The idea that works with literally tens of thousands of man hours put into them should be free is absurd and harmful, and if it was the mandatory case, we wouldn't have jack shit in terms of good software.
It should be added that games are also less evolutionary in their design.
Many of the most successful PC games have become so because of the modding community - i.e. people that add new code, artwork and creativity to the existing platform.
Games themselves are also rarely written from scratch. There are dozens of games based on the Unreal engine (or its sequels), the Source engine, on Unity or other game engines. Those engines are themselves constantly evolving and improving.
Once they hit "relase" status, they tend to stay static until they bitrot away.
However, you're right. Games to indeed "tend to" stay static, with only a small percentage evolving as I've mentioned above. Those exceptions are however the ones I value the most.
OK I'll come out and say it for you: there are no retail-market Android devices which come out of the box with a root switch.
In each and every one the user has to use an exploit* to obtain root or install a custom ROM.
Except all of the devices with unlocked bootloaders. In which no exploits are required, merely replacement of the existing ROM with one that enables root.
It's not a switch, but it is trivial and does not require use of any exploits. I know this, I've got root on a Galaxy Nexus and at no point did I exploit any, erm, exploits to get it.
I installled a bunch of software last week. I did it by double-clicking on an icon on my desktop, browsing a catalogue of applications, choosing the ones I wanted and clicking 'install'.
That was on Windows 7. The catalogue in question was called Steam.
Meanwhile, I can also install applications that aren't in the catalogue. Much as on Linux I can install applications that aren't available via apt-get.
As for apt-get, it's hardly what I'd describe as user friendly. Browsing its catalogue to find applications that do what I'm after is not what I'd describe as a great user experience. It's also not available on at least two Linux installations I've got, so it's hardly the ubiquitous answer you're suggesting.
There are many reasons to prefer Linux to Windows, and apt-get is indeed for some people one of those reasons. I'd rather have Steam than apt-get though.
Games however, don't benefit from having their code shared, as most game engines (Source, Unreal) act as an abstraction layer over both the OS and the API/Driver/whack-a-mole. So what little there is that could be gleamed from the source code, isn't reusable in another game engine.
Erm. If I have the source code to a game engine, I can write a new game on that engine.
It's a game engine. Its entire raison d'etre is to be reusable.
announce to all the female staff that they are no longer allowed to wear makeup and skirts because our new employee doesn't feel comfortable working in a place with so many women that look like whores
If I have to visit another building I have to put on a tie. It's called a dress code, and it's legal for it to be sexist. So "no make-up and no skirts" would be a perfectly legitimate policy in the UK.
Personally I think that if the men have to wear a tie then the women should too. In other news, I don't support a "Women must wear skirts" policy either, even though that's my personal preference by a wide margin. My preferences shouldn't dictate other peoples choice of clothing. Other peoples preferences shouldn't dictate mine.
If only the arsehole running the business could pull his head out.
Because if the group wasn't tolerant, accepting and professional to start with then you have issues and need change.
If they were then there's going to be no issue anyway.
People just need to be reasonable. On both sides. Ignore the gender factors, consider the individual, explore their tolerances, find ways of working with them and be sensitive to their needs and expectations. In return, demand the same from them.
Suddenly there's no problem and frankly the team should already be operating like that even if they're all male. Men are not all the same.
Don't even get started on master-slave database relationships.
It was bad enough in a multi-racial environment, but now half the women in the office have read that crap book...
Which is another thing. Apparently it's perfectly acceptable to sit at your desk enjoying shit bondage pornography if you're female. Double fucking standards.
I've been in the same position. "You can't call us 'guys' because I'm a girl".
So what, I'm meant to differentiate between the men and the women now? Isn't that discrimination? Fuck her and her catch-22, "guy" (and "dude") are gender indeterminate.
