Babelfish didn't translate this well. In french, it is "Pourquoi ne pas répandre la gangrène dans le système de l'intérieur?", but I would rather say "Pourquoi de pas infecter le système de l'intérieur?"
I don't use python, but my brother does. He told me that python was all about letting the programmer do *everything* he wants with the code he imports.
Of course, that means that a programmer can easily, and *badly* mess with imported libraries. However, since we assume that good programmers use python, they will not actually mess with the libs. If the programmer is a bad one well... let's just wish he'll go back to VB.
In fact, I particulary don't like that fact either (free-for-all with namespace, variable declarations/scope and all...), but I must say that the python language is quite graceful IMHO.
Maybe that I'll sound completely stupid here, but here I go: If MS would give the ability to turn outbound limit off, wouldn't a worm, to spead faster, only have to set the flag TCPIP_OUTBOUND_LIMIT = false ? It would make the whole security improvement *useless*
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Ok. lets get rid of all bias and discrimination thing, and lets imagine 50 men and 50 women and clear all the discouraging comments they might have received in their life. Ask them to choose between "Interior Design" and "Computer Science". The pay and conditions would be exactly the same.
I would be willing to bet 100$ that *at least* 35 men would choose CS, and *at least* 35 women would choose ID.
Ok, the ratio would be better than what it is in the real life. But let these initial 100 people live their lives, work in their respective environment, and they will all, I think, conclude that CS is for men and ID is for women, because the trend *naturally* went this way.
Thus, they might start to make comments that might turn off a women to go CS or a men to go ID, which would worsen the ratios.
That makes me think that the current situation is normal, because it is a "natural" situation, IMHO.
There were 2 women in my CS classes. I consider neither as a good programmer. Maybe I didn't take my CS at the right place...
Disclaimer: I'm not an expert, I have no facts to offer, only my personal feelings and opinions (And my 100$ if someone's willing to take the bet.).
Discrimination? There is *no* discrimination here! Women *choose* not to go into software engineers. They're not *forbidden* here.
In fact, as the article title suggests, the industry *tries* to attract women in the field. And I would dare to think that if an employe has to choose between 2 programmers, 1 male and 1 female, with equal competences, (s)he will choose the female, just to have a healtier ratio.
Let's face it: There's no discrimination here. Women simply don't like CS. And heterosexual men don't like "Interior design" or the such.
If You could have twice your salary as an interior designer, would you embrace this career? I wouldn't. It's the same thing for women.
And anything beyond a few PRINT and GOTO in a QBasic program was a big effort.
A kid who wants to build a game can start with RPG Maker, or Dark Basic or anything like that. They don't need to *start* with opengl API calls! Anyway, game engines makes the API calls now. In fact, very few programmers are needed to make a game now IMO. All the work is artistic (3d models, animations, sound, storyline).
Anyway, people having trouble to assimilate the programming concepts should just walk away (And that's what they do.)
I think that reading/. is a good indication that someone's truly interested in the IT field. Thus, the good 30s-40s CS people I might meet probably read/..
Most of the people in the age bracket I targeted will probably be offended and will say that I'm overgeneralizing (I actually tend to do so...), but my comment likely didn't target them, because they read slashdot!
That's funny, I'm beginning to think that most of the masters in CS in the late 30s, early 40s are super-incompetents. Either the classes at that time sucked, or the technology evolved too fast for them, and they still are strucked with their Clipper way of thoughts.
And now the young ones have to explain them the difference between a class and an instance of it... *sigh* And don't start talking about inheritance, you'll lose them for sure.
Of course, there has always been dynamic people, who truly has interests in their field. There must be some of 'em in late 30s, early 40s. I wish I could meet one of them, I could finally change my opinion.
