It still does NOTHING to help out discount retailers or to even hurt them.
Two guys walk up to you in a bar.
Guy one says, "I make $50,000 and got a 10% raise. I hear you were pretty bad at applied math and are now living in a cardboard box, so I'm going to donate my 10% raise to you."
Suddenly he is pushed aside by a guy in a McDonalds uniform, who says, "I only make $15,000 a year, but I flip burgers real good, and I too felt the rays of God and would like to donate my 10% raise to you. Also, I'll throw in a free burger!"
You think for a few seconds and say, "Hmmm, well I too just got a 10% raise from the dude who has me round up cats for his restaurant. And since both are 10% there is no difference. I'm hungry and could sure use a hamburger, so McD man, hit me up!"
50k walks away, slowly shaking his head.
As the sales tax percentage goes up, the price difference goes up. People look at the prices of the products, not arcane crap like the percentage of take home pay and the increase over what the price used to be. The higher the tax goes, the bigger advantage it is for the lower price.
Wow, from your description, this would be a boon to overseas e-commerce and Canadian border busineses. If you get sales tax whored at US businesses, then don't shop in the US. The government will be forced to pound the hell out of anyone who enters the country with goods.
Also, Walmart would rule the world with this one. Their lower prices would now be significantally lower than the mom and pop shops, since the tax overhead is much higher. Also, that would give them much more say in government affiars since they'll be one of the major suppliers of government funding. Oh, and squash free software, since free software now has a direct drain on the economy. Congratulations, you just made the Microsofts and Walmarts of the world that much more powerful.
Well guess what kid, life happens. He can crawl in his hole and send the legion of laywers out, but people are still gonna rag on him. I sure he would like some higher power to force everyone to be nice to him, but ain't gonna happen. If he doesn't learn to deal with it better (see William Hung as others have said), his life will be an eternal sucko.
Sorry, if the majority of Americans took their rights seriously, then Bush never would have been re-elected. I know a TON of people who voted for him the first time around that were not going to do so again. I know no one who voted for Gore the first time that planned to Bush the second time. Yes, a weak Dem candidate, the "wartime president" factor, and the ill timed gay marriage push all grabbed the religious right, but there is still no way Bush should have won the numbers game. A whole heck of alot of the people screaming about our rights and freedoms and the evil Bush just never got off their asses to vote.
The fundamental problem with Democracy is that it gives people the freedom to be lazy and stupid. The benefit of the Democratic Repbulic of the United States however is Capitalism. It acts as a stupid/lazy filter to keep most of those people out of power positions. "Successful" people are usually self made and have some sort of a clue. The bad part is that there are no checks for the wisdom of the leaders. In the one area where the masses have power, elections, they are too stupid/lazy to figure out which leaders are for the best of the country.
Looking back at a lot of management I've worked for over the years there is deffinetly proof that intelligence at least isn't even remotely a requirement for success.
Hmmm, you often seem to be put in a position where you're being given orders by someone who is unintelligent, yet weilds more power and makes more money than you. I think you need to reevaluate your definition of intelligence.
Yeah, basically the same stuff which has been around since like the 90s.
As more capabile backends and languages (The Java stuff, PHP,.NET, etc...) have popped up, and the feature demand has risen, the real developers of the world have grown less tolerant of the suck-ass presentation environment the HTML jockeys have been swimming around in. They have started to organize things and build the frameworks and ideas.
But, yeah, it's still the same ole stuff
What is happening to slashdot? This is sooooo OLD!!!
Hmmm... I think you're right. As I was walking home, a news boy on the corner yelled to me "Extra! Extra! Web Site Attacks Against Unpatch IE Flaw Spike". At first I though he was mentally challenged, but when I got home, I pointed the browser to Slashdot, and here it is! I hear a new business model is coming out where news distributors deliver printed news to your doorstep each moring! Imagine getting news that fast! Slashdot should really consider this.
There was a well-known analysis by Richard Grimes posted to Slashdot recently that explained how Microsoft has silently scaled back the amount of.NET managed code used in each build of Vista, even though they had previously made public claims that Longhorn would be very.NET-based, and that they were "betting the company" on it.
Got it. Think I found the article here. It's a little dissapointing that Microsoft has been slow on the.NET promises, but as a developer I understand the need to scale back features in order to release a more solid product. However, as a company with virtually unlimited resources you'd think they would make a better effort.
