But in high school Pascal, projects that took other people 2 weeks took me 20 minutes. One time the teacher caught me playing a game (Ultima IV or Return of Heracles) and so I spent the next 3 days having him give me custom programming assignments until he finally declared I could go back to playing games because he didn't want to come up with 2 programming assignments a day.
I expected to be taught something that I would actually USE in my career. I haven't used Calculus or Physics since college. What a waste of time that could have been spent helping me learn to write a debugger, syntax highlighter, custom language grammar and parser, device drivers, robots, speech recognition, video recognition, OCR, simple OS, emulators, etc., etc., etc. You know PROGRAMMING stuff. All the stuff I had to learn on my own because CS is so out of touch with reality.
CS as it is taught today is a joke unless you are the 1/10 of 1% going to work at NASA or the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
Worse than worthless. I was at a job where we routinely threw Masters and PhD CS resumes in the trash. The candidates are completely worthless at real-world tasks and are so arrogant as to believe that they don't need to know about CSV files or FTP, regardless of what the other side of the transaction wants.
At my current job, it's almost to the point where advanced degrees are automatically 1 strike against you, for the same reasons.
Actually, since it is REQUIRED for new games/Blu-Ray discs/Netflix (not anymore) that you PAY FOR, they have legal liability if it is down and they are keeping you from playing things that they required you to be on in order to play it.
Actually, Base does a good job with Access DB files. The other day someone sent an MDB to a co-worker and it was the only way we could open it (because our standard Office install doesn't include Access.)
Ubuntu:
- Installer asks me about my time zone, user name and password. Everything else can be done on autopilot.
- Once booted, if there are restricted drivers, I got a popup telling me to install them if I want. Install is a two button click: (1) Install, (2) Reboot. All this 'massive' configuration is done.
My dog (an extremely smart basset hound) seriously understood about 100 words and even said 3 with some degree of regularity: "hungry", "outside" and "walk". Despite us being able to communicate very well (as compared to most human/dog relationships), there is absolutely no way that I could have asked my dog what she was thinking or had any sort of abstract communications with her, like they think they are going to get with the dolphins. At best, she could communicate about a single topic that affected both of us at that moment. I suspect the dolphins will be very similar. Sure they can tell you a game they want to play or a type of food, maybe, but that's about it.
And it wasn't even used on 9/11... If that wasn't the time to use it, I really don't know what is. The system has gone off in error more times than on purpose.
No, parody is. Satire would be Wayne Gretzky using a picture of Mickey Mouse to say that the New Jersey Devils are a "mickey-mouse" organization. Parody would be a comedy show using the New Jersey Devils logo in a comedy piece on the matter. Actually, they could probably get away with a picture of Mickey Mouse at that point as well.
Actually, Netflix streams about 60% of the content in the US that is streamed. They are getting very big, and scaring the cable companies. Reed Hastings is wise to tread lightly.
Because there are different ways to approach the problem and heavy-handed lawyer-inflicted abuse makes you look like a total jerk.
Marcon hacks Wii and adds the "Homebrew Channel", which has never enabled piracy (although some others have built upon it to do so). Nintendo releases a firmware update. Marcon re-opens Homebrew Channel. Ninetendo releases another firmware update, which bricks a few Wiis on accident. Marcon re-opens Homebrew Channel and finds a way to un-brick some of the bricked Wiis. Nintendo pretty much just leaves the issue alone, not wanting to harm their customer base even more.
Note, at no time did Nintendo sue Marcon, remove features that were advertised with the product, etc. And when they realized their strategy was doing more harm than good, they backed off a little. Nintendo is still making a fortune off of Wii, BTW.
Contrast Sony. They said you could install Linux on your Playstation, but not use about half the hardware. GeoHot figures out how to use ALL the hardware. Instead of realizing what's best for everyone involved, in a control-freak driven rage they remove OtherOS. GeoHot casually puts it back. Sony removes it again, makes it so future firmware updates are forward-only, and requires all their game and BluRay partners to do a firmware check on all new releases. And they drag GeoHot into court on what should be freedom of speech. Then, they subpoena all visitors to GeoHot's website, everyone who ever gave him money, etc., etc., really making enemies of millions of unrelated people. All this in addition to their track record of installing a rootkit on customers' PCs when listening to music (a 5-10-year felony if you or I did it) and taking back purchases from thousands of customers and refusing to lift a finger to give them back.
Sony is NOT the victim here. And they are being punished for legitimate crimes (hacking, theft) by vigilante justice because the courts and governments haven't done their job.
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To a point, yes.
And not to be mean, but somebody has to serve you coffee, repair streets, and be a politician...
But in high school Pascal, projects that took other people 2 weeks took me 20 minutes. One time the teacher caught me playing a game (Ultima IV or Return of Heracles) and so I spent the next 3 days having him give me custom programming assignments until he finally declared I could go back to playing games because he didn't want to come up with 2 programming assignments a day.
It's not time-consuming for all of us...
And they're right but they fail to see that my manager doesn't care about speed, they care about maintainability
I tell the other programmers at work this all the time. Working, modifiable, maintainable code is #1.
I expected to be taught something that I would actually USE in my career. I haven't used Calculus or Physics since college. What a waste of time that could have been spent helping me learn to write a debugger, syntax highlighter, custom language grammar and parser, device drivers, robots, speech recognition, video recognition, OCR, simple OS, emulators, etc., etc., etc. You know PROGRAMMING stuff. All the stuff I had to learn on my own because CS is so out of touch with reality.
