In the fight for third place, all will happen is killing off the other guys who are trying to get to third place. Leaving the current 3rd place holder in a stronger position.
The Police are suppose to Protect and Serve. Not act as a revenue engine for the municipality. If you are speeding, you may be putting yours and other peoples lives and property in danger. (Unable to slow down fast enough, or handle particular upcoming turns). So I am OK with police doing speed traps to make sure people play by the rules, because there are a lot of roads without the fear of getting trapped, they would go much much faster on, and be a risk. Telling others there is a speed trap, isn't a bad thing, if they get the message, they will slow down and drive safer for a least a little bit. This is a good thing. The problem is municipalities are turning cops into a revenue engine, To bring in so much money in fines to their towns, to offset the budget. So other than making judgement calls of the safety of the driver, they will go to the letter of the law to ticket you. The good news that judge put some letter to the law saying warning others about a police trap isn't illegal.
Well if you have Vios and your Netflix is considered noticeable slow, or choppy. And say TWC plays netflix at faster speed. You just go, I am switching because my Netflix is too slow. It is faster with the competition.
You can always use excess from a fixed power to charge up methods of storing energy for peak usage. Batteries, Flywheels, Converting Water to Hydrogen... Vs. Wind and Solar when they are getting a very sunny or windy day, they take the extra energy and store it in different methods in case of peak usage.
The difference is Variance in Demand vs Variance in supply.
How many forests do you need to cut down for a Solar Farm, what if your area isn't particular windy. Nuclear benefit is that it can meet demand and be location neutral. Nuclear can replace Coal Power, Solar and Wind cannot. You can though have Solar, Wind and Nuclear, working together on the same grid, We can have many energy sources, and we really shouldn't stick to one.
Nuclear has a Toxic Side effects, that lasts a long time, so it shouldn't be maximized... That said it is better then what we are doing now.
HTTPS isn't end all be all in security. It just encrypts your message and offers a secure authenticated certificate. Your browser has a list of trusted authenicators. So in terms of raw security it will just prevent people with a packet sniffer finding your information. Sure that is more secure, however most networks now have switches vs hubs which makes broadcast packets less common. The site authenicators charge a lot of money for these certs, and most really don't do too much to verify their true identity, and some sites will used home made certs to save money... Especially if they are working with a smaller client base who knows to ignore the big alert from the browser.
Most of the breakins are due to people getting into the server via different ways (SQL injection, back doors on the server, back doors on an other server that has access to the existing server...) Where they can take your information from the servers. Or add malcode into the javascript where it could break other flaws in the browser, and get stuff from your own PC.
Also defaulting to HTTPS even if you don't request it. could cause other issues. The HTTP vs HTTPS site could be very different. HTTP may be your companies poster board, and the HTTPS is for access for the customer.
Sites like the Economist, Foreign Policy, and even the Wall Street Journal (At least pre News Corp). Are sites that give focused information into a particular area. You are getting information that it hard to get elsewhere. The Times, or your local papers tend to be less indepth and that means you can find the same information almost anywhere.
Having prominent scientists going debate such things only gives credit to the group who pushes this stuff. It isn't like he is going to change peoples mind here. As they can always go back to conspiracy reasoning, by calling him a lair, working with the atheists, or liberal agenda...
Also many Cloud Platforms are giving a Windows Option. As many companies move their Intranet stuff to the cloud, all those internal IIS may be considered hosted more publicly.
Combine with the fact that most of us in IT really don't care anymore. Windows Server and IIS have matured over the decade and for most stuff is good enough. Unlike the IIS 6 days where the system was just a open hole to attack.
Judging someone by his code, isn't a good judgement at all of their skill. They could be under intense pressure to get it done, or they meant it to be one time throwaway code, which then got added to. There is a slew of stuff that could happen to make it not the authors best work.
The idea that your coding style will peak in 6 months, is very scary to me, that means you are not open to learning or expanding your skills. The reason why your code may suck, is the fact you were not under the idea of the final usage of the project. Well lets hard code that variable or function Lets say a Converting Inches to Feet, only to have the company switch to metric or have it split after a few years. Or your method to do something was done before a new type of security break in method was discovered. I remember back when the buffer overflow hack was discovered, it was actually a radical approach at the time to break into software, and caused a lot of software to be rewritten because before the buffer overflow would just create an error, and the program expected a normal input. Also sometimes if you have a new algorithm you may not have been in the most optimal mind set at the time, trying to expand your code for changes that would never happen. Tones of stuff that can happen that will cause you to look back and go what was I thinking.
