I'm experiencing the same things you are in my MBA program. Many of the tech-oriented classes make a special point to illustrate uses of open source software -- as much as textbooks and older professors can, of course. They do a good job of pointing out that the main drawback of open source is that there's often little support, or the support makes it cost as much as a commercial solution, so it's not a "silver bullet" option. But that in many cases, it can be used in place of otherwise commercial apps.
In other words, what's been taught is "evaluate the software on its own merits, and how it will affect future growth," which is pretty standard "be a good manager" ideas but is reassuring to hear in a classroom setting. I'm one of the more tech-savvy students in my classes, but it's nice that it's not all just "buy this and that and you'll have an enterprise-class system for your small business."
The article is only for games available for the PC. The fact that it overlooked games on the Live marketplace or the PSN sort of makes sense -- it's hard for those games to be ignored because if you *can* buy them, you're probably aware that they're coming out.
PC games, on the other hand, rely almost entirely on word of mouth. There's no platform that advertises them, or consolidates the downloading, or puts up at least a "what's new for Windows" page.
Probably. Of course, I'd imagine it got pulled so quickly because everyone who bought it quickly called Apple to get their money back, or otherwise cancel the purchase. "Oh I added it as a joke, I didn't mean to actually buy it."
The kind of additional functionality added for usability reasons are usually looked down on because they can fall into scope creep, but I think they're quite the opposite. I think most coders look down on these kinds of suggestions because they don't affect how they use the program. And, truly, most people who work on open source code do so because they themselves want the functionality they're coding for.
To them, if it does the job, great. And I think many of them have a similar response to usability problems as those asking for ports to different operating systems, or even a binary: "Not my problem, it works for me and that's enough."
Not to mention that, in many cases, what increases usability to a larger audience is reducing efficiency to the programmer who designed it to suit how they work.
Evolution is a fact. The theory element is the historical path, which makes sense (we obviously can't test the past 65M years).
Ask any biologist, who work with evolutionary principles on a daily basis, whether evolution is a fact or not.
Exactly. Any parent knows that for a kid, the kid's question after "Why?" is just "Why?" again. An engineer will ask "why" and, when they get the answer, think "interesting" and add it to their pool of knowledge, looking for an application.
Or to chop it down to something more memorable, the kid asks "why" and follows with "why". The engineer asks "why" and follows with "how?"
I read analysis of the "market" sites after 2004 and 2006. They were all reactionary, not forecasting, much like the regular stock market. Kerry was a longshot in the electoral "market," until he won. And when good news came out, he got a bump -- after the news was out. It responded to polls and followed the same news as anyone else in 2006, as well.
Unsurprising, really -- these markets are populated by people who read the same news as everyone else. There's no "insiders" in politics that control voting, so the polls showing Obama with a slight edge nation-wide influences the "market."
Yeah, I'd imagine that any company that decides to push into OS X (iPhone or desktop) coding will have a demand for Obj-C coding. Kind of a no-brainer, really.
The point is that using IRC by itself doesn't get you to buy anything. I'm sure incorporating a VW/RW gardening simulator, sponsored by Lowes, will include many links to "buy this plant now." And outfitting your personal avatar on Amazon.com can not only include one-click purchasing for your real life "avatar," but also include micropayments for those electronic representations.
I'm only mildly surprised that the "quest to 7-eleven" mentioned above didn't include that the quest involved buying a [new soda product] that, in order to complete, you must enter the barcode to the local bartender.
Not to mention that the small coterie goes there incessantly, rather than "saving up" for a post every few hours. If it's treated like an "IM-blog," it's going to see a lot more traffic. That doesn't mean the content is any better; you just gotta refresh more often to see it.
Exactly, and then the old canard that you "lose some to formatting" still has people complaining about the difference in size on the box compared to what their computer tells them.
If the computer, which is the only device that will ever use their hard drive, gives them a capacity, that is the size the hard drive should be told at. I'll accept GiB and MiB when my computer tells me that's how much space I have left on my computer. Until then, I'll just keep telling people that companies are using SI units instead of computer terminology in order to inflate their numbers.
