Please, if the Democrats had a bill to allow volunteers to help kids dying of cancer it wouldn't get bipartisan support from the Republicans... probably for some outrageous reason like "This endangers our right to pray in hospitals".
The senate GOP filibustered THEIR OWN BILL last week because the democrats agreed to vote on it.
Snarkiness aside it's not Microsoft's fault that it's only on Windows RT.
Microsoft has created a set of developer tools so that x86 and RT apps can be sold and used across all of your PCs seamlessly. This is Microsoft's pitch: buy an RT tablet and use it on all your computers.
The game developer though sells his game *through a publisher* on Windows x86. So he's not allowed to sell it for both platforms. This wasn't a technological impediment it was a licensing one. So Microsoft--pushing a unified x86/RT universe failed to promote a game for him and give him free advertising since his game didn't align with their own goals of a great user experience where your applications run everywhere.
I don't have a lot of sympathy that Microsoft didn't give random developer who I've never heard of free marketing and promotion. I see plenty of games on my surface being promoted by Microsoft? You're not one of them? Boo fucking hoo. Promotion space is a zero sum game. No matter what Microsoft does someone is going to fall from prominence in placement.
Agreed, but it'll be tricky since the Wall Street Journal also has a blog where they pretty much post random crap from their writers.
So do you assign different domains different arbitrary values? Is it based on the number of viewers? The Yelp domain probably gets more viewers than the WSJ so its reach is arguably higher. Do you base it on reliability and perceived accuracy? Would that mean that Fox News can publish libel while the NYT can't?
It's tricky to draw that line and it previously used to come down to money but now we all can post to equally professional websites as the WSJ for a few dollars a year--and feasibly get more views than their columnists.
Contrary to the OP's statement: the fact that it happens to have a computer involved does make it interesting.
Well, wages are tied pretty much directly to profit here so the stagnant wages is directly tied to the fact that we didn't make much money.
And admittedly I work at two places right now and the stagnant wages is one company while my freelancing with a second company is the one who has the resources to hire foreign workers. And I would emphasize *resources*. I know a couple of the guys they convinced to move to the states. They are not taking a pay cut--they're taking senior positions because they possess unique skills in my industry and are well known world wide. That's why they were hired, in *spite* of the cost of relocating them to the US and dealing with the hassle.
America has a history of attracting the world's top minds. I would rather have people coming to America and starting the next Google here than taking the idea back to Europe, China or India.
Don't bother. Sethstorm is clearly crap at whatever he does and thinks the reason he can't find a job in an industry with 98% employment is that an immigrant is stealing it from him.
Those foreigners are working off of desperation, which is a very poor demonstrator of value. That is the only thing that those foreigners possess that no US citizen will or should ever possess.
That's incredibly nationalist/racist and insulting to a lot of friends who possess talent not desperation.
If we were all that dumb then we would have turned away Albert Einstein, John Muir, Igor Stravinsky etc.
Online reviews are a pretty big part of the internet. Yelp is one of the most popular websites on the internet.
If writing a review or using Yelp can get you sued for $750k then that would have huge ramifications for internet users and prominent internet companies like Yelp.
It also illustrates the interesting new territory we enter where users are demanding the rights of "media" and being granted publishing rights but not educated in the rules and practices that protect you as a publisher. Part of breaking down and democratizing the access to global access and speech is that suddenly everyone is a publisher not just from a power standpoint but also from a legal and liability standpoint.
If he isn't actually pretending to be a paranoid nutter and actually is terrified for his life because his drug addled mind thinks he's about to be killed I can see someone keeling over from the stress.
Just because the threat is all in his mind doesn't mean he can't give himself a heart attack.
According the summary unemployment has doubled. I think that's the best supply/demand metric. 4% unemployment is GREAT! But it would also imply that the supply/demand ratio has gone up. So rising wages while demand dropping and supply increasing during a recession? That's a crowning achievement!
Most companies miss out on a lot of really talented people because they're looking for a cookie cutter checklist instead of focusing on talent and personality.
We first and foremost want to see what people can do. And if they're great at what they do we want to see that they will fit in well with the culture. Degrees or transcripts have never been requested during an interview. In fact when I left the company to finish up my degree my exit interview included an offer for a raise/full time if I dropped out of school instead of leaving.
Bullshit. So you'd hire someone with no professional programming experience and no college degree? I don't believe you.
I started working for them while in college. When I had to change schools (due to my college closing) the founder offered me a raise if I would drop out and stick around.
Degrees here are irrelevant. I've sat in on a lot of interviews and never once was a person's degree asked about. There are plenty of people with degrees who suck and plenty who are great and dropped out.
