Google stock has gone up 450% sing IPO. Apple's has gone up 1500% in the same amount of time. True innovation drives the market and Google is failing to bring anything compelling to the table.
Your description of "business" innovation is spin bullshit. True innovation changes the way people work, play and live. Google has helped people slack at work and school by providing an extremely rich web search engine, but beyond that, their products haven't been the impetus for any paradigm shift. Apple, on the other hand, revolutionized computing decades ago and they are doing it again now with their devices and software. True innovation trumps "business" innovation.
Search -> Yahoo
Android -> Apple
Maps -> MapQuest
Mail -> HotMail
Chrome -> Apple, Microsoft, Mozilla, Opera
Yes, Google has improved on some of these things (except smartphones), but they seem to fail to bring anything entirely new and revolutionary to the market. Apple has released more innovative stuff this last year than Google has in a decade. Even their top "research" phd-holding peeps don't come up with much these days. The researchers at Microsoft are winning awards for all kinds of cool stuff while Google is getting left behind. Those little text ads are really the only thing they have going for them. I maintain my assertion that Google is a hack company based on web advertising, existing behind a veil of academic, elitist, technobull. Right now they are scrambling to buy companies because they know they don't have anything to bring to the market. Top employees are jumping ship. I give them 5 years before their stock is down 75%+.
WOW, that's amazing! Oh boy those Google people are sooooo brilliant and creative!
Really, who cares about Wave? It's just another hack "product" from a company of hacks.
Get yourself Unity, Shiva, or Torque and create a small game. Put it on the iPhone app store and see how it does. Stay indie. Working for game publishers is tough. You don't need a college degree to make good games or even to get a job with a major studio. You need a college degree to round out your education and set you up to have more career options throughout your working life. Personally, I'd stay away from CS programs unless you plan to do post grad work in computer science. Game development is a different discipline than computer science. A CS degree qualifies you to be an entry-level programmer ($40k-$80k annually). But, a business or communications degree will qualify you for a management position ($80-$150 or more annually). You can teach yourself CS, programming, game dev anyway. Food for thought.
There are 1001 ways a social engineer/criminal/con artist can exploit information found on social networking sites. People who post personal or business information on sites such as Facebook or Twitter are stupid. Want to fight cybercrime? Make the internet anonymous again!
This only applies to trivial information though. You can't just "look up" something and be a great musician, physician, actor, engineer, scientist, etc... I agree with what you said entirely when it comes to small pieces of information. I used to memorize APIs because looking up information was tedious and time consuming, now my IDE fills in the detail for me! AND, I didn't pay a dime for it (Eclipse, Netbeans, etc...)
My team develops killer, maintainable, money-making web apps using nothing but html, javascript, php, mysql, and occasionally java for signed applets all running on a 100% free lamp stack. Frameworks are for pussies..Net, J2EE, Spring, ORMs, etc add very little value to the web and ultimately the end user. The only exception to this would be Rails. Rails and the whole RESTful concept is just cool beans. Everything else is more marketing hype and technical religion than substance.
Get a Java *Developer* certification, learn everything you can about Java, JSP, Javascript/AJAX, HTML, XML, SQL, Eclipse, Netbeans, Spring, Hibernate, and OOD/Design Patterns, then apply for contracting positions with recruiting firms in the major cities. You'll land a $50+ per hour gig in no time if you interview well and actually know your stuff. The Washington DC / Northern Virginia area is a hotbed for Java talent, also Charlotte or Raleigh NC, and of course LA or San Francisco. All of these are good places to live and to get a start as a professional programmer. Keep in mind that HR people are completely clueless about technology so their screening is generally canned or provided by technical management (who's also generally clueless about technology). When you get far enough into the process to go through a "tech screen", you MUST know your stuff well enough to either answer the questions correctly or explain that you know a little about the subject but aren't familiar with the details, though "you'd like to learn". Don't even try to get a programming job if you can't answer questions like "what is an interface?", or "what is the difference between the heap and the stack?", or "when would you use a flyweight and why?".
Order of operations, operator precedence, variables, matrixes, trig, geometry, boolean math, and even calculous are everyday events for programmers who actually write useful software. Sure, you can create a basic app while being ignorant about math, but to do something useful such as write scientific, financial, or entertainment software, you will most likely need to know at least some algebra. But, here's the real reason to learn all the math you can: it conditions your brain for solving complex series of problems which is exactly what programming requires.
