Why? Because your life as a mooching script kiddie living in your Mum's basement is in danger? That soon you may have to shave off your neck beard and get a job and pay money to use and enjoy the creative efforts of other people?
One day I hope you work in a field which suffers from incessant piracy and you remember back to when you thought it was OK.
Firstly, 10 years? What kind of years are you talking about? Secondly, are you suggesting that the influence of Bush government policy is no longer relevant? Thirdly, RTFA - it wasn't in an airport. Fourthly, you don't have a problem with arresting and ejecting people for *saying* things? Even if you think they're not very funny? I don't want to pull out the Hitler card here, but dude, you are making it hard.
So you bought a device which was 4 years old and you found that PCs had surpassed it in terms of graphics? Hold the press! Seriously, what did you expect coming to the party that late? Also, how much did you pay for the added games capability on your desktop computer? I would bet that your graphics card alone would have been close to the cost of the console.
One of my pet hates is working with programmers who are doing it only because they need a job. Don't get me wrong, I wouldn't be here if I didn't get paid, but programmers without passion for what they do write lousy and uninspired software. People with passion are unlikely to end up in such a scheme, so I don't really see a big benefit.
Does anyone in the real world care about this list? Unless you're after government contracts I can't really see how business is likely to be affected by your inclusion on it.
I would love to know what fraction of total expenditure for some of these companies is spent on legal tangles. All these cost are of course passed on to the consumer at the end of the day, so the longer this ridiculous farce of a patent system is allowed to continue the longer it will be that we continue to pay inflated costs.
Seriously. Once management fall under the belief that they can have reports automagically generated for them by measuring your working habits, you will never hear the end of it.
Why does X have less keystrokes per hour than Y?
You only committed 15 lines of code yesterday. You must not be working.
Why did this junior employee fix 100 bugs, when this senior only fixed 10?
And take a look at yesterday's topic too.
The reason that releasing for Apple is a pain, is the exact same reason why the majority of the non-techy world prefer to own Apple. It alleviates the need for them to do the vetting and testing themselves. They know that if the app is on the store then it has already gone through an approval process which gives them peace of mind. Most people aren't interested in the politics of open/closed and all the associated crap that we techies carry on with. They want something that works and they don't want to spend time getting it working.
And at the end of the day, having an entire deployment, merchant and marketing infrastructure at your disposal is worth waiting for a few days here and there IMO.
No, actually Objective-C was the worst part of it. Most of the code I wrote was in C++ and I only used Obj-c for the necessary API interaction. It is as Bucky24 says, the integration of their interface builder with the development process.
Like I said, writing for Android was not bad, but IMO Apple have a clear edge.
I had a go at writing both iOS and Android apps purely out of curiosity. Although it was not difficult to program for Android, I have to say that writing for iOS was one of the easiest things I've ever done on a computer. If I were to seriously go into app writing for mobile platforms I would need a very compelling reason not to bet on Apple.
Metrics are great for some things. For making sure that your employees are working they are terrible. I used to work in a metric free environment and there was a great team atmosphere. Then metrics came along and it all went to hell. Now everyone is so focussed on making their numbers look good that the whole organisation is suffering from a weird sense of internal competitiveness. People no longer collaborate on difficult problems because there is no measure within the metrics system to reflect that this occurred. People who used to be innovative are no longer so, because they are not rewarded for spending time innovating. It has achieved nothing good that I can see.
That is ridiculous. The only way to get *perfect* substitution of goods is to provide identical products. A free market economy is built on product differentiation. In this instance, the alternatives are Xbox, Wii, PC, iPhone etc etc etc. If all products were the same we would end up with massive oligopolies and live in a world of manufacturer price collusion.
No I don't. *You* need to start thinking like a free individual. Like I said, if you don't like it, don't buy it. It's as simple as that. No one is holding a gun to your head.
Gouging? Really? A company trying to protect its profits is gouging? If you don't like it, don't buy it. That's your right as a consumer. It's Sony's right as a company to set their prices. That's part of how a free market economy works. If lots of people don't like it, Sony will change their model. Until then you need to weigh up whether or not their offer is worth your hard earned. It is not your human right to be able to afford a play station.
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Why? Because your life as a mooching script kiddie living in your Mum's basement is in danger? That soon you may have to shave off your neck beard and get a job and pay money to use and enjoy the creative efforts of other people? One day I hope you work in a field which suffers from incessant piracy and you remember back to when you thought it was OK.
