That's what I was thinking. Why is this bad? Who the hell is teaching that the US is a democracy? The friggin' pledge of allegiance calls it a republic. I don't care how you spin it, in the end, it's still a republic.
Things change, sure, but change for change's sake is not progress. If it makes n00bs go "I can't figure out how to X" and veterans go "WTF", maybe consider if that "change" is worth making.
Touch screens = change that is positive for certain types of devices. It's adaptable and makes sense. GOOD.
This change = moronic. Confuses users (even new ones), adds time to accomplishing simple tasks, and for Desktop users it's completely pointless. BAD.
If the technology is out there to do this safely and securely, how could it possibly be a bad thing. These being used at major gatherings - Olympics, Superbowl, World Cup - all round the world these should be able to be used given the current state of the world we live in.
It's a bad thing because you have absolutely no sense of privacy whatsoever. There's a mindset that there's tons of criminals walking around waiting to kill crowds of people. That's the wrong way to look at it, and the wrong way to do it.
"The current state of the world we live in" is a bunch of F.U.D. Yes, there are terrorists... but there's always been terrorists. So what? This is a ridiculous measure, and it doesn't stop shit. All it does is expose people to radiation ends up being all focused on the first layer of your skin (as opposed to being diffused like "background" radiation) and erode civil liberties.
Well, Samsung is horribly slow with their updates. HTC is actually pretty good with theirs, I can't comment on LG, and Motorola is "meh" with their timing.
Still waiting for an official OTA update for my EVO.
No, Apple can charge more because they're Apple, not because they actually have a higher quality build or contain system specs that are better than any similar machine.
For $1,800, you could get a helluva lot more for your money than what you're paying for at the Apple store. They're great at marketing, and that's why you pay double than what you should.
That's how it was supposed to work, but it doesn't apply as much any more and applies less and less each day. The Fed are constantly trying to come in and set laws that all the States have to abide by. Either that, or they are stripping their power to make their own laws.
Would peer to peer services which offer end to end encryption like Skype be required to re-engineer their software to allow government wiretaps? This could be the end of personal use encryption as we know it.
It would break end-to-end encryption, period. The whole point of end-to-end encryption (like https in your browser) is to ensure no MITM attacks, and that only you and the other party know wtf is going on. I sure as hell wouldn't bank online anymore knowing that shit isn't really secure. That's just retarded. But hey, nothing like enabling thousands of ID thieves in order to "protect" us, right?
Listen, acting like a cocky dumbass won't get you anywhere. Good communication does. I don't care what the fuck you think about how something was done, if you never ask your seniors about why it was done that way, or even try to open some kind of discussion with them on why you think method/standard B is better than the status quo, you don't have anything to legitimately complain about. Being a jaded member of a development team quietly burning away in the corner does nobody good.
I'm in my late 20s...
So you've been in the industry a total of what, 5 years? That's hardly enough time to be judging senior developers. I could only say that's enough time to judge your own team, but then I'd go back to the communication thing. I can only assume that since you've been at your career for around 5 years that it's all stocked in one place. Given that, you've been there long enough to be able to pipe up about shit and be listened to. At this point, if you haven't said anything politely, it's your own fault. Yes, there are poor developers and sometimes people get to where they are because of the years under their belt, but being as you sound so fresh and immature about it, I'm giving the seniors the benefit of the doubt.
If programmers new what they were doing I wouldn't be stuck running old-assed unsecurable OS's that we only keep around because stupid programmers can't be arsed to update their bloated crappy application software to run on current systems.
Hey programmer, try running your app without a machine to run it on.
Go whine to the project manager or whoever deals out the projects and balances and prioritizes available dev time.
Sometimes it's a senior (in years only) developer who created a "standard" before I got there.
I'm guessing you never bothered to ask why that "standard" was there to begin with and 2 to 4 months down the line will find out that there is some limitation that was completely outside of everyone's control and you've just run head first into it. Of course by then you'll have started a re-write and will learn to just blame it on the old timer's lack of documentation and if it was documented, it wasn't documented "right".
Exactly. If there's one important lesson that I've learned, it's that you never assume the person who wrote that "retarded" piece of code was a moron when they did it, or that you even know why it was written a certain way. There's probably a very legitimate reason for it. It may not even be relevant any more, but it sure was at the time. Just do yourself a favor and ask a few questions before jumping to conclusions.