That is why I think most of the outsourcing will fail in the long run. I saw what kind of code "non-enthusiast" people write, and it is awful. I tell ya, they can even produce awful code with Delphi! Yes, they can. Imagine what they can do with VB... Of course, managers don't see this at all, they only see the money they "save". However, one day, hell will break loose, developers will tell their managers:
"Sorry boss, our code has now reached a critical point: It is now unmaintainable beyond recognition. We have to start it from a scratch."
And then, the managers will see money they "lost", and "offshore outsourcing" will not be a buzzword anymore.
Hopefully, bright IT people who have been laid by the imcompetent managers will start new companies, making real good *maintainable* products, and eating their old employers alive.
I might be a little too idealist though... But if this ever happens, it will be time to rejoice!
I think I have to disagree. This is not the *number* of graduates in the IT that will make the IT progress, but the outstanding quality and enthusiasm of *some* of em. And this handful of brights kid will go in IT *anyway*.
I mean, I suppose that the geniuses PhD at google would still have studied in the IT even if the jobs perspectives weren't as good as it was when they actually started their studies. Why? because I can't conceive that they are not enthusiasts! I wouldn't see one of the google PhD... a plumber because it pays more!
As I said in my other comment, I welcome these news, because it means less IT-a**holes.
Absolutely right buddy! Yeah, right on. I love Bush. His war pays my new ferrari and my new house, I wouldn't want anybody else as a president! And I wouldn't want anything else than Barney as a president's doggy! Anyway, we all know that M. Bush is guided by God, how could he ever be wrong? Well, ok I must admit that Bin Laden and all those evil musli are ALSO guided by (another) God, but.. well, it's not the same thing at all, is it?
The only thing I hope is that Iran is next, or why not try Vietnam again? Why not invade Canada? Well, it doesn't matter, as long as I can buy a new house next year.
Vote Bush in November. In fact, it doesn't matter who you vote for, because if Bush doesn't win, we'll hack the e-voting system. Bush will then become the first president of USA to have been non-democratically elected twice.
They probably want to *charge* for these bugfixes:) months before the release of nwn, the community (me included) *begged* to have flowing robes in the game, and we were told it wouldn't be done (That almost made me boycott the game. How could I make my DragonLance campaign with a Raistlin in shirt and pants?). IIRC, they added it in the last expansion. It's frustrating, because it should have been in the original nwn. There was also the issue where you couldn't have a character with a walking staff. The staff had to be in a horizontal position. I wonder if it has also been changed in the last exapsnion.
Anyway, all this to say that Bioware likes to charge for their fixes...
That Bioware will take this opportunity to design the script engine better.
I mean, I do think that Bioware made a *wonderful* job with this game. However, the scripting engine is far from perfect. As a developer, coding NWNscripts makes you feel you'd finish your game faster and easier if you'd just screw NWN and make it from the ground up in Delphi. Well, this is true if your ambition is big enough. Of course it is quick to make a hacknslash campaign, but when you try to go deeper, that's another thing.
Anyway, I didn't play nor script NWN for ages now...
Use python or something like that for NWN2. I saw that RPGMaker XP uses Ruby for it's scripting language. I didn't remotely try it or read further about it, but if RPG Maker made this, it must be possible for Bioware to make the same. Just create, huh... I don't know, a NWN API for python. Screw the idea of having your own scripting language...
These are not remake. These are the original games ported to PS1 (with a couple of cutscenes added). By remake, I mean taking the storyline, and make it full 3D, with cool graphics and everything.
I should have mentioned Starcraft in my other post...
Am I the only one to think that the story, and especially the "between-levels" dialogs are pretty cool? Especially the dialog just before the final level in the original SC. "My life for Aiur."
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Besides, the comments would be in a cool gray instead of being in a puke yellow.
Babelfish didn't translate this well. In french, it is "Pourquoi ne pas répandre la gangrène dans le système de l'intérieur?", but I would rather say "Pourquoi de pas infecter le système de l'intérieur?"
Troll? this was a joke related to the announcement of the SCO astroturf campaign on /., hence the smiley.
