Parker: No, that's my only amusement in this game.
The next quote was he would feel bad if they actually looked like people. Someone else thought they looked like those plastic pegs for the people in the board game "The game of Life".
Many "industry pundits" (ROFL) initially claimed that AMD64 would die unless Microsoft promptly shipped Win64. Needless to say, it didn't happen.
Right, because even without its 64-bit potential, it has superior memory management and a shorter processor instruction pipeline, which is more efficient than a longer pipeline for most tasks besides media encoding. Since very few people do serious media encoding, this drawback doesn't matter.
Most pundits thought "no one needs 64-bit yet" and they were right. They just forget its other advantages.
why is this any harder than keeping up with whatever revision control system that you have in place, and reviewing every little piece of code that goes into baseline?
When it's just you, or you and the person who sits next to you working on a piece of the app, you have much better communication to coordinate changes than when it's you and a few programmers overseas.
You joke, but it's becoming increasingly difficult to find a job that doesn't require knowledge. Manufacturing jobs have left this country at a staggering rate.
If you're implying that manufacturing doesn't require knowledge, you're wrong. It doesn't require a college degree, but then again neither does programming. Most jobs require knowledge. Some more than others, but manufacturing and software are actually pretty similar in how much knowledge they can require... For the die hard perl-speaking techies, they've got their match in the gruffy old guy who can diagnose and repair any machine on his 3-mile long automobile production line.
The person who can be taught to work the paint machines in an assembly line could just as easily be taught to maintain the current events page on a company's web site.
Outsourcing can work well for simple or self-contained projects.
The problem comes when you try to mix outsourcing with in-house development. It gets real hairy when you have to guess what was changed overnight.
Also, if there's a mistake or a weak implementation (band-aid), then it takes 3 days to go back in forth through emails explaining what's wrong with the implementation and how to fix it. Often when it's time to upgrade the band-aid, the outsourcing contract has already ended and it becomes your job to fix it. There's a sense of ownership that you lose with any form of consulting, regardless of whether it's from an international or a local consulting firm. I doubt any cost-benefit analysis made by non-programmers ever incorporate this kind of work.
While outsourcing may look good on the surface, and as TFA says CIO's perceive it as a cost savings, there are many other factors that have yet to be analyzed.
Personally, I see the future PC as being an enhanced iPod with a fatter pipe for interfacing with a regular display. Basically, I see the iPod becoming the PC, and you just carry it around with you and plug it in wherever you want to. It has your mail settings, address book, calendar, as well as the programs you like to use to interface with those. Your "home computer" would then be something you can carry with you, and just hook up at any place that has a connection.
Other than the hard disk size (which will improve over time), how is this different from a PocketPC or PalmOS PDA?
Top models have email, address book, calendar, word processing, web browsing, media playing, IM'ing... what's left? Financial software?
And that is why I will never play this game. I know opinions may differ, but any game that comes down to figuring out the most efficient way to level or gain items or gold and coming up with equations and all that to figure it out kills the game for me.
If you're not into roleplaying, then all that's left is a grind and item hunt. Maybe some PvP'ing, but you'd probably enjoy Jedi Academy or Counterstrike where everyone's equal and it's your own skill that determines your success.
But if you are into roleplaying, then WoW is VERY satisfying. Quests make sense and there are many many plotlines, character development opportunities, and all sorts of immersive experiences.
While I haven't found as good a RP'ing guild as SWG's SRA on Sunrunner, the WoW game itself is much more immersive, and even a little linear. I'm curious to see how the endgame (final level 60) turns out from an RP'ing point of view.
A thousand cryptic icons, with cryptic names in the tooltips, with about 10 alt-ctrl-shift-click-drag variants for each tool is something I'm never going to learn fully.
Like you said, Photoshop 7 is a professional tool, designed for someone who will use it 40 hours a week, not 10 hours a month.
Real pros (like one of my design teachers in college) will turn off the entire interface and use those ctrl-alt-shift key combinations with only the image on the screen.
Perhaps Photoshop Elements would be a better fit for you?
Good point! Forgot that detail... but wasn't there a closed source linux dvd player made available in recent months? With a specific distribution or something?
What do you think would have happened during WW2 if the US & Britain were unable to monitor Japanese & German communications?
In many cases, Winston Churchill received high-level Nazi communications before Hitler did.
That was quite a different war. There are just too many ways to communicate these days. Not to mention that terror cells do not need to communicate with their organizers like troops in the trenches did in WWII.
