I have to deal a lot with fresh-from-uni workers in my team recently, and most of them have wrong expectations like in TFA. But I found the reason for this: they also think they have the skill. Don't get me wrong, most of them are very smart, but once they are working on a real industry project they see that the people with big offices and salaries don't get all that for no reason.
I mean, let's take super mario. There were also levels you must complete, skills you can pick and an increase in difficulty over time. The difference: you had to do ONE difficult thing again and again (attempt to clear that level) to advance as opposed to do one simple task (click 4 times and kill that dire rat) AGAIN and AGAIN. It both takes time, but the first thing is MUCH MORE FUN.
It just means: the game must not be sold and advertised to minors. You can buy it, you can play it if you're an adult. At least the PC version. Some console manufactures have their own policies that forbid selling non rated titles, but this is not law it's just their policy.
[...]or by sending [me, though i am NOT rms] a case of beer.
thank you for pointing out the actual power of licenses. all i have to do now is to write an astonishing piece of software that everyone wants to use and i'll never run out of beer anymore. compared to ms licenses, this is a piece of cake.
i second that. but there's no stand against the global-warming-lobby. you can tell them a thousand times (for example) that polar bears can easily survive 10C (average temperature/ year), i mean they did in the past as their land was green and free of ice. and they do now, like knut does.
but no, they spread their fud around the world. google for "the great global warming swindle".
one point strikes me, and that's why i have an opinion on that. this global warming bullshit kills Africa and the rest of the developing world.
banning evolution from school, spamming plain doublespeak lies in politics, fear of freedom-enabling technologies (the intarweb), a president that is only answerable to god and now taking mumbo-jumbo-sience as evidence into court...every historian worth her salt would be able to read the signs: the next middle age is coming. it's about time, it may be the shorter road to a new renaissance and reconnaissance than actually try to apply to peoples common sense, that never worked.
try wicket. no xml, no navigation rules, not a single piece of code in your markup files (it's simply not possible), ALL logic is in the java files. no stupid bean mapping to forms, a component concept (oh, there i can download a tabbed panel component, let's do this) that actually works. it really is what i think MVC should be like.
and a very good api design, KISS, no overhead and all that core servlet stuff is hidden from you.
the difference between us-american and european history is fundamental. in other words, a few thousand years. us-american history is in fact european history. but some us guys treat their 500 years of history like it was going back to the antique ages. that's not the case. the usa population quite successfully wiped out their two real histories: natives are forgotten and europeans are not americans. all this "new-world" vs "old-world" crap because of a difference of 500 years. there didn't much real change happen in those years either. maybe the civil war and the slavery thing, but my grandfather lived in a kingdom (small period of democracy in between), in a dictatorship, in socialism and finally in capitalism. he never ever changed his place of living, but he had to change his currency 4 times, he was from berlin.
and what you stated about the social-contract thing, that's common sense over here, because every european country once was part of some kingdom or empire, most of them more then once, and it never worked. damn it, that's why the western world is the society it is, it evolved.
that the western societies are going down the drain is nothing new, it's called decadence, which is followed by some sort of middle age and then something else is tried. this pattern takes generally ~800-1000 years and we are at approx. year 700.
btw, no offence meant, this post was not about you, just about the difference what "history" means to different people. especially the phrase "old world". "old europe" means to a european the ancient greek/ agypt period.
Gee, I hope its as user friendly as iTunes. I simply live to see the message "You cannot use iTunes because another user is running a copy". That's user friendliness right there.
apple software on macos is always quite user friendly, but when it comes to porting these apps to windows...apple obviously fails. their apps rely too much on the underlying operating system. on a bsd system you won't see that message, but on windows you do, because of this "one-thread-locks-a-file-issue", which is os specific. when developing an application, one should recognize such dependency and encapsulate it if the code was ever meant to be cross platform. but apple doesn't. their safari experiment is a good example: safari is basically khtml (like konqueror), and the K in Khtml is there for a reason. A non-*nix platform simply does not fulfill the contract K(de) has with it's hosting operating system. the kde people know this, but apple's concept is to convert everyone to mac, that's why they port their apps to windows in the first place.
