I bet we've got a really smart person out there that knows the answer for this, for sure. I asked my professor and they really danced around and didn't give a straight answer (it was a community college).
What about these brilliant colors we always see in the photographs? Are they touched up (I've read and NASA insists, "no, they're not")? Are they extrapolations based on the inferred composition of the gases in a nebula, for example? Or is it honest to goodness, if we were parked in a space ship a few million miles away, exactly what our eyes would register?
I agree completely! How can anyone on this earth pay $1.29 to have their phone notify them of an incoming message??? It really does confuse me. Honestly, do SOMETHING kind of productive with your money. Ringtones... everything wrong with consumerism, in my view.
When is something going to actually be done about this??? It's been a topic of discussion for years, it impacts major companies in a net negative way and still nothing gets done. I don't understand it...
That was my first thought as well, but this is science after all. The $500 is probably a collection of money out of the personal wallets of broke grad students' pizza fund. Granted, they're the ones who lost it, but a little sympathy may be in order...
Meh, I tried to mod you funny 3 different times; but that stupid This resource is no longer valid. Please return to the beginning and try again. kept appearing. Anyway - well done - I literally LOL'd
I'll add to that. If your idea truly is a good one, build a company out of it, and go to VCs for funding. They'll take a pound or two of flesh, but will have experience in navigating the minefield that is patentland (at least they will if they're good). You're probably a brilliant IT person, but unless you've run your own business before, you're not a business person.
The IT landscape is littered with talented IT folks who were eaten alive by the sharks of the IT industry (read: Mr Gates). Get some help from those that have experience.
Doesn't mean it'll never happen! There's no driving force for DNF, but semantic web will be an information revolution. I couldn't tell you when, but it WILL happen, IMHO.
Two words: Semantic Web - once we have that, hold on to your hats... outside of the creation of the PC, and Internet itself, I don't think there will have been a larger revolution in information technology.
Depends on what you mean by "EMP resistant". Yes, it is resistant in that you could take out nine major cities in the USA and you'd still have workable communication because communication would automatically be routed around the affected areas.
Of course, the affected cities wouldn't have a workable Internet, but they'd have much bigger problems. EMP resistance was never meant to mean resistant at the point of attack, only in flexible routing around the area. Also, EMP wasn't necessarily the whole reason for creating the Internet in the first place either.
I contend that capitalism is nothing but a series of small wars fought on a playing field with rules and directed toward the good of society. Also, I'd bet dollars to donuts that there's plenty of crazy surveillance tech being created right now that we have no idea of. How else do you fight the kinds of wars the USA is fighting? Within 20 years, it'll be out there in the general public, adapted for our purposes.
My intention was not to defend CEO pay, my argument was against the notion that this CEO pay has a direct effect on the quality of games produced. If you take a look at EA, for example, their CEO makes ~680K/year in actual salary (which is probably about 10x what a typically underpaid game developer makes) http://www.marketwatch.com/investing/stock/erts/execpay.
With EA revenues at 4.2 billion (http://www.marketwatch.com/investing/stock/erts/financials), is the commenter seriously suggesting that the executive compensation detracts from game quality? If so, I disagree.
Furthermore, I argued the fact that game companies make money is a good thing. EA (again, as the most conspicuous example) takes that revenue and reinvests it. If you take a look at EA net earnings, they suck. Always have... in fact, I'd never buy the stock because it's a terrible company to own. They generate a lot of gross, but reinvest so much in their business that the owners just keep losing money - that's why the stock isn't worth buying. But their products (yeah, OMGz EA is evil) are good and advancing gameplay in general.
So my bottom line point to the kiddies is (and I honestly don't know why I waste the typing or effort, because I usually just end up talking to a rational adult, like I suspect I am now) don't bitch about games or products in general being made just so "people can shove more money in their pockets", not only do they make money only because they're advancing tech, but in reality, they're not making much money at all.
And your evidence for this is... what? Executives are accountable to the shareholders... you know, the owners of the company? Why would an owner of a company permit a CEO to be compensated more than they are worth?
The ideologically uninformed (I like to call them kids) believe that somehow, somewhere all this massive amount of money is being siphoned out of the system somehow, directly away from them. And if it weren't for the greedy bastards "stealing" this money, things would be so much better. Executives work hard and they do get paid for it, just like that developer works hard and gets paid for it. If the pay situation isn't fair - both are free to look elsewhere for work.
Business owners like to grow their business and businesses grow by taking your profits and reinvesting them. Again... that's why capitalism works.
UltraAyla is completely right sweetheart. Your thoughts are very inconsistent. Please review them when the economy sucks less and you find a job. I'm not trolling, the economy really sucks - seriously, and I empathize.
But claiming to be Libertarian AND complaining about gov't not helping are mutually exclusive items.
