Microsoft had made software for Macs, and even Unix systems. I remember IE 4 for Solaris. So yes Linus wins... But so what it isn't that big of a deal anymore. We are not as closely tied to our operating systems as we were 10 years ago. Most of the stuff we needed apps for in the past are available via the web (are they trade offs yes, but this is the way it is) the actual app developers are getting wiser to multi-platform development. And are not touting they undying love affair with the OS. Microsoft cannot afford to be windows only,
Many of these offers are for temporary positions. Where they want you to make this program and then you are out of work. Sometimes they are jobs for pie in the sky type of projects. "The killer app!" Without much understanding on the limited functionality of computing, or the practicality. These jobs are career poison, and should be avoided.
Also these spam jobs are an attempt to try to pickup a low ball offer. Sr. Software Architect for 60k.
If it fails, then people will not use Mozilla browse. Firefox has been copying chrome so much anyways, we can just switch to that without much of a hassle.
Well just because we don't have many of them them on record, it doesn't mean they are endangered or rare. There is a lot about marine biology that we do not know about.
The legacy Unix system, was expensive due to the fact that it required high end hardware. NT would run on your consumer PC as well. So Unix systems did work better because of the whole architecture not just the OS.
Nothing really too new. If you take the bus and the bus is full you are more efficient for the work being performed. Most of the energy goes into moving the actual machine, only a small fraction goes into moving its content.
That is why the Train shipping companies advertise 1 gallon of fuel, for 500 miles per Ton of goods.
This means 100% Hip just cannot happen! Me I have no interest in either having an Apple Watch (unless it goes down by $200) and I don't want a Tattoo. But I never was Hip anyways, back in my day it was called cool.
If you are a big organization. You have a lot of projects to go on. So if your organization is smart, you will have small teams working on each project. If the organization is stupid, then it has a large team working on a single project to try to get it done quicker.
The problem is when the organization is stupid, and it has a big team working on a single project, they find that it becomes too expensive to progress so they don't see the value of the individual. if they get small teams They will see far more output and the value of these skilled individuals.
With the new ultrabooks laptops which flip into a tablet form factor. You would want a rich supply of apps that are designed for a touch interface. While keeping the laptop and desktop apps for more sit down type of work.
At the time Windows NT wasn't a consumer technology, Windows NT was a serious contender in the server space, for mission critical systems. At that time Linux was still considered a Hobby OS. Other alternatives were Unix variant, but during those stages they weren't really that much better. It was just when we heard that Windows NT crashed, we all laughed at it, because of allegiance towards Linux.
However today... Consumer technology today Windows, Android, iOS. Are really based on Professional Server Grade OS Kernels. They are just running on cheaper hardware.
The issue for this isn't blaming the iPad or iOS but the maker of that App for those documents. They screwed up, This would have happened if they had a Million Dollar professional system in their hands too.
Let the Zealots have their fun. Lets really ignore the fundamental architecture between Android (Linux) and iOS (BSD) Are actually very close in design.
I get the feeling that the Professor is the one with the issues. Not the students. From my experience, it sounds like it is his first time with undergrads. I have found professors who are fresh out of the trenches often fail to comprehend, the following. 1. These students are taking more than just His class. 2. Chances are the class is required. Meaning most of the students don't have too much interest in the class. 3. The students are filled with other concerns then just that class. Finding a girl/boy friend, trying to keep on on what he should socially be. 4. Because he specialized in that topic for so long, there isn't any empathy on the fact that people just don't get it, the first time.
When students are in such a class, they will collaborate with each other so they can piece together all the stuff they learned, this is often done with homework assignments, this can be considered cheating. Being that these are student, who are paying for an education, if they feel like they are being bullied by the professor they will talk back, to defend themselves.
Why bother converting it at all? Americans who have even a passing interests in real science knows about the metric system of measurement. Are able to do at least rough conversions enough to get the idea of scale. A Meter is about a Year. A Kilometer is about 6/10 of a mile. A Centimeter is about 1/2 inch
For understanding science stories this level of rough accuracy is good enough for them to get an understanding of scale. Of course if you are using real science. A. You wouldn't use Discovery News as a source. B. You would think in terms of metric for all measurement.
