Part of the overall problem with this debate is that "Bachelor's Degree" means different things to different people, but everyone in the corporate HR world wants to require one for job candidates at a professional level.
For some people, having a degree should mean that you have a well-rounded view of the world because professors have verified that you have been exposed to a diverse array of subjects and studies. For others, having a degree is supposed to indicate a devotion and thorough understanding of the technical aspects of your chosen vocation, also verified by the staff of the educational institution you attended.
Unfortunately, there's no standard applied to the "Bachelor's required" rider on a job listing. I have been to job interviews where holding a degree is the first step in proving that you can do the job they're asking and the interview is where you prove you're a valid human being who can get along with others and finish what you start. I've then turned around and had an interview for the same position at a different company only to find out that I had to go through a whole array of technical screening because the hiring manager considers a degree to merely mean you can finish what you start, and gives it no credibility whatsoever on your ability to do what you're being hired to do.
My personal opinion is that the USA -- because that's where I live and work, and therefore I know very little about the situation elsewhere -- needs a differentiation between types of degrees. There should be a general, "I can learn in a structured environment and finish what I start" degree (which, incidentally, is what I always assumed a BA was supposed to be), and then a second, equally valid degree which says only that you have studied your field and proven your ability to perform it at a professional level. Speaking as someone who has had to perform job interviews for a technical field, I know it would make my life a lot easier when we've got positions to fill.
Yeah, they seem to be missing the whole reason that people object to these things.
1) Don't wanna be seen naked
2) Unconvinced the radiation from the devices is safe
3) Big Brother is snooping too much in general
TFA's proposal doesn't really address any of those.
Stars and stones! Warn a body when you post a link to Fox "News"! They may have the facts straight for this story, but there was a banner ad for Glenn Beck on that page. My CHILDREN could have seen that!
According to games designer Peter Molyneux, the game exploits psychological techniques to make a person feel that Milo is real. Each Milo character will be unique because every player's interaction with the virtual character will sculpt the type of virtual person Milo will evolve to become.
Given my experience with the "sculptable" interactions from Black & White I, Black & White II and Fable, we can expect Milo to randomly throw temper tantrums for no reason, poop in village food stores even after being repeatedly beaten for it, and either run screaming or fawn all over his owner any time his owner walks into the room. Thanks for continuing to improve your digital personality software, Lionhead!
It would be really nice if it was possible to get an anti-Adobe viewpoint from someone other than an Apple fanboy, and an anti-Apple viewpoint from someone other than an Adobe fanboy. As it stands, most people who have any vested interest in this argument are heavily committed to one side or the other for their livelihood. That tends makes honest debate unlikely.
First, full disclosure. I've paid my dues to get an iPhone OS developer license, and I'm actively writing and releasing apps for these devices.
However, I don't think the focus should be on the fact that Apple says you have to write your code in a specific language. The focus should be on the mechanism by which they can enforce that; their monopolistic App Store. The fact that the only way to get applications onto the device is to pay Apple's fee seems highly suspect to me. I understand the desire to keep a level of quality control on the code that's executing on these machines, and in principle I applaud it. The way they've gone about it is horrible, though.
People have had years now to recognize that the hardware and underlying OS are sound. I think it's time to just open the flood gates, and let developers release whatever code they want. Customers will quickly learn which companies produce good software that doesn't destabilize or crash their device, and which companies write nothing but garbage that causes their shiny little slab of magic to become a shiny little slab of useless components.
I don't mind ads. They're much better than requiring me to subscribe for content that I only occasionally consume, and they actually bring useful/interesting items to my attention from time to time.
If, however, you run ads that pop-up over my screen, bother me with obnoxious sounds or "Congratulations, you've already won!" voices, or flicker and flash like they're trying to induce a seizure, I will block them. I will also be on the lookout for a competitor's site that can provide me with the information I'm seeking without treating me like an over-caffeinated ferret with attention deficit disorder, and drop you like a bad habit when I find them.
Oh, and that goes for breaking up a six-paragraph article over five pages, too.
