That is already true. You don't have to buy a book in order to read it and gain information... There is a little known institution called a library and it has very little to do with software development. It is an interesting place where there is a lot of book and people enter it for free and they can either sit there and read the books or with some ID you can get permission to bring the book home and read it there for a period of time then return it when you are done. After you have read the book now for free obtain the information you know it. If you happen to forget something you may return to this library and relearn the information.
Now I believe that government and industry should be separate. However they shouldn't need to be opposing either. The money Professors make from book revenue is relatively sad (lunch money) The publishing company is the one who makes all the money and really defends the copyrights. And they are not the one getting the federal funding.
I don't know... Near the end of the Clinton Administrator Big gas guzzling SUV were all the rage and status symbols. At the end of the Bush Administration Small light hybrid cars were all the rage. In many ways the Bush administration threw "Tough Love" actually changed american behaviors more then any other president. Letting us go to far make huge mistakes and take the consequences, Seems to help alter our culture far better then just normal regulation where people just see it as Nanny state.
I can usually get 12 hours off my iPhone during heavy usage. Days on light use. I don't think that the iPhone is considered a low end power consuming device. I think it is just the case they need higher quality batteries in their device, where the current one probably made the phone a little cheaper. Granted CPU usage will overtake battery growth... Batteries tend to approve linearly while Computation increases exponentially. However these gloom and doom stories we hear over and over again, never really come into play. As we find workarounds, and the fact our needs have changed. For example on the old cell phones they use to have an analog/digital switch that took a lot of power. Most new phones today are all digital so we save energy. Perhaps when we get to the point most cell phones will work over VoIP so they don't need features for the normal calls and text messages. As well it can turn off its cell service when we are in HotSpots, saving more energy.
I can see whining and bitching about prices for things that we need to function in modern society. Homes, Transportation, energy, food etc... But video games just let the market decide what will happen if it is too expensive and you don't want to pay that amount then don't buy the game. It is only a game you don't need it. If you think you do then you are a shill to marketing.
Yes, No Open Source project has been abandoned with no succession and lets the project relatively die and by the time it needs to be picked up the code is so out of date that people will just start from scratch.
For the most part when a company goes out of business if they have a profitable product that has a decent following then some other company will buy it and keep it going or at least make a clean(er) path to migrate to their project.
For example I am working on a software project that uses the Advantage Database. Well guess what it is now own and maintained by SyBase. The risks of loosing you app are about the same for Open Source vs. closed source.
If people don't care for the app then it will most likely die. If there is a good following then it will succeed
The RMS Open Source business model doesn't lead to applications that have good intuitive interface or easy installation or configuration. Because they expect to make money in supporting and consulting their products.
Closed source software want to make money from selling their products to the people directly so they put effort in making it easier to use and setup.
YES THERE ARE EXCEPTIONS AND THIS IS A GENERALIZATION
However a lot of the "Enterprise class" Open Source software which does work just as well if not better then their Closed source counterparts do not have the well polished Interface to them that allows most people to be able to get it up and running much easier. Meaning having to pay for more expensive experts to use the software or pay for external sources to get it up and running.
Sometimes evolutionary traits come up early then the creature dies out only to be "re-evolved" later.
There sometimes seems to be a misunderstanding in evolution. Concepts the strongest survives, or evolution will only get better and better. Doesn't always fall true. One minor disadvantage could kill you out, allowing the weak creature to exist and thrive without your presence. Or even good traits that get killed off only to come back again.
Did you watch the video? They were not not dead-center front end. They were left half vs. right Half. Like one car was driving in the middle of the road.
Yes, the GRE does. And it is really odd that I scored 94th percentile in it... As my writing really sucks.
But I think there was a mistake in the grading. My Math Portion was where my Writing portion should be and my writing portion was where My Math should be.
And guess what it is not evil or excessive greed. Especially for VIDEO GAMES if you can't afford it then don't buy it, you won't be harmed from not buying such a product. Now if it is a product that people need to function in modern society and the price is too high then there is a problem. But if it isn't let it be priced as high they think the market can bare.
Apple came along and raised the bar very high. Fan of apple or not. In terms of Mobile OS they raised the bar very high for mobile app developers of competing products and sadly Windows Mobile was just trying to be good enough for blackberry users.
