Java client's are not notoriously strong in the performance department, period. I mean this is why my Blu-ray player sucks as a Netflix client because its Java based. Also no popular "smartphone" created in the last 6 years uses Java as a front end so the reason while mobile devices improved in performance is because those companies avoided using Java in the first place.
Sure, maybe some throwback clamshell feature phone might run Java and perform well, but you are hardly playing Angry Birds or doing anything more then trivial on a clamshell feature phone. There is a reason why everyone abandoned Java based phones the moment iPhone came out.
Also I'd rather have nobody from Sun/Oracle touch Javascript for fear they will lock it down and then sue everyone else because they changed something and suddenly decide they own Javascript.
Yes, there is a tendency for people to just pick up a library, use a few features of it, but then bloat their product with them.
On the other hand
I also hate it when people always assume they know how to build a better mouse trap and do everything from scratch.
When it comes down to it, a library tends to be created by many people, most likely smarter than you, that is also field tested on hundreds or thousands of sites and products. You get the benefits of the experience and testing by using it, unlike trying to roll your own untested code that you just assume is better out of arrogance.
I think if you are using more than 50% of the features of any library, go for it, but to use an expansive library just to not have to write a few features is lazy and not beneficial.
It's sad when someone wooshes a their own failed attempt at humor. Its like he wooshed to cover up the fact he didn't realize Ethiopia wasn't actually a country of uncivilized heathens but that it was part of the joke all along.
Thanks for clearing that up, I obviously originally thought that the cure was to go down on a few dirty man-whores in a back alley, but I am glad researches found a better way to do it.
I have no problems with people's individual beliefs. If you believe in God, Jesus, whatever, go right ahead. I will defend people's rights to believe in whatever religions they choose, and even claim that the fringe beliefs like scientology are part of what it means to live in a free society, so go right ahead. Feel free to assemble, but also feel free to discuss, argue, and debate the merits of your beliefs and not just assume someone else has all the answers for you.
HOWEVER
I think that the Catholic Church as an organization is completely out to lunch.
There is no point to defend anything the Pope or Vatican does these days just because you are Catholic and believe in God and Jesus.
You can believe in God, you DON'T have to believe in the corrupted state that is called the Vatican. The Vatican is not acting on behalf of any God these days, only their own self interests and preservation as an antiquated entity.
Once people separate their beliefs from an organization that attempts to form your opinions and beliefs, only then will there be any real reform.
No, because iMessage or Google services are already easily tappable in those countries. No other IM is, or was, as secure as BBM which is the only reason why BlackBerry fell into the bad graces of countries like India and forced them to open up their protocol.
"OMG BlackBerry voids human rights! I'm glad I use my beloved non-BlackBerry phone", an idiot might say.
Look, BlackBerry was the only company that offered a messaging service that was so secure that most governments could not hack it, and so threatened to not allow BlackBerries to be sold in their country. I mean POTUS prefered a BlackBerry over any other phone for this very reason.
Note, that this means that your beloved iPhone, Windows Phone, or Android, has messaging services that ALREADY allow governments to tap and hack into easily. It's why you have not heard about similar stories from these companies, the just did not bother implementing that level of security in their products to piss of government agencies.
BlackBerry had to concede if they wanted to sell their products in countries like Saudi Arabia or India. Which, BTW, are some of BlackBerries largest markets, more so than for Apple or Google even. Any of you ever run a company that pisses off your largest customer bases, let me know how that well that works out for you when you spout idealistic moral indignation rather than apply rational common sense.
So before you start pounding on BlackBerry for giving up on human rights, realize that we ALL live in countries that can tap into our phones and message and that any company preventing this will not be allowed to do business for very long in that country. The only difference between the USA or Canada and a place like India is that a little more due diligence is required by the law before they can gain access to write tap a person.
Companies like Microsoft, Dell, HP, and any other OEM PC maker need to wake up and realize this isn't a slump, it's a death spiral.
Yes there is a niche market for PC's now. Developers need PC's to actually create the applications and content used by mobile platforms. Many enterprise operations still require a proper PC to do things properly. Hard core gamers will never use a tablet or a console as their means to waste hours a day until those platform match or exceed the performance of a PC, and include a laggless mouse and keyboard combo..