The brain in the jar being fed false/artificial stimulus has been around for much longer. However we have no way of testing that you are just a brain in a jar, or an actual person. Because it comes down to what our senses tell us.
Any energy source comes with a trade off. The problem is we don't have leadership that will accept this fact and say we must sacrifice this to get that. Right now when ever there is an issue, our elected officials will just throw the baby out with the bath water.
That is the problem with Diet food anyways. If you want to lose weight. Stop eating "Diet Food" If you are going to indulge in something, you are better off in eating the non-Diet equivalent. 1. It will satisfy you more. You can have a piece of 300 calorie dessert and you will satisfied. Or you chow down on 4 or 5 100 calorie diet snacks. 2. Gives you energy. If you can get non-empty calories. You get more energy out of your day. So you can go out and get more active. 3. Too few calories, puts your body in starvation mode. This means it will slow your metabolism so when you do eat it will go to fat, because it won't known when you will eat again.
If you are going to have a Soda, I like real Cane sugar soda. It tastes better, and when you drink a potion you feel satisfied and you really don't want an other glass.
Diet Soda, sends your body mixed messages. So it thinks it has sugar but it doesn't so your body will try to process it. Leaving you feeling hungry.
This free music, idea work with high-school garage bands... But once they are old enough to make a living, they need to charge for their work. Now do you want your paycheck for the work that you do? So you have money for things like food, shelter, and supporting a family?
Before the iPhone we were not primitives. They were smart phones years before the iPhone was released. The big players was Blackberry and a slew of windows mobile phones, and Palm. They had a keyboard you could browse the web you could even get apps, and watch videos. Android OS was in development. But the idea of smart phones were all centered around a full keyboard and some sort of pointing device. The key features where there. So it would make sense for Google to look for ways to improve bandwidth without the iPhone designed phone.
However after the iPhone was released it put the smart phone market in shock. It seemed that a larger screen was preferable, people picked up in using gestures quickly, and was willing to sacrifice a physical keyboard for it. This made all the other companies future plans obsolete thus giving Apple a two year lead.
But saying before the iPhone we wouldn't imagine trying to get faster mobile data is naive.
What are you a yuppie from the 1980s or something! For most cases unless the person was being malicious these problems happen due to a failure of the whole system not just one person. The best of us probably had made a mistake or at lest was really close to one. Human error is part of the game. If there is a problem you can act like adults and fix it, or act like kids and try to point to the person who can point any further.
All sounds good however... For a large organization such rules become impractical. To get full security there will be so much administrative overhead of approving access to a given area for so much time and back, that if you played by the rules you wouldn't get your job done timely. So you end up with "black market" IT where people will store backups of the data in say an access or excel files, and keep them hidden from the official system. Not because they have nefarious use of them, but because they will need to get their job done, and the official secure way is too impractical.
So let's say you were tasked to figure out if it was worth it it accept American Express, as AE charges a lot for its transaction. So you may need to figure out some numbers. %of customers with AE Average spending with AE Average spending in total Standard dev of spending with AE Standard dev of spending total
Now because someone dropped the ball you will need this data quickly. Putting a request to get this data may take days.
The issue with the price, is your are paying for the Service and the Infrastructure. I much rather have two bills. One for the infrastructure, and one for the Service. Much like in the old dialup days. We paid for the Phone Line, then we paid for the ISP. We may have had limited options for the infrastructure, but you could choose ISP.
The problem is that We have both bundled together.
<sarcasticly>But what about all those wealthy people, having low income houses will lower their property values and they will be less rich!</sarcasticly>
Part of the problem that we have is the physical separation of the Rich and Poor. Poor people can learn a lot from rich people. As well rich people can learn some sympathy with the poor people and realize how much of their success was actually given to them, or by blind luck.
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Microsoft had made software for Macs, and even Unix systems. I remember IE 4 for Solaris.
So yes Linus wins... But so what it isn't that big of a deal anymore. We are not as closely tied to our operating systems as we were 10 years ago.
