A large market of people who buy and play games on phones is worth more than the smaller market of people who buy and play games on computers. Phone games cost much less to develop, but also provide much larger margins when they hit. This lower cost allows more nimble execution by smaller development teams and more product portfolio diversification. Why wouldn't I copycat a successful game design? It saves me money. As for outsourcing, what business wouldn't provide a particular quality point at a lower price point? And as for overall quality, why would they provide more than the consumers demand without charging more?
More importantly, why do the gamesters think their little fantasy world should be more immune to economic impulses in the real world than any other software product? In reality, your entertainment software is of much less importance than a lot of other software out there (or that could be out there) that costs less to develop and probably provides a lot more benefit. And, if you're too lazy as a customer to do anything about it, why come bitching to us?
TL;DR version: Gamesters be hatin' on the big C - Capitalism - and their lack of power under its system.
[1]: CS and IT get relatively little respect as a profession compared to others that take as much education and experience.
Well, we have no accreditation, generally require a BS to get a job and, other than that, there's no real rule about who does what in our jobs and who can do it, which sort of puts us in the same professionalism category as Starbucks baristas. Unless you want to start talking seriously about things like "credentials" and "standards".
20K every two months is in the range for Senior Software Engineers here in the Portland, OR Area. In the absolute sense, this is "big bucks" as it's above the median salary in the US. On the other hand, if it's what I'm getting paid for doing now? Not so much.
The perception of "big bucks" has three components - a higher salary, less effort, or more security/less risk for future payment streams. Coming up with compelling video presentations on various subjects seems to achieve none of these.
Everyone knows you don't go see Katy Perry for her astounding vocal range or emotional nuance or, on some nights, even how well she dances. You go see something I think of as "The Katy Perry Concert and Entertainment Spectacular". Yeah, it's centered around someone named Katy Perry, but it's the show that's the star - sort of the Cirque du Soleil of music. But it has to be like that for an arena show, doesn't it?
As for the sound quality - you try getting even halfway decent sound in a fucking stadium. The fact that the singers and dancers could still work without having reflected sound throw them off is a fucking miracle in its own right. And you're lucky the reflected sound wasn't loud enough in the vocal mikes to make it sound like crap anyhow. You actually got a fairly clean sound for a live performance. Especially in a fucking arena.
You should see this for what this is - one of the very few performers whose crew could stand up a show like this, carry it off in a technically competent manner, and be the better one of these (Superbowl halftimes) I've seen in essentially a lifetime of watching these things.
getting in trouble in grade school for calling someone a homo sapiens
Yeah, but did you call him a homo sapiens or a homo sapiens? Methinks grade school conversation involving that particular phrase would not come up randomly. That the phrase involved also had a word associated with impugning another's sexuality (or seen that way for most in grade school - with any luck, someday we will move beyond that particular word), would seem to indicate some sort of malicious intent. Maybe she also understood that you were smart enough to know the phrase would be received. I can see why the teacher was suspicious.
Yes, your teacher may have been an asshole about it, but, honestly, do you actually think (a) you should have gotten away with provoking another kid (albeit in a clever manner) or (b) gotten told not to be an asshole yourself? The teacher simply chose (b) - a wise choice, in my opinion. The lesson you should have learned is "If everyone around you looks like an asshole, maybe you're the asshole". In this case, I think an asshole is probably the most appropriate kind of person to transmit these important messages. But then, if it were me, I'd probably hang the other kid on trumped-up charges for being a snitch, kick both of your asses, and suspend you each for three days just to teach the rest of the class a lesson. When you came back, I'd make you X's life partner in class and leave a notation in your permanent record that would, in some way, make sure that you and X were linked for the remainder of your educational career. Maybe that's why I'm not a teacher. IMHO, the only malady your teachers were suffering from was a strange restraint or lack of imagination when it came to punishment.
Embassies? Military protection? Original education, roads, and infrastructure that got you overseas, rather than keeping you in a hovel in a ghetto? If you don't want to support the country, give up your citizenship. Then you don't need to worry about the US or its taxes or laws unless you come back.
An undying devotion to their craft and diligence towards completing their projects so strong it blinds them to how poorly they are treated (I would say paid, but that's subset of "treated").