You should respect or at least treat him with respect, because causing a conflict with him will not be productive. If he is still there, he could be a resource to help comprehend something that is off. Also if the guy who is respected at the company doesn't like you, his word will have more pull then yours.
Lets face it, games will get old and out of date, game makers will not make much if any more money off the games, and should just release them to the public to enjoy. Holding on to them figuring that at some point you will release a set of old games on your next version of media, means you are just allowing your product brand to deteriorate over this time and when you do release the customers will go what was that?
Lets say Activation who somehow now seems to own the Old Sierra Adventure games, releases these games for free as in beer. So people will play them/replay them again and share them with some friends... Then the brand image will improve King Gram with the feather in his cap, Roger Wilco in his inept adventures threw space and time, Our mighty hero in Quest for glory, in his world of Glorania. (Leasuresuit Larry is the exception as his brand seem to stay popular.)
That means there will be a defined actor and an world that will recognizable for future games, where they can make a ton of money off of.
There is a good subset of NPR listeners who seem to dislike anything that is suppose to be entertaining. They are often political junkies, who are under the impression that politics is very important, and their political opponents must be absolutely evil, or stupid. They complain when ever NPR brings up anything slightly entertaining or presented in a funny way. With perhaps Harry Shearer as the exception because his humor is about pointing out the flaws of his political opponents who he portraits as absolutely evil or stupid.
I personally don't like Harry Shearer because other then the random music which is clever, his stuff is monotonous. Nuclear Power - Bad Olympics - Bad Catholics - Bad News Corp - Bad The Army Core of Engineers - Really Really Really BAD! Lets poke some fun of bad grammar from some people adhoc interviews. And if someone of influence gets in trouble lets get their apology, and make it seem insincere.
However I am under the notion that information can be educational and entertaining at the same time. Wait Wait Don't Tell Me, is fairly good at that. It can poke fun at stuff without being all negative and mean about it. Prairie Home Companion, is mostly just for entertainment, and doesn't mean to hurt people.
The Political Junkies, think in order to be intelligent you need to be negative about it. So shows that don't do that, they get angry at and claim that it is too soft for them.
Well the free market still works, if you pay them too much, past their content amount, then you are outside of the supply and demand curve. Thus creating an artificial value for the work.
We had a Computer Science work shortage back in 2000. We had a bunch of students ready to graduate, but the government panicked from the numbers (This was under Clinton) and opened up the Visas for tech workers. Thus this created a glut of developers and by 2003, we had Visa Workers coming in, combined with newly Graduated students, which flooded the market and made it tough to get a job in IT. Causing a lot of Good IT workers to get laided off, due to a new source of cheap labor. Now what did these disgruntled unemployed IT workers do. Some did productive things, and others opened the do for a large set of security problems.
Doing it for the money isn't as bad as you make it sound. If you have to work hard to get an education to do a job that is harder, then you should get paid more then the average person. Otherwise you might as well choose a degree that is easier and pays the same for job, and do your engineering as a hobby.
Here is the problem. 1. The poster is judging the person by his code. We all write code, and in a few years we look back and go, what the heck was I thinking. 2. Most home grown programs grow organically, so there isn't a strong strong infrastructure to it. This doesn't mean the maker was unskilled, or a bad programmer. 3. It was a learning process at the time.
So this is what you need to do. 1. Add what you feel is a good infrastructure to the project. It isn't that his code is bad, but we now have a newer way to do this, so it more manageable. 2. Look for what is good. Even in bad code there is often a lot of good parts to it. Take advantage of it, and be sure to keep it. 3. Document your changes, and explain them.
The guy is well respected in the organization, that is fine, you should respect him too. Being that you have been hired to maintain his code, means he doesn't want or cannot be bothered with it any more. That said, it is your baby now and you will need to raise it your way.
There are too many people who think being a good boss, is about being tough, and managing people like a machine. En essence the Traditional pre-2000 MBA, where it was designed for managing manufacturing jobs, not intellectual collaborative jobs.
