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Monday, March 06, 2006 1:35 PM

Lucy in the Sky Without a Man

There was another interesting post at AVSIM the other day, that the author also emailed to us at tell_fs@microsoft.com , in which he offered suggestions for a "Wife Edition" of Flight Sim. It was full of jokes about shopping, shoes, housework, hair and
Posted by Hal9000 | 190 Comments
Saturday, February 18, 2006 9:00 AM

Grand Theft Flight Simulator

Take a Little Trip, Take a Little Trip With Me To the cool, cool water of the semi-pirateless Caribbean . . . In reality, my only excursion to the region was a week on St. Martin / Sint Maarten for my honeymoon, most of which was spent lounging at the
Posted by Hal9000 | 11 Comments
Friday, February 03, 2006 5:39 PM

Weather or Not

A lot of people have posted wish list threads and sent in suggestions for things they'd like to see in the next version of Flight Sim. Most of us that work on it do the same thing. Our internal wish lists usually, but not always, start with bugs that
Posted by Hal9000 | 32 Comments
Sunday, January 15, 2006 6:54 AM

Comparing Apples to Really Expensive Apples

Gone Tropos? There was an interesting post in the new FSX forum on AVSIM the other day expressing hope that the airport environments in FSX will look as good as those seen in a promotional video for commercial flight simulator builder CAE’s Tropos visualization
Posted by Hal9000 | 20 Comments
Friday, January 13, 2006 11:40 AM

On the Other Hand

If you really want to see what the life of a software tester isn't like, you could dive into the nearest cultural dumpster and flush 87 minutes of your life down this cinematic low-flow toilet . . . No, I haven't seen it, but in the tradition of self-styled
Posted by Hal9000 | 1 Comments
Friday, January 13, 2006 11:10 AM

Not Such a Hard Day's Night . . .

It occurred to me that I don’t spend a lot of time here talking about what I actually do for Microsoft on the Flight Simulator team. It has occurred to a number of people, especially my unbelievably dedicated and vaguely effluvial next door neighbor,
Posted by Hal9000 | 6 Comments
Sunday, December 11, 2005 7:54 AM

Blink, or don't, and you'll miss me . . .

I am an attention miser (perhaps a distant cousin of Heat and Snow ) . . . . I tend to pay it out in very small doses (as my friend Knat said in her brilliant article, How to be Distracted , "Hey look, a squirrel"), measure the value of things in my life
Posted by Hal9000 | 16 Comments
Tuesday, November 29, 2005 9:42 AM

Well, yeah it was a little, but I don't think it actually did that . . .

What's that smell? Oh, I know . . . it's "old blog". Sorry about that. The last post seemed to be pretty well received, and a number of you have asked if we get other email messages like that. Unfortunately, almost all of our customers are sane, rational
Posted by Hal9000 | 7 Comments
Sunday, November 13, 2005 10:32 AM

Tell FS . . . Why I shouldn't Blog on a Sunday Morning

Every day, we get a number of suggestions sent to our tell_fs@microsoft.com email address. And, when I say “suggestions”, I mean letters from the widows of Nigerian finance ministers, offers for discounted Viagra, complaints about our copy protection,
Posted by Hal9000 | 25 Comments
Wednesday, November 09, 2005 6:00 PM

Is Something Always Better Than Nothing?

A good pal of mine, when I was floundering around with muttered apologies for not having written in so long, offered to loan me an excuse, which I'll reuse here: "I'm just a man whose circumstances went beyond his control." Normally, I wouldn't quote
Posted by Hal9000 | 5 Comments
Thursday, October 06, 2005 10:56 PM

Are you a Mod or a Rocker?

No, I'm a Mocker . . . First of all, for the record, I don't consider Flight Simulator to be a game. I do believe that it can be used as such, but, like so many other aspects of the product, that is up to the customer - you get out of it what you put
Posted by Hal9000 | 3 Comments
Saturday, October 01, 2005 12:42 AM

How many D's?

An interesting new debate on AVSIM today - or, at least, a new debate on an old topic: Will 3D virtual cockpits replace 2D instrument panels? Read the thread here . In my opinion, our vision, our design for each release of Flight Simulator could be distilled
Posted by Hal9000 | 2 Comments
Thursday, September 29, 2005 5:53 PM

Full Circle

As of next month, I will have been working on the Flight Simulator franchise for 7 years. As of next year, I will have been a customer of said franchise (the longest continuously published piece of software I know of) for 25 years. One of the very few
Posted by Hal9000 | 7 Comments
 
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