I would say more I would like to see this chapter to end. You can't expect all companies to have a moral compass. That is why you needs laws and regulations. So when the US Governments goes and puts pressor to the Telecom companies, what would you do... Really and honest here... Are you willing to say no and have the government (which at the time was considered unstoppable) go after you. Or are you going to say yea lets go.
A willing Pawn is still a pawn. If you are going to sue you should sue the people who pressured the telecoms to do so. Because we can't and shouldn't expect them to do what is right. Especially with all their money and investments having a goverment OK on it. (you know those cell towers and telephone poles all have to have government OK at some level) so Fighting them really isn't much an option as they could just as easy go to say Well Verizon helped us and you didn't so I think I will OK Verizon to have the towers put up. So in short the Risk of saying No was really too high. (sure Google said no, they suffered low stock for a few months, but they don't have government ties like the other Telecoms do)
When a company does a price cut is is because their not as competitive as before. Now you either cut the price or make a new product. I own a Wii and it is my only game console. However... It still lacks in video processing. I know that.
I am just stating it is time for the Wii to update itself vs. just lowering costs. Even compared to the XBox and PS3 its technical processing was a bit behind when it came out. As time has passed on it is even further behind.
So you want your boss to double check everything you do? No You want a degree of professional trust.
No deadlines and giving developers free will create a product that will never be finished.
Good management bad management people will get stressed and will make mistakes. There are some libraries that are GNU are very complete and could take weeks/months/years to build from scratch. Commercial versions of these libraries can be thousands of dollars. Your business model doesn't work well with the GNU, where support/distribution/consulting services wouldn't pay the bills. So you have the following options...
1. Open Source your software and loose money 2. Purchase the expensive libraries and integrate them. Now approval may not get past the bean counters, or the fact it is a lot of work that code monkeys hate trying to justify paying a lot of money for a product. 3. Put the open source in and hope know one will find out. 4. Make your own library taking a lot of man hours, and possibly pissing off the customer who is waiting for the product. 5. Contact the maker of the library and beg for a license that will work for you. (which may be difficult as if they made a library GPL vs. LGPL means they are probably very anal on the GPL) 6. Make as much money as possible if they ask for the source code you fax it to them, with the code officiated.
The Wii when it was sold a couple years ago was already behind the time in terms of graphics and performance. Today it is that much further behind. It is in really need for an upgrade. Granted I am not a hardcore gammer and I don't think graphics are the most important part to good gaming. However its graphics are a bit early 2000 compared to what the other guys have.
While it is good to see that the GPL has enough mussel to prevent abuse. However it will also make people feel worried about using GPL software, and possibly being suied from honest mistakes. If you are non-Open Source zealot and doesn't read the GPL like the bible. It is a lot of stuff to take in and understand. And unless you want to pay a lot of money for lawers you may be better off purchasing software and creating closed source apps. As you are more protected.
People are resistant to change. But change is good. So in order to get people to change you need to... Unfreeze them. Either you really need to convince them that it is better or do something that just makes it mandatory, no way out. Help them out during the change. Make sure they do go back, get them to believe the advtangages in the change or suffer the consequences (running an unsupported browser) Refreeze this part is normally really missing in the Tech area. People should have time to really get use to it and be comfortable with it, and learn to really love it again.
No more less graceful then an ordinary airplane on a windy day. It just looks more wobbly because of its bulk. That and I am sure because it is a brand new aircraft it is not flown by pilots who have decades of experience flying such an aircraft or something simular.
It really isn't about the elements that they use but how they implement it.
Ribbons for some apps can greatly improve the UI. Menus for other apps can do the same.
Bad Ribbons can make things really bad. So can bad Menus.
I like to compare Ubuntu vs. OS X. Ubuntu has all the GUI tricks and a lot more then OS X. However OS X still gets praises for being an excellent UI outside the Linux Zealot range even outside the Mac Fanboy range. Why because Apple spent a lot of time, much more the most Open Source Projects dedicate to. For using the right element to portrait the right job. Now Firefox is going to use Ribbons. Ill wait until I see if before I pass judgement.
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That is already true. You don't have to buy a book in order to read it and gain information... There is a little known institution called a library and it has very little to do with software development. It is an interesting place where there is a lot of book and people enter it for free and they can either sit there and read the books or with some ID you can get permission to bring the book home and read it there for a period of time then return it when you are done. After you have read the book now for free obtain the information you know it. If you happen to forget something you may return to this library and relearn the information.
