Apple's new operating system does not support a feature that they currently sell at a premium because they don't offer large flash drives. That's a significant failure on their part and affects many people who should read this article as advice not to upgrade.
No one asked for this feature, but Apple wants to give it to us anyway. They have really lost touch with their user base, IMHO, and stray further and further afield. I think it may be time for another visionary but I doubt that Apple's culture will promote one as the old guard holds on for dear life.
That engineers make a lot of money shouldn't surprise anyone. Making $8,000 in Menlo Park is like being broke since rent can easily cost $3,500. The cost of living there doesn't compare to living in Kansas City. It doesn't mention that, or anything, for that matter.
This type of clickbait article only serves the purpose of inflaming anger at 'elites' in the population at large.
One of my main apps has been abandoned by the developer, mostly because they now sell it as a yearly subscription. They will never update my pre-subscription full functionality app. Am I supposed to delete that? Why should I when I purchased a fully functional app in good faith?
These are civil service jobs, not political appointees. Using political affiliation or belief as a requirement for a civil service job is illegal. This is to keep the wheels of justice turning smoothly and fairly and to prevent, say, the prosecution of a Governor on trumped up charges solely because he's a Democrat.
The Bush Administration did this so that they and their political allies would not be prosecuted for their crimes while their opponents would face arbitrary, humiliating and career-ending public trials on the taxpayer dime. This was done to ensure Republican power. Make no mistake, this was directed from the highest reaches of the White House.
I can assure you that neither the Clinton administration nor any since WWII acted in this way, and Clinton had done this Republicans would still be screaming about it.
The point of advertising is to increase brand familiarity so that consumers know who you are and what you sell. That way, when they need your product they remember you, look you up, and give you money. It is not supposed to be a spur of the moment incentive to generate instant demand and give you click-through-riches (except porn site advertising, but let's not go there).
TV and radio have worked that way for a long time. Some car ads exist only to give reassurance to people who have already purchased the vehicle.
Think of Apple, people buy their product on brand recognition and reputation, not clicking through some ad. The paradigm shift of the internet concerns ease of information delivery, not consumer demand.
I have been going Corp-to-Corp for a couple of years now. IMHO:
Corp-to-Corp:You are your own employee. Your corporation invoices the client and deposits their check in it's own account. It pays more to make up for the Social Security Tax. You then pay yourself every month, as well as all relevant taxes. This all involves lawyers and accountants, but one the benefits is that you can keep a lot of money in the corporate bank account without paying tax on it, given the correct corporate type. This is not a DIY project, get professional advice before trying this.
Independent Contractor: Typically, you work for the marketing company and they handle a lot of the paperwork. You make a little smaller rate to make up for the SS tax. But you still make a lot more than an employee. If you're young and don't have insurance, see if you might be able to get it from them. It not, you can get it elsewhere for around $150 a month.
Employee. You make a lot less, but supposedly you make up for it in benefits, like vacation, Health Care, and 401k.
Some people think that there's more security in full time, but that's not true anymore. The deal between employer/employee has been completely broken. I have seen a lot of full-time people get laid off - recently, I watched a large company lay off people with more than 20 years experience who were doing significant work merely to get rid of the liability of their pensions. You will not be working there in 10 years, believe me.
Unless you have incorporated recently, you can't go corp-to-corp. Work on learning about what you need to do in your state so yu have that option on your next client.
I would suggest independent contractor. It pays better and you can work on setting up your corporation. Plus, it makes you think of your career for what it really is. You provide a service to an employer in exchange for money. Take the money and take care of yourself, i.e. start a retirement account.
Don't get me wrong, I love Linux and I want to see it make people's jaws drop. I am just really disappointed right now.
The 2.4 kernel is locking up my dual CPU test machine as I write this (from work). All the VM work they were doing still needs some tuning up, no doubt. I hope that Linus and the others do not suffer from a public embarassment by releasing a kernel that supposedly scales to 16 processors easily yet it locks up a dual CPU machine. Obviously, this was not ready for prime time.
Care to guess what I was running? 2 Setiathome processes reniced to 16 and 17.
Machine
Mobo: Abit BP6 w 2 celeron 366's oc'd to 550.
RAM: 512 MB
SCSI: Tekram 390u2w
I have been running this machine for a year and a half without incident (except for the nasty SMP bug around 2.2.10). It kicks butt with 2.2.17.
