++++ Great explanation there as an open source advantage. Never thought of the "open source means no forms, meetings, bureaucracy" to do simple things angle...
Or this pressure could come from Valve/SteamBox or an unforeseen marketplace entry.
The PSP and the Nintendo DS are on their last legs due to iPads/Android/iPods/maybe Kindles too, it is only a matter of time before cell phones (with ability to HDMI connect to HDTV) start to knock off the console business model.
It may not kill consoles --- but consoles will face enormous pressure on pricing, developer access. The PS4 would likely go down first.
If they go ahead with this method, I would be tempted to cancel mail service. Those who I deal with have email, and I can pay them electronically.
You wish. And I wish.
Try it and see what cruel things the government does to you. The IRS people... The motor vehicle department... the lawyers... jury duty. Automated speeding tickets. Rare random demand letters from the government about X, Y or Z (i.e. registered mail).
Then again, maybe if enough people did it even with the occasional headaches, the government would be forced to adapt.
My mail is almost exclusively advertising crap, I pay everything online.
I have also taught them how to come up with creative ideas. There plenty of ways to do this. If you pair a dull kid up with a brighter kid, he will learn by example.
Well --- you've kind of proven you don't know what the froot pies creative is.
Every human being can imitate another, but that is so far from what being creative means that at this point I am interested in what your idea of creative is?
I mean, creative is not imitating someone else it is using your imagination --- and your definition of creative is the opposite of the traditional definition.
So if up = down, I don't see where crops growing from your seed.
Well, you probably agree that there are "dumb people" --- the ones that no matter how many times you explain complex mojo they still have a blank look on their faces.
And you probably agree that these people represent a certain percent of the populace. Right?
Now granted I'm making some assumptions here, but assuming you aren't one of those people that can't learn, you would probably agree that there is a pattern that shows up, si?
So at this point we are just debating the nuance of what this percentage is --- which isn't a debate, it is argue over the fine details.
Which is more than nothing, for sure --- but probably less than something of "Holy shit --- brand new theory!" --- if you get my point.
Respectfully sir, you posted a whole lot of nothing with no material info.
I'm not disputing what you say --- I'm saying your post is a polished turd. Where's the beef --- you didn't even offer your philosophy on how to advance talent.
As a direct result, I'm calling you on the carpet for having a great start to an interesting post but you ended with all a fizzle and no beef. With doesn't really cut mustard. Look forward to hearing the meat of your equation -- but seriously --- come on.
Ok, well clearly you are a genius. And let's explore that --- because it's important...
Schools are targeted for the middle of the bell curve -- they have to be! -- and even the gifted classes are targeted for the bell curve of the gifted students --- which... well... it isn't easy to define gifted so lettuce not go there and ok thanks!
A. Creativity cannot be taught.
B. Talent is in the context of the time. It isn't fair, but it is true.
C. The educational system never knows how to detect --- let alone help --- talented young people. Welcome to the shark tank --- the game of top dog with no rules.
Short version: If you have talent ---> you have to develop further largely yourself, other people and the system don't even know HOW to help you.
Plus it ISN'T their fault --- talent is UNUSUAL and by definition this means nobody really knows how to feed your talent.
PROTIP: Take control yourself while listening, if you are special --- you are special in that others don't know best how to help because you are so awesome.
^^ That. VLC is the best media player. Debate over DeCSS and other such trivia is ANCIENT HISTORY.
The attention span of government, corporations and the general populace are VERY SHORT.
Nobody should be surprised when a "yesterday's news" topic of marginal relevance fades into the forgotten of the new status quo.
Not unlike issues over the *gasp* copying machine, the *GASP* camcorder and *OMG* the VCR or even Tivo.
Short version: In a world that lives in the NOW, I'm sorry but there is NO "See I told you so!" --- the world just forgets that don't matter and moves on.
No reward for being right, no gloating --- welcome to this forgetful world, but find satisfaction that usually the good side wins --- it's just you never get to throw the party and never happens in a timely manner.
OMG. Supports OS/2 --- hah! gee does it support DOS 3.2 too? BeOS? Wow! Windows CE???? Holy smokes! Amiga???? Add all those together and throw in free drinks and maybe you've got enough to fill a short school bus!
Apple? Android? There is not Qt working functionality there to speak of and there still isn't --- or don't you read the Qt websites and the Qt docs?
So congrats on being the king of Windows CE, Amiga, BeOS, DOS 3.2 or whatever... my point is Qt doesn't even work on the actual "multi-platform" environments that anyone cares about.
I'm flaming because of this deficiency. Qt deserves this very negative feedback because the failure to support revelant and modern platforms is something that represents a reality disconnect.
