Or does stopping the MPAA's antics require that consumers stop using DVDs? Your statements just bolster the MPAA's position. They read your post and think, "as long as we keep turning the screws on this streaming thing, consumers will keep wanting DVDs and we can sell DVDs."
I can think of a lot of scenarios where streaming through netflix is preferable to DVD. No need to share DVDs, just tell your friends to stream xyz and they can. No waiting for a DVD to come in the mail, to my experience the streams start up quickly all the time. No surprises. I know my internet connection and i get consistent quality with the streamed video. I have gotten a number of abused and unwatchable DVDs in the mail. A huge library of stuff is available on demand that you can watch back to back. How many DVDs can you possibly get at once?
I think most of us want the nirvana of video that you can watch whatever you want whenever you want. Netflix streaming, to me, seems to be the closest legal option to that. I ditched cable for it. I abandoned the DVD plan and i'm perfectly happy to stream the B movies and tv shows on there. I'm happy to let the MPAA know that i prefer to pay $5 a month to stream what i want when i want as much as i want, even if it's not their grade A blockbuster material. In all honesty 99% of that is crap too. So, f-you MPAA. I'd rather watch low budget campy sci-fi streamed over netflix because it's convenient. If you want in on the action, I might consider consuming your product if you agree to netflix's terms.
You don't have to go all the way to India to get bad programmers. We have plenty of bad programmers right here. We also have plenty of bad managers trying to get a bad idea to market on a bad timeline. It just makes good business sense to use the cheaper bad programmers from overseas.
I don't worry about my job because i'm a good programmer. If you are a good programmer keep looking around. You will find the good project with good management that appreciates you.
Yeah. it's also the name of the platform that microsoft rolled out on top of ASP.NET. I thought it was apparent from the context. The guy i replied to mentioned it. I'm not sure why i was modded up and not him.
Now, I do admit that if i was making a list of cons for the platform, it would include:
uncharacteristically poor documentation for a microsoft platform
naming the platform after a pattern found in almost all apis and platforms. might as well name it "Microsoft Programming (for web applications)"
The first issue is a serious ding. As for the second, i'm not sure the name of the platform is ever highly considered in choosing a platform. Still, i would like it more if it was better named. maybe something like: Scimitar!
I think a high gravity environment is unlikely to produce massive beings. That extra mass would be self defeating. The largest creatures on our planet require water to support them. They'd likely be very small. High gravity worlds are more likely to produce hobbits. Plus the gravity pulls all the hair down, causing it to grow from their feet.
The problem i see with most CGI is it's used as a crutch. Many filmmakers rely on CGI to make something so real and perfect that the audience will get drawn in. Then they slack off on actually doing the story telling that does draw us in.
These people seem to be making the polar opposite assumption. They assume that a good miniature is going to really make the film. They are making the same mistake. I would like to point out Disney's The Black Hole. That film has some incredible miniatures. That film sucks.
C may turn out to be a great film in spite of the filmmakers elitist attitudes. However, from the look of the trailer, it could use some well crafted cgi.
I second the bid for MVC. I've always found the IIS/sql server/.net pyramid to be powerful, stable, and easy to use. Plus it's easy to integrate with all sorts of newfangled toys like mongodb.
At the outset of the IOS vs Android wars, i think IOS was clearly better in terms of experience. It made a priority out of indicating to the user that it was working on their request ex: touching an app icon immediately launched the splash screen for that app, vs android just kind of freezing for a bit while the app was loaded. It was streamlined without a lot of confusing options or paths you could take.
I don't think that's the case anymore. Android has improved a lot, and the phones and tablets i've seen over the past year seemed to provide a different, but comparable experience. I think people who claim that IOS is so superior in terms of experience don't really have a leg to stand on anymore. They are either blinded by fanboism, unaware that android has improved, or they are confusing familiarity with good ux.
I'm an iOS user. I feel lost on an android device, but i don't think it sucks. It's just different.
Art! Other than my first job out of school, i've worked as a software engineer. I've been in several interviews where i've expressed a feeling of inadequacy because my education is not in comp sci. 100% of the time, that is pish-poshed away by the interviewer. If you can prove you are analytical and smart, nobody is going to look down on a PhD in biology. I'd even go so far as to say many american companies love a candidate who is multidimensional.
As far as i know, it's not illegal (yet) to set up an unfavorable business deal. If HP is paying retail+ per CPU, Oracle should be executing a full on Nelson laugh in HP's direction.
Except the 4th amendment is protecting you against detainment and loss of physical property. Since snapping a picture of your car in public doesn't impede you in anyway, and nothing was siezed, i'm not sure how it violates the 4th amendment. There is nothing in that text that says you can expect to be free from being observed and having records of those observations made.
