Why don't all you old guys open a consultancy, bid aggressively given the huge advantage you have by virtue of the increased productivity?
Seriously.. why not?
My guess is the advantage doesn't exist, and much of what's needed to make most applications works is indeed young people willing to gut out horrible code for systems that won't be around in two years, let alone ten.
I'm a EE, I have written hundreds of thousands of lines of code that are still in production - some of it decades ago - but I left programming, and I'm unlikely to ever be back. The problem with making novice programmers more professional is that software development is not a profession. It should be, but it isn't, and it never will be, until there is a force of law behind it.
But if you're not a citizen, you don't have to be admitted, either.
There are little or no practical appeals.
Not responding truthfully to a border guard is a very serious crime; it's not an option, although refusing can be, with consequences.
It will be interesting to watch the economic impact of this over time - I suspect there will be none, as people have adapted in the past, and this will just become the norm.
First off, anyone who has tried a Vive gets blown away. Even the stupid demo applications are hella impressive. When you play something like Project CARS or DCS, it's very difficult to communicate how real the depth is, and how immersive the full room simulation and tracking makes the experience.
Second, it's not just gamers and technical people. My wife, who never has expressed any interest in any video game ever, is bugging me to get the wireless adapter so she can play Holopoint more. Which she routinely plays until she can't move, and Holopoint is a pretty basic game. I pay attention when there are technologies she looks to use; I imagine others do as well.
Third, the average price of most Vive games on the Steam store is under $5. This is impressive, given that there are probably only 500k Vive units out there.
AR requires you to wear stupid headsets in public. Outside of specialty professional engagements, until you get AR on a contact lens, this is never, ever, ever going to go into the mass market. AR and 3D TV are much closer in terms of the market problems. The gateway to AR is going to be your smartphone.
VR requires a stupid headset but literally puts you in your own world.
VR, and the Vive specifically, is one of the few technologies that has left me awestuck. The first time that happened was when I figured out how to use my 300 baud modem. The second time was when I got my hands on an internet connected VMS VAX. This was the third.
Interesting times. If you're a doubter try a Vive on a well equipped PC.
Perhaps people are realizing when your market is global, you don't necessary have to be in the Bay area to develop; indeed, when you consider overheads, it seems silly, as there's good programmers everywhere.
It's gotten good; the pencil on the iPad Pro is something I've waited a very long time for, if Microsoft can get it's performance close I'll probably go. I need a real computer and iOS is horribly handicapped (no xcode). The surface has a real keyboard, the iPad pro is a silicone joke.
OS wise,it matters less than it used to; I don't care, and I always have to have a windows machine for any type of 3D work,modelling, or VR.
This is how the system is supposed to work.. competition.
Here's hoping Apple gets it together. I love my phone, but it seems Apple is now a phone company and not a computer company. They don't have a single computer that can even pretend to run a virtual reality setup.
Dumb. Apple the Phone Company. That's what has happened. Sad.
Voice to text is handy in a bunch of situations now. Mostly when I want to send someone a message when I'm walking or typing. It's sort of neat for appointments, and I use it all the time for setting a timer...on my phone.
Screens and keyboards, or touch devices, are remarkably effective at conveying large amounts of information almost instantly. Voice is not an efficient medium. Do you know why people hate voicemail? Because it's slow and ineffective.
Voice apps will be the next 3DTV, which should have been clear to everyone wasn't going anywhere. If you have to put on goggles, it might as well be a VR headset..
In the meantime, I can order from Amazon from my tablet in a few seconds, deal with issues and confirmations, while I'm watching Netflix on my 65" regular 2D TV.
Raid exchanges. Seize records. Apply tax law to freeze accounts.Pass laws making it illegal to trade in bitcoin. Put a few people in prison for 10 years.
QED.
Precedent exists for all these things. Read up on e-Gold.
The shady exchanges are the problem with all of the cryptocurrencies. The biggest asset would be a very easy way to facilitate a micropayment via bitcoin; the current exchange mechanisms make this hard or impossible for average folks.
