I'm not too surprised at your post, I've seen plenty of small minded people who've never met (or actually refuse to acknowledge) people outside their stereotypes, but the fact it was rated insightful is staggering.
I'm just trying to guess what backward place you could be from where someone wouldn't tell you to "fuck off" if you thought about "making them sing," and people don't trade and value each other's conscious attributes.
" the government 'has estimated that health IT can add $140 billion a year to the productivity of the $2 trillion health care industry.'"
Excellent, and with an aging population and increasing cancer rates, the healthcare industry will grow even larger! Soon we'll be the busiest hamsters the wheel has ever seen!
Firefox is not a "memory hog." It simply uses all the memory of your system in a very effective way. Since modern computers ship with 512MB of RAM or more, Firefox will happily consume all this memory. Firefox *screams* with 16GB of RAM. It also *screams* when you have not so much RAM, although in this sense of "scream" I mean it crashes.
Firefox is also a visionary product, looking forward to the day when the browser is the only application one uses.. if it's not, it certainly doesn't leave much room for other apps.
I mean, seriously, I *heart* firefox, but it's scary when it consistently uses twice as much memory as the traditionally most bloated of all apps, a Java IDE.
You started off well, except for the substance over appearance concept - most good UIs don't just look good. A basic dressing style is more akin to a Google or useit.com, compared to a Flash front end (armani suit).
Later, I could almost the same thing about taking the boss to a strip club. People have been doing it for ages. Other people have been making the point that one person's "well dressed and groomed" is another person's poison, I wonder which culture you are favouring in your choices.
I guess it really depends on whether your success depends on the quality of your work or the appearance you present. Mind you, I'm neither unconscious of my appearance nor trying to make a a counter culture point, but it sounds like you're preparing to be a prime background character in a dilbert cartoon.
I used to date goth chicks (and would do so again, were I not in a long term relationship), one is a doing serious research into cancer (heaven forbid, that might be construed as holier than thou! along with living healthily), and otherwise I haven't noticed any correlations with the things you've said. Sounds like you're well on your way to becoming a grumpy old man.
My point is that there's usually a deep-seated psychological reason people need to be latch on to the Goth subculture or the drug subculture or the geek subculture or whatever.
Probably the same reason some people need to be conformists.:-)
First of all, I did not say there was a correlation between being smart and being freaky. Smart people come in many shapes and sizes.
Otherwise, I think you're totally wrong and lack real experience of diverse people. For example, I used to spend time with a bunch of goths. Looking at them with an uninformed eye, you'd just think they were a bunch of freaks, but most of them were university students and have gone on to do post graduate work, work with leading edge companies, and so on. I've had numerous other experiences of people who were "freaks," but were very smart freaks and have become very successful. Some of them dropped the unusual clothing and styles, some of them didn't. It doesn't have much to do with their success unless they work in a really conformant industry (which wouldn't attract them in the first place).
Maybe you just live in a place where the culture won't accept this and works against people who are different, but the smart people I know are of all races and interests, and actively promote their differences and beliefs, and it rarely works against them.
And it's not a matter of "need," it's a matter of want. I'm not desperate, are you?
And what the --- does dressing differently have to do with "being clean?" I think you have a very bizarre picture of diverse people.
I suspect your definition of success has very little to really achieving anything other than a generic "successful career," which is something anyone can do. Being really innovative, effecting meaningful change, being part of healthy communities, etc, has nothing to do with how you dress.
It's funny, but the interview I read, which was in a newspaper, said they were basing the play on the books, not the films, and the technology was taking a back stage to the performance. I guess Slashdot's chosen spin doesn't quite agree. They also said, as most of these things go, that they would use the first few productions to tune the play.
In an imaginary world, carriers cheerfully and competitively provide progressive services to their fellow humans.. in the real world, they're looking to gouge and limit things as much as possible. Maybe I just need to switch providers, but I have a feeling after this cabal gets their hands on it, this is not going to be the IM of dreams.
