...the perception in the community overall was, Compiz = old and stale, Beryl = fresh and exciting. This despite the feeling in the Compiz community that the "real work" was being done by David Reveman and Compiz...
...but they sure can gossip like seventh-grade girls.
Everybody thought that the rise of Ajax as a web programming model would merely exacerbate existing types of attack. Few thought it would give rise to a new class, noted (some random guy).
Actually, I'd claim "everybody" with a toe in the security world thought it was the opposite; we'd start hearing about daily/weekly Ajax security problems as a regular course of business.
(If you think various operating systems have legacy code problems; you don't know "Javascript as implemented by browsers"...)
...rival next-gen format HD DVD looked like it had its own success story in the making with this week's HD DVD release of the cult hit 'Children of Men.'
If that's really the best news related to "HD DVD", it's probably time to put a fork in the tech anyway, regardless of the console playing stuff. "Children of Men?" Sorry, never heard of it.
...Wii shortages are due to demand. Nintendo's George Harrison told Next-Gen.biz in a phone interview that "That's not at all the case. We have worldwide territories that are all competing over the available production.
What's the contradiction here? One side says "there's too much demand" and the other side says "there's not enough supply for demand". I think both "sides" here agree that "there is not enough supply to meet demand".
It if were Nintendo, I'd also intentionally keep supplies limited. As we've seen, consumers who hear "Wiis are scarce" turn into the knuckleheads who will wait in line, and more importantly, pay premium prices for every Wii that dribbles out. Retailers also win when marks come stumbling into the same store 4 or 5 times looking for their Wii and foolishly walk out with a new CD or some other piece of crap they didn't intend to buy when they left their mothers' basements.
But just as silent film gave way to the talkies, cutscenes need to keep giving way to gameplay so that our eyes--excuse me, our hands--are constantly engaged.
Sorry it took so long for me to post...my eyes and my hands were engaged in other activity.
"It is fabulous," says the teacher Arturo Vazquez. "The children concentrate more, they interact more and so they get more out of each class".
If they just bought this system and it's really that useful, what, exactly, is the "teacher" needed for? (More likely, this is just the next generation of fancy filmstrip.)
This, is the world's first digitally-educated generation.
Or second...computers were a (sad) part of my elementary school education too, and I now have a couple of kids.
What this is about is that Apple is reaching...and creating buzz. How do you measure buzz? You don't.
Looks like the newbie stick has been smacking SlashDot authors again.
First, "buzz" is a marketing issue, and it's been pretty well defined for several decades. Look up the phrase "AIDA" (attention, interest, desire and action). "Buzz" is roughly equivalent to "interest": people are interested in the product, but don't necessarily desire the project yet.
Second, measuring levels of attention, interest, desire and action is extremely EASY to do. In addition to decades of university-level research that contribute to our understanding, there are hundreds of marketing and polling firms that can monitor these levels of interest in commercial products fairly accurately.
(If you don't think Apple is employing marketing firms to generate and monitor AIDA, including "buzz", I'd like to sell you something too.)
...it is my department's roll is to develop...department manager sees a dip (or rise) in one of there KPI's the first thing they do is ask me to 'check out the reporting', because '[they] think there is a problem'? It's this just the culture of my company or have other readers experienced a 'blame the technology first, ask questions later mentality'?"
First, LEARN ENGLISH. ("role", "their") Until you do, respect will continue to evade you.
Second, if you submit something obscure to Slashdot, explain it. Specifically, WTF is a KPI?
Third, your manager DID ask you a question. If you want to avoid more of these questions, why not make the process of creating whatever a KPI is more transparent (e.g., make an interim detailed report available as a CSV) and let the questioners check their own work?
At the moment, people "don't trust the tech" because they don't trust the whiny, snot-nosed newbie churning out their KPIs. Prove yourself to be a reliable and detail-oriented person (OK, basically a 21st-century secretary) and maybe they will.
If you don't know what you want to do for a living, please stay out of management. Employees, especially employees with their own drive, hate working for a guy without direction.
Programmers must begin to develop applications that take full advantage of the increasing number of cores present in modern computers. However, multi-threaded development has been notoriously hard to do.
Actually, the rise of web apps backed by a multithreaded web server and a multithreaded DB in the 1990s made this pretty easy for millions of people.
Anyone familiar with the Mayan Calendar? December 21, 2012 (13.0.0.0.0 in the Mayan Calendar) Coincidence?"
No. Yes.
So...the author started managing in the 1950s?
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Back in the day, IT was a relatively well-defined activity. Not a lot of people knew about it, it was complex but pretty isolated, and there was precious little "interaction" (interference) with the business side of an organization. When I started managing, there was the technical side and everything else. Now things are very different.
Warren Spector's record for shipping games he's announced is pretty clean.
I'm not picking on Warren - I'm still not sure who he is or what he does. (I suppose I could read TFA, or even the stuff beneath the headline, but that's too much work.)
It's just that when a PR piece like this pops out, you generally want it to say something like "X has just shipped (buy it now) and Y is just around the corner (plan to buy it next year)." The "plan to buy 2 things next year" thing in this PR piece is a strange marketing message. Think "AIDA"...
And that aside, your statement just doesn't make any sense -- it's impossible for a company to successfully work on two projects at a time?
Your mistake here is company!=designer. Sure, a company can work on multiple projects, but I doubt a single designer can work part-time on two completely separate new games and ensure both are top shelf. (If he is, he's likely just lending a brand name to the project or otherwise off-shoring the actual design work.)
...you need to put in your time and prove your worth with a company before you start making decisions about the next game said company puts out. You cannot do that unless you work for the company first and I guarantee they are not looking for a 22 year old kid to contribute to their game design outside of maybe beta feedback.
