Read a bit further. It's often the guys who already have connections (networking!) that do that. The guys who do the MBA route and just party most of the time and have no job-safety net are the ones that end up back at home wondering why nobody will hire them.
For the record (because of a personal attack in another part of this thread), I've graduated, gotten a decent job, and am married now.
It's certainly never been "cool" to be a programmer, but for a while there it looked like that was the way to go to earn massive $$$. Dot Com crazyness was in full swing and many of the students who would normally get MBAs tried the CS route instead in the hopes of getting some of that fat venture capital and possibly ride the bubble.
Those days are over (for now) and those students have gone back to pre-law or MBA courses. Also, the fact of the matter is that in a CS cirriculum (like engineering), you're going to work twice as long as your English/History/MBA friends who are always out partying and never seem to study. You'll be taking the "hard" math courses while they're learning how to draw graphs incorrectly in Economics. They'll have plenty of time for shmoozing with girls while you work on two projects until late in the night. When you graduate, they may very well make more money than you (or they'll end up broke and living with their parents, depending on how good their network is by the time they get out of college).
On the other hand, you'll be creating something that will be useful to people. Those guys will often only manufacture bullshit for the rest of their life.
Switched back to vinyl? Why even bother running thet test? You already knew how it was going to turn out. Anybody who's still listening to vinyl doesn't care about the technical merits of what they're listening to, they just want whatever makes it sound as close to vinyl as possible.
Eh, if you're going to test every possible hardware difference (this is just a slightly faster clockspeed on the main processor) you'll never get it out the door. I mean there are what, 16 different versions of the PS2? Somehow I doubt people run their full set of tests on every single model for each game.
That doesn't mean they can just copy and paste the code into OSX. Besides, access to the API is not necessarily the same thing as access to the source. If the plan involves "writing functions that mimic the original Windows API" at any point, then it's a non-starter. Just look at the Wine project. They've been working for over a decade now and they still can't run most applications.
Or it could actually be a bit faster (maybe 5-10%). Microsoft would have to remind the deveopers to target the original model (not that they should need the reminder, there are already millions of them out there), but for people who buy the newer system they may not get some of the minor slowdowns on some games that people with older systems report.
Mostly, I think it'll just run cooler and put less load on the power brick though, which is a good thing.
The other thing I'd like to point out is that what he's proposing involves rewriting a massive portion of Windows itself, something Microsoft has spent decades working on. He expects Apples magical engineers to just whip out a feature complete copy of the Windows API in just a few months?
One thing that concerns me about making all of these copies is that it seems like a quick and easy way to blow out your L2 cache. That could in the long run have a worse performance penalty than having to play the VM tricks with CoW.
What I want the most: A feature you can enable to disallow application focus grabbing.
I hate typing away on some document only to have another application pop up a "Yes/No" dialog box that steals focus. Worse, if I'm typing fast, often the box will do whatever the default is (whatever space does usually) before I can even read it. The worst is when you have one of those background applications that for one reason or another feels the need to open and close new windows (stealing focus from whatever you're doing) randomly every few seconds.
You can download a copy of msh for free if you want to play around with it.
I tried it for awhile, but it was cumbersome to use IMHO. While I'm sure there are some cool concepts in there, it felt like I was typing out 80 characters to do even the simplest thing every time.
So, you abused the moderation system and then were denied access to it? I can see how people would think that's unfair.
To be honest, a lot of these "F'ing censoring bastards!" posts come from trolls who hate seeing a particularly good troll post get canned. If you're trying to game the system and get called on it, don't be surprised when you lose privleges. That's all I'm saying.
Because then you need to go to the client's (or sponsors) building for something and you're out in Nevada when they're all in California. Jobs rightly pointed out that they could have picked up a lot of land much cheaper if they moved further away, but they wanted their new campus to be within spitting distance of the old one.
No matter how good your VTC solutions and phone system are, there are some things that just have to be done in person.
The power pad was a big miss though. The problem with it was that the developers were more or less completely stuck on the track and field mentality with the thing, and frankly, running in place for 15 minutes gets boring quick. They came real close to having an early version of DDR with Dance Aerobics, but the implementation just fell short. I think they could have done so much more with that pad, but it ended up in the dustbin of history next to ROB and the Power Glove.
The Guitar Hero controller has a tilt sensor in it, which is sort of a primitive form of motion detection.
Anyway, most of the time these technologies havn't taken off because they just plain don't work. The power glove was almost impossible to use, the stupid Sega octogon grid thing was flaky as all get out and on and on. If Nintendo actually gets the motion sensing to work properly on the Revolution, it will truely be a revolution.
People lie because it makes them look better on charts like this.
Some of the numbers are pretty decent. Some companies are forced to report the number of active subscriptions they have because they're publicly traded and need to release membership statistics to their shareholders. Others are far more vague and are based on things like press releases and other marketing spin.
