No, the problem is you literally can't install some software on Macs running a few minor versions behind. I have a 10.3 Mac and I can't update Java. That, in turn, limits a lot of cross-platform Java apps. That makes them not very 'cross platform.' On the other hand I had an old Win98 desktop that ran Firefox 2.x fine right up until the drive failed -- and plenty of other modern apps.
Then you and I want totally different things. I want the story. I like how there's bits of dialog you can stick around and listen to, or old newspaper clippings to read to get more of the backstory. I'd rather have the immersive experience. I believe there was an interview with the Valve devs where they stated they left Gordon mute to allow the players to mentally view themselves as him, and they figured a voice would jar them out of that.
It seems to me, you'd prefer more of a run and gun, DOOM style game. And that's fine. But I don't see that as an argument for a reboot.
Half Life 2 is "open world?" I love the game, but it's totally linear. There's a series of arenas connected by narrow passages. Episode 2 had slightly more space, what with the driving sequence at the end, but even that was still an arena. And Gordon was mute all through the first game, so I don't understand why you feel it "works" in that one and not in the sequels.
That's what I'm thinking. I thought the whole point of the cloud was that it was still controlled servers, but a big ol' chunk of them, with Google style redundancy, so that it's not "My powerpoint is on Server A-436-Z," it's "My powerpoint is hosted with $DOMAIN." This sounds like you're gonna trust some 13-year old kid to never turn his PC off (or slow down the bandwidth when he plays WoW for 7 hours just when I need my files.) What happens when one of your users has an AOL style dynamic IP that changes every time they log in? What happens when there's a brownout in CA and that takes out 200 of your users?
Can someone explain how they avoid what appears to be technical and reliability hurdles here?
I agree. Pandora tried to avoid the fees, and failed. I see this as not an endorsement but a backhanded rebuttal -- "Well, industry, time to put your money where your mouth is! Is radio good because it generates buzz, and it being free is the acceptable tradeoff, or not?"
Wait, how are you going from Java source, to Java bytecode, and then magically to JavaScript? I think I missed something here, because despite the names, those are two very different languages in implementation. (Scope in Java versus "every variable is global" in JS just for starters)
Apple comes from the tradition where hardware is just a platform for software.
That's totally why Apple allows you to install OSX on any platform, and why no one cares about the shiny brushed aluminum cases or paying extra for getting a black MacBook instead of a white one -- because dammit, no one cares about the hardware!
Seriously, though, my bad attempt at snark aside, isn't the Apple philosophy high-quality hardware that you never have to muck around with? Isn't that their justification for the somewhat higher prices?
If your education puts you in debt that lasts a lifetime, you did it wrong. Yes, not everyone can afford even a public university, but most of the state unis around here have far, far lower tuition than anywhere else. And you can go to a community college for the first two years to knock out those damn Gen Eds for even cheaper than that. Yeah, there's a lot less scholarship money to go around now, but there's still some federal aid money that you can get your hands on too. The problem that I observed from my graduating class was that no one wanted to 'lower' themselves to a public university. Cutting off their nose to spite their face, and all.
Why did such an obvious troll get +4 Informative? Because obviously the justice system with checks and balances is inferior to beating the snot out of someone on what amounts to hearsay.
"In creating a new market for digital imaging Adobe also managed to kill off another market; photo printing and film developing. I'm sure in the corporate halls of companies like Fuji and Kodak, Photoshop is about as popular as a Christmas-time shaved ice vendor in Moscow."
Somehow I doubt that. Photoshop doesn't put glossy paper in your printer or make it easy to print a whole memory card's worth of photos at once. Those were separate developments that led to the widespread adoption of the digital format.
If anything I'd say businesses adopting those all in one kiosks helped kill film. Now instead of needing to set up your own print lab with expensive paper, ink, and printer, you could take your CD or stick to WalMart or CVS.
You don't use debuggers? Ever? That, to me, seems more inefficient and wasteful than any downsides to developing within an IDE. So when something gets bollocksed up, you just start guessing where the problem is, as opposed to stepping through the program and examining it? Or do you just stick ten thousand print statements in?
