Working in Silverlight right now, and I completely agree. I never thought I'd find a more screwed-up mess of markup and code than the usual web technologies (HTML,/CSS/JavaScript), but with Silverlight, M$ managed to create one.
I hate updating data using SQL. The need to have both INSERT and UPDATE statements, with their very different syntaxes, is a considerable drag on my time. I've worked with non-SQL DBMSs in the past, and it can be so very much easier. Don't get me wrong, there's a lot I like about SQL, but my ideal database would support SQL for queries, but also provide simpler mechanisms for read by key and create/update/delete operations.
I enjoyed 6 well enough, but 7 and 8 lost me completely. Bringing back the annoying, superior Kochansky and losing the gritty, mining-ship feel of the sets and costumes did not go down well with me. Moreover, I liked the limited cast of the original seasons, so bringing back the crew didn't work for me either.
I'm also going to say that the nanobots were some of the most annoying dei ex machinae I've come across as well. Magic tech is fine, but only as long as it doesn't become godlike.
And that's without going into the writing. As others have pointed out, Grant/Naylor made a great team. Either one on his own, not so much.
Maybe I'm wrong, and they could succeed in rebooting the series, but I very much doubt it.
JP II was just another hidebound arsehat who blocked progress in all bust the least important directions. Condoms were off the table, and pedo-priests were at least as well shielded as they are today.
JP I, now, was showing some promise, which is probably why he had to go.
Bingo. I'm an old fart, but I always (well, mostly <g>) enjoy learning new tech.
I will add that it's not surprising that young hotshots get paid for the new tech that they know, if it's a scarcity economy. If the tech becomes pervasive, they can expect to suffer a significant haircut in future contracts. Consider the new guys as something akin to iPads. Give 'em a year, and they'll be old hat, and people won't be willing to pay quite so much.
That said, if you get left behind even further, you'll be worth about as much as a 486 running Windows 95. Try to keep up, OK?
The guy killed a bunch of people including a 9YO child in front of hundreds of witnesses, and some of you can still get outraged that somebody wants to find out what he had to say on a GAME FORUM? Sheesh!
I have a blind friend with an iPhone. Apparently, they're surprisingly popular with the "blindies" (his word), partly due to their superior, built-in screen-reading capabilities. I can't wait to hear what he thinks of THIS stupidity. Steve: Give us more buttons, not fewer. But no, we know that ain't gonna happen.
For me, the biggest problem with the market lies in the content. Google have gone to the opposite extreme of Apple, and let just any scammer put up their crappy apps, pretending to be other apps and rendering it virtually impossible to find the decent stuff. They need to exercise a little more control, or at least charge on a per-app basis at a rate that might discourage all the crud.
Bingo. If Go becomes the dominant language, I'll be all the happier that I've jumped ship to C#/.NET. Ugliest damned labguage I've seen in a long time.
Is it legal to fly remote-controlled aircraft over built-up areas in the US? I'm pretty sure it's not in Australia. OTOH, there isn't much that is legal in Australia these days. Ain't it a bitch?
My pie in the sky idea is that the idiots pushing the 3D cart might give up and go back to giving the consumer something he actually wants. I can count on the thumbs of both feet the number of things I would care to watch in 3D. IT doesn't really add anything much to the experience except, potentially, vertigo.
Developing cross-browser websites is probably a worse problem. The differences between the Droid and the Desire are piddling compared to those between IE and Firefox/Chrome/Safari/whatever, without even going into the problem of old versions of those browsers.
In a perfect world, books needn't go out of print. Every work ever committed to digital media should be available online for purchase at a fair price - maybe $5 per title.
Hell, the distribution would be virtually free, just a little storage and some bandwidth. And they'd make sales that they otherwise wouldn't. And we could find the old titles we love without having to shell out $30 + P&H for a 20YO mass market paperback that'll fall apart if we read it more than once.
Oh, and no DRM. Obviously.
That's what it'll take to get me onboard. "I may be some time..."
Oddly enough, when I go from MS SQL or Postgres to Oracle, I end up looking down on Oracle. Sure it's fast, but its standards compliance is lousy. But yes, let's all point and laugh at the Access user, by all means.;^)
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Sure Flash sucks. So does HTML. So does Silverlight. So do Java applets. I've done them all, and they're all crap. Could we please do something new?
Working in Silverlight right now, and I completely agree. I never thought I'd find a more screwed-up mess of markup and code than the usual web technologies (HTML,/CSS/JavaScript), but with Silverlight, M$ managed to create one.
I hate updating data using SQL. The need to have both INSERT and UPDATE statements, with their very different syntaxes, is a considerable drag on my time. I've worked with non-SQL DBMSs in the past, and it can be so very much easier.
