Contractors aren't used for actual product development. They are generally brought in for short-term tools development, endgame blackbox testing (in addition to the normal testers), and SysAdmin/Support sorts of jobs. -Brian
Good point. In practice, these are nearly unenforeable. MS doesn't even try to enforce unless you go do something directly related the job you were doing at MS (i.e. you go from Windows Media Player to RealNetworks player). -Brian
A junior in Computer Science with good grades and no experience made over $4K/month last summer as a TEST intern at Microsoft, not even Dev! Interns are salary, not hourly, and do indeed get most of the employee benefits.
So,yes, Microsoft pays its interns absurdly well. -Brian
It's been delayed so many times because of bugs and regression testing. The game has been feature-complete for several months. It almost sounds like QS is doing this one the right way...
I see this issue raised over and over again here on slashdot. At work, there are probably 60% or so foreigners on my Dev team. But they all get paid on the same scale. I'm just not convinced that there are a large number of real places that hire H1-B workers at a cheaper than market rate.
That is the key - the money means more to the indian family. It sucks that my girlfriend, who graduated with an MIS degree form a middle-tier school, has to work as an admin. But, she isn't a fundamentally more valuable person than an Indian because of her place of birth, much less a whole family. -Brian
Until then, don't tell me that what is mine by birth
Nothing should be yours by birth. That's the point. Hard work, sure. But if you have talent and hard work, a little competition from those pitiful 3rd world nations shouldn't scare you...
Er, and this new non-evil-corprate-backed monorail solves who's problems? The traffic problems in King county are mainly across the lake both ways. Nobody commutes from Ballard to West Seattle.
Two different standards for electronic paper. One open, with commercial and freely available software. The other closed, proprietary, encrypted, protected by the DMCA, designed by a monopolist, and only readable on a platform that costs an artificially high price, and only writable from productivity software that costs an artificially high price.
You've been reading the technical specs for XDocs? Could you send me a link?
-Brian
Democrats are the party of the stupid. Republicans are the party of the evil. Your flawed assumption is that people who are born well and educated are smart and thoughtful. The GOP gets its power from fools who think the system works for them. -Brian
The humor in AS Sunday is better described as absurdist than adolescent. Lamenting the comparison to South Park is kind of elitest; I'm a pretty smart guy and I really enjoy Aqua Team Hunger Force, SeaLab 2021, and Home Movie. Sure, they finance this kind of humor because of South Park's success, but it's still a lot better than Friends, the Simpsons, or any other shit on network TV. -Brian
Riddles are a useful but dangerous interviewing tool. You need to steer clear of "gotcha" riddles. Those are the kind that either you get or you don't, and no amount of sitting in silence is going to help. They have some sort of 'trick' and basically a one word or one sentence correct response. Which direction is the bus going (hand-drawn picture of a bus)? Left, because you didn't draw the door. Terrible interview question.
Riddles that require the interviewee to ask a lot of questions and talk things out are very good for gaining insight into their thought process.
Strange but true factoid: As life expectency goes up, birth-rate declines. Education helps too. Provide a population with decent health-care and education, and things start to improve pretty quickly. You're right though, the trick is being able to help the population without a corrupt government skimming everything off on its way in. -Brian
The flaw here is that programming is hard. Relative to the average job, really hard. True that there is currently a glut of semi-techinical people who decided to jump in to the "Computer Professional" gold mine, but those folks are bailing right and left these days. Real good software developers will never be common or cheap.
-Brian
It's good that I can't see my neighbors in the boradband network, but I can't even see my roomate anymore! The DHCP server is assigning addresses with different default gateways and subnet masks to me and my roomate. Argh.
-Brian
Don't forget Cowboy Bebop: The perfect Collection. Just released in the US today.
-Brian
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the GPU in the xbox isn't a geforce 3, but it's close. The key though is the universal memory architecture. Your AGP bus just isn't anywhere near fast enough to keep up.
-Brian
Man you guys are cynical. Isn't it possible that the feds and states will make sure to put real, competent, neutral people on this advisory panel? If so, they will be able to see to it that the spirit of the sanctions are carried out, so that simply "changing the wording" won't be enough to get MS by anymore.
-Brian
Xbox doesn't have an exclusive on DOA3; that studio is free to release the game on any console. They simply aren't working on a version yet for other consoles, because none of them have the necessary capabilities.
I'm not sure about OddWorld, but I don't think MS owns that company either.
MS does own bungie, and that has caused Halo PC version to get pushed back quite a bit, but it is supposedly still going to come out.
-Brian
MS doesn't own DOA3 and would have nothing to do with a PS2 version. It's being written by the same company that did 1 & 2. The statement merely says that MS doesn't have an exclusive arrangement with the dev studio.
-Brian
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Contractors aren't used for actual product development. They are generally brought in for short-term tools development, endgame blackbox testing (in addition to the normal testers), and SysAdmin/Support sorts of jobs.
