that say about home video recorders in the next, let's say, 5 years? All those hi-def video recorders at the big box stores...gone with the wind. i hope that companies get their heads out of the sand.
INVENTED???? They have no excuse. Other have gotten caught up in failing to adapt to technologies that they are loosely coupled with but and some of that is at least understandable, even though we know it still shouldn't happen. However when your OWN product puts you out of business.. that is nothing short of amazing.
out there today. Just look at the job ads. you see an ad for a C++ programmer. You scream for joy. Little do you know, before you click on that link, that you are about to have the hammer dropped on you by words like VB.net, ASP.net, python, perl, MS SQL, Websphere(what the heck is that?), BEALogic(wtf??), Rational Rose(WHAT THE?), MFC(yeah even something MS doesn't even support anymore), assembly/registry manipulation, Posix threads, awk, http/html, javascript. All REQUIRED for ONE job.....and YES there are PLENTY of job ads out there just like that.
who in the right mind would apply for that job? even if you are seasoned how much are they gonna pay for that? and how many people born since 1990, most of them about to get out of college have ever heard of BeaLogic and RationalRose? I was born in 1976 and i had to go look up websphere, bealogic and rational rose up on google to find out for myself.
"International CES is not open to the general public. You must be in the consumer electronics industry to be eligible to attend the show."
ok so i found the answer which kinda sucks. I understand not allowing everyone in but it would be nice to have hardcore geeks and nerds in for the sheer purpose of helping getting the word out there about all this new stuff.
do you HAVE to be involved in whole or part to a company that is affiliated with the conference. I imagine some joe smo can't just register online and purchase a ticket. any info from someone who has been? thanks.(i really want to go next year)
to which i would ask of the NFL..."how is that OUR problem that you are going to have a harder time with advertisers? We don't have any obligation to cater to your business model."
i live in the Tampa area and make around 85K which is pretty good money. I live close to the beach, warm weather pretty much year round, entertainment, parks, wildlife, great food and lots of other stuff. Why in the world do people from San Francisco keep calling me for "great opportunities"????
that kind of job requires you to work in a covered bunker with no windows, no internet access, no cell phone and not really having much to say in terms of flexibility in using the best tools to get the job done. its a job but its not the best job(not withstanding the pay)
Yeah i got that question and it really surprised me to be perfectly honest. It threw me for a loop. I knew about the job(3-D visualization, opengl/c++) and i told them that that work interested me and thats why i wanted to work for them. but then they asked me again. What was i supposed to say? Why do you think i want to work for you? Because i need a freaking job! Did they expect me to know everything about the company?
it shouldn't matter who the target market is. if the work is being done in another state but is used where the target market is, then it doesn't matter. People working remotely have broken the barrier.
Does it matter that there is a smaller pool? You pay the person 50% below normal for NYC which is a big raise in places like Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, North Carolina and yes Texas is cheap too(Florida and Texas = NO state taxes). If you can find talented people then isn't this the goal?
thanks for your story. as the poster said below why don't these companies set up shop in smaller places and by small i mean in places like 150,000 - 300,000 people. lots of talent but MANY MANY MANY (and i know them) choose not to move because of wife;s family, kids rooted in school, church, activities or whatever. But they are talented. Telecommuting would be awesome. work from home with the very and i mean very occasional, trips to the office in D.C. or NYC or whatever. I might even go for that.
and not trying to get on people's bad side here but San Francisco is not the ideal place for many reasons other than financial. I will just leave it at that.
I know people on here will say NYC is a great place and all but just because you make $150,000 a year doesn't mean anything. If you are an engineer in the New York area you are going to be working downtown. That means either you pay $3,000 a month for a one bedroom closet or you live 1 hour+ away so you can hope to afford a big enough place for your family. I've driven the hour ONE WAY before for 3 years and let me tell you - it's a drain on your body, your mind and everything else. I am in Florida and get calls and email asking me to move to NYC, Chicago, Minnesota, etc etc. The guy in NYC thought I would be thrilled to make $150,000 a year since i was only making about $85K but once you run the numbers you figure out quickly that i would be LOSING money by taking the job. I make about 70% more but housing is 3 to 4 times more on average for the same sq footage and that is like an hour away from city. Why in the world would i change jobs where i would lose money and have to travel 1 hour each way every day for the hassle of a city environment. 1 hour each way = 2 hours a day = 40 hours a month. A whole extra week that i would lose to do... well.. anything that i wanna do that i am doing now. No thanks.
