I was actually only doing the job until they could find a replacement... Until they realized that I was pretty shortly back to my old efficiency on 'my' work. The owners eventually stated that they could hire another 'programmer' (who would also share the sysadmin stuff with me and 2 others) or have big pay raises. My pay raise is due in a couple weeks, so we'll see how that goes. My last 2 were pretty huge, though, so I've no complaints yet.
Too right. If a robot takes your job (or in this case, a mashup) then your job was pointless. It was time to move onto something challenging. Learn to use the robot to do the crap work and go do the fun, challenging stuff.
We had an employee here (a friend of mine) that quit. I replaced him with a series of scripts and now I 'do' his job and mine, too. There's still a little bit of manual stuff that isn't standard enough to be automated, but it's nowhere near the 40hr/wk job that he was doing. Just as with this situation, things had stabilized enough that there wasn't much human-work left and he moved on.
If the day ever comes where what I do can be done by a robot/script (not likely!) then I'll just step it up a notch and use them to do my job better and faster, and have less of the tedious little stuff to do.
I don't see myself as a 'self-motivated go-getter'... This is just life. If you don't stay in control, the bull will throw you off.
I've been happy with performance for a while... I'm starting to look at cooler and more energy efficient. So yeah, for some of us, the 'kicker' is indeed the noise.
All of today's $100 cards perform better than cards from 5 years ago. Happy?
The same complaint you've just made can be made for -all- computer components. The high-end ($400) stuff -is- insanely expensive, and only for the true die-hard hobbyists. The hobbyist ($200) stuff is for those that want to enjoy the sport, but can't afford to throw their money away. And the cheap stuff ($100) is for those that don't really care and the low-end stuff is good enough.
If you're not a gamer, you have -no- reason to buy a card at all. The onboard video is more than good enough. (I use an onboard Intel GMA 3000 on my Kubuntu box and it runs Compiz better than my ATI at work.)
You seem to assume they'll just sit on their asses and do nothing if they say 'no' to the debate. You don't -know- what else might be going on. That's why their given the choice. They know that to reject too many debates means people won't vote for them, so the situation works itself out.
But when I did, I never marked someone 'troll' simply because they're stupid. It takes deliberate intend to be an ass despite even the meanest logic proving them wrong.
You obviously agree with him, so answer me this: What basic apps are missing that a child would need in school? Touch typing isn't one of them, as there are plenty for Linux. Word processing, email, web, spreadsheets... I can't think of anything that would be necessary that linux didn't have years ago. So you tell me what it is instead, and I'll admit he might not have been trolling.
I know you were trolling, but I have to thank you anyhow. I hadn't thought to look for a touch typing tutor on Linux, but now I have and KTouch looks like it's pretty decent.
You are correct, nobody talks about it. All of the technical specs only say 'Intel chipset' and don't actually say that includes the video, but it does. Downloading the Chinese WinXP driver and extracting it shows it's either:
Intel GMA and part of the G965 series. Mobile Intel(R) 910GML Express Chipset
I'm betting on the latter, and the rest is just stuff they forgot to remove when they were hastily throwing together the XP driver.
Isn't 'pivo' how you say 'uh oh' in Russian? (I tried to find a copy of the Sealab 2021 'uh oh' song online, but I can't now.)
The cab that rotates is neat, but it seems it would be easier to just turn the car around than bother spinning the whole cab, driving out, then spinning it back. The tires are neat, but if you have a problem with the mechanism, I bet it's a bitch to find a mechanic that can fix it without charging an arm and a leg.
Neat car, but I'm betting it stays 'concept' for quite a long time.
You could before, but now you'll be able to do it without a cable subscription and without getting off your ass, even just to check the mail.
If they offered an unlimited monthly service, at a very cheap rate ($15?), I'd go for it. If they also expanded to stream current TV eps, I'd drop my cable service totally and just pay them, even for as much as my cable service charges. You see, my cable provider doesn't let me pick when I want to watch it unless I remember to tell the machine to record the show (including shows I didn't know I wanted to watch) and that my power doesn't flicker in the middle of recording. Since I -never- randomly watch TV (no time), Netflix would provide all I want and more, and I'd pay them the same $60/mo instead.
