Coded in vi, notepad or dreamweaver, I fail to see the connection.
It just so happens that a CSS whiz is no more a programmer than a programmer is a UI/psychology professional. It also happens that a UI/psychology isn't very good at either of these.
During these times we find that what is simple often works best (until it is replaced (but usually augmented) by something even more simple). Keyboard meet mouse. Wait you mean you want to take my keyboard!!!!!?
AS/400 forms are simple, follow basic consistent rules and reliably submit/check data. They were developed to be as simple, as lightweight and fast as possible, by very knowledgable (even if green) scientists (not ajax wizards with something to prove). They counted keystrokes, error rates and workflow shifts. In this area AS/400 is just hard to beat.
1) I was talking to you as if you were an impatient customer, frustrated by actual controls you seem to employ yourself. I don't care what you are or what you do, but the more you reveal, the more I find it hard to believe you are not subject to stringent control, and rightly so.
2) Oh you really document every cowboy move you make? Look, in my 20 years two cardinal truths are evident: users always like, and documentation is never up to date.
3) Of course it isn't. So I guess you need someone to run your backend, and all the controls that go along with providing that high performance high availability, even if you find that painful.
4) This is absolutely bonkers from a security standpoint (I'm sure your turning off the firewall is super effective! I bet you also eat candy off the floor if it's been there less than 5 seconds. I'm sure every user can be trusted to do the exact same because users are perfect actors). Non-production requires controls too.
I read your scenario quite carefully. Deploying developer test fiefdoms is fine for one off testing of defects you own, outside of a managed network, but this is hardly compatible with scalable build integration that any decently sized project requires. This also becomes more difficult in the real-world when faced with a software build regime which grew organically out of the complete and utter lack of controls you describe.
Furthermore you fail to realize the overhead of implementing an on demand virtual cloud in the way you describe. If it were so easy, why not just build a KVM server on your laptop like a good little know-it-all software engineer?
I won't even get in to what happens in the "Penguistino" got hit by a bus, (because for all his knowledge he failed to look both ways), scenario where your model of egoist just-get-it done software development fails utterly and completely.
But you know I'm just a scum sucking server monkey, with absolutely no proven experience in this area of engineering/architecture, that should do your brilliant bidding or get in the unemployment line.
By the way, did it ever occur to you this attitude may be the real reason you find yourself constantly encumbered by presumably good IT?
>no waiting a literal week on someone with almost the same skillset to change some setting for me that I could have done five minutes after recognizing the need for it
Clearly you haven't worked in a joint big enough to benefit from something we call: Controls. Labs as small as a hundred machines benefit from strict IT controls. For every man hour spent waiting for your password reset, hundreds are saved from "informed changes" that are done without planning, consultation, or hell, even aptitude.
That IT person's job is to make sure a million monkeys aren't making changes, cutting each other off at every turn. I'm sure you think you're capable enough to make executive changes to what is presumably "your" development environment, but I've seen so many flattened by cowboys to know otherwise.
I support one running windows. Died once. Was horrible to replace the drive as their was a ton of drives it would not support 2-3 years later.
Once I was able to replace it with a drive it would support I had no issues. The thing is rock solid, cool, and quiet, unlike most of my other big metal.
Why you ask? Not sure- I inherited it, assumed it was a beg borrow and steal sort of thing.
I had the same experience. It was very frustrating letting my toddler give it a whirl, she didn't understand why she couldn't DO ANYTHING on the demo machine. I had to explain to her they were just videos and we just left the thing after spending 15 mins trying to figure out how to play a demo game on it.
The WiiU demo is horrible. The marketing dept took a huge nap on this....scratch that they are in HIBERNATION!
I'm sorry but not just myself, but some very knowledgeable and important people tend to disagree with your assessment.
>The specific design in the PS4 has been shipping for 2 years now under AMD's Fusion brand, also called an "APU". Source?
>The high bandwidth speed isn't actually that high. It's exactly what you'd expect from a 7850. The higher end video cards have 264GB/s memory bandwidth - and they don't have to share that with the CPU. Not that CPUs actually need much, but whatever
What? I don't even. Are you forgetting what we are talking about? I'm just going to guess you aren't a game developer, or hardware engineer.
