Yes, and the disparity between what the corporate heads makes and what the lowly staff makes gets even larger.
The times are coming where we will once again be devided between the nobles and the serfs. The ultra rich lording over the destitute. And guess who's going to be among the destitue? Yep. You and me.
And if someone else in your company finds the company's code in the source and they just happen to know that you were working on that project? What then? Is it worth losing your job over?
THINK! There's three pounds of brains in your skull. Use them! You get fired for distributing company IP without permission and you might find it damned hard to find another programming job in these less than glorious economic times. And remember that any work you do on company time and/or company systems can legally be claimed by your employer.
I've given a bit more thought to your post and have decided to write you a second responce.
It used to be that most of your clothes were made at home by your mother. Your school clothes, play clothes, even you prom dresses (if you were a girl) were made at home by your mother. Home-made clothes was the norm. Everybody wore them. Entire economic sectors were based on this simple fact.
Then things changed. Due to overseas sweatshops and increased automation store-bought clothes started to become as cheap as home-made, and then cheaper, if you factored in the time you spent making them. The next thing that happened was the twin prongs of the economic reality that a single income was no longer able to sustain a family and the growth of the women's rights movement. More women entered the workforce and fewer had the time to make their own clothes.
Then due to the advertising muscle of the clothing manufacturers we became obsessed with brands. We started to care not just for what our clothes looked like, but who made them. A home-made shirt could not compete with a name brand shirt from Tommy Stinkfinger (or whatever his name is).
In one generation we went from home-made clothes being a normal part of middle class existance to it being a source of shame. Home-made clothes meant you were poor. That your parents couldn't afford "real" clothes.
The home-made clothes market ended. Slaes of clothing patterns, cloth, thread, sewing machines, the whole ball of wax, went right into the can. My uncle's Singer sewing machine / Kirby vaccuume cleaner store went from a very profitable business to bankruptcy in less than ten years. He went from owning his own business to selling cameras at a friends store in ten years. BANG! End of the road.
Home-made clothes have made a slight comeback as a hobby, but that's all. But even this hobby isn't enough to raise the declining trend in pattern sales.
The harsh reality has nothing to do with the age and / or computer skills of the people that sew clothes. The harsh reality is that the market has shrunk to almost insignificance and nothing short of the total collapse of the import clothing business will change that.
People complaining that dumpster diving is killing off the pattern selling business is like people decrying the total lack of large screen CGA monitors. The marketplace has moved on. It's that simple.
My wife is in her early 30's. She uses the Internet every day. She also knits like there's no tomorrow. She can't stand watching TV and not doing something productive at the same time. And she's not alone, either. Most of her knitting friends (and she has a lot of them) are all between teh ages of 15 and 40, and most of them are computer and Internet litterate.
The idea that knitters and sewers are dottering old ladies is just as much a myth as the idea that all Linux users are thieving communist hippies.
In "Empire Strikes Back" and "Revenge^H^H^H^H^H^H^H Return of The Jedi" Yoda's sentence structure is very much like German transliterated into English.
Don't forget the part where Anakin and Obi Wan have a huge fight (probably at what a bad kisser Anakin has become lately) on the edge of a giant volcano in which Anakin gets tossed in like some crappy old ring and struggles out all burned and battered and is turned into a cyborg (who travels back in time to kill Sarah Conner, but I digress).
No, money doiesn't. But George does. The people here aren't jealous of his money. Those of us who hate him and his insatiable greed don't hate him for the money he's gotten. We hate him for how he got it. We hate him for re-releasing the original trilogy ofer and over in ever so slightly different guises (but never on DVD). We hate him for selling out to TV and making that dreadful "Star Wars Holiday Special". We hate him for selling out his creative integrety (sp?, who cares?) and perverting Endor from a planet of wookies into a planet of Christmas plush dolls. We hate him for making a list of tens of thousands of Jar-Jar Binks licensing ideas rather than try and make Episode One a good movie.
In short, we hate him fior every time he decided to milk us out of yet another dime, again and again with the restraint of the Maquis de Sade at a girl's bording school.
Some of us are tired of being his moneybags and his bitch.
