Or just someone to the college to hire a college kid to do the job. At that age I was already very experienced and would do part-time admin work for about $12/hr - probably a third of what I'd consider doing it for now. Shouldn't be hard to find someone. Ask on your local Linux users group mailing list.
Actually my quick math was off. $20/yr is right. Not much but if every week you can raise your yearly income by $20 that can add up over a years time and a lot over twenty years time. For you that may seem like change but to a lot of people it's a nice bonus. As I said, it also doesn't eliminate other bonuses.
They could probably buy something like Spybot Search and Destroy pretty cheap and bring it's developers into their fold. With that kind of money behind them they could no doubt become the best product on the market and the existing program would give Google a big start. Spybot is pretty popular already due to it's price and fairly high quality. Polish it up a bit, opensource it, and give it away free from Google.
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I think they should give the programs away for free and allow you to setup your own, albiet smaller, worlds to play with friends for free from your own computer, and only pay a subscription fee if you want to play in the big worlds. That way you get a free hit and get hooked and go for the bigger addicition. I'm not willing to pay $50 to try out games and THEN have to pay for a subscription.
You can save some of them if you give them everything they need to survive and go far in todays life. You can not afford, in time or money, to save all of them and trying to do so, or doing a half assed job for a bunch of kids, will just lead to no improvement. Better to write off those you can't save. Save some now, let them help create more resources, save a bigger batch, rinse and repeat.
It'd be nice if we could make everything good right away but that isn't really likely to happen. It'd take a world wide change in attitudes towards foreigners and the poor and personal responsibility for mankind.
The one that annoys me is having to buy a program and then pay monthly subscription fees. I'm cool with paying a subscription fee but not if I have to buy the program first. Likewise if I pay for a program or pay monthly subscription fees then I don't want to see ads.
To me it makes sense to have booth babes at gaming conventions especially when they wear costumes related to the game. A Hollywood movie release would be pretty boring if it wasn't for the beautiful people around. There usually aren't real actors for games so it makes sense to dress out some people to look like the characters and such and IMO adds an element of fun and excitement. It might be a bit goofy to throw women in that have nothing to do with your product but I don't see how it really hurts anything either. Conventions, in my experience anyway, are for adults and not children so they can have nude people playing tag and I wouldn't have a problem with it.
The problem being that damn near everything at these shows is a mediocre product. Wow so you made your frob purple this year instead of blue. Oh great now I'm excited. Getting rid of all these posers would be my first choice. Since that isn't going to happen at least we can let them avoid boring me to tears by having an interesting display with some booth babes included. I'd vote for a special section for the 1% of booths that actually have something that isn't mediocre but that'd just be to much work and the people deciding would probably be suits with no idea what is really new and exciting.
I didn't bother going to CES this year but last year I went to pretty much every booth and of those maybe half a dozen actually had something worth looking at. The rest was just a lot of walking in tightly packed quarters and having a bunch of lame sales people that didn't know their own products trying to give you their pitch. Last time they had Comdex it was a little more interesting than CES but not by much. Really disappointing shows if you're a major techie that really is looking for something innovative. I'd like to see better stuff coming out than the hobby projects I put together in my spare time five years ago.
C'mon people - innovate! If you can't then at least throw in some booth babes.
It'd have to be tightly built into the browser. Plugins are troublesome at best and ActiveX is even worse. Jython is about as close as we can get to Python in a web browser today.
True, but it'd be fine if people would just include it from sepperate files which is really the way code should be added. Part of the problem with Javascript is that it's used inline so often which results in bad code and hard to maintain websites.
As someone that lived in Las Vegas for a while and went to many conventions I'll say that this change is enough to make me much less likely to go. That was half the fun of conventions. Without the girls you're left with a lot of tired sweaty people who look like they aren't enjoying themselves. Not a nice enviroment. Seriously conventions are just not very fun to go to. I'm constantly unimpressed with the 'new technology' being shown off so the shows really need something.
