If you are the adult, the question is not are you hip and irresponsible enough to fit in, but if they are grown-up enough to work with you.
This "pandering to the bros" shit is about half the reason most tech companies shit the bed. And if you're the only adult in the building, see if you can guess who gets to clean it up?
Make them pass the "I'm a big boy now" test or move on. In fact, find three other guys 35-45 and do your own start up. You'll probably stomp the shit out of them in six months.
One wonders if part of the curriculum will be that once they turn 28, no matter how much they've learned or accomplished, they'll be fired and relegated to permanent temp status in the American workplace.
And that all the talk of "automation" is a load of bullshit to hand-wave people's attention away from the chronic underpayment of working people.
That is assuming they can get hired at all without impersonating a Southeast Asian staffing company.
It will happen to the game industry first. The entire AAA market is sequels, and anything new is trying to make money through bullshit micro-transactions everyone bitches about.
The Indie market is all Unity clones with shitty half-assed graphics that don't sell unless they're on a 75% discount on Steam, and even then, everyone bitches about them.
The Flash market was fine until Adobe and all the two-bit dumbfuck five-dollah arcades smothered it under a hairy bare ass.
There hasn't been a hit retail mobile game since Angry Birds. All HTML5 games are Gamemaker clones with no sound.
Nobody pays for games unless they're forced to, and there are only about six companies that can force people to pay for games, so the industry is fucked.
Writers don't work for free, and programmers can't write, so it doesn't matter if the story matters or not.
That should be ok. Quality people will find new work
After they uproot their families, leave their friends behind and start over, MAYBE they'll find new work......at Home Depot.
this is going to be a very competitive work force, hungry to take on new challenges
Ironic use of the word "hungry." Not going to matter to you obviously until you feel the pain of losing a home and watch your kids say goodbye to all their friends and have to travel 1100 miles for a pay cut. The fuck do you care, right? You're a fucking hero of the free market, aren't you?
One thing these threads always do is bring out the cunts.
DRM is there because if it wasn't, anyone who makes their living writing, composing, programming, making videos or anything else viewable on a screen would be destroyed financially while everything they make is pirated from hell to breakfast.
You know why Steam makes millions? DRM Why World of Warcraft makes billions? DRM Why Amazon sells a shitload of ebooks? DRM Why Netflix works at all? DRM Why Adobe can make $6000 worth of software available for $50 a month? DRM
The industry would be happy to remove DRM, but the Internet culture will never abandon piracy.
So there you have it. Don't want it? Don't buy it.
'You need to be very adaptable, so that you have a baseline skill set that allows you to be a call center operator today and tomorrow be able to interpret MRI scans.'
That's the stupidest fucking thing anyone has ever said.
Sounds like Google is getting a head start on making everything else at their company a waste of time. Maybe they'll hire some grownups someday who have some respect for other people's educations.
Hey Laszlo. There are indie romance novelists who make more than in a month than you make in a year. English degrees produce billionaires. The only people who become billionaires in computers are dropouts.
There is an argument to make. The Second Amendment is there to protect the people against all enemies: foreign and domestic. If the Second Amendment is repealed, abridged, modified or otherwise tampered with, it weakens the nation against those enemies.
You can spout all the hyperbole you want, it doesn't change the reality of the situation: that if all other rights are taken from us, by stupidity or surrender, the Second Amendment is the last line before Americans start getting herded into railroad cars.
And that's not going to happen on my watch.
That clear enough for you, or do I need to use charts and graphs and an easel?
Nobody argues it should be legal to scream "Fire!" in a crowded building to cause alarm
You can if the theater is on fire.
I don't understand why they argue any average joe should be able to carry an automatic rifle.
Because the Second Amendment says they can.
Guns are for defense: of the individual, the neighborhood and the nation. You will never disarm the United States. It cannot be done by any power on, under, over or in orbit around this planet.
And there ain't shit any of you are going to do about it. Your fucking sockpuppet accounts and your LoL legendaries aren't going to do jack shit in the real world.
It was discovered by Clyde Tombaugh. Pluto is the only planet to be discovered by an American.
