One of EA's major strengths is in management of people and process.
No matter what the behaviour of the previous slashdotters might have been, and I do mean whatever - they might has well have set their boss' office on fire - management and HR failed when they blatently lied to him and said everything was ok up until he got yanked in for his 'last straw'. (c.f. previous slashdot post which I am too lazy to get a link for)
People at EA work long hours, in large part because of their great passion for making games.
Also, I just *have* to add to this comment. Nobody... *Nobody* works long hours because they have great passion for making games. In fact, a great passion for should be officially added to the dot-com buzz word dictionary. Any programmer who has a smidgen of real world experience - and this generally rules out most academics - knows that working overtime and long hours is a guaranteed way of killing any passion and productivity you might possess.
Any hours of sleep you skip are hours of sleep you borrow. They're not free. ever.
This academic reminds me of why I hate academia... complete lack of understanding of what real programming is. And a complete ass licking of major industry players to get a pay-cheque, contributing to the perspective that students are always wrong... I am sure he went in there, like a prof looking at his 'lowly' students, looking at these people getting reemed and thought to himself that they deserved it. Not giving any consideration to the fact that these are professional adults who do this for a living.
The arrogance of academia never ceases to amaze me.
Djikstra himself said it so well: "Computer science is as much about Computers as Astronomy is about telescopes".
The inverse corolary to that is: software engineering doesn't have much to do with algorithmics and pretty much any discipline tought in university. And unfortunately, academics are in no position to judge this.
Wake up man. Who was it that let every Linux custommer be sued? Was it... uh wait.. RedHat?
You remind me of Chris rock too:
Whenever there's any article on slashdot concerning microsoft, some ignant ass mother fucking basement troll needs to come out and make stupid comments.
Finally you are starting to be rational and intelligent in your reply.
Your real problem is that you cannot see beyond the power of the moment, to the balance of the future. Sadly your hatred blinds you to the truth, and you see fit to live your days in the paranoid shell you have crafted for yourself.
It might be true. I can see right now, in these days of despair, that my biggest weakness is my extreme aversion for the American 'Freedom' and Glory. Now a much less rational me would have been very upset that Bush was re-elected. But a more relaxed me sees this as the perfect opportunity to finally remove the monopole that has been formed since the fall of the Soviet Union.
I will not get into details about that, but I tell you something you should watch out for yourself: while I may be assertive and very loud in what I'm saying... even fanatically emotional about it, I never pretend to know "The Truth" as you seem to think you have. My hatred blindes [me] to your truth... Not the truth!
I will also not get into that one too long: my last point is more about this thread. I think you should look at places like Europe and places like the Arab countries for what I am talking about. France is far more on the socialist end of the spectrum than the states. And yet, they have achieved through that socialist bureaucracy something that America desperatly needs right now: there is no chance for families to control things in France. The system is run by a system... a system of bureaucracy and rules. At first you might think that's bad and wrong. But they aren't doing bad at all for the size of their country. The level of research being done in French and German labs is very impressive. Their level of life is very high. Without comparing them to the US, I would say they are doing very well for themselves (so let's not go ahead and dismiss my point here simply by saying "yeah well socialism sucks anyways").
On a contrasted view, the arab countries, especially the oil producing ones are basically run by big families, Sheiks and their myriad cousins.
There's (fierce) commercial competition in France, despite the less capitalist point of view they have... I don't see that kind of 'freedom' around the arab countries.
Answer me now: which one would you rather gravitate towards? Families running the show, or a loose system.
Because as much as we talk about Big Brother running the show in the States, in my opinion, the show is being run more and more by Little Brother and his cousins.
You seem to take every thing I say on the first layer... I didn't say Bush got re-elected because of his father. No more than I said the MPAA president's son became a film director because of his father.
What I did say is how there was a clear tolerance to nepotism. How MPAA's president can give "What are you going to do about, Dad?" as an example, and be 'proud' of it... How George junior Bush achieved everything he did (including not going to Vietnam, and buying a bogus oil company) with his father's help.
You see, where I come from, both these things are embarassing facts that I'd try to hide. Yet, the culture of the US seems to be more and more accepting of this.
And that is my point: Corporate America, hence America as a whole, is being taken over by big families. Sometimes, the links might not be actual family lineage, but the possies are clear as hell. Cheney/Rumsfeld/Bush/Wolfowitz et Al. are a hell of a team. Halliburton, Enron... all of those things.
The sad fact is that you don't see this as clear as a full moon in mid summer... You see the first fact in front of you "Bush didn't get re-elected because Bush Senior campaigned with him", and so you dismiss my point - thinking you're so much more clever than I am... Buddy, wake up, stop trying to prove you're more intelligent than someone posting on slashdot, and for once try to understand what is being said.
