In my current and past orgs, the EAs could easily be replaced by unpaid interns from a local community art college:
1) Disappear for months at a time talking high concepts
2) Make vary large, very colourful, completely incomprehensible pictures that get pinned up on walls that nobody looks at
3) Never update the pictures to reflect reality
4) Only show up when there is free food on the table
5) When asked a serious question requiring a solution, go away and come back with a completely unworkable answer four months after the project is due, if ever
With the unpaid art-school intern option, an organization could save high six, low seven figures a year!
1) No political decision improved a technical solution
2) All decisions are political
3) Commitments made by you are set in stone. Commitments made by management are set in Jell-o. In a microwave.
4) Being wrong may get you fired eventually. Your boss being wrong and blaming you will get you fired sooner. Telling your boss they are wrong will get you fired right now.
5) Contrary to popular opinion, if you find something you love, only try to make a living at it if you can be your own boss. Doing it for someone else will wring every last drop of joy out of it.
Average != Median
In my area of work, you would not get hired as a developer. If you were not able to answer the OPs question regarding encryption, I would give you a pass and look at other parts of the interview.
Hot Coffee aside, the guy states that his group (and I'm talking EB games) has expanded shelf space for PC games in recent years. You gotta be kidding me! I've seen the space for PC games have a 3 month half-life.
And with XBOX 360 here, PS3 and new Nintendo coming up quick, all the PC titles they display will be in a shoe-box under the game guides...
But the irony with the 3-year MS technology release cycle means everyone else has to re-write their code every three years to keep up with MS 'enhancements'.
After watching the gameplay videos, the thing that stands out is the really, really chunky physics engine. After this long in development (although it's what? 3 developer houses?) I would expect something with a tad more polish.
Actually it's been my experience that customers love to make technology decisions based on their spouse's friend's wife's ex-roomate's second cousin's opinion.
They get very insistent actually...
If I even suggested we go OS, I'd get fired.
Oh, hey...
Yeah. If Tetris took 40 hours, it would suck.
If Knights of the Old Republic took 5 minutes it would also suck.
All depends on context, the gamer and the game.
Something tells me someone needed to fill space on a gaming web site. Probably was playing Minesweeper too much before a deadline.
Er, if you know your sci-fi, technically he made the first three Star Wars films out of something he didn't write, just cobbled together from space opera and saturday movie-house serials.
I spent half of the weekend trying to fix what I though was a virus. After a system restore etc, I managed to get things working again. But then Trend found a couple of virii that had been on my machine for months and never detected before (despite daily checks).
Not impressed at all, will be looking for another anti-virus solution. Any suggestions?
Should have made it clearer. That was the point: the logic the RIAA et al uses is that a download takes away money they would normally receive for a view/listen. However this move tries and stem the flow of pre-release downloads to forestall any bad publicity.
So yeah, it is poor logic but it ain't mine.
So if it's downloaded before release, presumably the 'owner' would lose the price of a theatre ticket.
If it's downloaded after release, the owener woudl lose the price of a DVD purchase.
Last I checked, the price of a DVD was greater (sometimes 10 times greater) than a movie theatre ticket.
I think the damage people fear is that a pre-release version goes out, get's unirversally panned, and nobody goes to the theatre to see it.
Case in point, if I had access to Daredevil before I shelled out my $13 (cdn)....
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1) Disappear for months at a time talking high concepts
2) Make vary large, very colourful, completely incomprehensible pictures that get pinned up on walls that nobody looks at
3) Never update the pictures to reflect reality
4) Only show up when there is free food on the table
5) When asked a serious question requiring a solution, go away and come back with a completely unworkable answer four months after the project is due, if ever
With the unpaid art-school intern option, an organization could save high six, low seven figures a year!
1) No political decision improved a technical solution
2) All decisions are political
3) Commitments made by you are set in stone. Commitments made by management are set in Jell-o. In a microwave.
4) Being wrong may get you fired eventually. Your boss being wrong and blaming you will get you fired sooner. Telling your boss they are wrong will get you fired right now.
5) Contrary to popular opinion, if you find something you love, only try to make a living at it if you can be your own boss. Doing it for someone else will wring every last drop of joy out of it.