Oh stop it with this jumping the shark garbage
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LOTR Jumps the Shark
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The LOTR books are still great, the movies are still great, and there could still be great things in the future, like the Hobbit movie. Someone just made some suckass LOTR musical. It's not going to ruin your childhood, so deal with it.
People make mistakes, and people need to make a living. Heck, and if rich and/or powerful people like Rick 'Destroyer Of Worlds' Berman can get away with doing what they love, even if they aren't always good at it, more power to them. Like the rest of us are always at the top of our game. Just because Lucas made some substandard Star Wars movies doesn't mean the original two are any less great (c'mon, tell me you didn't see it coming with the Ewoks and the Christmas special). Just because the Matrix trilogy turned into some bad sci-fi philoso-babble tranvestite leather filled CGI wonderara doesn't make the original Matrix any less of a fantastic movie.
Your childhood is intact. Stop the drama queen act.
I have heard rumors that one of the reasons that Vista was not ready, was Microsoft's attempt to use "dot net", basically an virtual-machine based (interpreted) language similar in many aspects to Java, but the resulting code was huge, slow, and simply put - useless. Do these rumors have any basis?
What the hell are you talking about?.NET has been out for years, as have applications written for the.NET platform. What does this have to do with Vista? Some bozos thought Vista was going to be written in C# or some nonsense like that, which may be the crap you're hearing.
The reason I'm asking this is that I am getting the feeling that while companies (like the one I work for) love to code in Java, the users actually hate the resulting software, saying something like "Wow, this is nice software, but it's so easy to see it's written in Java - it takes half a gig of memory for doing almost nothing.
Then your developers suck ass. The performance issues associated with Java are 99% usually because of Swing. The devs should be refactor the code to deal with the performance issues, or look at an alternative like SWT. I'd also recommend wxWidgets, but a majority of younger Java developers will burn from lack of experience if tossed into the C++ fire. As for.NET, a C# desktop application performs pretty well. Much closer to a C++/MFC app as opposed to a Swing app.
I still remember the horror when I first played Gauntlet on my friend's Nintendo. It had bombs in place of the magic potions. Bombs!?!
I felt as if a whole generation of children were being mislead by a false prophet.
What's wrong with Java? You sound like you have a chip on your shoulder about something. Keep in mind these newer languages (like Java) are usually created by the Computer Science geeks that you want everyone to be. Just because something is popular is no reason to hate it.
If you want to teach someone how to write solid code, I can't think of anything much better than Java with a healthy dose of JUnit. You're not really clear on what the alternative should be? C? You think that will get people to write less buggy code? Anyway, the "preventing buggy code" dicipline is software engineering, not computer science. Software engineering has it's roots in cs, but they have a different focus. Swe is focused on creating real world systems, while cs is still a research field. You're confusing cs majors with the self taught scripting language hackers who are proud when they run to their boss with their first Java sorting program which turns out to be some copy/hacked bubble sort implementation (no knock on the few great self-taught developers out there). Sure there are a huge amount of incompetent degreed programmers, but they only account for a small portion of the garbage software being written nowadays.
Also, what are you expecting from students? Everyone get PhDs and sit at a university their whole life? You want a secret club of algorithm geeks who sit around and jerk each other off becuase they are so 1337? Research is useless unless it leaks out into the real world. Software development is in high demand, so expect more people entering the field.
And... you're claiming that the advances aren't there? Where the hell have you been? Do you have any relation at all with a university science or engineering department? In the 10 years since I got my cs degree, there have been a ton of great advances in the field.
Just get a set of these Shure headphones.
They act as real earplugs, which keeps sound out. So...without the outside distractions, I don't need to turn up the volume.
With my iPod volume at 20-25%, I've had people at my desk talking to me, and I didn't even know they were there
Don't confuse hardcore gamers with people who overspend on hardware. There are many 12 year gamers old using their dad's old computer who can spank the single 30 year olds who have nothing better to do with their money than to spend an extra few thousand dollars to gain a few percent increase in performance
I shred everything with my name on it, then stick everything else in those convenient "no postage necessary" envelopes they provide and mail it them back to them. For extra fun, I mix stuff up and also insert any extra trash I have lying around. Keeps my garbage can from filling up.
Yeah I stole it from some comedian or something, but its still fun.
What's the problem with using programmable keyboards? AFAIK, the only thing you might do in WoW with those is to record macros of often-used key sequences. What's the problem with that? If the server validly accepts fast keypresses, why should it matter if they were generated with a keyboard macro or a human hand?
Also, how did they detect it was a programmable keyboard on the client side and not a very repetitive human?
