Because without Jobs, Ive, Mansfield, Serlet, Tamaddon, Forstall, Schiller, Johnson, and Cook do things slightly differently. And that slight variation is the difference between Windows Mobile and the iPhone... or the iPod and the Zune.
And I have to disagree. No one took their xbox jogging. First, you set up the straw man that disc damage only occurs when people flip an xbox from side to flat while turned on. That is untrue.
1) This occurs when simply moving the xbox, not flipping it. Considering every single computer, DVD player, or cd-based console (ps1, ps2, dreamcast) I've owned has allowed me to move it with a disc in it, this is not "normal" cd drive behavior.
2) This occurs when the xbox screws up. It scratched the hell out of my PGR3 disc when we had a power failure. Luckily, Xbox support was nice enough to replace it. I've never had that happen with a console, dvd player, or computer before either.
3) The console is not stable in the upright position. If you're going to advertise the product that way, it needs to be stable enough to be used in that manner. Tower computers are stable, the 360 is not. A slight tug on a cord (which you can imagine happens during gameplay) and that thing will topple over easily possibly breaking itself.
Microsoft didn't get the hardware right. They *did* get support right, and have paid dearly for their hardware mistakes. Let's see if they're better at it the 2nd time around.
I really don't get it. Everyone complains that games are the same. They're all the same. There's nothing new.
Then, we get some really cool games coming out. We get GoW which takes 3rd person shooters viable (okay, so it's not that different). Stepping further outside genres, we get GH & Rock Band, a whole new way to enjoy music and video games. Going further, we get Ban & Kaz from Rare, which is an amazing vehicle/puzzle/action game. We get Dance Dance Revolution. We get the Wii and motion-sensing remotes. We get Wii Fit. And then we also get user-input games like LittleBigPlanet. All of these have either created new or revitalized old genres. I'm sure I'm missing a bunch more that have been amazing.
And now everyone's complaining that people aren't playing the old stagnant genres as much? It also ignores how successful games like Left4Dead have been? Or shoot-off genres like Dead Rising?
Slapping a different GUI on Gecko/WebKit, along with a general lack of support for add-ons and other crucial pieces of the browsing experience, does not persuade a lot of people to switch to something "new."
Yes, who would ever use a browser like Firefox when it's just the Mozilla browser and Gecko engine with reduced functionality.
UDP is used for online gaming, VoIP, etc. They will just start to deprioritize UDP, which is bad. 99% of customers won't notice the difference, but we will.
I submit that the gaming industry is big enough (Sony, EA, Microsoft, etc) that gaming connections will not be de-prioritized.
Also, if someone who has 20 years experience is interviewing for the same job/pay as someone fresh out of college, there's probably a reason why they're still entry level.
My current gambit is something like 'IT is seen as a young man's game. My next applicant after you is 23 years old. What do you know that he doesn't?' This gets responses ranging from the vague to the truly enlightened. All next week I'm interviewing for a number of senior software designer and developer roles. What should I be asking of the more experienced applicants, and what responses should I be looking out for?
I think what you're doing is probably a worker's rights violation (disclosing others candidates' ages, asking candidates to make a case for a job based on their relative age). Even if it isn't or you don't get sued, no good employee would want to work for someone who interviews like that.
You should not be a manager. Nor should you be interviewing anyone. You represent your company extremely poorly and open them up to legal action. Or did I (and the editors) just get trolled?
It's bad because if women are interested in CS, there will be a larger pool of intelligent individuals to fill the ranks, increasing productivity and competition. Further, the overall workforce would probably be happier in the profession if there is some gender balance. If you are excluding individuals who would make your workforce more productive, you are inefficient.
Why aren't women in CS?
I don't know, is it the work? Is it the environment? Is it the type of companies that they have to work for? My speculation: The work is solitary, and women tend to value jobs that require human interaction (see: teaching, HR, nursing/MDs). Further, the work hours are often later in the day/later at night, something that creates scheduling conflicts with children's dropoff/pickup times.
Should we encourage more women in CS?
The real question is, do the additional intelligent minds and competition make up for the cost of changing what they don't like about the job. Since I speculated that the nature of the job is the problem, the only solution is to make CS less coding intensive. That doesn't sound like a solution to me.
If the solution were simple and women wanted in CS, they'd be shouting it and companies would comply to improve efficiency. Women are highly educated and assertive these days and the education gap between men and women is about nil. This whole line of thinking that [male voice] "We need to find out why women aren't happy in CS so we can help them" is both insulting and ignorant.
I never hear women complain about this; it's normally guys. Which makes me think women know what they want in a career, and CS isn't it.
Seriously, if I couldn't buy used games, I probably wouldn't have a system.
Since owning an xbox ($600 after peripherals/2yrs Live etc), the only games I've found worth the initial cost and no re-sale were Gears of War ($60) and Rock Band ($170). That's $830 for two games.
If I was unable to re-sell the other 20 some games I'd bought, there's no way I would even own this system.
If you put in the hard work, you'll know where the right place and time is. It's 90%+ hard work, good decisions, and having someone to bankroll you in the early stages. It's less than 10% luck.
