The game had some really cool ideas, but it desperately needed another 6 months of polishing before release -- and Blizzard probably would have given it another 18.
They cut a bad demo for the game, and the originally available content also wasn't great, overall, although small parts of it were. There's no second chance at that first impression, and I'm sure a ton of people either played the demo and gave the game a pass entirely or tried it out and decided not to subscribe.
I had a similar thought, except it was: Of course lots of people are downgrading.
XP came out in 2001. The first time I saw it used in the workplace: 2004. We're not three years into Vista yet. It would be nice to have some kind of comparison numbers.
I mean, are more people downgrading from Vista than downgraded from XP in its early years? I think so. But we really have no basis of comparison, at least within the scope of this article.
I think we can safely say that willfully deceiving and maliciously lashing out at a kid, as an adult who damn well should know better, is a little different than honking your horn.
Not really, no. Basically all reasonably mainstream MMORPGs (Eve probably excepted) either don't allow anything remotely resembling open PvP, have little or no penalty for PvP death, or both.
I think the article is dead on in questioning the study.
Perfect example: the last two places I contracted at were looking to hire C# developers who had also been exposed to Subversion. Is it fair to look at a place like that and say they're now all about Open Source? Not really, no.
Open Source is getting somewhere in the business world to be sure, but the FOSS Rapture isn't quite upon us just yet.
Do a lot of web development? This is one feature I would love -- users can completely destroy how a web app works just by clicking on the back button and asking "where'd all my data go?"
They sure can. This might put the onus on you as the web developer to build a smarter app. Or to not build that particular as a web browser app at all. You've got options, and it's not like the back button is a new feature that's surprised you and thrown off your assumptions.
Also, a lot of big companies do hiring freezes because of the economy, but then... still have things they need to get done and end up hiring contractors to do it.
Until a man is twenty-five, he still thinks, every so often, that under the right circumstances he could be the baddest motherfucker in the world. If I moved to a martial-arts monastery in China and studied real hard for ten years. If my family was wiped out by Colombian drug dealers and I swore myself to revenge. If I got a fatal disease, had one year to live, and devoted it to wiping out street crime. If I just dropped out and devoted my life to being bad.
Apple makes products that are above the threshold of usability.
While I think there's some degree of science to usability, to some degree, I think this is also a matter of opinion. All things Apple feel like left-handed scissors to me -- usable, but often awkward and always counterintuitive. (I'm not left handed.)
Clearly, lots of people have a better time with it than I do.
Yah, too bad that 0.01% of the people are the ones that are making the decision to either deploy Windows or to switch to Linux/Mac.
... yeah. Yeah, that guy in IT that even the other guys in IT think is weird who wants to obsessively tune and customize his system, that's the guy who's making the decision on what to deploy.
No, not so much. Not in any company I've ever seen.
Think about it this way, huge corporation A is looking at buying 1,000 new workstations, they have all the apps they need on any platform (Linux, Windows, Mac) because they are web based but most of the employees are used to Windows.
I've done work at a lot of huge corporations. Number of them doing web work and not using specifically Office: Zero.
I know, I know. "But Open Office does all the stuff they care about!" Well, either it doesn't, or they're not buying it yet. Less wishful thinking, por favor.
If you don't love writing code so much that you want to do it when you get home, maybe you just shouldn't be writing code.
I disagree here.
I'm a coder. Sure, I have shitty projects or shitty clients sometimes, but overall, I love my job. It's great that I get paid to do something I enjoy and am good at.
But, you know? A lot of the time, 40 or so hours of it in a week is enough. It's possible to love something in moderation and have room for other interests in your life. I wouldn't want to do any of the other things I enjoy for more than about a third of my waking time in a week, either.
Can you give me a real world example of where/why dependency injection is especially good?
I've heard people rave about it, but when I ask why it's cool they usually present problems that can be solved just as well an easier way, or, have never occured in the real world.
I assume both they and I are missing something and I'd like to amend my ignorance if I can.
