How would you know that something is pirated? Do you get the ID from Apple when something is purchased? I've got an iPod Touch now... and I'll get an iPhone soon. When that happens, the two devices will be tied to the same account and use the same apps that I've already purchased. Would that show as piracy for you?
I also expect that many are sharing an iTunes installation inside the family, to avoid duplicating all the files and get immediate access when someone buys a new album. Not 50% though...
What non-Android phones have significantly higher processing power? iPhone is also an ARM device, and runs at 600MHz.
The iPhone 3GS' CPU is a lot faster than any current Android phone. There is far more to the CPU performance than MHz, and the one in the 3GS is a much newer design. The one in current Android phones is of the same design as the old generation iPhones.
Also, what does the money get you? Does it just give you the ability to submit extra material? Or does it include things like increased exposure? If you get a more prominent spot, and thus sell more... it's no surprise that Apple would like to charge for that, just like brick and mortar stores. Another possibility is that they will roll it out gradually - and that early adopters just have to pay more.
Until the format it supported in other devices (apple tv, ipods etc), it looks pretty irrelevant.
RPM and APT are two different concepts. RPM is comparable to DEB. APT should be compared to YUM
Back in the days I was deeply familiar with these, RPM was much more andvanced than DEB. It supported signatures (MD5 and PGP) and the build tool built the binaries from binaries and patches using a simple script - and the build components could also be packaged. Very nice, and by far the nicest of the two. The main problem with RPM happened later - multicolouring.
"RPM hell" happened because rpm was used on many distributions, and a lot of software was just downloaded in binary form - built on a different platform. Deb didn't have this problem for two reasons:
There was an automated tool for downloading packages on the same platform (Debian)
Debian wasn't used much, and no other big distributions used it. RPM was used by almost everyone (Red Hat, Fedora, SuSE, Caldera, Mandrake, Connectiva, TurboLinux and others) causing a lot of incompatible packages.
Does the iPhone have many (any?) games that aren't of the simple silly cellphone variety? (....) Some of the top selling games are ones that have a good deal of complexity to them (the Sims being a great example), not the sort of thing that competes with a cellphone game
What about The Sims? You also have games like Civilization Revolutions, although that for some annoying reason isn't available in the Norwegian store.
Your statement doesn't make me breathe more easily... it would kill many sorts of content that I appreciate. Most movies would disappear. Games more complex than a regular iphone game would disappear. Books too, when they finally go digital.
The good thing about your suggestion, is that everyone who supports it can do it today. Only copy freely distributable resources and don't pirate the content which would disappear in your scheme. Support your local artists, and be a patron of the arts where you live.
One of the main benefits of copyright, is that it allows someone creating a product to spread cost of creation onto many consumers, rather than having to find one customer willing to pay e.g. $300 million upfront to see "Lord of the rings" as the first viewer.
If people want to take things without paying, is this also "something people should get over. It's not going to stop."?
Content isn't free to produce, and unauthorized copying/pirateing, while not theft, does often deprive content creators of money they would have gotten otherwise. I don't know how to solve it, but I don't think "giving up" is the answer here - just as in other issues with big problems and no immediate path to success.
And FTR: I don't like DRM (so much so, that I'm not buying many kinds of content protected by it), I think Lex Disney (paying legislators to extend copyright) should be criminal - and at least only apply to new content produced after the law is passed but I do see that there is a problem with unauthorized copying. I think the damages in US lawsuits are ridiculous. I value privacy. I just don't agree with the premise that piracy is OK because many are doing it.
Erm actually its quite the opposite, windows XP got security patches for years, i doubt you'll find a safe 2.6.8 (~2004) kernel about. Even "slow" distros like debian only backport security fixes for 3 years after that you have to upgrade, or start maintaining your own kernel.
Debian might be slow (historically, they've certainly been...), but this isn't about slowness. This is about maintenance. Red Hat maintains their Red Hat Enterprise Linux releases for seven years, and I'm guessing Novell does something similar.
Another very interesting use is iMacs... Apple's desktop is using mobile chips to keep noise / heat / power usage down, and thus allow their compact form factor.
Isn't a lot of the cheaper 802.11n gear 2.4GHz only? I seemed to recall only certain 11n units with "dual band" operation models will offer 5GHz.
