I'll agree with you there. I really don't touch the game anymore as it just stresses me the hell out. I'd love to see like a co-op story mode or something for the casual gamer who still wants to play with friends. Looks like we have to rely on the third party map makers out there though.
Well compare it to single player SC2 then. There really aren't that many levels of complexity you can play at. Sure, you have different *difficulties* but it's not really the same thing.
Think about Super Mario and how long it took you to figure out how to play. You didn't need a tutorial or a manual. EVERY kid knew how to play that game.
I think for the cake one they were after what you were suggesting. But from my perspective if it was frosted you couldn't regulate "exactness" - especially if you stacked. I figured the odds were that half of the people wouldn't want frosting anyway or were on a diet.;)
The light bulb one I did think of a better way on the drive home from the damned interview. Leave one on for 5 mins, then turn it off. Turn another switch on then check. The off but warm one is your first switch. But what if they were LED lights? SEE? This is the rabbit hole I went down with them, HAH.
I think what really irked me the most is that they were digging for one specific right answer to a lot of the questions. That seems counter to the spirit of thinking outside of the box IMO.
For example - "How do you cut a cake into 8 equal sized pieces with only three cuts?". I thought about it for a second and thought about how you'd do that with a cube - basically a cut on the center of each axis." "Hmm....I suppose that works, but try something else."
"You have three light switches hooked to three lights in another room. How do you tell which one goes to which in one try" (once you leave one room you cant reenter). This one was great because all the things I suggested would have worked but then they'd add more and more constraints on it until I got close to what they wanted. This process reminds me of a boss that asks for a widget that does x,y, and z. You work your ass off building this thing to get it done last minute for the guy then he tosses it aside "this is no good, make it do A and B now. We don't need Z anymore". Repeat. It's not clearly communicating your problem and your goal which ends of costing companies a lot of money.
Would you really want to work in that environment? Not really. Sure, it's a giant name like Google but with this particular group it felt like they were all locked into a particular mindset. As if they were trained to think out of the box - thus putting them into just another box.
Eh, I had one recently with them and it felt like an interrogation. Two sessions - each an hour long with a panel of four people sitting across from you.
Then they start asking me riddles.
To be fair, I do feel like I interviewed poorly. I definitely let the stress of the whole event get to me by building them up to be bigger than they were. However, the recruiter's advice helped me none. He suggested I focus on getting familiar with google technologies and whatnot. No questions were asked that needed any in-depth knowledge of that. I spent my time studying google history instead of brushing up on other skills I should have. Ultimately - sure, it was my decision and it was in my hands, but still a pain in the ass considering google is about the only game in this town on such a scale.
But what really bothered me is that they weren't really open to dialogue. They only wanted to hear what I had to say. If I had any questions - they weren't answered. I just got the "google smile" and a topic change. It's a bizarre world in there. Very much akin to Wonka's factory.
Cintiq isn't the whole machine though, unfortunately. It's pretty much just a pressure sensitive monitor. Imagine fitting your processing power into something the size of the Cintiq - now we're talking.
want a lightweight device that can run their Photoshop/Painter/etc. and has good pressure sensitivity (>512 "levels").
They practically all broke down in tears when they found out the ipad was essentially a giant iphone and not a productivity device they could really utilize.
Granted - the processing power required to run those programs might currently be a bit much for the form factor of the ipad, but it's definitely something to strive for, IMO. The market is definitely there.
You're assuming all servers also deliver at 105mbits/s, which is rarely the case at this point in time.
Anywho - I really don't know what you'd be using that level of bandwidth for. For my uses that cap seems fairly reasonable, but I'd agree it's a bit silly to have a cap at that level for such a high ability of bandwidth.
Doing a quick google search it sounds like the high-end average for streaming is 2.3GB/hr @ HD quality. 250GB cap/2.3GB/hr ~ 108hr. Your average movie is about 1.5hrs. So 108hr/1.5hr/movie~ 72 movies. Now divide that by 30 days (we'll assume you're watching in April). 72/30~2.4 movies per day. We'll say two movies and a miniseries or something.