None of this takes in to account the unified memory architecture, high bandwidth speed, the lack of need of high performance CPU for gaming purposes, the need for low power, quiet performance in the living room.
Today's CPUs are basically inconsequential to gaming- it's all about the bottleneck between memory and GPU. This is true on PCs and Consoles, further more the CPU overhead is simply much less on a console.
PS, Xbox, Wii simply do not need the latest in greatest in CPU, what they need is the latest and greatest in low power (cool/cheap), parallelism and memory bandwidth.
Not only is what you are providing is conjecture, it's completely inaccurate when applied to console gaming and more specifically this PS4 architecture as described thus far. It doesn't matter even if you take it on a pound for pound CPU, purely arithmetic, basis as you seem to insist, it will be handling a non-comparable workload to an "i5" or "FX" on a gaming rig.
If we take that a bit further, my point blossoms: it's a pointless, idiotic, uninformative comparison.
This is a fairly even-handed explanation, but does not explain why google glass gets the same treatment. It's not even close to the same thing, nor is it a status symbol for social-like ability.
GG is doomed to be a staple of AR nerds such as myself. The only way douches will wear these things is if they are covered in bling and released by a designer, like Ralph Lauren, DC or god knows what other corporate design master chooses to invest in AR.
Another commenter suggest Douchebag+ but I propose shortening it to D+
That said, I would gladly be a D+ for some glasses like this. I can think of countless ways I would use them.
>obnoxious guy wearing a Bluetooth headset
I just don't get this. is it obnoxious because you can't tell he's talking in to a phone, or is obnoxious because one feels inferior (ie what am I doing with my life, look at this guy so busy he needs a handsfree and a nice suit, I bet this guy walks straight in to clubs without waiting in line, I wish I could afford a nice phone....) I have no idea. I do not understand this 'we love technology, but integrating with machines is tree creepy!'
Indeed. Just pointing out there is a whole cottage insurance industry for "sand castles" that does not apply scientific method in any meaningful sense. My post only predicts that these morons are not going anywhere, so we're going to need more than 'leaded gasoline directly correlates to increased violence in nearly all cases enumerated' to make our point.
While I agrree, (and read the same article) we must be careful to mind this as only an obvious contributing factor. It does not tell the whole story, though. There are so many inputs relating to violence it's hard to blame any one thing.
Those findings refer to a measurable and documented case of environment affecting/causing various neurosis. This is great. However does not prove that there are no other contributing factors. It would appear that videogame violence only heightens the risk of real violence in cases where these neurosis might exist or even as you say, be prevalent.
But, since this is immeasurable, we will continue debating the endless possibilities without concluding what is obvious to any civilized gamer. There will always be fear, uncertainty and doubt as long as complex systems such as violence amongst humans remains wholly immeasurable, no matter how many other convincing quantitative observations we can make from other potential causes/vectors.
Adjusted for inflation games have NEVER BEEN CHEAPER.
idiots. Do you really think EEPROMs at 100$/16Mbit on AAA games was environmentally friendly and cheap? Do I need to go even further back to point out how ludicrous this is? Do you really think a 60$ game in 2013 dollars is more expensive than a 50$8Mbit cart on a subsidized price only available to nintendo 2nd parties in 1993?
You'd be amazed at what "passes" for Senior advanced level English in a Canadian public school:
* kids stammering on words unable to read aloud beyond a barney pace, with an intonationless drone. * kids not understanding basic punctuation * kids unable to write thousand word essays on things they already grok
It's pretty much agreed that Canadian public school produces a marginally better product than American schools, but I just wanted to point out how the Purple Ribbon 80s has had an effect on just about every scholastic institution in North America.
There is a decline, it is real, and it is either our, or our parent's fault.
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Logic fail. Would love to pay my share if I were allowed to.
As a global 1%er I pay my fair share, of course until I can no longer afford to live. Then I won't be a global 1%er.
Coded in vi, notepad or dreamweaver, I fail to see the connection.
It just so happens that a CSS whiz is no more a programmer than a programmer is a UI/psychology professional. It also happens that a UI/psychology isn't very good at either of these.
During these times we find that what is simple often works best (until it is replaced (but usually augmented) by something even more simple). Keyboard meet mouse. Wait you mean you want to take my keyboard!!!!!?