If you don't see how America has been taken over by families (actual families, or corporate ties), and if you don't see how this is *very* severely dangerous, you are one blind dumb fuck.
I'm suggesting neither: I'm condemning the point of view that condones nepotism. I'm condemning class structure and elitism, and how everyone supports it indirectly by allowing nepotism to exist to such a level.
I'm condemning the people for voting at 51% for someone who's clearly daddy's boy. George Bush, along with all of the others in power right now, is there *only* because of his family ties into money and oil. He did not earn anything on his own. And it seems the american people attribute no value to that anymore: earning something.
Class structure in "the land of the free" (make me laugh) is becoming more and more similar to the aristocracy that was in rule during the Russian Tzar era, or during Louis XIV.
And then, there are idiots like you!.. like fucking YOU! who shit on me for expressing this point of view. Why? Because your IQ is only high enough to shit on your own yard... you have absolutely no intellectual skills to actually pierce through the status-quo. You answer me robotically on a slashdot thread after sensing my post had all the tell tale signs of being a flame.
You are the idiot. The sad thing is how oblivious to it you are.
I thank my god every day that I don't live in that fucked up country of yours, where people like you roam thinking you and your superior intelligence is the reason why the world is civilized.
Q: To follow up on that, piracy has even negatively affected your family, correct?
A: My son Jon was executive producer of the recent film Mr. 3000. A few days after the film was released, a member of my staff found it being sold as a DVD just a few blocks from our offices. I called my son to give him the bad news, and he told me this is happening to all the current films. And then he said, "And what are you going to do about it, Dad?"
I can't believe he's actually proud to bring that up. I just can't believe it. It's almost as perverted as the fact that Dubya can call on Jeb or his Dadda to get him whatever he wants.
Man, America is going down the pipes in fifth gear, and nobody's doing anything about it.
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All you pacifist liberals/lefties/intellos/geeks who like to shit on Micheal Moore because you think it's more intellectual to be able to shit on your own camp (ref. Team America, World Police)... you'd better get off your starbucks drinking asses and get something done, and fast...
I grew up in several countries and continents through my life. Namely, Canada, Turkey and France. I clearly remember in my younger years how the US was in fact something of an ideal. An actual land of the free. You may not realize it but this is changing fast. It actually boggles my mind that such a deep cultural change could sweep the globe so fast.
If anyone had actually looked at the original site, they would have seen Roland basically copied pasted the paragraphs he found interesting onto his blog.
Which then got copied and pasted to slashdot.
Thank god he actually links to the f*cking article, because it's basically on the verge of being copyright theft here.
For starters, you can not identify every cell phone in the room. What if one is off during the beginning of the movie?
Second, say you've actually identified the 120 phones in the room. Now, they're all buzzing and blurping. How do you know which one is which? Are you going to sequentially call each one?
If you're a doctor, you get a pager. It's that simple. Either that, or you make a modification to the system where users can 'register' at the entrance stating they are doctors or whatevers, and that their phone in particular shouldn't be blocked ever.
And get it through your head that these logic gates are designed to function *exactly* like electronic gates.
What you're proposing here is akin to saying, let's have two different voltages simultaneously live on the same CPU... somehow magically multiplexing two operations into one single ALU.
And you made the same mistake as him. The fluids aren't used in some sort of magical way to use massively parallel operations. They are used in logic gates. The absolute same things that are used in digital computers.
Both of your points are completely flawed and irrealistic.
Perhaps this kind of computer could rapidly cycle through all such combinations.
You're completely missing the point. This machine is just a fluid implementation of a binary machine. In that respect, it has absolutely no logical difference from a silicon based digital machine.
I think you might be drawing some sort of paralel between the fact that Quantum computers can do many things in paralel, and the fact that this doesn't use electricity as a means of implementing classical digitial logic.
Quantum computers aren't just a different implementation of digital logic, in fact, there is nothing even remotely similar to the logic circuits you're used to in Q Computing.
If there's anything I can think of, these machines will be completely immune to EM interference. But aside from that, they will be regular computers that could eventually implement a RISC or CISC arch, and run linux or windows binaries.
dignitaries and rich adventurers [...] and useless pop stars
I don't see why you seperate dignitaries, rich people and pop stars... They are all equally useless in my opinion. Obviously, the exception doesn't break the rule, and there can be some important rich people, but then again, there are 'important' pop stars too.
However evil they are labeled (and I agree with your point fully about the open standards), Sony still makes some damn good hardware.
