The point is that a trusted expert in the industry is the only one with access to the private information.
No, the point is that the expert only needs to be trusted by the RIAA, they have the sole say who gets chosen. They might as well choose an employee not otherwise associated with the case.
Competent developers are offered jobs that are actually interesting and don't have to worry about language market share on monster.com.
Actually, a competent developer is able to apply their skills to any job regardless of language. If PHP is the language du jour today, great, if everyone loves Python tomorrow, no problem. C? Sweet, let's party like it's 1979.
It seems to me like the people bitching are the ones who don't want to have to learn something else, or are bitter because they see a bunch of people who read tutorials and nothing else taking jobs from them. I've got a computer science degree, and I've got a salaried job having a lot of fun creating some really cool PHP/ajax applications.
I'm sorry that you're only able to find offers for CRUD business applications.
It's no defense, but the guy who started PHP, Rasmus Lerdorf, is apparently a Danish Greenlander, and the two guys who rebuilt the parser for PHP3 and on, and founded Zend, Andy Gutmans and Zeev Suraski, are both Israeli. As I said, it's no defense, but Americans didn't have anything to do with creating PHP.
it seems that much of what is being changed is backtracking due to bad language decisions from the beginning.
As much as I love PHP, that's exactly right. Something like the register_globals option should have never even seen the light of day, much less even been placed on the drawing board.
Thankfully, a good programmer is a good programmer regardless of the language, so I think that most of the people who will need to scramble through their code fixing things are probably the same guys who learned programming from a free tutorial in the first place. The switch from PHP4 to PHP5 didn't affect my existing applications at all, and looking over the list of changes for PHP6, I'm not expecting a lot of heartache this time through either. The difference between me and a lot of other PHP programmers is my computer science degree. The huge amount of free online PHP tutorials directly explains the huge amount of poorly-written PHP code (much of it in the same tutorials).
I'm sort of curious as to the scope of changes that you actually do to migrate a site, what are you really needing to do that causes the customer to decline, I mean how much work is really necessary? What things are you finding that you need to do consistently to move a site from PHP4? When most people have asked me what might break when they flip the switch on the server to go to PHP5, I usually just talk about the changes in default settings, like register_globals being disabled (which never should have been used in the first place), or safe mode being disabled (which wouldn't have an affect really anyway).
I'm curious to get your feedback on what kinds of changes actually need to be made though, I've been developing with PHP since before 5 was ready to go, but I really haven't run into very much incompatibility at all as I move things between versions. The biggest problem I have is needing to port something for PHP5 down to PHP4, where I have to find compatible definitions of functions that are now built-in (json_encode comes to mind). And most of the time that happens, I end up convincing them to upgrade to PHP5 once I point out how old both PHP4 and 5 are (PHP5 is almost 5 years old at this point, PHP4 is 9 years old this month).
Richard Garriott is one of the better-known fucking game developers, his first games came out at the end of the fucking 70's. He created the entire fucking Ultima series, including Ultima Online, which was one of the first fucking MMOs. He gained the fucking nickname "Lord British" in school because his friends thought he sounded like he had a fucking British accent (he's American though, and lives in fucking Texas), and in his Ultima series the fucking ruler of the land was a character called Lord British whom he fucking modelled after himself (visually, anyway), and he used the fucking name to credit himself ("a fucking Lord British game"). The game he developed with NCSoft, who he's now fucking suing, was called Tabula Rasa and his fucking in-game persona was instead called "General British". He alleges that NCSoft fucking fired him and did so in a way that they claimed he fucking voluntarily left, thereby forcing him to sell his fucking stock options for a lower price than he would have gotten had he been allowed to retain them according to his fucking employment contract, which said that if he was fucking fired (as opposed to leaving voluntarily), he was allowed to keep his fucking options until 2011.
Being able to play a game on an iPhone or Apple game console isn't exactly the same thing as sitting down in front of my computer and playing the games I want to play.
