At 03:07 PM 8/25/2002 -0700, you wrote: >John Carmack wrote: > > > > > > Sometimes I feel like going into "lecture mode" about How You Ought To Be > > Doing Things, but I don't want to piss everyone off. :-) > >Nor, I hope, do you want to take a chance on convincing someone you have >Received Wisdom when in fact they were thinking of a way that may turn >out (possibly after considerable work) to be better...
Oh, there is an implied smile / IMHO in the capitalized "How You Ought To Be Doing Things", but there is still something of a point. I am sympathetic to Alex's "shouldn't we be working on pertinent problems here?" position. For instance, according to the ERPS minutes, POGO is gated on gizmocopter, which is gated on flight control. This seems to be a good example of a point on the critical path, but there is no discussion of it, even though it is one of the things you are most likely to get useful feedback on from someone who has done something analogous. Pierce did email me once about looking at the Armadillo flight control code, but it arrived at a moment when I didn't have the time to properly respond, and I sort of forgot about it (sorry!). The situation is that part of the deal I have with my wife, who is a hopeless entrepreneur :-), is that I will curb my natural desire to share all the information I produce, and keep our actual source code to myself. However, if someone outlines the nature of your flight control, I would be happy to comment on it based on my experience. John Carmack _______________________________________________ ERPS-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.erps.org/mailman/listinfo/erps-list