Most of the stuff we needed apps for in the past are available via the web (are they trade offs yes, but this is the way it is) the actual app developers are getting wiser to multi-platform development. And are not touting they undying love affair with the OS. Microsoft cannot afford to be windows only,
Many of these offers are for temporary positions. Where they want you to make this program and then you are out of work. Sometimes they are jobs for pie in the sky type of projects. "The killer app!" Without much understanding on the limited functionality of computing, or the practicality.
These jobs are career poison, and should be avoided.
Also these spam jobs are an attempt to try to pickup a low ball offer. Sr. Software Architect for 60k.
If it fails, then people will not use Mozilla browse.
Firefox has been copying chrome so much anyways, we can just switch to that without much of a hassle.
Well just because we don't have many of them them on record, it doesn't mean they are endangered or rare. There is a lot about marine biology that we do not know about.
The legacy Unix system, was expensive due to the fact that it required high end hardware. NT would run on your consumer PC as well. So Unix systems did work better because of the whole architecture not just the OS.
Nothing really too new. If you take the bus and the bus is full you are more efficient for the work being performed.
Most of the energy goes into moving the actual machine, only a small fraction goes into moving its content.
That is why the Train shipping companies advertise 1 gallon of fuel, for 500 miles per Ton of goods.
This means 100% Hip just cannot happen!
Me I have no interest in either having an Apple Watch (unless it goes down by $200) and I don't want a Tattoo.
But I never was Hip anyways, back in my day it was called cool.
If you are a big organization. You have a lot of projects to go on. So if your organization is smart, you will have small teams working on each project. If the organization is stupid, then it has a large team working on a single project to try to get it done quicker.
The problem is when the organization is stupid, and it has a big team working on a single project, they find that it becomes too expensive to progress so they don't see the value of the individual. if they get small teams They will see far more output and the value of these skilled individuals.
With the new ultrabooks laptops which flip into a tablet form factor. You would want a rich supply of apps that are designed for a touch interface. While keeping the laptop and desktop apps for more sit down type of work.
At the time Windows NT wasn't a consumer technology, Windows NT was a serious contender in the server space, for mission critical systems. At that time Linux was still considered a Hobby OS. Other alternatives were Unix variant, but during those stages they weren't really that much better. It was just when we heard that Windows NT crashed, we all laughed at it, because of allegiance towards Linux.
However today... Consumer technology today Windows, Android, iOS. Are really based on Professional Server Grade OS Kernels. They are just running on cheaper hardware.
The issue for this isn't blaming the iPad or iOS but the maker of that App for those documents. They screwed up, This would have happened if they had a Million Dollar professional system in their hands too.
Let the Zealots have their fun.
Lets really ignore the fundamental architecture between Android (Linux) and iOS (BSD) Are actually very close in design.
I get the feeling that the Professor is the one with the issues. Not the students.
From my experience, it sounds like it is his first time with undergrads.
I have found professors who are fresh out of the trenches often fail to comprehend, the following.
1. These students are taking more than just His class.
2. Chances are the class is required. Meaning most of the students don't have too much interest in the class.
3. The students are filled with other concerns then just that class. Finding a girl/boy friend, trying to keep on on what he should socially be.
4. Because he specialized in that topic for so long, there isn't any empathy on the fact that people just don't get it, the first time.
When students are in such a class, they will collaborate with each other so they can piece together all the stuff they learned, this is often done with homework assignments, this can be considered cheating. Being that these are student, who are paying for an education, if they feel like they are being bullied by the professor they will talk back, to defend themselves.
Why bother converting it at all?
Americans who have even a passing interests in real science knows about the metric system of measurement.
Are able to do at least rough conversions enough to get the idea of scale.
A Meter is about a Year.
A Kilometer is about 6/10 of a mile.
A Centimeter is about 1/2 inch
For understanding science stories this level of rough accuracy is good enough for them to get an understanding of scale.
Of course if you are using real science.
A. You wouldn't use Discovery News as a source.
B. You would think in terms of metric for all measurement.
I think it was suppose to be 200 meters.