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They are protesting html5 by making a rather nice if simple cross platform html5 site? do people not know how to protest anymore? Rosa Parks. She knew how to protest. Drive the message home. Don't tie up public resources any longer than you need to. Don't whine about something but expect other people to act.
The sentiment outlined in TFA, "broadband service providers charge consumers only once for Internet access, do not favor one content provider over another, and do not charge content providers for sending information over broadband lines to users" Is laudable. The proposed solutions are rarely so succinct, and the fear is that people want public supported government run "free" internet everywhere, and it's going to mandate that you can only use cisco model bg103 routers and google is in charge of xy and z, etc.
I totally support legislation that just says traffic can't be discriminated against. I just don't want it to mandate what price access must be provided at or how much cable must be laid, or what technology needs to be used, etc.
I don't know what world the journalists have been living in. I've always been cool. Sure being athletic and having a winning smile helps, but people have always admired my coding skills.
Maybe the writers just graduated high school and realized that, hey, someone who can be productive is cool.
Yeah. That's the irony of the situation. While I believe the account belongs to the company, it's obvious that people follow the person. This move could really hurt the company if Noah's followers see him as a victim. All in all it's a textbook case of poorly planned social strategy.
Why would they pursue anything while Noah was an employee? My employer doesn't take me to court every week to defend ownership of their logo on all the emails i send out. If i become an ex employee and continue to use that sig, things would likely change.
After he was no longer an employee, they started defending it as theirs. I don't know how soon after he left they started defending the account. From TFA it sounds like it was under a year. That seems fairly speedy. And, they might have politely asked for it back before starting legal action.
I have a macbook. It's become my main development and all around computer. I have a linux box that performs some server duties. I have a windows machine around for games mostly. I've tried wine and transgaming. In my experience, I could either spend my time trying to get wine and transgaming to support the games i want to play, and then, honestly, deal with subpar performance. Or, I could just buy a windows box and play the games.
Steam on the mac is a step towards a world where i no longer have windows, but TF2 still runs far better on my windows laptop than my macbook. I can afford to indulge so i do.
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"Jennifer Kohn's third grade class at Millstone Elementary School in Millstone, New Jersey, mastered the iPad with minimal training."
Mastered meaning they learned objective-c and xcode and now have multiple million unit selling apps?
Or does stopping the MPAA's antics require that consumers stop using DVDs? Your statements just bolster the MPAA's position. They read your post and think, "as long as we keep turning the screws on this streaming thing, consumers will keep wanting DVDs and we can sell DVDs."
I can think of a lot of scenarios where streaming through netflix is preferable to DVD. No need to share DVDs, just tell your friends to stream xyz and they can. No waiting for a DVD to come in the mail, to my experience the streams start up quickly all the time. No surprises. I know my internet connection and i get consistent quality with the streamed video. I have gotten a number of abused and unwatchable DVDs in the mail. A huge library of stuff is available on demand that you can watch back to back. How many DVDs can you possibly get at once?
I think most of us want the nirvana of video that you can watch whatever you want whenever you want. Netflix streaming, to me, seems to be the closest legal option to that. I ditched cable for it. I abandoned the DVD plan and i'm perfectly happy to stream the B movies and tv shows on there. I'm happy to let the MPAA know that i prefer to pay $5 a month to stream what i want when i want as much as i want, even if it's not their grade A blockbuster material. In all honesty 99% of that is crap too. So, f-you MPAA. I'd rather watch low budget campy sci-fi streamed over netflix because it's convenient. If you want in on the action, I might consider consuming your product if you agree to netflix's terms.
Whoa! What? Dell had an Android tablet for sale?
You don't have to go all the way to India to get bad programmers. We have plenty of bad programmers right here. We also have plenty of bad managers trying to get a bad idea to market on a bad timeline. It just makes good business sense to use the cheaper bad programmers from overseas.
I don't worry about my job because i'm a good programmer. If you are a good programmer keep looking around. You will find the good project with good management that appreciates you.
Now, I do admit that if i was making a list of cons for the platform, it would include:
The first issue is a serious ding. As for the second, i'm not sure the name of the platform is ever highly considered in choosing a platform. Still, i would like it more if it was better named. maybe something like: Scimitar!
I think a high gravity environment is unlikely to produce massive beings. That extra mass would be self defeating. The largest creatures on our planet require water to support them. They'd likely be very small. High gravity worlds are more likely to produce hobbits. Plus the gravity pulls all the hair down, causing it to grow from their feet.
The problem i see with most CGI is it's used as a crutch. Many filmmakers rely on CGI to make something so real and perfect that the audience will get drawn in. Then they slack off on actually doing the story telling that does draw us in.
