Yeah, some "experts". Apparently, the term "expert" is thrown around with hardly any regard for its definition. Two things happened to the IPv4 crisis; 1) NAT, and 2) common sense.
I thought the point of playing a game was to relieve stress. Getting online to play something is starting to become more involved and complex than most people's jobs. It is kind of a shame, though, that people take Counterstrike and Call of Duty so seriously that they need to scam the system. Defeats the purpose, no?
This is probably one of the few professional areas where going to a formal educational institution is a waste of time and money. There is SO much by way of online resources that you can use to self-teach, communities to ask questions (like StackOverflow), and practical projects that you can do to learn programming. If your aim is to learn another language, consider yourself extremely fortunate. Decide which language you're interested in, get a good book, start an SO account and get started.
It's hard to imagine this situation happening at Google and Facebook, these places are pretty picky about who they hire.
People who are installed as experts when they shouldn't be are likely part of a larger problem that has to do with a management team that's not on the ball. And if you're working at an organization that has this problem, better to just not mention anything because the truth shall not set you free, it shall get you fired.
I hate to say it, but sometimes you just have to sit back and watch projects crash and burn. Logic and reason doesn't work on people who don't want to hear it, but a devestated project and its inevitable fallout always does.
You can't tell the truth, that's the problem. Sometimes, people get installed in roles and are called experts because they're liked by upper management or even VPs - you risk triggering an irrational response by the people who put the expert there. It's totally messed up and beyond me. If there's any silver lining, it's that evetually faux-experts are routed out, but the damage they cause can go on for years (contributing to shoddy output and high turnover).
I can't think of much anything bad about the rise of coding schools in the past few years, I think it's a great idea. All institutions of learning position themselves from an ROI standpoint to make it easier to convince people that it's a good investment, but the skills are needed pretty much across all industries. I like to think that coding schools are a good start, but the only thing that really teaches a person is working on coding projects. Some things you can't teach.
None of it's worth paying for. News sources are owned, typically, by much larger interests so their content gets affected by that relationship. That's not news. I'm not sure if there has ever been such a thing as fair and balanced. You pretty much need to read everything to get just kind of an idea of what's really happening, but I ain't paying for it.
I hear from quite a few gamers that the overall message that Nintendo conveys about its products are confusing, like you mentioned witht he title Super Mario 3D World (which sounds to me like a 3DS title, just because Nintendo has a tradition of naming games after the consoles they're released on.) There ARE some nice games I wouldn't mind playing.
Yes, you're probably right. The classic Nintendo audience is moving to mobile game more. And even though I don't play any Nintendo games anymore (except on my Wii vcon), I must confess that I would love to own one myself if they made games for 3DS or WiiU that were appealing to me. They just don't have any games (except the new Zelda on Wii U) that I'm interested in and developers have started leaving it. Very sad. If they make a new console and it stands up well, I'll pick it up.
Maybe, but I think Nintendo's audience just grew up and wants something more hard core. Kids today are growing up watching their older brothers play Call of Duty. Thirty years ago, that game would be Mario Bros. If a Zelda or Mario game is produced these days, they should be able to stand up next to the biggest games in the market. Nintendo's always had a nice angle in that making cartoony games with less realism didn't require cutting edge hardware, so they were able to get away with putting out cheaper hardware, but I think that time is over.
Nintendo seems intent on being dragged kicking and screaming into the modern gaming age. They don't seem to put out any hardware that doesn't produce huge margins (which is why their consoles always seem to trail in technical performance). It feels like the Sega story, Nintendo needs to make sure they don't put out a Dreamcast at the wrong time (and I say this as a Dreamcast lover, still have mine in my office.) I think there's space for three console manufacturers in the market, but at this point they're pretty going to need to put out somewhat comparable products. Putting out another low-powered Wii that people flocked to, played for two weeks, and then let collect dust? Yeah, that's not going to work this time.
The statement "For better and worse, it has that opportunity again today." is probably the most significant. We've turned insecurity itself into an industry. People use social media because they're alone or not around people often enough when they're not feeling good about themselves or their situations. It used to be that if you were alone, then you weren't doing something right - there wasn't a Facebook to fall back on, you pretty much needed to go out and get a life. There's a strong, positive association with feeling good and having a smart phone, and the manufacturers use it to sell new ones to people every year especially to people who, realistically, can't really even afford a smart phone or its monthly plan. It's jarring when iPhone users line up for days outside of a store just to get the newest model when they already have last year's. So, yeah, even though I think if there's an oppurtunity for us to improve we may be squelching it.
