True. As a programmer I can say, PLEASE keep salesmen off my back. They are clueless idiots who waste my time. Please DO give me a programmer who can explain me why the product is great and show it. If he doesn't even wear a suit it is only a pro. I'm allergic to suits.
Sounds like wishful thinking to me. I don't believe in the cloud, and I think many will follow when the first mayor cloud-outage or data breach has occurred. Also, staying connected to the cloud is a challenge itself, which will still require a lot of jobs. We recently had a three day down-time in our organisation, which effectively made them three lost days. Connection issues to the internet are a daily thing, but since we don't use the cloud that only delays my Slashdot posts...
For me it runs fine on my main system. Windows is nothing more to me than a way to start the applications I need. So Microsoft now forces me to pay E 90,- just so I can safely click my apps again ?
I also run it on a PIII 700 at home, which I use to program microcontrollers and play music for my Saxophone lessons. It is doing that job just fine and has a few ISA cards to support the programming. Wouldn't be surprised if Windows 7 refuses to install on that poor old machine. So now what ? Buy a new machine ? With ISA, Serial port and parallel port support ?
One colleague drives a Toyota Prius, another a Volvo C70 Diesel. The Volvo has a better MPG than the Prius, and though the owner of the Volvo is not a pedal to the metal-type, he is anything but a relaxed driver. The Prius owner is one of those guys who drives dangerously slow because the CVT makes sure the engine starts whining as soon as you only look at the throttle. I'd love to drive electric, but hybrid ? No thanks.
My definition is that when I enter some search results, the first three hits listed make sense. As someone who regulartly touches PCs of other people -people clueless of what the quick search bar in the top of their browser is using as engine- I can say that for me the main way to distinguish between Bing and Google is by looking at the search results: With Google I typiclaly find what I look for dead on, while Bing manages to confuse me and make me look again whether I typed the correct keywords. I must admit, they are slightly improving, but reputation comes by foot and leaves by horse, as we say in the Nethelands...
In the researcher world, it's all about publishing, publishing, publishing. 90% of the papers is crap, and at leat 75% of the conferences is crap. People fake results, publish even before they have the actual results, only to get noticed. I'm in the middle of it, and I sometimes feel so ashamed by the quality of what I'm forced to publish that I feel like stepping out.
Well, I don't want to call my PC cheap, it was quite top of the line 4 years ago. But I got myself a valid XP license and it just works fine. So now I should spend a lot of bucks to buy a Windows Vista 2.0 (or Windows 7, what's it called these days ?) license just because Mr. Ballmer wants me to ? For me, the operating system is not much more than the environment which allows me to start programs and click a few files.
Oh, and chances are my printer won't work anymore in Windows 7. Yes it is old, but it prints just fine.
And my old legal office suit which prints plain and simple letters just as beautiful and doesn't have the annoying Office 2010 ribbon (I liked the 2007 one!) has issues in Windows 7.
I would have to spend 250 euro's to keep Ballmer happy. That's so not going to happen.
So if I understand you correctly you want to play around with Linux and think a 2500 user server is a nice playground ? Please mail me your CV, I'll make sure you never get hired by my employer...
Phone numbers are not nearly as easy to spoof as email addresses, there is no uniform standard for digital signatures and email authentication, so which alternatives are you referring to ? We still want to see the autograph under a purchase offer. So what's your alternative ? Printing a document, signing it, scanning it as pdf and attach it to an email ?
I'm a technology guy in my mid 30s, but come on... superior alternatives...
Uhm guys, floating houses already exist for decades here in the Netherlands, and then I don't even count our famous "woonboot" (houseboat), which would extend that period to hundreds of years. Looks like the world is reinventing the wheel, except that a wheel of course quite useless in water...
Well, actually since that 'ban' more efficient incandescent bulbs appear on the market. You can still buy the "75W" bulbs, except that they now consume somewhere around 60 if I recall correctly. Sometimes you have to apply a bit of force to make the technology companies move forward.
So tablet owners are chasing the girls, while driving motorbikes ? With both hands on the bike, how are you supposed to touch the tablet or girl in the back ?
People who programmed the 8 bit machines back in the 80's had to understand the hardware, had to push the hardware to the max to get anything serious done. Young people with even the most basic hardware related programming skills are hard to find these days. Since your PC/MAC is so fast and complete, people don't see the urge to start programming it. anymore And of course, hardware has become so damn complex that understanding the functionality of only one chip in your PC is a nightmare already.
Embedded developers ? Please give me a 30+ year old !
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True. As a programmer I can say, PLEASE keep salesmen off my back. They are clueless idiots who waste my time. Please DO give me a programmer who can explain me why the product is great and show it. If he doesn't even wear a suit it is only a pro. I'm allergic to suits.
Sounds like wishful thinking to me. I don't believe in the cloud, and I think many will follow when the first mayor cloud-outage or data breach has occurred. Also, staying connected to the cloud is a challenge itself, which will still require a lot of jobs. We recently had a three day down-time in our organisation, which effectively made them three lost days. Connection issues to the internet are a daily thing, but since we don't use the cloud that only delays my Slashdot posts...