Now I believe that government and industry should be separate. However they shouldn't need to be opposing either. The money Professors make from book revenue is relatively sad (lunch money) The publishing company is the one who makes all the money and really defends the copyrights. And they are not the one getting the federal funding.
I don't know... Near the end of the Clinton Administrator Big gas guzzling SUV were all the rage and status symbols. At the end of the Bush Administration Small light hybrid cars were all the rage. In many ways the Bush administration threw "Tough Love" actually changed american behaviors more then any other president. Letting us go to far make huge mistakes and take the consequences, Seems to help alter our culture far better then just normal regulation where people just see it as Nanny state.
I can usually get 12 hours off my iPhone during heavy usage. Days on light use. I don't think that the iPhone is considered a low end power consuming device. I think it is just the case they need higher quality batteries in their device, where the current one probably made the phone a little cheaper. Granted CPU usage will overtake battery growth... Batteries tend to approve linearly while Computation increases exponentially. However these gloom and doom stories we hear over and over again, never really come into play. As we find workarounds, and the fact our needs have changed. For example on the old cell phones they use to have an analog/digital switch that took a lot of power. Most new phones today are all digital so we save energy. Perhaps when we get to the point most cell phones will work over VoIP so they don't need features for the normal calls and text messages. As well it can turn off its cell service when we are in HotSpots, saving more energy.
Don't play the game. It is only a game.
I can see whining and bitching about prices for things that we need to function in modern society. Homes, Transportation, energy, food etc... But video games just let the market decide what will happen if it is too expensive and you don't want to pay that amount then don't buy the game. It is only a game you don't need it. If you think you do then you are a shill to marketing.
Yes, No Open Source project has been abandoned with no succession and lets the project relatively die and by the time it needs to be picked up the code is so out of date that people will just start from scratch.
For the most part when a company goes out of business if they have a profitable product that has a decent following then some other company will buy it and keep it going or at least make a clean(er) path to migrate to their project.
For example I am working on a software project that uses the Advantage Database. Well guess what it is now own and maintained by SyBase. The risks of loosing you app are about the same for Open Source vs. closed source.
If people don't care for the app then it will most likely die. If there is a good following then it will succeed
The RMS Open Source business model doesn't lead to applications that have good intuitive interface or easy installation or configuration. Because they expect to make money in supporting and consulting their products.
Closed source software want to make money from selling their products to the people directly so they put effort in making it easier to use and setup.
YES THERE ARE EXCEPTIONS AND THIS IS A GENERALIZATION
However a lot of the "Enterprise class" Open Source software which does work just as well if not better then their Closed source counterparts do not have the well polished Interface to them that allows most people to be able to get it up and running much easier. Meaning having to pay for more expensive experts to use the software or pay for external sources to get it up and running.
Well... it is both.
It could also be a dead end in development.
Sometimes evolutionary traits come up early then the creature dies out only to be "re-evolved" later.
There sometimes seems to be a misunderstanding in evolution. Concepts the strongest survives, or evolution will only get better and better. Doesn't always fall true. One minor disadvantage could kill you out, allowing the weak creature to exist and thrive without your presence. Or even good traits that get killed off only to come back again.
Did you watch the video? They were not not dead-center front end. They were left half vs. right Half. Like one car was driving in the middle of the road.
Well yes and no
Yes, the GRE does. And it is really odd that I scored 94th percentile in it... As my writing really sucks.
But I think there was a mistake in the grading. My Math Portion was where my Writing portion should be and my writing portion was where My Math should be.
And guess what it is not evil or excessive greed. Especially for VIDEO GAMES if you can't afford it then don't buy it, you won't be harmed from not buying such a product. Now if it is a product that people need to function in modern society and the price is too high then there is a problem. But if it isn't let it be priced as high they think the market can bare.
Thank god too. Engineers write horrible code. They just think they are good.
Apple came along and raised the bar very high. Fan of apple or not. In terms of Mobile OS they raised the bar very high for mobile app developers of competing products and sadly Windows Mobile was just trying to be good enough for blackberry users.
Hey I know a genuine Penephonics when I see one.
I would say more I would like to see this chapter to end.
