Also an IBM'er and you're probably right. They've been moving towards FF for years, but there are still some internal sites that have trouble with it. Microsoft Office is also slowly getting the boot in favor of Lotus Symphony.
Even assuming 2k barrels a day naturally. They've dumped at minimum of 10 times the daily rate into the ecosystem according to expert estimates, plus dispersants of unknown toxicity, which are making the gusher behave entirely differently than the normal seepage.
You can drive two screens with an iMac! Been done, and planning to do it with the latest crop. Slightly disappointing CPU specs, but at least the HD4850 is an upgrade option.
"The Mac is a Linux/Windows variant at heart, with a little polish on top" More correct would be it's a BSD variant, with polish on top.
If you do give Macs another shot sometime there are multiple ways to do things that aren't so reliant on the Dock. Personally I keep very little in there and turn magnification off.
Why the complaint about MDI? You can make MDI type apps, or are you just missing the ability to tab between individual application windows instead of just applications?
Classic 'sucked'? There were some things incompatible with it, but I happily used it for quite some time to keep running my existing OS9 software. It eventually all got migrated to OSX, but I was in no rush.
I'm wondering if you ever noticed the 'XHTML Compliant' checkbox in Dreamweaver, or are using an ancient version. Yes, it has problems rendering CSS within the design view but will generate perfectly W3C valid pages. It also doesn't use any I, B or FONT tags when I'm editing. Granted I rarely edit in the design view, but your complaints are more valid to DW6, not the latest couple versions.
I actually went back to Sunday to make sure it was the same one. Of course, we'll see about next week but you can't apply a blanket statement to all of them.
Course, I shouldn't be too surprised that Philly sez 'bring it'!
I agree that good programmers should be able to tell if another one is at least good with a tech interview.
That's kind of skipping the larger picture though, since we all know there are many more factors that go into a hire than ability. The programmer is rarely the one that makes the actual hire/don't hire call - if they are, they could feel threatened by someone who is better or just as good (for less money). The boss could say 'we can't offer more than $X', they might not be able to offer relocation, and so on. It ends up coming down to the person with at least basic capability and is available for the least amount of fuss. If there is effort spent on getting a better fit, it's much further up the chain for 'senior' positions.
Yeah, being able to tell which programmers are the good/great/uber is HARD. It's much easier for companies to go on metrics as above instead of attempting to filter through for the excellent people, or even the most relevant person for the position. Compounding that, it's rare that a coder will admit to being subpar. Chances are even if you're dailywtf material they think they are great programmers! I've been doing code in one form or another for over a fifteen years and consider myself pretty good, great sometimes. I've worked with one uber programmer in my entire career (John Kichury of SGI), maybe 2 or 3 others that came close, but have met many that act and talk like they are. Following on their projects always has a common thread of being overly clever, loosely documented and hard to maintain.
I think there are a lot of techies and 'gamer geeks' in the same boat here. Personally, I'd love to consolidate my homebrew windows machine and my mac in one swoop. There other people I know would love a mac but still want to play their windows games - without going crazy with the pro tower!
It wouldn't even be a stretch to produce, the question is probably making a spiffy box that doesn't look like a shuttle. If it came out today, a speedy Core2 Duo + one slot for an upgradeable graphics card + 4GB of RAM capacity would get nearly all these folks. Hopefully at a price point somewhere between $1100-1500 as not to cannibalize the other lines too much.
I'm taking some game design classes at my local college (totally unrelated to my 'real' job). This semester we're actually developing prototypes, and everyone submitted proposals for ideas (over 20 in all) that ranged from the 'been done' to unique to zany.
The overwhelming favorite idea?
A destroy everything FPS with "BIG EXPLOSIONS". Oh, and hell is involved too.
To me the whole process just highlighted everything wrong with the industry. If the folks IN the industry (or at least want to be) aren't even interested in other ideas, what hope is there? You couldn't get any more cliche, yet they're willing to devote large quantities of time to adding this to their portfolios.
I prefer Java/Eclipse personally to C#/VStudio, but XNA seems to be offering a good opportunity for Indies. Other than Beta1 to Beta2 transition, I've been impressed with the XNA team. I loaded my game on to a XB360 earlier this week and it was amazingly painless. A 'duh' issue where some content files were missing, but only had to do a few minor code changes. An hour later my game was running on an Xbox360!
It's hard to believe that Microsoft managed to put such a solid product out. They did it with a very small team, which is why it is only VStudio Express and C# are supported right now. It's nothing like the bloated behemoth that Windows OS development has become. Other coolness is that Remote Debugging works, and works well. I've never had remote debug in hardware or software that worked so painlessly. Create the PC-360 link, start debug, play on the 360, and watched variables will update, you can insert breakpoints on the fly, step through, all that jazz without any problems at all.
Not only that, but they're required to filter web content! Otherwise they can lose federal funding. It's a big headache for my wife, who run the tech dept. at a school, especially when they want to loan laptops out to the kids. Those have to be filtered as well.
http://www.garagegames.com/ It's $99, but a great engine and has some very good support from the company and community. If you're really serious about it, $99 is incredibly cheap for the value it offers.