I already said why I'd want to: "It would be fun to try, I'd think."
"They seem to be conflicting priorities."
Of course they are, that's why I said: "Can you make a game simple enough for a Pong-lover to enjoy, but complicated enough for an RPG-lover?" If it was obviously possible, the question would be idiotic. If it was obviously impossible, it would be a rhetorical question.
The Wii has already broken the 'lock' that the joypad controller has on gaming. Of course, the PC with its kb/mouse had already done it once anyhow, so it wasn't such a feat. The only reason that the joypad had any lock on the market was that it is -so- effective. No other controller gives so much control in so little space in any environment. The Keyboard technically has 104 keys, but only about 1/3 of them are readily accessible while the other hand is on the mouse, and only 2/3 when it's on the home row. The keyboard is nearly impossible for living-room gaming, as is the mouse. The WiiMote requires space around the use for proper functioning as well, so even it doesn't 'beat' the joypad for general gaming. The kb/mouse and WiiMote only beat the joypad in their particular areas of expertise.
You say you don't play games, but I think you mean 'video games'.
I'm sure you've played sports, at least as a kid. What you just said was 'isn't a sport just the rules?' You've completely ignored that the balls and goals are different, the entire game is played differently, and that there are rabid fans after you now for insulting their idol.
Can you play soccer with an American football? Can you play dodgeball with a pingpong ball?
Likewise, you can't play Wii Sports with a joypad. And you can't play Doom with a WiiMote. (Oh, you can try, but it's so so painful.)
If it's a Christmas fad, it's been going on for a year now, with no signs of stopping.
"The majority of games are diluted versions / ports from other systems or kiddie games." You know, for the 360 and ps3, you could say most games are ports or FPSs. How's that any different?
"The few Nintendo games on the system that are good are well... such a small amount of the library." The PS3 came out at the same time as the Wii and there are -far- more games on my shelf for the Wii than the PS3. In fact, it rivals the 360 section of my shelf, which has been out twice as long. Just because -you- don't like the games doesn't mean they aren't fun.
I'll agree that the Wii's graphics are poor at best. Every time I fire it up after playing another consoles, I go 'Eww' at the ginormous pixels. But then I play the game and forget about it. I still play text-based games from time to time, so graphics is not a requirement at all, let alone 'good' graphics, for fun gameplay.
In fact, my only real complaint about the Wii is the controls. The pointing is inaccurate at best, and confusing at worst. (I've had to tell my family 'point at the center of the screen!' a couple dozen times when they got the pointer lost.) The motion sensing has serious issues with left and right. The classic games play horribly on the wiimote, and FPSs should just be outlawed on it because the controls are so bad.
But that's only with more typical games. With games that were designed for the Wii (Wii Sports, Carnival Games, Wario Ware) the controls are beautiful.
"The Wii may sell lots of hardware but hopefully it diminishes back to gamecube levels, so Sony and MS can pick up the slack, I want to see those 2 competing better so we, the gamers get more choice and lower prices." You want the cheapest of the systems to go away so the expensive ones are only competing against each other? Do you seriously think the Wii had nothing to do with all the price drops and model changes? Do you think that less competition in the market somehow means more competition? The only way your statement would be even close to correct is if 1 or both consoles were failing and at risk of just disappearing. Neither are, and they won't be any time soon.
I just tried it. (On gaiaonline.com, if you must know.) Horrid. Why?
Websites are designed to be used in a browser. Removing all the controls and stuff makes them hard to navigate, and the lack of tabs is quite a pain as well. I've seen that it has settings to add the navigation/etc back in, but then... Isn't it back to just being a browser? The biggest problem with this is that sites aren't designed for it.
