You don't need 100% success to have a victory. Sure people will still do it, but if you don't make it easy for them to do it less people will go ahead and do it any ways. If you make file sharing so hard that only the geeks can do it. Then that is enough to stop all the non-geeks.
In a way but, I think it is a case Linux isn't as "Sexy" as it use to be. Back in the days of the 90's When Linux first came out. A lot of its young developers were looking for more of an adult OS to work with. DOS and Windows 3.1 were quite flimsy in the OS Department. Even WIndows 95 and 98 were just a slight better. For real computing you needed Unix or VMS. Linux offered us a way to use a Unix like system, and we found that compared to the Windows and Mac platform at the time it was that much better in terms of stability, security and performance and it being free (as in beer) helped. And so they Loved their new found OS and wanted to support it and make it grow.
However nowadays Windows for consumer use is running with the NT Kernel, making it much better in stability and performance even in security, windows is now a grown up OS. (if it is better or worse then Linux is an other debate)
As well durring the past 10 years. When Microsoft was still stuck with XP. Linux development didn't really do to much to get ahead. They had a chance to trounce the evil Microsoft and in my opinion they blew it. The timing of the GPL 3 was one thing, For linux to grow and be more popular we needed TiVoization we should have a bunch of Linux enabled smart phones, Linux developers didn't understand end users... They made it good for Grandma and Advanced Users but left out a big middle. Still troubles with Sound, and Video Drivers heck even Cut and Paste are still a problem.
When commercial development came across to Linux such as IBM it changed the shape and direction for Linux. It moved to a cheap way for big companies to run their servers, and get some good press at the same time.
Young programmers are interested in Games, Mobile Devices, Internet based applications and social media... Young programmers during my day were interested in Games, Web Sites, Server Side applications, and Desktop software. So my generation we a better fit for Linux then the current one is.
Also with all the stuff that is we are bombarded with on the media getting outraged that software is free or not just doesn't seem like a big thing to put a fuss about anymore. And in a bad echonomy kids are focusing on jobs that will make them money... If they want experience don't wast your time supporting open source get an internship heck you may get paid and it looks better on your resume.
Employers today don't care to much about open source development... At my place we often use it as a way to weed out people for hiring, (And this is from a C level boss who chose to have Linux as his only OS) Why because you have to do code that isn't fun or interesting all the time.
A lot of the Employe vs. the Company stuff comes from our culture and education.
Just a few months ago the CEO of the company went to me laughing at a poem that his niece read to him that was given by her teacher. The poem was about how the office worker is a slave to the company and they are in a dead end job. And this is from a Teacher to a Student who is in 2nt grade. I was thinking how horrible that they are teaching kids this stuff. they are in essence brainwashing them to hate their jobs before they start.
BTW great use of the carriage return you know computers now use auto wrap, and people have different resolution screens, my spelling is due to 1 using an iPhone to write the message and 2 having a learning disability that makes it difficult for me to catch every word I misspell. Gee thanks for pointing out my learning disability that is a great way to keep things civil (Liberal Wuss).
But you are not paying my budget so I can complain as much as I want.
What you can't seem to understand... How recently after Paterson got into office he pulled the alarm. I don't see it just because he is a hard ass but because he actually looked at the numbers and they are not good. I am sure if anyone else was governor we would be just like California. NY has for a long time been spending more than it should and poorly managed it finances. The recession just shows where the problems are.
It really depends where you set your bar on your judgement.
Many think that in Europe all those extra rules and regulation makes it very difficult to run a business in that area of the world, so companies will move to other areas where they have more flexibility in their policies. Thus moving more work to other countries also making it harder for someone to start a company in the area. and before you go well things are "SO MUCH BETTER IN THE EU" I would like to bring up Grease. Who almost went bankrupt, as well a lot of other problems to large scale strikes. So when Labor is in the wrong they still win.