Slightly off topic, but Storage Review has always allowed the end user to compare any device to another by selection (eg 5400 rpm maxtor vs 10000 rpm WD) using discreet data fields (eg noise and heat). No other review site I know lets you do this, and its a very useful feature. Very often other review sites will scatter related devices across different non intersecting reviews, and I doubt they bother to break the data down to this level of detail.
I've used both php and java extensively. Java is just designed better to support code quality. For all the technical reasons people have given here.
Using an IDE like eclipse, you can manage a very large project, with tens of thousands of lines of code. This is what java is designed for, and where many projects end up going. You can change one line of code, and instantly see how it affects the rest of the code. You can drastically and/safely/ redesign entire suites of APIs. You get very high quality feedback on how you are using the language. This is all because of the features of Java like strong typing.
Java is designed as opposed to being very organically evolved, and this means a lot (especially, excuse me, considering where PHP comes from - personal home pages).
Sure, its sometimes a pain to deal with more conditions of doing something (is it an empty string, is it null, is it a 0?), but I don't mind for the sake of having my code be explicitly safe, when you consider that ultimately code is designed to be executed reliably.
Maybe with all its redesigns PHP will one day have the quality of java, but its going to take a while and I have a feeling it will just end up reinventing the wheel.
One of the main drawback with Java is there's not yet any complete open version of Java, but there are several on their way from orgnizations that are going to come through.
The other drawback of Java is there's an abundance of complex high level web frameworks, but this makes it a very responsive environment and once you've climbed on top of a heap of APIs you'll find you can surf any contemporary trends fairly easily.
I don't find the article to be very intelligent. There is much more to free/open source than fluffy idealism.
And there are plenty of companies, big and small, that willfully release their software as free/open source, and plenty of individuals who are consultants, contractors, or even hobbyists who are contributing, which the author just glosses over.
In the real world, most of my projects need robust components, open source provides plenty. Since they're granular (and have always historically been so) you can usually assemble something 'innovative' pretty easily.
On the desktop it is another matter. I do use a Gnome desktop, and it does have its advantages, but there are also big cracks.
In fact, the two aspects should really be treated separately since there is a vast difference between using free/open source software for servers and software development (great), and trying to use it on the desktop (inconsistent, at best).
I've been trying to avoid buying a Dell server for three months now. Thing is, I can't even build a cheap 1U x86 box for what Dell sells theirs for, and the Dell price includes their 3 year, 24x7 4 hour onsite service.
In Canada at least, HP's Opteron line is almost competitive, until you factor in extended support, which is incredibly expensive. So here's hoping Sun will provide a decent, low cost Opteron based server with extended support costs competitive with Dell.
PS. Dell outsources their support. I'm told by one of their techs their prices are so low because they they use older components, but they were pretty quick with dual core systems.
Now, wouldn't it be better just to favour the environmentally friendly approach a bit more?
Imagine if the rush of talent and resources of the Internet had been diverted into a more 'holistic' approach to energy production, efficiency and general environmentalism instead of bombing out in a big negative spin. We could have had sustainable advanced technology today. Guilt free techno lust! Instead we have oil panics. So much for far sightnedness.
Speaking as someone outside the United States, youse guys need to play the moral high horse card more, instead of basically saying you are victims of the world economy and need to keep polluting to keep up.
Go ahead, shame Europe (countries like Germany are strong in every way, including aggressive environmental policies), I'll say American Is Great along with whatever president you have at the time if you can actually organize enough to do something greater than turning your country into a bunch of self righteous bureaucratic predators.
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Do you mean like this: http://spellbound.sourceforge.net/
I coincidentally only installed it today, but it appears to have been around since July 2004.
I'm not too surprised at your post, I've seen plenty of small minded people who've never met (or actually refuse to acknowledge) people outside their stereotypes, but the fact it was rated insightful is staggering.
I'm just trying to guess what backward place you could be from where someone wouldn't tell you to "fuck off" if you thought about "making them sing," and people don't trade and value each other's conscious attributes.
