Only your personal experience, I use my ipad all the time, about 70% of the none time I used my notebook before is spent on the ipad. It simply comes down to the apps. Video streaming client is a string side of this pad as well as websurfing and email and games.
Many of Nintendos games were good quality, however most third party titles lacked any quality whatsoever. Good quality titles like Disaster Day of Crisis were drowned in the usual shovelware.
I agree here especially in the games sector where things often are really bad, in hollywood it is quite common that all artists are unionized, i cannot see why the computer people refuse to be unionized given the history of exploiting especially in the games industry.
Actually my wife studied law, and she earns as much as I do, but she works in the public services.:-) Actually since the last raise I earn more than she does. So to sum things up most lawyers dont earn too much as well it is just a handful who do really well the rest has average earnings.
Actually most people believe it but believe me this is a myth. About 2% of the people are irreplacable if at all. Most programmers think their work is important and no one can replace you. But seriously no matter how intelligent you are there willl be 100 other persons who can do the job equally well as you can do it.
Well lets sum it up, very prominent gaming company, people hired fresh out of college who dont know better. The funny thing is that if you dont do crunchtime then people are usually more productive than by such crunchtime death marches (face it people can die over such work ethics there is even a japanese word for it) After 5-6 hours of coding the productivity goes down the gutters and after 8 hours you wont get any decent results anymore. Managers who dont know that either never worked as coders or are just plainly ruthless so that they can show the management the working hours. I am pretty sure it would have taken the game 1-2 years less to produce if Rockstar games would have stuck to labor laws and rules. In the end no one wins by such work ethics.
Just to sum it up, stories like these kept me away from the games industrie even when I was younger. Your life and health and family is not worth it to work on the next cool game. Sorry, but the game will be forgotten within half a year, a burnout a divorce or even worse damage wont be forgotten in a 10 years timeframe if ever. All I can say is stay out of hellhole companies wo seem to have a history of burning through their employees.
This seems to be the standard at Rockstar games, wasnt this the same with Red Dead Redemption. Probably one of the reasons why Rockstar closed its vienna office, they could not get away with such abuse there, due to the strong labor laws.
Nokia has been struggling, new ex Microsoft CEO was brought in, makes 100% turn by axing the entire software division and handing it over to Microsoft. The platform Nokia has been working on for three years finally is released (probabyl also due to contractual obligations) and gets raving reviews. Ceo who killed literally every other road for Microsoft by telling upfront, forget about Symbian forget about Maemo stands upfront a crowd one day after the N9 is released and almost 100% raving reviews come in and he has nothing better to do after day one of the raving reviews to show his Windows 7 version of the same phone "accidentally". Ooops a leak, oh well never mind. If this guy is not a Microsoft juggernaut than what. He damages his own divisions by using the old dont buy that we have something else in the line tactics, Microsoft used successfully in the 90s to kill off competition. But he is applying the tactics internally probably to kill of the Maemo division which if the N9 would have become successful could cause his pro Microsoft course to be questioned again and in the end his job.
The Microsoft Vaporware tactic used to be following: Usually if a product had mediocre success, they instantly launched a press release usually showing some images of vaporware with the message dont buy from them we have something in the line. If the other product was killed then often nothing came from Microsoft if the product stayed on the market then Microsoft usually shoved a half working clone out in the wild with that and the back then we buy only from Microsoft crowd this was enough most times to kill the product. The prime example for that tactics was Borland C++ and their excellent Windows UI classlib and also the Star Division C++ UI Classlib, which went down the gutters when Microsoft forced anyone to the absymality MFC. Another prime example was the famouse Cairo operating system which they instantly announced when Next showed off NextStep. They never could pull it off basically thanks to their broken COM component model which they shoved literally upon poor developers. The same they tried with Corba which they positioned their back then not even working DCom against. When they sold DCom as Corba competitior even their own examples they delivered with it did not work.
So to sum this up, accidentally leaked. Definitely not. This seems like a last stroke against the Maemo division to me so that they cannot gain control by releasing a successful (qualitywise they seem to have gotten their act right) product. If anything else did not show it this, action clearly showed that Nokia is fucked as long as this guy is at the helm, this is a juggernaut Microsoft sellout nothing more nothing less. Every sane CEO simply would have tried to keep multiple platforms, probably putting symbian on the roast releasing a Windows Mobile product and Android and given the state of the N9 also Maemo as successor to Symbian. Just as basically HTC and Samsung do it.
Hehe the perfect example on forcing a shitcode down their developers throats was visual sourcesafe. They basically dumped this garbage onto every Microsoft developer in existence, while they themselves used a perforce fork.
Not sure about the technology but my personal bet is that it is just a protocol sitting on top of websockets. Websockets do not exactly allow cross site calls.
