So this quote doesn't fully address the One True Controller debate, but I think it's important to realize that we were all children when this equipment came out and we may have a bad case of rose-colored glasses.
In the words of Douglas Adams:
everything that's already in the world when you're born is just normal
anything that gets invented between then and before you turn thirty is incredibly exciting and creative and with any luck you can make a career out of it
anything that gets invented after you're thirty is against the natural order of things and the beginning of the end of civilisation as we know it until it's been around for about ten years when it gradually turns out to be alright really.
While I agree with your general point, calling programmers a dime-a-dozen is disingenuous. Even superbly designed games can be taken down by technical glitches and poor performance. Success of video games requires competency in all aspects.
Except the sound "artists", of course. Those guys are wankers.
My story rejection rate hasn't been this bad since my dating years
Improperly phrased date rejection joke? Or implication that your story rejection rate hasn't been so bad for a long time, relying on the reader's knowledge of your dating history?
I still refuse to believe that eventually we couldn't make Internet voting more secure than paper ballots.
I already consider online banking to be at least as secure as ATM transactions, and I see no reason why a properly designed online voting system couldn't be the same.
That being said, the current state of the industry is pathetic. For instance, not too long ago a Diebold machine was exploited by its anti-virus software. If you have anti-virus software running on your electronic voting system you're doing it wrong.
That being said, some of us aren't lucky enough to choose the language we program in at work. I assure you I'd be using Python over.NET if I had the choice.
Why is this modded funny? This is exactly what it does.
This is by far the best approach. Say I create a custom window which paints itself in some strange way. In the Visual Studio designer I can actually move it around in the dialog box and it will paint itself correctly.
We run it at work. It is pretty much the same as VS 2005. The only relevant advantage that I see is access to the.NET 3.5 Framework, which may or may not matter to you depending on what you guys program.
I love how you have to post anonymously in order to support Microsoft products on Slashdot.
Screw it, I second this. Visual Studio has the best code completion implementation ever written. I can type lines like obj.GetSomething().Append(item) in about four keystrokes.
I very much doubt this was orchestrated in order to gain publicity. Never ascribe to malice what can be adequately explained by a rogue engineer who wanted his phone to work with iTunes.
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In the words of Douglas Adams:
Now they can get sued by the MPAA as well as the RIAA!
Good for them, though.
Okay, Java isn't dead yet. But it should be.
Try arguing that in school: "I didn't plagiarize my paper, I was just being lazy!"
Using Wikipedia entries as if they were your own is completely unacceptable in all contexts.
needs to hire Apple.
Japanese porn is WAY too fucked up to survive on
But you forget: they promised to stop!
I'm just waiting for a "Get The Facts" campaign for "IIS vs Apache" on the Microsoft website, along with a completely accurate comparison chart!
If there weren't people over 50 I wouldn't be so scared...
[since 1989] the only companies that have really made money from shrinkwrapped software are Microsoft and Adobe
Yeah, Symantec, Autodesk, et al. are merely figments of our imaginations.
Learn your history before you write a blog post describing it.
While I agree with your general point, calling programmers a dime-a-dozen is disingenuous. Even superbly designed games can be taken down by technical glitches and poor performance. Success of video games requires competency in all aspects.
Except the sound "artists", of course. Those guys are wankers.
I believe all academic journals should be published in the prose employed by the write-up. Well done, sir!
For those of us in the Midwest, Charter Communications can suck it too.
My story rejection rate hasn't been this bad since my dating years
Improperly phrased date rejection joke? Or implication that your story rejection rate hasn't been so bad for a long time, relying on the reader's knowledge of your dating history?
We report, you decide.
Touche. And of course the obligatory link.
Yeah, but how many amazing puns like yours can you make off of "Google"?
And to make a serious point for a second: whatever marketing personnel came up with the name "bing" should be promoted. It's absolutely genius.
It's just a shame the actual product is so mediocre.
I still refuse to believe that eventually we couldn't make Internet voting more secure than paper ballots.
I already consider online banking to be at least as secure as ATM transactions, and I see no reason why a properly designed online voting system couldn't be the same.
That being said, the current state of the industry is pathetic. For instance, not too long ago a Diebold machine was exploited by its anti-virus software. If you have anti-virus software running on your electronic voting system you're doing it wrong.
That was an 87 word sentence! This just might be a new record!
Touche :-)
.NET if I had the choice.
That being said, some of us aren't lucky enough to choose the language we program in at work. I assure you I'd be using Python over
Why is this modded funny? This is exactly what it does.
This is by far the best approach. Say I create a custom window which paints itself in some strange way. In the Visual Studio designer I can actually move it around in the dialog box and it will paint itself correctly.
What am I saying? Of course it matters to you - you get a free Firefox extension with it!
We run it at work. It is pretty much the same as VS 2005. The only relevant advantage that I see is access to the .NET 3.5 Framework, which may or may not matter to you depending on what you guys program.
I love how you have to post anonymously in order to support Microsoft products on Slashdot.
Screw it, I second this. Visual Studio has the best code completion implementation ever written. I can type lines like obj.GetSomething().Append(item) in about four keystrokes.
This makes me warm and fuzzy inside.
Yeah okay, it would be entertaining to play a multiplayer game of super mario...
You could do this on Super Nintendo! This guy in green clothes named "Luigi" could be moved with another "controller" held by your "friend".
By friend I mean the kid down the block who always mooched off my Nintendo and smelled a little bit like pee.
I'm sorry, what were we talking about? Oh yeah, E3 is becoming obsolete. I agree.
It has more commits, so you know that it works better!
In order to gain a successful antitrust verdict you need to be something of a monopoly (which iTunes and more generally Apple clearly isn't).
There is no law that forces your products to work with other people's products - although perhaps there should be!
I very much doubt this was orchestrated in order to gain publicity. Never ascribe to malice what can be adequately explained by a rogue engineer who wanted his phone to work with iTunes.