*sigh*
We can all see that this is an astroturf campaign from Sun :)
I don't use python, but my brother does. He told me that python was all about letting the programmer do *everything* he wants with the code he imports.
Of course, that means that a programmer can easily, and *badly* mess with imported libraries. However, since we assume that good programmers use python, they will not actually mess with the libs. If the programmer is a bad one well... let's just wish he'll go back to VB.
In fact, I particulary don't like that fact either (free-for-all with namespace, variable declarations/scope and all...), but I must say that the python language is quite graceful IMHO.
They would have to be able to delete this very comment to use your account for astroturfing...
Hey! I thought that it was only my computer that had that tooltip bug...
Maybe that I'll sound completely stupid here, but here I go: If MS would give the ability to turn outbound limit off, wouldn't a worm, to spead faster, only have to set the flag TCPIP_OUTBOUND_LIMIT = false ? It would make the whole security improvement *useless*
you still didn't mention the MB.
Ok. lets get rid of all bias and discrimination thing, and lets imagine 50 men and 50 women and clear all the discouraging comments they might have received in their life. Ask them to choose between "Interior Design" and "Computer Science". The pay and conditions would be exactly the same.
I would be willing to bet 100$ that *at least* 35 men would choose CS, and *at least* 35 women would choose ID.
Ok, the ratio would be better than what it is in the real life. But let these initial 100 people live their lives, work in their respective environment, and they will all, I think, conclude that CS is for men and ID is for women, because the trend *naturally* went this way.
Thus, they might start to make comments that might turn off a women to go CS or a men to go ID, which would worsen the ratios.
That makes me think that the current situation is normal, because it is a "natural" situation, IMHO.
There were 2 women in my CS classes. I consider neither as a good programmer. Maybe I didn't take my CS at the right place...
Disclaimer: I'm not an expert, I have no facts to offer, only my personal feelings and opinions (And my 100$ if someone's willing to take the bet.).
Discrimination? There is *no* discrimination here! Women *choose* not to go into software engineers. They're not *forbidden* here.
In fact, as the article title suggests, the industry *tries* to attract women in the field. And I would dare to think that if an employe has to choose between 2 programmers, 1 male and 1 female, with equal competences, (s)he will choose the female, just to have a healtier ratio.
Let's face it: There's no discrimination here. Women simply don't like CS. And heterosexual men don't like "Interior design" or the such.
If You could have twice your salary as an interior designer, would you embrace this career? I wouldn't. It's the same thing for women.
Great. Thus, infected people are people who download cracks. They deserve what they got.
You're rendering your website using XSLT in realtime? Don't you find it a little slow? What do you use? XT?
And anything beyond a few PRINT and GOTO in a QBasic program was a big effort.
A kid who wants to build a game can start with RPG Maker, or Dark Basic or anything like that. They don't need to *start* with opengl API calls! Anyway, game engines makes the API calls now. In fact, very few programmers are needed to make a game now IMO. All the work is artistic (3d models, animations, sound, storyline).
Anyway, people having trouble to assimilate the programming concepts should just walk away (And that's what they do.)
I think that reading /. is a good indication that someone's truly interested in the IT field. Thus, the good 30s-40s CS people I might meet probably read /. .
Most of the people in the age bracket I targeted will probably be offended and will say that I'm overgeneralizing (I actually tend to do so...), but my comment likely didn't target them, because they read slashdot!
When I said "meet", I rather meant "work with"...
That's funny, I'm beginning to think that most of the masters in CS in the late 30s, early 40s are super-incompetents. Either the classes at that time sucked, or the technology evolved too fast for them, and they still are strucked with their Clipper way of thoughts.
And now the young ones have to explain them the difference between a class and an instance of it... *sigh* And don't start talking about inheritance, you'll lose them for sure.
Of course, there has always been dynamic people, who truly has interests in their field. There must be some of 'em in late 30s, early 40s. I wish I could meet one of them, I could finally change my opinion.