You dont even have to think about Lutzsec, the last time I had a look at the java tooling in the google cloud, they ran a stone old jetty version with some severe bugs carried over. This gave me not too much confidence, especially since the cloud computing the google and amazon way is basically the same as webhosting with an app server tie in on hoster level by providing a bunch of non standard no sql apis.
The risk is always relative but, given the past cloud data can end up in the long run by the lowest bidder. I have seen enough situations where a contractor hired a subcontractor cheaper who again hired another subcontractor. I once was one of those lowest bidders myself and ended up being assigned internally into a customer from one big corporation (one of the biggest) Who tells you that some of the cloud data does not end up in pakistan or china maintained by underpaid workers giving a rats ass about security. Also have in mind I am relatively unbiased in this, because I also can earn money with the cloud in fact I probably will earn the next few years very likely money with cloud adjustments. What we have here from a technical point of view is just a move from a webhosting environment to an application server based cluster environment hosted elsewhere. So basically you give away infrastructure control (before you had a dedicated vm where you could do whatever you want but also with the risk of imposing security holes on your own) to one which basically ties you into an app server infrastructure with no control whatever except that you can deploy apps there and get some services you can use. But have in mind you are at the merits of the cloud provider. I will give an example, the google system. It runs a heavily modified stone old jetty some of their own db stuff and on top of that their own admin tools. Starting to use that ties you heavily into google, you will have a hard time to move away even if you use heavily standard apis because on some corners they arent there (mainly for the db part). Add to that that the jetty version they used (when I last had a look at it) was stone old and had lots of bugs carried over and never fixed by google, which does not look to well for security. So my trust is in this area somehow limited to have a trust that google handles security really way better than a good in house team. Also the vendor tie in is as strong or even stronger than most app server solutions.
Sorry to be so harsh, but I have seen so many buzzword scenarios all run through following phases Someone brings them out promotes it Magazines especially dumbass CIO mags run endless articles as being the holy grail Dumbass CIOs start to use them unquestioned and burn developers on such solutions while intelligent ones are wary Lots of manhours burned with projects which fail or impose security risks Some projects succeed who use that stuff in a sane manner In the end the buzzword wears off and people will integrate the services as such in their stack of solutions and they are used in a sane and mild manner and are used also as such.
Dont true? Here are some buzzwords Applets, Corba, App Servers in C++, Three Tier Architecture, Webservices, SOA, EJB.... They all followed this swine cycle.
With the cloud we are in the second phase dumbass Cio meets dumbass magazine.
Whoops our entire corporate data has been stolen. Who is the blame? Sorry that was stolen from the cloud... Who gave the order to give our data to a foreign company? It is not so easy not to blame the person who was responsible for the cloud outsourcing.
From a security standpoing always the internal stuff, given that the company is big enough the problem is you cannot even remotely be as secure as cutting a cord in the worst case:-) Also think twice about pushing vital company data into something which is well known worldwide and accessible worldwide only protected by encryption to some degree and with security holes you have to rely on someone else to quick fix for you. Good luck with calling google in 2am in the morning if you have a problem if you are not an ibm:-)
Problem is they basically outsource their internal knowledge and open them way more to hacker attacks and also to failure. I would be reluctant to move to a cloud no matter what. But given that they only see the money side of things they probably are not even remotely aware of the implications this can have. All I can say is, go ahead shift your controlling and bookkeeping departement ot the lowest bidder no matter where it is located shove them over some money and dont care anymore thats basically what happens here and the results will be disastrous.
I am almost 100% sure about that WebGL will be the point where Microsoft again will fork away. I have been expecting that for months now. Also so far all their efforts towards html5 are pretty half assed, even IE9 can be barely described as html5 compliant, but given the state of the current specs only time will tell if Microsoft again will be a burden on the web developing world.
The strangelhold is over anyway, given the current markets. You have the Xbox and the PC which are DirectX, the rest uses OpenGL or OpenGL derivates. Almost 100% of all game makers use an existing engine, which is optimized for cross platform development anyway. It is just a matter of time til those engines also have their webgl ports one way or the other. Whatever Microsoft does in this area is only to the degree relevant that if they dont support it it wont be used in a corporate environment.
I cannot really tell names, but all the banks I have worked for (all of them european btw.) have decent working conditions I assume this is internationally the same.
Actually also dont forget about the Bush family, they earned a shitload of money with their Nazi ties as well. Without Hitler there never would have been George Bush and George W Bush have been president of the US.
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The USA is screwing the only friends they have left over (again)...
So whats the news again?
Only your personal experience, I use my ipad all the time, about 70% of the none time I used my notebook before is spent on the ipad. It simply comes down to the apps. Video streaming client is a string side of this pad as well as websurfing and email and games.