.Net and Java are everywhere, and, unfortunately for me, while I'm capable of programming in those languages, the vast majority of the jobs are web app gigs I don't have much interest in.
You might have dismissed some of those too early.
I've worked on a lot of Java and.NET "web app" projects, and for most (not all) of them, 60-90% of the programming didn't touch the presentation layer or equivalent. A lot of the devs on those teams never touched the web part of the web app.
Because one, and ONLY one, religious group has political strong influence in the state of Louisiana. But evangelical Christianity is not unique in this attitude. I imagine you'd get the same attitude in Saudi Arabia.
Kind of makes you wish we could set up a forcible teacher exchange program between the two, doesn't it? People who are for religion in public schools might get the point a a bit faster when the religion being pushed isn't theirs.
I wish I could mod this post "-1: Wishful Thinking."
No matter how much you hate Microsoft or boldly state that their business has obviously failed, it doesn't actually make it true. Open Office is causing MS revenue problems? Yeah, right. Let's try to stick to discussing how things are in the world we actually live in.
As far as this goes:
At best they can crush and rob Yahoo, but that won't do anything to Google or anyone else who wants to run services with free software.
If TFA is correct, they could do an awful lot to Google by consuming Yahoo. Not by competing in the marketplace but with the terrible power of patents.
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Agree with this.
The game had some really cool ideas, but it desperately needed another 6 months of polishing before release -- and Blizzard probably would have given it another 18.
They cut a bad demo for the game, and the originally available content also wasn't great, overall, although small parts of it were. There's no second chance at that first impression, and I'm sure a ton of people either played the demo and gave the game a pass entirely or tried it out and decided not to subscribe.
I had a similar thought, except it was: Of course lots of people are downgrading.
XP came out in 2001. The first time I saw it used in the workplace: 2004. We're not three years into Vista yet. It would be nice to have some kind of comparison numbers.
I mean, are more people downgrading from Vista than downgraded from XP in its early years? I think so. But we really have no basis of comparison, at least within the scope of this article.
And that is on an AMD64 Ubuntu computer. How is the driver support in Vista 64-bit?
It's pretty good... now. A year ago, not so much.
I feel like this is only even a story at all because valid PHP 4 code isn't necessarily valid PHP 5 code.
Curious choices by the PHP folks to me, but I'm not really deeply invested enough in PHP to fairly call them good or bad.
I think we can safely say that willfully deceiving and maliciously lashing out at a kid, as an adult who damn well should know better, is a little different than honking your horn.
The slope's not that slippery.
It sucks someone died, but there was nothing tormenting or cruel about what happened.
I'd like to know how you define tormenting and cruel if that isn't it.
You're not likely to have an ongoing conversation with a fictitious person through the mail to the point that you think of them as your boyfriend.
The nature of the internet does make kinds of assholish behavior possible that were previously impractical.
If someone doesn't want to suffer embarrassment for their actions, perhaps they shouldn't act in an embarrassing way?
Sure. We'll have everyone who has never done anything they wouldn't want the whole world to know about cast the first stone.
Not really, no. Basically all reasonably mainstream MMORPGs (Eve probably excepted) either don't allow anything remotely resembling open PvP, have little or no penalty for PvP death, or both.
I think the article is dead on in questioning the study.
Perfect example: the last two places I contracted at were looking to hire C# developers who had also been exposed to Subversion. Is it fair to look at a place like that and say they're now all about Open Source? Not really, no.
Open Source is getting somewhere in the business world to be sure, but the FOSS Rapture isn't quite upon us just yet.
I do web development work. I'm not completely talking out my ass here. You do have some options.
Do a lot of web development? This is one feature I would love -- users can completely destroy how a web app works just by clicking on the back button and asking "where'd all my data go?"
They sure can. This might put the onus on you as the web developer to build a smarter app. Or to not build that particular as a web browser app at all. You've got options, and it's not like the back button is a new feature that's surprised you and thrown off your assumptions.
Re: Contracting:
Also, a lot of big companies do hiring freezes because of the economy, but then... still have things they need to get done and end up hiring contractors to do it.