I have to agree, this goes against everything that is said about good management. Most good MBA schools would disprove of this. Why? 1. There is a calculated benefit towards (water cooler chats), this increases overall productivity, by allowing informal collaboration and knowledge exchange. 2. The issue between Introverted and Extroverted employees. An introverted employee in a meeting may seem very quite and engaged, however they are there listening and taking in the information, where they may come up with better solution later on. Extroverted may seem like they are engaged however they are just talking a lot of nonsense, and off topic, because they like talking. 3. Employee intensive is Work Environment + Pay. If they feel like their freedom is being taken away from them, it is equivalent to paying them less. If an employee feels like they are being paid fairly they will perform better then one who feels like they are not. 4. Synergy. How can you have Synergy if people are not working together, and knowing each others strengths and weaknesses?
This happens after every Windows release. As most of Windows sales are based off of new PC sales, Microsoft tends to get a slow migration away from their old versions. XP was out for nearly a full decade before Vista came out. So XP has a large install base, and what is unique now, is the fact that PC sales are starting to slump.
Out of all the complaining about windows 8, there are very little technical reasons, it is stable, windows 7 drivers seem to work well, it is even a bit faster than Windows 7. Most of the complains are an attempt to say, Its different! I DON'T LIKE DIFFERENT! IT SCARS ME!, in a more educated manner, or in a more hostile way where you try to sound like you are an authority on such things.
As People retire their old PC's Windows XP, and Windows 7 will slowly drop. Windows 8+ will take over. If not Windows 8 then Windows 9. Over time all these scary things will become common, and if they change to a different method we go back onto the loop.
I am sure many of you didn't have internet access when Windows 95 was released. All the ranting and complaining about the start bar. Who thinks hitting start to shutdown you computer is a good idea. What is with those delays to open up a menu item, it is slowing my productivity way down. That start button and that task bar takes up too much screen space...
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Beta will be gone when they put it in full Production.
Instead of being an ass, Clearly post your issues to the correct authority, instead of spamming the message boards over and over again.
In the fight for third place, all will happen is killing off the other guys who are trying to get to third place.
Leaving the current 3rd place holder in a stronger position.
When will those Conservative Republicans realize, that Government shouldn't interfere with the natural progression of free enterprise?
The Police are suppose to Protect and Serve. Not act as a revenue engine for the municipality.
If you are speeding, you may be putting yours and other peoples lives and property in danger. (Unable to slow down fast enough, or handle particular upcoming turns). So I am OK with police doing speed traps to make sure people play by the rules, because there are a lot of roads without the fear of getting trapped, they would go much much faster on, and be a risk. Telling others there is a speed trap, isn't a bad thing, if they get the message, they will slow down and drive safer for a least a little bit. This is a good thing.
The problem is municipalities are turning cops into a revenue engine, To bring in so much money in fines to their towns, to offset the budget. So other than making judgement calls of the safety of the driver, they will go to the letter of the law to ticket you.
The good news that judge put some letter to the law saying warning others about a police trap isn't illegal.
Well if you have Vios and your Netflix is considered noticeable slow, or choppy. And say TWC plays netflix at faster speed. You just go, I am switching because my Netflix is too slow. It is faster with the competition.
Um... So what?
You can always use excess from a fixed power to charge up methods of storing energy for peak usage. Batteries, Flywheels, Converting Water to Hydrogen...
Vs. Wind and Solar when they are getting a very sunny or windy day, they take the extra energy and store it in different methods in case of peak usage.
The difference is Variance in Demand vs Variance in supply.
How many forests do you need to cut down for a Solar Farm, what if your area isn't particular windy. Nuclear benefit is that it can meet demand and be location neutral. Nuclear can replace Coal Power, Solar and Wind cannot. You can though have Solar, Wind and Nuclear, working together on the same grid, We can have many energy sources, and we really shouldn't stick to one.
Nuclear has a Toxic Side effects, that lasts a long time, so it shouldn't be maximized... That said it is better then what we are doing now.
HTTPS isn't end all be all in security.
It just encrypts your message and offers a secure authenticated certificate.
Your browser has a list of trusted authenicators.
So in terms of raw security it will just prevent people with a packet sniffer finding your information. Sure that is more secure, however most networks now have switches vs hubs which makes broadcast packets less common.
The site authenicators charge a lot of money for these certs, and most really don't do too much to verify their true identity, and some sites will used home made certs to save money... Especially if they are working with a smaller client base who knows to ignore the big alert from the browser.
