Umm... didn't the church make Galileo out to be a heretic, condemn his ideas and generally make his life miserable?
They did SUCH a good job actually that in order to attempt to turn the tide of public opinion, which is heavily against them in this new age of... you guessed it... reason... they have now apologized for the treatment of him.
Too bad it was 150 years too late. If you like Galileo that should make you ANTI-church not a supporter.
No... people are just moving away from Windows for ANY administration, or anything of real value. Last two companies I worked for Windows was on the way out with only a few holdouts.
Considering the last time I went to the theatre I had three high school girls chatting incessantly behind me who would not shut up even when asked nicely I find being able to watch in peace and quiet at home is well worth it.
I also happen to have a nice entertainment system:)
I buy things from iTunes knowing the risks of DRM specifically because it pisses off the RIAA and MPAA that they have to deal with Apple.
It amuses me NBC caved and put their TV back on iTunes because they lost so much revenue.
Am I wasting my money? Yeah probably. But lots of people also pay $10 to go to a movie for an hour and a half. I pay $2 an hour so seems like a half price entertainment deal, and I get to re-watch mine until something happens.
This person obviously never used iTunes. Not that I think it is perfect but they are making it out like Apple chose to enforce copy protection. Why does everyone forget the label's forced it?
Even so they got the tech side wrong. If you are going to bash something at least learn how it really works and what the real limitations and problems are, and include a few other services for comparison.
Actually it did require that level of skill, and patience and ability to deal with such tasks. On any given day we would be handed 10 "critical" tasks, start half and have the other half interrupt the first half which we may or may not get back to. We never had a standard environment as we had a re-work it almost daily for tests, learn new software to solve a customers problem etc.
This wasn't the sort of environment you got to own a process or two or a farm of similarly installed servers, nothing every stayed the same.
Anyone who would walk out on the small taste I gave them in the interview wouldn't have lasted a week anyway so the screening process would have been effective. My own interview for the position of managing the team was two six hour interviews where I met the head of every department in the company to make sure they could work with me and was comfortable I could handle their tasks. Part of the reason I got the job was they hit me with existing problems and I offered solutions. Why wouldn't they see if I could solve problems they have? That is what I would be doing should they hire me.
I would have to agree here... I thought this sort of thing was really dumb until I was the hiring manager seeing an endless procession of college graduates with CS degrees applying for an ITish job who couldn't answer some very basic questions.
My "screening process" was not based solely on the test however.
I would start with a phone screen where I asked them to tell me about things on their resume and found I could pretty easily figure out their level of knowledge based on how they talked about something.
If they passed this test I then brought them in for interviews with 4-6 people, half an hour each, who were given specific areas to drill them on to avoid repeats. Each of these sessions would be a sort of technical test on that interviewer's area of expertise.
If they still looked good and passed that I sent them home with some task I knew they couldn't do yet and a week to complete it and send me some sort of proof. This was to see how they handled learning. Note, I ONLY did this if it was a pass/fail for getting an offer, not before.
Through this process I managed to re-vamp my team to be a very efficient knowledgeable resource for the company rather than the ones always holding up projects like it was prior to my being hired.
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Except EA doesn't do actual Mac ports... they do "compatibility" libraries so their winblows code will run on a Mac.
I might actually buy it if it was a real Mac game, so I am waiting to find out. I won't support their lazy ass nod to alternative OSs. I also will find out if they try and pull the same BS they do on Windows, as I won't install root kits or anything I don't control onto my system.
And then the company goes under because they chose one of the worst systems for actual story and character development and end up tied to it and players realize they just spent $30 on something that is just like every other wannabe game developer out there and have nothing original.
Then they either leave the industry or find a real RPG.
Does he really expect anyone to play a flash game? Or even pay for it? Might as well make it a facebook app where you "complete offers" to power up your character.
Personally, I would see a legitimate business use as more important than my personal email, but why not get both?
Say you will sell it, if they continue to host your address for free.
Very little cost to them, you can keep the address even just as a forwarder to your original.
I did this before with a domain I bought in college. I thought it sounded really cool, and then a company with that name wanted it.
This method is highly illegal, if you accept money for the trade you are obligated to complete it in a timely manner for your client.
This is why stock brokers require a license.