As the earths crust is only 30 miles thick.
The brain in the jar being fed false/artificial stimulus has been around for much longer.
However we have no way of testing that you are just a brain in a jar, or an actual person. Because it comes down to what our senses tell us.
Any energy source comes with a trade off.
The problem is we don't have leadership that will accept this fact and say we must sacrifice this to get that.
Right now when ever there is an issue, our elected officials will just throw the baby out with the bath water.
That is the problem with Diet food anyways.
If you want to lose weight. Stop eating "Diet Food"
If you are going to indulge in something, you are better off in eating the non-Diet equivalent.
1. It will satisfy you more. You can have a piece of 300 calorie dessert and you will satisfied. Or you chow down on 4 or 5 100 calorie diet snacks.
2. Gives you energy. If you can get non-empty calories. You get more energy out of your day. So you can go out and get more active.
3. Too few calories, puts your body in starvation mode. This means it will slow your metabolism so when you do eat it will go to fat, because it won't known when you will eat again.
If you are going to have a Soda, I like real Cane sugar soda. It tastes better, and when you drink a potion you feel satisfied and you really don't want an other glass.
Diet Soda, sends your body mixed messages. So it thinks it has sugar but it doesn't so your body will try to process it. Leaving you feeling hungry.
This free music, idea work with high-school garage bands... But once they are old enough to make a living, they need to charge for their work. Now do you want your paycheck for the work that you do? So you have money for things like food, shelter, and supporting a family?
Before the iPhone we were not primitives. They were smart phones years before the iPhone was released. The big players was Blackberry and a slew of windows mobile phones, and Palm. They had a keyboard you could browse the web you could even get apps, and watch videos. Android OS was in development. But the idea of smart phones were all centered around a full keyboard and some sort of pointing device. The key features where there. So it would make sense for Google to look for ways to improve bandwidth without the iPhone designed phone.
However after the iPhone was released it put the smart phone market in shock. It seemed that a larger screen was preferable, people picked up in using gestures quickly, and was willing to sacrifice a physical keyboard for it. This made all the other companies future plans obsolete thus giving Apple a two year lead.
But saying before the iPhone we wouldn't imagine trying to get faster mobile data is naive.
What are you a yuppie from the 1980s or something!
For most cases unless the person was being malicious these problems happen due to a failure of the whole system not just one person.
The best of us probably had made a mistake or at lest was really close to one.
Human error is part of the game. If there is a problem you can act like adults and fix it, or act like kids and try to point to the person who can point any further.
All sounds good however... For a large organization such rules become impractical. To get full security there will be so much administrative overhead of approving access to a given area for so much time and back, that if you played by the rules you wouldn't get your job done timely. So you end up with "black market" IT where people will store backups of the data in say an access or excel files, and keep them hidden from the official system. Not because they have nefarious use of them, but because they will need to get their job done, and the official secure way is too impractical.
So let's say you were tasked to figure out if it was worth it it accept American Express, as AE charges a lot for its transaction. So you may need to figure out some numbers.
%of customers with AE
Average spending with AE
Average spending in total
Standard dev of spending with AE
Standard dev of spending total
Now because someone dropped the ball you will need this data quickly.
Putting a request to get this data may take days.
The issue with the price, is your are paying for the Service and the Infrastructure.
I much rather have two bills.
One for the infrastructure, and one for the Service.
Much like in the old dialup days. We paid for the Phone Line, then we paid for the ISP.
We may have had limited options for the infrastructure, but you could choose ISP.
The problem is that We have both bundled together.
<sarcasticly>But what about all those wealthy people, having low income houses will lower their property values and they will be less rich!</sarcasticly>
Part of the problem that we have is the physical separation of the Rich and Poor.
Poor people can learn a lot from rich people. As well rich people can learn some sympathy with the poor people and realize how much of their success was actually given to them, or by blind luck.
If not then its plights would be ignored by the rest of the world. Much like the 49 other states.
New York (Well its city will get attention too)
I am a MAN! creating holes is a job for a mouse.