I seriously considered pre-ordering SimCity. I loved that game. I remember my first SimCity, playing on a paperwhite monitor, 286 with 1 MB ram. (yes that's right 1MB).
I am glad I didn't. Because of the always on DRM and needing EA servers for solo play. I'm glad EA is getting burned a bit by this. I doubt it will change them because they have so much success with it in other games and platforms.
I think its a sad state for PC games. However, I also don't think it's just the game manufacturers fault, although they aren't helping the cause. Good old fashion DIY PCs is a dying market. So maybe what EA has done will have no effect in slowing or stopping the erode of the PC itself.
Seriously. I have heard this many times this last year in my job hunts: "you are really qualified." "you have valuable experience we need." "you scored in the top 3 of all test takers." and then when they make an offer its 15% below what I'm currently earning. I do great in the interviews. I show proficiency and have verifiable job experience. So I get less $. Makes no sense to me.
Geez. Have to fork over $1500 for the device with no assurances you will get into the program; then add in costs of travel to NY for "a$$ kissing" session. Only companies with R&D budget or venture capital will have a chance to participate.
How many hours did you spend to earn the $1K a month? Too often I find people want "a website" for $100 but don't realize that it will take more than a few hours to get it done.
My mother-in-law was taking a C++ class taught by an accountant. One project included code that was syntactically incorrect (the purpose of the assignment was
not to find the syntax errors).
My point is, if you wanted to teach, you could and do so in a more responsible manner than others.
Exactly.
Then again, anyone using a free service, with no ads, should expect something will change, at some point. I certainly wasn't surprised by the change, just disappointed.
Agreed. But that's not what I was implying. I said "give the guy credit for thinking outside the box". I concur his ideas may not be plausible, right now, but a healthy discussion could lead to alternatives that have do have merit. And that's my point. Our debate about guns has been focused on 2 positions and it's time to open the door to other ideas, even if they seem far fetched, as the outcome could very well lead to a 3rd or 4th or x alternatives not previously considered.
I understand what your saying. I wouldn't necessarily place fictions use of such technologies in the same place is bringing the ideas out into public debate as a real discussion on a real issue.
Quite possibly the dumbest article I've ever seen.
At least someone is thinking outside the box and looking alternatives. I have to give him credit for that.
I cringe at the thought of all the different failure points of his proposals. But to say our current debate on guns (two sides: 1) ban all or some or 2) make them more available) will find a solution is simply head-in-the-sand refusal to admit our political process for solving social issues is useless.
So I give the guy credit for keeping an open mind and proposing some new thinking on a very old problem
Unlike a lot of people, I kind of liked the Metro look and feel and integration. Windows UI is stale and boring. I welcomed a changing in UI thinking and presentation. Even if its not perfect, its refreshing to see some out of the box thinking.
But because almost "nothing" is a metro app, everything I do goes back to the desktop, and that's where Win8 blows, unless you know a lot of command line ways of doing things.
As a developer, Metro sucks. It is a subset of WPF. So I cannot just "port" an existing WPF app to metro. I'm forced to completely re-do the UI (assuming the rest of the system is architected well). On top of it, in order to develop metro apps, I have to be running VS in Win8--which becomes a real pita when we start talking about upgrading systems with drivers that are not available for Win8 yet.
Agreed. IP4 was simple to read. just a set of number groups. And likewise, it was simple to communicate. IP6 is hex values or something (not sure whats the % is in "Reply from fe80::f9ee:eb6f:8c74:52f5%16: time1ms"). When I ping something I always turn on the IP4 switch.
I would assume Instagram plans to mitigate the risk of reselling already otherwise copyrighted material unlawfully uploaded by a user by building libraries of images to be sold and doing their due diligence before providing their paying customers with access to the library. So in other words, they will pick and chose which images are available for resale. And, therefore become a competitor to Getty and other competitors by effectively sequestering users uploads. If some one is paying for the images, it would be easy to cover the costs of adding some due diligence.
As for the model releases etc, the users effectively give up that right with the new terms of service.
These are costly, for now. I can't help to wonder if there was more push to go the route of distributed power, the costs per "unit" or house or person would drop significantly.
