Ok... The M$ thing is irksome but we have already seen that Microsoft will do what it feels is good for its business and giving children XP for peanuts or free is good for MS. Look at how they have decreased licensing in India, then look at the excellent MS centric Programmers that it produces. Truthfully MS could have easily programmed for it and distributed it freely without the OLPC allowing it officially. At least this way the distributed botnets should be interesting to deal with.
"Now, IT is no where as bad as being a front line soldier (no ones buddy was ambushed by a sniper in the server room) but overall the same issues that are bad for the mind for the soldier are the same for the IT person." [Parent]
I may work in the same building. Please stop making stuff like this sound like a good idea. I kid.
Seriously my advice is to do something like porting VB6 to C# for some small company. Anything you do after that will seem more palatable.
Does anyone remember Windows ME? Did anyone "upgrade" to it. Vista seems mildly familiar with a whole lot more momentum. The major exception is MS realized it was a mistake and admitted it was a stop-gap between windows XP and 98.
"No ambiguity in the term"? When a roadside bomb attacking military vehicles is "terrorism", the word has lost all meaning. Not if they freely distribute the makings of said bomb. Sorry couldn't help myself.
The burden of proof on any chargeback is on the merchant always. I worked for a CC support here in the states before my job was relocated without me. I would hear 100's of chargeback cases from merchants a month and out of those cases only a handful would actually get to keep there money. It could be anything from a claim of fraud to I don't like this item. The merchants don't get their items back typically and they are usually forced to eat the cost. You have to have a signed receipt and said receipt has to both match the signature on the back of the card and test positive for the signature on file. You could have a blood sample and it wouldn't be enough sometimes.
We then scoop up the plankton/algae and put it in really big vats and collect the methane that comes off as it rots. We then make ethanol to mix in with our gas.
1. Steal underpants... you know the rest.
Threading is Parallel programming as well. I agree that it will be the "Next Big Thing" but only in the since that in order to use the cell processors and the multi-core cpu's we are going to have to use threading to optimize most of the serialized code (Where Possible).
After many years of code and fix (more code than fix) approach is applied to a project refactoring is sometimes the only thing you can do. Unless you want only a handful of programmers to be able to read it. I have hit so many problems with the my most recent refactor that I am amazed it even worked. For instance they had booleans in for loops to keep code out of embedded recursions instead of looping to call the code from another function. There were instances of goto points that were never hit and were kept active just in case. There were 4 forms that were used to hold 400+ global variables. It was, and to some degree still is a nightmare. Anyway what I am trying to say is refactoring is a necessary evil. It doesn't always have to do with egos. In our case one of our programmers moved on and he left the state of the program, over the course of 5-8 years, in a state of confusion. It is difficult to bring in a new programmer and get them to read something that the original author has difficulty reading. BTW the programmer was one of the owners so there wasn't a lot of checking up behind him.
de Icaza is very entrenched in MS derived technologies: Mono, SilverLight, etc. It is perfectly understandable to want the MS technologies to be thoroughly explained and implementable. Also there are some back history to OOXML that contains file format data that could be useful for many of the projects. For the sake of interop it is necessary to glean the standards as written. I don't think he is giving too much praise to the OOXML format, whether it is better or not is not important here.
You mean Nintendo. Xbox 360 is not the #1 seller overall. Wii is. Yeah there are guys (read fanatics) who will buy a Halo 3 machine in the upcoming months but the Wii in my area has been sold out since they were released. You can get one if you are on a list but you definitely can't just walk up an buy it. The games for the Wii aren't hard-core but they are very fun.
Also just to put it on topic Dr. Dobbs ran an article on the PS3 Cell processor and on certain algorithms it is actually faster than some catagorized super computers. Stop thinking in terms of the X86 processor. It is in no way the best hardware just the easiest and most available system since it has been the standard for so long. For certain processing your GPU is better than your CPU as well. Specialization is the key.
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"I think Microsoft is going to second-tier players, and they're cutting deals with them because they are softer targets,". I think it is very tactless to call Novell second tier. Yeah they may have caved but truthfully they do work on several projects that border on Microsoft ISP Mono, OpenExchange, etc. Do I think it is bad form to partner with MS yes, but if you look at the deal Novell really didn't come out on the bad side of the exchange. Suse is a pretty powerful distro and arguably 3 or 4th in the Corporate distro list.
Any politician will tell you that "forgetful computers" *is* nice. If you are having a secret fling with an intern (sexual orientation need not apply), or if you are planning to do something let's say immoral or illegal it is very necessary for the computer to forgive and forget. If you say when you are 22 that Communism rocks or I wish I were like Stalin and this is remembered and taken out of context as you run for office this could be a huge chink in your plan.
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So the windows zombies aren't good enough. You gotta ask Linux users huh...
Ok... The M$ thing is irksome but we have already seen that Microsoft will do what it feels is good for its business and giving children XP for peanuts or free is good for MS. Look at how they have decreased licensing in India, then look at the excellent MS centric Programmers that it produces. Truthfully MS could have easily programmed for it and distributed it freely without the OLPC allowing it officially. At least this way the distributed botnets should be interesting to deal with.
