Not always. "Performers" might want to make the fastest algorithm, or the best looking website. They want to hit it out of the park. They want to win. But they are higher maintenance if it's a difficult task.
Steve Jobs is a "performer", Steve Woz is a "master".
Or maybe it's just BS. Most personality characteristics don't have 2 clusters. They are usually on a continuum (and they drift around a bit, depending on how they are feeling), so putting people in one box or another is usually pretty crude.
It's like saying that people are "fat" or "thin". "Fat" people like to sit around eating donuts. "Thin" people like aerobics and celery. But we are forgetting the 70%* of people who are just kinda normal.
*except for most English speaking countries, where 30%+ obesity rates are the norm
"Real engineers" have all sorts of cock-ups. Look at cost-overruns in the overage one-off construction project - they are similar to overruns in software projects.
Safety-critical hardware has all sorts of redundancy. I daresay that software could have a safety factor built in - you could duplicate the code 5 times using separate software teams and different methodologies, then weed out the incorrect results, but who would pay for all that waste? Even aircraft engineers have about 1% safety margins. Software engineers usually have 0%. Do you wonder why it breaks occasionally?
I think we were talking about computer science, not JavaSchool. Sure, there's lots of IUSD or CRUD work, but that's not a university education.
2D / 3D algorithms, AI, DSLs, parsing, sorting and searching, network protocols, and so on. Those are all useful in games. They are also key concepts in a lot of computer science.
I bet that the first commercial use for IVM will be feeding tuna, and other carnivorous livestock. That will fund the technology until it's ready for actually eating. As a bonus, we could clone rare (or maybe even extinct) species, and eat them too!
FWIW, I usually set my camera to about 3 MP. Any less, and it craps itself in low light conditions.
Unless you want to print out high-quality photos, current camera (and phone) resolutions are like using the CERN LHC to microwave an egg.
Quality (of the lenses, the accuracy of the pixel cells, low light / high speed behavior, and so on) is still crap on regular cameras. It's worthless on phones.
And when we finally have high-quality cameras that can be shrunk onto phones, everyone will want video, and phones will still be crap.
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Yes, but all the IBM clones were identical or better than the IBM PC.
Nobody would have dreamed of putting out a 620 by 415 screen, removing the shift keys, or any other fundamental IO stunts. IBM set a baseline, then people copied it.
There were certainly traumatic events (select your sound device, configure your monitor, and do not pass go if you don't have 3DFX), but there were often reasonable fallbacks. There was an upgrade cycle, but it was usually linear.
Android devices can all process the same data, but the users might not be able to interact with it in a meaningful way.
Records might sound better than digital recordings, but only if they strip out the high frequency noise in the recording. Throwing out data in the original might be a good thing.
This is not correct. "Copy factories" will copy anything, including local brands like Hair and Oppo. I'm sure those factories get shut down, on occasion, but somebody has to press charges before anything will happen. It's like the US - "they" don't just crack down on companies that are infringing on another companies property. It's up to the businesses to police each other, and press charges if anything goes wrong.
The difference is that local companies make hardware, or use more modern business models (ad driven, freemium web-apps, and so on), so they are harder to copy.
It's not like the US doesn't copy software. It's just that US consumers can afford to buy Dells, which are preloaded with Windows. Most people who buy grey-box computers will pirate the OS, in any country. Except Linux and Mac users;).
WinCE? I think I heard that name once or twice, before the iPhone and Droid came out. Perhaps MS wants people to get excited about MS mobile development again?
Microsoft has a policy to not use open source, because they can't guarantee it's pedigree. If a malicious person puts stolen code into an OSS project (or more realistically, if a programmer uses company resources to develop the code, without permission from the company; or somebody pastes GPL code into a BSD project) then people who rely on the code might be vulnerable to lawsuits. http://weblogs.asp.net/jgalloway/archive/2007/05/02/why-microsoft-can-t-ship-open-source-code.aspx
At least, that's their excuse.
If open source was such a dangerous thing to touch, then I think Google, IBM and Apple would have been hit already.
Yep. DVD killed VHS because it was easy to use and a lot more robust. No rewinding the tape when you finished. No stuffing the tape back into the cartridge when it spat the dummy. No fingerprints, fuzzy lines, and pictures wrapping vertically up and down the screen.
The menus are a PITA, but they are still better than VHS.
Also, the "special features disks" are pain. Would it be a huge ask to clearly mark those things? Big red letters with "special features" would save people a lot of time and frustration.
Omnipresent wireless internet with cloud storage might kill off portable storage (except for special uses) in the next 20 years. Maybe longer, given that consumers would want to hang onto their old media. I wouldn't make any bets on the next 100.
But that's a good point about optical disks lasting longer than mechanical systems. Even if becomes a specialized technology, the few remaining readers could read the disks.
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Not always. "Performers" might want to make the fastest algorithm, or the best looking website. They want to hit it out of the park. They want to win. But they are higher maintenance if it's a difficult task.
Steve Jobs is a "performer", Steve Woz is a "master".
Or maybe it's just BS. Most personality characteristics don't have 2 clusters. They are usually on a continuum (and they drift around a bit, depending on how they are feeling), so putting people in one box or another is usually pretty crude.
It's like saying that people are "fat" or "thin". "Fat" people like to sit around eating donuts. "Thin" people like aerobics and celery. But we are forgetting the 70%* of people who are just kinda normal.
*except for most English speaking countries, where 30%+ obesity rates are the norm
The most dynamic repository of knowledge in the world? What about slashdot? It's ... dynamic.