It didn't seem to worry them much when they sited one of their US data centers in The Dalles. So your brilliant prediction of corporate fear of some awful legal tax threat that a minor US state might attempt to bring against Google which would be swatted down by a dozen courts before the legislature wet its pants to repeal that law appears to be just a wee bit... wrong, shall we say?
Why is double taxation unfair? It's just an alternate manner of distributing a higher tax rate. You just view it as unfair because our tax laws are normally written in terms of single level tax rules from any given taxing authority. In reality, they usually are not formulated as multiple levels of taxation because (a) it complicates things and (b) conservatives like to use the argument that somehow, multiple taxes on the same money is somehow unfair. I'm already taxed multiple times on the same income by different taxing authority (at least my state seems to think so) and no one seems to see that as unfair - you may consider the tax too high, but there's nothing in any of this process that's particularly unfair. What is unfair is different people having different laws for taxation for irrelevant reasons.
I wish you would have restricted your post to this:
That's happening more and more. I find myself going to web sites looking for manuals and specs, and all they have these days are videos. I don't want videos, I want text, with orders of magnitudes higher information density, searchable and editable.
and not added the rest of your rant which basically said nothing useful and turned your post into a festival of butthurt comments.
I would have liked to have comment on the video stuff, which is a pet peeve of mine. But no, you had to have your little tantrum and turn your comment into stupid. You fucking moron. Not everyone needs to know fucking computer systems all the way from the cloud down to solid state physics (though it is helpful, to which I can attest) to program. Applications programmers will be with us always and, in many cases, as long as there is a good system backstopping it and catching errors, good enough often is good enough, as long as they stick to coloring within their lines and don't try to get too fancy.
Probably not. Your toast, besides having changes in its protein structures, has other physical changes that still can't be undone - we can't convert caramelized sugar back into it's regular form because a portion of that sugar has burned to carbon (part of what forms the color of the toasted bread), the fats burns, as do, actually, some of the proteins.
But this research does show what could be achieved with judicious use of nanotechnology - perhaps burnt areas could be classified, their carbon atoms mapped, their most likely molecules derived and those molecules reconstructed by a goo that, when heated, turns into raspberry jam. All-in-all, great progress towards the worldwide burnt toast scourge has been forged.
More seriously, wouldn't you just love to have your work (which you've probably spent years in creating) become the butt of a bunch of stupid food jokes because your stupid press office came up with this stupid examples of untangling proteins? Poor, poor researchers... What a world.
The fact is, most people are safe enough drivers most of the time. Except for when they're not.FTFY. Very few drivers are "safe" in any particularly strict sense of the term. Myself included. We're sort of like Windows code in that respect. Safe enough? Yes, as long as they're properly monitored and regulated. Other than that? I wouldn't share a road with them, if I had a choice.
Not to mention the area he's wanting to hire the EE for (RF design for 801.x drivers are a lot different than power systems guys, which is different than digital design for chips).
If he's really interviewed over 100 people either (a) he's not paying enough, (b) he's in some place no one wants to live, (c) he wants someone who's both an expert RF and power system guy (or someone who's a mixture of two similarly incompatible subspecialties), or (d) an asshole no one wants to work with.
Given the original post, I got a feeling that the real reason is (d), but since I'm feeling charitable, I'll assume the real reason is a mix of all four.
According to Wikipedia, he's hanging around the Episcopal Christ Church of the Ascension in Paradise Valley, AZ. You might be able to dig him up there!
Thank you! Thank you! I'll be here all week! Tip your servers. Try the veal!
My objection to things like this are the false belief it instills that all you need to do to learn to be good at this is go to community college for a while, where you'll be taught by other people who aren't good at coding. If they were good, they'd be doing it, not making peanuts teaching community college.
That's not necessarily true. There are many folks who are quite good teaching at the CC level. Many are PhDs and want to make a bit more money while working on their post docs. Others want a bit more income, because normal programmer jobs in many places don't pay six figures. Many want to share the knowledge that they've acquired over twenty or thirty years of software engineering practice that's sadly discounted by most employers. And they're usually a damn sight better at design and teaching than the latest moron standing up an RR instance on a web server while building the latest social media bullshit app.
The real problem with the whole "Let's teach everyone to code" idea? Not enough coding jobs, even if you did train this many people. How about we train everyone how to fix cars? Then we can all make money fixing everyone else's car! Oh, wait...