There's natural gas generators which are extremely clean and efficient. Higher end generators are really quiet. I've never understood why every home isn't built with one these days (other than the power companies oppose them for profit reasons). Add in small windmills (there was link here on slashdot about a new design that is very small and very efficient), suit case size nuclear generators
seriously, what's so terrible about some common sense approaches energy management. Everyone has a "reason" why we can't do this. No one really wants to solve the problems I think.
Seriously, how long will it be before we hear of lawsuit that someone's activities on a couch were recorded and posted on internet through this security hole in the TV?
I made a similar post before seeing this one. You're spot on. Yes its a choice but I can't blame anyone. I'm not saying its right but if you have to chose between losing vacation time (which in the US can be as low as week) or going in sick, well.....
1) Usually the time away sick is taken away from time for vacation. In the US, PTO is becoming more the norm which lumps vacation and sick all together. Even when you did get sick time, it was poor. 3 days or 5 days. With one bout of the flu, its gone. If you have kids, then you know you will be taking more time away because they are sick and it comes out of your vacation time.
2) Schedules and deadlines don't change because you were sick. You expected to work overtime, make it up, etc etc. There's nothing wrong with the work ethic, if you want to, but when its expected, the stress of it can be worse than muddling through the day at the office sick
3) I cannot count on my hands how many times I have seen employers dock employees reviews because they "took so much sick time". You were sick. Poor thing. No raise for you!
4) Social attitudes. If you call in sick and are found to be "lying", you even risk getting fired. So people do not want to call in sick for fear of assumption that others will think your lying. PTO is suppose to address this but it still happens.
I haven't had any issues with Android tablet interface. In fact I like its flexibility such as widgets over the iPad. My biggest complaint about my droid tablet is the keyboard doesn't function well in all applications and the chrome browser. Even firefox on the droid has some problems too.
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I seriously considered pre-ordering SimCity. I loved that game. I remember my first SimCity, playing on a paperwhite monitor, 286 with 1 MB ram. (yes that's right 1MB).
I am glad I didn't. Because of the always on DRM and needing EA servers for solo play. I'm glad EA is getting burned a bit by this. I doubt it will change them because they have so much success with it in other games and platforms.
I think its a sad state for PC games. However, I also don't think it's just the game manufacturers fault, although they aren't helping the cause. Good old fashion DIY PCs is a dying market. So maybe what EA has done will have no effect in slowing or stopping the erode of the PC itself.
Seriously. I have heard this many times this last year in my job hunts: "you are really qualified." "you have valuable experience we need." "you scored in the top 3 of all test takers." and then when they make an offer its 15% below what I'm currently earning. I do great in the interviews. I show proficiency and have verifiable job experience. So I get less $. Makes no sense to me.
Geez. Have to fork over $1500 for the device with no assurances you will get into the program; then add in costs of travel to NY for "a$$ kissing" session. Only companies with R&D budget or venture capital will have a chance to participate.
How many hours did you spend to earn the $1K a month? Too often I find people want "a website" for $100 but don't realize that it will take more than a few hours to get it done.
My mother-in-law was taking a C++ class taught by an accountant. One project included code that was syntactically incorrect (the purpose of the assignment was not to find the syntax errors).
My point is, if you wanted to teach, you could and do so in a more responsible manner than others.
I consider those shops where "just get it done", "hurry up", "we don't have time to refactor anything" producing the same results.
Exactly. Then again, anyone using a free service, with no ads, should expect something will change, at some point. I certainly wasn't surprised by the change, just disappointed.
Agreed. But that's not what I was implying. I said "give the guy credit for thinking outside the box". I concur his ideas may not be plausible, right now, but a healthy discussion could lead to alternatives that have do have merit. And that's my point. Our debate about guns has been focused on 2 positions and it's time to open the door to other ideas, even if they seem far fetched, as the outcome could very well lead to a 3rd or 4th or x alternatives not previously considered.
I understand what your saying. I wouldn't necessarily place fictions use of such technologies in the same place is bringing the ideas out into public debate as a real discussion on a real issue.
