Ofcourse, just after pushing news or release of the "next generation" card.
Then, Nvidia will be like "oh no way! you mofferuckers!"
And release their own shiny new nextgeneration DirectHDSuperplus vision in 4D XL video card, they have been making in a secret monkey lab and has been animal tested by suicidal Japanese childlabourers, to cut costs to give you a "bargain";
'we really want you to play with our hardware, man. I'll give you a cheap price, because I have a good heart", and once you fork out, they smile at you "this one goes faster;) But, man, I know you want to play with our stuff and make things look shiny... I'll cut you in.. Just 10% off man.. you can get the money, it's a bargain.. ".
.
"Woah! Woah!", will ATI scream, "no way! you are busting our balls here Nvidia!"
ATI will relabel or redesign their architecture, while they're secretly working on their n-D SuperFantastic alternative reality renderer, trying to divert attention away from it by coming out with the dud-kindof refurbished graphic card.
Nvidia will think "ha!ha!ha! Your puny card! Our 5D, handcrank accellerated M-based probability engine makes your piece of hardware look Mexican...
Until ATI releases and Nvidia is all like "ok, that's pretty awesome.. but we are now using dolphins and sharks for our assembly, how much cooler can you get?"
Then Matrox sends out some PR, and people wont care: "Oh hai, who are you?" ""it're those guys for professionals stuff I cannot afford." "oh, don't care. Give me the card assembled by SHARKS!"
(I think Matrox has to rework PR, really.)
tl:dr; it's been that game for decades and you're buying it as an industrial or corporate opera show.
I've been to White Russia last month, with a English teacher overthere as a "guide" (a girl I've been communicating with.)
"The current sentiment here is that they hate Americans, they've been conditioned by propaganda, the same way Russians have been conditioned by their media to hate Russians. They don't care about Europeans", while I noted how friendly and accomodating they are overthere.
So, you couldn't. He'll do everything to humiliate you, being a "US tourist".
Concrete is used all over the place air ie gas goes everywhere.
What I never understood in the "electrical car"-debate, and it's a bit related to your pointing outof the "gas goes everywhere", is that cars with ignition engines spread around "pollution".
People flail their arms around: "But, if you go electric they will burn charcoal electro generators and you will have the same polution at some other site!", yet it always seemed to me a way to "filter" in a place very efficiently in a few central locations where the power is generated instead of spreading it around and trying to extract it from the atmosphere.
If these prove to be dust particles from the asteroid, this will be a big step for mankind.
In other news; aliens made contact and mankind stepped into interplanetary communication. This is indeed a great step for humankind!
After or worlds finest cryptologists made sense of the message and translated it to English, they've sent it to the public domain for interpretation and further research. The message was decrypted as saying:
"Thanks, next week I'm on holiday it would be GREAT if you'd vacuum the other side of my asteroid as well on tuesday."
It looks to me like an early release; Apple always has prided themselves for delivering thoroughly tested deviced who "just work" and that's been a bit their strength. I can say that even while I'm in the Android crowd: their strenght has been simplicity, "just works" and a nice finished design. Nothing robust or open, while that's a turnoff for me, it's a turnon for alot of non-techies.
Following the news on Slashdot, and current trends, it seems they have rushed out a release to get into the Android wave which took them by surprice. (I saw it coming, Apple seemed to be gloating until the world has changed and Android has been adopted everywhere by different manufacturers).
Afterwards, they lost a prototype in the public domain, so I imagine they took this media attention as an oportunity to ride that momentum to push it out while all the fanboys screamed "I want".
My conservative projection is, that this iPhone will show alot more bugs and issues they haven't thoroughly tested.
I just hope Apple wont do the media-circus and realize "we can get away with this" becomming another Microsoft experience sending out patch after patch.
It is amazing how the US comes down on on other countries for even thinking of having 1 bomb
I believe there's an international treaty where you cannot nuclear attack a nation having an nuclear arsenaln, even if it's just "one nuke".
This fact allows the US to nuke, say Irak, until they have developed their own nuclear weapons. That's why these nations are developing their own weapons, not to "nuke the Western world" but to get themselves safe.
Just imagine sorting the images on "time taken" and replaying them in a movie with a soundtrack...
And seeing the guards run in, in slow motion, from 100 different angles. Awesome.