If you're trying to speak to my greedy side, you won't find one. I'd ride a bike to work every day (snowing or not) if $6/gallon was the price of world peace.
Can we get off her looks for a minute and consider the fact that she's fucking brilliant and made a really cool toy?
If she wasn't brilliant and hadn't made a really cool toy, we wouldn't be talking about her at all. There are plenty of gorgeous women in the world who would bore slashdotters to death after the first week. (Though that first week would be pretty sweet). We're talking about her because we DO respect her accomplishments, in addition to her looks.
This whole "war on terror" is misguided. Finding existing terrorists and listening to them talk online WILL NOT STOP TERRORISM.
You can't fight terror with force because as much as you may disagree with the terrorists' goals, to them and their followers they are freedom fighters. If you were a freedom fighter rebelling against what you thought was an unjust foreign force, would them invading your half of the world make you give up? No, you'd fight harder than ever and this time you'd recruit your friends. Would knowing that your communications might be intercepted stop you? No, you'd just find new ways to communicate.
I wonder what percentage of our "defense" budget goes toward lobbying politicians to try to make policies that don't piss off half the world. That'd do more against terrorism, and for our defense, than any war.
When you want a netflix movie, you go to their website, add it to the top of your list, and wait a day or two for it to get there. Work: 5 minutes. Wait: 2 days. When you download, you usually spend a lot of time just trying to find a site to download from.
Unless I'm wrong and just don't know of all the good places to get illegally distributed movies:-)
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EGM: Do you feel bad about shooting the humans?
Parker: No, that's my only amusement in this game.
The next quote was he would feel bad if they actually looked like people. Someone else thought they looked like those plastic pegs for the people in the board game "The game of Life".
Many "industry pundits" (ROFL) initially claimed that AMD64 would die unless Microsoft promptly shipped Win64. Needless to say, it didn't happen.
Right, because even without its 64-bit potential, it has superior memory management and a shorter processor instruction pipeline, which is more efficient than a longer pipeline for most tasks besides media encoding. Since very few people do serious media encoding, this drawback doesn't matter.
Most pundits thought "no one needs 64-bit yet" and they were right. They just forget its other advantages.
why is this any harder than keeping up with whatever revision control system that you have in place, and reviewing every little piece of code that goes into baseline?
When it's just you, or you and the person who sits next to you working on a piece of the app, you have much better communication to coordinate changes than when it's you and a few programmers overseas.
Your wrong. Designing a better Body 300 is creativity. Putting it together is a robots job.
That's similar to designing an application and letting the compiler put it together.
back in forth
should have been "back and forth"
You joke, but it's becoming increasingly difficult to find a job that doesn't require knowledge. Manufacturing jobs have left this country at a staggering rate.
If you're implying that manufacturing doesn't require knowledge, you're wrong. It doesn't require a college degree, but then again neither does programming. Most jobs require knowledge. Some more than others, but manufacturing and software are actually pretty similar in how much knowledge they can require... For the die hard perl-speaking techies, they've got their match in the gruffy old guy who can diagnose and repair any machine on his 3-mile long automobile production line.
The person who can be taught to work the paint machines in an assembly line could just as easily be taught to maintain the current events page on a company's web site.
Outsourcing can work well for simple or self-contained projects.
The problem comes when you try to mix outsourcing with in-house development. It gets real hairy when you have to guess what was changed overnight.
Also, if there's a mistake or a weak implementation (band-aid), then it takes 3 days to go back in forth through emails explaining what's wrong with the implementation and how to fix it. Often when it's time to upgrade the band-aid, the outsourcing contract has already ended and it becomes your job to fix it. There's a sense of ownership that you lose with any form of consulting, regardless of whether it's from an international or a local consulting firm. I doubt any cost-benefit analysis made by non-programmers ever incorporate this kind of work.
While outsourcing may look good on the surface, and as TFA says CIO's perceive it as a cost savings, there are many other factors that have yet to be analyzed.
Personally, I see the future PC as being an enhanced iPod with a fatter pipe for interfacing with a regular display. Basically, I see the iPod becoming the PC, and you just carry it around with you and plug it in wherever you want to. It has your mail settings, address book, calendar, as well as the programs you like to use to interface with those. Your "home computer" would then be something you can carry with you, and just hook up at any place that has a connection.
Other than the hard disk size (which will improve over time), how is this different from a PocketPC or PalmOS PDA?