Hell, let's take this further. We'll say you caught that miniseries on your cable tv every night. We'll assume you went the cheap route and pay 45 bucks/mo for it making your grand total $150/month (based on the $105/mo figure for this service given in a post above).
But let's replace those movies with real theater experiences. I'll even say you go incredibly conservatively and spend only $5/movie. To catch 72 movies in a given month that'd cost you $360 bucks/month.
Therefore we can assume you're getting a savings of $255/mo for the service, no, gift of being able to avoid human contact and to indulge in gluing your eyes to your own big screen in high def from your own recliner.
What's my point? My dear slashdot crowd - if they merely doubled the cap you'd never have to leave your basement again or else you'd have to budget for another couple hundred per month and no slashdotter wants that. And I proved it with math. Approximately.
"Who needs to suffer through academia when there's plenty of blue-collar jobs that pay a lot out there? Especially when that four-year degree may not net you a job at all."
You nailed it right there. Not everyone has to be some white collared professional. Hell - we all need mechanics, for example. It's not exactly an easy profession to learn, but you don't necessarily need a degree to get into that field.
Reminds me of back in school they gave us tests to see if we were tactile, auditory, or visual learners. You'd think they would have learned something from that. In my experience I've found a lot of the hands-on types PREFER the blue collared jobs. "Getting your hands dirty" as it were and many of those jobs are highly needed and again, don't require degrees.
Another thing I agree with is your statement about people's perceptions of drop outs. To be fair, I will look at a high school drop out and wonder why they did such a silly thing, but college drop outs - not so much. What I like to see more than anything is someone focused and working in or working towards getting into their field of choice.
I pretty much outright stopped giving a shit about dictionaries the moment one of them added "bling bling" to it. Raise the bar a little, guys. Geez. That's what urbandictionary is for.
We actually had a long chat after all this stuff went down pretty much covering that topic. It was definitely a major factor for why I decided to suddenly swear it off - I saw it could be something that'd effectively destroy our marriage. From her perspective she saw it for what it was - just a couple people being assholes on the internet. It was me who was taking such a large investment in their words, however.
"And yes, I'm aware the irony of pointing out online that everyone is online and not going out anymore."
That's the best part, aint it?:) For me it was more about finding balance and getting away from the things that felt like they required large chunks of my time - not so much swearing off the internet completely. I still see the utility of the tech - I just know I was being irresponsible with my own in my use of it.
"It's a pretty telling example that you can't explain to people what you meant with daddy daycare, and if they can't except it, stop communicating with them. I doubt your response was duo to facebook more then it was do to you not controlling your anger."
There actually wasn't any anger involved with this particular thread (which, I'll admit, is unusual for me - but these were a couple individuals I respected before all this went down). I pretty much said the initial post, let them rant for about 10 exchanges, interjected with "hey guys, not cool, you're getting borderline offensive here", was pretty much ignored and was continued to be flamed.
If it'd just been some random person I probably would have simply blocked/deleted them. One was actually a really good friend of my wife's (and to her credit she's still a great friend to my wife) and the other was actually a mutual friend I had with someone else who I'd debate with often and respected intellectually.
"I was miserable and changed my life, there fore everyone else doing what I was doing is miserable and should also change"
That's not really what I said at all. I essentially said if you're considering the change then by all means go for it. If you're doing fine balancing it with real life - then rock on, brotha. Compare it to people who can drink socially vs. full-out alcoholics.
"I just hate it when people fall into what I like to call "Hindsight is a lying bitch" syndrome."
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I'll agree with you there. I really don't touch the game anymore as it just stresses me the hell out. I'd love to see like a co-op story mode or something for the casual gamer who still wants to play with friends. Looks like we have to rely on the third party map makers out there though.
Well compare it to single player SC2 then. There really aren't that many levels of complexity you can play at. Sure, you have different *difficulties* but it's not really the same thing.
