I agree with all your points. I admit my job was a passion for me, its not the same at other places. Ususally where you have control, you have a desire to work because you can effect change.
Regarding the changing tasks, I agree, if they are new tasks. But not when they are tasks you regularly do. Not like changing projects at a company doing multiple projects.
Being productive as a coder is so hard to define, Ive read a few articles talking about people only writing about 5 lines of code a day, and only being really effective 2 hours a day.. which sounds stupid on the face of it.. but if you look back over months of time, its pretty much right. Another point is if you have a small team of 1 or a few, if you work with 5-10 or more people, its completely different. You can be 0% productive in that enviroment.. but project managers never seem to understand that:)
at a previous job I occasionally worked 100 hours a week (thats insane though, only allowed by a crisis allowing you to give up sleep).
But often 80 hours a week. The reason it was ok was I could work from home or work, as I pleased. Also, my job was crossing various duties. So while I couldnt sustainably code 80 hours a week, at least not in a productive way. I can do some db work, work on some web statistics, review some servers, view some feedback from our site easily. Its the monotony that kills your ability to be productive for long periods.
If you happen to have a job you enjoy, and you have the ability to do various tasks its very possible. However no person believes you, im unsure why, they start making claims you arent really working all that time.. but to be honest, get fucked, do you only count the time your fingers are striking the keyboard as working? The idea you can only work 40 hours a week and the rest is just wasted is crap, sure, some people fluff some hours where they have already clocked off well before they have left the office, but its not always true.
Sure, they maybe getting a reputation of being people who settle out of court.. but imagine if they fought and lost. It would be huge. Can they risk that? Im sure its an important part of their risk management assesment when deciding what to do.
The increased payout for a loss, the increased publicity showing your company losing, breaking the law. Its a huge risk to take, while its easy to think these cases are thin and you cant lose, thats not true, just check the news.
Yeah, MS has no way to update software on their operating sytstem.. oh wait... the amonia just wore off. They do. Somewhat like their regular security updates they release for IE.
If only they had a seperate update for every program.. with all that hassle.. maybe they could not be disadvantaged?
How nice of them... so... if I give you a new pair of shoes you wont mind me contining to raping your daughter?
I also get you defending me for it!
Who cares about some obscure creature being found by an industry that is destroying the earth - of course its us who are doing it, but we dont tend to give drug dealers a free pass when people ruin themselves with addiction... oddly enough.
Yah, creating the Mujahedeen, installing Saddam Hussein in Iraq were choices that never had any domestic repercussions at all.
If you want to be an insular country at least do it by being insular, not trying to run the world then saying you donâ(TM)t care about it and you are only interested in yourselves. Cause you know what... the people you try to rule care.. flying into buildings care.
Just picture a few hundred thousand Middle East troops in America, im sure things would be very quiet and calm then. Everyone wants people who oppose their way of life sending an army in to fix it.
"We have very high internal metrics our consumer products have to meet before coming out of beta. Our teams continue to work to improve these products and provide users with an even better experience."
What a pile of bullshit. You have "very high internal metrics".. ones that allow a product like gmail to not be up to your high metrics yet. What is the goal, staying in beta as long as possible?
This kind of answer is just stupid, is beta the new version system. Everything is beta until you discontinue the product then its out of beta?
ICQ is a great example, i used that thing for 10 years in beta. The difference was it is a peice of crap that barely worked and changed so much. Gmail is stable, functionality wise its barely changed in years. Google, shit or get off the pot.
I tend to buy almost every game now. Though its usually not many these days, partly being older and busier with work and partly because you get a bit turned off gaming when it ends up being so much work. Keeping dvds well organized so you can find one when you need it. Making sure you put them back, hope people dont come put your dvds in the wrong cases when they use your dvd drive for something else. Putting all my keys online so I dont lose them. When you spend less hours gaming as you get older it starts feeling like a lot of hassle.
