Yes innovation has nothing to do with the economy. Lets keep everything static, we will never loose jobs in any particular sector... If we do it is someone else's fault.
Well what apple is doing now is just Short Sighted... However the reason a lot of people still likes Apple is the fact for the most part (Please note Most Part means more often then not and there do exist exceptions that I do not want to hear) make there products very good, and quite balanced for what the market wants. That is why people are not ranting and raving like they did to Microsoft... Sure MS had anti-competiive stuff going on but in reality most people doesn't care about that. What they cared about was the fact that their products were bad and they didn't have any alternatives.
Right now apple products are relatively good, although there is a lot of anti-competive stuff apple is in no way in a safe spot... Google just may beat out apple for the phone/mobile market. The MP3 Player market is relatively old tech so the iPod dominance is dwindling very slowly, hence why they went to the phone market. Last decade was good for apple. We will have to see about this decade.
Microsoft even after taking a beating this decade is still strong and markets there is still no full replacement.
Yes... People want some how to be part of history, and be That Guy who survived it. Especially being Pre 9/11 at the time Generation X didn't have anything historically that they say that they lived threw. There was World War 1, World War 2, Vietnam... Generation X had the First Iraq War that was relatively small. We wanted something big to happen so we can tell the next generation how easy they have it.
A developers for the most part we shouldn't have admin access. The reason for the Crappy Software we have today is the fact that Developers have too much access to the system and get away with using very low level features as they have access to it. Leaving software that needs to be operated by a high security user where they normally shouldn't need to be such. Also allowing everyone to install their own tools without asking why sure may be less efficient for the short run but it will make sure all the other people are on the same plate so you don't need to use XYZ tool to fix the code where you are the only one who knows it.
Secondly the idea that a good software developer make a good administrator is false too. I have done both and they are really two different type of skill sets. Programming is like building Administrations is using what has been built. Lets use a Car anology... A good driver doesn't need to know how to make a car. The person who can build a car may not be a good driver.
Literacy is more of a solution to terrorism then the cause. The problem is is they basing their belief structure on one book. If they were truly literate they would be reading all sorts of books and have a more world view and sympathy to other cultures and religions. Engineers are not necessarily into Literacy (sure they can read, but they are not interested in reading a bunch of books on different topics) which makes it easy. Having them more literate will probably reduce the problem.
They wouldn't be targeting engineers because they have skills of getting things done and paying attention to details.
Engineering isn't science. Engineering is using what is known of science to create results. It is one of the few degrees that have that focus. Most of the other disciplines if recruited will spend their time researching and analyzing the problems and probably coming up with the idea it is a bad idea. But an engineer will just go ahead and make it go.
For sales you are trying to show one of the following.
Our Product will reduce your pain. or Our Product will give you pleasure.
The iPod adds show how their product gives people pleasure. However Computers are not really pleasure devices they are tools. So you need to go to the device that will give you the least pain. So that is the point of the I am a Mac adds, to show the pain that PC users are suffering that Macs has reduced.
They are not insulting their target demographics. Unlike the Microsoft where I am a PC is a metaphor, the apple adds I am a Mac and I am a PC are personifications of the inanimate objects. When they have people playing people they are acted as intelligent people. So unless you think you are a windows computer then you really shouldn't be insulted... Or you are too wrapped up in the PC vs. Mac flame war that has been going on for a few decades.
CSV doesn't always imply spreadsheet... However spreadsheet is one of the better ways of viewing the file. If you are double clicking on an icon of a document to open up an app. a CSV file should go to a spreadsheet as it is the best way to view the file. The other uses of a CSV you normally need to load the app then import the CSV as you not trying to view the document but use the information in it.
That is the point they are supposed to identify with PC. Then you see how he is suffering but doesn't realize it. But you being the outside person may realize that you are suffering.
It is probably because you are a web developer that you don't see the point of having everything web based...
The major problem with offline applications is an issue of distributions and updating them.
The problem with updating software and distribution is a problem across all os's sure they all take innovative approaches to the problem to help relieve it But the issue still exists, and especially for smaller applications or ones who do not fit the OS ideals and third parties who cannot get on the OS approved list. Eg. Closed Source Commercial apps are not on Apt, Non MS Products are not part of the updates etc...