I may be having a bad day...
Average != Median
In my area of work, you would not get hired as a developer. If you were not able to answer the OPs question regarding encryption, I would give you a pass and look at other parts of the interview.
Heh it's from Bologna. Where are the baloney jokes?
Cold-Cut Fusion?
... The IT department didn't pick the app, and isn't allowed to not support it....
And they expect you to integrate it with all the other apps that other departments/teams picked without consulting IT for the past 10 years
Actually, it sounds like from Wikipedia like both sides lost, and claimed victory anyways (as military leaders are wont to do).
"Mission Accomplished!" banners have been posted in various forms around the globe and throughout history.
indigigent
Okay, have it your way. We'll post the applications on Digg instead.
As long as it ain't YouTube...
Updated 21:17:10 "Moldering"
Updated 21:19:59 "Still Moldering"
Updated 23:30:11 "Fscking kids! Git offa ma plot!"
Updated 23:30:11 "Where'd that worm come from?"
Updated 07:00:55 "Putrefying"
Yeah what's up with these kids today?
Mind you, I was always the last one to get picked in school anyway...
Remember, build a man a fire and he is warm for a day. Set a man on fire and he is warm for the rest of his life!
Hot Coffee aside, the guy states that his group (and I'm talking EB games) has expanded shelf space for PC games in recent years. You gotta be kidding me! I've seen the space for PC games have a 3 month half-life.
And with XBOX 360 here, PS3 and new Nintendo coming up quick, all the PC titles they display will be in a shoe-box under the game guides...
As Bruce said at the end of the interview, the country is getting way too serious. Proof enough within these pages.
But the irony with the 3-year MS technology release cycle means everyone else has to re-write their code every three years to keep up with MS 'enhancements'.
After watching the gameplay videos, the thing that stands out is the really, really chunky physics engine. After this long in development (although it's what? 3 developer houses?) I would expect something with a tad more polish.
Hmmm, good idea.
I think my customer's spouse's friend's wife's ex-roomate's second cousin is hiring...
Actually it's been my experience that customers love to make technology decisions based on their spouse's friend's wife's ex-roomate's second cousin's opinion.
They get very insistent actually...
If I even suggested we go OS, I'd get fired.
Oh, hey...
Yeah. If Tetris took 40 hours, it would suck.
If Knights of the Old Republic took 5 minutes it would also suck.
All depends on context, the gamer and the game.
Something tells me someone needed to fill space on a gaming web site. Probably was playing Minesweeper too much before a deadline.
If you can (and it's rare) actually build the program the has it's own button and send out all the stuff.
Managed to build a couple of star schemas that reduced a 2 week, 2 MBA per month process to something like 5 hours.
They were thrilled until they realized they had effectively half the work to do.
A fight to the death between two MBAs is sick, sad yet funny
But...but... I'm not their target market?!? I've been their target market for 2 decades! That's it, I'm going back to Chinese Checkers!
Atomic Batteries to Power! Turbines to Speed!
Er, if you know your sci-fi, technically he made the first three Star Wars films out of something he didn't write, just cobbled together from space opera and saturday movie-house serials.
I spent half of the weekend trying to fix what I though was a virus. After a system restore etc, I managed to get things working again. But then Trend found a couple of virii that had been on my machine for months and never detected before (despite daily checks). Not impressed at all, will be looking for another anti-virus solution. Any suggestions?
Should have made it clearer. That was the point: the logic the RIAA et al uses is that a download takes away money they would normally receive for a view/listen. However this move tries and stem the flow of pre-release downloads to forestall any bad publicity. So yeah, it is poor logic but it ain't mine.
So if it's downloaded before release, presumably the 'owner' would lose the price of a theatre ticket. If it's downloaded after release, the owener woudl lose the price of a DVD purchase. Last I checked, the price of a DVD was greater (sometimes 10 times greater) than a movie theatre ticket. I think the damage people fear is that a pre-release version goes out, get's unirversally panned, and nobody goes to the theatre to see it. Case in point, if I had access to Daredevil before I shelled out my $13 (cdn)....