Thanks for pointing that out. I like it, the only problem is that the amount is really low. $2400 annually tax credit at the very most and there are lots of conditions on them.
That really makes sense. If you're unemployed, instead of getting a job commit a crime, do some time in prison, then decide, ok - now I want to get a job and I bring a tax break, you just have to accept that I'm an ex-con.
I always wondered that with the recidivism rate so high and the cost of housing inmates so high, solving the post-release job/hiring issues by offering employers who employ ex-convicts an annual/monthly tax break for employing them.
At rates of over 70% nationally for many crimes, offering 70% of half of that cost to employers annually would be interesting. Offering them nearly a thousand dollars a month in tax breaks for each convict employed at some specified pay rate...?
Surely, less difficulty in securing and holding a job would lower recidivism. Very few people appear to enjoy prison, and yet struggle far worse after they get out than before they went in.
Anyhow, I'm speculating wildly, but what we currently have does not work at all...
I can't imagine a scenario where sensory deprivation does anything other than make things worse. I can understand separating them from the population and taking away privileges, but there should be some basic privileges that you simply don't take away - otherwise you get 'crazy' more often than not (it would seem.)
You, yourself, were trying to argue that FB are platform agnostic, so how can you have a "Rift store" and be platform agnostic? It wouldn't make any sense.
... independent OR company would be any different in their rules?
Are you confused about who OR was? They made hardware? That's it. Like all hardware, it had drivers or an SDK to make use of it, that's it.
No "OR Store"...
Again, you're missing entirely what everybody who was planning on making use of OR was afraid of when FB bought them. That they'd do exactly what you think they're supposed to do, lol.
The only thing developers want out of OR is a great HMD. That's it.
Even adult content should be ok if it has adequate age restrictions implemented.
You're missing the point entirely.
It's a piece of hardware and an SDK, and it should be able to be used for whatever the hell people want to use it for. I don't want Facebook doing anything other than collecting my money to buy the hardware.
Your scenario is exactly what everyone who wanted to write code to integrate the HMD prays does NOT happen.
No offense, but I don't give FB the credit that you do.
They aren't stupid, but they are incredibly greedy, a publicly traded company, and known for corrupting the things they buy. My real concern is that they fail utterly (like with their phone) and then inhibit the burgeoning HMD market with patent and IP threats.
<Ripley>I HOPE you're right - I really do</Ripley>, but historical precedent suggests otherwise.
...it, but just because a decent low cost HMD is finally coming out doesn't mean "Virtual Reality" has been made 'real.'
There's so much more to VR than just the visuals. Haptic feedback is critical, audio is critical, olfactory stimulation is critical, and yes - visual is critical.
I am very much looking forward to the HD Rift (provided there's no bulls*** FB related lock-in or stupid licensing), but mostly because it'll make games so much more enjoyable (especially flight simulation.)
I really DO NOT miss D3D execute buffers. Glide was awesome, and OpenGL 1.2 on IRIX was joyful (if the OS didn't crash on you...)
I remember coming into work one day and my dev manager saying the equivalent of "sorry about your office, but NASA is having trouble with their IR2 at Moffet so we got SGI to lend us one for a few weeks..." and lo and behold next to my desk was a brand spanking new - still had packing materials stuck to it - Onyx IR2 sitting there in all its purple glory. That was my favorite work day ever. This was one of those times when you actually say to yourself "they're paying ME to do this?"
I spent the next week working on multi-pipe multi-process OpenGL issues. Pure nerdgasm...
Those really were the great days of 3D in my opinion. Every week somebody was doing something awesome.
SPEA Fireboards, E&S graphics generators, Lockheed's Real3D, this crazy Hitachi Spherix that sat in my office for months.
Sure we did, the only problem with your assumptions are that it was easier for them to transition from XP to Linux than it was for them to transition from XP to Vista. It wasn't.
The other problem with your assumptions is that you treat this problem like the only people who need transitioning are the office users, that's not the case in a real world migration.
The worst problems we had were with IT people who had to kludge all kinds of crap together to barely begin to approach what they were capable of doing with AD.
I'm sure you'll simply claim that they were stupid, or that they didn't get the proper help in moving away from Windows.
I'm sure that's your answer anytime someone finds it easier to move from one OS to the other and it doesn't result in a win for *nix.
I can simply denote the experiences I have actually had, moving from XP to Linux 7 years ago was VERY hard for IT people and for office users it was difficult as well. Moving from XP to Windows 7 about 4 years ago was trivial.
Personally, I've been triple booting OSX/Windows/OpenSUSE(now Mint) for years so I don't personally care one way or the other. They're all tools in the toolbox.
I have been enjoying (rather shamefully) IIS on WS2012 the past year though, otherwise I use CentOS/nginx when I can.