AS/400 forms are simple, follow basic consistent rules and reliably submit/check data. They were developed to be as simple, as lightweight and fast as possible, by very knowledgable (even if green) scientists (not ajax wizards with something to prove). They counted keystrokes, error rates and workflow shifts. In this area AS/400 is just hard to beat.
Markup is good for a lot of things. Forms is not one of them.
I'll take an AS/400 form over a web form ANY DAY OF THE WEEK.
To a pro they are far faster for data entry than any GUI.
1) I was talking to you as if you were an impatient customer, frustrated by actual controls you seem to employ yourself. I don't care what you are or what you do, but the more you reveal, the more I find it hard to believe you are not subject to stringent control, and rightly so.
2) Oh you really document every cowboy move you make? Look, in my 20 years two cardinal truths are evident: users always like, and documentation is never up to date.
3) Of course it isn't. So I guess you need someone to run your backend, and all the controls that go along with providing that high performance high availability, even if you find that painful.
4) This is absolutely bonkers from a security standpoint (I'm sure your turning off the firewall is super effective! I bet you also eat candy off the floor if it's been there less than 5 seconds. I'm sure every user can be trusted to do the exact same because users are perfect actors). Non-production requires controls too.
At least we can agree on #5
I read your scenario quite carefully. Deploying developer test fiefdoms is fine for one off testing of defects you own, outside of a managed network, but this is hardly compatible with scalable build integration that any decently sized project requires. This also becomes more difficult in the real-world when faced with a software build regime which grew organically out of the complete and utter lack of controls you describe.
Furthermore you fail to realize the overhead of implementing an on demand virtual cloud in the way you describe. If it were so easy, why not just build a KVM server on your laptop like a good little know-it-all software engineer?
I won't even get in to what happens in the "Penguistino" got hit by a bus, (because for all his knowledge he failed to look both ways), scenario where your model of egoist just-get-it done software development fails utterly and completely.
But you know I'm just a scum sucking server monkey, with absolutely no proven experience in this area of engineering/architecture, that should do your brilliant bidding or get in the unemployment line.
By the way, did it ever occur to you this attitude may be the real reason you find yourself constantly encumbered by presumably good IT?
>no waiting a literal week on someone with almost the same skillset to change some setting for me that I could have done five minutes after recognizing the need for it
Clearly you haven't worked in a joint big enough to benefit from something we call: Controls. Labs as small as a hundred machines benefit from strict IT controls. For every man hour spent waiting for your password reset, hundreds are saved from "informed changes" that are done without planning, consultation, or hell, even aptitude.
That IT person's job is to make sure a million monkeys aren't making changes, cutting each other off at every turn. I'm sure you think you're capable enough to make executive changes to what is presumably "your" development environment, but I've seen so many flattened by cowboys to know otherwise.
How did this crapola get past the firehose?
I don't think any would, but in MGO's case it was shutoff prematurely. 50k users completely abandoned.
Halo 2 was just an example of people wanting to continue to play well past due.
I support one running windows. Died once. Was horrible to replace the drive as their was a ton of drives it would not support 2-3 years later.
Once I was able to replace it with a drive it would support I had no issues. The thing is rock solid, cool, and quiet, unlike most of my other big metal.
Why you ask? Not sure- I inherited it, assumed it was a beg borrow and steal sort of thing.
Who wants to play Metal Gear Online?
Who wanted to play Halo 2 online?
Plenty.
I had the same experience. It was very frustrating letting my toddler give it a whirl, she didn't understand why she couldn't DO ANYTHING on the demo machine. I had to explain to her they were just videos and we just left the thing after spending 15 mins trying to figure out how to play a demo game on it.
The WiiU demo is horrible. The marketing dept took a huge nap on this....scratch that they are in HIBERNATION!
I'm sorry but not just myself, but some very knowledgeable and important people tend to disagree with your assessment.
>The specific design in the PS4 has been shipping for 2 years now under AMD's Fusion brand, also called an "APU".
Source?
>The high bandwidth speed isn't actually that high. It's exactly what you'd expect from a 7850. The higher end video cards have 264GB/s memory bandwidth - and they don't have to share that with the CPU. Not that CPUs actually need much, but whatever
What? I don't even. Are you forgetting what we are talking about? I'm just going to guess you aren't a game developer, or hardware engineer.
