Considering that many of use where shit on by our employers when the bubble popped, that description might not be too far off the mark.
What if it's a "rush?"
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It might not be a bubble or a boom... it could be a rush. I have noticed a lot of grizzled men wandering around the bay area lately. Sure, they might be homeless people, or box car hobos, but they could very well be old prospectors. An abundance of old prospectors is a sure sign of a pending rush.
I'm sure Disney will whore the hell out of the Pixar brand. However I doubt they'll abandon their creative process. That's really why they're acquiring Pixar.
How about giving the guy some constructive criticism as opposed to taking a crap in his hat? I know everyone likes to be a-know-it-all on the inter web, but truth is, we don't really know what is employment situation and personal life are like.
That said, he sounds pretty bummed out, and he probably doesn't have a lot of experience with handling these situations. He's fresh out of college. It's takes a while before you learn to deal with the crappy nature of real life.
If I were him I would spend a few days collecting my thoughts to confront my employer in a constructive way.
If he has a lot of responsibility (which is sounds like he does), his employer probably would prefer more then 2 weeks notice. Finding and training a replacement in 2 weeks is a royal pain in the ass. Often advanced notice benefits both the employer and the person leaving. The employer has time to collect themselves and utilize the employee to train a new person. Moreover, if the employer knows you're leaving, he / she might be more inclined to let you go to an interview.
That being said... it also helps to drop a good lie in there. Say you're leaving town, going into teaching, whatever. Or, hell, say someone else offered you a job already. That's what I did last time. Yet when I left for interviews, I said they were background checks, introductory meetings, or whatever.
No one ever sees their old boss ever again... so lie away.
No one in their right mind would spend 7 billion dollars on a brand... especially when they already own the IPs associated with that brand. Disney wants the studio and the creative process associated with that studio.
Pixar will probably function as it has always functioned. Yet, they may have access to more money now.
Why is everyone rambling on about this being a "Flash Killer".... has anyone actually taken the time to follow the links to learn about the product?
Aside from the web design app, the suite is heavily focused on application design, prototyping, and development. Tools like interactive designer are treading in new waters.
If earning a decent living AND doing something you love is important, that's not completely unrealistic.
No doubt, you may have to make some sacrifices. Perhaps you need to stay in school longer, perhaps you need to move, perhaps you need to take a crappy job that leads to a good job, or perhaps you need to simply do something you like a lot and are good at... as opposed to "love" and are mediocre at. Moreover, you need to have a plan with feasible and attainable goals. You need to be smart about it, and you need to be in for the long haul.
Personally, I think a lot of this stems from grade inflation and its many causes. Instructor compassion, bureaucratic initiatives that try and get everyone to "pass," easy degree programs that idiots flock to, etc.
I swear, for many instructors the "A" is the new "C." Moreover, the "C" is the new "D-;" however, it's a D- which allows you to attain a prerequisite and move on to the next class.
Additionally, the bachelor's degree is the new high school degree, and the master's degree is the new bachelor's degree, with the exception of the MBA. The MBA is the new high school degree with sprinkles on top.
I also blame may of our educational systems problems on the ellipsis... fuck the ellipsis.
Are you talking about undergrad students she works with? Grad schools tend not to look at SAT scores. Admission tends to be based upon other writing tests, letters of rec, resumes, past work, undergrad GPA, etc.
Ya, but if your upstream sucks, as it does with a LOT of US broadband connections, then your download speed is limited by BT. I can download at about 1200Kps, but I can only upload at about 300Kps.
It takes me hours to download a show on BT. I can watch a show off iTunes in a mater of minutes.
Yup, compared to the current powerbooks, the new MacBooks ship with a higher wattage battery and power adaptor. Moreover, battery life at MacWorld wasn't very impressive. The demo machines were estimating 3 hours on a full charge.
Well, iTunes shows also lack commercials and also go online the very next day. But these are legal and download a hell of a lot faster then they would on BT.
