Don't forget they stole Java from oracle. This is no surprise given the fact the founders are communists one of which coming from the heart of the USSR. They're savages that just don't know how to live in an respectable society.
You mean like the PS3 controller which looks the same since the PS1 or the xbox controller that uses the same basic decade old scheme?
I can understand how xbots would think the idea of being able to re-use your old hardware is a bad thing. After all they think they should pay a subscription fee just to access free online services.
Would you like to back that up? According to Nintendo, Sony's PS3 is the best seller in Europe. The UK has some love for the 360 but not mainland Europe.
So you can imply asians are being racist but in my mind it looks like it's just Americans (and the UK) that are hating on things that don't revolve around white anglo people.
The PS3 generally outsold the 360 when compare similar years. (ie first year of PS3 sales vs first year of 360 sales) so now matter how you want to argue it, The 360 isn't a blazing success. It's launched early and got lucky that it didn't completely alienate everyone with its shit hardware and RROD issues.
Why? It's pointless anyway. All phones come with a charger so you won't recycle the old one. In fact, unless you're a cunt, you'll give someone the charger when selling / giving them the phone as is often what happens. Also the expectation you only own a phone for the duration of your contract and then replace it is far worse . Phones aren't really built to last. I've seen a few models of android phones have their battery die shortly before or after a contract . That is only 1.5 to 2 years. Even the shittiest laptop batteries out perform that.
What problems did Sony have? They launched a year late with the most expensive system and still managed to catch up to Microsoft despite all that and the bad press from numerous online incidents. I'd say they did quite well.
Yeah and it also took ages before MS would allow you use any other storage other than their overpriced proprietary hard drive. Nintendo has always let me use what I want so I'm not too bothered about that. It makes more sense to keep it cheap and open rather than overpriced with exceptionally over priced add-ons.
And you weren't even meant to be able to buy another one because of that buy people cried about it so Nintendo made it happen.
And given that it losts less than buying Battlefield 3 and all it's DLC, i don't think it'll have a problem finding people who'll pay for it. In fact a lot of games are closer to £100 if you want to the full experience. Just because they chop up the cost into little payments doesn't change that.
Everyone else can re-use their Wii stuff or cheap / used wii controllers.
I hate to burst you're bubble but most of the world doesn't care about the xbox and games suck as it is because they're too American-centric. So feel free to vote for Mitt Romney and hate the rest of the world for not being baby-killing war mongers but I think you can suck it up and live with games not revolving around Amreica.
I think it's because it's easier to do your own thing on the web. Assembly knowledge would completely useless for web development and C usage might be limited to Python's C API.
You're right. If someone started out hacking around in PHP (never a good start) and managed to get somewhere with it, there is a good chance they'll be lacking in some areas. But I've also seen plenty of people with degrees that are lacking in other areas whether because they didn't get decent coverage of the areas where they're actually working or they make the assumption that all programming is the same and doing web development is the same or easier than C++ / OpenGL application development. While those sorts love to think web devlopment is something any moron can do, they often require hand holding too.
Because my experience says being able to get past HR filters shows you're smart at lying, not programming and I've had more than a few morons that get passed through for interviews. Whether we want to admit it or not, developers aren't masters of social interaction which can also include them thinking they must tell it how it is and therefore won't lie on the resume.
So I prefer to look at all the CVs. It's much better than HR giving a load of crap and anytime I saved not looking at the others is wasted on explained why I deemed their selection to be crap and if I did interview them my justifications as to why I think they're shit.
I've seen some completely useless people make their way all the way through to getting the job and the UK is more pro-employee so it can be hard to get rid of the people when they should go.
I manage to get interviews and job offers at companies and top universities with HR departments despite not doing exact word matching or even mentioning education and perhaps that's the difference between good companies and bad ones or people in the UK don't just apply for any old job so resume spamming isn't an issue.
The HR department can't expected to know everything about every job in a company. But perhaps they know what to ask for from departments or the departments realise expecting HR to do good filtering means giving them something decent to work with.
But if you show you enjoy what you do and have experience then you shouldn't really have a problem. If you've recently graduated or your resume says you've been a cobal programmer and nothing else for the past 30 years then yeah, it's going to be a bit rougher than it would be for someone with a decent set of experience.
