Maybe they're trying some weird new reverse psychology. "Leak" it to the internet, get a load of press coverage, then a week or so later release it in a "pay what you want" model after telling the press they're no longer developing it because of those dirty pirates. Internet feels sorry for them, it ends up being a roaring profit filled success that they can then use to ram DLC up our rears for the next 12 months.
Not only that if they're not found out then they can use the entire affair to continue to justify massive DRM on all their main titles.
Skyrim can easily reach 4GB RAM on PC with the better textures they released for the PC version. That came out in what 2011? I'm sure over the course of the next few years we'll be at a point where higher quality textures in games push RAM usage well beyond 8GB.
Again, surely that's the point of crowdfunding? The platform itself shouldn't be doing any vetting or filtering, the platform should just be facilitating the crowd and projects coming together. It is the crowd that decides whether a project is crap or not.
If 10,000 people want to give money to fund somebody's life then why should kickstarter prevent that? Likewise if a few thousand people want to pledge money to a joke project where the end result would be the project owner purchasing a load of chicken wire then why not? As long as all parties follow through on their promises then no harm has been done, all participants are happy.
What the platform should be doing is providing better search capabilities, making it easier for people to find the sort of projects they're interested in, making it easier for people to be able to filter out their own definition of "crap". Kickstarter are the platform, not the crowd.
If "the crowd" don't like your project then it's not going to be successfully funded. The site isn't an automatic "setup project receive money". The harsh reality is that most ideas don't receive funding, this is true whether the source of funds is a crowd of people or one very rich person.
a) your idea isn't very good
b) your idea isn't very well presented
c) nobody sees your idea
Blaming any of the above on the platform you use to get funded is silly.
My country (Canada) is badly enough run now by people who think they know everything they need to, but don't.
I bet all of those people have a degree right? That's the problem with college/university, it produces people that come out of it thinking they know everything they need to but don't.
Experience and learning on the job beats a paid for piece of paper. How do you get the experience people ask; you've just gotta work at it, start young, enjoy what you're doing, and start at the absolute bottom rung of the ladder. i.e. A developer might not be able to land a junior developer role straight away without a degree, but you sure can do any old monkey work... telephone support, QA etc. Then just get some industry certifications in your spare time (book + exam for Oracle Java cert is what $150?), keep hinting to people about your development skills, speak to people you know etc. etc. and you'll easily be where you want to be (and with years of valuable real world experience) before your friends even get out of college.
Those kids who "made it" were very bright to begin with
And that's exactly how it should work. Why should someone who is not bright be more successful than somebody that is? A piece of paper from a college doesn't make someone bright.
I disagree, most of the people I know coming out of computer science degrees in the UK have little to no knowledge useful in the real world. Whereas those that taught themselves and are genuinely interested in computing are far more valuable in my experience. Sure they may not know the cookie cutter coding standards of all the college graduates, but all that can be picked up in a matter of weeks(/days).
I guess maybe computing is a little different from other subjects, you can't really do chemistry at home.
Surely this isn't newsworthy, haven't people taken some pixels of the flag area before in the last few years? Do we have additional pixels now in this picture?
Either way the pixels look like pixels and not a flag.:(
In IT in the UK degrees are pretty much worthless bits of paper. Companies that want degrees only care that you have a degree, they don't care what the subject is, and frankly if you've had that much working experience in your field then the content of a degree isn't likely to teach you anything you don't already know.
Therefore do something for yourself, a subject you want to learn about that may not even be related at all to your working life, archaeology, history, politics, philosophy, physics, music, literature... the list is endless, have fun, life isn't all about work.
There does seem to be a complete dearth of similar free software for the home wine brewer... to the point where I ended up deciding to learn how to program, and wrote something for myself in the space of a few weeks:
Frankly it's pretty inflexible, I only wrote exactly what I needed, no more, no less, and god knows how my "coding standards" compare to anything in the real world. But hey I'm no java developer, and it is free (as in speech and beer (or should that be wine?)) & multi-platform (probably)!
I guess if it's a legal right and then you're subsequently sacked for taking too much time off (does this really actually happen in the real world??), then you could take your employer to court for unfair dismissal (unless of course has no such laws regarding unfair dismissal).
