"Oh, and while oil gets more expensive, and more rare, demand will rise."
No, demand will fall, as it does with pretty much anything else when the price rises. It will fall because people will switch to other sources when those other sources become relatively cheaper. I wouldn't be surprised to see $20/gallon gasoline (in today's dollars) in my lifetime because in 50 years I think gasoline cars will largely be a hobby and it will basically be a specialty product with demand even lower than today.
To make an mp3 10 years ago we had to rip each track to WAV, then use a sound editing program with a special third party plugin to make an mp3, and it took 100% of a P90 CPU to play it because the codecs were so primitive. And then we had to go an manually type in the artist/song information.
Now, I pop the disc in, press one button, and next time i pop my ipod in the dock, it automatically gets synced.
If legit CDs were a buck each, you can be sure that software would be out very soon that did all this grunt work at the touch of a button. CD burner/printers are coming out now, so there's no reason I shouldn't be able to produce a near-identical copy in my own computer.
Bad news: everybody's game will react basically the same and they'll have to decide if that's a good idea.
Isn't that good news? The point of game physics is usually to make it seem more realistic, and as everything approaches realism it will converge and eventually become the same.
I couldn't get the video, but from the screenshots and other stuff I've seen I don't see anyone making a compelling case for this. I admit it has promise, but I don't see any examples of actual utility that cannot also be found in just having two or three monitors. Right now it just seems like eye candy and an interesting concept the developers are waiting for someone else to capitalize on, not a viable alternative to the current 3D (e.g. stacked windows) desktop paradigm.
I think the big issue is that competition on most MMO games is transient. There's a pretty good chance the guy with the Doom set will never have an adverse effect on your game. Also, MMO wealth is almost entirely derived from time. It allows one person to transfer time investd to another person. If I spend an hour on the game and buy 9 hours worth of effort, or if I spend 10 hours on the game, the net result is the same.
I think out of game sales can be OK. If someone doesn't have time to keep up with their friends they can get a little boost and enjoy the game much more. The person they bought it from benefits because chances are they have more time than money. Obviously the camping/scripting/bots/etc are problematic but those are design issues, not problem with the practice itself.
Well, it would appear that if they deny your eloquent request you just have to use http://www.orbitz-sucks.com which might not be covered under the TOS:
"Site" means the www.orbitz.com website and/or the www.orbitzforbusiness.com website, and their respective subsites, together with the respective Content, Marks, Products and Services available from these sites and subsites.
That 99% might be a high estimate for many blogs. I think this solution leaves it up to the blog owner/software to find a way to scrub raw links and remove the attribute in comments if they really want to.
I'm actually not sure what feline it was, I got it in late summer 2003 I think. The programs I was using were the standard ones that came with it, word processing and such (I'm not holding OpenOffice's poor port against it). I was also greatly perturbed by the poor tabbing in forms on web pages in both Safari and Mozilla.
The iBooks lack of Fkeys was also a pretty poor design decision I thought, I wish I had bothered to take a close look at the keyboard before I bought it.
It's not that the mouse has one button, as that is easy to work around, its that the UI forces you to use a mouse constantly. This interrupts your workflow as you have to stop typing and go hunting for the menu item you need, because it has no keyboard shortcut. And those that have shortcuts are inconsistent. Enabling so-called accessibility does not help much either. For this reason my iBook has a nice coating of dust on it. When they fix their UI so the mouse is only required for spatial interactions (icons, links, etc), I'll give it another shot.
The comments are not anti-intellectualism, they are anti-degree. The beef many of us have is not that Phds are idiots, but that they are ill-trained for 95% of the jobs out there. It is not so much a condemnation of the people with the degrees, but rather of the institutions granting them who seem to think that learning arcane techniques is sufficient training for the real job, that being solving problems that cannot be scientifically elucidated.
Here's an idea, have the kids go to their school's 20th class reunion. Have the alumni stand next to their cars with a little placard that gives an idea of who they were in high school. Bling bling is a pretty powerful thing for wide-eyed teenages, and maybe seeing the football captain standing next to his busted pickup and the math team captain standing next to his shiny benzo will make an impression on them.
You can't just dictate whatever terms you want to people. They'd like ot pretend you have a contract with them. No, sorry, it's not. A contract requires an exchange of things (goods, money, whatever) and requires both parties to agree and sign. Saying "You agree by opening the box" isn't valid. Also contracts must be open to negoation. If you are leasing an apartment and disagree with a clause in the lease, you can strike it out, inital the change, and send it back to the management company. They are not required to accept these changes, but they have to negotiate it.
IANAL, but one of the first things taught in Business Law 101 is how basic contracts work. There is no requirement to offer, accept, or negotiate a contract. If I make an offer, you are certainly allowed to make a counter-offer (what I assume you mean by negotiating) but now my original offer is void. Also signing is not required for contracts, only certain types of contracts.
