You realize the Source Engine came out EIGHT years ago, right? It was pretty freaking awesome when it came out. They've added a few incremental updates, since then, but it's in bad need of an overhaul at this point.
If Linux is easier to use then Windows 8, then they will get some converts. Windows 8 is a disaster for desktops and that's where desktop gaming is done. Linux needs to do everything it can to put themselves in positino to pick up these people looking at alternatives. Be proactive.
It sold in 2005 for $1.325M And then in 2009 for $850K to LCHG And then for $850K in 2011 to James Eason.
It's last appraisal was $1.28M
$500K off the original price seems a little steep. The housing market didn't crash nearly that bad around here. Maybe a 20% drop but that'd be about it.
Yea, isn't he the guy that would buy a new car every month or so, so he didn't have to have a license plate, just so he could park in the handicap spots or wherever he wanted to?
If he gave this guy a deal on the house for the hell of it, it'd be the first time he ever gave away as a charity case.
Quit giving tens of thousands of student loans to crap majors where people can't get jobs. Make students decide to enroll in an engineering program because that's one of the few programs they can get a loan for.
Bottom line is student loans need to be based off of supply and demand. If we are going to be short 224,000 jobs in the IT industry, and we have students that can't get jobs, then something is wrong with the college process.
Games...and the fact that Windows 8 Tile interface without a typical menu system looks like an abomination. Windows users are going to be looking around. Apple will likely pick up most of them, but Linux needs to be in position to pick some up. Steam will help immensely.
Well, I'm curious as to what you use on the server side if you aren't using Struts or Servlets because of the technologies I've used, I've found the best success with them. And with struts we don't do any JSTL or TagLibraries. We once tried JSF with horrible consequences. We have grown to detest tools/frameworks that generate HTML/Javascript on the fly via their own libraryset. And, I don't ever feel like it gives me enough control to do what I want them to do.
Get a Tomcat server up and running and deploy your app there. Use Struts/Servlets for you Java structure and navigation, and Velocity to populate the templates. This is Tier 3 development (Keep the Logic, DataAccessObjects, and Templates separate). Velocity takes all of one day to learn and will save you a ton of time in the long run so you can focus on the HTML and the JAVA
Do NOT go the PHP route. As someone that works for a Fortune 500 company and who has been in the business for 12 years, you don't want to get mixed up in the mess that is PHP debugging and updating. With PHP you will have to learn a new language that doesn't extend very well, is a pain in the ass to debug, and you'll have a tendency to intertwine your application logic with your template, which will make it an absolute bitch when you come around a year later and want to change the look and feel of your site.
This is why I am for reducing the funding of the federal government by about 75% and giving power back to the states. Washington is a fucking disaster, and that's both sides of the party lines. Let the states handle just about every issue except for national security and upholding the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.
It doesn't matter if the acronym works. It's an offensive word. If CHINK, HONKEY, WETBACK, or NIGGER were legitimate acronyms would you say they're a good idea for an app's name?
Until the Linux community can agree on some standards, the different flavors and methods make way too hard and it doesn't help the community as a whole. Instead of the developers working on solving real issues, it seems like much of the time is spent re-inventing the same stuff over and over again but seemingly all of them are half-baked.
The biggest complaint: The whole DEB vs RPM. There should be only one. Programmers should have to make multiple package types for Linux. The OS is way to small to demand that. If Windows can have a single installer for all of their versions of OS, so can Linux. Figure it out. It's infuriating when things are only available as DEB, or only available as RPM. When the community can't even agree on a common installer, then it's a hopeless situation for the average consumer.
And while you're at it, agree on a single App Store. It seems like every year, there's a new store to help people install apps, and none of them are particularly great. Imagine if all that development time were spent together developing one great store.
Listen I really hope that the infotainment systems in cars begin to integrate better with our portable devices. But i sure as hell hope it's not Apple leading the way, because everything will be patented and require iDevices, iAPIs, iConnections, and on their own proprietary iTooth network.
The tech companies and car companies need to come out with an OPEN standard that is free from all this patented bullshit. It shouldn't matter if I have an iPhone and Chevy or a Android and Ford. Everything should be inter-operable. And as we know, if Apple is leading the way, it'll be a cold day in hell for it to be inter-operable.
Yup. I'm 32 and the youngest programmer on my floor by about 5 years. I think there may be one younger on the floor below me, but haven't talked to her about it. There's ALOT of grey haired programmers around my building and they're knowledge is in great demand. Granted they're here for COBALT, but it's still in use, and it will continue to be so until they all finally die off.