Most of the breakins are due to people getting into the server via different ways (SQL injection, back doors on the server, back doors on an other server that has access to the existing server...) Where they can take your information from the servers. Or add malcode into the javascript where it could break other flaws in the browser, and get stuff from your own PC.
Also defaulting to HTTPS even if you don't request it. could cause other issues. The HTTP vs HTTPS site could be very different. HTTP may be your companies poster board, and the HTTPS is for access for the customer.
Sites like the Economist, Foreign Policy, and even the Wall Street Journal (At least pre News Corp). Are sites that give focused information into a particular area. You are getting information that it hard to get elsewhere.
The Times, or your local papers tend to be less indepth and that means you can find the same information almost anywhere.
Having prominent scientists going debate such things only gives credit to the group who pushes this stuff.
It isn't like he is going to change peoples mind here. As they can always go back to conspiracy reasoning, by calling him a lair, working with the atheists, or liberal agenda...
Also many Cloud Platforms are giving a Windows Option. As many companies move their Intranet stuff to the cloud, all those internal IIS may be considered hosted more publicly.
Combine with the fact that most of us in IT really don't care anymore. Windows Server and IIS have matured over the decade and for most stuff is good enough. Unlike the IIS 6 days where the system was just a open hole to attack.
Judging someone by his code, isn't a good judgement at all of their skill. They could be under intense pressure to get it done, or they meant it to be one time throwaway code, which then got added to. There is a slew of stuff that could happen to make it not the authors best work.
The idea that your coding style will peak in 6 months, is very scary to me, that means you are not open to learning or expanding your skills. The reason why your code may suck, is the fact you were not under the idea of the final usage of the project. Well lets hard code that variable or function Lets say a Converting Inches to Feet, only to have the company switch to metric or have it split after a few years. Or your method to do something was done before a new type of security break in method was discovered. I remember back when the buffer overflow hack was discovered, it was actually a radical approach at the time to break into software, and caused a lot of software to be rewritten because before the buffer overflow would just create an error, and the program expected a normal input. Also sometimes if you have a new algorithm you may not have been in the most optimal mind set at the time, trying to expand your code for changes that would never happen. Tones of stuff that can happen that will cause you to look back and go what was I thinking.
You should respect or at least treat him with respect, because causing a conflict with him will not be productive. If he is still there, he could be a resource to help comprehend something that is off. Also if the guy who is respected at the company doesn't like you, his word will have more pull then yours.
Lets face it, games will get old and out of date, game makers will not make much if any more money off the games, and should just release them to the public to enjoy.
Holding on to them figuring that at some point you will release a set of old games on your next version of media, means you are just allowing your product brand to deteriorate over this time and when you do release the customers will go what was that?
Lets say Activation who somehow now seems to own the Old Sierra Adventure games, releases these games for free as in beer. So people will play them/replay them again and share them with some friends... Then the brand image will improve King Gram with the feather in his cap, Roger Wilco in his inept adventures threw space and time, Our mighty hero in Quest for glory, in his world of Glorania. (Leasuresuit Larry is the exception as his brand seem to stay popular.)
That means there will be a defined actor and an world that will recognizable for future games, where they can make a ton of money off of.
Being able to talk clearly and directly, without the need to shout or use the special effects button all the time.
There is a good subset of NPR listeners who seem to dislike anything that is suppose to be entertaining. They are often political junkies, who are under the impression that politics is very important, and their political opponents must be absolutely evil, or stupid. They complain when ever NPR brings up anything slightly entertaining or presented in a funny way. With perhaps Harry Shearer as the exception because his humor is about pointing out the flaws of his political opponents who he portraits as absolutely evil or stupid.
I personally don't like Harry Shearer because other then the random music which is clever, his stuff is monotonous.
Nuclear Power - Bad
Olympics - Bad
Catholics - Bad
News Corp - Bad
The Army Core of Engineers - Really Really Really BAD!
Lets poke some fun of bad grammar from some people adhoc interviews.
And if someone of influence gets in trouble lets get their apology, and make it seem insincere.
However I am under the notion that information can be educational and entertaining at the same time. Wait Wait Don't Tell Me, is fairly good at that. It can poke fun at stuff without being all negative and mean about it. Prairie Home Companion, is mostly just for entertainment, and doesn't mean to hurt people.
