...a lost opportunity...
Since the market has already hit its peak and it's too late now. And they'll never be able to sell to the 20 people that are using SSDs.
1) Asshole is not the same as stupid
2) You said it yourself -- choose to remain uneducated, because they do what they do, and its not computers
3) The post you reply to mentioned that people are good at OTHER things -- you didn't mention how good of a lawyer guy X was
4) Your example isn't tech support, it's "fix your shit." His knowledge wouldn't matter.
Why does anyone bother using captcha, or asking silly questions, or any of that anymore? Computers are better at it than people. Give it up, and just start banning hosts until something better comes up.
I'm not sure why but I was always under the impression that an ipv6 ip looked more like ipv4, ie, 192.168.1.1.1.1. The way it actually looks, why not just use MAC addresses?
I wasn't expecting anyone to prove me wrong. I hadn't considered that since all the other browsers render things differently. I've always equated new browsers with new problems, but yeah, if they render correctly, there could be a million.
And then it un-made up for it by being an oddball browser that next to no one used (and at the time had ADS??).
Competition is almost invariably a good thing for users, but in the case of web browsers, all it does is force the developers to add countless new "features" to "stay ahead of the competition" instead of spending that time making it do the things it already does the way it should.
The hardware device would be implemented in such a way to make it impossible to copy the functionality of it without physical access to it.
That should be simple enough. Seriously, though, if a key like that were introduced, it would just be one more layer these people would have to overcome.
It's just part of the mounting evidence that username/password combinations for banks is inherently flawed. "Somthing you know" can always easily be known by someone else. Bank security should (IMO) be also based on "something you have", like an ATM card.
True that. I find it incredibly stupid that, not only is my mother's maiden name not hard to come by, but when I type it it shows up in plain text. Or if I call to get my password reset and you are sitting in the cube next to me, you know my father's middle name. And that is all you need to know to reset my password again.
Fucking lowlifes. We are finally buckling and renting out the house we haven't been able to sell in Montgomery, Alabama (1000 miles from where we live now) partly because the extra mortgage is hurting, but the fact that there is so much crime in Montgomery and we have no one guarding our copper is honestly the biggest problem in my mind. People break in, do many thousands worth of dollars of damage to make a couple hundred bucks, and in turn buy drugs to make themselves even more worthless.
That's pretty worthless. Who the hell is even a big player that is violating the DMCA and making money now? Why, if people could already distribute all of this content legally anyway, should the fact that someone is trying to make a profit be illegal?
Thank you for finding the PC way of saying what I was thinking. The best I could come up with is "this is the worst fucking idea for a game I've ever heard."
Yeah, yeah! I'm with you. And despite all of the tax money allocated for public education, you're still an idiot. When is the government going to help you? Greedy bastards.
That's some pretty flawed logic. Should doctors working to cure lung cancer stop, because a cure to lung cancer would make it safer to smoke?
"Less risk to our troops" can translate into "we go into more wars" which is something I don't support... wars benefit companies, and lead to the death
Read that again. You don't like wars because people are killed. You're talking about potentially eliminating human casualties in any war. That means the only remaining "problem" (in your scenario) is that they benefit companies.
That may be going a bit far. You're saying any country that couldn't resist an invasion isn't sovereign? Do we need to have a deathmatch to determine which one country is the one that really is sovereign?
They might gain some manoeuvring room by skilful use of legal tactics,...
We were planning on taking Sealand over at some point. Inflatable boat, cooler full of beer and lots of yelling. But it turns out they probably actually have some guns. Sigh.
"The absence of a company name and payroll doesn't make the experience any less useful in real world."
I'll decide what my point is, thank you very much.
You're wrong. I've had instructors try to play the role of the customer. They've designated certain team members as management. They've brought in people from different departments to be the user. None of them are anything like real life. There isn't a school that sits you in front of a computer for 8 hours a day with real people that need real results from you for their business to continue making money (ie, to keep their job). They don't have you work on huge projects that have been touched by dozens of people (each with their own ideas and practices)that have fundamental flaws, minor flaws, partially complete requirements, partial documentation, and obscure usage that you can't infer - you have to rely on the requirements.
Anyone who thinks college fully prepares someone to work in a corporate environment as a software developer must not have much experience. In my 6 years in the Air Force, I was surrounded by huge fucking nerds that stayed in their dorm rooms all weekend playing Everquest and all thought they were goddamn geniuses. They were all good at standardized tests, some of them were great coders, but the vast majority were horrible at their job. (Cue listing your qualifications and how good you are. I'll be impressed. If this is an interview, I've already decided I don't want you.)