This pretty much goes for any software company worth its salt. Starting in beta or Q/A testing is a good way to go, however. First it teaches you to express exactly what's wrong with X, then it teaches you how to suggest "low hanging fruit" Y to avoid future problems. At the point you know how to suggest Y (and have the tech skills to either code it or lead the coding of it), you're a real asset to the company.
In short, beta - Q/A testing should be a good place to start if you want to fast-track your way to a company's decision team anywhere. (It worked for me, anyway.)
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Mardi Gras? Nazi hideout? Amazon rainforest? Soccer? And that's not even trying...
Actually, I'd claim "everybody" with a toe in the security world thought it was the opposite; we'd start hearing about daily/weekly Ajax security problems as a regular course of business.
(If you think various operating systems have legacy code problems; you don't know "Javascript as implemented by browsers"...)
If that's really the best news related to "HD DVD", it's probably time to put a fork in the tech anyway, regardless of the console playing stuff. "Children of Men?" Sorry, never heard of it.
Why do we have to drag the White House into every science discussion we have on SlashDot?
Luke didn't see the sunset thirty years ago - he saw it "A Long Long Time Ago (in a Galaxy Far Far Away)..."
I can't believe I'm posting to a Star Wars item...feel like I need to take a shower now.
What's the contradiction here? One side says "there's too much demand" and the other side says "there's not enough supply for demand". I think both "sides" here agree that "there is not enough supply to meet demand".
It if were Nintendo, I'd also intentionally keep supplies limited. As we've seen, consumers who hear "Wiis are scarce" turn into the knuckleheads who will wait in line, and more importantly, pay premium prices for every Wii that dribbles out. Retailers also win when marks come stumbling into the same store 4 or 5 times looking for their Wii and foolishly walk out with a new CD or some other piece of crap they didn't intend to buy when they left their mothers' basements.
Sorry it took so long for me to post...my eyes and my hands were engaged in other activity.
If they just bought this system and it's really that useful, what, exactly, is the "teacher" needed for? (More likely, this is just the next generation of fancy filmstrip.)
Or second...computers were a (sad) part of my elementary school education too, and I now have a couple of kids.
Looks like the newbie stick has been smacking SlashDot authors again.
First, "buzz" is a marketing issue, and it's been pretty well defined for several decades. Look up the phrase "AIDA" (attention, interest, desire and action). "Buzz" is roughly equivalent to "interest": people are interested in the product, but don't necessarily desire the project yet.
Second, measuring levels of attention, interest, desire and action is extremely EASY to do. In addition to decades of university-level research that contribute to our understanding, there are hundreds of marketing and polling firms that can monitor these levels of interest in commercial products fairly accurately.
(If you don't think Apple is employing marketing firms to generate and monitor AIDA, including "buzz", I'd like to sell you something too.)
That's nothing - my clock runs off a potato. (e.g., http://www.unit5.org/christjs/Potato%20Battery.htm )
Sometimes I wonder if the Slashdot editors are really junior high school drop-outs...
First, LEARN ENGLISH. ("role", "their") Until you do, respect will continue to evade you.
Second, if you submit something obscure to Slashdot, explain it. Specifically, WTF is a KPI?
Third, your manager DID ask you a question. If you want to avoid more of these questions, why not make the process of creating whatever a KPI is more transparent (e.g., make an interim detailed report available as a CSV) and let the questioners check their own work?
At the moment, people "don't trust the tech" because they don't trust the whiny, snot-nosed newbie churning out their KPIs. Prove yourself to be a reliable and detail-oriented person (OK, basically a 21st-century secretary) and maybe they will.
Shouldn't this be the "iTV"?
If you don't know what you want to do for a living, please stay out of management. Employees, especially employees with their own drive, hate working for a guy without direction.
Actually, the rise of web apps backed by a multithreaded web server and a multithreaded DB in the 1990s made this pretty easy for millions of people.
Bruce WHO? He brought a PR team to record and publicize the event and "what this guy does" doesn't even make the slug?
No. Yes.
So...the author started managing in the 1950s?
Screw collaboration: I'm all for the return of a space race: China vs. Europe vs. USA. Round 2 - FIGHT!
Is this a regular crappy Wired article or a user-generated crappy Wired article? I'm just dying to know...
I'm not picking on Warren - I'm still not sure who he is or what he does. (I suppose I could read TFA, or even the stuff beneath the headline, but that's too much work.)
It's just that when a PR piece like this pops out, you generally want it to say something like "X has just shipped (buy it now) and Y is just around the corner (plan to buy it next year)." The "plan to buy 2 things next year" thing in this PR piece is a strange marketing message. Think "AIDA"...
Your mistake here is company!=designer. Sure, a company can work on multiple projects, but I doubt a single designer can work part-time on two completely separate new games and ensure both are top shelf. (If he is, he's likely just lending a brand name to the project or otherwise off-shoring the actual design work.)
This pretty much goes for any software company worth its salt. Starting in beta or Q/A testing is a good way to go, however. First it teaches you to express exactly what's wrong with X, then it teaches you how to suggest "low hanging fruit" Y to avoid future problems. At the point you know how to suggest Y (and have the tech skills to either code it or lead the coding of it), you're a real asset to the company.
In short, beta - Q/A testing should be a good place to start if you want to fast-track your way to a company's decision team anywhere. (It worked for me, anyway.)
Pardon me, but when I hear vaporware phrase like this, I generally think , "...but neither is expected to ship."
HEADLINE CORRECTION: "Don't Google 'How To Commit Murder' Less Than Two Years Before Killing"
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See:
Google to Anonymize Users' Search Data (Maybe, After 2 Years or So)
http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/07/03/15/0343250.shtm
"FAT" - who cares? Even Microsoft essentially dumped that format almost a decade ago.