has anybody noticed that Windows as a gaming platform is rapidly dying off?
I've noticed that EBGames doesn't have much of a selection, but it has been years since they or any other boutique like-shop have done much with PC gaming anyway. Best Buy and CompUSA still have great selections plus they sell the hardware to really enjoy these games.
I mean really, all of the great PC games are on Windows and the most powerful gaming hardware around supports Windows. Plus I understand that it is relatively trivial to port games from the XBOX 360 to Windows. I'm just not seeing this rapid decline.
Wow, that is sad. I worked for RadioShack for just under two years and when I was there you had to take like 12 tests on computers, cell phones, regular phones, A/V, Satellite, home security, electronics (e.g. resistors, capacitors, etc.), and a few other things before you could even make full commission. Hell you had to pass two tests on general selling and customer service before you even hit the sales floor.
I'm sure that many managers didn't take that stuff seriously, but mine did and I was an awesome salesperson for it. I made like 10 grand in December 1997.
I think that many people still have a bad taste in their mouths from the NT4 MCSE days. We all remember the crop of morons sporting that acronym ten years or so back. Lately though I have been looking into the MCPD developer cert and I don't think you can fake your way through that one.
Sure the tests are super-pedantic asking you questions that few real-world developers even have to know the answers to thanks to intellisense and online documentation, but it fills in a lot of gaps that you are bound to have if you are from the "learn as you go" school.
Most importantly though is that it (or at least the study guides) appears to be aimed at the learn as you go developers that at least have a few years experience with the framework and want to make sure that their knowledge is complete.
Of course this is a developer cert not a networking one so YMMV, but I definitely think that there is value in going through the formal training channels.
LMAO @ "upgrade" to a game console. The GeForce 8800 has already made the PS3 and X360 obsolete and you can bet that every six months the gap will get wider and wider.
Even excepting that, I just can't imagine many PC FPS fans willingly adopting a controller over a keyboard and mouse.
What study is needed? It's a pretty straightforward and logical outcome that producers massively influence production.
Let's not forget that many people in government are "rich" too. See our current energy policy. At the end of the day, I'd rather fat cats prop up their friends with their own dollar instead of mine.
I'm having a hard time understanding how C# is any more "fun" than VB.NET. It's more efficient (less verbose), but having written lots of code in both, they are both fine. For some reason (different teams?) Visual Studio is better about picking up syntax errors in VB than C#, but C# has built in support for refactoring.
Yeah well the hundred or so computers that I supported and the thousands between me and my colleagues in the real world speak more than these benchmarks. I doubt that you will find many (if any) real world network admins who will say different.
This is absolutely false. XP was absolutely more of a resource hog than Windows 2000. I used to support Win2K desktops in an office environment running standard productivity apps with 128 MB of RAM (2K required 64MB) and it ran fine. Try doing that on XP. I did, and it wasn't pretty.
Oh you stop running alright. The two "driving" seqences are waaay too long. The novelty has been crushed and run over several times by a dune buggy by the time they finish.
How is the legitimate business question that he posed unrealistic? Or do you think Intel is cutting a billion dollars in expenses because they have been setting the market on fire?
I wonder how many enterprise projects truly have "a requirement to work nicely across arbitrary hardware platforms." Web apps and services seem to make the platform that code is running on irrelevant. Hence the ado about SOA and such.
To be fair, competency in one's craft doesn't correlate to being a good manager. Maybe a good lead programmer / technician / engineer, but not a good manager, the Peter Principle and all. Obviously it doesn't guarantee that they would be a bad manager either.
Also, there is a fininte number of positions of authority so even if every coder had the necessary merit, they wouldn't all be promoted to such a level.
Right, but of course the King Kong argument has been around forever and there are huge volumes of analysis on the subject.
Of course you tap on a much more salient point. The fact that art cannot be completely defined by intent. This is simply because the artist is not completely aware of everything that goes into their work. Meaning that a film, or any sort of human expression, can have meaning outside of what it was intended to have.
I downloaded the demo and it gave me about 10 turns before it abruptly asked me to buy the full game without even allowing me to see the results of my last policy decisions.
Still I like it a lot and will probably buy it tonight.
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I've noticed that EBGames doesn't have much of a selection, but it has been years since they or any other boutique like-shop have done much with PC gaming anyway. Best Buy and CompUSA still have great selections plus they sell the hardware to really enjoy these games.
I mean really, all of the great PC games are on Windows and the most powerful gaming hardware around supports Windows. Plus I understand that it is relatively trivial to port games from the XBOX 360 to Windows. I'm just not seeing this rapid decline.
Wow, that is sad. I worked for RadioShack for just under two years and when I was there you had to take like 12 tests on computers, cell phones, regular phones, A/V, Satellite, home security, electronics (e.g. resistors, capacitors, etc.), and a few other things before you could even make full commission. Hell you had to pass two tests on general selling and customer service before you even hit the sales floor.
