Having been around/. for a very long time, now, it seems like there's definite opportunity to educate.
Slashdot started as a community based upon ideological freedom. There was always commentary about the importance of openness. It wasn't even crazy like RMS tends to be. The editors were not Microsoft fans, and made no secret of it.
Microsoft had a tendency to steal IP. It was referred to as "embracing, extending, and extinguishing." If they tried it now, they'd probably get sued into oblivion.
Microsoft hated open source software, especially stuff written under the GPL.
Windows 2000 and XP were laden with security issues, which were not present in the alternatives. Due to these issues, many of us had jobs.
Due to those issues, we also had to help aunts & mothers with their computers.
Microsoft made a popular desktop operating system, and used that popularity to leverage OEMs in forcing new product to only have Windows installs.
Slashdot was one of the most prolific followers of the Microsoft antitrust trial, and it was a serious letdown when they were punished with a slap on the wrist.
For a while now, Microsoft has been trying to "clean up" its image, but for anyone who's been around here for any amount of time will remember why they've needed to in the first place. History isn't a cheery place, and it makes no sense to try to look at it with rose tinted glasses. Steve Ballmer is still around, Gates still has influence, and the company hasn't really changed much. The software it has produced has increased in quality over time, but there are economic reasons for that.
The distaste for Microsoft is most definitely rational.
But an e-book still has the costs of editing, marketing, royalties, a legal department to track copyright issues, a business development department to manage relationships with e-publishers, accountants, payroll... and for the e-publisher you can add data center costs, bandwidth bills, IT personnel costs, etc.
And none of those costs are paid for by the publishers. Instead, you have Amazon, B&N, and a variety of websites that cover the costs of hosting, DRM, storefronts, etc. The publishers produce the epub, the rest is handled by the sellers.
The high GI foods make you feel fuller, faster. The issue with HFCS is that it does not have a high glycemic index. Thus, you have a large influx of calories, which WILL be put to use by the body. If pop were made with cane sugar, there wouldn't be as bad of a problem.
This isn't the case. PC Insider has an article interview with the lead on the D3 project, and he discusses the belief Blizzard has about ensuring that platform games are created from the ground up. They may share textures, sounds, etc, but the games will be developed separately.
One major thing that you'll have to get accustomed to is being hands off with the technical implementation. Set your expectation of what needs to happen, bring your team about to help make decisions on what direction you want to go in, but when it comes to putting word into form... stay away. It's far too easy for past developers to turn into micro-managers at the implementation level, which will definitely cause issues for your team going forward.
On the plus side, you have a much greater foundation with which to make value judgments of how well your team is performing. You should be able to staff a great team, given what you know about the technical end of things. The worst of the worst, when it comes to managers, are the ones who allow themselves to trust anyone with anything... and end up getting hoodwinked by the vocal incompetent.
There is certainly room on the spectrum for risk-takers who don't want to die outright; but there is a big difference on that spectrum between contemplating a lucrative job offer that involves risk, and saying "i am hard up for money so give me the riskiest thing possible". The latter kind is probably prone to unaccountably risky behavior when it comes to carrying out their job functions as well.
There's also the case to be made for risk takers applying their attitude toward their work. You probably won't get awesome innovation if you're incapable of adapting or fear change. I don't think that someone who rides a motorcycle without a helmet should be summarily rejected... but at the same time, I'd have a backup plan in case the eventuality of an accident finally meets up with them.
Those aren't "CS," though. There's a guy here who never would have survived standard CS, but got his degree in something like MIS or BIS... he insists his degree is more essential to business than CS. Sad to say, he talks up a storm, but is incapable of following through on what he's promising.
It's the "IT" specific degrees that will flood the market. The Information Systems, Business Systems, and so on, because those are where the math and logic requirements are minimal. They deal with people, and how people relate with computers. It isn't unimportant, but it also doesn't produce very good developers, either.
I have a mix of users who want the latest Office 2010, and a more reasonable crowd who still want to stay with 2003. They don't see any benefit to the newer version and don't want to waste time learning a new GUI.
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Speaking of outdated, you probably want Cygwin for the shell environment? That's outdated, learn powershell. (I have cygwin in my office for other valid reasons, like reading solaris tar tapes).
Fascinating! In one paragraph, you completely contradict another. Software developers are also your users. I'd suggest leaving the ego at home and provide what people need, instead of being a douche for no apparent reason.