So its just not about the pay. its about the location.
let me be more clear. When i mean "steps" earlier i meant a set of steps that have unique algorithms/implementations behind them. I did not in any way say that just creating steps was patentable.
i am saying that filing a claim on one-click shopping is ridiculous. Thats too broad and yes it stifles innovation. Thats like filing for a patent for a flat screen with rounded corners(apple) or coming up with some very vague and broad patents from BT... which if you add up all those patent claims, they might as well say that they have a patent on all of the wireless mobile technology. Thats pretty absurd, don't you think?
Back to one-click shopping, if you have your own algorithms/steps/ etc you use that define your implementation of one-click shopping that is and should indeed patentable and i would get behind that.
which is exactly why we shouldn't be handing out subjective patents.. and theres the difference with software patents. all of them are entirely subjective..where as with drugs you have something you can see, hold, observe. Software the PERFORMS something that you can indeed observe through a PROCESS.. now thats something that i can get behind. No.. not the process itself.... the implementation of the process. Just using "process" is too broad and yes.. too subjective.
drive thats gonna crap out in a year? you should have a reasonable expectation that things are going to work. hard drives crashing/getting locked up/stalling/blowing up should be the rare exception and the reason for warranties. if they built good quality hard drives then they could make warranties be a lifetime with a reasonable expectation that they would be replacing a very small percentage of them within a lifetime. Maybe this problem will correct itself as Solid State drives start to become more mainstream.
companies from buying competition for the sheer purpose of killing it in order to keep away competition? this is what has seemed to slow down the at&t/t-mobile merger.
I have read the article and all the sub articles and one universal truth keeps popping up. That talent is hard to find. While one writer seemed to grasp that not everyone wants to move to Silicon Valley, the problem for rare talent is that realizing that there is a lot of talent around the rest of the country...from people that didn't graduate from MIT, Stanford or UC Berkley...and guess what... just like normal every day americans they have family and friends and while they may be slumped over some desk doing mediocre mundane software development, the family and friends thing is more important than doing something that would love to do but have other considerations to make..personal considerations.
At some point I have brought up this point before in a previous story but it would be oh so nice if places like google would locate shops in different parts of the country. I am not talking about huge datacenters that only employ 50 people or call centers to try to solve peoples problems. I am talking about software hubs. They dont have to be as glamorous as the mothership office and they dont have to support 3000 jobs...but there is lots of talent, particular in the southeast where i am , where people are hungering for work that they love to do in their own time. The bonus is, is that because most of the country costs about 300% less than san fran to live in places like Tennessee, Mississippi and Florida for example, the salaries don't have to be as big and you still get the same type of work - if you find the good talent , and there is some.
App stores are just a bubble waiting to burst: such a saturated market simply cannot exist. It's like the 90s internet bubble - everyone became a millionaire with the internet, now everyone wants to become a millionaire with apps. Developers will soon realize that they can't compete with the giants like angry birds and hobby guys giving away their work. The self-regulated app store model (where a popular app is pushed higher in the popularity list simply because it's popular, and new apps don't even get a chance) is terrible. The only winner is Apple.
Diehard Digital age fans defend this by claiming that "there have been changes like this throughout the whole history of mankind". And that's fine - but the point is, RIGHT NOW, there is no visible economical alternatives to the "traditional" manufacturing model (software developing is manufacturing too).
how does the apple app store work now? are new ideas simply hidden? i thought that new apps got the shot of becoming popular on the new releases section. I want to develop for the apple app store and for the marketplace but a lot of people in general haven't seen a clear vision of what is needed. perhaps it is a lot more clearer once you are a registered developer - someone out there that is please speak up.
after reading the story if you were to take Amazon off the table I would think that we would be talking about WalMart who uses the same tactics against their suppliers.
am i correct from the story title that Amazon is requiring that you use your ebook downloads only on the Kindle instead of lets say any smartphone or tablet?
is this the reason wow has absolutely no flexibility anymore? Everything has been homogenized. We now have Mists of Pandera..and the game continues to be dumbed down beyond what previously was perceived as the ultimate bottom. Just wondering if you had any insight on that or has activision largely been on the outside when it comes to the blizzard side of things.
If nobody knows about your app, that's your failure, not Apple's. It's called "marketing," and it's usually a precursor to "sales."
I would argue that it is not as hard to market as perhaps it has been in the past, and i mean by past.. like 5 or 6 years ago. One of the easiest things you can do is make sure EVERYONE on your facebook, google+ etc friends list knows about it and in the case of facebook, set up a facebook profile of your game. Link the game on linkedin, monster, whatever. That part of the marketing is merely a freebie. Anything beyond that i am not sure about. Maybe someone else can add to this list.
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that say about home video recorders in the next, let's say, 5 years? All those hi-def video recorders at the big box stores...gone with the wind. i hope that companies get their heads out of the sand.
