Yes, definitely. However, the rub is the amount of feature shift that occurs between uses makes a subscription like this annoying too, since I'll spend plenty of time trying to learn the new features, just to accomplish a project that probably will require less than 15-20 hours using the tool. But still yes. I'd pay rates like that.
No, that's extremely expensive for a hobbyist. It might be ok for someone who is making a little folding money as a "side gig," but for someone who derives no monetary value from the work they do in the system, and possibly (like me) only uses it a few times a year or less, that's a terribly large cost.
I'm slumming it with CS2 for the same reason. I literally used Illustrator for the first time in 3 years this past week, and it will likely be another 3 years before I need it again. I don't use it for professional work, just personal projects, so the subscription model is a massive waste of money for me, and frankly it's easier to not have to learn all the new features and changes every time I want to do some tiny little illustration. I really wish they had a hobbyist version that was super cheap and only had core features, but that seems to be the opposite of what adobe is.
It seems that these companies (Microsoft and Ubuntu and others) are forgetting everything about sound software development practices here. They're in such a hurry to deploy patches that they aren't taking the time to fully test them. The cure is worse than the ailment.
Cash works for places that rent rooms by the hour... not so much when you are traveling for other situations. Can you imagine not booking a room in Vegas during a major conference? Can you imagine driving 13 hours to the shore (pick any shore you care to visit) and then explaining to your family that you're going to have to sleep in the car? I think this is dangerous advice.
It seems to me that if you notify your employer of intent to retire, and they subsequently fire you, you've got a pretty solid case for wrongful termination... I say make sure you do everything in writing, and store copies of those communications somewhere outside of the company's control.
In other news... astronomers collected data on millions - no, billions - of stars... stars are outraged and stage a protest... brown dwarfs take umbrage and request the more politically correct title of "fusionally challenged."
I guess it's possible that multiple unrelated podcasts had a sudden lapse in editing quality, each one of them cutting to commercials mid-sentence, then returning to the programming without so much as a blink. So I might have been wrong to assume that it was apple injecting those clearly locale based ads... I'm man enough to admit when I'm wrong.
Right? How is it possible that you can "Rate", "Like" and "Love" music in the desktop app, and they all do different things(stupid in it's own right), and then when using Apple Music Radio, those buttons all do different (and sometimes nothing at all) things?!?!?! WTF apple? It's like you don't know what product management is.
I'm shocked by OPs statements... only because Apple's Podcast app has sucked for much longer than 6 months! Injecting ads into the middle of the podcast, failing to update if the app isn't running in the background (killing the app by swiping up means you won't know you have a new podcast until the app is restarted) and failing to download new podcasts when app clearly has permission to use wifi when the app is not active... these were all things that frustrated me to no end!
I switched to Overcast about a year ago and Podcasts are finally the awesomeness they should have always been.
I'm tempted here to launch into a tirade about how bad Apple Music is on the iPhone as well, but I'll leave that for another/. post.
Nice to see Germany taking one for the team... I read this and immediately thought: Thank God some other nation besides the US is stupid enough to try this first, thus giving other nations the proof we need to kill such notions before they take root... wait... that's how this works, right?
I would agree, and add that this is a human nature problem. Companies put people in place to solve problems, yet no person can be so well rounded as to solve all problems (HR people are hired for soft skills, not software skills). But then they are put in charge of building a process, and can't imagine a database solution, having never been trained in the dark arts of data, and therefore can't imagine that they should even call IT for help. In some instances when they do realize they need help, pride (I was hired to solve this problem) prevents them from reaching out to experts that can help. So they grass roots the solution, and quietly operate in that state for years until the cobbled together solution becomes the defacto solution... kind of like a common-law wife. Then when IT finally learns about it, it's too entrenched because people have built other process around it. The initial solution is hardly ever the most optimal.
Better yet, write a script that pulls every image from the white house/oval office feed and uploads it as a porn hash. Now we're solving some problems!
Right? There's NO WAY this could ever go wrong. Nobody from Facebook will ever see them. Nobody will ever hack facebook and steal them, facebook will never sell them to plastic surgeons under a marketing plan for people that need a little "nip" here and there. </sarcasm>
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They're not being honest... they're just "truing up" according to their contractual obligations.
Yes, definitely. However, the rub is the amount of feature shift that occurs between uses makes a subscription like this annoying too, since I'll spend plenty of time trying to learn the new features, just to accomplish a project that probably will require less than 15-20 hours using the tool. But still yes. I'd pay rates like that.
No, that's extremely expensive for a hobbyist. It might be ok for someone who is making a little folding money as a "side gig," but for someone who derives no monetary value from the work they do in the system, and possibly (like me) only uses it a few times a year or less, that's a terribly large cost.