Then there are people with viruses and other crap on their PC that hinders your application and makes it seem like you did something wrong.
All in all distribution and maintenance of software is difficult and takes a lot of resources. Web Based tools makes the problem a lot easer having you only really focus on making sure that your browser is uptodate.
Your right it couldn't be from a Communist government which is has been slowly dyeing for decades but still struggling to maintain power. It is all those outsiders who give the people on the inside a glimpse what else could be out there in the world a reason to revolt.
The China has the worlds largest population... The only reason why it hasn't kicked the US butt in the past in terms of achievement as the fact that they though it was a good idea to isolate themselves from the world. Now that they decided to be more active in the world any country would be a fool not to give them interest. It isn't just about money but for national security. We have no trade with china they don't like what we want. A war with China will be overall a really BAD thing. A country about the Size of the United States with a MUCH larger population.
C,C++, Or any lanauge that needs to be compiled to an optimized for the platform binary form to run, at the expense it only runs on type of platform. Java, Dot Net, or any language that compiles to a byte code with is optimized for its function and memory can be preallocated. Python, Perl or other Scripting languages where there is little optimization that can go on as the code is running as it interprets the next line of code.
Yes the world is centered around client side applications...
Mono strength is for portability across server side applications. The problem is not Mono, it is the fact the GPLv3 is too strict. It is not necessarily any point is bad but all of them together makes it too strict.
The GPL is an attempt to push an Ideal, not necessarily good policy...
I wouldn't be surprised as knowledge about open source increases that more and more pressure to not be GPL will come up.
I have in inside scoop... After $ProductName version @VersionNumber there just may be an $ProductName version @VersionNumber+1 with stuff that isn't in $ProductName version @VersionNumber. As well the next generation of $ProductName will have even newer features and probably will run faster and do more then the old version.
Churches do as much as they can... However it isn't enough overall. A wealthy church normally brings in about $6,000 a week/ roughly about $300,000 a year.
About $100,000 a year goes to paying the mortgage on the church and the priest home (which they share with an other priest) and the office.
Roughly about $5,000 goes to utilities.
About $45,000 goes to underpaid staff.
That brings us to $150,000
The priests salary for 2 $50,000
Maintenance and upkeep $50,000
That leaves about $50,000 for charitable works. So say there are 100 people who are in need... that leaves $500.00 a year per family. To feed 1 person it would be $25 per week making that $1300.0 per person per year in need. Leaving a gap of $800 that the person still needs.
Plus there are more charities then just feeding people... Including health, and wellness, and social issues the church believes to be important.
That is for a wealthy church. A lot of others make due with a lot less.
The problem is many of the laws on the books that crimes that ordinary people are committing were once ones that only organizations can do.
Lets just use Copyright infringement, back even 20 years ago being able to copy music from one device and spread it to millions of people needed a lot of money and resources. Today one person can do it and have it spread like wildfire. But the laws for fines for such actions are still based on the old model. Sure it would $80,000 good fine for say a Radio Station to Play a song without rights to play it, It wouldn't kill the radio station however for a small station it could really hit its profits. But the ability to "accidentally" do such a crime is so much easier that anyone can do it. But the laws are written in a way that the fine could seriously bankrupt a person who made a mistake.
It is not Sports or football that is really the issue here. Sure a lot of kids will believe and make the talk that they will be the worlds best football player and make millions... Most seriously don't believe it, for the ones who do it is normally a sad story. But they are in the minority...
It is more to the point that kids when growing up don't want a desk job... Shows like the Office make it seem like a life draining career choice and just full of cruel and stupid people. Shows such as Big Bang make geeks and nerds complete social outcasts.
We are not shown as positive influences on life. Real Life... The Geek holds a full time job, gets paid above the national average, has a decent car and a house... Heck they are even married and have a good family life.
The Phantom Menace could have been fixed by 3 things...
Older Skywalker (Lets get him in his late teens) No JarJar and/or no C3PO and R2D2 (way to many comedy characters) No Pod-Racing... 20 minutes about 1/3 of the movie about nothing.
I actually like the Hybrid Open Source Closed source code...