I highly doubt this is the problem. At our company we will hire anyone who is really good at what they do. There simply aren't that many people. The US is cranking out people with degrees who pretty much suck. The rest of the world isn't doing any better but if you have 8B people pick from inevitably a good number are really good.
I look at our company and others and the guest workers are all there because they were better than the domestic applicants. Some of whom are not only better but unique and nearly irreplaceable. And they get paid as such. If they are here or working overseas --either way they would get paid very well.
As to wages... well our wages have been pretty stagnant at our company--but we haven't laid off anyone and we've increased in size. And since we added entry level people I would guess that our average wages actually decreased due to expansion on the low-end.
I think that's another factor to consider--there are a lot of people entering the job market. So you're going to see a larger diversity of talent and pay to go along with it.
They would probably argue that their success in fighting off the illuminati is the reason the illuminati aren't in control anymore.
Why hasn't Windows 8 taken off? I'm not sure what "taken off means" in this context. It's selling faster than Windows 7 which sold faster than Vista which sold faster than XP etc... So maybe the illuminati are still pulling the strings.;)
I have a question for the Slashdot audience. In fact it would make a great poll:
I have upgraded a CPU and kept my mother board:
10% or less of the time. 11-25% of the time. 26-50% of the time. 51%-75% of the time 76-100% of the time
For me it would be 10% of the time. Usually when I upgrade CPUs motherboards have improved so much as well that it makes sense to pick up a brand new one even if the socket is the same.
Scientists aren't alone. Banks, governments, militaries and economists have all agreed that it's a huge problem with 'socioeconomic disparities'. Why? Because the poor can't buy their way out of the problem.
Too hot? Turn up the A/C. Crops not getting enough water? Desalinate at huge expense. Etc. The poor can't spend their way out of the effects so they just die of drought and starvation. The rich are already so disconnected from pressure that they have wiggle room for a few degrees change.
The problem though is that the poor are only poor because of governments. Without a government the poor simply organize and kill all the rich. So Government is *GOOD* if you are rich. It lets you organize international defense so that a desperate Mexican army doesn't invade. It is also good since it protects individual wealthy people through police and legal protection.
The rich in countries without a government live very differently--they're under siege from kidnapping and theft. The wealthy don't walk the streets.
We can either bunker in (which the military is starting to plan for) or we can fix the source of hte problem and hopefully not spend all of our economic impact on war to try and protect ourselves from the bad outcomes.
Since we are all pretty well aware that we are between ice ages it doesn't say much at all and it gives absolutely no indication if the current warming trend is usual or not.
Since you aren't inclined to think let me do it for you.
If you will look at the graph you'll see a line going through the last million odd years years labeled "2001-2005". You will note that only once before in the last 1.3 million years has it peaked above 29.75 or so. In the next *20 years* we're about to break through 30 and climb up to as high as 33*.
If you look really carefully you'll notice that it's completely unprecedented. Even an additional 1*C is unprecedented in the last 1.3 million years.
You'll also notice that in the last 100 years we've done what normally takes hundreds or thousands of years to accomplish.
There are lots of very interesting insights into whether this current warming is usual or not.
There are thousands of universities... all learning stuff about the universe.
I would believe he's correct. There is way more money in real research into how the world works than there is going into the PR machine trying to protect fossil fuel providers.
You're joking, right? My PC at the time probably cost less than $1,000 and it had a K6-2 450MHz, a Matrox Millennium II and dual Voodoo II cards. I used to play Unreal at maximum settings on that thing. By comparison, the N64 was every bit the toy that it was meant to be.
Ignoring for the fact that your computer came out years after the Nintendo 64...
A voodoo 2 card cost $300. You had a Matrox Millenium II and 2x $300 cards which means you somehow managed after $200 for windows to find a barebones system for $200? Pray tell how you accomplished this feat AC.
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No. Manufacturing a gun is manufacturing a gun -- which without a license/permit is highly illegal.
I'm sure someone actually hand checks every submission though--otherwise they would have a poor reputation for things failing.
Because... some of us use Windows 8 and use VLC. So presumably if I donate to VLC I get to use it with Windows RT?
Please, if the Democrats had a bill to allow volunteers to help kids dying of cancer it wouldn't get bipartisan support from the Republicans... probably for some outrageous reason like "This endangers our right to pray in hospitals".
The senate GOP filibustered THEIR OWN BILL last week because the democrats agreed to vote on it.
Snarkiness aside it's not Microsoft's fault that it's only on Windows RT.