Many of them will let you choose 2.4 GHz or 5 GHz. If you use 5 GHz, no b/g for you... Personally, I hope dual band doesn't catch on as I love mine. 2.4 GHz is very, very crowded here... while I'm the only one on 5 GHz. 10x the speed.
I'm a happy premium subscriber, so I'll tell you why. For the price of approx. half a new CD a month[1] I get access to a vast library of music - old and new - in very good quality[2]. Hear some music I like on the TV or radio? Read a nice review in the newspapers or online? Reading a book about jazz or classical music? Open spotify, and there it is. I can listen to it on my computer, on the go (with the mobile client, which can cache what I want to hear on my ipod touch) or on my main system in the living room.
Streaming is also good for video - I'd like more services like Netflix and apple video store to be available here (in Norway as well). I have big DVD collection, but it would be much more economical to stream a movie it the one time I actually watch it. I'd save space and money by restricting my purchases to the very best instead of things "I'd like to see".
Physical ownership of things are often overrated, even though I know I'm bad in that respect with huge collections of music (many hundred CDs, probably close to a thousand), books and movies. I want instant access to as much (good) content as possible, while minimizing expenses. At the current rates, spotify is a good solution to this. Balkanization and price increases might make it less so, but I'll enjoy the current optimum while I can.
I could get 2.5 years of spotify premium of the new "Beatles in mono" set I just bought
320 kbps ogg - it should be transparent. I store all my own music in lossless but I'm not going to bet I'd actually hear the difference.
And then they tried it all over again with M2, which revitalized the awesome, but it took them all of a year or two to ruin that with reality shows, too.
Even Discovery Channel, Animal Planet and National Geographic have gone down that route... I remember when Discovery channel actually was interesting: History (ancient battles), dinosaurs, a new discovery of some sort every Sunday ("Raising the mammoth" and its ilk), space and cool new technology. Now it's just junk: LA Ink, Miami Ink, paranormal junk, crime shows, "dirty jobs", car magazines etc. And mythbusters.
Why do all channels think that they should replace their raison d'etre with crappy reality shows in various guises?
Maybe if they would make better games they wouldnt have to spend so much on advertising.
Making great games that noone is aware of or care about doesn't help... history is full of games that have gotten great reviews, but sold little. Especially if they are from a small or independent publisher. Marketing is a major part of the difference (distribution is another).
Also, it is important to know that marketing isn't just buying tv spots or ads. Marketing also means creating and distributing materials to all the magazines, blogs and game sites so they can get people interested in the game... creating character backgrounds, game story teasers, game movies, going to trade shows and showcase the game/talk about the game, fan forums and finally getting the games reviewed. Everything you know about the game until you stand in the shop looking for "a game" is marketing... and if you can avoid it, you don't want to depend on just people who are looking for a game and like your box.
1 woman, 9 months = 1 baby. You can't add 8 more women to the equation and get a baby in one month.
No, but you can have 9 babies in 9 months instead... Tech development is moving in the same direction, just look at frequency vs. number of cores these days.
And of course, if you want to think like a proper manager you need to put more effort into planning. E.g. make or buy analysis. If what you want is a baby, you can get one much quicker than 9 months if you don't make it in-house but procure it from an outside party. Finally: Since everyone here on Slashdot loves car analogies: You could buy a car in much less time than it would take your new company to design and construct one.
"harmful to our velocity" WTF is that supposed to mean?
In Scrum, tasks/stories are estimated using a common metric (e.g. story points, hours, days). Velocity is the rate at which the team do these - e.g. "20 story points/day". If you're into Earned Value Management, you could see it as the rate at which EV increases. You can find an interesting paper about it here.
The problem for the original poster is that they just jumped onto a buzzword not really knowing what it is, and not utilizing it properly. There are no silver bullets. If the project is organized in a way that means the scrum master is doing project management, they need a real project manager - and definitely not an intern with little authority. That way lies disaster. If one of the senior developers want to change into project management and is doing it well, good - but then he is not a developer anymore, and should not be counted as a resource.
The Google Voice application would be more intrusive... it would basically replace your voicemail and SMS applications with its own, as I understood it. It would undermine the experience that Apple wants the user to have.
Now, the user should be able to do so, but it's a different situation. Spotify won't destroy the "experience" in any way, it's an app which provides access to a huge library of music - an online, gigantic itunes library. Competing with the need for downloading music onto iTunes? Yep. Changing the experience? Nah.