Her ignorance doesn't force me to change my behaviour. Hell, I've had two different male bosses refer to me as "sweetie" and "darling" (seems to be a role requirement for 'Head of Architecture' jobs) and for some reason I haven't felt the need to complain to HR about either of them. One of my teammates greets half the company with "Hello gorgeous" and a cheeky smile, although the time he was going down the stairs and asked a passing woman "Gis' a blow job" she just winked and said "Later" so the man clearly just has natural charm.
Just because someone's a partner doesn't mean they can act like a cunt, whatever their gender.
Frankly the best approach is to keep notes of everything the new female colleague says/does that could be considered harrassment.
inappropriate touching because he used to put a hand on your shoulder
Shit, my boss touches me up every time he wants to talk to me. As you said, impersonal. Unlike spme women I've worked with that have physically assaulted me - unlike any men.
I had another guy tell me I smelled nice. Which depending on the delivery can be kinda creepy.
Men and women exchange compliments all the time. Intra-sex and between the sexes. "Nice shirt" is one of the more common ones.
I've had jobs where the guys have felt they couldn't swear in front of me.
I've had jobs where women have apologised for swearing in front of me, but I'd rather they felt comfortable expressing themselves.
I've had jobs where coworkers have quite explicitly hit on me. I've had coworkers behave in such a manner where I thought they might be hitting on me but I wasn't sure.
Hmm. I get that all the time. From men and women.
At the end of the day, the best guideline is if it makes you uncomfortable (be honest, too many women are passive and let it ride so as not to rock the boat), it's harassment. You have an obligation to ask them to stop. If they persist after you've asked them to stop, report it to your boss and/or HR.
While legally you're entirely correct - particularly in certain jurisdictions - morally that's just a crock of shit. People shouldn't be scared to interact with colleagues just because one of them's a sensitive little flower.
I have a colleague that's a lovely chap, intelligent, diligent.. can't take criticism. Doesn't matter how well you dress it up, how carefully you phrase it, how constructively or obliquely you make the point, he gets stressed to hell.
As I said, he's quite gentle and lovely so he doesn't raise HR issues about it. He does call in sick with stress. It's just hard bloody work; either you accept often substandard work from him or you risk losing him entirely for days.
too many women are passive
Yeah, I'd far rather women engaged as equals in the workplace, instead of passively doing nothing constructive about it then bitching about the men all the time. Because the men have the same fucking issues, the same fucking pressures, the same fucking harrassment and none of the fucking legal protections, societal acknowledgement or professional support structures.
Why do people assume that men are comfortable discussing breast size, sexual prowess, women, other men or any of the other shit that is deemed sexual harrassment if there's a woman involved? That's what pisses me off.
And yes, I get sexually harrassed in the workplace. So does everyone else. So not having a go at you Macgrrl, just highlighting that this isn't a one-sided gender gap.
Tell me, what's a bigger market, music or Mac/PC/Linux software? Obviously it's music.
Music industry revenue worldwide in 2011: $67.6bn Microsoft revenue in 2011: $69.96bn
So just one software company has higher revenue then the worldwide music industry. $4bn on iOS apps is a lot but it's barely a ripple in the PC/Linux software market.
Developers who distribute on both iOS and Android have all confirmed, the big money money is iOS sales
My understanding is that you generate revenue through sales on iOS but generate more revenue through ad supported free apps on Android. Or maybe that's only Rovio.
Having acquired a 'free' Galaxy Tab 2 (the 7" model) I'd strongly recommend against it.
It's not that there's anything wrong with it, it's just that there isn't actually anything right with it. Even running ICS.
If 7" is your desired form factor then consider the Google Nexus 7 - same manufacturer but I think a significantly better device. If you're a size queen and want a full 10" then consider hanging on for the Asus Transformer TF700 (or grab a TF300 at lower price). They're very nice bits of kit.
Yes. Show some fucking integrity. Display some ethics. Hell, even market the shit out of their products so that hip people buy them.
Oh, they did that one.
Try competing on merits, not on arbitrary and bullshit legalised monopolistic predation. Try fucking innovating and being better than the competition. And no, don't even fucking pretend the Apple design patent represents innovation. Don't fucking insult me by suggesting the iPad is better than the Asus Transformer tablets.
