Some may just ask: "how could I think that this little thing will give me the same surfing experience/compatibility as my notebook browser?"
The iphone manages to do a half way decent job of it.
yes, it is unreasonable to expect things to work a certain way, I agree, thats why you check them out before you buy. Thats why I dont buy phones I cant try out, its why im going to the apple store to try out Glossy vs Matte screens before I buy a new laptop. Its why you test drive cars before I buy them.
If you need a particular feature you should make sure the item you are buying has that feature before you buy it.
how about a user serviceable engine? I mean, I cant tweak the idle or the choke on my new VW without buying some kind of hardware and software. Its really not user serviceable at all. There was a time when this would be a given in any car and then fuel injection came along. Did we sue every car manufacturer for taking away this fairly basic functionality?
What if you bought a new roadster, its hot and sleek like an iPhone. But it turns out it doesn't have a back seat? Why didn't the manufacturer tell you it didn't have a back seat? practically every car on the road today comes with a back seat!?!
Well, thats good news. I mean they actually advertised their phones as "bluetooth capable" I was shocked they could get away with it.
Im not sure that this impacts the iPhone case since apple never advertised "User Replaceable Battery" but its nice to see that Verizon isn't getting away with this anymore.
Ill have to do some digging on this, I know people who are probably effected by this.
so apple has to advertise that the battery is not user replaceable.
Why doesn't blackberry packaging have to inform you that its web browser isn't fully compatible with modern web applications? I mean, I expect the web to work the way it does in firefox. Since my shinny new blackberry tells me a I can surf the web on it shouldn't it work the same way?
Verizon cripples the Bluetooth on all its phones so you can only use them with earpieces and not to transfer files. Why don't they have to have a warning label on every phone they sell?
I don't buy the idea that apple has to shout all of the limitations of its products from the rooftops but other companies don't have to.
Let me ask you: how does the fact that you KNOW the battery is soldered, is making it any better for you, as an iPhone owner, when you'll have to ship it to Apple for a $100 replacement?
Because if you know that it doesn't have a user serviceable battery and that is a serious issue for you, you wont actually buy the iPhone in the first place.
Billions of people world wide have failed to purchase an iPhone today? Who held a gun to your head and made you buy yours?
You can be dissatisfied with the iPhone, but you show that buy not buying it, not by going out and purchasing one and then filling a bogus lawsuit over it.
yea... you can be held responsible for a decision like this.
The choice to make a part non user serviceable is never going to cost anyone their PE. For fucks sake what the hell is wrong with you people. Are you so excited to shit on some new gadget that you have to make shit up like this?
The thing that is supposed to hold you responsible is the free market. Not some fucking lawsuit. Apple has made no attempt to hide the fact that the battery is not user serviceable. If apple had somehow hidden that fact they would be guilty of false advertising but its seems pretty clear from the grandparent post that they did not make any attempt to hide this fact.
If a non user servicable battery makes the iPhone useless to you, DON'T BUY IT. If most people agree with you then the product will be a failure and maybe the next iPhone will have a user serviceable battery. I dont see any evidence here that apple has marketed this phone falsely or claimed it can do something it cant. Unless they have then a lawsuit is totally out of line.
Maybe they are used by people who are sick of being misunderstood constantly.
How do you get sarcasm across in a post? is that really any better than an emoticon?
I have often seen people mod down sarcastic posts or respond aggressively to a post that clearly had no ill intent. You can be the best writer on the web and it still only takes one idiot to misunderstand what you wrote. An emoticon is protection against such idiots.
Meanwhile, people who only play first person shooters will continue to believe that the Wii is merely "gimmicky", and that their console is better because it has more pixels.
which is a shame because you could make a REALLY cool FPS with the wii and that new gun accessory.
On the other hand, EA has most of the biggest sports franchises and if you can figure out a good way to map the controls for Baseball and Football (american) to the Wii controller than your just not thinking hard enough.
Sports games are a great fit for the Wii and if EA had thrown their weight behind the Wii from the beginning I think you would have seen an even bigger sensation there... of course since Nintendo cant produce them fast enough as it is, perhaps it just doesn't matter.
Marathon was pretty good at this. I mean, no great work of literature sure, but if you read all the terminals it was pretty easy to follow the story and if you dug deeper you could get more out of it.
