Hmm, good clarification. I suppose I was meaning "more money" in the sense of "more buying power", not so much "more dollars" (which has become pretty meaningless recently, although with the stock market crash you can buy 500% more of GM for your dollar now compared to a year ago... should you want to.:P )
The model of investor expecting to make a quick buck off FOSS is broken. Not FOSS.
Exactly. Kind of like how those "make your first million" guys are always touring and doing seminars. They didn't get rich off clever investment, they got rich by giving seminars.
I love your analogy, but I think it's an even better one than you credit it for. Programmers are like bloggers. They're a dime a dozen - but how many good ones are there? And how many of those are willing to exclusively blog about your project full-time for free?
There will always be a demand for custom software, because every business is different. That means there will always be a demand for developers to build that software. And good developers will always be able to produce better custom software, quicker, and save businesses more money than bad ones will. So good developers will be in much more demand than bad ones, and be paid much more.
Actually I think it kind of does, if I'm interpreting him correctly. Wealth isn't just "having money", it's "getting more money by using your current money instead of by working". If you make an investment (of time or money) and get a fixed return from it, that is a trade - it may be favourable if you get a good wage / price but it's still a trade. Making an investment which gives an ongoing revenue stream is, as I understand it, increasing your wealth.
Pretty sure 'recession' is just 'two consecutive quarters of negative growth'. Then again, according to Google's definerator, there's a bit of slack in the definition.
I'd hope that after surviving more than a few tens of rounds with a bear you'd have refined your technique and be able to confidently back yourself... >.>
When was the last time you took a bunch of humans and told them "o hai, u lrn 2 b native or die lol"? Humans are tough buggers. Sure, we look all soft and feeble when we're in our protective blanket of civilisation and technology but given a very brief (less than the time it takes to starve to death) time to adapt, by and large we rapidly show our true colours as ingenious omnivores who are a lot tougher and smarter than rats.*
Humans aren't generally regularly practiced at hunting in packs, or spearing prey. They can, however, learn and adapt faster than any other species on the planet. And that's why they've been kicking ass on the we-win-o-meter since 4000BC.
* And yes, rats are my benchmark for mammalian survivability. The only thing I can think of that beats them in pure survival is cockroaches, and they're invertebrates who are eaten by... rats.;)
Put a hundred of you and a hundred bears on an island and see who comes out on top. A larger world with more options means more opportunity for intelligence to provide an advantage.
Chances are that the hundred of you would be working in packs with primitive weapons to wipe out the bears within a week.
Speaking from personal experience, the universal result of a pregnancy test is "the second line looks sort of very faintly like it's gone blue but you're not sure" regardless of the actual state of pregnancy. First one we used (which was an actual positive) was tested about a month after conception and looked exactly the same as the second one we used recently which we decided was a negative result when my wife had her period the next week.
You're saying that sex has bad gameplay? Try it before you bag it bro!
[Edit] Oh, btw, you gotta try the multiplayer, the single player game's just a tutorial.
If you want to include TeX formats in your Word-esque documents then I don't think you're quite the target audience for ODF-based word processors. You can definitely include formatting information that functions similarly - so arguing that it's a problem with the underlying document format because it's not the same syntax is kind of missing the point. It is an interface issue, as much as pasting using Ctrl+V instead of middle-click is an interface issue.
I don't think it's any sort of hubris to expect that, if they're not at that stage yet, at some stage shared document formats will be able to represent anything that can reasonably be portrayed on a page. I'd be more inclined to call it hubris to assume that you will always be able to come up with something that can't be adequately represented in an existing, arbitrarily advanced generic format.
I guarantee you that your major beef with [insert least favorite allegedly-wysiwig word processor here] is more an issue with the user interface than with the underlying document format, especially if (and this is the point I was making) the format in question is less than 10-15 years old and as such can probably store and display pretty much anything you can think of.
Real materials? You mean some poor guy's had his face ripped off? It's actually an animatronic cadaver?/horrifiedgasp!!:P
The main new part is not that it's driven with motors (animatronics have been doing that for decades) but that it's driven by a video rather than having to have tracking dots or sensors on the actor.
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Hmm, good clarification. I suppose I was meaning "more money" in the sense of "more buying power", not so much "more dollars" (which has become pretty meaningless recently, although with the stock market crash you can buy 500% more of GM for your dollar now compared to a year ago... should you want to. :P )
The model of investor expecting to make a quick buck off FOSS is broken. Not FOSS.
Exactly. Kind of like how those "make your first million" guys are always touring and doing seminars. They didn't get rich off clever investment, they got rich by giving seminars.
