Living in the Milwaukee area, I am very glad that the Olympics are NOT going to Chicago. Chicago is a land of garbage and destruction, and doesn't deserve the Olympics. Obama just wanted it there because he lived there once.
I will be glad to never see the Olympics in America again. The Olympics just beg for terrorist attacks, and I would prefer to keep those in other nations.
And if she's caught driving again, the judge will make her sleep underground for 1000 years in a small box, a la Demolition Man and every other movie like it, just so that she can see her one true love again, the automobile.
Maybe in 1000 years GM can make a car profitable.
Every time you buy hardware, you pay for it.
Software can be copied an infinite amount of times for the price of the developer.
If you are selling things in quantity, it makes sense to always solve problems with software and not hardware.
If you're buying one or two, then hardware can be cheaper.
This is definitely the best advise (other than mine) in this thread.
The best managers manage by doing, whether they do 1%, 10%, or 50%, if you do some, they will respect you.
The problem with seasoned programmers though is the inability to learn new things. I would first start by analyzing the code that they have written, and suggest improvements to them where applicable. You can stay on the business side of things (everyone who switches there does it because it's easier than programming) because that will give you maybe 10 hours of real work a week, and then do another 10 hours of programming a week, and you'll still live up to your manager title by not doing anything for 20 hours or more a week.
Best of luck friend, you'll need it. To me, seasoned typically means, head in ass and scared of ideas they didn't think of themselves.
Which means Bush W.==Windows XP, Bill Clintion==Mac OS9, and Bush Snr==Win98/96. No no, W. 1st term was Windows XP. Second term was Vista. It got worse and worse and worse and worse and worse and worse and worse and worse and worse.
Then a service pack came out, and it got worse.
Then again, definitely a MS error here.
Afganistan blows up our buildings. Clicks Go to War button. Clicks Afganistan. 100,000 troops are then deployed to Iraq.
I agree, however for a much different reason. I feel that C++, *.NET, Java, etc. is the entire reason that computers need to be consistently faster and have more cores. The reason, being Object Oriented programming. The companies putting this crappy software out (all of the big names go here, with etc. at the end) don't have a clue how to make things efficient, they simply are paid to get the programs out the door as quick as possible, regardless of the performance. Embedded Engineers have to do things a completely different way. We don't have more time than perhaps 25-50 MHz to do everything that we need to accomplish, and with that time, we have to accomplish everything that a PC programmer takes for granted with an OS!
I graduated as an Electronic Engineer. During my summer internships, I worked closely with an embedded developer with a background in CS. He didn't really understand the hardware like the Electronics Engineer does, but he was able to make it do what he wanted. During my time there, he convinced me to pick up a minor in CS. Because of my graduating, and my realizing after a year of attempting a CS minor, that I learned everything I needed to be an Embedded Engineer in my EE studies, so I decided to not finish up the minor and just graduate normally as an EE.
Being hired on full-time, they paired me up with my original mentor's replacement. He was the type that belonged in a large team, and he would screw up his section of the project and take 3 weeks to update something that a competent person could do in 3 days, but the company didn't realize it until I started working closely with him, and went to the boss-man and told him that this fellow was holding me back. Just before he was going to get fired, he up and quit on me! I was upset, but he really didn't have a clue. Now, instead of the Embedded Engineer being the bottleneck, the Electronics Designer is the bottleneck because I work closely with him to write all of his test-software, which quickly turns into the finished product.
However...there aren't that many people that I knew from college that wanted to go into this field. They all wanted to become GAME PROGRAMMERS! However, when they were seniors and job-searching, they realized that they were going to be developing desktop applications for the rest of their lives. The best programs I've seen for Embedded Engineers thus far has been at the local community colleges with tech degrees.
Good luck finding them when you need them!
Suck it NFL, I'm going to use a 3.4" LCD in my projector. I'm only going to be projecting it onto a 150" screen, so is that okay?
If not, you can SUCK IT. I'll also download the game afterwards just to have the pleasure of deleting it later.
Here is what I would do were I in your shoes. If you go back to school, you will actually lower your future potential income. I say this as someone who had low grades so I decided instead of going back and retaking classes, or instead of that, I probably would've taken OTHER classes that interested me, further reducing my GPA. I don't like doing homework you see.
Go out there to a small company and try to get a job. You might have a problem getting in the door from your grades because let's face it, plenty of people ONLY look at grades until you are in an interview. Blow them away with your interview, blow them away with your willingness to work, and you'll do just fine. After 1.5 years and having paid off a brand new car, be sure to get yourself a nice new suit and start interviewing again. By this time your resume formatting should be WAY different than it was to get out of college, because let's face it, nobody wants to see college classes on a resume when you have real-world experience, they want to hear about how your program/abilities saved the company money and you can do the same for company 2, etc.