Ultimately a blockchain (and the resulting currency) will need to be backed by a nation state to have validity. Political notions aside, that's when things will get interesting. If Bitcoin ever gained any traction it will be put down by force.
Other blockchains provide easier ability to develop applications and thus provide real utility, and the concept of putting a value on distributed hash calculation to actually do interesting things is a neat one.
One thing has been validated by Bitcoin, however - the concept works.
AR ala Hololens will fail while you need to put on clunky anything. There's a compelling reason to do so if you're playing a game, or using a work application, but for everyday use there is no compelling reason for this technology over the utility offered by your phone. Add the batman factor concerns and yet another thing needing a battery charge and you're into a product nobody wants and will fail.
VR has a compelling reason. The games are badass. But you're not going to wear it around. AR ala Hololens is basically a VR visor you see through.
This technology will get compelling if you combine it with a contact lens and wireless power, but we're into science fiction at the moment as far as that is concerned. Theoretically possible but a long way from being realized let alone mass produced.
Science disproves through experiment and fact. Those theories are being experimentally tested, data is being collected, and they are falsifiable. Both are well past the bar for requiring further investigation.
If they'd make a nintendo-branded bluetooth dpad and holder we wouldn't be having this conversation, it would be a conversation about how much money they're making.
Touchscreens aren't everything. Humans have fingers. D-pad is brilliant. Stop drinking the Ive kool-aid. Poor Mario.
Oh, and make some more of those NES classics. Stupid nintendo. I'd have bought at least 5 of them if they were available. I got a knockoff chinese USB d-pad clone instead.
By this metric, I "divested" myself last year of a substantial amount of energy sector stocks and reallocated to "green" electric utilities.
What actually happened is the price of oil tanked, there's no limit on supply, the floor went out on the returns and there is no sign of a rise in price in the futures markets.
I'll be more impressed if this trend continues when oil goes on the upswing after growth in consumption rebalances with supply glut. I've got $0.02cdn on this "trend" fast reversing if that's the case - and my $0.02 isn't worth what it was a few years ago for the same reason.
Why do I need to carry around two computers? The iPad Pro has a bigger screen (and a nicer one!) than my aging Macbook Pro. If I could compile on it, and the keyboard options weren't horrible, I probably wouldn't need a computer at all - that is very atttractive.
Life is too short to be taken so seriously. You sound like you should smile more, or something.
Banishing drugs has failed. It's filled prisons, ruined far more lives than drugs ever will, enriched dictators and corrupted politics.
Drug abuse is a medical problem, often lined to other pathologies. Most drug users have no problems at all. This is born out by the massive amount of drugs consumed by society, legal and illegal. Seriously; do you have any idea how much cocaine, heroin and marijuana are consumed globally?
Driving under the influence, assault, robbery - all are illegal now, with stiff penalties.
People find drugs fun. Provide information on safe use, reduce harm, help addicts. People aren't going to stop taking drugs, because messing with your brain is fun. People have been taking drugs for that purpose for all of recorded history - the only difference is now we know how the drugs work.
This seems very obvious versus the relative insanity of the current drug policy.
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Consultant != Consultancy. Scale. You know better? DO better.
Ain't that easy.
Why don't all you old guys open a consultancy, bid aggressively given the huge advantage you have by virtue of the increased productivity?
Seriously.. why not?
My guess is the advantage doesn't exist, and much of what's needed to make most applications works is indeed young people willing to gut out horrible code for systems that won't be around in two years, let alone ten.
I'm a EE, I have written hundreds of thousands of lines of code that are still in production - some of it decades ago - but I left programming, and I'm unlikely to ever be back. The problem with making novice programmers more professional is that software development is not a profession. It should be, but it isn't, and it never will be, until there is a force of law behind it.
#lawnoffoffoff
High gravity / high alcohol tolerance yeasts generally also produce booze that tastes like kerosene.
If you have signing or final recommendation authority on 7-figure POs, this is indeed most certainly what happens.
