Probably.
But they DO cover more services. Bare MS licensing gives you not much more than the OS. Now add IIS support, Exchange, Office in every machine, etc.
RHEL gives you an OS plus e-mail server, web server, directory server, virtualization, and all the free goodies packaged in RHEL. ALL WITHIN SCOPE OF THE SUPPORT CONTRACT.
That's exactly why you don't qualify for the job of investment banker. They're trained to make educated guesses. Depending on the mood, they may swing the number for better or worse.
Also, that's why stock prices are so volatile.
Cleary you work in a f*cked up company. If your believe employees wake up every morning thinking "how can I make things worse at work" please shoot yourself.
Trust is an integral part of managing people - else you're bound to suffocate yourself with micromanagement.
Is TFA talking about the Linux or Windows thread and scheduling not good enough for 4+ cores (so your programs no matter how good designed will not benefit from more cores), about being damn hard to split, thread and join tasks, or both?
J2SE: Duh! Forget Eclipse/Netbeans for now, use Notepad++ or Vim as you need to get a grasp for classloading, packaging, etc.
JDBC, then Hibernate, then JPA: These are the standard when talking about persistence. Now you can use Eclipse/Netbeans.
Tomcat/JSP/Servlets: The building blocks of web development.
Swing/threads: only if you need to develop local apps.
Those should give you the "Average Java Developer" sticker. Now it depends of where you're heading. If it's large enterprise, J2EE application server's basic services like authentication, integrated web server, EJBs, CMP, JSP/JSF, etc.
If it's "lighter" web development struts is good if dealing with legacy apps; spring or seam excels at newer apps.
I personally favors Seam since it leverages Java standards - I like to call it "J2EE done right". And the main leader, Gavin King is working to create a Seam-like J2EE core technology like he did with EJB3. It's a plus when dealing with corporations.
Much of the cutting-edge research is still done in the old word. Remember the Dolly, the sheep? There's the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. And the top researchers in the field of steam-cells are europeans.
America's top universities are among the bests, if not the bests ones. However, IMO the average american graduate is not as bright as his european fellow.
I believe the decline in public schooling quality has major impact. As they say, garbage in, garbage out.
For GUI (if you're doing Java), I'd suggest Netbeans. The Matisse tool and layout manager is rather easy and impressive. Anyways, GUI is a very small portion of today's programming problems.
As for "Team", what do you mean by it? What Eclipse+SVN+Mylyn+Jabber can't do that VS can?
I think I might finally put my Business degree to some use in Slashdot! Let's see..
$1193 per user to "keep things running", plus $480 in IT development: total of $1673. You also forgot to mention that by using Linux you could extend workstation "life" from 4 to 6 yrs since you don't need to upgrade the OS to the latest OS available. Since a WS costs about $1000, it means ~$75 per user/yr. From the total ~$1750, let's say you managed to save $1250, leaving $500 to pay for a couple of python programers. Since you have 750 users, global annual costs equals to $937,500.
Capital budget theory states that you could "translate" a recurring cost into a single down-payment using the discounted cash flow technique. I will assume a cost of capital of about 8%/yr. Since those costs shall rise, I must adjust for inflation, about 3.5% giving, roughly, 5.5% real cost of capital. The net present value of this recurring cost is $17,045,454.
It means that a project for wiping Windows, thus potentially saving $1250 in costs/user/yr, makes sense if it costs less then $17M. In fact, it could be more because of tax issues I won't discuss here.
I'm as much a computer lover as the next person, but there are a number of reasons why a TV currently and will always occupy a niche different from a puter:
1. Bigness. The gap is narrowing, but you can still get a bigger TV for less than a smaller monitor. As far as I can tell, more families have a room based off a TV screen than a computer screen. 2. Options. With monitors, it's either overpriced and pretty from Apple, or less overpriced and less pretty from someone else. With TVs, you can still pick a plethora of options. 3. Ease of use. The wiimote was so revolutionary, but the friggin REmote has been pretty much perfect for decades. It's simple, there's nothing extraneous like apps or downloads or email. You can switch back and forth between hundreds of options seamlessly, whereas on a computer you've got to load up the site and browse to the exact item. If you know what you want, the intarwebs are good, but if you wanna surf, TV is still better. 4. A lot easier to turn on/off. 5. No one is gonna sue you for making a tape of a movie.
The differences are narrowing, but for now, there's definite differences. Something kind of like AppleTV has a definite future in the world but we're still gonna sit around the set for the Super Bowl, not a computer (well, we will, but others won't). 1) You CAN attach a computer to any major brand LCD/Plasma screen. So, no argument there.
2) Read #1.
3) Kind of hard to setup but is a technical/design non-issue to integrate Web TV apps (which are not browsers) to remote controls. Heck! My Sky remote is more difficult to use then OLPC's keyboard!
4) If Web TV is implemented as a embedded device, booting up on OS from a previous persisted state (ram-to-disk; aka Windows hibernate) should be an easy-to-solve issue.
5) Yeah, right! As if it stopped mp3/podcasting. And tape?!? Ok, I'll get off your lawn...
I don't watch the Super Bowl, but my torrents are mostly played in my LaptopPlasma set.
The major impediments for Web TV are a) bandwidth, b) content (well, not p0rn).
What's great about slashdot is the quality of the discussions and it's model of moderation and information filtering.
It's not only geekdom that's overloaded with information. Business, politics, celebrities' life, sports, etc.
Why try to squeeze money out/. if you can clone it, put some makeup, and try to build a comunity out around another subject?
Slashdot Mirror
Probably. But they DO cover more services. Bare MS licensing gives you not much more than the OS. Now add IIS support, Exchange, Office in every machine, etc. RHEL gives you an OS plus e-mail server, web server, directory server, virtualization, and all the free goodies packaged in RHEL. ALL WITHIN SCOPE OF THE SUPPORT CONTRACT.