Although I'm fairly disappointed in the way Apple delivers their TV content (too small, can't burn to DVD, etc), iTunes is the reason I have started to tune into shows such as The Office.
Moreover, it's the only (legal) way I can watch Battlestar Galactica on a weekly basis.
Of course... 3D games, by their very nature, fool the brain into thinking an environment is detailed. Look at the oldest trick in the book.... the creation of a wall. If a developer never needs to show you the back or the sides of a wall, they'll simply show you a plane that looks like a wall:shrug:
Moreover, that plane will totally disappear and won't even draw itself once it's out of your line of site. If you can't see it, it doesn't exist.... literally;) (well, maybe the bounding box)
If they're surveying a random selection of businesses that use computers linux adoptions is going to be very very veeeeery small.
However, if they only survey large enterprises, you're going to find a substantially higher rate of linux adoption. The operating system is applicable to those environments, and at a large scale you're saving millions of dollars. Small businesses would probably end up paying more to utilize linux since it requires someone more knowledgeable then the kid next door who's good with networking and installing services packs.
Moreover, if they are surveying large enterprises (which I imagine they are), one needs to remember that the enterprise business environment in the states is different the then it is down under. The shear size and number of big evil mustachioed corporations is on another scale in the states.
As a child I read Back to the Future 2: The Novel for a book report. I should submit my review.
Slashdot will probably post it among 3 different stories about iPods, one stories about some technical something that is slightly more popular then in used to be, a double post of a story that wasn't all that cool, and something about Microsoft sucking.
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Wouldn't that be like forcing a car company to produce crappy cars so 3rd party mechanics wouldn't go out of business?
Dude, Paying twice as much for RAM is a good deal. Paying more means it's good.
Considering that many of use where shit on by our employers when the bubble popped, that description might not be too far off the mark.
It might not be a bubble or a boom... it could be a rush. I have noticed a lot of grizzled men wandering around the bay area lately. Sure, they might be homeless people, or box car hobos, but they could very well be old prospectors. An abundance of old prospectors is a sure sign of a pending rush.
True... their own brands.
I'm sure Disney will whore the hell out of the Pixar brand. However I doubt they'll abandon their creative process. That's really why they're acquiring Pixar.
What about EFI?
This is "insightful?"
How about giving the guy some constructive criticism as opposed to taking a crap in his hat? I know everyone likes to be a-know-it-all on the inter web, but truth is, we don't really know what is employment situation and personal life are like.
That said, he sounds pretty bummed out, and he probably doesn't have a lot of experience with handling these situations. He's fresh out of college. It's takes a while before you learn to deal with the crappy nature of real life.
If I were him I would spend a few days collecting my thoughts to confront my employer in a constructive way.
If he has a lot of responsibility (which is sounds like he does), his employer probably would prefer more then 2 weeks notice. Finding and training a replacement in 2 weeks is a royal pain in the ass. Often advanced notice benefits both the employer and the person leaving. The employer has time to collect themselves and utilize the employee to train a new person. Moreover, if the employer knows you're leaving, he / she might be more inclined to let you go to an interview.
That being said... it also helps to drop a good lie in there. Say you're leaving town, going into teaching, whatever. Or, hell, say someone else offered you a job already. That's what I did last time. Yet when I left for interviews, I said they were background checks, introductory meetings, or whatever.
No one ever sees their old boss ever again... so lie away.
Pixar is far from dead.
No one in their right mind would spend 7 billion dollars on a brand... especially when they already own the IPs associated with that brand. Disney wants the studio and the creative process associated with that studio.
Pixar will probably function as it has always functioned. Yet, they may have access to more money now.
Why is everyone rambling on about this being a "Flash Killer".... has anyone actually taken the time to follow the links to learn about the product?
Aside from the web design app, the suite is heavily focused on application design, prototyping, and development. Tools like interactive designer are treading in new waters.
If earning a decent living AND doing something you love is important, that's not completely unrealistic.