I'd still go with serving coffee at the big company. You'll probably make better contacts at the bigger company, and you'll certainly have a more recognizable name on the resume. It's not what you know but who you know and being able to name-drop.
It's not what you know, it's what people think you know.
Google isn't successful because of cross-platform, cross-browser goodness. They're successful because their products "just work". Much like Apple, in a sense.
Can Microsoft do that? Live Search eventually got there, but almost a decade late to the party. Let's see what the office team can do being only a few years late.
Congrats, you compared a game that is multiplayer focused to games that only offer singleplayer. Then complained about the "interactivity and [immersion]".
The best way around that crap is to stick the disc in your computer, and use various software to rip out the garbage. Optionally, use Handbrake, encode to h.264, and stream it to a set-top-box/game console instead.
He complained of wasting 4 minutes skipping through stuff to see a movie, and your recommendation to save time is to edit the movie, encode it, and then stream it instead? Yeah, that's worth it.
In September, Apple again contacted Papermaster, which led to more meetings with Jobs and others in early October. After he declined a counteroffer from IBM and another, separate offer to "sit out" for a year in exchange for his current base salary, Papermaster told IBM he had made up his mind and was going to Apple.
Given their recent earnings troubles, I think you are wrong. Whether they believe that's because of the economy, piracy, bad games, or DRM backlash, I don't know.
You guys are thinking like IT people, not management.
When management asks you this, they're really asking "What in your job can we get rid of so you have time to do things we think are more important?"
They want improvements, not for you to defend the status quo. Identify frivolous things you maintain, ask that you eliminate those to work on new projects. Use your presentation time to show how the new projects will make the business more productive.
You justify your job by proving you are valuable, not that every task you perform is valuable.
The truth is, iTunes is an average music player. Though the UI is simple and good like most Apple products, it has lagged in features compared to music players available on Linux and Windows.
The features it is missing are niche features. How many of these "more feature complete" players you are using have features like Genius playlists? Video podcasts? How many also seemlessly manage the songs on your mp3(iPod) player? Smartphones(iPhone)? How many offer iTunes music sharing/streaming on the local network? How many seamlessly integrate with the most popular music store?
That's not even including the non-music features of itunes, such as syncing calendars, contacts, photos, applications, and songs with iPods and iPhones. It offers video podcasts, downloadable tv shows, and streaming internet radio.
iTunes missing one feature compared to other players does not mean it has less features overall.
Let's be real, OS projects do not face the same level of pressures and problems of a corporation. Someone for this position must have had a strong background as a public-company CTO at some point in his/her career.
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Because without Jobs, Ive, Mansfield, Serlet, Tamaddon, Forstall, Schiller, Johnson, and Cook do things slightly differently. And that slight variation is the difference between Windows Mobile and the iPhone... or the iPod and the Zune.
And I have to disagree. No one took their xbox jogging. First, you set up the straw man that disc damage only occurs when people flip an xbox from side to flat while turned on. That is untrue.
1) This occurs when simply moving the xbox, not flipping it. Considering every single computer, DVD player, or cd-based console (ps1, ps2, dreamcast) I've owned has allowed me to move it with a disc in it, this is not "normal" cd drive behavior.
2) This occurs when the xbox screws up. It scratched the hell out of my PGR3 disc when we had a power failure. Luckily, Xbox support was nice enough to replace it. I've never had that happen with a console, dvd player, or computer before either.
3) The console is not stable in the upright position. If you're going to advertise the product that way, it needs to be stable enough to be used in that manner. Tower computers are stable, the 360 is not. A slight tug on a cord (which you can imagine happens during gameplay) and that thing will topple over easily possibly breaking itself.
Microsoft didn't get the hardware right. They *did* get support right, and have paid dearly for their hardware mistakes. Let's see if they're better at it the 2nd time around.
Because the complexity of frailty of NAT solutions keep IT workers in jobs.
I really don't get it. Everyone complains that games are the same. They're all the same. There's nothing new.
Then, we get some really cool games coming out. We get GoW which takes 3rd person shooters viable (okay, so it's not that different). Stepping further outside genres, we get GH & Rock Band, a whole new way to enjoy music and video games. Going further, we get Ban & Kaz from Rare, which is an amazing vehicle/puzzle/action game. We get Dance Dance Revolution. We get the Wii and motion-sensing remotes. We get Wii Fit. And then we also get user-input games like LittleBigPlanet. All of these have either created new or revitalized old genres. I'm sure I'm missing a bunch more that have been amazing.
And now everyone's complaining that people aren't playing the old stagnant genres as much? It also ignores how successful games like Left4Dead have been? Or shoot-off genres like Dead Rising?
This is stupid.
You meant to say: "Wait till they graduate. Right now they don't get paid either way."
Yes, who would ever use a browser like Firefox when it's just the Mozilla browser and Gecko engine with reduced functionality.
I submit that the gaming industry is big enough (Sony, EA, Microsoft, etc) that gaming connections will not be de-prioritized.
If I were an HP shareholder, I would be absolutely appalled to find out they were trying to make me more money. Appalled I tell you.
Having played both, Rock Band is a lot closer to the real notes and feels a lot more natural than GH.