It doesn't matter if I can play specific games on Apple hardware, what matters is if I can play the games I want to play. Right now I'm into things like Team Fortress 2 and Far Cry 2, and hopefully Empire: Total War once they get the bugs out. If I can't play TF2 or whatever else I specifically want to play, then it doesn't matter what other games they have available.
Macs have always had games available, they just haven't been the games I want to play. I'm not looking for the next Marathon or Oregon Trail sequel, I'm looking for the games I know I want to play.
Also, for the record, my "excuse" for using Windows instead of anything with an Apple logo on it is because I actually *prefer* Windows to Mac, and frankly, within the past year or two I actually have gotten a better opinion of Microsoft over Apple (or, more specifically, my opinion of Apple as a company has shot way, way down). It's not like a Mac is some obviously superior piece of equipment, where the only reason I would possibly use anything else is because the Mac doesn't support what I'm looking for. The reason I don't use Macs is because I prefer Windows XP, bottom line, XP has done everything I need an OS to do for the past 8 years, and at this point it's extremely stable. I've also built all of my own computers for the past 10 years, if I can't build my own Mac then I can stop looking right there. I know what hardware I want, I don't need Apple to tell me. The same goes for Linux machines I build myself, I just happen to prefer XP over most distros I've seen also.
In GTA: Vice City (released for Windows in 2003), and maybe earlier ones too, you could copy any MP3s you want into a folder in the game directory structure and play them through a station on the in-game car radio.
Yeah, those are the grounds. The smaller building with the older-looking roof on the southeast of the building complex is the actual laboratory building (the one with the small tower in the center of the roof), and I presume his 187-ft tower was located in the concrete octagon to the south of the lab.
In 1901, Nikola Tesla began work on a global system of giant towers meant to relay through the air not only news, stock reports and even pictures but also, unbeknown to investors such as J. Pierpont Morgan, free electricity for one and all.
It was the inventor's biggest project, and his most audacious.
The first tower rose on rural Long Island and, by 1903, stood more than 18 stories tall. One midsummer night, it emitted a dull rumble and proceeded to hurl bolts of electricity into the sky. The blinding flashes, The New York Sun reported, "seemed to shoot off into the darkness on some mysterious errand."
But the system failed for want of money, and at least partly for scientific viability. Tesla never finished his prototype tower and was forced to abandon its adjoining laboratory.
Today, a fight is looming over the ghostly remains of that site, called Wardenclyffe - what Tesla authorities call the only surviving workplace of the eccentric genius who dreamed countless big dreams while pioneering wireless communication and alternating current. The disagreement began recently after the property went up for sale in Shoreham, N.Y.
A science group on Long Island wants to turn the 16-acre site into a Tesla museum and education center, and hopes to get the land donated to that end. But the owner, the Agfa Corporation, says it must sell the property to raise money in hard economic times. The company's real estate broker says the land, listed at $1.6 million, can "be delivered fully cleared and level," a statement that has thrown the preservationists into action.
The ruins of Wardenclyffe include the tower's foundation and the large brick laboratory, designed by Tesla's friend Stanford White, the celebrated architect.
"It's hugely important to protect this site," said Marc J. Seifer, author of "Wizard," a Tesla biography. "He's an icon. He stands for what humans are supposed to do - honor nature while using high technology to harness its powers."
Recently, New York State echoed that judgment. The commissioner of historic preservation wrote Dr. Seifer on behalf of Gov. David A. Paterson to back Wardenclyffe's preservation and listing in the National Register of Historic Places.
On Long Island, Tesla enthusiasts vow to obtain the land one way or another, saying that saving a symbol of Tesla's accomplishments would help restore the visionary to his rightful place as an architect of the modern age.
"A lot of his work was way ahead of his time," said Jane Alcorn, president of the Tesla Science Center, a private group in Shoreham that is seeking to acquire Wardenclyffe.
