it's not *that* difficult: you could have a simple UUID sent on follow requests that has to be returned in the accept/not accept response for example; the fact that twitter fixed this issue very quickly could mean that that this was indeed a testing command that was left in and that the user-initiated follow/unfollow works a bit more securely...
the article does not say that it affects SSDs, but that it affects the SSD value proposition (aka, if you can spend little $$$ on carbon rack enclosures and get a significant seek performance increase, spending the large amount of $$$ to go full-ssd might not be as cost effective).
cool that some companies do exist that actually still have this, which company is it? they deserve a mention:)
Personally I find the OP's question laughable, I can't think of how people could be productive in such an arrangement but then again I do code at my best when there are absolutely zero distractions (no overhearing people gabbing, no people walking in front of me, just a nice big window and lots of sunlight)
I mean, seriously, a game of skill is a game where if your skill is superior to your opponent's you win, period. In poker if the deck keeps spitting out cards that favor your opponent you can have all the skill in the world, and you will lose...
first it was some small cosmetic DLC (anybody remembers the huge hoopla about the 'horse armor' in Oblivion?) and lately it's starting to become a 'pay if you want the full experience' with 0-day DLC, with assets sometimes already present on the game media.
It's pretty obvious that the games industry is envying the MMO business model where customers pay as long as they play (and wish they had done so a lot earlier) and this 'paid beta access' program seems just like another step in that direction.
Nowadays not being internet connected on your gaming PC is pretty much unheard of (and with more and more games with net-based DRM impossible), the only people who would regularly play disconnected would probably be laptop users, but I guess they are not big enough of a market to stop this kind of monetization.
let's see which ones of those professions depend on software nowadays:
- doctors/nurses/medical, think that MRI machine is mechanical? what about that CT scanner? or simply the gizmo that charts your BP/pulse? - civil engineers: think they are still using drafting tables to come up with buildings? or hand-write calculations for those bridges? - mechanical engineers: do you think that cars today are fully mechanical? airplanes? - rest of traditional engineering: electrical engineers do again everything on paper? - military: I am sure they'd love to go back to scouting parties instead of satellite imagery
unless you want society to roll back entirely to the 1930s/1940s I think you might want to reconsider putting software developers at the same level as telephone sanitizers...
system shock 1 was great, system shock 2 was ok, I bought bioshock trusting the reviews and it was a total 'meh' experience, definitely not buying bioshock 2 given what I've been reading...
even with 1000 to 1 odds against it happening that is still your kid that you are risking.
so you basically are ok with not risking a totally hypothetical autism issue in order to go for a for SURE (numbers from wikipedia) 2-3/1000 death rate and 5-105/1000 complication rate (blindness, deafness, other issues)? It never ceases to surprise how irrational people can be, but then again there always have been people scared to death of flying that will have no issues crossing the street or driving a car...
dying is not the only issue, measles can have a LOT of nasty side effects (I have single side deafness thanks to mine), I can be glad it was only SSD and not full deafness, and cannot believe parents who would not vaccinate their kids based on such flimsy 'studies'.
what about anybody that spent more than 5 years in Europe cannot donate blood ever period? or if you have spent more than 6 months in France or the UK between 1980 and 1996, or if you were ever treated with blood products made in Europe at any time since 1980?
I think the vCJD policy is way, way, way excessive and basically making any European immigrant ineligible to donate blood is extremely shortsighted, also considering how far out of the way CBC goes with advertising and campaigns to get people to donate blood.
I think you need to (re)read 'The Mythical man month', more people does not equal more productivity. Not to mention that some features have been 'late' not because they were difficult to code, but likely because they didn't feel they were necessary yet. Not to mention (2) that every new thing creates more QA, and that the game needs to remain accessible for new players, not only for people that have been there for years.
let me know how well you focus when you are scheduled to work 100% on 'task X' and 4-5 unscheduled tasks come up at the same time 'oh, we just need this one thing for this customer urgently' and you can't change the deadline for 'task X' because marketing is already going and selling it
In my experience programmers are quite good at predicting how long something would take them to code if they could code in uninterrupted chunks of time, pity that rarely happens, and the problem is that when it does happen then you end up overachieving the schedule, and next time that will be the yardstick that will be used (only next time you'll have all the other additional tasks coming in, thus making sure you won't hit the scheduled target unless you do gobs of overtime).