If you buy a piece of software, and it says that you agree to whatever terms by opening it (and purchasing it, which you have already done), then the deal is complete when you open it. If the terms are not available before you open it, obviously nothing is binding. These days its more often done as part of the installation. If you change the terms of a lease and send it back, you are correct that they do not have to accept it, but they also don't have to ever talk to you again (or accept a subsequent unmodified lease that you send them, since its now void).
Your assessment is unfortunately a common one. Class, repeat after me, J2EE does not mean you have to use EJB. The "dozens of frameworks" is a growing problem, caused by picking bad/inappropriate ones and/or weak architectural management.
In my experience, as a developer and as a web user, a simple non-EJB java webapp running a relatively mature framework (or not), on something like Resin is capable of tremendous performance, but I'll state that as opinion to try and avoid baiting some PHP flametard into posting how many views his anime forum can handle.
If you are developing for something that isn't going on a server you run, with a nice simple Java webapp all of a sudden you (or more often someone else) can choose your OS (Windows, Mac, Linux, Solaris, etc), your DB server (MySQL, PostreSQL, Oracle, etc), AND your web server (Apache, IIS, none, etc). Thats something that MSFT and LAMP-heads don't offer (without compromising their acronym) and something that client IT departments will very much appreciate. A "pure" admin (i.e. one who doesn't consider him/herself a developer), HATES being told by some outside developer to patch their systems, or run something they don't know or don't like.
This has been discussed here many times before, but to recap:
Union are organized by, and for the benefit of, the bottom 50-80% of a profession. Considering that many developers consider their profession as creative, merit-driven one, its unlikely that we want to commoditize ourselves.
Good developers don't have trouble finding good, well-paying, respectful employers, and therefore have no reason to join a union. This will quickly establish a stigma for union developers as inferior, so joining the union will offer little benefit for even the least effective people.
night_flyer didn't say anything about lying, he/she just doesn't tell them, nor would I.
And if you think the red states are actually more moral than blue states just because they say they are, you've obviously missed the steaming piles of irony that this election has built.
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"Oh, and while oil gets more expensive, and more rare, demand will rise."
No, demand will fall, as it does with pretty much anything else when the price rises. It will fall because people will switch to other sources when those other sources become relatively cheaper. I wouldn't be surprised to see $20/gallon gasoline (in today's dollars) in my lifetime because in 50 years I think gasoline cars will largely be a hobby and it will basically be a specialty product with demand even lower than today.
Such grunt work is why we have software.
To make an mp3 10 years ago we had to rip each track to WAV, then use a sound editing program with a special third party plugin to make an mp3, and it took 100% of a P90 CPU to play it because the codecs were so primitive. And then we had to go an manually type in the artist/song information.
Now, I pop the disc in, press one button, and next time i pop my ipod in the dock, it automatically gets synced.
If legit CDs were a buck each, you can be sure that software would be out very soon that did all this grunt work at the touch of a button. CD burner/printers are coming out now, so there's no reason I shouldn't be able to produce a near-identical copy in my own computer.
Bad news: everybody's game will react basically the same and they'll have to decide if that's a good idea.
Isn't that good news? The point of game physics is usually to make it seem more realistic, and as everything approaches realism it will converge and eventually become the same.
I couldn't get the video, but from the screenshots and other stuff I've seen I don't see anyone making a compelling case for this. I admit it has promise, but I don't see any examples of actual utility that cannot also be found in just having two or three monitors. Right now it just seems like eye candy and an interesting concept the developers are waiting for someone else to capitalize on, not a viable alternative to the current 3D (e.g. stacked windows) desktop paradigm.
I think the big issue is that competition on most MMO games is transient. There's a pretty good chance the guy with the Doom set will never have an adverse effect on your game. Also, MMO wealth is almost entirely derived from time. It allows one person to transfer time investd to another person. If I spend an hour on the game and buy 9 hours worth of effort, or if I spend 10 hours on the game, the net result is the same.
I think out of game sales can be OK. If someone doesn't have time to keep up with their friends they can get a little boost and enjoy the game much more. The person they bought it from benefits because chances are they have more time than money. Obviously the camping/scripting/bots/etc are problematic but those are design issues, not problem with the practice itself.
The Beatles biomass and diversity has seen a marked decrease in the last 20 years.
Well, it would appear that if they deny your eloquent request you just have to use http://www.orbitz-sucks.com which might not be covered under the TOS:
"Site" means the www.orbitz.com website and/or the www.orbitzforbusiness.com website, and their respective subsites, together with the respective Content, Marks, Products and Services available from these sites and subsites.
"If they let me pay $x a year for all the shipping for a year (unlimited shopping and no shipping)... I would consider that."
They just did, fool.
There is also sales tax to consider, which can be noticeable (5% here in MA), on larger items.
iHumor was delisted because it proved to be too often confused with iHubris, which comes standard with everything there.
"Simple things, like sending knives through the mail, are impossible to do."