Dr. Ljubo Vujovic, president of the Tesla Memorial Society of New York, said destroying the old lab "would be a terrible thing for the United States and the world. It's a piece of history."
Tesla, who lived from 1856 to 1943, made bitter enemies who dismissed some of his claims as exaggerated, helping tarnish his reputation in his lifetime. He was part recluse, part showman. He issued publicity photos (actually double exposures) showing him reading quietly in his laboratory amid deadly flashes.
Today, his work tends to be poorly known among scientists, though some call him an intuitive genius far ahead of his peers. Socially, his popularity has soared, elevating him to cult status.
Books and Web sites abound. Wikipedia says the inventor obtained at least 700 patents. YouTube has several Tesla videos, including one of a break-in at Wardenclyffe. A rock band calls itself Tesla. An electric car company backed by Google's founders calls itself Tesla Motors.
Larry Page, Google's co-founder, sees the creator's life as a cautionary tale. "It's a sad, sad story," Mr. Page told Fortune magazine last year. The inventor "couldn't commercialize anything. He could barely fund his own research."
To the celebrity-obsessed, it allows following of celebrities like no gossip-rag ever could.
That's it right there, you nailed it. Twitter is a tool to help people follow the lives of other people. That's why it seems like it has little to no worth for people who are more interested in living their own lives than following others.
Why would anyone in the market have had an interest in loaning to high-risk individuals if it wasn't for the "affordable housing" and "homeownership for all" agenda pushed by both the Clinton and Bush administrations?
Politics doesn't enter into it at all, besides the deregulation that encouraged more subprime lending. The reason is the same old reason that anyone does anything: money. The lenders made relatively huge margins on subprime deals. They didn't give a crap who was in office or what they were saying, they just figured out that they could make a ton of money by giving someone with worthless credit a loan at 20% interest.
Also on the w3schools statistics, you can see that Firefox is taking up over 46% of the market share (which is more than IE6, IE7, and IE8 combined), with Opera showing up with 2.3%. Opera has more users than IE8 on the w3schools statistics. That should tell you right there how accurate those numbers are for the general population.
The good news is that more web developers use Opera than IE8 (which will probably change soon, though).
Go out on the street. Talk to about 1000 people. Ask them what operating system they have on their home computer.
You're making a major assumption there that I don't think is correct. I don't think you'll find anyone, not a single person, who would say they run Linux at home. I hate to say it, but most people who run Linux at home are going to be at home, running Linux, not walking around the street talking to strangers about their computing habits. In fact, I think your results are going to look more like this:
Well that's my point, if the only way for someone to learn a dry subject is like this, then they probably shouldn't be doing that for a living. If you're going to make a living designing and maintaining databases, or software that uses databases, you're really going to need to understand things that are presented in a technical matter, your success will depend on it. API documentation especially is certainly not presented in a graphical fashion with cartoon characters to lead you through it. If that's the only way you can learn it, then you're simply not going to be successful at your job.
If the only way you can learn a technical subject like databases is to have it presented in a cutesy comic book format, well, should you really be going after a technical skill set?
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This might not pose that much of a threat to H264, sounds like another OGG or FLAC.
Theora sounds like another OGG, huh? Imagine that.
The point is that a trusted expert in the industry is the only one with access to the private information.
No, the point is that the expert only needs to be trusted by the RIAA, they have the sole say who gets chosen. They might as well choose an employee not otherwise associated with the case.
Gesundheit.
I understand those words individually, but when you put them together like that they don't make sense.
Are you telling me that you're confused by this:
<?php
echo "Hello $Foo\n";
?>
and then you put this in your sig:
perl -e 'printf"%02X"x4,unpack"C4",gethostbyname"$_.aacs.phroggy.com" for qw/Just another Perl hacker/'
Competent developers are offered jobs that are actually interesting and don't have to worry about language market share on monster.com.