" the government 'has estimated that health IT can add $140 billion a year to the productivity of the $2 trillion health care industry.'"
Excellent, and with an aging population and increasing cancer rates, the healthcare industry will grow even larger! Soon we'll be the busiest hamsters the wheel has ever seen!
Sorry, I don't think the point of free software is to duck responsibility for high quality.
In support of the troll, what would you say if MS Word or vi worked like that?
Firefox is not a "memory hog." It simply uses all the memory of your system in a very effective way. Since modern computers ship with 512MB of RAM or more, Firefox will happily consume all this memory. Firefox *screams* with 16GB of RAM. It also *screams* when you have not so much RAM, although in this sense of "scream" I mean it crashes.
Firefox is also a visionary product, looking forward to the day when the browser is the only application one uses.. if it's not, it certainly doesn't leave much room for other apps.
I mean, seriously, I *heart* firefox, but it's scary when it consistently uses twice as much memory as the traditionally most bloated of all apps, a Java IDE.
Nah, they'll continue to be another sense organ.
You started off well, except for the substance over appearance concept - most good UIs don't just look good. A basic dressing style is more akin to a Google or useit.com, compared to a Flash front end (armani suit).
Later, I could almost the same thing about taking the boss to a strip club. People have been doing it for ages. Other people have been making the point that one person's "well dressed and groomed" is another person's poison, I wonder which culture you are favouring in your choices.
Put any group of similar people in a room and they all sound the room, specally if you're disillussioned.
Thanks for the cheap shot! Bit of a reach though. I do think goths are cute though.
What will change a damn thing then?
Well, at least you're not one of those crazed, knife wielding, sandal wearing goths.
True, for some. Some just find it fun, or are making the very same point you are.
I guess it really depends on whether your success depends on the quality of your work or the appearance you present. Mind you, I'm neither unconscious of my appearance nor trying to make a a counter culture point, but it sounds like you're preparing to be a prime background character in a dilbert cartoon.
And your bitterness shows.
I used to date goth chicks (and would do so again, were I not in a long term relationship), one is a doing serious research into cancer (heaven forbid, that might be construed as holier than thou! along with living healthily), and otherwise I haven't noticed any correlations with the things you've said. Sounds like you're well on your way to becoming a grumpy old man.
My point is that there's usually a deep-seated psychological reason people need to be latch on to the Goth subculture or the drug subculture or the geek subculture or whatever.
:-)
Probably the same reason some people need to be conformists.
First of all, I did not say there was a correlation between being smart and being freaky. Smart people come in many shapes and sizes.
Otherwise, I think you're totally wrong and lack real experience of diverse people. For example, I used to spend time with a bunch of goths. Looking at them with an uninformed eye, you'd just think they were a bunch of freaks, but most of them were university students and have gone on to do post graduate work, work with leading edge companies, and so on. I've had numerous other experiences of people who were "freaks," but were very smart freaks and have become very successful. Some of them dropped the unusual clothing and styles, some of them didn't. It doesn't have much to do with their success unless they work in a really conformant industry (which wouldn't attract them in the first place).
Maybe you just live in a place where the culture won't accept this and works against people who are different, but the smart people I know are of all races and interests, and actively promote their differences and beliefs, and it rarely works against them.
And it's not a matter of "need," it's a matter of want. I'm not desperate, are you?
And what the --- does dressing differently have to do with "being clean?" I think you have a very bizarre picture of diverse people.
I suspect your definition of success has very little to really achieving anything other than a generic "successful career," which is something anyone can do. Being really innovative, effecting meaningful change, being part of healthy communities, etc, has nothing to do with how you dress.
The culture of conformity and mediocrity, you mean. Me, I'll just keep an eye out for smart, thoughtful, talented people.
It's funny, but the interview I read, which was in a newspaper, said they were basing the play on the books, not the films, and the technology was taking a back stage to the performance. I guess Slashdot's chosen spin doesn't quite agree. They also said, as most of these things go, that they would use the first few productions to tune the play.