For me it runs fine on my main system. Windows is nothing more to me than a way to start the applications I need. So Microsoft now forces me to pay E 90,- just so I can safely click my apps again ?
I also run it on a PIII 700 at home, which I use to program microcontrollers and play music for my Saxophone lessons. It is doing that job just fine and has a few ISA cards to support the programming. Wouldn't be surprised if Windows 7 refuses to install on that poor old machine. So now what ? Buy a new machine ? With ISA, Serial port and parallel port support ?
One colleague drives a Toyota Prius, another a Volvo C70 Diesel. The Volvo has a better MPG than the Prius, and though the owner of the Volvo is not a pedal to the metal-type, he is anything but a relaxed driver. The Prius owner is one of those guys who drives dangerously slow because the CVT makes sure the engine starts whining as soon as you only look at the throttle. I'd love to drive electric, but hybrid ? No thanks.
My definition is that when I enter some search results, the first three hits listed make sense. As someone who regulartly touches PCs of other people -people clueless of what the quick search bar in the top of their browser is using as engine- I can say that for me the main way to distinguish between Bing and Google is by looking at the search results: With Google I typiclaly find what I look for dead on, while Bing manages to confuse me and make me look again whether I typed the correct keywords. I must admit, they are slightly improving, but reputation comes by foot and leaves by horse, as we say in the Nethelands...
But I might use some copyrighted words... Maybe thinking of comments is already copyrighted. What do you think ? Should I have posted this as AC ?
In the researcher world, it's all about publishing, publishing, publishing. 90% of the papers is crap, and at leat 75% of the conferences is crap. People fake results, publish even before they have the actual results, only to get noticed. I'm in the middle of it, and I sometimes feel so ashamed by the quality of what I'm forced to publish that I feel like stepping out.
Well, I don't want to call my PC cheap, it was quite top of the line 4 years ago. But I got myself a valid XP license and it just works fine. So now I should spend a lot of bucks to buy a Windows Vista 2.0 (or Windows 7, what's it called these days ?) license just because Mr. Ballmer wants me to ? For me, the operating system is not much more than the environment which allows me to start programs and click a few files.
Oh, and chances are my printer won't work anymore in Windows 7. Yes it is old, but it prints just fine.
And my old legal office suit which prints plain and simple letters just as beautiful and doesn't have the annoying Office 2010 ribbon (I liked the 2007 one!) has issues in Windows 7.
I would have to spend 250 euro's to keep Ballmer happy. That's so not going to happen.
Simple: Forget it. If you got hit by a truck the company will face bankruptcy in weeks.
So if I understand you correctly you want to play around with Linux and think a 2500 user server is a nice playground ? Please mail me your CV, I'll make sure you never get hired by my employer...
Oh wait, it's not general purpose, so this must be patentable !
What will they steal from which OS / Window manager this time ?
Phone numbers are not nearly as easy to spoof as email addresses, there is no uniform standard for digital signatures and email authentication, so which alternatives are you referring to ? We still want to see the autograph under a purchase offer. So what's your alternative ? Printing a document, signing it, scanning it as pdf and attach it to an email ?
I'm a technology guy in my mid 30s, but come on... superior alternatives...
Uhm guys, floating houses already exist for decades here in the Netherlands, and then I don't even count our famous "woonboot" (houseboat), which would extend that period to hundreds of years. Looks like the world is reinventing the wheel, except that a wheel of course quite useless in water...
Well, actually since that 'ban' more efficient incandescent bulbs appear on the market. You can still buy the "75W" bulbs, except that they now consume somewhere around 60 if I recall correctly. Sometimes you have to apply a bit of force to make the technology companies move forward.
So tablet owners are chasing the girls, while driving motorbikes ? With both hands on the bike, how are you supposed to touch the tablet or girl in the back ?
Oh wait, KDE has this since 1.0 already, so and since Gnome is everything KDE isn't, it has no option but to enforce a setting many people won't like.
We have a few unused IPv4 addresses again !
Ok, I'm now on firefox on another computer because I can't post comments in Internet Explorer. It simply hangs.
Bad job guys, very bad job.
Of course cold fusion was to be expected any time soon now Duke Nukem Forever will be released...
McDonalds sells fishburgers in Australia. Guaranteed fresh !
People who programmed the 8 bit machines back in the 80's had to understand the hardware, had to push the hardware to the max to get anything serious done. Young people with even the most basic hardware related programming skills are hard to find these days. Since your PC/MAC is so fast and complete, people don't see the urge to start programming it. anymore And of course, hardware has become so damn complex that understanding the functionality of only one chip in your PC is a nightmare already.
Embedded developers ? Please give me a 30+ year old !
Ok, it's no match for scissors, but beats stone. What else in our universe does that ?
But serious... paper, pen and pencil, that's all you need.
Read my lips, in fifteen years I'll be as famous and important as this internet thingie !
It's simply the best ! Oh, and I got family working in IREX, but of course I won't tell you that.