I'm sure most of the people working on Plank would dance in a furry bear costume in front of Congress if it would get them the time and money they need to do the work and be left alone.
I've learned that scientists are a lot like serious artists and musicians. You should just give them the gear they need to work and then let them be. Don't ask for quarterly reports, don't ask for balance sheets. Just toss them whatever equipment they request and an occasional sandwich and get out the way.
Hear hear. It is a creative process as well, people should be allowed to "stay in the zone" or "flow". It burns you out quickly if you have to constantly shift and rechannel your focus and energy to bordering tasks instead of the project at hand.
Does anyone get the impression they started looking for any excuse for their crap design and this was the best they could come up with?
"We need to do something QUICK! The media is raging on this issue! Even the general media!!! Even ads are mocking us!"
"We can design an isolation band to put on the phone, and market it as the next fashionable thing"
"people would rage it's not free and would cost too much to ship out to everyone.. any other idea's?"
"Recall! Redesign! WE HAVE NO CHOICE"
"TOO EXPENSIVE! and we just fired our antenna guys."
programmer: "I can write a tool to detect if they're lefties by usage stats..."
"... listening."
"And then adjust their reception display."
"What do you need?!"
"5 hookers, one masseuse, 2 days of coding and unlimited supply of skittles."
"GIVE THIS MAN WHAT HE NEEDS! Get to work! Good job."
the trick is to make it look like you always meant it to work that way
"Look! Our probe.. it's floating away into deep space without control! WHAT DO!"
"CALL THE ENGINEERS!"
"Yes, um, well.. in the requirements was clearly described for the probe to be autonomous. The fact that you do not have control is in fact this feature."
"But it's floating A-WAY!"
"The purpose of this mission was to 'float away from earth', otherwise there would be no use, would there?"
"TOWARDS A ROCK"
"Yes, but did you specify WHICH rock? It'll eventually hit one."
They're comming back from this though, I work personally as a software consultant and have worked in companies who offshored to Bengalore to "cut off 500 mandays of work". It was a nightmare to work like this.
In my frame of reference, in Belgium, I've seen a move from Bengalore, Dubai to Singapore and some are fishing in Eastern Europe.
The higher level jobs are still done "on site", as the day to day business in software. The development in itself, I don't know what the general trend is (I've seen some different situations here; inhouse, offshored, outsourced to different companies in the same country,...)
Take showers before going out in public. Brush your teeth twice a day. Get a haircut. Shave. Trim your eyebrow.
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It's a bit weird, as overhere I received news IT is picking up and infrastructure and maintenance jobs are still required; companies rely on their IT infrastructure and automation tasks.
I was talking about this with a friend and wondered how the industry would evolve, and wondering why and how many people would still pick up on information tech, as we used to have popculture around IT sparking and keeping our interest (hackers, matrix, the net,...) while we had this "new thing to play with", visibly evolving tech, games we could improve yourselves and what have you.
These days, it doesn't seem "new" and I only encounter few students who are enthousiastic as "we used to be", and the online experience is a bit compressed to a few major sites (compared to the animated-gif glory of the turn of the millenium, where everyone had their personal webpage and everybody tried to create something).
Considering there's been a major risk in commencing IT studies (in the crisis, alot of graduates have been doing dishes instead of working, having their skills "outdated" and being replaced by the next batch of graduates the year after fe.) I got the impression it's an industry drying up and will be high in demand in a few years.
I'm really curious for other people's perspectives though..
Overhere, in the programming consultancy industry, they waged wars with this:
They would start contracts with unemployment offices, get low-educated people trained to program and be forced by contract to keep them employed for 2 year.
The strategy consists of lowering your prices for consultants and projects; you have a batch of cheap codemonkeys who work for half the price and can whip up a website or VB-program as well. Armed with this, you can compete with your opponents.
Now, because they are tied with the 2-year "forced employment contracts", with the crisis, they were forced to lay off their bright and highly educated people while they've been stuck with this "quick trainees".
Everybody can code something, however it took me a while and study to really grasp decent programming logic and to learn to think in code. In highschool, programming for me was more a brute-force approach.
My point being, you can train people (in IT we're constantly "retrained" anyhow), but I believe there is some value in a decent base if you want someone with a more deep understanding and having gone through our "maturing rituatials", building networks, social skills and what have you going through university and college.
