huh? how the hell is that supposed to work? You can't stop a company growing in size. Imagine if an IBM or a Microsoft came up with the next generation of "ipod" like technologies. The type of tech that turned apple from a liquidation waiting to happen in the 90s to the most valuable tech company today. The company would double in size and exceed any market cap imposed by government.
Welcome to the age old argument, a very small number of priest abuse small children, a very small numbers Muslims blow up buildings. Atheism is as much a religion as anything else - they believe that god,etc doesn't exist while traditional religions believe that "he" does
Think you playing with fire referring PHP to the Access of the web:) but I know what you mean, there is nothing wrong with PHP and as a RAD tool it's fantastic. If your internet app is only generating web facing content then the PHP is great even for larger web apps.
But as soon as you need a multi-tiered architecture, clustering, caching, intra-connectivity, blah, blah, etc, etc - unfortunately PHP doesn't cut it at that level.
Well said! Any developer who lands up doubling as IT isn't do any real enterprise level development. Writing a couple of perl scripts or slapping together php site with a couple of forms is nothing compared to the n-tier solutions being developed in java/.net
Its laughable to compare the two and its rather sad when people do and don't know any better.
Having said that - the only exceptions I can think of is dev's that sysadmin their own servers - in small to medium companies this does tend to happen a lot.
Haha, buddy you should make sure your knowledge of the windows server environment is current before running off with rants like that. Everything in windows can be done via powershell interacting with.net/com/wmi. To a competent sysadmin/developer powershell makes bash look like the dos command shell's stupid cousin.
That is pretty much the response of any shop or trader in any country that has a well established currency. Britain, France, Australia, etc all the same. I live in South Africa and the only place where one would even consider getting USD would be as a tip at a hotel catering for purely international guests.
I remember sitting in a McDonald's a couple of years ago and a group of American tourists arrived and couldn't understand why McDonald's didn't accept USD and the waitress had to spend 20 minutes explaining to them that not many countries accept USD as a form of payment outside the US.
Comes make international purchases in USD but otherwise everything else is local currency
Sounds like the reason you are out of work is that you are miserable person to be around - stop blaming everybody else and look in the mirror, 9 times out of 10 its where all your problems are!
"crashes at least once per week, sometimes just drains my battery for no good reason at all, and is generally an annoying piece of crap" sounds a lot of like my current iphone 3Gs
"I can only sync with one of the two exchange servers that I use on a regular basis." sounds a lot of like my HTC desire running Android
I can't believe you are actually trying to compare a windows mobile 5/6 device with a model equivalent.
But thats the problem, to a non-developer it doesn't matter if its closer or open source for somebody to benefit.
If I develop an app and make it available, the end-user who uses it has benefited. They don't care if its closed source or open source. For most people if the app is open source and I stop supporting it the app the useless to them and they will move onto something else.
Open source is only valuable to the development community, been able to share source code, design patterns, architecture designs is incredible valuable and beneficial.
Seriously stop living with your head in the sand, the whole ribbon interface is design to change and display only what is relevant to what you are doing. Takes a bit of getting used to but it is much better and does actually work!
Its people you who would have complained that this new car thing was total waste of time and a horse was way better because it could go anywhere and you didn't have to fill it with petrol.
Fair enough, but take into account that your average "alpha male" type engineer wouldn't care if business was running the show. They would simply grow their power base/influence/etc with in the organisation until it gets to a point where they can start challenging senior business execs. The mindset of a large company doesn't switch from being business focused to engineering/technical focused because the CEO says so. It engineers and other technical people enforcing their authority and opinions.
You do realise that there are lots of alpha male type engineers out there?
Most geeks tend not be alpha male types but that doesn't mean you can't be a geek, engineer and alpha male. Its this profile that tends be very successful career wise.
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huh? how the hell is that supposed to work? You can't stop a company growing in size. Imagine if an IBM or a Microsoft came up with the next generation of "ipod" like technologies. The type of tech that turned apple from a liquidation waiting to happen in the 90s to the most valuable tech company today. The company would double in size and exceed any market cap imposed by government.
Well said!
