I don't see how the standard tall, muscular, perfectly fit, incredibly handsome video game male is any less an unrealistic depiction of the average male. No one ever seems to worry about this though.
The fact that people feel they're entitled to large raises every year indicates some people still haven't got over the completely unrealistic idea of how the economy works they picked up in the 90's. Over the long term, pay increases are necessarily going to average inflation + productivity increase. If that weren't the case, labor costs would quickly eat up all of the company's money and it would go bankrupt.
And very few people manage to significantly increase their productivity every year.
The real way to tell how your company is doing: pay attention to facilities maintainance. Is the company repainting things? Is the carpet being regularly cleaned? Is resurfacing the parking lots? How does the landscaping look? Are all the lightbulbs working?
It seems silly, but things like these are usually the first things to get cut when the company starts going south and the last thing to come back when it recovers. So if your company is keeping the building looking nice, you're probably doing pretty well. If your building looks pretty cruddy, you may want to get your resume polished up.
Standardization.
Every X-Box or PS2 has pretty much the exact same hardware as every other X-Box or PS2. So the developers don't have to deal with the frustration and expense of designing their software to work with umpteen bazillion different combinations of hardware like they do on PC's.
His entire problem can be summed up in his complaint that the TA wouldn't "Articulate the steps". He's trying to learn mathematics as a cookbook. You learn a procedure to solve problem type A, type B, type C, etc. This works fine in high school and is all most people need to know.
But in engineering, not every problem you come across will fit some easily defined type, and there won't always be someone around to give you new procedure for the particular circumstances you're facing. You need to understand the theory well enough to come up with your own procedure.
Campbell's been assuring people for quite sometime he was going to be in Spiderman 3 "annoying spiderman" in some unspecified manner. How does that fit in with this?
I happen to agree with his point, but I wonder why he's considered more credible than the average person just because he was at Columbine when the attack occured. I don't see how getting shot at some how miraculously turns you into an authority of the psychology of violent crime.
We kinda see the same bizarre deference paid to the 9/11 families. Somehow having a skyscraper collapse on their relatives magically made them experts on international terrorism.
Microsoft didn't keep its extensions in a nice little com.microsoft.* hierarchy like Sun does with its extensions. Microsoft added classes to the java.* and javax.* hierarchies, changed existing classes within those hierarchies, and even added new keywords to the underlying language.
Sun's issue was never that Microsoft was adding stuff; the issue was that Microsoft was adding stuff in a way that made it very hard to tell if you were using a Microsoft only interface.
Because if, you know, Microsoft had called a up a developer and said, "If you don't stop using Company X's technology, we're going to clone your application and start trying to elbow you out of the market with it", people would be screaming bloody murder.
>but then again it isn't like MS with all its
>billions of cash reserves is going to be
>bankrupted by the development costs.
So now we've slipped from the 'other developers need a level playing field' figleaf to demanding MS is somehow required to expend money to ACTIVELY assist its competitors in taking away its business?
Microsoft wouldn't be bankrupted by buying me a pony either. That doesn't mean they're obligated to.
I've no doubt he was anti-semetic--but so was most of Europe at the time. I see his anti-semetism as more of a problem of culturalization than his politics. Which is not to make light of what he said, but it needs to be considered in light of his social context.
Lincoln, for instance, wrote a number of rather racist things about African-americans. However, this is usually seen more as a reflection of pre-civil war US society than a personal flaw in Lincoln's character.
I think a similar view should be held toward Wagner. He wasn't more anti-semetic than his contemporaries, so I don't see why he is singled out as being singularly anti-semetic, other than a misguided sense of guilt by association whereby the fact that, decades after his death, his music was co-opted by the Nazis makes him vaguely responsible for their crimes.
So that would be their political views, not his. I didn't realize artists were morally culpable for that failings of everyone who happens to like their work.
This is more why I get offended being called an artist. Choosing the correct algorithm is NOT an artistic choice--the algorithm best suited to solving a particular problem is (or should be, anyways) based on objective criteria, not the computer scientists's individual esthetic sense.
It's been my observation that developers who call themselves artists are invariably using the term to rationalize either a lack of familiarity with the theorethical basis to the discipline or a failure to follow a proper design process.
Admittedly, I came from a school (The Pennsylvania State University) where Computer Science is in the College of Engineering, so I may have a different perspective than someone coming from a school where Computer Science is in the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences.
