I have a Generation 1 iPhone when I am doing a lot of browsing over edge or WiFi it gets noticeably warm too. Not Hot just warm. It is probably just the CPU heating up from the extra work. the 3G S cpu probably had some variation in its manufacture or during the iphone manufacture process a step was missed or the wrong quantity was used, or just replaced with a different part that seemed equal but had issues. Perhaps the overheating iPhones actually go faster then the non-overheating ones.
Everything is bad and evil going on. Does he ever turn off his soap box and see the good things in the world. He had his time and used to be relevant in the past, now his rants are getting old and tired. This is bad that is bad... Chill man!
There is a difference between Vigilance and Paranoia. You don't cross the line between good and bad by walking towards that line.
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But yet you lack the skills to use the block quote correctly.
That you you failed to understand that this is a generalization. Generalizations mean there is very few people who fit all the parts however they show these trends as an overall group. And these overall factors makes that group in general hard to work with.
Having a High IQ doesn't make you expert. So what if the Dr job is tougher and requires more brains then an IT guy. I never said it didn't but you can't go well I am smart and use that as an excuse to ignore the wisdom from the less smart people. I have learned a lot of new methods from programming and UI design not from PHD and Professors and experts but from those guys who work in the factory floor. They see how something is done they will tell you it is a bad idea and why. Not because they are smarter then me but because they know what is going on in their area, and my job is to make it better for them.
I never said there isn't openSource tools out but a lot of practices would much rather pay for a company to back it up. If they go out of business then they either find someone will support it or get a different system. If they want to they can use OpenSource tools. No one is stopping them. However most of them want real support in the back end.
Yes EMRs cost a lot, but they are expected to do a lot, and oddly enough in the commercial world there are more expensive apps that do similar things **COUGH** SAP **COUGH**, that makes EMR software seem like a sweet deal. The issue with EMR systems isn't adoption because of the price, it is because a lot of doctors and their staff are afraid to use it. And much rather say it is a crappy product then bother taking the proper training to learn how to use it for it full advantage.
Finally why should you even Care if it open source or not. You should care more if it follows open standards. Does it handle HL7 properly, can it export or import data cleanly. Those are real issues that you should be concerned about. Not the source code which very few of the end users will be modifying or even reading.
Well those people weren't working with Microsoft. It is not personal it is only business. You need to remember that. And at the same time you can be competing and working with the same company/group.
For example we my company is a major reseller of software of a particular company (who isn't Microsoft). However our customers want a lot of customization to the product. The parent company who we purchase the software from will be more then happy to do the alterations, however we do it, because we feel we can get it done faster and sell it cheaper then that company does. This company knows we do this and will compete with us for that business. However they have not even attempted to try to cut our discounts or advantage of reselling their software or tried to stop us from making such modifications. You can compete and still be civil to each other. If hard competition where there is name calling, it is just business not personal.
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If you would read the wording carefully. Yes I am generalizing. Heck here is my first statement. "Medical Doctors are in General very difficult to work with"
There are exceptions there are good ones and bad ones. Some are better at X and others better at Y. But you get an average after you put it all together. Each person is unique and have special quality. But... If you are going to do work for the sector you need to be prepared to deal with the generalization.
Sure IT guys have their own issues. Different issues. So what, that is the cost of business when you need to deal with IT guys. However as you said "Med school 6 years, intern x 2 yrs, specialty training 5 years. I have been studying for some exam or the other during the entire period." It doesn't mean you are well trained in other stuff. And DR love to wave how hard they work for their degrees and try to make people who didn't work hard for a piece of paper, seem some how inferior.
As for the EMR systems, being big and complex. Well yes they are big and complex systems. If you work for a company and try SAP you will see that these EMR systems are a piece of cake, and cheap too.
I never stated it was a get rich quick. However it is a path to get rich in. Vs. a teacher or a social worker. There are people who are in it for the money only... sorry.
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Medical Doctors are in General very difficult to work with. There are a lot of factors...
1. Society says they are the smartest people around. They think that too. So when they go out of their area of expertise and they don't know exactly what is happening, they will avoid trying to learn about it but become defensive about it. And will not give respect to people who do know about such areas and let them ask the right questions so they can fix the problem. I have had Doctors yell at me, when I call them and say, "I hear you are having some problems with the system, could you explain them to me so I can see how I can fix it?" just as themselves will go to a patient and ask a similar question even when they have the problem written down as for the reason for the appointment. This makes them high maintenance and people don't necessarily want to deal with them. House may be a cool TV show, but you really wouldn't want to with him.