Here in the UK I can't imagine this ever occurring, any company doing such a thing would quite rapidly lose staff. In fact all of my employers have generally actively encouraged holiday taking (on the basis that accrued holiday in one year often doesn't get carried over to the next year).
How much holiday do you guys get over the pond anyway? I think the average for office workers here (not counting contractors of course) has gotta be about 25 days + public holidays.
*agreed*
I would ditch FF for Chrome too if it weren't for the extensions. Thus far all mine have been updated relatively quickly, but I can't help feeling that at some point in the future plugin developers are just gonna give up bothering.
How about fixing the Thunderbird 5 UI first?
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The Firefox UI is fine, surely one of them could spend the time they would be spending on this to fix up the vomit they called a UI in Thunderbird 5?
(not that it matters as I now use gmail instead of Thunderbird since that)
How can anyone believe any of these are viable alternatives if they don't connect to the Skype network? Do the proponents truly expect everyone currently using skype to suddenly switch to one of these "alternatives"? I think not.
All the while most people are using Skype, most people will continue to use Skype.
Shock horror, there is life out there that doesn't match our common perception of the requirements of life.
Perhaps now all those scientists will stop circle jerking over every "earth-like" planet they find and I dunno, perhaps realise life doesn't need to match our common forms of life, that perhaps there could be living things out there so completely different from anything we've ever seen before.
Who says there's not life inside Jupiter (or any other gas giant for that matter)? Have we examined every inch of its insides?
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They thought malloc was too slow. http://www.tedunangst.com/flak...
Maybe they're trying some weird new reverse psychology. "Leak" it to the internet, get a load of press coverage, then a week or so later release it in a "pay what you want" model after telling the press they're no longer developing it because of those dirty pirates. Internet feels sorry for them, it ends up being a roaring profit filled success that they can then use to ram DLC up our rears for the next 12 months.
Not only that if they're not found out then they can use the entire affair to continue to justify massive DRM on all their main titles.
Is it all just one big marketing stunt?
Skyrim can easily reach 4GB RAM on PC with the better textures they released for the PC version. That came out in what 2011? I'm sure over the course of the next few years we'll be at a point where higher quality textures in games push RAM usage well beyond 8GB.
1.8 teraflops, 800MHz clock speed... so they're aiming for a GPU with roughly the same power of something nVidia released in 2010?
Not to mention only 8GB RAM shared between GPU & CPU, I'm sure that'll last us for years to come!
Again, surely that's the point of crowdfunding? The platform itself shouldn't be doing any vetting or filtering, the platform should just be facilitating the crowd and projects coming together. It is the crowd that decides whether a project is crap or not.
If 10,000 people want to give money to fund somebody's life then why should kickstarter prevent that? Likewise if a few thousand people want to pledge money to a joke project where the end result would be the project owner purchasing a load of chicken wire then why not? As long as all parties follow through on their promises then no harm has been done, all participants are happy.
What the platform should be doing is providing better search capabilities, making it easier for people to find the sort of projects they're interested in, making it easier for people to be able to filter out their own definition of "crap". Kickstarter are the platform, not the crowd.
Not every project can be successfully funded.
If "the crowd" don't like your project then it's not going to be successfully funded. The site isn't an automatic "setup project receive money". The harsh reality is that most ideas don't receive funding, this is true whether the source of funds is a crowd of people or one very rich person.
a) your idea isn't very good
b) your idea isn't very well presented
c) nobody sees your idea
Blaming any of the above on the platform you use to get funded is silly.
Yeah, everyone that cares has already moved to Feedly.
I'm not sure the people still at Digg comprehend how irrelevant they are in general. :s
My country (Canada) is badly enough run now by people who think they know everything they need to, but don't.
I bet all of those people have a degree right? That's the problem with college/university, it produces people that come out of it thinking they know everything they need to but don't.
Experience and learning on the job beats a paid for piece of paper. How do you get the experience people ask; you've just gotta work at it, start young, enjoy what you're doing, and start at the absolute bottom rung of the ladder. i.e. A developer might not be able to land a junior developer role straight away without a degree, but you sure can do any old monkey work... telephone support, QA etc. Then just get some industry certifications in your spare time (book + exam for Oracle Java cert is what $150?), keep hinting to people about your development skills, speak to people you know etc. etc. and you'll easily be where you want to be (and with years of valuable real world experience) before your friends even get out of college.
