Seriously, if you are asking the question, then you need to take a shovel and dig yourself a nice lil' hole and go for a dirt nap.
I'm a practical idealist. Sounds like an oxymoron, I know, but yeah, I'm 45 yrs old and I keep learning new stuff everything. I'm a developer, an instructor and I do believe that the day I stop learning, the day I think I know enough, that's the day I should just kill myself.
Do you like programming? do you like a challenge?
That's what you should be asking yourself.
You claim to have 25 yrs of experience, have you not learned anything yet? what's so freakin' challenging about a new programming language when you got all of the other ones under your belt?
I have a basic, c, c++ and assembler background.
You seem to have a similar one, with even more including cobol.
What's out there that you wouldn't be able to conquer?
So, it's not if you are too old, but rather, do you give a crap.
If you do, go for it, it's always useful and it won't be a waste of time especially\ if it's a hot commodity to learn.
Unless you are kinda mediocre as a programmer to begin with, but hey, that's a story between you and your previous projects/employer.
And yeah, there are a lot of young ones out there in the market and they don't charge as much or work twice or three times the amount of hours to get it done.
I laugh my ass off when I see that.
Because for me, I can get the job done in half the time, and it's done right. Why? it's called experience.
Every project I've ever done has been a lesson learned in trial and errors.
Even in success, I learned that it could have been done better and basically applied this knowledge to my future projects.
By now, having myself 20+ yrs of experience in the field, I've yet seen anything which doesn't relate in some ways to something I've done in the past.
How you sell yourself is how you define the relevancy of you as a person, a resource and then skills you have to offer.
Keeping with the current trends and lingo of the industry is all about learning, nothing different than learning a new programming language.
So, do you give a crap? do this industry still make you excited? Those are the questions you need to ask and you are the only one to provide the answer.
Cheers!
Claude
As those advances in hybrid DNA keep evolving, who would have thought that the "Island of Dr. Moreau" is going to move from the fiction category to the documentary section:)
"The aircraft is larger and heavier than an average hummingbird, but is smaller and lighter than the largest hummingbird currently found in nature."
I'm confused.
I thought I knew English.
Can anyone help me?
Is this an experiment on how to create a brain aneurysm using an illogical statement?
"I sense a Star Trek moment here ladies and germs...".
People have a problem with the word "NO".. if a business such as a cafe bistro/restaurant has a no IPOD/IPAD/Kindle, etc.. policy, then fine by me. I won't go..
But I respect their policy.. I don't agree, so, I will go elsewhere.
It's the power of choice. It's an important one and ironically, we forget that.
While I'm not going, they don't get my money.
Now, if they have more than enough patrons to follow their rules and go anyways, good for them.
If not, well, they will lose business and market share to other "high-tech" friendlier cafes and life goes on.
I've never been one to care what others are paid. I get what I want, or I agree to whatever is offered and I do the job. As web developers, it's our responsibility to keep up with emerging technologies in order to stay relevant, employed and to command a better salary. The old programmer is jealous... "Thou shall not covet thee co-worker's paycheck!":)
It's ok to ask for more hours, if there is more pay, if not, some compensation should be expected.. For example, you just don't "add" new features, you need to schedule these things. So, getting the crew to work extra hours for 2 to 3 weeks at a time in between every month, that's reasonable. If more money can't be given, then extra hours could be compensated in free time in the down times or some other perks.
In the long run, however, programmers burn out. So, I don't recommend this as a normal strategy. Only to get some of the critical items out there.
C'mon.. this is ridiculous. Software glitches... shouldn't be the player's problems. That should be the casino's problem and the supplier who sold the machine to the casino. As far as I'm concerned, the player may thought he found his "lucky" combo keys.. punches.. etc.. whatever it is. It's that simple. Don't expect a player to police fairness in a casino.. If all the player was doing his using the interface as intended, then the fault is the casino, not the player. There are no "sequences" which can be determined as cheating unless these were instructed. It's really that simple. It's gambling. And it's an automated system. Don't put it out there if it's defective. The rationale here could be the reverse. How many people, because the system has glitches, could have won, but never did. Casinos can be sore losers.. The players won their monies.. End of story. If there is a glitch.. Take the machines out, fix them and get over it. If I were the players I would sue the casinos for wasting their times. These casinos are designed to take your money. If they get to lose some.. tooo bad.. All part of the game.
