I think a threat that intimidates many is Novell's progress supporting.NET with Mono because they can't see MS supported at all. They've done a fairly decent job of it, of late. The interoperability between the visual studios development environment then to instantly port to Linux, is getting better and better. This opens the possibility of making Windows compatible with Linux, and keeps the developer platform of choice soundly on a window's box.
I don't think we really consider the impact of what it means to be in front of a computer day in and day out. yesterday a coworker and I put together some cabinets for a lab. It was outside the normal routine of programming/code work that we normally do. After four hours of this, we were both pretty beat, though there was nothing of extraordinary physical prowess required in putting the stupid cabinets together. We had to use a screwdriver, lift metal panels into place, etc, but nothing like my old grandpa used to do day in and day out on his farm. Feeling winded just climbing the steps to my office, I am starting to regret a lot about this particular field.
Sure one can exercise, but even so, it's always forced and "unnatural" in the sense that it's not required effort for what i do all day long. It's a bit like the guy who engages in body building just long enough to get a movie deal or go on his honeymoon, and then the moment he stops he's worse off than when he started, because all that unnatural muscle turns flabby, because it simply isn't used.
The other effect that comes with low-activity levels is that I am crankier--less willing to get up and help the kids, keep moving. When you're out of shape you tend to think of the shortest path to doing everything. I noticed this first when I saw an obese couple leaving a shopping market. Both were bickering over who put the groceries away. Then they had to climb up into their pickup, and the cart they were to put away started to drift. Since they'd already both gone to all the effort of climbing into the cab of the truck, neither of them wanted to climb out and get the cart so they yelled at each other. Someone in decent physical condition would not have thought twice about jumping out, grabbing the cart and putting it in its own spot.
I don't know how one might solve these issues outside of making programming a full-body sport, but the concerns are legit, imo. Exercise really can't be something you tack onto the end of your day. It really should be part of the whole work experience, and there really aren't a lot of trivial solutions to that problem.
Why not just exploit their browser's security flaws and wipe their hard drive?
Why not exploit their browser's security flaw, to install Chrome or Firefox on their machine and disable IE? Remap the icon, they probably wouldn't even know anything had changed... well other than it worked faster and better...
That's cuz China hasn't broken any laws taking what is rightfully theirs... including pulsars... There are no borders, space, fast-moving information, or claims that will keep China from justly claiming all the stars as belonging to greater "China".
Why does this guy even get a moment's notice? The true Christians were those that jumped on planes to give free medical support, and the millions who are giving generously to support a suffering people. Religious people are saving lives as we discuss this, and don't care about the spotlight, like this glory-monger.
They don't generally collide!? What about when the Millenium Falcon hid in one? Does that mean the Empire Strikes Back was all made up? Next thing you're going to tell me that there aren't giant space eels living in the bigger rocks. (Places fingers in ears and sings loudly Star Wars theme song)
If all our numbers were condensed into one number, then we'd have one MORE number to memorize... cuz you know someone would find some reason to have all the others, and then we'd all need them.:)
nah. the underpants guy is what we get when chinese nationals are allowed to post on slashdot and have egg on their faces...:)
As for spotty reception, I fail to see how google would be to blame for that. Sounds more like a cell-network problem.
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Look on the brightside. If they do end up screwing up space, and fullscale wars among satellites do occur, we can always market it as a new form of entertainment.
"Battlebots In SPACE!"
We could then all take turns designing new battlebot satellites to fight one another. Mine would have a long arm with a buzzsaw on it... and lazers and one that shoots bees (in little space suits)...
meh. genetic engineering can't be any more difficult than programming a computer... so why should we worry or even regulate it? It's not like people ever make mistakes while programming, especially not with the new bug-resistant programming languages... err... oh wait... CRAP! We're screwed...
What games can you remember that Actually had a decent ending?
Most people who buy a single-player game, don't finish them, and when it comes to testing, it's prohibitively more expensive to test the game from beginning to end. In some ways it's better to offer an open-ended sort of game that doesn't end, than a game that ends but hasn't been tested and therefore has some scripting bug that renders the ending unobtanium.