The Stallman GNU view of the world is way to restrictive and doesn't foster large support. Yes People are greedy, but except for fighting the greed, make an environment where greed can be used for good.
There are some things Open Source has always had trouble with. The most basic is making integrated User Interfaces, it is very hard to find a large base of developers who are willing to give a good UI for free as well working with non-programmers who don't care about open source to help create work (such as graphic designers) for free. I am not saying it can't be done for a particular project as I am sure Slashdot will give a me a slew of projects that have a great UI. But to have it don't for many projects gets much harder.
But there are things that Open Source does much better then commercial such as security and stability, and a lot of core functionality and features. These are things that good programers like to do and are willing to give it out just to help the community and/or make them selfs look good.
Hybrid really brings the best to both worlds. A UI and integration can be recoded and redone as the need exists and the backend that does the real work can open so compatibility and interportability can be established and prevent anyone from having a strangle hold on the systems knowledge.
Protesters are STUPID. We are protesting against AT&T response that their infrastructure can't handle the load By DDOSing them. Isn't that like beating the crap out of person who says you are too violent.
Yes, They could go even further and say Windows could _only_ be run on One computer only. It is their product they can do what they want with it good or not for the company. What Microsoft probably couldn't do is say with the existing versions that are already sold change the agreement and AMD can no longer use this, after they released the software and said yes they did back then.
Exactly. In a recession people buy less, it is a cause and the effect of a recession (kinda of a catch 22 effect) For small recessions video games may have seen an increase as it is an "affordable" method for entertainment. So you may loose your job for a few weeks but during this time you can play the games. During a large recession such as this, Video Games could mean an extra week worth of food enough to get the rent/mortgage over for the next month.
After the recession/loosing jobs end and the economy picks up people will get games again as they have "suffered" long enough.
Well perhaps... Perhaps Life is still unique in the universe. However some bacteria which came from mars went in spore form to earth and found it was a good place to grow, or the other way around. We could find life within our solar system. But that is it.
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Yes innovation has nothing to do with the economy. Lets keep everything static, we will never loose jobs in any particular sector... If we do it is someone else's fault.
Well what apple is doing now is just Short Sighted... However the reason a lot of people still likes Apple is the fact for the most part (Please note Most Part means more often then not and there do exist exceptions that I do not want to hear) make there products very good, and quite balanced for what the market wants. That is why people are not ranting and raving like they did to Microsoft... Sure MS had anti-competiive stuff going on but in reality most people doesn't care about that. What they cared about was the fact that their products were bad and they didn't have any alternatives.
Right now apple products are relatively good, although there is a lot of anti-competive stuff apple is in no way in a safe spot... Google just may beat out apple for the phone/mobile market. The MP3 Player market is relatively old tech so the iPod dominance is dwindling very slowly, hence why they went to the phone market. Last decade was good for apple. We will have to see about this decade.
Microsoft even after taking a beating this decade is still strong and markets there is still no full replacement.
Yes... People want some how to be part of history, and be That Guy who survived it. Especially being Pre 9/11 at the time Generation X didn't have anything historically that they say that they lived threw. There was World War 1, World War 2, Vietnam... Generation X had the First Iraq War that was relatively small. We wanted something big to happen so we can tell the next generation how easy they have it.
No.
A developers for the most part we shouldn't have admin access. The reason for the Crappy Software we have today is the fact that Developers have too much access to the system and get away with using very low level features as they have access to it. Leaving software that needs to be operated by a high security user where they normally shouldn't need to be such. Also allowing everyone to install their own tools without asking why sure may be less efficient for the short run but it will make sure all the other people are on the same plate so you don't need to use XYZ tool to fix the code where you are the only one who knows it.
Secondly the idea that a good software developer make a good administrator is false too. I have done both and they are really two different type of skill sets. Programming is like building Administrations is using what has been built. Lets use a Car anology... A good driver doesn't need to know how to make a car. The person who can build a car may not be a good driver.
Literacy is more of a solution to terrorism then the cause. The problem is is they basing their belief structure on one book. If they were truly literate they would be reading all sorts of books and have a more world view and sympathy to other cultures and religions. Engineers are not necessarily into Literacy (sure they can read, but they are not interested in reading a bunch of books on different topics) which makes it easy. Having them more literate will probably reduce the problem.
