Stallman is a millionaire, so there is a good start for your fat wallet. And he's not even wasting his money on children or a family (his words, not mine) -- whether he's spending it on trips to pot and trips to Amsterdamm is unknown to me.
Why do you trust climatologists? Have they proven to be reliable in their application of the scientific process in the past? In general I would say biology has proven to be a field filled with more crackpots and the least stringent application of rigorous science than most. Now that the respectable fields (biochemistry, genomics, etc) have split off, it really is a refuge for psuedo-science and sensationalists.
1. Please tell me how you version a corba interface so that it simulatneously supports multiple protocols. 2. Please tell me how you extend a corba interface without recompiling both the server and client. 3. Please tell me how you perform corba over http, ftp, or any other lightweight network protocols.
The only answer I know is you can't, perhaps you don't care about those capabilities, but I need them all and several more. CORBA is great where its great, but it hardly reduces the need for XML.
I don't know who contributed XSDs, and they are indeed a huge improvement over DTDs, but the impacts would be different if MS was promoting this change. Xerces would not be at risk of being non standards compliant, only MSXML would, and thus I wouldn't care. IBM should get more consideration by the w3c because they provide the parser used by more developers than any other one (despite the fact that msxml is probably installed on more machines).
Hopefully ACE will eventually have a decent XML implementation (tho based on the code I saw, they still appear to be quite far away), and at least c/C++ programmers will be free to do as they wish, but until then C'est La Vie, I cast my lot with Xerces and IBM.
Mainly because I don't think you can put newlines or whitespace in qualified names (elements, attributes, tags, directives, etc), so there is no need to make newlines overridable. There is no issue with character data and attribute values, as those are overridable.
Mainly this is a non issue, but for programmers using free tools, notably xerces, this is a change in the spec we probably want. You see, IBM is THE major contributor to our free XML parser, and they will almost definietly implement this change in xerces whether the standard says to or not. This makes all the other big companies break their parsers as well, so they're still compatible with us (the people using xerces). SO while maybe IBM isn't a good guy in this deal, the w3c is doing a good job handling a problem that would primarily plague those of us with the least resources to handle it.
This is OT, but make sure you have a good resume. Don't say developed client tracking components for a n online sales engine. Say instead, developed java based components for online sales system using JDBC and SQL to build reports from an Oracle database. Its stupid, I know, but it catches their eye better, and makes it obvious that you are truly experienced with the technologies you list on your res. There are other nuances that help resumes, but this is the big one.
They don't need to lie and they don't break the law. Read my ad, they lowball it, and no Americans apply. Do a search on the net and you can see how Intel handled it in Arizona when some people did apply. They added a skill they knew they could get in India (Cobol) that the applicants didn't have, even tho it was irrelevant to the position. Disqualified all the American applicants, and brought in the H1-B's anyway. If a company rejects your application and hires an H1-B they have to send you a letter so that you can complain to the Justice Dept, people do complain, so they have worked around it by adding obscure out of date skills (Cobol and weird assembly languages common to mainframes) and seriously lowballing the salaries.
Perhaps, but read my other post about what happened to 14 h1-b's I worked with. I've seen it at 3 companies I've been with. Perhaps you're lucky, or perhaps my experience is atypical, but the guys I met from Nigeria were getting 42,000 as Oracle DBA's and worked about 80 hrs a week (one slept on a cot at work many days). The 14 Indians got terminated. Then 2 Indians, and 3 Chinese got treated pretty well at another project, but didn't get paid for OT, and didn't receive many of the benefits available to the rest of us. In each case these guys were brought in and mistreated by body shops. It was never the company that employed them directly, but it makes no difference to me. That shit is wrong.
I don't care about those points, I'm talking about how your fellow human being gets treated.
At the last contract I took, they hired and imported 14 H1-b's. The project was for a foreign defense department, and the company forgot to check export controls. After 2 weeks, all those guys got fired, all their work destroyed and they got sent home because the US government heavily regulates how work is done for for foreign militaries (a good policy actually, they don't run their projects in the US for nothing). How was it fair that those guys were reaching out for that holy grail of US opportunity, before it was violently snatched from them coz the company couldn't take the time to check the regulations. The company wrote off the expense, no big deal, but those guys got screwed. The economics are important, but treating these guys fairly is more important to me. Read the AC post under my orig.