First issue, it's clunky - Flash apps just don't work well and it's because plugins don't work well. Second, Flash apps are not accessible because Flash is not designed to a format that degrades cleanly. Third, Flash is not easily intergrated with other web technologies such as stylesheets and Javascript. Forth, have you actually tried programming Flash apps? It's not especially well designed for anything other than the cheesy buttons and similar crap most people use it for. Just a few things off the top of my head that make me hate Flash which is why I disable it on all my computers.
SVG, Canvas, XUL, etc do almost everything actually useful about Flash. The only real missing function might be audio and video which I think current browser technology handles poorly and honestly I don't like audio or video in websites so I can only see it as useful for specialized cases.
I'd like to see browsers support a cleaner language than Javascript (such as some variant of Python) but it's not really needed. Maybe something more like Logo would be cool. I think neither is really needed for decent Flash-like applications though.
Illustrator can produce SVG content. I'd suppose if existing apps for creating Flash don't support SVG creation yet that it'd be trivial to add that support.
What does it do that I can't do with SVG, canvas, and other existing standards? I can see Flash as needing replaced but I can't see a benefit to replacing it with an even less open standard.
You should be paid for doing a good job and not for the risk of doing a poor job. If you fuck up majorly you should be fired. If you do good work then you should be paid well for it. You should get paid for your skills but only when you put them to good use.
So pay everyone decently but evenly and then tack on bonuses based on how well they do their job. You can have a base set of bonuses that applies to everyone and then more commission-like bonuses for people who do something that more directly influences earnings. For instance I like to give people, regardless of their job title, a penny a week raise for not missing any days or having any problems at work that week. It doesn't sound like much but it adds up. A normal decent work week can earn you $80/yr more. On top of that I might give developers a percentage of the profits earned from the work they'd done.
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I'll agree with that. Linus is one of the few people I respect and admire.
Always a good time to try Linux or one of the other free Unix's.
Exactly. For a free product it's very good as in my experience it works better than the majority of programs you have to pay for.
Or just someone to the college to hire a college kid to do the job. At that age I was already very experienced and would do part-time admin work for about $12/hr - probably a third of what I'd consider doing it for now. Shouldn't be hard to find someone. Ask on your local Linux users group mailing list.
Actually my quick math was off. $20/yr is right. Not much but if every week you can raise your yearly income by $20 that can add up over a years time and a lot over twenty years time. For you that may seem like change but to a lot of people it's a nice bonus. As I said, it also doesn't eliminate other bonuses.
They could probably buy something like Spybot Search and Destroy pretty cheap and bring it's developers into their fold. With that kind of money behind them they could no doubt become the best product on the market and the existing program would give Google a big start. Spybot is pretty popular already due to it's price and fairly high quality. Polish it up a bit, opensource it, and give it away free from Google.
I think they should give the programs away for free and allow you to setup your own, albiet smaller, worlds to play with friends for free from your own computer, and only pay a subscription fee if you want to play in the big worlds. That way you get a free hit and get hooked and go for the bigger addicition. I'm not willing to pay $50 to try out games and THEN have to pay for a subscription.
You can save some of them if you give them everything they need to survive and go far in todays life. You can not afford, in time or money, to save all of them and trying to do so, or doing a half assed job for a bunch of kids, will just lead to no improvement. Better to write off those you can't save. Save some now, let them help create more resources, save a bigger batch, rinse and repeat.
It'd be nice if we could make everything good right away but that isn't really likely to happen. It'd take a world wide change in attitudes towards foreigners and the poor and personal responsibility for mankind.
This post is filithy and should be counted as porn too I think.
The one that annoys me is having to buy a program and then pay monthly subscription fees. I'm cool with paying a subscription fee but not if I have to buy the program first. Likewise if I pay for a program or pay monthly subscription fees then I don't want to see ads.