A huge turning point for me was F.E.A.R, bought it, installed it, wouldnt run. No info, just nothing. Hours of friggin around, figured out it was daemon tools running. I couldnt even kill it (and the service), then play. I Had to do that and reboot. I use daemon tools like a third arm,and I dont wanna shut down all my dev shit, web sites and what not just to launch a game. The fact it didnt even say why it wouldnt work and the time spent working it out, leaves a bad taste in your mouth. Around that time I had my dvd drive disappear twice as well.. now that was fun to work out too. I love you securerom!
Its not hard to see how you get turned off gaming. I dont wanna spend 1 -2 hours getting a game to run, hell I dont wanna spend 5-10 minutes. I just wanna double click. Thats whats caused me to download a few games I already own, just so I can run it easily. It couldnt feel more backwards.
I find myself playing free tower defence flash games online more than any game these days. 30 seconds seconds to get running, no hassle.
Though I dont think this is what drives piracy. Its done cause it can be, you have gamers who are the most tech savvy computer users. The only things I ever see link piracy and people is that pirates are people who know how to pirate, thats about it. They also have the issue that people with time to play games dont usually have jobs (or full time jobs), so money is an issue. People who can afford it dont play much because they work too much. Game publishers are in a bad spot... well, they are really just going to consoles.
For all the anti plastic bag talk, I've never really heard any reasons WHY they are so bad. The common one you get from people is either they get into the water and damager wild life, or they don't bio-degrade.
If its damage, then if you take care to dispose, how is it an issue?
If its bio-degrade, I dont get that either. They arent the largest things around. Is it a significant issue? Things barely degrade in landfills anyhow, they are anaerobic.
Maybe these days its oil based.. which maybe somehow slightly valid.. but its nothing compared to petrol. Also, anti-plastic has been around so long it cant be that. So maybe someone can inform me!
While there is probably a good answer(s) ill have shot back at me, I'm still going to be annoyed that its not well conveyed onto consumers WHY this is bad. I feel too much like I'm in 1984 if I just have to know things are bad because everyone says so. Feels like its some minor issue that gets so much press yet if everyone stopped using them it wouldn't help anything at all.. producing huge amounts of paper bags would be a nightmare and is everyone using reusable going to save us all? Most people seem to slack off once they feel they are "doing their bit" by not using plastic bags.. even if they don't know anything about the issues involved.
Turns it into another Microsoft? Wow, the shareholders will cry with someone turning Apple into one of the largest companies in the world making over 10x their current profits. That would be something to worry about.
Never will, who wants to talk all day? Though I personally feel like voice recognition will become a supplement. I can imagine saying "close window" etc as being useful. Though, if you aren't alone, you are going to look like you have lost your mind. I also don't want someone walking past being able to tell my computer to trash half my files:)
hahahhahahahaha I call bullshit on that. Taking all bets.
Because the mouse is old will never replace the fact it is an incredibly intuitive and powerful HID. You can use it all day without getting sore (mostly) and best of all, it wont accidentally trash half your files if you sneeze and move your hand at the same time.
The plane works, it doesn't need more cpu. Maybe new features could use this, but id bet its easier to add another system do to this on board, you already have a reliable system.
My bet is that this is to do with the parts used for this computer being obsolete. No one makes them any more. The shuttle has huge issues with this, they have boxes of old parts to replace broken parts with. To get "new" replacements is either extremely expensive or impossible. Thats a huge problem for your nuclear delivery systems.
This, I believe, is the very crux of copyright. While someone who makes a product naturally might feel like they own it.. where is the limit placed?
Can they own it for perpetuity, beyond their natural life? Are the users of this product only able to exist as slaves to their desires?
While as someone who might create a product, I feel like I should own it forever, but as a consumer I realise its the greater society that needs to be served. A limit of a decade or two should be enough, why it keeps being extended I don't understand. Perhaps an exception for creations that are still being used in new media, like Disney is doing.
A computer program that exists, as is, for over a decade or two should not be protected from people using as they see fit. From a simple man hour point of view, the users probably spend many many times more hours keeping the programming working on new platforms than was spent making the original.