If I were to try and find out if software testing is worth, think of the following questions to ask:
Recurring bugs?
how long does it take to fix? (programmer time)
how much productivity was lost because of it? (user time)
Did the bug fix initiate a cascade of other fixes in other modules?
Did the recurring bug fix cause database changes?
New Bugs?
Same questions, but, with the added, how did it get introduced?
Now, Software testing, should be done first and foremost based on establish scenarios which the feature you are coding is design to perform..
This means that once a programmer has implemented new code, there should be a set of X scenarios, which accomplishes specific tasks, which the app should be run against in order to see if the new feature will behave accordingly and existing features are not impaired.
That is software testing 101.
Selenium framework do this type of testing.
If you need to know that you aren't mucking with your existing code, then you need actual unit testing, jUnit, jsUnit, etc..
Bad code practices tend to be hard to unit test thoroughly.
when code is well designed, the unit test code is easy to write \
The heavy cost of designing unit test, is when you must refactor your existing code base for unit testability.
Still, for the most part, "software testing" as usability/goal oriented tests, that should always be done.
For the most part, the question is how to implement this?
Depending on the complexity of the application, I would recommend that tests are designed around the more heavily used features first, then the areas where bugs are found. There should be no areas untested, but prioritizing the work helps greatly.
I've written Selenium and jsUnit test suites and unit test frameworks in the past. All I can say is that when designed correctly, these unit test save deployment headaches. When an app evolves with new features and/or the modification of existing features, unit testing is a must in order to catch bugs before you head for production. Does it save money? well, yes, because, once a piece of software is in production, the people who depend on it are using it. Introducing new bugs because of bad software implementation will disrupt the app, causing hours of user time. That is money saved. But even in development phase, good unit testing are a solid way of ensuring your code is robust. It really becomes vital as you work with a large amount of developers.
imagine this.. for Nintendo and Sony to give out such warning... Considering that Nintendo has been experimenting for years with 3D tech.. I would take that as a serious warning. These companies have R&D, etc.. I don't think this is just "guesswork". Now, this Dr Michael Ehrenhaus doesn't agree.
I wonder who pays him to make such a statement. Maybe Toshiba.. or any other 3D TV vendor?:)
Medicine is to human what mechanic is to machines. The difference is.. for all machines out there, there are instruction manuals.. Ours.. is being figured out, little by little, everyday. Of course, I can only imagine what the Pope will say about the first human produced from 2 people with the same gender..:) On the other hand.. who wants Rosie O'Donnell to be able to have babies??:P
The kid's 4 yrs old.. and you are asking us slashdot readers for help? Don't you have enough imagination to go to google and type "software 4 yrs old"... I'll bet you will find educational and games software, many that will be freeware too! and i'll bet the netbook doesn't need the internet to work anyway.. so load the stuff, then disable the network (might be able to do that directly at the BIOS level, lock the BIOS with a password for editing. and no more worries about boobies).
if a 6yrs old can be sued, then.. a 6 yrs old should be able to vote, to drink, to get a line of credit, to hire a lawyer, go to the strip clubs... I mean.. Is this judge Wooted for real? Does he ever remember being 4 yrs old for that matter.
I say that when you live in a state and country where a judge allows 6yrs old to be sued, its either:
A) time to throw the judge in a circular padded cell, asking him to pee in a corner, while having a companion who constantly knits something, made from thin air, OR... B) its time for you to move elsewhere because sanity has left town and that's the a big hint you should pack up and leave too!
Incidently.... this Judge is a Republican... I wonder... does his views correspond to the majority of GOP partisans?