INVENTED???? They have no excuse. Other have gotten caught up in failing to adapt to technologies that they are loosely coupled with but and some of that is at least understandable, even though we know it still shouldn't happen. However when your OWN product puts you out of business.. that is nothing short of amazing.
out there today. Just look at the job ads. you see an ad for a C++ programmer. You scream for joy. Little do you know, before you click on that link, that you are about to have the hammer dropped on you by words like VB.net, ASP.net, python, perl, MS SQL, Websphere(what the heck is that?), BEALogic(wtf??), Rational Rose(WHAT THE?), MFC(yeah even something MS doesn't even support anymore), assembly/registry manipulation, Posix threads, awk, http/html, javascript. All REQUIRED for ONE job.....and YES there are PLENTY of job ads out there just like that.
who in the right mind would apply for that job? even if you are seasoned how much are they gonna pay for that? and how many people born since 1990, most of them about to get out of college have ever heard of BeaLogic and RationalRose? I was born in 1976 and i had to go look up websphere, bealogic and rational rose up on google to find out for myself.
"International CES is not open to the general public. You must be in the consumer electronics industry to be eligible to attend the show." ok so i found the answer which kinda sucks. I understand not allowing everyone in but it would be nice to have hardcore geeks and nerds in for the sheer purpose of helping getting the word out there about all this new stuff.
do you HAVE to be involved in whole or part to a company that is affiliated with the conference. I imagine some joe smo can't just register online and purchase a ticket. any info from someone who has been? thanks.(i really want to go next year)
to which i would ask of the NFL..."how is that OUR problem that you are going to have a harder time with advertisers? We don't have any obligation to cater to your business model."
i live in the Tampa area and make around 85K which is pretty good money. I live close to the beach, warm weather pretty much year round, entertainment, parks, wildlife, great food and lots of other stuff. Why in the world do people from San Francisco keep calling me for "great opportunities"????
that kind of job requires you to work in a covered bunker with no windows, no internet access, no cell phone and not really having much to say in terms of flexibility in using the best tools to get the job done. its a job but its not the best job(not withstanding the pay)
Yeah i got that question and it really surprised me to be perfectly honest. It threw me for a loop. I knew about the job(3-D visualization, opengl/c++) and i told them that that work interested me and thats why i wanted to work for them. but then they asked me again. What was i supposed to say? Why do you think i want to work for you? Because i need a freaking job! Did they expect me to know everything about the company?
it shouldn't matter who the target market is. if the work is being done in another state but is used where the target market is, then it doesn't matter. People working remotely have broken the barrier.
Does it matter that there is a smaller pool? You pay the person 50% below normal for NYC which is a big raise in places like Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, North Carolina and yes Texas is cheap too(Florida and Texas = NO state taxes). If you can find talented people then isn't this the goal?
thanks for your story. as the poster said below why don't these companies set up shop in smaller places and by small i mean in places like 150,000 - 300,000 people. lots of talent but MANY MANY MANY (and i know them) choose not to move because of wife;s family, kids rooted in school, church, activities or whatever. But they are talented. Telecommuting would be awesome. work from home with the very and i mean very occasional, trips to the office in D.C. or NYC or whatever. I might even go for that.
and not trying to get on people's bad side here but San Francisco is not the ideal place for many reasons other than financial. I will just leave it at that.
I know people on here will say NYC is a great place and all but just because you make $150,000 a year doesn't mean anything. If you are an engineer in the New York area you are going to be working downtown. That means either you pay $3,000 a month for a one bedroom closet or you live 1 hour+ away so you can hope to afford a big enough place for your family. I've driven the hour ONE WAY before for 3 years and let me tell you - it's a drain on your body, your mind and everything else. I am in Florida and get calls and email asking me to move to NYC, Chicago, Minnesota, etc etc. The guy in NYC thought I would be thrilled to make $150,000 a year since i was only making about $85K but once you run the numbers you figure out quickly that i would be LOSING money by taking the job. I make about 70% more but housing is 3 to 4 times more on average for the same sq footage and that is like an hour away from city. Why in the world would i change jobs where i would lose money and have to travel 1 hour each way every day for the hassle of a city environment. 1 hour each way = 2 hours a day = 40 hours a month. A whole extra week that i would lose to do ... well.. anything that i wanna do that i am doing now. No thanks.