I'm sorry, but I don't think I would consider mailing knives a "simple thing". A hat, sure; a weapon, no.
That 99% might be a high estimate for many blogs. I think this solution leaves it up to the blog owner/software to find a way to scrub raw links and remove the attribute in comments if they really want to.
I'm actually not sure what feline it was, I got it in late summer 2003 I think. The programs I was using were the standard ones that came with it, word processing and such (I'm not holding OpenOffice's poor port against it). I was also greatly perturbed by the poor tabbing in forms on web pages in both Safari and Mozilla.
The iBooks lack of Fkeys was also a pretty poor design decision I thought, I wish I had bothered to take a close look at the keyboard before I bought it.
It's not that the mouse has one button, as that is easy to work around, its that the UI forces you to use a mouse constantly. This interrupts your workflow as you have to stop typing and go hunting for the menu item you need, because it has no keyboard shortcut. And those that have shortcuts are inconsistent. Enabling so-called accessibility does not help much either. For this reason my iBook has a nice coating of dust on it. When they fix their UI so the mouse is only required for spatial interactions (icons, links, etc), I'll give it another shot.
The comments are not anti-intellectualism, they are anti-degree. The beef many of us have is not that Phds are idiots, but that they are ill-trained for 95% of the jobs out there. It is not so much a condemnation of the people with the degrees, but rather of the institutions granting them who seem to think that learning arcane techniques is sufficient training for the real job, that being solving problems that cannot be scientifically elucidated.
(standard does-not-apply-to-academia disclaimer applies)
If that's true then I'd say this guy is already on track to being a professional developer.
Here's an idea, have the kids go to their school's 20th class reunion. Have the alumni stand next to their cars with a little placard that gives an idea of who they were in high school. Bling bling is a pretty powerful thing for wide-eyed teenages, and maybe seeing the football captain standing next to his busted pickup and the math team captain standing next to his shiny benzo will make an impression on them.
Only if it's a "real" HTTP client and actually follows them, which I doubt it does.
Now a CNAME on the other hand...
>:)
You can't just dictate whatever terms you want to people. They'd like ot pretend you have a contract with them. No, sorry, it's not. A contract requires an exchange of things (goods, money, whatever) and requires both parties to agree and sign. Saying "You agree by opening the box" isn't valid. Also contracts must be open to negoation. If you are leasing an apartment and disagree with a clause in the lease, you can strike it out, inital the change, and send it back to the management company. They are not required to accept these changes, but they have to negotiate it.
IANAL, but one of the first things taught in Business Law 101 is how basic contracts work. There is no requirement to offer, accept, or negotiate a contract. If I make an offer, you are certainly allowed to make a counter-offer (what I assume you mean by negotiating) but now my original offer is void. Also signing is not required for contracts, only certain types of contracts.
If you buy a piece of software, and it says that you agree to whatever terms by opening it (and purchasing it, which you have already done), then the deal is complete when you open it. If the terms are not available before you open it, obviously nothing is binding. These days its more often done as part of the installation. If you change the terms of a lease and send it back, you are correct that they do not have to accept it, but they also don't have to ever talk to you again (or accept a subsequent unmodified lease that you send them, since its now void).
Your assessment is unfortunately a common one. Class, repeat after me, J2EE does not mean you have to use EJB. The "dozens of frameworks" is a growing problem, caused by picking bad/inappropriate ones and/or weak architectural management.
In my experience, as a developer and as a web user, a simple non-EJB java webapp running a relatively mature framework (or not), on something like Resin is capable of tremendous performance, but I'll state that as opinion to try and avoid baiting some PHP flametard into posting how many views his anime forum can handle.
If you are developing for something that isn't going on a server you run, with a nice simple Java webapp all of a sudden you (or more often someone else) can choose your OS (Windows, Mac, Linux, Solaris, etc), your DB server (MySQL, PostreSQL, Oracle, etc), AND your web server (Apache, IIS, none, etc). Thats something that MSFT and LAMP-heads don't offer (without compromising their acronym) and something that client IT departments will very much appreciate. A "pure" admin (i.e. one who doesn't consider him/herself a developer), HATES being told by some outside developer to patch their systems, or run something they don't know or don't like.
This has been discussed here many times before, but to recap:
Union are organized by, and for the benefit of, the bottom 50-80% of a profession. Considering that many developers consider their profession as creative, merit-driven one, its unlikely that we want to commoditize ourselves.
Good developers don't have trouble finding good, well-paying, respectful employers, and therefore have no reason to join a union. This will quickly establish a stigma for union developers as inferior, so joining the union will offer little benefit for even the least effective people.
My bad, sorry, mod me down...
night_flyer didn't say anything about lying, he/she just doesn't tell them, nor would I.
And if you think the red states are actually more moral than blue states just because they say they are, you've obviously missed the steaming piles of irony that this election has built.
We don't individually wrap cheese, we individually wrap cheese food, look closely at the wrapper.
Silly, you forgot:
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