Bear in mind though how rare companies like MS are.
There are a few dozen tier 1 software companies in the world (that will pay properly for top-end software engineers).
There are many thousand companies that need senior IT people.
If you can sustain a career moving between Microsoft, IBM, Infosys and Google then you'll have a rewarding and interesting life. The other 99% of IT staff need alternate careers:)
a specially controlled environment, namely the special run-off areas that are not present on open roads.
You've clearly never seen the Monaco Grand Prix. They drive through a town. They have concrete walls that they're racing within inches of.
They hit those concrete walls at 130mph+ head-on. That's equivalent to a head-on collision on a main road where neither driver had a chance to brake. That's 130mph to 0 in the length of the crumple zone on one small car.
The drivers get out and walk away.
Yes, it's a very expensive car, but it's pretty fucking clearly not a specially controlled environment and run-off zones are pretty fucking irrelevant when the speed at impact is over 130mph.
Over the long term the only way for either to keep getting promoted and/or increasing salary is to switch to management roles, "architecture" roles, consultancy or contracting.
All four options are equally viable for infrastructure/admin people as for programmers.
Hawkeye has been demonstrated to be completely full of shit at times when predicting LBW decisions.
It especially struggles with heavily swinging, seaming or spinning balls.
That doesn't mean that human umpires are necessarily good at that, but there's a good reason hawkeye isn't used in the match itself, only as an aid to the television pundits.
The main reason replays and other more advanced technologies aren't used in football is because the game does not have natural break points in which to use them.
It would destroy the flow of the game and damage it as a sport and as a spectator sport to create additional stoppages to check things.
As an example.. someone enters the penalty area with the ball; they are tackled and fall to the ground. Were they fouled? The referee says no, the defending team welly the ball upfield and score.
Imagine we had to use a replay to check whether there was a foul and a penalty. When do you check it? At the time? You can't, the ball is in play. At the next stoppage? A goal was just scored at the other end, are you going to risk writing that off, even though it may be 4-5 minutes after the incident you're checking? It's just unworkable.
For a sport like tennis or cricket where the action occurs in discrete events there are natural pauses in which such things can be checked. In a sport such as football the continuous flow of the game would be broken. That's why technology hasn't been used to aid the referee, not because people prefer controversy and the risk of human error.
I recall one of the TMS commentators mentioning a time he'd been looking at the Hawkeye prediction of a ball that was balled.
Hawkeye confidently stated that the ball would go 2 inches above the bails. TV replay of the ball itself showed that it missed the pads and took out the middle stump.
Nice flame. You forgot to mention that the iPhone has only 5% of the worldwide smartphone market, and that represents only a small fraction of the mobile phone market.
Is it a good phone? Sure. Is it a way better phone than anything Nokia sells? No.
Are Nokia getting "a little desperate"? laugh.
Nokia have three times the annual revenue that Apple do, and a similar profit margin. Apple should be thanking Nokia for the skill and talent they've employed to create a market for Apple to move into.
I'm looking forward to seeing Nokia's offerings towards the end of the year. I'll also have a play with a new iPhone.
You see, I do think differently, and better. I think beyond the shiny marketing message rammed down my throat.
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'no harm'? Lets hope you never have to find out how wrong you are.
You think it's right to lock someone up for the rest of their life because they refuse to say a single word?
Which part of this is proportional, fair or appropriate?
Heck, someone's going to start talking about ogging next..
Your compiler knows the full suite of data sets you may pass through the runtime execution code it's statically compiling?
Nice compiler.
wtf? The violence, death and naughty words are pretty tame relative to anything north of Enid Blyton.
There are good reasons for not recommending Pratchett to children that young, but death/violence/language are not among them.
Bear in mind though how rare companies like MS are.
There are a few dozen tier 1 software companies in the world (that will pay properly for top-end software engineers).
There are many thousand companies that need senior IT people.
If you can sustain a career moving between Microsoft, IBM, Infosys and Google then you'll have a rewarding and interesting life. The other 99% of IT staff need alternate careers :)
Arsehole.
a specially controlled environment, namely the special run-off areas that are not present on open roads.
You've clearly never seen the Monaco Grand Prix. They drive through a town. They have concrete walls that they're racing within inches of.
They hit those concrete walls at 130mph+ head-on. That's equivalent to a head-on collision on a main road where neither driver had a chance to brake. That's 130mph to 0 in the length of the crumple zone on one small car.