Perhaps its an order of magnitude better, but by American standards, they are treated like endentured servants. Just because they come from poorer areas, is it okay to treat them worse than regular Americans. I would say the choice is, feed our own, or take advantage of and mistreat (by American standards) foreigners.
If your having a hard time deciding, let me say that you could simply lease slaves from the Sudan, certainly, it would improve their lifestyle, but is being a slaveholder ever ethical? (that's an anology, not a great one, but applicable).
Close, they just make the listing outrageous in requirements, and then lowball the salary. E.g.
Wanted: Programmer with 10 years experience. C++, Cobol, Java, Solaris, AIX, MVS, Windows, 68K, assem, x86 assem, SICS assem. Knowledge of gui development, real time applications, assembly programming. Located near Silicon Valley. Salary, $35,000, contact amehta@intel.com
They stick that in the paper for 2 weeks, and when no one applies they open it up to h1-b's, never mind that the H1-b's don't meet the requirements, they'll work on the cheap while being sponsered for a green card. And the companies treat these guys like endentured servants, which they virtually are.
Of course not, but I'm not so foolish as to think Congress is made up of Bushes. For every priveledged country club guy in congress, there are 10 Traficants, Waterses, Rangels, Ballengers, Condits etc. They're all corrupt, don't get me wrong, but they come from the same place as me. The problem with corruption, is that it doesn't discriminate based on race or background. Its payola and power only.
Except for the prodigious declarations about EngSoc.
I think the brilliance of 1984 is that it is an examination of his own politics and some of the inconsistencies therein (only totalitarian regimes are without inconsistency). He doesn't pull a Steinbeck and pretend that politics are the antidote for what ails you, instead he examines how politics even in his beloved system can be corrupted when people try and justify their own actions. I absolutely despise socialism, but I can't deny the absolute brilliance of Orwell's writings, even when they espouse things I vehemently disagree with.
Its an oatmeal stout, rather than the irish stuff. Its a little different from an Irish stout, but it is excellent (if you enjoy full bodied beer).
You'll usually find it in a larger bottle, like a liter or so (22oz maybe), don't know where to tell you to look, they have it at some of the FreshField's and HarrisTeeter's in the DC metro area. If you're in raleigh they have it at both 24-7s, if you're in either of those places, respond and I'll give better directions.
For thoses that don't know, Canadian laws prohibit adding caffiene to any fruit flavoured drink (ergo MD here has no caffiene).
Oh My God! I can't even think of a Canada crack I'm so in shock. Mt Dew is simply caffeine flavor, without caffeine,, MD would taste like water. Damn Canadians.
True in theory, but not practice. If you hold the patent, onus is on the accused party to prove that they are using prior art. The patent office hasn't proven itself to be very devoted to spending the time to actually look for prior art on a patent tho, so someone could patent RH's tech after the fact. Red Hat may have noble intentions, only time will tell.
I pay $35/month, but its more like 2048/256. DSL isn't an option, but I don't expect the price to change (they recently raised the proce and lost a significant amount of customers). This is still a captialist country, I don't have to buy the service if I can't afford it.
Sometimes Michael (the/. editor) has a hard time remembering whether he's a socialist or a capitalist, but mainly he's just a whiner (perhaps he ought to move to Europe, they seem to grow them on trees over there).
When doing cross platform development, the standard is a nice starting point for development (invariably you will have to work around some difficulties in IE). You will find that mozilla/netscape (incl. ns6) is much more compliant, tho perhaps a bit unforgiving to some types of violations (don't make assumptions about which ones, when you start using mozilla hardcore, you will learn what types of mistakes it penalizes first hand). Browsers like konqi and ie are nowhere near as compliant, but they tend to ignore errors rather than refuse to process a statement (technically that is incorrect behaviour, but no point being pedantice, IE is not going to change that behaviour no matter what the standard is). In general IE is a decent to good browser, but mozilla has been better for at least 6 months (no harm in not knowing that yet, but now you've been informed, and you should alter your statements accordingly).