So, you own both Microsoft and Apple. As a shareholder, how do you feel about their war against Android and Linux? Do you, as a shareholder, feel that you are contributing to that war by owning the stock? Do you feel a personal investment in the battle against Linux and software freedom pursued by Apple and Microsoft?
I ask this because I believe that people who own stock in Apple and Microsoft have little interest in software freedom and would rather trade that freedom for a nice dividend.
What are your thoughts?
I think this reflects a fundamental ignorance of how securities work.
Some things need government control. It isn't really a "leave it up to the free market to decide" sort of issue. When you're talking about running the pipes, so to speak, there's an enormous barrier to entry to the market. In fact, what we currently have is the result of government funding... why should some business be able to profit off of that which everyone else paid for? To me, that seems ass backward.
The other part of the jobs bill is that it's another way that the Executive Branch is trying to be involved in things it shouldn't be. They give the excuse of "It's not Executive, it's Legislative" when asked about patent reform, but they have absolutely no problems with trying to be legislative when it suits them.
I blame the American public and education for that mess. If the people knew that the Executive Office was more intended to behave like a police chief, and not like a king or dictator, then Obama might have been laughed at with all of his promises 3 years ago.
Flu symptoms are the response of a functioning immune system. If you get a vaccine, you are training your immune system to fight a specific microorganism. When your immune system is getting trained, it is going to be fairly active in response. This response takes the shape of mild symptoms.
In other words, a flu shot will make you feel like you have a mild case of the flu, even though you might never actually get infected. It's the same principle as how allergies work.
I get nearly nonstop calls from across the country for.NET related positions. I would most definitely recommend including.NET in the repertoire. Only someone that's pledged themselves to the religion of software philosophy would encourage another to purposely limit their potential. To do so is pretty insane.
Atheism does not require support. It is *absence* of religion, not a different kind of religion. That's the definition of the word. Religion has no scientific basis, so someone who fully embraces science is not religious, which is what is called atheism.
Error. Let's at least get the terminology correct, lest we mistakenly argue over false premises.
Atheism: The theory or belief that God does not exist.
There is no religion or foundation for atheism, it simply is a lack of belief. There is no belief. It isn't something that requires support.
Religion has a number of meanings, but it's root is in Latin, some point to "religare," which makes some sense. It means "to bind." Religion is a general set of rules / laws that governs a certain set of beliefs. Religion is not faith, nor is it belief. Religion can be corrupted or modified. It can also be argued that every living human has some sort of religion that they adhere to - be it the belief that morality is a child of human rationale, which then binds our behavior according... or that morality is a creation of a deity. To live in a world without religion is to live in a world that is incapable of civilization.
Faith operates upon a completely different level. Some of the various religions involve a faithfulness to a particular deity. Christianity to the trinity, Jews to YAHWEH or El, Muslims to Allah, etc. In these cases, the religion gives an outline for maintaining faithfulness.
So, let's not confuse these terms. They should not be used interchangeably. Religion is generally a human invention, which comes in many varieties, is corruptible, is abused, etc.
Medicare's overhead is 3% because they don't pay anyone (relatively speaking anyway) to investigate and then deny false claims.
Medicare also doesn't pay very much, nor does it pay very often. There is a shortage of professionals that will entertain Medicare patients for this reason.
But it looks like "shutdown" is correct in that the provinces do not in fact HAVE to follow the CHA, but when they step out of line, the feds can (and do) reduce the amount of money the federal government provides in proportion to the seriousness of the infraction.
This is the same behavior that the US Federal Government has, with respect to providing states with funds for highway maintenance. This applies to the legal age to purchase alcohol, though.
Seems to me like that term is defined differently in various (international) job makets. We don't even have the term CS here. If you have a technical job that involves programming, systems administation, networking, etc you fall under IT. Doesn't matter if you're writing software for scientific purposes, or if you're configuring routers, you're IT here.
As for the question asked by the original poster:
CS doesn't exist as a job description in the US, either. The guy is trolling.
I do software development, data warehousing and analysis, and a myriad of other things... I work in IT. I say I work in IT. I don't particularly care if I get lumped in with help desk people - particularly because somebody has to do it, and I'm glad it's not me.
And the sick thing, is that the apple fan-boys and iReligious nutters will not only accept it, but PRAISE IT!
I really wouldn't assign a value statement to that. This is a matter of choice for Apple, and some people will love it, some people will not. I remember when they axed the 3.5" floppy drive. There was an uproar from the traditionalist crowd at that point too. Look how that turned out.
If people decide not to go through with the commitment of having an internet connection in order to install / upgrade, then they will migrate to a platform that suits their needs. Time will tell if it loses Apple customers.