However the rest of the world has move past PC's. Its not a question of form-factor, price, performance, or quality of OS running on it. There is no killer app or OS that will lure people back to the PC platform, there is no price point that will make people say, hey, lets revisit the desktop. Even if PC's got 100 times more powerful people have obvious indicated they do not care about performance if they can update their Facebook status on a phone with 1/100 the processing power of a modern desktop or laptop. To say that PC's will regain popularity among the masses is to also suggest that the abacus could make a comeback if you invest enough money into the platform.
PC is a deprecated platform relegated to a niche market that is waiting for Tablets to catch up performance wise.
There is also a generation of people that will NEVER buy a PC. Children today are growing up on a Tablet, and will see no reason to ever invest in the platform and will only use one if their job requires it.
Also I will see a shift eventually where the PC simply morphs into a Tablet, in which case you could argue that PC's as "Personal Computers" have made a comeback. But "traditional" platforms such as a desktop shoebox and clamshell laptops will disappear altogether.
This is hardly new or needed, there are hundreds of "Make games" courses in colleges around the world.
Maybe its new for Universities who tend to only deal with theoretical and rarely practical applications of knowledge, but community colleges everywhere offer this.
The only problem is you can't teach creativity, you either have it or not. So knowing how to make the game is not the same as making a great game.
At this point, telling everyone to use a bike to go to work and acting like some smug green idealist saying "I told you so" isn't going to fix anything so shut the hell up and learn to surf.
I mean I cannot perceive how this was not caught. At some point while the rocket is sitting on the launch pad, someone must have run through some kind of test diagnostics, any sensor involved in resolving direction should be on that list of checks:
Sensor 1 Direction: UP - OK Sensor 2 Direction: UP - OK Sensor 3 Direction: UP - OK Sensor 4 Direction: DOWN - Abort!, Abort!, Abort!
Anyways, its easy to over trivialize this as we don't know what is really involved in making a rocket go...oh yes, its to make sure fire comes out the bottom and the rest of it goes UP!
Considering how mouthy Gabe is publicly, I never expected that Valve truly has a flat management structure, just a hidden one. There is no way that a company can operate by having every employee equally weigh in on corporate decisions, and I am pretty sure Gabe is not going to allow that in general. I mean, isn't that why "design by committee" is used in negative connotations?
In a flat structure probably works if the company is small and new. But you are eventually going to get a mix new and old employees that eventually feel entitled to weigh in heavier on decisions because they have been their longer. You're not going to get some new junior developer that is fresh out of school having equal weight on corporate decisions over an employee that has been there from the start, or the actual owner? Bullshit.
And also lets not forget the fact that it takes 5+ years for Valve to release anything. Where is HL3? One of the most popular game franchises and not even a hint it's in production and they dropped making episodes for HL2 pretty quickly. Even the SteamBox has turned into vaporware, E3 just passed, didn't hear much about it. Suddenly Valve is in talks to do a bunch of movies based on their games? Obviously flat structure is NOT optimal if the goal is to actually produce a product, or at least stay on track as a game company and not turn into a movie studio on a whim.
I wish Valve (and Gabe) would end their bullshit about corporate philosophy and instead focus on actually running a more efficient and effective company instead of telling other companies they are doing everything wrong. Valve's lack of corporate structure seems to be failing on many many levels. I mean Gabe had the audacity to accuse Sony of being unfocused about the PS3, yet as a company Valve has no focus. Are you a game company? Game publisher? Game Retailer?, Console maker? Movie studio? I mean you can be all if that is your choice, but you have to produce at all levels, not dangle products and ideas around for years and then never deliver.
It's disappointing because when Valve does something right it's usually awesome, but I think they are stretching themselves too thin. Time for a real leader to emerge and bring focus back to the company. You can't have 100 people wanting to do 100 things and expect to excel at all of them.
Yes, it would be nice if we lived in a world where nobody got paid to work, we just did so out of the goodness of our hearts, and then just gave the fruits of our labors away for nothing more then a smile. I personally would enjoy working 14 hours a day to then come home and open up a can of smiles to feed my family, of course my home is built with smiles and I commute to work on my unicorn.
