The problem with Certification is that in order to get it you need to Pass a rigorous test, full of knowledge questions. U.S. Education doesn't focus on tests like that so a lot of Americans who take the Certification fail not due to lack of skills but because they are unaccustomed taking tests. Other countries thrive on these tests and the students know how to study for those test and pass them easily. So if your company is open to H-1B you will get a lot more people from other countries with the Certification then without it.
Before you start dissing the U.S. Education System, Ill give an anecdotal true story, while I was in college there was a Chinese student in my Computer Science classes who always messed up the curve on the tests. Being the A in a group of B-s, however when it comes to projects he didn't understand any of the concepts taught to him, Senior year he asked me "What is the command in C to do decimal numbers". At some other point he was asking me why American Students don't read, I tried to explain to him that we prefer to learn by doing vs. just reading, we do read but we read when we find a gap in our knowledge.
When I look for new employees I usually just glance over the certification and if they put it right under their name I see it as a negative. Certification means at best they are exposed to the product and passed some test on it. Certification is better then no experience but that is about it. If I see on their resume that they worked with a product for a couple months, It already trumps that Certification. Heck if they have an associate degree in computer science or a technical discipline it trumps certification. If one is going to advance in their career make sure that you have a least a Bachelor Degree, that will open many doors that have been closed before, especially for larger organizations. Second at your job you will need to keep yourself on the radar (In a good way) That includes good work, continued learning, asking for new more challenging jobs, find ways to surpass expectations as often as you can, make yourself available to those Optional meetings especially when there are some higher bosses there, while in those meetings try to be productive, vocal, and positive. Third Keep up to date, especially in tech, keep an ear open for technologies that your company may or will adopt, learn as much about it as you can before the training class or being forced to use it. Just doing a good job will not advance your career. A good job alone will place you as someone who is good at what he does but doesn't really wan't to leave his position. Most bosses are fine with that they won't think poorly towards you. But when it comes to promotion they will not choose you, as you are seemingly happy where you are at, showing little interesting in advancing, besides it is good to have employees who do a good job continue doing a good job.
Personal Computing Speed/Price vs. Bandwidth/Price. 80's Mainframes with Dumb Terminals, 90's Desktops, 00's SaaS Servers with PCs running as thick terminals, 10's Mobile. The Smart desktop had its time and it is not going to die but it will go where the mainframes are. Special Use systems, reserved medium/high computational computing. Laptops are still strong today and will have a decade or so to keep the smart desktop technology in a stable market. But will also soon fade out. Todays mobile devices "Shine" is important feature and not just something to get people to make in impulse buy. As devices become mobile, they need to be fashionable, as people carry them around with them all the time, otherwise they will not carry them around as they will look like a bunch of nerds with Calculator Watches, and would avoid the product and not use it regularly.
The problem is not as much Microsoft products but how the company positions them. They are becoming the kid that use to be cool because he had the coolest toys that the kids wanted to play with. Then after a while the kids cared less about the toys and became unpopular, so in a vain attempt he tries to show off more of his cool toys to try to be cool again.
For Microsoft to compete with Google and Apple they will either need to make a product that is That Much better then the rest... Or on Par with the rest but much cheaper. And Microsoft needs to allow others to play in its sandbox as well.
Zune. The product was Good, in many areas better then the iPod, but not by much, it was priced the same as an iPod but it only worked with Windows, the iPod supported Mac and Windows. The iPod was already popular, it looked good. Why switch to a Zune if it is the same as your iPod which already has a bunch of music.
When Apple released the iPhone, before the release everyone expected it to fail because the Cell Market was so saturated. But once it was released it was priced about the same (without contracts) as other smart phones, but it was a generation more advanced then the competition, It took about 2 years for the competition to catch up with the iPhone technology.
Android isn't that much better then the iOS but it was much cheaper (heck it was possible to use on other platforms) and more Open, Which lead to its success as well.
Now Windows Mobile 7... It seems like a Fine system. However it is pricer then Android, and isn't that much better then the competition.