Don't you guys steal enough from others already? Every damned GUI I see for Linux always wants to look like something else with Windows XP and OS/X being the top two cloned interfaces.
I remember when Be Inc. went under. The largest reaction in the OSS/Linux arena was "so what?", the second was "Will they release the OS under GPL so we can rape and pillage their IP?"
This isn't a troll, this is a serious concern of mine. Don't copy BeOS, don't copy Windows XP, don't copy Mac OS/X! Do something ORIGINAL! Do something new that is Linix/OSS from the ground up. Stop playing catch up and take the lead for once!
I look at tablet PCs and their prices and then I look at the price of a Biro/Bic and a pad of paper. Between the cost savings and the fact that a pad of paper will never crash on you, the choice is pretty simple for me.
Were you going to strap one of thiose to your chest?
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The problem with Ion Storm wasn't the "cool working environment". It was the incomptitent management, specifically Tod Porter and John Romero. Tod was a complete jerk who abused every employee in the company, no matter what team they were with, and John Romero would never stand up to him to leave the DaiKatana team alone.
You don't have an entire developement team quit on the same day unless management is horribly broken. That doesn't happen with a healthy company. Ever.
The toys and cool offices weren't there for the employee's benefits, either. They were there for the amusement and fantasy fulfilment of the management. They were rock stars and wanted everyone to know it.
Only Ion Storm Austin seemed to have retained a bit of sanity.
While the parent post might be trollish in wording, it's not alltogether wrong. May state governments use public addresses, too. It doesn't make any sense as the firewalls block outside access to everything but the public servers, so why bother giving every workstation and laser printer a public IP address? Add to that the frustration of not having available addresses for new equipment this can cause.
Legal preasure is a bitch. And it's not like the commercial advance function worked very well in the first place. I turned it off after an hour because it fires off in the middle of some TV shows when it shouldn't. I just hit the 30-second skip on the remote.
3DFX was dead before NVidia bought them. It wasn't NVidia that killed 3DFX. 3DFX did that all by themselves. Between unreasonable product delays and abysmal financial mismanagement, they doomed themselves.
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Have you ever sucessfully used a magnet to destroy a hard drive? Most bulk erase magnets don't have the power. Hell, most degausing magnets don't. The metal casing does wonders to protect the drive.
I have managed to use magnets to wipe a hard drive. It took a damned powerful magnet and a LOT of time. It's not as easy as everyone thinks it it is.
Because Gamerboiz always act like this. They can't accept that two products/games/bands/whatever can be the same. One is God's gift to mankind and all others are baked shit in a bucket. It's the same bullshit neo-tribalism that's been going on forever. You see it all the time with the old SounBlaster VS Gravis Ultra Sound flame wars, the Voodoo VS Verite video card flame wars, the (insert name of my favorite band) VS (insert name of your favorite band) flame wars.
You are playing an alpha product with cycle-hungry and ram-piggish debug code running like mad. Code that also hasn't been optimised AT ALL because it was not meant for your consumption. You can not get real-world performance metrics from alpha code. Ever.
The other side of this is how consoles do their thing. You don't need nearly the raw horsepower in a console as you need in a PC to do the same task. Why? The console is a fixed platform and only does one thing at a time. The fixed platform means that programmers can write their code to the exact, unchanging specs of the system - they don't have to write in fall-back code to deal with video cards that don't do what their developement box did. There are also no driver issues to deal with. No HAL. Everything is right to the metal. And because the only thing the console is doing is running your game, there are no background processes sucking down CPU cycles and RAM. The entire machine is your games personal slave.
Don't believe me? Take a look at Grand Theft Auto 3. Look at the specs of the PS2 and then look at the specs you need to play the PC version. The PC version takes a HELL of a lot more horsepower to run than the PS2 version, even at the exact same resolution.
I'm really interested in seeing what kind of insane specs the PC version of Halo will need.
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Yes, and the disparity between what the corporate heads makes and what the lowly staff makes gets even larger.
The times are coming where we will once again be devided between the nobles and the serfs. The ultra rich lording over the destitute. And guess who's going to be among the destitue? Yep. You and me.
I thought it was funny.
And if someone else in your company finds the company's code in the source and they just happen to know that you were working on that project? What then? Is it worth losing your job over?
