it was easy for anyone to embrace the Pokémon lifestyle...
Sorry, but when Pokemon becomes a lifestyle you need to come up from your mother's basement and see the sun.
Speaking of, when did everything start becoming a "lifestyle" anyways? Eating a certain way is a "lifestyle". Recycling is a "lifestyle". Apparently, playing a video game is a "lifestyle". It sounds like a marketing gimmick of some kind.
Ah, and now I can say that I've only known three languages to be referenced to as write only - Perl being one of them (TECO and APL being the other two).
Regardless, even though the reputation is a shared one that doesn't make it a good thing.
"You use the word 'difficult', but I think that it is becoming almost 'impossible' for an original game to succeed financially. This can't be blamed on anyone but it's a simple fact that an original game doesn't appeal to the majority of gamers."
There are a lot of original ideas. Just because a game is original doesn't mean that it is a good game. If you want your game to sell it has to be both good and likable by a lot of people. That's just business. No use complaining about it; Either reduce your costs so your original, unpopular game can make some profit, or temper your original idea with some more popular ones. I have no pity for this guy, sorry. Like any piece of software, you have to be willing to make compromises.
It seems to have something to do with Vista's lack of support for EAX in sound cards. I will not claim to be a sound expert (on board audio is good enough for me), but it seems to be a big problem for some people.
OSX has bash, and Vista still has the crappy ass DOS CLI. Game over.
I thought that Vista was supposed to launch with the Monad shell, but it seems that it has been delayed. FWIW it seems like it will be a lot better than DOS.
Actually yes, I would still have it. Just because the cake changed form (a nicely baked cake to a saliva-drenched mush in my belly) doesn't mean it isn't cake anymore. Even when my body starts to break it down the molecules that made up the cake become part of me (and other molecules become NOT a part of me). In fact, it is possible that tiny pieces of cake that I ate five or six years ago are still with me! Hereissome information on the replacement rate of cells in your body, and since what you eat helps build some of those cells, well... I suppose that the saying, "A moment on the lips, forever on the hips!" isn't quite true, but...
You have a good point. Additionally, if there was a satellite radio monopoly it wouldn't prevent a second party from starting up to compete - which would certainly happen if the one monopoly company started abusing customers. In general I think that keeping monopolies down is good for capitalism, and in this case it may still be the right thing to do, but I don't see any great harm in allowing the two to merge.
Of course, hind sight is 20/20. We're all seriously blind about the future, aren't we?
Isn't that a good thing? I would prefer people who submit stories to be like this; Give me the information and let ME decide, for myself, if it is good or bad.
the neat thing about laws is that they can be revised or repealed at a later date.
After the damage has been done, sure. It is too bad that people are proposing legislation to 'fix' something that, as far as I'm concerned, isn't even a problem.
If your network provider is giving you crappy service to the sites you care about, then find a new provider or pay for better access. What ever happened to capitalism in America? This whole 'Net Neutrality' stinks of over-regulation. Giving it a friendly name doesn't make it a good idea.
For a similar idea in your local area, check out FreeCycle. From the website:
When you want to find a new home for something -- whether it's a chair, a fax machine, piano, or an old door -- you simply send an e-mail offering it to members of the local Freecycle group.
Or, maybe you're looking to acquire something yourself. Simply respond to a member's offer, and you just might get it. After that, it's up to the giver to decide who receives the gift and to set up a pickup time for passing on the treasure.
I'll admit that when I first bought MOO3 I wasn't all that impressed; But, the more I played it, the more I liked it. Even though the AI is a bit weird, I prefer it over the first and the second at this point.
The thing most people seemed to hate was the development plans. Getting used to development plans takes time and they never were explained well in the manual, but after some online research I found some very in depth explanations. Micromanagement is, to me, a chore and being able to use the dev plans lets me play the game. But, if you so choose, you can still tweak every little thing.
To be more blatant, males and females are different; physically, emotionally, intellectually, men and women are not the same. It is silly that people are constantly trying to treat them as if they are. Certain types of work are going to be more appealing to the different genders. Just because the general population is close to half male, half female doesn't mean that every discipline and job needs to be the same way.
There is no crisis, there is no emergency, there is no problem. I wish people would stop trying to force a non-issue onto the rest of us.