There is no accountability on Kickstarter. It's the "honor" system of capital investment.
If you earn more then 7 times your target and still need money, lets face it, you failed on all levels.
Chances are the 3 million was squandered on bullshit and when the money ran out they realized they still needed to make a product they promised. I mean you have 3 million thrown at you in a few months from a few hundred thousand basically anonymous dupes what would you do? Buy a car, house,rent out a nice office, kick ass computers for the staff, and then, maybe, make a game with the change left over because nobody is going to come knocking asking for their investment back if you fail. Oh and you print off a thousand T-shirts or other stupid swag to make the dupes feel good.
I think Kickstarter should stop the idea of allowing you to exceed your target. If you think $65K is enough to start your project then once you get $65K then donation button is disabled. If you still need more money then open up a second round of donations, but realize that you do this more then a few times and people will understand your idea and business strategy is bullshit and will move on.
Remember, this is to kick start your project, not fund your lifestyle.
VW makes THE dullest looking vehicles on the market today. Even as a prototype this XL1 wouldn't even look cool or modern in an 80's James Bond flick staring Timothy Dalton.. I actually puked a little bit looking at this thing. Its like they started off with a boring Jetta front and then just gave up as they reached the back.
If your job can be replaced by an underpaid angry man overseas then you should aim higher in your career path.
Skill and talent has NEVER been outsourced, but paying someone 85k to write shit code can be easily outsourced to someone that gets paid 5k to write code a little less shitty.
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Something about the deaf leading the blind jumped into my head reading this.
Do we want them too?
Java client's are not notoriously strong in the performance department, period. I mean this is why my Blu-ray player sucks as a Netflix client because its Java based. Also no popular "smartphone" created in the last 6 years uses Java as a front end so the reason while mobile devices improved in performance is because those companies avoided using Java in the first place.
Sure, maybe some throwback clamshell feature phone might run Java and perform well, but you are hardly playing Angry Birds or doing anything more then trivial on a clamshell feature phone. There is a reason why everyone abandoned Java based phones the moment iPhone came out.
Also I'd rather have nobody from Sun/Oracle touch Javascript for fear they will lock it down and then sue everyone else because they changed something and suddenly decide they own Javascript.
Yes and no.
Yes, there is a tendency for people to just pick up a library, use a few features of it, but then bloat their product with them.
On the other hand
I also hate it when people always assume they know how to build a better mouse trap and do everything from scratch.
When it comes down to it, a library tends to be created by many people, most likely smarter than you, that is also field tested on hundreds or thousands of sites and products. You get the benefits of the experience and testing by using it, unlike trying to roll your own untested code that you just assume is better out of arrogance.
I think if you are using more than 50% of the features of any library, go for it, but to use an expansive library just to not have to write a few features is lazy and not beneficial.
It's sad when someone wooshes a their own failed attempt at humor. Its like he wooshed to cover up the fact he didn't realize Ethiopia wasn't actually a country of uncivilized heathens but that it was part of the joke all along.
Thanks for clearing that up, I obviously originally thought that the cure was to go down on a few dirty man-whores in a back alley, but I am glad researches found a better way to do it.
Warning: This product might give you nausea, dry mouth, or AIDS.
I mean how out of touch is the Vatican today.
Lets get something clear.
I have no problems with people's individual beliefs. If you believe in God, Jesus, whatever, go right ahead. I will defend people's rights to believe in whatever religions they choose, and even claim that the fringe beliefs like scientology are part of what it means to live in a free society, so go right ahead. Feel free to assemble, but also feel free to discuss, argue, and debate the merits of your beliefs and not just assume someone else has all the answers for you.
HOWEVER
I think that the Catholic Church as an organization is completely out to lunch.
There is no point to defend anything the Pope or Vatican does these days just because you are Catholic and believe in God and Jesus.
You can believe in God, you DON'T have to believe in the corrupted state that is called the Vatican. The Vatican is not acting on behalf of any God these days, only their own self interests and preservation as an antiquated entity.