To the cloud... Not much different then google docs, and google docs work on a bunch of browers and OS's
Microsoft Success areas... 1. Windows 2. XBox 3. Office 4. Corporate Infrastrucutre (Windows Server,.NET, SQL Server)
But the XBox being its latest big success which is approaching a decade old now. Microsoft needs to change. And not think everything new and better is a fad purchased by stupid masses.
I don't think it as much of a black box... But it has just gotten more complicated. The easy days of unprotected memory and one app at once. Made it easy to be computer wiz-kid who could do anything with the system. Because anything you want to do is limited to just your program at one time and with the limited memory available to you. Newer computers are more complex and needs the abstraction layers to make sure your sandbox of your program doesn't mess with other sandboxes that are running at the same time. And you need to use more abstraction so you are not recoding the wheel over and over again like the C64 apps did.
Most productive citizens get college degrees because the job that they want to do asks for it. Do most of those jobs really need a college degree... No. However companies ask for college degrees not because the crap they learned is that much more valuable, but because it shows they are willing to stick it out and get the degree besides having to take a bunch of pre-requisite classes that bore them to tears, but they are hard working and ambitious enough to finish the job.
The schmoozers and networking people who get rich more often then not fail after a quick start, as they are put into a position where failure is measured. (unless they are in political office)
Executives I have found are often working much harder then any employee in the organization.
"But let's think about it. Do most people buy a computer/monitor all in one, or separate? They buy separate. I'm not going to go into the debate about why that is, and I believe it WILL change. But it isn't changing anytime soon. Some things just don't go together in people's minds."
Unlike VHS/DVD even Blueray (to an extent) streaming media systems need to be upgraded and upgraded often. As the streaming media technologies are usually focused on supporting the PC First then retrofitting them to work on Consoles or other "Boxes". For large scale content like what we get on broadcast TV or movies where production is expensive and is expected to have regular releases. DRM like it or not (this is Slashdot and most of you doesn't like DRM) is a fact of life to get this content, if a company is going to spend hundreds of thousands of or a million dollars per episode, they want control over it, so they can make profit and measure the profit, yea it sucks for the consumer but it is business and part of an other discussion. But DRM needs to be updated regulatory. Also the content streaming owners tend to change hands Hulu and Netflix are big now... Who will be next. Perhaps they will start giving 1080p surround sound video next year. The physical media doesn't need to be updates as often. I have a 3 year old blue ray player, it still works for any movie I put in it. the same with any DVD or VHS I put in my respective players. But streaming media isn't standardized and you need many services all with different formats to get enough content.
Part of the problem is when ever someone is unhappy it is now much too easy to rant about your disapproval. However positive messages are harder to come by. For many these angry rants are not about facts but emotions of the time, and often a misunderstanding of the service they will receive. A minor lapse in bedside manner, or just telling the patient something they didn't want to hear could effect their credentials.
Yes I do. But I think FoxPro death was more towards the fact its strong areas at the time have been outdated by the time of.NET FoxPro was great it was an easy to use language had better OO then VB at the time. And integrated very well with the database. However it required it own special file based database. Which causes file corruption for more then 2 or 3 people using the app, record locking that will often never get unlocked.
With.NET and better integration with SQL server FoxPro need was reduced. If MS didn't buy FoxPro it would have been dead by 1999.
"- We care about our freedom in general, Skype shouldn't be the exception" You can refuse to use Skype, you may choose an alternative that may not be as good, or not used by anyone else there isn't anyone stopping you. Choosing an another system may cause you to restrict your freedom on where the device runs on. GNU is incompatible with iOS app store for example.
"- We don't trust Microsoft" That is fine, Microsoft is all about making money. FOSS developers have a large slew of reasons to release FOSS. Not all of them are good and right.
"- We do trust the US government AND the Chinese to spy on us using the Skype network. There's already a "special" Chinese version with the "feature" to have big brother listening. Who know's what the "normal" version does." How do you know you are not being spied with other systems as well? Systems like Skype need some infrastructure. So if there is a central repository of data for routing then it could be modified to tee the data to someone else. Heck they can just pipe off the ISPs and send some of that traffic the other way.