This war was not about consumers, it had nothing to do with people in any way. It was about licensing fees. MS wanted to secure it's hold on MPAA DRM contracts (see Netflix explanation on why they can't offer Linux or Mac streaming yet to understand this) and Sony wanted to increase PS3 sales and ensure their home theatre setups did not get encroached on by Toshiba.
On top of that the per disk money Sony and/or Microsoft gets for the "interactive" portions.
This was a war about money and control, the consumer had nothing to do with it except as an afterthought in trying to figure out how to market one particular version of DRMd crap over another.
You forget the driving factor... companies do not care about the consumer any more, the fact they need consumers is unfortunate in their eyes. Large corporations have not cared about the individual consumer over the all mighty dollar for decades. They care about the consumer and their employees only enough to be efficient on the bottom line. Bad PR means less revenue. There are entire JOBS where people are payed to research this balance of "how badly can we screw people and still have them buy our stuff"
All the people who shop at Circuit City, Best Buy etc instead of mom and pop shops caused this. All you have to do is get into those stores, and only megacorps can, and you are golden. Consumers have never learned to control the corps, which despite what they may think IS possible. See above paragraph on people who are payed to deal with balancing PR. It is YOUR responsibility to force companies to do what you want by voting with your money. If your beliefs aren't worth not owning a copy of some DVD well they weren't very strongly held.
I don't really consider what I did any sort of loss of dignity, what would have been is doing nothing while a year and a half of hard work and long hours amounted to nothing because no one saw our product and what the company could do.
A loss of dignity would have been selling out to a big company instead of marketing our work ourselves, or having to post as an anonymous coward to hide the source of my comments.
I believe in small business, and technological innovations that only come when a small group of people get together around an idea and make it happen.
What you don't understand is that the trade shows are pretty much the only outlet for these companies to get together and increase interoperability and innovation by working together.
I guess when you work flipping burgers at McDonalds and posting from mommies basement you would not know nor care about the importance of these things to startup companies. For those of us with real jobs trying to sell our creations it DOES matter. These trade shows are pretty much the ONLY outlet provided.
Hell I once spent two hours walking up and down isles in a trade show juggling a competitors glowing ball giveaways to get people to come to our booth and talk to us. Guess what? Small sacrifice of pride and we got attention and customers that allowed the company to double in size and survive. I left the company for another opportunity but the stock I did keep bought me a new car. So you hold to your high and mighty morals and I will not regret one bit going to the show and juggling a little to get attention, nor the hours I put in prepping as I drive around in the car it bought me.
If you want the end of big mega-corporations as you claim, then support ways for little companies to find each other and work together.
If you think this was appropriate why don't you invite Gizmodo guys to every presentation you give and ask them to mess with you? Heckle you. After all you are down with screwing with corporate culture so why not? Oh... because then it would effect your livelihood and income. Get a clue and put your money where your mouth is if you want to support this kind of crap. You don't like CES, don't go. Enough people don't go it ends. Simple solution.
No one has done it before because they were PROFESSIONAL in a professional setting. Weird concept I know. And people wonder why bloggers have yet to get respect as journalists. Show me one person from the Wall Street Journal, CNN etc who would tank their career over this.
The fact Gizmodo has not fired this guy is just proof of the entire companies immaturity and lack of professionalism.
Incorrect. Maturity is knowing WHEN a prank is going to funny and when it is highly inappropriate.
Example: Some friends and I saran wrapped a co-workers cube for his birthday. Every item individually wrapped. Funny? Of course. No one was hurt, no ones reputation was at stake.
Same thing but do it when you KNOW he has an important visitor from another company coming to see a presentation. Now my company will fire me and my professional reputation will be tarnished.
A mature person sees the difference between these two things. One is funny, one gets you fired.
Actually not just the guy, but the company who sponsored him (Gizmodo) should be banned. Maybe him for life the company for five years. That way there is a little incentive to hire people with a more professional attitude. You put your company name on someone you are responsible for them. Don't hire immature jackasses if you want respect.
No, he is a moron. Respect must be EARNED, it is not given by default. I cannot stand up and claim to be a Pulitzer prize winning journalist. I cannot claim to work for the Wall Street Journal. These are things that garner respect and privilege in journalism, and are EARNED. He has just damaged everyone fighting for respect in the "blogger community" and they should flay him for it, not exalt him. Anyone who things what he did is ok is obviously NOT a professional otherwise they would have had to give a presentation and know what it is like. If you think what he did was "American" it is no wonder we are loosing all our international respect.