I guess being good at chess isn't an indication of anything when it comes to real life. For all its relevance, they may as well have played tiddlywinks. I appreciate chess myself, but I have to laugh when people crow about how good they are. You beat Bill Gates. Great. Go build an empire now.
Do away with the Dewey Decimal system. For god's sakes, what a tedious waste to have to go to a card catalog and look things up. How does Barnes and Noble or ANY bookstore get by without it? The Dewey Decimal System is job security of librarians. Bah!!!
You would be hard pressed to finder a bigger critic of Facebook than myself and I dream of a day when it disappears forever into the forgotten history of the net, but even I scratch my head at how many articles are being written these days predicting its end. Did FB get on popular media's bad side, every day there's a new forecast by "experts" that teens are abandoning it and that it'll be gone any day now. It seems a little strong. Anyway, here's hoping.
This isn't even close to the bottom for Nintendo, they can turn this around with one serious console. But they're going to need to take ample notes from Sony/Microsoft/Valve when creating their next system because a platform that engineered with less powerful specs just so that they can keep a fat profit margin ain't gonna cut it. This is their Sega Saturn, next one better not be their Dreamcast.
She's defending her right to be adulated with IMs and emails while drive a 3000lbs vehicle on public roads. That's it. Take common sense, put it in a box, and throw it over the edge of a cliff. The only thing this proves is that we need automated cars to be introduced as quickly as possible because most people aren't capable of reasoning that they should not be distracted when driving. It's common to find people, every day, backing out of parking spots while talking on the phone or having loud, animated, conversations while driving on the freeway. Driving is a boring and tedious activity and people just don't have the discipline to focus on doing it safely.
How does Texas prepare students for Med School? Do they finally start teaching science when a student is in college or do they have to leave the state completely?
Yeah, Java and MySQL has seen better times - both platforms have recieved similar criticisms with regards to patching security issues. I don't much care if the world stops using Java, but the MySQL situation breaks my heart. On to MariaDB.
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Yeah, some "experts". Apparently, the term "expert" is thrown around with hardly any regard for its definition. Two things happened to the IPv4 crisis; 1) NAT, and 2) common sense.
I thought the point of playing a game was to relieve stress. Getting online to play something is starting to become more involved and complex than most people's jobs. It is kind of a shame, though, that people take Counterstrike and Call of Duty so seriously that they need to scam the system. Defeats the purpose, no?
This is probably one of the few professional areas where going to a formal educational institution is a waste of time and money. There is SO much by way of online resources that you can use to self-teach, communities to ask questions (like StackOverflow), and practical projects that you can do to learn programming. If your aim is to learn another language, consider yourself extremely fortunate. Decide which language you're interested in, get a good book, start an SO account and get started.
It's hard to imagine this situation happening at Google and Facebook, these places are pretty picky about who they hire. People who are installed as experts when they shouldn't be are likely part of a larger problem that has to do with a management team that's not on the ball. And if you're working at an organization that has this problem, better to just not mention anything because the truth shall not set you free, it shall get you fired. I hate to say it, but sometimes you just have to sit back and watch projects crash and burn. Logic and reason doesn't work on people who don't want to hear it, but a devestated project and its inevitable fallout always does.
You can't tell the truth, that's the problem. Sometimes, people get installed in roles and are called experts because they're liked by upper management or even VPs - you risk triggering an irrational response by the people who put the expert there. It's totally messed up and beyond me. If there's any silver lining, it's that evetually faux-experts are routed out, but the damage they cause can go on for years (contributing to shoddy output and high turnover).
I can't think of much anything bad about the rise of coding schools in the past few years, I think it's a great idea. All institutions of learning position themselves from an ROI standpoint to make it easier to convince people that it's a good investment, but the skills are needed pretty much across all industries. I like to think that coding schools are a good start, but the only thing that really teaches a person is working on coding projects. Some things you can't teach.
None of it's worth paying for. News sources are owned, typically, by much larger interests so their content gets affected by that relationship. That's not news. I'm not sure if there has ever been such a thing as fair and balanced. You pretty much need to read everything to get just kind of an idea of what's really happening, but I ain't paying for it.
If you have a gig whose output and quality that can be monitored by a device like this, maybe you should look for a different gig.
I hear from quite a few gamers that the overall message that Nintendo conveys about its products are confusing, like you mentioned witht he title Super Mario 3D World (which sounds to me like a 3DS title, just because Nintendo has a tradition of naming games after the consoles they're released on.) There ARE some nice games I wouldn't mind playing.