"- Skype on Linux is crap, there's no 64 bits version (no, the package they pretend to be 64 bits isn't 64 bits at all, it's a 32 bits version with some lib32 dependencies). Moreover, it crashes, and you have to use loads of tricks to have everything working, like starting it with "env LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib32/libv4l/v4l1compat.so skype", otherwise it simply doesn't work. Even Adobe Flash has a real 64 bits version. Skype is the only software on my OS which is like that, and even if so many people asked for a real build for 64 bits, they've been ignoring all requests." Because not too many people use Skype on Linux... Sorry... Linux is a Server OS not a desktop OS. If it crashes perhaps because Linux is open source you can make a patch to work around those issues.
"- The one and only one Linux developer for Skype has already proven, through the BTS and others, that he isn't competent to do the job. Do you think this is going to change with MS on board? That they will hire better coders? That's a big bet." Citation Needed. If MS can make money off of skype for linux they will put more coders on the job. Oddly enough software developers can work on multiple platforms and languages.
"- Skype is the only instant messaging app that doesn't integrate well with multi-network libs like purple from Pidgin." Perhaps it is purple from Pidgins fault not skype.
"- Skype said they would at some point provide a "libskype" so that we could implement our own GUI, but it's not happening" So it didn't happen in 2 days so it will never happen. Boo-Hoo
"- No announcement has been made by MS about the future of Skype for Mac or Linux" So they also didn't say they are going to remove it either.
"- Skype audio support is bad, it crashes often." Linux audio support is bad and it crashes often... Heck Linux Copy and paste support is bad too.
"- Skype is the only absolutely needed piece of software for which we don't have source for, if you don't account flash as well (but flash has (buggy) compatible alternatives which you can deal with, Skype doesn't)" That is a bold claim. 1. absolutely need of skype seems dubious. 2. Photoshop (Gimp is not an alternative... Deal with it)
"- Did I mention that Skype crashes often in Linux?:)" Yes you did, except for complaining about it perhaps you should fix the bug in Linux that causes skype to crash.
"And also, please avoid to call FOSS supporters \"knee jerk\" in this site, as there's a good chance that others wont like it and will mod you out (I don't get why this hasn't happen already by the way). Anyway, the issues with Skype aren't new, and have absolutely nothing to do with the fact it's now a MS product."
Knee Jerk response is often when someone makes a decision without fully looking at the situation. if you have a mindset of FOSS = GOOD Closed Source = Evil and you choose FOSS just because of that it is a knee j
After actually going threw the demos. And beyond just the dolphin picture. Many of them are fairly bad, and wouldn't enhance the gaming experience with the game. You will probably be better off emulating a lower DPI TV with those graphics to show them as they were seen originally. I remember a while back after have SVGA displays and playing those old EGA games on them remembering how crappy it looked I played the games on the old XP with the low DPI display and the game actually looked a lot better and more realistic.
I am willing to bet a lot of people would prefer to replace their Cable, DSL, Fiber with a Cell connection, if it were affordable enough. 3G is fast enough for most browsing.
Cell phones got popular when they removed the extra fees like roaming costs and free long distance calling. Now it seems like they forgot about this with overly expensive data plans with caps. Even if it is cheaper people don't like caps,
I am wondering how many people have died from this disaster and add the deaths due to Uranium Mining. And I would like to compare it to people who have died in Coal mining and coal power plant accidents.
Upgrades are painful. That is the main thing about cyber implants. Sure they are cool for the short term but in a few years they are out of date and you either need to go threw surgery again to get new ones or just stay with the out dated model. Yea I should have waited for the VGA enhanced reality, but I am stuck with CGA display.
It sounds like we should go back a few hundred years and start building private roads. $0.25 a mile, No speed limit... However you must pay an additional $100.00 a mile if you are buzzed or drunk. Not responsible for any actions that occur on the road.
While its waist is biodegradable, it is still toxic and decremental to human health. Oddly enough when the automobile was mass produced it was advertised as an environmental benefit over horses, and they were right about it. The issue is that too many automobiles and people started to use them to go further then horses ever did. If we still had cars and we traveled like we did in the early 20th century then we would have much cleaner air.
From my Understanding you don't need to keep your Source as part of the main download area. You could in theory take a mailed letter request for GPL source and then you fax over the source code and they are in compliance. Sure it doesn't follow the spirit of the GPL but it follows the words.