Those kids who "made it" were very bright to begin with
And that's exactly how it should work. Why should someone who is not bright be more successful than somebody that is? A piece of paper from a college doesn't make someone bright.
I disagree, most of the people I know coming out of computer science degrees in the UK have little to no knowledge useful in the real world. Whereas those that taught themselves and are genuinely interested in computing are far more valuable in my experience. Sure they may not know the cookie cutter coding standards of all the college graduates, but all that can be picked up in a matter of weeks(/days).
I guess maybe computing is a little different from other subjects, you can't really do chemistry at home.
Surely this isn't newsworthy, haven't people taken some pixels of the flag area before in the last few years? Do we have additional pixels now in this picture?
:(
Either way the pixels look like pixels and not a flag.
In IT in the UK degrees are pretty much worthless bits of paper. Companies that want degrees only care that you have a degree, they don't care what the subject is, and frankly if you've had that much working experience in your field then the content of a degree isn't likely to teach you anything you don't already know.
Therefore do something for yourself, a subject you want to learn about that may not even be related at all to your working life, archaeology, history, politics, philosophy, physics, music, literature... the list is endless, have fun, life isn't all about work.
My TV screen doesn't need higher resolution than 1366x768!
*posting via wireless keyboard/mouse while laying on sofa 10 foot away*
May as well just use cement then!
There does seem to be a complete dearth of similar free software for the home wine brewer... to the point where I ended up deciding to learn how to program, and wrote something for myself in the space of a few weeks:
https://code.google.com/p/winebrewdb/
Frankly it's pretty inflexible, I only wrote exactly what I needed, no more, no less, and god knows how my "coding standards" compare to anything in the real world. But hey I'm no java developer, and it is free (as in speech and beer (or should that be wine?)) & multi-platform (probably)!
I think it's time to develop a killer open gaming platform.
...you mean like a PC running linux? Ok, sorted, now we'll just wait for the games to roll in...................
I exist, that's all I know for sure, *everything* else is a belief.
I think I'll go with solipsism personally.
I guess if it's a legal right and then you're subsequently sacked for taking too much time off (does this really actually happen in the real world??), then you could take your employer to court for unfair dismissal (unless of course has no such laws regarding unfair dismissal).
Is this just a US thing?
Here in the UK I can't imagine this ever occurring, any company doing such a thing would quite rapidly lose staff. In fact all of my employers have generally actively encouraged holiday taking (on the basis that accrued holiday in one year often doesn't get carried over to the next year).
How much holiday do you guys get over the pond anyway? I think the average for office workers here (not counting contractors of course) has gotta be about 25 days + public holidays.
Not to mention "No wonder they went from distant 2nd place last gen to last place this gen." is incorrect too!
:D
The PS3 is in fact in last place in terms of sales figures: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Console_wars#Worldwide_sales_figures_6
gp obviously pulled some numbers from magical fairy land.
*agreed* I would ditch FF for Chrome too if it weren't for the extensions. Thus far all mine have been updated relatively quickly, but I can't help feeling that at some point in the future plugin developers are just gonna give up bothering.
The Firefox UI is fine, surely one of them could spend the time they would be spending on this to fix up the vomit they called a UI in Thunderbird 5?
(not that it matters as I now use gmail instead of Thunderbird since that)
People use Skype because other people use Skype.
How can anyone believe any of these are viable alternatives if they don't connect to the Skype network? Do the proponents truly expect everyone currently using skype to suddenly switch to one of these "alternatives"? I think not.
All the while most people are using Skype, most people will continue to use Skype.
Shock horror, there is life out there that doesn't match our common perception of the requirements of life. Perhaps now all those scientists will stop circle jerking over every "earth-like" planet they find and I dunno, perhaps realise life doesn't need to match our common forms of life, that perhaps there could be living things out there so completely different from anything we've ever seen before. Who says there's not life inside Jupiter (or any other gas giant for that matter)? Have we examined every inch of its insides?