They just happened to have a stupid exec who made the choice of keeping it closed for so long... but just imagine the MDs were open from day one. I personally don't think there ever would have been an iPod. Or any other decent music player for that matter. And now that they have highMD, they would have been unbeatable.
Why should we care? It is funny anyways, right? We should care because modern physics is becoming increasingly non-intuitive. It is important that people grasp the correct meaning of physics principles since they cannot rely on their common sense to guide them.
Correction: modern physics has completely stopped being intuitive. There is absolutely nothing intuitive about QM, String theory, or even relativity... Nothing.
So my proposition is: let's stop assuming that everyone should know about these things and realize it's gone past the 'general culture' point.
It's sad but it's true: I used to be a physics nut until I went to undergrad, and realized... hmmm... not for me. And I was *years* ahead of my class mates in highschool - it's not like I couldn't hack it. But yeah, physics is on paper now. Actual implementation of things, that is (large scale) engineering, is the only vaguely intuitive thing left out there. Gone are the days where the scientist could also be the engineer (like DaVinchi or Foucault, or Newton...)
That's so sad... You know what is so sad? The fact that I understand exactly what you mean by everything in your post, and that for a normal person (ie a client), it makes no sense... it's just beating around the bush for them... "more words to say the same thing".
***Egad, I'm gonna lose karma here but fuggit...***
Man, that is the most fuzzy post I've ever ready! WTF is your point??
And while you're at explaining that, please tell me how Microsoft's grazing on your platter, and your quoting an article from them which has a spelling mistake in it (borne, not born) without reference (making me believe you read it off a 37733t h4xx0rz forum) has *anything* to do with it?
Yes, I was seeing exactly that: response time of 0.01 ms...
That's actually better response than a standard CRT!!!
(Math behind that assumption: 75Hz monitor has a 0.013s, ie 13ms response time - and I'm going easy, the worst case scenario is 26ms, in case the change request happens just after the beam has scanned a particular pixel)
Leave it to sony though, to somehow embed their proprietary video codec into this screen and not allow you to use DivX (like they are doing with MDs... MDs IMHO were the coolest technology to be available forever, yet they never picked up because of their stupid reluctancy to allow for mp3s).
By that same token, digital theft is denigrating real robbers...
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Man, that makes non sense whatsoever. If anything, the media has given more value/richness to the word 'piracy'...
Just like the advent of computers has given an extra meaning to the word 'bug'... It doesn't mean people don't understand you if you say, "ARGHhh... there's a bug in my hair..."
Slashdot Mirror
No matter what the behaviour of the previous slashdotters might have been, and I do mean whatever - they might has well have set their boss' office on fire - management and HR failed when they blatently lied to him and said everything was ok up until he got yanked in for his 'last straw'. (c.f. previous slashdot post which I am too lazy to get a link for)
People at EA work long hours, in large part because of their great passion for making games.
Also, I just *have* to add to this comment. Nobody... *Nobody* works long hours because they have great passion for making games. In fact, a great passion for should be officially added to the dot-com buzz word dictionary. Any programmer who has a smidgen of real world experience - and this generally rules out most academics - knows that working overtime and long hours is a guaranteed way of killing any passion and productivity you might possess.
Any hours of sleep you skip are hours of sleep you borrow. They're not free. ever.
This academic reminds me of why I hate academia... complete lack of understanding of what real programming is. And a complete ass licking of major industry players to get a pay-cheque, contributing to the perspective that students are always wrong... I am sure he went in there, like a prof looking at his 'lowly' students, looking at these people getting reemed and thought to himself that they deserved it. Not giving any consideration to the fact that these are professional adults who do this for a living.
The arrogance of academia never ceases to amaze me.
Djikstra himself said it so well: "Computer science is as much about Computers as Astronomy is about telescopes".
The inverse corolary to that is: software engineering doesn't have much to do with algorithmics and pretty much any discipline tought in university. And unfortunately, academics are in no position to judge this.
Sigh man. Sometimes this group thinking monster is just too much. For once, Microsoft did something that will benefit both them and the end users.
Hellooo!? There's nothing to see, please move along.
You remind me of Chris rock too:
Whenever there's any article on slashdot concerning microsoft, some ignant ass mother fucking basement troll needs to come out and make stupid comments.
Your real problem is that you cannot see beyond the power of the moment, to the balance of the future. Sadly your hatred blinds you to the truth, and you see fit to live your days in the paranoid shell you have crafted for yourself.
It might be true. I can see right now, in these days of despair, that my biggest weakness is my extreme aversion for the American 'Freedom' and Glory. Now a much less rational me would have been very upset that Bush was re-elected. But a more relaxed me sees this as the perfect opportunity to finally remove the monopole that has been formed since the fall of the Soviet Union.