Don't you call ahead when you are visiting friends in another country? That's all this requirement essentially says:
Call us before you come by.
and that's a stupid requirement. no friend of mine wouldn't let me in just because i did not call ahead, that's why i call them FRIENDS. sorry, your analogy got you selfowned.
Pardon me for asking, but where exactly does th Blender foundation get the funds from to just be able to say 'we'll make a movie and a game this year'?
Last time i checked, most (low-key) open source projects were dirt poor. How come this is different with Blender? the question how they fund all this is already answered, but an interesting thing i want to add: did you know that blender is only open source because the community raised EUR 100,000 in 2002 to buy the source from NaN, a dutch company formerly owning the blender code?
it's SO obvious. i mean, it's rather "stolen" than "inspired by". remember the scene where guybrush (sorry, "will turner") is trying to steal a key from le chuck (sorry again, "mr. jonez")? the voodoo lady in the swamps? all these zombie pirates living under a curse? they even got a scene where a coffin is used as a boat.
but i'm in no way angry about that. at least they did preserve (in parts) the fine pirate humor that made monkey island so great. apart from that, depp as cpt. sparrow is just fun to watch.
the point about blizzard games is a different one: they may not have been the first of their kind, but they were the first of their kind doing it RIGHT. that happens if your game designers are REAL perfectionists.
Just listen to local LIVE bands. If what's on the radio & CD's sucks, do something else entirely!
Do your own thing! THINK for yourself!
i thought for myself. most local live bands suck (and when the big dollar winks they're part of RIAA anyway). some music released on cds i actually like. what now? you are one of the people who wants everyone to be like them self. man, you talk about taste, which is not open to discussion, that's part of freedom, everybody should at least be allowed to like britney spears, even if you and i don't.
Get to know your neighbors & find out who plays locally! Hanging out playing music is way more fun than buying music off ebay. Singing along with other people, in real life, gosh, what a concept.
yeah, what a concept. a dumb one to me, but everybody to his own liking (something you cannot accept i guess). i for one like buying music online and listening to them on my own instead of sharing the evening with hundreds of drunken 16-year-old middle class "punks" listening to some emo-whine about how bad the world is. man, it's about taste.
and your answer is: if you do not like how the music you want is distributed, than please change your taste instead of fighting for a fair distribution model. that's rubbish. all this "support your local community" crap...when i like what the locals are doing, i support, if i don't like their stuff, what's the point?
oh, and finally...
Bunch of Ipod wearing, ADD havin', short attention spanned crybabies.
what a wanker you are. someone who owns and uses an ipod and likes to be continuously entertained is a crybaby? do you even KNOW how most of them acquire their mp3s? free off the internet, collecting their songs on 200GB harddisks. that's punk my friend, and you are a crybaby. but yeah, everyone who's not like you definitely must be a stupid person.
a warmer atmosphere leads to more co2, not the other way round. visible particle pollution may be one problem, BUT NOT CARBON DIOXIDE. it's a friggin natural gas which makes up a fraction of our atmosphere. water vapor is causing way more greenhouse effect than this tiny bit of co2.
this is rediciolous, bad and unwanted. but calling it fascism is rediciolous also. why? we just experience a normal transition from something "new" into something "standard". email ist mainstream since when? a relatively short time. now govs do notice that email is so common, it has to be reglemented. like old school snail mail. if you want to write a letter, the recipient has to have a real address. there are workarounds like co., postboxes and whatnot, but these workarounds will build up with e-mail just the same. the sender does not need to be identified for snail mail, but that's just a detail.
don't get me wrong, i hate this, i thought THIS time we might adopt a new media/ technique in a free way, but we haven't since thousands of years, why should we now?
now to something different. things ARE going wrong with europe, especially with germany. "our" gov is proposing a law that allows the police to spy our private pc with trojan horses. this is no joke: an interview with the german home secretary (sorry, in german).. there is a law proposal on it's way to ban so called "killer games" like counterstrike even for adults, producing and selling those games would be illegal (which is SO damn stupid, since germany is on it's way to establish itself as a good place for game developers, see crysis). in a few years (i think two) our travelling passports WILL contain biometric information, our passports will follow for sure. i could go on and on for a long time, but these few topics should give you the picture.
so, no more "old europe" anymore, we're about to completely abandon our ancient greek legacy (where democracy and the like originally came from). the reconnaissance is over, until the next great breakdown, but when that happens i WILL stand up beeing a smartass and say: "We told you so..."