They can't fix their fatally flawed idea of tying everything together into Active-X controls and giving the user power to do anything on the PC. M$ has so much time and money wrapped up into that paradigm they can't bear to let it go. So they're implementing this stupid idea as a replacement for the security model they should have built in from the start.
I agree, this looks like another way for them to make money. Same as the licensing changes they made for Win 2k - they just want to pump the big corporations for more and more and more. I wouldn't be surprised to find out they had a special, expensive way around this so that the big guys could run their custom apps without too much more trouble.
It adds another layer of 'vendor buy in'. Sooner or later, CTO's are going to realize they don't have to be Microserfs and will find better solutions to their problems elsewhere. Maybe even Open Source ones.
Am I the only one who can't get this to work? Every time I open any web page it crashes instantly with a signal 11 (memory fault). I have not been able to run this release or the previous one. BTW, I am running RH 6.2, so you think it would work.
I am not a newbie, but any advice greatly appreciated.
The thing about Java is that you can run it anywhere, uh, I mean you can debug it anywhere. But the C# stuff is Windows only. How much control will M$ keep, and what will you do if they change the license pricing strategy? Sun has been bad enough about letting Java go, what's M$ going to do?
This is not something I'm going to waste my time learning.
I don't know Sybase at all. However, I know Oracle. Oracle has a utility that will automatically mirror a database on another machine placed anywhere you like. As the master database changes, the mirror database takes the archive logs (logs of every change to the db) and automatically applies it to the remote database. The remote DB constantly acts as if it were recovering from a crash and applies the archive logs. This way the remote database is an exact copy of the master, with a slight time lag depending on how often you create an archive log file.
I don't know if Sybase has anything like this, but I bet they do. Ask your Sybase rep, you'll make her day.
No one here cares how old you are. That irrelevant, and 'Old Fart' is troll bait if I ever saw it.
But he does talk around a good point. The internet can be the mast radical grass-roots politicizing force of the next 100 years. Any information can flow anonymously to everyone. This is a huge fear in places like China, that the people will figure out how to talk amongst themselves while they are well neigh invulnerable to physical coersion at home in front of their computer. The Chinese know they won't be able to put the genie back in the bottle.
It's ironic that the most democratising force on the planet is rife with young people who don't vote. And Silicon Valley is full of people who don't use their wealth to advance their political agenda. Actually, maybe the problem is they don't have a political agenda. The freedom we need to protect and to fight for is being taken from us little by little. Meanwhile, our grandparents vote in droves to protect their Social Security.
So the point JK makes that is worthwhile is that we all remember that there are people out there fighting change because they were comfortably making money under the old system. It doesn't matter about the age or the race or whatever, it's about self-interest and $$$.
I think saying that this is 'Big Brother' watching is inflamatory troll bait. I really have to question the reporting coming out of Slashdot recently.
Anyway, what the FTC said was 'be more up front with your advertising'. No one had their children spying on them or their face stuffed in a cage with hungry rats. The point is that you can rip people off all you want - as long as you do it openly. It's the lying the FTC is trying to stop.
Plus, I think it's easy for us technical people to forget that for most people computers and the internet are mysterious, frustrating and frightening. Little do they realize they're supposed to be frustrating and annoying.
The register has the legal brief submitted by Hitachi here. The bottom of the first page has a lot of good information.
Long story short, it alleges that in the mid-90's Rambus went to the JEDEC meetings that determined the SDRAM standard and then ran out and filed patents on what they heard. The really tricky part is that they attached those new applications to an old patent application, so it was grandfathered to 1990! Sweet, I can pretend my brand new technology is 4 years old
After reading this brief, I don't think the patents are enforceable. But then again, we are talking about the US Patent Office...
My take on this very long winded article is that I can see that the market for my skills (Unix, oracle, C, C++, Java, Perl) has slowed considerably. Sure, I'll still be able to find a job somewhere, but programmers are taking huge pay cuts.
There are more layoffs every week, so I expect that the glut of dot com programmers and H1-B's to take a lot of the juice out of rates.
I'm not feeling sorry for myself, I'm just saying we are having a real economic slowdown and those among us who have to make a living will feel it. Those among us who are too young to remember what a recession is like and who have never seen a Bear stock market have a reality check in store. Check out the movie 'Roger and Me' from the video store.