To me it makes sense to have booth babes at gaming conventions especially when they wear costumes related to the game. A Hollywood movie release would be pretty boring if it wasn't for the beautiful people around. There usually aren't real actors for games so it makes sense to dress out some people to look like the characters and such and IMO adds an element of fun and excitement. It might be a bit goofy to throw women in that have nothing to do with your product but I don't see how it really hurts anything either. Conventions, in my experience anyway, are for adults and not children so they can have nude people playing tag and I wouldn't have a problem with it.
The problem being that damn near everything at these shows is a mediocre product. Wow so you made your frob purple this year instead of blue. Oh great now I'm excited. Getting rid of all these posers would be my first choice. Since that isn't going to happen at least we can let them avoid boring me to tears by having an interesting display with some booth babes included. I'd vote for a special section for the 1% of booths that actually have something that isn't mediocre but that'd just be to much work and the people deciding would probably be suits with no idea what is really new and exciting.
I didn't bother going to CES this year but last year I went to pretty much every booth and of those maybe half a dozen actually had something worth looking at. The rest was just a lot of walking in tightly packed quarters and having a bunch of lame sales people that didn't know their own products trying to give you their pitch. Last time they had Comdex it was a little more interesting than CES but not by much. Really disappointing shows if you're a major techie that really is looking for something innovative. I'd like to see better stuff coming out than the hobby projects I put together in my spare time five years ago.
C'mon people - innovate! If you can't then at least throw in some booth babes.
It'd have to be tightly built into the browser. Plugins are troublesome at best and ActiveX is even worse. Jython is about as close as we can get to Python in a web browser today.
True, but it'd be fine if people would just include it from sepperate files which is really the way code should be added. Part of the problem with Javascript is that it's used inline so often which results in bad code and hard to maintain websites.
When they make a browser thatg works I'll look at their other attempts at web technology with less doubt. ;)
As someone that lived in Las Vegas for a while and went to many conventions I'll say that this change is enough to make me much less likely to go. That was half the fun of conventions. Without the girls you're left with a lot of tired sweaty people who look like they aren't enjoying themselves. Not a nice enviroment. Seriously conventions are just not very fun to go to. I'm constantly unimpressed with the 'new technology' being shown off so the shows really need something.
A simplified verson of Python with built-in DOM support would be really cool.
Yes, but they're four inches tall and made of white plastic. Enjoy.
First issue, it's clunky - Flash apps just don't work well and it's because plugins don't work well. Second, Flash apps are not accessible because Flash is not designed to a format that degrades cleanly. Third, Flash is not easily intergrated with other web technologies such as stylesheets and Javascript. Forth, have you actually tried programming Flash apps? It's not especially well designed for anything other than the cheesy buttons and similar crap most people use it for. Just a few things off the top of my head that make me hate Flash which is why I disable it on all my computers.
SVG, Canvas, XUL, etc do almost everything actually useful about Flash. The only real missing function might be audio and video which I think current browser technology handles poorly and honestly I don't like audio or video in websites so I can only see it as useful for specialized cases.
I'd like to see browsers support a cleaner language than Javascript (such as some variant of Python) but it's not really needed. Maybe something more like Logo would be cool. I think neither is really needed for decent Flash-like applications though.
Illustrator can produce SVG content. I'd suppose if existing apps for creating Flash don't support SVG creation yet that it'd be trivial to add that support.
What is Channel9? Never heard of that one.
What does it do that I can't do with SVG, canvas, and other existing standards? I can see Flash as needing replaced but I can't see a benefit to replacing it with an even less open standard.
Works on my N-Gage QD.
You should be paid for doing a good job and not for the risk of doing a poor job. If you fuck up majorly you should be fired. If you do good work then you should be paid well for it. You should get paid for your skills but only when you put them to good use.
So pay everyone decently but evenly and then tack on bonuses based on how well they do their job. You can have a base set of bonuses that applies to everyone and then more commission-like bonuses for people who do something that more directly influences earnings. For instance I like to give people, regardless of their job title, a penny a week raise for not missing any days or having any problems at work that week. It doesn't sound like much but it adds up. A normal decent work week can earn you $80/yr more. On top of that I might give developers a percentage of the profits earned from the work they'd done.