I'm so sick of these alarmist IT outsourcing articles. Go to moster.com or hotjobs.com, if you live an any major metropolitian area, you will see hundreds if not thousands of jobs for skilled IT professionals. I spend most of my time at work looking for talented Java programmers and Linux gurus. My counterparts in other companies are seeing the same thing, a lack of talented developers. It is no longer 2002, people. The economy is doing just fine here in the US, the PHB's found out the hard way you can't just ship everything overseas. If you need to learn a language to better market yourself, I suggest AJAX.
I'm a little tired of the Jon Katz bashing myself. I think the first post I noticed was a flame that Katz was jumping on the bandwagon. Maybe so, but there's a far bigger bandwagon 'round here called "getting the first derogatory post against Katz". I don't think Katz could post anything more than two sentances without someone finding a way to finger him as an idiot. It's just an extention of CmdTaco's earlier post about Ugly Linux Users.
I'm not suggesting that we coddle fools, if don't like what's being posted or disagree, you should speak up. But why does it seem that it's always so personal when it comes to Katz?
I think it's unfortunate the way/.'ers are now treating Napster. I have personally known several people who work there and I don't think anyone can really appreciate how hard it has been to pour your blood, sweat, and tears into something, only to have it punked by the courts and the establishment. The people at Napster don't want to filter the songs or swich over to a crappy model, they wanted to become the new distribution of music and give even unheard of artist a fighting chance in an industry that is very controlled and cynical. Yeah, they planned to make a little money off of it too, but that's ok with me because I would have gladly paid a reasonable subscription fee in exchange for access to the new music of my choosing, not some top 40 playlist.
Let's not forget to recognize that Napster did change the world. It brought MP3s to the public. My grandmother now knows how to download songs off the net and loves it. How would this have ever happened without Napster? And while some might snub this as important, I'd argue that getting the genie out of the bottle was step one. Some others may suggest that a file trading network was an obvious thing that had to happen. I disagree. MP3's were out there for years before Sean put Napster together. Had Napster not come along, there is nothing to say it wouldn't have taken several more years before someone came up with the idea. New ideas breed other new ideas, do you think Freenet would have happened if Napster hadn't? And the second most important thing that Napster showed the world is that record companies are evil greedy bastards who have no interest in changing the status quo. I'm pretty sure that no one outside of the artists that have to deal with these guys really gave it much thought before Napster. Napster played David to the RIAA's Goliath and threw a huge pile of money and the some of the best attorneys of our time to prove to everyone that the system is broken. If people hadn't believed that, there certainly wouldn't have been the tremendous amount of development on the Gnutella side of things in the past year.
The recording companies were stupid not to partner with Napster. If they had, they would have been able to keep some measure of control over the outcome of things, but at this point I don't see how they will tame P2P. Gnutella has its share of shortcomings (like failing to hide your IP address) but even if it were to somehow fail, we'd build a new one that uses proxies and crypto to hide from prying eyes.
Forbes or some other member of mainstream media who simply doesn't get it will surely make comments like "P2P is dead" when they should really be saying "you may not be able to make money off of simply building a P2P network and expect people to pay for it". But think about the intangibles out there, MP3's are the carrots that were needed for people who otherwise wouldn't to sit at a PC and learn how to use the internet. I think that this is A Good Thing. Here is where I'm really going to get flamed...and I'm only going to pose this as a question. What do you think has touched more lives and changed more opinions in the past two years, Napster or GNU/Linux? I'm an open source bigot, but I think if you were to do the math and remember that most of the world is not like/. you'd come to the conclusion that it's probably Napster.
Napster may die, but I feel that we owe them a debt of gratitude, not the "Napster is dead and they suck anyway" scorn.
uhhhh, yeah right, just find that ARM port of Window NT and pop in the CD to see if it will boot. Does that imply that all Blue Screens of Death are caused by faulty Intel processors?
Simulation of a design usually takes far longer than implementation. Designing chips is similar to software in that respect, it doesn't take that long to write something that will compile, but writing bug-free code is a whole 'nother thing.
I have no idea how large the design is, but by the time you find an FPGA that is large enough to hold the design, you may be better off just buying an AMD K6-II and chipset. Not to mention that you need device programmer in order to program the chip.
Xilinx and Altera will usually give away some basic synthesis and simulation tools as part of their design kit. I doubt that the open source world will want to take up development of these kinds of tools, they tend to be pretty complex and not that appealing to the average hacker, but I'd love to be proven wrong here.