In fact, I just tried it in GMail (on our domain) as well, and other than the fact that it's in a seperate process from firefox and they shouldn't crash each other, it's crap. If you click any of the links at the top, they open in browser. (I assume this will still be the case if you can 'installed' the 'app' for those as well.) None of the firefox extensions are available. Speed (of course) isn't improved.
And the worst part? Making it happen for a new site means creating a file, zipping it, and launching it separately. I could write a script that will quickly do that for me from a URL, but I shouldn't have to.
Unless I'm extensively working with a site that tends to crash the browser, I doubt I'll get much use out of this.
Personally, I'm hoping it means it runs the site in a seperate instance, so that firefox crashing doesn't take down everything I'm doing at once, like it currently does. My current alternative is to use Opera as well, but that's still only 2, and some of my sites don't do Opera all that well. (Or Konqueror, for that matter.)
You contradicted yourself a bit, but I think I understand. The techie users don't like web-based apps, but the non-techie users and the techie admins DO like them. And that's the answer.
Personally, even though I'm techie, I'm sick of running servers at my house. I'd much rather let Google run my mail, calendar, etc, and have a webhost for my site. I'm happy to pay a company for VOIP instead of running asterisk, and I don't have to worry about major downtime if my 'server' dies. It costs more, but the time I don't have to spend upgrading and maintaining hardware is worth it. I get to have fun at home, and all the essentials are 'off-site'.
In fact, one of the things I've been wishing lately was that I could get Firefox to run in 2 separate processes, since it tends to crash (lots of flash-based sites) and take down my work as well as my play stuff I'm doing. If this will keep them separate (on linux!) then I'm happy. Also, I've had times when I needed to use a proxy in 1 browser and not use a proxy in the other, and firefox doesn't like to do that even if you tunnel one from another computer. My current solution is to use Opera for 1, but that means I can't use a lot of my extras, like better-gmail and noscript.
Personally, I hope this works well. I don't think it's a revolution, but rather a nice feature.
I wonder if they'll release a 'German Mod' so the rest of the world can experience this 'upgrade'. I personally think it'll be hilarious and would like to see it.
If a VMWare exploit gives you direct access to memory that is as good as having root access to the machine. It doesn't matter -how- you get root access, just that you have it. If you hack one, there's no need to also hack the other.
App A may be secure, but probably is not. App B may be secure, but probably is not.
If you run BOTH, you're even less likely to be secure.
It's the same here. OS A is insecure. To 'secure' it, you run it under Virtualization, which is itself possibly insecure. You've now got all the insecurity of OS A and all its apps plus the Virtualization to worry about.
If Virtualization covered up the problems with the OSs it hosts, there would be no issue. It does not.
Stupid. It's a whole list of gadgets that are roughly comparable to things we already have, but these particularly ones are only available in Japan. -yawn- I'll summarize the list:
UMPCs Laptops TVs Media players (including a watch with a screen guaranteed to give you eyestrain) Phones
That's because it's not really news. Nothing has changed. In fact, the only 'news' in the article is the official announcement that it's in final testing. 6 months of final testing is a -lot-, though, so I'm not sure I believe that... Unless they expect to have to make major changes.
I actually think it's a lot more likely that the PC version is done and 1 or more of the consolse they plan to support at the initial release is lagging behind. They are probably feverishly working on it and hoping to be done in time but have the PC version to release 'on time' if things go poorly.
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My personal GMail account does have it. My personal domain G Apps account does not. 1 of the 3 G Apps domain accounts that my company has does have it.
The other reply said 'it's random, don't look for a pattern' but I've done major rollouts, and doing it randomly is a serious headache. I think it's much more likely they're doing it by server and if your account is on a server they've rolled out, you've got it. It'll look random, but won't really be.
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Ouch! I wholehearted approve of using 4.2.2.1, but please say who it really belongs to.
whois -h whois.cymru.com 4.2.2.1
AS | IP | AS Name
3356 | 4.2.2.1 | LEVEL3 Level 3 Communications
Verizon uses Level3's services.