But really --- I'm just pointing out what gets real clear and disappointing using Qt damn fast --- don't shoot me, a true cross-platform developer figures this out in less than 3 days and then tells their friends that Qt sucks because of X, Y, Z --- in that sense, I'm wasting my breath ---- no one needs me to identify the deficiencies of Qt, they discover them fast enough independently.
Find instructions that world to compile a Qt using project using Qt OS X on Lion or Mountain Lion. Oh yeah --- there aren't any. And it has been like that for at least 2 years. This means Qt is myopic Linux-nerds that don't really know what the F "cross-platform" actually would mean to a developer living in the year 2012 or 2013.
So by any sane means, I must conclude that the Qt are shit-fer-brains don't know what Apple is or never heard of mobile apps. This is why I don't feel Qt has any credibility --- you can't neglect the market as it has existed for 3-4 years ---- totally fail on emerging platforms and claim to know what fudge "cross-platform is". This is a fail on top of fail.
I'm not trying to be an ass --- but sheesh --- the marketing for Qt is flat-out offensive in the context of how much it fails to be what it claims in this modern world.
If QT is so awesome on OS X, Android and iOS why are:
A) No one using them on those platforms
B) Why does the documentation suck on those platforms beyond belief
And for a bonus:
C) Every QT dev can flame me, mod me down but it is still 2013 and Qt is a dinosaur from 2004 because the quality of the experience on platforms other than Linux and Win32 are terrible.
Be mad. Get angry. Whatever. My experiences with Qt on Apple products has been well beyond terrible ---- and this experience to me is a reflection of the mindset (sorry --- I mean "narrow mindset") of the development team which must be some 2006 "Linux will rule the world \^/" mindset.
Sorry. I'm not from that fossilized crowd. I expect "cross-platform" to mean something beyond Linux and Qt is a flat-out disappointment from that point-of-view. I wanted to believe otherwise at the time --- another yesterday's failed idea of tomorrow.
Call me a troll, ignore me, whatever --- I don't care. It doesn't change the fact that Qt is out-of-date. Blame the messenger and see if I care. Clue: Guess if I care what you label me --- I'm not the one that has a let down of a product by any sane definition of 2013 --- it is Qt's dinosaur "Weee Linux and Win32 rule teh world --=== oh wait is not 2004... oh shit = useless".
Android and iOS *are* the future. So let us call a duck, a duck. QT is a really great platform for the world as conceived 10 years ago. Groovy. So in other words, QT is.NET. .
I'm sorry captain, but QT is massively flawed in a great many ways. By being unaware of them, this means you are green.
Last time I checked we aren't living a Linux and Win32 world and that narrow 2004 definition of "cross-platform" is woefully inept in 2013. QT is a mish-mash library desperately fading into the sunset conceived from a world that thought desktop Linux was the future with Win32 being the player they needed to be compatible with.
In 2013, cross-platform does not mean Win32 and Linux. And the developers of QT broadcast this archaic viewpoint with an exclamation point.
Isn't it fun in a blissfully ignorant in the kind of way to not study history, nor have any interest in it nor why the world is how it is today?
Everyone can have an opinion... but should you ever be interested in the history of the world, you will discover the horror that occurs in regions of the world that are "natural resource rich" but education poor.
The wealthy abuse the people in ways that sedentary plumpbutts like yourself that don't have any concept of actual suffering can't actually relate to. Perhaps you think you know something of the real third world from YouTube or a book.
You are too practical for the modern day obese "I eat potato chips and drink 4 litres of Coca-Cola sit in front of American Idol/XBox" crowd to relate to. Your message of truth and health is not in style in the Americas today. But never fear --- the people of tomorrow will wonder why no one listened to you, not understanding the special role the obscenely overweight beasts that live in our time are the norm, like the dinosaurs before us. Yes, your reward is to be misunderstood both tomorrow and today --- but most important --- be healthy --- screw the blimp-class, no one looks to emulate them anyways. Except those who know they should tend to their health but instead look for social-acceptance of their neglect of their own health and seek this through "hoping" that "normal" means neglecting ones health. But that's on them...
Actually, all of this just proves people are forgetful dolts.
We used to use horses, sail power and grow crops on farms.
So, of course we can live of off renewables --- humans lived off renewables for 49,900 of the last 50,000 years. Only forgetful barnacleheads and the people you seek to pacify are as stone-cold stupid as to need assurance that humans can live off renewables.
