Why does everything have to be an "experience" now? I'm not really looking for an experience from my workstation; what I have are a list of tasks that need to be completed. When I go on vacation is when I look for an experience. Why don't they concentrate on helping me get actual work done?
Not in my experience, not true.The companies I've worked for have tried to avoid those situations where possible as developer wear-out was constantly being addressed and avoided. And that's been true for just about every shop I've worked in. You sound like you've been in a few third-world sweat shops.
I will attempt as little overtime as I can from now on!
No no no... that's not the take-away from this... you need to recognize that who you are working for is paying you what you are worth, its not a simple matter of working as few hours as possible. If you value your company, and your company values you, you don't want to be the odd man out when the company needs you for an "all hands on deck" situation.
That the US constitution is a great boon to the country, yet at the same time being a huge albatross around its neck. FFS suing someone because they expressed an opinion in an arena where they may/may not be allowed to have an opinion...
I don't see how the Cons. is an albatross... everyone has an opinion, even felons in prison have an opinion. And there is no arena where no one is not allowed to have one. It may not be appropriate to voice that opinion in all circumstances, but that has nothing to do with the Cons. And just like opinions, anyone can file a lawsuit, at any time, for any reason. Again, that's not the Cons., except for the fact that the Cons. guarantees that anyone may file. This is yet another case of some one with a thin skin using the legal system to harass some one they don't agree with. That's it.
So obviously your firmly in the socialist camp. What, in particular, is preventing you, as a continent, from going for the ultimate utopian dream and allowing your respective governments to confiscate all your individual incomes and distributing the money as it sees fit? Isn't that the primary goal? Wouldn't that be the ideal situation?
"There's no political will to increase the fuel taxes, and no easy mechanism to apply them to electric cars.
And there shouldn't be. If the stated purpose of the tax is to decrease fuel consumption then taxing electric vehicles is contrary to the stated goal. The purpose of the tax is obvious; to enrich the state, period. There is no altruistic reason. And if the purpose of life is to serve the state, what kind of life is that? At what point do Europeans decide that a particular level of taxation is too much? 50%? 75%? When does one say "Well, now that's over the line?" What would be the harm in simply turning over one's income to the state and letting the state dole out what every one needs, according to their means? Which of course would be 100% since the state would be confiscating all our money?
"...odds are that you wouldn't fake SSL certificates just as you don't fake passports.
??? Uh, passports are faked all the time. As for SSL, I don't know what's going on currently on the 'sploit front, but I know different SSL libs have been exploited in history. Live in the real world much?
Windows isn't a real-time OS, so not using.NET but continuing with C++ on Windows is still horribly contradictory to your claims of real-time applications.
I was with a shop that whose main money comes from real-time industrial applications, which is a huge market, one you're completely unaware of, I think. Those applications are configured on windows. For our next gen of configuration software we were getting ready to re-design with.NET. The company spent a ton of cash sending us to a place to train for it, and more cash re-tooling for the change. We were going to be a.NET shop. Then there was a shake up and we got a new manager of engineering and all that time and money went down the drain as we stayed with C++ for that software. Just sayin'.
Apples and oranges. With a wave of their hands the Paki legislature have made monetary transactions over the wire impossible. This law will necessarily be re-visited. Commerce isn't and has never been done over general band radio, but the very medium of digital money transactions is now made useless in Pakistan. That obviously won't work for them for long.
I agree with Tierney's opinion. We're living in a highly litigious society which is most of the problem; but that aside I've seen many parents these days who stand behind their children NO MATTER WHAT- to their detriment in my opinion. We need families to instill a striving for greatness, not look for a hand out or find the absolute minimum alternative (the easy route) in all cases.
Visions of Eric Idle yelling "Help, help, I'm being oppressed! Come and see the violence inherent in the system!" keep popping into my mind. Which is stupid as this is a serious subject. My bad, bad brain.
I hope you mean in terms of hardware, because they can keep their software/firmware "innovations" to themselves and let my battery keep its life while they're at it.