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I have to deal a lot with fresh-from-uni workers in my team recently, and most of them have wrong expectations like in TFA. But I found the reason for this: they also think they have the skill. Don't get me wrong, most of them are very smart, but once they are working on a real industry project they see that the people with big offices and salaries don't get all that for no reason.
uhm, federal reserve lending money on interest to the state does exactly this.
will it make em come?
where else such a story would be tagged "correlationisnotcausation". sane people, even on teh intarwebs.
linking to a website on an error message telling you that you have no internet access might not be the smartest thing to do.
I mean, let's take super mario. There were also levels you must complete, skills you can pick and an increase in difficulty over time. The difference: you had to do ONE difficult thing again and again (attempt to clear that level) to advance as opposed to do one simple task (click 4 times and kill that dire rat) AGAIN and AGAIN. It both takes time, but the first thing is MUCH MORE FUN.
It just means: the game must not be sold and advertised to minors. You can buy it, you can play it if you're an adult. At least the PC version. Some console manufactures have their own policies that forbid selling non rated titles, but this is not law it's just their policy.
[...]or by sending [me, though i am NOT rms] a case of beer.
thank you for pointing out the actual power of licenses. all i have to do now is to write an astonishing piece of software that everyone wants to use and i'll never run out of beer anymore. compared to ms licenses, this is a piece of cake.
i think you're the one that did not get the memo. the memo says: "don't build power plants" and it goes to Africa and it comes from the 1st world.
i second that. but there's no stand against the global-warming-lobby. you can tell them a thousand times (for example) that polar bears can easily survive 10C (average temperature/ year), i mean they did in the past as their land was green and free of ice. and they do now, like knut does.
but no, they spread their fud around the world. google for "the great global warming swindle".
one point strikes me, and that's why i have an opinion on that. this global warming bullshit kills Africa and the rest of the developing world.
banning evolution from school, spamming plain doublespeak lies in politics, fear of freedom-enabling technologies (the intarweb), a president that is only answerable to god and now taking mumbo-jumbo-sience as evidence into court...every historian worth her salt would be able to read the signs: the next middle age is coming. it's about time, it may be the shorter road to a new renaissance and reconnaissance than actually try to apply to peoples common sense, that never worked.
In Korea, micro-transactions are only for old people.
I corrected that one for you.
try wicket. no xml, no navigation rules, not a single piece of code in your markup files (it's simply not possible), ALL logic is in the java files. no stupid bean mapping to forms, a component concept (oh, there i can download a tabbed panel component, let's do this) that actually works. it really is what i think MVC should be like.
and a very good api design, KISS, no overhead and all that core servlet stuff is hidden from you.
..but why telling this, the larger half isn't listening anyway.
you are so not getting the point. americans are always proud of their "history" but essentially they have none.
the difference between us-american and european history is fundamental. in other words, a few thousand years. us-american history is in fact european history. but some us guys treat their 500 years of history like it was going back to the antique ages. that's not the case. the usa population quite successfully wiped out their two real histories: natives are forgotten and europeans are not americans. all this "new-world" vs "old-world" crap because of a difference of 500 years. there didn't much real change happen in those years either. maybe the civil war and the slavery thing, but my grandfather lived in a kingdom (small period of democracy in between), in a dictatorship, in socialism and finally in capitalism. he never ever changed his place of living, but he had to change his currency 4 times, he was from berlin.
and what you stated about the social-contract thing, that's common sense over here, because every european country once was part of some kingdom or empire, most of them more then once, and it never worked. damn it, that's why the western world is the society it is, it evolved. that the western societies are going down the drain is nothing new, it's called decadence, which is followed by some sort of middle age and then something else is tried. this pattern takes generally ~800-1000 years and we are at approx. year 700.