You're missing the point of this thread. It appears that he's not giving the full story and that he was using his keyboard and/or other software to cheat in the game.
Also in games of this type, especially WoW, fairness is HUGE. People cry if they think one class has even the slightest advantage over another. If Blizzard doesn't crack down on people using automated resources to gain an advantage, it will kill the game.
It's simple. Lazy people are in charge. The whole committee/suggestion bullshit will do nothing, because in the end lazy people will still be in charge. One thing I've found is that no amount of processes will make up for someone who doesn't want to work.
Gather your allies and information. Details about what is wrong, why it's bad for the company, and how to fix it. Demand an audience with whoever is the highest person in the company you can meet with, and lay it all out. To be brutally honest, someone needs to be fired over this. Make this suggestion. Don't necessarily pick who, but make it clear that the people running IT aren't getting the job done. People outside the IT department shouldn't have to draft the job requirements of the IT department. If they know what they're doing, they'll know what to do.
If you can't get upper management to take action, then either suck it up and deal with it, or leave.
Do a little research before you dive into something like an MBA. You may end up spending more time and money than you really need to, and not really learn the stuff you're looking for.
Look at some of the books at nolo.com, tons of great small business stuff there. Also, look in your area for any free or low cost small business seminars.
The technical parts of starting a small business are easy. Just takes common sense and some research. The hard part is making it work, and bringing in money. Alot of techies have a "If I build it, they will come" mentality which can be fatal to a business. You need to not only build stuff, but market and sell it, and keep income coming in. If you start hiring people, which you will if you go anywhere, you need to manage the personality aspect of things also.
It's alot of work, but definitely a possibility if you're willing to learn and work, and if you keep your head in the land of reality.
Slashdot Mirror
It still does NOTHING to help out discount retailers or to even hurt them.
Two guys walk up to you in a bar.
Guy one says, "I make $50,000 and got a 10% raise. I hear you were pretty bad at applied math and are now living in a cardboard box, so I'm going to donate my 10% raise to you."
Suddenly he is pushed aside by a guy in a McDonalds uniform, who says, "I only make $15,000 a year, but I flip burgers real good, and I too felt the rays of God and would like to donate my 10% raise to you. Also, I'll throw in a free burger!"
You think for a few seconds and say, "Hmmm, well I too just got a 10% raise from the dude who has me round up cats for his restaurant. And since both are 10% there is no difference. I'm hungry and could sure use a hamburger, so McD man, hit me up!"
50k walks away, slowly shaking his head.
I'm confused, is this simple real world example that hard to comprehend?
at 6% now, 23% fair tax, 5$ at Walmart, 6$ at Mom&Pop
now
Mom&Pop = $6.36
Walmart = $5.30
difference = $1.06
fair tax
Mom&Pop = $7.38
Walmart = $6.15
difference = $1.23
As the sales tax percentage goes up, the price difference goes up. People look at the prices of the products, not arcane crap like the percentage of take home pay and the increase over what the price used to be. The higher the tax goes, the bigger advantage it is for the lower price.
Wow, from your description, this would be a boon to overseas e-commerce and Canadian border busineses. If you get sales tax whored at US businesses, then don't shop in the US. The government will be forced to pound the hell out of anyone who enters the country with goods.
Also, Walmart would rule the world with this one. Their lower prices would now be significantally lower than the mom and pop shops, since the tax overhead is much higher. Also, that would give them much more say in government affiars since they'll be one of the major suppliers of government funding. Oh, and squash free software, since free software now has a direct drain on the economy. Congratulations, you just made the Microsofts and Walmarts of the world that much more powerful.
Terrible, unrealistic idea
lol to the mods for once
Well guess what kid, life happens. He can crawl in his hole and send the legion of laywers out, but people are still gonna rag on him. I sure he would like some higher power to force everyone to be nice to him, but ain't gonna happen. If he doesn't learn to deal with it better (see William Hung as others have said), his life will be an eternal sucko.
Sorry, if the majority of Americans took their rights seriously, then Bush never would have been re-elected. I know a TON of people who voted for him the first time around that were not going to do so again. I know no one who voted for Gore the first time that planned to Bush the second time. Yes, a weak Dem candidate, the "wartime president" factor, and the ill timed gay marriage push all grabbed the religious right, but there is still no way Bush should have won the numbers game. A whole heck of alot of the people screaming about our rights and freedoms and the evil Bush just never got off their asses to vote.
