This also depends on what point of a cycle you look at. How long did the sub-prime mortgage market look great? Anyone can extrapolate that a stock will probably keep going up because it has been for a while, the key is to survive downturns and come out ahead when you take out your money. This seems more like a great way to end up with a lot of assets pushed into "it looks too good to be true" markets.
World of Warcraft is evidence that this article is BS actually. Gamers don't have the time they used to? What are they doing that's sucking up all this time? World of Warcraft is considered to be the most successful game by a wide margin and is by no means time efficient. Even "casual" play can suck up hours a week easily.
Reality is that gamers "don't have time" for these games because they're not worth spending time compared to alternatives. If the games were THAT good, gamers would make time.
Considering they brought him back as a consultant, it seems he did play a key role. Seeing as how he was deleting servers, I doubt the damage was intended to be temporary.
Basically it seems like he was very much needed to keep things up and running so the correct course of action if he wanted revenge was to simply leave and not look back, and let the place crash and burn on its own. The loss in productivity and the cost of the scramble to salvage stuff that he's one of the few who knows how to fix would probably hit the company hard enough. By coming back as a consultant he only proves he's greedy, and by incurring damages directly he only proves he's an idiot.
I'd actually think the reverse is true. Relationships which are most doomed to fail are the ones where people refuse to fix their problems. For that matter these people are often delusional and tell themselves that everything is just fine. Just because a relationship appears healthy doesn't mean there are things lurking beneath the surface which will doom it. Occasionally asking yourself if there are signs of danger, or what you can improve upon is a good thing to do but often not obvious. Sometimes listening to outside advice is a good thing. Usually this duty is relegated to friends and relatives, but many people fall into traps so common that a computer really could warn people about some of them.
the whole sue Sue SUE! thing has got way out of control, but those are but symptoms of the sickness that is the core of US politics and business.
I think you're off base there. Lawsuits are a symptom of the core problem, but the real issue is greed. Americans like to complain about lawyers, but as soon as they see an opportunity to make money through law suits they're right on the band wagon. This along with the mentality that many Americans like to think of themselves as "right" and attempt to use the law to prove it, or as a method of vengeance has lead to this environment. We reap what we sew.
It's early to say that LibreOffice isn't going anywhere, when they have years of stagnation to clean up. They've already merged features which never got into OpenOffice and there does appear to be a lot of code cleanup. The changelog does show real improvements, but I can't say if they're going faster than OO ever did since OO tended to be really vague on their development. They do seem to be fairly quiet considering they're picking up the mantle of a pretty significant project.
That's one of the things that often sucks most about IT: You often don't get to choose the server, software or support, but you get stuck fixing it all the time. Oh, and you still get blamed for how much it sucks.
Didn't that appear before Sun was bought by Oracle? I would guess that was an attempt at Sun to stay afloat more than Oracle to make more money. Likely now they're obligated to package it from some contract that hasn't expired.
BTW I wonder why there is so much complaining about KDE when it comes to some minor features? Such scale is unseen in windows world. Maybe windows users don't complain so much because ms doesn't care about fixing and improving things anyway?
Where I work we've recently started migrating from Win2k to Windows 7 and I can assure you all I hear is complaints about pretty much everything. The difference between Windows and KDE/Gnome is that windows users don't have a choice. What else are they going to use? Yeah, exactly. Basically they take whatever MS gives them and they live with it.
I'll believe netflix can kill DVDs off when they have their entire catalog available for streaming. As the services are going to split, I'm sure I'm not the only one thinking that the DVD through the mail option is looking like the better way to go.
Besides which if I decide to BUY a title (some of us do that too), then what are my options for the thousands of titles not available on Bluray? Are the media conglomerates suddenly handing out hi-def mkv files on flash drives that I'm not aware of?