Many of Nintendos games were good quality, however most third party titles lacked any quality whatsoever.
Good quality titles like Disaster Day of Crisis were drowned in the usual shovelware.
I agree here especially in the games sector where things often are really bad, in hollywood it is quite common that all artists are unionized, i cannot see why the computer people refuse to be unionized given the history of exploiting especially in the games industry.
Actually with an age of 40 married and having two kids I would not call myself a nerd anymore. Average middle age guy is closer.
Actually my wife studied law, and she earns as much as I do, but she works in the public services. :-)
Actually since the last raise I earn more than she does. So to sum things up most lawyers dont earn too much as well it is just a handful who do really well the rest has average earnings.
Actually most people believe it but believe me this is a myth. About 2% of the people are irreplacable if at all. Most programmers think their work is important and no one can replace you. But seriously no matter how intelligent you are there willl be 100 other persons who can do the job equally well as you can do it.
Man this guy is in serious need of medication.
Well lets sum it up, very prominent gaming company, people hired fresh out of college who dont know better. The funny thing is that if you dont do crunchtime then people are usually more productive than by such crunchtime death marches (face it people can die over such work ethics there is even a japanese word for it)
After 5-6 hours of coding the productivity goes down the gutters and after 8 hours you wont get any decent results anymore. Managers who dont know that either never worked as coders or are just plainly ruthless so that they can show the management the working hours.
I am pretty sure it would have taken the game 1-2 years less to produce if Rockstar games would have stuck to labor laws and rules.
In the end no one wins by such work ethics.
Capcom produces a game which it does not want to sell.
Just to sum it up, stories like these kept me away from the games industrie even when I was younger.
Your life and health and family is not worth it to work on the next cool game. Sorry, but the game will be forgotten
within half a year, a burnout a divorce or even worse damage wont be forgotten in a 10 years timeframe if ever.
All I can say is stay out of hellhole companies wo seem to have a history of burning through
their employees.
This seems to be the standard at Rockstar games, wasnt this the same with Red Dead Redemption. Probably one of the reasons
why Rockstar closed its vienna office, they could not get away with such abuse there, due to the strong labor laws.
After 11 years of IE6 and still having this disease on my back, all I can say is
SHOVE IT UP YOUR *****
Nokia has been struggling, new ex Microsoft CEO was brought in, makes 100% turn by axing the entire software division and handing it over to Microsoft. The platform Nokia has been working on for three years finally is released (probabyl also due to contractual obligations) and gets raving reviews.
Ceo who killed literally every other road for Microsoft by telling upfront, forget about Symbian forget about Maemo stands upfront a crowd one day after the N9 is released and almost 100% raving reviews come in and he has nothing better to do after day one of the raving reviews to show his Windows 7 version of the same phone "accidentally". Ooops a leak, oh well never mind.
If this guy is not a Microsoft juggernaut than what. He damages his own divisions by using the old dont buy that we have something else in the line tactics, Microsoft used successfully in the 90s to kill off competition. But he is applying the tactics internally probably to kill of the Maemo division which if the N9 would have become successful could cause his pro Microsoft course to be questioned again and in the end his job.
The Microsoft Vaporware tactic used to be following:
Usually if a product had mediocre success, they instantly launched a press release usually showing some images of vaporware with the message dont buy from them we have something in the line. If the other product was killed then often nothing came from Microsoft if the product stayed on the market then Microsoft usually shoved a half working clone out in the wild with that and the back then we buy only from Microsoft crowd this was enough most times to kill the product. The prime example for that tactics was Borland C++ and their excellent Windows UI classlib and also the Star Division C++ UI Classlib, which went down the gutters when Microsoft forced anyone to the absymality MFC.
Another prime example was the famouse Cairo operating system which they instantly announced when Next showed off NextStep. They never could pull it off basically thanks to their broken COM component model which they shoved literally upon poor developers. The same they tried with Corba which they positioned their back then not even working DCom against. When they sold DCom as Corba competitior even their own examples they delivered with it did not work.
So to sum this up, accidentally leaked. Definitely not. This seems like a last stroke against the Maemo division to me so that they cannot gain control by releasing a successful (qualitywise they seem to have gotten their act right) product. If anything else did not show it this, action clearly showed that Nokia is fucked as long as this guy is at the helm, this is a juggernaut Microsoft sellout nothing more nothing less. Every sane CEO simply would have tried to keep multiple platforms, probably putting symbian on the roast releasing a Windows Mobile product and Android and given the state of the N9 also Maemo as successor to Symbian. Just as basically HTC and Samsung do it.
Hehe the perfect example on forcing a shitcode down their developers throats was visual sourcesafe. They basically dumped this garbage onto every Microsoft developer in existence, while they themselves used a perforce fork.