Haha, atheism is as much a religion as anything else - they believe that god,etc doesn't exist while traditional religions believe that "he" does
Welcome to the age old argument, a very small number of priest abuse small children, a very small numbers Muslims blow up buildings. Atheism is as much a religion as anything else - they believe that god,etc doesn't exist while traditional religions believe that "he" does
Think you playing with fire referring PHP to the Access of the web :) but I know what you mean, there is nothing wrong with PHP and as a RAD tool it's fantastic. If your internet app is only generating web facing content then the PHP is great even for larger web apps.
But as soon as you need a multi-tiered architecture, clustering, caching, intra-connectivity, blah, blah, etc, etc - unfortunately PHP doesn't cut it at that level.
Well said! Any developer who lands up doubling as IT isn't do any real enterprise level development. Writing a couple of perl scripts or slapping together php site with a couple of forms is nothing compared to the n-tier solutions being developed in java/.net
Its laughable to compare the two and its rather sad when people do and don't know any better.
Having said that - the only exceptions I can think of is dev's that sysadmin their own servers - in small to medium companies this does tend to happen a lot.
Haha, buddy you should make sure your knowledge of the windows server environment is current before running off with rants like that. Everything in windows can be done via powershell interacting with .net/com/wmi. To a competent sysadmin/developer powershell makes bash look like the dos command shell's stupid cousin.
Weird, South Africa is exactly the same
That is pretty much the response of any shop or trader in any country that has a well established currency. Britain, France, Australia, etc all the same. I live in South Africa and the only place where one would even consider getting USD would be as a tip at a hotel catering for purely international guests.
I remember sitting in a McDonald's a couple of years ago and a group of American tourists arrived and couldn't understand why McDonald's didn't accept USD and the waitress had to spend 20 minutes explaining to them that not many countries accept USD as a form of payment outside the US.
Comes make international purchases in USD but otherwise everything else is local currency
Sounds like the reason you are out of work is that you are miserable person to be around - stop blaming everybody else and look in the mirror, 9 times out of 10 its where all your problems are!
Buddy, you sound like a divorce waiting to happen!
"crashes at least once per week, sometimes just drains my battery for no good reason at all, and is generally an annoying piece of crap" sounds a lot of like my current iphone 3Gs
"I can only sync with one of the two exchange servers that I use on a regular basis." sounds a lot of like my HTC desire running Android
I can't believe you are actually trying to compare a windows mobile 5/6 device with a model equivalent.
Installed Firefox 4 on my laptop this morning and it required a reboot at the end
Stand practice - installed Firefox 4 this morning and the Firefox installer insisted that windows needs to be rebooted
But thats the problem, to a non-developer it doesn't matter if its closer or open source for somebody to benefit.
If I develop an app and make it available, the end-user who uses it has benefited. They don't care if its closed source or open source. For most people if the app is open source and I stop supporting it the app the useless to them and they will move onto something else.
Open source is only valuable to the development community, been able to share source code, design patterns, architecture designs is incredible valuable and beneficial.
Buddy, thats a bullshit argument. for 99.99999% of the population OSS software offers zero additional benefit other than its normally free.
If you are not a developer then open source vs closed source becomes a free vs paid for software and has nothing to do with freedom.
Seriously stop living with your head in the sand, the whole ribbon interface is design to change and display only what is relevant to what you are doing. Takes a bit of getting used to but it is much better and does actually work!
:)
Its people you who would have complained that this new car thing was total waste of time and a horse was way better because it could go anywhere and you didn't have to fill it with petrol.
Change is something a good thing
Fair enough, but take into account that your average "alpha male" type engineer wouldn't care if business was running the show. They would simply grow their power base/influence/etc with in the organisation until it gets to a point where they can start challenging senior business execs. The mindset of a large company doesn't switch from being business focused to engineering/technical focused because the CEO says so. It engineers and other technical people enforcing their authority and opinions.
Most geeks tend not be alpha male types but that doesn't mean you can't be a geek, engineer and alpha male. Its this profile that tends be very successful career wise.
Well said!
I was nodding in agreement until I realised that was a good 15 years ago. Damn I'm getting old!
just not with each other?
Yes and all Americans are fat, stupid and ignorant of world. Aren't stereotypes fun!
As an African I'll drink to that!
Yes GSM, but only when connecting with a 2G quality signal - with a 3G quality signal that doesn't happen