For them, narrowing the field really does "help recruitment"
define "help recruitment". if you think it means picking some arbitrary skill that has no bearing on a candidate's ability to perform in the workplace, then yeah i agree it helps.
i know google bashing is good fun, and makes us all feel good, but their search page is incredibly spartan and fast loading, and contains no ads. you must be able to find something better to complain about than this, right?
every provider has a custom ROM build. that's right the ROM is provider specific. so the difference is a port of all the customizations to lollipop and of course a new, separate QA cycle on a different major version of android. also, don't forget the user guides, support staff, etc. all to be staffed and trained on android 5 + this device.
so yeah, the effort is actually pretty huge. i'm not excusing it, but to dismiss it as grabbing AOSP and dumping the LG music service APK on it is not correct.
also, what's the motivation? you could have purchased a Nexus device that has the best update cycle out there. but no, people still decide to buy Samsung, et. al. and then inevitable bitch about updates. influence with your pocket book. if you keep buying from companies that shaft you on longer-term support, then enjoy your outdated brick.
also, don't forget that at $300 for a Shield console, you are $50 away from getting an Xbox One or PS4, which make an X1-based system look like a calculator, have massive AAA game libraries, will probably still be getting new AAA titles in 10 years, and are media centers to boot.
and let's not talk about the $200 16GB Shield. completely unreasonable, and only offered to be able to claim the $200 price point.
Remember, Ouya is another company, not related to NVIDIA.
i think people get that. it's more about investing in an unproven, largely unsupported (in the way of game developers) gaming console that's underpowered when compared about similarly priced next gen consoles.
the company was by law required to provide a severance package when laying off employees, which they did not. the employees sued for the severance package, and won.
and..... why did they sue the company? it was because they were due severance by law and the company did not provide it. so yeah, it had everything to do with the severance package.
When the company started doing better they were forced to compensate employees that were fired when the company was doing badly.
yes, they were forced to adhere to the law. crazy huh?
if you look at the kind of things that these bots do, it turns out that the bots are not a symptom of bad players, but of a bad game
yes, it's so bad that people pay their monthly fees and spend thousands of hours leveling their characters. just a terrible game indeed.
And this doesn't hurt other players at all
wrong. MMOs are all about your place respective to other players. how do you think it makes the non-cheating customers feel if they spend 5000 hours leveling their character but someone else does it in 10 hours of screen time with a bot? you think it makes the vast majority of paying customers feel good about the game? like they want to keep devoting their precious time and money?
this is nothing more than keeping the vast majority of the paying customer base happy. and yeah, it's a money grab because as soon as the average person feels the game is overrun with bots, they stop paying.
Because they'd still have to pay their monthly fees.
what costs do those monthly fees go toward, pre-profit? bandwidth. electricity. maintenance. etc. all of those costs get multiplied by bots. humans don't play for weeks straight. a bot is a net loss for the company.
people seem to forget that just because it's digital doesn't mean it's without operating costs.
The smart thing would be to sort the players. But the bot-users and hackers on one set of servers, and the genuine players on another set. Get money from both camps, without them disturbing each other.
it's all about having an advantage. bots exists to gain an advantage. if everyone is a bot, it defeats the point.
not to mention, bots put excessive load on their servers beyond what would be possible with a human player.
No you can't disable *every* app. On my S5 for example there are several for which the "Disable" button is disabled.
on my nexus, i can disable any (firmware) app. note that you can't disable non-firmware apps, simply because you have the option of uninstalling them.
so, then why'd you buy a samsung product? people keep complaining about things like this, but then they go out and support products that implement such restrictions. lesson learned?
I want a phone that doesn't have dozens of apps that I can't delete
You can disable any app, even those in the firmware. When disabled, the app no longer shows in your launcher and cannot run, ever. Yes, the bits are still present in the firmware read-only partition.