Its a very tricky subject, when so many people look back at things like pac-man, its affected so many people, its part of our culture. Who owns that culture? The original creators.. forever... or the people who are responsible for it being the culture? Is it a violation to talk about it, to think about it? Creating your own version?
They are very tough issues if you look at both sides, but I still feel that a limit of a decade or so is appropriate. Its a bit arbitrary when its a software application.. but its much more troubling when we talk about patented genes or drugs.
Are you saying that you have less chance understanding English sans idioms than the 3,000 to to 60,000 ideograms REQUIRED to read Chinese (mandarin and/or Cantonese) weird:p
Yes, but the alphabet is indicative of many differences that make it a hard language to master. A common alphabet is a pretty big head start (even if their are different pronunciations), english to Japanese or Korean is a lot of base work to even read the words.
Aye, learning a language has very distinct levels.
Learning... you cant talk, just know some words. Dozens of words.
Practical... you can navigate the country in some way, though not able to converse. Hundreds of words.
Conversational... very difficult, able to talk to a native about almost any topic.. this will be dialect specific. Even at this point common phrases (idioms) will be almost unknown. Thousands of words.
Native.. Almost impossible without complete isolation. Being able to pass as a native, read local books like you read English is extremely hard. Tens of thousands of words and perfect grammar.
There are of course people who can do this much more easily.. and technical books are probably the easiest to read when learning the language (slang / colloquialisms are very nuanced).
However.. I have trouble seeing a general reason for an english speaker to think this is a required step, if most important work was published in another language, you might have a reason.. but otherwise you will have little motivation to speak another language with such skill that it actually helps you in an academic sense.
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There is reserch that supports any position you want to take :)
Too soon?
I agree with all your points. I admit my job was a passion for me, its not the same at other places. Ususally where you have control, you have a desire to work because you can effect change.
Regarding the changing tasks, I agree, if they are new tasks. But not when they are tasks you regularly do. Not like changing projects at a company doing multiple projects.
Being productive as a coder is so hard to define, Ive read a few articles talking about people only writing about 5 lines of code a day, and only being really effective 2 hours a day.. which sounds stupid on the face of it.. but if you look back over months of time, its pretty much right. Another point is if you have a small team of 1 or a few, if you work with 5-10 or more people, its completely different. You can be 0% productive in that enviroment.. but project managers never seem to understand that :)
lol thast bullshit.
at a previous job I occasionally worked 100 hours a week (thats insane though, only allowed by a crisis allowing you to give up sleep).
But often 80 hours a week. The reason it was ok was I could work from home or work, as I pleased. Also, my job was crossing various duties. So while I couldnt sustainably code 80 hours a week, at least not in a productive way. I can do some db work, work on some web statistics, review some servers, view some feedback from our site easily. Its the monotony that kills your ability to be productive for long periods.
If you happen to have a job you enjoy, and you have the ability to do various tasks its very possible. However no person believes you, im unsure why, they start making claims you arent really working all that time.. but to be honest, get fucked, do you only count the time your fingers are striking the keyboard as working? The idea you can only work 40 hours a week and the rest is just wasted is crap, sure, some people fluff some hours where they have already clocked off well before they have left the office, but its not always true.
Sure, they maybe getting a reputation of being people who settle out of court.. but imagine if they fought and lost. It would be huge. Can they risk that? Im sure its an important part of their risk management assesment when deciding what to do.
The increased payout for a loss, the increased publicity showing your company losing, breaking the law. Its a huge risk to take, while its easy to think these cases are thin and you cant lose, thats not true, just check the news.
Yeah, MS has no way to update software on their operating sytstem.. oh wait... the amonia just wore off. They do. Somewhat like their regular security updates they release for IE.
If only they had a seperate update for every program.. with all that hassle.. maybe they could not be disadvantaged?
How nice of them... so... if I give you a new pair of shoes you wont mind me contining to raping your daughter?
I also get you defending me for it!