Yes, the content you provide is valuable. Yes, I'm more than happy to bend to the necessities of capitalism so you can be paid for your work. But there are models that work and don't require being obnoxious to your readers/users.
In the majority of US states you could have sex with Miley Cyrus perfectly legally.
Yes, but you also have to realize that this case is taking place in my home state of Tennessee. (I hate admitting that at times like this.) Realize that Nashville, with a population of around 700,000, has over 700 churches, and is the national headquarters of the publishing branches of the Southern Baptists, Free Will Baptists, United Methodists and Gideons. Any person in politics in TN has to thump their bible at every opportunity in order to keep getting elected, and cracking down on porn is a guaranteed winner.
My personal opinion on this case is that the defendant probably has some interests I would classify as sick, but I don't think he should be prosecuted for grafting poor Miss Cyrus's face onto some digital boobies. But, you know, if we wanted to give her a chance to kick him in the nuts for it, that might count as justice in my book.:)
I've worked in software development for going on 15 years. I've never found an employer who realized giving developers rooms to themselves and a door would improve productivity.:P
*sigh* Yeah, that occurred to me about ten minutes after I posted, which coincided with the completion of my third cup of coffee. Before that, I was thinking about total sales, not actual profit.:P
Time to remind myself of the old quote: Ensure brain is running before engaging mouth.
All these people railing against the article, but the article doesn't say warming up is bad for you. It says that doing static stretching -- that is the 20-30 second stretch-and-hold with no related warm-up activity -- is bad for you.
Perhaps I am just at a stage of being 'over' Java after its changing so many times at really fundamental levels. I like that there is only VS. I like that there is only IIS and only one (fundamental).NET config.
I think again you're being biased to what you're most familiar with. Java has had two "fundamental" changes, when they rolled out 1.4 and again when Java 5 was released. Both of those were supposed to retain full backwards compatibility, but I ran into multiple apps in each case that simply didn't like the new VM. In my experience with.NET migrations, it was no different in the pain it caused when upgrading to 2.0 or 3.0. The pain was simply centered less around the runtime, and more around the upgrade in the IDE and its utter failure to properly convert old projects to the new version.
And the price thing- it is much easier to write hideous Java code and put it on a poorly config-ed Tomcat than that is to do with.NET.
Again, I have to disagree. I've seen nearly identical results between some boneheaded, thinks-he-knows-everything Java developer writing lousy code and doing a crappy job of configuring his J2EE+Tomcat app, and a similarly overconfident and undereducated.NET developer writing hideous VB.NET code and mis-configuring the IIS server.
Obviously, YMMV based on where you've worked and what exposure you've had to each side, but speaking as someone who has worked with both Java and.NET since they were infants, they both throw temper-tantrums that can wreck your house, and they both typically do it due to parental neglect, not through inbreeding or birth defects.
My consumer should not pay the price of having to consume Java, my coders should not have to pay the price of having to write for it and my sysadmins should not have to pay the price of having to maintain it.
Oh, hey, you might want to cover up, your bias is showing again.
Exactly what "price" are you referring to? If you're using a web application, then your consumer has no price as you pointed out. If you've got an experienced Java developer (and if we're still talking about web applications), then your system administrators should have no measurable maintenance increase over.NET. Maintaining a Java install and a Tomcat or other servlet container is no more difficult for an experienced admin then maintaining a.NET and IIS install, and your experienced Java developer should be hiding any deployment complexity behind automated build and deploy tools, just like the Visual Studio IDE hides the complexity of building and packaging an ASP.NET application.
I've been developing in Java since 1.1, and since I prefer small shops I've also ended up doing my fair share of.NET development and maintenance since the first release of.NET. I've deployed Java apps on Windows, Solaris and multiple flavors of Linux. I've rolled out both web-based and desktop (Swing) Java applications, as well as WinForms and ASP.NET applications. And I've had wonderful, painless experiences with both technologies in equal measure with the miserable, agonizing experiences.
This debate boils down to the same thing most technical debates can be reduced to; the right tool for the right job. If your application development, deployment and/or maintenance sucks, then you should investigate your people and processes. They're more often at fault than the tools.