Don't take that literally. Linus is a bit of a tongue-in-cheek kind of guy. I say the exact same kinds of things myself, but I don't really mean them. Linus has the same kind of humor going on. (o;
It reminds me of another programmer I used to work with; He and I disagreed on almost everything. So we ended up telling people that 'we', collectively, were always right no matter what because I would take position A and he would take the opposite position B.
I have been working with PHP for over six years at this point. I have worked with bad developers and good developers. The good developers write good, secure code. The bad developers write bad, insecure code.
This doesn't seem to change when the language changes, either.
There are simple fundamentals that good programmers follow that the bad ones do not; Correct error handling and reporting, data validation, etc., etc.
If it was the language's fault, or the fault of the tools, companies like Yahoo and Google would not be using it.
If I was very cynical I would say this could end capitalism itself:)
I doubt it; After all, a large manufacturing company has the resources to build thousands of these things and buy the raw materials in massive quantities, lowering their total price greatly.
Then there is the idea of convenience. Sure, I could print up 24 forks for my party, but it might take an hour or two or four depending on the speed of the thing - or, I could walk down to the dollar store and grab a pack of 100. I also don't have to make the initial investment of $2,400 (or less in the future, I'm sure).
There is still shipping and whatnot involved, but even so; the initial cost of entry into this technology, the convenience factor, and mass production would keep manufacturing alive and well.
I'm also rather surprised at all this; I thought that NASA already used the metric system for everything. When I was taking physics classes in high school and college, everything was done in metric units, and I always assumed that would be the case at a higher level. Huh. Well, hey, this is a great step forward - better late than never!
Working on it right now. (o: However, my last job had the exact same problem, and I fear that I'm falling prey to "The Grass Is Greener..." mentality. I'm also not quite how nice it is to ask in an interview, "So, does your sales staff sell things you don't actually have?" I suppose I'll find out soon enough.
What makes software development so difficult for me in my particular case:
1. Requirements are not clearly defined 2. Requirements that are defined change constantly 3. No existing documentation on the system I work with 4. Outdated technology (Not a big issue, but many things are just easier to do with newer software) 5. The sales department sells features that do not exist, promise a date, and do not consult IT at all about the feasibility or time estimates
4 out of the 5 things I have listed above have to do with bad information / lack of communication.
$52 is probably a fair enough price since the OS came pre-loaded on the computer itself; I'm sure that MS would give a volume discount to Dell for this purpose alone. Buying the OS separately in a box is a whole other issue. There are quite a few comments further up the page that can explain this to you.
Seems to me that the news is like that every week. I know how you feel, it's very frustrating when all they show is blood, death, gore, and sensationalism. I guess they think that will get them better ratings, I dunno... It only gets worse when they bring in "experts" to "analyze" the situation. Eeesh. I just want the facts so I can make up my own mind, I don't need some crooked politician or retarded movie star trying to tell me what I should be thinking.
Whether or not you believe Fox News if biased, I linked to two other sources with similar information: A newspaper's website, and a major university. Somehow I doubt that this information is a Big Scary Fox News Conspiracy. It has also appeared in numerous scientific journals, besides. It is sad that you would piss all over me simply because ONE link went to Fox News. Sheesh.
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Speaking of, when did everything start becoming a "lifestyle" anyways? Eating a certain way is a "lifestyle". Recycling is a "lifestyle". Apparently, playing a video game is a "lifestyle". It sounds like a marketing gimmick of some kind.
Ah, and now I can say that I've only known three languages to be referenced to as write only - Perl being one of them (TECO and APL being the other two).
Regardless, even though the reputation is a shared one that doesn't make it a good thing.
As true as that may be, I have never heard of any other language be referred to as a "write only language".
It appears that Creative is writing a driver that will intercept DirectSound calls and translate them into OpenAL calls, which Vista WILL support.
It seems to have something to do with Vista's lack of support for EAX in sound cards. I will not claim to be a sound expert (on board audio is good enough for me), but it seems to be a big problem for some people.
You have a good point. Additionally, if there was a satellite radio monopoly it wouldn't prevent a second party from starting up to compete - which would certainly happen if the one monopoly company started abusing customers. In general I think that keeping monopolies down is good for capitalism, and in this case it may still be the right thing to do, but I don't see any great harm in allowing the two to merge.
Of course, hind sight is 20/20. We're all seriously blind about the future, aren't we?
Isn't that a good thing? I would prefer people who submit stories to be like this; Give me the information and let ME decide, for myself, if it is good or bad.
