Nothing turns a kid off to reading and writing like a bunch of teachers who red mark all your work. While the person next to you gets a gold star. In kindergarden they usually just cover the alphabet and writing letters. The Invented Spelling at least gets them in the mind set that writing is a fun activity. Later on you can more quietly work on the issues and teach them the rules for spelling.
Putting Apple on a higher pedestal just because there are a bunch of Fan Boys out there really isn't fair to apple. I know with my iPhone sometimes I will get some dirt or sweat on my screen and the touch display doesn't work as well until I clean it off. Now someone who isn't to bright when the iPhone isn't being responsive will press harder to try to get it to work. Perhaps with all their might (well beyond normal use), to a point where they break the glass and cause it to implode on them. Or just a lot of really high pressure until some of the internal components get shorted out.
It is like saying it is Mercedes fault for a car accident if the person driving the car was drunk and drove it off a cliff. Because for the money you paid for it should have sensors to prevent such occurrence.
You can't make thing idiot proof, as idiots can get very resourceful.
I hope this isn't a new trend of 7337 |-|@(|0%$ to try to brag of their mad skill by seeing what code can fit in a Tweet.
The less the code doesn't mean better performance. The less code can mean less functionality and error checking. The less code does mean less documentation The less code could mean harder readability.
We need less people taking their time and effort making unreadable small code and more effort in making good and useful applications and libraries. Granted such exercises may be useful to allow you to think of problems differently but you can get the same effect by changing languages say from C to LISP. Also these examples seem to take in include headers which accounts for thousands of lines of code, which are often limited to either the OS or even just the Programming language.
It is like me saying I can make a Web Browser using a shell script with 2 lines.
Umm. I don't think finding people to do R&D is the issue. It is funding the R&D that is an issue. How do you justify paying for R&D as an investment as what normally happends with R&D is you spend a lot of money for a new Idea. Now with that Idea the following can Happen...
1. You Create a new product then in a few months 3rd party knock offs come up as they are cheaper start to chew away your market share. Your company image looks like a snotty over priced greedy company. Although the reason the competition is cheaper is that they didn't spend millions in R&D.
2. You Create a new product but it is to far ahead of its time. Thus fails miserably. Being so far ahead of its time any minor glitch is magnified as the culture isn't ready to take such tradeoffs. You loose money from the product and your reputation is lowered as people who didn't like the tradeoff will assume you are out of touch with what they want.
3. You Create a new Idea you didn't think it was worth while. Give/Sell it to an other company and they make huge amounts of money from it. And you just get mocked for not having enough foresight.
4. You Create a new idea you don't think it is worth while but you hold on to the rights. Someone want to use it but you say now and you look like a patent troll.
5. You put money in an Idea and it was not worth while but you try to market it. You loose money
6. You put money in an idea and not worth while and do nothing. You still loose the money for the R&D.
Oddly enough Monopolies or near monopolies really help large scale R&D while a world of open competition will prevent such large scale R&D and only allow for incremental changes. But to say you can't find people to do R&D i would say would be false. A lot of people would prefer to do R&D even if it paid less.
While the concept is simple. The example given really isn't that good to prove it.
1. Including of Uncommon (in terms of everyday use) libraries and headers. 2. The function calls and enumerations/global variables really have horrible names.
So unless you use these uncommon features in your work and even if you do have a good understanding of Operating Systems, that example isn't really that good. So in really the post is just the guy see how 7337 I am. I found a way to hack a computer in a twitter line.
It Is simpler then that. If virtualized windows runs slow on a Linux host. Then windows Looks bad as Linux would run much faster. Making Linux seem faster then windows. And vice versa. Also if you are virtualizing you want your virtualizing softwae to seem it runs faster then the competition. So any attempt to hinder such work will only hurt yourself.
You fail to see the progression. If this continues. Coding software will focus on better cross platform developing code once compile thrice. Just recently for software development we getting to that level. It a bit more time software development for phones will reach that level if we have a good amount of competition across some major lines.
Interesting trends if true. However I am to lazy to fact check so I will take you word for granted.