Btw, css3 is being developed, its not important to me yet, but you may want to look at it and at least make some notes about what it will offer and its proposed release date.
If you're a web designer, its disappointing that you're still harping on an event that occurred many years ago (the exodus from netscape). The migration to the mozilla 5 engine is well underway . . .
And what apparently you aren't talking about are web servers, payroll software, simulators, network mgmt, finance pkgs, databases and all the other tasks that actually require high quality software. Business software typically has a very high defect rate no matter what platform its on. Business software would do well to emulate the high quality techniques used in the above software rather than hire a bunch of.net folks that think a platform is the solution to their quality problems. But the programmers I work with aren't going to take cruddy jobs programming ms instead of contracts doing server work on UNIX and, more and more, Linux.
Finally, in response to your last paragraph, you have displayed exactly why the Linux community is lacking credibility to the large computing establishment. Your "take your cross-platform and shove it" attitude is exactly why Linux suffers from a near-terminal dearth of commerical, successful, productive, high-quality applications. Implementing a similiar but different.NET-style framework would prevent interoperability - which is the core feature that Mono is attempting to capture.
It's discouraging that you feel that way. I would argue that there are much fewer high-quality apps written for all the windows apps combined than UNIX. And it is a relatively small leap from most UNIXes to Linux. But write Linux/UNIX off, you won't be the first or last, I'm certain. *sigh*
Maybe Java was designed to be easy for a C/C++ programmers to learn (I doubt that, but . ..), but it isn't. There are many different nuances and idioms that are quite different. The use finally and inner classes as closures are 2 examples. That is not to say that Java is hard to learn, just that Java mastery is a skill unto itself. Fortunately it is a skill I no longer need:-).
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Stallman is a millionaire, so there is a good start for your fat wallet. And he's not even wasting his money on children or a family (his words, not mine) -- whether he's spending it on trips to pot and trips to Amsterdamm is unknown to me.
Why do you trust climatologists? Have they proven to be reliable in their application of the scientific process in the past? In general I would say biology has proven to be a field filled with more crackpots and the least stringent application of rigorous science than most. Now that the respectable fields (biochemistry, genomics, etc) have split off, it really is a refuge for psuedo-science and sensationalists.
1. Please tell me how you version a corba interface so that it simulatneously supports multiple protocols.
2. Please tell me how you extend a corba interface without recompiling both the server and client.
3. Please tell me how you perform corba over http, ftp, or any other lightweight network protocols.
The only answer I know is you can't, perhaps you don't care about those capabilities, but I need them all and several more. CORBA is great where its great, but it hardly reduces the need for XML.
I don't know who contributed XSDs, and they are indeed a huge improvement over DTDs, but the impacts would be different if MS was promoting this change. Xerces would not be at risk of being non standards compliant, only MSXML would, and thus I wouldn't care. IBM should get more consideration by the w3c because they provide the parser used by more developers than any other one (despite the fact that msxml is probably installed on more machines).
Hopefully ACE will eventually have a decent XML implementation (tho based on the code I saw, they still appear to be quite far away), and at least c/C++ programmers will be free to do as they wish, but until then C'est La Vie, I cast my lot with Xerces and IBM.
Mainly because I don't think you can put newlines or whitespace in qualified names (elements, attributes, tags, directives, etc), so there is no need to make newlines overridable. There is no issue with character data and attribute values, as those are overridable.
Mainly this is a non issue, but for programmers using free tools, notably xerces, this is a change in the spec we probably want. You see, IBM is THE major contributor to our free XML parser, and they will almost definietly implement this change in xerces whether the standard says to or not. This makes all the other big companies break their parsers as well, so they're still compatible with us (the people using xerces). SO while maybe IBM isn't a good guy in this deal, the w3c is doing a good job handling a problem that would primarily plague those of us with the least resources to handle it.
