A fun place to work is, well... fun! But if you aren't happy (pay, commute, promotion, etc) then you aren't happy and soon you'll start to resent the fun place.
Take my advice, find a job you are happy with and make it the fun place!
I didn't own an original XBox, so I don't have a frame of reference but I've noticed that since I bought my 360 in 2008 most updates to the Dashboard have been working hard at making it more difficult to find my games or my home media.
In fact, with the latest batches of updates (Metro-like?) I've found it very difficult to get to games I want to play in my library, to the point now that I forego the GUI and go straight to the "quick play" option (which is basically just an alphabetically sorted list). And browsing my home network has been completely removed in lieu of streaming (yuck, no thanks).
I think Microsoft could learn a thing or two from Valve, Steam is pretty easy to use but is also a ad delivery system, I can find everything rather easily in Steam and I find it a lot less annoying than the 360 Dashboard, also Steam has sales for games that don't suck, and that makes me want to spend money but hey, that's just my opinion...
In a World where up isn't always the direction you're headed and going down will kill you, A hero will rise...
TERRORVATOR
*break*
Ted Buttson wasn't exactly the best elevator repairman "Y'know normally the buttons don't do this" (empty elevator drops from sight, crashes). In fact you could say he was the worst elevator repairman "Why do they build these things with all these extra bolts?" (elevator doors fall in), but sometimes it doesn't matter who you are if you're on the right floor at the right time "H-hey! I think these guys wanna do something BAD to this elevator!". Coming this summer from the same studio that brought you predictable comedy before comes "TED: Going Down" (close up shot of actor making faces with sexy music playing)
It's been said but, we're not exactly at the forefront of interweb techmonomolology unless you narrow the scope to equally um monopoly-based infrastructure.
Slashdot Mirror
Part of the anniversary celebrations is a logo design contest thing.
I like it, sorta like Google doodles... but for Slashdot
Well hopefully it doesn't lead to light bulb smuggling as it did with cigarettes (at least here in Canada anyway)
It's rather worrying actually. It's like being reassured that there is ABSOLUTELY no poison in the coffee.
And that's when the zombie surfers get you
A fun place to work is, well... fun! But if you aren't happy (pay, commute, promotion, etc) then you aren't happy and soon you'll start to resent the fun place.
Take my advice, find a job you are happy with and make it the fun place!
...covered in hot grits...
(rather than Goatse, which is only better in Soviet Russia)
It's also the missing step 3
...let me tell you about Star Trek
I didn't own an original XBox, so I don't have a frame of reference but I've noticed that since I bought my 360 in 2008 most updates to the Dashboard have been working hard at making it more difficult to find my games or my home media.
In fact, with the latest batches of updates (Metro-like?) I've found it very difficult to get to games I want to play in my library, to the point now that I forego the GUI and go straight to the "quick play" option (which is basically just an alphabetically sorted list). And browsing my home network has been completely removed in lieu of streaming (yuck, no thanks).
I think Microsoft could learn a thing or two from Valve, Steam is pretty easy to use but is also a ad delivery system, I can find everything rather easily in Steam and I find it a lot less annoying than the 360 Dashboard, also Steam has sales for games that don't suck, and that makes me want to spend money but hey, that's just my opinion...
Poppyseed muffin sales have dropped to all time lows in the airport concourse. Terrorists suspected...
That's crazy talk!
We all know that children must be raised by strangers on the internet, like the kind of strangers we can trust on television.
Gentlemen, it pains me to tell you this but, we have a lumberjack gap.
I, for one, can't wait for the "laser show" version of LotR...
If I had mod points today I would use 'em...
Sometimes things just catch on because people start using a language and it spreads from there.
An insecure website by any name sucks just as bad...
*This Post Approved by the Council of Approving Things
Ah, but this would be the American version, with dames, car chases, terrorists, plenty of one-liners and explosions!
IN (unconvincing) 3D!!
In a World where up isn't always the direction you're headed and going down will kill you, A hero will rise...
TERRORVATOR
*break*
Ted Buttson wasn't exactly the best elevator repairman "Y'know normally the buttons don't do this" (empty elevator drops from sight, crashes). In fact you could say he was the worst elevator repairman "Why do they build these things with all these extra bolts?" (elevator doors fall in), but sometimes it doesn't matter who you are if you're on the right floor at the right time "H-hey! I think these guys wanna do something BAD to this elevator!". Coming this summer from the same studio that brought you predictable comedy before comes "TED: Going Down" (close up shot of actor making faces with sexy music playing)
[NOT YET RATED]
Embed the device in concrete and sink to the bottom of the ocean. Virtually hack proof.
It's also great for annoying servers that won't patch and people who send meeting invites with no description...
I really hope the folks at Best Buy don't wonder why sales may be flagging...
Who watches the watcher watchers?
For a moment I was worried but then I remembered I don't use natural numbers in my code.
Congratulations guys ;-)
Wow, literally, "Fear will keep the local systems in line"
I fear for when your IT department becomes fully operational.
213 million six foot power strips daisy chained together...
This reminds me of metrics that awarded lines of code, as if programming were factory piecework (well, maybe at IBM, I don't know).
The only metrics that are important are:
-Does the software work
-Is it maintainable
-Is it done on time
Everything else is balls, or y'know fuelling management paranoia to sell IBM metric tools...
It's been said but, we're not exactly at the forefront of interweb techmonomolology unless you narrow the scope to equally um monopoly-based infrastructure.