Once people separate their beliefs from an organization that attempts to form your opinions and beliefs, only then will there be any real reform.
No, because iMessage or Google services are already easily tappable in those countries. No other IM is, or was, as secure as BBM which is the only reason why BlackBerry fell into the bad graces of countries like India and forced them to open up their protocol.
"OMG BlackBerry voids human rights! I'm glad I use my beloved non-BlackBerry phone", an idiot might say.
Look, BlackBerry was the only company that offered a messaging service that was so secure that most governments could not hack it, and so threatened to not allow BlackBerries to be sold in their country. I mean POTUS prefered a BlackBerry over any other phone for this very reason.
Note, that this means that your beloved iPhone, Windows Phone, or Android, has messaging services that ALREADY allow governments to tap and hack into easily. It's why you have not heard about similar stories from these companies, the just did not bother implementing that level of security in their products to piss of government agencies.
BlackBerry had to concede if they wanted to sell their products in countries like Saudi Arabia or India. Which, BTW, are some of BlackBerries largest markets, more so than for Apple or Google even. Any of you ever run a company that pisses off your largest customer bases, let me know how that well that works out for you when you spout idealistic moral indignation rather than apply rational common sense.
So before you start pounding on BlackBerry for giving up on human rights, realize that we ALL live in countries that can tap into our phones and message and that any company preventing this will not be allowed to do business for very long in that country. The only difference between the USA or Canada and a place like India is that a little more due diligence is required by the law before they can gain access to write tap a person.
Companies like Microsoft, Dell, HP, and any other OEM PC maker need to wake up and realize this isn't a slump, it's a death spiral.
Yes there is a niche market for PC's now. Developers need PC's to actually create the applications and content used by mobile platforms. Many enterprise operations still require a proper PC to do things properly. Hard core gamers will never use a tablet or a console as their means to waste hours a day until those platform match or exceed the performance of a PC, and include a laggless mouse and keyboard combo..
However the rest of the world has move past PC's. Its not a question of form-factor, price, performance, or quality of OS running on it. There is no killer app or OS that will lure people back to the PC platform, there is no price point that will make people say, hey, lets revisit the desktop. Even if PC's got 100 times more powerful people have obvious indicated they do not care about performance if they can update their Facebook status on a phone with 1/100 the processing power of a modern desktop or laptop. To say that PC's will regain popularity among the masses is to also suggest that the abacus could make a comeback if you invest enough money into the platform.
PC is a deprecated platform relegated to a niche market that is waiting for Tablets to catch up performance wise.
There is also a generation of people that will NEVER buy a PC. Children today are growing up on a Tablet, and will see no reason to ever invest in the platform and will only use one if their job requires it.
Also I will see a shift eventually where the PC simply morphs into a Tablet, in which case you could argue that PC's as "Personal Computers" have made a comeback. But "traditional" platforms such as a desktop shoebox and clamshell laptops will disappear altogether.
If this was an article about Apple wanting everything to be stored in their iCloud then everyone would be singing its praise.
Cloud isn't cool until the company hosting it is cool I guess.
Google Reader 4 ever! Personally iGoogle is my center of the universe and the only place I need to go online anymore.
This is hardly new or needed, there are hundreds of "Make games" courses in colleges around the world.
Maybe its new for Universities who tend to only deal with theoretical and rarely practical applications of knowledge, but community colleges everywhere offer this.
The only problem is you can't teach creativity, you either have it or not. So knowing how to make the game is not the same as making a great game.
At this point, telling everyone to use a bike to go to work and acting like some smug green idealist saying "I told you so" isn't going to fix anything so shut the hell up and learn to surf.
Its fucking the rocket science industry.
I mean I cannot perceive how this was not caught. At some point while the rocket is sitting on the launch pad, someone must have run through some kind of test diagnostics, any sensor involved in resolving direction should be on that list of checks:
Sensor 1 Direction: UP - OK
Sensor 2 Direction: UP - OK
Sensor 3 Direction: UP - OK
Sensor 4 Direction: DOWN - Abort!, Abort!, Abort!
Anyways, its easy to over trivialize this as we don't know what is really involved in making a rocket go...oh yes, its to make sure fire comes out the bottom and the rest of it goes UP!