This is the truth. Every self-taught person or person that has a CS degree that complains about how everyone is out to get them probably just doesn't have the experience or just isn't cut out for it.
Once you've proven yourself and especially if you've worked with well known people in the area then everything changes.
I'm a software engineer for a small start-up and I receive perhaps one of the best pensions for the area (certainly for a non-managerial role) so perhaps this is a US issue? I do agree about ageism though. Many people do expect you to be a genius 20 year old. But that's because they don't want you to have a life so they can work you harder. In this respect I'm also lucky that this is the first job I've had in some time where there is no pressure to stay after hours. I work my 7.5 hours and that's it unless of course I'm really into something and can't switch off.
He didn't say don't go to university. He said a CS degree is largely useless. I'd agree. Obviously there are great schools for CS but not everyone can go to MIT, Cambridge, etc.
Software development is the one thing you can easily learn everything online and have access to some of the greatest people in the field and if you're motivated then you don't really need pay for the degree. If you don't really care are think it'll just get you a nice paycheck then a degree isn't going to help.
A degree only helps if you intend to only work for other people and for companies that insist you have a degree. The problem is if they're inflexible with a degree, then they're probably not a great employer. Even if you have a degree, you shouid probably avoid them.
There's a difference. Apple isn't a convicted monopolist that has agreed to certain rules. iOS doesn't pretend to be an open OS. Microsoft still tries to covince people Windows for ARM isn't handicapped and therefore just an ordinary windows release so it should abide by the same rules.
So the phones are lasting longer *and* Android activiations are 1.3 milion a day of which tablets are only 70k of that and yet the majority of the phones have an OS from nearly 2 years ago when Android was less popular?
I'd be more inclined to think there are a bunch of budget crap that hardware manufactuers don't care about.
Where's the proof given the web archive link doesn't show the portable and there appears to be no proof the image was ever public, especially given google fanboys would have been all over that.
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Don't forget they stole Java from oracle. This is no surprise given the fact the founders are communists one of which coming from the heart of the USSR. They're savages that just don't know how to live in an respectable society.
It's not the worst IE but yeah you'd have to be a bit of a moron to prefer that over the varitey of better choices that are out now.
You mean like the PS3 controller which looks the same since the PS1 or the xbox controller that uses the same basic decade old scheme?
I can understand how xbots would think the idea of being able to re-use your old hardware is a bad thing. After all they think they should pay a subscription fee just to access free online services.
Would you like to back that up? According to Nintendo, Sony's PS3 is the best seller in Europe. The UK has some love for the 360 but not mainland Europe.
http://www.computerandvideogames.com/345512/ps3-leading-european-hardware-sales-in-2012/
So you can imply asians are being racist but in my mind it looks like it's just Americans (and the UK) that are hating on things that don't revolve around white anglo people.
The PS3 generally outsold the 360 when compare similar years. (ie first year of PS3 sales vs first year of 360 sales) so now matter how you want to argue it, The 360 isn't a blazing success. It's launched early and got lucky that it didn't completely alienate everyone with its shit hardware and RROD issues.
Why? It's pointless anyway. All phones come with a charger so you won't recycle the old one. In fact, unless you're a cunt, you'll give someone the charger when selling / giving them the phone as is often what happens. Also the expectation you only own a phone for the duration of your contract and then replace it is far worse . Phones aren't really built to last. I've seen a few models of android phones have their battery die shortly before or after a contract . That is only 1.5 to 2 years. Even the shittiest laptop batteries out perform that.
They'll send soldiers around at night to bust into your home and take it.
It's for the best. Android phones are full of malware. So this will make germany a little safer.
What problems did Sony have? They launched a year late with the most expensive system and still managed to catch up to Microsoft despite all that and the bad press from numerous online incidents. I'd say they did quite well.
Yeah and it also took ages before MS would allow you use any other storage other than their overpriced proprietary hard drive. Nintendo has always let me use what I want so I'm not too bothered about that. It makes more sense to keep it cheap and open rather than overpriced with exceptionally over priced add-ons.
And you weren't even meant to be able to buy another one because of that buy people cried about it so Nintendo made it happen.
And given that it losts less than buying Battlefield 3 and all it's DLC, i don't think it'll have a problem finding people who'll pay for it. In fact a lot of games are closer to £100 if you want to the full experience. Just because they chop up the cost into little payments doesn't change that.