2. Doctors are trained in medical not business, they are MDs not MBAs. Yet a lot of them run their own practice and need to deal with all the business of running the practice and not working on the medicine. Many practices are so overworked that they don't have time to analyze or listen to ideas that will improve their practice.
3. Most practices are small business. Good EMR and PM (Practice Management) system are not cheap (like most professional apps), and there is a sticker shock for paying thousands of dollars for software, even for a glorified access database. They feel like they are getting ripped off by paying such high prices for software. So they will go with their crappy methods before getting ripped off.
4. Open Source is not an option. Sorry Open Source fans. In a career where you can get sued in an instant you need somewhere to point the lawyers away from you. (Hence part of the high cost for medical software) Yes this is a lame excuse for Microsoft (who makes general use software) but for specialty software companies they are under the guns of lawyers all the time.
5. MD are known to make a lot of money. This doesn't always attract good, nice, or even smart people. Remember "What do you call the person who graduated with the lowest score in Med School?" answer "Doctor". A lot of people are just in it for the money. They may say they like helping people but they are in it for the money (How a lot of doctors in California will prescribe "medical marijuana" for "problems sleeping") They will be so tight with their money and be blind to all benefits such systems will have, and will not pay unless things work the way THEY want it to.
6. Uneducated staff. For most practices you will have 1 or 2 doctors 1 or 2 nurses (with Associates or BA degrees) then a staff of 4 or 5 with High School degrees. That staff runs the business for the most part. They lack the patience or discipline to learn such technologies and to use it for its best advantage. Also many of them feel sub adequate (as they need to deal with the high egos of the Doctors) so they are afraid to ask questions or point out problems.
I am fairly sure default wasn't originally intended as the "configurable initial state". But more of a "Safe Mode" settings where things can work and you can put your configurations back. So default was actually a state when an error occurred. However over time people started to realize for most of their usage the default configuration was rather optimal for their needs thus started to change the meaning of the word from a failure state to a preconfigured initial state.
Like with normal wind energy it is a problem of distribution vs. quantity. Fossil Fuel and Nuclear power have the advantage in portability. As any electrical engineer knows that electricity when it goes threw a wire (which isn't in a super conductive state) will loose energy to heat over the lines, as the lines provide resistance for the electric current. So until we can find a way to make long distance lines that are super conductive in a warm condition (warm meaning dry ice warm, vs. Liquid Helium 5 degrees kelvin)
There is the main question of HD DVD in terms of branding. The rise of DVD and High Def TV, were in general one of the same.
Most people think High Def with wide screen. And for most people just as long as it is wide screen they woudln't know the difference. (unless they are back to back). So for the standard population do you own HD DVD. Do they have a High Def TV and a DVD player... Sure.
Blueray on the other hand you have to know what you are buying, and some don't know the PS3 has that ability. So they say no they don't.
So you have people sayign yes to HD-DVD while they don't and people saying No to blueray when they do.
It seems like the Major Linux Distributions have put effort into fancy eye candy for eye candy sake not for usability sake. There are so many details that the Linux community has never really considered to make a major part of the distributions. It has 2 main targets, the complete Idiot user, and the expert user. Between that gap there is really a big hole.
Just recently I needed to switch my network settings from DHCP to a Static IP address. For Windows and a Mac that is a simple task. Fill out the form and it checks for bad input and and the changes go live. For Ubuntu, after digging threw the GUI settings, I had to go to the terminal and put the changes in interfaces file. While I have been using Linux for about 15 years, it wasn't that big of a deal, but still it was annoying that there wasn't a GUI where I could quickly change the setting, while focusing on putting in the right data. Not remembering the name to use for the configuration file, or the format is just an annoyance for tasks that you may not do every day or every month, heck or every year. For this case I was glad I had my iPhone where I could do a quick reference.
There is a gap that is very slowly filling in Linux for people who know how to use a computer however they don't want to remember outdated command lines and poorly documented config file just so they can get work done.
Not all applications need to be nicely polished. They need to be useful. I think you are missing what all those apps were in the past. You would need a program to Access Slashdot content. Then an other to access Dig Content. Then you would need an other program to check your bank accounts. All these would probable be made for one OS.
Aren't games made for entrainment as its primary goal. If the person is getting frustrated at one spot the game looses its entertainment values and because an obsession or not worth the time. Now they may loose the reward of actually getting pass that point. But that is up to them. Sometimes in games there are spots that you just can't quite get threw, say an action sequence in an adventure game, or that one spot where you can't make the jump. Having a cheat to get threw it is helpful.