I'm not sure what kind of experience you have - what kind of competition you're talking about, what kind of collaboration you've done, what exactly your requirements were or who they were coming from. My point is that someone that has never worked professionally - that is, their experience consists of making a side scrolling game in their free time and debugging some javascript - doesn't have any useful experience for a corporate environment. There's a big difference between making a few little changes you want and making a few little changes someone else wants.
I've done some pretty extensive changes to phpbb for my own forum and wordpress for another site I run. I learned a lot about them. I wrote my own cms in php about 10 years ago, which was really some of the first programming (if you'll call it that) I did. I've taken dozens of classes on different languages, architectures, designing and customer interaction. I learned from all of these things, but none of them even began to preparing me for a business environment. The only learning you can do outside of that, I think, is prep work. Learn the basics - how do I code in this language, what are the best practices for designing this type of application, how do I write requirements and so on. Learning to be productive can only be done by producing. That's why electricians and plumbers have apprenticeship programs. If you're in school and you want honest to god experience in programming, your best bet is an internship, and cross your fingers that you'll get the right experience there.
I think this is exactly what the OP was talking about. Sure, you're a huge computer nerd and can code anything and make it work, but that's a very small part of a software dev job. Collaborating with others, sharing ideas, designing, working with customers, leveraging your position to gain resources, convincing management why you're right, scheduling, so on and so on.. you don't get that coding at home and you don't get that at school.
I was fortunate enough to be thrown in to it and gain the experience in the Air Force, and how anyone "gets their foot in the door" blows my mind. I have some very smart friends who are very capable, but in an actual work environment, they'd be completely lost, and that goes for most everyone fresh out of college with a computer science degree. Experience is what makes you useful. An experienced programmer doesn't need experience in a particular language to be at least servicable, but a hotshot young gun could know a language like the back of his hand and be worthless.
I'm not saying I don't think you are capable or even that I don't think you have the experience. But whereas you (I'm assuming semi-jokingly) refer to how long you've been on slashdot as evidence that you know what you're doing, I would refer to the projects I've worked on and not only the work I've done, but how I've affected the team working on them as a whole and how they've affected me.
Which brings me to the OP's question. Some of the important things I listen for in interviews is how people have dealt with adversity. Name a problem you had on a project and how it was overcome. Name a time your solution was wrong and how you dealt with it. Tell me about a time you had a problem with someone on your team and how you overcame it. The technical stuff is a given -- look at their resume. I want to know how this guy will make us successful.
If only MTV would do this with The State.. Along with creating a DVD they could link to to buy. You know, so, even if I had to pay, I could watch the funniest show ever.
I wasn't talking about the quality of Vista at all. I do think it's complete garbage, but that doesn't matter. To answer your question, I've probably spent less than an hour using a computer with Vista. The point is,...
It took till I tried to say what the point is to really, clearly see how off your comment was. The ORIGINAL point, and then drilling down to where you ended up:
1. (At least some) people do upgrade their OSes.
2. Businesses wait for stability, proof, yadda yadda before upgrading their OSes
3. But they generally do upgrade their OSes
4. Businesses largely didn't upgrade to Vista
5. My opinion had nothing to do with it
While I agree that going after consoles is pretty trivial (probably mostly due to the fact that I could care less about the environment), your argument isnt very sound and, if green is your thing, why not?
While the article likely drew many of the same exagerated/stretched conslusions, yours could use some adjusting and should probably include asterisks even then. A microwave cooking for 20 minutes? Sure, it's plausible, but a TV dinner takes 1 minute, and even if you're a complete slob, you're going to be making, tops, 4 a day. In the meantime, the complete slob is playing 5 hours of Halo 2. Then he's leaving it running to download a demo or two.
The point of power saving isn't to find the largest users of electricity and eliminate them. It's to 1) eliminate the things that aren't reasonable (like lights in rooms you're not in) and 2) reduce the consumption of everything you are using. Improving a console's power usage by 10% won't result in anything just like replacing a single light bulb wont, but if you get replace all your incandescents with compact florescents, hit the refrigerator, tv, monitors, computers, security systems and everything else, you've done something.
And sure, the probably optimistic 7 million tons of CO2 the article says can be saved is equal to maybe half a million cars (or well under a quarter percent of the US), but console makers can work to improve consoles' power usage -- they can't do anything about the cars. That's on someone else.
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...a lost opportunity... Since the market has already hit its peak and it's too late now. And they'll never be able to sell to the 20 people that are using SSDs.
To this day, there is still no better platform for DTP and graphic design than the Mac
Except Windows.
While in principle I agree with that, what are they supposed to do? They are quoting you a price for a service they don't provide themselves.