That said, it ain't perfect. Most noticeably different is In Bloom.
Also, if someone who has 20 years experience is interviewing for the same job/pay as someone fresh out of college, there's probably a reason why they're still entry level.
I think what you're doing is probably a worker's rights violation (disclosing others candidates' ages, asking candidates to make a case for a job based on their relative age). Even if it isn't or you don't get sued, no good employee would want to work for someone who interviews like that.
You should not be a manager. Nor should you be interviewing anyone. You represent your company extremely poorly and open them up to legal action. Or did I (and the editors) just get trolled?
Why is it bad that there aren't women in CS?
It's bad because if women are interested in CS, there will be a larger pool of intelligent individuals to fill the ranks, increasing productivity and competition. Further, the overall workforce would probably be happier in the profession if there is some gender balance. If you are excluding individuals who would make your workforce more productive, you are inefficient.
Why aren't women in CS?
I don't know, is it the work? Is it the environment? Is it the type of companies that they have to work for? My speculation: The work is solitary, and women tend to value jobs that require human interaction (see: teaching, HR, nursing/MDs). Further, the work hours are often later in the day/later at night, something that creates scheduling conflicts with children's dropoff/pickup times.
Should we encourage more women in CS?
The real question is, do the additional intelligent minds and competition make up for the cost of changing what they don't like about the job. Since I speculated that the nature of the job is the problem, the only solution is to make CS less coding intensive. That doesn't sound like a solution to me.
If the solution were simple and women wanted in CS, they'd be shouting it and companies would comply to improve efficiency. Women are highly educated and assertive these days and the education gap between men and women is about nil. This whole line of thinking that [male voice] "We need to find out why women aren't happy in CS so we can help them" is both insulting and ignorant.
I never hear women complain about this; it's normally guys. Which makes me think women know what they want in a career, and CS isn't it.
Seriously, if I couldn't buy used games, I probably wouldn't have a system.
Since owning an xbox ($600 after peripherals/2yrs Live etc), the only games I've found worth the initial cost and no re-sale were Gears of War ($60) and Rock Band ($170). That's $830 for two games.
If I was unable to re-sell the other 20 some games I'd bought, there's no way I would even own this system.
So, Cuban commits SEC fraud, and we're supposed to ignore it because he's anti-Bush and it was 4 years ago?
Complete crap.
If you put in the hard work, you'll know where the right place and time is. It's 90%+ hard work, good decisions, and having someone to bankroll you in the early stages. It's less than 10% luck.
I'd still go with serving coffee at the big company. You'll probably make better contacts at the bigger company, and you'll certainly have a more recognizable name on the resume. It's not what you know but who you know and being able to name-drop.
It's not what you know, it's what people think you know.
Google isn't successful because of cross-platform, cross-browser goodness. They're successful because their products "just work". Much like Apple, in a sense.
Can Microsoft do that? Live Search eventually got there, but almost a decade late to the party. Let's see what the office team can do being only a few years late.
Congrats, you compared a game that is multiplayer focused to games that only offer singleplayer. Then complained about the "interactivity and [immersion]".
Where can I read your insightful articles?
The best way around that crap is to stick the disc in your computer, and use various software to rip out the garbage. Optionally, use Handbrake, encode to h.264, and stream it to a set-top-box/game console instead.
He complained of wasting 4 minutes skipping through stuff to see a movie, and your recommendation to save time is to edit the movie, encode it, and then stream it instead? Yeah, that's worth it.
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In September, Apple again contacted Papermaster, which led to more meetings with Jobs and others in early October. After he declined a counteroffer from IBM and another, separate offer to "sit out" for a year in exchange for his current base salary, Papermaster told IBM he had made up his mind and was going to Apple.
Given their recent earnings troubles, I think you are wrong. Whether they believe that's because of the economy, piracy, bad games, or DRM backlash, I don't know.
You guys are thinking like IT people, not management.
When management asks you this, they're really asking "What in your job can we get rid of so you have time to do things we think are more important?"
They want improvements, not for you to defend the status quo. Identify frivolous things you maintain, ask that you eliminate those to work on new projects. Use your presentation time to show how the new projects will make the business more productive.
You justify your job by proving you are valuable, not that every task you perform is valuable.
The truth is, iTunes is an average music player. Though the UI is simple and good like most Apple products, it has lagged in features compared to music players available on Linux and Windows.
The features it is missing are niche features. How many of these "more feature complete" players you are using have features like Genius playlists? Video podcasts? How many also seemlessly manage the songs on your mp3(iPod) player? Smartphones(iPhone)? How many offer iTunes music sharing/streaming on the local network? How many seamlessly integrate with the most popular music store?
That's not even including the non-music features of itunes, such as syncing calendars, contacts, photos, applications, and songs with iPods and iPhones. It offers video podcasts, downloadable tv shows, and streaming internet radio.
iTunes missing one feature compared to other players does not mean it has less features overall.
Let's be real, OS projects do not face the same level of pressures and problems of a corporation. Someone for this position must have had a strong background as a public-company CTO at some point in his/her career.
Do the erasers represent the FCC?