I completely agree - You know why I like C or C++? Because I only need to know one thing to do 90% of everything - C or C++. In the world of web development, I must no only be proficient in an equivilant amount of libraries found on a desktop platform, but also any number of scripting languages (PHP/JavaScript/Ruby/etc), HTML/XHTML/XML/SGL/DTD/RelaxNG/XMLSchema, perhaps ColdFusion, or maybe Adobe Flex/SilverLight - And I'm probably only scrapping the complexity of this odd little world.
Why the pain? Why not keep it simple? In spite of our advancement, it's amazing how much more practicality and common sense some software academics had 20 years ago compared to today.
When are web standards comittees or intellectuals going to quit trying to one up each other and start consolidating some of their standardizations?
Given the fact that in the last few months Take Two has been investigated by the SEC, ousted most of it's executives, laid off some of it's staff and has a stock value that is still 1/2 what it was in 2005, I don't think they need EA to screw themselves up.
It's a good we don't contribute to the problem - Oh, wait...
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Interesting...did not no that. In the state I'm from, typically sales taxes bis applied to any service where the goods provided has a sales tax. There are other services which are also subject to tax (it varies).
This isn't an attack on a software or hardware end-product (those were already taxed at the point of sale). What it says is that computer services - PC repair, network consulting, customer support phone charges, etc... will be taxed like other services and products.
And why should we be suprised by this?. The last time I took my car in for repair, I paid sales tax on part and labor. When I have my car parked Valet, taxes are factored into the the cost. And when UPS delivers a package for me, I pay tax on that too.
Yeah taxes suck, but I'm more suprised to learn that it wasn't taxed for all these years, rather than that it's taxed now.
Come on, the iPhone & Google Books competing with an e-Book reader? I own an iPhone and love it, but it's the proposed situation is only possible if you overlook:
- A 3 inch screen that involves constant movement to see more than one paragraph at "text book" level font sizes
- A slow EDGE connection (at least an e-Book can cache the entire thing easily).
- Lousy bookmark system.
- Poor back & forth or history functionality.
The iPhone MAY one day compete with these other technologies, but to insist right now that it's everything and a bag of chips is just plain naive.
Got to wonder whose idea was it for a studio that was losing money to move to Downtown Chicago...When you're talking $15-$30 per sqft on an annual lease you're talking a LOT of money (god forbid they actually bought floors or one of the actual buildings). Besides giving the employees a defacto $1000+ pay cut due to parking and/or mass transportation cuts, you've done nothing to make you're buisness more financially stable.
I'm not here to defend the actions of EA, but will say that I don't know why people always see layoffs of talented companies as attacks on inovation. Fans would want to believe that EA Chicago got shafted and to some extent that may be true - They worked 50+hours per week, they developed quality games, they did what they were asked. But the other truth is that they still lost money, and were expected to continue those losse possibly into 2011 based on reports from related media.
May posters on this article propably has not experienced a layoff, so I'll make it plain and simply. Layoffs are about cutting cost. When a company swings the ax to cut costs, skill set and talent is secondary to the getting $$$$ up to what is expected. Call it downsizing, corporate evil, EA being EA or whatever. That's the way big buisness works - This isn't an industry of 5 guys coding in a college dorm or rented loft in downtown Philly. It's about profits, and we're naive to believe that the MBAs who run these companies won't do what it takes to appease shareholders.
First off, the 1UP headline Infinity Ward Offers Ex-EA Chicago Devs Jobs is just plain wrong. They weren't offered jobs - They were offered to interview for open positions at Infinity Ward, which just so happen to be available to the rest of the public also.
Secondly, people need to remember that Infinity Ward is on the other side of the country. These people have families, their children go to neighborhood schools, they have homes. Some may be able to just pick up and leave, but for others, that may not be an option.
Infinity Ward's gesture is nice, I'm sure - But this is by no means sanctuary for those laid off.
I don't get this...He assails MS Word for having a user interface inferior to OpenOffice in the past and then assails them again for trying something new. Say what you will about Office in general, you shouldn't fault them for at least TRYING to fix the problems of the past.
I'm not going to pretend to be suprised by such an comparison between OpenOffice and MS Word (it is on Linux.com, afterall). But I figured I'd just pointing out the obvious....
Oh just come off it now...Slashdot posts articles that cater to interests it's users as a whole, not just techies and nerds. Just because it doesn't deal with Linux, overclocking or buffer overflows doesn't mean it's irrelevant.
Bitching, Bitching, Bitching...
