I'm pretty convinced most hires don't involve filtering resumes, but finding out -"do you know anyone who can do this?" I can't break into IT at all, but I've been in various temp jobs, looking to get out of bottom feeding jobs in health care. And IT will probably become like the fields I work in. It's all who you know, how well one can network.
The sublties of the law an the fine points of etymologies is unimportant compared to the fact That microsoft will crush another organization with just the threat of legislation. Does anyone think this will ever get to trial? It won't - Microsoft could care less about the name- They are just sending a message- don't intrude on their turf.
Life Sucks then You Die...
I'm not even going to think about my realistic chances for employment...
I think you can have time out for nerf ball when Panhandling (does that qualify as a tech job?)
Lets' avoid the "Different languages are good for different types of projects" conclusions. Boring!
Is either language good when implemented directly on a chip?
Lisp implemented in hardware turned out to be a distaster in the eighties. Symbolics, Lisp Machines International, the Texas Instruments TI Explorer, the Xerox's Lisp Machines all came to a dead end. Symbolics lasted long enough to emulate their machines on Alpha(Open Genera), and now Alpha's are probably going to be phased out, too.:(
I have seen lots of attempts to put Java on a chip, but I'm unaware of any real successes.
Is there a reason to think that Java will do better in the embedded field than Lisp did on workstations?
Does anyone here have experience with QNX RT on their desktop? It would probably help inform the discussion (It's as fun as toolin' with Be I think.) The "desktop machine" is going to become less important anyway, so why get you're panties in a knot about another "victim" of Microsoft. And couldn't BeOS be used more or less intact on a handheld "Palm"?
Lighten' up! There's still lots of room in the market for non-MS OS's, both commercial, open source and, like, whatever Apple X is, or Unixware is becoming, which is more Open than they used to be.
This has been mentioned once before, but bears repeating, it was IBM's use of stock parts for the PC, instead of developing everything in-house (as had been the case from the beginning of IBM)
If IBM's BIOS had not been backward engineered, it would've gone nowhere. After all, IBM had bigger, "better", and more profitable minicomputers, which the PC undermined. Now a reinvented IBM is celebrating Open Standards, as well it should. As for Apple, What if they had let go of proprietary hardware earlier on (and/or continued allowing "clones")? Shame on Apple for letting MS get away with selling an inferior Operating System. OSX will die without an Intel port, for the same reason.
When I though there might be a demand for Cobol (y2k work) I started to collect cheap old Cobol Books, that were $1, $.50,.10, or free (I went all out and spent $8 once). It's a fun, cheap hobby, and a lot of the old mainframe documentation isn't on the Internet (or too hard to find) I live just outside of Cambridge Ma, which makes it easier, but think about it, especially if you're around the Valley (Maybe SF would be better to buy old books???.)
Maybe they could be called Abandon-Docs??
Can I be as cool as you- and hip to all the latest and greatest products? If someone threw several hundred dolar bills at you, you would complain how dirty and wrinkled they are? It's free for Christ's sake! Its a GIFT. And considering hardware advances- any of these products could find use in embedded appliances, etc. Reuse of code is common sense and applies to whole applications. Take a look at all the good products Macintosh has abandoned-the Newton, OpenDoc and Cyberdog- IBM gives away OpenDoc as free C libraries, by the way.
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Next they'll probably try to figure the speed of light, or go to the gosh darn moon!
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I'm pretty convinced most hires don't involve filtering resumes, but finding out -"do you know anyone who can do this?" I can't break into IT at all, but I've been in various temp jobs, looking to get out of bottom feeding jobs in health care. And IT will probably become like the fields I work in. It's all who you know, how well one can network.
with a name like atari2600 you must be old old old! Give us a break Grandpa!
The sublties of the law an the fine points of etymologies is unimportant compared to the fact That microsoft will crush another organization with just the threat of legislation. Does anyone think this will ever get to trial? It won't - Microsoft could care less about the name- They are just sending a message- don't intrude on their turf.
Life Sucks then You Die...
I'm not even going to think about my realistic chances for employment...
I think you can have time out for nerf ball when Panhandling (does that qualify as a tech job?)
Lets' avoid the "Different languages are good for different types of projects" conclusions. Boring! :(
Is either language good when implemented directly on a chip?
Lisp implemented in hardware turned out to be a distaster in the eighties. Symbolics, Lisp Machines International, the Texas Instruments TI Explorer, the Xerox's Lisp Machines all came to a dead end. Symbolics lasted long enough to emulate their machines on Alpha(Open Genera), and now Alpha's are probably going to be phased out, too.
I have seen lots of attempts to put Java on a chip, but I'm unaware of any real successes.
Is there a reason to think that Java will do better in the embedded field than Lisp did on workstations?
Does anyone here have experience with QNX RT on their desktop? It would probably help inform the discussion (It's as fun as toolin' with Be I think.) The "desktop machine" is going to become less important anyway, so why get you're panties in a knot about another "victim" of Microsoft. And couldn't BeOS be used more or less intact on a handheld "Palm"?
Lighten' up! There's still lots of room in the market for non-MS OS's, both commercial, open source and, like, whatever Apple X is, or Unixware is becoming, which is more Open than they used to be.
This has been mentioned once before, but bears repeating, it was IBM's use of stock parts for the PC, instead of developing everything in-house (as had been the case from the beginning of IBM) If IBM's BIOS had not been backward engineered, it would've gone nowhere. After all, IBM had bigger, "better", and more profitable minicomputers, which the PC undermined. Now a reinvented IBM is celebrating Open Standards, as well it should. As for Apple, What if they had let go of proprietary hardware earlier on (and/or continued allowing "clones")? Shame on Apple for letting MS get away with selling an inferior Operating System. OSX will die without an Intel port, for the same reason.
When I though there might be a demand for Cobol (y2k work) I started to collect cheap old Cobol Books, that were $1, $.50, .10, or free (I went all out and spent $8 once). It's a fun, cheap hobby, and a lot of the old mainframe documentation isn't on the Internet (or too hard to find) I live just outside of Cambridge Ma, which makes it easier, but think about it, especially if you're around the Valley (Maybe SF would be better to buy old books???.)
Maybe they could be called Abandon-Docs??
Can I be as cool as you- and hip to all the latest and greatest products? If someone threw several hundred dolar bills at you, you would complain how dirty and wrinkled they are? It's free for Christ's sake! Its a GIFT. And considering hardware advances- any of these products could find use in embedded appliances, etc. Reuse of code is common sense and applies to whole applications. Take a look at all the good products Macintosh has abandoned-the Newton, OpenDoc and Cyberdog- IBM gives away OpenDoc as free C libraries, by the way.