Admittedly nothing in the story explained why key switches in the ship were located on the far side of pools of lava (or some other deadly fluid) but whatever. My friends and I always used to joke that you wouldn't want to be the guy who had to retrieve faxes on the Marathon. "But boss, the last guy you sent to get that fax fell into a pool or reactor runoff, couldn't we put a fax machine closer to the office?
well yes, I know it wasn't a jump per say but im not sure what to call it. I seem to remember it was a place where you had to swing across a pit and then in mid air shoot out your bionic arm to catch on to another hold or something like that. It was a perfect timing sort of thing. Once I got it it was possible to do it again, but it was brutally hard to get it right the first time (and you really only had to do it once if I recall correctly).
Either way, it took enough that I remember it today.
I too, often left my Nintendo on far longer than is prudent, but I had an RF switch so I didn't have to worry about pulling the wrong cable.
since the test of the crazy lady took more than 20 minutes im guessing this was a few years ago. There is a fairly accurate test that can be performed very quickly these days.
dont you already have super mario strikers there? we are still waiting here in the states (where, obviously, football/soccer just isn't as popular, but I still want the game).
It would be kind of nice if they allowed the games but had a parental control option and required the game format to include its rating so that a parent could lock down a console to not play these games.
This would seem to be a much better way of dealing with this. Hell, I dont even care if retail places wont carry AO titles, if they are available on the internet people might make them and eventually someone would make one that was really really good and had enough other merit that people might take notice.
the rating manhunt has recieved (AO, I believe, adults only) is more like NC-17. Many theaters wont carry movies with that rating and it is considered stronger than R rating which would be most like the "M for mature" rating that the ESRB hands out. If Manhunt had an M rating none of this would be an issue.
I think its a shame that there is no way for AO rated games to make it to the public on consoles, though I have no interest at all in Manhunt. I think its going to take something a little more refined and subtle to break this barrier down though.
If you hire people based on how much they read, you must have a real hard time finding developers. I prefer to hire people based on how well the do the job.
Oh yea and if you look at the very first sentence in this wikipedia article they call it a book on software project management, which is, you know, what it is.
So lets say you have a guy who knows C++ inside and out (and that is what you are developing in) he is an excellent architect who comes up with fantastic solutions to problems every day. He is a fantastic software engineer but he really doesn't want to manage projects so this book didn't really interest him at all and he never wasted his time reading it. Do you skip him over for some over glorified tech lead who has some management experience but cant code his way out of a paper bag?
Depends on the position you are hiring for I guess, but your question is not targeted at people who write code.
while it might have take forever, they did use all new techinques including slurry digging that we havent ever used in the states. No buildings were demolished, no busineses closed, hospitals close to the dig stayed open the whole time and they had to deal with acheology going on every time they took a shovel of dirt.
All in all, this was a logistical nightmare. Sure there was corruption and there were issues and they were big, but this was never going to be an easy thing to do.
Plus, there was no way you could expand that old freeway, although I wanted them to have both the tunnel and the skyway for capacity.
At least the big dig was work on an interstate. I dont know what the deal is with this bridge, but 93 is an interstate and its maintenances and upgrades should be, in part, paid for by federal dollars. I might not like the way the big dig has gone but 93 as it was 10 years ago, would be totally useless right now with the amount of traffic that is on it.
One could argue it was totally useless even before this project started.
"What are your thoughts on the mythical man month?"
I'm not a big fan of questions that require one to have read a particular book or to have knowledge of something that is not in their scope of expertise. The "Mythical Man Month" is a project management concept. Its not up to your programmers to decide, or understand how the project is managed, thats part of the standard division of labor (at least anyplace I have worked, perhaps you work in very different environments).
That said, I could discuss that question since I do have team lead experience and might want to do that in the future, but its pretty brutal to expect someone who is really a code jockey (and maybe really fantastic at doing just that) to answer questions on project management.
I liked your second question a bit more, but it assumes that ones life is wrapped up in coding. I have far too much else going on in my life to spend my free time writing code. If my job was rock climbing for a living, I probably wouldn't do very much of that in my off time either. Maybe I would write code instead.
yes, it is bounding, you cant knock the bat on home plate. The bats movement is restricted to a standard swing and any back and forth movement becomes a swing, with the speed of the movement determining the power of the swing.
Its not bad, but it could be better. I wouldn't mind a baseball game that allowed you to swing high or low or reach out for a pitch off the plate, but thats a bit much to ask of a tech demo like Wii sports. Heck, baseball doesn't even have base running in it. Maybe when EA gets around to making MLB for the Wii.
