I haven't written OS-tied software since the mid-90's.
Python for scripting, PHP for the web, and ANSI C for anything serious (yes C is 100% cross-platform). Usually wrapped in a a nice WYSIWYG'd GUI from MSVS or Xcode that adds a whopping 1% to devel time.
Most serious open source projects are that way to. I really don't know too many people that care at all about the OS, as long as it's not a pain in the ass. So obviously most run OS X, some Windows, and a handful of Linux.
x86 won the CPU wars, and DONT_CARE won the OS war. But both wars are over.
We're 2 years into the GPU and other computation engine (Cell etc) wars now, and Apple just started the real mobile computing wars, so try and keep up.
I'm sure this will blow over as nothing soon enough, but it's EXACTLY this kind of stuff that scares the crap out of corporations and prevents Open Source(TM) from making much headway.
The current reality is that your code is either public domain (new BSD is also allowable, GPL is _NOT_) and people will use it, or it's under one of the 7,867 Open Source(TM) licenses with 10 times that many cryptic and probably incompatible clauses that nobody really knows what to make of. The _applications_ will be used of course, but the code is dead.
The sooner people figure that out the sooner we can all stop having to rewrite everything.
Don't worry, we'll still all have work rewriting everything in the language flavor of the month. This year everyone is getting paid to rewrite all their code in Ruby I hear.
"said they recognize the Volt's price will have to be competitive"
Translated:
"Due to our insane labor, pension, and health care costs due to the unions, we're pulling this publicity stunt on the way to bankruptcy. Buy some stuck sucker, now excuse me while I go cook the books."
Make no mistake, GM and Ford have absolutely no hope or survival. Do they really think there is anyone out there that doesn't know this already?
You have to keep your skills up to date with what's valuable, not with what's new.
Thanks to outsourcing, you can get five, maybe ten dollars an hour for pre-spec'd Ruby or C# these days. Every high school kid in China and India is learning them, so paying more then that is foolish since there is probably a free open source solution anyway.
I dunno about you, but that makes Ruby and C++ rather uninteresting skills to have. McDonalds will pay ten and hour for someone that speaks English (around here being legal makes you management).
COBOL on the other hand you can support your family with, for now.
Nobody outside of academia cares about GPA. I've never been asked about mine, never asked anyone about theirs in the hiring I've done either. But Google is almost all academics, so they care.
Lucky for us all, other academics have figured out that GPA is most strongly correlated as a past indicator of family income, not current or future intelligence. (Google for the studies, haha)
Other companies care about what you have done, and what you can do. Experience and skills. Since the only thing Google did is pagerank, and all it does is sell ads with no signs of doing anything else, maybe they should consider the normal methods a little more, and hire some did'ers and do'ers.
Then again, the only thing Americans do anymore is sell Chinese made stuff, or advertise Chinese made stuff so they can sell it, so Google may be right on after all.
While I love the required buzzword baiting, distributed data collection that's used in this project really has nothing to do with distributed data processing projects like SETI@home. At least this project is looking for something real.
And a large home telescope and related equipment isn't exactly a free download either;)
The difference is, PayPal is not a bank, and goes to GREAT lengths to avoid being under any of the banking laws that protect you and me from companies, well... like PayPal.
They do a great deal of business catering to criminals, er customers that cannot get a credit card or a merchant account. Considering the criteria for both are trivial, that's saying a lot.
Yay! How profound that what we've always known finally made it into the heads of the military. If you mix code into your data, you're screwed eventually. No way around it.
That said, it's the JavaScript, not the HTML - formatting is data not code.
Now if only they would figure out the same about Word/Excel.
Content-Type contains "multipart" or Content-Type contains "text/html" and not in address book.
What those don't catch, along with a couple filters for non-english, Thunderbirds filters do. Haven't had a false positive yet. It gets all that image spam, and before that, it caught all that HTML. That same logic working in Mail.app.
My current rig is an Athlon 64 3200+, 10k RPM drive, ATI 9800 Pro, 2GB of RAM.