Even for the trivial C projects I've had in my CIS courses at uni I was glad to have some basic knowledge on how to use GDB. It's a lot easier, in my mind, to look at the program as it executes and see exactly what broke (bad memory allocation or deallocation, wrong function call, whatever) then to make a change, try again, make another change, try again...
No, what that does is ruin the cohesion between platoon members. You don't want to constantly change who servicemembers are serving with, making it harder to maintain morale when their buddy gets rotated out. That's my two cents at least.
Yes, but you said it yourself -- smarter students. Not URI students versus Brown students. Smart people who are motivated succeed, regardless of where they earn their degree.
After your first or second job, how many of the interviewers cared about the name of your university versus your performance at your previous jobs? It should make no difference whether you got your BS from a state college or an Ivy League school, provided you've got a good track record as being motivated and a worker who produces results. If you expect to trade on your school's reputation rather than your own ability, perhaps science isn't the field for you.
"The same goes for the reputation of the companies you choose to work for."
Please quote where I said anything about the companies you work for. All I said was that the expense/prestige of your university will likely not be a factor once you graduate.
Now yes, if your school is known for graduating people who are abysmal in their field, that's a problem -- but again, that's something you should be considering when applying. My point isn't that there are schools with superior computer science, engineering, etc. programs, my point is that the cost or fame of a school does not give you a different degree than everyone else. There's no proprietary "MIT Brand" physics that's being taught there. The UMass system still follows Newton's rules. Now you might prefer MIT for other, valid reasons, but you can't claim that MIT's reputation will far outweigh your performance after you graduate. Smart people succeed, regardless of where they go.
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Your mom is a classy lady! Or at least that's what this decision reminds me of.
Have fun clicking that link in print. :P
No, the problem is you literally can't install some software on Macs running a few minor versions behind. I have a 10.3 Mac and I can't update Java. That, in turn, limits a lot of cross-platform Java apps. That makes them not very 'cross platform.' On the other hand I had an old Win98 desktop that ran Firefox 2.x fine right up until the drive failed -- and plenty of other modern apps.
Then you and I want totally different things. I want the story. I like how there's bits of dialog you can stick around and listen to, or old newspaper clippings to read to get more of the backstory. I'd rather have the immersive experience. I believe there was an interview with the Valve devs where they stated they left Gordon mute to allow the players to mentally view themselves as him, and they figured a voice would jar them out of that.
It seems to me, you'd prefer more of a run and gun, DOOM style game. And that's fine. But I don't see that as an argument for a reboot.
Half Life 2 is "open world?" I love the game, but it's totally linear. There's a series of arenas connected by narrow passages. Episode 2 had slightly more space, what with the driving sequence at the end, but even that was still an arena. And Gordon was mute all through the first game, so I don't understand why you feel it "works" in that one and not in the sequels.
That's what I would do, sure. But if they're dropping more than a million dollars, they must be trying to attract some business customers, I'd assume.
That's what I'm thinking. I thought the whole point of the cloud was that it was still controlled servers, but a big ol' chunk of them, with Google style redundancy, so that it's not "My powerpoint is on Server A-436-Z," it's "My powerpoint is hosted with $DOMAIN." This sounds like you're gonna trust some 13-year old kid to never turn his PC off (or slow down the bandwidth when he plays WoW for 7 hours just when I need my files.) What happens when one of your users has an AOL style dynamic IP that changes every time they log in? What happens when there's a brownout in CA and that takes out 200 of your users? Can someone explain how they avoid what appears to be technical and reliability hurdles here?
I agree. Pandora tried to avoid the fees, and failed. I see this as not an endorsement but a backhanded rebuttal -- "Well, industry, time to put your money where your mouth is! Is radio good because it generates buzz, and it being free is the acceptable tradeoff, or not?"
Ooooh man you have no idea. I'm working with another guy here at university, maintaining this application started back in 99. It's terrible.
Aha, misread GWT as AWT -- that explains a lot. Obviously I need more caffeine before I should be allowed to comment on /.
Wait, how are you going from Java source, to Java bytecode, and then magically to JavaScript? I think I missed something here, because despite the names, those are two very different languages in implementation. (Scope in Java versus "every variable is global" in JS just for starters)
Let me introduce you to a technology known as RSS.