Hon. Paul Wooten
Supreme Court, Civil Branch, New York County
80 Centre Street
New York, NY 10013
(646) 386-3604
Judicial Offices
Justice, Supreme Court, New York County, Elected, 2009 to 2022
Justice, Supreme Court, New York County, Appointed by Governor David Paterson, 2008 to 2008
Party Membership GOP
Party Line Republican
The fact that this judge referred to previous cases in order to decide to let this case move forward displays an enormous amount of lack of judgement, common sense and 'cahunas'. I mean, these previous cases were NOT RIGHT to begin with, but instead of stopping these idiocies, he propagates them. Let's get him out of his office NOW! Because he probably believes the world was done in 7 days and Dinosaurs and men were walking together. I'll bet he thinks the Flintstones are a documentary.
Apple = Arrogance Produces Profit-Losing Entity
This was historically true, now, if Jobs and Co, keeps up their practices, eventually, they will find the competitors getting their market-share and that little joke up there will become true again.
Here's something of interest for music lovers. Samsung's media players, such as their YP-P3 and other series. The sound is out of this world, way superior to Apple's products. And, that media player has an excellent headseat included, will satisfy most out there who could be quite discriminate.
Compatible with DivX, Xvid and other MPEG4 codecs, as well as a flash player, voice recording, FM radio, record your FM songs, etc.
if you are a musician, you are in luck, you can actually speed up or slow down your music, really cool when you are trying to figure out a guitar or bass riff.
Do you like to watch downloaded TV Shows?
This puppy played all my videos without a hitch, I was watching Chuck, Doctor Who, etc.. all XVids.. no headaches. The system itself as built-in speakers and they sound really good actually. You can't see them. But it works:)
Seriously, the only draw back is that there aren't that many games and no internet support (only bluetooth).
However, a 32GB version cost me 254$ at B&H in NY City. I'm blown away by the sheer quality of this player. It has made me love music again.
On a windows' based platform, make sure you have Windows Media Player 10 or 11 and it's instantly recognized with XP SP2 or better.
Seriously, the moment Samsung takes this product, add phone and internet and most of all, gets into the gaming aspect, there product will be superior to IPhone/IPod/etc
The battery life is really 41 hours for music and 6 hours for video. Advertised and delivers as said. Simple to use, no iTunes or DRM stuff to deal with.. No root kits:)
Anyways, the truth is, Apple, more than ever needs the competition, I'm no fan of their products, because it's too much of a "Big Brother" deal when you buy into them.
Cheers!
Playing games and wanting to program are 2 different things. Heck, using a computer and wanting to program are certainly NOT related. So, if you want to know what is a good way to get to introduce your kid to programming, see if he's even willing to learn to program and if he had a choice, what would he want to do? (meaning what type of program he would want to write) so, if it's a no, stop wasting your time. Truth is, in my honest opinion, all kids should know some basic form of programming, at least the concepts such as loops, conditional statements, etc.. You never know when it can useful, but anyways, I digress here.
Try and get him to do something cool in JavaScript at least, as a starting point, tons of online tutorials, all free!:)
Assuming he truly is interested in programming, then then let his ambitions dictate which path he should take. Once you know what it is, then research to see the best way to get there (meaning the topics to learn and the order in which he must learn them). But don't assume that playing games is the way that leads to programming.. That's like saying that because I love to drive a car, I also love to fix them and/or build them. So wrong:)
The old arcade games are getting a new lease on life with these mobile devices. So that's why they are doing this, it's simple economics. I mean whoever wrote Pacman, etc.. never thought they would be able eventually to play it on a phone. This is a new revenue stream and they want in on it. In a way, they wrote the original code, they had the inspiration to do it. So, they do deserve some credits in some form. When someone decides to write a "clone" version of a game.. Maybe he's improving it, or not, it doesn't matter. This person isn't being 'original'. This person took someone else work and recreated it. Bottom line, I would say, if someone goes out of their way to recreate someone else's effort for money, don't be surprised if the creators get a hissy fit about it:)
You type between 90 and 110 WPM???. An average typist does between 50 and 70 WPM.. you want to ask people how to type faster???? are you accurate? what is your error rate?
Are you a strong backspace user as you type?