I ended up changing jobs after 1.5 years (to the day) and am now making just under $15k higher than I was out of school and at the upper end of the payscale for someone my age in my industry at a small company. Large companies are different of course, but I like being more than just a number on a project nobody cares about. Anyways, I hope this helps. Have a good evening.
Yes, it really is.
In computer science, you learn HOW to program through learning algorithms and given a spec, you do it from scratch.
Computer Engineering on the other hand, is, we have a problem, how do we come up with a solution? Computer Engineers architect what the program looks like, how things interact, etc. They essentially create the spec's that the computer scientists end up programming.
Granted, some companies call CS majors engineers for whatever reason they have, and in some schools, a CS degree carries more weight than an Engineering degree, but not from the type of schools I would ever hire from.
Sorry, but the association was actually correct.
HAHAHAH! That's fabulous.
Why don't they subpeona Xbox live to figure out where the account was created? I'm SURE that they keep the original IP address, and using the magic of databases, you have caught the kidnapper. Does that make sense to anyone but me?
If with Sony, you get their internet content FREE FOR LIFE, then that makes it a better deal, but only is equivalent after someone has had a 360 for what, 4 years? I don't know anyone who uses a system 4 years after it comes out regularly enough to pay money for either it's games or it's online features, so I don't see that as an option either really, so I don't know what that would do for me either.
Going for the fanboy market isn't something they should be doing...
I will capitalize a country's name if they deserve respect. I will do the same with a persons name if they deserve respect. Americans (look, it was capitalized, but only because it was the first word of a sentence) do not deserve respect after voting for bush twice...
Everyone who wanted to own it probably bit the bullet and bought the re-re-re-re-release already.
Lucas is just proving how stupid americans are. You CAN take multiple bites from the same consumer with the same product (or even a lesser one).
It's not stealing. I did the work. I gave them their 100%. I never agreed to not telling on them. I just agreed to do the homework for them. It's their fault if they didn't think far enough into it to figure it out. I would never do work with someone again after securing their failure of a class for cheating, now that's just wrong.
Okay by me. I used to do homework for people, for money of course, and then email (anonymously) the exact same submitted solutions prior to allowing the other student to turn them in, including name, etc. That was at my own school. When it was at other schools, I would definitely contact the professor/TA and come to an agreement that the students not be "caught" until after they are done with the finals. Then, you need to let them be both financially responsible for the class, but the homeworks that they buy the entire year. It was totally awesome revenge against people who are going to awesome schools but are too lazy to do their homework.
If only there were more people out there in the world like me. Ethical, and awesome to boot.
With that logic, why did you ever leave 2000? Businesses for the most part still haven't moved to XP, which is why there has been the huge push in the last year for that, because if they don't move soon, then MS will lose a big chunk of change. Companies will skip updates, and then they lose billions!
If I were a juror and found that they made $0 through legitimate means by supplying their files via a P2P, then I would not be inclined to give them any sort of compensation when it can only be proved that someone downloaded a file, not that they actually used it.
It would not be copyright infringement. On ethical grounds, it is worse than shooting someone and then handing someone else the smoking gun and then screaming for your life. Why? Because they don't just ruin one life. They ruin thousands.
They can prove that you download a file how? By supplying it to you? By finding you in a swarm of BT users?
If they supply the file to you, then I would think that would constitute some sort of unethical treatment by the company. Here are drugs, you can have them, but not use them. But we'll sue you in 3 weeks because you have them and steal all of your money.
Some people are collectors, meaning that they download things just because they can, and they never use it. The law is broken at the time of download. In reality, no money is ever deprived until the end-user uses the downloaded file without paying for it.
The people who should REALLY be mad about downloading movies is Blockbuster and Netflix, as they will never get any money from the downloaders, not the MPAA.
Same with rental places for CDs, not the RIAA. Rent and rip, like you always used to. Now people are just cutting out the middleman, and not renting.
If I ran Microsoft, I would null and void all EULAs in Europe, and not do business with them anymore. If you were using Windows at ALL, it would not allow you to use a european internet site, or even an ISP. Take the system that you created back if others won't use it. Why should Microsoft, an American company care about Europe anyways? What would Europe do if MS decided to do the above situation? That's right. Tails between the legs, and begging to use a "closed" operating system once again...legally.
This would have been seen the first time that he put on the costome, and could have been covered up with thick rubber pants just like in batman movies.
8 years ago in highschool my highschool science teacher brought in his deed to show off to the class, and the entire class was told that they could live there when he moves to the moon.
The companies that make videogames will now be forced to make better games with a more intense storyline. Give me a good, single-player game any day of the week. MMORPGs aren't any fun, that's why the Nintendo fanboys like myself love the fun, single-player games that are overly original, as well as the 2-4 player games for playing with people you actually know IRL.
Your 30 days mentality is WRONG as this avid windows user proves, 10 days is enough.