I'm sure that many managers didn't take that stuff seriously, but mine did and I was an awesome salesperson for it. I made like 10 grand in December 1997.
I think that many people still have a bad taste in their mouths from the NT4 MCSE days. We all remember the crop of morons sporting that acronym ten years or so back. Lately though I have been looking into the MCPD developer cert and I don't think you can fake your way through that one.
Sure the tests are super-pedantic asking you questions that few real-world developers even have to know the answers to thanks to intellisense and online documentation, but it fills in a lot of gaps that you are bound to have if you are from the "learn as you go" school.
Most importantly though is that it (or at least the study guides) appears to be aimed at the learn as you go developers that at least have a few years experience with the framework and want to make sure that their knowledge is complete.
Of course this is a developer cert not a networking one so YMMV, but I definitely think that there is value in going through the formal training channels.
Actually no, they did use a semi-automatic weapon.
LMAO @ "upgrade" to a game console. The GeForce 8800 has already made the PS3 and X360 obsolete and you can bet that every six months the gap will get wider and wider.
Even excepting that, I just can't imagine many PC FPS fans willingly adopting a controller over a keyboard and mouse.
Well firstly, Yale (and Ivy League) MBA grads aren't exactly a dime a dozen. Secondly, $250K out of school? I don't know about that.
http://www.mba-exchange.com/schoolguide/yale.php
If you're right, it's probably not in total cash compensation.
What study is needed? It's a pretty straightforward and logical outcome that producers massively influence production.
Let's not forget that many people in government are "rich" too. See our current energy policy. At the end of the day, I'd rather fat cats prop up their friends with their own dollar instead of mine.
I don't know all of the ugly details, but I do know that David Boies was the lead attorney against Microsoft so it wasn't entirely Federal lawyers.
I'm having a hard time understanding how C# is any more "fun" than VB.NET. It's more efficient (less verbose), but having written lots of code in both, they are both fine. For some reason (different teams?) Visual Studio is better about picking up syntax errors in VB than C#, but C# has built in support for refactoring.
Yeah well the hundred or so computers that I supported and the thousands between me and my colleagues in the real world speak more than these benchmarks. I doubt that you will find many (if any) real world network admins who will say different.
This is absolutely false. XP was absolutely more of a resource hog than Windows 2000. I used to support Win2K desktops in an office environment running standard productivity apps with 128 MB of RAM (2K required 64MB) and it ran fine. Try doing that on XP. I did, and it wasn't pretty.
Oh you stop running alright. The two "driving" seqences are waaay too long. The novelty has been crushed and run over several times by a dune buggy by the time they finish.
How is the legitimate business question that he posed unrealistic? Or do you think Intel is cutting a billion dollars in expenses because they have been setting the market on fire?
I wonder how many enterprise projects truly have "a requirement to work nicely across arbitrary hardware platforms." Web apps and services seem to make the platform that code is running on irrelevant. Hence the ado about SOA and such.
Where apparently (admittedly bad) humor is lost on my countrymates.
Are they angry at the network capacity or something?
To be fair, competency in one's craft doesn't correlate to being a good manager. Maybe a good lead programmer / technician / engineer, but not a good manager, the Peter Principle and all. Obviously it doesn't guarantee that they would be a bad manager either.
Also, there is a fininte number of positions of authority so even if every coder had the necessary merit, they wouldn't all be promoted to such a level.
Sorry to nitpick.
Actually the suicide bomber vest was invented by the Tamil Tigers.
Ha! Sorry, I meant 18 months from tape out to volume production.
Maybe I'm mistaken but doesn't it take roughly 18 months to tape out a CPU design?
Good point, but I guarantee you that web developers would rather live in a world with no guillotine or peek-a-boo bugs than one with text shadowing.
It would be a huge world-changing event if MS didn't implement anything new and just fixed the BUGS in IE6's CSS engine.
Classic!
Any a person who was working as a recording engineer studio during the days that the ADAT and DA-88 systems came on the market can appreciate this.
Perhaps it's the fact that Tim Burton directed Charlie as well as the Planet of the Apes remake and there is some obscure connection there?
Right, but of course the King Kong argument has been around forever and there are huge volumes of analysis on the subject.
Of course you tap on a much more salient point. The fact that art cannot be completely defined by intent. This is simply because the artist is not completely aware of everything that goes into their work. Meaning that a film, or any sort of human expression, can have meaning outside of what it was intended to have.
I downloaded the demo and it gave me about 10 turns before it abruptly asked me to buy the full game without even allowing me to see the results of my last policy decisions.
Still I like it a lot and will probably buy it tonight.