Anyways, clearly, if you believe you need to be faster, get a typing training tutorial application and go wild. But as far as I'm concerned, you are plenty fast as is, unless you are an actual typist, if you are a coder, you need to be precise, not fast.
But you can always go voice..:) if you need to go faster.. just record and let the PC type it for you:)
You know the saying: "no animals were harmed in the making of this product", well, that's how I feel about these cartoons.
Have kids been harmed in the making of these cartoons? Seriously, unless the artists used live kids doing these deeds to inspire themselves in recreating these cartoons, then these cartoons are just another form of expression, an art form to some, deviant, crude and rude, for most, many will laugh, many will not care and many will be totally offended. But they are not real, they are drawings.
Now, real sex offenders are the ones producing actual pedophilia and/or pornographic material which is NOT made by consenting adults (rape, etc..)
Think of the Iraq war, where Iraqi women were raped by US soldiers or in Afghanistan, were Afghan Soldiers and interpreters are raping young boys. That is sick, that is real, and these are sex offenders.
But viewing these cartoons, to me, well, as long as you don't show them to children, who cares!!
To each his/her own I say. Personally, I don't think they are funny, but that's my opinion, certainly, I wouldn't enforce this onto others.
In my honest opinion, this type of content should be placed in sites restricted to adults. No one should be able to "google" this stuff so easily, should be restricted. Again, to repeat myself, this is my opinion.
As far as labelling anyone a "sex offender" for viewing these things, all this does is make this society one step closer where soon you will be arrested if you have naughty, angry thoughts.
Anybody remembering the "Minority Report" movie?
When a judge at the Supreme Court, decides that viewing these types of cartoons makes one a "sex offender", it's time for that judge to visit ye ol' "Funny Farm" and take a long vacation in a very round room with lots of padding and and have this judge wear one of these shirts where your arms are tied to your sides.
Slashdot Mirror
Wow, PETA's motto should be "Encourage Bacteria!, it's the only culture we know!"
:)
But seriously, isn't PETA acronym for Preparation and Eating of Tasty Animals?
Anyways, it's been getting harder and harder to take this organization seriously.
Seriously, if you are asking the question, then you need to take a shovel and dig yourself a nice lil' hole and go for a dirt nap. I'm a practical idealist. Sounds like an oxymoron, I know, but yeah, I'm 45 yrs old and I keep learning new stuff everything. I'm a developer, an instructor and I do believe that the day I stop learning, the day I think I know enough, that's the day I should just kill myself. Do you like programming? do you like a challenge? That's what you should be asking yourself. You claim to have 25 yrs of experience, have you not learned anything yet? what's so freakin' challenging about a new programming language when you got all of the other ones under your belt? I have a basic, c, c++ and assembler background. You seem to have a similar one, with even more including cobol. What's out there that you wouldn't be able to conquer? So, it's not if you are too old, but rather, do you give a crap. If you do, go for it, it's always useful and it won't be a waste of time especially\ if it's a hot commodity to learn. Unless you are kinda mediocre as a programmer to begin with, but hey, that's a story between you and your previous projects/employer. And yeah, there are a lot of young ones out there in the market and they don't charge as much or work twice or three times the amount of hours to get it done. I laugh my ass off when I see that. Because for me, I can get the job done in half the time, and it's done right. Why? it's called experience. Every project I've ever done has been a lesson learned in trial and errors. Even in success, I learned that it could have been done better and basically applied this knowledge to my future projects. By now, having myself 20+ yrs of experience in the field, I've yet seen anything which doesn't relate in some ways to something I've done in the past. How you sell yourself is how you define the relevancy of you as a person, a resource and then skills you have to offer. Keeping with the current trends and lingo of the industry is all about learning, nothing different than learning a new programming language. So, do you give a crap? do this industry still make you excited? Those are the questions you need to ask and you are the only one to provide the answer. Cheers! Claude
As those advances in hybrid DNA keep evolving, who would have thought that the "Island of Dr. Moreau" is going to move from the fiction category to the documentary section :)
"The aircraft is larger and heavier than an average hummingbird, but is smaller and lighter than the largest hummingbird currently found in nature."