The Political Junkies, think in order to be intelligent you need to be negative about it. So shows that don't do that, they get angry at and claim that it is too soft for them.
Well the free market still works, if you pay them too much, past their content amount, then you are outside of the supply and demand curve. Thus creating an artificial value for the work.
Single Stream is the way to go.
What do you think "Organic" food is grown from?
Manure has been a source for fertilizers for many centuries.
Human waste has the issues is the fact that Humans are a dirty animal, and our germs that makes us sick, will spread to make other people sick.
Well yes, there is a CEO shortage.
There are not to many people qualified and willing to operate a multi-billion dollar organization.
We had a Computer Science work shortage back in 2000. We had a bunch of students ready to graduate, but the government panicked from the numbers (This was under Clinton) and opened up the Visas for tech workers. Thus this created a glut of developers and by 2003, we had Visa Workers coming in, combined with newly Graduated students, which flooded the market and made it tough to get a job in IT. Causing a lot of Good IT workers to get laided off, due to a new source of cheap labor.
Now what did these disgruntled unemployed IT workers do. Some did productive things, and others opened the do for a large set of security problems.
Doing it for the money isn't as bad as you make it sound.
If you have to work hard to get an education to do a job that is harder, then you should get paid more then the average person.
Otherwise you might as well choose a degree that is easier and pays the same for job, and do your engineering as a hobby.
Here is the problem.
1. The poster is judging the person by his code. We all write code, and in a few years we look back and go, what the heck was I thinking.
2. Most home grown programs grow organically, so there isn't a strong strong infrastructure to it. This doesn't mean the maker was unskilled, or a bad programmer.
3. It was a learning process at the time.
So this is what you need to do.
1. Add what you feel is a good infrastructure to the project. It isn't that his code is bad, but we now have a newer way to do this, so it more manageable.
2. Look for what is good. Even in bad code there is often a lot of good parts to it. Take advantage of it, and be sure to keep it.
3. Document your changes, and explain them.
The guy is well respected in the organization, that is fine, you should respect him too. Being that you have been hired to maintain his code, means he doesn't want or cannot be bothered with it any more. That said, it is your baby now and you will need to raise it your way.
There are too many people who think being a good boss, is about being tough, and managing people like a machine. En essence the Traditional pre-2000 MBA, where it was designed for managing manufacturing jobs, not intellectual collaborative jobs.
I have to agree, this goes against everything that is said about good management. Most good MBA schools would disprove of this.
Why?
1. There is a calculated benefit towards (water cooler chats), this increases overall productivity, by allowing informal collaboration and knowledge exchange.
2. The issue between Introverted and Extroverted employees. An introverted employee in a meeting may seem very quite and engaged, however they are there listening and taking in the information, where they may come up with better solution later on. Extroverted may seem like they are engaged however they are just talking a lot of nonsense, and off topic, because they like talking.
3. Employee intensive is Work Environment + Pay. If they feel like their freedom is being taken away from them, it is equivalent to paying them less. If an employee feels like they are being paid fairly they will perform better then one who feels like they are not.
4. Synergy. How can you have Synergy if people are not working together, and knowing each others strengths and weaknesses?
This happens after every Windows release.
As most of Windows sales are based off of new PC sales, Microsoft tends to get a slow migration away from their old versions.
XP was out for nearly a full decade before Vista came out. So XP has a large install base, and what is unique now, is the fact that PC sales are starting to slump.
Out of all the complaining about windows 8, there are very little technical reasons, it is stable, windows 7 drivers seem to work well, it is even a bit faster than Windows 7. Most of the complains are an attempt to say, Its different! I DON'T LIKE DIFFERENT! IT SCARS ME!, in a more educated manner, or in a more hostile way where you try to sound like you are an authority on such things.
As People retire their old PC's Windows XP, and Windows 7 will slowly drop. Windows 8+ will take over. If not Windows 8 then Windows 9. Over time all these scary things will become common, and if they change to a different method we go back onto the loop.
I am sure many of you didn't have internet access when Windows 95 was released. All the ranting and complaining about the start bar. Who thinks hitting start to shutdown you computer is a good idea. What is with those delays to open up a menu item, it is slowing my productivity way down. That start button and that task bar takes up too much screen space...
Pre-HTML5 it was. Steve Jobs killed it on his anti-adobe rant for the iPhone.