Give me a break. Frankly, I'm tired of teachers being regarded automatically as "underpaid, unsung heroes". Yeah right. First of all, a good teacher is a rare one. We should praise those. But really, I should praise the guy who goes around unclogging sewers for a living just as much. They put up with a HELLUVA lot more than someone who interacts with some brats all day... and then takes a 3 month vacation from that. Don't get me wrong because we need teachers, but we need everybody else too and everyone plays a role in our society. They certainly don't automatically deserve to get paid more, and throwing money at teachers won't do an iota to fix our public schools problem in the US. They should be treated like everybody else instead of these untouchable saints - pay those who perform, punish those who don't, and definitely hold them responsible for stupid shit they publicly say.
Back to the point: the dummy got caught saying some stupid shit, and she has to face consequences. Simple as that, and it should happen more often. After all, this wasn't a private conversation she was having, it was a public podium.
Hint: There's no such things as bad publicity for computer games.
No kidding. I've never heard of this game until that article. You get points for shooting people in the privates? Friggin' AWESOME! Sounds like a lot of fun!
I guess I am. Haven't done PC gaming in a few years.
But I've got another reason for consoles: us poor Linux guys who don't want to dual boot just to play games. As a response to your point #2: my development laptop doesn't require high-end graphics, and that was the point of saying that. It's not about driver updates at that point, it's about hardware. I can't take desktops everywhere with me so I generally don't use them (except for retired ones I turn into servers). Consoles, especially at their price points, are the best answer for a lot of people.
Considering you need to buy one to hack one, I think that's a universally agreed upon statement. I think maybe what they're afraid of is that since they're letting these machines go for almost no profit (or even a loss?) that you'll use it for something other than games, which is where the money is really at.
Sure it can, but not at the same level of graphics quality (not with a $100 graphics card, anyway). Also, with a console, you're guaranteed to be able to play a giant library of games at full quality and they'll all just work. Furthermore, for those of us who prefer laptops geared more for development and less for gaming, constantly upgrading hardware isn't an option. And then there's the fact that consoles are absolutely dirt cheap compared to a gaming rig that needs constant updating.
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That's what I was thinking. Why is this bad? Who the hell is teaching that the US is a democracy? The friggin' pledge of allegiance calls it a republic. I don't care how you spin it, in the end, it's still a republic.
What a loaded submission.
Where's the flamebait rating, mods?
Bingo. And a fork is born. 'Fome' (Forked+Gnome), anyone? Could use a hand-print as the logo.
"Thinking different" isn't positive if the Different way is less usable.
Things change, sure, but change for change's sake is not progress. If it makes n00bs go "I can't figure out how to X" and veterans go "WTF", maybe consider if that "change" is worth making.
Touch screens = change that is positive for certain types of devices. It's adaptable and makes sense. GOOD.
This change = moronic. Confuses users (even new ones), adds time to accomplishing simple tasks, and for Desktop users it's completely pointless. BAD.
The un-collapsed section is where the monolith stands.
If the technology is out there to do this safely and securely, how could it possibly be a bad thing. These being used at major gatherings - Olympics, Superbowl, World Cup - all round the world these should be able to be used given the current state of the world we live in.
It's a bad thing because you have absolutely no sense of privacy whatsoever. There's a mindset that there's tons of criminals walking around waiting to kill crowds of people. That's the wrong way to look at it, and the wrong way to do it.
"The current state of the world we live in" is a bunch of F.U.D. Yes, there are terrorists... but there's always been terrorists. So what? This is a ridiculous measure, and it doesn't stop shit. All it does is expose people to radiation ends up being all focused on the first layer of your skin (as opposed to being diffused like "background" radiation) and erode civil liberties.
Well, Samsung is horribly slow with their updates. HTC is actually pretty good with theirs, I can't comment on LG, and Motorola is "meh" with their timing. Still waiting for an official OTA update for my EVO.
You forgot about CmdrTaco!
Yes, it would be nicer to have a larger sample size. But just to point out, the antennae issue wasn't "hype". It was a poor design. That's fact.
No, Apple can charge more because they're Apple, not because they actually have a higher quality build or contain system specs that are better than any similar machine. For $1,800, you could get a helluva lot more for your money than what you're paying for at the Apple store. They're great at marketing, and that's why you pay double than what you should.
That's how it was supposed to work, but it doesn't apply as much any more and applies less and less each day. The Fed are constantly trying to come in and set laws that all the States have to abide by. Either that, or they are stripping their power to make their own laws.
