Well basically, are printer went down in the photo lab today ($700 to have a tech come out). So Fuji air mailed a new harddrive to us, which arrived about 5 hours later ($600 plus $100 for the harddrive.)
The lab was down all day today (0 prints processed + $250 in lost revenue).
So here's the scoop, as to the problem after eight hours of diagnostics ...
Should anyone remove the 100 M zip disk which happened to be in the zip drive in the machine, the motherboard controller won't mount the drive. And as a result all the drives are assigned a new drive number. The hot swappable hard drive must be drive 1 or it will fall off of the boot order list and the machine will not post.
So to make a long story short this incredibly stupidly designed machine will not boot unless there is a 100 m zip disk is in the drive, and someone came along and unknowingly ejected the disk, costing everyone about $1650.
So here's the dumb ass circle... Fuji says IBM are fucking morons
Color circle hates Fuji
IBM says Fuji's the dumb ass.
And we hate everybody...
There it is, the holy triad of stupid is complete..... I hate walmart.
Heck, they haven't even gotten 50% since 1976. Of course Clinton did have to deal with a very strong third-party competitor, making it maybe a flawed point, but even so... That fact is very likely to change this year.
Despite what the guy writing this article says, this is VERY bad.
Let's assume for a moment that this law is really "harmless". If that's the case, why did they bother to pass it? Clearly this law accomplishes nothing if it doesn't do anything. Why add a law that accomplishes nothing? To make a political statement? Such statements can be made in either more meaningful ways or just by stating them. It's never a good idea to just add laws for the heck of it. No real thought was put into this decision and that's dangerous in and of itself.
Now let's take it a step further, recognizing that a board for rating these games would cost money. That's fine when it's game companies paying the fees. However, when it's New Yorkers, paying for something that helps no one at all, it's harmful. This isn't a road, or medicine, or schooling, or anything that would help the public good in a real and meaningful way, it's a game rating board! They don't deserve tax payer money.
Finally, let's make one thing straight. It's very likely that if they do shift the burden off taxpayers, it will be shifted to the game designers. This won't be a problem for major game companies. However, if you are making Cave Story, a free game programmed in a garage somewhere by someone that can't afford to pay rating fees, then you have just restricted the ability of someone to make their art and deploy it widely. That's fine if their "art" is, say, child pornography or gutting and displaying bodies from walls. It isn't fine when it's a law made for no reason that protects no one.
This law IS harmful, and if other places adobt it, it will make it VERY hard for amateur game designers to get a start, and for what?
(For those that didn't read far enough, that was a paper written by a "post-modern random essay generator". The very fact that a random essay generator is indistinguishable from real post modern essays should probably say something...