I'm going to come up with 7 day linux, switch to linux for only 7 days, and make a crappy documentary about it, since I won't have the funding for something great, it will suck.
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Living in the Milwaukee area, I am very glad that the Olympics are NOT going to Chicago. Chicago is a land of garbage and destruction, and doesn't deserve the Olympics. Obama just wanted it there because he lived there once. I will be glad to never see the Olympics in America again. The Olympics just beg for terrorist attacks, and I would prefer to keep those in other nations.
And if she's caught driving again, the judge will make her sleep underground for 1000 years in a small box, a la Demolition Man and every other movie like it, just so that she can see her one true love again, the automobile. Maybe in 1000 years GM can make a car profitable.
Every time you buy hardware, you pay for it. Software can be copied an infinite amount of times for the price of the developer. If you are selling things in quantity, it makes sense to always solve problems with software and not hardware. If you're buying one or two, then hardware can be cheaper.
This is definitely the best advise (other than mine) in this thread. The best managers manage by doing, whether they do 1%, 10%, or 50%, if you do some, they will respect you. The problem with seasoned programmers though is the inability to learn new things. I would first start by analyzing the code that they have written, and suggest improvements to them where applicable. You can stay on the business side of things (everyone who switches there does it because it's easier than programming) because that will give you maybe 10 hours of real work a week, and then do another 10 hours of programming a week, and you'll still live up to your manager title by not doing anything for 20 hours or more a week. Best of luck friend, you'll need it. To me, seasoned typically means, head in ass and scared of ideas they didn't think of themselves.
I agree, however for a much different reason. I feel that C++, *.NET, Java, etc. is the entire reason that computers need to be consistently faster and have more cores. The reason, being Object Oriented programming. The companies putting this crappy software out (all of the big names go here, with etc. at the end) don't have a clue how to make things efficient, they simply are paid to get the programs out the door as quick as possible, regardless of the performance. Embedded Engineers have to do things a completely different way. We don't have more time than perhaps 25-50 MHz to do everything that we need to accomplish, and with that time, we have to accomplish everything that a PC programmer takes for granted with an OS! I graduated as an Electronic Engineer. During my summer internships, I worked closely with an embedded developer with a background in CS. He didn't really understand the hardware like the Electronics Engineer does, but he was able to make it do what he wanted. During my time there, he convinced me to pick up a minor in CS. Because of my graduating, and my realizing after a year of attempting a CS minor, that I learned everything I needed to be an Embedded Engineer in my EE studies, so I decided to not finish up the minor and just graduate normally as an EE. Being hired on full-time, they paired me up with my original mentor's replacement. He was the type that belonged in a large team, and he would screw up his section of the project and take 3 weeks to update something that a competent person could do in 3 days, but the company didn't realize it until I started working closely with him, and went to the boss-man and told him that this fellow was holding me back. Just before he was going to get fired, he up and quit on me! I was upset, but he really didn't have a clue. Now, instead of the Embedded Engineer being the bottleneck, the Electronics Designer is the bottleneck because I work closely with him to write all of his test-software, which quickly turns into the finished product. However...there aren't that many people that I knew from college that wanted to go into this field. They all wanted to become GAME PROGRAMMERS! However, when they were seniors and job-searching, they realized that they were going to be developing desktop applications for the rest of their lives. The best programs I've seen for Embedded Engineers thus far has been at the local community colleges with tech degrees. Good luck finding them when you need them!
Suck it NFL, I'm going to use a 3.4" LCD in my projector. I'm only going to be projecting it onto a 150" screen, so is that okay? If not, you can SUCK IT. I'll also download the game afterwards just to have the pleasure of deleting it later.
Here is what I would do were I in your shoes. If you go back to school, you will actually lower your future potential income. I say this as someone who had low grades so I decided instead of going back and retaking classes, or instead of that, I probably would've taken OTHER classes that interested me, further reducing my GPA. I don't like doing homework you see. Go out there to a small company and try to get a job. You might have a problem getting in the door from your grades because let's face it, plenty of people ONLY look at grades until you are in an interview. Blow them away with your interview, blow them away with your willingness to work, and you'll do just fine. After 1.5 years and having paid off a brand new car, be sure to get yourself a nice new suit and start interviewing again. By this time your resume formatting should be WAY different than it was to get out of college, because let's face it, nobody wants to see college classes on a resume when you have real-world experience, they want to hear about how your program/abilities saved the company money and you can do the same for company 2, etc. I ended up changing jobs after 1.5 years (to the day) and am now making just under $15k higher than I was out of school and at the upper end of the payscale for someone my age in my industry at a small company. Large companies are different of course, but I like being more than just a number on a project nobody cares about. Anyways, I hope this helps. Have a good evening.