OMG... +1 for you. Sucking on the teet of gov't, missing a deadline, complaining how the benefits weren't given to her AND saying she's a libertarian... oh, and she doesn't want to pay into the system when she finally DOES find a job. HEAD.. GOING.. TO.. EXPLODE..
Hopefully she is just young and not actually retarded... youth I can excuse.
This is such an odd attitude and it's an attitude shared by the majority of people. What do you think the game publishers (or any company, for that matter) DO with their profits?
They reinvest them to make more of the same thing. That's why capitalism works and socialism does not.
YES! I agree 100%. Here's Brad Templeton's (founder of EFF) thesis on what he calls "robocars" It's quite good, and lays out advantages I never thought of (energy efficiency for one). http://www.templetons.com/brad/robocars/
I think Warren Buffet said it best when he said "if you can't explain it in simple terms, you don't understand it". He said "young kids" (he's 80+, so who knows what he considers a young kid) come in pitching ideas using the fanciest of terms but when he asks for clarification, he can't get it, because they don't understand the fundamentals. And though it was a major pain in the ass, working at a helpdesk for a year taught me a lot because you NEED to distill things down to their core components and strip away all the crap. Stripping away crap == understanding fundamentals == true understanding. When you have a fundamental understanding, then you can add the bells and whistles
Honestly, it sounds to me like OP hiding behind lingo without actually understanding what's really going on. Yeah, he's saying something (and I understand it, I guess) but he's got so much crap, perhaps he can't see the forest from the trees.
PS. Scrum == worst. methodology. name. ever
I guess I'm in the minority...
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... I find these stories interesting. How is the online world coping with the new institutions it must create with the added complexities of fast growing virtual worlds? Will it find a new way of doing things, or just repeat the same mistakes (this looks like repeating the same mistakes that were made a few hundred years ago). I have no idea how much a billion ISK is, but this is pretty big news to those that had their "money" in these institutions, even if it was just for play.
In a world of massive real world bailouts and ~10% unemployment, this may not "matter" much, but it's definitely news for nerds.
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Are they handicapped because they're fat or are they fat because they're handicapped?
Perhaps you're confusing cause and effect
I bet we've got a really smart person out there that knows the answer for this, for sure. I asked my professor and they really danced around and didn't give a straight answer (it was a community college).
What about these brilliant colors we always see in the photographs? Are they touched up (I've read and NASA insists, "no, they're not")? Are they extrapolations based on the inferred composition of the gases in a nebula, for example? Or is it honest to goodness, if we were parked in a space ship a few million miles away, exactly what our eyes would register?
I agree completely! How can anyone on this earth pay $1.29 to have their phone notify them of an incoming message??? It really does confuse me. Honestly, do SOMETHING kind of productive with your money. Ringtones... everything wrong with consumerism, in my view.
'nuff said!
When is something going to actually be done about this??? It's been a topic of discussion for years, it impacts major companies in a net negative way and still nothing gets done. I don't understand it...
That was my first thought as well, but this is science after all. The $500 is probably a collection of money out of the personal wallets of broke grad students' pizza fund. Granted, they're the ones who lost it, but a little sympathy may be in order...
We renumerate the candidates for the test they take with us.
Well, with 1.2 Billion Indians that's got to be the most time intensive part of your whole application process..
Meh, I tried to mod you funny 3 different times; but that stupid This resource is no longer valid. Please return to the beginning and try again. kept appearing. Anyway - well done - I literally LOL'd
I'll add to that. If your idea truly is a good one, build a company out of it, and go to VCs for funding. They'll take a pound or two of flesh, but will have experience in navigating the minefield that is patentland (at least they will if they're good). You're probably a brilliant IT person, but unless you've run your own business before, you're not a business person.
The IT landscape is littered with talented IT folks who were eaten alive by the sharks of the IT industry (read: Mr Gates). Get some help from those that have experience.
Doesn't mean it'll never happen! There's no driving force for DNF, but semantic web will be an information revolution. I couldn't tell you when, but it WILL happen, IMHO.
"War is cruelty. There's no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over."
~William Tecumseh Sherman
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Two words: Semantic Web - once we have that, hold on to your hats... outside of the creation of the PC, and Internet itself, I don't think there will have been a larger revolution in information technology.
Depends on what you mean by "EMP resistant". Yes, it is resistant in that you could take out nine major cities in the USA and you'd still have workable communication because communication would automatically be routed around the affected areas.
Of course, the affected cities wouldn't have a workable Internet, but they'd have much bigger problems. EMP resistance was never meant to mean resistant at the point of attack, only in flexible routing around the area. Also, EMP wasn't necessarily the whole reason for creating the Internet in the first place either.