My father-in-law is an old-school CS guy at a big insurance company, and he says that when they're hiring new blood for coding jobs they typically just look for someone with a bachelor's degree and an ability to code *something*. The rest they learn on the job, and the less experience they have with full-on coding, the better, because they do what they're told:D
I'm in the same boat you are with the PS3, and am exceedingly happy with the purchase. But if I had an older TV, the advantages would be significantly reduced, since I wouldn't care about blu-ray or hi-def gaming. And there are a lot of parents who would rather set their kid up with their own TV, even in their room, than let them play video games in the living room. How else would they watch their TV shows, after all?
And most families only have 1 "good" tv. My wife and I pretty much use our new plasma TV only for movies, so blu-ray was a no-brainer. The occasional game is great, too. But if I was a bit younger I wouldn't be able to afford the TV, making the console less attractive at its price point.
But, how is that different from "Super collector's bonus editions" of DVDs? Same movie, but more outtakes and commentary? It's par for the course for DVDs that came out early in DVD's lifecycle to have a re-release with more "features."
If you care enough for the features, you plunk down the change. If you just want the movie, you're already set.
There's this great new technology called "Spaying," it prevents female cats from going into heat AND allows them to live longer. You should look into it!
Agreed. Those who complain about sniping are looking for "deals" and don't understand how eBay works. They're already proxy bids and will automatically adjust to "just barely winning" when a competing bid comes in. If you *would have* paid $80 if you had 15 more minutes, but only bid 50, whose fault is it that you lost?
This is regional, unfortunately. I mean, it's good that it works in some places, and if you actually ask a tech, they'll say "we don't allow it," but I run an FTP server at home and it works just fine. I also had a web server up for a short while, but the upload speeds are too slow to make it worthwhile; it ends up typically oversaturating the connection.
Technically they state that any "server" is against the TOS for the home connections, and that if you need "server" capabilities you should upgrade to their business class price range. But given how goofy their definition of server is, they certainly aren't totalitarian about enforcing the block on ports/servers.
Places like Baltimore, which have no good coffee shops. There's an area near my work that has 1 starbucks and 3 local shops. The 3 local shops serve bad coffee and have a horrible attitude, but offer free wireless. Unsurprisingly, no one there is ever using a laptop. At starbucks, where you have to pay to use it? Packed. Consistently packed, at that, with paying wireless users.
Maybe it's cos they make your coffee, however you like it, and still smile about it (no eye rolling or snooty remarks). Maybe it's a consistent cup of coffee (consistency is worth something to some people). I've been places where starbucks is low rung on the ladder (the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities campus is a great example), but in a lot of places they provide a service that no one else wants to provide (custom coffee with a smile). That's worth something to a lot of people.
I don't know if you use eBay for selling things, but you can't have a buyer that does that. A single non-paying charge ("Unpaid Item Claim") that goes unanswered will cause them to delete your account. If you have an excuse, you can maybe get 1 to slide, but 2?
The vast majority of negatives towards buyers are retaliatory, since those who don't pay lose their accounts pretty quickly. And as long as a buyer has a feedback rating of 1, they're generally fine as a buyer. It's the sellers where people seriously evaluate the feedback and both having a huge amount of feedback and "fake" feedback that's not accurate is useless.
And any feedback they left is removed, meaning that bidders who don't pay can't influence the system. It's a nice touch, if you ask me, and one of the things that most sellers complaining about the change are ignoring.
You weren't waiting for this to cook smores in the kitchen, were you? If so, there's this great device called a Microwave that's been around for a while. Makes marshmallows nice & gooey and heats up the chocolate pretty well, too. About 25 seconds will do ya.