I love your analogy, but I think it's an even better one than you credit it for. Programmers are like bloggers. They're a dime a dozen - but how many good ones are there? And how many of those are willing to exclusively blog about your project full-time for free?
There will always be a demand for custom software, because every business is different. That means there will always be a demand for developers to build that software. And good developers will always be able to produce better custom software, quicker, and save businesses more money than bad ones will. So good developers will be in much more demand than bad ones, and be paid much more.
Actually I think it kind of does, if I'm interpreting him correctly. Wealth isn't just "having money", it's "getting more money by using your current money instead of by working". If you make an investment (of time or money) and get a fixed return from it, that is a trade - it may be favourable if you get a good wage / price but it's still a trade. Making an investment which gives an ongoing revenue stream is, as I understand it, increasing your wealth.
Ah, I see which two most appealed to you out of "accurate, thorough, succinct".
I'll remember that link, though, for future occasions where I need to be condescending while at the same time mildly informative.
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If you *want to* hand draw that more than a few times per circuit sketch, you fail at having something better to do.
Kibble Bites are what my dog eats. Kilobytes are what my computer eats, and no wikipedia thingus is gonna tell me different.
Pretty sure 'recession' is just 'two consecutive quarters of negative growth'. Then again, according to Google's definerator, there's a bit of slack in the definition.
You too? It sucks having a job and a life, hey. :P
Don't you know that racism is defined as "saying bad things about black people"?
I'd hope that after surviving more than a few tens of rounds with a bear you'd have refined your technique and be able to confidently back yourself... >.>
Nom nom nom! Yummy bear!
I'd say for a show like this, we should be looking at cloning _neanderthals_... oh wait
When was the last time you took a bunch of humans and told them "o hai, u lrn 2 b native or die lol"? Humans are tough buggers. Sure, we look all soft and feeble when we're in our protective blanket of civilisation and technology but given a very brief (less than the time it takes to starve to death) time to adapt, by and large we rapidly show our true colours as ingenious omnivores who are a lot tougher and smarter than rats.*
;)
Humans aren't generally regularly practiced at hunting in packs, or spearing prey. They can, however, learn and adapt faster than any other species on the planet. And that's why they've been kicking ass on the we-win-o-meter since 4000BC.
* And yes, rats are my benchmark for mammalian survivability. The only thing I can think of that beats them in pure survival is cockroaches, and they're invertebrates who are eaten by... rats.
Outside consulting contractor: $120/hr
One week's onsite work: 38 hours.
Mathemagic says that hiring two consultants for more than a week each would be above $10k.
I read a great quote on here a while ago. Something along the lines of "life only began once on this planet, and we're all just little bits of it".
Put a hundred of you and a hundred bears on an island and see who comes out on top. A larger world with more options means more opportunity for intelligence to provide an advantage.
Chances are that the hundred of you would be working in packs with primitive weapons to wipe out the bears within a week.
Speaking from personal experience, the universal result of a pregnancy test is "the second line looks sort of very faintly like it's gone blue but you're not sure" regardless of the actual state of pregnancy. First one we used (which was an actual positive) was tested about a month after conception and looked exactly the same as the second one we used recently which we decided was a negative result when my wife had her period the next week.
You're saying that sex has bad gameplay? Try it before you bag it bro! [Edit] Oh, btw, you gotta try the multiplayer, the single player game's just a tutorial.
If you want to include TeX formats in your Word-esque documents then I don't think you're quite the target audience for ODF-based word processors. You can definitely include formatting information that functions similarly - so arguing that it's a problem with the underlying document format because it's not the same syntax is kind of missing the point. It is an interface issue, as much as pasting using Ctrl+V instead of middle-click is an interface issue.
I don't think it's any sort of hubris to expect that, if they're not at that stage yet, at some stage shared document formats will be able to represent anything that can reasonably be portrayed on a page. I'd be more inclined to call it hubris to assume that you will always be able to come up with something that can't be adequately represented in an existing, arbitrarily advanced generic format.
I guarantee you that your major beef with [insert least favorite allegedly-wysiwig word processor here] is more an issue with the user interface than with the underlying document format, especially if (and this is the point I was making) the format in question is less than 10-15 years old and as such can probably store and display pretty much anything you can think of.
Don't you think it's a little hard to come up with something new and interesting if you're restricted to the elements defined by the standard?
Sure do! That's why I stick with MS Paint, I can't see how these fancy bitmap editors like Photoshop could be better if they save to the same format.
Game development != IT.
Real materials? You mean some poor guy's had his face ripped off? It's actually an animatronic cadaver? /horrifiedgasp!! :P
The main new part is not that it's driven with motors (animatronics have been doing that for decades) but that it's driven by a video rather than having to have tracking dots or sensors on the actor.