I'm sorry, but a starting salary of 33K in Nevada for a job that is 9 months of the year is NOT low! If she's having trouble making ends meet, maybe she should take a closer look at what she's spending all of her money on and do a better job of managing it.
Actually, that's Bullcrap. And I'm sure this one will get modded troll as well because most of the people who read/. are really shitty coders.
I've worked in fast turn around enviroments were we had a good quality process and turned out high quality products, it just costs more money up front than most companies are willing to spend.
But less money then companies do spend in the long run writing bug fixes and updates. It's just they can hide those costs from the investors and shareholders.
I've trained a bunch of kids over the years in how to do quality code. All of them now are senior coders at companies making a lot more money than I ever did at their ages and make great job references for me.
Saying code has to have known bugs in it when you ship is just a poor excuse for doing the job right the first time.
I've been programming since 1970, I think I understand the medium a lot better than you. You've been programming how long? 3 years? 4?
In a properly run development environment known bugs do not make it out the door, ever. For that matter most bugs are taken care of before the code is even written. That's why you're supposed to design before you code. Coding is easy, anyone can do it. Design is the hard part.
But way too many people skip design and go straight to code, and don't even know what a requirement is.
This guy gets it, and the others responding to this thread do not. There is no reason to ship with known bugs, shipping with known bugs doesn't mean you have good testing, it means you have lousy developers and poor quality.
The fact that consumers tolerate it means you have a good business model, or a good marketing team. But your still shipping crap and your developers (and managers and quality) still suck.
And I'll buy one. I HATE Cameras in phones, because it means I'm forced at times to leave it in my car (some of the places I work do not allow cameras).
But I like the idea of encrypted calls, just like I like the idea of encrypted email. Yeah maybe I don't have anything secret to talk about, but my conversations aren't anyone else's business! Period.
Tivo already has opt in adverts. Get them on mine all the time. But they -HAVE- been talking about changing things so you can't fast forward through commercials. Comes up like every 6 months now.
All he did was show the spammers that in the end they always WIN. He should have started the war. Period. This spamming crap won't stop until it crashes the net and governments start throwing people in jail for it.
If you're not prepared to go big, don't go at all!
I'm gone. I've been a DirecTV/Tivo customer since the boxes came out. Never bothered to hack the box (I may have to now), I was happy with the basic service. I always liked to say 'Tivo makes Television Bearable'. If they start taking away my ability to zap past commercials, there really will be no reason for Tivo anymore. Now it's no better than a VCR with a broken fast forward button.
It's bad enough I have to pay to watch TV these days, I shouldn't be forced to listen to adverts as well. It's just like dropping 20 bucks on a DVD and being forced to watch 5 minutes of commercials before it starts. And they wonder why piracy is on the rise!
These people need to find new ways to advertise, they're driving their market away. I can live without TV. Can they live without me?
Interesting story -however- there is no factual evidence that the DDT killed the Cats. Suspicion does NOT fact make! Nor is it science. In fact, it's just hearsay.
I've worked with sarbanes-oxley, it's a joke, and sadly the joke is on us. It really doesn't do anything good, it's just a knee jerk beauracratic response to increase the number of beauracrates.
There were no scientific studies done, DDT wasn't banned on science at all. For a site that claims to be about technology, the people here at slashdot tend to subscribe to a LOT of JUNK SCIENCE.
Please, someone, where is the nudity in this game? I've been playing it off and on for a few weeks now and have yet to see any. All of these claims of nudity are making me wonder if I missed the special 'hooters quest' or something!
Some one needs to tell the press that Mr. Thompson is making this crap up. If there is a download to add nudity to the game I bet Mr. Thompson probably is the one who bankrolled it so he could continue his 15 minutes!
I had a 1973 dodge dart with a slant 6. Except for regular maintenance (plugs, rotor, cap, oil) that car never broke down, never stranded me, drove me about 100,00 miles, and then I sold it to another college student. And I had bought it -used- with 80,000 miles already on it!
The 1965 mustang I bought in the 80's with the -original engine- still in it with over 150,000 miles on it ran great for the 4 years I had it, (I was restoring it), when I sold it I had not done anything to the engine, and it still ran strong, another car I put probably 40,000 miles on.
Cars don't break down any less now than they did then. They're just a lot more expenisive to fix now, and there are a lot more things to break.
Now it's Google's turn in the box. With the way Google is getting involved in Politics, both in the US and China, I'm sure a lot of people are going to start having issues with them and I'm sure a lot of it will spill over into their workplace.
As a previous poster said, as it gets bigger, things will not go as well. Just as everyone turned on MicroSoft, I'm sure one say everyone will turn on Google as well. We're a fickle industry.