Who cares about some obscure creature being found by an industry that is destroying the earth - of course its us who are doing it, but we dont tend to give drug dealers a free pass when people ruin themselves with addiction... oddly enough.
Yah, creating the Mujahedeen, installing Saddam Hussein in Iraq were choices that never had any domestic repercussions at all.
If you want to be an insular country at least do it by being insular, not trying to run the world then saying you donâ(TM)t care about it and you are only interested in yourselves. Cause you know what... the people you try to rule care.. flying into buildings care.
Just picture a few hundred thousand Middle East troops in America, im sure things would be very quiet and calm then. Everyone wants people who oppose their way of life sending an army in to fix it.
Yes, they were begging to be invaded and overthrown... oh you mean the puppet goverment installed by the west.
Those assholes!
"good"
People earing money is good for them, go back to Russia you commie :)
"We have very high internal metrics our consumer products have to meet before coming out of beta. Our teams continue to work to improve these products and provide users with an even better experience."
What a pile of bullshit. You have "very high internal metrics".. ones that allow a product like gmail to not be up to your high metrics yet. What is the goal, staying in beta as long as possible?
This kind of answer is just stupid, is beta the new version system. Everything is beta until you discontinue the product then its out of beta?
ICQ is a great example, i used that thing for 10 years in beta. The difference was it is a peice of crap that barely worked and changed so much. Gmail is stable, functionality wise its barely changed in years. Google, shit or get off the pot.
Yeah. Same here.
I tend to buy almost every game now. Though its usually not many these days, partly being older and busier with work and partly because you get a bit turned off gaming when it ends up being so much work. Keeping dvds well organized so you can find one when you need it. Making sure you put them back, hope people dont come put your dvds in the wrong cases when they use your dvd drive for something else. Putting all my keys online so I dont lose them. When you spend less hours gaming as you get older it starts feeling like a lot of hassle.
A huge turning point for me was F.E.A.R, bought it, installed it, wouldnt run. No info, just nothing. Hours of friggin around, figured out it was daemon tools running. I couldnt even kill it (and the service), then play. I Had to do that and reboot. I use daemon tools like a third arm ,and I dont wanna shut down all my dev shit, web sites and what not just to launch a game. The fact it didnt even say why it wouldnt work and the time spent working it out, leaves a bad taste in your mouth. Around that time I had my dvd drive disappear twice as well.. now that was fun to work out too. I love you securerom!
Its not hard to see how you get turned off gaming. I dont wanna spend 1 -2 hours getting a game to run, hell I dont wanna spend 5-10 minutes. I just wanna double click. Thats whats caused me to download a few games I already own, just so I can run it easily. It couldnt feel more backwards.
I find myself playing free tower defence flash games online more than any game these days. 30 seconds seconds to get running, no hassle.
Though I dont think this is what drives piracy. Its done cause it can be, you have gamers who are the most tech savvy computer users. The only things I ever see link piracy and people is that pirates are people who know how to pirate, thats about it. They also have the issue that people with time to play games dont usually have jobs (or full time jobs), so money is an issue. People who can afford it dont play much because they work too much. Game publishers are in a bad spot... well, they are really just going to consoles.
For all the anti plastic bag talk, I've never really heard any reasons WHY they are so bad. The common one you get from people is either they get into the water and damager wild life, or they don't bio-degrade.
If its damage, then if you take care to dispose, how is it an issue?
If its bio-degrade, I dont get that either. They arent the largest things around. Is it a significant issue? Things barely degrade in landfills anyhow, they are anaerobic.
Maybe these days its oil based.. which maybe somehow slightly valid.. but its nothing compared to petrol. Also, anti-plastic has been around so long it cant be that. So maybe someone can inform me!
While there is probably a good answer(s) ill have shot back at me, I'm still going to be annoyed that its not well conveyed onto consumers WHY this is bad. I feel too much like I'm in 1984 if I just have to know things are bad because everyone says so. Feels like its some minor issue that gets so much press yet if everyone stopped using them it wouldn't help anything at all.. producing huge amounts of paper bags would be a nightmare and is everyone using reusable going to save us all? Most people seem to slack off once they feel they are "doing their bit" by not using plastic bags.. even if they don't know anything about the issues involved.