BUT LAWYERS ARE TEH EVILZ! CLASS ACTION LAWSUITS ARE ABOUT LINING TEH LAWYERZ POCKETS NOT GETTING ANYTHING TO THE PLAINTIFF!
I dated a lawyer once, she was hot. But crazy, evil, I don't know. Maybe a bit detached because of her daily environment. But she worked hard, weeks would pass and she'd totally zone out those weeks focussed on her work until late in the night to defend her clients. (for me totally acceptable that such sacrifice is compensated accordingly).
Honestly, to me it was too much. Her coming home "my client just got jailed, I told him to send this form and such before that date. He neglected it, so it's his own faulth." and shrugged it off going about her business while it stuck on me.
For me it seemed to be much more of a deal for someone to "lose his liberties" (disregarding what they've done) and it made me very uncomfortable with the idea.
But it's a whole different aspect of law, in your example, it's doing what it's supposed to do. Same as the time I got convicted for speeding; I was at faulth, I accepted the sentence.
(read: the infamous Indian "code factories"). And, unfortunately, I think this is the case for the majority of programming nowadays.
I really do agree with this, and also sense there's something fundamentally wrong with the way we "do software", and in general things are being overcomplicated by various reasons.
At one hand you have the developers who at one hand want to write idealistic pragmatic and beautiful code which gives them a sense of creation or just curiousity how something works (bringing them to long isolated moments playing with their computer in the firstp lace). To come to this creation, they often plunge into an unknown after which they come to a conclusion. If the analysis or idea was good, there was enough experience or insight it might be a working conclusion.
On the other hand you have people wanting to streamline the process and find ways to "do software better and faster", as you have a wide spectrum or breeds of programmers and they want to create a generic solution to make projections towards clients and budget.
Combine the two, and you start off with a driven dev and his philosophies on technology, programming and a desire to create their utopian software, while on the way encountering obstacles (like pressure or your employer not sharing your vision, or you running down lists of requirements). It's a bit depending on the dev how he copes with it: many go into a "slaving" mode and lose a bit of their early motivation and drive as each project takes a pretty deep mental effort and engagement: if it's an "easy project", often it's not interesting enough. depending on personalities, you might end up with very sloppy work because it's not "empowering" or doesn't fit or people "zoning out" because they are low energy, get too many interuptions, have trouble "get into the flow again", and so on.
I think the luxury of this freedom of a dev "good results require some freedom and compensation for me to engage as deeply into this" has pushed to find a more predictable source of software, like these coding factories or sqeezing through alot of motivated and high energie juniors with grand expectations with mediors or seniors trying to channel this.
Yet I see a tendency to step away from it, as the code is maybe fast and quick, it's hard to communicate and often the quality is a bit of a letdown. (this isn't my perception alone, I've worked with Bangalore and it's been challenging to get things done.) Maybe also because alot of code is a personal expression and interpretation towards a solution and everybody has their own style of expressing a solution.
The "scrum", "agile", "extreme",... guru's and workshops are for me an expression of the need for a change or some way to "do software right", yet the plentyfulness of all of this just screams: "it's a bit looking for what kindof works as there isn't a real metric to determine the things we want to predict in the development process".
At the base of these "personality factors", seems that software is just a mess and there are as many implementations and intermediate solutions as there are developers who are often pushed to "just make it work".
Miscrosoft has been in the camp to try to simplify programming for years to make it more accessible. They have been failing miserably, getting stuck in often dead ends and each "developer congress" they announce their new approaches, idea's, trends,... and each year I think "yes, I can see where this need was and why the implemented this approach or feature", yet when you try to use much of it, it's like all other software.
They have been doing this for years, still fail (while making progress) and maybe cashing in on the "education/certification industry" around it (see, people need to know as well how to do all these nifte tricks someone thought up and implemented, and how they were implemented), trickle feeding that as well, ok.
But my point being; Microsoft has a incredible batch of programmers and theorists working for them (you cannot disregard those geeks) and they are focussed on "making development easier" (because it means more tie-in for endusers, right?) but they cannot do it in the way described above, while throwing resources and cash at it pretty high priority.