I'm confused.
I thought I knew English.
Can anyone help me?
Is this an experiment on how to create a brain aneurysm using an illogical statement?
"I sense a Star Trek moment here ladies and germs...".
People have a problem with the word "NO".. if a business such as a cafe bistro/restaurant has a no IPOD/IPAD/Kindle, etc.. policy, then fine by me. I won't go..
But I respect their policy.. I don't agree, so, I will go elsewhere.
It's the power of choice. It's an important one and ironically, we forget that.
While I'm not going, they don't get my money.
Now, if they have more than enough patrons to follow their rules and go anyways, good for them.
If not, well, they will lose business and market share to other "high-tech" friendlier cafes and life goes on.
I've never been one to care what others are paid. I get what I want, or I agree to whatever is offered and I do the job. As web developers, it's our responsibility to keep up with emerging technologies in order to stay relevant, employed and to command a better salary. The old programmer is jealous... "Thou shall not covet thee co-worker's paycheck!" :)
It's ok to ask for more hours, if there is more pay, if not, some compensation should be expected.. For example, you just don't "add" new features, you need to schedule these things. So, getting the crew to work extra hours for 2 to 3 weeks at a time in between every month, that's reasonable. If more money can't be given, then extra hours could be compensated in free time in the down times or some other perks. In the long run, however, programmers burn out. So, I don't recommend this as a normal strategy. Only to get some of the critical items out there.
App Store is pretty generic, you would think the Parent Office would deny Apple just because its the right thing to do...
C'mon.. this is ridiculous. Software glitches... shouldn't be the player's problems. That should be the casino's problem and the supplier who sold the machine to the casino. As far as I'm concerned, the player may thought he found his "lucky" combo keys.. punches.. etc.. whatever it is. It's that simple. Don't expect a player to police fairness in a casino.. If all the player was doing his using the interface as intended, then the fault is the casino, not the player. There are no "sequences" which can be determined as cheating unless these were instructed. It's really that simple. It's gambling. And it's an automated system. Don't put it out there if it's defective. The rationale here could be the reverse. How many people, because the system has glitches, could have won, but never did. Casinos can be sore losers.. The players won their monies.. End of story. If there is a glitch.. Take the machines out, fix them and get over it. If I were the players I would sue the casinos for wasting their times. These casinos are designed to take your money. If they get to lose some.. tooo bad.. All part of the game.
If I were to try and find out if software testing is worth, think of the following questions to ask:
Recurring bugs?
how long does it take to fix? (programmer time)
how much productivity was lost because of it? (user time)
Did the bug fix initiate a cascade of other fixes in other modules?
Did the recurring bug fix cause database changes?
New Bugs?
Same questions, but, with the added, how did it get introduced?
Now, Software testing, should be done first and foremost based on establish scenarios which the feature you are coding is design to perform..
This means that once a programmer has implemented new code, there should be a set of X scenarios, which accomplishes specific tasks, which the app should be run against in order to see if the new feature will behave accordingly and existing features are not impaired.
That is software testing 101.
Selenium framework do this type of testing.
If you need to know that you aren't mucking with your existing code, then you need actual unit testing, jUnit, jsUnit, etc..
Bad code practices tend to be hard to unit test thoroughly.
when code is well designed, the unit test code is easy to write
\ The heavy cost of designing unit test, is when you must refactor your existing code base for unit testability.
Still, for the most part, "software testing" as usability/goal oriented tests, that should always be done.
For the most part, the question is how to implement this?
Depending on the complexity of the application, I would recommend that tests are designed around the more heavily used features first, then the areas where bugs are found. There should be no areas untested, but prioritizing the work helps greatly.
I've written Selenium and jsUnit test suites and unit test frameworks in the past. All I can say is that when designed correctly, these unit test save deployment headaches. When an app evolves with new features and/or the modification of existing features, unit testing is a must in order to catch bugs before you head for production. Does it save money? well, yes, because, once a piece of software is in production, the people who depend on it are using it. Introducing new bugs because of bad software implementation will disrupt the app, causing hours of user time. That is money saved. But even in development phase, good unit testing are a solid way of ensuring your code is robust. It really becomes vital as you work with a large amount of developers.