You can't expect all companies to have a moral compass. That is why you needs laws and regulations. So when the US Governments goes and puts pressor to the Telecom companies, what would you do... Really and honest here...
Are you willing to say no and have the government (which at the time was considered unstoppable) go after you. Or are you going to say yea lets go.
A willing Pawn is still a pawn. If you are going to sue you should sue the people who pressured the telecoms to do so. Because we can't and shouldn't expect them to do what is right. Especially with all their money and investments having a goverment OK on it. (you know those cell towers and telephone poles all have to have government OK at some level) so Fighting them really isn't much an option as they could just as easy go to say Well Verizon helped us and you didn't so I think I will OK Verizon to have the towers put up. So in short the Risk of saying No was really too high. (sure Google said no, they suffered low stock for a few months, but they don't have government ties like the other Telecoms do)
What the heck kinda meaningless rant is that?
When a company does a price cut is is because their not as competitive as before. Now you either cut the price or make a new product. I own a Wii and it is my only game console. However... It still lacks in video processing. I know that.
I am just stating it is time for the Wii to update itself vs. just lowering costs. Even compared to the XBox and PS3 its technical processing was a bit behind when it came out. As time has passed on it is even further behind.
So you want your boss to double check everything you do? No You want a degree of professional trust.
No deadlines and giving developers free will create a product that will never be finished.
Good management bad management people will get stressed and will make mistakes. There are some libraries that are GNU are very complete and could take weeks/months/years to build from scratch. Commercial versions of these libraries can be thousands of dollars. Your business model doesn't work well with the GNU, where support/distribution/consulting services wouldn't pay the bills. So you have the following options...
1. Open Source your software and loose money
2. Purchase the expensive libraries and integrate them. Now approval may not get past the bean counters, or the fact it is a lot of work that code monkeys hate trying to justify paying a lot of money for a product.
3. Put the open source in and hope know one will find out.
4. Make your own library taking a lot of man hours, and possibly pissing off the customer who is waiting for the product.
5. Contact the maker of the library and beg for a license that will work for you. (which may be difficult as if they made a library GPL vs. LGPL means they are probably very anal on the GPL)
6. Make as much money as possible if they ask for the source code you fax it to them, with the code officiated.
The Wii when it was sold a couple years ago was already behind the time in terms of graphics and performance. Today it is that much further behind. It is in really need for an upgrade. Granted I am not a hardcore gammer and I don't think graphics are the most important part to good gaming. However its graphics are a bit early 2000 compared to what the other guys have.
While it is good to see that the GPL has enough mussel to prevent abuse. However it will also make people feel worried about using GPL software, and possibly being suied from honest mistakes. If you are non-Open Source zealot and doesn't read the GPL like the bible. It is a lot of stuff to take in and understand. And unless you want to pay a lot of money for lawers you may be better off purchasing software and creating closed source apps. As you are more protected.
I don't know.
If someone uses retval for the return value they must be stealing my code.
Dear Microsoft,
ActiveX.
I told you back in the 90's it was a bad idea. So did the rest of us. But did you listen... No.
People are resistant to change. But change is good. So in order to get people to change you need to...
Unfreeze them. Either you really need to convince them that it is better or do something that just makes it mandatory, no way out.
Help them out during the change. Make sure they do go back, get them to believe the advtangages in the change or suffer the consequences (running an unsupported browser)
Refreeze this part is normally really missing in the Tech area. People should have time to really get use to it and be comfortable with it, and learn to really love it again.
No more less graceful then an ordinary airplane on a windy day. It just looks more wobbly because of its bulk. That and I am sure because it is a brand new aircraft it is not flown by pilots who have decades of experience flying such an aircraft or something simular.
It really isn't about the elements that they use but how they implement it.
Ribbons for some apps can greatly improve the UI.
Menus for other apps can do the same.
Bad Ribbons can make things really bad.
So can bad Menus.
I like to compare Ubuntu vs. OS X.
Ubuntu has all the GUI tricks and a lot more then OS X. However OS X still gets praises for being an excellent UI outside the Linux Zealot range even outside the Mac Fanboy range. Why because Apple spent a lot of time, much more the most Open Source Projects dedicate to. For using the right element to portrait the right job.
Now Firefox is going to use Ribbons. Ill wait until I see if before I pass judgement.