They wouldn't be targeting engineers because they have skills of getting things done and paying attention to details.
Engineering isn't science. Engineering is using what is known of science to create results. It is one of the few degrees that have that focus. Most of the other disciplines if recruited will spend their time researching and analyzing the problems and probably coming up with the idea it is a bad idea. But an engineer will just go ahead and make it go.
For sales you are trying to show one of the following.
Our Product will reduce your pain.
or
Our Product will give you pleasure.
The iPod adds show how their product gives people pleasure.
However Computers are not really pleasure devices they are tools. So you need to go to the device that will give you the least pain. So that is the point of the I am a Mac adds, to show the pain that PC users are suffering that Macs has reduced.
They are not insulting their target demographics. Unlike the Microsoft where I am a PC is a metaphor, the apple adds I am a Mac and I am a PC are personifications of the inanimate objects. When they have people playing people they are acted as intelligent people. So unless you think you are a windows computer then you really shouldn't be insulted... Or you are too wrapped up in the PC vs. Mac flame war that has been going on for a few decades.
CSV doesn't always imply spreadsheet... However spreadsheet is one of the better ways of viewing the file. If you are double clicking on an icon of a document to open up an app. a CSV file should go to a spreadsheet as it is the best way to view the file. The other uses of a CSV you normally need to load the app then import the CSV as you not trying to view the document but use the information in it.
That is the point they are supposed to identify with PC. Then you see how he is suffering but doesn't realize it. But you being the outside person may realize that you are suffering.
It is probably because you are a web developer that you don't see the point of having everything web based...
The major problem with offline applications is an issue of distributions and updating them.
The problem with updating software and distribution is a problem across all os's sure they all take innovative approaches to the problem to help relieve it But the issue still exists, and especially for smaller applications or ones who do not fit the OS ideals and third parties who cannot get on the OS approved list. Eg. Closed Source Commercial apps are not on Apt, Non MS Products are not part of the updates etc...
Then there are people with viruses and other crap on their PC that hinders your application and makes it seem like you did something wrong.
All in all distribution and maintenance of software is difficult and takes a lot of resources. Web Based tools makes the problem a lot easer having you only really focus on making sure that your browser is uptodate.
Your right it couldn't be from a Communist government which is has been slowly dyeing for decades but still struggling to maintain power. It is all those outsiders who give the people on the inside a glimpse what else could be out there in the world a reason to revolt.
The China has the worlds largest population... The only reason why it hasn't kicked the US butt in the past in terms of achievement as the fact that they though it was a good idea to isolate themselves from the world. Now that they decided to be more active in the world any country would be a fool not to give them interest. It isn't just about money but for national security. We have no trade with china they don't like what we want. A war with China will be overall a really BAD thing. A country about the Size of the United States with a MUCH larger population.
Compared to what?
C,C++, Or any lanauge that needs to be compiled to an optimized for the platform binary form to run, at the expense it only runs on type of platform.
Java, Dot Net, or any language that compiles to a byte code with is optimized for its function and memory can be preallocated.
Python, Perl or other Scripting languages where there is little optimization that can go on as the code is running as it interprets the next line of code.
Speed isn't always what makes or break a language
Yes the world is centered around client side applications...
Mono strength is for portability across server side applications. The problem is not Mono, it is the fact the GPLv3 is too strict. It is not necessarily any point is bad but all of them together makes it too strict.
The GPL is an attempt to push an Ideal, not necessarily good policy...
I wouldn't be surprised as knowledge about open source increases that more and more pressure to not be GPL will come up.
I have in inside scoop... After $ProductName version @VersionNumber there just may be an $ProductName version @VersionNumber+1 with stuff that isn't in $ProductName version @VersionNumber. As well the next generation of $ProductName will have even newer features and probably will run faster and do more then the old version.
What is really good is if you cut the top half so you can stuff the Pita with a bunch of meats. Ham, Rost Beef, Turkey, Cheese and Bacon.
I am sure this isn't a PETA approved use of Pita but still it is really good.
Churches do as much as they can... However it isn't enough overall. A wealthy church normally brings in about $6,000 a week/ roughly about $300,000 a year.