None of this takes in to account the unified memory architecture, high bandwidth speed, the lack of need of high performance CPU for gaming purposes, the need for low power, quiet performance in the living room.
Today's CPUs are basically inconsequential to gaming- it's all about the bottleneck between memory and GPU. This is true on PCs and Consoles, further more the CPU overhead is simply much less on a console.
PS, Xbox, Wii simply do not need the latest in greatest in CPU, what they need is the latest and greatest in low power (cool/cheap), parallelism and memory bandwidth.
Marked Troll right now. You don't say.
Not only is what you are providing is conjecture, it's completely inaccurate when applied to console gaming and more specifically this PS4 architecture as described thus far. It doesn't matter even if you take it on a pound for pound CPU, purely arithmetic, basis as you seem to insist, it will be handling a non-comparable workload to an "i5" or "FX" on a gaming rig.
If we take that a bit further, my point blossoms: it's a pointless, idiotic, uninformative comparison.
Where are those useful hacked PS3s I heard so much about?
This is misinformative at best and at worst perpetuates a rather simplistic view of processing. Where are the troll points?
This is a fairly even-handed explanation, but does not explain why google glass gets the same treatment. It's not even close to the same thing, nor is it a status symbol for social-like ability.
GG is doomed to be a staple of AR nerds such as myself. The only way douches will wear these things is if they are covered in bling and released by a designer, like Ralph Lauren, DC or god knows what other corporate design master chooses to invest in AR.
Another commenter suggest Douchebag+ but I propose shortening it to D+
That said, I would gladly be a D+ for some glasses like this. I can think of countless ways I would use them.
>obnoxious guy wearing a Bluetooth headset
I just don't get this. is it obnoxious because you can't tell he's talking in to a phone, or is obnoxious because one feels inferior (ie what am I doing with my life, look at this guy so busy he needs a handsfree and a nice suit, I bet this guy walks straight in to clubs without waiting in line, I wish I could afford a nice phone....) I have no idea. I do not understand this 'we love technology, but integrating with machines is tree creepy!'
Indeed. Just pointing out there is a whole cottage insurance industry for "sand castles" that does not apply scientific method in any meaningful sense. My post only predicts that these morons are not going anywhere, so we're going to need more than 'leaded gasoline directly correlates to increased violence in nearly all cases enumerated' to make our point.
While I agrree, (and read the same article) we must be careful to mind this as only an obvious contributing factor. It does not tell the whole story, though. There are so many inputs relating to violence it's hard to blame any one thing.
Those findings refer to a measurable and documented case of environment affecting/causing various neurosis. This is great. However does not prove that there are no other contributing factors. It would appear that videogame violence only heightens the risk of real violence in cases where these neurosis might exist or even as you say, be prevalent.
But, since this is immeasurable, we will continue debating the endless possibilities without concluding what is obvious to any civilized gamer. There will always be fear, uncertainty and doubt as long as complex systems such as violence amongst humans remains wholly immeasurable, no matter how many other convincing quantitative observations we can make from other potential causes/vectors.
Really?
Adjusted for inflation games have NEVER BEEN CHEAPER.
idiots. Do you really think EEPROMs at 100$/16Mbit on AAA games was environmentally friendly and cheap? Do I need to go even further back to point out how ludicrous this is? Do you really think a 60$ game in 2013 dollars is more expensive than a 50$8Mbit cart on a subsidized price only available to nintendo 2nd parties in 1993?
I think the point here is that the average is slipping. How is this insightful?
Your +1 internet vote doesn't seem to get it either, preferring to talk about 'soon to be unnecessary' professors.
You'd be amazed at what "passes" for Senior advanced level English in a Canadian public school:
* kids stammering on words unable to read aloud beyond a barney pace, with an intonationless drone.
* kids not understanding basic punctuation
* kids unable to write thousand word essays on things they already grok
It's pretty much agreed that Canadian public school produces a marginally better product than American schools, but I just wanted to point out how the Purple Ribbon 80s has had an effect on just about every scholastic institution in North America.
There is a decline, it is real, and it is either our, or our parent's fault.
My point exactly. /fan of the oxford