Now we can look at this in 2 ways. Like back in the Early PC erra. We got big Names. Apple, Commodore, Amega, and the IBM PC Comparing History the IBM PC and Android are roughly in the same spot. Not Quite Number 1 but there is a lot of other people making compatible products...
Now will history repeat itself or will Apple, Blackberry, Palm really hold out and keep android as the poor mans Smart Phone.
Apple and Blackberry have a good head start. Apple like in its original fashion had moved a business only device (smart phone) and made it good for the general public. Causing Blackberry to try to catch up as well as Palm. However knowing the similarities in history we may make choices that will prevent it from repeating.
Going with Google Android will like be choosing DOS a generation ago. While preventing hardware lock-in we get software lock-in. If we choose Apple/Blackberry/Palm we are pushing for hardware and software tight integration and a lot of duel features. Preventing the Beige Boxes of SmartPhones, and Google becoming a bit more Evil over time will restrict what can be done on hardware. Now if we choose to not switch to IBM PC and buy Amega, Commodore and Apples. We will probably have a world of better Cross Platform application and far better hardware products that are not limited on backwards compatibility.
I think we are genetically designed to live normally to around 60 not 40. While back in them olden days the average life span was probably around 40 it was due more to factors such as disease from living in a civilizations that doesn't know about microorganisms. For the old man who lives in the oasis or outside from society. They probably lived naturally to around 60+. After 60 that is when the body really start to show its age, and breaks down.
Data Mining and Business Intelligence doesn't need huge powerhouses anymore. A low end server can easily handle the Millions of records Databases now. The Mid Range can handle Billions. What is left for Oracle and Sun are the Trillions of records DB. Which most sectors don't use. Also with advances in distributed computing we rarely need to go high end for the Trillions of records.
But this is Slashdot we expect every company to do the wrong thing. Even if doing the rite thing and making money is compatible. The Java brand is a big success (although I am personally not a big fan of Java), keeping the existing staff makes the most sense. What negative to the community might happen is as the language expands it will be more modified to meet Oracles main interests and less on Sun's more general interests.
The problems is Americans have trouble with moderation. For people in other countries who smoke you ask the how much do they smoke cigarets they tell you 2 cigarets a day. If you ask an American they will go 1-2 packs a day. If you were to make such a law in the United States it will need such a prevision to insure that it doesn't tell americans it is OK to do such activities. Eg. If found with small portions of drugs they will have to go to drug rehab. Otherwise it will just tell americans who most of them believe if it is legal it is moral and go ahead and do it.
As far as mergers go this is probably a good fit. Oracle and Sun always needed each other for the most part. However I feel both are a dyeing breed. The industry wether you like it or not is moving away from those two companies core competencies. High End Servers which are highly scalable with high end software which is highly scalable, is no longer the way it is now. We are moving to more smaller systems and don't need such scalability features as we realize that cost benefit really isn't there, for most situations.
If we accept that American workers are far less likely to be taken advantage of by their employer Why would you say that? Cost of living is different in different parts of the world. Saying that getting paid 10k a year is ripping off a person in a different country is abusing them were the same job would be $50k in in US. Different cultures have difference sensibilities. Where living with a roommates/extended family isn't looked down on, cooking at home and foods with less meat and more affordable foods. So they could live a comfortable life for less.
Another possible reason is love of country and willingness to sacrifice for it, aka patriotism. Patriotism can really only go so far. If you can't be competitive you go out of business you cannot hire any americans.
Real reasons to Hire American Workers for more? Cultural Advantages, American Cultures has a competitive advantage. Americans are hard workers, we take less vacations then most other countries, and have a rather strict sense of punctuality, we tend to identify ourselves on what is our job, as well we are rather moral people. So for the most part if you hire americans vs. people from other areas there is a better chance that they will not lie on their resume and during the interview more fairly rate their strengths and weaknesses, when we get the job we will tend to be on time, and take pride in their work and go for the little extra. Now I am not saying other cultures don't have these traits But Americans have their own unique culture which can give a competitive advantage.
Education, unfortunately this advantage is rapidly dropping in the US. But higher Education in the United States is still very good quality and better then most of the world so American with college degrees will be on the average better educated. As well colleges tend to attract businesses to the areas as they can get the educated people rather quickly from the colleges.
