You know, the funny thing is, right now, you're the one making a decision to be an asshole rather than giving a shit about other people.
As one of the people who doesn't notice when people are trying to shake my hand sometimes, I can assure you, it's not that I don't care about people; it's that I don't have the same raw inputs to my decision-making that some people do. So far as I'm concerned, you people all have telepathy. I know it's not technically telepathy, but it might as well be; I have no access to the medium through which you pick up on things like that.
So, I put in serious time and effort doing my best to read people, and people like you bitch me out because I don't do it perfectly, because it's effortless for you.
The irony is that it's your empathy that is leading you to a lack of empathy in this situation.
My experience, from the amiga and elsewhere, is that the problem is window-shuffling. If you can't have two monitors, use virtual desktops, with no more than one application per screen.
I comment on legal cases I'm involved with all the time. My lawyer hates it, because it can constitute statements against interest, but it's not ilegal or anything.
What the hell have two overpriced 30" apple monitors got to do with the price of a "fully specced" system? And what kind of idiot buys RAM or hard drives from Apple at their prices?
This reminds me of an Onion headline from Our Dumb Century, to the effect of "Japanese enter well-thought-out alliance with white supremacists."
Microsoft has always been utterly ruthless in suppressing any attempt at compatibility with their software. They make money because they control the API; a competing implementation that's allowed to become comparable is a threat, and they are pretty active about trying to make sure that such things don't stay viable.
Did it really take this guy this long to realize that Microsoft would take every step possible to ensure that his work was never going to be a migration path off Windows, and that most of these steps would involve willful incompatibilities? Was he really expecting that, somehow, just because some open source guys started using some of their stuff, Microsoft would turn around and stop being ruthless monopolists?
I've never been able to make any sense of the whole Mono thing. I mean, it always looked like an attempt to lube up and bend over a barrel just in case Microsoft was feeling playful. With this announcement, it looks like it's not even that coherent.
Well, compared to the original sales, that's not so great; I mean, yeah, it's a fair number of units, but it's not much for a "hotly anticipated launch".
You're right, I shouldn't just play the same damn games over and over. I should get a console that has Ridge Racer 7, Virtua Fighter 5, Metal Gear Solid 4, Gran Turismo 5, and other TOTALLY NEW game experiences.
I dunno, but I don't see any evidence at all that "the same games we played on the SNES" or even on the Gamecube are at all on the table.
Nintendo has provided a controller that pretty much guarantees a rethink of the game. Sony has provided the same thing as last time, only faster.
Many of us already know CGI, since it's a fairly common and fairly easy interface. Many of us already know HTML.
The sample application that led me to this article is a document management system which associates scanned images with a database of material about them (phone numbers, company names, etcetera). The CGI and HTML part was fairly simple, certainly much simpler than comparable tasks in most GUI programming environments.
The file store interface was just Berkeley DB with locking. Works great.
Nearly every human I know believes in something he refers to as "laws of physics", some sort of hypothesized way in which objects behave consistently according to rules.
Do we need a genetic predisposition to explain this?
Is there a specific genetic predisposition to think that people who laugh at their own jokes a lot are usually not funny?
How do we distinguish between "predisposition to believe X" and "observing X"?
Um, Sony told them not to publish their article. I'd believe that Sony didn't want the news/idea out there yet. They may have been afraid that it would be easy for Nintendo or MS to copy the concept for their systems once published.
Well, who the **** cares what Sony wants? I don't recall asking my news sources to filter everything based on whether or not Sony wants it out there.
That said: Of course it would be easy for MS and Nintendo to copy the feature. It's easy because they already have these features, which is why Sony is copying these features from them.
This is like saying that Microsoft should have the right to force blogs not to comment that the new Vista interface looks like a cheap knock-off of Aqua, because if news gets out, Apple could copy them. It's barely even wrong.
Sure, they have no obligation to give out freebies and exclusives -- but saying they're being withheld just because they don't like a story the journalist ran? Petty and juvenile.
Of course, even past the threat: It is just plain dumb of Sony to deny information to a company that could be generating buzz for them.
Sony needs positive press a lot more than Kotaku needs help finding Sony stories; empirically, they were finding stuff Sony wasn't giving out even to the people they were supposedly helping out.
Sony just pissed off every video game blogger in the world. Kotaku just showed real class.
It's about relationships, and Sony doesn't understand any relationship but "you suck our cock and pay for the privilege". This is working against them now.
Look, I'm a language lawyer by habit, and I think you're being too pedantic.
The effect follows from the cause, consistently. I'm not denying free will, I'm making a statement about statistics. Compare it with blackmail or other forms of coercion; the mere fact that you could in theory refuse to do something at gunpoint doesn't mean we should avoid any language that implies that the person with the gun "caused" you to act.
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You know, the funny thing is, right now, you're the one making a decision to be an asshole rather than giving a shit about other people.
As one of the people who doesn't notice when people are trying to shake my hand sometimes, I can assure you, it's not that I don't care about people; it's that I don't have the same raw inputs to my decision-making that some people do. So far as I'm concerned, you people all have telepathy. I know it's not technically telepathy, but it might as well be; I have no access to the medium through which you pick up on things like that.
So, I put in serious time and effort doing my best to read people, and people like you bitch me out because I don't do it perfectly, because it's effortless for you.
The irony is that it's your empathy that is leading you to a lack of empathy in this situation.
Interesting. This hasn't been my experience at all, but then, I'm probably abnormal. I will say, it can take a while to get used to it.
My experience, from the amiga and elsewhere, is that the problem is window-shuffling. If you can't have two monitors, use virtual desktops, with no more than one application per screen.