Just because you CAN compete with someone else on a level playing field doesn't mean you want too. If you and I were dueling to the death with pistols, and I know that I am slightly better than you and thus likely to win, should I refuse to allow a further handicap of your abilities just because I'm pretty sure I can win anyway?
And, of course, maybe avoid playing at all? If you've made a lady leave another man for you and he challenges you to a duel, why not at avoid if if possible? If there's little or no gain, and a big downside... why bother?
Coupled with the whole "Path 'o Titans" thing, I imagine the levels will be different from your standard "1 more level, 1 more talent point thing."
There are a lot of things you can do with leveling outside the standard "grind xp until you puke" methodology...Maybe they're experimenting in that direction.
(about luxury products)Maybe because those brands produce quality products?
So do others. In this segment, quality is just a part of the overall package you are buying. If you compare a Timex and a Patek Philippe, they probably show the time equally well.
Every eat fruit? How about vegetables? Yeah, those are carbs. But they do take a while to break down (...) Grains, on the other hand, are BAD carbs (...) They break down too quickly into sugar, which is quickly absorbed into the blood stream
The carbs in grains break down to sugars like the ones in fruits/vegetables... the latter is absorbed far more quickly than carbs from grains.
There are some things in life that can't be estimated. As someone I knew who worked in aerospace (engineer turned manager) told me - "You can't schedule a breakthrough"
Of course. But very few projects outside of basic research are attempting that. In particular, if a product development project depends on a breakthrough, you're in trouble. I'd put it in the category of being dependent on winning the lottery to make your budget balanced...
Very little software development is in the "breakthrough" category - it is evolutionary rather than revolutionary.
Lesson: things always take longer than you think they will. Use your worst-case estimate, not your best-case one
That's not a very professional way of doing it... and it certainly doesn't scale well. Parkinson's Law is pretty accurate - if you ask for worst case, you'll get worst case. A better way is to aggregate e.g. optimistic/best/pessimistic estimate, and use this to estimate the uncertainty of the activity. Let your inner math geek enjoy aggregating it, in order to aggregate this throughout the project. Maybe even try critical chain? In any case, you should give your best estimate, not the worst you can come up with. Honesty is important, both for project management and software development.
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How would you know that something is pirated? Do you get the ID from Apple when something is purchased? I've got an iPod Touch now... and I'll get an iPhone soon. When that happens, the two devices will be tied to the same account and use the same apps that I've already purchased. Would that show as piracy for you?
I also expect that many are sharing an iTunes installation inside the family, to avoid duplicating all the files and get immediate access when someone buys a new album. Not 50% though...
What non-Android phones have significantly higher processing power? iPhone is also an ARM device, and runs at 600MHz.
The iPhone 3GS' CPU is a lot faster than any current Android phone. There is far more to the CPU performance than MHz, and the one in the 3GS is a much newer design. The one in current Android phones is of the same design as the old generation iPhones.
Also, what does the money get you? Does it just give you the ability to submit extra material? Or does it include things like increased exposure? If you get a more prominent spot, and thus sell more... it's no surprise that Apple would like to charge for that, just like brick and mortar stores. Another possibility is that they will roll it out gradually - and that early adopters just have to pay more.
Until the format it supported in other devices (apple tv, ipods etc), it looks pretty irrelevant.
Second, RPM just sucks compared to apt
RPM and APT are two different concepts. RPM is comparable to DEB. APT should be compared to YUM
Back in the days I was deeply familiar with these, RPM was much more andvanced than DEB. It supported signatures (MD5 and PGP) and the build tool built the binaries from binaries and patches using a simple script - and the build components could also be packaged. Very nice, and by far the nicest of the two. The main problem with RPM happened later - multicolouring.
"RPM hell" happened because rpm was used on many distributions, and a lot of software was just downloaded in binary form - built on a different platform. Deb didn't have this problem for two reasons:
Does the iPhone have many (any?) games that aren't of the simple silly cellphone variety? (....) Some of the top selling games are ones that have a good deal of complexity to them (the Sims being a great example), not the sort of thing that competes with a cellphone game
What about The Sims? You also have games like Civilization Revolutions, although that for some annoying reason isn't available in the Norwegian store.
Your statement doesn't make me breathe more easily... it would kill many sorts of content that I appreciate. Most movies would disappear. Games more complex than a regular iphone game would disappear. Books too, when they finally go digital.