That is why I think most of the outsourcing will fail in the long run. I saw what kind of code "non-enthusiast" people write, and it is awful. I tell ya, they can even produce awful code with Delphi! Yes, they can. Imagine what they can do with VB... Of course, managers don't see this at all, they only see the money they "save". However, one day, hell will break loose, developers will tell their managers:
"Sorry boss, our code has now reached a critical point: It is now unmaintainable beyond recognition. We have to start it from a scratch."
And then, the managers will see money they "lost", and "offshore outsourcing" will not be a buzzword anymore.
Hopefully, bright IT people who have been laid by the imcompetent managers will start new companies, making real good *maintainable* products, and eating their old employers alive.
I might be a little too idealist though... But if this ever happens, it will be time to rejoice!
I think I have to disagree. This is not the *number* of graduates in the IT that will make the IT progress, but the outstanding quality and enthusiasm of *some* of em. And this handful of brights kid will go in IT *anyway*.
I mean, I suppose that the geniuses PhD at google would still have studied in the IT even if the jobs perspectives weren't as good as it was when they actually started their studies. Why? because I can't conceive that they are not enthusiasts! I wouldn't see one of the google PhD... a plumber because it pays more!
As I said in my other comment, I welcome these news, because it means less IT-a**holes.
These 160 000 must have been people who were there for the money, and when they saw it didn't pay *that* much, they dropped.
Thus, the percentage of real enthusiasts among IT people must have raised.
Absolutely right buddy! Yeah, right on. I love Bush. His war pays my new ferrari and my new house, I wouldn't want anybody else as a president! And I wouldn't want anything else than Barney as a president's doggy! Anyway, we all know that M. Bush is guided by God, how could he ever be wrong? Well, ok I must admit that Bin Laden and all those evil musli are ALSO guided by (another) God, but.. well, it's not the same thing at all, is it?
The only thing I hope is that Iran is next, or why not try Vietnam again? Why not invade Canada? Well, it doesn't matter, as long as I can buy a new house next year.
Vote Bush in November. In fact, it doesn't matter who you vote for, because if Bush doesn't win, we'll hack the e-voting system. Bush will then become the first president of USA to have been non-democratically elected twice.
-- Lockheed Martin president.
They probably want to *charge* for these bugfixes :) months before the release of nwn, the community (me included) *begged* to have flowing robes in the game, and we were told it wouldn't be done (That almost made me boycott the game. How could I make my DragonLance campaign with a Raistlin in shirt and pants?). IIRC, they added it in the last expansion. It's frustrating, because it should have been in the original nwn. There was also the issue where you couldn't have a character with a walking staff. The staff had to be in a horizontal position. I wonder if it has also been changed in the last exapsnion.
Anyway, all this to say that Bioware likes to charge for their fixes...
That Bioware will take this opportunity to design the script engine better.
I mean, I do think that Bioware made a *wonderful* job with this game. However, the scripting engine is far from perfect. As a developer, coding NWNscripts makes you feel you'd finish your game faster and easier if you'd just screw NWN and make it from the ground up in Delphi. Well, this is true if your ambition is big enough. Of course it is quick to make a hacknslash campaign, but when you try to go deeper, that's another thing.
Anyway, I didn't play nor script NWN for ages now...
Use python or something like that for NWN2. I saw that RPGMaker XP uses Ruby for it's scripting language. I didn't remotely try it or read further about it, but if RPG Maker made this, it must be possible for Bioware to make the same. Just create, huh... I don't know, a NWN API for python. Screw the idea of having your own scripting language...
These are not remake. These are the original games ported to PS1 (with a couple of cutscenes added). By remake, I mean taking the storyline, and make it full 3D, with cool graphics and everything.
I should have mentioned Starcraft in my other post...
Am I the only one to think that the story, and especially the "between-levels" dialogs are pretty cool? Especially the dialog just before the final level in the original SC. "My life for Aiur."