Traditional apps back in charge That is my favorite part. Lets go back to tape and punch-cards. I think we have forgotten all the pain of the good old days of your PC full of crappy Apps. Sorry but these Web Applications independent on the web browser has made life so much easier for us. Windows users who's system isn't full of random crap. Linux/Unix/Mac users who have access to a slew of services that we wouldn't otherwise.
We need lighter Browsers that are more standard compliment then heavy ones adding new features that we don't need.
Well there is a balance. If you are too harmful towards business. Then we wont have jobs at all. And you think our economy is bad now, it would be a lot worse. If you go too pro-business then workers, environment... would be too abused for advancements in our societies.
There is an optimal spot. But this spot moves around, every year month. Sometimes we need more rules to help businesses sometimes more to help people. However our system of laws to really to static to hit the target and stay there for long.
Am I the only one who find this a problem. It seems when ever someone who wasn't a lawyer tries to run for office they are declared unfit and unprepared for such work.
However I am a software developer. I see problems and solve them like a software developer (I try to find the root cause of the problem, find where it does work and add an exception for where it strays). I know engineers when they see problems they solve them like engineers (They try to redo the full problem so it works for all cases). I know teacher when they see problems they treat it like a teacher. (They try to retrain the person to avoid getting into such problems) I know accountants when they see problems they treat it like an accountant. (The find areas which need less or more resources)...
I would think if our government had more diverse set of politicians we may be able to actually fix our problems in our society vs. just doing the same thing. Oh lets add new laws where laws are not needed. Lets think like the accountant and the teacher and the engineer and the software developer. Find the root cause fix it so it works more completely put the correct funding to it and train the public to avoid the pitfalls.
Going small also means you will be wearing a lot of hats too. Except for going for a degree In Computer Science (Unless it is really a passion of your) I would suggest getting Project Management Professional (PMP) Certified. That way you have the ability (on your resume) to handle and manage many small tasks.
I remember back in early 2000 or late 1990 there was a school that got some heat for having a class on pornography. However like most college classes that sound cool. They find a way to make it dull and boring the history and studying what was considered pornographic through out the ages, how the cultures of the time treaded and perceived it. So unless you are a knee man. I doubt it would be that fun.
Yes. That guys breakdown had some things in It that think some people would find objectionable.
Use of commercial software or big commercial game engines Why can't Indie game maker use such a stuff. So lets say it cost $2,000 to license the software. That is about as much as a good computer. So he has a crappy computer and uses software that makes programming a bit easier (as he is just an Indie developer and doesn't have the money for programming staff (The last time I checked $2k fixed cost or even annually is cheaper hiring someone at $35k+ a year)
Telling a story in a game Um why if you game follows a story then it does. If it doesn't then don't. A lot of games have a really lame story anyways just enough to make you feel morally justified to kill everything in sight. It is not like you need a huge work force to come up with a story.
Visuals that are too high-end and pretty So the Indie developer is not an Indie developer if they are a talented artist? I found out I could come up with some really fancy stuff with tinkering with Pov-Ray for a day.
Use of 3D Yea the concept of the Z axis makes things so much more complex that you need a huge team of developers what is it the 1980's. I was messing with 3d drawing algorithms as a kid once I learned about some trig and the inverse square rule.
Making a game that is mainstream and commercially viable (No first-person shooters) So if an indie game is actually popular. Like in music and movies every once in a while an Indie title comes out that really catches on.
Desire for financial success Why can't you do what you love, and make money too?
Lack of distain for authority and publishers So you need to be a miserable bastard too?
Not high enough quality So you can't do things that can make you game high quality. However you need to make it high quality. Yea... I think I will write my TPS reports now.
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The 20k toilet seat. Wasn't because company A sold it to the government for 20k. It was from all the bureaucracy that went to approve it.
I have a Generation 1 iPhone when I am doing a lot of browsing over edge or WiFi it gets noticeably warm too. Not Hot just warm. It is probably just the CPU heating up from the extra work. the 3G S cpu probably had some variation in its manufacture or during the iphone manufacture process a step was missed or the wrong quantity was used, or just replaced with a different part that seemed equal but had issues. Perhaps the overheating iPhones actually go faster then the non-overheating ones.
Until people start hacking these and needs more power. Then starts going for human flesh.
Shh. We want our choice of our default install to be the winner so we look like we are smarter then people who actually chose something else.