-Brian
Good point. In practice, these are nearly unenforeable. MS doesn't even try to enforce unless you go do something directly related the job you were doing at MS (i.e. you go from Windows Media Player to RealNetworks player).
-Brian
A junior in Computer Science with good grades and no experience made over $4K/month last summer as a TEST intern at Microsoft, not even Dev! Interns are salary, not hourly, and do indeed get most of the employee benefits.
So,yes, Microsoft pays its interns absurdly well.
-Brian
It's been delayed so many times because of bugs and regression testing. The game has been feature-complete for several months. It almost sounds like QS is doing this one the right way...
I see this issue raised over and over again here on slashdot. At work, there are probably 60% or so foreigners on my Dev team. But they all get paid on the same scale. I'm just not convinced that there are a large number of real places that hire H1-B workers at a cheaper than market rate.
That is the key - the money means more to the indian family. It sucks that my girlfriend, who graduated with an MIS degree form a middle-tier school, has to work as an admin. But, she isn't a fundamentally more valuable person than an Indian because of her place of birth, much less a whole family.
-Brian
Nothing should be yours by birth. That's the point. Hard work, sure. But if you have talent and hard work, a little competition from those pitiful 3rd world nations shouldn't scare you...
Harrison hasn't accepted the case yet. Probably you would only encourage him to care about this issue by turning this stunt on him unprovoked.
Er, and this new non-evil-corprate-backed monorail solves who's problems? The traffic problems in King county are mainly across the lake both ways. Nobody commutes from Ballard to West Seattle.
You've been reading the technical specs for XDocs? Could you send me a link?
-Brian
Democrats are the party of the stupid. Republicans are the party of the evil.
Your flawed assumption is that people who are born well and educated are smart and thoughtful. The GOP gets its power from fools who think the system works for them.
-Brian
The humor in AS Sunday is better described as absurdist than adolescent. Lamenting the comparison to South Park is kind of elitest; I'm a pretty smart guy and I really enjoy Aqua Team Hunger Force, SeaLab 2021, and Home Movie. Sure, they finance this kind of humor because of South Park's success, but it's still a lot better than Friends, the Simpsons, or any other shit on network TV.
-Brian
I'm just guessing, but likely the FCC says you can't broadcast, but you can own the hardware.
Riddles are a useful but dangerous interviewing tool. You need to steer clear of "gotcha" riddles. Those are the kind that either you get or you don't, and no amount of sitting in silence is going to help. They have some sort of 'trick' and basically a one word or one sentence correct response. Which direction is the bus going (hand-drawn picture of a bus)? Left, because you didn't draw the door. Terrible interview question.
Riddles that require the interviewee to ask a lot of questions and talk things out are very good for gaining insight into their thought process.
Strange but true factoid: As life expectency goes up, birth-rate declines. Education helps too. Provide a population with decent health-care and education, and things start to improve pretty quickly. You're right though, the trick is being able to help the population without a corrupt government skimming everything off on its way in.
-Brian
The flaw here is that programming is hard. Relative to the average job, really hard. True that there is currently a glut of semi-techinical people who decided to jump in to the "Computer Professional" gold mine, but those folks are bailing right and left these days. Real good software developers will never be common or cheap.
-Brian
Just in case it isn't obvious, they don't really do that. More likely it was just some person within a .NET group that sent it out to their org.
-Brian
It's good that I can't see my neighbors in the boradband network, but I can't even see my roomate anymore! The DHCP server is assigning addresses with different default gateways and subnet masks to me and my roomate. Argh.
-Brian
Seattle metro area was offline all day yesterday. I got back on-line around 12 noon today.
-Brian
AT&T has made a bid to buy and maintain @home's network. The court has not yet approved it. If they approve that's exactly what AT&T will do.
-Brian
Don't forget Cowboy Bebop: The perfect Collection. Just released in the US today.
-Brian
the GPU in the xbox isn't a geforce 3, but it's close. The key though is the universal memory architecture. Your AGP bus just isn't anywhere near fast enough to keep up.
-Brian
Man you guys are cynical. Isn't it possible that the feds and states will make sure to put real, competent, neutral people on this advisory panel? If so, they will be able to see to it that the spirit of the sanctions are carried out, so that simply "changing the wording" won't be enough to get MS by anymore.
-Brian
Xbox doesn't have an exclusive on DOA3; that studio is free to release the game on any console. They simply aren't working on a version yet for other consoles, because none of them have the necessary capabilities.
I'm not sure about OddWorld, but I don't think MS owns that company either.
MS does own bungie, and that has caused Halo PC version to get pushed back quite a bit, but it is supposedly still going to come out.
-Brian
MS doesn't own DOA3 and would have nothing to do with a PS2 version. It's being written by the same company that did 1 & 2. The statement merely says that MS doesn't have an exclusive arrangement with the dev studio.
-Brian