Ion3 ftw.
I'm not sure it's up to the police. Sounds like it might be best addressed as a civil matter.
I comment on legal cases I'm involved with all the time. My lawyer hates it, because it can constitute statements against interest, but it's not ilegal or anything.
If it's a percentage, I see a great opportunity for someone with money to spare to have a lot of fun giving stuff away.
What the hell have two overpriced 30" apple monitors got to do with the price of a "fully specced" system? And what kind of idiot buys RAM or hard drives from Apple at their prices?
That's the most useless price figure ever.
I see, so, every generation, mysterious market forces somehow cause Nintendo to release a new console exactly five years after their previous one?
I dunno that I think anyone's dragging them kicking and screaming; it looks like they're on their own schedule.
This reminds me of an Onion headline from Our Dumb Century, to the effect of "Japanese enter well-thought-out alliance with white supremacists."
Microsoft has always been utterly ruthless in suppressing any attempt at compatibility with their software. They make money because they control the API; a competing implementation that's allowed to become comparable is a threat, and they are pretty active about trying to make sure that such things don't stay viable.
Did it really take this guy this long to realize that Microsoft would take every step possible to ensure that his work was never going to be a migration path off Windows, and that most of these steps would involve willful incompatibilities? Was he really expecting that, somehow, just because some open source guys started using some of their stuff, Microsoft would turn around and stop being ruthless monopolists?
I've never been able to make any sense of the whole Mono thing. I mean, it always looked like an attempt to lube up and bend over a barrel just in case Microsoft was feeling playful. With this announcement, it looks like it's not even that coherent.
Well, compared to the original sales, that's not so great; I mean, yeah, it's a fair number of units, but it's not much for a "hotly anticipated launch".
He talked about developing games, rather than about all the impressive non-game things his console does. Sounds relevant to me!
Philosophy matters more than technology.
You're right, I shouldn't just play the same damn games over and over. I should get a console that has Ridge Racer 7, Virtua Fighter 5, Metal Gear Solid 4, Gran Turismo 5, and other TOTALLY NEW game experiences.
I dunno, but I don't see any evidence at all that "the same games we played on the SNES" or even on the Gamecube are at all on the table.
Nintendo has provided a controller that pretty much guarantees a rethink of the game. Sony has provided the same thing as last time, only faster.
The problem is, all they have now is also-rans and imitation. They aren't offering me anything I can't have elsewhere months ago.
Many of us already know CGI, since it's a fairly common and fairly easy interface. Many of us already know HTML.
The sample application that led me to this article is a document management system which associates scanned images with a database of material about them (phone numbers, company names, etcetera). The CGI and HTML part was fairly simple, certainly much simpler than comparable tasks in most GUI programming environments.
The file store interface was just Berkeley DB with locking. Works great.
I based the comparison on real-world cases of seeing people trying to develop applications in various languages.
The input boxes lining up are easy enough; that's what tables are FOR, presenting things in a tabular format.
FWIW, I agree that it's not universally the best solution; I just think it's very often the best choice, especially for fast prototyping.
Nearly every human I know believes in something he refers to as "laws of physics", some sort of hypothesized way in which objects behave consistently according to rules.
Do we need a genetic predisposition to explain this?
Is there a specific genetic predisposition to think that people who laugh at their own jokes a lot are usually not funny?
How do we distinguish between "predisposition to believe X" and "observing X"?
Well, who the **** cares what Sony wants? I don't recall asking my news sources to filter everything based on whether or not Sony wants it out there.
That said: Of course it would be easy for MS and Nintendo to copy the feature. It's easy because they already have these features, which is why Sony is copying these features from them.
This is like saying that Microsoft should have the right to force blogs not to comment that the new Vista interface looks like a cheap knock-off of Aqua, because if news gets out, Apple could copy them. It's barely even wrong.
What Sony did wrong was threaten a journalist.
Sure, they have no obligation to give out freebies and exclusives -- but saying they're being withheld just because they don't like a story the journalist ran? Petty and juvenile.
Of course, even past the threat: It is just plain dumb of Sony to deny information to a company that could be generating buzz for them.
This is a good analysis.
Sony needs positive press a lot more than Kotaku needs help finding Sony stories; empirically, they were finding stuff Sony wasn't giving out even to the people they were supposedly helping out.
Sony just pissed off every video game blogger in the world. Kotaku just showed real class.
It's about relationships, and Sony doesn't understand any relationship but "you suck our cock and pay for the privilege". This is working against them now.
I dunno why you're all fussy about him walloping her. He done told her she'd get a whuppin' if she kept carryin' on like that.
*spits*
Seems fair to me. She wants to get all up in her man's face, she oughta expect a couple black eyes. Yup!
As a WoW player:
:)
This saves me a huge amount of trouble on my guild website.
What agreement? This was not information provided by Sony, but embargoed. This was a proper legitimate rumor.
That's 50% of European releases, more like 10% of worldwide releases.
Maybe they just shouldn't have promised backwards compatibility if they can't do it.
I managed to get transferred into an engineering job, but it helped that I was already doing some engineering work during slow periods.
Work on some OSS software, or otherwise get your name out there. Good managers believe in running code.
Look, I'm a language lawyer by habit, and I think you're being too pedantic.
The effect follows from the cause, consistently. I'm not denying free will, I'm making a statement about statistics. Compare it with blackmail or other forms of coercion; the mere fact that you could in theory refuse to do something at gunpoint doesn't mean we should avoid any language that implies that the person with the gun "caused" you to act.