If your network provider is giving you crappy service to the sites you care about, then find a new provider or pay for better access. What ever happened to capitalism in America? This whole 'Net Neutrality' stinks of over-regulation. Giving it a friendly name doesn't make it a good idea.
I'll admit that when I first bought MOO3 I wasn't all that impressed; But, the more I played it, the more I liked it. Even though the AI is a bit weird, I prefer it over the first and the second at this point.
The thing most people seemed to hate was the development plans. Getting used to development plans takes time and they never were explained well in the manual, but after some online research I found some very in depth explanations. Micromanagement is, to me, a chore and being able to use the dev plans lets me play the game. But, if you so choose, you can still tweak every little thing.
To be more blatant, males and females are different; physically, emotionally, intellectually, men and women are not the same. It is silly that people are constantly trying to treat them as if they are. Certain types of work are going to be more appealing to the different genders. Just because the general population is close to half male, half female doesn't mean that every discipline and job needs to be the same way.
There is no crisis, there is no emergency, there is no problem. I wish people would stop trying to force a non-issue onto the rest of us.
Don't take that literally. Linus is a bit of a tongue-in-cheek kind of guy. I say the exact same kinds of things myself, but I don't really mean them. Linus has the same kind of humor going on. (o;
It reminds me of another programmer I used to work with; He and I disagreed on almost everything. So we ended up telling people that 'we', collectively, were always right no matter what because I would take position A and he would take the opposite position B.
This reminds me of a poem that my 4th grade teacher always had on the wall:
Procrastination is my sin
It brings me endless sorrow
I really should stop doing it
I guess I'll stop tomorrow
I have been working with PHP for over six years at this point. I have worked with bad developers and good developers. The good developers write good, secure code. The bad developers write bad, insecure code.
This doesn't seem to change when the language changes, either.
There are simple fundamentals that good programmers follow that the bad ones do not; Correct error handling and reporting, data validation, etc., etc.
If it was the language's fault, or the fault of the tools, companies like Yahoo and Google would not be using it.
Then there is the idea of convenience. Sure, I could print up 24 forks for my party, but it might take an hour or two or four depending on the speed of the thing - or, I could walk down to the dollar store and grab a pack of 100. I also don't have to make the initial investment of $2,400 (or less in the future, I'm sure).
There is still shipping and whatnot involved, but even so; the initial cost of entry into this technology, the convenience factor, and mass production would keep manufacturing alive and well.
Fab@Home Video on YouTube, as requested.
I'm also rather surprised at all this; I thought that NASA already used the metric system for everything. When I was taking physics classes in high school and college, everything was done in metric units, and I always assumed that would be the case at a higher level. Huh. Well, hey, this is a great step forward - better late than never!
Working on it right now. (o: However, my last job had the exact same problem, and I fear that I'm falling prey to "The Grass Is Greener..." mentality. I'm also not quite how nice it is to ask in an interview, "So, does your sales staff sell things you don't actually have?" I suppose I'll find out soon enough.
What makes software development so difficult for me in my particular case:
1. Requirements are not clearly defined
2. Requirements that are defined change constantly
3. No existing documentation on the system I work with
4. Outdated technology (Not a big issue, but many things are just easier to do with newer software)
5. The sales department sells features that do not exist, promise a date, and do not consult IT at all about the feasibility or time estimates
4 out of the 5 things I have listed above have to do with bad information / lack of communication.
$52 is probably a fair enough price since the OS came pre-loaded on the computer itself; I'm sure that MS would give a volume discount to Dell for this purpose alone. Buying the OS separately in a box is a whole other issue. There are quite a few comments further up the page that can explain this to you.
Seems to me that the news is like that every week. I know how you feel, it's very frustrating when all they show is blood, death, gore, and sensationalism. I guess they think that will get them better ratings, I dunno... It only gets worse when they bring in "experts" to "analyze" the situation. Eeesh. I just want the facts so I can make up my own mind, I don't need some crooked politician or retarded movie star trying to tell me what I should be thinking.
Whether or not you believe Fox News if biased, I linked to two other sources with similar information: A newspaper's website, and a major university. Somehow I doubt that this information is a Big Scary Fox News Conspiracy. It has also appeared in numerous scientific journals, besides. It is sad that you would piss all over me simply because ONE link went to Fox News. Sheesh.