You sir deserve every last one of 5 score points for this post. I would add, though, that capitalism could work much better with stringent ethical and moral requirements for top executives and politicians. These would rule out the corruption and over-valuation that destroys so many businesses and even entire industries. The hard thing to understand is that both thriving and failing companies are wealth opportunities for certain people. An executive I know once told me that heavy compensation during a time a failure may be nothing more than hush money to protect the board of directors. I don't know if that is true, but it makes sense. Why else would you fire someone then give them millions of dollars?
If game studios unionized there wouldn't be any video games produced. Union shops are for lazy-asses-shaped-like-chair stumps who don't DO anything but slack and cry when they have to work. Unions are notoriously corrupt and use "looking out for the worker" as a vehicle for extortion. Game shops push their teams too hard, but that's also how they get stuff done. Game developers suffer for their art.
Yeah I read that. I suppose it is partially true. The other half of the story is that many of Window's vulnerabilities are by design. Look, no matter how much people pick on my reference, Windows is inferior to OSX. Everyone knows it. Microsoft knows it. Get over it and buy a mac. It's not like converting religions or something. I own PCs too. They suck, but they have their purpose - GAMES!
Yes I read the entire article, and it validates exactly what I am saying -- Windows 7 still has the same old problems that previous versions of Windows also failed to solve.
You are right. They don't have a "hidden" agenda at all. It's right out there in the open for anyone to see. A command economy = communism. Any undergraduate economics student can verify that. The left has been pushing for equalization of income and redistribution of wealth as well as government run industries. These are aspects of a command economy and *are not* necessary in a capitalist economy. I'm not suggesting that Glen Beck is right about everything, but he presents a compelling case in this issue. It may be ridiculous and distasteful, but unfortunately it's the truth if you go by the textbook definition of communism.
I second that! In over twenty years of using Unix and Macs I've never had a virus or a need for virus protection software. I'm sure they exist, but you have to be pretty dumb to install one and let it do its thing as root.
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Google stock has gone up 450% sing IPO. Apple's has gone up 1500% in the same amount of time. True innovation drives the market and Google is failing to bring anything compelling to the table. Your description of "business" innovation is spin bullshit. True innovation changes the way people work, play and live. Google has helped people slack at work and school by providing an extremely rich web search engine, but beyond that, their products haven't been the impetus for any paradigm shift. Apple, on the other hand, revolutionized computing decades ago and they are doing it again now with their devices and software. True innovation trumps "business" innovation.
"And Android as a smartphone OS blows the competition out of the water."
I develop on both Android and iOS and I can tell you with 100% certainty that this is not true at all.
Search -> Yahoo
Android -> Apple
Maps -> MapQuest
Mail -> HotMail
Chrome -> Apple, Microsoft, Mozilla, Opera
Yes, Google has improved on some of these things (except smartphones), but they seem to fail to bring anything entirely new and revolutionary to the market. Apple has released more innovative stuff this last year than Google has in a decade. Even their top "research" phd-holding peeps don't come up with much these days. The researchers at Microsoft are winning awards for all kinds of cool stuff while Google is getting left behind. Those little text ads are really the only thing they have going for them. I maintain my assertion that Google is a hack company based on web advertising, existing behind a veil of academic, elitist, technobull. Right now they are scrambling to buy companies because they know they don't have anything to bring to the market. Top employees are jumping ship. I give them 5 years before their stock is down 75%+.
WOW, that's amazing! Oh boy those Google people are sooooo brilliant and creative! Really, who cares about Wave? It's just another hack "product" from a company of hacks.
Nature will probably make those corrections on its own without humanity's help.
Get yourself Unity, Shiva, or Torque and create a small game. Put it on the iPhone app store and see how it does. Stay indie. Working for game publishers is tough. You don't need a college degree to make good games or even to get a job with a major studio. You need a college degree to round out your education and set you up to have more career options throughout your working life. Personally, I'd stay away from CS programs unless you plan to do post grad work in computer science. Game development is a different discipline than computer science. A CS degree qualifies you to be an entry-level programmer ($40k-$80k annually). But, a business or communications degree will qualify you for a management position ($80-$150 or more annually). You can teach yourself CS, programming, game dev anyway. Food for thought.
There are 1001 ways a social engineer/criminal/con artist can exploit information found on social networking sites. People who post personal or business information on sites such as Facebook or Twitter are stupid. Want to fight cybercrime? Make the internet anonymous again!
I've been in IT since the 80s and I've never read a better description of this essential skill.
They are also a "big kid" who beats up and oppresses women.
