I despise lawyers more than I can possibly type in this entry.
Everything that is wrong with corporate America (and probably the world) is due to the sheer size of corporations Legal Teams. Sure, you could argue it is the higher-ups that order them around, but come on, these people sit around all day, thinking up complete Bullsh!t so they can push other companies around.
There are very, very, very few lawyers I respect in this country.
I mean, come on... the most efficient way to get information from a cyborg's archives into working memory is by displaying it in English in the visual field? In the peripheral vision, no less?
the Terminator was clearly in DEBUG mode during those sequences.
That's the center of irony for all of these arguments.
People hated XP when it came out, now everyone loves it. The same thing will happen to Vista/7 within a few years of getting used to it, and 2GB RAM becomes an ubiquity.
Here is my prediction for the future:
"OMG, Windows 8 is so horrendous, it requires 20GB of RAM just to run a web browser, blah blah blah" (insert more senseless crap i've been hearing for decades)
We have hired Low-GPA developers and High-GPA developers at my present company. Although there are no 'absolutes' you can rely on all the time, your GPA is a good indicator of overall Knowledge, Ability, and understanding of core concepts.
I don't anticipate hiring anyone below a 3.0 GPA in the near future. **Their portfolio would have to be outstanding.
I partied my ass off in college and managed a 3.2, wtf were these people with low 2-point-somethings doing?
it also means that they aren't necessarily going to be held to the same standard.
You might not hold them to the same standard as other people do, but quite frankly, it is embarrassing someone as large and powerful as Google can't publish an EMAIL application release version.
is Google trying to prove something by saying 'nothing should ever come out of beta' or some other stupid philosophical meaning?
What point are they trying to make? Why won't you admit this is silly? Quit Drinking the Kool-Aid.
... it also means that they aren't necessarily going to be held to the same standard...
No, once you start to include business people and regular 'joes', you can't hide behind a beta tag any longer. I completely disagree with your statement, if GMail went down for 2 hours today, there would be a lot of fallout, not any less because of a 'beta' icon at the top of the page.
Even with geeks, you start to lose your meaning of the word 'beta' after 5 freaking years!
I've taken several. I need things like 'numbers' in order to compute statistics. Although my sample is small (12 friends) I was not given anything else to work with.
Since you are so smart, maybe you can tell me what the actual numbers are. Oh, they're kept secret? So all we can do is make a best guess? Oh, well, thank you for your comment. It was really insightful. My numbers stand until you can provide something better to work from. (an unbiased random sample)
what I'm saying is that I haven't seen this error, nobody I know has seen this error, maybe it only affects 300 consoles total. In which case, fire the guy who wasn't paying attention that day.
"despite all these problems"... do we really know how many people the RROD and E74 affect? I've seen ridiculous reports at over 30%. Gimme a break. I know over a dozen people with 360s and only 1 had a RROD error, and that was after he moved to a different apartment, so who knows what happened in transit.
Whatever, this is slashdot, so logic and reasoning don't apply to MS bashing, but I enjoy my 360 over the higher priced, less games available, PS3 at the moment.
what is the point in having browser capability in every single window when 99.999% of users will fire up Internet Explorer to surf the web?
Instead of creating TWO separate applications (one to display websites, and one to display the filesystem), why not use the Browser to do both? It is already feature-rich, just provide some middle layer to translate the filesystem structure into XHTML, and you don't need windows Explorer anymore. And it would allow for an infinite amount of layouts/schemas/themes. Etc.
Heck, if you designed the middle-layer correctly, you could even use FireFox to do both.
ahh yes, those were glorious times. I enjoyed that integration actually. Maybe the overhead wasn't worth it, but I thought it was convenient and pretty cool.
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There isn't an efficient method for desalinization yet, and the great lakes are disgusting last time I checked.
Amazing! Write a post about how women love me.
in case someone wants to get smart with me:
"The median income in 1960 was 5,600": http://www2.census.gov/prod2/popscan/p60-036.pdf
if you said that in the 60's, cars would never cost more than a few grand and salaries would still be around 6k per year.
Inflation is (generally) all relative. You make 10 times what you made in the 60s, and stuff costs 10 times as much.