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I'm so sick of these alarmist IT outsourcing articles. Go to moster.com or hotjobs.com, if you live an any major metropolitian area, you will see hundreds if not thousands of jobs for skilled IT professionals. I spend most of my time at work looking for talented Java programmers and Linux gurus. My counterparts in other companies are seeing the same thing, a lack of talented developers. It is no longer 2002, people. The economy is doing just fine here in the US, the PHB's found out the hard way you can't just ship everything overseas. If you need to learn a language to better market yourself, I suggest AJAX.
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I'm a little tired of the Jon Katz bashing myself. I think the first post I noticed was a flame that Katz was jumping on the bandwagon. Maybe so, but there's a far bigger bandwagon 'round here called "getting the first derogatory post against Katz". I don't think Katz could post anything more than two sentances without someone finding a way to finger him as an idiot. It's just an extention of CmdTaco's earlier post about Ugly Linux Users.
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I'm not suggesting that we coddle fools, if don't like what's being posted or disagree, you should speak up. But why does it seem that it's always so personal when it comes to Katz?
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I think it's unfortunate the way /.'ers are now treating Napster. I have personally known several people who work there and I don't think anyone can really appreciate how hard it has been to pour your blood, sweat, and tears into something, only to have it punked by the courts and the establishment. The people at Napster don't want to filter the songs or swich over to a crappy model, they wanted to become the new distribution of music and give even unheard of artist a fighting chance in an industry that is very controlled and cynical. Yeah, they planned to make a little money off of it too, but that's ok with me because I would have gladly paid a reasonable subscription fee in exchange for access to the new music of my choosing, not some top 40 playlist.
Let's not forget to recognize that Napster did change the world. It brought MP3s to the public. My grandmother now knows how to download songs off the net and loves it. How would this have ever happened without Napster? And while some might snub this as important, I'd argue that getting the genie out of the bottle was step one. Some others may suggest that a file trading network was an obvious thing that had to happen. I disagree. MP3's were out there for years before Sean put Napster together. Had Napster not come along, there is nothing to say it wouldn't have taken several more years before someone came up with the idea. New ideas breed other new ideas, do you think Freenet would have happened if Napster hadn't? And the second most important thing that Napster showed the world is that record companies are evil greedy bastards who have no interest in changing the status quo. I'm pretty sure that no one outside of the artists that have to deal with these guys really gave it much thought before Napster. Napster played David to the RIAA's Goliath and threw a huge pile of money and the some of the best attorneys of our time to prove to everyone that the system is broken. If people hadn't believed that, there certainly wouldn't have been the tremendous amount of development on the Gnutella side of things in the past year.
The recording companies were stupid not to partner with Napster. If they had, they would have been able to keep some measure of control over the outcome of things, but at this point I don't see how they will tame P2P. Gnutella has its share of shortcomings (like failing to hide your IP address) but even if it were to somehow fail, we'd build a new one that uses proxies and crypto to hide from prying eyes.
Forbes or some other member of mainstream media who simply doesn't get it will surely make comments like "P2P is dead" when they should really be saying "you may not be able to make money off of simply building a P2P network and expect people to pay for it". But think about the intangibles out there, MP3's are the carrots that were needed for people who otherwise wouldn't to sit at a PC and learn how to use the internet. I think that this is A Good Thing. Here is where I'm really going to get flamed...and I'm only going to pose this as a question. What do you think has touched more lives and changed more opinions in the past two years, Napster or GNU/Linux? I'm an open source bigot, but I think if you were to do the math and remember that most of the world is not like /. you'd come to the conclusion that it's probably Napster.
Napster may die, but I feel that we owe them a debt of gratitude, not the "Napster is dead and they suck anyway" scorn.
uhhhh, yeah right, just find that ARM port of Window NT and pop in the CD to see if it will boot. Does that imply that all Blue Screens of Death are caused by faulty Intel processors?
Simulation of a design usually takes far longer than implementation. Designing chips is similar to software in that respect, it doesn't take that long to write something that will compile, but writing bug-free code is a whole 'nother thing.
I have no idea how large the design is, but by the time you find an FPGA that is large enough to hold the design, you may be better off just buying an AMD K6-II and chipset. Not to mention that you need device programmer in order to program the chip.
Xilinx and Altera will usually give away some basic synthesis and simulation tools as part of their design kit. I doubt that the open source world will want to take up development of these kinds of tools, they tend to be pretty complex and not that appealing to the average hacker, but I'd love to be proven wrong here.