You're right about everything except the Netherwing. It was stated on the box that you'd be able to fly, and specifically a dragon. This wasn't put in until about 9 months after BC release.
Even with true clients, much data processing is still done in the datacenter. maybe some advanced analysis is done on other machines with a data dump, but still... it's all data
True, and real client developers - those who have built many clients - will continually push processing to the server, keeping the client as thin as possible. A server can be upgraded or replaced, you don't necessarily know what a client is going to be running. My only complaint with TFA is that his first argument overestimates the power on a desktop.
What I think he is really saying is that data validation is better handled by traditional desktop apps a lot better than web apps. Of course traditional apps include browser plugins like Flash and Silverlight, along with C, C++, C# and Java applications. In most web apps a user puts in info, presses next and then when something isn't right they be punted back to the same form with maybe a message explaining why. This validation can be handled instantly in traditional apps, giving the user more feedback and better interaction. Also, since most are just glorified wizards, web apps quickly become a productivity bottleneck for advanced users.
Other than a simple form-type interaction, why bother with it in enterprise applications? A company can require the install of anything they want in their required configuration, so why not a rich client that follows UI standards?
But if the improbability is large enough, and you hook it up to a nice, hot cup of tea; then we'll travel instantaneously through every point of the Universe, and possibly create a worried-looking whale and a bowl of petunias.
Maybe that's why we haven't met any aliens. The alien societies all get to the point where they develop their versions of the LHC and annihilate themselves due to an underestimation of the consequences.
So, you might have valid criticisms about the quality of Microsoft software, but MS really does have very high standards for their employees...
It would be nice if they had high standards for their software too. It also seems that the 'high standards' they use for their hiring do not result in a very good product.
... let alone leave without a disciplinary mark on your permanent record (which WILL absolutely prevent you from getting into every top university).
I'm not sure about now, but being just over a decade removed from high school I do not remember sending any 'permanent record' other than my grade transcript and SAT scores to the colleges I applied to.
And this was before all of the private personal record rules that went into place years ago. I find it hard to believe that there is a secret communication channel between the high school vice principals and high-end universities with the intent of destroying a student's education.
And asking Gays to make it 'more palatable' with a different name is like asking women to say they don't have the right to 'vote', just the right to 'suggest'.
QFT. I think everyone needs to be very observant of previous equal-rights movements, whether they be racial- or gender-based. Where there is inequality it won't stand and will change.
To those who support Prop-8 type laws, ask yourself why? People made excuses for why segregated schools were ok, or women shouldn't vote, and at one time why wives shouldn't inherit property. These are the same pathetic arguments that permeate this argument.
If you truly want see some of the rights that are stripped from someone who is a non-legal partner look at this appalling list.
I know a lot are talking about internships and that sounds great but at some point you need to make some cash. What a lot of people are missing here is that there are expectations from family, friends, etc., to go out and get a job after graduation.
Since large companies only believe in experience and what's on a resume, head to a small company, preferably a startup. You'll get a ton more experience and more importantly it will be respected experience. Live very cheaply, even if they are paying you well - have a couple roommates and don't have more stuff than you can fit in the back of your car. Buy nothing you can't pay cash for, credit only for emergencies. If it fails - oh well, just move to the next opportunity. If it succeeds go buy yourself a Lexus.
I started this way out of necessity (not foresight, just stuck in a location where there were no big companies). The 6 years I spent at the startup were infinitely better than starting a career at AT&T Wireless (one of my offers) being a junior programmer with zero input. From day one at a startup there's interesting things to do and you're usually the one taking the lead and doing them. A lot of times you give input that's *gasp* listened to. And there's a lot of new technologies that you get to play with and sometimes free time to try weird things.
It's designed to strike America's military suddenly, stunning and stalling the Air Force more than any other service. In a script written by Chinese military officers and defense analysts, a bruised U.S. military, beholden to a sheepish American public, puts up a small fight before slinking off to avoid full-on war.
[...]
Because the American public is "abnormally sensitive" about military casualties, according to an article in China's Liberation Army Daily, killing U.S. airmen or other personnel would spark a "domestic anti-war cry" on the home front and possibly force early withdrawal of U.S. forces.
If China uses Iraq as the basis for American setiment towards war then they are doomed to repeat the past. Public sentiment would've been 100% behind the Iraq war if it would've been justified, like in the first Iraq war. Maybe they should ask Japan how attacking a 'complacent' America worked out for them.