Top models have email, address book, calendar, word processing, web browsing, media playing, IM'ing... what's left? Financial software?
And that is why I will never play this game. I know opinions may differ, but any game that comes down to figuring out the most efficient way to level or gain items or gold and coming up with equations and all that to figure it out kills the game for me.
If you're not into roleplaying, then all that's left is a grind and item hunt. Maybe some PvP'ing, but you'd probably enjoy Jedi Academy or Counterstrike where everyone's equal and it's your own skill that determines your success.
But if you are into roleplaying, then WoW is VERY satisfying. Quests make sense and there are many many plotlines, character development opportunities, and all sorts of immersive experiences.
While I haven't found as good a RP'ing guild as SWG's SRA on Sunrunner, the WoW game itself is much more immersive, and even a little linear. I'm curious to see how the endgame (final level 60) turns out from an RP'ing point of view.
A thousand cryptic icons, with cryptic names in the tooltips, with about 10 alt-ctrl-shift-click-drag variants for each tool is something I'm never going to learn fully.
Like you said, Photoshop 7 is a professional tool, designed for someone who will use it 40 hours a week, not 10 hours a month.
Real pros (like one of my design teachers in college) will turn off the entire interface and use those ctrl-alt-shift key combinations with only the image on the screen.
Perhaps Photoshop Elements would be a better fit for you?
It's from Lindows/Linspire - but it requires Linspire 4.5 or higher: http://www.linspire.com/lindows_products_details.p hp?id=11804
Good point! Forgot that detail... but wasn't there a closed source linux dvd player made available in recent months? With a specific distribution or something?
What do you think would have happened during WW2 if the US & Britain were unable to monitor Japanese & German communications?
In many cases, Winston Churchill received high-level Nazi communications before Hitler did.
That was quite a different war. There are just too many ways to communicate these days. Not to mention that terror cells do not need to communicate with their organizers like troops in the trenches did in WWII.
If you're trying to speak to my greedy side, you won't find one. I'd ride a bike to work every day (snowing or not) if $6/gallon was the price of world peace.
Can we get off her looks for a minute and consider the fact that she's fucking brilliant and made a really cool toy?
If she wasn't brilliant and hadn't made a really cool toy, we wouldn't be talking about her at all. There are plenty of gorgeous women in the world who would bore slashdotters to death after the first week. (Though that first week would be pretty sweet). We're talking about her because we DO respect her accomplishments, in addition to her looks.
This whole "war on terror" is misguided. Finding existing terrorists and listening to them talk online WILL NOT STOP TERRORISM.
You can't fight terror with force because as much as you may disagree with the terrorists' goals, to them and their followers they are freedom fighters. If you were a freedom fighter rebelling against what you thought was an unjust foreign force, would them invading your half of the world make you give up? No, you'd fight harder than ever and this time you'd recruit your friends. Would knowing that your communications might be intercepted stop you? No, you'd just find new ways to communicate.
I wonder what percentage of our "defense" budget goes toward lobbying politicians to try to make policies that don't piss off half the world. That'd do more against terrorism, and for our defense, than any war.
she really is pretty cute... but look at all the stiff competition you'd find if you tried to pick her up at a hobby show: http://home.earthlink.net/~randy128/expo2002/pix5/ MVC-304S.JPG
No, they're a giveaway. The company could have sold the options/shares to investors, but instead they gave them away to employees.
That's a good philosophy if you can ignore the fact that you don't have a right to distribute other people's copyrighted works in this manner.
the 9 line MoleSter, written in Perl.
That can't be perl, there's comments and explanations all over it!
You mean American Beauty, and it's Mena Suvari, not Mira Sorveno. I always get their names confused too.
A good filter would find messages that point at untrusted servers, and add their senders to the blacklist.
You could try using Mike's Ad-Blicking Hosts File. That would at least prevent your computer from accessing those 1px tracking images.
Uptime is good for servers, fast shutdown/startup is good for desktops. Most people don't keep their PC's on all the time.
Can linux hibernate?
"HUH??!! Obviously you've never used MPlayer before."
:) Just a few left
You're right! Wow, from the screenshots it looks really powerful. Well good, Media player is taken care of
When you want a netflix movie, you go to their website, add it to the top of your list, and wait a day or two for it to get there. Work: 5 minutes. Wait: 2 days. When you download, you usually spend a lot of time just trying to find a site to download from.
:-)
Unless I'm wrong and just don't know of all the good places to get illegally distributed movies