Turns it into another Microsoft? Wow, the shareholders will cry with someone turning Apple into one of the largest companies in the world making over 10x their current profits. That would be something to worry about.
Yeah, just like we view everything in life. TV, movies, the world around us. We always look at 30 degree angles from horizontal dont we? Oh wait...
Maybe its the limitation of old drafting tables, not the other way around? Gravity is a bitch.
Never will, who wants to talk all day? Though I personally feel like voice recognition will become a supplement. I can imagine saying "close window" etc as being useful. Though, if you aren't alone, you are going to look like you have lost your mind. I also don't want someone walking past being able to tell my computer to trash half my files :)
hahahhahahahaha I call bullshit on that. Taking all bets.
Because the mouse is old will never replace the fact it is an incredibly intuitive and powerful HID. You can use it all day without getting sore (mostly) and best of all, it wont accidentally trash half your files if you sneeze and move your hand at the same time.
The plane works, it doesn't need more cpu. Maybe new features could use this, but id bet its easier to add another system do to this on board, you already have a reliable system.
My bet is that this is to do with the parts used for this computer being obsolete. No one makes them any more. The shuttle has huge issues with this, they have boxes of old parts to replace broken parts with. To get "new" replacements is either extremely expensive or impossible. Thats a huge problem for your nuclear delivery systems.
This, I believe, is the very crux of copyright. While someone who makes a product naturally might feel like they own it.. where is the limit placed?
Can they own it for perpetuity, beyond their natural life? Are the users of this product only able to exist as slaves to their desires?
While as someone who might create a product, I feel like I should own it forever, but as a consumer I realise its the greater society that needs to be served. A limit of a decade or two should be enough, why it keeps being extended I don't understand. Perhaps an exception for creations that are still being used in new media, like Disney is doing.
A computer program that exists, as is, for over a decade or two should not be protected from people using as they see fit. From a simple man hour point of view, the users probably spend many many times more hours keeping the programming working on new platforms than was spent making the original.
Its a very tricky subject, when so many people look back at things like pac-man, its affected so many people, its part of our culture. Who owns that culture? The original creators.. forever... or the people who are responsible for it being the culture? Is it a violation to talk about it, to think about it? Creating your own version?
They are very tough issues if you look at both sides, but I still feel that a limit of a decade or so is appropriate. Its a bit arbitrary when its a software application.. but its much more troubling when we talk about patented genes or drugs.
Its much easier to focus our hate on something we can hang from a tree, war and lying is tricky to find a noose for.
Think?! That's your problem right there.
Are you saying that you have less chance understanding English sans idioms than the 3,000 to to 60,000 ideograms REQUIRED to read Chinese (mandarin and/or Cantonese) weird :p
Yes, but the alphabet is indicative of many differences that make it a hard language to master. A common alphabet is a pretty big head start (even if their are different pronunciations), english to Japanese or Korean is a lot of base work to even read the words.
Aye, learning a language has very distinct levels.
Learning... you cant talk, just know some words. Dozens of words.
Practical... you can navigate the country in some way, though not able to converse. Hundreds of words.
Conversational... very difficult, able to talk to a native about almost any topic.. this will be dialect specific. Even at this point common phrases (idioms) will be almost unknown. Thousands of words.
Native.. Almost impossible without complete isolation. Being able to pass as a native, read local books like you read English is extremely hard. Tens of thousands of words and perfect grammar.
There are of course people who can do this much more easily.. and technical books are probably the easiest to read when learning the language (slang / colloquialisms are very nuanced).
However.. I have trouble seeing a general reason for an english speaker to think this is a required step, if most important work was published in another language, you might have a reason.. but otherwise you will have little motivation to speak another language with such skill that it actually helps you in an academic sense.
So when did you learn the thousands apon thousands of Kunji required to read traditional Chinese? I mean, it was so easy, surely it didn't take long :p