Quite possibly the dumbest article I've ever seen.
At least someone is thinking outside the box and looking alternatives. I have to give him credit for that.
I cringe at the thought of all the different failure points of his proposals. But to say our current debate on guns (two sides: 1) ban all or some or 2) make them more available) will find a solution is simply head-in-the-sand refusal to admit our political process for solving social issues is useless.
So I give the guy credit for keeping an open mind and proposing some new thinking on a very old problem
That pretty much sums it up.
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Unlike a lot of people, I kind of liked the Metro look and feel and integration. Windows UI is stale and boring. I welcomed a changing in UI thinking and presentation. Even if its not perfect, its refreshing to see some out of the box thinking. But because almost "nothing" is a metro app, everything I do goes back to the desktop, and that's where Win8 blows, unless you know a lot of command line ways of doing things. As a developer, Metro sucks. It is a subset of WPF. So I cannot just "port" an existing WPF app to metro. I'm forced to completely re-do the UI (assuming the rest of the system is architected well). On top of it, in order to develop metro apps, I have to be running VS in Win8--which becomes a real pita when we start talking about upgrading systems with drivers that are not available for Win8 yet.
Agreed. IP4 was simple to read. just a set of number groups. And likewise, it was simple to communicate. IP6 is hex values or something (not sure whats the % is in "Reply from fe80::f9ee:eb6f:8c74:52f5%16: time1ms"). When I ping something I always turn on the IP4 switch.
I'd like to think your right. My paranoia says in this day and age, don't count on it.
overwhelm the system with uploads of already copyrighted material ;)
I would assume Instagram plans to mitigate the risk of reselling already otherwise copyrighted material unlawfully uploaded by a user by building libraries of images to be sold and doing their due diligence before providing their paying customers with access to the library. So in other words, they will pick and chose which images are available for resale. And, therefore become a competitor to Getty and other competitors by effectively sequestering users uploads. If some one is paying for the images, it would be easy to cover the costs of adding some due diligence.
As for the model releases etc, the users effectively give up that right with the new terms of service.
I know the holodeck is from Star Trek but hey, if we are going to do this right, a holodeck is necessary.
These are costly, for now. I can't help to wonder if there was more push to go the route of distributed power, the costs per "unit" or house or person would drop significantly.
There's natural gas generators which are extremely clean and efficient. Higher end generators are really quiet. I've never understood why every home isn't built with one these days (other than the power companies oppose them for profit reasons). Add in small windmills (there was link here on slashdot about a new design that is very small and very efficient), suit case size nuclear generators
seriously, what's so terrible about some common sense approaches energy management. Everyone has a "reason" why we can't do this. No one really wants to solve the problems I think.
Seriously, how long will it be before we hear of lawsuit that someone's activities on a couch were recorded and posted on internet through this security hole in the TV?
make that two.
I made a similar post before seeing this one. You're spot on. Yes its a choice but I can't blame anyone. I'm not saying its right but if you have to chose between losing vacation time (which in the US can be as low as week) or going in sick, well.....
1) Usually the time away sick is taken away from time for vacation. In the US, PTO is becoming more the norm which lumps vacation and sick all together. Even when you did get sick time, it was poor. 3 days or 5 days. With one bout of the flu, its gone. If you have kids, then you know you will be taking more time away because they are sick and it comes out of your vacation time. 2) Schedules and deadlines don't change because you were sick. You expected to work overtime, make it up, etc etc. There's nothing wrong with the work ethic, if you want to, but when its expected, the stress of it can be worse than muddling through the day at the office sick 3) I cannot count on my hands how many times I have seen employers dock employees reviews because they "took so much sick time". You were sick. Poor thing. No raise for you! 4) Social attitudes. If you call in sick and are found to be "lying", you even risk getting fired. So people do not want to call in sick for fear of assumption that others will think your lying. PTO is suppose to address this but it still happens.
I haven't had any issues with Android tablet interface. In fact I like its flexibility such as widgets over the iPad. My biggest complaint about my droid tablet is the keyboard doesn't function well in all applications and the chrome browser. Even firefox on the droid has some problems too.