Of course, the right thing for Apple to do would have been to completely replace the proprietary lightning connectors with the standard USB-C connectors on all of their new device models going forward, but alas, shareholders gotta eat.
if Microsoft would simply keep the classic Windows XP shell and UI at least conveniently available as an option. It seems that the vast majority of the complaints about the newer Windows versions involve the UI being forced onto everyone.
Yes, they do make PC's and laptops. There's been quite a bit of press about the consolidation of computing/peripheral electronics manufacturing over the past several years, and Foxconn is often involved.
Many nontechnical users may be familiar with the "track changes" feature in Office apps like Word and Excel. The "track changes" feature is a basic form of version control . I would compare it to that or something similar. In my experience explaining technical concepts to nontechnical users, they tend to be receptive of comparisons with the familiar.
*You* seem high, if you really think that those prices seem high for the speeds that they are offering, compared to existing service offerings here in the USA.
This video looks to me like they are making a friendly hint of things to come. I know it would sound like blasphemy to many, but I could imagine they might want to make a such a monumental change to compete in mobile, where they are currently all but non-existent.
Considering that prices have gone down a lot in the past couple of years (I've noticed no-contract prepaid plans with unlimited text + data as low as $25/month, with QWERTY phones $100 -- prices that were unheard of here in the U.S. a couple of years ago), and the fact that the selection of phones designed for messaging (e.g., those with keyboards and/or touch screens) has increased so much over the past couple of years.
Hopefully, the supreme court recognizes this as well. The landmark Bilski vs. Kappos case decision is expected to be released by the U.S. Supreme Court any day now. Depending on what that decision is, thousands of patents could be invalidated.
You already included a link to $249 PC in your blurb, for example. $249 is dirt cheap when you look at how far prices have fallen over the past several years, and not far at all from the sub-$200 price point that you speak of. If the cost of a full-blown PC is already dirt-cheap, there will naturally be little economic incentive for a separate genre of thin client PC's.
The problem is that 20-somethings are cheaper, and more likely to put in ridiculous unpaid overtime (both because they can handle it, and because they're cheaper). If you're in a front-line sort of job where you're competing with fresh BS grads, then you're going to face it.
Not true at any company with competent hiring managers, which would also be any company that makes good products and is actually capable of long-term survival.
It's not a matter of whether they were "designed" to handle the load. It's a matter of whether it's practical to upgrade the capacity to meet the demand. Note that much of what defines "practical" is market pressure (i.e., competition).
The key to really setting yourself apart in the real world is the ability to take the theoretical knowledge and being able to creatively apply it in real world, "practical" situations.
Despite being an attempt at humor and being modded funny, this is actually really solid advice.
The field of health informatics is going to skyrocket in the next few years. It has become glaringly obvious, as of late, that the health care field overall is lagging behind other industries in leveraging IT to increase efficiency. Anyone who happens to be educated in both nursing and computer science will have skills that are at no less than a "critical" level of demand during the next several years at least.
What you need to do is really take a step back and ask yourself, "What sort of programming do I want to do...what really excites me? Device driver development? Multimedia application development such as an MPEG encoder? Game Development? GUI Application Development? Web-based development? Firmware development? Engineering and scientific applications?"
The languages typically used are very different for each of the different programming focus areas listed above.
The most helpful thing to remember is that different programming languages are different tools that fit different types of jobs (especially when you're under time and other resource constraints in the real world), therefore you should be careful not to get too attached and/or biased towards a favorite language. However, it is okay to have a favorite, since being really good in one language makes it much easier to pick up other languages.
You're essentially telling us you have a negative opinion of team-based projects. It behooves you to at least have a neutral opinion. Being able to work as effectively on a team as you do independently is an asset that would make you less likely to be replaced by outsourcing. The reality is, depending on the size and scope of the individual project, many projects do require contribution from an entire team in order to be successful.
I would not say that this filing itself shows that the system is broken, since the filing has not yet been approved. If the filing does get approved, however, then that would clearly indicate a broken system. Not that the patent system has not already previously been clearly shown to be broken, though, due to the countless other obvious/ridiculous patents that have actually been approved to date.
For those who don't know, Carterfone(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carterfone) was an extremely important 1968 FCC decision that obsoleted the phone company model of requiring you to lease a device from them to connect to their networks. The passing of this decision is what gives landline users to this day the freedom to connect whatever device they want to their landline.