The good thing about your suggestion, is that everyone who supports it can do it today. Only copy freely distributable resources and don't pirate the content which would disappear in your scheme. Support your local artists, and be a patron of the arts where you live.
One of the main benefits of copyright, is that it allows someone creating a product to spread cost of creation onto many consumers, rather than having to find one customer willing to pay e.g. $300 million upfront to see "Lord of the rings" as the first viewer.
If people want to take things without paying, is this also "something people should get over. It's not going to stop."?
Content isn't free to produce, and unauthorized copying/pirateing, while not theft, does often deprive content creators of money they would have gotten otherwise. I don't know how to solve it, but I don't think "giving up" is the answer here - just as in other issues with big problems and no immediate path to success.
And FTR: I don't like DRM (so much so, that I'm not buying many kinds of content protected by it), I think Lex Disney (paying legislators to extend copyright) should be criminal - and at least only apply to new content produced after the law is passed but I do see that there is a problem with unauthorized copying. I think the damages in US lawsuits are ridiculous. I value privacy. I just don't agree with the premise that piracy is OK because many are doing it.
Erm actually its quite the opposite, windows XP got security patches for years, i doubt you'll find a safe 2.6.8 (~2004) kernel about. Even "slow" distros like debian only backport security fixes for 3 years after that you have to upgrade, or start maintaining your own kernel.
Debian might be slow (historically, they've certainly been...), but this isn't about slowness. This is about maintenance. Red Hat maintains their Red Hat Enterprise Linux releases for seven years, and I'm guessing Novell does something similar.
Another very interesting use is iMacs... Apple's desktop is using mobile chips to keep noise / heat / power usage down, and thus allow their compact form factor.
Isn't a lot of the cheaper 802.11n gear 2.4GHz only? I seemed to recall only certain 11n units with "dual band" operation models will offer 5GHz.
Many of them will let you choose 2.4 GHz or 5 GHz. If you use 5 GHz, no b/g for you... Personally, I hope dual band doesn't catch on as I love mine. 2.4 GHz is very, very crowded here... while I'm the only one on 5 GHz. 10x the speed.
I'm a happy premium subscriber, so I'll tell you why. For the price of approx. half a new CD a month[1] I get access to a vast library of music - old and new - in very good quality[2]. Hear some music I like on the TV or radio? Read a nice review in the newspapers or online? Reading a book about jazz or classical music? Open spotify, and there it is. I can listen to it on my computer, on the go (with the mobile client, which can cache what I want to hear on my ipod touch) or on my main system in the living room.
Streaming is also good for video - I'd like more services like Netflix and apple video store to be available here (in Norway as well). I have big DVD collection, but it would be much more economical to stream a movie it the one time I actually watch it. I'd save space and money by restricting my purchases to the very best instead of things "I'd like to see".
Physical ownership of things are often overrated, even though I know I'm bad in that respect with huge collections of music (many hundred CDs, probably close to a thousand), books and movies. I want instant access to as much (good) content as possible, while minimizing expenses. At the current rates, spotify is a good solution to this. Balkanization and price increases might make it less so, but I'll enjoy the current optimum while I can.
And then they tried it all over again with M2, which revitalized the awesome, but it took them all of a year or two to ruin that with reality shows, too.
Even Discovery Channel, Animal Planet and National Geographic have gone down that route... I remember when Discovery channel actually was interesting: History (ancient battles), dinosaurs, a new discovery of some sort every Sunday ("Raising the mammoth" and its ilk), space and cool new technology. Now it's just junk: LA Ink, Miami Ink, paranormal junk, crime shows, "dirty jobs", car magazines etc. And mythbusters.
Why do all channels think that they should replace their raison d'etre with crappy reality shows in various guises?
Maybe if they would make better games they wouldnt have to spend so much on advertising.
Making great games that noone is aware of or care about doesn't help... history is full of games that have gotten great reviews, but sold little. Especially if they are from a small or independent publisher. Marketing is a major part of the difference (distribution is another).
Also, it is important to know that marketing isn't just buying tv spots or ads. Marketing also means creating and distributing materials to all the magazines, blogs and game sites so they can get people interested in the game... creating character backgrounds, game story teasers, game movies, going to trade shows and showcase the game/talk about the game, fan forums and finally getting the games reviewed. Everything you know about the game until you stand in the shop looking for "a game" is marketing... and if you can avoid it, you don't want to depend on just people who are looking for a game and like your box.