If people posting here are like 95% of the american consumer base, you'll do what everyone else does: Accept it. Face it - As long as it comes in increments, the US citizens having an amazing tolerance to others chipping away what we take for granted. Ads in movies, Gas Prices, Electricity, Cost of Milk at your grocer, Privacy Laws etc. That first price wasn't bad - Oh Well. *1 MONTHS LATER* Oh. It went up again, well, it wasn't that much of a jump from what it was last time - *2 MONTHS LATER* DITTO *3 MONTHS LATER*.......
To those who would actually switch your plan, or complain: Kudos to you. You've done more than most any other individual would. To everyone else, well suck it up. And even if you don't now, you will eventually.
Of course, that assumes that Nintendo will release ALL the classics on the Wii. This isn't backwards compatibity in that someone can just throw the cart into the Wii. This is "When we get around to releasing it, if ever" backwards compatibility.
I fail to see how the term 'open-source' is applicable to a translation. Is the belief that if a number of people contribute to something, that it's open-source?
Lets look at the opposite of this argument, and put Verizon under the light: While Amazon, Google and Ebay and thousands of other websites invest billions of dollars into thier effort, Verizon just rides the wave of their work. How about Google charging Verizon for the content that it provides instead? If Verizon or other 'hostile' ISPs want to provide it's subscribers with access to popular sites, it's gotta fork over the dough.
Perhaps once everything is settled, Verizon will come to it's senses and realize that the ISP & Content providers are a mutually beneficial relationship. One cannot live without another and if someone bites, the other will bite back.
Cisco: Nintendo... You are my bitch.
Nintendo: No... No... That's not true! That's impossible!
Cisco: Search your stock holdings. You know it to be true.
Nintendo: Nooooo! Nooooo!
In many cases, it wouldn't be Nintendo's decision. Gaming is a buisness these days, spoken in dollars and cents. If Cisco really wants Nintendo, Cisco (w/$100 billion market share) will try to take Nintendo (w/$10-20 Billion market share). It would likely be a hostile takeover, or a series of events where Cisco quickly aquires a signifcant stake (20-30% of voting body) and continues to work from there, buying off remaining major stoke holdings.
The gamer inside you might make you believe that 'loyalty to gamers' or 'independence' might convince Nintendo to remain it's own entity, but this is simply naieve. Nintendo wants to beat Sony. It wants to beat Microsoft. It wants to get back to where it was 10 years ago. To do that, it needs to match their investment capabilities. To do that, it just might need companies like Cisco.
But it is a flaw. A fundamental concept of any service, including Wikipedia, is that you don't have to know how the final product was manufactured. You just need to know that it exists and expect that whatever is given to you is well-formed (in much the same way that when you pick up a DVD player, you expect the features on the advertising to be true). But Wikipedia makes no promise of this, and as you have stated, one might have to search edits to find out the real truth in order to see beyond false items in an article.
When I search Wikipedia, I expect that the entry I stare at to be correct to the best knowledge of those who prepared it. I may take it as fact without questioning it (less the content have clear omissions or misrepresentations). Is it because I'm careless? No. I just don't expect to have to spend several extra minutes (or hours) flipping through perhaps dozens of edits in order to get undoctored content. If ever I should feel that this is the case for Wikipedia, I will cease to use Wikipedia.
Dennis Miller should stick to his strengths. Prior to 1900 we had found equations to describe just about all electormagnetic activity (in the form of Maxwell's equations) and measured the speed of light. But you don't think that anyone could figure out how to correctly build or read a thermometer?
From what it sounds like, you did everything right. Two weeks is an excellent time period to offer notice. You aren't dropping out of the company like a light, but you also aren't creating an awkward, 'lame-duck' position where the company has to keep the thought in the back of thier head that you're leaving in say, 6 months.
Also, unless you're leaving for competition, the CIO probably didn't think you were going to 'do something malicious'. It's probably just company protocol, and in fact, I would consider the quick removal of accounts to be 'lite'. I've worked at companies where as the minute strikes your time of non-employment, 2 security guards immedietally escort you out of the building.
Is it really worth the cost to purchase a spacecraft which, by Russian admissions, are outdated and slated to be replaced? Unless NASA believes it has something to learn from the nature of the spacecraft, this is a stupid purchase. The funds would be better vested in performing research on MODERN technology.
CD Rot will perhaps destroy it long before...
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Should of thought harder Gramps. CD rot may have taken care of coating on the disc long before the kids get access to it. Optical formats, though much more long lasting than magnetic tape, do not have an infinite life span. Over the course of say, 50 years, it's not feasible to think that all the data on the CD will still be non-corrupted.