The United States has more flexible laws. The problem is our stupid education system that is not allowing people to think of the job market correctly. For you to succeed you need to think of yourself as your own company that you need to operate. So what services do you perform that puts you ahead of other people. If you can't stand out then you are not going to get a well paid job. If you feel that company is not giving you what you need to deserve. Then find and other job and quit your current one, is it easy no, does it take time and effort yes, but if you equate that into the equation you must choose is it worth it to change jobs.
Now back onto topic a bit more. Sometimes if you get the education on your own time and money it gives you more freedom. As you can get better trained for an other job and leave at your own free will. Other companies after they give you training they will make sure you stay with the company for a few years or if you quit you will need to reimburse the training costs.
Some companies use this training as a cheap way to lay off people. Put in this requirement if they don't like it they will leave if they do they will go ahead and continue.
NY doesn't have a lot of money right now. Every group that gets money from the state is botching and moaning that they are not getting enough. So let's spread the thinner to pay for a new project won't help.
There is the argument if you give people these jobs you will help the echonomy. However if this were to go across it would probably in Albany NY (you know the state capital that is about 200 miles from the city) where honestly has fared the recession rather well so these extra jobs won't have such a pronounced efffect in the echonomy.
You can put a lot of money into marketing a good product and it can still fail. 1. The Name WebOS... Sounds kinda gimiky to me. The Web is Popular and we want an os that sounds like it will be good at browsing the web... How About WebOS. That name sound so 90's to me that it isn't funny. 2. Timing. At around the same time other companies tried to make lame iPhone wannabes. The fact the blackberry storm stunk at the same time put credit to people well if I want something like an iPhone ill get an iPhone. 3. What I call the OS/2 Warp add campaign. A lot of talk but little showing the product in what it does... You need to give credit to Apples adds. They show you how to use the phone as part of the add. Web OS adds where soo... All the apps I need to run will be on the web... 4. Tried to be an iPhone killer... Palm wasn't in a position to go head on head with Apple. The whatever you can do I can do better type of stuff really hurt Palm especially as they lowered their prices. Because if it was that much cheaper it must be a cheap ripoff 5. the iTunes compatibility thing. That was rather unethical business by palm in the first place to in essence hack the phone to make it look like an iPod... Then to market it as iTunes compatible. Then try to complain about USB compliance to Apple because apple stopped the hole. Then to push it further until they lost their USB compatibility. In the mean time you give customers a feature which breaks on them until the next update... Not giving them positive reviews. 6. Crappy Developers Emulator... Sorry a VirtualBox that runs a Linux distro that runs Web OS... Without physical buttons that actually let you go back. It made it a pain to do development on it so developers will go well I will do it for the iPhone and we will see if it is compatible later.
Isn't this a lot like a DRM designed for open source... The only real difference is what we call Normal DRM makes sure the End User is following the rules. the Open Source is making sure the Companies are following the rules. But in general Closed Source puts restrictions on the Users and the GNU puts restrictions on the Company. So it really is just an other form of DRM.
So it is Evil for a company to say illegal coping and sharing of our software that we put a lot of time, money and development into is given away for free while we still have all these expenses to pay for, and we should try to find a way to make sure we curve this behavior so we can get the money we earned.
But it Haled when a tool is made to make sure Software companies are making software that uses Open Source Software and they are not following the rules of the license.
Odly enough most companies are not as big and evil as you think... Most companies don't have teams of lawyers judging every action they do... No all software developers know the GNU and speak it every sunday at around 9:00 every morning. A lot of people think Open Source means public domain, or how much can they modify the code before it is there and they can license it any way they want...
If you want to go all out and push Open Source GNU license and make sure people are compliant with technical means then you should back off on DRM. Or if you want to push DRM then you should support not having Open Source push the issue too... Otherwise you will be in overall hyporcracy of yourself and probably just be branded as an Anti-Caplistic Nut.
OS/2 Really fill the void (with novel) before NT came out and got popular. It offered good multi-tasking and made a good small scale server. OS/2 Warp there was a lot of speculation that it Might be the next Big thing and kill windows... However IBM was Stupid with the advertising while Microsoft was smart. And Windows 95 really got the mind share, once it got the mind share when NT 4 with a Windows 95 interface came out it caused a migration away from OS/2 Warp and Netware... At that Time linux came in and started to take away from the Unix Market.
