...when I can look out the cessna's window and see my actual house when I fly over my block.
Seriously, for all it's technical accuracy, the scenery in MSFS is kind of dull and unrealistic. Sure I can fly around somewhat a somewhat real looking NYC (home) but 9 miles to the west, and my town looks like flat grassland. It gets old fast.
I want to take off from Princeton Airport, head southwest and see Princeton. And then New Brunswick and Cranberry. Not random dirty green flatland.
So yeah, I'll pay for another version of flight sim when (if ever) it will look something like really flying over the landscape. Houses, fields, etc.
Even Cookie Monster knows that you can't snack on gas clouds all the time. You need to have a balanced diet, with a regular supply of Rocky Planets (with organic lifeform spices!!), Dark Matter, and of course Light. A healthy growing black hole needs to take in lots of light to stay strong.
I remember FF1. Small, fast, lean. (I still have the 1.0 T-shirt too).
We need to get to the point where we can merge the small footprint and agility of FF1 with the standards compliance of more modern FF . Also security stuff, keeping that is important.
What causes the bloat and huge memory? Plug in support? Get rid of most of it.
Seriously, you FF guys think that you're competing by adding in all the stuff and bumping up major version numbers every time. I'm just one guy... but let me tell you something. From the Mozilla days... before there was FF, I was using the browser to try to get away from IE and netscape. Thanks to FF I have been able to limit my use of IE to only a handful of times a year, since 2003. I've been off IE, and i laughed at Chrome.
I've been a big advocate of your project over the years, and am responsible myself for at least 300 converts.
But guess what... I'm stuck on 3.x and don't want to move. I've tried a couple of the new FF browsers and I hate huge memory usage and the new default GUI (why can't you keep MY settings??)... oh and the crashing. I hate the crashing and freezing. Nothing says suck to me more than trying to page down a page in FF on a brand new 8 core CPU (16 GB ram), and having it jump and jolt like as if I were running XP on a 486. Chrome doesn't do that. For all the crap THEY have under the hood, it doesn't jump when I page.
Didja get that last point? I haven't used another browser besides FF since 2003 - until this year .
Good Job FF Team. Let me know when the browser is lean and fast again.
They need to include morecowbellium. How could they forget this lightweight, metallic element, which could be used to produce one of the most pleasant should in all the multiverse.
Not always the case. I can tell you that my team has been delivering a specific high quality solution for almost 8 years to this one business unit. Critical stuff. On time deliveries, well tested, very low defect rate, on the spot prod support with fast turnaround times. The business was able to rebuild themselves on top of the software. It just works.... 1.5 million lines of critical infrastructure code.
But we don't get full respect. They don't like us. We partner, we take their requirements, we align with them, and we do everything to stay away from us versus them. The business themselves have this culture of mistrust. And I think they don't like me (or any IT guy) having to own the keys to their shop. They resent us, but the have to keep us around.
- We're generally more intelligent than the average user. - We take pride in our work, and are (more or less) happy with our career choices. And it shows. I think users get jealous. - We sometimes know more about how their business works than they do, and they feel threatened. But they have to have us around, so the backlash is mistreatment. - Did I mention that we're smarter than they are???
Working at home is great and all. And I've been doing it myself for the better part of 15 years. When I was hardcore coding and system building like 9 years ago, I wouldn't see the office for weeks at a time. But now, I'm at about 1 or 2 days a week working from home.
My observation after all this time?
Working from home is lonely business. I get stir crazy if i'm not out commuting and being around other people. Depressed and stuff. My team dynamic suffers. Mostly because of lack of facetime. My clients have a hard time with it (even though they support it), because they like having people in meetings, actually there. I haven't found a good substitute for a big ol' whiteboard (or whitewall).
I'm as much of a geek as anyone on/. , even as a manager. And I'm telling you, technology in it's current form is not a suitable replacement for good ol' human interaction.
What's a powerful laptop going to get me? 'Clearer' video? So??? It's not like i can make eye contact with any of those people, or push a hastily diagram across the table to make a point....
OK, enough of my working from home rant.
Travel is necessary. If we turn our culture into a remote work from home thing, we're doomed. People just can't work that way long term.
Which is why I still carry a 5 year old Nokia phone that is just a phone (well, OK it has a crappy camera). It may look boring... but it does what I need it to do.. Ring when someone calls me.
I hope that when it finally does I will be able to find another simple phone only phone, without having to be forced into buying a 'smartphone'....
I picked up one of the slate 500's in the spring. It's a decent enough little box, runs quick considering the processor/os - well within the expectation of what you'd want from a tablet. It's nice that I can run visio, excel and word on it and at least look at my files.. that were created on other machines.
But, using it for actual productivity has been a problem. The pen / input setup leaves much to be desired in terms of accuracy. And I can't find a decent on screen keyboard anywhere.
Planning to get a couple of guys together in Warren NJ (just a few miles down the road from Murray Hill) to do just that. A long lunch talking about work and the current state of things, and how we really owe most of it to Dennis and Ken and the rest of the guys.
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Pray that they do not alter it further.
Or that it does not have to be altered further.
The only thing more embarrassing for /. for posting this obvious fake...well, it'll be when it gets reposted in 2 days...
...when I can look out the cessna's window and see my actual house when I fly over my block.
Seriously, for all it's technical accuracy, the scenery in MSFS is kind of dull and unrealistic. Sure I can fly around somewhat a somewhat real looking NYC (home) but 9 miles to the west, and my town looks like flat grassland. It gets old fast.
I want to take off from Princeton Airport, head southwest and see Princeton. And then New Brunswick and Cranberry. Not random dirty green flatland.