Yes, it really is. In computer science, you learn HOW to program through learning algorithms and given a spec, you do it from scratch. Computer Engineering on the other hand, is, we have a problem, how do we come up with a solution? Computer Engineers architect what the program looks like, how things interact, etc. They essentially create the spec's that the computer scientists end up programming. Granted, some companies call CS majors engineers for whatever reason they have, and in some schools, a CS degree carries more weight than an Engineering degree, but not from the type of schools I would ever hire from. Sorry, but the association was actually correct.
HAHAHAH! That's fabulous. Why don't they subpeona Xbox live to figure out where the account was created? I'm SURE that they keep the original IP address, and using the magic of databases, you have caught the kidnapper. Does that make sense to anyone but me?
If with Sony, you get their internet content FREE FOR LIFE, then that makes it a better deal, but only is equivalent after someone has had a 360 for what, 4 years? I don't know anyone who uses a system 4 years after it comes out regularly enough to pay money for either it's games or it's online features, so I don't see that as an option either really, so I don't know what that would do for me either. Going for the fanboy market isn't something they should be doing...
I will capitalize a country's name if they deserve respect. I will do the same with a persons name if they deserve respect. Americans (look, it was capitalized, but only because it was the first word of a sentence) do not deserve respect after voting for bush twice...
Everyone who wanted to own it probably bit the bullet and bought the re-re-re-re-release already. Lucas is just proving how stupid americans are. You CAN take multiple bites from the same consumer with the same product (or even a lesser one).
It's not stealing. I did the work. I gave them their 100%. I never agreed to not telling on them. I just agreed to do the homework for them. It's their fault if they didn't think far enough into it to figure it out. I would never do work with someone again after securing their failure of a class for cheating, now that's just wrong.
Okay by me. I used to do homework for people, for money of course, and then email (anonymously) the exact same submitted solutions prior to allowing the other student to turn them in, including name, etc. That was at my own school. When it was at other schools, I would definitely contact the professor/TA and come to an agreement that the students not be "caught" until after they are done with the finals. Then, you need to let them be both financially responsible for the class, but the homeworks that they buy the entire year. It was totally awesome revenge against people who are going to awesome schools but are too lazy to do their homework. If only there were more people out there in the world like me. Ethical, and awesome to boot.
With that logic, why did you ever leave 2000? Businesses for the most part still haven't moved to XP, which is why there has been the huge push in the last year for that, because if they don't move soon, then MS will lose a big chunk of change. Companies will skip updates, and then they lose billions!
If I were a juror and found that they made $0 through legitimate means by supplying their files via a P2P, then I would not be inclined to give them any sort of compensation when it can only be proved that someone downloaded a file, not that they actually used it. It would not be copyright infringement. On ethical grounds, it is worse than shooting someone and then handing someone else the smoking gun and then screaming for your life. Why? Because they don't just ruin one life. They ruin thousands.
They can prove that you download a file how? By supplying it to you? By finding you in a swarm of BT users? If they supply the file to you, then I would think that would constitute some sort of unethical treatment by the company. Here are drugs, you can have them, but not use them. But we'll sue you in 3 weeks because you have them and steal all of your money. Some people are collectors, meaning that they download things just because they can, and they never use it. The law is broken at the time of download. In reality, no money is ever deprived until the end-user uses the downloaded file without paying for it. The people who should REALLY be mad about downloading movies is Blockbuster and Netflix, as they will never get any money from the downloaders, not the MPAA. Same with rental places for CDs, not the RIAA. Rent and rip, like you always used to. Now people are just cutting out the middleman, and not renting.
If I ran Microsoft, I would null and void all EULAs in Europe, and not do business with them anymore. If you were using Windows at ALL, it would not allow you to use a european internet site, or even an ISP. Take the system that you created back if others won't use it. Why should Microsoft, an American company care about Europe anyways? What would Europe do if MS decided to do the above situation? That's right. Tails between the legs, and begging to use a "closed" operating system once again...legally.
This would have been seen the first time that he put on the costome, and could have been covered up with thick rubber pants just like in batman movies.
I mean, come on! Who else doesn't want a 6 figure salary playing games? I'm shoot for a 5 figure salary playing games is possible. :D
8 years ago in highschool my highschool science teacher brought in his deed to show off to the class, and the entire class was told that they could live there when he moves to the moon.
Don't worry about the whales, Aqua-man will save them!
The companies that make videogames will now be forced to make better games with a more intense storyline. Give me a good, single-player game any day of the week. MMORPGs aren't any fun, that's why the Nintendo fanboys like myself love the fun, single-player games that are overly original, as well as the 2-4 player games for playing with people you actually know IRL.
Your 30 days mentality is WRONG as this avid windows user proves, 10 days is enough. I'm going to come up with 7 day linux, switch to linux for only 7 days, and make a crappy documentary about it, since I won't have the funding for something great, it will suck.