My guess is the paper who wrote this got their information from technology focused companies located in California and New York only. Do they not know that there are hundreds of other companies that hire Software Engineers and Computer Scientists in the middle of America? The company that I work for, and whose main focus ISN'T technology, has at least 1000+ CS/SE, and the median age I would guess is around 40-45.
You don't know how athletic departments work for major schools. The school doesn't fund the athletic department at all. The budgets are completely separate. The athletic department makes money of of donors, tickets, tv, and merchandise. That money is spent on athletics and facilities.
The school makes money off of tuition and funding. That money is spent on facilities and teachers.
At no point is a school like UF going to kill off a educational program so they can divert that money to build a nicer stadium. That's just ignorance on your part.
We use it at my company. It's just a full featured WYSIWYG editor. You need editors like this because, customers want to be able to create "Word-like" documents on the web. This is fairly commonplace nowdays. Most forums have WYSIWYG editors, as well as most web email clients (Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail, etc).
And TinyMCE is nice in that it is extensible so you can create custom buttons that do custom actions on the area.
The chemical/fertilizer run off to produce Ethanol is highly toxic to the environment. While your end use in the vehicle might be better, you're killing the Earth and our waterways with the creation of Ethanol.
Nails on a chalkboard when using iPhone or Android after i was with my Palm Pre for 2 years. I have an Android device now, and the fact that you have to HOLD down a button for any amount of time to switch between apps is insanity. I want to quick-click and flip. I used to be able to flip between apps/screens within half a second. Those days of glorious UI design are done I'm afraid.
Not to mention that neither Android or iOS were TRUE multi-tasking like webOS, where I could have multiple apps open and running at the same time, and I mean RUNNING, not this "saved session state" crap!
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You realize the Source Engine came out EIGHT years ago, right? It was pretty freaking awesome when it came out. They've added a few incremental updates, since then, but it's in bad need of an overhaul at this point.
Wait, and wasn't Apple wanting something like $30/phone from Samsung for rounded corners, the bounce back patents, and a couple other small ones???
$1 is laughable when compared to the importance of the phone.
If Linux is easier to use then Windows 8, then they will get some converts. Windows 8 is a disaster for desktops and that's where desktop gaming is done. Linux needs to do everything it can to put themselves in positino to pick up these people looking at alternatives. Be proactive.
Next up: An Android Powered DVR with CableCard support.
Hey I can dream, right?
Here's the house in question: http://binged.it/OqU6VF
It sold in 2005 for $1.325M
And then in 2009 for $850K to LCHG
And then for $850K in 2011 to James Eason.
It's last appraisal was $1.28M
$500K off the original price seems a little steep. The housing market didn't crash nearly that bad around here. Maybe a 20% drop but that'd be about it.
Yea, isn't he the guy that would buy a new car every month or so, so he didn't have to have a license plate, just so he could park in the handicap spots or wherever he wanted to?
If he gave this guy a deal on the house for the hell of it, it'd be the first time he ever gave away as a charity case.
absolutely agree with this. And while they're at it, get rid of the "www" default nomenclature.
Quit giving tens of thousands of student loans to crap majors where people can't get jobs. Make students decide to enroll in an engineering program because that's one of the few programs they can get a loan for.
Bottom line is student loans need to be based off of supply and demand. If we are going to be short 224,000 jobs in the IT industry, and we have students that can't get jobs, then something is wrong with the college process.
http://www.weblogsinc.com/common/images/7032616626194684.JPG?0.3942647363857573
Enough said.
Games...and the fact that Windows 8 Tile interface without a typical menu system looks like an abomination. Windows users are going to be looking around. Apple will likely pick up most of them, but Linux needs to be in position to pick some up. Steam will help immensely.
Well, I'm curious as to what you use on the server side if you aren't using Struts or Servlets because of the technologies I've used, I've found the best success with them. And with struts we don't do any JSTL or TagLibraries. We once tried JSF with horrible consequences. We have grown to detest tools/frameworks that generate HTML/Javascript on the fly via their own libraryset. And, I don't ever feel like it gives me enough control to do what I want them to do.
Get a Tomcat server up and running and deploy your app there. Use Struts/Servlets for you Java structure and navigation, and Velocity to populate the templates. This is Tier 3 development (Keep the Logic, DataAccessObjects, and Templates separate). Velocity takes all of one day to learn and will save you a ton of time in the long run so you can focus on the HTML and the JAVA
http://velocity.apache.org/engine/releases/velocity-1.5/user-guide.html
Do NOT go the PHP route. As someone that works for a Fortune 500 company and who has been in the business for 12 years, you don't want to get mixed up in the mess that is PHP debugging and updating. With PHP you will have to learn a new language that doesn't extend very well, is a pain in the ass to debug, and you'll have a tendency to intertwine your application logic with your template, which will make it an absolute bitch when you come around a year later and want to change the look and feel of your site.