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I don't see how the standard tall, muscular, perfectly fit, incredibly handsome video game male is any less an unrealistic depiction of the average male. No one ever seems to worry about this though.
So when this basin eventually floods, likely killing a large number of people in the process, will it all be George Bush's fault?
On the 'Boy meets girl' patent.
The fact that people feel they're entitled to large raises every year indicates some people still haven't got over the completely unrealistic idea of how the economy works they picked up in the 90's. Over the long term, pay increases are necessarily going to average inflation + productivity increase. If that weren't the case, labor costs would quickly eat up all of the company's money and it would go bankrupt.
And very few people manage to significantly increase their productivity every year.
There is a .us domain. Try http://www.state.pa.us/ for example.
Well, did you donate to the fundraiser?
Sauce be upon him!
That it was designed to fall apart and still have all the individual pieces still work independently.
The real way to tell how your company is doing: pay attention to facilities maintainance. Is the company repainting things? Is the carpet being regularly cleaned? Is resurfacing the parking lots? How does the landscaping look? Are all the lightbulbs working? It seems silly, but things like these are usually the first things to get cut when the company starts going south and the last thing to come back when it recovers. So if your company is keeping the building looking nice, you're probably doing pretty well. If your building looks pretty cruddy, you may want to get your resume polished up.
Standardization. Every X-Box or PS2 has pretty much the exact same hardware as every other X-Box or PS2. So the developers don't have to deal with the frustration and expense of designing their software to work with umpteen bazillion different combinations of hardware like they do on PC's.
His entire problem can be summed up in his complaint that the TA wouldn't "Articulate the steps". He's trying to learn mathematics as a cookbook. You learn a procedure to solve problem type A, type B, type C, etc. This works fine in high school and is all most people need to know.
But in engineering, not every problem you come across will fit some easily defined type, and there won't always be someone around to give you new procedure for the particular circumstances you're facing. You need to understand the theory well enough to come up with your own procedure.
Campbell's been assuring people for quite sometime he was going to be in Spiderman 3 "annoying spiderman" in some unspecified manner. How does that fit in with this?
Shouldn't poison dart tipped dolphins be under Hardware Hacking with the other case mods?
I happen to agree with his point, but I wonder why he's considered more credible than the average person just because he was at Columbine when the attack occured. I don't see how getting shot at some how miraculously turns you into an authority of the psychology of violent crime.
We kinda see the same bizarre deference paid to the 9/11 families. Somehow having a skyscraper collapse on their relatives magically made them experts on international terrorism.
All your code are belong to FSF?
Someone sending 50 e-mails a second could be spamming. Or they could just be hosting a legitimate mailing list.
Microsoft didn't keep its extensions in a nice little com.microsoft.* hierarchy like Sun does with its extensions. Microsoft added classes to the java.* and javax.* hierarchies, changed existing classes within those hierarchies, and even added new keywords to the underlying language. Sun's issue was never that Microsoft was adding stuff; the issue was that Microsoft was adding stuff in a way that made it very hard to tell if you were using a Microsoft only interface.
Because if, you know, Microsoft had called a up a developer and said, "If you don't stop using Company X's technology, we're going to clone your application and start trying to elbow you out of the market with it", people would be screaming bloody murder.
>but then again it isn't like MS with all its >billions of cash reserves is going to be >bankrupted by the development costs. So now we've slipped from the 'other developers need a level playing field' figleaf to demanding MS is somehow required to expend money to ACTIVELY assist its competitors in taking away its business? Microsoft wouldn't be bankrupted by buying me a pony either. That doesn't mean they're obligated to.
I've no doubt he was anti-semetic--but so was most of Europe at the time. I see his anti-semetism as more of a problem of culturalization than his politics. Which is not to make light of what he said, but it needs to be considered in light of his social context.
Lincoln, for instance, wrote a number of rather racist things about African-americans. However, this is usually seen more as a reflection of pre-civil war US society than a personal flaw in Lincoln's character.
I think a similar view should be held toward Wagner. He wasn't more anti-semetic than his contemporaries, so I don't see why he is singled out as being singularly anti-semetic, other than a misguided sense of guilt by association whereby the fact that, decades after his death, his music was co-opted by the Nazis makes him vaguely responsible for their crimes.
Regardless of what his politics may or may not have been?
Was anyone else with a comp science background mildly offended by being referred to as an artist?