Think about Super Mario and how long it took you to figure out how to play. You didn't need a tutorial or a manual. EVERY kid knew how to play that game.
I'll give that perspective some merit.
I think for the cake one they were after what you were suggesting. But from my perspective if it was frosted you couldn't regulate "exactness" - especially if you stacked. I figured the odds were that half of the people wouldn't want frosting anyway or were on a diet. ;)
The light bulb one I did think of a better way on the drive home from the damned interview. Leave one on for 5 mins, then turn it off. Turn another switch on then check. The off but warm one is your first switch. But what if they were LED lights? SEE? This is the rabbit hole I went down with them, HAH.
I think what really irked me the most is that they were digging for one specific right answer to a lot of the questions. That seems counter to the spirit of thinking outside of the box IMO.
For example - "How do you cut a cake into 8 equal sized pieces with only three cuts?". I thought about it for a second and thought about how you'd do that with a cube - basically a cut on the center of each axis." "Hmm....I suppose that works, but try something else."
"You have three light switches hooked to three lights in another room. How do you tell which one goes to which in one try" (once you leave one room you cant reenter).
This one was great because all the things I suggested would have worked but then they'd add more and more constraints on it until I got close to what they wanted. This process reminds me of a boss that asks for a widget that does x,y, and z. You work your ass off building this thing to get it done last minute for the guy then he tosses it aside "this is no good, make it do A and B now. We don't need Z anymore". Repeat. It's not clearly communicating your problem and your goal which ends of costing companies a lot of money.
Would you really want to work in that environment? Not really. Sure, it's a giant name like Google but with this particular group it felt like they were all locked into a particular mindset. As if they were trained to think out of the box - thus putting them into just another box.
Eh, I had one recently with them and it felt like an interrogation. Two sessions - each an hour long with a panel of four people sitting across from you.
Then they start asking me riddles.
To be fair, I do feel like I interviewed poorly. I definitely let the stress of the whole event get to me by building them up to be bigger than they were. However, the recruiter's advice helped me none. He suggested I focus on getting familiar with google technologies and whatnot. No questions were asked that needed any in-depth knowledge of that. I spent my time studying google history instead of brushing up on other skills I should have. Ultimately - sure, it was my decision and it was in my hands, but still a pain in the ass considering google is about the only game in this town on such a scale.
But what really bothered me is that they weren't really open to dialogue. They only wanted to hear what I had to say. If I had any questions - they weren't answered. I just got the "google smile" and a topic change. It's a bizarre world in there. Very much akin to Wonka's factory.
Cintiq isn't the whole machine though, unfortunately. It's pretty much just a pressure sensitive monitor. Imagine fitting your processing power into something the size of the Cintiq - now we're talking.
want a lightweight device that can run their Photoshop/Painter/etc. and has good pressure sensitivity (>512 "levels").
They practically all broke down in tears when they found out the ipad was essentially a giant iphone and not a productivity device they could really utilize.
Granted - the processing power required to run those programs might currently be a bit much for the form factor of the ipad, but it's definitely something to strive for, IMO. The market is definitely there.
Woosh!
You're assuming all servers also deliver at 105mbits/s, which is rarely the case at this point in time.
Anywho - I really don't know what you'd be using that level of bandwidth for. For my uses that cap seems fairly reasonable, but I'd agree it's a bit silly to have a cap at that level for such a high ability of bandwidth.
Doing a quick google search it sounds like the high-end average for streaming is 2.3GB/hr @ HD quality. 250GB cap/2.3GB/hr ~ 108hr. Your average movie is about 1.5hrs. So 108hr/1.5hr/movie~ 72 movies. Now divide that by 30 days (we'll assume you're watching in April). 72/30~2.4 movies per day. We'll say two movies and a miniseries or something.
Hell, let's take this further. We'll say you caught that miniseries on your cable tv every night. We'll assume you went the cheap route and pay 45 bucks/mo for it making your grand total $150/month (based on the $105/mo figure for this service given in a post above).