"Real engineers" have all sorts of cock-ups. Look at cost-overruns in the overage one-off construction project - they are similar to overruns in software projects.
Safety-critical hardware has all sorts of redundancy. I daresay that software could have a safety factor built in - you could duplicate the code 5 times using separate software teams and different methodologies, then weed out the incorrect results, but who would pay for all that waste? Even aircraft engineers have about 1% safety margins. Software engineers usually have 0%. Do you wonder why it breaks occasionally?
I mulling over the wisdom of marketing Ubuntu, a distro which defaults a maniacally-happy sewage-brown theme, to a bunch of "art lovers".
I think you may have headed off my question.
Was the event secretly funded by Red Hat?
OTOH, one of the protagonists in NGE was a penguin, so there's still hope for acceptance...
I thought the penguin was the protagonist. Wasn't everyone else a bad guy?
I think we were talking about computer science, not JavaSchool. Sure, there's lots of IUSD or CRUD work, but that's not a university education.
2D / 3D algorithms, AI, DSLs, parsing, sorting and searching, network protocols, and so on. Those are all useful in games. They are also key concepts in a lot of computer science.
Also remember, those soldiers in red with the puffy black hats CANNOT move, no-matter WHAT you do to them: http://v.ku6.com/show/opIpbqF6CtgyQaDW.html
Note, the above post will decode the latest BlueRay DRM. But you didn't know that until it was pointed out.
(No, not really, but that's one possible application).
Butchering words is how languages grow and develop.
Or perhaps we should go for IVM (in-vitro meat)?
I bet that the first commercial use for IVM will be feeding tuna, and other carnivorous livestock. That will fund the technology until it's ready for actually eating. As a bonus, we could clone rare (or maybe even extinct) species, and eat them too!
FWIW, I usually set my camera to about 3 MP. Any less, and it craps itself in low light conditions.
Unless you want to print out high-quality photos, current camera (and phone) resolutions are like using the CERN LHC to microwave an egg.
Quality (of the lenses, the accuracy of the pixel cells, low light / high speed behavior, and so on) is still crap on regular cameras. It's worthless on phones.
And when we finally have high-quality cameras that can be shrunk onto phones, everyone will want video, and phones will still be crap.
There's still a long way for cameras to develop.
OK, I just gotta link to xkcd here: http://xkcd.com/55/
Yes, but all the IBM clones were identical or better than the IBM PC.
Nobody would have dreamed of putting out a 620 by 415 screen, removing the shift keys, or any other fundamental IO stunts. IBM set a baseline, then people copied it.
There were certainly traumatic events (select your sound device, configure your monitor, and do not pass go if you don't have 3DFX), but there were often reasonable fallbacks. There was an upgrade cycle, but it was usually linear.
Android devices can all process the same data, but the users might not be able to interact with it in a meaningful way.
How about opening a New Church of Scientology, and seeing it?
Records might sound better than digital recordings, but only if they strip out the high frequency noise in the recording. Throwing out data in the original might be a good thing.
This is not correct. "Copy factories" will copy anything, including local brands like Hair and Oppo. I'm sure those factories get shut down, on occasion, but somebody has to press charges before anything will happen. It's like the US - "they" don't just crack down on companies that are infringing on another companies property. It's up to the businesses to police each other, and press charges if anything goes wrong.
The difference is that local companies make hardware, or use more modern business models (ad driven, freemium web-apps, and so on), so they are harder to copy.
It's not like the US doesn't copy software. It's just that US consumers can afford to buy Dells, which are preloaded with Windows. Most people who buy grey-box computers will pirate the OS, in any country. Except Linux and Mac users ;).
WinCE? I think I heard that name once or twice, before the iPhone and Droid came out. Perhaps MS wants people to get excited about MS mobile development again?
If you are indeed dead enough to qualify for a payout, then you are presumably too dead to be considered a survivor.
Kinda like trying to let your unborn child inherit your fortune.
1) Dead and unable to claim inheritance because of not being a survivor
2) Alive and unable to trigger a payout
3) For ethical reasons, your great-great-grandchildren must give permission before you can be thawed out. And reclaim their inheritance.
Microsoft has a policy to not use open source, because they can't guarantee it's pedigree. If a malicious person puts stolen code into an OSS project (or more realistically, if a programmer uses company resources to develop the code, without permission from the company; or somebody pastes GPL code into a BSD project) then people who rely on the code might be vulnerable to lawsuits. http://weblogs.asp.net/jgalloway/archive/2007/05/02/why-microsoft-can-t-ship-open-source-code.aspx
At least, that's their excuse.
If open source was such a dangerous thing to touch, then I think Google, IBM and Apple would have been hit already.
Yep. DVD killed VHS because it was easy to use and a lot more robust. No rewinding the tape when you finished. No stuffing the tape back into the cartridge when it spat the dummy. No fingerprints, fuzzy lines, and pictures wrapping vertically up and down the screen.
The menus are a PITA, but they are still better than VHS.
Also, the "special features disks" are pain. Would it be a huge ask to clearly mark those things? Big red letters with "special features" would save people a lot of time and frustration.
Install Adblock and its ... oh wait, not gunna happen.
Omnipresent wireless internet with cloud storage might kill off portable storage (except for special uses) in the next 20 years. Maybe longer, given that consumers would want to hang onto their old media. I wouldn't make any bets on the next 100.
But that's a good point about optical disks lasting longer than mechanical systems. Even if becomes a specialized technology, the few remaining readers could read the disks.
Mod parent up.
Yeah. If random people on the internet come up with a stupid answer, you don't have to listen.