The fundamental problem with Democracy is that it gives people the freedom to be lazy and stupid. The benefit of the Democratic Repbulic of the United States however is Capitalism. It acts as a stupid/lazy filter to keep most of those people out of power positions. "Successful" people are usually self made and have some sort of a clue. The bad part is that there are no checks for the wisdom of the leaders. In the one area where the masses have power, elections, they are too stupid/lazy to figure out which leaders are for the best of the country.
Looking back at a lot of management I've worked for over the years there is deffinetly proof that intelligence at least isn't even remotely a requirement for success.
Hmmm, you often seem to be put in a position where you're being given orders by someone who is unintelligent, yet weilds more power and makes more money than you. I think you need to reevaluate your definition of intelligence.
It's just CSS mixed with javascript... is it not?
.NET, etc...) have popped up, and the feature demand has risen, the real developers of the world have grown less tolerant of the suck-ass presentation environment the HTML jockeys have been swimming around in. They have started to organize things and build the frameworks and ideas.
Yeah, basically the same stuff which has been around since like the 90s.
As more capabile backends and languages (The Java stuff, PHP,
But, yeah, it's still the same ole stuff
What is happening to slashdot? This is sooooo OLD!!!
Hmmm... I think you're right. As I was walking home, a news boy on the corner yelled to me "Extra! Extra! Web Site Attacks Against Unpatch IE Flaw Spike". At first I though he was mentally challenged, but when I got home, I pointed the browser to Slashdot, and here it is! I hear a new business model is coming out where news distributors deliver printed news to your doorstep each moring! Imagine getting news that fast! Slashdot should really consider this.
There was a well-known analysis by Richard Grimes posted to Slashdot recently that explained how Microsoft has silently scaled back the amount of .NET managed code used in each build of Vista, even though they had previously made public claims that Longhorn would be very .NET-based, and that they were "betting the company" on it.
.NET promises, but as a developer I understand the need to scale back features in order to release a more solid product. However, as a company with virtually unlimited resources you'd think they would make a better effort.
Got it.
Think I found the article here. It's a little dissapointing that Microsoft has been slow on the
The LOTR books are still great, the movies are still great, and there could still be great things in the future, like the Hobbit movie. Someone just made some suckass LOTR musical. It's not going to ruin your childhood, so deal with it.
People make mistakes, and people need to make a living. Heck, and if rich and/or powerful people like Rick 'Destroyer Of Worlds' Berman can get away with doing what they love, even if they aren't always good at it, more power to them. Like the rest of us are always at the top of our game. Just because Lucas made some substandard Star Wars movies doesn't mean the original two are any less great (c'mon, tell me you didn't see it coming with the Ewoks and the Christmas special). Just because the Matrix trilogy turned into some bad sci-fi philoso-babble tranvestite leather filled CGI wonderara doesn't make the original Matrix any less of a fantastic movie.
Your childhood is intact. Stop the drama queen act.
I have heard rumors that one of the reasons that Vista was not ready, was Microsoft's attempt to use "dot net", basically an virtual-machine based (interpreted) language similar in many aspects to Java, but the resulting code was huge, slow, and simply put - useless. Do these rumors have any basis?
.NET has been out for years, as have applications written for the .NET platform. What does this have to do with Vista? Some bozos thought Vista was going to be written in C# or some nonsense like that, which may be the crap you're hearing.
.NET, a C# desktop application performs pretty well. Much closer to a C++/MFC app as opposed to a Swing app.
What the hell are you talking about?
The reason I'm asking this is that I am getting the feeling that while companies (like the one I work for) love to code in Java, the users actually hate the resulting software, saying something like "Wow, this is nice software, but it's so easy to see it's written in Java - it takes half a gig of memory for doing almost nothing.
Then your developers suck ass. The performance issues associated with Java are 99% usually because of Swing. The devs should be refactor the code to deal with the performance issues, or look at an alternative like SWT. I'd also recommend wxWidgets, but a majority of younger Java developers will burn from lack of experience if tossed into the C++ fire. As for
Is eyecandy really necessary?
Depends on the person. Some people like beauty, some people like function, some people (such as myself) like both.
I still remember the horror when I first played Gauntlet on my friend's Nintendo. It had bombs in place of the magic potions. Bombs!?!
I felt as if a whole generation of children were being mislead by a false prophet.
What's wrong with Java? You sound like you have a chip on your shoulder about something. Keep in mind these newer languages (like Java) are usually created by the Computer Science geeks that you want everyone to be. Just because something is popular is no reason to hate it.