Either the US figures out that wealth and income need to be spread more widely so that more demand is created and business grows because of that, rather than via ever more convoluted and harsh predatory financial and business behavior targeted upon their customers and the rest of the world, or it is toast.
Why yes. That ishow our local communities decide. Why do you hate democratically-elected officials making decisions so much? Would you rather have no elections? Or no government? Since the last two seem to not lead to anything but suffering, perhaps you have some novel idea as to how to structure government so as not to have these problems. I'd love to hear your ideas, unless you're just a complaining asshat.
.. at least not soon. The fact is that the human body was not designed - it evolved. And it evolved with all of these random chemical cross-linkages (in fact, this bizarre randomness is a main point of evidence that it was not designed). So when you find a therapy, it often interacts with several body systems. And quite often those actions have negative impacts on the system, as well as positive (it's why so many of the newer drugs have so many bad side effects). So it's a messy problem.
Silicon Valley has thrived using the technique cutting through problems by simplifying and disintermediating them. As such, they believe that any problem can be solved by doing this. Do I really need to say that this will not solve this particular problem? OK, I'll say it... It won't.
Removal from the biological matrix is a prerequisite for significant life extension (if by "life", we really mean "lifespan of our instance of sentience"), just as removal from the physical matrix is a prerequisite to eternal existence.
If you're pissed off at Google for not fixing defects in older versions of Android, you can always switch to an iPhone or a Microsoft Windows phone. Why are you folks always whining about corporate decisions that make financial sense? Unless, of course, you're willing to something and make those "financial decisions" hurt the corporation involved.
Don't like how Google won't fix bugs? Don't buy an Android next time.
Unless you also want to say that the free market doesn't fix everything. There's a reason for various regulations concerning warranty and support regulations. Especially for vital telecom infrastructure.
And you don't talk scientifically unless you have an alternative theory, which to the best of our recollection, you have none. The best we can discern from your interminable hostility is that you don't think there's anything worth worrying about which, although highly indicative of your internal state, says little about the world itself. Why should we listen to you? No theory. No science. You're as far away from science as you could be.
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A large market of people who buy and play games on phones is worth more than the smaller market of people who buy and play games on computers. Phone games cost much less to develop, but also provide much larger margins when they hit. This lower cost allows more nimble execution by smaller development teams and more product portfolio diversification. Why wouldn't I copycat a successful game design? It saves me money. As for outsourcing, what business wouldn't provide a particular quality point at a lower price point? And as for overall quality, why would they provide more than the consumers demand without charging more?
More importantly, why do the gamesters think their little fantasy world should be more immune to economic impulses in the real world than any other software product? In reality, your entertainment software is of much less importance than a lot of other software out there (or that could be out there) that costs less to develop and probably provides a lot more benefit. And, if you're too lazy as a customer to do anything about it, why come bitching to us?
TL;DR version: Gamesters be hatin' on the big C - Capitalism - and their lack of power under its system.
[1]: CS and IT get relatively little respect as a profession compared to others that take as much education and experience.
Well, we have no accreditation, generally require a BS to get a job and, other than that, there's no real rule about who does what in our jobs and who can do it, which sort of puts us in the same professionalism category as Starbucks baristas. Unless you want to start talking seriously about things like "credentials" and "standards".
20K every two months is in the range for Senior Software Engineers here in the Portland, OR Area. In the absolute sense, this is "big bucks" as it's above the median salary in the US. On the other hand, if it's what I'm getting paid for doing now? Not so much.
The perception of "big bucks" has three components - a higher salary, less effort, or more security/less risk for future payment streams. Coming up with compelling video presentations on various subjects seems to achieve none of these.
Everyone knows you don't go see Katy Perry for her astounding vocal range or emotional nuance or, on some nights, even how well she dances. You go see something I think of as "The Katy Perry Concert and Entertainment Spectacular". Yeah, it's centered around someone named Katy Perry, but it's the show that's the star - sort of the Cirque du Soleil of music. But it has to be like that for an arena show, doesn't it?
As for the sound quality - you try getting even halfway decent sound in a fucking stadium. The fact that the singers and dancers could still work without having reflected sound throw them off is a fucking miracle in its own right. And you're lucky the reflected sound wasn't loud enough in the vocal mikes to make it sound like crap anyhow. You actually got a fairly clean sound for a live performance. Especially in a fucking arena.