Not sure about the technology but my personal bet is that it is just a protocol sitting on top of websockets.
Websockets do not exactly allow cross site calls.
You dont even have to think about Lutzsec, the last time I had a look at the java tooling in the google cloud, they ran a stone old jetty version with some severe bugs carried over. This gave me not too much confidence, especially since the cloud computing the google and amazon way is basically the same as webhosting with an app server tie in on hoster level by providing a bunch of non standard no sql apis.
The risk is always relative but, given the past cloud data can end up in the long run by the lowest bidder. I have seen enough situations where a contractor hired a subcontractor cheaper who again hired another subcontractor.
I once was one of those lowest bidders myself and ended up being assigned internally into a customer from one big corporation (one of the biggest)
Who tells you that some of the cloud data does not end up in pakistan or china maintained by underpaid workers giving a rats ass about security.
Also have in mind I am relatively unbiased in this, because I also can earn money with the cloud in fact I probably will earn the next few years very likely money with cloud adjustments. What we have here from a technical point of view is just a move from a webhosting environment to an application server based cluster environment hosted elsewhere. So basically you give away infrastructure control (before you had a dedicated vm where you could do whatever you want but also with the risk of imposing security holes on your own) to one which basically ties you into an app server infrastructure with no control whatever except that you can deploy apps there and get some services you can use. But have in mind you are at the merits of the cloud provider. I will give an example, the google system. It runs a heavily modified stone old jetty some of their own db stuff and on top of that their own admin tools. Starting to use that ties you heavily into google, you will have a hard time to move away even if you use heavily standard apis because on some corners they arent there (mainly for the db part). Add to that that the jetty version they used (when I last had a look at it) was stone old and had lots of bugs carried over and never fixed by google, which does not look to well for security. So my trust is in this area somehow limited to have a trust that google handles security really way better than a good in house team. Also the vendor tie in is as strong or even stronger than most app server solutions.
Sorry to be so harsh, but I have seen so many buzzword scenarios all run through following phases
Someone brings them out promotes it
Magazines especially dumbass CIO mags run endless articles as being the holy grail
Dumbass CIOs start to use them unquestioned and burn developers on such solutions while intelligent ones are wary
Lots of manhours burned with projects which fail or impose security risks
Some projects succeed who use that stuff in a sane manner
In the end the buzzword wears off and people will integrate the services as such in their stack of solutions and they are used in a sane and mild manner and are used also as such.
Dont true? Here are some buzzwords
Applets, Corba, App Servers in C++, Three Tier Architecture, Webservices, SOA, EJB....
They all followed this swine cycle.
With the cloud we are in the second phase dumbass Cio meets dumbass magazine.
Whoops our entire corporate data has been stolen.
Who is the blame? Sorry that was stolen from the cloud...
Who gave the order to give our data to a foreign company?
It is not so easy not to blame the person who was responsible for the cloud outsourcing.
From a security standpoing always the internal stuff, given that the company is big enough the problem is you cannot even remotely be as secure as cutting a cord in the worst case :-) :-)
Also think twice about pushing vital company data into something which is well known worldwide and accessible worldwide only protected by encryption to some degree and with security holes you have to rely on someone else to quick fix for you.
Good luck with calling google in 2am in the morning if you have a problem if you are not an ibm
Problem is they basically outsource their internal knowledge and open them way more to hacker attacks and also to failure.
I would be reluctant to move to a cloud no matter what. But given that they only see the money side of things they probably are not even remotely aware of the implications this can have.
All I can say is, go ahead shift your controlling and bookkeeping departement ot the lowest bidder no matter where it is located shove them over some money and dont care anymore thats basically what happens here and the results will be disastrous.
I am almost 100% sure about that WebGL will be the point where Microsoft again will fork away. I have been expecting that for months now.
Also so far all their efforts towards html5 are pretty half assed, even IE9 can be barely described as html5 compliant, but given the state of the current specs only time will tell if Microsoft again will be a burden on the web developing world.
The strangelhold is over anyway, given the current markets. You have the Xbox and the PC which are DirectX, the rest uses OpenGL or OpenGL derivates. Almost 100% of all game makers use an existing engine, which is optimized for cross platform development anyway.
It is just a matter of time til those engines also have their webgl ports one way or the other.
Whatever Microsoft does in this area is only to the degree relevant that if they dont support it it wont be used in a corporate environment.
I cannot really tell names, but all the banks I have worked for (all of them european btw.) have decent working conditions I assume this is internationally the same.
Actually also dont forget about the Bush family, they earned a shitload of money with their Nazi ties as well. Without Hitler there never would have been George Bush and George W Bush have been president of the US.