Personally, I've never had a problem with accidental activation of a touchpad. I have an IBM laptop with the nipple in the middle of the keyboard and I hate it, using the touchpad exclusively. The nipple is very hard on the finger that's using it since you're putting a lot of lateral stress on your joints.
You use whatever you feel comfortable with. Many people I know lug a bluetooth or wireless mouse with the laptop because they just don't like the built in pointing devices.
(You know, out of context this discussion could be pretty funny.)
IBM was the contractor, so you can't really fault them for SOCOG not paying for accessibility. I dobut any company would just throw it in for free! I spent a year at IBM working mostly on accessibility issues with internal and external sites, it's something they've paid a lot of attention to.
It's simple enough to add alt text to all images, but ensuring things are fully accessible is a lot more work. CSS makes this a lot easier than with table layouts though.
It's already here. It says right in the article that "[...] Tiger's Smart Folders feature, which lets the user save the results of a Spotlight search as a virtual folder that automatically updates as new items matching the search are added to the system."
This sounds quite similar to the smart playlists in iTunes eh? I use the smart playlists in iTunes quite a lot, and I'll definitely be using this smart folder feature once I get Tiger.
I still work for GS (internally now) and I can sympathize. They haven't burned me out with the workload, but more apathy with the type of work (very un-challengng) I'm getting. They hired almost a dozen of us from my graduating class, and I'm one of two left. I'm either lucky or stupid - perhaps both.
Local newspaper had an article about the descision, and the fact that it's not going to change much at this time.
I live in PA, and I'm not going to be able to order wine online anytime soon. The State Store is going to retain the monopoly as the sole distributor in-state.
Of course, IBM isn't immune to the cutbacks and shortage of new stuff coming out either. What happened to our mandatory 2 weeks training and being able to order whatever books or software you needed with no questions asked? Both benefits are completely gone. You need to follow a long approval chain to get any kind of training or material.
I agree wholeheartedly. In fact, using DW can HELP you make sure your code is completely standards-compliant. On top of that, writing extensions is really easy. I wrote several to add checks for handicapped acessibility. I'd rather have DW handle the easy stuff for me. If it's something more involved I just hit source view and edit there. Heck, it's even got a regexp seach/replace which is invaluable.
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Look up battery cages. You have 8-10 chickens in a container about the size of a filing cabinet drawer.
Also an IBM'er and you're probably right. They've been moving towards FF for years, but there are still some internal sites that have trouble with it. Microsoft Office is also slowly getting the boot in favor of Lotus Symphony.
Even assuming 2k barrels a day naturally. They've dumped at minimum of 10 times the daily rate into the ecosystem according to expert estimates, plus dispersants of unknown toxicity, which are making the gusher behave entirely differently than the normal seepage.
You see the miles and miles of orange boom laid parallel to the coast? That's wrong. It's all show, and no utility.
Here's an excellent explanation of how it's supposed to be done:
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2010/5/11/865387/-Fishgrease:-DKos-Booming-School
You can drive two screens with an iMac! Been done, and planning to do it with the latest crop. Slightly disappointing CPU specs, but at least the HD4850 is an upgrade option.
"The Mac is a Linux/Windows variant at heart, with a little polish on top"
More correct would be it's a BSD variant, with polish on top.
If you do give Macs another shot sometime there are multiple ways to do things that aren't so reliant on the Dock. Personally I keep very little in there and turn magnification off.
Why the complaint about MDI? You can make MDI type apps, or are you just missing the ability to tab between individual application windows instead of just applications?
Classic 'sucked'? There were some things incompatible with it, but I happily used it for quite some time to keep running my existing OS9 software. It eventually all got migrated to OSX, but I was in no rush.
I'm wondering if you ever noticed the 'XHTML Compliant' checkbox in Dreamweaver, or are using an ancient version. Yes, it has problems rendering CSS within the design view but will generate perfectly W3C valid pages. It also doesn't use any I, B or FONT tags when I'm editing. Granted I rarely edit in the design view, but your complaints are more valid to DW6, not the latest couple versions.
I actually went back to Sunday to make sure it was the same one. Of course, we'll see about next week but you can't apply a blanket statement to all of them.
Course, I shouldn't be too surprised that Philly sez 'bring it'!
I agree that good programmers should be able to tell if another one is at least good with a tech interview. That's kind of skipping the larger picture though, since we all know there are many more factors that go into a hire than ability. The programmer is rarely the one that makes the actual hire/don't hire call - if they are, they could feel threatened by someone who is better or just as good (for less money). The boss could say 'we can't offer more than $X', they might not be able to offer relocation, and so on. It ends up coming down to the person with at least basic capability and is available for the least amount of fuss. If there is effort spent on getting a better fit, it's much further up the chain for 'senior' positions.
Yeah, being able to tell which programmers are the good/great/uber is HARD. It's much easier for companies to go on metrics as above instead of attempting to filter through for the excellent people, or even the most relevant person for the position.