Apple comes from the tradition where hardware is just a platform for software.
That's totally why Apple allows you to install OSX on any platform, and why no one cares about the shiny brushed aluminum cases or paying extra for getting a black MacBook instead of a white one -- because dammit, no one cares about the hardware! Seriously, though, my bad attempt at snark aside, isn't the Apple philosophy high-quality hardware that you never have to muck around with? Isn't that their justification for the somewhat higher prices?
If your education puts you in debt that lasts a lifetime, you did it wrong. Yes, not everyone can afford even a public university, but most of the state unis around here have far, far lower tuition than anywhere else. And you can go to a community college for the first two years to knock out those damn Gen Eds for even cheaper than that. Yeah, there's a lot less scholarship money to go around now, but there's still some federal aid money that you can get your hands on too. The problem that I observed from my graduating class was that no one wanted to 'lower' themselves to a public university. Cutting off their nose to spite their face, and all.
Why did such an obvious troll get +4 Informative? Because obviously the justice system with checks and balances is inferior to beating the snot out of someone on what amounts to hearsay.
"In creating a new market for digital imaging Adobe also managed to kill off another market; photo printing and film developing. I'm sure in the corporate halls of companies like Fuji and Kodak, Photoshop is about as popular as a Christmas-time shaved ice vendor in Moscow."
Somehow I doubt that. Photoshop doesn't put glossy paper in your printer or make it easy to print a whole memory card's worth of photos at once. Those were separate developments that led to the widespread adoption of the digital format.
If anything I'd say businesses adopting those all in one kiosks helped kill film. Now instead of needing to set up your own print lab with expensive paper, ink, and printer, you could take your CD or stick to WalMart or CVS.
Eclipse for me is speedy but greedy. If you're willing to let it suck up RAM it'll run perfectly fine.
Way to rip off Cracked.com :P
http://www.cracked.com/article_15229_5-things-hollywood-thinks-computers-can-do.html
Not that I think you actually did. Funny nonetheless though.
Hmm, I see. My post was a bit more snarky than I meant it to be -- I really am curious as to doing it other ways.
You don't use debuggers? Ever? That, to me, seems more inefficient and wasteful than any downsides to developing within an IDE. So when something gets bollocksed up, you just start guessing where the problem is, as opposed to stepping through the program and examining it? Or do you just stick ten thousand print statements in?
Even for the trivial C projects I've had in my CIS courses at uni I was glad to have some basic knowledge on how to use GDB. It's a lot easier, in my mind, to look at the program as it executes and see exactly what broke (bad memory allocation or deallocation, wrong function call, whatever) then to make a change, try again, make another change, try again...
No, what that does is ruin the cohesion between platoon members. You don't want to constantly change who servicemembers are serving with, making it harder to maintain morale when their buddy gets rotated out. That's my two cents at least.
Those are the same restrictions Java Applets have due to the Security Manager, and somehow programmers manage to develop useful applets.
Mod parent up; I wish I had some points to award you.
Yes, but you said it yourself -- smarter students. Not URI students versus Brown students. Smart people who are motivated succeed, regardless of where they earn their degree.
After your first or second job, how many of the interviewers cared about the name of your university versus your performance at your previous jobs? It should make no difference whether you got your BS from a state college or an Ivy League school, provided you've got a good track record as being motivated and a worker who produces results. If you expect to trade on your school's reputation rather than your own ability, perhaps science isn't the field for you.
"The same goes for the reputation of the companies you choose to work for."
Please quote where I said anything about the companies you work for. All I said was that the expense/prestige of your university will likely not be a factor once you graduate.
Now yes, if your school is known for graduating people who are abysmal in their field, that's a problem -- but again, that's something you should be considering when applying. My point isn't that there are schools with superior computer science, engineering, etc. programs, my point is that the cost or fame of a school does not give you a different degree than everyone else. There's no proprietary "MIT Brand" physics that's being taught there. The UMass system still follows Newton's rules. Now you might prefer MIT for other, valid reasons, but you can't claim that MIT's reputation will far outweigh your performance after you graduate. Smart people succeed, regardless of where they go.