Sure, it's us that were incompetent. We didn't carefully evaluate our options because we weren't interested in saving money, we're secretly Micro$oft shills.
I guess personal anecdotes are less valuable that your hypotheticals and pure speculation...
Having done this personally I have to point out that you're wrong. It is trivial to move people from XP to Windows 7. Moving them from XP to *nix was far more difficult. Did this about 7 years ago. Ironically, the people who had the most difficult time were the people who were most comfortable with a computer.
You'll experience a short term gain, and for about 5-7 years you'll be perfectly fine.
The problems arise when you're looking to keep engineering but also be trusted with architecting complex systems. You'll certainly be able to earn that with a company that knows you well, but it will be more difficult if you wish to do it elsewhere. Then later, you may wish to play a significant decision making role in a company (as CTO or VP of Engineering) and not having a degree will severely hamstring you.
Should it? No, but it will.
Also, you may wish to purse an advanced degree at some point and you'll have to finish undergrad first (e.g. a 'tech MBA'.)
It's really a matter of where you want to end up.
You could accomplish all of those things without a degree, or you may not desire to do anything but software engineering itself, I would warn you though that if you can stick it out - you should stick it out.
College is about more than your major, get an education, it will serve you well. There are tons of people with degrees, there are significantly less (in my experience) with a college education.
I think they made a smart decision that keeps their money in their borders, but the "calculations" as the main proponent of the migration used are really bent towards Linux.
Just one example would be that he considered the cost and effort to retrain people from Windows XP to Linux and the cost and effort to train people to already using XP to Windows 7 would be equal.
That's ridiculous.
Again, it's a smart decision, but not because of saving money - but instead keeping the money circulating in your own economy. It may ultimately save money due to increased tax revenues but that's a tough one to figure.
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Thanks for pointing that out. I like it, the only problem is that the amount is really low. $2400 annually tax credit at the very most and there are lots of conditions on them.
Better than nothing though.
It would be interesting to compare and contrast the "before being f*cked by the government" weev's thinking to post prison weev...
Where, in your post, are the tax breaks?
Where did my proposal mention resume building?
Where did I propose anything about a "good track-record"?
You also seem to have confused released inmates with "halfway houses."
Half-way houses are not "parole alternatives" they are used to help parolees integrate back into society.
That's not even remotely the same thing.
That really makes sense. If you're unemployed, instead of getting a job commit a crime, do some time in prison, then decide, ok - now I want to get a job and I bring a tax break, you just have to accept that I'm an ex-con.
Talk about a straw man...
I always wondered that with the recidivism rate so high and the cost of housing inmates so high, solving the post-release job/hiring issues by offering employers who employ ex-convicts an annual/monthly tax break for employing them.
At rates of over 70% nationally for many crimes, offering 70% of half of that cost to employers annually would be interesting. Offering them nearly a thousand dollars a month in tax breaks for each convict employed at some specified pay rate...?
Surely, less difficulty in securing and holding a job would lower recidivism. Very few people appear to enjoy prison, and yet struggle far worse after they get out than before they went in.
Anyhow, I'm speculating wildly, but what we currently have does not work at all...
I totally agree.
I can't imagine a scenario where sensory deprivation does anything other than make things worse. I can understand separating them from the population and taking away privileges, but there should be some basic privileges that you simply don't take away - otherwise you get 'crazy' more often than not (it would seem.)
..he's now Weev 2.0 - now with added 'crazy'!
...the Rift store...
Where are you getting this?
You, yourself, were trying to argue that FB are platform agnostic, so how can you have a "Rift store" and be platform agnostic? It wouldn't make any sense.
... independent OR company would be any different in their rules?
Are you confused about who OR was? They made hardware? That's it. Like all hardware, it had drivers or an SDK to make use of it, that's it.
No "OR Store"...
Again, you're missing entirely what everybody who was planning on making use of OR was afraid of when FB bought them. That they'd do exactly what you think they're supposed to do, lol.
The only thing developers want out of OR is a great HMD. That's it.
Even adult content should be ok if it has adequate age restrictions implemented.
You're missing the point entirely.
It's a piece of hardware and an SDK, and it should be able to be used for whatever the hell people want to use it for. I don't want Facebook doing anything other than collecting my money to buy the hardware.
Your scenario is exactly what everyone who wanted to write code to integrate the HMD prays does NOT happen.
Maybe a little chanel no. 5... ;)
No offense, but I don't give FB the credit that you do.
They aren't stupid, but they are incredibly greedy, a publicly traded company, and known for corrupting the things they buy. My real concern is that they fail utterly (like with their phone) and then inhibit the burgeoning HMD market with patent and IP threats.
<Ripley>I HOPE you're right - I really do</Ripley>, but historical precedent suggests otherwise.
...it, but just because a decent low cost HMD is finally coming out doesn't mean "Virtual Reality" has been made 'real.'