Timezones Remember going to other countries you have these timezones (up to 12 hour difference) For some work this makes things much more difficult.
Racism. Did you ever stop to think why you think Outsourcing to India and China is so much more horrible then outsourcing to Europe? Could it be that these people look different and speak a different language then most of us. When we outsource to Europe we advertise it as to say look how high scale we are. But for the most part there is still Racism at some level that will prevent people from outsourcing to cheaper areas.
In others words. I want to bitch and moan about a feature that I will probably never use. Just because I think if we had such a feature I will have so many friends over because I have a good lan infrastructure.
I always though the expansion of the universe is pushing us upwards at an increasing rate, to give the impression to us that we were always being pulled down. Of course simulations of that theory doesn't seem to account for orbital patterns.
I would even say that most people are unwilling to rate the new work fairly. I was a kid when I first read the HHGTTG It really opened my mind up to different ways of thinking. However, now when I read it I may pick up a couple of nuances but for the most part the enjoyment is a nostalgia effect. Reading the other books when they came out Played on the nostalgia effect. Now with a new author I am now would be reading it with more trepidation, and really comparing it vs. judging it on its own merits and giving it my OK before hand ignoring the boring parts, focusing on the good parts.
Just like how Starwars ep. I,II,III weren't as good as IV, V, VI. Really if you watched IV, V, VI without the nostalgia you would probably go they are rather silly movies with a lot of bad acting. But because it was so long between the two movies it was allowed to sink into our culture. And we all pictured our own ideas what might have happened in Ep. 1,2,3 when it failed to meet our vision we didn't like it. I have always pictured Anakin Skywalker as more of a pure hero without showing signs of going dark. Until ep. III he was faced with a bunch of moral delemas which gradually turned him dark until he couldn't come back.
It is not their smarts but their Ego which is dangerous. After getting that paper that calls them Dr. their Ego can take over and make the brain more rigid again. Living life in a filtered environment where they are the expert, and people will not disagree with them, that is unless they with peers of their field.
They feel that they are better then everyone else, and in turn loose a lot of their humanity.
Now when people know this has happened to a person, it gets easy to manipulate them as all you need to do is stroke their Ego in the right way.
It could be commercially viable. Imbedded systems, Running High Performance Simulations, etc... They want control over their program and don't want other people mucking about it that they don't want. They don't want someone else to make it Commercially Viable and make a pant load of money from their work. There are a lot of reasons. Not everyone is a fan of Open Source especially the GNU. You really can't expect everyone to Like Open Source or the GNU.
Kickbacks are often modified quite carefully so it doesn't seem like you may be getting one. Publishing Company Sponsored events, where you are "networking" with other professors from different colleges to help others write their books for them, (or some research fill a paragraph get you name in the book, and some royalties) Chances are you will be pushing your book to your class. Or carefully presented to show you how to use all the features of the publishing company. Work Books, CDROMs, Web Site... Anything to make you want to get the Deluxe version, which hard to sell back as used.
The New trend of customized text books. where you can get mixed version of the book (only the chapters you need) and because you are making a mix you get royalties from the sales.
Free Textbooks as samples or as thanks for having your classes use them, (you can use such textbooks to donate to needy students)
Professors are excellent saps for such tricks or marketing. Because they have reached the peak of educational achievements many of them have got the Ego where they really think they are that much smarter then the rest of the population, even though most of them just got there threw hard work, not superior intellect. So they think they are immune to such tricks. Secondly a professors pay isn't really that great so incentives that could make them a little more money or get their name out a bit, they just jump to it. "I Can Do No Wrong" + "I need money/recognition" = "Publishing Company Profit"
even when they are paid a fortune to drag it screaming into the new century
Who are these people who pay developers to do this?
Most of the time we don't upgrade the code is because no one will put up the cash to do so. Most developers would love to redo their code and upgrade it to a newer code set and a new ways of doing things.
Slashdot Mirror
Nothing turns a kid off to reading and writing like a bunch of teachers who red mark all your work. While the person next to you gets a gold star. In kindergarden they usually just cover the alphabet and writing letters. The Invented Spelling at least gets them in the mind set that writing is a fun activity. Later on you can more quietly work on the issues and teach them the rules for spelling.