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I'm experiencing the same things you are in my MBA program. Many of the tech-oriented classes make a special point to illustrate uses of open source software -- as much as textbooks and older professors can, of course. They do a good job of pointing out that the main drawback of open source is that there's often little support, or the support makes it cost as much as a commercial solution, so it's not a "silver bullet" option. But that in many cases, it can be used in place of otherwise commercial apps.
In other words, what's been taught is "evaluate the software on its own merits, and how it will affect future growth," which is pretty standard "be a good manager" ideas but is reassuring to hear in a classroom setting. I'm one of the more tech-savvy students in my classes, but it's nice that it's not all just "buy this and that and you'll have an enterprise-class system for your small business."
Show me the link where you can buy it for Windows.
The article is only for games available for the PC. The fact that it overlooked games on the Live marketplace or the PSN sort of makes sense -- it's hard for those games to be ignored because if you *can* buy them, you're probably aware that they're coming out.
PC games, on the other hand, rely almost entirely on word of mouth. There's no platform that advertises them, or consolidates the downloading, or puts up at least a "what's new for Windows" page.
Probably. Of course, I'd imagine it got pulled so quickly because everyone who bought it quickly called Apple to get their money back, or otherwise cancel the purchase. "Oh I added it as a joke, I didn't mean to actually buy it."
The kind of additional functionality added for usability reasons are usually looked down on because they can fall into scope creep, but I think they're quite the opposite. I think most coders look down on these kinds of suggestions because they don't affect how they use the program. And, truly, most people who work on open source code do so because they themselves want the functionality they're coding for.
To them, if it does the job, great. And I think many of them have a similar response to usability problems as those asking for ports to different operating systems, or even a binary: "Not my problem, it works for me and that's enough."
Not to mention that, in many cases, what increases usability to a larger audience is reducing efficiency to the programmer who designed it to suit how they work.
Evolution is a fact. The theory element is the historical path, which makes sense (we obviously can't test the past 65M years). Ask any biologist, who work with evolutionary principles on a daily basis, whether evolution is a fact or not.
Exactly. Any parent knows that for a kid, the kid's question after "Why?" is just "Why?" again. An engineer will ask "why" and, when they get the answer, think "interesting" and add it to their pool of knowledge, looking for an application.
Or to chop it down to something more memorable, the kid asks "why" and follows with "why". The engineer asks "why" and follows with "how?"
I read analysis of the "market" sites after 2004 and 2006. They were all reactionary, not forecasting, much like the regular stock market. Kerry was a longshot in the electoral "market," until he won. And when good news came out, he got a bump -- after the news was out. It responded to polls and followed the same news as anyone else in 2006, as well.
Unsurprising, really -- these markets are populated by people who read the same news as everyone else. There's no "insiders" in politics that control voting, so the polls showing Obama with a slight edge nation-wide influences the "market."
The people who feel he's "not white enough" are the same 25% who think Bush is doing a good job. They're a lost cause anyway.
Yeah, I'd imagine that any company that decides to push into OS X (iPhone or desktop) coding will have a demand for Obj-C coding. Kind of a no-brainer, really.
The point is that using IRC by itself doesn't get you to buy anything. I'm sure incorporating a VW/RW gardening simulator, sponsored by Lowes, will include many links to "buy this plant now." And outfitting your personal avatar on Amazon.com can not only include one-click purchasing for your real life "avatar," but also include micropayments for those electronic representations.
I'm only mildly surprised that the "quest to 7-eleven" mentioned above didn't include that the quest involved buying a [new soda product] that, in order to complete, you must enter the barcode to the local bartender.
Not to mention that the small coterie goes there incessantly, rather than "saving up" for a post every few hours. If it's treated like an "IM-blog," it's going to see a lot more traffic. That doesn't mean the content is any better; you just gotta refresh more often to see it.
Exactly, and then the old canard that you "lose some to formatting" still has people complaining about the difference in size on the box compared to what their computer tells them.
If the computer, which is the only device that will ever use their hard drive, gives them a capacity, that is the size the hard drive should be told at. I'll accept GiB and MiB when my computer tells me that's how much space I have left on my computer. Until then, I'll just keep telling people that companies are using SI units instead of computer terminology in order to inflate their numbers.