You should see this for what this is - one of the very few performers whose crew could stand up a show like this, carry it off in a technically competent manner, and be the better one of these (Superbowl halftimes) I've seen in essentially a lifetime of watching these things.
getting in trouble in grade school for calling someone a homo sapiens
Yeah, but did you call him a homo sapiens or a homo sapiens? Methinks grade school conversation involving that particular phrase would not come up randomly. That the phrase involved also had a word associated with impugning another's sexuality (or seen that way for most in grade school - with any luck, someday we will move beyond that particular word), would seem to indicate some sort of malicious intent. Maybe she also understood that you were smart enough to know the phrase would be received. I can see why the teacher was suspicious.
Yes, your teacher may have been an asshole about it, but, honestly, do you actually think (a) you should have gotten away with provoking another kid (albeit in a clever manner) or (b) gotten told not to be an asshole yourself? The teacher simply chose (b) - a wise choice, in my opinion. The lesson you should have learned is "If everyone around you looks like an asshole, maybe you're the asshole". In this case, I think an asshole is probably the most appropriate kind of person to transmit these important messages. But then, if it were me, I'd probably hang the other kid on trumped-up charges for being a snitch, kick both of your asses, and suspend you each for three days just to teach the rest of the class a lesson. When you came back, I'd make you X's life partner in class and leave a notation in your permanent record that would, in some way, make sure that you and X were linked for the remainder of your educational career. Maybe that's why I'm not a teacher. IMHO, the only malady your teachers were suffering from was a strange restraint or lack of imagination when it came to punishment.
Embassies? Military protection? Original education, roads, and infrastructure that got you overseas, rather than keeping you in a hovel in a ghetto? If you don't want to support the country, give up your citizenship. Then you don't need to worry about the US or its taxes or laws unless you come back.
You know, I haven't used Outlook in a year and a half. Gmail and Google Calendar seem to be doing fine for me.
An undying devotion to their craft and diligence towards completing their projects so strong it blinds them to how poorly they are treated (I would say paid, but that's subset of "treated").
It didn't seem to worry them much when they sited one of their US data centers in The Dalles. So your brilliant prediction of corporate fear of some awful legal tax threat that a minor US state might attempt to bring against Google which would be swatted down by a dozen courts before the legislature wet its pants to repeal that law appears to be just a wee bit... wrong, shall we say?
Income taxes are not the only taxes. What happens to those figures when you include all taxes, not just income?
You seem to be suffering from the same ailment.
Why is double taxation unfair? It's just an alternate manner of distributing a higher tax rate. You just view it as unfair because our tax laws are normally written in terms of single level tax rules from any given taxing authority. In reality, they usually are not formulated as multiple levels of taxation because (a) it complicates things and (b) conservatives like to use the argument that somehow, multiple taxes on the same money is somehow unfair. I'm already taxed multiple times on the same income by different taxing authority (at least my state seems to think so) and no one seems to see that as unfair - you may consider the tax too high, but there's nothing in any of this process that's particularly unfair. What is unfair is different people having different laws for taxation for irrelevant reasons.
I wish you would have restricted your post to this:
and not added the rest of your rant which basically said nothing useful and turned your post into a festival of butthurt comments.
I would have liked to have comment on the video stuff, which is a pet peeve of mine. But no, you had to have your little tantrum and turn your comment into stupid. You fucking moron. Not everyone needs to know fucking computer systems all the way from the cloud down to solid state physics (though it is helpful, to which I can attest) to program. Applications programmers will be with us always and, in many cases, as long as there is a good system backstopping it and catching errors, good enough often is good enough, as long as they stick to coloring within their lines and don't try to get too fancy.
Probably not. Your toast, besides having changes in its protein structures, has other physical changes that still can't be undone - we can't convert caramelized sugar back into it's regular form because a portion of that sugar has burned to carbon (part of what forms the color of the toasted bread), the fats burns, as do, actually, some of the proteins.
But this research does show what could be achieved with judicious use of nanotechnology - perhaps burnt areas could be classified, their carbon atoms mapped, their most likely molecules derived and those molecules reconstructed by a goo that, when heated, turns into raspberry jam. All-in-all, great progress towards the worldwide burnt toast scourge has been forged.