Shit, how about even undercutting the competition. Apple can afford it, but they're too happy leeching cash off their loyal fanbase and racking up genuinely astonishing amounts of liquid assets. Sell iPads for $250 each and watch Samsung's sales plummet.
Could you propose an alternative to the course of action that Apple are taking?
Hmm, looks like I proposed several. Why did Apple pick the box marked "Act like cunts"?
My conclusion: NAS devices are for non-technical home users who want to plug in and go. If you're running a real business with serious requirements, and you have moderate Linux skills and/or a modest budget to bring in someone who does when you need them, then buy a real server with a specification suitable for your requirements. There is absolutely no advantage to buying a NAS for someone in that position, IME.
Depends on the NAS device. I work for a UK clearing bank and we have customer and financial data on a SAN but there are terabytes of documents in various forms on NAS devices.
Sure, these aren't your £240 WD Live Book Duo (which I use at home, can install my own software on, and am delighted with) but don't be dissing off the shelf NAS solutions. Just buy one that meets your needs.
you can't easily install other server software (e-mail, calendars, DHCP, RADIUS, whatever) unless whoever supplied your NAS happens to make some sort of plug-in available for their particular style of firmware
Oh, my misunderstanding. I thought that when you said "running a real business" you actually meant a real business. Who the fuck installs email, calendaring or DHCP servers on their NAS device?
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The idea that works with literally tens of thousands of man hours put into them should be free is absurd and harmful, and if it was the mandatory case, we wouldn't have jack shit in terms of good software.
What, like Linux?
It should be added that games are also less evolutionary in their design.
Many of the most successful PC games have become so because of the modding community - i.e. people that add new code, artwork and creativity to the existing platform.
Games themselves are also rarely written from scratch. There are dozens of games based on the Unreal engine (or its sequels), the Source engine, on Unity or other game engines. Those engines are themselves constantly evolving and improving.
Once they hit "relase" status, they tend to stay static until they bitrot away.
However, you're right. Games to indeed "tend to" stay static, with only a small percentage evolving as I've mentioned above. Those exceptions are however the ones I value the most.
OK I'll come out and say it for you: there are no retail-market Android devices which come out of the box with a root switch.
In each and every one the user has to use an exploit* to obtain root or install a custom ROM.
Except all of the devices with unlocked bootloaders. In which no exploits are required, merely replacement of the existing ROM with one that enables root.
It's not a switch, but it is trivial and does not require use of any exploits. I know this, I've got root on a Galaxy Nexus and at no point did I exploit any, erm, exploits to get it.
It will never be put in the repos of mainstream distros
No, it'll be on the install disc for them. What, you think Ubuntu wouldn't include it?
I installled a bunch of software last week. I did it by double-clicking on an icon on my desktop, browsing a catalogue of applications, choosing the ones I wanted and clicking 'install'.
That was on Windows 7. The catalogue in question was called Steam.
Meanwhile, I can also install applications that aren't in the catalogue. Much as on Linux I can install applications that aren't available via apt-get.
As for apt-get, it's hardly what I'd describe as user friendly. Browsing its catalogue to find applications that do what I'm after is not what I'd describe as a great user experience. It's also not available on at least two Linux installations I've got, so it's hardly the ubiquitous answer you're suggesting.
There are many reasons to prefer Linux to Windows, and apt-get is indeed for some people one of those reasons. I'd rather have Steam than apt-get though.
Games however, don't benefit from having their code shared, as most game engines (Source, Unreal) act as an abstraction layer over both the OS and the API/Driver/whack-a-mole. So what little there is that could be gleamed from the source code, isn't reusable in another game engine.
Erm. If I have the source code to a game engine, I can write a new game on that engine.
It's a game engine. Its entire raison d'etre is to be reusable.
I like the way her site states
I can no longer recommend Apple as a professional distributor
I don't see Apple acting as a professional distributor. Quite why people still support this abusive organisation I really struggle to understand.
waiting to happen
Oh sure. We believe you.