Skype petitioned the FCC in 2007 arguing (rightfully so) that the FCC should make the Carterfone rules apply to wireless networks. The FCC chairman Kevin Martin (a member of the business-friendly/consumer-un-friendly Bush Administration) turned it down last year, with a very weak argument basically saying, "Such a move would be premature". Obviously, that translates to, "The wireless companies would like to protect their business model and we don't want to piss them off".
We can fully expect the wireless companies to fight tooth-and-nail against any promotion of truly open networks by companies like Google.
Yes, I actually read this book a couple of years ago and I believe it was fairly new at the time. The information in it is still very relevant though, as this book is not specific to any particular technology, but rather it is a career advice book. It basically gives practical, solid advice about how to stay relevant in IT in the long run. If you've worked in various capacities and companies in IT, you will probably recognize that much of the advice mirrors the habits of people you've worked with that have avoided the layoffs and/or got the coveted promotions.
It's good that this issue is getting at least some sort of media attention. The anti-competitive environment for broadband Internet access is worse than the Microsoft monopoly ever was.
I agree that the title is very misleading. The wording of this title "Microsoft Says No New Xbox 360s In 2009" implies that they are ceasing manufacturing/shipping of the current XBOX 360 model in 2009. It really needs to be edited for clarity.
Also, you really should not expect there to be one great textbook for such a broad topic. Things like HTTP-server configuration, DNS configuration, POP/SMTP server admin, Security, shell scripting etc. are all separate focal points of system administration that each command entire multiple books and can each easily cover a whole semester on their own.
The best route for teaching an entry-level class is probably to teach your students a popular shell such as Bash with a book like Learning the bash Shell, Third Edition [O'reilly publishing]. Shell interaction is really the most important fundamental skill for a UNIX systems administrator. (i.e., a sysadmin will have to be proficient with the Shell before he or she can do other critical things like securing the system, network configuration or installing software).
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Of course, the right thing for Apple to do would have been to completely replace the proprietary lightning connectors with the standard USB-C connectors on all of their new device models going forward, but alas, shareholders gotta eat.
I would have said the same thing 5 years ago if someone told me at the time that SQL Server might be on its way to Linux.
if Microsoft would simply keep the classic Windows XP shell and UI at least conveniently available as an option. It seems that the vast majority of the complaints about the newer Windows versions involve the UI being forced onto everyone.
Not sure if Steve Jobs used the exact term "gamechanger" in that original iPhone keynote, but he definitely did effectively describe it as such.
Yes, they do make PC's and laptops. There's been quite a bit of press about the consolidation of computing/peripheral electronics manufacturing over the past several years, and Foxconn is often involved.
This person gets it.
Many nontechnical users may be familiar with the "track changes" feature in Office apps like Word and Excel. The "track changes" feature is a basic form of version control . I would compare it to that or something similar. In my experience explaining technical concepts to nontechnical users, they tend to be receptive of comparisons with the familiar.
*You* seem high, if you really think that those prices seem high for the speeds that they are offering, compared to existing service offerings here in the USA.
This video looks to me like they are making a friendly hint of things to come. I know it would sound like blasphemy to many, but I could imagine they might want to make a such a monumental change to compete in mobile, where they are currently all but non-existent.
Considering that prices have gone down a lot in the past couple of years (I've noticed no-contract prepaid plans with unlimited text + data as low as $25/month, with QWERTY phones $100 -- prices that were unheard of here in the U.S. a couple of years ago), and the fact that the selection of phones designed for messaging (e.g., those with keyboards and/or touch screens) has increased so much over the past couple of years.
Hopefully, the supreme court recognizes this as well. The landmark Bilski vs. Kappos case decision is expected to be released by the U.S. Supreme Court any day now. Depending on what that decision is, thousands of patents could be invalidated.
You already included a link to $249 PC in your blurb, for example. $249 is dirt cheap when you look at how far prices have fallen over the past several years, and not far at all from the sub-$200 price point that you speak of. If the cost of a full-blown PC is already dirt-cheap, there will naturally be little economic incentive for a separate genre of thin client PC's.
The problem is that 20-somethings are cheaper, and more likely to put in ridiculous unpaid overtime (both because they can handle it, and because they're cheaper). If you're in a front-line sort of job where you're competing with fresh BS grads, then you're going to face it.