Don't get me wrong, there's a lot I like about SQL, but my ideal database would support SQL for queries, but also provide simpler mechanisms for read by key and create/update/delete operations.
I'm pretty sure that the Medicis were total bastards. And why is an Italian family even on this list?
I went looking for it too, and... Oooh look! There's some lovely muck over 'ere!
Obviously. Catholics have always been back-door (heh) polytheists, which is why the Catholic model so easily morphed into Voodoo.
Why? The movie was incredibly lame. It was only saved by Jane Fonda's gorgeous, supple, young bod...
I'm sorry, I forgot what I was going to say.
Screw that. Just stay home. Watch pr0n and drink beer.
Shoulda got the 32GB. 16GB only lasted a week.
I enjoyed 6 well enough, but 7 and 8 lost me completely. Bringing back the annoying, superior Kochansky and losing the gritty, mining-ship feel of the sets and costumes did not go down well with me. Moreover, I liked the limited cast of the original seasons, so bringing back the crew didn't work for me either.
I'm also going to say that the nanobots were some of the most annoying dei ex machinae I've come across as well. Magic tech is fine, but only as long as it doesn't become godlike.
And that's without going into the writing. As others have pointed out, Grant/Naylor made a great team. Either one on his own, not so much.
Maybe I'm wrong, and they could succeed in rebooting the series, but I very much doubt it.
JP II was just another hidebound arsehat who blocked progress in all bust the least important directions. Condoms were off the table, and pedo-priests were at least as well shielded as they are today.
JP I, now, was showing some promise, which is probably why he had to go.
Bingo. I'm an old fart, but I always (well, mostly <g>) enjoy learning new tech.
I will add that it's not surprising that young hotshots get paid for the new tech that they know, if it's a scarcity economy. If the tech becomes pervasive, they can expect to suffer a significant haircut in future contracts. Consider the new guys as something akin to iPads. Give 'em a year, and they'll be old hat, and people won't be willing to pay quite so much.
That said, if you get left behind even further, you'll be worth about as much as a 486 running Windows 95. Try to keep up, OK?
My bad. I meant "multiple rows".
I'm so sick of having to have multiple columns in my databases. I absolutely must have the freedom to cram all of my data into one huge row.
Seriously though, WTF?
I'm gettin' with Natalie Portman right now.
The guy killed a bunch of people including a 9YO child in front of hundreds of witnesses, and some of you can still get outraged that somebody wants to find out what he had to say on a GAME FORUM? Sheesh!
I have a blind friend with an iPhone. Apparently, they're surprisingly popular with the "blindies" (his word), partly due to their superior, built-in screen-reading capabilities. I can't wait to hear what he thinks of THIS stupidity.
Steve: Give us more buttons, not fewer. But no, we know that ain't gonna happen.
For me, the biggest problem with the market lies in the content. Google have gone to the opposite extreme of Apple, and let just any scammer put up their crappy apps, pretending to be other apps and rendering it virtually impossible to find the decent stuff. They need to exercise a little more control, or at least charge on a per-app basis at a rate that might discourage all the crud.
Bingo. If Go becomes the dominant language, I'll be all the happier that I've jumped ship to C#/.NET. Ugliest damned labguage I've seen in a long time.
Is it legal to fly remote-controlled aircraft over built-up areas in the US? I'm pretty sure it's not in Australia.
OTOH, there isn't much that is legal in Australia these days. Ain't it a bitch?
My pie in the sky idea is that the idiots pushing the 3D cart might give up and go back to giving the consumer something he actually wants. I can count on the thumbs of both feet the number of things I would care to watch in 3D. IT doesn't really add anything much to the experience except, potentially, vertigo.
Developing cross-browser websites is probably a worse problem. The differences between the Droid and the Desire are piddling compared to those between IE and Firefox/Chrome/Safari/whatever, without even going into the problem of old versions of those browsers.
In a perfect world, books needn't go out of print. Every work ever committed to digital media should be available online for purchase at a fair price - maybe $5 per title.
Hell, the distribution would be virtually free, just a little storage and some bandwidth. And they'd make sales that they otherwise wouldn't. And we could find the old titles we love without having to shell out $30 + P&H for a 20YO mass market paperback that'll fall apart if we read it more than once.
Oh, and no DRM. Obviously.
That's what it'll take to get me onboard. "I may be some time..."
Oddly enough, when I go from MS SQL or Postgres to Oracle, I end up looking down on Oracle. Sure it's fast, but its standards compliance is lousy. ;^)
But yes, let's all point and laugh at the Access user, by all means.
It has the same resolution as the original Desire in a bigger display. Doesn't that make it low definition?