More seriously, wouldn't you just love to have your work (which you've probably spent years in creating) become the butt of a bunch of stupid food jokes because your stupid press office came up with this stupid examples of untangling proteins? Poor, poor researchers... What a world.
I AM having good luck.
No you aren't. You're in Texas. The two are mutually exclusive.
The fact is, most people are safe enough drivers most of the time. Except for when they're not.FTFY. Very few drivers are "safe" in any particularly strict sense of the term. Myself included. We're sort of like Windows code in that respect. Safe enough? Yes, as long as they're properly monitored and regulated. Other than that? I wouldn't share a road with them, if I had a choice.
Not to mention the area he's wanting to hire the EE for (RF design for 801.x drivers are a lot different than power systems guys, which is different than digital design for chips).
If he's really interviewed over 100 people either (a) he's not paying enough, (b) he's in some place no one wants to live, (c) he wants someone who's both an expert RF and power system guy (or someone who's a mixture of two similarly incompatible subspecialties), or (d) an asshole no one wants to work with.
Given the original post, I got a feeling that the real reason is (d), but since I'm feeling charitable, I'll assume the real reason is a mix of all four.
According to Wikipedia, he's hanging around the Episcopal Christ Church of the Ascension in Paradise Valley, AZ. You might be able to dig him up there!
Thank you! Thank you! I'll be here all week! Tip your servers. Try the veal!
My objection to things like this are the false belief it instills that all you need to do to learn to be good at this is go to community college for a while, where you'll be taught by other people who aren't good at coding. If they were good, they'd be doing it, not making peanuts teaching community college.
That's not necessarily true. There are many folks who are quite good teaching at the CC level. Many are PhDs and want to make a bit more money while working on their post docs. Others want a bit more income, because normal programmer jobs in many places don't pay six figures. Many want to share the knowledge that they've acquired over twenty or thirty years of software engineering practice that's sadly discounted by most employers. And they're usually a damn sight better at design and teaching than the latest moron standing up an RR instance on a web server while building the latest social media bullshit app.
The real problem with the whole "Let's teach everyone to code" idea? Not enough coding jobs, even if you did train this many people. How about we train everyone how to fix cars? Then we can all make money fixing everyone else's car! Oh, wait...
The end game comes shortly.
Either the US figures out that wealth and income need to be spread more widely so that more demand is created and business grows because of that, rather than via ever more convoluted and harsh predatory financial and business behavior targeted upon their customers and the rest of the world, or it is toast.
That is all.
Why yes. That ishow our local communities decide. Why do you hate democratically-elected officials making decisions so much? Would you rather have no elections? Or no government? Since the last two seem to not lead to anything but suffering, perhaps you have some novel idea as to how to structure government so as not to have these problems. I'd love to hear your ideas, unless you're just a complaining asshat.
Two words: boobs.
.. at least not soon. The fact is that the human body was not designed - it evolved. And it evolved with all of these random chemical cross-linkages (in fact, this bizarre randomness is a main point of evidence that it was not designed). So when you find a therapy, it often interacts with several body systems. And quite often those actions have negative impacts on the system, as well as positive (it's why so many of the newer drugs have so many bad side effects). So it's a messy problem.
Silicon Valley has thrived using the technique cutting through problems by simplifying and disintermediating them. As such, they believe that any problem can be solved by doing this. Do I really need to say that this will not solve this particular problem? OK, I'll say it... It won't.
Removal from the biological matrix is a prerequisite for significant life extension (if by "life", we really mean "lifespan of our instance of sentience"), just as removal from the physical matrix is a prerequisite to eternal existence.
If you're pissed off at Google for not fixing defects in older versions of Android, you can always switch to an iPhone or a Microsoft Windows phone. Why are you folks always whining about corporate decisions that make financial sense? Unless, of course, you're willing to something and make those "financial decisions" hurt the corporation involved.
Don't like how Google won't fix bugs? Don't buy an Android next time.
Unless you also want to say that the free market doesn't fix everything. There's a reason for various regulations concerning warranty and support regulations. Especially for vital telecom infrastructure.
And you don't talk scientifically unless you have an alternative theory, which to the best of our recollection, you have none. The best we can discern from your interminable hostility is that you don't think there's anything worth worrying about which, although highly indicative of your internal state, says little about the world itself. Why should we listen to you? No theory. No science. You're as far away from science as you could be.