I was actually only doing the job until they could find a replacement... Until they realized that I was pretty shortly back to my old efficiency on 'my' work. The owners eventually stated that they could hire another 'programmer' (who would also share the sysadmin stuff with me and 2 others) or have big pay raises. My pay raise is due in a couple weeks, so we'll see how that goes. My last 2 were pretty huge, though, so I've no complaints yet.
Too right. If a robot takes your job (or in this case, a mashup) then your job was pointless. It was time to move onto something challenging. Learn to use the robot to do the crap work and go do the fun, challenging stuff.
We had an employee here (a friend of mine) that quit. I replaced him with a series of scripts and now I 'do' his job and mine, too. There's still a little bit of manual stuff that isn't standard enough to be automated, but it's nowhere near the 40hr/wk job that he was doing. Just as with this situation, things had stabilized enough that there wasn't much human-work left and he moved on.
If the day ever comes where what I do can be done by a robot/script (not likely!) then I'll just step it up a notch and use them to do my job better and faster, and have less of the tedious little stuff to do.
I don't see myself as a 'self-motivated go-getter'... This is just life. If you don't stay in control, the bull will throw you off.
I've been happy with performance for a while... I'm starting to look at cooler and more energy efficient. So yeah, for some of us, the 'kicker' is indeed the noise.
All of today's $100 cards perform better than cards from 5 years ago. Happy?
The same complaint you've just made can be made for -all- computer components. The high-end ($400) stuff -is- insanely expensive, and only for the true die-hard hobbyists. The hobbyist ($200) stuff is for those that want to enjoy the sport, but can't afford to throw their money away. And the cheap stuff ($100) is for those that don't really care and the low-end stuff is good enough.
If you're not a gamer, you have -no- reason to buy a card at all. The onboard video is more than good enough. (I use an onboard Intel GMA 3000 on my Kubuntu box and it runs Compiz better than my ATI at work.)
You seem to assume they'll just sit on their asses and do nothing if they say 'no' to the debate. You don't -know- what else might be going on. That's why their given the choice. They know that to reject too many debates means people won't vote for them, so the situation works itself out.
No, I don't ever get mod points any more.
But when I did, I never marked someone 'troll' simply because they're stupid. It takes deliberate intend to be an ass despite even the meanest logic proving them wrong.
You obviously agree with him, so answer me this: What basic apps are missing that a child would need in school? Touch typing isn't one of them, as there are plenty for Linux. Word processing, email, web, spreadsheets... I can't think of anything that would be necessary that linux didn't have years ago. So you tell me what it is instead, and I'll admit he might not have been trolling.
How many are you supposed to need?
I know you were trolling, but I have to thank you anyhow. I hadn't thought to look for a touch typing tutor on Linux, but now I have and KTouch looks like it's pretty decent.
You are correct, nobody talks about it. All of the technical specs only say 'Intel chipset' and don't actually say that includes the video, but it does. Downloading the Chinese WinXP driver and extracting it shows it's either:
Intel GMA and part of the G965 series.
Mobile Intel(R) 910GML Express Chipset
I'm betting on the latter, and the rest is just stuff they forgot to remove when they were hastily throwing together the XP driver.
Isn't 'pivo' how you say 'uh oh' in Russian? (I tried to find a copy of the Sealab 2021 'uh oh' song online, but I can't now.)
The cab that rotates is neat, but it seems it would be easier to just turn the car around than bother spinning the whole cab, driving out, then spinning it back. The tires are neat, but if you have a problem with the mechanism, I bet it's a bitch to find a mechanic that can fix it without charging an arm and a leg.
Neat car, but I'm betting it stays 'concept' for quite a long time.
No, it depends on if you are British or American.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full_stop
In other words, it really doesn't matter.
You could before, but now you'll be able to do it without a cable subscription and without getting off your ass, even just to check the mail.