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you should go back and check out the first few episodes of the simpsons. I mean, im nostalgic about them but they really weren't that strong.
Some may just ask: "how could I think that this little thing will give me the same surfing experience/compatibility as my notebook browser?"
The iphone manages to do a half way decent job of it.
yes, it is unreasonable to expect things to work a certain way, I agree, thats why you check them out before you buy. Thats why I dont buy phones I cant try out, its why im going to the apple store to try out Glossy vs Matte screens before I buy a new laptop. Its why you test drive cars before I buy them.
If you need a particular feature you should make sure the item you are buying has that feature before you buy it.
Seems to me it would be more like buying a hybrid or electric car that didn't have user replaceable batteries.
oh, wait.
windshields are required by law. try again.
how about a user serviceable engine? I mean, I cant tweak the idle or the choke on my new VW without buying some kind of hardware and software. Its really not user serviceable at all. There was a time when this would be a given in any car and then fuel injection came along. Did we sue every car manufacturer for taking away this fairly basic functionality?
What if you bought a new roadster, its hot and sleek like an iPhone. But it turns out it doesn't have a back seat? Why didn't the manufacturer tell you it didn't have a back seat? practically every car on the road today comes with a back seat!?!
Well, thats good news. I mean they actually advertised their phones as "bluetooth capable" I was shocked they could get away with it.
Im not sure that this impacts the iPhone case since apple never advertised "User Replaceable Battery" but its nice to see that Verizon isn't getting away with this anymore.
Ill have to do some digging on this, I know people who are probably effected by this.
Newsflash: Caveat Emptor!
so apple has to advertise that the battery is not user replaceable.
Why doesn't blackberry packaging have to inform you that its web browser isn't fully compatible with modern web applications? I mean, I expect the web to work the way it does in firefox. Since my shinny new blackberry tells me a I can surf the web on it shouldn't it work the same way?
Verizon cripples the Bluetooth on all its phones so you can only use them with earpieces and not to transfer files. Why don't they have to have a warning label on every phone they sell?
I don't buy the idea that apple has to shout all of the limitations of its products from the rooftops but other companies don't have to.
Wow... thats a royal pain in the ass. what if you actually wanted to use one for business?
Im sure they have legal reasons for not officially supporting enterprise customers... but damn. That just seems harsh.
Because if you know that it doesn't have a user serviceable battery and that is a serious issue for you, you wont actually buy the iPhone in the first place.
Billions of people world wide have failed to purchase an iPhone today? Who held a gun to your head and made you buy yours?
You can be dissatisfied with the iPhone, but you show that buy not buying it, not by going out and purchasing one and then filling a bogus lawsuit over it.
yea... you can be held responsible for a decision like this.
The choice to make a part non user serviceable is never going to cost anyone their PE. For fucks sake what the hell is wrong with you people. Are you so excited to shit on some new gadget that you have to make shit up like this?
The thing that is supposed to hold you responsible is the free market. Not some fucking lawsuit. Apple has made no attempt to hide the fact that the battery is not user serviceable. If apple had somehow hidden that fact they would be guilty of false advertising but its seems pretty clear from the grandparent post that they did not make any attempt to hide this fact.
If a non user servicable battery makes the iPhone useless to you, DON'T BUY IT. If most people agree with you then the product will be a failure and maybe the next iPhone will have a user serviceable battery. I dont see any evidence here that apple has marketed this phone falsely or claimed it can do something it cant. Unless they have then a lawsuit is totally out of line.
Maybe they are used by people who are sick of being misunderstood constantly.
How do you get sarcasm across in a post? is that really any better than an emoticon?
I have often seen people mod down sarcastic posts or respond aggressively to a post that clearly had no ill intent. You can be the best writer on the web and it still only takes one idiot to misunderstand what you wrote. An emoticon is protection against such idiots.
which is a shame because you could make a REALLY cool FPS with the wii and that new gun accessory.
On the other hand, EA has most of the biggest sports franchises and if you can figure out a good way to map the controls for Baseball and Football (american) to the Wii controller than your just not thinking hard enough.
Sports games are a great fit for the Wii and if EA had thrown their weight behind the Wii from the beginning I think you would have seen an even bigger sensation there... of course since Nintendo cant produce them fast enough as it is, perhaps it just doesn't matter.