Are y-you saying... ummm... saying that umm..... th-that life will uh, life will find a way?
Would peer to peer services which offer end to end encryption like Skype be required to re-engineer their software to allow government wiretaps? This could be the end of personal use encryption as we know it.
It would break end-to-end encryption, period. The whole point of end-to-end encryption (like https in your browser) is to ensure no MITM attacks, and that only you and the other party know wtf is going on. I sure as hell wouldn't bank online anymore knowing that shit isn't really secure. That's just retarded. But hey, nothing like enabling thousands of ID thieves in order to "protect" us, right?
I'm in my late 20s...
So you've been in the industry a total of what, 5 years? That's hardly enough time to be judging senior developers. I could only say that's enough time to judge your own team, but then I'd go back to the communication thing. I can only assume that since you've been at your career for around 5 years that it's all stocked in one place. Given that, you've been there long enough to be able to pipe up about shit and be listened to. At this point, if you haven't said anything politely, it's your own fault. Yes, there are poor developers and sometimes people get to where they are because of the years under their belt, but being as you sound so fresh and immature about it, I'm giving the seniors the benefit of the doubt.
If programmers new what they were doing I wouldn't be stuck running old-assed unsecurable OS's that we only keep around because stupid programmers can't be arsed to update their bloated crappy application software to run on current systems.
Hey programmer, try running your app without a machine to run it on.
Go whine to the project manager or whoever deals out the projects and balances and prioritizes available dev time.
Sometimes it's a senior (in years only) developer who created a "standard" before I got there.
I'm guessing you never bothered to ask why that "standard" was there to begin with and 2 to 4 months down the line will find out that there is some limitation that was completely outside of everyone's control and you've just run head first into it. Of course by then you'll have started a re-write and will learn to just blame it on the old timer's lack of documentation and if it was documented, it wasn't documented "right".
Exactly. If there's one important lesson that I've learned, it's that you never assume the person who wrote that "retarded" piece of code was a moron when they did it, or that you even know why it was written a certain way. There's probably a very legitimate reason for it. It may not even be relevant any more, but it sure was at the time. Just do yourself a favor and ask a few questions before jumping to conclusions.
+1 Wisdom
Give me a break. Frankly, I'm tired of teachers being regarded automatically as "underpaid, unsung heroes". Yeah right. First of all, a good teacher is a rare one. We should praise those. But really, I should praise the guy who goes around unclogging sewers for a living just as much. They put up with a HELLUVA lot more than someone who interacts with some brats all day... and then takes a 3 month vacation from that. Don't get me wrong because we need teachers, but we need everybody else too and everyone plays a role in our society. They certainly don't automatically deserve to get paid more, and throwing money at teachers won't do an iota to fix our public schools problem in the US. They should be treated like everybody else instead of these untouchable saints - pay those who perform, punish those who don't, and definitely hold them responsible for stupid shit they publicly say.
Back to the point: the dummy got caught saying some stupid shit, and she has to face consequences. Simple as that, and it should happen more often. After all, this wasn't a private conversation she was having, it was a public podium.
Sounds great, where can I buy it.
Hint: There's no such things as bad publicity for computer games.
No kidding. I've never heard of this game until that article. You get points for shooting people in the privates? Friggin' AWESOME! Sounds like a lot of fun!
I meant the idea, not necessarily the shirt. So.... "great at getting an idea across effectively" instead, maybe?
I guess I am. Haven't done PC gaming in a few years.
But I've got another reason for consoles: us poor Linux guys who don't want to dual boot just to play games. As a response to your point #2: my development laptop doesn't require high-end graphics, and that was the point of saying that. It's not about driver updates at that point, it's about hardware. I can't take desktops everywhere with me so I generally don't use them (except for retired ones I turn into servers). Consoles, especially at their price points, are the best answer for a lot of people.
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It is doubtful that piracy can kill the console.
Considering you need to buy one to hack one, I think that's a universally agreed upon statement. I think maybe what they're afraid of is that since they're letting these machines go for almost no profit (or even a loss?) that you'll use it for something other than games, which is where the money is really at.
Sure it can, but not at the same level of graphics quality (not with a $100 graphics card, anyway). Also, with a console, you're guaranteed to be able to play a giant library of games at full quality and they'll all just work. Furthermore, for those of us who prefer laptops geared more for development and less for gaming, constantly upgrading hardware isn't an option. And then there's the fact that consoles are absolutely dirt cheap compared to a gaming rig that needs constant updating.