That's why they're producing their own content.
People don't care. They're sick of commercials and $200/mo cable bills.
Border guards can ask for your account passwords.
You don't have to provide them, of course.
But if you're not a citizen, you don't have to be admitted, either.
There are little or no practical appeals.
Not responding truthfully to a border guard is a very serious crime; it's not an option, although refusing can be, with consequences.
It will be interesting to watch the economic impact of this over time - I suspect there will be none, as people have adapted in the past, and this will just become the norm.
There's enough of them out there that you can ask an early adopter.
PCs used to cost ten grand, remember?
First off, anyone who has tried a Vive gets blown away. Even the stupid demo applications are hella impressive. When you play something like Project CARS or DCS, it's very difficult to communicate how real the depth is, and how immersive the full room simulation and tracking makes the experience.
Second, it's not just gamers and technical people. My wife, who never has expressed any interest in any video game ever, is bugging me to get the wireless adapter so she can play Holopoint more. Which she routinely plays until she can't move, and Holopoint is a pretty basic game. I pay attention when there are technologies she looks to use; I imagine others do as well.
Third, the average price of most Vive games on the Steam store is under $5. This is impressive, given that there are probably only 500k Vive units out there.
AR requires you to wear stupid headsets in public. Outside of specialty professional engagements, until you get AR on a contact lens, this is never, ever, ever going to go into the mass market. AR and 3D TV are much closer in terms of the market problems. The gateway to AR is going to be your smartphone.
VR requires a stupid headset but literally puts you in your own world.
VR, and the Vive specifically, is one of the few technologies that has left me awestuck. The first time that happened was when I figured out how to use my 300 baud modem. The second time was when I got my hands on an internet connected VMS VAX. This was the third.
Interesting times. If you're a doubter try a Vive on a well equipped PC.
If you demand people hand over passwords, expect to have yours demanded of you when you cross the border headed somewhere else.
This is how most biometric collection works - but, fair is fair.
Sigh.
Perhaps people are realizing when your market is global, you don't necessary have to be in the Bay area to develop; indeed, when you consider overheads, it seems silly, as there's good programmers everywhere.
It's gotten good; the pencil on the iPad Pro is something I've waited a very long time for, if Microsoft can get it's performance close I'll probably go. I need a real computer and iOS is horribly handicapped (no xcode). The surface has a real keyboard, the iPad pro is a silicone joke.
OS wise,it matters less than it used to; I don't care, and I always have to have a windows machine for any type of 3D work,modelling, or VR.
This is how the system is supposed to work.. competition.
Here's hoping Apple gets it together. I love my phone, but it seems Apple is now a phone company and not a computer company. They don't have a single computer that can even pretend to run a virtual reality setup.
Dumb. Apple the Phone Company. That's what has happened. Sad.
Voice to text is handy in a bunch of situations now. Mostly when I want to send someone a message when I'm walking or typing. It's sort of neat for appointments, and I use it all the time for setting a timer. ..on my phone.
Screens and keyboards, or touch devices, are remarkably effective at conveying large amounts of information almost instantly. Voice is not an efficient medium. Do you know why people hate voicemail? Because it's slow and ineffective.
Voice apps will be the next 3DTV, which should have been clear to everyone wasn't going anywhere. If you have to put on goggles, it might as well be a VR headset..
In the meantime, I can order from Amazon from my tablet in a few seconds, deal with issues and confirmations, while I'm watching Netflix on my 65" regular 2D TV.
Raid exchanges. Seize records. Apply tax law to freeze accounts.Pass laws making it illegal to trade in bitcoin. Put a few people in prison for 10 years.
QED.
Precedent exists for all these things. Read up on e-Gold.
e.g. Ethereum.
The shady exchanges are the problem with all of the cryptocurrencies. The biggest asset would be a very easy way to facilitate a micropayment via bitcoin; the current exchange mechanisms make this hard or impossible for average folks.