With that WiiU game pad? No, thank you. Plus, the games don't look as good. Assisin's Creed 4 looks like it's running at 20 fps :(
Yes, you're probably right. The classic Nintendo audience is moving to mobile game more. And even though I don't play any Nintendo games anymore (except on my Wii vcon), I must confess that I would love to own one myself if they made games for 3DS or WiiU that were appealing to me. They just don't have any games (except the new Zelda on Wii U) that I'm interested in and developers have started leaving it. Very sad. If they make a new console and it stands up well, I'll pick it up.
Maybe, but I think Nintendo's audience just grew up and wants something more hard core. Kids today are growing up watching their older brothers play Call of Duty. Thirty years ago, that game would be Mario Bros. If a Zelda or Mario game is produced these days, they should be able to stand up next to the biggest games in the market. Nintendo's always had a nice angle in that making cartoony games with less realism didn't require cutting edge hardware, so they were able to get away with putting out cheaper hardware, but I think that time is over.
Nintendo seems intent on being dragged kicking and screaming into the modern gaming age. They don't seem to put out any hardware that doesn't produce huge margins (which is why their consoles always seem to trail in technical performance). It feels like the Sega story, Nintendo needs to make sure they don't put out a Dreamcast at the wrong time (and I say this as a Dreamcast lover, still have mine in my office.) I think there's space for three console manufacturers in the market, but at this point they're pretty going to need to put out somewhat comparable products. Putting out another low-powered Wii that people flocked to, played for two weeks, and then let collect dust? Yeah, that's not going to work this time.
The statement "For better and worse, it has that opportunity again today." is probably the most significant. We've turned insecurity itself into an industry. People use social media because they're alone or not around people often enough when they're not feeling good about themselves or their situations. It used to be that if you were alone, then you weren't doing something right - there wasn't a Facebook to fall back on, you pretty much needed to go out and get a life. There's a strong, positive association with feeling good and having a smart phone, and the manufacturers use it to sell new ones to people every year especially to people who, realistically, can't really even afford a smart phone or its monthly plan. It's jarring when iPhone users line up for days outside of a store just to get the newest model when they already have last year's. So, yeah, even though I think if there's an oppurtunity for us to improve we may be squelching it.
I guess being good at chess isn't an indication of anything when it comes to real life. For all its relevance, they may as well have played tiddlywinks. I appreciate chess myself, but I have to laugh when people crow about how good they are. You beat Bill Gates. Great. Go build an empire now.
Do away with the Dewey Decimal system. For god's sakes, what a tedious waste to have to go to a card catalog and look things up. How does Barnes and Noble or ANY bookstore get by without it? The Dewey Decimal System is job security of librarians. Bah!!!
You would be hard pressed to finder a bigger critic of Facebook than myself and I dream of a day when it disappears forever into the forgotten history of the net, but even I scratch my head at how many articles are being written these days predicting its end. Did FB get on popular media's bad side, every day there's a new forecast by "experts" that teens are abandoning it and that it'll be gone any day now. It seems a little strong. Anyway, here's hoping.
This isn't even close to the bottom for Nintendo, they can turn this around with one serious console. But they're going to need to take ample notes from Sony/Microsoft/Valve when creating their next system because a platform that engineered with less powerful specs just so that they can keep a fat profit margin ain't gonna cut it. This is their Sega Saturn, next one better not be their Dreamcast.
Personally, Machinima content is so appallingly bad that this story is not surprising at all. Machinima needs a serious upgrade.
She's defending her right to be adulated with IMs and emails while drive a 3000lbs vehicle on public roads. That's it. Take common sense, put it in a box, and throw it over the edge of a cliff. The only thing this proves is that we need automated cars to be introduced as quickly as possible because most people aren't capable of reasoning that they should not be distracted when driving. It's common to find people, every day, backing out of parking spots while talking on the phone or having loud, animated, conversations while driving on the freeway. Driving is a boring and tedious activity and people just don't have the discipline to focus on doing it safely.
How does Texas prepare students for Med School? Do they finally start teaching science when a student is in college or do they have to leave the state completely?
Thank you for the advice, I will look into it.
Yeah, Java and MySQL has seen better times - both platforms have recieved similar criticisms with regards to patching security issues. I don't much care if the world stops using Java, but the MySQL situation breaks my heart. On to MariaDB.
My brain is still working on pushing out a really loud laugh, that's how funny this comment is.
Couldn't agree more. If it's not open source so that people can verify what the underlying system is actually doing, forget it.