THINK! There's three pounds of brains in your skull. Use them! You get fired for distributing company IP without permission and you might find it damned hard to find another programming job in these less than glorious economic times. And remember that any work you do on company time and/or company systems can legally be claimed by your employer.
I've given a bit more thought to your post and have decided to write you a second responce.
It used to be that most of your clothes were made at home by your mother. Your school clothes, play clothes, even you prom dresses (if you were a girl) were made at home by your mother. Home-made clothes was the norm. Everybody wore them. Entire economic sectors were based on this simple fact.
Then things changed. Due to overseas sweatshops and increased automation store-bought clothes started to become as cheap as home-made, and then cheaper, if you factored in the time you spent making them. The next thing that happened was the twin prongs of the economic reality that a single income was no longer able to sustain a family and the growth of the women's rights movement. More women entered the workforce and fewer had the time to make their own clothes.
Then due to the advertising muscle of the clothing manufacturers we became obsessed with brands. We started to care not just for what our clothes looked like, but who made them. A home-made shirt could not compete with a name brand shirt from Tommy Stinkfinger (or whatever his name is).
In one generation we went from home-made clothes being a normal part of middle class existance to it being a source of shame. Home-made clothes meant you were poor. That your parents couldn't afford "real" clothes.
The home-made clothes market ended. Slaes of clothing patterns, cloth, thread, sewing machines, the whole ball of wax, went right into the can. My uncle's Singer sewing machine / Kirby vaccuume cleaner store went from a very profitable business to bankruptcy in less than ten years. He went from owning his own business to selling cameras at a friends store in ten years. BANG! End of the road.
Home-made clothes have made a slight comeback as a hobby, but that's all. But even this hobby isn't enough to raise the declining trend in pattern sales.
The harsh reality has nothing to do with the age and / or computer skills of the people that sew clothes. The harsh reality is that the market has shrunk to almost insignificance and nothing short of the total collapse of the import clothing business will change that.
People complaining that dumpster diving is killing off the pattern selling business is like people decrying the total lack of large screen CGA monitors. The marketplace has moved on. It's that simple.
My wife is in her early 30's. She uses the Internet every day. She also knits like there's no tomorrow. She can't stand watching TV and not doing something productive at the same time. And she's not alone, either. Most of her knitting friends (and she has a lot of them) are all between teh ages of 15 and 40, and most of them are computer and Internet litterate.
The idea that knitters and sewers are dottering old ladies is just as much a myth as the idea that all Linux users are thieving communist hippies.
In "Empire Strikes Back" and "Revenge^H^H^H^H^H^H^H Return of The Jedi" Yoda's sentence structure is very much like German transliterated into English.
Don't forget the part where Anakin and Obi Wan have a huge fight (probably at what a bad kisser Anakin has become lately) on the edge of a giant volcano in which Anakin gets tossed in like some crappy old ring and struggles out all burned and battered and is turned into a cyborg (who travels back in time to kill Sarah Conner, but I digress).
No, money doiesn't. But George does. The people here aren't jealous of his money. Those of us who hate him and his insatiable greed don't hate him for the money he's gotten. We hate him for how he got it. We hate him for re-releasing the original trilogy ofer and over in ever so slightly different guises (but never on DVD). We hate him for selling out to TV and making that dreadful "Star Wars Holiday Special". We hate him for selling out his creative integrety (sp?, who cares?) and perverting Endor from a planet of wookies into a planet of Christmas plush dolls. We hate him for making a list of tens of thousands of Jar-Jar Binks licensing ideas rather than try and make Episode One a good movie.
In short, we hate him fior every time he decided to milk us out of yet another dime, again and again with the restraint of the Maquis de Sade at a girl's bording school.
Some of us are tired of being his moneybags and his bitch.
Don't you guys steal enough from others already? Every damned GUI I see for Linux always wants to look like something else with Windows XP and OS/X being the top two cloned interfaces.
I remember when Be Inc. went under. The largest reaction in the OSS/Linux arena was "so what?", the second was "Will they release the OS under GPL so we can rape and pillage their IP?"