Nukes are a thoroughly shit offensive weapon. If you throw a nuke at anyone you will get stomped out of existence.
completely misunderstanding the problem. the fear is that if iran gets nukes, they'll supply smaller groups that can't be retaliated against without massive collateral damage (not that you can ever avoid collateral damage with nukes).
e.g., a nuke is launch from the mountains around the pakistan / afghan border. what do you do? nuke pakistan?
why would i, as a developer, care if i could install a custom firmware? wouldn't i want to be testing my game on the firmware that's going to be run by 99.999% of users?
There's no reason why they shouldn't be able to get this to work.
it's a massive engineering effort, and they admit as much in the article. even if you 98% of the things working, the last 2% is going to cause unacceptable app crashes.
think about the engineering effort to take the entire iOS *and* Android SDK, plus the Google APIs, and make them all work with MSFT. that's not just string manipulations, it's all of the APIs that connect to cloud services, sensors, and so on.
Why would anyone need to reverse engineer open source libraries from Android?
because they are also providing MSFT implementations of the Google APIs which of course are not open source. should be easy enough. e.g., provide a maps implementation that works exactly like Google maps.
how does seeing a scuzbag loser in his underwear barf all over the floor to the point that he fills up his room, then pull his tongue out in the process pulling his spine out and ending up in a puddle of boneless flesh floating in the puke leave me with a good feeling about this product?
That's because most people with great ideas are bad at business.
okay, but that's not what happened here. Ouya was a mediocre Android device with a controller and very few games that took advantage of the controller. it's claims of openness, even if true, excited hackers but not consumers or game developers.
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For them, narrowing the field really does "help recruitment"
define "help recruitment". if you think it means picking some arbitrary skill that has no bearing on a candidate's ability to perform in the workplace, then yeah i agree it helps.
i know google bashing is good fun, and makes us all feel good, but their search page is incredibly spartan and fast loading, and contains no ads. you must be able to find something better to complain about than this, right?
To watch Yahoo slowly die because they got out classed by all the upstarts in the market.
yeah those upstarts like Google? Google hasn't been an upstart for a very long time.
every provider has a custom ROM build. that's right the ROM is provider specific. so the difference is a port of all the customizations to lollipop and of course a new, separate QA cycle on a different major version of android. also, don't forget the user guides, support staff, etc. all to be staffed and trained on android 5 + this device.
so yeah, the effort is actually pretty huge. i'm not excusing it, but to dismiss it as grabbing AOSP and dumping the LG music service APK on it is not correct.
also, what's the motivation? you could have purchased a Nexus device that has the best update cycle out there. but no, people still decide to buy Samsung, et. al. and then inevitable bitch about updates. influence with your pocket book. if you keep buying from companies that shaft you on longer-term support, then enjoy your outdated brick.
And why do you think Comcast gives you only 250GB a month?
well, at 250GB / month, you could stream netflix HD non-stop for around 7 days solid. seems pretty reasonable to me.
also, don't forget that at $300 for a Shield console, you are $50 away from getting an Xbox One or PS4, which make an X1-based system look like a calculator, have massive AAA game libraries, will probably still be getting new AAA titles in 10 years, and are media centers to boot.
and let's not talk about the $200 16GB Shield. completely unreasonable, and only offered to be able to claim the $200 price point.
Remember, Ouya is another company, not related to NVIDIA.
i think people get that. it's more about investing in an unproven, largely unsupported (in the way of game developers) gaming console that's underpowered when compared about similarly priced next gen consoles.
the company was by law required to provide a severance package when laying off employees, which they did not. the employees sued for the severance package, and won.
So it had nothing to do with a severance package.
and ..... why did they sue the company? it was because they were due severance by law and the company did not provide it. so yeah, it had everything to do with the severance package.
When the company started doing better they were forced to compensate employees that were fired when the company was doing badly.
yes, they were forced to adhere to the law. crazy huh?
if you look at the kind of things that these bots do, it turns out that the bots are not a symptom of bad players, but of a bad game
yes, it's so bad that people pay their monthly fees and spend thousands of hours leveling their characters. just a terrible game indeed.