The drivers get out and walk away.
Yes, it's a very expensive car, but it's pretty fucking clearly not a specially controlled environment and run-off zones are pretty fucking irrelevant when the speed at impact is over 130mph.
I know girls that would rather enjoy that.
The only way to guarantee they'd keep quiet would be to have them killed.
yeah, that's happened in the past.
Surely much of computer science is raw mathematics at its heart?
Programming is merely the practical application of the theory. There is much useful theoretical work that can (and has) been done.
You'll be telling us Einstein was a shit physicist next because he couldn't wire a 3-pin plug properly.
Good managers of programmers don't have to be able to program. They have to be good managers.
It's a different skillset.
Computer scientists _are_ side-line theoretics. That's not an insult, they do some great research.
However, they're not way above programmers. If I want software developing I'll get software engineers.
Software engineers.
Over the long term the only way for either to keep getting promoted and/or increasing salary is to switch to management roles, "architecture" roles, consultancy or contracting.
All four options are equally viable for infrastructure/admin people as for programmers.
I ctrl-click for the same effect. More control than a middle button click.
Hmm. I just realised. I don't think my current mouse has a middle button.
(I'm not sure. It's not easy to tell. I'll go research.)
Hmm, nope. No middle mouse button. Finally I've found a flaw in the Logitech MX Air.
(Not a big flaw. I've had the thing for six months and that's the first time I've noticed)
You get your wife used to you getting home when you arrive. It'll help her to have her own life, instead of making her time subservient to your own.
One day you wont ring and she'll panic. Congrats.
Yes, a horrific typo. I can only apologise
Hawkeye has been demonstrated to be completely full of shit at times when predicting LBW decisions.
It especially struggles with heavily swinging, seaming or spinning balls.
That doesn't mean that human umpires are necessarily good at that, but there's a good reason hawkeye isn't used in the match itself, only as an aid to the television pundits.
'soccer'? Football.
The main reason replays and other more advanced technologies aren't used in football is because the game does not have natural break points in which to use them.
It would destroy the flow of the game and damage it as a sport and as a spectator sport to create additional stoppages to check things.
As an example.. someone enters the penalty area with the ball; they are tackled and fall to the ground. Were they fouled? The referee says no, the defending team welly the ball upfield and score.
Imagine we had to use a replay to check whether there was a foul and a penalty. When do you check it? At the time? You can't, the ball is in play. At the next stoppage? A goal was just scored at the other end, are you going to risk writing that off, even though it may be 4-5 minutes after the incident you're checking? It's just unworkable.
For a sport like tennis or cricket where the action occurs in discrete events there are natural pauses in which such things can be checked. In a sport such as football the continuous flow of the game would be broken. That's why technology hasn't been used to aid the referee, not because people prefer controversy and the risk of human error.
It may be more accurate than the human eye _most_ of the time. The rest of the time it's horribly wrong.
The human eye is less accurate but also less wrong.
It's why I'm happy for them to use it in Tennis but would hate to see it introduced in cricket.
I recall one of the TMS commentators mentioning a time he'd been looking at the Hawkeye prediction of a ball that was balled.
Hawkeye confidently stated that the ball would go 2 inches above the bails.
TV replay of the ball itself showed that it missed the pads and took out the middle stump.
Oh well.
Of course, there's the alternative:
(5 minutes later)
A) I'm home!
Was that so fucking hard?
You'll be telling me you can't enter a field without a gate on it next.
Or driving a boat onto a lake without going through locks.
A door's purpose it not to allow access. The doorway's purpose is to allow access. The door's purpose is to act as a movable barrier.
Strange, my E70 has locked up on me twice in two years.
I've had my car electronics crash on me more than that..
Nice flame. You forgot to mention that the iPhone has only 5% of the worldwide smartphone market, and that represents only a small fraction of the mobile phone market.
Is it a good phone? Sure. Is it a way better phone than anything Nokia sells? No.
Are Nokia getting "a little desperate"? laugh.
Nokia have three times the annual revenue that Apple do, and a similar profit margin. Apple should be thanking Nokia for the skill and talent they've employed to create a market for Apple to move into.
I'm looking forward to seeing Nokia's offerings towards the end of the year. I'll also have a play with a new iPhone.
You see, I do think differently, and better. I think beyond the shiny marketing message rammed down my throat.