CS as it is taught today is a joke unless you are the 1/10 of 1% going to work at NASA or the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
Worse than worthless. I was at a job where we routinely threw Masters and PhD CS resumes in the trash. The candidates are completely worthless at real-world tasks and are so arrogant as to believe that they don't need to know about CSV files or FTP, regardless of what the other side of the transaction wants.
At my current job, it's almost to the point where advanced degrees are automatically 1 strike against you, for the same reasons.
Wrong. The first thing I'm going to do on my Asus Transformer is install DosBox on it.
And then, climatologists get on TV and tell us that we're all wrong and there's no relationship between rapid temperature changes and earthquakes...
But the rootkit, etc., etc., etc. didn't. So this is the first time most people are hearing ANYTHING negative about Sony.
Ha, ha, check out this guy, he thinks the Constitution still means anything...
Even easier: http://www.fairtax.org/
There. I just fixed the tax code with a single link.
Harsh, but somewhat deserved. The problem is that the mass media barely covers this stuff and the average person has no idea.
Actually, since it is REQUIRED for new games/Blu-Ray discs/Netflix (not anymore) that you PAY FOR, they have legal liability if it is down and they are keeping you from playing things that they required you to be on in order to play it.
Marketing: "We have to start shipments today."
Developers: "But if we wait one more week, it will all be automated."
Marketing: "Can it be done manually by the user's geek friend?"
Developers: "I guess..."
Marketing: "Ship it!"
Actually, Base does a good job with Access DB files. The other day someone sent an MDB to a co-worker and it was the only way we could open it (because our standard Office install doesn't include Access.)
Ubuntu: - Installer asks me about my time zone, user name and password. Everything else can be done on autopilot. - Once booted, if there are restricted drivers, I got a popup telling me to install them if I want. Install is a two button click: (1) Install, (2) Reboot. All this 'massive' configuration is done.
Then a Ubuntu update comes along...
My dog (an extremely smart basset hound) seriously understood about 100 words and even said 3 with some degree of regularity: "hungry", "outside" and "walk". Despite us being able to communicate very well (as compared to most human/dog relationships), there is absolutely no way that I could have asked my dog what she was thinking or had any sort of abstract communications with her, like they think they are going to get with the dolphins. At best, she could communicate about a single topic that affected both of us at that moment. I suspect the dolphins will be very similar. Sure they can tell you a game they want to play or a type of food, maybe, but that's about it.
Never forget this pearl of wisdom:
Good managers manage based on what you accomplish. Bad managers manage based on what time you got there.
And it wasn't even used on 9/11... If that wasn't the time to use it, I really don't know what is. The system has gone off in error more times than on purpose.
Waiting for the first (of many) Anonymous alerts, just for the lulz...
No, parody is. Satire would be Wayne Gretzky using a picture of Mickey Mouse to say that the New Jersey Devils are a "mickey-mouse" organization. Parody would be a comedy show using the New Jersey Devils logo in a comedy piece on the matter. Actually, they could probably get away with a picture of Mickey Mouse at that point as well.
History Channel(we're 100% certain that this piece of rock was portal to alien jesus, here's an "expert")
Yeah, nobody even calls it the Hitler Channel anymore.
I see that as an improvement...
They already have. Look for Aladdin on Netflix. Deleted.
The monopoly is so that you do not have your streets torn up every week by yet another competitor. People hate construction.
Actually, Netflix streams about 60% of the content in the US that is streamed. They are getting very big, and scaring the cable companies. Reed Hastings is wise to tread lightly.
Because there are different ways to approach the problem and heavy-handed lawyer-inflicted abuse makes you look like a total jerk.
Marcon hacks Wii and adds the "Homebrew Channel", which has never enabled piracy (although some others have built upon it to do so). Nintendo releases a firmware update. Marcon re-opens Homebrew Channel. Ninetendo releases another firmware update, which bricks a few Wiis on accident. Marcon re-opens Homebrew Channel and finds a way to un-brick some of the bricked Wiis. Nintendo pretty much just leaves the issue alone, not wanting to harm their customer base even more.
Note, at no time did Nintendo sue Marcon, remove features that were advertised with the product, etc. And when they realized their strategy was doing more harm than good, they backed off a little. Nintendo is still making a fortune off of Wii, BTW.
Contrast Sony. They said you could install Linux on your Playstation, but not use about half the hardware. GeoHot figures out how to use ALL the hardware. Instead of realizing what's best for everyone involved, in a control-freak driven rage they remove OtherOS. GeoHot casually puts it back. Sony removes it again, makes it so future firmware updates are forward-only, and requires all their game and BluRay partners to do a firmware check on all new releases. And they drag GeoHot into court on what should be freedom of speech. Then, they subpoena all visitors to GeoHot's website, everyone who ever gave him money, etc., etc., really making enemies of millions of unrelated people. All this in addition to their track record of installing a rootkit on customers' PCs when listening to music (a 5-10-year felony if you or I did it) and taking back purchases from thousands of customers and refusing to lift a finger to give them back.
Sony is NOT the victim here. And they are being punished for legitimate crimes (hacking, theft) by vigilante justice because the courts and governments haven't done their job.