So yeah, I'll pay for another version of flight sim when (if ever) it will look something like really flying over the landscape. Houses, fields, etc.
Ha Ha Ha.
Thanks, I'll be here all week.
Try the Veal, it's great.
Even Cookie Monster knows that you can't snack on gas clouds all the time. You need to have a balanced diet, with a regular supply of Rocky Planets (with organic lifeform spices!!), Dark Matter, and of course Light. A healthy growing black hole needs to take in lots of light to stay strong.
Gas clouds - only sometimes.
I remember FF1. Small, fast, lean. (I still have the 1.0 T-shirt too).
We need to get to the point where we can merge the small footprint and agility of FF1 with the standards compliance of more modern FF . Also security stuff, keeping that is important.
What causes the bloat and huge memory? Plug in support? Get rid of most of it.
Seriously, you FF guys think that you're competing by adding in all the stuff and bumping up major version numbers every time. I'm just one guy... but let me tell you something. From the Mozilla days... before there was FF, I was using the browser to try to get away from IE and netscape. Thanks to FF I have been able to limit my use of IE to only a handful of times a year, since 2003. I've been off IE, and i laughed at Chrome.
I've been a big advocate of your project over the years, and am responsible myself for at least 300 converts.
But guess what... I'm stuck on 3.x and don't want to move. I've tried a couple of the new FF browsers and I hate huge memory usage and the new default GUI (why can't you keep MY settings??) ... oh and the crashing. I hate the crashing and freezing. Nothing says suck to me more than trying to page down a page in FF on a brand new 8 core CPU (16 GB ram), and having it jump and jolt like as if I were running XP on a 486. Chrome doesn't do that. For all the crap THEY have under the hood, it doesn't jump when I page.
Didja get that last point? I haven't used another browser besides FF since 2003 - until this year .
Good Job FF Team. Let me know when the browser is lean and fast again.
most pleasant SOUNDS in all the multiverse.
They need to include morecowbellium. How could they forget this lightweight, metallic element, which could be used to produce one of the most pleasant should in all the multiverse.
So, how many Library of Congress equivalents worth of material are they intending to scan??
>>I smell an agenda.
That's not an agenda you smell. Rather it's overcooked sperm.
No thanks. It'll be like working in a glorified basement.
Not always the case. I can tell you that my team has been delivering a specific high quality solution for almost 8 years to this one business unit. Critical stuff. On time deliveries, well tested, very low defect rate, on the spot prod support with fast turnaround times. The business was able to rebuild themselves on top of the software. It just works.... 1.5 million lines of critical infrastructure code.
But we don't get full respect. They don't like us. We partner, we take their requirements, we align with them, and we do everything to stay away from us versus them. The business themselves have this culture of mistrust. And I think they don't like me (or any IT guy) having to own the keys to their shop. They resent us, but the have to keep us around.
- We're generally more intelligent than the average user.
- We take pride in our work, and are (more or less) happy with our career choices. And it shows. I think users get jealous.
- We sometimes know more about how their business works than they do, and they feel threatened. But they have to have us around, so the backlash is mistreatment.
- Did I mention that we're smarter than they are???
Working at home is great and all. And I've been doing it myself for the better part of 15 years. When I was hardcore coding and system building like 9 years ago, I wouldn't see the office for weeks at a time. But now, I'm at about 1 or 2 days a week working from home.
My observation after all this time?
Working from home is lonely business.
I get stir crazy if i'm not out commuting and being around other people. Depressed and stuff.
My team dynamic suffers. Mostly because of lack of facetime.
My clients have a hard time with it (even though they support it), because they like having people in meetings, actually there.
I haven't found a good substitute for a big ol' whiteboard (or whitewall).
I'm as much of a geek as anyone on /. , even as a manager. And I'm telling you, technology in it's current form is not a suitable replacement for good ol' human interaction.
What's a powerful laptop going to get me? 'Clearer' video? So??? It's not like i can make eye contact with any of those people, or push a hastily diagram across the table to make a point....
OK, enough of my working from home rant.
Travel is necessary. If we turn our culture into a remote work from home thing, we're doomed. People just can't work that way long term.
You don't whip your child with a belt or any other object at ANY age.
That guy has got problems. Big man that he is.
That's the great thing about recordings. They aren't malleable. And it's fund to watch liars squirm when confronted with them. At least I think so...
Yup. The programming assignments work.
I even go so far as to give them a couple of days to think it through, and send me code that compiles, along with written test cases / data.
There's an app for that.
Now, that's funny.
Oh, and the battery still works.
Exactly.
Which is why I still carry a 5 year old Nokia phone that is just a phone (well, OK it has a crappy camera). It may look boring... but it does what I need it to do.. Ring when someone calls me.
I hope that when it finally does I will be able to find another simple phone only phone, without having to be forced into buying a 'smartphone'....
I picked up one of the slate 500's in the spring. It's a decent enough little box, runs quick considering the processor/os - well within the expectation of what you'd want from a tablet. It's nice that I can run visio, excel and word on it and at least look at my files.. that were created on other machines.
But, using it for actual productivity has been a problem. The pen / input setup leaves much to be desired in terms of accuracy. And I can't find a decent on screen keyboard anywhere.
I'm waiting for some guy from Apple to tell people that they are holding the phone wrong or something.....
please mod parent up. He's right.
Planning to get a couple of guys together in Warren NJ (just a few miles down the road from Murray Hill) to do just that. A long lunch talking about work and the current state of things, and how we really owe most of it to Dennis and Ken and the rest of the guys.