Actually, a competent developer is able to apply their skills to any job regardless of language. If PHP is the language du jour today, great, if everyone loves Python tomorrow, no problem. C? Sweet, let's party like it's 1979.
It seems to me like the people bitching are the ones who don't want to have to learn something else, or are bitter because they see a bunch of people who read tutorials and nothing else taking jobs from them. I've got a computer science degree, and I've got a salaried job having a lot of fun creating some really cool PHP/ajax applications.
I'm sorry that you're only able to find offers for CRUD business applications.
One of these things just doesn't belong
hmm.... let's check the rankings at tiobe.com..
python: 5.548%
ruby: 2.692%
objective-c: 0.134%
smalltalk: 0.125%
PHP: 9.921%
So apparently PHP is the one that is not like the others, because the ranking for PHP is more than the rankings for everything else combined.
http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.html
It's no defense, but the guy who started PHP, Rasmus Lerdorf, is apparently a Danish Greenlander, and the two guys who rebuilt the parser for PHP3 and on, and founded Zend, Andy Gutmans and Zeev Suraski, are both Israeli. As I said, it's no defense, but Americans didn't have anything to do with creating PHP.
it seems that much of what is being changed is backtracking due to bad language decisions from the beginning.
As much as I love PHP, that's exactly right. Something like the register_globals option should have never even seen the light of day, much less even been placed on the drawing board.
Thankfully, a good programmer is a good programmer regardless of the language, so I think that most of the people who will need to scramble through their code fixing things are probably the same guys who learned programming from a free tutorial in the first place. The switch from PHP4 to PHP5 didn't affect my existing applications at all, and looking over the list of changes for PHP6, I'm not expecting a lot of heartache this time through either. The difference between me and a lot of other PHP programmers is my computer science degree. The huge amount of free online PHP tutorials directly explains the huge amount of poorly-written PHP code (much of it in the same tutorials).
Now Don, you don't have to be bitter because PHP programmers are taking away all the jobs you wanted to use your FORTRAN and COBOL skillz for.
I'm not on your lawn either, so don't bother.
I'm sort of curious as to the scope of changes that you actually do to migrate a site, what are you really needing to do that causes the customer to decline, I mean how much work is really necessary? What things are you finding that you need to do consistently to move a site from PHP4? When most people have asked me what might break when they flip the switch on the server to go to PHP5, I usually just talk about the changes in default settings, like register_globals being disabled (which never should have been used in the first place), or safe mode being disabled (which wouldn't have an affect really anyway).
I'm curious to get your feedback on what kinds of changes actually need to be made though, I've been developing with PHP since before 5 was ready to go, but I really haven't run into very much incompatibility at all as I move things between versions. The biggest problem I have is needing to port something for PHP5 down to PHP4, where I have to find compatible definitions of functions that are now built-in (json_encode comes to mind). And most of the time that happens, I end up convincing them to upgrade to PHP5 once I point out how old both PHP4 and 5 are (PHP5 is almost 5 years old at this point, PHP4 is 9 years old this month).
It's cool, it's the fucking thought that counts.
Richard Garriott is one of the better-known fucking game developers, his first games came out at the end of the fucking 70's. He created the entire fucking Ultima series, including Ultima Online, which was one of the first fucking MMOs. He gained the fucking nickname "Lord British" in school because his friends thought he sounded like he had a fucking British accent (he's American though, and lives in fucking Texas), and in his Ultima series the fucking ruler of the land was a character called Lord British whom he fucking modelled after himself (visually, anyway), and he used the fucking name to credit himself ("a fucking Lord British game"). The game he developed with NCSoft, who he's now fucking suing, was called Tabula Rasa and his fucking in-game persona was instead called "General British". He alleges that NCSoft fucking fired him and did so in a way that they claimed he fucking voluntarily left, thereby forcing him to sell his fucking stock options for a lower price than he would have gotten had he been allowed to retain them according to his fucking employment contract, which said that if he was fucking fired (as opposed to leaving voluntarily), he was allowed to keep his fucking options until 2011.