1) Asshole is not the same as stupid 2) You said it yourself -- choose to remain uneducated, because they do what they do, and its not computers 3) The post you reply to mentioned that people are good at OTHER things -- you didn't mention how good of a lawyer guy X was 4) Your example isn't tech support, it's "fix your shit." His knowledge wouldn't matter.
Why does anyone bother using captcha, or asking silly questions, or any of that anymore? Computers are better at it than people. Give it up, and just start banning hosts until something better comes up.
I'm not sure why but I was always under the impression that an ipv6 ip looked more like ipv4, ie, 192.168.1.1.1.1. The way it actually looks, why not just use MAC addresses?
I wasn't expecting anyone to prove me wrong. I hadn't considered that since all the other browsers render things differently. I've always equated new browsers with new problems, but yeah, if they render correctly, there could be a million.
And then it un-made up for it by being an oddball browser that next to no one used (and at the time had ADS??).
Competition is almost invariably a good thing for users, but in the case of web browsers, all it does is force the developers to add countless new "features" to "stay ahead of the competition" instead of spending that time making it do the things it already does the way it should.
The hardware device would be implemented in such a way to make it impossible to copy the functionality of it without physical access to it.
That should be simple enough. Seriously, though, if a key like that were introduced, it would just be one more layer these people would have to overcome.
It's just part of the mounting evidence that username/password combinations for banks is inherently flawed. "Somthing you know" can always easily be known by someone else. Bank security should (IMO) be also based on "something you have", like an ATM card.
True that. I find it incredibly stupid that, not only is my mother's maiden name not hard to come by, but when I type it it shows up in plain text. Or if I call to get my password reset and you are sitting in the cube next to me, you know my father's middle name. And that is all you need to know to reset my password again.
"For the OpenPro, online commentators have stated that the OpenPro's 'internal [hardware] design is only average compared with that of a Mac Pro,' ...
So uh.. that would make it.. equally well designed compared to what Apple did?
The only downside is it's a waste of tax payers cash ...
That, and the fact that there is no up side. Doesn't sound like a very fun (or responsible) game to me.
Fucking lowlifes. We are finally buckling and renting out the house we haven't been able to sell in Montgomery, Alabama (1000 miles from where we live now) partly because the extra mortgage is hurting, but the fact that there is so much crime in Montgomery and we have no one guarding our copper is honestly the biggest problem in my mind. People break in, do many thousands worth of dollars of damage to make a couple hundred bucks, and in turn buy drugs to make themselves even more worthless.
That's pretty worthless. Who the hell is even a big player that is violating the DMCA and making money now? Why, if people could already distribute all of this content legally anyway, should the fact that someone is trying to make a profit be illegal?
Thank you for finding the PC way of saying what I was thinking. The best I could come up with is "this is the worst fucking idea for a game I've ever heard."
Go ahead, mod me down. Fascists!
Yeah, yeah! I'm with you. And despite all of the tax money allocated for public education, you're still an idiot. When is the government going to help you? Greedy bastards.
That's some pretty flawed logic. Should doctors working to cure lung cancer stop, because a cure to lung cancer would make it safer to smoke?
"Less risk to our troops" can translate into "we go into more wars" which is something I don't support... wars benefit companies, and lead to the death
Read that again. You don't like wars because people are killed. You're talking about potentially eliminating human casualties in any war. That means the only remaining "problem" (in your scenario) is that they benefit companies.
That may be going a bit far. You're saying any country that couldn't resist an invasion isn't sovereign? Do we need to have a deathmatch to determine which one country is the one that really is sovereign?
...
They might gain some manoeuvring room by skilful use of legal tactics,
They actually did this once, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_status_of_Sealand Turns out Britain doesn't care. And why should they?
We were planning on taking Sealand over at some point. Inflatable boat, cooler full of beer and lots of yelling. But it turns out they probably actually have some guns. Sigh.
"The absence of a company name and payroll doesn't make the experience any less useful in real world."
I'll decide what my point is, thank you very much.
You're wrong. I've had instructors try to play the role of the customer. They've designated certain team members as management. They've brought in people from different departments to be the user. None of them are anything like real life. There isn't a school that sits you in front of a computer for 8 hours a day with real people that need real results from you for their business to continue making money (ie, to keep their job). They don't have you work on huge projects that have been touched by dozens of people (each with their own ideas and practices)that have fundamental flaws, minor flaws, partially complete requirements, partial documentation, and obscure usage that you can't infer - you have to rely on the requirements.
Anyone who thinks college fully prepares someone to work in a corporate environment as a software developer must not have much experience. In my 6 years in the Air Force, I was surrounded by huge fucking nerds that stayed in their dorm rooms all weekend playing Everquest and all thought they were goddamn geniuses. They were all good at standardized tests, some of them were great coders, but the vast majority were horrible at their job. (Cue listing your qualifications and how good you are. I'll be impressed. If this is an interview, I've already decided I don't want you.)
