents 579
An anonymous reader writes "The MPAA and other anti-piracy watchdogs have been caught trapping people into downloading fake torrents, so they can collect IP addresses, and send copyright infringement letters to ISPs. The battle between P2P networks and copyright holders seems to be a never ending battle. It will be interesting to see how much the anti-piracy groups practices change once they begin begin selling movies and TV shows legally on bittorrent.com."
Comment Re:Revolutionary? (Score 0) 512
Gawd, I cannot express how wrong that statement is. Don't misunderstand me, Greasemonkey is a very cool toy, but words like "revolutionary" and "future" are even more correct when you speak of equally "revolutionary" technologies like PointCast or WAP.
Comment With fine grained tasks, you CAN estimate. (Score 1) 225
I wrote an article about the method we use at Fog Creek for making software schedules which I've seen work very precisely, consistently, on projects from a week to two years.
The basic approach is to make sure that the granularity of the tasks that you are estimating is fine. If you itemize the tasks at the procedure level (write subroutine x), where each task is less than 2 days, your schedule will work. The reason most people's estimates don't work is because they pull them out of the air, instead of actually thinking about what tasks they will need to complete. Getting down to the procedure level forces you to figure out what you're actually going to do, which is how you get a real estimate.
