Actually, I put my resume on monster a few months ago (here in the Netherlands) fishing for an entry level J2EE job and I had 11 replies on the first day. Out of which I went to 5 interviews and landed a great new job.
I recently got a 1-888 number in the US for only 42$ per month (http://www.quantumvoice.com) it's unlimited incoming and outgoing (probably some kind of fair use but so far no trouble yet)
And thanks to the 1-888 toll free bit, it doesn't really matter where your number is. I'm from the Netherlands and I use this to stay in touch with people I know in the US.
Where did Microsoft promise this? All I can remember them saying is that they will use their patents as a source of revenue (which can be construed as not going after open source projects per se as there is little money there)
IBM signed a contract with Sun and is sharing code with Sun (For example, the licence states that Sun gets to use VM enhancements from other vendors..hence them getting the VM sharing that Apple made) My bet is that Sun would drag them into court by their balls and win. Since IBM did pledge support to open source Java and if they owned their own VM, what would be stopping them?
This works because company's like Microsoft and IBM have not patented every thing under the sun yet, right?
Wrong. Almost everything you do on computers violates some kind of vague patent spun somebody. Just look at the Eolas case against microsoft. And then keep in mind that most open source projects do not have the funding to defend themselves if one such bullshit patent is invoked.
It's only a matter of time before this system is abused to keep competition out.
Wasn't stimulating competition the main reason for patents?
While I can't speak for him, I recently bought my own Apple...a big plunge.
Personaly I bought a G4 17 Inch powerbook (1.5 Ghz proc, 1GB memory, 80 Gb 5400 rpm disk...the trimmings) and have been very happy with it.
The good
One of the things that will stand out is the attention to detail that Apple has for their products.
My laptop has no buttons sticking out, everything is smooth.
The battery for example has a small button which when you press it, shows how full the battery is (very simple feature, but it's quiete handy when you have plenty of batteries around)
When I connect my powerbook to the mains at 94% full, it does not try to charge the battery, avoiding stress to the batteries.
The backlit keyboard is a marvel, it really helps when I'm at work late at night.
The software is good and stable, Java out of the box for example and the environment is very friendly to Unix users (Gcc, some userland apps, X11)
The bad
I think the systems are a bit expensive, especialy the G5's where they still put like 256 mb of memory and a Geforce FX 5200 in a workstation model.
The absurd 1 year warranty
That said, I always get a feeling that with Apple, you are usualy good to go by buying either the low end or the top end, not midrange.
Hopefully the iMac will help this
I'd buy one right away. Right now I have a G4 1.5 Powerbook and it's so excellent that I hardly use my desktop (except for things like downloading and playing the occaisional game)
A G5 desktop would make me happy...but then again, might as well wait and get the next G5 Powermacs when they receive another bump
"The Apple Cinema HD Display sports a 23-inch (viewable) thin film transistor (TFT) active-matrix liquid crystal display that supports an astonishing 1920 by 1200 pixel resolution. And it comes with an even more astonishing price: $1999."
No in between version there are also a lot of improvements in the VM's put out by sun.
Java 1.0 was an interpreter, parsing and executing code as it happend.
Java 1.1 introduced the JIT which would compile pieces of code before execution and keep them cached in order to eliminate some overhead.
Java 1.2+ Introduces the hotspot which can do many things like unrolling loops, inlining code (and undoing this if new code is classloaded) It can optimize code based on runtime statistics (IE if you execute this code X times, we must optimize it)
Soon we will also have escape analyses too. Performance is improving
Indeed all classes are classloaded when referenced. Thus if you classload a bit of code that requests an Stack, the class stack will be loaded (if not yet loaded)
This behaviour is triggered by Class.forName(classname) and import (which does the same?)
If the engineer was rushed through the design and nobody had the time to check his designs, the company gets what it deserves.
However if the engineer skimped his work (for whatever reason) and the team failed to check his work, I think the team would share some kind of responsability.
If the engineer made the mistake and willfully let it in, he and the team should both partialy liable (he because he left an obvious flaw in and his team for not checking it)
This is also why I normaly have somebody (as in my boss) check my work and or discuss things that can be flawed or not.
This way I can't be fully responsable (usualy im just responsable for fixing the problem only)
I do notice how my emphasis is placed on automated testing and better designs around here, which makes an software engineer like me happy;-)
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Yeah and get this... I'm getting MS SQL 2000 certified (because there aren't new certs around)
Actually, I put my resume on monster a few months ago (here in the Netherlands) fishing for an entry level J2EE job and I had 11 replies on the first day.
Out of which I went to 5 interviews and landed a great new job.
It's all about the job market it seems
I recently got a 1-888 number in the US for only 42$ per month (http://www.quantumvoice.com) it's unlimited incoming and outgoing (probably some kind of fair use but so far no trouble yet)
And thanks to the 1-888 toll free bit, it doesn't really matter where your number is.
I'm from the Netherlands and I use this to stay in touch with people I know in the US.
Works like a charm
Where did Microsoft promise this?
All I can remember them saying is that they will use their patents as a source of revenue (which can be construed as not going after open source projects per se as there is little money there)
This has long since been overturned.
In fact, this is the first time that a vote was changed in the European parliment.