The dragon always sleeps, only to be awakened by those dumb enough to pull on it's tail.
You just used an example that has nothing to do with the first one and isn't even code, it's just some statement which you can warp any way you want. I must've really hit a nerve.
So, way to go! Not only are you dyslexic but apparently mentally retarded too!
The differences that brought about "modern" civilization were on agricultural practices where we gradually converted from nomadic hunter-gatherer societies to stationary agricultural practices, animal husbandry and permanent communities. Then, as technologies developed (the wheel, the plow, irrigation, pottery, masonry, etc..) we had leisure time to devote to art and literature.
The key is to spend your gold and resource early to do research so you can jump ages. This prevents some d-bag from building a castle right near your farms forcing you to be half an age behind and just a lamb for the slaughter at any point in the game.
Thanks for the honest evaluation, Stonewolf. As a younger software engineeer (31, been doing this for about 8 years) I do appreciate a candid look at the future.
You implied that your wife seemed to be doing well with an ME degree yet you pushed your kids into non-technical fields. Might I ask what those are? I honestly can't think of a non-technical field that wouldn't be much more prone to market forces than even CS.
"You are on Shadow Moses Island, you are being lifted up to the surface by a cargo elevator. You see several guards and you are armed with a SOCOM Mk.23 pistol."
> Use gun on man"
You're right. Since Metal Gear isn't any fun anyways converting it to a text based game wouldn't help it very much.
I recently purchased a new XBox controller. The packaging was so ridiculous that I ended up slicing my finger and started bleeding - not from my mishandling of the scissors or razor blade but from the plastic packaging itself.
I mean seriously, I get the appeal of the plastic sealed packaging for retailers. It's light, and see through, usually hangs in a display properly, and very, very shoplifter resistant. But what about a nice cuboid cardboard box with a plastic see-through window and some high-quality tape for sealing it up? I can get into it at home, and a shoplifter has trouble at the store. If there are any problems with it I can return it to the store placed back in the packaging and not just the product and the pieces of packaging that are leftover from the demolition I had to perform. I think many Apple products are this way, as was a Belkin n52te (PC game controller) that i recently purchased.
Slashdot: Wintergrasp is a bold new direction in terms of creating world PvP that's something in which a lot of people can and want to participate. What's it like to design something like that and commit so many resources to it before seeing the fans' reaction to it?
Jeff: I mean we've been ripping off the Warhammer IP for what, over a decade now? So we really felt that we'd just do the same by watching a few of the developer videos from Warhammer Online and do something similar to what they're doing. Why do something unique when we can just copy someone else?
I mean we are going to add Blizzard's trademark PvP spin on it by making it fun for like 20 minutes and not have any game-world consequence. Sure, it'll probably be an empty zone a month after everyone hits 80 and the rewards from doing it will be outdone by arena gear or even just gear from level 80 quests and instances. You'll get very little honor for it, just like world PvP elsewhere, because we need to discourage people from playing in there - we really can't handle 300+ people in one location unless they are on our dev team's LAN, 20 feet of Cat5 away from the server. What I'm saying here is that you need to do the same 4 battlegrounds after hitting 80, at least until the next expansion.
I'm not knocking the content since it sounds like a neat idea but maybe put up a story when they are farther than the "will be making" phase. Like when they hit the "have funding" and "are in development" phase. Otherwise this is less newsworthy than the pseudo-cancelled (pseudo because it was never truly started) Halo MMO.
I think I "will be making" the first Super Mario FPS. Maybe I should create and post an announcement so I can get on the front page of slashdot?
I don't remember how I stumbled across this, maybe even a link somewhere on/., but I think Metaplace seems like it's going to be quite similar. From what I've seen of their news when checking back from time to time, they seem to be moving along and some people have built some pretty impressive stuff with the editors they give you.
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You're right about everything except the Netherwing. It was stated on the box that you'd be able to fly, and specifically a dragon. This wasn't put in until about 9 months after BC release.
Even with true clients, much data processing is still done in the datacenter. maybe some advanced analysis is done on other machines with a data dump, but still... it's all data
True, and real client developers - those who have built many clients - will continually push processing to the server, keeping the client as thin as possible. A server can be upgraded or replaced, you don't necessarily know what a client is going to be running. My only complaint with TFA is that his first argument overestimates the power on a desktop.