I'm no where NEAR 250K in income but even I can understand why I can pay proportionally more than someone making 1/2 my salary.
I'm with you there, but the problem comes in when you start making corporate-level income, and the tax system opens up like a sieve. If you're not making multiple seven figures a year, you're paying taxes and paying proportionally more the more you make. One you get into a certain range, or start making your money a certain way, the tax system basically says, "Okay, you don't have to contribute nearly as much, as long as you cross your 'T's and dot your 'I's."
I don't personally believe any system is perfect, but I'd be very willing to try a flat percentage tax with ZERO rebates and reductions over the loophole-filled system we have now. Given that some of the larger US corporations have the same income as moderately sized countries, I firmly believe that even a 10% flat tax that applied to all money-earning entities would result in more tax income than the government sees now.
Okay, it's official. I completely and totoally loathe the person who posts the disagree mail, and the developer who decided that filtering out "Idle" topics wouldn't actual filter this odoriferous fecal matter that someone calls a story.
Hopefully, if the piracy rate for the game is low, perhaps EA will get comfortable enough to ship with even less DRM in the future.
Uhm...what? Wouldn't less piracy of Spore along with decent sales indicate to EA that they should do this type of bull more often? Personally, I hope they make plenty of money on Spore, and I also hope that everyone and his brother gets a cracked copy of it so that they see their sales numbers insanely high, and nothing approaching a match to that in activations. Maybe that would send a better message.
*reads the comments before the parent post...reads the parent post again*
Your reading comprehension isn't very high, is it? Someone mark the OP flamebait, please? I used all my mod points yesterday. (Oh, and do this post while you're at it. *grin*)
Can we PLEASE get this category properly set up so I can filter these obnoxious, pointless and totally unnecessary articles out? I find it incredibly irritating that I can tell my sections preferences that I don't want idle posts, but it never seems to work for this drek.
Am I the only one who payed attention to the announcer when they said that the footsteps shot was an animation? They said it in a round-about way so to make it hard to catch, but DVR is a wonderful thing, and I backed it up after thinking the footsteps flyby shot looked a little off. Don't get me wrong; I think it was a shady thing to do. I'm just wondering why nobody paid attention at the time, and why people are making such a big deal of it.
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Part of the overall problem with this debate is that "Bachelor's Degree" means different things to different people, but everyone in the corporate HR world wants to require one for job candidates at a professional level.
For some people, having a degree should mean that you have a well-rounded view of the world because professors have verified that you have been exposed to a diverse array of subjects and studies. For others, having a degree is supposed to indicate a devotion and thorough understanding of the technical aspects of your chosen vocation, also verified by the staff of the educational institution you attended.
Unfortunately, there's no standard applied to the "Bachelor's required" rider on a job listing. I have been to job interviews where holding a degree is the first step in proving that you can do the job they're asking and the interview is where you prove you're a valid human being who can get along with others and finish what you start. I've then turned around and had an interview for the same position at a different company only to find out that I had to go through a whole array of technical screening because the hiring manager considers a degree to merely mean you can finish what you start, and gives it no credibility whatsoever on your ability to do what you're being hired to do.
My personal opinion is that the USA -- because that's where I live and work, and therefore I know very little about the situation elsewhere -- needs a differentiation between types of degrees. There should be a general, "I can learn in a structured environment and finish what I start" degree (which, incidentally, is what I always assumed a BA was supposed to be), and then a second, equally valid degree which says only that you have studied your field and proven your ability to perform it at a professional level. Speaking as someone who has had to perform job interviews for a technical field, I know it would make my life a lot easier when we've got positions to fill.
Yeah, they seem to be missing the whole reason that people object to these things. 1) Don't wanna be seen naked 2) Unconvinced the radiation from the devices is safe 3) Big Brother is snooping too much in general TFA's proposal doesn't really address any of those.
Stars and stones! Warn a body when you post a link to Fox "News"! They may have the facts straight for this story, but there was a banner ad for Glenn Beck on that page. My CHILDREN could have seen that!