So that's what the fuck is going on.
Being able to play a game on an iPhone or Apple game console isn't exactly the same thing as sitting down in front of my computer and playing the games I want to play.
It doesn't matter if I can play specific games on Apple hardware, what matters is if I can play the games I want to play. Right now I'm into things like Team Fortress 2 and Far Cry 2, and hopefully Empire: Total War once they get the bugs out. If I can't play TF2 or whatever else I specifically want to play, then it doesn't matter what other games they have available.
Macs have always had games available, they just haven't been the games I want to play. I'm not looking for the next Marathon or Oregon Trail sequel, I'm looking for the games I know I want to play.
Also, for the record, my "excuse" for using Windows instead of anything with an Apple logo on it is because I actually *prefer* Windows to Mac, and frankly, within the past year or two I actually have gotten a better opinion of Microsoft over Apple (or, more specifically, my opinion of Apple as a company has shot way, way down). It's not like a Mac is some obviously superior piece of equipment, where the only reason I would possibly use anything else is because the Mac doesn't support what I'm looking for. The reason I don't use Macs is because I prefer Windows XP, bottom line, XP has done everything I need an OS to do for the past 8 years, and at this point it's extremely stable. I've also built all of my own computers for the past 10 years, if I can't build my own Mac then I can stop looking right there. I know what hardware I want, I don't need Apple to tell me. The same goes for Linux machines I build myself, I just happen to prefer XP over most distros I've seen also.
In GTA: Vice City (released for Windows in 2003), and maybe earlier ones too, you could copy any MP3s you want into a folder in the game directory structure and play them through a station on the in-game car radio.
Yeah, those are the grounds. The smaller building with the older-looking roof on the southeast of the building complex is the actual laboratory building (the one with the small tower in the center of the roof), and I presume his 187-ft tower was located in the concrete octagon to the south of the lab.
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A Battle to Preserve a Visionary's Bold Failure
By WILLIAM J. BROAD
Published: May 4, 2009
In 1901, Nikola Tesla began work on a global system of giant towers meant to relay through the air not only news, stock reports and even pictures but also, unbeknown to investors such as J. Pierpont Morgan, free electricity for one and all.
It was the inventor's biggest project, and his most audacious.
The first tower rose on rural Long Island and, by 1903, stood more than 18 stories tall. One midsummer night, it emitted a dull rumble and proceeded to hurl bolts of electricity into the sky. The blinding flashes, The New York Sun reported, "seemed to shoot off into the darkness on some mysterious errand."
But the system failed for want of money, and at least partly for scientific viability. Tesla never finished his prototype tower and was forced to abandon its adjoining laboratory.
Today, a fight is looming over the ghostly remains of that site, called Wardenclyffe - what Tesla authorities call the only surviving workplace of the eccentric genius who dreamed countless big dreams while pioneering wireless communication and alternating current. The disagreement began recently after the property went up for sale in Shoreham, N.Y.
A science group on Long Island wants to turn the 16-acre site into a Tesla museum and education center, and hopes to get the land donated to that end. But the owner, the Agfa Corporation, says it must sell the property to raise money in hard economic times. The company's real estate broker says the land, listed at $1.6 million, can "be delivered fully cleared and level," a statement that has thrown the preservationists into action.
The ruins of Wardenclyffe include the tower's foundation and the large brick laboratory, designed by Tesla's friend Stanford White, the celebrated architect.
"It's hugely important to protect this site," said Marc J. Seifer, author of "Wizard," a Tesla biography. "He's an icon. He stands for what humans are supposed to do - honor nature while using high technology to harness its powers."
Recently, New York State echoed that judgment. The commissioner of historic preservation wrote Dr. Seifer on behalf of Gov. David A. Paterson to back Wardenclyffe's preservation and listing in the National Register of Historic Places.