I contend that capitalism is nothing but a series of small wars fought on a playing field with rules and directed toward the good of society. Also, I'd bet dollars to donuts that there's plenty of crazy surveillance tech being created right now that we have no idea of. How else do you fight the kinds of wars the USA is fighting? Within 20 years, it'll be out there in the general public, adapted for our purposes.
LOL, I dunno why, but that's pretty funny! Can't stop laughing - I think I've got a case of the Mondays or something!
My intention was not to defend CEO pay, my argument was against the notion that this CEO pay has a direct effect on the quality of games produced. If you take a look at EA, for example, their CEO makes ~680K/year in actual salary (which is probably about 10x what a typically underpaid game developer makes) http://www.marketwatch.com/investing/stock/erts/execpay.
With EA revenues at 4.2 billion (http://www.marketwatch.com/investing/stock/erts/financials), is the commenter seriously suggesting that the executive compensation detracts from game quality? If so, I disagree.
Furthermore, I argued the fact that game companies make money is a good thing. EA (again, as the most conspicuous example) takes that revenue and reinvests it. If you take a look at EA net earnings, they suck. Always have... in fact, I'd never buy the stock because it's a terrible company to own. They generate a lot of gross, but reinvest so much in their business that the owners just keep losing money - that's why the stock isn't worth buying. But their products (yeah, OMGz EA is evil) are good and advancing gameplay in general.
So my bottom line point to the kiddies is (and I honestly don't know why I waste the typing or effort, because I usually just end up talking to a rational adult, like I suspect I am now) don't bitch about games or products in general being made just so "people can shove more money in their pockets", not only do they make money only because they're advancing tech, but in reality, they're not making much money at all.
And your evidence for this is... what? Executives are accountable to the shareholders... you know, the owners of the company? Why would an owner of a company permit a CEO to be compensated more than they are worth?
The ideologically uninformed (I like to call them kids) believe that somehow, somewhere all this massive amount of money is being siphoned out of the system somehow, directly away from them. And if it weren't for the greedy bastards "stealing" this money, things would be so much better. Executives work hard and they do get paid for it, just like that developer works hard and gets paid for it. If the pay situation isn't fair - both are free to look elsewhere for work.
Business owners like to grow their business and businesses grow by taking your profits and reinvesting them. Again... that's why capitalism works.
UltraAyla is completely right sweetheart. Your thoughts are very inconsistent. Please review them when the economy sucks less and you find a job. I'm not trolling, the economy really sucks - seriously, and I empathize.
But claiming to be Libertarian AND complaining about gov't not helping are mutually exclusive items.
OMG... +1 for you. Sucking on the teet of gov't, missing a deadline, complaining how the benefits weren't given to her AND saying she's a libertarian... oh, and she doesn't want to pay into the system when she finally DOES find a job. HEAD.. GOING.. TO.. EXPLODE..
Hopefully she is just young and not actually retarded... youth I can excuse.
This is such an odd attitude and it's an attitude shared by the majority of people. What do you think the game publishers (or any company, for that matter) DO with their profits?
They reinvest them to make more of the same thing. That's why capitalism works and socialism does not.
You think a simple brake makes sense in this situation huh?
Look above, there are very good answers for "complicated technology which (I) couldn't possibly have heard of from other sources"
My question is: how do you "shut down" a wind farm? The wind blows, the windmills turn.
YES! I agree 100%. Here's Brad Templeton's (founder of EFF) thesis on what he calls "robocars" It's quite good, and lays out advantages I never thought of (energy efficiency for one). http://www.templetons.com/brad/robocars/
I think Warren Buffet said it best when he said "if you can't explain it in simple terms, you don't understand it". He said "young kids" (he's 80+, so who knows what he considers a young kid) come in pitching ideas using the fanciest of terms but when he asks for clarification, he can't get it, because they don't understand the fundamentals. And though it was a major pain in the ass, working at a helpdesk for a year taught me a lot because you NEED to distill things down to their core components and strip away all the crap. Stripping away crap == understanding fundamentals == true understanding. When you have a fundamental understanding, then you can add the bells and whistles
Honestly, it sounds to me like OP hiding behind lingo without actually understanding what's really going on. Yeah, he's saying something (and I understand it, I guess) but he's got so much crap, perhaps he can't see the forest from the trees.
PS. Scrum == worst. methodology. name. ever
... I find these stories interesting. How is the online world coping with the new institutions it must create with the added complexities of fast growing virtual worlds? Will it find a new way of doing things, or just repeat the same mistakes (this looks like repeating the same mistakes that were made a few hundred years ago). I have no idea how much a billion ISK is, but this is pretty big news to those that had their "money" in these institutions, even if it was just for play.
In a world of massive real world bailouts and ~10% unemployment, this may not "matter" much, but it's definitely news for nerds.