Not true at any company with competent hiring managers, which would also be any company that makes good products and is actually capable of long-term survival.
It's not a matter of whether they were "designed" to handle the load. It's a matter of whether it's practical to upgrade the capacity to meet the demand. Note that much of what defines "practical" is market pressure (i.e., competition).
The key to really setting yourself apart in the real world is the ability to take the theoretical knowledge and being able to creatively apply it in real world, "practical" situations.
Despite being an attempt at humor and being modded funny, this is actually really solid advice.
The field of health informatics is going to skyrocket in the next few years. It has become glaringly obvious, as of late, that the health care field overall is lagging behind other industries in leveraging IT to increase efficiency. Anyone who happens to be educated in both nursing and computer science will have skills that are at no less than a "critical" level of demand during the next several years at least.
What you need to do is really take a step back and ask yourself, "What sort of programming do I want to do ...what really excites me? Device driver development? Multimedia application development such as an MPEG encoder? Game Development? GUI Application Development? Web-based development? Firmware development? Engineering and scientific applications?"
The languages typically used are very different for each of the different programming focus areas listed above.
The most helpful thing to remember is that different programming languages are different tools that fit different types of jobs (especially when you're under time and other resource constraints in the real world), therefore you should be careful not to get too attached and/or biased towards a favorite language. However, it is okay to have a favorite, since being really good in one language makes it much easier to pick up other languages.
You're essentially telling us you have a negative opinion of team-based projects. It behooves you to at least have a neutral opinion. Being able to work as effectively on a team as you do independently is an asset that would make you less likely to be replaced by outsourcing. The reality is, depending on the size and scope of the individual project, many projects do require contribution from an entire team in order to be successful.
I would not say that this filing itself shows that the system is broken, since the filing has not yet been approved. If the filing does get approved, however, then that would clearly indicate a broken system. Not that the patent system has not already previously been clearly shown to be broken, though, due to the countless other obvious/ridiculous patents that have actually been approved to date.
For a moment there, I was picturing some new technology that could distinguish between C, PERL and and Java written on scratch paper.
For those who don't know, Carterfone(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carterfone) was an extremely important 1968 FCC decision that obsoleted the phone company model of requiring you to lease a device from them to connect to their networks. The passing of this decision is what gives landline users to this day the freedom to connect whatever device they want to their landline.
Skype petitioned the FCC in 2007 arguing (rightfully so) that the FCC should make the Carterfone rules apply to wireless networks. The FCC chairman Kevin Martin (a member of the business-friendly/consumer-un-friendly Bush Administration) turned it down last year, with a very weak argument basically saying, "Such a move would be premature". Obviously, that translates to, "The wireless companies would like to protect their business model and we don't want to piss them off".
We can fully expect the wireless companies to fight tooth-and-nail against any promotion of truly open networks by companies like Google.
Yes, I actually read this book a couple of years ago and I believe it was fairly new at the time. The information in it is still very relevant though, as this book is not specific to any particular technology, but rather it is a career advice book. It basically gives practical, solid advice about how to stay relevant in IT in the long run. If you've worked in various capacities and companies in IT, you will probably recognize that much of the advice mirrors the habits of people you've worked with that have avoided the layoffs and/or got the coveted promotions.
It's good that this issue is getting at least some sort of media attention. The anti-competitive environment for broadband Internet access is worse than the Microsoft monopoly ever was.
I agree that the title is very misleading. The wording of this title "Microsoft Says No New Xbox 360s In 2009" implies that they are ceasing manufacturing/shipping of the current XBOX 360 model in 2009. It really needs to be edited for clarity.
Also, you really should not expect there to be one great textbook for such a broad topic. Things like HTTP-server configuration, DNS configuration, POP/SMTP server admin, Security, shell scripting etc. are all separate focal points of system administration that each command entire multiple books and can each easily cover a whole semester on their own.
The best route for teaching an entry-level class is probably to teach your students a popular shell such as Bash with a book like Learning the bash Shell, Third Edition [O'reilly publishing]. Shell interaction is really the most important fundamental skill for a UNIX systems administrator. (i.e., a sysadmin will have to be proficient with the Shell before he or she can do other critical things like securing the system, network configuration or installing software).