This only applies to trivial information though. You can't just "look up" something and be a great musician, physician, actor, engineer, scientist, etc... I agree with what you said entirely when it comes to small pieces of information. I used to memorize APIs because looking up information was tedious and time consuming, now my IDE fills in the detail for me! AND, I didn't pay a dime for it (Eclipse, Netbeans, etc...)
My team develops killer, maintainable, money-making web apps using nothing but html, javascript, php, mysql, and occasionally java for signed applets all running on a 100% free lamp stack. Frameworks are for pussies. .Net, J2EE, Spring, ORMs, etc add very little value to the web and ultimately the end user. The only exception to this would be Rails. Rails and the whole RESTful concept is just cool beans. Everything else is more marketing hype and technical religion than substance.
Get a Java *Developer* certification, learn everything you can about Java, JSP, Javascript/AJAX, HTML, XML, SQL, Eclipse, Netbeans, Spring, Hibernate, and OOD/Design Patterns, then apply for contracting positions with recruiting firms in the major cities. You'll land a $50+ per hour gig in no time if you interview well and actually know your stuff. The Washington DC / Northern Virginia area is a hotbed for Java talent, also Charlotte or Raleigh NC, and of course LA or San Francisco. All of these are good places to live and to get a start as a professional programmer. Keep in mind that HR people are completely clueless about technology so their screening is generally canned or provided by technical management (who's also generally clueless about technology). When you get far enough into the process to go through a "tech screen", you MUST know your stuff well enough to either answer the questions correctly or explain that you know a little about the subject but aren't familiar with the details, though "you'd like to learn". Don't even try to get a programming job if you can't answer questions like "what is an interface?", or "what is the difference between the heap and the stack?", or "when would you use a flyweight and why?".
Order of operations, operator precedence, variables, matrixes, trig, geometry, boolean math, and even calculous are everyday events for programmers who actually write useful software. Sure, you can create a basic app while being ignorant about math, but to do something useful such as write scientific, financial, or entertainment software, you will most likely need to know at least some algebra. But, here's the real reason to learn all the math you can: it conditions your brain for solving complex series of problems which is exactly what programming requires.
You sir deserve every last one of 5 score points for this post. I would add, though, that capitalism could work much better with stringent ethical and moral requirements for top executives and politicians. These would rule out the corruption and over-valuation that destroys so many businesses and even entire industries. The hard thing to understand is that both thriving and failing companies are wealth opportunities for certain people. An executive I know once told me that heavy compensation during a time a failure may be nothing more than hush money to protect the board of directors. I don't know if that is true, but it makes sense. Why else would you fire someone then give them millions of dollars?
Programming can be easily outsourced so it will never be unionized.
You are both idiots. Things like this are handled by state labor boards and the EEOC. Usually, there's nothing in it for the employee.
If game studios unionized there wouldn't be any video games produced. Union shops are for lazy-asses-shaped-like-chair stumps who don't DO anything but slack and cry when they have to work. Unions are notoriously corrupt and use "looking out for the worker" as a vehicle for extortion. Game shops push their teams too hard, but that's also how they get stuff done. Game developers suffer for their art.
Yeah I read that. I suppose it is partially true. The other half of the story is that many of Window's vulnerabilities are by design. Look, no matter how much people pick on my reference, Windows is inferior to OSX. Everyone knows it. Microsoft knows it. Get over it and buy a mac. It's not like converting religions or something. I own PCs too. They suck, but they have their purpose - GAMES!
Yes I read the entire article, and it validates exactly what I am saying -- Windows 7 still has the same old problems that previous versions of Windows also failed to solve.
Oops, I forgot lacks basic security. http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2009/11/windows7
Then they did a terrible job copying OSX. Windows 7 is still clunky, slow, and unstable. It's nothing like OSX at all.
Or, totally informed person tells the truth and evil corporation fabricates a "rebuttal" to save face.
You are right. They don't have a "hidden" agenda at all. It's right out there in the open for anyone to see. A command economy = communism. Any undergraduate economics student can verify that. The left has been pushing for equalization of income and redistribution of wealth as well as government run industries. These are aspects of a command economy and *are not* necessary in a capitalist economy. I'm not suggesting that Glen Beck is right about everything, but he presents a compelling case in this issue. It may be ridiculous and distasteful, but unfortunately it's the truth if you go by the textbook definition of communism.
They invent an algorithm that will always recommend old Metallica over new Metallica!
I second that! In over twenty years of using Unix and Macs I've never had a virus or a need for virus protection software. I'm sure they exist, but you have to be pretty dumb to install one and let it do its thing as root.