FYI: I was one of the top Battlezone and Centipede players at the time (high-scores were 600K and 3M.)
Battlezone was a simple game, but very useful for training the eye to interpret the 3d world on a 2d display and improve reaction time. Almost like meditation.
There's no chance a foreign army at the time could compete with an American tank crew with several hundred hours on a simulator or electronic game of the day.
In fact, one Russian general said his top concern was that American kids with video game experience could easily outperform Russian soldiers.
Also, full-motion simulators are largely a red herring. Non-motion "procedure trainers" get you almost 100% of the ab initio training benefit at 10% or less of the cost.
Initially, Stallman made a living selling GNU tapes, and pre-Internet, linux was often installed by a "friend" who made the stack of 40 floppies and charged a few bucks to cover his time and media expenses.
> Whether or not you like Docker, or think it works well in production, is immaterial to this.
Actually I don't agree with that at all. Saying something is or will be ready for production with nothing to back that statement up is marketing, not reality.
A similar example is Virtualbox. It's intended as a production VM, but I don't know anybody who does that. They use it for development and deploy to a different environment. Intentions are irrelevant when it just doesn't work reliably in reality.
> This reduces the employee to a mere company slave.
Generally law enforcement will treat an employee as a slave if a company files any kind of complaint statement against the employee, regardless of how small the company is. Also, former employees have been convicted of violating employee handbooks.
> Citation needed (especially that they do it for everyone).
1. We know that they can. If you were designing a mass survaillance system, you would store all incoming information into unique bins now, then later select on the bins of interest.
2. Three years ago I asked an ex-govt employee who would know. When I got to that exact question, he got visibly upset and abruptly ended the conversation.
1) For those who haven't followed the Chipotle crisis, apparently they were doing more ingredient prep in-store instead of at regional kitchen centers. That meant quality and cleanliness standards were not uniform. They say they have changed that policy.
2) It looks like mgmt. did not want to do a public information campaign because then you're telling people, who may not all know yet, that there's a problem. In other words, 1960's-style crisis mgmt. to "protect" their brand.
3) Also, the executives of Chipotle simply refuse to make top mgmt. changes and in fact are among the highest-paid executives in human history (according to the article.)
4) One store had serious "HR issues" with managers preying on underage part-time staff, resulting in a multi-million dollar payout. I'll leave it at that.
nickff's comment is some twisted libertarian rant about the airplane market that is only loosely based on reality.
For example, the FAA certifies airplanes after a mfg. tests them to certain standards - the FAA doesn't do the testing itself.
A much better case could be made about the FAA endangering safety by allowed low-cost regionals to exist in the USA, but they're not long for this world after the 1,500 hour training rule.
In the Craigslist/Newmark case, what one of the State Attorneys said was, "We don't care about a benefit. We'll just keep prosecuting until all of the sites are shut down."
Newmark made the same case as the parent commend, but that was the last thing the last thing the law wanted to hear since they are prosecutors, not social workers.
Battlezone was a simple game, but very useful for training the eye to interpret the 3d world on a 2d display and improve reaction time. Almost like meditation.
There's no chance a foreign army at the time could compete with an American tank crew with several hundred hours on a simulator or electronic game of the day.
In fact, one Russian general said his top concern was that American kids with video game experience could easily outperform Russian soldiers.
Also, full-motion simulators are largely a red herring. Non-motion "procedure trainers" get you almost 100% of the ab initio training benefit at 10% or less of the cost.