Dear spaghetti monster, 99.99% of human history is living off renewables and it is really, really sad someone like yourself seems so unaware of history as to think this is "hard". It isn't hard, as humans we've "already done that", "almost always did that" and thinking we can't do that tomorrow is shear ignorance of history. Our progress hasn't actually been fuel --- it has been vaccines, medicine, the practice of sanitation to prevent disease and the embrace of the scientific method --- human progress has NEVER been about the waste or even use of fuel.
If you are smart, the civilized countries use all the natural resources of the hopelessly socially-backwards countries first.
For example, wouldn't it be preferable for Saudi Arabia and Syria and Egypt to be out of natural resources in 50 years, but the socially-compassionate countries still have theirs?
I'm politely saying you are a short-sighted --- but well intentioned --- dumbass, but even more so I'm trying to get you to expand your thought process to see why you are so very, very wrong. Perhaps after thinking about what I say, you might see my angle here --- you certainly are bright --- just not connecting the dots long-term.
VP8 is really slow. Unknown if reason is lack of hardware support or if codec is actually poorly designed. What are reasons VP9 is good versus H264? Yes I know VPx is not "patent-encumbered" --- well except it is except Google made some sort of "deal" with someone to license applicable patents or something.
Why is VP9 any good and why should people care? Is it poor man's H264 or is it H264's peer? Thanks to wise person who knows and answers this.
There are also millions of dialup internet users. They are not very interested in your demographic, mostly because you aren't the kind of perpetual revenue stream they are interested in. They will be quite content for your lower-profit demographic to migrate to another device. This is how they think and the reality of democracy thru purchaser-dollars --- comparable to the same people who say they won't buy DLC or buy stats for a game, they just say "fine" and move along.
People are not just skeptical of this thing, they are outright afraid of it.
Microsoft... wow... just wow.
You forget that the people buying XBox watch TV commercials and that their competitor is the root-kit maker Sony.
This will hurt the XBox One like the rootkit fiasco or dropping Linux PS2 support hurt Sony --- this amount precisely and scientifically stated as "none at all".
Reality. Reality bites and marketing dollars matter. Film at 11.
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++++ Great explanation there as an open source advantage. Never thought of the "open source means no forms, meetings, bureaucracy" to do simple things angle ...
Or this pressure could come from Valve/SteamBox or an unforeseen marketplace entry.
The PSP and the Nintendo DS are on their last legs due to iPads/Android/iPods/maybe Kindles too, it is only a matter of time before cell phones (with ability to HDMI connect to HDTV) start to knock off the console business model.
It may not kill consoles --- but consoles will face enormous pressure on pricing, developer access. The PS4 would likely go down first.
If they go ahead with this method, I would be tempted to cancel mail service. Those who I deal with have email, and I can pay them electronically.
You wish. And I wish.
Try it and see what cruel things the government does to you. The IRS people... The motor vehicle department... the lawyers ... jury duty. Automated speeding tickets. Rare random demand letters from the government about X, Y or Z (i.e. registered mail).
Then again, maybe if enough people did it even with the occasional headaches, the government would be forced to adapt.
My mail is almost exclusively advertising crap, I pay everything online.
I have also taught them how to come up with creative ideas. There plenty of ways to do this. If you pair a dull kid up with a brighter kid, he will learn by example.
Well --- you've kind of proven you don't know what the froot pies creative is.
Every human being can imitate another, but that is so far from what being creative means that at this point I am interested in what your idea of creative is?
I mean, creative is not imitating someone else it is using your imagination --- and your definition of creative is the opposite of the traditional definition.
So if up = down, I don't see where crops growing from your seed.
Well, you probably agree that there are "dumb people" --- the ones that no matter how many times you explain complex mojo they still have a blank look on their faces.
And you probably agree that these people represent a certain percent of the populace. Right?
Now granted I'm making some assumptions here, but assuming you aren't one of those people that can't learn, you would probably agree that there is a pattern that shows up, si?
So at this point we are just debating the nuance of what this percentage is --- which isn't a debate, it is argue over the fine details.
Which is more than nothing, for sure --- but probably less than something of "Holy shit --- brand new theory!" --- if you get my point.
Respectfully sir, you posted a whole lot of nothing with no material info.
I'm not disputing what you say --- I'm saying your post is a polished turd. Where's the beef --- you didn't even offer your philosophy on how to advance talent.
As a direct result, I'm calling you on the carpet for having a great start to an interesting post but you ended with all a fizzle and no beef. With doesn't really cut mustard. Look forward to hearing the meat of your equation -- but seriously --- come on.
Ok, well clearly you are a genius. And let's explore that --- because it's important ...
... well ... it isn't easy to define gifted so lettuce not go there and ok thanks!