"nanotube paints black cell phones on demand."
Probably a few years too soon for that.
In an imaginary world, carriers cheerfully and competitively provide progressive services to their fellow humans.. in the real world, they're looking to gouge and limit things as much as possible. Maybe I just need to switch providers, but I have a feeling after this cabal gets their hands on it, this is not going to be the IM of dreams.
Slightly off topic, but Storage Review has always allowed the end user to compare any device to another by selection (eg 5400 rpm maxtor vs 10000 rpm WD) using discreet data fields (eg noise and heat). No other review site I know lets you do this, and its a very useful feature. Very often other review sites will scatter related devices across different non intersecting reviews, and I doubt they bother to break the data down to this level of detail.
I've used both php and java extensively. Java is just designed better to support code quality. For all the technical reasons people have given here.
/safely/ redesign entire suites of APIs. You get very high quality feedback on how you are using the language. This is all because of the features of Java like strong typing.
Using an IDE like eclipse, you can manage a very large project, with tens of thousands of lines of code. This is what java is designed for, and where many projects end up going. You can change one line of code, and instantly see how it affects the rest of the code. You can drastically and
Java is designed as opposed to being very organically evolved, and this means a lot (especially, excuse me, considering where PHP comes from - personal home pages).
Sure, its sometimes a pain to deal with more conditions of doing something (is it an empty string, is it null, is it a 0?), but I don't mind for the sake of having my code be explicitly safe, when you consider that ultimately code is designed to be executed reliably.
Maybe with all its redesigns PHP will one day have the quality of java, but its going to take a while and I have a feeling it will just end up reinventing the wheel.
One of the main drawback with Java is there's not yet any complete open version of Java, but there are several on their way from orgnizations that are going to come through.
The other drawback of Java is there's an abundance of complex high level web frameworks, but this makes it a very responsive environment and once you've climbed on top of a heap of APIs you'll find you can surf any contemporary trends fairly easily.
I don't find the article to be very intelligent. There is much more to free/open source than fluffy idealism.
And there are plenty of companies, big and small, that willfully release their software as free/open source, and plenty of individuals who are consultants, contractors, or even hobbyists who are contributing, which the author just glosses over.
In the real world, most of my projects need robust components, open source provides plenty. Since they're granular (and have always historically been so) you can usually assemble something 'innovative' pretty easily.
On the desktop it is another matter. I do use a Gnome desktop, and it does have its advantages, but there are also big cracks.
In fact, the two aspects should really be treated separately since there is a vast difference between using free/open source software for servers and software development (great), and trying to use it on the desktop (inconsistent, at best).
I've been trying to avoid buying a Dell server for three months now. Thing is, I can't even build a cheap 1U x86 box for what Dell sells theirs for, and the Dell price includes their 3 year, 24x7 4 hour onsite service.
In Canada at least, HP's Opteron line is almost competitive, until you factor in extended support, which is incredibly expensive. So here's hoping Sun will provide a decent, low cost Opteron based server with extended support costs competitive with Dell.
PS. Dell outsources their support. I'm told by one of their techs their prices are so low because they they use older components, but they were pretty quick with dual core systems.
They are both probably right to some degree.
Now, wouldn't it be better just to favour the environmentally friendly approach a bit more?
Imagine if the rush of talent and resources of the Internet had been diverted into a more 'holistic' approach to energy production, efficiency and general environmentalism instead of bombing out in a big negative spin. We could have had sustainable advanced technology today. Guilt free techno lust! Instead we have oil panics. So much for far sightnedness.
Speaking as someone outside the United States, youse guys need to play the moral high horse card more, instead of basically saying you are victims of the world economy and need to keep polluting to keep up.
Go ahead, shame Europe (countries like Germany are strong in every way, including aggressive environmental policies), I'll say American Is Great along with whatever president you have at the time if you can actually organize enough to do something greater than turning your country into a bunch of self righteous bureaucratic predators.