Microsoft has created a set of developer tools so that x86 and RT apps can be sold and used across all of your PCs seamlessly. This is Microsoft's pitch: buy an RT tablet and use it on all your computers.
The game developer though sells his game *through a publisher* on Windows x86. So he's not allowed to sell it for both platforms. This wasn't a technological impediment it was a licensing one. So Microsoft--pushing a unified x86/RT universe failed to promote a game for him and give him free advertising since his game didn't align with their own goals of a great user experience where your applications run everywhere.
I don't have a lot of sympathy that Microsoft didn't give random developer who I've never heard of free marketing and promotion. I see plenty of games on my surface being promoted by Microsoft? You're not one of them? Boo fucking hoo. Promotion space is a zero sum game. No matter what Microsoft does someone is going to fall from prominence in placement.
Agreed, but it'll be tricky since the Wall Street Journal also has a blog where they pretty much post random crap from their writers.
So do you assign different domains different arbitrary values? Is it based on the number of viewers? The Yelp domain probably gets more viewers than the WSJ so its reach is arguably higher. Do you base it on reliability and perceived accuracy? Would that mean that Fox News can publish libel while the NYT can't?
It's tricky to draw that line and it previously used to come down to money but now we all can post to equally professional websites as the WSJ for a few dollars a year--and feasibly get more views than their columnists.
Contrary to the OP's statement: the fact that it happens to have a computer involved does make it interesting.
In windows 8 it works more like this...
You press the windows key.
You type in what you want.
You press enter.
It's exactly the same as Windows 7.
Well, wages are tied pretty much directly to profit here so the stagnant wages is directly tied to the fact that we didn't make much money.
And admittedly I work at two places right now and the stagnant wages is one company while my freelancing with a second company is the one who has the resources to hire foreign workers. And I would emphasize *resources*. I know a couple of the guys they convinced to move to the states. They are not taking a pay cut--they're taking senior positions because they possess unique skills in my industry and are well known world wide. That's why they were hired, in *spite* of the cost of relocating them to the US and dealing with the hassle.
America has a history of attracting the world's top minds. I would rather have people coming to America and starting the next Google here than taking the idea back to Europe, China or India.
Don't bother. Sethstorm is clearly crap at whatever he does and thinks the reason he can't find a job in an industry with 98% employment is that an immigrant is stealing it from him.
Those foreigners are working off of desperation, which is a very poor demonstrator of value. That is the only thing that those foreigners possess that no US citizen will or should ever possess.
That's incredibly nationalist/racist and insulting to a lot of friends who possess talent not desperation.
If we were all that dumb then we would have turned away Albert Einstein, John Muir, Igor Stravinsky etc.
Online reviews are a pretty big part of the internet. Yelp is one of the most popular websites on the internet.
If writing a review or using Yelp can get you sued for $750k then that would have huge ramifications for internet users and prominent internet companies like Yelp.
It also illustrates the interesting new territory we enter where users are demanding the rights of "media" and being granted publishing rights but not educated in the rules and practices that protect you as a publisher. Part of breaking down and democratizing the access to global access and speech is that suddenly everyone is a publisher not just from a power standpoint but also from a legal and liability standpoint.
If he isn't actually pretending to be a paranoid nutter and actually is terrified for his life because his drug addled mind thinks he's about to be killed I can see someone keeling over from the stress.
Just because the threat is all in his mind doesn't mean he can't give himself a heart attack.
According the summary unemployment has doubled. I think that's the best supply/demand metric. 4% unemployment is GREAT! But it would also imply that the supply/demand ratio has gone up. So rising wages while demand dropping and supply increasing during a recession? That's a crowning achievement!
Most companies miss out on a lot of really talented people because they're looking for a cookie cutter checklist instead of focusing on talent and personality.
We first and foremost want to see what people can do. And if they're great at what they do we want to see that they will fit in well with the culture. Degrees or transcripts have never been requested during an interview. In fact when I left the company to finish up my degree my exit interview included an offer for a raise/full time if I dropped out of school instead of leaving.
Bullshit. So you'd hire someone with no professional programming experience and no college degree? I don't believe you.
I started working for them while in college. When I had to change schools (due to my college closing) the founder offered me a raise if I would drop out and stick around.
Degrees here are irrelevant. I've sat in on a lot of interviews and never once was a person's degree asked about. There are plenty of people with degrees who suck and plenty who are great and dropped out.
I highly doubt this is the problem. At our company we will hire anyone who is really good at what they do. There simply aren't that many people. The US is cranking out people with degrees who pretty much suck. The rest of the world isn't doing any better but if you have 8B people pick from inevitably a good number are really good.