We need to send them virus free porn. Gentlemen time to dump your hard drives to DVD.
"Now, IT is no where as bad as being a front line soldier (no ones buddy was ambushed by a sniper in the server room) but overall the same issues that are bad for the mind for the soldier are the same for the IT person." [Parent] I may work in the same building. Please stop making stuff like this sound like a good idea. I kid. Seriously my advice is to do something like porting VB6 to C# for some small company. Anything you do after that will seem more palatable.
Does anyone remember Windows ME? Did anyone "upgrade" to it. Vista seems mildly familiar with a whole lot more momentum. The major exception is MS realized it was a mistake and admitted it was a stop-gap between windows XP and 98.
Are you kidding I use Slashdot as a source. Wait er...
The burden of proof on any chargeback is on the merchant always. I worked for a CC support here in the states before my job was relocated without me. I would hear 100's of chargeback cases from merchants a month and out of those cases only a handful would actually get to keep there money. It could be anything from a claim of fraud to I don't like this item. The merchants don't get their items back typically and they are usually forced to eat the cost. You have to have a signed receipt and said receipt has to both match the signature on the back of the card and test positive for the signature on file. You could have a blood sample and it wouldn't be enough sometimes.
We then scoop up the plankton/algae and put it in really big vats and collect the methane that comes off as it rots. We then make ethanol to mix in with our gas. 1. Steal underpants... you know the rest.
Threading is Parallel programming as well. I agree that it will be the "Next Big Thing" but only in the since that in order to use the cell processors and the multi-core cpu's we are going to have to use threading to optimize most of the serialized code (Where Possible).
After many years of code and fix (more code than fix) approach is applied to a project refactoring is sometimes the only thing you can do. Unless you want only a handful of programmers to be able to read it. I have hit so many problems with the my most recent refactor that I am amazed it even worked. For instance they had booleans in for loops to keep code out of embedded recursions instead of looping to call the code from another function. There were instances of goto points that were never hit and were kept active just in case. There were 4 forms that were used to hold 400+ global variables. It was, and to some degree still is a nightmare. Anyway what I am trying to say is refactoring is a necessary evil. It doesn't always have to do with egos. In our case one of our programmers moved on and he left the state of the program, over the course of 5-8 years, in a state of confusion. It is difficult to bring in a new programmer and get them to read something that the original author has difficulty reading. BTW the programmer was one of the owners so there wasn't a lot of checking up behind him.
Exactly what they want you to think. I am not paranoid just prepared. Wait this is my work computer... dmt
An even more interesting question is who paid for this study. I have a bridge to sell them.
Here we go again.
de Icaza is very entrenched in MS derived technologies: Mono, SilverLight, etc. It is perfectly understandable to want the MS technologies to be thoroughly explained and implementable. Also there are some back history to OOXML that contains file format data that could be useful for many of the projects. For the sake of interop it is necessary to glean the standards as written. I don't think he is giving too much praise to the OOXML format, whether it is better or not is not important here.
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Those timelines have to come from somewhere.
"which companies could look their communities in the eye after selling to Microsoft?" ALL OF THEM.
You mean Nintendo. Xbox 360 is not the #1 seller overall. Wii is. Yeah there are guys (read fanatics) who will buy a Halo 3 machine in the upcoming months but the Wii in my area has been sold out since they were released. You can get one if you are on a list but you definitely can't just walk up an buy it. The games for the Wii aren't hard-core but they are very fun. Also just to put it on topic Dr. Dobbs ran an article on the PS3 Cell processor and on certain algorithms it is actually faster than some catagorized super computers. Stop thinking in terms of the X86 processor. It is in no way the best hardware just the easiest and most available system since it has been the standard for so long. For certain processing your GPU is better than your CPU as well. Specialization is the key.
For those ultra cheap windows lovers!!!
INTRODUCING: Vista Free Edition.
All you have to do is agree to an ad every 20(subject to terms and agreements) minutes and it is yours.
Advantages:
1. You no longer need to pay for Windows.
2. Learn how Trojan can help you.
3. Still get all the viruses that you would normally get now with an automated installer.
4. Stop annoying Genuine Windows checks.
I believe RJ Reynolds, Winston, and Marlboro got in trouble for similar tactics the difference was the level of the crash.
"I think Microsoft is going to second-tier players, and they're cutting deals with them because they are softer targets,". I think it is very tactless to call Novell second tier. Yeah they may have caved but truthfully they do work on several projects that border on Microsoft ISP Mono, OpenExchange, etc. Do I think it is bad form to partner with MS yes, but if you look at the deal Novell really didn't come out on the bad side of the exchange. Suse is a pretty powerful distro and arguably 3 or 4th in the Corporate distro list.
Any politician will tell you that "forgetful computers" *is* nice. If you are having a secret fling with an intern (sexual orientation need not apply), or if you are planning to do something let's say immoral or illegal it is very necessary for the computer to forgive and forget. If you say when you are 22 that Communism rocks or I wish I were like Stalin and this is remembered and taken out of context as you run for office this could be a huge chink in your plan.