Putting Apple on a higher pedestal just because there are a bunch of Fan Boys out there really isn't fair to apple.
I know with my iPhone sometimes I will get some dirt or sweat on my screen and the touch display doesn't work as well until I clean it off. Now someone who isn't to bright when the iPhone isn't being responsive will press harder to try to get it to work. Perhaps with all their might (well beyond normal use), to a point where they break the glass and cause it to implode on them. Or just a lot of really high pressure until some of the internal components get shorted out.
It is like saying it is Mercedes fault for a car accident if the person driving the car was drunk and drove it off a cliff. Because for the money you paid for it should have sensors to prevent such occurrence.
You can't make thing idiot proof, as idiots can get very resourceful.
I hope this isn't a new trend of 7337 |-|@(|0%$ to try to brag of their mad skill by seeing what code can fit in a Tweet.
The less the code doesn't mean better performance.
The less code can mean less functionality and error checking.
The less code does mean less documentation
The less code could mean harder readability.
We need less people taking their time and effort making unreadable small code and more effort in making good and useful applications and libraries. Granted such exercises may be useful to allow you to think of problems differently but you can get the same effect by changing languages say from C to LISP. Also these examples seem to take in include headers which accounts for thousands of lines of code, which are often limited to either the OS or even just the Programming language.
It is like me saying I can make a Web Browser using a shell script with 2 lines.
#!/bin/bash
apachectl start
Umm. I don't think finding people to do R&D is the issue. It is funding the R&D that is an issue. How do you justify paying for R&D as an investment as what normally happends with R&D is you spend a lot of money for a new Idea. Now with that Idea the following can Happen...
1. You Create a new product then in a few months 3rd party knock offs come up as they are cheaper start to chew away your market share. Your company image looks like a snotty over priced greedy company. Although the reason the competition is cheaper is that they didn't spend millions in R&D.
2. You Create a new product but it is to far ahead of its time. Thus fails miserably. Being so far ahead of its time any minor glitch is magnified as the culture isn't ready to take such tradeoffs. You loose money from the product and your reputation is lowered as people who didn't like the tradeoff will assume you are out of touch with what they want.
3. You Create a new Idea you didn't think it was worth while. Give/Sell it to an other company and they make huge amounts of money from it. And you just get mocked for not having enough foresight.
4. You Create a new idea you don't think it is worth while but you hold on to the rights. Someone want to use it but you say now and you look like a patent troll.
5. You put money in an Idea and it was not worth while but you try to market it. You loose money
6. You put money in an idea and not worth while and do nothing. You still loose the money for the R&D.
Oddly enough Monopolies or near monopolies really help large scale R&D while a world of open competition will prevent such large scale R&D and only allow for incremental changes. But to say you can't find people to do R&D i would say would be false. A lot of people would prefer to do R&D even if it paid less.
While the concept is simple. The example given really isn't that good to prove it.
1. Including of Uncommon (in terms of everyday use) libraries and headers.
2. The function calls and enumerations/global variables really have horrible names.
So unless you use these uncommon features in your work and even if you do have a good understanding of Operating Systems, that example isn't really that good.
So in really the post is just the guy see how 7337 I am. I found a way to hack a computer in a twitter line.
It Is simpler then that. If virtualized windows runs slow on a Linux host. Then windows Looks bad as Linux would run much faster. Making Linux seem faster then windows. And vice versa. Also if you are virtualizing you want your virtualizing softwae to seem it runs faster then the competition. So any attempt to hinder such work will only hurt yourself.
You fail to see the progression. If this continues. Coding software will focus on better cross platform developing code once compile thrice. Just recently for software development we getting to that level. It a bit more time software development for phones will reach that level if we have a good amount of competition across some major lines.
Ummm.... Most organizations don't need that....
I never said the High end stuff doesn't have its place... But it is much smaller market.
Interesting trends if true. However I am to lazy to fact check so I will take you word for granted.
Now we can look at this in 2 ways.
Like back in the Early PC erra.
We got big Names.
Apple, Commodore, Amega, and the IBM PC
Comparing History the IBM PC and Android are roughly in the same spot. Not Quite Number 1 but there is a lot of other people making compatible products...
