It might be that programmers who work their trade out of love of problem solving are to blame for this. I know many people, myself included, have put in voluntary overtime just for the joy of completing a project, or just being naturally engaged in your work. They say if you love your job, you'll never work a day in your life. You don't even ask to be compensated in times like this. You just love what you are doing. At various times in the games industry, very creative work was being done, and it just may be that these carefree problem-solvers created an unrealistic expectation for all the others around them.
It's like the woman at the office who's husband sends flowers to every day. All the other women in the office adore this unseen male, but be sure that all the men in the office hate this guy for making them look bad.
Seems that everyone goes about their job (and love, for that matter) in different ways. Over-management and over-regulation do strange things to the human spirit.
As far as I know, there's only one race of people: humans. When did people start coloring themselves? I talked once with a female stripper that confided in me that she loved to roll around in paint, then roll onto large sheets of paper as a form of artistic expression. I never got a private viewing, mind you, but she sure was a person of color.
I guess it still bugs me to see an arbitrary line of division between "white people" and "everyone else". Apart from the chaffing, it is rather intellectually amusing that people (even green ones) can still think along those lines.
Is this what people want? "Release it as free of bugs as possible... and keep it continually upgradeable... always secure... and make it all free
All on my schedule, dammit!
or, or..."
Pay for the features if you want them. Hire a code monkey or pay a big vendor or wait for ambition to strike a charitable soul who's interests mesh with yours.
Here here! I wouldn't call watching movies on my computer the complete cause of my separation, but when I talked of acquiring a stand-alone DVD player, we began to work things out.
Love is the irresistable desire to be irresistable desired. -Robert Frost
You mention that it was illegal, what Shawn did. Interestingly enough, it was legal for quite a while (and well used) long before it was declared illegal.
I think I'm with you on this one. Just the opposite of "no news is good news": "any publicity is good publicity."
Yes, we are talking about MS, but we are also talking about Linux in the same breath, and not in that conversation-ending kind of way.
It seems that something so unassuming, so unpretentious (unlike their programmers) as Linux, is kind of like water. It will get into every crack, crevice, and nook, freeze in the winter and destroy us all =)
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It might be that programmers who work their trade out of love of problem solving are to blame for this. I know many people, myself included, have put in voluntary overtime just for the joy of completing a project, or just being naturally engaged in your work. They say if you love your job, you'll never work a day in your life. You don't even ask to be compensated in times like this. You just love what you are doing. At various times in the games industry, very creative work was being done, and it just may be that these carefree problem-solvers created an unrealistic expectation for all the others around them.
It's like the woman at the office who's husband sends flowers to every day. All the other women in the office adore this unseen male, but be sure that all the men in the office hate this guy for making them look bad.
Seems that everyone goes about their job (and love, for that matter) in different ways. Over-management and over-regulation do strange things to the human spirit.
Hey! I smoke that when downloading music!
As far as I know, there's only one race of people: humans. When did people start coloring themselves? I talked once with a female stripper that confided in me that she loved to roll around in paint, then roll onto large sheets of paper as a form of artistic expression. I never got a private viewing, mind you, but she sure was a person of color.
I guess it still bugs me to see an arbitrary line of division between "white people" and "everyone else". Apart from the chaffing, it is rather intellectually amusing that people (even green ones) can still think along those lines.
I, for one, would love to see the results of these sports events. But just me, you know... to make the betting that much more lucrative.
Is this what people want? "Release it as free of bugs as possible ... and keep it continually upgradeable ... always secure ... and make it all free
All on my schedule, dammit!
or, or..."
Pay for the features if you want them. Hire a code monkey or pay a big vendor or wait for ambition to strike a charitable soul who's interests mesh with yours.
What are the odds?
Here here! I wouldn't call watching movies on my computer the complete cause of my separation, but when I talked of acquiring a stand-alone DVD player, we began to work things out.
Love is the irresistable desire to be irresistable desired. -Robert Frost
You mention that it was illegal, what Shawn did. Interestingly enough, it was legal for quite a while (and well used) long before it was declared illegal.
- Firiel
I think I'm with you on this one. Just the opposite of "no news is good news": "any publicity is good publicity."
Yes, we are talking about MS, but we are also talking about Linux in the same breath, and not in that conversation-ending kind of way.
It seems that something so unassuming, so unpretentious (unlike their programmers) as Linux, is kind of like water. It will get into every crack, crevice, and nook, freeze in the winter and destroy us all =)