My father-in-law is an old-school CS guy at a big insurance company, and he says that when they're hiring new blood for coding jobs they typically just look for someone with a bachelor's degree and an ability to code *something*. The rest they learn on the job, and the less experience they have with full-on coding, the better, because they do what they're told :D
I'm in the same boat you are with the PS3, and am exceedingly happy with the purchase. But if I had an older TV, the advantages would be significantly reduced, since I wouldn't care about blu-ray or hi-def gaming. And there are a lot of parents who would rather set their kid up with their own TV, even in their room, than let them play video games in the living room. How else would they watch their TV shows, after all?
And most families only have 1 "good" tv. My wife and I pretty much use our new plasma TV only for movies, so blu-ray was a no-brainer. The occasional game is great, too. But if I was a bit younger I wouldn't be able to afford the TV, making the console less attractive at its price point.
But, how is that different from "Super collector's bonus editions" of DVDs? Same movie, but more outtakes and commentary? It's par for the course for DVDs that came out early in DVD's lifecycle to have a re-release with more "features." If you care enough for the features, you plunk down the change. If you just want the movie, you're already set.
Until the moment that I can run MS Office on an other operating system we're stuck with Windows.
MS Office has been available for Mac OS X for many, many years...
There's this great new technology called "Spaying," it prevents female cats from going into heat AND allows them to live longer. You should look into it!
According to supporters of Homeopathy, we'll all become incredibly healthy thanks to this!
Agreed. Those who complain about sniping are looking for "deals" and don't understand how eBay works. They're already proxy bids and will automatically adjust to "just barely winning" when a competing bid comes in. If you *would have* paid $80 if you had 15 more minutes, but only bid 50, whose fault is it that you lost?
This is regional, unfortunately. I mean, it's good that it works in some places, and if you actually ask a tech, they'll say "we don't allow it," but I run an FTP server at home and it works just fine. I also had a web server up for a short while, but the upload speeds are too slow to make it worthwhile; it ends up typically oversaturating the connection.
Technically they state that any "server" is against the TOS for the home connections, and that if you need "server" capabilities you should upgrade to their business class price range. But given how goofy their definition of server is, they certainly aren't totalitarian about enforcing the block on ports/servers.
Places like Baltimore, which have no good coffee shops. There's an area near my work that has 1 starbucks and 3 local shops. The 3 local shops serve bad coffee and have a horrible attitude, but offer free wireless. Unsurprisingly, no one there is ever using a laptop. At starbucks, where you have to pay to use it? Packed. Consistently packed, at that, with paying wireless users.
Maybe it's cos they make your coffee, however you like it, and still smile about it (no eye rolling or snooty remarks). Maybe it's a consistent cup of coffee (consistency is worth something to some people). I've been places where starbucks is low rung on the ladder (the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities campus is a great example), but in a lot of places they provide a service that no one else wants to provide (custom coffee with a smile). That's worth something to a lot of people.
I don't know if you use eBay for selling things, but you can't have a buyer that does that. A single non-paying charge ("Unpaid Item Claim") that goes unanswered will cause them to delete your account. If you have an excuse, you can maybe get 1 to slide, but 2?
The vast majority of negatives towards buyers are retaliatory, since those who don't pay lose their accounts pretty quickly. And as long as a buyer has a feedback rating of 1, they're generally fine as a buyer. It's the sellers where people seriously evaluate the feedback and both having a huge amount of feedback and "fake" feedback that's not accurate is useless.
And any feedback they left is removed, meaning that bidders who don't pay can't influence the system. It's a nice touch, if you ask me, and one of the things that most sellers complaining about the change are ignoring.
You weren't waiting for this to cook smores in the kitchen, were you? If so, there's this great device called a Microwave that's been around for a while. Makes marshmallows nice & gooey and heats up the chocolate pretty well, too. About 25 seconds will do ya.