However the confusing part is that they allow the browser to use CSS, Javascript and even some HTML 5 components, thus making web based applications...
They are not 3rd party tool... They are the developments language mainline tools... There is a difference. Mainline tools you know they are there and if you move to a different development environment they are still there. 3rd party tool you take your code and move it to a new system it will not run until you reinstall the other tools.
And as I stated in my post that you added as the quote "unless it is really doing something that will take you much longer to accomplish."
Meaning that 3rd party tools are not evil however need to be chosen and used with care once you found out that there is no other easy option with the mainline tools.
I think CPAN is there to make you go nuts trying to get a downloaded Perl Script to work as you dig around trying to find the right libraries to make the freakin program work... But I am not a fan of Perl so I digress...
The 3rd party problem isn't a case of reinventing the wheel. But getting new wheels that already exist just because they are slightly different, eg a grid control that automaticly populates from the database vs. Loading it from 3 other commands...
But... Sometimes for programming reinventing the wheel is a good thing. Why...
Maintenance. A 3rd party control means code you probably wont touch... Even if it is open source you will not probably spend to much time reworking it unless you really have to
Portability. Just as the Grand Parent mentioned moving to the next version of you developer system may break the third party tool, while you own version can be upgraded much easier, also if you were say moving from a windows form based app to a web app you already have the logic there to port you app over.
Knowlege. Black Boxes in your knowledge and your product can be a bad thing. If you do it yourself you know how it works, if you don't and you find a problem you look and feel stupid
Your License. If you get a GNU 3rd party license you have to follow the GNU. If you get a closed source license you need to follow their rules... You make it yourself you can license it any way you choose, as well as the rest of your app.
Optimal Solution. Your code will do just as you need it to do. No more, No Less 3rd party tools either have you taking out a feature you would like. Or just do a lot more then you need causing issue later on.
Easier for others to follow. If someone else is tracing you code and you get a 3rd party tool, it is either a black box application that you are referencing where you need to break your trace to see what the heck it is for. Or there is source and you go in there and it being code by a different person it is like you are in Wonderland were all coding styles have changed.
Deployment. If possible you can get that app to run as a single unit deploying it is much easier as say for windows no registering a bunch of crap.
Cleaning. If you have 3rd party tools that have been there for a while, you really don't want to get rid of them without knowing how it will effect your other program. Your own code it is a bit easier
The problem is some people use it as a crutch... "If the IDE doesn't handle it then it cant be done" mindset
But it is a tool to keep in your cap. I know Visual Studio 2008 is good at showing me methods and properties I can access from the variables which is handy to let you know what is going on in a datatype/class you don't use much. However sometime I will take the file out of Visual Studios to do some additional coding because Visual Studios Expects you to code in Top Down in this order... IF (x == y) {
msgbox("hello"); }
However real life has it more like this...
msgbox("hello");
run test...
Up arrow Return if (x == y) { return down arrow to go past the msgbox command }
For this case the IDE is a pain because it will try to close my if statments {} which if I am not paying attention it will give me an extra } that I need to dig around and find when I get a compile error.
The problem you are facing is the fact that it isn't the serious Microsoft-oriented shop don't want to upgrade but they're programming skills are at a level where they can't upgrade. Using 3rd party libraries are always risky, and should be avoided unless it is really doing something that will take you much longer to accomplish. However a lot of the Microsoft shops have very poor programers or the odd hack who thinks he is a programmer by glueing a bunch of 3rd party tools even ones that already come with the default library. 3 or 4 grid controls, a Menu Bar Control or two... 3 or 4 image controls... So they end up with a program that they cannot upgrade. But this isn't really the fault of Microsoft though... It is just because of the bad programmers. If you see a VS.NET application written by a pro it is a clean fast and easily upgradable system.