Honestly tire swings (where they have chains or rope attached at three points to a tire) are the only thing I would really deem unsafe. It doesn't seem to have any obvious problems but experience taught me otherwise. Probably the most useful skill to learn is that if you fall off a tire swing LAY FLAT or that thing will beat the shit out of you repeatedly. That's only the most apparent hazard. Man all the memories of kids getting f'ed up by that thing are all coming back.
The military likes to present itself as giving you useful job skills in something that could be transposed into a real job, but I think most find out their occupation is anything but that. The military does teach you a TON of things though, just not what's in the commercials. You learn a lot about bureaucracy, how fucked up the government really is, how people from all walks of life cope with that, and how bad coffee can really get (among many other things). To be honest, knowing these things I think ended up more important than my military occupational specialty training.
Or you can purposely set the network that way. I have a Vonage router that is screwed up (that replaced the last one which was also screwed up). I've tried multiple ethernet adapters on various computers, wires etc and I kept getting interface errors no matter what I tried. Oddly enough I set it to 10Mbs half duplex and the errors went away and I haven't had a problem since. Currently I don't shuffle much across my own network, but I was surprised that I don't notice any real network degradation. I'll have to set it behind a better router one of these days, but at the moment it works well enough.
Open source projects rarely have a deadline, have to come up with some minimal level of results, among many other sources of pressure that end up reducing the quality of code (assuming programmers on the same skill level).
I have a domain which apparently got popular with these "look at these 404 error page" collections, and ironically enough my highest number of 404 errors come from these sites that want to look at my 404 page.
Been tempted to just make a copy of it at/404.html to stop the freaking errors, but I guess I figured that would be me caving to the internet and making pages at their whim. I won't give in...
Maybe it's just me, but one of the key things I consider when buying a game is the replay value. If it's not good enough to play again a year or two later, it's not worth buying.
You assume there are no regressions. Where I work I pushed and managed to standardize on Firefox. One of our reports comes through as some gigantic HTML table and it crashes FF4. I had to roll a few people back to FF 3.x in order for them to do this. How long is it going to be before this is fixed in the new branch? Will it ever be? As long as they're using a stable branch they can get their job done in a browser we KNOW works, with security updates. Now we're pushed to a model where we get the joy of broken browser and security updates, or working browser and insecure. Considering FF is hell bent on switching things like the JS engine every year, this kind of thing will happen again.
Really the only option is to use a web browser that has stable branches. I think it's unfortunate that FF dumped that model for no reason other than to be like Chrome (and not quite getting that right either).
That's what I was thinking as well. Most of those old mp3s were also constant bitrate if I remember correctly. Unfortunately this guy want's a tool not necessarily just clues. I guess you could load your whole collection into something like winamp and sort by bitrate though.
Did Hal actually USE the ring for anything interesting? I wouldn't say I'm the biggest fan, but I do have a few of the comics. I don't think a lot of people got that the rings power had to do with imagination, and that Hal's true power wasn't just the ring, but that he used it in such inventive ways. Since that time it seems like he's been reduced to shooting some green death ray from his ring and such instead of problem solving.
I was initially interested in the movie, but had the feeling it wouldn't touch on the theme of using imagination. From the trailers I didn't get that impression either.
It's a cycle that's in a lot of industries. You take a circle of influence with the hardcore dedicated at the center, and people with a passing interest at the edges. Those at the fringes easily tire and drop away and it looks like a drop in sales. Instead of trying to better expand that market, their logic is that they need to do more of what made them successful and further concentrate on that thing. From that point it can go into a death spiral with more and more people losing interest each iteration, and they just keep pumping out the same stuff. The music industry seems to struggle the most with it until they stumble on something "new" which restarts the whole thing. TV, comic books and probably the current state of anime also come to mind.
Passing the blame has nothing to do with it other than showing a symptom of an industry that doesn't know what to do (like something different).
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This also depends on what point of a cycle you look at. How long did the sub-prime mortgage market look great? Anyone can extrapolate that a stock will probably keep going up because it has been for a while, the key is to survive downturns and come out ahead when you take out your money. This seems more like a great way to end up with a lot of assets pushed into "it looks too good to be true" markets.