These people seem to be making the polar opposite assumption. They assume that a good miniature is going to really make the film. They are making the same mistake. I would like to point out Disney's The Black Hole. That film has some incredible miniatures. That film sucks.
C may turn out to be a great film in spite of the filmmakers elitist attitudes. However, from the look of the trailer, it could use some well crafted cgi.
I second the bid for MVC. I've always found the IIS/sql server/.net pyramid to be powerful, stable, and easy to use. Plus it's easy to integrate with all sorts of newfangled toys like mongodb.
I always knew chrome would be called the worlds most popular browser, but i had no idea it was only the second browser to receive the title.
At the outset of the IOS vs Android wars, i think IOS was clearly better in terms of experience. It made a priority out of indicating to the user that it was working on their request ex: touching an app icon immediately launched the splash screen for that app, vs android just kind of freezing for a bit while the app was loaded. It was streamlined without a lot of confusing options or paths you could take.
I don't think that's the case anymore. Android has improved a lot, and the phones and tablets i've seen over the past year seemed to provide a different, but comparable experience. I think people who claim that IOS is so superior in terms of experience don't really have a leg to stand on anymore. They are either blinded by fanboism, unaware that android has improved, or they are confusing familiarity with good ux.
I'm an iOS user. I feel lost on an android device, but i don't think it sucks. It's just different.
You keep talking about pussy vasectomies. I don't think you understand what a vasectomy is.
ha! i might have been had i not just taken a new position on the east coast.
Art! Other than my first job out of school, i've worked as a software engineer. I've been in several interviews where i've expressed a feeling of inadequacy because my education is not in comp sci. 100% of the time, that is pish-poshed away by the interviewer. If you can prove you are analytical and smart, nobody is going to look down on a PhD in biology. I'd even go so far as to say many american companies love a candidate who is multidimensional.
You got peanut butter in my chocolate!
As far as i know, it's not illegal (yet) to set up an unfavorable business deal. If HP is paying retail+ per CPU, Oracle should be executing a full on Nelson laugh in HP's direction.
Except the 4th amendment is protecting you against detainment and loss of physical property. Since snapping a picture of your car in public doesn't impede you in anyway, and nothing was siezed, i'm not sure how it violates the 4th amendment. There is nothing in that text that says you can expect to be free from being observed and having records of those observations made.
They are protesting html5 by making a rather nice if simple cross platform html5 site? do people not know how to protest anymore? Rosa Parks. She knew how to protest. Drive the message home. Don't tie up public resources any longer than you need to. Don't whine about something but expect other people to act.
The sentiment outlined in TFA, "broadband service providers charge consumers only once for Internet access, do not favor one content provider over another, and do not charge content providers for sending information over broadband lines to users" Is laudable. The proposed solutions are rarely so succinct, and the fear is that people want public supported government run "free" internet everywhere, and it's going to mandate that you can only use cisco model bg103 routers and google is in charge of xy and z, etc.
I totally support legislation that just says traffic can't be discriminated against. I just don't want it to mandate what price access must be provided at or how much cable must be laid, or what technology needs to be used, etc.
I don't know what world the journalists have been living in. I've always been cool. Sure being athletic and having a winning smile helps, but people have always admired my coding skills. Maybe the writers just graduated high school and realized that, hey, someone who can be productive is cool.
you are unable to watch tv and lift weights at the same time?
you obviously haven't been eating the right mushrooms.
Yeah. That's the irony of the situation. While I believe the account belongs to the company, it's obvious that people follow the person. This move could really hurt the company if Noah's followers see him as a victim. All in all it's a textbook case of poorly planned social strategy.
Why would they pursue anything while Noah was an employee? My employer doesn't take me to court every week to defend ownership of their logo on all the emails i send out. If i become an ex employee and continue to use that sig, things would likely change.
After he was no longer an employee, they started defending it as theirs. I don't know how soon after he left they started defending the account. From TFA it sounds like it was under a year. That seems fairly speedy. And, they might have politely asked for it back before starting legal action.
My house key will get you into my house, but the dog in my living room knows you're not me.
Great. What if i'm wearing a funny hat. will my computer refuse to let me in?
I have a macbook. It's become my main development and all around computer. I have a linux box that performs some server duties. I have a windows machine around for games mostly. I've tried wine and transgaming. In my experience, I could either spend my time trying to get wine and transgaming to support the games i want to play, and then, honestly, deal with subpar performance. Or, I could just buy a windows box and play the games.
Steam on the mac is a step towards a world where i no longer have windows, but TF2 still runs far better on my windows laptop than my macbook. I can afford to indulge so i do.