I had a hard time understanding the article on this one. I'm thinking they mean the Heretic THINKS the company is run by morons and THINKS they have a convincing case that it is, when they actually are just blowing everything out of proportion because the Heretic has skewed sense of reality/self importance.
If the morons are indeed running the place, a different category of worker, "The Diplomat" (which I consider myself) is the one to carefully and tactfully draw attention to the fact that morons are running the company.
I would have expected that a self proclaimed brilliant person would know the difference between 'could care less' and the proper use as in 'couldn't care less'. You did lump yourself in with the brilliant people after all.
The problem, though, is that you can bitch and moan about incompetent people around you, but unless you have any pull, nothing will be done (or worse, they'll be replaced with an even less competent person). All your bellyaching about bad employee is thus pointless and just makes work unpleasant (and also moves you into the Heretic category, if I understand it correctly from the article).
It's usually the way the person is wired. Thankfully for everyone, YOU were actually able to "figure it out". See, these guys are so smart, yet they can't figure it out...that's what's so frustrating about them.
Because of the fourth "unfocused hacker" type, you get middle managers like me. I, for one, am very thankful for the promotion. But because of your "Dedicated Idiot" description, I really hate my job.
As a musician, #2 "The Flake" is the norm. The flakiest-yet-most-brilliant people I've ever worked with are fellow musicians. Guitarists, for some reason, seem to be the most guilty.
As someone who works in a support role (training development) for a software company, #3 "The Jerk" is pretty common as well. There are so many smart devs and engineers that lack any sort of tact or personal communication skills (and I don't mean the stereotypical introvert), it amazes me that they can't see the value in communicating well. Maybe it's an engineer mentality of everything being cut-and-dried, with personal skills being outside of the scope of their immediate requirements.
I might be a little of #1, "The Heretic" for even posting the above, but it wasn't described very clearly to me, so I'm not sure.
You want to make a MMORPG that does good? don't try to be a WoW beater. You won't do it, and you fail and suck in the process.
Except the game DEVELOPERS themselves never said they are trying to be a WoW beater, the people writing articles about it are the ones. People on slashdot are the ones positing "you have to beat WoW". The PM at BioWare doesn't care to beat WoW, they care to deliver a product that will sell enough copies to cover the costs and hopefully make some money on top of that.
I don't know a single person on my server. I'm not in a guild. I do everything solo or with a random group. The only people I know who play are my kids, but their guys are on the same account, so we can't play together. The game can be fun without relying on the social aspect. I like to think of it as a coop multiplayer.
Secondly, WoW is enduring because it's so freaking big. For some of us working professionals, we will never have enough time to end game raid (let alone even level to 85...my highest guy is 62 and I've been playing for 3 years). When I get bored with a guy, I make a new guy of a new race with new starting zones and quests and take on new professions. I'm getting pretty close to having at least leveled a guy through 30 in every class, but have maybe scratched 5% of the WoW surface.
I use Adobe Master Collection. With the exception of the fluff, those tools are big and unwieldy for a reason...they do big unwieldy things. No "app" is going to be able to replace the functionality of After Effects for professionals who require a tool as powerful as After Effects.
The problem with the "app" mentality is that people who like them are generalists/hobbyists that don't realize there are entire industries that need behemoth programs like inDesign/Flash/Premiere et. al. Adobe doesn't make big giant programs that do tons of stuff just because nobody needs it to. They make them because our jobs and contracts require them. Generally speaking, there aren't many competitors either, so big bad Master Collection + 5 hours of patching it is!
To your point, though, I can see things like PowerPoint and Word being diminished. I already use Google Docs for 100% of my personal work and as much of my professional work as my company will let me.
The problem with photoshop is that its seen as "the thing to have", and is therefore used (usually pirated) by many people who simply have no need for its features and could do what they need with many of the alternatives
This is a problem with pirate culture, not Photoshop.
Photoshop is expensive because it is an industry standard and can charge whatever it wants.