That's exactly why you don't qualify for the job of investment banker. They're trained to make educated guesses. Depending on the mood, they may swing the number for better or worse. Also, that's why stock prices are so volatile.
Cleary you work in a f*cked up company. If your believe employees wake up every morning thinking "how can I make things worse at work" please shoot yourself. Trust is an integral part of managing people - else you're bound to suffocate yourself with micromanagement.
The thing is I'd be crucified if I charged my customres for the x.1 release - as Microsoft intends to.
I did. And it messes things up. That's why I asked.
Is TFA talking about the Linux or Windows thread and scheduling not good enough for 4+ cores (so your programs no matter how good designed will not benefit from more cores), about being damn hard to split, thread and join tasks, or both?
J2SE: Duh! Forget Eclipse/Netbeans for now, use Notepad++ or Vim as you need to get a grasp for classloading, packaging, etc.
JDBC, then Hibernate, then JPA: These are the standard when talking about persistence. Now you can use Eclipse/Netbeans.
Tomcat/JSP/Servlets: The building blocks of web development.
Swing/threads: only if you need to develop local apps.
Those should give you the "Average Java Developer" sticker. Now it depends of where you're heading. If it's large enterprise, J2EE application server's basic services like authentication, integrated web server, EJBs, CMP, JSP/JSF, etc.
If it's "lighter" web development struts is good if dealing with legacy apps; spring or seam excels at newer apps.
I personally favors Seam since it leverages Java standards - I like to call it "J2EE done right". And the main leader, Gavin King is working to create a Seam-like J2EE core technology like he did with EJB3. It's a plus when dealing with corporations.
Much of the cutting-edge research is still done in the old word. Remember the Dolly, the sheep? There's the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. And the top researchers in the field of steam-cells are europeans. America's top universities are among the bests, if not the bests ones. However, IMO the average american graduate is not as bright as his european fellow. I believe the decline in public schooling quality has major impact. As they say, garbage in, garbage out.
For GUI (if you're doing Java), I'd suggest Netbeans. The Matisse tool and layout manager is rather easy and impressive. Anyways, GUI is a very small portion of today's programming problems. As for "Team", what do you mean by it? What Eclipse+SVN+Mylyn+Jabber can't do that VS can?
I think I might finally put my Business degree to some use in Slashdot! Let's see..
$1193 per user to "keep things running", plus $480 in IT development: total of $1673. You also forgot to mention that by using Linux you could extend workstation "life" from 4 to 6 yrs since you don't need to upgrade the OS to the latest OS available. Since a WS costs about $1000, it means ~$75 per user/yr. From the total ~$1750, let's say you managed to save $1250, leaving $500 to pay for a couple of python programers. Since you have 750 users, global annual costs equals to $937,500.
Capital budget theory states that you could "translate" a recurring cost into a single down-payment using the discounted cash flow technique. I will assume a cost of capital of about 8%/yr. Since those costs shall rise, I must adjust for inflation, about 3.5% giving, roughly, 5.5% real cost of capital. The net present value of this recurring cost is $17,045,454.
It means that a project for wiping Windows, thus potentially saving $1250 in costs/user/yr, makes sense if it costs less then $17M. In fact, it could be more because of tax issues I won't discuss here.
I'm as much a computer lover as the next person, but there are a number of reasons why a TV currently and will always occupy a niche different from a puter:
1. Bigness. The gap is narrowing, but you can still get a bigger TV for less than a smaller monitor. As far as I can tell, more families have a room based off a TV screen than a computer screen.
2. Options. With monitors, it's either overpriced and pretty from Apple, or less overpriced and less pretty from someone else. With TVs, you can still pick a plethora of options.
3. Ease of use. The wiimote was so revolutionary, but the friggin REmote has been pretty much perfect for decades. It's simple, there's nothing extraneous like apps or downloads or email. You can switch back and forth between hundreds of options seamlessly, whereas on a computer you've got to load up the site and browse to the exact item. If you know what you want, the intarwebs are good, but if you wanna surf, TV is still better.
4. A lot easier to turn on/off.
5. No one is gonna sue you for making a tape of a movie.
The differences are narrowing, but for now, there's definite differences. Something kind of like AppleTV has a definite future in the world but we're still gonna sit around the set for the Super Bowl, not a computer (well, we will, but others won't). 1) You CAN attach a computer to any major brand LCD/Plasma screen. So, no argument there.
2) Read #1.
3) Kind of hard to setup but is a technical/design non-issue to integrate Web TV apps (which are not browsers) to remote controls. Heck! My Sky remote is more difficult to use then OLPC's keyboard!
4) If Web TV is implemented as a embedded device, booting up on OS from a previous persisted state (ram-to-disk; aka Windows hibernate) should be an easy-to-solve issue.
5) Yeah, right! As if it stopped mp3/podcasting. And tape?!? Ok, I'll get off your lawn...
I don't watch the Super Bowl, but my torrents are mostly played in my LaptopPlasma set.
The major impediments for Web TV are a) bandwidth, b) content (well, not p0rn).
Regardless of what you see in colleges, copying copyrighted books and distributing the copies IS illegal.
In Soviet Russia, they ignore YOU.
What's great about slashdot is the quality of the discussions and it's model of moderation and information filtering. It's not only geekdom that's overloaded with information. Business, politics, celebrities' life, sports, etc. Why try to squeeze money out /. if you can clone it, put some makeup, and try to build a comunity out around another subject?
Stop it!
It's the fifth time I see the "Nigerian e-mail scam" parody here.
And even the first one wasn't funny...