Then you end up with coders padding their schedules, and managers assuming the schedules are padded and cutting them, it is really a no-win situation that is allowed to fester because the companies do not pay for overtime at time-and-a-half, if they did you can bet that they would majorly increase the efficiency allowing people to work better and so taking less time. If you have the power to basically tell people 'you either work 80 hours week, of which 40 are unpaid, or you get fired' then what incentive do you have in making schedules and working conditions better?
It's the same deal as why in most places you have cubes or open spaces, crappy monitors/chairs, etc. etc. etc.
... I upgraded to vista on my gaming box (for dx10 and to experiment with it) but on my main box there would be no way for me to do that, due to several things I'm using not having drivers for vista at all (or only for vista32). I guess we'll see how things are with windows 7, if the virtual XP included is going to be able to run XP drivers directly then maybe I would consider upgrading, but I kind of doubt that is likely as if you allowed the virtual box direct access to the hardware then it would be easy for it to bring down the whole system.
lucky you I guess, I have a MS and as much as there were plenty of courses about how to balance things that could be balanced, I wasn't exposed to the 'hack it now, fix it later, assuming there is a later' mentality until I entered the business world.
In university the cost/benefit analysis always assumed a certain minimum level of product quality, and a certain minimum level of 'fit for consumption'-ness of the end result, therefore cost/benefit estimates tended to have reasonable constraints.
It's like if in uni you have a cost/benefit analysis between gold plating and nickel plating of your widget, while in the business world your choice is between
- no coating with guaranteed rusting in a year (but then hey, you sold it, so whatever) - make it of cardboard (look, this can't rust!) - trying to photoshop a drawing of the widget to make it look like it's been developed, and sell an inferior widget that doesn't even meet the use case with vague promises of a future 'patch' that will fix the customer issues
when I was in uni I read dilbert for fun, now after 10+ years in the industry the feeling I get when reading it is a lot closer to 'been there done that' rather than 'hahaha, he is so funny, where does he get these ideas from'.
I think you forget one thing, there are no college courses about
- what to do if a task you scheduled for 6 weeks gets cut to 2 due to somebody in management arbitrarily deciding that 6 weeks "is way too long" - what to do if you are asked for a detailed estimate of a 2-3 month long task in an area you are not familiar with 'by the end of today' and that estimate will be binding - what to do if your technologically sound solution is shot down 'because this would cost too much to implement, can't you hack something for the next release next week'
etc. etc. etc.
If put in a job that rewards creating good quality code, good developers will flourish, if put in a job that rewards 'just hacking something together' then the 'self-taught coder' usually will do better because they won't even have to waste time architecting or really thinking, they'll just take the requirements and run with it, whether or not the requirements make sense and whether or not the resulting product will be mantainable, documented, working, or any combination of the above.
What the US needs, rather than better schools/programs, is better companies focused on creating quality products, not companies that just because there is a perception that 'coding/coders are cheap, we can also outsource' get by with the absolute minimum of quality the market will tolerate.
I am not sure who modded you up, but try pricing living in an area with a significant concentration of tech jobs (say, SF area) and I am not so sure you can call 80k more than a living wage considering the rents and so on... that or you could have a 2 hour commute each way of course.
Of course if you are so lucky as to land a great job in the midwest, say, 50k would be plenty, but what happens if you get laid off from your dream job? The odds of finding another tech job in a non-tech-heavy area are very low, hence why people tend to unfortunately have to live in certain very defined (and expensive) locations.
uhh, in the winter your roof is covered by snow anyways, so the color your roof is not going to make any difference. And for states/countries where it doesn't snow in the winter, you probably also don't need 12000KWh to heat them up.
Because of this I discarded NAS and similar solutions. I have external hard drives and I plug them as I need using USB. Put them away from kids, sun and humidity and they will be fine.
a DNS-323 NAS consumes 8w on idle with the disks powered down (goes up to 21-23 when writing to 2 drives) which is not much at all.
As much as I agree that using a full PC as a NAS is extremely energy inefficient, the current crop of embedded linux low power devices (say, including things like wifi routers etc.) are quite ok from an environmental standpoint in my book.