I Program in many different languages and I keep Visual Studio Ready for the jobs it does well. I remember startling a bunch of Java only programmers on how fast I was able to get my system to talk to their system and I was able to support the new features that they had on their spec list before they actually finished programming it themselves. That said when I need to process text data I prefer Python as it gets the job done better for that job.
If you are willing to stop getting all huffy puffy, emotional and political about you're programming languages you will find there are a lot of better ways to get a lot of your work done.
There is the nostalgia blinders for the young too... As history goes on it is able to weed out the bulk of crap and leave the gems remaining. A lot of the stuff that was popular at the time but couldn't withstand the test of time slowly vanishes.
Our view of the 60's are of hippies with drugs and sex fighting the establishment, going to the moon... And we kinda forgot how close we were to destroying the world.
I fail to see your line between new creation and imitation...
You could say Word is an imitation of WordPerfect... However Word wasn't popular until it went to Windows where Word Perfect needed to catch up and make their product work for windows. The same with Excel and Lotus 123 C# a language like Java which is a language like C++ which is like C... How about the success of Visual Basic? Vista was a copy of a lot of OS X elements and building off of XP, the problems they had was poor implementation, not poor innovation. Zune was a copy of an iPod. Clippy was taken from Bob, But an animated helper has been though of for a long time but it needed resources to do such.
Most inovation is from building on existing ideas and technology, based on problems with the older designed. I havn't seen any tech come out that makes me go wow that is beyond anything I could ever imagine.
Or you can go to a movie and not expected too much... The problem is that you have 1 1/2 - 2 hours to show the movie if you are going to put all of it in Character development then it will be a boring movie. It is not the case that Older movies were better, you were just younger and stupider then so they seemed that much better and you used your imagination to fill in the void the movie actually had. If you want character development and a excelent story... Read a book, they have time to do such things. Movies have a short span even groups of sequels where you still need to have a full story during this 2 hour process. I go to the movies for the full visual effects (and I expect that is all it will be), I rent the movie later if it isn't a big special effect movies, and just watch it on my TV.
When they ask for a Word.Doc file it is saying that it will be opened in word. And if you have hundred resumes and your resume is not on the sort by type list it just may not get opened. Or if it has a different icon it wont get clicked.
Overdraft fees in my Opinion are one of the most abusive things banks can do.
Paying a fee for charging more then what is in your account is understandable. However the way the banks do it abusive.
1. It is a flat fee no matter how much you charge. So 5 dollars over you balance is 30 bucks. 100 dollars over you balance is 30 bucks. So you get dinged the same as for a simple mistake as much as you do for a big one. 2. Every separate charge is a fee. So that check you paid finally got threw and then during that day you went to lunch, then got some ice cream, and perhaps stopped to pickup some milk. So that would be a $90 fee to you account but if the charges happened in reverse order it would only be $30 (Assuming you had enough to pay for the check) 3. No grace period to fill your balance. Heck the money could be in the ATM from your last deposit hover because it wasn't counted yet you are getting dinged.
It is really adding insult to injury you are having some tough times and your balance is low you made a miscalculation or that check that you paid months ago finally got charged, right before Pay Day.
That is of course if Mozilla does the same thing too. But really who cares... What people want is a fast browser. IE is now one of the older browsers out there, it has a lot of stuff that cannot be removed, a lot of backwards compatibility that other browsers just don't care about. IE is still used heavily in a lot on intranet based applications and you just can't really do a full clean house. But if IE 9 takes a lot of the overhead and has the hardware do some more of the work and things work faster it is just better for all of us... Still any web application needs to be tested to make sure it works with IE, and this will be the case for a long time. If IE runs too slow it stops us developers from putting new features and options that may take the load off the server, just because IE runs too slow. I remember back in the IE6 I had a search screen that I needed to redo because in Firefox the page loaded in 0.5 seconds (1 second on the iPhone Safari) and IE loaded it in 5 minutes... Taking way too long to process.
So if IE can render faster all the better that means I can balance the work the server and client does, more efficiently.