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Dear anonymous Russian troll, please learn English grammar before you make yourself even more unintentionally hilarious.
Commander Taco help us!
Remember the days when it was just linux nerds in here instead of bots and trolls?
Fusion HD is a $100 premium on a new iMac.
Apple's new operating system does not support a feature that they currently sell at a premium because they don't offer large flash drives. That's a significant failure on their part and affects many people who should read this article as advice not to upgrade.
That's news.
No one asked for this feature, but Apple wants to give it to us anyway. They have really lost touch with their user base, IMHO, and stray further and further afield. I think it may be time for another visionary but I doubt that Apple's culture will promote one as the old guard holds on for dear life.
That engineers make a lot of money shouldn't surprise anyone. Making $8,000 in Menlo Park is like being broke since rent can easily cost $3,500. The cost of living there doesn't compare to living in Kansas City. It doesn't mention that, or anything, for that matter.
This type of clickbait article only serves the purpose of inflaming anger at 'elites' in the population at large.
One of my main apps has been abandoned by the developer, mostly because they now sell it as a yearly subscription. They will never update my pre-subscription full functionality app. Am I supposed to delete that? Why should I when I purchased a fully functional app in good faith?
If you feel like reading another 'Those kids sure are doing crazy things with technology' article hear it is.
Having said that, it's still pretty cool. Now if you could get that to integrate with Eclipse, Spring, and Struts...
To tell me that cell phones interfere with radio reception with a gratuitous mention of the iPhone so I would read it.
With all the stuff going on in the world why does Slashdot waste my time with this?
These are civil service jobs, not political appointees. Using political affiliation or belief as a requirement for a civil service job is illegal. This is to keep the wheels of justice turning smoothly and fairly and to prevent, say, the prosecution of a Governor on trumped up charges solely because he's a Democrat.
The Bush Administration did this so that they and their political allies would not be prosecuted for their crimes while their opponents would face arbitrary, humiliating and career-ending public trials on the taxpayer dime. This was done to ensure Republican power. Make no mistake, this was directed from the highest reaches of the White House.
I can assure you that neither the Clinton administration nor any since WWII acted in this way, and Clinton had done this Republicans would still be screaming about it.
Clear enough?
The point of advertising is to increase brand familiarity so that consumers know who you are and what you sell. That way, when they need your product they remember you, look you up, and give you money. It is not supposed to be a spur of the moment incentive to generate instant demand and give you click-through-riches (except porn site advertising, but let's not go there).
TV and radio have worked that way for a long time. Some car ads exist only to give reassurance to people who have already purchased the vehicle.
Think of Apple, people buy their product on brand recognition and reputation, not clicking through some ad. The paradigm shift of the internet concerns ease of information delivery, not consumer demand.
I just want to join the chorus of those protesting this blog post as misinformed, reactionary and wrong.
Slashdot needs to reconsider its editorial policy if junk like this gets through so easily.
"Many of the sentences are awkwardly constructed, and consequently more difficult to understand at first glance."
Back at ya.
"In addition, many of the sentences are run on, exacerbated by a lack of commas, which would alert the reader when to pause within the sentences."
The hilarious irony of your criticism of this author's writing style really made my day. Please clean up your own act before criticizing others.
Some people think that there's more security in full time, but that's not true anymore. The deal between employer/employee has been completely broken. I have seen a lot of full-time people get laid off - recently, I watched a large company lay off people with more than 20 years experience who were doing significant work merely to get rid of the liability of their pensions. You will not be working there in 10 years, believe me.
Unless you have incorporated recently, you can't go corp-to-corp. Work on learning about what you need to do in your state so yu have that option on your next client.
I would suggest independent contractor. It pays better and you can work on setting up your corporation. Plus, it makes you think of your career for what it really is. You provide a service to an employer in exchange for money. Take the money and take care of yourself, i.e. start a retirement account.
Don't get me wrong, I love Linux and I want to see it make people's jaws drop. I am just really disappointed right now.
The 2.4 kernel is locking up my dual CPU test machine as I write this (from work). All the VM work they were doing still needs some tuning up, no doubt. I hope that Linus and the others do not suffer from a public embarassment by releasing a kernel that supposedly scales to 16 processors easily yet it locks up a dual CPU machine. Obviously, this was not ready for prime time.