I'm not sure what kind of experience you have - what kind of competition you're talking about, what kind of collaboration you've done, what exactly your requirements were or who they were coming from. My point is that someone that has never worked professionally - that is, their experience consists of making a side scrolling game in their free time and debugging some javascript - doesn't have any useful experience for a corporate environment. There's a big difference between making a few little changes you want and making a few little changes someone else wants.
I've done some pretty extensive changes to phpbb for my own forum and wordpress for another site I run. I learned a lot about them. I wrote my own cms in php about 10 years ago, which was really some of the first programming (if you'll call it that) I did. I've taken dozens of classes on different languages, architectures, designing and customer interaction. I learned from all of these things, but none of them even began to preparing me for a business environment. The only learning you can do outside of that, I think, is prep work. Learn the basics - how do I code in this language, what are the best practices for designing this type of application, how do I write requirements and so on. Learning to be productive can only be done by producing. That's why electricians and plumbers have apprenticeship programs. If you're in school and you want honest to god experience in programming, your best bet is an internship, and cross your fingers that you'll get the right experience there.
I think this is exactly what the OP was talking about. Sure, you're a huge computer nerd and can code anything and make it work, but that's a very small part of a software dev job. Collaborating with others, sharing ideas, designing, working with customers, leveraging your position to gain resources, convincing management why you're right, scheduling, so on and so on.. you don't get that coding at home and you don't get that at school.
I was fortunate enough to be thrown in to it and gain the experience in the Air Force, and how anyone "gets their foot in the door" blows my mind. I have some very smart friends who are very capable, but in an actual work environment, they'd be completely lost, and that goes for most everyone fresh out of college with a computer science degree. Experience is what makes you useful. An experienced programmer doesn't need experience in a particular language to be at least servicable, but a hotshot young gun could know a language like the back of his hand and be worthless.
I'm not saying I don't think you are capable or even that I don't think you have the experience. But whereas you (I'm assuming semi-jokingly) refer to how long you've been on slashdot as evidence that you know what you're doing, I would refer to the projects I've worked on and not only the work I've done, but how I've affected the team working on them as a whole and how they've affected me.
Which brings me to the OP's question. Some of the important things I listen for in interviews is how people have dealt with adversity. Name a problem you had on a project and how it was overcome. Name a time your solution was wrong and how you dealt with it. Tell me about a time you had a problem with someone on your team and how you overcame it. The technical stuff is a given -- look at their resume. I want to know how this guy will make us successful.
If only MTV would do this with The State.. Along with creating a DVD they could link to to buy. You know, so, even if I had to pay, I could watch the funniest show ever.
How much less could you care?
Little. Good catch there, though. Seriously, way to add something thoughtful. You should set up a debate with Sarah Palin.
I wasn't talking about the quality of Vista at all. I do think it's complete garbage, but that doesn't matter. To answer your question, I've probably spent less than an hour using a computer with Vista. The point is, ...
It took till I tried to say what the point is to really, clearly see how off your comment was. The ORIGINAL point, and then drilling down to where you ended up:
1. (At least some) people do upgrade their OSes.
2. Businesses wait for stability, proof, yadda yadda before upgrading their OSes
3. But they generally do upgrade their OSes
4. Businesses largely didn't upgrade to Vista
5. My opinion had nothing to do with it
While I agree that going after consoles is pretty trivial (probably mostly due to the fact that I could care less about the environment), your argument isnt very sound and, if green is your thing, why not?
While the article likely drew many of the same exagerated/stretched conslusions, yours could use some adjusting and should probably include asterisks even then. A microwave cooking for 20 minutes? Sure, it's plausible, but a TV dinner takes 1 minute, and even if you're a complete slob, you're going to be making, tops, 4 a day. In the meantime, the complete slob is playing 5 hours of Halo 2. Then he's leaving it running to download a demo or two.
The point of power saving isn't to find the largest users of electricity and eliminate them. It's to 1) eliminate the things that aren't reasonable (like lights in rooms you're not in) and 2) reduce the consumption of everything you are using. Improving a console's power usage by 10% won't result in anything just like replacing a single light bulb wont, but if you get replace all your incandescents with compact florescents, hit the refrigerator, tv, monitors, computers, security systems and everything else, you've done something.
And sure, the probably optimistic 7 million tons of CO2 the article says can be saved is equal to maybe half a million cars (or well under a quarter percent of the US), but console makers can work to improve consoles' power usage -- they can't do anything about the cars. That's on someone else.