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Is after 1 month after purchase. When the Gee Wiz is out... The back has a few scratches... Do they put it on a shelf and forget about it or will they use it in their daily lives. I remember back in the 90's when I got myself a Palm III I when I first go it I was playing with it and it was all cool and I downloaded apps for it and everything else... But after a month I kept on forgetting to use it, leaving it at home and not really using it for anything useful. I didn't get myself an iPad not because I didn't think it was cool but because as far as I could tell it would just be fun for a month then I would have it on a shelf not used.
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You don't need 100% success to have a victory. Sure people will still do it, but if you don't make it easy for them to do it less people will go ahead and do it any ways. If you make file sharing so hard that only the geeks can do it. Then that is enough to stop all the non-geeks.
In a way but, I think it is a case Linux isn't as "Sexy" as it use to be. Back in the days of the 90's When Linux first came out. A lot of its young developers were looking for more of an adult OS to work with. DOS and Windows 3.1 were quite flimsy in the OS Department. Even WIndows 95 and 98 were just a slight better. For real computing you needed Unix or VMS. Linux offered us a way to use a Unix like system, and we found that compared to the Windows and Mac platform at the time it was that much better in terms of stability, security and performance and it being free (as in beer) helped. And so they Loved their new found OS and wanted to support it and make it grow.
However nowadays Windows for consumer use is running with the NT Kernel, making it much better in stability and performance even in security, windows is now a grown up OS. (if it is better or worse then Linux is an other debate)
As well durring the past 10 years. When Microsoft was still stuck with XP. Linux development didn't really do to much to get ahead. They had a chance to trounce the evil Microsoft and in my opinion they blew it. The timing of the GPL 3 was one thing, For linux to grow and be more popular we needed TiVoization we should have a bunch of Linux enabled smart phones, Linux developers didn't understand end users... They made it good for Grandma and Advanced Users but left out a big middle. Still troubles with Sound, and Video Drivers heck even Cut and Paste are still a problem.
When commercial development came across to Linux such as IBM it changed the shape and direction for Linux. It moved to a cheap way for big companies to run their servers, and get some good press at the same time.
Young programmers are interested in Games, Mobile Devices, Internet based applications and social media... Young programmers during my day were interested in Games, Web Sites, Server Side applications, and Desktop software. So my generation we a better fit for Linux then the current one is.
Also with all the stuff that is we are bombarded with on the media getting outraged that software is free or not just doesn't seem like a big thing to put a fuss about anymore. And in a bad echonomy kids are focusing on jobs that will make them money... If they want experience don't wast your time supporting open source get an internship heck you may get paid and it looks better on your resume.
Employers today don't care to much about open source development... At my place we often use it as a way to weed out people for hiring, (And this is from a C level boss who chose to have Linux as his only OS) Why because you have to do code that isn't fun or interesting all the time.
A lot of the Employe vs. the Company stuff comes from our culture and education.
Just a few months ago the CEO of the company went to me laughing at a poem that his niece read to him that was given by her teacher. The poem was about how the office worker is a slave to the company and they are in a dead end job. And this is from a Teacher to a Student who is in 2nt grade. I was thinking how horrible that they are teaching kids this stuff. they are in essence brainwashing them to hate their jobs before they start.
BTW great use of the carriage return you know computers now use auto wrap, and people have different resolution screens, my spelling is due to 1 using an iPhone to write the message and 2 having a learning disability that makes it difficult for me to catch every word I misspell. Gee thanks for pointing out my learning disability that is a great way to keep things civil (Liberal Wuss).
But you are not paying my budget so I can complain as much as I want.
What you can't seem to understand... How recently after Paterson got into office he pulled the alarm. I don't see it just because he is a hard ass but because he actually looked at the numbers and they are not good. I am sure if anyone else was governor we would be just like California. NY has for a long time been spending more than it should and poorly managed it finances. The recession just shows where the problems are.
It really depends where you set your bar on your judgement.