No mini-app is going to replace it because professionals who use Photoshop NEED Photoshop for its features, not some lame Photoshop Express iApp that adds cute borders to a picture or changes your iPhone picture to sepia.
Google creates software (ChromeOS), and uses that software as a means for delivering ads to you - it doesn't make money from YOU, it makes money from *advertisers*.
Well stated! It will forever confound me that Google gets such a pass from the otherwise intellectually stingy slashdot crowd.
Google sells ads. Apple sells hardware. I can opt out of the hardware.
Funny, that your post is trying to dig at me, when I was going to post the same sentiment in another discussion. Some guy was asking what has Apple really ever invented, to which I respond, not much...they take existing technology and innovate. It's not like the Sony Walkman preceeded the iPod by about 20 years or anything, right?
That's all I'm saying. No kool-aid for me, thanks.
Your contention that they rush crappy products to market is bunk, and since there still are no realistic iPad competitors on the market (as useless as a product I think that is), it's clear that Apple is the innovator here. Credit where credit is due.
I also claim no part in accidentally jamming the Deutschewelle re-broadcast of the 1991 Super Bowl...(that is indeed far more impressive than jamming the Burger King from a mile away!)
You can be imprisoned and have your property confiscated for growing the wrong plant. That's tyranny any way you spin it.
I call that civilization. Not that I agree with the seemingly arbitrary illegalization of pot, I definitely see no tyranny to it justifying a call to arms.
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I had a hard time understanding the article on this one. I'm thinking they mean the Heretic THINKS the company is run by morons and THINKS they have a convincing case that it is, when they actually are just blowing everything out of proportion because the Heretic has skewed sense of reality/self importance.
If the morons are indeed running the place, a different category of worker, "The Diplomat" (which I consider myself) is the one to carefully and tactfully draw attention to the fact that morons are running the company.
I would have expected that a self proclaimed brilliant person would know the difference between 'could care less' and the proper use as in 'couldn't care less'. You did lump yourself in with the brilliant people after all.
Lemme guess, you are in the Jerk category?
The problem, though, is that you can bitch and moan about incompetent people around you, but unless you have any pull, nothing will be done (or worse, they'll be replaced with an even less competent person). All your bellyaching about bad employee is thus pointless and just makes work unpleasant (and also moves you into the Heretic category, if I understand it correctly from the article).
It's usually the way the person is wired. Thankfully for everyone, YOU were actually able to "figure it out". See, these guys are so smart, yet they can't figure it out...that's what's so frustrating about them.
Because of the fourth "unfocused hacker" type, you get middle managers like me. I, for one, am very thankful for the promotion. But because of your "Dedicated Idiot" description, I really hate my job.
See, I have no talent, so I have to wow them with my people skills.
As a musician, #2 "The Flake" is the norm. The flakiest-yet-most-brilliant people I've ever worked with are fellow musicians. Guitarists, for some reason, seem to be the most guilty.
As someone who works in a support role (training development) for a software company, #3 "The Jerk" is pretty common as well. There are so many smart devs and engineers that lack any sort of tact or personal communication skills (and I don't mean the stereotypical introvert), it amazes me that they can't see the value in communicating well. Maybe it's an engineer mentality of everything being cut-and-dried, with personal skills being outside of the scope of their immediate requirements.
I might be a little of #1, "The Heretic" for even posting the above, but it wasn't described very clearly to me, so I'm not sure.
You want to make a MMORPG that does good? don't try to be a WoW beater. You won't do it, and you fail and suck in the process.
Except the game DEVELOPERS themselves never said they are trying to be a WoW beater, the people writing articles about it are the ones. People on slashdot are the ones positing "you have to beat WoW". The PM at BioWare doesn't care to beat WoW, they care to deliver a product that will sell enough copies to cover the costs and hopefully make some money on top of that.
I have to second this post.
I don't know a single person on my server. I'm not in a guild. I do everything solo or with a random group. The only people I know who play are my kids, but their guys are on the same account, so we can't play together. The game can be fun without relying on the social aspect. I like to think of it as a coop multiplayer.