There's so much more to VR than just the visuals. Haptic feedback is critical, audio is critical, olfactory stimulation is critical, and yes - visual is critical.
I am very much looking forward to the HD Rift (provided there's no bulls*** FB related lock-in or stupid licensing), but mostly because it'll make games so much more enjoyable (especially flight simulation.)
Hell, I remember when running a GUI on your linux box made you a p***y... Curses was borderline metrosexual. ;)
...if you had selected a UI closer to that of XP instead of whatever you picked things would have gone much smoother...
Assumptions about OUR migration, and yes, you did.
I'm sure that every time someone has a different experience than yours it must be wrong!
Oh, the irony... ;)
Indeed.
I really DO NOT miss D3D execute buffers. Glide was awesome, and OpenGL 1.2 on IRIX was joyful (if the OS didn't crash on you...)
I remember coming into work one day and my dev manager saying the equivalent of "sorry about your office, but NASA is having trouble with their IR2 at Moffet so we got SGI to lend us one for a few weeks..." and lo and behold next to my desk was a brand spanking new - still had packing materials stuck to it - Onyx IR2 sitting there in all its purple glory. That was my favorite work day ever. This was one of those times when you actually say to yourself "they're paying ME to do this?"
I spent the next week working on multi-pipe multi-process OpenGL issues. Pure nerdgasm...
Those really were the great days of 3D in my opinion. Every week somebody was doing something awesome.
SPEA Fireboards, E&S graphics generators, Lockheed's Real3D, this crazy Hitachi Spherix that sat in my office for months.
DAMN! Nostalgia...
That's one of the most cynical observations I've ever read on Slashdot... Doesn't make it any less true though. LOL.
Sure we did, the only problem with your assumptions are that it was easier for them to transition from XP to Linux than it was for them to transition from XP to Vista. It wasn't.
The other problem with your assumptions is that you treat this problem like the only people who need transitioning are the office users, that's not the case in a real world migration.
The worst problems we had were with IT people who had to kludge all kinds of crap together to barely begin to approach what they were capable of doing with AD.
I'm sure you'll simply claim that they were stupid, or that they didn't get the proper help in moving away from Windows.
I'm sure that's your answer anytime someone finds it easier to move from one OS to the other and it doesn't result in a win for *nix.
I can simply denote the experiences I have actually had, moving from XP to Linux 7 years ago was VERY hard for IT people and for office users it was difficult as well. Moving from XP to Windows 7 about 4 years ago was trivial.
Personally, I've been triple booting OSX/Windows/OpenSUSE(now Mint) for years so I don't personally care one way or the other. They're all tools in the toolbox.
I have been enjoying (rather shamefully) IIS on WS2012 the past year though, otherwise I use CentOS/nginx when I can.
Sure, it's us that were incompetent. We didn't carefully evaluate our options because we weren't interested in saving money, we're secretly Micro$oft shills.
I guess personal anecdotes are less valuable that your hypotheticals and pure speculation...
Sure, I believe you :)
Having done this personally I have to point out that you're wrong. It is trivial to move people from XP to Windows 7. Moving them from XP to *nix was far more difficult. Did this about 7 years ago. Ironically, the people who had the most difficult time were the people who were most comfortable with a computer.
You'll experience a short term gain, and for about 5-7 years you'll be perfectly fine.
The problems arise when you're looking to keep engineering but also be trusted with architecting complex systems. You'll certainly be able to earn that with a company that knows you well, but it will be more difficult if you wish to do it elsewhere. Then later, you may wish to play a significant decision making role in a company (as CTO or VP of Engineering) and not having a degree will severely hamstring you.
Should it? No, but it will.
Also, you may wish to purse an advanced degree at some point and you'll have to finish undergrad first (e.g. a 'tech MBA'.)
It's really a matter of where you want to end up.
You could accomplish all of those things without a degree, or you may not desire to do anything but software engineering itself, I would warn you though that if you can stick it out - you should stick it out.
College is about more than your major, get an education, it will serve you well. There are tons of people with degrees, there are significantly less (in my experience) with a college education.
Perhaps Microsoft has a patent on this new technology?
Amazon has a provisional patent for this in the pipeline I hear.
I think they made a smart decision that keeps their money in their borders, but the "calculations" as the main proponent of the migration used are really bent towards Linux.
Just one example would be that he considered the cost and effort to retrain people from Windows XP to Linux and the cost and effort to train people to already using XP to Windows 7 would be equal.
That's ridiculous.
Again, it's a smart decision, but not because of saving money - but instead keeping the money circulating in your own economy. It may ultimately save money due to increased tax revenues but that's a tough one to figure.
Why are you replying to a post about tyrants with an observation about "effective practices"?
It's like arguing "good and evil people both breathe air, that doesn't make air wrong or evil" - well, of course it doesn't...