What I think he is really saying is that data validation is better handled by traditional desktop apps a lot better than web apps. Of course traditional apps include browser plugins like Flash and Silverlight, along with C, C++, C# and Java applications. In most web apps a user puts in info, presses next and then when something isn't right they be punted back to the same form with maybe a message explaining why. This validation can be handled instantly in traditional apps, giving the user more feedback and better interaction. Also, since most are just glorified wizards, web apps quickly become a productivity bottleneck for advanced users.
Other than a simple form-type interaction, why bother with it in enterprise applications? A company can require the install of anything they want in their required configuration, so why not a rich client that follows UI standards?
But if the improbability is large enough, and you hook it up to a nice, hot cup of tea; then we'll travel instantaneously through every point of the Universe, and possibly create a worried-looking whale and a bowl of petunias.
Oh no, not again.
Maybe that's why we haven't met any aliens. The alien societies all get to the point where they develop their versions of the LHC and annihilate themselves due to an underestimation of the consequences.
So, you might have valid criticisms about the quality of Microsoft software, but MS really does have very high standards for their employees ...
It would be nice if they had high standards for their software too. It also seems that the 'high standards' they use for their hiring do not result in a very good product.
... let alone leave without a disciplinary mark on your permanent record (which WILL absolutely prevent you from getting into every top university).
I'm not sure about now, but being just over a decade removed from high school I do not remember sending any 'permanent record' other than my grade transcript and SAT scores to the colleges I applied to.
And this was before all of the private personal record rules that went into place years ago. I find it hard to believe that there is a secret communication channel between the high school vice principals and high-end universities with the intent of destroying a student's education.
And asking Gays to make it 'more palatable' with a different name is like asking women to say they don't have the right to 'vote', just the right to 'suggest'.
QFT. I think everyone needs to be very observant of previous equal-rights movements, whether they be racial- or gender-based. Where there is inequality it won't stand and will change.
To those who support Prop-8 type laws, ask yourself why? People made excuses for why segregated schools were ok, or women shouldn't vote, and at one time why wives shouldn't inherit property. These are the same pathetic arguments that permeate this argument.
If you truly want see some of the rights that are stripped from someone who is a non-legal partner look at this appalling list.
I know a lot are talking about internships and that sounds great but at some point you need to make some cash. What a lot of people are missing here is that there are expectations from family, friends, etc., to go out and get a job after graduation.
Since large companies only believe in experience and what's on a resume, head to a small company, preferably a startup. You'll get a ton more experience and more importantly it will be respected experience. Live very cheaply, even if they are paying you well - have a couple roommates and don't have more stuff than you can fit in the back of your car. Buy nothing you can't pay cash for, credit only for emergencies. If it fails - oh well, just move to the next opportunity. If it succeeds go buy yourself a Lexus.
I started this way out of necessity (not foresight, just stuck in a location where there were no big companies). The 6 years I spent at the startup were infinitely better than starting a career at AT&T Wireless (one of my offers) being a junior programmer with zero input. From day one at a startup there's interesting things to do and you're usually the one taking the lead and doing them. A lot of times you give input that's *gasp* listened to. And there's a lot of new technologies that you get to play with and sometimes free time to try weird things.
It's designed to strike America's military suddenly, stunning and stalling the Air Force more than any other service. In a script written by Chinese military officers and defense analysts, a bruised U.S. military, beholden to a sheepish American public, puts up a small fight before slinking off to avoid full-on war.
[...]
Because the American public is "abnormally sensitive" about military casualties, according to an article in China's Liberation Army Daily, killing U.S. airmen or other personnel would spark a "domestic anti-war cry" on the home front and possibly force early withdrawal of U.S. forces.
If China uses Iraq as the basis for American setiment towards war then they are doomed to repeat the past. Public sentiment would've been 100% behind the Iraq war if it would've been justified, like in the first Iraq war. Maybe they should ask Japan how attacking a 'complacent' America worked out for them.
The dragon always sleeps, only to be awakened by those dumb enough to pull on it's tail.
... or dispense with that notion entirely and just bomb the mothers from orbit.
It's the only way to be sure.
Guns are not a solution to bad government, civil unrest is (which may or may not involve guns, they're incidental).
A bunch of students at Kent State and Jackson State aren't here to laugh at that statement.
You just used an example that has nothing to do with the first one and isn't even code, it's just some statement which you can warp any way you want. I must've really hit a nerve.
So, way to go! Not only are you dyslexic but apparently mentally retarded too!
b, because you can get a compiler or checking tool to warn you about assignments in if statements, and a is harder to read.