This isn't a troll, this is a serious concern of mine. Don't copy BeOS, don't copy Windows XP, don't copy Mac OS/X! Do something ORIGINAL! Do something new that is Linix/OSS from the ground up. Stop playing catch up and take the lead for once!
I look at tablet PCs and their prices and then I look at the price of a Biro/Bic and a pad of paper. Between the cost savings and the fact that a pad of paper will never crash on you, the choice is pretty simple for me.
The answer is very simple: our government is for sale.
Were you going to strap one of thiose to your chest?
The problem with Ion Storm wasn't the "cool working environment". It was the incomptitent management, specifically Tod Porter and John Romero. Tod was a complete jerk who abused every employee in the company, no matter what team they were with, and John Romero would never stand up to him to leave the DaiKatana team alone.
You don't have an entire developement team quit on the same day unless management is horribly broken. That doesn't happen with a healthy company. Ever.
The toys and cool offices weren't there for the employee's benefits, either. They were there for the amusement and fantasy fulfilment of the management. They were rock stars and wanted everyone to know it.
Only Ion Storm Austin seemed to have retained a bit of sanity.
Something in that makes me think of perpetual motion machines. Which means, that for reasons I can't nail down, I don't think that idea will work.
To (badly) quote Walt Kelly: "It isn't new and it's not very clear!"
While the parent post might be trollish in wording, it's not alltogether wrong. May state governments use public addresses, too. It doesn't make any sense as the firewalls block outside access to everything but the public servers, so why bother giving every workstation and laser printer a public IP address? Add to that the frustration of not having available addresses for new equipment this can cause.
There are tons of great games you just can't get on the PC nowadays. Like Warcraft 3, Breakout, Super Breakout... photoshop...
Legal preasure is a bitch. And it's not like the commercial advance function worked very well in the first place. I turned it off after an hour because it fires off in the middle of some TV shows when it shouldn't. I just hit the 30-second skip on the remote.
3DFX was dead before NVidia bought them. It wasn't NVidia that killed 3DFX. 3DFX did that all by themselves. Between unreasonable product delays and abysmal financial mismanagement, they doomed themselves.
You've been watching Hand Maid May, again, haven't you?
It's times like these when I hope the cockroaches like whatever smoldering heap we leave for them.
(And no, I'm not off topic, thankyouverymuch.)
No! No! No! Is ROT13 such a lost art?
The point is: "Wbva Gur Nezl!"
Have you ever sucessfully used a magnet to destroy a hard drive? Most bulk erase magnets don't have the power. Hell, most degausing magnets don't. The metal casing does wonders to protect the drive.
I have managed to use magnets to wipe a hard drive. It took a damned powerful magnet and a LOT of time. It's not as easy as everyone thinks it it is.
Because Gamerboiz always act like this. They can't accept that two products/games/bands/whatever can be the same. One is God's gift to mankind and all others are baked shit in a bucket. It's the same bullshit neo-tribalism that's been going on forever. You see it all the time with the old SounBlaster VS Gravis Ultra Sound flame wars, the Voodoo VS Verite video card flame wars, the (insert name of my favorite band) VS (insert name of your favorite band) flame wars.
It is the mark of an immature mind.
Let's look at this logically, shall we?
You are playing an alpha product with cycle-hungry and ram-piggish debug code running like mad. Code that also hasn't been optimised AT ALL because it was not meant for your consumption. You can not get real-world performance metrics from alpha code. Ever.
The other side of this is how consoles do their thing. You don't need nearly the raw horsepower in a console as you need in a PC to do the same task. Why? The console is a fixed platform and only does one thing at a time. The fixed platform means that programmers can write their code to the exact, unchanging specs of the system - they don't have to write in fall-back code to deal with video cards that don't do what their developement box did. There are also no driver issues to deal with. No HAL. Everything is right to the metal. And because the only thing the console is doing is running your game, there are no background processes sucking down CPU cycles and RAM. The entire machine is your games personal slave.
Don't believe me? Take a look at Grand Theft Auto 3. Look at the specs of the PS2 and then look at the specs you need to play the PC version. The PC version takes a HELL of a lot more horsepower to run than the PS2 version, even at the exact same resolution.
I'm really interested in seeing what kind of insane specs the PC version of Halo will need.