Lets hope this is a sign of things to come
No no no, bad idea, no twinkie.
IBM signed a contract with Sun and is sharing code with Sun (For example, the licence states that Sun gets to use VM enhancements from other vendors..hence them getting the VM sharing that Apple made)
My bet is that Sun would drag them into court by their balls and win.
Since IBM did pledge support to open source Java and if they owned their own VM, what would be stopping them?
Right..
Nice troll.
This works because company's like Microsoft and IBM have not patented every thing under the sun yet, right?
Wrong.
Almost everything you do on computers violates some kind of vague patent spun somebody.
Just look at the Eolas case against microsoft.
And then keep in mind that most open source projects do not have the funding to defend themselves if one such bullshit patent is invoked.
It's only a matter of time before this system is abused to keep competition out.
Wasn't stimulating competition the main reason for patents?
While I can't speak for him, I recently bought my own Apple...a big plunge.
Personaly I bought a G4 17 Inch powerbook (1.5 Ghz proc, 1GB memory, 80 Gb 5400 rpm disk...the trimmings) and have been very happy with it.
The good One of the things that will stand out is the attention to detail that Apple has for their products. My laptop has no buttons sticking out, everything is smooth. The battery for example has a small button which when you press it, shows how full the battery is (very simple feature, but it's quiete handy when you have plenty of batteries around) When I connect my powerbook to the mains at 94% full, it does not try to charge the battery, avoiding stress to the batteries. The backlit keyboard is a marvel, it really helps when I'm at work late at night.
The software is good and stable, Java out of the box for example and the environment is very friendly to Unix users (Gcc, some userland apps, X11)
The bad
I think the systems are a bit expensive, especialy the G5's where they still put like 256 mb of memory and a Geforce FX 5200 in a workstation model.
The absurd 1 year warranty
That said, I always get a feeling that with Apple, you are usualy good to go by buying either the low end or the top end, not midrange. Hopefully the iMac will help this
I'd buy one right away.
Right now I have a G4 1.5 Powerbook and it's so excellent that I hardly use my desktop (except for things like downloading and playing the occaisional game)
A G5 desktop would make me happy...but then again, might as well wait and get the next G5 Powermacs when they receive another bump
"The Apple Cinema HD Display sports a 23-inch (viewable) thin film transistor (TFT) active-matrix liquid crystal display that supports an astonishing 1920 by 1200 pixel resolution. And it comes with an even more astonishing price: $1999."
Care to revise your statement?
I'm a big supporter of Java and I find your post very enlightning.
I also agree that unless Sun opens up Java they and Java will become irrelevant.
I have no floppies you insensitive clod!
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Unless somebody else used the same name of course, but this does lend some credibility to his claims
No in between version there are also a lot of improvements in the VM's put out by sun.
Java 1.0 was an interpreter, parsing and executing code as it happend.
Java 1.1 introduced the JIT which would compile pieces of code before execution and keep them cached in order to eliminate some overhead.
Java 1.2+ Introduces the hotspot which can do many things like unrolling loops, inlining code (and undoing this if new code is classloaded)
It can optimize code based on runtime statistics (IE if you execute this code X times, we must optimize it)
Soon we will also have escape analyses too.
Performance is improving
Hey,
You seem to forget that the US government also contributes to projects by ways of grants.
How is this interesting?
If you run into this limit you obviously need to subdevide the workload.
Make multiple array's to fill the data with.
Please go here and read.
We should all send a card to them to let the producers know we care about the show and want them to continue
http://www.enterpriseproject.org/
But then you would be assuming that the Slashdot crowd is getting some.
I don't think that even the OSDN personal's will help with that..
Indeed all classes are classloaded when referenced.
Thus if you classload a bit of code that requests an Stack, the class stack will be loaded (if not yet loaded)
This behaviour is triggered by Class.forName(classname) and import (which does the same?)
The problem at hand is that his kids can potential destablelise his system.
The games he mentioned should be available on an XBOX.
Also an XBOX will keep on running the newest games for at least 2 years to come (look at the PS2)
Sound investment if you ask me.
At the price of 200$ you get two games included, an decent 3d accelerator costs the same or more
At lot of games should also be available on an Xbox.
Having one of those will save you the grief of having to maintain a system for gaming
I don't know about you, but im getting the upgrade to Redhat ES 3.0 for free at my datacenter.
I'd imagine this also boosts Redhat's returns
Sounds pretty good.
Over here in the Netherlands, my christmas bonus is detailed in my contract.
Im always assured of the standard 1200$
Depends on the circumstances.
;-)
If the engineer was rushed through the design and nobody had the time to check his designs, the company gets what it deserves.
However if the engineer skimped his work (for whatever reason) and the team failed to check his work, I think the team would share some kind of responsability.
If the engineer made the mistake and willfully let it in, he and the team should both partialy liable (he because he left an obvious flaw in and his team for not checking it)
This is also why I normaly have somebody (as in my boss) check my work and or discuss things that can be flawed or not.
This way I can't be fully responsable (usualy im just responsable for fixing the problem only)
I do notice how my emphasis is placed on automated testing and better designs around here, which makes an software engineer like me happy
I have no problems with my boss.
He is fun, he knows his stuff (he just codes too) and is always very concerned with the wellbeing of his staff.