I've been using this combo for over 2 years now. You have to get the USB cable from Motorola (many of the ones out there at Radio Shack will NOT let you use the modem feature). You also have to get one that allows you to plug the charger in (the phone will not charge from the laptop) in you want to be on for any length of time.
It costs me about 20 bucks a month for unlimited connectivity, thought the BW is sometimes kind of slow. I've used it all over the country, pretty much anywhere there is cell phone service.
and the author of this article is apparently completely unaware of that. Banks get audited, fairly often, by the government and other regulating bodies. They are told what they MUST have and what they MUST run. They have very little choice in software, hardware, and so many incredibly stupid little things that it's obnoxious in some cases.
Do you really think a bunch of non-technical buearacrats are going to allow banks to just switch to open source? Please, get real! If you want banks to use OSS then you have to get it approved by the regulators first.
This isn't a troll. This is why it is supposed to be hard. You're SUPPOSED to hire an American First. That is the law surrounding H1B visas. That it isn't enforced doesn't change that fact.
Testing isn't exactly a QA function. You cannot test quality into a product. Testing is to allow you to figure out where your development went wrong and fix those mistakes (hopefully) you can find before they go out the door.
However, Beta is a marketing tool, NOT a QA tool, unless you believe in QA's role as a customer advocate to bring the customer the features they want. I did not say to stop testing after alpha, but if your company is relying on Beta to find bugs, your company is making a crappy non-quality product.
And I'm not talking newspeak, I've been doing QA over 20 years now. Beta was a marketing tool even when I was a developer prior to that.
Not a quality function. Yes of course users are doing Beta testing, the whole purpose of Beta testing isn't to find bugs in the product, but to find out if you're hitting the market and providing the features that people want!
Alpha testing is actual testing, and what game testers who work at places like EA do. Not Beta.
Well is that actually such a bad thing? I don't mind an occasional restart as long as I don't lose data and my apps keep working. That's more like a real computer OS, one thread crashing not bringing down the entire system.
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They're talking -Starting Salary- I know of few jobs, even in high tech, where your -Starting Salary- is over 44K.
You have very unrealistic expectations on wages.
I'm sorry, but a starting salary of 33K in Nevada for a job that is 9 months of the year is NOT low! If she's having trouble making ends meet, maybe she should take a closer look at what she's spending all of her money on and do a better job of managing it.
I mean the software won't change at all, but at least we'll all be laughing too hard to notice!
Actually, that's Bullcrap. And I'm sure this one will get modded troll as well because most of the people who read /. are really shitty coders.
I've worked in fast turn around enviroments were we had a good quality process and turned out high quality products, it just costs more money up front than most companies are willing to spend.
But less money then companies do spend in the long run writing bug fixes and updates. It's just they can hide those costs from the investors and shareholders.
I've trained a bunch of kids over the years in how to do quality code. All of them now are senior coders at companies making a lot more money than I ever did at their ages and make great job references for me.
Saying code has to have known bugs in it when you ship is just a poor excuse for doing the job right the first time.
I've been programming since 1970, I think I understand the medium a lot better than you. You've been programming how long? 3 years? 4?
In a properly run development environment known bugs do not make it out the door, ever. For that matter most bugs are taken care of before the code is even written. That's why you're supposed to design before you code. Coding is easy, anyone can do it. Design is the hard part.
But way too many people skip design and go straight to code, and don't even know what a requirement is.
Software will stop being buggy as soon as people stop putting up with it.
So true. And your 'flamebait' is a perfect example.
This guy gets it, and the others responding to this thread do not. There is no reason to ship with known bugs, shipping with known bugs doesn't mean you have good testing, it means you have lousy developers and poor quality.
The fact that consumers tolerate it means you have a good business model, or a good marketing team. But your still shipping crap and your developers (and managers and quality) still suck.
And I'll buy one. I HATE Cameras in phones, because it means I'm forced at times to leave it in my car (some of the places I work do not allow cameras).
But I like the idea of encrypted calls, just like I like the idea of encrypted email. Yeah maybe I don't have anything secret to talk about, but my conversations aren't anyone else's business! Period.
Tivo already has opt in adverts. Get them on mine all the time. But they -HAVE- been talking about changing things so you can't fast forward through commercials. Comes up like every 6 months now.
All he did was show the spammers that in the end they always WIN. He should have started the war. Period. This spamming crap won't stop until it crashes the net and governments start throwing people in jail for it.
If you're not prepared to go big, don't go at all!