World of Warcraft is evidence that this article is BS actually. Gamers don't have the time they used to? What are they doing that's sucking up all this time? World of Warcraft is considered to be the most successful game by a wide margin and is by no means time efficient. Even "casual" play can suck up hours a week easily.
Reality is that gamers "don't have time" for these games because they're not worth spending time compared to alternatives. If the games were THAT good, gamers would make time.
Considering they brought him back as a consultant, it seems he did play a key role. Seeing as how he was deleting servers, I doubt the damage was intended to be temporary.
Basically it seems like he was very much needed to keep things up and running so the correct course of action if he wanted revenge was to simply leave and not look back, and let the place crash and burn on its own. The loss in productivity and the cost of the scramble to salvage stuff that he's one of the few who knows how to fix would probably hit the company hard enough. By coming back as a consultant he only proves he's greedy, and by incurring damages directly he only proves he's an idiot.
Ideas are plentiful. Imagination is scarce.
I'd actually think the reverse is true. Relationships which are most doomed to fail are the ones where people refuse to fix their problems. For that matter these people are often delusional and tell themselves that everything is just fine. Just because a relationship appears healthy doesn't mean there are things lurking beneath the surface which will doom it. Occasionally asking yourself if there are signs of danger, or what you can improve upon is a good thing to do but often not obvious. Sometimes listening to outside advice is a good thing. Usually this duty is relegated to friends and relatives, but many people fall into traps so common that a computer really could warn people about some of them.
Grass clippings are very useful for gardens.
the whole sue Sue SUE! thing has got way out of control, but those are but symptoms of the sickness that is the core of US politics and business.
I think you're off base there. Lawsuits are a symptom of the core problem, but the real issue is greed. Americans like to complain about lawyers, but as soon as they see an opportunity to make money through law suits they're right on the band wagon. This along with the mentality that many Americans like to think of themselves as "right" and attempt to use the law to prove it, or as a method of vengeance has lead to this environment. We reap what we sew.
It's early to say that LibreOffice isn't going anywhere, when they have years of stagnation to clean up. They've already merged features which never got into OpenOffice and there does appear to be a lot of code cleanup. The changelog does show real improvements, but I can't say if they're going faster than OO ever did since OO tended to be really vague on their development. They do seem to be fairly quiet considering they're picking up the mantle of a pretty significant project.
Probably not, but your productivity without porn is admirable.
That's one of the things that often sucks most about IT: You often don't get to choose the server, software or support, but you get stuck fixing it all the time. Oh, and you still get blamed for how much it sucks.
Didn't that appear before Sun was bought by Oracle? I would guess that was an attempt at Sun to stay afloat more than Oracle to make more money. Likely now they're obligated to package it from some contract that hasn't expired.
BTW I wonder why there is so much complaining about KDE when it comes to some minor features? Such scale is unseen in windows world. Maybe windows users don't complain so much because ms doesn't care about fixing and improving things anyway?
Where I work we've recently started migrating from Win2k to Windows 7 and I can assure you all I hear is complaints about pretty much everything. The difference between Windows and KDE/Gnome is that windows users don't have a choice. What else are they going to use? Yeah, exactly. Basically they take whatever MS gives them and they live with it.
I'll believe netflix can kill DVDs off when they have their entire catalog available for streaming. As the services are going to split, I'm sure I'm not the only one thinking that the DVD through the mail option is looking like the better way to go.
Besides which if I decide to BUY a title (some of us do that too), then what are my options for the thousands of titles not available on Bluray? Are the media conglomerates suddenly handing out hi-def mkv files on flash drives that I'm not aware of?