I remember when I first started in games, we had a product that we released, the final level was impossible to win. Another game we offered some hundred levels, and some guy contacts us the day after the game is released, and says, "Are there are any more levels?" We thought it would take months to finish, this guy had it all done in less than a day. When a game ends, there's always someone who thinks you didn't provide enough content (this was a common complaint about Nintendo gamecube games).
So it's something of a rock and a hard place.
Heh. Too true. Emo and vampires fits kid fantasies these days...
As if they could screw up Superman any worse than they did with the last movie? Well, leave it to the WB to give it a go. Every comic character must have a dark psychoses, just brooding angst upon layer of angry rage. That's the generation we live in, the angry children, victims of their parent's success, because they couldn't pull more than a D in English so mom took the I-pod and cut off their internet connection.
I can't wait for Marvel to release a "darker" revamped version of Power Pack...
Typically, a hollywood reboot means, "Grittier and darker". Realistic violence and a strong adult theme. Peter Parker can't just be tormented by his parent's death and angst ridden/repressed by Mary Jane's repeated attempts to ignore him, he must be really conflicted--perhaps they'll have him kill Aunt May. Also, Toby MacGuire is just too nice. They need an actor who looks like he kills babies and stomps on puppies to play Peter Parker. (eyes-rolling)...
Good points. IMO, the real underlying trouble is that kids are facing adult situations earlier and earlier. In each of your bullet points above, you could put them all under the same category, that children are being asked to perform as adults before their minds are developed to do so. There are additional issues as well, including sexuality (something that has been proven not to be fully formed in many people until well into their twenties) and more adults forms of entertainment. Remember when you were a kid and were afraid of the dark? Kids aren't allowed to be afraid of the dark, cuz they've already seen hundreds of murders and are afraid of being morbidly obese and victims of terrorism. Parents didn't used to share every fear, every urge, every craving with their children. They allowed their children to be children. Now, it's kinda like that guy that puts a beer-can in a baby's hand and then laughs it up...
And the schools don't help, much. They've got more and more to teach, including things like "how not to be a bully". Academic pressure to read before kindergarten is enormous these days. And many parents have nothing better to do with their 1.5 children, than to turn their kids into their own personal hobbies. They almost have too much attention. Even some of the organizational skills they try to teach to children in early school, imo, can have detrimental effects if a child isn't ready to be an accountant at age 6. Honors programs are great if a kid is self-motivated, but too often parents see it as a failure on their part if their child didn't make it into the top tier math class.
Yeah, this article is as much a critique as the guy who answers the job interview question "Name your biggest weakness" as "I love my work too much, and will dedicate all my time to it, and often will work long weekends because I just can't help loving work so much."
...and then I was like, "I know, we'll create a program that lets the players create their own content!" and I was like, "We could call it, I dunno..." And then, I had this really original idea, "A level editor!" I announced. And then, I played DOOM, and realized that level editors have been around since the dawn of modern gaming! So then a little devil appeared on my shoulder shaped like the microsoft logo that said, "Hurry! Patent it! And claim originality!"
All this CEO is admitting is that he's unable to come up with a way to monetize his services without compromising people's privacy.
The whole appeal of facebook, originally, was that it preserved privacy and kept the spammers to a minimum, when compared with MySpace. Now that Facebook is leaving one of its basic reasons for existing in the dust, someone else will come along and will replace it, and there'll be a mass migration to the latest thing.
Just takes the next smart guy to create it. Perhaps it'll be based upon personal DRM. (Har har!)
--Ray
well, I would've said Babylon5 (B5) but I know they'd just ruin it. I still watch it with my kids today, and it's amazing how many of the stories relate perfectly to our times and the human reactions to war, terror, intrique, love and the shadows...:)
I always wanted to see this series completed. never happened. and the series had issues, like the music, and the main actor was Mr. Brady from the Brady Bunch movies, but it had potential until TNT execs tried to turn it into "Wrestlemania/Sexromp in Space"... ironically, SyFy channel has since been plagued by the meme of the same execs.:)
Um... Don't all universities use students as sysadmins? I know this was nothing special at Utah state university. There were dozens of networks for varying departments and projects, and all of them administered at least at some level by university students.