I'm gone. I've been a DirecTV/Tivo customer since the boxes came out. Never bothered to hack the box (I may have to now), I was happy with the basic service. I always liked to say 'Tivo makes Television Bearable'. If they start taking away my ability to zap past commercials, there really will be no reason for Tivo anymore. Now it's no better than a VCR with a broken fast forward button.
It's bad enough I have to pay to watch TV these days, I shouldn't be forced to listen to adverts as well. It's just like dropping 20 bucks on a DVD and being forced to watch 5 minutes of commercials before it starts. And they wonder why piracy is on the rise!
These people need to find new ways to advertise, they're driving their market away. I can live without TV. Can they live without me?
Interesting story -however- there is no factual evidence that the DDT killed the Cats. Suspicion does NOT fact make! Nor is it science. In fact, it's just hearsay.
I've worked with sarbanes-oxley, it's a joke, and sadly the joke is on us. It really doesn't do anything good, it's just a knee jerk beauracratic response to increase the number of beauracrates.
There were no scientific studies done, DDT wasn't banned on science at all. For a site that claims to be about technology, the people here at slashdot tend to subscribe to a LOT of JUNK SCIENCE.
Please, someone, where is the nudity in this game? I've been playing it off and on for a few weeks now and have yet to see any. All of these claims of nudity are making me wonder if I missed the special 'hooters quest' or something!
;-)
Some one needs to tell the press that Mr. Thompson is making this crap up. If there is a download to add nudity to the game I bet Mr. Thompson probably is the one who bankrolled it so he could continue his 15 minutes!
PS someone send me the link for the DL
Wow, you weren't around then, were you?
I had a 1973 dodge dart with a slant 6. Except for regular maintenance (plugs, rotor, cap, oil) that car never broke down, never stranded me, drove me about 100,00 miles, and then I sold it to another college student. And I had bought it -used- with 80,000 miles already on it!
The 1965 mustang I bought in the 80's with the -original engine- still in it with over 150,000 miles on it ran great for the 4 years I had it, (I was restoring it), when I sold it I had not done anything to the engine, and it still ran strong, another car I put probably 40,000 miles on.
Cars don't break down any less now than they did then. They're just a lot more expenisive to fix now, and there are a lot more things to break.
Very good point you have there.
You haven't been reading this website long have you? Here the attacks on MicroSoft never end, and Google is like the second coming.
Now it's Google's turn in the box. With the way Google is getting involved in Politics, both in the US and China, I'm sure a lot of people are going to start having issues with them and I'm sure a lot of it will spill over into their workplace.
As a previous poster said, as it gets bigger, things will not go as well. Just as everyone turned on MicroSoft, I'm sure one say everyone will turn on Google as well. We're a fickle industry.
I've been using this combo for over 2 years now. You have to get the USB cable from Motorola (many of the ones out there at Radio Shack will NOT let you use the modem feature). You also have to get one that allows you to plug the charger in (the phone will not charge from the laptop) in you want to be on for any length of time.
It costs me about 20 bucks a month for unlimited connectivity, thought the BW is sometimes kind of slow. I've used it all over the country, pretty much anywhere there is cell phone service.
and the author of this article is apparently completely unaware of that. Banks get audited, fairly often, by the government and other regulating bodies. They are told what they MUST have and what they MUST run. They have very little choice in software, hardware, and so many incredibly stupid little things that it's obnoxious in some cases.
Do you really think a bunch of non-technical buearacrats are going to allow banks to just switch to open source? Please, get real! If you want banks to use OSS then you have to get it approved by the regulators first.
Good luck with that.
This isn't a troll. This is why it is supposed to be hard. You're SUPPOSED to hire an American First. That is the law surrounding H1B visas. That it isn't enforced doesn't change that fact.
Testing isn't exactly a QA function. You cannot test quality into a product. Testing is to allow you to figure out where your development went wrong and fix those mistakes (hopefully) you can find before they go out the door.
However, Beta is a marketing tool, NOT a QA tool, unless you believe in QA's role as a customer advocate to bring the customer the features they want. I did not say to stop testing after alpha, but if your company is relying on Beta to find bugs, your company is making a crappy non-quality product.
And I'm not talking newspeak, I've been doing QA over 20 years now. Beta was a marketing tool even when I was a developer prior to that.
Not a quality function. Yes of course users are doing Beta testing, the whole purpose of Beta testing isn't to find bugs in the product, but to find out if you're hitting the market and providing the features that people want!
Alpha testing is actual testing, and what game testers who work at places like EA do. Not Beta.
Well is that actually such a bad thing? I don't mind an occasional restart as long as I don't lose data and my apps keep working. That's more like a real computer OS, one thread crashing not bringing down the entire system.