Schools are targeted for the middle of the bell curve -- they have to be! -- and even the gifted classes are targeted for the bell curve of the gifted students --- which
A. Creativity cannot be taught.
B. Talent is in the context of the time. It isn't fair, but it is true.
C. The educational system never knows how to detect --- let alone help --- talented young people. Welcome to the shark tank --- the game of top dog with no rules.
Short version: If you have talent ---> you have to develop further largely yourself, other people and the system don't even know HOW to help you.
Plus it ISN'T their fault --- talent is UNUSUAL and by definition this means nobody really knows how to feed your talent.
PROTIP: Take control yourself while listening, if you are special --- you are special in that others don't know best how to help because you are so awesome.
^^ That. VLC is the best media player. Debate over DeCSS and other such trivia is ANCIENT HISTORY.
The attention span of government, corporations and the general populace are VERY SHORT.
Nobody should be surprised when a "yesterday's news" topic of marginal relevance fades into the forgotten of the new status quo.
Not unlike issues over the *gasp* copying machine, the *GASP* camcorder and *OMG* the VCR or even Tivo.
Short version: In a world that lives in the NOW, I'm sorry but there is NO "See I told you so!" --- the world just forgets that don't matter and moves on.
No reward for being right, no gloating --- welcome to this forgetful world, but find satisfaction that usually the good side wins --- it's just you never get to throw the party and never happens in a timely manner.
Amen, brother --- the right of freedom of speech doesn't acknowledge secret courts. Hats off to you That is all.
OMG. Supports OS/2 --- hah! gee does it support DOS 3.2 too? BeOS? Wow! Windows CE???? Holy smokes! Amiga???? Add all those together and throw in free drinks and maybe you've got enough to fill a short school bus!
... my point is Qt doesn't even work on the actual "multi-platform" environments that anyone cares about.
Apple? Android? There is not Qt working functionality there to speak of and there still isn't --- or don't you read the Qt websites and the Qt docs?
So congrats on being the king of Windows CE, Amiga, BeOS, DOS 3.2 or whatever
I'm flaming because of this deficiency. Qt deserves this very negative feedback because the failure to support revelant and modern platforms is something that represents a reality disconnect.
But really --- I'm just pointing out what gets real clear and disappointing using Qt damn fast --- don't shoot me, a true cross-platform developer figures this out in less than 3 days and then tells their friends that Qt sucks because of X, Y, Z --- in that sense, I'm wasting my breath ---- no one needs me to identify the deficiencies of Qt, they discover them fast enough independently.
Peace out.
Find instructions that world to compile a Qt using project using Qt OS X on Lion or Mountain Lion. Oh yeah --- there aren't any. And it has been like that for at least 2 years. This means Qt is myopic Linux-nerds that don't really know what the F "cross-platform" actually would mean to a developer living in the year 2012 or 2013.
So by any sane means, I must conclude that the Qt are shit-fer-brains don't know what Apple is or never heard of mobile apps. This is why I don't feel Qt has any credibility --- you can't neglect the market as it has existed for 3-4 years ---- totally fail on emerging platforms and claim to know what fudge "cross-platform is". This is a fail on top of fail.
I'm not trying to be an ass --- but sheesh --- the marketing for Qt is flat-out offensive in the context of how much it fails to be what it claims in this modern world.
If QT is so awesome on OS X, Android and iOS why are:
... oh shit = useless".
A) No one using them on those platforms B) Why does the documentation suck on those platforms beyond belief
And for a bonus:
C) Every QT dev can flame me, mod me down but it is still 2013 and Qt is a dinosaur from 2004 because the quality of the experience on platforms other than Linux and Win32 are terrible.
Be mad. Get angry. Whatever. My experiences with Qt on Apple products has been well beyond terrible ---- and this experience to me is a reflection of the mindset (sorry --- I mean "narrow mindset") of the development team which must be some 2006 "Linux will rule the world \^/" mindset.
Sorry. I'm not from that fossilized crowd. I expect "cross-platform" to mean something beyond Linux and Qt is a flat-out disappointment from that point-of-view. I wanted to believe otherwise at the time --- another yesterday's failed idea of tomorrow.
Call me a troll, ignore me, whatever --- I don't care. It doesn't change the fact that Qt is out-of-date. Blame the messenger and see if I care. Clue: Guess if I care what you label me --- I'm not the one that has a let down of a product by any sane definition of 2013 --- it is Qt's dinosaur "Weee Linux and Win32 rule teh world --=== oh wait is not 2004
Android and iOS *are* the future. So let us call a duck, a duck. QT is a really great platform for the world as conceived 10 years ago. Groovy. So in other words, QT is .NET. .