Secondly, WoW is enduring because it's so freaking big. For some of us working professionals, we will never have enough time to end game raid (let alone even level to 85...my highest guy is 62 and I've been playing for 3 years). When I get bored with a guy, I make a new guy of a new race with new starting zones and quests and take on new professions. I'm getting pretty close to having at least leveled a guy through 30 in every class, but have maybe scratched 5% of the WoW surface.
I'm not sure you can say "hype is fading away". After six(?) years and millions of active accounts, you can hardly call it hype.
I use Adobe Master Collection. With the exception of the fluff, those tools are big and unwieldy for a reason...they do big unwieldy things. No "app" is going to be able to replace the functionality of After Effects for professionals who require a tool as powerful as After Effects.
The problem with the "app" mentality is that people who like them are generalists/hobbyists that don't realize there are entire industries that need behemoth programs like inDesign/Flash/Premiere et. al. Adobe doesn't make big giant programs that do tons of stuff just because nobody needs it to. They make them because our jobs and contracts require them. Generally speaking, there aren't many competitors either, so big bad Master Collection + 5 hours of patching it is!
To your point, though, I can see things like PowerPoint and Word being diminished. I already use Google Docs for 100% of my personal work and as much of my professional work as my company will let me.
The problem with photoshop is that its seen as "the thing to have", and is therefore used (usually pirated) by many people who simply have no need for its features and could do what they need with many of the alternatives
This is a problem with pirate culture, not Photoshop.
Photoshop is expensive because it is an industry standard and can charge whatever it wants.
No mini-app is going to replace it because professionals who use Photoshop NEED Photoshop for its features, not some lame Photoshop Express iApp that adds cute borders to a picture or changes your iPhone picture to sepia.
That data center is for a revamp of Mobileme(a product that should be free),
Why should a company provide something to you for free? I prefer paying and getting no ads to free-but-ad-inundated services.
Google creates software (ChromeOS), and uses that software as a means for delivering ads to you - it doesn't make money from YOU, it makes money from *advertisers*.
Well stated! It will forever confound me that Google gets such a pass from the otherwise intellectually stingy slashdot crowd.
Google sells ads. Apple sells hardware. I can opt out of the hardware.
Funny, that your post is trying to dig at me, when I was going to post the same sentiment in another discussion. Some guy was asking what has Apple really ever invented, to which I respond, not much...they take existing technology and innovate. It's not like the Sony Walkman preceeded the iPod by about 20 years or anything, right?
That's all I'm saying. No kool-aid for me, thanks.
Your contention that they rush crappy products to market is bunk, and since there still are no realistic iPad competitors on the market (as useless as a product I think that is), it's clear that Apple is the innovator here. Credit where credit is due.
I also claim no part in accidentally jamming the Deutschewelle re-broadcast of the 1991 Super Bowl...(that is indeed far more impressive than jamming the Burger King from a mile away!)
The occasional EW mishap is legendary
I most certainly did NOT jam the Ft. Stewart, GA Burger King drive through for two hours in 1996.
+1 awesome (from a former signal jammer here)
I'm in Camp 3: Ban stupid people. Since that's not feasible, beat them down and ridicule them as the scourge of society that they are.
Indeed that is nuthin' in the world 'o Defense Contracting. That wouldn't even cover the cost of documentation alone.
...but I gave up caring about processor speed about 10 years ago.
You can be imprisoned and have your property confiscated for growing the wrong plant. That's tyranny any way you spin it.
I call that civilization. Not that I agree with the seemingly arbitrary illegalization of pot, I definitely see no tyranny to it justifying a call to arms.
Digital newsstands suck because of the pricing schemes, not the content or the media used to deliver them.
I haven't seen comparable features in any other operating system except OSX.
That's the problem. Win7 is reaching levels of refinement close to OSX, which is unfamiliar territory for most of us geeks.