Care to guess what I was running? 2 Setiathome processes reniced to 16 and 17.
Machine
Mobo: Abit BP6 w 2 celeron 366's oc'd to 550.
RAM: 512 MB
SCSI: Tekram 390u2w
I have been running this machine for a year and a half without incident (except for the nasty SMP bug around 2.2.10). It kicks butt with 2.2.17.
They can't fix their fatally flawed idea of tying everything together into Active-X controls and giving the user power to do anything on the PC. M$ has so much time and money wrapped up into that paradigm they can't bear to let it go. So they're implementing this stupid idea as a replacement for the security model they should have built in from the start.
I agree, this looks like another way for them to make money. Same as the licensing changes they made for Win 2k - they just want to pump the big corporations for more and more and more. I wouldn't be surprised to find out they had a special, expensive way around this so that the big guys could run their custom apps without too much more trouble.
It adds another layer of 'vendor buy in'. Sooner or later, CTO's are going to realize they don't have to be Microserfs and will find better solutions to their problems elsewhere. Maybe even Open Source ones.
It took two of us several weeks to put the code in a runnable state. Let the buyer beware, you get what you pay for.
I think it's time that management type realize that coding is difficult and that 'grunts' and inexperienced people can't do the job an old pro can.
I am not a newbie, but any advice greatly appreciated.
This is not something I'm going to waste my time learning.
- Yes, Unix can handle it, and Linux, too.
- Don't skimp on the hardware
- Your main costs long term will be admin related
- Changing databases is a pain
I don't know Sybase at all. However, I know Oracle. Oracle has a utility that will automatically mirror a database on another machine placed anywhere you like. As the master database changes, the mirror database takes the archive logs (logs of every change to the db) and automatically applies it to the remote database. The remote DB constantly acts as if it were recovering from a crash and applies the archive logs. This way the remote database is an exact copy of the master, with a slight time lag depending on how often you create an archive log file.I don't know if Sybase has anything like this, but I bet they do. Ask your Sybase rep, you'll make her day.
No one here cares how old you are. That irrelevant, and 'Old Fart' is troll bait if I ever saw it.
But he does talk around a good point. The internet can be the mast radical grass-roots politicizing force of the next 100 years. Any information can flow anonymously to everyone. This is a huge fear in places like China, that the people will figure out how to talk amongst themselves while they are well neigh invulnerable to physical coersion at home in front of their computer. The Chinese know they won't be able to put the genie back in the bottle.
It's ironic that the most democratising force on the planet is rife with young people who don't vote. And Silicon Valley is full of people who don't use their wealth to advance their political agenda. Actually, maybe the problem is they don't have a political agenda. The freedom we need to protect and to fight for is being taken from us little by little. Meanwhile, our grandparents vote in droves to protect their Social Security.
So the point JK makes that is worthwhile is that we all remember that there are people out there fighting change because they were comfortably making money under the old system. It doesn't matter about the age or the race or whatever, it's about self-interest and $$$.
Anyway, what the FTC said was 'be more up front with your advertising'. No one had their children spying on them or their face stuffed in a cage with hungry rats. The point is that you can rip people off all you want - as long as you do it openly. It's the lying the FTC is trying to stop.
Plus, I think it's easy for us technical people to forget that for most people computers and the internet are mysterious, frustrating and frightening. Little do they realize they're supposed to be frustrating and annoying.
The register has the legal brief submitted by Hitachi here. The bottom of the first page has a lot of good information.
Long story short, it alleges that in the mid-90's Rambus went to the JEDEC meetings that determined the SDRAM standard and then ran out and filed patents on what they heard. The really tricky part is that they attached those new applications to an old patent application, so it was grandfathered to 1990! Sweet, I can pretend my brand new technology is 4 years old
After reading this brief, I don't think the patents are enforceable. But then again, we are talking about the US Patent Office...
There are more layoffs every week, so I expect that the glut of dot com programmers and H1-B's to take a lot of the juice out of rates.
I'm not feeling sorry for myself, I'm just saying we are having a real economic slowdown and those among us who have to make a living will feel it. Those among us who are too young to remember what a recession is like and who have never seen a Bear stock market have a reality check in store. Check out the movie 'Roger and Me' from the video store.