Firstly, 10 years? What kind of years are you talking about? Secondly, are you suggesting that the influence of Bush government policy is no longer relevant? Thirdly, RTFA - it wasn't in an airport. Fourthly, you don't have a problem with arresting and ejecting people for *saying* things? Even if you think they're not very funny? I don't want to pull out the Hitler card here, but dude, you are making it hard.
America has a chance to vote for someone like George Bush Jr, please remember how much it has completely screwed the country up!
I invented my own mobile device. It is fully awesome. I blame its lack of success on the fact that no-one would agree to manufacture it.
That is such a bad prediction. I hope you aren't a stock broker.
So you bought a device which was 4 years old and you found that PCs had surpassed it in terms of graphics? Hold the press! Seriously, what did you expect coming to the party that late? Also, how much did you pay for the added games capability on your desktop computer? I would bet that your graphics card alone would have been close to the cost of the console.
*You* fail for not inferring the joke.
One of my pet hates is working with programmers who are doing it only because they need a job. Don't get me wrong, I wouldn't be here if I didn't get paid, but programmers without passion for what they do write lousy and uninspired software. People with passion are unlikely to end up in such a scheme, so I don't really see a big benefit.
Hmmm. Pedantic you are.
Does anyone in the real world care about this list? Unless you're after government contracts I can't really see how business is likely to be affected by your inclusion on it.
Yeah, usability sucks.
That's what most crackers imagine they look like. Rather than the pale, pudgy, neck beards they are in reality.
What if Tesla had patented AC? Where the hell would all these idiots be then? For christ's sake US gov, do something about this. It is ridiculous!
October and November tend to be when rumours about not getting Christmas bonuses start circulating.
Lol at you Mr. Second.
I would love to know what fraction of total expenditure for some of these companies is spent on legal tangles. All these cost are of course passed on to the consumer at the end of the day, so the longer this ridiculous farce of a patent system is allowed to continue the longer it will be that we continue to pay inflated costs.
Seriously. Once management fall under the belief that they can have reports automagically generated for them by measuring your working habits, you will never hear the end of it. Why does X have less keystrokes per hour than Y? You only committed 15 lines of code yesterday. You must not be working. Why did this junior employee fix 100 bugs, when this senior only fixed 10? And take a look at yesterday's topic too.
The reason that releasing for Apple is a pain, is the exact same reason why the majority of the non-techy world prefer to own Apple. It alleviates the need for them to do the vetting and testing themselves. They know that if the app is on the store then it has already gone through an approval process which gives them peace of mind. Most people aren't interested in the politics of open/closed and all the associated crap that we techies carry on with. They want something that works and they don't want to spend time getting it working. And at the end of the day, having an entire deployment, merchant and marketing infrastructure at your disposal is worth waiting for a few days here and there IMO.
No, actually Objective-C was the worst part of it. Most of the code I wrote was in C++ and I only used Obj-c for the necessary API interaction. It is as Bucky24 says, the integration of their interface builder with the development process. Like I said, writing for Android was not bad, but IMO Apple have a clear edge.
I had a go at writing both iOS and Android apps purely out of curiosity. Although it was not difficult to program for Android, I have to say that writing for iOS was one of the easiest things I've ever done on a computer. If I were to seriously go into app writing for mobile platforms I would need a very compelling reason not to bet on Apple.
Metrics are great for some things. For making sure that your employees are working they are terrible. I used to work in a metric free environment and there was a great team atmosphere. Then metrics came along and it all went to hell. Now everyone is so focussed on making their numbers look good that the whole organisation is suffering from a weird sense of internal competitiveness. People no longer collaborate on difficult problems because there is no measure within the metrics system to reflect that this occurred. People who used to be innovative are no longer so, because they are not rewarded for spending time innovating. It has achieved nothing good that I can see.
That is ridiculous. The only way to get *perfect* substitution of goods is to provide identical products. A free market economy is built on product differentiation. In this instance, the alternatives are Xbox, Wii, PC, iPhone etc etc etc. If all products were the same we would end up with massive oligopolies and live in a world of manufacturer price collusion.
No I don't. *You* need to start thinking like a free individual. Like I said, if you don't like it, don't buy it. It's as simple as that. No one is holding a gun to your head.
Gouging? Really? A company trying to protect its profits is gouging? If you don't like it, don't buy it. That's your right as a consumer. It's Sony's right as a company to set their prices. That's part of how a free market economy works. If lots of people don't like it, Sony will change their model. Until then you need to weigh up whether or not their offer is worth your hard earned. It is not your human right to be able to afford a play station.
Whoops. Meant to reply to "Why so much disbelief in aliens among scientists?". I mod myself -1 for being a n00b.