Stupid, but there you have it.
I got a decent full-time programming job off of craigslist.
Granted, that was seven years ago and in San Francisco. I don't know if I'd look there here/now.
Until a man is twenty-five, he still thinks, every so often, that under the right circumstances he could be the baddest motherfucker in the world. If I moved to a martial-arts monastery in China and studied real hard for ten years. If my family was wiped out by Colombian drug dealers and I swore myself to revenge. If I got a fatal disease, had one year to live, and devoted it to wiping out street crime. If I just dropped out and devoted my life to being bad.
Apple makes products that are above the threshold of usability.
While I think there's some degree of science to usability, to some degree, I think this is also a matter of opinion. All things Apple feel like left-handed scissors to me -- usable, but often awkward and always counterintuitive. (I'm not left handed.)
Clearly, lots of people have a better time with it than I do.
I notice you didn't attempt to argue with the "evil" part of the GP poster's statement, though. . . :)
Yah, too bad that 0.01% of the people are the ones that are making the decision to either deploy Windows or to switch to Linux/Mac.
No, not so much. Not in any company I've ever seen.
Think about it this way, huge corporation A is looking at buying 1,000 new workstations, they have all the apps they need on any platform (Linux, Windows, Mac) because they are web based but most of the employees are used to Windows.
I've done work at a lot of huge corporations. Number of them doing web work and not using specifically Office: Zero.
I know, I know. "But Open Office does all the stuff they care about!" Well, either it doesn't, or they're not buying it yet. Less wishful thinking, por favor.
At least we have the real Diablo III soon.
For large values of soon?
Christmas 2010 seems optimistic -- and if it doesn't, you haven't been paying attention to the speed of Blizzard's releases in the past.
How the fuck news about the Nielsen company make the front page here? They don't do techy things, make techy things or relate to tech at all.
You're quite mistaken. Their business extends well beyond TV ratings.
A friend of mine manages a team of developers there. I'm sure interested in what's going on.
If you don't love writing code so much that you want to do it when you get home, maybe you just shouldn't be writing code.
I disagree here.
I'm a coder. Sure, I have shitty projects or shitty clients sometimes, but overall, I love my job. It's great that I get paid to do something I enjoy and am good at.
But, you know? A lot of the time, 40 or so hours of it in a week is enough. It's possible to love something in moderation and have room for other interests in your life. I wouldn't want to do any of the other things I enjoy for more than about a third of my waking time in a week, either.
dependency injection!
This is a bit offtopic, but, serious question:
Can you give me a real world example of where/why dependency injection is especially good?
I've heard people rave about it, but when I ask why it's cool they usually present problems that can be solved just as well an easier way, or, have never occured in the real world.
I assume both they and I are missing something and I'd like to amend my ignorance if I can.
.Net and Java are everywhere, and, unfortunately for me, while I'm capable of programming in those languages, the vast majority of the jobs are web app gigs I don't have much interest in.
You might have dismissed some of those too early.
I've worked on a lot of Java and .NET "web app" projects, and for most (not all) of them, 60-90% of the programming didn't touch the presentation layer or equivalent. A lot of the devs on those teams never touched the web part of the web app.
Because one, and ONLY one, religious group has political strong influence in the state of Louisiana. But evangelical Christianity is not unique in this attitude. I imagine you'd get the same attitude in Saudi Arabia.
Kind of makes you wish we could set up a forcible teacher exchange program between the two, doesn't it? People who are for religion in public schools might get the point a a bit faster when the religion being pushed isn't theirs.
I wish I could mod this post "-1: Wishful Thinking."
No matter how much you hate Microsoft or boldly state that their business has obviously failed, it doesn't actually make it true. Open Office is causing MS revenue problems? Yeah, right. Let's try to stick to discussing how things are in the world we actually live in.
As far as this goes:
At best they can crush and rob Yahoo, but that won't do anything to Google or anyone else who wants to run services with free software.
If TFA is correct, they could do an awful lot to Google by consuming Yahoo. Not by competing in the marketplace but with the terrible power of patents.