Apples to Apples.
haha, right, i forgot about that.
2016, yea... right... I won't hold my breath.
Thanks *MarketingTeamUsingBuzzWordsToSpurVentureCapital WithNoRealPlanOrTechnologyInPlace*
I despise lawyers more than I can possibly type in this entry.
Everything that is wrong with corporate America (and probably the world) is due to the sheer size of corporations Legal Teams. Sure, you could argue it is the higher-ups that order them around, but come on, these people sit around all day, thinking up complete Bullsh!t so they can push other companies around.
There are very, very, very few lawyers I respect in this country.
This is Generation 1. Don't get your panties in a bunch just yet.
Remember the NES? and *only* two action buttons?!
It'll be alright, I promise.
I don't recommend Best Buy for anything, but thats me.
Even a 300 dollar machine is a rip off there.
the Terminator was clearly in DEBUG mode during those sequences.
People hated XP when it came out, now everyone loves it. The same thing will happen to Vista/7 within a few years of getting used to it, and 2GB RAM becomes an ubiquity.
Here is my prediction for the future:
honestly, thats worse than I ever expected.
what do you mean?
Windows 7 is Vista SP2!
We have hired Low-GPA developers and High-GPA developers at my present company.
Although there are no 'absolutes' you can rely on all the time, your GPA is a good indicator of overall Knowledge, Ability, and understanding of core concepts.
I don't anticipate hiring anyone below a 3.0 GPA in the near future. **Their portfolio would have to be outstanding.
I partied my ass off in college and managed a 3.2, wtf were these people with low 2-point-somethings doing?
You might not hold them to the same standard as other people do, but quite frankly, it is embarrassing someone as large and powerful as Google can't publish an EMAIL application release version.
is Google trying to prove something by saying 'nothing should ever come out of beta' or some other stupid philosophical meaning?
What point are they trying to make? Why won't you admit this is silly? Quit Drinking the Kool-Aid.
No, once you start to include business people and regular 'joes', you can't hide behind a beta tag any longer. I completely disagree with your statement, if GMail went down for 2 hours today, there would be a lot of fallout, not any less because of a 'beta' icon at the top of the page.
Even with geeks, you start to lose your meaning of the word 'beta' after 5 freaking years!
I've taken several. I need things like 'numbers' in order to compute statistics. Although my sample is small (12 friends) I was not given anything else to work with.
Since you are so smart, maybe you can tell me what the actual numbers are. Oh, they're kept secret? So all we can do is make a best guess? Oh, well, thank you for your comment. It was really insightful. My numbers stand until you can provide something better to work from. (an unbiased random sample)
what I'm saying is that I haven't seen this error, nobody I know has seen this error, maybe it only affects 300 consoles total. In which case, fire the guy who wasn't paying attention that day.
calm down, it'll be alright.
"despite all these problems"... do we really know how many people the RROD and E74 affect? I've seen ridiculous reports at over 30%. Gimme a break. I know over a dozen people with 360s and only 1 had a RROD error, and that was after he moved to a different apartment, so who knows what happened in transit.
Whatever, this is slashdot, so logic and reasoning don't apply to MS bashing, but I enjoy my 360 over the higher priced, less games available, PS3 at the moment.
Did you mean 'Trillion' every time you said 'billion'? Or do I not understand the joke?
4% market share, but 99% awesome.
Burnout Paradise is pretty sweet though.
Instead of creating TWO separate applications (one to display websites, and one to display the filesystem), why not use the Browser to do both? It is already feature-rich, just provide some middle layer to translate the filesystem structure into XHTML, and you don't need windows Explorer anymore. And it would allow for an infinite amount of layouts/schemas/themes. Etc.
Heck, if you designed the middle-layer correctly, you could even use FireFox to do both.
I think it's a great idea.
ok, it was exploitable, but does that mean it was fundamentally a bad idea?
can't we have some type of integration once in a while?
ahh yes, those were glorious times.
I enjoyed that integration actually. Maybe the overhead wasn't worth it, but I thought it was convenient and pretty cool.
Flame me if you must.
thanks dad.