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it's not *that* difficult: you could have a simple UUID sent on follow requests that has to be returned in the accept/not accept response for example; the fact that twitter fixed this issue very quickly could mean that that this was indeed a testing command that was left in and that the user-initiated follow/unfollow works a bit more securely...
the article does not say that it affects SSDs, but that it affects the SSD value proposition (aka, if you can spend little $$$ on carbon rack enclosures and get a significant seek performance increase, spending the large amount of $$$ to go full-ssd might not be as cost effective).
same here, it will probably be 30/month with 3 years contract and 250 meg max or something like that...
what about the 3g plan prices for Canada? are they listed anywhere?
cool that some companies do exist that actually still have this, which company is it? they deserve a mention :)
Personally I find the OP's question laughable, I can't think of how people could be productive in such an arrangement but then again I do code at my best when there are absolutely zero distractions (no overhearing people gabbing, no people walking in front of me, just a nice big window and lots of sunlight)
I mean, seriously, a game of skill is a game where if your skill is superior to your opponent's you win, period. In poker if the deck keeps spitting out cards that favor your opponent you can have all the skill in the world, and you will lose...
first it was some small cosmetic DLC (anybody remembers the huge hoopla about the 'horse armor' in Oblivion?) and lately it's starting to become a 'pay if you want the full experience' with 0-day DLC, with assets sometimes already present on the game media.
It's pretty obvious that the games industry is envying the MMO business model where customers pay as long as they play (and wish they had done so a lot earlier) and this 'paid beta access' program seems just like another step in that direction.
Nowadays not being internet connected on your gaming PC is pretty much unheard of (and with more and more games with net-based DRM impossible), the only people who would regularly play disconnected would probably be laptop users, but I guess they are not big enough of a market to stop this kind of monetization.
because I could walk around holding the courier with one hand and writing stuff/accessing it with another even if I'm wearing gloves?
virtual keyboards like the iphone/ipad are not very good for using them on the go in my opinion, and a pen-based interface can work a lot better.
let's see which ones of those professions depend on software nowadays:
- doctors/nurses/medical, think that MRI machine is mechanical? what about that CT scanner? or simply the gizmo that charts your BP/pulse?
- civil engineers: think they are still using drafting tables to come up with buildings? or hand-write calculations for those bridges?
- mechanical engineers: do you think that cars today are fully mechanical? airplanes?
- rest of traditional engineering: electrical engineers do again everything on paper?
- military: I am sure they'd love to go back to scouting parties instead of satellite imagery
unless you want society to roll back entirely to the 1930s/1940s I think you might want to reconsider putting software developers at the same level as telephone sanitizers...
system shock 1 was great, system shock 2 was ok, I bought bioshock trusting the reviews and it was a total 'meh' experience, definitely not buying bioshock 2 given what I've been reading...
even with 1000 to 1 odds against it happening that is still your kid that you are risking.
so you basically are ok with not risking a totally hypothetical autism issue in order to go for a for SURE (numbers from wikipedia) 2-3/1000 death rate and 5-105/1000 complication rate (blindness, deafness, other issues)? It never ceases to surprise how irrational people can be, but then again there always have been people scared to death of flying that will have no issues crossing the street or driving a car...
dying is not the only issue, measles can have a LOT of nasty side effects (I have single side deafness thanks to mine), I can be glad it was only SSD and not full deafness, and cannot believe parents who would not vaccinate their kids based on such flimsy 'studies'.
no camera, no microphone, I don't see you ditching your iphone any time soon... or at least they haven't shown either up to now
what about anybody that spent more than 5 years in Europe cannot donate blood ever period? or if you have spent more than 6 months in France or the UK between 1980 and 1996, or if you were ever treated with blood products made in Europe at any time since 1980?
I think the vCJD policy is way, way, way excessive and basically making any European immigrant ineligible to donate blood is extremely shortsighted, also considering how far out of the way CBC goes with advertising and campaigns to get people to donate blood.
and you wouldn't use an intel SSD in a server why? The more I read about SSDs the more it seems that you either buy intel or stick with normal HDs.
I think you need to (re)read 'The Mythical man month', more people does not equal more productivity. Not to mention that some features have been 'late' not because they were difficult to code, but likely because they didn't feel they were necessary yet. Not to mention (2) that every new thing creates more QA, and that the game needs to remain accessible for new players, not only for people that have been there for years.
so if lying is a 'stealth marketing technique' what is stealing? a 'stealth purchasing technique'? I mean, cmon, let's call a spade a spade here...
let me know how well you focus when you are scheduled to work 100% on 'task X' and 4-5 unscheduled tasks come up at the same time 'oh, we just need this one thing for this customer urgently' and you can't change the deadline for 'task X' because marketing is already going and selling it
In my experience programmers are quite good at predicting how long something would take them to code if they could code in uninterrupted chunks of time, pity that rarely happens, and the problem is that when it does happen then you end up overachieving the schedule, and next time that will be the yardstick that will be used (only next time you'll have all the other additional tasks coming in, thus making sure you won't hit the scheduled target unless you do gobs of overtime).