If they gave everyone full speed how will they sell upgrades?
Everything is bad and evil going on. Does he ever turn off his soap box and see the good things in the world. He had his time and used to be relevant in the past, now his rants are getting old and tired. This is bad that is bad... Chill man!
There is a difference between Vigilance and Paranoia. You don't cross the line between good and bad by walking towards that line.
But yet you lack the skills to use the block quote correctly.
That you you failed to understand that this is a generalization. Generalizations mean there is very few people who fit all the parts however they show these trends as an overall group. And these overall factors makes that group in general hard to work with.
Having a High IQ doesn't make you expert. So what if the Dr job is tougher and requires more brains then an IT guy. I never said it didn't but you can't go well I am smart and use that as an excuse to ignore the wisdom from the less smart people. I have learned a lot of new methods from programming and UI design not from PHD and Professors and experts but from those guys who work in the factory floor. They see how something is done they will tell you it is a bad idea and why. Not because they are smarter then me but because they know what is going on in their area, and my job is to make it better for them.
I never said there isn't openSource tools out but a lot of practices would much rather pay for a company to back it up. If they go out of business then they either find someone will support it or get a different system. If they want to they can use OpenSource tools. No one is stopping them. However most of them want real support in the back end.
Yes EMRs cost a lot, but they are expected to do a lot, and oddly enough in the commercial world there are more expensive apps that do similar things **COUGH** SAP **COUGH**, that makes EMR software seem like a sweet deal. The issue with EMR systems isn't adoption because of the price, it is because a lot of doctors and their staff are afraid to use it. And much rather say it is a crappy product then bother taking the proper training to learn how to use it for it full advantage.
Finally why should you even Care if it open source or not. You should care more if it follows open standards. Does it handle HL7 properly, can it export or import data cleanly. Those are real issues that you should be concerned about. Not the source code which very few of the end users will be modifying or even reading.
Well those people weren't working with Microsoft. It is not personal it is only business. You need to remember that. And at the same time you can be competing and working with the same company/group.
For example we my company is a major reseller of software of a particular company (who isn't Microsoft). However our customers want a lot of customization to the product. The parent company who we purchase the software from will be more then happy to do the alterations, however we do it, because we feel we can get it done faster and sell it cheaper then that company does. This company knows we do this and will compete with us for that business. However they have not even attempted to try to cut our discounts or advantage of reselling their software or tried to stop us from making such modifications. You can compete and still be civil to each other. If hard competition where there is name calling, it is just business not personal.
If you would read the wording carefully. Yes I am generalizing.
Heck here is my first statement. "Medical Doctors are in General very difficult to work with"
There are exceptions there are good ones and bad ones. Some are better at X and others better at Y. But you get an average after you put it all together. Each person is unique and have special quality. But... If you are going to do work for the sector you need to be prepared to deal with the generalization.
Sure IT guys have their own issues. Different issues. So what, that is the cost of business when you need to deal with IT guys. However as you said "Med school 6 years, intern x 2 yrs, specialty training 5 years. I have been studying for some exam or the other during the entire period." It doesn't mean you are well trained in other stuff. And DR love to wave how hard they work for their degrees and try to make people who didn't work hard for a piece of paper, seem some how inferior.
As for the EMR systems, being big and complex. Well yes they are big and complex systems. If you work for a company and try SAP you will see that these EMR systems are a piece of cake, and cheap too.
I never stated it was a get rich quick. However it is a path to get rich in. Vs. a teacher or a social worker. There are people who are in it for the money only... sorry.
Medical Doctors are in General very difficult to work with. There are a lot of factors...
1. Society says they are the smartest people around. They think that too. So when they go out of their area of expertise and they don't know exactly what is happening, they will avoid trying to learn about it but become defensive about it. And will not give respect to people who do know about such areas and let them ask the right questions so they can fix the problem. I have had Doctors yell at me, when I call them and say, "I hear you are having some problems with the system, could you explain them to me so I can see how I can fix it?" just as themselves will go to a patient and ask a similar question even when they have the problem written down as for the reason for the appointment. This makes them high maintenance and people don't necessarily want to deal with them. House may be a cool TV show, but you really wouldn't want to with him.
2. Doctors are trained in medical not business, they are MDs not MBAs. Yet a lot of them run their own practice and need to deal with all the business of running the practice and not working on the medicine. Many practices are so overworked that they don't have time to analyze or listen to ideas that will improve their practice.