The part that actually gets on my nerves are the people who are rabid in enforcing the GPL are often the same people who support piracy of closed source software, or breaking into companies networks to prove some lame point. If you want people to follow your license you need to bring out an olive branch and support theirs too.
There is a difference between Valuable and Indispensable. If an employee was truly indispensable the company will be bending over backwards to make sure they stay. Normally they are Valuable where they are paid better then the other people in the job, trying to make sure that they just don't walk out the door, but if they do it isn't the end of the world and no one should really threat.
Then he is doing his job wrong, and should be fired in order not to prolong the problem.
I have made my living coming in after someone "indispensable" leaves a company. What happens for the first couple weeks there is a high stress and the "new guy" is putting out fires as they often don't have enough information to keep things running 100%, so they fix it when it goes down, then during the next 3 months a process is taken place where the old way is documented and evaluated, making sure the new Admin isn't stuck in the job and the next transition will be much smoother. Then keeping those documents alive (keeping them up to date) the process is slowly standardized, as it is mostly the case the "Indispensable" person has a lot of hacks to keep things going. And either there is now standardized technology that can do the job, or that hack is fully analysed and documented so we can keep it as a special watch. Then you work on cross training others so they understand the documentation and are able to perform most of the humdrum maintenance. As you go onto your next project.
When I am the guy who makes the infrastructure that is vital to the company, I actually work quite hard to make sure I don't own it, and that the company I work for owns it. Because if/when I choose to leave I don't want the company to first think I am leaving them out to fend for themselves, and after I am gone I don't my legacy to be one of employees cursing every thing with my name on it, because they don't know why it is there or my mindset for doing such thing. By leaving on a high note when I look for a job after that I have good references to add to my list, and as you go up the corporate ladder your resume is less important then your references.
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The problem with Certification is that in order to get it you need to Pass a rigorous test, full of knowledge questions. U.S. Education doesn't focus on tests like that so a lot of Americans who take the Certification fail not due to lack of skills but because they are unaccustomed taking tests. Other countries thrive on these tests and the students know how to study for those test and pass them easily. So if your company is open to H-1B you will get a lot more people from other countries with the Certification then without it.
Before you start dissing the U.S. Education System, Ill give an anecdotal true story, while I was in college there was a Chinese student in my Computer Science classes who always messed up the curve on the tests. Being the A in a group of B-s, however when it comes to projects he didn't understand any of the concepts taught to him, Senior year he asked me "What is the command in C to do decimal numbers". At some other point he was asking me why American Students don't read, I tried to explain to him that we prefer to learn by doing vs. just reading, we do read but we read when we find a gap in our knowledge.
When I look for new employees I usually just glance over the certification and if they put it right under their name I see it as a negative. Certification means at best they are exposed to the product and passed some test on it. Certification is better then no experience but that is about it. If I see on their resume that they worked with a product for a couple months, It already trumps that Certification. Heck if they have an associate degree in computer science or a technical discipline it trumps certification.
If one is going to advance in their career make sure that you have a least a Bachelor Degree, that will open many doors that have been closed before, especially for larger organizations. Second at your job you will need to keep yourself on the radar (In a good way) That includes good work, continued learning, asking for new more challenging jobs, find ways to surpass expectations as often as you can, make yourself available to those Optional meetings especially when there are some higher bosses there, while in those meetings try to be productive, vocal, and positive. Third Keep up to date, especially in tech, keep an ear open for technologies that your company may or will adopt, learn as much about it as you can before the training class or being forced to use it.
Just doing a good job will not advance your career. A good job alone will place you as someone who is good at what he does but doesn't really wan't to leave his position. Most bosses are fine with that they won't think poorly towards you. But when it comes to promotion they will not choose you, as you are seemingly happy where you are at, showing little interesting in advancing, besides it is good to have employees who do a good job continue doing a good job.
Personal Computing Speed/Price vs. Bandwidth/Price.
80's Mainframes with Dumb Terminals, 90's Desktops, 00's SaaS Servers with PCs running as thick terminals, 10's Mobile.