If they offered an unlimited monthly service, at a very cheap rate ($15?), I'd go for it. If they also expanded to stream current TV eps, I'd drop my cable service totally and just pay them, even for as much as my cable service charges. You see, my cable provider doesn't let me pick when I want to watch it unless I remember to tell the machine to record the show (including shows I didn't know I wanted to watch) and that my power doesn't flicker in the middle of recording. Since I -never- randomly watch TV (no time), Netflix would provide all I want and more, and I'd pay them the same $60/mo instead.
"I guess I'm not sure why you'd want to."
I already said why I'd want to: "It would be fun to try, I'd think."
"They seem to be conflicting priorities."
Of course they are, that's why I said: "Can you make a game simple enough for a Pong-lover to enjoy, but complicated enough for an RPG-lover?" If it was obviously possible, the question would be idiotic. If it was obviously impossible, it would be a rhetorical question.
The Wii has already broken the 'lock' that the joypad controller has on gaming. Of course, the PC with its kb/mouse had already done it once anyhow, so it wasn't such a feat. The only reason that the joypad had any lock on the market was that it is -so- effective. No other controller gives so much control in so little space in any environment. The Keyboard technically has 104 keys, but only about 1/3 of them are readily accessible while the other hand is on the mouse, and only 2/3 when it's on the home row. The keyboard is nearly impossible for living-room gaming, as is the mouse. The WiiMote requires space around the use for proper functioning as well, so even it doesn't 'beat' the joypad for general gaming. The kb/mouse and WiiMote only beat the joypad in their particular areas of expertise.
And of course, the lightgun had its day, too.
You say you don't play games, but I think you mean 'video games'.
I'm sure you've played sports, at least as a kid. What you just said was 'isn't a sport just the rules?' You've completely ignored that the balls and goals are different, the entire game is played differently, and that there are rabid fans after you now for insulting their idol.
Can you play soccer with an American football?
Can you play dodgeball with a pingpong ball?
Likewise, you can't play Wii Sports with a joypad. And you can't play Doom with a WiiMote. (Oh, you can try, but it's so so painful.)
If it's a Christmas fad, it's been going on for a year now, with no signs of stopping.
"The majority of games are diluted versions / ports from other systems or kiddie games."
You know, for the 360 and ps3, you could say most games are ports or FPSs. How's that any different?
"The few Nintendo games on the system that are good are well... such a small amount of the library."
The PS3 came out at the same time as the Wii and there are -far- more games on my shelf for the Wii than the PS3. In fact, it rivals the 360 section of my shelf, which has been out twice as long. Just because -you- don't like the games doesn't mean they aren't fun.
I'll agree that the Wii's graphics are poor at best. Every time I fire it up after playing another consoles, I go 'Eww' at the ginormous pixels. But then I play the game and forget about it. I still play text-based games from time to time, so graphics is not a requirement at all, let alone 'good' graphics, for fun gameplay.
In fact, my only real complaint about the Wii is the controls. The pointing is inaccurate at best, and confusing at worst. (I've had to tell my family 'point at the center of the screen!' a couple dozen times when they got the pointer lost.) The motion sensing has serious issues with left and right. The classic games play horribly on the wiimote, and FPSs should just be outlawed on it because the controls are so bad.
But that's only with more typical games. With games that were designed for the Wii (Wii Sports, Carnival Games, Wario Ware) the controls are beautiful.
"The Wii may sell lots of hardware but hopefully it diminishes back to gamecube levels, so Sony and MS can pick up the slack, I want to see those 2 competing better so we, the gamers get more choice and lower prices."
You want the cheapest of the systems to go away so the expensive ones are only competing against each other? Do you seriously think the Wii had nothing to do with all the price drops and model changes? Do you think that less competition in the market somehow means more competition? The only way your statement would be even close to correct is if 1 or both consoles were failing and at risk of just disappearing. Neither are, and they won't be any time soon.
I just tried it. (On gaiaonline.com, if you must know.) Horrid. Why?
Websites are designed to be used in a browser. Removing all the controls and stuff makes them hard to navigate, and the lack of tabs is quite a pain as well. I've seen that it has settings to add the navigation/etc back in, but then... Isn't it back to just being a browser? The biggest problem with this is that sites aren't designed for it.