Tagline: Hop your way to the big screen! :)
imagine this.. for Nintendo and Sony to give out such warning... Considering that Nintendo has been experimenting for years with 3D tech.. I would take that as a serious warning. These companies have R&D, etc.. I don't think this is just "guesswork". Now, this Dr Michael Ehrenhaus doesn't agree. :)
I wonder who pays him to make such a statement. Maybe Toshiba.. or any other 3D TV vendor?
if we are already living in a simulation, I hope the one being built from this collective of intelligence, will correct the flaws :)
I would steal this idea for a stand up sketch, if only it wasn't real..
Medicine is to human what mechanic is to machines. The difference is.. for all machines out there, there are instruction manuals.. Ours.. is being figured out, little by little, everyday. Of course, I can only imagine what the Pope will say about the first human produced from 2 people with the same gender.. :) On the other hand.. who wants Rosie O'Donnell to be able to have babies?? :P
The kid's 4 yrs old.. and you are asking us slashdot readers for help? Don't you have enough imagination to go to google and type "software 4 yrs old"... I'll bet you will find educational and games software, many that will be freeware too! and i'll bet the netbook doesn't need the internet to work anyway.. so load the stuff, then disable the network (might be able to do that directly at the BIOS level, lock the BIOS with a password for editing. and no more worries about boobies).
I say that when you live in a state and country where a judge allows 6yrs old to be sued, its either: A) time to throw the judge in a circular padded cell, asking him to pee in a corner, while having a companion who constantly knits something, made from thin air, OR...
B) its time for you to move elsewhere because sanity has left town and that's the a big hint you should pack up and leave too!
Incidently.... this Judge is a Republican... I wonder
Hon. Paul Wooten
Supreme Court, Civil Branch, New York County
80 Centre Street
New York, NY 10013
(646) 386-3604
Judicial Offices
Justice, Supreme Court, New York County, Elected, 2009 to 2022
Justice, Supreme Court, New York County, Appointed by Governor David Paterson, 2008 to 2008
Party Membership GOP
Party Line Republican
The fact that this judge referred to previous cases in order to decide to let this case move forward displays an enormous amount of lack of judgement, common sense and 'cahunas'. I mean, these previous cases were NOT RIGHT to begin with, but instead of stopping these idiocies, he propagates them. Let's get him out of his office NOW! Because he probably believes the world was done in 7 days and Dinosaurs and men were walking together. I'll bet he thinks the Flintstones are a documentary.
What's this all about? supper before breakfast? :P
Billboards with food scent... Smelling of Steak! That should get PETA in an uproar.. unless PETA stands for Preparation and Eating of Tasty Animals :)
Apple = Arrogance Produces Profit-Losing Entity This was historically true, now, if Jobs and Co, keeps up their practices, eventually, they will find the competitors getting their market-share and that little joke up there will become true again. Here's something of interest for music lovers. Samsung's media players, such as their YP-P3 and other series. The sound is out of this world, way superior to Apple's products. And, that media player has an excellent headseat included, will satisfy most out there who could be quite discriminate. Compatible with DivX, Xvid and other MPEG4 codecs, as well as a flash player, voice recording, FM radio, record your FM songs, etc. if you are a musician, you are in luck, you can actually speed up or slow down your music, really cool when you are trying to figure out a guitar or bass riff. Do you like to watch downloaded TV Shows? This puppy played all my videos without a hitch, I was watching Chuck, Doctor Who, etc.. all XVids.. no headaches. The system itself as built-in speakers and they sound really good actually. You can't see them. But it works :)
Seriously, the only draw back is that there aren't that many games and no internet support (only bluetooth).
However, a 32GB version cost me 254$ at B&H in NY City. I'm blown away by the sheer quality of this player. It has made me love music again.
On a windows' based platform, make sure you have Windows Media Player 10 or 11 and it's instantly recognized with XP SP2 or better.