Admittedly nothing in the story explained why key switches in the ship were located on the far side of pools of lava (or some other deadly fluid) but whatever. My friends and I always used to joke that you wouldn't want to be the guy who had to retrieve faxes on the Marathon. "But boss, the last guy you sent to get that fax fell into a pool or reactor runoff, couldn't we put a fax machine closer to the office?
well yes, I know it wasn't a jump per say but im not sure what to call it. I seem to remember it was a place where you had to swing across a pit and then in mid air shoot out your bionic arm to catch on to another hold or something like that. It was a perfect timing sort of thing. Once I got it it was possible to do it again, but it was brutally hard to get it right the first time (and you really only had to do it once if I recall correctly).
Either way, it took enough that I remember it today.
I too, often left my Nintendo on far longer than is prudent, but I had an RF switch so I didn't have to worry about pulling the wrong cable.
Even today I remember one jump in Bionic Commando that I tried over and over again, it must have taken me days just to finally beat that level.
Yea, I don't have time for that these days.
since the test of the crazy lady took more than 20 minutes im guessing this was a few years ago. There is a fairly accurate test that can be performed very quickly these days.
dont you already have super mario strikers there? we are still waiting here in the states (where, obviously, football/soccer just isn't as popular, but I still want the game).
It would be kind of nice if they allowed the games but had a parental control option and required the game format to include its rating so that a parent could lock down a console to not play these games.
This would seem to be a much better way of dealing with this. Hell, I dont even care if retail places wont carry AO titles, if they are available on the internet people might make them and eventually someone would make one that was really really good and had enough other merit that people might take notice.
the rating manhunt has recieved (AO, I believe, adults only) is more like NC-17. Many theaters wont carry movies with that rating and it is considered stronger than R rating which would be most like the "M for mature" rating that the ESRB hands out. If Manhunt had an M rating none of this would be an issue.
I think its a shame that there is no way for AO rated games to make it to the public on consoles, though I have no interest at all in Manhunt. I think its going to take something a little more refined and subtle to break this barrier down though.
Oh yea and if you look at the very first sentence in this wikipedia article they call it a book on software project management, which is, you know, what it is.
So lets say you have a guy who knows C++ inside and out (and that is what you are developing in) he is an excellent architect who comes up with fantastic solutions to problems every day. He is a fantastic software engineer but he really doesn't want to manage projects so this book didn't really interest him at all and he never wasted his time reading it. Do you skip him over for some over glorified tech lead who has some management experience but cant code his way out of a paper bag?
Depends on the position you are hiring for I guess, but your question is not targeted at people who write code.
while it might have take forever, they did use all new techinques including slurry digging that we havent ever used in the states. No buildings were demolished, no busineses closed, hospitals close to the dig stayed open the whole time and they had to deal with acheology going on every time they took a shovel of dirt.
All in all, this was a logistical nightmare. Sure there was corruption and there were issues and they were big, but this was never going to be an easy thing to do.
Plus, there was no way you could expand that old freeway, although I wanted them to have both the tunnel and the skyway for capacity.
At least the big dig was work on an interstate. I dont know what the deal is with this bridge, but 93 is an interstate and its maintenances and upgrades should be, in part, paid for by federal dollars. I might not like the way the big dig has gone but 93 as it was 10 years ago, would be totally useless right now with the amount of traffic that is on it.
One could argue it was totally useless even before this project started.
"What are your thoughts on the mythical man month?"
I'm not a big fan of questions that require one to have read a particular book or to have knowledge of something that is not in their scope of expertise. The "Mythical Man Month" is a project management concept. Its not up to your programmers to decide, or understand how the project is managed, thats part of the standard division of labor (at least anyplace I have worked, perhaps you work in very different environments).
That said, I could discuss that question since I do have team lead experience and might want to do that in the future, but its pretty brutal to expect someone who is really a code jockey (and maybe really fantastic at doing just that) to answer questions on project management.
I liked your second question a bit more, but it assumes that ones life is wrapped up in coding. I have far too much else going on in my life to spend my free time writing code. If my job was rock climbing for a living, I probably wouldn't do very much of that in my off time either. Maybe I would write code instead.
yes, it is bounding, you cant knock the bat on home plate. The bats movement is restricted to a standard swing and any back and forth movement becomes a swing, with the speed of the movement determining the power of the swing.
Its not bad, but it could be better. I wouldn't mind a baseball game that allowed you to swing high or low or reach out for a pitch off the plate, but thats a bit much to ask of a tech demo like Wii sports. Heck, baseball doesn't even have base running in it. Maybe when EA gets around to making MLB for the Wii.