Huh? You just said nothing that makes any sense. If I were to lob a criticism Google's way re: Android however is that they've not even given a nod to security, but then all the vendors are guilty of that.
Development schedules are almost always ridiculously compressed.
In my experience, which has been repeated over and over again, everyone thinks code reviews are a good idea, but every attempt to put it into practice goes nowhere. Everyone pays lip service to Agile programming, but no one actually does it.
"The only purpose it serves is to save the geek the trouble of trying to understand why Linux as a client OS is on life support.
I hear this argument every year against Linux as a desktop os. Yet me and my friends continue to chug along quite nicely with our Gnome or KDE desktops and doing quite nicely.
"Windows is FAR better than Linux in the run-the-GUI-with-keyboard-only department."
That MAY have been true early on but it simply isn't any more. I frankly don't see much of a difference feature-wise between Windows, MacOS, or Linux. Gnome and KDE have all the KB features Windows does. Also given the fact that you can re-map the entire keyboard in all three OS's the differences aren't really all that different. It simply isn't significant to point out the differences between the 3 platforms anymore.
Well, we can't know the success of a computative collaboration among wikipedia users until we know what the effort is. Obviously, if the point of the collab is nonsense we'll get nonsense results. I would hope that such a project makes some kind of sense for all. But yes, its all ready been done. The folding at home project is one that makes sense. SETI, well, hard to say how much sense it makes (at least to me), but it was a well coordinated effort at least.
Well, like anything else it takes cash to run an enterprise. Games are no exception. Although $68 virtual items are a joke. Hardly what I would call a micro transaction.
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Why does everything have to be an "experience" now? I'm not really looking for an experience from my workstation; what I have are a list of tasks that need to be completed. When I go on vacation is when I look for an experience. Why don't they concentrate on helping me get actual work done?
Not in my experience, not true.The companies I've worked for have tried to avoid those situations where possible as developer wear-out was constantly being addressed and avoided. And that's been true for just about every shop I've worked in. You sound like you've been in a few third-world sweat shops.
I will attempt as little overtime as I can from now on!
No no no... that's not the take-away from this... you need to recognize that who you are working for is paying you what you are worth, its not a simple matter of working as few hours as possible. If you value your company, and your company values you, you don't want to be the odd man out when the company needs you for an "all hands on deck" situation.
That the US constitution is a great boon to the country, yet at the same time being a huge albatross around its neck. FFS suing someone because they expressed an opinion in an arena where they may/may not be allowed to have an opinion...
I don't see how the Cons. is an albatross... everyone has an opinion, even felons in prison have an opinion. And there is no arena where no one is not allowed to have one. It may not be appropriate to voice that opinion in all circumstances, but that has nothing to do with the Cons. And just like opinions, anyone can file a lawsuit, at any time, for any reason. Again, that's not the Cons., except for the fact that the Cons. guarantees that anyone may file. This is yet another case of some one with a thin skin using the legal system to harass some one they don't agree with. That's it.
I won't touch their crap anymore. Just add my small voice to the fray.
Boku no tame ni, boku wa dai kigy wa saidai nanidearu ka ki ni shinai. Shikashi, kina penisu wa, juy ga tsuneni arimasu.
"Down with socialism!
So obviously your firmly in the socialist camp. What, in particular, is preventing you, as a continent, from going for the ultimate utopian dream and allowing your respective governments to confiscate all your individual incomes and distributing the money as it sees fit? Isn't that the primary goal? Wouldn't that be the ideal situation?
"There's no political will to increase the fuel taxes, and no easy mechanism to apply them to electric cars.
And there shouldn't be. If the stated purpose of the tax is to decrease fuel consumption then taxing electric vehicles is contrary to the stated goal. The purpose of the tax is obvious; to enrich the state, period. There is no altruistic reason. And if the purpose of life is to serve the state, what kind of life is that? At what point do Europeans decide that a particular level of taxation is too much? 50%? 75%? When does one say "Well, now that's over the line?" What would be the harm in simply turning over one's income to the state and letting the state dole out what every one needs, according to their means? Which of course would be 100% since the state would be confiscating all our money?