So will this one guy tackle all those problems piles of bright people have applied themselves to? no.
Slashdot Mirror
Two words: Depth perception...
Ofcourse, just after pushing news or release of the "next generation" card.
Then, Nvidia will be like "oh no way! you mofferuckers!"
And release their own shiny new nextgeneration DirectHDSuperplus vision in 4D XL video card, they have been making in a secret monkey lab and has been animal tested by suicidal Japanese childlabourers, to cut costs to give you a "bargain";
'we really want you to play with our hardware, man. I'll give you a cheap price, because I have a good heart", and once you fork out, they smile at you "this one goes faster ;) But, man, I know you want to play with our stuff and make things look shiny... I'll cut you in.. Just 10% off man.. you can get the money, it's a bargain.. ".
.
"Woah! Woah!", will ATI scream, "no way! you are busting our balls here Nvidia!"
ATI will relabel or redesign their architecture, while they're secretly working on their n-D SuperFantastic alternative reality renderer, trying to divert attention away from it by coming out with the dud-kindof refurbished graphic card.
Nvidia will think "ha!ha!ha! Your puny card! Our 5D, handcrank accellerated M-based probability engine makes your piece of hardware look Mexican...
Until ATI releases and Nvidia is all like "ok, that's pretty awesome.. but we are now using dolphins and sharks for our assembly, how much cooler can you get?"
Then Matrox sends out some PR, and people wont care:
"Oh hai, who are you?"
""it're those guys for professionals stuff I cannot afford."
"oh, don't care. Give me the card assembled by SHARKS!"
(I think Matrox has to rework PR, really.)
tl:dr; it's been that game for decades and you're buying it as an industrial or corporate opera show.
You're a linux-nerd, you'll figure out a way that's quasi incomprehensible for others, but it will work just the way you like it.
I've been to White Russia last month, with a English teacher overthere as a "guide" (a girl I've been communicating with.)
"The current sentiment here is that they hate Americans, they've been conditioned by propaganda, the same way Russians have been conditioned by their media to hate Russians. They don't care about Europeans", while I noted how friendly and accomodating they are overthere.
So, you couldn't. He'll do everything to humiliate you, being a "US tourist".
What I never understood in the "electrical car"-debate, and it's a bit related to your pointing outof the "gas goes everywhere", is that cars with ignition engines spread around "pollution".
People flail their arms around: "But, if you go electric they will burn charcoal electro generators and you will have the same polution at some other site!", yet it always seemed to me a way to "filter" in a place very efficiently in a few central locations where the power is generated instead of spreading it around and trying to extract it from the atmosphere.
In other news; aliens made contact and mankind stepped into interplanetary communication. This is indeed a great step for humankind!
After or worlds finest cryptologists made sense of the message and translated it to English, they've sent it to the public domain for interpretation and further research. The message was decrypted as saying:
"Thanks, next week I'm on holiday it would be GREAT if you'd vacuum the other side of my asteroid as well on tuesday."
It looks to me like an early release; Apple always has prided themselves for delivering thoroughly tested deviced who "just work" and that's been a bit their strength. I can say that even while I'm in the Android crowd: their strenght has been simplicity, "just works" and a nice finished design. Nothing robust or open, while that's a turnoff for me, it's a turnon for alot of non-techies.
Following the news on Slashdot, and current trends, it seems they have rushed out a release to get into the Android wave which took them by surprice. (I saw it coming, Apple seemed to be gloating until the world has changed and Android has been adopted everywhere by different manufacturers).
Afterwards, they lost a prototype in the public domain, so I imagine they took this media attention as an oportunity to ride that momentum to push it out while all the fanboys screamed "I want".
My conservative projection is, that this iPhone will show alot more bugs and issues they haven't thoroughly tested.
I just hope Apple wont do the media-circus and realize "we can get away with this" becomming another Microsoft experience sending out patch after patch.
I'm active in politics: Not maybe the median, but not the top 20% either.
If you judge a planet based on how and by whom its governed, then we are really not as intelligent we might pride ourselves with.
I believe there's an international treaty where you cannot nuclear attack a nation having an nuclear arsenaln, even if it's just "one nuke".
This fact allows the US to nuke, say Irak, until they have developed their own nuclear weapons. That's why these nations are developing their own weapons, not to "nuke the Western world" but to get themselves safe.