And this doesn't hurt other players at all
wrong. MMOs are all about your place respective to other players. how do you think it makes the non-cheating customers feel if they spend 5000 hours leveling their character but someone else does it in 10 hours of screen time with a bot? you think it makes the vast majority of paying customers feel good about the game? like they want to keep devoting their precious time and money?
this is nothing more than keeping the vast majority of the paying customer base happy. and yeah, it's a money grab because as soon as the average person feels the game is overrun with bots, they stop paying.
Because they'd still have to pay their monthly fees.
what costs do those monthly fees go toward, pre-profit? bandwidth. electricity. maintenance. etc. all of those costs get multiplied by bots. humans don't play for weeks straight. a bot is a net loss for the company.
people seem to forget that just because it's digital doesn't mean it's without operating costs.
The smart thing would be to sort the players. But the bot-users and hackers on one set of servers, and the genuine players on another set. Get money from both camps, without them disturbing each other.
it's all about having an advantage. bots exists to gain an advantage. if everyone is a bot, it defeats the point.
not to mention, bots put excessive load on their servers beyond what would be possible with a human player.
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oh man, that's so intense. i can't believe you had the guts to say it! damn. just .... damn.
No you can't disable *every* app. On my S5 for example there are several for which the "Disable" button is disabled.
on my nexus, i can disable any (firmware) app. note that you can't disable non-firmware apps, simply because you have the option of uninstalling them.
so, then why'd you buy a samsung product? people keep complaining about things like this, but then they go out and support products that implement such restrictions. lesson learned?
all because the fuckwits at Samsung and Google are so hostile to the idea of the owner of a device having control over it
it's trivial to root most phones, and easier than trivial for Google's branded Nexus line.
You'd only need to do it once- an app in force stop state should not be restarted on reboot, as its inelligible to have a BOOT_COMPLETE receiver.
Please post some references. Thanks.
It's since 4.0. You can't uninstall them completely without reflashing the firmware that doesn't contain them. They are part of the firmware image.
I want a phone that doesn't have dozens of apps that I can't delete
You can disable any app, even those in the firmware. When disabled, the app no longer shows in your launcher and cannot run, ever. Yes, the bits are still present in the firmware read-only partition.
Nukes are a thoroughly shit offensive weapon. If you throw a nuke at anyone you will get stomped out of existence.
completely misunderstanding the problem. the fear is that if iran gets nukes, they'll supply smaller groups that can't be retaliated against without massive collateral damage (not that you can ever avoid collateral damage with nukes).
e.g., a nuke is launch from the mountains around the pakistan / afghan border. what do you do? nuke pakistan?
i think it's well and truly clear that i didn't say anything about legality. i said it's a difficult technical challenge.
Because it makes development easier in some way
what way?
provides a feature expected in a later release.
what feature?
You have to please the developers.
why would i, as a developer, care if i could install a custom firmware? wouldn't i want to be testing my game on the firmware that's going to be run by 99.999% of users?
really, i'm asking.
There's no reason why they shouldn't be able to get this to work.
it's a massive engineering effort, and they admit as much in the article. even if you 98% of the things working, the last 2% is going to cause unacceptable app crashes.
think about the engineering effort to take the entire iOS *and* Android SDK, plus the Google APIs, and make them all work with MSFT. that's not just string manipulations, it's all of the APIs that connect to cloud services, sensors, and so on.
Why would anyone need to reverse engineer open source libraries from Android?
because they are also providing MSFT implementations of the Google APIs which of course are not open source. should be easy enough. e.g., provide a maps implementation that works exactly like Google maps.
man what a terrible, awful ad.
how does seeing a scuzbag loser in his underwear barf all over the floor to the point that he fills up his room, then pull his tongue out in the process pulling his spine out and ending up in a puddle of boneless flesh floating in the puke leave me with a good feeling about this product?
That's because most people with great ideas are bad at business.
okay, but that's not what happened here. Ouya was a mediocre Android device with a controller and very few games that took advantage of the controller. it's claims of openness, even if true, excited hackers but not consumers or game developers.