But let's replace those movies with real theater experiences. I'll even say you go incredibly conservatively and spend only $5/movie. To catch 72 movies in a given month that'd cost you $360 bucks/month.
Therefore we can assume you're getting a savings of $255/mo for the service, no, gift of being able to avoid human contact and to indulge in gluing your eyes to your own big screen in high def from your own recliner.
What's my point? My dear slashdot crowd - if they merely doubled the cap you'd never have to leave your basement again or else you'd have to budget for another couple hundred per month and no slashdotter wants that. And I proved it with math. Approximately.
That was pretty much one of my barometers for choosing a wife. "You either get a house or an expensive ring. Which do you choose?"
Remember Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (original)- where they sorted out the bad eggs? There you go.
I'll give you that.
I'm 25% curious to see how this ends up. The other 75% of me is outside and living my life away from facebook.
Would you go into battle without a gun?
Glad that wasn't just me.
Asteroid mining?
"Who needs to suffer through academia when there's plenty of blue-collar jobs that pay a lot out there? Especially when that four-year degree may not net you a job at all."
You nailed it right there. Not everyone has to be some white collared professional. Hell - we all need mechanics, for example. It's not exactly an easy profession to learn, but you don't necessarily need a degree to get into that field.
Reminds me of back in school they gave us tests to see if we were tactile, auditory, or visual learners. You'd think they would have learned something from that. In my experience I've found a lot of the hands-on types PREFER the blue collared jobs. "Getting your hands dirty" as it were and many of those jobs are highly needed and again, don't require degrees.
Another thing I agree with is your statement about people's perceptions of drop outs. To be fair, I will look at a high school drop out and wonder why they did such a silly thing, but college drop outs - not so much. What I like to see more than anything is someone focused and working in or working towards getting into their field of choice.
Woosh. You've missed the point and potential just like the RIAA and MPAA.
I find some people spend too much time yapping instead of listening. You don't always have to be saying something.
...oh?
I pretty much outright stopped giving a shit about dictionaries the moment one of them added "bling bling" to it. Raise the bar a little, guys. Geez. That's what urbandictionary is for.
Noted! :)
Seconded!
I look forward to this age range with my kids something fierce (right now one's in processing and the other is 9months).
Rofl. So true, so true.
We actually had a long chat after all this stuff went down pretty much covering that topic. It was definitely a major factor for why I decided to suddenly swear it off - I saw it could be something that'd effectively destroy our marriage. From her perspective she saw it for what it was - just a couple people being assholes on the internet. It was me who was taking such a large investment in their words, however.
"And yes, I'm aware the irony of pointing out online that everyone is online and not going out anymore."
That's the best part, aint it? :) For me it was more about finding balance and getting away from the things that felt like they required large chunks of my time - not so much swearing off the internet completely. I still see the utility of the tech - I just know I was being irresponsible with my own in my use of it.
"It's a pretty telling example that you can't explain to people what you meant with daddy daycare, and if they can't except it, stop communicating with them. I doubt your response was duo to facebook more then it was do to you not controlling your anger."
There actually wasn't any anger involved with this particular thread (which, I'll admit, is unusual for me - but these were a couple individuals I respected before all this went down). I pretty much said the initial post, let them rant for about 10 exchanges, interjected with "hey guys, not cool, you're getting borderline offensive here", was pretty much ignored and was continued to be flamed.
If it'd just been some random person I probably would have simply blocked/deleted them. One was actually a really good friend of my wife's (and to her credit she's still a great friend to my wife) and the other was actually a mutual friend I had with someone else who I'd debate with often and respected intellectually.
"I was miserable and changed my life, there fore everyone else doing what I was doing is miserable and should also change"
That's not really what I said at all. I essentially said if you're considering the change then by all means go for it. If you're doing fine balancing it with real life - then rock on, brotha. Compare it to people who can drink socially vs. full-out alcoholics.
"I just hate it when people fall into what I like to call "Hindsight is a lying bitch" syndrome."
This I'm unfamiliar with - care to clarify?