"...odds are that you wouldn't fake SSL certificates just as you don't fake passports.
??? Uh, passports are faked all the time. As for SSL, I don't know what's going on currently on the 'sploit front, but I know different SSL libs have been exploited in history. Live in the real world much?
For SSL protection of your web site, the government should issue SSL certificates...
Yes, because as we all know governments are the end all of sweetness and light. (Hint, I don't trust my government. I hope you are happy with yours.)
Windows isn't a real-time OS, so not using .NET but continuing with C++ on Windows is still horribly contradictory to your claims of real-time applications.
You didn't really read my submission, did you?
I was with a shop that whose main money comes from real-time industrial applications, which is a huge market, one you're completely unaware of, I think. Those applications are configured on windows. For our next gen of configuration software we were getting ready to re-design with .NET. The company spent a ton of cash sending us to a place to train for it, and more cash re-tooling for the change. We were going to be a .NET shop. Then there was a shake up and we got a new manager of engineering and all that time and money went down the drain as we stayed with C++ for that software. Just sayin'.
Apples and oranges. With a wave of their hands the Paki legislature have made monetary transactions over the wire impossible. This law will necessarily be re-visited. Commerce isn't and has never been done over general band radio, but the very medium of digital money transactions is now made useless in Pakistan. That obviously won't work for them for long.
I agree with Tierney's opinion. We're living in a highly litigious society which is most of the problem; but that aside I've seen many parents these days who stand behind their children NO MATTER WHAT- to their detriment in my opinion. We need families to instill a striving for greatness, not look for a hand out or find the absolute minimum alternative (the easy route) in all cases.
Visions of Eric Idle yelling "Help, help, I'm being oppressed! Come and see the violence inherent in the system!" keep popping into my mind. Which is stupid as this is a serious subject. My bad, bad brain.
Or am I alone in the belief that the current patent system is a royal pain in the ass and needs to be scrapped?
I hope you mean in terms of hardware, because they can keep their software/firmware "innovations" to themselves and let my battery keep its life while they're at it.
Huh? You just said nothing that makes any sense. If I were to lob a criticism Google's way re: Android however is that they've not even given a nod to security, but then all the vendors are guilty of that.
Yeah... living my life via a code invented by a tv show, that'll be the day. Live long and prosper, y'all.
Development schedules are almost always ridiculously compressed.
In my experience, which has been repeated over and over again, everyone thinks code reviews are a good idea, but every attempt to put it into practice goes nowhere. Everyone pays lip service to Agile programming, but no one actually does it.
Microsoft has proven to be unable to compete in the marketspace of mobile devices.
What? Shoe-horning a huge, complicated, monolithic, & proprietary OS into the blossoming, new, mobile space didn't work? Imagine that.
"The only purpose it serves is to save the geek the trouble of trying to understand why Linux as a client OS is on life support.
I hear this argument every year against Linux as a desktop os. Yet me and my friends continue to chug along quite nicely with our Gnome or KDE desktops and doing quite nicely.
"Windows is FAR better than Linux in the run-the-GUI-with-keyboard-only department."
That MAY have been true early on but it simply isn't any more. I frankly don't see much of a difference feature-wise between Windows, MacOS, or Linux. Gnome and KDE have all the KB features Windows does. Also given the fact that you can re-map the entire keyboard in all three OS's the differences aren't really all that different. It simply isn't significant to point out the differences between the 3 platforms anymore.
Why was this comment modded down? Its the most enlightened comment in the lot.
Well, we can't know the success of a computative collaboration among wikipedia users until we know what the effort is. Obviously, if the point of the collab is nonsense we'll get nonsense results. I would hope that such a project makes some kind of sense for all. But yes, its all ready been done. The folding at home project is one that makes sense. SETI, well, hard to say how much sense it makes (at least to me), but it was a well coordinated effort at least.
Well, like anything else it takes cash to run an enterprise. Games are no exception. Although $68 virtual items are a joke. Hardly what I would call a micro transaction.