Now will history repeat itself or will Apple, Blackberry, Palm really hold out and keep android as the poor mans Smart Phone.
Apple and Blackberry have a good head start. Apple like in its original fashion had moved a business only device (smart phone) and made it good for the general public. Causing Blackberry to try to catch up as well as Palm. However knowing the similarities in history we may make choices that will prevent it from repeating.
Going with Google Android will like be choosing DOS a generation ago. While preventing hardware lock-in we get software lock-in. If we choose Apple/Blackberry/Palm we are pushing for hardware and software tight integration and a lot of duel features. Preventing the Beige Boxes of SmartPhones, and Google becoming a bit more Evil over time will restrict what can be done on hardware. Now if we choose to not switch to IBM PC and buy Amega, Commodore and Apples. We will probably have a world of better Cross Platform application and far better hardware products that are not limited on backwards compatibility.
I think we are genetically designed to live normally to around 60 not 40. While back in them olden days the average life span was probably around 40 it was due more to factors such as disease from living in a civilizations that doesn't know about microorganisms. For the old man who lives in the oasis or outside from society. They probably lived naturally to around 60+. After 60 that is when the body really start to show its age, and breaks down.
Data Mining and Business Intelligence doesn't need huge powerhouses anymore. A low end server can easily handle the Millions of records Databases now. The Mid Range can handle Billions. What is left for Oracle and Sun are the Trillions of records DB. Which most sectors don't use. Also with advances in distributed computing we rarely need to go high end for the Trillions of records.
But this is Slashdot we expect every company to do the wrong thing. Even if doing the rite thing and making money is compatible. The Java brand is a big success (although I am personally not a big fan of Java), keeping the existing staff makes the most sense. What negative to the community might happen is as the language expands it will be more modified to meet Oracles main interests and less on Sun's more general interests.
The problems is Americans have trouble with moderation. For people in other countries who smoke you ask the how much do they smoke cigarets they tell you 2 cigarets a day. If you ask an American they will go 1-2 packs a day. If you were to make such a law in the United States it will need such a prevision to insure that it doesn't tell americans it is OK to do such activities. Eg. If found with small portions of drugs they will have to go to drug rehab. Otherwise it will just tell americans who most of them believe if it is legal it is moral and go ahead and do it.
Apollo.
As far as mergers go this is probably a good fit. Oracle and Sun always needed each other for the most part. However I feel both are a dyeing breed. The industry wether you like it or not is moving away from those two companies core competencies.
High End Servers which are highly scalable with high end software which is highly scalable, is no longer the way it is now. We are moving to more smaller systems and don't need such scalability features as we realize that cost benefit really isn't there, for most situations.
If we accept that American workers are far less likely to be taken advantage of by their employer Why would you say that? Cost of living is different in different parts of the world. Saying that getting paid 10k a year is ripping off a person in a different country is abusing them were the same job would be $50k in in US. Different cultures have difference sensibilities. Where living with a roommates/extended family isn't looked down on, cooking at home and foods with less meat and more affordable foods. So they could live a comfortable life for less.
Another possible reason is love of country and willingness to sacrifice for it, aka patriotism. Patriotism can really only go so far. If you can't be competitive you go out of business you cannot hire any americans.
Real reasons to Hire American Workers for more?
Cultural Advantages, American Cultures has a competitive advantage. Americans are hard workers, we take less vacations then most other countries, and have a rather strict sense of punctuality, we tend to identify ourselves on what is our job, as well we are rather moral people. So for the most part if you hire americans vs. people from other areas there is a better chance that they will not lie on their resume and during the interview more fairly rate their strengths and weaknesses, when we get the job we will tend to be on time, and take pride in their work and go for the little extra.
Now I am not saying other cultures don't have these traits But Americans have their own unique culture which can give a competitive advantage.
Education, unfortunately this advantage is rapidly dropping in the US. But higher Education in the United States is still very good quality and better then most of the world so American with college degrees will be on the average better educated. As well colleges tend to attract businesses to the areas as they can get the educated people rather quickly from the colleges.