No doubt, you may have to make some sacrifices. Perhaps you need to stay in school longer, perhaps you need to move, perhaps you need to take a crappy job that leads to a good job, or perhaps you need to simply do something you like a lot and are good at... as opposed to "love" and are mediocre at. Moreover, you need to have a plan with feasible and attainable goals. You need to be smart about it, and you need to be in for the long haul.
Err... the article didn't say that.
The data was gathered in the UK and therefore the conclusions were specifically pertinent to the UK, although applicable to the US.
Note: Give it up for my excessive typos in a post about our declining educational system.
Personally, I think a lot of this stems from grade inflation and its many causes. Instructor compassion, bureaucratic initiatives that try and get everyone to "pass," easy degree programs that idiots flock to, etc.
I swear, for many instructors the "A" is the new "C." Moreover, the "C" is the new "D-;" however, it's a D- which allows you to attain a prerequisite and move on to the next class.
Additionally, the bachelor's degree is the new high school degree, and the master's degree is the new bachelor's degree, with the exception of the MBA. The MBA is the new high school degree with sprinkles on top.
I also blame may of our educational systems problems on the ellipsis... fuck the ellipsis.
Are you talking about undergrad students she works with? Grad schools tend not to look at SAT scores. Admission tends to be based upon other writing tests, letters of rec, resumes, past work, undergrad GPA, etc.
A gay man... acting?
I mean, ya, so what if the gay actor stereotype has been around since man invented fire... Star Trek was the first show to beam a gay man.
Agreed, my new AI powerbook gets about 2 hours.
All things considered, you probably won't want to migrate a large enterprise to Vista until sometime in 2008 or 2009. Seriously.
Ya, but if your upstream sucks, as it does with a LOT of US broadband connections, then your download speed is limited by BT.
I can download at about 1200Kps, but I can only upload at about 300Kps.
It takes me hours to download a show on BT. I can watch a show off iTunes in a mater of minutes.
Yup, compared to the current powerbooks, the new MacBooks ship with a higher wattage battery and power adaptor.
Moreover, battery life at MacWorld wasn't very impressive. The demo machines were estimating 3 hours on a full charge.
Well, iTunes shows also lack commercials and also go online the very next day. But these are legal and download a hell of a lot faster then they would on BT.
Although I'm fairly disappointed in the way Apple delivers their TV content (too small, can't burn to DVD, etc), iTunes is the reason I have started to tune into shows such as The Office.
Moreover, it's the only (legal) way I can watch Battlestar Galactica on a weekly basis.
I think I might enjoy it if I could customize it to track particular labels, genres, and artists.
I find it pretty damn worthless in it's current state. All it does is recommend crappy music that I don't care about.
Of course... 3D games, by their very nature, fool the brain into thinking an environment is detailed. Look at the oldest trick in the book.... the creation of a wall. If a developer never needs to show you the back or the sides of a wall, they'll simply show you a plane that looks like a wall :shrug:
;) (well, maybe the bounding box)
Moreover, that plane will totally disappear and won't even draw itself once it's out of your line of site. If you can't see it, it doesn't exist.... literally
18%.... Who are they surveying?
If they're surveying a random selection of businesses that use computers linux adoptions is going to be very very veeeeery small.
However, if they only survey large enterprises, you're going to find a substantially higher rate of linux adoption. The operating system is applicable to those environments, and at a large scale you're saving millions of dollars. Small businesses would probably end up paying more to utilize linux since it requires someone more knowledgeable then the kid next door who's good with networking and installing services packs.
Moreover, if they are surveying large enterprises (which I imagine they are), one needs to remember that the enterprise business environment in the states is different the then it is down under. The shear size and number of big evil mustachioed corporations is on another scale in the states.
As a child I read Back to the Future 2: The Novel for a book report. I should submit my review.
Slashdot will probably post it among 3 different stories about iPods, one stories about some technical something that is slightly more popular then in used to be, a double post of a story that wasn't all that cool, and something about Microsoft sucking.