About $100,000 a year goes to paying the mortgage on the church and the priest home (which they share with an other priest) and the office.
Roughly about $5,000 goes to utilities.
About $45,000 goes to underpaid staff.
That brings us to $150,000
The priests salary for 2 $50,000
Maintenance and upkeep $50,000
That leaves about $50,000 for charitable works. So say there are 100 people who are in need... that leaves $500.00 a year per family. To feed 1 person it would be $25 per week making that $1300.0 per person per year in need. Leaving a gap of $800 that the person still needs.
Plus there are more charities then just feeding people... Including health, and wellness, and social issues the church believes to be important.
That is for a wealthy church. A lot of others make due with a lot less.
The problem is many of the laws on the books that crimes that ordinary people are committing were once ones that only organizations can do.
Lets just use Copyright infringement, back even 20 years ago being able to copy music from one device and spread it to millions of people needed a lot of money and resources. Today one person can do it and have it spread like wildfire. But the laws for fines for such actions are still based on the old model. Sure it would $80,000 good fine for say a Radio Station to Play a song without rights to play it, It wouldn't kill the radio station however for a small station it could really hit its profits. But the ability to "accidentally" do such a crime is so much easier that anyone can do it. But the laws are written in a way that the fine could seriously bankrupt a person who made a mistake.
It is not Sports or football that is really the issue here. Sure a lot of kids will believe and make the talk that they will be the worlds best football player and make millions... Most seriously don't believe it, for the ones who do it is normally a sad story. But they are in the minority...
It is more to the point that kids when growing up don't want a desk job...
Shows like the Office make it seem like a life draining career choice and just full of cruel and stupid people.
Shows such as Big Bang make geeks and nerds complete social outcasts.
We are not shown as positive influences on life.
Real Life... The Geek holds a full time job, gets paid above the national average, has a decent car and a house... Heck they are even married and have a good family life.
The Phantom Menace could have been fixed by 3 things...
Older Skywalker (Lets get him in his late teens)
No JarJar and/or no C3PO and R2D2 (way to many comedy characters)
No Pod-Racing... 20 minutes about 1/3 of the movie about nothing.
I actually like the Hybrid Open Source Closed source code...
The Stallman GNU view of the world is way to restrictive and doesn't foster large support. Yes People are greedy, but except for fighting the greed, make an environment where greed can be used for good.
There are some things Open Source has always had trouble with. The most basic is making integrated User Interfaces, it is very hard to find a large base of developers who are willing to give a good UI for free as well working with non-programmers who don't care about open source to help create work (such as graphic designers) for free. I am not saying it can't be done for a particular project as I am sure Slashdot will give a me a slew of projects that have a great UI. But to have it don't for many projects gets much harder.
But there are things that Open Source does much better then commercial such as security and stability, and a lot of core functionality and features. These are things that good programers like to do and are willing to give it out just to help the community and/or make them selfs look good.
Hybrid really brings the best to both worlds. A UI and integration can be recoded and redone as the need exists and the backend that does the real work can open so compatibility and interportability can be established and prevent anyone from having a strangle hold on the systems knowledge.
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Protesters are STUPID. We are protesting against AT&T response that their infrastructure can't handle the load By DDOSing them. Isn't that like beating the crap out of person who says you are too violent.
Yes, They could go even further and say Windows could _only_ be run on One computer only. It is their product they can do what they want with it good or not for the company. What Microsoft probably couldn't do is say with the existing versions that are already sold change the agreement and AMD can no longer use this, after they released the software and said yes they did back then.
Exactly. In a recession people buy less, it is a cause and the effect of a recession (kinda of a catch 22 effect) For small recessions video games may have seen an increase as it is an "affordable" method for entertainment. So you may loose your job for a few weeks but during this time you can play the games. During a large recession such as this, Video Games could mean an extra week worth of food enough to get the rent/mortgage over for the next month.
After the recession/loosing jobs end and the economy picks up people will get games again as they have "suffered" long enough.
Well perhaps... Perhaps Life is still unique in the universe. However some bacteria which came from mars went in spore form to earth and found it was a good place to grow, or the other way around. We could find life within our solar system. But that is it.