Well, also because MySpace was populated with young teens that had the web design skills of.. well, young teens.
You've already identified yourself as weird: you have friends who aren't like you
Or he could be a gay lieutenant that votes differently in each election.
Surely a US prostitute wouldn't fly all the way over here; it would be too expensive
Surely that depends on whether you're willing to pay for the flight?
erm. Why? What was ageist about that post? Which part showed prejudice or discriminated on the basis of age?
Seriously, I'm very confused. I just don't see it.
announce to all the female staff that they are no longer allowed to wear makeup and skirts because our new employee doesn't feel comfortable working in a place with so many women that look like whores
If I have to visit another building I have to put on a tie. It's called a dress code, and it's legal for it to be sexist. So "no make-up and no skirts" would be a perfectly legitimate policy in the UK.
Personally I think that if the men have to wear a tie then the women should too. In other news, I don't support a "Women must wear skirts" policy either, even though that's my personal preference by a wide margin. My preferences shouldn't dictate other peoples choice of clothing. Other peoples preferences shouldn't dictate mine.
If only the arsehole running the business could pull his head out.
Because if the group wasn't tolerant, accepting and professional to start with then you have issues and need change.
If they were then there's going to be no issue anyway.
People just need to be reasonable. On both sides. Ignore the gender factors, consider the individual, explore their tolerances, find ways of working with them and be sensitive to their needs and expectations. In return, demand the same from them.
Suddenly there's no problem and frankly the team should already be operating like that even if they're all male. Men are not all the same.
Don't even get started on master-slave database relationships.
It was bad enough in a multi-racial environment, but now half the women in the office have read that crap book...
Which is another thing. Apparently it's perfectly acceptable to sit at your desk enjoying shit bondage pornography if you're female. Double fucking standards.
I've been in the same position. "You can't call us 'guys' because I'm a girl".
So what, I'm meant to differentiate between the men and the women now? Isn't that discrimination? Fuck her and her catch-22, "guy" (and "dude") are gender indeterminate.
Her ignorance doesn't force me to change my behaviour. Hell, I've had two different male bosses refer to me as "sweetie" and "darling" (seems to be a role requirement for 'Head of Architecture' jobs) and for some reason I haven't felt the need to complain to HR about either of them. One of my teammates greets half the company with "Hello gorgeous" and a cheeky smile, although the time he was going down the stairs and asked a passing woman "Gis' a blow job" she just winked and said "Later" so the man clearly just has natural charm.
Just because someone's a partner doesn't mean they can act like a cunt, whatever their gender.
Frankly the best approach is to keep notes of everything the new female colleague says/does that could be considered harrassment.
inappropriate touching because he used to put a hand on your shoulder
Shit, my boss touches me up every time he wants to talk to me. As you said, impersonal. Unlike spme women I've worked with that have physically assaulted me - unlike any men.
I had another guy tell me I smelled nice. Which depending on the delivery can be kinda creepy.
Men and women exchange compliments all the time. Intra-sex and between the sexes. "Nice shirt" is one of the more common ones.
I've had jobs where the guys have felt they couldn't swear in front of me.
I've had jobs where women have apologised for swearing in front of me, but I'd rather they felt comfortable expressing themselves.
I've had jobs where coworkers have quite explicitly hit on me. I've had coworkers behave in such a manner where I thought they might be hitting on me but I wasn't sure.
Hmm. I get that all the time. From men and women.
At the end of the day, the best guideline is if it makes you uncomfortable (be honest, too many women are passive and let it ride so as not to rock the boat), it's harassment. You have an obligation to ask them to stop. If they persist after you've asked them to stop, report it to your boss and/or HR.
While legally you're entirely correct - particularly in certain jurisdictions - morally that's just a crock of shit. People shouldn't be scared to interact with colleagues just because one of them's a sensitive little flower.
I have a colleague that's a lovely chap, intelligent, diligent.. can't take criticism. Doesn't matter how well you dress it up, how carefully you phrase it, how constructively or obliquely you make the point, he gets stressed to hell.