Just imagine sorting the images on "time taken" and replaying them in a movie with a soundtrack...
And seeing the guards run in, in slow motion, from 100 different angles. Awesome.
Something like this?
Hear hear. It is a creative process as well, people should be allowed to "stay in the zone" or "flow". It burns you out quickly if you have to constantly shift and rechannel your focus and energy to bordering tasks instead of the project at hand.
So, considering it "CAN", but not necessarily does store it, does that mean they're having some motivational issues with this material?
Will this evolve into chemical psychology?
We had a javascript popup on a coorporate website with 80k hits a day showing "Hello! I'm Lindsay Lohan!"
The dev was trying to "debug" and just had seen the "Achmed the dead terrorist video".
No, but it took this long to find an Excell-developer and get him to complete the project in working order...
Don't tell them there are more fast alternatives, they'll rage...
"We need to do something QUICK! The media is raging on this issue! Even the general media!!! Even ads are mocking us!"
"We can design an isolation band to put on the phone, and market it as the next fashionable thing"
"people would rage it's not free and would cost too much to ship out to everyone.. any other idea's?"
"Recall! Redesign! WE HAVE NO CHOICE"
"TOO EXPENSIVE! and we just fired our antenna guys."
programmer: "I can write a tool to detect if they're lefties by usage stats..."
"... listening."
"And then adjust their reception display."
"What do you need?!"
"5 hookers, one masseuse, 2 days of coding and unlimited supply of skittles."
"GIVE THIS MAN WHAT HE NEEDS! Get to work! Good job."
"Look! Our probe.. it's floating away into deep space without control! WHAT DO!"
"CALL THE ENGINEERS!"
"Yes, um, well.. in the requirements was clearly described for the probe to be autonomous. The fact that you do not have control is in fact this feature."
"But it's floating A-WAY!"
"The purpose of this mission was to 'float away from earth', otherwise there would be no use, would there?"
"TOWARDS A ROCK"
"Yes, but did you specify WHICH rock? It'll eventually hit one."
They're comming back from this though, I work personally as a software consultant and have worked in companies who offshored to Bengalore to "cut off 500 mandays of work". It was a nightmare to work like this.
In my frame of reference, in Belgium, I've seen a move from Bengalore, Dubai to Singapore and some are fishing in Eastern Europe.
The higher level jobs are still done "on site", as the day to day business in software. The development in itself, I don't know what the general trend is (I've seen some different situations here; inhouse, offshored, outsourced to different companies in the same country, ...)
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It's a bit weird, as overhere I received news IT is picking up and infrastructure and maintenance jobs are still required; companies rely on their IT infrastructure and automation tasks.
I was talking about this with a friend and wondered how the industry would evolve, and wondering why and how many people would still pick up on information tech, as we used to have popculture around IT sparking and keeping our interest (hackers, matrix, the net, ...) while we had this "new thing to play with", visibly evolving tech, games we could improve yourselves and what have you.
These days, it doesn't seem "new" and I only encounter few students who are enthousiastic as "we used to be", and the online experience is a bit compressed to a few major sites (compared to the animated-gif glory of the turn of the millenium, where everyone had their personal webpage and everybody tried to create something).
Considering there's been a major risk in commencing IT studies (in the crisis, alot of graduates have been doing dishes instead of working, having their skills "outdated" and being replaced by the next batch of graduates the year after fe.) I got the impression it's an industry drying up and will be high in demand in a few years.
I'm really curious for other people's perspectives though..
They would start contracts with unemployment offices, get low-educated people trained to program and be forced by contract to keep them employed for 2 year.
The strategy consists of lowering your prices for consultants and projects; you have a batch of cheap codemonkeys who work for half the price and can whip up a website or VB-program as well. Armed with this, you can compete with your opponents.
Now, because they are tied with the 2-year "forced employment contracts", with the crisis, they were forced to lay off their bright and highly educated people while they've been stuck with this "quick trainees".
Everybody can code something, however it took me a while and study to really grasp decent programming logic and to learn to think in code. In highschool, programming for me was more a brute-force approach.
My point being, you can train people (in IT we're constantly "retrained" anyhow), but I believe there is some value in a decent base if you want someone with a more deep understanding and having gone through our "maturing rituatials", building networks, social skills and what have you going through university and college.