Many think that in Europe all those extra rules and regulation makes it very difficult to run a business in that area of the world, so companies will move to other areas where they have more flexibility in their policies. Thus moving more work to other countries also making it harder for someone to start a company in the area. and before you go well things are "SO MUCH BETTER IN THE EU" I would like to bring up Grease. Who almost went bankrupt, as well a lot of other problems to large scale strikes. So when Labor is in the wrong they still win.
The United States has more flexible laws. The problem is our stupid education system that is not allowing people to think of the job market correctly. For you to succeed you need to think of yourself as your own company that you need to operate. So what services do you perform that puts you ahead of other people. If you can't stand out then you are not going to get a well paid job. If you feel that company is not giving you what you need to deserve. Then find and other job and quit your current one, is it easy no, does it take time and effort yes, but if you equate that into the equation you must choose is it worth it to change jobs.
Now back onto topic a bit more. Sometimes if you get the education on your own time and money it gives you more freedom. As you can get better trained for an other job and leave at your own free will. Other companies after they give you training they will make sure you stay with the company for a few years or if you quit you will need to reimburse the training costs.
Some companies use this training as a cheap way to lay off people. Put in this requirement if they don't like it they will leave if they do they will go ahead and continue.
NY doesn't have a lot of money right now. Every group that gets money from the state is botching and moaning that they are not getting enough. So let's spread the thinner to pay for a new project won't help.
There is the argument if you give people these jobs you will help the echonomy. However if this were to go across it would probably in Albany NY (you know the state capital that is about 200 miles from the city) where honestly has fared the recession rather well so these extra jobs won't have such a pronounced efffect in the echonomy.
You can put a lot of money into marketing a good product and it can still fail.
1. The Name WebOS... Sounds kinda gimiky to me. The Web is Popular and we want an os that sounds like it will be good at browsing the web... How About WebOS. That name sound so 90's to me that it isn't funny.
2. Timing. At around the same time other companies tried to make lame iPhone wannabes. The fact the blackberry storm stunk at the same time put credit to people well if I want something like an iPhone ill get an iPhone.
3. What I call the OS/2 Warp add campaign. A lot of talk but little showing the product in what it does... You need to give credit to Apples adds. They show you how to use the phone as part of the add. Web OS adds where soo... All the apps I need to run will be on the web...
4. Tried to be an iPhone killer... Palm wasn't in a position to go head on head with Apple. The whatever you can do I can do better type of stuff really hurt Palm especially as they lowered their prices. Because if it was that much cheaper it must be a cheap ripoff
5. the iTunes compatibility thing. That was rather unethical business by palm in the first place to in essence hack the phone to make it look like an iPod... Then to market it as iTunes compatible. Then try to complain about USB compliance to Apple because apple stopped the hole. Then to push it further until they lost their USB compatibility. In the mean time you give customers a feature which breaks on them until the next update... Not giving them positive reviews.
6. Crappy Developers Emulator... Sorry a VirtualBox that runs a Linux distro that runs Web OS... Without physical buttons that actually let you go back. It made it a pain to do development on it so developers will go well I will do it for the iPhone and we will see if it is compatible later.
Isn't this a lot like a DRM designed for open source... The only real difference is what we call Normal DRM makes sure the End User is following the rules. the Open Source is making sure the Companies are following the rules. But in general Closed Source puts restrictions on the Users and the GNU puts restrictions on the Company. So it really is just an other form of DRM.
So it is Evil for a company to say illegal coping and sharing of our software that we put a lot of time, money and development into is given away for free while we still have all these expenses to pay for, and we should try to find a way to make sure we curve this behavior so we can get the money we earned.
But it Haled when a tool is made to make sure Software companies are making software that uses Open Source Software and they are not following the rules of the license.
Odly enough most companies are not as big and evil as you think... Most companies don't have teams of lawyers judging every action they do... No all software developers know the GNU and speak it every sunday at around 9:00 every morning. A lot of people think Open Source means public domain, or how much can they modify the code before it is there and they can license it any way they want...