Everyone else can re-use their Wii stuff or cheap / used wii controllers.
I hate to burst you're bubble but most of the world doesn't care about the xbox and games suck as it is because they're too American-centric. So feel free to vote for Mitt Romney and hate the rest of the world for not being baby-killing war mongers but I think you can suck it up and live with games not revolving around Amreica.
I think it's because it's easier to do your own thing on the web. Assembly knowledge would completely useless for web development and C usage might be limited to Python's C API.
You're right. If someone started out hacking around in PHP (never a good start) and managed to get somewhere with it, there is a good chance they'll be lacking in some areas. But I've also seen plenty of people with degrees that are lacking in other areas whether because they didn't get decent coverage of the areas where they're actually working or they make the assumption that all programming is the same and doing web development is the same or easier than C++ / OpenGL application development. While those sorts love to think web devlopment is something any moron can do, they often require hand holding too.
Because my experience says being able to get past HR filters shows you're smart at lying, not programming and I've had more than a few morons that get passed through for interviews. Whether we want to admit it or not, developers aren't masters of social interaction which can also include them thinking they must tell it how it is and therefore won't lie on the resume.
So I prefer to look at all the CVs. It's much better than HR giving a load of crap and anytime I saved not looking at the others is wasted on explained why I deemed their selection to be crap and if I did interview them my justifications as to why I think they're shit.
I've seen some completely useless people make their way all the way through to getting the job and the UK is more pro-employee so it can be hard to get rid of the people when they should go.
I manage to get interviews and job offers at companies and top universities with HR departments despite not doing exact word matching or even mentioning education and perhaps that's the difference between good companies and bad ones or people in the UK don't just apply for any old job so resume spamming isn't an issue.
The HR department can't expected to know everything about every job in a company. But perhaps they know what to ask for from departments or the departments realise expecting HR to do good filtering means giving them something decent to work with.
But if you show you enjoy what you do and have experience then you shouldn't really have a problem. If you've recently graduated or your resume says you've been a cobal programmer and nothing else for the past 30 years then yeah, it's going to be a bit rougher than it would be for someone with a decent set of experience.
This is the truth. Every self-taught person or person that has a CS degree that complains about how everyone is out to get them probably just doesn't have the experience or just isn't cut out for it.
Once you've proven yourself and especially if you've worked with well known people in the area then everything changes.
I'm a software engineer for a small start-up and I receive perhaps one of the best pensions for the area (certainly for a non-managerial role) so perhaps this is a US issue? I do agree about ageism though. Many people do expect you to be a genius 20 year old. But that's because they don't want you to have a life so they can work you harder. In this respect I'm also lucky that this is the first job I've had in some time where there is no pressure to stay after hours. I work my 7.5 hours and that's it unless of course I'm really into something and can't switch off.
He didn't say don't go to university. He said a CS degree is largely useless. I'd agree. Obviously there are great schools for CS but not everyone can go to MIT, Cambridge, etc.
Software development is the one thing you can easily learn everything online and have access to some of the greatest people in the field and if you're motivated then you don't really need pay for the degree. If you don't really care are think it'll just get you a nice paycheck then a degree isn't going to help.
A degree only helps if you intend to only work for other people and for companies that insist you have a degree. The problem is if they're inflexible with a degree, then they're probably not a great employer. Even if you have a degree, you shouid probably avoid them.
There's a difference. Apple isn't a convicted monopolist that has agreed to certain rules. iOS doesn't pretend to be an open OS. Microsoft still tries to covince people Windows for ARM isn't handicapped and therefore just an ordinary windows release so it should abide by the same rules.
So the phones are lasting longer *and* Android activiations are 1.3 milion a day of which tablets are only 70k of that and yet the majority of the phones have an OS from nearly 2 years ago when Android was less popular?
I'd be more inclined to think there are a bunch of budget crap that hardware manufactuers don't care about.
Shifting a bunch of obsolete phones isn't cool
Where's the proof given the web archive link doesn't show the portable and there appears to be no proof the image was ever public, especially given google fanboys would have been all over that.
I know the guy who writes that blog and your quoting an apple "fanboy" so I'm pretty sure he's not as butt hurt as the fandroids would like to think.
No, but for his particular app that's the case.