Just to nitpick but unless you aren't coding in english and reading left to right a) is much easier to read. If you think:
'if the variable is equal to true'
is easier to read than
'if true is equal to the variable'
then you should probably be tested for dyslexia.
WHOOOSH!
You must be a ton of fun at parties if you miss even the most blatant levels of sarcasm.
The differences that brought about "modern" civilization were on agricultural practices where we gradually converted from nomadic hunter-gatherer societies to stationary agricultural practices, animal husbandry and permanent communities. Then, as technologies developed (the wheel, the plow, irrigation, pottery, masonry, etc..) we had leisure time to devote to art and literature.
The key is to spend your gold and resource early to do research so you can jump ages. This prevents some d-bag from building a castle right near your farms forcing you to be half an age behind and just a lamb for the slaughter at any point in the game.
And just for the record, a quotation, attribute, of Margret Thatcher after a German football (soccer) victory:
And both times they've needed to import American 'players' to get the job done.
Thanks for the honest evaluation, Stonewolf. As a younger software engineeer (31, been doing this for about 8 years) I do appreciate a candid look at the future.
You implied that your wife seemed to be doing well with an ME degree yet you pushed your kids into non-technical fields. Might I ask what those are? I honestly can't think of a non-technical field that wouldn't be much more prone to market forces than even CS.
You really don't want to pick something that pays well but that you detest unless suicidal unhappiness is your idea of doing well.
Why not? It works very well for lawyers.
Just maybe, some alien race might discover that eating a human prolongs their life, or cures some previously incurable disease...
Human horn!
Metal Gear would be no fun if it started with:
"You are on Shadow Moses Island, you are being lifted up to the surface by a cargo elevator. You see several guards and you are armed with a SOCOM Mk.23 pistol."
> Use gun on man"
You're right. Since Metal Gear isn't any fun anyways converting it to a text based game wouldn't help it very much.
I recently purchased a new XBox controller. The packaging was so ridiculous that I ended up slicing my finger and started bleeding - not from my mishandling of the scissors or razor blade but from the plastic packaging itself.
I mean seriously, I get the appeal of the plastic sealed packaging for retailers. It's light, and see through, usually hangs in a display properly, and very, very shoplifter resistant. But what about a nice cuboid cardboard box with a plastic see-through window and some high-quality tape for sealing it up? I can get into it at home, and a shoplifter has trouble at the store. If there are any problems with it I can return it to the store placed back in the packaging and not just the product and the pieces of packaging that are leftover from the demolition I had to perform. I think many Apple products are this way, as was a Belkin n52te (PC game controller) that i recently purchased.
Slashdot: Wintergrasp is a bold new direction in terms of creating world PvP that's something in which a lot of people can and want to participate. What's it like to design something like that and commit so many resources to it before seeing the fans' reaction to it?
Jeff: I mean we've been ripping off the Warhammer IP for what, over a decade now? So we really felt that we'd just do the same by watching a few of the developer videos from Warhammer Online and do something similar to what they're doing. Why do something unique when we can just copy someone else?
I mean we are going to add Blizzard's trademark PvP spin on it by making it fun for like 20 minutes and not have any game-world consequence. Sure, it'll probably be an empty zone a month after everyone hits 80 and the rewards from doing it will be outdone by arena gear or even just gear from level 80 quests and instances. You'll get very little honor for it, just like world PvP elsewhere, because we need to discourage people from playing in there - we really can't handle 300+ people in one location unless they are on our dev team's LAN, 20 feet of Cat5 away from the server. What I'm saying here is that you need to do the same 4 battlegrounds after hitting 80, at least until the next expansion.
Our world PvP is going to be awesome!
(Seriously, best theft deterrent I've ever had)
Until you have a run-in with a 13-year-old girl who's a kleptomaniac.
I'm not knocking the content since it sounds like a neat idea but maybe put up a story when they are farther than the "will be making" phase. Like when they hit the "have funding" and "are in development" phase. Otherwise this is less newsworthy than the pseudo-cancelled (pseudo because it was never truly started) Halo MMO.
I think I "will be making" the first Super Mario FPS. Maybe I should create and post an announcement so I can get on the front page of slashdot?
I don't remember how I stumbled across this, maybe even a link somewhere on /., but I think Metaplace seems like it's going to be quite similar. From what I've seen of their news when checking back from time to time, they seem to be moving along and some people have built some pretty impressive stuff with the editors they give you.