1 woman, 9 months = 1 baby. You can't add 8 more women to the equation and get a baby in one month.
No, but you can have 9 babies in 9 months instead... Tech development is moving in the same direction, just look at frequency vs. number of cores these days.
And of course, if you want to think like a proper manager you need to put more effort into planning. E.g. make or buy analysis. If what you want is a baby, you can get one much quicker than 9 months if you don't make it in-house but procure it from an outside party. Finally: Since everyone here on Slashdot loves car analogies: You could buy a car in much less time than it would take your new company to design and construct one.
"harmful to our velocity" WTF is that supposed to mean?
In Scrum, tasks/stories are estimated using a common metric (e.g. story points, hours, days). Velocity is the rate at which the team do these - e.g. "20 story points/day". If you're into Earned Value Management, you could see it as the rate at which EV increases. You can find an interesting paper about it here.
The problem for the original poster is that they just jumped onto a buzzword not really knowing what it is, and not utilizing it properly. There are no silver bullets. If the project is organized in a way that means the scrum master is doing project management, they need a real project manager - and definitely not an intern with little authority. That way lies disaster. If one of the senior developers want to change into project management and is doing it well, good - but then he is not a developer anymore, and should not be counted as a resource.
The Google Voice application would be more intrusive... it would basically replace your voicemail and SMS applications with its own, as I understood it. It would undermine the experience that Apple wants the user to have.
Now, the user should be able to do so, but it's a different situation. Spotify won't destroy the "experience" in any way, it's an app which provides access to a huge library of music - an online, gigantic itunes library. Competing with the need for downloading music onto iTunes? Yep. Changing the experience? Nah.
Apparently Switzerland, Norway, and Canada have a problem with violent resurrections.
I blame the Nazi zombies.
France, Germany and the UK all have very high obesity rates as well. I think Germany's is actually worse than the US.
UK has fairly high obesity rates, but 25% lower than the US. France and Germany are much lower. The US is on top.
Just because you CAN compete with someone else on a level playing field doesn't mean you want too. If you and I were dueling to the death with pistols, and I know that I am slightly better than you and thus likely to win, should I refuse to allow a further handicap of your abilities just because I'm pretty sure I can win anyway?
And, of course, maybe avoid playing at all? If you've made a lady leave another man for you and he challenges you to a duel, why not at avoid if if possible? If there's little or no gain, and a big downside... why bother?
Coupled with the whole "Path 'o Titans" thing, I imagine the levels will be different from your standard "1 more level, 1 more talent point thing." There are a lot of things you can do with leveling outside the standard "grind xp until you puke" methodology...Maybe they're experimenting in that direction.
Maybe they want to repeat the success of Trials of Atlantis in Dark Age of Camelot?
(about luxury products)Maybe because those brands produce quality products?
So do others. In this segment, quality is just a part of the overall package you are buying. If you compare a Timex and a Patek Philippe, they probably show the time equally well.
The Japanese aren't brand-motivated
Japan is the leading market for luxury brands, like Gucci, Louis Vitton, Hermes etc. Brand motivation and recognition are sky high.
Every eat fruit? How about vegetables? Yeah, those are carbs. But they do take a while to break down (...) Grains, on the other hand, are BAD carbs (...) They break down too quickly into sugar, which is quickly absorbed into the blood stream
The carbs in grains break down to sugars like the ones in fruits/vegetables... the latter is absorbed far more quickly than carbs from grains.
There are some things in life that can't be estimated. As someone I knew who worked in aerospace (engineer turned manager) told me - "You can't schedule a breakthrough"
Of course. But very few projects outside of basic research are attempting that. In particular, if a product development project depends on a breakthrough, you're in trouble. I'd put it in the category of being dependent on winning the lottery to make your budget balanced...
Very little software development is in the "breakthrough" category - it is evolutionary rather than revolutionary.
Lesson: things always take longer than you think they will. Use your worst-case estimate, not your best-case one
That's not a very professional way of doing it... and it certainly doesn't scale well. Parkinson's Law is pretty accurate - if you ask for worst case, you'll get worst case. A better way is to aggregate e.g. optimistic/best/pessimistic estimate, and use this to estimate the uncertainty of the activity. Let your inner math geek enjoy aggregating it, in order to aggregate this throughout the project. Maybe even try critical chain? In any case, you should give your best estimate, not the worst you can come up with. Honesty is important, both for project management and software development.