If you want to go all out and push Open Source GNU license and make sure people are compliant with technical means then you should back off on DRM. Or if you want to push DRM then you should support not having Open Source push the issue too... Otherwise you will be in overall hyporcracy of yourself and probably just be branded as an Anti-Caplistic Nut.
OS/2 Really fill the void (with novel) before NT came out and got popular. It offered good multi-tasking and made a good small scale server. OS/2 Warp there was a lot of speculation that it Might be the next Big thing and kill windows... However IBM was Stupid with the advertising while Microsoft was smart. And Windows 95 really got the mind share, once it got the mind share when NT 4 with a Windows 95 interface came out it caused a migration away from OS/2 Warp and Netware... At that Time linux came in and started to take away from the Unix Market.
However the confusing part is that they allow the browser to use CSS, Javascript and even some HTML 5 components, thus making web based applications...
They are not 3rd party tool... They are the developments language mainline tools...
There is a difference.
Mainline tools you know they are there and if you move to a different development environment they are still there. 3rd party tool you take your code and move it to a new system it will not run until you reinstall the other tools.
And as I stated in my post that you added as the quote "unless it is really doing something that will take you much longer to accomplish."
Meaning that 3rd party tools are not evil however need to be chosen and used with care once you found out that there is no other easy option with the mainline tools.
I think CPAN is there to make you go nuts trying to get a downloaded Perl Script to work as you dig around trying to find the right libraries to make the freakin program work... But I am not a fan of Perl so I digress...
The 3rd party problem isn't a case of reinventing the wheel. But getting new wheels that already exist just because they are slightly different, eg a grid control that automaticly populates from the database vs. Loading it from 3 other commands...
But... Sometimes for programming reinventing the wheel is a good thing. Why...
I use IDE as a tool.
The problem is some people use it as a crutch... "If the IDE doesn't handle it then it cant be done" mindset
But it is a tool to keep in your cap. I know Visual Studio 2008 is good at showing me methods and properties I can access from the variables which is handy to let you know what is going on in a datatype/class you don't use much.
However sometime I will take the file out of Visual Studios to do some additional coding because Visual Studios Expects you to code in Top Down in this order...
IF (x == y)
{
msgbox("hello");
}
However real life has it more like this...
msgbox("hello");
run test...
Up arrow Return
if (x == y) {
return down arrow to go past the msgbox command
}
For this case the IDE is a pain because it will try to close my if statments {} which if I am not paying attention it will give me an extra } that I need to dig around and find when I get a compile error.
The problem you are facing is the fact that it isn't the serious Microsoft-oriented shop don't want to upgrade but they're programming skills are at a level where they can't upgrade. Using 3rd party libraries are always risky, and should be avoided unless it is really doing something that will take you much longer to accomplish. However a lot of the Microsoft shops have very poor programers or the odd hack who thinks he is a programmer by glueing a bunch of 3rd party tools even ones that already come with the default library. 3 or 4 grid controls, a Menu Bar Control or two... 3 or 4 image controls... So they end up with a program that they cannot upgrade. But this isn't really the fault of Microsoft though... It is just because of the bad programmers. If you see a VS.NET application written by a pro it is a clean fast and easily upgradable system.
I Program in many different languages and I keep Visual Studio Ready for the jobs it does well. I remember startling a bunch of Java only programmers on how fast I was able to get my system to talk to their system and I was able to support the new features that they had on their spec list before they actually finished programming it themselves. That said when I need to process text data I prefer Python as it gets the job done better for that job.
If you are willing to stop getting all huffy puffy, emotional and political about you're programming languages you will find there are a lot of better ways to get a lot of your work done.
There is the nostalgia blinders for the young too... As history goes on it is able to weed out the bulk of crap and leave the gems remaining. A lot of the stuff that was popular at the time but couldn't withstand the test of time slowly vanishes.
Our view of the 60's are of hippies with drugs and sex fighting the establishment, going to the moon... And we kinda forgot how close we were to destroying the world.
I fail to see your line between new creation and imitation...