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I think a threat that intimidates many is Novell's progress supporting .NET with Mono because they can't see MS supported at all. They've done a fairly decent job of it, of late. The interoperability between the visual studios development environment then to instantly port to Linux, is getting better and better. This opens the possibility of making Windows compatible with Linux, and keeps the developer platform of choice soundly on a window's box.
I'm hoping the first game is entitled "DRM Busters".
I don't think we really consider the impact of what it means to be in front of a computer day in and day out. yesterday a coworker and I put together some cabinets for a lab. It was outside the normal routine of programming/code work that we normally do. After four hours of this, we were both pretty beat, though there was nothing of extraordinary physical prowess required in putting the stupid cabinets together. We had to use a screwdriver, lift metal panels into place, etc, but nothing like my old grandpa used to do day in and day out on his farm. Feeling winded just climbing the steps to my office, I am starting to regret a lot about this particular field.
Sure one can exercise, but even so, it's always forced and "unnatural" in the sense that it's not required effort for what i do all day long. It's a bit like the guy who engages in body building just long enough to get a movie deal or go on his honeymoon, and then the moment he stops he's worse off than when he started, because all that unnatural muscle turns flabby, because it simply isn't used.
The other effect that comes with low-activity levels is that I am crankier--less willing to get up and help the kids, keep moving. When you're out of shape you tend to think of the shortest path to doing everything. I noticed this first when I saw an obese couple leaving a shopping market. Both were bickering over who put the groceries away. Then they had to climb up into their pickup, and the cart they were to put away started to drift. Since they'd already both gone to all the effort of climbing into the cab of the truck, neither of them wanted to climb out and get the cart so they yelled at each other. Someone in decent physical condition would not have thought twice about jumping out, grabbing the cart and putting it in its own spot.
I don't know how one might solve these issues outside of making programming a full-body sport, but the concerns are legit, imo. Exercise really can't be something you tack onto the end of your day. It really should be part of the whole work experience, and there really aren't a lot of trivial solutions to that problem.
Why not exploit their browser's security flaw, to install Chrome or Firefox on their machine and disable IE? Remap the icon, they probably wouldn't even know anything had changed... well other than it worked faster and better...
That's cuz China hasn't broken any laws taking what is rightfully theirs... including pulsars... There are no borders, space, fast-moving information, or claims that will keep China from justly claiming all the stars as belonging to greater "China".
Why does this guy even get a moment's notice? The true Christians were those that jumped on planes to give free medical support, and the millions who are giving generously to support a suffering people. Religious people are saving lives as we discuss this, and don't care about the spotlight, like this glory-monger.
They don't generally collide!? What about when the Millenium Falcon hid in one? Does that mean the Empire Strikes Back was all made up? Next thing you're going to tell me that there aren't giant space eels living in the bigger rocks. (Places fingers in ears and sings loudly Star Wars theme song)
I know an IT guy that works for them, and that's exactly what he says. (He says they can't install enough servers fast enough.)
If all our numbers were condensed into one number, then we'd have one MORE number to memorize... cuz you know someone would find some reason to have all the others, and then we'd all need them. :)
nah. the underpants guy is what we get when chinese nationals are allowed to post on slashdot and have egg on their faces... :)
As for spotty reception, I fail to see how google would be to blame for that. Sounds more like a cell-network problem.
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Look on the brightside. If they do end up screwing up space, and fullscale wars among satellites do occur, we can always market it as a new form of entertainment.
"Battlebots In SPACE!"
We could then all take turns designing new battlebot satellites to fight one another. Mine would have a long arm with a buzzsaw on it... and lazers and one that shoots bees (in little space suits)...
meh. genetic engineering can't be any more difficult than programming a computer... so why should we worry or even regulate it? It's not like people ever make mistakes while programming, especially not with the new bug-resistant programming languages... err... oh wait... CRAP! We're screwed...
What games can you remember that Actually had a decent ending? Most people who buy a single-player game, don't finish them, and when it comes to testing, it's prohibitively more expensive to test the game from beginning to end. In some ways it's better to offer an open-ended sort of game that doesn't end, than a game that ends but hasn't been tested and therefore has some scripting bug that renders the ending unobtanium. I remember when I first started in games, we had a product that we released, the final level was impossible to win. Another game we offered some hundred levels, and some guy contacts us the day after the game is released, and says, "Are there are any more levels?" We thought it would take months to finish, this guy had it all done in less than a day. When a game ends, there's always someone who thinks you didn't provide enough content (this was a common complaint about Nintendo gamecube games). So it's something of a rock and a hard place.