The Smart desktop had its time and it is not going to die but it will go where the mainframes are. Special Use systems, reserved medium/high computational computing. Laptops are still strong today and will have a decade or so to keep the smart desktop technology in a stable market. But will also soon fade out. Todays mobile devices "Shine" is important feature and not just something to get people to make in impulse buy. As devices become mobile, they need to be fashionable, as people carry them around with them all the time, otherwise they will not carry them around as they will look like a bunch of nerds with Calculator Watches, and would avoid the product and not use it regularly.
The problem is not as much Microsoft products but how the company positions them. They are becoming the kid that use to be cool because he had the coolest toys that the kids wanted to play with. Then after a while the kids cared less about the toys and became unpopular, so in a vain attempt he tries to show off more of his cool toys to try to be cool again.
For Microsoft to compete with Google and Apple they will either need to make a product that is That Much better then the rest... Or on Par with the rest but much cheaper. And Microsoft needs to allow others to play in its sandbox as well.
Zune. The product was Good, in many areas better then the iPod, but not by much, it was priced the same as an iPod but it only worked with Windows, the iPod supported Mac and Windows. The iPod was already popular, it looked good. Why switch to a Zune if it is the same as your iPod which already has a bunch of music.
When Apple released the iPhone, before the release everyone expected it to fail because the Cell Market was so saturated. But once it was released it was priced about the same (without contracts) as other smart phones, but it was a generation more advanced then the competition, It took about 2 years for the competition to catch up with the iPhone technology.
Android isn't that much better then the iOS but it was much cheaper (heck it was possible to use on other platforms) and more Open, Which lead to its success as well.
Now Windows Mobile 7... It seems like a Fine system. However it is pricer then Android, and isn't that much better then the competition.
To the cloud... Not much different then google docs, and google docs work on a bunch of browers and OS's
Microsoft Success areas... .NET, SQL Server)
1. Windows
2. XBox
3. Office
4. Corporate Infrastrucutre (Windows Server,
But the XBox being its latest big success which is approaching a decade old now. Microsoft needs to change. And not think everything new and better is a fad purchased by stupid masses.
I don't think it as much of a black box... But it has just gotten more complicated. The easy days of unprotected memory and one app at once. Made it easy to be computer wiz-kid who could do anything with the system. Because anything you want to do is limited to just your program at one time and with the limited memory available to you. Newer computers are more complex and needs the abstraction layers to make sure your sandbox of your program doesn't mess with other sandboxes that are running at the same time. And you need to use more abstraction so you are not recoding the wheel over and over again like the C64 apps did.
I Disagree,
Most productive citizens get college degrees because the job that they want to do asks for it. Do most of those jobs really need a college degree... No. However companies ask for college degrees not because the crap they learned is that much more valuable, but because it shows they are willing to stick it out and get the degree besides having to take a bunch of pre-requisite classes that bore them to tears, but they are hard working and ambitious enough to finish the job.
The schmoozers and networking people who get rich more often then not fail after a quick start, as they are put into a position where failure is measured. (unless they are in political office)
Executives I have found are often working much harder then any employee in the organization.
"But let's think about it. Do most people buy a computer/monitor all in one, or separate? They buy separate. I'm not going to go into the debate about why that is, and I believe it WILL change. But it isn't changing anytime soon. Some things just don't go together in people's minds."
Except for Laptops, Tablets, Smartphones...
Unlike VHS/DVD even Blueray (to an extent) streaming media systems need to be upgraded and upgraded often. As the streaming media technologies are usually focused on supporting the PC First then retrofitting them to work on Consoles or other "Boxes".
For large scale content like what we get on broadcast TV or movies where production is expensive and is expected to have regular releases. DRM like it or not (this is Slashdot and most of you doesn't like DRM) is a fact of life to get this content, if a company is going to spend hundreds of thousands of or a million dollars per episode, they want control over it, so they can make profit and measure the profit, yea it sucks for the consumer but it is business and part of an other discussion. But DRM needs to be updated regulatory. Also the content streaming owners tend to change hands Hulu and Netflix are big now... Who will be next. Perhaps they will start giving 1080p surround sound video next year.