btw, no offence meant, this post was not about you, just about the difference what "history" means to different people. especially the phrase "old world". "old europe" means to a european the ancient greek/ agypt period.
it's SO obvious. i mean, it's rather "stolen" than "inspired by". remember the scene where guybrush (sorry, "will turner") is trying to steal a key from le chuck (sorry again, "mr. jonez")? the voodoo lady in the swamps? all these zombie pirates living under a curse? they even got a scene where a coffin is used as a boat.
but i'm in no way angry about that. at least they did preserve (in parts) the fine pirate humor that made monkey island so great. apart from that, depp as cpt. sparrow is just fun to watch.
the point about blizzard games is a different one: they may not have been the first of their kind, but they were the first of their kind doing it RIGHT. that happens if your game designers are REAL perfectionists.
Just listen to local LIVE bands. If what's on the radio & CD's sucks, do something else entirely! Do your own thing! THINK for yourself!
i thought for myself. most local live bands suck (and when the big dollar winks they're part of RIAA anyway). some music released on cds i actually like. what now? you are one of the people who wants everyone to be like them self. man, you talk about taste, which is not open to discussion, that's part of freedom, everybody should at least be allowed to like britney spears, even if you and i don't.
Get to know your neighbors & find out who plays locally! Hanging out playing music is way more fun than buying music off ebay. Singing along with other people, in real life, gosh, what a concept.
yeah, what a concept. a dumb one to me, but everybody to his own liking (something you cannot accept i guess). i for one like buying music online and listening to them on my own instead of sharing the evening with hundreds of drunken 16-year-old middle class "punks" listening to some emo-whine about how bad the world is. man, it's about taste.
and your answer is: if you do not like how the music you want is distributed, than please change your taste instead of fighting for a fair distribution model. that's rubbish. all this "support your local community" crap...when i like what the locals are doing, i support, if i don't like their stuff, what's the point?
oh, and finally...
Bunch of Ipod wearing, ADD havin', short attention spanned crybabies.
what a wanker you are. someone who owns and uses an ipod and likes to be continuously entertained is a crybaby? do you even KNOW how most of them acquire their mp3s? free off the internet, collecting their songs on 200GB harddisks. that's punk my friend, and you are a crybaby. but yeah, everyone who's not like you definitely must be a stupid person.
a warmer atmosphere leads to more co2, not the other way round. visible particle pollution may be one problem, BUT NOT CARBON DIOXIDE. it's a friggin natural gas which makes up a fraction of our atmosphere. water vapor is causing way more greenhouse effect than this tiny bit of co2.
making a straight shot to mars.
nitpick: spacecrafts never fly straight. they always orbit something.
disc: my post is ONLY about this email issue.
this is rediciolous, bad and unwanted. but calling it fascism is rediciolous also. why? we just experience a normal transition from something "new" into something "standard". email ist mainstream since when? a relatively short time. now govs do notice that email is so common, it has to be reglemented. like old school snail mail. if you want to write a letter, the recipient has to have a real address. there are workarounds like co., postboxes and whatnot, but these workarounds will build up with e-mail just the same. the sender does not need to be identified for snail mail, but that's just a detail.
don't get me wrong, i hate this, i thought THIS time we might adopt a new media/ technique in a free way, but we haven't since thousands of years, why should we now?
now to something different. things ARE going wrong with europe, especially with germany. "our" gov is proposing a law that allows the police to spy our private pc with trojan horses. this is no joke: an interview with the german home secretary (sorry, in german).. there is a law proposal on it's way to ban so called "killer games" like counterstrike even for adults, producing and selling those games would be illegal (which is SO damn stupid, since germany is on it's way to establish itself as a good place for game developers, see crysis). in a few years (i think two) our travelling passports WILL contain biometric information, our passports will follow for sure. i could go on and on for a long time, but these few topics should give you the picture.
so, no more "old europe" anymore, we're about to completely abandon our ancient greek legacy (where democracy and the like originally came from). the reconnaissance is over, until the next great breakdown, but when that happens i WILL stand up beeing a smartass and say: "We told you so..."