3. Most practices are small business. Good EMR and PM (Practice Management) system are not cheap (like most professional apps), and there is a sticker shock for paying thousands of dollars for software, even for a glorified access database. They feel like they are getting ripped off by paying such high prices for software. So they will go with their crappy methods before getting ripped off.
4. Open Source is not an option. Sorry Open Source fans. In a career where you can get sued in an instant you need somewhere to point the lawyers away from you. (Hence part of the high cost for medical software) Yes this is a lame excuse for Microsoft (who makes general use software) but for specialty software companies they are under the guns of lawyers all the time.
5. MD are known to make a lot of money. This doesn't always attract good, nice, or even smart people. Remember "What do you call the person who graduated with the lowest score in Med School?" answer "Doctor". A lot of people are just in it for the money. They may say they like helping people but they are in it for the money (How a lot of doctors in California will prescribe "medical marijuana" for "problems sleeping") They will be so tight with their money and be blind to all benefits such systems will have, and will not pay unless things work the way THEY want it to.
6. Uneducated staff. For most practices you will have 1 or 2 doctors 1 or 2 nurses (with Associates or BA degrees) then a staff of 4 or 5 with High School degrees. That staff runs the business for the most part. They lack the patience or discipline to learn such technologies and to use it for its best advantage. Also many of them feel sub adequate (as they need to deal with the high egos of the Doctors) so they are afraid to ask questions or point out problems.
I am fairly sure default wasn't originally intended as the "configurable initial state". But more of a "Safe Mode" settings where things can work and you can put your configurations back. So default was actually a state when an error occurred. However over time people started to realize for most of their usage the default configuration was rather optimal for their needs thus started to change the meaning of the word from a failure state to a preconfigured initial state.
Like with normal wind energy it is a problem of distribution vs. quantity. Fossil Fuel and Nuclear power have the advantage in portability. As any electrical engineer knows that electricity when it goes threw a wire (which isn't in a super conductive state) will loose energy to heat over the lines, as the lines provide resistance for the electric current. So until we can find a way to make long distance lines that are super conductive in a warm condition (warm meaning dry ice warm, vs. Liquid Helium 5 degrees kelvin)
There is the main question of HD DVD in terms of branding.
The rise of DVD and High Def TV, were in general one of the same.
Most people think High Def with wide screen. And for most people just as long as it is wide screen they woudln't know the difference. (unless they are back to back). So for the standard population do you own HD DVD. Do they have a High Def TV and a DVD player... Sure.
Blueray on the other hand you have to know what you are buying, and some don't know the PS3 has that ability. So they say no they don't.
So you have people sayign yes to HD-DVD while they don't and people saying No to blueray when they do.
Actually it can.
Lets compare company A and Company B
Company A will never use foreign workers.
Company B will.
Lets say they both start out equal. With 2 employees.
Year 1
Company A has 2 native employees averaging 50k per employee
Company B has 1 native and 1 foreign employee averaging 30k per employee
Each employee Generates 75k a year of revenue.
Giving company A 50k in profit. and B 95k in profit.
Year 2
Company A only has money to hire 1 employee as it is all they can afford.
Company B now hires 1 American and and 1 foreign.
Company A get 75k in profit, B now get 180k in profit.
Year 3
Company A hires 1 American Worker.
Company B hires 3 American Workers and 3 Foreign.
So A has 4 American Workers. And is a company size of 4 employees.
And B has 5 American Workers. And is a company size of 10 employees.
Are you starting to see the trend now?
It seems like the Major Linux Distributions have put effort into fancy eye candy for eye candy sake not for usability sake. There are so many details that the Linux community has never really considered to make a major part of the distributions. It has 2 main targets, the complete Idiot user, and the expert user. Between that gap there is really a big hole.
Just recently I needed to switch my network settings from DHCP to a Static IP address. For Windows and a Mac that is a simple task. Fill out the form and it checks for bad input and and the changes go live. For Ubuntu, after digging threw the GUI settings, I had to go to the terminal and put the changes in interfaces file. While I have been using Linux for about 15 years, it wasn't that big of a deal, but still it was annoying that there wasn't a GUI where I could quickly change the setting, while focusing on putting in the right data. Not remembering the name to use for the configuration file, or the format is just an annoyance for tasks that you may not do every day or every month, heck or every year. For this case I was glad I had my iPhone where I could do a quick reference.
There is a gap that is very slowly filling in Linux for people who know how to use a computer however they don't want to remember outdated command lines and poorly documented config file just so they can get work done.