There are 2 HUGE mistakes there. The CPU and the drive. Both are HOT, and hungry hungry for $power.
My next machine I'm looking exclusively at the dual core 35W CPU's, leaning a little to Intel over AMD. For the drive, I'll probably go for a SATA laptop drive, since by 10 min after booting, absolutely everything is in RAM anyway - turns out drive performance is 100% irrelevant.
The 9800 runs all the games I've playyed since (Lineage2, GuildWars, AutoAssault, WoW) at 30+ FPS, so it's good enough for anyone who doesn't live in their parents basement:) That said, go buy a X1900 and run Folding@home!
Finding data on low-power video cards has been a little trickier, noone seems to make anything under 1.21 jigawatts. Even the 9800 is hot stuff.
Sounds alot like a Mac Mini, so clearly Apple has figured out the same stuff, and that may just be the cheapest way to go once they move them to core 2 duo.
Slashdot Mirror
You got it. This only helps the big companies even more.
It's the right call but the real world fallout is gonna suck.
I haven't written OS-tied software since the mid-90's.
Python for scripting, PHP for the web, and ANSI C for anything serious (yes C is 100% cross-platform). Usually wrapped in a a nice WYSIWYG'd GUI from MSVS or Xcode that adds a whopping 1% to devel time.
Most serious open source projects are that way to. I really don't know too many people that care at all about the OS, as long as it's not a pain in the ass. So obviously most run OS X, some Windows, and a handful of Linux.
x86 won the CPU wars, and DONT_CARE won the OS war. But both wars are over.
We're 2 years into the GPU and other computation engine (Cell etc) wars now, and Apple just started the real mobile computing wars, so try and keep up.
Yea, sleep deprivation.
:(
They priced this thing in the stratosphere
"My MP3 collection is 13gigs. I'd have to shell out $500 and I'd *still* have to carry around my iPod."
How do you listen to 9 days of music on one battery charge/sync?
Seriously, I'd like to know, because I think you're sitting on billions if you can sell that battery before the oil barons find you and kill you.
Back here in reality, 4GB is plenty to shuffle happily away.
So buying the iPhone PAYS me $700 over 2 years vs. normal Cingular service.
:(
Everyone is gonna want one. Except... Cingular coverage is complete crap
No reason they would treat him any better then they do their customers.
Safe to assume they are bending poor Steve over a desk on this one.
I'm sure this will blow over as nothing soon enough, but it's EXACTLY this kind of stuff that scares the crap out of corporations and prevents Open Source(TM) from making much headway.
The current reality is that your code is either public domain (new BSD is also allowable, GPL is _NOT_) and people will use it, or it's under one of the 7,867 Open Source(TM) licenses with 10 times that many cryptic and probably incompatible clauses that nobody really knows what to make of. The _applications_ will be used of course, but the code is dead.
The sooner people figure that out the sooner we can all stop having to rewrite everything.
Don't worry, we'll still all have work rewriting everything in the language flavor of the month. This year everyone is getting paid to rewrite all their code in Ruby I hear.
Screw that.
disney.xxx
You can make 100m easy extorting... er offering them buying it back.
Like all non-com domains, this is just another corporate shakedown.
"said they recognize the Volt's price will have to be competitive"
Translated:
"Due to our insane labor, pension, and health care costs due to the unions, we're pulling this publicity stunt on the way to bankruptcy. Buy some stuck sucker, now excuse me while I go cook the books."
Make no mistake, GM and Ford have absolutely no hope or survival. Do they really think there is anyone out there that doesn't know this already?
You have to keep your skills up to date with what's valuable, not with what's new.
Thanks to outsourcing, you can get five, maybe ten dollars an hour for pre-spec'd Ruby or C# these days. Every high school kid in China and India is learning them, so paying more then that is foolish since there is probably a free open source solution anyway.
I dunno about you, but that makes Ruby and C++ rather uninteresting skills to have. McDonalds will pay ten and hour for someone that speaks English (around here being legal makes you management).
COBOL on the other hand you can support your family with, for now.