This chart is largely thought to be bogus in many circles. Lots of MMOs overreport their subscriber bases or do sneaky stuff like count every single person who tried out their 15 day free demo (even if they didn't join) as a free subscriber.
Even so, it looks like WoW really took the wind out of the sails of Lineage and Lineage II.
I always thought that was just an attempt to stroke Japanese Egos.
Most likely, SMB2 performed poorly (despite selling a TON of inital games) because it was too freaking hard for average human beings. I suspect a lot of Japanese kids moved on to less brutally punishing games (like SMB1) and complained a lot that it was just insane. Of course I don't have sales figures from Japan 1987 to coorroborate this, but I know excessively hard games can easily fall out of the "fun challenge" into the "screw this" category.
Yeah, but try calling Adobe (for instance) and asking for a file to decrypt PDFs for educational (as in university) use. Sure there's an exeption in there, but nobody pays attention to it. They just claim it's a DMCA thing and hang up on you.
I wouldn't be surprised to hear that argument. I mean this is no doubt the same camp that believes that Sex Ed promotes promiscuity and that the only thing schools should do is hand out a pamphlet that says "Sex is evil, don't think about it until you're married."
That's not an entirely fair comparison, a PC with a graphics engine is considerably easier for an amateur developer to work with than a PS2. If the PS2 was OSSed, I'd expect some emulator engines (ScummVM, NES, SNES) to pop up (along with shady side businesses selling emulator+roms) and maybe a few demos and trivial games, but that's about it. Maybe, maybe, a few years down the road we get a couple of decent homebrew games and a bunch of niche games and ports, but I wouldn't expect to see an explosion of user developed content. The PS2 is just to hard to develop for. While it might be kind of fun to see tuxracer running on a PS2, it's pure novelty.
I could see Sony releasing a PS1 development environment for free now, since it'd be a decent teaching tool and wouldn't cut into their profit margin (nobody licenses the PSx development engine anymore AFAIK), but even that is a bit of a streach.
This is new on Slashdot, but it's been around in SL for some time now. The only problem: some of the dealers were a bit shady and as a result there are big hundred post long flamewars on the forums about the whole concept. It's basically just an RP thing, although some people are apparently worried out of their mind that same sex couples will have virtual babies and get a taste for the real thing.
The whole thing sounds dumb to me, but hey, SL is a big RP environment and if people want to RP being pregnant and having a baby, that's not my concern.
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Hopefully this will work as well as the slow frog boil thing.
Read a bit further. It's often the guys who already have connections (networking!) that do that. The guys who do the MBA route and just party most of the time and have no job-safety net are the ones that end up back at home wondering why nobody will hire them.
For the record (because of a personal attack in another part of this thread), I've graduated, gotten a decent job, and am married now.
How do we know it was unsafe?
For all we know Cloud had to go on a side quest where he slotted up his condom with lube materia.
It's certainly never been "cool" to be a programmer, but for a while there it looked like that was the way to go to earn massive $$$. Dot Com crazyness was in full swing and many of the students who would normally get MBAs tried the CS route instead in the hopes of getting some of that fat venture capital and possibly ride the bubble.
Those days are over (for now) and those students have gone back to pre-law or MBA courses. Also, the fact of the matter is that in a CS cirriculum (like engineering), you're going to work twice as long as your English/History/MBA friends who are always out partying and never seem to study. You'll be taking the "hard" math courses while they're learning how to draw graphs incorrectly in Economics. They'll have plenty of time for shmoozing with girls while you work on two projects until late in the night. When you graduate, they may very well make more money than you (or they'll end up broke and living with their parents, depending on how good their network is by the time they get out of college).
On the other hand, you'll be creating something that will be useful to people. Those guys will often only manufacture bullshit for the rest of their life.
Switched back to vinyl? Why even bother running thet test? You already knew how it was going to turn out. Anybody who's still listening to vinyl doesn't care about the technical merits of what they're listening to, they just want whatever makes it sound as close to vinyl as possible.
Eh, if you're going to test every possible hardware difference (this is just a slightly faster clockspeed on the main processor) you'll never get it out the door. I mean there are what, 16 different versions of the PS2? Somehow I doubt people run their full set of tests on every single model for each game.
That doesn't mean they can just copy and paste the code into OSX. Besides, access to the API is not necessarily the same thing as access to the source. If the plan involves "writing functions that mimic the original Windows API" at any point, then it's a non-starter. Just look at the Wine project. They've been working for over a decade now and they still can't run most applications.
Or it could actually be a bit faster (maybe 5-10%). Microsoft would have to remind the deveopers to target the original model (not that they should need the reminder, there are already millions of them out there), but for people who buy the newer system they may not get some of the minor slowdowns on some games that people with older systems report.
Mostly, I think it'll just run cooler and put less load on the power brick though, which is a good thing.
The other thing I'd like to point out is that what he's proposing involves rewriting a massive portion of Windows itself, something Microsoft has spent decades working on. He expects Apples magical engineers to just whip out a feature complete copy of the Windows API in just a few months?