Heh. Too true. Emo and vampires fits kid fantasies these days... As if they could screw up Superman any worse than they did with the last movie? Well, leave it to the WB to give it a go. Every comic character must have a dark psychoses, just brooding angst upon layer of angry rage. That's the generation we live in, the angry children, victims of their parent's success, because they couldn't pull more than a D in English so mom took the I-pod and cut off their internet connection. I can't wait for Marvel to release a "darker" revamped version of Power Pack ...
Or Clint Eastwood... as he is now... grizzled and angry, that might enough angst. We slashdotters really ought to write a screenplay! ;)
Typically, a hollywood reboot means, "Grittier and darker". Realistic violence and a strong adult theme. Peter Parker can't just be tormented by his parent's death and angst ridden/repressed by Mary Jane's repeated attempts to ignore him, he must be really conflicted--perhaps they'll have him kill Aunt May. Also, Toby MacGuire is just too nice. They need an actor who looks like he kills babies and stomps on puppies to play Peter Parker. (eyes-rolling)...
Good points. IMO, the real underlying trouble is that kids are facing adult situations earlier and earlier. In each of your bullet points above, you could put them all under the same category, that children are being asked to perform as adults before their minds are developed to do so. There are additional issues as well, including sexuality (something that has been proven not to be fully formed in many people until well into their twenties) and more adults forms of entertainment. Remember when you were a kid and were afraid of the dark? Kids aren't allowed to be afraid of the dark, cuz they've already seen hundreds of murders and are afraid of being morbidly obese and victims of terrorism. Parents didn't used to share every fear, every urge, every craving with their children. They allowed their children to be children. Now, it's kinda like that guy that puts a beer-can in a baby's hand and then laughs it up...
And the schools don't help, much. They've got more and more to teach, including things like "how not to be a bully". Academic pressure to read before kindergarten is enormous these days. And many parents have nothing better to do with their 1.5 children, than to turn their kids into their own personal hobbies. They almost have too much attention. Even some of the organizational skills they try to teach to children in early school, imo, can have detrimental effects if a child isn't ready to be an accountant at age 6. Honors programs are great if a kid is self-motivated, but too often parents see it as a failure on their part if their child didn't make it into the top tier math class.
Yeah, this article is as much a critique as the guy who answers the job interview question "Name your biggest weakness" as "I love my work too much, and will dedicate all my time to it, and often will work long weekends because I just can't help loving work so much."
...and then I was like, "I know, we'll create a program that lets the players create their own content!" and I was like, "We could call it, I dunno..." And then, I had this really original idea, "A level editor!" I announced. And then, I played DOOM, and realized that level editors have been around since the dawn of modern gaming! So then a little devil appeared on my shoulder shaped like the microsoft logo that said, "Hurry! Patent it! And claim originality!"
All this CEO is admitting is that he's unable to come up with a way to monetize his services without compromising people's privacy. The whole appeal of facebook, originally, was that it preserved privacy and kept the spammers to a minimum, when compared with MySpace. Now that Facebook is leaving one of its basic reasons for existing in the dust, someone else will come along and will replace it, and there'll be a mass migration to the latest thing. Just takes the next smart guy to create it. Perhaps it'll be based upon personal DRM. (Har har!) --Ray
well, I would've said Babylon5 (B5) but I know they'd just ruin it. I still watch it with my kids today, and it's amazing how many of the stories relate perfectly to our times and the human reactions to war, terror, intrique, love and the shadows... :)
Um that's good and bad news. Good news is they're making a live action movie. The bad news is, it's a Japanese live-action movie... :D
I always wanted to see this series completed. never happened. and the series had issues, like the music, and the main actor was Mr. Brady from the Brady Bunch movies, but it had potential until TNT execs tried to turn it into "Wrestlemania/Sexromp in Space"... ironically, SyFy channel has since been plagued by the meme of the same execs. :)
Um... Don't all universities use students as sysadmins? I know this was nothing special at Utah state university. There were dozens of networks for varying departments and projects, and all of them administered at least at some level by university students.