The physical media doesn't need to be updates as often. I have a 3 year old blue ray player, it still works for any movie I put in it. the same with any DVD or VHS I put in my respective players. But streaming media isn't standardized and you need many services all with different formats to get enough content.
Part of the problem is when ever someone is unhappy it is now much too easy to rant about your disapproval. However positive messages are harder to come by. For many these angry rants are not about facts but emotions of the time, and often a misunderstanding of the service they will receive.
A minor lapse in bedside manner, or just telling the patient something they didn't want to hear could effect their credentials.
How do you connect to sites on an Intranet without a location bar. I don't want a google search of my intranet, for my dev products.
Yea man. I am sticking to Adobe flash.
Being that it took 11 years for one to come for OS X. That method just might work.
Yes I do. But I think FoxPro death was more towards the fact its strong areas at the time have been outdated by the time of .NET
FoxPro was great it was an easy to use language had better OO then VB at the time. And integrated very well with the database. However it required it own special file based database. Which causes file corruption for more then 2 or 3 people using the app, record locking that will often never get unlocked.
With .NET and better integration with SQL server FoxPro need was reduced. If MS didn't buy FoxPro it would have been dead by 1999.
"- We care about our freedom in general, Skype shouldn't be the exception"
You can refuse to use Skype, you may choose an alternative that may not be as good, or not used by anyone else there isn't anyone stopping you. Choosing an another system may cause you to restrict your freedom on where the device runs on. GNU is incompatible with iOS app store for example.
"- We don't trust Microsoft"
That is fine, Microsoft is all about making money. FOSS developers have a large slew of reasons to release FOSS. Not all of them are good and right.
"- We do trust the US government AND the Chinese to spy on us using the Skype network. There's already a "special" Chinese version with the "feature" to have big brother listening. Who know's what the "normal" version does."
How do you know you are not being spied with other systems as well? Systems like Skype need some infrastructure. So if there is a central repository of data for routing then it could be modified to tee the data to someone else. Heck they can just pipe off the ISPs and send some of that traffic the other way.
"- Skype on Linux is crap, there's no 64 bits version (no, the package they pretend to be 64 bits isn't 64 bits at all, it's a 32 bits version with some lib32 dependencies). Moreover, it crashes, and you have to use loads of tricks to have everything working, like starting it with "env LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib32/libv4l/v4l1compat.so skype", otherwise it simply doesn't work. Even Adobe Flash has a real 64 bits version. Skype is the only software on my OS which is like that, and even if so many people asked for a real build for 64 bits, they've been ignoring all requests."
Because not too many people use Skype on Linux... Sorry... Linux is a Server OS not a desktop OS. If it crashes perhaps because Linux is open source you can make a patch to work around those issues.
"- The one and only one Linux developer for Skype has already proven, through the BTS and others, that he isn't competent to do the job. Do you think this is going to change with MS on board? That they will hire better coders? That's a big bet."
Citation Needed. If MS can make money off of skype for linux they will put more coders on the job. Oddly enough software developers can work on multiple platforms and languages.
"- Skype is the only instant messaging app that doesn't integrate well with multi-network libs like purple from Pidgin."
Perhaps it is purple from Pidgins fault not skype.
"- Skype said they would at some point provide a "libskype" so that we could implement our own GUI, but it's not happening"
So it didn't happen in 2 days so it will never happen. Boo-Hoo
"- No announcement has been made by MS about the future of Skype for Mac or Linux"
So they also didn't say they are going to remove it either.
"- Skype audio support is bad, it crashes often."
Linux audio support is bad and it crashes often... Heck Linux Copy and paste support is bad too.
"- Skype is the only absolutely needed piece of software for which we don't have source for, if you don't account flash as well (but flash has (buggy) compatible alternatives which you can deal with, Skype doesn't)"
That is a bold claim. 1. absolutely need of skype seems dubious. 2. Photoshop (Gimp is not an alternative... Deal with it)
"- Did I mention that Skype crashes often in Linux? :)"
Yes you did, except for complaining about it perhaps you should fix the bug in Linux that causes skype to crash.