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Rather, half the random sample contests the results, claiming that the scientific process is not yet refined enough.
A person will believe or disbelieve anything, as long as it upholds their precious ego.
Having been around /. for a very long time, now, it seems like there's definite opportunity to educate.
For a while now, Microsoft has been trying to "clean up" its image, but for anyone who's been around here for any amount of time will remember why they've needed to in the first place. History isn't a cheery place, and it makes no sense to try to look at it with rose tinted glasses. Steve Ballmer is still around, Gates still has influence, and the company hasn't really changed much. The software it has produced has increased in quality over time, but there are economic reasons for that.
The distaste for Microsoft is most definitely rational.
But an e-book still has the costs of editing, marketing, royalties, a legal department to track copyright issues, a business development department to manage relationships with e-publishers, accountants, payroll... and for the e-publisher you can add data center costs, bandwidth bills, IT personnel costs, etc.
And none of those costs are paid for by the publishers. Instead, you have Amazon, B&N, and a variety of websites that cover the costs of hosting, DRM, storefronts, etc. The publishers produce the epub, the rest is handled by the sellers.
Sony has a "best seller" categorization for games that hit certain sales marks, and the price of those games tends to be in the $10-20 range.
So yes, in doing this, you would get the discount, but they'd get the money instead of Funco^H^H^H^H^HGamestop.
The high GI foods make you feel fuller, faster. The issue with HFCS is that it does not have a high glycemic index. Thus, you have a large influx of calories, which WILL be put to use by the body. If pop were made with cane sugar, there wouldn't be as bad of a problem.
This is a decent explanation. Torchlight is probably the best Diablo style game I've played recently.
This isn't the case. PC Insider has an article interview with the lead on the D3 project, and he discusses the belief Blizzard has about ensuring that platform games are created from the ground up. They may share textures, sounds, etc, but the games will be developed separately.
One major thing that you'll have to get accustomed to is being hands off with the technical implementation. Set your expectation of what needs to happen, bring your team about to help make decisions on what direction you want to go in, but when it comes to putting word into form... stay away. It's far too easy for past developers to turn into micro-managers at the implementation level, which will definitely cause issues for your team going forward.
On the plus side, you have a much greater foundation with which to make value judgments of how well your team is performing. You should be able to staff a great team, given what you know about the technical end of things. The worst of the worst, when it comes to managers, are the ones who allow themselves to trust anyone with anything... and end up getting hoodwinked by the vocal incompetent.
There is certainly room on the spectrum for risk-takers who don't want to die outright; but there is a big difference on that spectrum between contemplating a lucrative job offer that involves risk, and saying "i am hard up for money so give me the riskiest thing possible". The latter kind is probably prone to unaccountably risky behavior when it comes to carrying out their job functions as well.
There's also the case to be made for risk takers applying their attitude toward their work. You probably won't get awesome innovation if you're incapable of adapting or fear change. I don't think that someone who rides a motorcycle without a helmet should be summarily rejected... but at the same time, I'd have a backup plan in case the eventuality of an accident finally meets up with them.
Those aren't "CS," though. There's a guy here who never would have survived standard CS, but got his degree in something like MIS or BIS... he insists his degree is more essential to business than CS. Sad to say, he talks up a storm, but is incapable of following through on what he's promising.
It's the "IT" specific degrees that will flood the market. The Information Systems, Business Systems, and so on, because those are where the math and logic requirements are minimal. They deal with people, and how people relate with computers. It isn't unimportant, but it also doesn't produce very good developers, either.
I have a mix of users who want the latest Office 2010, and a more reasonable crowd who still want to stay with 2003. They don't see any benefit to the newer version and don't want to waste time learning a new GUI.
...
Speaking of outdated, you probably want Cygwin for the shell environment? That's outdated, learn powershell. (I have cygwin in my office for other valid reasons, like reading solaris tar tapes).
Fascinating! In one paragraph, you completely contradict another. Software developers are also your users. I'd suggest leaving the ego at home and provide what people need, instead of being a douche for no apparent reason.
So, you own both Microsoft and Apple. As a shareholder, how do you feel about their war against Android and Linux? Do you, as a shareholder, feel that you are contributing to that war by owning the stock? Do you feel a personal investment in the battle against Linux and software freedom pursued by Apple and Microsoft?
I ask this because I believe that people who own stock in Apple and Microsoft have little interest in software freedom and would rather trade that freedom for a nice dividend.
What are your thoughts?
I think this reflects a fundamental ignorance of how securities work.