I will not get into details about that, but I tell you something you should watch out for yourself: while I may be assertive and very loud in what I'm saying... even fanatically emotional about it, I never pretend to know "The Truth" as you seem to think you have. My hatred blindes [me] to your truth... Not the truth!
I will also not get into that one too long: my last point is more about this thread. I think you should look at places like Europe and places like the Arab countries for what I am talking about. France is far more on the socialist end of the spectrum than the states. And yet, they have achieved through that socialist bureaucracy something that America desperatly needs right now: there is no chance for families to control things in France. The system is run by a system... a system of bureaucracy and rules. At first you might think that's bad and wrong. But they aren't doing bad at all for the size of their country. The level of research being done in French and German labs is very impressive. Their level of life is very high. Without comparing them to the US, I would say they are doing very well for themselves (so let's not go ahead and dismiss my point here simply by saying "yeah well socialism sucks anyways").
On a contrasted view, the arab countries, especially the oil producing ones are basically run by big families, Sheiks and their myriad cousins.
There's (fierce) commercial competition in France, despite the less capitalist point of view they have... I don't see that kind of 'freedom' around the arab countries.
Answer me now: which one would you rather gravitate towards? Families running the show, or a loose system.
Because as much as we talk about Big Brother running the show in the States, in my opinion, the show is being run more and more by Little Brother and his cousins.
PS. I live in Canada. If you must know.
What I did say is how there was a clear tolerance to nepotism. How MPAA's president can give "What are you going to do about, Dad?" as an example, and be 'proud' of it... How George junior Bush achieved everything he did (including not going to Vietnam, and buying a bogus oil company) with his father's help.
You see, where I come from, both these things are embarassing facts that I'd try to hide. Yet, the culture of the US seems to be more and more accepting of this.
And that is my point: Corporate America, hence America as a whole, is being taken over by big families. Sometimes, the links might not be actual family lineage, but the possies are clear as hell. Cheney/Rumsfeld/Bush/Wolfowitz et Al. are a hell of a team. Halliburton, Enron... all of those things.
The sad fact is that you don't see this as clear as a full moon in mid summer... You see the first fact in front of you "Bush didn't get re-elected because Bush Senior campaigned with him", and so you dismiss my point - thinking you're so much more clever than I am... Buddy, wake up, stop trying to prove you're more intelligent than someone posting on slashdot, and for once try to understand what is being said.
If you don't see how America has been taken over by families (actual families, or corporate ties), and if you don't see how this is *very* severely dangerous, you are one blind dumb fuck.
See my other post. I don't really care about MPAA suing individuals: I'm denounching nepotism here. As the title of my post says.
I'm condemning the people for voting at 51% for someone who's clearly daddy's boy. George Bush, along with all of the others in power right now, is there *only* because of his family ties into money and oil. He did not earn anything on his own. And it seems the american people attribute no value to that anymore: earning something.
Class structure in "the land of the free" (make me laugh) is becoming more and more similar to the aristocracy that was in rule during the Russian Tzar era, or during Louis XIV.
And then, there are idiots like you!.. like fucking YOU! who shit on me for expressing this point of view. Why? Because your IQ is only high enough to shit on your own yard... you have absolutely no intellectual skills to actually pierce through the status-quo. You answer me robotically on a slashdot thread after sensing my post had all the tell tale signs of being a flame.
You are the idiot. The sad thing is how oblivious to it you are.
I thank my god every day that I don't live in that fucked up country of yours, where people like you roam thinking you and your superior intelligence is the reason why the world is civilized.
A: My son Jon was executive producer of the recent film Mr. 3000. A few days after the film was released, a member of my staff found it being sold as a DVD just a few blocks from our offices. I called my son to give him the bad news, and he told me this is happening to all the current films. And then he said, "And what are you going to do about it, Dad?"
I can't believe he's actually proud to bring that up. I just can't believe it. It's almost as perverted as the fact that Dubya can call on Jeb or his Dadda to get him whatever he wants.
Man, America is going down the pipes in fifth gear, and nobody's doing anything about it.
<RANT> All you pacifist liberals/lefties/intellos/geeks who like to shit on Micheal Moore because you think it's more intellectual to be able to shit on your own camp (ref. Team America, World Police)... you'd better get off your starbucks drinking asses and get something done, and fast...
I grew up in several countries and continents through my life. Namely, Canada, Turkey and France. I clearly remember in my younger years how the US was in fact something of an ideal. An actual land of the free. You may not realize it but this is changing fast. It actually boggles my mind that such a deep cultural change could sweep the globe so fast.