Tombaugh sat in 30 degree temperatures with a wooden telescope (that he built himself at his own expense) laboriously taking pictures at long intervals so he could measure (by flipping photographic plates back and forth) if anything moved.
It wasn't until he was able to use a 13-inch astrograph that he found Pluto in 1930. This guy was a stone cold badass. Nobody has any right to deny him his discovery.
Modded to +5 by several of Opportunist's sockpuppet accounts, no doubt.
While those same accounts modded my post down. The "garden" wasn't fucked over by the law. It was fucked over by Internet culture. The same culture that demands sockpuppet accounts to defend your posts on Slashdot.
Slashdot Mirror
http://www.c2es.org/technology...
There's your "citation." Sixth result on Google, smartass.
Translation: "Blizzard gave me a $20 million handjob and it felt good. All is well."
Second translation: As long as someone else pays for it, they'll happily consume it. Otherwise fuck you.
The pain is coming. Sell short.
The concept of "we want everything for free" sure as hell didn't originate with mobile games.
When the industry finally implodes (and the writing is on the wall) the "customers" will have only themselves to blame.
Using one API is harder than using some other API? Bullllllllshit.
If you are the adult, the question is not are you hip and irresponsible enough to fit in, but if they are grown-up enough to work with you.
This "pandering to the bros" shit is about half the reason most tech companies shit the bed. And if you're the only adult in the building, see if you can guess who gets to clean it up?
Make them pass the "I'm a big boy now" test or move on. In fact, find three other guys 35-45 and do your own start up. You'll probably stomp the shit out of them in six months.
One wonders if part of the curriculum will be that once they turn 28, no matter how much they've learned or accomplished, they'll be fired and relegated to permanent temp status in the American workplace.
And that all the talk of "automation" is a load of bullshit to hand-wave people's attention away from the chronic underpayment of working people.
That is assuming they can get hired at all without impersonating a Southeast Asian staffing company.
It will happen to the game industry first. The entire AAA market is sequels, and anything new is trying to make money through bullshit micro-transactions everyone bitches about.
The Indie market is all Unity clones with shitty half-assed graphics that don't sell unless they're on a 75% discount on Steam, and even then, everyone bitches about them.
The Flash market was fine until Adobe and all the two-bit dumbfuck five-dollah arcades smothered it under a hairy bare ass.
There hasn't been a hit retail mobile game since Angry Birds. All HTML5 games are Gamemaker clones with no sound.
Game industry is fucked, folks. Sell short.
People who study art history create things like Star Wars, Jazz, Bioshock, the Muppets and the Avengers.
Those things inspire other human beings to create things like spaceflight, Pro Audio, VR headsets, CG Animation and robotics.
Nobody pays for games unless they're forced to, and there are only about six companies that can force people to pay for games, so the industry is fucked.
Writers don't work for free, and programmers can't write, so it doesn't matter if the story matters or not.
That should be ok. Quality people will find new work
After they uproot their families, leave their friends behind and start over, MAYBE they'll find new work... ...at Home Depot.
this is going to be a very competitive work force, hungry to take on new challenges
Ironic use of the word "hungry." Not going to matter to you obviously until you feel the pain of losing a home and watch your kids say goodbye to all their friends and have to travel 1100 miles for a pay cut. The fuck do you care, right? You're a fucking hero of the free market, aren't you?
One thing these threads always do is bring out the cunts.
Hey look, everyone! Someone came up with a new idea that might advance science and Slashdot immediately claims it will never work!
How far up your ass did you reach to pull "half the energy is lost on the way down" out and try to sell it as fact?
These are the same people who get their underwear all in a wedge when other people criticize science or oppose scientific advances.
Scientism followers are self-congratulatory fundamentalist paranoid hypocrites.
Let the layoffs begin.
I'm sure the middle managers are already sorting their lists by who most recently closed on a house or who has a pregnant wife.
They'll save a few for the week before Christmas too, of course.
I thought the iPad was going to replace the PC and usher in a new era of technological wonders?