As I said, he's quite gentle and lovely so he doesn't raise HR issues about it. He does call in sick with stress. It's just hard bloody work; either you accept often substandard work from him or you risk losing him entirely for days.
too many women are passive
Yeah, I'd far rather women engaged as equals in the workplace, instead of passively doing nothing constructive about it then bitching about the men all the time. Because the men have the same fucking issues, the same fucking pressures, the same fucking harrassment and none of the fucking legal protections, societal acknowledgement or professional support structures.
Why do people assume that men are comfortable discussing breast size, sexual prowess, women, other men or any of the other shit that is deemed sexual harrassment if there's a woman involved? That's what pisses me off.
And yes, I get sexually harrassed in the workplace. So does everyone else. So not having a go at you Macgrrl, just highlighting that this isn't a one-sided gender gap.
erm. my 8 month old phone already has Jelly Bean.
Tell me, what's a bigger market, music or Mac/PC/Linux software? Obviously it's music.
Music industry revenue worldwide in 2011: $67.6bn
Microsoft revenue in 2011: $69.96bn
So just one software company has higher revenue then the worldwide music industry. $4bn on iOS apps is a lot but it's barely a ripple in the PC/Linux software market.
Developers who distribute on both iOS and Android have all confirmed, the big money money is iOS sales
My understanding is that you generate revenue through sales on iOS but generate more revenue through ad supported free apps on Android. Or maybe that's only Rovio.
Having acquired a 'free' Galaxy Tab 2 (the 7" model) I'd strongly recommend against it.
It's not that there's anything wrong with it, it's just that there isn't actually anything right with it. Even running ICS.
If 7" is your desired form factor then consider the Google Nexus 7 - same manufacturer but I think a significantly better device. If you're a size queen and want a full 10" then consider hanging on for the Asus Transformer TF700 (or grab a TF300 at lower price). They're very nice bits of kit.
The Sun/Java attempted murder.
It's ok, Oracle finished that one for them :(
What would you suggest Apple do?
Yes. Show some fucking integrity. Display some ethics. Hell, even market the shit out of their products so that hip people buy them.
Oh, they did that one.
Try competing on merits, not on arbitrary and bullshit legalised monopolistic predation. Try fucking innovating and being better than the competition. And no, don't even fucking pretend the Apple design patent represents innovation. Don't fucking insult me by suggesting the iPad is better than the Asus Transformer tablets.
Shit, how about even undercutting the competition. Apple can afford it, but they're too happy leeching cash off their loyal fanbase and racking up genuinely astonishing amounts of liquid assets. Sell iPads for $250 each and watch Samsung's sales plummet.
Could you propose an alternative to the course of action that Apple are taking?
Hmm, looks like I proposed several. Why did Apple pick the box marked "Act like cunts"?
http://bit.ly/LJTTeg
Now fuck off.
My conclusion: NAS devices are for non-technical home users who want to plug in and go. If you're running a real business with serious requirements, and you have moderate Linux skills and/or a modest budget to bring in someone who does when you need them, then buy a real server with a specification suitable for your requirements. There is absolutely no advantage to buying a NAS for someone in that position, IME.
Depends on the NAS device. I work for a UK clearing bank and we have customer and financial data on a SAN but there are terabytes of documents in various forms on NAS devices.
Sure, these aren't your £240 WD Live Book Duo (which I use at home, can install my own software on, and am delighted with) but don't be dissing off the shelf NAS solutions. Just buy one that meets your needs.
you can't easily install other server software (e-mail, calendars, DHCP, RADIUS, whatever) unless whoever supplied your NAS happens to make some sort of plug-in available for their particular style of firmware
Oh, my misunderstanding. I thought that when you said "running a real business" you actually meant a real business. Who the fuck installs email, calendaring or DHCP servers on their NAS device?
I'd love that. Just for the giggles, apart from anything else.
(Note: lulz are all well and good but when I tickle her, she giggles. Giggles are soo much better)