On Long Island, Tesla enthusiasts vow to obtain the land one way or another, saying that saving a symbol of Tesla's accomplishments would help restore the visionary to his rightful place as an architect of the modern age.
"A lot of his work was way ahead of his time," said Jane Alcorn, president of the Tesla Science Center, a private group in Shoreham that is seeking to acquire Wardenclyffe.
Dr. Ljubo Vujovic, president of the Tesla Memorial Society of New York, said destroying the old lab "would be a terrible thing for the United States and the world. It's a piece of history."
Tesla, who lived from 1856 to 1943, made bitter enemies who dismissed some of his claims as exaggerated, helping tarnish his reputation in his lifetime. He was part recluse, part showman. He issued publicity photos (actually double exposures) showing him reading quietly in his laboratory amid deadly flashes.
Today, his work tends to be poorly known among scientists, though some call him an intuitive genius far ahead of his peers. Socially, his popularity has soared, elevating him to cult status.
Books and Web sites abound. Wikipedia says the inventor obtained at least 700 patents. YouTube has several Tesla videos, including one of a break-in at Wardenclyffe. A rock band calls itself Tesla. An electric car company backed by Google's founders calls itself Tesla Motors.
Larry Page, Google's co-founder, sees the creator's life as a cautionary tale. "It's a sad, sad story," Mr. Page told Fortune magazine last year. The inventor "couldn't commercialize anything. He could barely fund his own research."
Wardenclyffe epitomized that kind o
To the celebrity-obsessed, it allows following of celebrities like no gossip-rag ever could.
That's it right there, you nailed it. Twitter is a tool to help people follow the lives of other people. That's why it seems like it has little to no worth for people who are more interested in living their own lives than following others.
Why would anyone in the market have had an interest in loaning to high-risk individuals if it wasn't for the "affordable housing" and "homeownership for all" agenda pushed by both the Clinton and Bush administrations?
Politics doesn't enter into it at all, besides the deregulation that encouraged more subprime lending. The reason is the same old reason that anyone does anything: money. The lenders made relatively huge margins on subprime deals. They didn't give a crap who was in office or what they were saying, they just figured out that they could make a ton of money by giving someone with worthless credit a loan at 20% interest.
Where are all these 'tea party' people on election days?
At a tea party?
Also on the w3schools statistics, you can see that Firefox is taking up over 46% of the market share (which is more than IE6, IE7, and IE8 combined), with Opera showing up with 2.3%. Opera has more users than IE8 on the w3schools statistics. That should tell you right there how accurate those numbers are for the general population.
The good news is that more web developers use Opera than IE8 (which will probably change soon, though).
Go out on the street. Talk to about 1000 people. Ask them what operating system they have on their home computer.
You're making a major assumption there that I don't think is correct. I don't think you'll find anyone, not a single person, who would say they run Linux at home. I hate to say it, but most people who run Linux at home are going to be at home, running Linux, not walking around the street talking to strangers about their computing habits. In fact, I think your results are going to look more like this:
Huh?: 15%
Windows: 65%
No Computer: 18%
Mac: 2%
Linux: 0%
What I'm saying is that I don't think the people "on the street" accurately reflect what people are doing at home.
Also, people running Windows are going to be more likely to be outside walking around, because what else are they going to do?
Right.. they're more like margarine than butter.
Well that's my point, if the only way for someone to learn a dry subject is like this, then they probably shouldn't be doing that for a living. If you're going to make a living designing and maintaining databases, or software that uses databases, you're really going to need to understand things that are presented in a technical matter, your success will depend on it. API documentation especially is certainly not presented in a graphical fashion with cartoon characters to lead you through it. If that's the only way you can learn it, then you're simply not going to be successful at your job.
If the only way you can learn a technical subject like databases is to have it presented in a cutesy comic book format, well, should you really be going after a technical skill set?