One thing that concerns me about making all of these copies is that it seems like a quick and easy way to blow out your L2 cache. That could in the long run have a worse performance penalty than having to play the VM tricks with CoW.
What I want the most: A feature you can enable to disallow application focus grabbing.
I hate typing away on some document only to have another application pop up a "Yes/No" dialog box that steals focus. Worse, if I'm typing fast, often the box will do whatever the default is (whatever space does usually) before I can even read it. The worst is when you have one of those background applications that for one reason or another feels the need to open and close new windows (stealing focus from whatever you're doing) randomly every few seconds.
You can download a copy of msh for free if you want to play around with it.
I tried it for awhile, but it was cumbersome to use IMHO. While I'm sure there are some cool concepts in there, it felt like I was typing out 80 characters to do even the simplest thing every time.
Groupthink like "We don't need any more penisbird posts".
So, you abused the moderation system and then were denied access to it? I can see how people would think that's unfair.
To be honest, a lot of these "F'ing censoring bastards!" posts come from trolls who hate seeing a particularly good troll post get canned. If you're trying to game the system and get called on it, don't be surprised when you lose privleges. That's all I'm saying.
Because then you need to go to the client's (or sponsors) building for something and you're out in Nevada when they're all in California. Jobs rightly pointed out that they could have picked up a lot of land much cheaper if they moved further away, but they wanted their new campus to be within spitting distance of the old one.
No matter how good your VTC solutions and phone system are, there are some things that just have to be done in person.
The power pad was a big miss though. The problem with it was that the developers were more or less completely stuck on the track and field mentality with the thing, and frankly, running in place for 15 minutes gets boring quick. They came real close to having an early version of DDR with Dance Aerobics, but the implementation just fell short. I think they could have done so much more with that pad, but it ended up in the dustbin of history next to ROB and the Power Glove.
The Guitar Hero controller has a tilt sensor in it, which is sort of a primitive form of motion detection.
Anyway, most of the time these technologies havn't taken off because they just plain don't work. The power glove was almost impossible to use, the stupid Sega octogon grid thing was flaky as all get out and on and on. If Nintendo actually gets the motion sensing to work properly on the Revolution, it will truely be a revolution.
You've never watched any political pundit shows have you? Good for you.
People lie because it makes them look better on charts like this.
Some of the numbers are pretty decent. Some companies are forced to report the number of active subscriptions they have because they're publicly traded and need to release membership statistics to their shareholders. Others are far more vague and are based on things like press releases and other marketing spin.
This chart is largely thought to be bogus in many circles. Lots of MMOs overreport their subscriber bases or do sneaky stuff like count every single person who tried out their 15 day free demo (even if they didn't join) as a free subscriber.
Even so, it looks like WoW really took the wind out of the sails of Lineage and Lineage II.
I always thought that was just an attempt to stroke Japanese Egos.
Most likely, SMB2 performed poorly (despite selling a TON of inital games) because it was too freaking hard for average human beings. I suspect a lot of Japanese kids moved on to less brutally punishing games (like SMB1) and complained a lot that it was just insane. Of course I don't have sales figures from Japan 1987 to coorroborate this, but I know excessively hard games can easily fall out of the "fun challenge" into the "screw this" category.
Yeah, but try calling Adobe (for instance) and asking for a file to decrypt PDFs for educational (as in university) use. Sure there's an exeption in there, but nobody pays attention to it. They just claim it's a DMCA thing and hang up on you.
I wouldn't be surprised to hear that argument. I mean this is no doubt the same camp that believes that Sex Ed promotes promiscuity and that the only thing schools should do is hand out a pamphlet that says "Sex is evil, don't think about it until you're married."
That's not an entirely fair comparison, a PC with a graphics engine is considerably easier for an amateur developer to work with than a PS2. If the PS2 was OSSed, I'd expect some emulator engines (ScummVM, NES, SNES) to pop up (along with shady side businesses selling emulator+roms) and maybe a few demos and trivial games, but that's about it. Maybe, maybe, a few years down the road we get a couple of decent homebrew games and a bunch of niche games and ports, but I wouldn't expect to see an explosion of user developed content. The PS2 is just to hard to develop for. While it might be kind of fun to see tuxracer running on a PS2, it's pure novelty.
I could see Sony releasing a PS1 development environment for free now, since it'd be a decent teaching tool and wouldn't cut into their profit margin (nobody licenses the PSx development engine anymore AFAIK), but even that is a bit of a streach.
This is new on Slashdot, but it's been around in SL for some time now. The only problem: some of the dealers were a bit shady and as a result there are big hundred post long flamewars on the forums about the whole concept. It's basically just an RP thing, although some people are apparently worried out of their mind that same sex couples will have virtual babies and get a taste for the real thing.
The whole thing sounds dumb to me, but hey, SL is a big RP environment and if people want to RP being pregnant and having a baby, that's not my concern.