In fact, I just tried it in GMail (on our domain) as well, and other than the fact that it's in a seperate process from firefox and they shouldn't crash each other, it's crap. If you click any of the links at the top, they open in browser. (I assume this will still be the case if you can 'installed' the 'app' for those as well.) None of the firefox extensions are available. Speed (of course) isn't improved.
And the worst part? Making it happen for a new site means creating a file, zipping it, and launching it separately. I could write a script that will quickly do that for me from a URL, but I shouldn't have to.
Unless I'm extensively working with a site that tends to crash the browser, I doubt I'll get much use out of this.
Yes, but if 1 crashes, do they all crash? That's the main issue.
Firefox appears to only let you use 1 profile at a time.
Personally, I'm hoping it means it runs the site in a seperate instance, so that firefox crashing doesn't take down everything I'm doing at once, like it currently does. My current alternative is to use Opera as well, but that's still only 2, and some of my sites don't do Opera all that well. (Or Konqueror, for that matter.)
You contradicted yourself a bit, but I think I understand. The techie users don't like web-based apps, but the non-techie users and the techie admins DO like them. And that's the answer.
Personally, even though I'm techie, I'm sick of running servers at my house. I'd much rather let Google run my mail, calendar, etc, and have a webhost for my site. I'm happy to pay a company for VOIP instead of running asterisk, and I don't have to worry about major downtime if my 'server' dies. It costs more, but the time I don't have to spend upgrading and maintaining hardware is worth it. I get to have fun at home, and all the essentials are 'off-site'.
In fact, one of the things I've been wishing lately was that I could get Firefox to run in 2 separate processes, since it tends to crash (lots of flash-based sites) and take down my work as well as my play stuff I'm doing. If this will keep them separate (on linux!) then I'm happy. Also, I've had times when I needed to use a proxy in 1 browser and not use a proxy in the other, and firefox doesn't like to do that even if you tunnel one from another computer. My current solution is to use Opera for 1, but that means I can't use a lot of my extras, like better-gmail and noscript.
Personally, I hope this works well. I don't think it's a revolution, but rather a nice feature.
I wonder if they'll release a 'German Mod' so the rest of the world can experience this 'upgrade'. I personally think it'll be hilarious and would like to see it.
If a VMWare exploit gives you direct access to memory that is as good as having root access to the machine. It doesn't matter -how- you get root access, just that you have it. If you hack one, there's no need to also hack the other.
I think you missed the point.
App A may be secure, but probably is not.
App B may be secure, but probably is not.
If you run BOTH, you're even less likely to be secure.
It's the same here. OS A is insecure. To 'secure' it, you run it under Virtualization, which is itself possibly insecure. You've now got all the insecurity of OS A and all its apps plus the Virtualization to worry about.
If Virtualization covered up the problems with the OSs it hosts, there would be no issue. It does not.
Stupid. It's a whole list of gadgets that are roughly comparable to things we already have, but these particularly ones are only available in Japan. -yawn- I'll summarize the list:
UMPCs
Laptops
TVs
Media players (including a watch with a screen guaranteed to give you eyestrain)
Phones
Yeah, great stuff.
That's because it's not really news. Nothing has changed. In fact, the only 'news' in the article is the official announcement that it's in final testing. 6 months of final testing is a -lot-, though, so I'm not sure I believe that... Unless they expect to have to make major changes.
I actually think it's a lot more likely that the PC version is done and 1 or more of the consolse they plan to support at the initial release is lagging behind. They are probably feverishly working on it and hoping to be done in time but have the PC version to release 'on time' if things go poorly.
My personal GMail account does have it.
My personal domain G Apps account does not.
1 of the 3 G Apps domain accounts that my company has does have it.
The other reply said 'it's random, don't look for a pattern' but I've done major rollouts, and doing it randomly is a serious headache. I think it's much more likely they're doing it by server and if your account is on a server they've rolled out, you've got it. It'll look random, but won't really be.