Not all applications need to be nicely polished. They need to be useful. I think you are missing what all those apps were in the past. You would need a program to Access Slashdot content. Then an other to access Dig Content. Then you would need an other program to check your bank accounts. All these would probable be made for one OS.
Aren't games made for entrainment as its primary goal. If the person is getting frustrated at one spot the game looses its entertainment values and because an obsession or not worth the time. Now they may loose the reward of actually getting pass that point. But that is up to them. Sometimes in games there are spots that you just can't quite get threw, say an action sequence in an adventure game, or that one spot where you can't make the jump. Having a cheat to get threw it is helpful.
Traditional apps back in charge
That is my favorite part. Lets go back to tape and punch-cards. I think we have forgotten all the pain of the good old days of your PC full of crappy Apps. Sorry but these Web Applications independent on the web browser has made life so much easier for us. Windows users who's system isn't full of random crap. Linux/Unix/Mac users who have access to a slew of services that we wouldn't otherwise.
We need lighter Browsers that are more standard compliment then heavy ones adding new features that we don't need.
Well there is a balance.
If you are too harmful towards business. Then we wont have jobs at all. And you think our economy is bad now, it would be a lot worse.
If you go too pro-business then workers, environment... would be too abused for advancements in our societies.
There is an optimal spot. But this spot moves around, every year month. Sometimes we need more rules to help businesses sometimes more to help people. However our system of laws to really to static to hit the target and stay there for long.
Aren't most politicians use to be lawyers.
Am I the only one who find this a problem.
It seems when ever someone who wasn't a lawyer tries to run for office they are declared unfit and unprepared for such work.
However I am a software developer. ...
I see problems and solve them like a software developer (I try to find the root cause of the problem, find where it does work and add an exception for where it strays).
I know engineers when they see problems they solve them like engineers (They try to redo the full problem so it works for all cases).
I know teacher when they see problems they treat it like a teacher. (They try to retrain the person to avoid getting into such problems)
I know accountants when they see problems they treat it like an accountant. (The find areas which need less or more resources)
I would think if our government had more diverse set of politicians we may be able to actually fix our problems in our society vs. just doing the same thing. Oh lets add new laws where laws are not needed. Lets think like the accountant and the teacher and the engineer and the software developer. Find the root cause fix it so it works more completely put the correct funding to it and train the public to avoid the pitfalls.
Nah only Cane and Able.
Going small also means you will be wearing a lot of hats too. Except for going for a degree In Computer Science (Unless it is really a passion of your) I would suggest getting Project Management Professional (PMP) Certified. That way you have the ability (on your resume) to handle and manage many small tasks.
I remember back in early 2000 or late 1990 there was a school that got some heat for having a class on pornography. However like most college classes that sound cool. They find a way to make it dull and boring the history and studying what was considered pornographic through out the ages, how the cultures of the time treaded and perceived it. So unless you are a knee man. I doubt it would be that fun.
If you stole someones credit card I would think it would come in handy. It is better then a sack full of canybars.
Yes. That guys breakdown had some things in It that think some people would find objectionable.
Use of commercial software or big commercial game engines
Why can't Indie game maker use such a stuff. So lets say it cost $2,000 to license the software. That is about as much as a good computer. So he has a crappy computer and uses software that makes programming a bit easier (as he is just an Indie developer and doesn't have the money for programming staff (The last time I checked $2k fixed cost or even annually is cheaper hiring someone at $35k+ a year)
Telling a story in a game
Um why if you game follows a story then it does. If it doesn't then don't. A lot of games have a really lame story anyways just enough to make you feel morally justified to kill everything in sight. It is not like you need a huge work force to come up with a story.
Visuals that are too high-end and pretty
So the Indie developer is not an Indie developer if they are a talented artist? I found out I could come up with some really fancy stuff with tinkering with Pov-Ray for a day.
Use of 3D
Yea the concept of the Z axis makes things so much more complex that you need a huge team of developers what is it the 1980's. I was messing with 3d drawing algorithms as a kid once I learned about some trig and the inverse square rule.
Making a game that is mainstream and commercially viable (No first-person shooters)
So if an indie game is actually popular. Like in music and movies every once in a while an Indie title comes out that really catches on.
Desire for financial success
Why can't you do what you love, and make money too?
Lack of distain for authority and publishers
So you need to be a miserable bastard too?
Not high enough quality
So you can't do things that can make you game high quality. However you need to make it high quality. Yea... I think I will write my TPS reports now.