If you want to teach someone how to write solid code, I can't think of anything much better than Java with a healthy dose of JUnit. You're not really clear on what the alternative should be? C? You think that will get people to write less buggy code? Anyway, the "preventing buggy code" dicipline is software engineering, not computer science. Software engineering has it's roots in cs, but they have a different focus. Swe is focused on creating real world systems, while cs is still a research field. You're confusing cs majors with the self taught scripting language hackers who are proud when they run to their boss with their first Java sorting program which turns out to be some copy/hacked bubble sort implementation (no knock on the few great self-taught developers out there). Sure there are a huge amount of incompetent degreed programmers, but they only account for a small portion of the garbage software being written nowadays.
Also, what are you expecting from students? Everyone get PhDs and sit at a university their whole life? You want a secret club of algorithm geeks who sit around and jerk each other off becuase they are so 1337? Research is useless unless it leaks out into the real world. Software development is in high demand, so expect more people entering the field.
And... you're claiming that the advances aren't there? Where the hell have you been? Do you have any relation at all with a university science or engineering department? In the 10 years since I got my cs degree, there have been a ton of great advances in the field.
Just get a set of these Shure headphones.
They act as real earplugs, which keeps sound out. So...without the outside distractions, I don't need to turn up the volume.
With my iPod volume at 20-25%, I've had people at my desk talking to me, and I didn't even know they were there
sounds like a step closer to 'Dreampark', as in the novels by Steven Barnes and Larry Niven.
Wow, futuristic sci-fi AND there's a dragon on the cover! That's some hardcore geekerature there.
but most hardcore gamers don't run Dells
Don't confuse hardcore gamers with people who overspend on hardware.
There are many 12 year gamers old using their dad's old computer who can spank the single 30 year olds who have nothing better to do with their money than to spend an extra few thousand dollars to gain a few percent increase in performance
What is this .NET framework anyway?
.NET threads don't work much any more.
Sorry bub, that ole' free karma trick in the
Doesn't hurt to try though, I guess.
I shred everything with my name on it, then stick everything else in those convenient "no postage necessary" envelopes they provide and mail it them back to them. For extra fun, I mix stuff up and also insert any extra trash I have lying around. Keeps my garbage can from filling up.
Yeah I stole it from some comedian or something, but its still fun.
What's the problem with using programmable keyboards? AFAIK, the only thing you might do in WoW with those is to record macros of often-used key sequences. What's the problem with that? If the server validly accepts fast keypresses, why should it matter if they were generated with a keyboard macro or a human hand? Also, how did they detect it was a programmable keyboard on the client side and not a very repetitive human?
You're missing the point of this thread. It appears that he's not giving the full story and that he was using his keyboard and/or other software to cheat in the game.
Also in games of this type, especially WoW, fairness is HUGE. People cry if they think one class has even the slightest advantage over another. If Blizzard doesn't crack down on people using automated resources to gain an advantage, it will kill the game.
ummm... blah stuff blah, ummm..., blah blah stuff, ummm..., blah blah blah, ummm...
French = Freedom
Freedom, unless you're a Muslim girl who wants to wear a headscarf to school.
It's simple. Lazy people are in charge. The whole committee/suggestion bullshit will do nothing, because in the end lazy people will still be in charge. One thing I've found is that no amount of processes will make up for someone who doesn't want to work.
Gather your allies and information. Details about what is wrong, why it's bad for the company, and how to fix it. Demand an audience with whoever is the highest person in the company you can meet with, and lay it all out. To be brutally honest, someone needs to be fired over this. Make this suggestion. Don't necessarily pick who, but make it clear that the people running IT aren't getting the job done. People outside the IT department shouldn't have to draft the job requirements of the IT department. If they know what they're doing, they'll know what to do.
If you can't get upper management to take action, then either suck it up and deal with it, or leave.
Do a little research before you dive into something like an MBA. You may end up spending more time and money than you really need to, and not really learn the stuff you're looking for.
Look at some of the books at nolo.com, tons of great small business stuff there. Also, look in your area for any free or low cost small business seminars.
The technical parts of starting a small business are easy. Just takes common sense and some research. The hard part is making it work, and bringing in money. Alot of techies have a "If I build it, they will come" mentality which can be fatal to a business. You need to not only build stuff, but market and sell it, and keep income coming in. If you start hiring people, which you will if you go anywhere, you need to manage the personality aspect of things also.
It's alot of work, but definitely a possibility if you're willing to learn and work, and if you keep your head in the land of reality.