I'm slumming it with CS2 for the same reason. I literally used Illustrator for the first time in 3 years this past week, and it will likely be another 3 years before I need it again. I don't use it for professional work, just personal projects, so the subscription model is a massive waste of money for me, and frankly it's easier to not have to learn all the new features and changes every time I want to do some tiny little illustration. I really wish they had a hobbyist version that was super cheap and only had core features, but that seems to be the opposite of what adobe is.
I think you must be referring to the product owner, not the scrum master... if the same person is both, you're doing it wrong.
Agreed, and furthermore, the article doesn't specifically state who they interviewed. I originally read that to mean it was an INTERNAL study.
Also, I find "cultural issues" to quite possibly be the best euphemism ever used to describe "greed."
If their podcast algorithm works anything like their music algorithm, I'll pass... it gets worse over time and eventually becomes intolerable.
It seems that these companies (Microsoft and Ubuntu and others) are forgetting everything about sound software development practices here. They're in such a hurry to deploy patches that they aren't taking the time to fully test them. The cure is worse than the ailment.
Cash works for places that rent rooms by the hour... not so much when you are traveling for other situations. Can you imagine not booking a room in Vegas during a major conference? Can you imagine driving 13 hours to the shore (pick any shore you care to visit) and then explaining to your family that you're going to have to sleep in the car? I think this is dangerous advice.
It seems to me that if you notify your employer of intent to retire, and they subsequently fire you, you've got a pretty solid case for wrongful termination... I say make sure you do everything in writing, and store copies of those communications somewhere outside of the company's control.
Half-Life 3.
You must be rollin' in the dough.
Who said MS was getting rid of VB script?
... that won't result in increasing the attack surface. (eye roll)
In other news... astronomers collected data on millions - no, billions - of stars... stars are outraged and stage a protest... brown dwarfs take umbrage and request the more politically correct title of "fusionally challenged."
I guess it's possible that multiple unrelated podcasts had a sudden lapse in editing quality, each one of them cutting to commercials mid-sentence, then returning to the programming without so much as a blink. So I might have been wrong to assume that it was apple injecting those clearly locale based ads... I'm man enough to admit when I'm wrong.
Did they just patent "Escrow, but on a computer"?
Right? How is it possible that you can "Rate", "Like" and "Love" music in the desktop app, and they all do different things(stupid in it's own right), and then when using Apple Music Radio, those buttons all do different (and sometimes nothing at all) things?!?!?! WTF apple? It's like you don't know what product management is.
I'm shocked by OPs statements... only because Apple's Podcast app has sucked for much longer than 6 months! Injecting ads into the middle of the podcast, failing to update if the app isn't running in the background (killing the app by swiping up means you won't know you have a new podcast until the app is restarted) and failing to download new podcasts when app clearly has permission to use wifi when the app is not active... these were all things that frustrated me to no end!
I switched to Overcast about a year ago and Podcasts are finally the awesomeness they should have always been.
I'm tempted here to launch into a tirade about how bad Apple Music is on the iPhone as well, but I'll leave that for another /. post.
Nice to see Germany taking one for the team... I read this and immediately thought: Thank God some other nation besides the US is stupid enough to try this first, thus giving other nations the proof we need to kill such notions before they take root... wait... that's how this works, right?
... an unknown video platform began publishing news of their eminent demise on random tech aggregation sites.
Use this one weird trick to launch your YouTube knockoff company!
I would agree, and add that this is a human nature problem. Companies put people in place to solve problems, yet no person can be so well rounded as to solve all problems (HR people are hired for soft skills, not software skills). But then they are put in charge of building a process, and can't imagine a database solution, having never been trained in the dark arts of data, and therefore can't imagine that they should even call IT for help. In some instances when they do realize they need help, pride (I was hired to solve this problem) prevents them from reaching out to experts that can help. So they grass roots the solution, and quietly operate in that state for years until the cobbled together solution becomes the defacto solution... kind of like a common-law wife. Then when IT finally learns about it, it's too entrenched because people have built other process around it. The initial solution is hardly ever the most optimal.
I think "I've got a coinbase to sell you" will emerge as the new "I've got a bridge in brooklyn to sell you"
Better yet, write a script that pulls every image from the white house/oval office feed and uploads it as a porn hash. Now we're solving some problems!
Right? There's NO WAY this could ever go wrong. Nobody from Facebook will ever see them. Nobody will ever hack facebook and steal them, facebook will never sell them to plastic surgeons under a marketing plan for people that need a little "nip" here and there. </sarcasm>