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I completely agree - You know why I like C or C++? Because I only need to know one thing to do 90% of everything - C or C++. In the world of web development, I must no only be proficient in an equivilant amount of libraries found on a desktop platform, but also any number of scripting languages (PHP/JavaScript/Ruby/etc), HTML/XHTML/XML/SGL/DTD/RelaxNG/XMLSchema, perhaps ColdFusion, or maybe Adobe Flex/SilverLight - And I'm probably only scrapping the complexity of this odd little world.
Why the pain? Why not keep it simple? In spite of our advancement, it's amazing how much more practicality and common sense some software academics had 20 years ago compared to today.
When are web standards comittees or intellectuals going to quit trying to one up each other and start consolidating some of their standardizations?
Given the fact that in the last few months Take Two has been investigated by the SEC, ousted most of it's executives, laid off some of it's staff and has a stock value that is still 1/2 what it was in 2005, I don't think they need EA to screw themselves up.
It's a good we don't contribute to the problem - Oh, wait...
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<title>Slashdot: News for nerds, stuff that matters</title>
Interesting...did not no that. In the state I'm from, typically sales taxes bis applied to any service where the goods provided has a sales tax. There are other services which are also subject to tax (it varies).
This isn't an attack on a software or hardware end-product (those were already taxed at the point of sale). What it says is that computer services - PC repair, network consulting, customer support phone charges, etc... will be taxed like other services and products.
And why should we be suprised by this?. The last time I took my car in for repair, I paid sales tax on part and labor. When I have my car parked Valet, taxes are factored into the the cost. And when UPS delivers a package for me, I pay tax on that too.
Yeah taxes suck, but I'm more suprised to learn that it wasn't taxed for all these years, rather than that it's taxed now.
Come on, the iPhone & Google Books competing with an e-Book reader? I own an iPhone and love it, but it's the proposed situation is only possible if you overlook:
- A 3 inch screen that involves constant movement to see more than one paragraph at "text book" level font sizes
- A slow EDGE connection (at least an e-Book can cache the entire thing easily).
- Lousy bookmark system.
- Poor back & forth or history functionality.
The iPhone MAY one day compete with these other technologies, but to insist right now that it's everything and a bag of chips is just plain naive.
Got to wonder whose idea was it for a studio that was losing money to move to Downtown Chicago...When you're talking $15-$30 per sqft on an annual lease you're talking a LOT of money (god forbid they actually bought floors or one of the actual buildings). Besides giving the employees a defacto $1000+ pay cut due to parking and/or mass transportation cuts, you've done nothing to make you're buisness more financially stable.
I'm not here to defend the actions of EA, but will say that I don't know why people always see layoffs of talented companies as attacks on inovation. Fans would want to believe that EA Chicago got shafted and to some extent that may be true - They worked 50+hours per week, they developed quality games, they did what they were asked. But the other truth is that they still lost money, and were expected to continue those losse possibly into 2011 based on reports from related media.
May posters on this article propably has not experienced a layoff, so I'll make it plain and simply. Layoffs are about cutting cost. When a company swings the ax to cut costs, skill set and talent is secondary to the getting $$$$ up to what is expected. Call it downsizing, corporate evil, EA being EA or whatever. That's the way big buisness works - This isn't an industry of 5 guys coding in a college dorm or rented loft in downtown Philly. It's about profits, and we're naive to believe that the MBAs who run these companies won't do what it takes to appease shareholders.
First off, the 1UP headline Infinity Ward Offers Ex-EA Chicago Devs Jobs is just plain wrong. They weren't offered jobs - They were offered to interview for open positions at Infinity Ward, which just so happen to be available to the rest of the public also.
Secondly, people need to remember that Infinity Ward is on the other side of the country. These people have families, their children go to neighborhood schools, they have homes. Some may be able to just pick up and leave, but for others, that may not be an option.
Infinity Ward's gesture is nice, I'm sure - But this is by no means sanctuary for those laid off.
I don't get this...He assails MS Word for having a user interface inferior to OpenOffice in the past and then assails them again for trying something new. Say what you will about Office in general, you shouldn't fault them for at least TRYING to fix the problems of the past.
I'm not going to pretend to be suprised by such an comparison between OpenOffice and MS Word (it is on Linux.com, afterall). But I figured I'd just pointing out the obvious....
I can think we can all agree that Snotty Ragsdale was the man.
Oh just come off it now...Slashdot posts articles that cater to interests it's users as a whole, not just techies and nerds. Just because it doesn't deal with Linux, overclocking or buffer overflows doesn't mean it's irrelevant.