Some things need government control. It isn't really a "leave it up to the free market to decide" sort of issue. When you're talking about running the pipes, so to speak, there's an enormous barrier to entry to the market. In fact, what we currently have is the result of government funding... why should some business be able to profit off of that which everyone else paid for? To me, that seems ass backward.
The other part of the jobs bill is that it's another way that the Executive Branch is trying to be involved in things it shouldn't be. They give the excuse of "It's not Executive, it's Legislative" when asked about patent reform, but they have absolutely no problems with trying to be legislative when it suits them.
I blame the American public and education for that mess. If the people knew that the Executive Office was more intended to behave like a police chief, and not like a king or dictator, then Obama might have been laughed at with all of his promises 3 years ago.
Pot withdrawal manifests itself in several ways - Irritability and Insomnia are the two biggest symptoms.
Flu symptoms are the response of a functioning immune system. If you get a vaccine, you are training your immune system to fight a specific microorganism. When your immune system is getting trained, it is going to be fairly active in response. This response takes the shape of mild symptoms.
In other words, a flu shot will make you feel like you have a mild case of the flu, even though you might never actually get infected. It's the same principle as how allergies work.
I get nearly nonstop calls from across the country for .NET related positions. I would most definitely recommend including .NET in the repertoire. Only someone that's pledged themselves to the religion of software philosophy would encourage another to purposely limit their potential. To do so is pretty insane.
It's actually pretty true. Madison is similar to the PCU depicted in the movie.
Atheism does not require support. It is *absence* of religion, not a different kind of religion. That's the definition of the word. Religion has no scientific basis, so someone who fully embraces science is not religious, which is what is called atheism.
Error. Let's at least get the terminology correct, lest we mistakenly argue over false premises.
Atheism: The theory or belief that God does not exist.
There is no religion or foundation for atheism, it simply is a lack of belief. There is no belief. It isn't something that requires support.
Religion has a number of meanings, but it's root is in Latin, some point to "religare," which makes some sense. It means "to bind." Religion is a general set of rules / laws that governs a certain set of beliefs. Religion is not faith, nor is it belief. Religion can be corrupted or modified. It can also be argued that every living human has some sort of religion that they adhere to - be it the belief that morality is a child of human rationale, which then binds our behavior according... or that morality is a creation of a deity. To live in a world without religion is to live in a world that is incapable of civilization.
Faith operates upon a completely different level. Some of the various religions involve a faithfulness to a particular deity. Christianity to the trinity, Jews to YAHWEH or El, Muslims to Allah, etc. In these cases, the religion gives an outline for maintaining faithfulness.
So, let's not confuse these terms. They should not be used interchangeably. Religion is generally a human invention, which comes in many varieties, is corruptible, is abused, etc.
Medicare's overhead is 3% because they don't pay anyone (relatively speaking anyway) to investigate and then deny false claims.
Medicare also doesn't pay very much, nor does it pay very often. There is a shortage of professionals that will entertain Medicare patients for this reason.
But it looks like "shutdown" is correct in that the provinces do not in fact HAVE to follow the CHA, but when they step out of line, the feds can (and do) reduce the amount of money the federal government provides in proportion to the seriousness of the infraction.
This is the same behavior that the US Federal Government has, with respect to providing states with funds for highway maintenance. This applies to the legal age to purchase alcohol, though.
Seems to me like that term is defined differently in various (international) job makets. We don't even have the term CS here. If you have a technical job that involves programming, systems administation, networking, etc you fall under IT. Doesn't matter if you're writing software for scientific purposes, or if you're configuring routers, you're IT here.
As for the question asked by the original poster:
CS doesn't exist as a job description in the US, either. The guy is trolling.
I do software development, data warehousing and analysis, and a myriad of other things... I work in IT. I say I work in IT. I don't particularly care if I get lumped in with help desk people - particularly because somebody has to do it, and I'm glad it's not me.
They could always bury their datacenters instead of sitting them on the surface. It's generally cooler in the basement, and all.
Relative to whom?
And the sick thing, is that the apple fan-boys and iReligious nutters will not only accept it, but PRAISE IT!
I really wouldn't assign a value statement to that. This is a matter of choice for Apple, and some people will love it, some people will not. I remember when they axed the 3.5" floppy drive. There was an uproar from the traditionalist crowd at that point too. Look how that turned out.
If people decide not to go through with the commitment of having an internet connection in order to install / upgrade, then they will migrate to a platform that suits their needs. Time will tell if it loses Apple customers.