Lets hope Tron will be better as the A-team remake...
I dated a lawyer once, she was hot. But crazy, evil, I don't know. Maybe a bit detached because of her daily environment. But she worked hard, weeks would pass and she'd totally zone out those weeks focussed on her work until late in the night to defend her clients. (for me totally acceptable that such sacrifice is compensated accordingly).
Honestly, to me it was too much. Her coming home "my client just got jailed, I told him to send this form and such before that date. He neglected it, so it's his own faulth." and shrugged it off going about her business while it stuck on me.
For me it seemed to be much more of a deal for someone to "lose his liberties" (disregarding what they've done) and it made me very uncomfortable with the idea.
But it's a whole different aspect of law, in your example, it's doing what it's supposed to do. Same as the time I got convicted for speeding; I was at faulth, I accepted the sentence.
I really do agree with this, and also sense there's something fundamentally wrong with the way we "do software", and in general things are being overcomplicated by various reasons.
At one hand you have the developers who at one hand want to write idealistic pragmatic and beautiful code which gives them a sense of creation or just curiousity how something works (bringing them to long isolated moments playing with their computer in the firstp lace). To come to this creation, they often plunge into an unknown after which they come to a conclusion. If the analysis or idea was good, there was enough experience or insight it might be a working conclusion.
On the other hand you have people wanting to streamline the process and find ways to "do software better and faster", as you have a wide spectrum or breeds of programmers and they want to create a generic solution to make projections towards clients and budget.
Combine the two, and you start off with a driven dev and his philosophies on technology, programming and a desire to create their utopian software, while on the way encountering obstacles (like pressure or your employer not sharing your vision, or you running down lists of requirements). It's a bit depending on the dev how he copes with it: many go into a "slaving" mode and lose a bit of their early motivation and drive as each project takes a pretty deep mental effort and engagement: if it's an "easy project", often it's not interesting enough. depending on personalities, you might end up with very sloppy work because it's not "empowering" or doesn't fit or people "zoning out" because they are low energy, get too many interuptions, have trouble "get into the flow again", and so on.
I think the luxury of this freedom of a dev "good results require some freedom and compensation for me to engage as deeply into this" has pushed to find a more predictable source of software, like these coding factories or sqeezing through alot of motivated and high energie juniors with grand expectations with mediors or seniors trying to channel this.
Yet I see a tendency to step away from it, as the code is maybe fast and quick, it's hard to communicate and often the quality is a bit of a letdown. (this isn't my perception alone, I've worked with Bangalore and it's been challenging to get things done.) Maybe also because alot of code is a personal expression and interpretation towards a solution and everybody has their own style of expressing a solution.
The "scrum", "agile", "extreme", ... guru's and workshops are for me an expression of the need for a change or some way to "do software right", yet the plentyfulness of all of this just screams: "it's a bit looking for what kindof works as there isn't a real metric to determine the things we want to predict in the development process".
At the base of these "personality factors", seems that software is just a mess and there are as many implementations and intermediate solutions as there are developers who are often pushed to "just make it work".
Miscrosoft has been in the camp to try to simplify programming for years to make it more accessible. They have been failing miserably, getting stuck in often dead ends and each "developer congress" they announce their new approaches, idea's, trends, ... and each year I think "yes, I can see where this need was and why the implemented this approach or feature", yet when you try to use much of it, it's like all other software.
They have been doing this for years, still fail (while making progress) and maybe cashing in on the "education/certification industry" around it (see, people need to know as well how to do all these nifte tricks someone thought up and implemented, and how they were implemented), trickle feeding that as well, ok.
But my point being; Microsoft has a incredible batch of programmers and theorists working for them (you cannot disregard those geeks) and they are focussed on "making development easier" (because it means more tie-in for endusers, right?) but they cannot do it in the way described above, while throwing resources and cash at it pretty high priority.
So will this one guy tackle all those problems piles of bright people have applied themselves to? no.
I worked for advertizing agencies: those type of women would not allow it.
I've worked on communication departments: those type of women would not allow it.
I've worked for design and fashion companies: those type of women would not allow it.
Now I'm working on a IT-department: those type of women would encourage it, but I do not want those women for other reasons.