Compounding that, it's rare that a coder will admit to being subpar. Chances are even if you're dailywtf material they think they are great programmers! I've been doing code in one form or another for over a fifteen years and consider myself pretty good, great sometimes. I've worked with one uber programmer in my entire career (John Kichury of SGI), maybe 2 or 3 others that came close, but have met many that act and talk like they are. Following on their projects always has a common thread of being overly clever, loosely documented and hard to maintain.
I think there are a lot of techies and 'gamer geeks' in the same boat here. Personally, I'd love to consolidate my homebrew windows machine and my mac in one swoop. There other people I know would love a mac but still want to play their windows games - without going crazy with the pro tower!
It wouldn't even be a stretch to produce, the question is probably making a spiffy box that doesn't look like a shuttle. If it came out today, a speedy Core2 Duo + one slot for an upgradeable graphics card + 4GB of RAM capacity would get nearly all these folks. Hopefully at a price point somewhere between $1100-1500 as not to cannibalize the other lines too much.
I'm taking some game design classes at my local college (totally unrelated to my 'real' job). This semester we're actually developing prototypes, and everyone submitted proposals for ideas (over 20 in all) that ranged from the 'been done' to unique to zany.
The overwhelming favorite idea?
A destroy everything FPS with "BIG EXPLOSIONS". Oh, and hell is involved too.
To me the whole process just highlighted everything wrong with the industry. If the folks IN the industry (or at least want to be) aren't even interested in other ideas, what hope is there? You couldn't get any more cliche, yet they're willing to devote large quantities of time to adding this to their portfolios.
I prefer Java/Eclipse personally to C#/VStudio, but XNA seems to be offering a good opportunity for Indies. Other than Beta1 to Beta2 transition, I've been impressed with the XNA team. I loaded my game on to a XB360 earlier this week and it was amazingly painless. A 'duh' issue where some content files were missing, but only had to do a few minor code changes. An hour later my game was running on an Xbox360! It's hard to believe that Microsoft managed to put such a solid product out. They did it with a very small team, which is why it is only VStudio Express and C# are supported right now. It's nothing like the bloated behemoth that Windows OS development has become. Other coolness is that Remote Debugging works, and works well. I've never had remote debug in hardware or software that worked so painlessly. Create the PC-360 link, start debug, play on the 360, and watched variables will update, you can insert breakpoints on the fly, step through, all that jazz without any problems at all.
Not only that, but they're required to filter web content! Otherwise they can lose federal funding. It's a big headache for my wife, who run the tech dept. at a school, especially when they want to loan laptops out to the kids. Those have to be filtered as well.
http://www.garagegames.com/ It's $99, but a great engine and has some very good support from the company and community. If you're really serious about it, $99 is incredibly cheap for the value it offers.
You're right. Apparently "Blurry Picture + No Glasses = Stupid Conclusion"
Doesn't change that they'll need some more substantial proof though.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/32436196@N00/11065077 1/
There's no way for that one to be real. The screen is overlapping the edge of the machine itself. He definitely needs some hard proof (or better pictures).
Personally, I've never had a problem with accidental activation of a touchpad. I have an IBM laptop with the nipple in the middle of the keyboard and I hate it, using the touchpad exclusively. The nipple is very hard on the finger that's using it since you're putting a lot of lateral stress on your joints.
You use whatever you feel comfortable with. Many people I know lug a bluetooth or wireless mouse with the laptop because they just don't like the built in pointing devices.
(You know, out of context this discussion could be pretty funny.)
IBM was the contractor, so you can't really fault them for SOCOG not paying for accessibility. I dobut any company would just throw it in for free! I spent a year at IBM working mostly on accessibility issues with internal and external sites, it's something they've paid a lot of attention to.
It's simple enough to add alt text to all images, but ensuring things are fully accessible is a lot more work. CSS makes this a lot easier than with table layouts though.
It's already here. It says right in the article that "[...] Tiger's Smart Folders feature, which lets the user save the results of a Spotlight search as a virtual folder that automatically updates as new items matching the search are added to the system." This sounds quite similar to the smart playlists in iTunes eh? I use the smart playlists in iTunes quite a lot, and I'll definitely be using this smart folder feature once I get Tiger.
I still work for GS (internally now) and I can sympathize. They haven't burned me out with the workload, but more apathy with the type of work (very un-challengng) I'm getting. They hired almost a dozen of us from my graduating class, and I'm one of two left. I'm either lucky or stupid - perhaps both.
Local newspaper had an article about the descision, and the fact that it's not going to change much at this time.
I live in PA, and I'm not going to be able to order wine online anytime soon. The State Store is going to retain the monopoly as the sole distributor in-state.
Of course, IBM isn't immune to the cutbacks and shortage of new stuff coming out either. What happened to our mandatory 2 weeks training and being able to order whatever books or software you needed with no questions asked? Both benefits are completely gone. You need to follow a long approval chain to get any kind of training or material.
I agree wholeheartedly. In fact, using DW can HELP you make sure your code is completely standards-compliant. On top of that, writing extensions is really easy. I wrote several to add checks for handicapped acessibility. I'd rather have DW handle the easy stuff for me. If it's something more involved I just hit source view and edit there. Heck, it's even got a regexp seach/replace which is invaluable.