Bitching, Bitching, Bitching... If people posting here are like 95% of the american consumer base, you'll do what everyone else does: Accept it. Face it - As long as it comes in increments, the US citizens having an amazing tolerance to others chipping away what we take for granted. Ads in movies, Gas Prices, Electricity, Cost of Milk at your grocer, Privacy Laws etc. That first price wasn't bad - Oh Well. *1 MONTHS LATER* Oh. It went up again, well, it wasn't that much of a jump from what it was last time - *2 MONTHS LATER* DITTO *3 MONTHS LATER*....... To those who would actually switch your plan, or complain: Kudos to you. You've done more than most any other individual would. To everyone else, well suck it up. And even if you don't now, you will eventually.
Of course, that assumes that Nintendo will release ALL the classics on the Wii. This isn't backwards compatibity in that someone can just throw the cart into the Wii. This is "When we get around to releasing it, if ever" backwards compatibility.
I fail to see how the term 'open-source' is applicable to a translation. Is the belief that if a number of people contribute to something, that it's open-source?
Lets look at the opposite of this argument, and put Verizon under the light: While Amazon, Google and Ebay and thousands of other websites invest billions of dollars into thier effort, Verizon just rides the wave of their work. How about Google charging Verizon for the content that it provides instead? If Verizon or other 'hostile' ISPs want to provide it's subscribers with access to popular sites, it's gotta fork over the dough.
Perhaps once everything is settled, Verizon will come to it's senses and realize that the ISP & Content providers are a mutually beneficial relationship. One cannot live without another and if someone bites, the other will bite back.
Cisco: Nintendo... You are my bitch. Nintendo: No... No... That's not true! That's impossible! Cisco: Search your stock holdings. You know it to be true. Nintendo: Nooooo! Nooooo!
In many cases, it wouldn't be Nintendo's decision. Gaming is a buisness these days, spoken in dollars and cents. If Cisco really wants Nintendo, Cisco (w/$100 billion market share) will try to take Nintendo (w/$10-20 Billion market share). It would likely be a hostile takeover, or a series of events where Cisco quickly aquires a signifcant stake (20-30% of voting body) and continues to work from there, buying off remaining major stoke holdings.
The gamer inside you might make you believe that 'loyalty to gamers' or 'independence' might convince Nintendo to remain it's own entity, but this is simply naieve. Nintendo wants to beat Sony. It wants to beat Microsoft. It wants to get back to where it was 10 years ago. To do that, it needs to match their investment capabilities. To do that, it just might need companies like Cisco.
But it is a flaw. A fundamental concept of any service, including Wikipedia, is that you don't have to know how the final product was manufactured. You just need to know that it exists and expect that whatever is given to you is well-formed (in much the same way that when you pick up a DVD player, you expect the features on the advertising to be true). But Wikipedia makes no promise of this, and as you have stated, one might have to search edits to find out the real truth in order to see beyond false items in an article.
When I search Wikipedia, I expect that the entry I stare at to be correct to the best knowledge of those who prepared it. I may take it as fact without questioning it (less the content have clear omissions or misrepresentations). Is it because I'm careless? No. I just don't expect to have to spend several extra minutes (or hours) flipping through perhaps dozens of edits in order to get undoctored content. If ever I should feel that this is the case for Wikipedia, I will cease to use Wikipedia.
Dennis Miller should stick to his strengths. Prior to 1900 we had found equations to describe just about all electormagnetic activity (in the form of Maxwell's equations) and measured the speed of light. But you don't think that anyone could figure out how to correctly build or read a thermometer?
And to make matters worse, these albums are likely to suck.
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Unless there's high demand for 'Entertainment Weekly's Greatest Hits of 1971' this is just going to be another inventory clean-out.
I'll put my faith in the Uncyclopedia any day. With in-depth and thoughful articles like the rise of Dino Jesus I'm always in the know!
From what it sounds like, you did everything right. Two weeks is an excellent time period to offer notice. You aren't dropping out of the company like a light, but you also aren't creating an awkward, 'lame-duck' position where the company has to keep the thought in the back of thier head that you're leaving in say, 6 months.
Also, unless you're leaving for competition, the CIO probably didn't think you were going to 'do something malicious'. It's probably just company protocol, and in fact, I would consider the quick removal of accounts to be 'lite'. I've worked at companies where as the minute strikes your time of non-employment, 2 security guards immedietally escort you out of the building.
Is it really worth the cost to purchase a spacecraft which, by Russian admissions, are outdated and slated to be replaced? Unless NASA believes it has something to learn from the nature of the spacecraft, this is a stupid purchase. The funds would be better vested in performing research on MODERN technology.
Should of thought harder Gramps. CD rot may have taken care of coating on the disc long before the kids get access to it. Optical formats, though much more long lasting than magnetic tape, do not have an infinite life span. Over the course of say, 50 years, it's not feasible to think that all the data on the CD will still be non-corrupted.
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