Or maybe it was just a load of shit.
Bandwidth is not scarce.
DRM is there because if it wasn't, anyone who makes their living writing, composing, programming, making videos or anything else viewable on a screen would be destroyed financially while everything they make is pirated from hell to breakfast.
You know why Steam makes millions? DRM
Why World of Warcraft makes billions? DRM
Why Amazon sells a shitload of ebooks? DRM
Why Netflix works at all? DRM
Why Adobe can make $6000 worth of software available for $50 a month? DRM
The industry would be happy to remove DRM, but the Internet culture will never abandon piracy.
So there you have it. Don't want it? Don't buy it.
At least they are trying to employ Americans. I'll believe it when I see it, though.
It wouldn't surprise me at all if they brought cargo ships full of Chinese teenagers to work every morning and shipped them home at night.
'You need to be very adaptable, so that you have a baseline skill set that allows you to be a call center operator today and tomorrow be able to interpret MRI scans.'
That's the stupidest fucking thing anyone has ever said.
At least he admitted their bullshit interview questions were designed to make the interviewer feel important and were a complete waste of time.
Sounds like Google is getting a head start on making everything else at their company a waste of time. Maybe they'll hire some grownups someday who have some respect for other people's educations.
Hey Laszlo. There are indie romance novelists who make more than in a month than you make in a year. English degrees produce billionaires. The only people who become billionaires in computers are dropouts.
Now go back to your meeting.
The federal government has no legal authority to require brewers to dispose of edible by-products and not feed them to livestock.
In fact, under the 10th amendment, they are specifically prohibited by law from doing so.
Their "reasoning" is immaterial.
This article makes it sound like the inability to afford food ends when you graduate.
But then grocery stores that gouge customers who don't have club cards or that charge confiscatory prices for food that is so plentiful we pay farmers not to grow it is a subject very much like liquor stores in poor neighborhoods.
You're not allowed to talk about it.
but we do not need to fear our military the way you seem to.
I don't fear the military. I fear a population led to believe the Federal government has the authority it claims to have.
nor would they stand idly by while someone else does it.
Sounds like we agree. So how about you get off my leg and start directing your outrage where it belongs?
There is an argument to make. The Second Amendment is there to protect the people against all enemies: foreign and domestic. If the Second Amendment is repealed, abridged, modified or otherwise tampered with, it weakens the nation against those enemies.
You can spout all the hyperbole you want, it doesn't change the reality of the situation: that if all other rights are taken from us, by stupidity or surrender, the Second Amendment is the last line before Americans start getting herded into railroad cars.
And that's not going to happen on my watch.
That clear enough for you, or do I need to use charts and graphs and an easel?
You can't have it both ways.
Yeah, we can.
Nobody argues it should be legal to scream "Fire!" in a crowded building to cause alarm
You can if the theater is on fire.
I don't understand why they argue any average joe should be able to carry an automatic rifle.
Because the Second Amendment says they can.
Guns are for defense: of the individual, the neighborhood and the nation. You will never disarm the United States. It cannot be done by any power on, under, over or in orbit around this planet.
Find something better to do with your time.
Why don't you have them manufactured by robots, then you can put the rest of the microscope business on the street too?
And there ain't shit any of you are going to do about it. Your fucking sockpuppet accounts and your LoL legendaries aren't going to do jack shit in the real world.
It was discovered by Clyde Tombaugh. Pluto is the only planet to be discovered by an American.
Tombaugh sat in 30 degree temperatures with a wooden telescope (that he built himself at his own expense) laboriously taking pictures at long intervals so he could measure (by flipping photographic plates back and forth) if anything moved.
It wasn't until he was able to use a 13-inch astrograph that he found Pluto in 1930. This guy was a stone cold badass. Nobody has any right to deny him his discovery.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C...
Modded to +5 by several of Opportunist's sockpuppet accounts, no doubt.
While those same accounts modded my post down. The "garden" wasn't fucked over by the law. It was fucked over by Internet culture. The same culture that demands sockpuppet accounts to defend your posts on Slashdot.