Seriously, the moment Samsung takes this product, add phone and internet and most of all, gets into the gaming aspect, there product will be superior to IPhone/IPod/etc
The battery life is really 41 hours for music and 6 hours for video. Advertised and delivers as said. Simple to use, no iTunes or DRM stuff to deal with.. No root kits :)
Anyways, the truth is, Apple, more than ever needs the competition, I'm no fan of their products, because it's too much of a "Big Brother" deal when you buy into them.
Cheers!
Playing games and wanting to program are 2 different things. Heck, using a computer and wanting to program are certainly NOT related. So, if you want to know what is a good way to get to introduce your kid to programming, see if he's even willing to learn to program and if he had a choice, what would he want to do? (meaning what type of program he would want to write) so, if it's a no, stop wasting your time. Truth is, in my honest opinion, all kids should know some basic form of programming, at least the concepts such as loops, conditional statements, etc.. You never know when it can useful, but anyways, I digress here. Try and get him to do something cool in JavaScript at least, as a starting point, tons of online tutorials, all free! :)
Assuming he truly is interested in programming, then then let his ambitions dictate which path he should take. Once you know what it is, then research to see the best way to get there (meaning the topics to learn and the order in which he must learn them). But don't assume that playing games is the way that leads to programming.. That's like saying that because I love to drive a car, I also love to fix them and/or build them. So wrong :)
The old arcade games are getting a new lease on life with these mobile devices. So that's why they are doing this, it's simple economics. I mean whoever wrote Pacman, etc.. never thought they would be able eventually to play it on a phone. This is a new revenue stream and they want in on it. In a way, they wrote the original code, they had the inspiration to do it. So, they do deserve some credits in some form. When someone decides to write a "clone" version of a game.. Maybe he's improving it, or not, it doesn't matter. This person isn't being 'original'. This person took someone else work and recreated it. Bottom line, I would say, if someone goes out of their way to recreate someone else's effort for money, don't be surprised if the creators get a hissy fit about it :)
You type between 90 and 110 WPM???. An average typist does between 50 and 70 WPM.. you want to ask people how to type faster???? are you accurate? what is your error rate? Are you a strong backspace user as you type? Anyways, clearly, if you believe you need to be faster, get a typing training tutorial application and go wild. But as far as I'm concerned, you are plenty fast as is, unless you are an actual typist, if you are a coder, you need to be precise, not fast. But you can always go voice.. :) if you need to go faster.. just record and let the PC type it for you :)
You know the saying: "no animals were harmed in the making of this product", well, that's how I feel about these cartoons.
Have kids been harmed in the making of these cartoons? Seriously, unless the artists used live kids doing these deeds to inspire themselves in recreating these cartoons, then these cartoons are just another form of expression, an art form to some, deviant, crude and rude, for most, many will laugh, many will not care and many will be totally offended. But they are not real, they are drawings.
Now, real sex offenders are the ones producing actual pedophilia and/or pornographic material which is NOT made by consenting adults (rape, etc..)
Think of the Iraq war, where Iraqi women were raped by US soldiers or in Afghanistan, were Afghan Soldiers and interpreters are raping young boys. That is sick, that is real, and these are sex offenders.
But viewing these cartoons, to me, well, as long as you don't show them to children, who cares!!
To each his/her own I say. Personally, I don't think they are funny, but that's my opinion, certainly, I wouldn't enforce this onto others.
In my honest opinion, this type of content should be placed in sites restricted to adults. No one should be able to "google" this stuff so easily, should be restricted. Again, to repeat myself, this is my opinion.
As far as labelling anyone a "sex offender" for viewing these things, all this does is make this society one step closer where soon you will be arrested if you have naughty, angry thoughts.
Anybody remembering the "Minority Report" movie?
When a judge at the Supreme Court, decides that viewing these types of cartoons makes one a "sex offender", it's time for that judge to visit ye ol' "Funny Farm" and take a long vacation in a very round room with lots of padding and and have this judge wear one of these shirts where your arms are tied to your sides.