This is OT, but make sure you have a good resume. Don't say developed client tracking components for a n online sales engine. Say instead, developed java based components for online sales system using JDBC and SQL to build reports from an Oracle database. Its stupid, I know, but it catches their eye better, and makes it obvious that you are truly experienced with the technologies you list on your res. There are other nuances that help resumes, but this is the big one.
They don't need to lie and they don't break the law. Read my ad, they lowball it, and no Americans apply. Do a search on the net and you can see how Intel handled it in Arizona when some people did apply. They added a skill they knew they could get in India (Cobol) that the applicants didn't have, even tho it was irrelevant to the position. Disqualified all the American applicants, and brought in the H1-B's anyway. If a company rejects your application and hires an H1-B they have to send you a letter so that you can complain to the Justice Dept, people do complain, so they have worked around it by adding obscure out of date skills (Cobol and weird assembly languages common to mainframes) and seriously lowballing the salaries.
Perhaps, but read my other post about what happened to 14 h1-b's I worked with. I've seen it at 3 companies I've been with. Perhaps you're lucky, or perhaps my experience is atypical, but the guys I met from Nigeria were getting 42,000 as Oracle DBA's and worked about 80 hrs a week (one slept on a cot at work many days). The 14 Indians got terminated. Then 2 Indians, and 3 Chinese got treated pretty well at another project, but didn't get paid for OT, and didn't receive many of the benefits available to the rest of us. In each case these guys were brought in and mistreated by body shops. It was never the company that employed them directly, but it makes no difference to me. That shit is wrong.
I don't care about those points, I'm talking about how your fellow human being gets treated.
At the last contract I took, they hired and imported 14 H1-b's. The project was for a foreign defense department, and the company forgot to check export controls. After 2 weeks, all those guys got fired, all their work destroyed and they got sent home because the US government heavily regulates how work is done for for foreign militaries (a good policy actually, they don't run their projects in the US for nothing). How was it fair that those guys were reaching out for that holy grail of US opportunity, before it was violently snatched from them coz the company couldn't take the time to check the regulations. The company wrote off the expense, no big deal, but those guys got screwed. The economics are important, but treating these guys fairly is more important to me. Read the AC post under my orig.
Perhaps its an order of magnitude better, but by American standards, they are treated like endentured servants. Just because they come from poorer areas, is it okay to treat them worse than regular Americans. I would say the choice is, feed our own, or take advantage of and mistreat (by American standards) foreigners.
If your having a hard time deciding, let me say that you could simply lease slaves from the Sudan, certainly, it would improve their lifestyle, but is being a slaveholder ever ethical? (that's an anology, not a great one, but applicable).
Close, they just make the listing outrageous in requirements, and then lowball the salary. E.g.
Wanted: Programmer with 10 years experience. C++, Cobol, Java, Solaris, AIX, MVS, Windows, 68K, assem, x86 assem, SICS assem. Knowledge of gui development, real time applications, assembly programming. Located near Silicon Valley. Salary, $35,000, contact amehta@intel.com
They stick that in the paper for 2 weeks, and when no one applies they open it up to h1-b's, never mind that the H1-b's don't meet the requirements, they'll work on the cheap while being sponsered for a green card. And the companies treat these guys like endentured servants, which they virtually are.
Of course not, but I'm not so foolish as to think Congress is made up of Bushes. For every priveledged country club guy in congress, there are 10 Traficants, Waterses, Rangels, Ballengers, Condits etc. They're all corrupt, don't get me wrong, but they come from the same place as me. The problem with corruption, is that it doesn't discriminate based on race or background. Its payola and power only.
Except for the prodigious declarations about EngSoc.
I think the brilliance of 1984 is that it is an examination of his own politics and some of the inconsistencies therein (only totalitarian regimes are without inconsistency). He doesn't pull a Steinbeck and pretend that politics are the antidote for what ails you, instead he examines how politics even in his beloved system can be corrupted when people try and justify their own actions. I absolutely despise socialism, but I can't deny the absolute brilliance of Orwell's writings, even when they espouse things I vehemently disagree with.
Its an oatmeal stout, rather than the irish stuff. Its a little different from an Irish stout, but it is excellent (if you enjoy full bodied beer).