Given my experience with the "sculptable" interactions from Black & White I, Black & White II and Fable, we can expect Milo to randomly throw temper tantrums for no reason, poop in village food stores even after being repeatedly beaten for it, and either run screaming or fawn all over his owner any time his owner walks into the room. Thanks for continuing to improve your digital personality software, Lionhead!
It would be really nice if it was possible to get an anti-Adobe viewpoint from someone other than an Apple fanboy, and an anti-Apple viewpoint from someone other than an Adobe fanboy. As it stands, most people who have any vested interest in this argument are heavily committed to one side or the other for their livelihood. That tends makes honest debate unlikely.
First, full disclosure. I've paid my dues to get an iPhone OS developer license, and I'm actively writing and releasing apps for these devices.
However, I don't think the focus should be on the fact that Apple says you have to write your code in a specific language. The focus should be on the mechanism by which they can enforce that; their monopolistic App Store. The fact that the only way to get applications onto the device is to pay Apple's fee seems highly suspect to me. I understand the desire to keep a level of quality control on the code that's executing on these machines, and in principle I applaud it. The way they've gone about it is horrible, though.
People have had years now to recognize that the hardware and underlying OS are sound. I think it's time to just open the flood gates, and let developers release whatever code they want. Customers will quickly learn which companies produce good software that doesn't destabilize or crash their device, and which companies write nothing but garbage that causes their shiny little slab of magic to become a shiny little slab of useless components.
Oh, for moderator points today. +1 Insightful/Witty/AwesomeSarcasm/KickTheIdiot =)
I don't mind ads. They're much better than requiring me to subscribe for content that I only occasionally consume, and they actually bring useful/interesting items to my attention from time to time.
If, however, you run ads that pop-up over my screen, bother me with obnoxious sounds or "Congratulations, you've already won!" voices, or flicker and flash like they're trying to induce a seizure, I will block them. I will also be on the lookout for a competitor's site that can provide me with the information I'm seeking without treating me like an over-caffeinated ferret with attention deficit disorder, and drop you like a bad habit when I find them.
Oh, and that goes for breaking up a six-paragraph article over five pages, too.
Yes, the content you provide is valuable. Yes, I'm more than happy to bend to the necessities of capitalism so you can be paid for your work. But there are models that work and don't require being obnoxious to your readers/users.
Do we REALLY have to wait for the game to release before we file? :)
Amen to that.
Yes, but you also have to realize that this case is taking place in my home state of Tennessee. (I hate admitting that at times like this.) Realize that Nashville, with a population of around 700,000, has over 700 churches, and is the national headquarters of the publishing branches of the Southern Baptists, Free Will Baptists, United Methodists and Gideons. Any person in politics in TN has to thump their bible at every opportunity in order to keep getting elected, and cracking down on porn is a guaranteed winner.
My personal opinion on this case is that the defendant probably has some interests I would classify as sick, but I don't think he should be prosecuted for grafting poor Miss Cyrus's face onto some digital boobies. But, you know, if we wanted to give her a chance to kick him in the nuts for it, that might count as justice in my book. :)
I've worked in software development for going on 15 years. I've never found an employer who realized giving developers rooms to themselves and a door would improve productivity. :P
*sigh* Yeah, that occurred to me about ten minutes after I posted, which coincided with the completion of my third cup of coffee. Before that, I was thinking about total sales, not actual profit. :P
Time to remind myself of the old quote: Ensure brain is running before engaging mouth.
I take your point, but feel compelled to taunt your math. ;)
All these people railing against the article, but the article doesn't say warming up is bad for you. It says that doing static stretching -- that is the 20-30 second stretch-and-hold with no related warm-up activity -- is bad for you.
I think again you're being biased to what you're most familiar with. Java has had two "fundamental" changes, when they rolled out 1.4 and again when Java 5 was released. Both of those were supposed to retain full backwards compatibility, but I ran into multiple apps in each case that simply didn't like the new VM. In my experience with .NET migrations, it was no different in the pain it caused when upgrading to 2.0 or 3.0. The pain was simply centered less around the runtime, and more around the upgrade in the IDE and its utter failure to properly convert old projects to the new version.