Mint == Ubuntu minus Unity Garbage
This is why I am for reducing the funding of the federal government by about 75% and giving power back to the states. Washington is a fucking disaster, and that's both sides of the party lines. Let the states handle just about every issue except for national security and upholding the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.
It doesn't matter if the acronym works. It's an offensive word. If CHINK, HONKEY, WETBACK, or NIGGER were legitimate acronyms would you say they're a good idea for an app's name?
People don't rat people out. Twitter rats people out. Eliminating Twitter eliminates the problem (sarcasm)
Until the Linux community can agree on some standards, the different flavors and methods make way too hard and it doesn't help the community as a whole. Instead of the developers working on solving real issues, it seems like much of the time is spent re-inventing the same stuff over and over again but seemingly all of them are half-baked.
The biggest complaint: The whole DEB vs RPM. There should be only one. Programmers should have to make multiple package types for Linux. The OS is way to small to demand that. If Windows can have a single installer for all of their versions of OS, so can Linux. Figure it out. It's infuriating when things are only available as DEB, or only available as RPM. When the community can't even agree on a common installer, then it's a hopeless situation for the average consumer.
And while you're at it, agree on a single App Store. It seems like every year, there's a new store to help people install apps, and none of them are particularly great. Imagine if all that development time were spent together developing one great store.
Listen I really hope that the infotainment systems in cars begin to integrate better with our portable devices. But i sure as hell hope it's not Apple leading the way, because everything will be patented and require iDevices, iAPIs, iConnections, and on their own proprietary iTooth network.
The tech companies and car companies need to come out with an OPEN standard that is free from all this patented bullshit. It shouldn't matter if I have an iPhone and Chevy or a Android and Ford. Everything should be inter-operable. And as we know, if Apple is leading the way, it'll be a cold day in hell for it to be inter-operable.
This has been going on for awhile. Seatbelt Law being a prime example.
Welcome to a "Free World".
Yup. I'm 32 and the youngest programmer on my floor by about 5 years. I think there may be one younger on the floor below me, but haven't talked to her about it. There's ALOT of grey haired programmers around my building and they're knowledge is in great demand. Granted they're here for COBALT, but it's still in use, and it will continue to be so until they all finally die off.
My guess is the paper who wrote this got their information from technology focused companies located in California and New York only. Do they not know that there are hundreds of other companies that hire Software Engineers and Computer Scientists in the middle of America? The company that I work for, and whose main focus ISN'T technology, has at least 1000+ CS/SE, and the median age I would guess is around 40-45.
You don't know how athletic departments work for major schools. The school doesn't fund the athletic department at all. The budgets are completely separate. The athletic department makes money of of donors, tickets, tv, and merchandise. That money is spent on athletics and facilities.
The school makes money off of tuition and funding. That money is spent on facilities and teachers.
At no point is a school like UF going to kill off a educational program so they can divert that money to build a nicer stadium. That's just ignorance on your part.
We use it at my company. It's just a full featured WYSIWYG editor. You need editors like this because, customers want to be able to create "Word-like" documents on the web. This is fairly commonplace nowdays. Most forums have WYSIWYG editors, as well as most web email clients (Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail, etc).
And TinyMCE is nice in that it is extensible so you can create custom buttons that do custom actions on the area.
The chemical/fertilizer run off to produce Ethanol is highly toxic to the environment. While your end use in the vehicle might be better, you're killing the Earth and our waterways with the creation of Ethanol.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/07/05/MNF91E84SL.DTL
The Honda Civic GX has a range of about 200 miles on it's 8 "gallon" natural gas tank.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honda_Civic_GX
Natural gas is a much better option than electric due to the ability to refuel on a road trip, or at home.
Nails on a chalkboard when using iPhone or Android after i was with my Palm Pre for 2 years. I have an Android device now, and the fact that you have to HOLD down a button for any amount of time to switch between apps is insanity. I want to quick-click and flip. I used to be able to flip between apps/screens within half a second. Those days of glorious UI design are done I'm afraid.
Not to mention that neither Android or iOS were TRUE multi-tasking like webOS, where I could have multiple apps open and running at the same time, and I mean RUNNING, not this "saved session state" crap!