Nobody outside of academia cares about GPA. I've never been asked about mine, never asked anyone about theirs in the hiring I've done either. But Google is almost all academics, so they care.
Lucky for us all, other academics have figured out that GPA is most strongly correlated as a past indicator of family income, not current or future intelligence. (Google for the studies, haha)
Other companies care about what you have done, and what you can do. Experience and skills. Since the only thing Google did is pagerank, and all it does is sell ads with no signs of doing anything else, maybe they should consider the normal methods a little more, and hire some did'ers and do'ers.
Then again, the only thing Americans do anymore is sell Chinese made stuff, or advertise Chinese made stuff so they can sell it, so Google may be right on after all.
While I love the required buzzword baiting, distributed data collection that's used in this project really has nothing to do with distributed data processing projects like SETI@home. At least this project is looking for something real.
;)
And a large home telescope and related equipment isn't exactly a free download either
So why compare them?
No, putting arrays on the stack causes buffer overflows. Which is trivial to not do, and trivial to check for.
The fact that Microsoft doesn't HAVE a security model, IE/Outlook are jokes, and users run as admin has a bit more to do with it.
My spam dropped to 100 messages a day from 1000++ right after the earthquake, but it ramping right back up.
Lets hope they can say offline as long as possible.
URL? :)
Young adults don't care about anything, so an article about them not caring about _____ is redundant.
Space is big, mostly empty, expensive, and dangerous. So people know about space they just have no reason to care about it.
NASA has also had some *ahem* issues with spending money in smart ways instead of just acting as a funnel to the pockets of friends of government.
The difference is, PayPal is not a bank, and goes to GREAT lengths to avoid being under any of the banking laws that protect you and me from companies, well... like PayPal.
They do a great deal of business catering to criminals, er customers that cannot get a credit card or a merchant account. Considering the criteria for both are trivial, that's saying a lot.
So is "mashup" the hip new word for "programming"?
I guess if programming is something 3rd world starving people do for $0.50/day, we need a new word.
I better get back to mashing, hahahahahah
Yay! How profound that what we've always known finally made it into the heads of the military. If you mix code into your data, you're screwed eventually. No way around it.
That said, it's the JavaScript, not the HTML - formatting is data not code.
Now if only they would figure out the same about Word/Excel.
We're still calling it an iPhone. Cisco is trying to trick Apple lovers into buying their crap, and any judge with a brain would rule that way.
When they launch it, we'll just have to tell people to go get a "real iPhone" a [what-they-call-it].
There are 187 in the spam box of a Gmail acct I have NEVER used. Amusing.
Content-Type contains "multipart"
or Content-Type contains "text/html"
and not in address book.
What those don't catch, along with a couple filters for non-english, Thunderbirds filters do. Haven't had a false positive yet. It gets all that image spam, and before that, it caught all that HTML. That same logic working in Mail.app.
My current rig is an Athlon 64 3200+, 10k RPM drive, ATI 9800 Pro, 2GB of RAM.
:) That said, go buy a X1900 and run Folding@home!
There are 2 HUGE mistakes there. The CPU and the drive. Both are HOT, and hungry hungry for $power.
My next machine I'm looking exclusively at the dual core 35W CPU's, leaning a little to Intel over AMD. For the drive, I'll probably go for a SATA laptop drive, since by 10 min after booting, absolutely everything is in RAM anyway - turns out drive performance is 100% irrelevant.
The 9800 runs all the games I've playyed since (Lineage2, GuildWars, AutoAssault, WoW) at 30+ FPS, so it's good enough for anyone who doesn't live in their parents basement
Finding data on low-power video cards has been a little trickier, noone seems to make anything under 1.21 jigawatts. Even the 9800 is hot stuff.
Sounds alot like a Mac Mini, so clearly Apple has figured out the same stuff, and that may just be the cheapest way to go once they move them to core 2 duo.
But oil is who is buying these insane places.
... your SUV is using too much oil, stop driving.
The oil barons have obviously run out of ways to spend your money.
Good grief. And this isn't even a wild idea compared to what they have already built.