Ultimately a blockchain (and the resulting currency) will need to be backed by a nation state to have validity. Political notions aside, that's when things will get interesting. If Bitcoin ever gained any traction it will be put down by force.
Other blockchains provide easier ability to develop applications and thus provide real utility, and the concept of putting a value on distributed hash calculation to actually do interesting things is a neat one.
One thing has been validated by Bitcoin, however - the concept works.
AR ala Hololens will fail while you need to put on clunky anything. There's a compelling reason to do so if you're playing a game, or using a work application, but for everyday use there is no compelling reason for this technology over the utility offered by your phone. Add the batman factor concerns and yet another thing needing a battery charge and you're into a product nobody wants and will fail.
VR has a compelling reason. The games are badass. But you're not going to wear it around. AR ala Hololens is basically a VR visor you see through.
This technology will get compelling if you combine it with a contact lens and wireless power, but we're into science fiction at the moment as far as that is concerned. Theoretically possible but a long way from being realized let alone mass produced.
My $0.02, but I've seen the pattern before.
Science disproves through experiment and fact. Those theories are being experimentally tested, data is being collected, and they are falsifiable. Both are well past the bar for requiring further investigation.
Shame on YOU.
Emulated games work great on my phone.
Including the controller.
I wish Nintendo could profit instead of being stupid.
They have to make the throwaway game because you can't do anything else without a D-pad.
The market is punishing them because investors aren't stupid, and realize there is no slot machine about to pay out.
If they'd make a nintendo-branded bluetooth dpad and holder we wouldn't be having this conversation, it would be a conversation about how much money they're making.
Touchscreens aren't everything. Humans have fingers. D-pad is brilliant. Stop drinking the Ive kool-aid. Poor Mario.
Oh, and make some more of those NES classics. Stupid nintendo. I'd have bought at least 5 of them if they were available. I got a knockoff chinese USB d-pad clone instead.
By this metric, I "divested" myself last year of a substantial amount of energy sector stocks and reallocated to "green" electric utilities.
What actually happened is the price of oil tanked, there's no limit on supply, the floor went out on the returns and there is no sign of a rise in price in the futures markets.
I'll be more impressed if this trend continues when oil goes on the upswing after growth in consumption rebalances with supply glut. I've got $0.02cdn on this "trend" fast reversing if that's the case - and my $0.02 isn't worth what it was a few years ago for the same reason.
Why do I need to carry around two computers? The iPad Pro has a bigger screen (and a nicer one!) than my aging Macbook Pro. If I could compile on it, and the keyboard options weren't horrible, I probably wouldn't need a computer at all - that is very atttractive.
If they're even entertaining talks with Apple, it's because box office numbers are trending down or flat.
Big displays and projectors are cheap now. My house has booze in it and comfy chairs.
I haven't been to a movie theatre in a long, long time.
Nobody thought we'd buy our own telescreens, though..
Life is too short to be taken so seriously. You sound like you should smile more, or something.
Banishing drugs has failed. It's filled prisons, ruined far more lives than drugs ever will, enriched dictators and corrupted politics.
Drug abuse is a medical problem, often lined to other pathologies. Most drug users have no problems at all. This is born out by the massive amount of drugs consumed by society, legal and illegal. Seriously; do you have any idea how much cocaine, heroin and marijuana are consumed globally?
Driving under the influence, assault, robbery - all are illegal now, with stiff penalties.
People find drugs fun. Provide information on safe use, reduce harm, help addicts. People aren't going to stop taking drugs, because messing with your brain is fun. People have been taking drugs for that purpose for all of recorded history - the only difference is now we know how the drugs work.
This seems very obvious versus the relative insanity of the current drug policy.
Drugs are fun. That's why.
You're going to die, I'm going to die, everyone dies from something. Life is about having fun.
Drugs aren't for everybody, but people like drugs; treat drug abuse as a medical condition, not crime; that approach has failed.
Alcohol, caffeine.. all drugs.
You do what you want. Stop telling other people what's good for them.Live free (and die anyway).