Extending on that question: now that you are into music instead of bytes, do you find it easier to approach ladies (or men, whatever you prefer)? Or is the mark of software indelible?
The frequent problem in IT is that IT guys are not very good at understanding other people. And respect depend a lot on understanding other people. Like 90%.
It's not possible to "earn respect and still not get it". It's not even possible to "deserve" respect and still not get it. Respect is an image thing; a marketing thing, if you want. If you think you deserve respect from one person, but you don't get it, then it means that you misjudged what you needed to with that person, or you judged correctly but performed badly.
Saying that someone deserves respect but didn't get it is like saying that a salesman deserved a sale but didn't get it. Sales are not "deserved". They are done, or they are not.
"Would someone please offer some evidence of a outsourcing success story?"
I will comply.
I know of one consultancy company where managers got a bonus for each outsourced post on their team. Needless to say, the outsourcing went as high as possible. Like 2 on-shore people for each 8 off-shore. The work was with SAP.
The outsourced guys did a terrible job. One week before the deadline, nothing worked.
The manager's solution was telling the people on-shore that they would have to make up for the offshore problems by making "voluntary" overtime. So, in fact, they got the whole on-shore team working 20 hours a day for a week, weekend included.
The product shipped. It worked. Barely, but it worked.
It turns out that this was not the first time management had done this. They had found a way to estimate the cost of their projects so they could have 80% of their workers doing basically no-value-adding jobs, but costing very little, and 20% of their workforce doing all of it, with an overtime period near the end.
So, there. Management was happy. The client was happy. Success.
PS: After the production release, the product entered the support phase, on which a support team (80% off-shore) would take care of any minor incidences that might happen.
How about not having a single supermarket vandalized for supplies, after a tsunami? And instead, getting a perfectly self-organized queues of hundreds of meters, for getting basic things like water?
Can you honestly say that the same thing would happen in your country? I can tell you in mine (Spain), it wouldn't. They are just better at this social, group thing.
"What kind of twisted, self-righteous bullshit is this? I've known plenty of underhanded, socially-maladjusted, smarter-than-thou, back-stabbing engineers in my short time here. Explain that."
They are all spies! They are sapping my teleporters now.
You might want to re-phrase it. Our thugs are just more adept at doing their thing unnoticed.
I'm talking about the respectable businessmen whose hand doesn't tremble when they have to start a war that kills thousands, only to make sure that the killing is done with the weapons they sell. Of course, they will do that through 2 or 3 phantom companies, and the money goes through 2 or 3 fiscal paradises; those 2 million grands in blood money are also tax free, of course.
And then they will call it a day, and go pick up the kids to school. And sleep well.
In the meantime, everybody is busy talking about that middle east warlord who is terrorizing the civil population.
Actually, let me re-phrase myself. We don't have thugs. We have fucking demons.
"reinvent the window manager for those internal windows" is not the same as "embedding a copy of your own window manager with your own customizations etc".
Incidentally, that program you are looking for exists, it's called a virtual machine.
I don't consider windows a modern OS because I don't consider it a OS. It's a necessary evil if you want to play PC games. A toy.
"the application essentially has to reinvent the window manager for those internal windows."
No they are not. Any modern OS has implementations of windows-inside-of-windows.
"Tell me, what is the major difference between this [uberdownloads.com] and this [yeniprogram.gen.tr]? I just don't see it."
There's no difference in those screenshots because you are not using any other programs, at least with the gimp screenshot.
Add a browser window, a notepad, and a music player. They will intermix with the gimp windows, but not with the photoshop windows. You will probably say that that can be solved by having a virtual desktop just for gimp. And to that I'd answer that I just don't need a virtual desktop for photoshop. So it's still a difference.
Another difference I can think of is that the photoshop toolbars stay on top of the images. They only hide if you want them to hide. A particularly irritating case for me is maximizing an image. In Photoshop you simply double blick the title bar, and you can use all the available screen space on it, without hiding the toolbars. In gimp you have to do it manually (specially if you are using the default Ubuntu theme, with its 3-pixel corner handles for windows).
Interaction Design is best done by an Interaction Designer.
An artist can do Interaction Design as badly, or worse, than any "software geek". Unless he's also an Interaction Designer. Which also applies to the software geek.
Slashdot Mirror
While the Downloads are looking at them from that Ugly Default External Window.
Fix that instead, Mozilla.
"Just create a version of this specialized in different subjects, e.g. faces."
Ok, you have done a pill that mitigates headhache.
Just create a version of this specialized in different subjects, e.g. cancer.
Extending on that question: now that you are into music instead of bytes, do you find it easier to approach ladies (or men, whatever you prefer)? Or is the mark of software indelible?
If he (or any of his coworkers) thought the NSA was doing something illegal, they should have gone to the judge, not to the journalists.
I'll never buy games from MSGFW. It feels wasteful.
That is all.
White space.
"Like" implies "more or less". Don't you know SQL?