I look at our company and others and the guest workers are all there because they were better than the domestic applicants. Some of whom are not only better but unique and nearly irreplaceable. And they get paid as such. If they are here or working overseas --either way they would get paid very well.
As to wages... well our wages have been pretty stagnant at our company--but we haven't laid off anyone and we've increased in size. And since we added entry level people I would guess that our average wages actually decreased due to expansion on the low-end.
I think that's another factor to consider--there are a lot of people entering the job market. So you're going to see a larger diversity of talent and pay to go along with it.
They would probably argue that their success in fighting off the illuminati is the reason the illuminati aren't in control anymore.
Why hasn't Windows 8 taken off? I'm not sure what "taken off means" in this context. It's selling faster than Windows 7 which sold faster than Vista which sold faster than XP etc... So maybe the illuminati are still pulling the strings. ;)
Doing it right?
Xbox has the indie zone which lets anyone with a PC develop games for the Xbox and publish them easily. You can do it for free.
Wii-U requires an unknown dev kit and Nintendo's permission to publish your game.
Xbox Indie Zone lets you post free or pay games. You can price your games however you please.
Wii-U requires an unknown/private agreement with Nintendo to publish your title in their store.
Xbox lets you download to your console, play offline and buy games with a free silver account. Sooo... you're full of shit.
5 whole games! This will really set the Wii-U apart from the Xbox Indie Marketplace, Sony Store, App Store and Google Play!
I have a question for the Slashdot audience. In fact it would make a great poll:
I have upgraded a CPU and kept my mother board:
10% or less of the time.
11-25% of the time.
26-50% of the time.
51%-75% of the time
76-100% of the time
For me it would be 10% of the time. Usually when I upgrade CPUs motherboards have improved so much as well that it makes sense to pick up a brand new one even if the socket is the same.
Scientists aren't alone. Banks, governments, militaries and economists have all agreed that it's a huge problem with 'socioeconomic disparities'. Why? Because the poor can't buy their way out of the problem.
Too hot? Turn up the A/C. Crops not getting enough water? Desalinate at huge expense. Etc. The poor can't spend their way out of the effects so they just die of drought and starvation. The rich are already so disconnected from pressure that they have wiggle room for a few degrees change.
The problem though is that the poor are only poor because of governments. Without a government the poor simply organize and kill all the rich. So Government is *GOOD* if you are rich. It lets you organize international defense so that a desperate Mexican army doesn't invade. It is also good since it protects individual wealthy people through police and legal protection.
The rich in countries without a government live very differently--they're under siege from kidnapping and theft. The wealthy don't walk the streets.
We can either bunker in (which the military is starting to plan for) or we can fix the source of hte problem and hopefully not spend all of our economic impact on war to try and protect ourselves from the bad outcomes.
Since we are all pretty well aware that we are between ice ages it doesn't say much at all and it gives absolutely no indication if the current warming trend is usual or not.
Since you aren't inclined to think let me do it for you.
If you will look at the graph you'll see a line going through the last million odd years years labeled "2001-2005". You will note that only once before in the last 1.3 million years has it peaked above 29.75 or so. In the next *20 years* we're about to break through 30 and climb up to as high as 33*.
If you look really carefully you'll notice that it's completely unprecedented. Even an additional 1*C is unprecedented in the last 1.3 million years.
You'll also notice that in the last 100 years we've done what normally takes hundreds or thousands of years to accomplish.
There are lots of very interesting insights into whether this current warming is usual or not.
There are thousands of universities... all learning stuff about the universe.
I would believe he's correct. There is way more money in real research into how the world works than there is going into the PR machine trying to protect fossil fuel providers.
Yeah, the last 'earth shattering' discovery was that there was probably most definitely liquid water in the past.
Which was kind of ... meh.
Also the neckbeards wouldn't be caught dead supporting Microsoft.
The younger generation (myself included) associates Windows with Xbox as much as they do PCs. So we're far more likely to like Microsoft products.
As to my Lumia 920. Works great. No problem getting 24 hour battery life.
You're joking, right? My PC at the time probably cost less than $1,000 and it had a K6-2 450MHz, a Matrox Millennium II and dual Voodoo II cards. I used to play Unreal at maximum settings on that thing. By comparison, the N64 was every bit the toy that it was meant to be.
Ignoring for the fact that your computer came out years after the Nintendo 64...
A voodoo 2 card cost $300. You had a Matrox Millenium II and 2x $300 cards which means you somehow managed after $200 for windows to find a barebones system for $200? Pray tell how you accomplished this feat AC.