Writing rants from your mommies basement repeating and commenting on rumors someone else uncovered should in NO way be considered the same thing as someone who works 12 hours a day uncovering stories.
That being said, the "blog" as a medium CAN be done by a professional journalist who works full time and has an income and job to protect with his/her integrity. In this case, and this case alone, I do not separate bloggers and journalists as it is simply journalism in a different medium. The rest are like me standing on a street corner shouting stories and claiming to be a newsman. How much respect would that garner me?
If you had left this at your first paragraph it might have been a good post.
Too bad you, like most 20-30 year olds in the entitled generation (just guessing from your attitude) had to take it too far.
What about lack of TV makes someone ignorant? I am far MORE informed since I canceled my satellite. I waist far less of my life watching ads and more keeping up on what is going on in the world. If more people did that instead of watching TV perhaps you would be less aware of current media hype and more aware of the truth. Using your flawed logic I could make the assumption that you ARE ignorant simply because you can't see the difference, and thus waist your time watching American Idol and/or Fox News, or can't figure out how to use netflix to get a show you can watch on YOUR schedule and saving 15 minutes per episode.
Let me make this simple for you: Movies > TV due to no commercials and no need to justify another season. Also you can usually fast forward through all the ads at the beginning. Books > Movies as they stir creative portions of the brain and never have ads to begin with. TV and movies are a way to shut your brain OFF, not use it. Another reason you make it obvious you are young, only the most recent generation thinks ads are not annoying and simply a fact of life. Do you realize how much YOU pay on products in order for them to spend your money and inundate you with the ads? Yes, it is your money being used to force you to watch the ads. Nothing is free kid.
As for parenting, socializing your children so they understand some times they don't get what they want is a VERY important thing. As someone interviewing/managing these people coming out of college I can tell you the attitude only hurts you in trying to get a grown up job.
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Umm... didn't the church make Galileo out to be a heretic, condemn his ideas and generally make his life miserable?
They did SUCH a good job actually that in order to attempt to turn the tide of public opinion, which is heavily against them in this new age of... you guessed it... reason... they have now apologized for the treatment of him.
Too bad it was 150 years too late. If you like Galileo that should make you ANTI-church not a supporter.
No... people are just moving away from Windows for ANY administration, or anything of real value. Last two companies I worked for Windows was on the way out with only a few holdouts.
Not necessary in a lot of states... the non compete is a condition of employment therefore expires on termination of employment.
Least that is how it works in California.
Considering the last time I went to the theatre I had three high school girls chatting incessantly behind me who would not shut up even when asked nicely I find being able to watch in peace and quiet at home is well worth it.
I also happen to have a nice entertainment system :)
I buy things from iTunes knowing the risks of DRM specifically because it pisses off the RIAA and MPAA that they have to deal with Apple.
It amuses me NBC caved and put their TV back on iTunes because they lost so much revenue.
Am I wasting my money? Yeah probably. But lots of people also pay $10 to go to a movie for an hour and a half. I pay $2 an hour so seems like a half price entertainment deal, and I get to re-watch mine until something happens.
I am all for accessibility for the blind and deaf but talking about adding this to a visual gaming system? That is going a little far don't you think?
This person obviously never used iTunes. Not that I think it is perfect but they are making it out like Apple chose to enforce copy protection. Why does everyone forget the label's forced it?
Even so they got the tech side wrong. If you are going to bash something at least learn how it really works and what the real limitations and problems are, and include a few other services for comparison.
Actually it did require that level of skill, and patience and ability to deal with such tasks. On any given day we would be handed 10 "critical" tasks, start half and have the other half interrupt the first half which we may or may not get back to. We never had a standard environment as we had a re-work it almost daily for tests, learn new software to solve a customers problem etc.
This wasn't the sort of environment you got to own a process or two or a farm of similarly installed servers, nothing every stayed the same.
Anyone who would walk out on the small taste I gave them in the interview wouldn't have lasted a week anyway so the screening process would have been effective. My own interview for the position of managing the team was two six hour interviews where I met the head of every department in the company to make sure they could work with me and was comfortable I could handle their tasks. Part of the reason I got the job was they hit me with existing problems and I offered solutions. Why wouldn't they see if I could solve problems they have? That is what I would be doing should they hire me.