Honestly tire swings (where they have chains or rope attached at three points to a tire) are the only thing I would really deem unsafe. It doesn't seem to have any obvious problems but experience taught me otherwise. Probably the most useful skill to learn is that if you fall off a tire swing LAY FLAT or that thing will beat the shit out of you repeatedly. That's only the most apparent hazard. Man all the memories of kids getting f'ed up by that thing are all coming back.
The military likes to present itself as giving you useful job skills in something that could be transposed into a real job, but I think most find out their occupation is anything but that. The military does teach you a TON of things though, just not what's in the commercials. You learn a lot about bureaucracy, how fucked up the government really is, how people from all walks of life cope with that, and how bad coffee can really get (among many other things). To be honest, knowing these things I think ended up more important than my military occupational specialty training.
Or you can purposely set the network that way. I have a Vonage router that is screwed up (that replaced the last one which was also screwed up). I've tried multiple ethernet adapters on various computers, wires etc and I kept getting interface errors no matter what I tried. Oddly enough I set it to 10Mbs half duplex and the errors went away and I haven't had a problem since. Currently I don't shuffle much across my own network, but I was surprised that I don't notice any real network degradation. I'll have to set it behind a better router one of these days, but at the moment it works well enough.
At least nvidia stuff CAN be stable if you strap a leaf blower to it. VIA couldn't make something as simple as a door jam that work properly.
Open source projects rarely have a deadline, have to come up with some minimal level of results, among many other sources of pressure that end up reducing the quality of code (assuming programmers on the same skill level).
I have a domain which apparently got popular with these "look at these 404 error page" collections, and ironically enough my highest number of 404 errors come from these sites that want to look at my 404 page.
Been tempted to just make a copy of it at /404.html to stop the freaking errors, but I guess I figured that would be me caving to the internet and making pages at their whim. I won't give in...
Maybe it's just me, but one of the key things I consider when buying a game is the replay value. If it's not good enough to play again a year or two later, it's not worth buying.
You assume there are no regressions. Where I work I pushed and managed to standardize on Firefox. One of our reports comes through as some gigantic HTML table and it crashes FF4. I had to roll a few people back to FF 3.x in order for them to do this. How long is it going to be before this is fixed in the new branch? Will it ever be? As long as they're using a stable branch they can get their job done in a browser we KNOW works, with security updates. Now we're pushed to a model where we get the joy of broken browser and security updates, or working browser and insecure. Considering FF is hell bent on switching things like the JS engine every year, this kind of thing will happen again.
Really the only option is to use a web browser that has stable branches. I think it's unfortunate that FF dumped that model for no reason other than to be like Chrome (and not quite getting that right either).
That's what I was thinking as well. Most of those old mp3s were also constant bitrate if I remember correctly. Unfortunately this guy want's a tool not necessarily just clues. I guess you could load your whole collection into something like winamp and sort by bitrate though.
My impression was that they were reserving a lot of generic words so this wouldn't happen, and that only brands could be registered this way.
Did Hal actually USE the ring for anything interesting? I wouldn't say I'm the biggest fan, but I do have a few of the comics. I don't think a lot of people got that the rings power had to do with imagination, and that Hal's true power wasn't just the ring, but that he used it in such inventive ways. Since that time it seems like he's been reduced to shooting some green death ray from his ring and such instead of problem solving.
I was initially interested in the movie, but had the feeling it wouldn't touch on the theme of using imagination. From the trailers I didn't get that impression either.
It's a cycle that's in a lot of industries. You take a circle of influence with the hardcore dedicated at the center, and people with a passing interest at the edges. Those at the fringes easily tire and drop away and it looks like a drop in sales. Instead of trying to better expand that market, their logic is that they need to do more of what made them successful and further concentrate on that thing. From that point it can go into a death spiral with more and more people losing interest each iteration, and they just keep pumping out the same stuff. The music industry seems to struggle the most with it until they stumble on something "new" which restarts the whole thing. TV, comic books and probably the current state of anime also come to mind.
Passing the blame has nothing to do with it other than showing a symptom of an industry that doesn't know what to do (like something different).