"And also, please avoid to call FOSS supporters \"knee jerk\" in this site, as there's a good chance that others wont like it and will mod you out (I don't get why this hasn't happen already by the way). Anyway, the issues with Skype aren't new, and have absolutely nothing to do with the fact it's now a MS product."
Knee Jerk response is often when someone makes a decision without fully looking at the situation. if you have a mindset of FOSS = GOOD Closed Source = Evil and you choose FOSS just because of that it is a knee j
After actually going threw the demos. And beyond just the dolphin picture. Many of them are fairly bad, and wouldn't enhance the gaming experience with the game. You will probably be better off emulating a lower DPI TV with those graphics to show them as they were seen originally. I remember a while back after have SVGA displays and playing those old EGA games on them remembering how crappy it looked I played the games on the old XP with the low DPI display and the game actually looked a lot better and more realistic.
So about 0.03% of the population huh.
I am willing to bet a lot of people would prefer to replace their Cable, DSL, Fiber with a Cell connection, if it were affordable enough. 3G is fast enough for most browsing.
Cell phones got popular when they removed the extra fees like roaming costs and free long distance calling. Now it seems like they forgot about this with overly expensive data plans with caps. Even if it is cheaper people don't like caps,
I am wondering how many people have died from this disaster and add the deaths due to Uranium Mining. And I would like to compare it to people who have died in Coal mining and coal power plant accidents.
Upgrades are painful. That is the main thing about cyber implants. Sure they are cool for the short term but in a few years they are out of date and you either need to go threw surgery again to get new ones or just stay with the out dated model. Yea I should have waited for the VGA enhanced reality, but I am stuck with CGA display.
It sounds like we should go back a few hundred years and start building private roads. $0.25 a mile, No speed limit... However you must pay an additional $100.00 a mile if you are buzzed or drunk. Not responsible for any actions that occur on the road.
eww that dirty.
While its waist is biodegradable, it is still toxic and decremental to human health. Oddly enough when the automobile was mass produced it was advertised as an environmental benefit over horses, and they were right about it. The issue is that too many automobiles and people started to use them to go further then horses ever did. If we still had cars and we traveled like we did in the early 20th century then we would have much cleaner air.
that is a load of bull SH*T
From my Understanding you don't need to keep your Source as part of the main download area. You could in theory take a mailed letter request for GPL source and then you fax over the source code and they are in compliance. Sure it doesn't follow the spirit of the GPL but it follows the words.
The part that actually gets on my nerves are the people who are rabid in enforcing the GPL are often the same people who support piracy of closed source software, or breaking into companies networks to prove some lame point. If you want people to follow your license you need to bring out an olive branch and support theirs too.
There is a difference between Valuable and Indispensable. If an employee was truly indispensable the company will be bending over backwards to make sure they stay. Normally they are Valuable where they are paid better then the other people in the job, trying to make sure that they just don't walk out the door, but if they do it isn't the end of the world and no one should really threat.
Then he is doing his job wrong, and should be fired in order not to prolong the problem.
I have made my living coming in after someone "indispensable" leaves a company. What happens for the first couple weeks there is a high stress and the "new guy" is putting out fires as they often don't have enough information to keep things running 100%, so they fix it when it goes down, then during the next 3 months a process is taken place where the old way is documented and evaluated, making sure the new Admin isn't stuck in the job and the next transition will be much smoother. Then keeping those documents alive (keeping them up to date) the process is slowly standardized, as it is mostly the case the "Indispensable" person has a lot of hacks to keep things going. And either there is now standardized technology that can do the job, or that hack is fully analysed and documented so we can keep it as a special watch. Then you work on cross training others so they understand the documentation and are able to perform most of the humdrum maintenance. As you go onto your next project.
When I am the guy who makes the infrastructure that is vital to the company, I actually work quite hard to make sure I don't own it, and that the company I work for owns it. Because if/when I choose to leave I don't want the company to first think I am leaving them out to fend for themselves, and after I am gone I don't my legacy to be one of employees cursing every thing with my name on it, because they don't know why it is there or my mindset for doing such thing. By leaving on a high note when I look for a job after that I have good references to add to my list, and as you go up the corporate ladder your resume is less important then your references.