I would have to agree here... I thought this sort of thing was really dumb until I was the hiring manager seeing an endless procession of college graduates with CS degrees applying for an ITish job who couldn't answer some very basic questions.
My "screening process" was not based solely on the test however.
I would start with a phone screen where I asked them to tell me about things on their resume and found I could pretty easily figure out their level of knowledge based on how they talked about something.
If they passed this test I then brought them in for interviews with 4-6 people, half an hour each, who were given specific areas to drill them on to avoid repeats. Each of these sessions would be a sort of technical test on that interviewer's area of expertise.
If they still looked good and passed that I sent them home with some task I knew they couldn't do yet and a week to complete it and send me some sort of proof. This was to see how they handled learning. Note, I ONLY did this if it was a pass/fail for getting an offer, not before.
Through this process I managed to re-vamp my team to be a very efficient knowledgeable resource for the company rather than the ones always holding up projects like it was prior to my being hired.
Except EA doesn't do actual Mac ports... they do "compatibility" libraries so their winblows code will run on a Mac. I might actually buy it if it was a real Mac game, so I am waiting to find out. I won't support their lazy ass nod to alternative OSs. I also will find out if they try and pull the same BS they do on Windows, as I won't install root kits or anything I don't control onto my system.
And then the company goes under because they chose one of the worst systems for actual story and character development and end up tied to it and players realize they just spent $30 on something that is just like every other wannabe game developer out there and have nothing original. Then they either leave the industry or find a real RPG.
Does he really expect anyone to play a flash game? Or even pay for it? Might as well make it a facebook app where you "complete offers" to power up your character.
Personally, I would see a legitimate business use as more important than my personal email, but why not get both? Say you will sell it, if they continue to host your address for free. Very little cost to them, you can keep the address even just as a forwarder to your original. I did this before with a domain I bought in college. I thought it sounded really cool, and then a company with that name wanted it.
This method is highly illegal, if you accept money for the trade you are obligated to complete it in a timely manner for your client. This is why stock brokers require a license.
I hope you are joking and weren't aware the PS3 GAMES are Blue Ray disks?
This war was not about consumers, it had nothing to do with people in any way. It was about licensing fees. MS wanted to secure it's hold on MPAA DRM contracts (see Netflix explanation on why they can't offer Linux or Mac streaming yet to understand this) and Sony wanted to increase PS3 sales and ensure their home theatre setups did not get encroached on by Toshiba.
On top of that the per disk money Sony and/or Microsoft gets for the "interactive" portions.
This was a war about money and control, the consumer had nothing to do with it except as an afterthought in trying to figure out how to market one particular version of DRMd crap over another.
You forget the driving factor... companies do not care about the consumer any more, the fact they need consumers is unfortunate in their eyes. Large corporations have not cared about the individual consumer over the all mighty dollar for decades. They care about the consumer and their employees only enough to be efficient on the bottom line. Bad PR means less revenue. There are entire JOBS where people are payed to research this balance of "how badly can we screw people and still have them buy our stuff"
All the people who shop at Circuit City, Best Buy etc instead of mom and pop shops caused this. All you have to do is get into those stores, and only megacorps can, and you are golden. Consumers have never learned to control the corps, which despite what they may think IS possible. See above paragraph on people who are payed to deal with balancing PR. It is YOUR responsibility to force companies to do what you want by voting with your money. If your beliefs aren't worth not owning a copy of some DVD well they weren't very strongly held.
Having seen examples of other Microsoft software that "works" I am skeptical to say the least.
Have you actually implemented this? Seen the performance? Personally use it for mission critical services?
If not... do so before you post obvious flame bate like this.
I don't really consider what I did any sort of loss of dignity, what would have been is doing nothing while a year and a half of hard work and long hours amounted to nothing because no one saw our product and what the company could do.
A loss of dignity would have been selling out to a big company instead of marketing our work ourselves, or having to post as an anonymous coward to hide the source of my comments.
I believe in small business, and technological innovations that only come when a small group of people get together around an idea and make it happen.
What you don't understand is that the trade shows are pretty much the only outlet for these companies to get together and increase interoperability and innovation by working together.
I guess when you work flipping burgers at McDonalds and posting from mommies basement you would not know nor care about the importance of these things to startup companies. For those of us with real jobs trying to sell our creations it DOES matter. These trade shows are pretty much the ONLY outlet provided.