Again, I have to disagree. I've seen nearly identical results between some boneheaded, thinks-he-knows-everything Java developer writing lousy code and doing a crappy job of configuring his J2EE+Tomcat app, and a similarly overconfident and undereducated .NET developer writing hideous VB.NET code and mis-configuring the IIS server.
Obviously, YMMV based on where you've worked and what exposure you've had to each side, but speaking as someone who has worked with both Java and .NET since they were infants, they both throw temper-tantrums that can wreck your house, and they both typically do it due to parental neglect, not through inbreeding or birth defects.
Oh, hey, you might want to cover up, your bias is showing again.
Exactly what "price" are you referring to? If you're using a web application, then your consumer has no price as you pointed out. If you've got an experienced Java developer (and if we're still talking about web applications), then your system administrators should have no measurable maintenance increase over .NET. Maintaining a Java install and a Tomcat or other servlet container is no more difficult for an experienced admin then maintaining a .NET and IIS install, and your experienced Java developer should be hiding any deployment complexity behind automated build and deploy tools, just like the Visual Studio IDE hides the complexity of building and packaging an ASP.NET application.
I've been developing in Java since 1.1, and since I prefer small shops I've also ended up doing my fair share of .NET development and maintenance since the first release of .NET. I've deployed Java apps on Windows, Solaris and multiple flavors of Linux. I've rolled out both web-based and desktop (Swing) Java applications, as well as WinForms and ASP .NET applications. And I've had wonderful, painless experiences with both technologies in equal measure with the miserable, agonizing experiences.
This debate boils down to the same thing most technical debates can be reduced to; the right tool for the right job. If your application development, deployment and/or maintenance sucks, then you should investigate your people and processes. They're more often at fault than the tools.
I'm with you there, but the problem comes in when you start making corporate-level income, and the tax system opens up like a sieve. If you're not making multiple seven figures a year, you're paying taxes and paying proportionally more the more you make. One you get into a certain range, or start making your money a certain way, the tax system basically says, "Okay, you don't have to contribute nearly as much, as long as you cross your 'T's and dot your 'I's."
I don't personally believe any system is perfect, but I'd be very willing to try a flat percentage tax with ZERO rebates and reductions over the loophole-filled system we have now. Given that some of the larger US corporations have the same income as moderately sized countries, I firmly believe that even a 10% flat tax that applied to all money-earning entities would result in more tax income than the government sees now.
Okay, it's official. I completely and totoally loathe the person who posts the disagree mail, and the developer who decided that filtering out "Idle" topics wouldn't actual filter this odoriferous fecal matter that someone calls a story.
Uhm...what? Wouldn't less piracy of Spore along with decent sales indicate to EA that they should do this type of bull more often? Personally, I hope they make plenty of money on Spore, and I also hope that everyone and his brother gets a cracked copy of it so that they see their sales numbers insanely high, and nothing approaching a match to that in activations. Maybe that would send a better message.
Still waiting for the ability to keep this tripe out of my customized /. page.
*reads the comments before the parent post...reads the parent post again*
Your reading comprehension isn't very high, is it? Someone mark the OP flamebait, please? I used all my mod points yesterday. (Oh, and do this post while you're at it. *grin*)
Can we PLEASE get this category properly set up so I can filter these obnoxious, pointless and totally unnecessary articles out? I find it incredibly irritating that I can tell my sections preferences that I don't want idle posts, but it never seems to work for this drek.
Am I the only one who payed attention to the announcer when they said that the footsteps shot was an animation? They said it in a round-about way so to make it hard to catch, but DVR is a wonderful thing, and I backed it up after thinking the footsteps flyby shot looked a little off. Don't get me wrong; I think it was a shady thing to do. I'm just wondering why nobody paid attention at the time, and why people are making such a big deal of it.
As should everyone's. Come on, admit the man-crush. You know you've got one. :)
And this isn't modded troll...why?