Considering how mouthy Gabe is publicly, I never expected that Valve truly has a flat management structure, just a hidden one. There is no way that a company can operate by having every employee equally weigh in on corporate decisions, and I am pretty sure Gabe is not going to allow that in general. I mean, isn't that why "design by committee" is used in negative connotations?
In a flat structure probably works if the company is small and new. But you are eventually going to get a mix new and old employees that eventually feel entitled to weigh in heavier on decisions because they have been their longer. You're not going to get some new junior developer that is fresh out of school having equal weight on corporate decisions over an employee that has been there from the start, or the actual owner? Bullshit.
And also lets not forget the fact that it takes 5+ years for Valve to release anything. Where is HL3? One of the most popular game franchises and not even a hint it's in production and they dropped making episodes for HL2 pretty quickly. Even the SteamBox has turned into vaporware, E3 just passed, didn't hear much about it. Suddenly Valve is in talks to do a bunch of movies based on their games? Obviously flat structure is NOT optimal if the goal is to actually produce a product, or at least stay on track as a game company and not turn into a movie studio on a whim.
I wish Valve (and Gabe) would end their bullshit about corporate philosophy and instead focus on actually running a more efficient and effective company instead of telling other companies they are doing everything wrong. Valve's lack of corporate structure seems to be failing on many many levels. I mean Gabe had the audacity to accuse Sony of being unfocused about the PS3, yet as a company Valve has no focus. Are you a game company? Game publisher? Game Retailer?, Console maker? Movie studio? I mean you can be all if that is your choice, but you have to produce at all levels, not dangle products and ideas around for years and then never deliver.
It's disappointing because when Valve does something right it's usually awesome, but I think they are stretching themselves too thin. Time for a real leader to emerge and bring focus back to the company. You can't have 100 people wanting to do 100 things and expect to excel at all of them.
I don't think there is anything done on the web that Google isn't aware of these days so you may as well just make it easier for them.
So some apps can bribe their way to getting notified first, some kind of premium notification system that makes Google rich then?
Yes, it would be nice if we lived in a world where nobody got paid to work, we just did so out of the goodness of our hearts, and then just gave the fruits of our labors away for nothing more then a smile. I personally would enjoy working 14 hours a day to then come home and open up a can of smiles to feed my family, of course my home is built with smiles and I commute to work on my unicorn.
There is no accountability on Kickstarter. It's the "honor" system of capital investment.
If you earn more then 7 times your target and still need money, lets face it, you failed on all levels.
Chances are the 3 million was squandered on bullshit and when the money ran out they realized they still needed to make a product they promised. I mean you have 3 million thrown at you in a few months from a few hundred thousand basically anonymous dupes what would you do? Buy a car, house,rent out a nice office, kick ass computers for the staff, and then, maybe, make a game with the change left over because nobody is going to come knocking asking for their investment back if you fail. Oh and you print off a thousand T-shirts or other stupid swag to make the dupes feel good.
I think Kickstarter should stop the idea of allowing you to exceed your target. If you think $65K is enough to start your project then once you get $65K then donation button is disabled. If you still need more money then open up a second round of donations, but realize that you do this more then a few times and people will understand your idea and business strategy is bullshit and will move on.
Remember, this is to kick start your project, not fund your lifestyle.
VW makes THE dullest looking vehicles on the market today. Even as a prototype this XL1 wouldn't even look cool or modern in an 80's James Bond flick staring Timothy Dalton.. I actually puked a little bit looking at this thing. Its like they started off with a boring Jetta front and then just gave up as they reached the back.
Das "Boring" Auto.
If it comes with a spell checker and undo option, I am all in.
Strike 3, yer out!
Xbox One, I didn't even get to know you.
Xbox One RIP
2013 (mid) - 2013 (late-mid)
If your job can be replaced by an underpaid angry man overseas then you should aim higher in your career path.
Skill and talent has NEVER been outsourced, but paying someone 85k to write shit code can be easily outsourced to someone that gets paid 5k to write code a little less shitty.
So when you want a generic shitty OEM laptop that just isn't shitty enough, go open source with it.