I'm sorry captain, but QT is massively flawed in a great many ways. By being unaware of them, this means you are green.
Last time I checked we aren't living a Linux and Win32 world and that narrow 2004 definition of "cross-platform" is woefully inept in 2013. QT is a mish-mash library desperately fading into the sunset conceived from a world that thought desktop Linux was the future with Win32 being the player they needed to be compatible with.
In 2013, cross-platform does not mean Win32 and Linux. And the developers of QT broadcast this archaic viewpoint with an exclamation point.
Truth.
Isn't it fun in a blissfully ignorant in the kind of way to not study history, nor have any interest in it nor why the world is how it is today?
... but should you ever be interested in the history of the world, you will discover the horror that occurs in regions of the world that are "natural resource rich" but education poor.
Everyone can have an opinion
The wealthy abuse the people in ways that sedentary plumpbutts like yourself that don't have any concept of actual suffering can't actually relate to. Perhaps you think you know something of the real third world from YouTube or a book.
You are too practical for the modern day obese "I eat potato chips and drink 4 litres of Coca-Cola sit in front of American Idol/XBox" crowd to relate to. Your message of truth and health is not in style in the Americas today. But never fear --- the people of tomorrow will wonder why no one listened to you, not understanding the special role the obscenely overweight beasts that live in our time are the norm, like the dinosaurs before us. Yes, your reward is to be misunderstood both tomorrow and today --- but most important --- be healthy --- screw the blimp-class, no one looks to emulate them anyways. Except those who know they should tend to their health but instead look for social-acceptance of their neglect of their own health and seek this through "hoping" that "normal" means neglecting ones health. But that's on them ...
Actually, all of this just proves people are forgetful dolts.
We used to use horses, sail power and grow crops on farms.
So, of course we can live of off renewables --- humans lived off renewables for 49,900 of the last 50,000 years. Only forgetful barnacleheads and the people you seek to pacify are as stone-cold stupid as to need assurance that humans can live off renewables.
Dear spaghetti monster, 99.99% of human history is living off renewables and it is really, really sad someone like yourself seems so unaware of history as to think this is "hard". It isn't hard, as humans we've "already done that", "almost always did that" and thinking we can't do that tomorrow is shear ignorance of history. Our progress hasn't actually been fuel --- it has been vaccines, medicine, the practice of sanitation to prevent disease and the embrace of the scientific method --- human progress has NEVER been about the waste or even use of fuel.
If you are smart, the civilized countries use all the natural resources of the hopelessly socially-backwards countries first.
For example, wouldn't it be preferable for Saudi Arabia and Syria and Egypt to be out of natural resources in 50 years, but the socially-compassionate countries still have theirs?
I'm politely saying you are a short-sighted --- but well intentioned --- dumbass, but even more so I'm trying to get you to expand your thought process to see why you are so very, very wrong. Perhaps after thinking about what I say, you might see my angle here --- you certainly are bright --- just not connecting the dots long-term.
6) Pay $100 to $500 and see a results-oriented career counselor instead of asking Slashdot.
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Anyone can post their thoughts on
Go to person whose advice is good enough to be PAID for it.
Your right, this is ironic!
It's "Shakespeare" but you not know that because you stole ebook and DRM has caught you red-handed as Ebook-pirate-thief.
VP8 is really slow. Unknown if reason is lack of hardware support or if codec is actually poorly designed. What are reasons VP9 is good versus H264? Yes I know VPx is not "patent-encumbered" --- well except it is except Google made some sort of "deal" with someone to license applicable patents or something.
Why is VP9 any good and why should people care? Is it poor man's H264 or is it H264's peer? Thanks to wise person who knows and answers this.
Yeah ... that'd be great. Use some Google goggles, see in the dark using sonar and walk through the house in the dark.
...
I'll still have one hand over the family jewels when I walk in the dark though, trust in technology only goes so far
There are also millions of dialup internet users. They are not very interested in your demographic, mostly because you aren't the kind of perpetual revenue stream they are interested in. They will be quite content for your lower-profit demographic to migrate to another device. This is how they think and the reality of democracy thru purchaser-dollars --- comparable to the same people who say they won't buy DLC or buy stats for a game, they just say "fine" and move along.
Welcome to 2013.
People are not just skeptical of this thing, they are outright afraid of it.
Microsoft... wow... just wow.
You forget that the people buying XBox watch TV commercials and that their competitor is the root-kit maker Sony.
This will hurt the XBox One like the rootkit fiasco or dropping Linux PS2 support hurt Sony --- this amount precisely and scientifically stated as "none at all".
Reality. Reality bites and marketing dollars matter. Film at 11.