You could say Word is an imitation of WordPerfect... However Word wasn't popular until it went to Windows where Word Perfect needed to catch up and make their product work for windows.
The same with Excel and Lotus 123
C# a language like Java which is a language like C++ which is like C... How about the success of Visual Basic?
Vista was a copy of a lot of OS X elements and building off of XP, the problems they had was poor implementation, not poor innovation.
Zune was a copy of an iPod.
Clippy was taken from Bob, But an animated helper has been though of for a long time but it needed resources to do such.
Most inovation is from building on existing ideas and technology, based on problems with the older designed. I havn't seen any tech come out that makes me go wow that is beyond anything I could ever imagine.
Or you can go to a movie and not expected too much... The problem is that you have 1 1/2 - 2 hours to show the movie if you are going to put all of it in Character development then it will be a boring movie. It is not the case that Older movies were better, you were just younger and stupider then so they seemed that much better and you used your imagination to fill in the void the movie actually had. If you want character development and a excelent story... Read a book, they have time to do such things. Movies have a short span even groups of sequels where you still need to have a full story during this 2 hour process. I go to the movies for the full visual effects (and I expect that is all it will be), I rent the movie later if it isn't a big special effect movies, and just watch it on my TV.
I think you may be over formatting your Resume.
When they ask for a Word.Doc file it is saying that it will be opened in word. And if you have hundred resumes and your resume is not on the sort by type list it just may not get opened. Or if it has a different icon it wont get clicked.
Is that what the army recruiter told you?
I was thinking the same thing too. A demotion in the sense that you got other people promoted to your level and you got nothing.
Overdraft fees in my Opinion are one of the most abusive things banks can do.
Paying a fee for charging more then what is in your account is understandable. However the way the banks do it abusive.
1. It is a flat fee no matter how much you charge. So 5 dollars over you balance is 30 bucks. 100 dollars over you balance is 30 bucks. So you get dinged the same as for a simple mistake as much as you do for a big one.
2. Every separate charge is a fee. So that check you paid finally got threw and then during that day you went to lunch, then got some ice cream, and perhaps stopped to pickup some milk. So that would be a $90 fee to you account but if the charges happened in reverse order it would only be $30 (Assuming you had enough to pay for the check)
3. No grace period to fill your balance. Heck the money could be in the ATM from your last deposit hover because it wasn't counted yet you are getting dinged.
It is really adding insult to injury you are having some tough times and your balance is low you made a miscalculation or that check that you paid months ago finally got charged, right before Pay Day.
That is of course if Mozilla does the same thing too.
But really who cares... What people want is a fast browser. IE is now one of the older browsers out there, it has a lot of stuff that cannot be removed, a lot of backwards compatibility that other browsers just don't care about. IE is still used heavily in a lot on intranet based applications and you just can't really do a full clean house. But if IE 9 takes a lot of the overhead and has the hardware do some more of the work and things work faster it is just better for all of us... Still any web application needs to be tested to make sure it works with IE, and this will be the case for a long time. If IE runs too slow it stops us developers from putting new features and options that may take the load off the server, just because IE runs too slow. I remember back in the IE6 I had a search screen that I needed to redo because in Firefox the page loaded in 0.5 seconds (1 second on the iPhone Safari) and IE loaded it in 5 minutes... Taking way too long to process.
So if IE can render faster all the better that means I can balance the work the server and client does, more efficiently.
It worked for Max Powers
No but you still need to jump over a pit or throw back something else if a Red Shell is after you.
Is after 1 month after purchase. When the Gee Wiz is out... The back has a few scratches... Do they put it on a shelf and forget about it or will they use it in their daily lives. I remember back in the 90's when I got myself a Palm III I when I first go it I was playing with it and it was all cool and I downloaded apps for it and everything else... But after a month I kept on forgetting to use it, leaving it at home and not really using it for anything useful. I didn't get myself an iPad not because I didn't think it was cool but because as far as I could tell it would just be fun for a month then I would have it on a shelf not used.