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PS. FUCK KARMA!
If anyone had actually looked at the original site, they would have seen Roland basically copied pasted the paragraphs he found interesting onto his blog.
Which then got copied and pasted to slashdot.
Thank god he actually links to the f*cking article, because it's basically on the verge of being copyright theft here.
Yay slashdot.. Yay circle j*rks...
If a picocell does not provide service to every phone in the vicinity, what good is it?
Way to pull a quote out of context, you should work for Bush. The full quote said:
you can not identify every cell phone in the room. What if one is off during the beginning of the movie?
Aside from that, you're point about 'reminding' people about their cell phones being on is as useful as 'cooperative multitasking'.
For starters, you can not identify every cell phone in the room. What if one is off during the beginning of the movie?
Second, say you've actually identified the 120 phones in the room. Now, they're all buzzing and blurping. How do you know which one is which? Are you going to sequentially call each one?
If you're a doctor, you get a pager. It's that simple. Either that, or you make a modification to the system where users can 'register' at the entrance stating they are doctors or whatevers, and that their phone in particular shouldn't be blocked ever.
What you're proposing here is akin to saying, let's have two different voltages simultaneously live on the same CPU... somehow magically multiplexing two operations into one single ALU.
It doesn't work that way. Period.
Both of your points are completely flawed and irrealistic.
You're completely missing the point. This machine is just a fluid implementation of a binary machine. In that respect, it has absolutely no logical difference from a silicon based digital machine.
I think you might be drawing some sort of paralel between the fact that Quantum computers can do many things in paralel, and the fact that this doesn't use electricity as a means of implementing classical digitial logic.
Quantum computers aren't just a different implementation of digital logic, in fact, there is nothing even remotely similar to the logic circuits you're used to in Q Computing.
If there's anything I can think of, these machines will be completely immune to EM interference. But aside from that, they will be regular computers that could eventually implement a RISC or CISC arch, and run linux or windows binaries.
I don't see why you seperate dignitaries, rich people and pop stars... They are all equally useless in my opinion. Obviously, the exception doesn't break the rule, and there can be some important rich people, but then again, there are 'important' pop stars too.
They just happened to have a stupid exec who made the choice of keeping it closed for so long... but just imagine the MDs were open from day one. I personally don't think there ever would have been an iPod. Or any other decent music player for that matter. And now that they have highMD, they would have been unbeatable.
But alas, no... Same as BetaMax I suppose.
If my memory serves me right, Linus himself said he would have prefered to use CPL if it existed at the time Linux was born.
Correction: modern physics has completely stopped being intuitive. There is absolutely nothing intuitive about QM, String theory, or even relativity... Nothing.
So my proposition is: let's stop assuming that everyone should know about these things and realize it's gone past the 'general culture' point.
It's sad but it's true: I used to be a physics nut until I went to undergrad, and realized... hmmm... not for me. And I was *years* ahead of my class mates in highschool - it's not like I couldn't hack it. But yeah, physics is on paper now. Actual implementation of things, that is (large scale) engineering, is the only vaguely intuitive thing left out there. Gone are the days where the scientist could also be the engineer (like DaVinchi or Foucault, or Newton...)
That's so sad... You know what is so sad? The fact that I understand exactly what you mean by everything in your post, and that for a normal person (ie a client), it makes no sense... it's just beating around the bush for them... "more words to say the same thing".
Sigh. The flack good software engineers get man.
The pools, that's cool. But I wouldn't expect anything less from Sun anyways.
Man, that is the most fuzzy post I've ever ready! WTF is your point??
And while you're at explaining that, please tell me how Microsoft's grazing on your platter, and your quoting an article from them which has a spelling mistake in it (borne, not born) without reference (making me believe you read it off a 37733t h4xx0rz forum) has *anything* to do with it?
That's actually better response than a standard CRT!!!
(Math behind that assumption: 75Hz monitor has a 0.013s, ie 13ms response time - and I'm going easy, the worst case scenario is 26ms, in case the change request happens just after the beam has scanned a particular pixel)
Leave it to sony though, to somehow embed their proprietary video codec into this screen and not allow you to use DivX (like they are doing with MDs... MDs IMHO were the coolest technology to be available forever, yet they never picked up because of their stupid reluctancy to allow for mp3s).
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Man, that makes non sense whatsoever. If anything, the media has given more value/richness to the word 'piracy'...
Just like the advent of computers has given an extra meaning to the word 'bug'... It doesn't mean people don't understand you if you say, "ARGHhh... there's a bug in my hair..."
Sorry it has a registration...
I'd mod you up myself if I had points, and had I not posted...