Hell I once spent two hours walking up and down isles in a trade show juggling a competitors glowing ball giveaways to get people to come to our booth and talk to us. Guess what? Small sacrifice of pride and we got attention and customers that allowed the company to double in size and survive. I left the company for another opportunity but the stock I did keep bought me a new car. So you hold to your high and mighty morals and I will not regret one bit going to the show and juggling a little to get attention, nor the hours I put in prepping as I drive around in the car it bought me.
If you want the end of big mega-corporations as you claim, then support ways for little companies to find each other and work together.
If you think this was appropriate why don't you invite Gizmodo guys to every presentation you give and ask them to mess with you? Heckle you. After all you are down with screwing with corporate culture so why not? Oh... because then it would effect your livelihood and income. Get a clue and put your money where your mouth is if you want to support this kind of crap. You don't like CES, don't go. Enough people don't go it ends. Simple solution.
No one has done it before because they were PROFESSIONAL in a professional setting.
Weird concept I know. And people wonder why bloggers have yet to get respect as journalists.
Show me one person from the Wall Street Journal, CNN etc who would tank their career over this.
The fact Gizmodo has not fired this guy is just proof of the entire companies immaturity and lack of professionalism.
Incorrect. Maturity is knowing WHEN a prank is going to funny and when it is highly inappropriate.
Example: Some friends and I saran wrapped a co-workers cube for his birthday. Every item individually wrapped. Funny? Of course. No one was hurt, no ones reputation was at stake.
Same thing but do it when you KNOW he has an important visitor from another company coming to see a presentation. Now my company will fire me and my professional reputation will be tarnished.
A mature person sees the difference between these two things. One is funny, one gets you fired.
Actually not just the guy, but the company who sponsored him (Gizmodo) should be banned. Maybe him for life the company for five years. That way there is a little incentive to hire people with a more professional attitude. You put your company name on someone you are responsible for them. Don't hire immature jackasses if you want respect.
No, he is a moron. Respect must be EARNED, it is not given by default. I cannot stand up and claim to be a Pulitzer prize winning journalist. I cannot claim to work for the Wall Street Journal. These are things that garner respect and privilege in journalism, and are EARNED. He has just damaged everyone fighting for respect in the "blogger community" and they should flay him for it, not exalt him. Anyone who things what he did is ok is obviously NOT a professional otherwise they would have had to give a presentation and know what it is like. If you think what he did was "American" it is no wonder we are loosing all our international respect.
Writing rants from your mommies basement repeating and commenting on rumors someone else uncovered should in NO way be considered the same thing as someone who works 12 hours a day uncovering stories.
That being said, the "blog" as a medium CAN be done by a professional journalist who works full time and has an income and job to protect with his/her integrity. In this case, and this case alone, I do not separate bloggers and journalists as it is simply journalism in a different medium. The rest are like me standing on a street corner shouting stories and claiming to be a newsman. How much respect would that garner me?
If you had left this at your first paragraph it might have been a good post.
Too bad you, like most 20-30 year olds in the entitled generation (just guessing from your attitude) had to take it too far.
What about lack of TV makes someone ignorant? I am far MORE informed since I canceled my satellite. I waist far less of my life watching ads and more keeping up on what is going on in the world. If more people did that instead of watching TV perhaps you would be less aware of current media hype and more aware of the truth. Using your flawed logic I could make the assumption that you ARE ignorant simply because you can't see the difference, and thus waist your time watching American Idol and/or Fox News, or can't figure out how to use netflix to get a show you can watch on YOUR schedule and saving 15 minutes per episode.
Let me make this simple for you: Movies > TV due to no commercials and no need to justify another season. Also you can usually fast forward through all the ads at the beginning. Books > Movies as they stir creative portions of the brain and never have ads to begin with. TV and movies are a way to shut your brain OFF, not use it. Another reason you make it obvious you are young, only the most recent generation thinks ads are not annoying and simply a fact of life. Do you realize how much YOU pay on products in order for them to spend your money and inundate you with the ads? Yes, it is your money being used to force you to watch the ads. Nothing is free kid.
As for parenting, socializing your children so they understand some times they don't get what they want is a VERY important thing. As someone interviewing/managing these people coming out of college I can tell you the attitude only hurts you in trying to get a grown up job.