So its just not about the pay. its about the location.
let me be more clear. When i mean "steps" earlier i meant a set of steps that have unique algorithms/implementations behind them. I did not in any way say that just creating steps was patentable.
i am saying that filing a claim on one-click shopping is ridiculous. Thats too broad and yes it stifles innovation. Thats like filing for a patent for a flat screen with rounded corners(apple) or coming up with some very vague and broad patents from BT... which if you add up all those patent claims, they might as well say that they have a patent on all of the wireless mobile technology. Thats pretty absurd, don't you think? Back to one-click shopping, if you have your own algorithms/steps/ etc you use that define your implementation of one-click shopping that is and should indeed patentable and i would get behind that.
which is exactly why we shouldn't be handing out subjective patents.. and theres the difference with software patents. all of them are entirely subjective..where as with drugs you have something you can see, hold, observe. Software the PERFORMS something that you can indeed observe through a PROCESS.. now thats something that i can get behind. No.. not the process itself.... the implementation of the process. Just using "process" is too broad and yes.. too subjective.
drive thats gonna crap out in a year? you should have a reasonable expectation that things are going to work. hard drives crashing/getting locked up/stalling/blowing up should be the rare exception and the reason for warranties. if they built good quality hard drives then they could make warranties be a lifetime with a reasonable expectation that they would be replacing a very small percentage of them within a lifetime. Maybe this problem will correct itself as Solid State drives start to become more mainstream.
who would want to be tracked for the purpose of giving you ads? i dont want ads popping up on my phone. i want my phone to be a PHONE.
companies from buying competition for the sheer purpose of killing it in order to keep away competition? this is what has seemed to slow down the at&t/t-mobile merger.
I have read the article and all the sub articles and one universal truth keeps popping up. That talent is hard to find. While one writer seemed to grasp that not everyone wants to move to Silicon Valley, the problem for rare talent is that realizing that there is a lot of talent around the rest of the country...from people that didn't graduate from MIT, Stanford or UC Berkley...and guess what... just like normal every day americans they have family and friends and while they may be slumped over some desk doing mediocre mundane software development, the family and friends thing is more important than doing something that would love to do but have other considerations to make..personal considerations.
At some point I have brought up this point before in a previous story but it would be oh so nice if places like google would locate shops in different parts of the country. I am not talking about huge datacenters that only employ 50 people or call centers to try to solve peoples problems. I am talking about software hubs. They dont have to be as glamorous as the mothership office and they dont have to support 3000 jobs...but there is lots of talent, particular in the southeast where i am , where people are hungering for work that they love to do in their own time. The bonus is, is that because most of the country costs about 300% less than san fran to live in places like Tennessee, Mississippi and Florida for example, the salaries don't have to be as big and you still get the same type of work - if you find the good talent , and there is some.
just thoughts and ramblings.
App stores are just a bubble waiting to burst: such a saturated market simply cannot exist. It's like the 90s internet bubble - everyone became a millionaire with the internet, now everyone wants to become a millionaire with apps. Developers will soon realize that they can't compete with the giants like angry birds and hobby guys giving away their work. The self-regulated app store model (where a popular app is pushed higher in the popularity list simply because it's popular, and new apps don't even get a chance) is terrible. The only winner is Apple.
Diehard Digital age fans defend this by claiming that "there have been changes like this throughout the whole history of mankind". And that's fine - but the point is, RIGHT NOW, there is no visible economical alternatives to the "traditional" manufacturing model (software developing is manufacturing too).
how does the apple app store work now? are new ideas simply hidden? i thought that new apps got the shot of becoming popular on the new releases section. I want to develop for the apple app store and for the marketplace but a lot of people in general haven't seen a clear vision of what is needed. perhaps it is a lot more clearer once you are a registered developer - someone out there that is please speak up.
after reading the story if you were to take Amazon off the table I would think that we would be talking about WalMart who uses the same tactics against their suppliers.
am i correct from the story title that Amazon is requiring that you use your ebook downloads only on the Kindle instead of lets say any smartphone or tablet?
is this the reason wow has absolutely no flexibility anymore? Everything has been homogenized. We now have Mists of Pandera..and the game continues to be dumbed down beyond what previously was perceived as the ultimate bottom. Just wondering if you had any insight on that or has activision largely been on the outside when it comes to the blizzard side of things.
looks like i picked the wrong day to quit sniffin glue.
If nobody knows about your app, that's your failure, not Apple's. It's called "marketing," and it's usually a precursor to "sales."
I would argue that it is not as hard to market as perhaps it has been in the past, and i mean by past.. like 5 or 6 years ago. One of the easiest things you can do is make sure EVERYONE on your facebook, google+ etc friends list knows about it and in the case of facebook, set up a facebook profile of your game. Link the game on linkedin, monster, whatever. That part of the marketing is merely a freebie. Anything beyond that i am not sure about. Maybe someone else can add to this list.