Something "like Rogue, but no more and no less", should be roqueequals, not roguelike.
The frequent problem in IT is that IT guys are not very good at understanding other people. And respect depend a lot on understanding other people. Like 90%.
It's not possible to "earn respect and still not get it". It's not even possible to "deserve" respect and still not get it. Respect is an image thing; a marketing thing, if you want. If you think you deserve respect from one person, but you don't get it, then it means that you misjudged what you needed to with that person, or you judged correctly but performed badly.
Saying that someone deserves respect but didn't get it is like saying that a salesman deserved a sale but didn't get it. Sales are not "deserved". They are done, or they are not.
"Would someone please offer some evidence of a outsourcing success story?"
I will comply.
I know of one consultancy company where managers got a bonus for each outsourced post on their team. Needless to say, the outsourcing went as high as possible. Like 2 on-shore people for each 8 off-shore. The work was with SAP.
The outsourced guys did a terrible job. One week before the deadline, nothing worked.
The manager's solution was telling the people on-shore that they would have to make up for the offshore problems by making "voluntary" overtime. So, in fact, they got the whole on-shore team working 20 hours a day for a week, weekend included.
The product shipped. It worked. Barely, but it worked.
It turns out that this was not the first time management had done this. They had found a way to estimate the cost of their projects so they could have 80% of their workers doing basically no-value-adding jobs, but costing very little, and 20% of their workforce doing all of it, with an overtime period near the end.
So, there. Management was happy. The client was happy. Success.
PS: After the production release, the product entered the support phase, on which a support team (80% off-shore) would take care of any minor incidences that might happen.
So, go ahead, join the Fight Club
OK.
How about not having a single supermarket vandalized for supplies, after a tsunami? And instead, getting a perfectly self-organized queues of hundreds of meters, for getting basic things like water?
Can you honestly say that the same thing would happen in your country? I can tell you in mine (Spain), it wouldn't. They are just better at this social, group thing.
"What kind of twisted, self-righteous bullshit is this? I've known plenty of underhanded, socially-maladjusted, smarter-than-thou, back-stabbing engineers in my short time here. Explain that."
They are all spies! They are sapping my teleporters now.
"You study engineering for preparing to be a creative financial accountant. Or whatever they are called now"
"The guys that bought us to this crisis?"
"Yes"
"Then they are called financial assholes".
Respect is not given, but earned. This is also true for IT people.
"What software Jennifer Lopez uses?"
The i-me, with the i-myself add-on.
I use my bare hands. Feels very macho.
"Not so much in the West."
You might want to re-phrase it. Our thugs are just more adept at doing their thing unnoticed.
I'm talking about the respectable businessmen whose hand doesn't tremble when they have to start a war that kills thousands, only to make sure that the killing is done with the weapons they sell. Of course, they will do that through 2 or 3 phantom companies, and the money goes through 2 or 3 fiscal paradises; those 2 million grands in blood money are also tax free, of course.
And then they will call it a day, and go pick up the kids to school. And sleep well.
In the meantime, everybody is busy talking about that middle east warlord who is terrorizing the civil population.
Actually, let me re-phrase myself. We don't have thugs. We have fucking demons.
... to travel back in time! :D :D
"reinvent the window manager for those internal windows" is not the same as "embedding a copy of your own window manager with your own customizations etc".
Incidentally, that program you are looking for exists, it's called a virtual machine.
I don't consider windows a modern OS because I don't consider it a OS. It's a necessary evil if you want to play PC games. A toy.
Well maybe you should stop using a virtual desktop for your browsing; it clearly hinders your reading abilities.
I'm not a native English speaker and to me "gimp" meant just "that free photoshop from gnu" until I ended up in this forum.
I demand that gimps choose another name. We could call them RobotRunAmoks.
"the application essentially has to reinvent the window manager for those internal windows."
No they are not. Any modern OS has implementations of windows-inside-of-windows.
"Tell me, what is the major difference between this [uberdownloads.com] and this [yeniprogram.gen.tr]? I just don't see it."
There's no difference in those screenshots because you are not using any other programs, at least with the gimp screenshot.
Add a browser window, a notepad, and a music player. They will intermix with the gimp windows, but not with the photoshop windows. You will probably say that that can be solved by having a virtual desktop just for gimp. And to that I'd answer that I just don't need a virtual desktop for photoshop. So it's still a difference.
Another difference I can think of is that the photoshop toolbars stay on top of the images. They only hide if you want them to hide. A particularly irritating case for me is maximizing an image. In Photoshop you simply double blick the title bar, and you can use all the available screen space on it, without hiding the toolbars. In gimp you have to do it manually (specially if you are using the default Ubuntu theme, with its 3-pixel corner handles for windows).
Interaction Design is best done by an Interaction Designer.
An artist can do Interaction Design as badly, or worse, than any "software geek". Unless he's also an Interaction Designer. Which also applies to the software geek.
I didn't know about Decay. Thanks!