Then you end up with coders padding their schedules, and managers assuming the schedules are padded and cutting them, it is really a no-win situation that is allowed to fester because the companies do not pay for overtime at time-and-a-half, if they did you can bet that they would majorly increase the efficiency allowing people to work better and so taking less time. If you have the power to basically tell people 'you either work 80 hours week, of which 40 are unpaid, or you get fired' then what incentive do you have in making schedules and working conditions better?
It's the same deal as why in most places you have cubes or open spaces, crappy monitors/chairs, etc. etc. etc.
... I upgraded to vista on my gaming box (for dx10 and to experiment with it) but on my main box there would be no way for me to do that, due to several things I'm using not having drivers for vista at all (or only for vista32). I guess we'll see how things are with windows 7, if the virtual XP included is going to be able to run XP drivers directly then maybe I would consider upgrading, but I kind of doubt that is likely as if you allowed the virtual box direct access to the hardware then it would be easy for it to bring down the whole system.
lucky you I guess, I have a MS and as much as there were plenty of courses about how to balance things that could be balanced, I wasn't exposed to the 'hack it now, fix it later, assuming there is a later' mentality until I entered the business world.
In university the cost/benefit analysis always assumed a certain minimum level of product quality, and a certain minimum level of 'fit for consumption'-ness of the end result, therefore cost/benefit estimates tended to have reasonable constraints.
It's like if in uni you have a cost/benefit analysis between gold plating and nickel plating of your widget, while in the business world your choice is between
- no coating with guaranteed rusting in a year (but then hey, you sold it, so whatever)
- make it of cardboard (look, this can't rust!)
- trying to photoshop a drawing of the widget to make it look like it's been developed, and sell an inferior widget that doesn't even meet the use case with vague promises of a future 'patch' that will fix the customer issues
when I was in uni I read dilbert for fun, now after 10+ years in the industry the feeling I get when reading it is a lot closer to 'been there done that' rather than 'hahaha, he is so funny, where does he get these ideas from'.
I think you forget one thing, there are no college courses about
- what to do if a task you scheduled for 6 weeks gets cut to 2 due to somebody in management arbitrarily deciding that 6 weeks "is way too long"
- what to do if you are asked for a detailed estimate of a 2-3 month long task in an area you are not familiar with 'by the end of today' and that estimate will be binding
- what to do if your technologically sound solution is shot down 'because this would cost too much to implement, can't you hack something for the next release next week'
etc. etc. etc.
If put in a job that rewards creating good quality code, good developers will flourish, if put in a job that rewards 'just hacking something together' then the 'self-taught coder' usually will do better because they won't even have to waste time architecting or really thinking, they'll just take the requirements and run with it, whether or not the requirements make sense and whether or not the resulting product will be mantainable, documented, working, or any combination of the above.
What the US needs, rather than better schools/programs, is better companies focused on creating quality products, not companies that just because there is a perception that 'coding/coders are cheap, we can also outsource' get by with the absolute minimum of quality the market will tolerate.
I am not sure who modded you up, but try pricing living in an area with a significant concentration of tech jobs (say, SF area) and I am not so sure you can call 80k more than a living wage considering the rents and so on... that or you could have a 2 hour commute each way of course.
Of course if you are so lucky as to land a great job in the midwest, say, 50k would be plenty, but what happens if you get laid off from your dream job? The odds of finding another tech job in a non-tech-heavy area are very low, hence why people tend to unfortunately have to live in certain very defined (and expensive) locations.
I would not put Shrek 3 in any sort of comment talking about how sequels can be good...
uhh, in the winter your roof is covered by snow anyways, so the color your roof is not going to make any difference. And for states/countries where it doesn't snow in the winter, you probably also don't need 12000KWh to heat them up.
Because of this I discarded NAS and similar solutions.
I have external hard drives and I plug them as I need using USB. Put them away from kids, sun and humidity and they will be fine.
according to
http://www.overclockersclub.com/reviews/dlink_dns323/13.htm
a DNS-323 NAS consumes 8w on idle with the disks powered down (goes up to 21-23 when writing to 2 drives) which is not much at all.
As much as I agree that using a full PC as a NAS is extremely energy inefficient, the current crop of embedded linux low power devices (say, including things like wifi routers etc.) are quite ok from an environmental standpoint in my book.