You'll usually find it in a larger bottle, like a liter or so (22oz maybe), don't know where to tell you to look, they have it at some of the FreshField's and HarrisTeeter's in the DC metro area. If you're in raleigh they have it at both 24-7s, if you're in either of those places, respond and I'll give better directions.
Beamish.
And if you're talking about their Stout, may I suggest Samuel Smith's.
For thoses that don't know, Canadian laws prohibit adding caffiene to any fruit flavoured drink (ergo MD here has no caffiene).
Oh My God! I can't even think of a Canada crack I'm so in shock. Mt Dew is simply caffeine flavor, without caffeine,, MD would taste like water. Damn Canadians.
True in theory, but not practice. If you hold the patent, onus is on the accused party to prove that they are using prior art. The patent office hasn't proven itself to be very devoted to spending the time to actually look for prior art on a patent tho, so someone could patent RH's tech after the fact. Red Hat may have noble intentions, only time will tell.
I pay $35/month, but its more like 2048/256. DSL isn't an option, but I don't expect the price to change (they recently raised the proce and lost a significant amount of customers). This is still a captialist country, I don't have to buy the service if I can't afford it.
/. editor) has a hard time remembering whether he's a socialist or a capitalist, but mainly he's just a whiner (perhaps he ought to move to Europe, they seem to grow them on trees over there).
Sometimes Michael (the
Here is a link to the css2 standard:
http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/
When doing cross platform development, the standard is a nice starting point for development (invariably you will have to work around some difficulties in IE). You will find that mozilla/netscape (incl. ns6) is much more compliant, tho perhaps a bit unforgiving to some types of violations (don't make assumptions about which ones, when you start using mozilla hardcore, you will learn what types of mistakes it penalizes first hand). Browsers like konqi and ie are nowhere near as compliant, but they tend to ignore errors rather than refuse to process a statement (technically that is incorrect behaviour, but no point being pedantice, IE is not going to change that behaviour no matter what the standard is). In general IE is a decent to good browser, but mozilla has been better for at least 6 months (no harm in not knowing that yet, but now you've been informed, and you should alter your statements accordingly).
Btw, css3 is being developed, its not important to me yet, but you may want to look at it and at least make some notes about what it will offer and its proposed release date.
*sigh*
If you're a web designer, its disappointing that you're still harping on an event that occurred many years ago (the exodus from netscape). The migration to the mozilla 5 engine is well underway . . .
They couldn't assemble a legal team for the original developers ala ACLU or EFF?
And what apparently you aren't talking about are web servers, payroll software, simulators, network mgmt, finance pkgs, databases and all the other tasks that actually require high quality software. Business software typically has a very high defect rate no matter what platform its on. Business software would do well to emulate the high quality techniques used in the above software rather than hire a bunch of .net folks that think a platform is the solution to their quality problems. But the programmers I work with aren't going to take cruddy jobs programming ms instead of contracts doing server work on UNIX and, more and more, Linux.
Finally, in response to your last paragraph, you have displayed exactly why the Linux community is lacking credibility to the large computing establishment. Your "take your cross-platform and shove it" attitude is exactly why Linux suffers from a near-terminal dearth of commerical, successful, productive, high-quality applications. Implementing a similiar but different .NET-style framework would prevent interoperability - which is the core feature that Mono is attempting to capture.
It's discouraging that you feel that way. I would argue that there are much fewer high-quality apps written for all the windows apps combined than UNIX. And it is a relatively small leap from most UNIXes to Linux. But write Linux/UNIX off, you won't be the first or last, I'm certain. *sigh*
If you like some of the Dotnet features, you have to clone the Dotnet Framework
I might like my mother, but I'm not about to clone her so I'll someone to marry in a few years - I know that her virtues can be found in other forms.
That is a great analogy. Kudos.
Maybe Java was designed to be easy for a C/C++ programmers to learn (I doubt that, but . . .), but it isn't. There are many different nuances and idioms that are quite different. The use finally and inner classes as closures are 2 examples. That is not to say that Java is hard to learn, just that Java mastery is a skill unto itself. Fortunately it is a skill I no longer need :-).