Timezones Remember going to other countries you have these timezones (up to 12 hour difference) For some work this makes things much more difficult.
Racism. Did you ever stop to think why you think Outsourcing to India and China is so much more horrible then outsourcing to Europe? Could it be that these people look different and speak a different language then most of us. When we outsource to Europe we advertise it as to say look how high scale we are. But for the most part there is still Racism at some level that will prevent people from outsourcing to cheaper areas.
In others words. I want to bitch and moan about a feature that I will probably never use. Just because I think if we had such a feature I will have so many friends over because I have a good lan infrastructure.
I always though the expansion of the universe is pushing us upwards at an increasing rate, to give the impression to us that we were always being pulled down. Of course simulations of that theory doesn't seem to account for orbital patterns.
I would even say that most people are unwilling to rate the new work fairly. I was a kid when I first read the HHGTTG It really opened my mind up to different ways of thinking. However, now when I read it I may pick up a couple of nuances but for the most part the enjoyment is a nostalgia effect. Reading the other books when they came out Played on the nostalgia effect. Now with a new author I am now would be reading it with more trepidation, and really comparing it vs. judging it on its own merits and giving it my OK before hand ignoring the boring parts, focusing on the good parts.
Just like how Starwars ep. I,II,III weren't as good as IV, V, VI. Really if you watched IV, V, VI without the nostalgia you would probably go they are rather silly movies with a lot of bad acting. But because it was so long between the two movies it was allowed to sink into our culture. And we all pictured our own ideas what might have happened in Ep. 1,2,3 when it failed to meet our vision we didn't like it. I have always pictured Anakin Skywalker as more of a pure hero without showing signs of going dark. Until ep. III he was faced with a bunch of moral delemas which gradually turned him dark until he couldn't come back.
Does this me as a consumer will own a legit copy myself. I paid for this service that means the product I received is legit.
It is not their smarts but their Ego which is dangerous. After getting that paper that calls them Dr. their Ego can take over and make the brain more rigid again. Living life in a filtered environment where they are the expert, and people will not disagree with them, that is unless they with peers of their field.
They feel that they are better then everyone else, and in turn loose a lot of their humanity.
Now when people know this has happened to a person, it gets easy to manipulate them as all you need to do is stroke their Ego in the right way.
It could be commercially viable. Imbedded systems, Running High Performance Simulations, etc...
They want control over their program and don't want other people mucking about it that they don't want.
They don't want someone else to make it Commercially Viable and make a pant load of money from their work.
There are a lot of reasons. Not everyone is a fan of Open Source especially the GNU. You really can't expect everyone to Like Open Source or the GNU.
Are you sure?
Kickbacks are often modified quite carefully so it doesn't seem like you may be getting one.
Publishing Company Sponsored events, where you are "networking" with other professors from different colleges to help others write their books for them, (or some research fill a paragraph get you name in the book, and some royalties) Chances are you will be pushing your book to your class. Or carefully presented to show you how to use all the features of the publishing company. Work Books, CDROMs, Web Site... Anything to make you want to get the Deluxe version, which hard to sell back as used.
The New trend of customized text books. where you can get mixed version of the book (only the chapters you need) and because you are making a mix you get royalties from the sales.
Free Textbooks as samples or as thanks for having your classes use them, (you can use such textbooks to donate to needy students)
Professors are excellent saps for such tricks or marketing. Because they have reached the peak of educational achievements many of them have got the Ego where they really think they are that much smarter then the rest of the population, even though most of them just got there threw hard work, not superior intellect. So they think they are immune to such tricks. Secondly a professors pay isn't really that great so incentives that could make them a little more money or get their name out a bit, they just jump to it. "I Can Do No Wrong" + "I need money/recognition" = "Publishing Company Profit"
even when they are paid a fortune to drag it screaming into the new century
Who are these people who pay developers to do this?
Most of the time we don't upgrade the code is because no one will put up the cash to do so. Most developers would love to redo their code and upgrade it to a newer code set and a new ways of doing things.
So lets have it create a 120gig file called "-rf /" And lets see how many amateur Linux users will whip out their drives.
Are you trusting the site you connect to. That is the Active X mentality. If you went to the site then it is OK.