By 'cash' the OP of this comment meant money, not physical dollar bills in a savings account.
Apple has $10 billion in cash, yes, but they have very roughly $150 billion in cash+short term investments+long term investments. Most people refer to that number colloquially as Apple's cash.
So technically yes, Apple does have the means to completely purchase Intel at Intel's current market cap, but they would never make such a large acquisition.
This is hilarious. The transport layer can theoretically handle this perfectly well, via UDP multicast.
But here we are, implementing a multicast-like streaming system higher in the stack to overcome the fact that most ISPs have disabled multicast at their routers. If something like this takes off, maybe this would actually encourage ISPs to enable multicast.
Also, I find this whole development awfully similar to the fact that many firewalls block everything other than HTTP on port 80, so now many apps have just moved to talking HTTP on port 80, or inventing pseudo-protocols on top of HTTP.
No one seems to have hit this yet. As an employer, the best thing I can do to retain the brightest and best is to provide an environment for personal and professional growth.
As an employee, I'm certainly not going to jump ship for $10k more a year if I think I'll grow less or my goals and values are less aligned with the company. Conversely, if I'm placed in a dead-end project for 2+ years doing something I don't love, or is easily outsourced at a later date, don't expect me to stick around.
The original article is pretty bad. Salary is not a primary motivator. If you think it is, it's most likely because you're unhappy with some other aspect of your work.
OK, here's a question: What *exactly* is malicious javascript? Javascript has no access to your local filesystem, so, aside from displaying something nasty or redirecting the user to some different url, or something like that, what is "malicious javascript" capable of??
IBM may not be the best example, since, for the most, the areas which big blue has embraced linux are areas where they stand to profit from hardware sales. Microsoft currently doesn't have that luxury.
I propose that this has to be done in small steps.
There is no way MS is going to open up the Windows source, or the IIS source, or any other major product, flat-out. Maybe convincing them that something smaller could benefit from the o/s movement could get the ball rolling - one step at a time.
Apple has open-sourced Darwin, not WebObjects, not Appleworks, and certainly not OS X, just Darwin. By most accounts, however, this has been a great success for the company, both in the enhancement of the product and in the publicity and support gained from the open sourcing of this one project. Maybe MS should be convinved to dip its toe in the water, rather than dive in. Open source the XP kernel, or Powerpoint (which isn't going anywhere anytime soon - guaranteed), etc. etc.
Mate, you've had 2 years of coop experience. If you're like me and do 4 or 8 month coop terms, that means you've had between 3 and 6 jobs in the industry already - are NONE of those companies willing to hire you back? That's the goal of coop!
It's the hardware, not the OS, that makes a single platform easy to program for. A single CPU, single GPU, etc. Hence, optimizations for this particular hardware. It isn't really that extra features of an OS 'get in the way', it's just that these features must be usable on a variety of hardware configs...
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By 'cash' the OP of this comment meant money, not physical dollar bills in a savings account.
Apple has $10 billion in cash, yes, but they have very roughly $150 billion in cash+short term investments+long term investments. Most people refer to that number colloquially as Apple's cash.
So technically yes, Apple does have the means to completely purchase Intel at Intel's current market cap, but they would never make such a large acquisition.
This is hilarious. The transport layer can theoretically handle this perfectly well, via UDP multicast.
But here we are, implementing a multicast-like streaming system higher in the stack to overcome the fact that most ISPs have disabled multicast at their routers. If something like this takes off, maybe this would actually encourage ISPs to enable multicast.
Also, I find this whole development awfully similar to the fact that many firewalls block everything other than HTTP on port 80, so now many apps have just moved to talking HTTP on port 80, or inventing pseudo-protocols on top of HTTP.
Ahhh, the Internet...
No one seems to have hit this yet. As an employer, the best thing I can do to retain the brightest and best is to provide an environment for personal and professional growth.
As an employee, I'm certainly not going to jump ship for $10k more a year if I think I'll grow less or my goals and values are less aligned with the company. Conversely, if I'm placed in a dead-end project for 2+ years doing something I don't love, or is easily outsourced at a later date, don't expect me to stick around.
The original article is pretty bad. Salary is not a primary motivator. If you think it is, it's most likely because you're unhappy with some other aspect of your work.
Do you have any references whatsoever for your claims?
OK, here's a question: What *exactly* is malicious javascript? Javascript has no access to your local filesystem, so, aside from displaying something nasty or redirecting the user to some different url, or something like that, what is "malicious javascript" capable of??
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>>if micro-black-holes were able to grow without bound, then you'd expect the universe to be littered with black holes all over the place
Of course, we also don't have Large Hadron Colliders all over the universe, smashing particles together with enormous speed and accuracy, do we?
IBM may not be the best example, since, for the most, the areas which big blue has embraced linux are areas where they stand to profit from hardware sales. Microsoft currently doesn't have that luxury.
I propose that this has to be done in small steps.
There is no way MS is going to open up the Windows source, or the IIS source, or any other major product, flat-out. Maybe convincing them that something smaller could benefit from the o/s movement could get the ball rolling - one step at a time.
Apple has open-sourced Darwin, not WebObjects, not Appleworks, and certainly not OS X, just Darwin. By most accounts, however, this has been a great success for the company, both in the enhancement of the product and in the publicity and support gained from the open sourcing of this one project. Maybe MS should be convinved to dip its toe in the water, rather than dive in. Open source the XP kernel, or Powerpoint (which isn't going anywhere anytime soon - guaranteed), etc. etc.
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Mate, you've had 2 years of coop experience. If you're like me and do 4 or 8 month coop terms, that means you've had between 3 and 6 jobs in the industry already - are NONE of those companies willing to hire you back? That's the goal of coop!
It's the hardware, not the OS, that makes a single platform easy to program for. A single CPU, single GPU, etc. Hence, optimizations for this particular hardware. It isn't really that extra features of an OS 'get in the way', it's just that these features must be usable on a variety of hardware configs...